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The Glass Delusion
A curious psychological condition that spread through Paris to wealthier homes all across Europe.
The Guinea Pig Club
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A WW2 club where members paid the highest price for membership
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“Summer afternoon— summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” . HENRY JAMES
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Andy Royston
The Glass Delusion
What is an iPhoneographer? Find out as Merry Citarella interviews one of the best.
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How to sleep well in the heat
Giovanna Sanguinetti gives useful tips about how to get to sleep in the heat.
Read about this curious ailment from days gone by.
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The Guinea Pig Club
Find out about this exclusive club during WW2 and the high cost of membership.
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The Endless River
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My First Car
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Summer Eating Feature
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Summertime Recipes
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Charleston, North Carolina
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National Parks
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The Matterhorn
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Hidden London
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Keep Out of Trouble Overseas
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The World’s Biggest Bicyclist
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Four Faces of Happiness
Medicine for the Outdoors
Colin Neville explores what itis that makes us happy through the medium of art.
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Modernity Torments
The world is moving too fast for D.A. Belmont. Read how he’s finding it difficult.
Read what Jonathan Nielsen has to say about this musthave book.
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Books About Formula One
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Prevent Alzheimer’s
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A Visit to Auschwitz
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Murder!
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Quiz
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Summer Reading Looking for a book for the beach? Or to read on the plane? Then this is the section for you.
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MEET OUR WRITERS
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“Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.” Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
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“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
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Jonathan
Kathryn
Lizzy
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine” Kenny Chesney Giovanna
Lucy
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Merry
Sam
Susan
Nancy
Sherri
Tanya
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
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Interview
Shore Footed The iPhoneography of Andy Royston When we first interviewed photographer, Andy Royston, about his iphoneography, he mentioned the Fort Lauderdale Sun Project. Since I was curious to know more about it, we thought you might be too. As luck would have it the day he chatted with us was the day he reached an amazing milestone, that of 20,000 Twitter followers.
As you can see from the photographs included here, Mr. Royston has mastered the art of photography using a cell phone. Each photo is uploaded to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram within minutes of the shot, right from the beach. It’s very important to him that they are shared in real time, without editing, so the photos usually post first thing in the morning.
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What made you decide Andy, to start the project? thank you for this It was a combination of things. interview, I’d been using my cellphone and to share video and photos for race driver clients of mine congratulations on and was getting quite good at the reaching such it. Connectivity back in 2009 a huge number of wasn’t always consistent – Twitter followers. images took a little while to That’s quite an upload – but it was now strong enough to share directly from achievement. Also impressive is that you have been walking this beach every day for nearly six years now, camera in hand. Just what is the Fort Lauderdale Sun Project? The Fort Lauderdale Sun project is a daily series of photographs taken, edited and shared directly from Fort Lauderdale Beach each morning using social media channels. It began in July of 2009 and has been operating consistently since that date on Twitter.com, and then later on the project extended to Tumblr, then to Instagram and Facebook.
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the cellphone. Another reason was health. I’d had a high cholesterol reading on my last medical, and the doc gave me a choice. Take this bullet-sized pills or take some serious exercise. I chose the latter, and living close by the beach it made sense to walk the sands before work. I must say that not only has my health improved no end, there’s nothing like a good walk in the morning to blow away the cobwebs.
What was your inspiration? The dawns here in Fort Lauderdale are frequently beautiful, and I figured that other people might like to see some of the photographs I’d been taking. Back in those days there were just a few apps to enhance
the images, but quite often the images were perfectly strong on their own. I found that I was getting feedback from all over the world quite quickly, and the images were being shared on by followers. This unexpected feedback was a real inspiration to continue. To have such encouragement
Even during our humid Floridian summers the golden hour is a pleasure to walk in. was an unexpected surprise – of course this is what makes social media such a thrill to use.
Was there a commitment for a time period? Is it ongoing? As long as I’m in Fort Lauderdale I take my morning
constitutional. It’s just part of my routine. In the early hours the temperature is much cooler than it is during the day, and even during our humid Floridian summers the golden hour is a pleasure to walk in. I’ll keep up with the walking as long as I’m close to the beach. There are plenty of other early
birds here in Fort Lauderdale but almost all tend to walk or jog along the sidewalk of A1A which runs alongside the Atlantic Ocean. Fort Lauderdale is such a great place for a morning run – with several miles of running right here along the shorefront. Walking or jogging along the sands is a different kind of workout – especially when the sands are soft. I find that the shoreline itself remains quiet for much of the year in those early moments. Of course as the sun gets higher in the sky the beach soon fills up with sun-seekers. I make a point of going out whatever the weather – I love the wilder side of the Atlantic. Getting caught in one of our famous five-minute storms is an absolute pleasure.
You’ve shared 25,000 photos on Twitter! How many photos do you usually share each day? That’s quite a lot of images, isn’t it! I generally share up to ten images each morning on Twitter, with a further half dozen different ones to Instagram. Both these accounts are growing faster than ever. I also have a few JAQUO MAGAZINE
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Facebook pages too, though the reach of these pages is limited to who Facebook decides to show them to.
How long has it been going on? The walks have been going on since the summer of 2009, so it’s coming up to six years now. Sometimes I’ve missed sharing because I’ve damaged my phone, or have been called away on a work project, but it’s rare that I miss a dawn these days. My current consecutive run is 500 days!
Would you photograph at a specific time each day? Always at sunrise, as this is when the light is at its most photogenic. I developed the habit of making any adjustments directly on the shore, so that I could be true to the light and the atmosphere. I like to think of my work as being fresh photography – that there’s a truth at the heart of my images. Each image is a product of the morning it was created – I strongly believe in the artistic power of editing and sharing as soon as
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possible. There’s an artistic power in the moment – the freshness of the work is very much at the centre of the creative process. This spontaneous and instinctive process give each piece an integrity that lingers.
Is Twitter still your favorite place to share them? Are you using Instagram now too?
“Each image is a product of the morning it was created – I strongly believe in the artistic power of editing and sharing as soon as possible.” Twitter wasn’t always the best place to share images, but it has slowly improved to the point where it is an excellent sharing space. And it is growing too, today I reached the magnificent figure of 20,000 followers, which is really something! Instagram is a newer sharing experience but day by day it is growing at the same rate as twitter.
What do you do with all your photos? How do you store them? I have them all backed up on disc, but I’ve also made good use of Flickr.com, one of the
oldest photography websites. I’ve always made a point of storing my favourites there; there are over 11,000 there now and growing.
the activity back along the shore wall. For me it is all about the natural beauty, the eternity of the morning sky.
What is/was your goal with the project?
Any new projects like that coming up?
The goal has always been to share the natural beauty of our shoreline dawn. Ft Lauderdale’s shore faces east and has a clear, uninterrupted shore so I’ve made it my goal to share the qualities of our wonderful city beach. I aim to show the timelessness of it all, which is why I avoid taking pictures of buildings or
I don’t anticipate any changes to my photography – I’ll continue taking my morning walks because I love the sea air, the ocean breeze and the extraordinary dawns that we get here. I love it so much, I can’t see me starting anything new any time soon subject wise. I do aim to expand on my more artful photographs and extend my artistic range. Today’s tablets and cellphones have an incredible range of post production options, so I want to see how much deeper I can go into fine photography techniques.
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Summer tips
How to Sleep Well in the Heat
The humidity is the main problem though because it stops your sweat from evaporating efficiently, making you sticky and uncomfortable. This can be unbearable if you’re not used to it. Of course the easy solution is to turn on the air conditioning, but what if
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you’re in a place that doesn’t have that sort of luxury? I would recommend the tricks people use in Mediterranean countries. I have wonderful childhood memories of our summer holidays in Italy. My grandma used to put us to bed for our afternoon sleep, keeping us cool with thin cotton sheets and by opening the cool
windows in our room and shutting the shutters. We were cool while outside the hot sun blazed.
Giovanna Sanguinetti
Hot humid weather can mean no sleep... 1. Make sure you keep your room cool by keeping the curtains closed during the day. The windows can be open, but keep the curtains drawn. All Mediterranean countries have shutters on their windows for this very reason. If you let the sun in, not only will it bleach your furniture and paintwork, but it will also raise the temperature in the room to an unbearable level. 2. If one side is sunny then shut the window and open the window on the shaded side. You will have to change this as the sun rotates, but you get the idea. 3. Once the sun has gone, open all curtains and windows. Keep the lights off to discourage flying insects like mosquitoes and moths. Also, remember that it is never advisable to leave windows open in unattended rooms if you’re on the ground floor. 4. If you have a fan use it because that will help dry your body as you sleep. 5. Sleep on thin cotton, not nylon or anything synthetic like a sleeping bag. I always carry a light thin cotton sheet and pillowcase with me when I travel just in case. You might also need to bring a mosquito net with you 6. Go for a stroll before bed, you will be in great company because in southern European countries people always go out after their evening meal. It is not unusual to see children playing in brightly lit piazzas till midnight 7. Take a cool shower before you get into bed, and keep some cool water near the bed. The heat can make you thirsty during the night. It’s nice to put a few drops of fresh lemon in the water. 8. If you can’t sleep get up and do something. Lying in bed will make you feel much hotter. Many Mediterranean people go to bed late in the evenings and get up early, taking advantage of the fresher mornings, but then they sleep in the afternoon in order to avoid the midday sun.
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History
The Glass Delusion The Glass Delusion Towards the end of the 14th century in the Parisian royal residence of Hôtel SaintPol, Charles VI, once ‘the Beloved’, became known as ‘the Mad’ due to his bouts of insanity. He suffered many delusions from forgetting his own name and title to, most unusually, wearing reinforced clothing as he believed he was made of glass so likely to shatter into millions of pieces. The curious condition spread through Paris to wealthier homes all across Europe and became popularly known as ‘The Glass Delusion’. Another famous sufferer is believed to be Tchaikovsky, as a common myth stated the young musician was terrified that if he did not hold his chin while conducting his head would fall off. Following reports of fragile heads accounts of other glass body parts appeared, from hearts to arms, as the Italian monk Tommaso Garzoni recorded. Yet suddenly, by the late 17th century, the medical mystery of Glass
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He believed he was made of glass so likely to shatter into millions of pieces. Delusion vanished as strangely as it had appeared. One explanation is that the mysterious condition is an illustration of how some illnesses can change or develop as new technologies appear.
This can be seen by looking through the history of glass. The earliest records of naturally occurring glass
date to the Stone Age where volcanic obsidian was crafted into blades but also polished to create mirrors. Then the first true glass was seen in Ancient Egypt. Isolated developments in the evolution of glass continued but it was not until the 1200’s when Venetian glass blowers began to create and popularise glass throughout Europe by making and trading stained-glass windows. Glassmaking remained in Italy, but by the 14th century the island of Murano became the new home of luxury. Here many new techniques of production were developed and a healthy trade of ornaments and mirrors was established to the wealthy. The surge in popularity and exports of new glass items correlates with Charles’ delusion so, while explaining why as the wealthiest he was the first to afford it, could explain links between unfamiliarity towards the new types of glass and the creation of the condition by it latching onto this feeling. It could also be argued the kings delusion acted as a catalyst for the spread of the
illness as Charles, while perhaps not at the centre of fashion due to his unpopularity as a weak monarch, was certainly in the public eye, so intrigue and news would have spread around glass with the new delusion attached to it. The same idea applies to the 1440’s as, after the introduction of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, the increased numbers of reading glasses correlates with a spike in cases of Glass Delusion amongst the wealthy. Glass continued to grow in popularity in the 15th to 17th centuries so accounts for why the Italian monk recorded so many cases in Italy at the hub of production. The growing popularity would suggest an increase in cases, not the dramatic decline from the late 17th century. However, while still reserved for the wealthy, it was viewed less like a new technology and by the early 20th century the delusion vanished with the introduction of mass production as it had lost all novelty and unfamiliarity. It’s impossible to
be certain of a causal relationship between the popularity of glass and cases of the delusion, but the history of each fit to create a story as intriguing as the illness itself. Technology is one of the most rapidly changing aspects of many lives and increasing numbers of activities require its use so, more than any other development, new technologies lend themselves to speculation from the 14th century to the present day.
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History
The Guinea Pig Club The Guinea Pig Club of the Second World War. This very exclusive club was started in 1941 during WW2. There were exactly six hundred and forty nine members. But there was an incredibly high price to pay for membership.
pioneer surgeon, Archibald McIndoe. He pioneered plastic surgery, hence the name of this elite club. Read on to learn more about this incredible and uplifting wartime story. Archibald McIndoe believed that treating the physical injuries was just one side of his job. He taught the damaged men to live full lives and not
when the Royal Naval Air Service was formed. But by the nineteen forties much of the war was fought in the air however, it was still comparatively new technology. The fuels that were used were not advanced and crashes often meant that even if an aircrew were not badly injured, flash fires often caused severe burns. The airmen’s faces and hands were exposed and vulnerable.
Archibald McIndoe resolved to help these men It seems strange to us today but then no-one really considered the problems that men with terribly scars would face when it came to trying to get back into society and their regular day-to-day lives. There was no counselling available and no after care until McIndoe’s methodology.
Members were all airmen who had been badly burned and disfigured in action They had all been treated by
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be ashamed of their terribly scarred faces and limbs.
Airmen in WW2 Aircraft had first been used in war some years previously
Young men and teenagers Few of the injured men had been in the forces before the war. They were just regular guys and most of them were very young. It’s easy to forget
the piano – no doubt bawdy songs were the order of the day. Some say that he chose his nursing staff well. He needed experienced and skilled nurses of course, but he also felt that attractive nurses were a morale booster for his boys. just how young they were. So many were still in their teens. They had received hasty training in how to fly, navigate or drop bombs but had no experience of war. They certainly had no experience of coping with horrific injuries.
