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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Kicking the dogs when they're down
Yesterday,I picked a Herald lying around on a table while waiting for my salad with chicken and feta and this story blew me away.
For those of you outside of Boston, the two characters involved are both former Speakers of the House, both democrats, both got prosecuted for abuse of power. Tom Finneran for some kind of redistricting scheme and Sal DiMasi for taking bribes. I don't know the merits of either accusation - but both were convicted. Tom now has a radio show and Sal is awaiting sentencing.
Finneran, is a prolifer and for the most part during his tenure he did what he could to protect unborn children.
DiMasi on the other hand, was an enemy of the unborn. He didn't just rake us over the coals, he was spiteful. There is no love loss between prolifers and Sal DiMasi, but nonetheless, this article is a pathetic indictment of where the media is taking the animus and soul of our country.
The village idiots are being desensitized to innate virtues, including compassion, by pitching class warfare.
Finneran was expressing compassion for a family he observes going down the tubes. A colleague, and presumably a friend of his, struggling to pay the bills and provide for their children.
Is this some kind of etiquette on compassion I'm unaware of?
When giants fall, we are suppose to laugh at and ridicule the compassion relatives and friends express towards those who studied in school, driven to achieve, who now find themselves unable to provide for their children?
How cheap and contemptible.
Yet, Casey Anthony, a woman who killed her daughter and got away with it, is showered with affection and compassion in the press. Charlie Sheen's drug addict and pervert show is a national sensation. Murderers, drug addicts and drunks are cultural heroes of the idiot boxes in our living rooms.
I that decent, honorable people won't/don't go into politics.
I also worry about the village idiots being desensitized to innate virtues – including compassion – by pitching class warfare.
The venom is just really shocking and sad for our country.
Something's got to give.
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I'm sorry, Carol, but I gotta give a hearty ROFL:
"`Any human being feels for somebody else who's going through it,' said Finneran, now the morning-drive host on WRKO-AM (680). `You've got millions and millions of Americans who are unemployed. Most of them are desperate for work, so you feel for anybody who is in that situation and has the self-respect and the determination to stand on their own two feet and provide for their family.'"
Am I missing something? Is Sal somehow not responsible for his "unemployment?" What's this about his "self-respect?" My sides are splitting! This is the pot calling the kettle white. Mass pols never cease to amuse me with their audacity.
Felon Finneran's remark reminds me of some lady jurors' in the Menendez murder case almost 20 years ago. The Menendez brothers killed their parents. The jury couldn't convict them because some women jurors felt sorry for the boys. Why? Because they didn't have their parents anymore! Sal doesn't have a job anymore. Boo hoo??
Maybe Tom could set up a fund to take care of Sal's wife, if that's necessary. Or wait, maybe there's a 5-figure job available at the Probation Department? (For out-of-staters, the probation dept. is a place in hackville where pols hand out "jobs" to relatives.) Or maybe at the archdiocese?
- July 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM
How about this: I feel sorry for Cardinal Law because he had to leave the country of his birth; a bishop who had the self-respect and determination to protect his priests.
- July 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Oops - that's "6-figure job," not 5-figure. Sal's wife could work for 10 years and retire with full pension.
In any case, Sal's wife and step-kids get to keep his $968,300 North End condo. Life is rough.
- July 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Carol said...
I didn't know that about the Mendez jury. Goes to show how silly we can get.
I don't think that's where Finneran was coming from.
Of course DiMasi is responsible for his own predicament, but like those in prison, the compassion of those closest to the criminals relative to the consequences of to people around him... should that be laughed at?
Is that where we want to bring the culture?
Somehow, I'd rather fall on the side of understanding the emotions of people affected. You know me better than to think I'm saying we should crusade against accountability for their actions.
I'm all for accountability. I'm just saying the people close to the fall of another human being, watching the suffering and consequences - there are a boatload of emotions and the world would be a better place if we understood them, rather than laughed at them.
Do I feel sorry for Cardinal Law? Yes, I do. For a host of reasons. One, most of the people who were responsible were long gone, dead or were not held accountable. Law was just living the life of the princes lay people create.
Of all the asinine assertions in this world, the conviction that a bishop is a 'prince' rather than a martyr is at the top of my list of the vacuous ideas of class clowns of theology.
For centuries now, the people in the pews have created a culture where they protect evil. We created the monster, we contribute to it's livelihood. To this day. He just went along to get along, much like the bloats at 66 Brooks Drive creating the travelogue blogger.
- July 30, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Somehow, I'd rather fall on the side of understanding the emotions of people affected.
That's OK. Woman's prerogative. (I can still say that in public, right?)
I'll grant that The Herald takes pleasure in harping on corrupt pols, probably inordinate, probably for the wrong reasons. But apart from the paper, Finneran is his own joke, and I'm still enjoying my laugh for the day.
BTW, how's your North End condo?
- July 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Law was just living the life of the princes lay people create.
Ugh. He had 18 years in Boston. He inherited a mess, yes. But he never in 18 years got the idea that he should do the right thing?? A cardinal?? Sorry. No sympathy. None whatsoever.
- July 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Carol said...
It isn't just about inheriting a mess. It's also the lay people of the cult mentality who not just put up with, but demand the cover up of internal corruption, including the parents who wanted it hushed up. It's all well and good they come around now indignant about the cover ups, but they are the people who were right there with the brooms sweeping it all under the rugs.
That's why the Bishops go out of their way to draw the circle around themselves and the people of the cult. They go out of their way to identify people outside of it. People loyal to truth and Christ and His Church, above all.
It's one of the pathetic visions Christ saw from the Garden of Gethsemene.
We're getting off to a totally different subject!
- July 30, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Forgive me for sticking my two cents in the middle of you two, but here is something else I have noticed lately...
Has anyone else been getting "homilies" that it is wrong to criticize and not to be critical? We got one a few weeks ago. I read somewhere on the internet yesterday that someone else got a similar homily thousands of miles from me.
Anyway, don't be surprised that everything is upside down - one of Satan's calling cards.
- July 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Forgive me for sticking my two cents in the middle of you two, but here is something else I have noticed lately...
Has anyone else been getting "homilies" that it is wrong to criticize and not to be critical? We got one a few weeks ago. I read somewhere on the internet yesterday that someone else got a similar homily thousands of miles from me.
Anyway, don't be surprised that everything is upside down - one of Satan's calling cards.
- July 30, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Even the computer is upside down. I was told that I entered the wrong verification word but apparently the computer got it wrong because my entry showed up twice.
- July 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM
one of Satan's calling cards
Oh yes. Judge not. Pederasts are people, too.
It's just another rendition of "Sympathy for the Devil" -- hoo hoooo! Mick Jagger is laughing, somewhere.
