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I've been very happy with this one. I don't have enough space to grow grain now, so I'm just buying in bulk. Fresh milled flour is wonderfully moist and makes for a great bread. I have a hand mill so it builds good arm muscles too :)
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I've been very happy with this one. I don't have enough space to grow grain now, so I'm just buying in bulk. Fresh milled flour is wonderfully moist and makes for a great bread. I have a hand mill so it builds good arm muscles too :)
3 Tablespoons of seeds filled the sprouting cup. I'll be eating a lot of sprouts in the next week! Last night was a salad topped with sprouts. This was todays lunch, a pita with lifelite vegetarian deli slices and lots of sprouts :)
I used the directions given here to make some flour tortillas. I used half white flour and half hand ground whole wheat. The only problem I had was the tutorial says to use a high heat and I burned a couple that way. What actually worked was 30 seconds on each side at my normal frying temperature (4.5 on my electric range)
They made for some fabulous bean and cheese quesadillas :)
My sprouting cup got lost in the move :( It worked so fabulously that I decided to get another Easy Sprout before starting this goal. Meant to soak them over night, but forgot to empty this morning so they soaked 24 hours instead…hehe.
I'd like add a couple (has to be 2 due to city ordinances) of angoras to my little urban homestead for fiber, and also because I hear they are supposed to produce more than enough fertilizer for my growing space.
About a month I ago I started some fruits and vegetables indoors for fresh produce during the winter. I got mini dwarf orange, tangerine, 3-N-1 citrus trees, and strawberries going for fruits. I took some tomato cuttings and have them going in big pots. I also started bush beans, cucumber, spinach, cantaloupe from seed.
Yesterday I received some seeds I ordered for dwarf zucchini, small cucumber, and strawberries (to replace the end of season freebie starts that didn't make it). I also started a pot of mixed leaf lettuce.
After more than a year and a half of working on being more frugal, I can definitely say this has become part of my lifestyle. It's helped me to do some really important things, like using the money I saved to pay off my student loans early and buy my first home. It also put me in a better mindset for my bigger goals of living simply and urban homesteading.
This is one of those goals I've only been keeping up with on and off. I'm going to try working harder on it. Joined the gym at work last week and have been getting up at 4:30 every morning to work out at least an hour before work, and was even in on the weekends. My workout is more serious too. On the elliptical have been alternating 2 mins jogging speed and 2 minutes walking speed for a half hour. The other half hour is spent on the weights alternating with calestenics.
For freeweights I'm now doing 2×10 each of Bicep Curls, Shoulder Raises, Tricep Kickbacks, Overhead Extensions, and Upward Rows. On the machines I'm doing seated leg presses, seated leg curls, lat rows, lat pull downs, reverse flys, flys, and shoulder presses. On rest days I'll be working on putting together more calisthenics and a core routine.
I was really pleased with my first garden. So much so that I'm going to start making attempts at moving towards urban homesteading and growing as much of my own food as I can.
I grew a little bit of everything to see how well they worked for me: corn, beets, kohlrabi, spinach, potatoes, carrots, mixed greens, cauliflower, broccoli, cantalope, zucchini, cucumber, tomatoes, and bush beans. I started a dwarf apple tree and raspberries. Also constructed coldframes at the end of the year.
I've forgotten to check into the site for a while. I seeded mothers day weekend (only tomatoes were from starts) and reseeded he couple missing spots memorial day weekend, and things are looking good. I'm excited to see the progress of things I've never grown before, like this corn. It's up to about 8 inches tall now. It better get a move on if it's going to be "Knee high by the Fourth of July".
It was finally dry and warm enough for me to finish preparing my garden this weekend. I pulled sod off the 7×15 area, added fresh topsoil, compost, and fertilizer. Now all I have to do is give it a good turn when it dries out again and it's ready for seeds! I even took off May 8th in hopes of good weather for planting weekend.
I think I've completed this goal to my satisfaction. I'll be closing this and moving on to "cook with dehydrated food", now that I'm busy dehydrating.
Another batch is out of the dehydrator. This time it's lemons and limes. I washed the fruit, used a food slicer to get them cut evenly (about 1/4 inch), and dehydrated at 155 for about 24 hours until crisp.
I love having a lemon slice in my water or iced tea, but too often forget I have lemons in the fridge so they go to waste. This way they are always fresh and available :)
I'm so excited about how the Aldis spaghetti sauce same out! This is one jars worth of sauce. Half is shown as hard chips, the other half I vitamixed into 1/3 cup of powder :) It took almost 48 hours of dehydrating at 155 to get it dry enough to powder, but I'm really tickled with this "spaghetti sauce bullion" I got as a result.
Off to finish powdering the other 5 jars!
I made big batches of pb&j sandwiches and cookies then froze them for grab and go lunch options on busy mornings. (There's no excuse for eating in the cafeteria now!)
I know I missed posting a lot of these here. The rest are on my blog.
The grocery store had big signs up saying banana prices are on the rise. So the next time I passed Aldis I stopped to get 4 bunches of bananas to dehydrate. That way I'll have cheap banana chips to munch on when fresh banana prices are high.
I'm still busily working on building up a stash of dried fruits and veggies. Here are the new batches: frozen corn, broccoli, mushrooms, and onions.
I learned the hard was onions should be dehydrated outside. The house smelled for days and my eyes watered as they dried. Ugh!
Someone I went to a gardening class with is involved with The Victory Garden Initiative. They are based in my area and I'm excited about getting involved. It's still quite early for gardening in Wisconsin, so I've just started digging. I got halfway though tearing off sod and will have to wait until after tonights blizzard is over and melted before I can finish.
Here's batch 3. One bunch of celery sliced and dehydrated at 135 degrees over night on fruit roll up trays produced 1/2 cup. Since these shrink so much it'll take me 3 more bunches to fill a mason jar…crazy!
Batch 2 just came out of the dehydrator. I used an apple peeler to core, peel, and slice these apples. They were spritzed with lemon juice and dehydrated at 135 for 12 hours.
I think I could have taken them out sooner. I was a little confused though because they were always still a little pliable when I checked them. As soon as they were out from under the heat though they crisped right up.
I have a feeling I'll be in for a treat when it comes time to cook these up :)


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The first illusion is created by using the illusion knitting technique so that you see squares when you look from a distance, stripes when you look closer, and circles when you look from an angle.
The second illusion comes from the perception of 25 different shades when the hanging only uses five different yarns. This effect is only seen when the piece is viewed from directly in front.
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Surveys show that the vast majority of tourists leave Orkney feeling very satisfied with the quality of their experience. That's largely thanks to the local army of hoteliers, guest house and self catering owners, retailers, artisans, chefs, waiting staff and tour guides who work hard to deliver the highest possible standards of service.
