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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Those of you who have traveled the backroads and byways of the Mediterranean are probably familiar with this salad. I learned of it ten years ago while paging through an article written by Paula Wolfert, a respected food writer and teacher with expertise in the food of the region. The recipe was unusual enough to catch my eye and simple enough to hold my attention. While I love to serve the salad with grilled meat or fish, I also like to incorporate it as an ingredient in other recipes that will be featured later in the week. Its main ingredient is fresh curly parsley. Lots of it. The parsley leaves are removed from the stems and torn into tiny bits. It's really important that no short cuts be taken with this step. Large clumps and stems will spoil this salad and make it quite ordinary. Once you have about four cups of shredded parsley flakes they are combined will olives and shallots and tossed with the simplest of oil and vinegar dressings. The resulting salad is delicious when it's made with really fresh parsley. It's not worth your while to make it with parsley of an uncertain age. Older parsley is tough and the salad will taste like rabbit fodder. It's also important not to dress the salad until just before serving. The salad becomes compacted if it sits too long after the oil and vinegar have been added. I first made this out of curiosity, but what began as an experiment has become a regular feature of my summer table despite its pains and pitfalls. I know that many of you share my passion for the unusual, so I decided to post this recipe despite its simplicity. I really think you'll like it. Here's the recipe.
Flaked Parsley Salad with Black Olives and Cheese...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, inspired by Paula Wolfert
1/4 pound very fresh curly parsley, washed and thoroughly dried
1/2 cup (about 24) Kalamata olives, rinsed, drained pitted and slivered
1/4 cup minced shallots or red onion
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1/4 cup coarsely grated Pecorino-Romano cheese
1) Remove parsley from stems. Discard stems and tear each leaf into tiny bits. You should have four cups of loosely packed parsley flakes.
2) Combine parsley, olives, shallots, Worcestershire, oil, vinegar in a medium bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Toss gently to combine. Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle with cheese. Yield: 6 servings.
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Born into a life of comedy Pauly Shore is seared into the public consciousness for his attention-grabbing comedic talents and his meteoric rise to notoriety in the 1990's with starring roles in popular film comedies acting-up as MTV "VJ" and show host and performing his stand-up at national comedy clubs including legendary venue The Comedy Store – where Pauly continues to work and perform.
An entertainment career was virtually pre-ordained for Pauly Montgomery Shore. At age 4 he sat on the lap of The King himself in the company of his father comedian Sammy Shore who opened for Elvis during the early '70s. Around the same time Pauly's mother Mitzi and father opened The Comedy Store on Hollywood's Sunset Strip giving their son the rare opportunity to hang out and be inspired by such rising talents as Robin Williams David Letterman and the late Sam Kinison who became Pauly's mentor.
At 17 Pauly began writing and performing his own material creating the persona of "The Weizel " a character that quickly appealed to young audiences. In 1990 Pauly caught the attention of MTV and the network gave him his own show TOTALLY PAULY. His initial success on television led to a three movie deal with Disney beginning with the box-office hit ENCINO MAN co-starring Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser. Pauly followed up ENCINO MAN with the popular comedies SON-IN-LAW IN THE ARMY NOW JURY DUTY and BIO-DOME.
In 2003 Pauly produced wrote directed and starred in the critically acclaimed PAULY SHORE IS DEAD a semi-autobiographical mockumentary in which he satirizes the perils of Hollywood. In the film Pauly loses everything and decides to fake his death in a quest for post-mortem adulation. He called in a lot of favors to get the project made and managed to wrangle star cameos from the likes of Sean Penn Whoopi Goldberg Ellen DeGeneres Dr. Dre Clint Howard Perry Farrell Fred Durst Verne Troyer Andy Dick Mark McGrath Jerry Springer Montel Williams Sally Jessy Raphael Kurt Loder and Paris Hilton to name a few.
Next Pauly returned to TV in the TBS reality series MINDING THE STORE which he produced as well as starred in. This was followed by a notable recurring part as himself on the hit HBO series ENTOURAGE. In 2008 Pauly once again stepped into producer director and star roles with the sketch comedy movie NATURAL BORN KOMICS for which Pauly received the 2008 Entertainer of the Year Award from the Entertainment Merchants Association.
Pauly continues to produce and direct with his latest feature the critically-acclaimed Adopted which was released in 2010. In the film Pauly satirizes the phenomenon of celebrity adoptions as he travels to Africa to adopt an African baby.
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- Natalia Aralova (MPI-EVA)
- Alexandra Lavrillier (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
- Dejan Matić (MPI fuer Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen)
- Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2, Dynamique du Langage)
- Evgeniya Zhivotova (MPI-EVA)
- Luise Zippel (MPI-EVA)
Dialectal and cultural diversity among Ėvens in Siberia
The project was funded by Volkswagen Foundation and DoBeS Programme.
Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project did not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings.
Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund.
The project aimed at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group. We attempted to record speech from as many fluent individuals as were willing to contribute their knowledge to the project, and to cover as wide a range of genres as possible, including folklore, procedural texts, oral life histories, and spontaneous conversations.
Given the importance of reindeer herding for Ėven culture and self-identification, a thematic focus was the collection of ethnographic and linguistic data pertaining to the domain of reindeer husbandry. To this aim, reindeer terminology was collected and illustrated photographically, and procedural texts describing various aspects of reindeer husbandry (such as the preparation of leather and the sewing of herders' garments, the construction of the traditional nomadic yurt, the saddling and harnessing of reindeer) were elicited. This linguistic focus on reindeer was mirrored by the ethnographic documentation of the role of reindeer husbandry in the modern Ėven ways of life. A strong focus of the project was on the collection of comparable data, in order to enable the documentation of cultural and linguistic differences as well as similarities. For this purpose, the elicitation of texts and information dealing with identical topics in all three field sites was emphasized.
Sebjan-Küöl (Sebjan for short) is located approximately 400-500 km to the north of Yakutsk in the Verkhoyansk mountain range, on a tributary of the Dulgalakh river, which in turn flows into the Yana river further north. For most of the year, it is reachable only by air (helicopter or small biplanes); only in late winter and early spring (from the end of December until mid- to late April) can the village be reached by truck along frozen rivers (the so-called 'winter highway').
Sebjan-Küöl was first founded in 1932, when it was part of the 'national district' of Sakkyryyr, together with other predominantly Ėven-speaking settlements further north. In 1965 the Sakkyryyr district was disbanded, and Sebjan-Küöl was included in the Kobjaj district of which it is still a part.
Sebjan is a predominantly Ėven village with not quite 800 inhabitants, of which approximately 85% are registered as Ėvens, with the remainder being predominantly Sakha (Yakuts). Its isolated location might account for the fact that the Ėven language in Sebjan is currently still being transmitted to (some) children, although Sakha (Yakut) has taken over as the dominant language in public use. The village subsists mainly on reindeer breeding, with 11 reindeer brigades herding over 15,000 reindeer, several thousands of which are privately owned. Life amongst the reindeer herders of Sebjan-Küöl in the 1990s is vividly described in the book 'Reindeer People' by Piers Vitebsky.
