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Nations are only individuals on a larger scale. They have a life, an individuality, a reason, a conscience, and instincts of their own, and have the same general laws of development and growth, and, perhaps, of decay, as the individual man. A nation has a spiritual as well as a material, a moral as well as a physical existence, and is subjected to internal as well as external conditions of health and virtue, greatness and grandeur, which it must in some measure understand and observe, or become weak and infirm, stunted in its growth, and end in premature decay and death.
The simplest form of society is the family—Adam and Eve. But though Adam and Eve are in many respects equal, and have equally important though different parts assigned them, one or the other must be head and governor, or they cannot form the society called family. They would be simply two individuals of different sexes, and the family would fail for the want of unity.
The authority of the husband and father is recognized by the common consent of mankind. Still more apparent is the necessity of government the moment the family develops and grows into the tribe, and the tribe into the nation. Hence no nation exists without government; and we never find a savage tribe, however low or degraded, that does not assert somewhere in the father, in the elders, or in the tribe itself, the rude outlines or the faint reminiscences of some sort of government, with authority to demand obedience and to punish the refractory. Hence, as man is nowhere found out of society, so nowhere is society found without government.
The nature or essence of government is to govern. A government that does not govern is simply no government at all. If it has not the ability to govern and governs not, it may be an agency, an instrument in the bands of individuals for advancing their private interests, but it is not government. To be government it must govern both individuals and the community. If it is a mere machine for making prevail the will of one man, of a certain number of men, or even of the community, it may be very effective sometimes for good, sometimes for evil, oftenest for evil, but government in the proper sense of the word it is not. To govern is to direct, control, restrain, as the pilot controls and directs his ship. It necessarily implies two terms, governor and governed, and a real distinction between them.
Feudalism, established in Western Europe after the downfall of the Roman Empire, and by reminiscences of Greco-Roman civilization retained by the conquered, was a barbaric constitution. The feudal monarch, as far as he governed at all, governed as proprietor or landholder, not as the representative of the commonwealth. Under feudalism there are estates, but no state. The king governs as an estate, the nobles hold their power as an estate, and the commons are represented as an estate. The whole theory of power is that it is an estate; a private right, not a public trust. It is not without reason, then that the common sense of civilized nations terms the ages when it prevailed in Western Europe barbarous ages. The characteristic principle of barbarism is that power is a private or personal right, and when democrats assert that the elective franchise is a natural right of man, or that it is held by virtue of the fact that the elector is a man, they assert the fundamental principle of barbarism and despotism.
Hobbes, the English materialist, held that men lived, prior to the creation of civil society, in a state of nature, in which all were equal, and every one had an equal right to everything, and to take anything on which he could lay his hands and was strong enough to hold. There was no law but the will of the strongest. Hence, the state of nature was a state of continual war. At length, wearied and disgusted, men sighed for peace, and, with one accord, said to the tallest, bravest, or ablest among them: Come, be our king, our master, our sovereign lord, and govern us; we surrender our natural rights and our natural independence to you, with no other reserve or condition than that you maintain peace among us, keep us from robbing and plundering one another or cutting each other's throats.
Locke followed Hobbes, and asserted virtually the same theory, but asserted it in the interests of liberty, as Hobbes had asserted it in the interests of power. Rousseau, a citizen of Geneva, followed in the next century with his Social Contract, the text-book of the French revolutionists and put the finishing stroke to the theory. Hitherto the compact or agreement had been assumed to be between the governor and the governed; Rousseau supposes it to be between the people themselves, or a compact to which the people are the only parties. He adopts the theory of a state of nature in which men lived, antecedently to their forming themselves into civil society, without government or law. All men in that state were equal, and each was independent and sovereign proprietor of himself. These equal, independent, sovereign individuals met, or are held to have met, in convention, and entered into a compact with themselves, each with all, and all with each, that they would constitute government, and would each submit to the determination and authority of the whole, practically of the fluctuating and irresponsible majority. Civil society, the state, the government, originates in this compact, and the government, as Mr. Jefferson asserts in the Declaration of American Independence, "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed."
