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Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages By Jonathan Elukin (Princeton University Press, 193 pp., $24.95) ALL HISTORIES have their sorrows,but those of Jewish history are more studied than most. The chronicles of Israel's sufferings—the groaning under Pharaoh in Exodus, the Lamentations over lost Jerusalem, Isaiah's consolations for her captivity—have helped the countless faithful of numerous religions explain God's puzzling tendency to afflict his followers on earth.
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War By Graham Robb (W.W. Norton, 455 pp., $27.95) FOR A BOOK OF "historical geography,"The Discovery of France has received remarkable attention and acclaim: long and appreciative reviews in British and American newspapers, the title of "notable book of the year" from The New York Times, rapturous applause in The New York Review of Books, and so forth. The reason is not hard to see. Graham Robb is an engaging and gifted writer, known for his enjoyable and instructive biographies of Hugo and Rimbaud.
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January 30, 2008
Dear Mrs Masters, as you probably know, almost half our Fifth Grade Class is Jewish--not a majority but lots, without even counting our teacher Miss Husband, who's getting married (next June) to a gentile husband! --that has to change more than her name, doesn't it? Well, your office records must show who's really Jewish and who's not, and for some of us who just happen to be Jewish, those records might be the only sure indication of our race or faith or whatever makes us Jews, and therefore different from the other kids (no one really knows). But this week our Rabbi told us this wei
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January 30, 2008
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography By Pierre Brocheux Translated by Claire Duiker (Cambridge University Press, 288 pp., $35) I. In Vietnam, the United States lost the war but is now well on the way to winning the peace. Could that be Vietnam's real lesson for the American involvement in Iraq? A gateway to both northeast Asia and southeast Asia, Vietnam is a hinge country with enormous strategic significance. Much of the credit for America's positioning to win the peace in Vietnam belongs to communist China.
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January 30, 2008
David Golder, The Ball Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair By Irène Némirovsky Translated by Sandra Smith (Everyman's Library, 340 pp., $25) Fire in the Blood By Irène Némirovsky Translated by Sandra Smith (Alfred A. Knopf, 138 pp., $22) Irène Némirovsky: Her Life and Works By Jonathan Weiss (Stanford University Press, 195 pp., $24.95) I. The writer: a Jew who had fled to the French countryside seeking refuge from occupied Paris, eventually deported to Auschwitz, where she would die in a typhus epidemic soon after her arrival.
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World By Alan Greenspan (Penguin Press, 531 pp., $35) Alan Greenspan's book--part autobiography, part narrative of his eighteen years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, and part oracular survey of various Big Questions--has been on the New York Times best-seller list for many weeks as I write. But it has evoked only minor response, in spite of its author's fame and importance. The substance is complex, Greenspan is not exactly terse, and the prose plods.
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 624 pp., $30) 'I hate 'classical music,'" cries one of its most influential proponents, Alex Ross, in an autobiographical essay, "Listen to This," lodged appropriately in The New Yorker under "Onward and Upward With the Arts": not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme- park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today.
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New disasters join us to the old chaos. The hardware of pain. The torturer's chain. Flashlight, the dog. There are no cloisters left to pray for us. Astrologers help out the little they can. By their customary indirection: Luna is with Antares. A violent fixed star, next to the malefics. Mars is in Aries in his eighth house. And his Midheaven progresses to the grill's sizzle. Testicular electrodes. The sun is a merciless engine, rubbing its hands. By Robert Bense
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War and PeaceBy Leo TolstoyTranslated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky(Alfred A. Knopf, 1,296 pp., $37)War and Peace: Original VersionBy Leo TolstoyTranslated by Andrew Bromfield(Ecco, 885 pp., $34.95) I.In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway recalled sitting at the Café Lilas with the poet Evan Shipman and discussing the Constance Garnett translation of War and Peace. "They say it can be improved on.... I'm sure it can although I don't know Russian," Shipman said. "But we both know translations.


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WCBS-TV New York news anchor Chris Wragge returns to the Daytime Emmy Award-nominated talk show, CBS's THE TALK, as a guest co-host today, June 19 (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT/CT), joining hosts Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood at the table. This will be Wragge's second appearance on THE TALK.
Throughout the week, news anchors from five CBS Owned Stations around the country will be in Los Angeles to serve as guest co-hosts.
During the week of June 16, The Talk will feature the following guest co-hosts:
- Monday, June 16: Megan Glaros, Meteorologist, WBBM-TV, Chicago
- Tuesday, June 17: Lisa Hughes, News Anchor, WBZ-TV, Boston
- Wednesday, June 18: Karen Borta, News Anchor, KTVT-TV, Dallas
- Thursday, June 19: Chris Wragge, News Anchor, WCBS-TV, New York
- Friday, June 20: Pat Harvey, News Anchor, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles
Chris Wragge co-anchors CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon with Mary Calvi.
He rejoined the station in September 2011 after serving as co-anchor of CBS News' "The Early Show." Previously, Wragge served as co-anchor of the station's weeknight 5 and 11 p.m.
newscasts, co-anchor of the Saturday edition of "The Early Show" and as a frequent substitute co-anchor of the weekday edition of "The Early Show."
