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- Jan 27:
- Officials approve Marin Fair fee program
- Jan 24:
- Marin County Fair ticket prices to rise
- Jul 13:
- Editorial: Marin's fair reflected Jim Farley's enthusiasm
- Jul 8:
- Looking back: 2014 Marin County Fair a hit on social media
- Jul 7:
- Marin County Fair posts strong revenue and attendance
- Jul 6:
- 'It's time': Departing Marin County Fair director savors final day at the helm
- Jul 5:
- Fair competition: farm animals and their owners judged on the farm
- Marin Voice: When you are at the fair, listen to the laughter
- Jul 4:
- Larkspur students turn shipping container into living space
- Jul 3:
- Marin Voice: The happiest and healthiest fair on Earth
- Jul 2:
- From pig races to hugging Star Wars villains, Marin County Fair has many draws
- Marin Voice: Boosting happiness at the 2014 Marin County Fair
- Jul 1:
- Marin Voice: The happiest fair on Earth!
- Jun 26:
- Lib at Large: Orpheus makes its West Coast debut, 45 years later
- Live updates from 2014 Marin County Fair
- Jun 25:
- San Rafael security firm hired for Marin County Fair
- Jun 20:
- Marin Fair fireworks show costs $81,000
- Jun 15:
- Marin pays Huey Lewis and the News $95,000 for fair gig
- Jun 12:
- Huey Lewis and the News: Still playing after all these years
- Apr 19:
- Marin Snapshot: Marin County Fair producer Jim Farley passes the torch
- Jan 31:
- Marin County Fair receives 31 awards from Western Fairs Association
The 73rd Marin County Fair opens for a five-day run Wednesday as a rollicking crowd is expected at the Civic Center fairgrounds for a "happy day" when children get in free — and older kids rock at a hometown concert by Huey Lewis and the News.
At $17, a fair ticket provides what officials regard as the best deal in town, with a kaleidoscope of events, performances, contests, games, rides, exhibits, farm animals, vendors and concerts that reflect an only-in-Marin jubilee.
The annual county extravaganza comes complete with 28 carnival attractions including a 10-story Ferris wheel, 125 commercial booths and 35 food stands, as well as a film festival, capped by a fireworks spectacular billed as the biggest and best ever.
The theme this year is "The Happiest Fair on Earth," and officials promise lots of smiling faces, including the familiar grinning mug of comic and youth educator Michael Pritchard, the fair's "ambassador of happiness." Pritchard could pop up just about anywhere — including a daily Conga line in which fairgoers will strut to Pharrell Williams' "Happy."
A laughing Pritchard said his message about happiness in Marin will be simple: "Heaven on mirth."
Farley's last hurrah
It's all a last hurrah for Jim Farley, a veteran county executive who is retiring this summer after producing the fair for three decades. He signed on as an usher in 1974 and worked his way up to be Marin Center's CEO, becoming one of the county's most personable officials along the way.
"My job has been to bring joy into people's lives," the 59-year-old Farley said. "For my closing year I really wanted to celebrate compassion and happiness."
Fair favorites include the baking, crafts, flower, photography and other contests that draw more than 12,000 entrants vying for award ribbons. Fourteen breeds of heritage turkeys, along with llamas, goats, rabbits and a host of farm animals, will be on display. The acrobats of the Chinese Circus of Beijing, featuring acrobats who wowed crowds in the past, return with a new act.
Officials also tout the fair's 44th annual Marin County International Festival of Short Film and Video, which will screen 14 award-winning films in two different 90-minute shows at 5 and 7 p.m. daily in the Showcase Theater.
New attractions
New attractions include Game On!, an array of classic but giant-sized games and puzzles allowing people of all ages to test their skills. Visitors can check out extreme Sudoku, visit the Rube Goldberg machine or marvel at the Lego wall.
Huey Lewis and the News, the Marin band that got its start at the old Uncle Charlie's in Corte Madera, then became an international sensation with a series of hits, "brings buzz and excitement" to the fair, Farley noted. "He's a hometown hero." Lewis drew a capacity crowd when he performed at the fair in 2005, prompting officials to close the island concert pavilion.
Other key concerts include Orpheus at 3 p.m. Thursday, followed by the Wailers at 7:30 p.m.; La Santa Cecilia, 3 p.m. Friday and March Fourth Marching Band, 7:30 p.m.; BeauSoleil, 3 p.m. Saturday, followed by Night Ranger, 7:30 p.m.; and Elvin Bishop, 3 p.m. Sunday, followed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, 7:30 p.m. Other bands at the fair run the gamut, including a reunion performance by the Fairfax Street Choir at 8 p.m. Thursday to a show at 1 p.m. Sunday by the Liberators, Independent Journal writer Paul Liberatore's band.
Fair chief Farley intends to take it all in stride, handing over duties Thursday to a top aide after the fair gets rolling so he can enjoy the event as a guest for the first time.
"I want to say thank you to all the vendors who have been here through the years, the people and the staff," Farley said. "It will take some time because there are a lot of people to thank."


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Thursday January 12 Nine by seven: Welcome to the '90s, space cowboys--that short attention span you're so worried about simply goes with the territory. But even if sitting through several acts and an intermission turns you into a fidgety claustrophobic, there's still hope for you as a theatergoer. Colorado Quickies 2, the second in a series of clever showcases at the Changing Scene, 1527 1/2 Champa St., features nine short works by seven Colorado playwrights--all clocking in at around ten minutes each. The wave of the future? You'll just have to attend to find out--performances continue at 7 Thursdays and Sundays and at 8 Fridays and Saturdays through January 22. To reserve tickets, $6 to $7, call 893-5775.
Back in the saddle again: Where the stock show goes, the music follows. Denver is rounding up a wagonload of singin' cowpokes this week for anyone interested in riding the range--the full range, that is. Just don't get any saddle sores, pardner. At the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., the sixth annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering is getting under way tonight, spotlighting the range rovers' particular way of howling at the moon. Poets and musicians from throughout the West will perform for four days, touching on subjects as close to home as a rodeo and as far-flung as the Australian bush. Tickets for daytime festivities, set for Friday and Saturday from 10 to 5, are $4 daily; main-stage performances, at 7:30 tonight through Saturday and 1 on Sunday, cost $12.50. Call 431-3939 or 290-TIXS. Yet another summit of Western voices gathers tonight at 8 at the Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Pl., headlined by Michael Martin Murphey and a mess of his warbling cohorts. The evening is a benefit for the Denver-based North American Riding for the Handicapped Association. Tickets, $19.50 to $40, can be reserved by calling 534-8336. Neal McCoy, who is as likely to rap the Beverly Hillbillies theme song as he is to belt out one of his own hits, sings at the Paramount tomorrow at 8; tickets are $9.85. And the Grizzly Rose, at 5450 N. Valley Hwy., opens up its enormous dance floor for fans of country crooners Joe Diffie, appearing tonight and tomorrow, and Tracy Lawrence, who will be there Sunday night. Tickets to either of those shows are $15; call 295-1330. But no January would be complete without the return of local songstress Lannie Garrett, in the comic guise of cowgirl Patsy DeCline, to the Denver Buffalo Company, 1109 Lincoln, for a season of fun with the La-Z-Boy Rockers. Hear Patsy at 9:30 on Fridays and Saturday evenings through March 18. For more information call 832-0880.
