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The 2016 “Ghostbusters” didn’t just bring us a supernatural action comedy full of fun, capable women — it also gave us a cool new uniform for busting ghosts that’s sure to be a Halloween hit.

There are already lots of different kinds of storebought uniforms out there; you can get yourself one that basically looks like a pair of pajamas for $36 at Walmart, or you can splurge $150 or more for a movie-quality cosplay. But what if you’d rather make something yourself without breaking the bank? Isn’t that closer to the true spirit of the Ghostbusters anyway?

\Here’s how we made our own version of the costume for a little less than $45:

First, check out our video:

Now, let's break it down step by step:

Get yourself a tan jumpsuit or coverall and some orange reflector ribbon.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

The coverall we used is from Dickey’s men’s collection and costs $35.99 on Amazon, but it was also very big for our model’s 5’4” body, so if you're also a tiny person your results may vary.

We also picked up 3 meters of orange ribbon for $3.54 on Amazon. Heads up, though, you might need more than that depending on your size — we barely had any left over!

Wrap the orange ribbon around the coverall to measure out how much you'll need.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

We cut a little extra just to make sure it fit around when we started gluing, which ended up by sheer coincidence being the exact amount we needed for the arms later.

Then hot glue the stripe in place.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

As you can see we totally freestyled it, but if you’re worried about the stripe being uneven, secure it in place with straight pins and remove them as you glue each section.

Repeat with another stripe just under the first one.

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If you really want to go above and beyond and you have access to a sewing machine, you can also sew the stripes in place — just make sure you have orange thread!

And then do the same with the arms.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

Make sure that they line up with where you put the stripes along the chest.

Finally, get yourself a Ghostbusters patch and glue it to the right shoulder.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

These are really easy to get online — ours was $4.30 on Amazon.

Accessorize the look with black boots, black fingerless gloves, and maybe a pair of goggles or a “Patty” necklace (depending on who you’re dressing as) — and you’re all set!

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

Not counting tools and accessories, this only cost us $43.83 to put together, and will definitely impress your friends more than a storebought costume. Now all you need is a ghost to take down — or at least a jerk on the Internet who says you’re not good enough!

Just be careful with props — especially if you're going for a Holtzmann look.

photo: Brittany Fowler for Revelist

When it comes to sexy action-licking, hot glue guns > proton pack blasters. I found that out the hard way.


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First Open Event of the Year

posted 3 Feb 2015, 14:49 by RG NCA   [ updated 22 Feb 2015, 17:27 ]
Loading the car in a snow shower didn’t seem like the best of starts to the first RG65 open of the year but in the end the weather held off and the sun came out for 17 skippers who took part at Watermead MBC on the 21st Feb.

With a cold westerly wind blowing off shore, the breeze could be fluky at times but was mostly at the top end of A rig conditions. This was ideal for the Dragon Force 65s with good showings in the overall standings. A number of the RG65s went down to B rigs for a few races before the break for lunch, with things getting lighter later in the afternoon with a few nail biting finishes as people ran into some big shifts and holes near the line.

There was a good mix of boats and people with travelers from the Midlands, especially Two Islands and Abington and some up from the south coast. Designs ranged from two SailsEtc Argons to both composite and wooden Goths as well as the beautifully built Pumas and Jif65 from Abington.

The sailing was good natured will all incidents being settled on the water. With the close racing mid fleet a penalty turn could really ruin your race. 19 races were completed in all with 3 discards. Noel Donaldson and Phil Holiday spent the day trading places at the top of the fleet with Noel finally coming out on top. Clive Cokayne and Peter Dunnett were the top two Dragon Force 65s coming 3rd and 4th overall. Full results are attached.

More pictures here.

Big thanks to all the race team from Watermead MBC for providing a warm welcome and putting up with the cold and the mud. The RG65s will be back there for another open in April and the Nationals in June.

The next open event is at on Sunday 29th March at Bournville MYPBC

For Dragon Force owners the Dragon Force NCA have just published their 2015 sailing calendar here.
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The power of the corporation to protect you from Robin Hoods

When I was a young boy, my teacher told us the story of Robin Hood and his merry men. She thought it was a wonderful story about a romantic hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. My rich dad didn't think that Robin Hood was a hero. He thought that Robin Hood was a crook.

Though the story of Robin Hood depicts him and his band as happy-go-lucky thieves helping the poor, we must remember that it's just a story. In real life, the story of Robin Hood comes alive through the taxman. And if you've looked at your pay stub lately, you know that being part of the taxman's merry band doesn't make you merry at all. It makes you miserable.

The Robin Hood fantasy of taking from the rich and giving to the poor in the form of taxes has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class.

This is because, though income taxes were originally intended only for the rich, once the government got a taste of money, it couldn't be satisfied. Eventually, the middle class and poor were taxed too.

Today, the middle class and the poor pay the most in taxes. This is because the rich understand how money works and have discovered ways to use the tax system to their advantage. Today, the poor and the middle class are miserable and the rich are merry.

If you want to be merry, you must learn to think like the rich and act like the rich.
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The biggest secret the rich have when it comes to using taxes to their advantage is the corporation.

As a young boy, my poor dad always encouraged me to get a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of working my way up the corporate ladder. For him, a corporation was a big, confusing entity that only rich people owned. He didn't understand that it was the corporation itself that allowed people to get rich. And he didn't understand that telling me to work for a corporation and rely on a paycheck was setting me up to be poor.

When I told my rich dad about my father's advice to find a good job and climb the corporate ladder, he only chuckled. "Why not own the ladder?" was all he said.

The rich use corporations to protect and keep their money from Robin Hoods.

Most people’s biggest misconception is that a corporation is a big company owned by fat cats. While this is true at times, many corporations are small, or at least start small, and are the vehicle for becoming rich and staying rich.

I started my first corporation while I was working as a salesman at Xerox. As I excelled at sales, my income went up, but so did my taxes. Dismayed, I started a corporation on the side for my real-estate investments. As money built up in my corporation, I was motivated to work harder at Xerox so that I could invest more money in my corporation, make more money, and pay less in taxes.

Soon the cash flow from my corporation was higher than the money I made at Xerox, and I bought my first Porsche. My fellow Xerox employees thought I was spending my commissions, but I was instead investing my commissions in my assets and reaping the benefits of my cash-flowing investments. My money was working hard to make me more money.

How do corporations make you rich?
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All of this was possible for me because my rich dad gave me strong, financial knowledge through financial education. Without this financial education, my road to independence would have been much more difficult, if not impossible, because I would have had a low, financial IQ. Thanks to rich dad, I gained a high, financial IQ.

