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The ego creates suffering? Does suppression of the ego lead to " sustainable happiness?"Is love the suppression of ego?What does charity do?
If everyone worked together or independently to help people around them attain happiness, "sustainable happiness" could be afforded to everyone.Finding one's calling in life is a hard one, especially because the odds are stacked up against you.There are always obligations, expectations, indoctrinations, reputations, and other things that just get in the way.Find your calling and all these things will suddenly fall on the back burner.Sure, the call of these memes will not disappear but they will not fight for control of your life, and hijack your happiness.Life, education, parenting, learning should be geared to finding what makes you who you are; rather than, taking who you are and finding how to be geared.The world needs a paradigm shift.It needs a shift from competition, status, and money to isolating and developing talents.Everyone has a talent or talents; and we have to learn how to bring those out.Allow that talent to flourish, remove the obstacles, remove the constraints of modern life and we have happiness.What if we took "the make a wish foundation" idea and took another step, maybe even a few extra steps than that, and started granting the wishes of the masses?We can make a doctor, a cancer researcher, a pro skate boarder, a dancer, a teacher, a microbiologist or, let a man run with the bulls, finance a lifesaving surgery.When the human mind is involved anything could be possible, anything could be conceived, and anything could be achieved. Let's start granting wishes, answering prayers, make dreams a reality.Why not play God?When we start caring about each other, there is no limit that can stop us from doing great things; there is nothing that can stop 7 billion minds from reaching happiness.Let's make happiness: sustainable, affordable, and ordinary.Happiness should not be for the few, misery should be.We can give more than just money or a check.We can give support, help, or any other service to make these dreams possible. Let's make some happiness.
W. Ying
Aug 18 2012: I think the 4 questions are easy to answer:
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(1) Symbiosis is one of the important instincts (ancestors' successful experiences saved in DNA) for survival.
(2) Too much ego hurts the symbiosis owing to reducing helping others as well as being helped by others.
(3) Suppressing ego increases the being helped by others, and thus makes the helped happy sustainably.
(4) Loving symbiotic members is decreased with the increasing in ego.
(5) Charity is an action of symbiosis.
Am I right?
("Be Happy Validly!" p. 68, 82)
Teja Jo
Jul 31 2012: My passion is to innovate. My passion is to think like no other. My passion is to be a little less selfish. My passion is .....YOU can finish the rest of that sentence.
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Teja Jo
Jul 31 2012: In my essay , I mentioned that there is no one way to happiness, nor is it the same for everyone. And I am one the same page as you on the fact that too much of anything is not a good thing. I know from experience. Maybe I didn't convey my message well enough. There's a reason why I called it sustainable happiness. I don't believe in utopia. I don't want a utopia. There's a reason why I tagged Buddhism in this conversation. The middle way makes sense to me. I try not stick to any idea , with too much conviction. Most of the time, I try to challenge what ever seems true. Where there is doubt; there is possibility. Where there is possibility, there is an open mind. So why is my concept called sustainable happiness? It because I feel that people will begin to make peace with themselves when they fiind what they are so good at, and makes them happy to do it. It is not always evident, what that talent is or where it will take you. Just because one found his or her talent, does not mean that they will not feel sadness or anger, or any other emotion. But, they will began to understand how to cope with it , without hurting themselves or others in pursuit of something else. I am not always a happy person. But, I know what makes me happy, what is passion. My passion to help others find others passions. And my idea is, if one another came together to help find the other's passions ; to support one another, when no one else will. When we stop thinking about the I, and the we, or he, or she , or they; I think any thing is possible. In turn , a man could find his sustainable happiness, by helping to find the sustainable happiness of another. Its a volunteer effort, just like the make a wish foundation. They make dreams come true for the sick and dieing. Why can't we make dreams come true for the healthy, and sick; the weak and the strong; the poor and the rick; the selfish and the selfless; the sad and the angry; the minority and the majority. The list goes on.
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Aug 2 2012: It's remarkable your point of view. Indeed, you absolutely have the reason. When you give to others the chance to be happy, you get some (important) amount of happiness, becoming this a "virtuous circle" which could lead to much people to a placid and peaceful lifestyle. Volunteering is a great example of this. Anyway, these little efforts are not "happiness" by themselves, because when a volunteer do her great job doesn't mean she is 100% and always happy. But volunteering is the perfect example of what you defined as "sustainable happiness", which takes us up and up each and every day to a high-quality life. If you mean that "sustainable happiness" has something to do with "making dreams come true", I think this is a valid definition of this concept, and even its definition gives us a method to attain it. When people realize that they have a "reason for living", they can go on. The problem here is how long this "reason for living" can endure. You remark another keyword in saying something about this problem: PASSION. Again, it seems that we are returning to the flat reality: People misunderstand the word "passion", and even when this is not the case, people are not always ready for enduring on their purposes. This way, we show that not everyone could attain a "sustainable happiness". The keyword here is: WILLPOWER. I think that all these questions reduce to a simple fact: If you have to teach someone to be "sustainable happy", you must help her to build her own WILLPOWER. If this word doesn't exist inside a person's dictionary, we can claim that she will not even meet "sustainable happiness". Don't you agree with me?
James Zhang
Jul 30 2012: I'm not sure if we can achieve 100% global happiness, as much as I'd want that...
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But here's what I think are a few ways to change that:
1) Better education system
Education first and foremost needs to inspire curiosity. And to do that it could use better curricula.
I still don't get why we still try to learn basic government in the end of high school? Why not teach government in middle school and have a new course on Current Events? Most kids coming out of high school have no clue what they really want to do. College should not be remedial high school.
Also, we should just burn all textbooks to the ground, every last one of them. Textbooks are the most useless, bs piece of crap, known to existence. They're not only like like $500, but they don't teach for god's sake! People are spending $500 on something that doesn't work! You can spend all that textbook money to buy tablets or iPads instead and it'll get the job done MUCH better. I'll say it again, I HATE textbooks.
2) Better parenting
Neglect is the worst thing a parent can do. Parents need to care about their kids and they need to show them the kind of compassion any child should get. That's their most important job imo, is to raise them with good morals of caring-ness.
3) More exposure
Get the kids involved in a bunch of activities, no matter what it may be. Sports, computers, reading books, physics, boyscouts, etc. I already know they spend a lot of time with games and movies and stuff. I think most importantly, they need to make friends. If someone can at least have one friend, they won't be miserable. If you can get kids to also find their passions early, they won't spend as much time trying to decide what they want to do in life.Aug 17 2012: No ego doesn't creates suffering.Aug 12 2012: Teja Jo,
I do not think/feel it to be a good idea to suppress any part of our "self". The ego does not "create" suffering. It is how we choose to use the ego that determines what impact it has on us and the way we live out lives.
