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Monday, March 15, 2010

Breaking heart

 Tomorrow Miss goes home. I know she has to, I know she can’t stay, but it’s still painful just the same.

I’m me when she’s here. I’m that me that is and wants to have fun, whose funny, who loves to laugh. Not the me that wants to burry myself in books, stories, movies, games anything and everything just to get through my day, until Bo gets home because I feel so alone all day. I have two beautiful children, who are amazing little beings, and I still feel alone when I’m here with them. I feel like a bad mother for that. But she shows me that I can still be me, even if it’s only when I have her and Bo with me, I’m still in there. I’m not lost, I’m not gone forever, I’m just buried in there somewhere. It’s my job to bring her up, without their help.

These two weeks have been amazing. We’ve laughed and we’ve cried. We’ve taken photos, we’ve come up with ideas for blogs/vlogs (which we talk about so much we have yet to do them, LOL). But most importantly, she’s gotten me off my ass! My house looks awesome, even if gets messy she somehow gets it clean in 5 minutes. It would take me hours to do what she does, and somehow as easy and simple it is, I still don’t get it.

I think the craziest thing we’ve done, was yesterday when we went to our elementary playground, and she talked me into going on a teeter-totter and slide. Now before I go farther, this is where Bo and I spent our childhood. There are things here that were old when we were 5! Crazy huh. Anywho, I got on the teeter-totter, she got me about 2 inches off the ground and I screamed bloody murder. For some reason, the girl that used to love this thing can't do it anymore. Then she and Bo talked me into going on a slide, the only new thing in the playground. Nikki forgot she's afraid of heights peeps. I got halfway up and couldn't go any farther. Bailey was going up it like it was nothing and I couldn’t do it. I was very upset, then Miss goes on the slide. Keep in mind this slide is a narrow and twisting slide. She put Bailey on her lap and takes off….only to get stuck. I was laughing so hard I tears. Bailey was laughing as he climbed off her lap and slid down without her. She managed to make it down, bending herself around the tight spirals, laughing the whole time. Then Bo gets the bright idea to do it to. Now Bo is a broad, stocky man. If Miss got stuck…well you know what happened. He gets stuck almost immediately. I don’t know how we didn’t pee our pants. He finally managed to un-wedge himself, and thankfully neither tried it again.

She brings so much fun and laughter to this house; we are all going to miss her like crazy. We forgot how much fun we can have, and she’s reminded us. She talks about how she feels like home here; how that is something she hasn’t had in a long time. I’m thrilled we can do this for her and she thanks us by bring out the child in us. It’s a win-win situation with her here, haha.

Honey Cheeks, I’m going to miss you so so much. Bailey and Jocelyn have fallen in love with you and I know they will miss you like crazy too. Bo will miss you too, you’ve gotten his wife off her butt, dressed and looking pretty, something that the medications couldn’t do. Plus the house is clean, he’s going to miss that more than anything I’m sure, LOL. I haven’t been this happy in so long I truly cannot remember when it was. I have that desire again to do things and be a part of this world, not hide from it. It’s funny, because I thought I had that before, and I did, but it was like this small itch compared to this energetic gotta jump gotta move gotta DO something, that you have given me. Thank you, thank you thank you a million times over. I hope this trip was as great for you as it was for us. I’m going to miss you, I love you, and I CANNOT wait until you come back.

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Alignment: NE
Domains: Magic, Rune, Knowledge, Evil
Favored Weapon: Wand or Staff

Class: Wizard 40 / Archmage 10 / Cleric 20 / Outsider 20 /

Portfolio: Arcane Magic, Evil, Law, Evolution (self created), Technology, Hidden Knowledge, Secrets

Home Plane: Demi-Plane connected to the hells

Ethos: Prepare for the unexpected; I have already won before our encounter, while you are defeated and seeking to win.

Dogma: I’m capable of anything & everything and I will create the perfect storm of my choosing…. Mark my words daughter I will eat your heart and consume you’re very soul!

Clergy and Temples: Rhonas elves who focus on their arcane gifts accend to create and circulate magic of Aether. Each floating city has a great temple.

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How to serve like Serena Williams?

How to serve like Serena Williams?

One of the desirable components of tennis is a powerful serve which is in the arsenal of a tennis player. In the present tennis world, greatest female tennis player Serena Williams has come up with a superior serve that she demonstrates in almost every game. You cannot exactly duplicate her serve but learning some of her tricks will help you develop a superior serve. Here are tips to help you serve like famous female tennis player Serena Williams:

1)      Toss the ball pointing upwards with open fingers. Tossing a ball with hands spread like an open flower is one technique that not every player uses. This also helps you keep the ball out of alignment and release the ball into air straight up.

2)      To harness power from your legs, bend your knees and add that power to your serve. Keep your focus on the ball as you reach up before hitting it. By the use of the deep knee bend, Serena thrusts herself upwards in order to deliver the powerful serve.

3)      Serena uses only her upper body to practice serve. This has given her a fast arm as well, which allows her to throw a serve of 90 miles per hour. You can practice the upper body part session by asking someone else to toss the ball for you.

4)      While serving, hold the racket with loose wrist. Use only your index finger and thumb to hold the racket as it will tell you how much tension you will need in order to serve.

5)      Be confident and study the game of tennis players you admire.

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Edamame Quinoa Salad

I was on the lookout for a hearty salad to serve as a side with salmon that I was preparing for Mr. Right and me.  When I saw this colorful, easy, nourishing, and filling edamame quinoa salad recipe in a magazine (I think Better Homes and Gardens?), I knew it was the one.  You will like this one, folks.

 Edamame quinoa salad - The 2 Seasons

Source – BHG magazine, I think

1/2 cup quinoa, rinsed and drained

1 cup water

1 cup frozen shelled edamame, thawed

1 cup fresh or frozen whole kernel corn, thawed if frozen

1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

1/4 cup lime juice

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt and ground black pepper

1.  In a small saucepan, combine quinoa and water.  Bring to boiling; reduce heat.  Cover; simmer 15 minutes or until water is absorbed.  Remove from heat; set aside.

2.  Meanwhile, in a large bowl combine edamame, corn, tomatoes, and cilantro.  Add quinoa; toss to combine.  Add lime juice and olive oil; toss to coat.  Season to taste with salt and pepper.

 Edamame Quinoa Salad - The 2 Seasons

If you don’t want to use salmon, this salad would taste great with this chicken recipe.

Okay.  That’s it for this week, everyone.  Thanks for spending part of your day with us.  Be sure to check in tomorrow to see what we are featuring in our Seasons’ Saturday Selections.

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Monday, August 26, 2013

Zoya - Miranda

When I decided to get the Zoya Luli Fama collection (Summer Pixie Dusts), I thought for sure that the first one I reached for would be either Destiny or Liberty.  Both I had wanted for awhile (esp. Liberty, my God, what a gorgeous color), but when I laid my eyes on Miranda, I knew I had to try her first.

This is a jelly finish, dusty rose textured polish.  The sparkles are AMAZING.  Like a brighter version of the base, and oh so shiny.  Whew, this one is a stunner.

Top coat

I needed three coats. Two would be doable, but would not look as great.  The texture itself isn't bad, it is very fine, almost smooth, but you do notice it.  I think I have glitters that are rougher than this, so you know...

Dry time...slow, sadly.  The polish is another thick one, and got nearly unusable at the end of the second coat.  A shaking helped, but it was getting to that point again at the end of the third coat, so thinner might be needed.  But I don't care.  I love her.

Zoya Pixie Dusts are $9 a piece.  Be smart, wait for sales and deals.  They happen, they happen all the time.

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Russia Is Forcing the US to Rethink Its Regime Change Policy in Syria

The US seeks to take advantage of shared American-Russian interests in fighting ISIS, downgrading the objective of Syrian regime change.

Op-Ed by Gareth Porter
February 8, 2016

(MEE) The major developments on the Syrian battlefield in recent months have brought a corresponding shift in the Obama administration’s Syrian policy.

Since the Russian military intervention in Syria upended the military balance created by the victories of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and its allies last year, the Obama administration has quietly retreated from its former position that “Assad must go”.

These political and military changes have obvious implications for the UN-sponsored Geneva peace negotiations. The Assad regime and its supporters are now well positioned to exploit the talks politically, while the armed opposition is likely to boycott them for the foreseeable future.

Supporters of the armed opposition are already expressing anger over what they regard as an Obama administration “betrayal” of the fight against Assad. But the Obama policy shift on Syria must be understood, like most of the administration’s Middle East policy decisions, as a response to external events that is mediated by domestic political considerations.

The initial Obama administration’s public stance on the Russian air campaign in Syria last October and early November suggested that the United States was merely waiting for Russia’s intervention to fail.

For weeks the political response to the Russian intervention revolved around the theme that the Russians were seeking to bolster their client regime in Syria and not to defeat ISIS, but that it would fail. The administration appeared bent on insisting that Russia give into the demand of the US and its allies for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad from power.

But the ISIS terror attacks in Paris focused the political attention of Europeans and Americans alike on the threat from ISIS terrorism and the need for cooperation with Russia to combat it. That strengthened the position of those within the Obama administration – especially the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA – who had never been enamored of the US policy of regime change in the first place. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, they pressed for a rethinking of the US insistence on Assad’s departure, as suggested publicly at the time by former acting CIA director Michael Morell.

