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Like ID or Driving License checks, his Court/Criminal records checks or his Address check.
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- Get a Police Verification form from the local police station (you can even get it online in some cases)
- Then fill the form for the Truck Driver with his full details.
- Submit the duly filled police verification form at the nearest local police station
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- Revisit the police station, if some of the documents are not as per the requirements
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While this is easy, but not a safe option.
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- Step 1: Initiate your Verification Request (as shown above)
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Date & Time:Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 6:00am to 2:00pm
The Dane County Farmers' Market on the Square is a Saturday and Wednesday tradition in Madison, Wisconsin. You'll find the season's best bounty of vegetables, flowers, meats, cheeses, and specialty products from approximately 300 vendors throughout the year. Over 160 vendors attend every Saturday. All of the agriculturally related items are produced in Wisconsin.
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What Salt Water Does to Houses
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many people have flood damage on their minds. Hurricanes come with an extra complication that makes flood damage potentially more dangerous, more expensive, and more difficult to manage: salt. As these huge weather systems move across the landscape, they pick up water from the ocean as well as estuaries, depositing diluted brackish water on land. This water contains salt in concentrations lower than those found in the ocean, but still high enough to cause significant problems.
Dangers of Salt Water
Salt suspended in water is highly reactive because it carries an electrical charge. It can quickly penetrate a variety of materials and holds on tight once it gets there. That's bad news for building materials, because salt can be extremely corrosive, and corrosion is something you don't want happening to structural components of your home, business, or other buildings. Also, the electrical charge means that salt water flooding puts people at risk for electrical shocks. The Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department, no stranger to hurricane flooding, advises homeowners to call a qualified Miami electrician if electrical lines are down, or if power is out in your house.
Salt Damage to NY Subway System
One area in which salt damage became a major issue with Sandy was in the New York City subway system, which was brought to its knees by the severe flooding. Subway officials didn't just need to pump out the salt water: they also needed to flush the system with fresh water to pull out the salt, and then pump. Once the subway started to dry out, they needed to perform a series of painstaking tests to check on the integrity of the electrical system.
Salt Harms Your Home's Electrical Components
When electrical components have been exposed to salt, the metal can corrode, which can lead to shorts and other problems. In the best case scenario, an electronic device might just be broken, failing to turn on at all. In others, it might expose people to the risk of electrical shock because of the corrosion. When a home has been flooded with salty or brackish water, the electrical systems need to be flushed with fresh water and then inspected to determine if any or all of the wiring needs to be replaced. That includes the wiring in the walls, the electrical box, and of course any appliances and electronic devices that may have been left in the home.
Salt Breaks Down Building Materials
Salt water doesn't stop there. It has infamously corrosive effects on concrete, including foundations, pilings, sidewalks, and structural walls. In addition to eating into the metal reinforcements used inside concrete architecture, it can penetrate concrete and slowly break it down, leading to weakness and instability that may emerge years later. Likewise with bricks, mortar, and plaster. If a structure is repeatedly exposed to saltwater flooding, as can occur along the coastline of a storm-prone area, it may start to develop serious structural problems that could lead to collapse.
Delignification of Wood
If you've ever been to the beach, you might have noticed a strange layer of what looks like furry material on pilings and wooden structures facing the ocean. This is the result of what is known as delignification, where saltwater penetration of wood leads to the formation of fuzzy salt crystals on the surface and slowly pulls out lignin, part of the cell wall of the wood. Over time, it can cause structural damage as the salt eats into the wood. In a one-time flooding event, delignification isn't a significant concern, but it is advisable to use a freshwater flush anyway to prevent salt crystals from forming because they look unsightly.
Water Damage Can Lead to Mold
Like any flood damage, salt water can also lead to mold in the long term if the damage is not handled appropriately. Mold loves moisture, and flooding penetrates hidden corners of a structure that can be very hard to dry. After flooding, everything needs to be thoroughly dried out with heaters and fans to remove moisture that might be embedded in insulation, walls, and other structural components. Flood-damaged material shouldn't be painted, plastered, or otherwise covered until it is totally dry.
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When a home is damaged by salt water, it needs a professional assessment. It may be salvageable if it hasn't incurred major damage from storm surge, debris, or fire, but first it may need to be flushed with clean water, pumped, and dried. Once dry, the house can be inspected to determine which, if any, repairs are needed to restore it.
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If the thought of salt damage has you depressed, you might want to know that there are some ways to prevent salt damage before it happens. Use specially coated and treated materials for the construction of homes in flood zones and hurricane-prone regions. These can resist water penetration and make the chance of damage lower, as well as reducing the extent of damage when it does occur. Many regional building codes actually specify flood-resistant materials for just this reason, so be sure to discuss this with a contractor whether you're involved in new construction, remodeling, or repair of a damaged structure.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Old Salzburg Garlic Soup
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is the second of the two garlic soups I keep in my recipe arsenal. Both are creamy soups, but they achieve that smoothness in different ways. One uses sour cream, while the other uses a copious quantity of light cream to loosen the heavy base. Both are cooked in the same fashion as a good onion soup, where onions are first cooked in a covered pot until they collapse and give up liquid, and then browned until a beautiful golden slurry is formed. I must admit I like this recipe as much as the first and find it slightly easier to make. The recipe comes from the kitchens of the Hotel Schloss Fuschl on the outskirts of Salzburg, Austria. It sits on the banks of Lake Fuschl and it is actually a converted castle originally built as a hunting lodge and summer palace for the archbishops of Salzburg. The soup is delicious, but my active imagination would find it even more tasty sitting on the deck overlooking that gorgeous lake. The location and attendant ambiance would definitely enhance the flavor of the soup and quickly break the tie I spoke of. Those archbishops sure knew how to live, and while I can't match the ambiance they enjoyed, I can provide the soup. Here's the recipe.
Old Salzburg Garlic Soup...from thekitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of the Hotel Schloss Fuschl
1-1/2 cups thinly sliced onion
1/2 cup chopped garlic
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
6 cups low-sodium beef broth
1 cup dry white wine or dry white vermouth
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sour cream
Grated nutmeg, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
Minced fresh parsley leaves, for garnish
1) Combine onions and garlic in a large stock pot set over medium heat. Cook
slowly over medium heat until onions are golden brown. This can take 30 to 40 minutes. 2
2) Add 1/2 cup flour and cook mixture, stirring constantly, about 3 minutes. Add stock, wine, and salt. Bring to a boil and simmer about 20 minutes.
3) Strain mixture through a fine sieve into another pot. Stir in sour cream and freshly grated nutmeg, salt, and pepper to taste.
4) Ladle into bowls and garnish with toasted croutons and parsley. Yield: 4 to 5 servings.
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30 comments :
- MissB said...
Hummmm love the taste of garlic in dishes! Lovelly!
You have to see the movie Mary :) it's so much fun! ^^
- January 18, 2012 at 12:52 AM
- Pondside said...
I haven't had a good garlic soup in a restaurant since we lived in Germany. This one will get a try!
- January 18, 2012 at 1:10 AM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
What lovely atmosphere for this delicious looking soup!
