The newly established, Derrinturn Community Development Group held their meeting last week at The Turn Inn. They discussed the future development of the village as outlined in the County Kildare Development Plan 2012 – 2017.Cllr. Seamus Langan was in attendance and told the meeting that he had proposed at a recent meeting of Kildare County Council, that a Community Centre be built in Derrinturn. This motion was passed by all the members of the Council.Derrinturn Foroige Youth Group has also submitted plans to the Council and they have sought the provision of a Community Centre with the following facilities; Internet Café, computer room, kitchen, indoor sports hall, astro-turf playing pitches, crèche, library, arts and crafts room, FÁS office and conference room.The Community Group has also highlighted the installation of Traffic Lights at Derrinturn School and also at the Church.
On the night, it was decided to re-establish a Community Alert Scheme for the Carbury Area. It is hoped that this Programme will be set-up as a matter of urgency due to the rise in crime levels in the vicinity.
Because of the large number of pupils from Derrinturn National School, First Communion will be held on two dates; Saturday, 19th May at 11am and also on Saturday, 26th May at 11am.
Marian O'Rourke will be hosting her 6th Annual Tea Day on Tuesday, 3rd May in aid of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Marian would like to invite everyone to come along to support this worthy cause at her home in Killina.
A warm welcome is guaranteed along with a nice cup of tea and a chat.
All money raised is used by The Alzheimer Society to support patients and carers in this area.
Little Way Cancer Support Service is looking for Ladies to take part in this years Mini-Marathon. Ladies it's that time of the year again! If you would you like to Walk, Run and Support The Little Way Cancer Support Centre, Clane. Mini-Marathon on Bank Holiday Monday, 4th June then please contact 045-902996 or 087-2983140.
The organising committee on the Carbury Parish Field Day held a meeting last week to lay out the plans for this year's event.
The Newbridge Town Band has kindly offered their services once again to lead the Parade from the Community Centre to the Parish Field.
The committee are inviting all the local clubs and organisations to participate in the parade.
This year the committee are adding new events and they are expecting a huge crowd on the day.
baby show, dog show, mouse bingo, hang the clothes of the line, guess the weight of the lamb, how many sweets in the jar, name the doll, weight of the cake, darts, bric-a-brac, tea stall etc.
The day will start off with Mass at Holy Trinity Well at 11am. The Field Day will commence with a parade stating at the Parish Hall at 1.30pm.
The organising committee will be holding meetings every Monday evening in the Church Sacristy at 8pm. If anyone would like to get involved they are more than welcome to attend.
Derrinturn Cemetery Committee would like to ask drivers who enter the cemetery to please STOP driving on the grass verges. There are unmarked graves and surrounds of marked graves being damaged by cars driving over them. They also wish to remind people that the Light Green Bins are for cardboard and plastics and the Dark Green Bins are for flowers and wreaths.
The gates to Kilshanroe Cemetery will be closed every evening as a result to damage being done to graves.
The Fourth National Collection for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress will take place on the first weekend in May. We thank you for your generous support to date and we ask you to give what you can to assist the hosting of the Eucharistic Congress in June.
The following numbers were drawn in the recent Lotto Draw; 11, 13, 14, 28, the bonus number was 15. Pat Hanniffy successfully matched 3 numbers and received €200.
Next week's prizes are; match four plus bonus to win or share €12,350; match first four numbers drawn to win or share €6,000.
Kilshanroe National School Parents Association are having a cake sale on Sunday, 29th April after 11am Mass. All donations welcome. Your support would be appreciated.
Are you are interested in gardening and have some spare time to offer? Kilshanroe National School has begun a Community Garden and are looking for volunteer parents and grandparents to help out. If you are interested please contact the school office at 046-9541612.
Thomas Fox has two camps running this year. The first camp runs from 23rd to 27th July, the second camp runs from 20th to 24th August from 10am to 2.30pm (9.30am on the first day) daily at Carbury GAA Grounds. Activities includes; gaelic, soccer, athletics, treasure hunt, Kickboxing, rounders, no man's land, and much more. Cost for one child is €55, second child €100, third child €145, and family of four for €190. All staff are fully qualified. For more details or to book contact Thomas on 085-7284795.
Bart Murphy Cancer Charity Shop now open in Derrinturn opposite the Church. The shop is open Monday - Saturday from 10am - 5pm.
All donations welcome, household goods, bric-a-brac, jewellery. They are the first charity shop in Ireland to work on a one-to-one basis with cancer patients, including home visits: transport to hospital and help with MRI scans. Volunteers always welcome contact Bart on 086-0312772.
Carbury parish will travel to the Eucharistic Congress with our diocese on Tuesday 12th June. The RDS will be transformed into a Eucharistic Village, a festival of faith and culture where the Eucharist will be celebrated (in the liturgy), adored (in the Prayer Space) and lived (in the experience of EACH pilgrim). The festival consists of a wide range of activities, movies, choirs, cultural exhibitions, gospel music, liturgical dance and loads more. There will be an indoor exhibition area hosting over 100 stands as well as other exhibition areas around the RDS. Right at the heart of the festival is the Prayer Space of the Congress, a peaceful space, a mixture of silent adoration, guided prayer, scripture mediation, silence, music: a place of presence. Confessions will be available throughout the day. We will have Mass in the afternoon with choirs from all round our Diocese.
This promises to be a very special day for our Parish and our Diocese.To be part of this great event please contact Fidelma on 086-2603421 or Una on 087-1650561.


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Hope in the Mail: Reflections on Writing and Life
Alfred A. Knopf New York
Biography or Autobiography
Part writing guide and part memoir, this inspiring book from the author of Flipped and The Running Dream is like Bird by Bird for YA readers and writers.