Wragge first joined WCBS-TV in 2004 as the station's 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. sports anchor.
In November 2006, he made the transition to news anchor and reported on major events, such as the 2008 presidential election, the "Miracle on the Hudson" landing of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to New York and the Brooklyn tornado.
Also, Wragge covered the Scandal that led to the resignation of Governor Eliot Spitzer, the East Side crane collapse, the national recession and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
Wragge is the recipient of 18 Emmy Awards, including three wins in the Best News Anchor category. In addition, he and his CBS News colleagues won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession."
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Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
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From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the cold war ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.
Whether in Egypt or the United States, young rebels are reacting to a single stunning worldwide development: the extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands thanks to neoliberal policies of deregulation and union-busting. They have taken to the streets, parks, plazas and squares to protest against the resulting corruption, the way politicians can be bought and sold, and the impunity of the white-collar criminals who have run riot in societies everywhere. They are objecting to high rates of unemployment, reduced social services, blighted futuresand, above all, the substitution of the market for all other values as the matrix of human ethics and life.
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In the "glorious thirty years" after World War II, North America and Western Europe achieved remarkable rates of economic growth and relatively low levels of inequality for capitalist societies, while instituting a broad range of benefits for workers, students and retirees. From roughly 1980 on, however, the neoliberal movement, rooted in the laissez-faire economic theories of Milton Friedman, launched what became a full-scale assault on workers' power and an attempt, often remarkably successful, to eviscerate the social welfare state.
Neoliberals chanted the mantra that everyone would benefit if the public sector were privatized, businesses deregulated and market mechanisms allowed to distribute wealth. But as economist David Harvey argues, from the beginning it was a doctrine that primarily benefited the wealthy, its adoption allowing the top 1 percent in any neoliberal society to capture a disproportionate share of whatever wealth was generated.
In the global South, countries that gained their independence from European colonialism after World War II tended to create large public sectors as part of the process of industrialization. Often, living standards improved as a result, but by the 1970s, such developing economies were generally experiencing a leveling-off of growth. This happened just as neoliberalism became ascendant in Washington, Paris and London as well as in Bretton Woods institutions like the International Monetary Fund. This "Washington consensus" meant that the urge to impose privatization on stagnating, nepotistic postcolonial states would become the order of the day.
Egypt and Tunisia, to take two countries in the spotlight for sparking the Arab Spring, were successfully pressured in the 1990s to privatize their relatively large public sectors. Moving public resources into the private sector created an almost endless range of opportunities for staggering levels of corruption on the part of the ruling families of autocrats Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis and Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. International banks, central banks and emerging local private banks aided and abetted their agenda.
It was not surprising then that one of the first targets of Tunisian crowds in the course of the revolution they made last January was the Zitouna bank, a branch of which they torched. Its owner? Sakher El Materi, a son-in-law of President Ben Ali and the notorious owner of Pasha, the well-fed pet tiger that prowled the grounds of one of his sumptuous mansions. Not even the way his outfit sought legitimacy by practicing "Islamic banking" could forestall popular rage. A 2006 State Department cable released by WikiLeaks observed, "One local financial expert blames the [Ben Ali] Family for chronic banking sector woes due to the great percentage of non-performing loans issued through crony connections, and has essentially paralyzed banking authorities from genuine recovery efforts." That is, the banks were used by the regime to give away money to his cronies, with no expectation of repayment.
Tunisian activists similarly directed their ire at foreign banks and lenders to which their country owes $14.4 billion. Tunisians are still railing and rallying against the repayment of all that money, some of which they believe was borrowed profligately by the corrupt former regime and then squandered quite privately.
Tunisians had their own 1 percent, a thin commercial elite, half of whom were related to or closely connected to President Ben Ali. As a group, they were accused by young activists of mafia-like, predatory practices, such as demanding pay-offs from legitimate businesses, and discouraging foreign investment by tying it to a stupendous system of bribes. The closed, top-heavy character of the Tunisian economic system was blamed for the bottom-heavy waves of suffering that followed: cost of living increases that hit people on fixed incomes or those like students and peddlers in the marginal economy especially hard.
It was no happenstance that the young man who immolated himself and so sparked the Tunisian rebellion was a hard-pressed vegetable peddler. It's easy now to overlook what clearly ties the beginning of the Arab Spring to the European Summer and the present American Fall: the point of the Tunisian revolution was not just to gain political rights, but to sweep away that 1 percent, popularly imagined as a sort of dam against economic opportunity.
Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Rothschild Avenue
The success of the Tunisian revolution in removing the octopus-like Ben Ali plutocracy inspired the dramatic events in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and even Israel that are redrawing the political map of the Middle East. But the 2011 youth protest movement was hardly contained in the Middle East. Estonian-Canadian activist Kalle Lasn and his anti-consumerist colleagues at the Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation were inspired by the success of the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square in deposing dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Their organization specializes in combatting advertising culture through spoofs and pranks. It was Adbusters magazine that sent out the call on Twitter in the summer of 2011 for a rally at Wall Street on September 17, with the now-famous hash tag #OccupyWallStreet. A thousand protesters gathered on the designated date, commemorating the 2008 economic meltdown that had thrown millions of Americans out of their jobs and their homes. Some camped out in nearby Zuccotti Park, another unexpected global spark for protest.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has now spread throughout the United States, sometimes in the face of serious acts of repression, as in Oakland, California. It has followed in the spirit of the Arab and European movements in demanding an end to special privileges for the richest 1 percent, including their ability to more or less buy the US government for purposes of their choosing. What is often forgotten is that the Ben Alis, Mubaraks and Qaddafis were not simply authoritarian tyrants. They were the 1 percent, and the guardians of the 1 percent, in their own societies—and loathed for exactly that.
Last April, around the time that Lasn began imagining Wall Street protests, progressive activists in Israel started planning their own movement. In July, sales clerk and aspiring filmmaker Daphne Leef found herself unable to cover a sudden rent increase on her Tel Aviv apartment. So she started a protest Facebook page similar to the ones that fueled the Arab Spring and moved into a tent on the posh Rothschild Avenue where she was soon joined by hundreds of other protesting Israelis. Week by week, the demonstrations grew, spreading to cities throughout the country and culminating on September 3 in a massive rally, the largest in Israel's history. Some 300,000 protesters came out in Tel Aviv, 50,000 in Jerusalem and 40,000 in Haifa. Their demands included not just lower housing costs but a rollback of neoliberal policies; less regressive taxes and more progressive, direct taxation; a halt to the privatization of the economy; and the funding of a system of inexpensive education and child care.
Many on the left in Israel are also deeply troubled by the political and economic power of right-wing settlers on the West Bank, but most decline to bring the Palestinian issue into the movement's demands for fear of losing support among the middle class. For the same reason, the way the Israeli movement was inspired by Tahrir Square and the Egyptian revolution has been downplayed, although "Walk like an Egyptian" signs—a reference both to the Cairo demonstrations and the 1986 Bangles hit song—have been spotted on Rothschild Avenue.
Most of the Israeli activists in the coastal cities know that they are victims of the same neoliberal order that displaces the Palestinians, punishes them, and keeps them stateless. Indeed, the Palestinians, altogether lacking a state but at the complete mercy of various forms of international capital controlled by elites elsewhere, are the ultimate victims of the neoliberal order. But in order to avoid a split in the Israeli protest movement, a quiet agreement was reached to focus on economic discontents and so avoid the divisive issue of the much-despised West Bank settlements.
There has been little reporting in the Western press about a key source of Israeli unease, which was palpable to me when I visited the country in May. Even then, before the local protests had fully hit their stride, Israelis I met were complaining about the rise to power of an Israeli 1 percent. There are now sixteen billionaires in the country, who control $45 billion in assets, and the current crop of 10,153 millionaires is 20 percent percent larger than it was in the previous fiscal year. In terms of its distribution of wealth, Israel is now among the most unequal of the countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Since the late 1980s, the average household income of families in the bottom fifth of the population has been declining at an annual rate of 1.1 percent. Over the same period, the average household income of families among the richest 20 percent went up at an annual rate of 2.4 percent.
While neoliberalism has produced more unequal societies throughout the world, nowhere else has the income of the poor declined quite so strikingly. The concentration of wealth in a few hands profoundly contradicts the founding principles of Israel's Labor Zionism, and results from decades of right-wing Likud policies punishing the poor and middle classes and shifting wealth to the top of society.


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Police are investigating a home invasion in Munhall, where up to four people broke into an elderly couple's home.
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A man accused in the fatal shooting of his own mother last year has been ordered to stand trial.
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A police chase ended with the driver running away from a stolen car in Munhall.
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An 8-year-old boy – described as both autistic and non-verbal – was found safe this afternoon.
