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Bill is an experienced landscaper/designer and also is trained in Tantra Kriaya Yoga and nature spirit attunement. Join us for “the Green Man” in landscaping!
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At the Table on Wednesday, 5/9/07
David Rosenberg, Shari Able, Mary Biehn, Bill Bulloch, Mira Rodwan, Daniel Lewis, Barrie Konicov, Spencer Konicov, Ellen Bierhorst, Marvin Kraus, Gerry Kraus, Chad Benjamin Potter, Ginger Lee Frank, Himavat Ishaya, Chris Metzger
Announcements
Mother’s Day (see below for activism event that is wonderful for Mother’s Day)
Shari Able: Clifton Cultural Center meeting last Wednesday. At old Clifton School, corner Clifton and McAlpin. Painting, photography, film making, music, dancing, library, music appreciation… grants being written. Have received $600,000. Want 3 million. Buildings available from the board of ed. For $1/year. Will be presented at the salon.
Mira: Women Writing for a Change is doing something Friday night. And Paulette Meier et al are doing sing along Saturday 2 pm Mirror Lake in Eden park. “Mothers Acting Up”.
Fri May 11 10 – 9 come swap stories about yard and garden.
Gerry: a comment to share. Terri Gross interviewed Geo Clooney and Robyn Williams: you can get your point across better thru humor.
Ginger: Sinead O’Connor: you can sometimes get your point across by whispering.
Also, Bill Moyers last week, Christopher Hitchens, “God is not great”…the violence religion has done in the world. I have been trying to bring him to Cincinnati. In touch with his agent. … But he also supports the War in Iraq.
- Just finished working on and exhibit Business as Unusual, heroes of the holocaust at the Freedom Center. Otto Schindler, and Also the Frieder family. The Leica family operated an underground railroad. Saved many hundreds, thousands of Jews. (see blurb in Blue section, “Articles” below. E.b.)
- Marvin: Cinti Teachers Union elected a new leader, Tim Kraus, unrelated. Wonderful person. Bodes well. Hope that the administration, Board and Teachers might be able to work together.
-Mira: Mon May 14, 5-6 pm at Wise Center, a workshop on Darfur. 621 4020, RSVP
TOPICS NOMINATED
Spencer: neo conservativism. Want to learn.
Mira: Wm. Crystal
Chris the disparity of wealth in the US, implications
Mira: Darfur
Ginger resolution about the Nazi march? NAACP still having public meetings about it.
They are also getting involved in the Banks project.
Shari the issue seems to be that Blacks don’t have opportunities to work in the Banks project.
Himavat disparity of race.
David some of the best things I’ve been reading say the disparity of wealth is one of the worst problems.
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
Chris is it different today? Yes. Wealth is held in the top 20%. When J Rockefeller was at the top of his game, the 12 billionaires of hedge fund are wealthier today than Rock. Was by a multiple of 8. Wealth is being sucked up by .1 of 1% of the population. Things are extreme now. These wealthy people lobby and get things like estate tax cuts, can buy legislation, can buy votes. Can buy FDA, SEC, they can buy it all. Greater extreme than ever.
Shari: this hedge fund thing is interesting, but I ‘d like to hear what the hell a hedge fund is?
Chris I was on Wall St. 30 yrs. Understand a Mutual Fund? People can invest in the fund. Let’s say a million dollars collected from a pool of folks. … A hedge fund, on the other hand, takes money from wealthy investors, a closed fund. They buy stocks and sell s tocks short… if you think a s tock is going to go down, you can get the stock without buying it, and wait until it goes down, then buy it at the low price and sell it immediately at the higher sum.
Bill Is this related to the phenomenon of failing companies whose stocks are still going up. Conversely, companies who are doing good business have stock that is nevertheless going down.
Chris no that is another phenomenon.
Soon, the small guy is going to be let into this game, and will be raked over the coals.
David Diane Rhemes today had an hour on hedge funds. You can replay it on line. Banks and Mutual Funds need a certain level of assets to qualify to borrow… hedge funds don’t. They can have no assets, and can borrow and buy as they will. Unregulated. How is this diff from the futures market?
Chris futures contract has a date of expiration. With hedge funds, no time expiration.
Ginger …something is whacked when these CEOs get huge pay and golden parachutes, even though they have run the company into the ground.
Mira does this relate to a rumor that the Chinese bubble will burst soon.
Chris if wealth collapses in China they won’t be able to buy the government bonds we need to sell on a daily basis.
David the question of whether the economy is creating wealth or not. …Jim Hightower, “do corporate mergers create wealth?” They do on paper, but also suck up a lot of capitol. We print money to perpetuate that. That detracts f rom capitol that could be borrowed to create wealth.
If you look at Gross Dom. Product as an indicator; and an ecologically bad economy, that gets summed as an addition to wealth when actually it is a detraction from wealth.
David: Natural Capitalism. The reason cleaning up the environment does not create wealth is because the systems like natural resources are not factored into our wealth equation.
Chris In the late 80’s, I noticed “jobless recovery” term. I am an economist by training. Also the phrase “trickle down”. I don’t see any trickle down between the corporate thriving, and yet people are not doing well. Corps are earning hugely, but nothing is happening on the ground. Disparity of wealth getting wider.
The only thing that is recovering is the corporate world.
Mira I thrill to hear Robert Reich on Marketplace. He brings up points like Chris is. Is hollering in the woods, nobody is hearing.
Marvin I would like to say I don’t know what is wrong with making money as long as you are not hurting anybody by the way you are acquiring money. Why should there be any limit on how much money you can acquire if you are not hurting anybody else in the process? But the other side of me says these hedge funds are, knowledgeable people taking advantage of less knowledgeable people. I consider that ill gotten gains. Seems that we have to act to keep the evil people from profiting from the innocent. Not worry about how much they are acquiring.
