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“There’s a saying old….”
Having showered and changed into a well-worn pair of Levis, faded to the color of the sky on a hot summer day, and a clean white shirt, Wyatt padded quietly in sock clad feet down the hallway. The voices, one coming from downstairs at the back of the house, the other behind Renny’s bedroom door, stopped him at the top of the stairs.
“…says that love is blind…”
Leaning against the banister, Wyatt listened to Renny croon from the tiled bath in her room, and marveled at the sweetness and light with which she sang; her voice sounded so pure and innocent.
“Still, we’re often told, seek and ye shall find...”
Unable to hold back, Wyatt joined in—“So I’m going to seek a certain lad, I’ve had, in mind…”—his rich tenor melding beautifully with the delicacy of Renny’s voice upstairs, and the low, huskiness, the sassiness, of Sarah Vaughan, downstairs. “Looking everywhere, haven’t found him yet. He’s the big affair, I cannot—”
Immersed in the view beyond the upstairs window, distracted by the music and the sunset, which invigorated the hills along the coast with optimistic colors, Wyatt hadn’t heard the bedroom door open. The carpeted field across from the house, as well as those rising up the mountain, were dappled with rich emerald greens and luminous yellows; the leaves on the trees nearest the highway becoming a robust green almost purple, sparkling like exotic jewels. The wildflowers running unbridled in Renny’s Forever Field were a rainbow of splattered color and the sky above twinkled light satin. So much color trapped in the glass square, surrounded by the bleakness of the house. The expression on Wyatt’s face, when Renny discovered him outside her door, was reminiscent of Dorothy’s the day she stepped from her black-and-white world into the Technicolor of Oz.
“Sorry…I—.” He instantly plunged his hands in his pockets to silence his music.
“It’s okay.” Renny smiled almost as melodically as she sang. She stood against the doorjamb running a towel through her hair. “You have a nice voice.”
“Thanks…um…you, too.” Wyatt stared; in a plain white robe, her hair so wet it was a deep, rich brown, she looked more like Harry and Jimmy. Without the jewelry and the extravagant wardrobe, her face scrubbed free of make-up, she seemed years younger, more playful, if he could believe. Wyatt realized at once how beautiful she was, but she stiffened under the pressure of his gaze; he braced himself, positive about her response at another of his intrusions. “I didn’t mean to bother you. I was walking downstairs and…. I suppose I really should wear a bell.”
“I can’t believe I said that.” Renny laughed loudly, a completely unexpected though entirely welcome sound; she stepped into the hallway, gathered her billowing bathrobe in one hand, and hopped onto the banister. She shook her head as she laughed, spraying water in every direction. “I’m sorry, Wyatt. I can be such a bitch.”
“Well, you are pretty good at it,” he teased, laughing tentatively until she giggled along with him. Living with Harry, he had acquired the ability to say what was on his mind with a laugh and a smile; most times, it put people at ease. “But you should see Harry first thing in the morning. There’s a real bitch for you.”
Renny’s smile paled and he noticed that the flamboyant colors on the other side of the glass dimmed as well. “Please, Wyatt, you have to know I didn’t mean it. You took me by surprise is all. I thought I was alone. I’d forgotten how quiet this house can get.” She hopped off the banister and walked back into her bedroom, shaking her head, though with a sadness now. She kept talking, and when she disappeared into her bathroom, Wyatt slowly entered her room.
“I suppose you found the bottle.”
“Did you tell—.”
“Thanks.” Leaning back, she stared through the bathroom door at Wyatt. “I suppose I should explain—.”
“You don’t have to,” he said, but, realizing she wanted to talk, he sank onto her carefully made bed. There was still an aura of uneasiness in the room, that shadow of their morning encounter darkening the relationship somewhat, but Wyatt liked her, and wanted to know her, to understand her.
“It’s not like I have a drinking problem…” Renny began, although both she and Wyatt, unbeknownst to the other, recalled an old joke: ‘I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem’; neither smiled as it played through their minds. “One of the less pleasing gifts I got from my mother is that I tend to drink in times of crisis, and—.”
“This qualifies, no doubt.”
“Wyatt,” Renny volunteered with a controlled smile, “this is the mother of all crises. It’s opened up a can of worms that I thought…” The words trailed off, and she ran a comb through her drying hair; in one fluid motion she swept it behind her ears in a sleek chignon, which she then pinned back with two ornate onyx and silver pins before going on. “I know it’s foolish, but it helps calm my nerves…sort of numbs the edges.”
“You could always talk to someone,” Wyatt said. Watching her, he couldn’t help but think that she needed her hair and makeup, jewelry and clothes to be perfect, so precise, so neat, to mask what was happening beneath the surface. “I’d be willing to listen.”
“You know something.” With a vacant look in her eyes, Renny mechanically began brushing her cheeks a dusty rose. “I can out-dress anyone…anytime…ever! I can give a party for a hundred people and make each one feel like the guest of honor…I can order off a menu in fluent French and know the perfect wine for each course. I can tell the difference between Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Bill Blass at thirty paces. I’m…I’m a genius at picking out the perfect gift and I always send thank-you notes…I can—.”
Now, holding a mascara wand to her eyelashes, she stopped rambling and her eyes welled up; her hand began to shake and the wand tumbled into the sink, streaking the porcelain with feathery black lines. Unsure of what he could, or should, do for her, Wyatt sat still until, thinking she was about to faint, he ran to the bathroom door. Renny stopped him with a wave of her hand.
“I’m okay.” The whisper kept him at bay, though he lingered in the doorway and looked at her near flawless reflection in the mirror. Not surprisingly, she was already dry-eyed and reapplying the mascara. “See…Wyatt? I can do all of those things without even thinking about them. And I can listen to friends…acquaintances, actually…for hours on end, prattling on about this or that, but I never talk about myself.” Her voice trembled like her hands. “I think it’s best to keep things hidden. It’s, I don’t know, safer.”
