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Hierarchal Divine Liturgy in Frankfurt
On the feast-day of Holy Three Hierarchs Serbian Patriarch Irinej celebrated in the church of the Resurrection of Christ in Frankfurt, Germany.
Lots of people from Frankfurt and surrounding areas attended the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy, which began at 9 a.m. His Holiness was concelebrated by archpriests Marko Jovanovic and Stojan Barjaktarevic, parish priests from Frankfurt; archpriest Bratislav Bozovic, parish priest of Stuttgart; protopriest Milenko Markovic, episcopal dean for South Africa; Simon Turkic, principal of the church in Frankfurt; Sinisa Vujasinovc from Osnabrueck.
After the sermon delivered by His Holiness, the principal of the church protopriest Simon Turkic pointed out the historical significance not only for the Serbs living in Frankfurt, but for the whole Orthodoxy as well, that our Patriarch celebrated in this city. As a small token of appreciation and gratitude of the Church board and the faithful, the Patriarch was presented by a pastoral staff and encolpion.
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Both are mentioned in BA's 'Prospect Hot Sheet.' That sounds good. Unfortunately, it's the 'Not so hot sheet' section for both:
Dayan Viciedo, rf, White Sox. Viciedo went 1-for-4, reached on an error and scored a run in the Triple-A all-star game, but those are just warm memories with the way he's played since that exhibition game. The 22-year-old masher has done anything but in his last seven games for Charlotte, going 3-for-25 (.120) with nary an extra-base hit. The silver lining: Viciedo has drawn five walks (one intentional) and struck out three times in that timeframe.
Jared Mitchell, cf, White Sox. The 23rd overall pick in 2009, Mitchell won national championships in football and baseball with Louisiana State and took home most outstanding player honors at the '09 College World Series. He ranked as Chicago's top prospect heading into 2010 and was one of the most athletic players at White Sox camp that spring—but then he tore a tendon in his left ankle, forcing him to miss all of last season. Now 22, Mitchell has struggled mightily to make contact with high Class A Winston-Salem, striking out 128 times in his first 91 games. He hit rock bottom this past week, going 1-for-22 with 11 strikeouts. Mitchell has shown some pop upon his return—37 of his 77 hits have gone for extra bases—but his speed appears to have tapered off as he is just 6-for-10 in stolen bases. It's shaping up as an uphill battle for Mitchell to return to elite prospect status.

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It may seem like something of a cruel and unusual punishment to compare a removable cartridge drive to rival internal hard drives, but at its heart the Odyssey is using 2.5in hard drive platters and it's being actively pushed as the logical alternative to tape backup.
In these heady times, where we're coddled by the luxury of cheap but fast external USB 2.0 drives and secure off-site server storage, you'd be forgiven for asking exactly what the point is.
Well, it's USB 2.0-based, and our supplied cartridge was a 40GB unit, while Imation does offer larger and faster 80GB, 100GB and 120GB units.
With 256-bit encryption and a cartridge design that can happily be dropped on to concrete and survive (which we did several times) this is certainly a secure and easy way to back up and transport your data.
Once you install a new cartridge it is automatically mounted as a removable disk so data is immediately accessible, and with transfer speeds in the mid-20MB/s, it's not too painfully slow to use. If you need this kind of device, this is a good choice.


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This can be used as a great moisturizer. It can be used in your raw creations like living chocolate bars and other treats. You can eat it plain and just sit and savor the flavor as it slowly melts in your mouth and coats your tongue with bliss.
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Hopefully someone can recommend a mechanic in your immediate area. If not, I don't know if you were aware of DMCFL's move last year to Orlando:
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It's a bit of a tow (60-70 miles), but at least it's an option for you.
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Visit Miami, Key West, Everglades Safari Park, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Sawgrass Mill Mall and experience happy time in theme parks. Including 12-night hotel accommodations, theme park admission and roundtrip transportation.
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Note: *Price in USD is based on the lowest price per person per room over the next 30 days. Exact prices are displayed when you select a date.
For guests who arrive before 3:00PM at MIA airport, or 4:00PM at FLL airport, you are invited to choose from two options to experience nightlife in the South Florida. (Self-expense. To arrange the tour, we need minimum 2 people registered.)
a) Fort Lauderdale's Dinner & Show Cruise: 4 hours, Dec - Aug (Tue - Sun), Sep - Nov (Wed - Sun)
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm, 4-hour luxury experience with complimentary transfer. In addition to attraction ticket fee, the guest need to pay extra $10 which including the transfer fee, service fee, driver/tour guide service fee. (No tour escort on the cruise.)****No cancelled or changed after reservation
b) Miami South Beach Night Tour
Our night tour will include two hotspots of the fashion insiders' favorites: Lincoln Road and South Beach.
(*Please note: Every Sunday Bloomingdale's will open at 12 pm. We will not go to Bloomigdale's on Sunday. )
Alternatively, guests may choose a special one day tour (transportation and guide included) to either the Kennedy Space Center, a Gulf of Mexico Coastline tour (Only Wed & Sat. The issue of weather or boat of deep sea fishing will result in the cancellation) or St.Augustine one-day tour( Only Thu & Sun) . )
Enjoy the daytime at the theme park you choose, you also have a chance to see the captivating stage show combining silence, laughters, fantastic performances and the astounding music at the largest venue of BLUE MAN GROUP or Cirque du Soleil!
A: Go with the great value racing package which includes 8-min racing, about 15 rounds. Its indoor location also includes a variety of fun for the whole family, such as bowling lunch package (beef burger or chicken sandwich + drinks), gaming and billiards. Please schedule your departure flight for after 3:00pm. (It will be effected from OCT.15 2019)
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E. Enjoy another of the theme parks mentioned above except Legoland at your own expense. Please schedule your departure flight for after 5:00pm, or 7:00pm if you choose to visit Kennedy Space Center (at a price of $103 per person, admission fee + transportation, also have a chance to take the Airboat Rides at a price of $40 per person ).
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Question of the Day: Songs that Heal
12.17.12 7:58am
As we try to make sense of the tragedy that struck the town of Newtown, Connecticut on Friday, many of us turn to music for solace. In the Question of the Day we ask for the songs that have a healing power for you.
Here is today's playlist:
1) "Healing Hands" - Citizen Cope
2) "Climb On (A Back That's Strong)" - Shawn Colvin
3) "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel


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During a recent visit back to Lynchburg, former Flames standout football player and current Jacksonville Jaguar wide receiver Mike Brown took time to visit with Alan York of the Liberty Flames Sports Network.
Brown recently completed his second season with the Jaguars, where he played in 11 games and started six contests. He finished the year ranked third on the team in receiving yards (446) and fourth in receptions (32). He was one of four Jaguars with multiple touchdown receptions in 2013, finishing the year with his first two career NFL touchdowns.
Last year, Brown spent 15 weeks on Jacksonville's practice squad before being elevated to the 53-man active roster where he played in the final two games of the year.
Brown was a 2010 and 2011 Walter Payton Award candidate and helped Liberty win Big South Conference titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010. A three-year starting quarterback for Liberty, Brown finished his senior season with the Flames with 2,664 passing yards and 18 touchdowns, to go along with 437 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns in 2011.
