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I published on Sunday a summary article on the first year of Donald Trump at History News Network–historynewsnetwork.org. I have published regularly on Donald Trump on History News Network, and some of those articles have been picked up also by Time Magazine and Newsweek Magazine, and all of those articles are on the right side of my blog.
A day before the anniversary of the inauguration, I will summarize here the points that I made in that article:
Donald Trump has been a nightmare, and his unpredictability, and the refusal of the Republican Party to come to grips with it, has created a constitutional crisis greater than the Watergate Scandal under Richard Nixon 45 years ago.
Donald Trump has demonstrated clear authoritarian leanings that endanger all Americans and their basic freedoms and national security.
Donald Trump has undermined the judicial branch of government. with his attacks on an independent judiciary, and his appointments of unqualified people to lifetime positions on the federal district courts and federal circuit courts.
Donald Trump has assaulted the Bill of Rights, and is a threat to the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans, women, gay and transgender Americans, and members of the news media who dare to investigate and question his white supremacist, nativist, racist, and misogynistic utterances and policies.
He has connected himself to dictators and authoritarians in nations like Russia, China, Turkey, Egypt, and the Philippines, and in the tradition of such past regimes as Nazi Germany , Fascist Italy, and the Soviet Union.
Donald Trump has pursued policies that threaten and undermine the domestic reforms of Presidents from both political parties from the time of Theodore Roosevelt onward, endangering the Social Safety Network of Social Security. Medicare, and Medicaid, and government regulation of industry and big business, and oversight of key problems involving the environment, consumer safety, labor protections, health care, and science and education.
Donald Trump has given us the most corrupt and incompetent cabinet and advisers , making the shortcomings of Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, and Richard Nixon pale in comparison. There is no sense of ethics, commitment, scruples, or compassion on the part of Trump and his team, but only with the advancement of the top one percent, over the needs of millions of ordinary people.
Trump's family has become in one year more controversial, and lacking in ethics and morals, than any Presidential family in history, with the aim seeming to be a family dynasty with no limit on their lust for money and power.
Donald Trump has undermined foreign policy and international relations, alienating our allies, and consorting with dictators all over the world. He has declared war on the diplomatic community, the national security apparatus, and the intelligence agencies that are out to protect American national security. He has been reckless in his dealings with North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, and with the Middle East cauldron. He has alienated our allies, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan, and South Korea with his weird, unpredictable behavior.
Donald Trump's narcissism, ignorance of history and science, obnoxious behavior and incessant lying make him a terrible model for the future generation of Americans, who used to be able to look up the President of the United States as someone they could respect.
These reasons are justification for action to remove Donald Trump from the Presidency, whether by impeachment, use of the 25th Amendment, or forced resignation after indictments of family members and top advisers by Robert Mueller's investigation.


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Here's a letter that I sent today to the Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Roberts's review of Robert Sullivan's biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay splendidly exposes the blinding biases that Sullivan brings to Lord Macaulay and his times ("An Eminent Victorian on Trial," Dec. 7). Persons interested in Macaulay should avoid Sullivan's screed and instead study John Clive's masterful 1973 biography, Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian. Although Clive, like Sullivan, indulges in too much psychoanalysis for my taste, he paints a rich and compelling portrait of Macaulay. This portrait reveals Macaulay to have been, if flawed, a truly great and good man – a man whose realism and genuine liberalism would serve us well today.
Macaulay was also prescient. Writing in the 1840s, he refused to romanticize past times when (as he described matters) "to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry" and when "men died faster in the purest country air than now die in the most pestilential lanes." Macaulay foresaw that "It may well be, in the twentieth century … that numerous comforts and luxuries which are now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within the reach of every diligent and thrifty workingman. And yet it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many."*
Donald J. Boudreaux* From the chapter entitled "The Delusion of Overrating the Happiness of Our Ancestors," in T. B. Macaulay, The History of England (1847).
Full Disclosure: my son's name is Thomas Macaulay Boudreaux

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"I don't see any need for arguing like this. I think we ought to be able to behave like gentlemen." — Juror Four, Twelve Angry Men
Scott Tobias is a 41-year-old man who lives in Chicago with a wife and daughter. In 1999, he started work at The Onion, where he became the film editor at The A.V. Club — a print supplement that is bundled with The Onion in eight cities. According to Quantcast, The A.V. Club has a global monthly online reach of 1.9 million unique visitors. Tobias also contributes reviews to NPR, whose ethical handbook specifies this high-minded guideline:
Everyone affected by our journalism deserves to be treated with decency and compassion. We are civil in our actions and words, avoiding arrogance and hubris. We listen to others. When we ask tough questions, we do so to seek answers — not confrontations. We are sensitive to differences in attitudes and culture. We minimize undue harm and take special care with those who are vulnerable or suffering. And with all subjects of our coverage, we are mindful of their privacy as we fulfill our journalistic obligations.
At the beginning of this week, this seemingly mild-mannered man, who had graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and had worked on a Master's degree in Cinema Studies at the University of Miami, devolved into a defamatory diablo on Twitter.
Over two and a half days, Tobias, who has nearly 15,000 followers, posted approximately forty-nine tweets which implied that a man, who has nearly 6,000 followers, had wronged him. Rather than participating in a civil and constructive dialogue, Tobias preferred arrogance and indecency and used his influence to vilify this man on Twitter before the man had a chance to see or respond to his tweets. Tobias never thought to contact the man by email until the wrongful insinuations he had put forth had propagated among his peers. That man was me.
