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Chicago (Oct. 27)
Theories Alone Can't Help, He Declares in Address; Defines Character of Constructive Relief; Urges Immediate Payment of Pledges. (Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A reply to the critics of the Joint Distribution Committee's relief work in the post war period, particularly in Poland, was given by Louis Marshall in the concluding part of his address Sunday afternoon at the Constructive Relief Conference of the United Jewish Campaign. Mr. Marshall said:
"I am going back where I started from. We have men who are busy. It is not the whole thing in their lives, looking after the Joint Distribution Committee. They are busy during the campaign, enthusiastic but when the campaign is over they cool off a little; in two or three months they get a little cooler; after a while there is a tendency to grow cold and then indifferent. Then if somebody whistles they prick up their ears and say, "Perhaps there is something in this thing."
"If you only come here you will get lots of literature. Dave Brown is prolific in literature; he has a good deal of literature, but it is good reading, and you can get these reports, and if you do not get them ask for them and read them with understanding, and you never would get cold, your hearts would be warmed when you read it. You would feel that you had done a piece of work the like of which has never been done since the world began. That sounds extravagant, but let's see if it is so.
"There are 15,000,000 Jews in the world; more than half of them, 8,000,000, have lived in that war zone; they were, many of them, prosperous, they were all industrious; they were not beggars; they brought up their children honorably; they were religious in their temperament and they were charitable and helped one another. Then came this great war, this titanic contest when all Europe became a battlefield, when all Europe was drenched in blood; when every country was at war with the other, and for four years that war without parallel, took place and the battles were fought largely in Eastern Europe, and the Jews who lived in those countries, 8,000,000 of them, were wanderers, practically, on the face of the earth. Their property was destroyed. Their homes were looted; they had no hope of regaining their property. And after the war, the aftermath which was worse than war, there came typhus and all diseases; there came famines in such dimensions that nobody in the modern world ever dreamed it was possible that there could be such a state of human suffering and privation. There was no work to be had, no occupation. Nobody could find work. The money of the country became worthless; exchange went up and down; nobody knew what would become of it. It became, finally invisible. Nothing like it had ever occurred, and eight million Jews, more than half of the Jews of the world, were affected. Who was there to help? England could not help, France could not help. Nowhere could they get help except here, where by the providence of God, three and a half million Jews were collected and were prosperous.
"They were going to help. They acted at first gently, then became more interested, and finally the emotions which carried them, through them swept over the country, swept them away off their feet, and they contributed very large sums of money.
"They had a recognition of a duty, but they did not know how to perform that duty. It required great labor, skillful management, familiarity with every phase of human activity; it required financiers, required men who had a vision as to what could be done in industry, in agriculture, in a thousand different human employments. There were men who were social service workers, and who understood certain problems better than the trained business men. That was the situation. It seemed to be a state of general confusion. Well, it was the problem of the Joint Distribution Committee to bring out of chaos. It was its duty to get the funds, then to know how to spend them, and who should do the work of spending these funds, and that, I say, created a situation the like of which was never known; a problem the extent of which was faced by no other people." Mr. Marshall declared.
"It is true the Red Cross society had many problems during the war; but their work ceased shortly after the war and ours assumed so many different phases, we had a new phase every month in the various countries. Nobody could say why it was not settled. You could not reckon from one day to another what would happen next. If you have a problem of poverty in the city of Chicago, or in the city of New York, you can say. 'That is a stable proposition.' You can work out a plan, and know just how much money you want and know what to deal with, but here you had to raise an amount of money and even if it had been five times as large it would not have been enough, hut you had to meet new-phases, create new agencies. Faced with such a stupendous problem we had to build from the ground up.
"We did not know the people. We were separated by a wide ocean. Dr. Bogen took his life in his hands and we were afraid every day that we would hear of some awful calamity which threatened. If for instance, all of the inhabitants of Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha and Denver and, I might add, a few more, say 8 million who were accustomed to trade and industry and not workers upon the land, and suppose if this great war and this great calamity had happened right here in the mid-west and these cities had been overthrown and there had been a holocaust and a cataclism that overwhelmed them and imagine that there was nobody in the United States that had any money and that a dollar wasn't worth a hundredth of one cent, that property which yesterday may have been worth millions today was worthless, that the manufacturing establishment that might employ a thousand people could not give work to one, where hunger and every horror that the mind can conceive was rampant. Think of that, and then that our help has to come from the other side. That is the factor that I want you to think of. I merely reverse the story and it isn't at all impossible with aeroplanes and T. N. T. multiplied forty-fold. Such a thing might happen even here, with the popularity that we have achieved in certain directions.
"This is the situation that confronted us with regard to Europe and of course if there had been representatives sent, there would have been complaints no doubt from the people here if things were not done immediately, just as they wanted it. There might have been people here like some of the great statesmen in Poland who said at the time there are too many Jews in the United States, and that 1 million of these should be sent abroad. This is only an illustration. It is a fact that if there were a million Jews sent abroad and you were going to send them out of the country, how are you going to get them out? Some of us made a calculation and we think it is wrong because our calculation was too small. A million people represent 200,000 families and we have to get them across the ocean and then they have to have something to start life with and we can't send them into a wilderness without money and the average amount of settling each family would mean about $5,000.
"People are criticizing us for our method of work. That is all right, if you have the money, but we can't do what Daniel Webster did who was proverbially impecunious and when he was once asked to talk about the national debt, he put his hands deep in his pocket and said 'How much is it.'
"There have been other criticisms made and we have been chided because we did not let them starve. We did too much soup kitchen work, we did too much palliative work. What is palliative work? If a man is hungry and comes to you and wants food and you appease his hunger, that is palliative work. Certain people think that the whole idea of charity is wrong. I don't know whether Mr. Gilles has such an idea but I know Mr. Gilles would not let anybody starve if he had to take off his coat and pawn it and get him a loaf of bread, and that is true with every man who has a conscience. It is true that when we are seated at our own firesides with all the luxuries, we cannot sympathize with those who are hungry and we can't understand why somebody else is hungry. It is also true that a man whose stomach is full does not study with any great zest and a man who does not have much in his stomach sometime does have that zest. It has been said we should have done constructive work and should have taken the people from Poland and put them on land. That is the trouble. That is the mistake we made. We did not put them on the land, and let them do what we are doing in Russia.
"The difference between the two situations is as great as between day and night. Russia–there is a land unoccupied and there was a desire to put people upon the land and the government which operated and had the land to give. It did not cost as much money as it would cost in another country. You heard the report about Poland, that it stands first in all the countries in Europe as to the relative acreage of land which is cultivated, so that 67% of the land is occupied and used and is actually cultivated and the peasantry owns the land as they have owned it for centuries in some cases and he won't give it up and you won't drive him out. I have never known of a minority that could do that in any country. So the result is that it is a pure theory. Theories are very interesting when you can study them, without anybody there on the other side to criticize the accuracy of the theory occasionally needs a little hard headed common sense. That is what we need, and you can't deal with these great human questions by sitting down and making out an algebraic formula and say, 'now all you have to do is carry out that formula! Things do not go that way in the world. The world has its own method of dealing with these subjects and it isn't logical. Logic is a very beautiful thing in school but there isn't logic even in courts sometimes.
"Judge Stern would tell you that very largely logic is wrong in the courts. So here we are concerned with these various criticisms and it would be all right if we had time to deal with them all, but we haven't. Hunger knows no law, and when people are starving you have to feed them and if you feed them it is really constructive work. If you don't feed them it is destruction, degeneration. What we needed to do was to feed the people and give them as much as we could to keep body and soul together and everybody who wants more is an unreasonable fanatic if he isn't something worse.
