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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post8516736309130834380..comments2017-10-16T08:48:05.888-04:00Comments on Gluten-Free Bay: Mission: Possible - Gluten-Free (Mock) email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-83076077333472460392011-04-18T22:28:03.942-04:002011-04-18T22:28:03.942-04:00Just tried these today. They are easy to put toget...Just tried these today. They are easy to put together, and the dough seems very forgiving. I think 450 degrees may be a bit hot for the oven, as the matzohs went from brown at the edges to fully brown in a matter of seconds.
They look like real, hand made matzohs, and everyone at the Seder wanted to try them (and liked them).
Of course, they don't taste bit like the real thing, but they are very tasty.
Be aware that this recipe makes about five pieces using the "walnut size" guideline. This is probably a good thing, since you want to make small, fast batches to be Kosher for Passover.Sabra in North email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-20959576056804618922010-03-29T20:46:43.782-04:002010-03-29T20:46:43.782-04:00these are delicious. just made a batch for my sede...these are delicious. just made a batch for my seder tonight. email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-52292594072141023512010-03-28T18:12:57.194-04:002010-03-28T18:12:57.194-04:00Thank you so much for your amazing blog! I just ma...Thank you so much for your amazing blog! I just made a batch of the "mock matzahs" and they are delicious. I am so excited to give these to my son tomorrow night, might have to whip up another batch to snack on. Your recipes are helpful. Thank you thank you! Happy Passover to you and your family!

Linda
PS I am originally a native of the Boston area now living on the west coast.Linda Cohenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-59941619705120361112009-04-11T21:27:00.000-04:002009-04-11T21:27:00.000-04:00Well, batch #4 wasn't bad at all. It didn't tas...Well, batch #4 wasn't bad at all. It didn't taste quite like matzo, but it was Hillel-sandwichable!

The Haggadah we use has an interesting story next to the blessing for matzo:

"A Prayer For Eating Chametz"

During Passover in 1944, there was no matzah at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but the rabbis would not allow the inmates to endanger their lives by fasting. They decreed that chametz could be eaten, provided the following prayer be recited before meals:

Our Father in Heaven, behold it is evident and known to thee that it is our desire to do Thy will and to celebrate the festival of Passover by eating matzah and by observing the prohibition of leavened food. But our heart is pained that the enslavement prevents us and we are in danger of our lives. Behold, we are prepared and ready to fulfill Thy commandment: "And ye shall live by [my commandments] and not die by them."

We pray to Thee that Thou mayest keep us alive and preserve us and redeem us speedily so that we may observe Thy statutes and do Thy will and serve Thee with a perfect heart. Amen"

(A copy of the original handwritten prayer is at the Ghetto Fighter's House in Israel.)

Now, obviously our lives are not exactly in danger here, so I'm not suggesting that we eat chametz during Pesach. I just thought it was interesting. And I do wonder if eventually, Jewish law might someday be modified to accomdate those who can't. especially as the oat matzo is so prohibitively expensive.

I did pre-order the oat matzo (one box was all we could afford) from the local Kosher store, but they said that they never got it in. :(

By the way, how many matzos did you come up with from one recipe, and how large were they? Did I make mine too thin?Alisonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-25865641425479990592009-04-11T20:39:00.000-04:002009-04-11T20:39:00.000-04:00Thanks for your comments. Honestly, I have made th...Thanks for your comments. Honestly, I have made this recipe a total of one time. After the time I made this I chose to stick to gluten-free oat matzo since I could actually say a bracha (blessing) on it due to it being from one of the five species of plant that matzo can be made of and still considered matzo according to Jewish law. Almost the feedback I've gotten to this recipe has been positive so I'm guessing there's either a difference in the ingredients you're using or in your oven's temp compared to mine (and/or elevation). The house I was living in when I made this recipe had an oven that had calibration issues, so some of my recipes have needed to be adjusted for temperature. But I haven't heard of this recipe being excessively crumbly and I know mine certainly weren't. I'm so bummed your attempts turned out so badly, that is so crappy. I hope you managed to have a fabulous Pesach nonetheless!ByTheBayhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-37301556871152242132009-04-09T15:33:00.000-04:002009-04-09T15:33:00.000-04:00Oh, dear. Batch #3 was a crumbly mess, too.Batch ...Oh, dear. Batch #3 was a crumbly mess, too.

Batch #4 is now in the oven. I used an egg instead of water, added 1/4 cup of potato flakes (it seemed awfully sticky, even for gluten-free), and sprayed the top with Pam.

Wish me luck, because I'm giving up after this one! (I had ordered the gf oat matzoh through the local Kosher store, but apparently, they never got it in. :( )

The crumbs from batches 1-3 will be used for "matzo meal" pancakes, so it's not such a big loss...Alisonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-820874138403737412009-04-09T15:06:00.000-04:002009-04-09T15:06:00.000-04:00I see this thread is two years old already, so I d...I see this thread is two years old already, so I don't know if you are still watching comments.

I am usually good at the gf recipes, but I'm having real trouble with this one.

Batch #1 burned to a crisp in 9 minutes. :(

Batch #2 came out of the oven after 5 minutes, and looked fine, but was a dry crumbly mess.

Batch #3 is in the oven at 375 instead of 450--maybe that will help?

I wasn't able to use much water, as previous poster pointed out, even 1 tablespoon of water made it enormously sticky.

How many matzo pieces is this recipe supposed to make, and how big are you making them?

Perhaps I pressed mine out too thin? I was trying to get them as thin as possible. I used Crisco shortening.

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-48821639197248284972009-04-06T11:00:00.000-04:002009-04-06T11:00:00.000-04:00I made this last year and my notes say that I subs...I made this last year and my notes say that I substituted 1 egg for the water and used it for matzo meal to make rolls. Both the matzo and the rolls came out great. My 6yr old loved them. I also started with 1T. of shortening instead of 2. I found that if I rolled it out to about 1/4" the matzoh didn't fall apart as easily also.BigAlhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-20433879962139815182008-07-30T10:25:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:25:00.000-04:00Only one company makes GF matzo meal that I know o...Only one company makes GF matzo meal that I know of. You can find them at http://www.glutenfreeoatmatzos.com/ but you have to order through a local distributor. Kosher.com ships their products, but they are only sold close to Passover so you'd have to wait until March to order, probably. I think it's about $9 for a box of matzo meal if I remember right. It works pretty well. But it's possible to make most recipes without matzo meal. At Passover you can buy boxes of non-gebrokts (gluten-free) "matzo ball" mixes that are made of potato instead of matzo. And potato starch or almond meal can be substituted in many recipes.ByTheBayhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-17991280088874052512008-07-30T05:36:00.000-04:002008-07-30T05:36:00.000-04:00Can i know what can replace matzo meal? Or does an...Can i know what can replace matzo meal?
Or does anybody know where i can buy it ? & how much is it? If you do , please mail me .
I'll be thankful!
Thanks!
email@example.com♥;QIULI!https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-34979470883232000932008-05-21T21:43:00.000-04:002008-05-21T21:43:00.000-04:00(To clarify, tapioca flour *can* be kosher for pas...(To clarify, tapioca flour *can* be kosher for passover... but I don't know of any brand available on the retail market that is)ByTheBayhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-67161073901214819112008-05-21T21:42:00.000-04:002008-05-21T21:42:00.000-04:00Anonymous: You know, I can't really think of anyth...Anonymous: You know, I can't really think of anything besides potato starch that would give it the right consistency. I don't eat white potatoes much normally, but I wouldn't make this recipe with anything else. You can certainly try tapioca flour or sticky rice (sweet rice) flour or something like that, but then they won't be kosher for Passover (if that matters).ByTheBayhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-53834557648781691382008-05-21T21:40:00.000-04:002008-05-21T21:40:00.000-04:00So, excited to try your recipe. Is there anything...So, excited to try your recipe. Is there anything that could be used in place of potato starch? Not a big fan of potato. I'm just beginning to learn how different ingredients work together.