Brown finished his career at Liberty with 6,072 passing yards, 45 passing touchdowns, 1,875 rushing yards, 29 rushing touchdowns and ranked second in school history with 7,947 total offensive yards.
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Postal workers call for safe havens in Milwaukee
Letter carriers promote Safe Haven program
Letter carriers are pushing for residents to make homes safe havens for postal workers.
It takes a quick pace to cover all the ground that U.S. Postal Service letter carriers Gerald Robinson and Kim Shead cover, and in between those strides, they've seen it all.
"You know, dogs getting loose, people fighting," Robinson said.
Shead said a neighbor ushered her inside the home to escape a dog last summer.
"I didn't know the dog was coming, and then I heard the chains rattling," Shead said. "I'm glad her screen door was unlocked, because if her screen door wasn't unlocked, I probably would've been injured."
On Saturday, letter carriers rallied with Milwaukee police and community organization Running Rebels to promote the Safe Haven program.
"There (have) been times they've had to deliver through crossfire and they still came to work the next day. I'm committed to making sure these letter carriers are taken care of," said Milwaukee Postmaster Easton Wright.
Postal officials say they've had about 18 to 20 incidents in one zip code over the past two to three months.


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Xfe is a Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X. It is based on
the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander, originally developed
by Maxim Baranov. Xfe aims to be the file manager of choice for all
light-thinking UNIX addicts!
This requires: fox-toolkit
Maintained by: Robby Workman
Keywords: xfe,x file explorer,file management,file manager,filemanager,windows
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Thanks to Anytimecostumes.com I got to review a couple of their costumes! I picked out the Maiden Vampire and Alice in Wonderland costumes! Since I am an avid reader I wanted to get book themed costumes. I love the Twilight series and so the vampire costume is perfect for that! I thought the kids I teach at church (3-4 year olds), would love to see me in the Alice in Wonderland costume. Anytimecostumes.com is a great place for all book lovers and avid readers like me to shop this Halloween! They have Harry Potter costumes, Dr. Seuss and many others!
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Real-life couple Daniel Matsunaga and Erich Gonzales take their feel good 'kilig' vibes to the small screen as they topbill their own teleserye dubbed "Be My Lady," which airs soon on ABS-CBN.
The two will give life to the love story between a foreigner and a Pinay and show viewers what goes on in an interracial relationship.
"I am really excited about 'Be My Lady' because it's a romantic comedy series with a light and feel-good plot. This will also be my first team-up with Daniel in our own soap, so I really hope they will support us in this project," said Erich Gonzales.
In a separate interview with Daniel Matsunaga by ABS-CBN.com's HOTSPOT, the Filipino-at-heart model-actor confessed that he waited so long for this big break.
"I am very happy because I'll be working with Erich. This is the first project with me as the leading man, so I am really thankful to the bosses for giving me this opportunity," he added.


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For the uninitiated, Wes Brown is Manchester United´s much maligned defender; even for Man United aficionados, he is hardly likely to set the pulse racing. The mere mention of his name on the team sheet is more likely to strike fear amongst his own team than the opposition; Wes Brown has scored more goals against Manchester United (5) than for them (3) – a net deficit you may say. There is even a Facebook dedicated to Wes Brown's unusual prowess, entitled "Wes Brown is the most boring and rubbish footballer EVER".
Probably not a good idea to associate with him you may think. Well, to date, most companies appear to agree . . . .Brown currently enjoys only one personal endorsement contract, with the sports footwear manufacturer Concave. A deal which he shares with John O'Shea strangely enough; or "O Shit" as one Facebook group would prefer to call him. A far cry from the $7 million worth of endorsements enjoyed by team mates Wayne Rooney (Nike, Nokia, Ford, Asda, and (until recently) Coca-Cola), or the $6 million man and ex-England captain Rio Ferdinand (complete with his 688,000 Twitter followers and 430,000 Facebook fans).
Well, here's a thought . . . . given Manchester United's training, playing and travelling schedule Wes Brown probably spends more time with Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs etc. than with his own wife. Wes joined Manchester United in 1999 and has played for them all his life; I think it is fair to say that he and his teammates know each other inside out, the good, the bad and the ugly.
But here's the point. Take a look at who global icon Rio Ferdinand sits next to in the dressing room. Yes, it´s our hero, the "most boring and rubbish footballer EVER" Wesley Michael "Wes" Brown!
Twice a week + training and travel, Wes Brown sits and chews the fat with one of the most influential people in the UK, and (judging by the recent media coverage surrounding his loss of the England captaincy), Europe and even the World.
And here is the other thing . . . . Wes Brown is not very good at football, he does not command celebrity endorsement fees, but he is more accessible and approachable than those more famous (i.e. "better") players who do.
As a means to reach those key influencers – who themselves will be inaccessible and beyond the means of most organizations, who will be difficult to work with and – ultimately – will steal the limelight for themselves – Wes Brown could be a great option.
Endorsers are unlikely to be queuing up to sign up a "one club" Manchester United player who has scored more goals against them than for them, and this means that Brown's endorsement would be more exclusive (as opposed to simply another brand name on a retainer) and, potentially, more powerful.
Particularly given his proximity to Rio Ferdinand at least twice a week. Most importantly – with all due respect – he is no Rio Ferdinand and unlikely to steal the limelight for himself either. In fact, he'd probably be flattered to be approached in the first place!
Beyond the world of football, these are the types of relationships and influences that organizations should consider when recruiting endorsers to start ideas and amplify their messages. The most popular blogger or most visible online community may not be the most effective place to start; there may be an even smarter way to reach them in a way that generates real benefit for both the organization and the influencer being approached.
Back to the football analogy . . . do players still share hotel rooms? If so, taking the Wes Brown dressing room logic to its natural conclusion, who shares with Wayne Rooney, that would be powerful information to have . . .


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Eight Hand Breaded Fried Shrimp, Served with Two Side Items
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Harry Potter is Richer Than Prince Harry. Well, at least Daniel Radcliffe is, the now 21-year-old actor who plays the boy wizard in Warner Brother's wildly successful adaptation of J.K. Rowling's series.
The Economic Times reports that Radcliffe has doubled his net worth in the past year, making him richer even than the Queen Elizabeth II. According to the Economic Times, he has around $30 million in investments, $10 million due from films he's starred in, and another $5 million just sitting around in Gringott—er, the bank. In the books, Harry has a small fortune left to him by his parents, but nothing close to this.
Radcliffe, however, has a ways to go before he catches up with J.K. Rowling, whose net worth is somewhere around $1 billion, according to Celebrity Networth.
U.S. & World
No word yet if Radcliffe will try to exchange any of his millions of pounds for galleons, or if he needs a dragon or some goblins to guard all that wealth.
Selected Reading: Economic Times, Celebrity Networth, Mugglenet


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January 17, 2011
Who Saw THAT Coming?!
