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From the get-go, we've said the #Road2FarmAid doesn't end at Farm Aid 2013... it keeps going. Here's an interview with Micah Nelson, son of Willie Nelson and member of the band Insects vs Robots. Micah was super busy leading up to Farm Aid 2013, but on Saturday morning before the concert, he told us he'd get us these answers. True to his word, here they are. Just another example of someone doing their part, even after the Farm Aid concert is over. Thanks, Micah!
Farm Aid: How many times have you appeared on a Farm Aid stage? What is the most exciting part about performing at Farm Aid?
Micah Nelson: I've been coming to Farm Aid since I was old enough to ...eat food... I've played a few times with my family... I don't remember exactly how many times exactly.... I was very excited to finally play there with my second family, Insects vs Robots!
The energy at Farm Aid is always just right. It's a time when I feel most proud to be part of a family of movers and shakers that is fighting for one of the most important causes of our age...using the power of good music to bring folks together to support our family farmers. I think everyone who comes to Farm Aid is feeling how crucial the issue has become and it's quite a righteous feeling to know that we're making a difference while having a great time and also learning about how to continue making a difference in your daily lives.
FA: Why is supporting America's family farmer an important cause for you?
MN: Our family farmers are the backbone of the country... they are the ones toiling out in the fields every day for you and me, growing good food. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't survive very long. It's a symbiotic relationship, like humans and trees and bees.
Climate change is the most important issue of our time; the farmers feel it before anyone else. The only way we will heal our planet is through the soil...This is what farmers are supposed to do: create healthy soil for good food to grow and so carbon stays in the ground. This is why becoming a sustainable farmer is probably the most heroic thing anyone can do. They should take all those "BE ALL YOU CAN BE" Army recruitment billboards and replace them with images of sustainable farmers. "THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE FARMERS."
The average age of family farmers now is 57 and there aren't enough young people to pass the torch to. We need to start educating and recruiting young people in schools to become farmers and spread the message that if you really want to serve your country, become a sustainable farmer! I met a lot of people at Farm Aid 2013 who are trying to do just that. I don't believe Farm Aid will save the humans on its own however... every day has to be Farm Aid if any real change is going to happen... every time we spend money on food we have a choice. It all comes from us. It's the little things that add up to big changes.
Also, every farmers market should have live music going on. We need to bring American culture back home....great local food, great music... that's what folks should be putting their energy towards. And bringing good food to places that need it the most, places where kids are unaware of how important the issue is for their future...we are in a dire situation and most young folks either have no clue what's going on or they just don't care ...but it's going to be too late when our parents are gone and we've inherited the planet... It would be great to not have to hit total rock bottom before people wake up, but it's pretty hard not to be cynical.
FA: What advice would you give your fans about what they can do to help family farmers thrive?
MN: My advice would be to kill your TV for starters (making a slow-motion video of you or a friend destroying it with a baseball bat is a fun one), spend less time on your computer and more time outside, in nature. De-program yourself. Get yourself free. Get rid of your lawn and plant a garden instead. Learn all you can while you still can about how to be as resilient as possible. Download an app called "BUYCOTT," which allows you to see exactly which companies profit from what you're buying, all the way up the pyramid. Shop local. Eat local. Support your local farmers market. And if you can, come to Insects vs Robots shows! We will be having a Farm Aid donation booth at our merch table where you will get a free download if you donate to Farm Aid.
FA: Tell us about Farm Aid's Board Members – Willie, John, Neil and Dave. Obviously you've got a pretty special connection.
MN: I see my dad and uncle Neil as sort of like elders of the human tribe. I've learned so much from them growing up and am proud to be part of their lives and sort of walking in their footsteps. It is always so inspiring to hear them and Dave and John speak at the Farm Aid press conference. They don't mince words and really bring you into the moment and remind us all why we are there. It's like the annual tribal gathering of the superheroes who are trying to save the world. I loved Dave's quote this year "...if you have to frack something, why don't you frack yourself." Classic Dave.
It made me so happy for my dad to invite my band to play at Farm Aid this year. We love nothing more than playing music together and so I know my dad would support any musical project I am involved in, but I'm so glad Insects vs Robots (IvR) has been so genuinely welcomed by his fans as well, even though for many of them they probably never would have been exposed to our music. We've opened for him a handful of shows now and it's always such a great family-oriented time....people seem to have as much fun at our shows as we are having, which is good.
It was also a super cool feeling to have Neil come up after our set and give me a big hug and tell me how much he loved our set. He brought us on his bus and we talked for a long time about music and recording and he imparted some valuable wisdom and ideas to us, which we soaked right up. We are all a bunch of audiophile sonic-wizard-nerds like Neil so we all geeked out and bonded over that stuff. He has always made his music on his own terms and he always keeps it real so we connected on that as well. IvR has always lived and made our music that way and so I am glad that energy came through even in our 15 minute set. And every time I ran into Neil the rest of that day he would look me in the eye and say "GREAT SET TODAY. GREAT BAND." It made us feel really proud of ourselves for how far we've come as a band and all the love and energy we put into our music since Neil has always been an incredible inspiration to all of us. We are extremely honored to be a part of Farm Aid and hope to continue to use our music as a voice for helping sustainable family farmers thrive.


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Sumeray, MS; Rees, DD; Yellon, DM; (2000) Infarct size and nitric oxide synthase in murine myocardium. J MOL CELL CARDIOL , 32 (1) 35 - 42.
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Controversy surrounds the involvement of nitric oxide (NO) in myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury and the balance between deleterious and beneficial effects. NO synthase (NOS) is expressed constitutively as two isoforms: endothelial (eNOS) and neuronal (nNOS). Knockout mice lacking the gene for either eNOS (eNOS KO) or nNOS (nNOS KO), were compared with wild-types (WT) during a protocol of global ischaemia-reperfusion injury. Thirty-six mouse hearts (12 from each group) were isolated and the aorta cannulated for Langendorff perfusion with modified Krebs solution at constant pressure, An apical suture connected the left ventricle to a force transducer via a light weight coupling rod. Following stabilization hearts were subjected to 30 min of global ischaealia at 37 degrees C. During 30 min reperfusion, the recovery of baseline force-rate product (F%) was recorded. Hearts were then stained with tetrazolium, frozen, sliced, and Futed with formalin. Slices were compressed between plexiglas plates, and a magnified video image digitized to allow planmetry for infarct size (as percentage of ventricular volume I/R). Although recovery of contractile function did not differ between groups, eNOS KOs suffered significantly larger infarcts than WT or nNOS KOs (41 v 33 and 30% respectively, P<0.05 for both comparisons). A protective role for eNOS against global ischaemia-reperfusion injury has been demonstrated for the first time in murine myocardium This may have important clinical implications for future pharmacotherapy to enhance myocardial protection. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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He grew up in Durban and has lived in various parts of South Africa and the UK, before finally settling on Cape Town. He often wonders why anyone would want to live anywhere else.
