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That magnificent cake in Bon Appetit's cover stared at me as I was getting ready to pay my groceries. My heart sank. This was a challenge I could not resist. It took me a while to find strong justification to bake that cake: a dear friend is leaving for a five-month out-of-the-country adventure, my husband's dear friend recently got married and I wanted to introduce her to my circle, and we haven't had tea party for a while (which I have promised ES since last year's World Cup!). So, I began the three-day adventure in making this cake:
I baked the cake on Wednesday evening, made the buttercream and spread it on the cake Thursday evening, and did the ganache glace and ribbon on Friday several hours before the tea party. I've learned from my opera cake adventure that it is wise to spread the gargantuan task over several days to keep one's sanity and to prevent making rushed decision that may ruin the cake when fatigue descents.
The cake was the highlight for the tea party, but other things that we made were also turned out really good. A friend bought a bowl of salad with intriguing mixed of texture (crunchy, velvety, crackling). A and I made a sandwich from whatever we have in the fridge (Lebne, cranberry chutney C's friend gave her as a Fall-season gift and which she shared with a number of us, shaved parmesan and thinly-sliced cucumber), and a last-minute orange-cardamom scones from Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" book (375F is a better temp than his recommended 450F). L brought creme fraiche and mascarpone for the scone (BBowl no longer stock Devonshire Cream. BAD DECISION, BBOWL!! :), E brought raspberry jam to go with it. We had Twining Earl Grey and Lady Grey that C's husband brought as a gift from his recent trip to the UK (US version is too weak to my taste.... And I am not going to be apologetic about my Earl Grey snob... ;)), and for the last round of tea, we had Orange Rooiboos from Simon Levelt in Leiden.
Salad by F:
The tea spread out:
The cake, sliced:
Additional notes for the cake making:
1. For the cake, I used only 1.3 cups of sugar instead of 2 suggested.
2. I did not use Bon Appetit's glaze recipe. Instead I used suggested ganache recipe and step-by-step process from Joepastry's blog: 12oz chocolate chip, 12 oz of cream, 2 TB honey, 3/4 ts instant coffee (per BA's ingredients)
3. I followed the step-by-step chocolate tempering from About.com, and then continue with Joepastry's procedure (it calls for "room-temperature tempered chocolate").
4. I also follow Joepastry's procedure for making buttercream: sugar and corn syrup needs to boil to 250F (instead of BA's less exact 1 minute boil).
5. For the ribbon, BA's direction is pretty clear. I was able to do everything with rolling pin and a help of a plastic ruler :):
6. If I ever have a Kitchenaid Stand Up mixer (the current one is loaned by dear B), I will get a second bowl to ease switching between batter.
7. I find out that I like spongy layered cake better than dense cake like this torte. My favorite so far is still Opera Cake with joconda/gioconda as its base. My next adventure will probably revolves around joconda-base or genoise-base cake. What with the loaned Kitchenaid, I don't need to train my biceps muscle using my old (but surprisingly reliable) hamilton beach hand mixer to beat the egg whites. Heh heh.. :).
It was a marvelous adventure. I am grateful for friends who were there for the party. The hikma (wisdom) for this occasion: One need a regular heartwarming tea party to recharge in order to face the bittersweet world out there.
29 January 2011
26 January 2011
Carrot muffin with Nutella frosting
Georgia told me last night about the post over at Smitten Kitchen for a peanut-chocolate Nutella-inspired spread: peanutella! So today I took a peek at the wonderful blog and OMG! Oh it looks soooo good and got me immediately searching the pantry for my bottle of Nutella. I was so happy that I had a bottle--in goes a spoon--hmmm hmm. I wanted to spread it on bread too (just like the Smitten Kitchen's post) but I finished all the homemade bread yesterday..... but I did have some carrot muffins that I baked last night.... hmmm carrot muffins and nutella? Could this work? Of course, anything slathered with Nutella has a high probability of being yummy, but it was superbly yummy! The Nutella did not mask the spicy muffin (as I had expected) but complemented it well. For the muffins, I used Ina Garten's carrot cupcake recipe cut in half (and added 1/2 tsp powdered ginger and zest of half a lemon).
16 January 2011
Skillet pizza
Sunset magazine has really simple and delicious recipes. I baked a broccoli bell pepper pizza twice after the Broccoli rabe skillet pizza.
All you need is dough (I used frozen), broccoli or broccoli rabe and your favorite type of bell pepper, red pepper flakes, and mozzarella. Prepare the dough in the skillet, remove and prepare your vegetables, remove and return the dough the skillet, then add your cooked vegetables and pizza. Bakes for about 15 minutes. Enjoy! The original recipe can be found here.
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06 January 2011
Vegetarian laksa
I prepared laksa tonight and it was a hit. Spouse and baby liked the soup. The soup was restorative for me; I have a cough.
The original Chicken laksa recipe is from Sunset magazine (Jan. 2011). I took some liberties with the recipe in terms of ingredients and measurements, largely cooking a non-meat and non-fish soup. I could only find lite coconut milk at the grocery store so the broth was a bit thin. Whole Foods shoppers in the neighborhood must have read the same recipe! I used bean noodles instead of rice, red pepper flakes instead of dried arbol chiles, and Sri Lankan flavored salt instead of kosher salt. Also, I used a yellow onion not shallots and added a clove of garlic (minced) where none was called for.
Here are my before and after photos.
The original Chicken laksa recipe is from Sunset magazine (Jan. 2011). I took some liberties with the recipe in terms of ingredients and measurements, largely cooking a non-meat and non-fish soup. I could only find lite coconut milk at the grocery store so the broth was a bit thin. Whole Foods shoppers in the neighborhood must have read the same recipe! I used bean noodles instead of rice, red pepper flakes instead of dried arbol chiles, and Sri Lankan flavored salt instead of kosher salt. Also, I used a yellow onion not shallots and added a clove of garlic (minced) where none was called for.
Here are my before and after photos.
Prepared by Anonymous
04 January 2011
French Laundry Lemon Tart
My favorite lemon tart recipe is this one from Epicurious.com: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Lemon-Tart-231349. I have made it many times now and can attest it is smackelicious! Making the sabayon may seem intimidating but it is really easy, just takes some patience (and faith) waiting for it to thickened up. I highly recommend some berries on top (blueberries are best, raspberries are good too) and and oh, a side of homemade whipped cream won't be awful either. Bon Appétit!
03 January 2011
Chicken Bao
|Image from Amazon.com (source)
In our recent travel to Hong Kong we had the rare opportunity to try halal Hong Kong Dim Sum in Masjid Ammar. I was smitten..... I suddenly had the urge to master all the popular Dim Sum selection I could lay my hands on, like Chicken Bun, Har Gao, Tofu sheet dim sum, glutinous rice in lotus leaves, different kinds of shiu mai.... Upon arriving back to CA, I razed our local library and found several books on dim sum, and after several tests, my favorite one is Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's. I had the mistake of doubting her bao recipe to my detriment.
My obsession with chicken bao led me to try several recipes for the bun, including one from Yin-Fei Lo's and another from Rasa Malaysia blog. I decided I prefer the Cantonese style by Yin-Fei Lo's that relies only on baking powder to rise the dough than the other style that requires some yeast. The Cantonese style resulted in very soft, cake-like bun, while the other turned more chewy. And they say one of the secret of soft bao is to use a mixture of all purpose and cake flour.
|Here's my bao
|Here's my bao, too
|and here is my Har Gao
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At lunch quite a few of us noticed a big bird on a branch over Athens Creek. I rushed home and caught him on camera. He is either a Sharp Shinned or Cooper's Hawk, and was waiting for a pigeon to be served for his lunch. It is next to impossible to sort out the difference between the two as they are virtually identical, but the former is more likely as the Cooper is probably enjoying his winter holidays further South in the central USA by now.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90657786081613545052018-05-29T00:41:20.228-07:00GOTTLIEB'S NEW MEDIA 연구소Theory and practice of New Media, particularly enquiry in to the 'creative'/'expressive' implementations in public space online and offlinegottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-4258830060391213942009-08-04T04:27:00.000-07:002009-08-04T04:30:43.850-07:00partial migrationHi folks!
Since I am trying to consolidate many of my disparate activities around the distribution of my new book, I started a new blog here:
http://gratfortech.blogspot.com/
where I will be spending most of my blogging hours until further notice!
see you there!gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-73701924353975287952008-12-03T11:11:00.001-08:002008-12-03T11:15:50.662-08:00LHC : Large Hungron Combinderever wondered where pizza came from?