- July 30, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Oooooooooh! Jerry!! Don't laugh. Here is a "Sympathy For the Devil" true story.
When I was in high school, my girlfriend and I attended our very first - guitar Mass! Guess, oh! do guess, Jerry, what our "Entrance 'Hymn'" was???????????
P.S. Too bad that didn't tip me off way back then as to who was behind the church revolution, but my friend and I were too busy doing the backround "Hoo! Hoo's!" to the song to put two and two together.
- July 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Dear Veronica,
No lie? Wow. And I thought "Let it Be" was pretty bad. Aleister Crowley would be pleased either way. Well, there's plenty of room at the Hotel California, so I've heard!
- July 30, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Jerry, who could make something like that up?
It was in the Archdiocese of Newark. They even handed out the lyrics on a sheet of paper for those who didn't know them.
"Take me to the station
And put me on a train
I've got no expectations
To pass through here again...."
Oh! I do confess - I loved that album!!
- July 30, 2011 at 3:21 PM
I blared that crowleyite trash into my head for more than a decade. Yet the Mother of God gave me a pass. So I trashed all my Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc. I haven't looked back and don't allow any of it in my house. I know what it is. I know who it is. And it's no surprise to find him at the novus ordo: "what's puzzlin' you is the nature of my game."
- July 30, 2011 at 3:42 PM
" long ago stopped reading secular newspapers and watching the news."
Me too Carol. As far as I'm concerned the MSM is the enemy.
- July 30, 2011 at 9:38 PM
" I trashed all my Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc. I haven't looked back and don't allow any of it in my house. I know what it is. I know who it is"
How do know this Jerry. Should I stop listening to Zepplin/Stones, etc?
- July 30, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- breathnach said...
I have to give a (backhanded) shout out here to David Bowie. I believe it's on his Ziggy Stardust album, he perfectly describes the ultimate goal of the Voice of the Faith(less), the Unni-ites, and all the other various and sundry "Call to Action" type "catholycs":
"The church of man, love, is such a holy place to be
..... make me know you really care
Make me jump into the air...."
- July 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM
I'd highly recommend going cold turkey and burning all Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, and all similar Crowleyite noise (most everything since the 60's). Just google "rock music crowley" to find many sources of info. The Remnant had some articles years ago, too.
Jimmy Page used Aleister Crowley's methods of "magick" to conjure the demonic world at his live shows. You don't want to submit yourself to "music" from someone who deliberately channels demons. The Stones are out, simply for their album entitled "Their Satanic Majesties Request," and their submission to Crowley. The Beatles put Crowley's photo in Sgt. Pepper, were rather blatantly anti-Catholic (Lennon especially), promoted drugs and eastern mysticism. I could go on and on.
The message is invariably sex, drugs, rock-n-roll. It is intended to reduce your natural inhibitions to sinful behavior. The rhythm, tonal progressions, volume, and frenzy are all designed to get inside you and set a hook. For example, if I ever hear Clapton, Page, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc., I feel it inside regardless of the volume. The imprint and effect are strong and emotive, and haven't faded much even after 20 years of freedom from it. But that's exactly what it's supposed to do to you.
The pull is away from Jesus and Mary. There can be no contemplative life for one who indulges his appetite on that noise. It will strangle the means of grace.
Give it up. Pray the Rosary every day. You have my prayers.
- July 30, 2011 at 11:11 PM
Thanks Jerry, I will pray about this. I believe you.
I heard about Page' affiliation in the Satanic .. I also enjoy Black Sabbeth/ ACDC too :(
I was looking at their song listings on wiki, almost every song is about sex, drugs, satan, hell. That music when it's played does draw one to want to start parting and do drugs.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:30 AM
Satanist Jimmy Page purchased Aleister Crowley's mansion and was deeply involved in the satanic and occult abyss. Likewise David Bowie in the 70s, his albums are littered with allusions to Crowley, kabbalistic practices etc. While a zonked out cocaine fiend in the 70s he believed Page had placed a curse on him and resorted to "white witchcraft" etc. etc. etc.
At university (in the 80s) I researched for the Catholic chaplaincy on this subject. I agree with Jerry, this stuff needs to be expunged from the devout Catholics environment.
- July 31, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Thanks, Hesketh.
There's another aspect of the pop music scene that, in my opinion, makes it all the more dangerous today. This is digital high-fidelity recording intended for intra-cranial delivery, e.g., iPod with ear buds. In the 70's we had OK recordings and usually listened via loudspeakers. Nowadays most folks consign 100% of their auditory faculty to the siren song, shutting out the rest of the world. They get intimately connected, hearing every detail with full fidelity. They are wide open to suggestions implanted even at a subtle whisper level. You can be sure that Crowleyites take full advantage of this medium to more completely manipulate their adherents.
- July 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM
I agree that the music should be trashed, and it hasn't improved over the decades. The music today is worse.
But I do have a soft spot still for the Moody Blues up to and incuding their "Seventh Sojourn" album.
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Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, whole grain wheat, poultry by-product meal, whole grain corn, pea bran, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), fish meal, natural flavors, dicalcium phosphate, egg product, hydrolyzed sunflower oil, salt, potassium chloride, potassium citrate, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), manganese sulfate, niacin, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, copper sulfate, biotin, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.
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Inadequate meat content, by-products, use of low quality grains and fat.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, but since this is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food. There is a further meat product in the food, fish meal 9th on the ingredient list but this is too low to make up a substantive portion of the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
The next three ingredients are all low quality grains. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and by-product. The next ingredient is corn, which is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food. In it's gluten form, it is also a waste product for which the AAFCO definition is "the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm". Corn appears further on the ingredient list at 6th.
The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is another ingredient we prefer not to see used at all in dog food.
The next ingredient is by-products, of unidentifiable source. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of poultry by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.
Pea bran is filler and beef tallow is a very low quality fat obtained from the tissue of cattle in the commercial process of rendering.
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Pearl Barber bought Sans Souci, a waterfront estate in Rossford, from candymaker John Hoffman for less than $50,000 in 1920.
Part one of 14
From the deep dark recesses of a long forgotten second floor loft, across the street from Toledo's red-light district, laughter mingled with the sounds of a slightly out of tune piano. The music drifting across the wet snowflakes fused together to obscure the shadows that played obliquely on the gritty windows.
As he covered his beat, Policeman Louie Haas' footsteps had long since disappeared, swept away by the snowstorm that was raging through Toledo's downtown. The windows of Pearl Barber's gambling room were barely visible as he sought shelter across the street in the doorway of Melcher's liquor store.
