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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
::In 2013::
I haven't a clue how this will work out. Writing about 2013. I've dreaded it. And somehow longed for it too. Incapsulating the year in order to frame it up and make sense of what it turned out to be. I really feel and have felt so utterly speechless. I sit in the same spot on my bed as I did last year. Though last year, still a few months pregnant, a few months bewildered, I sat atop a freshly made bed in the morning light. Looking back on that day, I recognize that I was holding my breath. Knowing how this year might turn out. This moment I sit in the same place. But in the dark of my room, buried under the rumbled quilts. Not above them. It is cold. So many voices through my house. The year was such a bigger part of my life than I can effectively write here. But if for nothing else it is so necessary to fulfill what has become my own custom. I cannot make a summary. But I can share a vignette and do my best to describe the most memorable moment of my year. It is an image that when I look at it in my mind still, I see it as illustrating every day, every thought, every prayer, every dream, and every hope that I have.
It is this.
Once my mother was at home in hospice I was able, to spend many days with her. Her bed was set up in the round, windowed sitting room off of her bedroom and each morning, we would watch the sunrise. She only opened her eyes every now and then. Sometimes to see me and smile. Sometimes to rub my belly. Mostly she would just look out at the water. Her face watching the sunrise was like a child. It was as though she was in disbelief at the beauty. She would frequently make the sign of the cross over herself. She had a hard time breathing. She had a hard time getting comfortable. I would rearrange her pillows dozens of times a day. I read prayers to her. I told her what the baby was doing in my belly. I brought in visitors now and then. My sister was there some days too. Juliana and Nicolas each a day too. But most of her 13 days at home in hospice care it was Dad and I. Day and night. I didn't want to ever leave her side or let go of her hand. I never wanted her to wake and not see anyone there. Even at night in the dark. Dad would beg me to go sleep. I kept trying to convince him that even 36 weeks pregnant I was fine to sit up in a chair at night next to her.
One night I finally made him feel a little better by curling up in the small sofa near her bed. I positioned myself and left a small light on so that she could see me. This room that she was in, it was where she had always read and prayed. It is filled with icons on the walls. Though most of it is windowed, with views out to the river. So at night you feel afloat almost. In a vessel. Very late when she sat up needing a drink, my father rushed to get it so that I wouldn't. I forced myself to lay there. Watching him help her to drink. She settled back into sleep, but sitting up in bed, as that was easier on her breathing. My father sat in the chair next to her bed. There was beautiful moonlight on the water all around in the dark. I could see the profile of their silhouettes. We all fell asleep. I awoke again. In the glowing room, from my place on the couch their heads bowing in sleep towards each other made a perfect archway against the moonlight outside and the walls aglow in low light from a single lamp. I looked around to the icons, all the saints, and Christ and the Holy Mother, and their gestures all seemed set in motion and alive, golden. I felt afloat. It all moved but not in a dizzying sort of way just in a very alive sort of way. I felt little Mary kicking within me. I was grateful to be present, I cried tears of thanks to be an adornment in this architecture of my family. Under their archway. Within this womb where my mother had invested prayer and love and thought for each of us every day. I will not forget that peace amidst the turmoil of losing one so dear. I will not forget the ever moving light that guided her and all of us through those days. Yes in sorrow. Yes in anguish. Still to this day it is sadness. But it is filled with hope and light and an example of how to live and I am thankful for all of it.
I nursed my precious girl in the dark of her room a few nights ago before finding my way to gently lay her in bed. I realized something about darkness and about myself. If you're patient and you trust everything that you know, your eyes will eventually adjust to all that needs to be seen. The rest falls away. You will able to see just enough to keep from stumbling in the dark. But it takes a little time. Remembering where you are.
I think my eyes are just now adjusting a bit to the dark.... this new life without my mom. There is so much to see. Much to do. Much to give thanks for. I am glad for the turn to a new year and the marked reason to see things a little fresher. I have been given sunrise after sunrise and I suppose another will come tomorrow.
I wish you love and light in 2014!!!
xoxoAnna Maria
(On the needles above for my niece Grace, who shares a birthday with my mother in February...more on my knitting journey soon!)
67 comments:
This is certainly a different summation than last year. Anna, thank you for sharing these beautiful words with us. For giving us a glimpse of your life, the dark spots as well as the celebrated ones. As I sit and read this, I think of myself never wanting to relate to the loss of a mother, yet reflecting on my own journey over the past year and beyond and how much has changed. Thank you for sharing your gentle strength with us, your readers. God bless you and your beautiful family this year!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:35 PM
Anna, I only know you from reading your blog, but you have been in my thoughts during this holiday season. I know you lost your dear mother this year, and I have been praying for you. Your blog post about your last days with you was so beauitful. Thank you for sharing earlier about her loss so that I would know to pray for you and your family.ReplyDelete
Thank you for always seeing the beauty in everything...it makes this world a better place! Happy 2014 to you and your family!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:51 PM
Anna, you have been on my heart so much, as you face this holiday season missing your mom. She was such a loving, grace filled, peaceful lady, and I miss her gentleness. I lost my mom not long before you lost yours and I know how bittersweet this time is. She was always proud of you and your brother and sister and she adored her grandbabies. She is holding them close. Hugs to you.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful memory to hold close in your heart. And I can see how it now lets your spirit rejoice in all the memories. Thank you for sharing those moments and all the others before.ReplyDelete
These are such beautiful words. You are an amazing woman. Thank you for sharing, and God bless!ReplyDelete
I have no words, but I could not leave without saying that this moment has brought me to tears. That love and grace were clearly present in your mums last days. And that I am so glad that you have this memory to take with you and help soothe the wound that her loss is.ReplyDelete
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Thank you for your beautiful words and for sharing with us. All the best for you.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful post Anna Maria. Wishing you and yours peace, happiness and contentment in 2014.ReplyDelete
Such a heartfelt post. If it helps, know that you are not alone. We have struggled to see such heartbreak among our friends and family this year; four children buried, four miscarriages mourned, and my darling grandfather laid to rest. I think sometimes the tough years are sent to make you appreciate the simple, and important, things in life. Wishing you health, happiness and lots of good things for 2014.ReplyDelete
blessings to you and yours in 2014! thank you for all the inspiration, honesty and friendship. xo.ReplyDelete
my dad died this fall, and the darkness that lies over this whole season is a new one to get a handle on... the unreality of this reality, the humility about all that i did not know... you did bring a spot of light into this for me, none of us are alone, and that is, frankly, astonishing.ReplyDelete
"I realized something about darkness and about myself. If you're patient and you trust everything that you know, your eyes will eventually adjust to all that needs to be seen. The rest falls away. You will able to see just enough to keep from stumbling in the dark. But it takes a little time. Remembering where you are." I find this quote so deep with meaning. Prayers for your 2014, I lost my Dad in 1989 and I felt this post so fully. Wishing you health, happiness, and peace in 2014ReplyDelete
Such touching optimism is what life is all about.ReplyDelete
Wishing you a year filled with light x
- Anonymous8:58 AM
One of the hardest things in life is losing your mother. My husband went through this 2 years ago. Hugs to you and prayers for a fresh new year.ReplyDelete
Dear, sweet woman, thank you for sharing your life's thoughts and experiences...ReplyDelete
Love and light for you, too.