Supporting the sector's dedicated workforce is Orkney Tourism Group, which now has more than 400 members. This non-profit making company was founded in 2005 to represent the interests of those involved in Orkney tourism. Its aims include developing tourism by extending the season, increasing the spread of visitors across Orkney, helping operators develop skills and improving transport links. The group launched a new visitor website for Orkney in November 2013.
Tourism businesses also have the support of Visit Scotland which is responsible for the marketing of Orkney outwith the area. It operates a local office and runs staffed visitor centres at the Travel Centre in Kirkwall all year round and at the Ferry Terminal in Stromness during the summer months.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette Gallery
NOTE: If you are not a
WordPress Blogger just skip down to the collection of Silhouette Gallery photos
So WordPress decided to change the editor where one creates a new post and I just couldn't see how it is any sort of an improved model. Perhaps it just takes some getting accustomed to the new format?
"No worries, just switch to classic mode" they reassured me at the top of the WordPress Page. I clicked.
And then when you click :PREVIEW the post from the classic mode, it then reverts to the New Editor, it does not stay in "classic mode"
Life is all about change and our ability to adapt to change, right?
But sometimes CHANGE is NOT an improvement.
(And what the heck is the BEEP BEEP BOOP someone created for the loading while you wait? Oh my)
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming and I know talking about computer issues bores people.
MY SILHOUETTE GALLERY – You've seen a few of these before if you follow the blog
St. John at Cupples Field South Side
Looking up Murray Avenue
Dinosaur Demolition (you've seen this one before)
Celeste as a bride last weekend. I was actually trying to get a good silhouette but it didn't quite work out.
Winter trees in Highland Park
Gigapan Work on Mt. Washington
Cars Driving Uphill Have the Right of Way
….and so when I leave school and I'm driving down Parkfield Street (AKA the Cow Trail) and someone's driving uphill, the road's so narrow you have to pull over to the curb and allow the uphill car passage. Even pulled over it can be a tight squeeze.
Wouldn't you know it, I got lucky on Monday afternoon and as I'm at the curb I look out the passenger window and see the neighborhood of Carrick and St. Basil's Church up at the top of another hill. One shot with the window down and then I put the camera back in my school bag and take my foot of the brake and head down the hill as the uphill driver gives a wave of thanks.
Looked up St. Basil's story, too.
This shot shows Pittsburgh topography. Hills and more hills.
The trees are full of leaves now. Shot with the Canon 70-200mm lens as I was headed to the Girl's Softball game.
Found Shopping List
Sunday afternoon I drove across the Monongahela River to the Waterfront at Homestead, PA and did a little grocery shopping.
When I wheeled my cart to load the car, I saw this little list on the pavement of the parking lot.
I used to photograph found lists, little wrinkled slips of paper, write poems about them. Some lists abandoned in a cart- seemed like poems when I found them.
I'd think about the people who wrote them. Sometimes they'd written the oddest mix of items.
I have a friend who keeps a magnetized shopping list pad on her fridge and when she uses something up, she writes it down immediately so she can replenish the larder. I'm not that disciplined. I've written a list and then left it at home but it can help when trying to remember what I'd written down.
There are even tablets of preprinted lists and you just check the boxes of what you need to get at the store. That's not my style of list, either. When I entertain I'm more likely to write a menu AND a shopping list. Cross things off as I put them in the cart.
What is your "list style"?
One Minute It's Summer- Now the Pool's Drained
Officially summer on the calendar but nothing like Back-to-School to bring it to a close. Summer vacation has been wonderful. Relaxing and lots of time with the family. Reading a book, flipping through a magazine, lazing about on the hammock, getting things done or not. Fresh sliced tomatoes with salt and pepper. Summer's grand.
Then school started with meetings and room set up and although it was a short week of actual teaching(2 days), the back to school feeling is in earnest and a new cycle has begun
A bit hot and muggy tonight from the rain, I can't hear the cicadas but the change of season is impending. The earlier sunsets. Something about the feel of the air. Today we saw swarms of students shopping for wastebaskets and bedding, eating ice cream as they crossed the street. The city has a different feel since they've returned to campuses.
I converted both images to black and white to unify them for the thought of swimming in summer and then a different pool, just drained for the season. You get ideas. Some work. Some don't.
Swimming at Aunt Linda's neighbor's pool-
St. Basils on Brownsville Road in the background. Phillips Park Pool in Carrick. Shot at the Corn Festival.
Black Widow Adds a Lot of Screams to the Park
Back and forth, as a pendulum.
Spin round and round simultaneously. Not to mention the height. Oh my.
I shot this angle at dusk.
No, I did not ride it but was fascinated by the long lines of people waiting to get onto it and be scared out of their minds. The screams rated high in decibels.
You can read a great article about it and there is a video link to view as well. Plan a vacation in Pittsburgh and take the Black Widow at Kennywood.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful
Photographed during a family visit to Hardy, Virginia. Labor Day Weekend 2006. I like the green and warmth in this photo as it is white, cold and gray in Pittsburgh today.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful Click here to view fellow bloggers responses to the weekly photo challenge. Their links are in the comments section. A wide variety of photographs.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Self-Portrait
Along the Monongahela River by late afternoon light and at night on the way home from the Waterfront in Homestead. Two of my favorite views, anytime of day or night!
I had the cardboard "me" in the car already. We make people out of brown corrugated boxes. I always make myself as a model for the students, this year with gray yarn hair!
Some of you know I teach Art in the City K-8th grade. Not too many people get to make themselves out of scrap cardboard at their job. The "Flat Ruthie" (have you ever seen Flat Stanley?-I photographed him for granddaughter Anna's school project) was driving around with me cause I was thinking it might make a fun Christmas card, myself and the skyline or something.
In 2009 I was in a self-portrait show at Silver Eye Center of Photography. I can't tell you how many images I shot of myself in my kitchen, trying to look young and thin. Figured I could achieve both effects with myself as a cardboard puppet. No wrinkles on the smooth cardboard.
They're Taking Down Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA
A poetry friend emailed and told me they were dismantling the roof. I drove by after school Tuesday, rain and gray. A huge chain link fence has been erected around the perimeter. I could see what she noticed and why she thought it might be an interesting photograph. It felt sad. My friend V says she remembers when the Civic Arena was built(1961) and that the roof never really did work right, although it was supposed to open up to the sky in less than two minutes according to what I read about it.
"Mellon Arena… hosted such music legends as Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, six sold-out nights of Garth Brooks and The Grateful Dead
The Mellon Arena hosted its first show, the Ice Capades, on September 19, 1961. Other notable performance highlights include: The Beatles on September 14, 1964, Elvis Presley on June 25, 1973 and the Page/Plant concert on March 25, 1995, which registered the highest attendance ever in the Arena (17,764) until January 30, 1999 when 18,150 fans packed the arena for a WWF house show." from History of Mellon Arena
And the Penguins play at the new Consol Energy Center built down the hill from the old Arena. Here is phase one, the beginning of the tearing down of the Mellon Arena. Lots of memories for many people.