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flatness study : achim at Sangsang Madang, Seoul, Korea
October 18th- November 2nd, 2008

Many of us are frustrated with the paucity of depth of the media simulacra. 3-d computer animation has become an extremely effective and popular means of avoiding this problem.

Much of our most vital information today, however, comes to us in the form of photographic and videographic documents. Compared to computer-generated ones, these documents are far more ungainly to work with in attempts to engender a more dimensional documentary media work.

The documents are ungainly with the richness of information about the world they contain, thus the question of resolution includes the question of discoursive priorities.

The question of the point of view of the documentary gaze, of course has been much discussed.

Photo- videographic documents represent a view through a lens, light reflecting off the subject and into the receptor near the documentarist.

We get a slice of life, light-thin and glowing. What it lacks in depth, me make up for with our imagination, this is the double bind of today's media.

McLuhan's cool media is lacking a lot of detail and thus allows us to be more active making up for the missing part. This is the fascination and the frustration with new media.

In Flatness Studies I am trying to warm up cool media by presenting a video document, almost a portrait of a person in a moment of their life, but from several vantage points at once.

In a way, the process hearkens back to the early days of photography where the subject had to remain still for a long time.

The young man in this portrait is about to join the army to do his compulsory service. I asked him what he feared and hoped most will have changed in him once he has completed his service.

Here, making the most of the capacity of video to give at least the depth of time, the moment of portraiture can be expanded. In the case of this work, the moment is between 4/5ths of a second and 6 seconds.

The result is a kind of sculptural modeling of the long moment using flat media. The interesting thing for me is the 'déclenche' (what is released) as the temporal fact of each particular document begins to meld, since, of course each vantage point of the 'same' expression must have taken place at a different historical time. We have an insight into the nature of the most important activity for the creation of meaning in the age of information overflow, that of editing.

In 2009, I was invited to Banff New Media Institute to further develop the Flatness Studies series into the 4-D Photo Studio.

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for the last month and a half I have been busy with this:
http://www.sfxseoul.org
http://blog.naver.com/sfxseoul
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/08/148_29672.html

I'll be back to blog here soongottliebhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-51282499859412469462008-06-14T21:45:00.000-07:002015-06-23T08:22:32.461-07:00The Obsolescence of the FleshThe Obsolescence of the Flesh, part 1
The Flattening of the World
By Baruch Gottlieb

"Only open wide your eyes, only disregard what you cannot understand, and you will see that the ploughman whose intelligence and ideas extend no further than the bounds of his furrow, does not differ essentially from the greatest genius."(1)

At issue is the tissue of digital media, it's materiality, it's substance.

The contemporary citizen of the media-sphere, a-swath in information of every kind, may experience a depletion of meaning with the increasing ease of access to an ever-wider array of contents of various types. Do these contents individually somehow thus lose meaning? And, if so, how does the experience of the world lose meaning as a result of technological saturation? I will attempt to approach these questions in the lines that follow. My aim is, furthermore, to suggest a radical approach to counter this trend, a simple intellectual exercise which, when practiced, may reveal unexpectedly vast mines of meaning hidden in the surfaces of the technologies right before our eyes.

The explosive creative potential of digital media comes with homogeneity. This homogeneity begins with a flattening. Just as photographic printing allowed for Dada collages of all kinds of heretofore incongruous imagery with text breaking down the hegemonies of established meaning and cracking open the white light of pure electrical expression. All the things of world, flattened photographically into print, became interchangeable, and thus infinitely juxtaposable, at once unleashing enormous creative potential , and destabilizing old systems of meaning. Flattening meant equally, that the high-budget glamour shot of famous actresses could be on the same page as the humble writing of an unknown poet, Mainstream culture was appropriated into art through collage long before Warhol made it central.

With this leveling of content, this flattening, however, no new meanings were created, in fact, artistic discourse became polarized between a conservativism which relies on creating luxury products for collectors and, a new form of pure art which valued the un-commodified gesture of the artist, above all. Fluxus, the anti-art-capital-art movement par excellence, fittingly embodies this dilemma...

George Maciunas and his amorphous 'group' explored a new form of interventionist social experimentation, they called art. Fluxus works were purposely incomplete, and often made up of conflicting and incongruous contents. The agenda was the liberation of the creative and emancipatory potential of the mundane.

With digital technology we achieve the next stage of homogenization of contents. Now, not only images and text, but also sounds and moving images, in fact computer records of any kind, credit, medical travel, are interchangeably made of the same stuff, the homogeneous atoms of electronic information known as 'bits'. As such, they can be treated with refreshing equanimity by the computers we need to view digital content.

The equanimity of computers wears off on us. The computer does not know the difference between a photo of a pile of human corpses and a recipe for cheesecake, or the recording of a baby's first words. The creative potential of the digital revolution of flattening is even more exponential that that of simple physical flattening. It is claimed the possibilities are literally endless.

One thing we can say for sure, with seemingly endless possibilities it becomes ever more difficult to make a choice. Meaning always involves a choice, of priorities, one thing must be more important than another, for there to be meaning.

Lets look at the materiality of an item of digital media. We can trace it back in two ways, it's direct empirical materiality and the materiality of its origin. Given that all digital contents are made of homogeneous bits, how did this particular smidgen of bits take the form of a photo or of a pop song, what is the historicity of this package of bits, this media item?

Following the direct empirical materiality we can only say that the media item has one fundamental ingredient: energy, or electricity. Electrical switches still provide the basis for all computation today. The switch is on or off, the dimensionality of digital media is one.