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After patiently enduring a 500-mile break-in period, he was able to realize the performance difference between the original L82/three-speed combo and the Ram Jet 350/four-speed setup. An additional benefit came in the area of fuel mileage, which increased from 14 to 24 mpg on the highway.
Initially Walker left off the cruise control because the throttle linkage on the Ram Jet is on the right side of the engine, but he later had a local hot-rod shop fabricate a mounting bracket for the cruise servo. A simple stainless-steel welding rod was then used to connect the servo to the throttle. He then ran the vacuum hose behind the firewall and through the mounting bracket, and once again had a working cruise control.
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Karpaby: Carmel Hagen
David Carvalho, also knows as Karpa, is a young Portugese artist and designer with a very pretty portfolio. Having worked for several design studios, including one of his own founding, David has used his diverse experience to develop a beautiful set of work for clients like Nike, Puma, and IdN Magazine. I really like the identity work he's done for URB; head here to check it out.
Radiohead on Current TVby: Carmel Hagen
If the thought of another boozy New Years romp has lost its charm, here's something that should help you spend the night in a less exaggerated, if not less exciting, manner. Current TV, the Emmy award-winning peer-to-peer news and information network, will be broadcasting a free, private performance of Radiohead's In Rainbows in its entirety on New Years Eve. Showing on both the Current TV Network and the network's website, the concert will give you an excuse to stay in that even your most dedicated drinking buddies should understand. If holing up isn't part of your plans, have no fear — the concert will run again on New Years Day. That and a few bloody Mary's and your hangover should be just about dealt with. Find broadcast times here.
SpearTalks: Morten Andersenby: Carmel Hagen
Morten Andersen found canvas when he dumped walls. It wasn't a nasty breakup — their relationship had been long, experimental, and by anyone's standards, a complete success — but for whatever reason, after almost 15 years of writing, the Danish artist dropped his spray can, picked up some acrylics, and got to work.
It's a common story these days; a graf artist trades (with varying amounts of resolution) his sketchbook for a Macbook, his backpack for a studio, and his play for work. However, the commonality of this scenario is not what some people seem to find odd, but rather the commonality of success among those who make the transition. It is rarely easy to make a name in the art world, and it should be even harder if your genre of art is just beginning to be taken seriously, yet something about today's post-writer transition makes for a more graceful process than one might expect. Maybe it's that their work is so accessible, and maybe they're just that talented, but in any case, they're doing it, and they're doing it well. Read on to see how one man is dealing with his own transition, his own development, and the current state of street art.
Joshspear.com: You haven't been painting your whole life "" when did you first begin, and what did you do before you started?
Morten Andersen: It wasn't until '89, when I was in my early teens, that hip hop culture influenced me to find an outlet in writing graffiti to create and communicate things in a visual way. I started tagging for that specific cause (hip hop) I guess, because I didn't actually know much about graffiti. I'm from the country — and that's not where tags are found by the loads in Denmark — so inspiration from other writers was not there to make me start. I just needed something to keep my mind flowing with ideas and a tool to release them with.
Talk Shop Fridays: Merry Fugly Christmas!by: Carmel Hagen
Whelp, it's the time of year when we all seem to be thinking the same thought… How the hell is it almost December twenty-&%@#$%!-fifth?
We're thinking that just because it's the season for sharing and all — and just in case someone put off their shopping until the last second possible — that it could be pretty interesting to hear what some of you will be sneaking under the tree tree this year. Did you carve a bust out of a huge chunk of fruitcake? Is his/her face going to look like the last five seconds of a DeBeers commercial? Were you already blessed with the worst present ever? Whether it's sweet, funny, or totally effed up (Yes, I am cussing a lot today — I'm not done wrapping — I'm stressed out), we want to hear about it, so let 'er rip – and then keep the person you're giving the gift to completely away from JoshSpear.com. Our lips are sealed!
UNDONEby: Carmel Hagen
Chicago/Minneapolis design studio Synthetic Infatuation just launched their new online shop, UNDONE, from which they are selling some of the things they do in their downtime. Currently offering posters and Synthetic Infatuation's first issue of Morning (an 86-paged, screenprinted, arty masterpiece), UNDONE will hopefully grow to incorporate things like their Oh Aid cards (fingers crossed) and everything else that design studios with online stores like to sell. So, you know, t-shirts. And maybe a sticker or so. In the meantime, the posters that are currently filling UNDONE's virtual shelves are pretty pretty — and Morning mostly knocks my socks off — so click here for the goods.
ADM Skateboardsby: Carmel Hagen
ADM Skateboards is a new skate company bringing art, sport and philanthropy together. Founded when Ben Myers decided to reproduce some of his late brother's painted skatedecks to raise money for a memorial fund, ADM quickly grew to a full product line of tees, decks and hoodies represented on both the East and West Coast. Using a business model that includes donating a portion of profits to drug awareness programs, skateboard park developments, and other positive non profits, the team at ADM plans to use their company to help expose young artists as well as make a difference. The team is also internally composed of young designers and artists, a characteristic that is already evident in their beautiful selection of maple decks. ADM is also hunting down new artists and riders to further represent the company, so if you want get on board, head here for the details.
Onitsuka Tiger x tokidokiby: Carmel Hagen
Next May, the beginning of a lengthy collaboration between tokidoki and Onitsuka Tiger will give fans of both companies something to blog about. A blend of Italian artist Simone Legno's modern characters and Onitsuka Tiger's popular footwear, the two year-long collaboration will result in a steady stream of tokidoki love (that's already been flying around like the herp, but we're not gonna stop it) and will help both companies further spread the gospel of modern Japanese art. As far as I can tell, this will be the first athletic shoe collab for tokidoki (though they did some good work with Italy's Fornarina earlier this year), so high fives to both companies for locking down something so rockin'. News of this pairing should be flying all over the internets in no time at all, but we recommend keeping your eyes here for the most up to date info.