I have shot an engaged and a wedding couple with the Mellon Arena as the backdrop.
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Happy New Year, ladies!
I popped in to wish you all a happy 2012. I see that NAB and Moo are traveling at the moment. Sandy, so nice of you to set up a new thread in Moo's absence.
I'm hoping to get over here a bit more frequently nowadays. I miss y'all!
Allie, I got your Christmas card too....what a great looking family! I got a lovely card from Twinkie too. For the 3rd year in a row, I did not send Christmas cards. Time got away from me, and blah blah blah......
Anyway, I hope you are all well and happy! Let's hope that 2012 is a fantastic year for us all!
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My mamma Jamma is gonna hurt!
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I didn't do cards either.
I'd send you all pierogies, but the postage to send stuff is getting out of hand.
I wanted to send a package to the mom my church is helping and it was over $5.00. I just don't have cash on me these days, so I drove it over. The package was real small and just some hats and mittens and onsies for her kids. I was not expecting it to cost that much, really.
I bumped into my kids old pricipal. She took on a new position, she's the director of elementary education. She wanted to know if I graduated yet and we talked about me subbing and how her district hasn't called me in for an interview and she said she'd look into it. I really want to get into my kids district for so many reasons. Please say a prayer for me.
My husband lost a friend a few days ago. He went to sleep and never woke up. We are going to the funeral home tomorrow. I'm sure this is going to be tough. This family has been through so much.
I have a smile on my face a mile wide
Lets just say that Mr. Feeney came out well done
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good morning..
I am sorry about your husbands friend......sad ..so sad...
Hubby is making noises with the drill and megara is sleeping up in the chair and KT's boyfriend is sleeping ...he leaves today to go back to his internship...Our granddaughter KT, is doing her internship last week, this week and next week...Love having her here...
I dont have Ava today either..
Hubby goes back to work tomorrow...I did love having him home for the last week...he does a good job of making coffee and oh yah SHELVES...he made some in the pantry closet...cause the metal with plastic on them shelves do not make it easy to store stuff...so now we have real shelves...YES..!!
We had a great party yesterday...15 people...three couldnt come...so not bad..we ate ourselves crazy and visited...we still have a lot of finger rolls left and desserts...a good week to snack on those..
Hubby went to the store yestereday to get milk and ALSO picked up three more spiral hams...we had two smoked hams in the freezer already...we are hammed in ...so I will cook one today...they went down in price ...what would of costed 26.00 cost ten...I love 99 cents a lb food...
have a good day my friends and HELLO to you all that havent been here for a while...come and visit us often...
Thanks everyone for the kind comments about our Christmas card. It was the ONLY family picture we had from the whole year. So glad we got it and that it was DS graduation.
Mony- The end of 2011 has been rough for a lot of folks. Keeping your family in my prayers, and praying for that job offer.
Sandy - Have you heard about the loss over on the WISH board? Robert and Linda were killed last Friday while crossing the road in a cross walk. I know it is going to be hard for a lot of WISHers next weekend. I know you will do great!
I think I am actually ready to get back to work. My teacher 'retired' at Christmas break, and they moved some of the aides around, so I am going to be the only 'constant' left in that room. As Mony knows, Special Ed. kids need there consistency. I know it is going to be great! I loved my old teacher, but she liked to a bit too much.
In the words of Mumbling Jumba:
I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death
You will always be in our thoughts and our hearts.
Crazy enough to want to do another Half Marathon!
If it were all about me? - I'd go with the Princesses!!
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Such a goog feeling to see people in here again! (and I should talk huh?)
Lynette hope your 2012 is filled with joy, health and prosperity as well!
Mony I feel your anxiety. I have finally given up my dream of a classroom. I do enjoy substituting, but its really scary out here now - they got rid of tenure at our district! Not sure how that all went down, but the atmosphere around here is really sad. I do hope your dreams come true! You are working so hard! (much harder than I did!) I can wait to hear your next chapters! Please share them!
Pumba I love hearing your snippets of your life! Thank you for sharing them. It really puts a smile on my face! How's the vacuum coming? Is it in?
Ali I saw it on FB - I was reading it on my phone, and showed it to DH - the name just didnt register. Then I went to WISH, and was reading a thread - and it hit me who he was! and a DUI hit them, and killed them - that so makes me angry!
Good for you recognizing how special needs kids need that consistency - Good luck with your scheduling sometimes that's more important than the people... to have a firm schedule, and know how to help prepare them for transitions! You are a Godsend!
Marita How are you feeling? You seem to have made it thru the holiday period ok. I imagine your dh is working overtime today - I saw on the news how a cold front has reached from MN down to Florida - it got bitter cold here in a hurry - below zero windchill! I"M READY FOR DISNEY!
and. alas. I am not running/wogging this Marathon. I just havent felt right. My foot, and my hip have been giving me pains - and I really hated the 2010 Marathon, the weather did me in, and I didnt like being last. I want to enjoy this vacation! Running is NOT my idea of "enjoyment" Yet I do feel guilty. (esp watching my weight go up up up!)
This was the first time in a long time I sent out Christmas Cards! I was so proud of myself - I sent to my cousins, and brother and mom an old picture of us at my grandma's house - when I was very young! No one said a thing! In fact - y'all are the only ones that acknowledged you got a card!! (Lynette, if I didnt send you one, it was because I wasnt sure if you'd remember me, or if you'd moved!)
Nab and Moo cant wait to read more of your trip!
I have a smile on my face a mile wide
Lets just say that Mr. Feeney came out well done
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THanks all for your comments on my comments.......I am smiling here...
THE VACUUM is in...he put in two thingies that take the dirt and brings it down into the cylinder that catches the crap....One for up and one for down here...The hose goes from one end to the other on both floors.....I am happy..and our artificial tree was actually shedding today, when we took Christmas out of our house...so the machine did a good job picking up the stuff.....and I think I may of told you folks last year that I hate JUST HATE silver garland ...he had that everywhere...and it sheds too...I will probably be finding pieces of silver ...FOREVER...
Just cleaned up the house...KT's beau left to go back to his hometown and he starts his internship tomorrow...Kt is at the hospital and actually has good hours this week....8 to 4...that means we are not starving by the time she gets here (last week close to quarter of seven)...she is a good kid..
Tonight we will have one of the spiral hams and taters and veggies and pineapple...yummy
My daughter is a special ed teacher too...she teaches the whole school of 25ish from second to 6th Math...it is a burn out job...but then she gets her week off at Christmas and recoops...then she burns out again and she gets her week off in Feb and then again in April...they have two weeks off after school (regular) gets out and then they go to school for 5 weeks during the summer...then two weeks off before Regular school starts again in the fall...it is a very tough school and a very tough occupation ...these kids are not mainstreamed in the public school system...so they go to this behavioral school ...
