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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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*beating head on the table* Why, why, why???
At least there are sprinkles... sort of. - January 13, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Tasha said...
- January 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Kat said...
Are you sure those aren't years? I think I see 87 and 89...
- January 13, 2009 at 9:32 AM
I just have to say as part time copy editor, this makes me cry a little. Or maybe I'm just dealing with my indecisive side completely being overloaded by the cascade of choices these "or"s promise.
I'd like to see what the order sheet for this cake said that could have possibly produced this. - January 13, 2009 at 9:34 AM
At least they got sprinkles!
- January 13, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- M said...
It's a pity that the person taking the order isn't necessarily the person who is producing the finished product.
Better yet- it's amazing that they can't EXPLAIN the order to others. As if explanation was so difficult in itself that they could justify taking the rest of the day off because that slip of paper they half-assed filled out really sapped their energy.
It's awesomely bad. - January 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM
I didn't realize God manufactured idiocy this big.
- January 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Karen Kaye said...
This is funny. Or sad. Definitely pathetic. Or something...
karen - January 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Mella said...
At least nobody is going to be jealous this way A first spot for everybody
- January 13, 2009 at 9:45 AM
what are those balloons made of?
- January 13, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Lisa said...
ah, back to basics. Simple, but wreck-tastic.
- January 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Alli said...
What in the world??? Really, why can't we have decorators with brains to at least think "I don't think this is what they meant. Maybe I should call to make sure before I put the words in icing on this beautiful cake". It's that simple people!
- January 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- joyce said...
"...and just put silly string or balloons or sprinkles on it, too..."
"or sprinkles, and silly string looking squirted icing or balloons.." - January 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Unknown said...
I sure hope it TASTED good at least. Probably not.
- January 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- gryphondear said...
But those are 87s not ors. Even so one wonders... were they married in '87? Is this their 87th birthday or anniversary?
;^) Jan the Gryphon
http://gryph-wotd.blogspot.com/ - January 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Mari said...
We definitely have a huge drug problem in this country.
- January 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- ME! said...
I like that in the name it even says 'or' Happy Birthday to Ernie or Joanna. Maybe those are their & signs and they just know A LOT of Ernies & Joannas born on the same day? ...Or they are just dumb.
- January 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- WakeGrace said...
i HATE that goop on the edges! blech. i know a certain store that loves to use that design ( they will remain nameless...*cough*) but blech. it looks like a three year old was allowed to try and frost the cake! although with all those or's maybe it WAS a three year old! eek!
- January 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- *~*Lis*~* said...
I'm trying to think of something witty - but I guess I'm just speechless
- January 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM
This hurts my head. I keep trying to make some logic to how they got to this. I can see placing the order, "just put 'Happy Birthday' Joanna and Ernie or Ernie and Joanna or something." I can even see it being a joke about an ongoing argument over who gets top billing: Joanna & Ernie or Ernie & Joanna. But even with both of those options, I can't see how they got there. Excedrin please?
- January 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM
I HATE these Squiggle border cakes. Every wanna-be cake decorator that doesn't have clue how to decorate does these. I have no idea as to why people buy them.
Word verification: perinbar: the buddies the morning after the night before - January 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM
These people have some CHEAP friends!
- January 13, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Look like 87 etc to me too.
- January 13, 2009 at 10:15 AM
That icing better TASTE good. That's all.
- January 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Tammy said...
they didnt even ice the sides of the cake!
- January 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Weims319 said...
All I can say is "WOW".
- January 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- queenb said...
I can see how the ors could be construed as numbers....but that doesn't make any sense either...
Don't hate the wreckerators everyone...they make funnies to brighten up your day...as I see it, we should love the wreckerators...celebrate them...and laugh till we cry over their inability to follow simple directions... - January 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Alison said...
I feel like baking a cake for this decorator with the same edging and a carefully centered "WTF?"
- January 13, 2009 at 10:43 AM
This is either a case of the decorator being overworked or being ordered by their boss to write whatever is on the order form no matter what!
Seriously... - January 13, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Lew A said...
Yeah, I'm not convinced those are "or" ... looks like 89, 87, and something else...
Lew - January 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Seriously? Apparently reading isn't part of the job description. :)
- January 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM
This has turned into an office controversy. We actually saved the image and blew it up on Photoshop and touched it up to try to determine if it was "or" or "87". And we're still inconclusive. The 8 strongly resembles the o in Joanna, which had us leaning more toward "or" but the r in Ernie doesn't resemble the 7 at all.
This has lead to the conclusion that it's really "o7"...maybe they're 2/3 of a secret agent and they haven't quiiiite earned that license to kill yet? Okay, now we're stretching. - January 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM
I remember being waited on by a trainee at a Macy's store. Her supervisor kept telling her to put her initials on my coupon. The trainee kept asking "What?" Again . . . initial the coupon . . . write your initials on the coupon. Finally the trainee says, I don't know what that means.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Robert said...
I'm pretty sure it's "or" written in script, not "87" or "89". If you exaggerate the loop to connect "o" to any other lowercase letter in script, you'd wind up with something that can be misread as an "8". The "r", to me, is how I was taught to do a lower case "r" in script. At least initially. Then I was informed by other teachers that script isn't supposed to be angular and blocky.
Regardless, can we all agree the placement is awful and the design is gag inducing? - January 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Hi Folks. Here's what happened. Someone typed the order in, and those were supposed to be ampersands, and when the text was sent to the person making the cake, the ampersand character turned into a "control" character and 7, the two keys which have to be pressed to make an ampersand. It often happens, when transferring typed files from one program to another (like Word into some email editor) that special characters get shown as other things because different text editors use different specs to represent them.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Neen said...