His superiors had ordered him to look after street walkers and gamblers, and Louie Haas was good at his job. Gambling, liquor, and women waited at the top of the stairs as Haas watched several of Toledo's finest mingle with the residents of Toledo's downtown red-light district. Society's high and low merged into one as they climbed the wide staircase to Pearl Barber's willing embrace.
Signaling the police for the raid, Haas had seen enough as he made his way across Monroe Street to Barber's second-floor loft. After the arrests and bookings, Haas walked down the deserted hallway to the isolated sergeant's desk in the roll-call room. Weary and cold, Haas reduced the night of March 20, 1915, to a few lines in his battered personal log.
Reported for duty at 1 PM out at 2:30 PM. General street duty till 7 PM. Went to 1923 Canton Street on complaint of gambling, found none. At 10:30 PM went to 606 1/2 Monroe Street and arrested Pearl Barber for running a gambling room, and Reed Holland & J. Scham, George Victor, Charles Gray [colored] Theo Thomas, George Conty, Richard Patterson, Paul Janeska, Harry Johnson, Louis Harra, Israel Dixon, W. P. Davis, Mike Jarvis, Harley Smith, George Bladden, Con Moore, W.L. Wales, John Rikus, Christ Pappas for gambling. Off at 12 AM.
This wasn't Pearl Barber's first brush with the law and it wouldn't be his last as he continued to dominate a growing segment of Toledo's gambling community.
October 3, 1870, and King's Switch, Ohio, was in the distant past as Pearl's friends thought about his rise from the abject poverty that pervaded the black community, to the life that he was now enjoying at Sans Souci, his waterfront estate adjacent to the affluent Eagle Point Colony in Rossford.
Pearl was 26 when he first visited Toledo and was captivated by an Irish dressmaker that he had met in her mother's saloon on Canton Avenue. It was almost a year before Anna M. Dildine consented to become his wife, and that was only after he had earned the respect of her brother, Edward A. Dildine. Together they operated a saloon and caf across from her mother's place on Canton Avenue in 1897 until his wife's untimely death.
Several times a year while having a drink at his favorite saloon, Pearl Barber would invite his friends to join him. They would lock the doors of the tavern for a private party, and enjoy every vice that the inn had to offer. At the end of the gathering Pearl Barber would pick up the tab.
Newspapers reported that one evening Pearl Barber placed $2,000 dollars on the bar of one of Toledo's best Superior Street establishments, invited his friends to join him, and drank champagne till sunrise or the saloon ran out of the bubbly. Pearl was well liked by both races and moved freely between the two, but Toledo's tolerance had boundaries and did not extend to everyone.
Ignoring the social conventions of the day, Pearl married Haidee Blanche Myers, a white woman from Lindsey, Ohio, sometime between 1900 and 1912. They moved their residence to 524 Southard, between 12th and Canton.
Retaining his ties with the Irish Dildines and the black community, Pearl moved easily between the wide gulfs of social prejudices that marked the country. However, the community's overt discrimination invaded their life when they attempted to rent a home in an exclusive Cherry Street neighborhood and were forced out.
Pearl responded to Toledo's overt housing discrimination in 1920 by purchasing candy maker John Hoffman's riverfront estate, Sans Souci, in Rossford, Ohio.
John Hoffman, president of the Hoffman Confectionery Company in Toledo, explained " that the expansion of Rossford industry and the influx of immigrants prompted the sale." Continuing with his explanation, Hoffman said "Barber paid spot cash and even offered to buy the property adjoining which is owned and occupied by a widow, but she has indicated she has no intention of moving."
But the reality of the sale of Sans Souci might be closer to the prejudice that Hoffman faced from his neighbors, or perhaps the sale was nothing more than the satisfaction of a gambling debt.
According to the newspapers of the day " John Hoffman was the object of scorn among his neighbors at River View, adjacent to the Eagle Point, because of his purported pro-German sympathies." Coupling his World War I open pro-German sympathies with his dislike of Rossford's " influx of immigrants ," Hoffman may have thought that the sale of Sans Souci to Pearl Barber was one last insult to his neighbors who had the temerity to disagree with his perceptions.
But the truth of the sale may be a combination of perceived discrimination and a gambling debt. John Hoffman's confectionery business and Pearl Barber's gambling establishment were just around the corner from each other, and Hoffman was quoted as saying "Sans Souci is worth nearly $75,000, but that Barber paid less than $50,000 . Barber paid spot cash. "
With the arrival of the twentieth century and riding the crest of Toledo's economic boom, Pearl moved his saloon from Canton Avenue to Erie Street between Jefferson and Madison, and added gambling to the saloon's beer, food, and whiskey. Noticing that the community's attitudes towards beer and liquor were slowly changing, Pearl obtained a charter from the City of Toledo to open a private club that would be immune from the prohibition laws that were slowly sweeping across the county.
When prohibition became the law, he was able to ignore the politicians and the bribes that they demanded by operating the Young Men's Social Club in strict compliance with the regulations demanded by Toledo's charter.
Well-read, mannered, and cultured, Pearl Barber and his wife Haidee traveled extensively throughout North and South America and Europe, where they would be royally entertained.
The Barbers' first recorded trip to England was in 1912 and their last was in 1930. When the Barbers arrived at their destination, two chauffeur-driven automobiles with the family's coat of arms skillfully painted on the door would be waiting for them. The first automobile would be for Pearl and Haidee, and the second would be for their Hungarian maid, Julia Tanaba, and their handmade luggage.
Pearl Barber would often be mistaken for an East Indian prince and was not known to correct that impression. While traveling in South America he would assume the role of a wealthy Brazilian coffee merchant. Barber also traveled first class and always stayed in the best hotels and ate in the best restaurants.
Barber was known in the gambling circles throughout the world, especially in horse-racing tracks where his carefully selected horses always won. Well-dressed, Pearl was known to carry a gold-headed cane in the afternoon and a curved hand-carved ivory cane in the evening.
It all ended late Friday night, November 21, 1930, when Pearl Barber left his chartered Young Men's Social Club and headed for his gambling house in the 600 block of Monroe Street, between Huron and Erie Streets.
The roadster was cold as the winds of November swept through Toledo. The heritage of his custom $12,000 car was apparent as Pearl shifted naturally through the gears. Another hour or so and he would be in his Rossford home, relaxing in front of the den's fireplace, surrounded by the literary classics and fine art, recapping the day's events with his wife, Haidee Blanche.
At about the same time that Pearl left his Monroe Street gambling house, a Detroit Avenue man, after having a few drinks, was leaving a Rossford pool room.
As the man traveled east on Miami Street weaving from lane to lane, the police said that Pearl didn't have a chance in avoiding the head-on collision that followed. Bystanders pulled Pearl from the twisted wreckage and rushed him to the East Side Hospital.
