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Particularly when it comes to the issue of suffering, one of the great obstacles of the Christian life is disillusionment; we enter into this life with God with great expectation and excitement, buying into the myth that the Christian life is a life of ease—a "rainbows and puppy dogs" kind of life. So when suffering and hardship comes our way—and it always does—we may just find ourselves surprised by it! I don't know about you, but the more I read Scripture the more I wonder where in the world we got that picture of the Christian life.
In the last days of His earthly life, Jesus made it a point to assure His disciples that "In this world you will have trouble" (John 16:33). Jesus didn't want to leave His disciples disillusioned about the reality of life in a fallen world; suffering is a given, an inescapable reality. But He also didn't leave us without hope: "But take heart! I have overcome the world."
Last fall I had the opportunity to spend nearly the whole semester writing a lengthy research paper on what we can learn about suffering from the accounts of Jesus in the Gospels. One interaction in particular jumps out at me as characteristic of our natural response to pain and suffering. In Mark 8 the whole tone of the book changes, as Jesus begins to speak to His disciples about His own impending death:
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. – Mark 8:31-32
While we often scoff at the sheer audacity of Peter to rebuke God incarnate, we must recognize that to his disciples these declarations by Jesus would have felt like having the rug pulled out from under them.
Up to this point Jesus' words and deeds have been characterized by astonishing authority and power. This first declaration of his imminent suffering and death stands in blunt contrast to, and completely undercuts, the Messianic expectations of Peter and the other disciples. – NIV Study Bible Notes
Having walked with Jesus for years, Peter and the other disciples had developed an idea of how things were going to play out. In fact, just a few verses earlier Peter had made the bold declaration that Jesus was the Messiah; the long expected One who was to deliver Israel. They had in mind a particular picture of victory, and this talk of suffering and death was an unwelcomed intrusion that left them feeling disillusioned and confused. So is it really any wonder that Peter pushed back against this?
Much like the disciples had envisioned a path of victory as they walked with Jesus, so we tend to envision a particular life of victory and ease as Christians. So when we are faced with the unwelcomed intrusion of suffering into our lives, we too may be left feeling disillusioned and confused.
So when we come to the crossroads marked by suffering—when our expectations for the Christian life fails to match up with the reality that we experience—how do we respond? Or perhaps even more challenging, when our experience of the Christian life fails to match up with what we've been told it should be, how do we respond? It is an unfortunate reality that our evangelistic measures often leave people with distorted expectations for the Christian life. We expound on the JOYS and BLESSINGS of walking with Christ, and rightly so, for those things are undeniably true! But when we provide a one-dimensional picture of the Christian life, we fail to prepare people to respond well in the face of suffering.
Growing up in the Church, I've heard countless personal testimonies of how people met Jesus and the ways that He changed their lives. After listening to enough of them, a template was formed in my mind that went something like this:
- Here's how broken and messed up my life was before Jesus.
- Then I met Jesus.
- Now here's how awesome and wonderful my life is.
Last fall, I shared my testimony with my small group, and as I was preparing to do so I realized that this template that I had been following for years didn't fit. As I was writing out my story and rehearsing it in my mind, I continued to be confronted by some of the hurt and pain that I was currently working through, and there wasn't a place for that in my template. So I came face to face with the dilemma of wanting to be authentic, while at the same time feeling like I owed it to God to wrap it all up with a nice pretty bow at the end.
As I examined the tension that I was feeling, I realized that somewhere along the way I came to believe—and maybe you have too—that struggling and experiencing pain was somehow an indictment on my walk with God, or that it somehow diminished the work He has done in my life. So I felt like I owed it to God to put on a good face and to live a double life; to struggle silently and only let others see the good, so that God would be glorified through my story.
Around that time, one of our chapel speakers at the seminary that I attend talked about the reality of suffering and pain in the Christian life. He talked about our felt need to "fake it," to pretend that life is better than it really is, and that we are stronger than we really are—often times "for the sake of the gospel." But then he said something that pierced right to the heart of the tension I'd been feeling:
When we fake it, all we do is preach a false gospel to everyone else who is weak. – Jeff Mangum
When all that we let others see of our life and our walk with God is the good, the praise reports and the #blessed, we unintentionally add a degree of shame to their story as they experience pain and struggle. We mean well enough, thinking that people will find hope in our stories of prosperity and joy—and those things are GOOD, but not at the expense of being authentic about the reality and inevitability of suffering and pain. When we leave the reality of our struggles out of our stories, all we really do is leave them wondering, "they've got it all together, what am I doing wrong?"
We tend to live a polarized life; it's either good or bad, joy or sadness, victory or struggle. It's one or the other, and we struggle to comprehend a framework in which both polarities can co-exist. And yet that is the world that we live in, it is full of good times and bad, joy and sadness, victory and struggle… it is complex and messy, nothing like the clear-cut and neatly packaged existence that we long for.
While we might be made uncomfortable by the messiness of the Christian life, God is not. He never promised us a life free of pain and difficulty, nor did He call us to pretend that our lives are something that they're not. As Christians called to be the light of the world, we must realize that the world is not compelled by our hope when all they see is "the good life," they are compelled by our hope in the midst of pain and suffering.
That's not to say that we manufacture pain or go about in sackcloth and ashes every hour of every day; I'm confident that this world has enough pain without us intentionally adding to it. But we must learn to hold the realities of pain and hope concurrently. We must be as honest and authentic about our sorrows as we are about our joy. It is the trials and difficulties of this life that makes our hope so compelling, and it is our hope in the midst of suffering that points to the glory and goodness of our God.


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My family and I have a personal connection to the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty that took place in 1867. My uncle five generations back on my grandmothers side (Elliott), was Major Joel Elliott second in command of the 7th Cavalry under Custer and Commander in his absence due to Custer's court marshal.
Elliott was a Quaker from Indiana who had enlisted into the Indiana 2nd Infantry in the Civil War. He rejoined as a commissioned officer in the 7th Indiana Cavalry when his first enlistment was over. By receiving an officers commission he was shunned by the Quaker congregation.
Elliott was wounded twice in actions in Arkansas and received accommodation's for his actions. After the Civil war he was one of the few to transfer from the state regiments to the Regular Army and retain rank. He was assigned to the newly formed 7th Cavalry based at Fort Riley Kansas and served at various forts in Kansas protecting the Santa Fe Trail and settlers that were being attacked by the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.
When the Government decided to make peace with the five principle tribes south of the Platte River Custer was back home in Michigan after the judicial proceedings against him for leaving his troops and ordering executions of deserters. Elliott was one of three officers to testify at Custer's tribunal. The other two being Capt. Benteen and Capt. Hamilton, (grandson of alexander Hamilton).
When the Peace Commission set the dates and location of the Gathering of the tribes Elliott lead five units of the 7th Cavalry for security. During the two months it took to bring in all five tribes, (Southern Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, Plains Apache, and Comanche), Elliott spent a lot of time in the lodges of the various chiefs and struck up a friendship with Peace Chief Black Kettle of the Cheyenne. A year later he would be ordered to attack Black Kettles camp on the Washita River in Indian Territory during the winter campaign.
Custer would be called back to lead the 7th against the hostiles the next year and made his fame as an Indian fighter by attacking a camp full of old men, women, and children. First to be killed in the surprise charge was Capt. Hamilton. Elliott was ordered to pursue fleeing Indians running east where his troop of 17 ran head long into Arapaho who were coming to the sound of the shooting.
Captain Benteen would report the truth of the battle to the St. Louis newspaper about Custer abandoning Elliott and his troops and not going back for two weeks to recover the bodies. Also that the camp attacked was not the camp of those Indians that had raided in Northern Kansas and was just the first camp in a line of winter camps of the various tribes. Black Kettle was flying the US Flag and a White flag of truce and had a freshly signed letter from the Cavalry Commander in charge of the Indians in the territory.
Major Joel Elliott's brother William Quincy (WQ) had settled in Peace Kansas and had kept in touch with his brother through a sister in spite of the Quaker shunning. Peace became Sterling Kansas and the Elliott name is still found in the area today. William owned the bank, donated land for the cemetery, and owned several farms in the Stafford County area. He also sat on the Board of Directors of Friends University in Wichita Kansas.
The connections to my family of the history of Kansas and Barber County gives us a personal interest in the proceedings. History is a foundation and history sometimes is not entirely well reported or recorded. A biography of Major Joel Elliott called A HOOSIER QUAKER GOES TO WAR - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MAJOR JOEL ELLIOTT.
The author is a respected biographer and university professor who has written a lot on Custer and kept running across the name Major Elliott. Historians do not all agree on Elliott's life as well as I don't agree with the biographer on everything. But it is a source of pride and connection to this country we call home.
The author is a respected biographer and university professor who has written a lot on Custer and kept running across the name Major Elliott. Historians do not all agree on Elliott's life as well as I don't agree with the biographer on everything. But it is a source of pride and connection to this country we call home.

