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Do you think the negatives of Thomas Jefferson get downplayed here?
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I don't live in your area but I do believe Thomas Jefferson's faults get overlooked all across the country, mostly because most people don't really know that much about him. Yes it's true that, even when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, he wrote about the immorality of slavery. But, many people, especially the political right, hold him up as someone who is a paragon of what an American IS. Yes, he was a genius and his ideas were wonderful. But, his personal appetites were excessive. Most people would be shocked to know that, when he died, he was basically bankrupt and that his daughter had to sell off most of his possessions to pay the bills he left behind. Of course, that doesn't make him a BAD person, but in today's world, when money seems to be most important to people, it does make him someone that that today's Political Right might not admire as much.
Well ohh me ohh my. I am glad you have raised an important relevant question. Maybe Sean Gregg will chime in.
so Thomas Jefferson was a man who wasn't perfect? This is news?
His accomplishments outweigh his imperfections and so he is still relevant and revered today.
The Hook will be lucky to be either in a decade
What negatives?
His negatives get overplayed............a scholars's commission has bebunked most of the Hemmings allegations, but most people still accept the allegations as fact. He introduced legislations to eliminate slavery. Of course he was far from perfect............most bigger than life people are total paradoxes.
Jefferson was a man of his times. Those times included Slavery and Revolution. Ironic, ain't it, that our "land of the free" owed a good part of its earliest prosperity to slaves? But is that really more ironic than the way Americans are so fond of using electronic gizmos to chat with each other? -- electronic gizmos manufactured by Chinese slaves? The more things change the more they stay the same. Read Brave African Huntress by Amos Tutuola. Listen to Oscar Peterson and Teddy Wilson on Pandora. Far from quelling the human soul's thirst for liberty, slavery often makes that thirst more intense. Maybe one day even a Chinese government will see fit to adopt the Bill of Rights? ... as part of its new constitution?
At the time Thomas Jefferson was alive, slavery was LEGAL! Once upon a time, prostitution, non-prescription narcotic drug use and acquisition, child labor, wife-beating, and other activities now considered social sins were LEGAL! Morality was, and is, a matter of convenience in most cases where it was, and is, trumped by economic necessity. These aforementioned conditions have generally been changed and that is why they are considered "HISTORY", and not "Current Events". As an American citizen you are entitled to your biased and uninformed opinion on this and many other topics, but I hope that when the time comes, your "politically correct" self will be voting in another state, because I'm sick of all the revisionists and political whiners who are taking over this area, and the people who apologize for history on one hand but are trying to make a fortune on historical tourism on the other! GO AWAY!
"a scholars's commission has bebunked most of the Hemmings allegations," Documentation? "He introduced legislations to eliminate slavery" Documentation? @Bob, are you making things up?
"...electronic gizmos manufactured by Chinese slaves?" @Christian Gehman, how does Chinese labor compare to American slave labor? Are Chinese children being sold to parts unknown? Are Chinese laborers being beaten to increase productivity? Are you, Christian Gehman, trying to say that the American form of slavery wasn't really that bad?
"Jefferson was a man of his times." There were a whole lot of men in his times that did not own slaves. He had a choice. He could have become a tradesman.
He bought ice cream to america, all else can be forgiven
I think we know far more of his faults in this area than any other. @Cville Eye, no one is condoning anything he did or didn't do. Jefferson was a complicated man in simpler times. None of us are without sin or going with the crowd at one time or another though we probably should have broke away from that.
As for the Hemmings information - Sally was his wife's biological half-sister and apparently looked like his wife from all accounts. There is too much actual information and evidence that leads one to believe that she did indeed have Jefferson's children. And that wasn't an unusual occurrence then. Not that I condone it at all, just stating facts here C'ville Eye.
@C'ville Native, I didn't say anything about Jefferson's children or non-children. I think you may be confusing me with another commenter. I was quoting Bob was was simply asking him to reveal his sources.
nuthin changes but the weather....
So if we buy products of slave labor (as non slave holders did in Jeffersons time) are we culpable? (call someone on your iphone and ask them)
I'm going with Skin's ice cream comment -- ice cream outweighs everything else Jefferson managed to do. Where would America be without the Klondike Bar? George Washington was another great Founding Father who also owned slaves. Jefferson was a great man, and his most-cherished legacy was the University of Virginia. I am hoping to see some of you at the Messiah Sing In at Old Cabell Hall this year. Spitting on boots y'ain't fit to shine often makes people snicker. Wondering about how many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves in a slave-owning era is about as interesting to me as wondering about how many slaves Julius Caesar or Marcus Aurelius owned. Blacks in America were (legally, in many states) second class citizens until Southerner Lyndon B. Johnson got the Civil Rights legislation passed. Eye's points seems to be (a) that the Chinese slaves aren't really slaves, and (b) that all slaveholders among the Founding Fathers of America should properly be consigned to a pit of obloquy so deep we never even think about the good they did in creating America. Perhaps that's true. I am amused by the notion that so many thousands of Charlottesvillains love their iPhones -- which I think are made by slaves. Slavery in China might be hard to quantify, I guess -- and I understand that, in many minds, Chinese slavery really can't be equated or even compared to the enormous human tragedy of African slavery in America. The good news is that we have very few slaves in America today -- just somewhere between a hundred thousand and a million prostitutes (of both sexes) in the flesh industry. Theirs is the real tragedy in America today -- but most Americans, perhaps including Eye, manage to ignore it completely. Some writers have opined that migrant farm workers are actually treated worse than slaves -- even still this year. It's possible to opine with some veracity that all of California agriculture -- the food you eat, in other words -- is picked by human beings treated worse than slaves. For the rest of the day I'll be listening to the music of two slave descendants whose music I find endlessly enjoyable: Teddy Wilson and Oscar Peterson. "I" ... I suggest you do the same.
For a balanced view of Mr. Jefferson, read his blog!
Several times each week, he posts briefly on a variety of topics, from aging to slavery.
Recent posts include:
- Days of wine, and not roses, but war! (And BFF!)
- Why can't you be like everybody else?
- Did the whale swallow Jonah, or did Jonah swallow the whale?
- Luxury, drinking & whores! Oh my!
- How will we end slavery?
Read the blog at http://ThomasJeffersonLeadership.com/blog/
The Democrats are not so innocent in race realations...
From wikopedia
The use of white primaries were first used by Southern Democratic Parties in the late 19th century. Since the South was virtually a one-party system with Democrats being the dominant party, exclusion from the primaries was a de facto exclusion from the decision-making process. The white primaries were made law in many states in a "selectively inclusive" system that stated that only whites might vote in the primaries—or by legally considering the general election as the only state-held election and giving the party control of the decision-making process within the party.
"The Democrats are not so innocent in race realations..."
Do you really think the people who are willing to find fault with Jefferson give racist Southerners a pass?