Doctors admitted Pearl with two broken legs, a fractured skull, crushed chest, and other internal injuries. Pearl's luck held till his wife, Haidee, was with him.
Haidee had Pearl placed in a bronze casket and taken to Sans Souci, their home of over 10 years.
Positioned in his den amongst his books and art, mourners from all walks of life came to pay their respects. Flowers and tributes filled their home as the Rev. Walter P. Stanley of the All Saints' Episcopal Church read the service. With leaders from both communities as pall bearers, Pearl was placed in a vault in Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery on November 24, 1930, and three weeks later was buried at Forest Cemetery.
Writer Elmer Williams wrote Pearl's obituary in Toledo's News-Bee: "Pearl Barber did not talk or make idle gossip; he kept his word and was extremely loyal to his friends. He had no time for his enemies, and had the courage to tell them so. In death, Barber wore that same ineradicable look of disdain he always had given society, whether it was a society that accepted him or shunned him. There he was, Pearl Barber, a man who believed himself a gentleman and a scholar."
For almost 30 years Pearl weathered the social and business discrimination that he encountered every day by believing in himself and his abilities, and when his wife, Haidee, died two years later, Pearl was moved to be with her in the Lindsey, Ohio, family plot.
TODAY: Licavolis' River Gang makes its move from Detroit to ToledoDay one of this series will be on toledoblade.com. For days 2-14, go to print versions of The Blade.


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HiltonSportsMassage needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
I am establishing a Sports Massage Business in Perth Western Australia. The suburb is Hilton hence the name "Hilton Sports Massage". I want to use the logo for the signage around the shop, business cards as well the new web page I will be launching.
Hilton Sports Massage
I am very open to new ideas so not really sure what I want. I have been massaging for about ten years and am qualified in this field. Have been working from home mostly as well as some coroprate, mobile and sports events. I am quite athletic and am a keen swimmer and surfer. This is my fisrt big venture into business where I have had to take on a lease etc I work for the Government in the welfare area and have just gone part time so I can devote more time to my massage work. I have regular clients and they have all given me very positive feed back.
- Item 1...definitely predominately blue in colour, possibly background. I like the darker blue rather than the pale blues. Not too dark though. Rich sky blue. Blue background with white lettering stands out I have noticed but not fixed on this possibly gold, black, shades of blue. Pastel colours. Softer colours for massaging.
- Item 2 Could have a logo depicting athletes stick figures or something else snazzy I am thinking triathlon - Running, Swimming and Cycling
- Item 3 Should have "Hilton Sports Massage" somewhere
- Item 1...Not reds or greens in Logo
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Holy Ghost Lutheran Church "Helping Hands" and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans are sponsoring two events to benefit Judi Jagow, a resident of Bergholz, who has cancer.
A BW's chicken and rib dinner will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Holy Ghost Lutheran School, located at 6630 Luther St., Bergholz.
A high tea also will be held, but tickets are sold out for that event. Proceeds from both events will be used to help defray Jagow's rising medical expenses.
Sunday's dinner will feature a quarter chicken, ribs, salt potatoes, baked beans, salad, and homemade desserts. Tickets for the dinner are $11 and will be sold in advance at the church office or by calling 716-731-3030.
Donations are gratefully accepted. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will supplement funds raised including donations. Checks can be made payable to Holy Ghost Lutheran Church.
Judi Jagow was born and raised in North Tonawanda and moved to Bergholz approximately 38 years ago to raise a family. She was employed for 22 years by Dr. Subash Ramchand who recently died, leaving Judi unemployed. In the summer of 2012, Judi underwent a single mastectomy for breast cancer and, several months later, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy and spinal infusions. She is currently a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in North Tonawanda, although she had been a member at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church for many years.


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Congrats to Chris and Claudio!!! Just heard they will both bypass development and go directly to TV. I know this is speculative from a spotty source:
http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/headlines ... __Ryde.php
If it's true, you guys deserve mad respect for the work you've put in around the country at all the independent shows. Please come back to DDT4 2012!!!
Again congratulations!


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When the Alabama legislative session ended on May 15, 2009, House Bill 300, the so-called Academic Freedom Act, died in committee.
When the Missouri legislative session ended on May 15, 2009, House Bill 656 died, without ever having been assigned to a committee.
Among those honored in 2009 by the American Institute for Biological Sciences for their outstanding contributions to the biological sciences were three members of NCSE.
NCSE recently offered its advice on ways the federal government can promote and protect scientific integrity.
A teacher's description of creationism as "superstitious nonsense" was ruled to violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by a federal judge in a decision in C. F. et al. v. Capistrano Unified School District et al., issued on May 1, 2009.
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Beast needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
I am a real estate entrepreneur with a passion for training and teaching others how buy and sell real estate creatively!
My audience is people who want to learn the "how to's" of creative real estate investing by watching my training videos on various topics.
The tag line gives you some idea of what I am looking for which is - -Unleash Your Inner Real Estate "Beast"
I am looking for something with a "beast" like logo that incorporates the real estate topic. I am looking for something that stands out and is creative.
The logo is going on a Wordpress website (http://www.realestatebeast.com) and is being placed at the top of the website. Please see the website to get an idea.
I would also like to use this design for a header/footer graphic on a squeeze page. Not sure if this is possible and this is not top priority.
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A university that offers more than just a place to earn a degree. Learning that takes you out of the classroom and into the real world. Professors who are as concerned with ensuring a solid foundation for your life as they are building your résumé. An education that has the potential to impact you — and the world. Welcome to Palm Beach Atlantic University, Florida's top Christian college.
Come stop by or see a virtual tour of our admissions office below. See all Virtual Tour Videos
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"This is a place that allows you to grow, make decisions and to be challenged. That's why I chose it as an undergraduate and why I stayed to do graduate work."
-- Rodrigo Venegas, MBA, alumnus, Guatemala City, Guatemala


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Casey Anthony Sued By Prisoner Who Claims He's Caylee's Dad!
The inmate wants a DNA test to prove he fathered Caylee. He's also seeking compensation from Casey over the toddler's death.
The identity of Caylee's dad has never been revealed. Casey Anthony claims he died in a car crash in 2008, but her dad George and brother Lee have BOTH been DNA tested to establish if they fathered the tragic tot. The test showed neither was the father.
Christopher Umberger, currently locked up in a prison in South Carolina, has yet to offer any evidence to back up his claim, reports the New York Post, but he filed legal papers to show he's serious.
Surely it's time Casey ended all the doubt and speculation and revealed the real identity of her late daughter's dad!
What do you think, HollyMoms?
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Brad Vrudney needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 390 designs submitted by 86 freelance designers.