Wendelin Van Draanen didn't grow up wanting to be a writer, but thirty books later, she's convinced that writing saved her life. Or, at least, saved her from a life of bitterness and despair. Writing helped her sort out what she thought and felt and wanted. And digging deep into fictional characters helped her understand the real people in her life better as well.
Wendelin shares what she's learned--about writing, life, and what it takes to live the writing life. This book is packed with practical advice on the craft: about how to create characters and plot a story that's exciting to read. But maybe even more helpful is the insight she provides into the persistence, and perseverance, it takes to live a productive, creative life. And she answers the age-old question Where do you get your ideas? by revealing how events in her own life became the seeds of her best-loved novels.
Hope in the Mail is a wildly inspirational read for anyone with a story to share.
Hope in the Mail
HOPE IN THE MAIL is an autobiographical account of the author's life as it relates to her writing. Wendelin Van Draanen has penned over thirty two books for the kids' lit community, most notably THE SAMMY KEYES MYSTERIES, which is comprised of eighteen middle grade novels. She's put in her time as a storyteller, establishing herself as an authority on the subject, and lucky for us, in her latest book, she's willing to share all about her process. HOPE IN THE MAIL touches on some fundamentals in writing a good story, the business of selling a book, such as acquiring an editor and agent, the road to publication once sold, and the basic financial reality of being an author. Van Draanen shares where she got her inspiration for her novels and ends on some notes of encouragement for aspiring creatives. Frankly, it's a must-read for anyone who has ever considered embarking on this adventure.
With that being said, while HOPE IN THE MAIL is full of valuable and practical wisdom, what makes it so special is how much Van Draanen shares about her personal life. She had quite an unusual upbringing, surrounded by colorful characters, and she constantly connects lessons she learned during that time to managing the difficulties of writing books professionally. Even in adulthood, Van Draanen wasn't living the easy life, kicking back because of her books' advances. What she did have, though, was passion. She literally could not stop herself from writing her books.
I love Van Draanen's story so much. Not only was I deeply moved by her experiences, and in a certain way, found her Swiss Family Robinson lifestyle romantic— though I'm sure she may contest that notion— I also was inspired. Van Draanen reminds us that in almost all circumstances, it's possible to write, to keep trying, and to get better. Success is possible no matter where you start if you're willing to get in there and do the hard work— it's evident Van Draanen never shied away from it.
Overall, HOPE IN THE MAIL is a beautiful reflection on Van Draanen's work up to this point. Her optimism and point of view is intoxicatingly refreshing, and this book will appeal to fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's BIG MAGIC: HOW TO LIVE A CREATIVE LIFE, AND LET GO OF YOUR FEAR.
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Women in non-traditional occupations
by Expert Marvellous | 07 Jul 2017
The best aspect of the book is that it has been written by an individual who is qualified to write on the subject in the true sense of the term. Susan Eisenberg is the national level artist/scholar and she is a master electrician. She is eminently equipped to lead and enlighten tradeswomen's aspirations both at the national and international levels. She has given lectures in bodies like the International Labor Organization in Geneva. She has successfully created entry for the women in non-traditional male-dominated occupations. She has done it so by example, by actually being gainfully employed as an Electrician.
"Women in non-traditional occupations" topic?
As for the contents of this book she has used the ethnographic methodology, firstly by recording the interviews of 30 tradeswomen and then she has come out with the thematic recounting of the stories. This is not an easy job, unless one has the actual study in the field in which one is attempting to write. Her stories have the mark of unchallengeable authenticity.
The working women, especially those engaged in non-traditional occupations, have many constraints and challenges. Firstly, they need to balance wok and family. Gender-bias by co-workers, harassment, unfavorable employers and unions! The limitations as for their physical strength! Their only asset to face all these odd situations is the new-found inner strength.
About three decades ago, she caused 'electric shock' to the security guard when she wished to report for duty as union electrician; he refused her entry, because women had never done such jobs here before. In 1978, the federal government came out with its ambitious plans for opening construction work to women and projected that women would constitute 6.9 % of the industry's workforce. But that did not materialize, against many odds like hostility, physical violence and abuse by male co-workers.
Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978. She thought she would be part of the historic transformation in America, and she would be the leading force in it, but instead she became the historic author, to write on behalf of electricians, painters, ironworkers, plumbers and carpenters. The book contains the descriptions of trials, tribulations, duty and beauty involved in the process of discharging their responsibilities and also difficult achievements.
The book covers interesting topics like, Exceptional Men, Carrying Weight, Customized Treatment; women of Color, Ceilings and Access Panels; Economics, Expansion Joints, etc.
In the Chapter 'Footings' Susan Eisenberg covers observations of the some of the suffering women and the social conditions that hurled them into the job market. They wished to be gainfully employed by sheer grit. Such working women liked the challenge of competing with men. One such woman, Paulete Jourdan, interviewed by Susan has something to say about her upbringing and the attitude of her parents. "They were very religious, fundamentalist religious, and he didn't ever want her to work. There were six kids and they raised us sort of like, you're in this world, but you're not of this world. We were sheltered. I didn't know anything. We were never allowed to go anywhere. We had very few friends."(p,7) The story of Randy Loomas is something different. She says, "Because my husband didn't want me to……But I always wanted to work, and it was a kind of struggle between me and he…in 1981 we divorced….the actual traditional housewife role didn't fit my needs."(Eisenberg, 1998, p.8)
As for Cynthia Long, a Chinese girl, it was the sexual abuse that ruined her educational career and to some extent her life. The racial aspect also had a telling effect in her efforts to get a decent job and to improve her lot in life. She says, "I went to College at State University of New York at Buffalo between 1973 and 1975. At the time, I couldn't have told you why I left. Now, I am able to say that the reason that I dropped out of college was because I experienced date rape and I psychologically was unable to cope with that and ended up having to leave. It was quite an extreme disappointment to me personally, as well as feeling embarrassed and ashamed that I flunked out of college."(p, 9)
"In 1964 Congress passed Public Law 82-352 (78 Stat. 241). The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. Subsequent legislation expanded the role of the EEOC. Today, according to the U. S. Government Manual of 1998-99, the EEOC enforces laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Race, color, sex, creed, and age are now protected classes."(The Civil…)
Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on Sept. 24, 1965, was historic and precedent-shattering. It mainly relates to Equal Employment Opportunity. The Order "prohibits federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
The Contractors had the additional follow-up responsibility. They were required to take tangible action pans to augment the participation of minorities and women in workplace. They must have a set program for every aspect of the issue like equal opportunity policy statement, current work force review, tackle problem areas, goals specified –all this should be done as per the set time-table.
