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Son, Ye-jin, 1982- (Added Author). Kim, Kyŏng-min, 1972- (Added Author). Kim, Hae-sook. (Added Author). Son, Byung-Ho. (Added Author). Directed by Sang-Gi Lee. (Cast).
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  • Publisher: [United States] : CJ Entertainment : 2008.

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Participant or Performer Note: Ye-Jin Son, Kyung-Min Kim, Hae-Sook Kim, Byung-ho Son.
Summary, etc.: Baek Jang-Mi is the female leader of an international pickpocket gang. Her target is to broaden her territory to outside Seoul. She disguises as a tattooist as a cover. After a number of people have been pick pocketed in Osaka, both the Korean and Japanese authorities focus their attention on Baek Jang-Mi. Upon her return to Seoul, the local police starts tailing her.
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By the sword v.1 / Sanami Matoh ; translator, Yuko Yoshikawa.

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  • ISBN: 1413902138 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
  • Publisher: Houston, TX : ADV Manga, 2005.

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General Note: Original Japanese format.
Originally published as "YO-U" in Japan.
Summary, etc.: Asagi is a demon hunter who begins a quest looking for the Moegi, a magical sword that will help him defeat his enemies more effectively.
Target Audience Note: 7-9
Genre: Graphic novels teen.

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Rolling For Metaphors: Lessons from Taylor Mali

Taylor Mali, American poet and English teacher, has come up with this fun little exercise. I’m on a bit of a poetry bent at the moment, so this appealed to me. He goes into a little too much detail in his video (thanks, Mr. Mali, I know how to fold cardboard into a cube with sellotape), but it’s worth watching. Let me know what metaphors you guys come up with!

Chiastic Structure: Nice To See You, To See You Nice

Chiastic structure, or ring structure to give its less formal name, is the prose equivalent of a Petrarchan Sonnet. Which, for those of you less interested in poetic form, is, I grant you, not much of a clarification. Okay, let’s start again.

Rhyming Scheme

The first half (the octave) of a Petrarchan Sonnet has a very simple rhyming scheme: A B B A. Example, courtesy of Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Chiastic structure is usually drawn in a cross like this

Chiastic structure is often drawn like this

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh

Now, obviously you can’t make your story structure rhyme. In prose, this is about ideas, scene themes (or, if you want to really play it down to the granular level, actual sentences) being repeated in reverse order to bring the audience back to the same point as they started from but with hopefully a new angle or appreciation for that starting point. Think of the heroic journey – that is, in itself, a basic example of chiastic structure. From a plot structure perspective, one of the simplest examples is Milton’s Paradise Lost:

A: Satan’s sinful actions

B: Entry into Paradise

C: War in heaven (destruction)
C: Creation of the world

B: Loss of paradise

A: Humankind’s sinful actions

So, sin – paradise – destruction/creation – paradise – sin. Which, actually, is a point to note: you can go way beyond A B B A. Milton has A B C; the story of Noah’s Ark has A – J:

A: Noah and his sons (Gen 6:10)

B: All life on earth (6:13:a)

C: Curse on earth (6:13:b)

D: Flood announced (6:7)

E: Ark (6:14-16)

F: All living creatures (6:17–20 )

G: Food (6:21)

H: Animals in man’s hands (7:2–3)

I: Entering the Ark (7:13–16)

J: Waters increase (7:17–20)
J: Waters decrease (8:13–14)

I: Exiting the Ark (8:15–19)

H: Animals (9:2,3)

G: Food (9:3,4)

F: All living creatures (9:10a)

E: Ark (9:10b)

D: No flood in future (9:11)

C: Blessing on earth (9:12–17)

B: All life on earth (9:16)

A: Noah and his sons (9:18,19a)

Purpose in Prose

Chiastic structure has its origins in oral poetry, with a dual purpose of 1) reminding the poet where he was supposed to be getting back to (no, seriously) and 2) making parts of the poem self-contained so they could be recited as stand-alone sections. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey are riddled with chiastic structured sections, as is the Old Testament, the Qu’ran, the Torah, and pieces like Beowulf.

220px-Heroesjourney.svgIn more modern literature, it’s much more about fulfilling audience expectations. We like symmetry, whether we consciously notice its presence or not. The symmetry of chiastic structure therefore provides a very satisfying sense of closure to a story. The reader remembers this scene or idea from the opening and therefore recognises it as an acceptable ending. Like the hero, the reader has travelled on a circular journey and arrived home with a new understanding of that same old idea. This links very strongly into the causal chains stuff that I talked about last year.

JK Rowling deliberately used chiastic structure in the Harry Potter series. (WARNING: Spoilers ahead. But it’s been, y’know, a while so I figure I’m allowed.) Lupin and Tonks die to mirror the death of James and Lily Potter, as casualties and consequences of war. At the beginning, Hagrid carries Harry away from where Voldemort killed his parents and delivers him to his new home at Privet Drive; at the end, Hagrid carries Harry from the Forbidden Forest where Voldemort ‘killed’ him and delivers him to his friends at Hogwarts.

One potential pitfall (I’m all about the p-based alliteration today, apparently) to be aware of is balancing the demands of chiastic structure against the actual story. If your characters want to do something that breaks the ring cycle, do you let them? Or do you stick to the plan? Rowling is on record as having said that Voldemort should have killed Hagrid, but she needed him alive to carry Harry out of the forest. There isn’t a right or a wrong approach to this, but bear in mind that readers will see and think about character actions. They won’t necessarily even notice your carefully crafted symmetry.

Why Do We Tell Stories?

This is a question that I’m constantly drawn back to. In fact, I’m currently putting together a research proposal looking at exactly that – why the same old mythical figures and monsters continue to fascinate us down the ages and changing cultures. What is it in our imaginations that is so comprehensively hooked by the fantastical?

