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Chapter 31
One of the first things that Jurgis had done after he got a job was to go and see Marija. She came down into the basement of the house to meet him, and he stood by the door with his hat in his hand, saying, "I've got work now, and so you can leave here."
But Marija only shook her head. There was nothing else for her to do, she said, and nobody to employ her. She could not keep her past a secret--girls had tried it, and they were always found out. There were thousands of men who came to this place, and sooner or later she would meet one of them. "And besides," Marija added, "I can't do anything. I'm no good--I take dope. What could you do with me?"
"Can't you stop?" Jurgis cried.
"No," she answered, "I'll never stop. What's the use of talking about it--I'll stay here till I die, I guess. It's all I'm fit for." And that was all that he could get her to say--there was no use trying. When he told her he would not let Elzbieta take her money, she answered indifferently: "Then it'll be wasted here--that's all." Her eyelids looked heavy and her face was red and swollen; he saw that he was annoying her, that she only wanted him to go away. So he went, disappointed and sad.
Poor Jurgis was not very happy in his home-life. Elzbieta was sick a good deal now, and the boys were wild and unruly, and very much the worse for their life upon the streets. But he stuck by the family nevertheless, for they reminded him of his old happiness; and when things went wrong he could solace himself with a plunge into the Socialist movement. Since his life had been caught up into the current of this great stream, things which had before been the whole of life to him came to seem of relatively slight importance; his interests were elsewhere, in the world of ideas. His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure. There was so much to know--so many wonders to be discovered! Never in all his life did Jurgis forget the day before election, when there came a telephone message from a friend of Harry Adams, asking him to bring Jurgis to see him that night; and Jurgis went, and met one of the minds of the movement.
The invitation was from a man named Fisher, a Chicago millionaire who had given up his life to settlement work, and had a little home in the heart of the city's slums. He did not belong to the party, but he was in sympathy with it; and he said that he was to have as his guest that night the editor of a big Eastern magazine, who wrote against Socialism, but really did not know what it was. The millionaire suggested that Adams bring Jurgis along, and then start up the subject of "pure food," in which the editor was interested.
Young Fisher's home was a little two-story brick house, dingy and weather-beaten outside, but attractive within. The room that Jurgis saw was half lined with books, and upon the walls were many pictures, dimly visible in the soft, yellow light; it was a cold, rainy night, so a log fire was crackling in the open hearth. Seven or eight people were gathered about it when Adams and his friend arrived, and Jurgis saw to his dismay that three of them were ladies. He had never talked to people of this sort before, and he fell into an agony of embarrassment. He stood in the doorway clutching his hat tightly in his hands, and made a deep bow to each of the persons as he was introduced; then, when he was asked to have a seat, he took a chair in a dark corner, and sat down upon the edge of it, and wiped the perspiration off his forehead with his sleeve. He was terrified lest they should expect him to talk.
There was the host himself, a tall, athletic young man, clad in evening dress, as also was the editor, a dyspeptic-looking gentleman named Maynard. There was the former's frail young wife, and also an elderly lady, who taught kindergarten in the settlement, and a young college student, a beautiful girl with an intense and earnest face. She only spoke once or twice while Jurgis was there--the rest of the time she sat by the table in the center of the room, resting her chin in her hands and drinking in the conversation. There were two other men, whom young Fisher had introduced to Jurgis as Mr. Lucas and Mr. Schliemann; he heard them address Adams as "Comrade," and so he knew that they were Socialists.
The one called Lucas was a mild and meek-looking little gentleman of clerical aspect; he had been an itinerant evangelist, it transpired, and had seen the light and become a prophet of the new dispensation. He traveled all over the country, living like the apostles of old, upon hospitality, and preaching upon street- corners when there was no hall. The other man had been in the midst of a discussion with the editor when Adams and Jurgis came in; and at the suggestion of the host they resumed it after the interruption. Jurgis was soon sitting spellbound, thinking that here was surely the strangest man that had ever lived in the world.
Nicholas Schliemann was a Swede, a tall, gaunt person, with hairy hands and bristling yellow beard; he was a university man, and had been a professor of philosophy--until, as he said, he had found that he was selling his character as well as his time. Instead he had come to America, where he lived in a garret room in this slum district, and made volcanic energy take the place of fire. He studied the composition of food-stuffs, and knew exactly how many proteids and carbohydrates his body needed; and by scientific chewing he said that he tripled the value of all he ate, so that it cost him eleven cents a day. About the first of July he would leave Chicago for his vacation, on foot; and when he struck the harvest fields he would set to work for two dollars and a half a day, and come home when he had another year's supply--a hundred and twenty-five dollars. That was the nearest approach to independence a man could make "under capitalism," he explained; he would never marry, for no sane man would allow himself to fall in love until after the revolution.
He sat in a big arm-chair, with his legs crossed, and his head so far in the shadow that one saw only two glowing lights, reflected from the fire on the hearth. He spoke simply, and utterly without emotion; with the manner of a teacher setting forth to a group of scholars an axiom in geometry, he would enunciate such propositions as made the hair of an ordinary person rise on end. And when the auditor had asserted his non-comprehension, he would proceed to elucidate by some new proposition, yet more appalling. To Jurgis the Herr Dr. Schliemann assumed the proportions of a thunderstorm or an earthquake. And yet, strange as it might seem, there was a subtle bond between them, and he could follow the argument nearly all the time. He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career--a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.
Nicholas Schliemann was familiar with all the universe, and with man as a small part of it. He understood human institutions, and blew them about like soap bubbles. It was surprising that so much destructiveness could be contained in one human mind. Was it government? The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud. Or was it marriage? Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex- pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class. If a woman had money she might dictate her own terms: equality, a life contract, and the legitimacy--that is, the property-rights-- of her children. If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence. And then the subject became Religion, which was the Archfiend's deadliest weapon. Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source. The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience--in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism. The destiny of civilization would be decided in one final death struggle between the Red International and the Black, between Socialism and the Roman Catholic Church; while here at home, "the stygian midnight of American evangelicalism--"
And here the ex-preacher entered the field, and there was a lively tussle. "Comrade" Lucas was not what is called an educated man; he knew only the Bible, but it was the Bible interpreted by real experience. And what was the use, he asked, of confusing Religion with men's perversions of it? That the church was in the hands of the merchants at the moment was obvious enough; but already there were signs of rebellion, and if Comrade Schliemann could come back a few years from now--
"Ah, yes," said the other, "of course, I have no doubt that in a hundred years the Vatican will be denying that it ever opposed Socialism, just as at present it denies that it ever tortured Galileo."
"I am not defending the Vatican," exclaimed Lucas, vehemently. "I am defending the word of God--which is one long cry of the human spirit for deliverance from the sway of oppression. Take the twenty-fourth chapter of the Book of Job, which I am accustomed to quote in my addresses as 'the Bible upon the Beef Trust'; or take the words of Isaiah--or of the Master himself! Not the elegant prince of our debauched and vicious art, not the jeweled idol of our society churches--but the Jesus of the awful reality, the man of sorrow and pain, the outcast, despised of the world, who had nowhere to lay his head--"
"I will grant you Jesus," interrupted the other.
"Well, then," cried Lucas, "and why should Jesus have nothing to do with his church--why should his words and his life be of no authority among those who profess to adore him? Here is a man who was the world's first revolutionist, the true founder of the Socialist movement; a man whose whole being was one flame of hatred for wealth, and all that wealth stands for,--for the pride of wealth, and the luxury of wealth, and the tyranny of wealth; who was himself a beggar and a tramp, a man of the people, an associate of saloon-keepers and women of the town; who again and again, in the most explicit language, denounced wealth and the holding of wealth: 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth!'--'Sell that ye have and give alms!'--'Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of Heaven!'--'Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation!'--'Verily, I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of Heaven!' Who denounced in unmeasured terms the exploiters of his own time: 'Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!'-- 'Woe unto you also, you lawyers!'--'Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?' Who drove out the businessmen and brokers from the temple with a whip! Who was crucified--think of it--for an incendiary and a disturber of the social order! And this man they have made into the high priest of property and smug respectability, a divine sanction of all the horrors and abominations of modern commercial civilization! Jeweled images are made of him, sensual priests burn incense to him, and modern pirates of industry bring their dollars, wrung from the toil of helpless women and children, and build temples to him, and sit in cushioned seats and listen to his teachings expounded by doctors of dusty divinity--"
"Bravo!" cried Schliemann, laughing. But the other was in full career--he had talked this subject every day for five years, and had never yet let himself be stopped. "This Jesus of Nazareth!" he cried. "This class-conscious working-man! This union carpenter! This agitator, law-breaker, firebrand, anarchist! He, the sovereign lord and master of a world which grinds the bodies and souls of human beings into dollars--if he could come into the world this day and see the things that men have made in his name, would it not blast his soul with horror? Would he not go mad at the sight of it, he the Prince of Mercy and Love! That dreadful night when he lay in the Garden of Gethsemane and writhed in agony until he sweat blood--do you think that he saw anything worse than he might see tonight upon the plains of Manchuria, where men march out with a jeweled image of him before them, to do wholesale murder for the benefit of foul monsters of sensuality and cruelty? Do you not know that if he were in St. Petersburg now, he would take the whip with which he drove out the bankers from his temple--"
Here the speaker paused an instant for breath. "No, comrade," said the other, dryly, "for he was a practical man. He would take pretty little imitation lemons, such as are now being shipped into Russia, handy for carrying in the pockets, and strong enough to blow a whole temple out of sight."