The political impact of the Paris attacks has now been reinforced by the significant gains already made by the Syrian army and its allies with Russian air support in Latakia, Idlib and Hama provinces.

The bombing and ground offensives were focused on cutting the main lines of supply between the areas held by ISIS and the Nusra-led coalition and the Turkish border, which if successful would be a very serious blow to the armed opposition groups.

Dramatic successes came in late January, when Syrian government troops recaptured the town of Salma in Latakia province, held by al-Nusra Front since 2012, and the strategic al-Shaykh Maskin, lost to anti-Assad rebels in late 2014, thus regaining control of Daraa-Damascus highway. Even more significant, the Syrian army has cut off the lines of supply from Turkey to Aleppo, which is occupied by al-Nusra and allied forces.

By the time Secretary of State John Kerry met with the head of the Syrian opposition delegation, Riyad Hijab, on 23 January, it was clear to the Obama administration that the military position of the Assad regime was now much stronger, and that of the armed opposition was significantly weaker. In fact, the possibility of a decisive defeat exists for the first time in light of the Russian-Syrian strategy of cutting off the supply lines of the al-Nusra front.

What Kerry told Hijab, as conveyed to the website Middle East Briefing, reflected a new tack by the administration in light of that political-military reality. He made it clear that there would be no preconditions for the talks, and no formal commitment that they would achieve the departure of Assad at any point in the future. He was unclear whether the desired outcome of the talks was to be a “transitional government” or a “unity government” – the latter term implying that Assad was still in control.

The armed opposition and its supporters have been shocked by the shift in Obama’s policy. But they shouldn’t be. The administration’s previous Syria policy had been based in large part on what appeared to be a favourable political opportunity in Syria. As described by Washington Post correspondent Liz Sly’s official US source, the policy was to put “sufficient pressure on Assad’s forces to persuade him to compromise but not so much that his government would precipitously collapse….”

The Obama administration had seen such an opportunity because a covert operation launched in 2013 to equip “moderate” armed groups with anti-tank missiles from Saudi stocks had strengthened the Nusra Front and its military allies. American Syria specialist Joshua Landis estimated last October that 60 to 80 percent of the missiles had ended up in the hands of the Nusra Front in Syria.

Those weapons were the decisive factor in the Nusra-led Army of Conquest takeover of Idlib province in April 2015 and the seizure of territory on the al-Ghab plain in Hama province, which is the main natural barrier between the Sunni-populated area inland and the Alawite stronghold of Latakia province on the sea. That breakthrough by al-Nusra and its allies, which threatened the stability of the Assad regime, was serious enough to provoke the Russian intervention in September.

But given the new military balance, the Obama administration now recognises that its former strategy is now irrelevant. It has been supplanted with a new strategy that is equally opportunistic. The idea now is to take advantage of shared US-Russian strategic interests regarding ISIS – and downgrade the objective of forcing a change in the Syrian regime.

A signal fact of the war against ISIS in Syria that has been ignored in big media coverage is that the United States and Russia have been supporting the same military forces in Syria against ISIS. The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) the leading party in Syrian Kurdistan, controls a large swath of land across northern Syria bordering Turkey. Its military force, the Peoples Defence Units (YPG), has been the most significant ground force fighting against ISIS.

But the YPG has also fought against al-Nusra Front and its allies, and has made no secret of its support for Russian air strikes against those forces. Moreover, the PYD has actively cooperated with the Syrian army and Hezbollah in northern Aleppo province. It is both the primary Syrian ally of the United States against ISIS but also a strategic key to the Russian-Syrian strategy for weakening al-Nusra and its allies.

US NATO ally Turkey has adamantly opposed the US assistance to the PYD, insisting it is a terrorist organisation. The United States has never agreed with that, however, and is determined to exploit the strategic position of PYD in the fight against ISIS. But that also implies a degree of US-Russian cooperation against the main armed opposition to the Assad regime as well.

The Obama administration is no longer counting on a military balance favourable to the armed opposition to Assad to provide a reason for concessions by the regime. Whether military success against the armed opposition will be decisive enough to translate into a resolution of the conflict remains to be seen. In the meantime, the Syria peace negotiations are likely to be at a standstill.

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Exciting! Olloclip have released a new 4-in-1 iPhone Lens in Gold and Space Gray to complement your respective iPhone 5s. The barrels are crafted from anodized aircraft grade aluminum. The olloclip 4-in-1 has beautifully chamfered edges which surround in the new multi-element, precision ground optics.

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Choosing a Biomedical Therapy and Autism

Many times when families see me, they ask what therapies they should try for their child. Unfortunately, there is no absolutely prescribed therapy or set of therapies for any child on the autism spectrum. Wouldn’t it be great if an easy roadmap to therapy existed in the dizzying world of therapy for children with autism? Wouldn’t it be great if the answers for how to treat a child (or adult) with autism were as easy as using an antibiotic for strep throat? Unfortunately children with autism spectrum disorders are so varied and their symptoms and problems are so diverse that choosing a single or many therapies is daunting.  Read full post »

Biomedical Therapies in Autism

When entering the world of autism, whether as a parent or a provider, a number of questions immediately come to mind. From the parents’ perspective, questions such as “what caused my child’s autism” and “will my child be happy as an adult” are usually at or near the top of the list. From the perspective of the provider, we often fall well short of being able to provide adequate answers. It is understandable that saying “we don’t know the cause of your child’s autism” doesn’t exactly instill confidence in us as physicians or psychologists. Read full post »

DIR®/Floortime™ and Autism

 Supporting the Rhythms of Relationships

Relationships are an important component to a healthy life; we experience life through shared experiences. But for children with autism, forming relationships can be challenging. The Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-Based Model (DIR®/Floortime™), developed by Stanley Greenspan, MD and Serena Weider, PhD, is a framework used to help children with developmental differences, including autism, work through these challenges. Read full post »

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Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism: How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck!

One of the most recommended therapies for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is social skills therapy. After all, deficits in social interaction define the autism spectrum – meaning, all children with autism/Asperger’s/PDD have impairments in this area. But, is it possible to effectively teach social skills and, more importantly, can that teaching translate into meaningful social relationships for children with ASD? We think so, but there are some things parents can do to ensure that their children are getting the most benefit from social skills treatment.  Read full post »

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PRT. Yet Another Acronym. What is Pivotal Response Training and How Does it Differ from Other Behavioral Interventions?

If you have been following our blog recently you know that we are in full swing with our series on autism treatments. We featured two posts that reviewed Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy so it only makes sense that we now move on to covering Pivotal Response Training (PRT). PRT is yet another type of ABA therapy. Remember, we learned that ABA therapy is not a synonym for discrete trial training, which is often how people use the term. ABA therapy is the science of altering human behavior through learning principles. And PRT uses those very same principles, but in a different way. So, your next question is logically…then what is PRT? Read full post »


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18 March 2013

Nouveau Risque

For those who don't read French, the poster at left announces an exhibition of  pictures and drawings in Paris, but you probably recognize the artist Jules Cheret's style.  Cheret chose to include this work from 1888 in the collection he named Les Maitres de l'Afiiche and the Syracuse University Art gallery chose the collection as the centerpiece for their recent exhibition Nouveau Risque: A Perspective on Women and Progress.
Published in Paris as a monthly subscription, similar to a magazine, from December 1895 to November 1900, The Masters of the Poster was the inspired marketing idea of the man now considered the father of the modern poster, Jules Cheret (1836-1932).  At the same time the series made reproductions of artworks available at reasonable prices, Cheret was also elevating the poster to the realm of art.  He may have been familiar with a previous but unsuccessful attempt by the publisher Cadart who, in 1862, assembled a portfolio that included works by Edouard Manet.

I remember the anticipation I felt as a child when a package  arrived each month in the mail  from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Similar to Cheret's portfolios,  the museum's  booklets (on an artist or a special subject) came with  a large sheet of glossy color images that could be detached and mounted on the appropriate pages   What was also similar was the ingenious combination of art for appreciation and  elucidation.   You could even collect the booklets in sturdy melon-hued cardboard folders, stamped in gold lettering.  From that experience, I can teleport myself to Belle Epoque France for the delivery of  Les Maitres de l'Affiche

Cheret is also notable for his signal creation of a type - the Cherette - a young woman definitely nouveau in her day and slightly risque.   Whether attending cafe concerts and cabarets or strolling the sidewalks, stopping to inspect some of the newly available consumer goods for sale, (art prints were a frequently depicted example), she was neither recgonizably a respectable matron nor a working class servant.

A survey of working Parisians taken during the 1890s found that one in ten was involved in the production and maintenance of clothing. From dressmakers, cobblers, and milliners to laundresses and seamstresses it took a legion of poorly paid workers to keep the population washed and dressed.  Many women thus employed had little choice but to supplement their meager wages with prostitution.  It was to this fact, in part, that women appearing in public alone or together but without a male escort were seen as risque.

Great improvements in color lithography came along just in time to record the first stirrings of women's emancipation, a work  still in progress today. Out of the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, and influenced by the Japanese ukiyo-e prints that were the rage in Belle Epoque Paris, Cheret created a style that was originally seen in the street and then on the walls of art salons and eventually the homes of the bourgeoisie.

