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VATICAN CITY – He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged position as papal butler, he had access to their deepest secrets: confidential letters, memos, financial reports.
From under Benedict's nose, Paolo Gabriele used the photocopier in the small office he shared with the two papal secretaries that adjoined the pope's library, studio and chapel — and, he says, started copying them all.
At first he kept the documents to himself. Then he found a journalist he trusted, and the intrigues and injustices he saw around him spread around the world in the gravest Vatican security breach of modern times.
A three-judge Vatican tribunal on Saturday will decide whether Gabriele is guilty of aggravated theft, accused of stealing the pope's private papers and leaking them to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book "His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's secret papers" became an immediate blockbuster when it was published in May. Gabriele has pleaded innocent, claiming he never took original documents, though he said he was guilty of "having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would."
From court documents, trial testimony and the book itself, the anatomy of the scandal has taken shape: They describe how a 46-year-old father of three, said by court-ordered psychiatrists to be unstable, desperate for attention and with illusions of grandeur, came to consider himself inspired by the Holy Spirit to expose the Vatican's dirty laundry for the sake of saving the church. They demonstrate how he instigated an unfathomable Hollywood-like plot to sneak the documents out of the Apostolic Palace under the cover of darkness to a waiting journalist outside the Vatican walls, who then exposed them on TV and in the most talked-about book of 2012.
Gabriele himself told the court this week that he became increasingly "scandalized" when, as he would serve Benedict his lunch, the pope would ask questions about issues he should have been informed about. That suggested to Gabriele that the pope was being intentionally kept in the dark by his advisers.
"I had a unique and privileged occasion to mature the conviction that it's easy to manipulate someone with decision-making power," Gabriele said of the pope. "With the help of others like Nuzzi, I thought I could help things be seen more clearly," he told prosecutors in a July 21 interrogation.
Gabriele told Nuzzi that he started copying documents sporadically soon after Benedict became pope in 2005, and then in earnest in 2010 and 2011, when the No. 2 Vatican administrator began complaining about a smear campaign launched against him for having uncovered corruption and waste in running the Vatican City state.
In his testimony, Gabriele almost boasted that he would copy the letters in broad daylight, during his 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. shift, while Monsignor Georg Gaenswein and the other papal secretary, Monsignor Alfred Xuereb, were at their desks facing his. He was free to sort through the mail that would come in daily to the office inboxes, even documentation that was on Gaenswein's desk.
"The photocopier was in the corner, on the opposite side of the office," Gabriele told the court as his lawyer handed out a floor-plan of the shared space. "I did it while I was in the office, since I was free to move around and didn't have any wicked aims. I did it calmly, even in the presence of others."
At the same time, Gabriele would also discuss Vatican problems with any number of trusted acquaintances he would run into on his walk home from the palace. On foot, the walk should take three to four minutes, he said, but sometimes he didn't get home until 4 p.m. because he would be stopped by so many highly-placed people who wanted to speak to him.
He named names, including cardinals and monsignors. But in his testimony this week, Gabriele insisted he had no accomplices, recanting statements to prosecutors that his plot had been "suggested" to him by others.
Once home in the Vatican City apartment he shared with his wife and three children, Gabriele would file the papers away, "hidden" — police would later say — in between hundreds of thousands of pages of Internet research on Freemasonry, secret service units, Christianity, Buddhism and yoga. He filled a floor-to-ceiling armoire with the documentation in the study near his children's' PlayStation. A dining room cabinet held the rest.
"'See how much I like to read and study,'" Vatican police officer Stefano De Santis quoted Gabriele as telling the four officers who searched his home May 23, the day Gabriele was taken into police custody.
In all, it took 82 moving boxes to cart out all the documents they found, though police said only about 1,000 pages were pertinent to the investigation. Police and Gaenswein have said that — contrary to the butler's claims — they also contained original documents, obvious because of the seals, stamps and internal processing codes used in the Vatican.
Some bore the pope's own handwriting, including with the word "destroy" written at the top in German, police told the court.
It was Gaenswein who found the "gotcha" documents that pointed him to the culprit: three letters reproduced in Nuzzi's book that he said had never left his office.
Other documents had come from other Vatican congregations, so they could have been leaked at any point along the internal mail chain. These three, though, were addressed to Gaenswein: one from Italian TV host Bruno Vespa with a check for €10,000 and a request for a private papal audience; another from a Milan banker also containing a check; and an email from the Vatican spokesman that Gaenswein had printed out.
"These three didn't leave the room," Gaenswein testified. "This was the moment I started to have doubts."
He convened a meeting of the tiny papal family on May 21, a day after Nuzzi's book came out: Gabriele, Xuereb, the four consecrated women who tend to the papal household, and Birgit Wansing, who transcribes the pope's tiny handwriting. Cristina Cernetti, one of the women, testified she knew it was Gabriele because she could "exclude everyone else" in the papal family.
Gabriele denied he was the leaker that day. Two days later, Gaenswein again convened the papal family to tell Gabriele he was suspended. A few hours later, he was in a Vatican jail cell.
Gabriele has denied to prosecutors taking any originals, insisting he only made copies. And he has denied having ever seen a nugget believed to be gold and a check for $100,000 made out to the pope that police said were found in his apartment. In their testimony, police were unable to say where exactly in his study they found the items.
Nuzzi has all but confirmed Gabriele was his main source, sending him a good luck Tweet at the start of the trial and telling The Associated Press on the eve of the first hearing that he hoped the testimony would "unveil the motives and convictions that compelled Paolo Gabriele to bring to light documents and events described in the book."
The handoff of documents from Gabriele to Nuzzi was something out of Hollywood.
Nuzzi wrote that he first met with his source, code-named Maria in the book, in January 2012. The first meeting was a test of whether Nuzzi could be trusted. Another meeting began with a long drive around Rome to ensure they weren't being followed. Finally, there was a nighttime encounter in an unfurnished apartment, with a single chair in the living room where his source was sitting — in which "Maria" began spilling secrets.
In all, he said, the security precautions were more excessive than those used by Mafia turncoats he has interviewed. In one meeting, Maria turned up empty handed. Nuzzi recounted that his source then took off his jacket and turned around: There were 13 pages taped to his back.
Gabriele made copies of the documentation he gave to Nuzzi and gave them, in a box with the papal seal on it, to his confessor between February and March, court records show. The priest, identified by Gabriele only as Padre Giovanni, told prosecutors he burned the documentation soon after, knowing that it had been acquired illicitly.
Gabriele said he had made the copies because he knew he would eventually have to pay for what he had done, and wanted first to absolve himself spiritually.
"When the situation degenerated, I soon realized that I would need to face justice in some way," Gabriele testified.
Gabriele faces four years in prison if convicted, though a papal pardon is widely expected.
The next step plays out Saturday.
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What's billed as the largest single gathering of humanity is taking place right now in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. At the confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and (mythical) Saraswati Rivers, as many as 100 million people will participate over the next month in an ancient Hindu festival known as the Kumbh Mela. The pilgrimage, which dates back millennia, occurs in 12-year cycles — in 2001, the Indian government estimated a staggering 70 million congregated by the Ganges' banks to ritually bathe in its sacred waters.
News-agency photographers, of course, have a field day (or month) during the Kumbh Mela. It's a time when India's rising global clout and simmering social tensions take a backseat to images of ascetic sadhus — their faces doused in ash, their feral, matted hair coiled like serpents upon their heads — charging the river in religious ecstasy. Of course, it's nothing new in India for outsiders to gawk at such "timeless" rites. Here's a British colonial officer in the mid–19th century, who saw the Mela as proof of the need for Indians to be converted to Christianity:
Even now, multitudes of pilgrims crowd to the confluence of these sacred rivers, and every year there are some who voluntarily rush to death; and when the swollen corpse rises again to the surface; it becomes the prey of the vultures which hover round the scene of the sacrifice. Who that beholds these horrid spectacles, can forbear to desire the conversion of a people so unhappily blind to present happiness and eternal glory.