Qubo Gas Limited Editionsby: Carmel Hagen
French artist group Qubo gas has some brand new and beautiful prints for grabs in their online store, Smalticolor. In addition to their newest prints, Smalticolor offers silkscreens, posters and smaller goodies in range of prices, making nabbing one of their pretty pieces extra hard to resist. Copies of "Baover Tit," Qubo gas's interactive animation that won first place at Italy's Netmage festival in 2001, are also available on the site for under fifty dollars, so if you're a fan of digital art be sure to give them a look.
Alyssa Dee Kraussby: Carmel Hagen
A piece of jewelry titled "Bandage for the Heart" doesn't inspire something pretty. In fact, it mostly calls to mind something messy and complicated – like a natural disaster or divorce. However, it might be that Alyssa Dee Krauss's intention while designing this series of pins and rings was something that imperfect; something like pain paired with beauty in order to reflect the process of healing itself. Bandages for the Heart are bandaid shaped pins and rings, available in either 18k gold or sterling silver, that encase a garnet droplet. Symbolic and delicate, the pieces are emotional, meaningful, and iconic in their simplicity. In short, they are everything that good design should work to achieve. While Alyssa's rings are currently sold out, you can find the pin (or inquire about the ring's reproduction) here.
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Daft Punk x Bearbrick Boxed Setby: Carmel Hagen
Word just landed that Bearbrick is doing a collab with Fossil — which is, well, interesting — but word also just landed that a more exciting example of art toy teamwork has recently hit the shelves. The Japanese version of Daft Punk's latest album, ALIVE, is selling on Sold Out as an exclusive collette & Sold Out box set. Accompanied by two Daft Punk-y Bearbricks (that are not in their underwear or covered in sharpie, but do represent Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem Christo), the set might just represent the best holiday present for the music/toy junkie in your life ever. You can grab one for just under $73 here, but be sure to jump on it fast – the set was produced in a limited run of 3000, and somehow I get the feeling that Daft Punk has a few more fans than that.
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Carmit Bachar is Back in Business
Former member of the all-girl American group 'Pussycat Dolls,' Carmit Bachar, is making her move back into the center of LA's club scene, this time as a duo, with producer Sammy Jay. Together they go by 'Lady Station.'
Bachar, daughter of the legendary Israeli folk dancing choreographer Schlomo Bachar, seems to have been there at almost every milestone of American pop history in the last 2 decades: When Beyonce shot the music video for her solo debut mega-hit 'Crazy in Love' – She was dancing behind her; When Ricky Martin sang 'Living La Vida Loca'- she was the official "Loca Girl"; When late singer Aaliyah, shot a video for her 'Rock the Boat' hit and died in a plane crash on her way back, Carmit was among the staff who didn't go on that plane; When 'Pussycat Dolls' became an overnight success and were nominated for a Grammy – She was part of the group. But now Carmit knows it's about time to do her own thing.
"[Sammy Jay and I] were introduced by a mutual friend," Carmit tells ABBANIBI, "the idea being that Sammy would do a remix of one of my songs. We clicked instantly and decided to do a song together. One song turned into an entire project! And LadyStation was born!"
What's next for Lady Station?
"EP, appearances and collaborations with a few other artists and producers."
Good Luck Carmit! We'll be following!


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It is so nice that Namco Bandai have decided to unleash the wonderful series that is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure onto the rest of ZA WARUDO. The series haven't seen exposure since the fighting game released by Capcom in the late 90s, so it's about time the west got some love from the one true king of shounen manga.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (PS3)
Developed by CyberConnect 2 – Published by Namco Bandai
If you've never heard of JoJo, let me give you a brief history lesson. The series is set during various eras and arcs, the first one starting off in England during the 1800's and follow the titular bizarre adventures of Jonathan Joestar (hence, JoJo) as he takes on the vampiric powers that Dio Brando acquired through the dangerous stone mask. The series was localized in the west when it came to the third series, Stardust Crusaders, which followed Jotaro Kujo, the third JoJo and this game here is set during all eight arcs that currently exist.
The game is a fightin game, just like the previous game we got in the west, but it doesn't play like your normal Street Fighter clone. All Star Battle uses one button devoted to light attacks and light combos, it's a button that you can basically exclusively use if you're not that used to fighting games but still want to achieve combos and cool specials. It's simplified, but not in a way that makes the combat itself uneven, as using the others buttons will allow you to play it in a more advanced and very different manner. If anything, it's a game that seem to make it possible to play it simple or in a very deep manner.
The game uses stage-gimmicks as well, which reminded me somewhat of the PS2-era Mortal Kombat games. You'll have cars running across streets and other fun things that you can toss your opponents into. While I don't know if every stage will feature things like that, it's something that I personally enjoy even if I can see others finding it more annoying. The stages themselves were colorful and well-detailed, much like the rest of the game. It's absolutely gorgeous and look like it jumped straight out of one of the covers to the manga.
Now, the build we played was in Japanese so all the names were kept in their original form, in the actual localization for next year some characters will have changed names to avoid legal troubles. This is because almost every single character in JoJo is named in reference to something, most often rock 'n roll bands. But the game will be remain voiced in Japanese for the localization, so the names is where the only big difference in versions will be.
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Backup and restore of VM's
I know that to a lot of people this is going to seem like a simple question, but for the life of me with this new interface I am on the verge of insanity!!
Instructions have been very difficult to come accross for this product - Each time I search I get directed to best practices, and as this is the first time I have used Backup Exec in about 10 years knowing where things are is difficult.
My Environment which is standalone and has no interfaces to other networks or the internet. The reasoning behind this is that we have some legacy NT databases and apps written in VB that refuse to work in newer versions of windows, so our thought would be to isolate it and let it run its course until the book of business expires!
The configuration is as follows:
HP ML350 configured as an ESX server containing LTO4 tape drive hosting 4 virtual machines:
Windows 2003 Domain Controller
Windows NT4 Member Server hosting a SQL7 database
Windows 2008 R2 Server hosting Backup Exec 2012 (The above mentioned backup device is mapped to this)
Windows XP workstation (This is the sysprep'd clone that we build the physical workstations from)
As well as the Virtual infrastructure there are several Physical XP workstations, One of which we have created a shared area on to allow a backup to disk
What I would like to know is 'What would the best method of backing up the Virtual Machines?' We have purchased the VMware agent and have managed to perform single backups.
I would guess that Incremental and differential backups would be no good to me as backups of VM's are basically flat files, so all files would be changed every time a backup was taken. So I guess Full Backup is my only option. I have looked at the different backup strategies and concluded that the 'Grandfather' strategy would suit best Monday - Friday with a retained backup every 4th Saturday. This would give me all backups from the last 4 weeks and the option of historic backup of VM's from the retained tapes.