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By Daniel firstname.lastname@example.com After a key witness changed his testimony, when a jury was seated, and then changed it again on the witness stand, the murder trial of Laron Deale Davis was declared a mistrial. Davis, a 23-year-old from Albany, was charged with shooting 32-year-old Corvette Gardener to death with a .45-caliber pistol after she ended their relationship. Clayton County police and prosecutors said Davis shot her four or five times, in front of her Jonesboro home, went inside, reloaded, and returned to shoot her one more time. Defense Attorney Bruce Harvey said the testimony showed that Gardener was holding a gun when she was shot, and argued that Davis had killed her in self defense. A .32-caliber pistol -- unloaded and apparently inoperable -- was found on the ground next to Gardener, when she was shot in February 2006. Davis' romantic rival, Kenny Robertson, told Assistant District Attorney Anece Baxter White that he had given the gun to Gardener immediately before she was killed. White said that was new information, something he hadn't said to any of the police or prosecution investigators. She told the judge that Robertson was not a cooperative witness. He had been hard to get in touch with and had insisted the district attorney's office drive him to court, if they wanted him there for the trial. Harvey said the new information meant Gardener was carrying a gun when she was shot, a fact that bolstered the 23-year-old's self defense argument. The defense attorney also interviewed Robertson, the day the trial began, and served him with a subpoena, making the man a witness for the defense. The trial moved forward on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the defense arguing the homicide was justified because Davis arguably was in fear for his life, when he saw Gardener with a gun. The prosecution argued the presence of the pistol didn't change anything, since Davis went inside the house, reloaded the gun, and came back out to shoot Gardener again, which isn't an act of self defense. On Wednesday, however, Robertson was placed on the witness stand. He swore to tell the truth and then denied what he had told the two attorneys the day before. "He came back," District Attorney Jewel Scott explained, "and said, 'No, I didn't say that.'" Clayton County Superior Judge Deborah Benefield ruled a mistrial, and the attorneys went back into negotiations. On Friday, Davis pled guilty to "voluntary manslaughter." According to Georgia law, "voluntary manslaughter" is murder committed in a "sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation." Davis was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to court documents. He will be required to serve 90 percent of the sentence before he is eligible for parole, Scott said. "We could have retried it," she said, "but the family went with that."
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Re: Arras to Lille Airport shuttle
You could take the train from Arras to Lille...journey time on the direct regional train to Lille Flandres is from 39 minutes, one-way fare from 10.90 euro. Times, details and fares:
There is an airport shuttle bus from near Lille Flandres station:
I'm not sure how much a taxi would cost ...perhaps you could contact your hotel (if you are staying in a hotel!) and ask them what is available? Distance is around 40km. A taxi (or taxis, as there are 5 of you with bags) won't be the cheapest option but they will be the least hassle.
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you can go by train from arras to Lille, and form pl de l'europe take the bus to the airport. When in the area I use the car, as have family outside lille. But public transport is very easy,and you got the site of train and airport from leics above to tell you time and rates.
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oh and both train station at lille and arras are in city center so easy connections once get tothem,no need for a taxi.
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Knowledge and self-care practices regarding diabetes among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study
Author affiliations
1 Department of Community Nutrition, Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
2 Department of Epidemiology, Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
3 Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
4 Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citation and License
BMC Public Health 2012, 12:1112 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-1112Published: 26 December 2012
Levels of knowledge about diabetes mellitus (DM) among newly diagnosed diabetics in Bangladesh are unknown. This study assessed the relationship between knowledge and practices among newly diagnosed type 2 DM patients.
Newly diagnosed adults with type 2 diabetes (N = 508) were selected from 19 healthcare centers. Patients' knowledge and self-care practices were assessed via interviewer-administered questionnaires using a cross-sectional design. Knowledge questions were divided into basic and technical sections. Knowledge scores were categorized as poor (<mean – 1 SD), average (mean ± 1 SD), good (>mean + 1 SD). Chi square testing and multivariate logistic regression were conducted to examine the relationship between diabetes-related knowledge and self-care practices.
Approximately 16%, 66%, and 18% of respondents had good, average, and poor (GAP) basic knowledge respectively and 10%, 78%, and 12% of respondents had GAP technical knowledge, about DM. About 90% of respondents from both basic and technical GAP did not test their blood glucose regularly; a significant relationship existed between basic knowledge and glucose monitoring. Technical knowledge and foot care were significantly related, though 81% with good technical knowledge and about 70% from average and poor groups did not take care of their feet. Approximately 85%, 71%, and 52% of the GAP technical knowledge groups, consumed betel nuts; a significant relationship existed between technical knowledge and consumption of betel nuts. Around 88%, 92%, and 98% of GAP technical knowledge groups failed to follow dietary advice from a diabetes educator. About 26%, 42%, and 51% of GAP basic and technical sometimes ate meals at a fixed time (p < 0.05). Approximately one-third of respondents in each basic knowledge group and 29%, 32%, and 32% of GAP technical knowledge groups partially followed rules for measuring food before eating. Total basic knowledge (TBK) and business profession were significant independent predictors of good practice. OR for TBK: 1.28 (95% CI: 1.03 to 1.60); OR for business profession 9.05 (95% CI: 1.17 to 70.09).
Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics had similar levels of basic and technical knowledge of DM. Health education and motivation should create positive changes in diabetes-control-related self-care practices.


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This white under spray arm bearing ring is designed with the split. This is not a defective or damaged item.
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This part fixes the following symptoms:
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Level of DifficultyReally easy
Time to do repair:15 - 30 mins
ToolsNutdriver, Screw drivers
CustomerHoward from Catlett VA
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My dishwasher started leaking at the door. I checked the level, door seal, fill float, etc. Nothing worked. Another reviewer of these parts said to replace the Seal, Lower Sprayarm, the Wash Arm Bearing Ring, and the wash arm. I replaced the seal and the bearing, not the washer arm, as my spray had little to no wear. This fixed the problem! If you dishwasher leaks at the door, it is possible these parts are worn and replacing them wil fix the leak. Thanks to the other reviewer I now have no leaks! Buy a spare nut because they break very easy if overtorqued!