Have a good day everyone
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A new saying!
I'm telling you what...I'd pay goog money
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We were the "perfect" family of 4 today. The 4 oldest boys were with my sister, so it was just Ellie and Isaac. We went and got a Kuerig(we never jumped on the band wagon because K-cups are so expensive, but when we found out you could actually get a special refillable one to use your own coffee(which I get really cheap with coupons......) I was totally on board. I've been wanting to drink more tea and get off caffeine since it gives me chest pains and makes me feel horrible. So this is PERFECT!
We also had to run into Kohls so I could use my $10 Kohls cash. I got a pair of sunglasses and 4 pairs of Vans shoes for $36 after my Kohls cash. I almost squealed with excitement when I so those shoes marked down to $8.40 a pair!
Marita - We DO know what causes those surprise pregnancies. It's the .01% chance of your 99.9% birth control failing. ;o)
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Oh and a HUGE cool front is moving through our area right now. I am looking forward to socks, jeans and sweater weather for a couple days! It's been in the mid 80's for a month now.
It sounds like it was drugs and not alcohol. Not that it makes it any better. I know they were in the midst of a lot of controversy a couple of years back, but I know there will be a hole there next weekend.
Mommy P - Did I miss something? You having another baby?
In the words of Mumbling Jumba:
I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death
You will always be in our thoughts and our hearts.
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Finally got a chance to come back and crack this thing
Where did you find those set of ears?
My mamma Jamma is gonna hurt!
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Bob was a joyful soul that always had a smile on his face and made you laugh. I can and have heard his laugh all night in my head. It was nice to hear the stories that were being shared. What was even more special is that there were a good 100 people gathered in his honor who havn't seen each other for like 20 years. My husband played on a softball league when we dated and were first married and started to have kids. Each week they played ball, the wives cheered them on, and we then left to have a late supper at their sponsor's place. Marriages, births, and so many good friendships came out of that league. I watched my husband go from person to person and remember the good times. It was nice to see all that despite the circumstances.
I get my classroom assignment tomorrow and I am excited! I am hoping for a third/fourth grade class.
We have had super high winds here today. Lots of flurries, but nothing that stuck.
Tenure is a hot debated topic over here. I can understand both sides, I don't know how this will effect me if it even will. Our governor has taken so much away from our teachers it is crazy. I don't understand why teachers are such targets all the time. I know my job will be demanding and stressfull, but I just want to make things easier for my students to learn. I don't want them to have to go through what my son and I did.
Anyone going to WDW on leap day? Sounds interesting.
I have a smile on my face a mile wide
Lets just say that Mr. Feeney came out well done
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good morning..
I got up and showered and almost dressed when the phone rang..(7:15)...KT our GD was just getting her lunch together and she answered it...It was my little girls mama(my niece) saying she stacked wood all day yesterday and she is taking today off.....OH OKEY>..I could of stayed in bed...or stayed in my jammies...so I am clean dressed and fed.......and no place to go...hahaha..
TODAY and tonight will be in the single digits with wind chill going to ten to twenty below zero...not my ideal day..so I will EMPTY BOXES and just maybe ...JUST MAYBE I will find those pickle forks......not that I need them now ...but they are someplace in this house...hahahaha..
Kids in our area went back to school today...
Hubby connected my Wii last night ...FINALLY found all the stuff for that in a big box....and for about a half hour it didnt work.....kept on saying cant find the disk....well I figured it out after all that.......the wii thingie was upside down...so now we are good to play...
Guess I will get my blood flowing...coffee has been consumed and ready to do some work here..
Have a good day everyone
Crazy enough to want to do another Half Marathon!
If it were all about me? - I'd go with the Princesses!!
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Pumba that is so something I'd do, only you did me one better, I would've given up! disc upside down, why is it always the little things! Now, what games are you playing?
Mony what'd ya get? You are going to have so much fun!
Allie you are to! You have such a big heart! Keep things together - I really admire all you do! I'm so far behind... I had to go and post on the event/comp board, and I had to wander in the Ohana thread... and I had to post... Now I'm going to have to get my rear in gear and DO something!!
MommyP (in response to Marita) Goog Deal on Kohls! Its always hit or miss here!!
and honestly people - could we NOT wait SEVEN MORE DAYS to have the darn cold front blow in? SERIOUSLY! Its been 2 years since our last vacation - and that was misery... so what's going on now? We are also below zero with the windchill -
tomorrow, tomorrow. ...
I am so not ready! Must do sheets, towels, laundry. Must run to Goodwill for throwaway clothes for dh (you have to be at start line around 5am - it will be cold! so buy clothes to throw on the side of the road when the sun comes up - Disney has people that picks up the throw away clothes and donates them back to goodwill the circle of life!)
DD wants me to make LeCellier's Cheese Soup., I dread the day she finds out it has beer in it! I made Quiche last night for dinner - she ate 2 slices, then her brother told her what was in it... I just said, bacon, ham and cheese (I neglected the milk and egg part! )
and WHAT is going on with Project Runway WTH? Its NOT Project Runway without Tim Gunn or Heidi Klum.
Tangled with the TF in a moment of weakness
A new saying!
I'm telling you what...I'd pay goog money
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Let me rephrase the dog stew remark
I broke more than I used
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Sandy, cheer up, back to 68 Thursday and 70's this weekend. Just a 2 day cold snap. Have a lot of fun and good luck to your hubby!
My hubby is not getting lots of overtime, he's a manager, so no overtime for him. He just gets to freeze his butt off in the middle of the night, LOL.
Sadly meeting up with Moo and Nab didnt work out this time due to holidays. Nap left me a very nice gift at the Front Desk this morning, a canadian pen (with flags) and a Mickey ornament with my user name on it, very cute! They are cruising now, sigh.
Crazy enough to want to do another Half Marathon!
If it were all about me? - I'd go with the Princesses!!
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Marita Thanks for the weather report - guess its not so much shorts weather tho We have been checking weather.com obsessively! Sorry it didn't work out to meet - I'm pretty sure I"m going to miss everyone too - the marathon does take over everything!
We have been to marathon twice - this will be our 3rd trip - the last years Osborn lights go dark Jan 3... this year they announced Osborn lights will be a go until the 7th But, a friend just said the Castle lights are off Guess I"ll have to settle for youtube yet again! (we extended our stay to see the lights too!)
Well less than 24 hours - we got an "A" boarding pass DH wanted to spend $20 to buy an A pass - I said save the $20 and buy me a drink with it He owes me a drink!!
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Courtesy of Weidler Auction House
(Reuters) — A 1914 watercolor by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday.
Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painting entitled "Standesamt und Altes Rathaus Muenchen" (Civil Registry Office and Old Town Hall of Munich) is one of about 2,000 works Hitler painted from about 1905 to 1920 as a struggling young artist.