(PHOTOS: Tens of Millions Gather at India's Maha Kumbh Mela)
Imperial hubris aside, at first glance it is difficult to understand what would tempt anybody to join such an immense throng. On certain auspicious days, as many as 10 million to 30 million people may flock to the waters of the Sangam, the meeting point of the Yamuna, the Ganges and the Saraswati. The Atlantic's Quartz website places that sort of an event in global perspective:
Imagine the entire population of Shanghai—about 23 million—camping on a 4×8 kilometer field. Add to that mass of humanity every last man, woman and child in New York City and you're getting closer to the Kumbh's expected attendance. But still not quite there. The area of the mela is also on the rise: from 1,495.31 hectare and 11 sectors in 2001 to 1936.56 hectare and 14 sectors in 2013. That's about 4,784 acres of land – about the size of Madrid's famous Casa de Campo park.
And imagine the pollution, the press of bodies, the baseness of camping conditions, the difficulty to simply move from one site to another. Imagine too the noise generated by so many human beings just massed together in one place. By some estimates, it reaches a constant drone of over 80 decibels, prolonged exposure to which is considered hazardous to one's hearing. My grandmother, a braver soul than me (and a native Allahabadi), went to the Kumbh Mela in 2001 and came away awed by its ceaseless din.
(PHOTOS: Holy Water: Controversy on the Ganges)
But she also came away impressed. The Kumbh Melas in Allahabad have become incredible feats of mass-scale planning, and the event in 2001 was noted for its lack of incident and the smoothness of its proceedings. Some 30,000 police officers are deployed to patrol the camp grounds; dozens of pontoon bridges spring up across the mighty rivers; the transient city that emerges is replete with cell-phone towers, makeshift hospitals, fountains and wells that pump clean drinking water, sewage facilities, a security apparatus threaded together by CCTV cameras and myriad markets and food kiosks. The scale of the operation is so unprecedented that a cross-disciplinary team of Harvard scholars, under the aegis of the university's South Asia Institute, is attending the Mela this year in a bid to analyze the economy and logistics of what they've dubbed a "pop-up megacity."
According to a separate team of academics, what was once "horrid spectacle" for outsiders is now not only instructive but also actually good for you. Based on six years of studying smaller Melas on the Ganges, a group of Indian and Western researchers have published a paper in PLOS One journal arguing that the experience of participating in such mass, collective rites has long-term benefits for the individual. Compared with a sample group not attending the festival, those who did, the study found, reported improvements both in their health and broader state of well-being. The cause for that, researchers say, is not the result of being immersed in the Ganges' muddied waters, but the act of discovering oneself amid an endless sea of others bent on the same spiritual quest. Stephen Reicher, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, who worked on the study, writes in the Guardian:
Our analysis… shows it is the sense of intimate social relations – that we are not alone, that we can call on others, that these others form a "social safety net" for us – that creates improvements in well being once [devotees] leave the Ganges and go back to their everyday lives.
If that's the case, then maybe the Hindu ancients — and the tens of millions journeying to the confluence of the rivers now — are onto something.

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Washington – At a March 17 hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Europe focusing on Serbia, Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) and House Ranking Member Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) urged the U.S. Department of State to insist on Belgrade's full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague.
The remarks were made in anticipation of a March 31 deadline for State Department certification that Belgrade is cooperating with the ICTY. U.S. assistance to Serbia beyond March 31 is conditioned by law on such certification, a contingency placed on assistance since 2001.
Chairman Smith noted that some senior Belgrade officials "do not have the political will to break fully from the past," viewing with "great dismay…reluctance if not obstruction in cooperation with The Hague." Smith urged that certification await a sea change in Belgrade on this issue.
Commissioner Cardin expressed concern that "U.S. policy to date has made authorities in Belgrade, Banja Luka and elsewhere feel they can wait the Tribunal out. We need an unambiguous policy response which includes withholding certification on assistance…until Belgrade demonstrates concrete progress on meeting its international legal obligations to comply with the Tribunal."
Both Commissioners noted many improvements in relations between the United States and Serbia since 2000 and said the United States should continue to strengthen this relationship. Commissioner Cardin noted, however, that integration of Serbia and Montenegro into Europe and other regional and international organizations depends upon Serbia's progress in cooperating with The Hague.
The hearing, while focusing on current developments in Serbia, took place amid an eruption of violence in Kosovo caused by a lack of ethnic reconciliation. Kosovo is an Albanian-dominated region with a sizable Serb minority. It was also ruled by Serbia until 1999.
Reacting to press reports of several deaths and hundreds wounded in the clashes, Smith said that "attacks on innocent people cannot be tolerated by the international community, nor be allowed to justify political ends. This is neither a Serb nor an Albanian tragedy, but a human tragedy, and I urge everyone in Kosovo to refrain from further violence."
Chairman Smith also noted that, while he is dismayed with Serbian officials' lack of cooperation with the ICTY, he shares "Serbian concerns about…the situation for the Serb, Roma and other minority groups in Kosovo, and the continued obstacles to the return of the displaced."
Chairman Smith recently met with Serbian Orthodox Bishop Artemije regarding attacks on churches in Kosovo and has pressed for greater international attention to outstanding missing persons cases.
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This idea for doing a mixte crossed our conference table almost a year ago. Time sure flies.
And hopefully in 3 or 4 months, the first production will be here.
For most of you, we don't have to explain ourselves of why a mixte is desirable these days. For those who are going a "mix-what", here's the Sheldon Brown glossary entry:
"A style of lady's frame in which the "top tube" consists of a pair of small diameter tubes running more-or-less straight from the upper head lug, past the seat tube, and on to the rear fork ends. A mixte frame thus has 3 sets of rear stays, instead of the usual two. A variant on the mixte uses a single, full sized top tube running from the upper head tube to the seat tube, but retains the middle set of stays. A lady's type bike that lacks the middle pair of stays is not a mixte....
In French, "mixte" would be pronounced "MEExt", but normal U.S. bicycle industry pronunciation is 'MIX-ty'."
Though Sheldon and others may see the mixte as a ladies' bike, it was
actually designed to be uni-sex. 'Mixte' suggests 'mixed' use. And we have been seeing all types of folks tooling around on vintage mixtes rescued from garage sales or eBay. A mixte can make an excellent commuter and light tourer. You can load stuff on the top of your rear rack and not worry about how to get your leg over the load, because you can mount from the front of the seat.
Enter the Buena Vista:
While we wanted to replicate a thoroughly traditional mixte, we wanted to change two things.
1. Make this compatible with readily available modern components.
2. Give it a sport touring geometry instead of lazy comfort bike set up. If the owner puts drop bars on this, we want him to be able to crank on this.
A more genteel set up is still possible with the right bar and stem. This will be a frame and fork only and we imagine this will be a fun project build for many of you.
- Four sizes - X-Small, Small, Medium, Large
- The Small to Large will fit 700c tires with 57mm reach brakes
- The X-Small will fit 26" tires with 73mm reach (Rivendell Silver side pull/Dia-Compe Mod 750 center pull) brakes
- Both will fit 650b tires with appropriate swaps to brakes and wheel
- Eyelets for fenders and racks of course
- Compatible with road hubs or mountain hubs
- Primary decals will be on top of clearcoat and thus removable
- Tange Infinity double butted CrMo tubes
First batch will be 'Bacardi White'. Second run color is up in the air (maybe black or a dark color). Any opinions?