Friday January 13 Global warning: The revamped Vogue Theatre, back in the swing after a fallow period at 1485 S. Pearl St., steps on the gas tonight when it presents Lonely Planet, a work by Colorado native and nationally known playwright Steven Dietz making its regional premiere. The play, an AIDS allegory that takes place in a map store, opens tonight at 7 for a run continuing Thursdays through Saturdays until February 11. Tickets are $12 ($10 students and seniors); call 744-8990 for reservations.
Ten-gallon art: The Metro State Center for the Visual Arts, 1701 Wazee St., salutes the stock show season with a new exhibit, The Real West: A Contemporary Photographic Overview, opening today and continuing through February 25. The invitational show, featuring works by a wide palette of known and emerging Colorado photographers, contains images that deal with various (and at times opposing) aspects of the West and subjective views juxtaposed with objective documentaries. A public reception will be held from 7 to 8 on January 20; for gallery hours call 294-5207.
Saturday January 14 Peachy Keen: You've gotten the scoop here on just about everything country and/or Western happening in town this week, and you still need an alternative? What you want is an honest-to-God songwriter, a cozy, funny, literate sort all too familiar with lonely backroads and hooch-soaked honky-tonks, and Texan Robert Earl Keen--in the area for a series of folksy concerts--should fill the niche quite nicely. Catch Keen while you can; he performs this evening at the Bluebird Theater, (8 p.m., 3317 E. Colfax, $10-$12, 322-2308), tomorrow--along with Memphis grunge-folker Todd Snider--on public radio's E-Town (7 p.m., Boulder Theater, 2030 14th St., Boulder, $6-$8, 786-7030) and Monday at the Fox Theatre (8 p.m., 1135 13th St., Boulder, $12.60, 447-0095).
Swing shift: An evening with Gypsy Mandolin, a trio formed around fiery mandolinist Charlie Provenza, is surely the stuff of golden earrings and a romantic life. Provenza blends traditional music from Eastern Europe, Russia and Greece with the breezy swing influenced by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli and pioneered by fellow mando-virtuoso David Grisman. In other words, you've got your "Hungarian Rhapsody" as well as your on-the-money "Satin Doll." Provenza picks tonight at 8 at the Swallow Hill Music Hall, 1905 S. Pearl St.; also on the bill are singer Carol Van Al-stine, dulcimer player Willie Jaeger and guitarist Scott Bennett. Call 777-1003 to purchase tickets; they're $11 ($9 members).

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Vegas is intense! I can't believe how many people were there – I arrived and was like, oh, this is where everybody has been all these years!
I got to our hotel just as the sun was setting on Friday night! I was the last to arrive and it was glorious to walk into a hotel room of friends! My friend Emily was our host for the weekend and she did an amazing job planning everything and getting us on lists so we could skip the lines and the cover charges! She also works for the Las Vegas Sands, so we got a ridiculously low rate at the Palazzo.
We listened to an epic playlist while getting ready and then headed to the lobby for dinner at SushiSamba. I'm not a sushi person, so I never would have picked this on my own, but it was amazing!
We had wonderful service, excellent cocktails, and delicious food!
Highlights included the fried plantains and the sea bass skewers!
And a complimentary cocktail tower!
After dinner, we headed across the street to the XS club at the Wynn.
The club was giant and had an awesome outdoor area.
I had no idea it was going to happen, but David Guetta appeared as the DJ at 2am!!
He was awesome, and we made our way to the pit to get a better look!
Most of us east and central time zone people couldn't sleep in so we grabbed green juice, hit the gym, and got some lunch at the pool. It was a little too chilly for bathing suits, but I enjoyed a nap under a towel in the wonderful sunshine.
Saturday evening we got all dolled up for our second night on the town (I definitely could not have handled a third night!).
Our destination was the Cosmopolitan hotel, where we had drinks in the Chandelier bar. Bourbon for me!
We had dinner at a fantastic restaurant called Rose.Rabbit.Lie at the Cosmopolitan. The menu was all small plates, so we shared a bunch of dishes, and every single thing I tried was phenomenal. The above brussels sprouts with crispy chicken skin were maybe the best I've ever had. The coolest part about dinner though, was that our table was backstage and we dined while a show was happening on the other side of the wall. All the performers would come through the dining room, warm-up with a small act/performance, and then enter the stage door.
We saw so many interesting things, like this upsidedown man!
Our main event for the night was the Marquee nightclub. One of Emily's [INCREDIBLY generous] friends got a table for us! It was wonderful to be able to have drinks (and water!!) right there and be able to sit and relax if we wanted too.
We spent a large portion of the night debating if the man in the black suit in the left-ish part of the picture was Paul Rudd. If it wasn't, he was an exact look alike!
We had [too much] champagne and I loved the girls with sparkers who would bring out the bottles. They even changed outfits each time!
Needless to say, it was a magical night!
We ended the trip with brunch at Bouchon Bistro.
I enjoyed a spiced doughnut and a glorious corned beef hash in honor of St. Patrick's day. I was super impressed with the food in Las Vegas, and I told matt we are going back just to eat.
A gigantic thank you to my friend Emily for totally spoiling us and bringing us all together!!!
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Your trip looks fantastic! My husband and I are going to Vegas in May- staying at Encore at the Wynn– I've been so interested to try Rose.Rabbit.Lie- we have a dinner reservation there Saturday night– I've been toying with the idea of buying tickets to the show after dinner- but from what it looks like– we'll get a full experience just from the dinner! Thanks for sharing!
Looks so fun! Where did you get the croptop in your outfit from night one? I would love to recreate that look.
Um, your friend might not appreciate that shot of her being posted – the internet never forgets a crotch shot.
Gotta love Vegas! (It really is a ton of fun)! And that is Paul Rudd.
It looks like you had so much fun! Are the buffets as insane as I keep hearing they are?
That definitely looks like Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen! Glad you had such a great time! I've never been to Vegas and this makes me want to go!
I love your crop top/skirt combination. Where did you get it??


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I have been using this on-and-off, switching between it and the Nivea cleansing gel for normal/combination skin. After experimenting between the two, I like this better. I have been getting so many pimples on my forehead lately despite my meticulous skin care and hygiene routine, and I think I realized that I'm over-doing it... I need moisture! This cleanses without being too drying, but you do need a little extra cleaning power a couple times a week.
