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James Alfred William George Galloway McAlistair ('Boston Jim')
Hailing from a small village in bonnie Scotland, James McAlistair, a determined and ambitious young political activist, set sail as a stowaway on a ship bound for the United States of America in 1773. On arriving at his destination he was discovered and thrown overboard, and found himself covered in tea.
After dragging himself ashore, and dusting himself down, McAlistair sneaked past the authorities and protesters and went into hiding. He lived on the streets of Boston for some weeks until he got back on his feet, found himself a place to stay and began work in the ship industry. He worked his way up from a tea boy to foreman. But McAlistair never forgot his roots, or the scenes and protests that met him on his arrival at the port. This, coupled with the way he saw other terriers being treated in the workplace, started him on his new calling.
'Boston Jim', as he was now known, travelled from town to town fighting for the rights of terriers throughout the sate of Massachusetts. He went on to become the founder of the Terriers Union that won the rights to a five day working week, two weeks holiday a year and a Bonio before bed time for terriers everywhere.
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I am, by most accounts, a coffee drinker. But I've always had a weakness for a nice cup of tea (or cuppa, as I see written in British books). To the extent that among my favorite aspects of traveling through Europe and Australia has been to sample the local teas, and bring tins and packages home for family and friends.
About five years ago, a new friend introduced me to the idea of High Tea, complete with yummy little sandwiches and desserts stacked on trays, and--the best part for me--scones with slotted cream and jam.
It turns out there are several tea shops in the Pasadena area, and now each Christmas we make a point of a holiday lunch to sample the wares and catch up.
With the weather turning cool and often wet here on the west coast, I'm turning to a nice cuppa more and more these days. The tea I'm drinking is a lovely Pickwick breakfast tea sent to me as a gift by Australian young adult writer, Vanessa Barneveld (shown as a 2009 Golden Heart finalist).
Vanessa knows I have a weakness for Pickwick teas, although I've only been able to find them in her native country!
But the thing is, I'm running out of that tea...and I'd love suggestions for some of your favorite teas, that I could either find at a Pasadena tea shop or even Trader Joes or a supermarket! What kind of tea do you enjoy?
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Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and 
author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com. In the article below he looks at the Republican Party. See his previous OUPblogs here.
A political movement is not the same as the party that claims to represent it. And the disconnect between the Republican party and the conservative movement is sharper today than it has ever been since the heyday of the Reagan revolution. Consider the rising star of Glenn Bleck – as if one Rush Limbaugh isn’t enough – and the marginalization of Michael Steele, who wasn’t even invited to speak at last weekend’s march in Washington and who was denied the opportunity to speak at a Chicago Tea party in April. The angry voices in town-halls and the national mall are not evidence that the Republican party has found its voice, but that it hasn’t. When citizens feel that elected officials don’t speak for us, we take up arms ourselves (sometimes, literally).
The Reagan coalition is fraying, because the libertarian faction of the conservative movement has had enough of sitting at the back of the movement’s bus. For too long, they bought Ronald Reagan’s and George Bush’s argument that expensive and deficit-increasing wars are a necessary evil to combat a greater evil, but the bailout of the big banks last Fall was the last straw for them. If Irving Kristol once said that neoconservatives are converted liberals (like Ronald Reagan himself) who had been “mugged by reality,” Tea Partiers are conservatives who have woken up to the fact that neoconseratives are no different from pre-Vietnam-era liberals chasing after utopian
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The reason why Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are the heroes of the movement, and Michael Steele is persona non grata, is because fiscal conservatives no longer trust the Republican party who for too long has placed their agenda on the backburner. This, in turn, has been brought on by the fact that neoconservatives have lost their privileged status within the movement because of the delegitimation of the adventure in Iraq and the onset of the economic recession. While the end of the Cold War vindicated neoconservatism, the events of September 11 gave it a new lease of life. Together, these two contingent facts of history contributed considerably to the longevity of the Reagan revolution, even as the botched and expensive adventure in Iraq put a screeching halt on the neoconservative ascendancy.
Americans today face a crisis in their pocketbooks and not with foreign nations. Tax-and-spend liberals are a worthy enemy, but they are nowhere as scary or as unifying as the “Evil Empire” or the “Axis of Evil.”