UPDATE 9-01-08: We have pushed back the release date of the mixte. Sorry to those who have been waiting patiently through the summer. We are looking at January 2009 release date now. The frame will be viewable at Interbike at the Bicycle Technologies Int'l (BTI) booth.
UPDATE 2-10-08: We hope to get a ship date this month. We apologize for the wait. We want these here more than you do honestly. Will let you know when we know for sure. Pictures of the prototype are up on our Flickr site.


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Newspaper Names Dunn Citizen of the Year
KSCB News - April 6, 2009 12:00 am
After four years in Liberal, Seward County Community College/Area Technical School president Duane Dunn is the High Plains Daily Leader Citizen of the Year. Dunn was instrumental in the merger between SCCC and Southwest Technical School. Past Citizen of the Year recipients voted Dunn the award winner. The Daily Leader hosted a reception Friday evening at the Rock Island Depot. Dunn is also a member of the Liberal Chamber of Commerce board, the Joint Economical Development Council, Rotary, and Big Brother/Big Sisters. The Daily Leader recognized Don Rash for the Lifetime Achievement award. The Hometown Heroes awards went to Pat Allsbury, Howard Dunn, Chris Perkins, Gary Riffe, Anita Sarabia, and Diane Tillson.


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In the past I've focused on gifts for humans, but since dogs are a big part of our families, I thought I'd kick off this year with something for them. And what better gift for a furry friend than his own sex doll?
(click to enlarge, if you're into that sort of thing)
Yes, the HotDoll doggy love toy is available in 2 sizes (looks like small and medium from the site, I don't see anything for a Great Dane), and is "made to be easily distinguished by dog's eyes."
It also notes that "the pink hole needs to be washed regularly for hygienic reasons," a job which will likely spark more family fights than "whose turn is it to pick up the dog poop?"
I can just see this being marketed with The Rolling Stones belting out a modified version of one of their classics:
"Hey! You! Get off of my leg!
Don't hang around, or sit up and beg!"
The site doesn't say if there are other models that require batteries, but quite frankly I don't want to know.


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I started this conversation on Facebook, but I'm moving it here because (1) Eileen hijacked it and made it about (what else?) martinis; and (2) it's important, and merits wide public attention from we who care about the future of the study of the past.
The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is the Big Single Author Association for early modernists, a larger version of the medievalists' New Chaucer Society. I know a bit about the organization because GW MEMSI helped sponsor their annual meeting DC in 2008, and of course many of my colleagues, friends and students attend their convocations. I was incredulous when I was told that the SAA is putting into place a policy through which graduate students who hope to participate in their seminars need to have their thesis supervisor confirm via official email their status as engaged in late stage doctoral work. (The SAA annual meeting is structured into workshops and seminars into which participants apply. Work is precirculated, and the seminars may be audited by those who have not been selected for participation). So I looked at the most recent bulletin, and there it is, reprinted three times in the course of 12 pages:
Seminars and workshops are appropriate for college and university faculty, independent postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students in the later stages of their doctoral work. The SAA now seeks to monitor this policy of long standing. Graduate students are registered in SAA seminars only when their thesis supervisors have verified their status by means of a confirming e-mail to the SAA office (saa@georgetown. edu). The message should be sent from the advisor's university e-mail address, should not be evaluative, and should give the title of the student's dissertation project. For students in programs with a terminal degree other than the Ph.D., advisors should explain the program as well as the student's status.OK, what am I missing here? What does this policy hope to achieve, other than the infantilzation of those whom the SAA ought to strive to cultivate? Doktorvater needs to send a note to the SAA saying that Little Johnny ABD is approved for admission to a seminar, and isn't trying to misrepresent himself as someone smart enough, skilled enough, engaged enough to be a valuable contributor -- because you have to be late stage before that can possibly happen, right? I was under the impression that graduate students are adults, and that when they go on unchaperoned trips they don't need permission slips -- I mean, confirmation of status emails from thesis advisors.
I am hoping that someone more familiar with why the SAA should adopt such a policy will post here. In the meantime, I keep thinking that the SAA is conducting the same self-sabotage that the MAA is doing in hesitating over moving the annual meeting from Arizona: angering and alienating the very people who are the organization's future.
The enduring ardor for hierarchy endemic to our profession puzzles me. Graduate students and faculty are colleagues engaged in a mutual enterprise. The commitment to study for an advanced humanities degree is a brave and perilous one, because the road is difficult and the destination extremely uncertain. Those who undertake such a commitment should be honored and cultivated for that choice, not made to feel like kids who need a strong dose of paternalism to keep them from overstepping.


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The Rocket is going to be pitching again Saturday night.
Roger Clemens, one of baseball's best pitchers ever, who saw his once-certain Hall of Fame credentials called into question by allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, has signed to play for the Sugar Land Skeeters. That's an independent professional club in Texas that plays in the Atlantic League. It is not affiliated with any Major League club.
Now 50 years old, Clemens hasn't pitched professionally since he was with the New York Yankees in 2007. In 24 seasons, he won 354 MLB games and lost 184. He won seven Cy Young awards.
Asked this morning about whether he sees this as something of a tryout for a Major League return, Clemens said, "I wouldn't even consider thinking about that far ahead," the Houston Chronicle reports. He did say of the National League's Houston Astros, though, that "if they have questions I can help with ... I'm there to help. This is my hometown." The Astros now have the worst record in Major League Baseball.
And Fox Sports reports that Astros amateur scouting director Mike Elias has recently seen Clemens throw and says "he is in condition to pitch and pitch successfully." Fox adds that if the Astros did add Clemens to the team once MLB clubs can expand their rosters in September, Houston "would gain a potential gate attraction for the final month of the season — a potential consideration for a team that entered the week with 40 losses in its past 47 games and fired manager Brad Mills on Saturday night."
Clemens could come out a winner in any Major League return as well. As the Associated Press notes, he "is set to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot going to voters late this year [and] if he plays in another Major League game, his Hall consideration would be pushed back five years."
That might be enough time for Hall voters to have forgiven his alleged sins. Getting elected now, given the questions surrounding Clemens, is seen as a long shot at best.
Clemens has always denied using performance enhancing drugs. He was named in the "Mitchell Report," though, as among players who had. But in June, Clemens was found not guilty of lying to Congress about his alleged actions.
He has left Major League baseball four times before, returning three times (so far) after short stays away. Clemens has a history with Houston, having pitched with the Astros for all or part of three seasons.
With the Skeeters, by the way, he'll be playing beside a mix of mostly former minor leaguers — and a few ex-Major Leaguers such as one-time American League rookie of the year Scott Kazmir, also a pitcher.
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This is a little heads-up to all parents who have ANY hopes that their children MIGHT be going away to college some day. (Guess what, that day DOES come. I'm getting the party hats ready as we speak.)
Here are the things you will need; pay close attention.
1. The BIG book of passwords. This will hold the password to your child's PIN, your PIN, your husband's PIN, your grandmother's PIN and your dog's PIN. You will need them all and then some before you are done.
2. At least four pair of reading glasses. You will need back-ups, as you will surely fling them across the room as you try to read the fine print about signing your life away. (Oh hell, just sign the damn thing. But don't forget your PIN. THAT's how you SIGN. And good luck collecting that money some day. Yeah, just give me a call. )
3. The stack of W-2's; make sure you have yours, your spouse's, your child's your grandmother's and your dog's. And a calculator. Or two.