As Richard Cooper has astutely observed, when a figure on Twitter climbs his way up the social hierarchy after racking up followers like a rabid pachinko addict, there's the risk that he'll develop a weird and entitled attitude against anyone sending him a critical tweet. And Tobias became just that: a small-time ochlocrat who hoped to shut me down because I had the audacity to question his stance on a tweet widely perceived as unthinkable.
Tobias called me "vile" and "fucking insane" and "a miserable, hateful, shameless, sliming little cretin." (The worst I had called Tobias was "spineless" when he would not answer a question.) He summoned the wrath of such cultural figures as Slate's Dana Stevens and Dan Kois, HitFix's Daniel Fienberg, and several others, who never thought to question Tobias's position or investigate the facts. They preferred to feed Tobias's blind and unthinking fury, which had emerged well after the underlying issue involving The Onion had been resolved. It came about because I had not removed a photo that was well beneath the mildly irreverent temperature set by The Onion in publishing such images as one featuring doctors hovering over a sickly Fidel Castro (published on February 26, 2013) or the infamous juxtaposition of 6-year-old murder victim JonBenét Ramsey (published on August 9, 2012). It came about because Tobias wanted revenge.
On Sunday night, The Onion had posted the above tweet during the Oscars ceremony. This thoughtless verbal assault on Quvenzhané Wallis, a nine-year-old actress nominated in the Best Actress category for Beasts of the Southern Wild, raised many hackles. The Onion deleted the tweet an hour later. Nobody at the time took responsibility.
That evening, on Twitter, I sought vital answers. Why didn't anybody at The Onion or The A.V. Club wish to be held accountable for the tweet's underlying misogyny?
On Sunday night, I entered into a seventeen tweet volley with two editors at The A.V. Club: Scott Tobias and Todd VanDerWerff. VanDerWerff was fair, civil, and unimpeachable throughout the exchange. When the imbroglio hit a low point two days later, it was VanDerWerff who provided insight into The Onion's operational structure and tried to mediate in the comments. On Sunday night, as The Onion was being profusely lacerated, VanDerWerff would respond with calm, kindness, and grace to a woman who had raised concerns about the casual sexism on The A.V. Club's forums:
By contrast, Tobias was hostile to dialogue.
So I wrote an article about the Onion's tweet and the exchange I had with Tobias. The article was accompanied by a photo of Tobias, with the "cunt" tweet positioned across The A.V. Club's logo to his left.
I cop to the possibility that it may not have been a good idea to put the photo up. But in the early stages of the affair, nobody had deemed the photo especially noxious. Before The Onion apologized for the Wallis tweet on Monday morning, nobody had said a word in my article's comments about the photo's apparently offensive qualities. It was only after I issued an apology to The A.V. Club in the comments that Tobias showed up, decrying my "non-apology apology" and bringing up the photo issue on this website. In examining Scott Tobias's Twitter timeline, we discover that just before The Onion's apology, Tobias's concerns about the photo had nothing to do with the tweet's juxtaposition:
The photo's copyright did not belong to Scott Tobias. My subsequent investigation revealed that the photo belonged to The Onion, Inc. Tobias never had the right to assert copyright.
The photo did not libel or defame Mr. Tobias in any way. It depicted very clearly what I wrote about in the piece: a disembodied tweet lingering at a slight diagonal angle in The A.V. Club's environment as Scott Tobias stands with a reluctant grimace to the left. The photo did not sully Tobias's image and likeness in any way. There was certainly no malice intended by this contextual abutment. It merely illustrated how misogyny exists in our culture, how it isn't going away anytime soon, and how men often stand in place grimacing as the atavism continues.
Tobias's motivation to remove the photo shifted from vanity to a case of hypothetical libel, as suggested by HitFix's Daniel Fienberg:
It was clear that these guys didn't know what they were talking about, but the suggestion of libel kept Tobias licking his lips. While all this was going on, I wasn't even on Twitter.
I first became aware that something was going on when Tobias had left a comment on this website on Monday night. At the time, I was unaware of his public requests to remove the photo on Twitter.
When The Onion apologized on Monday morning, I thought that the matter was closed. I have said nothing further about The Onion, The A.V. Club, or Mr. Tobias on Twitter since that morning. (I would hold my silence as the nasty accusations, fallacious charges, contemptible threats, and scabrous suggestions, all instigated by Tobias, poured in over the next three days.)
I had stayed offline during most of Monday to get some work done. But I did briefly poke my head from the thickets of real life at 5:52 PM to offer an apology in the comments:
Since The Onion has stepped up to apologize for its tweet, I feel that I owe The A.V. Club a modest apology. While I still believe, as I specified in the piece, that The Onion and The A.V. Club should be beholden to some form of institutional values so that nastiness like this does not happen again, and while I feel that those who work for a publication should be intimately familiar with the way in which regrettable tweets set a tone, and while I feel that the seventeen tweets I offered over the course of 45 minutes (eclipsed by the scores of tweets from A.V. staffers over a period of seven hours throughout much of today, while I was busy working) do not constitute "mindless harassment," I should have been more circumspect in contacting the people directly responsible for the Twitter feed.