Thanks for your thoughts!
~firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-47235334410446401282008-04-18T19:05:00.000-04:002008-04-18T19:05:00.000-04:00I just made these and they turned out fantastic! ...I just made these and they turned out fantastic! i couldn't find almond meal and didn't feel like pulling out the food processor so i bought hazelnut meal. i am sure it yielded a different flavor than the almonds would, but they taste great! i also tripled the recipe as i am making for a crowd and it tripled beautifully. I used shortening in place of coconut oil.
this is a great, simple recipe and i highly recommend email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-37588344684508670272007-04-02T13:52:00.000-04:002007-04-02T13:52:00.000-04:00I made them this morning for Passover, and doubled...I made them this morning for Passover, and doubled the recipe so there would be more than a few. Thanks for posting this!!!

A few suggestions. First, I used coconut oil since I had it on hand, and I think the amount could be reduced slightly (tastes too coconutty - I'd use shortening next time - and seemed like it could be a tiny bit less oily). Second, I couldn't use nearly as much water as the recipe suggested, because it got too watery.

In any case, I'll really enjoy eating these tonight, instead of gluten-free crackers for my Hillel email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-31861215134126600352007-03-27T17:20:00.000-04:002007-03-27T17:20:00.000-04:00Wheatfree: I don't know what it is about simple an...Wheatfree: I don't know what it is about simple and plain-looking recipes that sometimes seems so appealing. Especially if they involve veggies or fruit!

Kbabe1968: I probably won't be posting a charoset recipe, since I've yet to see a charoset recipe that wasn't already gluten-free and most families have their own family favorite recipe. I did post this "Tropical" charoset recipe, however. Here is a fairly standard Ashkenazi haroset recipe, though I don't put honey in mine:

http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1041917&package_id=1052256Gluten-Free By The Bayhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-44000819251683422872007-03-21T16:09:00.000-04:002007-03-21T16:09:00.000-04:00Will you be posting a recipe for Haroset?I am not ...Will you be posting a recipe for Haroset?

I am not Jewish, and none of my family is, but my MIL is in love with Jewish cooking and loves the traditions - she used to hold a Passover meal each year and I alwas would down the Haroset on Matzo!

Please share if you have a good recipe, I would LOVE to make it and have it around!kbabe1968https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-50050740581969731752007-03-16T00:25:00.000-04:002007-03-16T00:25:00.000-04:00Looking through the photos of food on your blog ju...Looking through the photos of food on your blog just now, this one appeals to me - odd, since it isn't colourful, looks plain ... but somehow I feel like eating some! Now I'm hungry and everything else looks good too. Have to try this one out.Wheat Freehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-11973128157554372362007-03-12T12:19:00.000-04:002007-03-12T12:19:00.000-04:00You are so very welcome - I'm glad you enjoyed it!...You are so very welcome - I'm glad you enjoyed it!ByTheBayhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-56924496244198598352007-03-12T12:13:00.000-04:002007-03-12T12:13:00.000-04:00By the way..thank you so much for showing me your ...By the way..thank you so much for showing me your version of the lemon cake..it came out great, and saved me the effort of figuring out how I wanted to make it.Slacker Momhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-65128377598380816702007-03-08T23:07:00.000-05:002007-03-08T23:07:00.000-05:00Heard you were moving to NY. You'll have to look u...Heard you were moving to NY. You'll have to look us up if your ever in NYC!Kellyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-86514749588945870412007-03-08T17:01:00.000-05:002007-03-08T17:01:00.000-05:00excellent!! we can have gluten free beer night! ...excellent!! we can have gluten free beer night! sounds fun.
xo.Gilihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-23267232038513239092007-03-07T22:08:00.000-05:002007-03-07T22:08:00.000-05:00Ahhhh, well, you probably thought that because I b...Ahhhh, well, you probably thought that because I belong to the allergicjews yahoo group... I joined because I was interested in Jewish food and traditions and wanted to learn more about it...

My mom actually had a great recipe for haroset because she was a personal chef for a Jewish family- I'd just forgotten the name. Thank you for the links!Seahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-46750507717025325522007-03-07T19:30:00.000-05:002007-03-07T19:30:00.000-05:00Thank you, thank you, thank you! This will be my f...Thank you, thank you, thank you! This will be my first Passover gluten- free, and I did NOT know what I was going to do about matzo. Thank you, thank you! And thank email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35701713.post-78591171920687491022007-03-07T18:41:00.000-05:002007-03-07T18:41:00.000-05:00Gili! That is fabulous news. Although did you know...Gili! That is fabulous news. Although did you know there is a beer that DOES go well with GF matzo? It's called Ramapo Valley Honey Passover Beer and it's made in (Rockland County?) New York and is GF and Kosher L'Pesach. Crazy, huh?

Anyways, thanks for that info - That is ridiculously exciting and you know it's just one more thing to lure me to NYC as soon as I get to the east coast.ByTheBayhttps://email@example.com


