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Not too many of the enlisted who wandered in Russia and arrived to Siberia were lucky enough to see the end of the war and then later go to Poland and from there roamed until they reached the long awaited homeland. Amongst them there were a few people from Rovno; we were a handful of survivors originally from Jewish Rovno who joined together on our way from Siberia and arrived at Polish Stettin. I was among those who sat and waited impatiently to continue with the journey. One night the people in charge of the illegal crossing of the border told us to get ready for departure. The excitement was great and we spent the whole night waiting anxiously. In the morning we were put in half-closed wagons. It was done swiftly and in a rush. We were 2,000 people, men and women and some hundreds of Rovno's sons, all weary and depressed after what we had been through. But the hope for immigration strengthened us and we were glad to leave Stettin. We were ordered to keep quiet on the way since we were passing an area under Russian rule. When we reached Lubeck, which was under British control we were relieved but we were still afraid and insecure since the British could see us as illegal immigrants and it could thwart our plans.
Big trucks were waiting and we were transported to an empty building of a Jewish synagogue that remained in this German town. We received warm food and shelter for the night. At dawn the next day we continued on our way through the region that was under American control. When we passed Hamburg and saw it in ruins we felt vengeance; if we could not revenge our enemies at least we could enjoy its destruction by others. We traveled all day and in the evening reached Hanover. For lack of a better place they lodged us in a big German bunker, designed as a shelter from air raids. In this bunker we spent the second night on impure German land. We again boarded the big trucks and continued toward Frankfurt-am-Main. There we found out that all the dangerous places on our journey were behind us, and we sighed in relief. From Frankfurt we left on trains to the camps that previously served as concentration camps for workers of German military factories. A strange feeling came upon many of us: supposedly we were nearing the Land of Israel, but for the moment we were led to camps. The people from Rovno tried to stay close together on the way and when we reached the camps.
We were lodged in shabby buildings in a forest, where we had to await the possibility of immigration to the Land of Israel. No one knew how long we would have to wait, so we had to find our place and settle down. By the instructions of the people in charge and with their guidance we began the necessary arrangements for our life there: cleaning the buildings and their surroundings, establishing a kitchen, finding a system to distribute food, assigning guards, that later became our police, organizing classes of handcrafts and Hebrew, a clinic, schools for the children, a synagogue, a Mikve, a library and more. Life went on and it all took time, thought and planning. It was not easy and we did not do all at once, there was a lot of scurrying. When all the projects were under way there was an impression as if we were settling down and living our lives in this place, while no one could even fathom staying there. We were all, especially Rovno People, on our way to the Land of Israel; few fancied life in foreign countries across the ocean.
Day in and day out, grey meaningless days for most of the camps' inhabitants. Meanwhile different parties were created and each party tried to gain supporters. Eventually we had branches of all the parties and the national youth-movements that quarreled among themselves, especially during election times, or when we had a guest-lecturer. More than once our big camp looked like a Jewish village with all the pettiness, disputes and empty squabbles, envy and gossip.
In our first year in the camp everyone received their food-ration in the camps' kitchen, except those who were not part of the general kitchen, or were busy with different businesses, most of them dubious, with the Germans: they had no time to stand online for their rations. The Kibbutzim that were formed in the camp got their food collectively for all their members and they lived their life separately from the others. These Kibbutzim impacted the whole camp with a Land of Israel flavor; since they were organized they instilled in all of us confidence in our nearing immigration and in a proper future in our new land. They inspired us all and helped us overcome the shortcomings in the camp's life; we learned a lot from them.
It went on until Israeli messengers arrived at our camp and took upon themselves the managing of the affairs.
The Rovno sons in the camp
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From that time on our lives in the camp changed considerably. The messengers took care of improvements and cultural activities. Courses for studying Hebrew were founded; a school was established for the children, something that was greatly missed. The opening of the school in the camp was a remarkable event: the children were delighted, and the parents were happy as well that their children would learn the language they would use when they live in the Land of Israel. To maximize the benefit of the time in the camp the Kibbutzim were moved to German farms so they could learn and practice agriculture work. ORT opened schools for handicrafts and the camps' youth intensively dedicated themselves to studying. These were rays of light in the camp.
And then immigration began in small groups, in order to break through the blockade the British imposed on Israel. Our lives changed: a spontaneous national sentiment enveloped most of us. There were very few cases of people deserting, people who quickly forgot the horrible past and looked for an easy life. One unforgettable case should be mentioned: there were two children who adamantly refused to travel with their parents to any foreign country but the Land of Israel. The parents' promises, threats and blows were to no avail, the kids demanded that their parents change their minds and forget their plan if they wanted to be together. The children left their parents and went with a group of immigrants hiding under the luggage. The parents begged us to tell them where the children were hiding. They went after them and reached them close to the border. Only after tearing the travel documents to the country they dreamt about, and promising to immigrate to the Land of Israel with them, did the children come back triumphantly to the camp. They proudly related their victory to the other children and a strong Israeli spirit took hold of all the children in the camp. The great day arrived, the day of the Exodus when many of us left for Israel, despite the obstacles and dangers that awaited us on the way.
A very important event in our lives in the camp was when we got the information about the UN resolution to found the State of Israel. The impact was huge and the joy was great although it was mixed with tears for the memory of our dear ones who in their death commanded us life. In those days was held in Fernwald the first memorial for Rovno's Jews. We knew that gathering Rovno's Jews in camps, the meeting of people from different camps and holding a memorial on German soil of all places was inspirational. The following members who were active should be mentioned: Kotik, Scwarzefel, Sutin, Shustak and others who managed to organize such a gathering. Every one who attended was hoping to find a relative, or at least get some news about relatives who survived. Most of them were disappointed. It is impossible to describe the crying and the plaints of the assembled people throughout the traditional Yizkor. The words of Beker, a young rabbi, made a huge impression when he eulogized and lamented Jewish Rovno. For a short while he took us back to our city and to our homes before the annihilation and he knew also how to consol and strengthen us.
And so we had the privilege of arriving from migrating-camps to the yearned shore and join the builders of our homeland.
[Page 584]
Translation by Naomi Gal
IZKOR The people of Israel will remember the Nazi's victims in Rovno.
May they rest in peace
(Page 584 in the Hebrew text)
In the Holocaust basement on Mountain-Zion in Jerusalem (this basement served till Yad Vashem was founded) many legends are accumulating, history, plans, personalities. Two of these legends are about the great Maggid from Rovno and Mezerich, the famous Rabbi Dov-Baer and they represent Kiddush Hashem (the sanctification of God's name through martyrdom) and the idea of the Hasidim migration to the Land of Israel. Both legends are dedicated to the memory of the saints of the thriving Rovno community.
The just Rabbi Shelomo sanctified God and lovingly accepted heaven's verdict in the Maggid School in Rovno. They relate that when the old Jewish study house was attacked they found Rabbi Shelomo wrapped in his prayer shawl next to the Holy Ark praying and begging. The murderers laughed but he went on praying, they beat him, tortured him and dragged him to the slaughter place of the whole community. When he began walking he saw his grandfather, the holy Maggid, limping toward him. The Maggid looked at him with his warm eyes and asked: Where are you going, Shelomo my son?