I can’t answer that for the species (at least, not until I’ve done the years of research). For myself, though, it’s always been a place that I could go which promised brighter, better things. Challenges that I could equate with my own humdrum difficulties, and heroes I could learn from to conquer them. More than that, though, it showed worlds where anything was possible.

I’m lucky. I don’t have a serious physical disability, or a broken home, or any of the really tragic common problems. I was ill throughout my teens and for some time after, but it didn’t stop me from doing anything beyond feeling self-conscious, outside the social norm. Like many creative people with over-active imaginations, I fight a war of attrition with depression but it isn’t crippling. I function. For the majority of the time, I even function happily. Mostly because of stories.

There’s a reason I’m sharing this. It’s come to my attention more and more that people just encountering these sorts of problems for themselves don’t realise how many others are in the same boat. So, to all of you just succumbing to the tentacles of depression or anxiety, or dealing with a malfunction in your bodies, please remember this. You aren’t alone. I know it feels like it but you aren’t. And, if nothing else, stories can help you believe that.

I’m going to leave you with a final piece of self-indulgence. There was a competition last year to tell a real-life story in six verses, with each verse in a different format that stood alone, but where the whole gave a greater meaning. This is my rather crooked attempt to explain why I tell stories.

The breakfast crumbs make patterns on the wood.
The doctor’s here to tell me I am ill.

A house call in this day and age. Not good.
I watch the toast crumb patterns on the wood.

We sit by the fire,
Talking dungeons and dragons.
You make me believe.

The soldier falls in battle, wounded sore,
Eyes closed against the final stroke. None lands.
The lord is there defending, kills the foe,
And then the hurt is checked by gentle hands.
“‘Tis nothing but a scratch. Come, up you get,
And forward march. We shall prevail yet.”

Golden skinned from a sunny life on the road
Young head on old shoulders, as open minded as a field
Permanently curious without restraint or fear
Smile that never dimmed, heart that never closed
You loved her. Everybody did.

Follow the dark-blue ink road down the rabbit hole;
Sit in the corner and send out your waking soul.
Hans Christian Anderson, Tolkien and Dunsany –
Building the worlds that will always be part of me.

Building the worlds that will let me be free.

by mapping
corners of
myself I
am made whole

Times Are Tidy – The Modern Role of Fantasy

Passe Fantasy

At the World Fantasy Convention last October there was a panel discussion on whether there were any new ideas still coming out of genre writing. I didn’t even go to that session – the idea that writers are all out of ideas was actually offensive to me. Even if Mark Twain is right and there are no completely new ideas, the skill of the writer is to present old ones in fresh clothes in such a way that the audience is still entranced.

But genres – and readers – evolve. The ground-breaking stuff of original fantasy is now, by its very nature, clichéd. Goblin raiders and elven archers became the norm. Quests to find/destroy the holy or magical artefact became so common they might as well have written a Tourist Guide to Questing – in fact, Dianna Wynne Jones pretty much did. Readers were entirely on board with the idea of good vs evil, and wanted more social commentary. And this, I think, is the key to the evolution of fantasy.

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.   ~ G.K. Chesterton

People will always need escapism, and fantasy/sci-fi is a pretty exemplary form of it. But running away doesn’t solve your problems. If your escapism lets you come back with answers, it instantly becomes more valuable. Fantasy is an excellent way to explore social issues in a safe environment that is sufficiently abstracted from reality that you can do so without upsetting people or (hopefully) letting them be blinded by their prejudices. This isn’t a new idea but it’s an important one. I actually think it’s a major factor behind the rise in urban fantasy over the last couple of years – things like Mortal Instruments, the Dresden Files, the Matthew Swift series, Rivers of London, etc. They all bring the world of fantasy to meet our world, and explore problems in a safe but more relatable environment.

There’s nothing wrong with goblin barbarians and elven archers. They were the tools of the giants upon whose shoulders we stand. But they need to change as the reader has changed, and reflect what the audience needs. An elven archer suffering from RSI and is living on benefits; a goblin barbarian who has to deal with racism. Extreme examples, maybe, but you get the gist. The timeless stories are timeless because of the people, and the issues those people are facing. Not because of dragons.

I want to end with the poem that largely inspired this post. We live in an age where there are no dragons or magic rings. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need heroes – we have our own problems, and they are many. Genre literature is an excellent way of remembering, and providing the tools to deal with, that.

The Times Are Tidy – Sylvia Plath

Unlucky the hero born
In this province of the stuck record
Where the most watchful cooks go jobless
And the mayor’s rôtisserie turns
Round of its own accord.

There’s no career in the venture
Of riding against the lizard,
Himself withered these latter-days
To leaf-size from lack of action:
History’s beaten the hazard.

The last crone got burnt up
More than eight decades back
With the love-hot herb, the talking cat,
But the children are better for it,
The cow milks cream an inch thick.

National Poetry Day

Today was National Poetry Day in the UK, and I almost missed it. I haven’t subjected you to any poetry for a while, so this seems like a good excuse. This was one of my favourites as a child, which may explain why I now find writing happy endings a challenge. It’s a good story too. In fact, it’s best you think of it as a story rather than a poem, because people tend to be more tolerant of short stories than of long poems, and this is both.

THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
……His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
……Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked;
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay,
But he loved the landlord’s daughter,
……The landlord’s red-lipped daughter,
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say—

“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
……Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.”

He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair i’ the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
……(Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonliglt, and galloped away to the West.

He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;
And out o’ the tawny sunset, before the rise o’ the moon,
When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor,
A red-coat troop came marching—
King George’s men came matching, up to the old inn-door.