Vitebsky, Piers (2005): Reindeer People. Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. London et al: Harper Perennial.
The village of Topolinoe is located in the Tompo District of the Republic of Sakha, some 500 km to the north-east from Yakutsk. The village is situated on the south-eastern fringe of the Verkhoyansk mountain range, on the left bank of the river Tompo, around 600m above sea level. It was founded in the early 1970s to replace the old village of Tompo, which had been the main settlement of Tompo Ėvens since the late 1940s.
There are approximately 900 people living in the village, some 800 of which are ethnic Ėvens, the others being mostly Sakha (Yakuts) and Russians. Apart from hunting, which is still an important form of subsistence, the main occupation of Tompo Ėvens is reindeer herding. Despite the adversities of the post-Soviet era, the number of reindeer belonging to the people of Topolinoe has remained comparatively large: in summer 2009, there were roughly 20,000 animals organised in 16 herds. The herds and the herders roam the taiga throughout the year along the mountain rivers of the Verkhoyansk and the Suntar-Khayata ranges. They are concentrated in three groups – the south-western group around the river Baray, the northern group around the Adyča River, and the eastern group close to the river Suntar.
These three pasturing grounds correspond to the locations of the historical groups of Ėvens which the Soviet administration first united in the Tompo District in the early 1930s and then settled together in the village of Tompo during the sedentarisation campaign in the late 1940s. These are the Baray Ėvens, who used to roam the taiga in the west, the Adyča and Memel Ėvens in the northern and in the central parts of the region, and the Suntar Ėvens in the east.
The joining of different clans has had interesting linguistic consequences. The older speakers of Tompo Ėven are still aware of the differences between the three groups: Baray Ėven shows affinities with the western dialect of Sebjan-Küöl and displays strong Sakha influence, Adyča Ėven represents a variety of the northern Indigirka dialects, while Suntar Ėven belongs to the group of dialects spreading from Oymyakon to the Sea of Okhotsk. In the speech of the middle generation, which is also the last generation to have learned Ėven as their mother tongue, the differences seem to have levelled off, giving rise to a new variety with a dominant Adyča component.
In spite of the preservation of the traditional subsistence pattern and the teaching of Ėven at school, inhabitants of Topolinoe under thirty have only a limited or no knowledge of their heritage language.
Bystraja district
The Bystraja district, which was formed in 1926, is located in the centre of the Kamchatkan Peninsula. Currently it contains only two main settlements, the administrative centre Esso, and Anavgai. The villages can be reached from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij, the capital of the Kamchatka Region (Kamchatka Krai), by a daily bus route. Esso is 530 km away from Petropavlovsk, and Anavgai lies 25 km to the northwest of Esso. In 2006, the Bystraja district counted approximately 3,000 inhabitants, of which nearly 900 (~30%) were Ėvens (Gernet 2008). Slightly less than half of the Ėvens live in Anavgai, where they are the majority group. Nowadays, the overall majority in the district is made up of Russians; in addition, there is a sizeable Koryak community that lives mostly in Anavgai.
The Ėvens appeared in Kamchatka as late as the mid-19th century, when several Ėven clans immigrated from Eastern Siberia. They led a fully nomadic way of life until the 1920s without settling down. In 1926, the settlements Anavgai, Lauchan, and Kekuk were formed, and in 1932, Esso was declared the administrative centre of the National (Ėven) Bystraja district. From the 1950s, several predominantly Ėven settlements (amongst others, Kekuk, Lauchan, and Bystraja) were closed down in the course of the enlargement policy of the Soviet state, in which smaller collective farms were merged into larger units. The inhabitants of the disbanded settlements were relocated to Twajan (which was in its turn shut down in the mid-1970s), Anavgai and Esso. In the Kamchatka Region, Ėvens are also settled in the Oljutor and Penzhina districts (Burykin 2004).
The indigenous inhabitants of the Bystraja district predominantly practise hunting and fishing, in addition to several reindeer herding brigades. A characteristic feature of indigenous life in this area are also the traditional so-called 'fishing camps'. These are autonomous homesteads consisting of a yurt as well as several outbuildings and occasionally even a vegetable patch, which are located on rivers that are visited by the salmonid runs. As a rule, older people live here year-round, while younger family members visit for the summer months.
In the Bystraja district, the Ėven language is currently severely endangered, being replaced by Russian. According to the most optimistic estimates of the speakers themselves, Ėven is only in use amongst people older than 40, and it is not being transmitted to children anymore.
Gernet, Katharina (2008) "Kulturrevolution" in Zentral-Kamtschatka: Die Integration der evenischen Rentiernomaden in die sowjetische Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Burykin, A.A. (2004) Язык малочисленного народа в его письменной форме. Петербургское Востоковедение, Санкт-Петербург [A minority language in its written form]


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text: April 21, 2009 from Anti- Records Press release at Shore Fire Media >> Hammond B3 alchemist Booker T Jones is one America's most prolific, distinguished and instantly recognizable musical forces, and the arrival of his new Anti- album, Potato Hole, not only re-affirms his greatness, it also re-introduces the neglected all-instrumental format to a noisy, crowded marketplace crying out for precisely the type of soul satisfying pleasure which Jones excels at. With choice accompaniment by the capable Southern rock visionaries Drive By Truckers and a sound often pushed into over drive by the volcanic lead guitar of rock & roll legend Neil Young, it is an altogether extraordinary set. Featuring a mixture of newly written songs and a trio of intriguing covers, all recorded in a scant one weeks time, Potato Hole captures Booker T at the critical peak of a renewed creative phase in his storied career. "I really feel like I've been opened up again, I've got the creative muse working for me," Jones said. "It's like I have discovered a new method, a little road I can take to open it up, and I'm excited about playing this music." The album rolls through a selection of far-ranging compositions, each separate and distinct pieces that, by turn, manifest his characteristic adoration of the groove, exploring and exploiting each mood to the limit. Whether it's a case of cosmological serenity or funky staccato chicken peck work-outs, Jones' melodic vision and expansive arrangements are delivered with a mesmerizing quality. The album also pushes into sometime previously unvisited-by Jones territory: lead track "Pound It Out" is a brawny, relentless exercise in hard rock, an intense, driving song that's far more of a head-banger than a blast of steam-heated soul. If that seems out of place, you don't really know Mr. Jones; "I like rock music, always have." he said. "Otis [Redding] did too, and we were getting into it a bit, but couldn't really do it back then. It just wasn't right for Stax." The statement is more than a bit provocative, but the musician tosses out such revelations like carelessly hurled thunderbolts, an arsenal accrued over the course of his remarkable career. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on November 12 1944, Jones' interest in music manifested itself early, and as a child he both sang gospel in church and received classical training on the piano. A fascination with the Hammond B3 grew to the point where he funded his own organ lessons with newspaper route money and by his teens, Jones found himself at Stax Records, first as an underfoot hanger-on and soon on staff, as leader of the house band. Backing fabled stars like Rufus and Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and Eddie Floyd both in the studio and on the road, the teenager's multi-instrumental prowess--on keys, brass and reeds--was impressive. With his Memphis Group cohorts Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jones laid out the blueprint for the fabled Stax sound and reaped his own rewards with a string of hits that frequently crossed over to the pop charts. Jones post-Stax resume has been equally impressive, recording with everyone from Bobby Darin to John Lee Hooker and producing for numerous artists (including Bill Withers' signature Ain't No Sunshine album and Willie Nelson's 1978 multi-platinum blockbuster Stardust). Jones and the MGs re-formed to serve as house band for the famed 1991 Bob Dylan tribute at Madison Square Garden (which led to a sustained alliance between Neil Young and Jones). Along the way, he's also scored numerous films and enjoyed induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Potato Hole demonstrates that not only is Jones' talent and power undiminished, it also reveals how much there is to his music that we've never heard before. Jones has a remarkable knack for telling a story with his melodies, compositions so thoughtfully constructed that one can almost visualize narrative events, as the self-explanatory "Pound it Out", the room-to-room filial warmth of "Family Reunion", the illimitable intimacy and affection of "Nan" (Jones' wife), and, in the case of title track (the term is a 19th century Afro-American colloquialism for the spot where smuggled food items were stashed beneath slave quarters), a cinematic, almost epic recounting of the struggles and spiritual resilience slavery imposed. This quality is so pervasively seductive that you may find yourself singing along, as if Jones was telegraphing lyrics that exist only within the listener. 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On Feb. 8, a month before Vladimir Putin faced re-election for a third term as Russia's President, he paid a visit to the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, where he received an endorsement from Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. They tiptoed around the issue of the elections at first. Under the constitution, there is a clear divide between church and state, so the Patriarch isn't really supposed to interfere in politics. But eventually they softened up, and Kirill called Putin's time in office nothing less than a "godly miracle," thanking him for saving Russia from the "catastrophe" of the 1990s. Putin responded with a rather remarkable statement: "We must move away from the primitive notion of separation between church and state," he said. "On the contrary, we must devote ourselves to the totally different idea of cooperation." And cooperate they did. Before departing, Putin pledged about $120 million for the construction of Orthodox churches, and the message became clear for the millions of Orthodox faithful in Russia: Putin is the greatest President Russia has ever had.
But for many in the opposition movement, that meeting marked a blatant affront to the constitution. It seemed to conflate religious and political authority in a way that harked back to the czarist era, when the church worked in the service of the Emperor, and it did not take long for a group of activists called Pussy Riot to make their reply. On Feb. 21, four of them, along with a group of photographers and cameramen, walked into the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the holiest site in Russian Orthodoxy, pulled colorful balaclavas over their heads and performed a "punk prayer" on the altar that was titled "Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!" The video quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of YouTube views, becoming a symbol of the opposition movement, which had just begun to find its voice in the lead up to the elections.
By that point, Pussy Riot had gained some clout among the opposition for their political performances — or "actions" — against Putin's 12-year rule. A few weeks earlier, they had danced with electric guitars on Red Square, atop the pedestal where the Czars once held public executions, and they posted a video online of a pudgy Kremlin guard trying to make them climb down from there. They were also planning to storm the Russian parliament and hold a performance on the podium during a plenary session. But they never pulled that one off, because on March 5, the day after Putin won another term in office, two members of Pussy Riot were arrested. A third soon joined them in prison, and instead of charging them with the misdemeanor of trespassing or disturbing the peace, investigators hit them with charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," a felony that carries a sentence of at least two years and a maximum of seven. Their trial, which began this week, has crammed into the space of a single, dingy courtroom all of the political divisions, restrictions and anachronisms that will define which way Russia goes from here.
The signs are pointing nowhere good. "We are seeing a concerted effort to instill fear, to let everyone know that dissent will no longer be tolerated," says Masha Lipman, a political analyst in Moscow. This effort began right after Putin's inauguration on May 7, and has used every branch of power as a bludgeon. The parliament, for instance, has passed new laws restricting street protests. Special forces have raided the homes of activists involved in demonstrations. Courts are preparing to hear felony charges against demonstrators later this year. Top officials have started advocating censorship of Internet content. And on July 31, the anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny, the unofficial leader of the Russian protest movement, was informed that he faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly embezzling half a million dollars worth of timber in 2009. The charges are so sketchy that prosecutors have dropped them twice before for lack of evidence, only to have investigators reopen the case. This time, the amount of money allegedly embezzled was raised more than 10-fold and the charges made much more severe. "This is not all coming down at once by some coincidence. It is a pattern," says Lipman.
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But of all the facets in this pattern, the trial against Pussy Riot has been the most draconian. Here were three feminist punk rockers in their 20s, with no prior criminal record, deemed too dangerous to receive bail, locked up for almost half a year, away from their families and young children, and facing long stints in prison for a crime that would earn them no more than a juridical wag of the finger just about anywhere else in the Western world. The cost to Russia's image has already been enormous, with newspapers across the world printing images of their cherubic faces peering out through metal bars. Comparisons to the witch trials of the Middle Ages have come hard and fast, and given the fact that only about 1% of Russian criminal cases end in acquittal, the young women of Pussy Riot are almost sure to be sent away for at least the two-year minimum sentence.
On the first day of the trial, Prosecutor Alexander Nikiforov seemed keenly aware of the social repercussions of this case. The trial, he said in his opening remarks, "has practically split society into two parts." That was clear enough from the survey released the following day by the Levada Center, an independent polling agency. It showed that a third of Russians saw the proposed sentence of two to seven years as "adequate," while 43% said it was excessive.
The prosecution's case, which comes to 2,800 pages, has focused exclusively on the religious aspects of the case, ignoring the defendants' obvious political motives. While entering their not-guilty pleas on Monday, the defendants tried to protest this interpretation of their crime. "Our motives had nothing to do with religious hatred," Nadezhda Tolokonnikova told the court. "It is incredibly cruel to impose such motivations on us … Our actions were political." Locked inside the bulletproof-glass cage reserved for defendants in the courtroom, Yekaterina Samutsevich, another one of the defendants, said their action was meant to protest the Patriarch's endorsement of Putin. "The court cannot ignore our ideology," said the third defendant, Maria Alyokhina.
The presiding judge, Marina Syrova, let the remarks stand, and the following day, the court began to hear the testimony of the victims in the case, which seemed so off-kilter to the hall full of journalists that Syrova was forced to ban laughing in the courtroom. For almost 12 hours on Tuesday, the victims cataloged the spiritual suffering they endured after seeing Pussy Riot's "desecration" of the cathedral. (Nothing in the church, by the way, was vandalized or damaged during their performance, which lasted about a minute before security guards escorted the activists out.)