Last night's episode of Downton Abbey left us gasping aloud in a series of rapid successions. First, "Turkish Delight" Kemal Pamuk (played by Theo James) enters the scene on horseback, a perfect, almost-comical hybrid of pretty boy-gentility and sex god hottitude. Like the normally tough-to-impress Lady Mary Crawley, we marveled at the Eastern Adonis, even when he arrived back at the stately residence spattered with mud from the fox hunt. "All we want are baths," Mary insisted, which immediately conjured up images of the olive-skinned diplomat languishing naked in a clawfoot tub filled with steaming, hot....(but we digress.)
Cut to that evening when he manages to steal away with Mary in the library and back her up against the wall with his none-too-subtle advances. Shocked and flustered by his impropriety, she hastily puts him in his place and storms out of the room in a huff...but clearly he had left an impression because....
....later that night, he barges into her boudoir — OMG — and professes his desire to de-virginize her! Again she is shocked and horrified and hides her state of deshabille with her pillow until his smoldering eyes and heartfelt pleas convince her to yield. "Oh all right go ahead," she basically tells him..."Is it safe?"
...Uh, apparently not. We are pretty much in a tizzy at this point, so you can imagine the shock when Mary later wakes up her ladies' maid in a desperate whisper to tell her that the chap is stone cold dead in her bed! Surely, the sexual naif was merely confused about the Turk's post-coital state, but uh....right she is — the dude's dead!
Better wake your mom, maid Anna advises. The three of them manage to hoist the dead body back down the hall to his room in the dark of night, with only scullery maid Daisy happening to see them en route. "You are a disgrace, young lady, and I can't believe what you put me through tonight," (adlibbing for Mama Cora.) "Let's not tell your father, shall we?"
Scandal-licious!!!!!!! Who knew the no-name farmer with dropsy of the heart would end up surviving in this episode while the sultan of sexiness would kick it?
Will eyewitness Daisy blab to her not-so-secret crush, the not-to-be-trusted Thomas? Or will the bitter and malicious Gwyn put two-and-two together to stir up trouble for the noble family? Stay tuned!
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The bitter and malicious maid's name is O'Brian. Gwyn is the one who wants to be a secretary.ReplyDelete
Right you are...I must have still been swooning when I wrote this. Thanks!ReplyDelete
That was one awesome series. I am so happy they are working on the second series.ReplyDelete
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It could be (and probably has been) argued that the hamburger is an iconic American food. Maybe this is why grilling one has somehow become synonymous with what once was a patriotic holiday that originated with the idea of honoring those who died serving our country. Of course it is harder and harder to find people who remember what this holiday was created for 153 years ago, and because of that there are those that would like nothing more than to relive the olden days when it was called Decoration Day by having everyone be a little more solemn and practice a little "proper flag etiquette."
(from Grub Street)
Wherever you fall on the Memorial Day solemnity scale, one thing you can agree with me is that it is turning out to be a less-than-ideal grilling weekend in Denver (although of course as I am finishing this Sunday afternoon has turned into a perfect day for grilling). In fact this Spring in Denver has been more like summer in San Francisco and I surely grilled more in January and February than I have yet in May. With summer grilling season still not quite there, we should be thankful for the increased attention that has been paid to the burger all over Denver, from the burger battle that is just around the corner again, to the numerous burger-centric restaurants that have of late popped up like cupcake shops did in 2008 and 2009.
By chance I ate last week at Deluxe Burger on East Colfax. This was my first time in Deluxe Burger although last summer I visited the mostly-mobile Deluxe food truck and joked about how often I would see it parked ironically in front of its stationary, sit-down counterparts. This night the food truck was nowhere to be seen as my wife and I pulled up to park in front of the trademark orange logo.
Deluxe just may be the only burger shop anywhere to share space with a designer furniture store. It's not a bad combination, as we were able to browse some over-priced used designer furniture while we waited for our burgers. Although I will blame the inordinately long wait for what otherwise is essentially a fast food experience for allowing my wife sufficient time to turn our $20 meal into a $70 shopping trip.
Was it worth the wait? Absolutely. I ordered the Denver burger, which was a mash of green chiles and a fresh, poignant pico de gallo of wonderfully ripe tomatoes, red onions and cilantro. Over that was drizzled an excellent jalapeño aioli while melted cheddar oozed everywhere.
We got our food to go and I inhaled this burger before starting the car but only after stuffing on it a bunch of the house fries, that are thickly hand cut and sprinkled with thyme and garlic.
I had eaten these fries before at the Deluxe truck and will have to say while they were great layered on my burger, they were not as good as I remember them. I think on this trip they were the major part of our extended wait time as they came out scorching hot from the fryer and slightly undercooked. On top of that they were a little plain. Next time I will have to try the truffle fries.
I didn't try the truffle fries mainly because they have cheese on them and due to some breast-feeding baby-dietary-changes my wife is not eating any dairy. That also made her burger-experience less-than-optimal, as no one in the kitchen knew if the buns had dairy. I must say, however, that they did their best to find out and came up with the solution of sandwiching her burger between some lettuce halves. In the end, my wife was pleased and although it doesn't look that great to me, it will let you see the Deluxe burger au natural:
And it was a good thing she didn't order the bun, because regardless of the dairy content inside, on the underside it was slathered in butter and grilled to perfection. Here is a close-up of my outstanding burger again, so we don't go out on such a plain note:


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Even Ones With Propellers
October 17, 2013 1 Comment
By Mark Yost
The Wall Street Journal
One of the best-kept secrets of the automotive world is the Lane Motor Museum, a collection of about 400 (mostly European) classic cars that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend. A 132,000-square-foot former Sunbeam Bakery, it's now a spruced-up display space for the eclectic and impressive collection that has been put together by Jeff Lane, a mechanical engineer who grew up outside Detroit and inherited his dad's love of British sports cars.
A glance across the wide-open space that features a rotating stock of about 150 cars gives you the initial impression that this car guy simply collected one of everything he liked. But after looking at just a few of the cars on display and the informative plaques that accompany each—make, model, year of manufacture, and little vignettes of how and where they were found or donated—you quickly realize that this is a very well-curated collection. And every car has a story.
Perhaps the car with the best story is the beautifully restored 1955 MG TF 1500, in British racing green. It is the first car that Mr. Lane restored, and there's a picture of him when he began the project at just 12 years old. There's also a faded picture of him four years later, in 1976, taking his state driving test in the classic British roadster.
While this is one of the best European car collections in the U.S., clearly Mr. Lane has his favorites. Among them: nearly 20 vehicles from Tatra that tell the evolutionary story of the Czech carmaker and its revolutionary designer, Hans Ledwinka. As one panel here explains, Ledwinka was one of the first designers to realize that the automobile would one day become common in nearly every household. As the chief engineer at Tatra beginning in 1921, he revolutionized engine design, suspension systems and aerodynamics.
Among his works on display here is a 1935 T-57—nicknamed Hadimrška, or "swift little lizard." It was equipped with a 1,256cc, air-cooled, four-cylinder engine that had a top speed of 50 miles per hour and mechanical brakes. There is also a 1938 T-97 that looks remarkably similar to the Volkswagen Beetle that Ferdinand Porsche later designed for Adolf Hitler. During a walking tour of the collection, Mr. Lane explained that production of the T-97 was forbidden after 1939 because it looked too much like Nazi Germany's "people's car."