Living a normal life McIndoe set up his facility at East Grinstead. His revolutionary and experimental plastic surgery techniques rebuilt the men who he called ‘my boys’ but he didn’t act as though they
were hospital patients. He wanted them to live as normal a life as they could whilst they were in his care. Most of his boys were mobile most of the time and he encouraged them to wear normal clothes rather than hospital gowns. He also suggested that their wear their uniforms with pride. He created barrack room atmosphere and there were always crates of beer available to help the men feel like ordinary men. He organised parties and sing-alongs around
Hospital regulations at the time didn’t allow for personal relationships developing between nurses and patients but McIndoe paid no heed to this and there were several affairs and even marriages. He included the local town in his rehabilitation process. He encouraged his boys to go into East Grinstead whenever they wanted to – for a drink at the local pub or to see a movie at the cinema. He didn’t want his men to be ashamed of their damaged faces; he wanted them to wear their JAQUO MAGAZINE
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scars with pride as they had been inflicted when they boys were serving their country.
The people of East Grinstead grew to know the men. Without pity or sympathy, they invited them to their homes for dinner or a drink. Local girls looked beyond the scars, appreciated the men behind them and were happy to go on dates or dancing with them. This wasn’t charity or sympathy – McIndoe made the townspeople realise that these boys were heroes and that it was the person that counted and not the scarred face. The boys realised – thanks to McIndoe – that their lives weren’t over because of the way they looked. He, and the townspeople, were so successful in their work and acceptance that East Grinstead became known as:
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And all the time, Archibald McIndoe was pioneering reconstructive surgery and rebuilding his boys’ faces and limbs. Six hundred and forty nine men were treated by him and entered the elite Guinea Pig Club. Because such surgery was a new field,they truly were ‘guinea pigs’. The camaraderie he engendered was astonishing. For many years after the war,the Guinea Pig Club had regular reunions. Over the years their numbers have dwindled – we have to remember that anyone who was aged twenty one when
the Second World War began would be coming up to one hundred years old today. Archibald McIndoe died aged fifty nine in 1960. But his work continues to this day. Now his foundation is making a difference to the lives of burns victims – children, people who have been in house fires and accidents and, appropriately, those returning from the war zones of today.
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MUSIC The Endless River by Pink Floyd Every year I’m given a surprise CD and this year it was Pink Floyd’s new album, which is called ‘The Endless River’. It was released late in October 2014 and quickly shot to number one in the charts around the world. The album was put together in Dave Gilmour’s amazing home studio on the river Thames just outside London. It has eighteen tracks, which are all instrumental, apart from the last track, which is called, ‘Louder Than Words’, this was written by Dave Gilmour and Polly Samson. The album is a compilation of old recordings of 20 years ago and earlier. they were 20 years ago. Compared to my other CDs, I Dave Gilmour said “This is feel as if I own something truly the last chance people have and utterly special. I almost of hearing him (Rick Wright) didn’t want to play it just so I playing along with us just like could keep it forever in pristine we used to.” Richard Wright condition, but of course I didn’t passed away in 2008, and so do that. this CD is really special. The album is a tribute to Pink The CD, as you would expect, Floyd’s early music and is very is amazing! I even adore the similar in style and feel as ‘The cover, which is a beautiful Dark Side of the Moon’, ‘Wish booklet with a picture of a man You Were Here’, and ‘Meddle’ sailing on a river of clouds in and I predict that it’s is going a rowboat, and inside it is full to be as important as these of interesting pictures and have become. The album has photographs of Pink Floyd as the specific Pink Floyd musical
sound. It’s the sort of album that you have to listen to from beginning to end, and if you do this you will have a very special experience. The first time I listened to it was in the car blasting out as we drove down a motorway. It was like going back in time revisiting a new version of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. Wow!
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My First Car – A Ford Maverick It was the year 1986 when I got my first car. It was a little brown 1970’s Ford Maverick and it quite the car. I bet you wonder why, huh? Well here’s my story. I didn’t have a car until I went to college in Michigan. It was in my second year there that I thought it was time I got something but wasn’t sure what. At the time I spent a lot of time with my boyfriend and his family. His siblings lived almost next to the campus so we got to get off campus often and hang out with them. Then one day his sister and husband said they were going to sell their car. It was Ford Maverick. They knew I was looking for something. So as we talked about it and I said I only wanted a beater that I didn’t need a new car. I just needed something to get around in and besides I didn’t have much money. Their car was an older one in the 1970’s with higher miles. It was kept up in good condition for what it was. So I checked
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it out more and decided it would be okay to buy. At least they were honest people to buy from too. I only paid $300 believe it or not. I was pretty proud of myself for paying for it all on my own; no help from my parents. So both being a beater and low dollar’s was
perfect in my eyes for my first car.
The only thing I had to do was learn to drive it. Now doesn’t that sound funny?
Why would I have to learn to drive it, right? Of course I knew how to drive. I got my license when I was 16. There was a little hitch. When you looked inside the car
to drive it. I grinded a few gears learning. Yikes, right? At least it was for me. I almost wasn’t sure I’d made the right choice. I almost backed out of the deal but once I got a little
school, to the store, to the beach nearby and even all the way home to Wisconsin on my breaks. It was a good seven hour drive. It was fun traveling back and forth in my little Ford Maverick. I learned how to do the basic service upkeep methods that helped to keep it running well Then a year later it started rusting out pretty bad underneath. The frame was falling apart. I s topped driving it just in time before the middle broke. I think I would have been quite surprised if it would broke while I was driving it. I had so many great memories. It sure had served me well for the time I had it.
it looked like an automatic but it was deceiving. It was shifter I was told. I said no it’s not, I don’t see a floor shifter. To my surprise it was a column shifter. Wow! I thought. I’d never learned to drive a shifter of any kind yet. I wasn’t so sure about that. So I had to do some practicing before I went very far. It was interesting learning
more comfortable and got the hang of it I was okay with it. I even liked it except on hills. I didn’t like the roll back. It took me a while to not do that but again with practice I was soon fine. After all that I became even more excited to finally own my very first car. After all it was such a cute little brown car. I drove it everywhere. From
Oh how I hated to part with my first car but I knew there was no choice. So with a few tears I said goodbye to my little brown Ford Maverick.
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Sunny eating... Tasty, healthy summer eating The JAQUO test kitchens have been busy creating light, delicious recipes for you - all tried and tested. Oh, but there are plenty of treats too! New recipes are added to JAQUO.com every day - be sure to drop by.
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The Main Ingredient
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Berry Ice Leftover berries? Make a Refreshing Icy Dessert With all the berries looking so appealing last week, I stocked up on strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. A little too much, I guess, since I couldn’t use all of them. So into the freezer with a portion of each. So today, I thought I’d try to make an iced dessert to use them. This one combines strawberries, raspberries, and a few blackberries. I bet blueberries would be good in it too. It came out very tasty, with only healthy ingredients. I used stevia instead of sugar, so it was also a low calorie treat. It’s lovely to have a light, icy dessert to enjoy on a warm sunny day! Plus it’s much healthier than ice cream. Berries are one of the top foods for brain health too. They pack so many nutrients that are beneficial when eaten fresh, frozen or dried. High in vitamin C, calcium, phosphate, magnesium, folate and potassium, berries
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are low in calorie besides. Strawberries only have around 50 calories in a whole cup. The Nutrients vary with each berry, but vitamin C is high in all. The flavanoids in berries strengthen brain connections. They also serve as what they call housekeepers in the brain, helping to maintain the brain and stop decline that is normally seen with aging.
Ingredients 10 oz fresh strawberries 1 cup frozen raspberries (unsweetened) 6 blackberries (or to taste) 1 lime 2 tablespoons orange juice ⅓ cup sugar or substitute (I used Truvia) Fresh berries for topping
It’s lovely to have a light, icy dessert to enjoy on a warm sunny day! Instructions 1. Partially thaw frozen raspberries. 2. Combine berries, sugar and juices in a blender until smooth. 3. Pour into dish, then freeze for 1 hour. 4. Stir, then freeze 2 or more hours. 5. When ready to serve, run through blender again for 2 minutes until smooth. 6. Top with fresh berries.
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The Main Ingredient More Recipes Zesty Italian Pasta Salad
One of my favorite summer salads is a Zesty Italian Pasta Salad. It is easy and simple to make. You can make it with plain noodles, colored noodles even pretty bow pasta. My favorite way is using colored noodles because they make the salad look so pretty look inviting with all the different colors. You can make this salad with all your favorite veggies from your garden and even a few from the store. If there is one you don’t like; you can leave it out. Some like to add cheese or pepperoni but I prefer just veggies. So whatever your preference is, this salad is for you. When I first learned to make it my friend made this with angel hair spaghetti. I love the taste but thought it would be better as a chunkier kind of salad. That is why I use the colored noodles for mine. The zesty Italian dressing that is used makes the flavor pop. This salad is great for a picnic, family gathering or church potluck. It’s especially fun
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just for summer! You can serve this salad in different servings bowls and containers. I love to use an ice cream bucket with a cow scene on it. I’ve had it for a long time which I save for special occasion or seasonal use such as summer. You’ll love this salad no doubt so don’t miss out on making it! Ingredients I pkg colored noodles 1 -2 medium tomatoes 1 small red onion ½ cup green pepper ½ cup yellow pepper ½ cup red pepper 1 can black olives 1 small cucumber 1 small bunch of broccoli 1 bottle Zesty Italian dressing Instructions Prepare noodles as directed on package.
Using a colander; drain noodles and spray cool water on them to rinse and cool. Put noodles in a clear glass serving bowl. Dice all veggies; then place them on top of cooked noodles. Then add Zesty Italian dressing and gently mix well. Cover and chill before serving. For best results, prepare the day before you wish to use. Stir a couple of times that day and prior to serving. You may need to add a little extra dressing before serving as the noodles will soak it up.
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Asian Cabbage Salad - An Asian Twist to Classic Slaw We first tasted this Asian Cabbage Salad when we lived in Hawaii, many decades ago. We would have it often, served with a stir fried dish called Beef
Tomato. It’s been a favorite of mine ever since. As you can see, it is so easy to put together, yet looks very pretty for company. You can use more or less mayo if you like. Using veganaise makes it a vegan dish as well. Normally I will serve it as a side dish with chicken or my favorite Vegetarian Wontons. It
would be perfect paired and with Fried Cauliflower Rice, and quite satisfying. (See JAQUO.com for recipes). I enjoy it so much that I’ll often have it solo for lunch or a light dinner. Love the flavor of the soy sauce with a touch of mayo. Besides being low in calories, cabbage is a
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The Main Ingredient great source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, and vitamin K, among others. Vitamin K has been shown to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. It makes a yummy, easy change from lettuce for a salad. Hope you enjoy it. Ingredients ¼ to ½ Cabbage, (I used vegetarian mayo) 2 to 3 tablespoons Mayonnaise Low sodium soy sauce Instructions Slice cabbage very thin, keeping it together. Place a serving on each plate. Spread mayonnaise lightly across cabbage. Use more or less as you like. Sprinkle with soy sauce. Bragg’s amino acids work well too. Nutritional Value of Cabbage Whenever I look at the nutritional value of various vegetables, I am always impressed and surprised. So many of the vegetables we eat every day have remarkable benefits. By the time I’m finished, it leaves me wondering why I don’t eat more veggies every day. Cabbage is a great example
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of that. It is so tasty and makes an excellent substitution when I’m not in the mood for a salad. It’s filling, so much so that I can have a dish like this for a meal. Add to that, it’s low calorie. One cup has only 22 calories. Using 1 tablespoon of regular mayonnaise at 90 calories, you can have a satisfying meal for less that 150 calories. Using a vegan mayo, you would only add 60 calories per tablespoon.
As for the health benefits, check these out: • It’s recently been learned that in addition to its other nutrients, cabbage contains a unique form of glucosinates that contribute to preventing several forms of cancer. • Good for lowering cholesterol (especially when steamed) by binding to some bile acids.
• Healing peptic ulcers. • Good for the stomach lining by helping with the regulation of bacteria in the stomach. • Aids in cardiovascular health, partly by lowering cholesterol anthocyanins in cabbage are well known as anti-inflammatories. • Since inflammation can be a risk factor for cancer, anthocyanins are another way cabbage helps prevention. • 1 cup provides nearly 80% of the recommended does of vitamin K, nearly 70 % of vitamin C, and near 20% of manganese and vitamin B6 Some of the other nutrients are: choline, potassium, B1, folate, and copper , calcium, magnesium, B2, selenium. To get the most of the nutrients, cabbage is best raw or steamed. Microwaving cabbage for only 2 minutes can destroy some of it nutrients. Cooking too long can do the same. Fortunately, cabbage is delicious raw, as in this recipe. Cut, sliced, shredded, it makes a tasty salad. It’s also good added to stir fry and soup. It’s recommended that cabbage be included in our
meals 3 to 4 times a week, in a serving size of at least 1 1/2 cups. More Ideas for Asian Cabbage Salad • This recipe can be changed up in several ways. Sometimes I will eliminate the mayonnaise completely, and just use soy sauce of Braggs amines. • Garnish this dish with chopped green onion, chives or capers. • I will often chop it, and use a tablespoon of mayo with soy sauce then toss it as you would cole slaw. It doesn’t take that much mayonnaise to have the moisture and flavor, without adding very much. • If chopping and mixing it, try adding…
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¼ cup chopped onion, chopped celery chopped cucumber sliced, chopped or grated carrots • finely sliced tomatoes, • Chopped walnuts or almonds • Sunflower seeds You probably can think of several other options. The goal is to eat more cabbage for a refreshing, light, yet filling dish.
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The Main Ingredient Luscious Strawberry Crumble what results is spectacular dessert. People will think you’ve worked all day to accomplish such deliciousness. But you haven’t because it’s easy. At the same time, it’s a matter of putting strawberries in all their glory, together with the things that showcase them the best, like brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. We usually don’t think of strawberries paired with those things, but OH! when they are, it’s like you’ve suddenly developed new taste buds.
Use That Bumper Crop of Strawberries to Make This Luscious Strawberry Crumble. Strawberries are one of the most loved fruits in the world. This is quite possibly because there are so many ways you can use them. Some years strawberries really outdo themselves and we wind up with a bumper crop.
them in a pie, crisp, crumble, buckle or scone. You can slice them fresh into salads, put them between shortcakes, use them as topping for ice cream, or top them with whipped cream or heavy cream. One of my all time-favorites is Strawberry Crumble, and I’m sharing the recipe with you on this page. Hope you enjoy making it but I know you’ll enjoy eating it.