I just had to close my eyes and shake me head in disbelief.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Unknown said...
These people must really like the word "or".
Amy B. - January 13, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Genevieve said...
I didn't see "or," I saw three little 87's
- January 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Unknown said...
No, there are 4 ors! There's a tiny one floating on its on to the far right near all the side decor.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Unknown said...
Ooops. I counted one of those ors twice. That's embarassing. I am hoping that you won't publish my comments now because of my lack of kindergarten counting skills.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Note to self: The next time I have to order a cake for more than two people, make all decisions regarding wording beforehand AND be absolutely clear on the order form. Unless I'm feeling snarky and secretly wishing for a wreck, that is.
Word verification: ingsty, the adjective form of the word formed from ink + angst, which may be applicable here... - January 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- Miranda said...
How is it that qualified people everywhere can't find work and then the cake places hire ppl who can't read, spell, or decorate? Isn't there some sort of test to prove their skills before hiring?
I would be non thrilled to pay money for a cake and then get plastic balloons, side scribbling, and randomly placed names in the middle. :/
Then again, that explains why I do all my own cakes, yes? - January 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- LaurenH said...
pretty sure they're 87's, but still...
1) 87 what? 87 years old?? by the time you're 87 i'd say it's fairly unlikely to find two people turning 87 at about the same time
2) 1987, the year they were born...when is the last time you had a birthday cake with the year you were born plastered all over it?? Not "happy 22nd birthday" "I'll just throw '87' all over it and let other people figure it out.. MATH!!! ha ha ha!"
3) None of this explains the double appearance of the two names in the two different orders.
WHAT!?!? confusion abounds on this one - January 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
I dont even know a good word for this cakewreck! Sad...really sad...
- January 13, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Maybe the "or" in the middle was supposed to go in the first line, so it was supposed to say "Joanna or Ernie or Ernie or Joanna." Still inexplicable but at least makes the number of "or"s vaguely appropriate and the grammar reasonable. Or, since they do look a bit like ampersands, maybe it was "Joanna & Ernie & Ernie & Joanna."
I actually don't mind the border, which looks fun for a kid. (But plastic balloons: ugh.) - January 13, 2009 at 12:15 PM
It looks like the "or" off to the right was added after the fact. So...it was added for clarification. Hmmm.
- January 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Mandi said...
It's like a Where's Waldo -took me a second to find the 3rd "or" HAHAHA!!!
- January 13, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Candy said...
The mind reels.
The two versions of the same pair of names aside (that is bad enough, but let's pass over that for a moment) ... there are too many "or"s. And an extra comma. Or one too few commas and two too many "or"s. Or something, comma. - January 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM
I'm pretty sure those are neither "or"s nor numbers. They're an attempt at fancy, cursive ampersands (the '&' symbol). Go to images.google.com and search for "ampersand" for lots of examples of the extreme variation in style of this particular symbol.
- January 13, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- Nakia said...
I don't think those are 8's as some do. If you look at the O in the name it's written with the same little loop at the top. It's an O with a loop and a lowercase r connected, written in cursive.
- January 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- jackie31337 said...
Alli said "I don't think this is what they meant. Maybe I should call to make sure before I put the words in icing on this beautiful cake".
Wait, where do you see a beautiful cake? - January 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Joanna said...
Hello, my name is Joanna and my ex-boyfriend's name is Ernie. Although our birthdays are at opposite ends of the year and we haven't dated in about ten years (in fact, he's married and expecting his first child in three weeks), at least five people from our old circle have messaged me about this page. Too funny!
- January 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Now that I know the "or" is actually a botched ampersand, I'm finding its resemblance to "or" even funnier, because the ampersand sign comes from "et," the Latin word for "and."
OK, maybe that's only funny for someone who's spent way too much time reading dead languages. - January 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
And once again why we see that you should never give kids (or cake decorators) choices.
Decision making is not part of the job description. And in some cases neither is talent. - January 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- jengersnap said...
ET! ET! ET! ET! Put ET on it!
- January 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- Unknown said...
Maybe those aren't "or"s, they're just really terrible attempts at ampersands?
- January 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Even if they are supposed to be ampersands, why "Joanna, Ernie & Ernie & Joanna"? Are there two Joannas and two Ernies? And there is still the mystery of the extra amersand (or whatever it is) floating off to the right side.
I agree, "Joanna & Ernie or Ernie & Joanna" could be a joke about which name in a couple gets precedence. That may have been the intent. Which somehow got grossly misinterpreted, of course. I really don't think we can argue that SOME of those squiggles are ampersands and others, the word "or" -- especially when one of them is quite clearly a comma. - January 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- jenj22 said...
does this really happen
- January 13, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- the ginabean said...
OH....so the squiggle things say "or." Huh.
Some people shouldn't decorate cakes. - January 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Can we just call the bakery and ask what on earth they had in mind on this cake?
Or for the meaning of life?
Or something?
wv cough=that little hacking sound made when looking at this cake - January 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Hehehe! This is just too good. It took me a moment to find the far right side "or." That little bugger looks to be trying to escape the mess. I'm guessing the person who ordered the cake kept repeating the names to be on it and couldn't decide who'd get top billing, so the decorator did their best to comply. Like others have mentioned: At least there are sprinkles.
- January 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Kritter Krit said...
Joanna, Ernie, or, or Ernie or Joanna.
