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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Who want's a GIRL Sandwich?

I do, I do with extra cheese, Pinaple and Myonise too! HAHAHA. This is hilarious! Only in India. #incredibleindia

Monday, December 19, 2016

There is no real freedom of press in India

An excellent article by Lakshmi Chaudhry on the state of Indian Journalism more specifically the digital age.

“There is no real freedom of press in India. There are only windows of opportunity. They open and then they close. You just have to make the most of it.”

Absolutely true, too much noise in the jungle.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

You need to more aware of Google/Facebook than you think of

No this isn't Google or Facebook being evil or anything like that. This is about you "the user" being aware of whether the results thrown by the giants are truly helpful, truthful or not. This is actually the onus of each person while at the same time Google, Facebook in the era of fake news, needs to be smarter as "gaming-the-system" is dangerous but also the way Google/Facebook smarten up.

It is basically about good parenting of not only outside, but also inside of us, what we chose to absorb, disseminate. That's the main point, while still helping, making the other aware of their unawareness.

Good detailed articles written by Carole Cadwalladr. Thanks Carole for the awareness!

Friday, December 09, 2016 - Breakfast VS Very Good Breakfast

The other day, for my travels, I was looking at booking a hotel in India on I was looking for an offer with breakfast option and this is what I got.

Apparently, there is a difference between Breakfast and Very Good Breakfast as per's booking on this particular Hotel that made me Lol.

It makes you wonder though, what is the difference other than Rs.500 odd price. Do they serve more salt and pepper? More bread perhaps? In fancier cutlery? Express line to the hogging counter? Or maybe the waiter will listen to me shitty jokes and not spit in the food this time. I wonder.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

May the Chutta stay with you - WYO

May the Chutta stay with you! Amazing marketing WYO, Loved the wittiness! Good stuff Rajveen Khandelwal
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Thursday, November 10, 2016

India Bulls really wants it here - Right Here, Right Now!

Yup so do I, maybe in a little private place. पर सबके सामने नहीं ! (Par sabke saamne nahi). Spotted at India Bulls Bldg

Hila zorachi paije!

This is an Indiabulls Real Estate - IBREL AD
#RealEstate101 #IndiabullsRealEstate #Freehold at One Indiabulls Centre.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Kaput comp? #PPAP

This is Nikki, totally Upset.

All serious and upset with Kaput comp, using his lookalike el cheapo cree lamp. How geeky of him.

This is his Comp, totally Dead.

Dead comp, acting all innocent!

OMG, that's a big nose!

Nikki Upset Compy Dead!!?!!

Nah... I even suck at Pen Pineapple Apple Pen rhymes. My rhymes are as dead as my computer. Phoey....WWWaaaah!

Well atleast, Nikki's a little less upset now.

Mission Accomplished :D

Friday, September 23, 2016

Wadala Rocks!

I always knew Wadala rocked! Nice advertising by Indian Railways. "Ideal junction to travel anywhere in Mumbai".

Wadala Spartans would shout "WADAALLAAAA"!!!!!

Is this India's Google?

I knew it, Google was born in India and taken/popularised abroad. Copy cats!

And that too with the correct spelling! We Indians are the Bestest!

Geographical location spotted on the way back from Chennai in the Train.

Friday, September 09, 2016

Interesting history of 1752

Interesting trivia; I wonder how far it is true? ... funny humans.

April fool's day, Gregorian calendar, Roman Julian Calendar.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

My Nexus 5 is NUTS, it charges up like Crazy!

So my 2.5-year nexus cable finally died with its charger failing about a year back. I've replaced both with a One Plus One 2A charger and a brand new 2.4A Tukzer cable. And oh man, can it charge SUPER DUPER fast. It can go from 5% battery to FULL 100% charge in less than 45 mins. Least expected it!

Google, if the Nexus 5 could do this, then WHAT the HELL are you doing by adding a 1A charger and cable with it for? Jeez, don't be so cheap about your premium phone, man!

Charging rapidly! You can say again that Nexus 5.

As you can see, I've fallen in love with my Nexus 5 once again. MUAH!

That's one crazy Nexus user

Monday, April 04, 2016

The cost of being an Entrepreneur

An excellent article and a reminder of what it is to be an entrepreneur written raw from the standpoint of not only cost as in business expense, but also personal and emotional. Well worth a read!

Sunday, January 24, 2016

The Curious Case of The Fappy Keyboard

Lols. Lads, who wants to use this Fappilcious keyboard? We all know where we watch our favourite...ahem...lad mag videos. Perhaps this keyboard is a perfect fit for the deed. Perhaps white colour would've been a perfect fit.

And the best part is, even the seller's store is called "The Fappy Store" XD It can't get better than this.

In the honour of tech reviewing. Let's do a quick review shall we:-
- The name, incredibly suggestive
- Wireless portability
- Enables one to quickly put it away or cover the essentials if discovered

- Black colour
- Stains easily
- No cleaning liquids nor cloth included

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

How tax system works in terms of beer spend

Here's a fun and great read from an article in Telegraph>

--Describes UK tax in terms of beer spend. ---

Goes like this: 10 men go out for a beer once a month.

The bill comes to £100.
They decide to split the bill in a similar way to tax bill.
First four men (poorest) pay 0
Fifth pays £1
Sixth pays £3
Seventh pays £7
Eight pays £12
Ninth pays £18
Tenth (richest) pays £59
The men are happy.
The pub owner decides to drop the price, their bill now comes to £80.
What do they do to split the £20 fairly?

The publican suggests:
First four men (poorest) pay 0
Fifth goes from £1 to 0
Sixth goes from £3 to £2
Seventh goes from £7 to £5
Eight goes from £12 to £9
Ninth goes from £18 to 14
Tenth (richest) goes from £59 to £49

But the men aren’t happy….
The sixth man points out that he only saved £1 out of the £20 but the tenth man got £10.
The seventh man agrees, asking why he only got £2 when tenth man got £10.
The first four men were also indignant saying “we didn’t get anything at all….The new system exploits the poor!”
So the nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up.

The next month the tenth man doesn’t show.
When it comes to paying the bill they found they didn’t have enough money between them to even pay for half the bill.

And that, the article concludes, is how our tax system works. The few who pay the highest taxes do tend to benefit from tax reliefs and reductions. Attack them for being rich and the risk is they may take their wealth elsewhere.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Interesting Full forms of Common Words we use

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🔗News paper =
North East West South past and present events report.

🔗Chess =
Chariot, Horse, Elephant, Soldiers.

🔗Cold =
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.

🔗Joke =
Joy of Kids Entertainment.

🔗Aim =
Ambition in Mind.

🔗Date =
Day and Time Evolution.

🔗Eat =
Energy and Taste.

🔗Tea =
Taste and Energy Admitted.

🔗Pen =
Power Enriched in Nib.

🔗Smile =
Sweet Memories in Lips Expression.

🔗SIM =
Subscriber Identity Module

🔗etc. =
End of Thinking Capacity

🔗OK =
Objection Killed

🔗Or =
Orl Korec (Greek Word)

🔗Bye =
Be with you

This does make the words more meaningful and makes one reflect on how we use these words and their intentions. Doesn't it?


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Gastronomic Tourism, A New World In Lima, Peru

Things to Do — By Isabel Guerra on March 22, 2012 at 3:28 pm
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Tourists attending a master chef class on Peruvian cuisine.

If there’s some activity that we all find truly enjoyable, that should be a great lunch or dinner. And if you are getting to know a new city, a new country, a new culture, what could be best than trying some of its most typical food? Native products, flavors and chefs, and with the advantage of being sure you are getting the real thing and at a fair price.

Cheers! Tourist enjoying at a pisco sour tasting.

Nowadays, Lima offers you the additional possibility of having the complete experience: a nice menu, a complete explanation on the ingredients and the dish itself, an interview with the chef, and maybe a master class if you are interested. Since Peruvian gastronomy is currently experiencing a boom, you will find many restaurants and even with our help it may be a little hard to make up your mind and pick one.

That’s where tour operators like Delectable Gourmet Tours come in handy. You only have to express your likes/dislikes and expectations, and they will design a gastronomic tour specially tailored for you –that is, a complete gourmet experience.

And do not worry about things like planning or logistics –they will arrange transportation, tours, and food, of course. But it’s not only food: you may also ask for delicacies like Peruvian wine tastings, pisco tastings, dinners with live shows, visiting food-related events, food fairs, etc.