This is why Republican public officials are doing a lot of soul searching these days as they try to make sense of the disconnect between their ideology and party that has been brought on by neoconservatism’s decline. The lack of coordination and indeed the widening chasm between the party and the movement can be evidenced in Arlen Specter’s cross-over to the Democratic aisle, Senator George Voinovich’s complaint that his party was being “taken over by Southerners,” and in Olympia Snowe’s and Susan Collins’ overtures to Barack Obama.
Most people will agree that we know exactly what Barack Obama is up to, politically. The right-wing talk-show hosts will be the first to tell us. But we really do not know what the Republican party stands for or who could possibly lead it in 2012. This is because the party has lost its synthesizing logic and lacks a unifying hero. This weekend, a straw poll conducted at the Values Voters Summit put Mike Huckabee on top, with 28 percent of the vote, because the straw pollers are Values Voters, who constitute yet another faction within the conservative movement. But what was more telling is that even though Sarah Palin did not even turn up for the event, she nevertheless garnered the same endorsement as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and Mike Pence, at 12% each. This is conservatism in
search of a leader.
Because it is parties that win elections and not movements, Republican members of congress should not be taking any comfort from the passionate protests of the Tea Partiers. Instead, they should be embarrassed about the fact that they have been trying to play catch up with a movement that has lost hope in its elected officials. More importantly, the Republican party must find a new way to unite the neoconservative, libertarian, and traditionalist factions of the movement to have any chance of standing up against a president and party, who in 2010, could well be riding the wave of an economic recovery to electoral success.
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Like many British people (and I suspect many other people around the world), it’s a real treat to crunch on a biscuit when enjoying a cup of tea or coffee. So you can imagine my surprise, when having my early Sunday morning imperfectly made cuppa (see http://purpleslinky.com/offbeat/the-complicated-cuppa-cup-that-cheers-or-mug-of-misery/) that I discovered I was amongst those idiots who have managed to suffer a minor injury at the hands of the humble hobnob.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/125767/Crumbs-half-of-us-have-been-injured-by-biscuits
I regret to admit that I’m one of the 29% of adult Brits who have managed to splash themselves with hot tea when dunking my digestive. For those of you who’ve never dunked or heard of dunking let me enlighten you. Once you’ve made your tea (or coffee) (beverage) and taken the biscuit of your choice from the biscuit tin (dunkee), you then proceed to dip a bite size piece of the dunkee into the beverage while holding onto the remainder to use as a ‘handle’ . Once the dunkee has been dunked for a couple of seconds you bring it to the surface of the beverage and then manouevre the dunkee together with beverage as close to your chin as you can before biting (or sucking) the dunkee. The skill is in getting dunkee to lips before it drops back into the beverage. More often than not the dunkee drops its load back into the beverage thereby splashing the dunker with hot beverage!
If you’re lucky enough to dodge the hot beverage if the dunkee drops, don’t believe for one minute that the danger ends there. You then have the job of taking a teaspoon, delving to the bottom of the beverage and trawling the cup to retrieve the errant dunkee to prevent choking. This is no mean feat as, more often than not, the dunkee slips back into the beverage like an eel through a fishing net, which again can cause the dunker injury from splashback!
Having overcome the hazards of dunking, I have also regularly fallen into the 28% of Brits who have choked on biscuit crumbs and at times I’ve fallen into the 7% of Brits who have dropped a biscuit tin on their foot and the 7% who’ve been nibbled by a pet while feeding it with a biscuit (obviously I’m so sweet they can’t tell the difference between a biscuit and me), but thankfully none of my injuries have required the services of the A&E Department of the local hospital.
So there you have it – the Great British Biscuit Bite Back!! I’m now going to get my mid morning coffee and I’m just pondering on whether to risk having a Bourbon (the UK version of the Oreo) biscuit – could be a nice treat or could end up as ‘death by chocolate’!!! If it turns out to be the latter then at least I will have died happy!
All I could think of is a lovely, strong cup of tea, without which I can hardly function, so maybe its the tea makes me strong!