I'm pretty sure OR should be removed from this cake maker's vocabulary. Clearly s/he is confused about what it means, or at the very least, when to use it.
Found you through the Weblog Awards. Congrats on kicking booTAY! (I read up on the controversy thing. I agree with you guys, I think maybe in a different category people would have responded better to the number of votes you received. ...Or probably not.) - January 13, 2009 at 5:29 PM
maybe the middle "or" (see i'm politically correct- i put quotes) is supposed to say 87.
WV- brimos
what these decorators are called. - January 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM
- Wolverine Girl said...
I keep reading "Joanna, Ernie or or Errie or JBanna" Maybe the wrecker wasn't sure on the name spellings and put in a couple of alternatives, along with a surplus of ors, just to be sure.
Word verification: tachr - one who teaches the fine art of tacky cake decoration. - January 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
Holy penmanship, Batman! --all this controversy!!
Are those ampersands, or "or"s?
"or"s or "87"s?
I say, WHO CARES?!
That cake is butt-ugly, and should only be served from the bottom of a deep, dark dumpster. At night. After borrowing blindfolds from that other cakewrecker (see previous cake)to hand out to the guests...
Poor, poor, Jo and/or Ernie!! - January 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM
- Erin said...
Maybe it's not "or" but some little flowers or a plus sign or something. Still plenty enough to make it a wreck, but maybe we can forgive at least the abundance of or.
- January 13, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I started developing microsoft word cake decorating software which includes spell check, if only I could have acted faster I could have saved this poor sap the pain of being crucified in front of such a large forum
- January 13, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- The Small Town Girl said...
Once upon a time I actually thought that people wouldn't be so stupid as to make mistakes like this. Since finding this site, I have discovered that I was very foolish to think that way...sad for humanity, but great for entertainment!
- January 13, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- :::b r a n d i::: said...
Ha! I didn't even see that little rogue "or" off to the left at first!!
- January 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM
- Unknown said...
*still giggling*
WV-shern. Those shern-ough look like "or"s to me :) - January 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I could only think of a seal clapping, "or, or, or"
- January 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- ss said...
I'm going to say it's "or", based on an analysis of the other handwriting on the cake. Look at the "o" in "Joanna". It has that big loop on the top. And the "r" in "Ernie" resembles the form of the "r" in "or". I do think it says "or". Why, oh why, I don't know.
But even if it was a squiggle, an ampersand, an "87" or whatever, that would not explain the repetition of the names. - January 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM
I thought those were little 87s at first...
- January 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Could that actually be an 87, for their birth year??
- January 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM
- doodle said...
The "ors" look like 87's
P.S. Jen, if I'm using the quotation marks wrong I apologize, I can never tell when or where I put them, which is why I would never decorate cakes. - August 23, 2009 at 4:03 PM
- Riss said...
The "ors" could easily be mistaken for flying hershey kisses....
- August 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM
i'd like to know if the people at the bakery do this on purpose or if it's a competition between the people who decorate it.
- August 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM
These cake wrecks are my favorite kind. It takes a special kind of ignorance to put something like that on a cake and not realize it's wrong. Too funny!
- August 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Those look like years to me. 87 and 89 to be exact.
- August 31, 2009 at 12:49 AM
- April said...
You'd be really surprised at how easy it is to make these kinds of mistakes. I was a cake decorator for nearly 6 years (a damn good one), and when you're stressed out and trying to read someone else's random scribbles on an order form, the brain does weird things. I once made a graduation cake and wrote exactly what was on the order form: "Cong Eric Class of '07." Silly me didn't even think that "Cong" could be short for "Congratulations." The customer was NOT amused, nor very understanding.
- December 9, 2010 at 2:23 AM
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WELNA: Schumer is one of two Democrats on the committee in the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group of senators who drafted the immigration bill. South Carolina's Lindsey Graham is one of the panel's two Republicans in that same group.
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WELNA: But the other Republican on the panel in the Gang of Eight, Arizona's Jeff Flake, said Grassley's amendment would hold back giving legal status to 11 million immigrants already in the country.
SENATOR JEFF FLAKE: You've got to bring people out of the shadows, and to delay that process, I think, would not be the right approach.
WELNA: Flake and Graham, the two GOP Gang of Eighters, joined every committee Democrat in voting against Grassley's amendment and six others like it. Just four other Republicans voted for an unfunded measure offered by Texas Republican Ted Cruz that would triple the number of Border Patrol agents and quadruple spending on other border security. Cruz warned the bill would not pass without tougher border controls.
SENATOR TED CRUZ: Contrary to the hopes I expressed this morning at the outset of this hearing, the committee has voted down every serious border security amendment that has been presented here today.
WELNA: That proved too much for Gang of Eight leader Schumer, who lashed out at Cruz.
SCHUMER: He cannot support any bill with a path to citizenship. And the nub of the difference here is the trigger and when you can become a citizen, if at all. So let's not keep bringing up this false issue that we do nothing on border security. Our bill is tough as nails on border security.
WELNA: By day's end, the committee disposed of more than 30 amendments, and the bill remained largely intact. The unity of those backing it could be put to a real test, though, by another amendment waiting in the queue. It's a measure proposed by chairman Patrick Leahy that would allow gay Americans to sponsor foreign-born spouses applying for green cards, just as other married Americans can do already.
Republicans are warning that for them, such an amendment would amount to a poison pill. Leahy has not indicated whether he'll offer the amendment in committee, or wait until the bill goes to the full Senate, most likely next month. David Welna, NPR News, the Capitol. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Washington – United States Helsinki Commission leaders today expressed their sympathy to the relatives of the victims of the terrorist massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russian Federation.