(MORE: When a Protest Fizzles: Russia's Opposition Routed After Putin Election)
On Wednesday, the prosecution called its first two witnesses, neither of whom had actually witnessed the crime. The first one, Oleg Ugrik, an Orthodox believer who said he works in construction, had seen the Pussy Riot video online, and he was so disturbed by the "black energy that swept over" him afterward that he called the police to offer his help. When he reached the investigators working on the case, he says he was invited to testify against Pussy Riot in court, and he eagerly accepted. "These girls lowered themselves into hell of their own volition," he told the court. "The rot that they have released into society, thanks to the Internet," has spread to millions of people, he said, accusing the girls of representing a satanic cult that has "declared war against God and the Orthodox Church." Even while the girls have been in jail, he said, "this tumor has continued to grow."
The second witness, Eteri Ivanishvili, who works as a bursar in another church in Moscow, had an equally tenuous connection to the crime. She had seen reports of it on television and had witnessed a similar incident in her church, so the prosecution deemed her fit to testify. On Wednesday afternoon, she entered the courtroom with a beehive hairdo and an elaborate parasol, which she hung on the side of the witness stand. "All the TV channels reported it," she said. "It was horrible, all those baffled faces of the parishioners. I saw everything." During cross examination, however, she could not name the program on which she had seen Pussy Riot. The judge struck down any question related to politics or, indeed, criminal law, so the defense was left to cross examine her about the rules of etiquette that apply in an Orthodox church. If a cell phone starts playing loud music, for instance, is its owner punished for the disturbance? But the judge struck down this line of questioning as well.
Outside the courthouse, dusk was falling by the time the hearing ended on Wednesday, and the relatives of the accused wandered around among the packs of journalists, listening to the lawyers' despondent remarks. "This is an inquisition, an exorcism of a trial," said one of the attorneys, Nikolay Polozov. The father of one of the defendants, Vladimir Zhiyanov, looked on sadly with a briefcase in his hand and an Orthodox cross hanging from his neck. "I don't know what to make of it," he told TIME. "I'm confused. I guess Putin is trying to tell us how it's going to be while he's in power. He will make the rules up as he sees fit." Staring down the street at the police cordon set up around the courthouse, he added, "If that's the case, God help us," and he gave a joyless smile.


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Sunday, July 18, 2010
40 comments:
- JesusTheOnlyWay said...
Acts17 obviously was arrested illegally however it's scary to think how with all the evidence against the city of Dearborn (video evidence at least)that the city still feels they have a case. My guess is that the judges are not going to support the U.S. Constitution no matter what so we need to continue to lift up in prayer our brothers and sister in Christ that are fighting this terrible injustice.
- July 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM
- Radical Moderate said...
Even when they tell the truth they lie, even when they do the right thing they do it so wrong.
Yahya snow published a video not so long ago in which he stole my video taken of David and Sam at ISNA. He used it to accuse Nabeel of lying in his brillant "O Really Mayor O Reily" video.
As you all know in Nabeels video he says that Acts 17 appologetics went to ISNA without any problems.
Yahys Snow then takes the video I shot of US being escorted out of ISNA by security guards to accuse Nabeel of lying.
He has snice taken that video down and replaced it with a new one. In this new video he seems to appologies for his false accusations. Faining ignorance as to the context of the video, implying that he was un aware that we were invited in by someone who was not authorised to invite us in.
Only one small problem. Yahya Snow subscribed to my youtube page. In a second video that appears right under the play list of the video he stole. I state in the Introduction section the following.
"From: MartyrMaker07 | July 04, 2010 | 128 views
This is a brief video of us inside the ISNA conference. The Burka Babe in the white hijab invited Sam and David inside to debate a "SHEIK". Since nobody had a bible, I downloaded a bible app to my phone, and was setting that up when it got crazy. The "Shiek" said that Paul was a liar, the Disciples where liars and Al Qauterbee was a LIAR. Thats when I started recording. We were surronded Sam was pushed up against the wall. The Sheik even grabbed Sam and said "Your not leaving.... I got this... I got him" Fun times"
Also in the video itself which only lasts 41 seconds, I clearly identified the the woman who invited us in with a "Buble Tag" as "Burka Babe who invited us in"
I have more to say on this but you can watch Yahya Snows attempt to do the right thing here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kufrtokufr - July 18, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- Lydia McGrew said...
I am struck by the delay between arresting Negeen and arresting the other three. Why the delay? Moreover, why the deception from the police? I remember that when the policeman arrested Negeen, he said, "I'm also going to speak with this gentleman over here"--presumably, Nabeel or David. So why didn't he do it immediately?
I can't help wondering: Did they know that there would be more of a crowd gathered around David and Nabeel shortly thereafter, asking somewhat aggressive questions, and that this would be the excuse for their arrest? I realize that this would mean that the whole thing was choreographed, but again, I can't get over these two facts:
1) The delay between the arrests, with the police reassuring David and Nabeel that all was well when they must have known that Negeen had already been arrested,
2) The request from one of the young men, "Preach to me."
I'm afraid that this does rather have the look of a deliberate set-up of some sort.
By the way, is the officer who arrested Negeen visible in the later footage of the other arrests? Is he the one telling the guys that they're "fine"? I catch only a glimpse and am not sure. - July 18, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- John 8:24 said...
Hey Nabeel,
Firstly, I love the work you, David and your team does and that you guys stand up for the truth. My wife and me also have a heart for Muslims and share the gospel with them. We now live in Germany and there are many Muslims (mainly from Turkey) here. I have been following your case closely since I first saw it few weeks ago. I am a bit ashamed that some of the fellow Christians and Christian churches and organizations at Dearborn have not supported you guys but rather released statement against your "tactics" - how quick they were to judge you without knowing the facts! I hope at least now some of them will apologize to you.
In light of such irrefutable evidence you got, I got a couple of questions that are not answered:
1. Have you sued the police department and the chief of police in Dearborn of illegal arresting you, providing false statements, harassing you, denying your constitutional rights? Also the city mayor with defamation and libel? If not, why not?
2. Have you asked the city mayor (and the police chief) to publicly apologize and retract their statement against you? You got such a bad press both in Dearborn and elsewhere. It is not about getting back at anyone but people should know the truth and the people responsible for it should face the consequences (otherwise it would only embolden them to continue to do the same). Furthermore, you deserve to be vindicated in the media.
3. Have you reached out to the fellow Christians (churches and organizations) with the new evidence? Have you also asked them to retract their statement and perhaps apologize? Has anyone does that so far?
Blessings to you brothers & sister in Christ! - July 18, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Theodoris said...
Hey Fat Man,
I just watched your link, and at first it appears as though Yahya did the honorouble thing by removing the footage from his site and apologizing.
But then he spends the second half of the video bragging about how honorouble he is for doing it and claiming that David/Nabeel would never have done the same.