They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
There was death at every window;
……And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that he would ride.

They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest;
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
“Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say—
Look for me by moonlight;
……Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!

She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years,
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
……Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!

The tip of one finger touched it; she strove no more for the rest!
Up, she stood up to attention, with the barrel beneath her breast,
She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
……Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins in the moonlight throbbed to her love’s refrain.

Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
……Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming! She stood up, straight and still!

Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
……Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.

He turned; he spurred to the West; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o’er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
……The landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.

Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were his spurs i’ the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
……Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.

And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard;
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred;
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
……Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

This. Exactly Like This.

I was going to talk to you about character arcs today, but that will have to wait until next week because I just read something that needs to be shared.

IT WAS A DAY (by Ursula Vernon)

It was a day a little bit like today
the way the clouds threw shadows over the hill
the day you realized that you weren’t going to find your future.

You were never going to go to Mars
or Pern
or Krynn
You were never going to open the door that led, inexorably, to Narnia
(or even Telmar, you weren’t picky, and you were confident of your ability
to lead the revolution.)

Inigo Montoya was not going to slap you on the back
and invite you to take up the mantle of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
There would be no sardonic Vulcans or Andorians;
you would never be handed an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

That was a strange day.

It ranked up there with the day that you realized that everybody else saw the you in the mirror, not the you inside your head. Not the you that was lean and tough and clever, not the you with perfect hair and a resonant voice that never said “Um….?”

Not that you.

No, they got the one that was fat and wobbly and stiff inside with terror, the one who was a little scared of eye makeup, the one who wore black because it was better to be freaky than pathetic.

You were never terribly fond of that you.

It was a day not at all like today
a day where the sun shone very brightly around the edges
that you realized that you could write that future.

You could blot out all those old arguments in your head by asking each character “What happens next?”
“And what do you say?”
“And are there ninjas?”

It wasn’t the old future, but it was close.
(Besides, by that point, you’d realized that Inigo probably bathed once a month and that when people stuck you with swords, you’d fall down and shriek, and also that your feet hurt. And writers get indoor plumbing
and birth control pills if they can get them.)

It was a rather odd day
though not entirely unexpected
when you met the people who were angry with you.

It took awhile to figure out. Much more than a day, in fact.
Eventually, it came to you that those people had a future, too,
but they hadn’t quite realized they weren’t going to find it
and they blamed you for the fact it wasn’t here.

You were not the sort of person that lived in their future.
You were still too fat and too wobbly and much too weird, and you laughed too loudly
like a good-natured hyena
and you were not supportive of their high and lonely destiny.

And if you were here and their future wasn’t
it was probably your fault
and if you went away
maybe they’d get to go to Mars after all
pal around with Tars Tarkas
have phone-sex with the Pierson’s Puppeteers.

They got very mad about it.
You pictured them hopping,
arms and legs going up and down
like angry puppets
when somebody pulled the string coming out of their crotch.

It was all very strange.

It was a day sort of like last Tuesday
or maybe the Friday before last
when somebody came up
with a copy of your book
it was dog-eared and they looked like they might cry
and they said “Thank you.”

It was a day.

As mentioned previously, I’m quite a fan of minimalist writing. Choosing the right words – and only the right ones – is, I think, the best way to give the reader a clear picture of what’s happening without confusing detail or excessive information. It also allows your audience to put their own details to the story, which both makes it more relatable to them and involves them in the act of storytelling.

Poets have to be even more rigorous than writers in making sure they have selected exactly the right words, and that’s a discipline writers should attempt to emulate. I haven’t subjected you to any poetry for a while, and Wendy Cope is a great minimalist poet when she wants to be. See what you make of this, and what story you can extrapolate from it without needing any further detail.

FIREWORKS (from If I Don’t Know)

Faster and faster,

They vanish into darkness:

Our years together.

Write it in fire across the night:

Some men are more or less all right.


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Val`e*dic"to*ry (?), a.

Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.

© Webster 1913.

Val`e*dic"to*ry, n.; pl. Valedictories ().

A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.

© Webster 1913.

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In the early days of photography, before celluloid and cellulose acetate film were used as backing for photographic emulsions, glass plates coated with light-sensitive silver salts were used to make photographic images. Coated plates would be loaded into cameras, exposed, and processed to generate glass negatives from which prints could be made. They are distinct from the Daguerrotype, which was a sheet of metal upon which positive -- rather than negative -- images were made.

Although the majority of practical photography has been done using film for almost a century, glass plates were used in astronomy up until the last decade. The reason was that it was difficult to use CCD cameras to record wide-field images of the sky at high resolution without having a huge CCD, and an accompanying huge amount of computer memory and storage (think of huge in, say, 1985 terms). Glass plates were also used rather than acetate film because plates held up better over time for archival purposes. They would not become distorted or stretched during or after the observation, which is important when doing astrometry. The obvious downside is that they're quite fragile.

They were most commonly used in Schmidt telescopes whose purpose is primarily for imaging wide-fields. One of the more famous examples of this kind of survey was the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, which recorded the entire sky visible from California on thousands of glass plates. Negative (paper) prints were then made and distributed to observatories around the world.

There were several problems with the glass plate, one of which was fragility. They're easy to break, especially if one goes fumbling around in the dark with them. Another problem is that all photographic emulsions are nonlinear. This means that the depth of the exposure does not necessarily increase linearly with time, which makes photometry difficult. Another problem is that their quantum efficiency is very low, in the low percent range. That means that only one or two out of every one hundred photons is recorded. This makes for very long observations, and ties up an inordinate amount of telescope time.

