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- NAME: Julia Ward Howe
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Songwriter, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: May 27, 1819
- DEATH DATE: October 17, 1910
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Portsmouth, Rhode Island
- Maiden Name: Julia Ward
- Full Name: Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe was born on May 27, 1819, in New York City. She became a writer, penning several books and also working on the abolitionist newspaper The Commonwealth with her husband Samuel. Howe is known for writing the lyrics to the iconic song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and later was highly active in the women's suffrage movement. She died on October 17, 1910, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
"I awoke in the gray of the morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to twine themselves in my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, 'I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and forget them.'"
Early Life and Career
Julia Ward Howe was born Julia Ward in New York City on May 2, 1819, to Julia Rush, a poet, and Samuel Ward Jr., a stockbroker. During her childhood, Ward's mother passed away, and the girl had a controlled, limited social life due to her father's conservatism. Ward was taught at home by tutors and attended a girls' school into her teens.
After her father's death, Howe moved to Boston, Massachusetts. In 1843, she married Samuel Gridley Howe, a doctor who was also a teacher for the blind. The couple went on to have six children. Their marriage, however, was often not a happy one, as Julia wished to live a life beyond the realm of the home, while her husband had rigid ideas of what a woman's role should be. Nonetheless, Howe worked as a writer.
In the 1840s, Howe wrote a novel, The Hermaphrodite, which went unpublished for some time. She also penned the books of poetry Passion for Flowers (1854) and Words for the Hour (1857) and the play Leonora, or the World's Own (1857). Howe worked with her husband as editor on the abolitionist paper The Commonwealth as well.
Writing 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'
Upon visiting a camp near Washington, D.C., in November 1861, as part of a trip where Samuel was transporting supplies, Howe sang popular tunes along with troops and spectators. The tunes they sang included "John Brown's Body," a marching song for the Union army. Howe was inspired to write new lyrics for the song in the early morning twilight while at her hotel.
The words became the poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic," published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. Set to music, the Christian-based work would become a famous, rousing cry for the Union during the Civil War and was also used in the anti-slavery and suffrage movements.
A Suffrage Activist
Howe became very active in civic life after the Civil War, working for and forming a number of women's rights and suffragist organizations. She helped to establish the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868 and later worked with the American Woman Suffrage Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs International. Fellow suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the National Woman Suffrage Association, had a different ideological and strategic approach than Howe.
A renowned lecturer, Howe was also an advocate of women being involved in peace movements. She published in 1870 her "Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World," which pushed for a women's peace congress. Howe also ardently called for an end to the Franco-Prussian War.
Author, Editor and World Traveler
Howe continued her editorial pursuits as well, founding the literary journal Northern Lights and serving as founder and longtime editor of Woman's Journal.
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New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony has set his team goals high this season and says if the Knicks don't advance to at least the conference finals, then that is unacceptable.
The Knicks are 20-7 going into their Christmas Day matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Knicks haven't advanced to the Eastern finals since the 1999-2000 season. Anthony is second in the league in scoring, averaging 28.3 points a game.
"Winning the division, getting out of the first round, getting to the Eastern Conference finals," Anthony said on ESPN. "I don't see anything less than that."
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It's a Boy!
That's right, there's going to be a new pooping and screaming bundle of joy here soon! I'm about 21 weeks, so just past the half way mark... Boy has it gone quickly!
We found out last week that the new bub is a boy, so hubby and I can stop thinking about a possible name change for the blog and start thinking of names for the baby! We were in total crisis mode for a while! What if it's a girl? Will we change the name of the blog? Will I start a second blog?
We also decided that there wasn't enough going on so we bought a house! We will be moving in 4 weeks. We bought a heap of boxes on Saturday morning and spent most of the weekend packing. We managed to get quite a bit packed, so I'm feeling less overwhelmed by it all. My sewing stuff hasn't been packed up yet, but all the cookbooks are gone. Suddenly, I have a very strong urge to flick through them...
Back to the pregnancy chat... My Nana sent me this tunic but it was waaaay too big and looked like a night shirt...not very me! I chopped off the sleeves and took in the sides and now I have a lovely, breezy Summer dress that is belly friendly.
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Wow! Abby - I can't believe you can hold out so long without saying anything! Congratulations on your boy. I guess if you had named the blog differently in the first place you might of had a girl? No, I guess it doesn't work that way, but it's a good thing you won't have to think of another name. I am so happy for you and you do look lovely in that "refurbished" dress. Good luck on your move and I hope you will not be without the sewing room long, I know what that's like! Janelle
ReplyDeleteHi I'm Heather! Please email me when you get a chance, I have a question about your blog! LifesABanquet1(at)gmail.com
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You definitely have a glow in that after photo.
I hope the move goes smoothly - at least it's not right before your due date!