- January 18, 2012 at 1:12 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
I would totally love this Mary!
- January 18, 2012 at 1:52 AM
- spiky said...
visiting a fellow food blogger. very nice blog - plain and simple yet so full. :)
- January 18, 2012 at 1:58 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Wow wat a great looking super flavourful soup.
- January 18, 2012 at 5:00 AM
- Tanya - Three Square Meals said...
I bet this soup is creamy with a hint of garlic sweetness. Can't wait to try it.
- January 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM
- archi said...
A very satisfying sounding recipe. Great balance of flavours. I love your style and am going to learn from this..
- January 18, 2012 at 5:52 AM
- Unknown said...
I did not realize until just this past year how much I love creamy garlic soups. They tend to have even a bit of a sweet flavor if done right. This one looks just as good as the last one!!
- January 18, 2012 at 7:22 AM
- Linda said...
I'm so craving garlic soup now! This is a lovely recipe!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:12 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Looks great!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- Big Dude said...
As a fan of garlic, this sounds sooo good and I'd like a bowl sitting there by the lake as well.
- January 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM
- annie@mostlovelythings said...
This soup looks delicious and reading the recipe...I can see why. I love a few croutons on soup. Looks like a place I would love to visit.
- January 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM
- SKIP TO MALOU said...
soup??? garlic??? creamy??? wow toatlly my kind of soup! Perfect for this grey weather here in STL.
- January 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- Chelsea said...
Oooh how I love garlic! And such gorgeous photos!
- January 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Becka (The Elegant Eggplant) said...
This looks fantastic! I dont think I have ever had garlic soup.. yum!!
- January 18, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- igloo cooking said...
que sopa más rica y apetecible Mary, como sabes en España somos totalmente amantes del ajo, así que tomo buena nota! Besitos
- January 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Claudia said...
Oh to be in Salzburg with the soup...both are heaven on earth.
- January 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM
- Pam said...
Mary, your soup looks delicious and would be perfect for a cold day like today. I've never heard of garlic soup and have to try it. Thanks for the recipe. Hugs
- January 18, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- From the Kitchen said...
Garlic soup by the lake would be my first choice. In a comfortable chair by the fireplace, my second.
- January 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- Catherine said...
Dear Mary, I just love this soup. I love anything garlic!! What a beautiful picture. How nice to sit by that lake and have a good bowl of piping hot garlic soup. Blessings my friend, Catherine xo
- January 18, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- tender b. said...
I love your soups.
- January 18, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- Joanne said...
I've only ever had completely non-creamy garlic soup, so this is a need-to-try!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Melinda said...
Great for a cold winter day!
Hope you are doing well.
- January 18, 2012 at 11:54 PM
- Stephanie said...
This looks fabulous. I will definitely be giving this a try.
- January 19, 2012 at 6:16 AM
- Xinmei @ Pudding Pie Lane said...
How I would love to be sitting on that deck overlooking Lake Fuschl! This soup must have been delicious there, I hope i can recreate it at home!
- January 19, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Home Skillet Cooking said...
Oh this sounds delicious!
- January 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Calogero said...
I was in Salzburg as an Erasmus student and I am alway happy to "be" there again... And where were these photos shot?
- January 24, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Sharon Koenig said...
This sounds great! Looks like it only deviates just a bit from your other Cream of Garlic Soup. I have yet to try that one too. :)
- January 24, 2012 at 8:19 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Sharon, the recipes are quite different from each other. They do have onions and garlic in common, but that's it. I hope you have a great evening. Blessings...Mary
- January 24, 2012 at 8:55 PM


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"Greed is good. Now it seems its legal."
— Gordon Gekko, 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'
The Oliver Stone-directed sequel to the 1987 film "Wall Street" starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Josh Brolin, opens Friday in the aftermath of two years of financial crisis that almost sank the global financial structure and put 9.9 percent of Americans on the bread line. Will this new film heighten or lessen Main Street's disenchantment with Wall Street? I'm betting the former.
The story opens with the nefarious Gekko, older and supposedly chastened, getting out of jail to regain his place within the financial power structure. I can't help but think how the victims of the convicted Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff, or the half-dozen other crooks that were indicted over the last two years will feel about that. Will we wonder if someday we'll see the same justice system release convicted culprits of this decade's financial crimes?
As it is, most investors (up to 90 percent) already believe the stock market is unfair to the little guy. The majority of us are only now realizing that stock brokers, financial advisers and insurance agents are not held to a fiduciary standard under current SEC rules. As I've written before, a fiduciary is someone who puts your interest above their own and their company.
So many retail investors have already given up on the stock market and its unscrupulous professionals that brokerage houses have begun to report disappointing earnings because of the anemic volume and lack of participation by individual investors. Analysts have been cutting their earnings estimates for the money center brokers as well.
It is my opinion that most Americans have still not forgiven Wall Street for getting us into this mess and with so many Americans out of work, why should they? As I've written before, the new financial regulations bill passed a few months ago was a farce and did very little to protect you and I from the financial services industry. Many of the excesses that got us into this mess are still very much alive on Wall Street today.
So when you pay $12 or more for a ticket to see the movie, be prepared for some in-your-face celebration of money and power. The characters in the movie will be flaunting the latest in power clothes and accoutrements, according to a story in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.
I was working at a global brokerage house in Manhattan when Mr. Gekko first descended upon our consciousness. I admit to emulating his "look" even though by the end of the show he was carted off to jail in ignominy. I found myself, along with just about everyone else I knew who was making the big money on The Street back then, squandering quite a bit of money dressing in contrast-collar shirts, expensive cuff links and two-tone suspenders. The new movie will feature custom-made $2,000 to $3,000 suits, handmade shoes and watches that are so expensive that I can't pronounce their brand names. How is that going to play with you and I who continue to cut corners, make do and forgo new clothes for our kids this school season?
The point is that this new "power style" was copied from what the people on Wall Street are wearing today. That's a far cry from most of us who get along in our LL Bean khaki dress pants and "wrinkle-free" blue oxford, button-down, dress shirts. Now don't get me wrong, I like dressing down and would never want to go back to those days of pinstriped three-piece suits, watch chain and wing tips. But just seeing those actors glorifying a culture that has driven most of us to the wall and gotten away with it makes me see red. To me, "it's about doing the right thing," words that I lifted from a line in the movie. But Gekko sums up the credo of Wall Street, which got us where we are today and will continue to drive the financial industry toward its next melt-down when he replies
"No, it's all about the money."
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"Awww mom, are these going on the Internet?" Yes honey, they are. Charlie wanted nothing to do with "modeling" this sweater, but a little tackle football with his brother? Perfect!
Charlie said he feels a little like Ron from Harry Potter. I don't know why he would think that? Edited to add: (because mom didn't know) Ron wears his mama's "homemade" sweaters and has red hair.
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Very handsome sweater...I love the picture of your boys together doing 'boyish' things.ReplyDelete
great sweater, and great photos. i love that you are able to truly adjust patterns to fit. i'm still in a stage where my "adjustments" usually end up incorrect...ReplyDelete
your boys have red hair? are they stubborn guys? i have red hair, and i think that only my son (of the three kids) will get my hair, but i'm nervous he'll be a little hellion...