Human beings communicate today with increasing alacrity due to the flattening of representational forms. However, to make the process even more efficient, human beings are adapting to the machine circumstances of their intercourse and affecting a form of flattening on themselves. The satisfaction of social networking, for example, increases with the amount and the currency of the actual information one 'shares' with others using the service.

In order to 'share', one must translate one's gravity-bound three- (or multi-) dimensional humanity into digital forms, which are apparently two-dimensional and weightless on the display, and in fact part of the one-dimensional global ocean of digital media. The process of the 'flattening' of real-time human experience has begun. By all reports, they day is not far off where citizens will voluntarily implant themselves with digital technology in order to share with more spontaneity and versatility. This means, for humanity, three-dimensionality is acquiring nostalgia, as it acquires obsolescence.

The relationship between one-dimensional electrical data and the obsolescing human three-dimensionality is stands for is both cultural and physical.

The cultural relationship includes, of course, the economic value of the media contents, the meanings of which are largely allusion, like any language, an adaptable system of semantic prompts intended to motivate the subject the satisfaction of social needs i.e. Truth.

The homogeneity of digital media offers us a new lingua franca which is not only used for semantic contents but also as the apparatus of their conveyance. As Manovich described, program and contents are made of the same stuff, therefore instead of 2+2=4, in digital media the content and the 'functionality' is made of the same stuff , therefore, for the computer, 2=+, two equals plus.
"New media may look like media, but this is only the surface" (2)
With no differentiation between content and conveyance, we are bound to the implicit electrical agenda of our technology, which is to be explored through its materiality.

"Perhaps for the first time in Western Culture, we find revealed the absolutely open dimension of a language no longer able to halt itself, because, never being enclosed in a definitive statement, it can express truth only in some future discourse" (3)

One might argue whether it is the bit of electrical current or of monetary currency which has become the true lingua franca of today's quest for truth. One may postulate that money represents the fading sign of mass in flattening human relations.

The physical relationship between one-dimensional digital media and the human organism comes from their shared electrical functionality. It is long known that the 'high functions' of the human organism employ electricity inside the body, first intimated by Descartes and de la Mettrie, and finally formalized by JW Ritter(4) . Now we can begin to see how the destiny of the human organism is to increasingly shed its cumbersome physical form and merge electrically with the unceasing data flows of augmented post-human intercourse.

In the second part of this article I will discuss in detail the material historicity (the materiality of the origin) of the digital media object and explore a strategy to establish a useful paradigm of cultural meaning in the circumstance of humanity merging with it's data in a one-dimensional ur-reality.

(1) de La Mettrie, Julien Offray, Man a Machine, 1748 (trans. CM Shalizi 1995), http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/LaMettrie/Machine/, accessed 15-06-2008
(2) Manovich, Lev "Language of New Media" MIT Press Cambridge 2001 (p. 47)
(3) Foucault, Jacques "The Order of Things" Routledge, London, 2007, p.45
(4) Ritter, J. W.: Das electrische System der Körper. Ein Versuch. Leipzig: Reclam 1805 (review in Allgemeine Literatur-zeitung No. 31 Jan. 29 1808)

The Obsolescence of the Flesh, Part 2
The Historical-Material Facts of the Origin of the Digital Document
by Baruch Gottlieb

In the first part of this article I mentioned two approaches towards describing a materiality of the digital media item. First, I described the 'direct' materiality, which is essentially electric. The second materiality is historical.

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I am preparing to publish this in book form, so, for the time being, I have taken the second part off line. If you want to read it, please contact me through this site.

gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-92017144757439189922008-01-31T18:19:00.000-08:002008-01-31T18:38:56.835-08:00images from Habeas Corpus
I finally got some images from the Seoul Marginal Theater Festival people of the live version of Habeas Corpus. Habeas Corpus enterprises a 'syntax of human form' which, derived in part from dance and mime, in an encyclopedic pretension to tell the human stories inside all the technologies we use every day.gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-46770710956906473312008-01-27T04:11:00.000-08:002008-01-27T05:17:59.220-08:00Revisiting the Moran Museum Show
The "5 colours, I" show is going on at Moran Museum until the end of March, so I thought I'd swing by and make sure everything is still working properly before I take off back home for a couple of weeks.

I took the opportunity to replace some of the video clips in the interactive display with some new ones I had been working on before the Songdo project jumped up and swallowed me last week.

New in these clips are musical sounds and more complex and delicate time layering. As I was working and reworking the same footage from the construction of the wall, I started to explore the limits of the documentary ability of the data. Without adding new material, how could I give more depth to the representation of labour in the 2-d of the display? The object , as before, was to represent the video emanation, it's luminescence in the Museum space, directly to the labour required for it to exist.

I tried a couple of things in the music, but mainly slowing sounds down until they became harmonic drones, which adds a nice 'choral' touch in the reverberant space.

Lots of students around, so I got to see them fiddling around doing a lot of shadow play trying to get the results they wanted from the rudimentary interface. It seems the best way to navigate the database in this work is to dance through projection space, that fits just right!gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-15204992585989310902008-01-01T01:44:00.000-08:002008-01-01T09:52:56.111-08:00Typing looks like thinking
So does writing, handwriting, maybe even more that typing, which may look like operating a machine, which does not necessarily involve any thinking.

I started thinking (or typing) on this theme today, after flipping through the comments section of the nth news item I read today, which was about the latest poll figures from Iowa . If you've been these 'comments' recently, you've probably noticed that they seem increasingly to be produced by people working for one or another of the candidates.

Many of these posters may be unpaid volunteers instructed at the campaign headquarters about how and what to post as part of their democracy-minded enthusiasm to get the candidate of their 'choice' elected. The result is that there are a lot of well-researched yet somewhat generic posts which need only have the minutest connection to the theme and tenor of the article they are 'commenting' on.

These msm comments sections have obviously become an integral forum for electioneering. What I wanted to comment on in my own space in my own blog (please feel free to comment below)is the veneer of independent and coherent thought that gives the comments in the comments section the merest credibility in the first place, which is, McLuhan would likely concur, all due to the uniformity of type.

Imagine, if you will, all this copy-and-pasting of statistics, names and references going on, if we had to do it by hand with original documents and scissors and glue. It would be pretty hard to get a credible-looking document together. The ferocious and desperate creativity which goes into the creation of these generic opinion-missives is invisible behind the uniform type of the css. As is the election machine, or lack of one, behind the poster's name.

ssssssoooooo ttttttthhhhhheeeeee uniform typeface which looks like thinking makes possible all manner of new subterfuge. No better and no worse that any old subterfuge. And more positively, it has a certain leveling effect, whereby, trained and backed electioneering (or otherwise campaigning) posters' subterfuge look pretty well the same as that of any individuals. (are there any still out there? and, why do you even bother? you know the only people who have anything substantial to say get ground out of the process early on.)