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Russia Unlikely To Pull Back In Crimea, Analysts Say Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. It's an unsettling scenario for President Barack Obama, who is under pressure to show he has leverage over Putin in a deepening conflict between East and West. The threat of economic sanctions, along with a series of modest measures that include canceling trade talks with Moscow and suspending plans to attend an international summit in Russia, have so far done little to persuade the Russian leader to pull his forces back from Crimea. ... Read more Bernanke Finally Reveals, In One Word, Why The Financial System Crashed Now that Ben Bernanke is no longer the head of the Fed, he can finally tell the truth about what caused the financial crash. At least that's what a packed auditorium of over 1000 people as part of the financial conference staged by National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the UAE's largest bank, was hoping for earlier today when they paid an exorbitant amount of money to hear the former chairman talk (Bernanke received at least $250,000 for his appearance, or in other words, more than he was paid for one full year as Fed chairman.). ... "Overconfidence." "This is going to sound very obvious but the first thing we learned is that the U.S. is not invulnerable to financial crises," Bernanke said. ... Read more Acidic ocean deadly for Vancouver Island scallop industry The deteriorating health of B.C.'s oceans is impacting not only the province's marine life, but also its economy. Millions of shellfish are dying off before they can be harvested at Island Scallops, near Parksville, B.C., due to increased acidity levels in the ocean. One-third of the workforce at Island Scallops -- 20 people -- are being laid off because the business has lost more than 10 million scallops before they were able to reach maturity since 2009. ... Read more The U.S. Military is the largest single consumer of energy on the planet As the saying goes, facts are many but the truth is one. The truth is that the U.S. military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world. But as a wise man once said, don't confuse facts with reality. The reality is that even U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) does not know precisely where and how much energy it consumes.
FACT 1: The DoD's total primary energy consumption in Fiscal Year 2006 was 1100 trillion Btu. It corresponds to only 1% of total energy consumption in USA. U.S. military consumes as much energy as Nigeria, with a population of more than 140 million. The DoD per capita energy consumption (524 trillion Btu) is 10 times more than per capita energy consumption in China, or 30 times more than that of Africa. ...
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... FACT 11: Since the military's war machines burns fuel at such intense rates, it becomes impractical to talk about consumption in miles per gallon. That is why fuel use in military applications is shown in "gallons-per-mile," "gallons-per-hour," and "barrels-per-hour." Here are some examples: Flying gas-guzzling bomber B-52 burns about 3300 gallon per hour, flying gas stations KC-135 and KC-10 (aerial refueling tankers) burn on average 2650 and 2070 gallons per hour respectively. Famous F-15 and F-16 fighter aircrafts burn about 1580 and 800 gallons per hour respectively. Armored vehicles have very low fuel efficiency. For instance the Abrams tank can travel less than 0.6 mile per gallon of fuel, and Bradley fighting vehicle less than 2 miles on a gallon of fuel. High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (often called Humvee in military circles), which replaced World war II ear Jeep two decades ago, gets as few as 4 miles per gallon in city driving and 8 miles per gallon on the highway. ...
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Ukraine Conflict: Vladimir Putin Said He Hopes Russia Won't Have To Use Force In Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow reserves the right to use all means to protect Russians in Ukraine, but hopes Russia won't have to use force. "If I decide to use armed forces it will be in line with international law," Putin said. During a news conference on Tuesday, Putin described the recent turmoil in Ukraine as an anti-constitutional coup, and said that while the Ukrainian parliament was legitimate, acting President Olexander Turchynov was not. Putin also noted that if Ukraine holds new elections, the results will not be acknowledged by Russia. ... Read more Just 90 Companies Caused Two-Thirds of Man-Made Global Warming Emissions The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests. ... "There are thousands of oil, gas, and coal producers in the world," climate researcher and author Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in Colorado said. "But the decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if you narrow it down to just one person, they could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two." ..
Read more Rush Limbaugh: "12 Years a Slave" only won because of its title What is wrong with this guy???? Speaking on his radio show on Monday, right-wing pundit and provocateur extraordinaire Rush Limbaugh informed his audience that there was never any chance of "12 Years a Slave" not winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Why? Because the film's title, according to Limbaugh, had that "magic word": slave. ... Read more Wall Street Has Found Its Latest Dangerous Financial Product, Activists Warn Housing and consumer activists warn that Wall Street is about to crash the housing market -- again. The activists said they are particularly concerned about the growing number of companies looking to issue bonds backed by rental properties -- bonds that a coalition of groups described as "eerily like" those mortgage-backed securities that helped fuel the last housing bubble. "We are poised to experience another crisis if federal regulators fail to recognize and take corrective action to address red flags that are all too familiar," more than 75 housing and consumer groups wrote in a letter Tuesday to federal bank and housing regulators. ... Read more |
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Steve McQueen Dedicated His "12 Years a Slave" Best Pic Oscar to Victims of Modern-Day Slavery The powerful drama 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture at the 2014 Academy Awards. During his acceptance speech, director Steve McQueen dedicated the award to the tens of millions of people still in slavery today: Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup. I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery, and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today.
Read more Former Central Banker Admits "[They] Are Making It Up As They Go Along" A few weeks ago, William White (former economist at the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, and Bank of International Settlements) made a frank admission. "The analytical underpinnings of what we [mainstream economists] do are actually pretty shaky...I'm becoming more and more convinced that all of the models we use are basically useless... We've got the potential to do so much harm by not getting the creation of fiat credit and money right." Doctors at least have the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. If only economists and central bankers had a similar ethic. But they don't. So they continue 'making it up as they go along', as Mr. White suggests, applying failed ideas with impunity and continued authority to an unquestioning public. ... Read more The War on the Poor and Working Families (02/06/14) [2:25]A 13-Year-Old Girl Changed Matt Damon's Perspective (01/22/14) [1:44] Presenting the US car market this cold, stormy winter day:"
The Haves...
