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FloraCup Cover complies with the general requirements for retail flower packaging. It covers the pot, holds the soil, features the bar code, and enhances the plant without unnecessary decorations.
FloraCup Cover is designed with the dual purpose of covering the pot and providing support for the foliage. This ensures optimum presentation of the plant. FloraCup Cover comes in seasonal colors with a straight edge, bar coding or a custom label.
In order to ensure proper watering after having shipped from the greenhouse, FloraCup Cover is available with a perforated bottom or without a bottom. FloraCup Cover is available in all pot sizes and can be delivered in smaller quantities.
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Psychological tests administered to students by qualified District personnel or appropriate diagnostic agencies will ensure quality psychological services in the District, and will protect the educational rights, dignity and privacy of students and parents/guardians.
Psychological evaluations will be made only after informed and written consent of the student's parent/guardian is obtained. A conference will be held with the parent/guardian to review all test results and the student's specific educational needs in the educational program. Psychological data are only partial criteria for determining any change in a student's educational program. Psychological data older than three years shall not be used as the basis for prescriptive teaching or placement.
All psychological services provided by the District or agencies contracted by the District will be in accordance with state and federal statutes and regulations concerning the privacy of student records and use of psychological services. (See also Policy 2815 - Assessments and Referrals to Outside Services.)

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"There is not a moment without some duty." -- Cicero.
But what is duty? Is duty the voice of conscience? Is duty the expression of God's will?
Alice C. Linsley
The term "deontological" comes from the Greek word deon, meaning "duty." This approach to ethical decisions holds that some moral principles are binding, regardless of the consequences. This concept is difficult for many students as evidenced by their tendency to try to combine deontological and other approaches. As one student wrote, "My approach to ethical decision making is guided by a blend of Consequential, Deontological, Virtue and other decision making processes. "
This student didn't realize at first that some approaches are mutually exclusive. When students try to employ all the approaches, it suggests that they don't really know what their approach is.
The philosopher who refined deontological ethics was Immanuel Kant. According to Kant the nature of morality is to do one's duty even when we are not inclined to do it, and not because we are afraid of the consequences of not doing it. Here you see that Deontological ethics is the opposite of consequential ethics. The moral person does her duty regardless of the consequences.
In Kant's view the person who does his duty to appear virtuous, is not moral. The person who does his duty to get it over and done with, is not moral. The person who does his duty to avoid negative consequences, is not moral. Only the person who does his duty because it is his duty, is moral. A parent who acts responsibly toward his child because it is his duty to act responsibly toward his child, is moral. Kant argues thus:
Everyone recognizes that they have duties and obligations.
Duty is therefore a universal human experience.
Duty is the basis of Moral Law.
As all human have duties, the Moral Law applies to all humans
If you take a deontological approach to ethics, you must define your duty in each situation and then perform your duty, regardless of the consequences. You define your duty by asking "What is the universal principle to be followed?"
People who use the Ten Commandments as their ethical standards take a deontological approach. The problem with this approach is that it assumes, contrary to the evidence, we are always able to do our duty. But too often we discover that even when we believe that doing our duty will make us happy, we fail to do it.
Related reading: Collectivists versus True Liberals; Moral Obligation


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Meg Geddes, Ann Arbor, MI Watching idiots online since 1985. Hie thee over to netmeg.com. This site is obsolete and going away soon. |
Some day I may update this site; there's not much here at the moment. You
can go Check Your IP, if you want.. Or you can go look at some of the other sites
(below) I've either designed or
otherwise been involved with. I am not particularly interested in personal blogs, so I loaded my old one up
cat pictures and promptly never posted
again. I recently launched netmeg.com.
So pretty soon I'll be redirecting this one over there.. You can also read my
no fail can't miss how to roast a turkey page. I'm one of
the few people I know who can be found in the
top spot on Google for a one word search. For some reason,
people seem to want to look at pictures of my car, even though
I've long ago sold it. It's just an old Saturn. My
new car is much cooler.
If you're wonding about my avatar, it's Mandy from
The Grim Adventures of
Billy and Mandy; she is my hero. I also have a
MySpace page, and a Facebook page I can't figure out how to use. And, I'm a
I wrote a lengthy review of the Premise Landing Pages software. If that's something you need to do, you should take a look at it. Saved my bacon. You can follow me on Twitter if you want. But I tweet a *lot*, and I'm not always polite. I'm usually ranked fairly highly in the *world* for cursing on Twitter. So if that bothers you, don't follow me. I'm unlikely to change. |
One of my primary hobbies/sites is MichiganFireworks.com; it gets 70,000 visits per day in the summer, and I've worked on several hundred business and ecommerce websites for my company of which I am President and Partner, although my particular specialty these days has to do with search engine positioning and marketing; I don't usually advertise it as I've got too much on my plate as it is. For the past ten years we've done web design, web hosting, database applications, inventory control (bar code) applications and almost anything else we can persuade people to pay us for. We've rarely had time to update on our own website in almost ten years, but here it is. I'm also something of a photographer, on a strictly amateur basis. I take a lot of photos of Detroit rock bands; there's a lot of my band photos floating around on the net on various band websites. Some day I'll put those up too. I'm an old time punk rocker. |
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Blake Shelton to Release 'Cheers, It's Christmas' Album on October 2
Get those halls ready for a decking, because Blake Shelton's Christmas album has a release date! Appropriately titled 'Cheers, It's Christmas' — presumably for the singer's love of drinking — the holiday-themed release will be ready for your stocking pleasures on October 2.
In addition to featuring some more traditional Christmas favorites, the album will have a special duet with Shelton and 'The Voice' advisor Michael Buble, as well as songs with his longtime friend and fellow country hitmaker Reba McEntire and the singer's loving mother, Dorothy Shackleford.
Shelton and Buble have reworked 'Home' — a Buble original that the country star covered in 2008 — for 'Cheers, It's Christmas.' The two talented singers have made the song about Christmas because, after all, what's more Christmas-y than coming home for holidays?