"There are worse things than being a fanatic. We did this as long as they could not help themselves. Then we began the reconstruction work to enable these people to help themselves. That is what we try to do, and that is what we have been doing in Poland and in all the other work which you have heard described. Work which Doctor Waldman in his magnificent report today said was recognized by the people of Poland and the work which they were talking about, was the work which preserved the youth, the Jewish youth of Poland and without it there would have been no new generation of Jews to take the place of those who have gone before.
"One thing I think I have the right to ask, because when a man gets old he may presume once in a while upon the generosity of the younger generation which confronts him. I want you to do it as a favor to me and do it as another act of justice to the men who prepared those reports and who did the work, take those reports home and read them and study them and understand them. Take home those reports of the auditor. The accountants are men who stand at the head of their profession. Read those reports, read those figures. You are all business men, you will understand it. You will not then be silent when anybody tells you there has been no accounting and nobody knows what the Joint Distribution Committee has done. If you don't know, then it is your fault. I have, year after year, read these reports and attended convention after convention that has been delegated to the consideration of the problem and they have always been at your command and nothing has been concealed and there has always been an accounting before you and the state of our ledger and the conditions that we have to deal with. I have attended, and made perhaps a thousand speeches during the various campaigns during the last fourteen years and I never made one without laying before the people everything so that they would be acquainted with our problem and so that they knew how much money we had expended. If you people who attend these conventions do the social act and forget all about it when you go home and do not read these reports and give them a great deal of thought you would not know very much about in.
"## Waldman, who went to Poland with the express purpose of making an investigation which resulted in illuminating what we have done, should be entitled to your reading that report. I will say although I have known considerably them what the Join Distribution Committee has done, yet I have read from the first line to the last every single line of the report that has been presented and I have done that always and I know you have not as much leisure as we have, but my once in a while to familiarize yourself with those facts, and know what is being done.
"We have been coming here those of us who have been on the stage to make speeches–if you knew how much I dread them–you would not put me through such as experience, but when I am called upon I will have to say what I know and say it just as I think it, but you haven't come to hear speeches, you can hear better speeches any day in your own town than you can hear here, but you will never hear truer ones them are ## in ## report. You will never hear more ## ones than those that have been ## before you. Every single line means something that has constructed to the preservation of Judaism and the continuance of human life which is dear to us.
"Now we have also called you here not only to tell you what has been done but to tell you what you could do. It is rather presumptive for a man to address such an ## as these intelligent men in their own communities and I am not going to ## you what you have to do but simply the answer you have got to do your ##. A minister or a Rabbi would tell you that (applause). There have been subscriptions made to the amount of ##ly## million dollars during this campaign and we need every single dollar of it and more and than money can only be raised if those who occupy the positions you do in your respective communities put your land to the grow and grow up than money from your community and make those with subscribe pay, (applause).
"There must be no slackers and no slackers. If anybody for 999 reasons which be made as no, why he changed his mind and does not believe in this he must be told that he would have to keep his word and that his obligations must be carried out. Although we have no desire to call the courts into action, I have always taken the position if a man makes a subscription and doesn't pay it, sue him, (applause).
"If you have had the experience that we have had those men sometimes become your best friends and they thank you in the end for having saved them from the dishonor of refusing to pay a debt of this character. Men who will consider it a disgrace if they didn't pay a poker debt and who were willing to let human beings die in order that they may say, 'well they could not fool me, (applause). That is what you have got to do and I can't say it any stronger than I have. If I could I would say it again. We have to have the money. Colonel Lehman has told you that we have to work according to a budget. We can't appropriate the money without seeing the money in sight. We have got to have it in hand before we can give it away. We have made our arrangements so that certain amounts of money should be forthcoming and it has to be, that is all there is to it. It has got to be here when we need it and we are carrying on. Doctor Rosen on a certain day needs a certain remittance and if the money doesn't come a thousand families may suffer, two thousand, even five thousand. They cannot buy horses, they cannot buy seed, and they cannot build houses, and they cannot improve their land unless we do not have to wait until Mr. A. B. C. contributes from this country. We have got to have the money to do this work with and we have got to have it at once.
"Here comes another year and we have to plan for that. We have to have the money. We cannot do without it. That is the practical way of looking at it. You are all men of affairs and do not do your business in a #### manner. You have to know where the money is coming from to meet your obligations. I do not want to make this speech too personal in order to show you what we have to do. I am an utter conservative and I can say that until the last two years I never borrowed a dollar and I never guaranteed an obligation or endorsed a note and it came very hard when I felt it my duty to keep the work going to guarantee with these other gentlemen an amount up to a million dollars, (Applause).
"Haven't we any rights! Aren't we to be considered! Does the great body of American Jewry expect Mr. Warburg and Colonel Lehman and a few of us schnauzers to hold the hay for you? (Applause). It would be a shame if you did. It would have to be accompanied by a most terrific thumping of your breast if you allowed any such thing to take place.
"You heard Dr. Rosen outline the work. You can fist it as a great enterprise, one which ought to make your hearts palpitate with joy that you are permitted to participate. One which is, whose purpose it is to recreate those who have gone down to despair and make of them honorable, upright people, useful members of human society. That is an opportunity which comes to but a few of us. It has made of the American Jewry a body of men the Eke of which has never been known. It has made us self-respecting. It has indicated to us higher things than wealth and money that is in our pockets. That the money we get for such purposes is that which is best spent and which gives us the greatest happiness and that privilege which I want you to feel when the time comes, when the people of this country will be asked not to give but to help in the continuance of this magnificent piece of work," Mr. Marshall concluded.


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Remember Andrea from last weeks awesome Essential Living giveaway? Well she's back today giving us an inside peek (literally – there's a video below) of one of the recipes from her book!
Aromatherapy is all about the therapeutic use of essential oils—highly aromatic substances that occur naturally in plants. Essential oils are made up of naturally occurring chemical components that have all sorts of therapeutic properties. Through decades of research, scientists have identified hundreds of these chemical components and learned what they do. Some are antibacterial, some are sedative, and some are antispasmodic. These chemical components contribute to the overall effects of essential oils.
Essential oils also affect people on emotional levels that can be harder to define through research. This is where the brain and sense of smell come in to play. We know that lavender essential oil has properties that calm the body—but we also know that the smell alone can be emotionally comforting and calming.
Supporting Mental Health
Essential oils can be used to support your emotional well-being and mental health in many ways. Sometimes it's as simple as diffusing an aroma you love or wearing a blend with calming base notes when you meditate.
When using essential oils for your mood, rely on a combination of basics and the way they make you feel. For example, citrus aromas are naturally bright, airy and uplifting while deep base notes from resins are calming, centering and grounding. While we can identify through experience and science that certain essential oils have certain effects on your emotional state, it still comes down to individual experience and response. You may end up tweaking these blends or creating your own blends to help you focus, reduce negative feelings or to calm down in times of anxiety.
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- 5 drops Rosemary essential oil (Rosmarinus officinalis ct. camphor)
- 10 drops Lemon essential oil (Citrus limon)
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- Add drops directly to the blank cotton component of the aromatherapy inhaler.
- Attach lid carefully.
Notes: Use while working or studying to assist with focus and concentration.
