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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Generational Aspects of Crafting
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I think people can have a hard time with the idea that styles and fashion change. Those granny-square vests were quite fashionable at a time and the people making them (your mom)(not a your mom joke) figured themselves quite hip and crafty to be able to do it. I hate to say it, but "it's not your grandma's ___" is a pretty sophomoric statement. It's like a high school kid scoffing that her parents are such squares and don't know anything and then proceed to do exactly the same things, but in an updated color scheme and with a new soundtrack.
So, yes, I agree with you. Of course it's your grandmother's sewing, you're just updating the materials and cuts to be on trend with current style. It's the same thing when shopping for patterns; you have to look past the frumpy envelope to see if the bones of what you want is there.Quick thought that bugs me about the it's not your grandmothers or mothers sewing...
My mom helped me make my prom dress and it was her teaching me the ins and outs of couture dressmaking that helped me when working with a dressmaker on my mothers 1961 wedding gown for my wedding. I need their sewing and their knowledge.
They gave me the solid knowledge to make quality and my own style.Lucky girl! You look cute in the turban!
I don't take offense to that statement about it not being grandmothers sewing. I agree unfortunately you have to keep things moving toward change in order to keep people (possibly younger generations) to be interested in what could be a dying craft. I am also in your age group, and I was fortuate enough to learn to knit from my great gram, discuss sewing with my grandma and other older family members. Its a way to connect to the past and continue on traditions which I feel society needs.I strive for my sewing to be just like my grandmother's! She was a talent and creative sewist who could turn any piece of fabric into a gorgeous garment. She learned to sew from her father who was a tailor of some repute in a small town in New Brunswick, Canada. The building were he had his shop has a plaque on the front celebrating his work and contribution to the community. My mom says the sewing gene skipped a generation (she does not sewing) and landed on me. When I use traditional sewing and tailoring techniques I feel a wonderful connection to my grandmother and my great grandfather.
ReplyDeleteI recently lost the 2 grandmas in the past two years that were the ones that taught me to sew, knit, crochet, and hot glue in emergencies. I would feel like I was discrediting a huge portion of my influence if I tried to get away from that. Even on my blog, if you look at my about me page, the pictures I have up are the pictures of my first time at a sewing machine, sewing side by side with my "Nonnie" when I was four years old. It's like when people say my perfume smells like an old lady's because it is rose oil! What makes rose oil only for old ladies, and why is that a bad thing? Pssssht! Old ladies are awesome, and I love roses!
ReplyDeletei, like everyone else, don't have a problem with admitting that what i sew, crochet and generally create has been handed down through the generations. I get a huge amount of satisfaction sewing vintage and heirloom inspired designs. I've most recently been creating 1940's layettes and learned to crochet edges for the purpose of being able to produce an era appropriate wrap/blanket. The daygowns are gorgeous with lace and embroidery and the bonnets are to die for. i have no desire to update these patterns; instead i'm creating them as they would have been created generations ago.
ReplyDeleteHey, sometime you need to give us a turban tutorial, I want one like that-- It looks great!
I am offended by ageism of any kind. But lately there does seem to be a snotty element that scoffs at any crafting taught by someone older than themselves. In my book, the older you get, the more you know (right?)My grandmother (born 1896) said that the distinction was not between modern and old-fashioned, but between "homemade" and "handmade". She said that "homemade" should apply to cooking where it was a compliment, but "homemade" applied to clothing meant it was not "quite up to snuff". "Handmade", however, meant that care and attention to detail were hallmarks of its quality. She used to chide my mother for settling for "homemade" clothing. So while I'm a lot older than most of you are, I've experienced the "not your grandmother's", too. I think every generation does.
ReplyDelete- KristenMay 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM
I hope you have a lovely time in Denver, close to my hometown of Boulder:) If you have any free time at all I would suggest taking in the YSL exhibit at The Denver Art Museum. It's amazing and isn't going to be hosted anywhere else in the U.S. http://www.denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/yves-saint-laurent-retrospective
ReplyDelete First of all I love the look. Fabulousity is an attitude not a look and you are FABULOUS!
As we get older there are certain truth's about ourselves that we have to come to accept. We like to think that we have become so advanced that we couldn't possibly be producing the same things our grandmother's did. Every idea we have, even ones we think are fresh and new come from something in our past. When we create we create from a place in ourselves where all our experience is brought together to create something that we consider a masterpiece. But even when you look at runway fashions, there is nothing new there, you can almost guarantee yourself that when you look back through fashions that have come before you will find reflections of our past.
As we speak there has been a revival of handmade goods and crafts and you will find this on Etsy and other sites. Even vintage wares are getting new lives. In reality the only things that have advanced are our tools of creation. But all of the techniques are the same that my grandmother would have used. We still manage to do a seam the same way that it was done 20 years ago and couture design is also much the same. My grandmother was the first on her block to get a Singer foot paddle sewing machine. It was cutting edge at the time and I am sure she thought how advanced that she was. We can make quality products with the advancements we have made, but a nod to those that came before us, that created before us, that inspired us to be what we are is certainly in order for us to continue to move forward.I learned so much about sewing from my grandma that I certainly don't live by that adage. My grandma copied RTW items onto newspaper patterns and amazed everyone with her excellent copies. Even my brothers and many male cousins benefited during the Miami Vice/Magnum PI era - all had awesome Hawaiian style shirts that fit perfectly! She was a true inspiration.
As for your photo, you so rock that look :-). I would not be afraid to sit next to you on the crack o' dawn flight! Hope all goes well in Denver.As the sufferer of a bad hair life, I desperately need one of those turbans.
And Denver rocks. Lived there for eight years.
I've always hated the "It's not your mother's/grandmother's/father's/etc. [whatever]" line, too. For one . . . it probably is, and for two . . . so what? Preceding generations knew a lot of good stuff. That my mother made all our winter clothes and Hallowe'en costumes, and most of my most fondly-remembered outfits, is one of the biggest reasons that I sew, too.
Besides, I've discovered over and over that my mother's and grandmother's generations light up like Christmas trees when they see "their sewing" on me (usually in the form of a dress made from a 1940's pattern). It's a generation-gap mender, if anything.I think the "not your grandma's ..." statement is more for the non-crafters out there. Kinda telling them that it's not the macrame and granny squares you remembered, to get them to take a look and see that these things are wortwhile. It's all about getting people to get rid of their pre-concieved notions about crafts and try them to see what the endless possibilities are. It's more a cute way of saying that's its a fresh take on things.
Personally, my grandma is my sewing mentor, so if my stuff looked half as good as hers I'd be proud! I wish I had my grandma's sewing skills!My mother & grandmother taught me to sew. They sewed bec. they *had* to -- living on a farm, they sewed all their own clothing for years. Now, I don't *have* to sew, & what I create are historical costumes, so technically this is not my grandmother's or mother's sewing. But I owe a huge debt to them, & I honor that with everything I do. And heck, I borrowed my mom's fancy new computerized sewing machine even!
ReplyDeleteThose statements always confuse me. If anything, finding myself suddenly loving sewing in my thirties, I'm surprised by how similar I've become to my mother! She sewed all my clothes when I was little and had stalls at craft fairs and it wasn't something which interested me at all; I never thought we had that much in common until recently. Crafting really isn't a new thing our generation has invented!
ReplyDeleteI think that to understand the "not your grandmother's...." statement, you need to look back to the origin; the "Not your father's Oldsmobile" ad campaign. http://godsofadvertising.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/this-is-not-your-fathers-oldsmobile-how-a-portfolio-tarnishing-piece-of-creative-changed-our-culture-forever/
ReplyDeleteDarn it! I wasn't finished with my post. Anyway, you'll understand the silly commercial that prompted the whole "not your grandmother's...." comparison of the new generation of crafts to the old. You'll also get to see a younger William Shatner and his daughter in 80s clothing (which was not better than that of previous generations, if you ask me).