There are a number of ways to use them, including baking
Making Strawberry Crumble isn’t that difficult to do, but
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Try the recipe and see what you think. Ingredients 2 cups strawberries, sliced ½ cup sugar 4& ½ Tablespoons butter, unsalted, cold, cut up ¾ cup oatmeal ½ cup brown sugar, packed ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg ¼ cup almonds, sliced (optional) Instructions Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a 8”x8”x2” baking dish
with ½ Tablespoon of the butter. Set aside. Mix together remaining cold butter, oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until it’s crumbly. Add chopped almonds if desired. Put sliced strawberries and ½ cup of sugar in prepared baking dish and mix lightly. Spread dry mixture evenly over strawberries. Bake about 20 minutes. If necessary, remove crumble from oven and place under preheated broiler to brown crust (about 3 minutes.) Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of ice cream.
recipe on this page is exactly like that. A Cobbler like that shown above, is usually made with a biscuit topping, with the biscuits dropped onto the fruit. Once it is baked the cobbler has the appearance of a Cobbled street, which is where the name was derived. However, my Mom used to make cobbler with pie crust, and there are people who make it with a flour and milk
What’s the difference between Crumble, Buckle, Cobbler, Grunt, Pandowdy? If you’re like me, I always wondered what the difference is between crumble, cobbler, grunt, buckle and pandowdy. mixture that rises to the top in the oven. So cobbler is a term for different things, depending on what part of the country A Crumble is simply fresh fruit you reside. with a streusel-like topping that is baked until the fruit is A Grunt is like a Cobbler done. Streusel for the top is except they’re not made in usually oatmeal and brown an oven. The fruit is stewed sugar, butter and spices. The on the top of the stove, the
biscuits are dropped onto the fruit once it begins to break down. Then the pan is covered so the biscuits steam and the sound the grunt makes while cooking is where the dish got its name. This dessert, I believe, originated in England. A Buckle has the cake on the bottom and the fruit on the top. During baking the fruit sinks to the bottom and the cake rises around it, causing it to “buckle.” Again, there are folks who call this a cobbler, depending on the area where they live. A Pandowdy is basically a deep dish fruit pie, baked with pie crust. When removed from the oven, the crust is broken with a fork, called “dowdying.” Some of the crust absorbs juices and some stays crisp. So in reality, my Mom was actually making a pandowdy without knowing it.
Here’s information I found interesting.
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The Main Ingredient Easy French Toast
This morning I woke up to a beautiful day without a single cloud in the sky. On days like these, there is nothing better than to have a leisurely breakfast at home. I went to my kitchen to see what I had and realized I had some bread that was about to go bad in a day or two. I also had exactly two eggs
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and a small amount of milk in the milk carton. If at this point, you’re thinking French Toast, you’re absolutely right because that’s exactly what I decided to make. There really is nothing simpler than this French toast. I simply improvised with what I had and made do and surprisingly, it was better than the French
toast I had at a cafe a few months ago. Honest! I also had exactly one dragon fruit and one persimmon that were ripe and sweet, which made the perfect accompaniment to the dish. If your fruit isn’t sweet enough, you can cut them up and toss them with some sugar for added sweetness.
Mint Lime Grilled Mahi-Mahi Ingredients 2 thick slices of bread 2 eggs ¼ cup milk butter cinnamon (optional) cut fruits (optional) Instructions Beat egg and milk in a bowl until combined. Soak each bread slice in the egg mixture until completely soaked. Butter the frying pan and cook each bread slice for 3 minutes or until golden brown. Flip the bread slices and cook the other side until golden brown. Sprinkle with fresh ripe fruits, cinnamon and maple syrup if desired.
Ingredients Juice of 2 medium limes 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 medium cloves of garlic, finely chopped ¼ cup dry white wine 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves 1½ lbs thick mahi-mahi or other firm white fish Instructions Combine all the ingredients except the fish in a small bowl. Score the fish several times. Pour the marinade over the
fish and coat on both sides. Place in the refrigerator for 1½ to 2 hours, turning from time to time and spooning the marinade over the fillets. Towards the end of the marinating time, start the charcoal or gas grill. Take a large sheet of foil and poke holes in it (small enough to keep the fish away from the grill but plentiful enough to let the smoke come through). Place the foil on the grill and, trying to avoid the holes, spoon on some of the marinade. Add the fish and cook for 8 to ten minutes on each side, basting as you turn.
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The Main Ingredient Best Peanut Butter Cookies These truly are the very best peanut butter cookies that I have ever tasted. They are never dry and never sticky. What these cookies are is absolutely delicious.
This is a simple recipe that does not fail no matter how many times you use it. Now this recipe is yours to enjoy. When my friend said it was a fool proof recipe, I almost didn’t believe her, but it is. Sometimes peanut butter cookies come out too dry, other times they come out sticky, but not with this recipe. So pop on your pretty little apron, preheat your oven to 325 degrees, and get set to taste the best homemade peanut butter cookies that have ever come out of your oven.
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Ingredients 1 cup white sugar 1 egg ¾ cup smooth peanut butter ¾ cup soft margarine 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 & ¾ cup flour ½ teaspoon baking soda Instructions Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Blend together your first 5 ingredients. At this stage your peanut butter cookie batter should be nice and creamy. Mix your flour and baking soda into your peanut butter cookie batter.
Your peanut butter cookie dough should now be thick and sticky. Press the peanut butter cookie dough balls with a fork to flatten them. Bake your peanut butter cookies for 10 to 12 minutes at 325 degrees. Try not to over cook your cookies. Let your peanut butter cookies sit on the tray for a couple minutes to cool before you remove them. These are the very best peanut butter cookies so gobble some down before the rest of the family get them.
Peanut butter nutrition. Okay we all know that cookies can be high in sugar and calories. The good news is that cookies can also be good for you when you use ingredients in them that have a high nutrition content. Peanut butter cookies are actually quite sound in their nutritional content. It is rich in protein, Vitamin E, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Manganese, Magnesium, and Phosphorous. Peanut butter does have a high fat content but it contains zero trans fats (They are those nasty fats that clog your arteries). Peanut butter also has no cholesterol. When it comes to cookies the delicious protein rich peanut butter cookie is quite a nutrition laden cookie to snack out on. It also goes great with a nice relaxing cup of tea.
Summer Recipes
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Summertime Recipes Keep Cool With Quick And Easy Summertime Recipes Don’t turn on that oven, or that range top burner on hot days! Keep your house cool and feed your family quick and easy recipes, with no cooking.
needn’t be just a crunchy accompaniment, they can also be a hearty meal. The key to making them more satisfying, is to use protein in whatever form you prefer. These recipes on this page all contain meat, but if you’re vegan you will know how to substitute those protein sources you use.
Cool Tips: Keep a cool head…along with the rest of you. A Few Tips To Make Summertime Easier.
There are five main dish salads in this article that will keep your house cool in the summer. This is your opportunity to serve your family food that not only helps them defeat the heat, but is also good for them, and they won’t even kick about it. Plus, with the help of a few ready-made ingredients, you can keep your cool too. Hearty and Satisfying Salads Often we think of a salad as something we eat alongside our main course. But salads
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One of the best things you can do in the summer heat, is to make it as easy on yourself as possible.
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cooked chicken strips in the bag. If you would rather cook the meat yourself, do it early in the day and refrigerate it. By dinner, the house will be cool. Buy as much as possible that is already done such as bagged salad greens. Some stores even carry hard-boiled eggs, take advantage of that. Shop for your selected extra ingredients such as beans, cheese, tomatoes, wine vinegar, etc. When making your salad your main dish, use meat, cheese, fish or your selected source of protein as the main ingredient.
Check out five of my favorite main dish salads below. Remember, the key is to keep that range and oven turned off, and yet still have enough satisfaction from your meal. Happy Summer!
Italian Tuna Salad • Decide the recipe you plan to make before going to the market, and make a list of the ingredients needed. • Buy a roasted chicken or sliced beef from the grocery Deli, or buy pre-
Healthful and Delicious This Italian tuna salad does not contain mayonnaise, but a dressing made from wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar and olive oil, all of
which are better for your body. Make it early in the day so all the ingredients have
with flaked tuna. Pour olive oil and vinegar mixture over salad and mix lightly. Refrigerate and serve cold on lettuce leaves. Add salt and pepper as desired. Serve with crusty Italian bread.
Chinese Chicken Salad time to marinate well. Serve on cold lettuce leaves with crusty Italian bread, and it’s a delicious, satisfying meal.
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Prep time: 10 min Ready in: 10 min Yields: 2-3 servings Ingredients: 1 large can albacore tuna, water packed, drained and flaked 1 bell pepper, chopped 2 Roma tomatoes, chopped 1 purple onion, chopped 3 stalks celery, chopped 1 teaspoon garlic, minced ¼ cup wine vinegar 6 Tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper to taste 4 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar
Here’s my recipe for Chinese Chicken Salad, made with chicken, cellophane noodles, fresh cilantro, lettuce and a soy-based dressing. I adapted this recipe from one I had eaten at a restaurant years ago, which is no longer in business. I longed for this salad so much, that I kept working at it at home until I felt I had it close enough to the flavor I’d enjoyed so long ago. Preparation: Mix together olive oil, balsamic This recipe is the result and I’m quite proud of it. vinegar, wine vinegar, and minced garlic. Prep time: 10 min Chop all vegetables and mix
Ready in: 10 min Yields: 4-5 Servings Ingredients: 2 cups chicken breast, shredded 1 package lettuce salad, ready made or fresh 5 green onions, sliced ½ bag cellophane noodles, fried according to package directions ½ cup poppy seed dressing 2 Tablespoons soy sauce 2 Tablespoons chopped cilantro 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil Preparation: Combine soy sauce with poppy seed dressing. Combine all meat and vegetables. Serve on salad plate lined with fried cellophane noodles Drizzle with poppy seed/soy dressing.
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South of the Border Flavor
in a large bowl, stirring well. Add beef and next 4 To keep the heat in your ingredients, tossing gently to house down, get your sliced combine. cooked beef from the grocery Serve immediately or cover deli. Once you have that, the and chill up to 8 hours, if rest of the preparation is a desired. breeze. Of course, Cumin To serve, arrange lettuce on provides the South of the each of four individual serving Border flavor, but the twist plates. here is the Italian dressing. Spoon salad evenly over The two flavors bond very lettuce. Serve with warm well, and this Mexican Beef tortillas. Salad has that distinctive flavor of Old Mexico. Color and Nutrition Go Prep time: 10 min Ready in: 10 min Yields: 4 Ingredients: ½ cup Italian dressing ½ teaspoon ground cumin 4-ounces (about 2/3 cup) lean beef, shredded, roasted 1 15-ounce can kidney beans or black beans, rinsed and drained ¾ cup (3 ounces) Monterey Jack Cheese with peppers, shredded or cubed 1 (11-ounce) can Mexicanstyle corn, drained 1 ½ cups (about 4 medium) plum tomatoes, finely chopped 4 lettuce leaves Preparation: Combine dressing and cumin
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Together Science says one of the best things you can do for your body is to eat a wide variety of colorful vegetables. Every color seems to have an ingredient that is necessary to our health. When you eat a salad, with many different vegetables, you’re insuring your intake of healthful vitamins and minerals.
Fruity Chicken Salad Pitas Remember, the object of this article is to keep you cool while providing you and your family with nutritious meals. Buy a roast chicken from the deli in your supermarket so you don’t have to cook.
The part of the chicken you don’t use can be saved for another cool meal, an economical use of a prepared ingredient. Prep time: 15 min Ready in: 15 min Yields: 6 Ingredients: ¹/3 cup mayonnaise ¼ teaspoon salt 2 ½ cups chicken breast, chopped cooked 1 cup red grapes, halved seedless 2 Tablespoons pecans, toasted, chopped 1 (11-ounce) can mandarin oranges 6 lettuce leaves, small green 3 (6-inch) whole wheat pita bread rounds, cut in half Preparation: Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl, stirring well. Gently stir in oranges. Place 1 lettuce leaf in each pita pocket half. Spoon ¾ cup chicken salad into each pita half.
Always Wash All Salad Ingredients Always wash your salad ingredients before using, including bell peppers, avocados, onions, etc. Wash the greens that say they are pre-washed, because you can’t be too careful, when it comes to the health of your family. Once you’ve washed the greens they need to be dried, because otherwise the dressing doesn’t cling to the ingredients. The easiest way to wash greens and have them dry and ready to eat is with a salad spinner. If you’ve never used one of these, when you buy one, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it. It’s a lot easier and less time consuming than drying each leaf with a paper towel as I used to do!
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Quick and Easy Vegetarian Recipe: Left-Over Lettuce Soup.
This recipe for lettuce soup is part of my frugal cooking series, providing cheap, easy and healthy recipes for vegetarians. Soups are always great value both in health and cost terms and I am always experimenting with whatever I have in the house. So when I had half a head of iceberg lettuce left just beginning to go limp the obvious choice was to make a soup.
I tend not to bother much with measurements so these are approximate – so live a little – take a chance on getting it right. The amount here equals 3 servings and cost only 88p for the whole pot of soup. At 107 calories per serving and no extra fat added you can’t lose. Well maybe a little weight! JAQUO MAGAZINE
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Preparation and Cooking Time Takes only a few minutes to clean and chop the vegetables. Cooks in 25 minutes. What you’ll need I have made this without adding extra fat to make a very low calorie soup but if you prefer you can use a tablespoon of vegetable oil to fry the onions and other vegetables before adding the stock. Serves: 3 portions Serving size: 1 serving Calories: 107 Fat: 1 g Ingredients Half a head iceberg lettuce 1 medium onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 quarter pint vegetable stock/broth 1 medium size potato, diced handful frozen peas 1 teaspoon mixed herbs 1 tablespoon Greek Yoghurt, to serve Instructions Shred lettuce into a soup-pot Add all the ingredients and mix well Bring to the boil Reduce heat and simmer for 25 minutes Remove from heat and use a hand blender (stick blender) to make a smooth soup.
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I usually leave a few of the potatoes whole. Serve with low-fat Greek Yoghurt to add a great hit of protein.