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Lima Peru Mistura Food Fair

Enjoying at the Mistura Food Fair Tourists Zone.

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September 16th, 2009, 9:06 am by Greg

Growing up in a musical family, it’s no surprise that Colleen Pratt turned into an exquisite jazz vocalist. It’s also no surprise that Pratt spent an awful lot of time at the venerable old Van Dyck.

And now that the Schenectady nightspot has re-opened under new management, it’s a thrill to discover that Pratt and the Van Dyck have found each other once again.

Colleen Pratt & Friends now have a monthly residency at the Van Dyck, stepping into the spotlight there on the third Thursday of each month – including Thursday, September 17.

The music gets underway at 7pm, and there is no admission charge.

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Wall-based BIO-key International Inc. and IDEX ASA announced Monday that the companies will collaborate to produce a low-cost, multifactor authentication incorporating fingerprint technology for apps in smartphones, tablets and PCs.

According to the announcement, IDEX ASA has been pioneering fingerprint sensing technology, called SmartFinger swipe and touch, for mass market applications since 1997.  When combined, the IDEX/BIO-key will provide an accurate and efficient identity assurance both on devices and in the cloud.

 “The mobile market is rapidly adopting fingerprint sensors for convenient user authentication, leading to secure payment solutions and opening up opportunities for new identity-based applications. IDEX and BIO-key offer a combined solution for secure user identification, leveraging IDEX’ best in class fingerprint sensors, a new generation of powerful recognition algorithms, together with proven BIO-key secure multifactor authentication software. The combined solution and IP creates the potential for significant value-added services to be developed with market-leading customers,” Dr. Hemant Mardia, CEO of IDEX, said in a recent news release.

Ant Allan, a Gartner analyst, predicted in a recent news release that by 2015, 30 percent of all users accessing corporate networks or high-valued web apps from smartphones/tablets will be using biometric authentication.

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What makes cashmere so expensive?

I’ve always kind of wondered what made cashmere so much more expensive than wool other than the fact it’s softer. Slate has an answer:

Its costly production process and scarcity. Cashmere comes from the soft undercoat of goats bred to produce the wool. It takes more than two goats to make a single two-ply sweater. The fibers of the warming undercoat must be separated from a coarser protective top coat during the spring molting season, a labor-intensive process that typically involves combing and sorting the hair by hand. These factors contribute to the relatively low global production rate of cashmere—approximately 30,000 pounds a year compared to about 3 billion pounds of sheep’s wool.

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The NY Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt examined the paper's coverage of the war and concluded:

But there are special lengths that The Times — or any other news organization — must go to when dealing with an issue so protracted, so complicated, and so politicized.

But what if The NY Times applied that standard to its business partner, who's currently embroiled in a protracted, complicated and politicized issue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn?

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We represent injured workers from all over the state including Northern Virginia, Richmond, Hampton Roads, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Roanoke and Southwest Virginia.

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I'll be moderating the session Blending Profit and Purpose: The Future of Hybrid Organizations at the Net Impact Annual Conference taking place in Silicon Valley from October 24-26. The panelists are: Robert Lang, CEO and Founder of Americans for Community Development and creator of the first L3C (low-profit limited liability company); Bart Houlihan, Co-Founder of B Lab, the nonprofit driving systemic change through the Certified B Corporation, B Analytics, and the benefit corporation;  and Ron Roman, a business management faculty member at San Jose State University.

We'll be discussing the  L3C, the benefit corporation, and the future of these new forms as well as the place of social responsibility in traditional business entities. And we'll leave lots of time for questions from the audience. I hope you'll join us in what should be a lively dicussion!

Net Impact is a leading nonprofit that empowers a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world. At the heart of our community are over 40,000 student and professional leaders from over 300 volunteer-led chapters across the globe working for a sustainable future. Together, we make a net impact that transforms our lives, our organizations, and the world. [Ed. I'm honored to be a former director and lifetime member of Net Impact.]

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here's a peek of what's heading to the shop tonight (9:30 p.m. EST) ...

there are 5 snowman ornaments.  if you are interested in a special order of these...or of my lulettes me soon.  i will stop taking orders pretty soon.  thanks!

also... i know i told a few of you that i miiight have a couple more flower girl ornaments tonight.  well, i didn't get the photos done of, i'll put them in the shop tomorrow night.  sorry about that!

and last, but not least... the paintings shown are simple and sweet paintings on a couple large pieces of wood....all covered in lots of mica.  these 2 will be listed at a special low price:)  yay!

okay...i'm off!  hope to see you over at the etsy shop tonight:)  xox...jenn

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Love it all-you've been busy!

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A North Platte woman was arrested Sunday night after lab tests showed she was carrying a plastic bag in July with methamphetamine residue.

Police arrested Kizzie Ross, 29, around 8:15 p.m. in an apartment in the 900 block of No. Dewey, police spokesman Rodney Brown said.

The Nebraska State Patrol crime lab determined that there was methamphetamine residue in a plastic self-seal bag that she had when she was picked up for failure to appear in July, Brown said.

Brown said the lab test results were received on Nov. 5.

Ross is charged with possession of a controlled substance (meth). She was transported to the Lincoln County jail, where she was processed and released to another jurisdiction, according to sheriff's records.

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The Norton Museum of Art was founded in 1941 by Ralph Hubbard Norton (1875-1953) and his wife, Elizabeth Calhoun Norton (1881-1947). The Nortons were actively interested in fine arts and developed a sizable collection of paintings and sculpture.

An industrialist who headed the Acme Steel Company in Chicago, Mr. Norton began to winter in the Palm Beaches in 1935.  Upon moving south, the Nortons decided to share their collection with the public. In 1940, the Norton Gallery and School of Art was built on property located between South Olive Avenue and South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach.  Mr. Norton commissioned Marion Sims Wyeth, of the distinguished firm of Wyeth & King, to design a building to house the collection. The late Art Deco/Neo-Classic building opened its doors to the public on February 8, 1941.

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Sunday, 31 July 2011

Dye Day

Mo and I have been planning to have a dye day for quite a while. We decided to round up some of our bare or natural yarn and roving so we could dye it. It so happens that Marion was in town this weekend and could join us.
I lined all the dyes up on the deck railing.
Here is some superwash merino pencil roving laid out ready to paint. I actually used squirt bottles first and then filled in with the foam brushes.
Marion's trusty camp stove once again was used to boil the water in our dye pot to steam the yarn. The dyes set with acid (vinegar) and heat (steam).
Once we painted our yarn we rolled it in the Saran Wrap longways then rolled it up like a jellyroll and popped it into the ZipLoc bag. We have learned to write our name on the bag, what the fibre is and when we put it in the pot. Then we put the lid on the pot and steam the yarn for an hour.
While the yarn is steaming we are painting the next batch.

Once the yarn is steamed, I used my fireplace tongs to pull each bag out of the pot and put the bags on the ground. I then carefully open the bag and if possible roll it out to cool. The yarn is left for 1/2 hour or so to cool before handling and then rinsed to remove any residual dye. It is surprising how little residual dye there is. Mostly it was the blue dyes that rinsed out the most.
Then we squeezed as much water out of the yarn and hung it up to dry.
Once they were almost dry, we thought it would look very arty to line the hanks up on the fence in rainbow order. Remember ROY G BIV? Mo chanted it a few times for us.
Our roving needed a bit more care so it wouldn't felt - not a lot of handling. Basically we swung the rinsed roving out and swung it around in one of my large lingerie bags (letting centrifugal force work for us like a salad spinner) and then just spread it out on newspaper on the lawn. This is Mo's pencil roving using Spruce. It's the perfect colour for the Peacock Feathers Stole I want to knit. I just need to find 1000m of laceweight to dye with the spruce.
Not everything worked out perfectly. I call this 'Clown Barf'. I may have to overdye it. Yeesh! So much for using Hot Fuschia and Chartreuse.I did, however have success with the pencil roving. I used Sapphire Blue and Sun Yellow. The green is the result of the meeting (bleeding) of the two colours.
And this is some of my handspun that I wanted to experiment with. I used Chestnut, Spruce,
and Russet. It's only about 180 yards of worsted weight so should make a nice neck warmer or pair of hand warmers.
Marion overdyed some medium blue yarn with some Sapphire Blue for a tonal result.
This is KnitPicks bare superwash fingering weight yarn. It's soft and fluffy.
And this is some Misti Alpaca Hand Painted Lace that I overdyed to a desired raspberry colour from a beige-ish blah.
Dyeing yarn is a lot of fun. It takes quite a bit of preparation but the results are sure worth it.
From the left: Geri's tonal purple KnitPicks superwash fingering, Marion's overdyed blue sock yarn, Mo's tonal blue handspun, Mo's teal roving, Marion's 5 hanks from emerald green to yellow, Mo's golden Malabrigo sock yarn and her gold and russet roving, Geri's tonal raspberry Misti Alpaca Hand Dyed overdyed yarn.