When the Communists took over from the Nazis, things changed at Tatra again. Shown here is the 1958 T-603 Saloon, one of the large sedans developed and built exclusively for party high officials and export to other Communist countries, such as Cuba. Ordinary Czechs couldn't purchase it.
Another designer Mr. Lane clearly admires is Marcel Leyat. The museum has dedicated a small alcove to a special exhibit on the French designer and the centenary of the first propeller-driven car he built. The museum also has a re-creation of Leyat's 1919 Helico, his most successful propeller-driven car, as well as a replica of the unique pilot-training trailer that he developed.
A propeller-driven car? One problem for early aviation, the exhibit explains, was that no plane could carry more than a single person. So how could you teach someone to fly? According to Mr. Lane, most would-be pilots were given instructions on the ground, then forced to solo their first time up. Leyat developed a special flatbed trailer that could be towed behind a car. A flight trainer sat on the trailer and, thanks to the wind generated by the speeding car, student pilots could move controls and feel how an aircraft would react in flight.
As much as some of these early car designers wanted everyone to own a car, not everyone could afford one. This was especially true in economically devastated Europe after World War II. This led to the development of affordable, efficient micro cars, which are highly sought after by Mr. Lane and other fans. One of the most eye-catching is the 1965 Peel P-50, the smallest one-person micro car ever made. The P-50 is just 4-feet-5-inches long, 3-feet-3-inches wide; has a 49cc fan-cooled engine with a top speed of 35 mph; weighs 250 pounds and originally cost just £200 ($318 today). It has no reverse gear, but a "reverse handle" that let anybody pick up the back end and swing it out of a parking space.
Mr. Lane has developed a network of automobile enthusiasts who both donate cars to the museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and volunteer to restore cars. Among the other unique vehicles he has on display are a 1964 German-made Amphicar, the most successful amphibious car ever produced; a 1922 Buick Speedster that participated in the modern-day re-creation of the Great Race; and a 1932 Lancia Dilambda, one of the earliest Italian luxury cars.
What's perhaps most impressive about this collection is that Mr. Lane says that 95% of the cars are in working order and the staff goal is to drive each one at least twice a year.
"A car is meant to be driven," he said. "It's not a painting."
Maybe so, but they're great to look at just sitting idle.
Mr. Yost is a writer in Houston.


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Remembering an Icon
Continuing a Relationship
Renfrew retired in 1976, but his dedication to the university never waned, and he and Carol were fixtures at campus events.
Renfrew remained involved in the sciences, volunteering as university patent director for 10 years and serving as safety editor for the Journal of Chemical Education. He and Shreeve became American Chemical Society Fellows. He also honed his artistic side, creating watercolor paintings of Moscow's buildings and landscapes and playing the trombone in local bands.
Over the years, Malcolm and Carol Renfrew received numerous university awards and honors. Their support established the Malcolm M. Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium, which brings together speakers and students from across campus, and the Malcolm and Carol Renfrew College of Science Faculty Fellowship Endowment, which supports faculty members who excel at research and serve as mentors for their students.
The Renfrews traveled extensively in their retirement, visiting all the continents except Antarctica. But all their travels led back home to Moscow and the University of Idaho, where they became legendary in their involvement with their community.
In October 2010, the university community celebrated Malcolm's 100th birthday with guest speakers, campus events and a re-dedication of Renfrew Hall. Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter proclaimed the day Malcolm M. Renfrew Day in Idaho.
"Professor Malcolm Renfrew was revered because he exemplified all that was best about academia in general and the University of Idaho specifically," says Katherine Aiken, UI's interim provost. "He was intellectually inquisitive, devoted to the arts, and unfailingly supportive of colleagues and students. The last time I saw him in public he joined in the singing of the Alma Mater. I will remember him fondly whenever I attend any event at the University of Idaho."
This story is based in part on historical material provided in a 2007 History 418 project by Nydia Lovell and Holly Oakley.
Chemistry professor Malcolm M. Renfrew leaves decades-long legacy at University of Idaho
The University of Idaho community lost an exemplary chemist, teacher, mentor and friend with the passing of Professor Emeritus Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew. Renfrew died Oct. 12, his 103rd birthday, in Moscow.
Renfrew leaves a legacy at the university spanning more than eight decades, from his first foray into academia as a young man to his later years as a dedicated supporter of science, art and interdisciplinary activities across campus.
"Malcolm Renfrew earned national acclaim as a groundbreaking scientist, but his mind had a Renaissance reach across disciplines, and his heart was filled with human warmth," said U-Idaho interim president Don Burnett. "He and his late wife Carol – with whom he shared 71 years of married life – were treasures of our university community. We shall never forget them."
Beginning a Legacy
Renfrew was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Spokane, Wash., and he graduated from Potlatch High School in 1928. He began his relationship with UI as an undergraduate. He wrote for the student newspaper The Argonaut and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity while working toward his bachelor's degree in chemistry. He graduated in 1932 and continued on to a master's degree, which he earned in 1934.
While earning his master's degree, he met Carol Campbell, an economics student from Rosalia, Wash., and the pair married in June 1938. They had been married 71 years when Carol passed away in 2010.
After earning his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota, Renfrew launched his career in polymer chemistry at DuPont, where he later became supervisor of the group that developed wartime uses for a material later known as Teflon.
After World War II ended, DuPont chose Renfrew to speak at a meeting of the American Chemical Society to announce the properties and commercial availability of the new product. The speech made national news and some people thought Renfrew was the inventor of Teflon, a false impression that he often needed to correct. However, he did continue to develop uses for the commercial non-stick cooking surface and his name is on several initial patents.
Building a Connection
Renfrew returned to Idaho in 1958 as the head of the physical sciences department, and later the chemistry department. His leadership led to expanded research and academic offerings, as well as construction of a new physical sciences building. The university dubbed the building Malcolm M. Renfrew Hall in 1985, in honor of his 75th birthday.
Professor of Chemistry Jean'ne Shreeve was one of Renfrew's first faculty hires, and she became an important force in building up the research program.
"We had no instrumentation," Shreeve recalls. "You can't do much of any kind of scientific research without equipment, and when I arrived we had one infrared spectrometer which didn't work most of the time. Suddenly, Malcolm was out raising money and we were getting modern equipment and things began to grow."
Renfrew also took a strong, caring interest in the students. One story relates how he noticed one student was absent from a final exam. He found someone to watch the students, went to the missing student's house, roused him from bed and delivered him to the classroom.
Many students remember evenings with the Renfrews, where they were entertained by dog tricks performed by the Renfrew pets and by Renfrew offering renditions of big band songs on his trombone.
"The students were always terribly important, and he and Carol entrained students in their home," says Shreeve. "There was a good social relationship that he had with his students as well."


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Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Oatmeal and Chocolate Chip Cookies ~ Sweet and Simple Bake!
13 comments:
- Finla said...
Crunchy and delciious.
- 1 April 2009 at 12:42
- Illona said...