Fans of the 'Over' hitmaker can expect a real teal-jerker from Shelton's duet with his mom. Together, the pair will perform an original song co-written by the country star about the special women in his life. If that's not the greatest Christmas gift a son could give to his mother, then we don't know what is.
Surely that song about special women will include a shout-out to Shelton's country singer wife Miranda Lambert, who just happened to come up with the title for her husband's holiday release. At least, that's what she hinted at on Twitter on Monday, posting, "Cheers, It's Christmas!" Such a clever title. Someone really awesome must have thought of that name:)!"
Shelton shared the album cover with his fans, joking that "clearly someone left the door open" to let all of the snow in. We'll admit that it's not the best cover art we've seen — but what's that phrase? Oh, right. Never judge an album by its cover. We have a feeling Shelton will provide a great soundtrack for getting into the holiday spirit. Or spirits.


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For a long time I had a terror of the dark. My earliest memories of bedtime were of shutting my eyes
tight and pulling the covers over my head the minute the lights were out. Everyone overcomes this
fear at a different age. Inexplicably, if you are with someone else, almost anyone, the night holds no demons, but being alone in absolute blackness is another thing.
It was not until my late 30s that I finally overcame this dread. I had rented the Old Schoolhouse in Roscoe, NY. On a rainy Sunday afternoon I sat over a cup of coffee reading Night Fishing For Trout. It was a siren call, but one where lashing me to a mast would not serve. I had to go alone, in pitch dark, to try myself against a blackness extending from the field bordering the river up past the netting of stars beyond to an unknown universe. And yet there was a call that I heard, and one night I followed it down to the Upper Beaverkill.
There was a pool that I had never fished. A boulder and an elbow in the stream made it as likely a place for huge trout as I could ever imagine. The problem was that the bank towered above the pool on one side, and was water level sand on the other. I was unwilling to just drop a line straight down from above like a bait fisherman and standing on the opposite side would spook a blind minnow. To wade into the pool was also a non-starter.
What would tempt a huge, wary trout at the bottom of this great well of fishing dreams? I walked upstream on the high bank side, entered the river from a deer trail and waded into the center of the rapids. I had heavy tackle for this small water, a 5 weight rod with a 6 pound test leader at the end of the fly line. The rod was made for me by the late Vince Cummings and was my lucky rod. Vince was a great character on the Beaverkill. He had been an oil company executive in the mists of time and had emerged as a rod builder, first of fiberglass and in my time of graphite. When he delivered each rod to me his wife would wait in the car and take the money from him. He was a recovering alcoholic and she kept him sternly on the wagon.
So there I was barely steady on my legs in the rapids, the weight of a thousand stars and galaxies on my shoulders. It was a cool night with a fair breeze. I tied on a large, improbable wooly bugger, green and purple. What would a fish think it was? A leech? It didnt matter. With the stream hurtling into the pool, the fish would have a fleeting glimpse and would have to make a total commitment or go hungry, like the joke about the pig and the chicken going to breakfast.
(The chicken says to the pig, lets go to breakfast and the pig replies, thats easy for you to say, you just have to make a contribution, I have to make a total commitment.)
Like the lowest live bait fisherman I stripped out line and let the river carry it into the pool. I slowly retrieved it back and then repeated the exercise. On the 3rd retrieve I jerked the line to make those purple and green feathers show their streaks of gold as they undulated in the dark before the monsters eyes. My heart was beating rapidly and the noises of the night grew still.
The strike that came was so hard I thought I had hooked a huge snapping turtle or even an aquatic mammal. The fish fought for its life as I had fought to conquer the darkness. After a long struggle I was able to float it gently to the riverbank. It was a very old brown trout. Its head was a good third of the length of its body. Even by dining on every living thing that passed its formidable jaws, the river had not provided enough to grow this beast of the stream to the proportions of the lake or sea, but for the Upper Beaverkill this was indeed a monster. And with this conquest, the stream and all my fears I gutted the fish like a sacrifice our pagan ancestors might have made to their horde of Gods. This great fish was a male that dined well on crayfish and other stream delights. I would eat him like any cannibal and devour my great conquest, the spoils of war. But what of his consort? The female that reigned supreme in this lagoon?
I would wait like a storybook vampire for the darkest, moonless night. Creeping to the edge of the knowable world I would lower my line again.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 7 2012 (IPS) – The Honduran government's plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say.
The creation of the elite "Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit" (whose acronym is Tigres, which means "tigers") would undermine the process of demilitarisation of society that got underway in this impoverished, crime-ridden Central American nation 15 years ago.
The new force would be a step forward by the right-wing government of President Porfirio Lobo in the plan it launched a year ago to merge the work of the ministries of security and defence, with the stated aim of making the fight against violent crime and organised crime more effective.
Honduras is one of the most violent countries on earth. According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, there were 82 homicides for every 100,000 citizens in 2010, the highest homicide rate in the world. (In comparison, the United States had five homicides per 100,000.)
But experts consulted by IPS warned that the government plan was ambiguous, because the new force would fall under the ministry of security, but its training and centres of operations would be in the armed forces battalions, which answer to the ministry of defence.
The Tigres, according to a draft law sent to Congress on Jul. 26, marked for approval within 15 days, would answer to the ministry of security "in normal times", but "in times of war" would be under the aegis of the ministry of defence. It would reportedly have the technological tools to double its reaction capacity and effectiveness, and would also play an intelligence role.
But who will decide what are 'normal times' and what aren't? was the question raised by experts who spoke to IPS. They stressed that the ambiguous nature of the plan could be dangerous, when the government attempts to resolve political or social conflicts with repression.
"It's a hybrid force that implies the militarisation of the police forces, a trend that has been growing stronger in our country in response to the huge flaws in the police," sociologist Mirna Flores told IPS.
Flores, a university professor who specialises in security issues, said the greatest shortcoming in the proposal was that it "explicitly states that the police forces are incapable" of doing their job, and grants the military "a prominent role in matters that are not of their concern, blurring the boundaries between the functions of security and defence."