Monday, 25 July 2011

FO's 'n Stuff

Skip's niece had a baby back in February. I wanted to knit little Kyle a sweater and found some sock yarn on sale for the job. I used this pattern which is sized for a baby 0 - 3 months of age. As Kyle has already surpassed that age, I thought he'd need a sweater in the winter around his first birthday. It is knit seamlessly from the top down. I used larger needles to knit it bigger and made it a bit longer than the pattern calls for.

I also found a cute little hat to knit with matching yarn. I took the gauge from the sweater and used the same size needles. I increased to only 108 sts for the body of the hat. It was a very quick, fairly mindless knit, once the increases were finished.
And here's the set.
The colour is truer in the first photo.

I also have about 1/4 of a rectangular entrelac scarf knit with the Dianna Shawl pattern as a guide.
I had some Noro Kureyon sock yarn kicking around that I used for it. The yarn is not terribly soft but I'll rinse it with hair conditioner when I'm soaking it before blocking.

I've also been working on a Forest Ridge Shawl from Spring + Summer 2011 Knitty using Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend. I may run out of yarn but I'm pretty sure I can get more.

It was hard to photograph this time of the evening but here are a couple of shots.
The colours in this one are truer.
The scarf has three triangles so should sit nicely on the shoulders and also should drape well around the neck.

Last Saturday I attended the Spin In at The Black Lamb in Port Hope. It was a pretty warm day but cooler than the temperatures at home, 65km to the west. We sat under tents and happily spun and yakked the day away. About 18 in all showed up.
My spinning friend, Jody (pictured in third from the left in the green ball cap above), was there, too but we didn't get much chance to chat as we weren't able to sit next to each other.

I met two ladies who will be doing the UK knitting tour with us - friends of Laurie, pictured below in green with her back to me.
Three of us are satisfied owners of Ashford Joy wheels.

The Tour de Fleece is over now. I didn't do as much spinning as I'd hoped but I did more had I not participated at all.

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

At the first meeting that I attended of the Trillium Embroidery Guild in November 2008 one of the members gave a workshop on Kumihimo, Japanese Braiding. She was well organized, explained the technique very clearly and had discs ready that she had created for us to practice the technique ourselves. After the meeting, I filed the information away for future reference.

Today, I dug the handout out and downloaded the template to make my own disc. I used the top of a margarine container and used this template to cut the notches.
I taped it onto the margarine container lid and cut around the circle and then snipped at each line.

There are lots of YouTube videos on the subject.

I used 8 strands (four strands folded in half and tied a knot creating a loop) of Cascade 220 yarn in two colours and began braiding according to the instructions. After about an hour and a half, I had 17" of braid completed. I tied off the end and snipped the ends evenly.
What impressed me most was how even the braiding was.

One can use any size cord or yarn. This one used 8 strands of worsted weight yarn and yielded a cord almost 1/4" thick. If I had used four different colours, they would have twisted in order.

These cords can be used for drawstrings, ties for hats, hangers or finishing around small framed needlework pieces, ties or trims, etc.

It would be a very inexpensive craft for kids. Adding a ring in the loop and a shorter braid, it would make a key ring. One could make a friendship bracelet with longer cord. With very long strands of yarn or cord, one could make a lanyard.

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Lots o' Fun

We had an enjoyable and busy weekend. On Friday, we had our friends, David and Susan, over for dinner. I have been doing a lot of late 'spring cleaning' and finished things up for their visit. I spent the day shopping, baking peanut butter cookies (which I forgot to serve), prepping things for dinner, etc.

After dinner we went to see the new movie Woody Allen wrote and directed, "Midnight in Paris". It stars Owen Wilson in the characteristic Woody Allen role, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and the first lady of France, Carla Bruni. It was an interesting premise, very Woody Allen-ish in style and overall very delightful. The sound-track was also great.

During dinner and after the show, we discussed the next cruise holiday we want to book and David and Susan are keenly interested as well.

On Saturday, Skip and I got up early and took the GO train into The Big City to go to the one theatre that is showing the 3D documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams". It is about a cave that was discovered in 1994 in France that contains the earliest cave paintings ever discovered dating back to 30,000 - 32,000 years ago.

Before that, we went to Romni Wools so I could see if I could get the Malabrigo sock yarn to finish the Maia shawl that I've been working on.
Huzzah! They had the colourway I needed and it was a close enough match to the one I already had. While there I grabbed a couple of balls of sale sock yarn to knit a baby sweater for one of Skip's nieces. While paying, I was very pleased to learn that everything was 20% off because of the TTC Knitalong.

We had lunch across the street (Queen West) at Harlem and then walked to the theatre on King West just east of Mountain Equipment Co-op.

While walking along Queen, I spotted this eponymous laundromat.
After the movie, we walked to Brookstone Place to have a light dinner at the Marché (formerly Mövenpik Marché, formerly Richtree). Then we hopped on the GO train and were home by 6pm.

Today we stayed home.

I didn't do any spinning today. However, I did work a bit on the baby cardigan with the sock yarn. While I was working on the yoke portion of the top-down raglan sweater, I realized that even though it is a baby's sweater, because of the fingering weight yarn, it will probably have as many stitches as an adult cardigan. What was I thinking? I could have purchased DK weight yarn. Oh well. I'm only 6 rows away from where I put the sleeve stitches on waste yarn and join the fronts to the back to knit the rest of the body.

Although I haven't been the best blogger or spinner lately, I have been getting a lot of housework and organizing done. Believe me, it's been long overdue.

Scooter is with us as he is attending summer school to upgrade one of his Math marks. I think it's going OK and he's free at 2:15pm each day. He'll be done a week Tuesday and FREE for the rest of the summer.

I've also been working on the Slippery Socks and am about 20 rows from finishing the leg and can start the heel. Maybe I'll post some knitting photos tomorrow.

Friday, 8 July 2011

My Bad

I didn't get any spinning done at all today. I didn't even do any knitting!! I spent the day doing housework, shopping and prepping dinner for company. Then we all went to the movies. I was pleasantly surprised by the new Woody Allen (written and directed) movie, "Midnight in Paris", starring Owen Wilson, Rachael McAdams, Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni. If you love Paris, art or literature, you'll enjoy the movie.

Tomorrow Skip and I are going into The Big City to see `Cave of Forgotten Dreams' - some indie movie Skip heard about. It's a documentary about the Chauvet Cave in France.

For sure, I'll resume spinning activity after supper tomorrow.

Monday, 4 July 2011

Results of Day 3

I got most of the rest of the roving spun. I have a little less than an ounce (26g) left to spin.
I frogged the socks I started yesterday because I didn't like how they looked with the slipped stitch cable pattern. Instead I selected a yarn that was hand-painted but didn't have much dark/light contrast - just various shades of navy blue.

Results of Day 2

I plied the cat fur that I spun yesterday. It turned out to be 24g , 67 yd. and DK weight 2ply yarn.
I also did more spinning of the purple, turquoise and lemon grass roving from Waterloo Wools.

In the afternoon, I attended a lovely outdoor concert of the band I used to play in. It was hot out, but there were lots of shade trees to sit under and a nice breeze. I'm not sure why but I was pooped last night after supper and spent most of the evening watching TV in a horizontal position. I even went to be early but was awake at 6:30am ready to take on the day.

I'm home from Zumba and some shopping and after getting cleaned up I'll get back to spinning.

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Tour de Fleece - Results of Day 1

I spent the afternoon at The Black Lamb in Port Hope using Laurie's electric drum carder. I wanted to get all the dog and cat fibre carded so I could start right in on spinning it. It took three hours but I got it all done.

To feed it into the carder, I needed to pull apart any matts. This took about half of my time, especially the cat fur, some of which was so matted I couldn't even pull it apart so I only got about 1/2 oz of it done.