You ask..."Does suppression of the ego lead to "sustainable happiness?...Is love the suppression of ego?"
Not in my humble belief and experience! Suppression is suppression. Love does not suppress, in my opinion. Love accepts. When we can "know" ourselves and accept the different "parts" of our "self", we learn to use all "parts" in harmony and balance. Why do you think, as humans, we have all these different "parts"? So we can spend a lifetime trying to suppress them? That doesn't make any sense on any level.
We are multi-sensory, multi-dimensional beings. The best thing we can do for ourselves AND the whole of humankind, is recognize and use effectively all of our capabilities. Do you know how much energy it takes to try to suppress something? Suppression is resistance to what is. What is the point in doing that to ourselves, or anyone else?
I do not agree with your statement.... "Finding one's calling in life is a hard one, especially because the odds are stacked up against you. There are always obligations, expectations, indoctrinations, reputations, and other things that just get in the way"
These "things" you mention are all part of the life experience, and in my perception do not "get in the way"...they ARE the way. I have never had the feeling that "odds are stacked up against" me. Life, is life, and most of the time, the life experience includes challenges.
I agree that we need a "paradigm shift", and part of that shift could include the idea that to "know thyself" is one of the most important ideas we can nurture.
You say.."remove the constraints of modern life and we have happiness." The shift can include acceptance of the life experience and all it offers:>)
Aug 15 2012: To point number one. There is a phrase in french, le petite de morte. It means the little death, This refers to climax of love between two people. Isn't it interesting that they call it this? I believe that they explain it this way because in this action two separate individuals , lose that thing that says "I". There is a break down of what is "I" and what exists outside. Love is the destruction of ego, if only temporarily. When something is accepted into your mind, there is a blurring between the universe that lies within and the universe that lies without. Love removes the world between these two separate universes. And the line in between, is the ego. The ego suffers to keep itself alive. It must attend to the worries. Think of not "I" , but some one else and the result is happiness. In each good deed this happens, is but a few moments. In these moments we feel pleasure because empathy and action allowed the inner universe of different beings to merge but for a little while, in kindness. This is why " a purpose that is greater", a group, a religion, a team, a family that is together experiences the feeling of happiness, of pleasure. It is the happiness that arises out of expanding the mind. This is one of the main , consequences of meditation and the supposed feelings of serenity and peace; or should I say happiness?
And at times people are born into this world, which circumstances that are stacked up against them. But, it possible to overcome them. Even wealth, and luxury can be obstacles to happiness. Happiness is not the same for everyone, but everyone has to find their path to happiness. This is the challenge of life. It is the happiness of pursuit, the pursuit of happiness.Aug 15 2012: More so, the ego desires its own destruction as a part of its own nature to allow the separation between it and the outside world to become in separate. The ego craves and therefore it suffers. Each physical remedy is the result of this craving. Yet, nothing can satisfy the ego, so it only wants more. The ego is so accepting because it is searching for that connection between the inner world that it resides and the outside world it desires to be apart of. The paradox is that only in moments when one works to satisfy the needs of someone else or focus on the outside universe , rather than the inner one, do we satisfy our own craving.
Aug 15 2012: Dear Teja Jo,
It sounds like you are trying to give the ego a LOT of power and make it a seperate entity outside the whole of "us". The ego is part of us, and we have the ability to give the ego our attention and energy.....or not. The ego does not "desire"....the ego does not have a "nature" of its own...the ego does not "crave" or "suffer". The ego can indeed be satisfied when we find peace, harmony and balance within ourselves, which projects out into the whole of humankind. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of speculation regarding what the ego is, or is not, and it causes people to misunderstand.
With all of your very long comments on this thread, it appears that you are trying to lecture, rather than have a discussion.Aug 3 2012: This Juxtaposition between self and self image is a construct of a person's environment. People are programmed with memes such as " I am not pretty enough" or " perfection is the goal of my life." These compete for the interests of a person. Society, environment, parenting : i.e. nurturing creates the self image of a person. A person can shatter a false self image by realizing the memes that rule his or her life. The reason why we are so easily programmed by deceptive memes is that we want the acceptance of others. It is a basic human need, to be cared about. Is a need of the ego. So we accept these deceptive memes , consciously or unconsciously, get subverted from our true passions and models of reality. When people help one another they receive a rush of positive emotion in the very same part of the brain that deals with drug addiction. In turn, all humans want connection with others. And the value of that connection defines a self image. If the value of that connection is powerful and positive, the needs of the ego will be fulfilled. Therefore, the only way to satisfy the ego is by destruction of the ego. People know this and so they get this powerful feeling when praying with people, being at a concert, a sporting event, a party , a fraternity, a club, charity or any other ego minimizing event. Love is where two individual people, two "I"s ,become a "we". It is the destruction of ego to satisfy the ego. That is why we strive for a cause, a religion, a purpose. We need something that diminishes the importance of self, and this creates happiness.Aug 2 2012: First we must define and understand the definition of ego. It comes from the Greek meaning self. Freud made it a household word. In using the word he never distinguished the difference between self and self image. He was probably so wrapped up in his own self image that, like a fish in water, the idea of discussing water (self image) never came up.
Self image is the mental concept one has of oneself. It is the mentally generated imagination of who we think we are. It is not who we are it is a concept of who we are.
Few persons have made the distinction between self and self image. We tend to go on adjusting the self image as reality shatters it and we attempt to put it back together. Psychology attempts to build a functional self image for a client. One which will not be violated too easily.
When the self image falls apart the uncomfortable feeling held in the body/mind of the self surfaces and this can bee very painful. These uncomfortable feeling held in who we actually are, at the extreme, I call self loathing or self hatred. Thus when the self image is significantly violated the self hatred may come into consciousness creating depression or violence.
True self in my definition is composed of the mind conscious of feelings balanced in the heart of a physical body. At this point the concept of true self as opposed to the mentally imagined self is evolving in its meaning for humans. Every individual must take responsible for defining self as they see it. Ones defining of self is essential for the process of finding self acceptance for all of who one is.
Ego (self) does not create suffering. It is the shattering of the self image which is so painful because we feel the self loathing hidden beneath it. We suffer because we attempt to avoid the pain of self loathing held with in the true self. Once one faces into that pain the suffering stops and one begins to process the pain into self acceptance.
