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Dear Problem Solver: I have a Singer sewing machine in a wooden case with all the bells and whistles. It’s a full size model available in the 1980s when my mother purchased it. It was in full working order three years ago when she passed away. I remember a charitable organization in Brockton snapped up the last two offered. Do they need another? I would like my mother’s legacy to have a worthy home. She was a great seamstress. The Enterprise's Problem Solver has been matching people with free goods, services and household remedies since 1981. Now we're taking the leap into the 21st century with an online submission form.Below you can fill out a form if you're offering an item or service or some helpful advice. You can use the same form if you would like to be considered for something that has been offered.
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Test out the machine to make sure it still works. I once asked another reader who believed a machine worked to do likewise and it was discovered that it indeed didn't. If the machine works, I'll be happy to post it. Many thanks.
When deep-cleaning on a carpet, done by two people from Heits using an older machine, didn't meet expectations, Handy spent a Saturday redoing the job himself with a newer machine. Handy's experience helping his mother's cleaning business,
“According to our guide when we arrived, everyone is just one big happy family in Jordan,” said Gwenn. “Tourism is down 90 percent in Jordan, and 40 percent in Israel, so everyone was really grateful to see us. “The first street vendor we met told us
“People say to me, 'You must be happy all the time.' And I think, 'What kind of shallow, silly person would that make me?' ” She has her troubles just like everyone, she says. She's “as big a sinner” as the next person. And she's getting more scared,
If MacDonald's put up a billboard near the park, selling Happy meals, you wouldn't be demoralized. You'd think that's normal. I think corporate signs and billboards plastered everywhere is disgusting — basically corporate sponsored graffiti.
Happiness Machines: A Conversation with Caroline Picard : Bad at ...
Caroline Picard is a well-known artist, arts administrator, publisher and all-around indie maverick here in Chicago who runs The Green Lantern , a project that encompasses publishing, exhibition projects, and a daily blog . Needless to say, we are very fortunate to have her as one of our regular columnists here at Bad at Sports. When Caroline’s show Happiness Machines opened at Roxaboxen earlier this month (sadly, its run was short and the exhibition closed last weekend), I was personally very excited, because up until now I’ve never had the chance to see any of Caroline’s own work in person. Her core issues of interest — the notion of self, the construction of personal identity, and just what it is we mean when we talk about “happiness”– are subjects that I think about and puzzle over almost every day. I am truly grateful to Caroline for taking part in this extended conversation with me, where we discuss all of the above issues while also taking the opportunity to dish on celebrities…just a teeny bit.
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Claudine Ise: Your show at Roxaboxen is titled “Happiness Machines,” which for me signifies any automated something that can deliver quick (and temporary) shots of pleasure on demand. There’s something intrinsically connected to human instinct and biology there too. Philosophically, the happiness machine relates to Robert Nozick’s idea of the pleasure-giving “ experience machine ” — Nozick’s thought experiment that asked people to consider whether, if given the choice, they would prefer to live in a pleasure-filled virtual reality over real life. The idea of the “happiness machine” has historical resonance too: Herbert Hoover used the phrase in a speech he made to advertising executives: “You have transformed people into constantly moving happiness machines that have become the key to economic progress.” His words presaged America’s transition from a needs-based economy to a desire-based one — ironically, as Hoover himself presided during the Great Depression.
Cut to 2010, when Coke puts out a YouTube video that, amazingly, referenced Hoover’s idea with a pretty astounding lack of self-awareness – the video depicted a kind of advertising stunt, the Coca-Cola company put this special “magical” coke machine on a college campus, the coke machine gave students balloons or dozens of cokes to distribute to everyone, or flowers, pizza, submarine sandwiches — all delivered by human hands through the slot– after it received coins for a single coke. When one of the students in the video says something like, “aw I just want to give it [the machine] a hug…Thank you Coke!” – that was pretty chilling. I don’t have anything against Coke as a brand–it was just the perfect smooth execution of an idea by a corporate entity, and how perfectly the students appeared to buy into it – literally speaking and, if what appears on the video is to be believed, emotionally speaking as well–that grossed me out.
Happy 4th everyone. Parades, mimosas, sparklers, and Florence and the Machine concert tonight!!
RT : My humans made me a hidey hole in a crate with 3 blankets on top and two on the bottom, next to a fan and a white noise machine. Happy 4th!
I am so happy listening to the wishy washy sound of my new machine x
Wishing everyone across the entire internet machine, a safe and happy Independence Day! 
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