@glove and Bill M -- At the end of the Wikipedia article "Lynching in the United States," you can find links to articles about the lynching of many individuals, most of which describe and show pictures of appalling racial violence in the deaths of Will Brown (1919), Cordie Cheek (1933), Joe Coe (1891), Anthony Crawford (1916), Michael Donald (1981), Wesley Everest (1919), Leo Frank (1915), Raymond Gunn (1931), John Wesley Heath (1884), Sam Hose (1899), Ed Johnson (1906), Frank Little (1917), Steve Long (1868), Francis McIntosh (1836), Laura and Lawrence Nelson (1911), Mack, Charles Parker (1959), George Parrott (1881), Ell Persons (1917), Henry Plummer (1864), Robert Prager (1918), Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1930), Bill Sketoe (1864), Henry Smith (1893), Hyrum Smith (1844), Joseph Smith (1844), Lamar Smith (1955), Joseph Standing (1879), Emmett Till (1955), Mary Turner (1918), and Jesse Washington (1916). I believe that America's black slaves all lived under conditions of violently repressive domestic terrorism that modern day American find difficult to comprehend; and it is also possible that after the Emancipation, because the former slaves were no longer someone's very valuable property, things probably got worse ... and stayed bad for a long time.
"a scholars's commission has bebunked most of the Hemmings allegations," Documentation? "He introduced legislations to eliminate slavery" Documentation? @Bob, are you making things up?
No, he's not making things up. Thie first link addresses Jefferson and his various pieces of legislation to abolish slavery. The second addresses the Hemmings controversy and the scholar's commission. Next time just Google it for yourself, you might learn something.
Thank you, Pete!
Why do people make things so political? Nobody who owned slaves was innocent. Even our revered Pilgrims and Puritans took Native American females as slaves and sent the men into slavery via Barbados in return to male Africans at first. Once the native Americans were gone, they imported only Africans. Slavery was an abomination. Nobody ... Jefferson, Washington, etc. were innocent of that.
Why do people make things so political? Nobody who owned slaves was innocent. Even our revered Pilgrims and Puritans took Native American females as slaves and sent the men into slavery via Barbados in return to male Africans at first. Once the native Americans were gone, they imported only Africans. Slavery was an abomination. Nobody ... Jefferson, Washington, etc. was innocent of that.
Christian Gehman------ I believe that America's black slaves all lived under conditions of violently repressive domestic terrorism that modern day American find difficult to comprehend
I would say that ALL blacks lived under that duress .even the supoosed "free" blacks in the north.... so when people want to only blame "southerners" you need to realize a few things..
1) Only 5 % of "southerners" owned slaves, many of the rest were dirt farmers or tradesman who wished that they could find a job but the jobs were not there because rich people had slaves to do the work.
2) Notherners treated their help pretty bad and it was no picnic to live in the north since when the work was not there neither was food or shelter.
3) The north controlled the shipping and docks and purchased the products produced from the slouth and made a bundle on it.
There is blood on everyones hands and while you can certainly place the overwhelming portion of the blame on a medium size group of "southerners" northers and southerners were both guilty of being complicit in the crime. Not everyone in the south voted the pro slavery agenda... (there was never a unanamous election) just as not everyone in the north wanted to end it since they were making money on the deal.
Not every priest is a pedophile, not every muslim is a jihadist and not every democrat is mentally challenged.
The point is that America has done more to right the wrong than any other country on the planet. The demograhics and opportunitues prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Jefferson chose to fight the batlles that he could win. He won most of them and we have all benefitted (including blacks) and we are a better country for having had him as part of its founding and infancy.
Waal, Ponce, I don't remember singling out the South, but you may be right. My personal experience has been that white folk in the White Highlands of New York State(from Kingston northwest through the Catskills to -- Clinton? Cooperstown? Rochester) are actually more perniciously prejudiced against blacks than any part of Virginia I have visited. But there are so few blacks in most of that part of the world that they can pat themselves on the back for being open-minded. In general, the politics there are much like the politics in Virginia -- minus a substantial black population. And perhaps HL Gates is right -- much of the prejudice may be economic rather than color- or racially-motivated.
@Ponce - No, you cannot blame ALL southerner's & northerner's! Women could not even vote. Read: "Caste, Class, or Race".
If a married white woman sided with the slaves, they would be thrown out on the streets. Men in America have had far too much economic control for far too long. We need change!
Remember the underground railroad? Suffrage Movement?
I know, you, conveniently forgot.
IMO: White men should pay reparations to blacks and women. Just like those Japanese who were given reparations for their imprisonment after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Slavery and suffrage are no different.
I would vote for Obama if he could push through a reparations law!
"IMO: White men should pay reparations to blacks and women. Just like those Japanese who were given reparations for their imprisonment after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Slavery and suffrage are no different."
Well, figure out what reparations you think are fair and then deduct every invention that those evil white men have brought into womens lives and we can talk.....
. on your cell phone, computer, land line, you could drive over in your or take a train, bus, or even a plane or a helicopter.... or perhaps you would rather communicate by beating on a hollow log...
Take away every invention made by white men and then we can talk.
It is not evil to have ambition. And we all learn as time goes on..... doctors used to advertise for cigarettes and women helped vote in prohibition.... women smoked and drank during pregnancy. Every race creed and color has their demons. Africans sold the slaves to the muslims to bring to america...
How far back do we go? was adam the first ahole?
@ felix - I think we should compensate all former slaves who are now living.
Let's be sure we don't miss any negativity. Our discourse is needlessly positive.
@Cville Eye..........you can find the report of the Scholar's Commission on Amazon.....Its "The Jefferson Hemmings Controversy--Report of the Scholars Commission" published in April 2001. Interesting that the Hemmings controversy took new life during the Clinton-Lewinsky episode where it seems no coincidence some of the misinformation about the DNA testing was touted to give help legitimize Clinton's behavior.
As far as legislation re slavery, check out Wikipedia.........none of this is a secret.
What is wrong with you guys? It seems to me that this is a symptom of what is wrong with this country right now. The great political divide has run off its platform and seeped into our every day lives. People are extremely rude and nasty and, yes, RACIST as evidenced by bumper stickers on their cars. People have lost whatever human kindness they may have had in the past. We call people with opposing politcal views mentally challenged or senile and deluded. We no longer believe in what is inscribed at the Statue of Liberty ... Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free".
Yes, there is blame to go around concerning Slavery and Bigotry of every kind. We have a past where Slavery was practiced, permitted, condoned and even championed. And, not just in the South, but in the North and as far back as the first person set foot on the North American Continent to take the lands that belonged to our Native Americans and then send them insto slavery ... meaning the Pilgrims and Puritans.
We have become a people whose hallmarks are negativity and cruelty, and YES Racism is still alive and well in this wonderful country full of "idealism". We care more about money than our fellow man. And, the Internet has given us the platform to do it without facing the other guy.
Slavery was diminishing until cotton became the predominating Southern crop (Southern because it won't grow in the Great White North-all puns intended.) Cotton hadn't caught on because of the considerable amount of time it took to remove the seeds from a bale of cotton. Then Eli Whitney (Northerner!) invented the cotton gin which removed the seeds in short order, thus making cotton more easily and rapidly processed, and thus more useful (and profitable!) Demand for cotton rose, in the industrial North and overseas (can you say Tariffs?) therefore demand for cotton pickers rose, since neither Jefferson or Whitney or anyone else, North or South, had invented a machine to pick the cotton. Since knowledge of crop rotation to replenish soil nutrients was not widespread at the time, soil became depleted, cotton would not grow, and more land was needed to grow it. This pushed the Westward expansion and the need for slavery to be allowed in the new territories, many of which had been opened by individuals more geared to self-sufficiency who opposed the introduction of slavery into their region. The resulting conflicts exacerbated the moral vs. economic arguments regarding slavery and increased the polarization of the country, ultimately resulting in the Secession of the Southern States and the invasion of same by the Northern States, at the instigation of the Federal Government led by Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, who, as a political expedient, changed the focus of the war from Reunification (primarily economic) to the Abolition of Slavery (Moral). So it would appear that if Eli Whitney had not invented the cotton gin, or if Jefferson had invented the tractor, or if either ot both had invented a mechanical harvester, slavery would have diminished and eventually disappeared (cheaper to pay a person and let them buy their own food, clothing, and housing-economic again!) and the War Between the States would not have been necessary. Lesson over.