“Sure.” Examining her eyes in the vanity, turning her face this way and that, she sniffed her approval. “Nobody asks questions I don’t wish to answer, and my secrets stay my secrets.”
“But…holding things in can’t be good for you,” Wyatt disagreed. “No one can ever get to know the real you.”
“The real me?” Her eyes filled again, but the perfectionist quickly re-emerged and she tilted her head back to stem the tide of new tears. “There is no real me anymore. I’ve told so many lies and lived too many lives to be a real person. I don’t even know who I am, which is why…being here…in this house…where…I can’t go back an be that person.”
“How do you keep people—.”
“I smile sweetly and change the subject.” She murmured almost to herself, and then, meeting Wyatt’s eyes in the looking glass, she asked, “How come Harry’s so calm about Mother’s death? He seems to be handling it all so well…coming home, I mean.”
Wyatt was bewildered. “Is this an example or are you—.”
“I’m changing the subject, Wyatt. Please.” She smiled at him while constructing her face, though Wyatt believed no amount of powder or shine could cover the hurt. “Harry’s so quiet and matter-of-fact about all of this.”
Realizing that Renny was closing herself off again, that the walls were going back up, Wyatt eventually began to speak. “It sounds sad, but Harry’s used to people dying. The first time someone he loved, someone he was close to, passed, he was pretty torn up, but over time, he’s gotten used to it.”
“Was it AIDS?” It was the first time the thought had crossed her mind—that way—about Harry. Renny had never known anyone who had the disease, much less died from it. For her, the virus was nothing more than a blurb on the evening news, a headline in Time, a red ribbon at an awards show.
“Sometimes.” Wyatt said reflectively. “Most of the time, I guess. We’ve lost a lot of our family like that.”
“Your…family? I didn’t know you—.” Once more she was struck by how little she knew about her brothers; Jimmy was married and had a son; Harry had Wyatt and…. She set her blush down on the counter and faced Wyatt. “Who?”
“Our family. Mine and Harry’s.” Wyatt explained, although he saw only chaos and a bit too much rouge on her face. Pausing a moment or two, thinking about his life, his family, Harry, Wyatt found a new way to begin.
“There’s a quote of Maya Angelou’s, ‘The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.’ Have you heard it?” Renny shook her head and he went on. “For a lot of gay people, it isn’t like that. Home isn’t a safe place. Their families don’t make them feel safe; they cannot be themselves. We get cursed at, shut out, cut out…” Wyatt fought to keep the tears from falling. “Anyway, in order to feel safe and loved as we are, gay people often create new families out of friends, old lovers and—.”
“Did your family do that to you?”
“No!” He chuckled, and, for some reason, felt embarrassed for it. “I was luckier than most. My Dad had a hard time of it, at first, no grandchildren to carry on the family name and all that. And my mother blamed herself for the things she did, or didn’t do. But they love me…and Harry, too. They treat him like a son. Harry has a family in my family.” He stopped when Renny’s smile turned to ice.
“Don’t get upset,” he finally said. “He doesn’t blame anyone, not anymore, I think, but he feels like he lost his family a long time ago. You left and he didn’t know where to find you. And Jimmy, well…he was just a kid when Harry moved away; what could he say to Jimmy about being gay?
“When people ask if he’s gay, Harry says, ‘Yeah! In every sense of the word!’ He’s learned that because of our ‘family.’ He’s discovered that he’s all right.” Wyatt laughed a bit, but then turned serious. “He wrote your mother, telling her that he was gay, trying to explain who he was, and that he was happy. He wanted to share that with her, but she never answered him. So, he gave up…he didn’t want to, but he felt it was the only way. He gave up, and started a new family to share…birthdays and holidays, anniversaries…life, even death.”
Renny nodded as she listened. “And because a lot of your family is gay, you’ve seen many of them die from AIDS?”
“Yes,” Wyatt nodded soberly, stopping to remember the friends, the lovers, the family, he no longer had in his life: Erin and Joey. Mark. Eddie and Ryan…And he told her about John, Harry’s first lover, ending by saying, “He died of pneumocystis…complications from AIDS.”
“Oh my God, Wyatt. Is he—?” The idea of Harry being sick, of him dying, hit her full force, leaving her breathless; it couldn’t happen, not after she’d found him again, but Wyatt was quick to calm her fears.
“No! No…he’s fine…he’s—we’re both fine.” He swiftly said. “Harry was lucky. He didn’t come out until after the virus was big news, and I think it scared him into monogamy and safe sex. He’s always…we’ve always…been safe.”
“This is so sad…” Holding a tube of lipstick in her hand, Renny stared at the jade green tube as though she had no idea what is was, or how to use it. She looked frozen in place, until she finally said, “I hate to think of him dying alone…like our mother.”
Stung by her inability to comprehend what he was saying, Wyatt stepped into the bathroom—essentially a tiled closet with a drain, the room was that small—and took the lipstick from her hand. This simple act appeared to thaw Renny and she looked up at him. “He isn’t alone, Renny,” Wyatt said. “I told you. Harry has a family that loves him. And he has me. I love him, Renny—I think I fell in love with him before I even knew his name—and I’ll be with him forever. We’re a family, Harry and me, but, I was thinking, there’s always room for a sister and brother.”
Crying now, out of sadness and joy, Renny hugged him. Much as Harry had done, though for entirely different reasons, Renny created a family of her own; only she dreamt up the family from her past while he created one for the future. That was the difference between them, Harry and Renny; she dwelled on the past while he looked straight ahead. Renny started to say something to Wyatt, but he was near tears, too, until she whispered something in his ear and they began to laugh.
“Oh shit. There goes my makeup.”