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I removed the bottom spray arm and replaced the worn part. Now the arm turned freely and was performing as it was designed to do. I appreciate parts select for having the part available since the manufacturer no longer supported the model.
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ToolsScrew drivers
CustomerDavid from Deridder LA
AIR INLET GASKET Had to pull dishwaher out, using instructions sent with part, turn it 1/4 turn counter clockwise, tap with screwdriver and hammer and it came right off. Put the new one on. It was kinda hard to get it to turn the last little bit, I had to use a screw driver and hammer to make it twist that last little bit.
CustomerJonathan from Canton GA
Uncscrewed the lower washer arm retaining nut and replaced it along wint the 2 washers. Cleans like new.Unscrewed the front panal from behind. Removed the inside vent covering. Unscrewed the handle screws and removed the handle. Replaced the handle and screws but not before gouging the back of my hand ( I had a needle and thread) and then reattached the panal and vent cavering. The blow-up diagrams you all have are a great reference. Thanks
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First I removed the plastic bolt that holds the wash arm in place This exposed the upper ring that was worn out . I then lifted the arm off which exposed the larger ring. I replaced that ring, and then I put the arm back on and replaced the upper ring. I put the plastic bolt back in place and the repair was complete.-- Really Easy plus the dishwasher gets the dishes clean now
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I had a broken spray arm on the dishwasher and though i would have to spend $450-$500 on a new dish washer, i ordered parts from part select(even though i was not 100% sure if it will work), the parts were shipped super fast and arrived in 2 days, i was able to replace the broken part and fix the lower spray arm. Part select saved me a lot of money.
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ToolsSocket set
Customerrobert from cold spring harbor NY
I guess some food got caught in the water level sense float and caused it to mal function.In the diagnosis process, I removed the arm to clean out any debree in the strainer ( found broken glass). I also found that the two rings mentioned above were worn. I replaced them and all is well.Thank you for fast response with the replacement parts.
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I just had to unscrew the old nut and screw the new one and install the new wash arm bearing ring.
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required NO tools, just unscrew the large thumb screw, and replace the washer arm bearing! problem solved like that! maybe a 5 min job. part was a perfect match.
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Removed spray bar by removing the plastic finger thumb screw and replace as shown by you web page. Very simple.
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First I removed the nut holding down the lower washarm in place. I then lifted up the lower washarm where it's held in place by the nut. I replaced the two new parts: The lower sprayarm seal that seats underneath the lower washarm and the washarm bearing ring that seats on the top of the lower washarm just underneath the nut. A schematic parts list diagram can be downloaded on the KitchenAid website. The wobbling motion of the lower washarm still seems to have the same amount of play as it had before I replaced the two parts. The lower washarm itself is in fine shape including the nut. I even attempted several other different ways to install the seal and bearing ring, yet the washarm still wobbles when I manually spin it. I called KitchenAid to find out if wobbling of the lower washarm was normal. Unfortunately, the person I spoke to didn't seem to me to knowledgable enough in this area.
CustomerBarry from Woodstock CT
Used nut driver to remove old spray arm assembly on top rack. Reinstalled the new assembly, clamped the holding assembly onto the rack, tightened the holding assembly--that's it.
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I ordered the parts from parts select and was pleasantly suprised at the diagnostic diagrams, the home install video, and the quality and pricing of the parts. I had ordered just the top bearing a few years ago and did not realized the bottom seal was bad also. I found the seal pushed down around the pump housing which caused excessive ware on the pump housing top and the top of the wash arm because the gap in the lower seal expanded over 1/4 inch causing the wear on the top of the wash are. This job is normally very easy. Unscrew the thumb screw on top, remove old bearing, pull off the wash arm, remove old seal. Then just put new seal on top of pump (check for any burrs and remove with a fine grit emory sand paper) put on the wash arm, insert top bearing and tighten finger nut tight. I had excessive wear (due to age of unit and lower seal not in proper position), so I had to construct a spacer to take up some of the slack. I could not find a nylon washer(and you need nylon) in the stores ready made and did not want rubber or metal washers due to the adverse effects these would have on the new bearing. I improvised. I purchased a pack of 10 nylon wall anchor washers from Menards (after they said no nylon washers were available:) I used 2 inch O.D. washers with 1/4 inch I.D. which was a perfect center hole and used a drill to enlarge center from 1/4 inch to 1 inch I.D. (to fit around the finger nut screw stem), and removed all burrs. Unscrewed top finger nut and placed under nut on top of seal and the 1/8 inch width took up the slack. Problem solved.
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Unscrewed wing nut by hand and remover wash arm. Seals slipped in with out force.
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The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir
Penguin Group USA, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 314 pages
"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."—PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week]
Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents "Better Books for a Better World"—the Silver Award in the category of Parenting /Family.
When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poet and stay-at-home dad, tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance --- from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down's diagnostic error of "Mongolian idiocy." Against this backdrop, Laura takes her place in the Estreich family as a unique child, quirky and real, loved for everything ordinary and extraordinary about her.