The success of the legislations and the efforts of the Government have begun to yield tangible results. A $34 million settlement in a sexual harassment case with Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America is one of the landmark judgments. About 48,000 cases pertaining to various types of harassment and anti-labor actions are processed annually.
The problem with women in USA was more or less the same as obtaining all over the world in the 1970s.From the social point of view, the interpretation of the old customs and traditions did not favor the girl child. It was but natural for women like Susan Eisenberg to rebel against them. But stretching this issue too much would not contribute to social good in the long run. Ancient values and traditions are not to be discarded in toto, under the banner of civil rights. Civil rights should not lead to societal wrongs. Just as it is a kind of prejudice to accept all the ancient customs unquestioningly so it is, undoubtedly, an equal kind of prejudice to reject the same unquestioningly in toto. So every social custom, old or new, is to be judged strictly on merit and merit alone. The duty of the State and society lies in imparting true education to all women in society. As an outcome of that education they will of themselves be able to know what is good for them and what is bad, and will spontaneously eschew the latter. It will not be then necessary to pull down or set up anything by coercion. Women must be put in a position to solve their own problems in their own ways. No one can nor ought to do this for them.
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Eisenberg, Susan: Book: We'll Call You If We Need You:
Publisher: Cornell University Press (April 1998)
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Robin Williams: Prince of Thieves
April 26, 2004 / 1 Comment
In the past few years I've read in a number of places that Robin Williams is a flagrant comedy thief. What I've never come across are specific incidents of this occurring. So I decided to delve into the vast resource of usenet's standup comedy newsgroups and see what I could dig up. Among the many permutations of 'If Robin Williams is stealing your material, you've got bigger problems,' I found lots of hearsay and references to a specific incidents, but none of the primary source information that I crave. I collect the 'highlights' here in the hopes that someone with more specifics (or better googling skills) will find this and get in touch with the details. Without further ado, the hearsay:
"One of the things that I've learned from doing standup comedy is that Robin Williams steals jokes. That's the worst fucking thing any comic could ever do to another comic. His joke stealing is so well-known that whenever he steps in a club, any experienced comedian ends their set immediately."
"My hatred for Mr. Williams goes back to my days in the mid-80s doing stand-up comedy. At the time, Robin was a big star in stand-up. But every big-time comedian that I worked with said the same thing about him … he was a comedy thief and everyone in comedy hated him. It was common knowledge that he would frequent comedy clubs, sit in the back and write down all the jokes that guys used that got laughs. Then he'd present them as his own "wacky improvisations" on television and garner all these accolades as being a comedy genius when NONE of his material was original, it was a hodgepodge of various young comedians best work. I used to hear stories about comedians who would get fired from clubs because they REFUSED to go on stage when Robin Williams would show up in the crowd. So…I was bred to hate the man."
"He has a bad reputation as a comedy thief. Tom Kinney, a San Francisco comedian of note, once did a bit about Doc Ellis. Doc Ellis is a pitcher who pitched a no-hitter while tripping on acid. Tom Kinney's bit was very funny. So funny that Robin himself told him so as he was caught doing the exact same bit at "The Boarding House" in San Francisco by Tom Kinney himself not two hours after he had watched Tom."
"Robin stole material from practically everyone on the way up. Ask, Stephen Pearl, Jeremy Kramer, Gary Muledeer, Jeff Altman, Bill Kirkenbower, Joey Camen or anyone else that worked with him. This is not just me spouting, even in an Issue of Premire magazine they mentioned the fact that he was a joke thief. They mentioned a joke going around about a deli in new york that had a sandwich named after him..the Robin Williams..they give you a bun,but,you have to steal the meat."
"He doesn't lurk here, but it has been proven time and time again that he has a habit of doing other people's material. He even said so himself in an interview last year (LA Weekly?). He even had to settle a lawsuit about the title of his first album because it was a catchphrase of another San Francisco comic at the time. Good actor, bad thief."
"I remember watching Letterman last year and Ray Romano was on. Ray did a bit that he has been doing for a while about implanting phones in your head to make them more convenient. The next night Robin Williams was on the show and did the same bit word for word. Dave looked like Robin had dropped a turd into his coffee cup (Letterman produces Ray's show)."
[This was by far the most-discussed instance of Williams' swiping that I found. There is apparently tape of Romano doing the bit on an HBO 'Young Comics' special 12 years before Robin did it on multiple late night talk shows (Letterman, and a year later, Leno) It's important to note that it's not the concept that's being stolen here, it's the whole bit – phrasing and all.]
"Tonight on Leno I witnessed Robin Williams completely rip off a well known bit from Ray Romano. I know this is a Ramano bit and Robin used it almost to the word. The stolen set was the what if technology gets so bad that they start installing cell phones in are heads, call waiting on each ear, and faxes come out are asses. I know that I have seen Ray do that one before. I've been a Williams fan for years and never believed the stories that he was such a thief.I honestly thought that it was a case of sour grapes and this groups tendency to bitch and over analyze everything and anything. I have to say though after seeing Robin last night on national T.V. that I am no longer a sceptic but convicted that he is a thief. He did Raymonds act almost verbatim. I've been doing stand up for 3 years now. This really makes me want to
keep on plugging ahead. Can you spell ethics kids. Oh Fuck it."