In the interest of clarity, I should note that, even though I mentioned the "scores of tweets from A.V. staffers" in my comment, this was based on a cursory glance at Twitter on my phone in the afternoon, when I had tweeted a Richard Ben Cramer quote. I did not see tweets from Tobias calling for the photo to be removed.
What I did not know was that Tobias, not pleased in being challenged, had initiated a plan to condemn me on Twitter and attempt to destroy my reputation. (The complete timeline of events is presented in this detailed graphic.)
On Monday afternoon, at 1:36 PM EST, Tobias tweeted a public request for me to remove the photo. I did not see it. There was no Twitter notification by email. At 10:27 PM EST, Tobias tweeted a second public request. I did not see it. There was no Twitter notification by email.
Tobias had not emailed me.
At 10:25 PM EST, Tobias left a comment on this website, which I approved and read shortly thereafter. I replied at 10:57 PM EST, asking Tobias to address his concerns through formal correspondence.
Curious about what Tobias was referring to, I went to Tobias's Twitter feed and learned that Tobias accused me of being "vile," called me "fucking insane," and had suggested to his followers that I had deliberately rebuffed him.
Again, I had not seen his tweets before then.
I am normally quite happy to remove photos when people ask. I have done so in the past. But Tobias's harassing behavior is not how you go about getting a photo removed. And when I went to the trouble of getting the notice necessary to remove the photo, something that was not my obligation, the process took two days.
I was unclear about the copyright being asserted and I wanted to be absolutely pellucid on the facts. This was because I had not been entirely circumspect about The Onion's organizational structure with my initial article. For this, I was pilloried by Tobias's peers as "a terrible asshole," "a cunt," "a real cunt," "a fucking cunt," "a world-class creep," "an awful troll," and numerous other epithets that flowed late into the night. I was condemned for being slow and methodical. I had not received a takedown notice.
I contacted people at The Onion on Wednesday and Thursday morning (including CEO Steve Hannah, TV editor Todd VanDerWerff, and HR Coordinator/Office Manager Theresa Lyon), apprising them of the full situation and instructing them that I would need something specifying (a) copyright information on the photo, (b) contact information for the aggrieved party, and (c) a statement asserting in very clear language why the material is not authorized, and also requesting a public apology. (In fact, I have yet to receive any apology, either private or public, from Scott Tobias or anyone at The Onion or The A.V. Club.)
It was never my job to educate Tobias about copyright law. There is a formal process to remove a photo. But despite working in the media business for at least fourteen years and being married to a lawyer, Tobias did not follow the procedure. As the detailed timeline demonstrates below, he was more interested in devoting his energies to harassment. (If you can't see the image in full, right click on the image in your browser and select "View Image" and click again to zoom in.)
The collective outrage was never about the photo. It was about power. In the 1980s, Heinz Leymann investigated mobbing, a collective form of harassment in the workplace which he defined as "hostile and unethical communication which is directed in a systematic way by one of a number of persons mainly toward one individual." As cafes have increasingly transformed into offices, Twitter has created a new virtual "workplace" atmosphere.
When I learned what Tobias was up to on Monday evening, I informed him by email that he was harassing me and that I only wanted to deal with third parties. He continued to harass me and it caused people such as Darren Hughes to make violent threats:
Tobias's tweets inspired a few hundred additional tweets from his peers which hurled more invective along these lines. As the timeline graphic clearly demonstrates, not once did Tobias seek to mollify his followers. He was the ringleader in a campaign built on collective harassment. It's the kind of behavior one associates with 4chan, not purportedly high-minded cultural critics or people who work for The Onion and NPR.
Tobias's tweets also inspired an effort by Slate staffers to suggest that I was a troll. It was precisely the linguistic switcheroo that Richard Cooper had identified in his essay on Twitter hierarchies:
The hideous term "trolls", previously reserved for the kind of racist or neo-Nazi filth people put in YouTube comments sections to get a reaction, was now being used to apply to the phrases "yawn" and "one step up from a mumsnet post".
From Dan Kois, Slate senior editor:
From Dana Stevens, Slate film critic:
The irony of cultural critics smearing a critic of a critic has not been lost on me, nor has the irony of male critics who who are more offended by a mild photographic juxtaposition than a misogynistic tweet directed at a nine-year-old girl. This upholds the very point that my piece and the accompanying photo argued: that institutional values within today's cultural outlets prohibit an examination of casual misogyny. With professionals like this, who needs critics?
It was amazing to me how Twitter had inspired the 21st century's answer to The Ox-Bow Incident. I was never contacted or afforded a perspective. There was one creepy "assistant professor" who was spending his time between classes harassing me and stopped doing this after I called his program coordinator. The narrative that Tobias created left zero room for painting me as anything less than a baleful menace. All I had done was put up a photo and raise my voice. I never insulted anybody during the Sunday night exchange. I certainly hadn't killed anybody or defended phone hacking. The reaction was tremendously out of proportion with the purported offense.
Scott Tobias had turned the film critic community on Twitter into a thoughtless mob.
In the end, I decided to remove the photo: not because of the harassment and not because I was pressured. Even though Tobias had harassed me and publicly crucified me before I had ever had the chance to respond to his requests, decency and compassion were essential parts of journalism. He had not been especially decent or compassionate to me, but I wanted to believe that there was a decent human being somewhere inside Scott Tobias. I wanted to be kind when the others were being quite unkind.