And The Have-Nots...
It appears the 1% don't feel the cold (or wet) weather? What is supremely clear from this data is - if you want to sell cars, raise prices... Climage Change
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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture....."
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (05/18/58) [28:42]Bill Moyers | Ian Haney L�pez on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race (02/28/14) [24:30]
What do Cadillac-driving "welfare queens," a "food stamp president" and the "lazy, dependent and entitled" 47 percent tell us about post-racial America? They're all examples of a type of coded racism that this week's guest, Ian Haney L�pez, writes about in his new book, Dog Whistle Politics.
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The Town Los Angeles Drank .. This little patch of land is the key location in Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed $25 billion plan to fix California's troubled water transport system. Hood sits at the northern tip of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a network of manmade islands and channels constructed on the ruins of the largest estuary from Patagonia to Alaska. Since the 1950s, the Delta has served as the great hydraulic tie between Northern and Southern California: a network of rivers, tributaries, and canals deliver runoff from the Sierra Mountain Range's snowpack to massive pumps at the southern end of the Delta. From there, the water travels through aqueducts to the great farms of the San Joaquin Valley and to the massive coastal cities. The Delta, then, is not only a 700,000-acre place where people live and work, but some of the most important plumbing in the world. Without this crucial nexus point, the current level of agricultural production in the southern San Joaquin Valley could not be sustained, and many cities, including the three largest on the West Coast -- Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose -- would have to come up with radical new water-supply solutions. ... Read more January Was Chock-Full of Extreme Weather Events, All Over the Globe There have been heat waves in Slovenia and Australia, snow in Vietnam, and the return of the polar vortex to North America. Great Britain has had its wettest winter in 250 years, but temperatures in parts of Russia and the Arctic have been 18 degrees above normal. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere has had the warmest start to a year ever recorded, with millions of people sweltering in Brazilian and southern African cities. According to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which monitors global weather, the first six weeks of 2014 have seen an unusual number of extremes of heat, cold, and rain--not just in a few regions as might be expected in any winter, but right the way around the world at the same time, with costly disruptions to transport, power systems, and food production. ... Read more Climategate: What Really Happened? IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE how a guy who spends most of his time looking at endless columns of temperature records became a "fucking terrorist," "killer," or "one-world-government socialist." It's even harder when you meet Michael Mann, a balding 45-year-old climate scientist who speaks haltingly and has a habit of nervously clearing his throat. And when you realize that the reason for all the hostility is a 12-year-old chart, it seems more than a little surreal. Back in 1999, Mann -- then a newly minted Ph.D. -- and a pair of colleagues constructed a chart that plotted historical climate data, spanning from 1000 to 1980. Because recorded temperatures only begin in the late 19th century, Mann and his team largely relied on so-called proxy records -- measurements of tree rings, coral, and ice cores whose variations illustrate temperature changes over the years. The graph showed that after nearly 900 years of relatively stable temperatures, there was a sharp uptick starting in the 20th century. You may have seen a version of the graph, known as the "hockey stick," in the film An Inconvenient Truth. ...
Mann Geophysical Research Paper.pdf The "Largest Corporate Power Grab You've Never Heard Of", (TPP) Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison describes the TPP as the "largest corporate power grab you've never heard of." Despite 19 rounds of negotiations that started all the way back in 2005, many of the details of the TPP still remain secret, even to members of Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a massive trade agreement among 12 nations, including the US. And it's being negotiated by government trade officials and corporate lobbyists. Representative Alan Grayson said that the TPP is "a punch in the face to the middle class of America," and added, "but I'm not even allowed to tell you why." The deal would give multinational corporations the right to challenge our laws and regulations if firms believe those laws limit their "expected future profits." ... Read more Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): a guide to the most contentious issues ... There have been many contentious issues around the TPP: critics are particularly concerned about the secrecy around the agreement given it has the capacity to change many local laws and regulations affecting Australian people. Essentially, in order to receive access to other markets, Australia is in the process of trading off regulations that stop access by other countries and particularly multinational companies to the Australian market. ... ... So far, the majority of public criticism has centred on arguments relating to intellectual property and the cost of medicines, though many have concerns about environmental issues including climate change, investment, e-commerce and labour laws. ... Read more We Are Living in Boom Times for Debt Collectors
One of these lines is not like the others. In general, delinquencies rose throughout the recession, and then began dropping as the economy began to improve around 2010-11. But not student loans. Delinquencies on student loans have been rising steadily for a decade, and when the economy began its recovery, they just went right on rising. Welcome to life as a college graduate.
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*DN | Peeping Webcam? With NSA Help, British Spy Agency Intercepted Millions of Yahoo Chat Images (02/28/14) [16:25]
The latest top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) may have peered into the lives of millions of internet users who were not suspected of wrongdoing. The surveillance program codenamed "Optic Nerve" compiled still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and stored them in the GCHQ's databases with help from the NSA. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency reportedly amassed webcam images from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts worldwide. According to the documents, between 3 and 11 percent of the Yahoo webcam images contained what the GCHQ called "undesirable nudity." The program was reportedly also used for experiments in "automated facial recognition" as well as to monitor terrorism suspects.