On Sunday, July 26, 2009, find out what Lemon Lace, a Judas quilt, strolling on the veranda, a diamond shoe clip, and an unregistered bed and breakfast guest have in common. Luisa Buehler, author of the acclaimed Grace Marsden murder mystery series, hosts “Tea on the Verandah” at Under the Ginkgo Tree bed-and-breakfast, 300 N. Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park. Afternoon tea begins at 1:00pm and will be served until 3:00pm. Guests are invited to bring their favorite teacup.Local author will host afternoon tea, sign copies of her six published murder mystery novels, discuss the two final novels in the series, and talk about Illinois' Civil War underground railroad.Under the Ginkgo Tree provides an appropriate setting for a talk and review of Buehler's sixth and latest Grace Marsden mystery.The Innkeeper:An Unregistered Death begins with a runaway slave and a society girl laying entombed in the cellar of an old boardinghouse. Renovations turn gruesome when skeletal remains are uncovered. Forensic report adds a twist—the remains were entombed 80 years apart! Grace becomes involved when her friend, the owner of the house falls under suspicion. Grace tries to stay apart from the investigation and succeeds until she sees the spirit of the freedom seeker haunting the house and he turns to her for justice. Can she deny him in death what he sought so tragically in life?The Innkeeper: An Unregistered Death is slated for release late this August by Echelon Press ($13.99 ISBN 978-1-59080-627-2).Grace Marsden's seventh and final cold case will be The Re-Enactor: A Staged Death, scheduled for publication in early 2011. The author who first brought to life the thirty-something, OCD-plagued, often idiosyncratic sleuth in 2002 says Grace is weary of experiencing pain and tragedy through the restless souls who seem to find her. She intends to avoid sleuthing and concentrate on her life with her family.Oftentimes, especially in the case of a novel or story series, their authors come to regard their characters as friends, accomplices, partners, even family. Does Buehler feel that she's saying goodbye to someone she "knows" so well and in whose life she's been so intimately involved for more than a decade?“Not so much goodbye,” says the author, “more that our life paths are moving in different directions from where we are now in our relationship. We won't have as much contact but we'll always have Pine Marsh! {home to Harry and Grace Marsden}.... I hope readers will be satisfied and pleased and find the conclusion of the series totally believable in The Re-Enactor.”Grace is a conglomeration of several women Buehler has known with “a smattering of my OCD tendencies – mine are mild compared to Grace!” She adds that fictional characters such as Nancy Drew (her original inspiration for becoming a mystery writer) and Nora Charles also influenced her.
The tie-in to Under the Ginkgo Tree begins back in book four, The Scoutmaster: A Prepared Death and re-introduced in The Innkeeper. The renowned Oak Park B&B is mentioned by name and is the setting for a scene early in the book.Part history, largely mystery, Buehler says she will focus her remarks at “Tea on the Verandah” on her research about stations on the underground railroad in Illinois and the symbols used on quilts to guide the freedom seekers to safety or to warn them of danger. Buehler uses an interesting twist concerning a quilt found in the boarding house.All who attend “Tea on the Verandah” will be entered in a drawing, to be held at 3:00pm, for prizes including a certificate for a one night stay at Under the Ginkgo Tree B&B, a vintage tea cup and tea basket, and a vintage jewelry piece.Luisa Buehler lives in west suburban Lisle with her husband, their son, and family cat, Martin Marmalade. Between managing a business and family and documenting Grace Marsden’s sleuthing, she also finds time to tend her garden.Under the Ginkgo Tree is located at 300 N. Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park, near the corner of Erie. Call (708) 524-2327 for more information about “Tea on the Verandah.”For more information about Grace Marsden Murder Mysteries, and/or the author Luisa Buehler, email [email protected] or visit www.Luisabuehler.com.Any or all of the Grace Marsden Murder Mystery novels can also be purchased at the publisher's website, www.echelonpress.com or at your local booksellers or online retailers. Local residents of Chicago can purchase them at Centuries & Sleuths in Forest Park or your local Barnes & Noble stores.
The American president called the Indian president to come over to his country for a cup of tea. When the Indian president came over, they had the cup of tea and went off to a jungle; The American president wanted to show him somthing.
When they reached a place the American started digging and told the Indian to help him dig. After digging 100 metres below the ground they saw a wire. The American president exclaimed “Ah Yes, see there we had technology even 100 years ago!” The Indian president didnt show any jealousy but rather invited him to his country for a cup of tea.