Hi Maria,
I smile at the thought of how good cookies are appreciated no matter which corner of the world you're in! My son had one in the mouth and one in hand. By the time he reached the kitchen door, he had finished the one in the mouth, was already eating the one in hand and had to turn back to get another... Thanks for a great recipe.
- 1 April 2009 at 13:26
- ♥Rosie♥ said...
A wonderful bake for this month's S&SB Maria - thanks sweetie!
Your cookies look scrummy any chance of one with a glass of cold milk ;0)
Rosie x
- 1 April 2009 at 13:50
- Maria said...
The cookies look yummy!
- 1 April 2009 at 15:17
- Kelly-Jane said...
Your baking looks fabulous, as always.
I am so very sorry to read about your sick, beautiful pussy cat. I don't know what to say to help, except big hugs to you and him.
- 1 April 2009 at 16:42
- Mermaid Sews said...
Those look good, I am looking for a thin and crispy oatmeal chocolate chip recipe for my dad.
- 1 April 2009 at 17:08
- Katiecakes said...
Your cookies looks so round and fat. Bet they're super chewy inside...mmmmmmmm! They look fab.
I think I need to eat some more of mine now. Haha!
Katie xox
- 1 April 2009 at 17:33
- Arundathi said...
They look great, Maria. Thanks a lot for a wonderful recipe this month!
- 1 April 2009 at 18:01
- Simones Kitchen said...
It's so funny going round everyone's blog to check out the cookies! Yours look delicious too!
- 1 April 2009 at 22:03
- Reeni said...
They looks super thick and delicious! I'd love a nice stack with my tea! Hugs.
- 1 April 2009 at 23:43
- Sweet Treats by Dani said...
those def look like a comforting treat :)
- 2 April 2009 at 11:51
- Nic said...
Your cookies have turned out beautifully Maria.
- 2 April 2009 at 12:00
Hey Maria,
just discovered your website last week so have had lots of fun reading all the yummy sounding recipes.
I made these Oatmeal and Sultana cookies first thing this morning (was going to a shared morning tea..very unlike me to try a new recipe when half asleep!) and they turned out great and were very yummy. Were also a huge hit with all the other Mothers who all want the recipe!
Thanks for a great website.
p.s. Have also made the Peanut Butter Oat bars which were great as well. Though I think the cookies were the favourite. There is something about your recipes and the way you write that makes me confident things will turn out great and motivates me to bake! :)
- 9 April 2010 at 02:55


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OSIRIS-Rex Atlas V launch from Kennedy Cape Canaveral Part 2
Part 1 — #ToBennuAndBack #NASASocial
The day of the launch! On this day we had a later start of 10:30am so I used the extra time to get a rested night's sleep and thereby woke up excited and eager to see the rocket launch. Rockets and Shuttle launches were something I'd seen on television as a kid and on the internet as an adult but never imagined that I'd see one in person and certainly not up as close as I had the opportunity to do.
Imagine my surprise that the first stop after the buses pulled out was to see OSIRIS-REx much closer than I'd ever dreamed. Check it out!
On top of that Tory Bruno and Dan Collins the CEO and COO of United Launch Alliance were there to answer questions and take photos with us, including one great group photo of everyone invited to this #NASASocial event.
The wonderful Social Media team with Jason Townsend in the middle (Black shirt holding a camera). You can tell that they all love what they do!
Group shot with OSIRIS-REx in the background on top of ULA's Atlas V rocket
(Photo courtesy of NASA Social Media team)
From there they headed to the southeast of the very large Vehicle Assembly Building and visited the Launch Control Center where Apollo missions and all since were managed from! It's even on the National Register of Historic Places. Once inside we were given a history of NASA and then taken up to Firing Room 1, which was the first of the firing rooms to support a mission in the Apollo era! I felt truly amazed at every step of this journey but being in this building felt like literally touching American Space History…and when you think about it, I did.
I'd visited Kennedy Visitors Center twice before when on cruises that stopped in Port Canaveral and I'd see from there a building that I wanted to go into each time the VAB…Vehicle Assembly Building! For as large as it looked from afar it seemed even more monumental up close.
The vastness of this building is amazing, there are very few structures that you can step into where you can look up 526 feet (160 meters) and see from floor to ceiling. The sides of it actually slide fully open from top to bottom in order to move the Space Shuttles out (before the program ended) onto the shuttle mover that rolls on Tennessee river rock that goes down 6 feet (1.8 meters). This rock can withstand the weight of the mover with the shuttle on it, unlike concrete, asphalt et cetera, and even the Tennessee river rock becomes ground down to sand after a while, and top ups are needed.
Once again I love the enthusiasm of those that work at NASA, it is rather like Starfleet in its very early stages, and with companies like SpaceX and Boeing working in a similar space in the area, it also has a Federation feel. 🙂
This Orion capsule is a model used to test weight of an in use Orion space craft.
A ballast filled with water.
This wall titled the Space Shuttle Program Tribute was signed many people who contributed to the success of the program. (More photos in the gallery below.)
On some of the tours were people that worked at NASA. After all there are ten centers in the U.S. and just because you work there doesn't mean you get to see areas that you don't work in. One of the people I met doing this was a Systems Engineer who runs a team of specialists named "Jo". She agreed to do an interview with TravelXena.com about women in the STEMS. I intend to add these interviews because asking questions is the start of exploration and travel and hopefully the interviews that I plan on showcasing here will encourage people to ask more, learn more and engage more in the world around them and the space above. Look out for that interview! #WomenInSTEM
As if all of the experiences had so far weren't amazing enough we head back to the lunch area and had guest speakers we had met the day before come in to answer more questions people like Dr. Michelle Thaller, Dr. Alex Young, Dr. Ellen Stofan and more culminating with the head of NASA himself, NASA administrator and astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden!
Exciting indeed! He spoke of many things but one of the things that stuck with me was him really encouraging minorities to focus on the sciences and don't let a mind set stop them, because sometimes the biggest obstacle to achieving things that we never thought possible can be ourselves.
Not sure what I was saying here. I think we were talking about our links to South Carolina he had family from Columbia, SC and my family are Sea Islanders (Gullah) on my Dad's side.
However I finally managed to smile normally!
To finish off the day the buses now head over to the causeway area where the group would watch the launch.
Here is the NASA Video of the launch — I decided to take the suggestion of Mr. Bolden and to just absorb and enjoy the launch and put my camera down. NASA has the best footage and photos to be found of the launch so I figured I'd soak in the experience. I did point my camera in the general direction but since I wasn't looking through the lens or viewer I didn't get much footage. I did however have the chance to be interviewed on video for NASA Goddard TV right before the launch Thanks for the opportunity Katrina! •ᴗ•
NASA video of the launch of OSIRIS-REx
It was the end of a beautiful, memorable day however there was another surprise to be had. There was to be a press conference at 9:00pm and Jason invited those that were interested in staying to view it either in the Press Building or next door in the room of the actual press conference itself. I was one of about 8 (out of the 100) people that decided to stay longer and experience this too. I'm very glad that I did. There was space in the press room and I had the opportunity to be there during the live taping of the Q&A of experts from this successful launch and historic mission.