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Monday, October 24, 2016
Warm Holidays
Hi everybody! Hope your week has started off with a bang! Our weather is beautiful here in NC. The sun is shining and the temperature is in the high 60s, low 70s.
This is a very simple card I created over the weekend. It's one of my first Christmas cards created for the 2016 Christmas holiday.
The stamp and die set came from Gina K Designs and is called 'Tis The Sea-Sun. Gina had a tremendous release a week ago, and this was part of it. You ought to go check it out!
I thought this penguin was appropriate since I live near the beach (about 5 miles). The images were die cut and colored with Copic markers. There are two other penguins that go in this set who are warmly wrapped in winter hats and scarves.
Thank you for stopping by today! I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Hello everybody! How's your day coming along? Our weather has finally turned the corner, and the sun is shining. Goodbye Hurricane Matthew! Thankfully, everyone is safe & sound. No worries here.
Refusing to cave into boredom during the storm, I began creating more Halloween cards. Using my new Playful Patterns-Haunted paper pack from Taylored Expressions, I die cut a few different patterns and adhered them to my base, cut from Sizzix Stand-Up frame dies. (I know that was a long sentence but it told you everything you need to know for this card, didn't it? lol)
I love the patterns in this paper pack. It's my first time buying from Taylored Expressions, and I'm very happy with my purchase.
Below is another card I created using more products from them.
This card has more patterned paper from the same paper pack I used in the previous card. I'm not sure where the web came from but the embossed background was created using an embossing folder, also from Taylored Expressions. I colored some of them black so they would make more of an impression.
The sentiment used and images used on both of these cards came from the stamp set at Gina K Designs called Wicked.
Thank you for stopping by today. I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~
Friday, October 7, 2016
Happy Halloween!
Hello everybody! Hope you're safe and dry! I'm waiting on Hurricane Matthew, expected to hit later tonight and into tomorrow, as well as the next day. Living in the Carolina's among the East Coast is at times a risk. I've done all I can to prepare, so now I wait.
Can't just sit here without making a card! I've had this stamp set, Happy Scenes, from Stampin Up! for about a year and have lately been anxious to use it. I also have the Hearth & Home Framelits Dies to go with it. That's how I cut out the window. The patterned paper is from Stephanie Barnard's Stamps of Life. I colored the scene with Zig watercolor markers and Copics.
Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~
Monday, October 3, 2016
You've Got A Friend
Hi everybody! Finally, we're at Challenge #4 for Stamp TV's World Card Making Challenges. For this one, we're to use a stenciled background. It's been a while since I pulled out a stencil, but I always enjoy it when I play around with them to see what I can do.
This stencil is from Gina K Designs, and I used her ink in various Fall colors to go along with the trees in the main image, including Faded Brick, Fresh Asparagus, Honey Mustard, and Prickly Pear. This piece was layered onto green cardstock.
I thought I had not gotten this card done in time for the World's Card Making Challenge's deadline, but due to technical difficulties on the site, Gina extended the day and time it's due. YAY! I got all four cards done for the four World Card Making Day Challenges. Now, we'll see if I can get anymore cards created before this next deadline.
Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~
Happy Holidays
Hi everybody! As promised, I'm back with the card I made for Stamp TV's World Card Making Day Challenge #3. This one was the most fun to create.
We were supposed to use unusual colors for a Christmas card. Well, I hadn't even started to think about Christmas cards yet because I still have to finish Halloween and Thanksgiving cards! Oh well, I wanted to play in the Challenge, so I dug through some Christmas kits I had from last year and even the year before. Voila! Found one I could use.
The background of this piece of Foil-Mates with the snowflakes was inked with Bubblegum Pink ink from Gina K Designs. Then I stamped the image in black and colored the booties (socks?) and scarf in hot pink. That was die cut into an oval shape and then layered with black before adding to the background. All that was layered onto black again and then adhered to the pink base cardstock.
This was the last card I got done before the midnight deadline on Sunday, but Monday morning I made another card for #4 Challenge.What can I say but I'm slow! It's all the thinking about perfection that makes me create at a snail's pace. Ha! That's funny.
Thank you for stopping by (again) today. I appreciate your comments and visits today, and I hope to see you again real soon ~ #4 is coming next!
With Love
Hi everybody! I decided to post the rest of the cards I made for the World Cardmaking Day Challenge at Gina K Designs' Stamp TV.
For this card, Challenge #2, I followed the directions to use foiled background and sentiment. It was created by using a Foil-Mates piece of cardstock with the design on it and Rainbow Foil. Before I ran it through the machine, I added Fossilized Amber and Carved Pumpkin inks (by Tim Holtz). You can kind of see the rainbow effect from the foil on the oval with the sentiment. I just happened to find that gold ribbon piece in my stash, and it matches perfectly! WooHoo!
I appreciate you stopping by today. Your comments and visits mean the world to me, and I hope to see you real soon ~ Challenge #3 and #4 are next!
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Happy Fall!
Hi everybody! Hope you had a wonderful World Cardmaking Day! I had hoped to post this yesterday on the actual day of celebration, but it just didn't happen. So, today is the next best thing, right?
For this card, I joined the World Cardmaking Day Challenge #1 at Gina K Designs Stamp TV. She posted Challenges all day for us to try for a $50 Gift Certificate win. I'm in!
Watching a video by Gina K, I created this background using the Carved Wood technique. You first use your scoring board to create the lines (every 1/2 inch), then you use ink pads (Kraft, Dark Chocolate) across the paper. After it dries, you emboss it with an embossing folder that has vines. Lastly, you swipe white or ivory (I used white because I didn't have ivory) ink across the embossed paper. Suddenly, the design of the embossing folder shows up!
For the images, I die cut pumpkins and a squirrel from the recent Give Thanks Stamp TV Kit and then adhered them to the embossed background. I popped up the squirrel with pop dots and added the sentiment across the top.
This was a fun Challenge to join. I had never tried the Carved Wood Technique with the embossed background. I was skeptical, I'll admit, but I'm happy with the result.
Before I close, I want to thank you for your support. My health comes & goes (today it's a go!) and I never know what's next, but this blog helps me to stay positive and move forward. Your support goes a long way with that.
I appreciate you stopping by today. Your comments and visits mean a lot to me, and I hope to see you again real soon ~ there are more challenges ahead from World Cardmaking Day!
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Here is Operation Write Home's Tonic Studios Sketch #143 Challenge:
The sentiment is from My Favorite Things - WTG Godspeed. I won the set in the My Country/Mit Land Blog Hop last July (thanks OWH!). My MIL gave me a BIG container of old sewing embellishments, the rick rack is from that stash (thanks Pat!). The embossed stars in the background didn't show up in the photo :(.


