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Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City, p.13
The Gradient
Dec 2009
"Did I read The New Yorker? This question had a dangerous urgency. It wasn't any one writer or article he was worried about, but the font. The meaning embedded, at a preconscious level, by the look of the magazine; the seal, as he described it, that the typography and layout put on dialectical thought. According to Perkus, to read The New Yorker was to find that you always already agreed, not with The New…
Godard's Intertitles
The Gradient
Nov 2009
E: Hey, where's that blog post you were going to finish two weeks ago? A: I, uh, have been working on it. E: Really? It looked to me like you were watching movies. A: I was refreshing my memory. E: Uh huh. What's this post about then? A: It's about Jean-Luc Godard. And it's done. Jean-Luc Godard, arguably the most radical of the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers, is an artist whose imaginative typographic title sequences…
Spaceship Earth: The Image Archive of NASA's Earth Observatory
The Gradient
Oct 2009
How does one prove the Earth is round? In February of 1966, during an acid trip on a rooftop in San Francisco, Stewart Brand began contemplating the curvature of the Earth. The horizon sloped away from him on either side, buildings refused to stand parallel, and the flat-earth fallacy became viscerally apparent. He was determined to broadcast this feeling, and called for a solution (in the form of a…
The Quick and the Dead
The Gradient
Oct 2009
"On the first Sunday of 1969 Robert Barry went to Central Park with four capsules of radioactive material in his pocket. He had ordered them from a scientific supply catalog, choosing an isotope of his namesake, barium-133, the only one of twenty-two known isotopes of the element that does not dangerously decay within seconds or minutes. He walked to the Great Lawn behind the Metropolitan Museum of…
2009 National Design Awards from the Hirshhorn
The Gradient
Jul 2009
This morning design director and curator Andrew Blauvelt spoke about Walker design at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., as part of a public program series featuring 2009 National Design Awards recipients. The Walker was this year's winner in Corporate and Institutional Achievement. Andrew spoke about technology and design alongside Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, later taking questions from…
Working Knowledge: the Walker's design fellows
The Gradient
Jun 2009
This is a longer version of the interviews with visual arts fellows Dan Byers and Andria Hickey, anddesign fellows Mylinh Trieu Nguyen and Noa Segal, from a story in the July/August issue ofWalkermagazine. For nearly three decades, the Walker has been recruiting recent graduates and junior professionals to work as fellows in its design and visual arts departments. As full-time, full-fledged staff…
Designing Obama: Sol Sender and Scott Thomas at the Walker
The Gradient
May 2009
As far as I can tell, Scott Thomas was here at the Walker as recently as last November when we screened the film Typeface, featuring his group The Post Family (verified, I think, by this interview with local letterpress firm Studio on Fire, who also presented their work at the same screening). Though come to think of it, that screening took place only a couple of days after Barack Obama's election win…
Lux et Veritas
The Gradient
May 2009
"This unconventional show does not present the students' graphic works as design objects but instead shows them as a single illuminated collage which constantly rearranges itself. Print, motion, interactive, and site-specific design will be shown through video projection. When the gallery's lights are off, the videos provide a shared, immersive experience of designed pieces. When the lights come on, the…
Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate Achievement (_)
The Gradient
May 2009
It was announced this week that the Walker is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate Achievement for 2009. The award is given to institutions that "use design as a strategic tool of its mission and exhibits ingenuity and insight in helping to advance the relationship between design and quality of life in the United States." Some previous winners were Apple, Google…


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Another little anecdote - still unknown - from the book: on LIVE AND LET DIE - that was recorded live in the studio by Wings and a full orchestra (like MY LOVE) a famous percussionist (I won't reveal his name here...) played tympani, percussion and a...duck call, heard in the reggae section of the song!
Here's the link again to purchase and Happy Xmas everybody! Luca

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Today, the personal and professional intersected when I had the opportunity to honor my grandfather, Fritz Perls. With his wife Lore, he invented Gestalt Therapy, a dramatic departure from traditional Freudian therapy, and revolutionized the field of psychology. On October 12, they and their work were honored at my grandfather's childhood home in Berlin. The Deutsche Vereinigung fur Gestalttherapie, which is the German Gestalt Therapy Association, organized the memorial event. Though many in the field of psychology consider my grandfather a transformative figure, he had never been honored in Germany. He observed the rise of Nazi power and left the country just in time, never to return. The Gestalt associations in Germany and throughout the world keep the body of his work alive and train new generations of psychotherapists in this newer, existentialist approach to the therapeutic process.
It was an honor to represent the Perls family at this wonderful occasion and to welcome the Deputy Chief of Mission, James Melville, to the event. As Embassy Berlin continues to build bridges with the Jewish community in Germany and observes the rapid pace with which the German government successfully builds relationships with German-Jewish organizations, it seemed fitting that I wore two hats today. I was a member of the Perls family, and I was a U.S. diplomat representing my country at an event recognizing an outstanding Jewish thinker who saved his family and flourished in the United States.
My grandparents would be very surprised, maybe shocked, that their grandson was in Berlin, speaking German and greeting their former colleagues and current supporters. Fritz and Lore, along with their youngest daughter, Renate, fled Germany in 1933, shortly after Hitler's ascension to power. Their journey took them from Germany to Holland to South Africa, where my father was born, and then to America. They had the foresight to get out before it would be impossible to do so. Many of their closest family, who were also my relatives, were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Half of my family tree was cut off.
Now, I am in Germany as a U.S. diplomat after a first career as an entrepreneur in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I spent nine months learning German at the Foreign Service Institute, and I have lived in Frankfurt with my wife for nearly two years.
Only in the Foreign Service could an assignment bring an officer across an ocean to face his history and confront his roots. I had never imagined that while representing my country I would also end up representing my family. How surprised would Fritz be if he knew his grandson was in Berlin, a recent German-speaker, representing the United States of America and loving the experience of being in Germany. I love it, in spite of the history, because I see that most Germans care about what happened and are deeply committed to ensuring that it never happens again.
The recognition of my grandfather at the event today symbolized for me what I love about Germany. There were local elected officials recognizing the world-wide contribution a native Berliner made to the world, and it seemed natural. It was not about him being Jewish and fleeing persecution, but about an outstanding German who lived in Berlin, received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Germany and changed the world of psychology.
Renate P. in New York writes:
I was NOT the youngest daughter of Fritz and Laura Perls..... I was the ONLY daughter of Fritz and Laura. I spell my mother's name the English way as when she became a citizen of the USA, she wanted it that way, and for the rest of her life was known as Laura.
Leslie G. in New York writes:
I'm very pleased that you were there representing the Perls Family. What a gift to connect more strongly to your roots.
Granddaughter of Lore & Fritz, daughter of their only daughter, and older child, Renate.
Mr Perls, would you mind telling me the street and the number of that house, please? I'm goingto go to Berlin perhaps the next summer and I'm working in a novel about your grandfather. I'd like to know if it is Munchener strasse, 49 or if it is Ansbacher strasse, 53 where your grandfather lived with his parents. As a matter of fact I'd like to ask you so many things about your grandpa and grandma if you don't mind to answer me, wouldn't you?


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Topic: Ec2 vs VPS vs Shared hosting ? What's your experience ?
Ok so we're in 2011 already! I'm about to finish one of my project using Rails 3 (which is awesome by the way). It's now time to think about deployment.
I read a lot about EC2 but can't get a grip of how much it's really going to cost me.
So my question is the following. What's your experience on deployment recently ? Are you using EC2 vs VPS vs others (like buying your own server) ? how much should one expect to pay ?
Please share your experience.


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Simply Gorgeous Medieval Hairstyle With tendrils hanging out
This medieval hairstyle looks simply gorgeous. It's different from any other hairstyle, that will take some time to do. The hair is long, straight any styled into a bun updo at back. Her hair is taken and styled into a crisscross pattern from the very front to the very back. Long strands of hair are left out all around leaving this young woman with this interesting style.This haircut is long.The hair is coloured a golden blonde.
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Posts Tagged 'Sana Yemen'
Posted on July 9, 2011 - by mira
Video: Old Sanaa and Yemeni hip hop
A video of the beautiful people and beautiful tower houses of Yemen's historical Old Sanaa, with a cool Yemeni rap song, "Mia Mia", by Yemeni-American rapper Hagage "AJ" Masaed, used courtesy of AJ. The song also features De Ali and Hayfa Hameed. Hoping Yemen sees better days.


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Monday, January 25, 2010
Just do it.
Today is a beautiful day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. All is beautiful.
I just had lunch with four friends, some of whom had never met before. We had a wonderful time even though two of them were just on their lunch hour from work.
We've been talking about this for months and finally I just said, this is the date, hope you can make it and let it go at that. Except one of them, the other common friend, didn't know we were doing it so it was a big surprise for her. The reason? None, but I decided it was a great day to celebrate: The Day.
