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Apr 22, 2012
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They say as a smashing breakthrough.
Vaccine actually that's designed to fight one of the most common and aggressive forms of brain cancer.
-- -- studies show that the vaccine could potentially improve survival.
By extending the lives of patients doctor Siegel these really city big news if it's if it's the case.
You know it's very promising and everyone out there is word about this because everyone's worried they're gonna get a brain tumor even -- -- about 5000 cases per year of this it's really severe type colloquial blessed moment now.
The reality is that you can't really cure this I mean you can't really remove it and curious because actually Eric -- you take it out it almost always comes back.
And the five year survival rate for this is under 5% it's terrible so what they did in this study -- us.
They took the tumor as they were removing it and they used it to cause the body's immune system to -- -- to -- antibodies to a two.
Targeted for destruction and then they put that in a body back -- basically.
And then they found that the patient live longer.
The patient with recurrent brain tumor lived about -- -- -- 67 months now that's.
Very preliminary and in my opinion this is just the beginning I mean the the study's author doctor parts of from UCSF -- to me that.
-- cancer would be a chronic disease coming up in the future you know maybe this is since it's a non -- vaccine maybe this is the future of cancer treatment.
It's very preliminary and the results are at this point.
Very modest but for people out there look.
Brain tumors you're not getting them every day if you have a severe headache if you're having seizures if you're having behavioral changes things we saw with Senator Ted Kennedy.
Then you might start to look into this but I get this question every day.
And this is a very deadly disease so we like to see this kind of cure potentially on the.
Or -- is my this is such an aggressive form we've had it in our family.
And -- and you certainly hope that it can be.
Dealt with.
You know it's very unfortunate because it's one of the most common brain tumors is also very aggressive and has stuck to -- -- The prognosis is -- surgery is the main treatment for this and and when you remove.
And that's the number 98 for some of the tumor.
Then the rest you can hit them and radiation and chemotherapy so.
I think there hasn't been a really good news for the last three decades for this type of tumor.
This is certainly it's a clinical trial it's a face to either exactly as doctor -- mention what -- works is that by removing the tumor itself.
You purified you get the cancer cells out -- do you take kept rotating you give it back to the patient.
This is -- personalized medicine as it's going to get wide.
Because when that -- thing comes back in.
The immune system is gonna look at this as a foreign thing wait -- second -- gonna get -- -- what we call.
Key kid ourselves the soldiers -- general of the army is gonna go after this god.
And what it does it cures or near the Kansas does that are remaining I think it's fascinating I think this is it is still at the very -- -- phase.
There's only 41 patients in this study but I think it's a great news for this type of cancer because we haven't had for years.
And while furthering it researches is -- -- -- necessary.
I think for people who had this kind of brain -- there is hope.
We've seen.
Few percentages are going for a long time you know I do with cancer day in and day out and I don't think it did the power of the brain is very important.
Get it to some of his clinical studies there's about it centers across US mainly McNamee and his San Francisco.
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09 January 2012 17:31pm
Hi lovely expert people,
We are a small to medium footwear retailer, a few stores in the UK, but predominantly growing online. We currently serve four markets with distinct web stores in their local languages (UK, Germany, Netherlands, France) and we are looking to do the same with web stores for US and Australia soon.
The problem is this… We are reaching a point in certain markets where our arms length approach is clearly not working and we are not achieving the growth we want. We feel that it is because we are not "on the ground" in markets and don't have the cultural knowledge, the market knowledge, just the day to day sense-checking, that you can only get with someone who is physically there, speaks the language as a native, and gets online marketing at the same time.
We operate the usual marketing activities; SEO, paid search, display, social, across our markets, but we do so with no local expertise. Our language/translation requirements are managed by in-house Customer Service Agents, and our expertise in each of these areas of marketing also comes from in-house, with a well qualified E-commerce team. We are looking into Content Marketing seriously, but are aware we need a distinct plan per market. Currently we don't know how to proceed with this.
We have tried in the past to outsource activities such as SEO and paid search to agencies in each local territory, but it doesn't work. They are geographically too far away, and have the "technical" skills to run these programs but don't understand well enough what we are trying to achieve, and never will, because they are agencies. Also, the costs of applying this model to lots of new markets is prohibitive.
Therefore we want to continue to manage our campaigns in-house, but we need some local expertise in the each of our markets. But when we try to describe / write down what this individual/agency would look like, its gets tough. Agency costs are prohibitive and we consistently have bad experiences with them utterly losing interest once you become a cash cow to them, and finding a local individual in each market seems akin to finding a pinhead in the Atlantic Ocean.
My question would be, have any of you seen a type of agency / freelancer / whatever that would be able to source this? Have any of you got similar experiences and how have you gone about solving them?
This is just a reach-out really to explain our problem, say that we are open minded, and just to look for any thoughts / experiences / advice / words of wisdom anyone has.
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Denis Kondopoulos
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11 January 2012 09:41am
Hi Gareth,
There are 2-3 approaches which I have personally come across. The first one is using agencies who also understand your business and go beyond the "technical" stuff. The second one is hiring people from those regions and using them in-house to develop and execute your strategy. And the third one is working with franchisees or partners in each region who will work locally to promote your products and services.
I hope the above help but if you'd like to discuss further feel free to contact me.
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Gareth - I empathise with your situation. I've heard similar from others. Lack of decent, and identifiable, freelance talent is the really hard problem. Even if they do exist, and they're good, they're probably pretty expensive at the moment.
I'll ask a few people who know more than me to see if they can comment.


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- "There Can Be No Appeasement with Ruthlessness …We Must Be the Great Arsenal of Democracy"
- "The President Proclaims That an Unlimited National Emergency Confronts the Country, Proclamation No. 2487"
- "We Are Going to Win the War and We Are Going to Win the Peace That Follows"
In 1939, the year that World War II (1939–45) began in Europe, America was just beginning to emerge from the Great Depression (1929–41). The Great Depression was the longest and worst economic crisis in U.S. history. During the early 1930s, twelve million American workers, approximately 25 percent of the workforce, were jobless. Among people who were employed, incomes dropped an average of 40 percent between 1929 and 1932. In 1939 between eight million and ten million willing workers, roughly 17 percent of the workforce, were still unemployed. The Great Depression did not end until 1941, when the United States stepped up its mobilization efforts for World War II. Mobilization involved a major shift in U.S. industry; manufacturers had to switch from the production of civilian goods to the production of massive quantities of war materials, including tanks, planes, ships, mortars (a cannon for shooting shells at high angles), bombs, and small ammunition.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Excerpt From "There Can be no Appeasement"
Excerpt from "There Can Be No Appeasement with Ruthlessness … We Must Be the Great Arsenal of Democracy," a radio address delivered on December 29, 1940
Reprinted from The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 Volume.
Published in 1941.
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy …. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war."
