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Mars Inc. to Libertarians Thwart Food Stamp Health Limits
Nicole Blakey says she can't stand watching other people buy junk food with the government-issued food-stamp debit cards she's used to raise three children while earning $9 an hour at a dry cleaner.
Bloomberg on December 2, 2013
A Plan to End Hunger in America
As Americans sit down together for the Thanksgiving holiday, millions of older Americans and others must worry about where their next meal will come from.
AARP Blog on November 27, 2013
Bread for the World Urges Congress to Protect Anti-Hunger Programs
The Christian group Bread for the World released its annual report this week urging new steps to end hunger in America by 2030.
PBS on November 27, 2013
Study shows Hunger in the U.S. can be Reduced 50% in 10 Years
Hunger and poverty in the United States could be reduced by 50 percent in 10 years, according to a report released today by the Bread for the World Institute.
Agri Marketing on November 27, 2013
Thanksgiving Resolution
Barbie Izquierdo, a low-income mother of two small children, is a member of Witnesses to Hunger, a Philadelphia group of moms dedicated to ending hunger and poverty for their children and for families nationwide.
The Huffington Post on November 26, 2013
Bread for the World publishes 2014 Hunger Report
The faith-based anti-hunger advocacy organization Bread for the World today released its 2014 report on Ending Hunger in America. This organization stands out for its economically sensible poverty-centered approach to thinking about the problem of hunger.
U.S. Food Policy on November 25, 2013
Proposed cuts to US food programmes will offset voluntary donations – report
With $11bn food-stamp cuts in place and $40bn welfare cuts on the table, Bread for the World institute seeks political response
The Guardian on November 25, 2013
Food stamp cuts affecting an estimated 4.7M Black households
Approximately 4.7 million African-American households recently saw their monthly food stamp allotment dramatically reduced, Bread for the World has reported.
The Louisiana Weekly on November 25, 2013
Ending hunger in US possible by 2030, aid group says
In a report entitled "Ending Hunger in America," a relief group says progress is being made toward achieving a goal to end world hunger by 2030 -- but it's being slowed by obstacles that need to be overcome.
FOX23.com on November 25, 2013
Rick Steves' Christmas Fundraiser Challenge
Support Bread for the World's work with a $100 donation, and I'll match it. Plus I'll mail you a special Christmas gift. Join me in this challenge by going to Rick Steves' Christmas Fundraiser Challenge.
The Huffington Post on November 25, 2013
SNAP cuts put millions without food on Thanksgiving
Bread for the World said today that recent food stamp cuts has eliminated 150 million meals for Americans in need. Families are now facing the prospect of a Thanksgiving holiday with little or no food in the house.
examiner.com on November 18, 2013
Federal cuts will worsen hunger in America
The Holland Bread Team (a.k.a. the Holland Chapter of Bread for the World) commends The Sentinel for its recent articles on homelessness and hunger in Holland.
hollandsentinel.com on November 18, 2013
Cutting food assistance now would be cruel
Thanks for printing the commentary by Glenn Koenen and Zach Schmidt. They are absolutely correct: "Hunger cannot be solved by charity alone" (Nov. 13). Zach Schmidt's organization, Bread for the World, has recently produced an excellent documentary film that fully supports their conclusions.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch on November 18, 2013
Roanoke area food banks strain even more with cuts to SNAP benefits
As Congress debates cuts to the federal food stamp program, nonprofit food banks across the region already supplement the needs of those people who struggle to feed their families.
The Roanoke Times on November 10, 2013
Film spotlights U.S. struggle with hunger
Flathead Valley leaders who help feed the hungry hope a local showing of "A Place at the Table" will be the springboard for more community advocacy in fighting hunger.
Daily Inter Lake.com on November 8, 2013
How Immigrants on a Pathway to Citizenship can Revitalize Rust Belt Cities
Like Rust Belt cities such as Baltimore and Detroit, rural towns across America have experienced population declines in recent decades.
Immigration Impact on November 5, 2013
Food stamp stimulus over, 47M Americans have less for food
The food stamp stimulus President Obama implemented in 2009 has expired, cutting aid to 47 million Americans. On average, a family of four will get $36 less each month for food.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2013_11_05/Food-stamp-stimulus-over-47M-Americans-have-less-for-food-3453/
The Voice of Russia on November 5, 2013
Cutting food stamps is a bad way to balance the budget
"Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise." (Luke 3:11)
National Catholic Reporter on November 2, 2013
Food Stamp Cuts Will Affect Approximately 4.7 Million Black Households
Approximately 4.7 million African-American households will see their monthly food stamp allotment dramatically reduced beginning on Friday, Bread for the World reported this week.
The NorthStar News & Analysis on October 31, 2013
Shutdown costly to poor due to lost jobs
The recent federal government shutdown was especially disastrous for poor people across the country, according to one advocate for the poor.
Iowa Farmer Today on October 31, 2013


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Number of animals being transported: Eight
Breeds, weight, age: Two Tibetan Terriers, 1 year old: male, 35#; female, 25#; 1-year-old Shih Tzu male, 25#; 4-month-old standard Schnauzer mix pup, 30#; 1-year-old Spitz male, 15#; 2-year-old female Cairn Terrier mix, 25#; two male Beagles, young adults, approx. 25# each
Health Condition: Excellent
Heart worm Status: Some negative; some unknown; Schnauzer pup, N/A
Vaccinations: UTD
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Spay/Neutered: No--to be done by receiving shelter
Special needs: None
Name of Sending Rescue/Parties: Tangipahoa Parish A.C., Hammond, LA; St. Martin Parish A.C., St. Martinville, LA; Iberia Parish A.C., New Iberia, LA; owner surrenders (Tibetan Terriers)
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What an assortment of beauties needing to catch a ride to Houston--and all but the Tibetan Terriers from high-kill shelters in S. Louisiana!! Due to the size of some of these dogs, I feel it is quite likely we will have to split them up into several trips/plane loads.
The crates they will require are bulky and take up a lot of room. Only the Spitz is what I consider to be small enough to fit most anywhere in the plane.
UPDATE, 05/24/13: Tibetan Terriers and Beagles traveled to Houston via ground on Sunday, 05/19. Wade Roberts should be coming today to pick up Gizmo, Jester, Bingo and Jazz. This will complete this mission.
After several days of uncooperative weather between Houston and New Iberia, Wade was finally able to get in this a.m. (5/26) and whisk the 4 beauties off to their new "digs" in Houston. Thanks for hanging in there, Wade!

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I always love this time of year! It's just after the American Diabetes Association's scientific sessions, and there is always a wealth of new research and products that are introduced to us in the diabetes community.