The CCD or charged coupled device replaced photographic plates at most astronomical observatories by the early 1990s, as the technology improved and the costs for cameras and computer equipment came down (driven in part by technology spin-offs from the Hubble Space Telescope). A few telescopes used plates up until fairly recently, but new, extremely large format CCD cameras (8192x8192 pixels) have been developed for the largest observatories, and small CCDs are relatively inexpensive even for amateur astronomers.

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Running the Race

My friend just finished her first race, a 5k, so I bought her a necklace as a gift.  She has asthma and has consistently been walking and jogging to work herself up to this point.  So, I’m very proud of her for accomplishing her goal.  I don’t think I could ever run a race.  It hurts my back so much!

I’ve realized how much my friend likes gifts.  With me, I’m kind of like, eh, whatever, thanks.  But, with her, it just changes her whole day to get a gift.  I really need to make note of that and be sure to get her little things more.  I’ve gotten her some things in the past like Dermablend cosmetics and organic makeup, which she really loved as well.  She also has a birthday coming up, and I’m thinking about getting her some of these clothes, because we both love that movie!

God tells us to love Him and love others.  The longer I run “the race,” the more I learn how better to love others, especially the body of believers.  Gifts are certainly one way to do that.


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For now, I’m a mom.

I’m not a rock star. I’m not even in a band. (I know, it’s hard to believe.)

Actually, this? This is my life.

Yes, that’s a sewing machine, getting ready to sew a pillow back together that my husband opened and stuffed another pillow into to make it bigger. (It’s now HUGE.)

And yes, that is “Mean Girls” in the background. And a sippy cup. And a tissue box from one of my sick kids. And my computer so I can check various social media sites. This has become my Sunday night, after working for 3 hours at the office because my work load no longer fits into my 6 hour/week job.

I used to dream of being a rock star. I would rock out while playing the piano and be awesome on stage. Everyone would come and sing along with my songs. I would be as cool as Fiona Apple. I would have amazing style and a great look.

In reality, I can carry a tune fine and I can read music, but I have no natural, God-given talent that would make me a star. In reality, I’m just a mom.

And it was all too obvious when I went to see Fiona Apple on Wednesday night with my friend Cindi.

Fiona Apple is brilliant. She sounded simply amazing. She sang and played the piano with passion and perfection. Her band had soul.

Except I can’t get her sunken face out of my mind. She was so thin. Too thin. And definitely was not grounded. I just wanted to hug her and take her face in  my hands and scream “Eat a sandwich! And stop doing drugs!” Because I’m a mom. And my mom-sense was in full swing the second she walked onto stage.

Let me say that I loved her concert. LOVED it. But I was so concerned about her and again, I just wanted her to eat and stop taking drugs. (Disclaimer, I have NO idea if she has an eating disorder or if she’s truly taking drugs. It is simply my observation. My mom observation.)

And while I wanted to live her life so very much when I was younger, and let’s be honest, up until I saw her on stage Wednesday night, I just wanted to hug and mother her (yes, we’re the same age, I know).

Because apparently that’s my instinct now. My “mom of three” persona out in full force, carefully watching her to make sure she wasn’t going to collapse in front of me that night.

It wouldn’t be true if I said I still didn’t want that life, that I didn’t pretend it was me and yearn to have something so innate as her talent. Okay, so maybe not her life, but her ability to be amazing on stage, passionate, giving everything she has into her performance, her job.

But tonight, while I was soothing another of my sick children during “Mean Girls,” I realized that I’m a pretty good mom when my kids need me most. And seeing that sad, sick little boy relax and feel comforted by my embrace, made me appreciate where God has placed me during this time of my life.

And you never know. Maybe I’ll be in a band when I’m older.

More likely, I’ll be singing Fiona Apple karaoke in a dive bar in my hometown with one of my best friends. I have such aspirations…

About Katie White

believer. wife. mom. friend. life in transition.
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3 Responses to For now, I’m a mom.

  1. stasia d says:

    I really, really liked this one . . . . . ~Stasia 🙂

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“A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane (1965)

Jazz fans will be familiar with the work of Rudy Van Gelder of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., who has been a recording engineer for nearly 70 years. He’s responsible for capturing some of the genre’s most enduring performances for posterity, with many top artists – the ornery Charles Mingus was a notable exception – choosing to use his talents.

Van Gelder had worked with saxophonist John Coltrane on many occasions, dating back to his legendary stint with the Miles Davis Quintet, before Coltrane entered his studio on Dec. 9, 1964.

“He had been in other studios, so he must have felt that I could help him be heard the way he wanted to be heard,” Van Gelder told author Ashley Kahn in 2001. “The fact that he was here said it all.”

With Coltrane were the other members of his quartet, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones. As Tyner recalled:

John said very little about what he wanted. If he had certain specifics that he wanted to add to the music or how he wanted it played, he would say it. I think this is so important, because it was an on-the-spot improvisation, honestly approached music, with no pretentions about it at all.

The band had played sections of the four-part suite that became “A Love Supreme” during live gigs, but the studio date marked the first time the musicians would attempt to bring Coltrane’s vision together as a coherent piece.

Van Gelder discussed with Kahn his role in capturing the proceedings:

All of them were two-track recordings, which eliminated an possibility of mixing later. The advantages of doing one or two tunes at a time in a direct-to-two-track mode allowed me to concentrate more on the balance, mix and overall sound. Yes, we could edit the takes, but we couldn’t change the balance.

So, in what truly was a live performance, the quartet launched into one of jazz’s most celebrated recordings.

Jones opens by striking a Chinese gong, the only time Coltrane used that particular instrument, according to Ravi, his son. Coltrane then enters on tenor sax with a tuneful E-major flurry before Garrison starts to play the four-note sequence for which the album is best known.