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Basil Pesto Recipe My family and I had already liked Pesto, especially made with basil. Then one year after I had gotten back into gardening, I decided to grow sweet basil and parsley in my garden. We were looking forward to having a fresh batch of homemade pesto with fresh ingredients. Wow, were we impressed. It certainly does make a big difference in flavor when you can use fresh ingredients from the garden. Sometimes we purchase fresh ingredients from the grocery store, in the off seasons, and that is pretty good. But if you have the place the grow some of your own, I’m sure that you will enjoy this recipe that much more.
Instructions Start a large pot of water on the stove to boil. While it is boiling, add the pasta and stir. Depending on your pasta, add oil or salt to help keep the pasta from sticking. While the pasta is cooking, assemble the remaining seven ingredients in to a blender and blend until pureed. Remove the cooked pasta from the water and place in a large bowl. Stir in the pureed pesto mixture into the pasta. Enjoy.
We usually go back for seconds of this recipe, so I would say that it serves four. There are three of us and we usually do have some left overs.
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TRAVEL Places
Charleston, South Carolina: A Historic Vacation We’re lucky enough to have family living in Charleston. If we didn’t have family living there I don’t know if we would have ever have considered taking a vacation there. What a mistake that would be, as we’ve traveled there many times to visit and every time there is something new to see and do. As you know this is where the Civil War started, when confederate soldiers fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, which was occupied by Union forces. This was known as the first shot fired in the Civil War. Okay enough history; you can read this anywhere on line. What I want to tell you are some of the fun things that we like to do when we visit Charleston.
from this beach. On our last visit, some mornings we would grab our coffee and take the short drive to the beach. It’s peaceful to just sit there and watch the waves splash in. We walked the beach and collected some beautiful sea shells. We’ll later use these seashells to do some crafts with our grandchildren. This is a photo of the pier at Folly Beach on James Island.
The beach is so very peaceful in the morning, and if you can get there early enough to see the sun rise it’s a beautiful sight. Although we didn’t do this every day, come I’m on vacation right. Folly Beach is on James Island, and this is where our relatives live, about a mile
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Take a day to visit the huge outside market in downtown
Charleston, we like walking through and stopping to see the many vendors and their wares. You’ll find everything here from fine art to the smallest trinket to take
home as a keepsake. There are some very talented people, who hand weave these baskets. Well, it’s hard to see the people in this photo, but I really wanted you to see the baskets. As you walk through, you’ll see them throughout the market crafting their baskets. We have purchased several; after all you can never have enough baskets, right? Some of them are a bit pricey, but most time the vendors a willing to make a deal. Take the carriage ride guided tour of the city. These tours have so many different routes around the city, and you can take a different one every time. It’s a beautiful ride through the
Places to Visit on any of our trips, but I know that we’ll be there again, and the next time, we will add this tour on our things to do list.
streets of Old Charleston, the tour guides are well versed on the history of the city, and the horses are very friendly too. If you’re going to visit Charleston, put this on your things to do list, you won’t be sorry. This is the tour that we have taken a couple of times. The Palmetto Carriage Tour is an hour long carriage ride through the city. The tour guides are well versed on the history of the city.
As I walk through the streets of this historic city. I can’t help but think of all the generations that have lived in these homes. These homes have been here for more than 100 years, the history just pours out of them. After the war, Charleston didn’t have a lot of money to rebuild so they restored and restored, keeping the old buildings for us to enjoy.
Walk around the city just to enjoy the beauty and soak in the history of Old Charleston. Walking along the Battery off in the distance you can see Fort Sumter. I begin to imagine that first shot fired that started the civil war, oh the history in Charleston.
This is my favorite thing to do as I see something new every time we take a walk around the city. These are some of the things we like to do when we visit Charleston. There is so much more to enjoy here, wonderful restaurants and There are tours of Fort Sumter parks to visit. every day. Although this is something we haven’t done
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Someone recently asked me where I went on my favorite vacation. What came to mind, first and foremost, was camping in various national parks here in the United States. The pristine beauty within our parks always puts them at the top of my list. Every time
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I visit one I feel like I belong, as though I’ve come home. Home to natural beauty and a sense of peace, away from the material things that often only add stress to our lives.
it very much. In many parks where you wander you can still sense what it must have been like to come upon the valleys and the mountains spread out before you.
Sometimes it feels like I am a descendant of John Muir. Strictly wishful thinking on my part, though I would like
Those views and moments are still ours to cherish, much as John Muir (or those who wandered before him) must
Places to Visit have felt at first view. What an awe inspiring moment each must have been. Imagine what the early explorers first saw‌ Imagine if you were to first view the Sierra Nevadas, Donner Pass, or perhaps Lake Tahoe. Think how amazing it must have been, isolated, surrounded by forest. You might think you had seen the very best
at that moment. Then you wander into the Yosemite Valley, gazing across a beautiful green meadow at Half Dome. The spectacular can definitely be seen in Yosemite. Moving south you happen upon Sequoia with its enormous and ancient redwood trees. A little further out you stumble to a halt at the
edge of the Grand Canyon. I wonder if John Muir had seen the ocean. Picture him in the tallest redwoods, the dark, quiet forest in Northern California, stepping from the trees to see the Pacific ocean roaring below the cliffs. Those are only a few, but each park holds incredible vistas still seen today—by millions
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actually. Yet even in some of the most crowded parks, such as Yosemite, you can still get away from everyone, find quiet, lonely, beautiful spots to listen in silence to what you can find there. The national parks offer wonderful hikes to lakes, waterfalls, scenic viewpoints, gentle streams, roaring rivers and the ocean. Towering pines and redwoods so old you have to consider what all they have seen. Unique desert landscapes that hold secrets of their own. View into our past through the layers of the Grand Canyon or in the glaciers in Glacier National Park. Thankfully, the National Park system has preserved them and will continue to do so. At one time I assumed every state would have a national park. Why I don’t know! Wrong, definitely. How many National Parks are there? In the huge expanse of the United States, there are only 59 designated National Parks. Those parks are contained within only 27 states. Of those national parks set aside in the United
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States, California contains nine of them. That is more than any other state, though Alaska comes close with eight.
The very first park to be designated was Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, back in 1872.
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On March 1st of that year then President Ulysses S Grant signed the act that made it so. Yosemite and Sequoia were the 2nd and 3rd to be named National Parks, both in 1890. On a little side note, there was one other before Yosemite and Sequoia, that was made a national park. That was Mackinac Island in northern Michigan. It occupied the land adjacent to Fort Mackinac. When the
fort closed, the state asked for the parkland back! It was granted in 1895 and became Michigan’s first state park, on the condition it would remain a park. Otherwise it would revert back to federal. National Park vs National Forest: What’s the difference? Have you noticed signs along the highways wherever that
claim to be national lands of some sort? There are many throughout California at least, giving you the impression of far more parkland that the 59 designated. Many of those are distinguished as national forests or national monuments, not national parks. There are also preserves, often attached to national parks. So, what is the difference? JAQUO MAGAZINE
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Both the national parks and the national forests are there to preserve natural beauty and protect the land. National parks are natural spaces set up to handle and encourage visitors. That means trails, parking, and more facilities, restricted use. Hunting is not be allowed
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in most of the national parks. And, as said above, there are only 59 national parks.
forests and 20 grasslands.
National Park land totals less than half that at 84 million National forests again preserve acres. Nearly two thirds of the natural space, but the land that land–55 million acres—is is managed for timber, wildlife, found in Alaska alone. grazing, and more. In the In addition to the forests, you United States, national forest will find 49 National Historic land totals 193 million acres. parks, 19 preserves, and That is contained in the 155 106 national monuments,
Places to Visit California, or Olympia National Park in Washington state, or any of those in between. Each is beautiful. Each is unique. Each offers its own solitude. The national parks are a wonder to explore. I’d take that any day over a big city. What about you?
plus recreational areas on lakes, seashores, scenic rivers and trails, battlefields and historical sights. Some areas are very small, others very large. Which is the largest park? When I first learned that Yellowstone National Park was larger than Delaware and Rhode Island together, I was impressed. That totals nearly 3500 square miles. But most of the parks in Alaska are far larger than that. The largest in the United States is Wrangell-St Elias. That park alone is just over 13,000 square miles. Gates of the Arctic, 11,750 square miles. Even Denali, further south,
contains 7,408 square miles. After reading the size of those, I learned that the largest national park in the world is in Greenland with a total of 375,000 Square miles! It’s hard to comprehend that large a park. It’s larger than many entire countries. Surprisingly, because of its inaccessibility, it usually gets an average of 500 visitors a year. If you haven’t already, visit the park nearest you. Or plan a trip west to see several of them in one trip. They are spread out throughout the nation, from Acadia National Park in Maine, down to Key Biscayne or the Everglades in Florida. See Joshua Tree in Southern
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Did you know? The Matterhorn July of 2015 will be a very special month for the town of Zermatt in Switzerland! Why? Well let’s just put it this way, when men/women are asked why they do “risky, dangerous, mind thrilling, crazy, physically draining and exhilarating” things, most of the time the answer starts with…..”Because”, and ends with, “it was there……. and no one had done it before!” So it is with the sleepy town of Zermatt in Switzerland, home to one of the most dangerous peaks in the world, the Matterhorn! Whether people have seen this mountain up close and personal, or just been witness to it’s beauty through pictures, the mountain and it’s shape are iconic and the mere 4,478 metres to the top(14,692 ft.) makes it among the top 10 highest mountains in Switzerland. The mountain is easily recognizable for the 4 faces that seem to point to the 4 major directions on the compass. First climbed on July 14,
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1865 it ascent went smoothly but the descent was tragic. An Englishman, Edward Whymper, along with Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas and Douglas Hadow and three guides(Croz, and father and son team Peter and Peter
Taugwalder Jr) conquered the mountain but on the descent, Hadow slipped, knocking Croz (one of the guides) off the mountain face and then following right behind, Hudson and Douglas tethered by ropes followed
Places to Visit down the north face of the mountain to their deaths. The two Taugwalders, and Whymper managed to make it back down the face of the mountain, because the rope that tethered them all together snapped. While this was not a good thing in general, in this case, it was lifesaving and the reason that these three managed to make their way back down the mountain.
is rocky and exposed to the elements. The climb has been done in much less time, by those who would be considered “speed climbers�. In 2013 a Catalan mountain climber/racer, 25 year old, Kilian Jornet, set a new speed record of 2 hours 52 minutes and 2 seconds, to go up and come down the mountain. That time, shattered the record set by Italian Bruno Brunod in 1995.
Every year the mountain claims some lives. The Matterhorn is not for the uninitiated climber, rather it is a mountain that requires respect and strength from those who would take its challenge.
Most people that climb are not speed climbers, they do however, have lots of climbing experience. Yet the mountain does claim about 12 deaths annually. Most of these are due to falls, inexperience, underestimation of the mountain, bad weather and falling rocks.
To make it to the top and back down again takes about 10 hours for the experienced climber. Most of the climb
If you have never travelled to Switzerland before, you might
like to make the effort to get there this year. The Canton of Valais and the town of Zermatt will be hosting many special events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of that first climb. Mountain climbing is not the only activity to do in Zermatt, there are many wonderful places to bike, hike, take a tram, or a lift and just enjoy the beauty of the Mountains all
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London’s Hidden History Remains of the Old London Bridge A bridge has spanned the Thames between the City of London and Southwark on the site of a natural causeway since the original Roman crossing was built in AD50.
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Since the conquest it has evolved over time and existed in countless different forms, one of the most famous being the medieval ‘Old London Bridge’ which was finished under the reign of King John in 1209 and survived until 1762. Though only 8m wide it was 270m long and by the Tudor era hosted a haphazardly placed row of more than 200 shops. Drawings depict
comical ratios between the bridge foundations and seven-storey high buildings overhanging the river and encroaching on the street – making crossings last up to an hour! At the end of the 18th century it was over 600 years old and congestion was becoming so serious the mayor ruled that all traffic from Southwark
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should keep to the west side and traffic from the City should keep to the opposite side; it is said this is the origin of driving on the left in Britain. The precariously stacked buildings of the old bridge have long since been demolished, yet a few fragments of the stonework remain scattered across the city. One of the best surviving examples is the old pedestrian entrance which now forms an arched pathway under the St Magnus the Marytr’s church tower. Aldgate Pump A water pump was first installed here upon an old well head in the sixteenth century and then in the eighteenth century replaced by the stone water pump seen today. Despite standing overlooked at a bustling junction in the financial district, Aldgate Pump remains a hidden statue to the areas gruesome past. Today the pump is no longer functional but in 1876, before being linked to the mains water supply, it was served by an underground stream. At first the people of Aldgate, unaware of the
also resembles less grisly events such as marking the official point at which the East End starts and where mileages east of London are calculated from. London Wall
oncoming horror story, said the water contained healthy minerals but soon began to complain of an unusual taste which was quickly linked to the many recent deaths in the area.
Around 2000 years ago there was a 4km defensive wall built by the Romans around the settlement of Londinium. William I’s march on London 1000 years later found the enclosed City of London to be harder to conquer so eventually special privileges were granted to encourage peace with the city.
An investigation made the shocking discovery that, as the water was being channelled past the new cemeteries in the city; calcium had leached out from human bones and into the water! Yet by the 1920s the water quality had been turned around to the extent Whittard’s tea merchants even filled For example, it is said the City their kettles at the pump – of Westminster was expanded declaring it the best water for in an attempt to draw power tea tasting. Today the pump JAQUO MAGAZINE
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and wealth west from the City of London. Today the City of London still holds special rules and customs – one is that the Queen has to ask permission before entering as the people ‘still retain their ancient privilege of being able to bar the Sovereign from entering their streets.’ The ancient wall was only maintained until the 18th century but around fourteen sections have survived and now sit in a disjointed arc above the Thames. All Hallows-by-the-Tower The oldest church in the City of London was founded by the Abbey of Barking in 675AD. It became known as ‘All Hallows Barking’ and then in 300 years ‘All Hallows-by-the-Tower’ due to its proximity to the Tower of London. In future decades it would survive explosions, fires and the Blitz but still continue its job as a church. In the 1500s it was popular with monarchs, such as Edward
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IV, who made it a royal chantry meaning executions at the Tower were sent for temporary burial at All Hallows and in 1797 John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the USA, was married at All Hallows. Over the years it has undergone many reconstructions to become a mix of architectural styles and despite its dramatic history still sits on Roman foundations against the surrounding walls of 21st century glass.
