Dustin is a pretty lucky boy. Not only did I make him a birthday cake on his actual birthday. We had a little get together with friends to celebrate, for which I made him another cake— a cookie cake to be exact.
We have a special place in our heart for cookie cakes. You see, back in Houston, we'd eat this delicious double layer cookie cake from Sam's Club. It was about half of the price of the cookie cakes from that mall chain, and it was twice the amount of cake. It consisted of cookie, covered in frosting with another layer of cookie followed by more icing in the form of decorations. You really can't beat buttercream frosting and a soft, moist cookie cut into slices.
I've seen lots of recipes for skillet chocolate chip cookies that have reminded me of those cakes, and I've been wanting to make one for awhile. When I saw this recipe for a browned butter M&M skillet cookie, I was sold. Brown butter. Enough said. Plus the M&Ms make it a little more exciting and colorful for a birthday celebration. Running low on butter and powdered sugar, I used store-bought frosting for decorating purposes.
The cookie cake went over well and was proclaimed favorite dessert I'd ever made by some. Dustin said he'd be ok with this becoming a new birthday tradition.
Brown butter in 12″ skillet. When the butter gets a nutty aroma, you know it is ready to move to the bowl of your stand mixer to cool.
Once slightly cooled, add both sugars to bowl of stand mixture and mix until combined.
Add in eggs one at time, followed by the vanilla extract.
Fold in the chocolate chips and half of the M&Ms.
Spoon dough back into the skillet (still greased with the brown butter).
Press the rest of the M&Ms on the top of the cookie.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until golden and the edges begin pulling away from the side of the skillet.
Cut into 16 wedges (they will be nice and thick so a narrow slice is all you need) and serve directly from the skillet.
Variations on the skillet cookie will definitely be added to my repertoire of desserts!


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top ten tips for walt disney world with tweens and teens
by Elaine Sosa Labalme
Navigating Walt Disney World with tweens or teens in tow can be a minefield. Will your daughter still want to visit Cinderella's Castle, or is she humoring you for the photo opp? Does your son still think Pirates of the Caribbean is all that? Will anyone want to go to "it's a small world?" All good questions, and since it can be tough to get much more than a shrug out of most older kids, this list will serve as a blueprint for visiting the parks with the tween-teen set.
1. Stay at a Walt Disney World resort so you can get "magic hours." Every day, one of the theme parks is open early or late for guests of the many Walt Disney World resort properties. This allows you, say, to ride Test Track at EPCOT three times in a row before the general public descends, or to whoosh around the Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain late at night once lines have dwindled. Trust us when we say this is absolutely essential, since the most popular attractions WILL have a long line and Fast Passes, which allow you to reserve a specific time slot at a particular attraction to minimize wait time, often sell out by mid-afternoon. While the magic hours are a great reason to stay at a resort property, the resorts themselves are a stellar attraction. On a recent visit, we stayed at the spanking-new Art of Animation Resort, an homage to the celluloid legacy of Walt Disney. Primary colors pop at this value property and family suites are done in a jungle motif, a Murphy bed hidden by a jungle-y panorama of birds flitting between leafy trees with lamps akin to trees themselves, albeit ones topped by bulbous orange, yellow and pink "flowers." The well-laid-out accommodation sleeps six, features two baths and is clustered around a sprawl of a resort pool that rarely feels crowded; the resort's shopping and dining experience seals the deal. There are also plenty of timeshares available that might just be worth looking into (especially if you would like to take your family there once or twice a year). Since the location and weather are fantastic, I'd like to think that a timeshare value like that could grow.
2. Do the "mountains" first. At the Magic Kingdom, the big daddy of Walt Disney World theme parks, it's the mountains – Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – that will resonate loudest with most tweens and teens. Keep the peace and make a beeline for these rides first, since they'll only get more crowded as the day goes on. Consider securing a Fast Pass for one of the mountains while you ride another, and continue shuffling the mountain experience until the wait time at these rides says it's time to move on to something else.
3. Fill in the gaps with the classics. You have to tip your cap to Walt Disney's Imagineers, who have crafted a collection of attractions that will appeal to even the most jaded of teens. At the Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion, the line was filled with teens on a recent visit and they were clearly eager to be spooked. The Pirates of the Caribbean also rates and, hey, your kids are finally old enough to appreciate the Hall of Presidents so by all means, step inside. One teen we encountered wasn't shy about admitting how much he'd enjoyed the Country Bear Jamboree and another was keen on the Liberty Square Riverboat (though a whiff of a breeze surely made the boat ride more appealing). And yes, "it's a small world" still rates with kids of all ages – how can you not like the sweetest theme park ride ever? Over at EPCOT, the good news is that the global awareness of tweens and teens will allow them to more fully experience the World Showcase. This cultural tour showcases ten countries as well as the U.S.A and each attraction is staffed with hospitality students from the respective countries who are in residence for a year-long stint. Our tween had a spirited conversation with two young staffers at the Morocco pavilion that ranged from the landscape of their North African country to LeBron James and the NBA.