Laurie and I chatted about our upcoming UK knitting tour from Aug. 30 - Sept. 10, 2011. She's going with 3 friends and I'm going with my friend, Marion. There will be 23 in our group altogether. We discussed how cold we think it might be in Glasgow at the beginning of September (where our tour starts) and what layers of clothes we're going to take. We also talked about what knitting we're going to take with us and agreed on a couple of sock projects and possibly a lace project of some kind. All of which will squish up nicely in a Zip-loc bag for storage.

After supper I sat down to spin the cat fur. Here is the necessary equipment (other than my Ashford Joy wheel) I amassed for the task.
Knowing how fluffy and annoying the cat fur would be to work with (it matts if you look at it the wrong way) I got it all done - all 17g of it. Not a lot to show for all that effort.
However, I know the dog fur will be a lot easier and way more fun to spin. The fibres are MUCH longer. One dog is a golden-doodle and I've spun some of its fur before. Another dog is an Old English Sheepdog. I think the third dog is a Golden Retriever. I hope to get all the dog fur spun by the end of this week. Then I can devote myself to my own lovely fibre.

There was one mishap, however. One of my hand carders flipped off the table and landed on my foot, puncturing the skin and drawing one drop of blood. This is the photo after I wiped the blood away. It was 'merely a flesh wound' and hardly slowed me down at all. (Please excuse my unsightly bunion).
I should probably cut back on the wine consumption during future rides. Silly me, I thought it would help keep my electrolyte balance.

In summary... (I had to post the collage photo so I could post it on Ravelry)

Tour de Fleece 2011

I have been finishing up some UFOs so I can clear the decks for the Tour de Fleece. It is my first year in the T de F and I've joined several teams: Peleton 2011, North Border Spinners, Team Sasquatch and Team Canada. It's also the first year I'll be really paying attention to the Tour de France.

One UFO I completed last night was Gudrun Johnston's "Crofter's Cowl".
Now that I have my July sock finished for my Pull Up Your Socks group. I'm going to cast on for August's. This is one pattern I'm considering. I'm trying to knit down some of my sock yarn stash as I keep buying souvenir sock yarn.

I have some fibre that a knitting friend gave me that consists of the fur from three of her dogs and her cat. I'm heading out to Port Hope to The Black Lamb to use her drum carder to get the fur ready to spin, otherwise, I'll be spending hours hand-carding it.

I have lots of bags of fibre to spin so should have plenty to keep me busy. Here's some hand-painted roving I picked up at the Knitter's Frolic that I started on to warm up for the Tour de Fleece.Allons!

Friday, 1 July 2011

O! Canada

Our country is 144 years old today. Skip and I don't have any big plans to celebrate. We're just hanging out at home, doing some not-too-annoying chores and enjoying the fabulous weather. It's great to live in a 'glorious and free' land and (as one of my Facebook friends stated) to have the right to celebrate any way I wish.
I wish you all a safe, happy and festive Canada Day.


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A Season for Disarmament

April 4, 2010

The New York Times

Hans Blix

Just prior to the signing of the New START Treaty and on the eve of the Nuclear Security Summit, Mr. Blix discusses the global movement “…to free the world from nuclear weapons”.  Read the op-ed.

Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons

March 25, 2010

The Globe and Mail

Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy

The three former Canadian officials write that, “We believe that the future of humanity is as threatened now as it was at the end of the Second World War from proliferation of nuclear weapons.”  And, “We therefore support the goals of our colleagues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Australia and call on governments and ordinary people everywhere to push for action now before it is too late.  Read the op-ed.

How to Protect Our Nuclear Deterrent

January 19, 2010

The Wall Street Journal

George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn

The four of us have come together, now joined by many others, to support a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately to end them as a threat to the world. We do so in recognition of a clear and threatening development.

"Pour un désarmement nucléaire mondial, seule réponse à la prolifération anarchique" ("For Global Nuclear Disarmament, the Only Answer to Anarchic Proliferation")

October 14, 2009

Le Monde

Former Prime Minister of France Alain Juppé, General Bernard Norlain, former Commander of the French Combat Air Force, former French Minister of Defense Alain Richar and former Prime Minister of France Michel Rocard

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Statement by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn Regarding the United Nations Security Council Meeting on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Disarmament

September 24, 2009

George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn

The Summit in the UN Security Council brings much-needed global focus to the risks posed by the spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material. By convening heads of state, the meeting can help build the necessary political will around the urgent steps required to reduce nuclear dangers.


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The trip will be happening from 19 May to 22 May 2017. We will be staying at Bintan Sayang resort with all meals inclusive. We will introduce you to the wonders of the night skies. In addition, you’ll get to learn so much more about the night sky through our telescope handling and hands-on astrophotography sessions. Optional water sports such as banana boat rides, speed boating and snorkelling are also available at the resort!

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Perfect Protein Salad Recipe

1 Cup garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained

1 Cup diced English cucumber

½ Cup raw carrots, chopped

½ cup red and/ or green bell red pepper

2 green onions, chopped

¼ cup sunflower seeds

¼ red onion, diced

1/8 cup fresh parsley

1 cup low fat cottage cheese

2 T apple cider vinegar

1tsp crushed garlic

1 tsp sea salt

1 tsp black pepper

In a small bowl, mix together all the dressing ingredients and set aside. Combine the salad ingredients and then pour the dressing over and toss. You can make coleslaw out of this by shredding the carrot, cucumber, bell peppers, onions and parsley in a food processor.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that met analysts' estimates as well as its own; however, the company scaled back its earnings predictions for the rest of the year, citing higher health care costs, a larger investment in e-commerce and an elevated tax rate.

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Camp carrying load in Cubs bullpen

CHICAGO – About seven months ago, reliever Shawn Camp’s baseball future was decidedly murky.

Camp suddenly was jobless two weeks before the start of regular season, released by the Seattle Mariners despite signing a free agent deal only weeks earlier. The timing could not have been worse for the 36-year-old right hander, who decided he was not ready to hang up his cleats.

The free agent market is notoriously tough for relievers, since many teams opt to fill their bullpen from within the organization.  A journeyman pitcher in the twilight of his career, Camp was in a tough spot. But president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer believed Camp, a nine-year veteran, would add needed big-league experience to a young Cubs bullpen.

Eleven days before their season opener against the Washington Nationals, the Cubs signed Camp to a one-year deal, in what has become one of their best off-season acquisitions.

“I think it’s a blessing to come over here and pitch from all the things that happened to me in spring training and tough off-season with the market,” Camp said. “For Jed and Theo to see something in me that maybe nobody else saw at that time – you never know when you wake up the next day where you’re going to be in this game for sure.”

Camp never envisioned he would have such an important role for the Cubs. However, his ability to pitch in any situation – though he has been used primarily in the late innings when the Cubs have the lead – made him manager Dale Sveum’s go-to reliever with the game on the line.

Sveum’s reliance on Camp has led to the heaviest workload of his career. Camp’s 69 relief appearances this season leads the majors, and he is currently on pace to pitch in 83 games, which would surpass his career-high 75 with Tampa Bay in 2006. Camp could break the Cubs’ single-season record of 84 appearances in a season, held by Ted Abernathy (1965), Dick Tidrow (1980) and Bob Howry (2006).

“It’s not that important to me,” Camp said of leading MLB in appearances. “It’s how we finish as a team, and collectively, how we can help one another moving forward, is more important than any statistical thing I could think of.”

As the innings have piled up, Camp’s effectiveness hasn’t wavered. He struck out one batter and did not allow a base runner or hit in one inning of work during Sunday’s 7-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants. In his 67 2⁄3 innings pitched this season, which are the sixth most by a reliever, Camp has surrendered 17 walks while striking out 47.

“I just wanted to work hard in the off-season,” Camp said. “My buddy always says, ‘Hard work pays off.’ I worked as hard in the off-season as I had in the past and put myself in the situation to throw a lot of innings, throw a lot of games. It’s coming along.”

Sveum has often touted Camp for having a rubber arm, a credit to his ability to throw consecutive days and warm up multiple times during a game without getting tired or worrying about arm fatigue. In addition to an off-season workout plan Camp said, warming up “smart” is the key to staying fresh and prepared.

While he doesn’t like being given days off, Camp understands mental rest is just as important as keeping the body fresh if he wants to finish the season strong.

“I still go about my routine like I’m going to be in the game,” Camp said. “ … They’re really good at, especially with me and [James Russell], not getting us up if they’re not going to use us. That’s a big payoff because you don’t get that from a lot of managers and pitching coaches, there’s not a lot of times that they do that.”