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I was wondering if it is wise to kill weeds around my peach trees. I would only use OMRI listed weed killer or maybe mulch. But I get off the subject. I have read that weeds take nutrients and water away from the trees. I want to get rid of the weeds for that reason but also becasue of the gophers and be able to see and check my emitters. I have a lot of the trees like almost 50 so this is not a small area. Anyways any organic orchard growers I would enjoy the info. I would love the help BUCKY |
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Grasses and "weeds" do uptake soil nutrients but whether it would be enough to adversly affect fruit trees is highly debatable. Some orchards around here have "clean" soil with no grass or "weeds" evident, but most have grass growing in the orchard along with the trees and that grass is mulch mowed right back into the turf where the grass clippings can supply some nutrients to the soil. Heavily mulching around the tree trunk to aid in suppressing grass growth there can help make mowing easier, but constantly spraying plant killers to control growth would not be an acceptable organic proactice. |
- Posted by nckvilledudes 7a (My Page) on Sat, Dec 20, 08 at 7:51
If you are concerned about the grass and weeds taking up nitrogen that would otherwise be available for your trees, why not over plant these areas with clover which will fix nitrogen into the soil for your trees to use, provide a habitat for beneficial insects, and provide a food source for the bees? |
- Posted by organicguy (My Page) on Sat, Dec 20, 08 at 10:45
You might want to consider putting a heavy layer of organic mulch around each tree, with the mulch circle beeing roughly the diameter of the branch spread of the tree. This will not only control grass and weeds, but fertilize the trees and slowly add organic matter into the soil. Any fruit or leaves that fall can just be left there to become part of the mulch. Ron |
- Posted by gatormomx2 9 westvolusiafl (My Page) on Sat, Dec 20, 08 at 11:53
In Florida , we keep weeds and grasses away from our citrus trees . This is primarily because citrus are highly susceptible to foot rot and root rot from fungus . Peach trees probably do not have this problem due to a different type of root system . Mulch sounds like an excellent idea - just keep it away from the tree trunks by about 4 to 6 inches . Check with your local Extension Agency . They have plenty of info on organic farming and advocate the practice of using " earth friendly products . " |
- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Tue, Dec 30, 08 at 21:48
There's a peach grower near San Antonio who piles mulch down the rows between the trees. His mulch is on the order of a foot or more high. I got the impression the mulch extended from canopy to canopy but does not approach the trunk of the tree. With that much mulch even in Texas he does not have to irrigate. I did not get a chance to talk to him but I would wonder about thinning and picking the fruit with that much mulch. |
- Posted by albert_135 Sunset 2 or 3 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 12:24
Is "orchard grass" for orchards? Or is that just a marketing name? |
- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 18:09
Orchard grass is called that because it is a grass that will "invade" an orchard a little ways. It tolerates light shade while other forage type grasses do not. It is very tasty to cattle. |
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Gone With the Papers-the-Death-of-Journalism
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By Chris Hedges
I visited the Hartford Courant as a high school student. It was the first time I was in a newsroom. The Connecticut paper's newsroom, the size of a city block, was packed with rows of metal desks, most piled high with newspapers and notebooks. Reporters banged furiously on heavy typewriters set amid tangled phone cords, overflowing ashtrays, dirty coffee mugs and stacks of paper, many of which were in sloping piles on the floor. The din and clamor, the incessantly ringing phones, the haze of cigarette and cigar smoke that lay over the feverish hive, the hoarse shouts, the bustle and movement of reporters, most in disheveled coats and ties, made it seem an exotic, living organism. I was infatuated. I dreamed of entering this fraternity, which I eventually did, for more than two decades writing for The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and, finally, The New York Times, where I spent most of my career as a foreign correspondent.
Newsrooms today are anemic and forlorn wastelands. I was recently in the newsroom at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and patches of the floor, also the size of a city block, were open space or given over to rows of empty desks. These institutions are going the way of the massive rotary presses that lurked like undersea monsters in the bowels of newspaper buildings, roaring to life at night. The heavily oiled behemoths, the ones that spat out sheets of newsprint at lightning speed, once empowered and enriched newspaper publishers who for a few lucrative decades held a monopoly on connecting sellers with buyers. Now that that monopoly is gone, now that the sellers no long need newsprint to reach buyers, the fortunes of newspapers are declining as fast as the page counts of daily news sheets.
The great newspapers sustained legendary reporters such as I.F. Stone, Murray Kempton and Homer Bigart who wrote stories that brought down embezzlers, cheats, crooks and liars, who covered wars and conflicts, who told us about famines in Africa and the peculiarities of the French or what it was like to be poor and forgotten in our urban slums or Appalachia. These presses churned out raw lists of data, from sports scores to stock prices. Newspapers took us into parts of the city or the world we would never otherwise have seen or visited. Reporters and critics reviewed movies, books, dance, theater and music and covered sporting events. Newspapers printed the text of presidential addresses, sent reporters to chronicle the inner workings of City Hall and followed the courts and the police. Photographers and reporters raced to cover the lurid and the macabre, from Mafia hits to crimes of passion.
We are losing a peculiar culture and an ethic. This loss is impoverishing our civil discourse and leaving us less and less connected to the city, the nation and the world around us. The death of newsprint represents the end of an era. And news gathering will not be replaced by the Internet. Journalism, at least on the large scale of old newsrooms, is no longer commercially viable. Reporting is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It requires going out and talking to people. It means doing this every day. It means looking constantly for sources, tips, leads, documents, informants, whistle-blowers, new facts and information, untold stories and news. Reporters often spend days finding little or nothing of significance. The work can be tedious and is expensive. And as the budgets of large metropolitan dailies shrink, the very trade of reporting declines. Most city papers at their zenith employed several hundred reporters and editors and had operating budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The steady decline of the news business means we are plunging larger and larger parts of our society into dark holes and opening up greater opportunities for unchecked corruption, disinformation and the abuse of power.
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth, when civic discourse is grounded in verifiable fact. And with the decimation of reporting these sources of information are disappearing.
The increasing fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind. The relentless assault on the "liberal press" by right-wing propaganda outlets such as Fox News or by the Christian right is in fact an assault on a system of information grounded in verifiable fact. And once this bedrock of civil discourse is eradicated, people will be free, as many already are, to believe whatever they want to believe, to pick and choose what facts or opinions suit their world and what do not. In this new world lies will become true.
I, like many who cared more about truth than news, was pushed out of The New York Times, specifically over my vocal and public opposition to the war in Iraq. This is not a new story. Those reporters who persistently challenge the orthodoxy of belief, who question and examine the reigning political passions, always tacitly embraced by the commercial media, are often banished. There is a constant battle in newsrooms between the managers, those who serve the interests of the institution and the needs of the advertisers, and reporters whose loyalty is to readers. I have a great affection for reporters, who hide their idealism behind a thin veneer of cynicism and worldliness. I also harbor a deep distrust and even loathing for the careerists who rise up the food chain to become managers and editors.
Sidney Schanberg was nearly killed in Cambodia in 1975 after staying there for The New York Times to cover the conquest of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge, reporting for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Later he went back to New York from Cambodia and ran the city desk. He pushed reporters to report about the homeless, the poor and the victims of developers who were forcing families out of their rent-controlled apartments. But it was not a good time to give a voice to the weak and the poor. The social movements built around the opposition to the Vietnam War had dissolved. Alternative publications, including the magazine Ramparts, which through a series of exposés had embarrassed the established media organizations into doing real reporting, had gone out of business.
The commercial press had, once again, become lethargic. It had less and less incentive to challenge the power elite. Many editors viewed Schanberg's concerns as relics of a dead era. He was removed as city editor and assigned to write a column about New York. He used the column, however, to again decry the abuse of the powerful, especially developers. The then-editor of the paper, Abe Rosenthal, began to acidly refer to Schanberg as the resident "Commie" and address him as "St. Francis." Rosenthal, who met William F. Buckley almost weekly for lunch along with the paper's publisher, Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger, grew increasingly impatient with Schanberg, who was challenging the activities of their powerful friends. Schanberg became a pariah. He was not invited to the paper's table at two consecutiveInner Circledinners held for New York reporters. The senior editors and the publisher did not attend the previews for the film "The Killing Fields," based on Schanberg's experience in Cambodia. His days at the newspaper were numbered.
The city Schanberg profiled in his column did not look like the glossy ads in Rosenthal's new lifestyle sections or the Sunday New York Times magazine. Schanberg's city was one in which thousands of citizens were sleeping on the streets. It was one where there were lines at soup kitchens. It was a city where the mentally ill were thrown onto heating grates or into jails like human refuse. He wrote of people who were unable to afford housing. He lost his column and left the paper to work for New York Newsday and later The Village Voice.