I guess people still post on their own initiative sometimes 'because they can', because the technology allows them to experience a certain leveling in the appearance of authority and cogency in the uniform typeface of the comments section. Andy Warhol celebrated the fact that the the Coca Cola I drink is the same Coca Cola the president drinks. Can we also see this 'democratic' (Warhol would say 'American') leveling in electronic repeatable type?gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-9477986802290271592007-12-25T04:51:00.001-08:002007-12-25T04:56:00.654-08:00gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-42940353445177293792007-11-29T08:23:00.001-08:002007-12-06T22:11:10.014-08:00red labour

I realised today as I was shooting with Kim Jooryeong and some red cellophane that my work for Moran Museum was looking vaguely Socialist-Realist. I always had a soft spot for those larger-than-life 'ordinary' people workers, mothers, etc. That's one thing old-school communism did well...sentimentalism.gottliebhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-27099781772699105312007-11-28T08:44:00.000-08:002007-11-28T09:21:17.287-08:00productivity inertia

I was touring around the net try find some adhesive red film of the type
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle used the foyer of his(her?) installation at documenta this year. It was amazing stuff, never have I actually felt anything like 'polarized' light before, although I'm not sure that's the correct word for the effect of the red-filtering. It was a blazingly sunny day outside.

 I am looking for the film for my own red-filtered daylight work, but my interest is more about the low end of the visible spectrum than the doomsday political cajolery engaged in Manglano-Ovalle's work.

As usual I am making a substantial inquiry into the meaning of technology in this new installation at the Moran Museum. Generally my thesis calls for more methodical and far-reaching examination of the human/social/material factors active in 'new media'. An enquiry into who made the actual pieces of technology I use to make media art is central. Tomorrow I will shoot the construction of a wall by two workers hired by the museum, I will use an actress to represent myself, but still, I can already anticipate the frisson of recognition when the three interlocutors are with me and my cameras in the room, the real intractable destiny of these people tied with mine only for the most whimsical of moments. And then? And then becomes "who they were before they met you" Then it becomes: they might easily have never met you.

Back to the search for the red film, first of all, I found that this film is no joke. It is a serious petro-chemical product created by one of the most violent industries in this world of peace. I visited some sites of local companies who produce similar films where the (necessarily) sterile production facilities are exposed, modern and standardized. I could almost hear the owner of the film factory telling me proudly about the growth of his company, how they are able to produce at international standard now after 30 years of desperate catching up.

Korea wants to be comfortable, petro-chemicals are a good way. Later in the day I was wandering through the Kyobo bookstore looking for some texts to tie the last loose ends of my thesis. There were hundreds of people milling around in the store, but nobody was getting phased. Contentment reigns....and it is nice.
 What? would I rather have all these people jostling and shoving each other for crumbs and gristle? No. This is peace. Peace is good. Peace is the only way. The price is incalculable. Is it even worth to begin the tally?gottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-79559119539011296782007-11-22T20:12:00.000-08:002007-11-28T09:22:03.277-08:00Moran Museum show
I am doing an installation for the Moran Museum in Gyeonggi-Do next weekgottliebhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065778608161354505.post-80118802910924560272007-11-15T23:39:00.000-08:002007-11-23T00:02:38.032-08:00test