ReplyDelete- TamzinMay 2, 2012 at 3:52 PM
I think of my grandmother every time I thread a needle. She was the first person to show me how. My most treasured piece of sewing kit is her old thimble. I use it every time I sew.
It IS my grandmother's sewing, and I'm so thankful for that. Especially when I'm sewing clothes for my children, whom she would have loved so much if only she'd lived long enough to know them. That thimble is like a little piece of her still here, guiding my hand. Using the skills she taught me, and the tools she left me, is a way of incorporating my grandmother into the fabric of our daily life.
My knitting and sewing skills have developed over the years as a fun hobby. Hers were developed out of necessity during WWII, the era of make do and mend. To disclaim this heritage of thriftiness, and the ability to be creative with severely limited means - especially in our current economic climate - is foolish and dare I say, arrogant.
It IS your grandmother's sewing. It's her knitting too. It was her grandmother's before her, and I hope will be my grandchild's after me. - AnonymousMay 2, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Paige, I really liked your point about the Oldsmobile commercials, which I remember. But that can't be the whole story, because (as I posted on the STC blog) the "not your grandmother's..." thing is solely applied to traditional women's pursuits. No one ever says to the young men (and women) over at Makezine that what they're doing is "not your grandfather's" carpentry/welding/circuitry etc. I applaud all the folks in this thread who have vocally honored their grandmothers, as I do with mine, Tannicia, who first taught me to sew when I was five and who left me her terrifying iron pinking shears and a thimble that is older than my mother.
ReplyDelete My Nanna (who passed last year aged 91) taught me to crochet as a way of bonding and spending time together after my grandfather passed away 10 years ago. She has helped me since with knitting cardigans for kids when they were tiny and I am really grateful she took the time to show me and spur me on to more challenging things.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a great point; I actually really admire and embrace the styles of our great-grandmothers' time, as well as the mentality of making things yourself rather than today's throwaway society mentality :)
That said, the phrase itself doesn't bother me because I know what they're getting at - however, if you're not drawn to making things naturally, a gimmick like that probably isn't going to change your mind that much :)
I think you look sassy and fabulous in your turban and no-makeup - rock it, girl :)- SewCaliforniaMay 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM
The phrase "not your grandmother's . . ." is really more about lowering one's expectations than it is about being new and exciting. It implies that a newer approach is faster or easier than the "old-fashioned" approach. My sewing grandmother died long before I was born but I was raised with the amazing quilts she made 20 years before my birth -- many times I measured her perfectly sewn top stitches which were exactly equal in spacing & length. I've been sewing for 47 years & I still can't begin to match her stitching! My grandmother learned to sew before 1900, my mother learned in the 1930's, I learned in the 1960's & my daughter learned after 2000. Some of our tools are different but the basics are exactly the same. The "not your grandmother's . . ." phrase is insulting and ignorant.
ReplyDelete I should be so lucky to do my grandma's sewing. The grand old bird was hand-piecing quilt tops right up till the end, when she was freaking blind! I'm okay with whatever marketing gets the young people into the sewing scene. Too many times have I offered to teach people and they just want me to do the their alterations and move on with life.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I'm concerned... gramma's sewing (and Mom's) is how I got my start! If not for them, who knows if I would have been interested! I do all sorts of sewing, dress making, wedding dresses, quilts, etc... so more power to giving "them" credit!
Oh, and my mom wore a turbin somewhat similar (a little farther forward on the front of the head)when in High School... (she graduated in '52) but she needed to wear one cause when she had a bout of ring worm... the dr. doused her head in turpintine... and it burned her scalp so bad it took a long time for her hair to grow back. Her mom made her the turbin, and got a couple of horse hair curls to apply to the front to make it look as if she had hair. All was fine and good until one of her "teachers" pulled it off her head in front of the entire class! Ahem, gramma went to the school and lit into that teacher pretty good from what I hear. Now adays... that would have been a law suit in the making!I dislike the phrase. I think it is dismissive of skills and experience, and sortof divisive - like we can't all play crafts/sewing/knitting together.
Of course, at least half the time that phrase means that you are going to put together a 'sewn' outfit with a "no-sew!" glue gun approach that you "can finish in an afternoon!" That truly is not anybody's grandmother's sewing.
What I find really hilarious though, is when they use the phrase to refer to 'upcycling' which exactly IS my depression era/WWII recycling/upcycling grandmother's sewing. They had to reuse as there wasn't much to buy and what there was was expensive. Not like going to Target now. They also didn't have a zillion thrift shops back then.- lianneMay 2, 2012 at 9:41 PM
I think you look great!
We should all fight against any denigration of making things. The "not your [oldster moniker]'s" whatever is all about the maniacal ageism of American culture. It's idiotic that creating anything useful is equated with antiquity, and it only serves modern consumerism, with its endless emphasis on purchasing. - AnonymousMay 2, 2012 at 9:47 PM
While I may understand the impetus behind such a phrase, I feel no need to use it myself. My mother taught me to sew, as she was taught by her mother, and I'm proud of that.
I live in Denver too; let's throw together a group and do a fabric store crawl! But seriously, if you get a chance, the wildflowers are blooming early in the foothills this year. There are some gorgeous hikes. Great responses to Gertie's post. A lot of warmth and love for grandmothers who shared their skills and love of sewing. Unfortunately, neither one of my grandmothers, or mother for that matter, sewed! My mother did teach me how to knit continental style, but she really didn't like sewing. In fact, the only dress she ever made was when we lived in Boston back in the early 1960s. One sleeve was way too long, the other one too short, and the hem was shorter in the front than the back. My mother never overcame her dislike of sewing, but she was a really good cook! So, the "not your grandmother's sewing" doesn't offend me one bit. However, I do understand that it is making a negative comparison to crafting skills and garments made by older generations. I take sewing classes and 95% of the ladies serge most of their garments, bags, etc. Couture techniques, underlining garments, pad stitching, lining, bound buttonholes, etc., are not in their book. I am an oddity in my sewing classes because those are the skills that hold my interest and passion.
ReplyDelete- Cheryl LemmonsMay 3, 2012 at 12:23 AM
I aspire to sew the way my great-grandmother did. An older cousin (who learned to sew from her) told me that she never sewed a seam on the machine until it was perfectly hand-basted. She (the cousin) would take her shopping at Neiman Marcus and "Ma" would look at the underside of garments and just shake her head. When teaching my cousin to sew she would say, "Now Patricia, that just won't do." She insisted on quality. Ironically, Patricia ended up sewing for a Neiman Marcus designer. In addition to being a first-rate seamstress (the term for sewist in those days), she always had a large garden and canned most of the food they ate. They knew how to live "off the grid" before the grid existed. I long for the good parts of that life (not naive enough to think it was all good . . . I love having the toilet in the house).
And you do look splendid with no makeup. I'm quite proud to have learned from my granny, I find it very arrogant the way some people think that because they have found a new bandwagon, to them, to jump on nobody else has ever known anything about it. Especially as some of the things made by such people are frequently not well done, they won't take the trouble to learn properly so throw together something awful and then boast about it to anyone who will listen. Yes, learning to do a thing well takes application and a lot of time and effort.
My granny's embroidery was stunning and I'd be furious at anyone who turned their nose up at it because they thought it was too old fashioned!Doesn't all that phrasing go along with our current trend of being somehow better than those that went before us. It's everywhere, surely ancient people were stupid. (oh wait, they built what?)
It seems everything we do is to make us better than the last generation that messed it all up for us.
I can't stand the attitude.
I never knew my grandmothers but I learned so much from my mother. Since I now earn money for my sewing skills, kudos to my mom! She would be so proud. I wish she was here to enjoy it with me.
Somebody way up the feed gave some homemade vs handmade comparisons, wow, that was wonderful! I will keep that tucked away in my mind.
Have a safe trip and you look amazing...always!I consider "not your grandmother's sewing" a code for slapped together shredded crafty crap that passes for sewing. Heaven forbid that they should pick up a needle and do hand sewing when they can cram it through a machine or use glue, or take longer than 1 hour to do a project.