Financial IQ is made up of knowledge from four broad areas:

  1. Accounting
    Accounting is financial literacy, or the ability to read numbers. This is a vital skill if you want to become rich. The more money you are responsible for, the more accuracy is required, or the house comes tumbling down. By learning to read financial statements, you can identify the strengths and weaknesses of any business.
  2. Investing
    Investing is the science of “money making money.” This involves strategies and formulas that use the creative right-brain.
  3. Understanding markets
    Understanding markets is the science of supply and demand. You need to know the technical aspects of the market, which are emotion-driven, in addition to the fundamental or economic aspects of an investment. Does an investment make sense or does it not make sense based on current, market conditions?
  4. The law
    A corporation wrapped around the technical skills of accounting, investing and markets can contribute to explosive growth. A person who understands the tax advantages and protections provided by a corporation can get rich so much faster than someone who is an employee or a small-business sole proprietor.
    • Tax advantages
      A corporation can do many things that an employee cannot, like pay expenses before paying taxes. Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can and is taxed on what is left. This is one of the biggest tax loopholes that the rich exploit through corporations.
    • Protection from lawsuits
      We live in a litigious society. Everybody wants a piece of your action. The rich hide much of their wealth in corporations to protect their assets from creditors. When someone sues a wealthy individual, they are often met with layers of legal protection and often find that the wealthy person actually owns nothing.

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Though it's not the purpose of this post to go into the specifics of owning a corporation, I will say that starting one is not hard, and if you have any legitimate assets, I'd strongly encourage you to learn more and do so—as soon as possible.

In today's world, there are many Robin Hoods angling to get your money. Instead of miserably handing it over, I encourage you to merrily protect it through the power of the corporation.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

A little spring color

This past weekend we put flowers on the graves of our parents. It's easy to get swept along a the speed of life and forget where you came from, and who you are.

We put flowers on their graves before Christmas, but the sun and rain on those silk flowers made them a little sad. Since the explosion of color all around us, we thought a little color on their resting places would be just the ticket. Jilda suggested daffodils. I thought that was a perfect choice.

  1. The sunshine on a stalk that is a daffodil is indeed the perfect choice.

  2. I love the cheerfulness of daffodils and I can't wait for mine to come up this spring.It really brighten up your parent's resting place.
    Hugs, Julia

  3. It is so important to remember those good people that made us what we are and like you I put flowers on my parents graves. Not yet though, hopefully in a few weeks the snow will be gone and yes! Daffodils are my favorite Spring flower!

  4. That stone is much like Sherry's folks stone, except the stone vases do not have the initial on them. She is gonna like this. Now that we travel she is faithful to pick someone and hand them money to change the flowers on "mama and daddy's grave" in the time we are absent. SWEET!

  5. The daffodils add a bit of cheer.

  6. The Daffodils look great. A place like that needs cheering up. This is a nice photo of you.

  7. Sunshine and daffodils so nice

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Prayer Update

  • Continue to pray about the Becky, Colin, and Chris's visas. Still no action there--they are hung up in the Department of Justice with those or other missionaries.
  • Pray for protection for Mike's health after his busy trip.
  • Pray for safe return of Becky and the group from the school that went to Arequipa.
  • Pray for God's provision for a vehicle for us in Andahuaylas. Where we will be living is not within walking distance of a market.
  • Pray for God's provision for the wedding: still needed--Becky's documents to be complete, Becky's medical exam (required here), a location (and money to rent it (the first choice has fallen through)), money for the dinner that is served, wedding clothing for our family (apart from Becky), invitations for Peruvians (the location problem has to be solved for this to happen), and the fabric to be available for the bridesmaid's dresses.
  • Wisdom for Mike and I as we write a grant request for Kausay to obtain funding for the vocational and educational projects--agricultural training, school, and orphanage.

Praise God:

  • For the provision of a place to live in Andahuaylas--and more than that-- a whole facility for teams and campaigns--and adjacent to the property of Kausay. The name of the property is Munay Wasi, and the contract for use of the land is already signed (amazing in Peru).
  • For the opportunity He has provided for Kausay to receive funding from a Christian organization looking for a way to aid educational and vocational institutions in the Andes.
  • For the progress that has been made on curriculum and plans for the Bible Institute programs.
  • For Mike and Colin's safe return and very successful trip.
  • For His incredible goodness and faithfulness.

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RMOUG Minutes 7-22-2004

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the above corporation was held on July 22, 2004 at 4:32 p.m. at Englewood, Colorado.

I.  QUORUM.  A quorum was declared present based on the presence of the following Directors:

Bill Schwartzkopf

Ron Bich

Candi Hoxworth

Peggy King

Conference Call-In:

Tim Gorman

Chip Briggs

Wayne McGurk

Also in attendance:

Heidi Kuhn

The following corporate actions were taken by appropriate motions duly made, seconded, and adopted by the majority vote of the Directors entitled to vote (unless a higher voting approval is stated).

A.  Report by Peggy King.

Peggy King reported that the July 2nd Training Days planning meeting went very well.  They went through the abstract process and signed a contract with John Jeunette with Prairie Systems to use his abstract tool for $500 per conference.  The Training Days Call for Abstracts postcard went out July 7th or 8th.  There is an ad in IOUG-A’s Select Magazine that should be coming out soon.  Because the meeting went longer than expected, it was continued July 19th to review the YCC contract.  There are still some questions that the committee is waiting to hear back on.  The edits should get to YCC next week.  The committee tried to define sponsorships and exhibitor reporting and clarify expectations.

For Training Days 2005, the budget had a 10% increase across the expenses with a weighted increase on income.  Exhibitors were asked to help pay for the internet café.  Since one exhibitor has said no, the committee will need to discuss this at the next planning meeting.  If everything is as planned, Training Days 2005 should average a $4000 profit.

The next TD 05 planning meeting is scheduled for 5:00 pm August 9th at SageLogix.  They will review Track Coordinator expectations and move on submission review.

B.  Report Ron Bich.

Ron Bich reported that he would like a call for website volunteers to go out in the monthly President’s message to the membership.  The bug tracking software should be installed soon if it is not already.  The on-line membership application should be running soon.  Ron would like to get Oracle installed on the second RMOUG server for the membership system.

Ron has asked that each Board member be responsible for content on their corresponding web page.  The board discussed having the vendor brochure available on a vendor area of the website with a link on the main menu page.  Candi said that she would work on it.  Ron will help her if needed.

C.  Report by Tim Gorman

Tim Gorman reported that the Board e-mail change-overs should all be done.  Tim will work on updating the Board Page.  In addition to the bio and picture, Tim would like the most recent copy of the duties of the Board positions.  The Board members can edit and modify it as they see fit.  Tim would also like to see the Board Members build measurable goals for their positions.  Some positions are built in, such as Programs, Newsletter, and Training Days.  Others will need to decide what they would like to accomplish.

Tim also needs to follow up on the CSU scholarships and find out how the checks should be written.

For the Sigs Director, Tim felt it would be best if Chris took over the membership position for e-mail purposes.

Tim also reported that Stan will be meeting with Laura Epstein to get a timeline for the next Newsletter.  Peggy and Wayne said that they could put together content for Training Days 2004 article.  The Board would also like to get a short article about the Pine Creek students.  Ron Bich said he would contact Denise Gardiner about her class’s participation.

D.  Report by Wayne McGurk

Wayne McGurk reported that the next General Meeting will be held August 27th.  He still does not have a location lined up.  An e-mail will go out to the membership later today and the abstracts are due August 13th.  A decision on the presenters will be made on August 17th.  My Favorite Muffin will cater the event.  Candi said that should be ask about using a location at the DU campus.  Parking will need to be arranged.  As a back-up, Wayne has e-mailed Gary for the Oracle Building.