“Acknowledgement,” as the first section is titled, builds on the basic 4/4 rhythm as Coltrane solos, starting quietly and building with intensity. Jones adds his usual fluidity to complement the saxophonist before the entire band focuses on the thematic four notes.

The Coltrane takes an interesting turn, playing the pattern three dozen times in various keys, in some ways foreshadowing the New Thing atonality that he’d explore at length the following year. As Dave Liebman, who played saxophone in Davis’ and Jones’ bands during the 1970s, noted about Coltrane’s unusual foray:

It’s really towards what he’s about to go into, which is very, very free and non-key-centered improvisation. The way he takes that “a love supreme” motif, and transposes it through all the keys over the ostinato pattern that Jimmy is playing, is a real study. And McCoy is sort of in between, chasing Coltrane, and staying on the same key.

Eventually, Coltane starts reciting the key phrase, with Van Gelder adjusting the microphone after it failed to pick up the initial “a love.” He repeats the chant, augmented by overdubs recorded the next evening, until his voice and the other instruments, except for Garrison’s bass, drop out. Garrison plays a short solo segueing into the next part of the suite.

“Resolution” had been tested live, as evidenced by a recording made at a small Philadelphia club nearly three months before the Van Gelder session. In the studio, the band did seven takes, with the final try being the one that made it to the LP; an outtake is featured on the boxed set “Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings.”

Coltrane enters with a flourish to state the section’s theme, one of Coltrane’s more enduring melodies. Compared with what preceded it, “Resolution” hearkens back to the saxophonist’s hard-bop work of the ’50s, focusing on chord changes rather than the modal structure he increasingly came to favor.

The final two sections of “A Love Supreme,” titled “Pursuance” and “Psalm,” were recorded together as a single take and appear as a single track on some reissues of the CD. The extended piece starts with a Jones solo, as he provides a demonstration of “the master percussionist’s polyrhythmic approach,” Kahn wrote.

Jones was already known for a ‘busy’ style before any cross-cultural sounds exerted their influence, and his distinctive translation of African and Caribbean polyrhythms onto the traditional jazz trap kit involved a democratic use of all its elements.

“Pursuance” proceeds in a relatively straightforward manner, with Tyner providing a freewheeling touch by flailing away on a series of inventive piano clusters. Coltrane adds a majestic solo drawing on his “sheets of sound” use of harmonics before returning to the section’s main theme.

Again, a Garrison bass solo provides a transition between sections, leading up to a Jones roll on the tympani for the suite’s dramatic conclusion.

“Psalm” is a stark mood piece built on rubato, a disregard for strict tempo. The backing musicians provide a loose foundation over which Coltrane basically recites a poem through his saxophone. As Kahn wrote:

Like a libretto, the words to “Psalm” (eventually titled “A Love Supreme” and printed on the inside of the album cover) define the lyrical flow of the music; one can follow syllable by syllable. Each line crests and resolves, implying punctuation.

And so the John Coltrane Quartet emerged from that Wednesday night session with a full album’s worth of music, although some extra musicians, bassist Art Davis and saxophonist Archie Shepp, joined in for a second session the following night. None of those recordings appeared on the finish product.

“A Love Supreme” was released in February 1965 to critical acclaim and commercial viability: It sold some half a million copies in the next five years, Coltrane’s best effort in that regard by a wide margin.

The quartet played the entire suite in concert just once, a July 26, 1965, performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France, that was professionally recorded and is available as part of Impulse!’s “deluxe edition” CD. The live version is more dissonant than the studio effort, as Coltrane’s music had veered considerably in that direction during the seven-month interim.

As a matter of fact, Coltrane had booked a June session at Van Gelder’s studio to record “Ascension,” a 40-minute composition featuring numerous guest musicians improvising in turn. And for the last two years of his life – he died July 17, 1967 – Coltrane explored increasingly unconventional realms; check out his four-CD “Live in Japan” set (consisting of just six songs!) for a representative sampling of what he was delivering.

In that context, “A Love Supreme” serves as the bridge between Coltrane’s relatively subdued and wildly experimental periods. And as such, it has turned out to be his most enduring contribution to the world of music.

That goes for Rudy Van Gelder, too.

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2013 Hurricane Season Forecasts

June 3, 2013

In addition to the review of storm names for the season, it is also my custom to post a summary of forecasts of activity for the forthcoming hurricane season.

If one reads over my posts from past seasons, there will find some of my misgivings and caveats regarding these forecasts. The purpose of the annual posts isn’t necessarily to highlight the forecasts as an uber-important piece of data. It is merely a convenient one-stop summary of forecasts for the season and those of the recent years past.

The forecasts I track here come from the universities Colorado State,  Florida State,North Carolina State as well as NOAA, the United Kingdom’s Meteorological office, and the consortium Tropical Storm Risk. Note that is not the authoritative collection of forecasts; as the years have gone by more and more organizations release forecasts. The forecasts I’ve opted to follow are for reasons of long track record and easily accessible forecast verification (in the cases of CSU, NOAA, and TSR), notable performance (NC State in 2006), and parochialism (FSU, though as we shall see, its performance has justified its presence here).  While my compilation of forecasts from past season may give the impression that the UK forecast is quite new, that is not the case; for a number of seasons they issued a July-November forecast that was incompatible for comparison with the other forecasts.

While some forecasts provide more predictions than others (with variance in how the numbers are presented), I’ve reduced the forecasts to core numbers. That is, single numbers for predictions of named storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes, and Accumulated Cyclone Energy.  Note that for organizations that issue multiple forecasts over the course of a year, I’ve used the “final” pre-season forecast.  As a sort of performance baseline, I’ve also included the trailing average of the previous 5 seasons for the forecast parameters.