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Origin of The Kumbh – According to Mythological legends, Gods at one point of time had become weak under a curse so Brahma ( the Creator) advised the Gods to retrieve the pot i.e. Kumbh containing the nectar of Immortality ( known as Amrit in Hindu religion) For this, Gods had to seek help from Demons( Asuras) to recover this pot by churning the Primordial sea ( Samudramanthan) with a promise for sharing the nectar equally. When Dhanvantari, ( known as the divine healer) appeared with the Kumbh, a fight ensued between the Gods and Demons which lasted for twelve days and twelve nights (equivalent to 12 human years) for acquiring the Kumbh containing the divine nectar. It is believed that during this fierce battle, a few drops of Amrit fell from this Kumbh of Elixir in four different places namely- Allahabad ( Prayag), Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjain. Since then, Hundreds and thousands of devotees and pilgrims converge to commemorate this divine event.
Kumbh Mela is celebrated every three years in rotation in these four religious places – meaning the Mela takes place in each location every twelfth year. The Ardh ( half) Kumbh Mela takes place in the sixth year between the Maha Kumbh.
During the reign of King Harshavardhana, there is first written evidence of Kumbh Mela in the accounts of a Chinese traveler- Huan Tsang or Xuanzang who visited India in 629 -645 CE and in 1903 about 400,000 people attended the fair In 1954, around 500 people were killed in Kumbh Mela stampede at Allahabad, , and scores were injured. On April14, 1998, Ten million people gathered at Kumbh Mela- Haridwar to take a dip in the holy river, Ganga . In 2001-'Maha Kumbh Mela' at Prayag (Allahabad) saw the participation of around 1 million people from outside of India .The total gathering exceeded 60 millions. Millions bathe in the holy river at this Hindu festival which witnesses the largest pilgrimage.


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My daughter turns 9 this week, and I have made it my mission to make her birthday cake each year. I set the bar a little too high, though, with her 4th birthday, and have been trying to top it every year since.
2nd Birthday: Funfetti Cake in Heart Shape with Conversation Hearts
4th Birthday: Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake with White Chocolate Buttercream
5th Birthday: Funfetti Cake Cut into Stars for Decorating with Kool-Aid flavored icing
7th Birthday: Zebra Print Cake with Strawberry Kool-Aid Icing
8th Birthday: Individual Fondant-Covered Chocolate Cakes and Oreo Cookie Cake Pops
This year, she has only asked that it be Red Velvet with Cream Cheese icing. Aside from that, I have freedom to decorate as I wish. And that's where I'm hitting "decorator's block." She chose to go bowling this year, so I was thinking that I would decorate in a bowling theme. I've made my own marshmallow fondant and modeling chocolate before, so I don't know why I am feeling particularly daunted by this cake. What are some ideas that you have? Leave a comment and keep 'em coming. I have until Sunday to come up with something to beat all those that came before.


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Britta Quotes
Shirley: I need to go to the bathroom first, Britta?
Britta: No, I don't have to go
Annie: I'll go with you
Britta: What, she's offended?
Jeff: Girls go in groups, did you learn nothing from stand up comedy in the nineties?
Britta: I'm willing to try some more mainstream feminine stuff.
Jeff: Well, then you should know that nothing says "I'm a woman" like... doing it with me.
Britta: Nothing says "I'm a pig" like you
Dean Pelton: Well look at this group having some of meeting and being so diverse. There is just, boy! There is just one of every kind of you, isn't there?
Pierce: Well, we are missing a pipsqueak, but we don't want one, so beat it!
Britta: Ah, Pierce, that's the dean
Britta: You're just doing all this because you want to have sex with me, you don't even want to be my friend
Jeff: Wait a minute. Is that what you thought I meant? Britta, look at me
Britta: I am
Jeff: No, look how handsome my face is. If all I wanted was sex, I could get it from plenty of women without having to go through all this crap. I'm here because I like you and I'd be psyched to be your friend. I just didn't want to take sex off the table without doing my due diligence
Britta: I'm not gonna sit while some hokey tribunal gets its jollies judging me.
Jeff: Hey, if you show up with me, follow my lead, and deny everything, you'll walk. That's the Winger guarantee.
Britta: I get it. You think you're gonna save my bacon using your lawyer powers and send me into fits of grateful arousal.
Jeff: I can neither confirm nor deny that. See how good I am?
Jeff: So I guess the cell phone number you put on the study group contact sheet was fake, which I just learned in the awkward conclusion of a month long text message affair with a dude from boulder
Britta: Sorry
Jeff: That's okay, just give me your real number and I'll cleanse my pallet while Kevin rethinks his marriage
Britta [about Vaughn]: The problem right now is that he's calling me "baby." He's trying to hold my hands. It's... it's getting a little relationshipy and... he gave me something.
Jeff: Herpes?
Britta: Hey Vaugn, what's up?
Vaughn: No worries
Jeff: Interesting, cause I might be worried if I was playing hacky sack a decade too late
Britta: Aren't you supposed to have an Olympic gold medal in gibber jabber
Jeff: Yeah, but I'm a sprinter. I'm at my best during high speed bursts of wit.
Britta: Did you do all that to me on purpose? That's not a very nice way to treat your friends
Abed: Well, Britta, it isn't called friend business, it's called show business [lights up a cigarette and leaves the room]
Britta: He's smoking!
Jeff: Honey, let him leave the nest
Abed's Dad: Dreams are for sleeping
Britta: You don't know that
Abed's Dad: It's clinically proven
Hey Abed, real stories -- they don't have spoilers. You understand that TV and life are different, right?


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Beckwithshaw will be hunting a league double over local rivals Bilton on Saturday.
Ben Quick's title-chasing men were comfortable winners when the two sides did battle earlier in the season at Bilton Lane.
With home advantage they will be favourites to keep their superb run of form going.
However, they will stay wary of a Bilton side improving week after week.
Saturday's victory over Steeton was evidence they are on an upward curve after a poor start to the season.
Batting first they were bowled out for 212, Darren Blenkiron (59) and Paul Cannings (49) scoring the runs.
In reply the home side were blown away by Saj Ali (3-33) and Will Liddle's superb 5-21 as they all out for 111.
For 'Shaw, John Inglis came to the party against Otley. Chasing 224-4 he hit 105 as 'Shaw came through for a five-wicket win.
Follifoot travel to Collingham on Saturday. Mike Halmshaw's 56 not out saw them up to 97 against Ben Rhydding. Their opponents pulled through for a two-wicket win in reply.
Division One Played Points
Beckwithshaw 17 59
Collingham 17 54
Burley 17 52
Steeton 17 47
Otley 17 43
Thackley 17 42
Follifoot 17 41
Guiseley 17 41
Bilton 17 39
Kirkstall 17 38
Ben Rhydding 17 34
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Margy's Blog & Updates
A town hall debate question about gun control is a somewhat unfortunate moment for the candidates to be President of the United States to start discussing issues of poverty, since it suggests that poverty and gun violence are causally linked. But that's exactly what happened in the second debate between Governor Romney and President Obama.
Governor Romney started it – by implying that there would be less violence and poverty if more children were raised in two-parent, married households.
This reference to an old framing by conservatives had the feel of a prepared talking point looking for a question. The single-parent/poverty narrative is one of the ways conservatives undermine public funding for anti-poverty programs, suggesting that poverty is caused by bad personal choices and a lack of morals rather than systemic causes like stagnant wages and other changes in our labor market.
We hear that both candidates prepared talking points they wanted to find a way to make during the second debate. It's not surprising that Romney would focus on marriage and reducing out-of-wedlock births as primary solutions to poverty. Here's what he had to say.
Governor Romney
What I believe is we have to do, as the president mentioned towards the end of his remarks there, which is to make enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have.
And you ask how - how are we going to do that? And there are a number of things. He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state. And I believe if we do a better job in education, we'll – we'll give people the - the hope and opportunity they deserve and perhaps less violence from that.
But let me mention another thing. And that is parents. We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids. Wherever possible the - the benefit of having two parents in the home, and that's not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that's a great idea.