"Words cannot adequately express the shock and sorrow we feel at the events in Beslan," stated Commission Chairman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ). "We offer our deepest sympathy to the relatives and loved ones of the victims of the Beslan massacre."
"The perpetrators and planners of this terrorist act have committed a heinous crime against the most innocent of victims," said Ranking Commissioner Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD). "The civilized world grieves with the people of Russia as they bury their children."
"We stand united with the people of Russia in denouncing the forces of international terrorism," said Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO). "If requested, our government should render all appropriate assistance to the Russian Government in tracking down those responsible for the atrocity in Beslan, including any terrorists who may have escaped. Russia and the U.S. should work together, within the framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to further strengthen cooperation in combating the common threat of terrorism."
"This horrific act carried out by fanatical terrorists allegedly on behalf of the Chechen people will only exacerbate the suffering and violence throughout the North Caucasus," concluded Ranking Senate Commissioner Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT). "They have killed hundreds and condemned thousands more to lives of fear and desperation."
On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized School No. 1 in the North Ossetian city of Beslan, Russia and held over 1,000 children, teachers, school employees and parents hostage under inhuman conditions for more than two days. In the ensuing armed confrontation with authorities, terrorists opened fire on their hostages, resulting in the loss of more than 330 lives.
According to the Russian Federation Ministry of Emergency Situations, as of September 6, 156 of the deceased were children. The Russian Security Service claimed that 10 of the approximately 30 terrorists involved in the hostage-taking were foreigners. The terrorists were reportedly seeking release of combatants fighting for the independence of Chechnya. Conflicting details on the tragedy continue to emerge.


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It's been 50 years since The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, to an audience of screaming, hair-pulling, ecstatic (in the classic sense) teenage girls. Cutes in suits, you might call them, like (and, of course, nothing like) countless other bands of the time that wore skinny ties and shared microphones and said "oh" and "yeah" and "baby."
Later, they'd get weird; experimental, rebellious, more transparently and transcendentally high than maybe any band ever, at least to hear the music tell it. They became legends, they became celebrities and movie stars. They had a dark breakup like so many great loves, and they went their separate ways, and one of them was shot and one died of cancer, and they became a story as well as a band.
But back then, when they appeared on Ed Sullivan, they were just a band. A really goodband, a really popularband, a phenomenally excitingband. But they were a band. And you hear those songs, I mean, "All My Loving." Is that a greatsong? Or is it just a really, really, reallygood song? "Till There Was You," they borrowed from The Music Man. They stole it from Broadway, the sweetest, corniest kind of Broadway, too. The Music Manwasn't the Rentor Hairof its time; it was just a pretty little show about an Iowa librarian. Imagine bringing those lyrics to teenagers now: "There were bells on the hills, but I never heard them ringing; no, I never heard them at all till there was you." If they didn't roll their eyes, their parents would.
Back Before They Were Genius
That wasn't all the Beatles were lifting, of course; they were voracious appropriators. Almost half of their first album was covers. And from early on, they were dipping their buckets deeply into Little Richard and Motown, most of all, both directly and indirectly. Not just that though, they would later do country like "Act Naturally," not to mention "When I'm Sixty-Four," which sounds like exactly the kind of simple, music-hall ditty their audience might have wanted to get past.
In those early days of getting to know Americans, the Beatles performed songs that would live forever, like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," and ones that are for fans, like "This Boy." These aren't the songs that people will tell you changed everything musically speaking; purists usually point to later albums — your Sgt. Pepper, your White Album, your Revolverand Abbey Road — for that. At this point, they were pop stars, they really were, so much so that John Lennon was introduced to American television audiences with the caption, "Sorry Girls, He's Married." Their music was exceptional, but it was joyfully, spiritedly, danceably pop.
In their later years, the Beatles would appeal to the American mythology of genius: the dark creatives at war over one's new partner, the trips to see the Maharishi and the flights of fancy like Magical Mystery Tour. Early on though, when they were pop stars, they appealed, and still do, to our fascination with alchemy.
On their own, later, what they produced was sometimes brilliant, but also sometimes ... well, common. They read as pop stars again, sometimes shaking their piece of the earth, but more often seeming strangely mortal. Wonderful, but mortal, even before John Lennon died the kind of death that brought about its own songs of grieving, just as Buddy Holly's death had five years before the Beatles came to the United States.
A Superhero Origin Story
But back then, even those of us who weren't alive know perfectly well it was a thing that we, on the other hand, have never seen. Not all at once, not in one band. From movements, maybe. From MTV. But not all in one band have we ever watched everything change as fast as everyone pretty much agrees it did. From these guys who would later prove capable of folly and even schmaltz was this explosive, energizing, resonant music that managed to get respect despite being hugely popular with teenage girls, which is very, very difficult to do. Only a few months after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, something really good happened. And it was a band.
If arrival in the United States makes an origin story at all, it's not an origin story like a hard-working professional has; it's an origin story like a superhero has. The lights come on, the man says "The Beatles!" the band starts playing, and it's just music on a variety show, but people are still talking about it 50 years later. Why? Is it just the music? Is it just the very good songs and the smart choices of source material? Was it us? Was it Kennedy? Was it timing?
It was the music; musicologists can explain — and could even then — how surprisingly complex some of this material was, and how much more carefully arranged it was than much of the pop available at the same time. And it was appeal that can't exactly be quantified; you can hear it when you put those albums again and hear a song you love, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually you realize that even the lionized form of this band doesn't convey how much they sank into our bones, whether we were here for them or not.