Schanberg's story was one of many. The best reporters almost always run afoul of the mandarins above them, a clash that sees them defanged and demoted or driven out. They are banished by a class of careerists whom the war correspondent Homer Bigartdismissed as "the pygmies." One evening Bigart was assigned to write about a riot, drawing from the information provided by reporters on the scene. As one reporter, John Kifner, called in from a phone booth rioters began to shake it. Kifner relayed the distressing bit of news to Bigart, who, sick of the needling of his editors, reassumed Kifner with the words: "At least you're dealing with sane people."
Those who insist on reporting uncomfortable truths always try the patience of the careerists who manage these institutions. If they are too persistent, as most good reporters are, they become "a problem."
This battle, which exists in all newsrooms, was summed up for me by the Los Angeles Times reporter Dial Torgerson, whom I worked with in Central America until he was killed by a land mine on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. "Always remember," he once told me of newspaper editors, "they are the enemy."
When I met with Schanberg in his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side he told me, "I heard all kinds of reports over the years that the wealthy patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art would often get to use the customs clearance provided to the museum to import personal items, including jewelry, which was not going to the museum. I can't prove this, but I believe it to be true. Would the Times investigate this? Not in a million years. The publisher at the time was the chairman of the board of the museum. These were his friends."
But Schanberg also argues, as do I, that newspapers prove a vital bulwark for a democratic state. It is possible to decry their numerous failings and compromises with the power elite and yet finally honor them as important to the maintenance of democracy. Traditionally, if a reporter goes out and reports on an event, the information is usually trustworthy and accurate. The report can be slanted or biased. It can leave out vital facts. But it is not fiction. The day The New York Times and other great city newspapers die, if such a day comes, will be a black day for the nation.
Newspapers "do more than anyone else, although they left out a lot of things," Schanberg said. "There are stories on their blackout list. But it is important the paper is there because they spend money on what they chose to cover. Most of the problem of mainstream journalism is what they leave out. But what they do, aside from the daily boiler plate, press releases and so forth, is very, very important to the democratic process."
"Papers function as a guide to newcomers, to immigrants, as to what the ethos is, what the rules are, how we are supposed to behave," Schanberg added. "That is not always good, obviously, because this is the consensus of the Establishment. But papers, probably more in the earlier years than now, print texts of things people will never see elsewhere. It tells them what you have to do to cast a vote. It covers things like the swearing in of immigrants. They are a positive force. I don't think The New York Times was ever a fully committed accountability paper. I am not sure there is one. I don't know who coined the phrase Afghanistanism, but it fits for newspapers.
Afghanistanism means you can cover all the corruption you find in Afghanistan, but don't try to do it in your own backyard. The Washington Post does not cover Washington. It covers official Washington. The Times ignores lots of omissions and worse by members of the Establishment."
"Newspapers do not erase bad things," Schanberg went on. "Newspapers keep the swamp from getting any deeper, from rising higher. We do it in spurts. We discover the civil rights movement. We discover the women's rights movement. We go at it hellbent because now it is kosher to write about those who have been neglected and treated like half citizens. And then when things calm down it becomes easy not to do that anymore."
The death of newspapers means, as Schanberg points out, that we will lose one more bulwark holding back the swamp of corporate malfeasance, abuse and lies. It will make it harder for us as a society to separate illusion from reality, fact from opinion, reality from fantasy. There is nothing, of course, intrinsically good about newspapers. We have long been cursed with sleazy tabloids and the fictional stories of the supermarket press, which have now become the staple of television journalism. The commercial press, in the name of balance and objectivity, had always skillfully muted the truth in the name of news or blotted it out. But the loss of great newspapers, newspapers that engage with the community, means the loss of one of the cornerstones of our open, democratic state. We face the prospect, in the very near future, of major metropolitan cities without city newspapers. This loss will diminish our capacity for self-reflection and take away the critical tools we need to monitor what is happening around us.
The leaders of the civil rights movement grasped from the start that without a press willing to attend their marches and report fairly from their communities on the injustices they decried and the repression they suffered, the movement would "have been a bird without wings," as civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewissaid.
"Without the media's willingness to stand in harm's way and starkly portray events of the Movement as they saw them unfold, Americans may never have understood or even believed the horrors that African Americans faced in the Deep South," Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, said in
2005 when the House celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. "That commitment to publish the truth took courage. It was incredibly dangerous to be seen with a pad, a pen, or a camera in Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia where the heart of the struggle took place. There was a violent desperation among local and State officials and the citizens to maintain the traditional order. People wanted to keep their injustice a secret. They wanted to hide from the critical eye of a disapproving world. They wanted to flee from the convictions of their own conscience. And they wanted to destroy the ugly reflection that nonviolent protestors and camera images so graphically displayed.
So when the Freedom Riders climbed off the bus in Alabama in 1961, for example, there were reporters who were beaten and bloodied before any of us were."
Our political apparatus and systems of information have been diminished and taken hostage by corporations. Our government no longer responds to the needs or rights of citizens. We have been left disempowered without the traditional mechanisms to be heard. Those who battle the corporate destruction of the ecosystem and seek to protect the remnants of our civil society must again take to the streets. They have to engage in acts of civil disobedience. But this time around the media and the systems of communication have dramatically changed.
The death of journalism, the loss of reporters on the airwaves and in print who believed the plight of the ordinary citizen should be reported, means that it will be harder for ordinary voices and dissenters to reach the wider public. The preoccupation with news as entertainment and the loss of sustained reporting will effectively marginalize and silence those who seek to be heard or to defy established power. Protests, unlike in the 1960s, will have a difficult time garnering the daily national coverage that characterized the reporting on the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement and in the end threatened the power elite. Acts of protest, no longer covered or barely covered, will leap up like disconnected wildfires, more easily snuffed out or ignored. It will be hard if not impossible for resistance leaders to have their voices amplified across the nation, to build a national movement for change. The failings of newspapers were huge, but in the years ahead, as the last battle for democracy means dissent, civil disobedience and protest, we will miss them.
Chris Hedges is a weekly Truthdig columnist and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His newest book is "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress."
Economist Tallies Rising Cost of Israel on US Taxpayers
April 8, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By David R. Francis, Christian Science Monitor
Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person.
This is an estimate by Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist in Washington. For decades, his analyses of the Middle East scene have made him a frequent thorn in the side of the Israel lobby.
For the first time in many years, Mr. Stauffer has tallied the total cost to the US of its backing of Israel in its drawn-out, violent dispute with the Palestinians. So far, he figures, the bill adds up to more than twice the cost of the Vietnam War.
And now Israel wants more. In a meeting at the White House late last month, Israeli officials made a pitch for $4 billion in additional military aid to defray the rising costs of dealing with the intifada and suicide bombings. They also asked for more than $8 billion in loan guarantees to help the country's recession-bound economy.
Considering Israel's deep economic troubles, Stauffer doubts the Israel bonds covered by the loan guarantees will ever be repaid. The bonds are likely to be structured so they don't pay interest until they reach maturity. If Stauffer is right, the US would end up paying both principal and interest, perhaps 10 years out.
Israel's request could be part of a supplemental spending bill that's likely to be passed early next year, perhaps wrapped in with the cost of a war with Iraq.
Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. It is already due to get $2.04 billion in military assistance and $720 million in economic aid in fiscal 2003. It has been getting $3 billion a year for years.