Asked about criticism that it is tasteless to auction the Nazi dictator's works, generally considered to be of limited artistic merit, she said complaints should be addressed to the sellers - an unidentified pair of German sisters in their 70s.
"Those who want to get worked up about this should just go ahead and get worked up about it," Weidler told Reuters at her Weidler Auction House in Nuremberg, where Hitler held mass Nazi party rallies from 1933 to 1938.
"They should take it up with the city of Nuremberg or with those who preserved it. It's an historical document."
Hitler wrote in his autobiography "Mein Kampf" that his hopes as a young man of becoming an artist were dashed by his repeated rejection by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts.
"We've had inquiries so far from four continents and the interest in this particular painting appears to be quite high," Weidler said. "The interest has been high from America, Japan and across Asia. I don't know if all these bidders will actually come to the showroom in person. It's possible but the last time we had a painting from this artist, that didn't happen."
Five other Hitler paintings previously auctioned fetched as much as 80,000 euros while others went for just 5,000.
"It's impossible to say how much it'll go for - anything from a few thousand to something around 50,000 euros," she said. The minimum bid has been set at 4,500 euros and 10 percent of the earnings are to be donated to charity.
Weidler said the original handwritten bill dated Sept. 25, 1916 came with the painting and was a rarity for Hitler's art.
But that has raised doubt among critics about the painting's provenance. They recall how hoaxer Konrad Kujauused supposed certifications of authenticity to trick some historians when he marketed what proved to be bogus "Hitler's Diaries" in 1983.
Is it me, or has there been an unusual amount of inappropriate Nazi-themed pop culture lately?
Fans of Nicki Minaj are calling for the singer to take down her controversial new video, "Only You," featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. With hoards of SS-style troops goose-stepping in an ominously drab fascist landscape while sporting swastika-like armbands, it's more than a little suggestive of the Third Reich.
At the center of all this is Minaj herself, seated on a red throne overlooking her stormtroopers (is she Hitler in this scenario?).
See for yourself:
Of course, the ADL is "deeply disturbed" about the whole thing. Abe Foxman, who is himself a Holocaust survivor, released the following statement:
Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture's exploitation of Nazi symbolism. The irony should be lost on no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" pogrom that signaled the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.
It is troubling that no one among Minaj's group of producers, publicists and managers raised a red flag about the use of such imagery before ushering the video into public release.
This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era. The abuse of Nazi imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to make as a result of Hitler's Nazi juggernaut.
Alina Voronina from Moscow poses for the contest
Last week, Vocativ reported that VKontakte, essentially Russia's version of Facebook, was hosting a Miss Hitler Pageant.
As one would expect, people got a little upset about it.
Hosted on the site's Adolf Hitler page, the Miss Ostland pageant, as it's officially known, called on women "who hate Jews" to share their most "sexy Nazi pics" of themselves. Admirers of all things Hitler (the page had 7,000 followers) would then vote for the most beautiful anti-Semite in all the land (to see pictures of the main contenders, click here).
Fortunately, people seemed to have regained their sanity, and the contest has been cancelled. Vocativ reports that the page has been taken down. VKontakte's head of public relations George Lobushkin told Vocativ that "loading, storing, publishing, disseminating, making available or otherwise using any information which: propagandizes and/or contributes to racial, religious, ethnic hatred or hostility, propagandizes fascism or racial superiority," violates the site's Terms of Service.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Aryan of them all? I guess we'll never know.
Danny Green poses for selfie at Holocaust Memorial in Berlin/Facebook
San Antonio Spurs star Danny Green went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, where his team was playing an exhibition game. Nothing wrong with that.
He took a selfie amid the stark granite reminders of the millions who died in the Shoah. Nothing really wrong with that, although some might find his pose a bit insensitive, as noted by Deadspin, which first reported the incident.
Then he posted it to Instagram with the caption: "You know I had to do it one time lol #Holocaust." Plenty wrong with that.
To my knowledge, there seem to be only two Hungarian films that address the plight of the country's Jews during the Holocaust.
One is the 1983 gem "Revolt of Job." Now, there's the puzzling macabre "The Notebook" ("Le Grand Cahier") which hints at Hungarian Jews'— one scene shows the Jewish population of a small rural town being taunted by their Hungarian neighbors, another, filmed by an overhead camera, shows men, women and children being herded through a narrow street passage — suggesting cattle being driven to slaughter.
With a cast of characters out of a Grand Guignol theatre piece, one of the few people in the film to show kindness to the film's central characters — real life twin brothers Andras and Laszlo Gyemant — is the town's Jewish shoemaker. Improbably another is a menshlich — and possibly a pedophile — Nazi officer.
Sony Pictures Classic
It's WWII, and the boys have been brought by their loving, doting, cosmopolitan mother to their peasant grandmother for safekeeping. A huge grotesque apparition brilliantly acted by Piroska Molnar she singlehandedly manages a farm set on a bleak barren landscape. You recoil — yet can't take your eyes off the screen — as in a modern day version of the Hansel & Gretel fairytale, the grandmother — aka "The Witch" — works the boys to within a breath of death. Still, the boys, as they had been joined in utero by an umbilical cord, continue to cling to one another training themselves to withstand the often hard-to-witness brutality at the hands of the townsfolk and others. Each day they write everything down in their notebook.
In a rare emotional display they exact brutal revenge for the murder of the Jewish shoemaker who had shown them kindness. Based on Agota Kristol''s best- seller "The Notebook" (Le Grand Cahier) I was stunned by director Janos Szasz's merciless j'accuse showcasing the brutality of his country and landsmen. Perhaps it is intended to validate what I have heard many a Hungarian survivor aver, "I will never again set foot in Hungary!"
In "Revolt of Job" it is a Christian child adopted from an orphanage by an elderly barren Jewish couple — in exchange for two cows —who, in the end, witnesses his adopted parents taken away by Hungarian authorities to what was understood to be their death. In "The Notebook" the ultimate cruel twist is the grotesque grandmother who wins the allegiance of the boys when their mother and later father — separately — –return to reclaim them, holding onto them for her own reasons.
Grippingly filmed by Christian Berger there is no resolution or answers at the end when the twins make an unexpected final decision about their post war future.
In worst idea ever, Zara sells shirt similar to that of Nazi camp inmates. On Israeli site too http://t.co/Kqs3PfXq31 pic.twitter.com/PRuEfn6Wsr— Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) August 27, 2014
The international clothing chain Zara has apologized for offering for sale a blue and white striped shirt with a six –pointed yellow star on the chest.
The shirt, for toddler boys, is identified on the Zara Israel website as a "striped sheriff t-shirt," but Israelis on social media have called it everything from poor taste to anti-Semitic.
The yellow star has the word sheriff cut out in small letters.