Streetsboro Lawn, http://www.streetsborolawn.com, although will be expanding to other locals soon
A Quality based, full service lawn and landscape company that has been taking care of its customers' outdoor needs for years. We offer services for hardscape, soft cape, lawn and tree fertilization, snow plowing and more. We pride ourselves on our customer service. Residential or commercial
High end local accounts for residential and commercial. We want to expand our customer base and geographic reach, and continue to use our marketing efforts to make existing customers aware of other services we provide.
Looking for an easily recognized logo to establish brand recognition. We prefer a logo containing bold and distinct colors such as red, but also want it to lend some familiarity to traditional lawn and landscape design, using earth-tone colors such as green and brown. We are looking for a flowing design that doesn't use hard edges, and would fit well on a circular sign. (the design itself does not need to be a circle however).
The brand symbol should be able to exist independent from the company name, as we want to grow this into new markets over time and create local web site portals while strengthening the corporate brand.
The overall tone of the brand and logo is: Professional but not formal, approachable and trustworthy.
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Disrespectful: Slick Pulla (Of CTE) Cousin Goes To Grocery Store & Stomps On Waka Flock'as Magazine Cover! "I Put The Black Eye On This B*tch"
They are signed to prestige entertainment, Slick Pulla's imprint
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Francesca Eastwood: Miss Golden Globe 2013!
Francesca Eastwood is pretty in pink while being crowned the 2013 Miss Golden Globe on Thursday (November 29) at Cecconi's Restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 19-year-old daughter of Clint Eastwood was joined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's president Aida Takla-O'Reilly and last year's Miss Golden Globe, Gia Mantegna.
"Francesca comes from a very talented family and we are delighted to have her be our Miss Golden Globe," Aida said. "She is a budding actress and is a great addition as we celebrate the show's 70th anniversary."
Miss Golden Globe, who is traditionally the child of a celebrity, assists on stage during the Golden Globes ceremony.
You may recognize Francesca from her reality show Mrs. Eastwood and Company. She made frequent appearances on the show with her boyfriend, photographer Tyler Shields.
FYI: Francesca wore a Jay Godfrey dress and accessorized with a Stark clutch and Rene Caovilla heels. Gia is wearing a Nasty Gal gown.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Francesca Eastwood as the Miss Golden Globe choice?


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Almora is a hill station in Uttarakhand State.
Almora, a town of about 30 thousand, is situated in the Kumaon mountains of the Himalayas in eastern Uttarakhand. Most of the town is situated on a crescent shaped mountain about 5km long, and most of it is above 6000 feet. Unlike Shimla, Ranikhet and Nainital which were developed by the English, Almora is a hill station totally developed by the Indians.
The town itself is your usual crowded hilltown in northern India, but the natural beauty around is astounding. Almora is also called a town of temples. Situated in the centre of the town is the temple of Goddess Nanda Devi. The mountain is visible from the nearby areas as well.
Almora is an agricultural base and also a trade centre.
Get in
By train The town is served by the Kathgodam station, which is located 35 kms away from the town. Taxis charge Rs 600 to Almora. You can also share a cab at Rs 125 per person. Most hotels will arrange for a pick up on prior request, Rs 700-1000. The station handles 46 express trains per week.
BAGH EXP (daily) - Dep. Howrah 2145 Arr. 0935 - 2 nights SAMPARK KRANTI EXP (daily) - Dep. Delhi Jn 1600 Arr. 2245 - 7 hours RANIKHET EXP (daily) - Dep. Delhi Jn 2245 Arr. 0500 - 1 night DEHRADUN KATHGODAM EXP (Wed, Sun) - Dep. 2230 Arr. 0725 - 1 night [edit] By road There are daily bus services from Delhi. The buses leave from ISBT Anand Vihar and are run by Uttarakhand Roadways. Driving to Almora takes 10 to 12 hours. From Delhi, it's highway driving throughout. NH 24 connects Delhi to Rampur via Hapur. At Rampur, turn and head north on NH 87 all the way upto Almora. En-route halts include the Wonderland, Rwy crossing, Moradabad and The Kaichi temple, Kaichi. [edit] By plane Contrary to popular belief, flying into Almora is the fastest way to reach the hill station. Almora is served by PantNagar Airport, located about 4 hours away. It is served only by Jagson airlines. It is one of the least busy airports in the country, handling only 6 scheduled flights a week.
JA 101 - Dep. Delhi 1315 Arr. PantNagar 1415 (Mon, Wed, Fri) JA 102 - Dep. Delhi 1445 Arr. PantNagar 1545 (Mon, Wed, Fri) FARE - Rs 2250/$ 90 for adults, Rs 1400/$ 55 for children. Taxi fare is around Rs 1200-1500.
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Chitai Temple just 8 km from city, Kasar Devi to have a great look of city.
Woolen garments.
Bal Mithai, a famous sweet of Almora.
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Wireless hardware manufacturers have made installing and configuring new access points and routers pretty simple, for both consumer and enterprise devices. This ease of installation can lull the inexperienced tech into a false sense of security and lead them to make mistakes during configuration.
Whether you're installing a wireless access point in a home, small office, or large building, following a few best practices can make the difference between a reasonably secure network and one that screams "hack me now!"
During this week's TR Dojo episode, I discuss five blatant security mistakes to avoid when deploying a new wireless access point.
Check out the following TR Dojo episodes for more security tips:
- Configure wireless network settings via Group Policy
- Give your old Wi-Fi router new life with open source firmware
- Wi-Fi thief's tale reminds IT to enforce home office security
- How to spoof a MAC address
- Five tips for improving Linux security
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Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.


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5 Inspiring & Impressive Indoor Treehouses
Summer is winding down, which means most of us are going to be spending a lot more time indoors. For those with kids, that also means finding creative ways to entertain them, and what could possibly be cooler than an indoor treehouse?
Granted, a project like this might be a lofty undertaking — but I'm pretty sure you would be elevated to rockstar parental status! And while I might be sans kids, I've visited the treehouse in Mollusk Surf Shop, and I really want one too!
1. From The Slow Life, an indoor treehouse bed.
2. From Visi, a workplace treehouse in Johannesburg, South Africa.
3. From Bla Fre, a toy cabin in Ekeberg, Norway.
4. From A Geek with Pom-poms, another fabulous example of a treehouse bed.
5. From Lloyd Architects, a treehouse in a private home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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U.S. Extends Embassy Closures on Security Concerns
Widespread U.S. embassy closures and travel alerts prompted by al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen show how the group has proved stubbornly resilient despite more than two years of American strikes against its leaders. Jay Solomon explains. Photo: Getty Images.