While the police are in charge of law enforcement and crime-fighting, which are internal matters, the military are trained to attack and to protect national sovereignty, Flores said.
The president of Congress, Juan Orlando Hernández, said the Tigres would be "a highly trained elite force that will have hi-tech equipment for fighting common and organised crime."
"This is not at all a force parallel to the police or the army. What we want is a rapid response team to tackle the insecurity in our country. Regardless of whether they like it, it will strengthen the response capacity to crime, because the Tigres will attack everything," he said.
The Tigres will be made up of 200 men who will be deployed in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the second biggest city in the country, located in the north.
The members of the force will receive training in human rights, "to prevent them from committing serious violations, and they will receive assistance from Chile's Carabineros police and from the Honduran armed forces," said Augusto Cruz, a Christian Democrat legislator.
The Tigres are to be ready to begin operating by the end of the year. The unit's initial budget will be 65 million dollars, provided by a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, the authorities reported.
But Yuri Sabas, a lawmaker with the opposition Liberal Party, told IPS that the creation of the Tigres should be studied in depth. "A few years ago, we created another elite force in the police named Cobra, which has now been implicated in criminal activities," he said.
"We have to think this over; we mustn't reach hasty decisions and make the same mistakes," Sabas added.
Mistakes that in the view of analyst Eugenio Sosa could unleash an uncontrolled elite armed force, "which at any time could get out of hand."
"This is a country with so much impunity and such weak institutions that it is a risk to distort the objectives of these forces," he said.
Sosa told IPS that Honduras is a society with an authoritative culture, where the military have once again moved to the fore, gaining key public posts in sectors like telecommunications, migration and housing.
In fact, he said, "if you analyse in detail the decree creating the Tigres, it is clear that we're talking about a greater militarisation of society.
"Tigres is a first step towards the merging of security and defence issues," he added.
Both Sosa and Flores, the sociologist, pointed out that similar forces created in the 1980s ended up committing serious human rights abuses.
The most recent of these was the so-called "red car gang", a paramilitary force that carried out "social cleansing" operations against youth gang members between 2003 and 2005, as a death squad working from within the police, according to human rights groups.
While attempting to bring down the levels of violent crime in Honduras, Lobo is also fighting to purge the police, since collusion between members of the police and organised crime and drug trafficking groups came to light.
The heads that have rolled in the last six months included those of three police chiefs. Today the police are headed by Juan Carlos "El Tigre" Bonilla, a veteran police officer with a military background who was accused of being involved in human rights violations in the 1980s and 1990s, but was absolved by the courts.
In his effort to improve security, President Lobo has granted increasing power to the military once again, which not only patrol the streets with the police now, but also control the recently created Civil Intelligence Directorate, and have taken the lead in the fight against drugs.


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I don't think I am exagerating when I say this is one of the best strawberry roll cake I have ever ate.
The cake itself was so soft ,moist and yummy not to mention the filling.
I am soon going to make this again and again as you can play with what fruit you want to use for the filling. So you all will be seeing variety of bakes from the basic recipe :-)
The recipe is from Michel Roux book Eggs I would say the book is full with recipe with eggs ( ofcourse).
The basic dough is sponge cake which he calls in his book Génoise, want more info click wiki
For the Génoise
20 gm soft butter for the cake pan
126 gm flour plus extra for the cake tin
4 medium eggs, room temperature
125 gm fine castor sugar
30 gm butter melted and luke warm
For the filling.
400 ml full cream plus powder sugar ( 2 tbsp or more of you like it sweeter)
400 gm strawberries slices ( i mixed 2 tbsp of strawberry syrup, it is optional)
Powder sugar to dust.
Preheat the oven to 190° c.
Lay a piece of baking paper from 40x30 cm on a baking plate, butter the paper and dust with the extra flour.
Add the eggs and sugar into a big bowl and beat it til they are really fluffy. It will take some 8 to 10 minutes with a mixture as it should turn into a pale white colour.
Add the sieved flour and fold in carfully and then add the melted butter also carfully. Don't stir as you will remove the air bubbles in the mixture.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and with a palate knife smooth the top.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8 minutes.
When it is baked cover it immidietly with a tea towel and remove from the baking tray to a rack.
Remove the baking paper carefully and cool for 5 minutes.
( In one of theother book it is written use wet tea towel or sprinkle with sugar, this one it is not written like that so i have no idea which meathod is the correct one, i just followed the recipe in the book)
In this book it is written roll the cake before it is cooles , otherwise it will be difficult to roll.
In the mean time whipp the cream with a bit of sugar .
And then spread the cream evenly on to thecake and the scatter thestrawberries on top of the cream.
Roll the cake with the help of the tea towlel from the long side.
Keep in the fridge for a hour and before serving sprinkle with powder sugar.
Enjoy one of themost soft rolls i have ever had or made.
Sending this to Meeta's
One of the best rolls I have ever made :-)
This Sunday May 10th it is Mother days so wishing all the moms out there a wonderful day.


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Well good on you man, I hope you guys do well in the future.
I use a Boss NS-2. Got if mainly for this Crate stack I used before I got my Peavy/B-52 combination. Really only bought it because the Crate would squeal when turned up to 6 and beyond. I like it a lot, it gets rid of those little nuances when you play at a great venue with awesome sound. I haven't noticed any tone reduction when using it, but when it's active you have to turn your master volume up a bit to equal out the small bit of volume loss.
I was recommended the Decimator by ISP for only 30 USD more than my Boss. I didn't know anything about ISP though and since the guitar shop I go to doesn't have a demo for it I didn't buy it. I hear it's a beast though, but gear is such personal preference.


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A few weeks ago, I was starting to lose all shrunken cardigan hope. I had made decent progress in my odd moments on my lacy chartreuse Georgina sweater... but after the third time a coworker politely asked me at lunchtime if I was making another sweater for my daughter, I began to worry.