"Forms of government," somebody has said, "are like shoes—that are the best form which best fit the feet that are to wear them." Shoes are to be fitted to the feet, not the feet to the shoes, and feet vary in size and conformation. Ordinarily the form of the government practicable for a nation is determined by the peculiar providential constitution of the territorial people, and a form of government that would be practicable and good in one country may be the reverse in another. The English government is no doubt the best practicable in Great Britain, at present at least, but it has proved a failure wherever else it has been attempted. The American system has proved itself, in spite of the formidable rebellion to overthrow it, the best and only practicable government for the United States, but it is impracticable everywhere else, and all attempts by any European or other American state to introduce it can end only in disaster. The imperial system apparently works well in France, but though all European states are tending to it, it would not work well at all on the American continent, certainly not until the republic of the United States has ceased to exist. While the United States remain the great American power, that system, or its kindred system, democratic centralism, can never become an American system, as Maximilian's experiment in Mexico is likely to prove.
Fit your shoes to your feet. The law of the governmental constitution is in that of the nation. The constitution of the government must grow out of the constitution of the state, and accord with the genius, the character, the habits, customs, and wants of the people, or it will not work well, or tend to secure the legitimate ends of government. The constitutions imagined by philosophers are for Utopia, not for any actual, living, breathing people. You must take the state as it is, and develop your governmental constitution from it, and harmonize it with it. Where there is a discrepancy between the two constitutions, the government has no support in the state, in the organic people, or nation, and can sustain itself only by corruption or physical force. A government may be under the necessity of using force to suppress an insurrection or rebellion against the national authority, or the integrity of the national territory, but no government that can sustain itself, not the state, only by physical force or large standing armies, can be a good government, or suited to the nation. It must adopt the most stringent repressive measures, suppress liberty of speech and of conscience, outrage liberty in what it has the most intimate and sacred, and practice the most revolting violence and cruelty, for it can govern only by terror. Such a government is unsuited to the nation.
Armed with the ballot, more powerful than the sword, each citizen is able to protect himself. But this is theory, not reality. If it were true, the division of the powers of government between two co-ordinates, governments would be of no practical importance. Experience does not sustain the theory, and the power of the ballot to protect the individual may be rendered ineffective by the tyranny of party. Experience proves that the ballot is far less effective in securing the freedom and independence of the individual citizen than is commonly pretended. The ballot of an isolated individual counts for nothing. The individual, though armed with the ballot, is as powerless, if he stands alone, as if he had it not. To render it of any avail he must associate himself with a party, and look for his success in the success of his party; and to secure the success of his party, he must give up to it his own private convictions and free will. In practice, individuals are nothing individually, and parties are everything.
Parties are formed, one hardly knows how, and controlled, no one knows by whom; but usually by demagogues, men who have some private or personal purposes, for which they wish, through party to use the government. Parties have no conscience, no responsibility, and their very reason of being is the usurpation and concentration of power. The real practical tendency of universal suffrage is too democratic, instead of an imperial, centralism. What is to guard against this centralism? Not universal suffrage, for that tends to create it; and if the government is left to it, the government becomes practically the will of an ever shifting and irresponsible majority. Is the remedy in written or paper constitutions? Party can break through them, and by making the judges elective by party, for short terms, and re-eligible, can do so with impunity. In several of the States, the dominant majority have gained the power to govern at will, without any let or hindrance. Besides, constitutions can be altered, and have been altered, very nearly at the will of the majority. No mere paper constitutions are any protection against the usurpations of party, for party will always grasp all the power it can.
(Adapted from The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Republic: Its Constitution,Tendencies, and Destiny, by A. O. Brownson)


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Author: Lavinia Kent
Source: NetGalley
Length: Novel
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Reviewed by: Jasmyn
Rating - 2
Sexual - 4
I think this one just wasn't what I had expected. I had expected a little more seriousness on the historical aspects, but it seemed that the history was more of just a bit of a backdrop for everything instead of an actual part of everything. I really enjoy my historical settings and this one fell a little flat there.
In Lavinia Kent's luscious, erotic historical romance, a free spirit learns her true desires from a master of the heart, of the body—and of the sweetest discipline.