Having taken some modest steps into the life of city streets, the turn of the century woman began to try other activities.  Tennis and bicycling, as we know well, are activities that call for  clothing other than ordinary street-wear.    But the split skirt or culotte was a new and daring outfit, so a sensible young woman would have a male escort at her side when she ventured out thus attired.
Nouveau Risque, the exhibition, includes other artworks from the period, including favrile glass pieces from the Tiffany Studio. What is  most interesting and apropos, for me, is the Diana, a woman's bicycle produced by the Cortland Wagon Company in upstate New York in 1894.  It large rubber front wheel is red and the bicycle measures 45 inches in height.   The bicycle, like the automobile, has been a vehicle of mobility and freedom, precious commodities in the lives of women,  then as now.
 The 'Women's Edition' unlike the ghetto that was regular women's pages in newspapers a century ago, allowed them to particulate - if only for a day and for charitable fund-raising purposes - in all aspects of producing the paper.  Usually published on holidays, these editions were often referred  to as 'Charity Editions', with what overtones you may suspect.  They were the brainchild of  the then popular women's clubs.  From small town newspapers to the nation's flagship publications such as the San Francisco Examiner and the Buffalo Courier, women took over.  We know little about Alice Glenny Russell, but one thing we do know: she was the rare woman to have her work included in Cheret's series.   Ethel Reed (1874-after 1920) from Boston, somewhat better known, is the only other one I have found.

Nouveau Risque: A Perspective on Women and Progress, an exhibition at the Shaeffer Art Gallery, Syracuse University, January 24 - March 17, 2013.

Images: Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY.
1. Jules Cheret - Exposition: Tableaux & Dessins de A. Willette, 1888.
2. Maurice Debis - La Depeche de Toulouse The Toulouse Dispatch - a newspaper) , 1892.
3. Georges Meunier - Trianon Concert, 1897.
4. Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen - Two Women Looking at a Window Display, 1896.
5. Ferdinand Misti-Mifliez - Cycles Gladiator, 1896.
6. Alice Russell Glenny - Women's Edition - Buffalo Courier, 1895.
7. Ethel Reed - Miss Traumerei, 1895.

13 March 2013

From Fukagawa To Munich: Peter Behrens

He did his best work as an architect and designer but, whether you recognize his name or not, Peter Behrens (1866-1940) is most familiar for a woodblock print from Pan. a short-lived literary magazine published in Berlin from 1896-1900.  Whenever there is a revival of interest in Art Nouveau,  there is The Kiss.   Behrens gave the woodblock print to his friend, the poet Richard Dehmel, who displayed it in his dining room.
Printing from woodblocks was one aspect of the late 19th century interest in all things Japanese.  I had not thought particularity  of Peter Behrens in that connection until I saw Storm, a print Behrens made the year before The Kiss.  Obviously a reinterpretation of one of Hiroshige's 100 Famous Views of Edo (Tokyo), Behrens drew freely on the extravagantly curvilinear  style popular among the artists of Pan and Jugend, especially his friend the influential Otto Eckmann.

 Behrens removed any signs of human habitation from the landscape to make room for the play of wind and waves.  The absence of waterbirds also has the effect of making the eagle seem less menacing.  The eagle's wings curve in harmony with the imaginary lines of the wind; he might almost be mistaken for  a kite on a windy day.   In Behrens's version the large bird functions as a framing device, similar to Hiroshige's use of a giant paper lantern in Kinyruzan Temple Asakusa, another of the 100 Views.   Behrens gave Storm to the playwright Otto Hartleben who hung it in - his dining room!

1. Peter Behrens - Sturm (Storm), 1897, State Museum, Berlin.
2. Peter Behrens - The Kiss (Der Kuss),  1898, Musuem of Modern Art, NYC.
3. Utgawa Hiroshige - Kinryuzan Temple, Asakura, July, 1856, Broolyn Museum.
4. Utagawa  Hiroshige - Eagle over the Fields of Susaki at Fukagawa, May, 1857, Musee Guimet, Paris.

Articles posted here on another contemporary dining room, this one designed by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer and reconstructed for display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City:

1. The Wisteria Dining Room - March 22, 2010.
2. Lucien Levy-Dhurmer At The Metropolitan, May 27, 2008.

10 March 2013

Dreaming Of Spring

"In Nature's temple living pillars rise,
And words are murmured none have understood,
And man must wander through a tangled wood
Of symbols watching him with friendly eyes.
As long-drawn echoes heard far-off and dim
Mingle to one deep sound and fade away;
Vast as the night and brilliant as the day,
Colour and sound and perfume speak to him.
Some perfumes are as fragrant as a child,
Sweet as the sound of hautboys, meadow-green;
Others, corrupted, rich, exultant, wild,
Have all the expansion of things infinite:
As amber, incense, musk, and benzoin,
Which sing the sense's and the soul's delight."
Correspondences 'is reprinted from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire. Ed. James Huneker. New York: Brentano's, 1919.

Using the blunt ax of professional jargon, these artworks form a 'visual cluster, ' a term intended  to differentiate how we experience their proximity to each other from iconography.  Each one has an individual consent and meaning to the viewer.  The poet Charles Baudelaire gave this experience a name: Correspondences.   I like best the theory elaborated by the German polymath Aby Warburg in the 1920s in his Mnemosyne Atlas, a panoramic survey of images across time and space that he further described as " a picture series examining the preconditioned antiquity-related expressive values".    In short, there is an affinity between artworks that  stimulates and satiates us at once.
P.S. Another affinity, a personal one I just recalled, something seasonal - Lilian Gish appears in How I Feel About Winter, posted here January 5, 2009.

1. Edward Steichen - Lilian Gish, Vanity Fair, December, 1932.
2. Suzukia Harunobu - Dreaming Of The First Days Of Spring, 18th century, Musee Guimet, Paris.

05 March 2013

Charlotte Perriand: Beauty In Use

"Lenin is seated at the Rotonde on a cane chair; he has paid twenty centimes for his coffee, with a tip of one sou.  He has drunk out of a small white processional cup.  He is wearing a bowler hat and a smooth white collar.  He has been writing for several hours on sheets of typing paper.  His inkpot is smooth and round, made of bottle glass." *  -  (If you skimmed this paragraph, go back and read it again, slowly.)

Who writes this stuff, I asked myself irritably as I turned the pages to check the footnote.  Second rate historical fiction?  Over digested creative writing assignment? Highly regarded manifesto of modern design?  Yes, it's  Charles Edouard Jeanneret, the man who also had the poor taste to reject Charlotte Perriand when she applied to worked in his atelier in 1927, dismissing her with the comment "we don't embroider cushions here."
Undaunted by his condescension, Perriand renovated her Saint-Sulpice,  apartment into a design studio of her vision of modern architecture and design.    That's Perriand at left in her  'bar under the roof,' that became famous as Perriand's Mobilier Metallique.  Her solutions to the small spaces  of modern urban living are ours, now. She mirrored the  surfaces on furniture and walls,  enlraging them visually.   She designed tables and chairs that functioned as modular furniture.   The next year, dazzled by her virtuoso use of chrome, glass, and aluminum, Pierre Jeanerret persuaded his cousin to think again and a collaboration began,  one that allows lazy historians to minimize Charlotte Perriand's achievements to this day.
Today, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is remembered for her decade long collaboration with Le Corbusier (the name Charles Jeanneret made up to differentiate himself from his talented relatives, including his cousin Pierre Jeanneret who persuaded him to take another look at Perriand's work).  More significant, I think was her encounter with  yo no bi, a concept from Japan that means "beauty is manifested in use."

Perriand met Junzo Sakakura, the Japanese ambassador to France, like her also an architect when he designed the Japanese pavilion for the 1937 Paris World's Fair.  Although he modeled it on the Katsura Palace, he used the materials of 1920s modernist design, thin steel and sheets of glass, achieving a cross-cultural idea of transparency and simplicity.  The French liked it very much.
Sakaura arranged an invitation from the Japanese Ministry of Commerce for his friend to visit Japan.  You may wonder why Perriand wanted to  leave home for a country halfway around the world that was obviously preparing for war, but she embarked from Marseilles by boat for Tokyo the day after Nazi soldiers marched into Paris.
While in Tokyo, Perriand lived at the Imperial Hotel,  designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1922..   Seeing traditional Japanese crafts and learning vernacular techniques for weaving furniture took Perriand out of the city The experiences resulted in  Selection, Tradition, Creation, the exhibition she  developed for the Takashimaya  department store chain, combining furniture designed by Perriand and constructed in Japanese workshops with  traditional ceramics and lacquer work.  Perriand may have been inspired by her former teacher Maurice Dufrene, who directed  a design workshop La Maitrise for galreies lafayette in Paris.
Perriand was deported  as an enemy alien in December, 1942, and spent the rest of World War II in exile in French Indochina.

 In her designs, Perriand embodied the harmony that comes from cohesion between internal and external spaces that is the aesthetic ideal  in Japanese architecture.     It must count as a twist of fate that Perriand's stackable chairs, known as the Perriand are often thought of as Japanese.   another similarity betwwen France and Japan: women were not granted the right to vote until 1946.  Perriand's real designs are, ultimately, more persuasive than Le Corbusier's imaginings.  Equally, we should be undaunted by attempts to write women out of design history, another feat of imagination.  As for Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Leger, and the others,  Charlotte Perriand outlived and outworked them all.

Charlotte Perriand et le Japon is an exhibition that originated at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan in 2012 and is on view at Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole. Saint-Priest-Jarez, France from February 23 to May 26, 2013.