The company has removed the stock from its warehouses and plans to destroy it, according to the Israeli business daily Globes. The shirt also was available on Zara's French, Albanian and Swedish websites.
"We express our sincere apologies for any hurt to our customers' feelings," the company said in a statement.
The shirt remained on the Zara Israel internet site as of early Wednesday afternoon.
In September 2007, Zara removed a handbag with swastikas embroidered in it. The handbags were manufactured in India and inspired by commonly used Hindu symbols, which include the swastika.
In 2009, the Spanish retailer removed Christmas trees from the windows of its stores in Israel after complaints from customers.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Anti-Defamation League made a statement about the shirt.
"The shirt emblazoned with the yellow star is in poor taste and is deeply offensive to Jews and Holocaust survivors. To anyone who knows their history, this kind of imagery should be off-limits. We welcome Zara's recognition of the shirt's potentially offensive imagery and removal from sale," said ADL National Director and Holocaust survivor, Abe Foxman.
How about a side of Hitler with your pasta?
Taiwan restaurant owner Tsao Ya-sin caused quite an uproar when she unveiled her latest Italian special: "Long Live Nazi Spaghetti."
Why the Third Reich theme? Tsao explains that the dish has German sausage in it.
Tsao was also quoted as saying that she just "wanted to get customers attention" — but sharp reprimands from both the Israeli and German embassies in Taiwan was probably not was Ya-sin had in mind.
What's more, the dish has apparently been on the menu since Rock Hill's grand opening — last year. But don't worry: In light of the controversy, the dish has been renamed to "World Champion Spaghetti" — in honor of Germany's World Cup victory.
{h/t Grubstreet]
Robin Williams wasn't Jewish. But he was close.
Though raised Episcopalian in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (his mother was a Christian Scientist), the comedian had an affinity for Jews which shaped and even defined many of the roles he took on. He used Yiddish, danced a mean hora and did a killer Barbra Streisand impression.
With his death — in the words of Steve Martin (also not Jewish — but, come on) — we have lost a "mensch, a great talent and genuine soul."
I could not be more stunned by the loss of Robin Williams, mensch, great talent, acting partner, genuine soul.— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) August 11, 2014
Let's take a look at Robin WIlliams most Jewish moments.
1) Mrs. Doubtfire: Robin does "Fiddler"
2) The Crazy Ones: "Rabbi Robin" hosts a bar mitzvah
Thanks, everyone! #CrazyOnes #zachmitzvah pic.twitter.com/AGUXND97Gq— Robin Williams (@robinwilliams) February 28, 2014
A Romanian watchdog on anti-Semitism complained to police about the sale online of an item advertised as a lampshade made of the skin of a Holocaust victim.
The lampshade was advertised online by an unidentified individual from Targu Jiu, located 145 miles northwest of Bucharest, who priced the lapshade at $26,800, the Antena 1 news channel reported on Saturday.
The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in Romania, or MCA Romania, wrote a letter to the county's police and to Romanian Police Chief Viorel Salvador Caragea to prevent "this despicable trade," which MCA Romania said is "outrageous and macabre."
The group was not able to verify the claim that the lampshade is made of human remains, Maximillian Marco Katz told JTA.
"We will let the authorities to deal with it," he said. "The fact is that the ad is still published so the seller was not bothered by the TV's inquiry of the matter. Even if this is a hoax, the seller should be brought to justice for abusing the Holocaust for personal gains."
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera "The Passenger," which Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory co-presented at the Armory, offered a soupcon of "Titanic" vibes with its 1960's Brazil-bound ocean liner's huge white funnel and its first class carefree passengers — elegant in all-white suits and gowns — waltzing to an orchestra's calming beat.
Among the dancers, Walter (Joseph Kaiser), a 50-year old German diplomat and his 37-year old wife Liese (Michele Breedt) who suddenly panics when she recognizes one of the passengers –a former inmate of Auschwitz—at a time when she was a 22-year-old SS Overseer.
The below deck set is a can-almost taste, smell, and touch recreation of a concentration camp setting with women's barracks housing an assemblage of multinational, head-shaved, inmates in striped garb: Polish Marta 34, French Yvette 22, Czech Vlasta 20, Polish Krystina 28, Bronka, 50, 21-year old Russian partisan Katya, 18-year old Jewish Hannah and 25-year old Teadeus, Marta's fiancée.
Performed in English by members of the Houston Grand Opera, directed by David Pountney with Patrick Summer conducting the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, the program notes inform that the work was "deemed a perfect masterpiece by Weinberg's mentor Dmitri Shostakovich". In the realm of Holocaust re-creation, the presentation of the wretched women with their heads shaved and loose striped dresses "The Passenger" stands alongside the visceral cinematic "Shoah" masterpiece "The Last Stop" "(Ostatni Etap") by Wanda Jakubowska which she shot in 1948 at Auschwitz (using some of the camp's survivors) and the only Holocaust film directed by a woman.
Polish-Jewish Weinberg — who escaped from Warsaw and ended up in the Soviet Union during WWII — never lived to see the opera performed. In the program notes Pountney notes "the Soviets didn't want anything to do with pity for the Jews' anything that did no actively further the Communist agenda was officially condemned as 'Abstract Humanism'" a phrase Pountney noted "used by the Nazis vis a vis Red Cross inspections of the camps.'" Admitting that "The Passenger" is not a modern opera but a "time capsule," he mounted its first full production in 2010 at the Bregenz Festival in Austria."
Liese's brutality to the woman as an SS Overseer is staggering. There is a love sub-plot, but mainly the opera is a musical j'accuse plea. As each woman prisoner sings her lament—the Russian (Kelly Kaduce) opts for a lullaby —the depth of each woman's despair and hope is spelled out in a plea "Do not forget!" and to the fellow women prisoners, the promised: "I swear I will never forget you!
Most likely the nearly 1000-strong audience sitting on the floor-to-Armory ceiling highly raked tiered seats will not forget "The Passenger" operatic voyage.
As Germany hammered Brazil during the World Cup match yesterday 7-1, Twitter exploded in reaction tweets. With a record 36.6 million tweets were sent out during the match, the Germany-Brazil match became the most discussed sports event in Twitter history.
Unsurprisingly a large fraction of those tweets were, well, Nazi jokes.
Germany, relax! They're not Poland.— rob delaney (@robdelaney) July 8, 2014
Awkward time to be Nazi war criminal hiding out in Brazil.— netw3rk (@netw3rk) July 9, 2014
Germany must think they are playing Poland the way they are conquering Brazil right now #BrazilvsGermany #BRAvsGER #WorldCup2014— Andy Farag (@andyfarag) July 8, 2014
This is like a WWII reenactment in which Brazil is playing the part of Poland in 1939. #BrazilvsGermany #WorldCup— Daniel Humbarger (@humbargerdaniel) July 8, 2014
Of course the ever obvious:
Brazil did Nazi this coming.— World Cup 2014 (@FifaWorIdCup_14) July 8, 2014
Some pointed out the problem of Holocaust jokes:
All of these nazi jokes are out of mein kampfort zone anne frankly I'm offended— Nathan Kim (@nathantenders) July 8, 2014
And others attempted to be clever:
I do nazi see any hope for Brazil— Mary. M. Timmons (@muurrricatimz) July 8, 2014
Man the goalie really holocaust them the game, I bet Brazil's coach was like Aw Schwitz— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) July 8, 2014
Walmart has always had a knack for building its reputation as a soul-crushing corporation.