4. This is the folder of ALL your investments. (Or lack thereof.) You might have to list them. (I guess some people actually HAVE investments. huh.)
5. Vodka. You will need this at about page five zillion.
6. Vodka. See above.
7. Keys to the poor house; it's your home for the next four to EIGHT years – depending on how many children you have that can actually get IN to college.
8. Aleve.
Oh, and don't forget to save up for the senior year. THAT list of vital purchases is coming shortly; after I recover from this most recent "things I do for my children" episode.
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Forum Post: Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement!
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Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
THIS is How You Show Hungry Who's Boss
Thursday, February 19, 2009
It's Hungry from those Weight Watcher's commercials! You know, this guy?
Now, Weight Watcher's wants you to banish Hungry (who I must say is the most adorable junk-food-pusher since my hubby John) by joining some program of theirs. However, the decorator of the above CCC and I have an even better idea: eat cupcakes.
See, eating cupcakes is ALSO an effective way to banish Hungry. Right? Seriously, you can't argue with this kind of logic.
And in case this is the first you've seen of the adorable orange monster, here's one of his commercials airing approximately every 20 minutes 'round these parts:
Colee, is it wrong that this makes me hungry?
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- Torii said...
Ok, I can look past the swirly poo frosting and missing eyes and eyebrows but what's with the 6?
- February 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Caleb said...
That was my first thought too. My second thought was "The Thing" from Fantastic Four.
- February 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- cakeburnette said...
I love this fuzzy orange dude, too! And he's on our TV every other minute, too, so that's a good thing.
- February 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Anna said...
Now I just want to cuddle up with mr hungry and eat some cupcakes.....it's soo wrong!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM
*stares at the cake* Yep, that's just what our yard looked like when my dog ate a sack of flower bulbs (don't ask me what he was thinking). I found lots of little perfect piles just like that in just that color. Only his arrangement was off...I'll have to mark him down on presentation I guess.
Incidentally, I'd never seen the Hungry commercials but he is awfully cute. I suspect some distant relation to Cooke Monster. - February 19, 2009 at 9:33 AM
I WANT that Hungry guy in my house!!! Seriously! I wish they would sell him (or a reasonable facsimilie of him in cuddly plush form). He's SO SUPER CUTE!!!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM
LOL! It's so true! It DOES look like Hungry!
And I love when, in the commercial, the woman opens her laptop, and Hungry opens a pizza box. CLASSIC! LOL! - February 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM
OMG that is way too funny!!! All that CCC needs is little eyes!!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Kimberly said...
I think I'm in love with "Hungry". He is freaking adorable! When I see the commercial, I ask the hubby if I can switch the two of them out since hungry will give me the food I want and hubby gives me whole grains. Lol!
The cake, though, is not adorable, it's atrocious. And what kind of Weight Watcher's celebration offers cupcakes?! Shouldn't they be little individual salads or something? - February 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Unknown said...
not any more wrong than when i watched "Super size me" and then told my husband i wanted a quarter pounder!
Hungry is teh cutest. - February 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Trudi said...
Oh dear, WW have got it so very wrong here! Who would want to banish such a cute junk food monster, not me, that's for sure?! He's too cute, shouldn't 'hungry' be made out to be some ugly fiend, that might actually work!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:47 AM
every time i see that commercial i tell my husband, "i want one of those furry things what throw you doughnuts!!"
- February 19, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- wingedfaerie said...
All I want to know is...why doesn't hungry ever show up in my living room juggling cupcakes? I might like a cupcake, but hungry makes me fetch my own. dirty bugger!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Laura said...
Ok, I'm just CRACKING UP over that laptop/pizza scene. PRICELESS!!! Wish they'd show this one around me.
And where can I get a "Hungry" stuffed animal? I want one! - February 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
I hope they don't expect us to believe those cupcakes are only worth 6 points.....
- February 19, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- Tracy O said...
As a WW lifetime member, I must say I laughed enough for co-workers to stare. I even sent the link to my meeting leader!
Word ver: weedfu - If weedfu(ll) up on CCCs, we'd need to go to Weight Watchers!
Tracy O - February 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Jessie said...
Those cupcakes are the exact same shade of orange as the squash and carrot soup I had for dinner last night.
That's not exactly appetitising, as far as desserts go. - February 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Unknown said...
I would love a Hungry cake!
- February 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Have you noticed that Hungry has no mouth? It's kind of sad how wants us to eat because he can't. It's a dark, vicarious life he leads.
- February 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Yah, Hungry IS Really cute, but...
"Weight Watchers' Hungry Totally Looks Like Gossamer from Looney Tunes"
I'm just sayin~~~ :-D - February 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Unknown said...
All I saw was a bunch of pumpkin coloured cupcakes. Never heard of that WW commercial. Cute, though. (the commercial)
~Amy B. - February 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Cottagecheap said...
I am on WW and those commercials actually make me hungry....it is wrong somehow. Maybe that is the plan?
- February 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Dea said...
Um, I think it's supposed to be a jersey - and they're rooting for player #6....
Which makes it all the more wrecktastic....
I think I like it as Hungry better....
Those ads, btw, make me want to comfort the little guy, not banish him... - February 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Scott said...
I shall assume it is 6 Weight Watcher "points" per cupcake?
- February 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- saborra said...
Hungry really reminds me of the cup a soup Hug creature, except more humanoid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Awwb-eXlc8 - February 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
we don't get that commercial here (chicago) -- either that, or i just don't watch enough tv. i think "hungry" in the commercial is adorable. "hungry" the ccc is a wreck!
- February 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- joyce said...
Eight bucks for 12 cupcakes of a headless shirt? No thanks.
- February 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Actually it looks like Gossamer, who was original, whom Hungry looks like..
either way - ewww - February 19, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Dudes, the cake is supposed to be an orange jersey with the #6 on it for some kind of sports team. The resemblance to the Weight Watchers guy is unintentional.
- February 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM
My husband *loves* Mr. Hungry. Thinks he is the cutest thing ever. Me..I just feel bad when those books fall off the table and hit him in his special place. Isn't it bad enough he has no mouth to eat? Now he can't even cry out in pain? Poor Mr. Hungry.
Word Verification: bessinag
You bessinag at me to eat healthier when I see Mr. Hungry cause he makes me want to eat junk food! - February 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Unknown said...
I love Hungry! :) He's the cutest thing ever, and I have to say, I'm not interested in getting rid of him in the Weight Watcher's way.
Perhaps this is why I am a bit on the chubby side. ;) - February 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM
When Hungry shows up I go for chocolate cake. Cause if you are what you eat I want to be a rich hunk.
- February 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Amy B said...
That monster is the BEST. I love it when he opens the pizza box like a laptop. He's too cute, you just can't refuse temptation when it's so cute!
As always, great blog post! - February 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Toby said...
One look at the "Go Team" cake made me think immediately, "No thanks, we already went". The evidence is in these 12 little piles...(bu-dump!) -tl
- February 19, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Mella said...
And I was thinking that somebody decapitated that poor fellow
- February 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- Maryogim said...
I. LOVE. the hungry monster! spesh when he pretends to type on the pizza.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
Argh, I am staaaarvin'!!
- February 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Yes he looks a little like Gossamer, but Gossamer has a mouth and sneakers
and now I want donuts ;)
wv-hundica...a new Asian carmaker? - February 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Dani said...
Okay I'm sold! I would like to buy the ugly orange CCC.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Mario said...
I must be in the minority, but I hate that commercial. "Show Hungry who's boss." Why not Hunger? At least that would be grammatical.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
Wow, that cake does not make me hungry. But you are right, eating cupcakes is a good way to banish Hungry!!!