Didn't matter whether slavery was diminishing or not .... it doesn't matter what facts you throw at it ... SLAVERY WAS AND IS WRONG! The ends do not justify the means in this matter. I am a WHITE, CHRISTIAN, NATIVE BORN American. No matter how you slice it, slavery is wrong and any excuses for it just as wrong.
@BooniesMommy-I never said slavery was right. Your color is irrelevant, your holier-than-thou "Christian" fingerpointing at a dead historical figure regarding so-called excesses and bankruptcy is sanctimonous nonsense, and I do not believe anyone in this discussion or anywhere else for that matter really cares where you were born! You are looking at history through 21st-century tinted glasses and pontificating accordingly! Do you buy only USA made products? If not, you are probably supporting sweatshop labor overseas, which is a form of slave labor, in which case you are a total hypocrite. Looks like you have as many flaws as you attribute to Mr. Jefferson
Re: reparations-The Federal government should pay HUGE reparations to the South for the destruction and loss of life caused by their invasion.
Some argue that, to be fair, one needs to evaluate Jefferson as a man of his time. Unfortunately, the damage wrought by Jefferson's ideas and work ultimately led to a horrific war that took the lives of 600,000 of his fellow citizens. For Jefferson wasn't just a man of his time. He helped craft a design for our country that justified the heinous ideology of White supremacy, he made it philosophically comfortable for the slavers of his time to continue to inflict daily misery upon millions of innocent men, women and children. Let's not forget how divorced Jefferson's supposedly sacred words were from humanity and morality. To accept the myth of Jefferson as an author of freedom and liberty is a kind of compartmentalization that ultimately leads to a life of contradiction and, as Jefferson found out, a greed that no materialistic pursuit could ever satisfy.
I followed the links supplied by Carrboro Pete and one is to Monticello (read the comments after the article, hardly an unbiased source) and the commission was sponsored by a group , The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, "An organization dedicated to furthering the honor and integrity of Thomas Jefferson, and to promoting his vision and ideas, and their application in our times and ..." Again, hardly an unbiased group.
If Thomas Jefferson had sex with his slaves or allowed his family members or guests to have sex with his slaves then the words "slut" and "pimp" comes to mind. I'm sure he would allow sex with his livestock. I guess the slaves' being 3/5 of a human made a difference between a slave and a cow. Just sayin', Christian Gehman and Carrboro Pete.
@glube -- I am hardly amazed that you believe Thomas Jefferson caused the Civil War.
How one feels about Jefferson and the other slave owners among the Founding Fathers seems a matter of personal predilection: some posters prefer to focus on the ownership of slaves, others prefer to focus on the real accomplishment of creating America. Tell me, why is there no similar focus on Monroe, Madison and Washington? On Harrison? Shan't they all be tarred with the same brush? But as to solutions: other than condemning the slave-owners among America's Founding Fathers (was this most of the Southern delegates?) to eternal obloquy, what is to be done? Should Monticello allow African Americans free admission in perpetuity with presentation of a proof of slavery? Perhaps hanging an effigy of Thomas Jefferson in a pillory somewhere on the grounds at Monticello or UVA and encouraging for one day a month and encouraging people to sling mud at it would attract the right amount of attention? As for the original question, do the TJ negatives get downplayed here? It seems clear that those negatives do get downplayed here -- by some people. Another solution might be to paint the columns and the dome on the Lawn or Monticello at UVA black for a while, just to call attention to and acknowledge the importance of the ongoing problem. If there is one ... it's not clear to me that most people living today believe there is a problem. It seems to me that it was the principle that "All men are created free and equal" was what, ultimately, caused the Civil War. John Locke espoused that doctrine. As a practical matter, this notion has always been either a laughable sophistry or the most important highest principle of American thought -- which opinion you lean toward indicates your feelings overall about America, or about Thomas Jefferson. I believe Jefferson was a better man despite his faults than most of the commenters in this thread because his contributions to the greater good of all mankind outweighed his flaws and the flaws of his time. Has Monticello got around to having actors pose as slaves on the grounds at Monticello yet? I am not sure it would be a good idea, but possibly we'll see it happen soon, at least for a few days a year. Or what about a Slave Remembrance Day of Barbecue and Fried Chicken Celebration at Monticello and all over Charlottesville annually on Jefferson's birthday by all those wish to participate? With free admission and a government sponsored coupon that could be redeemed at any locally-owned restaurant like the Wayside Takeout? Bring these problems out into the open, air them thoroughly once a year -- and put them to rest where they belong. The South Island in New Zealand may be a better place to live .... although the Nzeds have their own problems with the Maori past .... frankly, I think people even in Charlottesville should bit more concerned about the genocide of all the American Indians, which is still ongoing. Why can't all Virginia's tribes be recognized, at least on the Commonwealth level?
In my last comment I said " I'm sure he would allow sex with his livestock." Change "would" to "would not."
@Pete, here's a link too : http://readthehook.com/107887/wiencek-challenges-image-reluctant-sla...


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Monday, November 7, 2011
I really wasn't sure what she thought I needed to practice. I mean, I already had The Epiphany. I totally get why 1000 Pugs is cool. And as long as none of the other 999 pugs tries to steal my #1 spot, I'm fine with whatever (except the airplane thing).
But practice sounded like something I might get cookies for doing, so I went along with it.
Well, next thing you know she loads me in the pod (without Dutch) and we head over to the Bishop Ranch vet place. Cookies or no cookies, I definitely did NOT want to practice anything at a vet.
Luckily we were only there to pick up Emi. I guess her eyeball exploded on Pug Rescue Lady's leg or something so the eye-removal surgery had to happen asap. I was still confused about the whole practice thing, but it was good to see Emi again. She is SO much happier and cuter without the creepy eye.
It didn't take long to figure out what I was supposed to practice once we got to our next stop: Pug Saturday in San Jose. My human explained that if I want to be the 1000 Pugs #1 Spokespug, I have to embrace the idea of her and Nikon and my cookies spending time with other pugs. I asked if there would be enough cookies for me too and she said yes.
Then she stuck me on a bench next to my buddy Eddie and started taking pictures.
Now, you have to understand that Eddie is even cuter than Frank. He always wears these cute neck outfits AND he head tilts. So of course my human was all gaga over him even though I was sitting right there. But I tried to practice being good and I totally did kinda ok. Until my human broke out the salmon Omegas.
That's when I kinda went mini-poodle on Eddie. He's my friend so I wasn't really trying to poodle him, but it was totally impossible to just sit there and watch him head tilt at Nikon and make my human go awwww AND eat my Omegas all at the same time. I guess my human was right. I do need to practice more.
Sorry Eddie. But next time maybe skip the insanely cute head tilt thing?
PS: thanks for being nice to Dutch. I'm supposed to tell you he feels less Jan-y now, whatever that means.
34 comments:
- Noodle said...
Great news for a dreary Monday morning! Thanks Pug! Emi looks fantastic. I hope this means she can start being a PUG now! Poor thing's been through so much....