Because if there's a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will – will be able to achieve increase dramatically. So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity, and bring them in the American system. (My emphasis throughout.)
In fact, Romney said the word "poverty" five times in this debate, but certainly didn't advocate for the kinds of policies that would address the issue. Meanwhile, Obama talked about policy proposals that anti-poverty advocates support without ever mentioning the "P-word".
Obama frequently finds ways to advance anti-poverty policy without ever saying the word. Why? It is very common for Americans to default to thinking about poverty and the poor in terms of "non-work", which can easily lead to resentment and an "us vs. them" mindset. Of course many Americans work full-time and continue to be poor, but that isn't the image that immediately jumps to mind. President Obama seems particulary aware of the negative stereotype and combats it by framing anti-poverty policies in terms of work, highlighting the fact that people in poverty are workers – currently, recently, and soon to be again.
For example, in the early days of the recession, Obama was pressed by advocates to rescind the time limits on temporary cash assistance (welfare) since people couldn't find work. Instead, without mentioning the request, Obama expanded eligibility for unemployment insurance since many workers were not eligible under limiting definitions in the program. This policy change had a similar effect to the advocates' request, but resulted in higher benefits for workers, and framed the issue as one of employment, rather than dependency.
In the second debate Obama said this, after Romney's violence and parenting remarks in response to the gun control question:
President Obama
But we can make a difference in terms of ensuring that every young person in America, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, have a chance to succeed.
But we can make a difference in terms of ensuring that every young person in America, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, have a chance to succeed.
And Candy, we haven't had a chance to talk about education much. But I think it is very important to understand that the reforms we put in place, working with 46 governors around the country, are seeing schools that are some of the ones that are the toughest for kids starting to succeed. We're starting to see gains in math and science. When it comes to community colleges, we are setting up programs, including with Nassau Community College, to retrain workers, including young people who may have dropped out of school but now are getting another chance -- training them for the jobs that exist right now. And in fact, employers are looking for skilled workers, and so we're matching them up. Giving them access to higher education -- as I said, we have made sure that millions of young people are able to get an education that they weren't able to get before.
This isn't a perfect answer either. Focusing on dropouts and workforce training runs the risk of making people think about irresponsibility again. But, the President was on the right track, emphasizing meeting the needs of employers, which will strengthen local economies, rather than just sharing a story about "helping" the needy.
In fact, advocates have already succeeded by encouraging the President to advance an inclusive narrative that emphasizes the important role of policies in creating an economy that reduces poverty and is good for all. In addition to his remarks outlined above, the President utilized a narrative throughout the debate that will lead to more support for anti-poverty policy, even though he avoided the word and accompanying negative stereotype.
For example:
My philosophy on taxes has been simple. And that is, I want to give middle-class families and folks who are striving to get into the middle-class some relief. Because they have been hit hard over the last decade. Over the last 15, over the last 20 years.
That's not the kind of advocacy that women need. When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country, who rely on Planned Parenthood for, not just contraceptive care, they rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. That's a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country.
[T]here are some jobs that are not going to come back. Because they are low wage, low skill jobs. I want high wage, high skill jobs.
… People who are working hard every day, paying payroll tax, gas taxes, but don't make enough income.
And I want to fight for them. That's what I've been doing for the last four years. Because if they succeed, I believe the country succeeds. When my grandfather fought in World War II and he came back and he got a G.I. Bill and that allowed him to go to college, that wasn't a handout. That was something that advanced the entire country. And I want to make sure that the next generation has those same opportunities.
Still, advocates are right to be concerned that there's not enough public dialogue about the poor. What to do about it?
Most importantly, recognize that this issue easily slips into a negative storyline and "us vs. them" resentment, particularly when people are anxious about their own economic stability. Some survey questions that track public sentiments suggest a worrisome pattern.
While we might expect voters to be more understanding and supportive since so many are struggling in the recession, that's not the trend. The Pew Research Center reports that the number of people who agree that government has responsibility to care for the people who can't care for themselves has declined since 2007, as has support for the statement that government should help more needy people even if it means going deeper in debt.
Building a broad base of support requires developing a conversation that speaks across partisan divides, and the traditional "safety net" message is lacking in this regard. Pew reports that the partisan divide over views of the social safety net is growing. Of all the issues studied by Pew, this is the area of the greatest partisan divide. There are divisions of 35 points or more about "government's responsibility to care for the poor, whether the government should help more needy people if it means adding to the debt and whether the government should guarantee all citizens enough to eat and a place to sleep."
Instead, we need to frame this issue inclusively, using words and phrases that join people in common purpose rather than divide. For example, a poll by the American Values Network finds that "families striving to make ends meet" and "struggling families" (ideas that most Americans can identify with) rank higher than "poor families" or "underprivileged families".
We need to ground this issue in work to combat the stereotype of the irresponsible poor. Again, the American Values Network finds that the top messages they surveyed make a strong connection to work: "Twenty-six million Americans are paid so little that—even with two full-time wage-earners in the household—they'd still live in poverty." "Working hard should mean getting ahead and not having to choose between taking your kid to the doctor or keeping a second job that pays the rent."
We'd all be better off investing our energy and resources in talking to candidates about how to raise issues like an economy that works for all and wage stagnation, the role of government to maintain wage and benefit floors for jobs, and more. These are ways of looking at the issue that have the potential to build broad support, changing the culture of understanding among voters.
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Jasika Nicole: More Astrid to Come on Fringe!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
As the character Astrid Farnsworth, actress Jasika Nicole hasn't been given too much screen time this season on Fringe.
But Nicole has a message for fans that wish to learn more about this FBI Agent: Stay tuned!
While it may not be until next season, the star says viewers will eventually discover more about Astrid. Here's what Nicole said to Sci Fi Wire about her role:
She's not supposed to be ancillary to the show. She's supposed to be important, and I think that they are trying to milk everybody's stories out as long as they possibly can. Charlie [Kirk Acevedo] didn't get his episode, where you get to see a little bit more about him and his life and what he goes home to, until, what was it, like two weeks ago? So I'm sure that it will come. I just don't know exactly when.
Regarding the Fringe season finale, Nicole added:
There are actually a couple of really big answers in the season finale which shed light on, like, one million other questions. The answers that you get are super-satisfying, but they just make you want to know even more.
You get to get some really good information about Peter [Joshua Jackson] and what's his deal, because there are all these allusions during the entire season about Peter was sick as a boy, and there's something special about him, but you don't really know what it is. Well, you get to find out in the finale, and it's pretty fantastic.
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Regional Reviews: Boston
The Last Five Years
Also see Suzanne's review of The Gigolo Confessions of Baile Breag
SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of The Last Five Years has a lot going for it besides the intriguing fact that it's loosely based on bookwriter/composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown's own failed first marriage. Though he claims the show is "personal, not autobiographical," it hit close enough to home for his ex-wife to derail the show's intended fast-track trajectory. Despite a wildly successful out-of-town mounting at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in the summer of 2001, Lincoln Center dropped plans to transfer the piece they'd originally commissioned.
Other producers stepped in to work through the litigation and give the show its Off Broadway premiere six months later. The New York run wasn't much longer than the Chicago premiere, but Brown did win Drama Desk Awards for his music and lyrics to go along with his Tony for Parade. And thanks in part to its modest production requirements - a cast of two and a unit set - this show is popping up everywhere.
Finding the right two performers and giving a 90-minute song cycle some flair can be a challenge, however. The good news here is that Becca Ayers (Catherine) and Tally Sessions (Jamie) look right, sound right and put the tale across - what there is to tell, anyway. They've got the vocal chops, some aplomb and enough good sense to reign in the accusations and acrimony so we (almost) forget how puerile and banal these twenty-something characters really are.