Thank you~
- Anonymous10:41 AM
I lost my Dad four years ago this month. likening it to sight adjusting in the dark is a very succinct description. It took time for my eyes(heart) to adjust to the darkness. But little by little they dark fades and the sun starts to rise :) Thank you for sharing. God BlessReplyDelete
Dear Anna Maria,ReplyDelete
Thinking of you. This was a beautiful tribute to your precious Mother. Thank you, Sondra
- Anonymous12:13 PM
I discovered your blog a few days ago,so I don't know much about you,but thanks for sharing your story,I think it wasn't easy for you.Thinking of you,may your mothers soul rest in peace.ReplyDelete
Good thoughts from Romania!
lovely, lovely love. having just done the same journey with my mom that ended Dec 4 i believe you captured the vignette perfectly. i too curled up on a chair in her sight with a lamp on so when she opened her eyes she would know we were with her. it is such a sad time but i wouldn't trade that time away, its precious, its a gift to be able to give the love back to your mom that she gave to you everyday of her life. hugsReplyDelete
Very beautiful writing about those precious last days and hours with your mom. I was with my dad at the end and will never forget those moments myself. So hard to lose a parent, so many things we wish we had asked about or learned before it is too late. I hope 2014 is full of happy memories for you!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:20 PM
your writing always somehow puts tears in my eyes. my mom lost her mom when my mom was my age (almost 39). i cannot imagine being without my wonderful mom, and so i pray peace and comfort for you, and for a joyful new year.ReplyDelete
A beautiful post. I am sorry for your lost but rejoice in your new little one. Blessings to you and your family.ReplyDelete
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Your analogy to the dark is spot on. Your eyes will adjust without you even realizing it. Wishing much love and light to you and yours this year as well!ReplyDelete
what a blessing of a mother; icons and lampadas lit; we live in the light of beauty that saves us, thanks be to God; may God remember your Mother in His Kingdom!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing this with us; it has stayed with me all day and is a true picture of beauty that saves us...the Mother of God's prayers and her icon ~ may they always be with you and uphold you through the year that comes with your Mother not physically with you...
This is so beautiful, your writing of life. All around there is love and there is light, and the laying down, and the marking with the cross. Thanks be to God for the blessed, blessed peace He has so graciously given you amidst the sorrow.ReplyDelete
May this new year bring you more of His choicest blessings.
Today I was thinking of my Mother & my favourite quote came to mind. I think it would suit you..."All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my Mother."ReplyDelete
so beautiful. thank you for sharing your heart. blessings in the new year.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:34 PM
I've never posted here before and am doing so now through tears. Your words have brought me back to my mother's side as she lay dying. I had the exact same feeling. Not wanting her to ever, ever wake up and not have someone holding her had. Someone by her side. A hospice saint saw this and said to me, "Dying is an incredibly personal experience. One that many people choose to do alone. Go take a shower. Go take a nap. Let her choose." I will never forget those words and that moment. A hug to you and a hug to your heart and a hug to our Moms - they made us who we are.ReplyDelete
God rest her soul Anna. You have given so much life to so many of us through your work, and she is alive in all that you do.ReplyDelete
- Jenny11:20 PM
Such a moving beautiful post, Anna Maria. You touch many hearts and souls with your writing. Thank you for always sharing your deepest emotions and heartfelt words. I only know you through your blog which I have enjoyed reading for many years now, and I want to say you are a beautiful, amazing, talented woman. I look forward to reading each and every one of your inspiring posts! Wishing you and your family a blessed joyful New Year!ReplyDelete
Anna, thanks for sharing your sorrow and inspiration.ReplyDelete
I really liked your post. I even took down notes of some of the sentences to keep them in my little notebook for times when I need some light and hope!ReplyDelete
All the best for 2014
Although I've finally started to return to blogging, I also haven't been able to write about last year. It's too big.ReplyDelete
I'm sad that I still can't allow myself to remember the last days with my mum.
Your words are beautiful, as always. I hope 2014 is beautiful for you xxx
Beautiful. I could see it. Thank you so much for sharing such an amazing moment.ReplyDelete
Beautiful. A very touching recollection of the last days. It sounds like she was comfortable and Jesus found repose in her heart. May God rest your mother's soul.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:34 PM
To all readers of this blog, I wish you a very Happy New Year! I hope 2014 is a good year for you, your family and your friends.ReplyDelete
So sorry for your loss. This is a beautiful memory.ReplyDelete
such beautiful thoughts and visions... peace...ReplyDelete
Beautiful and peaceful post. I hope you don't mind if I quote you. I think your words will help many find peace as they too struggle in the dark. Blessings AnnaReplyDelete
We are given new Mercies each day! You are beautiful! Much Peace and LoveReplyDelete
thankyou for sharing your heart with us. it is so beautiful and moving. much love and hugs to yous. xoxoxoReplyDelete
- Kathryn4:03 AM
Oh. Much love to you. You've been an inspiration for years, and not just because of your talent, it's your heart and soul, too. xReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:11 AM
You are such an amazing woman such beautiful descriptive writing it was as though I was in the room with you. Your mother must have been a beautiful soul may she now be at peace and watch over all her little family.Hope 2014 is filled with much love and happiness for you and your family.xReplyDelete
Your gift for writing is only paralleled by your gift for designing. Bless you and your family in this new year.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your words.ReplyDelete
I too went through the valley of death with someone very dear in 2013. My own Father is now in his *longed-for real heavenly Home*.
He entrusted me with his care during last of his Life here on earth. I love him all the more for the privilege of those weeks.
Your thoughts are so poignant.