- February 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM
@dr_igloo - Dude, we totally already knew that. Give us a little credit.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- WM said...
For the last few days I was thinking that making some cupcakes sounded like a good idea....UHMMMM...now...maybe not.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Perhaps I'm the only one here who sees it, but this is clearly the orange "T" from the University of Tennessee Volunteers. I say "clearly" but really I mean a poor attempt at making a "T" out of cupcakes. Not that I like the Vols, but I live where tons of folks do.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Aviatrix said...
Six is the number of pounds you gain from eating the cupcakes.
- February 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM
To Mario: It's not ungrammatical; Hungry is the name of the "monster."
WV: lenting. Isn't that what many Catholics will be doing in a week or so? - February 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Nonna said...
Hungry is my fav junk food character...whoever came up with it is brilliant...he appeals to everyone and he's cute and fuzzy too...Love this post !!!
I linked you in a recent post about Cake Wrecks on my blog...everyone needs to come visit here ! Thanks Jen LOL - February 19, 2009 at 1:08 PM
- Nonna said...
Hey, on second glance, I think these are cinnamon rolls "duded up" with frosting !
- February 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- sandy shoes said...
OK, so this is my first sighting of the WW mascot/whatever, so maybe this is old news... but does anyone else find it odd that "hungry" doesn't have a mouth?
- February 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Phyllisa said...
I'll go to WW if those are the refreshments!
- February 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Yes! That's so Gossamer!
I grew up on Quackbusters, what can I say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XBPkCTyuU - February 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- Ted S. (Just a Cineast) said...
The swirly frosting makes those things look less like cupcakes and more like Cinnabons.
That would be another god way to get rid of Hungry, I suppose. - February 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Theatre Geek said...
Dea finally got it right and then so did Dr. Igloo. However, it DOES look like Hungry, whom I LOVE and also want a plushie! Of course, who DOES look like Gossamer, who I've loved for a VERY LONG TIME!
Word Verification: bionve
Bionve-age, have a good trip! - February 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- the ginabean said...
Mm-kay, so I don't have television (sad, sad)...so I've never seen this Hungry monster thingy before. He. Is. Adorable. I had no idea that Hungry was supposed to be so damn cute.
- February 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Put the WW Hungry character with the Lamasil toe fungus guy and the Mucinex mucous family. All are cute when they really shouldn't be.
- February 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Jamie said...
I LOVE Hungry. I think he's adorable and would sit and eat donuts with him all day long.
- February 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM
The 'Hungry' monster that Weight Watchers uses is Gossamer from the Looney Tunes. Did anyone grow up in the late 70's? He looks just like the Hungry monster except he has tennis shoes and claws. It really suprises me that no one at Looney Tunes has caught on to them using pretty much their charachter, with a few changes. I thought when using a copyrighted image, there had to be at least 7 things different from the original image in order to use it without permission. Oh well, Hungry monster/Gossamer is still cute and he has aged well, better than I have.
- February 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Did you know that WW is making a "Hungry" to be for sale in the meeting rooms!? I hope they make him look exactly like the commercials!!!
- February 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- Amy said...
Is it me, or does "Hungry" look a LOT like Gossamer from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons?
- February 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Amy said...
Here are some links, just so you can compare Hungry to Gossamer:
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg241/EHURNEY/Gossamer.jpg - February 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Mario said...
Obviously. But if you made the name of the monster "Hunger," the sentences work on two levels. Calling it "Hungry" reduces it back to just one, and it's the worst of the two. - February 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- Kat said...
It so cute!! I actually thought that it was "Luna" in orange from Sailor Moon, but that's just me. Everytime those commercials air my sister will run in and say "scary!" LOL!
- February 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Hungry makes me hungry for some Cheetos. The fuzzy Hungry, not the cupcakey one...that's just ug-leeee.
- February 19, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Lol - I've never seen a weightwatchers ad (we watch everything on TIVO and the husb skips all ads religiously) and I'm not sure he's a UK thing anyway but I think I'm in love with hungry (especially when he looks crestfallen at getting a lap full of mags). I want one!
- February 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I love Hungry! Since he is apparently made of cupcakes, I will eat him. And then I'll never be hungry again. You know, because Hungry will be gone. Is that how that works? I think I have confused myself...
- February 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I had never seen the WW ad (which is cute); I just thought it was a woefully misshapen ccc in an ugly color. I guess it still is.
WV: eranutt--When we get too carried away, people tend to say "eranutt". - February 19, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Hungry looks like Gossamer from the Looney Toons - whom I love, but that ccc has got to go! Or did someone already "go" after a bad virus. Ewww.
- February 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
I thought it was maybe a poor interpretation of the Texas Longhorn...
- February 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM
- ksaldria said...
omg! I totally want a Hungry plushie now!
- February 19, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Okay, that was creepy. I saw this post just as that commercial came on my television.
- February 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- RainbowGnosis said...
Hungry really looks like Ookie from "Cookie Party" on The Sarah Silverman Program. :)
:) Moonbeam - February 19, 2009 at 9:44 PM
- Unknown said...
:) It totally took me a second... I saw Hungry first as well. And then I was wondering about the 6. And the "Go Team". Is that really supposed to be a football jersey?!?
- February 19, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- Val said...
Is it me or does Hungry look like Gossamer from the Bugs Bunny cartoons? (minus the shoes..lol)
- February 19, 2009 at 11:40 PM
- Unknown said...
Mario - I see your point, and now I won't be able to enjoy Hungry's cuteness ever again. Stupid grammar-eyes, ruining my newly-discovered fluffy orange monster...
He does kind of remind me of the Cup-a-Soup Hug in a Mug. I wonder if those Weight Watchers adverts have started showing in the UK while I've been gone.. - February 20, 2009 at 12:23 AM
There is a woman on eBay making hungry toys that look nearly identical- just search "Grumbelly Monster". She will be selling them on Etsy, too. I just got mine and he's darling. WW will be making some for their leaders, but maybe will make some for the rest of the world later on.
- February 20, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- Jenn said...
I'm SO glad others thought the cake/"Hungry" looks like Gossamer!
And I actually have a stuffed toy of Gossamer that I got from the WB store about 10 years ago. He is still one of my favorites! - February 20, 2009 at 1:13 AM
- Patrick said...
No wonder he's hungry...no mouth!!
Poor widdle guy! - February 20, 2009 at 1:33 AM
- Ms. ? said...
its number 9 !!!
upside down !
from the new tim burton movie !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpZxBczWUg - February 20, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- Bertha said...
That looks absolutely horrible. I know that is Wl-Mart. That is a shame.
sexwithbertha.blogspot.com - February 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- heartafire said...
You know what's especially bad about the original? (Besides the obvious: the fact that it's a CCC, and the baby-diarrhea icing color)
Here's what's wrong: There's not even an exclamation point beind "Go Team." It's sort of like: Go. Team. As if, I can't even summon the will to live, much less the energy to exhort my team to victory. Can't move.a.muscle ...Used up...all ...my decorating energy---trying....to...get...the..brown..icing..that..particular...fecal..shade....
Should say GO TEAM!!
If we're going to care about apostrophes and commas here in CakeWorld, I'd like to put in my 2 cents for exclamation points!!!
(Overused in the blogosphere, but underused in bakeries, IMO) - February 20, 2009 at 7:08 AM
- Jo-Momma said...
My theory, with the color of the swirly poo icing, is that is possibly a ccc from Texas (Longhorns) and that # is for a player on one of their teams?
I agree that the WW guy is cute though! - February 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- Carrie Penny said...