Lucas waited until the company had stopped laughing over this; then he began again: "But look at it from the point of view of practical politics, comrade. Here is an historical figure whom all men reverence and love, whom some regard as divine; and who was one of us--who lived our life, and taught our doctrine. And now shall we leave him in the hands of his enemies--shall we allow them to stifle and stultify his example? We have his words, which no one can deny; and shall we not quote them to the people, and prove to them what he was, and what he taught, and what he did? No, no, a thousand times no!--we shall use his authority to turn out the knaves and sluggards from his ministry, and we shall yet rouse the people to action!--"
Lucas halted again; and the other stretched out his hand to a paper on the table. "Here, comrade," he said, with a laugh, "here is a place for you to begin. A bishop whose wife has just been robbed of fifty thousand dollars' worth of diamonds! And a most unctuous and oily of bishops! An eminent and scholarly bishop! A philanthropist and friend of labor bishop--a Civic Federation decoy duck for the chloroforming of the wage-working- man!"
To this little passage of arms the rest of the company sat as spectators. But now Mr. Maynard, the editor, took occasion to remark, somewhat naively, that he had always understood that Socialists had a cut-and-dried program for the future of civilization; whereas here were two active members of the party, who, from what he could make out, were agreed about nothing at all. Would the two, for his enlightenment, try to ascertain just what they had in common, and why they belonged to the same party? This resulted, after much debating, in the formulating of two carefully worded propositions: First, that a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life; and, second, that a Socialist believes that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners. Thus far they were at one; but no farther. To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you." To the other, Socialism was simply a necessary step toward a far-distant goal, a step to be tolerated with impatience. Schliemann called himself a "philosophic anarchist"; and he explained that an anarchist was one who believed that the end of human existence was the free development of every personality, unrestricted by laws save those of its own being. Since the same kind of match would light every one's fire and the same-shaped loaf of bread would fill every one's stomach, it would be perfectly feasible to submit industry to the control of a majority vote. There was only one earth, and the quantity of material things was limited. Of intellectual and moral things, on the other hand, there was no limit, and one could have more without another's having less; hence "Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual," was the formula of modern proletarian thought. As soon as the birth agony was over, and the wounds of society had been healed, there would be established a simple system whereby each man was credited with his labor and debited with his purchases; and after that the processes of production, exchange, and consumption would go on automatically, and without our being conscious of them, any more than a man is conscious of the beating of his heart. And then, explained Schliemann, society would break up into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial persons; examples of which at present were clubs, churches, and political parties. After the revolution, all the intellectual, artistic, and spiritual activities of men would be cared for by such "free associations"; romantic novelists would be supported by those who liked to read romantic novels, and impressionist painters would be supported by those who liked to look at impressionist pictures--and the same with preachers and scientists, editors and actors and musicians. If any one wanted to work or paint or pray, and could find no one to maintain him, he could support himself by working part of the time. That was the case at present, the only difference being that the competitive wage system compelled a man to work all the time to live, while, after the abolition of privilege and exploitation, any one would be able to support himself by an hour's work a day. Also the artist's audience of the present was a small minority of people, all debased and vulgarized by the effort it had cost them to win in the commercial battle, of the intellectual and artistic activities which would result when the whole of mankind was set free from the nightmare of competition, we could at present form no conception whatever.
And then the editor wanted to know upon what ground Dr. Schliemann asserted that it might be possible for a society to exist upon an hour's toil by each of its members. "Just what," answered the other, "would be the productive capacity of society if the present resources of science were utilized, we have no means of ascertaining; but we may be sure it would exceed anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the ferocious barbarities of capitalism. After the triumph of the international proletariat, war would of course be inconceivable; and who can figure the cost of war to humanity--not merely the value of the lives and the material that it destroys, not merely the cost of keeping millions of men in idleness, of arming and equipping them for battle and parade, but the drain upon the vital energies of society by the war attitude and the war terror, the brutality and ignorance, the drunkenness, prostitution, and crime it entails, the industrial impotence and the moral deadness? Do you think that it would be too much to say that two hours of the working time of every efficient member of a community goes to feed the red fiend of war?"
And then Schliemann went on to outline some of the wastes of competition: the losses of industrial warfare; the ceaseless worry and friction; the vices--such as drink, for instance, the use of which had nearly doubled in twenty years, as a consequence of the intensification of the economic struggle; the idle and unproductive members of the community, the frivolous rich and the pauperized poor; the law and the whole machinery of repression; the wastes of social ostentation, the milliners and tailors, the hairdressers, dancing masters, chefs and lackeys. "You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. So we have, at the present moment, a society with, say, thirty per cent of the population occupied in producing useless articles, and one per cent occupied in destroying them. And this is not all; for the servants and panders of the parasites are also parasites, the milliners and the jewelers and the lackeys have also to be supported by the useful members of the community. And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body. Beneath the hundred thousand women of the elite are a million middle-class women, miserable because they are not of the elite, and trying to appear of it in public; and beneath them, in turn, are five million farmers' wives reading 'fashion papers' and trimming bonnets, and shop-girls and serving-maids selling themselves into brothels for cheap jewelry and imitation seal- skin robes. And then consider that, added to this competition in display, you have, like oil on the flames, a whole system of competition in selling! You have manufacturers contriving tens of thousands of catchpenny devices, storekeepers displaying them, and newspapers and magazines filled up with advertisements of them!"
"And don't forget the wastes of fraud," put in young Fisher.
"When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann--"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want--he is in the very center of the ghastly charnel house of capitalist destructiveness, and he scarcely knows which of a dozen horrors to point out first. But consider the waste in time and energy incidental to making ten thousand varieties of a thing for purposes of ostentation and snobbishness, where one variety would do for use! Consider all the waste incidental to the manufacture of cheap qualities of goods, of goods made to sell and deceive the ignorant; consider the wastes of adulteration,--the shoddy clothing, the cotton blankets, the unstable tenements, the ground-cork life- preservers, the adulterated milk, the aniline soda water, the potato-flour sausages--"
"And consider the moral aspects of the thing," put in the ex-preacher.
"Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious cruelty incidental to them, the plotting and the lying and the bribing, the blustering and bragging, the screaming egotism, the hurrying and worrying. Of course, imitation and adulteration are the essence of competition--they are but another form of the phrase 'to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.' A government official has stated that the nation suffers a loss of a billion and a quarter dollars a year through adulterated foods; which means, of course, not only materials wasted that might have been useful outside of the human stomach, but doctors and nurses for people who would otherwise have been well, and undertakers for the whole human race ten or twenty years before the proper time. Then again, consider the waste of time and energy required to sell these things in a dozen stores, where one would do. There are a million or two of business firms in the country, and five or ten times as many clerks; and consider the handling and rehandling, the accounting and reaccounting, the planning and worrying, the balancing of petty profit and loss. Consider the whole machinery of the civil law made necessary by these processes; the libraries of ponderous tomes, the courts and juries to interpret them, the lawyers studying to circumvent them, the pettifogging and chicanery, the hatreds and lies! Consider the wastes incidental to the blind and haphazard production of commodities--the factories closed, the workers idle, the goods spoiling in storage; consider the activities of the stock manipulator, the paralyzing of whole industries, the overstimulation of others, for speculative purposes; the assignments and bank failures, the crises and panics, the deserted towns and the starving populations! Consider the energies wasted in the seeking of markets, the sterile trades, such as drummer, solicitor, bill-poster, advertising agent. Consider the wastes incidental to the crowding into cities, made necessary by competition and by monopoly railroad rates; consider the slums, the bad air, the disease and the waste of vital energies; consider the office buildings, the waste of time and material in the piling of story upon story, and the burrowing underground! Then take the whole business of insurance, the enormous mass of administrative and clerical labor it involves, and all utter waste--"
"I do not follow that," said the editor. "The Cooperative Commonwealth is a universal automatic insurance company and savings bank for all its members. Capital being the property of all, injury to it is shared by all and made up by all. The bank is the universal government credit-account, the ledger in which every individual's earnings and spendings ate balanced. There is also a universal government bulletin, in which are listed and precisely described everything which the commonwealth has for sale. As no one makes any profit by the sale, there is no longer any stimulus to extravagance, and no misrepresentation; no cheating, no adulteration or imitation, no bribery or 'grafting.'"