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Image above: 'Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy animals, healthy people, healthy climate . . . our physical and economic health, our very survival as a species, is directly connected to the soil, biodiversity and the health and fertility of our food and farming systems.' (Image: Regeneration InternationalFrom original article.

“Humanity stands at the edge of an abyss. We have destroyed the planet, its biodiversity, our water and the climate, and through this destruction, we have destroyed the ecological context for our survival as a species. Ecological destruction and resource grab are generating conflicts, which are being accelerated into full-blown wars and violence. A context of fear and hate is overtaking the human imagination. We need to sow the seeds of peace—peace with the earth and each other, and in so doing, create hope for our future—as one humanity and as part of one Earth community.” —Vandana Shiva, Terra Viva–Pact for the Earth (November 26, 2015)

Twenty-three years after the first United Nations Earth/Climate Summit in 1992, in the wake of a savage terrorist attack on November 13 that traumatized Europe, a multinational contingent of activists and stakeholders are gathered here for the COP 21 Climate Summit.

A growing number of us here in Paris are determined to change the prevailing gloom and doom conversation on climate, and instead focus on practical solutions.

Frustrated by the slow pace of global efforts to address climate change, angered by the “business-as-usual” arrogance of Big Oil, King Coal, industrial agribusiness and indentured politicians, a critical mass of the global grassroots appears ready to step up the pace and embrace a new solutions-based message and strategy that we in the organic movement call Regeneration.

Ten thousand of us took to the streets of Paris on November 28, peacefully defying the government ban on street demonstrations. I, along with a delegation of North American and Latin American Regeneration activists, joined the protest, holding hands with our French and European comrades in a human chain stretching for miles.

Our section of the animated chain, punctuated with colorful homemade signs, T-shirts and banners, was designated “Solutions.”

Lined up at the corner of Boulevard Voltaire and Allée du Philosophe, our boisterous group’s most popular chant, repeated over and over again in Spanish, English and French, drawing smiles and thumbs-up reactions from Parisians on the streets, was “El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido” (“The people united will never be defeated).”

Standing at the crossroads of a climate Apocalypse, a growing consensus appears to be emerging: We must not only phase out Big Oil, King Coal and industrial food and farming, and stop polluting the already supersaturated atmosphere and the oceans with additional greenhouse gases, but we must also strip out or draw down approximately 200 billion tons of excess CO2 already blanketing the atmosphere. And we must do this utilizing proven, “shovel-ready” regenerative organic farming and land use practices.

As of today, December 3, more than 50 national governments, activist organizations and stakeholder organizations (including the Organic Consumers Association and our Mexico affiliate, Via Organica) have signed on to the French government’s “4 Per 1000 Initiative: Soils for Food Security and Climate” declaration.

The declaration emphasizes that agriculture, and agricultural soils in particular, can play a crucial role in reversing global warming and increasing global food security.

Based on a growing body of farming practices and scientific evidence, the French government’s Initiative invites all partners to declare or to implement practical programs for carbon sequestration in soil and for the types of farming methods used to promote it (e.g. agroecology, agroforestry, conservation agriculture and landscape management).

According to Andre Leu, president of IFOAM Organics International, the French Initiative on sequestering atmospheric carbon in soils via regenerative ag practices is “historic, marking the first time that international climate negotiators and stakeholders have recognized the strategic imperative of transforming and regenerating our global food and farming system in order to reverse global warming.”

Zero Emissions Are Necessary, But Not Enough
Rejecting the standard discourse of 350.org and other climate groups that promote a tunnel-vision focus on “zero emissions by 2050” as the sole solution to stave off runaway global warming and climate catastrophe, a growing corps of Regenerators here in Paris, under the banner of  “Refroidir la Planète” (“Cool the Planet”) and “Alimenter le Monde” (“Feed the World’) have begun to build a Regeneration International movement.

This movement is inspired by the practices of thousands of organic farmers, holistic ranchers, pastoralists and indigenous communities across the globe who are demonstrating that truly regenerative farming, grazing, forestry and land use practices, scaled up globally, sequestering in some cases up to 5-10 tons of carbon per acre per year,  literally have the potential to reverse global warming.

The co-benefits of this massive recarbonization and regeneration of the soil, grasslands and forests include: reducing rural poverty, improving plant and animal health and food quality, increasing natural water storage in soils, building crop resilience restoring public health, and last, but not least, reducing global strife.

For those who have never heard of regenerative organic food, farming and land use, here’s a short fact sheet (pdf) and a longer annotated bibliography.  This new Regeneration paradigm is based on the biological fact that healthy soils, grasslands and forests can literally draw down, through enhanced plant photosynthesis, enough excess carbon from the atmosphere to bring us back to pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million of CO2.

As IFOAM states in a handout this week at the Paris Climate Summit: “We need to Reverse Climate Change—not just slow it down.” IFOAM goes on to explain:
We need to do more than just stop the increase in greenhouse gas emissions… We also have to drawdown the excess CO2 in the atmosphere to return the climate to the level where it should be—the pre-industrial level.