As a University of South Carolina Fan, anything Clemson Orange is appalling to my mind and my reflux reflex...
Go Gamecocks! - February 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM
There's a reason why it was only $2.50
- February 20, 2009 at 6:11 PM
I'm hungry!
And he's SO cute! Why wouldn't you want to fill his needs? - February 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Nonna said...
I can't stand Looney Tunes and Heartafire's comment is 100% on target !!!
- February 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Michele said...
Maybe it's 6 WW points per cupcake?
- February 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I guess Hungry isn't running here or maybe it is because I channel surf during commercials. He is cute!!!! Not as a cupcake so much.....
Sherry - February 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM
that orange guy looks cool! Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded two years ago by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan. http://www.fredjsmilek.com
- February 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- R2P2 said...
We really like his "twinkle fingers" enticing gesture.
- February 27, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- Hungarican Chick said...
Awww... I want a hungry monster... he's so cute!
- March 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Hey, you can sign up to be notified when the dolls are available at Grumbelly.com. Good luck, I hope they release the dolls soon.
- March 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM
ohh my god ever since i first saw that little guy on the weight watchers commercial i've wanted to have one..i'd totally join the program just to get a stuffed animal version of him. i'd quit right after, but i'd still have Hungry :] they should totally sell him. and he's TOTALLY related to cookie monster.
- June 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I'm on WW and they actually did sell Hungry stuffed animals and refrigerator magnets - it was before I joined, though. I know they did it because there is a sign announcing a recall of the products on the door to the WW center. I'm not sure why they were recalled, but maybe they'll come out with new versions for all of you that mentioned wanting to buy them!
- September 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Lydia Sirena said...
Something else beyond bizarre: French McDonald's commercial and Silent Hill Magical Girl! Heather clips in the related videos. o_O
- October 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
LOL! It's so true! It DOES look like Hungry! ha xx
- October 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM
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Alabama-born singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield broke through to a bigger audience last year by releasing an aching, bare-bones solo album. Her follow-up album came out in March. (This story originally aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on June 23, 2013.)
Katie Crutchfield made her name last year with an album of songs recorded at home and released under the name Waxahatchee. The spare, quiet music ended up generating a lot of buzz in the music industry. Earlier this year, she released a very different follow up album.
In this encore presentation, NPR's Daoud Tyler-Ameen tells us that the latest project draws on a way of making music that Katie Crutchfield learned long before her debut as a lonesome troubadour.
KATIE CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) I've like I got my way. Truly I left with nothing at all...
DAOUD TYLER-AMEEN, BYLINE: This is the opening track of Waxahatchee's latest album, "Cerulean Salt." Katie Crutchfield says the title was a compromise, after her band mates voted down her first idea.
CRUTCHFIELD: L kind of came to everyone and was like, guys, what if we call it "Blue" - just Blue. And everyone was like, there's a Joni Mitchell album called "Blue," Katie. And I was like, oh yeah, I love that album and I completely forgot about that. She got there first. She got there way before I was born.
TYLER-AMEEN: Katie was born in 1989. And at 24 years old, she's already had multiple careers as a musician. We're sitting on the back porch of her house in West Philadelphia, which she shares with seven friends - all musicians - including her twin sister, Allison. She says the two of them have been inseparable since they were kids in Birmingham, Alabama, writing songs in their parents' basement.
ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD: We hit this point when we were 14, when we first started, where we kind of didn't hang out with anyone else. And we just, every day, got home from school, we would like eat a snack and go downstairs and practice until my mom was like, OK, no more.
TYLER-AMEEN: In high school, the twins started their first rock band, The Ackleys.
THE ACKLEYS: (Singing) And I said you cannot be here all by yourself...
TYLER-AMEEN: Katie sang lead and played guitar; Allison started on drums and switched to keyboard. The Ackleys booked their first show at a Birmingham venue called Cave 9, run by Aaron Hamilton. He says the band was a little shaky but Katie's songwriting showed a lot of potential.
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TRACY CRUTCHFIELD: I've been amazed that they've been basically doing shows and going on the road since they were 16, 17 years old.
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CRUTCHFIELD: We sat them both down basically, and said that, you know, if you want to pursue your music and work, that's fine. But you're going to work to support yourselves and make it work.
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CRUTCHFIELD: I was in this sort of perfect storm of emotion.
TYLER-AMEEN: She'd gone through a couple of bad breakups. She was between jobs. Her sister Allison had left home and their band was losing momentum. Katie felt lost.
CRUTCHFIELD: I was sort of like, OK, this is my chance to say all of these things that I'm feeling, 'cause I've been making all sort of these clumsy life decisions and, you know, not really getting anywhere good in my life.
TYLER-AMEEN: She drove to the family's lake house outside of town. Almost immediately, it started snowing - and snowing and snowing. The worst blizzard to hit the area in decades stranded Katie in an empty house. So she got to work.
TYLER-AMEEN: With her acoustic guitar and an eight-track recorder, Katie Crutchfield wrote and recorded 11 songs in just seven days.
CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) It's late. We are not awake. And I smashed my phone. I am learning how to be alone...
TYLER-AMEEN: She called her new project Waxahatchee, the name of a nearby creek. Early last year, she released those rough home recordings as an album which caught the attention of Lindsay Zoladz, a staff writer for the music Web site Pitchfork.
LINDSAY ZOLADZ: It was absolutely one of my favorite things I had heard, probably in years. There is this level of, like, intimacy with the listener that she's telling you things that she can't even tell the people in her life.
CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) And I'll fish for compliments. And I'll drink until I'm happy. Wonder that you're doing but I won't call...
TYLER-AMEEN: The album, "American Weekend," wound up on a few best-of-the-year lists. But by the time Katie felt ready to make a second Waxahatchee album, she was thinking a little bit bigger.
TYLER-AMEEN: It's mid-morning at Katie and Allison's new place in Philly, where they moved together last fall, and nearly every occupant of the house has crowded into the kitchen for breakfast. Waxahatchee's new album was recorded right here in the basement.
CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) I'm not a whipper in the wind or solace laying at the bottom of a bottle, or your thick skin...
TYLER-AMEEN: Katie says, unlike "American Weekend," this album was a team effort.
CRUTCHFIELD: A lot of the songs were so loose when we first started working on them that I didn't even know what I wanted. And then Keith and I kind of worked on them together.
TYLER-AMEEN: Keith Spencer is one of the housemates and worked with Katie to arrange the new songs for a band. He's also Katie's boyfriend. And his perspective on the project is a little different.
KEITH SPENCER: She was pretty much running the show.
TYLER-AMEEN: Katie's sister Allison says she's listened to the new album a lot. And she can hear the focus of Katie's songs starting to shift. "Cerulean Salt," she says, isn't a breakup record.
CRUTCHFIELD: For me, it's a lot about family and about our childhood and us growing up. It feels like I instantly know what she's talking about. And I can connect with it in a way that I think a lot of people can't, because she's actually talking about things that I have experienced with her.
CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) My gal and father, vomit and water, we're not alone here. We invent our own fear. And separately we will see chaos condolence defeat...
One of the reasons that I write things that are so specific, I think, is just because it's real to me. And if it's real to me then maybe someone else will be able to relate to it.
TYLER-AMEEN: And whatever Katie Crutchfield is writing about, she'll probably find a way to keep living the way she and her sister grew up: with a community of musical friends and a basement where they can be as honest and as loud as they want.
TYLER-AMEEN: Daoud Tyler-Ameen, NPR News.
CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) We've heard this summer...
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DALLAS (AP) — A Texas megachurch linked to at least 21 measles cases has been trying to contain the outbreak by hosting vaccination clinics, officials said Monday.