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Olive Garden
Posted: Jan 14th, 2017 at 11:04 am
From: Suffern, NY
By: spl
Avg. Rating:3.7
We tried this Olive Garden because we were in the area. Our meal was very good, but it was our service that made the visit above average. Our waitress Danielle was great. She came by with refills, bread sticks, etc. before we were even finished with originals. She was on top of everything. Great job.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Oct 19th, 2014 at 9:24 pm
From: North Myrtle Beach, SC
By: ds
Avg. Rating:1
We are locals and come to this restaurant a lot but recently the wait was not worth it. Today we were told that we had to wait at least an hour before being seated. There were plenty of empty tables available. As we walked to the parking lot to leave we saw why. About six to seven wait staff were in the parking lot smoking and goofing off. No wonder this chain is soon to be history.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Aug 01st, 2013 at 12:42 pm
From: Myrtle Beach, SC
By: rps
Avg. Rating:3.7
We are locals and have eaten at this Olive Garden many times and found it very enjoyable, food & service. Have recently been going to the new one on Hwy 501 across from Tanger Outlet and after 3 visits there I can say we look forward to going many more times. On June 29, 2013 we were eating at the new Olive Garden, a huge storm came up and one of the servers was walking customers out to their cars with an umbrella so we would not get soaking wet. That says a lot for the Olive Garden, their servers and management and the food and service was OUTSTANDING. They had our money so this kindness was not necessary. Seems people voice "dislikes" more than "likes", but I say we all should share the good news as much or more than the bad news. I can honestly say I have never had bad service or bad food at any Olive Garden we have gone to in Myrtle Beach or Columbia and we have gone to them many times.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Jul 13th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
From: Myrtle Beach, SC
By: ks
Avg. Rating:3
As a Myrtle Beach Local, I have to say this is the worst restaurant at the beach. We have tried this place many times and every time there is a huge issue with the food and service. The manager is a hot head, the wait staff has no clue what they are doing and even the cook was angry at us, when it was the waiters issue and then the manager screamed at the cook. This was the most uncomfortable situation I have ever been in. DO NOT eat at this restaurant.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Sep 12th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
From: Calabash, NC
By: rm
Avg. Rating:2.2
Italian is well below average. I dont know why people wait in line for that.
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Olive Garden
Posted: May 25th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
From: myrtle beach , SC
By: alw
Avg. Rating:3.5
I love the place , but no matter what time of year we go we can never get seated in a reasonable time. The entire experiance usually takes us 2 to three hours whenever we go with wait time and slow service. Its just not a feasable to plan another activity for the night unless your whole evening is gonna be at this resturant. The place usually has people sitting outside on the curb and people hanging out lined up along the wall in the inside and the bar area is crowded and not relaxing. So the noise makes the place not very pleasing. This place has been like this for years.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Jun 07th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
From: Wadsworth, OH
By: djr
Avg. Rating:4.3
We have eaten at many Olive Gardens at home and on vacations but I will have to say that this one had a wonderful atmosphere about it. The employees were great. We had our two little granddaughters with us and they treated them like they were their own children. The only thing I did not like was that I went off and left my leftovers all boxed up sitting on the table when I left. Man I wanted that cheese filled raviolli for a mid-night snack. I hope your trip there is as enjoyable as mine was.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2011 at 7:18 pm
From: Kingston, ONTARIO
By: ed
Avg. Rating:4.7
Hi, Kathy Miranda (mgr)....My husband and I just now had dinner at your wonderful restaurant on N Kings Hwy, we are at Ocean Creek very close by. You stopped by our table to ask how things were going, we were pleased with your inquiry and visit with us. I have to tell you - our waitress, Jessica, was most attentive, informative as to the menu and shared a few special minutess with me at the end of our meal when I insisted she sit and talk for a moment. The atmosphere of your establishment is welcoming and relaxing, we eat there twice every April when we drive down from Canada for a month's vacation in Myrtle Beach. Thanks to you and to Jessica, we'll not only be back next year, but will inform our friends who also come to town and are looking to spend an hour or so with delicious food and the nice staff you provide. Great work, people...keep it going! Yours truly, Elizabeth & Bob Duffin, KIngston, Ontario.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Nov 23rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
From: Princeton, WV
By: t w
Avg. Rating:4.8
My first time trying Olive Garden and I will definitely be back.
This was the best lasagna I have ever tried. My wife had the
chicken alfredo and was totally satisfied. Our waiter was very
friendly and helped us with our choices. Great food and great
service makes for an enjoyable experience.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
From: Warrenton, NC
By: sm
Avg. Rating:4
This is a must for my family and I when we visit Myrtle Beach. The food, service and atmosphere has always been great at each visit. We have an Olive Garden at home but, the food at the beach has a different flavor. Look forward to seeing you in August
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Olive Garden
Posted: Mar 30th, 2009 at 11:33 am
From: Conway, SC
By: keb
Avg. Rating:4.7
My name is Mrs. Bernardo, and I have been looking for an Olive Garden ever since I moved here from Southern California. Fantastic, the food was just fantastic, the service was terrific and the amount of food was generous. i always tell everyone start with soup and salad and never forget the great desserts. Thank you Olive Garden we willl be back soon. Bon Appetit
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Olive Garden
Posted: Mar 29th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
From: mb, SC
By: cew
Avg. Rating:4.2
Some of the best italian restaurants in mb, the only thing on the down side is the wait but that is expected because every one goes there.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Jan 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
From: NMB, SC
By: rj
Avg. Rating:3
Good restaurant. I've eaten at alot of Italian restaurants and this is without a doubt the best. Food is served fast, too, because they use mostly prepackaged products. You don't have to wait for them to cook your meal from scratch. Tases like Lean Cuisine but you have alot more variety! I wondered if I could buy some from their company to take home and preheat it myself when we don't feel like cooking.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
From: chicago, IL
By: mc
Avg. Rating:3
I had a pleasent dinner here.
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Olive Garden
Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 10:38 am
From: Myrtle Beach, SC
By: mt
Avg. Rating:2.3
I've tried this place on three different occasions, and each was worse than the prior. On the first trip, my wife and daughter and I waited over 30 minutes for our food - and had to get it to go since we waited so long. THIS IS A VERY OLD BUILDING. The last time was it - we went in and got seated at a table and the sour smell of old food debris was overwhelming. We asked to be moved and when we were it was no different. The smell permeated the place, and I'm hoping what we were smelling was food-stained carpet and soured table cloths, and not MOLD in the ventilation system.
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The officers of the AAUP chapter of the University of Colorado at Boulder:
President: Marki LeCompte, Professor, School of Education
Vice President: Vijay Gupta, Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Secretary: Suzanne Hudson, Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Treasurer: Don Eron, Senior Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric


text: I'll take a look tonight, see if I can figure out what's wrong. If not I'll give Billy a call tomorrow. The flat-sided needles aren't supposed to be the right kind. I compared one to one of the proper sort recently by eye and concluded that they were similar enough it would be worth trying the flat-sided ones in a pinch, but the tolerances are small enough that eyeballing it isn't good enough so I'm not actually confident they'd work. Last time I used the machine was Wednesday; it had a needle in it that hadn't been shoved all the way into the holder and was therefore hitting the bobbin trace whenever a stitch was attempted. It worked fine when I reseated the needle (although the tip, of course, was broken). I also adjusted the knee lever for the presser foot, which had come loose. It's pretty thoroughly stripped at one place and could use a better repair. I have an idea about this but haven't done it yet. ALSO: We could use more needles! If anyone wants to get any please see https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Sewing, I have edited it with needle info. Rachel M rachel lyra hospodar wrote: > the single needle industrial is currently nonfunctional. > > last time i came to use it, two+ weeks ago, there were no needles and i > had to use some of my own, conveniently they are the same. > > sometime in between then and now, Something Else happened. it appears > to be a timing issue. i cleared some cruft/thread clots out of the > works under the throat plate (you know, where the bobbin goes) and fixed > a weird problem with the knee lever (you know, for lifting the presser > foot) but when i got it all back together and tried to sew with it, the > stiches did not engage properly and made a big knot inside... and then > the backstitch thingy started making a sad high-pitched whining noise, > so I turned the whole thing off. > > the needle that's in there now is a round shank, the only kind i have > ever used with this type of machine, but there is a packet of needles in > the drawer with a flat-sided shank. i don't know for sure but strongly > suspect they are not totally compatible with this machine. i am putting > them in the general sewing needles drawer. Rachel M, do you know if > these work with it? > > anyway, that's what's up. i'm going to finish serging and go home and > use my functional sewing machine. le sigh. > > xoxxx > R. > _______________________________________________ > Sewing mailing list > Sewing at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/sewing