Your boys are adorable. The sweater looks so perfect on Charlie. What a good sport for letting you parade him around to all of us eager knitters.ReplyDelete
This sweater is so handsome - and it looks great on your son. I do like the photos too. You can thank him for agreeing to it ;)ReplyDelete
that came out perfect!!!! it looks great!!! I can totally see him as a weasley boy.. :)ReplyDelete
fantastic sweater! and sweet boys. such "fall" photos - the yarn, the red hair, the leaves on the ground. a lovely combination!ReplyDelete
Great pics! What a good idea to give your model something to do rather than just stand there and strike a pose :) Oh, and the sweater looks great!ReplyDelete
The sweater looks great! I can't believe you don't block...all your pieces always look so finished, smooth, and perfect. I love your blog. I've been reading it a while!ReplyDelete
It's great! Looks like they had a lot of fun with the photo shoot, too. :)ReplyDelete
Sizing it down is a fabulous idea and is it okay if I steal it, and size it down for my little guy?
I've been a lurker appreciating your blog for months but just had to step out of the shadows when I saw the words "I never...block". You just made my day!ReplyDelete
The sweater looks fantastic and I'm thinking of knitting this for my husband at some point (if I ever make it through everything else I seem to be starting lately - including Minimalist Cardigan from the same issue - moms have to put themselves first sometimes - hee hee).
Thanks for the great inspiration!
It looks perfect on him. Love the photos.ReplyDelete
Fantastic!! A wonderful photoshoot too!ReplyDelete
I think it is official, this is my favorite boy sweater. I love how its cuteness doesn't get in the way of manly things like football.ReplyDelete
Killer sweater! Now you are motivating me to finish mine...and I agree that the Skye Tweed is rough on the hands. According to Kathy Zimmerman, it used to be milled in England but when they switched to Peru the quality went down somewhat.ReplyDelete
Oh it's PERFECT!! Love it!ReplyDelete
Great photos! And a beautiful sweater! Glad he likes it. ;)ReplyDelete
What a fabulous sweater and it looks great on him. You've got me thinking about adding it to my Knit List. Also great photos of your sons playing around.ReplyDelete
Ron Weasley! I was thinking that too, what with the knit sweater and red hair and all. He needs maroon with a big "C" on the front!ReplyDelete
Great photos and beautiful sweater!
the sweater looks great, leslie. i guess i never realized that your boys have red hair. can't wait to see what you do for libby.ReplyDelete
It looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
An easy way to do the washing/blocking. Throw it in the tub with a little liquid detergent. Let soak for a bit, rinse, then using towels, squeeze out excess water and then throw it in the washer on spin cyle to spin out the rest. Lay flat (in proper shape) to dry. It dries quickly overnight and then Charlie will have a much softer sweater to enjoy!
HOORAY! Everything is fantastic- the sweater, the boys, the mood! Great job!ReplyDelete
Absolutely perfect!ReplyDelete
I love it! Its so hard to find knits that guys will wear. This one is PERFECT!ReplyDelete
ok, so first off, you are so clever with your title.ReplyDelete
your knitting is amazing...and you are quick! The sweater looks perfect on him...that is a lovely shade of brown. nice, nice job, leslie!
What a handsome son you have! A good model makes a beautiful sweater even better.ReplyDelete
This sweater is just so darn beautiful! Every time I see another color or another one modeled it's just so lovely. To bad my husband has no intrest in it at all!ReplyDelete
I love it! I want to make one of these for my beau. You photographed it beautifully too. Great job!!ReplyDelete
He feels a bit like Ron? That's funny. :) Mrs. Weasley's sweaters are always a bit odd but yours is beautiful! And you knit it very quickly, too. I love the pictures.ReplyDelete
It's beautiful....um, I mean handsome. Great sweater.ReplyDelete
I love the mini-cobblestone, I definately want to make a mini-mini cobblestone now!ReplyDelete
Your did such a great job on it--it fits him perfectly!ReplyDelete
The shot of him in mid run is awesome (my favorite of the pictures).
I think you should consider a career as a photostylist.ReplyDelete
These are FANTASTIC and truly show off a
beautiful sweater on a REAL boy.
Tell him he's much handsomer than Ron!
The sweater looks great! You did a lovely job, it fits so well, and so ver classy.ReplyDelete
Wonderful job on the sweater. I can't wait until my oldest gets home to show it to him. Not only because the sweater will probably rate high on the cool chart but to show him that there are others out there with the same beautiful hair color as him! As he quotes "only 2% of the population has red hair and it is quickly becoming extinct because people are not marrying other people with red hair...I'm a rarity!"ReplyDelete
AWESOME! Looks great on him, goes with his "ron weasly" hair pefectly! Sorry I missed you today but my carpets look clean!ReplyDelete
SPECTACULAR! You are a knitting machine. I love that you stayed true to the color of the pattern piece. He looks like a very handsome Ron. Congrats on another amazing piece of work.ReplyDelete
the sweater looks great- i even more impressed that you got him to wear it while playing football in this heat!ReplyDelete
that is a beautiful sweater. As always, I am in awe of your knitting skills. those photos look like fall-we should be having fall, but it hasn't arrived yet. My kids want to go to the pool and jump in the sprinkler today! Thanks for sharing your creation!ReplyDelete
Great sweater! I love the action shots!ReplyDelete
Your right this sweater wears very well. well done!!!ReplyDelete
luv Abby
OMG, the sweater is wonderful and looks great on your son! He did a nice job of "modeling" while playing football!ReplyDelete
Beautiful jumper and photos! And title. :)ReplyDelete
Charlie needn't have worried one bit! The sweater is perfect and he's such a handsome, natural model. But don't let it go to his head :o)ReplyDelete
Your son looks gorgeous in his new Cobblestone sweater! Great color choice for him too. His entire outfit from his shoes, sweater to the hip bracelets all work wonderfully together.ReplyDelete
Digging the football shots.
You downsized the sweater for a perfect fit and it looks great on him. Loved the photos :)ReplyDelete
When I saw this sweater in the mag I immediately wondered how it would size down for my 10 yr old. It looks terrific. My son wears a boys' size 10-12. Your son looks a bit taller. Do you mind letting me know what size swtr/swtshrt he usually wears so I can size down appropriately?ReplyDelete
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12? are you sure he's 12, he looks so savvy and mature here. and the sweater looks great.ReplyDelete
I just knew you would have one of them finished by the time I came back from my holiday! And isn't it fantastic - it looks so worn in and comfy already and the colour is just gorgeous. I have been knitting on my holiday and kept thinking of you and how quickly you knit. I have nearly finished a little skirt for my oldest girl because I have been at it non-stop!ReplyDelete
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It turned out perfect!! You did a really great job on the construction of the garment. Your boys are adorable!!!ReplyDelete
You did it again!! Nice modification and it looks really nice on him!ReplyDelete
And I love all the photos! They are great!!