The only time I agree with "not your grandma's sewing" is considering the machines readily available to home-sewers these days - embroidery, overlockers, coverstitchers, blindhemmers, etc.- AnonymousMay 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I think it's a heinous expression, full of contempt for older women and their work. I don't have grandchildren myself, but it makes me want to slap their little faces.
Good thing I know some very nice young people.. - Claire from EdinburghMay 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM
I don't like the phrase. Of course we all want to make stylish clothes whether knitting or sewing, but somehow people have to denigrate things to make sure they know it is new and fashionable. I have just started to laugh at some typical UK things - like 'cardigans are back in fashion' frequently crops up. Or, wow, knitting can be fashionable, you don't have to be a granny. Or worse older women in the public eye saying they are not ready for settling down and knitting. etc. etc. I have knitted for years, but only just learned to sew a couple of years back. I have a lovely photo of my mum cutting out her wedding dress c1937, an absolutely lovely bias cut dress - but I got put off sewing at school. It is so great to be able to create something, often looking to the past for style. I think people are so worried about not being cool that there is a need to qualify crafts by saying 'this is different and new'. I sort of understand how people feel the need to do that, but really we shouldn't need to put down others?
ReplyDelete Based on the comments here and @ STC craft, I think I have had a very different experience than most with crafting. Crafting was something my grandmother HAD to do. She worked very hard to make sure her kids wouldn't have to. My mother sewed a bit when she was young, but never learned to knit, and that was seen as a GOOD thing. She went to college, got her Master's, she didn't need no stinkin' sewing. My grandmother never taught me to sew either, I just figured it out by myself, in my bedroom, with a piece of fabric I bought at a yard sale and the needle I stole from my mom's darning box (hidden away behind the linens).
Homemaking in my family was seen as drudgery and suffering. Successful educated people need never worry about that kind of drudgery. What I craft is not at all drudgery. It's fun. It's creative! What I do is definitely not my grandmother's sewing. I do it for the pleasure of crafting, not because I have to, not because I need to clothe my children, not because I can not afford to buy new pants, not because my socks have holes. My grandmother's crafting was work, mine is play.- AnonymousMay 3, 2012 at 10:01 PM
I think it's an awful phrase and disrespectful - and often those that use it most often produce the most mediocre things with no true workmanship. I'm from a family of stitchers and I'm proud of that.
When people talk about the breakdown of the traditional family units, I think it's reflected in these wonderful skills not being passed on. Long live our rocking' grannies I say! I always say that I inherited my love for sewing from my grandma, who passed away two years ago. My mom was never interested, so when I expressed an interest she was surprised, to say the least. I sew (or draw, or sculpt, or create in general) because I love to. Anyway, I've always felt removed by such statements as "not your grandma's sewing", which almost feels more like self-promotion than anything else. Hehe... but this does make me think of a certain Natalie Dee cartoon :)
ReplyDeleteI hope my sewing is every bit as much "my Grandmother's sewing"! She made the most wonderful dance costumes, pageant dresses, and other things for her kids and grandkids. She made my wedding dress and I wouldn't have had one from a store for all the money in the world. All the little seed pearls sewn on by hand by my Grandmother, my Mom, my future MIL, and me - sitting in my Grandmother's living room on the sofa, on the floor, sewing and talking for an entire weekend. The marriage may not have lasted, but that dress and those memories will ALWAYS be special! Now, when I sew, it is my grandmother to whom I show my handiwork. I want her to see what I can do since those days of making clothes for my barbies and awkwardly attempting to put together quilt squares as a little girl. It is also my Grandmother that I call when I have a sewing question or problem. It is the tradition of sewing for oneself and one's family that inspires me to continue to sew, create, learn, and do! Love Live Our Grandmother's Sewing!!!!
ReplyDeleteI completely forgot to add this in my post previously and my husband reminded me. His grandmother was the seamstress that sewed the first astronaut suit for test flights from NASA and her prototypes are now at NASA/Johnson Space Center here in Houston, Texas. So if his grandmother's skills were good enough for NASA then good enough for me!
ReplyDeleteIt's a tempest in a teapot frankly. It's not my grandmother sewing (and also mine for that matter because I learned to sew before Title IV was passed); women who sew today do it because they want to, not because it was something they were expected to learn because it was considered the badge of a good wife and mother and it was their sole option because only boys played sports.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 6:08 PM
My grandmother sewed because she had to; she stopped sewing as soon as she could afford shop-bought clothes, which, frankly, were better quality than anything she could produce (she was not one of the world's most domesticated women).
My mother sewed our clothes when I was little; she stopped sewing once we discovered charity shops as an endless supply of good-as-new garments (you just have to track down the one in a hundred that was meant for you...)
I started sewing as a way of using up fabric that would otherwise have been wasted; I sew 'like grandmother' because I don't have a lot of money to throw at this hobby (why spend money on vanishing ink and glue guns and self-adhesive hem tape when you have yards and yards of thread to mark and tack and hem with?)
In one way I sew couture; in another way I sew vintage. Basically I sew frugal, because my time and skill costs me nothing, and shortcuts come expensive. I've been given old thread, old notions, old patterns, an old household/sewing manual from the 1930s - I sew the way they had to sew when they didn't have the option to sew otherwise. I learnt to sew by mending with needle and thread... - AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Sorry about the anonymous post; I ticked Name/URL, but Blogger isn't giving me the option to enter them...
I meant to add that in my 1930s household manual, a section on crochet is introduced by the words To most people this probably sounds very dull, as they begin to remember the crochet mats and antimacassars they have seen in the homes of their grandmothers...!
So let's not forget that our venerated crafting grandmothers were, in all probability, busy looking down on their own forebears :-)
Harriet Bazley Personally, I would love to have the sewing skills that my nanna, and all of my previous forebears had. They had a sense of individuality because every piece was homemade, and tailored to you, in the fabric that you wanted, and the pattern that you had saved up to buy. I remember my nanna saying once that it also meant that you took better care of your clothes once you appreciated how long it takes to mend/ make them. In this day and age, where it costs so little to replace something that would have taken hours to fix, we seem to forget that it was a highly valued skill that women learnt from a young age(and I say that as a femenist, yes - we can achieve true equality and hold onto some useful skills along the way :)) A few of my male friends feel the same way about things they didnt learn (some as simple as learning how to perform home maintenence stuff like fixing leaky taps etc) because they felt that their grandfathers knowledge was obsolete nowadays... kind of like how we shun our female elders as antiquated and opressed housewives when thats not the case.
As someone who was actually taught by my grandmother to sew and knit, I'm pretty proud to say that I sew like my nanna does :) As one of the younger generations I feel that they have valuable information that we can always learn from and build on. And we could be losing valuable knowledge because as a society our obsession with identifying ourselves as youthful cause us to shy away from identifying with our (usually) wiser elders.I find the idea of "not your grandma's sewing" strange as I think people who sewed back then had to have a better mastery of all things sewing. I'd assume. And it's also strange since retro-type clothes are in style. It just seems like a forced catch phrase.
Side note - without make-up and your hair in a turban, you're still adorable. It's a little irritating. ;)My beloved Grandma sewed until the end of WWII and then gratefully stopped. She became a working woman and was very proud of her job as the person who bought furs from northern trappers for southern furriers.
She once told me that she hated sewing, and was in fact the person who taught me every trick in the book (and then some!) to avoid threading a needle. She loved to craft for fun though, and was a true artist with food, knit, crochet, needlepoint, and even embroidery - all of the 'fun' stuff. As far as I know, she was the first generation in our family to be able to do 'the fun stuff' and buy ready-to-wear.
My mom writes and that is her creative thing. She is constantly marveling at my organizing, carpentry, sewing, canning, etc... So it's not my grandmother's sewing if only because I actually enjoy it.
When I started to sew I learned it all on my own, and a little from my youngest son, age 15, who took sewing and loved it.
I must be a genetic sport!