Planetary Scientist and Deputy Mission Lead Christina Richey #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Below video Courtesy of NASA TV – #ToBennuAndBack
Well my travel loving and explorer friends that was the end to my amazing and historic trip. I'll never forget it, and it even has me thinking about what I can persue educationally in the near future. In the mean time I've become a citizen scientist able to help NASA Scientists out with research, if you're interesting in participating in a NASASocial event or becoming a citizen scientist or learning more about NASA check out the links below and in this post. 🙂
Day 1 – Offered a chance to sit in on a panel of experts who are leading In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). I didn't have all of the names of those present but thanks for fellow NASASocialite Brian Hart @vr_bhart there is video of nearly the entire session. Thanks Brian!
The Panelists were as follows (Noted in the order of introduction) :
Professor of Astronomy at the University of Central Florida
Physical and Surface Processes of Asteroids and Mars
Dr. Jacqueline Quinn
Environmental Engineer
Inducted into the FL Inventors Hall of Fame for her work in Environmental Radiation
Project Manager for Resolve – searches for resources on the moon in the near future
Dr. James Mantovani
Physicist and Lead Scientist in KSC Swampworks in the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Research lab
Working on R&D for ISRU for the Moon, Mars and Asteroids
Investigating the mechanics of soil and categorizing Lunar and Martian soil simulants.
Dr. Gioia Massa
Researching the Right Nutrient Blend for Growing Plants in Martian Soil
Kyle Dixon
Researching Using Methane from Mars in a Rocket Engine
Spent 4 months in a Maritian Isolation Simulation Environment
Hands on Environment for Innovation and Cost Effective Exploration Solutions
A HUGE Thank you for Jason Townsend and Emily Furfaro and team!
And another BIG thank you to all of the cool people that took photos of me when I asked for them to. There are so many images that wouldn't be here if not for their willingness. An especially LARGE thank you to the gentleman that took so many photos of Administrator Bolden and myself on my DSLR and Smartphone. Thanks so much!
So now I bet you're wondering, "How can I be invited to one of these cool NASA Social events and meet these amazing Engineers, Scientists and Astronauts and see an awe inspiring rocket launch?"
If you're active on social media, have an interest in space, science and are interested in attending a future NASA Social event find more information here: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/social/index.html
Do you want to help NASA? Become a citizen scientist, you can start today!
Interested in becoming a solar system ambassador? Apply today!
Download cool NASA Mars posters – Explorers wanted!
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by Genevieve Valentine on Aug 7, 2012 in Short Fiction | 23 comments
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (Paula Guran) selection, 2013
2,300 Words
There's an armless maiden in the woods beyond the house.
She doesn't wail or weep the way you'd think a ghost or a grieving girl would. Her footsteps are heavy—sometimes she loses her balance—but that's the only way to hear her coming.
It happens in plenty of time that you can grab the bucket of golf balls you're collecting (the golf course buys them back for beer money) and get out of the woods before she reaches you.
If you do see her, it's because you lingered when the others ran, and you hid behind the largest oak, the one you and your dad once built a fort under, and waited for her.
The first thing you see is that her hair is loose. That strikes you as the cruelest thing, that whoever did this to her couldn't show even enough mercy to fasten her hair back first, and cast her into the forest with hair so long and loose that it's grown into corded mats down her back. The knots at the bottom are so twisted and so thick they look, when she's moving, like hands.
(No, you think, that's the cruelest thing.)
But her face is clean, as these things go. You imagine her kneeling beside the creek that runs all the way out past the golf course, dipping her face in the water.
There are dark stains down the sides of her dress, all the way to the ground, where she bled and bled and did not die after they cut her arms off at the shoulders.
The armless maiden has hazel eyes, or maybe brown.
She says, "Hello."
There's no telling what the armless maiden did.
It doesn't matter now. To her father, it was offense enough to warrant what happened. To anyone else, what happened was a crime beyond measure; what happened to her was a horror.
(Where they were when her father picked up the axe, there's no telling.)
She's been living in the woods as long as you can remember, though no one talks about it much where you are. Live and let live. If she stays off the golf course, no one minds her.
Nobody in town talks about her to strangers, but still, word gets out.
Sometimes one of the news crews from a bigger city would get wind of her and send a crew to do a story about the woman who haunts the woods. Usually it was Halloween, but sometimes it was International Women's Day, or something horrible had happened to a woman where they were from, and they wanted to find as many crime victims as they could to round out the story so it could last.
Once someone came all the way from Indianapolis to write her up; she asked if anyone had caught her, like she was a rabbit or a disease. The station could pay for testimonials, she said. She gave a dollar number that meant Indianapolis was serious about it.
She left empty-handed. The neighborhood didn't like the implications.
The armless maiden has never spoken, that anyone has ever said, and someone would have said. There's no need to tell strangers from Indianapolis about her, but she belongs to the town, sort of, and it's nothing strange to talk about your own.
Suzanne from the hairdresser's talked sometimes about how she couldn't imagine how that poor girl was looking after herself, and how she'd go out to the woods asking if the maiden needed anything, except that it would be butting in. Usually she said this when she was cutting your hair; she said, "I hear she's a blonde," and then there was no sound in the whole place but her scissors, and you watched your hair falling and held your breath.
At least once every year, someone from the PTA stood up in a meeting and asked if she was still of the age where she needed to be in school, even though she'd been in the woods so long that even if she'd started out that young, she wasn't now.
Tommy from the motel told everyone about the time the bird watchers came down to look for some warbler that was hard to find except in the forested region where they were, and ran into her, and got so frightened they left town without paying their bill. But they left most of their things in the room, too, so he sold the binoculars and the cameras and it came out all right.
He told the story like it was funny, how scared they had gotten, like any of them had ever really seen her and there was something to compare.
You start to think that you're the only one who has ever seen her.
It's a terrible thing to think, and you hope for a long time that it isn't true, but in all the stories people tell about her, no one says a word about seeing her themselves. Maybe she's just the kind of person whose privacy people respect, you think.
(But you know already, long before you admit it, that you're the only one who's ever seen her, and that she must be so lonely it makes your stomach hurt.
When she said hello, you've never heard anyone so surprised.)
That year, a researcher comes.
She isn't like the newscasters, with their navy or pastel skirt-suits, and their hair that got blonder the farther south they came from, and their camera crews who said nothing and tipped poorly.
She comes alone, with a roll-along suitcase that Pete from the diner said was mostly just full of notes and books and a laptop. She read papers the whole time she ate, Pete said, and after she paid the bill she asked him if the rumor was true.
"I'm studying armless maidens of the American West," she said. "I hear there might be one in the area. If anyone has any information about her, I'd like to meet her."
Pete said it like she was the weird one, but some of the people he told the story to thought she sounded different.
Meet, she had said, which sounded very civilized, and which none of them, the more they thought about it, had ever really done.
You kind of hate Pete for not asking more about it. You worked Wednesday through Saturday; if she had come in a day later, you would have asked her plenty.