4. Take a midday break. Just because your kids are older doesn't mean they'll fare better in the scorching central Florida heat. We tried to game it one day with our tween and we all wilted by 5 p.m., necessitating a late-day return to our hotel in order to revive ourselves for the night ahead. A much better bet is to take a break in the early afternoon and head to your resort for a swim, or simply to lounge around for an hour or two in an air-conditioned room. A 5 p.m. return to the theme parks means that tiny tots and toddlers will have called it a day, leaving more room for big kids. It will also set you apart from everyone else who gave up in the heat and humidity. Rested and refreshed, the evening's revels will be far more appealing.
5. Step up the food. Not only do older kids no longer choose from the kid's menu, they're also more adventurous eaters. Play to their newfound culinary curiosity by making dinner reservations at one, or several, of Walt Disney World's fine dining establishments. Some of the best choices can be found at EPCOT and include the Coral Reef Restaurant in Future World, where tables are situated around a massive aquarium and seafood is the star, and La Hacienda de San Angel in World Showcase, where the Mexican cuisine is authentic, portions are sizable and mom and dad will find the margaritas sublime. Making dinner reservations in advance of your visit (two or three months in advance, if possible) is essential as the better dining tables fill up quickly. The good news is that your kids will never outgrow the simple pleasure of eating a Mickey Mouse-eared ice cream sandwich.
6. Visit Typhoon Lagoon. This Walt Disney World water park is arguably one of the best in the U.S., and it's also a great way to break up several days of theme park adventure. The ruse at Typhoon Lagoon is that a massive storm has swept over the place and you get to pick through what's left. Safe to say there's some serious loot here, and we're not even talking about a lush landscape that includes more trees and flowering plants than you'll find at many botanical gardens. First ride of the day should be Crush 'n' Gusher, the waterborne version of a roller coaster with dips and dives that will have teens squealing. Humunga Kowabunga is as it sounds, a thrilling five-story, near-vertical drop inside a dark tube. Gangplank Falls is a family affair since four people can slip and slide inside a giant tube whereas Mayday Falls is the park's longest, and tallest, single-rider tube slide. The requisite lazy river ride is along Castaway Creek, which encircles the park, and three different Storm Slides let you body surf your way down a watery hillside. Two attractions at Typhoon Lagoon mark the park as a singular experience and one of those is Shark Reef, where you can snorkel among fish, stingrays and sharks. The other is the Typhoon Lagoon Surf Pool, possessed of some of the biggest waves around. It's the Surf Pool that will captivate older kids, seeing as how a giant, six-foot wave pops off every two minutes and sweeps everyone off their feet. Thankfully, the waves slow down for a 30-minute stretch every 90 minutes. Take an afternoon break at Leaning Palms for a tasty barbecue sandwich and follow it with soft-serve ice cream from Happy Landings. Stopping at Singapore Sal's on the way out is a requisite stop for teen girls looking for even cuter beach gear (and they'll find plenty here).
7. Do Downtown Disney. While your teen may fancy themselves as a world-weary sort, chances are they still want to have fun while at Walt Disney World, though it's unlikely to involve the character breakfasts of yore. Take them over to Downtown Disney, where everyone can partake of a fine meal at the House of Blues amid live music or indulge in La Nouba, an eye-popping spectacle by the resident company of Cirque du Soleil. More teen-approved attractions at the shop-dine-play space that is Downtown Disney include Splitsville Luxury Lanes, where bowling turns swank; DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park, a five-floor video-virtual landscape; and AMC Downtown Disney 24, a boffo cineplex.
8. Teen time (give 'em a cell). If your teens and tweens are siblings and enjoy each other's company, or if you're traveling with your kids and their friends, consider giving them time and space to explore a theme or water park on their own. Hand over a cell phone and agree to meet at a predetermined spot two or three hours later so that the kids can have their experience sans mom and dad. If anything comes up, well, you've got a cellular connection. We have to loosen the leash sometime, right?
9. Plan on at least four days. Your older kids may think they're over Walt Disney World but, trust us, if you do it right, they'll have a fine time. Don't let teens/tweens talk you into a two- or three-day visit because it won't be near enough. Plan on at least four days so that you have enough time to visit theme parks, water parks, and to lounge around at your resort.
10. Promise a beach afterward. People may have thought that Walt Disney was crazy to purchase a swath of undeveloped land in hot and humid central Florida all those many decades ago, but he was crazy like a fox. Not only has Walt Disney World morphed into a global mega-attraction, it's also ideally situated between the east and west coasts of Florida. That means that within 90 minutes in either direction, you can be sunning yourself on some of the prettiest beaches anywhere. Tell your teen life's a beach after the Disney sojourn and there'll be little grumbling about anything. Our favorite Florida beaches include Clearwater Beach, close by Tampa and St. Petersburg on Florida's gulf coast and whose beaches, as the name suggest, are kissed with crystal-clear, aquamarine waters. Cocoa Beach, due east of Orlando on Florida's "Space Coast," is something of a two-fer in that you can enjoy a rarely-crowded, white-sand beach whose gentle waves are well-suited to body surfing and combine it with a visit to Kennedy Space Center, a jaw-dropping exercise that's a day in itself. Farther north on Florida's east coast is Ponte Vedra Beach in the shadow of St. Augustine, the latter one of America's most historic cities. The sands of Ponte Vedra are plumped with millions of tiny seashells continually washed ashore on white-capped waves. You're likely to have this beach to yourself as well, making it the ideal place to throw a frisbee or shout with glee about adventures had at Walt Disney World.
Elaine Sosa Labalme is a food and travel writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. When she's not busy as a domestic goddess she's out traveling with husband Fen and eleven-year-old son Steven. She hopes to be the next Charles Kuralt.