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How to Keep Out of Trouble When Traveling Overseas.
Traveling overseas is a very exciting thing to do especially • if you’re young and on a gap year, or if you have just finished university. One of the best things about traveling is meeting people with different cultural backgrounds, habits and standards to your own, but it is these very differences that can get you into trouble. When people go traveling overseas they are at risk of offending the host nation by behaving inappropriately, and ignorance is absolutely no excuse.
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Here are some examples of the kind of taboos that are very particular to certain countries. Being unaware of these may not get you thrown in jail, but they will cause great embarrassment:
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because the head is regarded as the home of the soul. And while we’re in Thailand, criticize their royal family at your peril – don’t even think about doing it! Watch out – your hand gestures can be offensive in some countries. For example a thumbs up sign is extremely offensive in Bangladesh and Iran, and a V sign (with the palm turned inwards) is swearing in the UK. The OK sign is also shocking in many parts of the world. So, my advice is simple, try very hard not to speak with your hands! The left hand is considered unclean in many Asian and Arabic countries, so if you’re in a place that does not use cutlery, always eat with your right hand, even if you’re left handed. No open kissing or cuddling on beaches, or any other public place in Middle Eastern countries. You will be arrested and be in BIG trouble. Remove your shoes before entering a mosque, no matter what country you are in. In Japan it is illegal to wear purple unless you are mourning a death.
Yes illegal! • In Italy it’s very rude to turn up without a small gift, usually food, if you’re invited to someone’s home. • In China do not stick your chopsticks upright in your rice bowl; it is a very bad
omen because it reminds Chinese people of the incense they burn in shrines. Of course every country has its own customs – these are just a few examples. All the information you’ll need about any country in the world is on Wikitravel or Google – so take a minute to do some research before you are offline, then you won’t be have to say, ‘oh I’m so sorry, but I didn’t know!’
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The World’s Biggest Bicyclist Big Ben Cyclist Statue Could you imagine driving along then all of a sudden the see the largest most gigantic cyclist statue ever? That happened to us this summer while vacationing in Southern Wisconsin. We were down by Sparta and heard about it at the gas station. We just had to go by and see it. I’ve know about it but had never seen it before. So we drove on down the street and there it was.
You couldn’t miss it for the world. It is ginormous! You’ll find this Big Ben Cyclist statue in downtown Sparta, Wisconsin. Located on Hwy 16 and Water St at the end of the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail. The bike trail that it represents is 32 miles long with three railroad tunnels. I’ve been on parts of the trail in my high school days. Big Ben is his name and he’s and old fashioned cyclist from the Gay Nineties era. His sits atop a Victorian cycle. The statue is 32 ft high. Its very impressive! Sparta is considered the Bicycle Capital of America. So it makes sense for this statue to represent its town and bike trail. You don’t want to miss seeing this if you are in the area.
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Let’s cross the bridge to see the most exciting largest bicyclist ever.
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There he is up so high! He goes by the name Big Ben and he is from the Gay Nineties era which refers to the 1890s but used in the 1920s when a artist Richard V. Culter first released drawings titled Gay Nineties. Ben is the world’s largest bicyclist and located in downtown Sparta, Wisconsin at the end of the Elroy-Sparta State Bike Trail. Ben sits 32-foot high and is on a one wheel bicycle. The statue was built in the 1990s by a local company called the F.A.S.T Corporation. Sparta is the Bicycling Capital of America. Ben represents the bike trail created from an old abandoned railroad bed. When first built, the base he sat on talked – since then it has been replaced with cement stone base. Ben still talks and tells you about the trail and Sparta attractions in another statue which you see on the right. Just press the button and he speaks. The bridge we took a walk
over to get to Ben Bikin was built in 2011. This serves as a pedestrian and snowmobile bridge. It crosses a stream and is a nice easier access to the park and trail.
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Fancy a New Experience?
The other day while watching TV I saw a 95 year old woman skydiving. It was a birthday present from her family. She threw herself into the air and looked as though she was having the time of her life. She wasn’t even on holiday! Even though new experience holidays are all the rage you can have a new experience at any time of year. There is probably something very close to home that you could do this very weekend, such as hot air ballooning, horse riding, climbing, or perhaps
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you’d enjoy wine tasting or learning a new skill. DoSomethingDifferent is a company that specializes in finding and booking you into great experience days, trips, and excursions. Their site is full of wonderful ideas of things to do all over the world. Their activities are often much cheaper than you would pay as an individual turning up to buy tickets. This is because they can book things in bulk and secure discounts. New experience holidays are all the rage, which is not
surprising given that more and more people are looking for excitement and adventure while they’re on vacation. People are quite simply sick and tired of sitting on beaches! Research shows that adventure holidays are on the rise, which is great news. Some excursions are so popular that it makes sense to book them well in advance. Doing so could avoid bitter disappointment especially if you have
travelled a long way in order to do the activity. Imagine going skiing and finding there is a waiting list for the equipment you need to hire? Or being in New York and not able to go on that fantastic helicopter ride after all! Also, booking in advance will save you time if you are away during the popular months of the year because that’s when everyone else travels. You could waste a lot of time queuing to get into museums or events unless you have tickets in advance. It’s a great feeling when you can go to the front of the queue. I did just that when I was in Rome at the coliseum. Finally, new experience days make fantastic gifts DoSomethingDifferent.com have driving day experiences for example, and even have wonderful ideas for wedding gifts.
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STYLE
Art
Four Faces of Happiness What makes us happy? Here are just four faces of happiness, as depicted by artists whose work I admire. Friendship The late, Beryl Cook, one of my favourite artists, captures a night out: a group of women friends unwind and have a good laugh together. The woman in the foreground, cracking-up with laughter, makes me happy every time I see it. To be able to relax with friends, say daft, easy things. Priceless.
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farmer had even sprayed his flock of sheep yellow. On the day the tour passed through, the roads were closed and the townsfolk began to party.
Love This wood engraving by Beth Krommen of the mother feeding her child symbolises the physical and emotional closeness and intimacy that flows from being close to a cherished and animate being. We all need this in our life.
All along the length of the town, and the roads leading into and out of it, people gathered in groups, chatted, laughed, drank wine, danced and jigged to the music spilling out of the houses. It felt good to be part of this place. It meant home, friendship, neighbourliness, community. Contentment
Community The John Lawrence wood engraving of the dancers represents the unity and sense of belonging we can feel when part of any community – be it a neighbourhood, workplace, congregation, whatever. Earlier in 2014 the Tour de France came through the
middle of our small town. With a week to go before the race local folk had decorated the town yellow. Bunting hung from every shop. Hundreds of teeshirts had been knitted or sewn in tour colours and hung from railings, in shop windows and on trees. Bicycles painted or decorated yellow began to appear outside shops, on top of shops, inside shops; everywhere. Shopkeepers and local residents hoisted baskets of yellow flowers outside their property – and it was rumoured one local JAQUO MAGAZINE
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Happiness is fleeting. Over-striving for it can be counter-productive. What matters more is contentment. Aiming for contentment in life is a more realistic ambition. What gives me contentment? The engraving by Rachel Reckitt of the reader sprawled on the grass sums it up for me. Some quiet ‘me’ time, with a book, a movie on DVD, some wine. More wine. Contentment. What scene would you draw to represent happiness in your life?
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Modernity’s Torments, Trials, Travails I was attempting to purchase produce. “For me,” I said to the unhearing automated check-out device at the grocery store as I frantically searched for the for a pic of the apposite avocado cultivar (Hass? Florida?) “this self-service is getting a bit too selfie.” As a youngster, I had calculatedly observed that ringing-up and bagging groceries was not a ticket to the top. Aptitude with an NCR mechanical cash register provided far fewer rewards than facility with FORTRAN on an IBM mainframe. The division of labor seemed quite fixed—each according to his highest and best abilities and together we could accomplish great things—Nile Canal, Hoover Dam, lunar missions, Velcro, and Waterproof Maybelline Ultra Big Lash Mascara…
No man is an islet. Or an eyelet. (I’m getting confused– is an atoll an eyelet of an islet?) Nevertheless, my point is if all of us were left to our devices, we’d still be hunting and gathering on a Rift Valley savannah. Yet increasingly, one is expected to be a JumpinJack-Flash-of-all-trades. At the grocery, checking-out, bagging, and paying with a card and an insufficiently clandestine code. “For our customers’ convenience,” the giant food distribution channel entices. This enterprise also terms its employees “associates” rather than the more apropos appellation “monetized serfs.” Savings in money is made up for by the uncounted cost of customer’s time—time is money and not every man’s time is of equal value. A skilled vascular brain surgeon is perhaps not best occupied bagging groceries. I pondered this niggling notion while self-checking out with my friend Dr. Tarrant:
a Brit with a PHD, a tenured professorship at a Southern US University, and a wife and children in New Zealand. He has the greatest job— taking students to explore cultures in the Pacific—NZ, Fiji, Easter Island, others. A Captain Cook with frequent flyer miles. He holds three passports. “Dr. T,” I said as we scanned peaches “I really don’t think this is your highest and best use. Anyway, why do you think that guy cut down the last life-sustaining tree on Easter Island?” “It probably seemed like a good idea at the moment.” Once there was “a grocer’s daughter from Grantham” and an ambitious boy from Dixon, Illinois. Whatever one thinks, one must admit Maggie and Ronnie changed the world.
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After each nest is laid, the nest is marked, labelled and taped off by the nest is covered back up, marked with 4 stakes, the stakes are tied with bright colored tape and the distance from the nest to the water and to the grass line is measured and recorded on an official form.
The stakes are marked with the nest location, the current date, and the expected hatch out date, which averages 55 days after the nest date.
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Wildlife
A Sea Turtle’s Soliloquy Long before Florida’s beaches were settled by humans the shores belonged to the sea turtles. Every year between April and November the greens, the loggerheads and leatherbacks make the long ocean journey back to the sands of their birth. Andy Royston tells their extraordinary story.
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I arrived at the shore at the usual time, around a half hour before sunrise, crossed over towards the dunes and headed for the shore. It it wasn’t for the presence of that morning’s Sea Turtle patrol, who had spotted her tracks I might have missed her completely. Moma green was selecting a spot for her nest and the light was growing. I watched and wondered what she was going through. Seaturtles of all kinds like to lay their nests under cover of darkness. They’ve been coming to the beach here along the eastern coast of Florida for thousands of years, but within the last half century their nesting grounds have been hugely disrupted and – thanks to our appetites for seafood – their numbers have without doubt fallen alarmingly. “The Southeast’s nesting loggerheads swim thousands of miles through an obstacle course of human-made hazards. Protected beach habitat will help ensure that when they reach our
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beaches, exhausted and ready to nest, they’re met with true southern hospitality: plenty of food, good conditions for nesting, and safe beaches for hatchlings to leave their nests so they may someday return to continue the cycle of life.” Jaclyn Lopez, a Florida attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
Our beaches here in Fort Lauderdale are thankfully a part of 739 miles of protected shorelines along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Thousands of volunteers spend summer nights and mornings looking out for nesting turtles, and its so gratifying to see another new nest being marked out.
But to witness a nest being laid in the morning light is something very special. In six years of walking the sands I’ve only witness one before, and that was in the wee small hours. Here this green turtle had taken her own sweet time about it, making sure that her nest was positioned just so. Greens (unlike loggerheads, who don’t mind open sands) prefer to position their nests higher up the beach in the undergrowth, so this momma sea turtle was digging her nest between the dunes and the sea wall, and the light was growing.
As the daylight grew I was concerned that this would disturb the whole nesting process – I’ve seen many a ‘false crawl’ where the tracks up the beach suddenly stop and head back to the ocean. But there was nothing at all to worry about. There were a few of us humans keeping a discrete distance, but she paid us no mind. Once her eggs were laid she began kicking up a sandstorm to cover up the location completely. The mother turtle typically digs a nest cavity about three feet deep and deposits about 100 egg before
she leaves them to their fate. Here, after a moment or two to re-orient herself, she set off back to the ocean, her morning’s work finally done. The hatchlings would not be due to emerge for over six weeks, after which emerge and scramble off towards the water. Those that reach maturity may live to eighty years in the wild – and male turtles will almost never set foot on dry land again. Sea turtles always return to the beach where they were born to lay their own eggs many years later. This is something that I
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It’s the ambient light from these developments that disorientate the hatchlings who instinctively head towards the moonlight reflecting on the ocean, (or whatever looks like it) light that discourages the adult sea turtles from laying eggs at all. One would think that in a city like Fort Lauderdale businesses would be careful and shade lights from shining across to the sands, but on a recent check I found more than six instances of bright lights in just one short block along Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard. It goes to show that awareness of the sea turtles plight is still to reach some newcomers to our beachside paradise.
find fascinating. Science still hasn’t worked out why this happens – studies are suggesting that unique electromagnetic signals register with the newly hatched turtles, coordinates that remain imprinted like an internal compass that guides them back to the sands of their birth.
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There are so many dangers awaiting a new hatchling, and one of the most threatening developments are man made. Once these beaches were totally undisturbed. Now the sea turtles share the beach with thousands of tourists, businesses and coastal residents – these shores are lined with condos, homes and hotels.
In Hawaii, there’s an old legend of a green sea turtle named Kauila, who could change herself into a girl to watch over the children playing at Punalu’u Beach. When Kauila’s mother dug her nest, a fresh water spring surged upward, quenching the children’s thirst. Kauila is the “mythical mother” of all turtles, and perhaps of Hawaiian children as well.