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NYPD Won’t Stop Stop-and-Frisk Program

copsWhen Michael Bloomberg campaigned for re-election, one of his biggest claims was his work to lower crime in the city. While crime did indeed go down under the Bloomberg but so did the level of civil liberties that New Yorkers have.

Now, it appears that the controversial and seemingly unconstitutional NYPD Stop-and-Frisk program will continue despite countless calls from civil liberties and beleaguered New Yorkers to stop the searches of innocent New Yorkers.

The NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk program has been going on for years. Each and every year the NYPD stops more than half of a million New Yorkers, mostly minorities and people in their teens and twenties, and frisks them, despite their being no evidence that the person did anything wrong.

Of the New Yorkers stopped, only six percent are given a summons and seven percent are arrested.

Essentially, the program makes simply walking down the street cause to be stopped by an officer and searched as passers-by watch and assume the worst.

The NYCLU has been protesting this program since its inception, arguing that statistically the program overwhelmingly targets minorities, especially African-Americans.

It is this program that has made New York City the marijuana arrest capital of the country. Nearly 40,000 people were arrested for marijuana possession in New York in 2008 while other states and cities around the country have decriminalized marijuana arguing that controlling pot is a massive waste of city resources.

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EVER SINCE THE FIRST COURT jester stood before the throne and delivered a one-liner for the king, the stand-up comic has been making his uphill way in the world. It is a calling whose heroes are mostly unsung, whose practitioners are always endangered by the threat of laughless listeners. Comedians rank with actors and other cultural heroes, such as Sergeant York, Emile Zola and Bernadette, when it comes to being immortalized in movies, but the stand-up has been left standing, off-screen. And now, in a stroke of revisionism, Columbia Pictures is doing a feature film about stand-up comics, starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks.

''Punchline'' is not quite ''Pagliacci,'' but it is a serious drama about stand-ups, which means that David Seltzer, its writer and director, lets an audience laugh as it wipes its eyes. If all goes well by the time ''Punchline'' is released, which may be before the next Academy Award lists close, it will reflect the seven years during which Mr. Seltzer immersed himself in that curious world of humor inspired by the insecurities, emotional demands and experiences of its inhabitants.

It is by no means a lost world. To the contrary, it is thriving, with a proliferation of comedy clubs coast to coast, with television's prodigious expenditure of wit approaching fast-food dimensions. That does not mean that the way up is easy or that riches lurk just around the next guffaw. And that is what ''Punchline'' is about.

''Punchline'' is now filming its interiors in Hollywood, but it shot its exteriors in New York, on freezing nights on the dilapidated, deserted Hudson River end of West 125th Street. At the center of the set was a nightclub that had reconstituted itself in real life as a reincarnation of Harlem's Cotton Club but was now idle and converted by the movie people into the facade of a comedy club. It was topped by a round neon sign that identified the place as ''The Gas Station.'' On its front, another sign announced, ''Audition for National TV.'' The gloomy, blank building fronts nearby had been transformed into a Potemkin's village - a flag-bedecked carwash, a cafe, a busy marketplace. Why go to the trouble, when the film might easily have been shot on a Hollywood backlot?

Daniel Melnick, the film's producer and a man well established in his native New York's television and film firmament before emigrating to Hollywood 13 years ago to serve as mogul in various Hollywood empires, had the answer.

''There is a kind of ambiance, sometimes tangible, sometimes intangible, that permeates a place,'' he explained. ''There is this special tension in New York that could contribute to this type of film, as it did to 'All That Jazz.' When they asked me was this trip necessary, I asked if they had ever had that feeling, when they were late already, of going crosstown in a cab in traffic? Imagine what could happen when we sent 104 people and 12 semi-trailers to New York. Even the catering truck once got lost and everybody went hungry.''

New York was, in whatever location, an appropriate situation. It was in New York that the comedy club first flourished and continues to. It was in the Catskills hotels that New York comics - it sometimes seems they were all from Brooklyn - went in other times to start their descents into the cities of fame. It was in Manhattan that nightclubs offered gigs to comics as part of the entertainment. Then television made all America sophisticated in wit and comedy to the extent that an unknown could no longer draw an audience. It seemed like the end until, enter the comic club, with its relatively cheap evening of end-to-end aspirants relieved occasionally by emergent singers.

''I went to a comedy club because I was writing a pilot about stand-up comics,'' Mr. Seltzer said, during a dinner break in the filming. ''The idea germinated at Carlson's, on the Coast. ''It's a different world they live in, with its own language, like an ethnic culture. We are trying to do a film that is realistic. There are 300 to 500 stand-up comics, and I've seen them all during the years I've had this on my mind. We must have 20 of the best stand-up comics working with us - performers, consultants, that sort of thing. They are very complicated people but very eager to please.

''We are dealing with all types here, stand-up comics who talk about politics, who tell old jokes, who deal in vulgarity or in free association. It's a growth industry. If you could have bought stock in stand-up comics 10 years ago, you could have sold today and done well. It's at the peak, delivering the KO punch at this moment.''

Mr. Seltzer, who is a novelist and has written and directed documentaries for years, made his debut as feature-film director last year with ''Lucas,'' based on his own screenplay, a romantic comedy about an intelligent teen-ager that won unusually warm reviews. ''Punchline'' is a distinct change of pace. ''We did the casting in the traditional way, and the two leads make a perfect marriage,'' he said. ''One of the things I've always done is to give actors new lines every day, to keep the material fresh. We've been changing the comic material daily so that it won't seem stale.''

The two stars have actually gone into clubs to get the feel of the roles. Miss Field confessed to having had misgivings, momentary but recurring, about the assignment.

''In my last film, I had to learn to ride a horse, but this is harder,'' she said. ''When I got the role, I called Lily Tomlin and asked what I should do. She told me, 'Just get out there.' I went on in a club just once. I just got up and talked. I don't call that being a stand-up comic, I just call it being there. My character, the part I play, is someone who has a need for communication, someone who has reached her 30's or 40's, the age when we realize that that's all you are and nothing else. Tom's is a man who's driven by a compulsive need to be a comic.

''I don't know how they do it, the comics,'' she said. ''It's so high, it is dangerous.''

Miss Field said that she has been working with Dottie Archibald, a stand-up comic out of the West, and with Susie Essman, a comic who appears regularly at the New York club Catch a Rising Star. Ms. Essman inserted some of the screenplay material into her own act at the club, and Miss Field sat and saw how it went over.

Mr. Hanks had never been a stand-up comic, but he actually went on several times, under the tutelage of two professionals, Randy Fechter and Barry Sobel.

''There's an unwritten rule,'' he said. ''Every time you can make something up, do it; you can always fall back on the material you've prepared. When you can get away with making fun of the lady in the blue hat, don't wait. I started out with five minutes of material, which went in 40 seconds, especially when nobody laughed. When I was in Los Angeles, trying my routines, I worked on a different clock. I was getting up later. By 9 P.M., the adrenaline was flowing. The show went about 20 minutes, then the capillaries pop and I couldn't go to sleep until 2 or 3 A.M.

''I like this role because it's involving, and on different levels. This particular comedian is an almost tragic figure, doomed to a life enslaved to a microphone. The great challenge is to have the stand-up routines as funny to the audiences in the theater as they are to audiences in the clubs in the movie. You can't mark the script, 'The audience erupts in uproarious laughter.' ''

Ms. Archibald is one of the five comics who actually appear in the film, in non-comic bit-roles, but her main chore is to consult with Miss Field on how stand-up comedy works. Ms. Archibald's experiences almost parallel the heroine's story. She was a housewife in a small town who went to Los Angeles to try out in a comic club.

''I was on 13 times before I got my first laugh,'' she said. ''And that was when I started crying onstage - and they laughed. When I started, there were almost no women, only one or two, like Elaine Boozer - who started as stand-up comics. Phyllis Diller trained as a musician. Then Totie Fields and Joan Rivers started, and a lot more.

''I always wanted to be a comic. Some comedians are actors and do what they have decided to do onstage. It's not the same thing as being a stand-up comic. Carl Reiner recommended me to Sally. Would you believe it, this is my longest job in show business, from last November to May.''

Ms. Essman, Bronx-born and raised in Westchester, is another story.