Suffering results from the attempt to avoid pain.Jul 31 2012: Maybe was Steve Jobs who said something like "...people don't know what they want. You have to create things and show them, so generating a need that they even did not know yet. Then, they realize that these things are so important that they say «how could we have lived for years without these amazing creations?»". Do you think people are ready to be happy? Even under the assumption that they understand "happiness" as you do (a fine concept), they ignore what is the real meaning of "happiness". Don't you agree that a lot of misery is too much for a human being? Why a lot of happiness has to be "good" for a mean, sane human being? The keyword is MONOTONY. Don't you think there is a chance that too much happiness could lead to a certain kind of a wretched life? What is "good" for you may be "conditionally bad" for others. Consider the following example: When I was 13, I was wishing to become an airplane pilot. But now, I hate to travel by plane. For some reasons, I changed my professional vision when I began to study at university. Now, I consider I am happy for having chosen the career I belong to. Clearly, when I was 13 I had no idea of what could lead me to a "happy" state of living. Even today, I have not a clear idea of what to do for keeping my "happy" lifestyle, because I'm tired of that MONOTONY which I have told earlier. For some reasons I cannot fully understand, I'm still making some things wrong in my life, so the natural consequence is that it's likely that I will not be as happy as I would want, say in one year. Anyway, I'm aware of the existence of one clue: Happiness is everything but what you intentionally are looking for. "Sustainable happiness"? It's a good intention, a romantic dream, but there are even biological constraints which do not let us be as happy as we would want: Hormones, stress, concerns, nutrition styles. These just give us a margin to be cheerful, at most. But "happiness" is a good moral trend which shows us the fair way of living.Jul 31 2012: I can't even ensure the daily happiness of everyone in my house let alone the planet. Most nights at dinner, there is at least one of us who goes along for the ride for the benefit of the others. As a dad it's usually me :)Jul 31 2012: These following comments are the very basic nature of my idea. So if you're willing to read it all, I must profoundly thank you .Jul 31 2012: If I'm going to be a leader, what is going be my cause? Is it easy to say this or that is the most important thing in my life? Well, let's explore this. How about I start by listing things, which I feel are problems. Okay here I go: Bullying, overeating, under eating, health, the idea of beauty, polarization, malnutrition, violence, war, clean water, melting ice caps, global warming, trophy hunting, poaching, endangered species, using oil and other fossil fuels, gangs, closed minds, intolerance, equal rights for everyone, greed, the divorce rate, pollution of all types, the over use of fertilizers and pesticides, murder, rape, theft, superficiality, just getting by through life, the unexamined life, lack of a good education, disconnection with the planet, lack of curiosity , alcoholism, drug addiction, over taxing resources, infectious and chronic diseases, underpay and workers' rights, smoking cigarettes, abusing prescription medications, TYRANY, advocacy for birth control, treating problems rather than dealing with the symptoms, access to opposing ideas, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, lack of happiness, over use of medications, access to college and post college education, spousal and child abuse, and probably a lot more.Jul 31 2012: So which am I going to chose? Which one of these calamities deserves my valuable attention? Or which group of them? It's very hard to choose. And I want to cause more than just awareness or the spread of the idea; I want to cause a change of ideas, of ways, of thinking, of life itself.
Okay let's look for a common denominator, something that all of these problems have in common. Some of these problems are natural and already have solutions. But, these solutions need further improvement to stamp the problem out altogether. And some natural and man-made problems coincide. Okay let us look at man-made problems; what do they have in common? As a human, I will make the assumption that all human beings want to be happy. What makes people happy can differ. All attempts of things are done in some way to satisfy happiness: either short term or long term. In the quest of happiness, most people will sacrifice anything to receive it. There are two types of pitfalls. The first approach creates temporary happiness. Because the happiness is temporary, the actions are repeated to recreate the feeling. Soon people may sacrifice anything to attain that temporary happiness. This can lead to problems. The second pitfall comes from the pursuit of promised happiness: for example the idea of pursuing money to attain absolute happiness. Two things may occur while this approach is undertaken; temporary happiness may be suspended for the perceived long term happiness, or people may sacrifice anything to attain the happiness sometime in the future.Jul 31 2012: So if the pursuit of happiness determines our behavior directly or indirectly, it also produces the man-made problems that people have. If this is the case, how can people be guaranteed happiness without negative or harmful sacrifice? I think my cause will be to find ways to make people "sustainably happy".
One of the biggest problems that people have when pursuing happiness is that they are not completely aware of what exactly produces sustainable and healthy happiness for them in the present and future. Sometimes people follow the other people around them because they may think other people are happier than the viewer. It could be a false deduction. Finding what makes you happy is a hard challenge. It is the challenge of life.
So how could I or anyone else guarantee that an entire planet achieves their respective happiness; that everyone achieves "sustainable happiness" ? In one's own self-interest in happiness, it might make sense to ensure the happiness of the people around them. If the people around one are happy, it might be easier to pursue your own happiness. They may even return the favor, and help you attain your own personal happiness.Jul 31 2012: What if everyone on the planet worked to ensure everyone else's happiness? Doesn't it become an exponential cascade of happiness achievement? What is stopping happiness from being infectious?
Well, let's continue with what some people believe are the avenues of happiness: money, sex, power, food, water, drugs, alcohol, violence, weapons, intimidation, respect, volunteering, pursuing your interest.
Some of these avenues are cyclic; pursing happiness through the method produces temporary happiness and causes the person to pursue the same avenue to regain the happiness that he knew earlier. Because of the temporary production of happiness through these means, one can become addicted to them. One may form compulsions, and crave more and more to sustain longer amounts of happiness. The problem with these cyclic approaches is that the participant gets stuck in performing the same behavior without noticeable change; perhaps the definition of insanity? To receive this temporary happiness, people stuck in the cycle will sometimes do anything. This is can override feelings of empathy, sympathy, friendship, love, and other emotions that connection people together. The pursuit of temporary happiness can create a suppression of emotion to receive the happiness that they crave so much. When one can no longer relate, they can commit evil. Life can become only about pursuing that very short burst of happiness. Interest, open mindness, love, selflessness are quickly forgotten.Jul 31 2012: Interest may be the path to lead the masses to their happiness. Suppression or ignorance of an interest leads to temporary happiness. Therefore, lack of interest will inevitably lead to the cycle of temporary happiness. When a person denies her interests, she is denying the world of her mind. Each mind is incredible, and the world missing one mind is a world that is worse off.
So how do we let everyone pursue their interests? How can we manage to make everyone happy? Okay we must first ensure the very basic things to human survival. A person needs food, preferably good food, and clean water. Two, a person needs a shelter from the elements. Three, people to care about this person. Four, a person must be able to be educated in whatever interests him. Five, this person needs a place and tools to practice his interest. Therefore, the needs of a person's mind will be satisfied.