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LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 17293 / January 2, 2002
SEC v. Jerry A. Womack, Civil Action No. 01-1037 DOC (RCx) (C.D. Cal.).
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") announced today that, on December 17, 2001, the Honorable David O. Carter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted the Commission's motion for entry of default judgment and entered a Final Judgment Of Permanent Injunction And Other Relief Against Jerry A. Womack ("Final Judgment"). Womack is enjoined from violating the registration and antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws, specifically Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and Sections 206(1) and (2) of the Investment Advisers Act. Under the terms of the Final Judgment, Womack is also required to pay disgorgement in the amount of $18,993,869.06, plus prejudgment interest, and a civil penalty in the amount of $110,000.
In November 2000, the Commission charged Womack with committing securities fraud in offering and selling $19 million in securities to about 400 investors nationwide between August 1997 and June 1999. Womack represented to investors that he would invest their money in the stock market pursuant to an investment strategy that he claimed to have developed and used successfully called the "Womack Dow Principle." He also represented to investors that, to implement his Womack Dow Principle, he had retained traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Additionally, Womack represented to investors that the trading activity was yielding profitable results.
In fact, Womack utilized only about a quarter of the investors' money for securities trading and suffered a net loss on that trading. Womack misused the majority of investor funds for personal and unrelated expenses and to pay some investors their purported profits and principal. Among other things, Womack used the funds to purchase homes, real property, artwork, jewelry and cars and to pay for his honeymoon, for cosmetic surgery for his wife and for his divorce settlement.
In May 2001, Womack was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a criminal proceeding before the United States District Court for the Central District of California, arising out of the same facts as the Commission's case. He is currently in custody and awaiting sentencing.


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DailyDirt: What's That In Your Food?
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
- If you can't pronounce azodicarbonamide, then you probably don't think it should be in your food (or yoga mats, either). But the dose makes the poison, right? So, <45 ppm shouldn't be too bad. [url]
- Large food companies regularly re-formulate their products to tailor them to local markets, but the differences in ingredients lists for the UK versus the US sound a little disconcerting. Some ingredients are banned as food additives in other countries, but in the US, they're just fine... /ominous music [url]
- New food additives are increasingly coming from natural sources. Natural sources for blue food coloring aren't easy to come by, but there's an FDA-approved extract from a cyanobacteria that's blue. [url]


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2005-02-25 / Opinion
The Gates are open, but not for long
The Gates, the open-air public art presentation in Central Park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude will become part of history after this weekend. The 7,500, 16-foot gates with their bright orange saffron-colored fabric drapes have been up since February 12 and cost the artists approximately $21 million.
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"I wanted to be a doctor," said Batashi, a 13-year-old girl with an infectious smile, "But I had to leave school after class 3, there was no one else to look after my brothers."
I met Batashi on a muggy afternoon in Korail, the largest slum in Dhaka city. Nestled in the shadows of the city's glitzy condo buildings, Korail is home to 16,000 families that cram into just .25 square kilometers. Driven from their rural homes by poverty, about 500,000 people – roughly the population of Washington DC – migrate to the city each year.
This makes Dhaka one of the fastest growing cities in the world – a dubious honor for an already overstretched city. It is estimated that by 2030, close to 100 million people – almost half the population of Bangladesh – will be living in urban areas. Many of these migrants will inevitably end up in slums like Korail.
Life in the slums is not easy for children like Batashi. They spend their days tending to younger siblings and sick family members; gathering firewood to cook meals, or fetching potable water (no mean feat in Korail, where water is often controlled by local thugs). Many are forced into menial jobs to help make ends meet for their families. Burdened with adult responsibilities at a young age, schooling often takes a back seat.
For the children that can go to schools, access is another challenge. BRAC produced a handy map of Korail, which does a great job visualizing the distribution of schools in the area (they only found 42 schools and 10 madrasas for the entire slum).
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These inequities lead to dishearteningly low education outcomes. Only 58 percent of slum inhabitants over the age of 12 can read or write. Since a literate parent is one of the strongest factors behind a child going to school, it comes as no surprise that slum children are 2.5 times more likely to be excluded from school than the national average.
The implications are clear – we will not attain universal access to education if children continue to fall through the cracks.
Hard To Reach, But Not Impossible
Despite impressive strides in overall enrollment in Bangladesh, about 5 million children (between the ages of 6 and 14) still remain out of school. The poorest children are the hardest to reach – those coming from the poorest quintile are 12 percent more likely to be out of school. Many miss enrolling at the right age, some can't afford books or transport, and others are forced to drop out to support their families.
NGOs such as BRAC have already stepped up efforts to deliver services in slum areas. The urban slum survey found higher rates of enrollment for children that live near NGO schools, particularly at the secondary level.
Building on this momentum, the Reaching Out of School Children II project, which currently provides second chance education to rural children, will be piloting its model in Dhaka's slums. To cater to the needs of working children, 'Ananda Schools' (or schools of joy) will deliver an accelerated curriculum during flexible school hours, and aim to eventually integrate them into the mainstream education system. Targeted education stipends will attempt to ease the financial burden on poor families, a program that has proved successful in the past. A rigorous impact evaluation will also test what works, what doesn't, and help guide future expansion of the program.
Bangladesh at a Crossroads
Today, a third of the Bangladeshi population is below the age of 15. A youth bulge can be full of promise. It can spur economic growth by increasing the share of working population, lowering dependency ratios, and more importantly, injecting dynamism into an economy – all key to Bangladesh's middle-income country aspirations.
Whether the democratic dividend becomes a demographic liability now hangs on how we invest in our youth, including our most vulnerable.
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please try to make facilities
please try to make facilities so that these uneducated/lower educated people can be a technical man/woman. Thus they can survive by searching a job or be a small business man.
Hello, great article. I am a
Hello, great article. I am a British-Bangladeshi lawyer in London. I am interested in what Brac stands for and is doing. would really like to meet Sir Fazle Abed or other senior directors of BRAC with a view to collaboration or help.
Mabruk, the programme may
Mabruk, the programme may also wish to consider access to technical and vocational training for out of school youth (age 16-25), who may be living in Korail, and be at a stage where entering the formal education system may not be their best bet.
You may also find it useful to explore the work of the Punjab Education Foundation in Pakistan, on financing education service delivery.
Thanks for your comment
Thanks for your comment Arsalan. We are piloting a pre-vocational training program for slightly older out-of-school youth as well, which will be rigorously evaluated. I will definitely look into the Punjab program. Cheers!
I stumbled into this article
I stumbled into this article by Mabruk Kabir which is very impressive. Our organization DoPeace.org is small with the sole purpose of educating the slum children. So far we have 17,500 children in our educational system in Dhaka, Saidpur, Rangpur, and Chittagong. We want to do more and are looking for support for our work. Congratulations Kabir for bringing awareness about slum children in Dhaka.