Spencer … seem to talk mostly about the large corps. And the evil they do. But they represent a small portion of our economy. The small company … grows … sells stocks … now a small corp. Keeps growing … acquires other small companies, grows bigger. Say 100 years ago, John Shillito’s, ready to retire, forms Federated Dept. Stores. … The point is when you talk of the economy, you are talking about something so diverse there is no way you can predict anything. There are 100 million managers. Can’t be managed. We all are talking about large corps, and they rep. a small portion.
(No they don’)
David The danger of the corp. model: the strategy is controlling resources, distribution, and retailing. That way they can control whole economy if they have enough market share. So suddenly competition disappears because they are in control, not subject to laws of supply and demand. Also can purchase more resources and dist. And retailing. I agree that corps are a minority from the perspective of the 6 billion people in the world, and 2/3 of them don’t participate in the global corporate economy. But when the corporate market place develops the power and can figure out how to make money off of their (the 2/3) land or air or water.
Barrie: I have expertise on money. Have written a book. If you want to understand money, call the Fed. Reserve of Chicago, free booklet “Modern Money Mechanics”. Learn how money is created. They are most proud that the Fed. Reserve is a privately owned bank that lends credit. We confuse money, wealth, debt. “Money” is a Federal Reserve note, a debt. Not real wealth. Money is actually created in the act of borrowing thru the Fed. Reserve. There is over 50 trillion dollars of debt in the US. All debt together. Consider the interest on that. We are therefore reaching melt down. Unsolvable.
New book, Conversations with God Book II about how to transform the money system. The economy as it now exists will start deflation in next 60 days. Less money will buy more, but it will be hard to find money. The way of solving the dilemma is to get rid of money by changing everything over to a debit and credit system and all financial transactions to be visible. Cost to manufacture, cost to buy on everything. And a limit to how much you can keep. It is dangerous to society to have a Bill Gates with 30 billion dollars. True wealth is gotten by giving it away.
Spencer he is giving away money at such a huge rate, so efficiently.
Barrie: so it is the sharing, not the accumulation of wealth. All religions talk about tithing. Anybody giving away money is creating wealth. We are going to have to change our economy because it is not sustainable. We have been brutal to ourselves, our society, and Nature. … What happened in Kansas City, the tornado… Important decisions in next 50 days.
In the 50’s the earth stopped being able to produce enough oxygen to replenish … cut down trees. Trees create oxygen. We have been exterminating ourselves. If you don’t recognize that you are serving life, then you are destroying life.
Gerry the reality is that the way people use their money … we are a borrowing society. People don’t save any more. It doesn’t matter if the stock market goes up or down if you are not buying and selling. Most people live in a deficit economy. It amazes me that most people spend half their income paying interest on their charge card debt. … upside down. People being greedy. If people had different economic values; lived like 100 years ago, developing real wealth. Bottom line: today even the poorest people in US are a lot better off than …
Himavat Barrie brought up some interesting points. You suggest that a paradigm is called for here. That is the boat I am sailing in right now. And it is all made up in the mind. Consistent with current quantum theory. Another book Busting loose from the money game: changing the rules of a game you cannot win, using the principles of quantum mechanics. Begins with the awareness of oneness. … As long as we keep spinning our wheels in the old paradigm, will crash…
New paradigm: make things happen by thinking things.
David back to the corporate economy. The extend to which the corp economy can grow by acquiring the assets of the 4 billion people who are not involved in the corp. economy by buying its land, water etc. is another enhancement of the corp. economy but impoverishes the world overall. … A peasant farmer in a developing country who loses his land has a choice of becoming a wage laborer and having to buy his food. Another example that indicators on Wall Street don’t really indicate world welfare. Might instead just mean how the 2 million in the corp. economy can extract wealth from the other 4 million. Like Catherine Austin Fitts, a “tape worm” economy. (see solari.com). They can get a nice paper profit but we destroying the world.
Ginger Corps. Aren’t just after the land of the peasant farmer, but also their seed, their animals, their fertilizer. Genetic engineering as well…. It isn’t paper production that is cutting down the trees. It is meat production.
Himavat the rate of deforestation in the rain forests are declining.
Chad would Mira discuss how this relates to Darfur.
Bill stepping away from the economic particulars, we are all dealing with a paradigm of taking. Seems to me a paradigm shift of giving back. (is needed). Helping Darfur could be … Garden. Plant a tree.
David Some companies are planning trees to offset their carbon consumption.
Chris I have read in the Times that the gov’t in Sudan has been in the process of making oil deals… there are perhaps important oil fields to be developed there. It has been suggested that this may be the reason why nobody has put the brakes on the genocide in Darfur. Perhaps the problem might be that there is oil and the government that controls it is Arab and in the north.
Barrie … one of the ten major illusions we tend to have is “there is not enough”. The belief of “not enough” is promulgated by our religions. E.g. chap 2 in Genesis. For one, “there is not enough life”. When you feel there isn’t enough, you want; when you want, it perpetuates the phenomenon of not enough. Adam and Eve story. Not enough.
David: Chinese oil works kidnapped in Africa a week ago? The kidnappers wanted the Chinese out of there because their presence disrupted the ability to prosper in their nomadic herding lifestyle because the Chinese were using the land … I imagine that in Darfur there is this theme.
Mira so what are we going to do when the fan stops running?
Barrie: I have plans in place. Iran stopped taking us dollars for oil. China just threatened to dump its dollars in reserve. This would deflate the dollar. … Kennedy printed US notes, not Fed. Reserve notes. He was assassinated.
Gerry somebody mentioned Bill Gates. He changed the whole world. Democratized knowledge. If he makes zillions of dollars for that he deserves that; he made my life.
Barrie the book suggests we limit not how much a person makes, but how much they keep. Keep 20 million, give the rest away.
Ellen What about the proposal to stop corporations from being immune to
Chris Bill Gates didn’t do the internet/pc revolution; he marketed it. I am not sure that I buy that he has made our lives better. It might also be debated whether computers have made our lives better.