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I’d like to think that we could develop similar stories to inspire younger generations and create an environment that makes these most ancient of visitors feel perfectly at home. On Sept. 22, 2011, loggerhead sea turtles worldwide were protected – nine separate populations under the Endangered Species Act, including endangered North Pacific loggerheads and threatened Northwest Atlantic loggerheads. There’s still a way to go but the protection of these wonderful creatures is finally being put into place, both onshore and out in the ocean. “At last, these precious and well-loved sea turtles will find a safe haven when nesting and swimming along our coasts. Thousands of volunteers that spend their summer nights walking the beaches looking for nesting turtles will breathe a bit easier knowing that these gentle giants will face less danger when they return to the sea.” Todd Steiner, executive director of SeaTurtles.org. Sea Turtle Walks
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I’m happy to report that June brings a series of unmissable walks so that Fort Lauderdale residents and visitors can get closer to these amazing creatures and learn about their lifecycle. If you get really lucky, you might witness a nest being laid yourself, and see some hatchlings too. FORT LAUDERDALE SEA TURTLE PROGRAMS Hugh Taylor Birch State Park Tuesday & Wednesday, July and August, 7-11pm Museum of Discovery and Science 401 SW 2nd St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-713-0930 June 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 30, 2015 July 1-2, 7-9, 2015 Tuesday-Thursday: 9pm to approximately 1am Sea Turtle Awareness Program John U. Lloyd Beach State Park 6503 N. Ocean Dr., Dania Beach, 954-923-2833, Group reservations call 954-924-3859. Sea Turtles and Their Babies Anne Kolb Nature Center at West Lake Park 751 Sheridan St., Hollywood, 954-357-5161 Every Wednesday & Friday starting July through August 8pm-9:30pm
HEALTH
Essential Guide to Outdoor First Aid & Medical Emergencies Medicine for the Outdoors is one of a few books that I own that I view as essential. I use it at home, and not just when I’m, say, hiking or camping in the wilderness. There is a ton of incredibly important information in this book for just about every medical emergency you could possibly think of. Do you know what to do if someone is choking? Not breathing? Unconscious? Suffering with a broken bone anywhere in their body? Bleeding? Unless you’re the expert on these sorts of things already, I strongly recommend this book. As stated, it is useful both at home and in situations where you’re far from any medical facilities. In the wilderness you may encounter other injuries not so common at home. Heat stroke, frostbite, encounters with dangerous animals (such as bears, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, etc), encounters with dangerous plants (such as poison oak), are examples. This book explains what to
do, and is so important. In my opinion it’s reckless to go exploring in the hills or anywhere in nature without knowing a lot of the basic information for what to do in emergency situations. This book will give you that information, and of course is designed to even save lives. My recommendation is to take the book with you, such as if you’re camping in the mountains or on a backpacking expedition. Western medicine is the best in the world for emergency situations.
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It’s something I think everyone should study and become educated in.
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Summer reading Trial” is no exception. You cannot and must not take it literally, but as symbolic of something else. “The Trial,” is a story that’s hard to figure out and it resounds almost like Orwell’s “1984” in some respects. On Josef K.’s 30th birthday, he is arrested in his home by two unidentified men. Not only is he arrested, but he is told there will be a trial, and although he is under arrest, he is to remain in his home and go to work as usual. As the story proceeds, you expect that someone will tell him (and the reader) what crime he is accused of committing. He is stalked, commanded to appear in a pseudocourt many times, terrified to the point that he is unable to sleep or eat, and still no one tells him what he has done. In reviewing Franz Kafka”s The Trial, I was reminded that my Professor some years ago had suggested that the class should read this book. I had tucked that away in the back of my mind, and went on my way to the next class never thinking more of it. Looking through a review list recently, I found “The Trial,” among them, and decided this was the time to read it. Too impatient to wait for the actual book, I used my Kindle to read the story. Kafka Wrote Oddly Disturbing Stories The first work of Franz Kafka I read was his famous, “Metamorphosis,” a strange story about a man who turns into a huge insect in his bed, overnight. The treatment he receives from family and friends is symbolic of how Kafka must have felt about his own life. His stories always carry a powerful amount of symbolism and “The
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It’s always referred to in terms that the “case is unusual,” by everyone, including the lawyer he finally retains. But the lawyer talks in circles, as everyone else does, never making the nature of his crime clear. There’s no way of knowing who is trustworthy, as K. (as he is now called) comes into contact with numerous people who seem to know he is on trial, although he does not know them. The story is dark, confusing and tragic, and ends at Chapter 10. Oddly, Chapter 8 was never finished, but just skipped over almost in mid-sentence. Symbolism In The Stories Kafka wrote stories that seemed odd, but if you think about the times in which he lived, you realize each story is written using symbolism; the use of one thing to mean another. His themes oftentimes concentrated on injustice, social mores, and policies he felt should be changed or abolished. He wrote them obliquely so that he could not be held accountable for undermining the government. For instance, using the story of “The Trial,” he made it seem
as though he was on the side of the accusers, while actually showing the cruelty and injustice done to the accused. Kafka Grew Up Depressed and Ill Not only did Kafka have a difficult relationship with his domineering father, but he also had many health issues; perhaps the two were connected. Kafka suffered from depression, migraines, insomnia, and tuberculosis, for which he was in and out of sanitariums. He died in a TB sanitarium, of starvation on June 3, 1924, because his throat was too painful for him to swallow food. There were no medical procedures in that era for feeding with a tube. His writings were mostly published posthumously, by a friend he wrote asking him to burn them once he was gone. The friend refused to do so and had them published. “The Trial,” is one of those manuscripts. Kafka was also the author of “The Metamorphosis,” “Amerika,” “In The Penal Colony,” and others. Most of his books are published in German, but a few have been translated to English, some with great difficulty. Franz Kafka’s Birth and Family Franz Kafka was born in Prague, Bohemia on July 3, 1883. Bohemia, which no longer exists under that name, was under persecution and governmental crackdowns on the citizens. Kafka’s father (who died in 1931) was a brutish sort of man who demanded a lot from his wife Julia (who died in 1934) and his children. Life was never made easy in any respect for the children. Franz was the eldest of six children, but two younger brothers died in infancy, leaving Franz and three sisters to be verbally and physically beaten
BOOKS by the father. The sisters all died in concentration camps during WWII. Franz survived, but I’m sure he wondered many times why.
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You’re going on a journey. You’ll be travelling the world but back in time too – and to the future. And to …. well you’ll see. This is a saga in six parts – all set in different eras -all taking us through Holly’s extraordinary life. Why I nearly didn’t read this book It taught me that I should keep an open mind about my reading matter. I received a review copy here at JAQUO HQ quite some time ago but it didn’t simply seem like my cup of tea. Why not? Well, I read the inner sleeve which said ‘Holly is a lightening rod for psychic phenomena. Oh no, not psychic nonsense. Then I flipped through the book. I see ‘the Chapel of Dusk’, Horology’s War with the Anchorites’, ‘the Blind Cathar’. I see words such as ‘chakra’, ‘shield’ and ‘psychovoltage’. I see characters with names like ‘Unalaq’, ‘Xi Lo’ and ‘Marinus’. This is starting to look a little fantasy-other-world-y to me.
The danger of picking up this book – delightfully – is that you’ll be tempted to put your life on hold until you’ve read every word. You’ll take the day off work, you’ll eat only food that you can grab from the fridge (no time to make a sandwich), you’ll turn off your phone. You might not even realise it at first. Oh, you’ll be interested when you first begin to read about fifteen year old Holly and her turbulent teenage life, but you won’t realise how much you’ll be drawn into this novel. You won’t know just how much you are going to be pulled in and what’s in store for you.
Sure, I loved Lord of the Rings – when I was fifteen. I’ve never felt the need to re-read it as an adult. And as for books like Julian May’s The Golden Torq – well, I would have thrown it out of the window had I not been on an aeroplane at the time. So The Bone Clocks moved slowly to the bottom on the review pile. I was so wrong. Without a doubt this book is certainly in my top five if-I-wasstranded-on-a-desert-island book list. I know I’m going to read it again and soon. In fact, I know I’m going to be reading it regularly for years. It isn’t just ‘a book’. It’s witty, elegant and entertaining. Then there are the thought-provoking elements, the beautifully created characters and a plot that just knocks your socks off.
A Virtual Classroom? Would send your children to virtual school? Can you picture it? It sounds intriguing when you first think of it. No more bullying, less distractions, right? Yet in a virtual world would it be too isolating? Could there be a balance? Would class size matter then? Would teachers like it better? That is one of the considerations you will find as you read Ready Player One. It is still one of my top ten favorite books. To confirm that, I just listened to it again. The first novel written by Ernest Cline, was a huge success. I wish everyone would read it—seriously. The book was first published in 2012. I am reviewing it now because, after a wait of several years, Mr. Cline has a new book due for release on July 14th. Armada. The audio version will once again be narrated by great
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Summer reading Will Wheaton .I bought the book a couple of years ago through Audible after going back and forth about it for months. Considered dystopian in genre, I would call it futuristic, perhaps a little scifi, adventure, and a thriller. Its popularity is what finally convinced me to go for it. I am SO glad I did. It is fun, exciting, suspenseful, amusing, thoughtful and more. Audio Version is Fantastic! If you get a chance, try to listen to it. Will Wheaton reads it perfectly. If you check out the reviews on Audible, you’ll hear much more about how well he does. The book has received over 20,000 reviews and ratings for an average of 4.7 (just on Audible). Amazon shows a 4.6 average with over 6200 reviews. The numbers are rising again now, with the anticipation of the new release. There are too many official reviews to include here, but you can check them out here. The book was loved, and by so many who thought like I did, that it wasn’t my type of book! The Story: Life in a virtual world It’s easy to see why it was/is such a hit. The setting, a few decades in the future, seems very possible if not likely. The featured characters, young men and women, geeks possibly, gamers definitely, in high school or just out of high school. The 80’s! The game creator loved the 80’s If you are a fan of gaming, or of TV, movies, music and life back then, you’ll love the references and clues that refer to that era. The story appeals to everyone on so many levels. It includes mystery, a quest, a look at the economy and society, a little
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romance, and a good amount of tense excitement. I often forgot which state was active. Was it Parzival, the avatar or Wade, the human, operating the computer. It was easy to get pulled in to both. You decide…Will it Happen? The year is 2044. The economy has deteriorated. It’s nearly impossible to find work, housing, and even food for many. James Halliday, the wealthy creator of “Oasis” has died, leaving no heirs. His will, a five minute video broadcast to all Oasis users. Oasis is the virtual reality used by everyone, including students who can attend school within its reality. Halliday’s will presents a contest within Oasis. The prize? His entire estate. With that a race begins, with millions worldwide searching for the hidden prize. They know it will involve games from the past, clues buried within the games. For Wade Watts, it offers an opportunity to escape, not only his current poor circumstances, but also the real world problems. He spends years engrossed in learning all he can about James Halliday, watching his favorite show, playing every game available, mastering the 1980’s. Then finally someone finds the first clue. Once one clue is found you see the masses react. You have the ones working independently, like Wade. Then you have the sixers, a huge company that has hired everyone they can to help them win. The company wants control. They are willing to do anything at all to succeed. Even kill. It does become a race, yet filled with the fun that a virtual reality can provide. As much as I’d love to tell you all about that, it’s part of the
reveal that adds to the delight of the story. It’s a story of the little guy versus the big corporation. It’s a story of being true to yourself. It’s a tale of trust. It’s a coming of age story in a way, yet it is appealing to all ages. There is something about it that transcends genres right along with age groups, so don’t tell yourself you don’t read that type of book. It is irresistible. Mr. Cline is a screenwriter as well. You can see what a thrill it would be in big screen. The setting alone would be amazing to see. He spent eight years writing Ready Player One—his first novel. When he went to find a publisher, he found more than one! There was a bidding war for the book. Nice start, Mr. Clines. While his second book, Armada, won’t be released for another month, the movie rights were sold back in 2012. Now if only they would get busy filming. Merry Citarella
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business restoring buildings in the Florida Keys. Ana, her stepmother, is a Congresswoman. Her next stepmother Jane is a socialite. (Lily’s father is currently on his fourth marriage). Then there’s Isabel, Lily’s grandmother, a just-retired criminal defense attorney. The four older women are the best of friends but soon try to talk Lily out of her wedding plans. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Will, he’s a gorgeous Indiana Jone type archaeologist and museum curator. No, the problem is that the older women know what Lily is like. Is it fair to unleash her on the poor man? This is the most wonderful, funny and crazy book. Lily is about to get married – but before I go any further I have to let you know that this is not one of those cutesy Father-Of-The-Bride type prewedding stories. Let me give you an example. She is enjoying her bachelorette party when she gets a message that there’s an emergency at work. Lily is a lawyer so has to respond. At the office, her boss explains the nature of the emergency and Lily then asks him ‘dress on or off?’ “What a question’ he replies to which she answers ‘I want you to spank me again’. They proceed to make passionate love. True, not the usual behaviour of a girl who’s going to be married in a week’s time. She and her fiance then fly to her family home in Key West. There her fiance Will meets Lily’s mothers. That is not a typo. Katherine, her birth mother, has a
Over the next few days, Lily tries to plan her wedding with the remarkably forgetful and nutty wedding planner, drinks a lot, parties with her friends, picks up delicious men and wonders whether marriage is for her while in the meantime, the wedding guests and family start to arrive in Key West. They bring even more chaos to the island as Anita, Will’s mother and the United States Attorney for Chicago, discovers Lily’s secret past and tries to blackmail her into calling the wedding off, Lily discovers her mother and long-divorced father naked and locked in a passionate embrace and she discovers that the man she has just met and slept with is Will’s boss who is in town for her wedding. Truly, there is never a dull moment.