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A packed court would neuter judicial independence and strengthen the president
Strand is president of the Congressional Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to help members of Congress better serve their constituents and their constituents better understand Congress.
Congressional observers will remember Speaker Nancy Pelosi's infamous remark when the fate of the Obamacare bill was on the line a decade ago: The House needed to "pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it."
Now former Vice President Joe Biden's refusal to tell the nation his views on court-packing, unless he wins the presidency, is a reminder of those poorly chosen words.
Court-packing is adding seats to the Supreme Court or other benches, not replacing an open seat. A court-packing scheme would be a massive shift in power from the judiciary to the executive branch, one that eliminates one of the most important safeguards built into our Constitution. Over several decades, Congress has steadily ceded power to the president by ignoring its oversight mandate, not making tough budget decisions, handing over spending prerogatives and allowing administrations of both parties to substitute regulations for legislative action.
Court-packing would be a fundamental shift of judicial independence that leads down a very dangerous road to excessive executive power — because it would mean presidents could add politically sympathetic members until the Supreme Court is little more than a rubber stamp of the personal partisan policy preferences of the president.
And if a future president acquires the bulk of the powers the Constitution gave not only Congress but also the Supreme Court, such a dangerous amount of concentrated power would undermine the constitutional system of checks and balances.
In the fall of 2013, when Democrats were the Senate majority and eliminated the effective 60-vote threshold for almost all nominations, Mitch McConnell was the Republican minority leader warning the other side "you may regret this a lot sooner than you think." This week, of course, it was the GOP leveraging its majority power to seat Amy Coney Barrett on the high court just days before the election — and the minority Democrats crying foul and warning the other side it will rue the day.
But confirming judges to existing open seats is not court-packing. Court-packing means creating new judicial positions and filling them with judges believed to be on "your" side. This is what threatens the delicate balance between our three branches. Consider this: A federal court rules an executive order is unlawful, and the president gets a Congress run by his party to add three seats to the Supreme Court — so he can name justices he can count on to overturn that original ruling. That is court-packing. And it is dangerous to create a rubber stamp on one party's rule in Washington.
Every campaign season, the parties and outside groups square off for what they agree will be The Most Important Election Ever. That's led to voter fatigue, which is compounded by the media's shiny-object coverage that leaves people lurching from one story to the next. A recent report by my organization concluded that independent voters are weary of political rhetoric. They want clear plans, clear ideas and clear approaches to solving the very big challenges we're facing.
The Constitution establishes a government that makes laws to protect the entire community, without infringing on the rights of individuals. As George Washington wrote in his letter transmitting the completed Constitution to Congress: "Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. ... It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which must be reserved."
This is the role of the Supreme Court, which the Framers established as an independent protector of individual rights against the legislative will of the majority, or the arbitrary use of power by the executive. A Supreme Court subjected to court-packing would surrender its independence and be judicially neutered.
Beyond that lies the real threat of the partisan minority's voice in governing getting totally silenced — if the ability to filibuster legislation gets suddenly neutralized in the Senate next year, the way judicial filibusters were made obsolete seven years ago.
That would be terrible for a country so closely split between the major parties as we have been for more than two decades.
Such an arrangement, if backed up by a newly packed Supreme Court, would allow the political majority to weaken other safeguards, such as control of redistricting and the admission of new states, that would further solidify its own control over the government. Citizens objecting to unconstitutional actions by the executive would be without recourse, because appeals to the Supreme Court would be futile.
Court-packing would be a massive gain for the concentration of presidential power and allow a dangerous amount of control by one party. It threatens to replace our two-party government, operating under a system of checks and balances, with an increasingly authoritarian executive backed up by a dominant majority with no meaningful opposition to act as a brake on his power.
Even the most partisan Democrats should be concerned about eliminating the independence of the judiciary. While they could bend the court into a willing participant in passing the most radical aspects of their legislative agenda, they do so at the risk of eliminating the essential safeguard to their own constitutional rights. History is replete with examples of power grabs that have gone bad — and there are very few examples of the rapid and excessive concentration of power that have turned out well.
Packing the court is a serious constitutional issue, demanding serious answers from the Democratic presidential challenger before it's too late. We cannot accept the notion that we need to wait for it to happen to see what it means.
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MEDICINAL PLANTS wwf.se. Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with ca 91 known species, placed in the order zingiberales. the family is native to the tropics of africa and asia., botanical name: musa paradisiaca, musa acuminata, musa balbisiana botanical family: musaceae there are numerous varieties of banana, but almost all the modern edible bananas come from two wild species, musa acuminata and musa balbisiana..
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Haemostatic Effect of the Stem Juice of Musa paradisiaca L. The most generally used fruits are derived from musa paradisiaca, of which an enormous number of varieties and forms exist in cultivation. the sub-species, sapientum , formerly regarded as a distinct species ( m. sapientum ), is the source of the fruits generally known in england as bananas and eaten raw, while the name plantain is given to forms of the species itself which require cooking., many authors use the linnaean classification, e.g. musa paradisiaca, m. x paradisiaca and m. sapientum and many others. however, cheesman (1947вђ"1949) defined the two species, m. balbisiana and m. acuminata as the basis for almost all cultivated bananas and plantains..
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Pdf on jan 1, 2012, k.p.s. kumar and others published traditional and medicinal uses of banana banana, plantain o r musa paradisiaca is a large, herbaceous plant native to india and the use of medicinal herbs in traditional system of medicine is a common practice in many cultures around the world especially in african societies.
A down-loadable pdf document of a book in pre-publication awaiting illustration. an excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses of the plants of the region ]. they are eaten, often roasted, as a treatment for diarrhoea[254. title the encyclopedia of medicinal plants publication author chevallier. a. publisher dorling kindersley. london year 1996 isbn 9-780751-303148 musa paradisiaca-----myrica kandiana engl----- ocimum suave wild----- the dosages indicated in preparations and uses of the medicinal plants in this booklet are based on traditional knowledge and common usages of the contributors and have not been scientifically proved. 12 medicinal plants gardening and list. medicinal plants in this booklet are in two categories. plants, shrubs and weeds
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Hewnoaks
Giving artists time and space to create within a natural, rustic environment
Hewnoaks Artist Residency
2022 Update: This year, instead of our ordinary open application system, Hewnoaks will be trying something new. In 2022, some of our residency slots will be filled by artists who were deferred from the cancelled 2020 call. We'll also be offering slots to artists through a new nomination process to encourage a more diverse pool of candidates and ensure our mission reaches more artists in Maine.
We will not be accepting applications for the 2022 season. If you are interested in applying in 2023, please join our mailing list for updates!