"How is the price of an article determined?"
"The price is the labor it has cost to make and deliver it, and it is determined by the first principles of arithmetic. The million workers in the nation's wheat fields have worked a hundred days each, and the total product of the labor is a billion bushels, so the value of a bushel of wheat is the tenth part of a farm labor-day. If we employ an arbitrary symbol, and pay, say, five dollars a day for farm work, then the cost of a bushel of wheat is fifty cents."
"You say 'for farm work,'" said Mr. Maynard. "Then labor is not to be paid alike?"
"Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners. Of course the wages may be left the same, and the hours varied; one or the other will have to be varied continually, according as a greater or less number of workers is needed in any particular industry. That is precisely what is done at present, except that the transfer of the workers is accomplished blindly and imperfectly, by rumors and advertisements, instead of instantly and completely, by a universal government bulletin."
"How about those occupations in which time is difficult to calculate? What is the labor cost of a book?"
"Obviously it is the labor cost of the paper, printing, and binding of it--about a fifth of its present cost."
"And the author?"
"I have already said that the state could not control intellectual production. The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What I outline here is a national, or rather international, system for the providing of the material needs of men. Since a man has intellectual needs also, he will work longer, earn more, and provide for them to his own taste and in his own way. I live on the same earth as the majority, I wear the same kind of shoes and sleep in the same kind of bed; but I do not think the same kind of thoughts, and I do not wish to pay for such thinkers as the majority selects. I wish such things to be left to free effort, as at present. If people want to listen to a certain preacher, they get together and contribute what they please, and pay for a church and support the preacher, and then listen to him; I, who do not want to listen to him, stay away, and it costs me nothing. In the same way there are magazines about Egyptian coins, and Catholic saints, and flying machines, and athletic records, and I know nothing about any of them. On the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche, the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally, perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific breeding of men and women, and the establishing of divorce by mutual consent."
Dr. Schliemann paused for a moment. "That was a lecture," he said with a laugh, "and yet I am only begun!"
"What else is there?" asked Maynard.
"I have pointed out some of the negative wastes of competition," answered the other. "I have hardly mentioned the positive economies of co-operation. Allowing five to a family, there are fifteen million families in this country; and at least ten million of these live separately, the domestic drudge being either the wife or a wage slave. Now set aside the modern system of pneumatic house-cleaning, and the economies of co-operative cooking; and consider one single item, the washing of dishes. Surely it is moderate to say that the dishwashing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day's work, it takes, therefore, half a million able-bodied persons--mostly women to do the dishwashing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work; that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper; of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children--for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. And now consider that in each of my little free communities there would be a machine which would wash and dry the dishes, and do it, not merely to the eye and the touch, but scientifically--sterilizing them--and do it at a saving of all the drudgery and nine-tenths of the time! All of these things you may find in the books of Mrs. Gilman; and then take Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, and Workshops, and read about the new science of agriculture, which has been built up in the last ten years; by which, with made soils and intensive culture, a gardener can raise ten or twelve crops in a season, and two hundred tons of vegetables upon a single acre; by which the population of the whole globe could be supported on the soil now cultivated in the United States alone! It is impossible to apply such methods now, owing to the ignorance and poverty of our scattered farming population; but imagine the problem of providing the food supply of our nation once taken in hand systematically and rationally, by scientists! All the poor and rocky land set apart for a national timber reserve, in which our children play, and our young men hunt, and our poets dwell! The most favorable climate and soil for each product selected; the exact requirements of the community known, and the acreage figured accordingly; the most improved machinery employed, under the direction of expert agricultural chemists! I was brought up on a farm, and I know the awful deadliness of farm work; and I like to picture it all as it will be after the revolution. To picture the great potato-planting machine, drawn by four horses, or an electric motor, ploughing the furrow, cutting and dropping and covering the potatoes, and planting a score of acres a day! To picture the great potato-digging machine, run by electricity, perhaps, and moving across a thousand-acre field, scooping up earth and potatoes, and dropping the latter into sacks! To every other kind of vegetable and fruit handled in the same way--apples and oranges picked by machinery, cows milked by electricity--things which are already done, as you may know. To picture the harvest fields of the future, to which millions of happy men and women come for a summer holiday, brought by special trains, the exactly needful number to each place! And to contrast all this with our present agonizing system of independent small farming,--a stunted, haggard, ignorant man, mated with a yellow, lean, and sad-eyed drudge, and toiling from four o'clock in the morning until nine at night, working the children as soon as they are able to walk, scratching the soil with its primitive tools, and shut out from all knowledge and hope, from all their benefits of science and invention, and all the joys of the spirit--held to a bare existence by competition in labor, and boasting of his freedom because he is too blind to see his chains!"
Dr. Schliemann paused a moment. "And then," he continued, "place beside this fact of an unlimited food supply, the newest discovery of physiologists, that most of the ills of the human system are due to overfeeding! And then again, it has been proven that meat is unnecessary as a food; and meat is obviously more difficult to produce than vegetable food, less pleasant to prepare and handle, and more likely to be unclean. But what of that, so long as it tickles the palate more strongly?"
"How would Socialism change that?" asked the girl-student, quickly. It was the first time she had spoken.
"So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it. But just as soon as labor is set free, then the price of such work will begin to rise. So one by one the old, dingy, and unsanitary factories will come down--it will be cheaper to build new; and so the steamships will be provided with stoking machinery, and so the dangerous trades will be made safe, or substitutes will be found for their products. In exactly the same way, as the citizens of our Industrial Republic become refined, year by year the cost of slaughterhouse products will increase; until eventually those who want to eat meat will have to do their own killing--and how long do you think the custom would survive then?--To go on to another item--one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population. And even if science were allowed to try, it could do little, because the majority of human beings are not yet human beings at all, but simply machines for the creating of wealth for others. They are penned up in filthy houses and left to rot and stew in misery, and the conditions of their life make them ill faster than all the doctors in the world could heal them; and so, of course, they remain as centers of contagion, poisoning the lives of all of us, and making happiness impossible for even the most selfish. For this reason I would seriously maintain that all the medical and surgical discoveries that science can make in the future will be of less importance than the application of the knowledge we already possess, when the disinherited of the earth have established their right to a human existence."
And here the Herr Doctor relapsed into silence again. Jurgis had noticed that the beautiful young girl who sat by the center-table was listening with something of the same look that he himself had worn, the time when he had first discovered Socialism. Jurgis would have liked to talk to her, he felt sure that she would have understood him. Later on in the evening, when the group broke up, he heard Mrs. Fisher say to her, in a low voice, "I wonder if Mr. Maynard will still write the same things about Socialism"; to which she answered, "I don't know--but if he does we shall know that he is a knave!"
But already there were people waiting, and already the telegraph instrument on the stage had begun clicking off the returns. When the final accounts were made up, the Socialist vote proved to be over four hundred thousand--an increase of something like three hundred and fifty per cent in four years. And that was doing well; but the party was dependent for its early returns upon messages from the locals, and naturally those locals which had been most successful were the ones which felt most like reporting; and so that night every one in the hall believed that the vote was going to be six, or seven, or even eight hundred thousand. Just such an incredible increase had actually been made in Chicago, and in the state; the vote of the city had been 6,700 in 1900, and now it was 47,000; that of Illinois had been 9,600, and now it was 69,000! So, as the evening waxed, and the crowd piled in, the meeting was a sight to be seen. Bulletins would be read, and the people would shout themselves hoarse -- and then some one would make a speech, and there would be more shouting; and then a brief silence, and more bulletins. There would come messages from the secretaries of neighboring states, reporting their achievements; the vote of Indiana had gone from 2,300 to 12,000, of Wisconsin from 7,000 to 28,000; of Ohio from 4,800 to 36,000! There were telegrams to the national office from enthusiastic individuals in little towns which had made amazing and unprecedented increases in a single year: Benedict, Kansas, from 26 to 260; Henderson, Kentucky, from 19 to 111; Holland, Michigan, from 14 to 208; Cleo, Oklahoma, from 0 to 104; Martin's Ferry, Ohio, from 0 to 296--and many more of the same kind. There were literally hundreds of such towns; there would be reports from half a dozen of them in a single batch of telegrams. And the men who read the despatches off to the audience were old campaigners, who had been to the places and helped to make the vote, and could make appropriate comments: Quincy, Illinois, from 189 to 831--that was where the mayor had arrested a Socialist speaker! Crawford County, Kansas, from 285 to 1,975; that was the home of the "Appeal to Reason"! Battle Creek, Michigan, from 4,261 to 10,184; that was the answer of labor to the Citizens' Alliance Movement!