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On the scenic drive on Jamestown Island, you cross several little tidal canals, like this, where crabs and other animals search the muddy banks for a bite to eat at low tide then rush to the protection of the tall grass as the water reclaims the passage.
February 19, 2013
Jamestown Island Canal, Williamsburg, Virginia
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- Pat Tillett said...
In addition to the historical aspect of the area, it is also in a very beautiful part of the country. Your photos really do show us that...
- February 21, 2013
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Waiting... Waiting... WAITING...
The last week has been the longest week EVER. It has been exactly one week since they put my 3 beautiful little embryos back in. We have 4 days left of waiting. It doesn't seem like very long... but it is an agonizing wait for me. 12 years all rolled into this little week and a half. So many scenarios are running through my mind. If it works and we have 2 babies just like we wanted... how excited will we be... or will we even believe it. If it doesn't work... who will I be? I've already decided to take that week off just in case. I know if it doesn't happen I will be a mess. I wish it were easy to see the signs either way. I wish I "felt" pregnant. But I still just feel bloated from all the drugs pumped into my body. I finally had my last progesterone shot last night. Thank goodness those are over. I did not enjoy them one bit. I had a little bit of cramping a few days ago... but that seems to be gone now too and I just feel FAT. At least I can finally button my pants again... but I was disappointed in myself on Tuesday while shooting my session. I was panting like a dog in heat. I could barely breathe. I think it's slowly going back to normal though. I just need some patience. Calm, relaxing, patience until Monday. But I/WE really want this. I think we deserve this. I know we do.
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i broke my clavicle and have been having extreme pain in my shoulder what would be the better pain reliever for this, generic soma, or butalbital
Should I take butalbital or soma for shoulder pain from a broken clavicle?
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Neither drug is for pain. Butalbital is a mild barbiturate used for severe tension and migraine headaches. Soma is a muscle relaxant. If the pain is from muscle spasms the Soma may give you some degree of pain relief but if the pain is due to the fracture itself, soma wont do much for you other than sedate you. You need to talk to your Dr about an analgesic medication if OTC pain meds like acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen do not work.
I would definitely agree that SOMA and Barbiturates are not good analgesics for broken bone pain. Soma is a good muscle relaxer, and barbiturates are mainly used for tension headache / migraine. Barbiturates such as phenergan contain acetominiphen and caffeine, and Soma can contain acetominophen or asprin, which are mild analgesics. Your best bet for moderate to severe pain would be an opiod, such as Vicodin or something similar for broken bone pain, and ibuprofen 6-800 mg. for pain and swelling. Soma would probably be a good adjunct along with the opiate for muscle pain and tenderness. I have used both for several years and personally wouldn't use either alone for that type of pain. Best of luck to you.
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I thought I should introduce myself, but first would like to say how wonderful it was to find this site and to be able to access information from such knowledgeable people.
After reading posts I think I have had an underactive thyroid for some time but was unaware of it , assuming it was just my age getting older and perhaps being peri-menapausal and working long hours it was not surprising i was tired.
In April I ended up in Hospital with Sepsis and pneumonia but since discovered I had been suffering many of the smptoms of an underactive thyroid for some time including painful swollen joints particularly my legs, tinitus and vertigo, dry skin, carpal tunnel syndrome (all of whch I mentioned to the GP who sent me away with a tube of Voterol cream and the promise of an appointment to have my hearing/ears checked) I was never recovering.... with chest infections almost weekly and high dosage anti-biotics being prescribed. Three weeks ago. after being at the GP every week that month I was sent by a GP in the practice (not my own) to Hospital for another x-ray of my chest as it was rattling again and O2 levels were low which led to me being re-admitted to hospital thankfully just for the day, as they decided to let me out early evening. The chest consultant noticed my goitre and decided to have bloods checked for thyroid as well as infection and lo and behold they came back positive.
I was started on 50mg of Levo three weeks ago (for one week ) now on 100mg and back to GP on 29th for blood tests by which time I am hoping to be recovering ( I have been off work for an eternity) Some days I feel okay (not great but okay) and others not so great but have found that many of the symptoms I had which had disappeared are returning but am hopeful that I will be in the 85% that does well on Levo.
Once again thank you as i have found this site so informative that I feel I will know what my doctor is saying and be able to disagree with him (if required as I do not trust him one little bit )
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The scoreline does not say it all as Kashiwa Reysol easily attained all 3 points from us in front of a bumper holiday crowd of 16,845 people who saw a lacklustre, heartless and mistake-filled 90 minute performance from Gamba that saw the atmosphere change to that of 2012 for the first time since we were promoted to J1.
With Oh Jae-Suk out of the game with concussion, Konno was forced to play at right-back, allowing Endo to move back into his defensive midfield role alongside Tatsuya Uchida. This meant one spare space up front and that was taken by Takahiro Futagawa, a man who had not started in the league since March. It seems that Usami was still not ready to start a game but was joined on the bench by his good friend Kotaro Omori after he missed the Kawasaki game with a slight foot injury.
First Half
I felt that we were the better side for the first 30 minutes of the game, looking confident and aiming high for the match. With the first 10 minutes lacking any real action, it was up to Lins to break the deadlock and his dry spell in the league since joining us, netting his first J1 goal in the 13th minute. Uchida had burst forward from midfield and passed centrally to Futagawa who was tackled ahead of the ball reaching him but the ball came loose behind him and Lins' effort and desire got him to the ball, albeit the ball hitting his hand, but he controlled nicely and fired a low effort into the bottom corner from 20 yards with Sugeno beaten. Delighted for him after getting close on many an occasion, his effort made the goal so. A nice early lead for us against our recent bogey team.
We should have made it 2-0 10 minutes later after Lins battled well again and Endo was set free on the right. He kept his cross in and sent it to the back post and Abe headed back to Futagawa whose shot was well blocked by a covering defender. The visitors got warmed up with an effort by Kudo well saved by Higashiguchi. And after a pass mistake by Kurata set Reysol on the counter, the visitors got the ball out to their left and Kudo crossed to the edge of the area for Tanaka to shoot first time in acres of space and find the top corner via a hand from Higashiguchi. Konno had pushed up the pitch as we were on the attack and Uchida and Endo dropped back into centre-back positions with Iwashita out on the right and Niwa there. Either Uchida or Endo should have stayed with Tanaka, probably the former, and that is why we conceded. Poor by the "defensive midfielder"…
Uchida was quickly substituted for Myojin, a change understandable with the former by why Myojin? Surely Omori or Usami wold have been better choices considering Myojin was not going to add anything Uchida cannot do. Kudo should have it 2-1 to the visitors but put his effort right into the hands of Higashiguchi from 3 yards out, but the visitors did soon take the lead. Endo conceded a free kick 25 yards from goal, central, and Higashiguchi's wall was awful, not covering his right post enough which allowed Tanaka to sweep the ball up and around the wall and into the unguarded side. A killer blow right on the stroke of half time.
Second Half
We were dead in the second half. Kudo and Tanaka were set in on goal 10 minutes after the break with lax marking but they fluffed their lines and a culprit of that, Iwashita, should have headed us level from an Endo corner but he failed to his the target from 3 yards. Around the hour mark, Usami and Omori came on for Futagawa and Kurata. I still cannot understand why Abe was kept on ahead of Kurata – our number 13 showed nothing to say he was up for the fight whereas Shu was, and I can only continue my confusion here – reasons please!
We showed no goal threat from here on out with Fujiharu getting booked for a foul on Barada – his 3rd caution already this season. Usami had a chance to unjustly level the score to 2-2 in the 85th minute but his effort was blocked short of the line by a mix of defender and goalkeeper and that was that.
The fans were not happy with one ultra throwing his flag in disgust at the players and why I can understand his feelings, there was no need for that. I was left speechless and almost emotional about how we could not string passes together given our good 30 minutes – the players showed no desire bar one or two and we lacked any team spirit. The players are not giving their best and the manager is not getting the best out of them. I can accept us losing if we gave it our all – like against Kawasaki – but I cannot accept losing if we were simply awful.
Gamba Man of Match
Despite all the negativity above, I do think Lins was our best player. When he got a chance or a half chance – which was not very often – he did something with the ball and finally got a goal he has long deserved and threatened to get. He did put effort in and tried his absolute best whenever he could and I think he is finally getting his feet under the table. I still think he could do with not being the main striker because he is simply not that but I think the goals might come a bit more regularly with this monkey off his back, if he gets the service. Well done Lins, I am happy for you!
Higashiguchi – 5
Konno – 5
Niwa – 5
Iwashita – 5
Fujiharu – 4.5
T.Uchida – 4
Endo – 4.5
Abe – 4
Kurata – 6
Futagawa – 5
Lins – 7.5
Myojin – 4.5 (Sub)
Omori – 5 (Sub)
Usami – 5 (Sub)
Table Standing
We dropped a place to 15th, one above the relegation zone, thanks to the defeat coupled with a win for Nagoya Grampus. In the relegation zone, Tokushima Vortis got their first ever J1 win thanks to a 1-0 scoreline over Ventforet Kofu whilst Sendai and Omiya both drew. Our next opponents Yokohama F.Marinos sit above us by 2 points and has now turned the fixture to a must win for both sides.
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14000 Aadhaar cards generated in Reasi
DC stresses on covering all left out population
Reasi,August 12, (Scoop News)-A total of over 14000 Aadhaar cards were generated in the district till August this year thereby taking cumulative figure of registered population under the programme to 2.75 lakhs.
This was informed by the representatives of district enrolment center in a meeting convened by District Development Commissioner Ravinder Kumar to review the progress of Aadhaar cards generation and seedling in the district.
The concerned district coordinator further informed that 6000 more enrolments have been made in addition to existing Aadhaar cards already prepared and generated in the district.
The DDC discussed a comprehensive action plan chalked out to cover the left out population during the ongoing enrolment drive in all the nine tehsils. He emphasized on the tehsildars to notify village wise schedule for enrolment.
Under Aadhaar seedling, it was informed by the concerned officers that out of 18000 beneficiaries, 7500 have been covered under old age, widow and handicapped pensions category. Similarly over 53000 job card holders under MGNREGA have been registered with Aadhaar cards and process in on to cover left out cards.
The DDC laid stress on expediting the process of enrolment and seedling of Aadhaar in all categories so that benefits of central sponsored schemes percolate down to the grass root level besides encouraging transparency and developing accountable system in various departments. The DDC also resolved various issues of Aadhaar enrolment centers and asked the officers to make a work chart of the Aadhaar seedling process and achieve the targets.
The Tehsildars were instructed to personally monitor the progress being achieved by enrolment centers on daily basis. Instructions were also passed for proper information and communication to the people who are left out and ensure their enrolment.
The meeting was attended by ADDC Ramesh Chander, ACR Abdul Sattar, ACD M.Y. Malik, DSEO Kasturi Lal, DSWO Kulraj Singh, Assistant Director Food Nasib Bajran, Chief Education Officer B.S. Jaral, Tehsildars and other concerned officers.
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Ramaswami, J.
1. This appeal is directed againstthe judgment and decree of the learned Subordinate Judge of Kumbakonam in O. S. No. 68 of 1951.
2. In Elandurai village there are 60 velis ofland of which 45 velis are inam sarvamanyamlands. The rest are tharapu lands. In regard tothe mirasdars of these sarvamanyam lands there are certain properties commonly owned by thereand which are utilised for remunerating the villageartisans and also for such purpose as are obligations on the part of these inam sarvamanyam mirasdars like channel-digging, the performance of village utsavams etc. The properties set apart incommon seem to be considerable. It may be stated at the outset itself and what has been pointedout by the learned counsel for the respondent thatthe defendants own considerable shares in theseinam servamanyam lands in comparison to whomthe shares owned by the plaintiffs are inconsiderable.
3. In these circumstances, in 1937 the sarvamanyam mirasdars have met and they have put the three defendants in management of these common properties.
4. But apparently this arrangement has not been successful to the extent of satisfying all the mirasdars and as usual there seems to be a faction with the result that this suit has been filed for framing a scheme and secondly for making the defendants account to the plaintiffs in regard to the management of these common samudayam properties.
5. On coming to court the plaintiffs were met with the contention on the part of the defendants namely that first of all the suit as framed is not maintainable because when the samudayam properties are owned by these mirasdars as co-owners and it is neither a public trust nor a private trust, no question of framing a scheme arises and the only remedy of the dissatisfied mirasdars is to ask for a partition and rendition of accounts or settle the matter out of court by the mirasdars assembling and defendants by a set of new managers in whom they have trust.
6. The defendants however made it clearthrough the first defendant that they are not averseto accounting as all, that as a matter of fact theyrealise their responsibilities and they have beenperforming their duties properly and they do notwish to escape any liability under the head of accounting.
7. The learned Subordinate Judge came tothe conclusion that on the frame of the suit ascheme cannot be framed and it followed that thissuit cannot be converted into a suit for accountingand a decree passed on that foot. Therefore hedismissed the suit.
8. The defeated plaintiffs appeal.
9. In appeal I am of the same opinion as thelearned Subordinate Judge under both heads.
10. This is not a case of either a public or private trust in regard to which schemes can be framed. It has been held by this Court in Narayanaswami Naidu v. Balasundaram Naidu : AIR1953Mad750 , followed in Chellam Pillai v. Chatham Pillai, AIR 1953 Trav C 198 (B) that even in the case of private trusts, schemes can be framed. BUT in the context of this case that decision has no application. This is a case of co-ownership of samudayam properties in which each of these sarvamanyam mirasdars has a share and what is his is that of the other man also. It is a case of being mine and thine. Therefore in such a case we cannot merely juggle with words and say that these managers were put in that position by the other mirasdars to look after the properties as their delegates or trustees and from the expression 'trustees' spell out a trust and then spell out from a trust the foundation for framing a scheme. Therefore the learned Subordinate Judge rightly pointed out, following the decisions in Yegnarama Dikshitar v. Gopala Pattar, 1917 MWN 595: AIR 1918 Mad 733 (C), Midnapore Zamindary Company Ltd. v. Naresh Narayan Roy ILR 51 Cal 631: AIR 1924 PC 144 (D), Khiaram s/o Hariram v. Tahilram, AIR 1947 Sind 134 (E) and Bhagavan Sahai v. Mukundalal : AIR1949All562 that the proper remedy open to these plaintiffs was to file a suit for partition and rendition of accounts by the persons managing the properties. I agree with him that barring this remedy the only other remedy open to these plaintiffs which has also been indicated by him is by replacing by consent, by majority or otherwise, the present set of managers or delegates by new set of managers and for which apparently they seem to have slender hopes of doing so. Therefore point No. I has got to be decided in favour of the defendants as has been done by the learned Subordinate Judge of Kumbakonam.
11. Turning to the second point, the fact that the Ist defendant endorsed that he considers himself accountable would not enable us to convert this into a suit of a different nature and give a decree for accounting. The learned Subordinate Judge has pertinently pointed out that if there is no private trust, then there is no question of applying Section 10 of the Limitation Act invoked in paragraph 17 of the plaint and the proper article that may be applicable in a case of partition and rendition of accounts would be Article 120 and even assuming that by the endorsement on the back of the plaint on 14-8-1952 the 1st defendant had undertaken to render accounts to all the co-owners like the plaintiffs for the plaint period, the question would be whether any accounting could be ordered in this suit as framed and which is not one for partition. The plaint in paragraph 21 (b) prays for a decree for accounting against the defendants surcharging them and for any surplus being handed over to the new trustees to be appointed In this suit. Therefore the learned Subordinate Judge has rightly pointed out that this prayer is so closely and inextricably blended with the prayer in paragraph 21(c) of the plaint wherein a scheme for management is asked for, that it would not be proper to cut and chop and convert the suit of one nature into a suit of different nature and grant a relief not on sound and well established principles but simply in the hope that some justice might be done and the village affairs might be run smoothly. As once again pointed out by the learned Subordinate Judge, if the suit for the framing of a scheme for management of private properties at the instance of co-sharers, whose remedy is a suit for partition, is not maintainable, it would follow that no trustees could be appointed in this suit, for the appointment of any trustee even at the risk of repetition would mean that the properties would vest in the trustees, and co-sharers or co-owners would cease to have any rights of ownership, which is not the basis in the plaint, which does claim common ownership in the suit properties. Therefore there cannot be 'accounting' as prayed for in paragraph 21(b) of the plaint, where the surplus is asked to be given to the trustees to be appointed in this suit. The only advantage of the endorsement of the first defendant is that it would act as a personal estoppel against him and it would not be open to him to deny the liability of the managers for their stewardship during the period in question.
12. The conclusions of the learned Subordinate Judge being correct, they are affirmed and this appeal is dismissed with costs.