Situated on the eastern shore of Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine, Hewnoaks offers an extraordinary setting of inspiration and beauty. We encourage applications from emerging and mid-career artists and curators in all disciplines, especially for people with no or little residency experience. Maine artists are given preference, but anyone is welcome to apply.
Hewnoaks invites participants for one or two week sessions from mid June until early October each year and offers self-catered accommodation in rustic cabins complete with basic kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms.
Although we can't offer dedicated studio space in the traditional sense, our participants have found ways to make use of the property to advance their practice, whether it be experimenting with new work, finishing projects already in progress, or conducting research for future endeavors. We ask our applicants to tell us how the time spent will be helpful to their work, and we're less concerned with what's produced during the period of the residency (although we like to learn about that, too).
Our participants largely arrive with an interest in focusing on their own work for the bulk of their residency, with some social time mixed in. We are not prescriptive about how each cohort decides to interact; some gather in the evenings for drinks or shared meals, some conduct studio visits or show-and-tell sessions, some go on hikes or canoe adventures together, and some decide to have very little interaction at all.
One evening each session we host a gathering of the participants, to which we invite our board, donors, community members and arts colleagues to come learn about Hewnoaks and meet the artists.
After completing the residency, we hope that our participants stay in touch and keep us informed about how they are sharing their work in the world, through performance, exhibition, publishing, screenings, or other means, so that we can celebrate this work and share it with our communities.
Douglas Volk (23 February 1856–1935) was an American portrait and landscape painter. His work can be found in most American collections, including the Carnegie Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Pittsfield Museum, the National Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art and other places. He taught at Cooper Union, the New York Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He also taught at the Society for Ethical Culture established by Felix Adler and lectured for Bowdoin College's 1927 Bowdoin Institute of Art. He was a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Art, now known as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He participated in the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and won his first major award there. Volk became noted for his figure and portrait paintings. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1899.
Volk married artist Marion Larrabee, an instructor for the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. In 1880 Douglas Volk brought a group of Cooper Union students to the Sebago Lake region. He returned in the 1890s to look for a summer rental. His friends George deForest Brush and Percival Chubb stayed in the Lovell area and it is thought they were the ones to inspire the Volks to settle there. By the turn of the century, Marion Volk had started to work on traditional area looms to weave textiles and rugs. Rather than using cotton, she became known for her hand-woven woolen work, created with her daughter Marion Volk Bridges. As part of a communal effort with residents of Lovell Centre, they made what were collectively known as Sabatos Rugs and Textiles and the Sabatos Handicraft Society. They hand-dyed the wools with fruit and vegetable dyes, such as apple tree bark, goldenrod, barberry, St. John's Wort and madder root. Their designs were based on motifs from Native American art. Their son Wendell Volk, a printmaker and woodcarver, made a hand printed treatise on the Sabatos work from his hand presses and created silkscreen prints for the wool designs.
Marion Volk jointly purchased the old Charles Hamblen farm with Carrie Stow Waite, a friend from New Jersey, in 1898. They divided the property in 1901 and Marion added onto her parcel to create a lot of about 25 acres. The Volks renovated the house and added to it, calling it Hewnoaks. They eventually built four more cottages and an artist's studio for Douglas, with space for their artist friends and craftspeople. Numerous people came to study with them over the years, and they had a wide network of friends among artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among them were J. Alden Weir, Frank Benson, John Calvin Stevens, Childe Hassam, Steven Douglas, William Merritt Chase, John Scott Bradstreet, Felix Adler, and the Swedish woodcarver Karl A. von Rydingsvärd and his American wife, the former Annie Mary Brown. (In 1906 Von Rydingsärd was awarded the Life Membership prize of the National Society of Craftsmen.)
The Volk family held the large property for 100 years. Jessie McCoig Volk, Wendell's widow, was the last to live there. She ran Hewnoaks as a tourist camp from the 1950s until her death; many summer visitors' first introduction to Kezar lake was through Jesse and Hewnoaks. After her death in 2005, the property was bequeathed to the University of Maine Foundation and a portion of the family records to the Smithsonian Institution. University officials arranged for an auction of much of the property's contents and family papers, including art and craft works made by the Volks and art from their personal collection.
Before Jessie Volk died she requested the University of Maine Foundation "use (the) real estate in a state consistent with the current use of such real estate, to preserve the natural beauty thereof and to use such real estate for educational research, including, in particular, uses related to (the) study and promotion of art," for at least the first 15 years. In the spring of 2012 an ad hoc group came together to create an artist residency in support of Jessie Volk's vision. During the summer of 2012, 13 artists were invited to come to Hewnoaks to pursue their creative endeavors. In 2013, in response to the success of the previous summer, Hewnoaks was formalized into a non-profit organization and initiated its current independently-juried application process and its mission "to give artists time and space to create within a natural, rustic environment." In 2014, the IRS approved the Hewnoaks Artist Colony as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. The colony has been funded by in-kind contributions from The University of Maine Foundation, by private donations, and, in 2014, by grants from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation and the Quimby Family Foundation.
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srdanz
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01/15/2009 05:01:18 PM · #101
The one thing I don't understand, and it's pretty clear that no one else does either, is how to reasonably resolve the conflict without eradication of one side or the other.
This is why I am not the president of any country, and neither are you (right?)
It does take bright mind, visionary leadership skills, and some hard power to back up your views.
What I know from my experience, it has to hurt both sides equally. (As it cannot be good for either one). Having views that seem biased (as is the present state) leads nowhere. I have no idea if Obama will do something different in a couple of days (I really would like to but do not believe a single moment that anything will change). The only other force to be reckoned with is China, but they have been silent on the issue. Russians are in the region, but like europeans, they realize that they were the part of the problem (by expelling all those Jews that live in Israel today) so they do not want to solve it by hurting them again.
As you mentioned - tough problem.
I understand both sides' issues, but I disagree and condemn both sides' actions they attempt at mitigating their issues. It leads us to where we are.
Originally posted by srdanz:
I don't think any president of any country has a viable plan for peace.
They have to try however, since the alternative is to simply sit back and let them fight it out.
Azrifel
Israel send in F16's and Abrahms tanks against fireworks, they killed 100:1 (with more than 50% of that civilian casualities. It is out of line, unreasonable. They violate every UN sanction put against them, while the UN is the reason why Israel exists in the first place.
They shot at a UN deposit, bombed a hospital, used phosphor and cluster-bombs on high density civilian populated areas.
They have made a huge mistake.
A human tragedy.
A PR tragedy.
They have become what came upon them.
If their god was still with them he would turn against them.
Russians are in the region, but like europeans, they realize that they were the part of the problem (by expelling all those Jews that live in Israel today) so they do not want to solve it by hurting them again.
Expelling!?!?!?
Live standard in Israel is simply a little bit higher than in Russia, so anyone who can easily get an Israel passport to leave Russia will do so. Nobody is expelled.