President Roosevelt's calls for mobilization in 1940 were well-founded. By late spring of 1940 German dictator Adolf Hitler had successfully directed his Nazi army in conquests over Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In May the relentless Nazis entered northern France, and by June 14 they were in the streets of Paris. The French government was forced to sign an armistice (truce) on June 22. With the fall of France, Hitler turned his attention across the English Channel to Great Britain. The German air force, the Luftwaffe, attempted to destroy Britain's Royal Air Force and commenced bombing London in September. Italy had also declared war on Britain and France. Meanwhile in Asia, Japan had invaded various provinces in China, and Japanese military leaders were eyeing the Southeast Asian countries of...
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Excerpt From "Ulimited National Emergency"
Excerpt from "The President Proclaims That an Unlimited National Emergency Confronts the Country, Proclamation No. 2487," delivered on May 27, 1941
Reprinted from The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 Volume.
Published in 1950.
"I call upon all the loyal citizens engaged in production for defense to give precedence to the needs of the Nation …."
In the spring of 1941 German dictator Adolf Hitler continued his aggression in Europe. By mid-April Yugoslavia had fallen under German occupation. By the end of April German and Italian forces had subdued Greece. Meanwhile Japanese military forces threatened to expand into the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and appeared to cast an eye upon the U.S. territories of Guam and the Philippines. The United States became concerned about its economic interests in those regions.
President Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" speech in December 1940, in which he called for voluntary mobilization to manufacture more war materials, had produced considerably less action than he had hoped. Although leaders from industry, labor, and agriculture had made progress, much more needed to be done—and at a much faster pace. Roosevelt and his advisers believed that if U.S. business leaders...
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Excerpt From "We Are Going to Win the War"
Excerpt from "We Are Going to Win the War and We Are Going to Win the Peace That Follows," a speech delivered on December 9, 1941
Reprinted from The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 Volume.
Published in 1950.
"Together with other free peoples, we are now fighting to maintain our right to live among our world neighbors in freedom and in common decency, without fear of assault …."
On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt made a now famous speech, later published in 1950 in the The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 Volume, to Congress about the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The president asked Congress to declare a state of war between the United States and Japan. He began with these words: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." He went on to explain that Japan had "undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area." Thirty-three minutes after Roosevelt concluded his "Day of Infamy" speech, Congress completed and passed a joint resolution declaring that "war existed between the United States and Japan."
On the evening of December 9,...
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Civil Defense
- Office of Civilian Defense
- Thomas A. Scott
- Helena H. Smith and William Sloane
As war spread through Europe and Asia in 1940 and 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945; served 1933–45) issued a call for war mobilization among U.S. industries. He also asked U.S. communities to begin organizing civil defense plans. Civil defense refers to a system of defensive measures designed to protect civilians and their property from enemy attack. In the twenty-first century, after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against American civilians on the U.S. mainland, government officials began to refer to civil defense as "homeland security."
On May 20, 1941, President Roosevelt established the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD), replacing the inactive Council of National Defense created by Congress in 1916. The purpose of the OCD was to help states and communities set up civil defense councils. Roosevelt also hoped the OCD would spur civilians' awareness of and support for the nation's war efforts. However, the general public exhibited little enthusiasm for civil defense; many people clung to the hope that the United States would not be drawn directly into the hostilities.
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Office of Civilian Defense
Complete text of What to Do in an Air Raid
Published by the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, Washington, D.C., 1942.
"Await official information before taking any action. When the Air Raid Warden comes to your home, do what he tells you. He is for your protection. He is your friend."
Before World War II (1939–45) the United States felt effectively protected by the vast oceans to its east and west. However, by the late 1930s, bomber planes became a major component of Germany's and Japan's military strategy, and America's shores suddenly seemed vulnerable to attack. As long as the Allies (those nations, including the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union, who united in the fight against Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II) controlled the Atlantic and the Pacific and any bases within possible striking distance of the United States, a sustained enemy attack on American soil was not possible. However, sporadic raids launched from aircraft carriers or by dirigibles (balloon airships, like blimps) or by longrange bombers coming from Europe were possible. Americans feared that enemy pilots might bail out over the countryside or a city and wreak havoc until captured. Enemy bombers could be shot down by the U.S. military while crossing the ocean or over America, but plans had to be made should an enemy plane...
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Scott, Thomas A.
Complete text of "Thomas A. Scott"
Reprinted from The Homefront: America during World War II.
Published in 1984.
"One of our responsibilities as an air raid warden was to make sure everybody had their lights turned out at night and that people weren't wandering around without any place to go."
Thomas A. Scott, a young American stockbroker, was eager to serve his country in the military during World War II (1939–45). However, after a required physical examination, he received the classification of 4-F. Doctors usually gave the 4-F classification to people who had a medical condition or physical disability that would make it difficult for them to perform military duties. In Scott's case, he had a circulatory blood flow problem in his legs. Anyone with this classification would not be accepted into military service. Thomas Scott's classification did not dampen his patriotic desire to participate in the war effort. Like most Americans, he was determined to take part in the nation's push for victory.
Scott had a very personal reason motivating his volunteer efforts. In 1939, before the United States had officially entered the war, Scott encouraged his younger brother to see the world as a serviceman in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately Scott's brother was in the Philippines...
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Smith, Helena H. and Sloane, William
Excerpt from "Are America's Civilians Ready for Attack?"
Reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.
Published June 6, 1942.
"Don't think they're scared. These people are raring to do something. They can't fight or build planes, but they can defend their own community, and they don't intend to leave the job to somebody else."
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States officially entered World War II, and U.S. citizens eagerly sought civil defense volunteer opportunities. Americans on the eastern and western coasts felt most vulnerable to enemy attack, but civil defense volunteers came forward nationwide. Midwestern cities practiced for air raids and carried out blackout rehearsals as meticulously as coastal cities did. Air raid survival classes were popular, and hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens completed Red Cross first aid classes.
Small towns across the country set up their own civil defense councils and took pride in strong community participation. Newspapers and magazines frequently reported on the nation's progress in civil defense preparedness. One such report is excerpted here. It comes from the June 6, 1942, edition of the Saturday Evening Post, a popular, nationally distributed magazine. The article is titled "Are...
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Working Women on the Home Front
- Frank J. Taylor
- Sybil Lewis
- Peggy Terry
- Florence Hall
At the beginning of World War II (1939–45) approximately 50 million women over the age of fourteen lived in the United States. Ninety percent were white, 9 percent were black, and the other 1 percent included American Indians, Japanese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and other ethnic minority groups. Between 12 million and 14 million of these adult women were part of the U.S. labor force; they made up roughly 25 percent of the nation's total workforce. Most white working women were relatively young: They generally had just graduated from high school and would work only a year or two as retail salespeople, clerks, or typists until they married. College-educated women worked as teachers, secretaries, nurses, and librarians. Working black women of all ages took jobs in domestic services—the only jobs available to them at that time—serving as maids, cooks, and laundry workers. When the United States officially entered World War II in December 1941, this employment picture would drastically change.
When the United States entered the war, millions of American men left the labor force to join the armed...
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Taylor, Frank J.