To the sacrifice, grandfather, answered Shelomo and went on walking surrounded by his torturers.
Let's go together! said the Maggid, When one goes to sanctify God's name it is better to go in company, as said in Isaac: Two are better than one.
At first Shelomo was glad that the Maggid was accompanying him, but after they walked together for a while, and the Maggid encouraged him, he thought to himself that the Maggid came with the intention of fortifying him so that he would not be distressed, and he had second thoughts. Did he need encouragement and assistance with sanctifying the name of God? He turned his face toward the Maggid and spoke Torah words:
I am afraid, old man, that what the Torah says is that if two went together, one indeed was saved, as it occurred when Isaac was saved. When two are walking it is natural that one is asking for mercy to save the other one, even from Kiddush Hashem, and God grants their wish, but when a man walks alone is it imaginable that he would pray to be saved from Kiddush Hashem?
The Maggid understood his wish and went away, back to his chair in the study house, and Rabbi Shelomo went alone to his death, with joy in his heart.
Once in dire times Hassidim gathered in the old place of Torah study in Rovno for prayer and pleas. There was there an old man who told a story that happened to the Maggid, itinerant preacher, one hundred and fifty years earlier.
On the conclusion of the Sabbath the Maggid was sitting with his Hassidim at the table immersed in thoughts, his eyes looking far away. He sat that way for a long time and only his sighs disrupted the silence. Then he began mumbling as if talking to himself:
When a baby is born there is so much crying and yelling! The woman yells when she is in labor, screaming and crying; the baby, too, when he emerges into the world he immediately whines and cries. There is no birth without labor. There is no building without the destruction of the old one. The wheel spins since the first six days of Genesis. Before the wheel ascends it descends. One has to descend before he ascends. The grain does not sprout and grow before it rots and turns into 'nothing'. Something out of nothing. And this is what our blessed elders said: God creates worlds and then destroys them, and then builds them anew. This is fine but what is the point if he destroys them? Since destruction is the 'something' the old one requires the building of a new one, and one cannot go without the other, old must make way for new.
The Maggid spoke and then stopped and restarted, spinning sparkling ideas and stopped again. Late at night the guests left and the only one who stayed was his best student and confidant, who was always on his side. The Maggid's lips went on moving, praying or talking to himself, suddenly he stopped, looked at his student as if he did not know him, then woke up and said:
Listen to me, Menahem-Mendel, I want you to be my messenger.
The Maggid took out a grain of wheat and laid it on the table, he took out of the cupboard a mortar, put the grain in the mortar and began crushing it. Menahem-Mendel stood and waited, watching closely his rabbi, looking intrigued.
When the Maggid saw his student standing astonished without saying a word, he patted him fondly on the shoulder and said: A fresh and beautiful olive tree that God made. Was not Israel called an olive tree? Israel was called in the names of many good trees. But an olive grows on a tree, then it gets picked up and then you press it and grind it and use stones until it oozes its oil. Israel is the same way: the nations beat them and chase them from one place to another, they imprison them and torture them and here is the secret of Israel's light: all the hardships and calamities result in crushing so that the light can appear. The two destroyed temples were crushed, too. The third temple will stand forever. This explains the terrible grinding and crushing of the whole of Israel.
Yes, Mendel, yes, the new something is about to be created, that is why the old something has to be demolished, this is why redemption is called a plant. This is the way of redemption. Like a plant it can only grow after the grain rots in the earth. We should be preparing for redemption soon. When you say the Kaddish you have to say the word grow with all your heart, so that we could see the messiah.
Menahem-Mendel listened attentively and his eyes moistened: tears' dew, and when the Maggid finished he bent his head and said with a sigh,
And what would happen to me?
A long silence followed while the student went on staring at his rabbi. Finally the Maggid raised his voice slightly and said,
Menahem-Mendel, what are you doing here? Go to the Holy Land. and he put the crushed grain in his hand.
That same morning Menahem-Mendel left town and immigrated to the Land of Israel.
He was busy with the grain. He crossed the country from one side to another and was looking for the right place to sow his rabbi's seed. He went to the Galilee and stood all night long facing the Sea of Galilee, while praying. At dawn he looked at the sun that was rising slowly and illuminating the world. He took out the crushed grain and sowed it in an apple grove.
This is where the best of the Maggid's students go to looking for the Geula that would come slowly, like the rising sun.
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Translation by Naomi Gal
The foundation of the idea of commemoration is remembrance, remembrance in commemorating characters, personalities or a community. When we erect a tombstone for one person, who died naturally in normal times, we use a regular stone that carries a certain inscription on the deceased grave. Or a pillar of stone or bronze with symbols and inscriptions that is erected in public places in memory of an admired personality paying tribute to his life's endeavor.
Not so when it is a community, a victim-community that reached its tragic end in an uncommon way, under despicable conditions, like the Holocaust that descended on the Jews in the Diaspora, when the nation lost one-third of its sons in a brutal and cruel way, which history never saw before.
Could the people in their homeland and in the Diaspora, who escaped the disaster, remain indifferent to everything they went through without making sure an appropriate tombstone was erected that would commemorate the names and memory of all its sanctified? Indeed we see the remains of the lost communities wake up and the survivors, especially those who arrived to the eternal homeland of the nation, are erecting memorials to their communities in Israel. Tradition and national awareness are guiding the memorial-raisers in finding the right expression for their turmoil when they commemorate the souls of the sanctified.
The tombstones are different, but the aim is one: a sanctified and transcendent commemoration. The hundreds and thousands of the sons of Jewish Rovno in Israel took upon themselves the commemoration of their destroyed community in several ways. The first: planting groves in the memory of Rovno's saints in the Sanctified Forest planted by the Israel National Fund in Jerusalem's mountains, a tree per soul. Living trees will grow as a symbol to the uprooted souls. A tree for each soul that was prematurely uprooted by a cruel hand, together they will consist a living, green tombstone to the whole community.
Inscription: The Sanctified Forest
(Page 587 in the Hebrew text)
Rovno's descendents planting the first grove in the Sanctified Forest
(Page 588 in the Hebrew text)
The first grove, with 1,000 trees, was planted in 1953. The second one was planted in 1954 and they are planting more.
The second way to commemorate is this memorial book, in which many of the city's sons did their best to remember Rovno's history and its Jewish community during the generations until they were uprooted by evil.
A third way is to establish a charity-fund in the memory of Rovno's sanctified in the purpose of assisting the city's survivors by lending them small loans with no interest. The fund is now legal and operating.
Many of Rovno's sons in Israel are planning to build a cultural center named after Rovno's Community on the lot assigned by Haifa's municipality on the Carmel Mountain. One hopes that despite the many difficulties the center will be built and that the place will absorb every remain and memory that was left of this important city.
And finally, the listing project of Yad Vashem and the transmission of honorary citizenship to the sanctified. The sons of Rovno in Israel and in the Diaspora will persevere in fulfilling their duty to their relatives-the-saints in commemorating them in Yad Vashem.