I was born the year they broke up for good, only months before Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit to dissolve the band. But of all the bands that weren't active when I was alive, none comes close to the influence of this one. I can remember putting the records on (we used to have these round black discs with grooves in them and we would scratch them with diamond needles to make music come out). I can even remember what the lyrics looked like on the album sleeves, even though I didn't have the first clue what a lot of them meant.
When I was in college, over a holiday weekend, a radio station somewhere ran every recorded Beatles song from A to Z, and my friend taped it to cassette and eventually copied it for me. They'd left only one out, and if you could identify it, you could win money. (It was "Please Please Me," easy to spot since it failed to follow "Please Mr. Postman." My friend didn't win.) So for years, I had ratty old cassette copies of Beatles songs, not in album order, but in alphabetical order. It was one of the bands I listened to, even though Lennon had died by then.
Later on it was genius, but that early stuff, that early stuff is as close as you're going to get to magic. The differences between this band and a million others aren't easy for a layperson to put her finger on. It's mysterious: take this band, add this audience, add this music, pick your moment, and it goes. And 50 years later, we've never gotten it to happen again.
Many thanks to my pal and amateur Beatles-ologist Marc Hirsh for his help with this piece. Anything good, he helped with. Anything bad was all me.
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New Jersey voters are choosing a new member of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, in a special election pitting Newark Mayor Cory Booker against Steve Lonegan.
Democrat Booker is favored in the polls to win the race to fill the vacancy left by the death of Frank Lautenberg in June. However, his Republican opponent, the former mayor of the northern New Jersey town of Bogota, has managed to close the gap a bit in the run-up to election day.
"While Booker holds a double-digit lead in most polls, the charismatic Newark mayor has faced sustained Republican criticism that has exposed vulnerabilities that could hamper him should he seek even higher office someday.
"Lonegan has hammered Booker on Newark's economic troubles, tax increases, and violent crime. The GOP also has assailed him over a 2008 statement that a drug dealer he called a friend was actually an 'archetype'; his G-rated Twitter exchanges with a Portland, Ore., stripper; his out-of-state fundraising trips; and a Washington Post interview where Booker, who talks about past girlfriends but prefers to keep his personal life private, said he 'loves' when people on Twitter say that he is gay and asked, 'so what does it matter if I am?' "
Despite Lonegan's backing from the billionaire Koch brothers, Booker holds a substantial advantage in fundraising, with $11.5 million compared with his rival's $1.4 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The winner of the seat on Wednesday will succeed Gov. Chris Christie's interim appointee, Republican Jeff Chiesa, but will have to run again in 2014 to win a fresh six-year term.
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You can talk about the global village, a mobile society and the World Wide Web all you want, but many in our country seem to be turning toward a New American Localism.
These days, we are local folks and our focus is local. We are doing everything locally: food, finance, news, charity. And maybe for good reasons.
"One bedrock thing that is going on," says Brad Edmondson, founder of ePodunk and former editor of American Demographics magazine, is that "because of aging and the recession, people aren't moving around as much."
The U.S. Census Bureau backs him up with a news release — based on a recent report — titled "Mover Rate Reaches Record Low." The bureau found that only 11.6 percent of Americans changed their living spaces between 2010 and 2011. That is the lowest rate on record since the Current Population Survey of the United States began tracking geographical mobility in 1948. In 1985, for instance, the changed-residence rate was 20.2 percent.
"With homeowner mobility at an all-time low, more people are putting down roots and getting to know their neighbors," Edmondson says. "At the same time a lot of households have seen sharp declines in discretionary income. They are looking for ways to relax that don't cost as much, and they are substituting cooperation for cash."
The new version of the popular bumper sticker "Support Your Local Sheriff" could become "Support Your Local Everything."
Close To Home
With homeowner mobility at an all-time low, more people are putting down roots and getting to know their neighbors.
Drag your cats to Your Hometown Animal Hospital in Crown Point, Ind. Do beach yoga in front of I'malocal Cafe & Cabana Club in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. Go on a walk with the Nearby Nature staff in Eugene, Ore. Businesses are playing to — and preying on — their close proximity to you. And locally focused living is manifest in many aspects of our culture:
Food. Grocery bins are burgeoning with local food. And local farmers markets are springing up like — and with — spring onions. Emily Walsh of Slow Food USA, a nonprofit that attempts to twin epicurean pursuits with social awareness, says consumer demand for locally grown food has, well, mushroomed. Walsh says "there are now more than 6,000 farmers markets nationwide — about a 250 percent increase since 1994."
Finance. "There's a growing public backlash against the big banks by mainstream American consumers, and many people are shifting their business to smaller community banks and credit unions," says D. Anthony Plath, a professor of finance at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He says that anecdotal evidence provided by community banks and credit unions suggests that "consumers are moving deposits to these institutions in record numbers" especially since the Occupy protests and the federal bailout of — and threats of new fees from — colossal financial corporations.
"We'll have to wait until next summer to see the extent — in terms of magnitude and duration — of the change in consumer behavior," Plath says. That's when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. releases its annual tracking data. But, he adds, "it looks like consumers really are voting with their feet and abandoning the convenience of larger banks for the humanity and trust of smaller institutions."
Aleis Stokes of the Independent Community Bankers of America says that her organization's website "has seen a huge spike in hits over the past few months. More specifically, we've seen an over 800 percent increase in unique visitors to the site over the past two months." By banking locally, Stokes says, "consumers can make a real difference in the lives of their neighbors and the future of their community."
