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Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., were meeting with Obama at the White House for the second day in a row this evening to hash out a deal. |
A White House official said the goal at the White House meeting was not to reach a deal, just to get things back on track because negotiations "went off the rails" today. |
Capitol Hill sources also felt major developments were unlikely at the White House, but offered a more optimistic take on the state of negotiations. |
A top Republican said he was "much more optimistic" that a deal would be struck to avoid a shutdown. |
A top Democrat put even odds on avoiding a shutdown, but added of negotiations, "We are pretty much there substantively." |
The clock quickly is running out for lawmakers. Per House rules, legislation has to be posted 48 hours before a vote, which means the GOP leadership has until Thursday morning to post the bill. |
Obama has pushed Boehner to sell the $33 billion in cuts Democrats say they originally negotiated with him. The speaker, they say, backed out because of pressure from Tea Party members and conservatives in his own caucus. Boehner said the two sides never agreed to that number, and he pushed for at least $40 billion in cuts Tuesday. |
Under federal laws, essential staff still have to report to work, but all nonessential staff will be furloughed without pay. Furloughed staff are not allowed to work as unpaid volunteers to the government, enter their offices, use their work blackberries or computers, and access their work e-mail. |
The ripple effects of a shutdown will be felt outside of the nation's capital. The U.S. Postal Service will operate as normal, since it is self-funded. Social Security, veterans and Medicare checks would continue to be disbursed, although there could be a delay in services for new registrants and those who have filed a change of address form. |
Some government inspection services, such as for meat, may be delayed. |
ABC News' Barbara Garcia, Jon Karl, Dan Arnall and Jake Tapper contributed to this report. |
11-12 Abril Merriman continues to heal |
11-12 April |
Robert Merriman’s diary for April 11 and 12th 1937 |
Bob Merriman has settled into the routine of leading instruction at the Pozo Rubio Officer’s school. Lambert was introduced in yesterday’s diary page and he is now training rifle skills (musketry, see a manual from WWI). The discussion of the speech probably refers back to the speech given by André Marty given a few days previously. We have met Brodsky, Stember, Vidal, Marty, Olorenshaw on previous diary pages. As a reminder, to find these references, just enter the name in the search on the left panel. |
After spending time on the range with his new pistol picked up from Vidal’s office, Merriman traveled down to Albacete to eat and meet with Marion, Sam Stember and George Brodsky at the Brigade command. It is hard to guess who “Adolph from Murcia” is and Merriman makes a humorous remark that he met a “real” Mexican. We recall that Russians were called Mexicans but this man must have been from Mexico. The assumption that all “Mexicans” were Russian is also an error. The RGASPI files reveal that many “Mexicans” were from Eastern Europe and just came from “Mexico” meaning that they had been in the Soviet Union prior to coming to Spain. Vladimir Copic was called a “Mexican” on one list. |
Dr. Telge |
Dr. Oscar Telge (Tsvetan Kristanov) Source: Fredericka Martin Photo Archive ALBA 001: 1:1:31:1, Tamiment Library, NYU. |
On the 12th, he got his shoulder x-rayed and he is healing. Dr. Telge is shown on the photo from the Fredericka Martin Collection at Tamiment. Dr. Telge is Tsvetan Angelovich Kristanov. Hugh Thomas writes: |
Another Bulgarian Communist, Tsvetan Angelov Kristanov, who had long been an emigrant in Russia, ran the medical services of the International Brigades under the appealingly Scandanavian nom de guerre of Dr. Oskar Telge, with a staff of many nationalities under him, while Marty’s wife, Pauline, acted as inspector of the hospitals.¹ |
Telge was also listed in the RGASPI files as a “Mexican”. |
The next sentence is a difficult scrawl and reads as if Merriman is setting a reminder that there will be a Court Marshal of a Mr. “Justas” or “Justar” and that Merriman has been advised to attend the court martial. In Madrigueras, Englishman James Justice was court marshaled and returned to England. Arthur Olorenshaw left the following report in Justice’s personnel file²: |
Madrigueras, Feby-March ’37. Pure adventurer. Expelled from Spain in April after being degraded. Had been made provisional Town Commandant at M. and there, was thoroughly disruptive in causing great deal of anti-French feeling which culminated in several fights. Whether this activity was deliberate or not I am unable to say definitively. He has served in the International Police Force in the SAAR Valley and was subject of an international incident when he discharged a revolver into a crowd of Germans when drunk, wounding several…… |