I saw a woman at my LYS working on this sweater, too. It's beautiful. You chose a lovely color for it, too. Perfect for autumn and young men.ReplyDelete
The sweater is great!!ReplyDelete
great sweater, les. charlie will look so handsome when he wears it to middle school. who's next...libby or andrew?ReplyDelete
It's a gorgeous sweater and I adore the photos you shot. I love seeing a sweater in action and he wears it so well!ReplyDelete
Beautiful sweater.ReplyDelete
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the sweater really suits him. and so does the grass stain.ReplyDelete
Oh it's fantastic!!! I really have thought about that one for T. But then I'd have to actually knit....ReplyDelete
I haven't paid much attention to this sweater before now!ReplyDelete
It's wonderful on Charlie -the color and the textures are perfect~
Beautiful! A perfect fall sweater!ReplyDelete
The sweater looks so GREAT! I look forward to seeing the group shot.ReplyDelete
Great job! It looks very handsome on your son! It's also nice to see a 12y/o BOY wearing mama's handknits.ReplyDelete
Your boys are so cute. They boyish kind of cute, of course. The sweater looks great! Especially on him!ReplyDelete
handsome sweater on handsome lil guy!... double whammy!ReplyDelete
It looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
It looks really comfy.ReplyDelete
Beautiful job, Leslie! As always. The photos of your boys are great. You always take the most fantastic pictures! I don't know how you do it. I am totally lame when it comes to photography.ReplyDelete
I love it! And what wonderful pics of your boys.ReplyDelete
Wow! That looks great! Love it and looks great on him! Great Job!!!ReplyDelete
Love the photoshoot - you are so creative!
P.S. I'm shocked you rarely swatch. I thought you did for sure - your knits are always so perfect!
I hear that from my family, too, "Are you going to post that on your blog?"...as much as I hear, "That should go in your blog!"ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures - wonderful sweater!
WOW! Looks great! Thanks for posting your details of how you made the smaller size. I think I may modify it even smaller for my little Ron Weasley (poor little red-headed sons of knitters!)ReplyDelete
OK, so those cute bracelets? How did you make those? They are awesome, I know my kids would love them!ReplyDelete
I'm also going to be baking up some of your zucchini bread for the family this week, thanks for posting the recipe!
I love that sweater! Your kids are so cute! (Don't tell them I said that. If they're anything like my boys, you'll never get them to pose for a picture again.) I've seen that sweater before--I'd have to be living under a rock to avoid it--but I never thought about doing it for one of my kids. It would look great on my 10 year old. I wonder if I could size it down more?ReplyDelete
Oh, and I did get the reference to Ron! (Allow me my moment of glory. I need it today.)
I must knit that sweater now! I wasn't sure how I felt about it until I saw yours. Great job!ReplyDelete
now this may very well be a sweater that i can make for my beau. very masculine and stylish, unlike a lotta guy's sweaters out there! bravo!ReplyDelete
wanted to also let you know that my future mother-in-law is also a reader of yours -- and made your coffee cake recipe for us this weekend! so great.
Absolutely beautiful. The pictures are wonderful too.ReplyDelete
Oh it's gorgeous, you have inspired me to have a go. He looks so handsome in his sweater.ReplyDelete
i like charlies shoes. the sweater is awesome. i think of a buffalo when i see it :) (in a fun goodway)ReplyDelete
Great pix of the Cobblestone sweater in action!ReplyDelete
The Cobblestone turned out wonderfully, and your pictures are marvelous! In fact, yours is my favorite rendition of this pattern.ReplyDelete


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What scares the krap outta the male species?
Guys may discuss some fears. Here are ones they won't.
You probably think you know what frightens most men. A long-weekend at the in-laws' place. Antiquing. Shopping. Running out of beer in the third quarter. But that's just the stuff he'll admit to being afraid of, which, by definition, means they're not his true deep fears. So how can you determine what those are? Easy: They're the ones he'll almost never talk about. But I will.
Let's count down through the Scary Fifteen:
#15 Hair in the drain. The first sign of male pattern baldness brings a man face-to-follicle with a skimpy aspect of his future. And it's always earlier than he expects or wants (which is, like, never). Logically, men know that baldness is as much of a part of life as Leno making Britney jokes. Logically, men know that being bald doesn't mean that they're any less smart, virile, or successful. Logically, men know that women don't care how much hair their men have. Logically, men know there are plenty of bald men who are comfortable in their skin--no matter how much of it they're showing. But when it first happens, it feels like stepping on a scale and being 20 pounds heavier or waking up in high school with a quarter-sized nose pimple. It's the inevitable and uncontrollable change in appearance that men try so desperately to protect. Maybe even more importantly, this moment when a man starts losing his hair says a lot about him-whether he's cool enough to handle it, or anxious enough to attempt to deny it with combovers, Rogaine, or faith healers.
#14 Getting caught noticing another woman. A man's instinctual response to visual stimulation very rarely has anything to do with his current relationship or how he feels about it. But his lizard brain reacts instantly, and before he knows he's doing it, he's looking at someone else. We hate having to explain behaviors that even we don't fully understand.
#13 Rejection. Doesn't matter whether it happens after a job interview, or at a bar, or on the basketball court. And remember, there's a difference between losing and being outright rejected. Men can handle losing a game or having a bar conversation disintegrate into nothing. But the proud creatures that men are, they hate having their shots blocked. Mainly, that's because it means that someone else has the upper hand-and is gloating about it.
#12 Super Nanny.
#11 Speedos.
#10 His dad's death. It's his most powerful moment of a reflection, as he thinks about his own mortality. Becoming the family patriarch is heavy stuff. For many men, it's a life-changing moment, because they think about what their fathers did for them and what they failed to do. The next step: Considering what they need to do to be better dads and better men themselves--which means they must confront their own failures, as well. That's a lot for a grief-stricken man to deal with. He should get some latitude to do that in his own way. For him, reaching out may be through what seem like misdirections--more chatter about fishing with friends, an extra set of tickets to the Phillies showdown with the Mets. But guys need a reason to get together; the talk will come during a slow point in the 6th inning, or in the car on the way home.
#9 Her tears. Men know it's natural, that women need to do it, and that it's a signal that they better provide something more than just a tissue-even though many men have no clue what that something might be. Men have been told that women cry for all kinds of reasons-to release some emotions, to get our attention, or just because dammit, The Bachelor rose ceremony is so stinkin' sad. Men want to do the right thing, but because men don't navigate those falling waters very often, they probably do the wrong thing more often than not. Which is another reason why they fear her emotional tsunami.
#8 Being a lousy lover. Of all the things that men want to happen in bed, pleasing their women ranks near the top of the list, according to a national Men, Love, and Sex survey by Harris Interactive. Men hate to think that women may be bored, unimpressed, or unsatisfied. Maybe it's an ego thing (okay, it is an ego thing), but men do very genuinely care about how much pleasure a woman is having in bed. That's why the faking thing drives men so crazy. To men, feigned pleasure is code for: You're so damn terrible at this, but there there, little fella, I'm gonna make you feel good about your inadequate self. Men want to know what women want, and they want to be successful in delivering it.