It is highly unlikely that we would ever need to perform a GRT restore, basically all we would need is to recover a complete Virtual Machine as the data on these machines is mainly static - the DC for instance will have no AD updates, no patches will be installed on any machines as they are isolated!
My questions therefore are?
Do I need to backup to the Shared Network drive (which is the Windows share on the workstation) and then commit to tape, or can I backup direct to tape?
If I do backup to the network share first, does Backup Exec overwrite the previous days backup or do I need to create a command to do this first?
Is my best option to just do a recurring daily full backup job Mon-Fri to tape with an expiration time of 4 weeks? Additionally a recurring job set to every 4th saturday?
Finally does anybody have instructions on how I would restore a VM?
All Help appreciated
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Do I need to backup to the Shared Network drive (which is the Windows share on the workstation) and then commit to tape, or can I backup direct to tape?
- Either ways, both are fine..
If I do backup to the network share first, does Backup Exec overwrite the previous days backup or do I need to create a command to do this first?
- In the backup job properties, you have an option to specify how many days you want to keep this backup set for..
instructions on how I would restore a VM?
If you choose the vCenter / ESX to initiate the restore, you can restore the complete vmdk...else if you choose the VM itself from the Backup & Restore tab, you can restore individual files/folders (GRT restore)...Depending upon where you intitate the restore from, select the files which you want to restore, select the destination & bunch of other options (such as notifications) appear in the guided restore wizard..
Have a look at this KB too ~ http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
You can't officially use the tape drive when it is connected (or physically part of) the ESX host. It has to be connected to a Physical Windows server running Backup Exec to be supported.
Also whilst we probably can backup the NT 4 machine as a complete VM, it is unlikely any indidividual file or SQL 7 database capability will function as we stopped supporting both NT4 and SQL 7 some time ago. This lack of support will affect VMware backups and traditional RAWS based backups.
Hi - I've searched a lot on this which is why I'm at this thread.
Can anyone tell me if you do a FULL VM restore (VMWARE) does it stage the file somewhere before overwritting the exiting VM please?
The reason I ask is, we tried to restore a full VM to a new location (a NAS drive elsewhere). We clicked the "different location" option and put the IP address in and a file path.
When the restore was set off we saw a byte count but no files appeared in this different loaction. When we looked at the job the location said it was restoring the VM environment (!).
The job was cancelled sharp'ish! The existing VM works fine and we have no idea where the bytes where sent to??? The Staging location is default but there are no files in there?? Teh job details were checked and all appears well but I am not sure what happened to the restore.
Can anyone please help explain?
Just to add some meat to your answer
It is acknowledged as part of a known issue - see the info mentioned in the workaround listed in http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH188010
Thanks - bearing in mind there was no warning of this, where did these bytes get written to then?
We told the restor to go to \\IP.address\sharename\VMRestores\Server-SQL - (the VMRestores\Server-SQL part was a newly created folder sturcture specifically for this restore on a NAS).
The "job log" shows the restore as "Restoring data to VMVCB::\\VCENTER\VCGuestVm\(DC)PM DC(DC)\vm\Server-SQL\IT Software\VMRestores\Server-SQL."
Note it seems to have used part of the file path in the form of the part show in bold however this doesn;t seem to have been created at all???


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Al, If you have not already, you should read "Short Way Round". It has a lot of good imformation on not only a round the world trip, but also on bike prep. He started out on a BMW, has switched to a DR650. He is well into his trip and seems to have a pretty good handle on what he is doing.
Your Dad gave you some good advise if you are the type of person to ride a motorcycle around the world. Not everyone is, but he probably knows you as well as anyone. As Mark Twain said it is better to regret the things you did than the things you didn't do.
I feel that for someone on a limited budget, the DR650 is the only one to consider. If you don't change to a 520 chain, include tools and spares, but with all 3 bikes being the same that should not be too big a deal, and is something you would want to do no matter what chain. A lot of people have gone with the 17 inch rear tire, make take a little more planning, and again this is where the same bikes helps.
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[ the sale in the shop continues...thanks for the orders so far!]
[ and thank you to Dan for loaning me his spare camera in the meantime! ]
These fabric markers have a life of their own and have been weaseling their way into a number of my recent projects.
Having said that a piece of fabric Elle algipainted would make a cool napkin, I set about stitching one up. Because of the way Elle had done her fabric painting (green grid on the slant and flowers within the grid) once I cut it and joined it to the Amy Butler print, there was a blank spot that just looked wrong. Before I knew what was happening, a green marker was in my hand and I was filling in the blank space! I then darkened a few other squares for a more unified look. I really like the results.
There are a million ways to make napkins. Because I don't like ironing tiny little hems, I like to make napkins by
1. sewing two fat-quarters together almost all the way around (right sides in) with a 1/4 or 1/2-inch seam (leave a 3-inch opening along one of the sides)
2. pressing the seams open (essential for getting a neat edge)
3. turning the napkin right side out.
4. stitching right along the edge all the way around.
scarves, the markers faded quite a bit when washed. I think that maybe the quilter's cotton had a better result because of the high thread count.
My markers weren't done with me, because they also made their way into a couple of quilt blocks I made on Friday. After reading a blog post about a young father who was fighting cancer and a friend who wanted to make a quilt to help him, I volunteered to make a couple of blocks for the quilt.
Lucia had decided on a blue and gray color scheme for Errick's quilt and asked that we please pick fabrics that weren't too feminine or juvenile. When I went through my stash...
These blocks are on their way to Lucia tomorrow!
I can only hope that my non-toxic markers have some serious cancer-killing vibes! Go markers go!


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Thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets to show their rejection of the government's proposed austerity measures, which are supposed to right the country's flailing economy. Our Observer in Thessaloniki was in the middle of the protest there, along with his camera.
Craig Wherlock is a British expat based in Thessaloniki. He's a teacher at a private school.
The marchers were mainly public sector workers as their unions, like the PAME [communist], are the most active. But there were also employees from the private sector amongst them. Everybody's worried about the wage freeze, cuts to social benefits, an increase in VAT (from 19% to 21%) and the changing of the legal retirement age (currently 60 for women, 65 for men, but could be set at 67 for all).
People are really angry and feeling desperate. Most shop workers and even small factory employees aren't registered and therefore have no social security. They work up to 50 or 60 hours per week for only 600 euros a month [Read Craig's previous post on the high costs and low wages in Greece].