Ginger: to add to Ellen’s comment. About 15 years I tried to persuade Sen. Metzenbaum… at that time there were three types of corporations in Ohio. For profit, not for profit, and individuals.
Marvin anybody can incorporate not for profit.
Ginger: usually required a board, officers… not an individual.
(Closed with song: building bridges.)
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
Mothers as activists on Mothers Day in Cincinnati!
You probably didn’t know that Mothers Day was originally not a Hallmark moment at all, but a demonstration of mothers against War. Check o ut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Day
In that same spirit, local women have organized to stand up for environmental justice, an end to hunger, and universal access to healthcare and education. Join mothers everywhere in this powerful demonstration. Got a bell to ring? Bring it.
At 1:00 on Sunday, May 13, Mothers Day, go to one of these parks or gather in any public place , ring bells for one minute, and then observe five minutes of silence together.
Parks where organizers will gather and after 1:05, lead a conversation:
Eden Park at Mirror Lake,
Washington Park down town opposite Music Hall,
Hyde Park Square,
Rapid Run Park,
Hoffner Park in Northside.
http://Www.standingwomen.org
I plan to go to Eden Park. Ellen.
See: http://www.standingwomen.org/ and please forward.
The women of Ohio call upon the women of the world, from the day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us to save the world.
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering that has inspired us. A quick summary of the story is:
A busboy who worked in a café whose window faced the public park noticed that two grandmotherly looking women had been standing in the park all day without moving at all and without talking. They were dressed up in their Sunday best and were just staring at the town hall. He asked the other patrons in the café what they thought the women were up to. They speculated on a variety of things. Then, a five-year old year who was in the café spoke up and said "One of them is my grandmother and I know what they are doing. They are standing there to save the world." All of the men in the café hooted and howled and laughed. On his way home the busboy decided to ask the women what they were doing and sure enough their answer was "We are saving the world."
Over dinner that evening the busboy told his parents and he and his father hooted and howled, but his mother was totally silent. After dinner, the mother called her best friends to tell them.
The next morning the busboy looked out the café window and the two women were back, along with his mother, her friends, and the women who had been in the café the day before. All were standing in silence staring at the town hall. Again, the men hooted and howled and said things like "You can't save the world by standing in the park. That is what we have armies for," and "everyone knows you have to have banners and slogans to save the world--you can't do it by just standing in the park."
The next day the women were joined by the women who were in the café the day before and a number of their friends. This brought the local newspaper reporter to the scene. He wrote a derisive article about the women. The day after it appeared, hundreds of women showed up to stand in the park in silence. The mayor then told the police chief to make the women leave because they were making the town appear to be foolish. When the police chief told them they would have to disperse because they didn't have a permit, one of them responded that "we are just individuals standing in our public park and we are not giving speeches or having a demonstration so why would we need a permit." The police chief thought about this and agreed with them and left the park.
At this point 2,223 women including the mayor's wife, the police chief's wife, and one five-year old girl were standing in the park to save the world. The news quickly spread and soon women were standing all over the country. The story ended with women standing in every country throughout the globe, standing to save the world. See www.grandmotherbook.com.
Please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with the statement below. We ask you to invite the men who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence. During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain this world. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so. Afterwards, hopefully you and your loved ones can talk together about how we can bring about this world.
WILL YOU STAND WITH US?
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BILL BULLOCH TO PRESENT AT SALON MAY 16
Bill Bulloch will make a special presentation at the salon on Wednesday 16 May on
Landscaping and Yard Work in harmony with nature spirits, similar to the Findhorn approach. His presentation is titled, ‘Going Beyond Organic, how to work co-creatively with Nature”.
Bill is an experienced landscaper/designer and also is trained in Tantra Kriaya Yoga and nature spirit attunement. Join us for “the Green Man” in landscaping!
Reminder: the Northside branch of "Women In Black" continues!
Please join us every Friday afternoon, 4:30-5:30 pm, on the sidewalks of
Hamilton Avenue at Hoffner Park (Blue Rock and Hamilton) to show your
support for peace and human rights. You don't have to be a woman and
you don't have to wear black. You may bring signs on the theme of peace
or anti-torture or anything related, or just bring yourself to stand
with us ~ we will have extra signs for those who would like to hold them.
For more information on the Women In Black movement, please visit:
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For more information, please contact Elizabeth Motter at 591-1407 or
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Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life [Wednesday-Saturday, Tuesday-Wednesday 9-12, 15-16 May, various times]: This film documents Darius Weems, a 15-year-old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, who has never left his hometown of Athens, GA. In the summer of 2005, he & a group of college students traveled cross-country in an RV to test accessibility in America. Their ultimate goal was to reach LA & convince MTV's hit show "Pimp My Ride" to customize Darius's wheelchair. Along the way, they found joy, brotherhood, & the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride (adopted from IMDb.com). View a trailer @ http://youtube.com/watch?v=DFt3_s1WnS4. Tickets are $2 with UC ID; $4 general admission. Proceeds go to www.Charleysfund.org to fight DMD. At Mainstreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ 513.556.3479, ABankovich@gmail.com, www.uc.edu/mainstreet/tuc/tuc_theater_3.html, www.imdb.com/title/tt0979869/, & www.dariusgoeswest.com.
New Teas Tea Tasting [Thursday 10 May @ 6:30 PM]: Be one of the first this Spring to sample & learn about Essencha Teahouse's newest teas, paired with some of its newest & most popular menu items, all while learning how to prepare & serve these delightful blends. $15/person; reservations required; space limited to 15 people. At Essencha Tea House & Fine Teas, 3212 Madison Road, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info & reservations @ 513.533.4832, tea@essencha.com, & www.essencha.com.