The outbreak started when a person who contracted measles overseas visited Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, located about 20 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. Officials with area health departments said those affected by the outbreak range in age from 4-months to 44-years-old. All of the school-aged children with measles were homeschooled, and majority of those who were infected had not been vaccinated.
In a recent sermon posted online, senior pastor Terri Pearsons encouraged those who haven't been vaccinated to do so, adding that the Old Testament is "full of precautionary measures."
"I would encourage you to do that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. Go do it. Go do it. Go do it. And go in faith," said Pearsons, whose father is televangelist Kenneth Copeland. But she added, if "you've got this covered in your household by faith and it crosses your heart of faith then don't go do it."
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In Tarrant County, where the church is located, 11 of the 16 people with measles were not vaccinated while the others may have had at least one measles vaccination. In nearby Denton County, none of their five cases had been vaccinated.
Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Christine Mann said so far across the state there have been 27 cases of the measles this year, with five of those cases having no links to current outbreak. She said it is unclear whether a case recently diagnosed in Harris County, where Houston is located, is tied to the outbreak. There were no cases in the state last year and six the year before.
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Measles is spread by coughing, sneezing and close personal contact with infected people; symptoms include a fever, cough, and a rash on the face. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, called the MMR. The first does should be when they are 12 to 15 months old and the second when they are 4 to 6 years old.
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Pearsons' father is a pioneer of the prosperity gospel, which holds that believers are destined to flourish spiritually, physically and financially — and share the wealth with others. He has built a vast ministry with a worldwide reach. Eagle Mountain International Church is located on the grounds as the Kenneth Copeland Ministries.
Robert Hayes, risk manager with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, said they have held several vaccination clinics since the outbreak. He said the church has never advised against adults or children getting immunized for measles or seeking medical care.
A statement from the organization said their position regarding any medical condition is to "first seek the wisdom of God, His Word, and appropriate medical attention from a professional that you know and trust."
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Bistro Potato Salad
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I love French bistro food. Coincidentally, I also love potatoes and potato salad. Over the years, I've moved away from a mayonnaise based salad and developed one that more closely resembles the salad that's served with sausage in French bistros. I've made some major changes to the recipe to accommodate the tastes of my family, so while it can no longer be called "French", I'm quite comfortable in labeling it "bistro". One of the tricks to making this type of salad is to dress on the potatoes while they are still warm. The potatoes should be lightly tossed with a seasoned dressing that coats, rather than drowns, the warm potatoes. The flavors of the dressing will not permeate cold potatoes, so if you decide to make this dish, plan accordingly. While a true French potato salad is flavored with wine and herbs, I use an oil and vinegar dressing and a handful of vegetables to season mine. The sweet pepper and parsley are used as much for the color they provide, as for the flavor they impart to the finished salad. I also use the microwave to cook my potatoes. I've found that it consistently produces potatoes that are tender, rather than mushy and water logged. They are easy to slice and the texture is perfect for a salad. I use small new potatoes for my salad and "nuke" them for 10 to 12 minutes before slicing them into a waiting bowl of dressing. While this salad can be served warm, I generally prefer to chill it before serving. It really is a delightful change from its calorie laden cousin. I think you enjoy this. Here's the recipe.
Bistro Potato Salad...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup tarragon vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 pounds (about 6 medium or 18 small) red potatoes, scrubbed
1/4 cup diced red bell pepper
1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
2 - 4 tablespoons parsley
1) Combine oil, vinegar, sugar, garlic, salt and pepper in a shaker jar or blender and shake or pulse to combine. Pour into bottom of a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
2) Add water to just cover bottom of a large microwave container. Add potatoes in a single layer and cook, covered, on HIGH power for 10 to 12 minutes, or until potatoes can be easily stabbed with a fork. When cool enough to handle cut into 1/4-inch slices. Add potatoes, sweet peppers, shallots and parsley to bowl containing salad dressing. Toss lightly to combine. Adjust to taste with salt. Refrigerate. Yield: 6 servings.
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56 comments :
- From the Kitchen said...
This sounds delicious. I have a lot of small potatoes that are white, red and purple. I'm going to use them, unpeeled, for a colorful presentation. I also have some sweet peppers that my Hungarian friend brought the seeds for from a long ago trip to Budapest. One of the farmers continues to grow them for our market. Can't wait to get it on our table!
Bonnie - August 19, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Karen said...
Although I do like the mayo-version of potato salad, I've also made a salad using an oil & vinegar dressing and like it just as well. This sounds good, Mary.
- August 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Cooking Gallery said...
I love potato salad too, but I normally eat the less healthy mayonnaise based one. Thank you for sharing this recipe - I will try it out one day, especially because it looks so light and seems to be not that difficult to make :).
- August 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Very nice recipe. I like to use baby Yukon Gold potatoes as well... love their color and texture.
Have a wonderful weekend.
ButterYum - August 19, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Lemon Verbena Lady said...
I must be Irish in my past life. I love any recipe that has potato as an ingredient! Glad to have found your blog, Mary! I've just lost some weight and trying to keep it off! Thanks for the recipe!
- August 19, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Suman Singh said...
love this salad.looks refreshing and appetizing..like anything and everything with potatoes..yumm
- August 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM
- Deana Sidney said...
There is nothing like a perfect simple potato salad... lovely recipe! As for me, I don't like the mayo version, it's way too gloppy!
- August 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM
- Joanne said...
I'm such a fan of light potato salads like this! Looks gorgeous.
- August 19, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- James said...
Love this! Definitely a good change from the regular potato salads out there.
- August 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...
I'm with you about mayo...don't care for it on my potatoes like I used to...I prefer vinaigrettes.
This looks great...and simple to make.
Carmen - August 19, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...
Very nice change of pace to the mayo ones, very pretty, thanks!
- August 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
I love potato salad and really appreciate the microwave tip! I don't usually nuke potatoes because the outside overcooks and the inside remains chewy. But I think here, using the tiny potatoes and covering then, maybe a pinch of water?
- August 19, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- J e l e n a said...
well you have just described a potato salad typical for Serbia...French aren't the only ones that know how to cook..
- August 19, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
My friend Mrs. McGill makes this for me all the time when I come to her house for lunch! I love it.
- August 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Unknown said...
This looks beautifully simple!
- August 19, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Diane said...
This sounds wonderful, think I may add some French sausage to this and change it a bit more:) Diane
- August 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
It looks like an easy and delicious potato salad!
- August 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- Rachana said...
Such a simple and a light salad!
Have a lovely day, Mary! - August 19, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Eliana said...
So simple but looks delicious.
- August 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Susi's Kochen und Backen said...
Simple but delicious sounding! It is very reminiscent of a German Potato Salad :o)
- August 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- PeggyR said...
That looks so good and sounds very tastey.
- August 19, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
I'll try the microwave next time. Great tip. Thank you Mary!
- August 19, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Pondside said...
I'll have to give this a try - we are potato lovers too.
- August 19, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Ana Powell said...
Great colours and flavours.
It sounds really good.
Well done, Mary ♥ - August 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
I haven't had a good potato salad in a long time. This has got me totally craving one!!
Sues - August 19, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- nanny said...
My husband begs for potato salad...go figure....
I'm not wild about it....
BUT this recipe I could really enjoy. I Will make it and he will ask why I didn't make regular potato salad...ha - August 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Nina Timm said...
Potatoes in any form gets my vote, but I love the simplicity of this recipe!!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Houdini said...
Quite a simple, but very nice dressing, absolutely to my taste. To give the dressing to the warm potatoes is what we also do. From my mom I learned to first add some hot beef broth to the freshly sliced, still warm, potatoes, a quantity that is just sucked up, not to drown the poptatoes. It adds to the taste.
