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An old family favorite ready in half the time, with all the creaminess you crave. Submitted by SPARK_RECIPES Carbs: 30g | Fat: 7.1g | Fiber: 3.9g | Protein: 23.9g | Calories: 280.5
This is a delicious chicken recipe that my family loves Submitted by ALECSANDRA Carbs: 4.3g | Fat: 8g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 19.4g | Calories: 166.4
What a treat these burgers are! I love how the tangy flavor of the sauce and the peppery notes of the greens play off the savory burger. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 28.5g | Fat: 4.2g | Fiber: 6.5g | Protein: 41g | Calories: 262.4
This is THE most popular recipe on SparkRecipes. We've added more vegetables and reduced the sodium drastically to make it even better. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.3g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 27.2g | Calories: 177.5
Get perfect grilled chicken every time with this foolproof basic recipe! Submitted by GRILLGUIDE Carbs: 0g | Fat: 3g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 25.7g | Calories: 137.3
Craving pizza, but want something a bit more portion-controlled? This flatbread is the ticket! Feel free to pile on extra veggies of your choice. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 21.4g | Fat: 5.1g | Fiber: 2.9g | Protein: 25.8g | Calories: 233.4
This chili is packed with flavor and fiber. Make a big batch for a crowd or freeze it in single-serving containers for up to four months. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 20.2g | Fat: 6.3g | Fiber: 4.6g | Protein: 25g | Calories: 234.5
In the morning, throw all the ingredients for this simple recipe in the slow cooker. A hearty and healthy dinner will be waiting for you when you get home! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.9g | Fat: 3.7g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 26.8g | Calories: 176.8
Those rotisserie chickens from the supermarket are a busy cook's best friend. When you have time to plan ahead, make your own--in your slow cooker! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 2.9g | Fat: 11.9g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 41.7g | Calories: 277.8
A quick and easy dinner that is also low in fat, this chicken casserole is perfect for busy nights. Submitted by LYZ219 Carbs: 15.8g | Fat: 7.3g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 36.8g | Calories: 284.2
Fried, battered, dripping sauce--hot wings are calorie bombs! But not these. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 16g | Fat: 4.3g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 28.8g | Calories: 223.2
This is New Orleans-style chicken made with shredded dark meat in a lightly sweet sauce. Delicious served over brown rice. Kids love it, too. Submitted by SUNSHYNE71 Carbs: 15.5g | Fat: 4g | Fiber: 0.1g | Protein: 19.5g | Calories: 168.4
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These tostadas are healthy, easy to make and kid-friendly. Feel free to top them with extra veggies of your choice! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 24.2g | Fat: 8.2g | Fiber: 4.8g | Protein: 24.7g | Calories: 263
This one-dish meal is great for a weeknight meal or as a appetizer for a party. Serve it with steamed broccoli or a green salad. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 30.4g | Fat: 9.9g | Fiber: 8.5g | Protein: 30g | Calories: 326.1


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Here is a link that might be useful: low barb bread info.
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Thanks for sharing the very interesting article. I have a bread I love in the UK - its a multigrain, seeded batch loaf. I actually can purchase it in two sizes - normal sandwich sized or smaller size about the size of an english muffin. I buy the smaller one and enjoy two slices. I appreciate the extra costs involved in processing but at the end of the day, if I were back home in Canada, I would just buy the Dempsters and go for taste. Cheers, |
It is interesting, isn't it, that not necessarily the brand name association (in this case Atkin's) or higher price necessarily means a better choice. For the benefit expectation of low carb, there is really not that much difference between a "regular" store brand bread and the "big" name bread. Interesting also that Atkin's has more fat. I have always eaten the Dempster's seven grain anyways, I like the nutty rich taste and texture. |
I bought one of those "low carb" breads and then compared it to my regular bread. Turns out my regular bread has less carbs and calories, and is more than half the price! |
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I'm making a huge mess converting part of our sprinkler system into drip. I had a fully functional sprinkler system but decided to convert part of it to drip to save water. So I capped off some sprinkler heads and converted two into drip. I converted one with a riser connection kit (http://www.rainbird.com/homeowner/products/drip/RiserConnectionKit.htm), and the other with a simple manifold. After that, I noticed that some problems appeared that could be due to having high water pressure, such as sprinkler misting/fogging. Tubing popped off from the one that was converted with the manifold once. The But just a moment ago, one sprinkler cap popped up, shooting high water stream into the sky, which made me decide to investigate. I was lucky that I saw it happen. So my question is, would I have increased water pressure to the system by capping off some of the sprinkler head? Or is it possible that I had high water pressure to begin with but just didn't notice it? How should I reduce the pressure? I would really really appreciate any advices. I heard that converting sprinkler to drip is a simple DIY project, but now I regret that I had done it. I'm really scared that I might have messed up my sprinkler system, which may cause big problems such as pipes breaking/leaking in the near future. Thank you very much! |
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Hi I just checked this page. Yes I am agree with you, it is never a good practice to share contact details with students.
I stumbled across this the other day on We Are Teachers, and found it to be amusing enough to be worth sharing. We've all seen the awesome autocorrect posts that show how sometimes technology bites back at us a bit (I think by now we've probably all fallen victim to being unnecessarily or incorrectly autocorrected by our dear friend Siri or her equivalent). While funny and potentially horrifying to those accidentally texting improper words, those can often be attributed to some human error and occasionally overzealous technology (Side note: Dear Siri, we're and were are two different words, and I use them both, often).
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Hi I just checked this page. Yes I am agree with you, it is never a good practice to share contact details with students.
Ya, I lead weekly excursions and numerous overnight trips. We often communicate via texting if there are some on trip issues – sweep has a problem, someone took a wrong turn, etc.
I've never had an issue with kids using my cell # at a bad time.
Duh. Humorous but if any teacher does not already have enough common sense to know this, well then …I have a personal phone, email, website, etc and professional. The two never mix, and have different protocols. Anyway, I enjoyed the humor because of its verisimilitude.
I give my number on a business card and my homepage to students and parents. When you establish protocols many of the above examples never occur. This is an opportunity to teach responsibility and resourcefulness to our students. I want my students contacting me when they don't understand the information. The Remind101 service helps to distribute clarifications once you've had 2 calls on the same topic. Learning shouldn't stop once you leave the walls of your classroom.
I give and have students cell numbers. I'm an FFA advisor. If I don't have their number I would search aimlessly for them at contests with hundreds of students, conventions. I couldn't get a hold of them during the summer to see about their livestock projects they have. They couldn't get a hold of me either. I wouldn't be able to do my job as efficiently or as well. I really don't think it's fair to say its 100% wrong thing to do. Maybe it's not necessary if you're just a classroom teacher but if you run any sort of extracurricular I would argue it's almost 100% necessary.
I think number can be shared nothing harm in that. Only we need to work life balance. We can maintain 2 numbers one for work & one for home both numbers should strictly be meant for the same purpose only.
I agree. Never share our private phone number to students. There is more disadvantage than advantages. If we want to stay connect to our students, we could use another ways.
Hi it is not a good idea to share a private cell number with students
To be honest, I am a student. But I think in the right case, a teacher should let a student have their phone number, follow them on Instagram, etc. My teacher is one of my best friends, he's my role model. I think, OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL, the teacher should be able to communicate with the student. This is because outside of school, the teacher is just a regular person. The teacher and student and teacher should be able to be friends, NOT SEXUAL, outside of school. If the student needs to contact the teacher about school-related subjects, the student can contact the teacher by a school-given email or other way, but when the teacher and student are just being friends, the teacher has no need to use a school phone number or email. This is because the teacher should be treated like a normal person outside of school. A 1st grade teacher goes to my church, but I can still have her phone number, because we aren't talking about school-related subjects. My teacher has had such a huge impact on my life, and I think we should be able to talk as friends not being monitored by a school email. This is unfair in my opinion. If a student has the teacher's phone number, they shouldn't talk about school things. I understand the divide between the two. If I had my teachers nu!Ber, I would only talk to him in a friendly way. Again, NOT SEXUAL. All these things say the teacher can't give a student their phone number because of these reasons, but a teacher is ,again, a normal person. So the student and teacher should be able to be friends, I believe. Do you understand my situation?