So they're wondering how the country managed to amount 300 billion euros of debt - what was that money spent on? Certainly not, they say, on public services or roads. The protestors have the impression that politicians robbed the country blind. With the former government, there was a corruption scandal every two months. So talk of wasted money is still rife. The former health minister ordered 16 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine, but only 400,000 were needed in the end.
I saw the slogan 'plutocracy should pay for the crisis' - which pretty much sums up the feelings of the protestors."
"PIGS" stands for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain.
Greece being the actual godfather of Europe, it is therefor painful to see the EU flag burning...The "Plutarchs" will never pay for this crisis we all know that, nor will corrupt politicians. The common Greek man will have to sit this one out again, and we know he has the stomach for it. In the mean time he also has to find who his true (political) friends really are. "Poor" Yiorgaki now finally has to deal with his ancestors (and rivals!) with rigor and firm determination, otherwise this will become a real tragedy, another word and perception the Greeks have invented...Not without reason...


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Friends and colleagues immediately shared their messages of congratulations.
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Narrow Passage By 17 Votes Signals Serious Concerns with Energy Bans and Tabulation Process; Automatic Recount Likely
Nine days following the November 5 election, Broomfield city officials have announced that, in an unofficial count, Broomfield Question 300, a five-year ban on hydraulic fracturing and energy production, passed by a hair-thin margin of 17 votes. The outcome signifies that voters in Main Street Colorado communities remain highly suspect of extremist energy solutions and that a likely automatic recount will ensure following certification of the results.
"Main Street Coloradans are pushing back against fracking bans and standing up for sensible energy policy," said Don Beezley, Co-Chair of the Broomfield Balanced Energy Coalition. "Broomfield voters demonstrated that supporters of responsible energy are poised to prevail in places with a representative composition of Colorado voters."
In a lengthy tabulation process concluded at approximately 10:00 p.m. MST this evening, BBEC representatives and other election watchers observed numerous irregularities in the handling of ballot challenges and verifications. Votes originally excluded from the Broomfield count on a challenge basis were reinstated while inconsistent application of Colorado's new election law cast a taint on others. In prior special elections this year, parts of the new election law have been successfully challenged in court.
"The uncertainties around the Broomfield vote count and the new voter law make us question the accuracy of tonight's outcome," said BJ Nikkel. "We will vigorously review the entire process and look at all legal options for ensuring the integrity of this election."
In September, the city of Broomfield passed a comprehensive energy regulation plan placing tight restrictions on oil and gas production. The plan evolved from successful collaboration between Broomfield's city council, the community and oil and gas producer Sovereign Energy. Question 300 could potentially overturn the agreement and undercut hundreds of hours of collaborative work that went into Broomfield's energy plan.
"Even in Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins – predominantly liberal communities that have been the focus of anti-energy activists for several years - we found that citizens are open to getting the facts and recognize the important role that oil and natural gas plays in our lives," said BJ Nikkel, advisor to the energy plan campaigns. "The debate over maintaining a vibrant energy industry is just beginning."


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Co-founder "Mr. Paul" is both the leader of the troupe and one of its leading performers. 01:10
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News Briefing with Colonel Jeffrey S. Buchanan
STAFF: Good morning, everybody. Today our briefer is Colonel Jeff Buchanan, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 75th Division and commander of the special police transition teams for the National Police Commando Division and 1st Mechanized Police Brigade of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. Colonel Buchanan and the majority of his teams arrived in theater in late March of 2005. And with that, Colonel Buchanan, I'll turn it over to you.
COL. BUCHANAN: Okay. Thanks.
I'm -- good morning. I'm Colonel Jeff Buchanan, commander of the 2nd of the 75th and police commander of special transitions teams, or SPTTs. Our teams have been working with the police commandos and the mechanized police brigade for the past 10 months.
This morning I'd like to talk to you about the police commandos and our teams who have been serving with them. The police commandos first formed, with one battalion, in August of 2004. The genesis of the division is fairly unique for Iraqi security forces, in that they initially formed without coalition assistance.
The division's mission is to conduct counterinsurgency operations, to gather intelligence, and capture or kill enemy forces in order to establish a secure environment for other security forces to operate in.
The commandos typically accomplish that mission by conducting raids, cordon-and-search operations, reconnaissance, and by defending fixed sites. The commando division has four brigades, and each of those has a headquarters and three battalions.
The authorized strength is more than 2,600 men in a commando brigade and more than 11,000 in the division. The commandos operate both independently and in concert with other coalition forces.
The most common mission profile is the battalion-sized operation, but they frequently conduct brigade-sized operations and have even performed with multiple brigades.
The first unit deployment was to Mosul in November of 2004, and the division still has one battalion on duty there. The initial deployment was followed by subsequent missions to Samarra in February of 2005 and Ramadi in March, and short-term deployments to Salman Pak in April and Tall Afar in September of 2005. The division currently has eight battalions in Baghdad and four deployed to the other provinces.
The Mechanized Police Brigade is deployed in the Baghdad area and is comprised of three battalions and a headquarters.
The primary focus of the mechanized police is to secure Baghdad's airport road, Route Irish.
The coalition forces support all of these teams, all of these forces with special police transition teams. The SPTTs have a number of duties, and the first of those is to coach, teach and mentor the commandos and mechanized police brigade during training, during preparation for combat and during combat operations.
Secondly, we serve as liaisons between the coalition forces and the national police and provide coalition support during operations.
Lastly, we provide assessments of capabilities and limitations during the transition to Iraqi control.
To get the job done, we have a total of 21 teams, with one team embedded in each organization down to the battalion level. Each team consists of 11 American servicemen, mostly sailors -- or correction, mostly soldiers and Marines and two to four Iraqi interpreters.
And with that, I'd be happy to take your questions now.
STAFF: Charlie.
Q Colonel, Charlie Aldinger with Reuters.
I guess this is pretty obvious, but the police you're talking about that you work with are kind of, as opposed to the cop on the beat -- these are kind of elite national police. Is that not right? Kind of like the Carabinieri in Italy? And how are they doing in terms of culture? In other words, Sunnis hating Shi'a and Shi'a hating Sunnis and -- how they are doing treating everybody equally? Is that a slow thing?
COL. BUCHANAN: All right, thanks for the question. There's a couple of things that I'd like to address with that.
The first question is you likened them to Carabinieri or gendarmerie, and, in fact, that's where we're going to. But as I said, the police commanders were initially formed based on an Iraqi initiative driven by the previous Minister of the Interior, and the purpose was to fight the insurgents. As such, they are essentially, and have been to date essentially operating as urban light infantry rather than police forces.