And an Israel passport gives easy access to a European passport.
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Hmmm. How many have died in Afghanistan and/or Iraq with respect to those who died on 9/11?
Is the ratio of the dead on each side even important?
How did that become a valid metric for armed conflict?
Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki also a mistake?
How about the bombing of Germany?
01/17/2009 08:40:23 AM · #106
I think this is a different school to the one they bombed last week. I'm losing track at this stage;
Anger Over Strike On UN School
"The United Nations has condemned an Israeli airstrike that killed two boys sheltering in a UN-run school in northern Gaza. They were among 1,600 people taking shelter in the building in Beit Lahiya, reports said. Several shells landed in the compound while the roof took a direct hit.
A UN spokesman said there was no excuse as Israel knew the locations of all its operations in Gaza.
"There have to be investigations to see if war crimes have been committed," he added."
UN Investigations into Israeli war crimes? Right. I'm sure the US will give any investigations their full backing. </sarcasm off>
It looks like Israel are taking this to the wire. They'll probably drop their last incendiary device on a hospital or school minutes before Obama takes the oath.
I'm glad you point out Afghanistan & Iraq. Way too many people died in Iraq because the US should not have been there in the first place. The US had better justification to tie Afghanistan with 9/11, but yes, too many civilians have been needlessly killed in Afghanistan also. The US has committed war crimes in both of these countries with regard to mindless killing of innocent civilians, but I don't believe there is anyone who has the necessary combination of political stomach & authority to bring US war criminals to justice.
The ratio of the dead is particularly important when it appears that the side doing by far the most killing seems to be doing it with inadequate discrimination between enemy combatants and innocent civilians. I don't believe many people would be troubled by the US killing 15,000 Afghans (just picking a number) compared to the 3,000 9/11 civilian deaths IF the US were clearly attacking the group responsible for 9/11 and avoiding civilian casualties. Of course, ratios don't even need to be used if we're talking about an incident where US forces just wiped out an entire village from the air because some Taliban fighters might be present in it. Context is important.
If Gaza was filled more with an army of violent Palestinians rather than a small handful of ill equipped Hamas militants interspersed among a downtrodden civilian population, then I would not be quite as horrified at what Israel is doing. You can get mad at Hamas for "hiding behind Palestinian womanand children", but that is not an excuse to blindly kill those women and children. How would you like to see law enforcement in the US start behaving that way with hostage situations or when dangerous criminals are just hiding amongst civilians? Is it justifiable to kill the civilians that are in the way then?
"Is the ratio of the dead on each side even important? How did that become a valid metric for armed conflict?"
I'd agree that ratios are not important statistics in isolation, but they can be compelling depending on the context as I mentioned above.
"Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki also a mistake?"
Again, context matters, and this case is obviously different in many ways than what is being talked about in this thread. First of all, many people will argue that the use of nuclear weapons was a mistake just on the basis of the powerful fact that the US used weapons of mass destruction on a civilian population and lit the fuse to the following arms race of the cold war (although I'd argue the arms race would have happened either way). Other people will argue that not using the bombs would have resulted in a far higher number of casualties because the war would have been dragged out much longer. I'm not going to get into which side was right in this thread because it is a red herring to imply that the two situations are relevant to eachothe for the reasons I just explained.
"How about the bombing of Germany?" How about it? Are you really equating the Gaza strip with WWII's Germany?!? Again, context matters. In what possible context can you argue that this is relevant to the killing ratio discussion? Put aside the fact that war technology and civilization's expectations & rules for war have evolved over the last half century and just focus on the issue of ratios for a moment. Did allied forces kill more Germans than the Germans killed in that conflict? I have not looked up the casualty numbers, but somehow I'd bet that even by the end of the war the Germans killed more people than they lost. The Soviet Union alone probably had more casualties than Germany in the war.
If by "bombing of Germany" you meant the Bombing of Dresden, then there is more controversy to consider and that particular incident may have been immoral (I don't know enough about the details to make an argument one way or the other off the cuff). This still comes across as a red herring with regard to Gaza since the two situations have very little context in common.
I don't know about that... "Their" God is the Old testament God, the God of Israel, the fire-and-brimstone God, the smite-your-enemies God, at least historically. I'm aware that, worldwide, Judaism usually seems a tad more ecumenical than that, but still... These conflicts DO seem Biblical both in their scope and in their execution.
If Gaza was filled more with an army of violent Palestinians rather than a small handful of ill equipped Hamas militants interspersed among a downtrodden civilian population, then I would not be quite as horrified at what Israel is doing.
If Hamas fought as an army rather than hiding amid the civilian population, Israel would not be killing civilians. The idea that Israel wants to kill civilians is offensive. There is only one party in this conflict which has called for the extermination of the other, and it is not Israel ...
Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the Fog of Urban Warfare
Quoted from above:
Question of Proportionality
Under international law, proportionality is defined as a question of judgment, not of numbers: Is the potential risk to civilians excessive in relationship to the anticipated military advantage? That puts the weight on military advantage, since civilian risk is a given and must only not be �excessive.� Even if the target is legitimate, was the right weapon used to try to minimize civilian damage? The key is the expected damage the commander anticipated from the use of a certain weapon, and not what actually happened when it was fired.
The other key legal principle is discrimination: has a military struggled hard enough to hit only military targets and combatants, while trying to avoid purely civilian targets and noncombatants?
Deciding requires an investigation into battlefield circumstances that cannot be carried out while the fighting rages, and such judgments are especially difficult in urban guerrilla warfare, when fighters like Hamas live among the civilian population and take shelter there. While Israel is the focus of most criticism, legal experts agree that Hamas, a radical Islamic group classified by the United States and Europe as terrorist, violates international law.
Am I the only one that finds it both paradoxical and depressing that "international law" is used to provide "rules" for armed conflict? Wouldn't be wonderful if all the nations of the world stood up, collectively, and said "There's never any excuse for aggression on each other!" Shades of John Lennon... Dream on, Bear...
You seem to have missed my point then. I was not making an argument in support of the Hamas strategy of hiding behind civilians, I was pointing out that having an its enemy hiding behind civilians does not give Israel the moral authority to kill the civilians that are in the way without taking great care to mitigate their casualties. That's just my opinion of course, since moral authority is subjective, but I hope it becomes the opinion of a growing number of rational an humanist minded people.
... having an its enemy hiding behind civilians does not give Israel the moral authority to kill the civilians that are in the way without taking great care to mitigate their casualties.
I agree, but I'd contend that, under those circumstances, they are likely doing the best possible job of minimizing civilian casualties -- the implication that they don't care or are not exercising such caution is what I find offensive. As you point out, the primal cause of civilian casualties is the Hamas strategy of fighting from within civilian areas ...
How would you approach negotiating with a "government" whose stated policy calls for your extermination? What "moral authority" does Hamas have for attempting genocide?