"In this wise and moving memoir, George Estreich tells the story of his family as his younger daughter is diagnosed with Down syndrome and they are thrust into an unfamiliar world. Estreich writes with a poet's eye and gift of language, weaving this personal journey into the larger history of his family, exploring the deep and often hidden connections between the past and the present. Engaging and unsentimental, The Shape of the Eye taught me a great deal. It is a story I found myself thinking about long after I'd finished the final pages." —Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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"The Shape of the EyeĀis a memoir of a father's love for his daughter, his struggle to understand her disability, and his journey toward embracing her power and depth.Ā Estreich is raw and honest and draws us each into a new view of what it means to be 'human' and what it means to be 'different.'Ā This book is beautifully written, poetically insightful, and personally transformative. To read it is to rethink everything and to be happy because of the journey." —Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics
"The Shape of the Eye personalizes Down syndrome, bringing a condition abstracted in the medical literature into the full dimensionality of one family's life. It's brave of George Estreich to make what has befallen his family so public, trusting of him to let an unknown audience second-guess the family's choices. Because he's opened his home and heart in this memoir, we are privileged to witness in chaotic, heart-wrenching, joyous detail what it means to have and to love a child with Down syndrome." —Marcia Childress, Associate Professor of Medical Education (Medical Humanities), University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Gave me insight into the life of a Down child's parent. He writes with insight and it helped me learn about the challenges facing a family with a child with special needs. I hope he will write another book as a sequel as his daughter grows up. Read full review
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Nikon D800, 24-70mm, 50mm 1.4, 85mm, 28mm carrying Mum to turtles. .
This is your child and you are the one that is supposed to support it, not everyone else around you. Be grateful for what you got. Diapers are necessary and not something to take for granted. Sure we all would "like" to get things we need, but how can you honestly have been depending on that? SMH
Kristen-24 Married to Nicholas 7/7/12 <3
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Mama to Bailee (14), Mariah (12) & Gabby (2)
Godmommy to H.S.W
embrace punctuation.
and humility.
season of thanksgiving, and all that....
After 7 years.Charlie is here! Born 11/24; 6#14oz, smells like happy dreams and cupcakes. I apparently make PERFECT little babies.
if money is tight don't bother with a bathtub. Just laying the baby down on a towel and soaping up and rinsing with a wash cloth is so much easier. Plus, you can always get in your tub with baby and wash them that way. I personally used the baby tub twice. Diaper bags aren't entirely necessary. Any big bag with a few pockets will do, so if you have that just use it. Buy stroller used at a yard sale or consignment shop because everyone is always trying to get rid of them.
Things will get better. Sorry you are dealing with stress during pregnancy. Will pray for you and the situation to improve.
Umm, well i thought you knew that YOU are supposed to get all the shit for your baby... NOT the baby shower guests.
A baby shower is to CELEBRATE the baby. Not to buy you presents.
Btw.... they didn't have to get you jack shit so I guess you should be happy for what you did get.
Kamryn Bailey (1/12/05), Thomas Michael (10/06/07), Lucas Raymond (11/26/12) and a New Squish on the Way! Due 8/12
Married to my soulmate Michael 7/16/11
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Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffin Top Cookies
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Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffin Top Cookies
These Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are adapted from LilMissCakes as part of our blog swap link up. I found the one semi healthy recipe on her baking blog filled with gorgeously decorated cakes and here it is.
- Prep Time : 15 min
- Cook Time : 12 min
- Ready Time : 27 min
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) margarine, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup mashed overripe bananas (about 2-3 bananas)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, mix the margarine, sugar, and banana until combined.
- Add in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Once combined, add in the dry ingredients; flour, oats, flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix in chocolate chips.
- Using a cookie scoop, drop cookies onto lined cookie sheets, making sure they are about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are light brown. Cool.
Make sure to check out LilMissCakes for gorgeous cakes and desserts.
Servings Per Recipe: 3 dozen
Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 120
- Total Fat: 6g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Total Carbs: 16g
- Dietary Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
About Tamar Genger MA, RD
14 Responses to Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffin Top Cookies
I believe that one could replace the marjarine with canola oil for a much healthier version of this cookie.
Yumm these look delic!! I think I am going to make them for my family for shabbos@!
can i use splenda instead of sugar? if i can is it equal measurements?
I made this with canola oil and they came out great. I also used light brown sugar in place of the white to give it a bit more of a chocolate chip cookie taste. The batter came together very easily without a mixer. The only issue I had was that they did not stay crispy after they cooled and where put into a container. They still tasted good, but fresh out of the oven they were more cookie-like and the texture later became more like that of a muffin.
I am an absolute oatmeal fanatic! This recipe is a fun twist and I'm excited to give it a try.
How many calories does every cookie has?
Great recipe!!!
Instead of margarine I used 1/2 peanut butter and they came out great.


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International House of Prayer & Mike Bickle's people start distancing themselves from the Deaton murder & sexual abuse - http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26981/international-house-of-prayer-tyler-deaton?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeedThis is one of the thought patterns in … [Read more...]