Climbing up the Beanstalk: The Story of Young Jack [Thursday-Friday 10-11 May @ 8 PM & Saturday 12 May @ 2 PM]: Poetry, Song, & Reader's Theatre with Puppets. Directed & adapted for the stage by Tommy Reese. Written by Ilene Evans, Artistic Director of Voices From The Earth, Inc. of Thomas, WV. Supported by Cincinnati State Humanities & Sciences Division, & Student Activities Office. $5 general admission; $2.50 with Discount student & staff SURGE Card; 50¢ for Children under 12 & over 50. At ATLC Theatre, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223-2690. More info & directions @ 513.569.1500 & www.cincinnatistate.edu.
Dr. Susan Mendelson Author Signing [Thursday 10 May @ 1-3 PM]: Author of "It's Not About the Weight" will attend a book signing. Copies of the book are available for $17.95, event is free. In the Tangeman University Center Bookstore, level 3, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
Family Night: Charlotte's Web [Friday 11 May @ 5 PM]: Free viewing of the film "Charlotte's Web" for families. Free. Sponsored by Friday Night Live. In the Mainstreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
The Winard Harper Sextet @ Friday Jazz at the Hyatt [Friday 11 May @ 8:30-12 PM]: Winard Harper is a world class drummer who has worked with Dexter Gordon, Betty Carter, Pharaoh Sanders, and Clifford Jordan & is currently touring the country. His newest release "Make it Happen" was a fixture in the Jazz Charts top 10. $20 cover; $10 for Jazz Club Members; $5 for CCM & NKU students. Sponsored by National City Bank. At the Sungarten Room, Hyatt Hotel Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.579.1234, waltb31@fuse.net, www.winardharper.com, & www.jazzincincy.com.
Urban League Annual Gala: “Dancing with the Stars” [Saturday 12 May @ 8 PM - Midnight]: A gala to benefit youth, jobs, & justice to level the playing field in our community. Every floor of the Phoenix downtown filled with music from Tropicoso, DJ Pillo, Ms. Jaz, Basic Truth, & Jon Aiken, along with great food & a Woodford Reserve bourbon tasting. Vote for your favorite celebrity dance pair in an exhibition at 10:30 PM, coordinated by Steppin’ Out Dance Studio, & take a spin around the floor yourself. Always a terrific party. $100/ticket still available. At The Phoenix, 812 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & tix @ 513.559.5455 & www.gcul.org.
Mother's Day Afternoon Teas [Saturday-Sunday 12-13 May @ 11 AM & 2 PM]: Essencha Teahouse will serve a new Mother's Day Afternoon Tea menu to its guests during Mother's Day weekend, reservations required. The special menu will enable guests to sample some of Essencha's newest Spring menu items such as its tea-cured salmon sandwich, strawberry-almond feta salad, & lemon-thyme sorbet. A free gift will be given to all Mother's Day honorees. Cost is $18.95/adults, $12.95/children under 12. At Essencha Tea House & Fine Teas, 3212 Madison Road, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info & reservations @ 513.533.4832, tea@essencha.com, & www.essencha.com.
"Do Not Go Gently" on CET [Sunday 13 May @ 6 PM]: A fascinating, entertaining, & life-affirming documentary about aging, created by Cincinnati filmmaker Melissa Godoy, will be broadcast on CET channel 48. The powers of accomplishment & creation know no age limits. The film addresses the need for new approaches to life & communication in a world of rapidly aging people, presenting individuals whose imagination & personality have triumphed over their aging body. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the film introduces composer Leo Ornstein, ballet dancer Frederic Franklin, & Gee's Bend quilt-maker Arlonzia Pettway. When filmed, these artists were 109, 90, & 82, respectively. Mr. Cronkite is 90. The artists use the perspective & freedom of their age to create powerful work. They share their feelings on matters ranging from love to grief, the stuff from which art & lives are made. The film explores research by Dr. Gene Cohen on how creative activity improves the mind-body connection in aging populations. More info @ www.donotgogently.com & www.cetconnect.org.
C.R.E.A.T.E. You Teen Week [payment required by May 15 -- Monday-Friday 11-15 June @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: Designed especially for girls ages 12-16, take a week to explore who you are now & who you are becoming. Art, crafts, journaling, yoga, photography & more. No experience required or expected. $245 includes supplies; bring lunch each day; reservations plus $50 required by May 15. At Creative Catalysts, Studio #231, Essex Studios Complex, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
Dinner & Movie [Wednesday 16 May @ 7 PM]: Pre-pay for dinner & movie ticket, dinner at the CenterCourt dining area at the University of Cincinnati, & then a showing of "Letters from Iwo Jima" at the Mainstreet Cinema. $8 tickets. Sponsored by & located at Mainstreet Cinema & CenterCourt Dining, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/ & www.uc.edu/food/centercourt/centercourt.html.
Monique "Kemy" Kennerly Author Signing [Friday 18 May @ 1-3 PM]: Author of "Betrayal of the Past" will attend a book signing. Copies of the book are available for $23.95, event is free. In the Tangeman University Center Bookstore, level 3, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
Thriller Movie Night [Friday 18 May @ 7 PM]: Free showing of "The Number 23." You're not a 'scaredy cat' are you? Free. Sponsored by Friday Night Live. At Mainstreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
68th Annual Sigma Sigma Carnival [Saturday 19 May @ 7 PM]: University of Cincinnati annual carnival with food, fun, fellowship, & Rozzi's Famous Fireworks at 10 PM. This year's theme is "NASCARnival." Free. Sponsored by Mainstreet. On the Sigma Commons greenspace, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
Best of Underneath 2006 & Film Workshop [Saturday 19 May: Workshop @ 1 PM; Screening @ 7 PM]: Films, awards, workshops, filmmaker roundtables, & an after-party. $10 in advance for either the workshops or screenings; $15 for both; $12 at the door for just the screenings. Due to limited seating, workshops require advanced registration. At the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Blvd, Covington, KY 41011. More info & tix @ 859.957.1940, underneathcincinnati@hotmail.com, www.underneathcincinnati.com, & at the Carnegie.