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August 18, 2009
Weekend warriors treated for heat illness
Physicians report seeing more weekend warriors being treated in emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses, a U.S. expert says.
To avoid treatment in an emergency room, Pepe advises:
In the past, the typical people who used to get in trouble were the ones who couldn't fend for themselves -- the very young and the very old, Dr. Paul Pepe, chairman of emergency medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, says in a statement.
Now, young men and women who work in super-cool office environments during the week and then spend the weekends playing outdoors are getting into trouble because their bodies haven't had a chance to adapt to the hot weather.
-- Wear lightweight, loose-fitting and light-colored clothing.
-- Try to exercise early in the morning or later in the evening.
-- Stay in a well-ventilated area, even if you're working indoors.
-- Drink water, too much sugar and caffeine is not good, especially if outdoors.
-- Avoid alcohol. A cool beer or mixed drink might sound good but it only dehydrates you more.
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Health and solidarity
Because your academic success is dependent on your good health, it is essential that you join the student social security scheme, and even a top-up health insurance scheme.
The university provides you with the means to stay in good health: at the University Preventive Medicine Service you can see general practitioners, specialists and psychiatrists. This service also carries out health education and promotion initiatives. Look about you; the staff from this service are often on Jussieu campus!


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Senators wrap up bill work
Published 11:13 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2013
Democratic and Republican negotiators have reached agreement on all the major elements of sweeping legislation to remake the nation's immigration laws and expect to unveil the bill next week, lawmakers said Thursday.
After months of arduous closed-door negotiations, the "Gang of Eight" senators, equally divided between the two parties, had no issues left to resolve in person, and no more negotiating sessions were planned. Remaining details were left to aides, who were at work completing drafts of the bill.
"All issues that rise to the member level have been dealt with," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. "All that is left is the drafting."
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said the bill probably would be introduced on Tuesday.
The landmark legislation would overhaul legal immigration programs, require all employers to verify the legal status of their workers, greatly boost border security and put the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally on a path to citizenship. A top second-term priority for President Barack Obama, it would enact the biggest changes to U.S. immigration law in more than a quarter century.
Deals gelled over the past day on a new farm-worker program and visas for high-tech workers, eliminating the final substantive disputes on the legislation.
Next will come the uncertain public phase as voters and other lawmakers get a look at the measure.


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Steelers signed seventh-round DE Nick Williams to a four-year contract.
NBC Indianapolis' Bob Kravitz reports the Colts and impending free agent K Adam Vinatieri are "closing in" on a one-year contract.
ESPN's Jeff Dickerson admits the Bears will "probably" release WR Markus Wheaton.
ESPN's David Newton "could see" the Panthers releasing Jonathan Stewart.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports the Broncos are expected to make Trevor Siemian available for trade this offseason.
A league source told PFT's Mike Florio that the Dolphins quickly franchise-tagging Jarvis Landry is "being interpreted as a desire" by Miami to trade Landry.
Dolphins assigned the franchise tag to WR Jarvis Landry.
Speaking in a Tuesday interview, Andrew Luck (shoulder) insisted he does not need another operation.
Browns LT Joe Thomas hopes to have a decision on his 2018 status by the start of free agency.
NFL.com's Mike Garofolo reports "billionaire hedge fund manager" David Tepper has emerged as the "frontrunner" to buy the Panthers.
Titans re-signed K Ryan Succop to a five-year, $20 million contract.
The Bears have declined LG Josh Sitton's $8 million team option for 2018, making him a free agent.


text: Obsolescence In Love ( The Ballad of Smiley Face ) by Jon Dunleavy tells the tale of a "twisted romance between a loved up phone and a promiscuous hand." The sideway-emoticon-as-a-character's face is a smart creative choice that I can't recall having seen in animation. Even if it's been done though, the idea is appropriate and executed flawlessly in this short. The film's impish lyrics and suggestive imagery pack a surprising amount of comedy in its brief ninety-second runtime. Dunleavy is repped by London-based Tandem Films.


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You are a good dude and a credit to this site in many many meaningful ways. If you did let things slide just a tad more I think you would be spot on. Just my opinion but seriously to someone like Hootie get under your skin is beneath you.
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Past Reviews
Regional Reviews: Seattle
Into the Woods at the 5th Avenue Theatre
The funny, lighter-hued first act of Into the Woods works best in the 5th's production. After the lengthy and jauntily paced set-up of the story which unites characters from "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Rapunzel," "Cinderella" and "Little Red Ridinghood" on their respective quests for their hearts desires, there are several standout performances and musical numbers. Ireland Woods, an old soul in a fifth-grader's body, does amazingly well by the musical and lyrical intricacies of "I Know Things Now" after her encounter with the Wolf. Eric Ankrim makes a most agreeably doltish Jack, and sings one of the show's loveliest and most underrated songs, "Giants in the Sky," with clarity and exuberant fervor. Lisa Estridge mines a load of laughs in her rap number and throughout act one as the crone of a Witch who keeps Rapunzel (a vivacious and lilting-voiced Anne Eisendrath) locked in the tower, and their rendition of the "Our Little World" duet makes this number added to the show since its West End run really work for me, rather than seeming a rather superfluous inclusion.
The comic highlight of act one, Sondheim's wickedly funny "Agony" for Cinderella and Rapunzel's princes, receives a grandly goofy delivery by Michael Hunsaker as the former and Logan Benedict as the latter (though somehow Hunsaker's take on the Wolf in "Hello, Little Girl" really misses the mark). Billie Wildrick's Cinderella is totally satisfying as she makes the journey from scullery wench to princess, and she sparkles on her solo "On the Steps of the Palace." Leslie Law as the Baker's Wife gives one of the richest and most detailed performances in the show. Her scenes with Wildrick are perhaps the best acted in the production, even when the Baker's Wife is just listening to Cinderella. Yet, as her first duet says, "It Takes Two," and though physically right, Bob De Dea in the crucial role of the Baker merely seems to be going through the paces, maintaining a vaguely distracted air throughout the production, but never emotionally invested in his character.
Act two, showing the cost and ramifications of getting your heart desire, contains several deaths (most of them crushed by the Giant's wife, avenging her husband). The maternal characters range from Jack's mother to the distracted Rapunzel (mother of twins), to Little Red's Granny, and most affectingly the Baker's Wife (who had been blessed with a child at the end of act one). Law has another standout moment in her solo vocal "Moments in the Wood" and a touching return as a spirit in the show's closing scene. Hunsaker and Benedict's Princes have move on in the funny "Agony" reprise to pursuing two other fairy tale princesses, namely Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. Estridge's witch, who gained beauty but lost her powers in act one has a powerful last hurrah in "The Last Midnight." Wildrick, Ankrim, De Dea and child actress Woods blend their voices beautifully on the plaintive and moving "No One is Alone," and the entire ensemble soars on the near closing "Children Will Listen". In less musically featured turns, Krista Severeid and Darla Cardwell contrast nicely as the Wicked Stepsisters, Eric Brotherson is a stitch concealed by a cow costume as Jack's "pet" Milky White, and Broadway veteran Allen Fitzpatrick makes a drily witty narrator and a wily Mysterious Man (aka Rapunzel and the Baker's supposed dead father).
Tom Sturge has designed a wide gamut of appropriate lighting palettes, while Costume Coordinator Lynda Salsbury outfits everyone with storybook splendor, save a rather odd looking gown for the transformed Witch.
This Into the Woods might thrill a newcomer to the show, which many a 5th Avenue audience might well be. For the rest of us, it is a trip down a pleasantly familiar path which seemed a bit more magical when we wandered down it in the past. Into the Woods runs through November 10, 2007 at the 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Visit the 5th Avenue's website at www.5thavenuetheatre.org for further details.
- David Edward Hughes