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One of the more interesting developments for virtualization in the data center involves how we embrace layer 2. One of our more popular segments from episode 69 (Data Center Interconnect Made Simple) featured the technical stylings of Ben Basler walking us through Overlay Transport Virtualization.
Overlay Transport Virtualization – Video Podcast
Virtualization and Cisco Unified Communications
Cisco Data Center – Meet Cisco UC & Collaboration…you two will be working together a lot more now…
Inevitable really – I think we are going to continue to see a lot more of Cisco's software running on top of our data center innovation…it stands to reason of course, we want you to buy it…so why would we not use it? That's the cynical answer – the reality is that makes more sense than you may realize.
Simple headlines conveniently overlook the details…but that is where we come in! This latest episode of TechWiseTV is full of geeky goodness and you have arrived at the shownotes. Details, links and all the specifics are below the fold –
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This was a really fun show to do. We certainly hope that comes across in the video…but for the first time ever, we wanted to capture TWO entire shows while at the conference. This Data Center launch is just the first one. First and foremost…depending on how you arrived at our little web real-estate here…have you seen the show? Register now and watch this episode right now so these notes will make more sense!
Cisco FabricPath was the big topic on this one…but there was so much more to talk about as Big Data Center Announcements were featured throughout the week – as usual, we wanted to bring you the details!
Check out the Preview clip here to whet your appetite..but read on below for more of the detailed notes.
Understanding Control Plane Policing
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The man authorities believe is responsible for vandalizing the Swan Pond Baptist Church cemetery was indicted by the Roane County grand jury last week.
Kevin Delaney Limburg, 1812 James Ferry Road, Kingston, is charged with theft of property from $10,000 to $60,000 and vandalism from $1,000 to $10,000.
Limburg was arrested on March 17 for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, manufacture, delivery, sale or possession of a schedule VI drug and evading arrest. He was the prime suspect in the cemetery vandalism, but he wasn't charged at the time.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., got a big laugh back in April when he channeled the Beach Boys and sang a few monotonic bars of "Bomb Iran." But no one in the presidential field or the rest of the political universe will be laughing if the Bush administration starts humming the same tune.
As violence in the Middle East dominates the news, Iran looms as the foreign-policy challenge that's most likely to subsume the remainder of the Bush administration -- and disrupt the rhythms of the 2008 campaign. The scariest story from the weekend: Helene Cooper and David Sanger reported in Saturday's New York Times that using military force to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is a very real option at high levels of the Bush administration. The White House's Cheney wing (which doesn't always win such arguments, but doesn't always lose, either) is "pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities," they write.
Some Republicans candidates appear to view a potential crisis with Iran as an opportunity to show off their tough-guy credentials -- how else to explain their rush toward inflammatory rhetoric at the early debates? But it's impossible to imagine a situation where the US stance toward Iran isn't overshadowed by the various missteps in Iraq. And yesterday's comments by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker made clear that a troop drawdown in Iraq is unlikely by September -- the deadline many Republicans have in their minds for reassessing their support for the Iraq war.
This has Democrats rightly optimistic about a changing political dynamic on Capitol Hill, putting new pressure on the president at the very moment he'll most need a united party. "You're going to see people change -- Republicans," Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told George Stephanopoulos yesterday on ABC's "This Week." "There continues to be denial about the progress that is not being made."
None of the Democratic candidates is perfectly positioned to emerge as a strong leader that party will coalesce around during a foreign-policy crisis. But in this context, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's long view -- exuding toughness while passing up (some) political shots at Bush -- looks smart. And voters are responding to something she's doing: The new USA Today/Gallup Poll has Clinton, D-N.Y., in solid control of the race with a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., after an outlier poll had the race essentially tied. "She has a consistently strong lead that is holding up over time," gloats Clinton strategist Mark Penn.
On the Republican side, the short-term factor that's most likely to shake up the race sounds more like a song made famous by Billy Idol: "Money money." Coming off a disappointing first quarter, it's crunch time for the McCain campaign -- and things are not looking good. The New York Times' David Kirkpatrick and Michael Cooper report that he brought in just $7 million in April and May, leaving him scrambling to make up ground in the final days of June.


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56 per cent of Kenyans believe presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto will honor summons to appear before the ICC regardless of the outcome of the general elections. According to new polls by Ipsos Synovate conducted between 6th and 11th Dec with 1625 respondents, only 25% of Kenyans think the two will defy the summons.
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care reform is implemented and other relevant public- and private-sector changes occur.
The panel met face to face three times. The first meeting focused on planning the workshop as called for in the study contract, including development of an agenda and identification of potential participants. To avail ourselves of expert and detailed analysis of key issues beyond the time and resources of our members and as called for in the study contract, the panel commissioned three background papers from experts in the subject areas, which appear in Part III:
The workshop on Developing a Measure of Medical Care Economic Risk was held on September 8, 2011, and a summary prepared by the rapporteur is included in Part II. The second meeting of the panel was held immediately following the workshop to deliberate on the workshop discussions and to reach agreement on a preliminary outline of the final report. The third and final meeting was devoted to reviewing the draft chapters and reaching consensus on the panel's findings and recommendations.