News. Julie Moos of the Poynter Institute observed in September that "buried in the latest Pew research on where Americans turn for local news, there's this important trend: 72 percent of respondents — nearly three-quarters — say they follow local news closely most of the time, whether or not something important is happening. That's up from 57 percent in 2008."
According to a MediaPost report in June, AOL's push for hyperlocal news, Patch.com, can now be found in more than 800 markets and "has seen 194 percent growth in the past six months."
Charity. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports a surge in regional and local giving days around the country. From the Chronicle: "The goal for last December's Colorado Gives Day was $1 million, say organizers. By day's end, $8.7 million had rolled in for 530 charities, according to Marla J. Williams, chief executive of Community First Foundation in Arvada, Colo., which created the event."
The World Near Web
The same Internet that expands our global reach also helps us live more locally. Coupon come-ons from sites such as Groupon and Living Social entice us to shop where we live. Other popular spots such as Foursquare and Neighborhoodr implore us to explore our immediate surroundings.
"Local Is the New Global" was a seminar at the New York Internet Week convention in June. Web designers and app developers are mining this mother lode of localness. In many cities you can find sites and download apps that display local weather, dating opportunities, traffic flow, parking possibilities, churches, psychiatrists and creators of even more local websites and apps.
In Vermont, folks find bike paths and walkable communities via Localmotion. In Sacramento, Calif., local people learn of goings-on through the communal site Sacwiki.org. And in Boston, the Citizens Connect app lets you report potholes that need fixing and graffiti that need erasing.
It was, after all, a Bostonian, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who famously uttered that "All politics is local," meaning you care most about the politicians in, and the political well-being of, the places where you live and work. The recent Occupy movement was not so much a national uprising as an amalgamation of local, vocal outrages. It was not a whole-cloth blanket but a patchwork quilt.
So what are the roots, the origins of this New American Localism? Perhaps you can trace it to earlier demonstrations, such as the 1999 anti-globalization protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle. Or maybe you can look further back to small-town values migrating into larger urban centers. Or you can argue that Americans have always been more community-minded and, in many ways, more neighborly than nationally or internationally inclined.
Regardless, the resurgent instinct just might provide another new slogan for a bumper sticker: "Think Locally, Act Locally."
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Document: | Jewish Refugees Arriving in Australia via Melbourne, 1946-1954 |
Description: | This record was found in a database of Jewish refugees arriving in Australia via Melbourne between 1946-1954. This was indexed through a Project of Jewish Care (Melbourne, Australia) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004. The database provides an index of names and available personal data taken from passenger lists sent to the Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society in Melbourne 1946 -1954. Before the departure of ships (mostly leaving from Genoa in Italy or Marseilles in France), HIAS and the AJDC mailed a list of Jewish passengers under their sponsorship to the Federation of Jewish Welfare Societies. This enabled family sponsors to be contacted and arrangements to be made for accommodation for those not being met by family. In addition to these shipping lists there are a few lists of refugees who arrived by plane whose fares were paid by family or friends. These lists, along with thousands of personal files relating to requests for landing permits and search requests for missing relatives are stored in the archives of Jewish Care, the major Jewish social service organization in Melbourne, and in the Archives of JDC and HIAS. In 2003 an agreement was drawn up to permit the USHMM to have access to refugee files dating from 1938 for microfilming. |
Name: | Chaim Wacksberg |
Sponsor: | AJWS Brisbane |
Originating City: | Genoa |
Ship Name: | Surriento |


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Earlier this year, we did a major shelving switcharoo. The two white shelves from Preston's bedroom closet went to my brother's apartment, so the two floating shelves from our kitchen went to Preston's bedroom and a spare single white floating shelf took their place. So this year, our display had one less shelf to play with, and this is what we ended up with:
A peek at the sweetness head on?
I decided to stick with tradition and use items from around the home to dress things up a bit for the holiday season.
The frames were cheapo frames I had hoarded awhile back for a future gallery wall project. I just placed some gold snowflake gift wrap in each one and added vinyl "25" numbers to the fronts.
All of the "trees" on the shelves, were cardstock paper rolled up and strings of beads {$2 each from Target} hot glued around the outside.
I scattered small mercury glass votives in-between the shiney bead trees...
Then, I used a small circle paper punch to punch out piles of the gold paper.
A needle and thread later, and I had some gold dot garland!
Let's stand back and take it all in with the rest of the dining area...
On the table, I just filled some hurricane vases with cranberries and candles.
The real beauty of the display is at night...
We love it and it seems to do a great job tying in the tree, DIY ornaments and holiday card display in the adjoining areas.
It is so much fun to look back and see how the shelving displays have changed and evolved from year to year. And after Christmas comes and goes, it always sparks a restyle on the shelves for spring, which gets me all warm and fuzzy inside just thinking about it now....
Let's chat Christmas decor one last time. Do you create vignettes and displays and have fun getting creative with them from year to year? What do you DIY and what to do you splurge on?


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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market. In performing various economic yses for its clients, I have been occasionally asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services across cities. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an a of dominant influence over markets in adjacent as. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another. In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for the world's major cities for "corrugated shipping containers for furniture and lumber and wood products" for the year 2007. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by a city when defined as an a of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. For many items, latent demand is clearly observable in sales, as in the case for food or housing items. Consider, however, the category "satellite launch vehicles". Clearly, there no launch pads in most cities of the world. However, the core benefit of the vehicles (e.g. telecommunications, etc.) is "consumed" by residents or industries within the world's cities. Without certain cities, in other words, the market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the world in general. One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to both regions and cities. This report takes the broader definition and considers, therefore, a city as a part of the global market.