Before starting the sweater I had carefully knit and blocked swatches in both plain knitting and lace to make sure I was getting Perfect Gauge, and I had followed the directions exactly. Yet when I held out the piece that should cover my shoulders and back, well... it did look rather toddler-sized.
Enter the magic of blocking.
I had always heard about this mystical wooly transformation, in which lace knitting enters a gentle magic bath and emerges damp and slightly smelling of sheep and stuck with carefully placed pins to expand to its full glorious potential.
But while I've dutifully blocked everything I've knit, it never really seemed all that science-fictionally spectacular before. Sure I'd give my knits a gentle bath in tepid water and Eucalan, roll them in a towel to remove excess water, pin them to desired size until dry... and they always came out a bit neater and prettier, and maybe a bit bigger or smaller as desired (or not). THE END.
I'm guessing this is because everything I'd knit before was either not all that lacy, or wasn't lacy AND made of non-superwash-treated wool. Because when I finally got up the nerve to block my Georgina to match the ambitiously stretched out blocking diagram...
OK, maybe you can't tell at all here, but it grew by over three inches in each direction. CARDIGAN CRISIS AVERTED--for now.
So: for those of you who knit--have you been successful, or largely disappointed, in your blocking attempts?


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Eight Lessons for the Presidential Debates
What are the key do's and don'ts the candidates should remember when campaigning for the White House?
As Joe Biden and Donald Trump prepare for the first of three presidential debates tonight, it's a good time to heed George Santayana's famous warning: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it?"
Presidential debate history can be instructive. Reviewing some of the memorable moments—and debate debacles—from these televised showdowns provides a worthy primer in "debatiquette:" the proper dos and don'ts for successful debaters.
Before the coming of television, America's most famous debates had taken place in 1858, pitting Abraham Lincoln against Stephen Douglas in an Illinois Senate race. Before that contest, Lincoln was seen as a country bumpkin. But with telegraphed reports appearing in newspapers, Lincoln emerged from the debates a nationally recognized figure who would become the Republican pick for president—winning the election in 1860.
Then, for the next 100 years: No debates.
Part of the reason was tradition. Candidates stuck to the tried and true "front porch" campaigns. Nominees sat at home on rockers, fielding softball questions from visiting journalists. Surrogates did the dirty work on the stump and openly partisan newspapers carried their messages.
With the railroad, came the "whistle stop" campaign, in which candidates offered a stump speech from a caboose and waved to the crowds before moving on to the next town.
The arrival of radio in the 20th century meant campaigning took to the airwaves. But there was still no great call for candidates to face off. And front-runners, including Franklin D. Roosevelt in his four campaigns, had no compelling reason to give an opponent equal standing. In 1934, the Communications Act actually complicated the idea of a two-man debate by requiring broadcasters to give an opportunity to all candidates, including those in minor parties. But in 1948, Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen, two Republicans, met in a radio primary debate.
Television changed everything. Two televised "debates" of a sort took place in 1952 and 1956, both during the primaries. In 1952, contenders from both parties (or their representatives) took questions at the League of Women Voters convention. Two Democrats debated on television prior to the Florida primary in 1956, simply ignoring the "equal time" rule.
But in 1960, with television's growing presence, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy both saw an advantage in debates in a close race. Famed for the televised "Checkers Speech," which saved his political life in 1952, and the "Kitchen Debate" in Moscow with Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, Nixon was confident about his television and debate skills. And to turn down the debate with Kennedy might, "have cost him politically in the new TV age," noted Robert Dallek. More important, Congress complied by suspending the "equal time" rule to allow a two-man debate and keep out third party candidates.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Lesson 1: Lay off the Lazy Shave and Get Some Sun
The slightly unshaven look may work for Don Draper on "Mad Men," but it was not a plus for Richard Nixon, as he learned in his historic confrontation with John F. Kennedy in the first presidential debate in 1960. Nixon had just come from a hospital stay. He had lost weight in the hospital and his suit looked ill fitting. He had also injured a knee and had to lean on the podium. To make matters worse, Nixon was given a heavy pancake makeup called "Lazy-Shave" to conceal his five o-clock shadow, making him appear even more pale and haggard. Chicago's legendary Mayor, Richard Daley, reportedly said, "My God they've embalmed him before he even died."
Few people recall any "sound bites" from that first night. But the junior Senator from Massachusetts looked rested and ready. Projecting youthful vigor, a tanned Kennedy, who had been in California, proved he could hold his own against the more experienced Nixon. Kennedy was America's first "made for television" candidate and his small screen magic scored. Polls at the time showed he had turned a deficit into a lead after the first debate. The other three meetings were widely considered toss-ups.
Lesson 2: Be Sure You Can See Russia (and the Rest of Eastern Europe)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon had no interest in debating their opponents in the elections of 1964 to 1972. But after a 16-year hiatus, the presidential face-offs returned in 1976. In October that year, the debates resumed with a new loophole in the "equal time" rule: the FCC ruled that debates were "bona fide news events," and if sponsored by an organization other than the networks, would be exempted. The League of Women Voters stepped in.
But Gerald Ford, the only president never elected president or vice president, learned a harsh lesson in geopolitics when, in the second debate with Jimmy Carter, he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration."
When the incredulous moderator followed up, Ford repeated the assertion. With the Soviet Union controlling most of Eastern Europe since the end of World War II, Ford had unleashed a gaffe that didn't clinch Carter's victory that year. But his jaw-dropping statement seemed to give credence to the view that he was in over his head and confirmed his earlier words to Congress—"I'm a Ford not a Lincoln." Years later, Ford would defend his words saying he hadn't adequately explained that he meant that he believed that the Polish people would "throw the Soviet…forces out."
The bottom line: "losing" a debate, especially with a whopper of a mistake, is probably more significant than actually "winning" it.
Lesson 3: Laughter is Not the Best Medicine If They Are Laughing at You [video]
Admiral James Stockdale was a highly decorated navy pilot who had been a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam along with future GOP presidential candidate Senator John McCain. When first named Ross Perot's running mate in 1992, Stockdale was a "place holder" to qualify Perot for ballots until a more experienced running mate was found. But Perot stuck with the admiral, who attempted to introduce himself to a national audience by asking, "Who Am I? Why I am here?" His follow-up statement, "I am not a politician" got lost and he seemed befuddled. His gambit made Admiral Stockdale fodder for "Saturday Night Live."