Acclaim Awards [Monday 21 May @ 7:30 PM; pre-show reception @ 6:30 PM]: The Acclaim Awards celebrate the best of Cincinnati's 2006-2007 theatre season by awarding outstanding work & supporting a variety of initiatives for area theater artists. The Acclaims are not a competition: a category can have more than one winner in any given year, other categories may not have any winners. Their panel votes on productions throughout the season from June 1 to May 15. The Acclaims applaud the best of the best that the panel finds. Presented by Duke Energy, The Enquirer, The League of Cincinnati Theatres, & the Carnegie Center for Visual & Performing Arts; reception sponsor is Digi & Mike Schueler. General admission: $25; Theatre Artists: $10; Sponsors: $125 (includes after-party). At the Carnegie Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Budig Theatre, 1028 Scott Street at 15th, Covington, KY 41011. Reservations: 859.957.1940. More info from Jackie Demaline @ 513.768.8530 JDemaline@enquirer.com, & www.cincinnatiusa.com/CinStage/Acclaim/acclaimawards.asp.
Dinner & Movie [Wednesday 23 May @ 7 PM]: Pre-pay for dinner & movie ticket, dinner at the CenterCourt dining area at the University of Cincinnati, & then a showing of "Wild Hogs" at the Mainstreet Cinema. $8 tickets. Sponsored by & located at Mainstreet Cinema & CenterCourt Dining, Tangeman Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/ & www.uc.edu/food/centercourt/centercourt.html.
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
Introductory Course on Buddhist Philosophy & Meditation [Saturdays in May @ 2 PM]: What goes around comes around (Karma). Everyone is responsible for their own action. Many times we don't know how karma works & create negative actions that cause suffering. Understanding karma can help transform our lives & prospective, which can bring happiness. Class will be offered by Lobsang Dorje, one of the sangha monks. He is a western monk studying Buddhism, sometime under the guidance of Ven. Kuten lama resident teacher & many other respected teachers. Free; donation are appreciated. At Gaden Samdrup-ling Monastery, 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org, & www.ganden.org.
Business As Unusual: Heroes of the Holocaust [thru July 29]: This exhibition tells the story of Oskar Schindler & his actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust which have earned him a special place among honored rescuers. Woven into this well-known story of courage is the story of a Cincinnati family that followed this same difficult path & the positive role of corporate social responsibility in fighting injustice & social crisis today. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Outdoor Music Series [Wednesdays in May @ 12pm]: A free outdoor music series presented by the University of Cincinnati, for the lunch crowd. Free. In the Bearcat Plaza (between the SSLC & TUC student buildings), University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.
Rites of Passage 2007 [thru Friday 25 May]: Works by college seniors from KY, NY, OH, & TX. Conceived & initiated in 2005, the Rites of Passage exhibits support student excellence by offering a public venue to display advanced creative research; to promote young artists as they move into their professional careers; & to bring the positive creative energies of regional institutions together in one place. This year, 22 works by 7 artists were selected from among 276 submissions: Rebecca Nebert, Tim Parsley, & Jessica Rahn (University of Cincinnati), Trey Hoover & Taylor Stephenson (Thomas More College), Hana Studer (Baylor University), & Nathan Sutton (University of Buffalo). On exhibit will be large scale figurative abstraction, oil on aluminum screen, moving lights, domestic chores, luminescent microscopic structures, & primitive nudes. Refreshments sponsored by Café MoCA & the Echo Restaurant. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206. More info @ at 513-861-3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Collecting a Legacy: The Bernard Kinsey Collection [thru June 3]: This exhibition offers a roadmap to the cultural journey & transformation experienced by African American art collectors as they embrace & acquire art & artifacts. Within the context of their own history & the past that speaks to them, we discover how the Kinseys are changed & nurtured by what they chose to collect. Ranging from painful-to-see slave owner’s documents, to brilliantly fiery expressions in sculpture, to private glimpses into thoughts of the ancestors, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage which they have been driven to capture, inspire & sustain for future generations. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
EARTHSAVE Event:
An Evening Of Gratitude
A cooking presentation by Mark Stroud of Gratitude Restaurant and demonstrations of Yoga, Tai Chi, & Belly Dancing byinstructors from Gratitude Motion Studio.
4:30pm Sunday, May 20, 2007
CliftonUnited Methodist Church,
3416 Clifton Ave., 45220
4:30 Potluck:
Bring a vegan dish to share & a plate & utensils.
Vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, seeds, nuts (no animal products, no dairy, eggs, casein, honey)
For more information or food tips call: 513-929-2500
Email: cincinnati@earthsave.org
Website: http://cincinnati.earthsave.org
EarthSave educates people about the powerful effects our food choices have on the environment, our health and all life on earth, and encourages a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet.
You don’t need to be a VEGAN to join us!
Bring a Friend! Everyone Welcome!
Ginny Frazier is an awesome woman and wonderful singer and Jeanne Nightengale’s home in Price Hill is really exciting to see... Magnificent view from W. of Cinti. Skyline. Ellen
Support Green School Buildings, Practices
Hi, All:
ALLY, co-founder of the Growing Green and Healthy Schools Network, plans to produce a curriculum guidebook that "uses the school as a tool" to teach environmental stewardship and healthy living. The guidebook will be based on Ohio standards with 12 sample lesson units accompanied by a music CD.
We are having a House Concert: Sing-a-Long the Ohio River fundraiser on Saturday, June 9th at Jeanne Nightingale's lovely riverview home in Price Hill. Please see attached flyer. (not shown but emal ginny circles_and_arrows@yahoo.com)
Please spread the word! Hope to see you there!