This year's conference was held in Philadelphia. Because we had trouble finding relatives to look after our kids, Spencer and Miranda, I stayed home and my wife, Nadia (Diabetes Health's publisher), attended the conference with our staff. Several weeks later, Nadia is still raving about what a great spectacle it was.
Research From All Over the World
Over 2,200 abstracts were presented from diabetes researchers all over the world. On page 33 of this month's issue, we have summarized some of the more intriguing and helpful ones, and there are more to come in future issues of DI.
One notable outcome from the conference was preliminary results from the Diabetes Prevention Trial (DPT-1), which found that giving small amounts of injected insulin to kids at risk of developing type 1 does not prevent the disease. It's too bad, considering the millions of dollars that were spent and thousands of participants that were screened for the study.
In another surprise finding, research presented at the conference explored whether getting blood from the fingertips versus "alternate" sites yielded similar BG measurements. Researchers discovered that blood taken from fingertips actually produce higher average BG readings compared to the forearm and thigh, especially 60 and 90 minutes after a meal.
Kidneys for Sale
As for this month's feature articles, check out "Complications" on page 23. It discusses the controversial issue of kidney sales. I found it to be a very compelling read because if you have diabetes and need a kidney the wait list could be 10 years long and some patients are not able to wait it out.
The people with diabetes featured in this story traveled to countries such as Turkey and Iraq to receive their transplants, and they attained the same or better success rates as transplants in the United States.
Herbs and Vitamins
Also check out our special overview article on herbs, vitamins and supplements on page 45. Nadia told me that everybody who came by the DI booth in Philly had nothing but praise for the magazine. However, she noted that two endocrinologists told her that we shouldn't waste our time talking about things like vitamins and herbs because the "science is bad" and the "treatments are not helpful." If that is the case, why is there always a wealth of research extolling the benefits? We are not running this article on herbs not to "tell" you to take herbs and vitamins and supplements, but to explain which ones are supported by published research. Of course, always talk to your doctor about whether or not they might be right for you.
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26 Years with Diabetes
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SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party has become so pathetic in California that it can't even find a candidate to run for governor next year.
Correct that. It isn't even looking. Wouldn't know where to begin.
The party's in no position to recruit anyway. It has little to offer. Certainly not a brand name, not in a state where the GOP steadily has been losing market share. Definitely not money. The party's deep in debt.
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Actually, neither major party historically has had to recruit top-of-ticket candidates. They're usually lined up begging, jockeying for position to win the party's nomination.
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Republicans will hold a state convention next weekend in Sacramento. Normally, there'd be a parade of gubernatorial wannabes fighting for the mike and opening up hospitality suites during the silly hours. But not this time.
This convention apparently will have all the excitement of a Saturday at the dump. The big event will be the election of a former Republican legislative leader, Jim Brulte, as the new state chairman.
Brulte wants to rebuild the party from the ground up. That includes recruiting local candidates and building a farm system for major office.
But no one can name a Republican who would have a snowball's chance of beating Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown next year — at least someone who might run.
The name of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice always is tossed out. But everyone concedes that's fantasy. She's committed to education reform, a Brown vulnerability. She loves her life in academia at Stanford, however, and shuns smelly state politics.
Another name is U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, the Republican whip. As a former Assembly GOP leader, he understands Sacramento and perhaps could make it work. But he's not going to surrender his No. 3 party leadership post in Congress.
One big red flag for any Republican is Brown's remarkable strength. He seems practically unbeatable in his expected quest for a record fourth term as governor. (In October, he'll surpass Gov. Earl Warren's record for years served in the office.)
A Field Poll last week showed that Brown's job approval rating among voters has risen to an eye-popping 57%. Moreover, 61% said he "can be trusted to do what is right." And 56% thought he "deserves credit for turning around the state's finances."
But — pointing to some weakness — 57% also said that Brown "advocates too many big-government projects that the state cannot afford" (bullet train). And 47% said he "favors organized labor too much" (public pensions).
So there are some sores for opponents to peck away at. And, after all, he will be 76.
Brown probably can't be bounced from office, however. So forget about trying to find a Republican winner. Just settle for a credible candidate who can pass the laugh test.
Ideally, the candidate would be someone relatively young who runs on the high road — avoiding the gutter — and finishes in position to wage a successful encore race when Brown gets booted by term limits in 2018.
Being a Latino could be a plus, attracting voters from a growing ethnic group that has been repulsed by what it perceives as GOP immigrant bashing.
But who? Remember we're not looking for electability. What's needed is credibility — to carry the colors without embarrassing the party.
That excludes one legislator who has expressed interest, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County. He's a former Minuteman who rails against illegal immigration and was placed on probation for trying to bring a loaded firearm onto an airplane. He called it an "honest mistake."


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I'm a huge Hard Rock/Heavy Metal fan with an addiction to buying CDs, DVDs, and other paraphernalia. This forum will discuss my growing collection, Metal memories, past/current events in the scene, and my opinions on various albums.
Who am I?
Name: Steve Angulo
Age: 34
Location: Pawtucket, RI USA
Top 10 Favorite Bands:
- Judas Priest
- Queen
- Saxon
- Iron Maiden
- Black Sabbath
- Scorpions
- Alcatrazz
- Dio
Top 10 Favorite Albums:
- KISS – Rock And Roll Over (1977)
- KISS – Creatures Of The Night (1982)
- Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith (1984)
- Queen – A Night At The Opera (1975)
- Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1984)
- Saxon – Wheels Of Steel (1980)
- Alcatrazz – No Parole From Rock'n'Roll (1983)
- Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell (1980)
- Michael Schenker Group – Assault Attack (1982)
- W.A.S.P. – The Last Command (1985)
Best Concert Attended:
KISS – Reunion Tour (Boston, MA) – July 30, 1996
hey im the same way, started in about 87 and have not stopped since. i love 80s metal mostly but i have alot of everything.
check out my website!!!!
Great site – seen it advertised in record collector. I have been collecting since 1981 – now 37 – go to plenty of gigs and look forward to sharing memories and talk of metal
sorry my website is
Hey Dale,
your mail address doesn't work -contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hi Dale,
Great blog mate and like you I share the addiction for good hard rock music! Unlike you however its gotta be vinyl for me! I've really enjoyed reading the stuff here and have even ordered a copy of the Predator album… we appear to have a very similar taste in music so I look forward to hearing it!!!!
regards from the UK
I love this website! Just came across it. Us metal bloggers need to stick together. Stay metal.
Love thr website, metal rules, been a fan since the age of 13, now 32, it's a state of mind!
Check out my page dedicated to crossover San Francisco act MORDRED, who were years ahead of their time in the early '90s.
Hey, RhodeIslandRock! What year did we go see KISS at Club Avalon in Boston?
I was browing through your site and I had a good time reading some stuff that you wrote.