Alan Warren kindly passed a link to the same James Robinson Justice who later went on to be a character actor in movies. |
Merriman clearly says here that Marion and he rode out to camp with Vidal and his wife. This is the first indication that other members of the command had their families in Albacete. Vidal lectured on a “problem” given to the students in the school. Frequent references to these problems will be given over coming months and the technique was to set up a goal (reaching a bridge, finding locations on a map, digging a trench, infiltrating, laying down transmissions, etc.) and setting the companies loose on the problem. The lectures after would review their degree of success in accomplishing the task and often the results showed the problems set were not easy. |
¹ Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, The Modern Library (paperback edition), pg 444. |
² RGASPI, Fond 545/Opis 6/ Delo 156. Moscow, Russia. |
Friday, May 2, 2014 |
Episode 6 Update |
I've noticed the daily views on this site are rising - as they always do at this time of the month - so I'm posting this update on Episode 6 to keep you in the loop. |
Episode 6 is still being written. I'm almost finished, but this week at work (day job) has been very busy and I haven't been able to fit writing into my daily routine since Tuesday. I'm going to do some more tonight and I hope to have it completed by the weekend (which will include a visit from friends who are staying over with us, so that also takes Saturday out of the writing schedule). |
In an ideal world, I'd be like James Caan in Misery and go book myself into a little hotel half way up a snowy mountain until the book was finished. But I can't, because unlike Caan, my success doesn't generate money, so I have to have a day job. You might think I make a lot of money from ebooks, but I actually make virtually nothing. |
So, based on the prediction that the writing will be completed by the end of the weekend, the audio recording won't start till early next week, and will take at least a week to complete. I'm not saying it'll be released next weekend because I don't know what my day job workload will be next week, but I can at least say that you don't have to keep checking this site every day for the next seven days. Episode 6 is coming, and it will it arrive, but not in the next seven days. |
Now, due to the difficulties of providing a monthly episode and the annoyance I know it brings to many of you, I've decided to split Blood and Smoke into two books, rather than struggling on with this difficult schedule. Each one will be a 40,000 word novel in itself (30,000 words of which are now done on the first part). So the current podcast will most likely end with Episode 7 or 8. I will then write Part 2 without making a monthly podcast (which cuts a whole week out of the writing schedule every month), and I'll write the book to completion before resuming any audio production. My current plan involves making all of Part 2 available as a pay-to-download audio book (though a podcast version will be available too). And if that works out, who knows, maybe I'll be able to afford to book myself into a little snowy mountain hotel and write the next U&F title in the seclusion it deserves :-) |
Thank you for your continued patience. You are gentlemen and ladies, all. |
1. Oh, Mike, are you sure you want to do that? |
Not to be a spoilsport here, but didn't you say the reason you started the Podcast again was to keep you motivated to write? |
Without that motivation, do you think you'll be able to finish the book with a decent time-frame? |
Perhaps, what you could do is do monthly updates on your writing, if you can't manage to Podcast the actual text? |
1. Yes, you're right of course, Lisa. But I'm very motivated to finish it, I may even take time off work to get it done (though I won't be booking into any snowy retreats). You're right again when you say that monthly updates would be a good idea, a short podcast, maybe with insights into the process and other tidbits to keep people interested ;-) |
2. Excellent :) I look forward to seeing what you manage to get up to! |
One thing I'd like to point out though, I haven't heard you promote any of |
your other works for sale on any of the podcast episodes - I know you don't want to |
sound like an advertisement in your episodes, but I do think a healthy balance |
might help you pick up those spare pounds. |
So, perhaps you could add a bumper to the end of the episodes - before the |
outro music, maybe saying something like: |
"If you liked this episode, perhaps you could consider making a donation, |
you'll find all the links at the website....until then, dear listener, until the moon |