But Stockdale, who died in 2005 at age 81, later wrote defiantly that he had chosen his words that night very deliberately, inspired by the Stoic philosophy of rigorous self-discipline and individual responsibility that helped him survive four years in solitary confinement. His erudition was lost on late night comics.
Lesson 4: Leave Comedy to the Pros [video]
While on the subject of laughter, nothing is lamer than a stiff politician who can't do punch lines. Most can't. Ronald Reagan could and in a 1984 debate with Walter Mondale, he successfully defused the "age issue" when he said, "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." Of course, Reagan came to politics with an advantage. He was a veteran actor who once co-starred with a chimp. He knew funny and could deliver his lines.
Lesson 5: Zingers Must Zing [video]
The corollary to the rule above is also a nod to Ronald Reagan's skills. The
"Great Communicator" knew how to cut deep with a simple line. Running against the incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980, Reagan phrased his famous question, "Are you better off now then you were four years ago?" When Reagan told voters to ask themselves that question in his closing remarks – which meant Carter was unable respond on the spot—it sealed the debate as a Reagan victory.
But if you ask the question, as they always tell trial lawyers, make sure you know the answer. It was easy for Reagan: Carter's four years had been plagued by oil shocks worsened when the Shah fell and the Iran hostage crisis began, recession, and high interest rates intended to drive down inflation.
Lesson 6: Compare Yourself to Titans at Your Own Risk
In the 1988 vice presidential debate, then Vice President Dan Quayle declared that he had as much experience as John F. Kennedy had when he ran for President. Quayle was left standing with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look when his opponent, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, verbally undressed him: "I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
While Quayle's following protest got lost, the exchange did nothing to alter the outcome. Bush-Quayle easily defeated the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket. But Bentsen, who died in 2006 at 85 and served as Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, had entered the presidential debate pantheon.
Lesson 7: Get Mad and Get Even
Sometimes attacking the messenger when you don't like the message is a good idea. But that is not what happened in the 1988 debate, when moderator Bernard Shaw asked what Governor Michael Dukakis would do if his wife were raped and murdered. Dukakis didn't attack the question as tasteless and inappropriate.
Instead, Dukakis, already fighting an uphill battle against George H.W. Bush, tepidly replied with a textbook-ish defense of the death penalty. In a campaign in which the governor had already been tagged as being "soft on crime," thanks to the infamous "Willie Horton" advertisement --a reference to a convicted murderer furloughed from a Massachusetts prison who went on to commit rape and assault-- this was most definitely the wrong answer.
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Seated on a stool during a town hall-style, three-way debate in October
1992 against Bill Clinton and Ross Perot, President George H.W. Bush looked out of his element. But when the cameras caught him checking his wristwatch, it was a telling image. Although the Bush camp attempted to say that the president was trying to signal that Perot was being given too much time, that was not the image conveyed. The president looked like he wanted to be anywhere else than on that stage.
The Kennedy-Nixon debates transformed America's presidential politics more than a half-century ago. Televised nationally to huge audiences, the series of four debates in 1960 cemented the critical role of the "boob tube" in selecting America's Chief Executive.
Eight years later, as Nixon returned to run successfully against Hubert Humphrey, there were no debates. But television –and more importantly advertising—had changed everything. As a young Nixon campaign media advisor said, "This is the beginning of a whole new concept. This is the way they'll be elected forevermore. The next guys will have to be performers."
He was Roger Ailes, who launched the Fox News Network in 1996.
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Wonder is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same title and it tells the story of a boy named August Pullman who has facial differences and goes to school for the first time in Grade 5.
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"The great thing about Wonder is you really get to see (bullying) from everybody's perspective. And I think that's what we are lacking you know in the world today," said Lowe from her home in California.
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Lowe moved to Los Angeles only a month ago, even though, she said, the move actually makes it more difficult for her working in the industry than if she stayed put in Vancouver.
"This is where a lot of the big productions get made and because I am venturing into producing and directing, I just have to be here for a little while. Make the rounds here," said the actress.
Lowe started out as a child actor when she was about 4-years-old but her mother pulled her out of it because she felt it was too competitive between the parents. She told her daughter that as soon as she could drive herself to auditions then she would have her permission to enter the industry again. So, as soon as Lowe turned 16 she told her mom she was going back. She contacted Tyler Labine, another actor from Maple Ridge, and his mother hooked her up with an agent and became her temporary stage mom and manager.
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Currently she is working on another series called Signed, Sealed, Delivered, for the Hallmark Channel.
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"I just want to be a part of things that are uplifting and our show is very uplifting. We need it," she said.
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Lowe likes the fact that the character that she plays is not the most likeable character in the movie.
"You understand Julian a little more when you meet his parents," she said, adding that Julian's mom doesn't necessarily think she is a villain, she is just protecting her own son.
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"We only see other people as bad guys or good guys or bullies or not bullies. We have no idea where they are coming from and why," she continued.
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"I remember being a kid. I hated telling my parents stuff. But if it was in casual conversation because it was in a movie and we were talking about the movie and not necessarily my personal experience, I would have talked to my parents more because I wouldn't think it would feel like so much pressure," she said.
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Long-term care isn't a very helpful name for this type of situation because, for one thing, it might not last for a long time. Some people who need ADL services might need them only for a few months or less.
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Should I buy long-term care insurance? If you need long-term care services and have to pay to obtain them, what financial resources could you call on? Do you have enough to pay for four or more years in a nursing home, an assisted living facility, or home health care?
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Astronauts on board the international space station got a chance earlier today to see the private unmanned Dragon spaceship that was launched on Tuesday by SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who is living on the station, was talking to Houston's Mission Control when he suddenly reported that he had spotted Dragon. "I'm looking at Dragon right now," he said.