Because it was as though no one heard the part you hear, the part that sends you down to the motel after work Friday to leave a wadded-up note with Carla, who does the night shift, and who would be more likely to actually pass the word along. (Tommy works days, and he'd let it get lost out of spite, because some guys are just nothing but spite, aren't they?)
She had said, armless maidens.
There are more.
There's comfort in an armless maiden.
In the stories about one armless maiden or another, her suffering is finite; because she is a girl of virtue—or was, before her father got to her, but allowances are made—we know she won't always wander the forest, bleeding and solitary.
While she does make the forest her home, angels part the water for her to walk through, so she'll never drown, and drape their heavenly cloaks on her, so she'll never freeze. It's a comfort.
The birds drop berries into her open mouth, and the rain falls past her grateful lips, so that when the prince finds her she won't be starved (princes in stories don't like maidens whose bodies are eating themselves).
The comfort of the armless maiden is how well you know she's being cared for; how easy it is to understand which parts of her are not whole.
When the researcher actually calls you back, you're surprised.
"It was kind of you to contact me," she says. "And yes, I'm still very interested in speaking with her, if it's possible."
You ask, "Why?" like she was the one who left you a note instead.
She says, "I'll show you the structure of the study, if you want. It's very respectful of privacy. It's still at the research stage at the moment—we're a little low on funding—but I hope that we're doing important work."
The guys at the golf course probably do important work, and you hope she's after something besides golf-course money. (You feel like you wouldn't even know what really important work was.)
"Sure," you say.
The armless maiden is alone.
Even in dreams, no one comes near her; even if there are forests teeming with armless maidens, each one is in a world only she knows for certain.
If the woods were teeming with them, the armless maidens wouldn't believe it, somehow; they would pass by and pass by, each thinking of the others, What a lonely girl, how like a ghost.
(In the good dreams, the world of an armless maiden is a world of silence; it's a world filled with rings of silver; it's a world where the axe couldn't hold.)
The researcher comes in on a Thursday night with her roll-along, looking just like Pete described her, and orders a cup of coffee, and asks you to have a seat.
There are some people who stopped off on their way to the antique fair, so you can't right away, but you stop by to refill her coffee about a dozen times, and finally she pushes a document toward you.
You flip open the first page, standing right there at the table because you can't wait any longer to know what's going on.
You scan the page quickly—the corner booth ordered omelets and the toast gets stone cold if it sits out for more than ten seconds.
It reads, "The armless maidens of the American West are not, despite the title of this study, a geographically-defined phenomenon. The concentration on this region merely allows for a reasonable sample size to be defined and, if possible, interviewed."
Then, farther down, "For purposes of this study and in the interests of maintaining privacy for participants, all names have been changed."
Then there are lists of names; there are charts and graphs full of more data points than you ever thought were possible to gather about anything.
(One axis is labeled "Age at Dismemberment." You can't breathe.)
Next to her, there are stacks of paper fastened with clips, with names like ANNA or CARLIE or MARIA written in large block letters across the front, maybe so they're easy to find.
They're not real names; you wonder if she picked them, or they picked their own.
"What happened to them?" you ask, finally, after you've decided there's not enough money in the world to make you pick one up and read it.
(Your fingers are still resting on CARLIE. Underneath her name it reads: AGE 13.)
She considers her answer, like she doesn't want to frighten you.
She says, "Different things."
That's sort of worse—you had tried to take comfort in the old story that only a father did this kind of thing. Your dad was okay; you thought you were fine.
You swallow. "Are they—are they all right?"
"Some of them," she says. "It depends a lot on what happens to them afterward—who they know, how much they feel they have support to rejoin the world. Sometimes their arms even grow back, eventually, depending."
You guess a little bit about what that depends on, but it's not hard; the armless maiden has been around a long time, and nothing has healed, and everybody you know says things about her but never to.
"I'd like to speak with her, if you know where to find her," she says. "It's a good starting point. The more we talk to them, the easier it is to take note of their progress."
There could have been progress already, if someone had ever walked out past the golf course and looked her in the eye, just once.
You don't want to talk about this anymore.
"I'll get your check," you say, and fill her coffee cup too full, and clock out for your smoke break twice in a row by accident because your hands are shaking.
You suck the cigarette down to the filter, making up your mind about it.
You go back out to the woods, late in the day, when no one is likely to be on the course.
(You don't like the golfers. They never come into the diner, even though it's right down the highway and they have to drive past it, and it seems more trouble to avoid it than to stop.)
You wait near the tree. You've brought some things that make you feel stupider than you've ever felt, including the time you had to give an oral report on the French Revolution in history and blanked, and Tommy never let you hear the end of it.
(You've brought scissors, a comb, vitamins, a dress with sleeves.
You want to be prepared; when you tell her about the researcher, she might say yes.)
Near dark, just before it's really night, she comes by all the same, with careful footfalls.
When she sees you, she stops.
"Hello," says the armless maiden.
You say, "Hello."
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arrrg it ended too soon. … more please
Amazing. Fantastically dark. Killer title. Reminds me of something that might be written in a fantasy National Geographic.
I agree that it ended too soon. There is the seed of a very good story here.
Awesome story, love the style. Unlike some of the others, I like where it ended.
Interesting story. I hated the writing style, tough. That thing of dictating "You do this". It's annoying, tell me your story, don't try to tell me my story.
How charmingly Perec
We want to know more about this girl, this maiden with no arms. Will she establish contact with another (the narrator?) Will she be avenged? Why are the townsfolk so mum about this sad and horrible situation? Just what are we to learn from the armless maidens of the American West?
This is, essentially, how we treat women who have been raped. We talk *abou*t them, we don't talk to them. We shake our heads in pity. We treat them as object not subject. We like to think we are safe from that particular crime "I thought only certain kinds of men did that" and then we learn anyone can do it. We like to think rape victims are a fundamentally different kind of person to us – again, that we are safe. That's part of why we 'other' them.
It's too simplistic to call this a 1:1 allegory – but certainly, if armless maidens were real, this is how we, as a society, would treat them
Thanks for the explanation, it gives the story meaning beyond the obvious, and makes it that much sadder.
The reader wants to know more of the armless maiden. Will she make contact with a friend in town? Will she be avenged? Will her arms grow back? What are we to learn about this sad, damaged young lady?
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and thought the ending was spot on. Any more would have been too much. I often mind second-person voice because it's easy to do poorly, but it worked here and helped immerse me into the viewpoint of the narrator.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I've just bought her novel, high hopes that it's as good as this.
really nice. would read more, but it works like this.
Stunning, absolutely brilliant. Haunting, even.
The "arms grow back" part is the only thing that strikes a false note. Everything in the story is eerily preposterous, but still not precisely impossible. "Arms grow back" is fairy tale stuff (or a too-loud "this could be an allegory" statement).
Also, the killer intro is, we later find out, actually the whole story. the Intro ends in "hello" and then rewinds again and tells the same story in a more protracted manner.
No, the intro was another, earlier encounter. The narrator was collecting golf balls, and fled when she saw the Armless Maiden.
In the end, she goes to find the Maiden, and stays to speak to her.