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Valentine's Day is a busy holiday for many businesses, especially for local florists in Kirksville who say its their biggest holiday of the year.
Last year, Americans spent a record $19.7 billion on Valentine's Day gifts.
This year, spending isn't expected to hit a record high. The National Retail Federation is estimating American consumers will spend an average of $136.57 on Valentine's Day shopping this year and a total of $18.2 billion.
Shoppers are expected to spend about $4.3 billion on jewelry, $3.8 billion on dates that night, $2 billion on flowers, $1.9 billion on clothing, $1.7 billion on candy, $1.4 billion on gift cards and certificates and $1 billion on greeting cards.
Most people are planning to purchase candy, cards, celebrate the holiday with an evening out and buying flowers, making it a busy holiday for many businesses, especially for local florists in Kirksville who say it's their biggest holiday of the year.
Flower arrangement has always been a passion for Blossom Shop Flowers & Gifts owner Melody Sevits. When she was younger and lived on a farm, she would love to pick wild flowers and arrange them.
Sevits also worked at the Travis Noe Funeral home for 10 years, where among her duties she would help arrange flowers. She later opened the Blossom Shop Flowers & Gifts in 1980.
"I started out doing flowers for all of my friends' weddings when I was in high school and then I just really had an interest in flowers my whole life," Sevits said. "When this shop became available I decided I wanted to go into business for myself."
The shop, which is located at 1103 N. Green St., offers floral arrangements and gifts. People can order items in store, over the phone, online and have orders shipped across the world.
Sevits said all holidays usually provide a boom in business, but Valentine's Day is always the biggest.
"(Valentine's Day) is our biggest holiday of the year. It's an exciting time for us because we have so many beautiful colors and items available," Sevits said.
"We have other busy times of the year, like Christmas week, Mother's Day, but we'll have hundreds more during Valentine's week than we will the rest of the year."
Sevits said sometimes crazy things can happen while making deliveries, like being mixed up in a love triangle.
"Some years we'll have eight or 10 different delivery vans delivering. We'll have one van going to Truman with a big flower order on there and it will be going to a student," Sevits said.
"You get to the dorm room and another one of our delivery vans will come right behind it and it will be two arrangements going to the same girl. Sometimes we get in trouble with two different guys sending (flowers) to the same girl," she said while laughing. "Sometimes you're in the middle of something and you don't really want to be."
Hy-Vee Floral Shop manager Alaina Dennis said the store will make more deliveries during Valentine's Day that it will sometimes make in one month.
"It's just a lot more people, a lot more demand, everything, and we have more deliveries in one day than sometimes we do in a month," Dennis said. "Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the demand."
Joy Taylor, owner of Enchanted Lily, a floral shop in downtown Kirksville, said she's also noticed that business has picked up around the holiday.
Enchanted Lily, which is located at 108 N. Franklin St., officially opened its doors in Sept. 2016. The store specializes in weddings, floral needs, baby gifts, sympathy gifts and home decor. It also has a line of greeting cards.
Taylor said she's done floral arranging for years and prior to opening the store she became a certificated floral designer and wedding floral specialist.
"Yes, (business) is definitely picking up. I have high hopes for Valentine's Day," Taylor said. "Valentine's Day is the big one for florists."
Though her business has only been open for a few months, Taylor said she's already noticed the orders for Valentine's Day have started getting bigger.
For people still searching for the right gift, Taylor said Enchanted Lily will also be offering home decor, candy bouquets and lanterns with candy bouquets inside. The store will also be open Valentine's Day for later shoppers.
"If I don't have it, I'm going to try to make them happy and go get it," Taylor said.
"My hope is that if they don't want flowers, I can help you with something else," she said. "I would just like the chance to help make people's Valentine's Day great."