Nevertheless, it is still shocking to find that they are selling a poster with an image of the gate of one of the Holocaust's most notorious concentration camps — Dachau.
Screenshot via Heeb
The description reads "Gate with inscription Arbeit Macht Frei, Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau" and mentions that the poster "would make a great addition to your home or office." That's right – because why wouldn't you want to be constantly reminded of the Shoah every time you enter one of your favorite rooms?
Heeb reports that some concerned customers complained to Walmart customer service and got some unintentionally humorous responses. One heard back that they "have this product in stock because there are some customer[sic] who like to buy this type of item, but this doesn't mean [Walmart] are supporting any ideology related to this item."
Another heard back that customer service had "escalated this matter to [their] corporation so they can release the nazi related propaganda." Release? Through a bit of inference one can realize that they mean that they would get rid of the posters, but on a touchy subject like this, they should probably rethink their word choice.
Eric Clapton headlined the fifth annual Life Festival in Oswiecim, Poland late this month. Yes, you read that right. Eric Clapton just played Auschwitz.
Well, kind of.
The Oswiecim Life Festival started in 2010, and was created by Darek Maciborek, a radio DJ, who wanted to change the negative associations brought up by his hometown. Because of its close proximity to Auschwitz, Oświęcim, has always carried part of the legacy of the death camp, which was where over 1 million people died, 90% of whom were Jewish.
The Life Festival Oswiecim is meant to combat anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia through music and the arts. Various Polish and foreign bands play in the festival. James Blunt played in 2011, and Peter Gabriel in 2012. Last year, the festival pulled in Sting to headline.
Clapton preformed the closing number at the festival, which was his final stop on his four-month world tour.
More than 10,000 people came out for the event, which took place from the 25th – 28th of June.
[h/t Tablet]
In documentaries and live testimonials, survivors of Dr. Joseph Mengele's "Right [life]-Left [death]" selection at Auschwitz, remember him as exceptionally handsome.
And so is Spanish actor Alex Brendemuhl, who eerily and seductively portrays the toxic physician in Lucia Puenzo's film "The German Doctor." An uncanny Mengele Dopplelganger, Brendemuhl — a Spanish actor working in Germany — had to learn Argentinean Spanish and finesse Mengele's German articulation.
Meeting Puenzo, — author of the book on which the film is based — what struck me was how young (37), tall and beautiful she is. She said: "I need to say that the German community…helped us make this film. All the actors speak [German] by phonetics."
Did they know who Mengele was? "I remember in secondary school we knew who Mengele was, what happened during the war [but] I could not remember one fiction film about the subject in Argentina."
Were members of the German community that helped with the film descendants of the earlier [Nazi] Germans? "No! No!" she was adamant. "These are Germans who had no connection at all…something very delicate for them. There is the misconception that every German in Argentina has to have a Nazi background…. They want to defend the idea that it was not all of them."
Why did she name the little girl— on whom Brendemuhl/Mengele experiments with growth hormones— "Lilith"? Puenzo mused: "I know everything that goes around the name, but strangely, when I began to write the novel, that's the name that appeared. I tried to change it but it came back as Lilith…. certain characters are born with a name."
Was Lilith supposed to be Jewish? "No! No! …but she is a victim." And the Israeli woman, Nora, who suspects the doctor's identity? "She is based on a real live character…. She was a volunteer from the Mossad…They all say she was murdered…. [that] people from the Israeli embassy took her body [from the lake].
Was she influenced by "The Boys from Brazil" in which Gregory Peck portrays Mengele? Puento responded: "I saw the film several times…a very strange film…. what I don't like about that film is the idea of the stereotype…from the moment I wrote the novel — and film — I did not want to stereotype this man as a monster who had the word written across his forehead — but a very complex psychopathic personality….
"For me, most horrifying was that when all these men {Nazis] began to be found in Argentina — forty years after being such a monster — people said [of Mengele] 'He was such a lovely man, such a good citizen!'"
Has it been seen in Germany? The film has been released in 35 countries," she replied. "It's been seen by Germans, but has not been released in Germany."
Currently playing at Lincoln Center Cinemas and IFC Centers. Go see this eerily fascinating film.
I was once of the mind that there is no such thing as a bad "Friends" mashup. I was wrong.
Behold "Reich Friends", a spoof of the much-loved sitcom brought you by Spanish-language comedy collective Marca Blanca. Using historic footage of Adolf Hitler and his besties, Himmler, Goebbels, Göring and Eva Braun, the group recreates the opening credits, complete with "I'll Be There for You" by The Rembrandts (you probably know it as "The Friends Theme Song.")
Hitler's Bavarian retreat, The Eagle's Nest is the new Central Perk. In the wise words of Chandler Bing: Could this BE any more offensive?
[h/t A/V Club]
Shirley Temple in 1988 // Photo by Karen Leon.
Shirley Temple Black — who died at 85 on February 10 — may have indirectly helped my mother and me get a visa to America.
I became a Shirley Temple fan after seeing her in "The Little Colonel" in pre-war Warsaw. For weeks I ran around singing "Polly Wolly Doodle" in a Yiddish-Polish-English gibberish. During the bombing of Warsaw I grabbed my Shirley Temple doll as we fled our firebombed building — a doll my mother later traded for food and shelter. In Soviet-occupied Vilno [Vilnius] in 1940, I saw her in "The Little Princess" in which her character searches for her missing father. It was just after my father had been arrested by the Soviet NKVD (precursor to the KGB) and his whereabouts were unknown.
I corresponded with her during her tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Ghana (1975), but did not meet her until June 1988 at an American Booksellers Association Convention in Anaheim, California, where she was feted as author of her autobiography "Child Star." It was a banner year for celebrity authors that included Ladybird Johnson, Natan Sharansky, Charles Schulz, Jane Russell, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Theodor S. Geisel (a/k/a/ Dr. Seuss) E. L. Doctorow, Betty White, and U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist gymnast, Mary Lou Retton that was capped by extraordinary parties including ("Scruples") author Judith Kranz's then $50,000 party held at a hangar at the John Wayne Airport.
But it was meeting Shirley Temple who was mobbed by fans at her autograph session that has remained an indelible memory. She stopped to listen as I told her how she might have unwittingly been instrumental in my coming to America. I also sang a fragment [English version] of "Polly Wolly Doodle" that got her laughing.