* excerpt from L'Art decoratif aujourd'hui (The Decorative Arts Today) by Le Corbusier, translated from the French by james I Dunnett, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press: 1987.

1. unidentified photographer - Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand, 1939, Fondation le Corbusier, Paris.
2. Charlotte Perriand - Self-portrait In Her Studio, 1927, ADAGP, Paris.
3. Charlotte Perriand - ash bench for Etienne Sicard residence in Tokyo, 1941, Charlotte Perriand Archive, Paris.
4. Charlotte Perriand - modular furniture, no date given, Musee des Arts decoratifs, Paris.


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Deep Disclosure by Dee Davis

Title: Deep Disclosure

Series: A-Tac

Author: Dee Davis

Genre: Romantic Suspense

After spending years in prison under deep cover, black ops agent Tucker Flynn joins A-Tac, an elite CIA unit masquerading as faculty at an Ivy League college. Nothing can shake him-except a vulnerable young woman marked for death.

When Tucker is assigned to protect-and secretly investigate-Alexis Markham, he expects a routine mission. But this mysterious beauty has a past even darker than his: her father created a horrifying new biochemical weapon-and was murdered to keep it secret.

Alexis has spent the last decade racing to stay one step ahead of the shadowy operatives who will stop at nothing to possess her father’s formula. She can trust no one, not even her handsome new bodyguard. But the heat that flares between them is impossible to resist. Will giving in to passion bring her the safety she’s always craved, or will her love for Tucker draw him into a killer’s sights?

From the moment I finished reading Dangerous Desires book 2 in this series I wanted Tucker’s story. He’d had such a raw deal handed to him. Then when he’d finally found a reason to live he discovers that she’s his brothers girl.

This is one of those books that I was never really sure what was going to happen next and for someone that can usually tell really fast what is going to happen and where and how I liked that it kept me guessing.

Tucker is one guy that deserves a happily ever after. After being stuck in a Colombian prison for years he is finally free. Now to figure out the rest of his life.

Alexa has been on the run for most of her life. She knows no other life. So when her godfather is killed just after she leaves him and she suddenly has people shooting at her she figures it’s time to get out of dodge. She wasn’t counting on Tucker though.

The chemistry between these two is very tangible. Then there is the whole trust thing. But when they decide to work together they are a force to be reckoned with.

I really liked this book. The characters were great, we got to meet up with the the gang and see what was going on with them.

For me one of the things that I like best about this series is that these guys are a family. They are also a little Indiana Jones ish with being college professors by day and black ops by night 🙂

If you are a fan of this series you won’t want to miss this book, and if you are discovering Dee for the first time you can read this book as a stand alone however I recommend you at least read Dangerous Desires as this is Tuckers back story.

Grade B+

Other books in the series

Dark Deceptions

Dangerous Desires

Desperate Deeds

Daring (this is an ebook novella)

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  1. aurian

    O great review, and I have never read this author, but really want to 🙂

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You may not hear the name Bishop Nehru brought up in the same breath as Joey Bada$$ and Action Bronson, but the gravelly-voiced, baby-faced teen is "New New York" through-and-through.

After his March mixtape, 'Nehruvia,' caught the ears of the rap blogosphere, which subsequently helped him land his first overseas show supporting Ghostface Killah and MF DOOM in London, 16-year-old Bishop follows up with his new full-length project, 'strictlyFLOWZ.'

At just 10 tracks long -- with only a handful of those cuts surpassing the three-minute mark -- 'strictlyFLOWZ' is slim, but perfectly concise. Young Bishop toys with topics and flows over an impeccable selection of jazzy, boom bap beats. Mark Mason and Que Hampton provide the only vocal support on the mixtape, but don't think it's without its co-signs; Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Semtex share hosting duties.

Stream and download 'strictlyFLOWZ' below, courtesy of DJBooth.


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As reported by AOL Music, it's the new year, and for Marc Anthony that means a fresh start ... and new love. The soon-to-be ex-husband of Jennifer Lopez seems to have rid himself of the post-split jealousy that haunted him throughout the end of 2011 and has begun dating again, just like Lopez. Just yesterday (Jan. 4), Marc revealed his rebound romance with Venezuelan model Shannon De Lima on both Facebook and Twitter.

For his part, Anthony seems to be quite smitten! On his Facebook page, the Latin superstar posted a photo of himself kissing De Lima in a sweet embrace. He also tweeted "A mi @Shadelima mi estatua de libertad. Besos bebe," which translated to English reads, "To Shannon, my statue of liberty. Kisses baby!"

Shannon already seems to have Marc's family's seal of approval. Yesterday, the singer's adopted son, Chase, posted on his own Twitter account, "To all my followers and everybody on twitter follow 2012's best couple and for many more years to come @MarcAnthony and @Shadelima !!!!!"

Shannon, like Casper Smart -- boyfriend of Marc's ex, Jennifer Lopez -- is 24 years old and a well-known model in her native country, but has yet to make headlines in the states ... until now that is.

What do you think of Marc's romance revelation? Do you think it will last? Comment below.

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Keep your heart with all vigilance,

for from it flow the springs of life.

Skill & Luck

Model Thinking is coming to an end! I've learned much from this course and the various models are going to be very helpful to think about and understand issues. Even so, it hasn't been easy and I am quite glad to have seen it to the end.

This week, it's about Randomness which is highly relevant to skill and luck - to what extent is the outcome dependent on skill and luck respectively. This can be expressed by the following formula:

outcome = 𝑥﹢𝜀
Where 𝑥 denotes the factors, including skill.
Where 𝜀 denotes error, including luck.

Of interest is the paradox of skill: Among highly skilled individuals, the difference in outcome is more likely to be due to luck than it is to skill. While it is possible to show that this is true mathematically, we need only to think of examinations such as PSLE. The difference in scores among top students is more likely due to luck than it is to skill.

That PSLE measures too finely has been raised and repeated by several ministers in recent months. That the difference in one mark between the top scorer and the second is of significance is hard to prove. To further discuss the result of this ranking would be flogging a dead horse. Instead, the discussion ought to focus on a viable alternative, specifically the way results are expressed.

Interestingly, as students progress to higher levels, assessment tools are more blunted. At the 'O' levels, there is no score and the results are expressed along a nine-scale grade from A1 to F9. At the 'A' levels, it is reduced to a six scale grade from A to U.

The big lesson here is that while national examinations such as PSLE are necessary, we ought to be careful with the level of precision at which we measure. Measure too precisely and assessment becomes a record of the luck and variables that are beyond the student's control.

Solow Growth Model and ICT

Detailed Description vs. Precise Definition


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Friday, November 18, 2016

 Cold morning in San Francisco
 with temps in low fifties. Sun is
 up and bright. Listening to pundits
 election is not over in broad day
 light. Now have erection over new
 prez to be's selection of insiders.
 Arm chair fighters who think coming
 out of darkness is flick of BIC lighter!

 Holiday season beginning to come
 alive especially for those that thrive.
 Baked Idaho potato with sour cream
 and chive. Cab driver gives high five
 for that extra $5. Even bees are busy
 in the hive. Is it alright to be just alive?
 Waiting for holidays to get call from
 the tribe...........

 Gloom has set in for backers of losers
 following election. Backed wrong horse
 and afraid can't find way around two turn
 coarse. Looking down road seeing only
 loss while slowing down from gathering
 moss. On your lips, "go to hell, boss!"
 Has your life turned into coin toss.........

 Here is inside secret from pick 4 man,
 Bet first time lasix ( L1) on two year old
 second or third time starters. Won't be
 one bit sorry.

   Barry McChangky        *:-$ don't tell anyone shh!         QUACK!


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This next week’s NCIS: Los Angeles episode 24 of season 8 is all set to telecast which is touted as the finale episode of the small screen drama NCIS: Los Angeles and this episode are going to be crazy and wild. In the finale episode of NCIS: Los Angeles the leading Sam decided to leave his team to be separate from them in midway.

New NCIS Los Angeles Season 8: Finale Spoiler

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Tahir Khaled, in the way to make sure he never tries to attempt what he did in this entire season of the NCIS: Los Angeles! Also, this is the massive finale episode of the huge climax is waiting for the season 8 and afterward very soon the new season 9 is all set to launch!

The big title reveals for this installment, and that is tentatively titled as the “Unleashed.” That’s title is giving glimpses that Sam being unleashed onto Tahir. Speaking of that, it’s the one and only storyline which can be displayed in the finale episode.

New NCIS Los Angeles Season 8: Finale Spoiler

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Perhaps at the finale episode of the NCIS: Los Angeles it will be shown the aftermath of the team rescuing Sam’s wife, Michelle Hanna, from the evil hands of Tahir after he and his crew kidnapped her.

Also read: Supernatural Finale Spoiler

Huge attempt

Sam is still, understandably, very irritated with the entire episode of the NCIS: Los Angeles. So much, in fact, now he will be decided to split off from the team so that he can go rogue and make a massive attempt to stop Tahir from ever even doing any type of stunt against his family ever!

Will this immense rogue mission, cause Sam to come apart from the team forever? Will he be able to stop Tahir for good? What tactics will Sam end up, how he will deal with this crazy mission of his? These are the big questions for this storyline.

Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, we can’t disclose the synopsis now; you can tune the same at your TV channel. The finale episode of the NCIS: Los Angeles is going to be quite intense, though. This season’s finale episode is penned by R. Scott Gemmill, and John P. Kousakis did the directing.