He lost all of his credibility with me right there...if you do something honorable you don't need to brag about it and show how much better you are than others for doing it....you simply do it. - July 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- el Lobo said...
Nabeel, you and your master Wood claim that christianity is more peaceful than islam. Isn't it a matter of how you interpret scripture?
If you perceive the old testament as christ's words then as a christian you can surely make use of the old testament (as has been done countless of times through history) for legitimizing violence without as you would claim not be a true christian.
Indeed, Origen writes from the 3rd century:
"[Christ's words] are not only those which he spoke when he became a man and tabernacled in the flesh; for before that time, Christ, the Word of God, was in Moses and the prophets. ...[their words] were filled with the Spirit of Christ."
Do you agree with Origen?
Are these the words of your peaceful Christ?:
Exo. 15: The Lord is a man of war.
Exo. 17: "I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
Deu. 3:6: And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
You hypocrites! - July 18, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- Representative Tom McMillin said...
Lydia - I think the police officer that tells David that "you're fine" is the one that arrested Negeen earlier. And the timing is strange...it really does seem like some kind of setup.
- July 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Traeh said...
John 8:24,
In an earlier video, I believe when David Wood and his lawyer were interviewed on Fox News, the lawyer said that he would not only be defending Acts 17 against the charges, but would also be bringing a civil action against Dearborn for violation of the rights of Acts 17. - July 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Radical Moderate said...
Theodoris said...
"...at first it appears as though Yahya did the honorouble thing by removing the footage from his site and apologizing."
Theodoris, you caught the "Even when they do the right thing they do it so wrong" part.
I will comment further on this to demonstrate the "Even when they tell the truth they Lie" actually I should change it to "Even when he tells the truth he lies. Even when he does the right thing he does it so wrong." - July 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- The Berean Search said...
The Fat Man,
Thumbs up for your rewording of your statement :). While there are, perhaps, symptomatic commonalities in many Muslim's approach to dawa and approach to logic, not every Muslim is Yahya Snow. - July 18, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- Haecceitas said...
Lupus el Lobo,
How much do you know about Origen's actual exegesis of the Old Testament? Are you aware that he often understood the text as having a non-historical, allegorical and spiritual meaning? I'm not saying that I look at Origen as some kind of great authority on OT interpretation (and I doubt that David and Nabeel do) but asking whether they agree with Origen may not lead quite where you think it does.
"If you perceive the old testament as christ's words then as a christian you can surely make use of the old testament (as has been done countless of times through history) for legitimizing violence without as you would claim not be a true christian."
No. The texts that you referred to are very much unlike the Quran in that they have a particular historical context that is evident in the book itself and one can't legitimately appeal to them in a totally different historical context as legitimizing some contemporary acts of violence, especially when this would go against the directions given by Jesus and the apostles. - July 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
Thanks, Representative McMillin, I'm glad I'm not just turning into a conspiracy theorist. :-)
Does anyone have any response from MI Attorney General Cox on whether he is going to investigate this? Violations of MI constitutional rights, possible corruption in the Dearborn department, and false arrest. - July 18, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Representative Tom McMillin said...
Yes, Lydia - I talked with Cox's office friday. The situation is definately on their radar and they'll be watching how the current litigation unfolds. I'm pretty confident that whether its via the Thomas More Law Center (defendants' attorneys) and/or A/G Cox's office, the city of Dearborn and the officers making false arrests will be held accountable. It'll help if we all try making more and more people aware of this, including the media.
- July 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- loosechickens said...
Keep the faith! Dearborn cannot declare itself outside the constitution. This is a nation of laws.
- July 18, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Radical Moderate said...
Even when he tells the truth he lies, even when he does the right thing he does it so wrong Part 2.
In Yahya Snow's video he paraphrases my comment on his previous smear video and says "This is sam and david being thrown out of ISNA after we were invited in.... This is all he says"
Well unfortunitly for him that was not all I said. I sent both a youtube email as well as coppied the 7 points in the email into the comment section. Here is what I wrote.
First thanks for ripping off my video, That's real integrity. Second thanks for being deceptive like all Muslims are.
Sorry to confuse you with the FACTS. But here they are.
1. ISNA is a expensive event. Ticket prices over $100 dollars. We did not purchase tickets.
2. We were happy to be outside of the Rosemont Theater on Saturday and Sunday. This video was shot on Sunday night.
3. We were INVITED, yes INVITED into ISNA by a BURKA BABE (you can see her in the first video) to speak to a sheik, on Sunday night.
4. The Sheik started screaming "Paul is a liar, Al Quartab is a Liar, the DISCIPLES were liars" It was after this point that we decided to leave, the Shiek actually grabbed Sam and said "Your not going anywhere... I got you I got you" He also started telling that to others that had gathered around. "I got him I got this..." etc... It was after this point that I started filming with my phone.
6. Security came up and asked to see our passes. We didnt have any as I stated above and we explained that we were invited in by the Burka Babe.
7. We were informed by security that since we didn't have any passes we had to leave, and that the Burka Babe did not have the authority to invite anyone into the conference with out a pass. So that was it, no arrest, no trouble we were invited in by someone who did not have the authority to invite us in.
Those are the facts, So sorry to disappoint you. But hey your a Muslim so i'm sure you wont let facts get in the way of your agenda.
One more thing I was given a Quran, I did not want to set it down on the ground as this would offend Muslims so I asked one of the Muslims to hold it for me. After we were leaving I went up to the Muslim who was holding the Quran I was given and asked for it back. He said "No This is My Quran"
So he stole my Quran. So much for Muslims being honest.
I am not related to ACts 17 Apologetics in anyway shape or form.
So you can see that Yahya Snow is CLEARLY LYING when he says "This is all he said"
More to come. - July 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Radical Moderate said...
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- July 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Fernando said...
Lupus el Lobo saide: «If you perceive the old testament as christ's words then as a christian you can surely make use of the old testament (as has been done countless of times through history) for legitimizing violence without as you would claim not be a true christian»...
I say: no we cannot: its not the prvious thate is used to interpret the latter; rather the latter that must be used to interpret the previous; this is simple biblical undertanding... so: its not us thate are hypocrites; its you thate is simply ignorante and offensive... simply as thate...
We all agree withe Origins, butt we do not have the same undertanding off ispiration as you muslims habe...
for you inspiration is like someone dictating words after words withe the one recieving those words behaving like an automate; a marionette or puppet controled by a manipulative manipulator;
for the Bible God inspires the authors using their own human capacities to communicate His words butt without imposing them in a mechanical way: only in Jesus there was, after a pedagogical aprouch off God withe progressive transparence thrue the OT hagiographers, a total transparency between God's words and the words of God presented to humananity and being so its Jesus' life thate must be used as the key to understant all the Biblical texts...
you have to take a deap breath and realize thate everything you muslims are taught aboute Christianity is shear lies since from its start islam had to fabricate psychological defenses in order to subsiste due to the fact muhammad's claims could not face the most simple profe off truth...
islam cannot subsist without lying: about itself, and about the others... as muhammad was, muslims are pathological lyiers eben when they do not realize that since whate they beliebe is a castle build withe lyies... - July 18, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
I wonder if intelligent letters to Atty. General Cox, especially from Michiganders, would be a good idea.