#7 Not being a god to his kids. There comes a time when men don't care much about what strangers, co-workers, friends, in-laws, or anybody else thinks about them. But when a kid articulates his father's flaws, it's the ultimate heart crumbler. Men know that sometimes they work too much or are too short-fused or simply fall short on the hero-dad meter, but deep down, they know it's the most important job that they're going to do. And if they don't do it right, they know there's a significant chink in their masculine armor.
#6 Living paycheck to paycheck. Even though men aren't the only hunters and providers anymore, they still feel a deep evolutionary pull to provide the backbone and protection for their tribe. When men lose money, can't make enough money, or are scrounging for money, it can be an emotional disaster-it makes them feel like they're losing control in their lives.
#5 Beautiful women. Few things intimidate men more than IRS audits and 12-foot birdie putts. A beautiful woman is one of them. A beautiful woman-whether spotted at work, in bookstores, driving in the next lane, anywhere-simply has the power to turn a man of steel into creamed corn. Men know this. Men try to resist this. Ultimately, it's a challenge. Beauty may be a short-lived form of power, but it is profound, and nearly all men cower before it. It can make them do really, really stupid things.
#4 Getting naked. Ladies shouldn't think that they're alone in fleshy hang-ups. Guys are just as concerned about what women will initially think about their body hair, muscles, guts, toes, and other parts. Men are deeply aware that they can be too fat, too skinny, too hairy, too smelly, and while men are eager to revel in a woman's body, they also share anxiety about revealing their own.
#3 Tofurky...................Yes, tofurky.
#2 Not seeing his kids grow up. Death, of course, scares everyone-not so much for the bad stuff that may happen to them, but for missing out on all the good stuff that will happen to their kids. Or, worse yet, not being around to protect them from the bad stuff.
# 1 Public humiliation. Here's one that will make even the strongest men cave: Looking weak. Whether a man is extremely secure-or insanely insecure-about himself, he's worries that he'll look incompetent, idiotic, or both. Doesn't matter whether it's a zipper malfunction, an off-color joke he mistakenly slips in during a speech, a dismissive statement by a boss in a department meeting, fumbling the fly ball at a softball game, getting arrested for fighting after his kid's soccer game, whatever. It's one thing to make mistakes. But making the reputation-damaging ones in public is tough to take. That's because as much as men try to protect their homes, their families, their appearance, and their jobs, perhaps the most nerve-wracking job of all is protecting the thing they can't cure with money, with effort or with laser hair removal: their reputations.
What secretly scares you? Fess up and share it here or forever stay neurotic.


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For generations Russian women learned how to treat a man from Russian philosopher, Yuri Kurinksy, and his book Maxims for Loving A Man. Not to be outdone by Asian Women (who have their own book out now), Russian women have now put their wisdom into a book, He Will Never Leave You, hoping to help women in their relationships.
Here's just some of the winning advice Russian women have for Western women so they can be successful in love and marriage:
1) ACT LIKE A WOMAN – Men, especially Russian men, are manly and tough, they don't want a woman to act stronger or tougher than them. Stop acting like the person in control. You can BE the person in control without acting tough and cold. Be soft and sexy AND in control. Much smarter that way.
2) TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR SEX LIFE – Men think about sex a lot and want sex a lot – so give it to them, because you want it, too! But you don't have to wait for them to take the lead – you should be the one to initiate sex and take the lead in bed. He will love you for it – and he'll never want to leave you!
3) BE A HOMEBODY – Learn how to sew clothes, clean and make delicious meals (from scratch) for your man. Take care of him and he will take care of you – in more ways than one.
4) ONE GLASS OF VODKA A NIGHT. Have one glass of vodka with your man every night. It will soothe both of you and put you in the mood. Russians have long known the power of vodka and there's no better aphrodisiac.
5) NEVER CONTRADICT HIM. When you are in public, never say anything that contradicts your man. Men hate to have their woman disagree with them in front of others. Keep your opinion to yourself in public, but when you get home – you can tell him what you really think and feel.


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WASHINGTON – The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits — and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away. President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats rejected a call to reopen White House tours scrapped because of the tightened spending.
Federal meat inspectors were spared furloughs, but more than 100 small and medium air traffic facilities were left exposed to possible closure as the two parties alternately clashed and cooperated over proposals to take the edge off across-the-board spending cuts that took effect on March 1.
Final House approval of the measure is likely as early as Thursday. Obama's signature is a certainty, meaning the cuts will remain in place at least through the end of the budget year on Sept. 30 — even though he and lawmakers in both parties have criticized them as random rather than targeted. Obama argued strongly against them in campaign-style appearances, predicting painful consequences, before they began taking effect, and Republicans objected to impacts on Pentagon spending.
Without changes, the $85 billion in cuts for the current year will swell to nearly $1 trillion over a decade, enough to make at least a small dent in economy-threatening federal deficits but requiring program cuts that lawmakers in both parties say are unsustainable politically. As a result, negotiations are possible later in the year to replace the reductions with different savings.
The administration as well as Republicans picked and chose its spots in arguing for flexibility in this year's cuts.
"My hope is that gets done," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said earlier in the week of the effort to prevent layoffs among inspectors that could disrupt the nation's food supply chain. "If it does not, come mid-July we will furlough meat inspectors," he added, departing from the administration's general position that flexibility should ease all the cuts or none at all.
The final vote was 73-26, with 51 Democrats, 20 Republicans and two independents in favor and 25 Republicans and Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana opposed.
Political considerations were on ample display in both houses as lawmakers labored over measures relating to spending priorities, both for this year and a decade into the future.
Rep. Mark Mulvaney, R-S.C., said he had wanted the House to vote on Obama's own budget, but he noted the president hadn't yet released one. 'It's with great regret … that I'm not able to offer" a presidential budget for a vote, he said. He added he had wanted to vote on a placeholder — "34 pages full of question marks" — but House rules prevented it.
Minority Democrats advanced a plan that calls for $1 trillion in higher taxes, $500 billion in spending cuts over a decade and a $200 billion economic stimulus package. Republicans voted it down, 253-165.
They are expected to approve their own very different blueprint on Thursday.
It calls for $4.6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade and no tax increases, a combination that projects to a balanced budget in 10 years' time. That spending plan would indeed be simply a blueprint, lacking any actual control over federal spending.
The issues were grittier in the Senate, where lawmakers grappled with the immediate impact of across-the-board cuts on individual programs.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a deficit hawk, said he wanted to reopen the White House tours, shut down since earlier in the month. He said his proposal would take about $8 million from the National Heritage Partnership Program and apply it toward "opening up the tours at the White House, opening up Yellowstone National Park and the rest of the national parks."
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters previously the decision the cancel the White House tours was made by the Secret Service because "it would be, in their view, impossible to staff those tours; that they would have to withdraw staff from those tours in order to avoid more furloughs and overtime pay cuts."
But in remarks on the Senate floor, Coburn said, "This is a Park Service issue, not a Secret Service issue."
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said the funds involved in Coburn's amendment would not go to the Secret Service, and as a result the tours "would not be affected." He also said the Heritage program, a public-private partnership, helps produce economic development and should not be cut.