I wish you a good day, Eric - August 19, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Potato has always been my ultimate barbecue salad Mary!!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM
Yes, there are those times when, even if you make your own, you just don't want the mayo in your taters. I love the sound of the flavors. Love yukon gold and baby reds!
Sould this sit to absorb the flavors or serve warm? - August 19, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
I love potato salad using new red potatoes, so this must be delicious. Can't wait to try it Mary...have a wonderful day!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Feel like having some rite now..very tempting salad..
- August 19, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
I don't really eat potato salad because most of them come with mayo dressing. This is a nice change! Very refreshing!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- christine said...
Oh my, this Bistro Potato Salad is very interesting. I am a potato fan and I think this will work for me perfectly. If you wonhttp://www.foodista.com/recipe/JKPRM8W2/bistro-chickent mind I'd love to guide Foodista readers to your post. Just add the foodista widget to the end of this post so it will appear in the Foodista pages and it's all set, Thanks!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- A SPICY PERSPECTIVE said...
So simple and delicious!
- August 19, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Stunning dish! It absolutely makes all the difference to add the dressing while the potatoes are still warm. I love this type of European potato salad and I always make my 'patatas bravas' using this method too. Great recipe, Mary, thanks!
- August 19, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- Bakericious said...
I love potato salad, this looks good
- August 19, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Faith said...
This is a lovely salad! I bet it's the perfect side dish for just about any summer meal!
- August 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM
- Allie and Pattie said...
Mary, neither one of my Italian grandmothers made mayo based salads. This is a very European and delicious salad!
xoxo Pattie - August 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- Monet said...
I much prefer these types of salads over the mayo based varieties. I love vinegar and the bite/tang of a bistro salad sounds very appealing!
- August 19, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Jeannie said...
Your bistro potato salad looks delicious..I much prefer this type of salad too. Not the ones served with mayo or cream
- August 19, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- Jayanthy Kumaran said...
wow...fab click with nice presentation..
- August 19, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- Jennifer said...
What a nice idea, I love the microwaving tip a well!
- August 19, 2010 at 9:40 PM
- Krista said...
Simple, delicious, and beautiful. Sounds perfect to me right now. : )
- August 19, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
Potatoes go with just about anything- this salad looks lovely, and a lot more healthy than the usual picnic fare!
- August 19, 2010 at 11:29 PM
- Adelina said...
A sure perfect bite! and those contrasting colors are so inviting...thanks for sharing the recipe, will try it soon.
- August 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
Simple and delicious. :)
- August 20, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...
simple and delicious, for me, I would like to serve this salad with roasted chicken.
- August 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Wow its such a beautiful salad..
- August 20, 2010 at 1:48 AM
- Katerina said...
I love potato salads. This one looks like a big success!
- August 20, 2010 at 1:59 AM
- Lynne said...
This looks delicious. Anything with baby potatoes appeals to me immensely. I could probably compile a recipe book based on recipes I have collected that use them :-)
- August 20, 2010 at 3:17 AM
- My Little Space said...
Emmm.... this potato salad looks simply wonderful. yummm... Thanks & enjoy your day.
Cheers, kristy - August 20, 2010 at 3:50 AM
- grania said...
ah, one of my favourite tricks! i've taken to doing something similar when making salad nicoise - while the potatoes are still warm i cover them in vinaigrette, which they then soak up and imparts a lovely flavour. it also means you don't need to use so much dressing on the salad itself.
- August 20, 2010 at 6:03 AM
- Melinda said...
This sounds so good! Can you use regular table salt if you don't have any Kosher salt?
Melinda - August 21, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
I always microwave my potatoes too--I actually learned that trick from my dad!
- August 25, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- Terry at Blue Kitchen said...
Mary, I just discovered your blog through these beautiful potatoes on Tastespotting. Wow! The recipe sounds delicious, and I love the tip on microwaving the potatoes. Thanks! I do a similarly mayo-free Italian potato salad with tomatoes and capers.
- August 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM


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Emergency Response Guide No. 156 |
Data from the Hazardous Materials Table
Source: 49 CFR §172 (2018/07)(3) Hazard Class6.1Poisonous Material |
(4) Identification numberUN 3361 |
(5) Packing GroupII |
(6) Labels |
(1) SymbolsThis entry is signed with "G". The letter "G" identifies proper shipping names for which one or more technical names of the hazardous material must be entered in parentheses, in association with the basic description. (See §172.203(k)). (7) Special Provisions (§172.102) ×Note: Special provisions may be very complex. The extracts are taken from 49 CFR §172.102. Please be careful with the information, as necessary, additional conditions may be applied that are not written here. Please check the original source and report bugs.
(8) Packing Authorizations (§173.***)
(9) Quantity Limits
(10) Vessel stowage
Segregation Chart for Load, Transport, Storage
In this table a statement is contained for each hazard class whether the loading, transport or storage with other hazard classes is allowed, is not permitted or is restricted. The table is based on U.S.-Code 49 CFR §177.848.
Note: The HMR prohibit only those Division 6.1 liquids that meet the definition of a Packing Group (PG) I and Hazard Zone A. See special provision 1 and PHMSA Interpretation #09-0252.
Packages with POISON or POISON INHALATION HAZARD labels, or a POISON label displaying "PG III," or "PG III" marked next to a POISON label may not be transported with foodstuffs, feed or any other edible material, intended for humans or animals. For exceptions see 49 CFR §177.841(e).
There are no restrictions with hazardous materials, as pointed out in the instructions for using the Segregation Table (see 49 CFR §177.848(e)). But please, refer to following requirements in 49 CFR §177 Subpart B (Loading and Unloading):
- §177.834 - General requirements
- §177.835 - Class 1 materials
- §177.837 - Class 3 materials
- §177.838 - Class 4 (flammable solid) materials, Class 5 (oxidizing) materials, and Division 4.2 (pyroforic liquid) materials.
- §177.839 - Class 8 (corrosive) materials
- §177.840 - Class 2 (gases) materials
- §177.841 - Division 6.1 and Division 2.3 materials
- §177.842 - Class 7 (radioactive) material
- §177.843 - Contamination of vehicles.


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- Tilling Depths - Avoid trying to dig too deeply too quickly, especially when busting sod or when tilling soil that hasn't been tilled for some time. Use the shallow depth regulator settings - only an inch or two deep - for the first passes through the garden area. With each succeeding pass, adjust the depth regulator to dig an inch or two deeper. Watering the garden area a few days prior to tilling will make tilling easier, as will letting the newly worked soil set for a day or two before making a final, deep tilling pass.
- While tilling, relax and let the wheels pull the tiller along while the tines do the digging. Walk on the side that is not yet finished to avoid making footprints in the freshly tilled soil.
- Avoid pushing down on the handlebars in an attempt to force the tiller to dig deeper.
- Do not put hands or feet near rotating parts.
- Never operate your tiller without good visibility or light.
- Always be sure of your footing and keep a firm hold on the handles.
- Be careful when tilling in hard ground. The tines may catch in the ground and propel the tiller forward. If this occurs, let go of the handle bars and do not restrain the machine.
- Exercise extreme caution when operating on or crossing gravel surfaces.
- Look down and behind you and use care when in reverse or pulling the machine towards you.
- Use only attachments and accessories approved by the manufacturer. Failure to do so car result in personal injury.
After striking a foreign object, stop the engine; disconnect the spark plug wire and ground against engine. Thoroughly inspect the machine for any damage. Repair the damage before starting and operating.