Adjusting the official aid to 2001 dollars in purchasing power, Israel has been given $240 billion since 1973, Stauffer reckons. In addition, the US has given Egypt $117 billion and Jordan $22 billion in foreign aid in return for signing peace treaties with Israel.
"Consequently, politically, if not administratively, those outlays are part of the total package of support for Israel," argues Stauffer in a lecture on the total costs of US Middle East policy, commissioned by the US Army War College, for a recent conference at the University of Maine.
These foreign-aid costs are well known. Many Americans would probably say it is money well spent to support a beleagured democracy of some strategic interest. But Stauffer wonders if Americans are aware of the full bill for supporting Israel since some costs, if not hidden, are little known.
One huge cost is not secret. It is the higher cost of oil and other economic damage to the US after Israel-Arab wars.
In 1973, for instance, Arab nations attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territories Israel had conquered in the 1967 war. President Nixon resupplied Israel with US arms, triggering the Arab oil embargo against the US.
That shortfall in oil deliveries kicked off a deep recession. The US lost $420 billion (in 2001 dollars) of output as a result, Stauffer calculates. And a boost in oil prices cost another $450 billion.
Afraid that Arab nations might use their oil clout again, the US set up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That has since cost, conservatively, $134 billion, Stauffer reckons.
Other US help includes:
• US Jewish charities and organizations have remitted grants or bought Israel bonds worth $50 billion to $60 billion. Though private in origin, the money is "a net drain" on the United States economy, says Stauffer.
• The US has already guaranteed $10 billion in commercial loans to Israel, and $600 million in "housing loans." (See editor's note below.) Stauffer expects the US Treasury to cover these.
• The US has given $2.5 billion to support Israel's Lavi fighter and Arrow missile projects.
• Israel buys discounted, serviceable "excess" US military equipment. Stauffer says these discounts amount to "several billion dollars" over recent years.
• Israel uses roughly 40 percent of its $1.8 billion per year in military aid, ostensibly earmarked for purchase of US weapons, to buy Israeli-made hardware. It also has won the right to require the Defense Department or US defense contractors to buy Israeli-made equipment or subsystems, paying 50 to 60 cents on every defense dollar the US gives to Israel.
US help, financial and technical, has enabled Israel to become a major weapons supplier. Weapons make up almost half of Israel's manufactured exports. US defense contractors often resent the buy-Israel requirements and the extra competition subsidized by US taxpayers.
• US policy and trade sanctions reduce US exports to the Middle East about $5 billion a year, costing 70,000 or so American jobs, Stauffer estimates. Not requiring Israel to use its US aid to buy American goods, as is usual in foreign aid, costs another 125,000 jobs.
• Israel has blocked some major US arms sales, such as F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. That cost $40 billion over 10 years, says Stauffer.
Stauffer's list will be controversial. He's been assisted in this research by a number of mostly retired military or diplomatic officials who do not go public for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic if they criticize America's policies toward Israel.
In Yemen, Locals Worry About Obama Policy on Al-Qaeda
January 7, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Michael Horton, The Christian Science Monitor
Yemeni family. (Photo: Richard Messenger / Flickr) |
From smoky halls to the rugged mountains of Yemen, locals are worried that their country – threatened more by poverty and water shortages than terrorism, they say – could turn into another Afghanistan.
Sanaa, Yemen – Amid an intensifying US effort to curb Al Qaeda activity in Yemen, locals in this impoverished country are worried that a focus on military aid alone could backfire – spawning a more robust militant movement and potentially drawing the US into an Afghanistan-like war.
In a smoke-filled hall in the capital of Sanaa, where men gather to chew the mildly intoxicating leaves of the qat tree and smoke water pipes, most of the talk is about Al-Qaeda and American intentions in Yemen.
"By God, they want to turn this country into Afghanistan," declares Mohammad al-Jaffi, a young man who says he fled the Arhab area, a mountainous region just north of Sanaa, after a recent attack on a suspected Al Qaeda hideout. On Monday, the government said it killed two Al Qaeda members in the Arhab region.
"We are not radicals here," Mr. Jaffi adds, his cheek bulging with the pulpy green leaves that strict Salafis — the Muslim sect that Al Qaeda members belong to — consider forbidden. Holding up a qat branch, he yells, "Look at this. We all chew this here – in Afghanistan, in Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabis would kill us for chewing qat."
But US and other foreign diplomats are clearly concerned. France, Germany, and Japan all closed their embassies Monday, following US and British closures the previous day, amid reports that a significant amount of explosives had gone missing from the Yemeni army.
"Exclusive Focus on Al Qaeda a Mistake"
With the reported surge in Al-Qaeda activity in Yemen, the Obama administration has reiterated its "partnership" with the increasingly vulnerable regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who faces a rebellion in the north and secessionists in the south. Gen. David Petraeus, who as head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) is overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, announced on Jan. 1 that the US would double military aid to Yemen after allocating a reported $70 million in 2009.
It has been widely reported that the US is also providing the Yemeni government with intelligence and military trainers. Britain, meanwhile, has announced that it will fund an antiterror police force. Such a sole focus on suspected terrorism is seen as a mistake by some experts as well as locals.
"I think an exclusive focus on Al Qaeda to the exclusion of every other threat in Yemen is a mistake," says Gregory Johnsen, a Princeton PhD candidate who was recently in Yemen for his research on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). "Viewing this threat only through the prism of Al Qaeda induces exactly the kind of result the US is hoping to avoid."
Locals in two provinces often cited as Al Qaeda strongholds, Al-Jawf and Marib, are more concerned with severe poverty – an issue they say the central government has done little to alleviate.
"This government does not care about us. Everything we have, we have to fight for – to get money for a school or medicine we have to block the road. This is all they listen to," says Ahmad al-Nasri. "By God the tribe is all we have, it is what protects us."
Mr. Johnsen says that development aid is "crucial" in Marib and Al-Jawf, but disputes the popular depiction of Yemen as a place with large areas that are totally ungovernable.
"The government doesn't appear to be able to constantly control these areas," he acknowledges, citing recent flare-ups between tribal leaders and the government. "But the image of Yemen being a Wild West … is not necessarily accurate."
Yemeni government offices in Sanaa were closed and the Yemeni embassy in Washington was unable to comment before press time.
Water Shortages
A potentially greater destabilizing influence than militancy in Yemen is water shortages, which are already the root of a large percentage of the inter-tribal fighting that plagues the country.
The UN has ranked Yemen as one of the most water-scarce countries, and one local geology professor has estimated that Sanaa's wells will go dry by 2015 at current usage rates. The country is in desperate need of investment in new drip irrigation systems and water conservation measures.
"Look at these apricot trees," says Mohammad Faris, who owns an orchard on the outskirts of Sanaa that once flourished. "Half of them are dead from lack of water."
"We don't need more guns in this country," declares Mr. Faris as he stands among the parched remains of what used to be fertile ground. "This village needs a new water pump and we need new trees that drink less water."
Increased Sympathy for Al Qaeda?
Many locals emphasize that the country's primary need is development aid, which has in the past been hampered by international concerns about government corruption. But some say they're ready to fight if the US comes – a prospect that as yet looks unlikely, though Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) of Connecticut recently suggested that without preemptive action a future war may occur.
"We have a long history of fighting invaders here," says Ismail Hadi, a village elder in the rugged mountainous province of Hajjah, not far from the sectarian war being fought against Houthi rebels. As he looks out over his terraces of qat trees that cascade down towards a deep canyon, he adds, "We fought the Turks, we fought the Egyptians, God willing we will fight the Americans when they come."