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Cooking With Myra: Recalling home-grown vegetables
Nov. 29, 2010 at 5:29 a.m.
Updated Nov. 30, 2010 at 5:30 a.m.
By Myra Starkey
When I was growing up in Lake Charles, La., my father was into gardening. He probably would have even called himself an amateur horticulturalist, although to me, that just sounds like someone who digs and plants for no pay.
During the day, he was a mild-mannered dentist, but after he got home from the office, he changed out of his work clothes and headed outside to his greenhouse or garden. I guess either way, he was just enjoying getting to work with his hands.
His greenhouse was a makeshift wood-framed structure with sheets of translucent, green fiberglass on the roof and plastic sheeting on the sides. It had shelves down both sides and the floor was littered with garden tools and pots of every kind.
He never threw away black plastic pots, so had plenty of pots to plant seeds.
He could grow anything, and we always had a large garden, no matter what the season. He divided our backyard in half, one side for his garden, and the opposite part for the other focus of his attention, that being his three lovely daughters.
On that side was our playhouse and swing-set on a lush green lawn. Against the back fence, and next to the garden, was his greenhouse. It was the best of both worlds for him, watching his plants grow on one side of the yard, while his beloved daughters grew on the other.
He made rows running the length of the backyard and tilled the soil between every season. He added supplements to make his garden grow.
One season, he decided to purchase chicken excrement and rice hulls to boost his soil. He tilled and tilled and although we pretended the smell was not too bad, I could smell it in my bedroom at the back of the house. The day after he made the rows and spread rice hulls it rained and you could imagine the comments our neighbors had. He reassured us that the stench we were enduring would be worth the bumper crop of vegetables that would come that summer.
The squash grew so tall that my sisters and I could hardly see over the plants. The tomato bushes proliferated across the rows, making the path impassable for dad, but not for the three miniature humans who infested his leafy paradise.
So, the harvest of vegetables became our task that summer. We had to dress in our oldest clothes and crawl down the path on our hands and knees beneath the leaves and reach up into the bushes to pick the ripe tomatoes. After we placed them in the row we rolled them to the end for dad to pick up. If they were too ripe we held the bottom of our shirts out front for a makeshift basket to carry the soft ones. We picked about 10 gallons per day. We had tomatoes everywhere. Sometimes, our inexperienced hands picked green ones and mom and dad spread newspapers on every flat surface so the tomatoes could ripen. Since our bumper crop yielded more than we could eat, my dad loaded our red wagon, and we pulled it down Heather Street to share our harvest with the neighbors.
Also in our backyard, just behind the barbecue pit on the patio, was a tall pear tree. Sometimes its branches were used for switches for bad little girls, although I can only remember the threat, but not the whipping. I must not have been bad very often.
The pear tree would yield green pears in early spring, and we would give those away, too. I was never too fond of pears as a child either because of the switches I associated with the tree, or because I preferred store-bought apples to the tart pears, with their brown splotches and bug blemishes.
My friend, Janet, prepared this delicious dessert. It is so spectacular, I wanted to share it. The recipe comes from the magazine Bon Appetit, November 2002 issue. Enjoy.
Myra Starkey lives in Victoria. Write her in care of the Advocate, P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77901, or e-mail email@example.com.


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Ricky Hatton says he will quit boxing for good if he wins a world title during the second chapter of his career.
And he told The Daily Telegraph he would also reconsider his comeback should he underperform on his return against Vyacheslav Senchenko.
"If I win a world title that will be it, I will walk away," said the 34-year-old, who makes his ring return in a 10-rounder next month.
"But win lose or draw on November 24 if it's not there, and if I'm not up to it, I'll walk away, too. I'll have done what I needed to."
Hatton won world titles at light-welterweight and welterweight in the middle of the last decade but has not fought since being knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in 2009.
He is returning at the higher division and claims to be 10lb off the limit of 147 just over a month before the fight.
Victory over Senchenko will immediately place the 'Hitman' back towards the top of the world rankings with the promise of a title shot within 12 months.


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Right now the comment button for the Adventure Journal theme is at the bottom of the post and after the list tags and categories. It is hard to see. Is there any way I can move just the comment button to the top. I know other themes have that - just thought id see if it was possible.
The blog I need help with is ariannasrandomthoughts.com.


text: Handmade by a "one woman production line", Julia Gabriel Studio's 'Circular Series' is colorful collection of handmade leather bags that includes clutches, totes, handbags, duffles and backpacks. The architecturally-minded designs feature sharp geometric shapes and bold colour combinations, with each bag made-to-order and the canvas dyed in a big pot in her bathtub. The end result is a mature third collection from the designer, wanting colours that would both stand out against a classic black winter coat and pair subtly with a camel sweater. The 'Circular Series' bags are available through Julia Gabriel Studio's online store: www.juliagabrielstudio.com