How often have you said "we'll have to get together" or "I need to call my friend and set up a lunch date" or whatever. I do it way too often. And the list of missed opportunities grows and grows along with guilty feelings, stress, aloneness and realization of how quickly the days are slipping by.
Well, today is The Day. Choose a date and a place. Call one friend and make plans. Call some more friends and invite them to meet you. You will be doing your friends a favor in helping them make new friends. You will all smile, laugh, share and de-stress while you celebrate The Day.
Happy Day to all my friends... hope to see you soon.
What day are you going to celebrate?
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You are so right Rita. I always mean to call friends and say lets get together, but for some reason, it doesn't happen--I think I get so wound up in my studio, I hate to leave!! And I do have to say that a little sunshine would help!!!ReplyDelete
Rita, what a nice message. You're right... we just need to take the first step. It sounds like you had a wonderful time. And your next week is going to be awesome! I can't wait to see pictures of everyone you meet and the things that you make. Maybe send a little sun towards the midwest? I'll share with Janet!ReplyDelete
Rita, thank you, first of all for inviting me to join you for lunch, and then for surprising me by inviting two other friends we know. It was a good way to start the week.ReplyDelete
Rita, sounds like you had a great time!! hope to meet you one day too :)ReplyDelete


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Skip to comments.China researchers link obesity to bacteria
Posted on 12/20/2012 4:07:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Chinese researchers have identified a bacteria which may cause obesity, according to a new paper suggesting diets that alter the presence of microbes in humans could combat the condition.
Researchers in Shanghai found that mice bred to be resistant to obesity even when fed high-fat foods became excessively overweight when injected with a kind of human bacteria and subjected to a rich diet.
The bacterium -- known as enterobacter -- had been linked with obesity after being found in high quantities in the gut of a morbidly obese human volunteer, said the report, written by researchers at Shanghai's Jiaotong University.
The mice were injected with the bacterium for up to 10 weeks as part of the experiment.
The experiments show that the bacterium "may causatively contribute to the development of obesity" in humans, according to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology.
A human patient lost over 66 pounds in nine weeks after being placed on a diet of "whole grains, traditional Chinese medicinal foods and prebiotics", which reduced the bacterium's presence in the patient's gut to "undetectable" levels, the paper said.
One of the report's authors, Zhao Liping, lost 44 pounds in two years after adopting a diet of fermented probiotic foods such as bitter melon to adjust the balance of bacteria in his gut, the American magazine Science said in an article this year on his previous research.
Zhao's work on the role of bacteria in obesity is inspired by traditional Chinese beliefs that the gut is the "foundation for human health", Science reported...
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Dependinf on your size any conventional diet would do the same thing IMO.
Dependinf on your size any conventional diet would do the same thing IMO.
Depending on your size any conventional diet would do the same thing IMO.
Depending on your size any conventional diet would do the same thing IMO.
An American could probably lose twice that much by eliminating their daily Starbucks.
Who in hell can afford Starbucks?
If you take in more calories than you burn you gain weight.Burn more than you take in and you lose weight.Take in and burn the same number of calories and you stay the same.It ain't rocket science.
We're all tightening our belts already! ;-)
Interesting. I've had gut trouble in the past, after a serious diverticulitis episode, and used to take probiotics to counteract the effects of antibiotics that I was prescribed from time to time to fight infection.
Recently, the past couple of years, I've lost a number of pounds and several inches. My doctor is a bit puzzled, as I'm still doing about the same amound of eating and exercising. But one difference is that I've been taking probiotics on a regular basis, instead of only occasionally. Possibly that ties in with these findings. Crowd out the malign bacteria with benign ones.
For whatever reason, it's also been about five years since I last had any recurrence of the diverticulitis problem. Again, that could be the result of a better bacterial balance. I'm pretty much sold on the probiotics.
Enterobacter is a genus of common bacteria, several strains of which are pathogenic. But the obesity connection is an interesting one.
Typically, a healthy person's flora has between 300-1000 different kinds of just bacteria (along with a vast number of viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms.)
However, of this 300-1000, only 30 or 40 of them take up the vast majority of physical space. These are your "core flora" and are essential to digestion and health. They are very interactive with your immune system.
But here's the zinger: "In a recent study, over 1/3rd of gut bacteria in a morbidly obese volunteer was found to be enterobacter. After 23 weeks, the volunteer lost almost 1/3 of his weight by virtually eliminating the bacteria via diet, while being prevented from exercising."
That is, enterobacter bacteria had *displaced* most of the other "good" bacteria. And having this much enterobacter likely caused inflammation that *resulted* in obesity.
The way this happens is because your fat contains clusters of cells called MAST cells. When these cells are irritated, they release histamines and heparin. In turn, these chemicals irritate other MAST cell clusters, but *also* cause the body to retain more fat.
And as you get fatter, along with the fat are created a more than proportionally greater number of MAST cell clusters. So a morbidly obese person's fat is loaded with them, making it easier to gain weight.
But irritated MAST cell clusters do so much more. They can activate all sorts of autoimmune system diseases, from many forms of arthritis, to Crohn's disease, to psoriasis, etc.
But how to reduce the proportion of enterobacter in the flora? Both by changing the diet to make the intestinal environment less beneficial to it, and by consuming a lot of other digestive bacteria, to displace the enterobacter.
Healthy digestive bacteria are available OTC and sold in stores.
I should add that it takes about a determined month to significantly change the profile of your intestinal flora.
What kind of probiotics do you use?
Would you mind recommending some brands?
I'm not an expert on it, but I've had good luck with Vitacost Pro-biotics 15-35. I tried a cheaper kind earlier, with fewer kinds of bacteria in it, but that one seems to work for me.
Would you mind recommending some brands?
I am interested in that answer, as well. Thanks.
I've recently become impressed by a drink called Kefir, which is now available in several brands in some grocery stores. Some of them have 10 or more different probiotic strains, and is much less expensive than probiotic supplements.
Tastes like a flavored (or unflavored) yoghurt smoothie. Some people have taken to making their own.
Importantly, the diet mentioned that the bad bacteria was inhibited by changing the intestinal pH. This is tricky to pull off, so it is probably easier to consume probiotics for at least a month.
What is the diet for eliminating the enterobacter bacteria?
any suggestions? I know quite a few people that would love to know
do you have a small list of these foods?
"If you take in more calories than you burn you gain weight.Burn more than you take in and you lose weight.Take in and burn the same number of calories and you stay the same.It aint rocket science."
I don't agree. My family and I are among the lucky ones——no weight problems,but I saw a woman at the beach once with an adolescent son and they were morbidly obese.
It was horrendous the way that they looked and I felt so sorry for them. There is no way they ate their way to that size.
Thanks very much for the information.
It's not so much a case of trying to eliminate enterobacter, both because it is a genus of all sorts of different bacteria, and it is ubiquitous, it is everywhere. Instead you want to *reduce* the percent of your flora it occupies. Again, think of bacteria physically "shouldering out" other bacteria to have space to live. (Lebensraum?)
The morbidly obese people who were examined were found to have about 1/3rd of their flora as enterobacter strains. This means maybe half a dozen enterobacter strains dominating a flora that should have a much more evenly distributed amount of them and 24-34 other types of bacteria.
The Chinese research noted that enterobacter strains are somewhat vulnerable to a more acidic environment in the GI tract, so this was the focus of their diet. But that can get complicated in a hurry, as it also depends on the kind of acid, the best being Hydrochloric, which kills enterobacter at pH 4.0 (stomach HCL has a pH of 1.5 to 3.5, but this is neutralized by bile at 7.5-8.8). It is probably not a good idea to try and acidify your GI tract by diet unless you have expert advice.
But probiotics work around the problem by flooding the GI tract with bacteria, which will gradually (1 month plus) muscle out much of the enterobacter.
Typically, gut bacteria reproduce about every half hour unless they are inhibited from doing so by other bacteria, so it is probably better to take a small (relatively speaking, though billions of bacteria) amount of probiotics at frequent intervals rather than one big horse dose.
One of the more interesting replacement bacteria is the genus of bifidobacterium, a common digestive bacteria that uniquely digests plant fibers, and is found in foods like Activa yogurt and unpasteurized sauerkraut. It uses "inulin" (not insulin), a soluble fiber found in non-starchy vegetables such as green beans, Asian vegetables, dark green leafy vegetables, summer squash and cabbage family vegetables like broccoli, kale and Brussels sprouts. So consuming the two together works even better.
Activa yoghurt is specifically used as for digestive bulk, like Metamucil, to support regularity. Since it can consume plant fiber, but enterobacter cannot, this gives a reproductive advantage to bifidobacterium. Bifobacterium is also found in Kefir.