''I was waitressing for seven years,'' she said. ''Some comics say that they wanted to be comics since they were 5 years old. I started only three and a half years ago. I put five minutes together and people laughed. I thought, this is great. I was hired as Sally's coach. David Seltzer had seen me at Catch and at the Comic Strip. It was like being found by the Fresh Air Fund.

And then there was Max Alexander, a stocky, sober-looking fellow, not your quintessential contemporary, breezy stand-up comic, who has a small role in ''Punchline,'' who hails from Flatbush.

''I got into comedy on a dare,'' he said. ''I was in the garment line when I went to Roxanne with a friend who wanted to go on. He dared me to pick a number. It came up and I went on. Six months later, my company went into Chapter 11 and gave me unemployment and a chance to become a comic.

''I'm also a trained actor, and that's different from being a comic. When you go on as an actor, you take direction. When you come onstage as a comic, you're the director. The stand-up comic is the group.''

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The "Washington redskin" of "Thunderheart," as he is derisively called by the film's American Indian characters, is an F.B.I. agent who is sent from Washington to an Oglala Sioux reservation to investigate a crime. Raymond Levoi (Val Kilmer) does not welcome this assignment. Part Sioux himself, and too culturally assimilated to acknowledge that heritage, he resents having been selected for the job on the basis of his background. He refers contemptuously to various Indians as "Geronimo" and "Tonto" as a means of registering his unfamiliarity with their world.

But during the course of the story, Ray is freed from his high-handed superiority to Indian culture, made to understand the many problems of the violence-torn Indian community (the film is set in the late 1970's) and forced to accept his own past. "The same blood that was spilled in the grass and snow at Wounded Knee runs through your heart like a buffalo," he is told by one of the story's far more spiritually aware Indian characters.

"Thunderheart" isn't really about Ray anyhow. He provides the foreground interest for a film whose background is much more authentic and important, and much more fully realized. Michael Apted, the remarkable documentary film maker ("35 Up") whose dramatic films often have an anthropological accuracy ("Coal Miner's Daughter," "Gorillas in the Mist"), addresses himself to life on an Indian reservation with the same curiosity and intelligence he has brought to other subjects. Mr. Apted displays too much respect for his material to overdramatize it or otherwise create a Hollywood gloss.

Though "Thunderheart" is about a murder investigation and has the shape of a thriller, it also has a documentary's attentiveness to detail. (Prior to making this film, Mr. Apted covered similar territory when he completed "Incident at Oglala," a documentary about the American Indian rights advocate Leonard Peltier.) So the film, which deals reasonably well with the progress of Ray's spiritual awakening and with a murder plot, also dwells on many Indian customs, ceremonies and beliefs.

Filmed on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (which is called the Bear Creek Reservation in the movie), "Thunderheart" is loosely based on violent events that took place there and elsewhere during the 1970's. The film employs many Indian actors, some of whose screen roles mirror their real lives. The fiery John Trudell, who plays an Indian activist suspected of murder in the movie, is in fact an Indian activist, as well as a poet and singer. Chief Ted Thin Elk, who plays an honored Lakota medicine man with a winning combination of courtliness and guile, is a Lakota elder himself.

A film this intent on authenticity might easily grow dull, but this one doesn't; Mr. Apted is a skillful storyteller. He gives "Thunderheart" a brisk, fact-filled exposition and a dramatic structure that builds to a strong finale, one that effectively drives the film's message home. That message concerns corruption and reform battling for supremacy within the Indian community, widespread neglect on the part of the Federal Government and the urgent need for change.

Sam Shepard co-stars as the sardonic, hard-boiled F.B.I. agent who shows Ray some of the ropes, though not all of them. Fred Ward appears briefly but effectively as the swaggering tribal president who is head of the reservation's most repressive faction. The film's outstanding performance comes from Graham Greene, an Oscar nominee for "Dances With Wolves," a film that looks like an utter confection beside this plainer, harder-hitting drama. In the role of a tribal police officer, serving as Roy's wry tour guide through various Indian rituals, Mr. Greene proves himself a naturally magnetic actor who deserves to be seen in other, more varied roles.

Sheila Tousey, making her film debut, conveys a quiet, stirring integrity as a schoolteacher and activist caught up in the story's violent events. "Sorry I got your family involved in this," Ray eventually tells her. "Ray, my family's been involved since Columbus landed," she replies. In paying its respects to that figurative family and its traditions, the film depicts a large ceremonial powwow, a sweat lodge ceremony and other authentic aspects of Indian life, including the rusted-out trailers and appalling medical facilities that are present-day features. The reservation is pointedly described by one character as "a third world right here in America."

Trivia buffs may note that a shot in which the camera hurtles forward across the plains and over a cliff, conveying great natural beauty and mystery, looks very like one used in "The Doors," which also starred Mr. Kilmer. That film's neo-hippie vision of American Indian mysticism could not be more different from this film's utterly serious view.

"Thunderheart" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes profanity, many violent outbursts and bloodshed. Thunderheart Directed by Michael Apted; written by John Fusco; director of photography, Roger Deakins; edited by Ian Crafford; music by James Horner; production designer, Dan Bishop; produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Mr. Fusco; released by Tri-Star pictures. Running time: 118 minutes. This film is rated R. Ray Levoi . . . Val Kilmer Frank Coutelle . . . Sam Shepard Walter Crow Horse . . . Graham Greene Jack Milton . . . Fred Ward Willam Dawes . . . Fred Dalton Thomas Maggie Eagle Bear . . . Sheila Tousey Grandpa Sam Reaches . . . Chief Ted Thin Elk Jimmy Looks Twice . . . John Trudell Richard Yellow Hawk . . . Julius Drum Maisy Blue Legs . . . Sarah Brave Leo Fast Elk . . . Allan R. J. Joseph Dennis Banks . . . Himself

Photo: Graham Greene in "Thunderheart." (Tri-Star Pictures)


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As the rough-looking punk boys they're running from catch up, Ms. Hoffmann dissolves in panic. ''We're going to get raped,'' she babbles in flawless Long Islandese. ''Happens all the time down here.''

Ms. Ricci glowers, first at Ms. Hoffmann, then at the boys (played by Guillermo Diaz and Casey Affleck). When Mr. Diaz drawls, ''Where are your manners, man? Show these ladies what we've got for them,'' a twinge of fear pierces her sullen glare. And when Mr. Affleck responds by politely introducing himself and proffering a cold beer, fear and anger give way to surprise, then wariness and, finally, as she accepts the beer, bold assessment.

The lipstick pout only softens into a smirk at the very end; the rest of the subtle, fleeting action takes place in Ms. Ricci's eyes. Shades of Louise Brooks, that other small, dangerous woman who could dominate a scene without making a sound.

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Risa Bramon Garcia's ''200 Cigarettes,'' an ensemble piece about the East Village adventures of disparate groups of young people on New Year's Eve 1980, is the sixth feature Ms. Ricci has made in the last 12 months. ''Buffalo '66,'' Vincent Gallo's directorial debut, which dominated talk at Sundance in January, will open in June, and ''Pecker,'' a new John Waters comedy, is scheduled for the fall. Two others will be in theaters sooner: in Terry Gilliam's ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,'' which opens on Friday, Ms. Ricci appears as a bedraggled hippie chick who spends all her time making terrible paintings of Barbra Streisand, and in ''The Opposite of Sex,'' an impudent comedy directed by the newcomer Don Roos opening on May 29, she drives the proceedings as a bad-to-the-bone wild child who repeatedly mocks the audience for hoping she'll reform by movie's end.

''Basically, we paid her to pout,'' said Mr. Roos. ''For Christina, that's like money for jam.''

Ms. Ricci has survived a successful career as a child actor to carve out a unique place in the ranks of the newest generation of bright young stars. If at 18 she is among the youngest of that group, she is no ingenue. On the contrary, a curious lack of innocence, as fascinating as it is disturbing, has been her hallmark and may account for her recent spate of sexually inflected roles. With her enormous, hooded eyes and ripe little mouth, she could almost be a Lolita. Except that this Lolita wouldn't be sobbing her young heart out in dingy motel rooms; she'd have Humbert Humbert on a leash long before things could reach that point.

Believe it or not, Ms. Ricci began her film career at the age of 9 playing a perfectly normal child, in ''Mermaids'' (1990). But two years later, she came into her own as morbid little Wednesday Addams in the hugely successful comedy ''The Addams Family.'' Then she took the role into adolescence in the even funnier sequel, ''Addams Family Values.'' With imperturbable sang-froid -- the Addams children are nothing if not cold-blooded -- she distinguished herself in a cast that included Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester.