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Princeton inventors present recent discoveries at annual showcase
A 3-D microscope capable of imaging the parasitic worms studied in aging research was one of several new technologies on display at this year's Celebrate Princeton Invention, a reception to mark the accomplishments of faculty members, research staff and students engaged in innovation.
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The event, held Thursday, Nov. 21, at Chancellor Green Rotunda on the Princeton University campus, offered opportunities for University inventors to present their discoveries and meet leaders from industry and the venture capital community.
"We are very fortunate tonight to honor the many members of the Princeton research community who are applying their unique blend of intellect and creativity to the practical challenges facing our world," said Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton's dean for research and the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science. "These challenges include creating better therapeutic drug molecules, detecting explosives, and finding new solutions to meet our growing energy demands in a sustainable way."
Each year, Princeton researchers come up with nearly 100 new discoveries of commercial potential, according to the University's technology licensing office. Under federal law, the University can file patents for these inventions, enabling the technologies to be licensed to a startup or established company.
Many of these inventions came about because of a researcher's need to solve a certain problem or fulfill a need existing products do not address. Some of the technologies may end up in consumer products while others will occupy niche markets as tools or equipment for other avenues of scientific research.
The 3-D microscope invented by Jason Fleischer, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Nicolas Pégard, a graduate student in electrical engineering, has the potential to transform the ability of researchers to take a look inside living organisms such as the parasitic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is about the size of a grain of sand and is used in the study of aging and other biological processes.
"The goal is to perform CAT scans on individual cells," said Fleischer, "using visible light instead of damaging X-rays."
Another invention on display was an automated system for directing yeast cells to produce certain proteins. Biologists frequently study yeast as a model for what goes on in humans. The automated system developed by Megan McClean, an associate research scholar in Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, could help reveal how protein-signaling in cells goes awry and leads to diseases such as cancer. McClean's research team includes Research Specialist Michael Patel and Associate Research Scholar Marcus Noyes.
Yet another new technology showcased at the event was a highly sensitive magnetism detector that can be used to find explosives as well as diagnose health conditions such as epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmias. Michael Romalis, a professor of physics, is leading a team to develop the detector, which senses very faint magnetic fields by measuring a quantum mechanical property known as spin. The researchers, including Nezih Dural, a senior technical support staff member, are working on a portable version for field use.
Under the federal Bayh-Dole Law enacted in 1980, universities are able to patent discoveries made using federal funding. John Ritter, director of technology licensing, thanked those in attendance who work with Princeton to protect the University's intellectual property and enable the transition to the marketplace.
"We depend on our partners in attendance tonight from industry, as well as the legal and investment community, to engage with Princeton in the difficult but important work of protecting and facilitating the transfer of basic research into products that will benefit society," Ritter said.
The technologies at the event reflect the desire of researchers to make discoveries relevant to society, Debenedetti said.
"In the academic community at large, there is often a tendency to divide the research endeavor into two categories: 'pure' or curiosity-driven unfettered research undertaken solely for the pursuit of knowledge, and 'applied' research aimed at addressing a specific application," he said. "In fact, these two aspects of research do not exist in separate camps but rather as points on a continuum. Both curiosity and necessity help define the boundaries of knowledge; both curiosity and necessity underlie technological innovation."
Featured speaker Thomas Connelly Jr. of the DuPont Company remarked on the number of relationships that the chemical company has established with universities, including Princeton, through the DuPont Young Professors program, which supports early-career faculty members. "The range of science and technology on display tonight is very impressive," Connelly said.
Other technologies highlighted at the reception included:
* A new portable sensor for detecting air pollutants, invented by a team led by Mark Zondlo, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering
* A method for building targeted antibody-drug molecules that can travel directly to disease sites, potentially requiring smaller doses and reducing side effects, invented by a team led by Tom Muir, the Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry, with Associate Research Scholar Miquel Vila-Perello and graduate student Neel Shah
* A process for characterizing which materials are best for separating carbon dioxide from the gas streams of coal-based power plants and cement factories, invented by Christodoulos Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science with graduate student Eric First and Postdoctoral Research Associate Faruque Hasan.
Celebrating student and faculty startups
The reception also highlighted a handful of startup companies started by Princeton students. One such company, Ecliptic Industries, is using 3-D printing to create the plastic molds that foundries use when casting metal tools, according to founder Matthew Plasek, who will graduate in 2014 with a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Another startup, Pearl's Barley Tea, was founded by Tsvetelina Churalska, a graduate student in the School of Architecture; Sarah Nagy, a master's student in finance; Carly Paris, Class of 2014; and Stephanie Sanders, Class of 2016.
The two student-led companies developed their business plans and sample products with the help of Princeton's eLab, a 10-week summer program that provides eight teams with funds, laboratory space and training in serial entrepreneur Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad curriculum. The eLab is sponsored by Princeton's Keller Center, which is housed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Other student startups included the online chess instruction site, Chesscademy, founded by Andrew Ng, Class of 2016, and Stitch Your Story, a social commerce platform that bridges the gap between consumers and artisans across the globe. Stitch Your Story was founded by Jenna Rodrigues and Megan Partridge, Class of 2014, and Marina Kaneko, Class of 2015. Many of the students are part of the Entrepreneurship Club, or E Club, which offers education, hackathons, networking events and other opportunities.