While the story may be weak, this production certainly does have flair. Director Eric C. Engel keeps the progression on track - backwards in time for her; forwards chronologically for him - as best he can and measures out the "blame" like the controlled substance that it is.
Susan Zeeman Rogers' intriguing set, a sort of deconstructed wedding cake with a revolve, sliding doors and frosted backlit panels, would be less overwhelming if it were used to a greater extent. Linda O'Brien's effective yet subtle lighting and David Brooks' attractive, appropriate costumes aid the progression of events nicely.
What does seem like overkill, however, is the use of microphones. Ayers and Sessions both have more than enough built-in wattage for a space much bigger than the BCA. To my "old fashioned" ear, Brown's terrific orchestrations don't call for amplifying the singers. The five-piece ensemble (piano, bass, guitar, violin and cello) led by SpeakEasy veteran Paul S. Katz is truly lovely.
My reaction to The Last Five Years in performance is not unlike how I felt sitting through his previous song cycle Songs For a New World. When he's good, he's very good, the standouts being "Stars and the Moon" from Songs ... and Jamie's "Shiksa Goddess" and Catherine's "Climbing Uphill" from this show. These numbers are all musically interesting, have specificity and genuine humor and manage to land somewhere.
Taking his cue from the breadth of projects tackled by the likes of Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa and Ahrens & Flaherty, I hope Brown is on the lookout for interesting material to adapt or another challenging collaboration.
Jason Robert Brown will be in Boston for the following events:
Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm "Songwriting for Contemporary Musical Theatre" - a lecture/demonstration Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston Street, Room 1W Free, sponsored by Berklee and New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative (www.nomti.org).
Thursday, February 12th at 3pm Master class with Harvard undergraduate composers and performers Winthrop House Junior Common Room, 32 Mill St. (off Holyoke St.) Observers welcome; admission is free, no ticket or RSVPs required.
Thursday, February 12th following the 7:30 performance of The Last Five Years Audience Talkback at the BCA Theatre, moderated by Michael Wartofsky from NOMTI Sponsored by SpeakEasy Stage Company.
The Last Five Years now through February 29th presented by SpeakEasy Stage Co. (Paul Daigneault, Producing Artistic Director) at the BCA Theater, Boston Center for the Arts , 539 Tremont St. in Boston's South End. Performances are Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm; Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 4pm & 8pm and Sundays at 3pm & 7pm. (Sunday, Feb 29th only -3PM SOLD OUT - no 7pm show.) Tickets are priced at $30.00 - $35.00 depending on the performance with a $5 discount for students and seniors. Student Rush is $15, one hour before curtain, subject to availability. The BCA box office phone is 617-426-2787 or 617-482-3279.
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You know you're in trouble when you hear fussing in the nursery and find this pair of baby blues staring at you (see photo).
Andrew has been consistently sleeping through the night, with the exception of some mild restlessness that can easily be solved in 30 seconds with his pacifier. And sometimes, he fights me at bedtime, which I thought I wouldn't have to deal with for a few years. But otherwise, nighttime has been peaceful.
Anyway, last night — well, this morning since it was 3 a.m. — my baby boy makes it clear he has no intention of drifting back to sleep. My husband and I find ourselves both in the nursery, deciding quickly that the problem will only be solved by a bottle.
And then the dance of self-sacrifice begins.
"I'll take care of him. You go back to bed," my husband says.
"No. That's OK. I'll feed him. I have to pump in an hour anyway," I say, figuring this will go one more round.
"OK. Thanks. Goodnight." (Moments pass before he's nestled beneath our comforter.) "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz."
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I am working on hanging the art in the office/living room and just finished a push pin board for the office area. I'll wait to show more photos until I hang the rest of the art - it's looking a little lonely as is ...
For now, here is how I did it!
1. Take an old frame (I found my at Goodwill for $10), sand it to remove the glossy finish
2. After wiping down, prime and then spray paint - I wait about 45 minutes between coats (make sure to use several light strokes so the paint doesn't run!)
3. Cut the back piece to fit the frame - I used the back of a large poster board that I had left over from another project
4. Apply cork - I used cork contact paper with a sticky back (you may want to use two layers if your backing won't allow pins in)
5. Wrap fabric, pull tight and staple with a staple gun
6. Secure the cork to the frame (I used nails - make sure they aren't too long so they don't go through!)
Cost breakdown:
Frame $10, Cork $10, Fabric $7, Paint $7 = $34
I was back at Goodwill today and found a cork board that would of replaced the backing and cork for $3 :( I guess you can't catch every great deal ...
I'm looking forward to hanging the rest of the art - I found a cheap solution for frames that is good for renters ... and anyone who wants frames on the cheap! Check back soon!
I am taking part in The Terpblog's 10-Day Etsy Extravaganza Giveaway - Make sure to stop by tomorrow (July 12th) for a chance to win a print from my Etsy shop!


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Reeven Kelveros (RC-1202) CPU Cooler Review
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The Kelveros (RC-1202) is the second CPU cooler we are reviewing from the emerging company Reeven. Reeven have recently moved into the European and UK markets after starting up in Asia. International consumers should be able to buy Reeven products from QuietPC from the end of September 2012 if all things go as planned.
We already had a look at their Arcziel 12 top-down CPU cooler and today we are moving onto the Kelveros CPU cooler. What strikes us about Reeven products so far is that they ooze build quality and style, yet seem to fall a bit short on the performance frontier.
We hope the Kelveros CPU cooler will offer a bit more bang-for-your-buck than the Arcziel 12 when it comes to cooling performance. The Reeven Kelveros is a beautifully designed tower heatsink CPU cooler featuring 4 direct touch copper heat pipes and a single 120mm fan. As tower heat sinks go we haven't seen something quite this striking for a long time, but will the performance match that?
As always we are going to give this CPU cooler the Ivy Bridge heat beating and compare it against an ever expanding number of CPU coolers that we have been able to review. First lets check out the basic specifications of the Reeven Kelveros (RC-1202) CPU cooler:
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Mali is one of the few countries in Western Africa where evidence of human occupation from the Middle (and possibly Lower) Palaeolithic to the modern day can be found (Mayor et al. 2005). The intense exploration of the Sahara has built a clearer picture of the expansion of modern humans, from around 100,000 to 50,000 BP, moving westward through the continent, crossing into countries such as Niger, Sudan, Chad and Libya. It is in the Ounjougou site complex in the Dogon Region where the longest prehistoric sequence in western Sub-Saharan Africa has been documented (Robert et al. 2003; Truman 2006). Mali has also provided some key sites regarding the spread of Neolithic people in Western Africa (Gallay 1966). At sites such as Kobadi, the adaptation of the population in changing environments has been observed (Georgeon et al. 1990; Raimbault and Dutour 1990).
The Bronze Age in Mali is a particularly interesting period as it raises the question of whether there were long-distance relationships between the sub-Saharan region and Europe. The area of Adrar des Iforas is home to a number of petroglyphs, the majority dated between the Bronze and Iron Ages. Some of the forms depicted here are similar to petroglyphs found around Italy, England and Portugal, among other countries (Dupuy 2010).