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As some of you know, I'm a 2009 Debutante, and throughout 2009 this community has supported the debut authors as their books became available. We're still blogging about these new authors and their novels because some were pushed into 2010 for release.
Today we have Kim Derting, the YA author of, The Body Finder.
Here's what Kim's debut novel is about and does it sound gripping.
A: You mean, besides Harry Potter? Haha. No, really, I love the HP books.
Her storytelling and plot structure abilities are amazing.
But besides those, I'd say either Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx, or
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. Those are two books that made me just
want to quit, because I could never even approach the level of talent
and skill needed to write like that.
Q: What fictional character do you wish you could be?
A: Anne of Green Gables. No question. *happy sigh*
Q: After chocolate what do you eat to make the writer-block pain go away?
A: Four ounces of wild Alaskan salmon lightly seared in lemon-pressed
olive oil, then sprinkled with sea salt and organic parsley and served
on a bed...
Seriously. Starbursts and Doritos. Pound-bags of each.
Q: Actually, I loved the salmon idea. Next time I hope you'll tell us something about how you revise or some nitty gritty details about your revision of The Body Finder. See you again, I hope and thanks for stopping by.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but hate is thicker than blood. Just ask your boy Mark McGwire'the former home run king is about to be thrown under the bus...by his own brother. In an upcoming tell-all book, Jay McGwire details Mark's (alleged) steriod use and claims that he was the one to inspire Mark to begin 'roiding out (no way, Jose?). Damn, what happened to loyalty, fam?
Of course, Jay's brotherly betrayal isn't the first time we've seen family members rat on each other. Read on for the biggest family snitches of all-time...
NAME: Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. The Unabomber (right)
BETRAYED BY: His brother, David Kaczynski
FAMILY FEUD: The FBI spent mad money but still failed to catch the Harvard-educated, PhD-toting, bomb-planting psychopath. But when David Kaczynski recognized his brother's writing in the Unabomber Manifesto, he quickly led authorities to Ted's cabin. You da bomb, Dave.
NAME: George Jung (portrayed in Blow by Johnny Depp)
BETRAYED BY: His mom
FAMILY FEUD: George Jung grew up listening to his cash-craving mom complain about their destitute financial situation. So, logically'since he had no wicked jump shot'he started moving weight. In a weaksauce move, his mother decided his actions were just too illegal and called the cops on him. That's real fucked up, mom.
NAME: Michael Lohan
BETRAYED BY: His daughter, Lindsay
FAMILY FEUD: This past Christmas Eve, LiLo used her Myspace blog to air some dirty laundry: Her daddy Michael Lohan cheated on his wife and fathered an illegitimate child. Michael promptly accused SaMANtha Ronson of typing the message. Homophobe!
NAME: Fredo Corleone
BETRAYED BY: His brother, Michael
FAMILY FEUD: Blinded by greed and jealousy, Fredo Corleone helps gangster Jews in their attempt to assassinate his younger brother, Michael. They fail. Michael then orders his henchmen to kill Fredo. Later, while fishing, Fredo is reciting the Hail Mary when he is interrupted by a BULLET BULLET.
NAME: Joseph (and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
BETRAYED BY: His brothers
FAMILY FEUD: "Brother will betray brother to death." So says Matthew 10:21, and starting with Cain and Abel, the Bible is filled with family betrayal. Our favorite is like the Old Testament version of getting run for your Jordans: When Joseph's mongrel brothers grow jealous over Joe's dope-ass jacket, they sell his ass straight into slavery. Joe later forgave them, but we wouldn't.


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Arsene Wenger has challenged Alexandre Lacazette to follow Zlatan Ibrahimovic's example.
Wenger is ready to hand his club-record £52million striker his Premier League debut on Friday, when they open the season at home to Leicester City.
Lacazette scored 119 goals in 249 appearances for Lyon back home in France.
Ibrahimovic ended doubts about whether he could score as freely in England as he had done in France at Manchester United last season, scoring 28 goals in 46 appearances after joining from Paris Saint-Germain.
Wenger said: "With Lacazette, it's simple. He is an intelligent player. We have a game backed on mobility and technique and I think he can integrate that well.
"After that, we get the efficiency. His record in France is to score one in 80 minutes. If he can maintain that record that would be ideal for us. As a game is in 90 that would guarantee you a goal.
"Goal-scoring record is not necessarily transferable from the French League to the English league, that's for sure.
"But you could say that Ibrahimovic transferred an identical amount of goals from France to England. So that's the target Lacazette should set."
Wenger also admitted having doubts over whether he could ever tempt Lacazette to leave France.
"I know him for a long time. In France, you have Paris that produces maybe 60 or 70% of players. With the suburbs they go south and west.
"After Paris, you have Lyon, which is a special place in France as they have their own mentality. They don't like to move away, usually.
"They produce their own players, the players who grew up around Lyon, like Fekir, Lacazette, Gonalons. They all stay in Lyon. They usually like to stay there. They are players with a special mentality and I did not know whether they wanted to move or not.
"Does he want to go abroad or not? It is a very specific French players at Lyon," he said.
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The history of Turkish American immigration to the United States is not well documented and is generally unknown. Although many immigrants came to America to flee religious or political persecution, the primary motivation of many Turks was . . economic or educational opportunity.
Precise statistics on Turkish American immigration are difficult to obtain. According to U.S. government statistics, the number of immigrants from the Ottoman Empire was minuscule from 1820 through 1860, averaging less than 20 per year. The majority of these individuals (86 percent) returned to Turkey following the establishment of the Republic by Ataturk. Although about 360,000 immigrants from Ottoman Turkey came between 1820 and 1950, only an estimated 45,000 to 65,000 immigrants were Muslim Turks. The majority of arrivals were from the numerous ethnic minorities in the Ottoman Empire, primarily Greeks, Armenians, Jews, and Syrians.
Some historians believe that a large percentage of early Turkish Americans were illiterate but their literacy rate was much higher than that of the Ottoman Empire. According to historian Talat Sait Halman, most of the well-educated immigrants in this group eventually returned to Turkey but the less-educated remained in the United States. These remaining Turks, some studies indicate, retained their Turkish customs throughout the 1940s and 1950s without assimilating into the lifestyle of their newly adopted country.
Unlike the earlier wave of immigrants, the post-World War II generation was highly educated and included almost 4,000 engineers and physicians. These numbers would have undoubtedly been higher but strict U.S. immigration regulations—which were enforced from the mid-1920s until 1965—placed an annual quota of 100 on Turkish immigrants. Again, many of these professionals returned to Turkey after living in the United States for a brief period.
Since the 1970s, the number of Turkish immigrants has risen to more than 2,000 per year. Members of this most recent immigrant group vary widely. Many opened small businesses in the United States and created Turkish American organizations, thus developing Turkish enclaves, particularly in New York City. Still others came for educational purposes. Estimates of the total population of Turkish Americans vary widely, ranging from 100,000 to 400,000.
From the beginning of Turkish immigration to the United States, many immigrants have settled in or around large urban centers. The greatest number have settled in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Rochester. Other concentrations of Turkish Americans may be found along the East Coast in Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, and some have ventured into Minnesota, Indiana, Texas, and Alabama. Many of these communities are served by various local community associations. Membership totals are hard to obtain but range from 50 members to almost 500 members.
The early Turkish immigrants were almost entirely male. In the culture of Anatolian Turkey, men did not feel comfortable bringing their wives and families until they were able to plant secure economic roots in the United States. Many Americans, however, believed that the Turks were prohibited from bringing their wives because of other reasons. According to Frank Ahmed, author of Turks in America: The Ottoman Turk's Immigrant Experience, the Salem Evening News falsely claimed that the Turks did not bring their wives because of Islamic religious strictures. The newspaper wrote extensively about the sizable Turkish community on the North Shore of Boston, including the towns of Peabody, Salem, and Lynn.
These immigrants often settled into rooming houses. Frequently, a Turk would rent the house and sublease rooms to his fellow countrymen. Although the accommodations were spare, the newly arriving immigrants somewhat replicated their village life. They ate Turkish food (pilaf, lamb, vegetable dishes) and slept on mattresses without a bedstead.
Although they were hardworking and industrious, many Turks did not escape the prejudice frequently directed at newcomers. Occasionally, they were called "Ali Hassans" or "Abdul Hamids" and some newspapers would ridicule the "terrible Turk" or Islam. Among the Turks, however, there was much tolerance for Turkish minorities, especially Turkish Jews, who were fully accepted and respected by their recently arriving compatriots.
Turks obtained work in factories in New York, Detroit, and Chicago and also in the New England leather industry. Sizable numbers worked in Massachusetts, in the leather factories of Lynn and Salem and the wire factories of Worcester. Forced to work long hours at low pay in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, some Turkish workers were involved in strikes against management, who generally viewed the Turks as "good workers."
Because of the precarious situation in Turkey and concern for their families, most Turks—one estimate was 35,000—stayed for a decade or less and then returned to their Anatolian villages before the Great Depression. A small number of Turks stayed in the United States, learned English, and married American women. According to one estimate, only a few hundred remained in this country.
As a result, the diminished Turkish American community became more close-knit. Social life revolved around coffee houses and benevolent societies. In Peabody, Massachusetts, coffee houses on Walnut Street became a congregating place for the Turks living in the area. It was here that community members would exchange news about their villages while sipping Turkish coffee and noshing on sweet pastry.
Turquie News, Friday 22 February 2008
*Donald Altschiller is the History Bibliographer at Mugar Memorial Lib. of Boston Univ. He also contributes regularly to LJ, Reference Books Bulletin, Choice, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. he is the author of Hate Crimes.[1]
[1]Hate Crimes
Hardcover: 247 pages | Publisher: ABC-CLIO; 2 edition (April 25, 2005)
Crimes committed against individuals because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnic background have increased significantly in recent years. What factors in American society have spawned this alarming trend? How are hate crimes different from other crimes committed against individuals? Should the legal penalties be harsher? These questions and many more are explored in Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook, the first comprehensive reference source on this important topic. The volume features a historical survey of some of the main targets of hate crimes - African Americans, gays and lesbians, Jews, and Asian Americans - a chronology of some of the crimes committed against them, and biographies of individuals combating violent extremist activities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Regret playing it again.
Shit pisses me off, maybe I should just find a fucking clan.
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Yes try and find people who don't suck and stick with them.ReplyDelete
That's why I only play with buds.ReplyDelete
cod4 is the best man!!! more than mw2ReplyDelete
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That's why I play only with my brother!ReplyDelete
Have u ever played DotA, LoL, or HoN? Those games rely even more on the team and will absolutely drive the proper players off the wall.ReplyDelete
I feel you man... cod4 is full of noobsReplyDelete
showin my daily support, keep up the great posts and hit me back =)ReplyDelete
I honestly don't mind winning or losing, as long as I go positive :DReplyDelete
Call of duty is amaze, you shouldnt regeret playing it :DReplyDelete
Don't regret anything!ReplyDelete
Ye I've always found it weird that MW2 is the newer game, but Cod4 attracts worst players. Thought it would be the other way around.ReplyDelete