Excerpt from "Meet the Girls Who Keep 'Em Flying"
Reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.
Published on May 30, 1942.
"Mechanics in fancy work pants will be doing up to 60% of this country's airplane building by the end of the war."
"The foreman asked if I could run a lathe, and I said, 'I can, if you'll show me how.' He did, and I've been at it ever since." These words were spoken by Mrs. Francis DeWitt and recorded in "Meet the Girls Who Keep 'Em Flying," an article printed in the May 30, 1942, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Mrs. DeWitt, a San Diego wife and mother, had tired of "keeping house and playing bridge," so she joined millions of other women on the home front who went to work in the war industries. She became one of Consolidated Aircraft's best lathe operators. A lathe is a machine used for shaping parts.
In "Meet the Girls," women such as Mrs. Clover Hoffman, "Jerry" Patterson, and Mrs. Mary Rozar are introduced. Mrs. Hoffman, the wife of a machinist's mate stationed on a destroyer at Pearl Harbor and the mother of three-and-a-half-year-old twins, helped build bombers at Consolidated Aircraft Company. "Jerry" Patterson, whose husband was called into the service in 1941, went to Southern California and took a job putting together...
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Lewis, Sybil
Complete text of the essay "Sybil Lewis"
Reprinted from The Homefront: America during World War II.
Published in 1984.
"I know for myself it was the first time I had a chance to get out of the kitchen and work in industry and make a few bucks."
In 1941 between 40 and 50 percent of all black American women worked outside their home. They mainly worked as poorly paid maids and cooks, the only jobs widely available to them. As war industry jobs became available, thousands of black women migrated to industrial urban areas on both coasts and in the Great Lakes region, searching for better-paying work. Many went from earning $2 to $3 a week to $40 and more a week. Sybil Lewis, a black woman from a small town in Oklahoma, moved to Los Angeles and found a job as a riveter at Lockheed Aircraft. For the first time in her life she had money in her pocket and expectations of a better life. She later went to work at Douglas Aircraft, and eventually she became a welder in a shipyard. For Sybil Lewis and many other black women, the wartime economy and job market opened up opportunities and experiences that had previously been closed to them.
Things to remember while reading "Sybil Lewis" …
- In the South, where 75 percent of black Americans lived, racial...
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Terry, Peggy
Excerpt from the essay "Peggy Terry"
Reprinted from "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II.
Compiled by Studs Terkel.
Published in 1984.
"We made the fabulous sum of thirty-two dollars a week. To us it was just an absolute miracle. Before that, we made nothing."
Peggy Terry was eighteen years old when she took a job in a munitions factory in Viola, Kentucky. Unlike women factory workers in war industry boomtowns, she was barely aware that a war had started and certainly did not understand its implications. Peggy Terry's job—putting explosive powder into shells—was hazardous. Some of the material she worked with was harmful to her health, but the job paid the rent and bought food and clothes, so she never asked questions about the risks of working in the factory.
By the time Peggy Terry moved to a job in Michigan, she had begun to learn about a bigger world. She worked with people of different ethnic backgrounds and began to see that the ideas she had been raised with about other people, particularly minorities, were untrue. They were people just like her. Meanwhile, her husband went off to Europe and North Africa as a paratrooper (troops trained to parachute into combat areas), leaving her to provide for herself and her...
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Hall, Florence
Excerpt from "They're Getting In the Crops "
Reprinted from Independent Woman.
Published July 1943.
"This year millions of farm women and girls will be doing farm work to help meet the wartime goals. But this will not be enough. They must have help from their sisters in the towns and cities."
By mid-1942 there was an acute shortage of workers on U.S. farms. Millions of farmers and their hired hands left the land to join the military or to take war industry jobs. Agriculture officials predicted that 75 percent of farmers would incur severe labor shortages by 1943. However, women willingly stepped forward to fill the need for workers, just as they had in the war industries. Wives, daughters, and sisters of farmers jumped in to take over farming responsibilities, but they needed more help as there were more farming chores to accomplish than they could tackle themselves. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Extension Service (which provided educational assistance on the latest farming methods), and the U.S. Employment Service all looked to nontraditional workers, including urban women and students, to rescue the crops. Women's volunteer groups formed in various states, mostly in New England and on the West Coast, and began tending and harvesting crops in the summer and fall of...
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Home Front Communities
- La Verne Bradley
- Harvey Klemmer
- House and Garden
For the United States, World War II (1939–45) officially began on December 8, 1941, and ended September 2, 1945. During this almost four-year period, every community in America changed in some way as it adjusted to wartime. Some communities, and the regions surrounding them, experienced drastic economic changes and population growth as they became war industry centers and staging areas for servicemen en route to overseas battle zones. Cities on the west coast and the east coast and in the upper Midwest-Great Lakes region underwent the greatest changes. Among the cities most affected by the war were San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in California; the Seattle-Tacoma area in Washington State; Mobile, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Detroit, Michigan.
The first two excerpts in this chapter come from National Geographic Magazine, a popular monthly publication (both in the early 1940s and into the twenty-first century). The first excerpt, "San Francisco: Gibraltar of the West Coast," describes wartime San Francisco as both a military hub from which thousands of army and navy men departed and a war...
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Bradley, La Verne
Excerpt from "San Francisco: Gibraltar of the West Coast"
Written by La Verne Bradley.
Published in National Geographic Magazine, March 1943.
"The impact of San Francisco at war comes like the kick of a big gun to anyone who hasn't seen it since Pearl Harbor."
In "San Francisco: Gibraltar of the West Coast," wartime San Francisco, California, comes alive as the author describes the sights, sounds, and bustle of a war industry center and military hub. Navy sailors and pilots and army soldiers by the thousands crowded the city. San Francisco was a premier staging area for the war in the Pacific. Thousands of military ships loaded with men and supplies moved in an almost continuous line under the Golden Gate Bridge, setting out across the vast Pacific for Japan and the Philippines. The port and the entire coastline were heavily guarded, and many roads and areas surrounding sensitive facilities, such as military or power plants, were closed to the public. North of Oakland, at Mare Island in San Pablo Bay, was the largest naval shipbuilding and repair yard in the West. Also in the Bay Area were Henry Kaiser's (1882–1967) shipyards, which turned the previously sleepy community of Richmond into a throbbing city where businesses operated on a round-the-clock schedule.
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Klemmer, Harvey
Excerpt from "Michigan Fights"
Written by Harvey Klemmer.
Published in National Geographic Magazine, December 1944.
"Detroit is producing more munitions than any other city in the world. The rest of the State piles record output on record output. Tanks. Trucks. Planes. Ships. Guns. Ammunition. And, most important of all, engines."
After the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, U.S. war mobilization shifted into high gear. Industry's ability to retool assembly lines was the key to making a rapid changeover from mass production of civilian goods to mass production of war materials. Michigan's automobile industry had highly efficient assembly lines, which could be readily transformed into war industries. When the federal government banned production of civilian automobiles in early 1942 (to conserve metal and rubber for the manufacture of war materials), auto manufacturing plants were able to switch, by retooling (changing their machinery) and changing their production layout, to the production of aircraft, aircraft parts, military trucks, tanks, and marine equipment including amphibious landing craft called "DUKWs."