Archaeologically renowned, some of the oldest cities in western Africa are situated in this country. A series of different kingdoms (Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Mossi and Segou) have evolved throughout the past two millennia, leading to the creation of cities such as Djenné, Timbuktu or Gao. The Arab conquest of this area seems to have happened as early as the XIth century but became widespread under the Kindgom of Mali and specifically during the reign of the XIVth century ruler Kangan (or Kankan) Moussa. After coming back from Al hajj, his pilgrimage to Mecca, Moussa launched a program of construction throughout the country, having architects from Al-Andalus and Cairo building mosques, madrasas and palaces. He enlisted Abu Ishaq Es Saheli to construct the Djinguereber Mosque in 1327, which then became an important centre for the diffusion of Islam knowledge in the region. Most famously, Moussa is known for initiating the construction of the Sankore Madrasah in 1324. In 1495 the Songhai Empire, adopting Soudan-Sahelian Islamic architecture, erected a monument by Mohamed Aboubacar Sylla (known as Mohammed Askia) – the Tomb of Askia.
Another feature of Mali's cultural heritage worth mentioning is the Hediab, a collection of thousands of manuscripts, theological and scientific treaties dating back as far as the pre-Islamic era and written in Arabic or the Peul language. These are usually kept at the Institut des Hautes Études et de Recherches Islamiques Ahmed Baba, but Malian officials say that most of these manuscripts have now been relocated to a safer area.
The previous list is not meant to be exhaustive but instead aims at highlighting some of the key heritage features of the country. Since the late 1980s, UNESCO has submitted four cultural sites to its World Heritage List:
- The Old Town of Djenné in 1988, with its 2000 traditional toguere-built houses.
- The City of Timbuktu in 1988, covering the three main mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, as well as 16 cemeteries and mausoleums, considered as "essential elements in a religious system as, according to popular belief; they constitute a rampart that shields the city from all misfortune. "
- The Tomb of Askia in 2004.
- The Cliff of Bandiagara, a mixed natural and cultural landscape, in 1989.
Furthermore, nine other locations of great importance have now been submitted to the World Heritage List, a move that acknowledges and protects more than 2,000 years of history as recent geopolitical developments are endangering the unique culture of the Malian Heritage.
The Political Situation and Main Players Involved in the Conflict
Earlier this week, the UNESCO World Heritage Collection (WHC) put the city of Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia, Mali, on the list of World Heritage in Danger. The original request was conducted by the Malian government following a series of insurrections that took place in the northern part of the country and ultimately led to the establishment of an unrecognised Islamist State in the region of Azawad.
Since the times of French colonization, people in the northern part of Mali, the majority made up of Tuareg and Arabic populations, expressed their desire for an independent state as they considered themselves more oriented towards a sub-Saharan culture. The current events that have taken place since the start of 2012 represent the most recent development in a series of uprisings commencing as far back as the beginning of the 20th century. At the start of 2012, President Amadou Toumani Touré was heavily criticized for his handling of the crisis in northern Mali. Indeed, after the fall of the Libyan official army, for which many Tuaregs and members of the future National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) were fighting, the unrest in northern Mali was reignited by a series of declarations and armed actions taken by the MNLA and an Islamist movement known as Ansar Dine (or Ançar Dine) against several cities of the region. In March, President Touré was ousted by a coup led by several groups in the military. The transitory council, presided by Amadou Sagono, suspended the constitution and aimed to restructure the territorial integrity of the Malian Sate. However, in April, the MNLA unilaterally proclaimed the independence of the state of Azawad. It is not yet recognized by any other states. In May, the MNLA officially announced its merging with the Salafist group Ansar Dine to create the Conseil Transitoire de l'État Islamique d'Azawad. It is important to keep in mind that despite some allegations by the Malian government, the MNLA denies any connection with Al Qaeda and aims at the restoration of a laic republic in Azawad. On the other hand, Ansar Dine, led by Iyad Ag Ghali, aims at the application of Sharia law throughout the state of Mali, and has been suggested as a potential ally of the Al Qaida au Maghreb Islamique (AQMI) movement. These divergences, along with others, have led to the dissolution of their previous agreement. After several clashes between the two groups, Ansar Dine declared full control of the North of Mali.
Today, the conflict involves three groups: the elected government, still led by the council of transition, presided by Amadou Sagono; the Salafist group of Ansar Dine and the MNLA, currently led by the president of the Executive Committee of the State of Azawad, Mahmoud Ag Aghaly. The situation is currently unstable and no international actions have been taken so far. However, the worsening of the humanitarian situation in northern Mali, as shown by UNICEF Anthony Lake's declaration mentioning in this area the spread of rapes and recruitment of child soldiers, calls for a rapid decision from the international community.
Damages to Cultural Heritage in Mali
Damages to the cultural heritage of Mali started before the attacks carried out against the mausoleums of Timbuktu. As early as April this year, the offices of the Hediab were ransacked several times, although no damages to the manuscripts have been reported. Reports also mentioned the damages done in late April to a mausoleum of the 16th century Sufi Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar by Ansar Dine, including "breaking windows, [and] burning the cloth surrounding the tomb of the saint." On June 2nd, the New York Times reported the destruction of possibly another saint shrine, although no further information was available.[floatLeftItem][/floatLeftItem]Concerned by these developments, UNESCO issued a decision on June 28th aiming to put Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Two days later and possibly as a reaction to this decision, the destruction of the mausoleums were reported in some newspapers. Sanda Ould Boumama, Ansar Dine's spokesman, let the media know that the goal of his organization was to get rid of all the mausoleums in the city without any exception. The purpose of this is to install Sharia Islamic law across Mali. Let us here recall the Salafist group's version of Islam, who believe that God is unique and who forbid the very existence of saints, and a fortiori their representation. On Saturday 30th, several press agencies received the confirmation of the destruction of three mausoleums: the Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi Moctar and Alpha Moya. Le Monde reported the destruction of seven mausoleums in total, adding Cheikh el-Kébir to the list, a site located on the grounds of Djingareyber. The Agence France-Presse notes:
"Islamist rebels in northern Mali took hoes and chisels to the tombs of ancient Muslim saints in the city of Timbuktu for a second day, ignoring international pleas to halt their campaign of destruction. A local journalist said dozens of Islamists had swarmed the cemetery of Djingareyber in the south of the ancient city of Timbuktu."
The Independent quotes Aboubacrine Cissé, a local resident,
"This morning, the Islamists continued breaking the mausoleums. This is our patrimony, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. They are continuing to destroy all the tombs of all the saints of Timbuktu, and our city counts 333 saints."
It has now been a few weeks since the destruction of the mausoleums started, and an eighth building has possibly been destroyed. In addition to these irrecoverable damages, the dispersion of historical manuscripts as well as artifacts might "become the object of looting and trafficking for profit" in the turmoil. Additionally, the location of other precious cultural sites in the region now controlled by the Salafist group, whether they are on the World Heritage List, such as the Tomb of Askia in Gao, or not, should be a cause for concern for countries around the world.
What Is Currently Being Done?
Beyond the destruction carried out against cultural heritage sites, a broader control issue has arisen by the current geopolitical situation in northern Mali. West Africa called for an intervention supported by the UN Security council in order to regulate the situation in this area and take action against the armed forces controlling the North of the country. The Economic Community of West African States (ECWAS) is favouring negotiation while planning on sending 3,300 men into the country, although needing international support to legitimize this action. The UN, African Union and European Union are however requesting more details about the ECWAS' plan of action. More recently, the UN Security Council called for sanctions against the individuals related to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali and asked the rebel groups in this area not to associate themselves with AQMI.
In terms of cultural heritage, the Malian Minister of Arts, Tourism and Culture, Diallo Fadima, is asking the UN to take concrete measures to stop the destruction of Mali's patrimony. Fatou Bensouda, procurer for the International Criminal Court, declared on Sunday 1st July in Dakar that destruction of these mosques and madrasas was considered a "war crime" and exhorted the groups involved to stop their actions immediately. On Tuesday 3rd, in St Petersburg, UNESCO and Diallo Fadima produced an appeal to governments and "all people of goodwill" to prevent the destruction of these monuments. The World Heritage Committee is, on the other hand, asking the UNESCO President, Irina Bokova, to create a special fund "to help Mali preserve its cultural patrimony from attacks" with financial aid from UNESCO members and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
CONCLUSION – Why Should We Care?