Back at the Sanaa qat hall, Uithman al- Ansi echoes that sentiment.
"If the Americans want a fight they will get it," says Mr. Ansi as he grabs the hilt of his jambiya, the traditional dagger carried by many men here. Another man who says he is from Marib, one of the two frequently cited Al Qaeda strongholds, suggests that US attacks or support for attacks on suspected militants could increase the number of Al Qaeda sympathizers in Yemen.
"The Americans don't know our customs," says the man. "When they attacked al-Harithi [a suspected Al-Qaeda member who was targeted by a US drone in November 2002] on our lands, his people became our guests. We have long memories."
Christa Case Bryant contributed reporting from Boston.
Thailand Accused of Mistreating Muslim Refugees
January 29, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Courtesy Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor
The Rohingya Muslim people, subject to horrible state persecution in Burma, have sought refuge in Bangladesh; recently hundreds were refused entry into Thailand. |
BANGKOK, THAILAND – Hundreds of Muslim refugees from Burma (Myanmar) are feared missing or dead after Thai troops forced them onto boats without engines and cut them adrift in international waters, according to human rights activists and authorities in India who rescued survivors. The revelations have shone a spotlight on the Thai military's expulsion policy toward Muslims it sees as a security threat.
Nearly 1,000 refugees were detained on a remote island in December before being towed out to sea in two batches and abandoned with little food or water, according to a tally by a migrant-rights group based on survivors' accounts and media reports. The detainees, mostly members of Burma's oppressed Rohingya minority, then drifted for weeks. One group was rescued by Indonesia's Navy, and two others made landfall in India's Andaman Islands.
Photos of refugees on a Thai island show rows of bedraggled men stripped to the waist as soldiers stand guard. In a separate incident, foreign tourists snapped pictures of detainees trussed on a beach. Thailand's Andaman coastline, where the abuses took place, is a popular vacation spot.
PM Abhisit Vejjajiva has launched an investigation. Military officials have denied any ill treatment of refugees, while offering conflicting accounts of how they ended up lost at sea. The military has accused the Rohingya, who often travel via Thailand to Malaysia to work or seek asylum, of assisting a Muslim-led insurgency in southern Thailand.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is pressing Thailand for access to 126 Rohingya that it says are in Thai custody. These include 46 boat people reportedly detained on Jan. 16 and handed over to military custody. It said a second group of 80 Rohingya, which reportedly had previously been pushed out to sea and drifted back, had been transferred to the tiny detention island.
There was no sign Thursday of any detainees there, said a Western source in the area. Villagers said boat people had been held there by local guards under military command, before being towed out to sea by fishing vessels. Rickety vessels said to have carried the refugees were beached on the island, the source said.
Amid accusations of a military cover-up, the Thai government has promised a full accounting. "The military has agreed to a fact-finding investigation … [but] we're not dependent on their input alone," says Panitan Wattanyagorn, a spokesman.
That probe will expose Mr. Abhisit's weak command of the military, which sees the Rohingya and other undocumented Muslims as a threat, says Paul Quaglia, director of PSA Asia, a security consultancy in Bangkok. He says there's no evidence that the Rohingya, who speak a Bengali dialect, have joined insurgents in the Malay-speaking south, where more than 3,500 people have died since 2004.
"Abhisit is … beholden to the military for getting his job – and keeping his job," he says.
Thailand has long been a magnet for millions of economic migrants as well as refugees escaping persecution in Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Human traffickers often play a role moving both groups, exposing those on the run to egregious abuses. Thailand has a mixed record on hosting refugees.
Most Rohingya, who are denied legal rights in Burma, begin their journey in Bangladesh, where more than 200,000 live in unofficial camps. A further 28,000 are registered with the UNHCR. From there, men pay smugglers for passage across the Indian Ocean to Thailand, usually as a transit stop to reach Malaysia, a Muslim country with a sizable Rohingya population. Some Bangladeshis also travel there.
In recent years, boats crossing during winter months have increased. Between 2004 and 2008, the number of Rohingya detained by police rose to 4,866, up from 2,763, says Kraisak Choonhavan, a government lawmaker.
Some of these Rohingya have been repatriated to Burma. Others have paid smugglers to complete their journey to Malaysia, or become victims of traffickers, say rights activists. That appears to have changed as the military has got involved.
In security briefings, military officials repeatedly draw a link between Rohingya refugees and separatist violence in the south, says Sunai Pasuk, with Human Rights Watch, which has received reports of sea "pushbacks" since 2007. "This is not just an isolated incident. There must be a policy behind it," he says.
Mr. Kraisak, a deputy leader of the ruling Democrat party, criticized the violation of human rights. But he said the outflow of refugees from Burma was a problem that Thailand can't handle alone. "We have to confer on the international stage. Thais have been too tolerant," he says.
In interviews with Indian security officials, survivors said uniformed Thai personnel shot four refugees and tossed another into the sea before forcing their group to board a wooden barge. Some 400 crowded onto the barge, which was towed to sea for about 18 hours with armed soldiers aboard. They shared two bags of rice and two gallons of water, according to a transcript in the South China Post.
The barge drifted for more than a week. Of 300 people who tried to swim to shore, only 11 survived. An additional 88 were rescued by the Coast Guard.
The Rohingya people are very oppressed in Burma. The people, from western Burma's Arakan State, are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission and have no legal right to own land or property.
Not only that but even though groups of them have been living in Burma for hundreds of years, they are also denied citizenship by the country's military government.
For decades this Muslim group of ethnic-Indo origins have been considered the lowest of the low in this mainly Buddhist country. In 1992, 250,000 Rohingyas, a third of their population, fled over Burma's border into Bangladesh to escape the persecution. Years later more than 20,000 of them are still in the same refugee camps and around 100,000 more are living illegally in the surrounding area.
US Willing to Talk to Taliban
October 30, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Anwar Iqbal and Masood Haider
Washington/New York, Oct 28: The US is willing to hold direct talks with elements of the Taliban in an effort to quell unrest in Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified Bush administration officials.
The Washington Post reported that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had shown openness to the idea of repudiating Al Qaeda, which encouraged the Bush administration to explore the possibility of holding direct talks with the militia.
Jane's Defence Weekly reported that the Taliban had conveyed this message to representatives of the Afghan government during a meeting in Saudi Arabia last month.
Amid these reports of a possible breakthrough in the search for a peaceful solution to the Afghan conflict, Christian Science Monitor noted that on Monday the Taliban militia showed "a new potency" in the fight against coalition forces, bringing down a US military helicopter near Kabul, while a suicide bomber struck and killed two Americans in northern Afghanistan.
The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday highlighted the significance of the attack, noting that "choppers are a crucial mode of transport for troops and supplies" in Afghanistan.
Speculations about a possible breakthrough in the talks with the Taliban follow a series of meetings last month in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the Afghan government and the militia.
But even before the Saudis initiated the talks, the Karzai government had been putting out feelers to the Taliban for negotiating an end to its insurgency in exchange for some sort of power-sharing deal.
Though the US has so far been on the sidelines but at a recent news conference Gen David McKiernan, the commander of US troops in Afghanistan, grudgingly said he would support the Afghan government if it chose to go down the path of negotiations.
And now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the US might get involved in those negotiations directly. "Senior White House and military officials believe that engaging some levels of the Taliban — while excluding top leaders — could help reverse a pronounced downward spiral in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan," the report said.