Some automobile manufacturers had to build larger facilities to accommodate their new, larger products. Henry Ford (1863–1947) of Ford Motor Company...
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House and Garden
Excerpt from "Houses for Defense"
Published in House and Garden, February 1942.
"From Hawaii to Maryland, at military posts and defense plants, a war time home building program is under way."
As war industry regions and military hubs experienced an ever increasing influx of workers and military personnel, the housing shortage became acute. Recognizing that the problem could become even more severe as the war continued, the House Public Buildings and Grounds Committee, a group in the U.S. House of Representatives, discussed housing needs. Under the leadership of Fritz G. Lanham (1880–1965), the group introduced a potential solution, which became known as the Lanham Act when it was passed by Congress in October 1940. The act appropriated $750 million to the Federal Works Agency for the construction of large housing projects in crowded war industry centers, also referred to as "defense" centers. Created exclusively for war industry workers and military families, these housing projects were called "defense housing." The federal government built approximately 625,000 defense housing units between 1940 and 1944.
Although many of the units were styled like dormitories, builders also constructed whole subdivisions of one- and two-bedroom single-family and duplex-style homes. Linda Vista, in San Diego, California,...
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Black American and Japanese American Experiences on the Home Front
- Turner Catledge
- Alexander J. Allen
- Mine Okubo
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Americans who had lived through the experience of World War II (1939–45) still recalled the overwhelming unity and patriotism exhibited on the home front. After the Japanese attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, almost all Americans fully supported the fight against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Yet for some, this home front spirit was flawed with contradictions, even hypocrisy: The United States joined the war to protect freedom and democracy overseas, but freedoms on the home front were severely limited for people of color. Black Americans, who made up 10 percent of the U.S. population, faced strong racial prejudice and discrimination in almost every part of daily life. This discrimination had been present in the United States for eighty years, since the end of slavery. Japanese Americans lost nearly all their civil rights and freedoms after the Pearl Harbor attack. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945; served 1933–45) signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered all Japanese Americans to be removed from their homes and sent to ten internment camps for the duration of the war. Internment...
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Catledge, Turner
Excerpt from "Behind Our Menacing Race Problem"
Written by Turner Catledge.
Published in the New York Times Magazine, August 8, 1943.
"Whatever description may eventually be affixed to the riots that flared in Harlem … they did one thing for certain. They helped further to uncover one of the most embarrassing and most dangerous conditions in the United States today."
In 1942 and early 1943 U.S. industries moved into full war mobilization, and the unemployment rate dropped almost to zero. Anyone who wanted to work could find some sort of employment. Millions of men had left the labor force to join the military, so job opportunities opened up for black men and women that had not existed before the war. Approximately seven hundred thousand blacks relocated to large industrial centers during the war, hoping to find high-paying positions in the war industries. They journeyed to the large cities on the east coast and west coast and in the upper Midwest. These urban centers did not have enough housing for the newly arrived workers; they also lacked adequate outlets for recreation. Blacks generally had to live in severely overcrowded inner-city areas called ghettos. Owners of surrounding property blocked them from moving out of the ghettos to better housing by not selling to black buyers. On the...
(The entire section is 2669 words.)
Allen, Alexander J.
Excerpt from "Alexander J. Allen"
Reprinted from The Homefront: America during World War II.
Published in 1984.
"I felt then, and still feel, that the future of American blacks is in this country, and that our destiny is bound up with the destiny of the rest of the U.S.…"
In this excerpt, Alexander J. Allen recalls that during the war years black Americans hoped for considerable progress in their fight to end racial discrimination on the home front. After all, part of the reason the United States joined the Allied war effort was to promote democratic ideals and stop the spread of fascism. (Fascism is a political movement led by a dictator. Support for a fascist dictator is commonly driven by a fanatical support of one's nation and race; in Germany, fascist politics led to severe discrimination against Jewish people and people of color.) Many people in the United States saw their country as a model of democracy. However, denying basic freedoms to black Americans, who made up 10 percent of the U.S. population, was hardly consistent with democratic ideals. Black American leaders were quick to point this out, and under their leadership the Double V campaign was born. "Double V" stood for victory abroad and victory at home over racial discrimination.
A resident of...
(The entire section is 1947 words.)
Okubo, Mine
Excerpt from Citizen 13660
Reprinted from Citizen 13660.
Published in 1946.
"On April 24, 1942, Civilian Exclusion order No. 19 was issued and posted everywhere in Berkeley. Our turn had come."
On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a surprise attack on a U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After this incident Americans feared the Japanese would attempt a similar attack on the U.S. mainland. They were also convinced that spies and saboteurs lurked within Japanese American communities. In 1941, 127,000 Japanese Americans—about 70 percent of them U.S. citizens—lived in the United States. California was home to 93,000, and another 19,000 lived in Oregon and Washington.
Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents moved through Japanese American communities, arresting prominent individuals. Working without any evidence of wrongdoing, they arrested anyone who they thought might have feelings of loyalty toward Japan. The government closed banks run by Japanese Americans and froze the bank accounts of Japanese Americans. Agents searched Japanese American homes for items such as radio transmitters that might be used to signal Japanese ships close to the coastline.
Under heavy political, military, and...
(The entire section is 3865 words.)
Through a Youngster's Eyes
- Sheril Jankovsky Cunning
- Mike Royko
Like their parents, children were totally caught up in the news and activities of wartime America. When they played, they played war games; their heroes were fathers, uncles, and brothers serving in the military; their group and club activities involved collecting scrap metal, rubber, and paper, which were recycled for the war industries, and raising money to buy war stamps and bonds. They imitated their parents by planting their own victory garden row and putting together care packages to send to overseas soldiers and European children orphaned by the war. They were very quiet during air raids, obeying all their parents' instructions. They secretly feared that invaders might appear at their door. Many children thought of death for the first time when a family member or neighbor died in battle.
The two excerpts in this chapter describe wartime experiences of children. The first, "Sheril Jankovsky Cunning," comes from The Homefront: America during World War II (1984), a book edited by Mark J. Harris, Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven J. Schechter. The second is "Mike Royko," taken from "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984), a book by Studs Terkel. At the beginning of the war, Sheril Cunning was a...
(The entire section is 326 words.)
Cunning, Sheril Jankovsky
Complete text of "Sheril Jankovsky Cunning"
Published in The Homefront: America during World War II.
Published in 1984.
"My father was the block air raid warden. I'll never forget the fear I felt as he went out during air raid alerts and left the family huddled in the hallway."
Sheril Cunning lived in Long Beach, California, during World War II (1939–45). Long Beach was a prosperous, middle-class community. When the United States declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, the town's casual, sunny disposition changed dramatically. Sheril, seven years old, saw the warm beaches where she played immediately blocked off; huge antiaircraft guns blocked her view of the water. Following civil defense recommendations, Sheril's mother put up heavy blackout curtains that prevented light from escaping from the house during air raid drills. The family had various plans to avoid harm in the event of an invasion.