Ginny Frazier circles_and_arrows@yahoo.com
Executive Director
ALLY
Subject: Hamilton County made the list of the 25 worst counties in the nation for air pollution
Hamilton County made the list of the 25 worst counties in the nation for air pollution, according to a report out today from the American Lung Association <http://lungaction.org/reports/stateoftheair2007.html> .
The American Lung Association's report ranks cities and counties most polluted by ozone, 24-hour particle pollution and annual particle pollution. It reports county-by-county populations at risk from unhealthful levels of the most dangerous forms of air pollution. Clermont County scored an improved grade of a D from an F for high air pollution days. Butler, Hamilton and Warren counties got Fs.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/305010017 <http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/305010017>
LLEE SIVITZ TO PRESENT AT SALON MAY 30:
Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine, said, „Let food be yourSWAMI HIMAVAT TO PRESENT AT SALON JUNE 6
medicine‰.
Come and learn about the link between nutrition and the prevention of
degenerative disease. This information-packed presentation by Llee Sivitz
will provide some simple ways to improve the health and well-being of your
entire family. Llee will also introduce the whole food-based supplement she
has given her family for years, called Juice Plus.
Llee Sivitz
Sharing 21st Century Nutrition for Better Health
513.541.5270 (office)
513.205.9236 (cell)
lleesivitz@hotmail.com
www.juiceplus.com/+ls02753
"The news isn't that fruits and vegetables are good for you, it's that they
are so good for you they could save your life." TIME Magazine, Oct 2003
24-hr information line 1-800-942-1260 - hear what health professionals are
saying!
Swami Himavat, Ishaya monk, Teacher of Enlightenment, (and salonista!)will present at the Salon Table on June 6, on "Calm in
the Face of Stress; Clarity in the Face of Tension"
It is your birthright to be enlightened. This
translates into having more of what you truly want in
your life. Come listen, ask questions, laugh
together, and share energy.
Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- Correction re. Darfur march publicity from David Little
- Salonista Bill Messer mounts holocaust/businessmen heros exhibit at NURFC (freedom Center)
- Great way to cope with ticks! thanks to shirley reischman.
Ellen—
David Little your near neighbor here—Darfur—although I agree that coverage of the event was insufficient—there was coverage and more is forthcoming. Channel Five and Twelve did clips, WVXU and WNKU did stories/interviews and we expect CityBeat and The Herald to both have stories in upcoming editions. The Enquirer oddly enough had a fully equipped photographer—and I imagined the best, but alas no photo.
On another matter: the “Creation Museum” which is set to open late in May. I am organizing the rational opposition in conjunction with Campaign to Defend the Constitution out of DC. They have 7000 members in the tri-state, but we are in need of science-types who could be of eloquent and restrained assistance.
Can you refer me to anyone that could fit the bill?
Just so you will understand—I was additionally hired to coordinate press for the Darfur event –out of NYC.
David Little
dplittle@fuse.net
Hey Ellen. This is something I have been working on lately. Researched and wrote texts for the Leitz/"Leica Freedom Train" portion of the exhibition and obtained artifacts (vintage Leica cameras from the Messer collection at Miami University Art Museum, which is where I was late this past Wednesday afternoon) and supplied whatever other visual material may end up used. Installation is Friday and it may be open already Saturday, but the official opening is Sunday afternoon. The Schindler story is now well known, and a survivor rescued by Schindler will speak, but the Frieder family's story (Cincy family, cigar makers in the Phillipines) is fascinating, and the Leitz story was virtually unknown until recently. I'll attach my text in case it's of interest. WM
BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL: HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST
May 5-August 12, 2007 at the Freedom Center
EXHIBIT OPENING: SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2007
Featuring
Alexander B. White
A Holocaust Survivor Saved by Oskar Schindler
RECEPTION: 4:30 PM
PROGRAM: 5:OO PM
This unique exhibit explores the story of three business owners who took bold action-risking themselves, their families and their businesses-in order to simply do the right thing when so many others did nothing. Enamelware, cameras and cigars – all ordinary everyday objects; Oskar Schindler, Ernst Leitz II, and Cincinnati's own Frieder family – all ordinary everyday people. But when faced by the horrors of the Holocaust the ordinary became the extraordinary, and the everyday became unique.
A special exhibition by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in partnership with The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. Schindler organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The “Leica Freedom Train”
The story of the Leica Freedom Train is, at heart, the story of a family’s values.
In the midst of the greatest perversion of ethics and morality in modern human history, untold numbers of individuals and families risked their very lives to maintain shreds of decency and humanitarian compassion. Although the state compelled compliance with its inhumane programs, there were those who resisted. German manufacturers, upon whom the Nazi war machine was dependent, included at least one principled industrialist who was able to subvert Nazi authority and even stand up to Nazi power.
The Ernst Leitz company of Wetzlar, Germany (not far from the French and Luxembourg borders) was begun in 1869 and grew into one of the world’s leading makers of microscopes and other scientific instruments. Company founder Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) had been groomed from childhood to become a Protestant minister but instead chose the world of mechanics. The family credo, as paraphrased later by his great grandson, was “do good, but do not speak of it.”
Leitz was a progressive and enlightened employer, setting up in 1885 one of Germany’s first company health insurance program for workers and their families. In 1899 he established a pension plan and company funds available for workers to build their own homes.
Ernst Leitz II joined the company in 1906 and proved very much his father’s son. He immediately learned all the employee’s first names and became their trusted link to management. Within a few years of his taking over the company following the death of his father in 1920, hyper-inflation in Germany threatened to eradicate employee’s earnings; so Leitz began printing company money, issued to workers to enable them to buy groceries he imported from Denmark and distributed to shops around Wetzlar to be sold at predetermined prices. His employees revered him. There was even a chant employed by school children in Wetzlar in response to those who might make disparaging remarks about their fathers, which went, “You can’t get me into fights, my dad works for Mr. Leitz.” (It rhymes in German too.)