Both countries have been destabilised by a recent wave of violence.
Senior Bush administration officials told the Journal that the outreach was a draft recommendation in a classified White House assessment of US strategy in Afghanistan. The officials said that the recommendation called for the talks to be led by the Afghan central government, but with the active participation of the US.
The US would be willing to pay moderate Taliban members to lay down their weapons and join the political process, the Journal cited an unidentified US official as saying. The Central Intelligence Agency has been mapping Afghanistan's tribal areas in an attempt to understand the allegiances of clans and tribes, the report said.
WSJ noted that joining the talks would only be a first step as the Bush administration was still in the process of determining what substantial offer it could make to persuade the Taliban to abandon violence. "How much should (we) be willing to offer guys like this?" asked a senior Bush official while talking to the Journal.
Gen David Petraeus, who will assume responsibility this week for US military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan as head of the Central Command, supports the proposed direct talks between the Taliban and the US, the WSJ said.
Gen Petraeus used a similar approach in Iraq where a US push to enlist Sunni tribes in the fight against Al Qaeda helped sharply reduce the country's violence. Gen Petraeus earlier this month publicly endorsed talks with less extreme Taliban elements.
Gen Petraeus also indicated that he believed insurgencies rarely ended with complete victory by one or the other side.
"You have to talk to enemies," said Gen Petraeus while pointing to Kabul's efforts to negotiate a deal with the Taliban that would potentially bring some Taliban members back to power, saying that if they were "willing to reconcile" it would be "a positive step".
US Afghan experts outside the Bush administration have also been urging the White House to try to end violence "by co-optation, integration and appeasement", as one of them said.
They urge the Bush administration to give the Taliban a positive reason to stop fighting. This, they argue, would allow Washington to separate hardcore militants from others within the Taliban and would also expose the extremists before the Afghan people.


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Mimi Bobeck's Troll Dolls (The Drew Carey Show)
Mimi's Troll Dolls - Mimi Bobeck, the cosmetically challenged department store secretary on THE DREW CAREY SHOW/ABC/1995-2004 loves Troll dolls. At work, Mimi showcased a veritable army of troll dolls on her desk and work area at Winfred Louder.
During one particular episode, Drew Carey, Mimi's nemesis (whom she calls "Pig!") sabotaged the heads of Mimi's troll dolls to explode on cue (09/18/96 "We'll Remember Always, Evaluation Day").
On another episode, Drew meets a woman on a chat line. But when his online paramour (known only at email@example.com) mentions that she collects troll dolls (she typed "I can't believe I did that in front of my troll dolls") Drew realizes his mistake too late (they already engaged in Internet sex) and quickly runs to the bathroom shower to cleanse his body of the shame and degradation (10/21/1998 "Sexual Perversity in Cleveland").
If Mimi wants to wish for good luck, she compulsively pats the heads of her troll dolls in a particular order. If she messes up the sequence, she must redo the whole ritual to obtain the desired good luck.
When Mimi took charge of the store while her boss Mr. Wick was ill, she tried to replace all the store mannequins with giant troll dolls.
Trolls Dolls
Mimi Bobeck: Hey! Don't touch the troll!
Drew Carey: Is that what your mother told your dates?
TRIVIA NOTE: Claudia "Claude" Casey (Sara Rue), the perky redhead assistant to news anchor Will Butler, a GBN Television Network executive on LESS THAN PERFECT/ABC/2002-2006 also likes troll dolls. She, too, pats their heads for good luck.


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The Nebraska FFA Association was the sixth state chartered by the National FFA Organization in 1928. The Association has a current membership of over 7,100 members in 157 chapters. Nebraska FFA members are enrolled in agricultural education courses, conduct a Supervised Agricultural Experience Program and can participate in a variety of FFA competitions and activities.
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I wish they did the pics of our faces when we went in Dec. But it wasn't "officially" finished yet. Is that screen with the SSE tiles outline in SSE?
This is the pic I'm talking about:
Day 3 - Epcot & Garden Grill
Let's just start day 3 out with a photo shall we?
Ahhhhhh sooooo happy to see that darn wand gone. I loved it when I thought it was up just for the millennium celebration but when it never came back down I slowly started to hate it. When I heard it was coming down I was beyond happy. Now I am truly loving taking photos of SSE again!!
But, I digress... Epcot... y'know it's funny, there really is very little to enjoy at Epcot with a 2 year old but somehow we managed to fill the day there and only leave for a short nap back at the hotel.
First up... the new Spaceship Earth. I was REALLY skeptical going into this. SSE is and will always be one of my favorite attractions at the World so I was incredibly nervous about the changes.
Let me tell you... I was SOOO wrong to go into this expecting to be disappointed. Oh my GOD I love the refurb. The AAs are incredibly smooth now and the subtle changes are even better. Like for instance the cave painting that now animates while looking nothing like a movie or having anything obvious to explain how it's done. Or the fact that the boats in the trading scene now move with the waves of the 'ocean' beneath them. I love everything about this refurb... everything. From the very first moment where the cave people screen has been changed, to the new scenes and changes to the old ones, to the touch screens at the end and how they manage to cut your head off and put it on an animated character to the face recognition at the "e-mail your photo to your friends" screens of the post-show. It's all fantastic. So fantastic we did it three times. I must admit at first I was a little "ugh" about Judy Dench's voice but by the end and after enjoying the entirely new script, I was hooked.
After SSE we headed over to the Seas with Nemo & Friends. As usual Aaron loved it and as usual there was the annoying person who took flash pictures through the entire thing. That has now become my absolute biggest pet peeve. Anyway... we hopped onto the ride with no wait and hopped right into Turtle Talk next. After waiting like a sardine for about 20 minutes in the room (as they said to feel free to look around -- hah!) we were finally seated. I was really looking forward to Aaron's reaction but the front area with the children was simply too packed for me to sit with him and we ended up back in the rear looking through tall adults. Unfortunately this meant Aaron finding nothing of value and fussing the entire time... so we had to leave.
After our failed attempt at Crush we headed over to Imagination, first stopping for a potty break at the restrooms at the rear of the building. Very few folks hit them and they are always clean and empty... just what I like in a Disney restroom. LOL!!
While back there we noticed this odd little stage sitting there. No explanation of what it was, we just moved on.
After imagination we played in the new Imageworks for a bit. Someone please tell me, why in the WORLD did they remove the ability to e-mail your silly photo to your friends/family? That was always one of our favorites so when we saw an open kiosk we ran to it... spent about 10 minutes making our photo as cute as can be... and then found ourselves with nothing but a start over button. I guess this and the changes to the "sound room" were what the big "demolition" was back in January that I was so worried about.
After leaving Imagination it was Bill's turn for a potty break so we headed back behind the building. This time we noticed music coming from the hidden speakers on either side of the little stage and soon groups of folks, very well dressed, and a camera crew, came piling out of the gate. Anyone know what was going on here or who these people are?
(everyone wanted to shake this guys hand, in the white, so I'm curious who he is)
Then it was time to head over to the Land for lunch at the Garden Grill. We checked in a little early but we had reservations for when it opened so we wanted to make sure we beat the crowd of people who didn't and created a huge wait line trying to make them last minute.
The addition of the chicken to the meal was a nice change but removing the stuffing wasn't... I loved that stuffing. Oh well. The food was really good and I loved the potato casserole. The dessert I wasn't so fond of though... at first the guy said "Apple Crisp" and I was like "Wahoo!! Love that stuff." and then he said "oh no wait it's..." and said some berry thing. We got a little puffed pastry with some strawberries. I wasn't impressed. Still, it's one of our favorite meals because we love the family style setting and the characters come by over and over and over again which Aaron just loves.