I really liked this, the pacing, the word choices, the imagery, the flow. It remained mysterious, and cryptic, but not over the top. I'll be reading more. I may need some time to understand all the implications.
It's probably not hard to understand that it reminded me of certain notable situations from Titus Andronicus. But even if it hadn't…
The title is epic. That is all.
Thank you so much for this incredibly inspiring and beautifully written story.
Truly incredible. I've been forwarding it to everyone, telling them to read it immediately.
A man after my own heart. Beautiful tale.
I do wonder: What if two armless women try to greet each other? Do they give each other a foot instead of hands? Not to be discriminating but touching each other's feet is pretty awkward I think.


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|Kimberly Briscoe and Sarahjayne Clements, Community Archaeologists at the Royal Commission visiting the memorial in Moelfre Churchyard, Anglesey to the lives lost on the passenger ship The Royal Charter.
Welcome back from the Community Archaeologists, these last few weeks we've really hit the ground running after our Christmas break; in this case this meant finally putting all our hard work, planning and organisation for the Shipwrecks Project into action.
The Shipwrecks Project was based on the story of a violent gale, which swept over Britain in 1859, wrecking hundreds of ships along the coasts of England and Wales, culminating in horrific coastal damage and loss of life. The Royal Charter, one of the largest and most famous transatlantic wrecks of the storm, was lost just off the coast of Anglesey. It was responsible for the largest number of lives lost in the storm, so much so that the gale has often been renamed the 'Royal Charter Gale'. The documentation of the Royal Charter wreck, and studies of items recovered from the wreck, reveal an interesting snapshot of the lives of those on board.
|The memorial to the Royal Charter and the effects Great Gale 1859 at Cwm yr Eglwys, Pembrokeshire.
|Aberbach beach, Pembrokeshire. The wreck site of the transatlantic cargo ship 'The Charles Holmes', lost on the night of the Great Gale 1859.
The project began on Tuesday 7 January, when Sarahjayne, Deanna and I gave the students of Pembrokeshire College a brief introduction to maritime archaeology and the background of the storm. Asking questions throughout our presentations, the students seemed genuinely engaged with the story of the losses, and local areas that were severely affected by the storm also seemed to resonate strongly with the pupils. Often local shipwrecked vessels are a great starting point for exploring local history within a specific time period. Once you've located a wrecked vessel you can understand further the impact of the vessel on the local community, explore the wealth of an area and the variety of occupations and maritime industry in that area.
|The unique Port of Cardigan Shipping Registry for 1850–1855, an example of the fantastic resources available for use at the Pembrokeshire County Archives.
By Kimberly Briscoe
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Craniotabes is a softening of the skull bones.
Congenital cranial osteoporosis
Craniotabes can be a normal finding in infants, especially premature infants. Studies suggest it occurs in up to one third of all newborn infants.
Craniotabes is a harmless finding in the newborn, unless it is associated with other problems, such as rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bones).
Typically craniotabes is demonstrated by pressing the bone along the area where the bones of the skull come together. The bone often pops in and out, similar to pressing on a Ping-Pong ball.
No testing is done unless osteogenesis imperfecta or rickets is suspected.
Craniotabes that are not associated with other conditions are not treated.
Complete healing is expected.
There are usually no complications.
This finding is usually discovered when the baby is examined during a well-baby check. Call your health care provider if you notice that your child has signs of craniotabes (to rule out other problems).
Most of the time, craniotabes is not preventable (except when associated with rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta).
Greenbaum, L. Rickets and Hypervitaminosis D. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds.Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics.19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 48.
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World's Smallest Car Is Adorable, But Is It Practical?
Legroom is at a premium in this car.
Check out this custom-built vehicle, which Guinness has named the world's smallest car.
Austin Coulson is the mad man behind the car, which measures 25 inches high, slightly over two feet long and a hair more than four feet long. And like any car you'd see trolling the roads, it has turn signals, a horn and windshield wipers, which seems slightly extraneous given there is no roof.
At a mere 45 miles per gallon, the car is also not ideal for going on that cross-country road trip you're planning, either.
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Anodizing Die Cast Aluminum Alloys
Question: I am interested in finding some information about anodizing an aluminum die cast parts.
I am interested in finding some information about anodizing an aluminum die cast parts. The two alloys I am looking at are 360°F and 380°F. Are there any aluminum die cast alloys that would take an anodized finish better than others? I am planning on having the parts polished before the finishing operation. I'm not real familiar with the anodizing process so I would appreciate any information that you can provide. The parts I am looking at are produced in China. T.P.
Both 360 and 380 die cast alloys can be successfully anodized. The 360 alloy is high in silicon and low in copper while 380 is fairly high in both of these alloying elements. The "A" versions of either are lower in iron, which helps produce a better anodized finish. Whichever alloy you anodize, the quality of the die casting is critical to achieving a good anodized finish. I am not a metallurgist, so bear with me. Grain size, crystal size and phase distribution are the important factors affecting casting surface soundness and uniformity. In high-silicon alloys, such as 360 and 380, the silicon crystals are hard, plate-like particles and can be fairly large. Since silicon does not anodize, you can end up with an irregular, blotchy surface appearance after anodizing. Crystal size and distribution can be controlled by the addition of sodium or strontium. This is done in the melting stage. Your metallurgists probably already know this.
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In any case, anodizing of either of these alloys will give a rather dull gray appearance. If the silicon is not homogeneous, it wants to migrate to the metal surface and will appear as brownish, blotchy areas after anodizing. Anodizing should be done in a bath of 200–250 g/liter sulfuric acid at 70° F,voltage should not exceed 15 volts.
Polishing of the castings may result in the "high" points of the metal surface being smoothed over resulting in "voids" in the metal that may be revealed in the anodizing process. You will have to experiment to see what polishing techniques produce the best finish after anodizing.
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John P. Bohenko
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John P. Bohenko was the City Manager of Portsmouth, New Hampshire for 22 years. He retired in December 2019 after 40 years in municipal government and public service.
John earned his Bachelor's of Science degree in Public Administration from Bentley University and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He continues his education through programming within the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
Along with the City of Portsmouth, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of two other New England municipalities including Plainville, CT and North Andover, MA where he was able to successfully keep the tax rate low while also providing quality services.
John has led an accomplished tenure in Portsmouth, where his fiscal policies and management of funds led to successive increases in the City's bond rating and ultimately to a AAA rating from the Standard & Poor's rating agency. He has also overseen the development of the City as it has become a tourist destination, historical hotspot and cultural hub both statewide and nationwide. In addition, John serves on the Board of Directors for the Pease Development Authority and many other professional associations.
Most recently, John has endeavored to give back to his profession, through his service on the ICMA Board of Directors as Vice President of the Northeast Region. As Vice President, John has played a leading role in the Life Well Run campaign, a program that encourages public awareness of the pivotal role municipal managers play in building successful communities.
John is married and has two children. He has been a member of the Rotary Club for thirty years, and is a Past President.


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Cameron: Standing By Will Only Deepen Syria Challenges
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron says that the Middle East has already been in danger due to the conflict in Syria and that standing by will only deepen challenges.
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