"We copy. Tally-ho on Dragon! That's great," replied Mission Control.
Images taken by the station's cameras showed the capsule looking like a small dot as it flew along a path that took it about 1.5 miles under the outpost. NASAput video of the flyby online.
The close flyby gave controllers a chance to check out critical systems on Dragon, to make sure all is working well as NASA decides whether to proceed with a rendezvous Friday morning that could end in docking.
If that happens, it would be a historic first for commercial spacecraft, as the space station has previously only received visiting spaceships flown by government agencies from the United States, Russia, Japan, and the European Union.
During the flyby, station astronauts successfully sent a command to Dragon, telling the capsule to turn on a strobe light. That was a key milestone, because the crew will need to be able to communicate with Dragon during tomorrow's maneuvers.
And controllers checked out the GPS systems that the spacecraft uses to determine its location relative to the station. NASA said via Twitter that the initial data was looking good.
If all continues to go well, NASA will give the go-ahead for Dragon to creep closer and closer to the station on Friday morning. It will halt 32 feet from the outpost and Pettit will use a robotic arm to grab the capsule and attach it to the station.
After that, astronauts will open the hatch and unload the capsule's cargo, which includes food and clothing. The crew will then load the vehicle with stuff to send home, and Dragon is scheduled to depart from the station on May 31, splashing down in the Pacific.
SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, who made his fortune building up the internet service PayPal, and the company has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to deliver cargo to the space station now that the agency has retired its space shuttles.
So far, the company's first attempt to reach the station has been trouble-free. And the mission has gotten a lot of attention. In a Twitter update, Musk said: "The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer :)"
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It's no secret that after eight years the Bonnaroo Music Festival is a Southern style free-for-all and camp-out that kicks off the summer. In fact, it has become an institution, drawing loyal fans much like mardi gras and NASCAR. But what keeps Bonnaroo fresh and important is the venue — a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee — that allows fans and bands to let it all hang out and defy the norm. This year once again brought together newcomers and legendary headliners Tennessee's largest music venue.
If you never been to Bonnaroo, it's somewhere between Coachella and Burning Man. Great performances are simultaneously going on around the clock. It's impossible to see every band; I can only mention what I saw.
The photo pit at Passion Pit's set was quite a scene. It was early on Thursday night, but the band with the most buzz going into the festival delivered by throwing down a high-energy. After dodging crowd surfers and the giddy press corps, I stumped a good few fans by asking them to describe the band. I heard everything from '80s music to pop. Nonethless, the synth-poppers got down and the festival got off to a great start.
After getting a bit of sleep, I made sure to see Animal Collective and Santigold on Saturday afternoon. Santi's official name change from Santogold to Santigold was still fresh news, and made no difference to the screaming crowd, who seemed to know all the lyrics. "You're the best crowd in the States!" Santi White belted out. It was definitely one of the best shows all weekend. The antics at the Of Montreal set included a gas mask and what appeared to be a Christmas celebration. Of Montreal drew an excited and surprising reaction from the fans. Later that night, Public Enemy got plenty of love from the 'Rooskis, as did the late-night sets from Paul Oakenfold and Pretty Lights.
Keeping it fresh on the farm seems to be a goal of the festival's organizers, and they did it quite well. The effort to evolve included an iPhone app for tech-hungry fan,s and increased recycling and composting as a general rule of the thumb was a definite positive. But the greatest addition may have also been the festival's greatest critic, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who made his inaugural visit. He definitely gathered some material deep in the "tent territories."
DJs did gain some well-deserved prominence this year. Money Mark played the enormous What Stage prior to the Beastie Boys' set. The Scratch DJ Academy setup a tent and brought out New York City turntablists willing to educate cadets looking for a diploma. The solar powered Solar Stage held performances all weekend by the Hunab breakdancing crew, with DJ Brett Rock in the mix. The Xbox360 sponsored arcade/discotheque and Silent Disco provided the late-night dance floors, where DJ Quickie Mart and Motion Potion played multiple sets.
The love of music new and old is central to Bonnaroo's ideology and helpful in fully appreciating the weekend. Otherwise, Bonnaroo 2009 served was one of Nine Inch Nails' last US show, and the first time I've ever seen MGMT. Both were exciting and a bit disappointing, but fun nonetheless. It wasn't the best of times or the worst of times, but it was well worth the trip.
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Comments : 36 Posted in : Breads, Diabetes Friendly Thursdays, Gluten free baking, snack on by : apsara Tags: corn meal corn flour difference, cornbread muffin, GF vegan cornbread, mexican cornbread, savory muffins, what corn is best for baking cornbreadCreating recipes with a cause! I am a proud DFT blogger. To learn about DFT click here To find more DFT recipes click here Diabetes Friendly Thursdays goes Mexican this week! I've always wanted to make cornbread, a spicy version. The "Mexican" theme for DFT this week gave me that opportunity, and I happily put on
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While searching for Custer County cabins for sale, a Realtor can provide help in negotiating the price that you pay for the cabin that you are interested in and can steer you in the right direction to make the right decisions about certain aspects of buying a cabin. There are many items that could be overlooked by the buyer that a skilled Realtor might question or address with the seller, which may save you a great deal of money in the future and possibly change your mind as to whether you want to buy a particular cabin or not. It is important to note that when looking for a cabin in the Custer County area that you have a professional Realtor in your corner to educate and guide you through the process.
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A few weeks ago, I found myself with a glut of shiitake mushrooms. A sudden spell of warm weather caused my five logs to flush all at once with these small, rather dry, cracked mushrooms. The next day called for rain, so I decided to keep them out a little longer to let them grow a bit more and rehydrate. When I woke up the next morning, the temperature had plummeted, there was snow on the ground, and I ended up with several pounds of huge, rather waterlogged, partially frozen mushrooms (insert frowny-faced emoticon here).
Frozen mushrooms aren't the best. The way mushrooms grow from tiny pinheads to full-grown specimens is basically by inflating with water. But if that water should freeze, it will expand and rupture the cell walls. The results are pretty slimy. I know because I cooked the frozen ones anyway. Not the best.