The time of the Nazi occupation was a chain of murdering and exterminating Jews: not a day passed without victims. But the two dates of the mass-slaughters:
November 7 1941These dates have a special place. We would engrave these fateful dates for Rovno Jews on our hearts and commemorate them forever and ever.
July 13, 1942
[Page 589]
Translation by Naomi Gal
The moaning of generations past and the cries of our generation, all mixed together. The groaning of the slaughtered and the howling of the slain in the void of the impervious world. The skies are dark and the light is gone. Anger and wrath poured down. Alone and deserted stood Rovno's sons in the dark days, days of blood, with no support or defense, without help or mercy. The brute could destroy; the devils of the world could reap their harvest, the ungodly of civilization, which were worse than all the previous enemies. The nation, seasoned in many defeats, did not know any such thing throughout its thousands of years.
When the axe came down and the destroyers performed their diabolic scheme to uproot a nation, communities fell like stalks of grain after the reaper, Rovno's sons were amongst the first in Volhynia that fell in actions and individually, until there was no living Jew left within the city's limits. Some managed to hide but were eventually discovered by the enemy's henchmen for a ration of salt and they, too, fell.
Hence were disrupted the lives of thousands and ten thousands of Rovno's Jews, old and young, men and women. Spiritual and cultural properties were crushed, creations of generations were trampled, the community was wiped out while the enlightened world was watching. The hearts were not wrenched, the world was not shaken by the horrors, the earth did not tremble.
At that time, when rivers of blood were flowing in all the roads and no Jew passed Rovno's streets for fear and terror, we, the lucky ones sat in the renewing homeland; shame darkens our faces for the powerlessness and inability to come to our bleeding brothers' help. Many of them were supposed to immigrate to our homeland, they dreamt about her days and years, and were anticipating, many of them tried to come in impossible ways, and failed, they are sanctified by us, Rovno's sons our brothers, who can recount their greatness and their loss!
I am watching my city's sons on their death-march, their final route, their faces lowered, their legs stumbling, the light of life extinguished from their eyes, and they are walking like sheep to slaughter. Among them parents, brothers, sisters, and dear-relatives they and their children are pushed to the gallows. From far I feel them holding their breaths, the tremor of their souls and their bleeding hearts. They are walking toward the ditches that were dug for them, and they feel it is their last route. A hysterical sobbing tears the air, and its echo is lost faraway.
My heart turns and I pray bitterly: may the evil come before thee, God almighty, and you will take revenge.
I am walking through the scene of the mass-murder and the earth burns my feet and my body, I cannot find peace. Nothingness and bereavement in your streets, my city. I roam around looking for the past, the tumultuous life I used to know, I peek in your alleys, and you are abandoned, ruined and deserted, with none of your Jewish sons and builders, who built and cherished you hundreds of years. No synagogues since there are no prayers, no schools since there are no students nor teachers, no aid-institutions, since there are no aided nor aiding. Devastation and annihilation on every corner, desecrated Torah scrolls scattered and grieving mezuzahs in the entrances of Jewish houses inhabited by strangers. No Hebrew speakers, no pioneers waiting for Aliya no life, nothingness. Only I, the only remain, walking broken and crushed mourning my city, my Rovno.
And I knew for sure that the end had come, the splendid crown was smashed and the rich violin silenced, destroyed my city amongst Jewish communities that were annihilated by tyrants, murderers and impure.
O Rovno, my burnt city, would you ask about the remains of your sons whose heart is crying bitterly for your fate!
Mass grave in Rovno
(Page 590 in the Hebrew text)
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Translation by Naomi Gal
|Remember the calamity of Israel; remember the loss and the rebellion,
Let them serve as sign and lesson for years and generations
And this memory should forever be with you, when you walk, lie down, wake up
Betroth forever the memory of brothers that are no longer there
And the memory should be in your flesh, blood and bones.
Grind your teeth and remember: when you eat your bread remember,
when you drink your water remember, when you hear a song remember
when the sun shines remember, when the night comes remember
and remember when it is a holiday.
When you build a house leave a crack so that you will always remember the
destruction of the house of Israel; when you plow, raise a mound of stones
A memorial to the brothers who were not buried in a Jewish grave
When you lead your sons to wedding remember while rejoicing
The memory of the sons that will not wed
And the living and the dead will become one, the fallen and the survivor
Those who went and will not come back
And those who remained
Shema man of Israel the voice calling you from depths:
Do not take my blood, do not
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Aharding / CNN: Gingrich says his ideas will evolve openly
Hugh Store / The Hugh Hewitt Show: Show Transcripts — Newt Gingrich On His Meet The Press Appearance …
Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register: Iowan to Gingrich: Get out now before you make a bigger fool of yourself
David Rogers / The Politico: GOP budget cuts would hit poor hard
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC: GOP to Newt: Leave Paul Ryan Alone!
Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction: Elephant Dung #32: After Gingrich slam, Ryan retaliates
Los Angeles Times:
Schwarzenegger fathered a child with longtime member of household staff — His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after the former governor acknowledged the child was his. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Atlantic Online, L.A. NOW, No More Mister Nice Blog, Indecision Forever, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, Guardian, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, TMZ.com, New York Magazine, The Raw Story, The Moderate Voice, Jezebel, News Desk, JOSHUAPUNDIT, dailystab.com, Gawker, The Hill, Hotline On Call, Moe Lane, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite, Simply Left BehindThe … and Fox Nation
Karoli / Crooks and Liars: Schwarzenegger's Womanizing Should Have Ended His Political Career 8 Years Ago
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: The Schwarzenegger Affair — In a statement to the Los Angeles Times …
Kimi Yoshino / L.A. NOW: Steve Lopez to Schwarzenegger: You want criticism for your actions? Here it is
Dennis DiClaudio / Indecision Forever: Arnold Schwarzenegger Fathered Secret Child Before Running for Office
Jacob Bernstein / The Daily Beast: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child Bombshell: Why Maria Shriver Left
The Reliable Source / Washington Post: Schwarzenegger acknowledged child with housekeeper before split with Maria
Maev Kennedy / Guardian: Arnold Schwarzenegger had child with employee
Ann Althouse / Althouse: What's with these European men — Dominique Straus-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger — and sex with the servants?
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Schwarzenegger/Shriver Split Due To Love Child
Nitasha Tiku / New York Magazine: Arnold Schwarzenegger Admits He Fathered a Child With a Household Staffer
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Schwarzenegger reveals he secretly fathered child over 10 years ago
Joe Windish / The Moderate Voice: Schwarzenegger Love Child Scandal Revealed
Dodai Stewart / Jezebel: Schwarzenegger's Alleged Former Mistress: There Were "So Many" Other Women [Celebrity]
Freedom Fighter / JOSHUAPUNDIT: Arnold Schwarzenegger Embroiled in Scandal Over Love Child With Employee
Jeff Neumann / Gawker: The Schwarzenegger Love Child Scandal Has Arrived
Erika Niedowski / The Hill: Schwarzenegger fathered child with member of household staff
Sean Sullivan / Hotline On Call: Hotline Sort: My Old Kentucky Home
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Schwarzenegger and Shriver Separated After Learning He Had Child with Household Staffer More Than Decade Ago
Jon Bershad / Mediaite: Maria Shriver Speaks Out On Schwarzenegger Child
Carl / Simply Left BehindThe Non-Rapturist's Guide …: Not Buying It, Arnold — Of course, you've heard the story today …
Elizabeth Leonard / People.com:
Maria Shriver: 'This Is a Painful & Heartbreaking Time' — Maria Shriver has broken her silence and responded to the news that her estranged husband, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, fathered a child with a member of his household staff 10 years ago.