I took steps to get The Onion to send me a formal takedown notice and eventually heard back from A.V. Club general manager Josh Modell.
With the official takedown notice in my hands, I quietly removed the photo.
Within twenty minutes of the photo's removal, Scott Tobias acknowledged this on Twitter. But he did not apologize for his conduct or for riling up his peers. Indeed, the tone here was rooted around celebration and "victory" rather than dialogue and decency. In Tobias's mind, he had "won." I don't know if he has learned anything.
You can't tar people because they haven't responded to your timetable. I fully admit to being guilty of this in the past. Now that I've seen it from the other side through Tobias, I better understand why patience is essential. Without patience, we dehumanize ourselves by viewing other people as blank lemmings who fall into a natural pecking order.
I don't know if the film critics who harassed me on Twitter are even cognizant of what they've done. Did Twitter turn them into monsters? I've certainly tweeted my share of foolish and angry sentiments, but it has never occurred to me to incite my friends to harass anyone writing something critical abiout me. As Nagasawa put it so well in Murakami's Norwegian Wood, "A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do." (To which Watanabe replies, "You're the weirdest guy I've ever met." To which Nagasawa replies, "You're the straightest guy I've ever met," just before paying the bill.)
The high road doesn't get enough credit in American life. It takes a hell of a lot of courage not to respond to beasts who want to bring you down. They are so eager to destroy and shame that they lose their sense of humanity. Yes, we all make mistakes. And we can't expect people to react in the way we want them to. But isn't it better to behave like a gentleman?


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Since the authenticity of Mexican food in London seems to be a hot topic amongst food bloggers, I've heard a lot about Wahaca and since it has opened a new branch in Wardour Street and I've recently sampled the food at their competitor Lupita, how could I say no when Mister North suggested eating there this week?
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Sure that our eyes weren't bigger than our bellies, we ordered heartily, choosing the Wahaca selection for two as a way to sample as many dishes as possible as it includes tacos, quesadillas, taquitos and tostadas. We also went for the special of queso fundido, unable to resist the combination of mushrooms and cheese, and added in some of our five a day with the sweet potato and the spicy slaw on the side.
Plates started arriving almost immediately and while it was nice to have to wait too long, it seemed a tad canteen-esque to me. Everything was pretty much tepid apart from the bubbling cheese of the queso fundido, but it all looked fresh and appealing and I was keen to get stuck in, if I could decide where to start?
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The queso fundido had cooled down enough to prevent taking the top of the roof of our mouths and was well worth waiting for. I am a recent convert to mushrooms and these made me very happy about that. Juicy and tasty with a nice tang from the cheese, I had to be careful not to shovel the entire dishful onto my warm tortilla and leave Mister North without any. The last scraps of this one were hotly contested, but I'm pleased to say my big brother let me scrape the bowl clean…
We also made short work of the nicely spiced sweet potato, with Mister North dipping into the hot mango sauce and devouring the chipotle dip while I didn't dare risk it as I don't really like particularly spicy food. I did adore the spicy slaw though and thought the green rice was great. I am always impressed when side dishes are as good if not better than the main dishes and I thought Wahaca was great for this, especially since so many of these dishes are meat free.
I was slightly disappointed by the seasonal vegetable tacos. The veg selection just felt a bit like tinned veggies, thanks to the sweetcorn, with some highly unseasonal cubes of tomato and a bit of lettuce to bulk it out. They weren't particularly flavoursome and were a direct contrast to all the other tasty meat free offerings. I much preferred the huitlacoche quesadilla with its mushroom infused flavour and almost buttery filling.
We finished up with the taquitos and these were an excellent end to meal. Fried til crispy but filled with soft creamy chicken, these were my favourite of any of the meat dishes we had. Small and perfectly formed, despite being very full, I could have happily had a second taquito, possibly even a third. Despite our waitress warning us that we had probably ordered too much, we cleared all the plates bar about one mouthful of the rice and decided we could make room to try the mango sorbet, along with another beer.
The place was absolutely hiving at this point with a queue nearly to the door and even thought we only ordered one sorbet between us, there was no sense of being rushed or coaxed into ordering anything more to keep our spot. The sorbet arrived quickly with two spoons and we tucked in. It was deliciously mango-y and a lovely refreshing end to the meal, and although quite a large portion, it seemed expensive to me. Probably because secretly I wanted churros, but couldn't have fitted them in!
Our bill came to just over £50, including 4 beers at £4 each, which I thought was pretty good value aside from the vegetable tacos and the sorbet. I liked Wahaca. The food was pretty good, the service was excellent, but I didn't get a huge sense of atmosphere from the place, pretty as it was. I'd go back for the black beans, taquitos and the queso fundido*, but I'd prefer it to feel a little bit less like a chain next time. Maybe Wednesday isn't the best night to try them or maybe I need to get over my dislike of tequila?
* And I am totally sold on the idea of the matchbooks of chilli seeds to grow at home!


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This is everything we know so far about the potential Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury fight
Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have reached an agreement in principle to fight on two separate occasions.
Between them, AJ and the Gypsy King hold all four heavyweight titles and speculation about a fight between the duo has been growing since Tyson Fury defeated Deontay Wilder in February.