The vote was 54-45 against the proposal. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, whose state borders on Yellowstone National Park, was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans.
The Park Service has announced some parks may open late to automobile traffic this spring because budget cuts have reduced funds available to clear roads of winter snow.
The overall legislation locks in the $85 billion in spending cuts through the end of the budget year, yet provides several departments and agencies with flexibility in coping with them. It extends flexibility to the Pentagon, the departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Justice, State and Commerce and the Food and Drug Administration.
But bipartisanship has its limits, and in private negotiations Republicans rejected Democratic attempts to provide flexibility for the rest of the government.
That set off a scramble among lawmakers to round up support for changes on a case-by-case basis.
The provision to prevent furloughs for federal meat inspectors had the support of industry as well as from both sides of the political aisle and cleared without a vote. It was supported by Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, a Democrat seeking re-election next year, and Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, who quietly helped Democrats round up the votes they needed to clear the legislation over a procedural hurdle.
The effect was to transfer $55 million to the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service from other accounts within the department, including deferred maintenance.
"Without this funding, every meat, poultry, and egg processing facility in the country would be forced to shut down for up to two weeks," said Blunt. "That means high food prices and less work for the hardworking Americans who work in these facilities nationwide."
In contrast to Blunt, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, opposed Democrats when they sought to overcome procedural hurdles earlier in the week.
In the days since, he repeatedly refused to let the bill advance unless he was given a chance to cancel about $50 million in cuts aimed at contract employees at more than 170 air traffic facilities around the country. In the end, his amendment was jettisoned without a vote.
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Also read:
The Amilcar Notes (Part 1): Zine Ben Ali's Sorry Legacy
The Amilcar Notes (Part 2): Tunisia — Emerging Democracy or Just a Facade?
The Amilcar Notes (Part 3): Tunisia's Forgotten Socio-Economic Crisis
The Amilcar Notes (Part 4): Tunisia — Profoundly Islamic
The Amilcar Notes (Part 5): Election Exhilaration in Tunisia
1. The party's over, the mansion trashed
Today, a friend, relative of a Tunisian family in Colorado, took me for a ride in the hills above the Mediterranean just 2 kilometers north of La Marsa. On the way, we passed the residency of the French Ambassador and nearby, one of the trashed-out mansions of the Ben Ali and Trabelsi clans, the two ruling clans that ran the country into the ground economically and politically. The gutted mansion stood on the corner of the road to Gammarth by the Mediterranean where it bisects Rue Hannibal. Down the block is a sheik looking restaurant called "Le Cafe Journal."
The mansion belonged to Imad Trabelsi, one of Leila Trabelsi's nephews, recently sentenced to 18 years in prison by a post-Ben Ali tribunal. Among Imad's many escapades was one where, along with his brother, he was accused of stealing a French financier's yacht, painting it over, changing the numbers, making it his own. One of the graffiti notes left on the wall filled with slogans against the Ben Ali years read "Dear Imad – Thanks for the wall – signed Abdel Aziz." The place was thoroughly trashed, pulverized really, as if hit by a drone missile gone astray from Pakistan! All the other Ben Ali-Trabelsi mansions – many of them, like this one built on property expropriated from the state to the two families – lie in similar ruin. Not roped off, they remain open to the public.
A person can just walk in and look around as we did. Trabelsi did not get along well with the neighbors and didn't seem to care. The unbridled arrogance of the nouveau riche! Trabelsi had the neighbors pay for a retaining wall within the property to insure privacy. The mansion hosted loud and wild parties almost non-stop I was told. The neighbors complained to the police, the police came and arrested the neighbors for disturbing the party rather than the partiers for disturbing the peace. In quiet revenge, Trabelsi's neighbors did not lift a finger to stop the popular rage against property . Not many tears were thus shed when the Trabelsis fled.
I wondered, with the French residence being so close, how close the Trabelsis were to the French diplomats who protected and defended the old order down till the end and how many Trabelsi wild soirees the French ambassador (or other French diplomats) might have been regulars at. Did the ambassador pass by to check out the damage, symbolic at least on some level of the damage done to French -Tunisian relations as well. Because France took something of a diplomatic hit from the Tunisian crisis.
2. General Rachid Ammar's dilemmaJust at the time Zine el Abidine Ben Ali – whose name in Tunisia today is worth less than mud – fled Tunisia with a million Tunisians cheering him on to go in the streets of Tunis, a curious article appeared in the French press. I don't have the citation handy but remember it clearly. It was "curious" because of its content and brevity. It alleged that the chief of the Tunisian army, General Rachid Ammar, was at a loss as to whether or not to obey Ben Ali's orders to mow down protesters with machine guns from armored vehicles and helicopters.
General Ammar, who has slipped back into obscurity, was caught in the middle between Ben Ali and the Tunisian people. He was caught in one of those "damned if you do – damned if you don't" moments. His crisis was being unable to discern at the time which side in the fight between Ben Ali and "the people" would come out the winner. Before January 12, 2011 when 150,000 people demonstrated against Ben Ali in Sfax in a demonstration called by the country's union movement – the UGTT – it was not at all clear who would win – Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi (who was hated in some quarters here in Tunisia even more than the president) or the Tunisian people. Given that making the wrong decision could have cost General Ammar dearly, he needed to weigh it carefully.
3. AFRICOM's General William Ward to the rescueIt is exactly at crisis moments like this that former President George Bush tells us, that he consulted God. Maybe General Ammar did too, but if the French press is right, Ammar also was in close contact with, the then acting head of AFRICOM, General William Ward, whom the French suggest played a key if not decisive role in influencing Ammar's decision helping the Tunisian chief of staff understand which ways the political winds were blowing. Apparently the United States, interestingly enough, was betting against Ben Ali. Whatever advice General Ward offered to Ammar, it was enough to help give the good man enough spine needed to refuse Ben Ali's order to slay his own people at will.
And for that, Ammar became and remains something of a Tunisian national hero, "le centurion du people," coming only behind the immolated Mohammed Bouazzizi and the million or so demonstrators that marched on Tunis, calling on Ben Ali to make a hasty departure.
The French press revealed the details of the Ammar-Ward relationship at that sensitive moment. Let us be clear here, theirs is more than a personal connection. The contact marked a quiet watershed in U.S. Tunisian ties. The French were not pleased the Americans had gotten to Ammar before they did and so leaked the story in bits and pieces in an effort to press the French government to define itself more clearly on the Tunisian crisis. France defended Ben Ali almost up to the last second, the United States shifted gears and gambled against Ben Ali in the last two seconds, so the U.S. stuck it to France and positioned itself well to influence the flow of events in the post Ben Ali period.
4. U.S. increases its influence in Tunisia; France rushes off to insert itself in Libya
France, as nervous about losing its influence in North Africa as it is concerned about the crisis of the euro, responded by trying to regain the influence in Libya which it had lost in Tunisia by pushing NATO to take military action against Khadaffi in Libya. France placed itself to the military forefront hoping to regain in Libyan oil what it lost in Tunisian influence.