- July 18, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Radical Moderate said...
I recieved a youtube email from Yahya Snow. The contents are below.
I noted you were accusing me of lying on the AM blog.
This is unjust. The only material I saw was the out of the door video and your description of the said video. After I made my video accusing Nabeel of lying I was sent a PM by kufrtokufr in which he told me of what you said...thus I acted accordingly amd took down my video
So I ask you to rectify the situation as I did.
Yahya Snow
God bless
Here is my response
First I don't believe you. Second you have been accusing David Wood and Nabeel of lying this whole time about Dearborn. Now that the video of what really happened has been released and you can clearly see that David, Nabeel, Paul and Nageen were arrested with out cause. They were deliberately targeted. Now all of a sudden you are silent on the subject.
Sir you subscribed to my Youtube page. I only have 9 videos none of them over a minute most some under 30 seconds. I find it hard to believe that you did not see the second 41 second video were I clearly stated what happened.
So you didn't see this video and read the Description below?
"MartyrMaker07 | July 04, 2010
This is a brief video of us inside the ISNA conference. The Burka Babe in the white hijab invited Sam and David inside to debate a "SHEIK". Since nobody had a bible, I downloaded a bible app to my phone, and was setting that up when it got crazy. The "Shiek" said that Paul was a liar, the Disciples where liars and Al Qauterbee was a LIAR. Thats when I started recording. We were surronded Sam was pushed up against the wall. The Sheik even grabbed Sam and said "Your not leaving.... I got this... I got him" Fun times"
I tell you what I will ignore the fact that you used my video with out my permission. I will ignore all the unbelievable garbage you have put out. And I will leave it up to those on teh AM blog to decide if I have misrepresented you in any way.
So I leave it up to you guys, should I change my statement that Yahya Snow is clearly lying or am I mistaken? - July 18, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Abiding Joy said...
Praying for you.
It surely looks like you were set up. The police wanted you to stay there a little longer so the "crowd" had a chance to show up and be "hostile" to you. Perhaps security is less visible because they were busy rounding the "mob" up. They had no trouble getting some young men to "help" out last year.
It does appear to be the same cop at Negeen's arrest and in the "You're fine." video. I'm sure some stills would prove one way or the other. So he says. "You're fine", all the while knowing that he has already arrested Negeen and is about to arrest you---just as soon as that angry crowd shows up!
I am so glad you are doing this! You are suffering for the Gospel (and for our Constitutional rights.) Thank you. Thank you. - July 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- David Wood said...
If you were dealing with someone else, I'd say give him the benefit of the doubt. But Yahya Snow has shown such a consistent display of deception that I don't see how we can trust anything he says.
- July 18, 2010 at 10:44 PM
- Anthony Rogers said...
Yahya Snow has a history of engaging in taqiyya. In fact, this can be seen in another recent episode.
Plagiarizing from Bassam Zawadi in an effort to refute Jochen Katz and appear scholarly in the process, Yahya argued that the word "may" that appears in Surah 48:2 comes from the Arabic word 'assa and can actually mean probability or even certainty.
Having already read Jochen's article, and having talked to Jochen as well, I pointed out to Yahya that he made a huge mistake (and not just on the following issue). As Jochen pointed out to Bassam in the article that Yahya was supposed to be responding to, the word 'assa does not even appear in the Arabic text of Surah 48:2. This shows that Yahya: 1) didn't know what he was talking about when making his confident pronouncements about the underlying Arabic of S. 48:2; 2) was blindly following Bassam (although he didn't acknowledge Bassam as the source of this argument); and 3) didn't even bother to read the whole article by Jochen that he was pretending to be responding to.
After pointing this out to Yahya, he promptly changed his article and continues to play dumb about it when people ask him. The problem is many people saw his article before he changed it, and, moreover, because I am aware of Yahya's penchant for deception, lying and fact-twisting, which is also seen in his posts about the Deerborn debacle, I saved his original article to my hard drive.
I thought of putting up a blog post on this, but I finally realized that I have wasted far to much time entertaining the idea that Yahya is even worth responding to. With that said, if anyone has any interest in the original article written by Yahya in order to see the evidence with their own eyes, e-mail me and I will send it to you. - July 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- mkvine said...
After viewing some of Yahya Snow's videos about you guys, I wouldn't trust him.
- July 19, 2010 at 2:49 AM
- Traeh said...
Strange that the mayor says things that can be so easily refuted by your videos. How right you have been about the need to bring along video cameras to prevent others through either incompetence, lying or a combination of the two, from injuring, imprisoning, and slandering Acts 17.
NEXT TIME GET CAMERAS THAT STREAM THE VIDEO IMMEDIATELY TO A SAFE PLACE (AN INTERNET STORAGE SITE?), SO THAT THERE IS NO FEAR OF NOT RECOVERING YOUR VIDEO EVIDENCE. - July 19, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- Lydia McGrew said...
I find the mayor's lies interesting because they are obviously being "fed" to him by someone who was present--I assume, one of the policemen. You can tell that from the way that they are related to the truth. For example: The police did mention the weather to the Acts 17 guys. That is true. But then the mayor goes off into never-never land with the claim that the police asked them to _break up the conversation_ after telling them about the storm, which is completely false. It looks like they may have been standing near a tent entrance; that appears to be true. But then the mayor says something totally false, which is that they were deliberately blocking the entrance, when in fact David asked the policeman if they should move and was told that they were fine.
You see? Someone who was there must be giving the mayor his lines. - July 19, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- David Wood said...
It's also possible that the mayor is inventing things himself. He said in an interview that he watched the video footage. He could have seen police walk up to us outside a tent, and hatched a plan.
- July 19, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Chad Groenhout said...
I'd still like to know if it legal for him to have viewed your footage?
- July 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Letitia (The Damsel) said...
David and Nabeel,
What about the bill of particulars that you mentioned? Did the judge deny your attorney's request to have one sent to you? - July 19, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Letitia (The Damsel) said...
BTW, I looked closely, and it doesn't look like the officer that said "you're fine" to David is the same officer that arrested Negeen and later Nabeel.
- July 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- David Wood said...
Ha! I just read Lydia's awesome satire.
Lydia, would you mind if we repost it here? - July 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Anthony Rogers said...
I just read it. That was great.
- July 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM
- Representative Tom McMillin said...
Yes Lydia - I think it wouldn't hurt for MI A/G Cox's office to get thoughtful letters indicating concern/outrage over what happened in Dearborn and ask that justice be brought upon the Dearborn authorities for their abuse and attack on 1st Amendment.
- July 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- Representative Tom McMillin said...