- Anonymous11:35 PM
Beautifully written. You are so able to encompass in words what many of us have in our hearts when we loose a beloved family member. Thank you for sharing Anna. May 2014 bless you with many wonderful surprises.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:24 PM
"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." - Psalm 116:15ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:21 PM
Thank you, my mum passed away 11 years ago and reading your experience had me right back at the exact moment that I realised my precious mum had passed. I was in her room only moments earlier and decided to get some fresh towels from the laundry for her ...and then she was gone. I remember standing in the doorway watching her and thinking - thank you God - Mum is now at peace.ReplyDelete
Beautiful. There is nothing as precious and blessed as the time spent with a loved one in their last days. No regrets.ReplyDelete
Sending you big, big warm hugs from Berlin Anna with lots of love and light in 2014, xoxoReplyDelete
Beauty and grace and faith and peace in your words.ReplyDelete
My mom passed away when I was 19, a long time ago... I only wish I'd had someone to guide us through the experience. Our dad wanted to protect us from the hard parts and so there is so much more I wish I had done- for him, for mom, for me.
I try to forgive myself for not being there more, but it still weighs heavily on my heart. How blessed you are to have shared this time with your dad, and with your mom. Thanks for sharing it with all of us too.
Thank you for putting into words those precious moments you experienced. I'm speechless in response and want to ponder so many different things you've said for a long time.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this beautiful post! Reading your blog is very often an experience like no other blog gives me.This time again your words have deeply touched me. The process of pain leading to acceptance through beauty is, to me, one of the most important motives for artistic creations.Extracting beauty from pain. Only great artists are capable of translating this into a unique testimony of their art. For me you are such an artist in your designs and in your words, here, in this blog.ReplyDelete
I hope this year will surround you with love and light!!
This brought me to tears. You write so beautifully. Your mom would of loved to read it. Peace.ReplyDelete
as always Anna, I have been touched deeply by your words. God has given you many, many gifts, and it shows. May your heart reap many joys as you continue to find peace and beauty in all of His creation.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:46 PM
I lost my husband just after Christmas. He was only 47 & cancer caught up with him. He had so much to live for & yet this disease was beyond anyone's control. And yet even I can find wonder in his last days (sometimes).ReplyDelete
Be thankful for your mother & her long life. Be thankful for the beauty of life in her last days.
Thank you for your beautiful post.
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Judge rules Iranian convert from Islam requires protection from persecutors.
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 15 (CDN) — Mohammad Azbari, a Christian convert from Islam who has fled to Kenya, knows what it's like to be deported back to his native Iran.
When it happened in 2007, he said, Iranian authorities pressured the government of Norway to return him and his wife Gelanie Azbari to Iran after hearing rumors that he had forsaken Islam.
"When we arrived in Iran, we were interrogated by security and severely beaten," he told Compass in Nairobi, where he and his family fought to persuade the Kenyan government to decline Iran's demand to deport him back. "My son got scared and began urinating on himself."
A cousin managed to secure their release, but not before Iranian authorities had taken valuable – and incriminating – possessions.
"They took everything that I had – laptop, camera and some of my valuables which contained all my details, such as information concerning my baptism, and my entire profile, including that of my family," Azbari said.
Azbari had been employed in the Iranian army before fleeing, he said, and authorities were monitoring his movements because they were concerned that, having left Islam, he might betray his country and reveal government secrets.
When he and his Christian wife, a native of the Philippines, first fled Iran in 2000, he was still a Shia Muslim. The previous year authorities had arrested his wife after finding a Christmas tree in their house in Tehran; Azbari was not home at the time and thus escaped arrest, but as authorities took his wife away they left their then 3-year-old son unattended.
"I was put in a small cell for two days," Gelanie Azbari told Compass, through tears. "While in the cell two police guards raped me. It was the worst of all the nights I have had in my lifetime. Since that time I have been sick both physically and mentally."
Authorities soon took her husband in for interrogation, suspecting he was a spy for foreign states.
Still a Muslim, Azbari allowed his wife to follow her Christian faith. He had grown accustomed to watching her pray as a Christian and watch the Jesus Film. As time went by, he developed an urge to embrace Christianity. They started reading the Bible together.
The idea of trusting in and following Christ filled him with fear, as it was against the law to convert from Islam – it would mean losing his life, he said.
"I started questioning our leaders, who see themselves as God," he said. "The claim of Jesus as the prophet as well as the Word and spirit of God is indicated in the Quran. When I read in the Gospels of Jesus giving people rest, it made me want to decide to accept him as my Lord and Savior."
Sensing danger, the family fled to the Netherlands in 2000, and it was there that Azbari embraced Christianity. In 2003 the family left the Netherlands for Norway.
Azbari was an avid student of his new-found Lord; while in Norway, he became seminary teacher of Christology.
Throughout, Azbari said, the Iranian government had been monitoring his movements. In 2007 Iranian officials persuaded the Norwegian government to send him, together with his wife and son Reza Azbari, back to Iran.
After their interrogation and mistreatment upon arrival in Iran, Azbari managed to call his sister, who connected him with the army general cousin who helped secure their release. His sister took them in, but his brother in-law was not happy with their Christian prayers; he began quarreling with his wife, Azbari's sister.
"They began looking for trouble for us," Azbari said. "Sensing danger, we then left the home and went to find a place to stay. Everywhere we tried to book in we were rejected, since we were people who had been deported."
They began attending a church made up primarily of foreigners, where Azbari's wife and son felt more at home than he did. His army general cousin found out and, angry that they had sought refuge in a church after he had secured their release, grew furious.
"He was very angry, as they had also discovered this information from the laptop they had confiscated and threatened that I should be arrested," Azbari said. "I then decided to move to central Iran to look for employment, leaving my family behind."
The couple felt they could not go to Gelanie Azbari's homeland as the Philippines has such friendly relations with Iran, he said.
"To go back to Philippines or Iran is quite unsafe for us," Azbari said.
In October 2009, his sister notified him that police were looking for him and his family.
"I then decided to flee the country through Turkey, then to Kenya where I was arrested and then deported to Turkey," Azbari said. "In Turkey they could not allow me to enter the country, hence I was returned to Kenya."
They were arrested in January for illegal entry into Kenya. On March 4, a judge at Chief Magistrate Court No. 3 of Kenya dropped the charges against him, declaring that Azbari required international protection from his persecutors. The court also directed that Azbari be given back all his documents and the 10,000 Kenyan Shillings ($US130) in bail he had deposited.
They had applied for asylum with the United Nations. Appearing before the court on behalf of Azbari on Jan. 15, a representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had argued that he deserved asylum because his religious status had forced him to flee from his country of origin. On March 4 the court found that Azbari and his family require international protection under Section 82 of the laws of Kenya, and he was set free.
"We have witnessed the love of God and the sacrifices of what it means to love one in word and deed," Azbari said moments after the decision. "We saw the love of Christ from the people who understood and stood with us."