Dan Fastenberg / The Page: Maria Asks for Privacy
Jamie Feldmar / Gothamist: Arnold's Secret Lovechild To Blame In Split With Maria
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Arnold Schwarzenegger had child with employee
Arnold Schwarzenegger had child with employee
Discussion: New York Times, newsfeed.time.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Lonely Conservative and FrumForum
Adam Nagourney / New York Times: Schwarzenegger Fathered Child With Employee
William Lee Adams / newsfeed.time.com: Arnold Schwarzenegger Admits Fathering a Child with Household Staffer
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi's district — Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama's administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels …
Discussion: National Review, The Foundry, NO QUARTER, iOwnTheWorld.com, Hot Air, UrbanGrounds, The Lonely Conservative, BackyardConservative and AmSpecBlog
Mike Brownfield / The Foundry: Pelosi's District Scores Big With Obamacare Waivers
Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy / NO QUARTER: Want To Opt Out Of Obamacare? Try Nancy Pelosi's District **OPEN THREAD**
Ginger / iOwnTheWorld.com: Sarah Palin Calls Obamacare Waiver Process "Corrupt" As 20% Of All Waivers Go To Pelosi District
Robbie Cooper / UrbanGrounds: Crony Capitalism: Queen Pelosi Helps Secure Obamacare Waivers for Businesses in her House District
Anne / BackyardConservative: 20% of Latest ObamaCare Waivers Go to Pricey Watering Holes. Bolshie Mob in Action
Joseph Lawler / AmSpecBlog: Obamacare Not Good Enough for Pelosi's District
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Gov. Sarah Palin on Pelosi district's Obamacare waivers: 'Seriously, this is corrupt' — In response to the revelation that about 20 percent of the latest slew of Obamacare waivers went to luxurious restaurants, nightclubs and hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's district …
Discussion: Pajamas Media, GOP 12, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media: Palin on the latest round of ObamaCare waivers: 'Unflippinbelievable' and 'corrupt'
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Palin rips "corrupt" ObamaCare waivers
Whitney Pitcher / Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin on Obamacare Waivers to Pelosi's District: "Corrupt"
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
BHL: France's National Disgrace — French "philosopher" Bernard Henri-Levy, the non-politician perhaps most responsible for getting NATO into war with Libya, has long been one of the West's most scarequote-worthy intellectuals. There was the quoting of a literary hoax to attack Immanuel Kant …
Discussion: National Review, New York Times, The Daily Dish, AMERICAN DIGEST, Ideas Market, Feministe, Fox News, The Daily Beast and The Smoking Gun
Jonah Goldberg / National Review: Bernard-Henri Levy Lashes Himself to Strauss-Kahn
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times: Questions Raised About a Code of Silence
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: With Moral Certainty — Bernard-Henri Levy rallies to defend his class of people:
Christopher Shea / Ideas Market: Reason Magazine's Editor Dissects Bernard Henri-Levy
Daniel Stone / The Daily Beast: Strauss-Kahn Scandal Causes IMF Crisis
WilliamPenn / The Smoking Gun: Filing Details Alleged Attack By IMF Chief
Bernard-Henri Levy / The Daily Beast:
Bernard-Henri Lévy Defends Accused IMF Director
Bernard-Henri Lévy Defends Accused IMF Director
Discussion: Time, Taylor Marsh, The Lede, Salon, The Reality-Based Community, The Awl, Outside the Beltway, DownWithTyranny! and Guardian
Ruth Davis Konigsberg / Time: DSK Sex-Crime Case: Ex-Prosecutor Explains Charges
Justin Elliott / Salon: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's shameless defender
Michael O'Hare / The Reality-Based Community: DSK (and BHL) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn is experiencing …
Choire Sicha / The Awl: France is an Incredibly Foreign Country
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: The Odd French Reaction To The Arrest Of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
DownWithTyranny!: You Can't Trust The Rich— Dominique Straus-Kahn Is The French Equivalent Of A Blue Dog
Isabelle Germain / Guardian: Don't let Dominique Strauss-Kahn become the victim | Isabelle Germain
Budget Committee:
Shared Scarcity versus Renewed Prosperity — Thank you so much, Anne, for the kind introduction. — I want to thank you all for inviting me to speak. It was especially gracious of you to host me, even though I'm a Packers fan and I assume most of you are Bears fans. — But that doesn't mean we can't work together.
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist: A government of laws or men?
David Beckworth / Macro and Other Market Musings: An Open Letter to Congressman Paul Ryan
James Pethokoukis / National Review: Ryan's Response Hits the Right Note
W. James Antle, III / American Spectator: Prosperity vs. Shared Scarcity
Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico: Paul Ryan to sharpen attacks on Obama's Medicare board
Paul Krugman:
Do Do That Voodoo — So Paul Ryan gave his big speech defending his plan — and demonstrated, in case you were wondering, that there's no there there (and there never was). — Remember how everyone declared that Ryan was a serious person, truly willing to face up to our deficit problem?
Discussion: EconomicPolicyJournal.com, Firedoglake and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality …
David Dayen / Firedoglake: In Big Speech, Ryan Barely Even Tries to Defend His Medicare Phase-Out Plan
Salman Masood / New York Times:
Pakistan and NATO Trade Fire Near Afghan Border — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani ground troops opened fire on two NATO helicopters that crossed into Pakistan's airspace from Afghanistan early Tuesday morning, the Pakistani Army said in a statement. In the firefight that followed, two Pakistani soldiers were wounded, it said.
Discussion: TPMDC, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Mudville Gazette and Jihad Watch
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC: Kerry: Pakistan And U.S. Are At A Critical Crossroads
Freedom Fighter / JOSHUAPUNDIT: Pakistan And NATO Forces Exchange Fire
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: NATO, Pakistan exchange fire on Af-Pak border
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Pakistani Troops Fire On NATO Helicopters
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette: Whores de Combat
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Pakistan's Prime Minister Visits China
Pakistan's Prime Minister Visits China
Discussion: Prairie Weather and The Reaction
Carl / The Reaction: Threats Rarely Work
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
The Real Social Security and Medicare Problem (and a Doable Fix) — Bruce Bartlett has served as an economic adviser in the White House, the Treasury Department and Congress. — On Friday, the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare systems issued their annual reports for 2011.
Discussion: Opinionator, Swampland, The Daily Dish and The Incidental Economist
Adam Sorensen / Swampland: Two Words Can't Solve the Health Care Entitlement Puzzle
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The "Do Nothing" Option On Medicare
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist: Can the government stick it to the docs?