And then there were official returns from the various precincts and wards of the city itself! Whether it was a factory district or one of the "silk-stocking" wards seemed to make no particular difference in the increase; but one of the things which surprised the party leaders most was the tremendous vote that came rolling in from the stockyards. Packingtown comprised three wards of the city, and the vote in the spring of 1903 had been 500, and in the fall of the same year, 1,600. Now, only one year later, it was over 6,300--and the Democratic vote only 8,800! There were other wards in which the Democratic vote had been actually surpassed, and in two districts, members of the state legislature had been elected. Thus Chicago now led the country; it had set a new standard for the party, it had shown the workingmen the way!
--So spoke an orator upon the platform; and two thousand pairs of eyes were fixed upon him, and two thousand voices were cheering his every sentence. The orator had been the head of the city's relief bureau in the stockyards, until the sight of misery and corruption had made him sick. He was young, hungry-looking, full of fire; and as he swung his long arms and beat up the crowd, to Jurgis he seemed the very spirit of the revolution. "Organize! Organize! Organize!"--that was his cry. He was afraid of this tremendous vote, which his party had not expected, and which it had not earned. "These men are not Socialists!" he cried. "This election will pass, and the excitement will die, and people will forget about it; and if you forget about it, too, if you sink back and rest upon your oars, we shall lose this vote that we have polled to-day, and our enemies will laugh us to scorn! It rests with you to take your resolution--now, in the flush of victory, to find these men who have voted for us, and bring them to our meetings, and organize them and bind them to us! We shall not find all our campaigns as easy as this one. Everywhere in the country tonight the old party politicians are studying this vote, and setting their sails by it; and nowhere will they be quicker or more cunning than here in our own city. Fifty thousand Socialist votes in Chicago means a municipal-ownership Democracy in the spring! And then they will fool the voters once more, and all the powers of plunder and corruption will be swept into office again! But whatever they may do when they get in, there is one thing they will not do, and that will be the thing for which they were elected! They will not give the people of our city municipal ownership--they will not mean to do it, they will not try to do it; all that they will do is give our party in Chicago the greatest opportunity that has ever come to Socialism in America! We shall have the sham reformers self-stultified and self-convicted; we shall have the radical Democracy left without a lie with which to cover its nakedness! And then will begin the rush that will never be checked, the tide that will never turn till it has reached its flood--that will be irresistible, overwhelming--the rallying of the outraged workingmen of Chicago to our standard! And we shall organize them, we shall drill them, we shall marshal them for the victory! We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep if before us--and Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours! CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!"
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Study Habits of Great Men
- Robert Vincent Today's Christian Preacher Magazine
- 2005 22 Aug
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (II Timothy 2:15)
Why did Paul pen these words? Had Timothy fallen into the trap of being so preoccupied with administering the needs in his church that he began neglecting time in the Word? Perhaps. Paul, however, from his firsthand knowledge of ministry struggles, offers Timothy wise counsel about studying. Even early church fathers acknowledged that in doing the good work of the ministry, pastors sometimes neglected one of their most important duties: giving wholehearted attendance to the Word.
Pastors have always been tempted to allow the tyranny of the urgent to distract them from tending to the indispensable. In classic volumes authored by preachers of all times, nearly every writer emphasizes the need for industry in study. Some prescribe specific methods, but most blend their voices with Paul's, calling their brethren to diligence in this vital duty.
When John Henry Jowett (1864–1923) listed "deadening familiarity with the sublime" as the greatest peril of the ministry (The Preacher, His Life and Work, p. 45), he assumed the preacher would at least be familiar with Bible truths. How would he describe the peril of a preacher who so neglected his study that he was genuinely unfamiliar with sublime things?
We should be thankful that many great preachers have done more than merely urge their pastoral brethren to be committed to scriptural imperatives about study—they have faithfully engaged in it themselves and serve as examples. Comparing ourselves to them may make our own lights appear relatively dim, but God's enabling grace in their studious examples should remind us that the God who requires our faithfulness to this obligation is able to sustain us in the pursuit of it.
Legislating specific study habits for every preacher would be unwise. However, apart from disciplined study, the fruit of the preacher's labor will prove unsatisfying to the people of God who come to the table eager to be fed. Here are some observations regarding the study habits and methods of men whose study God used to transform and enrich their preaching ministries.
1. Biblical, prayerful study methods varied, yet produced spiritual sensitivity. The specific forms of Bible study, the timing of it during the day, and the units of time devoted to study differed widely. Reading and studying were not divorced from prayer time, but were disciplines to be carried out in the spirit of prayer. Prayerful study helps preachers to not lose what William Quayle called "the sense of wonder" of divine things (William A. Quayle, The Pastor Preacher, p. 192).
2. Sustained study required self-denying discipline. In most cases, personal study disciplines were being refined continually; however, each man sensed the duty to strap on his ministerial "work boots" and apply himself to study. "Routine is a terrible master, but she is a servant whom we can hardly do without. Routine as a law is deadly. Routine as a resource in the temporary exhaustion of impulse and suggestion is often our salvation" (Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching,
p. 93, emphasis added).
3. Studying with a pen in hand increased the profitability of their studies. Often these men wrote simply to clarify and organize their own thinking. Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) gave much of his time to conscientious, systematic Bible study, piecing together the grand themes of Scripture and harvesting them into well-organized notebooks filled with his ongoing studies. Edwards aimed to understand the Scripture accurately and to use it to discern how and what God was doing in his generation that might contribute to His grand work of redemption. As he read, prayed, and even rode horseback, he was ready to write. He kept a pen handy to record helpful insights and reflections that grew out of his meditations.
4. Some topics of Bible study took much longer than others. Bible themes often demanded long exposure before their significance and breadth were truly grasped. G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945) diligently read through books of the Bible dozens of times before beginning to teach them. As often as possible, he attempted to read through a book in a single setting so that he captured and retained a sense of the book's contextual thrust and its timeless message.
5. Bible study and devotional reading, though interrelated, were not considered synonymous. Preachers who took time to feed personally on their Bibles apart from the more professional forms of Bible study reflected a teachable, humble spirit sometimes absent in those who only studied the Bible professionally. "Forget sometimes, in the name of Jesus Christ, the pulpit, the mission-room, the Bible class; open the Bible as simply as if you were on Crusoe's island" (H. C. G. Moule, To My Younger Brethren, p. 41).
6. Bible study and pastoral ministry were not mutually exclusive. Many kept the faces and needs of their church people in view while hovering over the Scripture, thus motivating their study of the Scriptures.
7. Gleaning the fruit of others' study was personally enriching and often stimulated further Bible study.
The most inspirational description I have heard from a modern preacher about the ministry came from James Stalker of Scotland (1848–1927) during an ordination sermon:
I like to think of the minister as only one of the congregation set apart by the rest for a particular purpose. They say to him: Look, brother, we are busy with our daily toils, and confused with cares, but we eagerly long for peace and light to illuminate our life, and we have heard there is a land where these are to be found, a land of repose and joy, full of thoughts that breathe and words that burn, but we cannot go thither ourselves.
We are too embroiled in daily cares. Come, we will elect you, and set you free from toil, and you shall go thither for us, and week by week trade with that land and bring us its treasures and its spoils (Alexander Gammie, Preachers I Have Heard, pp. 44–45).
Indeed, it is our glorious task to "week by week trade with that land and bring [our people] its treasures and its spoils." Paul established the biblical standard for us. God has enabled many who have preceded us to be faithful to that calling in the quiet of their studies. May the Lord enable our generation of preachers to be faithful in this vital aspect of our holy calling so that we will be well pleasing to the One Who put us into the ministry (II Corinthians 5:9).
Robert Vincent is an assistant pastor at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He also teaches Church History at Bob Jones University Seminary.