The turban is fabulous, btw ;-)
Renata- Ro MacDaddyAugust 5, 2012 at 3:38 AM
My grandmother sewed very well. And did embroidery. And knitted. And crochet. And woodwork. And made shoes! She died before i was born and I know her through the things that she left behind. My mother sews too. I sew for the same reasons they did. To get a well fitting, stylish, well made garment which will be exactly what I want and at a cost I can afford. My grandmother's sewing is ok with me. I wish she was here to teach me.


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Bar 65-66 last movt contains the mistake from the score which I believe is accurate in the parts and is addressid in the wolfgang horn Barenreiter edition - there is another bar of bass material before the first oboe entry. This error was in the schoenbaum edition (first Barenrieter publication) and was first pointed out by Holliger when he made his 1970s recording.

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Europe's unsettled political climate after the weekend elections in France and Greece raise one obvious question: What's next?
The elections, in which French President Nicolas Sarkozy was defeated and Greece's major political parties struggled to form a governing coalition, have raised fears about the political and economic stability of the European Union. Some potential scenarios coming out of the elections:
Staying The Course
Once the buzz of the victory wears off, Hollande is going to find that his campaign vision of rolling back austerity measures will be difficult to square with the economic realities, experts say. The bond markets and EU powerhouse Germany already have their eyes on the new socialist president, and if they sense that he's going to back away from the belt-tightening, they could sell off French bonds and drive up the price of borrowing.
"It's one thing to make campaign promises. It's another thing entirely to deal with the German leadership as well as the bond market," says Alberta Sbragia, the director of the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
However, doing nothing would be a very difficult move for Hollande, who would be seen as going back on his campaign promises, says Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"The election results in both France and Greece cannot be ignored," he says. "I think there will have to be some easing off of the austerity."
It would be difficult, for sure, to do nothing, agrees Scheherazade Rehman, director of the European Union Research Center at George Washington University.
"The markets are not going to attack France right away," Rehman says. "But there is a huge risk that if Hollande take some positive steps early on that the markets could start to view France as another sick man in Europe."
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For Greece, the question of what to do may be nothing more than academic. The political instability caused by a wrangling for power among the various parties trying to form a government will, for the time being, virtually ensure that no big changes are made, Rehman says.
It's the most likely as well as possibly the best-case scenario, experts agree.
The problem is that in France and Greece, the governments there were trying to do too much at once, says Prasad.
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For Greece, he says, it would be even worse — including bank runs and riots on the streets of Athens. Greece would have to unmoor itself from the very lifeline that has kept it afloat — the strength of the other EU economies.
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Even if Greece tried to pay the debt back, "they will have no access to capital markets and the country will be shoved into the Middle Ages for the next 20 years," she says.
But Sbragia thinks it's more likely that Greece might withdraw from the eurozone some years down the road.
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One of the most extreme — and unlikely — scenarios is a complete dissolution of the eurozone and the collapse of a common currency.
"If the eurozone were to somehow break apart, which I do not think will happen, that would be a worst-case scenario," says Rehman. "As we saw in the financial crisis of 2007-2008, once a global financial crisis gets started, it's very difficult to control."
But the danger, while small in the short term, still exists. And it's the reason that the rest of the European Union has such an interest in making sure that Greece, for example, doesn't succumb to the urge to walk out, Kelemen says.
"If Greece left, then the markets would starting asking if Portugal is going to leave, spiking up their borrowing costs," he says. "So, everyone in the EU has an enormous interest in not letting the first domino fall."
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
David and Nabeel Enter the Dearborn Arab Festival
Pay close attention to our comments about freedom of speech and the importance of open dialogue. Quite ironic given what happened less than three hours later.
38 comments:
- Christie said...
Rather Ironic Dialog considering what happened next. Thank you for being so clear in your presentations! Praying for you!
- July 29, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Tizita said...
OK, David and Nabeel....
I have to admit, i wasn't really listening to what u guys were saying. Rather, i was keeping an eye on the gang of boys that were following u guys since the beginning.
One of the boys (with the ball) almost looked like he was threatening u guys, by pretending to throw the ball at the camera! towards the beginning of the video.
I just can't believe they were following u guys the entire time, AMAZING!
And at the end the kids that cut in between u two, rather than going around, i believe that was a deliberate act.
O muslims, i love u guys very much and my desire is for all of u to be born again. Like apostle Paul said....Lord send me to hell if it means all of Israel will be saved.
P.S. Insert muslims also w/ Israel for me. I love them both!!!! - July 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- Matt Teneight said...
Is that 'Roger Williams' following you in tan? He appears in the first video, where he is seen talking to two police officers,(6:47)who then point to you. After this, he is seen with you throughout the rest of the videos, sometimes on a cell phone. I'm sure you've noticed it already.
- July 29, 2010 at 2:42 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
You guys have quite an interesting group of "shadows" following you through there.
If I may venture...It seems to me that there is a bit of tension between two things David says. On the one hand, David, early on, you say that you want many Muslims to come to the United States in the hopes that they will see and (implicitly) be attracted to good Western values and (presumably) have an opportunity to embrace Christianity as well as such values as the good treatment of women, etc. You expressly distances yourself from those who want there to be fewer Muslims in the United States or who are worried about/oppose Muslim immigration. Yet later, you make the shrewd point that Mohammed preached a tolerant religion only so long as he was not in a position of power and preached the subjugation of the unbelievers when he had gained greater power, and you _expressly_ make a comparison between the "gaining greater power" situation and the reaching of what we might call a critical mass of Muslims in terms of _numbers_ as has happened in Dearborn.
Does it not seem that there is some tension here? What has happened in Dearborn, as you clearly see, is that unrestricted Muslim immigration has resulted in the overwhelming of certain communities with Muslim culture and values to the point where the Western ways are rejected and the police themselves go along with the suppression of Christian dialogue in certain situations, as at the Dearborn festival. This is clearly a result in no small part of the numbers of Muslims concentrated in that area. One can say that _if_ the police stood up for Western values, this would not happen, and that of course is true. But one can also see that the sheer Muslim presence in Dearborn is part of what makes this harder and less likely, as your later comment indicated.
This should perhaps make us rethink a completely open posture towards unrestricted Muslim immigration, any sort of "the more, the merrier" approach. It may be that as the Muslim presence grows more and more in numbers it will become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, actually to do what you hoped we could do as a result of Muslim immigration--namely, present Christianity and good Western values to those Muslims who are here and to protect the vulnerable among them, those who wish to leave Islam, etc.
I hope that these comments will not be offensive. I mean them simply as food for thought. - July 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Matt Teneight said...
Boys trying to get on camera is pretty much a universal thing, Kate.
- July 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Chad Groenhout said...
I think you have to remember that kids are kids. I don't think they being Muslim (if they were) has anything to do with it. They saw a video camera and started acting like teen aged kids. Pretty sure that would happen in anywhere USA. - July 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- David Wood said...
There's definitely a tension between (1) being for unrestricted immigration when Western leaders stand around praising Islam, and (2) acknowledging that increasing Muslim numbers will lead to increasing calls for Sharia.
But I don't support (1). I support Muslim immigration combined with active, direct confrontation of the views of the immigrants and their families. If the views of Muslims are actively confronted, I doubt that Sharia will be an issue in the West. - July 29, 2010 at 4:32 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
David, I have to say that even if our national leaders weren't so clueless and completely wrong in their comments about Islam, local situations such as that in Dearborn could still easily develop. Why not? People like Mayor O'Reilly and co. are elected by their own constituents--that is, by the people who actually live in their town and are citizens with the right to vote. That's democracy, and as long as we have a democracy, the numbers of people who hold to particular views (say, about freedom of religion) and live in our country, especially those who become citizens and/or are in a position to influence politics, police behavior, etc., will have to matter. In the end, that will (and does) affect who gets elected to positions of national leadership as well.
- July 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- David Wood said...