It was during this unstable period that Leitz decided to introduce the Leica (Leitz camera), a small, precision still camera using 35-mm movie film stock. Within five years, annual sales of Leicas rose to nearly 20,000, rescuing the company and revolutionizing photographic practice worldwide.
Three years later, Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, and the biggest test yet of Leitz humanitarianism began. Documentation shows that already in February 1933, Leitz was hiring and training Jews from throughout Germany, even young Jewish students (usually at the request of their parents) to escape growing public anti-Semitism and in schools. After various periods of training, these workers would be designated as Leica “demonstrators” and transferred to New York or other foreign cities with Leica sales offices. Leitz helped them obtain visas, supplied letters of introduction, paid their travel expenses, housed them at nearby hotels and gave them jobs at Leitz dealerships around the country or helped them find jobs with employers in related fields, while keeping them on the Leitz payroll for months after their arrivals. And because it was not permitted to take currency out of Germany, each refugee was given a visible passport/ID hanging from their shoulders, a new Leica camera.
The Nazis had taken quite a fancy to Leitz optical equipment and particularly the little Leica camera, virtually proscribing the use of anything but 35 mm cameras for use by German photojournalists. It became a symbol of the new Germany. The Gestapo ordered hundreds for propaganda use, recording the “degenerate’ habits of impoverished Polish Jews trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, as well as promoting idealized images of Aryan “master race” purity, health, athleticism and might. Additionally, promoting sales of the Leica abroad brought much needed foreign currency to the country.
According to an article written by Norman Lipton, former managing editor of Popular Photography magazine in New York, and a member of of Leica’s Fifth Avenue sales offices from 1938, in the period from May 1938 to August 1940, hundreds of Leitz-sponsored refugees arrived in New York.
“I would see between 20 and 30 weary men and women lined up along the side wall of our large open “bullpen” office. All carried luggage and a Leica camera around their necks. The line moved slowly in and out of [general manager Alfred] Boch’s private office at the front of the room. The process was repeated every few weeks, following the alternate arrivals of the SS Bremen and SS Europa at the nearby Hudson River piers... Day after day, Boch would be on the telephone trying to match their skills and training to job openings – at Kodak, Wollensack, Ilex, Univis and other upstate New York optical firms, as well as at camera stores, photofinishing laboratories, factories and business offices where their skills could be put to use.”
Elsewhere, in a personal letter, Lipton upped the ante, stating that “30 or more” persons were arriving “on alternate weeks.” Other documentation reveals that other ships were employed (one of these was the Hamburg-American Line steamer the Hansa) sailing from ports in Germany as well as from transfer points like London. Additionally, there are reports of Leitz “assigning” Jewish workers or family members to Leitz offices in other countries around the world, including France, Britain, and Hong Kong.
Lipton’s reports from the New York sales office translate to between 1,200 and 2,000 people rescued during a 28 month long period through the New York office alone. It is impossible, at the present time, to estimate the total numbers rescued, including all arrival destinations and the months and years before May 1938 (or even after 1940). It could be as high as several thousand.
The increase in Leitz-sponsored refugees in the late 1930s corresponds to intensified persecution of Jews in Germany. On November 9, 1938, known as Kristallnacht (or the Night of Broken Glass), the Nazis smashed and looted Jewish business and imprisoned Jews in concentration camps. In August, 1939, as Germany invaded Poland, the borders were sealed, making it almost impossible for Jews to escape (and calling into question Lipton’s claim of refugees arriving through August, 1940; or perhaps Leitz had special permission to continue sending sales personal overseas to keep bringing foreign currency in to Germany).
As the war developed, Leitz became an increasingly important company to the Nazis, supplying Leicas to the army, navy and Luftwaffe, even manufacturing navigation equipment for the V-2 rocket. In 1942, because the war had taken many male workers from Wetzlar, the Nazis forcibly conscripted hundreds of women from the Ukraine as slave laborers to boost production at Leitz. That same year, Ernst Leitz II was compelled to become a member of the Nazi Party (under threats to fire all his senior management and have the government take over his factory if he did not). He had been a candidate for office in an opposing political party and an open critic of the Nazis (calling their storm troops “brown apes”). Yet the Nazis knew without him at Leitz’s helm the company would founder. The symbiotic relationship of trust Leitz had built with his work force was protecting both them and him.
But not everyone was protected. One of the New York sales office letters of introduction, written in 1938 by Leitz sales director Alfred Turk on behalf of a man whose son Leitz had helped find employment England and who himself wanted to escape to the US, was leaked to the Gestapo by a spy at the Wetzlar factory, and Turk was jailed. Leitz was able to free him, but only on the condition that he resign from the company.
During the war, the third generation of Leitz stepped up to continue the Leitz “underground railroad” for Jews to escape Germany. Ernst Leitz II’s daughter, Elsie Kühn-Leitz, began taking female Leica “demonstrators” to the Swiss border. Border guards noted that she would arrive with 5-6 women but always left alone. After 1942 she became concerned about the conditions of the 7-800 Ukrainian women attached to the factory as forced laborers. She visited their camp almost daily, improving their food, obtaining clothing and even radios for them, setting up a sewing room and a schedule for them to be able to bathe regularly, and attracting the suspicious of the Gestapo.
By 1943, there was renewed persecution of Jews and part-Jews (considered racially Jewish by the Nazis) married to non-Jews. Kühn-Leitz helped a women in such a mixed marriage by hiding her for months at her aunt’s home in Munich (Ernst’s sister). When the woman was arrested attempting to cross the Swiss border carrying a map and prohibited Swiss Francs, both given to her by Kühn-Leitz, Elsie was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in Frankfurt. Paying a massive ransom, her father was able to get her released after 11 weeks imprisonment; but the ordeal took its tool on both. Months of medical care were needed to heal her head injuries and her father, in his ‘70s, suffered a stroke. Elsie remained effectively under house arrest in Wetzlar throughout the war.