E.  Report by Chip Briggs

Chip Briggs reported that Kirit has updated and reconciled the RMOUG Books.  We made a profit of $24,264 last fiscal year and need to pay $3640.00 Federal Taxes and $1043 State Taxes.  Because the books were not reconciled last fiscal year and also Kirit numbered all the accounts, Kirit’s charges were higher than the normal quarterly charges.

Peggy asked about lining up the Training Days 2005 categories with the same ones for RMOUG’s QuickBooks.  Heidi will check into that.

IV. ADOPTION OF DOCUMENTS/PLANS.   The following motion to accept the following Information System Policies with rewording of Item #9 was passed by a majority vote of the Directors.

A.     The motion to approve the Training Days 2005 budget was adopted by a majority vote of the Directors.

B.       The motion to approve the Eminance Group’s invoice for $1075.00 for revising and revamping Quickbooks, reconciling 2003-2004 Bank Statements, make year-end adjustments, and preparing Federal and State Taxes was adopted by a majority vote of the Directors.

V.  NEXT MEETING.  The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on August 27, 7:30 am at the General Meeting location.

There being no further business, the meeting was duly adjourned.

Robin Reed

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Community News

  • It's Nursing Home Week

    Tennessee’s nursing homes are planning a variety of events for this year’s National Nursing Home Week, May 10-16.

    The 2015 National Nursing Home Week theme is “Bring on the Fiesta.”

    “This year’s Nursing Home Week theme highlights ‘familia, vida and amor,’ which is Spanish for ‘family, life and love,” said Tennessee Health Care Association Executive Director Jesse Samples.

    “These are just some of the elements needed to provide quality nursing home care.”

  • Buy a paper, help Shriners help children

    The Kerbela Shrine Paper Sale is May 11-17.

    The Kerbela Shrine Paper Sale is a major fundraiser that provides Shrine Hospitals the ability to help children in need with top-notch care without charge.

    “We sincerely hope that in these tough economic times, coupled with sky-rocketing medical costs, we can count on your media outlet to let folks know how they can help kids like Mason, this year's Shrine Poster child,” said C. Wayne Burkett, recorder for the Knoxville-based Kerbela Shriners.

  • Almost time for Medieval Faire

    Darkhorse Entertainment LLC welcomes the public to go back in time at the Tennessee Medieval Faire.

    The grand opening is the last three weekends in May, including Memorial Day, in Harriman.

    “It’s a new tradition – Joust for You!” proclaimed Barrie Paulson, Dark Horse vice president, manager and entertainment director.

    “The Medieval Faire has something for everyone.”

    The Tennessee Medieval Faire will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 16-17, May 23-25 and May 30-31.

  • Take a Healthy Hike on the Obed

    In celebration of the National Park Service’s upcoming centennial, the Obed Wild and Scenic River will have a Healthy Hike beginning at 1 p.m. May 23 on the Emory River Nature Trail.

    Participants should meet at the Rock Creek Campground parking area.

    This ranger-led hike of 1 mile will traverse mild to moderate terrain.

    Participants should wear weather appropriate clothing and bring plenty of water.

    Well-behaved dogs on leash are welcome.

  • Motorists paying $1 less per gallon than in 2014

    Despite oil reaching its highest price of the year, the national average price for gasoline declined Sunday, for the first time since rising 27 cents during a period of 25 consecutive days.

    During that same time, gas prices rose 28 cents in Tennessee.

    U.S. gas prices are now exactly $1 cheaper than this time last year, and motorists are saving an average of $15 on a full tank of gas.

    “This is great news for motorists who are shaping their Memorial Day travel plans,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA-The Auto Club Group.

  • Get ready for Polk Salad Fest

    The Tennessee Polk Salad Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 6 at David Webb Riverfront Park, Harriman.

    Admission is free. Emphasis will be on the arts, crafts and foods of the region; the signature artistic event will be the community “Poke Mosaic.”

    Gazebo performances, children’s activities tables and craft demonstrations are among the attractions for the Arts Council of Roane County event.

    Vendor applications are available online at http://tinyurl.com/PolkSaladFestival.

  • Gaines aboard USS George Washington

    U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) Airman Cameron Gaines from Kingston acts as the port safety observer during a barricade drill on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).

    George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

  • Making it Formal: Big night for Michael Dunn Center

    The Michael Dunn Center holds a number of social events throughout the year.

    “The spring formal is always one of the highlights of those,” President and CEO Mike McElhinney said.

    The formal took place Saturday evening at Midtown Elementary School.

    Sarah Brown said her son, Christopher Forrester, had been looking forward to it for weeks.

    “He loves it,” she said. “He’s been coming for the last three years.”

    Barbara Snell said this was her son T.J.’s third year as well.

  • Help Roane letter carriers Stamp Out Hunger in community Saturday

    Post offices throughout Tennessee — including those in Harriman, Kingston and Rockwood — are asking for the community’s support on May 9.

    That’s the day they join America’s letter carriers and Feeding America, one of the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organizations, in the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

    Hosted each year by the National Association of Letter Carriers, Stamp Out Hunger is one of the largest single-day food drives in the country.

  • Roane awarded funds for emergency food, shelter

    The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program recently awarded Roane County $9,366 in federal funds to be used to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area.

    The funding is to be distributed through a local board that consists of members representing the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, area churches, a recipient who has benefitted from the services and the Roane County United Way.

    Agencies interested in applying for the funds need to contact the Roane County United Way at 882-7711 to receive an application.


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The Coca-Cola and Regal Films program provides students with hands-on experience managing all aspects of filmmaking such as developing scripts and storyboards, budgeting, managing and implementing the creative process, and handling the casting and production for the final film.  The winning filmmakers get their short film shown in Regal theaters across the country and attend Cinemacon to meet other like-minded industry professionals. Coca-Cola and Regal teams select up to five finalists who each will receive $15,000 to produce a 35-second film. A Red Ribbon panel comprised of entertainment industry experts, as well as Coca-Cola, Regal and RED representatives chose the 2017 grand prize winner.

One of the biggest challenges is getting this incredible program to stand out among other film contests and industry events with major celebrities. Our role was to generate earned media coverage in trade, consumer, entertainment and local outlets about the 2017 Coca-Cola and Regal Films program winner, onsite at CinemaCon.

The strategy was to leverage existing events with built-in media presence, relevant for the nature of each event and keep the message fresh. We decided to announce the new Regal and Coca-Cola partnership for the film contest at the industry event Showeast, to help establish credibility for this program. Another event during the timeframe of the contest was the Sundance Film Festival.  Rogers & Cowan secured a partnership with IndieWire to host an event together with RED during Sundance to highlight the executives involved in the program and to help meet other directors and celebrities who were interested to become part of the Red Ribbon Panel to judge the films.

For the first time, Coca-Cola and Regal showcased the Coca-Cola and Regal Films program at CinemaCon among exhibitors, entertainment industry executives, influencers/actors and press. The goal was to have the 2017 program finalists experience the excitement of what it is like to be a filmmaker during prominent CinemaCon activities including red carpets, press conferences, and meetings with prominent industry talent. R&C helped to secure a partnership with Focus Features to have the winners of the contest announced during their luncheon at Cinemacon.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Opening Sentence of the Day: The I Hate to Cook Book

"When my mother wrote The I Hate to Cook Book in 1960, hers was a world with too few hours, not enough days, and never enough time."