Fears of Japanese attack or invasion were strong and real on the West Coast, especially during the first year of the war. In this excerpt Sheril remembers the fear and a variety of other experiences that reflect important aspects of home front life. She shares memories of air raid drills, food ration coupons, victory gardens, war bond rallies, and children's war games. She...
(The entire section is 2186 words.)
Royko, Mike
Complete text of "Mike Royko"
Reprinted from "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II.
Published in 1984.
"The world was very simple. I saw Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo: those were the villains. We were the good guys."
Mike Royko was nine years old in December 1941, when the United States entered World War II. He lived in a Chicago, Illinois, neighborhood made up of Polish, Irish, German, and Slavic immigrants. Mike's neighborhood was his entire world. The neighborhood included a tavern owned by his father, and the Royko family lived above the tavern. Mike's chief recollections of the war years revolve around his family and customers of the tavern.
In this excerpt Mike recalls that his sister, whose husband was stationed overseas, went to work in a war industry factory. He remembers her "sense of mission" about her work. He also describes the responsibilities he took on during air raid alerts.
Young Mike obviously had a knack for listening to adults talk, which served him well in the tavern; the "talk, talk, talk" did not escape him. He remembers lonely women, customer debates about Allied military strategy, and the atmosphere in the tavern after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. In the last paragraphs of the excerpt,...
(The entire section is 1696 words.)
Praise and Practical Advice
- Woman's Home Companion
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Anthony F. Merrill
- H. W. Hochbaum
War spread across Europe and Asia in the late 1930s. As the fighting continued in 1940 and 1941, Americans hoped the United States could somehow stay out of the conflict. However, on December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers attacked a U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and in response the United States declared war on Japan. After this declaration, people on the home front had to make lifestyle changes and sacrifices so that all the nation's resources could be directed toward the war effort. Housewives were asked to plan nutritious meals despite the limitations of a strict food rationing system. They were also encouraged to plant victory gardens, volunteer for war-related community activities, and enter the wartime workforce. Millions of men also contributed to the home front war effort. Either too old for military service or disqualified from service for medical reasons, they kept the nation's economy running by working in war industries or taking jobs left by those who joined the military services. Men on the home front also took over traditionally male responsibilities, such as repair and...
(The entire section is 548 words.)
Woman's Home Companion
Excerpt from "How You Are Helping"
Published in Woman's Home Companion, June 1943.
"You American women are doing no less than men in bringing the dream of victory closer to reality."
In preparation for an article praising the war contributions of America's women on the home front, the editors of Woman's Home Companion sent out a questionnaire to their Reader-Reporters in early 1943. Reader-Reporters were readers who volunteered to relay home front wartime activities that were occurring in their communities and share their own thoughts as the war progressed. Roughly one-third of them had immediate family members in the military. Likewise one-third had family members working in the war industries. Half of the Reader-Reporters volunteered for activities directly related to the war effort. These Reader-Reporters were representative of the female population nationwide.
As noted in "How You Are Helping," the questionnaire aimed to find out "just how deeply the war had penetrated women's everyday lives and their psyches." The final section asked Reader-Reporters to "Look into your hearts and write what you feel today." For their article, the editors of Woman's Home Companion used excerpts from the completed questionnaires. The portion of the article that is reprinted in this chapter features...
(The entire section is 2500 words.)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Excerpt from "If You Ask Me"
Written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Published in Ladies' Home Journal, August 1943.
"I think all people who are living in the United States today should approach everyday living exactly as though they were soldiers on duty. They should feel in honor bound to live up to the spirit of any rules or regulations or war needs which come before them."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote a monthly question-and-answer column titled "If You Ask Me" for Ladies' Home Journal from June 1941 until the spring of 1949. The First Lady tackled all sorts of questions, addressing national and international issues and dispensing practical advice on family matters. In this excerpt her responses cover a wide range of topics, including freedom of the press and the division of household chores between husbands and wives. During the war years her answers always reflected consideration of the country's united war effort. The following questions and answers come from Ladies' Home Journal issues that were published between August and November 1943.
Things to remember while reading the excerpt from "If You Ask Me" …
- When the United States entered World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt had been...
(The entire section is 1754 words.)
Merrill, Anthony F.
Excerpt from "Washington and the Home Front"
Written by Anthony F. Merrill.
Published in House and Garden, March 1942.
"Your home is a vital unit in the machinery of American democracy and defense morale."
Women on the home front were expected to sew most of their own clothes, grow their own vegetables in backyard victory gardens, and plan nutritious meals despite food shortages and a strict rationing system. Advice on how to accomplish these goals appeared regularly in women's magazines, and historical accounts of wartime sacrifices and ingenuity on the home front generally focus on women's activities. However, between thirty million and forty million American men also contributed on the home front, working in all capacities as part of the U.S. labor force. Those men were also responsible for household duties such as home and car maintenance. Fulfilling such duties required creativity and extra planning, because many parts and materials were in short supply during the war. The following article, "Washington and the Home Front," is a pep talk filled with humor and practical advice designed to rally men to their duties of home maintenance and repair.
Things to remember while reading the excerpt from "Washington and the Home Front"…
- The...
(The entire section is 2387 words.)
Hochbaum, H. W.
Excerpt from "Still Keep 'Em Growing"
Written by H. W. Hochbaum, Chairman, Victory Garden Committee, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Published in House and Garden, January 1944.
"As long as the war lasts and for years after we're going to need all the home-grown and home-preserved food we can possibly raise. Without it, we'll be sunk."
"Still Keep 'Em Growing" is a good example of the frequent magazine and newspaper articles that encouraged Americans on the home front to pull together to help achieve victory overseas. Originally published in the January 1944 issue of House and Garden, the article is a call to arms. The author, H. W. Hochbaum, chairman of the federal government's Victory Garden Committee, praises victory gardeners (those who planted small private gardens to add to the nation's commercial food production) for their highly successful efforts in 1942 and 1943. He also urges them to plant even more gardens in 1944.
During spring 1942 Americans planted six million gardens. In 1943 the War Food Administration called for eighteen million garden plots. Approximately twenty million were actually planted. The gardens were planted not only in backyards but in public parks, vacant lots, school yards, and even prison yards. Victory gardens produced millions of...
(The entire section is 693 words.)
Newlyweds and Families
- Hazel M. Hanes
- Olive Nowak
Job opportunities in the war industry spurred approximately twenty million Americans—about 15 percent of the total population—to leave their homes and move to war industry centers, usually large urban areas, for work. Also moving about the country were some fifteen million men who had joined the armed services. Servicemen moved continuously around the nation to take on shifting assignments. In an attempt to stay close, the wives and children of servicemen often followed them to each base. Like war industry boomtowns, communities where military bases were located experienced serious overcrowding. Many local residents rented out space in their homes to the military families. If a soldier was sent overseas, his wife and children generally returned to their hometown, often moving in with other family members. If a serviceman shipped out while his wife was pregnant, he knew he probably would not see the baby until he or she was a toddler. Babies conceived just before the husband left were called "good-bye" babies.