Buffalo News:
Corwin TV ad accused of making bogus claims
Corwin TV ad accused of making bogus claims
Discussion: TPMDC, Washington Post, Capital Tonight and The Rothenberg Political …
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC: NRCC Dumps Cash Into NY-26 As Special Election Tilts Dem
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post: NY 26: Republicans in retreat from Medicare cuts
Liz Benjamin / Capital Tonight: House GOP Tries To Turn The Tables On Medicare
Stuart Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report: New York 26: Move to Toss-Up/Tilt Democratic
Associated Press:
Sources: Navy SEALs Knew Bin Laden Mission Was One-Shot Deal — WASHINGTON — Those who planned the secret mission to get Usama bin Laden in Pakistan knew it was a one-shot deal, and it nearly went terribly wrong. — The U.S. deliberately hid the operation from Pakistan …
Discussion: FrumForum, Betsy's Page and Pajamas Media
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Disposing of another PC kerfuffle
Christian Adams / Pajamas Media: WTH? Could this administration handle D-Day?
CBS News:
Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly debate rapper Common — TV titans battle over artist's invite to White House poetry reading — It's not often you hear a hot debate over poetry, but that's what Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart offered Monday night. — As CBS News Correspondent Seth Doane reported, poetry readings may seem innocuous.
Discussion: newsfeed.time.com
Mahmoud Abbas / New York Times:
The Long Overdue Palestinian State — SIXTY-THREE years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his family to Syria. He took up shelter in a canvas tent provided to all the arriving refugees.
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Enterprise Blog, NewsReal Blog, Elder of Ziyon and Pajamas Media
Freedom Fighter / JOSHUAPUNDIT: Abbas' Lies Contradicted From His Own Mouth; An Open Letter To The NYT Public Editor
Danielle Pletka / The Enterprise Blog: The Long Overdue Palestinian Leadership
Joseph Klein / NewsReal Blog: An Open Letter To Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Ex-Sen. Feingold says Lieberman, McCaskill, Hoyer fit for 'shame' — Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) has tabbed two Democrats and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) as fit for "shame" for being too beholden to corporate interests. — Feingold, the former liberal senator who leads …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms — NEW YORK - Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January. — Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Moonbattery, Pirate's Cove, The Lonely Conservative and Balloon Juice
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: Light Bulb Ban Looms
Dave Blount / Moonbattery: Big Government's Latest Gift: The $50 Light Bulb
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: What Say To $50 Light Bulbs?
John Cole / Balloon Juice: Turn on Your Heartlight
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
CINDY CRAWFORD FLIP-FLOPS FOR MITT ROMNEY — During her modeling career, Cindy Crawford was skilled at switching outfits. Now, she's switching presidential candidates, it seems. — Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mitt Romney, took to Twitter Monday to oh-so-subtly boast that Team Romney …
Discussion: The Hill, Pirate's Cove, Ben Smith's Blog, New York Magazine, Don Surber, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, GOP 12 and The Daily Caller
Christina Wilkie / The Hill: Cindy Crawford now backing Romney?
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Cindy Crawford Abandons Obama For Romney?
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog: Romney's edge — So how much more money will Mitt Romney have than his rivals?
Dan Amira / New York Magazine: Did Mitt Romney Mention That He Can Raise $10.25 Million in Eight Hours?
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Mitt Romney Raises $10.25 Million In One Day
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Romney's haul sends message to Daniels
Laura Donovan / The Daily Caller: Cindy Crawford supports Romney


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The PwC Tower is considered New Zealand's most prestigious and exclusive commercial office building.
Located in the heart of Auckland's CBD, PwC Tower is the epitome of convenience, with dining, high-end retail and entertainment districts all a short stroll away.
Designed by award winning architects Stephenson & Turner, the impressive 29 floors structure rises from its rectangular podium and colonnade over 142 metres. Featuring the largest floor plate of any high-rise office building in New Zealand allows for unobstructed views giving PwC Tower occupants a combination of landmark location and unparalleled design and service flexibility.
The façade incorporates the latest green technologies including; glass technology, blind installation, flexible power, data and communications cabling, resulting in energy savings.
Visitors will be impressed with the tower's grand hotel-style lobby entrance, original artwork, plus café and restaurant set in an open public space.
The building features 360-degree spectacular views across stunning Auckland harbour and city skyline, including views of Whangaparoa Peninsular, the North Shore and Auckland Museum.
PwC also offers excellent transport connections, with a taxi rank, Auckland Ferry Terminal, and Britomart Train and Bus Station is one block away. Parking options are also on offer.
Building occupants include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Heaney & Partners, Google, Buddle Findlay, JTT, the Australian Consulate and an impressive list of law, consultancy and financial institutes.
On-site facilities include; 355 secure onsite car parks, onsite concierge, café, 24/7 security, destination control lifts.
20 - 25 minutes by taxi from the Auckland International Airport.
The Airbus Express service runs from the city centre to the airport. Buses run 7 days a week, up to every 10 minutes between 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday and every 15 to 30 minutes at other times.
3 minute walk to the Britomart Transport Centre, where there are regular train and bus services.
The City LINK bus service runs from the newly developed Wynyard Quarter, along Queen St, up to K-Rd and then back down via Queen Street. All the City LINK buses are bright red, easy to spot and services run on a regular basis.
3 minute walk to the Auckland Ferry Terminal, where there are regular ferry services.
Tenants are only moments away from premium retailers, 5 star hotels, and shopping mall. There is also convenient access with pedestrian links between the Viaduct Harbour, the Downtown Shopping Centre and the Downtown Carpark. Public transport is easy with access via trains, buses, ferry and a taxi rank on the doorstep.
Within 5 minutes walking distance:
Ask if they have unique-password, rocket-fast WiFi – For your security.
Ask to be connected to the internet – How long does it take?
Ask if the provider is Tier-1.
Ask to be allowed to check download speeds.
Ask to speak to IT support: Are they in-house or a third party? Are they even in the country?
Ask to be given a phone number so you can try the service before you buy.
Ask for a phone rate card.
Ask to meet your dedicated receptionist. The receptionist is the front line of your business.
Ask about disaster transfer.
Ask if your phone extension can roam at no cost to other locations.
Ask if the wireless internet is secure.
Ask what kind of firewall can be set up for your network.
Ask to see the transparency code of the provider.
Ask if incoming callers can dial '1' for voicemail to mobile.
Ask if you can get free calls equal to your connection amount.
Ask if your phone bill is 20% lower than telco rate.


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The Business Advantage Group, a business-to-business research marketing and consulting organization that specializes in the Information Technology and Telecommunicating sectors, recently released its 2014 Worldwide CAD Trends Survey, announcing both a prospective increase in the cloud-based CAD industry and the anticipated incorporation of 3D printing.
The Business Advantage Group surveyed approximately 409 CAD users and industry leaders to mark current trends in the CAD industry and where it is expected to go within the next five years. This year, the survey noted some interesting trends and an overall shift in the CAD industry to begin incorporating newer, emerging technology -- one of which happens to be cloud-based software.
The 2014 CAD Trends survey recorded that although only 7% of the industry currently relies on the software, there will be an increase in the use of cloud-based CAD by 130% by the end of this year and an increase of 260% within the next five years. The survey also predicted that the shift is most likely to occur in the Americas and Asia/Pacific regions, compared to the EMEA. The question, then, becomes, why?