Soils are the greatest carbon sink after the oceans, and hold significantly more carbon than the atmosphere and biomass combined. There is a growing body of published science indicating that regenerative farming systems, including organic agriculture, can strip significant amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere and sequester it into the soil as soil organic matter.

The co-benefits of this regeneration include greater resilience to adverse weather events… better adaptation to climate change… and food security… Regenerative organic farming is based upon current good practices and is a low-cost, shovel-ready solution that does not require untested, potentially catastrophic, hugely expensive geoengineering or carbon capture and storage technologies.
IFOAM’s leaflet goes on to point out that regenerative farming and land use practices are not being put forward as a substitute for stopping fossil fuel emissions, but rather as an essential complementary strategy that is absolutely necessary: “Soil carbon sequestration… and eliminating food and farming emissions… cannot be used to justify continued greenhouse gas pollution… or business as usual…

We need to reverse climate change, not just sustain current greenhouse gas levels.”

Regenerating the Body Politic: Connecting the Dots for a New “Movement of Movements”
Global Regeneration requires a revolution, not only in our thinking, but in our heretofore tunnel vision, “my issue is more important than your issue,” “my constituency is more important than your constituency,” model of grassroots organizing.

Disempowed, exploited people, overwhelmed by the challenges of everyday survival, don’t have the luxury of connecting the dots between all the issues and focusing on the Big Picture. It’s the job of Regenerators to globalize the struggle, to globalize hope and connect the dots between issues, communities and constituencies.

We need to move beyond mere mitigation or sustainability concepts that simply depress or demobilize people  to a bold new global strategy of Regeneration.

Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy animals, healthy people, healthy climate . . . our physical and economic health, our very survival as a species, is directly connected to the soil, biodiversity and the health and fertility of our food and farming systems.

So who will carry out this global Regeneration Revolution?
Of course we must continue, and in fact vastly increase, our pressure on governments and corporations to change public policies and marketplace practices.

As indicated above, the most encouraging development at the Climate Summit here in Paris is that a growing number of countries and activist networks are endorsing the French government’s .4% Initiative to pay farmers to move away from the climate destructive practices of industrial agriculture and to sequester carbon in their soils.

But in order to truly overturn “business-as-usual” we must inspire and mobilize a vastly larger climate change coalition than the one we have now.

Food, climate and economic justice advocates must unite forces so we can educate and mobilize a massive grassroots army of Earth Regenerators: three billion small farmers and rural villagers, ranchers, pastoralists, forest dwellers, urban agriculturalists and indigenous communities—aided and abetted by several billion conscious consumers and urban activists.

The time is late. Circumstances are dire. But we still have time to regenerate the Earth and the body politic.

Here are four things you can do to join the Regeneration Movement:
(1) Change the climate conversation in your local community or in your local organization from doom and gloom to one of positive solutions, based upon the Regeneration perspective. Visit the Regeneration International website on a regular basis. Join our Regeneration International Facebook page.  Publicize and share strategic articles, videos and best practices. If you need to study up on how soil sequestration works, read and re-read this pamphlet and go through the major articles in our annotated bibliography.
(2) Join or help organize a local or regional Regeneration working group. If you’re ready to become a Regeneration organizer send us an email here.
(3) Boycott “degenerate” foods. Regenerate your health and your diet. Get ready to join OCA and Regeneration International’s soon-to-be-announced global campaign and boycott against Monsanto, factory farms, GMO animal feeds, biofuels and so-called “Climate-Smart Agriculture." One of the most important things you can do today and every day is to buy and consume organic, grass-fed, locally produced, climate friendly foods.
(4) Help organize and plan regeneration conferences and meetings. Make your plans now to attend our Regeneration International global climate and biodiversity Summit in Mexico City December. 1-3, 2016.
Image: Soil profile with overlay "We Can Reverse Global Warming". From Regeneration International via Common Dreams.

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Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' Named Best Guitar SoloThe 1971 track came in at the top spot, even though Page doesn't think it's his best work.
Led Zeppelin Releases New Video for "What Is And What Should Never Be"The video features vintage audio and footage from Zeppelin's BBC sessions.
Led Zeppelin will not be Reimbursed for Legal Fees from 'Stairway' TrialTo be entitled for reimbursement the band would have had to prove that the individuals who filed the lawsuit "harbored nefarious motives."
'Stairway to Heaven' Ruling AppealedLed Zeppelin's legal troubles may not be over.
Led Zeppelin to Reissue 'Complete BBC Sessions' with Extra TracksThe collection will contain the only recorded performance of "Sunshine Woman."
'Stairway to Heaven' Trial Loser May Have to Pay $800KA recent Supreme Court decision about copyright cases may result in in Warner/Chappell having their legal fees covered.
Lawyer Who Sued Led Zeppelin Suspended from PracticingAttorney Francis Malofiy was suspended for three months for violated misconduct during an unrelated copyright infringement suit,
Robert Plant Testifies in 'Stairway to Heaven' SuitPlant stated that he could not remember hearing Spirit's song, or meeting Spirit bassist Mark Andes, at the place and time in question.
Jimmy Page Tells Court he Didn't Steal 'Stairway to Heaven'Page claimed he hadn't heard Spirit's song until a few years ago. "Something like that would stick in my mind. It was totally alien to me."
Led Zeppelin Trial Might be Over Before It StartsThe inclusion of new video evidence could lead to a mistrial.
Led Zeppelin 'Stairway to Heaven' Trial Begins TodayThe long awaited trial between Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and Spirit's "Taurus" begins today (June 14).