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I'm seeing a lot of mention of this being "the Year of the Sock". I'm not sure why that is, and it's not like I've seen it on Chinese restaurants placemats, but the word on the street is that this year is, in fact, the year of the sock.
And I had already made a rule with myself that I am not allowed to start anymore big* projects until I finish the ones I have hanging over my head right now (taking up my needles).
So I've been thinking about this "Year of the Sock" thing and have a proposition for you...
What if we officially name it TWO THOUSAND SOCKS (forget that silly 2006 thing) and aspire to knit TWO THOUSAND SOCKS this year? I don't mean each - gosh, that would use up my whole stash! No, I mean combined, all of us. I'm curious how many socks knit bloggers make in a year. Of course, I'm counting a pair of socks as two socks, so no worries about second sock syndrome. Doesn't matter if we keep them or give them away. We should only count the socks knit as of January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2006.
What do you think... are you with me? Everytime you finish a sock, or a pair of socks, however you want to do it, let me know - e-mail, comment, whatever. I'll update a ticker at the top, and we'll see how many chilly toes we're covering!
Let's make this year TWO THOUSAND SOCKS!!!!
* "big," as defined by me, is bigger than a pair of socks. This frees me up to start new projects that don't take a lot of time, thereby hopefully ensuring that I can play and frolic without guiilt.
Code for a button can be found in this link.
Baby booties count, single stockings count, victims of Second-Sock-Syndrome count... if it's a sock, it counts!
I don't care if the socks were started and forgotten sometime between 1900 and 2005, I only care if they get finished in 2006. So yes, count those pairs that were started before you knew about this!


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Sony in February announced 24.5-inch and 16.5-inch OLED display monitors priced at JPY2.42 million (about US$30,000) and JPY1.31 million, respectively. Their targets are professional users such as TV stations and movie production houses.
So far Sony has unveiled four OLED products. Besides the 11-inch OLED TV, which had already been phased out, the other three are monitors for the professional segment.
The price gap between OLED TV and LCD TV is too wide to generate consumer interest. The smaller screen and shorter product life are also issues that need to be overcome. The professional segment on the other hand is less concerned about size. Its main requirement is video quality and image authenticity. Furthermore, the price gap between professional-level LCD and OLED products are comparatively smaller, and therefore Sony has placed more emphasis on developing the professional segment for OLED.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are in less hurry to commercialize large-size OLED solutions. LG introduced a 15-inch OLED TV in 2009, and Samsung's OLED TV is still in test production.
Though Samsung and LG are less aggressive in new product launch, they are very active in research and equipment investments. LG Display recently announced that it will have the capability to mass produce 30-inch OLED TV panels by year's end, and Samsung is scheduled to begin test production of 32-inch OLED TV in the second half of 2012.
In regards to 8G OLED panel facilities, LG Display said that it will have 8G volume production capability in 2011, and Samsung Mobile Display will begin to invest in 8G lines in the third quarter.


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Armstrong, who died last month in Ohio at age 82, walked on the moon in July 1969.
"He's now slipped the bonds of Earth once again, but what a legacy he left," former Treasury Secretary John Snow told the gathering.
Apollo 11 crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Mercury astronaut John Glenn, 18 other astronauts, three NASA chiefs, and about two dozen members of Congress were among the estimated 1,500 people that joined Armstrong's widow, Carol, and other family members in the cavernous cathedral.
Collins read a prayer tailored to Armstrong's accomplishments and humility. A moon rock that the Apollo 11 astronauts gave the church in 1974 is embedded in one of its stained glass windows.
"You have now shown once again the pathway to the stars," Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon said in a tribute to Armstrong. "As you soar through the heavens beyond even where eagles dare to go, you can now finally put out your hand and touch the face of God."
Cernan was followed by a slow and solemn version of "Fly Me to the Moon" by singer Diana Krall.
The service also included excerpts from a speech 50 years ago by John F. Kennedy in which he said America chose to send men to the moon by the end of the 1960s not because it was easy, but because it was hard. The scratchy recording of the young president said going to the moon was a goal that "will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone."
Shortly after that speech in 1961 at Rice University, Armstrong, not yet an astronaut but always a gifted engineer, was already working on how to land a spaceship on the moon, NASA administrator Charles Bolden recalled. Snow talked of the 12-year-old Armstrong who built a wind tunnel. But most of Armstrong's friends and colleagues spent time remembering the humble Armstrong. Snow called him a "regular guy" and "the most reluctant of heroes."
Bolden, a former astronaut, said Armstrong's humility and courage "lifted him above the stars."
"No one, but no one, could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grace than Neil Armstrong," Cernan said. "He embodied all that is good and all that is great about America."
Bolden read a letter from President Barack Obama saying, "the imprint he left on the surface of the moon is matched only by the extraordinary mark he left on ordinary Americans."
Armstrong commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon July 20, 1969. His first words after stepping onto the moon are etched in history books: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong insisted later that he had said "a" before man, but said he, too, couldn't hear it in the recording.
Armstrong and Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface while Collins circled above the moon. In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon before the last moon mission in 1972.
Armstrong was a U.S. Navy aviator. He joined NASA's predecessor agency in 1955 as a civilian test pilot and later, as an astronaut, flew first in Gemini 8 in 1966. After the moon landing he spent a year in Washington as a top official at the space agency, but then he left NASA to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He later was chairman of two electronics companies, but mostly kept out of the public eye.
A private service was held earlier in suburban Cincinnati for Armstrong, who will be buried at sea.
In her homily Thursday, the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop for Washington, talked of how Armstrong sought to encourage young people to do even more, go even further.
Among the crowd in the cathedral was 14-year-old Shane DiGiovanna of Cincinnati, a young man who has spent his life grappling with an incurable skin disease and hearing loss. Shane idolized Armstrong and had always wanted to meet the first man on the moon, but it never happened.
But the eighth-grader met Cernan and former Apollo 13 commander James Lovell when they recently announced a memorial fund named for Armstrong at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center, where Shane has been treated.
The Armstrong family invited Shane to join them at the Washington memorial service, something Shane called a "really big honor."
Just as Armstrong was working on the lunar lander after the Kennedy speech, Shane said he is now working on drawings of a lander for Mars. He wants to be an aerospace engineer.
"I'm hoping," Shane said, "to definitely contribute a lot to the next step."


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This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Keeping track of your cash flow and accounts shouldn't be a big time sink. You've got more important things to do. So pick up your smartphone. Managing your company's money on-the-go has never been easier.
This on line service plus phone app allows you to create "expense reports that don't suck," which would be nice for everyone involved. You set up an account (free for individuals; $5/person for business expense report approval), download the right app for your phone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Palm), and start uploading receipts, adding account information, tracking expenses, syncing with QuickBooks, and creating reports and spreadsheets.
If you only get one money management app, Expensify should be the one.
Losing money on late fees because you forgot to pay a bill is just bad business. Set yourself up with Pageonce to end that senselessness. It allows you to track multiple account balances, bills, and payments, and set up alerts with the Payments Due feature so you don't forget to pay the bills. An account is free, as is the app for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, and Windows Phone.
For a simpler take on the bill reminder service, try BillTracker. This one is exclusively for Apple users: iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and the app costs $1.99. Users appreciate that it is straightforward, simple to use, and has both calendar and list view for upcoming bills. It's also pretty...
Know the key to money management? Know where your money is going. Loanshark allows you to calculate loan payments and will produce a full amortization table for you, so you can see how much interest you're paying, how much an extra payment or two would help, and more. $2.99 for the iPhone or iPad app.
LoanCalculator provides the same services for Android users, and it's a free app.
The go-to method for on line payments, Paypal is still a must for easily managing your money, payments, and transfers. The mobile app allows you to easily check your balance and payments received, as well as make payments or transfer money to your other accounts.
Whether you're traveling for business or putting together a proposal for an international client, having a handy currency converter makes it easy to keep track of dollars to euros or yen or... whatever. XE Mobile Currency provides live currency rates, and has apps available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone; all are free.
Expense tracking at its simplest and best. ProOnGo starts with the cloud-based service. Individual accounts start as low as $0.99/month and go up to $9.99/month; business accounts start at $27/month for up to 5 users and go up from there. Once you get your account set up, you can download the appropriate app; Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows phone are all covered. ProOnGo allows you to input receipts, track mileage, track your time, and create reports for Excel or Quickbooks (or a custom format).
When you just want a simple time tracking application, one of these will do the job. If you are a freelancer or outsourced worker, you can easily track hours logged on different projects. If you're the boss, you can track your own hours and see where your time is going. See ClockIn for Apple products (free) and TimeClock for Android ($3.99).