Each year the reception features one company that has spun off from a University technology. This year it was Liquid Light, a Monmouth Junction-based company that converts waste carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals. The technology was developed by Andrew Bocarsly, professor of chemistry, and then graduate student Emily Cole, who earned her Ph.D. at Princeton in 2009. Today, Liquid Light, which was co-founded by Cole and entrepreneur Kyle Teamey, employs about 25 people. "We are doing some great work that we think will make the world a better place," said Teamey.
The reception attracted senior leadership officers not only from DuPont but also Siemens Corporation, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, PSEG, Lockheed Martin and others. The reception was supported by donations from Yahoo! Labs and the law firm of Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP.
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In response to the growing concern over China's air pollution, a theatrical Chinese entrepreneur is selling cans of fresh air.
Chen Guangbiao, a multimillionaire, philanthropist and environmentalist, is selling each can for 5 yuan (80 cents) according to the Brisbane Times. Chen isn't trying to make profit off the stunt; his estimated net worth is $740 million.
There are different air varieties including: pristine Tibet, post-industrial Taiwan, and Yan'an (early era of Communism). The air is collected and compressed from "revolutionary regions" from Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi Province to some ethnic minority areas and Taiwan, according to China's Global Times.
Chen encourages people to inhale from the can or even drink it.
He's using the cans — similar in style to typical soda cans — to highlight the dangerous conditions of air pollution in the country.
As we reported earlier this week, planes were grounded in China due to heavy smog, and people were told to stay indoors due to hazardous levels of pollutants in the air.
Chen hopes to leave a positive legacy and a cleaner environment for future generations.
"If we don't start caring for the environment, then after 20 or 30 years our children and grandchildren might be wearing gas masks and carry oxygen tanks," he told Fairfax Media.
In the past, Chen smashed his Mercedes Benz and donated bikes in an effort to raise awareness. Why? "I can only awaken them with my performance art and creativity," Chen told The Guardian.
(Maureen Chowdhury is an intern on NPR's National Desk.)
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How did chicken sandwiches become so popular in the U.S.? Supply and demand. The emergence of large scale chicken processing companies such as Perdue and Tyson in the 1920's and 1930's respectively, helped propel chicken's popularity in America. With such easy availability, chicken prices decreased, consumption increased, and chicken became a steady part of the American diet.
With many families cooking whole chickens, leftovers became standard lunch fare. Sliced leftover chicken meat became a favorite filling for sandwiches (and was the original filling for the classic club sandwich).
Fast food chicken sandwiches as we know them originated in 1967, when Truett Cathy, founder of the Atlanta based restaurant chain Chick-fil-A, introduced the chicken sandwich -- a perfectly crispy-on-the-outside, juicy-on-the-inside breaded boneless breast of chicken served on a toasted buttered bun with dill pickle chips. Whether it's fact or fiction, Cathy claimed that pickles were the only condiment he had on hand, and to his delight, were a big hit with consumers. Other fast food chains quickly followed suit. Then in the late 1980's and early '90's the grilled chicken sandwich emerged as a healthier alternative to the fried original.
It seems everyone has a favorite chicken sandwich; mine is an Italian chicken cutlet sandwich with garlicky sautéed broccoli rabe (a popular Italian vegetable know for its distinctively bold and bitter flavor) and melted sharp Provolone cheese. (And, yes, it's going in my cookbook, The Field Guide to Sandwiches.) The best place to get this type of chicken sandwich is at a mom 'n pop Italian deli or pizzeria, where all the guys behind the counter are named Paulie, Joey, or Tony. If you don't have one where you live, then just make your own, because this sandwich is freakin' awesome.
Italian Chicken Cutlet Sandwich with Broccoli Rabe and Provolone
Makes 4 sandwiches
4 (4-6 ounces) chicken cutlets (about ½-inch thickness)
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1/8 teaspoon salt
¼ cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup plain breadcrumbs
3 tablespoons olive oil
Broccoli Rabe:
1 bunch broccoli rabe, stems removed*
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
½ teaspoon salt
4 torpedo rolls or ciabatta rolls
8 slices provolone cheese
1. In a wide, shallow bowl, whisk eggs, milk, crushed red pepper, and salt.
2. Place flour in a separate wide, shallow bowl. Repeat with breadcrumbs.
3. In a large skillet over medium heat, add 3 tablespoons olive oil.
4. Dip one chicken cutlet at a time in the flour, then in the egg mixture, allowing excess to drip into the bowl. Dredge in the bread crumbs, ensuring that the entire cutlet is evenly coated. Add to the skillet, and cook 3-4 minutes on each side until golden brown and crisp. Place on a paper-towel lined dish. Repeat with remaining slices.
5. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Boil broccoli rabe for 2 minutes; drain and plunge into a bowl of ice water. "Shocking" the rabe will maintain its vivid green color.
6. In a large skillet over medium heat, add 1 tablespoon olive oil and garlic. Sauté until garlic starts to turn golden. Add broccoli rabe, crushed red pepper, and salt. Sauté 1-2 minutes more until just tender.
7. Place one split roll on a clean work surface. Place chicken cutlet on the bottom half of the roll. Top with ¼ of the broccoli rabe and 2 slices of cheese. Place under a broiler for 1-2 minutes, or until the cheese melts. Serve immediately.
*Shopping Note: Broccoli rabe, also known as rapini, rape, and broccoli raab, is a popular Italian vegetable. It looks like slender broccoli and has a sharp, slightly bitter flavor. It is available at Italian markets as well as most major supermarkets.
Substitute veal cutlets for chicken.
Also published on Food Blogga, a blog by Susan Russo, a writer from Rhode Island now based in San Diego.


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