Jackie Jackson
Have you ever come across a book that makes so much sense, you just know that you have to buy it and share it with those you love? I found An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and was immediately taken by not only its title, but also by the person who wrote it. Col. Chris Hadfield was being interviewed after his return to earth from a six month engagement on the International Space Station, as the Commander of the Space Station. During his interview, I could sense a deep love of the earth and of everything to be learnt in space too. Col. Hadfield has a simple but beautiful way of making you present with him as he explored the world and space around him. He is simple to read, but extraordinary in his insights and his love of the sciences that made it possible for him to leave the earth for 6 months and live in a very inhospitable environment, only to come back to earth and recount all of the wonders that he was blessed
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Summer reading to see. Now don’t get me wrong, his book is really not that much about space and what he has seen as an astronaut, rather it is the story of a boy, who was infected with a taste for what he wanted to do in his life. That taste for his future came with the first steps of Neil Armstrong on July 20th of 1969. The moon, until that day, was somewhere that man had only dreamt of landing on. Around the world people were glued to their television sets and their wonder was also kindled! But for Chris Hadfield, it became his life’s mission to do everything possible to become an astronaut. “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” is a great book for those who are in the young teen age group and beyond. It is easy to read and to become totally engaged with the writer. To see how something like a walk on the moon, can change the very life of a young boy! Olivia Morris
A True Story of the Lives of an American Family in Berlin Before World War II. In The Garden Of Beasts is a dramatic historical novel, beginning in the early 1930s and covering the era of World War II. Our United States Ambassador to Germany, William E. Dodd, in the years between 1933 and 1937, repeatedly warns both German and American authorities about the widespread brutality, hate and corruption throughout Germany. His warnings are pushed aside, because it is easier to placate the tyrannical Adolph Hitler and tolerate his rise to power, than to remove him from public office. As for the German citizens, the economy is finally on the rise for their country, after a devastating loss in the previous World War. Germans prefer to deal with anything criticizing the current administration with the typical “pretend it doesn’t exist” approach, so that they aren’t accused of standing in the way of prosperity. Plus, in their hearts they know if they stand against Hitler, it is tantamount to a death sentence. What is not clear to them is that the more power that is given to Hitler, the more he demands; a lesson that will be learned in the future, the hard way. A story of danger, excitement, and love even in the time of terror. Erik Larson, author of “In The Garden of Beasts” takes us into the middle of the turbulent, exciting, deceptive world of Berlin, Germany during the pre-World War II years of the 1930s. Historical characters play the major roles in this book, and the story is true. Only certain conversations were not documented, but were known to have occurred due to the events that followed. The United States Ambassador, William E. Dodd and his wife Mattie, daughter Martha, and son, William Jr., are a family living on a college professor’s salary. When appointed to the position of the first
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Ambassador to Nazi Germany, Dodd is at first gladdened, thinking the Third Reich is a good thing for the country. At first the family members were dazzled by the pomp, ceremony and regimentation of the Nazi party, not knowing the evil that lay behind it. As the months progress, Nazi brutality begins to be more open and common place, and they begin to see behind the facade of their well-mannered “hosts.” How they managed to tread carefully in the tense environment of Germany’s prelude to World War II, until they can manage to leave the country is a “must read” for those interested in history and specifically World War II.
Reads like an elegant thriller…utterly compelling… marvelous stuff. An excellent and entertaining book that deserves to be a bestseller, and probably will be. — Washington Post Review
In The Garden Of Beasts The book is available in Kindle, Hardback, Paperback and Audio CD editions. It’s an accurate time table of the events leading up to WWII, but more than that it shows the behind-the-scenes events that began the horrendous Nazi regime’s rise to power, and the reasons they were never challenged until it was far too late. The book puts you at the center of the conflict from the beginning, as you are, along with the American Ambassador, In The Garden of Beasts.
“You cannot expect world opinion of your conduct to moderate, so long as eminent leaders like Hitler and Goebbels announce from platforms, as in Nuremberg, that all Jews must be wiped off the earth.”
— William E. Dodd,U.S. Ambassador to Germany Larson is a prolific writer, having
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written for numerous national publications such as Time and The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s. He has published numerous best sellers, and with all that, he’s found time to teach non-fiction writing at San Francisco State University, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and the University of Oregon. To top it off, he also is a public speaker. Nancy Hardin
Ancient Grains for Modern Meals
is a tried and true, labor of love development of hard work. Each recipe is a flavor layered masterpiece. It is almost 4 years later, and this is still my “go to” cookbook for cooking with a variety of whole grains. The book is beautifully presented. It is a nice hard-cover, larger, visually appealing cookbook jam-packed with over 70 pages of valuable grain information, recipes and photo perfection. You learn about Maria’s Mediterranean background and how her family has always cooked with ancient grains. Her mother was Greek, and while the term “ancient grains” is a relatively newer term for most of us, it was not for her. She was raised on these grains, and Maria’s main goal is to show us not only the nutritional value of ancient grains, but most of all that they can taste really good. They do. Her recipes are full of flavor that I thought was not attainable through simple grains. The trick is that Maria uses a variety of whole grains to layer in flavors. Flavor layering is key. I did not realize just how much so until I started learning from Ms. Speck.
by Maria Speck is one of my favorite cookbooks. I purchased my copy nearly 4 years ago. I was so excited to get my copy. The reviews were fantastic and Maria had won so many awards for her best-of-thebest cookbooks. It was a 10 year in the making cookbook! The time Maria dedicated her cookbook shows. Each recipe
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At the beginning of the cookbook, Maria gives a list of kitchen items that will come in handy: cast iron skillet, cast iron pot, a kitchen scale, pastry scraper, fine mesh strainer, dough whisk, zest grater, small sauce pan with lid and a vegetable brush With this list, you can cook cover to cover with Maria’s book easily.
Melanie Wilcox
Wonderfully, I keep discovering books by people from the entertainment world who I never paid much attention to in previous years. Actor Roger Moore is one of them. Roger Moore, I have to admit (and if you’re reading this Mr Moore, I apologize) Sean Connery was always the James Bond for me. But all this is by and by because in his latest book, One Lucky Bastard, Roger Moore shows that he is a brilliant raconteur with a wealth of hilarious – and sometimes naughty – stories about the stars and showbiz characters he has met and befriended during his long career. He completed this book at the age of eighty six which delightfully demonstrates that there’s life in the old dog yet. And he makes fun of them- and himself. You can read some fascinating stories about Joan Collins, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis and just about every star you can imagine. He doesn’t concentrate
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Summer reading on stories about himself – which is unusual for actors – but one he tells, in which as he says ‘whatever one has ‘accomplished’ … there are always times when in life that one is brought back to earth with a bump’, made me chuckle.
leave, the official said: “Excuse me! I’ve always been a big fan, Sir Roger. Any chance of an autograph?” Jackie Jackson
It seems that his British passport needed renewing. So he booked an appointment at the passport office in London where he expected to complete a form, give them a couple of photographs and receive the document. But he handed in his form and was told by the official that his signature had extended beyond the official lined box. (I imagine stars have elaborate signatures).
Last weekend I finally promised myself to make at least two dishes out of the book. I chose to make Trota Salmonata Alle Olive ( Baked Salmon Trout with Olives) for the main dish and Ananas Alle Noci In Forno ( Baked Pineapple with Walnuts) for dessert. Both of these looked easy to make and I had most of the ingredients on hand.
So he redid the form and returned to the counter. He handed over his passport photographs. When asked if they were recent, he replied that they were and had been taken in Switzerland just a couple of weeks previously. Ah, problem. That meant that they were not on ‘officially approved UK photographic paper.’ So he trotted off to one of those photo booths. Next, the official looked at the old passport, looked at the form and said ‘but this is a different person. On your old passport you are Mr Roger Moore but now you want it in the name of Sir Roger Moore”. “Well” explained our hero “I was knighted in the meantime”. The official asked if he had any proof. “What would you like?” asked Sir Roger, his patience running thin “A letter from the queen?” With that, the official gave in and told Sir Roger to report back in three hours. Roger left for a ‘much needed glass of wine’. When he returned, the official asked him for ID. He studied it carefully and grudgingly handed over the passport. As Sir Roger turned to
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two. The recipes tempted me with the promise of real and authentic Italian dishes ranging from a simple pasta and peas dish to a deliciously rustic pineapple cake. Just flipping through the pages made me feel like I was there.
I can’t remember exactly when I got this cookbook but it was many birthdays ago. At first sight,I thought the book was a photo book on Italy because the beautiful photograph on the front cover looked more like a travelogue than a cookbook. As I started flipping through the pages, I was pleasantly surprised to see that is was indeed a cookbook, and what a beautiful cookbook it was! Although I’ve always planned on making something from the book, I never did for the longest time. The book was just so beautiful with interesting information on the various places in Italy, it was hard to tear myself away from reading it once I started. The stunning pictures allowed me to escape my living room if only for an hour or
How did they turn out? Well, the salmon was surprisingly delicate and delicious in its simplicity with the olives adding the right amount of briny saltiness. The pineapple cake tasted nothing like how I expected but in a good way. I expected it to taste like the pineapple upside down cakes I had when I lived in the America but it was nothing like it. This rustic dessert uses only 1/2 cup of sugar for the entire dish and relied on the sweetness of fresh pineapples that resulted in a light and fresh-tasting dessert. I served it with a dollop of fresh whipped cream and it was perfect! I am happy to say that both dishes turned out better than I expected and they were surprisingly simple to make. Italy Today: The Beautiful Cookbook uses familiar ingredients with clear and simple instructions along with the beautiful pictures that the book promises. You can find most of the ingredients in your local supermarket and if I found the recipes easy to make, I’m sure they’ll be easy for any amateur cooks out there. So far I have three books from The Beautiful Cookbook series so it’s quite
obvious how much I love owning these. These books are so beautiful that it’s almost a sin to call them cookbooks. They truly are the most beautiful cookbooks I’ve ever had the pleasure of owning and they are definitely one of the best gifts any cook or foodie could ever receive. Shinichi Mine
The number of people who took part in the Second World War is slowly dwindling. But it’s important that we should never forget themand the heroism that so many of them showed during that terrible conflict. You can read about many of them in this book by Marthe Cohn. Marthe Hoffnung (her maiden name) was born in 1920 and was still a teenager when war broke out. Yet she worked as spy, travelling into Germany and collecting vital information about troop movements. Not only was Marthe a Frenchwoman and a spy, she was also Jewish.
Her entire family helped other Jews to escape from occupied France and some members of the family worked actively for the Resistance. Her book tells their stories plus those of other heroes who risked their lives to help persecuted Jews in addition to undermining the German war effort. I have never before read a book that tells of so much bravery, courage and suffering. Marthe and her family were only able to escape from occupied France to the Free Zone thanks to a mildmannered Jewish clerk who used his skills to create false identity papers for Jews who were attempting to flee from persecution. He was just one man out of thousands of people who were risking their lives to help others. In this book you’ll read about Jacques Delaunay, Marthe’s fiancé. He and his younger brother Marc were also involved in the Resistance and were shot by German firing squad because they had sabotaged an armaments train. Jacques and Marc were twenty one and nineteen respectively when they were executed. And they were ordinary people – but people who were determined that their country should be free. Many of the heroes that Marthe worked with were also, like herself, very young. Marthe’s sister Stephanie was only twenty when she was arrested for helping Jewish families escape to the Free Zone. At first she was imprisoned locally but her family then heard that she was moved to an unknown destination. That destination was Auschwitz. There were 1,157 men, women and children in the convoy that took her to the concentration camp. At the end of the war, only twenty three had survived. Stephanie was not amongst them. In total, more than thirty members of Marthe’s immediate Jewish family did not survive the Nazi persecution.
But strangely, when you read this book it is not the horrors that will stay with you. It is the bravery and resolve of the people and it’s their stories and sacrifices that you’ll remember. Most of us know only too well about the horrors of the concentration camps and the way that the holocaust started when Jewish people were persecuted in their home towns. And it’s easy to get the impression that they were a docile race who didn’t fight back. This is so far from the truth as this book demonstrates only too well. Jews and Gentiles worked together and although they were not an organised army, they were fighting for their country. What is truly remarkable about this book is how these heroes were just ordinary people leading ordinary lives until the Germans came along and occupied their country. Jacques and Marc were not Jewish and were executed by firing squad. Had Marthe and her fellow Jews who were working against the Germans been caught, they would have suffered an even worse ordeal. They would have been sent to the brutal concentration camps and worked to death. Or they would have been bled dry by doctors taking blood for transfusions for war wounded. Or they would have slowly starved to death or been the victim of fatal and terrible disease. They could have been beaten or kicked to death. They would most certainly have been tortured by the Nazis, trying to discover their contacts and colleagues. This is an astounding book about incredible bravery and I recommend it highly.
Jackie Jackson
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Sport BOOKS
Formula One Books You May Not Have Read Now you may be an F1 fan yourself or perhaps you’re looking for a gift for someone you know who regularly talks about the ‘F1 season’, ‘winter testing’ or ‘this year’s championship’ and I bet it’s getting harder and harder to find something different. Well maybe I can help you out. I’ve been following formula one since I was little – and I mean little. At the age Lewis Hamilton started karting I’d been following the sport for at least two years, though admittedly I was born more than a decade before him. So I’ve seen quite a bit of the sport over the years and read a fair amount about it too. For that reason I thought I might help you out with a couple of books you might not have come across:
‘It Is What It Is’ by David Coulthard Now DC, as he’s known on the F1 circuit, is not
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everyone’s first choice when it comes to picking their favourite driver. Yes, he won 13 races in his (nearly) 14year career, but he never managed to win the driver’s championship – overall his best year was 2001 where he finished second to a chap named Michael Schumacher… But it’s since he started being a pundit and latterly a commentator as well on the BBC’s coverage of the sport, when interest in him has become much bigger.
who had been hiding in that chiselled shell.
The thing is we started to see a personality in there, the real David so to speak, and he was funny, and had opinions, and would argue with Eddie Jordan, and so we were interested in the person
The book is about his life up to and including his racing career and it’s really quite interesting to find out that bit more about how it all came about and what was happening in the
background. But I guess I should warn you that it’s not about life after driving in F1 – however, it does give you an insight into the man, his thoughts and all that racing. So after reading it and taking it all in, I’m so curious and want to know more – I can’t wait for the next one, I’m really hoping I don’t have to wait a long time and it’s not called ‘It was what it was’!
‘The Inside Track’ by Jake Humphrey For those of you who don’t watch BBC TV for your formula one coverage, you’ve probably never heard of Jake Humphrey, but this was the
frontman for the BBC’s flagship return of F1 coverage when they won it back from the competition. Admittedly he’s not there now, Suzi Perry has that privilege, but he was part of a threeman team that drew us even further into the sport we loved, and the chemistry they had between them made us love the coverage even more. For those of us who watch during this era, I don’t think any of us will forget the three of them wing walking their way over Silverstone in 2012, or many of their other escapades. So I was really interested to find that he’d written a book, which in the end punctuated his F1 career, when he decided for family reasons, to walk away from a sport he loved. Being called ‘The Inside Track’ I was hoping the book would reveal some amazing facts or stories that I hadn’t come across before and it does, to some extent. For example, did you know that Pirelli have a motorhome in the paddock that takes 10 hours to build, in which they serve 25,000 meals a season and prepare 1,200 km of pasta. However, if you’re an obsessive F1 fan (like me)
you may not learn that much from this read. If you don’t know much about the background of DreyaB the sport you’ll love it, but if you’ve been following it for years, it might not teach you much. What is interesting though is seeing the sport not from a driver’s or a team principle’s point of view but from someone in the media and this book also let’s you in on the relationship between Jake, DC and EJ (Eddie Jordan). The chemistry between these three has been brilliant and some of the stories are shared here, including when Eddie called Sir Paul McCartney ‘George’ on live TV!