DN | George Takei on Life Inside a Japanese Internment Camp During WWII (02/28/14) [7:36]
Legendary actor, author and activist, George Takei, best known for playing Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, appears on Democracy Now! for an extended interview. In this excerpt, he talks about his role as World War II veteran Sam Kimura in "Allegiance: A New American Musical." The musical tells the story of a Japanese-American family who is relocated from their farm after the attack on Pearl Harbor and placed in an internment camp in Wyoming. This parallels part of Takei's own family history. At the age of five, his family was shipped to a Japanese-American internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.
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*Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson Sues To Keep 'Fracking' Away From His Backyard (02/25/14) [4:52],
Part 2 [7:43]*Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale The Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is the site of one of the biggest energy booms in America, with oil and gas wells sprouting at an unprecedented rate. But local residents fear for their health - not from the water, but from the air they breathe. Our eight-month investigation reveals the dangers that come with releasing a toxic soup of chemicals into the air and just how little the government of Texas knows - or wants to know - about it. When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor's office in San Antonio she makes sure her inhaler is on the seat beside her, then steers her red GMC pickup truck southeast on U.S. 181, toward her home on the South Texas prairie. About 40 miles down the road, between Poth and Falls City, drilling rigs, crude oil storage tanks and flares trailing black smoke appear amid the mesquite, live oak and pecan trees. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, a yellow-brown haze might stretch across the horizon, filling the car with pungent odors. Sometimes Buehring's eyes burn, her chest tightens and pain stabs at her temples. On those days, she touches her inhaler for reassurance. ...
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How more than $8 billion in US taxpayers' money went to waste in Iraq The report, entitled Learning From Iraq: A Final Report From the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, offered a detailed assessment how $60 billion in American taxpayer money was spent in Iraq during the war. Of that sum, about $25 billion went to training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, while the remainder went an array of development projects ranging from infrastructure construction to governance improvement programs. The report offers several case studies demonstrating waste, including a project to reconstruct a bridge and oil and gas pipeline in northern Iraq. Geologists advised against drilling in the Tigris River to do the repair work because the soil was too sandy. Engineers ignored the report and spent tens of millions of dollars before the drilling plan was aborted. The Iraqi reconstruction program was the second-largest nation building effort ever undertaken by the US, superseded only by Afghanistan, where appropriations for reconstruction spending are nearing $100 billion. ... Read more Setting the Record Straight: Did Monsanto Really Buy Blackwater (Xe)? There has been a great deal of publicity over the potential purchase of Blackwater (now known as Academi, and Xe before that) by mega corporation Monsanto. While the two seem to be a great match, as they both fail to consider the morality and consequence of their actions, it seems that Monsanto is only involved with Blackwater in infiltrating activist groups who are opposed to the biotech giant -- an operation quite sinister enough. The truth of the matter is that Academi (Blackwater) was purchased by private investors, and the heavily sourced article written by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation actually says nothing about Monsanto buying Blackwater. ... Read more
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*DN | Big Oil and Bad Air: Report Exposes Link Between Fracking and Toxic Air Emissions in Texas (02/27/14) [6:55]TRNN News
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Dispatches | Iraq's Missing $20 Billions (trailer) [2:09]*Dispatches | Iraq's Missing $20 Billions [47:52]
The coalition was given trusteeship of nearly 20 billion dollars of Iraq's money, nearly all of it was spent with no accountability and records. Fraud and corruption rampantly consumed much of these funds. Paul Bremer who headed the Coalition Provisional Authority made certain that as much of the money was spent as possible. Has some heartbreaking stories of actual Iraqi citizens and their children. Shows that the infrastructure, especially water and hospitals, which supposedly had billions spent on it though is still in shambles. Where did the money go!?
Greenwald | Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) (trailer) [2:06]*Greenwald | Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) [1:15:40]
Robert Greenwald's documentaries are like sledgehammers of rage against everything he finds wrong with America, including Wal-Mart, Fox News and the Bush administration. He wants to rile us up, and he's not subtle. But then, neither are his targets. In "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," Mr. Greenwald compiles a horrifying catalog of greed, corruption and incompetence among private contractors in Iraq, focusing primarily on Halliburton, Blackwater Security Consulting and CACI International.
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How Govt. Hides the Poor: Formula for Measuring Poverty Dates to When a Loaf of Bread Cost 22 Cents To determine who is officially poor in America, the federal government compares a family's annual cash income to a figure produced by an arcane formula that's based on the price of food in 1963, when a loaf of bread was 22 cents and a burger less than a quarter. Starting under President Lyndon Johnson, the government's official way of defining who is poor comes from calculating a minimum food budget for a family of four, tripling that figure to cover other living costs, and then indexing it annually for inflation. The result is the federal poverty level. For 2014, that threshold was $23,850 for a family of four. Smaller families can subtract $4,060 per person. Individuals making $11,670 or less in 2014 were officially poor. Many government programs, from School Lunch to the Earned Income Tax Credit to Obamacare's subsidies, decide eligibility by comparing one's annual cash income to the official poverty level. ... Read more *The Surrender of America's Liberals In a Web-exclusive interview, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his new article in the March issue of Harper's Magazine -- a challenge to America's progressives provocatively titled, "Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals." In the piece, Reed writes that Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on election results rather than aiming for long term goals that address the issues of economic inequality, and that the administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama too often acquiesced to the demands of Wall Street and the right. As a result, Reed tells Moyers, the left is no longer a significant force in American politics. "If we understand the left to be anchored to our convictions that society can be made better than it actually is, and a commitment to combating economic inequality as a primary one, the left is just gone." ...