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Promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports on June 10: "Joshua and Fury have agreed to a two-fight deal, in essence."
One of Fury's promoters Frank Warren added: "Things are going in the right direction and we couldn't be more happy that a potential mega fight is in reach."
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"We've had offers from China, we've had offers from around the world. This is the biggest fight in boxing - it doesn't get any bigger. There's not going to be any country that stages major events that won't want this fight."
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EDWARDSVILLE - There are multiple blogs I read EVERY week. It is no secret that every entrepreneur must stay on top of their game and keep researching and reading to learn more about what they do and how they can help their clients and customers. Thank goodness for the Internet! I can't imagine running a business without the ability to get a hold of so much information that can help me when I am struggling with a problem, wanting to learn something new or trying to spread my message to the world. I imagine it is the same for you. Of course, since the Internet is so HUGE – where do you begin?
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For those of you that may not know, Mari is THE Facebook Marketing Expert. She has written several books, is incredibly active on all forms of social media, and I personally have heard her speak on numerous occasions both in person and online. She is a giver. She is constantly showing you tips and tricks on how to make the most of your Facebook marketing platform. If you visit her blog, you will find that she is almost always promoting a webinar or training course that covers various topics revolving around Facebook. Some are free and some you pay for. She also has a really cool "Inner Circle" private Facebook group that you can be a part of if you sign up for one of her programs that puts you in touch with people from all over the world that are trying to learn just like you. There is power in putting your minds together with other entrepreneurs, and I, myself, have asked several questions in that group and have been helped out by total strangers from somewhere in the world. It is a wonderful community. She also has an email that goes out every single Friday that spotlights her top three picks of articles that she thought shared valuable content – and they are NOT articles she wrote. She is constantly learning herself and is happy to share the good stuff when she finds it. If you are not on her list, you should be. Go to her website and sign up! - ProBlogger/Darren Rowse
I have been receiving Darren's emails for a long time now. Creating your own blog and content is so important, and it can become very daunting when you have no idea what you are doing. There is so much more to it than just sitting down and writing. Darren not only holds classes to help you learn to be a better blogger, but he continues to share what else he finds on the Internet the way Mari does. He has frequent posts he calls his "Reading Roundup: What's New in Blogging Lately" that are extremely helpful. His blog is constantly focused on giving you different tools to make your blog better such as commenting system tools, content creation, how to get paid for your blog and a great topic generator tool (which may or may not have been used to come up with this topic. Not going to lie.) He has really taught me a lot about blogging and is another one I suggest you follow. Click here to join his newsletter.Article continues after sponsor message - Yoast
As a blogger, you HAVE to know how to make the most out of each and every post by optimizing your blog. Yoast is a company that created a plugin to be installed on WordPress websites that helps you optimize your website pages, as well as your blog posts. The beauty of this company is that they are also givers. They have written numerous eBooks on how to set up a great website, how to optimize it, content SEO assistance, analytics and more. They have an email newsletter that is always full of helpful tips, as well as an "Ask Yoast" section on their website where you can even talk to their people in more detail about your specific issue. So, yes, they are in the market to sell you their plugin, but they are doing it right by providing you with a TON of extras to show you that they are the best when it comes to website optimization. Check them out here. If you don't have a WordPress site – I know a company that can help with that too! - Beth Hayden
I first got introduced to Beth through a mutual friend when she wrote Pinfluence: The Complete Guide To Marketing Your Business With Pinterest. I love this book. I highly recommend it to anyone out there whose target market is on Pinterest and you need to learn how to reach them. What I quickly came to discover is that Beth is also a wealth of information when it comes to blogging, content generation, and list building. She even has a page on her website dedicated to the resources and tools she uses herself in order to run her online business. Once again – a giver! Are you seeing a pattern here? I encourage you to join her list building challenge. This is a great challenge designed to hold you accountable with increasing your subscribers, and therefore your reach, which will lead to more business.
There are definitely more, but these four will get you well on your way of gaining knowledge from industry experts that have certainly helped me along the way.
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This week, a fries place: Susie's Drive Thru.*
Health is a priority.
This place is nuts. It's a little yellow shack, covered in signs/menus and neon signs that scream "FRIES" and "BEEFS." There are several hundred individual menu items with all kinds of crazy names ("Baboon" milkshake; "Confused Chicken" sandwich). Due to a weekend heavy on the fried-foods consumption, I wasn't really up to a representative meal (if any single meal at a place like this could even be called that), so I took a shot in the dim--this week's LTHforum shout-out goes to Steve Z., a proponent of Manny's with whom I've always felt a certain bond. Z. recommends the Western Burger, which I finally found listed on the menu after about ten minutes. Adam went with a Polish w/ everything; a detailed sign by the register explains what constitutes "everything" respective of what's being ordered.
Fried only in Butcher Boy oil, the fries come in sizes small, large, and "pound," and are available with several permutations of cheese (sauce), chili, and bacon. The pound size is served in a taco salad-style tortilla bowl to contain whatever you choose to have glopped on there. As I've mentioned before, I'm not a fan of fake cheese, and Adam just makes it his modus to eat reasonably, so we each got large orders of plain fries.
We ate in the car and tried to think of adjectival things to say about french fries. With a burger, you've got at least three main aspects to address (bun, patty, toppings), and with fries, it's potatoes and salt; maybe oil, if you want to bore everyone to death. We grimly agreed that we're going to have to use the word "spuds" more often than we'd otherwise like.