Matt and Chad,
That was more than boys trying to get on camera. As we were walking, I could hear them saying, "Hey, they're back," or "Yo, it's Nabeel."
Usually, they weren't walking where you could see them on camera. They were walking along side us and behind our cameraman. They were definitely trying to intimidate us.
Right after the two videos we posted, one of them asked us to leave. - July 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- Matt Teneight said...
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- July 29, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- Ree said...
You may be right about the result of unrestricted Muslim immigration, but if you are, it's not the fault of the Muslim immigrants, but of the leftist willingness to reinterpret and outright ignore our Constitution in favor of so-called "tolerance" and political correctness.
Right now, David and Nabeel are challenging the authorities to uphold the Constitution and, if they do so, then large-scale Muslim immigration shouldn't be a problem. But if they don't (and there is, by no means, any guarantee that they will), then the US will, indeed, go the way of Europe.
It seems to me that God may be using Muslim immigration as the instrument that will, depending on our response, either strengthen us or break us. - July 29, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Tom ta tum Tom said...
So, Okay. Lydia has raised the issue of Muslim immigration. We think that because of some 'law', we must allow un-checked Muslim immigration but I contend that no law can enable Muslim immigration to the USA. Why do I say this? Because no Muslim can be loyal to the Constitution of the United States of America - real Muslims are loyal to sharia and to Islam and CANNOT be 'immigrants'. Not even Muslims with all their taqqiya can serve two masters.
There is no such thing as a 'Muslim Immigrant'. There are EX-Muslim Immigrants and there are Muslim Invaders. Until Muslims leave Islam, they're only hostile, Muslim 'Invaders' of the USA when they move in here. They are seditious and treasonous and enemies of both the Body of Christ and of the USA - just as you and I were enemies of Christ Jesus before being crucified with Him.
We as a nation want so much to be merciful to those who seek refuge with us but in fact, it is Mercy that says "NO!" Just as Christ Jesus requires that we repent of Sin in order to be reconciled with our Precious Heavenly Father, so also must Muslims 'turn to a new path' if they truly want to be citizens (immigrants) into this nation. Nothing other than leaving Islam can enable Muslims to immigrate to the USA.
Remember, Islam is not just a 'religion'. Islam allows no separation of Mosque and shariah. The Constitution of these United States REQUIRES the separation of Church and State.
We're doing NO ONE any favors - especially not the Musliims - if we don't confront them - as David has written - about the madness with which they're engaged. Allowing non-repentant Muslims to become 'citizens' of the USA not only facilitates their self-destruction but also facilitates the diminishing of the Body of Christ (and its mission) and the undermining of the Constitution of the USA. Are we to be the 'enablers' of all this heartbreak? Shall we continue in Sin so that Grace will Abound? By no means.
Know this: If the USA falls to Islam the rest of the world doesn't stand a chance. This is a war that we MUST win - and I prefer to win without violence - for the sake of all humanity. It could be a LONG time yet before the return of Christ Jesus. I don't even want to think about a world more completely controlled by Islam for ANY length of time.
EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE - including the threat and reality of deportation - must be used to bring people OUT of Islam (and I prefer bringing them also into the Body of Christ). Just as John the Baptist warned us to "SHOW THE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE", eventually we must DEMAND EVIDENCE at our points of entry that a prospective citizen has RENOUNCED any wretched, filthy ideology - such as Islam - before the oath of citizenship can even be administered. God helping us, we can do no other. We have MUCH work to do.
KAFIR AND PROUD AND LAUGHIN' OUT LOUD! MAY JESUS CHRIST BE PRAISED!! - July 29, 2010 at 5:58 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
But Ree, in a democracy, "the authorities" do not exist in some hermetically sealed room apart from "the immigrants." The immigrants of today are the citizens of tomorrow, and their children born on American soil are citizens immediately. "The authorities" are drawn _from among_ the citizenry and are elected _by_ the citizenry. Moreover, "the authorities" have to deal with even non-citizens who are living here, and the larger and more unassimilable those groups are, the harder it becomes for even willing authorities to enforce the laws of the land against determined resistance.
There are all sorts of issues here. "America" isn't an abstract, Platonic entity with a character that lives on, untouchable and unchangeable, separate from the people who actually live here. The people who live here make up and constitute the character of America as it is, in practice, at any given moment. This is especially true of citizens and is also, to a lesser extent, true of non-citizens, and it is all the more urgently relevant when we are talking about large groups with a strong cultural character of their own and an iron determination to change American culture, values, and law. - July 29, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- Radical Moderate said...
What is this? Something is missing in these two video's. David, Nabeel, where are the white robes with the pointy hats? I don't see any bull horns. Where is the "Fiery Cross"? I don't see any signs that say "You should be called MORONS not MUSLIMS.
Absent is the hate speech, the yelling and screaming where is it?
Muslims before you suggest a colonoscopy for anyone, get one yourself - July 29, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- JesusTheOnlyWay said...
Nabeel and David, I greatly appreciate your detailed explaination of why you both felt it was so important to return to Dearborn. Nabeel I can understand especially why you feel so strongly in your heart to do this with your background as well. I believe you were not going there looking for trouble, you expected trouble but that doesn't mean you were trying to cause trouble. God bless you all and I pray that God will be glorified in the outcome of this situation.
- July 29, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Ree said...
America isn't a Platonic ideal, but its governmental system is rooted in an ideal that, in certain ways, reflects the character of the triune God. You're right that this will no longer be so if the citizenry reject this form of government, but the "progressives" on the left are the ones who have already rejected it and are naively making it a welcoming and attractive place for immigrants who also reject that ideal, even if on different grounds. But if those who believe in the founders' vision prevail, then "good" Muslims (those who are truly faithful to Islam) could not. Ultimately, the only hope for our country is if God chooses to bless us, and I think that will be dependent on His people returning to faithfulness to Him. I don't believe that trying to keep out certain people will do it.
- July 29, 2010 at 11:47 PM
- GreekAsianPanda said...
"If you don't want us to do something, don't threaten us, because then we're gonna have to do it."
Ha ha. That's my favourite quote today. - July 29, 2010 at 11:52 PM
- jem said...
Hello, I continue to follow your saga (David & Nabeel. I as much as I try to give you guys the benefit of the doubt...... every time you post new videos.... I'm more convinced.... you guys were there to provoke.....My proof:
1) You (David and Nabeel)are talking loud enough where people can hear you...stirring up emotions
2) Your making insensitive accusations about Muslims, the city of Dearborn, and Sheria Law in the US.......
3) There was a group (mostly youth) already following you.....listening to your (D & N) comments......meaning they recognized you guys from last year.... and from the looks of it weren't to happy to see you again..
4) "We are here to see if this year is any better"........give me a break........
Come with me to Central/South America....come with me to Africa...or to any part of US...and let's witness to people for the sake of salvation and not egos or anything else..."The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
I stand by the Dearborn PD...rules are meant to be followed and not broken.......
Almighthy G-D knows what is in each one of our hearts and I'm commenting not to stir up emotions nor to cause tension.....
If this is the outcome, then please forgive me......
Best regards,
jem - July 30, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- David Wood said...
Which Bible translation do you use? Surely it can't be any Bible I've ever read. If you think that speaking in a public area where someone might (gasp!) hear us is somehow un-Christian, you certainly must be shocked and appalled when you read about Jesus and the Apostles doing the same thing (over, and over, and over again). So would you say that Jesus and the Apostles were "looking for trouble"? And would you condemn them? - July 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Tom ta tum Tom said...
May The Living God in Christ rebuke you for lying and slithering. LOL!
The war to defend the Body of Christ (and her mission) and to defend the future of humanity is right here and right now. Islam must be and WILL be confronted and turned away - starting in Dearborn, MI.
Please, report to us from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or even from Jordan or Lebanon about your witness for Christ Jesus. Let us hear from your mission to Brazil or to Columbia or even to Argentina. PLEASE let us hear from you when you're actually doing something on behalf of the cause of Christ Jesus because I suspect that you are nothing other than a filthy, mindless worshiper of the enemy. You don't love Muslims and you have no spine. If you ever knew Jesus Christ, you have forgotten your first Love.