The Israelis do take great care to avoid killing innocent civilians, but when a Palestinian civilian allows Hamas to fire rockets from their house or otherwise use their location, that location becomes a target. If the Palestinian civilians don't want their buildings to become targets, perhaps they should let their government and military know that they don't like their homes being made into targets.
Just to clarify: I meant during Stalin years, not in the 80s...
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Well I certainly don't condone the approach to Israel contained in Hamas' constitutional documents, or in the speeches of some of its leaders. However, by casting all members and supporters of Hamas as simple genocidal maniacs you are falling prey to the carefully crafted, sloganeering PR promoted by Israel.
The reality is that it is a political mess, with moderates and extremists just like US politics. The supporters of Hamas have elected the political party (not the militia) under a democratic process - but support for stronger resistance to Israel than was being offered by Fatah is hardly grounds for certifying the whole nation as a terrorist state.
It is also one thing for extremists within a nation to loudly declaim its neighbour when they have no capacity to enact their threats, but quite another to invade, contravene UN resolutions and to use a degree of force that results in a humanitarian disaster and claims of war-crimes.
The UK government, when faced with a terrorist organisation resisting occupation in N. Ireland, met with and negotiated a truce then peace with the political wing of the terrorist organisation. The solution in the ME will be to legitimise moderates within the political arm of the terrorist organisation and negotiate peace based on a compromise.
As I understand it, Israel has steadfastly refused to meet with any element of Hamas despite offers to do so.
Originally posted by Matthew:
Yet, despite agreements and treaties and cease-fires with the Palestinians, the rhetoric of the political side of Hamas has done nothing but escalate and the rocket attacks carried out by Hamas militia have not abated. It's not hard to see how the Israelis would regard such agreements and any negotiations as useless.
Either the Hamas leadership has no control over the militia or they condone attacks by their militia while denouncing them publically. If the former, then why aren't the militia members denounced, branded as criminals and arrested by the Palestinians? I think the latter case is most likely.
Personally, I see little divide between the political and "military" branches of Hamas. One provides the rhetoric of Jewish extermination, the other takes action to carry it out. They're pretty much of one mind.
What nonsense. If armed militia decided to use your location to stage an attack, how would you stop them?
The sweeping generalisation that Israelis take great care to avoid civilian casualties are as offensive as the sweeping generalisation that Palestinians are all terrorists or too stupid to stop the extremists from using them as human shields. Stories like this one demonstrate that there are deliberate, targetted and merciless killings of civilians by the Israeli military as well.
I wouldn't, but I also wouldn't vote for a leadership that would do such a thing. If they did, I surely wouldn't hang about waiting for the incoming artillery.
Didn't the Palestinians elect Hamas, ousting Fatah? Maybe that wasn't such a great choice after all.
Well, Israel appears to have broken the latest cease fire - so the the latest escalation is Israeli in origin.
Bear in mind that Hamas is seen within Palestine as resistance fighters - with a degree of legitimacy given the occupation of Palestinian land and oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel. I would suspect that the milita has strong links into the political wing, and that there is a combination of low level unwillingness to prevent Hamas from resisting Israel (a popular cause that cannot be ignored in a democracy) and in specific situations, an inability to do so.
In this context, Israel does not permit Palestine to have a standing army that could be used to enforce the peace and has long resisted the creation of an effective Palestinian police force. I have also read reports that Palestinian police killed are reported as non-civilian kills (because they are employed by the government - which is considered by Israel a terrorist organisation) which can't do much for their recruitment needs.
I don't deny that resisting Israel is a popular cause - that's what tends to happen to oppressed people denied access to basic education, food, energy etc.
I think that you are suggesting that the Palestinians should ask their leadership to be more conciliatory towards Israel.
Out of interest, if you perceived that another country might be a threat to the US, or if it invaded the US, would you vote for leaders who would fight back or leaders who would give in more easily?
Al Qaeda are also seen as resistance fighters and I'm sure they have their own justifications and legitimizations as well. Does that justify their activities? Or condemn activities to suppress them?
Simply being popular doesn't justify the endorsement of a cause. Prop 8 was popular in California, does that make it right?
If by conciliatory, you mean abandoning an extremist position and seeking a less violent, more practical path to co-existence with the Israelis, then yes. Hamas' position, rhetoric and actions have called for the extermination of Israelis and the complete destruction of the Israeli state, which they claim as illegitimate. It should be obvious to anyone that position is untenable and unrealistic. Israel and the Israelis aren't going away. Until the Palestinian government pulls their head out of their collective bottom, realizes that and takes a different tack, they're simply asking for more of the same.
If by conciliatory, you mean abandoning an extremist position and seeking a less violent, more practical path to co-existence with the Israelis, then yes. Hamas' position, rhetoric and actions have called for the extermination of Israelis and the complete destruction of the Israeli state, which they claim as illegitimate. It should be obvious to anyone that position is untenable and unrealistic.
Like the US position on North Korea?
or the US position on Iran?
or the US (Bush) position on Iraq and Afghanistan?
or the US (Reagan) position on the USSR?
or the US (Kennedy) position on Cuba?
or the US (Truman) position on Japan?
or the US position under numerous governments towards a bunch of South American countries?
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Bear in mind that civilian casualties are strategic for both sides. Hamas shoots from hospitals, schools and mosques knowing that return fire on those positions would result in international condemnation and bolster local support. Israel generally avoids civilian casualties where practical or convenient, but I don't think it's a huge priority because they have long viewed such losses as a strong disincentive (if your actions result in your family being hurt or house being bulldozed, then you won't be so eager to keep doing it).
I think Hamas' policies and rhetoric have made peace essentially unattainable by now. They've called for nothing less than Israel's utter destruction for so long that settling for anything less would cause them to lose face and the respect of their supporters. But if that's the only acceptable outcome, then negotiations are pointless because Israel's certainly not going to agree to its own destruction. Hamas will simply try to maintain the status quo (and thus their image) unless some major event allows them to claim "victory" in the face of compromise.
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1) Israel can kill or imprison every last Hamas member. The very next day another Hamas would emerge. What needs to be eradicated is the mentality, the ideology that feeds it and that ideology is Wahhabism. That kind of "paradigm shift" will not happen overnight, obviously. One of the first short-term steps would be to "deal with" the number one sponsor and propagator of Wahhabism; the Saudi government.
2) Israel itself has to go through an important paradigm shift too. That is; the military olygarchy that has ruled the country since the founding of Israel has to be replaced by a true civilian oligarchy (I'd call it democracy just to be politically correct. However, democracy, just like any other form of government, is still oligarchy). Obviously that's not going to happen overnight either.
Undoubtedly, it's going to be a long process but it can be done. A resemblance of peace did not come to Europe until about 50 years ago. KKK in the US was still very much active at that time. That was after roughly 12 thousand years of evolution of sedentary life style and 40 thousand years of evolution since the Cro-Magnon came out of Africa to Eurasia and slaughtered the Neanderthal and then promptly began to slaughter one another. But it's going to happen; Middle East will one day have what can be charitably called "peace" just like any other part of the world.