My mom says that Eddie sure is cute, but she insists that all pugs have a unique "cuteness." I do the head tilt and the tongue thing, my sister does the Bella-esque superorbs.... it's all relative. You just keep on bein' you and you'll always be #1!! - November 7, 2011 at 6:31 AM
Awwwww. This is the best way to start brand new week. Practice, Practice, Practice.
You are my number one star!!
Sammy - November 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- Payton said...
Yeah for Emi! And yeah that you got to have fun this weekend at a Pug Sunday! Those always sound like quite the party. Pug, you will have to practice not going Poodle on the other pugs or else the tour bus/Prius idea will not happen for sure! Just remember that you'll always be #1 in all of our books, but especially your human's. I haven't done the head tilt in a while since my hearing isn't all that great, but you have got to check out my "jimmy". Yep, I've been practicing too for the 1000 Pugs thing. If you have time, check out my blog post from today and let me know what you think.
Payton - November 7, 2011 at 6:58 AM
The daily puglet came early today! What a treat! Pug you are doing a good job at practicing. I had to learn to share my toys, my sofa and my human when my rescue brother Buddy came to live with us. I still get the same amount of treats even though Buddy is here, so I guess it is ok. Anyway, my human wants me to plug D.C. and Mid Atlantic Pug Rescue so you will make it a stop on the tour. Think you can drop some subtle hints with your human? We have tons of pugs out here who would love to jimmy and supermodel for Nikon!
- November 7, 2011 at 7:00 AM
that last comment was from us...B&B...we got so excited talking about 1000 pugs we forgot to sign off!
- November 7, 2011 at 7:01 AM
- moPSY+MISIOber said...
Hi Pug, nice to read you again ;) Hope Dutch feels better, and I also hope Emi feels better. What do you mean her eyeball exploded on Pug Rescue Lady's leg??? like literally exploded??? How awful and poor baby :(
Please don't blame your Human for all this gaga, this Eddie is way to cute!!! but it's sooo nice of you, you went just mini-poodle (hahaha) instead of regulad poodle :) Practice and be patient please, because I think 2012 will be FULL of ridiculous pug cutness :) kisses Misiober - November 7, 2011 at 7:04 AM
- Sabrina said...
So just to clrify, you went toy poodle instead of standard poodle on Eddie? Oh well, it just reminds your human that she needs to dole out the treats equally!
Glad to hear Dutch is feeling better - November 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- MochiMachoMarshmallow said...
Hey Puglet,
I go poodle on my brothers if I see them getting more treats then me. Just because I'm a little bit more pudgier than them does not mean that I should be getting less. I hope you come to New York. Maybe you can work with Curly Tail Pug Rescue here. We want to be in your book.
Mochi, Macho, Marshmallow - November 7, 2011 at 8:13 AM
- Christa said...
Goog Morning Sunshine! Sounds like yall had an awesome weekend. Cletus and I are so glad Emi is feeling better and can start being the Pug she is ment to be. We are also glad Dutch is feeling less Jan. Puglet, Cletus would have gone psycho poodle on someone if he would have had to share his Omegas too. Glad you only went toy poodle. But practice does make perfect Pug, so practice on. Yall have an awesome day!
Christa and Cletus - November 7, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Buddy said...
YAY for Emi!! Such a sweetie.
Pug, I'm not sure where you get such info, but no pug is cuter than you. I know your human aww's and shares cookies, but she LOVES you. You are supermodel Pug! - November 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM
Remember Puglet, if it wasn't for you there would be NO 1000 pugs. You are the spokespug and the inspiration for the whole thing! No other pug can ever have that spot!
Emi is such a brave pug! Maybe your human will take more pictures of her to share with us? Hint, hint.
As far as going poodle on Eddie, it wasn't his fault. Your human loves you more than any other pug but it is nice to see you sharing Nikon with others. There will be more of that in 2012! And more cookies, omega or not!
We love you! - November 7, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Glad to see you've come around to the whole 1000 Pugs thing Pug! I knew you would and how could you not with you being the NUMBER ONE PUG! But practice? You? Come on, you don't need to practice being cute and puggy or pugsley or anything like that...I mean you are PUGLET and that's all that matters! But totally understand that you went mini-poodle, and so glad it wasn't a total poodle you did! Glad to see Emi is doing better...that is great news!
- November 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Eddie the Pug and his Mom said...
Great to see you Puglet! We sure had fun at the Pug Saturday meetup. I am defintely going next time :) Those salmon omegas your humom brought to bribe us into posing for Nilon were awesome...my Momma needs to get some ASAP! I am glad that Emi is getting better. Before she moved away, my sister Stella would go poodle on me all the time, so I'm kinda used to it. Have a super fun week!
Happy snorts and snuffles,
Your Pal Eddie - November 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Eddie the Pug and his Mom said...
Oops...meant to write Nikon...been haveing speling problums latttely ;)
- November 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Salinger The Pug said...
OMG...we're so glad that Emi is better, and mom kind of feels bad for laughing at you saying that her "eyeball exploded" on the lady's leg (OMGGGGGGGGGG!!!)
Good work practicing with Eddie! I'm sure he didn't mind you going Poodle on him...he looks like he could handle it! ;-)
S-Dog - November 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Noodles said...
Hi Puglet
Good news about Emi. She is super cute and in need of super lovin' by the whole community.
I am practicing for 1000 pugs too cuz I wanna be a PART!! I am practicing my Whattheheck? look. Do you think that is appropriate? I can also practice my Ain'tItheCutest? look as well.
Worked at Pugoween!
Love Noodles - November 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- THE PUGLET said...
Heya Noodle ~
Oh, Emi is totally a pug now. She snarfed down 3 whole jerky treats in 2 seconds. There are pictures on the 1kpugs facebook thing.
Thanks for the advice. I'll keep being me. #1/1000 me ;) - November 7, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hiya Sammy,
Oh, I had loads of practice. Wait, you'll see tomorrow. After the semi-poodle moment with Eddie I got better. Not happier, but better. - November 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Wow. That is an awesome collection of Jimmies. I think I like orb the best, but only because you live really far away. I bet my human would give you every single one of my cookies if she saw you doing that.
I'm pretty sure there will be a section in the 1kpugs book just for Jimmy poses, so keep working it. - November 7, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hey B+B,
I know my human said something about DC being not too far from NJ, but since I won't be going on the freaking tour, I'm trying not to get involved. I'll put in a plug for you though... if you tell me what a plug is. - November 7, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hiya Misiober~
Yeah, I think Emi's eye pretty much exploded. Not with a bang or anything, more like it squished into pieces and oozed eye juice. I heard all sorts of EEEEEEEEEEWING when she called my human about it.
I feel kinda bad about the near poodle incident with Eddie, but you're right - I could have gone full poodle on him, but I didn't. - November 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hiya Sabrina!
Hee hee. Yep. That's pretty much how it went. Eddie got the toy instead of the standard. - November 7, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hi 3Ms,
I think NY is next to NJ and I know my human is 100% going to NJ because that's where her family and my cousin Sophie live. I heard something about Brooklyn, maybe?? - November 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Gracie the Agility Pug said...
Welcome to rescue. Exploding eyes come with the territory, my mom says. And pugs always feel better once the nastiness is gone - glad Emi's feeling better.
As for Eddie....I'm swooning here. He is totally dreamy. You are cute, but he's the bomb. - November 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- Sue and Annie said...