Separation, loneliness, and homesickness became part of the military experience. However, most Americans who endured such feelings felt that they were suffering for a worthy cause. The dramatic circumstances that drew the United States...
(The entire section is 437 words.)
Hanes, Hazel M.
Excerpt from a personal interview with Hazel M. Hanes
As told to Sharon M. Hanes on November 20, 2003.
"The next four years were the best of times and the worst of times. The best included the patriotism, camaraderie, and togetherness in a common purpose that everyone seemed to feel …. The worst was saying goodbyes and not knowing what the future might hold."
The storyline of lovers separated by the war was a popular one in Hollywood movies of the 1940s. However, in reality, not a lot of couples experienced a wartime separation. Only 8 percent of the fifty million wives in the United States had husbands in the military, and these men were not always sent overseas. However, the percentage was higher among younger wives: Of all the wives between the ages of twenty and forty-four, 11 percent had husbands in the military; among wives younger than twenty, 40 percent had husbands who were military men. During World War II (1939–45) approximately 70 percent of American servicemen served overseas. In this excerpt Hazel Hanes speaks about what it was like to have her newlywed husband, O.C., prepare to go to war as a pilot with the Army Air Forces.
Things to remember while reading the interview with Hazel M. Hanes …
- Because the military needed gasoline for tanks, jeeps, and other...
(The entire section is 1239 words.)
Nowak, Olive
Excerpt from "A Busload of Strangers"
Reprinted from I'll Be Home for Christmas: The Library of Congress Revisits the Spirit of Christmas during World War II.
Published in 1999.
"It didn't promise to be the best of Christmas Eves—America was in the midst of World War II."
By Christmastime 1943 the United States had officially been at war for two years. Millions of American men were stationed away from home and family. Many of them were overseas in very dangerous situations, about as far from the warmth, security, and joy of Christmastime as one could be. On the home front, wreaths appeared on doors as always; stockings were hung, trees decorated, and presents wrapped. Young children tried to be very, very good. However, despite outward appearances and the usual happy activities of the Christmas season, Americans were feeling great uncertainty and fear. Stories of wartime horrors were trickling out of Europe, and people on the home front experienced high anxiety as they waited to find out whether their loved ones would be sent overseas or whether soldiers already in combat would ever return.
As Christmas Eve approached, people on the home front began traveling home for the holiday. Buses and trains were hopelessly overcrowded with servicemen, war industry workers,...
(The entire section is 1561 words.)
Source: American Home Front in World War II: Primary Sources, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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The Media Crap Shoot
by Randy Shaw' Dec. 10' 2013
On December 5, fast food workers in over 100 cities carried out their largest mass protest in history. The protests built upon similar events held in fifty cities in August. The national media wrote advance stories on the plight of low-paid fast food workers which even before the protests occurred helped revive national focus on rising inequality in the United States. And considering that the December 5 fast food protests were large, boisterous, and colorful, they would have dominated evening news broadcasts and the following day's newspapers but for an unforeseen development: legendary freedom fighter Nelson Mandela died in South Africa during the protests. Mandela's death understandably dominated television news for the balance of the day, while the fast food protests were ignored. While labor and activists groups promoted the protests through social media, traditional media sources continued wall to wall Mandela coverage through December 6, a day which otherwise would have put fast food workers in the spotlight,
While few outside Rush Limbaugh
criticized the media for excessive coverage of Mandela
, fast food workers and their supporters got a very unlucky break as to the timing of his death. It follows a less dramatic example of media plans going awry when nationwide immigrant rights protests long planned for October 5 were eclipsed by the ongoing government shutdown. Such examples again demonstrate why activists must win through ongoing organizing rather than putting too many eggs in the media basket.
Rally Today Against Urban Green, Ellis Act Eviction Speculators
by Sarah Sherburn-Zimmer and Tina Cheung' Dec. 10' 2013
At 12pm on Tuesday, Dec 10th, the direct action housing rights group, Eviction Free San Francisco, allies and individual community supporters and activists will gather to hold a rally in front of 1746 Union Street, the offices of out-of-state speculators and mass evictors, Urban Green LLC. The rally is being staged to demand that Urban Green drop all of the Ellis Act Evictions and also to bring attention to the abuse of the Ellis Act and the need for state reform. The event is being endorsed by Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Chinatown Community Development Center as well as Housing Rights Committee of SF. The rally will include speeches from current Urban Green tenants being evicted, other San Franciscan Ellis Act evictees, as well as organizers from both housing and environmental groups who will expose Urban Green as green washers who use environmentalism as a marketing scheme, while mass-evicting San Franciscans from their homes.
A Record Number Of Americans Can't Afford Their Rent
by Bryce Covert' Dec. 10' 2013
Paying more than 30 percent of your income on rent is what experts call unaffordable. Yet the number of people who fall into that group has reached record numbers, according to a new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
The share of renters who pay more than 30 percent of what they make on housing, or what the study labels "cost-burdened," rose 12 percentage points last decade, reaching 50 percent in 2010. That includes 27 percent who face a "severe burden," or in other words, pay more than half of their income on rent, a figure that rose 8 percentage points. Initial estimates show that there were a record 21.1 million renters who were cost-burdened in 2012.
Day of Action Unites Students, Teachers in Protest
by Lynette Holloway' Dec. 10' 2013
Educators, parents and youth hold mass demonstrations nationwide to demand quality public schools
Eighteen-year-old Tre Murphy, a native of Baltimore, has been active in social justice concerns since the age of 12, he says. But on Monday, his activism will take an urgent and personal turn when he plans to participate in the National Day of Action for education.
He is among thousands of young people from more than 60 cities slated to participate in the day of protest, which is being hailed as the largest unified opposition to educational reforms that organizers say have devastated families and communities.
San Francisco Must Raise Minimum Wage
by Randy Shaw' Dec. 09' 2013
Last week, fast food workers in over 100 cities
rallied in support of a $15 minimum wage
. Voters in the city of SeaTac near Seattle approved a $15 minimum in November, and efforts are spreading to raise local minimum wages in Washington DC and other cities. President Obama has endorsed a $10 federal minimum (from the current $7.25), and California's will go to $10 in 2016. Raising the pay of low-wage workers has become the driving force in the struggle to reduce inequality and make work pay.
But San Francisco is being left behind. The city was the national pioneer in raising its local minimum wage in 2003, and still has the highest of any city over 30,000 in population, $10.55 per hour and indexed to inflation (it will be $10.74 in January). Yet San Francisco's higher housing and overall living costs requires a significantly higher local minimum. This may require a ballot initiative to overturn the 2003 measure setting the current rate, but such a proactive move for economic fairness is imperative. There is little doubt that San Francisco voters would raise the city's minimum to at least $12 if not to $15 if given the chance on the November 2014 ballot.