He thanked friends who introduced his family to Nairobi Pentecostal Church, which provided them spiritual strength. Three attorneys represented Azbari: Wasia Masitsa, a legal officer for the Urban Refugee Intervention Program; Christian lawyer John Swaka; and Laban Osoro of the United Nations. Rene Kiamba of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce had helped him post bail.
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Most Popular Destination Wedding Locations
Just south of the border lies Mexico, one of the more popular destination wedding spots. This area offer warm sunny weather year round, plus couples will have beautiful backdrops and spicy cuisine for their reception. There are many all-inclusive resorts in Mexico that offer beach weddings and the resort will do all of the planning for you.
Popular regions in Mexico for couples to host a destination wedding include Acapulco, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Maya. Popular resorts for a destination wedding include El Dorado Royale, Paradisus Resorts and Blue Bay Hotels and Resorts.
Island wedding planners await you in Jamaica where they will help plan your wedding on the beautiful beaches, near waterfalls or with the mountains in the background. The beauty of Jamaica is what makes it one of the most popular destination wedding locations in the world.
All-inclusive resorts such as the Sandals Resorts, Iberostar and AM Resorts offer wedding planning with a stay at the resort. This makes it possible for couples to have everything included in a single price, while giving family and wedding guests a convenient place to stay. Before and after the wedding, couples and guests will be able to relax on the sandy beaches, explore local markets and go hiking through the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Dominican Republic
The island of the Dominican Republic offer couples both boutique hotels and all-inclusive resorts where they can exchange their vows and continue enjoying the honeymoon long after they say "I do." The southeastern side of the island is one of the more popular spots for couples and their families to gather on the beaches for a tropical wedding. The eastern tip of the island is also popular for couples to host a destination wedding in the enclaves of Punta Cana.
Once you arrive in the Dominican Republic, you will know you made the right decision to get married there, especially once you dig your toes into the powdery sands along the island's 900-mile coastline. Popular destination wedding resorts in the Dominican Republic include Dreams Resorts, Casa de Campo and Melia Caribe Tropical.
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Just a short jet ride from the shores of Florida, couples will find paradise in the Bahamas. Considered one of the hottest destinations for couples, the Bahamas offer many romantic destination wedding opportunities. Couples will have more than 700 islands to choose from, including Nassau, Freeport, Paradise and Grand Bahama Island. Many of the Islands offer private resorts, all-inclusive resorts and charter boats that are perfect for a destination wedding location.
Many of the all-inclusive resorts will offer that picture and many other beautiful backdrops for your destination wedding. Popular destination wedding resorts in the Bahamas include the Sandals Resorts - Sandals Royal Bahamanian Spa Resort and Sandals Emerald Bay - the Atlantis Resort and Casino and the One & Only Ocean Club.
No need for passports to plan an island wedding when you have the romantic islands of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Couples love the hassle-free travel to Hawaii, making it easier for their guests to join them for their destination wedding. The green mountains, romantic waterfalls, intimate lagoons and clear ocean waters are all perfect backdrops for a wedding.
Couples can choose to plan the wedding themselves or use the services of a wedding planner at one of the many resorts located throughout the Hawaiian islands. Popular destination wedding hotels and resorts include Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel, Hilton Hawaiian Village, The Kahala Hotel and Resort and Moana Surfrider.
United States Virgin Islands
Planning a destination wedding in the United States Virgin Islands is just as easy as planning one within the country. No passports are needed for couples nor their wedding guests. The Virgin Islands consist of three major islands - St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix - all of which offer lush, beautiful backgrounds perfect for any wedding. Plus, once the wedding is over, couples and their guests can enjoy island hopping and exploring all of the smaller islands peppered throughout the waters surrounding the main islands.
Popular destination wedding hotels and resorts in the United States Virgin Islands include the Ritz-Carlton, The Buccaneer, Carambola Golf Club & Beach Resort and Caneel Bay Resort.
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No matter what time of year you want to get married, Aruba is the perfect destination wedding location. This island is just south of the hurricane zone, eliminating the worry of a cancelled wedding due to an approaching storm. The island is also home to many all-inclusive resorts, quiet tropical settings and gorgeous sunsets. After the wedding, couples and their guests can spend some time in the sun, on the sandy beaches or in one of the many casinos.
Popular destination wedding hotels and resorts in Aruba include the Hyatt Regency Aruba, the Renaissance Aruba Resort and Casino and the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino.
Some couples love the idea of planning a destination wedding aboard a cruise line. These weddings bring the hotel and amenities with the wedding party, while offering multiple wedding options. Wedding options include secluded sections of the boat, in the boat's chapel and at the many ports of call made while taking a cruise vacation. Plus, the reception hall will go with you once you depart from your ceremony site.
Popular cruise lines for destination weddings include Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean International, Princess and Norwegian Cruise Line.
Aspen, Colorado
For couples looking for quiet destination wedding venues, Aspen, Colorado is home to many private cabins and quiet resorts set within gorgeous mountains. Wedding venues in Aspen include near the snow-covered mountains, next to oversized fireplaces and in luxurious ballrooms.
Popular destination wedding venues in Aspen, Colorado include the Aspen Meadows Resort, Hearthstone House, Hotel Lenado and different sites of Frias Properties of Aspen.
Amalfi Coast, Italy
Located in the heart of the Mediterranean is a popular destination wedding location where coupes can get married among hillside villas and crystalline waters. These romantic settings can only be found in Amalfi Coast, Italy, where couples can choose a private wedding setting or a larger venue for families to enjoy a more traditional wedding overlooking the Bay of Salerno. Couples can also choose to take a cruise along the many waters of the region, including aboard luxury cruise lines such as Oceania Riviera, Seabourn Quest and Crystal Symphony.
Popular destination wedding venues in Amalfi Coast, Italy include private villas, quaint restaurants and the Cliffside hotels.
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Nothing beats what the country regions of Ireland have to offer couples planning a destination wedding. The Emerald Isle offers the perfect, romantic backdrop for couples looking to tie the knot with a little bit of Irish culture and lots of Guinness. The misty hills, quaint villages and historic castles create the perfect backdrop when saying "I do."
Popular destination wedding venues in Ireland include the regions of Dublin, Southwest Ireland and West Ireland. Two of the more popular resorts for weddings are the Ballyfin Demesne Resort and the Bridgehouse Hotel.
A destination wedding is something almost every bride dreams of, but only few actually go through with the planning of one. Make your dreams come true and start planning your destination wedding at one of the many popular locations worldwide. These destinations offer everything from romantic venues to breathtaking backdrops for those looking for a unique wedding venue.