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Charlie Gasparino reports that DE Shaw "has the inside track" to buy Madoff Securities, which will be bid for on Monday, with three other firms in the running. The biz was once thought to be worth around a billion, though, obviously, it'll go for considerably less than that (one bid came in at $15 million).
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DE Shaw Also Strong Contender For The Nightgown Ruth Was Wearing When Bernie Broke The News
By Bess LevinWe don't have to tell you people we love ourselves some Vikram Pandit, but is this perhaps laying it on a bit thick? In response to "sources" telling the Post that regulators may take Count Vikula out of the building in order to "signal Washington is taking as hard a line with the banks as it did with General Motors," Citi CFO Ned Kelly offered: "Replacing [Pandit] would be dramatically de-stabilizing both for Citi and the system." As for the matter of Tim Geithner paying a visit to the Big C's offices a week and a half ago? Totally not a big deal, and nothing having to do with Pandito's job being at risk. The drop by, according to people familiar with the meeting, was "simply to conduct a checkup on the bank." You know, making sure the building was up to code, that the toilets were all flushing properly, etc. Standard. Paulson used to do the same thing.
Unlike Bernie-boy, who won't be bribed to talk, longtime Madoff Securities employee and CFO since 1996 Frank DiPascali is apparently willing to "work with" federal officials, in order to get a shorter stay bunking with Bubba. Supposedly he doesn't have any dirt on Lady Ruth McMadoff or sons Mark and Andy but perhaps over time he'll be able to come up with something?
Fortune has learned that Frank DiPascali is trying to negotiate a plea deal with federal prosecutors in which, in exchange for a reduced sentence, he would divulge his encyclopedic knowledge of Madoff's scheme. And unlike his boss, DiPascali is willing to name names.
According to a person familiar with the matter, DiPascali has no evidence that other Madoff family members were participants in the fraud. However, he is prepared to testify that he manipulated phony returns on behalf of some key Madoff investors, including Frank Avellino, who used to run a so-called feeder fund, Jeffry Picower, whose foundation had to close as a result of Madoff-related losses, and others. If, for example, one of these special customers had large gains on other investments, he would tell DiPascali, who would fabricate a loss to reduce the tax bill. If true, that would mean these investors knew their returns were fishy. (Lawyers for Avellino and Picower declined to comment. Marc Mukasey, DiPascali's attorney, says, "We expect and encourage a thorough investigation.")
Awkward! (Rickles had said that it was no big deal if the banks don't lend to one another. Steve begged to differ.)
Morgan Stanley Eyes Changing PDT Desk (WSJ)
They're examining rolling the desk out into a hedge fund or opening it to outside investors; though there's every possibility that they'll leave it alone. All that's known is "Discussions about restructuring the group have been under way for more than a year, but have accelerated during the past few months." At the heart of the issue are the H-1B rules implemented for those institutions holding TARP funds; under the new guidelines you have to prove you made every reasonable effort to hire an American before taking on someone requiring a Visa. The desk is largely quant, and the quants are largely foreign.
Investors Seek To Block Mortgage Securities Bill (FT)
"Bond investors are lobbying hard to change federal policies aimed at reducing foreclosures in the US, saying the measures discriminate against holders of top-rated securities backed by mortgages.
The investors are set to meet senators next week. The next step could be legal action against the US government if the law is passed, on the basis that it could violate the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without compensation."
US To Tell Banks How They Did, Scores Posted By Gym At Noon (NYT)
The Gov will be telling the banks what their results looked like at some point today, and this afternoon they should release the details of how the stress tests worked/what metrics were used; the public won't get a good look at "scores" until May 4th. In the week + weekend you have to wonder how many leaks there's going to be, and whether Code Pink can possibly survive the nine days of not knowing who they're going to annoy next.
Pandit Could Be Forced From Citi After Tests (Reuters)
Reuters puts forth a not-so-bad argument that when the tests for Citi come back, the US Gov may have very little (if any) choice but to replace him a-la GM. We have to be fair in socialism, you know.
M.B.A's Staying Put (WSJ)
It used to be, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted post college (numbers related), go get your MBA, and someone would pick you up. Not so much anymore, as recent MBA Grad's are finding out – dreams of going into IB are being squashed left and right. For instance, this guy:
"But as he prepares to graduate from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana next month, Mr. Fusco, 27 years old, hasn't had any luck landing a position in finance. The only solution he has is to go back to his accounting roots. "It's a tough pill to swallow, but I've come to the conclusion that I can't sit and wait and cross my fingers," he says.
Madoff Net Losers Safe From Clawback (WSJ)
"Investors with Bernard Madoff who had a net loss due to his fraud won't be asked to return funds they withdrew from his firm in recent years, said a lawyer who is charged with recovering the firm's assets."
$$$ Records Say U.S. Pressed BofA to Cut Dividend. Awkward! [Dealbook]
$$$ Power To The Hedge Funds! [Newsweek]
$$$ Nelson Peltz's House of Horrors [Cityfile]
$$$ Kellerman: the Scapegoat of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? [Housing Wire]
$$$ A private jet "sensible enough to impress any Congressional Committee" [copyranter]
$$$ Diet Coke Fail: "As at Harvard, Summers functions on exceedingly little
sleep. (A former student told me Summers once praised his dedication after noticing he'd run a computation at 4 a.m.; the student didn't have the heart to tell him he'd queued it up at six the night before.) To power through the day, Summers relies on a punishing Diet Coke regimen." [TNR, previously]
The Federal Reserve didn't advise Bank of America or CEO Ken Lewis "on any questions of disclosure," a spokeswoman for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
Lewis has told New York's attorney general that then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Bernanke pressured him in December not to discuss issues with its pending purchase of Merrill Lynch.
"It has long been the Federal Reserve's view that questions of this nature are best addressed by individual institutions and their legal counsel, as they are in a position to understand clearly their obligations and responsibilities," the spokeswoman, Michelle A. Smith, said.–WSJ
Of course, this doesn't answer the question of whether Bernanke told Paulson to "advise" (e.g. threaten) Lewis,* or if he and Paulson came to that decision together, only that Bernanke himself didn't directly go to Lewis and say "do it and die, pal!"
*Which is what Cuomo's letter claims.
Update: Paulson says he was not acting at the behest of Bernanke when he threatened Lewis, as was previously stated by Cuomo.
Then-U.S. Secretary Henry Paulson was delivering his own message, and not the Federal Reserve's, when he told Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis that the bank was in a binding merger contract with Merrill Lynch and Co., a spokesman for Paulson said on Thursday. "Secretary Paulson's words were his own," the spokesman said. "(Fed) Chairman (Ben) Bernanke did not instruct him to indicate any specific action the Fed might take," a spokesman for Paulson said in a statement. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that Lewis was pressured by Paulson and Bernanke to go through with Bank of America's planned merger with Merrill Lynch.
Is Paulson backtracking or did Cuomo have it wrong all along?
Of course, it is pretty easy after the fact to point fingers and cast aspersions. But when what would appear to be a pattern of laxity, misfeasance and perhaps even malfeasance begins to emerge out of the mist, well, things become harder to dismiss.