I'd also add that new research has shown that broccoli has an ingredient that is extremely toxic to the H. Pylori bacteria, even hidden within tissues such as the stomach lining. H. Pylori is mostly associated with stomach ulcers and stomach and upper GI cancers, so it is good to slap it down as well as enterobacter. Yay, broccoli.
In making that assumption you've forgotten one of the two important factors in weight.Yes,you've covered the calorie *intake* side of the equation but you've left out the *burning* of calories.If either of them burned *no* calories over a given period (impossible,of course) and took in 100 calories a day that person would,in time,gain weight.So,what happened to them is that they both *ate* their way and *sat on their fat a$$es watching TV and/or playing video games* their way to their massive state.Ask any registered dietitian (or physician),they'll tell you.
Or,just look at photos of the prisoners who survived their time building the Burma Railway.Backbreaking work + abysmally inadequate nutrition = rib cages sickeningly visible along with little,skinny legs.Google these photos if your memory needs refreshing.
Thanks for the outstanding information!
That does seem puzzling. How tall were you before and after you lost "several inches"?
A human patient lost over 66 pounds in nine weeks after being placed on a diet of "whole grains, traditional Chinese medicinal foods and prebiotics", which reduced the bacterium's presence in the patient's gut to "undetectable" levels, the paper said. One of the report's authors, Zhao Liping, lost 44 pounds in two years after adopting a diet of fermented probiotic foods such as bitter melon to adjust the balance of bacteria in his gut...
Babysit your grandbaby for a few days and eat and drink after him or her. I know it sounds crazy.
The calories to build all that fat didn't come out of thin air. Some have slower metabolisms and that combined with sedentary living contributes to much of the obesity we see day to day. But, in order to be truly morbidly obese there is going to be high caloric intake to feed it.
"If you take in more calories than you burn you gain weight"
It is not that simple. Some people "take in" calories and "pass" many of them right back out again.
If two people eat the same food containing the same amount of calories, one of those people may have a system that is more efficient at extracting the calories from that food. The other person may pass more of those calories as waste. So if both those people burn the same number of calories one will end up weighing less than the other.
So it isn't simple.
Of course, if you limit caloric intake to less than calories burned you will cause weight loss, that is true.
But you would need to limit it more in the first person I described and less in the second one.
Everyone will lose weight if starved.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Randy Hopper, District 18
- Dan Kapanke, District 32
- Alberta Darling, District 8
- Luther Olsen, District 14
- Robert Cowles, District 2
- Sheila Harsdorf, District 10
Governor Scott Walker couldn't pass his radical union-busting legislation without the help of Republican state senators who voted uniformly to take away the rights of workers and cripple labor unions. Leading Republicans, including the State Senate's chief Republican member, admit that the move had more to do with political gamesmanship against the progressive community than the purported fiscal conservatism. Republicans in the state legislature rushed through the anti-union bill with little public oversight and despite widespread opposition. The push to break down organized labor is just the beginning of the Walker agenda, which includes draconian budget cuts to healthcare and education, additional corporate tax breaks, a disingenuous voter ID law, risky private school voucher schemes, and attacks on women's reproductive rights.
The six Republican state senators who have been recalled this year by their constituents range from fervent advocates of union-busting to loyal Republicans who backed the bill to show their loyalty to Governor Walker over their constituents. Read more about the senators who want to implement the Walker agenda and undermine the rights of Wisconsin's working families:
Randy Hopper, District 18
Hopper says he's simply trying to balance the budget, but his real goal is tax giveaways to benefit the super-wealthy like himself
Hopper wants to blame workers for the state's budget problems: "You drove the truck in the ditch, and now you're screaming at me for trying to get the truck out of the ditch." However, he wants to make the budget deficit even bigger in order to pass his corporate welfare schemes.
While labor unions are agreeing to financial concessions and working families are sacrificing, Hopper wants the wealthy to pay less in taxes and earlier this year proposed eliminating the capital gains tax. According to One Wisconsin Now, "The first part of this plan would add $243 million to the current $3.3 billion budget deficit for the next two years and full implementation of the Hopper capital gains scheme would top $250 million every year." Essentially, Hopper wants to dramatically increase the budget deficit in order to eliminate a tax that mainly impacts the wealthiest taxpayers.
Hopper himself has tried to avoid paying his fair share of taxes through loopholes. In 2008, the Fond du Lac Reporter found that since 1997 he paid state personal and business income taxes just once in the eleven year period. But Hopper, who owns a number of radio stations and a record label, was able to finance his campaign with a $22,000 donation.
In addition, Hopper in January voted in favor of an income tax credit for private health savings accounts that "primarily benefit the wealthy," and consistently received perfect 100% ratings from the state's pro-corporate lobby.
Hopper consistently opposes legislation benefiting working families and women
Since his election to the State Senate, Hopper's record on issues important to working families is abysmal. He opposed raising the minimum wage and fixing the wage to the rate of inflation. While Hopper voted against compensation for victims of hiring and pay-discrimination, he supported legislation that makes it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to seek justice in court. Hopper also has a poor record on women's reproductive health, as he opposes comprehensive sex education and has a 100% rating from the anti-choice Wisconsin Right to Life PAC.
Hopper's a darling of the Tea Party and Corporate Leaders
Hopper received contributions from KochPAC, the political arm of the Koch Brothers, in his 2008 campaign. As a State Senator, Hopper addressed the TEA Party of Fond du Lac and praised the Tea Party rallies held in Madison and other parts of the state. He also was named co-chair of the so called "Taxpayer Protection Caucus," which is a branch of the ultraconservative, pro-corporate group Americans for Tax Reform. ATR's leader Grover Norquist, who lauded Hopper, said that "bipartisanship is another name for date rape," and the organization has been closely involved with corporate astroturfing and anti-union campaigns across the country. ATR was also linked to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and was investigated by the US Senate Indian Affairs Committee for committing fraud against Native American tribes. Hopper was also trained by GOPAC, which calls itself the "Republican Party's preeminent education and training center."
Hopper says he's bipartisan, but he backs Walker's partisan power play
After his election, Hopper said in a statement: "I am always very mindful of the razor-thin margin in my election last fall. I intend to be a senator for all the residents of the 18th Senate District, not just those that voted for me." "I think building solid relationships across the political spectrum serves us well when we begin to tackle the unprecedented challenges that the Legislature faces this session," Hopper went on to say, "During my campaign I promised to change the business-as-usual way things work in Madison." Instead, Hopper is assisting in Republican plans to rush through union-busting legislation and impose fines on the boycotting senators.
Hopper may not even reside in the district anymore, as his estranged wife claims that he now lives with his mistress in Madison. His relationship with his mistress, a former staffer for the state GOP, is coming under increasing scrutiny after she landed a job, with a raise, in the Walker administration.
State of Play
In 2008, Randy Hopper was elected to the State Senate by just 184 votes, winning a slim 50.05% of the vote against Democrat Jessica King. The open seat was previously held by a Republican.
In 2010, 57.2% of voters in his district backed Walker and the district was also carried by Ron Johnson. 15,269 valid signatures are needed to force a recall election. Against a generic Democrat, Hopper is behind 49-44%. Hopper himself told the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard that he expects a recall, "I have a lot of correctional facilities, a couple universities, and a couple of tech schools [in my district]. I have the second largest population of state employees in the state." His district represents the Oshkosh and Fond du Lac metropolitan area, which includes two University of Wisconsin branches. 15,269 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.
Dan Kapanke, District 32
Kapanke's questionable relationship with lobbyists led to ethical improprieties
Dan Kapanke is not only a state senator but also owner of a local baseball team. Under state law he is not allowed to receive anything of monetary value from lobbyists or the organizations that employ them, yet employers of lobbyists purchased advertisements in his team's baseball stadium. Kapanke claimed that such money went to a charitable foundation and not him directly, but it was later uncovered that he was using money from the foundation to pay off his debts to the city. After getting caught breaking ethics laws by using his charity as a slush fund, Kapanke said he would pay $16,000 back, but it turned out that he used the charity to pay the city $32,000 to cover his personal debts.
This wasn't Kapanke's first run-in with ethics problems. When it was revealed that his government staffers illegally coordinated with his campaign to organize two forums, the resulting legal episode cost taxpayers $38,000.
Wealthy enough to own a baseball team, but not to pay taxes
It's no wonder that Kapanke opposes attempts to generate revenues to help close the state's budget deficit: according to the Associated Press, Kapanke "owed no Wisconsin taxes in 2008." But Kapanke did vote against raising the minimum wage and making it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to seek justice in court. In addition, Kapanke in January voted in favor of an income tax credit for private health savings accounts that "primarily benefit the wealthy."
Extreme record on social issues
Throughout his service in the Wisconsin State Senate, Kapanke consistently received 0% scores from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. In addition, he believes abortion should be a crime even in cases of rape, incest or when the woman's health is in danger, and even voted against providing emergency contraception for victims of rape. Kapanke was one of just six senators to vote against providing emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault. He also voted against compensation for discriminatory pay. Moreover, he opposed comprehensive sex education and backed a private school voucher program.