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The United States of America is a country commonly known around the world as "Canada's Pants," but it doesn't often like to let Canada show it up on the world stage. After a Canadian motorcycling hero rescued his fellow countryman, an American had to do the same. And it was great.

Youtube user bakerXderek was just cruising along on his bike when he came to a red light and saw someone was struggling with their wheelchair on the side of the road. He kindly hopped off his bike and just helped them cross the street.

It's such a small thing, but it makes a world of difference to everybody involved. You see things everyday while you're on the road. Make sure you're not in too much of a hurry to help out. You, too, can be a Motoring Mensche.


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Remember that time an R8 Spyder crashed into Ice-T during the Bullrun Rally? Neither did we. But video of the crash has finally surfaced after three years, which might line up nicely with the statute of limitations for epic asshattery.

Back in July of 2011, the douchebag parade of supercars was running from Las Vegas to Miami when, outside of Orlando, the inevitable disaster struck. At the time, we only knew that the driver was arrested for reckless driving. Now we can see why.

The tool in the R8 doesn't check his 3-o'clock when attempting a lane change to the right, he sideswipe's Ice-T's SL55, and then rams into the back of an Accord. The video's description says the police report has it down as a "blown tire," which is obviously bullshit. At the time, no injuries were reported, but the aftermath is in the video below.


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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Finally: Raul Castro Calls for Term Limits

Wonderful idea, pal. Maybe you should have tried this back in the 1960s.
Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday proposed setting term limits for public office in a country where two brothers have ruled for more than 50 years.

"We have arrived at the conclusion that it is advisable to limit the fundamental political and state offices to a maximum period of two consecutive periods of five years," Castro said at the inauguration of a critical Communist Party meeting.

After his 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro was in power until 2006, when illness forced him to hand the reins over to his younger brother Raul Castro.

Raul Castro was officially elected in 2008.
CNN actually reports he was "officially elected," as if running unopposed with no other allowed to run makes an actual election.
But he also said Cuba's leadership had failed to prepare a younger generation to take over, leaving them without "a reserve of substitutes who were adequately prepared."
Yes, well they're all either dead or in prison.

I'm sure there are plenty of possible candidates living in South Florida.

Maybe Castro can pass along this novel idea of term limits to their buddy Hugo Chavez.

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Cars with Girl Names: Silvia

We all have that one friend who has given an affectionate pet name, usually female, to his car. Perhaps you are that one. Hollywood has no shortage of examples. Who could forget 1974’s Gone in 60 Seconds, when car thieves assigned each vehicular mark a woman’s name to use in code, or Christine, the demonic ’58 Plymouth Fury of the eponymous book and movie. But when it comes to manufacturers actually assigning a girl’s name to an entire model line, that’s unheard of in the States.

Not so in Japan. A whole harem of female names appear in the lineups of our favorite marques from across the Pacific. One of the most recognizable is the Nissan Silvia, made famous by its drift-worthy US counterpart, the 240SX. Of course, the name Silvia first appeared on the production version of Nissan’s 1964 show car, the 1500 Coupe. The hardtop coupe was based on the Datsun Roadster platform and shared its 1600cc, 90hp engine. Only 554 were made.

In 1975, the name was revived in earnest on the S10 coupe, an exotically-styled two-door hardtop that screams retro-futurism today. It shared a 105hp L18 four-cylinder with the Bluebird, but received a 2.0L engine in the US and the 200SX name.

Since then, a steady progression of Silvias/SXs have followed. The S10 was succeeded by the more conventional-looking S110, the angular S12 stuffed with 1980s electronic wizardry, and the drift machines – the S13, S14 and Japan-only S15 (Edit: Australia got the S15 also. Lucky blokes!). The long-lived S-series was one of the most prolific low-cost FR platforms in the world, but ceased further development after the S15. This was due to Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic cost-cutting measures, which culled many a platform with the goal of making the FM shared by the 350Z and Infiniti G35 Nissan’s lone sports car chassis. With the death of the S-series, the Silvia name went with it.

However, recent rumors have suggested that an inexpensive FR revival may be in the works at Nissan, though there’s no word whether the Silvia name will rise again.

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  1. EMC said:

    The S15 was sold in Australia too (as the 200SX)

  2. Jnostalgics said:

    Lucky, you guys get everything!

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

TODAY'S GOSPEL: OCT. 8: LUKE 11: 27-28

Luke 11: 27 - 28
27As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!"
28But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Nantucket, Beacon Hill & Concord, Ma | Our trip back

A couple of weeks ago Emma and I tagged along with Mike on a work trip back to Boston.  We hadn't been back since we moved back home last year.  There are so many reasons that I'm glad we're home, but so many things I miss about the entire New England area.  One of the biggest things I miss is being able to get in the car (or ferry...) for an hour or two and be someplace amazing.

Nantucket was the one place that was on my "list" when we lived there that we never made it to.

Here is the view of the island as we pulled in on the ferry right at sunset.

This is the old, old street right off of the ferry dock - old, old.  Everything on the island is charming, old, weathered and fabulous.  It is known as "the little grey lady" and you can see why in this photo.

 This is a photo of the town, as we walked just a couple of blocks in from the ferry dock.  See those cobbled streets?  They were made from the stones used to weigh down the empty ships that were coming from England to fill up on whale oil.  I love the history of this little place.