It seems part of the culture of the crisis that the mighty would be made to bow low. Harvard is not only no exception, it is a major recurring theme, on both sides of the blame game. The light shown on the Harvard Management Company by The Harvard Crimson is, therefore, rather a critical bit of theater.
The Crimson winds a twisted path around taxation, endowment management, off-shore entities, off-setting management fees and one Lawrence H. Summers. Take out the names and the narrative sounds quite familiar, actually:
"The general disregard for the rules, procedures and compliance–it was ridiculous," Rose said in an interview with The Crimson. "You had to be quiet and do it and put blinders on. If you were doing work in other aspects of the company, you could just do your job. But in [my] part of the job, you couldn't ignore things."
Harvard Management Company–which oversees Harvard's multi-billion dollar endowment–was plagued by a culture of ethical laxity, Rose said. Special relationships with funds run by former employees and the use of offshore investment companies–both used to boost HMC's once-legendary returns–may not be illegal, but are considered to be ethically questionable by some, particularly in light of Harvard's non-profit status.
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Help! Our front porch (shallow, cement, along the length of the house, covered patio basically) is flush with the front yard but separated by a shrub/flower bed. The bed consists of only small shrubs with lots of room around each. Pine straw is the mulch/filler and the straw spills over onto the porch's cement and surrounding grass. We have edged the outside perimeter however. Any ideas on how to keep the porch from becoming one with the pine straw and bed? A porch railing would actually solve this problem but we rent and can't add on. It currently looks similar to a flood. I don't really want to use any kind of typical fencing as edging though.(a mouth full, I know) Thanks for any inputs! |
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A pic is thousands words.You really need to post some pics that show the context and situated and conditions and the property line and the perimeter of the yard and You need one that shows the overall yard from the street(They are not too close up). first upload photo to any photo-hosting site.Photobucket and Flickr are examples . While at that photo on the site, look for a link to "share." Then look for a way of obtaining "html code" (don't select the thumbnail version.) Copy that code and paste it directly into your message here. |
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Thank you so much dol. I'm adding images to my post. Can't believe I didn't do it before. Du'h! This one shows the yard and house in relation to the flowerbed. This one is a closer view of the front of the flowerbed edge. Here's a view of the porch's edge against the flowerbed. Thank you again! |
It looks like the grade slopes to drain, but that it's slightly too high at the slab. Temporarily remove the pine straw (onto a tarp placed adjacent for easy clean-up.) Then, with a flat shovel, skim the soil off (beginning at the slab) so that it is 1 1/2" below the slab. Continue skimming past and around the shrubs (disturbing them as little as possible) only until you blend in with the existing grade. Obviously, you want to skim only as far as necessary and no more. Don't go past the bed and into the grass. If you end up with a depression next to the grass that would trap water, don't worry about it. Put the pine straw back. Don't go overboard on this. Skim as little as possible and avoid the plants as much as possible. An alternative method would be to install an edging (like brick) that stands up 2" above the edge of the slab. But this method will add a junky, homespun look to the area. I prefer the first method which looks "cleaner." |
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Re:Fuck Yeah! (143 comments)
<Khan voice> This IS Ceti Alpha 5! </Khan voice> Actually a pretty good analogy, a lush and promising world turned barren and in ruins.
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Re:Fuck Yeah! (143 comments)
<Khan voice> This IS Ceti Alpha 5! </Khan voice> Actually a pretty good analogy, a lush and promising world turned barren and in ruins.
Re:What about the other two options? (147 comments)
If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
They already ask "Who are your friends?" and they probably have enough information to infer "Who do you trust?"
Re:Effects (233 comments)
Are there cases where a firmware update for a shipping product replaced Linux with another operating system? I'm aware of plenty of Linksys hardware where a later revision of the "same" hardware has a totally different core and often different WiFi hardware as well, but none where it has a wholly different kernel, except maybe a slightly later one which is still Linux.
A firmware upgrade to a device replacing a kernel? Not that I know of.
A new "minor revision" with the same product name replacing the kernel? Yep, WRT54G v1-v4 ran Linux (the origin of OpenWRT), v5+ cut the RAM in half and ran VxWorks. Linksys renamed the v4 the WRT54GL and IIRC sold it for a premium over the regular WRT54G.
Check out the first table in the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (589 comments)
Something that I always found to be a design flaw should you disintegrate after you materialised the copy not before your even sure that the process worked? That way if there a fuck up the "original" is still well and alive!
If you do it this way then you will have two copies with diverging identity. The copy at the origin site will have to be, essentially, given a gun and told to shoot himself. Who will agree to that? Disintegration before transport avoids this problem because there is no duplication of consciousness.
Or the transporter technician will end up with PTSD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur_(The_Outer_Limits)
Re:Another reason (346 comments)
Then you should turn in your geek card
I think TNG was a great show. But the points the AC made where valid, as far as I can tell.
This discussion was about how highly competent TNG's characters were at their jobs. If you stop enjoying the story and pick it apart,
you can see that they really aren't. They are as competent as they can be for the plot of the story to progress, and no more.
The episode where Barclay takes over the computer wouldn't have gone very far if the computer had been properly protected, and Geordi had been alerted about the attempt. Or the episode with the Romulan spy, where Data doesn't bother to report how she was "testing his security protocols" ie asking for information she shouldn't have. So, to cite the examples I think the AC was referring to:
Yes, the captain, who once ordered an omnipotent being not to save the life of an 8 year old girl,
The episode where Q makes Riker a Q. Picard decides that Riker shouldn't use the powers, even when said 8 year old is found dead in a cave-in. Picard had a tendancy to play god, but justify it with pseudoscience, and then get mad when anyone else dares to play god. Or rather, the writers had some strange ideas, like an almighty omniscient deity named Evolution, which coincidentally is also the name of a scientific theory and process. For example, the people Worf's brother was living with were meant to die out, because it was all part of Evolution's holy plan that their world would become uninhabitable.
the first officer, who once tried to convince crewmembers to bully an underachieving officer,
The first episode with Barclay, and maybe more episodes later on. Barclay may not have fit in, but Riker really seemed to hate the guy for not being sociable.
the ops officer, who once wanted to kill because of the pleasure hatred gave him,
Descent. You're half right on this one, it's a "Data goes nuts" episode, but he goes nuts because he craves feelings and is willing to step on anyone to feel them again. (I know that sounds like he's already feeling "cravings", but I didn't write the episode)
the security officer, whose most famous attribute is being beaten up by aliens
Not sure about this one. Worf's Sound Advice tends to get ignored so that the ship can get into trouble, though.
The GP might have been referring to how Worf doesn't really get to fight in fights until DS9. On TNG, if he's in a fight, the plot generally requires security to lose, so something interesting can happen. If Worf won his fights, episodes would be a lot shorter. I think at least there's the one with the shape-shifter, the one with alien bugs controlling starfleet, the one where Picard is assimilated, the one with the xenophobic energy things and their fake wormhole, the one with the conditioned soldier, and the one where Troi, Data, and O'Brien are possessed. Maybe also the one where Dr. Crusher is kidnapped by the terrorists. Etc., etc. He was also beaten up by Romulans and Klingons a few times, but that's to be expected.
, the tech officer, who didn't install any anti-virus software
You don't remember the time the Enterprise computer was infected by the Iconian virus? Or the time the Bynars rewrote the ship's software so that it would do their bidding, and no one even bothered to try to check their work? Or the time that all the networked computers got some magic input and became alive? Or the time that Geordi hooked Data up to the main computer, and parts of the computer's program got replaced with bits of Data? Or the time Barclay was able to just plug himself into the computer, having the computer run his thoughts instead of his brain doing it? Those are all things I would want automated monitoring to tell me about.