Cloud-based CAD software is a very new development in the CAD industry, but one that deserves further consideration. Cloud technology allows organizations in the CAD industry to purchase software-as-a-service. This means that a company can pay a monthly fee for access to CAD software and storage capacity, without having to purchase additional hardware or software updates, as they become available. This potentially offers businesses a more inexpensive way to do business through the cloud platform.
Another benefit to using cloud-based CAD software is increased storage capacity and the ability to store data in one off-site location, accessible anywhere with an Internet connection -- also known as in the clouds.
There are some general concerns pertaining to the cloud regarding security and lag in response time, but generally the Internet software solution is increasing in popularity, and Business Advantage has the statistics to prove it.
Business Advantage Group noted the upward trend of cloud-based CAD software and also asked why companies were making the switch. Of the users already using cloud-based CAD, including those who plan to, 76% attribute the switch to increased mobility. Thirty-six percent of users are making the switch because of increased storage capacity, 35% due to ease of updating software, and 33% due to reductions in operating costs. These aren't the only benefits consumers see, but they are the most popular reasons today.
The survey also predicted the possibility of the cloud-based CAD industry skyrocketing in upcoming years. While only 25% of the 409 people surveyed expect to use this online platform within the next five years, 47% of those surveyed confirmed having "high awareness" of the cloud-based solution, or in other words, high interest. With only 7% of the industry currently using the cloud, but approximately 47% at least interested in the technology, Business Advantage predicts an upward trend within the cloud-based CAD industry.
The survey also predicted another interesting trend -- the increased use of 3D printing.
The 2014 CAD Trends survey found that approximately 14% of the CAD industry surveyed relies on 3D printing. An increased trend is expected, however, because 21% of the industry anticipates using 3D printing by the end of the year and 32% anticipate using the technology within the next five years. The largest growth is expected among large companies, at 28%, but small and midsized companies are also expected to jump on board, at an increase of 16% and 6%, respectively.
According to the survey, the largest portion of growth is expected to occur in the Americas, which already show the highest percentage of usage at 26%. The EMEA and Pacific regions, where 12% and 11% of the CAD industry currently rely on 3D printing, respectively, are also, however, expected to see an increase in demand and usage of the technology.
The survey also asked those currently using 3D printers, and those who plan to, why they're making, or have made, the switch. The study found that 63% of the industry plan to use the technology to enhance design, 54% plan to use 3D printers to save time, 38% believe the technology will enable them to respond faster to changes in the market, and 24% believe 3D printing will save the organization in overall costs.
Whatever the reason, cloud-based CAD software and 3D printing better be on your "to-get familiar with" list.
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Motley Crue's Tommy Lee Rocks The 360 Drum Kit [VIDEO]
You got to respect that Motley gives pseudo-celebrity Tommy Lee his "moment in the sun" during shows.
Tommy Lee rocks a 360 on the new tour. It's cool Tommy gets his time to shine, but they probably use the the time to inject Mick Mars with whatever secret government formula that keeps his corpse reanimated (trust me, he's the #1 source if a zombie apocalypse ever breaks out). It's also possible that Vince Neil uses this time to eat plates of sausages or that Nikki Sixx spends the time selling out Motley to anyone with a buck. I personally think it would be great if they used that time each night to beat the sh@t out of the band they are on tour with just on principal. Yeah, I used to like the Crue, but the last couple of years they have made some real disappointing decisions spoiling their legacy in my mind. Anyways, check out the video, then hit the one below when the Crue really rocked.


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Court Says The Process For Getting Off The No Fly List Is Unconstitutional
from the well-that's-a-big-deal deptWe've had a few stories recently about legal challenges to the No Fly List in the United States. Just a couple months ago, for the first time, the US government was ordered to tell someone they were not on the No Fly List, though that person was still kept in various other terrorist watch lists/databases. Soon after that, we wrote about a new legal challenge to the No Fly List, involving some men who were basically harassed, with the FBI threatening to put them on the No Fly List if they didn't become informants.
However, in a very big ruling today, a district court judge in Oregon has basically found the process of getting off the No Fly List unconstitutional. According to the ACLU, who handled the case on behalf of 13 Americans who were on the list:
The judge ordered the government to create a new process that remedies these shortcomings, calling the current process "wholly ineffective" and a violation of the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process. The ruling also granted a key request in the lawsuit, ordering the government to tell the ACLU's clients why they are on the No Fly List and give them the opportunity to challenge their inclusion on the list before the judge.The full ruling is worth reading as it goes into significant detail and analysis, including digging into the Rahinah Ibrahim case we mentioned above. In the end, the court is pretty clear that putting someone on the No Fly List clearly deprives them of their rights:
In summary, on this record the Court concludes the DHS TRIP process presently carries with it a high risk of erroneous deprivation in light of the low evidentiary standard required for placement on the No-Fly List together with the lack of a meaningful opportunity for individuals on the No-Fly List to provide exculpatory evidence in an effort to be taken off of the List.Of particular importance is the fact that people placed on the list are not told about it, let alone told why they've been put on the list. And when combined with the "low evidentiary standard" mentioned above, the court sees a problem:
Defendants' failure to provide any notice of the reasons for Plaintiffs' placement on the No-Fly List is especially important in light of the low evidentiary standard required to place an individual in the TSDB in the first place. When only an ex parte showing of reasonable suspicion supported by "articulable facts taken together with rational inferences" is necessary to place an individual in the TSDB, it is certainly possible, and probably likely, that "simple factual errors" with "potentially easy, ready, and persuasive explanations" could go uncorrected.Given all that, the court has significant problems with the overall nature of the program:
As discussed herein at length, the DHS TRIP process does not provide a meaningful mechanism for travelers who have been denied boarding to correct erroneous information in the government's terrorism databases. A traveler who has not been given any indication of the information that may be in the record does not have any way to correct that information. As a result, the DHS TRIP process "entirely fail[s] to consider an important aspect" of Congress's instructions with respect to travelers denied boarding because they are on the No-Fly List.The Court doesn't toss out the program, but orders DHS to "remedy" the situation by coming up with a new process to guarantee that people on the No Fly List have due process to get off the list. There still are reasonable questions as to how such a general list could be legal at all in the first place, but this ruling would seem to take a big step towards at least allowing a real process to be in place to get people off the list. Of course, it's fairly likely that the US government will appeal this ruling, but at least this is a small bit of good news in the meantime.
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I have reported these viagra and drug ads posted by "Godviagra" numerous times. Isn't there a way for an administrator to block this user name so they don't post anymore?
It is so annoying to see these every time I log on.
This is not an advertising site we are a group of women and sometimes men who have one wish in our lives to conceive a baby, unfortunately for all of us on here we can not conceive a baby without help from doctors, nurses, donors lots of intrusive medical procedures and a great deal of heartache. I find your advertising on this very sensitive site which some of us use as a lifeline at times very offensive and extremely rude considering what this site is about. I would respectfully ask you to consider our feelings and remove your advertising from here and allow this forum do what it is here to do and that is to offer support to the men and women on here who have to live with infertility in their lives.