Obama Interrupted by Protester
White House Fears Immigration Blame
by REID J. EPSTEIN' Dec. 09' 2013
President Barack Obama wasn't happy when a heckler interrupted his immigration speech in San Francisco last month. That was just the beginning.
Since Ju Hong's protest of the administration's deportation policies, the graduate student and periodic immigration protestor has gone on a media blitz, appearing on outlets from the BBC to Bay Area local news to Korean radio along with writing a
Huffington Post column
. More worrisome for the White House, the incident prompted an extensive discussion of Obama's aggressive deportation policies on Spanish-language television and tapped tapped a long-simmering nerve among immigration activists that Obama has failed to stem the tide.
Mike Ditka
Ditka, Obama and Me
by Randy Shaw' Dec. 09' 2013
December 9 is Ditka Day in Chicago, and during the Bears Monday night game Mike Ditka will have his number 89 retired. Ditka was my favorite football player during my youth and I was ecstatic when he became the Bears coach. I regularly quote his line about team owner George Halas' cheapness--- "He tosses nickels around like manhole covers"--- and this outspokenness is why the Bears did not retire his uniform earlier.
Like other working-class ethnics whose political views moved right in the 1970's, Ditka became an increasingly vocal political conservative. Republicans floated his name as a possible opponent to an insurgent young Democratic named Barack Obama in the Illinois 2004 U.S Senate race, but Ditka declined. Ditka
recently described not running
as the "Biggest mistake I've ever made. Not that I would have won, but I probably would have and he wouldn't be in the White House." That's the confidence that made him a Hall of Fame tight end, but that also reflects his disconnection from political reality. The 74-year old Ditka reflects a shrinking generation of blue-collar Americans who benefited from New Deal and Great Society programs only to believe that they "made it on their own," and who spent decades voting to deny these opportunities to future generations.
Solar Would Be Cheaper: Pentagon Has Spent $8 Trillion Guarding Gulf Oil
by Juan Cole' Dec. 09' 2013
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
was in the Gulf on Friday at a conference of defense ministers from the region, including the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iran.
Hagel underlined American commitment to the security of the Arab states on the littoral of the Gulf, including Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait (the six of which make up the Gulf Cooperation Council) and toward which he said the military balance of power had shifted. He said the US had sold $75 billion in sophisticated military equipment to those countries in recent years, more than in the previous 15.
Nelson Mandela, Inspiration for Millions Around the World, Dies at 95
by Randy Shaw' Dec. 06' 2013
Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest forces for social justice in human history, died on December 5 at age 95. Mandela's remarkable liberation struggle in South Africa has inspired countless millions around the world, and his life story confirms the adage that truth is often more unbelievable than fiction. His death after a long illness comes as a film about his life,
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
is being released nationally in the United States next week. Beyond Chron offers our greatest sympathies to the Mandela family and the people of South Africa. He will be missed by all those who were inspired by his principled activism, and his legacy will be remembered and honored forever.
DOA: Behind the Chamber of Commerce's "Job Killers" List
by Gary Cohn' Dec. 06' 2013
The California Chamber of Commerce represents more than 13,000 businesses, from companies such as Microsoft and Walt Disney, to local companies with small numbers of employees. From its K Street headquarters in Sacramento, the "Cal Chamber," as it's colloquially known, analyzes some 3,000 pieces of legislation every year. In the past 10 years, 341 of 353 — nearly 97 percent — of the bills identified by the California Chamber of Commerce failed to become law. The vast majority of these were never passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor. Instead, they were killed in committee or voted down by the Legislature or amended to take out provisions opposed by the chamber.
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TWD: Thumbprints For Us Big Guys
This week's TWD was chosen by Mike of Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude : thumbprints for us big guys! The recipe is considered "grown-up" because of the ground hazelnuts used in the dough and the raspberry jam used to fill the cookies. My dislike of nuts is well-documented on this blog but since cookies are easy to share with others, I went ahead and made these anyway. I had no problem convincing my mom to take them home to share with my stepfather, a man who, fortunately for me, is more than happy to help eat the many goodies I make!
While I had hazelnuts in the house, I went with almonds for these cookies instead. I didn't bother blanching them before I ground them up so there were little specks from the skin in my finished cookies. The dough comes together easily, with just a few ingredients - flour, ground nuts, butter, sugar, vanilla extract and almond extract. Though I don't particularly like almonds, almond extract is one of my favorite scents ever and I'm always happy when a recipe calls for it. I made half of the recipe and ended up rolling the dough into 25 little cookies. A lot of the TWD bakers mentioned problems with really crumbly dough but mine didn't give me much trouble. I used the end of a wooden spoon to make the indentations in my cookies.
The cookies spread quite a bit in the oven, so I probably should have refrigerated the dough before baking them. The indentations also became less deep in the oven so when I took the cookies out, I used the end of the wooden spoon to redefine the impressions. I dusted all of the cookies with confectioners' sugar as they sat on the rack cooling. I didn't bother putting anything under the rack, though, and the effect was actually pretty cool (if not a bit of a pain to clean up):
There were so many options for fillings for the cookies! My friend Kayte mentioned lemon curd as a possibility and I thought that sounded wonderful, but I ran out of time to make it so I went with the raspberry jam. I warmed the jam in the microwave until it was quite warm and very thin (about 45 seconds) and then spooned it into the cookies. It thickens as it cools and makes a wonderful filling. The cookies were buttery and quite delicate - almost crumbly like shortbread. I liked the contrast of the sweet jam too but at the end of the day, this kind of cookie just doesn't hold a lot of appeal for me. I'm sure they'll be much more popular with my stepfather though! Many thanks to Mike for hosting this week! You can find the recipe for the thumbprints on his site.
31 comments:
- Maria said...
I love the powdered sugar picture. The cookies look wonderful! I need to try these!
- March 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- CB said...
Sweet! I'm not the only one that loved the powder sugar pattern. I think I went overboard with the dusting though b/c I had way more powdered sugar on my counter than you did! HA!
- March 9, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- carmencooks said...
Your cookies look perfect! I was one of the bakers with super crumbly dough. I think it had to do with how finely I ground my nuts - perhaps not finely enough!
- March 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Cathy said...
Your cookies look as good as the ones in the book - HOW did you do that? Mine were crumbly and kind of cracked when I indented them. Hmph. Oh well, they tasted good. I bet your recipients loved them!
- March 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Jess said...
The powdered sugar silhouette shot is great! Good for you for making these and then giving them away - I just ate them all myself. Yours turned out beautifully.
- March 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM
- Lauryn said...
your cookies look great!! I am sure that everyone you shared them with enjoyed them! I loved these, they were easy to make and delicious!!
- March 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- Hornedfroggy of My Baking Heart said...
So pretty, Tracey! :)
- March 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Kim said...
Great looking cookies. I'm sure everyone will enjoy them.
- March 9, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Jessica said...
I wouldn't move my cookies to a cooling rack because I didn't want to deal with the powdered sugar on my counter. I love the picture, though! I'm glad your mom and your stepdad enjoyed these cookies.