Related: Travel Guide To Paris, France
Heather Landon is a freelance writer with more than 20 years of experience. She has combined two of her passions - writing and travel - to share her experiences with others. You can read more of her articles at Examiner.com.
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Before my daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease, I loved to bring lemon squares to family gatherings. People would fight over the last lemon square. I loved the buttery shortbread crust combined with the mouth-puckering tartness and compelling sweetness.
After my daughter's celiac diagnosis, I mourned the lack of gluten-free lemon bars. Little did I know that lemon squares are easy to make gluten-free. The density of gluten-free flours helps make a firm crust (I used sorghum and amaranth flours to boost nutrition). And I only needed to substitute cornstarch in the lemon filling to make it gluten-free.
My friend Jennifer told me she makes lemon squares with a crushed macaroon crust during Passover. I definitely need to try that next year!
Lemon squares are easier to cut when they are frozen, since they won't ooze under the knife. Plus, they taste divine cold, so I store them in my freezer and simply transfer to the table when it's dessert time.
Luscious Gluten-Free Lemon Squares
(gluten-free, kid-friendly, dairy)
By Gluten-Free Nosh
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- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups gluten-free flour (I used 3/4 cup sorghum flour, 1/2 cup amaranth flour, 1/2 cup tapioca starch, 1/4 cup sweet rice flour)
- 4 eggs
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest, grated
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan with parchment paper, covering the bottom and sides of the pan.
- In medium bowl, use pastry blender or two knives to combine butter, confectioners' sugar and gluten-free flours until it takes on a gravely consistency, with small pea-sized lumps of butter coated in flour. Pat mixture into baking pan, making sure the crust is as evenly leveled as possible, and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Meanwhile, beat eggs in a medium bowl. Add sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch, baking powder and lemon zest and stir until well mixed. Pour egg mixture over baked crust. Return pan to oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes (do not overbake).
- Sprinkle with additional confectioners' sugar, using a sifter that's only been used for gluten-free food. Lemon squares are easier to cut when they are frozen. Put pan in freezer. When frozen, lift out lemon squares on the parchment paper. Cut into 24 to 36 squares and store squares in an airtight container in the freezer.
Yield: 24 to 36 lemon squares
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Changing your spark plug regularly is essential to maintaining your self-propelled lawn mower. If a spark plug is hampered by debris or worn out with time it won't be able to generate the spark needed to start your engine and can reduce the performance and fuel economy of your lawn mower. Check and clean your spark plugs each year and plan on replacing them when they start showing signs of wear and tear. Checking your spark plug can also let you know if there are other lawn mower repairs to be made based on the buildup on the plug.
As you start this project, make sure you have the correct spark plug. Since plugs often look alike, it's important to check your Engine Operator's Manual to make sure you have the correct spark plug for your lawn mower before beginning repairs. The instructions listed below may change based on your model number.
Note: The engine should be cool before changing spark plugs.
Step 1 - Disconnect the spark plug wire
To ensure safety during any lawn mower repair, it's important to disconnect the wire. When changing the spark plug, you'll need to remove the wire to access the plug. Check the condition of the wire at this point as well.
Step 2 - Remove the old spark plug
Use a spark plug wrench and turn counter-clockwise to remove the old spark plug from the mower.
Step 3 - Change the gap on your spark plug
Check the gap on the new spark plug and use a specialized gap tool or a set of feeler gauges to adjust the gap between the electrodes to the appropriate distance as referenced in your operator's manual.
Step 4 - Install the new spark plug
Be careful not to cross-thread when changing spark plugs. You should be able to thread the spark plug in smoothly by hand for a few turns.
Step 5 - Tighten the spark plug
Use a spark plug wrench to continue tightening until the plug is firmly in place. do NOT over-tighten.
Step 6 - Reconnect the spark plug wire
Once you're done changing the spark plug, check for other lawn mower parts that need repair or replacement. Updating anything that needs maintenance with the help of our lawn mower repair how-to articles. Reconnect the spark plug and you're ready to go.


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For all the claims that Obama was riding on a crest of political popularity, and that the GOP was about to experience NRA blowback, and that the Tea Party had drifted away, and that a golden era of liberal socialism was sweeping away the Republican world, a philandering despicable Tea Party candidate, Mark Sanford, was able to handily defeat Elizabeth Busch. For those of us who haven't lost any faith in the Tea Party, and who have proclaimed that the Democratic-based obituary on the Tea Party was way pre-mature, this election was a vindication of something which was obvious. After 5 years, the Tea Party retains ascendency in the Republican Party, it is here to stay, and any speculation that the Republicans have to compromise in order to stay relevant should now be firmly put to rest. This is a huge boost for Rand Paul as well. Obama has had a month that has truly sucked. The Tea Party has been given nothing but reason to celebrate. Obama and his supporters with their prognostication of Democratic ascendency are cordially invited to go suck eggs.


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In keeping with tradition, we expect the all-important 2012 presidents race auditions to occur at Nationals Park on February 18, but according to the team, this year's dates have not been finalized. Presidents race tryouts traditionally occur on Presidents Day weekend, with applications due a week prior.
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Racial Attitudes in the Presidential Race
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 29, 2009
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An article by Project Implicit researchers published this month in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy reports evidence that both implicit and explicit race attitudes were related to intended vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. 1,057 registered voters completed a study conducted at Project Implicit's research website during the week before the presidential election. The participants completed multiple measures of racial attitudes including self-reported feelings of warmth toward Blacks and Whites, a measure of "symbolic" racism, two implicit measures of racial attitudes – a brief version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Affective Misattribution Procedure (AMP), and reported their intended vote. Analyses suggested that participants who showed strong implicit and self-reported favoring of Whites compared to Blacks were also more likely to intend to vote for John McCain instead of Barack Obama. Collectively, the four race attitude measures accounted for 21% of the variation in intended vote. Further, after including liberalism-conservatism that is a (strong) predictor of vote and related to race attitudes, the race attitude measures still predicted 2% (p-value = 10e-24) of voting intention variance. Also, implicit and self-reported racial attitude measures each contributed unique predictive validity of intended vote. Of course, like any study of these relations, the data are correlational leaving open the possibility of unseen third-variables that are determinants of both racial attitudes and intended vote. However, in the absence of plausible alternative accounts, these results strongly suggest that race attitudes played a role in determining the 2008 Presidential vote.
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Kathleen Parker: The Bush I knew
In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation's attentions turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.