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Samsung is working on a new smartphone with an index of SM-Z250F, the name of which has not yet been invented. This phone is unlikely to be in demand in the market due to the lack of the Android OS, but to mention it all the same, as it will be the world's first communications device running Tizen OS 3.0.
Tizen OS is a proprietary software platform Samsung, which is already on some long-neglected smartphones, and the popular smart watches of this brand. At the moment all details about the smartphone Samsung SM-Z250F hidden, but if you look at his predecessors, we can understand that we will have another budget. Sold in large countries it is unlikely, but in the third world, on the contrary, he is very much in demand because, again, its low cost. The working title of the phone sounds like Pride.
Firmware Tizen 3.0 is not yet able to compete with Android in the mobile OS ranking is lagging on one of the last places. However, if we consider the segment of wearable electronics, she is one of the best: the functionality is ahead of her, except that Android Wear, which will soon be upgraded to version 2.0.
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text: Japan is as I left it, like Orkney, only the people are older. It brings to life how time passes differently for people. So much has happened but nothing much has changed in my life. In my Ogiichan's life (that's Japanese for Grandfather) not much has happened but a lot has changed, in his person mainly, a loss of mobility and the onset of dementia. I knew from when I greeted him in the house I was born in that he'd lost a spark. No, not lost it, the spark I mean, it was still there but hidden behind a grey veil in his eyes. It reminded me of dogs sleeping in their old age, when you go to stroke them and wake them up gently they turn their snouts towards you with a viscously slow sense of recognition of what's happening or who you are. Or where they are. I think the old when they lapse in to these states of "not being with it" are often drifting on a another "playing field" of the consciousness. Sometimes my Granny in Orkney would hear something when not paying attention and say something completely disconnected from the present situation. Once she said out of the blue 'What about the sheep?' and then someone replied, 'What sheep?', whence she replied, 'The ones at Hoxa'. Old memories must be seeping through and time must be occurring at a different pace for these individuals. Recognising what's real and not real, what's just been said and what was said years ago, it's difficult to distinguish now. I don't think Ogiichan can understand that I am the same person he used to pick up and carry on his back, because look at me, I'm massive, that's in comparison to little me. He remembers watching a kite soar when I was the size of a shoe; he laughed properly when the family spoke about when I was small and ran through and under people's legs at the summer festival they hold in Japanese towns with big drums and goldfish stalls, and thought I'd got lost. These things that happened over twenty years ago stir memories more vivid than the ones made yesterday. So it must mean, one's own youth affects the interpretation of a happening or scene in the everyday, probably because in youth one feels things with more zeal. With more ahead of you and less behind - things must leave stronger impressions.


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I have been feeling the need to simplify......today we were cleaning, throwing, sorting and organizing and decluttering. It feels good.....I have a few more closets to tackle yet but we got alot done today.
This stark white blanket of snow meeting the sky and this wonderful old abondoned house inspired me to make this vintage looking and make it look like an old postcard .
So heres to a great year!