The Enterprise computer got p0wned several times during the show, since Geordi didn't seem to think of running new things in staging or quarantine before letting them loose. Even better, the sensors and radios seemed to be tied in directly to the computer, instead of to some dedicated system that doesn't give people access to the computer core over a radio. The best part about this is that that is pretty much how they planned to destroy the Borg with Hugh: show him a picture that they knew would be processed by his visual-processing circuits in such a way as to DoS the entire Collective.
and the councillor, who once advised the ops officer that he shouldn't look for other emotions but anger to express, are all perfectly competent and morally upright.
Also Descent. Again, I didn't write the episode. If I were criticizing her character, I'd argue about her general uselessness. She completely and utterly depends on her half-telepathy, and seems not to remember or to have skipped all the psychology classes for her degree. In the episode where she can't sense emotions anymore, she admits this, and is actually shocked when her made-up-on-the-spot advice works. Actions like telling an android that he should try to become murderously angry seem to support this.
Re:Asus Transformer (277 comments)
Did you try KDE Plasma Active on it? I've been meaning to, but it seems like only a handful of people have. Arch looks like it has Plasma Active, so I may try that out soon.
Re:Isn't that public infrastructure? (349 comments)
Didn't they remove all the tolls in the western half of the state? AFAIK you only pay for the distance you covered in the Eastern half.
Re:First! (142 comments)
No, retaliation comes *after* the attack. The attack comes first.
Atoms (150 comments)
This gives new meaning to atomic writes.
Re:does this mean (112 comments)
No, each of you both are and are not trolls.
Re:Ubuntu is a distro (382 comments)
Don't forget Xorg. GNU/Xorg/Linux? GNU/KDE/Xorg/Linux? I think that catches pretty much everything outside of
(Does that also imply we should say KDE/Xorg/FreeBSD or GNU/Xorg/FreeBSD, etc.? Even better, what about people running GNOME on Mac OS or KDE on Windows?
Re:It's only a very partial solution. (289 comments)
Apparently, the government pays per unit of contaminated seawater, so not separating the oil out makes the skimmers' job easier without affecting profit.
Re:Let me get THIS straight..... (81 comments)
Assuming Chris is singular, then it's Chris's brother's. Although I think both ways are considered correct now, IIRC.
Re:Firefox needs better support for security token (256 comments)
I always thought it was either a GTK or GNOME guideline. KDE apps have 'configure' in the settings menu.
Re:Fat Chance (482 comments)
Because Youtube and eBay review everything users post before making it available to viewers or buyers....
Re:Privacy and Government (147 comments)
US Code title 36 section 176 subsection k:
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
What law indicates it should be cut up? When I was a Boy Scout, the American Legion post that chartered us disposed of flags every Flag Day, and never cut them. The Legion's official script for the ceremony makes no mention of flag parts, only draping whole flags. http://www.legion.org/flag/ceremony I really would like to know what law you're referring to, so I can inform my old Troop and Post.
Re:Privacy and Government (147 comments)
A pin is different from sewing the flag into a fabric.
Also, a common misconception is that the US Code says if a flag touches the ground you burn it. Wrong. You clean it (usually dry cleaning with what they're made of). Only worn out flags are burned.
Re:Islam is dangerous. (1224 comments)
'rules to live by', like dont eat this kind of food on this day etc are not the main focus here.
what im talking about, a total set of laws that govern all aspects of life, as i noted, from how to divide inheritance in what percentages to criminal punishments for numerous crimes.
it is a complete constutition with full criminal and civil law.
Jewish law has those too.
Re:Is it time to look yet? (368 comments)
It's somewhat better now. I got it to look like this, with no center pane. Actually, the center pane is a tab on the bottom of the left pane, which I sometimes find nice.
Re:Crunchy Goodness! (226 comments)
I use Gentoo, and have Portage build some packages with ICC, including firefox.
www-client/mozilla-firefox -xT -O2 -gcc -ipo -parallel -D_GCC_LIMITS_H_
I haven't tried building xulrunner with ICC.


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WASHINGTON, April 3, 2013 — As with any other artistic endeavor like film, television or writing, in music it's easy to get caught up in the moment and believe something that's popular and feels different is going to be a catalyst pointing the way to that art's future direction. But that initial sensation doesn't always prove true. When Finch released What it is to Burn in 2002, it was easy to feel like this album a glimpse into the future. Unfortunately it was just a brief glimpse into of what could have been.
This isn't to say that the album and the band isn't important or is lacking entirely in impact. Finch's show at the Fillmore in Silver Spring proved that the band you hear on this specific album still holds considerable weight within the genre. But there's a bittersweet tinge here, an abiding sense that this band could have been bigger. Still, this one album is an excellent touchstone for what the genre was in the early part of the '00s and the promise it once held.
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The things that made What it is to Burn important in 2002 are similar to why the album still holds some cultural cache today, even though it seems more of a niche album now. When it was released, though, one of the things Finch did so well was bridge the gap between punk and hardcore in a way that very few bands were capable of doing then and even fewer have done since. At that point in time, both punk and hardcore were two subgenres that seemed much the same thing at one point, even as they eventually evolved into separate entities to different that it was hard to imagine they had ever been closely related.
One of the things initially noticeable at the recent Finch show at the Fillmore was just how much their audience hasn't changed since the time they were at the height of their popularity. They're all just older now. Back in the day, their fan base was essentially a mixture of pop music fans, who heard "These Letters to You" or "What it is to Burn" on the radio while looking for something a bit more aggressive than the normal fare, and those hardcore kids, who still had an affinity for Green Day and Blink 182.
Not surprisingly this crowd is still around and fired up to hear Finch play. They are still willing to lose themselves in the pop punk riffs, singing/screaming mix, and blast beats, including those who wanted to open up the pit and "dance." This was this kind of dichotomy that made Finch an interesting band a decade ago and it's what makes them relevant today, if for no other reason than there are not that many bands that have so effortlessly bridged that divide.
Everyone who showed up wanting to hear What it is to Burn in its entirety wasn't disappointed. Finch put in a considerable amount of rehearsal time to get the sound on that album as synchronized as possible with audience memory. When a band plays a past album in a concert setting like this, the idea is to please fans with a seamless rendition of the album. Like any band, Finch clearly hopes to win some new fans.
But at the same time, their major goal in their recent appearance was to hit the major moments of their key album squarely, enabling people who connect with it to feel a sense of belonging and remembering.
On that front, Finch didn't disappoint. From the opening programming notes on "New Beginning" to the famously desperate scream, to their singing at the end of "What it is to Burn," this was about as flawless an execution as anyone could hope for from Finch.
The fans in attendance were even given the added bonus of Finch playing little-heard songs. "Waiting" and "New Kid" were off their first EP and were never songs in heavy rotation in their live set. And "Worms of the Earth" off the Underworld OST was great addition as the last remnant of Finch's What it is to Burn era.
It's easy to overstate Finch's importance and have a wave of nostalgia crest over back to the days when their music felt it was more of a new thing than it is now. But when they released What it is to Burn, the album really did feel like it was a signifier of things to come.
Plenty of bands have played around with the clean/scream vocal dynamic and with incorporating pop-punk mechanics with a hardcore base. But none of those bands accomplished this with the seamlessness of Finch. Even a decade after the fact, their musical high point in What it is to Burn still feels as fresh and promising as ever.
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If Zweig was exploited in his relationship with Ebermayer, his friendships in the Jewish literary world of his day were more securely rewarding and lastingly genuine, for Zweig was fascinated by Yiddishkeit. Zweig's 1929 tale, "Buchmendel," tells of a book peddler named Jakob Mendel who sells his wares at Vienna coffeehouses around the time of World War I. As an inveterate bibliophile and collector, Zweig evidently sympathized with this protagonist, who was down on his luck like so many of Zweig's literary friends. Earlier, in 1916, Zweig's essay "The Tower of Babel" drew inspiration from the Old Testament to urge war-torn Europe to unite as a "heroic community" to build a project exemplifying common understanding "after the chaos of Creation."