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Don your loincloth, polish your bastard sword, and get ready to invade Germany as Funcom announces their plans for Age of Conan at next week's Games Convention in Leipzig. They'll be showing off new locations, new content, and new features of their massively-multiplayer swords & sorcery title during live stage shows at the convention, with Blue Orb on hand to show players how to work the game with a gamepad and the TripleHead2Go guys granting hands-on time with the game on a three-screen setup. There's also loot to be had in the form of free game trials, limited edition game DVDs, and inflatable swords - because giving out real swords would have been pricey, and things would have gotten ugly rather quickly.
They'll also be showing off features of the DirectX version of the game behind closed doors to members of the press. Hopefully I'll get a chance to slip inside one of the sessions while I'm in Germany next week to see what's what. Hit the jump for full details on Conan's German invasion.
DirectX10 Features in Age of Conan Exclusively Revealed at Games Convention
- New Locations, Content and Features to Be Revealed for Both Press and Consumers at the Show -
- Thousands of Exclusive Give-Aways, Including Free Trial Accounts and Limited Edition Game DVDs -
DURHAM, N.C.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Conan is invading this year's Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. Funcom and Eidos invite everyone to come join the festivities at his majesty's outpost located at stand B10 in Hall 5. Behind the tall walls of the King's fortress press and gamers alike can play the game, meet and chat with the developers, collect amazing give-aways and observe live stage shows where Funcom will reveal and demonstrate brand new and never-before-seen locations, content and features that will be put into the recently launched massively multiplayer online game 'Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures' in the months ahead.
"We are very pleased with the tremendously successful launch that we had," says Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Funcom, Morten Larssen. "But this is where the real journey starts for 'Age of Conan'. In the months ahead we will be putting a lot of effort into expanding and improving on the game, and we look forward to using the Games Convention to unveil some of the locations, content and features we have in the pipeline."
During the live stage shows Funcom will present new locations, content and features coming to 'Age of Conan'. Blue Orb Inc. will also be present to demonstrate how you can use their software to play 'Age of Conan' with a gamepad, while the guys behind 'TripleHead2Go' have prepared a machine with a three screen setup so that gamers can come and play 'Age of Conan' in all its unprecedented visual glory using cutting-edge technology. Funcom will also be giving away exciting loot such as the legendary inflatable swords and free trial accounts together with limited edition DVDs containing the entire game. This is the first time Funcom hands out free trials and the supply is limited, so we encourage you to make your way to Conan's outpost as soon as possible!
Behind closed doors members of the press will also be treated to a presentation of exclusive DirectX10 features, technology that will add even more power to the spectacular graphics featured in the game. Press interested in attending these presentations should contact Funcom, but please note that seating is very limited at this point.
'Age of Conan' launched in May this year and immediately topped sales charts around the world. It has received more than thirty magazine covers and more than fifteen major awards, including numerous "Best MMO of E3" awards and the "Best Online Game of Show" award at GC 2007. The game has received numerous glowing reviews, including a 9.4 score from US website GameZone. 'Age of Conan' is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as a showcase title for nVidia thanks to its jaw-dropping graphics.
For more information on the game and instructions on how to order your copy today, visit www.ageofconan.com.
Funcom looks forward to seeing everyone at the Games Convention - we will be at stand B10 in Hall 5!


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Letters (not) published in The Write Lines, the famous letters page that arrives from parts other publications won't acknowledge to exist
Dear Editor
Like all heimishe yieden everywhere I was overwhelmed by hakoras hatov for the dedicated chosheve askonim who have made available the kosher dictionary. I immediately went out to the Hill to get one so that my children ke"h should no longer cholilo come across posule words when doing their homework. (Mentioning homework reminds me of the letter I wrote last year about the geferleche load of homework the girls are given so that they can't help their mothers in the evening, but now I am writing about something else.)
I had barely sat down to browse the new dictionary when I landed on my behind after noticing the word 'bum'. I didn't chas v'sholem go looking for such words but it literally stuck itself in my face. Luckily my children were not yet home so I could stick the pages together because oi lorosho v'oi lishcheino and I can't bear my children knowing other words that are tome from sitting so close to that disgusting word. But it made me realise that, like lettuce, how important it is to check even something with a hechsher. If rachmone litzlon that word crept in who knows what else might chas v'cholilo have been overlooked.
I am mamesh trembling with shock after searching a bit deeper at some of the words the Rabbonim didn't get to notice. I know I must be careful at the words I use in your publication which spreads yiros shomayim and ruchniyes to our kehille but it is equally important that parents are not chas vesholem nichshel. I ask those with heilige oigen to please look away but how can we tolerate our teiere neshomelech looking up words like 'butt', 'buttock', 'bottom' and 'breast'? I am ashamed to say this but even the word 's-x' was not taken out. What kind of chinuch are we giving to our precious kinderlech by including such miese verter? My father olev hasholem would wash our mouths with soap if we mentioned much more eidele words and here we have the worst possible words noch with a hechsher!
I immediately called my husband who told me not to do anything until he comes home from koilel because it's a sha'le if you must put it in sheimos as it has a hechsher or whether you are allowed to burn it because of those words. He agreed absolutely that such a book has no place in a yiddishe shtib and we must be so careful not to fall into the hechsher trap. I can now understand how meat from the same hechsher came to be transported with dovor acher after seeing those chazerishe words in a book certified by a lemehadrin authority.
What I think is even more shameful is that I saw in the Tribune by my friend's house (we don't buy beshite any papers) that Rabbonim who are fluent in English went over this dictionary before giving it a hechsher. First of all are such Rabbonim really suitable for us erliche yieden? And second of all how can we now trust a rov if we know he has sifted through all this shmutz? Maybe that's why there is no haskome because even the Rabbonim were ashamed that they had to read such treifene books. And third of all maybe that's why they left in all those words and it's a simen they can't even talk such good English. They for sure can't talk French because they left 'lingerie' lying about in full view of the boys and rachmone litzlon even 'thong' was stuck in. Do they know the achrayus of publishing such a book? No wonder so many children are going off the derech if their precious neshomolech get to see such tomene words.
But I don't want to be nichshel with loshen hore and rechilus and also we must be dan lekaf zechus. The Rabbonim did include 'spank', beat', 'pinch', 'smack' and 'hit'. Boruch Hashem the Scrooges shlito also remembered to leave out 'Christmas' and even had the seichel to cut out 'fossil'. But couldn't they also remove 'evolution'? Isn't there enough kfiro that we need some more with the best hechsher in the world?