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On May 17 2007, the Clinton Campaign released the following position statement on "Immigration Reform". Read it so you have it in-context; my comments follow:
Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Washington, DC - "This afternoon, a bipartisan group of Senators, who have been working closely in conjunction with the Administration, announced that they had reached an agreement on a comprehensive approach for reforming our broken immigration system.
As I have long maintained, comprehensive immigration reform must have as essential ingredients a strengthening of our borders, greater cross-cooperation with our neighbors, strict but fair enforcement of our laws, federal assistance to our state and local governments, strict penalties for those who exploit undocumented workers, and a path to earned legal status for those who are here, working hard, paying taxes, respecting the law, and willing to meet a high bar. In particular, we must also ensure that any bill protects the sanctity of families and does not lead to the creation of a new underclass in our country.
I will scrutinize carefully the proposed compromise to see if it honors our nation's principles and proud immigrant heritage while also respecting the rule of law."
Let me highlight some of the key language in this statement.
- "strict but fair enforcement of our laws",
- "strict penalties for those who exploit undocumented workers",
- "a path to earned legal status for those who are here, working hard, paying taxes, respecting the law, and willing to meet a high bar."
The rest is just filler designed to make her sound tough on illegal immigration and "fair" on illegal immigration at the same time. I included the entire statement so no Hillary-lover could accuse me of taking her out of context.
STATEMENT #1: "strict but fair enforcement of our laws". The law says you must enter this country legally or you will be deported. What's unfair about that?
We have, and have always had, immigration quotas for a reason. Quotas ensure America and it's social systems are not overwhelmed. They ensure the new immigrants can be assimilated into American society, not balkanize America. Quotas ensure that criminals and those with communicable diseases are not admitted into the country. What's unfair about that?
How can we be strict but lax at the same time? How about saying "strict enforcement of our laws, period, Hillary? Shouldn't we enforce all our laws strictly? Congress establishes the laws on immigration: are you saying Congress, current and past, has been unfair? Then change the laws you created, but if you don't strictly enforce any law, it teaches disrespect for the law.
STATEMENT #2: "strict penalties for those who exploit undocumented workers". How about strict penalties for those who violated our immigration laws and are in this country illegally? Your nemesis, Big Business and Capitalism, wouldn't have anyone to exploit if we strictly enforced our immigration laws. I will concede the point to Hillary that if there wasn't a demand for illegal aliens, then they wouldn't come here in the numbers they currently do. I'm not opposed to strict penalties for businesses employing illegal aliens, but I notice you left out the word "fair".
Just yesterday, US District Judge Charles Breyer issued a preliminary injunction that stops Homeland Security from using mis-matched social security numbers to ferret out companies that are hiring illegal aliens. Homeland Security had already identified 8 million workers at 140,000 companies with SSAN mismatches. A number of these are no doubt clerical errors by the employee, the employer or the Social Security Administration, but the affected companies had 90 days to clear them up once notified. The vast remainder are illegal aliens who should be arrested and deported. And yes, Hillary, the employers who knowingly hired them should be penalized. "Knowingly" is the key. Every time Homeland Security enacts a plan to identify illegals, liberal Judges (Breyer is from San Francisco) strike them down. And like your complete statement above, our Senators and Congressmen generally talk out of both sides of their mouth, not wanting alienate the (hopefully legal) Hispanic voters when it comes to immigration.
STATEMENT #3: "a path to earned legal status for those who are here, working hard, paying taxes, respecting the law, and willing to meet a high bar." is the MOST INFURIATING of all and contradicts everything you've said concerning enforcing the law.
I'll analyse this statement from the end to the front. "willing to meet a high bar"......I have absolutely no idea what that means but it sure sounds tough! How about the first bar being: entering this country legally in the first place.
"respecting the law"....they BROKE the law to enter this country ILLEGALLY! By this fact alone, they are unqualified for your "earned legal status". And living in Texas which is one of the battleground states under invasion from Mexico, there are stories every day about people who are involved in auto accidents with illegals who don't even have Driver's Licenses, let alone insurance. So who ends up paying? LAW ABIDING Americans with Insurance through higher and higher insurance premiums to cover these claims. Illegal aliens don't respect the law: why should they when we don't enforce it? Why aren't the illegal aliens involved in these accidents arrested and deported? They are in this country ILLEGALLY and their very presence here is a violation of the law. Why don't we enforce our own laws?
"working hard" and "paying taxes": "Working hard is a generalization as well as a stereotype. Illegal Aliens also steal to survive. In fact, the Mexican version of the Mafia has grown to enormous proportions here in the US. Even the Arian Nation kowtows to them in prison.
As to "paying taxes", not all illegal aliens work for BIG BUSINESS with phony social security cards. Many work for small companies or individuals who pay them in cash. No tax money there.
We also have a real education crisis here in Texas because the Supreme Court in 1977 ruled that a Texas law prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving a free public-paid education was unconstitutional. Our schools are overburdened as are our tax payers, education is suffering because of "bilingualism". English speaking children are held back until the Spanish only can catch up. And since the Hispanic illegal alien parents speak no or poor English, their children get no chance to practice English at home.
There is also a huge cash-based underground economy among illegal aliens which is untaxed and the price of free medical care and other social services is bankrupting the country. Add to that the $60 BILLION Hispanics don't spend on products and services in the US but wire back to Mexico and it's no wonder the Mexican Government gives out handbooks on how to sneak into the US.
In Irving, Texas, the Mexican Consulate had the AUDACITY to PUBLICLY warn illegal aliens to stay away from Irving because Irving Police are actually participating in a program which allows them to question criminals as to their legal status and turn them over to ICE if they're here illegally.
You talk about "assistance to State and Local Governments" in your statement.....how about allowing them to enforce the law by adopting legislation even activist Judges can't get around? How about worrying more about AMERICANS OF ALL RACES and THEIR rights MORE than those of ILLEGAL, INVADING Aliens?
Here's some suggested reading for you, Hillary: The Series: The Immigration Crisis in America Today. It's a series of posts with such interesting titles as "How to Stop Illegal Immigration for Dummies" and "Immigrant Hispanics and Compassionate Racism in America".
You're not going to able to walk the fence on this issue against a conservative Republican opponent, Hillary. You've got the polling data that shows where the American voters (the legal ones, at least) stand on this issue and it's not for allowing illegals (not undocumented...please stop using that word; but illegal aliens) "earning" legal status after breaking our laws in the first place. Watch out: your globalism is showing!
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Everyone I know remembers where they were on that day. Especially me because it was my Birth-day.
We are born alone and we shall die alone.
I am a numerologist. 11-22 are master numbers. Anyone with those numbers is here to change humanity in some way. Positive or negative. Elvis name adds up to a 22. I could go on but that should sum it up. Kennedy died on 11-22. I was born on 11-22. I believe I will leave the world offering something better. Or I will go out in a horrendous earthly tragedy of large magnitude. Either Earthly Good or Earthly Bad is the 11-22. If I have a choice I chose good. Although Kennedy didn't have a choice, not did Diana.
And I thank John F. Kennedy for what he left this world with. Hope for each of us to have our own Camelot. And, "What can we do for others, not what can they do for us." Look up the comparisons between Kennedy and Lincoln and you will know there is more out there than what you can see with the your eyes!! I promise.


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Rebecca and I have been friends since junior high when we went to Sunday School together! And, she lives in DC too! My mom just reminded me that our families actually met when our brothers played soccer together in 2nd or 3rd grade. Those boys are now in their late 20s... Anyways, we don't see each other nearly enough, BUT, we had made a date to play at Clemyjontri Playground about two months ago. Who would have known it would have been THE MOST PERFECT August day ever??? We had a glorious morning together :)
Jackson riding his first carousel ride!
Rebecca, Eloise, and Wes is tucked in there too!
Happy Grahammers :)
Here we go!
It was a weird sensation standing still on the moving carousel as the boys' horses went up and down and I tried to make sure Graham was steady... They loved it :) So much that we did it again later!
Silly faces!!!
Trying to climb the rainbow! We all had a picnic together before we said goodbye to our friends and stayed to play a little extra at the playground before Graham got a nap in the car on the way to Barnes and Noble. We played at the bookstore for a bit before heading to the Rooneys' for dinner! (Yup, we know how to pack the fun into a single day!)
I didn't get many pictures, but we continued enjoying the beautiful weather with Owen and Keira and played outside for a while. Graham wanted to try on the bike helmet :)
Maybe he should wear a helmet all the time? LOL We had such a great time relaxing and hanging out! Karen and Stuart made a delicious summertime dinner of grilled burgers and hotdogs, corn on the cob, fruit and orzo salad. There was also a fantastic concoction of Milky Way bars, chocolate, peanut butter and Chex... Thanks for the invite and the wonderful company :)


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