Now we think that the future is to take them to a true national police force to where they're badge carrying and qualified officers enforcing the Iraqi rule of law throughout the provinces. So that's the future. That's not where we are right now. And we have a plan during 2006, which is the year of the police in Iraq, to put steps in place to actually get these guys fully trained and get there.
The second part of the question -- you asked about Sunnis hating Shi'as or Shi'ite Arabs hitting Sunnis, et cetera -- I'd like to tackle that up front because I've read a lot of things in the media that have quoted -- or have used quotes like, "Shi'ite-led Ministry of Interior Forces." And, in fact, the police commandos are representative of the population of Iraq.
We have in each brigade between 50 to 70 percent of the troops are Shi'te Arabs, and -- or Shi'a Arabs, and between 20 and 40 percent are typically Sunni Arabs. We have a small Kurdish population in two of the four brigades.
Additionally to that, looking at the leadership of the division, half of the battalion commanders are Sunni and half are Shi'a. One of the battalion commanders is a Kurd and one of the brigade commanders is actually a Sunni-Turkmen. So half of the brigade commanders are Sunni and Shi'a as well.
This representative population, when we have a representative population like this, they tend to treat people fairly regardless of where they are in Iraq.
Q When you say "tend to," is that the hope that they do, or are they actually doing it? And can you cite any kind of figures for improvement?
COL. BUCHANAN: I don't know what sort of measure of -- I don't have my hands on any specific figures that would demonstrate a measure of improvement in one area or the next. But what I can tell you is that the security situation is improving, say, in the town of Samarra, where we have the 1st Commando Brigade operating in. Anecdotally over the past eight months or so, we've seen a lot more participation of the community in policing themselves. We see shop owners out on the streets selling goods, where they weren't there before.
And I got the tone of your question, I think, as to if they tend to. We have not seen any problems with sectarian-shaped violence or sectarian-driven motives within the police commando division.
Q Colonel, this is Bob Burns from AP. Do you have any specific target date by which you would complete the training mission either this year or next year, or is it entirely open ended?
COL. BUCHANAN: Thanks, Bob. It's an open-ended mission. And we are here with our Iraqi partners to help them get better and better, and it's not for me to decide, or we don't have an established target date over when we're going to be complete with the mission.
STAFF: Pam.
Q Sir, this is Pam Hess with UPI. I was out there last summer and spent a little bit of time in Tall Afar with Wolf Brigade and some of the other units that you deal with. And the shorthand that I got from the Americans on the special police commandos is they're the most effective forces in Iraq but they're also a bit heavy-handed, to put it gently. What's your take on that? And are you doing anything to address it, or is that appropriate for the threat environment you're in?
COL. BUCHANAN: The -- there's a -- let me address, are we addressing it? Well, obviously, these guys -- one of their strengths is that they're aggressive, and so what we try to do is ensure that their aggressiveness does not go over the top and is -- and that they operate in accordance with Iraqi law. We do address it. We address it intentionally through training. We address it through leadership, through our leadership, so that they can follow our example, and we address it during operations by being there with them on every operation.
There have been times where we have had to intervene to keep them from going in a wrong direction, and that might have been in a situation where we're operating in a crowded battlespace, for example, with a number of coalition or Iraqi army units. There's the potential for unintended consequences of contact if these guys don't stay within the confines of their operation. Well, they tend -- like I said, they tend to be aggressive, and they will hunt down the enemy. If -- sometimes that aggressiveness has the potential to get them into trouble -- in other words, take them across unit boundaries or things like this -- and so we have had to get involved at times like that to stop it.
But the fact is that we are addressing it, and we think that we're being effective in helping to shape their behavior.
STAFF: Jeff.
Q Hi. Jeff Schogol with Stars and Stripes. Any of the transition teams, are any of those U.S. soldiers and Marines -- do they have experience as police officers in civilian life? And if so, what departments do they work for?
COL. BUCHANAN: Thanks for the question. We do have a number of soldiers that have experience as police officers. The initial group that deployed with me are dominantly active-component soldiers, and most of those guys have -- honestly have experience just operating in the armed forces. However, we also have MPs -- military policemen -- included in that population.
Now since we first deployed over here, we've had a number of replacements and fillers. As our team strength changed from eight to 11, the armed forces sent us additional men to beef up our team strength. Most of the fillers that came in -- or a number of the fillers that came in were actually from the Reserve components, National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. A lot of them are MPs, as military policemen, but in civilian life serve in various police departments.
In addition to that, I have one international police liaison officer who serves with me on my team, and he serves as my primary adviser for law enforcement.
Q Colonel, it's Al Pessin with Voice of America. I wanted to follow up on Pam's question. Some of this over aggressiveness that you mentioned, is that manifested when they're working in populated areas doing cordon and search and other types of activities? Have you had to intervene or ratchet them back in those situations?
COL. BUCHANAN: I personally -- to answer your question, I personally have had to intervene on one occasion, and this was in Tall Afar, by the way, which was the specific case that she mentioned. We were in a -- we got in a firefight, and the commanders apprehended a -- one of the suspected insurgents. And they continued to fight with the guy after he should have been under control, so we intervened to stop that.
I would like to say something about shaping behavior versus changing values. Right now, we've done -- we've had a tremendous impact shaping behavior, and I think that we're making strides towards changing values. But the fact is most of the people in this country have learned and operate the way they do based on 35 years of experience.
I liken it to the experience of my mother. My mother's an anthropology professor, and she recently retired as an anthropology professor. She's moved all over the world. She's experienced all different cultures, and she was married to an Army colonel. She's been around.
She's also not poor. But she still washes Ziplock bags out and hangs them on the line to dry because she was raised during the depression. So this is her own -- this is her own way of dealing with her experience.
And that's somewhat what we face with all of the Iraqi security forces, but in particular the commandos. They have learned a certain way of operating in the past. Right now we're shaping behavior, we're starting to affect values, but changing values is going to take a long tine.
Q Can I follow up? Colonel, just to follow up, you said you personally intervened one time. Do you have any figures on how many times your troops have had to intervene, and any indication as to what the trend line is there?
COL. BUCHANAN: I don't have specific figures. I can tell you it's very infrequent. And the last case that I know of that we had a situation that was a commander getting over-aggressive on the ground, occurred about two months ago in Samarra. And actually, our troops did not intervene. The commando brigade commander in Samarra intervened, apprehended one of his battalion commanders who was destroying civilian property in response to some of his men being attacked; actually had the guy removed from the force and fined him to pay back the shop owners whose property he destroyed.