-- From Jo Bracken's Forward to the 50th Anniversary Edition of The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken.

"Some women, it is said, like to cook."

-- From Peg Bracken's Forward to the original 1960 I Hate to Cook Book, reprinted in the anniversary edition.

I am reading this from cover to cover, like a real book. The recipes are great, in that church supper kind of way that 1960s cookbooks tend to have -- lots of condensed cream of mushroom soup (known as "the casserole maker" at my house) and things served on rice. But the best parts are Bracken's funny asides and tips, like this one for making "Indonesian Curry":

. . . Simmer it all from half and hour to an hour, while the rice cooks.

This gives you a nice breather. You may now put your feet up and have a highball, or else you may dirty up a lot of little dishes with

chopped peanuts
chopped green onions
chopped almonds
toasted coconut . . . .

to serve as side boys with your curry. Take your choice.

Bracken wrote humorous newspaper and magazine pieces, and several books, about cooking and housekeeping. She clearly had a huge influence on the housewives of my mother's generation, since my friends and I grew up with meals I now recognize from The I Hate to Cook Book: pot roast made with dried onion soup mix, a "Mexican" casserole made with taco chips, Turkey Tettrazini, etc.

What seems funny now is that Bracken wrote for an audience of housewives looking for an excuse to cook quick, easy meals -- they hated to cook.  Today, women (and men) don't need an excuse for wanting a homecooked meal that doesn't take hours to prepare.  This is still the book for them.

Sharon said...

This sounds like a fun cookbook, loved the opening line!

Mary said...

I loved reading it. I also tried one of the recipes that was deemed a hit at my house.
I remember this book when it was first published - I think my mom might have used it.

Margot said...

This is a great coincidence that we both posted on this book on the same day. Can we say "great minds think alike" and all that?

I'm so glad to see someone from your generation enjoying the humor of this book. I agree that it is one to be read just like a regular novel.

Diann said...

I have SO got o check this book out!

Beth F said...

I remember the original so I can't wait to read the new one.

JoAnn said...

Between you and Margot, I'm going to have to read this one!

Rose City Reader said...

Sharon: It is fun! She is very clever.

Mary: Which recipe did you try? There are several I want to make.

Margot: It is great minds! Or great bellies. :) I definitely think she is funny, especially with all the drinking and smoking. It's like Mad Men.

Diann: Please do. I have several girlfriends I think would like this for Christmas.

Beth: It says "updated and revised" or something like that, but I can't tell how. Yes, the recipes now call for olive oil, which I bet the originals didn't. But they also call for odd things we don't use anymore, like frozen shrimp soup.

JoAnn: I think you'll like it. It is pretty entertaining.

Bybee said...

I also recognize some of these recipes from my mom's kitchen...and I have also used some of them. The funny thing is that now they would be like true home cooking. Dang, I'd love a copy of this cookbook. That cover is great!

J.G. said...

I used to love this book as a teen. Way before I knew anything about cooking (pro or con), I just liked her attitude. Sounds like it has aged well.

Rose City Reader said...

Bybee: I can see that this is going to be a favorite of mine. It has all the comfort of childhood, but without the sticky, splotchy pages of an actual vintage cookbook. :)

J.G.: It seems flippant and funny as an adult, but I don't know how I would have reacted to it as a teenager. Maybe I would have found it funny, but I may have thought cooking was too serious to joke about.

Ali said...

Oh, how I love this cover!

Sounds like a fun update to a great book.

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On the lower berth of the maple bunk bed, my younger sister sobs in bursts and spurts.

Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time by Yvonne Wakefield. At age 14, Wakefield became an orphan. At age 18, she headed off to the Oregon mountains to singlehandedly build a log cabin on 80 acres, using her college money to buy the land.

Wakefield's new memoir, which includes her original artwork, is the first of three volumes about her "relationship with woodsy things."

Bev Bouwer said...

Lovely beginning - you can hear the "bursts and spurts". And "woodsy things" sound so enchanting. Thanks for sharing.

Lauren Stoolfire said...

Now I want to know what's happened! :)

karen said...

I've heard great things about this. I hope you enjoy!

proseandkahn said...

Great start! Enjoy!

Elizabeth said...

ENJOY, and have a good weekend.

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Sherry Fundin said...

Sounds like a huge challenge.
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France Booktours said...

ooh, this is very very tempting!! a log cabin is my dream house!

Katherine P said...

I hadn't heard of this one but it definitely sounds like an interesting read! I'd love to read more about how she survived settling in Oregon.

fredamans said...

I wonder why she is sobbing?

Roberta said...

The first sentence does leave the reader wondering why the sister is sobbing and also why the narrator isn't.

Glad a found your blog. Look forward to participating in the future.

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The sun began to come over the mountainous horizon of the rouge land. The sky still was a deep blue, scattered with small white clouds here and there. A small orange-ish, lighter blue was in the distance where the sun should come fully up in about an hour or so, shining over the land giving it all the life it desired.

At the base of a mountain one would find a small hole, maybe 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide at most. Inside the hole there was a family, with about 4 members, A mother, A father, And two very, very young children, not even a year old. However this family wasn't the typical dragonic family, it was one of Reptilians. Reptilians in their temporary home, before they could find a place to finally settle down.
Pyrrhus woke up from the small den and walked outside, stretching his legs. Underneath his feet a crunching sound came from the light frost of the night before. He walked around a bit, looking for any possible dangers. Nothing would get in between him and his new family, if it did, reptilians would surely die foreve-

He quickly dismissed the thought.

Walking around a bit and seeing as the only thing here would be birds and whatnot, He went back outside the den, sitting down and watching the morning sun slowly rise up over the mountains.

It was peaceful and tranquil, and the day would hopefully stay like that. Maybe they could rest and stay a day instead of moving all the time. That would be nice.... After all, They really could use a break. It was getting old with the routine of walk and sleep and walk and sleep. Maybe he could even get some playtime with his children if he didn't have to go off places.

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Ever since her birth Zayira's reptilian family had been moving. At first she had hated the movement from place to place in this strange new place. However they had been like this for so long that she was getting used to it. Now sometimes it was easier for her to fall asleep being rocked or walked around in her mother or fathers arms.

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 #88193  by USBLUES
 Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:12 pm
The two CTS 500k pots i got on fleabay felt dry and un-greased, i think they are bunk, i was opening one of the pickup boxes and a dimarzio 500k pot with a switch fell out but its audio taper not linear. :? Those pots were supposed to be new. why would a pot feel like that, was it used or just old? i feel ripped off
 #88214  by waldo041
 Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:02 am
did you order a Dimarzio Dual Sound? the Dual Sound comes with a pot with switch not the Super 2.

 #88215  by USBLUES
 Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:44 am
yes i did buy a dual sound, and its pretty cool they throw that in there. I found a dual ganged 250k linear pot....if I add 250k resistor on the tabs 1 and 3 on one of the pots will that make that pot 500k? or is is the other way around? im trying to fake an ab mod pot.
 #88216  by JonnyBoy
 Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:13 am
Adding the resistor would make it fixed not variable. The turning of the pot changes resistance, an actual resistor can't be changed, unless you solder in a different value.
 #88218  by USBLUES
 Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:40 am
that makes allot of sense, im really just learning this stuff, but some of it is coming into focus, thanks for the info, what about using one of those dual blend pots with 250k and 500k? Waldo suggested that I use a dual gang 250k because the 250k woudl be good for the bridge anyway, might do that as well
 #88257  by USBLUES
 Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:35 am
If you guys see any mistakes or glaring problems please blast away....