Zweig's friends included some of the most notable Jews of his era, from Freud to Austrian novelist Joseph Roth. Yiddish authors such as Sholem Asch admired him, and Yiddish readers clamored for his works. "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman," which appeared in Germany in 1927, was promptly published in the Forverts in a translation credited to Chaim Brakartz years before any English translation appeared. In 1929, Zweig's biography of his friend, Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland, was published in Warsaw in a Yiddish translation by Isaac Bashevis Singer as "Romen Rolan: Der Mentsh un dos Verk."
Given these close associations, the destruction of European Jewry during World War II took a permanent toll on Zweig's spirit. "To Me All Friendships Are Perishable: The Joseph Roth-Stefan Zweig Correspondence," out last October from Wallstein Verlag, notes that the day before he took his own life, the refugee Zweig said of the torments of expatriation for Roth — who died of alcoholism in 1939 — and Erwin Rieger, a translator who died in 1940, "How glad I always was for them, that they had not to go through those ordeals."
Zweig was fully aware of his own weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and the limits of the psychic suffering he was prepared to accept. For this reason, perhaps, he was a preternaturally understanding friend, as many mutual acquaintances noted after Roth's death. Zweig had published a sympathetic short study of French poet Paul Verlaine, a helpless alcoholic entirely dependent on friends for support and survival, and Zweig considered Roth to be "the quintessential poet," both in literary talent and in this inability to cope with day-to-day life. After Roth died, Benjamin Huebsch, head of the New York publisher The Viking Press, wrote to Zweig on June 6, 1939: "It must afford you satisfaction to remember your fraternal attitude to [Roth], for you were generous in your assistance and tolerant when others would have been irritated."
The following day, Hermann Kesten, a devoted friend of Roth's who would edit the first collection of Roth's letters in German, wrote along the same lines, praising Zweig for "so many acts of friendship for [Roth]." Zweig's own obituary for Roth, published in The Sunday Times of London on May 28, 1939, is balanced between admiration for the writer and grief over the loss of a friend, with a kind of selflessness that is quintessential Zweig:
Joseph Roth was one of the really great writers of our day; his German prose has always been a model of perfect style. He wrote every page of his books with the fervor of a true poet; like a goldsmith he polished and repolished every sentence till the rhythm was perfect and the color brilliant. His artistic conscience was as inexorable as his heart was passionate and tender. A whole generation loses with him a great example, and his friends a wonderful friend.
In parts, this eulogy might have been applied to Zweig himself only three years later, instead of the captious critiques by those contemporaries such as Arendt, who saw his death as a petulantly privileged cop-out. The world's tributes today, from Brazil to Europe to America, are reflections of appreciation for his human and artistic ideals.
Benjamin Ivry is a frequent contributor to the Forward.
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Paraders walk past the Court House on Crown Point's square during a Memorial Day Parade. photo by Scott R. Brandush for the Post-Tribune
Updated: July 3, 2012 10:17AM
American Legion Cedar Lake Post 261 Memorial Day parade: 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 28; 10 a.m. parade line-up at Dairy Queen, 9917 W. 133rd Ave., procession concludes at 131st and Fairbanks.
Dedication of new Obadiah Taylor headstone plaque: 11 a.m. Monday, May 28, 131st and Fairbanks
Potluck, meet and greet: 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 28, Obadiah Taylor Memorial Park, 155th and Barman. Call Polly Freyman at 663-2249.
Memorial Day Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 28, Memory Lane Memorial Park, 6305 W. Lincoln Highway, with a full honor and color guard, 21-gun salute, military personnel and field of American flags, 322-2050.
Memorial Day Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 28; 10 a.m. parade line-up at Dairy Queen, 9917 W. 133rd Ave., procession concludes at 131st and Fairbanks.
Memorial ceremony: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 26, memorial site located on the campus of Roosevelt High School, 25th Avenue and Harrison Street; call Calvin Johnson at 885-1577.
Parade and program: 10 a.m. Monday, May 28; lineup is 9 a.m. at 13th Avenue and Broadway; procession ends at 6th Avenue; review stand at 7th Avenue and Broadway, east side of street; contact Earl Nickolson 742-8672 or Calvin Watkins 588-7372.
Remembrance ceremony: American Legion Post 190 will conduct its annual Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony at Hebron Cemetery at 10 a.m. Monday, May 28. The cemetery is 1 mile south of Hebron at U.S. 231 and County Road 900S.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 28, Stoney Run County Park, 142nd and Union Street; refreshments at the pavilion.
Civil War re-enactors: Col. John Wheeler's Company B, 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry living history demonstrations Friday, May 25- 28. The encampment will set up 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 25, on the lawn of the old Lake County Courthouse. Public interaction with the re-enactors takes place 9 a.m.-7 p.m. through the weekend. The re-enactors will be gone parts of the day Saturday and Monday to participate in memorial observances.
Religious service: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 26, conducted by Decent of the Holy Ghost Romanian Orthodox Church, Calumet Park Cemetery, 2305 W. 73rd Ave. Veterans Memorial
Service: 1 p.m. Sunday, May 27, Calumet Park Cemetery, veterans invited; hosted by American Legion District 1; Daniel Moran, 769-8803.
Religious services at Calumet Park Cemetery:
10 a.m. Monday, May 28 — Catholic, St. Sava Serbian Orthodox and First Presbyterian Church.
11:45 a.m. Monday, May 28 — Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox.
Battle of the Bulge commemoration — 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 28, Calumet Park Cemetery; all veterans and families are invited. U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky will be the main speaker.
Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 1563: 2 p.m. Memorial Day services, 6880 Hendricks St.; dinner follows; 769-1563.
Memorial Day Ceremony: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 28, Edward Robinson Community Veterans Memorial, 9210 Calumet Ave., with VFW Munster Post 2697, American Legion Post 16 and the Munster High School Band. 836-6033
Memorial Day parade and services: 11 a.m. Monday, May 28; 10 a.m. parade line-up at the Portage Mall, 6024 Central Ave.; procession heads west on Central Avenue and into Calvary Cemetery, 2701 Willowdale Road; refreshments provided following the parade by American Legion Post 260, 5675 Mulberry Ave.; call 762-3542.
Memorial Day Concert: The Valparaiso Community/University Concert Band under the direction of Jeffrey Scott Doebler performs in concert at 2 p.m. Monday, May 28, Memorial Opera House, 104 Indiana Ave. Attendees are asked to bring nonperishable food items as a donation to the Christian Food Pantry, Valparaiso. Sheriff David Lain will lead the singing.
Danny Bruce memorial: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 26, Prairie Meadow Park, corner of U.S. 6 and 421, honoring Danny Bruce, Vietnam Vet Medal of Honor recipient in conjunction with the Birchfield Foundation softball tournament. Call "Swanney" and Jackie Swanson at 785-2719 or Pamela Chrisman at 785-4233 or Jan Buchanan at 921-4475.