During the dedication of his library at Southern Methodist University, nary a word was spoken about the most controversial aspect of his tenure, the Iraq invasion. All living presidents were in attendance and made only generic references to mistakes and regrets familiar to all. Of course Bush famously acknowledges no mistakes or regrets, but rather bequeaths judgment to history and self-doubt to those of lesser conviction.
This observation, though true, is not the whole story of Bush, however. Nearly everyone who has known Bush up closer than a video clip has a different impression of him than what is more popularly accepted. The arrogant, swaggering caricature of the 43rd president was mostly a shield. Bravado of the "bring 'em on" variety was more personal jab than foreign policy statement, though one suspects Bush enjoyed the sound of tiny feet scurrying to keyboards in search of deeper meaning.
Obviously, what a president says and does is fair game for criticism. The way Bush chose to express himself was the way he would be perceived and judged. To act arrogantly is to (BEG ITAL)be(END ITAL) arrogant in the public eye. To speak awkwardly is to (BEG ITAL)be(END ITAL) awkward.
But in private, Bush was a very different man. In small groups, he was articulate and confident. When the cameras were off, he was relaxed and natural. Not everyone is made for TV, and this is no criticism. It can be a deficit for public figures, but people who are at one with lights and cameras are sometimes better actors than statesmen.
Everyone is familiar with Bush's history and performance. What I offer is an anecdote or two that I think reveal what the cameras and critics could not. These recollections are simply recorded for the sake of biography in the interest of rounding out a more complete picture of a two-term, transformational president who changed our world in ways that won't be fully understood or judged in our lifetimes.
July 2007: I have just written a eulogy for a friend who has died in a car crash when I am summoned along with about a dozen other journalists to meet with the president. His director of media affairs, Jeanie Mamo, meets me at the security gate, sees my bloodshot eyes and, having read my column, says how sorry she is. I start babbling something about how I wouldn't have come except, and she interrupts: "Except that he's the president of the United States."
Yes, that's it.
Once in the Roosevelt Room, Bush circles the room, shaking hands with each person, coming to me last. He gives a hug and says, "You're not alone. I'm right there with you."
Somehow I managed not to burst into tears. After the meeting he returned to give me another hug, whereupon I asked a favor. Would he write a note to my friend's son? Absolutely. In the Oval Office, he asks the boy's name. Jackson. He writes: "Dear Jackson, I know your heart is broken. I will pray for you. Sincerely, George W. Bush."
More or less. Unfortunately, I failed to copy the letter before delivering it to the son at my friend's funeral.
I tell this story because it should be part of the public record of this president, not least because such gestures were not rare. Bush often met privately and without fanfare with the families of fallen soldiers. He often visited the wounded without anyone's knowing. He really did feel others' pain.
During a one-on-one interview on Air Force One, I asked him about his hardest days as president. He rejected the question as irrelevant. The hardest day of his life was seeing his father lose re-election, not because the Bush family needed more time in the Rose Garden but because seeing his father, "this great man," suffer was so painful for the son.
Every president (thus far) is also just a man, which is to say, human. His frailties and flaws are in plain sight, every gesture a potential weapon of self-destruction. For reasons that are perhaps a characteristic of our untamed nature, we seem intent on elevating presidents only to bring them down.
Thus it was with Bush, who, our favorite cartoons notwithstanding, was more than a composite of swagger and smirk. He was also a kind man with a gentle heart who should be remembered as such.
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Last Saturday the the crisis level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was rapidly on the rise. Hydrogen explosions, cracks in the wetwell torus and fires in a shutdown unit's building — it seemed the sequence of new problems would never end. A week later, the situation remains troubling, but, over the last few days, it has not got any worse. Indeed, one could make a reasonable argument that it's actually got better.
Yes, the IAEA has now formally listed the overall accident at an INES level 5 (see here for a description of the scales), up from the original estimate of 4. This is right and proper — but it doesn't mean the situation has escalated further, as some have inferred. Here is a summary of the main site activities for today, followed by the latest JAIF and FEPC reports. You also might be interested in the following site map:
Another large cohort of 100 Tokyo fire fighters joined the spraying operation to cool down the reactors and keep the water in the spent fuel ponds. The 'Hyper Rescue' team have set up a special vehicle for firing a water cannon from 22 m high (in combination with a super pump truck), and today have been targeting the SNF pond in unit 3. About 60 tons of sea water successfully penetrated the building in the vicinity of the pool, at a flow rate of 3,000 litres per minute. Spraying with standard unmanned vehicles was also undertaken for 7 hours into other parts of the the unit 3 building (delivering more than 1,200 tons), to keep the general containment area cool. The temperature around the fuel rods is now reported by TEPCO (via NHK news) to be below 100C.
Conditions in unit 3 are stabilising but will need attention for many days to come. Promisingly, TEPCO has now connected AC cables to the unit 1 and 2 reactor buildings, with hopes that powered systems can be restored to these building by as early as tomorrow (including, it is hoped, the AC core cooling systems), once various safety and equipment condition checks are made.
Holes were made in the secondary containment buildings of Units 5 and 6 as a precautionary measure, to vent any hydrogen that might accumulate and so prevent explosions in these otherwise undamaged structures. The residual heat removal system for these units has now been brought back on line and these pools maintain a tolerable steady temperature of 60C. More here. These buildings were operating on a single emergency diesel generator, but now have a second electricity supply via the external AC power cable.
Why are they concentrating on these activities? Let's revisit a bit of the history of last week. The spent fuel pool still has decay heat (probably of the order of few MW in each pool) that requires active cooling. When power went out on Friday, the cooling stopped and the pool temperature has been rising slowly over the weekend, and probably started boiling off (and a large volume may have also been lost due to 'sloshing' during the seismic event). The pool is located on the 4th floor above the reactor vessel level. It remains unclear why they could not arrange fire trucks to deliver the sea water before the fuel rods got damaged and started releasing radioactivity. Now the effort is hampered by the high radiation level (primarily penetrating gamma rays). This is the inventory of those spent fuel ponds that have been causing so many headaches:
In order to remove the decay heat after the reactor shutdown, the cooling system should be operating. Following the loss of offsite power, the on-site diesel generators came on but the tsunami arrived an hour or so later and wiped out the diesel generators. Then the battery provided the power for 8 hours or so, during which time they brought in portable generators. However, the connectors were incompatible. As the steam pressure built up inside the pressure vessel, the relief valve was open and dumped the steam to the pressure suppression chamber, which in turn was filtered out to the confinement building and the hydrogen explosion took out the slabs.