After lunch we headed over to Living with the Land to relax and digest. This was the longest line we experienced the whole trip (about 20 minutes). I guess it gets folks packed in who came in to hit Soarin and found a long wait and grabbed a fast pass instead?
After the Land we decided to do a couple more things before heading out to the room for Aaron's nap. We were having a good day so far and wanted to continue it before crowds found their way to the World Showcase, so off to Norway we went, stopping to check out some of the Flower and Garden festival topiaries on the way.
Melissa - I thought of you when I took this... I'll send you the full resolution one if you want. LOL!!
Once we hit Norway we popped into line at Maelstrom. It looked like a long wait but they simply had the queue inside closed and the line went straight into the boats from the outside, so only a few minutes were we waiting. This time I finally remembered to grab a shot of the hidden Mickey my step-son caught about 4 years ago. I always forget!!
This was Aaron's first time on Maelstrom and he loved it! He was yelling "weeeee" as we dropped. Too cute. He's going to love Splash Mountain when he's tall enough!!
After Maelstrom we headed next door to Mexico to hit the Gran Fiesta Tour. So many people still have no idea this exists so once again we walked right on. I still really enjoy this refurb. I think they did just enough to make it "kid friendly" while keeping it's charm.
Then it was time to make our way back to the resort for some R&R (if Aaron doesn't get a nap he is NO fun waiting for the night shows to begin LOL). But... before we left... we decided to hit SSE again (ride #2).
Head On Over to Part 2 of Day 3!!
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Sometimes all you need is a reminder that out there lies a better place... a better world... a Walt Disney World.Visited In: 1983, 1988, 1989 x2, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (passholder), 2007 (x2 x3), 2008, 2009 (x2), 2010, 2011 (x2)
Detail is there to make you believe in the reality of the story youre immersed in. - Joe Rohde
I wish they did the pics of our faces when we went in Dec. But it wasn't "officially" finished yet. Is that screen with the SSE tiles outline in SSE?
This is the pic I'm talking about:
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Yep Adam that's the screen on SSE. It's what shows up after they've done your "future" animation. It's kind of like a screen saver until you exit the ride.
Sometimes all you need is a reminder that out there lies a better place... a better world... a Walt Disney World.Visited In: 1983, 1988, 1989 x2, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (passholder), 2007 (x2 x3), 2008, 2009 (x2), 2010, 2011 (x2)
Detail is there to make you believe in the reality of the story youre immersed in. - Joe Rohde
Thanks! I thought it was on the dome of SSE when you start to turn around. I don't think we had that on our screen in December. I think it went back to the questions.
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Jenn, great so far. Still waiting on the rest of the room story though, maybe in the later installments. Love reading this.
P.U.S.H.-A mantra MOST will not understand.
Disney rocks, Walt was a genius.
Congrats on being the first person to catch that. DH caught it last night. I decided not to get into it because I was so frustrated BUT the short version is... we didn't end up with mousekeeping any day but the 2nd and when we left our trash and towels outside the door so Aaron could nap, with Mousekeeping right next door, they ignored it and we had to call to have it picked up. When we came back that night it was picked up but no CLEAN towels had been left. It was just ridiculous. First time I've not tipped mousekeeping in a long time.
Sometimes all you need is a reminder that out there lies a better place... a better world... a Walt Disney World.Visited In: 1983, 1988, 1989 x2, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (passholder), 2007 (x2 x3), 2008, 2009 (x2), 2010, 2011 (x2)
Detail is there to make you believe in the reality of the story youre immersed in. - Joe Rohde
Sorry that the mousekeeping wasn't very good. That's strange that they didn't pick up the towels or leave clean ones. I hope it was just a fluke event.
I'm really looking forward to riding SSE. We didn't get to ride it last time (it was a short trip and by the time we got to EPCOT a lot of the rides in Future World were closing). Last time I rode it was over 20 years ago. :eek:
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I must be the only person on earth who hates these things.
I bought them when they first came out in peppermint, quenched, and grape vine. I loved the smells and the grape vine color was really nice, but I hate the balm itself. It's SO oily and not moisturizing at all. I feel like I just took a cotton ball and dabbed mineral oil from the dollar store across my lips. It get's all over everything when I'm eating, and it's just so gross.
I tried them again a month ago since my friend bought me the neon pink and neon yellow one. I had really hoped I had changed my mind about the.
Once again, loved the smells and strike a rose is a very pretty color but the consistency makes my skin crawl. All 5 of them ended up in the trash. I am never tying them again, I will just save them for someone else since I hate throwing stuff out.
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I got this lip balm in red cherry i think. It smells pretty good and gives out a natural tint and a shine to the lips but i don't feel like it made my lips any softer or helped with chapped lips which i don't think its supposed to anyways. The tint or even the lip balm itself also doesn't last long you would have you keep replaying it after a few hours. i would however buy this change because of the natural tint it gives i am not a very lipstick person. I think this is a alright lip balm because its just causal.
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I bought various shades of these when they were on 3 for 2 in boots when they were first released after watching reviews online and hearing the hype about them. I was so excited to use them as I usually use Revlon Lip Butter or vaseline and fancied something different.
I was sadly mistaken about the quality of this product. I don't know whether it was just my skin or had a bad reaction but this dried my skin out around my lips to the point it became flaky. I dont even have sensitive skin, nothing ever irritates it! Ive never had that happen before! I had used the plain one a couple of times to see if it was an ingredient in any of the coloured ones but in fact it just made them worse. I was so disappointed as the colour was so sheer and just what I was looking for but I certainly wont be using these again.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend these to anyone, a bad purchase in my opinion!
This lip balm is something to die for! It leaves your lips so moist and kissable. I am currently using the pink one which leaves a pink tint onto my lips which I use as a base for my lipstick
Pretty meh, but leaning toward the better side, which is why it got 4 lippies. I noticed a lot of people saying that this dried their lips out; not so for me. After hearing thirty bazillion good things about this from friends and family, I bought one, and...I'm not really that impressed. When I buy a tinted balm, I'm looking for something that's not "whoa lipstick" but is not just barely MLBB. The glossiness of these is nice, and I find that if I use it enough, it does actually help with my chapped lips (which happens way to frequently for me.) I like the mint scent (although I'm not sure if they all smell the same way), and overall, I think it's a decent product. I wouldn't get excited if I got a bunch of them, nor would I be super depressed if they were discontinued.
The gloss and the colors are fun, but when you first buy it the product dries and chaps your lips. I've found that after a over a year of avoiding the product, it has finally begun to improve. My mother said the same thing, but fears it's because of the carcinogens coming out.....but it works well after a long time of letting it settle, but I was really disappointed when I first got them
These are okay. I like the packaging... I never thought they were really hydrating or doing anything. I guess if you wanted a tinted balm they're okay at best.
I'd rather buy Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers, Cherry/Strawberry Chapstick, or Nivea Vitamin Swirl to name a few.
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Never buy this lip balm. I bought the shade cherry me . I like the smell and the packaging is cute and I like the tint .. It creates a naturalish red tint . However this claims to have 8hr moisture which it doesn't . I usually use Vaseline which really is good I don't suffer from chapped lips but my lips have become really dry lately from baby lips ... It lasts about 15 minutes on my lips which is stupid never buy this


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