One thing to notice that Waldo mentioned to me was getting to know your 5-way. He said to figure out what lug does what, and he was right. If i had just contiued with the diagram and not verifed it with the hardware everything would have been backwards. So that was a great help.
 #88258  by WilliamC
 Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:40 am
Lookin' good!
One small thought - instead of using tape, consider using heat shrink tubing to insulate your connections. It's a little more work, but it also doesn't end up a sticky mess in 6 months or fall off at some inconvenient moment.
 #88259  by Tennessee Jedi
 Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:51 am
The secret sauce --------------------------------------- -----^^^^^^^^^^
Looking great !
 #89236  by USBLUES
 Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:04 am
Been a while since the last post....I am just waiting for a new custom pickgaurd/Pupring from Brian at, the great thing about it is that I am going to get to have 3 hums like i originally wanted(which from what i've seen is rare for Musician Mods) and more importantley what i purchased and have on hand, i will have Super II's in the neck and bridge and a Dual sound in the middle, the dual sound is cream and the Supers are black, I'm thinkin the most logical name for her will be guessed it .....OREO(Think of the cavity cover and headstock inlay possibilities!). I'm sure Jerry popped his fair share of those cookies at one time or another. also i replaced the caps with orange drops. the pots i ordered ended up being great, they were so new they just needed to be broken in a little, now they are super smooth...i love all this gear and can't wait to get this done... i just pray this pickgaurd works and all my wiring is correct.

I want ot take this opportunity to thank some folks who have been awesome and have listened and answered all my rookie/newbi questions and have guided me along this luthieric journey, Mike Wald, Matt Moriarty & Brian from You guys are the best thanks for helping me out on this project...
 #89238  by Tennessee Jedi
 Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:08 am
Congrats man !
Yeah - this site is AWESOME for getting shit done
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 #89271  by USBLUES
 Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:50 pm
Congrats man !
Yeah - this site is AWESOME for getting shit done
So may great peps
Too many to name
Your one of them Tom! :cheers:
 #91013  by USBLUES
 Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:23 am
She's Alive! Brian Came thorugh with an awesome pickguard, better than i imagined and everything looks cool. This thing sounds great, i didn't have allot of time to fool around but, it's really clear and i love all the tonal options. Its so cool to have splitable Hums and a 5-way. I am a LP guy, but always had an eye for strats, this is the best of both worlds. I love it!

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 #91014  by USBLUES
 Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:26 am
The wiring is a total HACK job, but it all works, truth be told i haven't tested the effects loop becuae my obel junction box isn't built yet, but everything else works. While soldering I felt like i was playing a very expensive game of "operation" and not scoring well. One thing that i deviated from Waldo Rosebud diagram was using a dual-ganged 500k cts pot for the neck and bridge tone control instead of sharing one pot. In my mind it was simpler.
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 Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:33 am
I couldn't, and still kinda don't believe it worked straight away, i was prepearing myself for a long night or wire tracign and multi-meter hell. I put two strings on there, blindley plugged into one of the jacks, and sound came out. Good sound two, crisp Jerry-like sounds, really really cool.
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Will I Ever be Ready for the Marathon?

By: Mike Kiely BA (hons) - Updated: 18 Sep 2012 | comments*Discuss
Marathon Preparation Motivation Goal

The marathon is as much a state of mind as it is a test of physical endurance. The body may indeed be willing even after 18 miles, but all too often the psychological pressures can be enough to make many competitors fall by the wayside.So while it is essential to put together an effective training programme that will prepare you for the rigours of the race, there has to be time spent thinking about both why you want to take up the challenge and how you foresee yourself mentally meeting it.

You don't have to be superhuman to run the marathons. The popularity of the distance that has been the result of high-profile events such as the London Marathon has proved that. While hesitating to describe anyone as “ordinary”, it is the ordinary, everyday, man and woman in the street rather than the highly tuned professional and amateur athletes that have been the real stars of the show over those 26 miles.

So, yes, anyone passed physically fit enough to begin training by their doctor can attempt the marathon. But given the dedication needed in preparation, being “ready” to accept the challenge revolves around your motivation. Perhaps it is the challenge itself that will drive you on, a chance to prove to yourself that you are capable of meeting it. Or your efforts may be spurred on by the thought that succeeding will have a financial bonus for a charitable cause. Alternatively, it may be that you want to bring some focus to your training - once you have realised a certain level of fitness, you may be looking for a new goal to fuel your enthusiasm for running.

Runners gearing up for their first marathon should have one very clear goal in mind: to finish. It is all very well talking about aiming to come home in under four hours, but this is only heaping more psychological pressure on before the true test has even begun. D-list celebrities may rattle on about the “journey” they've experienced to satisfy the demands of reality TV, but the marathon really is one, containing more highs and lows both physical and psychological than you could ever imagine until you have gone though it and come out the other side.

Target Time

It is essential to relax, tell yourself to go out and enjoy the experience, and then see what the day brings. If you don't finish, dust yourself down and tell yourself that you tried. But if you do cross that line, never underestimate the scale of the achievement. After that, it's down to the individual. Some may tick it off on their list of things to do before they die; others may decide they want more. It is when you have completed the race that you can start thinking about the next marathon challenge: setting a target time.

Many people who train for and complete the marathon have never run a race before in their lives. Others are likely to be veterans of the 10k or the half marathon. Some who have succeeded at lesser distances find 26 miles is just too much. In short, it is impossible to use previous race experience as an indication that you will complete the ultimate test. So once you have your motivation, and your goal is clear, then it's a case of preparing to the best of your ability and performing to the maximum on the day. No-one can ask any more of themselves.

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To get the full benefit of a training run, it is important to think about what you eat afterwards. Every runner should be aware of the five different food groups and how each has a role to play in the body’s wellbeing. That way, a runner can find the right recovery food for his training session and lock in the benefits of the run.

Carbohydrates are the starch element of a meal – such as rice, pasta or potatoes. They will help a runner feel full of energy and keep hunger at bay. It is best to eat at least some carbohydrates with every meal or snack, but don’t overdo it or you may start to feel sluggish. Try to eat the wholegrain version of carbohydrates whenever possible, as these are unprocessed and will keep you feeling fuller for longer.

Fats and sugars contain a lot of calories but have very little nutritional value. Of course, some fats are good for you, but processed white sugar is bad for metabolism, so choose natural sugars such as honey. Protein is essential for the health and development of your body and can help you feel full without too many calories. Meat is a great source of protein, but non-meat eaters can look at lentils, soya products or legumes instead.

Balancing Act

Milk and dairy help build healthy bones and teeth and provide vitamins A, B12 and D, so try to eat three portions a day. Add in at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day and it is clear that a healthy diet is a balancing act.