I am also a collector from Brazil and it all began with Kiss in 1983, when they first played here.
I wonder if you can indicate me some webshops and places that I can shop through the web after rock and roll and heavy stuff.
Right now I am trying to finish my Hammerfall collection on cassetes tapes.
Thanks a lot!
Hey, nice Web site!!
I just started a blog called Metal Man Speaks. I'm totally new to the game, so it's pretty bare bones. I decided to send you a link because it looks like you know what you're doing.
There is some political stuff on the blog, but it wont be full of ideological screeds, etc. I just think that metal heads can and should be informed about political and cultural issues.
A significant part of the blog will also be devoted to tattooing and other stuff. I'd really appreciate it if you paid a visit.
Jon Hanemann
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I have a great idea to make your blog better! I was reading your blog and you have lots of flashbacks as to when you were a kid. Maybe if you put Flashbacks From My past or something like that?
I mean make flashbacks from the past a category.
I don't know if you have it but I've got an original European Roadrunner cd release of "Dr. Mastermind – s/t" (RR 9605-2) that I'd be willing to sell if you're interested. Let me know. I know this cd is a difficult cd to locate these days because I too used to be big into collecting …before I lost my entire cd collection to a house fire. :o( :o)
Hey Steve…great site, have bookmarked you and look forward to visiting often. I am an old school metal head (44 yrs old) my first concert was
KISS opener was Uriah Heap (75-76) The stage was made for the DESTROYER album. It looked like a castle and fog machines ran almost every other song. My best friends Dad took us and he had an expensive camera with a telaphoto lens. He took pictures down front and made copies for both of us. 90% of the pictures were just blurs cause he had just bought the lens but the two best shots were close ups of Gene spitting blood and he caught him blowing fire dead on. His face is orange from the fireball being so close and the flame is backed by the KISS sign lit up.Its amazing, since he was a grown man with this expensive camera ushers let him roam anywhere he felt like not like today where you show your ticket every 15 ft. Maybe a side bar of peoples favorite concert and why would be cool. This site is "Worth the Deuce"
Dude The Scorpions are awesome!!! Their was a concert over at the gibson amphitheater and I went which was AWESOME!!!
Loved that concert in 1996, best show I have seen.
the opening band was great too, Red 5
I love the way your blog looks like Steve, its just increible cool. Realy realy nice.
Just searching the web tonight and I came across your site, very nice job Steve! I've been a metalhead since in 83′ my first concert was KISS in 86′ with WASP opening 5th row. If you or anyone else would like to check out my website here's a link! Enjoy!
Rock On! \m/
Hey Steve,
I'm a local near you and have the same musical interests. Big KISS fan – 37 and still into the music scene. I just picked up Kissology V3 and it's awesome!!! One of the greatest DVD releases in the music biz! I also picked up Ratt – The Atlantic Years and Queensryche's Take Cover cd.
I keep reading on thei Endever band so I'm looking into them…KEEP ROCKING and great site!!! Where do you score your music from???
Hey Steve,
Just googling around & saw that you included my band Icarus Witch in your top releases for 2007! What a cool honor & judging from your top 10 favorite bands on this page, I can tell you really get where we're coming from. I'm often asked in interviews what my favorite album of all time is & when I say Alcatrazz – No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll…well, you can sense a palpable air of surprise on the other line! haha. I'll post your list on our myspace.com/icaruswitch page. Cheers!
thanks for participating in the guilty pleasures thing, i'll put you on my blog list can you do the same for me,
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Hi! Would you consider featuring Normandy Guitars on the Blogs? They are currently endorsing:
Kristy Rose, Still Fallen – Oxblood Red Anodized/Maple Neck; NG is creating a custom "Flying V" for her
Mike Squires, Loaded – Chrome/Rosewood Neck
David Catching, Eagles of Death Metal (EODM) – Chrome/Maple Neck
Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes, EODM – Black Anodized/Maple Neck
Shawn Sonnenschien, Black 'n' Blue – two Chrome guitars/one with Maple neck and one with Rosewood neck
Chriss Goss, Founder of Masters of Reality/Producer of Player of Smith & Pyle & Queens of the Stone Age – Army Green/ Maple Neck
Daniel Davies, Year Long Disaster – Copper Plated/Rosewood Neck
Also won best of show at NAMM in June! Thanks!
Great blog! You have excellent taste in music, nice to meet a fellow Heavy Metal addict!
Your reviews are very detailed and written in an informative but still entertaining way! Nice work!
Metal forever!!
By the way, if you haven't already done so, you should check out the band Enforcer!
hi. thanks for the INFO, and when there are new info about the metal band's new album this year please send an email. thanks
Kick ass Metal Site!! Keep it Metal!!
Love Scorpions, Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Judas Priest, AC/DC.
Just done a search for the most popular rock music blogs and you were number 1.
Liked the write up on Uncle Sam, I was about 17 or 18 when that came out and was too embarrased to buy it plus I'd not heard of the band before then either.
Keep up the good work.
I've got a band I'd like to send your way for review or interview. How do I do so?
Hiya – some very worthy additions to your collection would be a couple of albums by the Aussie 70′s band Buffalo. They released 5 albums from '72-'77, the best two being "Volcanic Rock" & "Only Want You For Your Body". Checkit. Cheers.
first off "GO STEELER'S" Most of the bands you guys are naming are almost all hair bands.What about Motorhead,Megadeath,3 inches of Blood, 5 FINGER DEATH PUNCH.KILLSWITCH ENGAGED,IN THIS MOMENT,and my fav. EXODUS & OVERKILL
I heard iron maiden was going to do a reunion tour with paul dianno don't know how true it is but if it happens ill be there..
Your top 10 is ROCKING! I remember WASP playing The Troubadour in Hollywood back in the day and all the hype! Then watching them go onto Mega Metal Annihilation..No words for KISS and Maiden. Simply "The Shit"! Thanks for a cool page and taking the time to keep it all together. If you have a chance come have a look at my pages..ROCK!!
Excellent! You like all the same type of music as us!
We have ourselves self released our debut album this year and would love you to have a listen.. 2 years in the making, mastered by the great Kevin Metcalfe (ELO, Queen, Dickinson)
You can stream the entire album online here: http://www.soundcloud.com/turbo-laser
All the best! – Al
Hey hows it going, I came across your site searching for metal blogs. I just started one myself http://metalmick.blogspot.com/. I was pleased to see that you are from Rhode Island, I am from Warwick, and we have the same music tastes. I was also at the Schenker show at Showcase live in Foxboro. I read your review and I agree totally. It was a dream come true for me to see Schenker, and hope I can see him again. Anyways great site Keep up the good work.
hey my friends have this band called Scratch the floor ( http://www.facebook.com/ScratchTheFloor ) We are from small country(Georgia). I was wondering if you can listen to their music and say what future you see in them. thank you!