These invoicing apps are musts for freelancers in general and freelancers on the go in particular. Get the invoicing done, so you don't have to worry about remembering to do it when you get back home (and potentially, forgetting and potentially missing out on some money you're owed...).
Input your client's information, your hours worked, the rate, and any other expenses (or discounts and deductions). Send the invoice straight from your phone. For Apple users, the app of choice is Invoice2Go; a bit pricey at $10.49, but you can get a free trial version to make sure you like it. If you do, and you use it, it's well worth a $10 price tag to avoid missing an invoice. For Android users, MobileBiz is a feature-rich invoicing app with free, trial, and pro versions.
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In this year when the G. Henle Verlag celebrates its 50th anniversary, I would like to congratulate from the bottom of my heart everybody who works or has worked for this wonderful publishing company and to express my gratitude for everything they have done and continue to do. I'm convinced that many musicians will join me in saying how useful and valuable your work is. May the G. Henle Verlag prosper continuously - for the benefit and joy of so many musicians and music lovers!
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Easy to keep clean, the feeder's modern design has an ergonomic door to prevent head or collar entanglement. Its removable hood allows for quick owner access while a viewing window enables owners to check on their cat without disturbing it.
Feeds the right meal to the right cat.
Gatefeeder handles your supervised feedings for you and feeds the right meal to the right cat. The perfect complement to your pet's daily routine, it uses a Gatefeeder developed, collar mounted Smart ID to enable one designated cat access to food within an enclosed space. It guarantees all food – canned, kibble, a special diet or medication goes straight to the right cat, while simultaneously keeping mess and odors contained.
- The first patented controlled-feeding-solution for cats.
- A Smart ID on your cat's collar opens the door
- No Smart ID, no dinner!
- Keeps other animals out
- Indoor or protected outdoor use
- Precise delivery of medication and specialty food
Gatefeeder can store and keep fresh up to a weekend's worth of food for an average cat. One meal of canned food can be kept cool by means of an ice pack for up to 10 hours.
Gatefeeder provides your pet with a safe, hygienic and private environment that is tailor-made to its eating habits. It eliminates competitive eating if there is more than one pet in the household and prevents neighborhood animals from inviting themselves to dinner.
How it works
Utilizing a patented RFID system developed exclusively by gatefeeder, the system has a Smart Tag on your cat's collar that communicates with the gatefeeder door control mechanism.
The gatefeeder door control mechanism is usually in sleep mode. When your cat wants access they simply push the door which instantly wakes the system up and within a fraction of a second is able to determine if a Smart Tag is present and opens the door. Simple, reliable, effortless.
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Feeding on demand – without overeating and bloating
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In one of the most repugnant cases in recent memory, a Wisconsin DA is accused of sexting an abuse victim and trying to start an affair with her — and he's going unpunished.
According to the AP, Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz interviewed 26-year-old Stephanie Van Groll in 2009, when he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend for strangling her (the ex was later convicted). After their meeting, he began texting her. The text started out friendly, if still somewhat inappropriate — Kratz wrote "you have such potential" and "I wish you weren't one of this office's clients. You'd be a cool person to know!" But things quickly got worse — he asked, "Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA ... the riskier the better?" (we weren't aware this was a "kind of girl"). He told her not to tell anyone about the texts, and began to belittle her, referencing her "low self-esteem" and saying, "I'm serious! I'm the atty. I have the $350,000 house. I have the 6-figure career. You may be the tall, young, hot nymph, but I am the prize!" Concerned that Kratz would drop the case against her ex if she didn't sleep with him, Van Kroll went to the police.
Here's the worst part: Kratz won't be charged with anything, and while he took himself off her case and resigned from the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board (which the AP describes as "a quasi-judicial agency that can reprimand judges, prosecutors and police officers who mistreat crime victims"), he remains the top prosecutor in his area and plans to run for reelection. And he doesn't think he did anything wrong. Of the 30 text messages Kratz sent her, Van Groll says, "I had three days of hell." Patti Seger of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence says, "If what's being alleged is true, it's sad a prosecutor would use the same sort of power and control over a woman who has already experienced that in her personal life." But Kratz, who didn't deny the allegations, said "This is a non-news story." He added, "I wrote the law on crime victims in Wisconsin. That's the irony here." It is ironic, but not the way he thinks.
Calumet County DA 'Sexted' Abuse Victim [AP, via Wisconsin State Journal]


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Neon Museum
An Englishman in Vegas
Warren shooting
Where all the missing letters end up
Happy shirt and friends
Allah was here
Gab & Tim
That looks painful
Warren dressing (as Liberace) in the limo on the way to renew his vows
Kitty sans her headdress on the way to renew her vows
Warren's shoe(s) (& Bill)
"A" Elvis Chapel. Cause they don't need no stinking grammar in Vegas.
Kitty avec headdress
Kitty (and her shoes) and "Elvis"
Warren/Liberace and his limp candelabra
Trying to steal the attention. Note that they haven't noticed.
Everyone was in the spirit.
All the guys
Rob was prepared to step in if necessary
The headdress made the rounds, including on Suzanne
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Storing Fresh Basil
Cut basil just above leaf. Rinse/clean thoroughly; place in a small vase or tumbler so that stems are partially covered with water and leaves are above water. Poke small holes all over a small clear zip loc bag – and cover top of basil with bag. Place in refrigerator. The basil will retain most of its flavor and last up to a week.


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Jacqueline has given her permission to share her recipe right her in this post so you can find it at the bottom. If you want to see more of her recipes you can click on the book below and purchase it through Amazon.com. Also make sure you check out her video showing you exactly how to make this pasta. Thank you Jacqueline!
As I look to my pantry at the few items I buy that are processed, I have many boxes of pasta. It's easy to grab a box and not think about it. But the taste of fresh made pasta is one that cannot be beat.
So I'm going to use the recipe found in Gluten-Free Italian cookbook written by Jacqueline Mallorca. Her recipe requires a food processor and a rolling pin plus plastic wrap. If you have those items and are interested in doing a little experimenting with me well then lets get started.
You'll need brown rice flour, tapicoa starch, xanthan gum, salt, eggs, extra virgin olive oil and water. This recipe will make 1/2 pound of fresh pasta and serves 2. After the pasta is made and cut it only takes 2-3 minutes to cook and the good thing is you can make the pasta ahead of time and freeze it or keep it in the refrigerator. How impressive would that be for a dinner party to toss up a nice garlic and lemon sauce with maybe some seafood in it, toss your pasta into the water for 2-3 minutes and have an amazing meal. Hmm sounds like a good idea to me. Who wants to come for dinner?
I'd like for you to take a photo of your pasta with a note about your results and send it to me. Please let me know if I can share it in the follow up post to this one.
You know it's always more fun to try something new with friends than on our own. So I hope you will join me over the next two weeks in creating your pasta. I think I'll top my first batch with a traditional red sauce. How about you?
Oh, if you're looking for the recipe I don't post someone else's recipe without their permission. Still waiting on Jacqueline's so in the mean time if you email me, diane at glutenfreefoodcoach dot com, I'll share the recipe with you for our test kitchen purposes. Also, please leave a comment here letting us know you're going to give it a try so we can encourage each other along.
Recipe: Fresh Rice Flour Egg Pasta by Jacqueline Mallorca
- 2/3 cup brown rice flour
- 1/3 cup tapioca starch
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- tablespoon water
- Combine the rice flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum, and salt in a food processor, and process to mix. Combine the egg, yolk, olive oil, and 1 tablespoon water in a measuring jug and whisk to combine. With the motor running, pour the egg mixture over the flour and pulse until the dough forms into a rough ball. (If too dry, add a few drops of water; if too wet, add a little more rice flour.) Remove and pat together into a disk. Cut the dough in half and work with one half at a time.
- Place a ball of dough between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and roll into a very thin, even rectangle approximately 10 x 12 inches, turning it several times. (Italian cooks say you should be able to read newspaper headlines through rolled pasta dough.). Repeat with the remaining dough. If using immediately, peel off the top layer of plastic and cut into strips of desired width. (If refrigerating or freezing, leave the sheets inside the plastic wrap and cut later.) Peel the strips away from the bottom sheet of plastic and lay on a wooden board, so you can add them to the boiling water all at once.
- To cook: Bring 2 quarts of water to a rolling boil. Add 1 teaspoon salt and the pasta. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the pasta is al dente, 2 to 3 minutes. Drain and toss with butter and Parmesan cheese, or sauce of choice.