Anyway, Susie's fries are good. They're skin-on, were served very hot (as are most of the better fries), and appropriately salted (Susie's uses some kind of additional seasoning that looks like reddish-brown salt, but it's such a trace amount that I couldn't pick up any distinct added flavor). So, while really, really good, I wasn't blown away, because these are essentially the same fries sold by Hot Doug's, Boardwalk Fries, Five Guys, and probably several other establishments I've eaten at over the years, which is not meant to be a dig. Fries, good as they are, just do not a destination make.
This is the Western Burger.
I think they made it wrong. (I overheard the staff conferring on what made up a Western Burger, and there was some disagreement.) Z.'s description mentions Russian dressing, and I just got ketchup in addition to the totally unremarkable patty, American cheese, grilled onions, and Texas toast. The thing took me way back to a pre-bar mitzvah age when I ate American-on-white grilled cheeses, ignorant of pumpernickel or the concept of sharpness. Anyway, it wasn't my thing, but it may suit others' needs perfectly.
Adam's grilled Polish, on the other hand, had me jealous: that's grilled onions, a pickle, a tomato slice, a cucumber, a green pepper...damn.
He rated it highly (although still "no Jim's Original").
Even though Susie's is near absolutely nothing, I'll definitely be back (open 24/7 makes this place a must-know). They're doing their thing very well.
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The Working Group produced OWL 2, a W3C Recommendation that refines and extends OWL, the Web Ontology Language
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From Boston now to the White House, where President Obama reacted angrily tonight to the failure of an effort in the Senate to expand background checks for gun purchases. The amendment, proposed by Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey, got only 54 votes - six short of the necessary 60. President Obama spoke in the White House Rose Garden. He called this a pretty shameful day for Washington.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Ninety percent of the American people support universal background checks that make it harder for a dangerous person to buy a gun. We're talking about convicted felons, people convicted of domestic violence, people with a severe mental illness. Ninety percent of Americans support that idea. Most Americans think that's already the law.
BLOCK: NPR's Ari Shapiro joins us now for more on what the president said. And, Ari, it sounds like a defiant President Obama speaking there in the Rose Garden.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Absolutely. He said this is just round one. In fact, that message was bolstered by the first man to speak, Mark Barden, who lost his son at Sandy Hook - was surrounded by several Sandy Hook family members as well as Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman who was shot in the head in Tucson. Mark Barden said we go home disappointed by not defeated. He added, we are not going away. And President Obama really reiterated that sentiment, accusing a vocal minority of obstructing the will of the American people. And he accused a minority in Congress of distorting congressional rules in order to get their way. That's a reference, of course, to the filibuster that requires 60 votes to get this over the hurdle.
BLOCK: I also heard him accuse some on the gun rights side of willfully lying during this debate.
SHAPIRO: Yes. He did not mince words at all. He said the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill, claiming that it would create some sort of Big Brother gun registry, even though the bill actually prohibited that. And he said the lies worked, because they upset a minority of gun owners, which intimidated a lot of senators.
BLOCK: Ari, you mentioned the families of shooting victims and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who were at the president's side for these remarks. And there was quite a bit of emotion at the Rose Garden as he spoke.
SHAPIRO: That's right. Vice President Biden looked as though he was on the verge of tears. Remember that these families had spent most of the last week in Washington lobbying senators. And many of them were sitting there in the chamber as members were casting their votes. One senator, Rand Paul, accused President Obama as using the family members as props. And the president responded to that very angrily today.
OBAMA: I've heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced. A prop, somebody called them. Emotional blackmail, some outlets said. Are they serious?
SHAPIRO: And he basically just expressed extreme frustration with Washington, suggesting that if people want Washington to change they're going to have to send new people in to represent them.
BLOCK: Well, when the president says this is just round one, what does he mean? I mean, is there a new effort that's going to come from the White House to get these measures passed?
SHAPIRO: There is no obvious immediate next step for these measures. Big picture, I think the question is whether the Sandy Hook shooting victims' families can maintain the kind of focused lobbying presence that they've had for the last couple months. Because that same lobbying presence on the other side is really what ultimately drove this bill to defeat.
BLOCK: OK. NPR's Ari Shapiro at the White House. Ari, thank you.
SHAPIRO: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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On Tour in Kashmir
After a stay with Sant Kirpal Singh in Delhi one initiate, before leaving for Amritsar, asked Him if He had to convey anything to the Doctor and his wife. Master answered that He had already written to them. When the initiate asked Dr Harbhajan Singh if he had received the letter, he could understand the meaning of Master's word.
Sant Kirpal Singh was going to visit Srinagar, so in the evening of the appointed day of Sant Kirpal Singh's stopover at Pathankot, the Doctor and his wife along with their children arrived with bags and baggage at Pathankot as well. Sant Kirpal Singh asked them about their programme was. The Doctor said, "Master, we are going to Srinagar." Sant Kirpal Singh told them that He Himself was also proceeding to Srinagar the next day and that they were allowed to come along with Him.
We felt overjoyed since it was our first trip to Srinagar with Master. I forgot that never before I drove the car on the high mountains. Even I forgot to fill up the tank. I felt that we were driven by Him and we were in His lap.