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1. This month's Belmont Public Library's Books and Bites program welcomes poet and Belmont resident Wendy Drexler who will discuss and read from her new book of poetry "Western Motel" at 11 a.m. in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Public Library. Books and Bites is a monthly book review program featuring presentations by residents, Library staff and local authors.
2. The popular Belmont Municipal Light Department's 2013 historical calendar is now available at the Department's business office located at 40 Prince St. Since there are only a limited number printed, there is a limit of one calendar per customer account. First come, first served.
3. The Belmont High School winter sports season begins this week with Boys and Girls Ice Hockey at Watertown on Wednesday and Girls Basketball taking on Watertown Friday in the happy confinds of Wenner Field House.
4. Belmont real estate and personal property taxpayers can now enroll online for paperless billing and payment with the town's Treasurer. Taxpayers are able to sign up to Billtrust online to access payment histories and to schedule direct debit and credit card payments.The website is compatible with all smartphones and tablet devices, so no app download is required.
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5. On this day in 1884, one of the great novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain – a frequent visitor to Belmont when visiting Atlantic Monthly editor and author William Dean Howells in his Somerset Street house, Redtop – is published ... in England first before the United States in February 1885. It was one of the first novels in major American literature to be written in the vernacular of the people. It has never been out of print.


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Today Qualcomm announced it's unleashing a new dual CPU snapdragon processor. I'm still impressed with the current snap dragon processor found in the HTC Droid Incredible, so I can only imagine what the next wave of Android phones will be like. Check out the full press release below:
Third-generation Snapdragon Solutions Feature Two Application Processor Cores Running up to 1.2 GHz to Enable Advanced Smartphones
TAIPEI, Taiwan June 01, 2010 Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of wireless technologies, products and services, today announced the Company has sampled its first dual-CPU Snapdragon chipsets. The Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM8260 and MSM8660 solutions integrate two of the Companys enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. Targeted at enabling high-end smartphones, the MSM8x60 solutions are third-generation chipsets from the Companys expanded Snapdragon platform, which has been powering smartphones, tablets and smartbook devices in markets around the world.
Qualcomms first-generation Snapdragon chipsets set a new standard for advanced smartphones and smartbook devices, and our second-generation solutions are already shipping in volume, said Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. We are very excited by the innovation our customers are already showing as they begin designing products based on our dual-core MSM8260 and MSM8660 chipsets.
The MSM8260 for HSPA+ and MSM8660 for multi-mode HSPA+/CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO Rev. B feature two enhanced CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz for high levels of Web application and multimedia performance, including a powerful GPU with 3D/2D acceleration engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 accelration, 1080p video encode/decode, dedicated low power audio engine, integrated low power GPS, and support for 24-bit WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution displays.
Qualcomms Snapdragon family of chipset solutions includes:
First-generation products: QSD8x50 with 1GHz enhanced core
Second-generation products: MSM8x55 and QSD8x50A with 1GHz enhanced core, including multimedia optimizations and 1.3GHz enhanced core, respectively
Third-generation products: MSM8260, MSM8660 and QSD8672 with dual-CPU architecture featuring enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz, respectively
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PaddyC on Mar 25, 2011 at 05:57:06
Love it! Classy design and powerful message.
JustinSG on Mar 24, 2011 at 09:58:53
So is this $5 or $10? says $5 outside!
tentek on Mar 7, 2011 at 14:40:38
This is a great T-shirt! I love the design with a message!
It has a great fit to it and the material is top-quality!
skeeter9000 on Feb 24, 2011 at 14:32:27
Someone prolly said this already (don't feel like scrollin 6 pages of comments) but someone should make a shirt w/ the robot hands on the T.
Robsoul on Feb 23, 2011 at 16:01:03
What's all this political talk nonsense, I just wanna bang Miss Liberty after seeing this graphic... someone cue the boner jams.
NSisifo on Feb 22, 2011 at 11:36:22
Who knew under all that metal fabric Lady L had a rockin' bod? I'm straight. I'm just sayin...
eugenfongranzadiextravaganza on Feb 15, 2011 at 04:36:33
just got one, awesome, thanks!
alex1526 on Jan 20, 2011 at 18:28:14
Hey arspytma,
If you don't like the concept...don't buy the shirt. More for the rest of us who like our gay bicycles.
But, please, don't mindlessly insult people for expressing their opinions just because they don't mesh with your own. Grow up.
irwan1710 on Jan 14, 2011 at 05:26:14
haha...thats funny
wawewow on Jan 14, 2011 at 02:51:28
say somethin' nice? it's freakin' niceee!!! love it!!
aled on Dec 30, 2010 at 15:38:21
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shatteredshards on Dec 29, 2010 at 12:40:34
I would just like to remind everyone whose thought on this is along the lines of arspytma's that, for all of the TSA's meddling, in the 9 years since 9/11 they have yet to catch a SINGLE attempted bomber. Every incident you hear about is someone who got through the checkpoints.
We are all familiar with The Hangman and First They Came, correct?
joaquinavellan79 on Dec 24, 2010 at 15:45:30
It's quite easy to understand what this is all about.
Plus, I have always wondered what she looked like underneath. ⥠this shirt!!!
gabonitrotolueno on Dec 23, 2010 at 10:58:52
too bad the pattern, I thought that the pole would have a better finish, the idea is good but now if you buy the pole and do not want it
muy malo el estampado :S crei que el polo iba a tener un mejor acabado, la idea si esta chevere... pero ahora que compre el polo ya no lo quiero..


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American Jews,
and the Origins
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Arab/Israeli Conflict
by John B. Judis (TNR The New Republic)
January 2014
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time�the relationship between�the United States and Israel There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs�a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In�Genesis,�John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal power outside the region since the end of World War II and as such must account for its repeated failed efforts to resolve this enduring strife.
The fatal flaw in American policy, Judis shows, can be traced back to the Truman years. What happened between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Middle East for the remainder of the century. As a result, understanding that period holds the key to explaining almost everything that follows�right down to George W. Bush�s unsuccessful and ill-conceived effort to win peace through holding elections among the Palestinians, and Barack Obama�s failed attempt to bring both parties to the negotiating table. A provocative narrative history animated by a strong analytical and moral perspective, and peopled by colorful and outsized personalities,�Genesis�offers a fresh look at these critical postwar years, arguing that if we can understand how this stalemate originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.
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Reading this book made me develop an is an idea for an art installation. We take an illustration of a Manhattan apartment building. We place ipads in the windows, and each one plays a loop of 24 hours of a video of peeping into an apartment. The gallery patrons can watch all the ipad/window videos or focus on just one as a voyeur�
A novel
by Tova Mirvis
March 2014
For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Allegra Goodman, an intimate and provocative novel about three couples whose paths intersect in their New York City neighborhood, forcing them all to weigh the comfort of stability against the costs of change.
Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son�s Fisher-Price binoculars. It is Manhattan, and they don�t have window shades. She can see straight into the flats of neighbors and imagine what is happening in their lives. She is drawn to the quiet contentment of the older couple � the are reading on the couch, the husband touches his wife�s foot and massages it - it is so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of nursing and soothing and simply getting by.
One night, through that same window, she spies a young couple. They commence passion filled, spontaneous sexual intercourse and the woman stares right out the window and into Nina�s eyes. Does she enjoy being watched? Who are these people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic bliss?
In the coming weeks, Nina encounters the older couple, Leon and Claudia, their daughter Emma and her fianc�, and many others on the streets of her Upper West Side neighborhood, eroding the safe distance of her secret vigils. Soon anonymity gives way to different � and sometimes dangerous � forms of intimacy, and Nina and her neighbors each begin to question their own paths.
With enormous empathy and a keen observational eye, Tova Mirvis introduces a constellation of characters we all know: twenty-somethings unsure about commitments they haven�t yet made; thirty-somethings unsure about the ones they have; and sixty-somethings whose empty nest causes all sorts of doubt. Visible City invites us to examine those all-important forks in the road, and the conflict between desire and loyalty.
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October 2013
Metropolitan Books
EVEN IF you only read the intro, the book is worth the purchase price
Since when did Tevye and Fiddler on the Roof, a 50-year-old musical based on 100 year old short stories come to represent the nostalgia and idea of shtetl Jewish life and Jewish life before the mass American immigration
This is a sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world.
In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark.
In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination�a major Hollywood picture.
Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is �so Japanese.�
Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition.
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
November 2013
Open Road
The forbidden, tempestuous, and tragic love story of a beautiful Jewish immigrant and a debonair black man in the South during the early twentieth century
Mags Preacher, a young black woman with a dream, arrives in St. Louis from the piney woods of her family home in 1916, hoping to learn the beauty trade. She knows nothing about Jews except that they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. Then she begins working for Mr. Fishbein, an Eastern European �migr� who fled the pogroms that shattered his life to become the proprietor of Fishbein�s Funeral Home. By the time he saves Mags from certain death during the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, all her perceptions have changed. But Mr. Fishbein�s daughter, the troubled redheaded beauty Minerva, is a different matter. There is something wrong with the girl, something dangerous, something fateful. And it is Magnus Bailey, Mags�s first friend in the city, who learns to what heights and depths the girl�s willful spirit can drive a man.
Marching to Zion is the tragic story of Minerva Fishbein and Magnus Bailey, a charismatic black man and the longtime business partner of Minerva�s father. From the brutal riots of East St. Louis to Memphis, Tennessee, during the 1920s and the Depression, Marching to Zion is a tale of passion, betrayal, and redemption during an era in America when interracial love could not go unpunished. Readers of Mary Glickman�s One More River will celebrate the return of Aurora Mae Stanton, who joins a cast of vibrant new characters in this tense and compelling Southern-Jewish novel that examines the price of love and the interventions of fate. .
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Eating the Bible
Over 50 Delicious Recipes to Feed Your Body and Nourish Your Soul
by Rena Rossner (you know her from the Jerusalem Post)
November 2013
SkyHorse Press
Feed your body, challenge your mind, and nourish your soul
One weekend, a decade ago, author Rena Rossner was served a bowl of lentil soup at dinner. The portion of the Bible that had been discussed that week was the chapter in which Esau sells his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of red lentil soup. Rossner was struck by the ability to bring the Bible alive in such a tactile way and decided on the spot to see whether she could incorporate the Bible into a meal each week. And so she has. The result, Eating the Bible, is an innovative cookbook with original, easy-to-prepare recipes that will ignite table conversation while pleasing the stomach. Every meal will become both a tactile and intellectual experience as the recipes enrich both the soul of the cook and the palates of those at the table.
Every cook must glance at a recipe countless times before completing a dish. Often recipes involve five- to ten-minute periods during which one must wait for the water to boil, the soup to simmer, or the onions to saut�. It is Rossner�s goal to help enrich those moments with biblical verse and commentary, to enable cooks to feed their souls as they work to feed the members of the household and guests. From the zesty �Garden of Eden Salad� to the �Honey Coriander Manna Bread,� each recipe will delight the palate and spark the mind.
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Rena Rossner has written extensively for the Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem Report. Her Jerusalem Post cooking column, �The Weekly Portion,� combined recipes with biblical verse. As a mom to five kids, she is always looking for ways to bring more meaning to her family�s meals, and she blogs about this process at eatingthebibleblog.wordpress.com. She holds an MA in history from McGill University and a BA in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University�s Writing Seminars program. Her poetry and short stories have been published in various print and online magazines. Raised in Miami, she also lived in Canada and Ireland before making her home with her family in Jerusalem, but she still travels extensively to North America and the United Kingdom.
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah
by Paula J. Freedman
October 2013
During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for "star") Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there doesn't seem to be enough time to hang out with her best friend Ben-O--who might also be her boyfriend--and her other best friend, Rebecca, who's getting a little too cozy with the snotty Sheila Rosenberg.
Not to mention working on her robotics project with the class clown Ryan Berger, or figuring out what to do with a priceless heirloom sari that she accidentally ruined.
Amid all this drama, Tara considers how to balance her Indian and Jewish identities and what it means to have a bat mitzvah while questioning her faith. With the cross-cultural charm of Bend It Like Beckham, this delightful debut novel is a classic coming-of-age story and young romance with universal appeal.
Fifty Shades of Oy Vey
A Parody
by E L JAMESbergstein
Alfred A. Knish
160 pages for under $9.
Sex. Bondage. Bagels. When college senior Anatevka Stein meets bagel tycoon Chaim Silver, she encounters a mensch like none she has ever known� brilliant, lecherous and reeking of herring. The combination is impossible to resist. Chaim wants her too, subject to conditions spelled out in a Kinky Ketubah. What sexual techniques will he teach her in his Blue Room of Broadloom? Why is the first night of Passover with Chaim truly different from all other nights? And why does he play such sorrowful music on his accordion? Is it because of the wedgies he received at Jewish summer camp? Erotic, exotic and Ashkenazic, this passionate love story will touch your heart, stir your soul, and stay with you forever, not unlike a homemade matzah ball. Bonus! Includes selections from Volume II: Fifty Shades Meshuggener and Volume III: Fifty Shades Fried Latkes. This book is intended for mature and somewhat immature readers.