Q Thank you.
Q General (sic), this is Jim Mannion from Agence France Presse. As I understand it, the training is going to have to change -- right? -- as the military takes on the task of training regular police. And I'm wondering how it will change. I'm also wondering how your trainers feel about being put in that, you know, situation, which it would seem to me would be of a higher personal risk. And basically if you could jut lay out what the differences are going to be and how that's going to work.
COL. BUCHANAN: All right, I'll give it a good shot here. First of all, one thing that is different during the year of police is that we are embedding police transition teams with normal Iraqi police services throughout the country. And these are coalition advisers that perform a similar mission as myself and my men do with the national police or police commandos.
And we hope that through this partnership and embedding coalition advisers in each police department, we will increase their proficiency along the way.
Now specifically addressing the issue of the police commandos, we have a national academy that we send them to, and we are changing the curriculum of the police -- the national police forces academy to include more and more law enforcement and rule of law training. We're also bringing in mobile training teams formed of international police advisers that will serve with each unit for a period of six months -- correction, six weeks -- and take each unit through very specific training on law enforcement.
With respect to the last part of your question, how do my men feel about additional risk -- we're here to serve, and there's really -- we see there's nothing changing in the risk between how we operate now or how we will in the future.
Q It's Pam Hess again. I'm interested in what you've done about changing values. One of the things that I found when I was there and talking to Iraqis, particularly the commandos, is that they all said, "We can't wait for the Americans to go so we can really do what we need to do to win this war." I got the impression that they felt like they were being held back. Do you think you are going to be successful in changing those values? Or are they kind of going along with you all until you get out of their way and they can pursue this war? And would you tell us a little bit about their background? Were they special forces under Saddam or Fedayeen, or where did they came from?
COL. BUCHANAN: Okay, the first part of your question is how successful or what is the time associated with changing the values here, and I've got to be honest with you, I don't know. We -- what we can measure and what we can see is behavior. We think we're making great progress in the behavioral dimension.
Values, understanding what it's like to be a servant of society and in a democratically elected -- as part of a democratically elected government is something that is going to take time to learn. And I don't have an answer on when they will achieve the standard, if you will. But it is going to take time. And as I said in an earlier question, it's an open-ended mission until we achieve final success, if you will.
Regarding background, the commandos generally come from one of two sources. Most of them served in security forces of the previous regime.
The two sources are the Iraqi army's -- the old Iraqi army's special forces and the Directorate of General Security, the special operations forces, for the Ministry of Interior. And in fact the commando division commander comes from the second source. The national police force's commander comes from the first, army special forces. The two of them met when they were serving a sentence in Abu Ghraib for attempting to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and they served together, if you will, when they were stuck in a cell together for five years. And that's when they first formed a bond.
STAFF: Jeff?
Q Colonel Buchanan, Jeff Schogol with Stars and Stripes again. When your troops see Iraqi special police acting out of line, what exactly can they do to restrain the Iraqi police officers? Can they arrest them? Can they physically detain them? I mean, can they return fire, if necessary? What can they do?
COL. BUCHANAN: If they had to, the answer is yes. We are to -- and we're under orders -- and we won't hesitate to enforce the orders, if we need to -- to stop illegal acts or abuse. And so we have rules of engagement. Rules of engagement are honestly shaped to -- shaped towards enemy forces and to protect the civilians. And we could use escalation of force, if we had to, to protect all innocent life.
Q You could theoretically shoot Iraqi police officers if they're acting out of line?
COL. BUCHANAN: If that's what it took -- if that's what it took to protect innocent human life, we could.
Q Jim --
Q (Inaudible) -- sir? Has that ever happened? Do you know?
COL. BUCHANAN: Not at all.
Q It's Pam Hess again. Would you give us an update on, if you know, that Iraqi Interior Ministry jail in Baghdad that General Horst went into?
And at the time, General Dempsey told us that the U.S. military was searching intel to see if it they could come up with any other leads on other possible jails like that. Has any -- have any been found? And what's been the situation in the command that you're in?
COL. BUCHANAN: I can tell you that this one is a little bit out of my lane. I know that there is an investigation ongoing. I don't know the results of the investigation. I don't know if there's other secret prisons that have been found or what the situation of that might -- of those cases may be.
Q But nothing in your command, not with the guys that you're dealing with? No jails have been found under your --
COL. BUCHANAN: Well, we do maintain two detention facilities. They're not secret. We've been involved with them and providing oversight, advice and medical treatment. We invite Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights and Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior joint inspection teams in to check the conditions. And so it's not that we have a jail or something that we suddenly found. We have two facilities and they're in the open, and we've been providing support all along the way.
STAFF: Okay. We've got time for about one more question, and then Colonel Buchanan has some thoughts he wants to share with us after that question.
Q Colonel, it's Al Pessin again. With so many former members of the -- Saddam's security forces, do you have a problem with insurgent infiltration? And what, if any, sort of steps do you take to find those folks and get them out and prevent them from getting in?
COL. BUCHANAN: Okay. Well, that I know of, we've had two incidents in the past 10 months of AIF infiltration. The first one occurred was a new a recruit who was a -- who detonated a suicide vest when he came into the second commando brigade compound and joined in a formation of his fellow commandos. That was the first case.
The second case we actually had three members of the mechanized police that were arrested by MOI (Ministry of Interior) forces about two days after a vehicle-borne IED crashed into a mechanized brigade police checkpoint adjacent to Route Irish, and they were implicated in that they helped set up the attack, if you will.
What -- please, let me finish the answer to the question, which is the commandos actually do a very good job vetting all recruits, which is one of the reasons why we are not full strength.
We have about 8,900 out of 11,000 authorized. But they're really searching for quality rather than quantity. They recruit only through word of mouth. We don't have recruiting centers set up in a mall or something like that. And basically, every guy that comes in is known to some of his fellow comrades, which is a way that they have of cutting down potential infiltration.
Q Can you just tell us the results of that suicide attack you mentioned?
COL. BUCHANAN: It was -- I don't remember exactly -- somewhere in the neighborhood of five commandos killed and 15 wounded. But that's an estimation. It's been about six months, and honestly, I've forgotten.
STAFF: Okay, Colonel, I believe you had something you wanted to share with us.
COL. BUCHANAN: Yeah, I would like to say something. In closing, I'd like to say a few words about one of the Army values, and that's selfless service.