When we arrived, it really felt like we were entering into a private secret place... does that sound weird?  It is so comfortable and grounded feeling - you can tell that the people there feel like it is their favorite place in the world... this little village out in the sea, all by itself.

We stayed at The Roberts House Inn, a lovely old group of homes in the center of town.

 This is our room - just as I had envisioned it.  Stately, old, cozy and charming.

 The view from our window on a chilly November day.

This is one of the new buildings that are a part of the Roberts House.  I love everything about it - I took a lot of notes (and sent a lot of photos to our architect...) for our new addition while we were there.

 Emma's favorite part of Nantucket?

This umbrella.

Talk about a lesson in keeping life simple... after a plane ride and a ferry boat ride, she loves the umbrella.

We spent just one night there (not even 24 hours), but I'm so glad we finally got to be a part of it.  It was so lovely -  I can't wait to go back during beach season... I put it on my list of places to have a home in my dreams.

Emma watching Cinderella on the ferry ride back to Cape Cod.  Oh, and she loved that we called the ferry boat the "fast flying fairy" - for those of you who also watch the Disney Fairies : )

We returned to "the mainland" and checked into our hotel, The Taj, just off of the Boston Public Garden.

I forgot to take photos of the hotel so I borrowed these so you could get a feel for it.  It was amazing.  It was formerly the Ritz-Carlton - actually the first and original.  It is everything you imagine an old Boston to be - elegant, warm and stately.

Emma and I spent our afternoons having hot chocolate while we watched fancy dogs go on walks in the park.   (borrowed photo)

For dinner that night, we went to one of my favorite spots - 75 Chestnut in Beacon Hill.  It was just a short walk from the hotel - straight thru The Public Garden.

The next morning Emma and I went back to visit the "Make Way for the Ducklings" ducklings just as we had done a year ago : )

And we looked at all of the leaves - while Emma rode her "horsey" otherwise known as the shoehorn from our hotel room.  We would've been lost on this trip without the fun accessories from the room... we barely needed the ipad.  Kidding - we definitely used the ipad.

 Just through the park is Beacon Hill - my favorite neighborhood in Boston.

It is what you think of when you think about a classic Boston street.

One afternoon, Emma and I headed back out to Concord to visit some friends and favorite spots.

I'm sure it is no coincidence that these privet berries caught her eye...

I love this little town - I think it is the most quintessential New England town.

 Emma loved her old toy store - but the last time she was here she was still in the stroller.  Now she's rocking out on the guitar....

...and "tinkering" (as she said... another Disney Fairies reference) with the work bench... Santa, are you taking notes?

Sorry to have been away from the blog so long, I've been crazy busy packing up packages for the store - a good thing!  There is relief in sight, as I have my first employee starting tomorrow morning.  I'm looking forward to having more time to spend writing (again!) and researching more fun products to feature.  I'll be posting Thanksgiving planning worksheets this week to help everyone get ready for Turkey Day!  Have a great week : )

  1. So fun, sorry we missed seeing you - hopefully next time! It's hard not to fall in love with Nantucket. I felt the same way the first time I was there. Just impossibly charming.

  2. Loved this little photo tour. I don't know if you're a reader, but all of Elin Hilderbrand's books are set on Nantucket (she lives there). It's on my "someday" list to visit too.

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  5. Lovely photos! How did you like Nantucket in the fall? My husband and I get one of those Nantucket Summer Rentals for a few weeks and absolutely love it. Nothing beats salt water and fresh air :)!

  6. Oh how lovely! Thanks for sharing with us your trip through all those photos! It almost felt like I had a little visit there too. I looked up Nantucket awhile ago and thought it would be so interesting to visit- now your post reinforced that conviction :) And Concord too! Also, your coat is quite charming.

  7. Thanks so much for sharing your pictures. I used to spend Thanksgivings in Concord with family that has since moved away so it brings back wonderful memories. I totally agree that it is the perfect quaint New England town!

  8. Such beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing your adventure. It is on my "must do" list also. Glad the new business is going so well.

  9. Jenny,
    I've only been to Boston and Concord once...I love the entire state and think I could easily transplant there if it weren't for the history with dear friends in our neighborhood. Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
    P.S. I love my preserved boxwood wreath!

  10. Great post! We visited Nantucket this past spring and I fell in love with it...great to see your pretty fall pictures of it.

  11. Looks like you had a wonderful trip! Nantucket is one of my favorite places-- I was there in early September, and your post got me excited for our upcoming visit in December for Christmas Stroll. Hopefully, you'll be able to spend a few days on the island during your next visit. There are so many great restaurants and cute boutiques!

  12. Hi, Jenny! Looks like a fun trip. My daughter is very close in age to Emma and I'm curious what sort of sleeping arrangements are working for you in a hotel? Do you still use a pack n' play? Also, what brand are those sweet little black (navy?) mary jane's she's wearing?? SO CUTE!!! Thanks :)

  13. How beautiful is New England in Fall? I've only been to Boston and Martha's Vineyard in July but from the looks of your pictures, I should have gone in fall! So lovely.

  14. What a fantastic trip! Thanks for sharing the photos. We just took a road trip to Salem, MA from Canada this October and we couldn't get enough of the area. The history and the architecture was just as wonderful as I'd hoped. I'm adding Nantucket to our trip list!

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When the whip comes down -- MARKETS are rapacious creditors. In the information economy, they are the most powerful regulators of financial and corporate behavior. When they see a company or a country misbehaving and turning sour, markets mercilessly apply the whip-hand and pull their investments. It's as true for Argentina as it is for Enron.