Interesting storyline

They also show Callen in a scene, so we’ll be seeing him too. The Sam storyline will definitely the main point of the film. Hopefully, we’ll get a glimpse at some more of them as the final episode of the NCIS: Los Angeles will be revealed by the CBS and it is also going to be an interesting one which will be telecast on Sunday.

Speaking of airdates, we can confirm that episode 24 is all set to start from this Sunday night, May 14th,2017 at 9 pm central time on CBS. Stay tuned and don’t forget to watch the final episode of NCIS: Los Angeles.

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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Dangerously close to unhappy

I read somewhere that parents with children under the age of five are some of the unhappiest people in a population. This is one of those stats that can go either way for me. Tonight it teetered close to truth. Because I don’t know what I was thinking signing Deaglan up for skating lessons on a week night at 5:30 PM.

Picture this.

Me still in work clothes and heels, a bag stuffed with skates, helmet, and two happy meals slung over one shoulder, the camera over the other. A snotty faced Naveen squirming in my arms while I struggle to grip Deaglan’s hand as we bob and weave through an unlit, busy arena parking lot. When we get into the building it’s complete mayhem. There are families everywhere, the early-birds lucky enough to be lacing skates on kids who are sitting on the coveted benches, while latecomers like me stoop over a patch of floor, attempting to do the same and corral a runaway baby.

By this point I’m grouchy and overheated, irritated that Deaglan’s only focus is the happy meal toy. Naveen goes between running wild through the arena and demanding that I pick him up. When Shaune shows up, I’m overwhelmed with relief and the need to share my misery.

For the next forty-five minutes I cringe, recoil as my almost four year old with the help of a skating coach struggles to rise to his feet, on the ice for the first time, slipping down each time. I feel every fall, every thump. And when I don’t think I can watch anymore, convinced that in the next minute he will begin sobbing, beg to be taken to his parents, he starts getting the hang of it.

I watch as he takes tiny skatey steps, gets up without the help of the coach. And my mind changes. This isn’t so bad, I think. Maybe next week, since Shaune won't be able to come,  I’ll try to find a sitter for Naveen.

 Slipping and falling aside, you've never seen such adorable tiny skates and helmet.

This is the kind of shenanigans we're dealing with everyday since the tree went up.

  1. I bet he gets better fast!

    I can't for the life of me keep the ornaments on the tree. The twins are too fast!

  2. I love your new Christmas header! And he looks so cute on those teeny tiny skates! I hope it gets easier once you get into a routine.

  3. I can very much relate!! It is SO hard when they're does get easier (in some ways) when they get a bit older. You're a good mama for letting him experience this!

  4. He IS the cutest little skater ever! I would totally watch Naveen if you lived here. Of course there'd probably be no ice skating if you lived here...

  5. There is nothing cuter than itty- bitty ice skaters, especially when they have deadly hockey sticks.

    And at least your son isn't crazy, manically (sp?) barking at the Christmas Tree, which is the kind of shenanigans I've got going on....

  6. With Amy, I know a lot of those early learning experiences were a lot more painful for me to watch than for her to experience. (Except for the swimming lesson from hell with the she devil instructor-lol!)

    He will get the hang of it! He's your son, and I already know how amazing you are!

    P.S. they do outgrow the tree ornament fixation and un-decorating phase too;) Hugs:)

  7. I just had a total flash back to last year! 5:30 practice and me with the wild one in tow, sweating, trying to dress and lace things that I never knew how to do until dad showed up. I asked my Mother to come the next time to watch one so I could photograph the other.
    It isn't easy, and I am a little ashamed to say these activities make me dislike the non-working Moms even more. I am so jealous, but I know it isn't their fault. BTW-Be sure to keep your blood pressure checked. I had so many of the episodes you describe of the sweating and such trying to haul kids around and make it to work, etc. I have had to end up on meds, which I hate, but they have made me feel better.

  8. Yes crazy and hard but you are giving him great opportunities already. I hope he loves it

  9. Ice skating is so much fun. He will be happy later in life that he knows how :)

  10. it will all be worth it when he becomes the next Gretzky!

  11. Oh I think I've been there many times. Thank God my kids are cute ;)
    Isn't he just the cutest little ice-skater!
    Lovely Christmasy header! :)

  12. I am swooning over the cuteness of those itty bitty skates and the adorableness of the kiddo in the Ralphie costume with his feet laced up in said skates.

  13. Look at that little guy out there on the ice. That is just too sweet.

    We put our tree up on a table - that has helped quite a lot plus we put out many things for our toddler to get into which has been a distraction. However, it always seems something is in disarray. I just tell myself, they are only little once.

  14. The research I've seen shows that people's contentment drops when they have children and doesn't rise back up until the kids leave home. Still, we love them. :-)

  15. I have been struggling this week will all of the demands on my work and extended family life. I am so glad Noah didn't have any extracurricular activities. I surely would have blown a gasket. As always, I'm impressed with you. ;)

Thanks for your comment!