I'm glad you got to see Emi and that she is doing so much better.l
Before long you will be a pro as the #1 Spokespug for 1000 pugs and everything will be ok. - November 7, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Hiya Puglet!!!! We are soooooo glad to hear that Emi is rid of that nasty eye and feeling better. If there is anyone out there who wants to make a donation toward her vet bills CCPR has a "Dollar Matching Fund Raiser" going on until the 11th. A Pug Angel is going to match dollar for dollar up to a maximum of $1000. You can find the information here....
Pug you have to get the head tilt down. Gracie and I would get a perfect "10" EVERY time. Humans TOTALLY LOVE it. Trust me on this, get the head tilt down and you will get an endless supply of AWWWWWW'S and TREAT'S.
Benny - November 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM
Yay for Emi getting better and having her eye get fixed. Glad Dutch is feeling better and not all Jan-y. And love that pic of the head tilting.
Delaware is close to NJ we're excited for the tour!
Paula from DE - November 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Pearl and Tessa said...
Pug...is Emi staying with you? I am sure she is going to find a great home. So glad to hear she is ok.
Tessa does the head thing, Jimmy's AND has her toungue hanging out ridiculously cute. Pearl is just plain cute...white with her brown spot, a totally different looking pug...can't wait for 1000!
Pearl and Tessa - November 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- Jasper, Sarge, and Pepper said...
I the 1000 pug tour can get to NJ I hope you can get to Maine. We SO want to be part of it! I'm trying to Jaspers pug rescue (Prone) on board!
I'm so glad Emi is doing well, I've been thinking about her a lot. - November 7, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Heya Christa and Cletus ~
Good to know I'm not the only one who'd go poodle on a buddy over a bunch of Omegas. Eddie's tough though. He didn't really seem to notice too much. - November 7, 2011 at 6:44 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
There's this thing called APM - Awwws Per Minute. It's how you can tell who's the cutest. My APM is lower than Frank's and no where near as high as Eddie's.
I think it's the head tilt. I'm not a great tilter and for some reason, humans got nuts over the tilt. - November 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Puglet, Eddie may be a head tilter, but you look so suave posing there on that fence. You're so cool, leaning oh-so-casually on into your elbow, and even have your pseudo thumb up on it! Dang!
My human says you remind her of Puss in Boots, the movie she saw this weekend, a real lady killer (no idea). Head tilters ain't got nothin' on you she said! - November 7, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- BadAnnie said...
Sal! You can't be going poodle or even mini-poodle on other pugs! You'll get your paws slapped and that means NO COOKIES!! That would be CAT-astrophic!!
Rocky, the Texas pug. - November 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Meeko Pug said...
My human had a recycled pug named Tuti before I was ever even thought of. Tuti was old and one day she fell
down the stairs and her eye, that was in as bad shape as Emis (basically happened overnight) exploded. The worst part is that This happened right in the middle of Hurricane Wilma which they were without power for weeks. Bottom line, Tuti went to sleep. My human said it was a very sad day cause Tuti was a great (gassy, fat, and buck toothed) pug who brought so much happiness into the house. My human is so Happy that Emi is ok - February 15, 2013 at 6:01 PM


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How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where nature herself strains at her bonds: straining for release from the carbon blanket that presses against her too hotly, maddened by a thousand poison-filled wounds? Where thousands sit in furtive silence to create machines like the one on which I write, their hands gradually succumbing to a thousand repetitions, frozen and swollen?
What does it mean to be a Christian in a world that is crucifying the poor and the environment on the same cross?
Hear the prayers of the people. Hear, oh God, the prayers of the people.
What does it mean to be a Christian when we bail out our banking class with 400 billion dollars, yet allow those banks to kick Americans out of their homes? Homes that cost too much because of financial speculation on the housing market.
What does it mean to hear the prayers of the ordinary people?
What does it mean when dictators profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, one blood-soiled hand holding an AK-47, and the other clasped over a heart in which professes to be the temple of the living God?
Oh God, oh world, oh friend, hear the prayers of the people.
What does it mean to be a Christian when we drive to work each day in cars that pump out oil, to jobs where we are in charge of maximizing profit for multinational corporations, in a country that has made a pact with world-destroying forces so that we do not compromise our standard of living?
The people. The smallest people in our economy are praying with their last coins. Hear their prayers, oh God.
What does it mean to be a Christian when organizations like The Family create a Jesus that does not hear the prayers of the poor? An organization that prays to the powerful in place of God? That participates in the global crucifixion of the poor by turning Jesus' cross into a social ladder for politicians to climb upwards, past the broken body of Christ? To cultivate relationships with dictators?
To cultivate the most powerful for political influence, to create an elite society for the elite, is that listening to the prayers of the people?
I ask you, was Jesus a political networker? Did he hobnob with the most powerful? Did he cultivate relationships with the dictators of his time, Herod and Pilate?
Our political class does not hear the prayers of the poor, they hear the "prayers" of corporate lobbyists who fund their campaigns. And they hear the prayers of Christians like Doug Coe and The Family at the National Prayer Breakfast, because they offer connections, votes, and money.
This is not the way that Christians pray politically. If we are to take one political message from the entirety of the Scriptures it is that God hears the prayers of the poor, the downtrodden, and the oppressed, and acts through the narrative of history both for the daily bread of the poor and to make right their conditions of oppression. And if we ourselves do not listen, we face the judgement of a God who does hear those prayers.
That's why we have created an alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast, on the morning of February second,, the People's Prayer Breakfast, where people of all faiths can both listen to and offer up the prayers of the poor. It's an event where all are welcome, but we especially invite those who are impoverished or work with impoverished people groups to come and bring their prayers. We will offer up the prayers of children in the form of artwork on the theme of "enough for everyone", first to God, and then to the attendees at the National Prayer Breakfast.
You see, we live in a world where there is already enough for everyone. It is us, our sins and sinful structures, that keep this disparity of wealth remaining. But God is waiting, just beyond the veil of our faithless actions, just outside the moment of history, and all it takes is for us to heed God's call to hear the prayers of the poor.


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Lawmaker Defends Prada Marfa Against Permit Questions
The uncertain future of Prada Marfa, an art installation erected eight years ago outside the tiny West Texas town, is drawing the attention of the Texas Legislature.
The Texas Department of Transportation said last month that it was weighing the legality of the installation, which is made to look exactly like a Prada store, though the doors are always locked. TxDOT is considering whether the installation's sign constitutes an illegal advertisement after making a similar determination of Playboy Marfa, an installation commissioned by the magazine earlier this year.
"As a member of the House Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism, I believe the elimination of Prada Marfa would be detrimental to the City of Marfa, Presidio County and the whole Big Bend region by removing a talked about art piece and tourist attraction," state Rep. Poncho Nevarez, D-Eagle Pass, wrote in a letter sent this week to TxDOT Executive Director Phil Wilson. Nevarez's district includes Presidio County, where Prada Marfa is located.
While Prada Marfa was designed by artists unaffiliated with the fashion company, Playboy actually commissioned its more recently installed Marfa structure, which includes a 40-foot Playboy bunny sign. TxDOT decided that the Playboy installation was illegal advertising because the company had not applied for a permit to erect a sign with the Playboy logo along a federal highway.
Prada Marfa technically sits on private land, but its awning stretches over the public right of way, according to Texas Monthly.
"We're still looking into this matter about Prada Marfa, but according to law, Prada Marfa is considered outside advertising, and a state outdoor advertising license and permit are required, neither of which Prada Marfa has," TxDOT spokeswoman Veronica Beyer said.