Read more Stewart Mocks Conservative Chorus on Ukraine -- 'What Would Reagan Do?' Jon Stewart made merciless fun of the recent outpouring of conservative pundits calling for President Obama to be more Ronald Reagan-like when it comes to dealing with the unrest in Ukraine. "What would Reagan do?" has been the common hue and cry on Fox news and other news outlets. Especially rich was having Reagan lackey Oliver North commenting that Reagan, unlike Obama, did not draw "red lines," he simply acted. Yes, Stewart pointed out, that's Oliver North, the one illegally sold arms to Iran, and illegally funded the Nicaraguan contras. That's the one we should be listening to all right. Stewart then gave several examples of how well Reagan's action-oriented policies yielded such fantastic results. Funding the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Of course, it was the the extreme elements of the Mujahadeen that became the Taliban, but, we didn't have to fight them for another "12 years," said Stewart, long after Reagan had left office. And, of course, Reagan selling arms to Saddam Hussein, whom we did not have to fight for another "two years . . . and then another 12 years after that." ... Read more |
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*DN | Japan, U.S. Move to Expand Nuclear Power Programs Despite Contamination at Fukushima & New Mexico (02/26/14) [8:46]TRNN News
*TRNN | Jeff Cohen: Public Broadcasters Relying More and More On Corporate Funding (02/26/14) [11:13]TRNN | Robert Pollin: Incremental Raises to Minimum Wage Will Not Increase Unemployment (02/26/14) [8:53] Bill Moyers
*Bill Moyers | The Surrender of America's Liberals (02/25/14) [18:50]Charles Ferguson
No End in Sight (2008) (trailer) [2:42]*No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent Into Chaos by Charles Ferguson (2008) [1:41:53] Click to zoom review Inside Job (2009) (trailer) [2:20] *Inside Job by Charles Ferguson (2009) [1:48:39] Click to zoom review War on Terror
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & American Empire (preview/trailer) [6:29]*Hijacking Catastrophe: Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2007 older) [1:10:38] Hijacking Catastrophe website
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.
The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force.
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Anatomy of the Deep State There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power. Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose. My analysis of this phenomenon is not an expos� of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. Nor can this other government be accurately termed an "establishment." All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister (although it has highly sinister aspects) as it is relentlessly well entrenched. Far from being invincible, its failures, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are routine enough that it is only the Deep State's protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel that allows them to escape the consequences of their frequent ineptitude. ...
Read more or read article at HuffintonPost Danielle Brian on Legalized Corruption Forget about the Machiavellian drama that plays out in the hit series The House of Cards, if you really want to be educated (or frightened) about what goes on in the nation's capital, just let everything you read in Mike Lofgren's essay sink in. The ideological gridlock that grips Congress might make you angry. But as Lofgren points in his professorial manner, what should really get your blood pumping are the strings being pulled by the real decision makers: the executives on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in the military-intelligence industrial complex surrounding the Beltway. ...
Read more Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone?
It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and I found myself hanging around the House-side entrance to the Capitol building, hoping to interview lawmakers during the protracted government shutdown in October. The members had been called by the Republican leadership to open just one slice of the government without authorizing funds for the Affordable Care Act, a partial solution that had rallied Democrats in opposition. As dusk settled in, I lingered to interview the representatives as they walked in and out of what everyone considered at this point to be a scene of political theater.