Later when the American President came to India and after having the cup of tea the Indian President took the american president to his jungle in india. When they reached a place the Indian started digging and asked the American president to help him. After digging 100 metres they didnt find anything. The American president was confused he said “what are you trying to show me?” “keep digging you’ll see” replied the Indian president. After digging 200, they found nothing but rubble and then finally after digging 300 metres they still saw nothing. The indian prsident exclaimed “Ah you see this? we had wire-less even 300 years ago.”
The American president called the Indian president to come over to his country for a cup of tea. When the Indian president came over, they had the cup of tea and went off to a jungle; The American president wanted to show him somthing.
When they reached a place the American started digging and told the Indian to help him dig. After digging 100 metres below the ground they saw a wire. The American president exclaimed “Ah Yes, see there we had technology even 100 years ago!” The Indian president didnt show any jealousy but rather invited him to his country for a cup of tea.
Later when the American President came to India and after having the cup of tea the Indian President took the american president to his jungle in india. When they reached a place the Indian started digging and asked the American president to help him. After digging 100 metres they didnt find anything. The American president was confused he said “what are you trying to show me?” “keep digging you’ll see” replied the Indian president. After digging 200, they found nothing but rubble and then finally after digging 300 metres they still saw nothing. The indian prsident exclaimed “Ah you see this? we had wire-less even 300 years ago.”
I don't usually do this, ever, but I am this time.
Remember how a couple posts back I said I'd do your cards for you if you bought them from my shop? Well, you all missed your chance 'cause now I'm not gonna.
Today I was hit with that sort of "nosey throaty ewww my head feels kinda fuzzy, what was I doing? where did I put that? maybe if I just lie down for a little bit" feeling and I thought god forbid I should actually get SICK, then where will I be? The cats are certainly not going to do the elf thing for me, so I figured better safe than sorry, and decided to change my mind on the cards.
Also on the "I will gift wrap and send your knitted item(s) directly" offer in my other shop.
Oh, you may all still BUY THINGS! ha ha I'm not that sick. Actually I'm not even sick. Yet. But just the fact that I've rambled on here for this long about absolutely nothing is an indication that maybe something isn't completely right.
I also did not get my special new art done that I posted about, that I wanted to have done by tomorrow. Sometimes you just hit a wall, you know? (**Note to any Art Director type of people who may be reading this ~ if this was a REAL job, for you, I'd have finished it on time! Don't worry!**) Since it was self promo and I had other art I could use, I did. I will still finish that piece, but won't rush it.
I'm going to get that elf lady above to make me a nice cup of tea and put on my warm woolies and tuck in 'til tomorrow.
Its raining and kinda stormy and super cold here. Good night for a fire and some quiet time with the tree and all. Hope you're all good wherever you are. I know the weather is really nasty in some places.
~night all!
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend Simon and Schuster's Librarian Preview. Many books were discussed, and lots of focus was on the elections, but this cutey patootie cover stuck out for me. I was delighted to have this arc in my goody bag!
Annie, Zoe and Genna used to do everything together. Now that 8th grade is coming to a close, however, things seem to be shifting. Genna is into her acting, Zoe is all about tennis and Annie is nervous about convincing her grandmother Louisa that she is indeed old enough to be a barista at The Steeping Leaf. The Leaf is Louisa's store, and it used to be a hangout for Annie, Zoe and Genna. They even used to call themselves the teashop girls! Now it seems like Annie is the only one interested in the place.
After successfully gaining employment at the Leaf, Annie makes a disheartening discovery. Louisa's shop is in trouble. Since her grandfather passed away and a certain chain shop opened up, business is bad. Leaf hottie and budding entrepreneur Jonathan has a few ideas about saving the shop. Annie doesn't agree with his tactics, but is wary of saying anything to ruin her chances with him.
When things go from bad to worse, can Annie rally her friends in order to save the Leaf? Will Zoe and Genna even be interested in their own hangout anymore?
Laura Schaefer has written a tea filled story about friendship and change. Annie is a girl who hangs on tightly to the past, and her friends are moving right along with their Middle School lives. Friendships are pushed and pulled and there is just the right dash of romance. Chapters begin with quotes about tea, and old advertisements are placed at the end of the chapters. I know much more about tea than I did when I cracked open this book. This is sure contender for a book club choice of the mother daughter variety.