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Friday, August 03, 2007
Wheeze-Free Intervals!
I got in to see the doctor yesterday afternoon and got some info on my breathing situation. First, he had me take a breathing test where I blow into this machine thingy and it measures stuff, then I took a breathing treatment which was this mister machine that I breathed through for 5-10 minutes, then repeated the test. The results of that were that I have super good lung function and no asthma. Sweet! He said I was at "over 100%" of where I should be, so that's gotta be good. He also said I have a "lung age" of 20. Ok!
So he ruled out that I have asthma, but that doesn't mean I don't ever have asthma... I probably have exercise-induced asthma which wouldn't show up on that test. There are exercise tests they can do, but for now he just gave me a prescription for an albuterol inhaler which I can use before hard workouts. If it doesn't work I'm supposed to go back and see him.
Well, I think it worked!! I was excited to try this out so I got up for my regular Friday morning run but today I took two puffs on the inhaler before I headed out. I wanted to push hard to "trigger" the wheezing, but at the same time, ugh, I'm tired!! So I think I found a good in-between effort. I will put the inhaler to another test sometime soon when I have more energy. I don't run a lot of intervals, so I don't know if that's a major trigger, but I do know a sustained tempo-type pace (especially on hills) is a major trigger, but that test will have to wait.
Today I ran hard for short bursts and had NO wheezing! It was awesome. Toward the end of the later intervals my legs felt heavy and my form was sloppy, but I was not wheezing! It was an interesting feeling to not have my lungs be my limiter. Here's the results of today's "just for fun" intervals:
.25 mile 1:52 (7:28 pace)
.50 mile 3:40 (7:20 pace)
.25 mile 1:46 (7:04 pace)
.50 mile 3:34 (7:08 pace)
.25 mile 1:47 (7:08 pace)
Last night after the doctor appt I made it to the pool for a total of 850 meters. I swam 750 m in 15:03 (nice!) then kicked for two more laps. I alternated kicking while on my back with no float, and then regular kicking using a kickboard.
6 comments:
- Michele said...
Glad you got good news.
I could really use some of the speed, can you send me some before tomorrow?
Your swimming is doing great.
- jkrunning said...
Hey, that sounds like progress to me!
- Bob Gentile said...
hmm seems like that inhaler worked... I know after a couple of hard workouts I am not really wheezing but I do lose my voice a little bit, dang tire--lol
Glad ur feeling better, Have a great weekend!
- Ryan said...
Great news, Jen! No asthma. Excellent workout, too... keep plugging away. And MORE SWIMMING!! Woo- hoo! You are an inspiration.
- jahowie said...
20 year old lungs huh? :-) You really kicked some ass on that run and you say that you were tired. Sha right. Nice job!!
- Kevin said...
All this doctor talk is confusing me Jen!! "I blow into this machine thingy", "it measures stuff", "I took a breathing treatment which was this mister machine"!
Loved the results tho. And look at it this way.. if you have exercise-induced asthma, you have something in common with our buddy, Steve Runner! You are SO lucky!! ;-)