rises over again" |
Well, something like that :) |
It's something you'd only need to record once and it |
might actually build up your donation/purchases a little bit to help you make |
that move out of your day job and into the writing eventually. |
I suggest before the music to stop known skippers missing the plug |
(*raises hand*) ;) also, I miss that little "until the moon rises" bit! |
3. Thank you, Lisa. That's a good idea, actually there are some little bumper chats after the music on the episodes, and I always sign off with "until the moon rises ... " - but you're right, I haven't gone for a cash nod. I'll be sure and do that at least a few times on the remaining eps. And thank you too for your own donation to the cause. I saw the email from Paypal the other day and have been meaning to get an email of thanks out to you. I'll do that right now :-) |
Abercrombie & Fitch, Marketing to Fatties and the Death of “Cool” |
Do you see anything wrong with that statement? I mean besides the obvious douchbaggery behind it? Mike Jeffries of Abercrombie & Fitch only wants young, attractive (thin), “cool” people to wear the clothes his company sells. |
But are all popular, pretty people “cool”? |
When I was a young teenager, which is presumably the target market for stores like Abercrombie, the “cool” kids were the ones who hung out off campus so they could smoke. The girls looked like Joan Jett, and jean shorts were only considered appropriate if you were washing the car. |
The popular kids, the sporty ones, hell, the RICH ones, with a tennis court and a pool in the front yard and a 30 ft yacht moored in the back, they looked like the models in the Abercrombie ads. Very, very few of them were “cool”. They were pretty, had nice clothes, nice cars and were assured nice university educations, but their lives were too easy and too pretty for them to be cool. They were popular – they ran the student council, they were on all the sports teams, other kids aspired to be like them. But did they have that edge, that spark, that thing about them that drew people to them (as opposed to perfect teeth and shiny hair)? Nah. |
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Tardisode 10 was the tenth of the Tardisode series of mini-episode prologues to Doctor Who series 2. This Tardisode was a prelude to the episode, Love & Monsters. |
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A mysterious figure is using a laptop to access a website titled L.I.N.D.A . It shows a hand-drawn sketch of the Doctor and the text "Who Is The Doctor?" followed by "Have You Seen Him?". The user clicks on the "Join L.I.N.D.A." button, causing the picture to change to a sketch of several people in a room, with the caption: "WE HAVE!" |
Text appears that reads "Last Updated - WHOOPS! Ages ago, sorry - ELTON". The user clicks again on "Join L.I.N.D.A.", which makes the screen display the following text: "But L.I.N.D.A. is a secret organisation. So we can't tell you where... If you need us...You'll find us." The user points a strange silver object at the laptop, which changes the display to read "PRIMITIVE COMPUTER PAGE". The screen displays a map and text saying "TRACK SOURCE". The map closes in on Maccateer Street before the screen goes blank. An old lady enters the room carrying a tray. As she turns around, her expression turns to horror, and she is bathed in a green light. The heavy breathing of the unseen figure turns into a slurping and growling and the old lady shouts "No!"... |
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Insole Court, BBC Broadcasting House, Cardiff[1] |
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• What is left of the secretary's face after being absorbed is visible on the right shoulder of Victor Kennedy in TV: Love & Monsters. Unlike his more recent victims whose faces and sentience are still intact, the secretary is beyond that stage of absorption. Her identity and consciousness have vanished, and all that remains of her are the shrinking features of a mouth, nose, right eye, and right brow. |
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How Salero Chef Ashlee Aubin Makes Catalan Spinach |
Video: Shane Collins |
“Dark, heavy leaves are a sign of healthy spinach,” says Ashlee Aubin, chef-partner at Salero. So look for those as you’re shopping at a farmers’ market (Aubin suggests the Nichols Farm stall at Green City and other markets), and then try his clever take on this vegetable that’s rapidly becoming the new kale. |
Ashlee Aubin’s Catalan Spinach with Piquillo Pepper Purée |
Yield: 2 servings |
Time: 10 minutes |
½ cup Canned piquillo or red peppers |
1 Tbsp. Sherry vinegar |
Salt to taste |
1 Tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil |
2 Tbsp. Golden raisins |
¼ cup Hard cider |
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