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Windows 7 Start Button Animator is a free to use portable program which allows you to replace Windows 7 Start ORB button with small button sized animation, previously we posted about how can you change windows 7 start menu ORB button using some tools like Windows 7 ORB Changer and Windows 7 Start Button Changer
Today we will tell you about another tool designed by the same developer, follow the procedure below to know more about setting an animation over windows 7 start button
1. First download and extract this tool, and run the executable named Windows 7 Start Button Animator.exe
2. Once you run the tool, you will see the animated ORB windows 7 button
3. Click on system tray icon of this program in system tray which looks like original ORB image in windows 7, to access the settings
As shown in the screenshot of the settings screen above, you can select ORB or restore ORB and set any GIF animated image as orb button and then select the images styles as zoom, normal, center, stretch. You can also set the utlity to run at system start up, check the checkbox which says on Run on startup.
Note: You can check the video mode checkbox to hide the orb animation, if you play a video and this animated start button appears at the top of the video while playing which could be annoying.
In order to close the settings dialog just click apply button, but don't click the close button at right top of the application window. You can get more ORB animated images at this link. Enjoy tweaking the start button in windows 7, if you have any questions do let us know.
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I grew up with the accoutrements of pipe organs
filling our garage, some as small as piccolos,
some arriving like giants in rough-hewn crates.
On occasional Saturdays, I helped my father tune
what he had built inside quiet churches, each dim
as an underwater scene, each cool as a cave
no matter what season. I preferred the older
sanctuaries with their faint smell of damp,
with their dark mahogany pews and marble floors
that would clack beneath women's Sunday heels.
I walked with my father the length of the nave
toward where a crucifix hung like a compass,
then veered right or left toward the organ's console.
Before he disappeared down some dark hallway
like he would one day disappear forever, my father
settled on the bench, pulled the knobs he called stops,
and then began to play. Sound filled the church
like a full-bodied wine as his fingers skirled
three cliffs of keys, as his feet ranged the pedals
like some intricate folkdance. My job was
much simpler—to begin with middle C,
to hold down each note until I heard
his disembodied voice calling Next.
A few of those low notes were like fog horns,
others were like ogres bellowing, but each was
capable of palpating my lungs, of claiming my throat.
Stained glass cast its jewels across my lap, and
in that moment I understood something about eternity.
For that moment, I felt close to holy.


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Punxsutawney Phil calls for early spring. Winter Storm Nemo doesn't oblige. The menacing Blizzard of 2013 left devastation throughout the city, overwhelmed Public Works crews, imprisoned residents in their own homes with drifts of snow four and five feet and higher. Mayor Bill Finch called in the National Guard for help, hired private contractors from […]
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The Blizzard, Top Stories February 2013
December 26th, 2013 · No Comments · City Council, News and Events
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Mayor Attends Conference Of Mayors Meeting In Vegas This Weekend
June 22nd, 2013 · 10 Comments · News and Events
From Mayor Bill Finch: This weekend, Mayor Bill Finch will join Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Deputy Secretary Maurice Jones and 200 mayors from across the country including Connecticut Mayors Pedro Segarra, Hartford and Neil O'Leary, Waterbury at the 81st Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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February 21st, 2013 · 28 Comments · National Politics, News and Events, State Politics
On a day Vice President Joe Biden visited Connecticut to discuss gun control, Governor Dan Malloy "outlined a plan for common sense gun violence prevention that I believe can serve as critical first steps in our efforts to make Connecticut safer." Frustrated by the pace of gun control proposals in the state legislature, Malloy says […]
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February 20th, 2013 · 11 Comments · National Politics, News and Events
News release from Mayor Bill Finch: Mayor Bill Finch will join Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra to introduce Vice President Joe Biden at a conference on gun violence to be held on Thursday at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
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More than 650 firearms have been returned as part of the gun buyback program launched in December by Mayor Bill Finch and Police Chief Joe Gaudett. The mayor and chief will share more details about the program at a news conference Wednesday (today) afternoon at the Morton Government Center, a day prior to Vice President […]
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The Obama IRS of TEA Party/Patriot Groups/other groups is meant to take people's attention away from Benghazi...
Chicago political corruption at the national level.
Government employees are largely leftist, so our Government is now in a self-interest and ideological feed-back loop.
Our political system has become "The Government Party" vs. the opposition.
This is why we need as simple a tax law as possible and as small a government as possible. This sort of evil abuse of power is much more difficult when government sticks to its proper and strictly limited role in our lives. We need to cut government with a chain saw, not just reduce the rate of growth.
Seems like it should apply additional heat. This is positively Nixonian, and a really enormous scandal.
I cannot believe that the civil liberties lobby is not jumping up and down over this blatant abuse of government power./sarcasm
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of Indonesia.
The sad part is nothing will come of this nor will anything come of the Benghazi hearings simply because we no longer have a GOP but a RINO party. It's play acting then air kisses backstage.
If you are a registered Republican, expect to be audited by the IRS. Should your papers not be in order, expect to be locked away in a mental institution where you will be experimented on. ...Don't poopoo this. You live in a nation that elected Obama.
The actions of lone wolf agents, nothing coordinated by the DNC, naturally...
Not going to work. IMO they are at least of equal importance.
Somebody is dumping IRS chum into the water to draw the media sharks away from good ship Benghazi.
It wont work.
The same people are responsible for both.
Someones getting desperate.
This must be one of the only moves they have left.
Time to go underground.
Register as a DemonRAT and vote against them at every opportunity.
It's long past time for infiltration, coordinated or otherwise.
well let's just hope and pray that it ADDS to the heat- exposing hte crass disgusting thuggery beign perptrated on Americans
The press is climbing on board.... they'll be able to have more than one pot on the stove...


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Touhou Tabletop RPG Translated
Have you ever thought about how it would be nice to be able to play a pen & paper RPG in the Thouhou universe, complete with spellcard and danmaku battles? If so, congratulations, you're the same kind of nerd as me! You're also in luck, because that's exactly what we have here today:
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A RPG published in back 2007 by D-Vent, with rules for building loliTouhou-style characters with not only different races, abilities and skills like any RPG, but also with their own spellcards with customized danmaku spreads .
And even if you are not really into RPGs, it is still worth checking it out, since the book is gorgeously illustrated by seven different artists including some famous Touhou illustrators like Katzeh and Tokiame. (And who knows? You might find out that you do have an interior RPG nerd after all.)
A big thanks to Touhou Gamer, Kasanip, Mizuko, Wally, Iced Fairy, Gnome! and Nameless Fairy, who worked into translating and editing this game.