The sea water was then pumped in by fire trucks and the reactor pressure vessels are now cooled down to near atmospheric pressure but the fuel assemblies are uncovered at the top quarter or third (the FEPC updates give the actual pressure and water levels). It appears that the pressure vessels and the reactor containment structures are intact, except the Unit 2, where the hydrogen explosion took place inside the containment and hence damaging the lower wetwell torus structure (but almost certainly not the reactor vessel, although the exact status is unclear). It appears that the radioactivity releases are mostly coming from the spent fuel storages than the reactor cores.
World Nuclear News has a really excellent extended article here entitled "Insight to Fukushima engineering challenges". Read it! Further, you must watch this 8 minute reconstruction of the timeline of the accident done by NHK — brilliant, and really highlights the enormous stresses this poor station faced against a record-breaking force of nature. As I'd noted earlier, just about everything that could have went wrong, did. But valuable lessons must also be learned.
The IAEA and Japanese government has reported the potential contamination of food products from the local Fukushima area via radioactive iodine (mostly vented as part of the pressure relief operations of units 1 to 3). This is a short-term risk due to the 8-day half-life of radioactive iodine (and a small risk, given the trace amounts recorded), but precautions are warranted, as discussed here. What does this mean?
In the case of the milk samples, even if consumed for one year, the radiation dose would be equivalent to that a person would receive in a single CT scan. The levels found in the spinach were much lower, equivalent to one-fifth of a single CT scan.
… and to further put this in context:
The UK government's chief independent scientific advisor has told the British Embassy in Tokyo that radiation fears from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant are a "sideshow" compared with the general devastation caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck on 11 March. Speaking from London in a teleconference on 15 March to the embassy, chief scientific officer John Beddington said that the only people likely to receive doses of radiation that could damage their health are the on-site workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. He said that the general population outside of the 20 kilometre evacuation zone should not be concerned about contamination.
As to the possibility of a zirconium fire in the SNF ponds, this seems unlikely. Zr has a very high combustion point, as illustrated in video produced by UC Berkeley nuclear engineers. They applied a blowtorch to a zirconium rod and it did not catch on fire. The demonstration is shown about 50 seconds into this video. The temperature was said to reach 2000C [incidentally, I visited that lab last year!].
The the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum has provided their 12th reactor-by-reactor status update (16:00 March 19).
Here is the latest FEPC status report:
- Radiation Levels
- At 7:30PM on March 18, radiation level outside main office building (approximately 1,640 feet from Unit 2 reactor building) of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: 3,699 micro Sv/h.
- Measurement results of ambient dose rate around Fukushima Nuclear Power Station at 4:00PM and 7:00PM on March 18 are shown in the attached two PDF files respectively.
- At 1:00PM on March 18, MEXT decided to carry out thorough radiation monitoring nationwide.
- For comparison, a human receives 2,400 micro Sv per year from natural radiation in the form of sunlight, radon, and other sources. One chest CT scan generates 6,900 micro Sv per scan.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 reactor
- Since 10:30AM on March 14, the pressure within the primary containment vessel cannot be measured.
- At 4:00PM on March 18, pressure inside the reactor core: 0.191MPa.
- At 4:00PM on March 18, water level inside the reactor core: 1.7 meters below the top of the fuel rods.
- As of 3:00PM on March 18, the injection of seawater continues into the reactor core.
- Activities for connecting the commercial electricity grid are underway.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 reactor
- At 4:00PM on March 18, pressure inside the primary containment vessel: 0.139MPaabs.
- At 4:00PM on March 18, pressure inside the reactor core: -0.002MPa.
- At 4:00PM on March 18, water level inside the reactor core: 1.4 meters below the top of the fuel rods.
- As of 3:00PM on March 18, the injection of seawater continues into the reactor core.
- Activities for connecting the commercial electricity grid are underway.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor
- At 2:00PM on March 18, six Self Defense emergency fire vehicles began to shoot water aimed at the spent fuel pool, until 2:38PM (39 tones of water in total).
- At 2:42PM on March 18, TEPCO began to shoot water aimed at the spent fuel pool, until 2:45PM, by one US Army high pressure water cannon.
- At 3:55PM on March 18, pressure inside the primary containment vessel: 0.160MPaabs.
- At 3:55PM on March 18, pressure inside the reactor core: -0.016MPa.
- At 3:55PM on March 18, water level inside the reactor core: 2.0 meters below the top of the fuel rods.
- As of 3:00PM on March 18, the injection of seawater continues into the reactor core.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 reactor
- No official updates to the information in our March 18 update have been provided.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 5 reactor
- At 4:00PM on March 18, the temperature of the spent fuel pool was measured at 152.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 6 reactor
- At 4:00PM on March 18, the temperature of the spent fuel pool was measured at 148.1 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Fukushima Daiichi Common Spent Fuel Pool
- At 10:00AM on March 18, it was confirmed that water level in the pool was secured.
- Fukushima Daiichi Dry Cask Storage Building
- At 10:00AM on March 18, it was confirmed that there was no damage by visual checking of external appearance.
At 5:50PM on March 18, Japanese Safety Authority (NISA: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) announced provisional INES (International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) rating to the incidents due to the earthquake.
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1, 2 and 3 Unit = 5 (Accident with wider consequences)
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 = 3 (Serious incident)
Fukushima Daini Unit 1, 2 and 4 Unit = 3 (Serious incident)
(No official provisional rating for Fukushima Daini Unit 3 has been provided.)


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I did not purchase clothes or shoes or other frivolous things (things I love mind you) for an entire year and wrote about it every single day. For 365 Days. Then I went on to make promises and blog every single day for 9 years (yes, that's right). Want to read more? The adventure begins below…
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My promise in year 3 was to dive deep into abundance, which included a promise to give away a gift a day. Ironically, there was something else in store for me as I found myself moving across the country, having surgery, and giving away my thyroid. It all started a little Card Crusade and my biggest lesson yet was to come in the form of a doozy: health is our greatest wealth. Abundance indeed.
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When I made a promise for "joy" I found a new job, new city and new adventure on the east coast. We said goodbye to our #1 Pup, who lived for 17 joyful years. I never know what will happen, but I do report back here every day.
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The year I learned to trust the adventure was complete, and celebrated the grand finale of thepromise365 as a daily blog. Then COVID-19 hit.
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I tune in to the Summer Olympics every four years primarily for one sport: Women's Gymnastics. I like basketball, women's tennis, track and field, and men's diving, too. But Gymnastics is my bread and butter.