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Yahoo said Monday it will buy 40 million of its shares owned by activist hedge fund trader Daniel Loeb's Third Point for $29.11 a share, Friday's closing price, and that he and two other Yahoo directors nominated by Third Point have resigned.
Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.
The resignations of Loeb, Harry J. Wilson, and Michael J. Wolf as Yahoo directors were part of the settlement with Third Point in May 2012, Yahoo said.


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June 11, 2012 —
Science Daily/Brigham and Women's Hospital
In the hospital it is not only direct patient care, but also the environment that contributes to recovery. A critical component of a healing environment is a peaceful space for a patient to get enough sleep.
However, according to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Massachusetts General Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance, there are certain noises in a common hospital setting that can disrupt sleep. Such disruption can negatively affect brain activity and cardiovascular function.
The study will be published online in Annals of Internal Medicine on June 12, 2012.
"Hospitals and actually most urban sleep environments are increasingly noise-polluted," said Orfeu Buxton, PhD, BWH Division of Sleep Medicine, co-lead study author. "This study highlights the importance of sleep for restoration and healing that is particularly important for hospitalized patients."
The researchers recruited 12 healthy volunteers to participate in the three-day study which took place in a sleep laboratory. On the first night, the participants slept without any disruption. On the following two nights, they were presented with 14 recorded sounds commonly heard in a hospital setting.
Among the 14 sounds were an intravenous alarm, telephone, ice machine, voices in the hall, outside traffic and a helicopter. The sounds were presented at increasing decibel levels during specific sleep stages.
As expected, the louder the sound the more likely to disrupt sleep. However, there were unexpectedly large differences in sleep disruption based on sound type -- independent of how loud the sound. The researchers found that of all sound types, electronic sounds were most arousing, even at a volume just above a whisper.
Also, a person's sleep stage affected whether sound would lead to arousal. During non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, sound type influenced arousal; whereas, during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, volume was more influential.
Sleep disruption due to hospital noises also affected cardiovascular function.
"Beyond disturbing sleep itself, we showed that noise-induced sleep disruptions -- even subtle ones, beneath conscious awareness -- lead to temporary elevations in heart rate," said Jeffrey Ellenbogen, MD, director of Sleep Medicine at MGH, co-lead study author. "While these effects were modest in size, our concern is that repeated disruptions, as might occur in a hospital room, may jeopardize the health of our most vulnerable populations."
The study systematically quantifies the disruptive capacity of hospital sounds on sleep, providing evidence that it is important to improve the acoustic environments of new and existing health care facilities to enable the highest quality of care.
"There are several strategies for protecting patient sleep in hospitals," said Jo Solet, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance, senior study author. "These include acoustic performance guidelines for design and construction, altered night-care routines, and enhanced technologies for clinician communication and medical alarms."


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Some of you may be wondering at the importance of the American Red Cross to society, and still others may not even give it a second thought. You know what it is, you see the red cross symbol here and there, but as far as actually knowing the importance of it, many of us don't have a clue. Unless you have been involved in a disaster, whether it be a tornado, hurricane, flood, or even a fire, you won't know what this great organization is actually capable of accomplishing! In fact, there are a lot of people who think that the Red Cross only collects donated blood. Far from it!
Red Cross is Always There
Who do you think steps in when a hurricane destroys an entire town, or sets up shelters for the people who have lost their homes? Who makes sure they have medical care, food, and clothing after all is lost? It's the dedicated volunteers of the Red Cross, giving their all in an effort to help the unfortunate people who have been affected. Volunteers descend on disaster areas by the hundreds to lend a helping hand, and they belong to one of the greatest organizations in America! In fact, you may have wanted to volunteer at rescue sites but have no idea where to go to sign up.
Red Cross Chapters
A Red Cross chapter is more than likely located right in your home town, and you can go there to join, or at least find out how you can help in other ways. Did you know that? Well, you know it now. I have been so impressed at what the Red Cross of America has been able to do anytime they are called in to assist. Seeing these people in action is like something out of a movie! They are quick, organized, and extremely helpful no matter what they are doing. Doctors, nurses, and civilians all have a role to play, but it's not unheard of for a surgeon to be emptying bedpans, a nurse to be offering emotional support, clergy doing everything from holding a hand to running for supplies, and civilian volunteers doing any and everything they can to help.
I remember watching "Mash" when I was younger, and admiring the camaraderie among the people of the unit. This is what the volunteers of the Red Cross remind me of. All pulling together for one cause. I think that anyone who gives freely of their time and energy like this will be met at the door to heaven and welcomed with open arms! They deserve it, don't you think? No matter what capacity you choose to serve in, or how much or how little time you can offer, every minute is so appreciated, especially by the folks you are helping. Don't think for a minute that no one notices what you do! You are a hero to these people who have been struck down by catastrophe, even if you don't like to think you are.
Consider Volunteering
Think about volunteering for the Red Cross chapter in your town. You are not going to believe the feeling of deep, inner satisfaction you are going to have once you do. Help those in need if you can, in any way you can! One day you might be the one relying on these wonderful people who give up their time for such a good cause. I certainly hope you aren't, but it's a good feeling to know that they are there when they are called upon to help out.
I'm sure every man, woman, and undoubtedly some children have heard of the Red Cross in America, but I wonder if everyone actually knows what that Red Cross symbolizes, or what the organization does?


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Looks – Soft Neo Sci Fi Eye with Femme-fi, Evening Aura, and Time & Space
A softer Neo Sci Fi themed look 🙂 I didn't pick up Time & Space/Magnetic Fields, but I used Bronze & Smut as substitutes instead. Replace at will!
I used Soft Ochre paint pot on lid, Femme-fi eyeshadow (LE) on inner lid, Evening Aura eyeshadow (LE) on middle of lid, Expensive Pink eyeshadow on outer lid, Bronze eyeshadow on outer crease, Smut eyeshadow in outer crease, Femme-fi eyeshadow (LE) above crease and on brow, Blacktrack fluidline on upper lash line, Graphblack technakohl on lower lash line, and Plushlash mascara on lashes. I had Posey blushcreme with Other Worldly blush (LE) on cheeks. I wore Sci Fi Delity lipstick (LE) with Pink Grapefruit lipglass (LE) on lips.
** These are recommendations for dupes based on permanent colors available — may not necessarily be identical; they are the closest I can think of!
Femme-fi = Shroom; Evening Aura = Juiced + Nylon; Other Worldly = Honour; Sci Fi Delity = New York Apple (blotted); Pink Grapefruit = Lychee Luxe


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New York Live Arts Announces LIVE IDEAS: THE WORLDS OF OLIVER SACKS Festival, 4/17-21
New York Live Arts' Executive Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones, today announced the creation of Live Ideas, the latest program initiative for the Chelsea-based organization that has become an internationally recognized destination for innovative movement-based artistry and artists actively engaged with the political, intellectual and cultural currents of our times. Taking place each spring, Live Ideas will concentrate on a different theme, explored through conversation and artistic presentations over several days. The inaugural festival, taking place Wednesday, April 17th through Sunday, April 21st, 2013 at New York Live Arts is themed The Worlds of Oliver Sacks.