A runner should work his diet around his training routine and listen to what his body is telling him. For instance, when a runner craves more calories than he has burnt, it could be because the levels of glycogen in his liver and muscles are too low. Glycogen is the body’s main source of stored energy, so try eating low GI (glycemic index) carbohydrate foods – the ones that produce only small fluctuations in our blood glucose and insulin levels – a few hours before a run. That way, low-fat yoghurt and fruit should be enough after the run.

After a tough training run, it is important to top up glycogen levels within 20 minutes and eat a full meal within an hour. That means plenty of carbohydrates, so aim for 80 per cent carbohydrates and 20 per cent protein.

Mix Carbohydrates

Those keen to train hard without losing weight should mix simple and complex carbohydrates. Get a juicer to make it easier to consume more calories from fruit and vegetables or drizzle honey on toast or porridge to get a sugar boost.

If a long, hard run leaves a runner feeling queasy, it could be because the gut is ischemic, meaning it does not have a great blood supply because everything has gone to his legs. Avoid big meals before the run and stick to plain carbohydrates like bananas or bread afterwards.

Even late night runners have to eat afterwards; otherwise glycogen stores will be too low to sustain them the next day. Eat a main meal before the run and afterwards opt for a small amount of easily-digested carbohydrates without too much protein, such as pasta and tomatoes.

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The legendary songwriter talked about the lyrics that linked threads to his childhood landscape in this interview with Dan Cairns.

This interview was published on our website on November 2, just over a week before the sad news that the legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen had passed away on November 11, 2016.

He might have said he was ready to go, but the singer’s extraordinary new album looks to have brought about a change of heart. He’s sticking around.

In a large, sun-dappled garden in the leafy, deep-lawned Los Angeles district of Hancock Park, the atmosphere has that air of LA perfection that makes you immediately suspicious. It’s early evening in mid-October, yet you could comfortably be in shorts and a T-shirt, and plunge into the Canadian consul’s Hockney-perfect pool without nether-region trauma. An open-air bar dispenses cocktails, beer, single malt, fine wine. Guests either air-kiss in a brittle sort of way or mingle, then part, with unease.

There is no music, but if there were, the setting would inspire you to cue up Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Carole King, maybe some early Eagles. But definitely, emphatically not Leonard Cohen. Spare, morose, introspective, mordant baritone balladry has no part to play here. Yet we are, to paraphrase Lou Reed, waiting for that very man. It’s incongruous, to say the least.

The anxiety of expectation means the party never quite achieves lift-off. Behind us, through french windows, a ballroom with row upon row of functional, rapidly assembled plastic seating is visible, ready for a playback of Cohen’s new album and his Q&A with a motley crew of international journalists, all eyeing one another warily. Someone says (not to me): “Leonard would be fine if you come visit. You know how we run the green room. Nobody comes back.”

Which is further incongruity. Bob Dylan with his Nobel prize, Bieber, Taylor, Madonna, Jagger? All have battalions of security, you imagine. But this is Leonard Cohen in an inner sanctum — an octogenarian Canadian whose work is, bar Dylan’s, many millions of miles away from those glitzy names and the company they keep.

But let’s be charitable. The ring of steel around him seems to exist because the 82-year-old is frail (his hand shakes as we talk), and his willingness to discuss or dissect his work, both historic and recent, is now, for the most part, limited to the point of parsimony. A face-to-face interview is dangled, before disappearing in a puff of PR speak. Emailed questions are invited, and off they go. The answers that ping back to me are terse, weary, barely usable. Cohen is guarded in both senses of the word, because he is a poet, functioning, fecund, inquisitive, but also because he is fragile, unsteady and needs a degree of genuine protection. And he is, if you believe some — trust me, don’t believe it all — of what he says, about done with the game. Almost. Maybe. Not quite.

Leonard Cohen on songwriting

Dapper though he is, in a three-piece suit, topped with the ever-present fedora, Cohen presents a picture of fading health: stooped, shrunken, clutching his walking stick. Watch his eyes, though, and the years fall away. When you put a question to him, they sparkle with mischief, even as you observe the shutters going up. Five decades in the business mean there are no exposed flanks: he can see you coming a mile off. Ask him his view on people’s insistence on describing him as the epitome of the tortured artist (he spent years working on Hallelujah, writing more than 80 verses for it before whittling them down) and he swats the query away. As we speak, he says: “There are human beings being tortured. Let us not trivialise the unspeakable horror by adding songwriting to that category.”

At one point on You Want It Darker, the 14th studio album Cohen has made in his 50-year career, he sings: “I’m leaving the table, I’m out of the game.” The gone-viral quote from an extensive New Yorker profile — “I am ready to die” — hangs heavy and buttresses that lyric’s sentiment. With characteristic waspishness (and contrariness), Cohen scythes through this: “I said I was ready to die. I think I was exaggerating. One is given to self-dramatisation from time to time. I intend to live for ever.” And they say Dylan is gnomic.

In part, you sense this is a natural response to the sifting his work has been subjected to. As in, I’ve done the heavy lifting by writing this stuff; you can’t expect me to talk about it too.

The contrastingly affable and loquacious producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard, who co-wrote many of Madonna’s biggest hits during her 1980s/1990s pomp and has returned to work with Cohen for the third time on You Want It Darker, thinks that’s understandable. “Look, people wanted to intellectualise Madonna records, too. I mean, hello? If they even knew. But people will always try. You know, ‘This is about this.’ Hmm... Kind of. Look, it’s song by song, until you can go, ‘Thank God we got a body of work together.’ If artists can’t figure it out, why do we think we can? You give up everything you have to be good at it. It’s a daily grind in search of the lost chord. Forever. There’s no end, and you never win. And you make the choice knowing those are the rules.”

Adam Cohen on his father, Leonard Cohen

Cohen’s son, Adam, a songwriter in his own right, produced the new album, which was recorded in his father’s nearby home. Cohen Sr says it would never have been made without his son’s constant cajoling. Adam, a spit for his father, with a speaking voice to match, seems similarly amused, to the point of mild contempt, by the ceaseless analysis of his father’s methods and motives.

“To you, there’s the man and there’s the writer. But I only knew one thing. There weren’t two doors — through door A is my father, through door B Leonard Cohen the writer. There was only one door. A package deal. I’ve only known the guy who was always writing, who was always up before us. I’d come and find him in his underwear, strumming a guitar. I heard Hallelujah before it was a song. I heard many of them, in various permutations. He’s sweating over every syllable. These songs are the end result of a lifetime pursuit of the exactitude of language. And they communicate frightening and personal truths.” Again, you sense the unsaid payoff: isn’t that enough?

Cohen’s notoriously pared-back domestic arrangements — his apartment is bare of anything but the essentials, and he adopts a similar approach to his clothes — long preceded his decision to move, in 1994, to a Zen monastery in California, where he was ordained as a monk. It is a regimen that dates back to his adolescence and was carried over to the Greek island of Hydra, where he lived in the 1960s and fell in love with Marianne Ihlen, who would inspire three of his greatest songs: Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye; Bird on the Wire; and, of course, So Long, Marianne. Their relationship lasted the best part of a decade.

This summer, it had a moving coda. When Cohen learnt that Ihlen was dying from cancer, he contacted her at once. “Well, Marianne,” he wrote, “it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.” Two days after Cohen sent those words, Ihlen died, having been read his letter.