Beyer said TxDOT has no timeline for addressing the issue with the famous art installation.
"We're reviewing this and researching options available to the building owners," Beyer said. "We really appreciate artwork and appreciate it across our state, but we have to treat every sign owner the same regarding the law."
Prada Marfa artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have argued that their installation should be treated differently from one that was paid for by the company that intended to draw publicity from it.
"The right definition of advertisement must be based on criteria more accurate than just including any sign which contains a logo," the pair wrote last week on their blog.
In his letter to Wilson, Nevarez suggested the age of the installation should also be considered.
"I would disagree that an art installation that has been present for the last eight years is suddenly considered illegal when looked at relative to the Playboy Enterprises installation," Nevarez wrote.
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How Much Money Are the 'American Idol' Judges Making?
Earlier this year, Luke Bryan offered some insight into contract negotiations for a third season on ABC's American Idol. How much money he and the other judges are making depends on a number of factors, including fair market value and ratings.
The no doubt impressive figure has not been leaked quite yet, but Bryan joked at first that he was going to ask for $180 million, which would be six times as much as Simon Cowell ever made when the show enjoyed its highest popularity. Then he offered a more reasonable formula.
"I always like to find out what Blake (Blake Shelton) is making on The Voice and just do it $1 more than him," Bryan says.
Shelton is said to be making $13 million per season on The Voice, or at least he was. Several sources indicate he's going to get a raise now that Adam Levine is gone and his banter with new coach and girlfriend Gwen Stefani will drive tune-in. Either way the "God's Country" singer's salary is in line with what other judges on his show make. Kelly Clarkson is said pull $14 million. Usher and Shakira made $7 million and $12 million, respectively. Long ago Christina Aguilera made $17 million, per the International Business Times.
Katy Perry has been the big money maker on American Idol in seasons past, with the Wall Street Journal reporting she made $25 million per season — more than double Bryan's $12 million and Lionel Richie's $10 million! Host Ryan Seacrest made $12 million on ABC, a pay cut from the final season on Fox. That he wasn't announced to return with the three judges and mentor Bobby Bones could be telling. Sources say American Idol is hoping to cut costs, as the show's ratings don't demand the same advertising dollars they used to. A host swap could do that without asking the three judges to take a pay decrease. Seacrest has been the host of American Idol since it debuted.
If you're curious, Keith Urban made $3.5 million per season during his time on American Idol, lagging far behind Jennifer Lopez's $15 million. A fair guess at Bryan's salary in 2020 is between $10 and $15 million, or about the same as he made last year, especially if Seacrest is truly "out."
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A Trip Around the World Quilt has long been on my quilt bucket list, however I am not ready to start another hand piecing project just yet, and so I decided to tackle this quilt by machine. There is no quick and easy way to piece this quilt by machine - I couldn't figure out a strip piecing technique that would work with this on-point layout. Instead I started with the center square then added squares radiating from the center out, until the entire quilt was laid out on the floor in squares and setting triangles for the edges.
I then picked up the squares in diagonal rows - with each pile/row of squares carefully placed as I wanted to keep the fussy cut bunnies hopping clockwise around the center of the quilt. What could go possibly wrong? Sewing rows of squares is not difficult but sewing squares and rows in the correct order calls for another level of concentration. But nothing a seam ripper can't fix.
Choosing fabrics was hard! Not only was I looking for sufficient contrast between the rounds of squares but also a variety of fabric designs - dots, florals, text prints etc. Fussy cutting two rounds added interest as well as strong contrast and structure to the quilt. Many fabrics were auditioned and many more fabric squares were cut in addition to those that made it into the quilt. More scraps for my scrap bin!
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- Cotton + Steel ~ Ghost Bunny from the Black & White collection 2015.
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- Brown Flower ~ Retro 30's Child Smile Spring 2016 by Lecien
- Just a Speck in Mango by Jen Kingwell
- Strawberry on Green - Briar Rose by Heather Ross
- Butterflies in Yellow - Tiger Lily by Heather Ross
I really enjoyed the task of choosing the right fabrics for this quilt and I am thrilled with how it turned out. Having 900+ two and a half inch squares of fabric squares laid out on the floor was a challenge for everyone in our home but that won't put me off making another Giant Granny Square Quilt!
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Polyamides are long chain polymers containing amide units (N-H- C=O). These polymers are obtained by polymerization of an acid with an amide e.g. polyamide 6.6 (PA 66) is obtained by reaction of adipic acid with hexamethylenediamine.
Polyamide 6 or nylon 6 (PA 6) was first developed in 1952 while polyamide 66 or nylon 66 (PA 66) was first produced already in 1935 by DuPont.
Polyamides are amongst the most widely used polymer families within engineering polymers due to it's excellent balance of performance and cost.
Polyamide typical chemical structure.
The 2 main types of polyamide are:
- Polyamide 6 (PA 6)
- Polyamide 6.6 (PA 66)
But by modification of chemical structures (length of chains and chemical organization), several others families of polyamide are obtained such as:
- Polyamide 11 (PA 11) and polyamide 12 (PA 12)
- Polyamide 4.6
- Polyamide 6.10, 6.12, 10.10
Polyamide 11 (PA 11) is the unique high-performance polyamide produced from renewable source – castor oil. It is used for a wide range of applications thanks to its outstanding properties that are similar to those of polyamide 12 (PA 12): excellent chemical and thermal resistance, high dimensional stability and low density.
Polyamides (PA 6, PA 6.6 and others) are commonly used in many applications due to their extreme durability and strength.
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Seoul, South Korea, June 22, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / Accor Ambassador Korea, in partnership with Seohan Tourism Development Co., Ltd, is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae this August.
Locally inspired and offering a stimulating sense of place, Mercure hotels act as genuine portals to the destinations in which they serve. Located in Hongdae, a district renowned for attracting Seoul's younger crowd and vibrant spirit, Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae will showcase its design through a series of trendy art pieces and murals. Guests staying at the hotel can look forward to an array of immersive experiences from discovering street art and fashion to the very best local attractions in the precinct.
"Mercure is a trusted brand that allows travellers to really immerse themselves in the destination. Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae is located in close proximity to the four universities, where the district is renowned for its bustling nightlife and underground culture," said Patrick Basset, Chief Operating Officer, Accor, Upper Southeast & Northeast Asia and the Maldives.
Featuring 270 guestrooms, the hotel boasts an all-day-dining restaurant, a lobby bar, fitness centre and laundromat. Offering convenient access to Hongdae Subway Station with three subway line connections, guest can explore the neighbouring unique cafes, cosy galleries, fashion shops, art markets, clubs, bars and gourmet eateries.
"This is the first hotel opened in the north western part of Seoul. Hongdae is renowned for its vibrant urban arts and amazing music scene. The hotel is located in close proximity to both Incheon and Gimpo International Airport, offering visitors an opportunity to explore some of the great attractions nearby," said Steve Choi, President in Seohan Tourism Development Co., Ltd, an affiliated company of Ambassador Group.
Fully equipped with Internet of Things (IoT), all guestrooms can be easily controlled by guests' own smart devices, while Chromecast and Bluetooth speakers enhances the digital experience. A business corner and meeting facilities are available for corporate meetings and events while the outdoor courtyard garden offers the perfect venue for private parties and cocktails.