"Robin paid I think at least 3 months of Steven Pearls rent because he used what was obvious to any LA comic, a few of Steven's bits on the Tonight Show or another well known show. Steve says he was glad he got some money and that over the years he has heard exaggerated stories that he pushed Robin up against a wall and threatened him etc etc…. which apparently isnt true."
"It wasn't pearl that slammed him.. it was one of wolfberg's old buddies.. and just now my mind went blank… carl, who was at the door at the time had to break it up… robin went on the carson show… and I am pretty sure it was brenner who was guest hosting and told the story about how sometimes he'll be on a rant or tangent..and stuff will pop out of his mouth.. and when it's not his, he's told about it in not so many words… he talked about how he was going to try to make it up to folks who told him that he screwed them cos he said something that was theirs on tv or radio. Fleischman called him on it once…"
"Everybody mentions Robin Williams, but don't forget that Tom Dreesen kicked his ass for stealing one of his bits. To my knowledge, Robin never stole from Tom again."
There's a good article on joke thievery in the comedy world here. It discusses the touchy ethical questions implicit in the whole thing, as well as the 'parallel evolution' argument – that both performers devised the same bit independently of each other.
The article prints the following response to such a defense:
"In comedy, there is such a thing as squatter's rights," says Mark Breslin, owner and president of Yuk Yuk's. "If one comic gets there first, the bit is theirs. It doesn't matter if you thought
of the joke completely on your own, if you know another guy is already doing the bit, you don't do it."
The article also features a nugget of first-person testimony on Robin Williams from Swipee Steven Pearl:
"Robin Williams has to be in the top three names when there's a discussion of joke thievery," says Pearl. "But, nah, I never touched him. I did hear that a guy had him up against a wall and that it got ugly. You'd know him, he's been in movies, but ain't no way I'm giving you his name. But Robin used to do my material. We'd work together and the next night I'd see or hear that he was doing one of my bits."
"One, I remember I did at the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco around the time of that Sun City song. I used to do Sammy Davis Jr. saying: 'Hey, I won't play Sun City — unless I get the big room.' Then, I hear Robin's doing it. I confronted him and gave him s–t and he cut me a cheque right there for a thousand bucks. There were a few more cheques for substantial amounts of money that kept my rent paid for a while. When Robin would come back to the clubs, after he became really famous, some guys would refuse to go on stage till he left the room."
If all this dissection of the political side of the comedy world is interesting to you, you should check out the current issue of the New Yorker ('The Humor Issue'), which features a great piece on the mechanics of starting out in stand-up via a profile of several young NYC comedians.
Update (via Email):
"Have you seen 'The Aristocrats'?"
"The movie does a cut between Drew Cary and Robin telling the exact same version of the joke. The documentary makes no reference to this fact other than that. I already knew about the Robin Williams thing, so I kind of thought it was an inside joke as I was watching it. The rest of the audience, I suspect, had no idea."
Update from reader Zach:
There's an interesting bit about joke thievery in Dick Cavett's autobiography:
"I needed a joke about eating out in New York, and somehow I hit on the idea of a Chinese-German restaurant. The punch was, "The food is delicious. The only problem is, an hour later you're hungry for power." I told it to Rollins (Jack, Cavett and Woody Allen's Manager), who howled and said I had a biggie there. That night was a smash, and from then on it never failed, even when everything else did. Three days later, I was flipping through the daily papers, and my joke leaped out at me from Earl Wilson's column. Except it was attributed to Rip Taylor at the Copa."
"Naively and furiously, I called Taylor and asked him to stop doing my line. He said, "Oh, did I say that?," and laughed heartily at the joke. I didn't realize that the witty things attributed to celebrities in those columns are rarely said by them. Often they are phoned in by a guy who gets a hundred dollars a week to plant funny sayings for that person, and when he doesn't have any he steals them."
"From that point on, my best jokes would appear in Earl Wilson or elsewhere, attributed to Pat Henry or Jackie Vernon or London Lee, and once even to Woody, who had himself been the victim of this pernicious practice.We both had a good laugh over his getting one of mine. But the situation continued to gall me, and I would look out over the audience at the club some nights wondering which was the creep who was making more than I was off my material."
"The print thievery didn't hurt as bad as seeing and hearing your joke on Laugh In, television's Niagara Falls of plagiarism, or on the Red Skelton Show, which survived for a year on Woody's best jokes, or in the mouth of some crap comic on the Ed Sullivan Show, where it would stand out like a jewel in his otherwise vimitorious act and get a hand."
"Sometimes I would call Woody to report the latest theft of one his jokes. He finally asked me to stop, because, number one, it pained him and if he didn't know about it he would feel better, and, number two, it didn't matter because the crap comics would always be crap comics, and although it hurts to have your jokes stolen, something about you puts you forever in another category and world from them, or at least that is what you tell yourself. He was right."
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If you want something easy, simple and delicious to prepare for different types of occasions, it is nice to try this special Alfredo sauce recipe. It makes use of healthy, fresh but cheap ingredients in order to provide the best taste possible. Here are two different ways of preparing homemade and traditional delicacies.
If you have very little time to cook but you need something quick to prepare for a special occasion, it is good to try this tasty recipe. First, you need to gather a number of important ingredients like a medium-sized zucchini, a medium-sized summer squash and 10-pieces of sugar snap peas. Aside from these, you also need at least a cup of wine, a cup of light cream and a cup of Parmesan cheese. Likewise, prepare a stick of butter, a pack of basil linguini and a piece of chicken breast.
Once you have gathered all the ingredients, you can start right away with the cooking process. Set the stove to medium heat. After that, place the pan on top of it and then slowly pour in the wine. Cut the chicken breast into much smaller pieces. Once the wine heats up, put the pieces of chicken in the pan as well. Cook for approximately 30 minutes.