Reuters recalls how these attacks have been inline with other events throughout the Arab world for the past few years, as, for example, the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyian in Afghanistan in 2001. However, a new line was crossed this year when attacks started being focused directly at symbols of Islam. Reuters mentions that "experts are comparing the Timbuktu tomb destructions to similar attacks against Sufi shrines by hard-line Salafists in Egypt and Libya." If there is indeed a history of unrest between the different Islamic groups, this type of behaviour seems like a new phenomenon. As mentioned earlier in this article, Salafists are defending their own version of Islam, defining legal systems based on the Sharia, and imposing iconoclasm throughout their territories. From this perspective the Sufi Shrines of the "333 saints" of Timbuktu have to disappear to make space for a "purer Islam."
There is here a dangerous desire to standardize and homogenize Islam throughout the world by the destruction of its unorthodox (again from these groups' perspective) cultural components. Therefore, beyond the protection of these monuments, it is freedom of religion, of cultural expression, of consciousness that has to be defended. It is also the right of self-determination, to the free construction of one's own identity and the safeguard of a people's memory that is here at stake.
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I'm going out on a limb here and say that the majority of you have a bottle of mustard, a can of cooking spray, a stick of butter, or some other food item in your kitchen that you did not purchase. No need to bother with FBI profiling, exhaustive research or statistical analysis. We all know it's true.
You did not pay for that jar of Spanish olives or that bag of frozen meatballs, did you? Now don't get your cammo undies in a bunch here, I'm not accusing you of being a thief. To the contrary, I'm merely pointing out what's unique about us military spouses.
Unlike most in the civilian world, we military spouses are accustomed to people coming and going in our lives. Deployments, PCSes, and frequent change are part and parcel of our military lifestyles.
And every time your neighbor or best friend PCSes, she bestows to you memories of afternoons chatting on the patio during deployments, of the times she took care of your dog when you visited your parents, of the night you brought her wine and Dove Bars because she was crying over her husband's new orders.
Finally, she bequeathed something that will last for months to come: that bottle of cocktail sauce she had in the pantry.
You really don't need her half-used tub of margarine, but after all the support and friendship you gave each other, this was her final act of friendship. She gave these things to you because that's what we do in the military. We support each other because we share a common experience and understanding.
So, every time you see that bottle of French dressing on your refrigerator door that no one in your family likes, you will remember that being a military spouse is about giving.
Give strength, community, camaraderie, and that is exactly what you will get back. Well, that, and a half bottle of ketchup.
Sure, the monthly potluck dinners can be a real bore. Yes, watching your friend's kids while she goes to her prenatal appointments can be a real pain. No doubt, getting another phone call from a worried squadron wife right in the middle of the Survivor finale can be really annoying.
But think of it like this – The bottle of balsamic vinegar your fellow military spouse left you only cost about $3.75. The gas you spent dropping her family off at the airport set you back at least $7.50. However, the common understanding and support she offered you when you were in need was priceless.
Give and you shall receive.
Read the PDF version here: October Column.
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Intuitive Surgical Earnings Fall as Robot Demand Softens
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Intuitive Surgical Inc. forecast that sales of its da Vinci surgical robots would show a decline of 59% for the first quarter, citing weaker demand for some of the minimally invasive procedures performed with the devices.
Intuitive Surgical, which is expected to report earnings April 22, has struggled over the past year as doctors took a more conservative approach toward performing some minimally invasive procedures. Concerns about...


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I Will ListenAnd I will do my best to talk to you. Promise
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I'm here 4 you if you need me too!
Even the greatest listeners or counselors need someone to talk to from time to time. Even if the person on the other end doesn't say or do something that will alleviate the problem, having someone there to listen to you definitely takes off some of the weight of worry and thoughts.
Only say you will listen and help if you're willing to listen and help everyone. Don't say it if you're one of those people who say they will but then don't.
I'm not saying you are, I'm just letting you know.


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I bought fabric for curtains today and the care of it said it might crock, which means it can rub off on other items. if I spray it with Scotchgard, will this prevent this. The fabric is cotton and said to dry clean only.
I don't know the answer to this one. Don't think I have ever seen this before.
Vinton, Virginia
Is there a way to contact the manufacturer of the fabric to ask them?
The only other thing I can think of is to ask either a Dry Cleaner or ask a local Quilting shop. They may have dealt with this before. Putting something on the fabric could discolor it.
If you know the name of the manufacturer of the fabric, I would contact them.
Thank you for your suggestions. I had not thought to call the manufacture, but I did and they were no help. They told me to call Jo Ann's, so I did that . The girl there offered suggestions, like to take a sample of the fabric and put the water protector on it and then ask a dry cleaners to see if the dye will run.
I did write to a cleaners and they said that the water protector will not protect it from " crocking"..I will say, I don't like that word. Can't they call it something else?
Thanks for the help here. I will enjoy the drapes for as long as I can when they get made and just hope that they will get cared for later.
That is so strange...never heard of a cotton that had to be dry cleaned. Strange indeed.
Very interesting. This seems to happen to over dyed fabrics. It is just the bleeding of color. Wash in cold water with a dye catcher. Don't wash with anything else. See this link. It has a pop up for an iPad app (if you use an iPad) but just click no and it goes right to the thread about cotton crocking. Interesting!
aka Grandma Sunshine
Oops, forgot the link. http://artisanssquare.com/sg/index.php?topic=12012.0
That a crock! :)


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SOA didn't fix my clutch-shudder problem!
#151 Guest_rtp373_*
Posted 14 May 2003 - 08:35 PM
Maybe I should start a new thread with the direct question.
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#153 Guest_gucu_*
Posted 15 May 2003 - 10:02 AM
#154 Guest_Breaddrink_*
Posted 15 May 2003 - 11:00 AM
If I understand correctly it's the surge forwards and back that you get when the clutch is bouncing around? Correct?
#155 Guest_rtp373_*
Posted 16 May 2003 - 10:22 AM
Normally, when you let the clutch out, let's say at a stop sign, there's a soft, smooth acceleration forward.
When the shudder (or choose one above) occurs, the car will shake because the clutch is grabbing hard/slipping cyclically until it's all the way out. NOT smooth and some people have stalled or lunged forward unintentionally when it's really bad.
So far it's been the worst on cold, damp or humid days, but some people have complained under desert conditions.
Just scroll back thru the messages on this thread and you shall possess the knowledge.
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Posted 19 May 2003 - 04:23 PM
After a month of driving after getting the clutch serviced under the TSB, no problems
The judder always appeared in the morning when the weather was cold, but now it is no longer.
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Posted 19 May 2003 - 05:45 PM
I went to the TSB site and it would not let me see the Impreza TSB
I would appreciate it if somebody could post it.
#158 Guest_ferret_*
Posted 19 May 2003 - 06:20 PM
#159 Guest_Skip_*
Posted 22 May 2003 - 04:19 PM
Am I the only one having this problem.
Maybe somebody could email me the .jpg of it?
Is that the America TSB or the OZ version?
I am in the good ol U.S. of A.
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Posted 22 May 2003 - 04:34 PM
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#162 Guest_Stubaru_*
Posted 31 May 2003 - 02:24 PM
The car seems to be much better now, and I'll see if it holds up.