This year, as the Enron scandal moved front and center, the markets have been on the warpath even while the economic outlook has been improving. They've pounded Tyco, PNC, JP Morgan, Global Crossing, IBM, GE and many others in search of more honest accounting, a higher degree of corporate disclosure and governance, elevated standards for executives, and more ethical corporate-board governance.

This is the tough message of the markets that is now having a major impact on Washington policymakers. It's the good news that will ultimately transform the Enron problem into a stock-market and economic solution.

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, a former CEO himself, is seeking to raise the standard for CEOs "from recklessness to negligence" in order to increase the likelihood that executives face tough punishment for problems they should have known about -- even if they didn't have the information. And while he hasn't proposed it, O'Neill has even floated the idea of removing liability insurance from corporate directors and officers.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, who has already recommended a deregulation of 401(k) accounts to permit earlier selling of investments, is also pursuing a plan to recover Enron employee retirement losses through the department's ERISA -- or Employee Retirement Income Security Act -- mandate. In a recent interview with The Washington Times' Donald Lambro, she revealed that in the past year her agency has recovered nearly $700 million that was returned to workers, while obtaining 76 indictments and 49 convictions against guilty parties.

SEC chair Harvey Pitt, who started off as a defender of the accounting profession, is now aggressively pushing the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to force consolidated balance sheets on firms with numerous off-balance-sheet partnerships and subsidiaries. Pitt is also moving to force executives to give up cash gains made by selling their stock or options before a company collapse. "It's a simple notion of taking money that you haven't earned, and that's not the American way," he told the press.

In Congress, former SEC chair Arthur Levitt's proposal to prevent a conflict of interest by banning accountants from auditing and consulting with the same company is now headed for passage. Meanwhile, a House bill would require corporate officers to report company stock transactions to the SEC within 24 hours. And Rep. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, wants to raise the SEC budget by nearly 50 percent next year to provide for stepped-up enforcement ability and the resources it needs for additional random spot-auditing of firms.

Former presidential candidate and publishing executive Steve Forbes wants a company's accountants to be hired and fired by its board of directors' audit committee. He also believes that the audit committee, not inside management, should set accountants' fees. Forbes stresses that accountants should work for the shareholders and the public.

All these reform proposals have considerable merit. But nothing will force the executive mind more toward truth and transparency than a tough white-collar criminal and civil prosecution -- including jail time -- by the Justice Department and the SEC. This will create the ultimate incentive for executives, accountants, lawyers and bankers to clearly distinguish between right and wrong in their business dealings.

Right now many investors, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners fear that the system has been rigged against them by big business, big accountants, big law firms and big banks. If the U.S. stock market and economy are to function prosperously in the years ahead, a strong reform plan for honest accounting, ethical governance and transparent disclosure must be quickly put into place in order to restore confidence in the system.

Just as with any national scandal, the potential for over-regulation and over-legislation remains a risk. That is why government policymakers should listen carefully to the reform message coming from the markets, and then help the markets weed out the bad apples who are not playing by the rules.

Above all, Washington must take great care not to throw out the economic-recovery baby with the dirty-accounting bathwater.

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Today the Wall Street Journal asked its readers the question, "Are you an alcoholic?" The author takes a bunch of screening tests like this one (Fun fact! "More than 93.5% of the general adult American population and 98% of women consume fewer drinks per week than [I] reported consuming." Liars.) and gets some conflicting answers. There's also a confusing quote:

Charlie says many heavy drinkers, especially those who grew up around alcoholics, set a private benchmark in their denial. "They say to themselves, 'As long as I'm not making a fool of myself in a bar, or drinking in the morning, or as long as I'm still showing up for work, then I'm not an alcoholic.'" You know you've hit bottom, he adds, "when your behavior spirals downward faster than you can lower your standards."

But isn't that just the problem with being an alcoholic? The longer you stay with it, the better your behavior actually becomes — at least while drunk, and you're always drunk? With that in mind I wrote my own "Are You An Alcoholic" quiz after the jump. Compare your score on the Alcoholscreening test and your evaluation of your own drinking problem! Fun stuff!

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text: As you may recall, in Obama's acceptance speech he told the incredible story of Ann Nixon Cooper. The 106-year-old got a tip from the Obama campaign and stayed up on Tuesday night to see her name mentioned by the President Elect. Cooper is a former Atlanta socialite who co-founded a Girls Club for African-American youth and taught community residents to read in a tutoring program at her church, where Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor. She describes Obama's win as a "victory of faith over fear" and said she is relieved that things have changed so much in the past century. "After a while, we will all be one," she said. "That's what I look forward to." [AP, CNN]


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Allen Andrade is accused of beating an 18-year-old transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher, saying, "gay things need to die." The defense argues she tricked him by claiming to be a woman.

Yesterday opening statements were heard in the murder trial of Angie Zapata, which marks the first time someone has been tried under the sexual orientation section of Colorado's hate crime law, according to The New York Times. Zapata was killed in Greeley, Colorado, two weeks before her 19th birthday last summer. Andrade, 32, told the police that he met Zapata on the internet and they had a sexual encounter. He then found out that she was biologically male and attacked her with a fire extinguisher. In an affidavit, he said he thought he had "killed it," but Zapata tried to get up, so he hit her in the head again.