State of Play
Kapanke is considered the most vulnerable Republican up for recall, with 61% of his La Crosse-based district's voters backing Obama in 2008. He already trails a generic Democrat 55-41% according to Public Policy Polling. Last year he ran for Congress against Rep. Ron Kind but lost in an unexpectedly close race, 50-47%. During that campaign, pro-corporate outside groups like Americans for Prosperity and the 60 Plus Association spent over $1 million backing his campaign. Other groups involved in the race include Americans for Tax Reform, the Susan B. Anthony List and the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Issues Mobilization Council. 15,588 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.
Alberta Darling, District 8
Spearheaded Legislative Action on Walker's Anti-Union Legislation
As co-chair of the State Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, Senator Darling played a crucial role in passing the union-busting legislation. Despite her central role in shepherding through the anti-union bill, Darling says that the recall campaign "has become less about my record and what I'm doing. It's become a national union initiative to take out the Republican senators who have been working for fiscal accountability." Darling, who contributed $6,250 to Walker's 2010 campaign, defended the union-busting plan by saying that "The governor is proposing that we have collective bargaining deal only with wages which is how it is, for the most part, in the private sector." PolitiFact described her assertion as "false," since private sector workers are allowed to organize and bargain collectively for wages, hours, working conditions, benefits and other issues.
The union-busting bill wasn't Darling's first vote against Wisconsin working families. She twice voted to make it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to seek justice in court, and repeatedly opposed raising the minimum wage.
Legislature's Top Voucher Advocate
Darling was the chief sponsor of a bill to expand a risky private school voucher program in Milwaukee, which takes away finances from the public school system and helps fund religious schools. She even is working with Governor Walker to create a voucher program in other areas of the state, if not make it statewide. In 2008, a study looked at 120 schools receiving vouchers: 95 were religious and 7 operate within a religious tradition.
The Milwaukee voucher scheme has failed to deliver the promised results. According to a 2009 study by the University of Arkansas comparing voucher students with Milwaukee Public School (MPS) students, "there is no overall statistically significant difference between MPCP (voucher) and MPS student achievement growth in either math or reading one year after they were carefully matched to each other." Moreover, the study found that fourth graders in the voucher program actually were performing worse than comparable public school students. While she wants to expand the flagging voucher program, Walker's budget cut $834 million from public education.
Flip-Flopping on Choice
While she once served as a board member of Planned Parenthood, Darling has moved increasingly to the right while serving in the State Senate. In fact, the state's largest anti-choice group Wisconsin Right to Life endorsed her for reelection in 2008, with the organization's president saying that Darling is "more pro-life than not." She opposed a bill that would require employers to cover birth control in their medical plans, and the head of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin lamented that Darling "talks out of both sides of her mouth" on choice by promoting "herself as pro-choice to pro-choice audiences, and anti-abortion to anti-abortion audiences."
State of Play
Darling has served in the State Senate since 1992 but won reelection in 2008 by an extremely close margin, defeating her Democratic opponent by just over 1,000 votes in what was one of the most expensive races for the Senate. Her opponent, then-State Rep. Sheldon Wasserman, is likely to challenge her in a recall. The recall campaign in her suburban Milwaukee district has already claimed 1,000 volunteers. In a Public Policy Polling survey, she would defeat a generic Democrat 52-44%. President Obama carried the district in 2008 with 51% of the vote, and Scott Walker won the district with 55% in 2010. 20,343 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.
Luther Olsen, District 14
A Fiscal Conservative Who Rakes in Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Government Subsidies
Originally, Olsen refused to say whether he would support Scott Walker's union-busting bill, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he was on staying on the sidelines. "The concept is pretty radical," he said, "It affects a lot of good working people." Olsen, who is the vice-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, ultimately voted in favor of the bill in the name of fiscal prudence and saving taxpayer money. Despite his concern for saving taxpayer money, however, the Environmental Working Group found that one farm which Olsen had a stake in garnered $58,502 in taxpayer subsidies from 1995 to 2009, and another farm received $25,730.
He twice voted against increasing the minimum wage and also opposed compensation for discriminatory pay. Reflecting on his pro-corporate voting record, the Wisconsin lobby group for manufacturers gave him perfect 100% scores in 2009 and 2010.
Bad on Education Policy
As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Olsen has been a vocal supporter of using public funds for private school vouchers and has voted to expand the program. According to the La Crosse Tribune, Olsen and his Republican counterpart in the State House "want to look at expanding Milwaukee Parental Choice, the state's only private school voucher program," even though studies show that the MPC has been ineffective in raising scores and sends taxpayer money to religious schools.
While he supports a wrongheaded voucher policy, Olsen is stringently opposed to facts-based, comprehensive sex education in public schools. He said that under such a curriculum "you can't tell them what's right or wrong" and are "giving them a green light to go off and be sexually active." Olsen ultimately voted against legislation that would allow students to learn about "the health benefits, side effects, and proper use of contraceptives and barrier methods."
State of Play
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has made him a chief target of its campaign and is already attacking Olsen on the airwaves for his support of Walker's anti-union legislation, and a Public Policy Polling survey shows him trailing a generic Democratic opponent by 2%. In 2008, he ran unopposed for reelection. Obama received 52% of the district's vote in 2008, and Walker won 57% in 2010. The recall committee needs to collect 14,733 signatures in order to force an election. However, it is not yet clear who will run as his Democratic opponent if the recall makes the ballot. 14,733 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.
Robert Cowles, District 2
Abandoned Compromise to Help Walker's Agenda
During the debate over Governor Scott Walker's union-busting legislation, State Senator Rob Cowles appeared to back away from the bill's radical elimination of collective bargaining rights. Cowles told the Green Bay Press Gazette that Republicans would compromise with the Democrats over collective bargaining as long as they could agree on financial concessions, saying, "The other things are less monetary in nature" and "have little or no connection to finance." "You have to be flexible because some way, some how there will be an amendment modifying the collective bargaining," he said, "So negotiations on this are critical to move past this and move on to the budget, which also has a number of dilemmas." He even called on his fellow Republicans to be "flexible" on collective bargaining rights.
But Cowles quickly backtracked and stood lockstep with the other Republicans to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights, even though he admitted that it had little to do with the state's finances. Like Senator Luther Olsen, who also expressed skepticism about Walker's overreaching legislation, Cowles was eventually steamrolled by the governor and voted to bust the unions.
Reliable Supporter of the Right-Wing Agenda
Even though he was known as a moderate, he has increasingly become more conservative and a loyal Republican. Cowles has a record of voting against the best interest of working families. He twice voted against raising the minimum wage, and twice voted to constrain the rights of victims of medical malpractice to seek justice in court. He even opposed allowing victims of pay discrimination to seek compensation from their employers. He calls himself a proud social conservative and has a "D" rating from NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, but in 2008 it was revealed that he had tens of thousands of dollars invested in companies that run strip clubs. He eventually sold the stock after it was exposed.
State of Play
The recall committee has picked up major momentum in his Green Bay-based district, which is home to many public workers employed by the Green Bay Correctional Institution. Against a generic Democratic opponent, Cowles leads by a slim 45-43% margin. In 2008, Obama carried his district with 52% of the vote, and Walker won 57% of the vote last year. Cowles, who ran unopposed for reelection, has served in the state legislature for almost 28 years. 15,960 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.
Sheila Harsdorf, District 10
Claims Protesters Are Outsiders
When tens of thousands of Wisconsinites marched every day against Scott Walker's union-busting bill and even the conservative Rasmussen polling found the majority of Badger State voters opposed the bill, Harsdorf claimed that outsiders were organizing the protests. Like Walker, who told a caller who he thought was David Koch that the demonstrators were actually people from Chicago, Harsdorf blamed "special interests" and told the Hudson Star Observer that she believed most of the participants were from out of state. She also doubted the authenticity of the recall movement, saying, "This is clearly driven by union interests from outside the state" and "out-of-state political operatives." Actually, the local recall effort is led by a local attorney, Roy Sjoberg. Many recall advocates said she was unresponsive to constituents during the debate over the anti-union bill, yet she still found time to appear at a Tea Party rally.
She was a strong supporter of Walker's inclusion of anti-union legislation in the budget bill, which was meant to bolster Republican political power while doing little to improve the state's financial condition. But back in 2009, she strongly opposed a Democratic effort to allow workers at the University of Wisconsin to unionize by using the card-check system; Harsdorf said she "opposed the inclusion of non-fiscal policy items such as this in the budget." Despite her previous statements, she had no problems supporting an unpopular and extreme budget proposal containing non-fiscal language about the rights of workers.