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Monday, July 23, 2007

Iraq snapshot

Monday, July 23, 2007.  Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces the death of another US service member, on Sunday the US bombed civilians (today the British follow suit), Iran and the US plan to meet tomorrow in Baghdad, and more.
Starting with war resistance.  Agustin Aguayo served in Iraq as a medic and attempted to be granted CO status.  The US military refused to grant it and claimed that there had to be a religious awkening (which CO status does not require) while ignoring Aguayo's religious awakening.  After his first tour, Aguayo was stationed in Germany when he was informed he would be returning to Iraq.  Aguayo self-checked out and returned in less than 30 days which DID NOT prevent the US military from charging him with desertion (despite the fact that the accepted measure for a desertion charge is a minimum of 30 days).  Aguayo's court-martial was held in the spring and he was sentenced to prison but the time since the end of September was recognized as time served.  Aguayo is now back in the US and speaking out.  Sunday he spoke in Los Angeles and Stuart Silverstein (Los Angeles Times) reports
he "received a hero's welcome" and declared that while serving in Iraq, "I realized I wasn't just a medic, someone that helps and patches up and heals the wounded.  I was much more.  I was an enabler of these missions."  Silverstein reports that Aguayo self-describes as a "conscientious objector/war resister."  The Acorn reports that Aguayo will speak this Thursday from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at Grant Brimhall, Thousand Oaks Library, 1401 E. James Rd., that the event is "free and open to the public" and more information is available by calling (805) 375-9939.
There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Jared Hood and James Burmeister, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Joshua Key, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Jeremy Hinzman, Stephen Funk, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Care, Kyle Huwer, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, forty-one US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters.
In a press briefing (via videolink) with reporters at the US Pentagon, General Walter E. Gaskin, declared Friday, that "we have turned the corner. . . .we truly turned the corner". Reality?  As noted by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) today, "New Pentagon statistics show that the number of attacks in Iraq last month reached their highest daily average since May 2003. The data, which was obtained by Reuters, shows an upward trend in daily attacks in the four months since President Bush decided to escalate the war. During the month of June there was a daily average of 178 attacks against coalition troops, Iraqi security forces, civilians and infrastructure."
Over the weekend, the US military conducted an air strike in the heavily populated area north of the capital.  Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Qais Mizher (New York Times) reported that the US military asserted they had killed 'insurgents' only.  Molly Hennessy-Fiske (Los Angeles Times) reported that the Saturday air attack was disputed by eye witnesses in Husseiniya "said U.S. helicopters attacked three houses in a four-hour period, killing at least 18 people, including women and children. They said about 21 people were wounded in the attacks, which leveled the buildings" and quoted Hazim Hussein stating, "It was a war and not a response to an attack targeting them. It was a war against civilians inside their houses."
Hannah Allam and Jenan Hussein (McClatchy Newspapers) quoted Salam al Rubaiye who disputed the US military's account and declared, "Lies, lies, lies.The Americans always try to change the truth, especially when it concerns the Sadrists," and Bassem Musawi who stated, "I took out with my own hands the bodies of two young children, two men, two adult women and four little girls. I don't know why the Americans bombed these homes. I know one was the house of Abu Mustafa. He's a very poor man with only one boy and the rest of his family are girls. And he didn't even have a rifle."  Democracy Now! today quoted one unidentified resident declaring, "This is what the occupation does. The occupation. Look at the fork-lift trucks, they've turned the world upside down, our relatives have been ripped to pieces. Does God accept this? Does Mohammed accept it? Why, are we heathens? Even Israel hasn't done anything like this. Israel did not do what America has done to us." And Amy Goodman (DN!) informed that "Sunday nearly 1,000 Iraqis rallied in Husseiniya to protest the killings."
In some of today's violence . . .
Sinan Salaheddin (AP) noted three car bombings in Baghdad today "within thirty minutes"  Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam (McClatchy Newspapers) report that three car bombs were followed later in the day by a fourth with an estimated 18 people being killed while at least 40 were wounded, that "Madhi Army militiamen barred a journlist from photographing the scene," that the Badr militia "set up their own checkpoing" within a 100 feet of the US forces (with apparently no US objection), and quote locals including Haider who declared, "We don't have a government!  It's worthless.  Bring me one honest man from the Sunnis or the Shiites!" and an elderly woman who asked, "Why are they killing us?  We have no one left!  They aren't saving anyone, they're killing civilians.  And who's behind this?"
before pointing "to the American soldiers."
Laith Hammoudi  (McClatchy Newspapers) reports a Baghdad bus bombing claimed 1 life and left seven more wounded, a Baghdad mortar attack left four people injured, a bombing on Kafri - Tooz St. targeting Soleman Beck (who survived), a Mosul mortar attack that claimed the lives of 3 members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a child was wounded in a rocket attack in Basra, and one person was killed in Basra bombing by British forces which left eight more injured and damaged homes.  BBC reports, "At least two policemen were killed and 10 wounded when a woman hiding an explosives belt under her Islamic gown blew herself up in the western Anbar province."
Laith Hammoudi  (McClatchy Newspapers) reports the inury of 4 Iraqi soldiers from gunfire in Baghdad, 2 people shot dead in Baghdad, 2 people shot dead in Mosul, "2 electricity directorate workers" shot dead in Baquba (a third wounded), 2 shot dead at a fake check point in Khalis (five kidnapped, one wounded), and 2 shot dead at a fake check point in Khanaqeen (one wounded and at least two kidnapped).  BBC reports, "Two people were shot dead in the town of Iskandariya, south of the Iraqi capital "   CBS and AP report that the two were husband and wife and that a police officer was also killed.
Laith Hammoudi  (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 24 corpses discovered in Baghdad, 3 in Tooz, 1 in Bani Saad, and 8 in Mosul.  CBS and AP report 3 corpses discovered "at a construction site in Iskandariyah".
Today the US military announced: "One MNC-I Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated next to his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad Saturday." The announcement brings the ICCC total to 3633 US service members killed in the illegal war with 54 of those for the month of July thus far.
Turning to political news.  On Sunday, Turkey held elections.  Today's Zaman reports that the results of the election meant no big changes with the AK Party retaining their hold on power in "a landslide victory" leaving it "projected to win 340 seats in the 550-member Parliament."  AP is calling it "a mandate" while noting "the new government faces a series of challenges, including a presidential election, Kurdish rebel violence and lingering tension over the role of Islam in society."   Al Jazeera quotes Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan declaring, "This is the first time in 52 years that a party in power has increased its votes for a second term.  We will continue to work with determination to achieve our European Union goal" but notes EU membership remains elusive with France objecting and other countries wanting to see more reforms.  Today's Zaman notes there was a record and peaceful turnout with  an estimated 42,533,041 people casting ballots.  The Kurdish also won more seats in the election and this applies to Iraq in that the PKK, defined as a "terrorist group" by many Western nations including the United States, has favored a separatist movement in Turkey and is said to receive support in northern Iraq which has led to cross-border excursions by the Turkish military in recent months as well an exchange of mortars.  As The Turkish Daily News noted Friday, Turkey is asking Iraq to extradite Ali Riza Altun (head of the PKK) after Austria waived him through. The Turkish Daily News also reports that Kurdish leader Leyla Zana is under investigation for remarks at a Friday get-out-the-vote rally where she allegedly called for the partitioning of Turkey supposedly stating, "It is time to divide Turkey into states.  Ankara: Divide the country into states and establish the state of Kurdistan."
In United States political news, John V. Walsh (CounterPunch) reports that the tired and boring Toad is back in the news penning an op-ed whining about Ralph Nader who may or may not run in the 2008 presidential election.  Walsh notes that chants of "Run, Ralph, Run!" sprang up while Nader was speaking at this month's Green Party convention.  Walsh reports that Toad gives a sloppy wet kiss to and hails it for its close relationship with DC (a relationship some might characterize as fondeling) despite the reality that "Gallup shows . . . the public is fed up with the crowd in Congress" referencing the fact that Congress' current approval rating is lower than when the Republicans were in charge in 2006.
On the Green Party convention, Kimberly Wilder  reported on it at her site and you can click here for video of Nadar addressing ballot access.  No known video exists of Toad fueling rumors that he is the Dark Lord; however, several Manhattan adult video outlets may be of assistance.
In diplomatic news, CBS and AP report that Iran and the US will meet in Baghdad tomorrow as a follow up to their May Baghdad meeting and that the US continues its whisper campaign accusing the Iranian government of arming Iraqis opposed to the US illegal war and occupation in their own country.  In a Thursday press briefing (via videolink) with reporters, Lt. General Ray Odierno attempted to up the whisper campaign by claiming that
there was "a link between Iranian support to extremists" meaning al Qaeda but, when questioned further, admitted, "We don't see any evidence -- significant evidence".
Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam (McClatchy Newspapers) report that "some Iraqi officials had complained that they were being sidelined; another example of overlapping forces at play in Iraq. It was later agreed that Iraqi officials would observe the talks, though U.S.-Iranian interests would take center stage."
This as Alissa J. Rubin (New York Times) informs that 'benchmarks' are stalled in Iraq for a number of reasons including the planned vacation by the Iraqi Parliament next month (due to the increase heat) which makes it unlikely that anything will be passed before the US Congress receives the September 'progress' report that the White House had set as its own 'benchmark' but now tries to back peddle away from furiously with US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker declaring that the 'benchmarks' really don't matter.  This follows the down playing of the September report by Lt. General Ray Odierno, Commander Multinational Corps-Iraq, in the Thursday press briefing where he stated that November was the time the escalation could really, really be measured.  When questioned about the push-back in the briefing, Odierno responded, "What I was saying is -- again, my remarks were, in 45 days I will have a better idea if the trends are continuing, and that's September. Obviously, we have an assessment we will conduct in September that will provide -- that General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will provide. I was not looking at extending that time frame when they have to report back. What I imagine we'll have to do is do assessments that follow that initial assessment in September, and that's -- I'm assuming we'll continue to do assessments while we're here."  Odierno never stated the September report would not take place -- nor could he, Congress accepted Bully Boy's talk of 'benchmarks,' wrote them into legislation and they are now Congressionally mandated.
Despite those facts (Congressionally mandated and Odierno being clear that he wasn't saying the report was off), Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger (New York Times) spun Saturday trying to make 'good news' out of the fact that the September report was still 'on' -- it was never off.  This was grasped on Thursday (by those paying attention) and on Friday when Tony Snow, White House flack, gave a press briefing and tried to Happy Talk the way Sanger and Shanker would the following day.  When Snow attempted that, a reporter at the press briefing responded, "We know that he [Odierno] didn't ask to change the September reporting date. That isn't the point."  But the New York Times tried to play dumb and make it the point on Saturday. The actual point is that the White House is attempting a push-back wherein they begin selling, "Ignore the September report we've repeatedly cited.  It doesn't matter.  What really matters is the November report."  The push-back is to lower expectations, clampdown on public outrage and attempt to buy more time for the illegal war.

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Porter Stansberry: What we can learn from GE’s epic collapse

From Porter Stansberry in Stansberry Digest:

America has suffered an enormous tragedy. A criminal tragedy… and virtually no one knows what really happened…

At least not yet. But they are about to find out.

This is the biggest financial story of the past 30 years. Bigger than Enron. Bigger than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Bigger than Lehman Brothers. This is a tragedy that has cost investors and American consumers hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe even a trillion.

It’s not over yet.

And most of the story is still a secret.

This tragedy was caused, in part, by paper money, financial speculation, and excessive greed. But it was enabled and created by the unholy partnership between big government and big media. That’s why nobody gave a warning. And it’s why, even now, nobody seems to realize how serious these problems are… or how big the crimes were that led to them.

Well… almost no one gave a warning.

Stansberry Research has consistently warned investors about this company and its inevitable collapse since 2002

That was back in the early 2000s when this company was the single largest publicly traded company in America, the single biggest component of the S&P 500 Index, and probably the most widely held investment in America.

No one believed us.

What follows in today’s Digest is the largely secret story of the massive fraud that occurred at General Electric (GE) from the mid-1990s until the company’s collapse in 2009. It’s the story of how the government (and GE’s media assets) covered up this fraud for almost 20 years. And it’s the story of how these lies (and the debts that fueled them) have decimated American investors and gutted our country’s pension funds.

GE, because of its size, was the most heavily purchased stock in every S&P index fund for years and years – at the peak of its stock price. Since its pinnacle in 2000 – a peak that was achieved with massive fraud – GE’s stock has fallen 76% and led to $450 billion in losses for investors.

Even the most sophisticated investors in the world have been taken in by this fraud. Nelson Peltz, whose Trian Partners investment group manages billions for institutional investors (pension funds), has lost more than $1 billion on GE since 2015. Bigger losses are coming.

Please… take a minute and learn what really happened to GE…

More GEs are out there in America’s equity markets. But you’ll never learn about them from the media or the government.

I’ll show you how to find them, below.

Just a reminder: There’s no such thing as teaching, only learning. If you really want to understand what happened to GE and why it was inevitable and obvious… then you’ve got to learn how management teams can defraud investors and the telltale signs that always give them away.

Outside of GE’s executive suite virtually no one understands what went wrong at the company…

The government and regulators have never told. And the media never said a word… or even asked the first question.

The problems began under GE’s “legendary” CEO, Jack Welch. Rather than wonder how GE could always beat its quarterly earnings estimates by exactly one penny, the financial media turned him into a star. In his books, Welch explained exactly how GE used its various subsidiaries to sell assets to generate “earnings” and make their numbers, quarter after quarter.

That is, of course, exactly what Enron did. But GE had a lot more assets to juggle, and so it was able to keep the game going for a long, long time. It also had a lot more power in Washington, D.C… And it owned NBC, which meant it could largely control how the financial media (CNBC) characterized its strategy. Yours truly has been banned from CNBC for 15 years. It’s no wonder why.