Andrade and Zapata communicated nearly 700 times via text message, cell phone, and computer between July 12 and 16 because Zapata said she was looking for a roommate, reports the Associated Press. The two spent the day together and ended up in Zapata's one-bedroom apartment. He told police that she performed oral sex on him, but wouldn't let him touch her. Andrade saw photos in the apartment that led him to ask about her gender. She told him, "I am all woman," according to Andrade.

Defense attorney Bradley Martin, who repeated referred to Zapata as "Justin," her birth name, said his client was deceived because her profile said she was a straight female. "This case is about a deception, and a reaction to that deception," said Martin, "Allen discovered that Angie, this girl he had spent the last night with, was in fact a man, and Allen snapped."

Prosecutors say Andrade plotted to kill Zapata 36 hours after figuring out that she was born male. "This is the person who spent time with her, talked to her and then, on the evening of July 16, picked up a fire extinguisher and bashed in her skull," said Brandi Nieto, a deputy district attorney, adding, "His statements will show he did this because she was transgender."

In a recorded phone conversation from jail between Andrade and his girlfriend, he said, ""It is not like I went up to a schoolteacher and shot her in the head or killed a straight law-abiding citizen." His attorney said he was just joking.

Andrade is facing life in prison for the first-degree murder charge and the hate crime charge carries an additional sentence of 3 years. Eleven states and the District of Columbia have hate-crime laws that cover gender identity. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, 21 transgender people were killed last year, but this is the first time any state's hate crime law has been applied to the murder of a transgendered person.

Murder Trial Tests Colorado Hate-Crime Statute [The New York Times]
Defense: Colo. Transgender Slaying About Deception [The Associated Press]


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The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is opening a new investigation into the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for allegedly punishing sophomore/rape survivor Landen Gambill for "intimidating" her rapist by speaking to press about the federal complaint she filed against her school.

Remember when Gambill was charged in February with a school honor code violation for "intimidating" her rapist, an ex-boyfriend whom she never named publicly? The case was dropped after UNC's Chancellor made a special request (and, maybe/definitely related, #standwithlanden trended nationally), but the investigation will determine whether Landen was deliberately punished. Of course, it's against the law to retaliate against whistleblowers. Gambill's allegations sound too evil to be true — straight out of a SVU episode, even — but Gambill's real life inspired that same episode, after all.

The university already commissioned Rutgers University professor Barbara Lee to review the incident, who found no evidence of retaliation but lots of problems with the honor court system. Gambill didn't participate in that investigation, according to Huffington Post, because she refused to work with UNC. We don't blame her. Gambill said she believes the OCR, which is already investigating UNC for allegedly underreporting sexual assault on campus and improperly dealing with rape accusations, will conduct "a credible and thorough investigation."

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Main | Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Bill Donahue: Naked! Gays! Everywhere!

"There is no demographic group in the nation, among all the racial and ethnic affiliations, which ever features nudity, half-nudity and simulated sex acts in their parades. Indeed, they don't even march in dog collars. But to those whose idea of freedom is genital liberation, sexuality is their central identity. The real problem here is the reluctance of the media to accurately cover gay pride events. The bias is palpable." - Catholic League blowhard Bill Donahue, who apparently has never attended NYC's Puerto Rican Day Parade.

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Ashbery. Some Trees 1956. 75 pp.

Shadow Train. 1981. 50 pp.

Some Trees is amazing (These are amazing, each / joining a neighbor), eyes shining without mystery, footprints eager for the past. I found my receipt for when I bought this book, in 1978! Shadow Train contains the poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" and another one about Warren G. Harding: 50 poems of 16 lines each, divided into four, four-line stanzas.

This concludes the second 1% of the 9000 books project. Shortly I will compile a list of the second percent--90 books.

I will have to have a system for not repeating, for keeping track. Maybe a separate alphabetical list that I keep somewhere? If I can keep up this pace of doing 2% a year, I will finish easily in 50 years time. Luckily longevity runs in my family.

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I like the idea of a finite list, 9000 books long. Of poetry. I'm not sure why that image appeals to me. I think comes from the dominance of the opposite image: the body of poetry as an amorphous anthology of strophes.


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Skip Navigation LinksHome > March 2014 - Volume 30 - Issue 2 > Short bowel syndrome and small bowel transplantation
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology:
doi: 10.1097/MOG.0000000000000035
SMALL INTESTINE: Edited by Fergus Shanahan

Short bowel syndrome and small bowel transplantation

DiBaise, John K.

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Purpose of review: The purpose of this review is to provide an update of recent advances in the areas of short bowel syndrome (SBS) and small bowel transplantation (SBT).

Recent findings: Recent reports from two of the largest multicenter randomized, controlled trials in patients with SBS support the safety and efficacy of teduglutide as an aid to parenteral nutrition weaning. In well selected SBS patients, outcomes as diverse as survival, macronutrient absorption and parenteral nutrition weaning are improved after autologous gastrointestinal reconstructive surgery. SBT is no longer considered investigational and given improved outcomes noted in recent reports, indications for transplantation are expanding. Although SBT early survival rates are approaching those of other organ allografts, long-term graft survival remains suboptimal.

Summary: Recently available trophic factors hold promise as aids in restoring freedom from parenteral nutrition support; however, their long-term benefits, preferred timing of administration in relation to the onset of SBS, optimal patient selection for use, duration of treatment and cost effectiveness require further study. Despite recent evidence of improved early survival after SBT, more dedicated research is needed to design more effective strategies to better tolerize small bowel grafts, prevent rejection and, ultimately, improve long-term outcomes. Reserved for well selected patients, autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction should be considered complementary and not antagonistic to SBT.

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