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A crime thriller novel
By Liad Shoham
September 2013
Israel�s #1 bestselling author Liad Shoham makes his American debut in this compelling, superbly plotted crime thriller.
What makes the thriller Israeli is that it is set in Tel Aviv and told from a number of POVs. Like Rashomon, each character tells the story from their opinion and worldview, they also make choices with Israeli Improvisation, without planning, in ways that may break rules, but which they feel is right. Also, the story occurs in Israel, where it seems that everyone meddles, everyone is a cousin, and there is no escape; the victim and the criminal and the investigators all live in the same small city and country.
After a brutal rape disturbs a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, baffled detectives find no clues, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. The father of the shattered victim refuses to rest until justice is done, so he begins his own investigation. Keeping watch over his daughter's apartment from the street, he notices Ziv Nevo lurking in the shadows.
All circumstances � and the victim � point to Nevo's guilt, and it appears the case is closed.
But appearances can be deceiving. Detective Eli Nachum is eager to wrap up this high-profile case, which threatens to thwart his career. He sees an easy conviction when the father, determined to succeed where the police have failed, hands over Nevo. But why does the suspect keep silent during the interrogation? What secret is he hiding? What should Nachum and the idealistic young district attorney understand from the suspect's silence?
What unfolds is a brilliant, fast-paced story that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Lineup is a twisted tale of mistaken identity, organized crime, a disgraced detective looking for redemption, a tireless young reporter, and an innocent man with a not-so-innocent past. Which lines will they cross and what will they be willing to risk, as their worlds begin to collapse? This seamless, gripping novel introduces a powerful new voice in crime fiction.
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A Cookbook
by Einat Admony
September 2013
Einat Admony is a 21st-century balaboosta (Yiddish for �perfect housewife�). She�s a mother and wife, but also a chef busy running three bustling New York City restaurants: Taim, and Balaboosta.
I must mention that everytime I go to Taim, the takeout Israeli cuisine is quite above average, but they have so much staff attitude that I usually avoid the place. That is why I like the cookbook better; you get the food and nice feelings, without the unnecessary snide attitude.
This is Admony�s debut cookbook and it contains over 130 recipes she cooks for the people she loves. Here, Einat�s mixed Israeli heritage (Yemenite, Persian) seamlessly blends with the fresh, sophisticated Mediterranean palate she honed while working in some of New York City�s most beloved kitchens. The result is a melting pot of meals for every need and occasion: exotic and exciting dinner-party dishes (harissa-spiced Moroccan fish, beet gnocchi), meals just for kids (chicken schnitzel, root veggie chips), healthy options (butternut squash and saffron soup, quinoa salad with preserved lemon and chickpeas), satisfying comfort food (creamy, cheesy potatoes, spicy chili), and so much more.
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My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs
By Rick Moranis
So it isn�t a book, so kill me, it is a CD
Summer 2013
Rick Moranis, nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1983 and 2005, presents a collection of songs for 2013, this time derived from his Jewish roots and upbringing. My Mother s Brisket & Other Love Songs is an eclectic blend of klezmer, rumba, folk and jazz covering themes of family, food, religious traditions, more food, love, and dessert.
Music has always been a big part of Moranis career. He started spinning records on Toronto radio in the 70s, then went on to do stand-up comedy, always appearing with his guitar. On the Emmy award-winning TV series SCTV, Moranis did musical impressions, parodies, and characters. And starred in a list of still loved 80s comedy films including Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Parenthood, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, the cult-favorite McKenzie Brothers' film Strange Brew, and one of his most beloved, the musical Little Shop Of Horrors.
With this album, Moranis goes back to where he started: "When I first began writing jokes and sketches with various Jewish partners one of us would inevitably stop at some point and announce, "Too Jewish!" Too Jewish for the star, the show, the network, or the audience. The songs on this album are all in that category. I grew up hearing the Allan Sherman and the You Don't Have To Be Jewish albums in the 60s. Now I m in my 60s."
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Love Song to a Forgotten Fat
by Michael Ruhlman
Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman (some relation)
From the famed cookbook author and judge from Iron Chef, a definitive book on schmaltz--a staple in Jewish cuisine and a "thread in a great tapestry," by one of America's most respected culinary writers.
For culinary expert Michael Ruhlman, the ultimate goal in cooking is flavor, and for certain dishes nothing introduces it half as well as schmaltz. A staple ingredient in traditional Jewish cuisine, schmaltz (or rendered chicken fat), is at risk of disappearing from use due to modern dietary trends and misperceptions about this versatile and flavor-packed ingredient.
THE BOOK OF SCHMALTZ acts as a primer on schmaltz, taking a fresh look at traditional dishes like kugel, kishke, and kreplach, and also venturing into contemporary recipes that take advantage of the versatility of this marvelous fat. Potatoes cooked with schmaltz take on a crispness and satisfying flavor that vegetable oil can't produce. Meats and starches have a depth and complexity that set them apart from the same dishes prepared with olive oil or butter.
What's more, schmaltz provides a unique link to the past that ought to be preserved. "Schmaltz is like a thread that runs through a great tapestry," says Ruhlman's neighbor Lois, whose cooking inspired his own journey into the world of schmaltz. "It's a secret handshake among Jews who love to cook and eat."
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Sobre el cielo y la tierra
(Spanish Edition)
By Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ and Rabbi Abraham Skorka
Sudamerica Press, Argentina
December 2010, paperback edition
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now known as Pope Francis I), the highest authority of the Catholic Church in Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, two tenacious promoters of interfaith dialogue, through which they seek to build common horizons and undiluted particularities that characterize them.
�About the heaven and earth� is the result of a series of deep conversations alternately held at the headquarters of the Episcopate and in the Jewish B'nai Tikvah synagogue
In his meetings they discussed the most varied theological and worldly issues: God, fundamentalism, atheists, death, the Holocaust, homosexuality, capitalism, and so much more.
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Algonquin Books
October 2012
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there�s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting�one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum�in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting�the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner�is delivered to Claire�s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.
Claire�s search for the truth about the painting�s origins leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro�s razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. It is a dazzling novel about seeing�and not seeing�the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.
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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
Volume 10: 1973-2005
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz
December 2012
Yale University Press
This first published volume in the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization introduces readers to the diversity of Jewish civilization since 1973. The volume vividly demonstrates the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes across continents and languages, revealing the complex transnational character of Jewish life and cultural production. With hundreds of examples from literature, visual arts, and popular culture, as well as intellectual and spiritual works, the volume adopts a deliberately pluralistic perspective. High and low, elite and popular, folk and mass, famous and obscure�all have a place in this groundbreaking anthology.