"Hongdae has become one of the top three tourist spots followed by Myeongdong and Dongdaemun when the Airport Railroad Express (AREX) opened in 2010. One of the hippest areas in Seoul, Hongdae is the hotspot for all the cool and trendy places in Korea. The opening of Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae reflects the distinct character and culture of the precinct and we are confident that this new addition to our current 15 hotels in Seoul will provide for even more memorable experiences," added Vincent Lelay, Vice President of Operations for South Korea.
Accor Ambassador Korea Hotel Management Co., Ltd. is currently operating 24 hotels across seven different cities. Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae is the third Mercure-branded hotel to arrive in South Korea, joining a collection of 800+ addresses globally across 62 countries.
About Accor Ambassador Korea
Accor Ambassador Korea Hotel Management Co., Ltd, established in 2006 is a joint venture company built in partnership with Accor and Ambassador Hotel Group. The company currently operates 24 hotels in 7 cities in South Korea through management and franchise contract. The portfolio of brands include Pullman, Grand Mercure, Novotel Suites, Novotel, Mercure, ibis Styles, ibis, and ibis Budget.
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Mercure is a rare midscale brand that combines the strength of an international network with genuine and local hospitality experiences. The brand's unwavering commitment to quality ensures a consistent and reliable standard of service at every Mercure around the world, while the design of each hotel reflects the distinct character and culture of its location. Going beyond the ordinary for business and leisure travelers, Mercure team members are known for their passion, enthusiasm and warmth, sharing their knowledge of the local scene, providing insider tips and entertaining guests with tales of history and local folklore. Mercure hotels are conveniently located in city centers, by the sea or in the mountains, with more than 810 hotels in 60+ countries. Mercure is part of Accor, a world-leading augmented hospitality group offering unique experiences in 5,000 hotels and residences across 110 countries.


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The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is superbly located on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River, close to the heart of the CBD and just 30 minutes from Melbourne's International Airport. The new Convention Centre has received world wide acclaim for achieving a 6 Star Green Star environmental rating by the Green Building Council of Australia, the first in the world for a convention centre.
The modern complex is a landmark in the area, perched on the south bank of the Yarra River, and surrounded on all sides by trams, trains, buses, taxi ranks and ample car parking. A short stroll along the iconic Southbank Promenade places you in the heart of Melbourne city – Australia's culture, cuisine and events capital – where visitors can enjoy a perfect café latte or award-winning local wine at any time of day or night.
The venue is an easy walking distance from a range of accommodation options, which will be available to delegates to book at the time of registering for the conference.


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Today's episode is with my good buddy, Jonathan Bailor, author of the international best-selling book The Calorie Myth.
This week marks The Fat-Burning Man Show's 100th episode! You might not be aware that iTunes only posts my most recent 40 shows, but all of my shows will always be available on this website for free.
If you want to listen to past shows with Tim Ferriss, Robb Wolf, Mark Sisson, Dr. William Davis and many more, click on the tab above "Listen to the Show".
In the spirit of this being the very first show of the new year, let's tie 2013 up in a nice little bow.
2013 highlights (best year ever)…
- Fat-Burning Man has hit #1 in Health across the world not only in audio, but it also debuted as the #1 WebTV video podcast across the world in 2013!
- The show has over 800 5-star reviews and has been downloaded over 3 million times! (Thank you!)
- We launched a best-selling eCookbook "The Fat-Burning Chef" through the collaboration with 25+ other amazing food bloggers.
- We launched a best-selling cooking app "Caveman Feast" that has been selected by Apple as "Best of 2013."
Exciting things to come in 2014:
- I'll be appearing in several documentaries about health, biohacking, food, productivity, and more
- Looks like I might be writing another book – but for now that'll be our little secret…
- I'll be teaching classes for en*theos academy – plus a series on how to improve your productivity
- More apps coming your way
- Tons of amazing collaborations with: Terry Wahls, Dave Asprey, Jonathan Bailor, George Bryant, Pedram Shojai, Dr. Sara Gottfried, David King, Jaime Tardy, and more
Sweet. Onto the show with Jonathan.
On this week's show, you'll learn:
- The secret to finding high quality, fat-burning foods at any restaurant.
- How to keep your sanity and your health while flying around the world.
- Jonathan rants about the one thing he could never say on national television.
- And loads more…
Here's the show.
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Resources mentioned on the show:
- Grab "The Calorie Myth" HERE.
- Get a sneak peek at Fat-Loss Masterclass, a collaborative project coming soon from Jonathan and me.
If you want to lose fat, you might need to eat more and exercise less. Click to Tweet!
I want to hear from you: From the past 100 shows, who has been your favorite guest? Let me know in the comments below and I'll get 'em back on.


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Three out of the four districts that participated in the 2002 assessment posted higher overall scores in 2007
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It was such a pleasure to have the opportunity to record with Dominic. The REAL DEAL. Beautiful voice, great hang and more to come…
-Leland Sklar
Blessed with a sonorous, compelling, and engaging voice, Dominic Mantuano puts his heart and soul into each note of music and every live performance. As a young child he began working in American Theater and has gone on to perform in almost every medium of music including Opera, Pop, Adult Contemporary, and more. Known for his versatility, expansive repertoire, and impressive vocal range, Dominic Mantuano has elevated himself into a modern master and continues to enrich his sound each and every day.
"Tear Down All The Walls" is a virtuoso performance that illuminates the fragility, beauty, and depth of life. Dominic Mantuano sings about the little gestures and daily miracles that ignite love, passion, and a grateful attitude for the brief but magnificent time we have to feel alive.
It was such a pleasure to have the opportunity to record with Dominic. The REAL DEAL. Beautiful voice, great hang and more to come…
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Dominic Mantuano the American Tenor has gone Mainstream USA! His new CD WHAT I'M FOR features his strong vocal talent, quality songs and elegant production. If you were a fan before it will be an easy transformation to adopt to Dominic's new sound. If you're are experiencing Mr. Mantuano's singing for the first time…welcome to the club.
–Jerry Lembo, Jerry Lembo Entertainment Group
What I'm For is a new collection of Adult Contemporary works composed and arranged alongside award-winning studio composer and musician Steve Dorff. Featuring Dominic Mantuano's vocals on tracks such as "Tear Down All The Walls," "Watching Picasso Paint," "I Never Stopped Loving You," and "Somewhere in Time,".
What I'm For will take you on an emotional roller coaster that will entrance, thrill, lull, and excite you with each subsequent playing.
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Where beach erosion strikes, many communities and governments turn to "beach nourishment" (dredging or trucking in and depositing freshsand) to replenish the beach. However, when governments or communities pay to replenish beaches along privately owned beachfront property — or create new beaches by trucking in sand — what does that mean for the landowners' waterfront rights and property value?
A Florida case accepted June 15, 2009, by the US Supreme Court will address this thorny and increasingly common issue. The Christian Science Monitor explains: "The Court [will examine] whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the private property rights of waterfront landowners in a seven-mile-long beach restoration project. ...At issue is whether [the FL] high court violated the US Constitution's takings clause when it upheld a FL government plan to create a state-owned public beach, 60 feet to 120 feet wide, between private waterfront land and the Gulf of Mexico near Destin, Fla."
The SCOTUSblog wiki gets more into the larger legal question that could have national implications: "Whether the state's legislation to restore storm-eroded beaches along the ocean or lakeshores, modifying the private property boundary line, constitutes a judicial taking or violates the due process clause."
- This wiki links to all case documents.