KAFIR AND PROUD AND LAUGHIN' OUT LOUD! MAY JESUS CHRIST BE PRAISED!! - July 30, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- Christie said...
Perhaps you have not ever recorded anything outside..you have to talk loud if you want to be heard above the background noise. Also it is apparent that no "rules" have been broken.
I would also recommend reading the book of Acts, Paul does not speak softly and avoid the issue just because the gospel is unpopular in a area. There are people to be reached in Dearborn as well as s. America, and other parts of the USA, and different approaches must be used when dealing with different people groups. Or--do you recommend that David and Nabeel shake the dust from their feet and thus allow the Muslim and unbelievers in Dearborn to perish for all eternity. Finally, If David and Nabeel stir up a hornets nest there in Dearborn we ought to all be thankful that they did so and the attack on our freedoms can be nipped in the bud.
If you are standing with the Dearborn police, then the people you are standing with are removing first amendment freedoms for American citizens based on the whims of a few. I recommend you take care because those you stand with can easily turn on you if it suits them. - July 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Radical Moderate said...
Jem said...
"Come with me to Central/South America....come with me to Africa...or to any part of US..."
Dearborn MI, is not in Cental/South America, it isnt in Africa either, and by any part of the US do you mean any part of the US accept Dearborn MI?
Jem said...
I stand by the Dearborn PD...rules are meant to be followed and not broken.......
Jem what rules did David and Nabeel not follow, please tell us what rules did they break?
You stand by the Dearborn PD? So you stand by those that would deny US citizens there civil rights, amoung those being Freedom of Speach, Freedom of Relegion, the Right to Assemble Peacfully. The right to be secure in their persons and papers.
You do understand that Nabeel, David and crew where targeted. From the moment they walked into the festival area they were going to jail. You do understand that there was no way out for them accept in steel bracelets.
And what where they arrested for. We have heard excerpts from the police report. Maybe David can scan the whole thing in and post it. But tell us what were they donig that was against the law in the UNTIED STATESS OF AMERICA?
Oh I know Nabeel was waving around a Falafal with out a licence, with the intent to eat said Falafal. Maybe he was concealing a weapon in that Falafal, and it had to be eatin by the Dearborn PD to ensure public saftey.
I can see it now, Christian Falafal Bomber foiled at Muslim Love Fest.
Lets not forget Nageen. What was she doing? What criminal complaint was against her?
You also stand by the Dearborn PD for putting their hands on a Christian sister, making her take her long sleeve shirt off, exposing her in a tank top, to male police officers why they cat called to her.
The truth is that the Mayor, and the Police Chief had it in for David and crew. This was retaliation for last years video demonstrating Muslim security guards acting badly.
So do you support political arrests for retaliation? - July 30, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Radical Moderate said...
Where David, Nabeel, Nageen, and Paul doing any of the things at Dearborn that these people where doing out side of a Mormon Temple.
Street Abuse
Where they caring huge signs that read "Turn to Jesus or Burn in Hell"
Did they have a bull horn shouting insults?
Where they waving around a hijab or burka making denegrating remarks.
Tells us where they doing any think like what is done to Mormons?
Oh where any of these street abusers arrested for doing the things they do? - July 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- hugh watt said...
jem said:
1) You (David and Nabeel)are talking loud enough where people can hear you...stirring up emotions
Would the same apply to Muslims who do likewise? Didn't seem as though D&N were raising their voices! What exactly did they say that would've stirred up those emotions?
2) Your making insensitive accusations about Muslims, the city of Dearborn, and Sheria Law in the US.."
Be specific.
3) There was a group (mostly youth) already following you....listening to your (D & N) comments......meaning they recognized you guys from last year.... and from the looks of it weren't to happy to see you again..
How's this provocative?
4) "We are here to see if this year is any better"....give me a break..."
So, you're calling them liars? - July 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Hiwot said...
You invited others - "Come with me to Central/South America....come with me to Africa...or to any part of US...and let's witness to people for the sake of salvation and not egos or anything else..."The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few…"
Why not to Dearborn? The harvest is plentiful - there are more than 30K muslims in the city. You don't think they need to come to Christ? - July 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM
a small joke:
two friends and brothers in Christ reaching the youth of Dearborn...
great movie title and intro :D
With Love of Jesus Christ,
Paul. - July 30, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Christian said...
Do you have any information on your video and audio gear that you use? I'd like to try to upgrade my own stuff for when I go out into public forums.
Christian - July 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Tom ta tum Tom said...
@ Paul Guralivu,
Sir, Maybe you were teasing but you call to mind an idea that I hope David and Nabeel have already considered: a full-scale documentary expose' of this incident, produced by the wonderful folks over at ABNSat and starring our heroes: David, Nabeel, Negeen and Paul... yes, I would DEFINITELY contribute money toward such a project.... let's consider it in MUCH prayer... - July 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM
- Matt Teneight said...
Kudos to whoever was filming. That seemed like a difficult job.
- July 30, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- David Wood said...
Fat Man said: "I can see it now, Christian Falafal Bomber foiled at Muslim Love Fest."
You're right, Fat Man. I do need to let you write my jokes. - July 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- David Wood said...
Lydia said: "David, I have to say that even if our national leaders weren't so clueless and completely wrong in their comments about Islam, local situations such as that in Dearborn could still easily develop."
I don't think so. If the public (including the Muslim public) were educated about Islam, and the facts about Muhammad were common knowledge, I don't think there would be enough devout Muslims in the West to influence politicians. Many Westernized Muslims would abandon Islam, and many of those who remain Muslim would be quite nominal in their faith. - July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- David Wood said...
Christian said: "Do you have any information on your video and audio gear that you use?"
We use a Canon HG10, HG20, and HG21, though I have to confess that I prefer the HG10, with a shotgun mic when filming in action sequences. The HG10 is no longer made, but you can get used or refurbished ones on ebay or Amazon.
NOTE: Don't get the Canon HG series unless you have a Mac with iMovie. It's a nightmare with PC. - July 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM
- David Wood said...
Matt said: "Kudos to whoever was filming. That seemed like a difficult job."
That was our very own Paul Rezkalla! For the twelve minutes or so he was walking backwards, he was being guided through the crowd by none other than Sam "Shazam!" Shamoun. - July 30, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- David Wood said...
Tom said: "Maybe you were teasing but you call to mind an idea that I hope David and Nabeel have already considered: a full-scale documentary expose' of this incident, produced by the wonderful folks over at ABNSat and starring our heroes: David, Nabeel, Negeen and Paul... yes, I would DEFINITELY contribute money toward such a project.... let's consider it in MUCH prayer..."
We've actually thought about this, but haven't done much with the idea. We could have footage from the festival, mixed with interviews, commentary on Sharia from Sam Shamoun, etc. Since I work at ABN, the expenses of a project like this would be reduced. The main difficulty would be that many of the people who need to be interviewed (e.g. Christians who were harassed this year and last year) come from around the country. So we'd either need to fly a cameraman around the country to conduct interviews, or pay to have people come to ABN. Either way, it seems beyond our resources at the moment. - July 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Zack_Tiang said...
Such a documentary will definitely be viewed by millions... everyone loves a good controversial topic to chew on.. haha.
And welcome back, Jem. I see you haven't repented of your silly accusations.
Sad sad sad...
Now you're refusing David and Nabeel's right to free speech, and accusing them of deliberately provoking people by talking loudly their disagreement?
Man, I wonder how do you handle constructive criticism.. let alone any opposition to your views... Oh wait... you just ignore them completely and brush them aside. I forgot... You were away (silent) for a long while.
Jem, allow me to 'teach' you some scripture.
Maybe you are aware of Jesus commanding His disciples to be 'Salt and Light' of the world?
Matthew 5:13-16
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."
Let's see...