In the world we currently live in, people are usually left to their own devices, and must struggle if they want any of these steps. Therefore, when everyone is struggling for their own piece of happiness; some fall to the pitfalls of temporary happiness or get stuck in a life that they never wanted. There needs to be a paradigm shift away from the pursuit of your own happiness to the pursuit of your neighbor's happiness, to your community's happiness, to your town's happiness, to your city's happiness, to your states' happiness, to your country's happiness, to your continent's happiness, to your hemisphere's happiness, to your planet's happiness.Jul 31 2012: If everyone worked together or independently to help people around them attain happiness, "sustainable happiness" could be afforded to everyone.
Well what advantages and disadvantages are people born with or cast into? What do people site as problems? They say: I don't have enough money, I am not good looking enough, I am not listened to enough, I don't have sex enough, I don't get enough food, I don't have enough friends, not enough people love me, there are things that I can't get. Sometimes the problems that we think are problems aren't problems at all. They are perceived problems. And therefore, we spend our time and our lives trying to solve a problem that does not even exist. Or when we solve the problem, we see that we're still not happy.
Sustainable happiness could only be attained through discovery of what interests, of what makes you feel good. And, it should make you feel even better, each time you work on your interest. Everyone must find their calling. It does not matter what it is, as long as it makes you happy. So what interests you? Would you pursue it if you received the help you needed to pursue it? If you received help from people would you return the favor and make their dreams come true?
Finding one's calling in life is a hard one, especially because the odds are stacked up against you. There are always obligations, expectations, indoctrinations, reputations, and other things that just get in the way. Find your calling and all these things will suddenly fall on the back burner. Sure, the call of these memes will not disappear but they will not fight for control of your life, and hijack your happiness.Jul 31 2012: Life, education, parenting, learning should be geared to finding what makes you who you are; rather than, taking who you are and finding how to be geared. The world needs a paradigm shift. It needs a shift from competition, status, and money to isolating and developing talents. Everyone has a talent or talents; and we have to learn how to bring those out. Allow that talent to flourish, remove the obstacles, remove the constraints of modern life and we have happiness.
Now how do we do all of this? How do we do this right now? Changing the education system will take years and years. Adults are already programmed with the structure of the modern world and the cookie cutter approach. How will we take unhappy people and turn them on to the path to follow their interests? How about we make these people known, and their interest shared? What if we all worked together to make the dreams of people a reality?
What if we took "the make a wish foundation" idea and took another step, maybe even a few extra steps than that, and started granting the wishes of the masses? We can make a doctor, a fireman, a cancer researcher, a pro skate boarder, a dancer, a teacher, a microbiologist, a police man, a fire fighter. Or let a man run with the bulls, to be an astronaut, be a cowboy, be a pilot, get a cat, meet Oprah, finance a lifesaving surgery. When the human mind is involved anything could be possible, anything could be conceived, and anything could be achieved. Let's start granting wishes, answering prayers, make dreams a reality. Why not play God? When we start caring about each other, there is no limit that can stop us from doing great things; there is nothing that can stop 7 billion minds from reaching happiness. Let's make happiness: sustainable, affordable, and ordinary. Happiness should not be for the few, misery should be. We can give more than just money or a check. We can give support, help, or any other service to make these dreams possible. Let's make some happiness.Jul 31 2012: This is a radical idea, for a radical world.Where we have small and nationwide crimes, illness, poverty, hunger, thirst, oppression, selfishness, terrorism, natural disasters, manmade disasters , and the list continues.If this is good enough for you, if you are happy, say nothing, do nothing, and accept the world for the way it is.Believe that there is no way for changing it, people will always be what they are, and nothing will ever change them.Think, history is bound to just repeat itself.
Or take an uncertain leap.You don't need faith in landing on your feet. But, what you need is hope. Give people hope, and they will quickly live up to their potential. Give them hope, and they will find their reason to live. Give them the hope of finding happiness in their short life times. Give yourself some hope. Hope that humanity can be better; hope that you can be better. What do you have to lose? You are afraid of being scammed of being a victim? Well, if you have enough money to: put food in your own fridge, pay your rent, and support your children. Why can't you take a small gamble? Put some money into producing hope for happiness. You can produce hope in the lives you are taking a chance on, and the people that you love. You are investing in the happiness of your fellow human being, and your own happiness.Jul 31 2012: Even if, Even if, your money doesn't help what have you lost? In any investment, there is the possibility of creating hope or losing your money. But, in this specific case, you will win out in either outcome. If your donation does not work, you can still feel good about yourself. You will know that you are a good person in your mind, and in the eyes of the people around you. You are spreading hope, in your good deed. You are inspiring others. If this doesn't do it for you, you can always post your story and your wish on to the site. People will work to make your wish come true. How could you lose?
Oh yea, wishes would only be granted if they are the starting point for sustainable happiness. And let's make it local. Start with your community, and if you're interested you can help out the rest of the world. Have too many chances, too much competition for you and its information overload. Start where you want, but where ever you start make sure that you are affecting people's lives.
Now let's start this website , this idea, lets start walking down these avenues to happiness. Come on, we got 7 billion minds on this planet. Let's put them to good use.Jul 31 2012: Hey everyone, all of you have valid points. But I have already addressed them to a degree in an essay that I wrote describing my idea. The problem with summarizing the idea on ted was that it is 8 pages long, double spaced. So I had to leave alot of my idea and reasoning. The 2000 characters is a huge limiting factor on how much I can explain myself. Is there any way that I can post my essay on a comment for this discussion?Jul 31 2012: The only way this would be possible is for everyone to accept the belief that their own happiness would increase the most when all others' happiness also increases. Selfishness and greed would have to take a back burner. The first requirement would be that all people have what they need to achieve basic happiness. This would mean that all people would have the right to healthcare, adequate food, water and shelter, and the liberty to follow their own free will while not negatively affecting another beings anywhere on the planet directly or indirectly while pursuing their own agendas. Everyone would have to contribute to society in some way and, conversely, no one would have power over others. I am not implying communism, but a market based system that ensures a balance of egalitarianism and liberty would have to be achieved. It would be my greatest wish that this could come true, but at this time, too many people feel entitled to pursue their own happiness without any regard to the down stream effects and consequences of their actions on others in the present and the future. How to accomplish this? Insist on the truth in politics to achieve a true democratic process in which all the people have equal power, and the power cannot be concentrated in the hands of the financially elite. This also implies an equal education system in which every student has access to the best teachers and learning environment enabling equal intellectual power within the society. Those schools with better funding would have to spread the wealth to all schools within the society, adjusting for cost variances between locations. (If funding doesn't matter, then those parents with students in highly funded schools should be willing to send their students across the border to the school where the teachers are all more inexperienced, there are fewer computers, the students receive less individual attention, there is poor lighting, heating and cooling, and the library has fewer books.)Jul 30 2012: Your question made me think of the Drew Dudley TED talk in which he described lollipop moments, which are something like the earlier "random acts of kindness." We have it within us and at no cost to make others lives brighter (by looking out for our opportunities to help and encourage) and also to choose how we view ourselves and our neighbors, to make ourselves happier with our own lives. Attitude is a big part of our perceptions and happiness. We can, for example, choose to dwell on the negatives or to focus on positives while still working on improving what isn't working.