When the chicken is done, pour in about 3-tablespoons of cooking oil into the frying pan. Cook the zucchini and the squash. After that, set them aside first and then cook the peas. Be sure to keep them crunchy as much as possible. Take the peas out and then use the pan to melt and blend the cream, cheese and butter. Be sure not to overcook the mixture. Season it with a pinch or two of black pepper.
Drain the cooked vegetables and then combine them with the mixture. Add the chicken as well. Mix until the flavors are distributed evenly. Set the cooked linguini in a nice clean serving plate. Pour the mixture over the linguini. Add another pinch of black pepper and then serve.
If you want something healthy and at the same time quick to prepare, you can instead use a low-fat Alfredo sauce on top of your pasta. To do this, set the stove to medium heat and put the saucepan on top of it. Melt at least a tablespoon of butter. Add ¼-cup of flour and then stir for at least a minute. Add a pinch of nutmeg, ½-teaspoon pepper, ½-teaspoon salt and 3-cups of low-fat milk.
Wait until the dish boils. Whisk the dish occasionally in order to distribute the flavors even more. Turn the heat to low and then simmer the dish for about five minutes more. Stir it occasionally. Serve this special sauce on top of cooked fettuccine and then add parmesan cheese. Serve and enjoy the goodness of this healthy yet tasty recipe.


Amanda H. Podany is Professor of history and director of the honors program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the author ofThe Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition (CDL Press, 2002).
Marni McGee is the author ofThe Ancient Roman World (OUP, 2003), Forest Child (Green Tiger, 1995), The Quiet Farmer (Atheneum, 1991), andDiego Columbus: Adventures on the High Seas (Revell, 1992).


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We had gotten all of our arrangements finalized with Guinness and the contest people the day before. Guinness would have a whole day's itinerary for us when we arrived there and I asked us what time we would like to arrive. Michelle and I both agreed it might be good to get there earlier so then we might have some time later in the day to fit something else in (little did we know…) so we suggested 10 AM. Guinness said great, we'll see you at 10 in the morning.
We had a comfortable night's sleep and got up and had a much smaller breakfast than the day before. I stayed with yogurt, fresh fruit and a croissant while Michelle had some cereal. We walked over to the bus stop to wait for the tour bus, which has a stop at the storehouse. The weather seemed pretty good this day, although it was a little breezy. I wasn't wearing my braces again today as my legs were still healing, and I knew we were in for another long day of walking, but I wanted to try it anyway. My legs were sore from the walking, but other than that I felt pretty good so far.
The bus arrived at the Storehouse (which is huge by the way) and we walked in and up to the information desk. We told them we were here and were contest winners and the gentleman at the desk made a call and said someone would be right down. There was already a line for people to get into the storehouse for the tour. Since it was Arthur's Day, they were expecting quite a crowd. After waiting for a minute or two, we were greeted by someone who brought us in upstairs and into the storehouse where we had to wait for someone else. Again, we waited for a couple of minutes before someone walked us over and greeted us. They said congratulations to us for winning and since we had said we were going to be there at 10 AM they were adding something special on to our day. We would get to sit in on the daily sampling of yesterday's batch with some of the select employees who do this as part of their job. We were to meet the master brewer, Fergal Murray, who would take us over to where it takes place. It seemed pretty exciting to us.
Fergal came over a moment later and introduced himself to us. He said he had been working for Guinness for 28 years. He apologized for being a few minutes late but he was doing an interview with the BBC and had to take care of it. They brought us upstairs, where we were issued VIP passes and vests and we had to sign some paperwork. We were then joined by a public relations person for Guinness and a photographer from the BBC who would be following us around for this portion of the tour. Fergal then led us out of the building and across the street to the other part of the factory. We found out the entire complex encompasses a staggering 55 acres of land in Dublin and they are building new, more modern facilities as we were there. We did see some the old original buildings from the 1700's that are no longer in use but are too old to be torn down. This included the old flaking silo where barley was stored and flaked as it was at that time unprocessed when they received it. It was a long walk over to the other side of the complex where the other offices were located and we had to traverse some old cobblestone steps so I was treading very lightly.
We finally reached the offices where the sampling would take place. We were seated at a table with 7 or 8 other people, all who are employees of Guinness in one department or another who gather every morning for the sampling. Everyone id give 6 half pints of Guinness from the batch processed of the previous day. They are also given a ratings sheet where they are asked to rate each sample to see how it is for quality, aroma, bitterness and several other criteria. The expectation is that every sample will be between a 7 and 8 out of scale of 1 through 9. If the samples are deemed to be bad, then they will not process and ship that batch. We were told that occasionally they will sneak in a bad sample on purpose to make sure everyone is paying attention and rating properly. They asked us to taste a control sample and then taste the other 6 samples and rate each one. They then went around the room and asked for our opinion on each sample. I felt all of the samples tasted very fresh, a couple were a little more bitter than others, and one actually tasted more carbonated than the rest of them. We all went through each sample, which added up to about 2 whole pints of Guinness I imagine over the course of about an hour.
We were then asked if we had any questions they could answer. I asked we had long heard that Guinness in the U.S. tasted different from that in Ireland and if this was true, why is it? Fergal answered that there shouldn't be any difference at all where the taste is concerned. The problem lies in several areas. One, the optimum time for a batch to reach the U.S. is 10 days, which isn't always possible under perfect conditions. Two, many bartenders in the U.S. do not know the proper technique of pouring a Guinness and if it is not poured correctly, it will taste different. Third, and this I was not aware of, but the pubs in Ireland use certain pint glasses only for Guinness and they are washed separately with special detergent designed for Guinness glasses and this can help with the way it tastes. Many bars in America use glasses that are washed in a dishwasher, which glasses for Guinness shouldn't be in. It was a very interesting experience. Even the employees present that this was unusual because no one, not even most people who work there, get to do what we did and it was nice for them to have outsiders sit in to see what they thought of the process and the beer.