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I have a 2 year old seedless concord grape vine and don't know how many buds to leave on it. I pruned it in very early spring before the buds broke, and now it has a ton of new growth starting and I don't know how much to leave. I've heard you need to base it off of the weight of the vine you pruned (30 buds for first pound, and 10 for every additional pound), but I only pruned a small amount as I got the plant late last summer and it was small. There was one grape bunch last year and I am hoping to get more this year, but obviously, I shouldn't leave every single bud on the vine. How many buds should I leave on it? It's in a huge pot with a tall trellis in it and the main vine is approx. 5 feet tall with a few smaller vines coming off of it. All of these are covered in what I think are buds and new green leafy growth. Thanks. |
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It's not how many canes you leave that's most important, but rather how many clusters of fruit. The more foliage you leave the more fruit it can support. So leave as many canes as seems appropriate. But thin off some of the clusters if there are more than about 10. I first thin off the smaller of the two clusters that are often on each cane. Then thin more off if that seems appropriate. |
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Thanks Fruitnut, So, should I be able to see the fruit clusters yet? Will the fruit be on the new growth from this year, or on the one year old growth from last year? Thanks |
You can see the clusters after the new shoot grows 6-8 inches. The cluster or often two clusters will be at about the 4-5 th leaf axil. |
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Tariq Ali Comes to Oakland
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By Geoffrey Cook, TMO
Alameda (Calif.)–It is a bit of a London urban legend that the 1960s legendary rock group "the Rolling Stones," had written their (infamous) single, "Street-Fighting Man" after Tariq Ali, the Anglo-Pakistani, whom we talked about a fortnight ago, and of which this article is a continuation of the reportage of his October visit to Oakland (Calif.).
When Ali came to the San Francisco Bay, the Occupy Oakland Movement was in full swing, and had taken "center stage" away from New York City's Wall Street, and, as your reporter begins to write writes today (the 12th), demonstrators are shutting down the Port here as well as other major Western North American Seaports. The situation has degenerated into a "Revolutionary"-style crisis very similar to what happened in the Middle East's Arab "Spring."
Last week we left at Ali's statement that it was the Colonial British Office that had installed the Bahraini Sunni monarch against which the Shia majority is presently rebelling. Tariq Ali demonstrated a sharp and witty sense of history at his Oakland presence of October 29th!
"The selective vigilantism by the West I resent!" Further, by damning their Colonial masters, "The Israelis use the holocaust to blackmail the Occident!"
The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) targets young (five to fourteen) year-old Palestinian Male youths. For the Jews, one Hebrew is worth hundreds of Arab lives! A Palestinian is denied his voice in his very homeland. A former South African bureaucrat confided to Tariq that that their (S.A.'s) "Bantustans were much 'better' than the [present] Palestinian system."
Curiously, Ali, a Post- Colonial radical, did not have a good grasp on the essence of the Arab "Spring," for he hoped it would revert to a Nasser-like Modernist revival over the Palestinian nation. One of the chief elements of the "Spring" is to re-assert a place for Islam within the Body Politick. The recent election in Tunisia and the ongoing one in Egypt show a preference for a democratic Islamism. As your writer has remarked before, the Arab "Spring" has largely been a reaction to the corruption and repression of the second and third (degenerate) Nationalist generations. Old fashioned Leftist ideas are not going to work in these times. The religious or spiritual appears to be taking place as a central element in governance in the Arabic sphere.
The Palestinian Authority (P.A.'s) trip to the U.N. (United Nations) was no more than a charade for T. Ali. What sort of State can be created by the G.A. (General Assembly)? He does not think much of the 1967 boundaries. In a sense I agree with him. For it would be wonderful if we could revert to the admirable multi-sectarian province that it was under the Ottomans and the Mandate under the British instead. (Your writer in no way looks back nostalgically upon the alien repression that the Palestinians were subsumed under those Imperia, but rather the Civil Society they were able to build despite them then.) The only reason I still hold out for a two-State solution – and that is fading fast – Israel, unfortunately, is a reality that has to be dealt with for Palestinian Independence to finally be successful.
Unfortunately, too, he doubts Israel (really) intends to leave the Occupied Territories. Mr. Ali accused Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of being a fascist. (Fascism is a charged word. Fascism with a big "F" represents a very particular political philosophy; Lieberman is fascist-like in his secularism and vehement vicious anti- Arabism), but the West consents to recognize, and meet with him for political discussions! Why? (To be facetious, if you can answer this question, please send this scribe a memo!)
T. Ali favors a single State in what we term the Holy Land. Everyone would be a citizen of a single admirable tri-Sectarian, Bi-ethnic State. Succinctly, though, if a bi-State solution is not achieved under the Obama Administration; changing demographics there will make a Jewish State untenable!
The Arabs in and of themselves cannot destroy Israel. It is a substantial nuclear-armed State with the sixth largest army in the world. (Because its threats are nearby, its ability to wage war from a distance is limited, though.) This makes Tel Aviv no more than a regional bully; thereby, its hegemony is limited, and, unless it can renounce its Settler Colonialism and integrate into the larger Middle East its days are numbered!
Mr. Ali pointed out that many German Jews are now returning to their ancestral homes in Germany.
(As for the biggest losers in displacement with the establishment of a Jewish State, it has not been so much the Muslims, but rather the Christians!) Besides, "No one can push you [Israel] into the sea." Tariq Ali opines that "Israel is the last (Colonial) Imperial motherland in the twenty-first century!"
Positively, he deems that "The Arab uprising should resolve the Palestinian crisis." (It definitely will affect it positively, but whether it will be a bell weather of a solution is yet to be seen.) Further, a horrible propagandistic Islamophobia has ugly lifted its eyes over the culture of the Occident and in the West including America, too. Strangely, what American Muslims have gone through during this last decade, is similar to what the Jewish immigrants of the first part of the Twentieth Century had to undergo. (All communes in North America have much to teach each other.)
It was a general article of belief that Arabs could not achieve democracy in and of themselves, but this "Spring" has changed the landscape. (America and the West must not continue their inane mantra that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East!)
Let us continue our discussion within the forthcoming time period ahead.
Another Theocracy in the Muslim World
June 30, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Uri Avnery
I am fed up with all this nonsense about recognizing Israel as the Jewish state.
It is based on a collection of hollow phrases and vague definitions, devoid of any real content. It serves many different purposes, almost all of them malign.
Benjamin Netanyahu uses it as a trick to obstruct the establishment of the Palestinian state. This week he declared that the conflict just has no solution. Why? Because the Palestinians do not agree to recognize, etc., etc.
Four rightist members of the Knesset have just submitted a bill empowering the government to refuse to register new NGOs and to dissolve existing ones if they deny the Jewish character of the state.
This new bill is only one of a series designed to curtail the civil rights of Arab citizens, as well as those of leftists.
If the late Dr. Samuel Johnson were living in present-day Israel, he would phrase his famous dictum about patriotism differently: Recognition of the Jewish character of the state is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
In Israeli parlance, denying the Jewish character of the state is tantamount to the worst of all political felonies: to claim that Israel is a state of all its citizens.
To a foreigner, this may sound a bit weird. In a democracy, the state clearly belongs to all its citizens. Mention this in the United States, and you are stating the obvious. Mention this in Israel, and you are treading dangerously close to treason. (So much for our much-vaunted common values.)
As a matter of fact, Israel is indeed a state of all its citizens. All adult Israeli citizens-and only they-have the right to vote for the Knesset. The Knesset appoints the government and determines the laws.
It has enacted many laws declaring that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state. In ten or in a hundred years, the Knesset could hoist the flag of Catholicism, Buddhism, or Islam. In a democracy, it is the citizens who are sovereign, not a verbal formula.
What formula? one may well ask.
The courts favor the words Jewish and democratic state. But that is far from being the only definition around.
The most widely used is just Jewish state. But that is not enough for Netanyahu and Co., who speak about the nation-state of the Jewish people, which has a nice 19th-century ring. The state of the Jewish people is also quite popular.