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Goals: Pioneer 11 was the first mission to explore Saturn and the second spacecraft in humanity's early reconnaissance of the outer solar system. The spacecraft carried instruments to study magnetic fields, the solar wind and the atmospheres, moons and other aspects of Jupiter and Saturn.
Accomplishments: Among Pioneer 11's many discoveries are Saturn's F ring and a new moon. It recorded the planet's overall temperature at -180°C, indicating that it emits 2.5 times as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Photographs revealed a more featureless atmosphere than that of Jupiter, and calculations based on data from Pioneer 11 suggested that Saturn is primarily liquid hydrogen with a core of about 10 Earth masses.
The dormant spacecraft is now headed out of our solar system in the general direction of Sagittarius, toward the center of the galaxy. Both Pioneers 10 and 11 carry a plaque with a message for any intelligent beings that might find them.


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Castle Waiting by Linda Medley combines so many of my favorite things: Sleeping Beauty, a castle, a circus, funny creatures that act like British gentlemen and NUNS WITH BEARDS. I didn't even know that nuns with beards were one of my favorite things until I read this book, but now nuns with beards are right at the top of the list with puppies. I don't think I even have to tell you what the story is about–I'm THAT confident that I sold you on it by saying "nuns with beards."
Okay, I will tell you a little bit what it is about: Sleeping Beauty has run off into the sunset with her Prince leaving behind her ladies-in-waiting to hang out in the castle. Soon odd guests begin to seek lodging in the castle, including a mysterious pregnant woman with the aura of a royal runaway, and share with each other their stories of love, loss, adventure, abuse, and facial hair.
So goodbye, Spice Girls–the nuns with beards are my new feminist icons.
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HEAD World Cup Rebel reflected on taking third place in the Lauberhorn Classic Downhill in Wengen but saying that this was a third place won and not a win lost. Svindal was just seven hundredths behind winner Patrick Kueng and just one hundredth behind Hannes Reichelt.
With a storm forcing the organisers to drop the start to just above Canadian Corner, below the iconic Hundschopf Jump, most of the racers agreed with the decision; Svindal commented that he would 'prefer to have a fair race than a race the full length of the course.' Despite this some racers benefitted from strong gusts of tail winds as they came through Haneggschuss.
With ten racers making the points scoring positions, Rainer Salzgeber, The HEAD World Cup Rebel Race Team Manager was happy with the performance despite not having taken the win: "The team skied incredibly well, it is not on top of the podium but it is really close to it and some young guys like Goldberg skied really well and that is fantastic." For Aksel Lund Svindal this was another box ticked as he took his first podium in Wengen, "it would have been a huge box ticked if I had won," he said afterwards.
With Bode Miller taking fifth place despite feeling he did not benefit from the wind at the top and then making a mistake on the final 'S' bends at the finish, yet Salzgeber felt that despite this he had skied well to me in the mix; Matthias Mayer took sixth and a super fast Johan Clarey took ninth after having almost twisted around through the middle Super G turns section. Svindal reflected afterwards that he did not believe that anybody had a perfect race given the conditions.
Asked if the shortened course had any effect in the choice of equipment, Salzgeber replied: "no difference at all, the only missing part on top, you can really gain or win the race was missing. If you have a really fast ski on the top section, for those forty seconds you need to be fast or you have no chance at all. Better to have a short race rather than no race."
Jared Goldberg punched his way into 12th place from a start of 40 and now feels "super excited as I have been trying to break into the top thirty all year and it has been a real learning experience."
With sixty more points towards the season long points haul, Svindal now turns his attention to Kitzbuehel with a healthy lead in the Downhill and ahead in the Overall as well.
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2. Hannes Reichelt (AUT)
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5. Bode Miller (USA) HEAD
6. Matthias Mayer (AUT) HEAD
9. Johan Clarey (FRA) HEAD
10. Beat Feuz (SUI) HEAD
12. Jared Goldberg (USA) HEAD
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Hey just looking to see if anyone wants to go halfsies on a Proto CE Valk. Or maybe get several people to go in together. Then we can just take turns throwing it. I only ask, because it's on ebay and it's just a little out of my price range, but not toooo bad......OK are you ready? it's only $2,000.00 DOLLARS!!!! WTF... You have to be kidding me.....lol!
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Hi all,
Here I'm going to share with you a small web app I developed to access Locate32 search database over HTTP.
A little background/rant
I coded it out of frustration from all the fruitless efforts looking for a file-based indexing solution that both:
1. Indexes network share folders/mappings
2. Provides a web GUI for remote search queries.
I heavily rely on Locate32 to index, on a daily basis, all my mapped NAS drives across my residence. These individual NAS mappings contain significant amount of media files and folders (100K+) and are mapped in the same way as my DLNA server advertises to media devices (such as TVs, Blu-rays players, media players, iPads, Android tablets that supports DLNA or local streaming services).
With all the drives and multi-level nested folder structures advertised to the media devices by the DLNA server, navigating using remote control has becoming a major headache, in that the process itself is somewhat slow, really inefficient and unpleasant if you couldn't pinpoint where your stuff was.
This is the sad status of the current DLNA implementations - all the media are available to you for streaming, but you just might not know where they are.
To workaround this problem, I did frequent Locate32 searches on my PC prior to picking up the TV remote to make sure that I'll navigate to the right locations on first try, however the process of logging into RDP, waiting for the session to load and launching Locate32 program to do a simple quick search is somewhat discouraging. And when this process got repeated several dozen times a day, it proved itself unacceptable.
And imagine the trouble of maintaining a laptop in living room just for this process.
My small piece of solution - a web GUI for Locate32
on PC Chrome Browser
on iPad
How to deploy
1. Download and install Locate32
Daily builds of Locate32 can be found here: http://locate32.net/files/daily/
2. Create one or more databases and update schedules in Locate32
and note down the full path(s) to the database file(s).
3. Install an ASP.NET application server (such as IIS Express) or Turn on IIS with ASP.NET feature on Win 7 Ultimate
Win 7 Ultimate:
Make sure your web server is running before moving on.