When after V-E Day in 1945, at which time my mother's and my "Duration of the War" visas in Canada expired, we were informed by the government that we were being repatriated to Poland! We did not know where my father was — or if he was even alive. Our families had been exterminated in the Warsaw Ghetto and by Einzatzgruppen [execution squads] in what is now Belarus. There was no one and nothing to return to.
My mother ordered me: Shreyb Mrs. Roosevelt. (write to Mrs. Roosevelt!). "Bist meshuge?" — "Are you nuts?" — I countered. "Write! and tell her our plight!" she insisted. I wrote a 14-page handwritten letter — which I was informed is now at the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Archive stating, "I want to come to America because of Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire and Shirley Temple."
A week later, my mother and I were called into the U.S. Consulate in Montreal and were greeted with: "So you are the little girl who wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt who wants to come to America because of Shirley Temple!" He showed me the letter in our dossier. A cousin in Chicago provided affidavits for us.
Mrs. Black smiled, shook my hand warmly, wished me luck and continued signing autographs.
She was a light during some of my darkest moments.
Steven Spielberg called on the world to act on the lessons of the Holocaust during a keynote address to a special UN General Assembly marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Mass graves don't have to open up before we act," he said. "It is a great accomplishment of our species that the testimonies [of survivors] can be heard in the high chambers of society."
"Genocide is an evil. But, the greatest evil is when people who have been spared the horrors commit themselves to despair," Spielberg continued. "We know despair and remembering are a choice. But we need to confront and act on what we learned."
"Generation War" (a hit in Germany as "Our Mothers Our Fathers") is a must see for those who view World War II /Holocaust films as a kind of cinematic rosary of remembrance.
With a Tolstoyan "War & Peace" sweep, its brutal battles as bloody and grim as those in Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," it is also a nod to the wrenching 1987 Byelorussian Holocaust film "Come and See." The film's author Stefan Kolditz, noted that he wanted the film to "open a conversation with the generation that lived during World War II in Germany."
"Generation" follows a quintet of friends — brothers Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) and Friedheim (Tom Schilling), Charlotte (Miriam Stein), Greta (Katharina Schuttler), and assimilated Jew Victor (Ludwig Trepte) who greets everyone with an anachronistic glitch — "Shalom" — with them, in turn, replying the same —this in 1940s Nazi Germany 's Berlin!
Recipient of the Spirit of the Jan Karski Award at the November 18 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies 10th Anniversary Dinner was survivor, philanthropist, Sigmund Rolat.
In his acceptance speech Rolat — who unveiled a monument dedicated to Czestochowa's 40,000 Jewish citizens who perished in Treblinka, restored the city's philharmonic–naming it after Bronislaw Huberman (founder of what became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) and brought Joshua Bell (with Huberman's violin) to perform there, and has been the driving force behind the about-to-open Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw — dubbed Karski as "One of the major figures of World War II."
In 1942 Karski, a member of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) was ordered to go to the West and report on — among other issues — the plight of Polish Jewry under the Nazis. He met with a Zionist leader and a Bundist and was then smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto by Leon Feiner, a lawyer and Bundist activist, to be an eyewitness to the Jews' doomed fate.
"This is the second time I am here," Poland's ambassador to the United States, Ryszard Schnepf said from the bimah of Park East Synagogue at the November 12th launch of the New York exhibition of "Forbidden Art" created by prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. to Holocaust survivor and Kristallnacht witness Rabbi Arthur Schneier, the assemblage and diplomats from 18 countries.
First seen in Poland, the exhibit of 20 rare and fragile items out of 2,000 original works is part of a nationwide awareness campaign that prompted President Obama to declare: "Exhibitions like 'Forbidden Art" bring to light the stories of fathers and mothers, sons and daughters and brothers and sisters who endured the unthinkable cruelty of concentration camps" and had ambassador Schnepf amplify: "It is our responsibility to remember the suffering of all people in concentration camps. Remembering them promises a light to a time of no anti-Semitism, a future free of hatred."
Quoting Elie Wiesel, Israel's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations David Roet said, "No other people has such an obsession about remembering." Gazing down from the bimah he recounted how his father had been saved by a baker in his village "because of a priest's directive" and that "what helped his father survive in Auschwitz was the memory of the Shabbat and the dates where/when each family member died. But memory is not enough. What is necessary is standing up with Israel so it never happens again."


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by loyl8
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I love this really easy super cute shirt. I made in less than and hour. I used a piece of poly who knows what floral stretch thrifted fabric that was in a rectangle. I folded it in half and realized its the perfect size for a top (a square) and it would have no shoulder seam. I love how great a bateau neckline can look. So I went for it.
First, I sewed side seams and left a 9" opening for the arm hole and cut a slit on the top for my noggin to go through; I measured where I wanted the top to stop at. The seam allowance was pressed open and for the arm opening the SA continued and was just folded under and pressed and a tiny piece of black stitch witch was used at the top. For the neckline after I made the right size of opening I made 2 really tiny vertical cuts in the corner and folded the neckline under and pressed and also used some tiny pieces of stitch witch to hold it in place so it looked neat without stitching. The hem on the shirt I folded under, pressed, sewed, and clipped close to the hem on the other side.
I like to pair this top with my Buffalo acid wash ankle jeans and black flats or dress it up and tuck it in with my yellow knit Sonia Rykiel skirt. (I really want to make a black and white striped circle wrap skirt to wear with it). I did add a pic of the shirt with some chrysanthemum clip/pins.
What do you think of the shirt with the flowers on it?
thrifted floral polyester, thread, stitch witch
Apr 6, 2011, 10.03 PMby buttoneyed
this is such a cute top! And it looks awesome with that skirt
Nov 9, 2010, 08.06 PMby pixelink
with or without the flower brooch is gorgeous, love the fabric you found.
Nov 4, 2010, 01.40 AMby Zane Tanqueco
wow, it looks great!
Nov 3, 2010, 10.04 PMby daisytink
Fabulous! I absolutely love the flower pin with it…that flower could completely change the look of anything it's paired with.
Nov 3, 2010, 06.53 PMby pumpkinpatches
this is really adorable. goes great with that yellow skirt!
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Nov 3, 2010, 12.44 PMby Shira B
wow :) really nice shirt and I loved the combination with that skirt!
Nov 3, 2010, 12.08 PMby la inglesita
You´re really talented!!! From simple quick projects like this to complicated garments like your capelet, and all of them look gorgeous. The flower clip gives it a Jessica Parker look, so if you like it go for it!!
Nov 3, 2010, 10.12 PMby loyl8
oohhh thank you!!! Definitely now the clip/pin will go with it!!!
Nov 3, 2010, 07.53 AMby lazylinchen
Super cute! I might just make one like that tonight…
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