#163 Guest_bannergraphics_*
Posted 18 June 2003 - 06:40 AM
They replaced my clutch once. When the problem came back about 3K miles later I reported it to the dealer. They said Subaru had stopped fixing it but that I should continue to report the problem. I have reported it the problem faithfuly about every 10K miles driven. After the fix was posted here I called my dealer. They said they'd also received word about the fix from Subaru the previous week. However, both Subaru and my dealer said the car was now out of warranty and it wasn't their problem any more.
What a scam. This is awful public relations, terrible customer service and pathetic engineering. Anyone who wants all wheel drive should buy something else.
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Posted 18 June 2003 - 03:32 PM
do you have dealer receipts showing your previous complaints from inside the warranty period? If you do, then the dealer should honor the complaint. Not sure if it's a law or not, but typically that's the game.
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Ashtray Electric New Album Measured in Falls Drops in June With National Tour
Ashtray Electric`s new album Measured in Falls will be released in June 2011. The new album will be launched with a nationwide tour in June/July, kicking off at The Assembly in Cape Town on Saturday 11 June.
Produced by Daryl Torr (the same man behind our favourite local album of last year, The Sick-Leaves' Last Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies) Measured in Falls introduces a musical progression for the band. The new tracks (11 in all) are promised to be "warm, luscious, and extraordinary". The album will also include their popular single "Release" (with Gazelle) as a bonus track. "Release" enjoyed high rotation on 5fm and national campus radio stations, and the video reached number 1 on the MK Video Charts.
Ashtray Electric first gallivanted onto the South African music scene three years ago with their debut album Bonjour receiving solid reviews from fans and media alike. Music journalist Atiyyah Khan commented at the time that "Ashtray Electric is in fashion. They most certainly ignite something electric on stage."
Lyrically the new songs touch on the concept of truth and deception and the tools such as manipulation that come along with it. Says lead singer André Pienaar "With growing up, these are our closest everyday concepts that we deal with that define who we become or want to be."
Baptized in angst by the creatures in my head, I'll be honest this time. I swear.
– from "Angst"
Because when direction's never chosen, it's just what fear tends to suggest. Then I'll get it wrong with pleasure. I'm entitled to guess.
– from "Over and Over"
You kissed your own wetness now you've turned.
– from "Dear"
The album packaging promises an interesting approach as well. The cover shot features an image of the actual DNA strands of the four band members. Each band member had the inside of their cheeks swabbed and the DNA samples were then cut using a cocktail of enzymes and run in separate lanes on a Electrophoresis Gel giving rise to the 4 smears witnessed on the image. The broken bands in the 5th lane is a simple molecular weight marker.
The band (André Pienaar on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Rudi Cronjé on lead guitar and backing vocals, Regardt Nel on bass and backing vocals, and his brother Rupert Nel on drums) will launch the new album at a limited presale event at The Assembly in Cape Town on Saturday 11 June. A nine date mini- tour will follow in July to help promote the album. Measured in Falls will be available in both CD and Digital Download formats from then on as well.
Album Launch
Limited edition presale R40.00 tickets available at www.webtickets.co.za or R50.00 at door
Friday, 15 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Friday, 22 July 2011
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
Saturday, 30 July 2011
[pullquote]Measured in Falls is a dictation of fears, trusts and other internal questions, but more importantly, as its name suggests, it tries to bring across the message that we all fuck up. It's okay. You can always get up, go on, and fall again.[/pullquote]Find out more about Ashtray Electric:
- Facebook: AshtrayElectric
- Twitter: @AshtrayElectric
- Website: www.ashtrayelectric.co.za
- Music Downloads: Rhythm Music Store


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Fashion Week Notebook | Phi
February 13th, 2006
Photo Credit: NY Metro
Key Takeaways: Phi has taken the shoulder pad to a whole new level. Instead of sitting straight on the shoulder like most of them do, this collection's exaggerated shoulders make the model's sporting the blazers and coats look as if they are shrugging their shoulders. Alongside the black, Phi has fused patterns that are busy yet serious.
Color Palette: Mostly black, with white, green, and purple patterns.
Silhouettes: We see more knee-length flowy dresses than we do trousers. Although the dresses are loose, they give more of a night vibe with their puffy sleeves and collars.
Accessories Report: Black lace-up boots paired with dresses mean business. A black leather handbag held from the bulky strap is simple but has a strong presence.
What's Wearable: The exaggerated shoulder may be dissonant to the ears of those who despise shoulder pads, but this look is very subtle and can be worn on fancy occasions. The black trousers are comfortable and loose: perfect for work. A black knee-length coat with white trimming and large buttons is also suitable for work and going out.
What's Not Wearable: Some of the asymmetrical patterns and matronly silhouettes are too loud for the streets. Some look like they belong on "A Little House on the Prairie" cast members. One royal purple skirt suit might even be too conservative for a nun.
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Washington State quarterback Marshall Lobbestael has been suspended from the team after being arrested for minor in possession Saturday morning in Pullman.
Lobbestael, who is 19, was found by police officers passed out in the cab of a truck parked outside the police station and arrested.
The Oak Harbor product played in five games in 2008, leading the team in passing efficiency going 53 for 103 with four touchdowns and four interceptions before tearing ligaments in his left knee in an Oct. 11 game against Oregon State.
He was on schedule to be healthy for camp in August and figured to be the frontrunner in a battle with senior-to-be Kevin Lopina for the starting role as just a sophomore.
Here is another story — this one from the Daily Evergreen — on Lobbestael's arrest.
A source close to Lobbestael told me the girl he was first seen carrying was his girlfriend, and that Lobbestael did not drive the truck to the police station, where he was waiting for the girl.
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* Some coaching updates throughout the Pac-10:
— Former UW defensive coordinator Tim Hundley is reconnecting with Rick Neuheisel. He accepted the secondary position at UCLA.
— Cal's Jeff Tedford hired Andy Ludwig from Kansas State. Ludwig actually replaced Tedford as Oregon's offensive coordinator when Tedford was hired as Cal's head coach.
— Another Texas Tech assistant is joining former Red Raider offensive coordinator Sonny Dykes on the Arizona Wildcats' staff.
* Ted Miller has a nice look at the stars-in-waiting in the Pac-10.


text: In article <1991Feb15.000728.26425 at bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, gilbertd at cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes: >Just some 2 cents on the subject of newsreaders for VMS. I missed the >original post. We have ANU-NEWs (an old version) running on Iubio. >We get an NNTP feed{from a local Unix newsbox, and need to store only >bionet groups as read. (note: the following only applies to VAX/VMS sites) Just to prove that Indiana U. and Purdue U. never agree on anything :-) ... We use the NEWSRDR nntp client news reading software to read news that is stored on a UNIX computer. The software is very good, reliable, small, fast, supported and, IMHO, much better than the ANU-NEWS software (which I tried out a couple of years ago). NEWSRDR is available via anonymous FTP from: vms.ecs.rpi.edu While I'm at it, I also recommend the MX mailing software from the same place. I like it a lot better the PMDF. -- Rick Rick Westerman System Manager of the AIDS Center Laboratory westerm at aclcb.purdue.edu for Computational Biochemistry (ACLCB), BCHM (317) 494-0505 bldg., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907 Is Superman solar-powered?


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The Friends of The Hills Library will hold their annual book sale on Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24, at Castle Hill Community Centre with hundreds of used books for sale. Cash only.
Funds raised will buy resources for all five libraries at The Hills.
The sale is on Friday, from 5pm to 8pm, and on Saturday, from 10am to 3pm, in the Pioneer Room, level 1, at the corner of Castle and Pennant streets at Castle Hill.
Details: 9761 4510.