4. Download the attached source code and extract the content into the root directory of your web server/site.
5. Modify only the bold text below in settings.aspx to allow the scripts to correctly communicate with Locate32:
<script runat="server">
string Path_To_Locate32 = @"C:\Program Files\Locate\"; <-- update this with the Locate32 installation path
string[] Locate32_Database_Locations = new string[] {
@"C:\Locate32 DB\default.dbs", <-- update this with the full path you noted down in Step 2
6. Navigate to your new live search site and enjoy instant results!
This is my first ASP.NET project, and I could not have done it without the help of the following:
1. Various authors - who contributed code snippets used in this project
2. Google - for finding (1)
3. Krishean @ Donationcoder - for testing and offering great advice on C# coding.
4. Lanux128 @ Donationcoder - for testing and valuable feedback.
View silly pic below to see how this can fit into your home DLNA environment:


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Since 1983, the United States has resettled more than 1.6 million refugees. Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson of The Brookings Institution present the first report on U.S. metropolitan destinations, where the vast majority of refugees were placed between 1983 and 2004.
This summer's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah displaced Lebanese but also affected Lebanon's hundreds of thousands migrant workers and refugees. MPI's Kara Murphy reports on these groups and highlights the Lebanese diaspora's efforts to help.
Not long after the United States passed the 1980 Refugee Act, thousands of people began fleeing civil war in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Their treatment in the United States, linked to U.S. foreign policy, spurred the Sanctuary Movement and efforts to grant them refugee status, as Susan Gzesh of the University of Chicago explains.
Former Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Guterres became the 10th UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2005. Guterres talks with the Migration Information Source about refugee protection, challenges to the asylum system, internally displaced persons, and the media's reporting on asylum and refugee issues.
In the early 1990s, Ethiopians who had been living in refugee camps in Sudan began to return home. As Laura C. Hammond of Clark University explains, they created a new community in an unfamiliar part of Ethiopia that is thriving 12 years later.
This discussion on the current global challenges of protecting refugees with Volker Türk, who directs UNHCR's Division of International Protection, and Kathleen Newland, Director of the Refugee Protection Program was organized around three main themes: protection gaps, burden-sharing, and reducing statelessness.
The Migration Policy Institute celebrated its first decade as the authoritative, unimpeachable resource on immigration and immigrant integration analysis and policy design in the United States and internationally.
African immigrants generally fare well on integration indicators, with college completion rates that greatly exceed those for most other immigrant groups and U.S. natives, this report finds. The United States, Canada, and Australia disproportionally attract better-educated African migrants then do the United Kingdom, France, and other European countries.
The impact of climate change as a driver of human migration is expected by many to dwarf all others. Still, certain frequently repeated forecasts of the number of people who stand to be displaced by climate change are not informed by a complete understanding of migration dynamics, as this report explains.
This report explores the migration patterns and demographics of Black African immigrants in the United States, examining their admission channels, human-capital characteristics, and labor market performance. The authors also provide an analysis of these immigrants' integration prospects.
The U.S. refugee protection system, while generous in many respects, has become less robust over the last two decades. The unique and often diverse needs of emerging refugee populations have exposed severe limitations in the standard resettlement approach.This report examines U.S. legal and policy responses to those seeking protection and addresses the barriers, gaps, and opportunities that exist.
The conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Featured panelists included high-ranking government officials, academics, advocates, and other immigration experts.
Please join us for this discussion on the situation of Colombian refugees in Panama and Ecuador; their living situations; legal status; their access to employment, health care, or education; and the treatment of groups of particular concern, like Afro-Colombian refugees, unaccompanied Colombian minors, and refugee women.


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#LBBCchat: Coping With the Financial Impact of Breast Cancer
When: Wednesday, June 25, 2014
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If you have concerns about the financial impact of a breast cancer diagnosis, our hour-long Twitter chat, Coping With the Financial Impact of Breast Cancer, is for you. Using the hashtag #LBBCchat, our panel of breast cancer, finance and legal experts will provide you with the information to help you be your own best advocate by helping you discover
- what insurance will cover, and how to navigate both hidden and visible costs of breast cancer.
- how breast cancer can impact your personal finances.
- workplace accommodations and disability rights, and what you can do if you lose your job.
- resources available to you to help you ease the financial burden of medical bills.
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Monica Fawzy Bryant, Esq., is a cancer rights attorney, speaker and author, and serves as chief operating officer for Triage Cancer, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education and resources on cancer survivorship issues. Ms. Bryant is also a principal at North Start Alliances, a nonprofit business consulting and services firm. Throughout her career, Ms. Bryant has provided numerous education seminars, written articles and blog posts, and appeared on community television and radio shows discussing healthcare related legal issues. She received her bachelor's degree in law and society, with an emphasis in criminal justice, and psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara and her law degree from The George Washington University Law School. Follow her on Twitter at @TriageCancer.
Deborah Freedman, Esq., is deputy director of Community Legal Services, Inc. (CLS), a nonprofit law firm in Philadelphia, Pa., that provides free legal representation to low-income Philadelphians in civil cases. Previously, she served as interim executive director of CLS and as managing attorney of the North Philadelphia office of CLS and its family advocacy unit. Ms. Freedman has been a lawyer at CLS since 1992. Prior to positions in management, Ms. Freedman was a staff attorney and supervising attorney in CLS' public benefits unit. Ms. Freedman taught law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University and has been faculty at numerous continuing legal education programs. She received her bachelor's degree with High Honors from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Yale Law School. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 and has served as a volunteer on LBBC's Breast Cancer Helpline for more than 2 years. Follow Ms. Freedman on Twitter at @debbylf.
Emily Kitchen, is the associate manager of external relations, at the Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation. She manages social media, peer-to-peer fundraising, donor/provider external communication, and also assists in the execution of PAN's fundraising strategy. Ms. Kitchen has been with PAN for a year. She previously worked for the Biotechnology Industry Organization in their Business Development department. Emily graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in Nonprofit Management and holds certificates with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Center on Philanthropy. Emily brings several years of working with a variety of nonprofit organizations. Follow Ms. Kitchen and the PAN Foundation on Twitter at @PAN_Foundation.
Sarah Merchant is a volunteer for LBBC's Breast Cancer Helpline and the CEO and founder of Beyond Stage 4 ( www.BeyondStage4.org), a volunteer-run nonprofit that raises funds and awareness for metastatic breast cancer research. Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer when she was 28, Ms. Merchant is a single mother and has personally experienced the struggles of coping with the financial burden of ongoing cancer treatment. She received her BFA in new media design at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and was a successful web and social media designer in Boston, MA, prior to her diagnosis. Sarah is a part of LBBC's Young Women's Initiative as well as the National Breast Cancer Coalition's Project Lead, in order to better advocate for women and men with breast cancer. Follow Ms. Merchant on Twitter at @insertboobshere.