The Americans didn't mind if France got its claws in Libya which would be a mess for a long time and therefore be more France's problem than the U.S.'s. Besides Washington could argue this time that it was France that was too quick on the trigger taking a little pressure off what the U.S. was doing unsuccessfully in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and unofficially in Yemen, Somalia and who knows where else. In the end Tunisia would be a much easier country to "help rebuild," Libya more difficult. A U.S. foothold in Tunisia has its own strategic logic, in line perhaps with AFRICOM plans for Africa? Not a bad deal. Some shrewd thinking there for a change? Not a lot of shrewd thinking going on in Washington for some time now, but this showed something a bit more interesting.
5. Developing the hypothesis of a new Tunisian-American relationship
These thoughts have been brewing in my mind, actually since the day I read that General Ammar was getting psychological therapy from General Ward, but I wasn't sure what to make of it. Recent history and a couple of thoughtful articles by Tunisian political figures have given more texture to these thoughts.
Let's look at the chain of events.
Although he gets some heat from Republican presidential hopefuls, many who probably think Tunisia is a part of the Indonesian island chain, as well as AIPAC (who else?), in an unusual turn of events, Obama himself supported Ben Ali's removal from power, breaking with 66 years of U.S. policy of supporting dictators of every stripe from the more secular Shah of Iran to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.
There were signs – today not all that difficult to read – that the U.S. was at least positioning itself for a post-Ben Ali future. For those of you who are conspiracy buffs, sorry to disappoint (again). It is not that the U.S. engineered the changes, but…more that in the Tunisan case, Washington tried jumping on a running horse rather than blowing it out of existence with bunker busters, smart bombs and torture.
- Actually, Ben Ali's relations with the U.S. have long been rocky. When Republicans were in power, he fared better, but with the Democrats he has never been popular. For example, when Ben Ali came to Washington DC in the 1990s, he hoped that Bill Clinton would honor him with a state dinner. It didn't happen. Instead Clinton shuffled Ben Ali off to Madeline Albright. She would agree to an informal chat at the front hallway of the State Department. He went back to Tunisia empty-handed and angry.
- The first indication of more significant shift than a simple diplomatic snub cited above came after he was re-elected President with 94% of the vote in 2008 in another rigged election. Ben Ali waited for a congratulatory telegram from Barack Obama. It never came. Some might have missed it, but Zine Ben Ali didn't.
- Some of the WikiLeaks dealing with Tunisia made it clear that the State Department had no illusions about Ben Ali's lack of popularity, his repressive politics and the money grabbing nature of the crudely nouveau riche Ben Ali and Trabelsi clans.
- Then there is a short blog by none other than Elliot Abrams on the Council of Foreign Affairs website, Is Tunisia Next, on Jan 7, 2011, a week before Ben Ali took flight coming close to predicting the end. Elliot Abrams who has played one of the most insidious roles in U.S. foreign policy from the days he supported the Nicaraguan Contras was now behind removing Ben Ali?
- After Ben Ali came to power both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were on the same page concerning Tunisia much more so than was the case with Egypt where Hillary held on tight to Mubarek for as long as possible. Hillary continues to show special interest in Tunisia. A few days ago she had a column in a recent Tunisian newspaper (in French) on the status of women
- The statements of the current U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Gordon Gray, himself a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco I am told, has consistently praised the transition away from Ben Ali-ism and seems to have played a role in the emerging U.S. approach.
So from left to right, or from center to right in the U.S. government, the evidence is mounting that the U.S. was not unhappy to see Ben Ali go and when they had the opportunity, let that be known to General Ammar through the medium of AFRICOM commander William Ward. The suggestion that came with Ward's comments – made either directly or in a more coded manner – was like manna from Heaven for Ammar. He could assume, rightly or wrongly, that the weight of the United States was behind him, helping prop up his confidence to stand down Ben Ali.
Even if the details are off here and there – I think they are quite accurate actually – an overall picture has long been coming together in my mind that the United States government, whatever else it is doing in the Middle East, supported the ousting of Ben Ali in Tunisia and within certain well-defined boundaries, supports the reform process taking place as well as the role of the Ennahdha Party as a leading force in this "new age."
6. Farhat Othman's little political bomb: the U.S. gave "the green light" to the Tunisian revolution
An article appeared today (December 11, 2011) taking up the issue of the new U.S.-Tunisian relationship. Nawaat.org, an award winning human rights alternative website, published a piece in French by Farhat Othman, former diplomat expelled by Ben Ali for not toeing the party line in the 1990s. His piece is entitled La verite sur la revolution tunisienne en dix points (The Tunisian Revolution's Truths Explained in 10 Points) in which he asserts that the U.S. supported Ben Ali's overthrow, why the Tunisians took the U.S. bait, and what the nature of the evolving U.S.- Tunisian relationship could look like.
Perhaps Othman will elaborate on these points in the future, but let me say that for the moment, his is a coherent, credible explanation of the U.S. role.
Given the overall record of the United States in the region, complimenting the United States, U.S. Middle East policy in any way in Tunisia is not easy. Othman is taking a lot of heat. Othman's reward for putting forth his ideas so far has mostly to be thoroughly trashed by readers' comments, but I think that he has come as close as anyone to explaining the hows and whys of the new U.S.-Tunisian relationship well and I'd like to see some convincing arguments against it rather than just the name calling.
What are his main points?
Othman begins by calling the uprising in Tunisia, now nearly a year old, a "people's coup" and gives it his full support. In so doing, Othman begins by paying homage to those who actually made the revolution: the country's youth who paid the price with their blood and suffering. It is not particularly original but it reveals the deep respect and love that the Tunisian people as a whole feel for their youth, those that showed a courage that many older people here could not quite muster, a courage not for themselves but for the country as a whole and in so doing rekindled the wholesome fires that is a long suppressed Tunisian nationalism.
What follows however is more original and probably explains what triggered the negative responses.
Othman states unequivocally that the Tunisian revolution could not have succeeded on its own without the green light from Washington and the media coverage the protest movement here enjoyed from AlJazeera. He credits "the green light" as the key element that gave the Tunisian military the courage not to fire on demonstrators; that corresponds to what I argued above.
I would only add here, that Tunisians did not go asking kindly for permission with Washington agreeing. It was rather that, unable in any way to control the flow of events in Tunisia (or elsewhere in the region these days), the Obama Administration had, for a change, the good sense to roll with the punches so to speak and make the best of it. Had Obama not seen it in U.S. interests to help push Ben Ali aside, he could have made life much more difficult for Tunisia's social movement.
Othman goes on to claim that Washington's support for the changes in Tunisia are not as strange as it might seem as "about faces – or changing of the guard" is not so unusual for "the world's policeman" (in French: la volte face du gendarme du monde n'etait pas nouvelle). Without mentioning the specific cases, he is referring to the U.S. policy of abandoning allies when they are no longer useful. Cases like Marcos of the Philippines, Mobutu of Zaire come to mind' there are many more examples.
At times, U.S. global interests needs new face – a face-lift – as the old ones have become more a liability than an asset. So it was with Ben Ali. Supporting him too long backfires politically. The U.S. – or atleast Obama – understood this, Sarkozy didn't until it was too late. (In reference to the Arab Spring, Chomsky gave a great speech in Denver and interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman on this subject).