Quick Notes
This fresh egg pasta should probably come with a warning. It's addictive. The dough is easily mixed in a food processor, and after rolling it out between two sheets of plastic wrap, it can be cut into any width you choose: 1/4-inch wide strips for fettuccine, 1/2-inch to 3/4-inch wide for papperdelle, 2 inches wide for lasagna, or various shapes for ravioli. As with all fresh pasta, it cooks in just 2 or 3 minutes. The recipe is easy to double.
Diet (other): Gluten free
Number of servings (yield): 2
Culinary tradition: Italian
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- Dark border
- Strong integration with Amazon's bookstore
- Enhanced screen contrast
- Same weight as predecessor
- No Wi-fi-only version
Our Verdict
Large-format e-reader now comes with improved contrast and Wi-Fi.
What a difference a display can make. All it took was turning on the $380 Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite) second-generation large-format e-reader to see that Amazon's claims of a higher-contrast display than its predecessor were true. The E-Ink display indeed reflects a significant improvement in contrast, as evidenced by the clarity of the crisp text, and the darker blacks of graphics and words alike.
The blacks, in fact, truly look black; by comparison, the blacks on the original Kindle DX appear dingy and gray. Words on the Kindle DX (Graphite) appear to jump off the page, as you can see in this side-by-side photo (click for full size). Unfortunately, the darker text means that you can also more clearly see the jaggies in the default, and only, text font of the Kindle DX (Graphite), at least at the default third font size. The Kindle DX (Graphite) has a lighter, more solid background to its E-Ink display than its predecessor. Where the original Kindle DX appears to have a patterned, very newspaper-like background, the new Graphite version appears lighter in color, with less distinct patterning.
Also of note: The Kindle DX's new cosmetics. The unit is housed in a dark gray ("graphite") case, as opposed to the off-white case of the original Kindle DX and Kindle 2. I have to say I prefer the darker chassis. While this model clearly also has a superior display to those earlier models (an observation made in isolation of the case color), in general I find the reading experience enhanced by having a dark border around the e-reader. Most e-readers, including the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Kindle 2, are light-colored; but of those I've used that have light and dark varietals (Aluratek Libre eBook Reader Pro, Spring Design Alex eReader, and now Kindle DX), the dark version consistently provides the easier-on-the-eyes reading experience.
Page turns left me with the impression of being zippier than on the Kindle DX, but I still found myself frustrated by its still-sluggish navigation speed compared with an LCD-based e-reader experience. Amazon does add Twitter and Facebook social network support, so you can highlight a passage and share with your social network. On Facebook, for example, the shared passage goes into your News Feed, showing the book cover and attribution, and whatever message you wish to add before hitting send; follow the book cover back to Amazon's site for shopping links.
At $380, the Amazon Kindle DX continues to excel as a large-format E-Ink-based e-reader, for both Kindle books and PDFs. And its lower price makes it that much more attractive. But prospective buyers will need to consider the trade-off of purchasing this e-reader versus a multipurpose tablet like Apple's $499 iPad. E-Ink displays continue to hold a battery life and readability advantage (especially in bright sunlight), but the LCD-based iPad is more responsive and supports color.


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Buy GSC POWER DIVISION items online from CJMOTOR
GSC Power-Division was started to fill the need for high quality performance camshafts and valve train components for the Japanese Sport Compact cars of today. With little worthwhile offerings in the market and a passion for quality and performance GSC offers cutting edge designed camshafts and valvetrain components that are lighter and handle the most extreme conditions of the turbo sport compact engine.
GSC valvetrain components are created using the world's most advanced design, FEA, and flow simulation softwares to aid with real world performance testing. Our products are designed and manufactured on site on dedicated CNC machining centers with the utmost attention to detail, tolerance, and specification. Our cast camshafts and always ground on new quality chill cast or ductile iron billet blanks, our forged billet cams are turned from solid bar stock and ground on one of the most advanced CNC grinding machines in the world. The attention to detail in quality and performance has given GSC the chance to become a worldwide supplier and manufacture for some of the very best performance engines.


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Two miles north of the famous Akumal Bay is the Sirenis Resort and private residential community with a private beach club and resort access for owners. Inside the gates of Sirenis is the 8 unit Bouganvillea Condominium complex.
Superbly built and designed, these units are spacious. Each are individually titled and ready to move in as soon as you pick the color you would like your condo painted. Many upgrades including electric hurricane shutters, granite counter tops and extra large common area with pool and BBQ.
Unit #1 Ground Floor is over 1,600 sf and priced at $180k
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Each of these units has owner financing with as little down as $40k.
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Besides cultural delights, culinary treats and natural wonders, if there's one thing one seeks during a holiday in Spain, it's a bit of peace and relaxation. Where better to combine all of these elements than in a monastery, where serenity is the order of the day?
Thanks to Paradores' luxury and historic hotels, serenity is very much yours to enjoy at any number of the former monasteries where you can now spend the night. Let's review some of the most glorious locations of this sort.
Unique experiences
Located a mere 26 kilometres from Madrid, Parador Alcalá de Henares is housed within a 17th century monastery school in the very heart of this UNESCO World Heritage City. Tastefully restored in a minimalist style, the hotel combines modern comfort with classic elements like a peaceful cloister, a decadent spa and two restaurants where the meals are nothing short of religious experiences.
Unwind in the luxurious spa at Parador Alcalá de Henares
Parador Guadalupe, meanwhile, is located within the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe, another World Heritage Site, where you can lose yourself within the spectacular Gothic and Mudejar cloisters. The hotel is a romantic space that will take you back to simpler times with its charming, leafy courtyard and palatial rooms.
Further north, Parador Cangas de Onís offers the best of nature thanks to its location within the former San Pedro de Villanueva Monastery, surrounded by Asturias' Picos de Europa mountains. The warm rooms have excellent views of the landscape and the Parador offers perfect access to the shrine and lakes at Covadonga.
Romantic getaways
Also in Asturias, Parador Corias is set within the Monastery of San Juan Bautista, known as 'El Escorial of the North' due to its monumental beauty. Ranked as Spain's best non-urban hotel by Condé Nast Traveller in 2014, this amazing location offers views of the Narcea River and the mountains beyond, plus elegant cloisters, and even a Tuscan-style church.
Find peace in the elegant cloister at Parador Corias
Galicia's Parador Santo Estevo, meanwhile, is located within the eponymous Monastery, deep in the woods and by the Miño and Sil rivers. Featuring Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance cultures, it is a National Historic-Artistic Site and a dream come true for travellers seeking a bit of romance, with elegant rooms and a peaceful terrace café, as well as a great spa, located within.
Ready to reach a higher state of bliss while on your journey? Contact Paradores to book a stay at any one of these fantastic former monasteries today!


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Shu Uemura Plain Jane Giveaway!
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NYPD Pizza Gilbert, AZ Added to "Rated Kid Friendly" Restaurant Directory
KIDS, 10 and under, EAT FREE on Wednesday nights from 4PM: ONE FREE Yute's meal with the purchase of a 14" Pizza and TWO FREE Yute's meals with purchase of a 16" or 18" Pizza. The KID'S MENU features Spaghetti, Spaghetti and Meatball, Mac n' Cheese and Cheese Ravioli. Visit NYPD Pizza


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Global Real Estate Broker/Agent Referral Programme
Qualified Broker / Agents
The Regus Group will compensate licensed Real Estate Brokers/Agents in return for successful initial introductions and/or referrals (Referrals) of their clients not previously referred to Regus, which lead to an executed Service Agreement.
The Real Estate Broker/Agent Referral Program is reserved for commercial Real Estate Brokers/Agents, residential Real Estate Broker/Agents that are duly licensed and in good standing.
Initial Agreement
Office, Co-Working, Campus, Enterprise, Membership: Compensation will be calculated at 10% of the workspace portion of the monthly service agreement fee up to the first 12 months of the agreement term.
Virtual Office, Workplace Recovery: Compensation will be calculated at 10% of the monthly service agreement fee up to the first 12 months of the agreement term.
Active involvement is required in order to qualify for a commission.*
Office, Co-Working, Campus Expansions
Office, Co-Working, Campus, Enterprise expansions are defined as a customer who takes on additional workspace at an existing location that occurs within the initial agreement period.
Compensation will be calculated at 10% of the workspace portion of the monthly service agreement fee up to the first 12 months of the agreement term.
The Real Estate Broker/Agent must have active involvement in the client's decision to expand to qualify for a commission.*
Payment will be made weekly once an invoice is received.
A completed sale is defined as a signed service agreement and payment of the initial fee.