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The first 40 minutes of the chat will consist of our panelists tweeting responses to commonly asked questions about the financial impact of breast cancer. The remainder of the chat will be a question-and-answer segment in which you may ask our panelists questions you have about the financial aspects of a breast cancer diagnosis. We will post a transcript of the chat the following day.
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After you sign up for a free Twitter account*, you can either
- go to the top right-hand corner to the search bar on Twitter and enter "#LBBCchat"
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If you are new to tweeting and Twitter chats, you may want to simply observe our program. However, we encourage you to participate and engage in our chat and with our panelists. Here are some tips for participating:
- Be as brief as possible when you tweet. We suggest this because Twitter has a 142-character limit. Use abbreviations and if you include URLs in your messaging, use a free tool like tinyURL, which shortens lengthy URLs to preserve your character count.
- Try to keep your tweets and retweet (RT), Twitter's function or style of resharing another user's tweet, to a minimum for the first 40 minutes. This will allow more people to participate, as well as make it easier for audience members to follow the chat. Feel free to RT or "favorite" tweets you like; it may attract more people to the conversation.
- Please be patient with us and our panelists. We may not be able to get to your questions right away during the first part of the program. We will do our best to respond and will make every effort to get your questions answered during the audience Q&A.
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- If you get confused or lose your place in the Twitter chat, go to LBBC's Twitter page. This may make it easier to follow the thread, especially if you are not using a Twitter chat application.
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Overnight I-465 Restrictions
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) contractors will restrict traffic lanes on I-465 on the city's northeast side Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Walsh Construction, the state's contractor, will restrict the left lane of I-465 in both directions between I-69 and Allisonville Road beginning tonight at 9 p.m. The center lane of westbound I-465 will also be restricted beginning at 10 p.m. The lane restrictions are expected to be lifted before 6 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Walsh and its subcontractors have removed uneven pavement and are reconstructing the left lane of westbound I-465. Three westbound lanes of I-465 are temporarily shifted to the right between I-69 and Allisonville Road. The ramp from southbound I-69 to westbound I-465 is temporarily reduced to a single lane that merges with the right lane of westbound I-465. Eastbound I-465 will be reduced to two lanes and westbound I-465 will be reduced to a single lane during Tuesday and Wednesday nights' operations.
For details about the Allisonville Road bridge project and for information on how to sign up for the project enewsletter or text message alerts, visit www.AllisonvilleRoad.com. For construction updates, photos and more, go to Indiana Department of Transportation: East Central on Facebook and like our page or follow @INDOT_ECentral on Twitter.


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Welcome to Bear Lake Vacation Rentals! Availability list at the bottom of this description
Our lodges are great places for a family reunion, a work trip or families wanting to have a good time exploring the beauties of Bear Lake Valley & endless mountain trails. We have a great selection of Bear Lake private cabins, condos and campsites for a perfect Bear Lake vacation… any season of the year-winter, spring, summer and fall!
We are here to help you with planning your vacation. We'll be your resource for information regarding boating, biking, fishing, trails for ATV's or hiking, jet-skiing, snowmobiling, snow-skiing, hunting, ice-fishing and various points of interest and special events such as the Pickleville Playhouse and historical and recreational attractions. The Bear Lake Valley and the surrounding area have so much to offer with their historical and recreational setting and will make your vacation fantastic and enjoyable.
The crown jewel is Bear Lake, a large (8 miles wide and 20 miles long) scenic lake often called "Caribbean of the Rockies" for its intense turquoise blue water. As visitors catch their first glimpse of the lake, they marvel at its color and wonder what makes the lake so blue. Sitting on one of its many white, sandy beaches, you can imagine yourself on your own little island.
Bear Lake Cabins & Condos Availability as of June 8,2015
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Elk Ridge Lodge- 6 bedroom-sleeps 20 : May 25-31,June 1-12, 16-24, July 1,16,22, Aug 19, 23-31, Sept 1,2,7-30, all of Oct, Nov, Dec. See attached information sheet.
Harbor Village 2 bedroom Condo-sleeps 10 is open the following nights: May ,25-31, June 1-21,26,27, July 6-16,20-22,26-31,Aug 1, 9-31, all of Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec
Vern's Creekside Retreat- 3 bedroom-limit 50 on property and 15 in the home is open the following nights: June 1-24, 28-30, July 1-9, 13, 14, 15, 19-26, 31, August 1-4,9-13,17-31 and September, Oct, Nov, Dec
Bear Lake Lodge-8 bedroom–limit 100 people is open the following nights: May 19-31, June 9-24,28-30, July 1, 18, 19, Aug 3,4,5, 9-12, 16-31 and all Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec
Grizzly Bear Cabin-10 bedroom- beachfront limit 40 people and is across the street from Bear Lake Lodge is open for the following nights: All of May, June 1-24,28-30, July 1,25,26,27,28,Aug 2,3,4, 8-20, 23-31 and all of Sept, & Oct, Nov 1-24, 28-30, all of Dec.
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The poster
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Chico & Rita Los Angeles Premiere
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When: Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:00 pm
Where: Egyptian Theatre
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2 large
Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored
2 (10 ounce) cans
refrigerated crescent roll dough
1 cup
1 1/2 cups
white sugar
1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle
Mountain Dew ™
My son-in-law is diabetic, so I reduced the butter to 3/4 stick of butter melted with 1/2 cup of Splenda sugar blend, and used Diet Mountain Dew. Wonderful!
This was good but, the crescent rolls just tasted like preservative maximum. It did not taste fresh, like pie dough. So I made them with pre-made pie dough, cut the circle in 8 pieces(triangle) added 2 apple slices, sprinkled the tops with alot of cinnamon and brown sugar, followed everything else and, they were so much better.You could cut back on the sugar too. They were plenty sweet!
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**UPDATE 9.1.14** you absolutely MUST try these with fresh peaches in place of the apples, it's almost a religious experience!! ORIGINAL RATING: Oh my goodness, even after all the stellar reviews i was NOT expecting these to be as insanely yummy as they were! Halved the recipe as it was just for the hub and me and used a large gala apple, 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white, and added a teaspoon of vanilla after the sugars had melted. Poured over the little bundles of joy and then poured 1/2 can diet ginger ale over everything. We didn't have any vanilla ice cream but DID fortunately have whipped cream, holy moly we were in heaven and ate four of them between us!!! Amazingly easy and one of the best desserts I've ever made, this is definitely company worthy. Thank you thank you thank you for submitting this!!!
I made this tonight they are incredible. I halved the recipe and made one change. I used 3/4 cup sugar(1/2 cup white, 1/4 cup brown). Will be making this again and again.