Since then, Ms. Ricci has done a lot of her best work playing the Worst Little Girl in the World, last year taking the concept to the level of serious artistry as a brooding adolescent given to bouts of sexual predation in Ang Lee's ''Ice Storm.'' (She made the line ''I'll show you mine if you show me yours'' sound more alarming than one would have thought possible.)

In light of her professional predilections, lunch with Christina Ricci was a mildly unsettling prospect. Would she greet unwelcome questions with a fast bread roll to the head or just a scathing sneer? Then Ms. Ricci turned up and dealt her baleful image the first of several small, decisive blows. ''I'm so sorry,'' she said worriedly. ''I hope you haven't been waiting long.''

A trim, quietly pretty young woman with a scrubbed face, streaky blond hair tied back in a bun and little elfish ears, she was wearing a blue T-shirt turned inside out so that the seams showed but the picture on the front didn't, a long black skirt and chunky shoes. She looked chagrined, and she made her apology standing by the table, as if needing to be forgiven before she could sit down. In fact, Ms. Ricci was all of 15 minutes late, which, given city traffic, is punctual enough. By movie star standards, it's downright early.

If, as seems likely, Ms. Ricci is turning into a movie star, she's remarkably polite about it. At Lucky Strike, the SoHo restaurant she chose so that she could smoke, she made an ashtray out of cellophane when the waitress kept forgetting to bring her the real kind, and she answered questions with candor.

Ten years ago, Ms. Ricci appeared in a school play in Montclair, N.J., and so impressed a neighbor who had show-business connections that her parents agreed to hire a business manager and let their 8-year-old daughter turn pro. She says she loved coming into New York for auditions and jobs, and she got work -- mainly voice-overs and commercials -- almost immediately. ''I liked being with my mother,'' she said. ''We'd be running around the city almost every afternoon after school, and it just made me feel like I was doing something.''

It also appears to have saved her from misery or worse. ''I was really bored and unhappy in school,'' said Ms. Ricci, who is the youngest of four children, ''and I used to act out and do horrible things. I wrote all over the girls' bathroom once, and I was really awful to my teachers.''

More chillingly, she described how she ''used to provoke other kids into hitting me and throwing me around, I think as a way of drawing attention to myself.''

What she calls ''all that bad behavior'' stopped as soon as work began. ''It's like I just needed some kind of outlet and something people told me I was good at,'' she said. ''I just felt so lucky. Work was always the most exciting thing to me.''

Not surprisingly, Ms. Ricci revels in playing bad girls and troubled children. It's the perky kid stuff she detests -- including items on her own resume like ''That Darn Cat'' and ''Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain.''

Ms. Ricci swears as freely as most teen-agers, but her favorite term of opprobrium is ''icky,'' just as her highest accolade is ''honest.'' ''The Ice Storm,'' which she found painful to make, is honest, as are idols of hers like Denis Leary and Ms. Huston. Work that isn't honest -- in particular, work that falsifies and sentimentalizes the experience of childhood -- is beyond icky. Of ''Gold Diggers,'' which is chockablock with moral lessons, she exclaimed, ''So repugnant!''

Mr. Roos, the director of ''The Opposite of Sex,'' said that Ms. Ricci ''understands unhappiness and suffering and she's made angry by their denial.''

''Christina's a great combination of little-girl vulnerability and tough-talking gun moll,'' he added. ''She does not tolerate phonies. She was my favorite on the set.''

Ms. Ricci appears to have been the favorite on a number of sets. ''You want to talk about Christina?'' said Barry Sonnenfeld, director of the ''Addams Family'' movies. ''Well, she was brilliant. Remember the scene where Fester puts Wednesday to bed, and she folds her arms and rests her hands on her shoulders like a dead person? That was totally Christina's idea. And she was what -- 11? There were lots of things like that.''

He also recalled that when the cast objected to a certain plot point in the first film, they sent Ms. Ricci to him and the producer, Scott Rudin, to speak for them because they felt that she was the one who best articulated their argument.

The sequel, written by Paul Rudnick, featured a considerably larger part for Ms. Ricci. ''We knew that Christina had become gold, so of course we used her a lot,'' said Mr. Sonnenfeld. ''We actually turned to her more than once, for her intelligence, her story sense, her acting. She's sort of scarily bright.''

Mr. Rudin agrees. ''She basically wrote the story for the second one,'' he joked.

Similarly, Mr. Roos credits Ms. Ricci with transforming her character in ''The Opposite of Sex'': Dedee, a sexually manipulative 16-year-old runaway who steals her older brother's boyfriend and then adds insult to injury by spouting anti-gay cliches. ''Originally Dedee was much more emotional, more fevered, more Gidget,'' he said. ''But Christina told me she thought Dedee was very thoughtful: she does a lot of listening and watching -- she's an observer of people because she's a manipulator of people. So Christina asked if she could show it to me, and she was right. It made Dedee much more authentic.''

It also makes her repellent at times, giving ''The Opposite of Sex'' enough edge to feel risky.

With edge to spare, Ms. Ricci is a natural for the kind of quirky, independent films that no matter how entertaining they may be, never drift into the mainstream. In the mordantly funny ''Buffalo '66,'' Mr. Gallo told her he wanted her to play ''the nicest, sweetest, most beautiful girl in the world.''

''I love Vincent,'' Ms. Ricci added, fondly recounting the rest of his instructions to her: ''None of those faces, now. None of that sarcasm. No one likes a smartass.''

Not everyone likes edge in their movies, either, much less in their women. The qualities that distinguish Ms. Ricci -- Mr. Roos says she has more access than most people to her dark places -- can sometimes make her professional path rockier than it would otherwise be. Her agent, Toni Howard at I.C.M., has had to fight hard to get Ms. Ricci the roles she thinks her client deserves.

At first, Ms. Ricci lost out to Natalie Portman for the role in ''The Ice Storm'' after an interview with the filmmakers that did not include a reading. But then Ms. Portman's parents canceled their daughter's participation on the grounds that the part was too sexual (Ms. Portman is two years younger than Ms. Ricci). This decision, which ultimately benefited Ms. Ricci, still inspires a certain defensiveness on her part. ''My mom knows when something is real and something is not,'' she said, ''and you could not read that script and think that they were exploiting someone.''

She went on to describe the children in ''The Ice Storm'' as ''so real and so innocent,'' perhaps displaying a bit of innocence herself.

With Ms. Portman out of the picture, Ms. Howard went back to Mr. Lee and James Schamus, the screenwriter and co-producer, and continued to press them to let Ms. Ricci read for the part. At last, they reluctantly agreed. An hour after she read, they called to tell her the part was hers. ''It's weird when you go in and you know they don't want you,'' said Ms. Ricci, who briefly summed up the experience by downshifting out of understatement into pungent unprintability.

STILL, she has been working steadily for 10 years, with none of the scary gaps that afflict the careers of many child actors as they approach adulthood. Physically, she's beginning to change in rather startling and no doubt useful ways. A puppyish roundness is giving way to voluptuousness, and on the set of ''200 Cigarettes,'' she looked less like a heavily made-up teen-ager than the kind of drop-dead gorgeous dame who could grace a classic noir.

Ms. Ricci refuses to worry about the future, or even to speculate on it. She's occupied with moving into a bigger apartment (in the East Village, of course) with her boyfriend, the 26-year-old actor Matt Frauman. She has written a script called ''Asylum'' -- the title refers to the refuge of childhood fantasy -- and she has her own production company. It's called Blaspheme.

As for her future in Hollywood and elsewhere, she's wryly philosophical. ''They want you to be interesting,'' she said. ''But not too interesting.''

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Zebra mussels do not generate much good news. A decade ago, the mussels, thumbnail-size bivalve mollusks, were accidentally carried from Eastern Europe to the Great Lakes by shipping traffic and have since spread across North America, clogging the cooling systems of power plants, crowding out native species and cloaking docks and rocky areas with bristling mats of sharp, striped shells.

So when scientists began finding the microscopic larvae of the mussels in Lake George, in the Adirondacks, three years ago, nearby residents feared they would soon face a full-scale invasion.

But now biologists say that in Lake George, the relentless spread of the mussels appears to have stopped, apparently deterred by the lake water. Even though mature zebra mussels can live in it, the larvae quickly die, according to laboratory tests completed last month at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.