Champion of Corporate Interests, Subsidies for Herself
Harsdorf received perfect 100% scores over the last two years from the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state's chief pro-corporate lobby group. She also came out strongly in favor of massive tax breaks for corporations and loosening business regulations, even as she backed Walker's draconian budget cuts. She even supported a business tax break that experts believed would be largely ineffective at creating jobs, and consistently opposed raising the minimum wage and supported legislation to allow businesses to escape a penalty over discriminatory pay and hiring practices.
The senator praised Walker and her Republican colleagues for "working to get our fiscal house in order" and "living within the means of our taxpayers," but she had no problem with taking taxpayer subsidies for her farm. Harsdorf owns a 50% stake in a farm that the Environmental Working Group found received $194,763 in taxpayer farm subsidies from 1999 to 2005. She also voted to expand a private school voucher program despite studies showing that it hasn't improved education scores.
State of Play
After serving twelve years in the State Assembly, she was elected to the Senate in 2000 and won reelection in her northwestern seat with 56% of the vote in 2008. Polling shows that she leads a generic Democratic opponent by a 48-44% margin. Obama carried her district with just over 50% of the vote, while Walker won 58% in 2010. The pro-vouchers group, the American Federation for Children, is running robocalls on her behalf. 15,744 valid petition signatures are needed to force a recall election.


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Some facts on the US-Dakota War
To the editor:
I would like to correct a few statements in Mr. Mack's letter to the editor in The Journal on Feb. 6:
Dr. Charles Eastman, a Dakota man, wrote a series of books about the Dakota people in the early 1900s. There has not been any impediment to Dakota people expressing themselves orally or in writing.
According to an 1861 Census, there were 6,338 Dakota men, women and children. Fewer than 600 took up arms willingly. Many were forced to fight against the whites.
Yes, many settlers were warned by Dakota. This does not diminish the fact that more than 650 innocent white men, women and children were killed by Indians; some in the worst way imaginable. Compare this to some 145 Dakota who were killed during the war.
The mass-murder of more than 650 whites comes closer to genocide than what happened to the Dakota. Chief Little Crow's position on the war does not affect whether the Dakota committed genocide or not.
Dr. Asa Daniels, St. Peter, wrote that at least as many whites died after the war from injuries and epidemics as died during the war. No one can prove that more Indians than whites died after the war.
The 38 Dakota hanged in Mankato were implicated in at least 99 civilian murders. The Dakota who were moved to Fort Snelling included more than 40 younger men. They were not forced-marched. Fort Snelling was not a prison camp. They were not all exiled from the State. Only one person, a baby in Henderson, was killed along the way.
No Dakota died of starvation in the camps unless they refused to eat. No one died of hypothermia. About 102 died in the Fort Snelling camp due mainly to disease. Disease also killed many whites at the same time. All of the people in the Fort Snelling camp were innocent.
Bounties were placed on Dakota scalps because hostile Dakota were returning and killing whites. Five bounties including one for Little Crow were paid. Little Crow's soldiers' lodge also offered bounties on white scalps during the war.
Minnesota was not originally the land of the Dakota. The Dakota arrived in southwestern Minnesota about 1700. They did not write treaties.
They killed other Indians to obtain this land.
Chief Little Crow was not a farmer. He had a house. If he had a field, his wives tended the crops. In 1862, there were about 250 Dakota farms or roughly 17% of the population. Those who went to war generally opposed and harassed the farmer Indians.
The settlers were not land thieves. They were not part of treaty negotiations. The treaty system was too complicated for general criticisms. It would take a book.
To heal, people need to hear the truth about all sides of the Dakota War. This history needs to be as accurate, as balanced and as respectful as possible.
John LaBatte
New Ulm


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (593 votes).
In short: a good day from start to finishDate of review: November 11, 2007
In short: This was an enjoyable race with frequent queues to aid rest and recovery.In full: Always an enjoyable run, but I wondered whether the Slog had become a bit of a muddy gimmick. This year was fairly dry, but the mud and dung slinging/kicking competitors did their best to ensure an equitable distribution. I'm not convinced that the Christian remembrance ceremony at the start was wholly appropriate for a secular gathering.Date of review: November 11, 2007
In short: Never had so much fun whilst runningDate of review: November 11, 2007
In short: Fantastic Race, tough challenging but very enjoyableDate of review: November 11, 2007
In short: not as muddy as last yearIn full: A great race- my second outing and I managed to knock 12mins of last year's time!As last year, very well organised and I would like to say a big thank you to all of the marshalls and the ever-enthusiastic local people.I would recommend this race to anyone who does not mind getting dirty- the atmosphere more than makes up for wrecked socks!Date of review: November 11, 2007
In short: Brilliant event, will be back again next year!Date of review: November 11, 2007
In short: MUD, GLORIOUS MUDDate of review: November 11, 2007
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Clouded leopards have been hunted extensively for their pelts, which may be bought on the wildlife black market. The smuggling of skins from mainland China has increased as the demand for clouded leopard pelts in Taiwan has been renewed. Prior to the conversion of tribal peoples in Taiwan to Christianity, clouded leopard skins were used in ceremonies and the hunter was considered heroic for killing these animals. Today, ownership of a clouded leopard pelt is a status symbol among men in some Asian countries. Authorities have found pelts for sale in many markets throughout mainland Southeast Asia as well. Body parts, especially claws, teeth and bones, are still used in traditional medicine practices. Clouded leopard occasionally appears on menus at upscale restaurants in Asia. In addition, live animals are traded illegally as pets. (Beacham and Beltz, 1998; IUCN, 1996; Sunquist and Sunquist, 2002; The Clouded Leopard Project, 2008)


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Memories: Awww, Mom, do I HAVE to eat that?
We asked our readers to share their memories of their most-hated childhood foods, and they responded with an array of incredible inedibles. Thanks to all for sharing, and a word of caution: You might want to read these on an empty stomach . . .
All I can say is there is only one way to describe cooked okra — warm pond scum. Looks like it and smells like it. Nuff said.
Jane Rawlings
I grew up on a small farm and every fall my father butchered a hog. Every part of the hog was used or made into something. With the blood, my father made blood sausage. To this day, I can still remember and smell the frying blood sausage.
Didn't like it then and would never eat it today.
Running a close second was head cheese sandwiches. You guessed it! It came from the hog's head. The inside of the head was scraped out and the skull boiled so that nothing was left behind. The liquid and pieces of head were poured into bread pans and would congeal, and when we wanted a sandwich, we could just slice a piece off and add salt and pepper.
Andre Fredette
I still hate cottage cheese. I hated cottage cheese all through childhood. My grandmother on the farm kept a cheesecloth bag hanging from the kitchen faucet dripping sour milk. She was making cheese and that milky sour smell turned me off from anything resembling cottage cheese.
Carolyn Newman
Growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, so my mother was always looking for ways to make inexpensive meals. One thing she cooked from time to time was cow tongue. Seeing it sitting there on the counter prior to her cooking it would just turn my stomach. It would sit there curled up with those nasty tongue papillae, and I would try to not look at it (unsuccessfully) every time I would pass through the kitchen.
At dinner, I would pick the very tip so as to have the smallest piece possible, and even then would have a hard time choking it down without gagging. I'm sure it had a perfectly good flavor, but just the thought of what it was and what it looked like was too much for me!
Maryvonne Cleveland
Pueblo West
Cantaloupe! That's what I loved to hate as a child and now as an adult. The edible part really is a lovely orange, if you like orange. I don't even walk through a room where I can see and smell that melon. I always found watermelon and honeydew yummy, but please, keep the cantaloupe far, far away.
Jule Nelson
Lima beans and liver, lima beans and liver, lima beans and liver. Yuck, yucky, yuckiest ever!
At 5 years old, I had broken my left arm twice in one year. . . . It was during this time I became anemic. Because of the anemia, I was forced to eat copious amounts of lima beans and liver. This was because of the iron and vitamins. It wasn't just eating this vile protein concoction, I had to endure every day liver tablets, liver capsules, iron shots.
The tablets and capsules were huge. They would begin to dissolve halfway down my throat, causing me to gag, which led to daily entertainment for the other children. You didn't dare cut them in half; that just opened a whole new world of liver essence, not good at all.
The worst was the liver tonic. Lord only knows how I survived that. The tonic was a thick, smelly, sluggish, tarry, chunky concoction invented by the devil himself, or a plot for 1950s parents to pay back their hyper, mischievous, ornery children.
My mother, being a nurse, told me this was the best way to build my blood back to healthy levels. Grammy just said, "I cooked it, you eat it, child." Four times a week for about a year and a half, I ate lima beans and liver.
Bless their hearts, Grammy and Mom and Dad tried their best to invent new recipes to cook for my meals. It didn't help. They occasionally would have tasting tests, cooking liver and other blood-enriching foods in different ways to make them interesting, and I would pick the one I thought best to go into my recipe file. Oh, yeah.