Without further rambling, here are the forecasts for 2008-2012, with links to NOAA’s season summary for each year.

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Observed 16/8/5 9/3/2 19/12/5 19/7/4 17/10/2
5 season trailing
17/8/4 17/9/5 16/7/4 13/7/3 15/7/4
Consensus 14/8/4 11/6/2 17/10/5 15/8/4 12/6/2
CSU 15/8/4 11/5/2 18/10/5 15/8/5 13/5/2
FSU 8/4/x 17/10/x 17/9/x 13/7/x
NCSU 14/7/x 13/7/x 17/10/x 15/8/4 9/6/2
NOAA 14/8/4 12/6/2 19/11/5 15/8/5 12/6/2
TSR 14/8/3 11/5/2 18/10/4 14/8/4 13/6/3
UKMET 13/x/x 10/x/x
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Observed ACE 145 51 166 127 128
5 season trailing avg 160 154 119 102 111
Con. 139 76 177 148 97
CSU 150 85 185 160 80
FSU 65 156 163 122
NOAA 136 85 186 140 95
TSR 131 69 182 124 98
UKMET 151 90

One misconception that some people have of these forecasts is that “every season is forecast to be above-average”. As one can see from 2009, when the inhibiting effects of the El Niño were correctly anticipated, that is not the case.  It is the case, however, that we have been in an ongoing multi-decadal period of increased hurricane activity. As such, forecasts of activity, as well as actual activity, will be above-average. Relatedly, some think that when these forecasts fail, it’s because they consistently over-predict the level of activity and serve to “hype” the storm threat.  The forecasts from 2012 show that to not be the case; everyone’s forecast under-predicted the level activity.

Something that one may note when reviewing these numbers is that there isn’t that much spread in the forecast numbers, especially in the case of storm numbers. There is a bit more appreciable differences in the forecasts for Accunulated Cyclone Energy. In its four seasons of existence, the forecast from FSU has had the most accurate ACE forecast three times (though it’s one failure was rather bad; it was the highest forecast in 2011).

Here are the forecasts for 2013:

5 season trailing
16/8/4 124
Consensus 16/9/4 142
CSU 18/9/4 165
FSU 15/8/x 135
NCSU 15/9/5 x
NOAA 17/9/5 150
TSR 15/8/3 130
UKMET 14/9/x 130

As we can see, the forecasts are in general unanimous in the expectation of an active season; the consenus number of storms forecast matches the average of the past five seasons exactly. Again, one sees a bit of spread in the ACE forecast, Colorado State’s forecast is a fair bit higher than everyone else’s (though if one examines the range of numbers in NOAA’s forecast, it will be found that their “high-end” number is higher, yet).   There’s a suggestion in the ACE forecasts that storms on aggregate will be a little more intense and/or longer lived than those of past seasons.

In general, forecasters do not see any obvious inhibiting factors for the season to come. Of the forecasts that have explicit input parameters (vice being based off a wide-scoped computer model), nearly all parameters therein are tilting to the plus side for storm activity.

As I mentioned earlier, there are many other forecasts besides these; the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Blog had a post that linked to many of the ones that I did not include here.

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In early July came the official word The Firefox 3 Download Day set a world record with 8,002,530 downloads within the 24-hour period. On July 1st, Firefox was released. In mid-July came the first update for Firefox 3, Firefox 3.0.1 which as is regular practice was also coordinated with the release of Firefox At the end of July, Mozilla released the first Alpha of Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko).

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

The Book of Mozilla is an ‘Easter Egg’ that will display a biblical like passage depending on which version of Firefox or other Gecko/Mozilla based browser you are using. The above passage describes, July 15, 2003, the day AOL shut-down Netscape browser division and the launch of the Mozilla Foundation and thus the rise of the Phoenix (predecessor of Firefox) browser.

Plenty of add-ons related posts in July. To start, a look at the 50 Add-ons…Change The Way You Surf The Web. Folks who upgrade to the Firefox 3.0.1 release were shocked to discover many of their add-ons were disabled. This massive headache was caused by a minor coding boo-boo by add-on developers.

Also took an in-depth look at these four add-ons:

  • BugMeNot – allows users to bypass web registration for some sites.
  • Control Tab – added to Firefox 3 the tab switching (via control tab) effect that was (has been removed based on user feedback) a feature in early Firefox 3.1 builds.
  • Undo Closed Tabs Button – in the 2+ years I’ve been reviewing add-ons this had to be the most disappointing. I found very few benefits to this add-on. As a result I ended up writing a quick post on much simpler ways to undo closed tabs.
  • oldbar – brought back some of the familiar and preferred behaviours of the Firefox 2 address bar. Further, when paired up with
    Tweak: Fx 3 Address Bar

August 2008

August brought four new Get A Mac ads:

Alex Polvi is best known for the Firefox ‘Crop Circle’. His final final contribution prior to leaving Mozilla was a recreation/tribute to The Hamster Dance from 1998 using Mozilla Japan’s mascot Foxkeh.

Towards the end of August Mozilla allowed Firefox to upgrade directly to Firefox 3.0.1 via The Major Update.

When Shredder (Thunderbird 3) Alpha 2 was Released, the old Thunderbird logo was being used.

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While on the subject of Shredder, Mozilla Messaging had put out an updated Thunderbird 3 Milestone Schedule with a ‘subject to change’ disclaimer. As of December 9th Beta 1 was released which was 3 months after the original code freeze date for Beta 1.

I discovered there are two ways to edit Thunderbird message tags; the hard way or (had I looked in the options) the
easy way.