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- July 19, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- Representative Tom McMillin said...
The whole incident at the Festival reminds me of the portion of Pilgrim's Progress, when Christian and Faithful were arrested for "creating a hubbub" at Vanity Fair...they weren't even preaching...just not acting "worldly".
John Bunyan was in jail when he wrote Pilgrim's Progress - jailed, because he refused to obey the law at the time against preaching without a license - he could have left jail at anytime, but is quoted as saying, "If you release me today, I will preach tomorrow"...so in jail he remained - where he wrote Pilgrim's Progress - a most incredible gift to Christians for centuries. - July 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
David, I would be most honored if anything posted at my blog were reposted here. Please do note that I didn't write it. It can be the "anonymous satire published at..." etc. :-)
Thanks, Representative McMillin, then I think I'll do that! - July 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Anthony Rogers said...
Lydia said: "By the way, is the officer who arrested Negeen visible in the later footage of the other arrests? Is he the one telling the guys that they're "fine"? I catch only a glimpse and am not sure."
Both of the officers who are present in the video saying they are "fine" have watches on their left wrists. If you pause the video of Negeen's arrest exactly at the 4:36 mark, you can see that that officer does not have a watch on his left arm. - July 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Letitia (The Damsel) said...
Okay, I can safely conclude that the judge did deny your request for a bill of particulars. Otherwise, you would have mentioned the charges online by now. Am I right?????
- July 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- Negeen Mayel said...
@Letita: It is the same officer.
- July 20, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Michelle Qureshi said...
I dunno, Negeen -- looks like a different officer who says "you're fine".
- July 21, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Michelle Qureshi said...
I dunno, Negeen -- looks like a different officer who says "you're fine".
- July 21, 2010 at 10:58 PM


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Washington – The United States Helsinki Commission held a hearing today examining the status of human rights and democracy in Ukraine and the role of the United States in assisting Ukraine's development as an independent, market-oriented democracy in the face of the current political crisis.
"Pervasive, high level corruption, the controversial conduct by authorities in the Gongadze investigation and ongoing human rights problems are raising legitimate questions about Ukraine's commitment to democracy, human rights and the rule of law," said Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO). "I am especially troubled by the level of corruption in Ukraine, which has had such a debilitating impact on the people and which discourages valuable foreign investment, something that Ukraine badly needs to assist in its economic recovery. Left to fester, corruption will undermine Ukraine's fledgling democracy and independence."
"Ukraine's promise for a better future has not yet been met," said Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ). "We know this all too well from the tape scandal, alleging the involvement of top officials in malfeasance. We know this from the Ukrainian authorities' sometimes heavy-handed responses to the independent media and opposition. More recently, this promise for a better future was thwarted by forces reluctant to engage in the kinds of reforms that will truly break the ties with a gloomy, communist past. It was these forces who voted – ironically, on the fifteenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster – to dismiss popular reform-minded Prime Minister Yushchenko."
"Given the importance of our relationship with Ukraine – and let there be no doubt that it is a very important relationship – the Commission has become increasingly concerned about the direction in which Ukraine appears to be heading," Chairman Campbell added.
"Despite the forces hostile to reform, it is clear that the United States must not abandon Ukraine," said Co-Chairman Smith. "Whether through political support or through concrete assistance to strengthen democracy, it is incumbent upon us to work with the Ukrainian people so that the promise for a better future for which so many sacrifices were made will – at long last – become a reality."
"Almost a decade after achieving its centuries-old dream of independence, Ukraine is at a crossroads with respect to its democratic development as well as with its geopolitical orientation," concluded Chairman Campbell. "Is Ukraine acting in a manner consistent with its declared desire to integrate with Europe or is it moving away from a pro-European orientation? And what are the consequences for Ukraine if it moves away from the West?"
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Andrew Zimmern Interview
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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- Heather said...
I don't mean to be a hater, because I love your blog, but I'd want someone to let me know: You spelled "refrigerator" wrong.
- October 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- C. Beth said...
Congrats on the interview!
I just noticed that your blog still says you were nominated for a Blogger's Choice Award. If they don't give you a new graphic listing you as a WINNER you should create one! We all know it's only the losers who say, "It's just great to be nominated." ;) If you make your own I vote for a huge, gaudy gold medal, preferably with typos on it...you know, an Award Wreck. - October 30, 2008 at 1:46 PM
OMG! I love AZ and am so stoked that you were on there! WTG! BTW...I'm a total slut to your site...I'd do anything to read it! LOL
- October 30, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- joyce said...
Wow--how neat ! Come on, Bertolli frozen bags of pasta are not that hard to cook for supper in the microwave. I even add a bag of frozen broccoli for even more veggies. But, thanks to you, I smile when I eat muffins for breakfast---'cause it is cake !
- October 30, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- MaryO said...
Very nice!
I'm still hoping for a stint on either Leno or Letterman !!! - October 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM
thats pretty much amazing! I love his show!
- October 30, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Congrats on more deserved recognition. It's all about the humor, lady, not the craptastic cakes. Okay, it's about the cakes. But you make them extraordinary funny with your commentary.
- October 30, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- Jen said...
Aw, dang it! I need to have a little memo on the side: "XX Days Since Jen Made a Spelling Error." I think I was up to at least 10 there... (days, not errors!)
Thanks for the correction - although I still want to know why "fridge" has a "d" in it but "refrigerator" does not. I love our language, I really do.
Oh, and C. Beth - if you make me a shiny gold medal graphic, I'll put it up. Apparently the BCAs don't give out "I won!" badges - so sad. :( - October 30, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Jen, Congrats on another awesome interview. Please tell me you weren't lying about all of your past jobs. Oh, and for some reason, I thought you were Canadian.
Sorry if I sent this twice. - October 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- kikibibi said...
Jen - I'm sorry to go off topic, but I wondered if you could have a discussion sometime soon of "cake balls." I have recently become aware of these frightening things, and after a posting on Pioneer Woman today, I am now feeling quite ill just thinking about them.
It's a boxed cake mix, cooled then crumbled up, and a jar of frosting mixed in. Rolled into balls then frozen, then dipped into icing and decorated. Ick, right? I've never actually had one, but it just sounds. so. wrong. Right? - October 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Jackie said...
Congratulations! You deserve the press. Love your site. I agree with c.beth...you should have a new WINNER badge from Blogger's Choice.
- October 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM
You go girl!
- October 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Way to go! That's a nicely done interview between you and our Andrew (I claim him as I am from Minneosta and my seestor has met him on several occasions).
I need to tell you - I love your site and I have this need to order a cake with "under neat that" on it for the next birthday party I bring a cake to! - October 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Maryogim said...
very nice interview - you come across very intelligently in spite of the now-corrected spelling error earlier... :)
- October 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Kimberly said...
That is crazy cool!
Can a book deal be far away? A Wreck book would be my favorite Christmas gift to give!! - October 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- Debbi said...