Othman's point here is that to suggest that the United States was preparing for some kind of change like this in the Arab World. He doesn't explain why, given his barebones synopsis but it's not hard to put together the dots.
7. The United States rides a dark horse in the Middle East
The U.S. Middle-East policy has been in crisis for some time. No secret. Some (I'm one of them) would go further and say that it is, overall in shambles with no long-term strategy, a more and more militarized policy which just lurches from one crisis to another. No vision, no de Gaulles to save us from ourselves. It is a policy that has welded virtually every U.S. administration since World War II to Arab tyrants – secular and religious, and Israeli policies against the Palestinians and neighboring Arab people.
To that overall structural rot, long percolating, add the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The combined impact of these policies has led to a precipitous loss of U.S. prestige throughout the region. At some point…and it sure seems we're almost there, the negative reaction that these policies have triggered boil over to the point that they threaten U.S strategic regional interests there (specifically oil and natural gas) unless things change. The United States has been riding dark Middle-East horses for decades; Washington is glued to them in fact with a political epoxy from which it has been unable to free itself (not that it wants to).
Among other things, the Arab Spring exposed to the bare bone the weakness of U.S. Middle-East policy. The U.S. has had strong ties for decades with leaders in so many of these countries – perhaps with the sole exception of Syria. Strong ties? Even that is an understatement – without U.S. support a good many Middle-East dictators, blessed with the label of "moderates" in Washington, could not maintain power. Washington had even made its peace with Khadaffi. Supporting the Tunisian "people's coup" gave Washington a chance to change course just to the slightest degree and to identify with the historic movement of the Arab peoples, rather than against it…and of course slap the French in the face (it really is a very small slap actually) which pleases Washington.
8. Othman challenges the "U.S.-uses-Qatar-and-Al Jazeera to overthrow-Ben-Ali" conspiracy
In this part of the world, conspiracy theories abound. Of course we in the U.S. should talk with all the attention the 9-11 conspiracies have gotten! Actually the reason for this in the Middle East is that there are a lot of conspiracies actually taking place. William Burroughs has that wonderful line defining paranoids as simply people who have more facts than others.
That said the current conspiracy theory about the Tunisian revolution is that it was engineered by the Americans (who else?) through the Qataris and AlJazeera TV. It doesn't hold water. Othman doesn't think so and neither do I. His main point is simple: Othman argues rightly here that such a theory denigrates the role of the Tunisian people in their own mass effort to overthrow Ben Ali. This people's coup was not hatched in Washington via Qatar and televised by AlJazeera, although at a critical moment AlJazeera's reporting helped create awareness and support for the rising social movement.
It was "hatched" by a quarter of a century of Ben Ali's repression, of his regime slavishly following IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies, of massive unemployment and neglect of the country's interior and of a rapacious uncontrolled greed of two crude nouveau riche arrogant clans – the Ben Ali's and the Trabelsi's, who have gotten off quite lightly for the many crimes they have committed against the Tunisian people
9. A new alliance?
The more controversial part of Othman's hypothesis is that he openly credits the United States for having helped enable the Tunisian changes and doesn't really mind giving the Obama Administration credit for it. Takes a bit of courage to defend that position, and courage on Nawaat's part to publish the piece too. The argument is simply that for a moment in time, without illusions, that the needs of Tunisian democracy coincide with developing U.S. strategy in the region. Not a marriage of love, but one of convenience.
Othman makes this argument in a classically Tunisian manner. It is not out of ignorance of the overall U.S. role in the Middle East. Tunisians, of left, right or center are not stupid. Comes with being a small country! To survive you have to be brighter than bigger and frankly not very nice neighbors – Algeria and Libya. The more I watch Tunisian foreign policy, the more I am impressed by both its cosmopolitan nature and its political pragmatism. Tunisians know Washington and Obama; they understand the parameters of power under which their situation is evolving. But they also know that their close relationship with France over decades have yielded them little to nothing.
Othman speaks of France's claims of solidarity with Tunisia as being "no more than words, and essentially demogagic" ( "que la France dont les protestations d'amitié pour le peuple tunisien restent purement verbales et démagogiques"). He 's got French Tunisia policy pegged. So what does Tunisia have to lose by distancing itself from France and edging closer to the United States which is just acting, as any imperialist power would act, trying to enhance its strategic interests in the region and improve its image by befriending Tunisia?
This is not the line of reasoning of a Tunisian neo-conservative pandering to Washington instead of Paris. It is something far different from what I can understand, although it is a gamble for Tunisia rolling the dice with Washington, obviously.
Then what is it?
Practical choices for small countries are rather limited, at least within the framework of traditional world politics. Tunisia finds itself caught in the dilemma of many of the world's small countries, trapped as potential pawns in the big power game to try to figure out which way the wind is blowing and what alliances to make with the world powers that might further their national interests.
10. New direction for U.S.-Tunisian relations?
So… without the U.S. green light, the Tunisian revolution could have turned to a blood bath. In recognition of the U.S. role, Tunisia opens a new page its relations with the United States, downgrading them a bit (here let's not exaggerate too much) with Paris. On the basic premise, Othman is "on spot." Ghannouchi's "informal" invitation to the U.S. only reinforces the validity of his views. U.S.-Tunisian approaches are being coordinated. Ghannouchi was careful not to let any issue that might sidetrack the cooperation – like adding a section of the proposed constitution to complicate the relations. He has made other gestures in the direction of damage control as well.
What is important is to understand the underlying processes taking place, if only to be able to come to grips with the reality: and the reality in this case is that somewhere along the way, the United States has decided that it will cooperate with Ennadha and that there is a new U.S.-Ennadha strategic relationship in the making. Indeed it is already made.
Othman gives the Obama Administration credit for understanding Ennadha far better than the French have. The French fear it as yet another manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism masked with a cover of European liberalism. There are some Tunisians here, by the way who feel likewise. More than the French, the Obama Administration has come to understand that Ennadha represents a genuine political force in Tunisian life. Yes, it is a mixed bag and is currently experiencing some problems winning the country's trust, some of its own making I might add.
The new alliance builds on similar relations the United States has with Turkey. It shows a modicum of realism, a willingness to deal with a Middle East country more on its own terms, rather on terms dictated by Washington and as such, also is an admission of declining U.S. influence as Washington can no longer dictate Middle East policy. It needs to be more flexible to maintain its interests. It is the beginning of recognition in the U.S. administration of a need for a changed U.S. policy, perhaps too little too late – U.S. policy in the Middle East has done enormous damage already that will not be so easily undone.
Yes, there are many problems with this strategic alliance both from Tunisian and the United States point of view but in a region where the U.S. is drowning in bad and inhumane policies – contrast its support for Tunisian democracy with its policies towards much more strategically important Egypt – it is at least a glimmer of hope on an otherwise dark regional tableau.
Rob Prince is a Lecturer of International Studies at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies and publisher of the Colorado Progressive Jewish News.


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