I've made these apple dumplings for years and have received nothing but wonderful comments. The secret with the melted butter and sugar is to continue cooking it until it is well blended and thickens, stirring constantly. Then stir in the cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
This recipe was a huge hit at the last family gathering. Both my Mother and my Grandmother asked me for the recipe! After a few trials I've found that the key is to 1) coat the apples in cinnamon and sugar before wrapping 2) Use 2 parts white to 1 part brown sugar in the sauce. simmer until it makes a thick, rich caramel and pulls away from the side of the pot. then add 1 tsp. vanilla along with the cinnamon. With these tweaks the dumplings were not soggy at all as some reviewers had mentioned. Thanks for the great post!
This is great! Since this is super fattening, I made some changes & couldn't tell any difference. I used reduced fat crescent rolls, cut the sugar to 1/2c. & 1/2 c. splenda & used diet mountain dew. I cut back the butter to 1 stick + 2 tblsp. Does anyone know what the fat grams & calories would be with these changes?
This recipe reminds me of the apple dumplings my Southern Granny made, absolutely delicious! For those that say they are soggy, that is the way old fashioned dumplings tasted, soft and gooey and syrupy on the bottom and slightly crisp on the top. These were perfect! Everyone who has tried them has loved them and I live in the state of New York, not a southern state! I did try cutting the sugar back to 1 cup and that worked for me but everyone loved the original sweetness. Thank you so much, Lindy, for the "diabetic" recipe, I used only 1/2 cup of butter with 1 cup of splenda and diet Mountain Dew and it was great, only 4 Weight Watcher points compared to the 7 for the revised original recipe (with only 1 cup of sugar). I made mine with Northern Spy apples which may account for the extra "sweetness" to my dish but I would give this dish 10 stars if I could. Definitely a comfort dish and, as my sister says, there is not an easier dessert dish out there and it is pretty enough to take somewhere. Thanks again!
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Calories: 333
Calories from Fat: 171
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Christ United Methodist Church in Millcreek tells ABC 4 they will accept gay scouts if the Boy Scouts of America gives them a chance to choose who can join.
Scout camps, merit badges and Jamborees, all might soon be available to people who are gay.
"The national board is considering changing the membership standards," said Kay Godfrey, Spokesperson, Great Salt Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America.
A representative from the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America tells ABC4 the national board is considering allowing local scouting sponsors to now decide who gets to be a scout. In Utah, that means the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a handful of community groups and other churches.
"Come next Wednesday there might be a real different change, a real unique change to scouting," said Godfrey.
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Pastor Jean Schwien of the Christ United Methodist Church in Millcreek said that change couldn't come soon enough. Schwien told ABC 4 Reporter Brian Carlson her congregation already sponsors a Boy Scout troop. If the national board lets them decide who can join she said they would welcome gay scouts with open arms.
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Thursday, December 06, 2001SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Dec. 5, 2001) - East Tennessee State sophomore forward Lauren Trantham (Asheville, N.C) had a double-double of 14 points and 13 rebounds to lead East Tennessee State over Wofford, 76-74, in overtime. With the win, the Lady Bucs improved to 3-3 on the season, and 1-0 in Southern Conference play. The Lady Terriers fell to 5-1, 1-1. The squads traded leads in overtime, as first Wofford, then ETSU took the slight edge. The Lady Terriers went up by a point on a free throw by freshman Stephanie Ripberger with 1:21 reamining. Nine seconds later, the Lady Bucs' Ashley Reed (Barrackville, W. Va.) nailed a three-pointer to regain the two-point lead. The lead was stretched to four by two Summer Jones (Virgie, Ky.) free throws. Wofford's Jenny Nett cut it to two with a jumper at the 43-second mark. After a missed layup by ETSU, Wofford had a final chance to tie or win the game, but was unable to convert as the Lady Bucs grabbed the victory. East Tennessee State took an early lead in the game, building to as much as an eight-point advantage in the first half. However, Wofford would battle back before the break to lead by two, 40-38, paced by Nett's 12 first-half points. The second half momentum was nearly the same as the first. The Lady Bucs again edged ahead by eight, leading 60-52 on a Trantham jumper with 9:41 remaining. Once more, the Lady Terriers would answer as Stephanie Adelaine and Nett converted on four free throws in the final 1:09 to tie the game at 68. The double-double was the second of the season for Trantham, who duplicated the feat earlier this season in a game against Akron. She was joined in double digits by Jones, who had 14 points, including 10-of-14 free throw shooting. Reed had 11 points for the Lady Bucs. Nett led Wofford with 22 points, while Pheobe Clark had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Cathey Franks had nine points and a season-high 10 rebounds for the Lady Terriers. East Tennessee State continues its road swing with a Friday 7 p.m. game at UNC Asheville.
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After early artistic training in New York and Boston and military service in World War II, Ellsworth Kelly spent a formative period in France from 1948 to 1954. It was there that he developed his characteristic work. These abstractions drastically reduce glimpsed details of the world into the sparest of arrangements. The resulting forms are neither representational nor precisely geometric. He also explored chance as a compositional technique, and eliminated any visible brushwork from his solid color fields.
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Vonn turns up the gas to close in on Overall World Cup point's record with second in Ofterschwang GS
Lindsey Vonn turned up the heat with a devastating second run in Ofterschwang that lifted her from sixth to second … and so nearly took the win. Vonn, who admitted that her recent trip to New York had refreshed her after feeling lethargic during the races in Bansko, knew that closing the gap to first run leader Viktoria Rebensburg, 1.68 seconds, would be a daunting task. "My coach set the second run and I went for it," she explained. Standing in the finish seeing the advantage Rebensburg had ebb away, Vonn felt she could maybe win but in the end Rebensburg had just enough to win with Tina Maze taking third and Anna Fenninger fourth.
Back during the races in St Moritz in January, the spectre of beating the 2000 World Cup point mark set by Hermann Maier, started to look possible admitted Vonn. With points being gained across the board this year, especially in the technical events, Vonn has something to aim for now that most of the individual disciplines are almost decided. "Last year I was struggling to make fifteenth and this year, well, things are much better," she explained. "This is only my third career podium, so I am really excited with this result."
For Anna Fenninger, this was another fourth place: "I do not know how many fourth places I have had in my career: I know there is always one girl that has to be fourth. I am not disappointed as I had a lot of mistakes on the second run."
Lizz Goergl produced a stunning fightback on the second run that at one stage looked like it would end with her skiing out. A major loss of speed almost saw the Austrian HEAD World Cup Rebel grind to a halt: "I have the feeling that I could have done more with the result. The result counts but not what I could have done," she explained.
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