When we reached a very high altitude, and I looked downwards, I felt fear and got nervous, but the same moment Master looked at me through the rear glass of His car. At once I felt as a very good driver. It was still 100 km to Srinagar and I did not remember that there had been only 15 litres of petrol in the tank while in Pathankot. When we reached the outskirts of Srinagar, I saw a petrol-pump at a distance of 100 metres. At that moment the car immediately stopped.
I narrated the incidence to Master and felt sorry for my ignorance. Master said, "Thank God, He has helped you."
Taiji had to reach Srinagar the next day in the evening. It was 7:00 p.m. when Master said, "Taiji has not come, it is too late, let us drive towards the way she has to come from."
We all reached the place where plenty of saffron is grown. Master asked my wife to sit in meditation to see why Taiji did not arrive. Master looked so beautiful then, and she said, "Master, I have to see and listen to You instead of sitting in meditation." Since Master insisted, she sat in meditation, and within few minutes she cried loudly and then became silent. After about 15 minutes she came back and told that in the way a mountain slide had happened. She said, "I saw His Holiness turning away the slide, otherwise her car would have come under the debris." She further explained that Taiji had told her she would be two hours late and reach at 9:00 p.m.
Mr. Jaswant Singh with whom Master and we were lodging, was an initiate of Baba Sawan Singh. Baba Sawan Singh had blessed him on his marriage ceremony, a film of which still exists today. But this man was doubtful about the competency and successorship of Sant Kirpal Singh Ji.
When Jaswant Singh heard these words, he got emotional and perhaps thought that it was the best opportunity to judge the competency of the Master. While beside the road, he requested a car driver to stop. Fortunately that taxi driver was known to him. The driver narrated the whole story of the landslide and told that when he started from the site, this group along with Taiji was taking tea in a restaurant. Hearing it, he became receptive to some extent, we felt. This incidence Master did as to remove the veil from his eye.
Then Taiji reached exactly at 9:00 p.m. Master looked at Jaswant Singh and might have thought that the pitcher was still not baked.
S. Jaswant Singh did not cooperate with us for arranging a public talk of the Master, so on this ground we left his house but we used to come for Master's darshan every day. We were the new ones and nobody knew us there.
After two days, Master asked us that He had made a programme for the Chenab riverside and we all could come along there. We had not much to eat with us, but Taiji brought many things she had cooked for Master. We were sitting there at a distance, when Master told us, "You can have some food from Taiji." I asked Taiji to send the food through the children. Taiji answered, "I am not the servant of your father. Come and have it." I went there and told Taiji (who was serving our Master since the very beginning), "There is no doubt, you are the servant of our Father, He is the Father of all." It was a very beautiful time.
While returning to Srinagar from the riverside, there was a traffic jam and a lot of trucks of the Army were standing. I found a chance to go to them with books of the Master and told them about His competency. Standing at a little distance they could get the glimpses of the Master. I told them, that His Holiness had served in the Army as well. Some of them already knew about the Master, and it was the most fortunate day for them to see Him physically.
The following day we could find one of the disciples of the Master and managed a big place for the Master's Satsang in the area. A big place was occupied by the soldiers and the officers and their families. Thousand people welcomed the Master. It was a beautiful Satsang and they felt much radiation of the Master. This stay in Srinagar we remember as a beautiful day, as we could know, where there is a will there is a way, but we felt that where there is a will, there is God Himself as well.
The following day S. Jaswant Singh was very happy from heart which we never felt during our stay there. There was a meditation sitting and the Master asked my wife certain questions to be answered within and those answers Master wanted to hear separately when my wife, myself, Jaswant Singh and his wife were allowed to sit beside the Master. This concerned his personal problems which he could not get rid of throughout his life and which need not be mentioned for others, but those answers changed his life. They were related to the higher competency of the Master. S. Jaswant Singh's face was shining and we felt that through Sant Kirpal Singh he had accepted Baba Sawan Singh again. He brought two baskets of cherries and requested Master for a picknick near a riverside. It was very beautiful that Master went on giving us the parshad of cherries at intervals.
Master asked Rajpal of Amritsar to pick up all stones of the cherries and to put them in the stream flowing beside. Master smiled at him and lovingly told that if He found any stones outside, He would beat him. So all the time over he was very vigilant to pick up the stones and throw them into the water. At the end Master asked him whether he had really thrown all the stones in the water. He assured the Master that there were no stones anywhere. Looking toward myself and my wife, Master opened His fist and said, "There are still two with me."
After our return to the house of S. Jaswant Singh, Master got a telephone call from Bibi Lajo of Amritsar, a devoted disciple of Baba Sawan Singh. She used to cook for Baba Sawan Singh and served Baba Sawan Singh day and night. She said that she was upset and that Master should visit her before proceeding to Delhi.
(A year before my wife insisted on Master to show her the physical departure of Baba Sawan Singh Ji, since Master had already shown the same to one disciple from the United Provinces. As a result, one side of his body was paralysed. As she insisted again and again, Master showed her the physical departure of Baba Sawan Singh Ji. By the Grace of the Master she then could see the condition of all nears and dears of Baba Sawan Singh, compared to the condition of Sant Kirpal Singh Ji, and hundred things more concerning the further Mission, which were transferred from the heart of Baba Sawan Singh to Sant Kirpal Singh. Her experience was witnessed by many people who gathered in the Amritsar-Centre. Thereafter this was told by someone to Bibi Lajo, who by hearing it became very much annoyed.)