The one thing that all these brand -names have in common is that they are perfectly imprecise. What does Jewish mean? A nationality, a religion, a tribe? Who are the Jewish people? Or, even more vague, the Jewish nation? Does this include the congressmen who enact the laws of the United States? Or the cohorts of Jews who are in charge of U.S. Middle East policy? Which country does the Jewish ambassador of the UK in Tel Aviv represent?
The courts have been wrestling with the question: where is the border between Jewish and democratic? What does democratic mean in this context? Can a Jewish state really be democratic, or, for that matter, can a democratic state really be Jewish? All the answers given by learned judges and renowned professors are contrived, or, as we say in Hebrew, they stand on chickens legs.
Lets go back to the beginning: the book written in German by Theodor Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, and published in 1896. He called it Der Judenstaat.
Unfortunately, this is a typical German word that is untranslatable. It is generally rendered in English as The Jewish State or The State of the Jews. Both are quite false. The nearest approximation would be The Jewstate.
If this sounds slightly anti-Semitic, this is not by accident. It may come as a shock to many, but the word was not invented by Herzl. It was first used by a Prussian nobleman with an impressive name Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitzwho died 23 years before Herzl was even born. He was a dedicated anti-Semite long before another German invented the term anti-Semitism as an expression of the healthy German spirit.
Marwitz, an ultra-conservative general, objected to the liberal reforms proposed at the time. In 1811 he warned that these reforms would turn Prussia into a Judenstaat, a Jewstate. He did not mean that Jews were about to become a majority in Prussia, God forbid, but that moneylenders and other shady Jewish dealers would corrupt the character of the country and wipe out the good old Prussian virtues.
Herzl himself did not dream of a state that belongs to all the Jews in the world. Quite the contrary-his vision was that all real Jews would go to the Judenstaat (whether in Argentina or Palestine, he had not yet decided). They-and only they-would thenceforth remain Jews. All the others would become assimilated in their host nations and cease altogether to be Jews.
Far, far indeed from the notion of a nation-state of the Jewish people as envisioned by many of today's Zionists, including those millions who do not dream of immigrating to Israel.
When I was a boy, I took part in dozens of demonstrations against the British government of Palestine. In all of them, we chanted in unison Free immigration! Hebrew state! I dont remember a single demonstration with the slogan Jewish state.
That was quite natural. Without anyone decreeing it, we made a clear distinction between us Hebrew-speaking people in Palestine and the Jews in the Diaspora. Some of us turned this into an ideology, but for most people it was just a natural expression of reality: Hebrew agriculture and Jewish tradition, Hebrew underground and Jewish religion, Hebrew kibbutz and Jewish shtetl. Hebrew Yishuv (the new community in the country) and Jewish Diaspora. To be called a Diaspora Jew was the ultimate insult.
For us this was not anti-Zionist by any means. Quite the contrary:
Zionism wanted to create an old-new nation in Eretz Israel (as Palestine is called in Hebrew), and this nation was of course quite distinct from the Jews elsewhere. It was only the Holocaust, with its huge emotional impact, that changed the verbal rules.
So how did the formula Jewish state creep in? In 1917, in the middle of World War I, the British government issued the so-called Balfour Declaration, which proclaimed that His Majestys Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
Every word was carefully chosen, after months of negotiations with Zionist leaders. One of the main British objects was to win American and Russian Jews for the Allied cause. Revolutionary Russia was about to get out of the war, and the entry of isolationist America was essential.
(By the way, the British rejected the words the turning of Palestine into a national home for the Jewish people, insisting on in Palestine-thus foreshadowing the partition of the country.)
In 1947 the UN did decide to partition Palestine between its Arab and Jewish populations. This said nothing about the character of the two future states-it just used the current definitions of the two warring parties. About 40 percent of the population in the territory allocated to the Jewish state was Arab.
The advocates of the Jewish state make much of the sentence in the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (generally called the Declaration of Independence) which indeed includes the words Jewish state. After quoting the UN resolution which called for a Jewish and an Arab state, the declaration continues: Accordingly we on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the state of Israel.
This sentence says nothing at all about the character of the new state, and the context is purely formal.
One of the paragraphs of the declaration (in its original Hebrew version) speaks about the Hebrew people: We extend our hands to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the independent Hebrew people in its land. This sentence is blatantly falsified in the official English translation, which changed the last words into the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land.
As a matter of fact, it would have been quite impossible to reach agreement on any ideological formula, since the declaration was signed by the leaders of all factions, from the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox to the Moscow-oriented Communist Party.
Any talk about the Jewish state leads inevitably to the question: What are the Jews-a nation or a religion?
Official Israeli doctrine says that Jewish is both a national and a religious definition. The Jewish collective, unlike any other, is both national and religious. With us, nation and religion are one and the same.
The only door of entry to this collective is religious. There is no national door.
Hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Russian immigrants have come to Israel under the Law of Return with their Jewish relatives. This law is very broad. In order to attract the Jews, it allows even distant non-Jewish relatives to come with them, including the spouse of the grandchild of a Jew. Many of these non-Jews want to be Jews in order to be considered full Israelis, but have tried in vain to be accepted.
Under Israeli law, a Jew is a person born to a Jewish mother or converted, who has not adopted another religion. This is a purely religious definition. Jewish religious law says that for this purpose, only the mother, not the father, counts.
It is extremely difficult to be converted in Israel. The rabbis demand that the convert fulfill all 613 commandments of the Jewish religion-which only very few recognized Israelis do. But one cannot become an official member of the stipulated Jewish nation by any other door. One becomes a part of the American nation by accepting U.S. citizenship. Nothing like that exists here.
We have an ongoing battle about this in Israel. Some of us want Israel to be an Israeli state, belonging to the Israeli people, indeed a state of all its citizens. Some want to impose on us the religious law supposedly fixed by God for all times on Mount Sinai some 3,200 years ago and abolish all contrary laws of the democratically elected Knesset. Many don't want any change at all.
But how, in Gods name (sorry), does this concern the Palestinians? Or the Icelanders, for that matter?
The demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state or as the nation-state of the Jewish people is preposterous.
As the British would put it, its none of their bloody business. It would be tantamount to an intervention in the internal affairs of another country.
But a friend of mine has suggested a simple way out: the Knesset can simply resolve to change the name of the state into something like The Jewish Republic of Israel, so that any peace agreement between Israel and the Arab State of Palestine will automatically include the demanded recognition.
This would also bring Israel into line with the state it most resembles: The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which came into being almost at the same time, after the partition of India, after a gruesome mutual massacre, after the creation of a huge refugee problem, and with a perpetual border war in Kashmir. And the nuclear bomb, of course.
Many Israelis would be shocked by the comparison. What, us? Similar to a theocratic state? Are we getting closer to the Pakistani model and further from the American one?
What the hell, lets simply deny it!


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I use a seed planter and love it. It makes planting a whole lot quicker and saves bending and having to handle individual seeds. It is great for a handicap gardener. Although, this year, has been a disaster, garden-wise. It has been waaay too hot for someone with Lupus to get outside. I cannot get out in the sun and the heat gets me. Usually, we have some cloudy & rainy days that I can get outside and work in. We have had less than an inch of rain since spring. We have cracks in the yard big enough for a shoe to fit in. Real dangerous!! I have my tomatoes mulched a foot deep and still have to water each plant twice a week for quite sometime. We have not had much rain since last fall so it is taking a good bit of watering even with mulch. Normally, with mulch that thick, we can go at least two weeks between watering or rainfalls. This year, we are barely keeping anything alive watering twice a week. So, the only things that I'm watering are my tomatoes. My humingbird vine has done well as have several of my perrenials. The plants which have suffered most have been plants which are normally grown in dry areas. Beats me!! |
What exactly is a seed planter? I've never heard of it. and I do a lot of seed gardening. |
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I like that one. My worst seed problem is in planting fine seed like lettuce and onion. That planter would work if the seed was mixed with some damp soil and just a pinch put down the pipe at a time. There would have to be some thinning, but it would not be too bad. Lee AKA Fireraven9 |
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ak72167 on 8/2/2012 2:33:00 PM more reviews by ak72167
Age: 44-55 Skin: Oily Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Love this mineral foundation! The coverage is sheer to medium, good for your skin and it matches my Asian, oily with yellow undertones skin, light tan is perfect for me. I tried other mineral foundations - this one works and not messy at all. A little expensive for my budget. However, it lasts a long time. I find that this powder works well with the chisel brush from Pur. It sheds though. I might try the SK synthetic flat top brush when I'm ready to toss my chisel brush.