Salt can be used to preserve food... and even used to tend to a person's wound, by absorbing water and preventing bacteria from infesting and multiplying...
But when you put salt on a wound... it'll sting like mad!
And now, how about light?
Light is obviously very useful and I'm sure, since you're commenting on this blog, you're using a computer of sorts.. So I'm gonna assume you have perfectly functioning eyes, hence you know full well how useful light is.
But what if you're someone who has been in the dark for a very long time...
If a light was to appear, what would happen?
Your eyes are gonna get irritated at first... and if you've been so used to the darkness, you won't be able to stand the light for a long while too...
So... David and Nabeel are being the salt and light of the world, as commanded by Jesus.
Are you telling them to lose their saltiness, and thus allow themselves to be trampled by men?
Are you telling them to light their lamps and then hide it under a bowl?
Repent and return to your first love, jem! Repent or begone!
(Just teasing with that last bit.. =P ) - July 30, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Verumi said...
A very fitting quote for the Acts 17 saga, I think:
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
~ Harry S. Truman
:D - July 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Letitia (The Damsel) said...
Jem said:
You (David and Nabeel)are talking loud enough where people can hear you...stirring up emotions
Someone correct me if I'm wrong - doesn't this attitude smack of obedience to Sharia, wherein Christians in Sharia-controlled countries can't ring their church bells or sing to God loud enough for any Muslim to hear?
"Loud enough for people to hear you" - I suddenly feel like apologizing to David and Nabeel for how ridiculous some so-called Christians have gotten in their insults-to-injury. - August 1, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Tom ta tum Tom said...
@ Letitia,
Perhaps you are referencing the "Pact of Umar"? Maybe dhimmified jem has already internalized some of Umar and possibly jem needs a dose of the "Holy Ghost" to help counter that spirit of fear - August 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM


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The Supreme Court is considering whether police must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect.
The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving a disputed blood test from Missouri. Police stopped a speeding, swerving car and the driver, who had two previous drunken-driving convictions, refused to submit to a breath test to measure the alcohol level in his body.
The justices appeared to struggle with whether the dissipation of alcohol in the blood over time is reason enough for police to call for a blood test without first getting a warrant.
In siding with defendant Tyler McNeely, the Missouri Supreme Court said police need a warrant to take a suspect's blood except when a delay could threaten a life or destroy potential evidence.


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ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Experienced skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner hopes to take the leap of his life on Tuesday, attempting the highest, fastest free fall in history.
If he survives, the man dubbed "Fearless Felix" could be the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
The 43-year-old former military parachutist from Austria is scheduled to jump from a balloon-hoisted capsule 23 miles near Roswell on Tuesday morning. He wants to break the record set in 1960 by Joe Kittinger, who jumped from an open gondola at an altitude of 19.5 miles. Kittinger's speed of 614 mph was just shy of breaking the sound barrier at that height.
Baumgartner, who has been preparing for the jump for five years, has made two practice runs from the Roswell area, from 15 miles high in March and 18 miles in July.
And while he and his team of experts recognize the worst-case scenarios — including "boiling" blood and exploding lungs — they have confidence in their built-in solutions. Those solutions are something NASA is watching closely. The space agency is interested in the potential for escape systems on future rocket ships.
Baumgartner's top medical man is Dr. Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon whose wife, astronaut Laurel Clark, died in the space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. Clark is dedicated to improving astronauts' chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.
The No. 1 fear is a breach of Baumgartner's suit, which could cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as boiling blood. There are also risks he could spin out of control, causing other problems.
This death-defying venture is being sponsored by energy drink maker, Red Bull, which has funded other extreme athletic events. The project's team of experts has a plan for almost every contingency. The spacesuit and capsule were tested in the early skydiving practice runs. The company won't say how much the project, called Stratos for stratosphere, is costing.
The organizers say there are some 30 video and still cameras to record the jump, including five attached to Baumgartner's pressure suit, along with cameras from the capsule and on the ground and a helicopter. Details about a web broadcast from those cameras were unclear Monday.
But whether Baumgartner can make what he vows will be his final jump depends on the weather. Winds from a cold front already delayed the jump by a day. Even the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 200 miles to the north, was forced to delay by a day its mass ascension of more than 500 balloons over the weekend. Baumgartner's jump can only be made if winds on the ground are less than 2 mph.
Still, Baumgartner's team remained optimistic about Tuesday.
"From what we are looking at so far, we are on schedule," meteorologist Don Day said at a media briefing Sunday.
Weather permitting, Baumgartner will be lifted into the stratosphere around 7 a.m. MDT by a helium balloon that will stretch 55 stories high. Once he reaches his target altitude, he will open the hatch of his capsule and make a gentle, bunny-style jump. Any contact with the capsule on his exit could break open the pressurized suit that will protect him from temperatures as low as minus 70 and a lack of oxygen. He hopes to reach a speed of 690 mph to break the sound barrier.
Baumgartner, who has made more than 2,500 jumps from planes, helicopters, landmarks and skyscrapers over the past 25 years, promises this jump will be his last.
He says he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.


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This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne. We're following developments in Egypt after today's release from prison of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. We'll go to Cairo in a moment. We begin this hour with stories of two military trials in this country. Both involve horrendous massacres.
GREENE: One was at Fort Hood, Texas. The other took place in adjoining villages in southern Afghanistan. The details, as told by the victims, are hard to listen to.
MONTAGNE: We go first to a sentencing hearing, which continues today for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. He's the soldier who attacked two, small Afghan villages last year. The massacre killed 16 men, women and children. Bales pleaded guilty in June, so he is guaranteed a life sentence. The only question is whether he'll have a chance at parole.
As NPR's Martin Kaste reports, today Bales' lawyers will make the case for leniency.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: It's a tall order, leniency for Robert Bales, especially after what the jury heard on Tuesday and yesterday. First, the prosecutors laid out the attack in excruciating detail: his middle-of-the-night foray into the sleeping villages; his close-range shooting of children, despite their cries for mercy.
Then survivors took the stand; the Army flew in nine of them. Yesterday, it was the turn of two men who'd been away from the village at the time of the massacre. They told the court what it was like to come home and find their families' partially burned bodies stacked up like cordwood.
Forty-one-year-old Khamal Adin recalled seeing the corpse of an infant with a shoe print on her face. Then his cousin, Haji Muhammed Wazir, took the stand. He lost his mother, his wife, his brother, and six of his seven children. Through an interpreter, Wazir said that even now, more than a year later, it feels to him as if the massacre is still happening.
After the prosecutor's last question, Wazir asked to make a further statement. The judge didn't allow it. That frustrated Wazir, who clearly had something more he'd planned to say.
The defense started its case with Bales' older brother, Bill, who talked about their blue-collar upbringing in Ohio. He recalled how Robert Bales had cared for a neighbor's mentally disabled son, and he repeatedly referred to Bales as "my baby brother" and "Bobby." He says his little brother lived an easygoing life in Florida until 9/11. The terrorist attack, he says, is what inspired his brother to sign up with the Army.
Prosecutors tried to undermine that narrative of selfless patriotism. They pointed out that his enlistment may have coincided with 9/11, but it also coincided with his personal legal troubles, including an investigation for financial fraud.
The thing the defense lawyers have not mentioned yet is Bales' mental state. That's been the most contentious part of this legal process. The court martial was held up for months when his lawyers resisted the terms of a mandatory Army psychological examination. His attorneys are likely to focus on combat stress - Bales was on his fourth deployment - as well as on alcohol and drug use.
At the same time, his lawyers do not want to appear to offer excuses. After the hearing yesterday, his attorney said Bales will take the stand and speak to the jury, and he will apologize for his crimes.