I truly loved my grammy and mom. I kept that recipe file. It was not a pleasant time in my life by any means. This incident led to spending time with Grams and Mom that I, as an adult, cherish.
Lill Laney
Las Animas
If it even smelled green (while cooking), I had already decided that I wasn't going to eat it before it even had a chance to hit the table . . . or my plate for that matter. All I would eat was corn, any way it was presented. I got by with it because I was the youngest and the brattiest.
I learned (after I got over the brat part) that some veggies are actually good for you. I never made my kids eat anything that I wouldn't eat mainly because I didn't fix it. That included liver and canned spinach. On the other side of that coin, as a kid I ate my share of cream puffs and then some, and it took a while before I could eat them again. Taste buds can change and you can really get creative to satisfy those buds and put some personality in food when it has none. For example, I flavor the water when fixing my hot wheat cereal and I let it lump on purpose. Those lumps are really tasty where otherwise that cereal is pretty bland. If I can do it, you can do it!
Sandy Lukehart
Like any other kid, I did not care for the taste of oatmeal or the texture of it in my mouth. Oatmeal breakfast was a constant battle for me with my mom. One day, I totally refused to eat it, no way, no how. Mom, who knew me and my eating habits, knew I would be hungry for lunch. Off to school I went, not thinking about what was in store for me when I returned home.
Walking home for lunch was tiring and a workout, having to cross the 18th Street bridge. A hardy lunch for the return to school was what I was hoping for; maybe a tuna salad sandwich or baloney-and-cheese sandwich, something along that line.
I arrived home and to my surprise there sitting on the table was the same bowl of oatmeal I had refused to eat that morning. Imagine, cold oatmeal for lunch with no microwave oven to reheat it (microwave ovens were not in existence yet) to make it more palatable.
Hunger is a strange thing. It makes even the worst-tasting things somehow taste better, so I downed the oatmeal and learned a valuable lesson. Oatmeal tastes better warm and fresh for breakfast than cold and sticky for lunch!
Now at my age, the doctor said eat oatmeal, a good source of fiber and good for you. Imagine that: Me actually eating oatmeal almost every day now and liking it.
Salvador Caro
Back in the early to mid-1950s, Campbell's tomato soup was 8 cents a can. We had a lot of it. As an adult, I never bought it nor served it to my family. Guess what my sons' favorite soup is now they are adults? Tomato soup, which I never served them.
Betty Kurtz
Those bugged-out eyes.
There I was, just a little boy, watching my mother in the kitchen. Mom had the biggest pot on the stove full of hot spices.
Then the adult fun began: Throw the crabs into boiling water and slam the top shut, adjust the lid and put a brick on top to hold down the lid because those nasty "bugs" would try to escape and run across the floor in all directions.
I was the only child (I'm sure) living in the Chesapeake area that hated those big bugs.
Even cooked, they would stare at me with those bugged-out eyes and big pincers.
I hated those crabs so much. Maybe that's why I live in Southeast Colorado — to escape their horrid taste.
James M. Seward
When I was a kid, the food I hated the most was spinach. In nursery school (in Rochester, N.Y.) they always fed us lunch and you had to clean your plate. One day they served spinach, which contained way too much pepper. Well, I was forced to eat it but it tasted terrible.
After that day, I could not even look at or smell spinach.
Note: I enjoyed watching Popeye cartoons, but I never understood why spinach made him super-human.
Charles "Chuck"
I remember toddling/walking beside Grandpa as he inspected the ruler-straight rows of his large backyard vegetable garden of the Alma Street house. He stopped here and there to snap up a marauding bug, pull off an unsatisfactory leaf, or pick off a vegetable to munch for flavor and ripeness. We shared vegetables right off the plants, and a salt shaker miraculously appeared from his shirt pocket when we arrived at the tomatoes. Sun-ripened tomatoes, a light sprinkling of salt, and heaven arrived in your mouth. Peas were sweet, full of flavor and firm. My taste buds were spoiled with all that goodness.
Imagine my dismay when Mother brandished the shiny can opener over a can of peas and put a spoonful on my plate, time after time. Those peas were grayish, mushy and had no sunshine flavor. I sneaked one and two at a time off my plate and dropped them on the floor for my dog, Mikey, to enjoy. He was a Boston terrier and we became best friends when I was born. He loved canned peas. I did not. But one fateful day, he lost his taste for peas and I was exposed. A very irritated mother set me to cleaning up the hated mushy balls from under the table. Later she relented and did not make me eat canned peas ever again because she didn't like them either.
Now, when I cannot purchase fresh peas, frozen peas appear on our table frequently. They seem to be the next best thing to Grandpa's garden.
Patricia Talbott-Crump
Pueblo West
Food products I disliked were fat of meat and slimy spinach out of a can.
The fat was deposited just below the table. The table was square with braces between the four sides and I put it on the board.
While doing the dishes and clearing the table, I would take it out from hiding and throw it outside for the dog and cats. A spanking would have been in order if we were found out.
I am smiling right now. Believe me, I would have had a licking from the razor strop.
Olive Rogge
As a child, I would have to say one of the foods I most hated was the horrible, army green-colored peas that were served us in the school lunchroom. In the small school I attended, the teachers were very strict about the children cleaning their plates. We even had to show our plates to the teacher before we could leave the lunchroom.
How I hated those peas! I actually felt fear when I entered the lunchroom and saw they were being served again. What to do? I came up with this idea: Hide them in my mouth, show my plate to the teacher and make a dash to the restroom and spit them out.
It worked. Was I ever surprised when I found out my sister Charlene was doing the same thing.
Peas — yuck!
Janice Cox
Some issues are not meant to be resolved. Put yourself in my shoes. Growing up in northern Minnesota it was a family ritual to head for "the lakes" every weekend. All the kids would go wading in the lakes, laughing, splashing and having a blast, only to find when reaching the shore that their legs were covered with leeches. The leeches looked exactly like strips of liver dangling from our calves. To this day, when I look at liver, I do NOT see liver. I rest my case.
Marlene Fisher
Scrambled eggs and toast — it sounds harmless enough. Most kids would never list this entree among their awful food memories. However, I certainly do.
When I was growing up, my parents had strict mealtime rules. There were eight hungry children in our family and although I never missed a meal, food was not plentiful. My siblings and I were not allowed to object to any meal that was placed in front of us. . . . Wasting precious food ranked high on my parents' list of unpardonable sins.
Like most families in the 1950s, my mom did the lion's share of cooking. However, once in a blue moon, an early Saturday morning would find my dad rattling around in the kitchen, whistling a favorite tune while preparing his "breakfast of choice" for all of us to savor. The recipe, on the surface, seemed fairly inoffensive. He would begin by whisking enough eggs to feed an army, pouring them into a cavernous, cast-iron skillet and cooking them until they began to solidify. Then Dad would stir in his secret ingredient: a large can of stewed tomatoes. The eggs and tomatoes would simmer for a few minutes until the mixture was the right "chunky-liquidy" consistency. Finally, he would elegantly ladle this creation atop a piece of toasted bread.
Now, I am the first to admit there is nothing wrong with scrambled eggs, canned tomatoes and toast. However, when combined, the results are downright scary. The lumps of pale-yellow egg and the rosy-colored, watery tomato broth, along with the soggy bread, bore a striking resemblance to an unpleasant experience from my past — a similar "creation" that spewed from my innards following a horrific episode of food poisoning I suffered after consuming salmonella-laced, 10-day-old spaghetti.
As a child, it was impossible to separate the egg-tomato breakfast from my food-poisoning memories. . . . I survived the trauma by holding my nose, closing my eyes and stuffing the food to the back of my mouth while holding my breath and chugging a giant drink of water. . . . After what seemed like an eternity, my plate was eventually cleaned and I was mercifully excused from the table. Dad's breakfast did not kill me. However, I honestly believed it would.
Now, more than 50 years later, I can chuckle about this experience, but I still get queasy just remembering my personal food nightmare.
Gwen Torrez
When I was young, I was a skinny kid. Food was an important part of my life. The rule was I didn't leave the table until my plate was clean.
My hated food was liver. My mother cooked it until it was like leather. At one such meal, I couldn't finish my portion.
I stuffed the remainder in my jeans pocket and forgot about it. Come wash day, my Mom checked the pockets for whatever and found the dried-up liver. Well, you can guess the rest.
Punishment was swift and firm.
I have never eaten liver since.
Betty Whelan
Pueblo West
I lived in Aguilar as I grew up with my three sisters. My mother, Josephine Cuzzetto, was a good cook, but I didn't like it when she cooked our rabbits we raised because they felt more like pets to me. We raised pigs and chickens, too, but it didn't bother me when we ate them.
Christine Brabb
Frozen peas. Inedible. Unnatural. No resemblance to actual food, either in appearance or taste.