At the war’s end, American Occupation Authorities and British Intelligence looked at the Leitz company and found it a “well-run, happy organization, this being in no small measure to the family nature of the business and to its importance in the neighborhood... This pride in workmanship and the just pride all have in their worldwide reputation for quality work is the permeating spirit of the place and greatly helps to offset apathy caused by the present dismal state of the country.”
Despite loss of patents, Leitz quickly gained its post-war footing, producing the innovative and successful M-series cameras and Summicron lenses. Ernst Leitz II died in 1956, but Elsie became an attorney specializing in human rights cases. She supported Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s project healing the sick in Africa and promoted Germany’s efforts at reconciliation. Kühn-Leitz received numerous honors for her humanitarian efforts, among them the Officier d'honneur des Palms Academic from France in 1965 and the Aristide Briand Medal from the European Academy in the 1970s. She passed away in 1985.
The role her father played in the rescue of hundreds and perhaps thousands of Jewish men and women (and possibly non-Jews and even gays) remained hidden for decades. In 1967 Norman Lipton was preparing to write the story of the Leitz “underground railroad out of Germany” for Reader’s Digest, but when he consulted Elsie’s brother, and Ernst Leitz II’s youngest son, Günther, he was told “Absolutely not! Not while I’m alive.” Günther added, “My father did what he did because he felt responsible for his employees and their families and also for our neighbors. He was able to act because the [Nazi] government needed out factory’s military output. No one can know what other Germans had done for the persecuted within the limits of their ability.” In fact Günther requested the story remain untold until all involved were no longer alive.
It was not until 1999 that Lipton published his article, not in Reader’s Digest but Photo International published in Japan. It might still have remained largely unnoticed but for a San Diego born Rabbi and Leica enthusiast, now living in London. He’d read a passing reference to the Leitz apprentices in an article about Lipton he’d read as a student at UC Berkeley. In 1997 he contacted and interviewed Lipton, who showed him correspondence confirming elements of the story. Most of the people involved had died, but Smith contacted the Leitz family in Wetzlar, and received a reply from Elsie’s son Knut Kühn-Leitz. Knut had been very close to his grandfather Ernst Leitz II, but his grandfather had never mentioned his efforts to save Jews before and during the war. Curious, he offered to help Smith search the Leitz archives.
In 2002, Smith published a children’s book titled Elise’s War about Knut’s mother’s meeting and helping a Wetzlar Jewish woman married to a non-Jew attempt to escape Germany, and her arrest and imprisonment. The same year, he produced a pamphlet sized book titled The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Lecia Freedom Train for the American Photographic Historical Society. Subsequent articles have appeared in publications from Popular Photography and Imaging (6/06) to Britain’s The Financial Times (2/07), and reportedly Vanity Fair is interested in publishing the story.. Additionally Knut Kühn-Leitz has recently published a book providing some information about rescue efforts by the Leitz family.
On February, 9, 2007, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) presented posthumously to Ernst Leitz II its Courage to Care Award, recognizing the “Leica Freedom Train” (Smith’s popularized name). Previous Courage to Care Award recipients include Jan and Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family; German industrialist Oscar Schindler, credited with saving more than 1,200 of his Polish Jewish workers from death in the Krakow ghetto; Aristides Da Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux who provided transit visas to up to 30,000 Jews to escape the Nazis via Spain; and the small French mountain village of le Chambon-sur-Lignin, which sheltered as many Jews as its entire population, and from which not even one Jew was taken by the Nazis.
William Messer is a photographer, critic, curator and educator based in Cincinnati who assisted with aspects of the exhibition “Business as Unusual: Heroes of the Holocaust” at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, May 5 through August 12. His father, who introduced him to photography as a young child, was a local construction company president who became enamored of Leica cameras, eventually amassing the world’s largest private collection of Leica camera and accessories. The Charles M. Messer Leica Camera collection was eventually presented to Miami University and a special exhibition room was built for it as part of the Miami University Art Museum, where it still resides.
Tick Removal (tis the season)
(sent in by our wonderful homeopath Shirley Reischman)
Please forward to anyone with children or hunters, etc!! thanks!
A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share-- And it
really works!!
I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a
tick.
This is great, because it works in those places where it's sometimes
difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head
full of dark hair, etc.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball.
Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and let it stay on the
repulsive insect for a few seconds (15-20),after which the tick will come
out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently),
and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.
Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging
in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had
one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this
method and immediately called me back to say, "It worked!"
Please pass on; everyone needs this helpful hint.
Section Four: Books/Magazines/Reviews
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Come on... send me names of books and stuff you are enjoying. ellen
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I just finished the time of our Singing by Richard Powers. What a tour de force! U.S. civil rights history from 1940 to 1990. Amazing technical, lyrical, detailed look into the world of classical vocal artists, trenchant analysis of bi-racial (white jewish dad, black mom) marriage and growing up “between”. Beautiful writing. Ellen
The Lloyd House Salon (usually about 12 people) Meets on WEDNESDAYS at 5:45,
EVERY Wednesday, 52 WEEKS/YEAR come hell or high water, as my mother used to say.
We of the Lloyd House Salon gather in a spirit of
respect, sympathy and compassion for one another
in order to exchange ideas for our mutual pleasure and enlightenment.
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Our Salon blog is a promising interactive site: http:lloydhouse.blogspot.com
Also, we have an Interactive Yahoo Salon group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LloydHouseSalon
For Pot Luck procedures including food suggestions, mission and history visit
http://home.fuse.net/ellenbierhorst/Potluck.html .
You are invited also to visit the Lloyd House website: http://www.lloydhouse.com
> To unsubscribe from the Lloyd House Potluck Salon list, send a REPLY message
> to me and in the SUBJECT line type in "unsub potluck #". In the place of #
> type in the numeral that follows the subject line of my Weekly email. It
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