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swig_link_libraries(${MODULE_NAME} ${MAIN_LIBRARY_NAME})
swig_link_libraries(${MODULE_NAME} ${RUBY_LIBRARIES})

And .i file:
%module ruby_module

%{
#include "ruby_wrapper.h"
%}

%import std_string.i

%include "ruby_module.h"

And headers file:
ruby_module.h and ruby_wrapper.h are have the same content.
#include <string>

class MyClass
{
public:
  MyClass();
  ~MyClass();

public:
  std::string myfunc(const std::string& path);
};

In the ruby_wrapper.cpp file is overwrited functions of mylib.so .

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Q: Why can't I search for all posted items instead of a specific quantity? When I try to perform a search in the Auction house, it does not allow me to submit my query without a specific desired quantity. Why is that? (I was searching for crafting items)

A: The process of purchasing commodities - crafting items, gems and (in the RMAH) gold - is a complicated one. It's not that there's just a listed price per unit for each commodity. Instead, the system automatically attempts to obtain the quantity you desire from the cheapest offering available, and if the items under that price run out it moves to the next cheapest offer, etc.
In practice, it means that the price is very dependent on the quantity you are interested in, and without knowing that the system cannot provide you with an accurate quote.
source

A: As ThiefMaster said in a comment, this is likely an attempt to combat speculation.
Imagine the following situation: you have a high-level gem (say Star Emerald). You check the AH to get a feeling what's the fetching price, and discover that there are currently 5 of these, averaging at about 100K gold per piece. You buy them all (asuming you have the purchasing power) and relist them at 150K a pop. Since the supply is essentially zero at this price (you bought them all), and it's unlikely these are commonly listed, you are effectively inflating the prize of the gem. At 150K it's still probably cheaper to buy these from the AH than to roll your own from the jeweller, so you can expect a nifty ~30% RoI (ABT) when these sell eventually. You can continue to watch the supply and buy out gems that are listed at lower price than the one you set, and relist them again at your selected price level.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
With enough purchasing power, you can corner your own piece of the market and set the prices higher than what the current supply and demand would suggest.
Were you an actual stock trader, SEC would be very interested to hear from you for violation of Securities Exchange Act.

ABT - After Blizzard Tax. Revenues adjusted for the Blizzard transaction fee, currently sitting at 15% of the selling price.

A: More likely, it's because Blizzard intends the Auction house to be terrible until they release the currency auction house.
This way when the currency auction house is released people will react more positively to it.
Forcing us to search by quantity is easily one of the stupidest interface decisions ever made in any implementation of anything like an auction house in any game in any genre in the history of video gaming.


This course requires you to prepare and submit an Investigation Report exploring and evaluating a current, significant/ important geotechnical engineering issue/ project, preferably involving innovative, sustainable geotechnical engineering practices/ designs/ applications.
Apart from encouraging students to investigate/ review course related matter and develop skills in technical report writing, through this assessment task it is also expected that students acquire the following generic attributes of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
Ability to communicate effectively, not only with engineers, but also with the community at large.
Understanding of the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development.
Understanding the principles of sustainable design and development.
A detailed review of the a mechanism/ cause of a failure of a geotechnical engineering system (eg. Building foundation) (probably with a case study analysis) and subsequent remedial actions.
Please note that you have the freedom to select any other topic as far as it is a relevant, current issue.
This assessment task requires detailed study of the selected topic as well as intelligent assessment and review and understanding of relevant issues. The report should be presented with correctly cited list of references and bibliography and to a reasonably acceptable technical standard with a word limit of approximately 2500 (excluding references and appendices).
References – adequate, reliable and current.