My childhood dinner-table strategy was simple: Douse the little green meanies with copious amounts of ketchup. Insert as many peas as humanly possible into mouth. Mumble, "Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom." Go into bathroom and spit huge mouthful of ketchup-covered peas into toilet. Flush. Return to dinner table and proceed as normal.
For years, I thought I'd duped my parents with my ingenious disappearing-peas act. Turns out that they knew exactly what I was doing all along (Duh!) and chose to go along with the charade, undoubtedly enjoying a good laugh while I was in the bathroom executing my death-to-all-peas plan. I still don't care for peas, but I love my parents.
S.G. Smith
Pueblo West
Growing up, when my mother was cooking, it was usually a welcome waft to my sense of smell. However, there was one food item that would send me out the door immediately. That was menudo. My mother would start out by boiling a slab of tripe, not once, but three times (replacing the water each time). I'm not sure what she was boiling out of it, but it smelled so bad that I couldn't stomach it (no pun intended). My dinner on those days was a bowl of cereal. Apparently there is a more modern way to attain tripe these days, but I wouldn't know because to this day, I will not eat menudo.
Geri Duran
— Compiled by Mary Jean Porter


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (69 votes).
In short: Good, up until results processingIn full: A common problem with private race promoters - they do everything they need to until they've had everyone's money, and they've started the race.The results were published 2 1/2 days after the event, and came in the form of a list of bib numbers, a list of times (against bib numbers), and seperated into males and females.They didn't capture anyone's club names, so whilst searching for your own result was a pain in the arse, having to find five other people's results for the club records was annoying. I spare a thought for whoever at Dartford Roadrunners had to compile the 30+ (?) results for their Grand Prix tournament.Anomolies occured in pricing as well - they were taking on-the-day entries for less than the online entrance, which is just wrong.Regardless, I'll do it again. It's a fast 10k course not far from home, and there's all the facilities of the athletics track there.If they could just spend a bit more time and effort on publishing results, this would be so much better.Date of review: January 14, 2015
In short: Flat 10km runIn full: This race was OK and thats really about it. Norman park is a nice area to run around and with plenty of people out and about it made it a nice Sunday run.Marshalls were very helpful and gave great support throughout the run.Knowing the area well, there is plenty of pathways out of Norman Park through woodland areas which could of made it better rather than the 4 laps.The queue at the end of the race for a medal and t-shirts NEEDS to better organisedOverall it was a nice January race and i will look at doing more MCC races down the trackDate of review: January 12, 2015
In short: flat, laps so dull, busy park, lots of dogs, not very slickIn full: it was ok, just, and only because it was our club grand prix event and there were 60+ of us there so we had lots of banter.Positives - accurate in distance, good parking and decent amenities. Negatives - 3 laps of the track was congested as people were lapping with no organisation. Busy park and lots of jigging and jagging. poor race organisation at the finish with 1 chap giving out cheap medals and cheap cotton T's so long queues. It could be so much better but i'll never know as i won't be doing a MCC run again. Definitely prefer runs organised by running clubs as they know what is required. Date of review: January 12, 2015
In short: Very nice, flat 10k. Excellent valueIn full: A very enjoyable fast 10k. A mixture of running track, tarmac paths and grass; all flat with nice facilities at the finish. Not a massive race but £13 for a medal and t-shirt (choice of sizes) makes it very good value (though I wonder if they ran out of "Bromley 10k" medals: I got one but my wife got a generic MCC one).One downside was the congestion on the running track: 3 laps at the start did mean lots of lapping other runners: surely it would be better to start us on the inside lanes and move outwards each lap? Also some dodging of other park users was needed, though the paths were fairly wide so I've seen much worse!Overall a fast, flat 10k: a relative rarity in January! Perfect: maybe not, but good value and enjoyable: definitely!Date of review: January 11, 2015
In short: Poorly organised, plastic medals and multi lapsIn full: I entered the race in advance using the organiser's, MCC Promotions, website and was charged £15, then to find people were entering on the day only paid £13. Surely people who enter in advance should get a discounted price?The race consists of 3 laps of a running track, 4 laps of Norman Park and a 300m finish on the track. You have to be very aware of other park users, as there were a few incidents of dogs or children running out in-front of runners. The organisation of the race was very poor, there were no marshals in car park directing or any signs on the main road to direct people ensuring they are going to the right place. When we finished the race there was only one person handing out the medals and t-shirts, so we all had to queue for ages and whilst getting cold. The medal we received is very disappointing, very cheap and it doesn't even mention 'Bromley' on it and there is no date on it either. It was made of plastic and only mentions 'MCC 10k Series'. It must have cost MCC Promotions to buy a job lots of these for all of their races for eternity.I don't think I will enter another race organised by MCC Promotions in the future.Date of review: January 11, 2015
In short: Below average and a bit annoyingIn full: To echo some of the comments below, the queue at the end was a joke, how hard is it to give out medals and goody bags. No time clock at the end even though it was an athletics track. The off road section churned up really badly so everyone went off course, mostly cutting the corners saving approx 100 meters according to my runkeeper. Laps are always annoying and meant the course deteriorated further, I cant see me running it again.Date of review: January 19, 2014
In short: Average raceIn full: Average race to say the least . The queue at the end without any watered was diabolical . Not a single banner , no time watch at the end . Course itself is ok but nothing exceptional - park was open to public so we had to avoid kids and dogs - live locally so easy to get to . But only a few race in January it was nice to test myself - will do it again Date of review: January 14, 2014
In short: It did what i wanted, but pretty chaotic and repetitiveIn full: I wanted a flat 10k with good level of runners to push me and it did that fine. Not great organisation, didnt get a medal, course repetitive and the laps of the park varied each time as so many cutting corners (my gps said 6.06 miles). But its close, was a lovely day and I got a PB (even allowing for the distance) so was happy.Date of review: January 13, 2014
In short: Could be much better!In full: Not a bad race - 3 laps of the track causes problems with the faster runners overlapping the slower ones. 4 laps of the same square park is mind numbing and too repetative! The queue at the finish line for medal and Tshirt was pathetic! 2 people handing out bags but one poor man individually searching for tshirts in correct size and then handing each 2 leaflets is very poor organising!Also only race I have done that doesnt give water/fruit at the finish line!!Will come back next year but only becuase its so local for me. Wouldnt travel to do this event!Date of review: January 13, 2014
In short: well organised, nice routeIn full: My comeback from injury event and I really enjoyed today's outing. The course was a mix of track, path and across grass. The grass did churn up quite badly with some very muddy patches. I struggled on the grass as I am running with damaged medial ligaments and was overly cautious of foot placement.Organisers and marshals all very helpful and friendly. The only critique was having to queue at the end for the medal/T-shirt which caused a bit of a bottle-neck.A good value event and I will gladly enter other events from this organiser Date of review: January 12, 2014
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Obama: "Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled."
The facts: A team of economists led by Harvard's Raj Chetty released a study last week that found the United States isn't any less socially mobile than it was in the 1970s. Looking at children born between 1971 and 1993, the economists found that the odds of a child born in the poorest 20 percent of families making it into the top 20 percent haven't changed.
Still, in a study of 22 countries, economist Miles Corak of the University of Ottawa found that the United States ranked 15th in social mobility. Only Italy and Britain among wealthy countries ranked lower. By some measures, children in the United States are as likely to inherit their parents' economic status as their height.
Obama: "We'll need Congress to protect more than 3 million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer. But I will act on my own to slash bureaucracy and streamline the permitting process for key projects, so we can get more construction workers on the job as fast as possible."
The facts: Cutting rules and regulations doesn't address what's holding up most transportation projects, which is lack of money. The federal Highway Trust Fund will run out of money in August without action. To finance infrastructure projects, Obama wants Congress to raise taxes on businesses that keep profits or jobs overseas, but that idea has been a political nonstarter.
The number of projects affected by the administration's efforts to cut red tape is relatively small, said Joshua Schank, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a research group. "The reason most of these projects are delayed is they don't have enough money. So it's great that you are expediting the review process, but the review process isn't the problem. The problem is we don't have enough money to invest in our infrastructure in the first place."
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The facts: This would be a hefty boost in the federal minimum wage, now $7.25, but not many would see it.
Most employees of federal contractors already earn more than $10.10. About 10 percent of those workers, roughly 200,000, might be covered by the higher minimum wage. But there are several wrinkles. The increase would not take effect until 2015 at the earliest, and it doesn't apply to existing federal contracts, only new ones.
Obama also said he'll press Congress to raise the federal minimum wage overall. He tried that last year, seeking a $9 minimum, but Congress didn't act.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, in her prepared Republican response: " Last month, more Americans stopped looking for a job than found one. Too many people are falling further and further behind because, right now, the president's policies are making people's lives harder."
The facts: She leaves out a significant factor in the high number of people who aren't looking for jobs: Baby boomers are retiring.