I also hoped at least they would include some heimishe English words like cheder, yeshive and shiduch. No wonder those chachomim from Oxford were so nispoel of the request for such a dictionary (besides that they required the cost of 2000 copies to be underwritten). The Rabbonim allowed them to teach our children narishe words like 'lugubrious' and 'rumbustious' which no one will anyway ever use but were ashamed to allow Hashem and mezuze? The Tribune thinks it was a kidush Hashem but it's really a huge chilul Hashem if you can't include 'God' and not even 'G-d'!
May we be zoiche to kedushe and to be nitzel from all the nisyoines that today's dor produces even with a hechsher.
A Dedicated Yiddishe Mame
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I heard rachmone litzlon that some children have developed a new game where they have to guess words and then look it up in the kosher dictionary. If the word's in they lose a point and if it's out they gain a point. My eyes are filled with tears writing this that such a michshoil could come out from a koshere dictionary and the musar haskeil is to avoid using Rabbonim who can speak English which boruch hashem is not so bad by us.
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The History of The Hobbit
|The History of The Hobbit
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The History of The Hobbit is an upcoming publication set to be released in two parts in May and June of 2007 by Harper Collins, and a boxed set in the U.S. in September by Houghlin Mifflin. Each volume contains 480 pages and includes unpublished manuscripts and drafts by J.R.R. Tolkien. The work presents an extensive study on the early development of The Hobbit, and also details how Tolkien made revisions to the story to accommodate the events in The Lord of the Rings. The Houghlin Mifflin boxed set will also include a new edition of The Hobbit with a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien's own drawings and color illustrations, including the rare "Mirkwood" piece. **
- "The big project, which I've been working on for years and will finally be sending to the publisher near the end of this year, is a book called The History of The Hobbit. It's rather along the lines of Christopher Tolkien's editions that make up the History of Middle-Earth series (which I highly recommend if you haven't read them): an edition of the original manuscript of The Hobbit with extensive commentary on how Mr. Baggins' story fits into Tolkien's legendarium. It's a big book filled with the entire text of Tolkien's first draft, along with short essays about everything from rings of invisibility or Tolkien's spiders to a detailed account of just when Tolkien wrote the book (which can actually be reconstructed from available evidence to within a month or two on either end). I hope people will like it when it finally sees the light of day."
- ― John Rateliff
Volume I
- David Bratman should be included among the participants in the Tolkien Symposiums
- Kate Latham should be added to the Acknowledgements
- pg. 260 refers to Plate VI, Firelight in Beorn's House as being in color when it is in black and white.
- pg. 356 refers to incorrect page numbers.
- pg. 400 - "ani-mals" should replace the incorrect "ani-Mals".
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New treatments could offer allergy relief
Spring is in the air and so are pollen and other allergens, committing seasonal allergy sufferers to itchy eyes, sneezing and a stuffy nose.
Dr. Eric Sandberg, an allergy and immunology specialist at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, says while Houston has no real allergy season, March and October are typically the worst months for sufferers, and that 2013 might see an increase in tree pollens and a longer allergy season due to the mild, dry winter and an influx of cedar pollen blowing in from Central Texas.
But when it comes to allergies, the news isn't all bad.
While nasal sprays - both anti-inflammatory corticosteroid treatments such as Flonase and antihistamines like Astelin - have been widely seen as some of the most effective treatments to relieve allergy symptons, new formulations are making them even more popular. In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration approved Qnasl, the first aerosol nasal corticosteroid inhaler.
"Some people hate the wet spray up their nose and they just won't stick with it. The aerosol is more comfortable and the spray can actually go further into the nasal passages," says Dr. Rana Bonds, the interim director of allergy and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
For severe cases - allergies combined with asthma or symptoms that don't respond to at-home remedies - immunotherapy in the form of shots has become a popular method for lessening the body's reaction to allergens like foods, medicines, pollens and pet danders.
The therapy works by identifying the underlying allergy and introducing tiny doses of it into the body, bypassing the immune system's normal detectors while slowly increasing the dosage to acclimate the system to its presence. The downside is that for the treatment to remain effective, it must be administered by shot weekly for several months, and no less than every three weeks afterwards.
However, immunotherapy is evolving as allergy drops delivered in liquid form under the tongue become more widespread. Bonds cautions that oral allergy drops are not yet approved by the FDA because there are still some questions as to the proper effective dosage. As such, the allergy drops are considered an experimental or off-label use and not covered by insurance, though Bonds speculates that will change soon.
"I think within two years it will be mainstream. People prefer to get the drops under their tongue to the shot. Since it can be administered at home it's also much easier, especially for kids since they don't have to miss school for a doctor's appointment each time," Bonds said.


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Two Turtle Doves: 'Home Alone 2'
Everyone remembers Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern getting clobbered in this holiday comedy starring Macaulay Culkin. Not as many people remember the heartwarming subplot involving Brenda Fricker as the sad Pigeon Lady, whom Kevin (Culkin) promises to remain friends with. And to seal the deal, he gives her one of two turtle dove ornaments to remember his promise. Not as awesome as Oscar-winner Joe Pesci getting smashed in the groin, but close.
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In the earlier days of our country's founding, "Public Virtue" was a common phrase. It is a bit of a lost philosophy in these "me - me" days.
Let's look at Eric Bayles, the cowboy who found Jason McVean's bones almost 10 years after the murder crime of officer Claxton (see March 5 San Juan Record). He discovered the remains of a wanted outlaw while at work (not a risk taking bounty hunt, mind you).
Long ago the FBI posted a reward of $150,000 each for "information leading to the arrest" of this outlaw and one other. The FBI wrongly set a precedent by paying $150,000 to hunters who found the remains of Alan Monte Pilon. Continuing forward, using improper precedent injures our society.
Precedent aside: There was no arrest. The FBI gave Bayles $75,000 (and local Cortez pledges gave him an additional $13,000+). Eric Bayles is complaining, as is our Sheriff and many locals, because he, Bayles, didn't get the whole $150,000 which was the original arrest reward.
Death arrested this person long before this cowboy stumbled upon his remains. $75,000 is more than generous. Zero would have been appropriate. After all it is your money folks. FBI funds are your tax dollars.
I'm surprised some of our public officials agree that he deserves more. This makes me want to look closer at how our tax dollars are being spent at home. I'm also surprised that local law officials wouldn't simply be happy that the case is now closed and Bayles, happy that he was able to contribute to this closing.
Back to public virtue: Now that money was given (for an arrest, when there never was one), couldn't a bigger picture be looked at here? Perhaps some of that could be given to the real victims: the Claxtons? Or could it be put into a scholarship fund for kids in the community?
It's a bad day for America when someone wants to retire, on your tax money, for finding bones.
Scott Mitchell