Last rites, final acts. Cohen’s career has involved its own codas. When, in 2004, his longtime manager was found to have embezzled his savings, the resulting mess led, four years later, to his returning to the live stage. If that move was dictated initially by financial concerns, it took on a wonderful artistic integrity, as the singer toured the world for almost three years, shrinking packed arenas with marathon performances that had the atmosphere of a club gig.

At the same time, his recording career hit an unlikely new purple patch: two new albums, Old Ideas and Popular Problems, mined familiar Cohen themes of mortality, lust, spirituality and loss, but did so with an air of stocktaking that suggested Cohen was approaching his ninth decade with acceptance and humility (and, noticeably, a strong dose of droll self-mockery). That process continues on You Want It Darker, which ranks up there with his greatest albums, an extraordinary achievement. In a weary, husky, up-close voice, sometimes no louder than a whisper, Cohen confronts those frightening and personal truths to bluesy backing that is appropriately hushed and sepulchral. It is as if the myth of Leonard Cohen is being slowly dismantled, much as his possessions become fewer and fewer.

“I never got wise to that fictional character,” the man himself says. “And nothing in this racket makes any sense to me, to tell you the truth. Everybody has a kind of magical system they employ in the hope that this will open up the channels. My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn’t be able to make it from room to room.”

Cohen’s humour is as sharp as ever. “Laughing Len”, the “merchant of gloom” and those other slightly snarky epithets clearly don’t bother him, but that doesn’t stop him quipping: “All those bastards are going to pay for it.” I ask him if he still paints self-portraits, which he was known to have done on a daily basis. “I might get back to it when my hands stop shaking.” Inevitably, Dylan’s Nobel prize comes up. Cohen’s response to it is a classic of its kind. For him, “it is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain”. Read that again. And again. I know, right?

You keep coming back to those eyes. When he is introduced to the current cantor of the Montreal synagogue he attended as a child, Cohen takes in the man’s shiny, slightly bouncy countenance and jarringly unlikely co-respondent shoes, and you can almost hear his brain filing the details away. The cantor and his choir perform on the new album (though this is the first time he and Cohen have met), including the title track, on which Cohen sings “Hineni, Hineni”, Hebrew for “Here I am” — “I’m ready, my Lord.”

This linking of a thread back to the faith and music of his childhood, combined with the lyrics’ implication of imminent death, put further wind in the sails of Cohen’s “I am ready to die” quote. On the significance of the cantor’s involvement, he comments: “I’ve never thought of myself as a religious person. I don’t have any spiritual strategy, I kind of limp along, like so many of us do in these realms.” And, discussing the lyrics, he says: “This is a vocabulary that I grew up with, and it’s natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once, they were universal references and everybody understood them. That’s no longer the case today, but it’s still my landscape.”

The new album closes with a reprise of the song Treaty, arranged for a chamber orchestra by Cohen. Talking about this, deliberately or accidentally, he reveals that his recording career may not be over after all. “I hope we can come up with something orchestral, with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs might emerge, but one never knows.”

Adam recalls a conversation he had with his father during the sessions. “You listen to the songs, and this guy is whispering in your ear. These feelings that are hard-wired into his heart and mind, he’s communicating them with masterful ease. I asked him, ‘What is creating this?’ And he said, ‘It’s so simple. I’m trapped, I’m in captivity, with such diminished distractions. I have nothing in this project other than you getting me out of bed in the morning.’”

With an impish smile, and one last look at the cantor’s shoes, Cohen makes his farewell. “I hope we can do this again,” he says. Then: “I intend to stick around until I’m 120.” Someone give the man a medal.

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Britain is trying to become the first society to function without religious belief at its core, according to the former director of the British Museum. In his new BBC Radio 4 series, Living With The Gods, Neil MacGregor traces “40,000 years of believing and belonging”. In an interview he says: “We are trying to live without an agreed narrative of our communal place in the cosmos and in time.”

At its best religion knits people together with a shared identity. In our country there are many ways in which religions help build community life, but what is unusual is the increasing number of people who do not profess any faith. This lack of belief can be accompanied by an increased problem of loneliness. In his letter, the apostle James wrote; “Real religion is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”
Of course there are many good organisations that help to fill the gap, and there are many events that create a sense of belonging, whether pop or literary festivals or more seasonal occasions such as May Day or Halloween.

One of the problems is that the narrative people hear most often is situations where religion is used to perpetrate violence or to persecute others, such as the conflict in Myanmar or the Middle East. The good ways in which religion works are rarely heard, partly because good religion doesn’t promote itself, but quietly gets on with the job of loving people and serving those in need. It is the accumulation of such self-effacing actions that create a culture of selflessness and generosity towards others, and that culture is sustained by regular gatherings to worship God, who helps to put our lives into a bigger perspective.

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Brethren, Ladies and Friends;

Those of our readers who missed the last Stated Meeting dinner missed a truly memorable event where we honored the Mason of the Year from our constituent lodges.  Some of the members asked me to put my comments of the evening into the Rite Word, as they felt the readers would enjoy the message.
The purpose of this event was really three-fold. First and foremost . . . the obvious purpose of recognizing those who serve our order with such dedication, second . . . to give example to the other Valleys of California demonstrating the value of such events as these, hoping they will emulate our successes, and apply them to their own valleys, and, third . . . to introduce to the general membership of Freemasonry the beauties of Scottish Rite.
 Scottish Rite, in and of itself, exists only as an adjunct or extension of the Craft Lodges we are all associated with. It does not claim any higher power in Freemasonry than the Blue Lodge, and a man is no more of a Mason when he accepts the mantle of the 32° than he is as a 3° Mason.
But . . . Look around you. The men you see wearing the cap of a Scottish Rite Mason are, by definition Blue Lodge Masons, and by choice, active members of their home lodges, if within the length of their cable-tow.  This we encourage and expect of all our members. Scottish Rite exists not to supplant, but to support the activities of the craft lodges.
But there is something else about Scottish Rite Freemasonry that I would be remiss to overlook.
Each of us comes into Freemasonry with differing impressions and expectations. Each of us, in his own way, is looking for something unique and distinct from our brothers, regardless of what we knew or had heard about Masonry before we joined.
Some expect to find financial and professional success, but in this they are usually disappointed.
Some want to belong to a secret society, and here, too they are surprised to find that our secrets are very few and mostly quite mundane in nature.
Some join out of respect for a friend or relative whom they admire…
Some are looking for social interaction and the opportunity to share with brothers from other lodges their problems, practices, and successes.
Some are attracted to ritual and memory work, or the chance to learn to address groups of people with poise and confidence.
Some are historians and think, as I do, that Masonry provides a theme or thread of continuity to provide a perspective for their historic research.
Some want to be involved in charitable activity and to see the results of their efforts in the lives of their neighbors.
Some may have the idea that Masonry provides them with a better understanding of their relationship with their Maker, and for them, I trust it has done that.
The “Secret of Success” of Scottish Rite, if there is one, is that it expands upon those positive aspects of the Craft Lodge, and does so in a personal way. It is just a larger than life blue lodge and perhaps an example of what we saw in our local lodges fifty or sixty years ago, with scores of members enjoying our Stated Meeting dinners and charitable activity that is our own building and bailiwick.
This message is not so much an invitation to membership in Scottish Rite as an expression of our admiration of you for the dedication you have shown, and an admonition that whatever you do in Masonry, you do with purpose. Be it York Rite, Shrine, Scottish Rite, or any of the dozens of other bodies we have access to, join it with enthusiasm and the intent to be a participant and not just a spectator.
My thanks to you for your service and for being here with us tonight to celebrate that service you have provided to your lodge and to mankind.