A couple add-ons related items:

  • AMO 3.4.7 was released, fixing a couple minor bugs: Not able to add selected add-ons to Facebook page & Phoenity Thunderbird theme listed as a Firefox theme.
  • The Unexpected installation error -203 had been plaguing Firefox 3 users trying to install add-ons. The fix was the same as that for prior add-on related errors.

September 2008

On September 2nd, Google Chrome Beta was released for Windows. After this initial review/evaluation I was flooded with comments prompting me to do a follow-up post, Thoughts: Chrome Not Importing Fx Settings the following day. In many ways, I think the release of Chrome has had a big effect on Firefox. Within days of the release of Chrome came Chrome Themes For Firefox. In response to Chrome’s tab opening system (links open in new tab to the right of the current tab), a nearly three year old add-on Tabs Open Relative suddenly received lots of publicity. Mozilla announced ‘Private Mode’ would be coming to Firefox 3.1. This feature had been planned for later releases, but was also in response to Chrome.

Mozilla China/Mozilla Online debuted G-Fox, the newest Mozilla mascot.

The release of Firefox was being delayed a week due to regressions found during the QA process. Shortly after the release was announced due to a major password related vulnerability in Firefox 3.0,2, Firefox 3.0.3 would be coming the next week. Two days later, Firefox 3.0.3 was released.

It seemed like Mozilla was moving ‘full steam ahead’ with the Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) builds with the release of Alpha 2 in early September. Further, Mozilla announced there were 2 Betas planned for Fx 3.1. Once again, the keyword here is ‘planned’! Currently Beta 3 is scheduled for the end of January 2009 (which was the planned release for Firefox 3.1).

Gmail users rejoiced with the news of Firefox 3 could have Gmail to handle Mailto/Send Link… Ever wondered or been asked, “What Makes Firefox So Great, Anyway”?

The Tweaks section on had been completely redesigned and reorganized.

After very long and exhausted research, I finally discovered a way to disable the apostrophe from opening the quickfind bar. Oddly enough, I never seem to have run into this problem which has irritated so many Firefox users.

In September, Microsoft released several Windows/PC TV commercials. The first series of commercials were a multi-part story featuring former CEO Bill Gates along with comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The first ad took place in a Shoe Store and left many people scratching their heads dumbfounded as to what the heck the ad was about. It seems someone came up with a plausible
explanation. The second ad still featured both Gates and Seinfeld and was later split into two-parts. Somehow I don’t think the Seinfeld-Gates ad campaign turned out the way Microsoft was thinking (what were they thinking?) it would. However, later that month Microsoft took a new approach with the I’m A PC campaign.

10 Years of Mozilla
The 10th Anniversary Mozilla T-Shirts went on sale in mid September. At last check they were still selling them at the Mozilla Store and yes I own one!

BYIR: April, May & June 2008 2008 Blog Year In Review BYIR: October, November & December 2008
  1. Gene Thomas says:

    How about this: I using firefox 3 and tab mix plus. The option to hide the tab bar NEVER is selected in both the firefox and the tab mix options. But, you guised it, it is hidden when only one tab is open. Infruiating! Does anyone have the answer?

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A Whimsical Round-Up

Honestly feeling too tired today to do anything but Google whimsical woodland gentlemen. And wouldn’t it be a little selfish of me to NOT share my findings? Obvi.

Here are 5 items you should probably purchase if you, like me, low-key wanted to marry David the Gnome when you were little because his main form of transportation was a FOX and he slept in a cupboard!

David the Gnome Tea Towel – $8.00

The More You Gnome Zen Garden – $29.99

Gnome Planner Stickers – $2.75

Rolling With the Gnomies Mug – $14.99

Cheeky Gnome Wrapping Paper – 5 sheets for $15

Now I really want to DIY a dupe for that gnome zen garden. Maybe Dollar Tree still has fairy garden accessories for sale.

Ok, time to return to productivity and the far-less-whimsical real world. But no need for you to do the same! In fact, go ahead and click the “David the Gnome” link up top. You’ll be rewarded with 26 episodes of gnome shenanigans! You’re welcome.

(Illustration by Rien Poortvliet.)

Hand-written notes.

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stationery circle 5 and 6

Do you send hand-written notes? My mother and grandmother instilled in me from a young age the power of jotting down a few lines and sending them out in the post. They’re always so fun to receive. Such a simple glimpse into someone’s daily life but somehow so much more intimate than what we see when we scroll through Instagram or Facebook feeds. And so much more permanent! A few months ago I was looking through some old letters I received as a kid. I couldn’t believe my mom wrote me a letter from the public pool (!) while I was at sleep-away camp. Or that my grandma saved all her quarters in a jar so we could use them when we came up for the state fair. What sweet things to remember all these years later! I try my best these days to always send Thank You notes and I love mailing Christmas cards…sometimes birthday cards. But I’d like to do better with the “just because” notes. For inspiration I’ve been clicking around the stationery on Minted. Here are 6 (personalized) sets that might spark the need to put pen to paper!

Beaded Swag.

Hello Friend.

Gilt Agate.

Wild Bellflowers.

Floral Bough.

Vine Monogram.

They each definitely have their own little personalities, don’t you think? I love the sunny cheerfulness of Beaded Swag but there’s something so sophisticated and bold about Gilt Agate. I would feel super classy sending that out to someone, haha! Which would YOU choose?