Readers will quickly come to appreciate the impact on Jewish culture of major social, political, and economic events during the past quarter century�the feminist movement, Israeli politics after the Yom Kippur War, Russian Jewish emigration, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, the rise of identity politics in the United States, South American revolutions and dictatorships, and North African emigration to France, among many others. Offering a rich encounter with an array of expressions of Jewish identity, the anthology reflects the exuberance, diversity, and vigor of Jewish culture in the decades since 1973.
Among the hundreds of noted figures in Volume 10 are Bellow, Blume, Dershowitz, Doctorow, Englander, Gehry, Bader Ginsburg, Thomas L. Friedman, Allegra Goodman, Grossman, Malamud, Memet, Nevelson, Ozick, Roth, Sontag, and Wasserstein
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We don�t know about you, but all around us, people were talking earlier this year about the BBC Masterpiece Classic television series, DOWNTON ABBEY. As you know, it is the story of a family of British aristocrats during World War One, and the changes in their household, upstairs and downstairs, as a war is fought, women seek the right to vote and be heard, some Irish desire independence, Communism rages in Russia, and more.
But very few Americans know the back story on Cora, the Countess of Grantham, played by Elizabeth McGovern. In DOWNTON ABBEY, Cora is the beautiful daughter of Isidore Levinson, a dry goods multi millionaire from Cincinnati, Ohio. Cora arrived in England with her mother in 1888 at the age of 20, and was engaged to Robert, Earl of Grantham (played by High Bonneville) by the end of her first season. They had three daughters and a grandchild
So, this means that Cora most likely has a Jewish father in America, and maybe even a Jewish mother. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS was of Jewish heritage but baptised as Anglican at the age of 12).
But here is a book that will make DOWNTON ABBEY fans squeal. The real Lady of the castle used in the show WAS of Jewish heritage. She was the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild. Read more below:
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
(Downton Abbey)
By The Countess of Carnarvon
January 2012, Broadway Books
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes�s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the biological daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.
Feed Me Bubbe
Recipes and Wisdom from America's Favorite Online Grandmother
Bubbe and Avrom Honig
September 2011 Running Press
Feed Me Bubbe is all about taking you into Bubbe's kitchen. Based upon the popular online and televised kosher cooking show seen all over the world this book includes all of Bubbe's classic recipes, insights, and stories that are sure to touch the heart. Her voice and wisdom come across each page through a format that makes cooking fun and comfortable for any skill level. Discover Bubbe's favorite Yiddish songs and create menus that will be sure to please any palate. This is a must purchase for any fan of Feed Me Bubbe and anyone interested in experiencing the feelings, memories, and tastes of being a part of Bubbe's kitchen. So pull up a chair, sit down, have some chicken soup, and as Bubbe says at the end of every episode "Ess gezunterhait!" Eat in good health.
Picture sitting around the dining room table while your Bubbe, your grandmother, is in the kitchen cooking your absolute favorite treat. Be it the smell of chicken soup with matzo balls, the sounds of the sizzling oil as latkes are being prepared.
And the smile on her face as she would bring in that meal to the table for all to enjoy. Those memories, feelings, and moments are what the highlights of our childhood was made of. Bubbe wants you to feel that connection, revealing only need to know information, making you feel like Bubbe is adopting you into her family. This is not your typical book, yes it includes recipes but this book has a "Yiddish Word of the Day", stories, words of encouragement amongst other surprises that makes any human soul want to know more. We worked very hard to get the results that we knew the fans expected to see at the end of the day. In addition we wanted to make this book accessible to those that may not have seen the show online or on TV through JLTV in which the book is based upon. If you have not seen the show for yourself take a closer look at Bubbe's incredible world up close and personal through this book in what our fans affectionately know of as Feed Me Bubbe.
Above is the official blurb. Now, for mine. Avrom Honig is a nice Jewish grandson. A college graduate, he gives great nachas to his Worcester family. He wanted to get involved in the media business after college, and was trying to make a tape/dvd/reel to show his work to prospective employers. He wasn�t happy with his sample dvd, and his father, in a fit of angst, said, why don�t you video your bubbe. And that is how his octogenarian bubbe became a media star, and part of a PBS Frontline documentary. He taped her making homey meals and giving advice, and these became an online sensation, a cable TV show, annual Beyond Bubbe Cook-off at WGBH in Boston, and, now, a cookbook
The cookbook is filled with stories, recipes, and cooking advice. There are memories of growing up in New England, marrying, and raising a family. The recipes are kosher, basic, easy, and heimisch. Each page has a Yiddish word of the day. There are recipes for latkas, blintzes, bulkelach (cinnamon rolls), chopped chicken livers, mock faux chopped liver, chopped eggs and onions (she uses olive oil), salmon puffs, chopped herring, Israeli style herring (tomato paste and apples), and pickled salmon. There is a story about a neighbor�s first taste of nova lox, the Catskills, a Boston area snowstorm and its food requirements, balancing work (she worked) and family and a daily hot meal for her growing family. Oh, there is the story of a crock pot and a frankfurter sliced lengthwise. Then there are more recipes, such as ones for pickles, black radish salad, homemade horseradish (with a story), and lime laced fruit salad. Naturally there is a recipe for chicken soup, and a gogol mogol drink that can cure you. There is fish chowder (cuz she is in New England), yellow pea soup with frankfurters (or hot dogs), meatball stew, lots of soups, bubbe�s burgers, and lettuce and tomato and onion on toasted bread. There are old family pics from the album. These are the foods your bubbe would make for you. There is baked fish cakes, sole stuffed with salmon, roasted chicken, mock gefilte fish (made of� chicken!), turkey eggrolls, turkey cacciatore (which she once flew with on a jet to California to feed at least ten relatives, because that is what bubbes do). Her brisket is to LIVE for, as is her beef or vegetarian tzimis, pitcha, cholent, pepper steak, pot roast, spaghetti and meatballs, corned beef, beef tongue, as well as kugels and desserts.
Sarah's Key
(Movie Tie-in paperback edition)
Tatiana de Rosnay
July 5, 2011, St Martin�s Griffin
PW Starred Review. De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the V�lodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand T�zac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the V�l' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers�especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive�the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.
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YOU GOTTA DO A JEWISH VERSION OF THIS! I LEGO THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS, or I LEGO ISRAEL, or I LEGO SHABBOS�
March 2010, Abrams
I LEGO N.Y. is an imaginative look at life in New York City constructed entirely out of LEGOs. Designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann was inspired to create a series of miniature New York vignettes out of his sons' toys after a few cold and dark winter days in Berlin. The former New Yorker then posted photographs of his creations along with his handwritten captions on his New York Times blog. Resident and honorary New Yorkers around the world responded enthusiastically to the clever and minimalist inventions, which captured both the iconic (the Empire State Building) and the mundane (man standing on a subway platform) in fewer LEGO pieces than one might think possible. This book includes all of the original images, plus thirteen new creations. The resulting collection is delightful in its simplicity and moving in its ability to capture the spirit of life in New York in so few strokes. Christoph Niemann is an award-winning illustrator and children�s book author
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People ask us� how many copies does a best selling Jewish book sell?