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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Stepped off a train
Not all days end well, or for some ever.
Last night, stepping off a train and wrapping up one day's endeavor I was to end up intimately involved in another. Twenty minutes off that Amtrak a colleague and I were in a phone call with a little girl's parents and aunt as they sat some three hours away in a police station, looking for help. Looking for someone to bring their little girl home.
In yesterday's late afternoon a little girl named Hailey Owen, just blocks from her home was snatched off the street and from life by her kidnapper and, ultimately killer.
The Amber Alerts went out as did the BOLOs.
Standing over a phone, talking with her parents I agreed to come down. And in doing so broke one of my rules. I don't break my rules, the real hardline internal ones. I don't break. Last night is a reason why.
I have a lot of scars from doing this job after almost twenty years. Some external, some internal. They are wrapped up in good decisions and bad ones. Victories and losses. But, through it all I have maintained one very solid mandate. Never get involved in any case that leads to finding the body of a child.
It's selfish and unapologetic but, there are somethings that I'd like to, when my time comes to finally lay down to my eternal rest, never see. Perhaps more now than ever as a father. Yet, hearing the family on the other end how do you say no? Because in their minds they are holding out for hope that she is still alive, I should think my colleague was as well.
Yet as I watched the clock make it's final sweep to ten pm, I knew the score.
Ask any doctor, cop, fire fighter...or a fixer like myself, that you have to get pragmatic early on in your career. I've often called it "the coldness". It's how every soldier can cry and kiss his family as he deploys and the moment they are out of sight the job takes over.
"We need to go get on the road".
"We need to wait till morning." I said.
I know, I know what you are thinking. Twelve hours.
Twelve to fifteen hours is the window.
Of which by the time we would have arrived would have closed. Had we left at that moment, her parents would still be at the police station and, cops hate nothing more than guys like me walking into their wheel house. And I don't blame them one small bit.
To be honest, while law enforcement has some public relations issues they need to get on and fix with how they interact with the citizenry there is still no worst enemy for the bad men of the world than the American Cop when the flag goes up.
But I had said I would go.
Keep my word.
So once in the door, after a long ride home in the old 4Runner making a lot of pleas with God and wanting to call in any favors I might have had with Him to let her come home, I went operational. The moleskine was getting bullet pointed with "needs", the bedroll dug out, the Gobag brought down from the closet top.
It didn't matter. I already knew it. I was angry. Just angry.
The phone rang just after 5 this morning. My colleague called to say Hailey's killer, (suspect as everyone else will say) had been arrested but, no body yet recovered.
"There is nothing for us to do. They'll find her within the next couple of hours" I said into the phone. Not alive I couldn't really bring myself to say, so I added "Give the family our condolences".
"They haven't found her yet", "they will".
They did. That text came in at 7:20 something.
I grow weary of the bad men of the world killing children. Everyone's politics be damned, I grow tired of the rapist, the killer, the men who commit themselves to sanely devised evil.
Because it is evil and there is evil in this world. It's not one man's perspective over another or another. Some men just want to do evil and they sleep every night free of guilt from it.
And so it is and was with Craig Michael Wood. Child killer. Innocence thief. Destroyer of small worlds and families.
Years back when I started SFIACW it was an outlet for the writer in me who grew weary of a world of bullshit and double talk. It eventually grew less personal and more....XYZ.
So normally this is the part where I say "fight" give the bad men everything you have and leave them on the floor and not you.
But instead I would rather say "do good."
Do good. Because the world is so absent of it at times. You want to be counter cultural? Do good.
19 comments:
- taylor said...
Been behind the badge on these kinds of calls before and I completely understand. Once the rush of energy leaves a case after the first 8 hours or so, its hard to keep up the pace. And if you ultimately fail, it take time...serious separation time, to fully recover.
I had the great fortune of being young and dumb when I got introduced to these darker parts of humanity. Now older, and a father...I just dont think I could do it anymore.
God bless you for being willing to step up. Just dont forget to sit down and rest from time to time too.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:21:00 AM
- DaddyBear said...
I have no words for this. My heart goes out to that family. Thanks for this.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:23:00 AM
- Jennifer said...
I had a bad feeling about this one when the Amber Alert came out. Thank you for doing what you do
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:27:00 AM
- Spike said...
Praying for that family, and you.
I cant imagine what I would do if something happens to my 2 boys. I cannot fathom what is going through their hearts tonight.
As Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:7, I have fought the good fight.
We must fight the good fight against evil. Its a constant struggle, and if it takes our dying breath in the struggle... Its worth it. If not for ourselves, but for our kids, and their kids, and the neighbor kids.
Fight the good fight. But take backup.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:47:00 AM
- Northman said...
Praying for you and the family.
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
No words brother, I'll just pray.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:23:00 PM
- GregT said...
You're right. But it's a sad, sad day when "counter cultural" means doing good.
I've been there, during cases like these. Doing the search. Hoping, but knowing, deep inside. Longest was almost two weeks of looking before we found her. But we did.
And a human predator isn't loose any more.
Some people are just born broken, some develop that way, and there's nothing to do but pick up the pieces afterwards.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:43:00 PM
- Dan said...
Thank you for reminding me. I don't know that I ever forget, but I certainly do lose sight of how important a little good can be.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:50:00 PM
I'm so sorry. Praying for both the family, and you.
Take care of yourself for a bit, alright?
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:55:00 PM
- Docent said...
Such a sad event. Like the others, I want to express my sympathy.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:59:00 PM
- Shane W said...
"No words brother, I'll just pray."
That about sums it up. Take care Matthew
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:10:00 PM
- dullandfaded said...
Jesus wept.
[Jhn 11:35 NASB]
- Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:17:00 PM
- Kimp said...
That mill stone Jesus mentioned? 'it's better that a millstone be tied around their neck if anyone causes a little one to sin..' imagine what he thinks about killing a little one. This world doesn't end here. I believe God to be tired of the sin, too. Real tired. In the meantime, Sir, we love you, pray for you and thank you for doing what we can't. Find the bad buys.
- Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:34:00 AM
- Jay G said...
It's cases like these that keep me from being an atheist.
Because I *have* to believe that *someone* is going to make that subhuman piece of filth pay for what he did.
Since we don't scourge people to death, I have to believe that a lake of fire awaits this scum.
- Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:18:00 PM
- Daniel in Brookline said...
Thanks for writing about this.
Hug your family. A lot. And keep them safe.
- Friday, February 21, 2014 12:32:00 PM
- Jerry Clifford said...
"People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf"
Pray for those who fight the night
- Saturday, March 01, 2014 2:17:00 PM
- Weetabix said...
If you're ever down in Hailey's town again and in the mood, drop me an email. I'll buy you a cup of coffee.
- Wednesday, March 05, 2014 10:48:00 AM
- Snarky357 said...
Dealing with this kind of stuff is why I use facebook to help find animals homes and show off food porn. I am involved in a 'Pay it forward' group. I volunteer for good causes, and count the days until I can do something completely different, that leaves no scars.
Be well.
- Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:59:00 PM
- David said...
Perhaps too late to save Hailey, but not too late to save yourself. By agreeing to go, you did the right thing...the thing that lets you look at yourself in the mirror and not hate what you see. Hopeless cause or not, you're allowed to be human...you need to be. You did right.
- Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:55:00 PM
- Paul said...
The kids are grown. Both are married and both are hard working people.
So our next challenge will be grandkids.
I cannot imagine what those parents went through when their little girl disappeared.
I mean I'd be just crackers if all I could do is sit there and wait for the police to find them (or what is left of them.)
You know, I told my priest about how when I read such horror stories in the news my 'Jack Bauer' comes out of me.
Yes it's ugly, but thank goodness I am not the one who has to arrest the monsters who murders children. For if I was, I might become a monster myself.
And we know what Nachize said about that.
- Monday, April 28, 2014 6:25:00 PM