Way back in 2002, I began to warn investors about the huge, obvious problems with the balance sheet of General Electric and the ethics of its managers. Despite the collapse at Enron, nobody seemed to notice that GE was doing the exact same things. Rather than earning its “profits” through its large industrial businesses, GE was engaged in a giant financial gamble. It was mortgaging all of its industrial assets and using its AAA credit rating to access immense amounts of capital, eventually leveraging itself more than 30-to-1.

And what was it buying with all of this borrowed money?

That was the most shocking part.

Since 1992, GE has been a net borrower. How could America’s best company be a net borrower for ten years? Well, look at what the company is doing to make money, and it’s easy to figure out. About 50% of the company’s total debt is in the form of short-term paper – the 90-day commercial paper market it can access thanks to a AAA rating by Moody’s.

The company uses this debt, which carries a low interest rate, to finance credit cards, which carry a high interest rate. If you walk into JC Penney or Macy’s and take out a credit card, chances are pretty good that you’re on the hook to GE. In total, GE has spent $43 billion on buying such receivables in the last three years alone.

And here’s the scary part. Fifteen times since 1997, the company has sold a large batch of these securities (at a loss?) less than three weeks before the end of a quarter. That’s how the company is able to match its earnings forecasts so precisely.

Meanwhile, GE’s debts have mounted. Today, its balance sheet stands precariously at four times debt to equity. Why take such risks? Because these debt-laden acquisitions accounted for 40% of GE’s revenue growth from 1985 to 2000, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Terrile (who retired immediately after publishing her study of GE’s use of debt).

– Stansberry Research November 26, 2002

As you know, nobody paid attention to what was really happening at GE…

The company wasn’t a well-run industrial giant. It was a company with huge, poorly performing assets… one that was borrowing billions and billions of dollars every year to manufacture “earnings” via gambles in the financial markets and using aggressive accounting maneuvers to hide the real, risky nature of its profits. And to keep the game going, it had to borrow more and more money every year.

By November 2009, the house of cards had fallen apart as the “tide” came out of the financial markets with the mortgage crisis. But even so, nobody seemed to realize how big the problems at GE had become. As I wrote in my Investment Advisory that month…

Since 2002 [when I first warned about the company], General Electric has produced $140 billion in free cash flow – real profits. It has borrowed an additional $178 billion (not including unfunded pension liabilities). Thus, it has continued to be a net debtor. GE now owes its bondholders $435 billion. It has another $248 billion in current obligations. That is not a misprint: GE owes its creditors $683 billion.

Today, GE owns net tangible assets of only about $17 billion. Thus on a tangible basis, GE is currently leveraged by more than 30-to-1. That’s roughly the same leverage employed by Lehman, Bear Stearns, and Merrill Lynch. A 3.3% decline in the value of GE’s asset base would wipe out all of its tangible equity.

As I wrote then, GE showed “all of the signs of an unavoidable bankruptcy.

It’s built a long history of net debt accumulation. It carries huge amounts of short-term debt. (Specifically, before the end of 2012, GE must repay or refinance $240 billion.) It has a tremendous pile of average to below-average assets, many purchased at inflated prices. GE’s long-term asset base grew $200 billion (or 30%) between 2003 and 2008. GE is now engaged in a desperate effort to sell assets: 145 different divestitures, totaling at least $100 billion.

Finally, there’s the “kiss of death.” We know GE’s funding costs on its debts are about to soar. It has lost its triple-A rating and will most likely continue to be downgraded.

We were wrong, of course, about that ‘kiss of death’…

The government did a lot more than just guarantee all of GE’s debts until 2012. The Fed manipulated interest rates lower, reducing GE’s funding costs virtually every year between 2012 and 2017. Now, of course, interest rates are finally rising. And that kiss of death we warned you about has finally arrived.

Wall Street has suddenly realized that GE doesn’t produce enough cash to service its debts. The company will soon be forced to issue new shares, at much lower prices, simply to meet its obligations.

We explained way back in 2011 that issuing new equity was inevitable. It wasn’t just the company’s poor financial position. It was the deliberate mismanagement of the business.

GE produced a total of roughly $68 billion in free cash flow in 2010. It chose to spend almost $50 billion of that in debt repayment, leaving roughly $18 billion. Then it paid a $5 billion dividend and spent $4 billion on share buybacks…

Why would a company that’s so far in the hole spend almost $10 billion on capital distributions to shareholders?

Right now, if GE put 100% of its cash from operations into debt repayment every year and its earnings stayed at 2010 levels, it would take 16 years to pay off its debts. It would take at least a decade to pay down its debts to a more manageable level. No question, if GE were being managed prudently, that’s what it would do.

GE holds about $40 billion in tangible equity. I believe its [financial losses] are likely to be at least this large over the next five years, which means, at some point soon, GE could be going to the market for new equity. If that happens, the company’s share price will probably fall in half.

Why run the company this way? Because the managers know GE is too big to fail. They’re not running the company as though they actually own it. They’re simply running it to maximize their own compensation. If it fails, it fails. The stockholders will get wiped out, and the government will bail out the creditors. In the meantime, GE’s managers are trying to get rich. They want to keep the company as leveraged as possible. They don’t want to repay debts. They want to maximize the company’s ability to borrow.

– Stansberry’s Investment Advisory, June 2011

The company’s horrendous management continued…

Despite the company’s enormous financial problems, over the last 10 years, GE’s management team spent $56 billion buying back stock and another $86 billion paying dividends.

More than $50 billion of this buyback/dividend issuance occurred in 2014, 2015, and 2016… with more than $30 billion occurring in 2016, the last year of Jeffrey Immelt’s reign as Welch’s successor as chief executive. Clearly, the company couldn’t afford these distributions and should have used the capital to shore up its balance sheet and pay down debt.

But buying stock and paying dividends propped up the price of the stock in the short-term and undoubtedly contributed to the value of Immelt’s (and other managers’) stock options. At the time of his retirement, the value of Immelt’s options was estimated at more than $200 million.

What did shareholders get in return?

GE is the worst-performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last five years. It is one of only two Dow companies with a negative total return in the period. The other is IBM (IBM).

Immelt’s other legacy?

GE still holds billions in financial assets of dubious quality, financed by more than $130 billion in debt. Meanwhile, the company’s cash return on assets is only 1%. In other words, as interest rates rise, the company is going to have a hard time financing its portfolio of financial assets.

But that’s not the big problem. The big problem is what lies at the center of this company, hidden in those financial assets, is an enormous fraud.

The latest example is a $6.2 billion charge in its insurance unit… that will require another $15 billion in reserves over the next seven years. The charge and the demand for new reserves came from a Kansas Insurance Department investigation.

State insurance regulators require companies to post collateral to prove that they can fulfill their promises to pay. Essentially, Kansas called GE out for having preposterously little capital… and required it post another $15 billion in capital.

Are you kidding me? It wasn’t the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It wasn’t the New York Times. It wasn’t the Washington Post. It was those famous “gumshoes” in Kansas who discovered the fraud. And so, what was formerly the largest company in America – a AAA-rated financial business – relied on the insurance regulator in Kansas to tell it that it will require more than $20 billion in additional capital.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

What else is hidden in those billions of dollars of financial assets the company holds?

And what are they really worth? Investors are going to want to know. And sooner or later, the government will have to come off the bench and start to do its job. GE can’t hide the truth forever. Kansas won’t save investors.

What should you learn from this?

First, avoid companies with weak assets that can’t earn reasonable returns on their assets. Second, beware of companies that have weak balance sheets, but management teams that continue to leverage the company by paying out more capital (in buybacks and dividends) than it can really afford. And finally, make sure you include unfunded pension liabilities in your calculations of long-term debts.

For example, look at American Airlines (AAL)

Over the past five years, it has bought back $9 billion in stock and paid another $1 billion in dividends. Meanwhile, total debt at the company grew by even more – $16 billion. And what about profits? Well, free cash flow was negative $6 billion. And there’s a huge pension liability. American Airlines isn’t being run to produce wealth over the long-term. It’s being managed to cash out the insiders and end up back in bankruptcy.

Or consider Ford Motor (F)

The carmaker has $150 billion in debt and a $16 billion pension liability.

It earned 7% (in cash) on its assets last year, at the end of the biggest boom in car sales ever. Much of this demand, however, was financed by subprime auto lending, which will go away as interest rates rise.

Telecom AT&T (T) earns less than 10% a year in cash on its asset base, holds more than $160 billion in debt, and has an outstanding pension liability of more than $30 billion.

Bottom line: Never own a company when its managers run the company’s balance sheet in a way that you’d never organize your own company. And never rely on the mainstream media to tell you the truth about America’s biggest companies.

Porter Stansberry

Crux note: GE isn’t the only scam lurking in today’s market. While the mainstream media touts the “booming” economy and stock market, surveys show that only 39% of Americans can afford an unexpected expense of $1,000 today. Credit card and consumer debt are now at higher levels than 2008. Not to mention, crime is setting all-time highs in places like Baltimore and Chicago.

Does this feel like a “booming” economy to you?