- March 9, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Jessica said...
Pretty! I used almonds too. Maybe next time I'll try the hazelnuts. My counter looked just like yours when I was done! hahaha
- March 9, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Sweet and Savory said...
I like your cookies and your patterned sugar counter. We do have fun baking.
- March 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Mimi said...
Your cookies look perfect. Sorry that you didn't enjoy them. It's so nice to give them to someone who will.
Mimi - March 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- TeaLady said...
Pretty little cookies. They look perfect.
I actually FORGOT the powdered sugar, but they were still good.
Love the counter shot! - March 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- erin said...
Your cookies look delicious! I used lemon curd and if you ever make these again- I highly recommend trying it!
- March 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Lori said...
I like the brown flecks. Your cookies look very delicious in every way.
- March 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
These look pretty! I don't make thumbprints very often, but they are sounding pretty good!
- March 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Leslie said...
I like the look of your cookies. The unblanched almonds makes them look more rustic. I hope your step father enjoyed them!
- March 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM
These cookies would be a great complement to a cup of tea. They were light but without being crumbly and I liked the addition of the nuts. Thanks for sharing!
- March 9, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- the wicked noodle said...
These look beyond delicious!
- March 9, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- margot said...
The cookies look perfect! I'm glad you found someone to share them with. I didn't get around to making them yet and since it's 7 on Tuesday I think I'll have to call it a loss.
- March 9, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- Xiaolu @ 6 Bittersweets said...
Those cookies are mesmerizing. I happen to love hazelnuts, so these are a must try.
- March 9, 2010 at 10:20 PM
- mike said...
These look great Tracey - I love using almonds (with the skins) - there seems to be more flavor (or maybe that's just me). So festive looking! Glad you had some taste testers that tested more than a few!
- March 9, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- Katrina said...
Well they look great to me, but I never met a nut I didn't like! ;)
I love dusting things with pwd sugar! - March 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM
- Bridget said...
It sounds like you had the exact same dough consistency as me. Mine definitely wasn't crumbly, and I also thought my cookies spread a little more than I was expecting, so a quick chill would have been beneficial.
- March 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
- Teanna said...
Tracey, your photos are gorgeous! I love the photo of the sugar outlines of the cookies! So beautiful!
- March 10, 2010 at 9:09 AM
- Flourchild said...
Yum they look so wonderful! I loved this recipe and was so pleased with how easy they were to make!
- March 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Pamela said...
I love the picture of the counter, all lacy with powdered sugar. They look perfect and I'm sure they were well enjoyed by your family!
- March 10, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Tia said...
what beautiful cookies
- March 10, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- Di said...
Nice job on the cookies! A tip for you... I almost always line my cookie sheets with parchment. When the cookies need to be dusted with powdered sugar or drizzled with something, I slide the used sheet of parchment under my cooling rack so it catches most of the mess. Much easier to clean up! =) And still makes for cool pictures.
- March 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Eliana said...
your thumbprints look picture perfect :)
- March 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- Denise @ Creative Kitchen said...
I love raspberry thumbprint cookies...probably one of my favorite cookies to make at Christmas time...but I didn't make them this year. These look so yummy!!
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While GNU/Hurd isn't on par yet with GNU/Linux in terms of kernel functionality and hardware support, the developers do have plans for the future and a surprising number of user-space packages are now building on a GNU/Hurd platform...
Eh... Development doesn't work like that. If it was corporations working on it you might have a point but the people working on it are hobbyist developers, which means that they'll work on whatever they want to work on rather than what you think they should work on, unless you have money to pay them of course or some other incentive.
On Topic though, I must say for microkernel systems I'm far more interested in seeing how GENODE, HelenOS, and MINIX3 are going to develop here than HURD honestly. Particularly with Hurd still relying upon a gen 1 microkernel (i.e. Mach), and the others are using Gen 2 designs which are a vast improvement.
It is hard for me to nail down every false aspect you stated in your comment, as the mass of it seems unbearable.
Richard Stallman did not *abandon* the Hurd, as he was never involved into active development in the first place. He is the founder of the GNU operating-system, but that does not mean he is involved in every sub-project.
Talking about the Hurd, it seems like most people don't even know the benefits of using a microkernel. Moreover, features like translators literally kick Linux's ass. You don't need FUSE or other tools to access remote filesystems, you just "cd" to them.
Not to forget the fact that Hurd is free software unlike the Linux-Kernel, which is full of BLOBS.
I have no idea why active development on Hurd would hold back free-software-development (not open-source-software, which is another deal). The opposite will be the case: It will turn the GNU-operating-system more flexible, supporting a multitude of Kernels (Hurd, Linux, FreeBSD) and not including hacks just for one of them.
First off: Richard Stallman execrates the term "Open Source", because it does not comply to the ideals of the Free Software Movement. The inclusion of proprietary BLOBs into the Kernel is not something that would qualify for a Kernel to be a symbol of freedom or even, in disregard, of open source.
Please, just RTFM and get your facts straight, because I have the impression to have just put in words what has already been written cleanly in many manuals.
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Mostly agree with you, but don't go overboard on blobs. If you have the right hardware or just don't need support for certain features you can use Linux without blobs. If Hurd or whatever else wants to support the same hardware, it will be in exactly the same boat: use blobs or don't provide support, at least until some alternative becomes available.
Oh, and maintaining several versions of the same drivers (for Linux, *BSD, and Hurd/other micro kernels) doesn't make sense unless there's really an excess of people wanting to work on them, which I seriously doubt, which means some common interfaces for code sharing are needed to make driver sharing and thus choose-your-own-kernel feasible, which means more work and pain and overhead, which is why we don't see anything like driver equality across free software kernels, so if you're planning on doing some work on kernel drivers and your plans include making GNU/free OSs better, you should seriously consider which kernel project to spend time on.
Put another way, redesiging lots of wheels to work on your railtracks is not very useful unless your railtracks are widely used and similarly making adapters to use existing wheels on your tracks is often a lot of work, so choose your railtracks carefully.
Edit: yes, MINIX does sound interesting, though considering what I know about it is restricted to about five minutes reading a website I'm not going to say more than that.
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Stop with the bullshit! GNU Hurd is useless. No one uses it! Hell it even still has memory leaks so it needs a reboot every once in a while. It's at the level of windows 98. The fact that is still in development just shows how many programmers are completely out of touch with reality. Why would you work on something that is a clear dead end?
All those devs would get better recognition and contribute better to the world if they would work on linux. But noooo, linux has blobs which are evil! So we must reinvent the wheel, worse, reinvent the square wheel, and say it's better since you can cd instead of use fuse. WTF? I cd into my ntfs dirs no problem whatsoever. If that is the Hurd advantage then I will continue laughing at that POS. It's not even positioned in the market. What need does it try to solve? Nothing. Just a random bunch of idealists building their kernel thinking they are some superior hotshot programmers just because they are different. HURD IS TURD! Chant with me.


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