Read moreWhile I waited, a small crowd gathered, composed of men and women in business attire, creating something of a receiving line where they could exchange pleasantries with members of Congress as the latter made their way from their offices across Independence Avenue to cast a perfunctory vote. The city, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent home from the job, was far from dead. On Capitol Hill, the real financial engine of Washington, the selling of access and policy hummed along at full speed, and I was in the midst of it. Many of the people assembled around me, I noticed, were former lawmakers and their associates. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle was there, along with officials from his firm DLA Piper, to escort a group of international attorneys into a meeting with lawmakers. Men who said they were with Alston & Bird, another law firm heavily involved in lobbying, convened a few feet away. A cluster of businessmen with the credit-rating firm Experian prepped their own series of meetings with congressional staff. Behind me, I heard the distinctive croak of Zach Wamp, a former congressman who was busy talking up his new job to current members of Congress. He boasted that he is now working for Palantir, the controversial intelligence contractor. "I'm kind of overseeing their operations up here," Wamp said when I asked what he does for Palantir. He ended the conversation abruptly . DN | The Shadow Lobbying Complex: How Corporations Are Hiding Vast Influence, Peddling Efforts (02/25/14) [8:50] Virginia Republican Says A Pregnant Woman Is Just A 'Host,' Though 'Some Refer To Them As Mothers' A pregnant woman is just a "host" that should not have the right to end her pregnancy, Virginia State Sen. Steve Martin (R) wrote in a Facebook rant defending his anti-abortion views. Martin, the former chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee, wrote a lengthy post about his opinions on women's bodies on his Facebook wall last week in response to a critical Valentine's Day card he received from reproductive rights advocates. ... Read more Some Embarrassing Details From the Pentagon's Latest Stealth Fighter Report
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, February 25 [11:07]
DN | Greenwald: Spy Agencies Manipulate Information, Attack Reputations of Targets Online (02/25/14) [1:19]DN | Inside the Army Spy Ring & Attempted Entrapment of Peace Activists, Iraq Vets, Anarchists (02/25/14) [25:00] DN | The Shadow Lobbying Complex: How Corporations Are Hiding Vast Influence, Peddling Efforts (02/25/14) [8:50] TRNN News
TRNN | William Hartung: Pentagon Will Cut Services and Benefits To Soldiers While Protecting Profits of Defense Industry (02/25/14) [7:32]TRNN | Dina Rasor: US Military Contractors Celebrate Record High Profits and Stock Prices (2013) [11:40] Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers | On How the Deep State is Sucking Money (preview version) (02/24/14) [2:51]
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Bill Moyers | Mike Lofgren on the Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight (02/22/14) [26:48]Bill Moyers | Sheila Krumholz and Danielle Brian on How Money Rules Washington (02/21/14) [26:46] Financial Crisis
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60 Minutes | Seven years behind schedule and $163 billion over budget, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the most expensive weapons system in history. (02/16/14) [13:45]*The Jet that Ate the Pentagon: The F-35 is the most expensive weapons program in history, with a total cost of $1.5 trillion. (02/05/14) [8:18] The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)
Dr. J. Michael Gilmore was sworn in as Director, Operational Test and Evaluation on September 23, 2009. A Presidential appointee confirmed by the United States Senate, he serves as the senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation of Department of Defense weapon systems.
DOT&E FY2013 Annual Report: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).pdf
Click picture to zoom inPrior to his current appointment, Dr. Gilmore was the Assistant Director for National Security at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In this position, he was responsible for CBO's National Security Division, which performs analyses of major policy and program issues in national defense, international affairs, and veterans' affairs. Specific areas of investigation included the long-term implications of current defense policies and programs, the implications of transformation for equipping and operating U.S. military forces, the effectiveness and costs of alternative approaches to modernizing U.S. military forces, and the resource demands associated with operating and supporting U.S. military forces. Diane Rehms Show
Retail Health Clinics (02/25/14) [1hr]Jon Stewart - Daily Show
Jon Stewart | Jason Jones files his final report from Sochi-ish, and learns the most important Russian lesson of all (02/24/14) [6:06] |
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HC | Colonize Mars () [44:22]
HC | Race to Mars Part 1 () [1:32:47], Part 2 [1:31:49]
Saturn 3 (1980) [1:23:51]
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*5 Hypocritical Justifications the 1% Use to Justify the America's Staggering Inequality
John Paulson conspired with Goldman Sachs to create packages of risky subprime mortgages and then short-sell (bet against) the sure-to-fail financial instruments. The ploy paid him $3.7 billion. Goldman Sachs' commodities index, notes Chris Hedges, "is the most heavily traded in the world. Goldman Sachs hoards rice, wheat, corn, sugar and livestock and jacks up commodity prices around the globe so that poor families can no longer afford basic staples and literally starve." Numerous sources agree that speculation drives up commodity prices. Wheat, for example, rose in price from $105 to $481 in just eight years. ... Read more Economics Has a Surprising Mental Disorder The typical mainstream economist is about as good at making predictions as a monkey reading tea leaves. Exhibit A: The financial crisis, which only a few economists outside the mainstream saw coming. Researcher Vinca Bigo decided to investigate, and found a surprising explanation: the profession of economics is suffering from a collective mental disorder, causing practitioners to project their pathologies onto the rest of us. Which is very costly for you and me. ... Read more Transcripts show FED grappling with 2008 crisis The Federal Reserve agonized in 2008 over how far to go to stop a financial crisis that threatened to cause a recession and at times struggled to recognize its speed and magnitude. "We're crossing certain lines. We're doing things we haven't done before," Chairman Ben Bernanke said as Fed officials met in an emergency session March 10 and launched never-before-taken steps to lend to teetering Wall Street firms, among a series of unorthodox moves that year to calm investors and aid the economy. ... Read more *Water leak in Fukushima may be due to workers' mistake ... About 100 tons of contaminated water spilled from a tank at the No. 4 reactor from Wednesday to Thursday. The escaped water flowed to the ground around the tank. Tokyo Electric Power Company found the water contained 240 million becquerels per liter of beta-ray emitting substance, including strontium. That's the highest level ever detected in tainted water which leaked at the plant. ...