As word of the research spread through lakeside communities, there was a collective sigh of relief.

''It's great news,'' said Deanne Rehm, Town Supervisor of Bolton, on the west shore of the 32-mile-long lake. ''We have enough threats to the quality of the lake without some new nuisance coming along.''

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Optimism should be tempered, though, said Dr. Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, the director of Rennselaer's Darrin Fresh Water Institute, where the studies were done. It is unlikely that the finding will lead to a treatment that can stop the mussels in other waters, she said, and there is always the possibility that the mussels will eventually adjust to the lake's seemingly hostile conditions and begin proliferating.

''The zebra mussel has shown it is able to adapt over time,'' Dr. Nierzwicki-Bauer said. ''Nature seems to find a way.''

For roughly 200 years, zebra mussels have been easily finding their way across two continents, spreading first across Europe as newly dug canals linked their home range in the Caspian and Black Seas with surrounding waterways.

And almost every time they have colonized a new area, they have become a nuisance. In the mid-1800's, after arriving in France, clusters began blocking water pipes in Paris.

After appearing in the Great Lakes in 1988, they hitchhiked on barges down the Mississippi River and spread to hundreds of lakes, carried as invisible larvae in bait buckets or the bilges of speedboats from one fishing spot to another.

Efforts to clear the mussels from the pipes of power plants and other structures have cost tens of millions of dollars, Federal biologists say.

Earlier this month, Connecticut became the 20th state to report finding adult mussels, said Amy Benton, a fisheries biologist at the United States Geological Survey.

Workers in East Twin Lake, in Litchfield County, found several zebra mussels while dredging another unwanted imported species, a weed called Eurasian milfoil, she said.

Small numbers of zebra mussel larvae were first detected in Lake George in the summer of 1995, Dr. Nierzwicki-Bauer said, but were only present in a few samples. Larvae were found again in the summer of 1997, she said, but a protracted survey by scuba divers failed to turn up any mature zebra mussels.

Even so, the discovery of the larvae created a stir, with local residents concerned about the potential harm to pipes, to the lake's native mollusks and other species and to underwater shipwrecks dating from the American Revolution.

The lack of mature zebra mussels was ascribed initially to the lake's naturally low concentration of calcium, which the mussels need to form their shells. Lake George contains calcium at levels that are about half the concentration seen in nearby Lake Champlain, Dr. Nierzwicki-Bauer said.

To test that theory, the Fresh Water Institute placed adult zebra mussels in tanks filled with water from Lake George. Despite the low calcium level, the adult mussels thrived.

But when larval zebra mussels were placed in water from Lake George, they all died within a week, Dr. Nierzwicki-Bauer said.

To test whether calcium or the pH of the water is the factor affecting larval mussels, she said, next spring the laboratory will try to raise larvae in water from Lake George that has had its calcium level and pH adjusted to match conditions in surrounding waters.

There have been a few similar reports of lakes in which zebra mussel larvae were found, but no adult colonies became established, Dr. Nierzwicki-Bauer and other biologists said.

Some scientists tracking the progress of invasive species said they hoped that Lake George could stay free of zebra mussels, but said it was too soon to tell whether it would.

Charles O'Neill, the director of the National Zebra Mussel and Aquatic Nuisance Species Clearinghouse at the State University of New York, Brockport, cited the example of Conesus Lake, in New York's Finger Lakes region.

''Mussel larvae showed up one summer in a plankton sample and were not seen again that year,'' he said. ''They were not seen the next year, either, or the year after that.''

State officials announced that the mussels had failed to take hold. ''The next summer, they showed up all the way around the lake,'' he said.

And, as was recently discovered, the zebra mussel is not the sole molluskan threat in the United States. A closely related species, the quagga mussel -- named for an extinct relative of the zebra -- has also made its way here. The two species appear to be dividing and conquering, with the zebra mussel preferring hard surfaces and shallow waters, while the quagga mussel, also from Eastern Europe, colonizes sandy, deeper areas.

''Between the exotic plants, animals and bacteria coming over, I don't think a week goes by that we don't hear of another potentially harmful critter,'' Mr. O'Neill said. ''It never ends.''

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April 14, 1985
The Treasures of Luxora Beach

By William Boyd.

William Boyd's novels ''A Good Man in Africa'' and ''An Ice-Cream War'' were greeted with cries of approval from both literary critics and readers, so ''Stars and Bars'' raises more than the usual anticipation. It is about an eager but shy Englishman, Henderson Dores, who comes to New York hoping to lose what he regards as his terminal Englishness in the brash, open, unreserved world of America.

The novel starts with considerable brio. As Henderson walks up Park Avenue, dreaming of blending with the Manhattanites who pass him on their way to work, he is accosted by a lunatic who tells him, ''The furrier at midnight thinks his hands are full of clouds.'' After an embarrassing struggle, Henderson gets rid of him but not before musing on the line, which seems to him not too bad, actually, for a crazy: ''It was like a coded spy- greeting, or a line from a better symbolist poem.''

Henderson works for an art auction house (not unlike Sotheby's), for whom he is sent on a mission to obtain a potentially valuable art collection from a reclusive Southern millionaire named Loomis Gage. Much of the novel concerns Henderson's efforts to claim these paintings, which are kept in a locked room in a house in Luxora Beach, Ga., amid one of the most eccentric families one is likely to encounter: Freeborn, who promises to break Henderson's head if he doesn't leave immediately; Shanda, Freeborn's sexy, pregnant young wife, who lives with him in a trailer attached to the Gage mansion; Cora, who on first encounter pretends to be blind; Beckman, who tells endless stories about his exploits in Vietnam but turns out to have been 4-F and never to have gone there; Alma-May, who cooks vegetarian meals and has a son who never appears but plays deafening rock music all day; and Loomis Gage himself, the ancient, enigmatic paterfamilias.

Nothing is what it seems. To complicate matters, Henderson is involved with two alluring but demanding women in New York - his former wife, Melissa, whose teen-age daughter, Bryant, attaches herself to Henderson and ends up in the Gage mansion too, and Irene, whose attraction for Henderson hinges on her resemblance to a Spanish girl who worked in a butcher's shop and around whom he spun a ''tingling sexual fantasy'' on a boring holiday some years earlier.

After many farcical adventures in Luxora Beach, Henderson returns to New York. The plot then has him staggering up Park Avenue again, for reasons too complicated to relate here, dressed only in a cardboard box. On this occasion, as the busy pedestrians avoid him, muttering about yet another lunatic, he enjoys a brief epiphany. ''Of course, Henderson suddenly realized with tender elation, they think I'm mad . . . . It was a moment of true liberation. A revelation. He felt all the restraints of his culture and upbringing fall from him like a cloak slid from his shoulders.''

Henderson is a changed man, make no mistake. There are, however, problems with the novel. Storiesabound about an agreeable but hopelessly incompetent fellow's search for identity in an irrational world, and Henderson's virtues do not particularly distinguish him from the crowd. Books about the English experience in America, or vice versa, are not uncommon. This is splendid territory to mine, but it does require an original viewpoint when you enter the lists with novelists ranging from Henry James to Alison Lurie. Mr. Boyd has some funny and perceptive things to say about English shyness as opposed to American spontaneity. The great feature about reserve, Henderson muses, is that ''it walked hand in hand with regret; left you sadder but no wiser. You never knew what you might have been.'' But the author seems also to latch on to what are now fairly well aired differences between the English and Americans - pronunciation, for instance, and that old cliche about Americans ruining whiskey with ice.

THE major scenes in ''Stars and Bars'' take place in Luxora Beach, a place of unremitting bleakness and despair. Mr. Boyd's talent in evoking a place, which worked for him so well in his earlier two novels, serves him brilliantly here. In fact, the reader is forced to ask why on earth Henderson, wimpish though he is, does not get out when he can. One remembers Evelyn Waugh's version of the civilized man's descent into primitivism in ''A Handful of Dust.'' In that case, poor Tony Last, desperate to escape, is condemned to read Dickens aloud to his mad captor for the rest of his days. Mr. Boyd is more charitable to Henderson, but there are times when it seems that charity is not what the benighted twit needs. The point about Henderson's liberation from his roots is well taken, and his adventures through the jungle are amusingly narrated, but the ''new clarity'' with which he views the world at the end remains, for the reader, a lingering fog.

Caroline Seebohm is working on a book about English country houses.

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