"Live Ideas, as an annual event at New York Live Arts, will be distinctive in its explorations of the interplay of creative expression and the world of ideas," said Jones. "We are extremely pleased that the first edition of the festival also affords us a rare opportunity to collaborate with the inimitable Dr. Sacks. Perhaps more than anyone in recent history, Dr. Sacks has contributed to our growing understanding of the role of creative expression within the mind-body connection."
The acclaimed neurologist, who celebrates his 80th year in 2013, is the author of such best-selling works as Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia and Hallucinations. Called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times, Sacks will help to kick off the first edition of Live Ideas on April 17th, joining Jones and celebrated non-fiction writer Lawrence Weschler on the opening night of the festival for a keynote conversation. Weschler, a long-time friend and associate of Sacks', is the guest curator for the first edition of Live Ideas. Comprised of more than 20 events across five consecutive days, the series will include a wide array of performances, films, discussions and more."Live Ideas will combine dance and the performing arts with big ideas, and I am honored to be involved in this inaugural festival," says Sacks. "Live Ideas brings together a number of my own passions-music, ferns, cephalopods among them-alongside many of the neurological conditions I have spent a lifetime studying: Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, stereo vision, etc. The connections of these conditions with the dramatic arts is a deep one, and I look forward to seeing what comes out of this first annual Live Ideas festival (and the many more to come)."
As guest curator of Live Ideas, Weschler has brought together an impressive and eclectic list of participants, showcasing works of art and sparking conversations that engage the prevalent themes in Sacks' works. "Bill T. Jones and I agreed early on that the first Live Ideas festival would focus on the intersection of ideas and the body: which is to say, the body-politic, mind-body, body-soul and so forth," explained Weschler. "For this first iteration, what better subject than the worlds of Oliver Sacks. Both a great neurologist and a profound humanist, he constantly evinces the embodiment, the incarnation and the triumph of the individual human spirit across a world of challenges-a subject we will be surveying across an array of lectures, panels, performances, films and more." Participants include philosopher Alva Noë, directors Karen Kohlhass and Kim Weild, neuroscientists Joseph LeDoux, Aniruddh D. Patel and V.S. Ramachandran, Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffman, astronaut Marsha Ivins, marathon cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox, writer Wendy Lesser, Radiolab's Robert Krulwich and many more. Featured works include a newly commissioned short film by award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison, created by repurposing original archival footage of Dr. Sacks working with patients; fully-staged productions of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's play, A Kind of Alaska, based on Sacks' book Awakenings and performed both in American Sign Language and spoken word; a new dance-theater work by acclaimed choreographer Donna Uchizono that draws upon the themes of perception central to Sacks' work; and a performance of a ballet score, also based on Awakenings, by renowned composer Tobias Picker with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
"With Live Ideas, we are creating multiple entry points for audiences to understand and explore some of the underlying ideas expressed through movement-based art," said New York Live Arts CEO Jean Davidson. "Throughout his career, Dr. Sacks has articulated the complex relationships between mind and body, which makes his work a compelling focus for the inaugural season. We are grateful for his participation in this new program, which is underwritten by the Ford Foundation and other generous supporters."
All events will take place at New York Live Arts' theater and studios, located at 219 W 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues. The festival includes both free and ticketed events. Tickets go on sale for New York Live Arts Members and Associate Artists today, and general public may begin purchasing tickets on February 8, 2013. A flexible and inclusive festival pass is also available. Tickets may be purchased online at newyorklivearts.org/liveideas, by phone at 212-924-0077 and in person at the box office. Box office hours are Monday to Friday from 1 to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 8pm.
For more information, visit the Live Ideas microsite at www.newyorklivearts.org/liveideas.
Artwork: Oliver Sacks Book Covers, art by Cardon Webb


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Migrations bring bird boom to Alaska
A lot of visitors are flying into Anchorage right now. But they won't be buying any T-shirts or postcards.
May brings tens of thousands of birds to town -- geese, cranes, swans, sandpipers and harriers, to name just a few of the commonly spotted species.
Exactly how many is hard to say. Nils Warnock, the state director of Audubon Alaska, said it's possible to see 90 to 100 species around Anchorage in a 24-hour period, especially if you include Cook Inlet or a side trip to Seward.
"And there are certainly more than 100 species passing though Anchorage in the spring," he added.
Nature writer Barry Lopez has likened the rush of birds into the North each year as the land "inhaling," taking a deep breath and sucking in an atmosphere of life.
The Alaska Zoo will celebrate that influx by observing International Migratory Bird Day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Several organizations, including Audubon Alaska, Ducks Unlimited and U.S. Fish and Wildlife, will have displays and information booths. There will be prizes and hands-on activities. The Bird Treatment and Learning Center will have several birds from its program on hand to meet the public and a rehabilitated bird will be released back to nature in the afternoon.
The event is timed for what is likely to be the peak bird population either in or passing though town. The spring migration in Alaska is much more compressed than the out migration in the fall.
"Birds have a really tight window up here to breed in," said Warnock. "Their nesting has to be tightly coordinated with the peak insect hatch. If they miss that, it can have big consequences for the young.
In contrast, birds can stagger their departures in autumn, he said. The unsuccessful breeders may head out as early as July, followed by the successful breeders and juveniles. It's not unheard of that birds could still be leaving the state as late as November.
Founded in 1993 by a group called Environment for the Americas, International Migratory Bird Day has events now hosted at 500 sites throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to the group's website. It was originally held in early May. "But we recognize that this date doesn't work well for all bird events and bird festival organizers, or for the migratory birds themselves," says the website. So the timing of the celebration is now different from place to place, April and May in the U.S. and Canada, fall in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Anchorage, late May makes a lot of sense. Compare the 100 or so species you may see this weekend to the 30 or so noted in the Christmas Bird Count.
The overwintering birds -- ravens, ptarmigan, magpies and even chickadees -- have a special spot in Alaskans' hearts. But more birds tough out the winter in Anchorage than you might imagine.
"I'd say about half the bird species in Anchorage can be found here in the winter," said Tamara Zeller with Fish and Wildlife. She named ducks, gulls, grebes and loons as birds with a year-round presence. "We have some sandhill cranes that stay through the year," she said.
Even the storied arctic tern, whose 22,000-mile annual trip from Antarctica to Alaska and back gives it bragging rights as the animal with the longest migration, according to encyclopedias, is making Anchorage a permanent residence. The terns have been nesting year-round in Potter Marsh for a couple of years, Zeller said.
"Some of them decide they just want to stay here," she added.
The arrival of migrating wildfowl makes Anchorage "a wonderful situation for people who want to come to see some unique species and still be in the city," Zeller said. "It's a really great urban hot spot."
Big birds like tundra swans, bald eagles and assorted shorebirds get the most attention. But many -- indeed most -- of the summer visitors are songbirds and other wee critters: nuthatches, redpolls, warblers, robins and the like.
"New things are coming through every day," said Warnock last week. "I was down at Potter Marsh and there were big swarms of tree swallows."It really is a great time of year."