According to Porter, what’s happening today is no accident. He calls it “the greatest scam EVER perpetrated against the American people.” Learn all about it, and what comes next, right here.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Little Casey

We call her "little Casey." For those of you who know my husband well.....she not only looks exactly like him, but I do believe she is appearing to take on his very outgoing and extraverted personality as well! So by these pictures, need I say more?!
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  1. who's the better dancer, e.c. or casey???

  2. that is too cute! i would love to see her and her dad do a dance off. :D

    what a crazy christmas you'll had with everyone sick! we were passing the stomach bug around too, but luckily we didn't have to travel.


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Black Box - Loreal Ever Sleek Smoothing System - My first "box", Black Mini

I finally received my first Black Box. So happy and excited! I had subscribed for it quite some time back but has not yet receive any box. I believe to receive one, one have to join their survey, and they will go through the submissions, then select those that are in the target audiences group to send out their black boxes? That's how I finally got this.

To be honest, the Black Box wasn't what I had anticipated. I was hoping to really receive a physical box, but I guess this round, I'm only getting the Black Mini haha..
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Crafting for the Cure Saturday at Sullivan Church of God

October 29, 2014
Admission will be nonperishable good to be used in Gobbler Giveaway
Saturday November 1, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sullivan Church of God will be hosting an event for Relay For Life called Crafting for the Cure. This event will raise funds for the American Cancer Society. There are over 25 vendors coming with a large variety of goods and crafts to sell. This will be a place to pick up that Christmas present. Contact Jeri Davis for more information 273-9456. Admission fee is easy, just bring some of the following: canned corn, green beans, cranberry sauce, gray or yams, or boxed mac and cheese, cornbread mixes, cake mixes and icing, instant potatoes, or stuffing mixes. These items will be boxed up to provide a Thanksgiving meal to 50+ families in the Sullivan area in the churches’ first Gobbler Giveaway.

After Saturday, for the whole month of November, Sullivan Church of God will then be collecting food for the Giveaway. The church will be making up baskets of Thanksgiving food to give to needy families in this area. The goal is to provide over 50 families with all the fixings needed to make their family a thanksgiving feast. Items needed are stuffing mixes, cornbread mixes, cake mixes and icing, instant potatoes, canned green beans, yams, corn, gravy, and cranberry sauce. These items can be dropped off at the church at 321 North West Street.  Businesses and individuals can make  monetary donations as well, which are needed to offset the cost of purchasing turkeys for the baskets.  For more information please contact Pastor Brandon Zoll at the Sullivan Church of God at 728 7855.

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Beyond Charlottesville: Addressing Underlying Causes of Racism and Violence

Racism and violence, of the kind we saw in Charlottesville, Va, this past week always merit our outage and condemnation.  But we have to be careful. Such attitudes pose a subtle danger: they can be overly simplistic and serve to obscure underlying issues that contribute to the unrest. History has taught us that racism and…

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8 years ago yesterday is the day I never want to go back to, but always remember.
8 years ago today – is the day I chose life.
last year I wrote about how I put the wide angle lens on my life… this year I write about the macro lens..

the lens on my life i keep hidden as to not expose my faults, my weakness, my failures…

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” Buddha

the lens that reveals the honest details, in plain sight.. for all to see, for all to judge….
the lens which shows my imperfections, my pain, my inner beauty and ultimately my soul.

the lens which when the photo is examined
reveals beauty in weakness.
reveals change & growth
reveals acceptance & empathy..
reveals a found selflessness & presence
reveals a life of intent.. (trying my best)
reveals an evolution of thought & an inner peace..

a photo which 8 years ago would have revealed a much different person. a person I try very hard to never forget.

chaos. restless. confused. selfish. hurtful. mean. ungrateful. conceded. addict. alcoholic.

“no matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” Buddha

I’m grateful for my new beginning…

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Meatloaf easy

Meatloaf is simply baked in a loaf pan and can also cook from beginner cook quickly and easily. Meatloaf is easy with the addition of milk particularly juicy and tastes very good cold on sandwiches or brown bread. Wrapped in aluminum foil, he keeps in the refrigerator for several days and can thus be fresh for parties to prepare very well. Preheat the oven to 225 °. Ground beef in a large bowl filled.

Peel onions, cut into small cubes and ground beef give. Add two medium eggs and milk and the meat with damp hands, knead until the milk is associated with the ground beef. The ground beef with salt and pepper vigorously and as much bread crumbs, knead until the meat is pliable, but still loose. A 25-loaf pan with oil auspinseln around, pour the meat, lightly press it into shape and slide on the middle shelf in the preheated oven. Meatloaf just about 45-50 minutes at 225 ° bake until the crust begins to brown, as seen in the picture above.

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Meatloaf with peppers

Meatloaf with peppers in the oven is easy to prepare. Preheat the oven to 200 °. Cut the onions into small cubes. Minced meat filling into a bowl and mix with eggs and onions. The ground beef with pepper, salt and paprika spice strong. Finely chop the parsley and sprinkle half of it over the meat. Peel the garlic cloves and push through the garlic press. Half of them to give ground beef. Add the mince and breadcrumbs supple dough. With damp hands, form an oval loaf.

A casserole dish with 1 tablespoon olive oil and put in the auspinse ln meatloaf. The meat loaf with a sharp knife to cut a diamond shape and bake at 200 ° for about 45-50 minutes on the middle rack. This Brush from time to time with the leaked juices. One red, yellow and green peppers into strips. Half an onion cut into long strips. Heat a nonstick pan, the remaining olive oil. Paprika, Peppers, onion and garlic, s Sprinkle with remaining parsley. Continue reading

Wrong Rabbit

Wrong Rabbit is a meat loaf, filled with hard-boiled eggs. It tastes very good on vegetables or peas and cabbage roots. First, two eggs hard boiled in 10 minutes. Preheat the oven to 225 ° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Meanwhile, peel and dice an onion. In a small Butterpfännchen omit butter and fry the onion until soft. Onions from the heat and let cool.

Two slices of toast and cut into small cubes debark. Hot milk over the toast cubes and pour the soaked toast in it. Hack mixed in a bowl. One egg, toast and add mustard and mix well together. The hack for mass Wrong krafig rabbit with salt, pepper and paprika to taste. Flat-leaf parsley into strips. Leaves from the thyme branches. The herbs used to hack and give mass to knead. From the ground beef and an oval loaf on the baking sheet coated with baking tray lay.The hard-boiled eggs to cool in cold water and peel. Press into the mince two wells, place the eggs and then cover with the hack.

If the eggs are not too deep into the hack and put only lightly covered with chopping, tearing the surface during baking, as previously seen in the picture, and there is a decorative eye-catcher. Wrong Rabbit is baked on the middle rack for about 45 minutes until the surface browns slightly. Wrong rabbit can get warm with vegetables and potatoes or sliced and served cold.

¤ 2 Eggs
¤ 1 Onions
¤ 10 g Butter
¤ 2 Toast
¤ 5 tablespoons Milk
¤ 600 g Minced meat
¤ 1 Eggs
¤ 1 tbsp Mustard
¤ Pepper, salt
¤ Paprika
¤ 1 / 2 bunch Parsley, smooth
¤ 2 Sprigs of thyme

6 servings – 335 calories per serving, 15 mins Prep – 60 mins Total

Meatloaf wrapped in bacon

Meatloaf wrapped in bacon is a hearty meat loaf, cooked in the oven. Meatloaf wrapped in bacon can be served warm or cold and can be well prepared. Through the bacon from the bacon is meat loaf moist and decorative looks out on a cold buffet. Two stale rolls in with a sharp knife cut bread into thin slices, place in a bowl with some warm water over them. Swell the rolls a few minutes. Preheat the oven to 225 °. Peel an onion and cut into fine dice. Heat a nonstick pan, corn oil and stir-fry the onion in it over medium heat. Remove pan from heat, place it on a saucer and let the onions cool.

Hack into a bowl and mix with eggs. The buns express yourself well. This works best if you give the buns in a clean dish towel or cheesecloth and twisting the ends of the cloth firmly. The mass, expressed buns carefully knead the mince until the hack is smooth. Hack with pepper, salt and about 1 teaspoon marjoram spice spicy. Peel the garlic cloves, garlic press by the press and knead with the hack. Green olives without stone cut into small cubes and mix with the hack. For the first two long pieces of bacon-wrapped plastic wrap are placed side by side so that they slightly overlap each other and formed a large rectangle. Bacon lay close together on the strip in clear plastic. There should be a rectangle approximately 35 x 25 cm. Continue reading

Meatloaf in puff pastry

This meatloaf in puff pastry is very spicy and tastes just as good warm as cold. He remains juicy on the inside and get through the crunchy shell a delicate puff pastry. Peel onion and cut into small cubes. Omit butter in a Butter pfannchen, let fry the onions golden brown and cool. Hack pour into a bowl and mix with eggs. A red bell peppers and cucumbers into small cubes and give the hack. Add the onions with butter and grated Gouda give the hack.

The hack with pepper, salt, marjoram and garlic spicy. Finely chop the parsley and knead thoroughly under the hack. Preheat the oven to 220 ° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Fresh pastry on the baking sheet and roll out into a rectangle about 25 x 40 cm. The hack and put it with slightly damp hands, form an elongated loaf. It can be a round about two fingers wide margin free. First, the narrow sides of puff pastry placed over the meatloaf and then set about the long sides so that the pastry is well sealed. Press on the seam and the meatloaf in puff once turn it around so that the seam is down. Whisk the egg yolks with water. Continue reading