On the upside, some of the mushrooms didn't freeze and these banh mi-like sandwiches were a great way to enjoy them. A banh mi is a sandwich that evolved in Vietnam during the French colonial period. It's usually some kind of meat, like pate or pork belly, in a baguette with pickled vegetables, fresh herbs, and spicy chili sauce—a fusion of both cultures in one tasty package. For this vegetarian version, shiitake slices are sautéed in soy sauce and garlic, then added to a baguette slathered with Sriracha mayo, layered with quick-pickled cucumbers and radishes, and garnished with cilantro and mint. Fresh-tasting and satisfying, this was lunch all week.
The idea was inspired by a recipe in the vegan cookbook Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, except I unveganed it by adding the mayo back in. Vegans and non-vegans alike will want to check out this book: it's full of things that even I would eat, and the food photography and overall design is great. And if you have the same pet peeve I have about authors' faces on the cover (no offense to anyone's face—all I want to see is the food), you can remove the dust jacket and underneath it, printed directly on the cover, is a nice colorful alphabet soup with little pasta letters spelling out "Let's Eat."
Avoid super-crusty baguettes for these sandwiches unless you want the roof of your mouth shredded. Aim for something mid-way between a soft sub roll and a traditional baguette (Russo's shoppers: try the medium sub rolls that come in bags of three on the bottom shelf). Also, I used regular red radishes, which turned the picking liquid pink and gave the vegetables a rosy hue by Day 2. If you want a more manly sandwich, maybe stick with the traditional white daikon radishes.
Quick Pickles
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup thinly sliced radishes
1 cup thinly sliced English or Persian cucumber
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 pound shiitake mushrooms, caps sliced 1/4-inch thick, stems removed
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
Sriracha mayo
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Sriracha
Salt to taste
4 soft baguette rolls
Fresh cilantro sprigs
Fresh mint leaves
For the pickles, whisk together the vinegar, water, sugar, and salt until dissolved. Stir in the vegetables and let them sit in the liquid until ready to serve.
For the shiitakes, preheat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add the oil and then the shiitakes. Sauté until they soften, release their moisture, and brown a bit in spots, 5 to 10 minutes depending on how much moisture they contain. Add the garlic and sauté for 30 seconds before adding the soy sauce, stirring until well mixed and fragrant. Remove the mushrooms to a shallow bowl to cool slightly.
For the Sriracha mayo, whisk together the mayo, Sriracha, and salt. As written, the spice level is about medium, but you can adjust it to your liking by adding more mayo or more Sriracha.
To assemble the sandwiches, split the baguettes lengthwise by cutting out a narrow wedge from the top. Then hollow out the rolls a little by pulling out some of the extra bread inside to make room for more filling. Spread the inside generously with Sriracha mayo. Add some cooked mushrooms, then some pickled radish and cucumbers, and then cilantro and mint. Eat up. Any remaining sandwich components can be stored several days covered in the fridge. Makes 4 sandwiches.
Source: Adapted from Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.


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– Ask yourself the question, who was more tolerant, your parents or yourself?
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I have been working on a project aimed at teaching morality in a uniform manner. This has caused me to examine the properties of morality and consider the causes for its decline in this country. One key variable is our changing sense of tolerance; what was not considered permissible in one generation, may be considered acceptable in the next. For example, back in the 17th century a fiddle was viewed as "an instrument of the devil" as it led to dancing, which was considered sinful at the time. This is certainly not true anymore, but we now have become more "Politically Correct" (P.C.) in order to not offend a class of people, be it based on race or gender. Frankly, I find most of the P.C. language and customs to be hypocritical, but that is me. Others follow P.C. religiously.
Our sense of right and wrong used to be as sharp as black and white. No longer. Now it appears we have many shades of gray. What was condemned in prior generations is now accepted in today's world. The idea of accepting such things as legalized marijuana or gay marriage would be beyond the comprehension of "The Greatest Generation," those who survived the Great Depression and World War II. The Baby Boomers though survived the drug culture and sexual revolution of the 1960's and, as such, are more tolerant of such concepts. For example, a man living with a woman out of wedlock would be considered disgraceful to "The Greatest Generation." However, most Baby Boomers today accept it, as do their successors.
I am fortunate to have witnessed five generations in my family. Each had their own unique perspective of morality and sense of tolerance. Some of the differences were subtle, such as drinking, smoking, and language; others were more pronounced, such as their perspectives on citizenship, defense, patriotism, love, assisting others, etc. The impact of economics, and war and peace played a dramatic role on their values, as did their participation in organized religion. I contend each generation becomes more permissive than the last due to changing perceptions of moral values. What is considered acceptable today, may not have been considered so yesterday, or possibly tomorrow.
Consider how we administered corporal punishment in the home. In yesteryear, the father doled out discipline on the children using a leather belt or shaving strap. Mothers used a fly swatter or hickory switch to get their point across. Today, such devices are considered archaic. Instead, we have "time out" or suspend the child's use of his/her smart phone, computer, or television. Somehow I think the leather belt was more persuasive than "time out" which simply inconvenienced the child.
Each generation tries to make life better for the next. Whereas one generation may have suffered through hardships and lived modestly, a trail is blazed by the elders to simplify the lives of their youth, provide them a better world to live in and encourage them to prosper. Sometimes the sacrifices of the past are appreciated, other times it is taken for granted and forgotten.
Ask yourself the question, who was more tolerant, your parents or yourself? Without a doubt, it is progressively different. My great-grandparents were less permissive than my grandparents, who were less tolerant than my parents, who were less tolerant than my generation. Many years ago, the family suffered through a divorce which was considered damaging to the family's reputation. Not surprising, there were much fewer divorces back then because of the shame associated with it. Today, there is much more of a laissez faire attitude toward divorce, which is perhaps why it is more commonplace. There is no longer any commitment to make a marriage work. If it doesn't, a couple can get a divorce and a "do over" in life. So much for personal commitment.