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BrittneyBuddy on 7/27/2012 12:55:00 AM more reviews by BrittneyBuddy
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool Hair: Brunette, Curly, Fine Eyes: Brown
ETA: As this product aged, it got really hard to the point it would NOT transfer onto my brush! What a waste! If you're looking for a better mineral foundation, I recommend a Bare Minerals foundation.
I honestly love this mineral foundation. It's lightweight but gives great coverage, and the porcelain shade matches my skin perfectly. I apply this everyday over concealer with the ELF complexion brush and get a flawless finish each time. I find it applies better with this brush than the chisel brush it comes with in the starter kit they sell because it deposits less powder, making it never look cakey like it can when I apply it with the chisel brush. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is because it does not replace my need for concealer, but I think that's mainly because I have horrible hereditary under eye circles. This also works really well for setting foundation, but you really don't need foundation with this product, unless maybe you were going for stage makeup or something. Either way, this is THE best mineral foundation I've ever tried and I greatly recommend it!
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Sparklification on 7/18/2012 6:55:00 PM more reviews by Sparklification
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
I have a lot of issues with powder makeup. I can't wear it over foundation, if I do, I breakout. I can't wear it by itself either, again I break out. For some reason, I don't a have problem with liquid foundation... don't know why...
Until I tried purminerals 4in1 original foundation. The person at shoppers convinced me to try it and I really didn't expect to like it but, I do like it.
This is the only powder that doesn't destroy my skin. I think it might make my skin better but, that might be my imagination.
Anyways, this powder provides coverage as good as any other powder foundation (clinique, mac, covergirl) and it's much better for my skin.
Love it!
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Elyz on 7/15/2012 6:02:00 AM more reviews by Elyz
Age: 19-24 Skin: Oily, Fair Hair: Black, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
This powder foundation is super handy. It is my concealer, foundation, powder and SPF in one! Perfect for my oily skin.
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taylor105516 on 6/16/2012 5:31:00 PM more reviews by taylor105516
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive Hair: Other Eyes: Other
This may contain more natural ingredients, but it may not be suited for sensitive skin. This powder caused breakouts, white-heads, and even redness on my skin. On top of that, the color was very unnatural on my fair skin. It gave me a yellow glow.
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Mandyprt3r on 6/6/2012 8:35:00 PM more reviews by Mandyprt3r
Age: 30-35 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Covers nicely, looks natural, good for your skin and stays really well through the day. The ONLY complaint I have is there is very little oil control and I would be super shiny around my nose and forehead by the end of the day. Thats why I only rated it a 4. So I had to buy the Perfectly Natural Everyday Balancing Make Up and when I brush a light bit of that in those oily areas before I use my powder foundation its perfect! So it is costly but i really think its worth it. Way better than BE or Sheer cover i think
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*TOP REVIEWER* admilly101 on 5/16/2012 7:19:00 PM more reviews by admilly101
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Blond, Straight Eyes: Blue
Yeah, this did not control my oil very well without primer. Still a 4/5, just not for me!
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
So I had to delete my old review and rewrite it, because I realized I reviewed the original Pur Minerals formula AND the one with "added skin care ingredients". THIS review is for the original formula.
At ULTA, they only sell the formula with the skincare ingredients in it, yet they tell you it's the original formula in "new packaging". This is false. That formula SUCKS, BUT the original one is.... Amazing.
This foundation has beaten all others. Why? Let me tell you:
-Medium-Full flawless, beautiful, natural, amazing coverage. It just looks like I have beautiful skin, not like I am wearing tons of product. I don't even need concealer.
-IT ACTUALLY LASTS! While the "skincare ingredients" formula gets VERY oily, and I would not advise us oil slick girls to get that one, the original does a really good job at keeping me matte. I could actually go all day without blotting, although I do occasionally just because I can. I put it on at 6:40AM, stays matte untill 12:00PM, and is still there when I come home around 4:00PM. That is a total of 9 hours, girls
-I do have one thing to say about application: YOU NEED that chisel brush! Although I love my ELF flat top powder brush, it doesn't give me the flawless coverage the chisel brush does. Its sharp bristles pick up a lot of product and it won't waste any of it. Application is such a breeze. I just swirl the brush in the powder, buff it in and TADA! Foundation done.
-Does not irritate my sensitive, acne prone skin.
The one con I have is the price. But this product is so amazing, I am willing to fork over the almost $30 for it. I need this stuff. My life is complete with it.... For now
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woodenshoe on 4/27/2012 12:13:00 PM more reviews by woodenshoe
Age: 44-55 Skin: Oily, Medium Brown, Neutral Hair: Black, Curly, Coarse Eyes: Black
I was very enthusiastic about this foundation after I had just purchased it and I still think it has some good qualities. The coverage is great for a mineral foundation, it comes in a wide range of colours and it's easy to apply. The only reason why I will not buy this again is that it made my skin super oily after a couple of hours of wear. A superb mineral foundation but not for oily skin types I'm afraid.
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*TOP REVIEWER* sterlingK on 4/26/2012 1:20:00 PM more reviews by sterlingK
Age: 30-35 Skin: Very Oily, Fair Hair: Brown, Curly, Coarse Eyes: Other
I've been using this for 2-3 months (maybe more) and I really like it. I switched from Tarte Smooth Operator as Sephora had run out of my colour and they were not sure when they were getting more stock. I have very acne prone skin with an oil slick t-zone and occasional dry spots on my cheeks. I also have a lot of redness to cover on my cheeks. This covers everything very well and is easy to layer for more coverage. I am very pale and the lightest shade is perfect on me. I apply using the chisel brush this company makes, the brush is scratchy but it does work well to apply this power. I use a primer underneath and my makeup lasts all day. Took off 1 lippie because it looks a little powdery on my forehead sometimes. Would repurchase.
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alm1217 on 4/25/2012 9:09:00 AM more reviews by alm1217
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm Hair: Brown Eyes: Green
This is my holy grail foundation. I've used mineral makeup for years and tried all sorts of brands...from BE to L'oreal's Bare Naturale to Everyday Minerals and countless other indie brands online. I've also used my fair share of liquid, cream, and powder foundations for over 15 years. I originally started using Pur Minerals in 2006 in its original formula. I liked it a lot, but it started to get cakey after a long day. However, because I liked the way it looked for most of the day, I continued to buy it. I hadn't used it for several months when I saw they released a new formula with skincare ingredients. Although I was skeptical that it made any difference in the product, I tried it. It's absolutely amazing. The coverage is completely adjustable depending on your application method - sheer to full. My skin tone, texture, and blemishes have greatly improved. I've had acne problems for 20 years and my skin has been 100% blemish free the whole time I've used this new formula. My skin feels soft and touchable throughout the day, and it never gets cakey or looks powdery. I'm usually an oil slick by mid-morning, but I can go ALL DAY without touching up. The color is also a good match. I use Porcelain and I usually have an impossible time finding foundations light enough for me. I really can't say enough good things about it.
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