I had the privilege of falling in love with gymnastics in the early 1990s, the golden era of Team USA. All coached by the great Bela Karolyi, the 1992 and 1996 teams featured the likes of Kim Zmeskal, Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, and Dominique Moceanu, just a few of my faves from back in the day. And my all time favorite moment is when Kerri Strug perfectly stuck that vault landing with an injured ankle at the '96 Olympics. I've never seen more heart. It simply doesn't get any better than that.
So I was mad excited to tune in to see this year's team of five girls, the favorite Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, McKalya Maroney, Kyla Ross, and Gabby Douglas.
I'm cheering for all of them, but I have a soft spot for the girls of color on the team, including African American Gabby Douglas, and Kyla Ross, who is of African-American, Japanese, Puerto Rican, and
Dominican (Correction: Filipina) descent.
As with most sports coverage though, every time a Black girl participates in a sport traditionally dominated by white women, you can count on the commentators to show their asses. And they did not disappoint yesterday.
17 year old, reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber failed to qualify to compete for the individual all-around finals. As shocking as it was for all of us, it must be truly tough to have your life long dream dashed before a watching world. And I agree with Bela Karolyi that the top 24 girls regardless of country should compete in the all arounds, rather than the top 2 from each country.
Be that as it may, Jordyn's best friend and teammate Aly Raisman will compete for gold along with Gabby Douglas. But Jordyn's understandable disappointment in no way justifies the uneven and downright biased coverage that Gabby received for her performance.
First, during floor exercises, Gabby stepped out of bounds with both feet, resulting in several tenths of a point deduction in her score. That's not an insignificant error for sure, but the rest of her routine was almost flawlessly executed.
You wouldn't know it to listen to the sportscasters chomping at the bit, talking about how absolutely terrible it was, what a HUGE mistake she'd made, how low her score was going to be. And on. AND ON.
Never mind that Jordyn had a bad day. She gaffed on her balance beam routine and almost fell, but the commentators focused on how she recovered and pulled it off, by sheer strength of will. And a monster toe grip. I'm not tossing any shade to Jordyn. It was a beautiful routine.
But the sportscasters are far, FAR from impartial.
For instance, peep this coverage about Jordyn Wieber's upsetting finish. Around the 1:22 mark, you'll notice that they show an individual picture of every team member EXCEPT Gabby!
Aly and Gabby advanced to the all-arounds, coaches and teammates hugged and congratulated Aby. They comforted and consoled Jordyn. But they said not a word to Gabby. There were no hi-fives, congratulations (not on any coverage I saw), no celebration. Just total disappointment on Jordyn's behalf, and the overwhelming sense at least among the sportscasters who talked about Jordyn's dashed hopes and dreams that Gabby didn't really deserve it, that she'd taken a spot that didn't belong to her.
Why celebrate Aly and not Gabby?
In the immediate interviews afterward, Aly got asked questions about how excited she was, how she felt about her friend, but ultimately what this meant for her dreams. Gabby on the other hand got three questions about her shortcomings — her mistakes during the floor exercise, the belief among the coaching staff that she couldn't handle the pressure, and her feelings about coming in ahead of her teammate (who presumably) deserved it more. The fourth and final question asked her how she felt to be there, and like Black girls used to this kind of passive aggressive white hostility are so deft at doing, she responded with an affirmation of confidence in herself.
And then she gave that big beautiful smile that everyone keeps focusing on.
Her smile is beautiful to be sure. And a world in which Black girls smile, giddy from the joy of being able to pursue their dreams, is a world I want more of.
But after having read Toni Morrison's analysis of Clarence Thomas' nomination hearings for the Supreme Court, and the copious amount of times that Congressmen referred to his great smile and jovial personality (rather than his record of legal scholarship and groundbreaking rulings), I am suspicious of these kinds of smile politics.
Perhaps, focusing on her smile makes Gabby seem non-threatening. And make no mistake–she's in it to win it.
It remains unclear to me why Kyla Ross is not subjected to similar kinds of coverage, but I think that she is exoticized a bit on the one hand, and on the other, while she is a strong part of the team, she hasn't presented herself as a threat to any of the individual goals set by the white girls on the team. But Gabby's ambitions and her ability to achieve them are clear.
I guess I should be used to this kind of shamtastery in the sports commentating after years of watching the Williams Sisters dominate women's tennis. But it still irks me. Even so, I'm cheering on Team USA, and I'm #teamGabby all the way!
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Stuffed cabbage rolls are known by a variety of names, depending on what part of Europe you or your ancestors came from. The recipes, however, are very similar. Traditionally, though it can be enjoyed on any holiday, it has become a staple on the Simchas Torah table. My favorite recipe follows:
Aunt Judy's Holopches (Stuffed Cabbage)
Yields: approximately 20 pieces
- 1 large head green cabbage(outer leaves are for rolls, chop up remainder into long
- 1 bottle or package of sauerkraut (tightly squeeze out liquid)
- 1 medium onion grated
- 1 medium onion thinly sliced
- 1/4 tsp of finely chopped garlic
- 1 lb ground lean beef
- 1/2 cup long grain rice,
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 raw eggs lightly beaten
- 2 Tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika
- 1½ tsp salt, or salt to taste
- Freshly ground pepper
- ¼ tsp peppercorns
- 1 Tbsp. paprika
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup water mixed with 1 cup tomato puree
- ½ lb salami cubed (optional)
- Pinch sour salt
- Remove core of cabbage head, place cabbage head in a large pot of water, bringing to boil.
- Cook until the outer leaves begin to loosen and soften.
- Remove loose softened leaves and return rest till more leaves are softened.
- Repeat till all leaves for rolls are removed.
- Trim thick veins on larger cooked leaves.
- Chop center core leaves for sauté.
- Mix beef with eggs, rice, grated onions salt, pepper in bowl.
- Put a handful of meat mixture into center of each cabbage leaf, roll it up and tuck in
- Prepare all stuffed cabbage leaves.
- 4 Tbsp oil
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 1/4 tsp garlic
- Pinch of salt
- Sauté in a separate pan till golden brown.
- Then stir in water and tomato puree.
- In large pot, sauté sliced onion in oil till translucent.
- Add sauerkraut, shredded cabbage, seasoning and salt.
- Place the cabbage rolls seam side down.
- Cover with remainder of chopped cabbage.
- Add peppercorns and bay leaf.
- Slow cook on low-medium until mixture begins to bubble.
- Simmer for approximately 3 hours.
Aunt Judy is an incredible balabusta, baker and cook. In her younger years, on yomim tovim and simchas, her house was always full of guests, the table arrayed with the most delicious home made foods. Stuffed cabbage was a standard on Chanukah, Purim and Simchas Torah No one made it better!!!


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