Oh, big deal! Refrigerator was spelled wrong! We still love you, Jen! It's all about the cake anyway!
- October 30, 2008 at 5:43 PM
- Libbie said...
No way! Congrats on the big-time interview. I love his show. :)
- October 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- Marie said...
actually, I'm sure you do know this, but you DID NOT spell refrigerator wrong.
- October 30, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Angela Watson said...
WOW, thanks to that comment by kikibibi, I'm now totally craving cake balls. I had no idea such a thing existed, and must have some. Immediately.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:18 PM
- woolies said...
Awesome! congratulations!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Jen! You've hit the BIG time baby!! Andrew Zimmern. How cool for you! Great interview too.
- October 30, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- Jen said...
My friend will SO kill me for doing this to her...BUT in the spirit of Halloween...She & Her husband had to make sugary treats for the office parties.. Please go to her blog & see the picture of the "kitty litter cake" SERIOUSLY! It is the funniest thing EVER. I got her to send me the "makeup" of this so I can make one tomorrow to mess with my hubby.
Go to http://blackbettysbizkits.wordpress.com/
The post title is "Kitty litter, punkins, and bloody ghosts"
I think its wreckworthy :) heh! She will KILL me now. I know it. - October 31, 2008 at 12:28 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh my gosh, I ADORE Andrew Zimmern. Lucky you! Did you get to talk to him directly? :-D
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- echidna girl said...
Great interview! I love your blog.
- October 31, 2008 at 7:01 AM
- Tamra Tyndell said...
You're gettin' famous! Congratulations on the interview.
- October 31, 2008 at 7:07 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
kikibibi...Really? I think they sound like heaven, plus I just like to say cake balls.
http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2007/12/red-velvet-cake-balls.html - October 31, 2008 at 9:03 AM
- Thistledew Farm said...
Loved the interview! I saw one of those spider cakes at wal-mart yesterday and thought of you!
- October 31, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Stephanie said...
you are officially my idol since you were a skip on the jungle cruise. i suppose it was at WDW, but one of my dream jobs is to be a skipper on the disneyland jungle cruise. ^-^
- October 31, 2008 at 7:44 PM
That's totally unexpected to have this blog on that site but it was fun to read it!
- October 31, 2008 at 8:38 PM
congratulations on the interview, I just wish it was with a different person. I have such a loathing for that person that I have problems expressing it. Everything about him seems to grate on me.
- November 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Amazon said...
I loved reading your interview. And your in Orlando like MEEEE, now I can stalk you:)
Always a great blog. - November 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM
- Anne said...
A Jungle Cruise Skipper? Jen, are you a former Cast Member? That would explain so much. I tend to think Disney employees (especially attractions) have a lot of...personality ;-)
- November 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM
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Topic Overview
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are some of the most widespread infections both in the United States and the world. STIs affect both men and women, and two-thirds of all STIs occur in people younger than 25. Exposure to an STI can occur any time you have sexual contact that involves the genitals, the mouth (oral), or the rectum (anal). Exposure is more likely if you have more than one sex partner or do not use condoms. Some STIs can be spread by nonsexual contact, such as during the delivery of a baby or during breastfeeding.
It is important to practice safer sex with all partners, especially if you or they have high-risk sexual behaviors.
There are at least 20 different STIs. Testing recommendations for some of the most common STIs in the U.S. follow. In general, testing is recommended for those at high risk.
Chlamydia is a common STI in the United States. Left untreated, chlamydia can lead to many complications, especially for women. If a woman has chlamydia when she gives birth, her newborn can have the infection.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends chlamydia testing for all sexually active women ages 24 and younger. The USPSTF also recommends testing for women older than 24 with high-risk sexual behaviors. The task force does not state how often to be screened. After reviewing all of the research, the USPSTF has not recommended for or against regular chlamydia screening for men.footnote 2
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends screening every year for sexually active adolescents and women ages 24 and younger. Women older than 24 who have high-risk sexual behaviors also should be screened every year.footnote 3 You may have a urine test for chlamydia (if it is available in your area) even if you do not have a full pelvic or genital exam.
The CDC recommends tests for pregnant women with high-risk sexual behaviors so they do not spread chlamydia to their babies. All pregnant women should be screened during their first prenatal visit. If a pregnant woman is at high risk for chlamydia, she may be tested again during her third trimester.
The CDC also recommends you have the test again 3 to 12 months after you finish treatment. Women who have been diagnosed and treated for chlamydia may get it again if they have sex with the same partner or partners.footnote 3
For more information, see the topic Chlamydia.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) strongly recommend that all pregnant women be screened for syphilis because of the severe consequences of being pregnant while infected or having a child born with congenital syphilis.footnote 1 Screening should be done:footnote 3
- At the first prenatal visit for all pregnant women.
- During the third trimester and again at delivery for pregnant women who have an increased risk of acquiring syphilis.footnote 3
The USPSTF also strongly recommends that anyone with high-risk sexual behaviors be screened.
Yearly testing for syphilis is recommended for men who are sexually active with other men. If these men also engage in risky sexual behavior, have HIV, or have a sex partner with syphilis, testing should take place more often.
For more information, see the topic Syphilis.
The USPSTF recommends testing all sexually active women ages 24 and younger. The USPSTF also recommends testing for women older than 24 who engage in high-risk sexual behaviors.footnote 2
If you engage in high-risk sexual behaviors, you may want to consider being tested once a year for gonorrhea even though you don't have symptoms. Testing will allow gonorrhea to be quickly diagnosed and treated. This helps to reduce the risk of transmitting gonorrhea and avoid complications of the infection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends testing for pregnant women who engage in high-risk sexual behaviors to prevent them from transmitting gonorrhea to their babies. All pregnant women should be tested during their first prenatal visit. If a pregnant woman is at high risk for gonorrhea, she may be tested again during the third trimester before delivery to prevent transmitting the infection to her newborn.footnote 3
For more information, see the topic Gonorrhea.
Other types of STIs include:
- Genital warts or human papillomavirus (HPV). Certain types of HPV can cause cancer of the cervix.
- Genital herpes.
- Hepatitis B.
- Trichomoniasis.
Other infections that may be sexually transmitted include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis A, cytomegalovirus, scabies, pubic lice, molluscum contagiosum, hepatitis C, and possibly bacterial vaginosis.
For more information, see the topic Sexually Transmitted Infections.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2018). Screening for syphilis infection in pregnant women: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reaffirmation recommendation statement. JAMA, 320(9): 911–917. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.11785. Accessed January 17, 2019.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2014). Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening: Final recommendation statement. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/RecommendationStatementFinal/chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening. Accessed October 14, 2014.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015). Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015. MMWR, 64(RR-03): 1–137. http://www.cdc.gov/std/tg2015. Accessed July 2, 2015. [Erratum in MMWR, 64(33): 924. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6433a9.htm?s_cid=mm6433a9_w. Accessed January 25, 2016.]
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