We both felt pretty honored to get to experience that. After the sampling was done, Fergal took us back across the street to the Storehouse where he said goodbye to us and thanked us for coming. He had more interviews to do, this time with American television. I was grateful that he took so much of his time to spend with us doing this. We were then met by someone else from the staff who gave us the rest of our agenda for the day. For now, we could tour the Storehouse at our leisure, go over to the gift shop and then they gave us some vouchers for lunch. After lunch they had sett up for us the connoisseur's experience at the "secret" bar in the Storehouse for some special instruction and tasting. When that was done, we could be done for the day at the Storehouse. They also gave us two passes and bracelets for entry to Whelan's Pub that night for the Arthur's Day show. At that time, they did not even know who would be there to perform that night.
We stopped over at the gift shop and bought some souvenirs and they slowly toured the Storehouse. They take you through the entire history of the brewery and the process they use to make Guinness. We saw the lease Arthur Guinness signed for the property – a 9,000 year lease at 65 pounds a year. We learned that Guinness buys 2/3 of all the barley grown in Ireland in a year. Of course, they had a free pint sample for you on your way up the Storehouse (the design of the storehouse is like a big pint glass, it gets wider as you go towards the top) and on the top-level is the Gravity bar, where you could get another free pint of Guinness. So we had another 2 pints before lunch, bringing our total to 5 or 6. When we went to lunch I had another pint at the bar where we had lunch on the fifth floor.
We the walked over to the "secret bar" where there were about a dozen other guests at the bar. The bar was lit underneath and we were there for a lesson on how to pour a Guinness draft and how to properly drink it and the three other types of Guinness they make – Guinness Stout, Guinness Black Lager and Guinness Foreign Extra. I had never had the Foreign Extra before, and they told me it is hard to find in the United States sometimes, but you can get it. Of course, we got full samples of all 4 versions, so add 4 more Guinness to list, bringing me up to 10 or 11, I kind of lost count. Either way, it went up one more when they told us we could each have one more of any type we choose (I went with the Foreign Extra). It was interesting to learn that there are actual ways each beer should be drunk in order to get the proper flavor from it and it was fun to learn to pour one the right way (it should take exactly 119 seconds to pour, by the way).
After all of that, we were done with Guinness for the day. With left there with the experience of a lifetime, something most people never get to do. We took the bus back to the hotel and had about two hours to rest up before the rest of the evening, and we needed the rest! My legs were tired, but hanging tough. I was glad to get back to the hotel to rest for a bit and we napped before we started our second leg of the day's adventure.
I think that is enough writing for one night. I'll cover the adventure at Whelan's Pub tomorrow as I begin to wrap up our little adventure. I hope you all are enjoying the ride. It was so much up to this point it's hard for me to put into words and it just got better from here. Check back tomorrow to see how the evening's fun went and enjoy some of the pictures from the Storehouse. To see more, you can always check my Facebook page for all of the pictures from our trip. Until tomorrow, enjoy the rest of your night!


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Often people hire an accident attorney after being involved in a car crash resulting in monetary losses or personal injury. People can file personal injury claims against insurance companies by themselves. Some choose to do so when only mild injuries have been suffered, or they have time to research the claims process.
Not having an attorney saves legal fees. The question that arises is, what constitutes a small case that can be handled alone? A rule of thumb is the medical bills and time away from work. When the medical bills are more than $3000 or a person is out of work for a week or more, it is wise to hire an attorney.
According to Slaterzurz.com, n accident lawyer, particularly a personal injury attorney, can help when going against a team of lawyers hired by big auto insurance companies. The attorney knows the laws and procedural rules for personal injury claims and can adequately handle the legwork. If you need help in your accident case, consult the experts from caraccidentattorneysa.com
The lawyer acts as an advocate throughout the case. Insurance company attorneys know how to reduce compensation or deny a claim altogether. An accident attorney is the best option when a person suffers severe injuries, faces expensive medical bills, or experiences a significant loss of wages because of the injury.
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Consider hiring an accident lawyer for any of the following situations.
Permanently disabling or long-term injuries
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The severity of the personal injury is measured by the type of injury, the length of time to recover, and the cost of medical bills, including estimated future medical expenses. A long-term injury lasts for a year or more. Permanent injury disables a person for life.
This kind of injury seriously affects a person's ability to be employed. The quality of life is also important. Proving permanently, disabling, and long-term injuries are sometimes tricky. A personal injury lawyer will likely consult all medical professionals a client has seen. The presence of a medical professional may be requested during legal proceedings.
When a policyholder's insurance company disputes the liability of their client, in essence, they are saying the client is not at fault. At the very least, they are claiming there is not enough proof. An accident attorney helps the claimant provide evidence and shows the opposing party was at fault. No stone is left unturned in obtaining evidence of liability.
Refusal to pay is not the same thing as a disputed liability. In such a case, an insurance company refuses to make a settlement offer that is fair or any offer. An attorney will negotiate a settlement. Negotiating is a specific skill. A personal injury lawyer is better at settling accident cases than a layperson. You can click here for more information.
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It is of importance to hire a personal injury lawyer and get the process going as soon as possible. There are possible situations such as statutes of limitations with which to contend. Not just any attorney will do.
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Vol. 11, Issue 60 - Wednesday, March 1, 2006
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"I felt something shaking my leg, and I thought it was my friend trying to tip me over."
Nicolette Raleigh
Recalling her shark attack off south Maui on Monday
GARY T. KUBOTA / GKUBOTA@STARBULLETIN.COM
Nicolette Raleigh, 15, spoke yesterday about surviving a shark attack in south Maui that left her right leg shredded. With her were boyfriend Shane Wilds and friend Jessy Larson, below, both of whom helped her after the Monday incident.