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Here's their story in Jamie's own words:
"A Better Way To Live, Laugh, Love, and Inspire!
Have you ever experienced a life-altering moment? A moment that you knew your life was about to change forever? In the few seconds it took those two pink lines to show up, I went from being scared, to nervous, to excited, to knowing that nothing would ever be the same.
March 13, 2011. It had been one month and four days since my husband returned from a year long tour of duty in Afghanistan. We both knew we wanted a baby, however, we had tried for a while before he left and on his two week leave, so we both assumed it would take a while for us to get pregnant. We assumed we would have months to adjust to him being home before we began growing our little family. We were wrong. One month and four days after he got back I found out I was pregnant. Zed didn't believe me or the positive pregnancy test so he made me take another one.
April 11, 2011. I went to the hospital and took a blood test. During that first appointment, I also filled out paperwork and was told I would come back on the 28th to hear the heartbeat.
April 15, 2011. I made an unexpected trip to the hospital because I was vomiting nonstop. They did an ultrasound to make sure my body wasn't aborting the fetus and I got to see my tiny baby for the first time. The little jellybean was bouncing off my uterus walls, literally. The doctor said I must have one happy baby because he/she had a high heart rate and was moving a ton. I was told I was 8 weeks and 5 days pregnant.
April 28, 2011. I met my midwife. I was still nauseas and vomiting quite a bit. I had lost 1.8lbs.
May 10, 2011. I had to go to the emergency room because I was vomiting so much. I received 2 bags of IV fluid for severe dehydration. I was miserable. I was only 12 weeks pregnant and already I was ready for November 20. I loved my sweet baby, and the thought of holding my precious little one is the only thing that got me through the vomiting, the aching, and the hospital visits.
May 26, 2011. At my checkup I found out I had lost more weight. I was down 5.5lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight.
May 28, 2011. Today was the big day. We got up early for our appointment in Nashville, TN. We were going to Focused 4D Imaging to find out what our little jellybean was going to be! I was so excited, but I was also absolutely positive I was carrying a baby Zayden Odith McLanahan. I was wrong. After a good, long 45 minute ultrasound we finally got a picture of jellybean's princess parts. We were having a beautiful baby girl who we had already named Wendy Lee. Zed and I picked out baby names way before we got pregnant. When we were only dating we decided if we ever got married and had a little girl, she would be Wendy Lee. Wendy was Zed's mother's name and Lee is mine, my mother's, and my great-grandmother's middle name. I later found out Lee was Zed's sister's, aunt's, and great-grandmother's middle name. Our boy name, Zayden, was picked out while Zed was deployed. I wanted something odd and something that started with a Z. I am now very happy we had a baby girl because several people have named their baby boys Zayden.
June 9, 2011. I was 16 weeks pregnant and I had lost 9.8lbs. At this appointment they gave me another bag of IV fluids. They kept telling me my baby was fine, and I was only experiencing morning sickness, but I knew something was not right. I should not have been this sick, all the time.
July 18, 2011. I had my "20 week ultrasound". I was really 22 weeks pregnant. At Blanchfield Army Community Hospital they do one ultrasound during your pregnancy. They do it at around 20 weeks. The only reason I had one at 8 weeks was because I was so sick and at 14 weeks because we went to Nashville and paid for it.
July 21, 2011. I had a checkup and I received the results from my ultrasound. They said my baby was measuring a little small and that they found something. Coming from a doctor, the words "found something" completely fills you with dread. The midwife said my baby had Choroid Plexus Cysts. CPCs are a somewhat common finding in pregnancies and usually disappear on their own by 32 weeks, that's what we were told. Zed and I were given the option of a second ultrasound at BACH or we could go to a maternal-fetal specialist in Nashville. Zed was quick to say we were going to Nashville. As we left the hospital that day, I will never forget that feeling of dread. My heart was heavy as I called my mother. I told her what the doctor said and read off a list of statics the midwife had printed out for us. I kept telling my mom, it was fine, I was fine, Wendy was fine. But all I really wanted to do was cry.
August 4, 2011. This was my first appointment with maternal-fetal group in Nashville. They did an ultrasound. We then talked to Dr. Mayor-Lynn. Wendy was measuring about a week behind and the CPCs were still present as well as fluid around her heart. Dr. Mayor-Lynn told us we had about a 1% chance of having a baby with a chromosome problem. 1% doesn't sound bad, but when you think about it, that means one in one hundred babies. We wanted to know for sure so that we could prepare and give our baby the best chance possible. I had an amniocentesis that day. We were told if the baby did have a chromosome abnormality it was most likely Down Syndrome or Trisomy 18. Those are the two most common with CPCs. Down Syndrome we could handle, Trisomy 18 we were told chance of survival was low. Most Trisomy 18 babies are stillborn, the rest usually don't make it past a year old. I was heartbroken. This was my baby and I couldn't do anything to help her or fix her. And on top of me feeling sad and helpless, I was hurting, physically, from the amnio. I was cramping and my belly was extremely sore.
August 12, 2011. At 25 weeks pregnant I was told Wendy had a problem with her 7th chromosome. They were doing further testing and we wanted to test mine and Zed's blood to see if we were carriers.
August 18, 2011. Zed and I went back to Nashville to give our blood samples. We still didn't have final amnio results. We were in limbo. We didn't know what to think or how to feel. All I could do was look up stuff on the Internet and that was scaring me to death. All I kept reading was mental retardation and leukemia.
August 25, 2011. I was 27 weeks pregnant and we were heading to Georgia for my baby shower. We were stopping on the way to have yet another ultrasound. This time, they said I had too much amniotic fluid and would have to come back weekly for ultrasounds. At this appointment I also had 3D pictures done. When we left, I cried for the first time. She was beautiful and I was terrified that she wouldn't survive. I wanted Wendy so badly. I didn't know what to do or how to feel. Not long after we left Maternal Fetal Group, BACH called to tell me they wouldn't be seeing me anymore and that I would be finishing my pregnancy out with the specialists at MFG. I was happy about that, knowing Wendy and I would both have better care in Nashville than we would at Fort Campbell.
September 6, 2011. We had been back from Georgia for a few days. I had went grocery shopping and cleaned my house top to bottom. I was cramping some and having Braxton Hicks contractions. I decided to take a warm bath because that always helped before. As I was getting undressed, I noticed some fluid leaking down my leg. It wasn't a lot so I didn't panic, but I did call my doctor. I had an appointment scheduled for the next morning. I asked if I needed to go to the hospital or if it would be okay to wait until the morning. My doctor called back a few minutes later and said just to be safe I should go to the hospital. They put me on the monitor and watched me for a few hours. They said I was having some irritabily but not full blown contractions and I wasn't in active labor they wanted to do a quick test to make sure my water hadn't broke and then I could be on my way. Well, instead of the nurse coming back to discharge me, the ER doctor came in and told me my water had broke. Zed actually said, "shut the ____ up". The doctor said I would be camping out at the hospital until I delivered. Zed was drilling him with questions. He was wanting to know would Wendy be okay if she came now. I was just trying to breath.
September 21, 2011. We received news from the geneticist that our final report from my amniocentesis was in. Our daughter had an unbalanced translocation between chromosomes 7 & 10. She had many deleted genes. There was no medical record of another case even similar to hers. They couldn't even give us a survival rate or tell us what to expect. We decided to bank her cord blood through ViaCord. Many times when there is a problem with the 7th chromosome, the child will end up with leukemia.
October 6, 2011. I started having really bad contractions. They were different from the Braxton Hicks I had been experiencing the past weeks. I told the doctor that I was hurting and I thought Wendy was coming. My magnesium drip was increased and an ultrasound was ordered. Wendy had definitely dropped. Over the next day, the contractions worsened, but the doctor did not want to check to see if I was dilating for risk of further rupturing my membranes and putting me in labor, if I wasn't already. I received 5 shots of Terbutaline within 40 hours.
October 8, 2011. Early that morning, I refused any more medication to try to stop labor. I was Wendy's mother and I had to listen to my body. My body was telling me I was having a baby and I wasn't going to keep pumping my body full of drugs. Finally at lunch, a wonderful nurse named Kelly that had taken care of me many days I was there talked my doctor into letting her check my cervix. I was 5cm dilated. I called my mom and dad and it just so happened that they were on their way to surprise me. I was immediately taking to the labor and delivery floor- I had been on the high risk floor. By the time I got moved and Zed got showered, was 7-8cm and I got my epidural. After that I got on my makeup and put in my contacts. They checked my cervix again and I was 10cm. My mom and dad had just arrived. They both got to come in and give me a kiss then they waited in the hall. I pushed once with the nurse, then they got Dr. Robinson. I pushed twice with her and Wendy was out. She was born at 3:01 pm, weighing 3lbs 15oz and 17 in long. She didn't cry. And the doctors took her immediately. Zed cried seeing our beautiful daughter and he stood by her while they stitched me up and examined baby Wendy. Finally, I got to hold her. Zed and I got to take a few pictures and then they took her to the NICU. Not long after she was born, a neonatologist came to tell me she had an imperforate anus and would need surgery. She was to be transferred to Vanderbilt within a few hours. I got in a wheelchair and went to see my baby. She was beautiful and I did not want to hand her over to the transport team.
October 9, 2011. At 9 am I signed myself out of the hospital and went to see my little angel.
For 71 days she was in the hospital. She was born with an imperforate anus, microcephaly, kidney reflux, swollen kidneys, interrupted infra hepatic IVC, anemia, intestinal malrotation, gastrointestinal reflux, feeding difficulties and she was jaundice. Wendy has had two surgeries, one at 3 days old for a colostomy and one at 6 weeks old to have a g tube inserted and a LADD procedure. She came home on December 18, my 22nd birthday.
Wendy Lee is now 8 months old and 11lbs. She still looks like a newborn and is only in 0-3 month clothes. She still has a colostomy bag and a g tube. She has to take medication daily. We are preparing for a surgery on the 28th. But with all that said, I have to mention all her accomplishments too. She can now roll over. She's babbling a ton. She's learning to eat baby food. She has two bottom teeth and she loves to smile and show them off. She's reaching milestones and doing so much better than any doctor anticipated. She is a true miracle and an inspiration to us all. Wendy is a one-of-a-kind, million dollar baby."
Jamie---I couldn't agree more! Thanks for sharing your inspiring story----you are all awesome...and Wendy is a little star! You've truly discovered better ways to live an awesome life! Blessings to you all~Read more about precious Wendy at http://alwayskissmegnight.blogspot.com


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At the center of the Jefferson/Hemings controversy... is the contention that Thomas Jefferson was in residence at Monticello 9 months prior to the births of Sally Hemings's four surviving children. These 'conception windows' now serve as one of the three legs of the case for Jefferson's paternity(along with the inconclusive DNA and inconsistent oral history.)
Fraser Neiman's 2000 analysis... published in William and Mary Quarterly seemed to be just the type of evidence the paternity advocates wanted, the proverbial smoking gun. Jefferson was at Monticello when Hemings conceived her children– case closed. This is just the kind of scholarship that sells books, but at the same time, assails history. When it comes to the Jefferson/Hemings controversy, minds were made up before the DNA results, Annette Gordon-Reed's revisionism, and Neiman's loosely connected dots…whatever circumstantial evidence produced is now seen as definitive– scholarship be damned.
- Neiman bases his assumptions solely on recorded birth dates in Jefferson's Farm Book. Jefferson was not present for all the births and there is no way of knowing when he recorded the events.
- The conception windows are established by Neiman counting backward 267 days- a full term pregnancy. There is no proof Sally Hemings carried all her children to term. It seems unlikely that a woman in the 19th century would have six full term pregnancies.
- Jefferson was present at Monticello for long stretches where Hemings did not give birth. Neiman implies throughout his study that Jefferson's visits consisted of sexual liaisons. Jefferson was at Monticello for nearly two years before the birth of Harriet Hemings(there were two Harriets) in January 1795. There are three year gaps between two of her births- Jefferson's visits to Monticello did not result in a Hemings pregnancy.
- Beverly Hemings's conception date was set prior to July 8, 1797- yet Jefferson doesn't arrive at Monticello until July 11. Neiman cleverly fudges the numbers in this case.
- Hemings's next birth was not discovered in the Farm Book, but in a letter to Jefferson's son-in-law, John Wayles Eppes. Jefferson relates the birth to "Maria's maid." Maria was not living at Monticello during this time (Spring of 1799.) Sally Hemings's residence at Monticello is never firmly established.
- Harriet Hemings was born in May of 1801, shortly after Jefferson became President. Evidence suggests he was in the Charlottesville area during the conception window, but also reveals he was rarely at Monticello during the crucial period of August-September 1800.
- Madison Hemings(one of the original sources in the oral history) was conceived during April of 1804. Neiman wants us to believe that Jefferson did this during the final days of his daughter Maria's life(she died April 17) and her funeral–with large number of extended family present.
- There is evidence Sally Hemings worked outside the Monticello community. When Martha Jefferson Randolph informed her father of Harriet Hemings's death, she wrote the letter from her home at Bellmont. Jefferson referred to "Polly's maid" giving birth in 1799. If Sally was Martha's maid at this time- they were not living at Monticello.
- Sally Hemings conceived her last child, Eston, when Jefferson was 64 years old. Jefferson took up permanent residence at Monticello in 1809- Sally Hemings stopped having children. She was 35 at that time. Wouldn't Jefferson's presence mean more births?