It's true that a large part of the decline in the still-high unemployment rate is due to jobless workers who have given up looking for a job. Also, there are roughly three people seeking every job opening.
As of December, the economy had gained 3,246,000 jobs since Obama took office in January 2009. When he was inaugurated, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent and on the rise. It peaked at 10 percent in October 2009 and has been inching down ever since, to 6.7 percent in December.


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Skip to comments.Obama denies protection for infants of botched abortions [Jill Stanek rebuts Obama obfuscations]
Posted on 07/07/2008 11:11:40 AM PDT by rhema
A pro-life activist in Illinois says Barack Obama has repeatedly mischaracterized his opposition to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a state senator.
The Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act was signed into law in 2002 after receiving unanimous support from the U.S. Senate. The measure that forces hospitals to give medical care to abortion survivors -- if warranted -- even received the backing of liberal senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts ), Barbara Boxer (D-California), and Hillary Clinton (D-New York).
Obama now says he did not support the Illinois measure because it "lacked the Federal language clarifying the act would not be used to undermine Roe vs. Wade."
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek recently wrote a column for WorldNetDaily.com titled "Obama's biggest lie about supporting infanticide." She points out Obama actively opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act for three years in the Illinois senate.
"He voted against it. He was the sole senator speaking against it on the [Illinois] senate floor [for] two years. And the third year, he held the bill from being considered altogether in committee and killed the bill," Stanek contends.
She says Obama's explanation for opposing the Illinois bill does not pass the straight-face test because, as a committee chairman, he blocked the measure's sponsor from adding the federal language protecting Roe vs. Wade. That federal provision says the bill does not deny or add rights to the species Homo sapiens before birth.
Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after holding a live aborted baby at a Chicago-area hospital where she worked as a registered nurse.
"Barack Obama is now saying that, had that provision been in the Illinois bill he would have voted for it, which is absolutely false because in 2003, the senate sponsor tried to add that provision and Barack Obama, as the chairman of the committee where the bill was being held, disallowed him from adding that provision, disallowed me from testifying, disallowed the committee from even voting on it. So, it sat in committee for 22 months," Stanek explains.
She reveals it was not until Obama left the Illinois Senate that the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act passed in August of 2005.
From OnTheIssues.org: Obama on Abortion
* Ok for state to restrict late-term partial birth abortion. (Apr 2008)
* We can find common ground between pro-choice and pro-life. (Apr 2008)
* Undecided on whether life begins at conception. (Apr 2008)
* Teach teens about abstinence and also about contraception. (Apr 2008)
* GovWatch: Obama's "present" votes were a requested strategy. (Feb 2008)
* Expand access to contraception; reduce unintended pregnancy. (Feb 2008)
* Rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007. (Jan 2008)
* Voted against banning partial birth abortion. (Oct 2007)
* Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 major diseases. (Aug 2007)
* Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion. (Apr 2007)
* Extend presumption of good faith to abortion protesters. (Oct 2006)
* Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism. (Oct 2006)
* Moral accusations from pro-lifers are counterproductive. (Oct 2004)
* Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill. (Jun 2004)
* Protect a woman's right to choose. (May 2004)
* Supports Roe v. Wade. (Jul 1998)
* Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
* Voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
* Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
* Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
* Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
* Sponsored bill providing contraceptives for low-income women. (May 2006)
* Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
* Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)
From OnTheIssues.org: John McCain on Abortion:
* Pro-life and an advocate for the Rights of Man everywhere. (Feb 2008)
* GovWatch: 1999: Don't force women to have illegal operations. (Feb 2008)
* Abortion issue shows what kind of country we are. (Aug 2007)
* Concerned if women undergo illegal dangerous operations. (May 2007)
* Supports federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. (May 2007)
* Prosecute abortion doctors, not women who get them. (Jan 2000)
* Family Conference if daughter wanted an abortion. (Jan 2000)
* Abortion OK if raped; and no testing for rape. (Jan 2000)
* Supports fetal tissue research; against over-intensity. (Jan 2000)
* Overturn Roe v. Wade, but keep incest & rape exceptions. (Jan 2000)
* Support adoption & foster care; work together on abortion. (Oct 1999)
* Wants Roe vs. Wade made irrelevant, but would not repeal it. (Aug 1999)
* Opposes partial-birth abortions & public financing. (Aug 1999)
* Nominate justices based on experience, and values. (Jun 1999)
* Restrict abortions; no partial-birth; no public funding. (Jul 1998)
Voting Record
* Supports repealing Roe v. Wade. (May 2007)
* Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
* Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
* Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
* Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
* Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
* Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
* Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
* Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
* Expand embryonic stem cell research. (Jun 2004)
* Rated 75% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
CAn someone please tell me how you kill an infant who survived an abortion? Do the doctors do it? The nurse? Do they dump the baby in the garbage not recognizing that it's still alive? Do they with hold food and water and oxygen and warmth? I'm serious on this....I want to know.
ETL, thanks for posting. Will dig for his words in the Illinois floor I had, will post.
Obama is such a liar on this. But the MainStreamMedia loves lies -—especially on this subject.
Here you go:
Links to Barack Obama's votes on Illinois Born Alive Protection Act
-Includes transcripts and bill links
All of the above. Living babies have been left to starve and dehydrate to death in a back room of the hospital. Alternatively, they have been dumped head first into a bucket of water. Sometimes the doctor will suffocate the baby. This is done in American hospitals.
Obama is an extremist on this issue. He'd better be, or Mean Michelle, an officer of Planned Parenthood, will clobber him.
The baby is allowed to die from medical neglect. The doctor is then required to submit both Birth and Death Certificates.
Senator Barack Killthebabies Obama.
And "pro choice" people will defend
KILLING BORN BABIES, ie INFANTICIDE
in order to protect their ability to have the "right" to consequence-free sexual behavior.
You can easily get most feminists to admit that they feel that abortion is the great "equalizer" since women are the ones that get pregnant.
FYI, Nat Hentoff (now retired from the Village Voice), is a friend of mine; We agree few issues, but we agree on pro-life issues.
Infanticide Candidate for President
Obama is beneath contempt and unfit to hold any public office.
Here is a link to a thread on Jill Stanek's editorial.
He is immersed in the Mansonesque Muslim cult.
He campaigned for his first cousin Odinga who signed the memo of agreement vis-a-vis instituting Shariah law in Kenya.
Islamobama began his career in the living room of Bernie Dohrn who praised the Manson family.
Thus family values to Obama are Manson family values.
They put it in a room and leave it to die. I have read heartbreaking stories of nurses who went into a closet and held the baby till it died - just to give it some comfort.
The nurses did not want to lose their jobs by openly objecting to the practice.
We would say, walk out and find another place to work, God is watching!!!
Yes, I am well aware of that.
Was he simply BAMBOOZLING THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES?
Barack Obama is qualified to do voiceovers for ketchup, laundry detergents, pet food. He's NOT qualified to be POTUS. He's devious under all that fluff.
Behind his powerwash of "just words", he's just evil.
I would like to propose a bit of insurrection, if I may. The Pro-Abortion bunch are both male and female, the ladies are the only ones who get the attention from the opposition, but the male portion of this constituency is far and away the nastier of the two. The guys who support abortion on demand do so because they don't want to give up their lifestyle of uncommitted sex with no responsibilities. The women look at it more as being denied the chance to earn a livelihood, by and large it's a self defense issue and most hate it and look for alternatives even as they fervently support the issue. I'm certain that Obama himself belongs to the former group, and most female feminists belong to the latter group. Obama addressed his father's day speech to the issue of male responsibility (in an attempt to kiss up to the Clinton supporters, I believe). Even the little bit of male responsibility he advocated, laced with monetary rewards from the government, stirred up an uproar among the guys! This wedge issue can be, and as a moral matter should be, exploited! So many female Clinton supporters have up close and personal experience with the "yuck" factor of Barack Obama. Whether they will act upon their convictions remains to be seen, but one thing is sure, a sizeable portion of center and right oriented voters would take to the streets if saw what these women have seen of that campaign. There are a LOT of very distasteful male Obama supporters out there, how can we introduce them to the American public?
"Barack Obama is qualified to do voiceovers for ketchup, laundry detergents, pet food. He's NOT qualified to be POTUS. He's devious under all that fluff."
Barack Obama is qualified to do voiceovers for ketchup, laundry detergents and pet food. Hes NOT qualified to be POTUS."
His speech pattern is Hitleresque and hypnotic. Dume fools are falling into trances for this Obama whose only been in the Senate for about 140 days!
DumB fools in trances. (fixing typo).
This man must never be allowed to become President of our country.
Roger that.
He has studied well the bombastic rhetorical styles of many politicians and churchmen (like Farrakhan and Wright). He imitates, but sounds like a parrot. And he cannot get the sneer out of his voice.
Obama is a Hollow Man.
The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
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