A shark tale
A 15-year-old girl describes the attack off a south Maui beach
By Gary T. Kubota
gkubota@starbulletin.com
WAILUKU » Nicolette Raleigh said she and her friends joked about being attacked by a shark just 15 minutes before a shark bit her on the calf in south Maui.
They talked about the discovery of the shark-bitten body of a man in the same area days earlier, but she never thought it would happen to her, Raleigh said.
"I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it," said Raleigh, seated in a wheelchair during an interview with the news media yesterday morning in the lobby of Maui Memorial Medical Center.
"I knew something was wrong. I just grabbed her and pulled her onto the beach."
Jessy Larson
About the shark attack on pal Nicolette Raleigh
State and county officials shut down Big Beach, the site of the attack, and surrounding areas near Makena State Park following the attack about 4:39 p.m. Monday.
Officials reopened the park at noon yesterday, after sighting no sharks.
State and federal officials said based on the description of the attack at Big Beach, they believe the shark that attacked Raleigh was smaller than the one that bit San Jose resident Anthony Moore.
The body of Moore, who went free diving Thursday afternoon, was found Friday morning in a snorkeling area known as "Five Graves" near the Makena Landing, about three miles north of Big Beach.
Maui police said so far an autopsy has been unable to conclusively prove that Moore was killed by a shark and that it's possible he might have been dead before he was attacked by it.
Raleigh, 15 and a freshman at Kihei Charter High School, said she and her friend Jessy Larson had gone to the beach to celebrate the birthday of Raleigh's 17-year-old boyfriend, Shane Wilds, after buying him a gift -- board shorts.
She said as they were in about 1 to 2 feet of water something knocked Shane down.
"The same thing came over to me, and I felt something shaking my leg, and I thought it was my friend trying to tip me over."
Raleigh said she then saw the shark shaking its head back and forth.
"I just started to scream," she said. "I was way too scared."
Raleigh said she kicked the shark with her left foot and ran out of the water with help from Larson.
Larson, 15, said he heard her scream.
"I knew something was wrong," Larson said. "I just grabbed her and pulled her onto the beach."
Wilds carried her to a table.
"When I got out, I looked at my leg. It was very ugly," she said.
The encounter left an 8-inch-long wound that was deep, she said.
She said the shark was gray with a round head and about 8 feet long, but she wasn't able to tell what kind it was. Nearly all attacks in Hawaii waters involve tiger sharks.
Raleigh, who moved from New Jersey a little more than a year ago, said she had been to Makena State Park before and had never seen a shark there.
Raleigh said doctors estimate she'll take about eight months to fully recover.
She said she feels fortunate to have survived the attack and that there were people nearby to help her, including a physician, two nurses and a couple of firefighters.
She said she only lost about a half of a cup of blood.
"I just feel I'm really lucky," she said. "I really didn't think I was going to survive this because there was so much pain."
Raleigh, who has been on medication to ease the pain, said she had surgery Monday night and expected to undergo more surgery today to see if they can repair a severed nerve. She expects to be able to leave the hospital by Friday.
Her mother, Cathy Johnson, said that when she first heard about the shark attack through a cell phone call from Shane, she thought he was kidding and couldn't believe that something would happen to her daughter.
"I just think things like this shouldn't happen to good people," she said.
Raleigh said she wants to attend a culinary school in Philadelphia and become a chef.
She said she thinks she'll return to the ocean in time. "But I'll be really careful," she said.
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TV film reviews: Dirty Dancing (2017), directed by Wayne Blair
tl;dr: Is it as bad as people say it is? No. It's WORSE THAN THAT.
In this remake that literally no one wanted or asked for, the Houseman family go to the Kellerman Hotel/Resort/whatever for their summer holidays, and there's dancing, romance and OH GOD JUST WATCH THE 1987 FILM INSTEAD.
Except, because this is NEW and EXCITING, it doesn't start with the Four Seasons and it being the summer of 1963 and people still called her Baby and she wanted to join the Peace Corps. It starts in the 1970s at a Broadway theatre where a production of Dirty Dancing, a musical based upon the book by Francis Houseman, is about to open. And ~flashback~ we're in the early 1960s and we see the story we know and love, but with a different cast and with added complications – because the abortion sub plot apparently wasn't woke enough for 2017.
I'm going to presume you're familiar with the original Dirty Dancing (1987), starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, and hope that you, like me, happen to love that film very much. This review/rant will contain spoilers, but if you haven't seen this, I'm just telling you why you should keep it that way.
Right. Ready?
Francis "Baby" Houseman (Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine) is a bookish nerd. Her sister Lisa (Sarah Hyland) is apparently older but looks younger and is the pretty one. Their parents Jake (Bruce Greenwood) and Marjorie (Debra Messing) have MaRiTaL iSsUeS that they don't talk about, because hey, no one puts Mr and Mrs Houseman in a corner! Of course they need their own plot!
Lisa is being pursued by sleazebag Robbie (Shane Harper), until she's nearly date raped (having her simply walk in on him givin' it to someone else is not edgy enough), and starts hanging out with Marco (J Quinton Johnson) instead. He works at Kellerman's and can teach her how to play a ukulele – and hey, let's throw in some bi-racial controversy for the heck of it, just to show how far we've come and how woke we are now!
Neil Kellerman (Trevor Einhorn) is there, but I can't remember him very well at all, because the rest of this is so bad he apparently wasn't even memorable enough to stand out among all the other stuff, but I think he was actually made into a semi-decent guy or something?
And then, of course, the dance teachers – glamorous Penny Rivera (Nicole Scherzinger) and Johnny Castle (Colt Prattes) who … I dunno, he danced or something?