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This beautiful ink and color scroll on silk is from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Dating from the 13th century, it was done by an unknown artist. You can clearly see children everywhere, chasing each other, riding pretend horses, sliding down slides (who knew these things existed back then?)
Children are one of the most popular themes in Chinese art, and frequently can be seen playing in a garden, as above. According to Ann Barrow Wicks and Ellen B. Avril, in Children in Chinese Art, children have had a prominent place in art since the Song period which lasted from 960 until 1279. Images of children meant a lot to people all over China, to people of all classes.
These unusual hand-carved bone and bamboo Mahjong Flower tiles are from a lovely set of tiles.
Ray Heaton has translated the characters on these tiles for us:
"This set uses some fairly common words/phrases, but the images on the tiles are great aren't they!
Did you know there are two types of Chinese characters, Simplified and Traditional? The Simplified characters were "introduced" in the late 1950s and 1960s to help literacy in mainland China, although simple forms had been used for a long time before then, sometimes with local variation. I tend to use Traditional characters so sometimes the characters I use may look a little different to those on the tiles if I forget to note a difference! Much of this character simplification exercise from the 50s and 60s used the previously simplified forms or forms that were used in various handwritten scripts. Hong Kong and Taiwan still use traditional characters.
So, taking the green Chinese characters first (the right hand set)...
The tiles are The Four Arts or the Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar, and were the four main accomplishments required of the Chinese scholar gentleman.
They are;
qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument. Tile #1,琴),
qi (the strategy game of Go or Chinese Chess, ,Xiangqi', Tile#2, 棋),
shu ( Chinese calligraphy tile#3,書) and
hua (Chinese painting tile#4,畫).
The last two can be particularly difficult to work out as the Chinese characters are often simplified in rather novel ways, a kind of short hand, and they get transposed with each other too.
And the other four, the red Chinese character set, shows the Four Noble Professions:
Tile #1, 漁, Yu, Fisherman
#2, 樵, Qiao, to Gather Wood, an abbreviated way of saying Woodcutter
#3, 耕, Geng, to Plow
#4, 讀, Dou, to Read or to Study
So these represent Fisherman, Woodcutter, Farmer and Scholar.
(You may also see the Four Noble Professions described as scholar, farmer, artisans and merchants.)
You may notice some real differences in the Chinese characters I used here (traditional) with those on the tiles (simplified). For example, tile #1, Fisherman, shows a character closer to 渔, which is the simplified version of 漁.
The tiles again reflect the desire for sons to maintain the family line and to perform ancestral duties; during the Ming period this extended to the hope for Guizi, or Noble Sons, who would excel in their studies and take top honours in the civil service examinations, and so bring wealth and high honour to their families. So in the Ming period, boys began to be shown not just at play, but also showing 'clues' or symbolic references to wealth, fertility and distinguished success in officialdom. I think your tiles are, then, referring back to such desires."
The images of the scholars and the noble callings have been given more visual and emotional interest by the artist by using children to showcase these symbols. The Scholar tiles ring as true today as they must have years ago. Don't they sum up to us how parents everywhere want good things to happen for their children?
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View Thread: real republicans are northerners
I'd like to see them run the southern racists out of the GOP.
41 minutes ago, Maddus Mattus wrote
If the southeners are racists, why did 40% of Texas vote for Obama?
Sorry, Maddus, but no.
ThereExists(X where X is southern and X is racist and X is in the GOP) does not imply ForAll(X where X is southern implies X is a racist).
Learn some basic logic or tone down your rhetoric and then try again.


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5 or 6 chicken drumsticks or thighs
1/2 cup soy sauce
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Place chicken in 3 1/2 quart crockpot. Mix remaining ingredients except sesame seeds. Pour over chicken. Cook for 5 hours on Low or until chicken is done. Transfer chicken to platter. Sprinkle on sesame seeds. Can be served with rice.
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Super Bowl Runup: 'Living the Dream' in Miami
There's the game, and then there's the game before the game — the Hyper Bowl. One intrepid reporter offers a journal of the events leading up to Sunday's NFL title game in Miami.
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NPR's Tom Goldman has been in Miami all week covering the run-up to the big game and he's been taking notes on the often surreal journey through America's biggest spectacle. Here's his Super Bowl Journal.
TOM GOLDMAN: One game. One dream. The snappy motto for Super Bowl 41 was plastered everywhere when I flew into Miami Monday. I must admit, I was feeling the spirit right up until the two-hour traffic jam leading to Miami Beach. I got to my hotel, ordered some Cuban food, and two hours later a deliveryman brought my meal with no utensils and a water bottle that had been opened and drunk from.
I put the water aside, ate the steak with my hands and the rice and beans with a scoop I fashioned out of a Styrofoam coffee cup. The dream was underway.
Tuesday, media day, a chance to meet the players. Even though most of them could kill me with one legal hit, I found them friendly and engaging, even Chicago's appropriately named Tank Johnson, who's facing weapons possession charges and is only at the Super Bowl because a judge gave him permission to travel to Miami.
Peyton Manning? No guns, just lots of aw-shucks charm. The star of this Super Bowl, he graciously answered hundreds of questions, many of them silly. Like when ESPN's otherwise top-notch reporter Sal Paolantonio brought up one of Manning's funny commercials in which the quarterback wears a fake mustache.
Mr. SAL PAOLANTONIO (ESPN Reporter): But one of them said that when you had that mustache on you looked like a porn star.
Mr. PEYTON MANNING (Quarterback, Indianapolis Colts): Wow. Can you say that word on ESPN, Sal? I don't have a comment on that.
GOLDMAN: Jumping ahead to Thursday I was back with the Colts, this time at their plush team hotel in Fort Lauderdale. They have a gorgeous view of the ocean, so I wasn't surprised to find them in a mellow mood. I had a short chat with Tarik Glenn, the 6'5", 330-pound left offensive tackle who protects Peyton Manning's blind side. I'm not sure what I was more impressed with - his self-effacing explanation about how he alone doesn't protect Manning, or his teeth. They looked great. A ringing endorsement for his mouth guard, his dentist, or both.
Kudos as well to Indianapolis running back Dominic Rhodes. I caught up with him in mid-cliché and was pleasantly surprised to hear the following self-correction.
Mr. DOMINIC RHODES (Running Back, Indianapolis Colts): I think my coaches like my intensity, the way I come out there and I lift my team up. And they know that I'm going to be playing 110, 100 percent at all times. They know...
GOLDMAN: You go, Dominic. Way to fight that urge to say what every athlete says about giving 110 percent. I mean I'm not mathematician, but is that even possible?
Move to Friday. Finally I will experience the Miami that every "Access Hollywood"-type TV show has been talking about all week. I head for Washington Avenue, one of the hot streets in Miami Beach. On my way, I see tons of Orthodox Jews heading for Friday night services. Feeling guilty, but not enough to turn back, I make a mental note. Become more observant when I get home.
Saturday, the religious thing dogs me. Outside my hotel window, a single-engine prop plane pulling a banner slowly flies by. The banner reads Super Bowl Champion is Jesus. That was pretty much the whole day right there.
Which brings us to Sunday, today, Super Bowl 41. The game will start this evening and end about four hours later. I'll remind myself this is the event of a lifetime for many people in Dolphins Stadium. And don't grumble, at least out loud, about how the zillions watching on TV will see the game much better. It's a spectacle to be sure, and here's hoping the Colts and Bears play a great game.
Will Peyton Manning, who's thrown only two touchdown passes in the playoffs, explode and throw five against the Bears? Will Chicago's rough and tumble defenders strip the game away, literally, with their penchant for causing fumbles? Questions to be answered soon.
As far as predictions, I usually shy away. But today it's easy: Colts win. Why? Because comedienne Phyllis Diller said so in a celebrity Super Bowl poll. After the week that was, that's good enough for me.
Tom Goldman, NPR News, Miami.
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