My point is, over time we become more tolerant of violating moral values. The more frequently we turn away from such values, the more our culture changes. Again, ask yourself the question, who was more tolerant, your parents or yourself? Now ask who is more tolerant, you or your offspring? I hope you see where I am going with this.
FOOTNOTE: I am currently working on a training program to teach uniform Morality, suitable for use in companies, schools, and other institutions. If you would like to know more, see my flyer by clicking HERE.
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This Is What Ultron Will Look Like In The 'Avengers' Movie Sequel
This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly goes behind the scenes on the set of the Avengers movie sequel Age of Ultron, directed by Joss Whedon -- and the cover offers a first glimpse of the movie version of the tin-plated villain who'll be giving the Avengers so much trouble. Or, technically, versions.
From what we can see from this cover, movie Ultron doesn't offer a radical departure from recent comic depictions -- aside from gratuitously naked silver lady Ultron, of course -- beyond all the sort of finicky detailing that movies require and comics avoid. Ultron's features don't quite match the classic Ultron rictus and vertical dagger eyes, but it's not completely off model for a character who has had so many designs that he started out looking like a free-standing dehumidifier.
Other versions of Ultron are visible in the background, confirming rumors that the movie will feature an Ultron army -- a much smarter alternatve to the rather boring Chitauri army from the first movie. At least this time it'll make sense when all the bad guys bloodlessly switch themselves off at the end of the film.
According to a preview of the issue at EW.com, the movie will see Tony Stark create Ultron so he doesn't have to be Iron Man anymore. As in the comics, Ultron decides that the biggest threat out there is human life.
In classic Entertainment Weekly style, the cover also offers egregiously awful photoshop that turns the face of the usually very attractive Chris Evans into the strange waxy death mask of a disapproving 17th century village parson.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is released April 23rd 2015 in most territories, and May 1st in North America, and stars Robert Downey Jr., something that looks like Chris Evans, and James Spader as the voice of Ultron. Ultron was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.


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High Blood Pressure? Eat More Celery.
By Emma Suttie, D.Ac
Foods are an integral part of health and medicine in Chinese culture. Nutritional therapy is a vital part of the Chinese medical model, and each food is seen to have a temperature, specific organs that it affects and healing properties making the art of food therapy an important aspect of Chinese medicine.
One of the many wonderful things about Chinese medicine is the use of ordinary things that we use in our everyday lives to combat health problems when they arise. Food or nutrition therapy is an integral part of Chinese medicine, and eating with the seasons and with foods wide array of healing properties in mind can build the immune system to keep us healthy, and also help to rebalance us when we are sick.
Celery is considered sweet, bitter and is cooling in nature. It is particularly beneficial to the spleen, stomach and liver. Celery is used to treat many conditions, but in particular, it has been used for centuries to effectively lower high blood pressure.
Blood pressure, or hypertension, is the measurement of the pressure exerted against the arteries as the blood leaves the heart. Fluctuations in blood pressure are normal, but it is when the blood pressure remains high that is can be dangerous to our health and increase the risk of problems like heart attack and stroke. One of the main concerns is that high blood pressure is often referred to as a silent killer because there are often no symptoms until the damage has already been done and it is too late, so anything we can do preventatively to keep our blood pressure at healthy levels is always a good idea!
Blood pressure is measured by two different numbers - the systolic and diastolic pressure. The first, the systolic, is the measurement of the pressure of the blood leaving the heart as it pumps. The second number - the diastolic, is a measurement of the pressure of the blood when the heart is at rest. A normal blood pressure reading is approximately 120/80.
Celery, a common vegetable and available at almost every grocery store is one of the best foods for lowering high blood pressure. Celery contains active compounds called phthalides (butylphthalide). These compounds naturally function to relax the muscles in and around the walls of the arteries, causing the vessels to dilate, thus creating more room for the blood to flow and lowering the pressure. Phthalides also are shown to reduce the levels of stress hormones (called catecholamines) in the blood. These stress hormones also raise blood pressure because they cause vessels to constrict. Celery has the added benefit of benefiting and soothing the nervous system and many patients with nervous system disorders in TCM are encouraged to add celery to their diets.
In a recent study by the University of Chicago Medical Centre, the father of a medical student who was diagnosed with hypertension decided to try the Chinese medicine remedy of eating celery to see if he could lower his blood pressure without medication. He ate 4 stalks a day for a week, and then taking 3 weeks off before resuming the regimen. Within a week his blood pressure fell from 158/96 to 118/82. The man and his son brought the findings to researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center where they isolated the compound (3-n-butyl phthalide) and injected it into rats to see if they could reproduce the results. Not only did the rat's blood pressure drop 13 percent in a week, but the rats' cholesterol levels also dropped by seven percent. The high fiber in the celery helped to lower the cholesterol levels in the animal experiment. *
The common wisdom is that 4 stalks of celery a day can significantly lower blood pressure in less than a week. It is important to note however, that having a healthy diet and trying to restrict the amount of processed salt that we eat will hopefully keep high blood pressure from getting out of control, but the addition of celery into our diets is an excellent preventative strategy that we can all use to keep our blood pressure at healthy levels.
Here is a delicious recipe for Spring Greens with Shaved Celery Salad from Bon Appetit. Enjoy!
Spring Greens and Shaved Celery Salad
*A note on the approach of science and how it differs from Chinese medicine. One of the things that makes Chinese medicine so effective is its view of the whole. The whole person, the relationship of the person to nature and the universe and that the body functions synergistically, as a whole, each part benefitting the other so that the entire organism may work in harmony. In my opinion, it is celery in its entirety that has the amazing healing properties it possesses, and extracting certain compounds, even if you can scientifically prove their efficacy, will undoubtedly diminish the effectiveness of their healing properties as a whole. The beauty of Chinese medicine is that it sees the symbiotic relationship between people and the food they eat to be mutually beneficial, and we are only now being able to prove with science the ways that these mechanisms function, even though they have been used by the Chinese and other Asian cultures for thousands of years.