One of the buildings at KU, Frasier Hall, was a tall, vane-shaped rectangular building with a bad bearing toward the winds, especially the winter wind directions. When it was windy, especially if it was wet or icy, I had to pray someone larger and stronger than I would be there to open the doors, I'd wager a lot of the girls did. Because the wind would keep them sucked shut... (I remember one winter grabbing the door handle hard and, because of no traction on the tile entry floor, just slamming myself up against the door. Of course it didn't open a bit.)
Frasier is just about the first building you can really see when coming from the East. It's very tall, very long, sand colored with a red tile roof.
Here's news about JVP.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/magicdragon2/3176.html?mode=reply
ROTFLMAO
I will not read Making Light at work.
Repeat 100 x...
anyhoo, best wishes to you all. Be glad to have you 'back.'
Wikipedia is specific about the count of Swiss Guards at the Vatican.
"The force is specifically limited to one hundred soldiers and currently consists of 4 officers, 23 NCOs, 70 halberdiers, 2 drummers, and a chaplain, all with an equivalent Italian army rank. "
And the fruit of both tomatoes and potatoes are the ONLY thing about the plant that does not have toxin in it. Leaves and stems are still poisonous. Neat trick.
Julia Child is a PBS franchise and fundraiser, and there may be a tighter hold on / picker in usage of her name than the others (just my 2¢). That said, JoC is my go-to book when I am baffled by something kitchenwise, and MFK Fisher writes wondrous well about food, even though she's, urm, fairly eccentric. I've had Julia Child cookbooks, but they came and went -- I cycle through cookbooks, almost never buy new, and send as many back to 1/2 Price Books as I purchase.)
That would be "did NOT talk about it" and until that time any request to learn what he did in the military was met with "No, I don't want to talk about it."
Here's the Military part of Jimmy Stewart's iMDB bio.
He was the first movie star to enter the service for World War II, joining a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was initially refused entry into the Air Force because he weighed 5 pounds less than the required 148 pounds, but he talked the recruitment officer into ignoring the test. He eventually became a Colonel, and earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Croix de Guerre and 7 battle stars. In 1959, he served in the Air Force Reserve, before retiring as a brigadier general.
He probably started training on Jennys like my dad did, and they flew B-17s in WWII. My dad had just finished training and was getting ready to ship to England when the war ended in Europe. He did go to Korea and, I think, flew B-26s.
Unfortunately he did talk about any of his experiences until it was too late to get the whole story out of him before he passed.
I'm with you, Harry. My waaaay older brother (also adopted at 5 rather than as an infant) sought out his birthparents and was greatly disappointed. He since HAS developed a good relationship with his siblings from that family, though.
I WOULD really really like a medical history. But it isn't that important.
®? it's a long story and it's Teresa's blog. Houseboy is a real sweetie, comes with stuff (the ginormous TV for one thing), and is ORGANIZING us, which is a miracle. How's that for a topline. He came to cat sit while we were in the UK and stayed.
Murpf.... I should NOT read this at work....
Mr. Ford, you are too funny..(but don't stop! Ever!)
Charlie, following is from Wikipedia. It's a naming issue.
The basis for the name epinephrine in the United States was out of necessity—the name adrenalin (without a final "e") was registered as a trademark by Parke, Davis & Co. In other countries where this trademark was not registered, the name adrenaline was adopted at the insistence of the British pharmacologist Henry Hallett Dale. Resistance to the adoption of epinephrine has even resulted in some dispute as to the validity of the name (Aronson, 2000).
The monograph name in the European Pharmacopoeia remains adrenaline, despite the adoption of INN names for all other agents, and European Union (EU) countries continue to use either adrenaline or dual-labelling of both names on products. This is because of the confusion that the name epinephrine would cause to patients in EU countries, and resistance to the perceived Americanisation.
Boulevard Wheat most o'the time - locally brewed less than a mile from my home, and on tap just about everywhere in Missouri and Kansas. Smithwick's Irish Ale when I can get it - I had not tasted that until we went to Dublin and it is now my favorite beer (local liquor stores carry it IF they carry a good selection of beer); and Old Speckled Hen Ale - which was on tap in our favorite pub in London and we can get here bottled (this has only recently become available in our area).
The SFWA Emergency Medical Funds Manager. (is he a director? a chairman? I'm at work and can't check).
That's so... urm, reassuring, Xopher.
Adamsj - it was Conestoga, Jim, Margene and I were fan guests of honor and Brad Denton did a bitchin' toastmaster intro for all of us (it helps == or not==that we've known Brad for mumblty-mumpfh years). They've already posted next year's guests, see
http://www.sftulsa.org/
I hate missing this as much as I hate missing our local convention, ConQuesT (always Memorial Day). And their plays are wondrous.
I will post the recipe, this evening when I'm at home. I had to come back into the office.... sigh.
(PS. canned salmon is cooked as what amounts to pressure cooking, the bones are soft, not at all like cooking fresh salmon -- I have a kitchen set of needle nose pliers for fish bones.)
Stefan, it looks warmer there than here (KC), I'm envious. (It's absolutely beautiful but the air still has a nip in it--not like last weekend when I had windows open to air out some winter funk...)
And I like the joke too! I've had the kind of day where I needed a really good tee hee... Thanks!
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