If we take the Master merely as the physical body, we lose a lot. We lose the essence of the selfless service.
The very next day, we had to return to Amritsar. Master said that He Himself was coming to Amritsar the day after the next. When Master reached Amritsar we knew the reason of His visit. We wanted to express our feelings while Bibi Lajo was sitting with Master. But during that time, Master's attention did not allow us to enter the room.
Sitting beside the room, we could hear that Master said to Bibi Lajo, "My Master has given her so much, that even I cannot undo with it." Bibi Lajo, knowing all those things from her heart, would never explain it to others in their right perspective, but she felt it. When she came out along with Master, she wanted to become very familiar with us and said to my wife that they were friends. But my wife replied that she was not her friend. Master, holding the shoulders of my wife, said, "Sit in meditation and you will know the conversation and its meaning by the Grace of the Master." Thereafter Master left for Delhi.When we were back in Amritsar, we came to know an incidence, which was in connection with our journey. While I was with Master in Srinagar, one patient in my hospital was seriously ill. Sitting beside the Master I started thinking about the condition of this patient – whether the Doctor concerned had done some investigation or not, like this. At once Master said, "Since you have come, you should forget what is going on there. Because your attention will only be an interference in the way. So, leave this thing to the Masterpower."
I was there for ten days with Master and I was very busy. But when I came back, there was one woman who told that every day one old person used to come and nobody cared for Him. But she used to stay there and He also used to sit there. When the hospital was closed, He went away. The day when I returned she had also come but this man was not there. Then I said, "Do you see who that person was?" She said that He was very old. Then I showed her the picture of Sant Kirpal Singh and Baba Sawan Singh. She said, "This man, Baba Sawan Singh, was there." So every day He had come to the hospital, but only she could see Him, nobody else. And she further said that this Doctor in charge was attending there and he did not talk with Him anything.
Masterpower does everything for the child, and He does it in the best interest of the child. What He does will benefit you here and hereafter.
Harbhajan Singh


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Kraft recalls petroleum-derived macaroni and cheese contaminated with shards of metal
by: Amy Goodrich
(NaturalNews) Kraft's mac and cheese may be a convenient, easy, and cheap dinner alternative, but if you are feeding your family this simple and quick dinner, you may be slowly poisoning them.
Only recently, Kraft had to recall over 6 million boxes of their macaroni and cheese sold in the United States, Puerto Rico, and some Caribbean and South American countries (Canada was not in the danger zone). The recall was due to a metal contamination.
According to Kraft, eight consumer complaints have been logged about the product, but there have been no reported injuries. "We deeply regret this situation and apologize to any consumers we have disappointed," Kraft said in a statement
This is not the first time Kraft had to recall one of their products for safety reasons. In August 2014, over 7,000 cases of American Singles "cheese product" slices were recalled after improper storage of one of the ingredients. And in September 2011, over 135,000 cases of single-serve Velveeta Shells & Cheese were recalled due to wire bristle pieces in some of the packages.
Carcinogenic petroleum-derived food dyes
If you think that, with recalling these boxes, all is settled again and you could go back to feeding your family these convenient foods, think again.
Metal shards are not the only reason to avoid these overly processed convenient foods. Kraft's mac and cheese, among many other processed products on today's market, contain Yellow 5 and 6 food dyes.
These substances are banned or strictly regulated in the UK and most other European countries, but still freely and extensively used in the US.
Yellow 5 is a synthetic lemon-yellow food color also known as tartrazine or E102. Yellow 6, another synthetic yellow dye, goes under the name Sunset Yellow FCF, or E110. They are often added to processed foods to make them look more appealing and tastier so consumers are tricked into buying these products.
Both are derived from petroleum and pose a wide range of health issues. They contain cancer-causing benzidine and other potentially carcinogenic chemicals which can damage DNA and cause severe damage to our cells. It can halt cell reproduction and may lead to cancer. Artificial colors have been linked to hyperactivity and decreased concentration in children, cancer, and allergic reactions (such as asthma).
What science tells us
According to a 2012 study on the toxicology of food dyes, "The inadequacy of much of the testing and the evidence for carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, and hypersensitivity, coupled with the fact that dyes do not improve the safety or nutritional quality of foods, indicates that all of the currently used dyes should be removed from the food supply and replaced, if at all, by safer colorings."
The limited number of studies in the health and food industry looking at the potential dangers and toxicity of these food dyes is the perfect excuse to keep on using them. Food companies deliberately do not perform any of these safety tests and then brush away all the concerns as not having enough evidence to prove the harmful side effects.
Don't put your family and yourself at risk; get rid of these overly processed convenient foods, such Kraft's mac and cheese. Opt for whole, fresh, organic foods and home-cooked meals instead.
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Papers (including business and personal correspondence and accounts) of William H.E. Merritt, of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va. who was a lawyer, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and editor of the "Richmond Whig"and his brothers Dr. Alexander T.B. Merritt of Hicksford, Greensville County,Va. and John F.W. Merritt of Vicksburg, Miss. The collection includes letters, 8 January and 29 March 1857, written by John Minor Botts and accounts of William H.E. Merritt &...
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