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The scope of the study is complex, covering a wide range of issues from concepts and definitions to issues of thresholds and resources, sources of needed data, methods, implementation, and application in assessing program performance. Many other issues relevant to the broad subject areas of health and health care exist. Although the panel recognizes their importance, their discussion is beyond the scope of this study. Within the constraints of time and available resources, the panel did not address every issue but covered those areas specifically called for in the contract charge. For example, we addressed medical care and not all aspects of health and health care; we addressed issues of financial risk of medical care and not all medical care risks; and we focused on survey data rather than on modeling issues. The panel also did not examine the impact of various insurance plans on out-of-pocket spending or address the appropriate treatment of medical care benefits and costs in measures of inequality.
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Hot Cream Of Chicken Soup
28 Sep 2009
|Chicken stock
|4 Cup (64 tbs) (Basic)
|Finely chopped celery
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Garlic clove
|1 Small, pressed
|Half and half
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|To Taste
|Ground white pepper
|To Taste
|Minced cooked chicken
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Finely grated parmesan cheese
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
Pour stock into large saucepan; bring to boil.
Add celery and garlic; simmer 10 minutes or until tender.
Pour into blender or food processor.
container; process until pureed.
Return to saucepan.
Add cream, salt, and pepper; bring just to boiling point.
Stir in chicken and cheese; heat, stirring, until cheese is melted and soup well blended.
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Danish Cheese Fondue
7 Oct 2009
Danish Cheese fondue is a prefect main dish. If you like beer flavour dish then try out Danish Cheese Fondue recipe, you will be simply blow away by its taste. Danish Cheese Fondue is easy to make recipe.
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
|Finely chopped onion
|2 Tablespoon
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|Dry mustard
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Grated cheddar cheese
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Bread slice
|8 , cut into 1 inch squares
|4 , separated
|Melted butter
|2 Tablespoon
|Caraway seeds
|1 Tablespoon
Combine milk and onion in saucepan; heat to scalding.
Add beer, salt, dry mustard, Tabasco, grated cheese and 2 cups of the bread squares.
Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored; stir into first mixture.
Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry; fold in.
Turn into a greased 1 1/2 quart casserole.
Toss remaining 1 cup bread squares with butter and cara-' way seeds and sprinkle over top of casserole.
Set in pan filled with hot water to 1 inch from top of casserole.
Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 1 1/4 hours, or until delicately brown and firm, or when knife inserted in center comes out clean
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Easy
Course:Main Dish
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Doctor ducks, military ducks, postal worker ducks, princess ducks, police ducks and, of course, white ducks with green ribbons — the symbol of solidarity and healing for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
It's been a half year since the tragedy. In those six months, as the world's attention has shifted elsewhere, life inside the substitute Sandy Hook school in Monroe has been a close interplay of students and teachers learning a new normal.
Healing is a slow process with erratic progress.
For some, the memories remain jarringly fresh — the acrid smell of gun smoke, the sharp echo of gunshots over the public-address system, the crunch of broken glass underfoot as crying children fled — and far worse for others, particularly students and staff at the school office and near the first-grade classrooms where 26 classmates and educators died.
For some students, little sounds can be terrifying — the slam of a dropped book, a car door closing or a raised angry voice.
Little things can be reassuring, too.
The decorated plastic ducks were among the boxes of teddy bears, toys and school supplies that flooded Newtown in the weeks after the Dec. 14 shooting, filling public spaces and garages and, eventually, warehouses. Sent by Kiwanis members in Colorado, the ducks were plucked from the other donations by Monroe police Officers Todd Keeping and Michael Panza, who provided security at the new school.
They put the ducks on windowsills and desks, and in classroom nooks, hoping to ease tension and brighten dark days.
"Adults like them. Kids like them," Keeping said. "It just got to the point where I'd hear, 'My kid is riding the bus and looking forward to coming to school again.' "
The ducks are a healthy distraction, a mascot and a metaphor for healing and new life, psychologists and child trauma experts say.
"It serves as a transitional object, something to help distract you from painful thoughts and memories," said Dr. Laura Saunders, a child psychologist at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living. "And, at the same time, it gives you inspiration that there's something beyond what's going on right in front of you."
This Easter, children scurried across a field near their new school in Monroe to scoop up more than 3,000 ducks — like an egg hunt. It was a zigzagging mad dash with cheers and giggles.
Going Back
That Easter scene would have been difficult to imagine even a few months earlier when some children tearfully told parents that they didn't want to, that they couldn't, return to school.
The first day back, in January, parents followed the school buses that took their children to the new Sandy Hook, a once-closed middle school in Monroe renovated on a tight schedule over the winter holidays. There was a strong police presence at the school, as well as television cameras, photographers with long lenses and reporters with notepads lining the road.
That's as close as any outsider has gotten to the school.