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P.A., Canada gain jobs, Sask. Sees slight drop
by Patty Hardy
— Feb 10, 2019
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There were an estimated 39,900 people employed in the region in a labour force of 42,100, according to the latest Statistics Canada labour force survey released Friday, February 8.
The rate sat at 5.2 per cent in November and 4.8 in October.
That's down from 5.2 in December and 5.9 per cent a year earlier.
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Home | Welcome Letter from the Unit President | Unit History | Research by Members of the 64th | Events Calendar | Photo Gallery of today's 64th | The Recruiter's Tent
March 30-April 1 Heartland International Tattoo Living History, DeKalb, IL
April 13-15 Living History Joliet Public Library, Joliet, IL
April 15 Unit Dues are Due!
May 18-20 Re-enactment at Naper Settlement, Naperville, IL
June 1-3 Living History at Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
July 6-8 Re-enactment at Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, IL
July 20-22 Re-enactment at The Grove, Glenview, IL
August 10-12 Living History at United Methodist Campground, Des Plaines, IL
September 7-9 Re-enactment at Dellwood Park, Lockport, IL
September 28-30 National Re-enactment, Mill Springs, KY
October 19-21 Re-enactment at Dollinger Farm, Minooka, IL
December 1 Christmas Party
Remember that you can always find more event details and directions at the unit website, http://www.64thill.org/events/. We also have info on several Civil War dances/formal balls held throughout the year in the area.
It's Almost That Dreaded Time of Year Again
I'm sure you've all already seen the TV commercials reminding everyone that tax season is swiftly approaching. I hate for this to be another harbinger of doom for you all, but 64th unit dues are also, er, due, April 15th as well. Fortunately, though, you don't need to wrack your brains over piles of paperwork or be afraid of being audited, just send your payment to our lovely and ever-friendly unit treasurer, Dianna Bierman. It is $15.00 for families, $10.00 for individuals, with an extra $9.00 per person for insurance (which, I should add just to make sure it's abundantly clear for everyone, is NOT optional. We want everyone to have fun and stay safe so you must have insurance in order to participate. Sorry, guys, but that's just how it goes.) Before April 15th please send it to the following address:
Dianna Bierman
1121 Westshire Drive
Thank you, and I hope the IRS is a kind to you as Dianna can be.
Woo-hoo! New Members!
The 64th would like to give a big howdy-doodie welcome to our newest members Nick and Brian Beckman! Welcome to the club, guys, and we hope that you enjoy yourselves within our little band of misfits.
Diana Gough and her family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of you who were kind enough to send your condolences regarding her teenage grandnephew, Dakota Johnson's, death on January 30th from abdominal cancer. As you may or may not know, Dakota had a long and difficult fight and was well loved by all that were fortunate enough to have known him. He is survived by his parents, Daniel and Heather Johnson, and his little brother, Dawson. If you wish to still send your condolences, please send them to Diana's sister, Dakota's grandmother, at this address:
Cindy Morris
891 Southwest Street
Update on Carl
Just to let everyone know Mary Gutzke got an email from Carl Stahl recently letting her know that he is now currently out of Iraq and is in Kuwait awaiting an eventual return to Germany where he'll be on a 30 day leave. He's scheduled to be shipped back home in April so please keep up sending your letters and emails to him! He may be out of harm's way but he still needs our support and friendship to get him safely back home.
Military Elections
Congratulations to the winners of the 2007-2009 military rank elections!
Captain Scott Gutzke
1st Sergeant Bruce Malesh
2nd Sergeant Tony Lobello
1st Corporal Mike Gyorkos
Thanks to everyone who participated in the voting process.
Door's Open
By Ken Gough
(Before you read on, Di told me I must reveal that I wrote this after a frenzied search for the TV remote that came up empty. Don't worry, though, they've finally been located and all is again right with the world.)
The '07 season is right around the corner. Have you thought about what you're doing this year? Are you going to do living history or show a display with demonstrations? The two aren't the same, you know.
This question reared its ugly head last year. Before I go any further let me say the issue was NOT with any member of the 64th or anyone who was a guest of the 64th. This is to head off the howls of indignation I can already hear.
Let's take a closer look at the two:
Living History:
This is to teach about history by placing yourself in a set or to create a set using existing objects or structures. This is only half of it. Now you must talk about and do the things you are attempting to teach in first person. This can be as simple as sitting in front of a bush or the front part of a period dwelling and knitting a pair of socks.
Period Display:
This is where a person has artifacts and/or reproductions of period items arranged in a setting that may or may not be period. Some of the items on display may be used during open hours. The person running the display should be able to explain in depth how each item is used. Most often this is done in third person.
Now, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with this setup. If you think of it, the traditional "blanket display" that I, as well and many others, did as a matter of course is only display. A valuable one, but let's be honest. That isn't living history.
Now for the real heresy.
Listen up children, a little reenacting history lesson coming at 'cha. There will be a quiz.
Going back to the dark ages of reenacting. History got folded, spindled, and mutilated through the cowardice of husbands who knew they couldn't leave the wifey at home and still play with the guys so they created something called "Dependent Camp". Now this was the place where the wife, kids, parents, grandparents, and, in some cases, all of the above, would camp. Happy as a pig in...mud, they would sit around the campfire in their aluminum camp chairs cooking s'mores bathed in the harsh light of Coleman lanterns while wearing paper kepis or the infamous "camp dress" (try and find that one in Peterson's). To give the devil his due there wasn't what we could call an authentic camp at this time. Only a handful of re-enactors across the country had started to think in the terms of a period camp. The Farb vs. Authentic wars began.
Come the 80s and some bright wife plundered through all the junk her hubby had accumulated through the years and, low and behold, there's a wall tent and enough stuff here for her to put together something to show the public. Now she can play too. Thus, "Civilian Camp" was born. The aluminum chairs were disposed or covered with blankets, coolers were likewise covered or ditched into the woods. These early pioneers then busied themselves with cooking for "their company".
Spectators would now walk in confusion up and down growing streets of ladies with collections of cast iron giving off, in many cases, indescribable stenches. Remember dad, the coward? He wolfs down everything she cooks, often lubricated with lots of beer. All the time knowing if she's not happy, it's no more battle for him. Now in addition to the question of "Is that fire real?" came "Did so many women really follow their men to war?"
Fast forward to the 90s. Civilian camp is now so ingrained in reenacting that it begins to take on a life of its own. Men are now joining women in civilian roles. With a camp that has so many wall tents, dining flies, and billboard sized displays they take on the look of a fully rigged schooner in the teeth of a gale. "Deception Through Inference" is a term I've used to describe many of these displays. For example (I'll use something so false no one can think I'm picking on their impression).
Some bright civilian finds a dusty tome that a group of women in the PoDunk Soldiers Aid Society knitted socks for the army with each toe separated just like gloves. They put together a cute display showing what little information they have on the subject and sit around talking about these goofy socks.
Now John Q. Public came along and is regaled with this information to the point that he leaves thinking every soldier had a pair of these types of socks in his haversack. The people running the display didn't do anything false, -or did they? They had a true fact, but to make their display seem more important, they "inferred" that this happened more often that it actually did. The wrath of these people when challenged was last seen in biblical times.
This practice continued unchecked and now the courts (the real courts with judges, lawyers, and whooping cash fines) are involved and the liars..., -oops-, have free reign to do or say whatever they want with the threat of litigation to back them up.
Now we're in the 21st century and a whole generation of re-enactors have grown up in a hobby including a Civilian Camp full of these displays. Farb is now a four letter word and is heard no more. This concept is so set as to be untouchable. Few even question it anymore. And history takes a mortal hit.
For Sale by Mary Gutzke
I still have a couple of Civil War dressed for sale (cheap) and some accessories such as a bonnet, cape, and some children's toys in need of a buyer. The dresses fit approximately 6/8 (petite) but some can be lengthened a bit. Please inquire with Mary Gutzke for details and/or pictures: mgutzke@gmail.com
Ken's Clear'n out the House
The house is filling up to the point I'm worried a window will blow out or the floor will collapse. Help me out if you can.
Wambaugh White & Company Federal sack coat kit. This fits a size 46...................................$50
John Allen Federal Officers trousers. Worn once. Size 44" ......................................................$75
John Allen Federal Officers sack coat w/3 pockets. Well used with Capt. bars. Size 46...........$40
Top Hat. Furry black felt, worn one event..................................................................................$30
Homespun shirts. My own product, various sizes, most are 1820's style............................$20 each
Issue Shirt. My own product. Dommet flannel, one size fits nobody. Used for display only.....$50
Shelter Halves. My own product, no poles, pins, or lines. All have been set up as part of displays at one time or another.
Machine sewn...............................................................................................................................$40
Hand sewn....................................................................................................................................$50
USSC Quilts. 9 patch pattern, cot sized with Chicago SAS stamps.
Both have been used as displays.
Quilted one side............................................................................................................................$75
Quilted both sides.........................................................................................................................$85
Lye Soap. 2"x 3"x 1" bars. Wrapped and tied in wax paper...................................................$2 each
There will be no board meeting for February, so the next meeting with be March 11th and will this time be at the Bierman's house in Joliet, Ill. At noon there will be a potluck for all, and the actual meeting will be around 4:00 PM following a stitch 'n bitch session for the ladies and a game or round rolling for the gentlemen. For more information regarding, please contact me, Melina McVicker, at mcvicker@mc.net and I will try to get that info back to you as soon as I can.


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