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Finally, a vintage item with the Cheshire Cat! You would've thought there'd be more stuff with him on it...
Sunday, May 23, 2010
NBC Bread End Seal Label - Cheshire Cat
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- Major Pepperidge said...
Are these "never used" labels, or were they just carefully removed? They look nearly perfect!
- May 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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These were all removed, some more gently than others. On some of them you can see remnants of the wrapper, and some are VERY thin almost torn through. I've never seen unused ones before other than that Day-Glo one I posted a while back.
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Anyone is capable of being a Lone Wolf. Resistance is a lifestyle; each performs to his or her individual abilities. Success and experience will come in time. Always start off small. Many small victories are better than one huge blunder (which may be the end of your career as a Lone Wolf). Every little bit counts in a resistance. Knowledge is power. Learn from your mistakes as well as the mistakes of others. Never rush into anything; time and planning are keys to success. Never attempt anything beyond your own abilities, failure could lead to disaster.
The less any outsider knows, the safer and more successful you will be. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. Never truly admit to anything. Communicate your message to others having the same beliefs as yours. Communication will add to your knowledge base. After all, having an opinion is still legal (I think).Communication is a good thing, but keep your covert activities a secret. This will protect you as well as others like you.
When someone from a membership group taunts you by saying "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE AS A LONE WOLF? Simply say, "That would be telling." DUHHHHH!!!! Remember, even the smallest things make a difference. You will see that what you are doing is making an impact. If you never get caught, you are better than any army.Others will notice your activities, but never try to take any credit for them, your success should be all the recognition you need. Never keep any records of your activities that can connect you to the activity. Keep in mind that repeated activity in one area would lead to increased attention to the area and possibly to you. The more you change your tactics, the more effective you will become. Random chaos is never predictable.
Have a "rainy day" fund set aside in a safety deposit box (out of your local area and not in a high activity area), complete with new ID just in the event that something unexpected goes wrong. Only you will know your limitations. Never utter more than the 5 Words to any agent or representative of ZOG: "I Have Nothing To Say." There are no exceptions. Anyone who does talk must be shunned from the movement forever. Former associates of the talker may consider much harsher punishment. Never talk to a Grand Jury even when faced with Contempt of court. No exceptions.
Never join a membership group unless it is to monitor any threat to lone wolf operations: Support some activists and publications with periodic freewill donations covertly. You will be able to live without a membership card- also known as a security blanket. No meetings (that includes rallies, conventions, concerts and rendezvous) that are not for a compelling, specific activist reason that cannot be accomplished through other communication means (mail, E-mail, Net, phone, etc.).
Exist and fight as lone wolves or in a small cell and you will last longer and be at peak performance. I have never said their will never be a time when all small cells and lone wolves may evolve into a highly structure but ruthlessly militant organization with steel hard leaders.
That time is not now and will not be for the foreseeable future. No present leader including myself will be leading that phase. We are only to prepare the way. Hopefully what we say and do now will make future victory possible. Remember, those who have come before you are counting on you, those who will come after you are depending on you. Think white, act White, be White! THE BEGINNING
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Borderlands 2, if DLC for the first game is anything to judge by. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford teased fans at a panel during Gearbox Software Community Day in Dallas, saying the team is channeling Star Wars: Return of the Jedi for one piece of content.
"I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a Sand Skiff," Pitchford said. "I've always wanted to do that, and we've got some cool stuff that's along those lines."
Borderlands 2 will have four pieces of DLC by June 2013, available for $10 each, or all together for $30 as part of the season pass.


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While playing barefoot in the Gandhi Ashram one afternoon, a thorn pierced the sole of Chandani's foot. Her playmates carried her, short and petite, into the shade without difficulty. Her naturally glossy eyes gave the impression of tears as she cringed.
As Chandani bent over her foot in pain, her younger brother Kamal hurried over with concern. But as his expression began to crumple in worry, Chandani put on a brave face and shooed him away, reassuring him that she was not hurt badly.
Although Chandani is small, she is strong. When she and Kamal walk side-by-side through the ashram, the 12-year old stands barely a hair taller than her younger brother. Still, she manages to pack great confidence and compassion into her petite four-foot frame.
When Chandani left home to live in a children's hostel two years ago, she initially felt very lonely. The Ashramshala is a hostel in Gandhi Ashram for children from the so-called "untouchable" communities. Most children, like Chandani, come from uneducated families that have done cleaning jobs for generations.
"I decided that I want to learn, even if I have to stay away from my parents," Chandani said, "but at first it was hard."
One year later, her parents sent Kamal to the hostel as well, with the hope that the brother and sister would support each other while getting a good education away from home. Chandani immediately assumed the role of her brother's protector from larger, bullying boys, and advocate to teachers who overlooked his quiet nature.
"People tease him because he is small," she explains, "but I just tell him to forget about it. I say, 'Just because they say something mean doesn't mean you will become that way.'"
These small grains of Gandhian insight she has gathered during her EKATVA journey have made Chandani even stronger.
"Before when anyone teased me, I would feel bad about myself and tease them back," Chandani says. "Now, I see there is no point. I've learned to let go of my anger when others say mean things."
After nursing her sore foot for a few minutes, Chandani dove into dance practice. Thorns, like unkind words, may sting for a moment. But along with EKATVA, Chandani has developed the confidence to persist toward her goal despite what others may have to say.


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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Some Nights Are Like That . . .
16 comments:
- Lorraine said...
OMG! you set me up with the nice bath etc...then wham....LOL...I nearly peed my pants...how funny..only a guy could do that to himself....LOL....
- July 30, 2008 at 10:01 PM
- Jeannie said...
OMG! That is so funny! Like Lorraine, I was reading along thinking what a nice evening you were having and maybe I would do the same tomorrow night and then WHAM! I was laughing so hard I had to take a potty break. Thanks, I needed a good laugh! Cheers.
- July 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- Eileen said...
Ssure never know what you're going to read on this blog.
What a HOOT!
Hope you finally got a good bath and went to bed.
- July 31, 2008 at 3:03 AM
- ratherbquilting said...
OMG, that was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!! What a idiot. However, good thing he tased himself because it saved his wife the trouble when she opened that anniversary present.
- July 31, 2008 at 5:09 AM
- Cheryl said...
OMW - I was laughing so hard I was crying. John was almost out the door to work when he heard me laughing and I couldn't even tell him why....I will have him read it later. Thanks for the great way to start my day :-)!!!!!!!!!
- July 31, 2008 at 6:49 AM
- Rhondee said...
I really thank you for warning me to swallow whatever I had in my mouth because after reading this.....I surely would have spewed it all out on MY COMPUTER.....LOL.......great story. Take care.
- July 31, 2008 at 7:07 AM
- Crazy for Primitive Quilts and Gardens said...
ROTFL... hilarious!
- July 31, 2008 at 7:08 AM
- debijeanm said...
My eyes are still streaming! And I'm halfway through it thinking, "I have to send this to Jace! It's right up his alley." Thanks for getting my day off to a good start.
- July 31, 2008 at 7:42 AM
- Su Bee said...
OMG - holy coffee-on-the-keyboard! Too hysterical! Are you sure Jace didn't write this? ROTFL - that mental video won't go away for awhile I think - LOL!!
- July 31, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- Julia said...
Oh my goodness, that is the one of the funniest things that I have ever read. ROFLOL
- July 31, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- Marcie said...
Kim, this is so funny! Where do you find this stuff? I think of you often when I read something I think you will enjoy!
- July 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Cowguy said...
Ah yes... the old "nipples on fire" thing. Been there done that one already, still got the flashbacks.
Oddly enough, with y'all associating me with this story, I used to sell these things when I was in the gun business. Your next question is "Did you try 'em out?" My answer... hesitantly is "yes". It was 2 days before I quit scraping my tongue on my front teeth and another 3 days before the Tourettes completely stopped.
Let me tell you sometime 'bout the self indulgence of pepper spray, just to test it you know.
Thanks for the laugh Kim. I like you. :-)
- July 31, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- paula, the quilter said...
So I'm innocently sitting at work reading this during my lunch (thanks for the warning BTW) and I just could not contain myself! I was laughing so hard. Thank goodness there were no customers in the gallery: just me and the ghosts.
- July 31, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Purple Pam said...
Okay, I really thought that he would taz the cat, but when that didn't happen, I knew he would taz himself but that he wouldn't be able to let go until the batteries were dead. I wonder if he has found his lost items yet?
Really wild Kim. Laughing so hard that I could not stop, I thought while I was on the floor I would look around and see what I could find! No treasures found, just dust!
- July 31, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- Barbie Jo said...
Your pizza looked awfully good Kim. I was getting so hungry I nearly got up to fetch a snack. And I'm so glad I waited until I finished reading your story! ROFLOL!
- July 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM
- Marcie said...
Kim, I tried to copy and paste that story to print and show my husband, but it is locked in place, somehow. Did you set some control to do that? Just curious.
- August 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM


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I have this very bad outlook on clothing + shoes. I try to avert mainstream clothing, resulting in the neglect of perfectly fine items. It is such an egotistic thing to do and I am attempting to break this mindset, and so, the other day I put on my coltranes and walked out the door.
I was quite upset because many of my friends shunned me due to this bizzare, school like shoe a few years back. Now, every shoe store I see stock these Jef Campbells - Balenciaga copies. It's okay, I still love my babies.
|Thrifted dress, Jef Campbell shoes, Sportscraft bag
Thalia x


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Hope you had a great time at Fashion Night Out!
A few friends and I headed to Destination Maternity.. lol..
a little different than last year, but just as much fun!
They passed out Dylan's Candy treats, mommy-to-be friendly drinks and free hand/chair massages!
It was quite the party!
Thanks girls for a fun night!
I'm excited about our Magnificent Baby gowns!!


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Life as a dot is my fifth Indie publication and as with the others—The Should I? Game, No Regrets (published under Rebecca deMond), and the two What's behind the curtain? peek-a-boo books—it has a back story.
One evening in December 2016, I sat in my aging recliner by Bassett, and flipped through news channels between games of Words with Friends™. The constant stream of stories and messages about prejudice, racism, sexism, discrimination, violence, xenophobia, homophobia, and cruelty to people and to animals weighed heavily on my soul. I felt helpless and it was in a moment of dispair and prayer that Life as a dot was gifted to me.
What evolved from my examination of that commonplace object surprised me. In some respects the publication is not dissimilar to a virtual scavenger hunt. But behind that hunt is a search for, and a recognition and acknowlegement of, the different roles we each play in life. We can choose to respect our similarities and our differences. We can promote civility and kindness.
God bless and please share.
Copyright © 2017 Helen R. Letts
Continue reading "The back story to the story"


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I'm sure you all have some profound New Year's resolution or something. Probably involving eating healthier or exercising more. Since I already write about running too much on this blog, I'm going to help you out in case your resolution is to eat more fruit.
See? Raspberry! The Hotel Chocolat Raspberry Riot bar, that is. A bar of40% cacao milk chocolate with raspberry white chocolate, which weighs in at an impressive 28% cacao, quite high for white chocolate. The bar also packs some cookie bits, meringue, and real raspberry pieces.
Real fruit, folks. Real fruit. It's evident the moment you unwrap the bar, as the tangy aroma emerges immediately along with some creamy notes. And
Milk! Calcium! This bar belongs in your diet.
The base raspberry white chocolate has a creamy melt and a tangy raspberry flavor, which nicely contrasts with the sweet white chocolate. The raspberry pieces, which are freeze dried, are even more tart, the meringue pieces, however, nicely balance that tartness with their crisp sweetness dispersed throughout the bar.
The cookie pieces add even more crunch than the meringue, but don't overwhelm the bar with additional sugar, and resemble a chocolate cracker more than a cookie. With all of these tart and sweet components, the milk chocolate is barely noticeable in most bites, though it does offer some caramel and cream flavors. The raspberry white chocolate certainly dominates the bar, which is fine. It gives the overall effect of a rich frozen custard with delicious raspberry sauce, some thick chocolate fudge, and crumbled bits of cookie and meringue on top.
But it's healthy, you know. Fruit.
Did you make a New Year's resolution? Or are you cynical and bitter like me?


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Carrie Prejean made waves about the media over her answer to the question on Miss USA about gay marriage.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? She gave her opinion, and as far as I can tell, we live in a Democratic society where people can say something that others may not like. She answered (paraphrasing), "I am glad I live in a country where people of the same sex can get together, or people of the opposite. But where I come from, and, in turn, what I was brought up to believe, and I still believe, the word 'marriage' should only be equated between a man and a woman."
As a matter of fact, her answer was about what people like Barack Obama say about the gay marriage topic. He doesn't want gay marriage, but civil unions. Carrie seems to have a problem with the 'marriage' term. So, she doesn't speak as well as when she's asked about "what is your one wish", but, come on... she was put on the spot. It's a fucking beauty pageant! Not the Vice-Presidential Debates!
Speaking of potential Vice-Presidents... Sarah Palin has a book deal. She will get good scratch for her book.
So What!
What does that have to do with anything? It will be a propaganda piece, funded by the right (Rupert Murdoch), with the goal of stirring up support for another high office run in 2012. So What? Barack Obama came to national attention through his books, so why shouldn't Sarah Palin? The people who voted for that crazy bitch will buy her book, along with Rush's new book, Bill O's new book, and Skeletor's (Ann Coulter) new book. I won't read the damn thing. If I want slanted information to make the other side look completely non-credible while boasting your side's view I'd watch MSNBC. NBC's east coast studios are located in Rockefeller Center, New York City.
And speaking of New York City... The Obama Administration came under hot water for flying an un-Presidential-fied Air Force One LOW around NEW YORK being followed by a fighter jet for a photograph. What a bonehead move. I thought Dick Cheney's 'Shadow Government' took over and was using fear to gain the hearts and minds of the American people. I saw some cell phone video as the menacing, low flying 747 circled around Manhattan. It was likened to a panicked crowd fleeing a collapsing building or a tidal wave. Then the price tag of that photo-op came out: $300,000.
So What!
Yes, Manhattan was freaked out a little bit. You know what freaks me out more? We are still in Iraq. We are still in Afghanistan. We are still spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. Lets do the math: $10,000,000,000 divided by 30 (days in month) divided by 24 (hours in a day) divided by 60 (minutes in an hour) equals $231,481.48
I repeat that: We spend $231,481.48 every fucking minute in Iraq. So, who the fuck cares about a $300,000 photo-op? If that photo-op is all we have to worry about with our government's excess spending, I would be really happy. That that photo-op is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions of dollars our government gives away to corporations.
And speaking of corporations... with the Miss California, Sarah Palin book, and Air Force One photo-op occupying the fake news stories at all hours of the day on cable news networks, the shit I really want discussed go slipping through the cracks.
Instead, we hear about the shit I discussed above. Add on a missing 5 year-old girl, a husband killing his wife, and some other exploited person's life, and important news never makes it's way to the masses.
Since NOBODY discusses what I want to discuss, I'll be brief. I'm sure y'all want to get back to your polarizing topics.
Topic 1: Back in 2003, corporations began lobbying Congress to get low tax rates on overseas earnings. Did you know that for every $1 they spent on lobbying for the tax break, corporations reaped a $220 benefit on their US income taxes, according to three University of Kansas professors. Some 840 firms,including several of today's bailout babies, including Citigroup, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch, gained more than $312 billion in tax breaks.
And what about companies that spent more than $1 million on tax lobbying? They did even better... a 24,300% return, the researchers found. In its disclosure statements, Eli Lilly & Co. acknowledged spending $8.52 million in 2003 and 2004 to lobby for the tax break. It reaped more than $2 billion in return.
That is why you will never see the off-shore, Cayman Island tax havens disappear. Too much money is being made and too much money is being spent on Congress for it to be bad for 'business'. When banks, and the likes, have that much control over Congress, the only people who lose out are the average American taxpayer.
And speaking of the average American taxpayer getting screwed...
Issue 2: Today, the U.S. Senate easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates on credit cards at 15%. Introduced by an Independent candidate (which means not a slave to the machine thirsting for corporate money), the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders only garnered 33 votes, with 60 voting against the bill which will help millions of struggling Americans.
"When banks are charging 30 percent interest rates, they are not making credit available," said Mr. Sanders, who noted credit unions are limited to 15 percent. "They are engaged in loan-sharking."
So, when over 1/3 of credit card holders are paying 20% to 40% interest rates, the government was not there for them. A lot of Congressmen got a lot of money today. The loan-sharking continues. With both Democrats and Republicans working in unison to defeat the provision, you can really see which side of good/evil your party of choice is really on.
So What!
Carrie Prejean made waves about the media over her answer to the question on Miss USA about gay marriage.
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- themom said...
Bernie Sanders had the right idea and argument. I was pissed that it failed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Chris Dodds,inferred that this "cap" might be injected into the other credit card bill being considered.