Well, that is hard to say, but take a look at some 2009/2010 reported values
The Lost Symbol, a novel by Dan Brown: 5,500,000 copies in '09; 2,300,000 in 2010
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin 2,600,000 copies
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. 2,400,000 copies in 2010, 3,685,000 paperbacks in 2010
The Girl Who Played With Fire. 2,100,000 copies in 2010, 2,650,000 paperbacks in 2010
The Associate by John Grisham 2,100,000 copies
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. 1,900,000 in 2010
11/23/63 by Stephen King. 918,000 copies in 2011
Under the Dome by Stephen King 900,000 copies
True Compass by Edward Kennedy y 870,000 copies
Arguing With Idiots by Glenn Beck 860,000 copies
** Have A Little Faith. A True Story by Mitch Albom 855,000 in '09, 275,000 in 2010
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton 850,000 copies
* Sh*T My Dad Says by Justin Halpern. 761,000 copies in 2010
U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton 700,000 copies
Bossypants by Tina Fey. 671,000 in 2011
Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 480,000 copies
** Sarah�s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 570,000 copies
Go The Fcck To Sleep by Adan Mansbach. 550,000 copies in 2011
* Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. 467,000 in 2010
** City of Thieves by David Benioff 333,000 copies
** I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron. 210,000 copies in 2010
** The Defector by Daniel Silva 200,000 copies
** People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 180,000 copies
* The Finkler Question. 155,000 copies in 2010
Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin 150,000 copies
The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe 147,000 copies
* My Passion for Design by Barbra Streisand. 125,000 in 2010
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer 125,000 in 2011
A Secret Kept. By Tatiana De Rosnay. 120,932 copies in 2010
** The Zookeeper�s Wife by Diane Ackerman 105,000 copies
** The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. 102,000 in 2011
von Bejarano & Microphone Mafia (K�nstler)
Featuring Esther Bejarano
Esther B�jarano joins MICROPHONE MAFIA to spread the message of tolerance in Germany and Europe through hip-hop. Born in 1924, she is among the last survivors of the Girl orchestra of Auschwitz. B�jarano was born as Esther Loewy as a daughter of the Head Cantor of a Jewish municipality. The father encouraged his daughter to get interested in music and Esther learned to play the piano. At age 15 she had to separate from her parents, in order to prepare for emigration to Palestine. This emigration was thrwarted by the Nazis. She carried out two years of hard labour in Neuendorf Labour Camp close to F�rstenwalde/Spree. On April 20, 1943 all members of the labour camp were deported to Auschwitz. There she had to drag stones until she joined the Girl orchestra of Auschwitz. In the orchestra, she played the accordion. The orchestra had the task of playing for the daily march of the gangs by the camp gate. She survived Auschwitz after escaping in March, 1945. She emigrated to Palestine and returned later to Germany. At the beginning of the 1980s, with her daughter Edna and son Joram, she created the musical group Coincidence. They sing songs from the ghetto and Jewish as well as anti-fascist songs. B�jarano lives today in Hamburg. She is a co-founder and chairman of the Auschwitz Committee and was awarded the Carl-von-Ossietzky medal. She holds the Cross of Merit, First class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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By Joy Hampton
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Norman received around 2 inches of rain over the last 24 hours and more rain could be on the way early next week.
"Here at the Weather Center we got 1.87 inches,"said Matthew Day, National Weather Service meteorologist. "We got 2.35 inches at the Norman Mesonet located at Westheimer Airport."
Day said there is a possibility of more rain in the forecast.
"It looks like we have another cold front moving in early on Monday and we'll probably have the rain chances early Monday into Tuesday," Day said.
Norman missed the most damaging parts of the storm that hit Oklahoma. Southwest Oklahoma had hail and high winds, Day said.
"We got a couple of gusts from 60 or 70 mile an hour wind gusts,"Day said, but none of those reports were from Norman. "There was a wind report seven miles south of Choctaw and in Lexington."
"We had some high winds, we had some limbs down and we had flash floods,"said District 3 County Commissioner Rusty Sullivan. "We had some crews out last night."
Sullivan said his crews are cleaning debris out of ditches today.
"This was basically straight-lined winds, is what I understand,"Sullivan said. "And a lot of rain in a short amount of time."
Sullivan said he knows of no significant damage in the Lexington area.
Despite the tornado siren sounding around 9 p.m. Wednesday, Norman has no reports of a tornado within city limits.
"The sirens are activated and the goal is to give you a lead time for when the tornado would happen,"said Norman Fire Chief James Fullingim. "They are activated based on a credible report of a tornado forming or sighting or a tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service.
"When those sirens are activated, that does not mean there has been a tornado warning and it does not mean there is a tornado.
"It means we have a reasonable expectation that a tornado could develop. If you are outside, you should take shelter and seek further information."
Only minor damage, such as a few power poles snapped at the airport, were reported.
"My feeling is that was due to straight line winds,"Fullingim said.
Cleveland County residents appear to have fared well in the storm.
"There are no reports of any damage in the county area,"said Cleveland County Emergency Manager George Mauldin.
Lake levels continue to rise. The current level of Lake Thunderbird's conservation pool is 1034 feet, five feet below normal. That's a strong improvement over last week said Utilities Director Ken Komiske.
Hard, fast rains increase the lake level while slow steady rains soak into the drought-parched earth, Komiske said. Right now, the state needs both types of rain to recover from three years of drought.
Mandatory water conservation is still in effect in Norman.
"At this time of year, we normally would have water overflowing the spillway with a rain that hard," Komiske said. "We're still five feet low."
Additionally, the 10 percent reduction in Norman's allotment from Lake Thunderbird is still in effect. Starting in May, Norman will be able to use a portion of Del City's allotment if "we exceed our allocation,"Komiske said.
"This rain is definitely good news, but it doesn't end the drought," Komiske said. "When the lake is back up where it should be, and the soil moisture content is back to normal, we'll know the drought has ended."
Komiske said the dry ground is like a sponge soaking up the rain. While every drop of rain helps, people are still asked to be aware of the need to conserve and use water wisely.
Fullingim said 275 people showed up at the Whittier, Irving and Cleveland Schools, which are opened as shelters during storms. Fire personnel passed out information on sheltering in place and notified everyone this is the last year the city's shelters will open to the public.
The city shelters are not designed as tornado shelters.
Fulligim said the most dangerous place to be during a tornado or severe storm is in your car or outside. Sheltering in place is the national and state recommendation.
Joy Hampton
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