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"I am a daughter, a wife, a mother, a woman, an actress, an Indian and a Muslim. Each of these identities is important to me." – Shabana

How succinctly Shabana Azmi says it all. This is exactly what she is and what she stands for.

Shabana Azmi is the resurgent face of feminism of modern India. It is a different matter that she is equally acclaimed for her brilliance on the celluloid. Her social activism and the courage to call a spade a spade, has made her a cut above the rest, of the usual lot of Bollywood stars. Shabana's striking countenance that fits into a vast spectrum of roles; coupled with her unmatched prowess, to emote and empathise with versatile characters, has made her hold sway on a genre of cinema for three decades. She is the pioneer of parallel movement in the Indian cinema and is the undisputed monarch of her territory. It is highly unlikely that times shall find her an heir, to carry forward her prolific legacy.

Shabana Azmi was born to poet-activist, the legendary Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat, an actress on September 18, 1950. Apparently she has inherited a lot of talent and intellect from her parents. Shabana graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1972.

She made her debut in Shayam Benegal's Ankur (1972). The film paid her rich dividends. Ankur not only became a harbinger of the parallel cinema, but also fetched her the first National Award. Later she went on to win another four – a feat unparalleled in the annals of film industry. Eight years and fifteen films after her debut, she showcased her greatest award winning performance in Mahesh Bhatt's Arth (1982). Arth brought her yet another National Award and her first Filmfare award. It also placed her firmly in the orbit of the galaxy of film stars. She played a castaway wife, who had the mettle to take on the world. An equally brilliant performance by her illustrious co-star, the late Smita Patil, goaded Shabana to churn out her best. The rest of the three National Awards came from Khandar (1984), Paar (1985) and Godmother (1999). In Doosri Dulhan (1982), she played a prostitute to the hilt - the typical pan chewing and curse-spewing courtesan, who tries to seduce a millionaire out in search of a womb to father his child.

In the eighties, she acted in a large number of films. In her other two most popular films, like Swami (77) and Apne Paraye (80), based upon Saratchandra Chatterjee novels, she plays "the strong, traditional woman" who gracefully overcomes the infirmities associated with womanhood. Her second Filmfare award came from Bhavana. Swami won her the third Filmfare award for Best Actress. Masoom (1983), Khamosh (1985), Krishna (1987), Ek Admi (1988), and Disha (1990) moulded her image as an intelligent, responsible and thinking actress.

In the Immaculate Conception (1992), an English trans-cultural drama of Jamil Dehlvi, she played Samira- a Pakistani lady opposite James Wilby. The Son of Pink Panther directed by Blake Edwards; Rolland Joeff's City of Joy; Nicholas Klotz's The Bengali Night co -starred with John Hurt and Hugh Grant and John Schlesinger's Madame Sousatzka (1988), all won her immense International acclaim.

It stands to her credit that she can flit from art roles to a popular jean wearing Bollywood glam girl with ease. Her appreciable performances in Amar Akbar Anthony (1976) and Fakira (1978) bear ample testimony to this fact. Shabana, the adventurist came to fore, in her foray into the controversial subject like lesbianism, in Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996). In Mrityudand (1997), she picturised a barren woman who warms up to a socially inferior partner. To add further versatility to her profile, she played a witch in Vishal Bharadwaj's horror flick- Makdi (2002). Lately, she figured in Khalid Mohamed's Tehzeeb and easily overshadowed the skimpily clad co- artists.

Shabana, the actress of all seasons was included in the august jury of International Film Festivals held at Cairo and Montreal.

Shabana is married to an equally famous poet-lyricist and screenwriter husband Javed Akhtar. The Government of India honoured Shabana, a veteran of over hundred films with Padam Shri award in 1998. She was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, as a Member of Parliament by the President of India, an honour bestowed upon people who have attained excellence in their respective fields. She also has the distinction of holding the coveted post of United Nations Ambassador of Goodwill on Population and Development.

Shabana has assumed a great stature in social activism. She is an untiring crusader of human and women rights. She has unequivocally condemned and fought against religious fundamentalism, on hundreds of occasions from different platforms. She has never lagged behind in any endeavour to normalise matters, whenever communal amity and peace is held to ransom by anti-social elements. Shabana Azmi is always at the forefront in fight for a just cause whether it is for the cause of slum dwellers of Mumbai or for alleviation of those suffering from AIDS.

As an actress, may be Shabana is past her prime. But as a champion of progressive ideas, national integrity, peace and harmony she has many more miles to traverse. We wish her a long life so that she keeps on serving the society with the ardour, so inherently characteristic of her.

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Saturday, 29 November 2014

The Struggle of Being a Writer in a Bloggers World

It's always hard to see someone else doing incredibly well, at something you've always wanted to do incredibly well in.

It's an unavoidably human reaction, one which is usually followed by equally unwelcome guilt when you actually see how nice that person is, and how hard they've worked to get there.

But you know, I've come to think that the world would just be a better place, if we all started to be a bit more honest about envy.

Saturday, 8 November 2014

Bloggers, Millenials & the Future of Our World

As predictable as the sun, the way day becomes night, my days of darkness follow my days of light.

But when stillness comes and my demons are slain, the light will come for me again.

Melodrama aside, I often cannot escape my despair for humanity.

Whether the constant barrage of disaster and dismay from the press, or witnessing first hand the way some treat each other, treat animals and nature, treat the world, sometimes it overwhelms me to a point where I feel physically sick.

One of the most profound things I have come to realise recently;

There will never be peace on earth.

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Little Victories

Yesterday morning I woke early, yawned profusely, and went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee. I flicked on the kettle then jumped at the discovery of a giant bumblebee sat on my windowsill.

I leaned in, unable to tell if it was alive or dead.

I blew a little air on it and its feelers gave a little twitch in response.

Monday, 3 November 2014

The Song of Silver Speaks

Forever remain curious, refuse to remain unremarkable.

That phrase which fell upon my mind one cold winters eve, words which rained down upon me in an incoherent medley only to somehow form in a truth at the forefront of my mind - today I hear them sing louder than ever.

The world suddenly made sense to me, the universe and all it's dwellers and inhabitants, all of it suddenly made sense. I had a choice. I have a choice.

Saturday, 1 November 2014

The Inescapable Mourning of Days of Past

Do you ever get that feeling,

Where you're going about your daily life, a string of daily preoccupations and errands keeping you busy,

When all of a sudden, the whisper of a half-forgotten song playing in a shop you walk past, the smell of someone's perfume next to you on the tube, that old dress you dig out the bottom of your wardrobe...

One small little cue enters your immediacy and suddenly your whole soul is assaulted with a specific memory which comes flooding back to you in a raging, uncontrollable torrent. And like a sucker punch to the gut, you inhale sharply with the brute force of your sudden mourning, not for the people, not for the place, but for a whole sphere of time in your life that once was?

He'd been in my dream.


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