The commandos and the SPTTs who serve with them make tremendous sacrifices for the good of their country. And honestly, it's humbling to know these men. They serve the people and they do it voluntarily. For the Iraqis, a volunteer force is a new concept, but they're starting to learn that democracy is far more complex than simply choosing those who govern you. Democracy requires individual sacrifice for the good of society, and these men are doing just that.
In the past year alone, the 1st Commando Brigade has suffered 99 men killed in action and 140 wounded. Those who remain honor their fallen comrades by continuing to serve. They, like their coalition teammates, put the needs of their fellow men, their units and their nations above their own.
Regarding the SPTTs, many of us are on our second or third combat tour in the past four years. These men and their families have sacrificed a lot for the good of others. They've missed the births of children, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, and they've also lost friends. Why do they serve? They do it for you and they do it for me. We all owe them a great deal. It's truly an honor to serve with all of these men, both Iraqi and American.
Thank you for your time.
STAFF: Well, thank you, Colonel Buchanan. We hope to see you again in our briefing room.


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My colleague and close friend is dusting her shoes, ready to take the famous walk down the aisle. She has wanted this from the time I met her six years ago and now it seems that her prince charming is finally here.
Well, maybe I have fast forwarded the events a little bit because they just decided last week to meet each other's families and do the introductions, but I just wanted to emphasize on just how much Elizabeth or Lizzy has been looking forward to getting married.
The problem is that now that the all important part of Lizzy's life if finally here, all of a sudden she seems unsure and quite terrified of the whole thing.
So, naturally the scientist within me had to be all up other people's business and prod until this "unnatural" behaviour was explained.
Here is my deduction - Lizzy loves to make an impression and is quite bothered by the possibility that her soon to be in-laws might not like her as much as she would like them to.
When Lizzy says "her soon to be in-laws", I soon gather that she specifically means her potential mother in law. At this point I am already looking around for the fire exit from this conversation but I am in too deep and she won't stop, but I dived right into it and I have to listen as she goes on and on about her insecurities and "what ifs".
We have heard all the arguments; that it is not your mother that is getting married and so she should not get a say on who or how your bride should be, that a mother has to feel some resentment towards the woman whom she's going to have to share the once undivided love she got from her son with, that there are no nice mother-in-laws and many more.
The question that lingers is, how does a man live with and love two women who do not see eye to eye? Should your potential wife be subject to approval by your mother and if so, what are the acceptable and unacceptable aspects that should be under review?
Should a guy give up a girl he had plans of marrying just to avoid being caught up in the middle at family functions or should he marry the woman he loves and expect his mother to respect his choice?
Lizzy's boyfriend is a mama's boy. I am not exactly sure what that means but I know that I would not like my girlfriend to put that label on me, but that's what terrifies Lizzy the most.
"He talks about his mother half of the time. I don't mind it, but now that I will be meeting her soon, I can't help but wonder what is going to happen if she does not approve of me, if she's having a bad day or maybe has had an altercation with an Elizabeth and does not like Elizabeths," says Lizzy.
So as Lizzy thinks about what dress she is going to wear, if she should have make-up on or not and things she should talk or not about, I set out to get some experiences from guys that have gone face to face with "The Mother- in-law" to get some intel for my friend Lizzy.
Respect for decisions:
Janet loves her mother-in-law! I thought I'd start with this, at least to give Lizzy some hope. Janet says that her mother in law is thoughtful, loving and does not meddle in her marriage.
She respects her decisions and always asks for her opinion before giving advice to the son. Sneer all you want ladies but yes, there is a good mother-in-law out there!
"It's all about respect," explains Janet. "I try not to take her son away from her. She was the first woman in his life and it's possible that she will always be the most important. I can live with that, she is his mother; nothing comes close to a person's love for his mother. It does not mean he loves me any less, but he also needs to know situations when his mother comes first and when it is all between him and me. As long as everyone knows their place, everything else will take care of itself."
Now truly inspired by Janet's story, I talked to Martha, set to blow away the cloud of gloom set above our beloved mothers by our lovely wives.
Her description of her mother in law however, makes Hitler sound like a little neighborhood bully that soon goes away. Not exactly what I wanted to hear but we are not here to judge, or are we?
Not visits but stays:
"I love my husband, but his inability to stand up to his mother makes me nauseous! I wouldn't entirely blame him though; the woman is nothing short of a temptation. God must consider me a really strong person to think I can handle her. Her's are never visits, but rather stays, and when she comes around, I will not hear the end of it; about how his poor boy has grown thin, how my children are not being brought up right, the list is endless. I don't know how she can criticise my parenting so much, I am living with one of her children and I can pin point quite a number of areas she could have done better!" says Martha.
Going by Martha's story, I think there must be a grain of truth in all those anti-marriage jokes that men crack. Being caught between the woman who raised you and the woman you have to spend the rest of your life with; your partner in crime and life, is no laughing matter, but according to my friend Kevin, you can pry yourself from in between the rock and hard place using diplomacy.
According to Kevin; a junior associate in a Nairobi law firm (who is not married), it is a man's fault if there is animosity between his mother and the wife.
He feels that a man should be able to stand up to both the women in his life and tell them when they are wrong and when they have crossed a boundary.
"It is our mothers who constantly cross these lines by wanting to run their sons' marriages. This is wrong and the man should stand up for his wife and tell his mother to keep off. The wives however also make some very unreasonable demands, like not allowing their husbands to spend on the mother or give her money. Whichever the case, the guy should be able to stand up for what he knows is right and tell whoever is wrong that things will be done a certain way. It is not disrespectful to your mother, telling her that the woman you married was your choice and the best one for that matter. She should respect her and address her not as an intruder in your family but a part of it," Kevin explains.
First impression:
Meeting each other's parents for the first time is indeed a big issue because first impressions are usually the lasting ones but emphasis should be on the relationship after that.
If the relationship between your spouse and your mother is a sour one, you will most definitely be caught in the crossfire. My advice; you do not have to try to please everybody.
Focus on making your spouse your first priority, even if it upsets your mum. If your mum has healthy behavior, she will gracefully step aside and encourage you to make your spouse a top priority.
She will value your needs as a couple and be respectful towards your spouse. If, however, your mum has destructive behaviour, she will try to manipulate you with guilt to keep you in the role of an obedient child instead of allowing you to be a loyal spouse.
She will feel entitled to call or visit whenever she wants, and will get offended whenever you try to draw healthy boundaries.
So, instead of concentrating on being a good daughter-in-law, which is not a bad thing- put more effort in being a good wife and regardless of what kind of mother-in-law you have, you will be okay because your husband will always have your back, it is only fair that he does and everything else will fall in its rightful place.


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