Read more Longest-serving Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) to retire Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) will retire at the end of his current term, capping a historic career as the longest-serving member of Congress in history. Dingell, 87, has served in the House for nearly 60 years. He became the longest-serving member of Congress last summer. He said his health was good enough for him to make another run, but he decried the hostile tone that has come to define business on Capitol Hill these days. ... Read more |
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, February 24 [13:31]
DN | Coup or Revolution? Ukraine Seeks Arrest of Ousted President Following Deadly Street Protests (02/24/14) [13:44],
Part 2 [16:40]*DN | "The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete": Did NSA Hack Computer of Snowden Biographer & Edit Book Draft? (02/24/14) [10:31] TRNN News
TRNN | Keane Bhatt: US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela (02/24/14) [11:32]
TRNN | Gregory Wilpert: High inflation and shortages trigger a protest movement that splits opposition camp, Part 1 (02/23/14) [14:22]
TRNN | Gregory Wilpert: Attempting to build socialism surrounded by a global capitalist economy and being reliant on oil revenues, Venezuela is struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems, Part 2 (02/23/14) [16:59]
*Climate Change | GeoEngineering
ClimateState | Extreme Weather (July 2013) [18:28]
This video was pretty interesting explaining Climate Change.
BBC | Global Dimming Documentary About Geoengineering & Global Warming (12/31/11) [49:04]The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age - Future Focus Episode 2013 [51:29]
The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age is a one-hour documentary which explores the results of a recent American government report that believes the collapse of thermohaline circulation will take place around the year 2010 and impose a minor ice age on Europe. Could Dublin acquire a climate like Spitzberg, and London like that of Siberia?
Why in the World are They Spraying (2013) [55:08]The Gulf Stream is a powerful surface current, driven by the Trade Winds. Its origins lie in the Gulf of Mexico and it carries the tropical waters from the Florida Strait to the great banks of the United States, where it heads eastward, carrying its warm waters to the borders of the North Atlantic. As soon as the tropical waters hit the Arctic Ocean, they cool abruptly and plunge towards the abyssal zone to form a loop, known as "thermohaline circulation." Then, like an immense conveyor belt that slows down in the ocean depths, it sets out again southward to rejoin the beginning of the Gulf Stream. PBS Journey to Planet Earth | narrator Matt Damon | Lester Brown: Saving Civilization Plan B 3.0 (2011) [1:24:10] Wind Map Financial Crissi | National Debt
Click picture to zoom in - National Debt$1 Trillion & US Debt in Physical $100 bills [2:10] Diane Rehms Show
Toxic Chemical Spills In West Virginia And North Carolina (02/24/14) [1hr]Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart | Learn more about Malala Yousafzai, who speaks out agains the Talaban () [6:13]http://www.Malalafund.org website Jon Stewart | Jason Jones Live From Sochi-ish - Better Off Red (02/19/14) [05:17] Jon Stewart | Subway removes a controversial chemical from its bread, Kraft introduces a "natural mold inhibitor," and Hot Pockets warns of recalled beef (02/20/14) [05:34] |
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Home (05/12/09) [1:33:17]
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
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Hanford - Lethal and Leaking Part 1 (12/09/07) [7:00], Part 2 [7:00]
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Marc Desgrousilliers explained how Clinovo leverages open-source technologies to complete Electronic Data Capture (EDC). He introduced Clinovo's newly revamped eClinical System: ClinCapture, the most advanced EDC system. Marc Desgrousilliers explains that "Clinovo uses open-source tools to reduce costs and accelerate processes in clinical trials. As opposed to proprietary software, the code of ClinCapture is completely free. Clinovo monetizes it by offering services including study build, validation, training, hosting, integration and support."
Open-source technologies allow everyone to access, use and distribute the code for free. Clinovo launched a forum to invite users and developers of ClinCapture to collaborate and participate to the system enhancement and product roadmap.
Marc believes that open-source is the future of clinical trials and that it is going to be mainstream in a few years. However he described the clinical trial industry as more conservative than other industries in regards to open-source. He emphasized the rigorous and methodical regulations and protocols in place explained by the number of lives at stake. Clinovo has tackled this by validating the open-source code, fully compliant with the FDA requirements. ClinCapture was validated following the "14-step hybrid validation model" based on risk analysis recommended by David Nettleton, one of the nation's foremost experts on Computer System Validation (CSV) for 21 CFR Part 11.
Marc explained how ClinCapture was designed to provide sponsor companies with the most intuitive and flexible EDC system. He claimed "this new release makes ClinCapture the most advanced open-source EDC system on the market. Our team worked tirelessly to provide an intuitive table navigation, reduce roles complexity, and give one-click access to many of the routine functions like scheduling events and data entry."
Clinical trial professionals can try ClinCapture online on clinovo.com/clincapture and listen to or watch Marc's interview on mendelspod's website.
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Clinovo partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials, leveraging years of expertise in systems integration, open-source technology and industry standards. Clinovo provides Staffing Solutions, eClinical Systems and Biometrics Services including Clinical Data Management, Electronic Data Capture, CDISC mapping and SAS Programming. Clinovo also offers TechTrainings, a 10-week series of technical hands-on classes for clinical trial professionals to reach the next step in their professional career.


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By Lisa Johnston
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Whirlpool posted record sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and full year in 2005.
The company reported global net earnings of $126 million for the three months, ended Dec. 31, 2005, up from $97 million during the year-ago period, while full-year net earnings hit a record $422 million in 2005, compared with $406 million the year prior.
Net sales for the fourth quarter grew 9 percent from the prior-year period to $4 billion, an increase of 8 percent excluding currency translations. For the full year, net sales ballooned $1.1 billion, or 6 percent, excluding currency translations to $14.3 billion.