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Health
A Useful Guide for Preventing Al The word “Alzheimer’s” sparks fear in the mind of more and more these days. With baby boomers entering the group, the aging population is increasing in percentage dramatically. In a recent article in the New York Times, a reporter said the aging population in New York City had risen thirty percent. It may be much higher in states that are popular retirement havens like Florida and Arizona. The fact is the number with the disease is expected to reach 7.5 million by the year 2025. You can read
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more about the statistics in the online JAQUO article, The Frightening Future of Alzheimer’s Disease. Several promising research studies are in progress now that may provide treatment or a cure over the next several years. At the very least scientists are finding more clues to its cause and its early diagnosis. News like
that makes it even more important today to do all we can to prevent the disease. That is the reason I wrote the book Preventing Alzheimer’s: A Useful Guide. There are steps to take, whether young or old, that can help. There are many different studies that support many of the recommendations. Some,
lzheimer’s are often suggested for your whole body health. The book contains chapters on foods, exercise, brain training, and more. The reason its beneficial is included as well. It’s easy to read and even easier to follow. like Coconut Oil, may not yet have large studies supporting their use, but some have had surprising success. Shouldn’t we try? The question I’m always asking is, “Why not?” If eating certain foods or exercising might help slow or stop the disease, isn’t it worth the effort? Of course, medical condition and doctors recommendations come first. If you are allergic to some foods, if you have certain diseases, perhaps some of the suggestions will not work for you. That is why it is important to keep in touch with your doctor about changes in your exercise and diet. With that caveat, the suggestions in the book
Merry Citarella
The important thing is to start now, no matter what your age. Even if you are in your 70’s or 80’s, there are suggestions that have been shown effective. It all comes down to exercising, keeping active, physically and mentally, and eating foods that are good for brain health. Please do all you can so you are not affected by Alzheimer’s disease. It may lower the numbers who get the disease. It may give you a better quality of life for longer than you expect. It may buy time until there is a treatment or a cure. JAQUO MAGAZINE
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HISTORY
Auschwitz: The Monster Within
Danny Gibson’s personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz–Birkenau, monument to the deliberate genocide of the Jews by the German Nazi regime (1933-1945)
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Auschwitz: The Monster Within And so, I’ve arrived. Polish bus PK97 gallops off into the distance. The old girl has delivered me to the location on my ticket – a place I’ve wanted to visit for quite a while. Like most people, I’ve got a wishlist: Elvis’ Graceland, The White House, The Grand Canyon, The Pyramids and possibly the Paris tunnel where Diana was killed. Half expectedly, a slow churning in the pit of my stomach has begun, a reminder… this isn’t like any of those places.
and ticket checkers, and there’s security. You cannot enter with a bag that is larger than the rules state and you cannot take photographs in certain areas. Near to the entrance, there But this is no amusement park; are people everywhere. the attractions here are very Almost every one of them different! There is no entrance brandishing a camera of some fee. And you can stay as long as sort. It’s not quite 10 AM and you like. it’s a Wednesday, not even a public holiday, but there Waiting for my turn to have are empty coaches in the car my ticket checked (I’d printed park and full ones continue it off the website before I left to arrive; it seems a lot of England) I look about the busy folks want to come here! The area that I am in. Why have all dominant language around these people, and so many me I recognise to be Polish, students, decided to come but I hear other languages here on the same day that I too, including Yiddish, have? No, I shouldn’t think like American and my own… the this, especially considering Queen’s English. where I am. And as if on cue, from behind me a student, or This could be the entrance teenager anyway, shouting to any popular amusement words in broken English that park. There are ticket issuers penetrate my ear:
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“Look everyone. The gates to Hell”. My intention was to avoid absorbing the menace of the infamous gates until my ticket had been checked, but thanks to that teenager… I eye them. My eyes quickly race over the old, brutal iron that is them. The flaking black and white paint that coats them. The rusty bolts that hold them together. And my eyes climb until they glimpse the words cut into the iron that runs above and across them. The sun’s rays this beautiful May morning cause me to squint at the message. It’s written in German. I cannot read German, but I know what the words say. Everybody knows what they say!
“As you stand before the gates of Auschwitz, you’re faced with a choice. You can either try and keep control of your imagination, or you can let Auschwitz control it for you.”
Enjoy my visit – not likely. But I had to come.
‘Work makes you free’ An attractive Polish woman in her 20’s beckons me forward. Her and her colleagues welcome around 1, 400, 000 visitors every year here. Just four months ago, it may well have been her that greeted Steven Spielberg as he and his wife passed through this entrance. With a warm smile she inspects my ticket and is satisfied. No broken English for her; she has learnt my language well.
“Welcome to Auschwitz, sir. Enjoy your visit here today”.
It seems to me, that as you stand before the gates of Auschwitz, you’re faced with a choice… you can either try and keep control of your imagination, or you can let Auschwitz control it for you. Which it will be depends on your attitude towards your visit – have you come here to see, or to feel. Some people come to Auschwitz to see. They dash around taking pictures of this, video clips of that, and then they leave. They’ve been to Auschwitz, and they’ve the photos to prove it.
my mind and take ownership of it. Like daydreaming, I suppose… eyes wide open and unblinking, conscious but mind somewhere else. I can neither see the daylight nor hear all the people around. My thoughts, my imagination… wrenched from the now and dumped into the past, seventy years into the past. Flashbacks, to a time when I wasn’t even present in this world. But I see. The gates… not the relics they are today – background props for endless selfies, but existing for a different purpose seventy years ago,
Others choose to feel everything the largest mass murder site in human history has to share with them. And it all starts with the gates. These gates. The gates I now stand before. No officialdom left to keep me from them. The only way into this vast place (the size of thirty English football fields) is through them. I take up a stance a metre away and I glare at them. Not surprisingly, they glare back at me. A little more than a minute passes before the pair of brutes smash an iron fist into JAQUO MAGAZINE
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“No. I’m English. Excuse me, I’m going to head into the camp now. Maybe we’ll run into each other a bit later and stop for tea or something”. The words above the gates were a lie, of course. More than one million innocent souls, mostly Jews, but also Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, gypsies, homosexuals, the elderly, the infirm, women and children – all arrived here against their will via a network of trains from across Europe, and they never left. They saw the same message above the gates; it was intended for them. ‘Work makes you free’. But there would be no freedom for them once they got here, except death, and that was part of the plan. It had even been given a name by those that had conceived it and those that ensured its implementation. It was the ‘Final Solution’. And now it is time for me to enter this human killing factory. Unlike those imprisoned here during the second world war, I’m free to wander where I like, unescorted, and I can leave whenever I wish. So far, no birdsong, and I have been told not to expect any – the
wildlife can sense death, even after all this time, so it stays well away. The ashes of over a million people are still here, and they are said to be everywhere… in the soil – a mound here, a grey patch there – in the lakes. When Steven Spielberg knelt down and put his hand in one of the lakes, he pulled it out only to find it covered in human bone meal! A tidal wave of emotion hits me full on. I feel guilty for everything. For complaining earlier about the coffee back at my hotel. For my choice of clothes today. For being alive and for being healthy. I feel guilty for everything that I have. But I had to come. Perhaps everybody should come! Perhaps it should be made a legal requirement
I feel guilty for everything. For complaining earlier about the coffee back at my hotel. For my choice of clothes today. For being alive and for being healthy. I feel guilty for everything that I have. But I had to come. that everybody who wants to be a President, and a PrimeMinister and a leader of a country – any country – has to first come here before taking office. I do a 360 degree in the courtyard and wonder where to start. A sightseeing tour of human cruelty towards other humans on the largest scale there has ever been. Where do you start? I know I’ll see it all. I have come to see it all: the crude, wooden and cement bunkers where thousands of people collapsed every night for a few hours sleep after a day’s hard labour and with little food in their stomachs to sustain them, the tons of human hair, the mounds and mounds of personal belongings, including clothes, spectacles, dentures, and children’s dolls and teddy bears, the execution wall, where people were marched to nude, for breaking rules such as trying to escape or being defiant, then shot in the head, the gas chambers, where more than one million people took their last breath, screaming, crying, panicking, scratching at the walls as they realised
Auschwitz-Birkenau German-Nazi concentration and extermination camp - Poland Photo: Bill Hunt / www.auschwitz-birkenau.org
Auschwitz-Birkenau Photo: By Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium.
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they were being murdered, and not simply being deloused, as they had been told, and the crematoriums that incinerated their bodies immediately afterwards. Rudolf Hรถss was the commandant of Auschwitz. In March 1947 he was found guilty of mass murder and sentenced to death by hanging. On April 16th he was driven from Krakow to Auschwitz and hanged on gallows that had been erected especially for his execution. On the opposite page you see the gallows and the spot where he was hanged: I will end any further commentary now. Instead, I leave you with a few of the photographs I have taken, they will surely say more than I ever can (black & white photos
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sourced and used to help give clarity). May the monster that lives within me, that lives within all of us, be one day banished from us, and so from this world, forever.
But I doubt it!
Danny Gibson
Auschwitz-Birkenau Color photos: Danny Gibson Black and white photos: Wikimedia Commons
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Murder! The murder of art forger, Eric Hebborn. On January 8th, 1996, English art forger Eric Hebborn was found in an alley in Rome. He was unconscious and had been beaten about the had by a blunt instrument. Hebborn had been living in the area since the nineteen sixties when he and his then lover, Graham Smith, had opened a gallery. He survived for days after the brutal attack but despite the efforts of the doctors, he succumbed on January 11th. He was sixty one. It was apparent when he was still young that he had considerable artistic talent but like fellow forger Tom Keating felt that his work was under appreciated and realised he was not going to make a good living. Like many artists, he started to work as picture restorer when he was a young man. Having done this sort of work myself, I can appreciate the skills that picture restorers develop. Quite legitimately, restorers are often called
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upon to repaint sections of work when the canvas or the surface has been damaged. Less legitimately, but not actually illegal, is the practice of enhancing lesser works. For example, an art dealer might have a seascape that is well crafted but not quite as attractive as it could be to a potential buyer. So a picture restorer might be called upon to add galleon in full sail. This will make the painting far more saleable. Sometimes a gloomy portrait can be improved by adding jewellery or a lace collar. A painting of a horse might be more attractive with a rider added, a boring landscape can be made more valuable by the addition of rural cottage or a pair of peasants. Art and antique dealers – just like car dealers – sometimes take lesser work in part-
exchange when selling a work. Just as car dealers recondition vehicles for resale, art dealers might do the same with lower value paintings. This means that the picture restorer soon finds that he or she becomes skilled at reproducing the style of multiple artists. And this can be a valuable skill‌.. Sometimes a restorer will be given an old canvas with a
truly dreadful painting on it and be asked by the dealer to either make the existing painting saleable or create a new one on the old canvas in the style of a certain artist. And again, there is nothing illegal about creating painting ‘in the style of’ – students and apprentices have been doing that for hundreds of years. What is illegal though it to use the artist’s signature, create a provenance for the artwork and pass it off as original. Eric Hebborn soon realised that the works he was adapting or creating were making a lot of money for his dealer clients. Why not cut out the middleman? Hebborn went to live in Italy with Graham and claimed to have created over thousand fakes. These were sent to London galleries. But in 1978 one of these, the Colnaghi Gallery, became suspicious. Six years later, Hebborn confessed. Like Tom Keating, he was unrepentant. The art world was notoriously tricky. Art dealers, said Hebborn, were more concerned with making money than verifying a painting’s origins.
Art historians and curators, he went on, were more concerned with their career paths or being honoured. He pointed out that most artists make little money in their lifetimes whereas art dealers, scholars and historians invariably do. The murder of Eric Hebborn It was reported that he had been to a local bar where he had enjoyed couple of glasses of wine. The owner of the bar said that Hebborn was alone although other witnesses said he had been seen that evening in the company of another man. It was also said that when he was taken to hospital, the staff there assumed that he had passed out drunk and left him alone to sober up,not realising that he had a head injury. After Hebborn had died, a fellow artist and friend had gone to Hebborn’s home and found that it had been ransacked.
the details they had because someone well-known, or someone extremely rich, had been involved. Other say that one of Hebborn’s gay lovers (or ex-lovers or would-be lovers) was the murderer. The fact that his home was ransacked seems suggestive – was this someone looking for details about his forgeries? Or trying to conceal details? We may never know. Interestingly, several of Hebborn’s paintings were sold at auction in October 2014. The BBC reported:
“A collection of art by a master forger whose work fooled dealers and galleries around the world has been sold at auction for more than £50,000.”
Who murdered Eric Hebborn? The murder was never solved. There were those who claimed that the police had not investigated the murder or even that they had covered up
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Quiz! How much do you know about the Beatles’ children? Between them, the Beatles had eleven legal and legitimate children. There were many lawsuits and paternity claims over the years (naturally) but here were are talking about those who were all legal and above board. How much do you know about the Beatles’ offspring?
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Which is the oldest of the Beatles’ children? Note that this is slightly a trick question – we are talking here about legal and legitimate offspring.
Which is the youngest child of a member of the Beatles? Here’s a clue – the father also holds the honour of being the father of the oldest Beatles child.
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All four Beatles had children. Were there more boys or girls? (There are eleven in total so the answer cannot be that they had equal numbers)
How many Beatles had just one son?
How many of the Beatles’ children work or have worked in the music business?
Which of the Beatles’ children are named after their grandmothers?
When did Paul McCartney have his first grandchild? Was he the first Beatle to become a grandfather?
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Which two of the Beatles’ children are / were involved in the fashion industry?
Only two of the Beatles children have three first names. Which ones are they? Clue: they both have the same father.
Which of the Beatles children most resembles his / her father?
How did you do? The quiz is online at JAQUO,including the answers. Just go to jaquo.com/quiz-beatles-children
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