Oral arguments for the case (08-1151, Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, et al.) are expected to be heard next term, which begins in October 2009. In the meantime, the docket and background for this case can provide useful context for coastal and river/lake beach nourishment stories happening around the US right now. Docket.
- Attorneys for property owners: Hopping Green & Sams, 850-222-7500, Richard Brightman or Kent Safriet. Release.
- Attorneys for FL Dept. of Environmental Protection: FL Attorney General office: Scott D. Makar, 850-414-3300; Fowler White Boggs: Hala A. Sandridge, 813-228-7411.
Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief on behalf of the property owners. Contact attorney: Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, 772-781-7787. Release. Case summary. Full brief.
The key legal concept in this case is "littoral rights," which concern properties abutting an ocean, sea or lake rather than a river or stream (riparian rights).
According to the Christian Science Monitor, the FL Beach and Shore Preservation Act "establishes a procedure for the state to restore eroded shorelines. The seaward boundary of beachfront private property extends to the mean high water line (MHWL), a boundary that shifts over time with the size of the beach. In contrast, the Shore Preservation Act replaces the MHWL with a fixed erosion control line (ECL). Prior to the beach nourishment project, the owner of the waterfront land enjoyed potential rights to any additional land from accretions — should the beach grow seaward. But once the state sets the ECL, that right no longer exists, the landowners complain."
If your coverage area includes coastal or lakefront beaches, check the property law in your state. How is the "beachfront" in "beachfront property" defined? Do any state or local beach erosion regulations or programs conflict with that definition? If current or planned local beach nourishment projects abut private beachfront properties, start exploring this angle with property owners, officials, and attorneys.
- NOAA's guide for local officials on beach nourishment includes a section on law and policy issues and history.
- US Army Corps of Engineers: Coastal Engineering Research Center. Contact Sharon L. Hanks, 601-634-2004.
- USACE beach nourishment projects.
- Property rights viewpoint: Eminent Domain Law Blog.
- Stephen Leatherman (email, 305-348-1339) is an expert on beach erosion and mitigation, as well as other coastal environmental issues. He works with the National Healthy Beaches Campaign at FL International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research.
- Surfrider Foundation: State of the Beach site offers a wealth of specific data and examples related to coastal beach erosion. Press: Alexis Henry, 949-732-6413.
- Some coastal states offer extensive oceanfront maps and satellite data. For instance, see the NC Div. of Coastal Management.
- For beach erosion-related satellite imagery in a specific region, search the Google Earth Community. (To make full use of what you find there, download and install GoogleEarth.)


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"Limestone Influences on Physical and Chemical Features of a Mountain Stream." Ground Water 24, no. 2 (1986): 166-172.
"Management Concerns for Swimming, Tubing, and Wading in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Environmental Management 5, no. 4 (1981): 353-362.
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Ceph Poised To Change Data Center and Cloud Storage
Ceph, a type of open source file system for Linux, is hitting the mainstream with the potential to have big effects on storage in the data center and the cloud.
November 15, 2013
You may not have heard the name Ceph before, but that's about to change. This new storage technology is about to enter the data center and change the way we look at data storage and cloud computing.
First, we need to know what Ceph is. Basically, it's an open-source file system for Linux. The opening line on the official Ceph site is a powerful boast:
Ceph uniquely delivers object, block and file storage in one unified system.
The structure of Ceph is built on top of a distributed object store, with a Representational State Transfer (REST is a protocol for transferring data to storage over the Internet) gateway, block device interface, and a Portable Operating Systems Interface (POSIX -- an industry standard for operational compliance) file system. All of the access methods can run on the same object store, and this is made up of commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
However, Ceph's real claim to fame is that the store can be scaled to exabytes of data by adding storage nodes, which provide the type of scale needed for large cloud-computing infrastructures, as well as big-data at some point.
There are three types of nodes in the clusters. A metadata node serves up data about the objects. This is a memory-heavy, powerful multicore x86 system. Object storage devices (OSDs) carry the data, and are much less compute intensive. Finally, monitor nodes hold the cluster map. The metadata servers load-balance dynamically, and data is striped across OSDs, so the implementation is relatively free of hot-spots.
OSDs uses a standard file system internally to provide a stable environment for storing the objects. In that sense, Ceph is a piggy-back layer, but the philosophy is to use the best of what is available without attempting to build that better mousetrap, and that seems like a sensible approach.
The current production file system recommended is XFS, which is mature, with Btrfs (B-tree file system) being the longer-term choice. Btrfs is still early life and a bit buggy, but is designed to be very extensible. It handles heterogeneous storage, has snapshots and compression already, and will have deduplication and encryption built in at a future release.
Stepping back from the techy level, Amazon S3 and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) compatibility is built in to the Ceph product. Right now, that means that Ceph can simulate a Swift or S3 object store, but it is likely that Ceph will expand to build interfaces into these stores at a later data, potentially allowing inter-cloud bridging for geographic dispersion, extension, and for data migration.
The impact of a product like Ceph shouldn't be underestimated.
This is a unique solution right now, giving a truly unified access and view of a single common storage method. Being an open-source solution, the price is right. It has been accepted into the Linux mainstream build process, which highlights the support in the industry, and it is being taken up by other providers in the cloud, including OpenStack.Org, RedHat, and SUSE.
DreamHost is currently running a 3 Petabyte Object Store using Ceph, so it is certainly production-ready.
Ceph is being enthusiastically picked up. It's a fair bet that it will become the backbone for host-based storage software services. There's also potential to use the technology with (Virtual Storage Appliance) VSA-type systems. Ceph's Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS) can and has been decoupled from the upper layers, as SUSE Cloud is doing. With it migrating features away from the storage nodes, it could change the way systems are built, and upset the Big Iron Storage applecart by moving the storage sweet spot to COTS hardware.
The evolution of Ceph, and the growth of the surrounding ecosystem, will move rapidly, and it will change storage.
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Welcome YOU to this month's Designer Spotlight!
But before we announce which talented gal is up this month let's talk about another AWESOME crafter...Yep the winner of last weeks challenge...drum roll please...
Kaitlyn is pretty awesome, let's get to know a little more about her.
1. Tell us about yourself: Graphic Designer. Paper Crafter. Dog Lover. Arrow Shooter. Sports Watcher. Michigander in Utah.
2. Three words that describe your style: Clean. Detailed. Fun.
3. Most awesome crafty moment: Being hired as a Concept Artist/Product Designer at Stampin' Up!. That means I design products (stamp sets, paper, etc.) and then play with the product to make samples for catalogs
4. What 2 Stampin' Up products could you not live with out: Big Shot. Heat Tool.
I love all the amazing things you can create with a Big Shot and I'm always using my Heat Tool for embossing or drying watercolor.
5: Share one random fact about you:I'm a Ravenclaw.
Kaitlyn's Tip of the Day: Tip. Cluster! If I'm stuck on a project I just start clustering pieces together. I tend to build my cards from the top down by doing this.
So how does this new challenge work?
All you have to do is create something inspired by our spotlighted designer!
So use the picture above or visit her blog Create With Kaitlyn
to find something that truly get your mojo going.
We would love to see what creation you chose so please link back to it if you can.
~Now let's see how our Team was inspired~
You should go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind:
Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 1/5/16
- Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
- Please post the TGIFChallenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
- Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
- When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC88
- Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge and placed on our Winner's Circle on Friday 1/6/16
- Questions should be left in the comment section
Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!! "Like us" while you're there :-)
Now show us what you've got!!


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