Martin Kaste, NPR News, Seattle. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I was looking for something lighter and healthier and since both corn and zucchini are in season, plentiful, and on hand I wanted to use both of them. Quinoa salads never fail when light and tasty meals are on the table and I was thinking that a corn and zucchini quinoa salad would be nice. The corn got me to thinking texmex and the next thing I knew it was a corn and zucchini quinoa salad seasoned with taco spices . I feel that spices like this are best when they have had a chance to cook with the dish to release all of their flavours and mingle with the rest of the ingredients. Since this was going to be a mostly fresh salad I decided to add the taco seasoning to the quinoa while it cooked so that the quinoa would be infused with its flavours. I then finished the salad off with some more texmex style ingredients including black beans, green onions, cilantro and some cotija cheese. This quinoa salad was nice and easy to make and it turned out really well. I really liked the way the spicy taco seasoned quinoa worked with the sweet corn and raw zucchini in this salad. The beans added a nice creaminess and the cotija cheese was the perfect finish to this salad. One of the good things about salads like this is that the leftovers are just as good straight from the fridge so they make super quick snacks or light meals.
Zucchini and Corn Taco Seasoned Quinoa Salad
- 1 cup quinoa
- 2 cups water
- 1 batch taco seasoning
- 1 ear corn (grilled and kernels cut from cob)
- 1 cup zucchini (grated)
- 1 cup black beans
- 1 jalapeno (sliced)
- 1 green onion (sliced)
- 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 lime (juice)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup cotija (crumbled)
- Simmer the quinoa in the water along with the taco seasoning until the water is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
- Mix the quinoa, corn, zucchini, black beans, jalapeno pepper, green onion and cilantro in a large bowl.
- Mix the oil, lime juice, salt and pepper in a small bowl.
- Toss the salad in the dressing and serve garnished with cotija cheese.


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Open Source Software
From Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
Success Stories
- The Howard County Library System uses Linux on all public and (almost all) staff machines.
- ASU West Library successfully migrates everything to Linux (2003)
- Georgia Public Library Service is the original developer of the Evergreen Open Source ILS
- The community has a blog to track development
- Coquitlam Public Library uses Linux to manage all their Public PCs.
- Nelsonville public library system running Koha Version 3
- press release about Nelsonville's Koha system after they went live
- Special Collection Libraries Choose Koha
- West Liberty Public Library Migrates to Koha
- WALDO Consortium Selects Koha ZOOM
- MassCat Consortium Chooses Koha ZOOM
- Library a la Carte Oregon State University is the developer of an open-source course and subject guide web publishing tool for and by librarians.
- The King's Fund Library goes live with Koha (Jan 2010)
- Marlboro College's Rice-Aron Library has gone live with the Koha ILS (as of June 2010) and CUFTS Open Source Serial Management System (as of September 2010).
Great Free/Open Source Tools for Libraries
- Alfresco Labs (now Alfresco Community) -- A Free Open Source Content Management System. Customisable.
- Audacity -- Free (GPL) audio recording and editing software. Oral history and audio reserves projects; Audacity provides features normally only found in pro commercial audio software. Effects filters remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises from your analog recordings.
- ClamWin -- open source anti-virus program
- CUFTS Open Source Serials Management System: CUFTS includes Electronic Resource Management services, an integrated journal A-Z database, link resolving, and MARC records.
- DansGuardian -- open source web content filtering
- ht://Dig -- Free (GPL) search engine software. Spider and search your website(s). Configurable and extendable search algorithms, templates, file types, etc. Live implementation: J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
- Dimdim -- Free web-based web-meeting software. Can be used for virtual reference service, ask a librarian, virtual information literacy. Co-browsing ability. Free for 20 participants.
- Drupal -- Free (GPL) [[Content Management Systems (CMS)|Content Management System] framework with lots of features out of the box and tons of third party modules. Ideal to build a library website, some modules allowing to provide an OPAC 2.0 front-end for your ILS. PHP MySQL based.
- Evergreen Open Source ILS originally created by the Georgia Public Library Service.
- GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. A free image editor, similar in function to Adobe Photoshop.
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets A web browser-based word processor & spreadsheet application based on the Writely beta product that Google acquired in 2006. With this application, you can publish a document or spreadsheet online. It also allows you to collaborate with anyone who has access to a web browser. You can invite other people to read or edit your document by entering their e-mail addresses on a form.
- Groovix PAC open source Public Access Computing software with SIP2 authentication, time management, reservations; a complete solution for library public computers
- Instant Instruction Feedback Forms Instant Instruction Feedback Forms are web-based surveys that are designed to offer librarians a simple way to evaluate their information literacy/bibliographic instruction sessions. These forms are open source software and are available for free download under the GNU General Public License.
- Joomla A free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. Joomla is licensed under the GPL.
- Kete - Open source digital library solution.
- Koha Open Source ILS -- Full-featured Library Automation System, including OPAC, Circulation/Borrower Management, Budget-based Acquisitions, Serials Management, and Reporting/Administrative modules. MARC21 and UNIMARC are supported. Advanced search capabilities, integrated Z39.50 server and client, and self-checkout. Commercial Installation and Support available worldwide from many vendors. Hundreds of libraries of all sizes and types are using Koha worldwide. The system can support very large collection sizes (tens of millions of records) and is very easy to customize as it's written in Perl, MySQL and uses the Zebra indexing engine for searching.
- Kompozer web authoring tool, similar in function to Adobe Dreamweaver.
- Label Templates in OpenDocument Format for Openoffice.org
- Library a la Carte is an open-source course and subject guide web publishing tool for and by librarians.
- LORLS Open Source Reading List Management System (Loughborough University).
- Open Journals System OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing.
- OpenOffice.org Full suite of productivity software that competes with Microsoft Office.
- Pre-Book: An Open Source PC Reservation System which includes both a Linux server and GPL'd Windows PC Reservation Client Software commercial installation and support available from Userful
- PHP Form Solution to ensure easy valuable communication for all types of web projects.
- PMB Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) -- Web-based , using PHP, MySQL and ajax. Includes cataloging module (UNIMARC import, Z39.50 connector), circulation , acquisitions, Serials Management and Reporting. OPAC with Simple or Advanced search, category browsing, RSS feeds, web 2.0 functionalities. Available in French, English, Spanish, Dutch. Commercial support available.
- Prospero An Open Source Internet Document Delivery (IDD) System (The Ohio State University). [NOTE: Development ceased in 2004, although the last release is still available for download and modification.]
- The Reference Portal The Reference Portal is a departmental intranet that is designed to consolidate web resources, services, and assessment tools for reference librarians. It uses DHTML layers to give librarians instant access to frequently used web resources and allows librarians to record information about reference interactions, workshops, and instruction sessions for evaluation.
- Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress.
- Sphinx A free full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. A standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).
- Squid Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.
- SquidGuard is a combined filter, redirector and access controller plugin for Squid.
- SubjectsPlus is a free and open source tool to help you manage several interrelated parts of your library website: Subject or Course Guides; A-Z List of Databases; FAQs; Suggestion Box (aka TalkBack); Staff List.
- Turn 1 PC into 10 -- open source Groovix SLIM multi-user software from Open Sense Solutions which enables you to run multiple screens, keyboards, and users from a single PC.
- Turn 1 PC into 2 -- Free (not open source) 2 user version of Userful's Desktop Multiplier software which enables you to run multiple screens, keyboards, and users from a single PC.
- VLC -- Free (GPL) cross-platform media player/streamer with support for a large number of formats and more.
- WordPress is a free and open source blog publishing/CMS application
- WUBS Open Source Resource Booking System (Loughborough University).
Blogs/Websites to Watch
- OSS4Lib
- OSS Watch Open Source Software Advisory Service in the UK
- Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography
- Koha Support Support for the Koha ILS
- Open Source Support A list of companies supporting open source in libraries
- Katipo Communications, Ltd. Developers of Kete and other Open Source software. Web development and other support services.
Specific Blog Posts/Articles to Check out
- Centralized PC management and control designed specifically for libraries (Blog Product Review)
- Review of Koha ZOOM
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=bsides Open Source Software Libraries
- Producing Open Source Software


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Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him—and face the consequences.
In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.