Invoices must be received within 90 days of the completed sale.
All commissions will be made payable to the brokerage company and not to an individual Broker/Agent.
Maximum payment amount shall be no more than 100,000 GBP or local equivalent on any single transaction.
If a client defaults during the term of their agreement whereby a payment for commission has already been made, Regus will invoice the Agent/Broker for the pro-rated commission paid for the term the client is in default or deduct that amount from a future payment.
Month to month agreements will be paid each month the customer remains a client up to 12 months.
Payment Method
All payments will be made by Wire/Bank Transfer or if in North America by ACH.
Real Estate Brokers/Agents must refer prospects through a Regus team member (this covers all) the Regus website or any other Regus approved mechanism.
In the United Kingdom, referrals will only be accepted by registering them on firstname.lastname@example.com.
In the event two or more Real Estate Brokers/Agents refer a prospect, Regus shall accept the first official referral received, unless instructed otherwise by the client.
Regus reserves the right to reject a referral to the extent the customer applied directly, is an existing customer or was referred previously through another Real Estate Broker/Agent.
Regus will endeavour to notify the referring Real Estate Agent of any rejections within 3 business days.
Submittal of a referral to Regus alone indicates acceptance of our terms and conditions.
Regus reserves the right to amend or terminate this policy at any time without prior notice.
Please send any additional questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
* Active Involvement means the Broker will notify Regus of the opportunity in the aforementioned manner.


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Age of War 2
The age of War 2 game fits in the real-time strategy game genre best, even though it has adopted a side-scrolling view. It has become a historical game because of the creative use of technology classes or evolution. As a leader of one-side of warring factions, you must build your empire starting at the caveman era. **Controversy** During the game launch, the sponsors, Max Games withheld distribution for about one year, keeping the game exclusive to their site. It marked a peak when browser games were the hottest thing on the internet during the 2009 browser game boom.


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Bring your binoculars, and get some good ones. With this once in a lifetime treat, you will not want to miss anything! Take a walk through the pyramids of the Yucatan, and marvel at the wonders of
this advanced civilization. Click here for a look at the trip up the New River to the large Maya settlement of Lamanai.
Birding, Maya tours, diving, fishing, trips to the mainland, the Belize Zoo, nature conservatories, the wonder of Belize is endless.
You can use San Pedro as a base to tour much of Belize, including other
cayes and much of the mainland.
We have fishing, scuba diving, bird watching, caving on the mainland, and on the lagoon side of Ambergris Caye, take a trip to Secret Beach. Belize is a wonderful place to enjoy fun in the warm, turquoise-blue waters of the Caribbean. Rent a jet ski and explore the coastline, ride the wake behind a wakeboarding boat, or take a parasail ride. For information on watersports in the area, click here!
For more information on the many things to do in the area, click here.
hotels will help you arrange tours and guides. Prices, schedules and destinations
change regularly, depending on the weather, the season, the particular guide
and how many other people want to go, so it's best to wait until you get
on the island to make your tour plans.
If you are independent-minded, you can put together your own day trips
and perhaps save money. For example, instead of paying US$125 per person
for a day tour of the Belize Zoo and points west, find another couple to
share the costs, grab a map and guidebook, take the ferry to Belize City
(or fly into municipal airport) and rent a car for the day. You can easily
visit the Belize Zoo, Xunantunich and Cahal Pech ruins and see something
of San Ignacio. Done this way, your cost will should be less than US$75
per person including your share of car rental, gas and entrance fees.
However, a guide can add a lot to the quality of your sightseeing. All
guides in Belize must attend training and are licensed by the government.
The San Pedro Tourist Guide Association is in the Town Hall on Barrier Reef
Drive, tel. 501-226-2391.
Here's information on a few of the popular day trip and tour options, with
price ranges.
Belize Zoo/Western Belize: This trip usually begins with a flight
on Maya Island or Tropic to the municipal airport, where you connect with
a shuttle bus which takes you on the Western Highway for a visit to the
wonderful Belize Zoo, maybe a quick peep at Belmopan, Belize's mini-capital,
lunch and perhaps a tour of Xunantunich, a Classic Period Maya site. Around
US$100 per person.
Lamanai Ruins: Most of these trips start with a short boat ride
across the lee waters of Ambergris to the mainland, then a trip up the beautiful
New River. You will see many birds and perhaps manatees, crocodiles and
other wildlife. Lamanai has a wonderful setting on the New River Lagoon.
You'll get a private tour of this Maya site and likely will see a troop
of black howler monkeys. Often includes lunch at Lamanai Outpost Lodge.
About US$150 per person.
Altun Ha Ruins: You go by boat across to the mangrove cut, where
you transfer to a van to visit this Maya site, which dates back some 2,000
years, on the Old Northern Highway. There is an abundance of wildlife, such as monkeys... for the more leisurely who would rather see the jungle, cool off, enjoy swinging like Jane and Tarzan, and perhaps get mood mud treatments and lunch at Maruba Spa. Much less travel time than the Lamanai trip. About US$125 per person.
Baboon Sanctuary: You go by boat to the mainland, then up the
Belize River to the Community Baboon Sanctuary area. About US$100
per person.
Crooked Tree: Birders will want to investigate this trip. It usually
includes a round trip flight to the municipal airport in Belize City where
tour members are met by a van and driven up the Northern Highway to Crooked
Tree, one of the main birding centers in the country. Around US$160 per
Caye Caulker: A day trip to Ambergris Caye's "little brother"
island can be done by air or boat. If the latter, the trip is usually packaged
with a snorkeling tour. One of the best trips to Caulker is on the Winnie
Estelle, a classic island trader. Several catamarans also do this trip.
US$40 to $75 per person.
Tikal: You can even do a day trip to Tikal. The Tikal ruins in the Petén district of Guatemala
are, in excavated area at least, larger and more spectacular than any Maya
site in Belize. It's an astounding place. The only way to get there and
back in one day from San Pedro is to fly to the air strip at Flores. Several
tour companies offer day trips from San Pedro, around US$250 per person.
Caving and cave tubing:
Begin your journey back through time as you enter the amazing realm of Belize's cave-systems. Enjoy this experience into the Mayan underworld.
Click here for more information
Zip lining: This exciting experience is where the adventurer gets a true birds eye view of the pristine jungle while feeling the exhilaration of zipping along on a set of cables, from treetop to treetop.
Flying through the air surrounded by nature is a very exhilarating feeling, the birds and Howler Monkeys are at eye level making you at one with the prolific nature Belize is famous for.
A first class high adventure Trip for adrenaline junkies and thrill seekers in the heart of the Belizean Wilderness.
The following local businesses can get you going on one of these tours.
For cruise ship information relating to Belize, click here.


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Isn't it weird that the previous owners had a sunflower painting hung in the same place I do?????
'course, I bought mine on Ebay!!
(this is really weird....I don't know if it's doing it on your monitor, but even though I am typing ebay in black, Blogger insists on changing it to blue. Blogger can be sooooooo weird!!!)
Boy, I have so much more to share!!!!!
More pictures of the room, stories about the stuff, close ups of more stuff. etc.etc.etc.etc.
But it's that time again......
I'm hungry, and you know what that means.
It's time to turn off the computer, and cook me some grub.
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La nuova versione di APT porta novità che cambieranno notevolmente il modo con cui utilizziamo questo tool da riga di comando. Questo il post di Michael Vogt su Planet Debian:
APT 1.0 was released on the 1. April 2014
The first APT version was announced on the 1. April exactly 16 years ago https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/04/msg00027.html
The big news for this version is that we included a new "apt" binary that combines the most commonly used commands from apt-get and apt-cache. The commands are the same as their apt-get/apt-cache counterparts but with slightly different configuration options.
Currently the apt binary supports the following commands:
* list: which is similar to dpkg list and can be used with flags like
--installed or --upgradable.
* search: works just like apt-cache search but sorted alphabetically.
* show: works like apt-cache show but hide some details that people are less likely to care about (like the hashes). The full record is still available via apt-cache show of course.
* update: just like the regular apt-get update with color output enabled.
* install,remove: adds progress output during the dpkg run.
* upgrade: the same as apt-get dist-upgrade –with-new-pkgs.
* full-upgrade: a more meaningful name for dist-upgrade.
* edit-sources: edit sources.list using $EDITOR.
Here is what the new progress looks like in 1.0:
apt-progress http://mvogt.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/apt-progress.png
You can enable/disable the install progress via:
# echo 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "1"' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar
If you have further suggestions or bugreport about APT, get in touch and most importantly, have fun!