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Hey, for my first post I figured I'd share with you all an excerpt from a wonderful textbook I read about a year ago in a college course I took on philosophy of science. The professor, Dr. Michael Mussachia, wrote this textbook and was quite passionate about philosophy and cognitive science. It was my first exposure to a philosophy professor who had some significant experience in science --Dr. Mussachia worked as particle physicist if I'm not mistaken.
Anyways, the textbook is called "Science: Its Cognitive and Philosophical Foundations"
This section, entitled "12.2 Objective Reality", is section two of Chapter 12: "A naturalistic epistemology. Part 1". This small excerpt does not do the thoughts and ideas of the entire textbook justice (obviously), but it is an illuminating discussion on the popularization of quantum physics.
12. 2 Objective Reality – by Michael Mussachia
A fundamental metaphysical assumption underlying both every day cognition and science is that there is a knowable, objective reality outside our minds. It is objective because its characteristics are not determined, at least for the most part, by human perception, beliefs, and or desires. The big exception to this general rule is our own social world, there indeed the perceptions and beliefs of the observer, when they are expressed in some form of behavior, can influence the observed. Most of the physical things and processes of the world, however, have characteristics that are intrinsic in them rather than dependent upon human or animal cognition. The material composition of a stone, the voltage across an electrical circuit, and the orbital motion of the earth around the sun are not a function of human perception or belief, though some of these things may be influenced by human action.
While this scientific view is also the common sense view among non-scientists in their everyday lives, there are two counter tendencies within the broader culture: "quantum consciousness" New Age devotees who believe that much if not all of the physical world is shaped by our minds, and social constructivists, who claim that reality is in some sense a social construction.
New Age popularizations of quantum physics typically claim that physical reality is subjective because it is "determined by our perceptions." New Age gurus proclaim that the quantum wave becomes a particle only when we perceive it to be so. To hear many quantum mystics describe it, you would think our minds interact with matter in some mysterious and even mystical way. A typical example is that of Deepak Chopra in his book Quantum Healing (Bantam 1989): "Every time we think, something material – the neuropeptide – springs out of nowhere. There is some hidden transformation that turns a thought into a molecule." Such notions seriously misrepresent quantum physics and the nature of measurements in physical science.
To observe and measure something at the micro-level requires a physical interaction with it or with something connected to it under conditions of "wave functions entanglement." An electron is a very tiny thing, and its behavior is significantly perturbed by an interaction with just a single photon. We observe things with light, and even if we need only a few photons to observe the state of an electron, the act of observing it will change its state. This in turn usually has the effect of making the electron's quantum state more deterministic. Thus the state of the particle is dependent upon our observations ONLY because observations are measurements, and measurements are causally significant interactions.
For instance, observations that result in particle-like behavior in quantum interference experiments require a physical interaction, usually with some kind of physical device located along one of the paths of the particle beams. The physical interaction along one of the paths makes the particle beam paths different, and as a result the particles no longer interfere like waves. The observation has physically altered the observed, but it has not created the observed.
There is another confusion common in New Age quantum mysticism, Observations are often taken as equivalent to consciousness and hence beliefs. As one New Age guru put it, "… what science is saying now, that reality is what we perceive it to be", and "When the observer is in the lab looking at the subatomic particle and watching it change according to the consciousness of the observer, he's creating a subatomic particle." (Cited in Gordon, 1988, page 181-182.) Unfortunately, beliefs without actions can neither cause an electron to jump across a semiconductor junction nor put food in the stomach of a starving person. Electrons may be altered by the photons of our observations, but they couldn't care less about our beliefs. If they did, we wouldn't need to carry out laborious and difficult physical experiments; we could make do with just thought experiments.
The ability of our observations and measurements to influence the behavior of things is quite limited. Another way to put it is that quantum indeterminacy has its limits. We cannot make an electron do just anything by observing it. No observation will turn an electron into an anti-electron, or a proton, or neutrino, or a quark, or many other things because the transformations and quantum state shifts are restricted by a variety of physical laws. Similarly, even the holiest of gurus cannot turn an apple into an orange or a stone into a loaf of bread. For better or for worst, the world is largely objective in its characteristics, and if we want to bring about a change, we've got to do something more than just desire it, think it or talk about it.


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I wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I walked around the neighborhood the other night and took a few pictures of the decorations. The people around here really take it seriously! In the first two pictures...that is snow...not orbs or several moons and stars. I think it came out kind of cool!


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|Krystle's pie
University. I also reported that they were selling for $6/pint at the Bexley Farmer's Market. (When I suggested to a lady there that she could pick them for free at the Stoddart Avenue Community Garden just a half mile to the west, she gave me a withering look that suggested I was being wildly inappropriate either in steering her away from a hard-working farmer or in suggesting that she pick her own berries, or both). Cousin Krystle was so appreciative of the berries that she baked a pie, texted me this picture and personally delivered a piece to me while I was working at the Garden on Friday morning – blowing my diet.
Even though she personally does not care for our berries, Cathy brought her children over to pick berries on Wednesday, and was caught in the act by a Dispatch photographer.
|Cathy's pic of their harvest
Cathy baked muffins with them and delivered a couple to Frank and Barb (who let her pick berries from their plot), but did NOT provide a muffin to me. Sniff sniff. When I left last night (after picking 1.5 pints of berries from my plot in 45 minutes), I directed the neighborhood kids to immediately return with bowls to pick berries from outside our fence so that their grandmothers could bake them pies for the upcoming holiday.
|Shriveled, unpicked berries
It's important to pick berries every day because they do not live long on the bushes. After a day or so, they shrivel up -- almost like raisons (but not so good). Picking berries is very time consuming because they are spread out on the bushes, which have painful thorns. All of us can identify with how hard migrant farm workers work to bring us affordable food in area groceries. We had quite a discussion a couple of weeks ago about the need for some sort of guest worker program so that they are not criminalized for doing hard work that no one else will do for similar wages. Once our berries have finished their season, I am looking forward to spending slightly less time each week at the Garden. The berry harvest adds an hour each visit because they are so time consuming to pick.
I'm also grateful in 2014 for the help of our Work Experience Program (WEP) volunteer, Jason. When he comes, Jason is extremely helpful. He always spends an hour every day picking berries for our weekly food pantry harvest. As a result, our annual berry donation has more than tripled this year over last year. He also helps to weed the paths, weed along the alley, weed the outer fence line, mow our lawn, weed Mari's plot and clean overgrown brush from the vacant lot across the street. He was assigned to us by the Franklin County office of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services via the Ohio Association of Foodbanks.
It is a condition of his SNAP (food stamp) benefits that he work or volunteer at least 24 hours/month. JFS also provides job readiness training to SNAP recipients. Because of all of his help, I have been able to spend more time taking care of our flower beds, the food pantry plots, and my own garden plot. I actually found time this year to harvest bachelor button seeds and prune overgrown brambles. Yoo hoo!
On top of all of this, I was able to mulch a lot of the plots this week with our donated straw. The girls have begun harvesting their peas and lettuce. We have received a freakish amount of rain (well over an inch every week in June) and so the weeds have been out of control. As neighbor Tim mentioned, it's a jungle in there. I'm not complaining; I prefer weeding to lugging water from our cisterns. I also planted some black-eyed susans and marigold bushes in our flower beds to replace our fading daisies. Our coneflowers, day lilies and bee balm flowers are in full bloom at present.
On Thursday, I also finally got around to having our pruning shears sharpened. Sharpening on Site visits the Bexley Farmer's Market the fourth Thursday of every month, so I took my and the SACG tools there this month to get cleaned up and sharpened. She sharpened five tools for $20 and gave me some tips about how to get our shears repaired (or replaced) for free.
|Distribution of Donations
Finally, we finished June with our food pantry harvests slightly below last year. I attribute that to the fact that it's been cooler this year (causing us to get a latter start) and the fact that collectively, we've grown less lettuce this year than last year and I didn't plant turnips this year. However, I am optimistic that we will not only catch up to last year, but surpass it.