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Published July 20, 2013 by firefly12mal

How can anyone get a fair trial in a world dominated by social media that tweets and re-tweets every tiny nuance whether true or suspected? Surveillance cameras show people moving around, but the clarity is so poor they could be anybody and people are willing to claim and damn anyone they don’y like or suspect may have been involved with no evidence to back up their claims. When the news shows do exactly the same thing, playing videos over and over again, saying this is what happened, so it must be true. Where is the scene investigation, the forensic evidence? Where is the innocent until proven guilty? People must have a scapegoat. A crime has been committed, it must have been done by someone, but how do you know you have the right person? That is what a police investigation is for and evidence. But when people demand a conviction with no evidence and get one in the media and on the internet, that is not a fair trial, but a witch hunt. Yes, a witch hunt. That is exactly the kind of behaviour that convicted so many as ‘witches’ during that time several hundred years ago. Of course the internet and social media weren’t involved, but it was essentially the same thing. One person’s words against anothers’, with little or no evidence. Evidence manufactured or twisted to fit the supposed ‘crime’. No-one interested in any semblance of truth. Damning and convicting people based on their beliefs, their culture, their differences from ‘us’.

Everyone is different. Even your neighbours are different with different beliefs, different culture and cultural background. The cultural group that is being condemned now will change. It already has. A hundred years ago, it was the cultural group now known as African-Americans who took the heat. And probably still do. Any time a crime was committed, it was ‘the evil black man’ that did it. Little or no evidence to back it up. None was needed. Everyone ‘knew’ it was that way. Now the focus has shifted to muslims. Everyone ‘knows’ that they are evil and want to destroy ‘us’. Yet in the last 20 years it has been primarily the United States of America that has been busy destroying anyone who doesn’t agree with ‘us’. The thing all these people have in common? They’re not ‘Christians’ and they have oil. Lots of oil. They are so distracted by all their wars that they are leaving their own people to suffer. I’m referring here specifically to the lower 9th ward in New Orleans, which is still in ruins 8 years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the area. 8 years! If this had happened to a white middle class neighbourhood, would the reaction have been the same? Where is the money to rebuild? It’s going to fund an endless war in the middle east. Endless. There will be no winners there except the people who make money off other people’s sufferings. The weapons manufacturers etc. What about the people at home? Have you forgotten about them? It seems so. Who will be next? And when the focus changes to some other group. What then? Will it be you? And how will you defend yourselves, when the government takes away all your rights.


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sneak preview – ‘spiderwick’

high on that list of perks of Chris’ job are the times where i get to traipse off to the theater for an early screening of something.  usually, it’s during the night-before-the-movie-opens,  error-checking screenings, but tonight there was an actual sneak preview like you remember from college.  considering that lately, i’ve been filling up on hard-hitting oscar dramas, a more lighthearted kids’ movie sounded like a great idea.

the spiderwick chronicles‘ is based off of a series of well-selling children’s books about a family that moves into a decrepit new england house out in the boondocks, and the fairy infestation going on around it.  reviews of the series on amazon lead me to believe the books are definitely written for the under-14 set (i.e., no Potter age-crossover love), but the movie nicely avoids that.  it’s fast-paced and action-y, but with a lot of real suspense going on.  you’re actually worried for the characters in quite a few places, and a few of the surrounding kids were (justifiably) scared of some of the situations.  go check out the trailer for an accurate picture of both the plot and tone of the movie: swashes are buckled, drama ensues.  since i was only expecting pretty, i was quite pleasantly surprised to get a solid story, too.

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Author Notes: According to Lidia Bastianich, the queen of Italian cuisine, cavolo nero is the traditional green used in Tuscan Ribollita, a hearty vegetable soup thickened with day old bread. Ribollita is Italian for “reboiled.” Ribollita was originally peasant food, invented to stretch leftover minestrone. The soup was so delicious and satisfying, Ribollita eventually morphed into a dish in its own right.

Ribollita is a true pantry supper. It begins with soffrito, the Italian base of sautéed onions, celery, carrot, and garlic. Canned tomatoes provide depth of flavor while cannellini beans are a cheap but tasty source of protein. The blistered leaves of cavolo nero contribute texture and a nutty, slightly bitter flavor. Chunks of stale bread added at the end of cooking absorb broth, thickening the soup. This is not a long-cooking soup, but adding ingredients in stages helps to develop flavor.
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  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red chili pepper flakes
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1 rib of celery, chopped
  • 28 ounces (1 can) plum tomatoes
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
  • 1 potato, peeled and diced
  • 1 pound cavolo nero, or any other variety of kale, trimmed and chopped into bite sized pieces
  • 15 ounces (1 can) cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
  • 4-6 thick slices of country bread, torn into pieces
  • 4 cups water
  1. Heat olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add garlic, onion, and crushed red chili pepper flakes. Sweat the onions until translucent, about 5 minutes.
  2. Toss in the carrot and celery with a pinch of salt and sweat the vegetables 10 minutes.
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  5. Toss in the kale with another cup of water, a pinch of salt and some freshly ground pepper. Partially cover the pot and simmer for 10 minutes.
  6. Add the canned beans and continue to simmer the soup 5 more minutes.
  7. Stir in the bread and serve with a drizzle of spicy Tuscan extra-virgin olive oil. The soup should be thickened by the bread, but not at all dry.

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What: Smoked Meat Poutine
Where: Bier Markt (Shops at Don Mills)
Cuisine: International Inspired/Pub
Affordability: $20+ per dish

– Lunch is not too bad. We got sat in the patio area quickly.

– Huge selection of beers. Tip: If there is a logo on the menu, they have it on tap. Don’t ask the server to name what they have. There have tons. Read the beer menu.

– Average food for the price. But you came here for the beer. My poutine was bland. The smoked meat tasted like it was from the pre-package kind. I’ve had a deli serve me better tasting ones. They were also skimpy on what tasted to be really bland gravy. The cheese curds were nothing special nor were the fries. Frankly, New York fries had better. Walk over to South Street Burger on the other block. You’ll have better poutine there for a lot less.

– Would I go back? For a beer, maybe. There is nothing Belgian here but the spelling.

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