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What a lovely rainy morning it is. The dampness in the air is tempting me to cuddle up in my favorite reading chair...
But alas, I've only been up and alert for approximately one hour. I am hoping to get a few things done today, but am finding myself a little slow as I seem to have a nasty ear infection. I have an ear condition that I take daily medication for, and for the most part, it's kept under control. Every once in a while, my ears give me fits, and with the change in weather, this is a likely time for them to misbehave. I will do as much as my ears will allow, and otherwise, I will be perfectly content to stay in and wallow in the warmth of my home. While the rain is boldly dripping outside, making just enough splatter to be heard through the windows and doors, I will be thankful for the roof over my head and the blessing of ears that can still hear the rain...
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I am anxious to get back to work and I have several pieces just waiting for me to finish them...
Whether I will feel well enough to work today is yet to be seen, but I may give it a whirl and see what happens. I know that my heart is ready to work, now I'll see if my ears will allow it. I have several projects going on all at once, as I always do. I am hopeful to finish a few pieces so that if I'm able to pay my Etsy fees, I can begin listing again.
I'm off for the morning. On to my daily doings. My hope is to be finished with all that I must do before nightfall. I would so enjoy a little time to quietly sit in my favorite reading chair, listening to the rain with a cup of Peppermint Tea in hand.
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Continuing our Al and Monkey series here's some background. Johnny Vegas and his knitted sidekick Monkey were catapulted to fame thanks to the commercials they did to launch ITV Digital in the UK. (I'll post one of those later.) Now they're doing PG Tips ads. (You saw them interviewed in an earlier post.)
PG Tips first introduced teabags in 1930. Its advertising was traditionally featuring real chimpanzees engaging in human activities. Today, it's a stuffed sock that's being the refined human. click here to watch one of Al and Monkey's fabulous adverts. I think it's living proof that the Brits really are the best at adverts (and silliness).
The Tea Appreciation Society have included a link to my work on their new website, in their I Love Art section. It's a great website with some great products for sale so go and check it out....
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I read some interesting news last week. I’m adding the links so you can read the whole story if you wish.
"KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books." Thus begins this article by DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press Writer for Yahoo News.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_on_re_us/book_burning
What is the world coming to when a man is forced to burn thousands of books as an act of protest because nobody wants them? I only wish he would have asked me!
Another news which quite surprised me, in a positive way, is the new business agreement between Booksurge and some of the top NY publishers. Some publishers like Harper Collins have made an agreement with Booksurge to have some of their current and back-list titles available in POD form. This might change the outlook of many people about the POD stigma. It seems that finally some of the top houses are realizing the pros of using print on demand, like saving storage/warehouse costs and having old titles available and making money instead of keeping them ‘out of print’. Read the full story here:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1009383&highlight=
Lastly, another interesting thing I read last week has to do with Amazon reviews. It appears that Amazon will not be posting unlimited reviews by reviewers and readers as it is doing now. Instead, only three reviews per book will be displayed, and the reader will have to go to another link in order to read more reviews. Who will select these reviews? What will the criteria be? Could their decision have to do with all the controversy about the fraudulent reader reviews? It seems some authors, adopting fake names or even impersonating real people, have been posting rave reviews of their own books, while at the same time posting harsh reviews of their competitors’ books. Read the article, "Amazon Reviews are a Farce" here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/monsonhaefel/archive/2003/11/amazoncom_revie.html (this link was passed on to me by SF author M.D. Benoit).
It amazes me what some people will do to promote their books-lie, cheat, assume a fake personality. Is this what book promotion has come to? Keeping this in mind, I’m not surprised why ‘legitimate’ reviewers from newspapers and other print publications have lately offered so much criticism to online bloggers and reviewers. Giving freedom to people to post reviews is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, some people will always abuse that freedom and transform it into something ugly. In the end, the good people always suffer because of a few black sheep.
James Alfred William George Galloway McAlistair ('Boston Jim')
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Love it Andrea! :-)
Cute drawing, Andrea. I shared your post with my friends, Charles and Andrea who Boston Terrier lovers. I'm glad to see that you're keeping busy :)
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Salvador, I will get back to you. Promise! And, thanks for sharing.