I recorded this when it was first on, out of a sort of morbid curiosity, because I didn't think it could be better than the original. I just didn't expect how incredibly BAD it actually was. With a run time of over two hours (not counting commercial breaks, which makes it run on forever), of course they've had to pad out the story a bit, and instead of doing a straight re-make, they've decided that previously minor characters should play a bigger part – namely the rest of the Houseman family, despite this is supposed to be a coming-of-age story for youngest sister "Baby". I didn't mind that they made Lisa into a bit more of a relatable character, and her connecting with Marco is cute, but it really feels as if it's just there to score points for "look at us, commenting on racism" rather than something more organic. On the other hand, I guess they had to have at least ONE couple who could believably fall in love with each other, because the main characters … I'll get back to that.
Mr and Mrs Houseman, not content with being Father and Mother who don't really do much except tell people to stand up straight and provide money for illegal abortions, are estranged. The spark is gone, and Marjorie is so unhappy that she's contemplating filing for divorce. Perhaps a trip to Kellerman's, like the old days, can make them find the spark again. (Hint: they do. The kids are next door and hear it and everything. Yay?) This is a subplot that really wasn't needed, and is only there to provide padding, and some kind of raised emotional stakes. It's just … I don't really care? This is supposed to be about Baby and Johnny?
Although when we finally get to the point of Baby and Johnny, gods, I rather wish they hadn't. They have as much spark as a wet log. (Speaking of logs, this version of Kellerman's with all their wooden cabins doesn't look like an exclusive resort for pretty wealthy people. More like they've shacked up in one of the cheaper cabins at Center Parcs.) They're supposed to fall in love, but I just don't buy it. Perhaps because Johnny looks about 20, which is basically what you can say about Baby as well, but she doesn't seem like a natural born dancer, but instead looks more like she's learning on the job. Learning poorly, at that. She's not even very good at the end of the film.
On the other hand, this cast weren't perhaps hired for their dancing capabilities (unlike Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze), but rather their singing. Because this isn't a film with great music any more – it's a musical. They apparently couldn't get the rights to the original soundtrack, so they went for singing all the songs themselves, and adding a few along the way. What's one of the best things about the original film? The soundtrack. No Solomon Burke or Otis Redding in sight, and it's PAINFUL. I'm not a fan of musical films normally – I fast-forwarded through a lot of Glee – so having taken one of my favourite films, with an epic soundtrack, and having those beautiful songs butchered by a bunch of actors is unforgivable. I could've forgiven some of the worst bits about this film if they had kept the original soundtrack, but alas, it was not to be.
A few months after I had managed to watch this atrocity, I still hadn't deleted it off the DVR, so bravely thought I'd watch it again. It took me no more than 30 seconds to realise I had made a huge mistake and started questioning my life choices, and I think I only got through it because I fast-forwarded through the songs. It didn't improve on a second viewing, and I then deleted it, because it was no longer allowed to soil the rest of the stuff on there. Maybe I'm stubbornly keeping Citizen Kane on there now to balance it out.
The film ends like it always does, except Lisa can actually sing in this version, and it's cut back to the Broadway theatre. Johnny's there! He's choreographed the show! And no, they're not together, because Baby has got a mustachioed husband and a child! A hubby who is apparently totally cool with his wife having written a bestseller about losing her virginity on holiday, which has been made into a stage show choreographed by the guy in question. That doesn't seem weird at all, does it?
So they've taken a beloved, if far from perfect, film from the 1980s and re-made it … but with added bits. Bits that aren't good, and the whole stage show thing is cringeworthy (of course the stage show is called Dirty Dancing, because of course it is). The script is poor, the cast is poor, the dancing is dull, the acting is unconvincing, the chemistry isn't there, they've butchered the songs, they've booked into a summer camp to film it, and I can't believe I sat through this thing twice. There isn't much of a romance thing here, and all the charm and fire of the characters in the original is missing.
Grey's Baby is a strong character who has agency and passion, and while her family think she's a bit over-the-top with the whole idealist business, they don't seem to look down on it, whereas this version of Baby is basically berated for preferring books to more girly pursuits, and she is sorely lacking. They all are. This isn't a film where you come out the other end cheering, because this is a Baby who seems infinitely more comfortable in the corner. While some of us might find sticking to the corner preferable to being the centre of attention, that's not the point of Dirty Dancing. This isn't cheeky flirting and a sexual awakening, but … I don't know. It's just really, really bad.
On the plus side, it's a made-for-TV film, so at least it didn't come out at the cinema, but that's about the only thing that's good about it. It's so atrocious I need to re-watch the original just to forget this remake ever happened.
Can I give things a 0 rating? Hmm.
0.5 out of 5, and that's just to sympathise with the people that had to work on it.
2017 Abigail Breslin Bruce Greenwood Colt Prattes Debra Messing J Quinton Johnson Nicole Scherzinger Sarah Hyland Shane Harper Trevor Einhorn Wayne Blair
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Marks out of 5?
The scoring system is generally about how much something was liked/enjoyed by the reviewer, so nothing fancy. A rough guide:
<1 = Burn in a very special level of hell!
1-1.9 = I want to claw my eyes out.
2-2.9 = Thanks, but no thanks.
3-3.9 = Not too shabby.
4-4.9 = Oh yay!
5 = SQUEEE!!!!!
Traxy Thornfield on Amazing Gaze: Top 5 Brilliantly Breathtaking Blue Eyes
De-Anna Gurley on Amazing Gaze: Top 5 Brilliantly Breathtaking Blue Eyes
linnetmoss on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Terry Murphy on Crimson Peak (2015)
Janet Thompson Deaver on Why Mr Rochester is NOT a creep
Traxy Thornfield on Crimson Peak (2015)
Natazukii on Crimson Peak (2015)
Films I want to see:
The Beguiled (the remake, obvs)
Chimes at Midnight
Den blomstertid nu kommer (backed!)
The Other Side of the Wind (backed!)
And finally …
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