The solid results came despite "all-time high levels of material and oil-related costs," recounted Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool's chairman/CEO, who attributed the gains to "very positive consumer demand for our new product innovations, strong sales performance, disciplined cost controls and overall outstanding execution by our people around the world."
During the fourth quarter, net earnings increased 30 percent and operating profit margins expanded by one point thanks to productivity gains, price increases, volume growth, tax credits and a lower effective tax rate, the company said, offsetting higher incentive compensation, higher restructuring costs, increased reserves for litigation, and material and oil-related cost increases that totaled $55 million in the fourth quarter and $535 million for the year.
Within its North American operations, Whirlpool posted record fourth-quarter revenue of $2.4 billion, an increase of 12 percent year-over-year which handily outpaced the majap industry's 5 percent gain during the period. On a unit basis, Whirlpool's factory shipments matched the industry for the full year, growing by 2 percent.
Operating profit grew 36 percent to $226 million during the quarter, and operating margins increased 1.6 points, to 9.2 percent. Higher material and oil-related costs were offset by the combination of price hikes, controllable productivity improvements and reductions in general and administrative expenses.
Looking ahead, Fettig said, "Our business is well positioned entering 2006 as we will launch the largest number of new products-to-market in the company's history. Our innovation pipeline continues to grow, consumer and trade response has been strong, and we continue to execute our strategy of delivering consumer-relevant innovation to our customers worldwide."
The 2006 product rollouts include:
the Whirlpool-branded Cabrio top load laundry pair with 4.5 cubic feet of capacity, or the equivalent of three laundry baskets in a single load. The platform significantly reduces dry time through a combination of the washer's ultra-fast spin speed and the dryer's AccelerCare system, and saves more than half the energy and water used by conventional top-load washers, the company said. The Cabrio system will be available in July 2006.
the Whirlpool-branded Duet Sport and Duet Sport HT models, smaller versions of the popular Duet front-load pair, featuring a six-point suspension to reduce vibration and noise. Like their larger brethren, the units use less than half the water and energy of conventional top-loaders. The Duet Sport model will be available next month and the Duet Sport HT model, with a super-capacity washer drum and high-temperature sanitary cycle, will be available in May 2006.
The company has also redesigned its "classic" Whirlpool-branded top-load washer and dryer with new technology to simplify cycle selections and ensure optimal wash temperature. The washer has added built-in sensors to monitor wash water, while the dryer's AccelerCare system dries clothes as fast as the washer cleans them. Both will be available in May.
In cooking, the company has launched the Whirlpool Gold Velos SpeedCook oven, which combines the capacity and performance of an oven with the speed of a microwave.
Fettig said that Whirlpool still expects to conclude its acquisition of Maytag this quarter.
This TWICE webinar, hosted by senior editor Alan Wolf, will take a look at what may be the hottest CE products at retail that will be sold during the all-important fourth quarter. Top technologies, market strategies and industry trends will be discussed with industry analysts and executives.


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Closeup of a beautiful apricot day lily in my front yard.
Canon EOS Rebel XSi/450D, Canon 55-250 lens
1/320s, f/6.3, ISO 100, focal length 225.0mm
Top Ten Winner in the "Spring Flower Macro" challenge in Backyard Macros and Closeups, May 19, 2013
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Having lived most of my life in the northeast U.S., I am enjoying retired life in sunny Florida. I enjoy photographing many different kinds of things, but especially flowers and animals, including the beautiful birds found here in Florida. I am currently using a Canon EOS Rebel XSi/450D camera, a Canon 55-250 mm telescopic zoom lens, and a Sony P10 Cyber-shot digital camera. My newest acquisition is a Canon PowerShot SX260 HS, a point and shoot which I will be carrying in my purse.
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Thank you so much, Guendalyn. I always appreciate your encouragement!
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Very nice capture Dot
Thank you, Larry!
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Very nice my dear friend!!! Excellent capture Dot.
Hi Debra. Thank you very much! Hope all is well with you.
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Gorgeous capture
Thanks so much, Kathy!
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Beautiful work Dot!!
Thanks so very much, Sharon!
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Beautiful macro, pretty color.
Thank you so much for your encouragement, Rosie.
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Luscious enough to eat, Dot!
Thank you, Monnie. More today, but not nearly as nice as this one so I didn't bother with the camera.
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Ooooo love the color of this Dot!!!! Day lillies are one of my favorite flowers! Used to have hundreds and hundreds of them! Started all of them from just 10 bulbs!!!
Thank you, Ruth. These are very short. A clump of them was planted by the builder, and they bloom every year. One year something ate the tops off, right down to the stems. I tried sprinkling cayenne pepper around them the next year, and either it worked or no animal was interested. I'll never know which.
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Aura Cacia Aromatherapy Ceramic Lamp Ring -- 1 Ring
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This is awesome lil thing. I forget to use it, but when i do, it gives an awesome scent! I use about 10 drops and once the lamp heats up it makes the room smell! I recommend using it on a lamp you will remember to put drops in.
May 13, 2013
Good value
I have one of these lamp rings and it works fantastic! Fills the room with lots of wonderful scent!
May 1, 2012
I was debating whether to get this product or an electric diffuser. I didn't want another thing that needed plugged in so I went with this one. I wish I would have purchased the electronic one because this doesn't work.
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