Lady Bliss Danser, daughter of the Duke of Mirth, is a scandal waiting to erupt. Which is why her highly conventional brother wants to saddle her with Stephan Perth, Earl of Duldon, the only man he thinks will marry her. Worse, Stephan keeps threatening to punish her, to teach her just how a woman should behave. His words may cause Bliss to tingle in the strangest places, but that doesn't mean she likes the man himself.
Stephan has secretly desired Bliss for years, but he knows how close he is to losing his beloved. Careful not to rile her impetuous heart, he promises only to aid Bliss in her search for another fiancé. And if she's determined to understand the male body first, he's happy to comply in that regard as well. However, she must follow his rules or face the consequences. Slowly he takes Bliss to the darker, steamier side of his world . . . where she realizes that Stephan is everything she's ever wanted.
The erotic part of the story was definitely on point. It's more of a low key BDSM with some light bondage, spanking, and feathers for the most part. But it was very sensual - he loved the anticipation. The scenes were written beautifully and they really flew above the rest of the book.
I also like a lot of story to go along with my erotica. It fell a little flat there as well. Bliss's reason for not wanting to marry Stephan is a pretty bad one, once we find out what it is. She refuses to tell him why she's been mad at him for several years though - it just didn't make sense to me at all. He does everything he can to show her that he cares and wants her, but a very minor slip years ago looks like it is going to ruin their chance at being happy together. This part was just too drug out for me.
I did really like the characters overall - just wasn't quite enough to balance out the rest of it.
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Freda's neighbor came over one morning and asked her for a favor. Apparently she had to catch the train for a business trip and she needed someone to look after her daughter for a couple of days. Freda had watched her daughter Jeni growing up and she had always been a polite and helpful child. She was happy to look after her while her mother was away.
They lived on Tyler Street in Birmingham, Alabama. That is in the northern part of the State in a quiet neighborhood with old trees lining the street. It is the kind of community that attracts young families.
Freda was 34-years old at the time, a natural blonde with green eyes. To say she was average looking belies the warmth of her southern personality and charm. Of course she would never refuse to help a neighbor.
The neighbor brought Jeni over along with a bag of clothes so that she would have something to ware and sleep in. The next day when Jeni got home from school Freda was working in the yard on her knees picking weeds out of her flowerbed. Jeni offered to help so Freda told her to change clothes first.
Jeni was a small girl for her age, but very outgoing. Most of the girls her age were well into puberty but she still looked like a child in every way.
The two of them worked in the yard for a couple of hours. They talk about casual things like what she liked about school. Freda had to ask what grade she was in because she was not sure how old she was. Jeni told her that she was in the seventh grade. Freda did a little math in her head to figure out that Jeni must be twelve.
When Freda felt it was time to start dinner she saw just how dirty Jeni's Jeans and hands were. She told Jeni to go get her swimsuit and use her pool to relax while she started dinner.
Freda washed her hands and checked the soup simmering on the stove. She started the dinner. She could see the backyard through the window so she was able to watch Jeni playing in the water while she worked at the sink. When she thought dinner was about ready she called out to Jeni to come in and shower before they ate.
After she set the table she thought about Jeni in the guest bathroom. She remembered that she had washed the bath-towels and she went to the wash-room and picked up the folded towels and took it to the guest bathroom. She never even thought about what she was doing as she opened the door.
The shower had clear glass inclosing it and she saw Jeni with her back against the tile wall with her hand between her legs rubbing her pussy. Her mouth was open and her eyes closed. She was clearly nearing an orgasm.
It was a case of mutual embarrassment. Jeni tried to turn her body towards the water to hide what she had been doing and Freda turned her head away and said, "I forgot to put clean towels back in your bathroom. I will just leave them on the toilet seat for you honey."
She kept her back to Jeni as she exited the bathroom and went back to finish dinner. It seemed like the clock stopped as she returned to the kitchen and set the table for two. Eventually Jeni came into the room sheepishly. Her hair was still damp.
Jeni asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Freda heard her own voice crack, "Just take a seat. Dinner is ready. As Jeni sat down Freda brought the pot and ladled out a serving of Navy bean soup. She gave Jeni a hand full of saltine crackers and filled her own bowl. As she sipped her own soup the air was electric with tension. Neither of them knew what to say to each other.
Jeni finally said, `Please don't tell my mother what I was doing in the shower."
Freda smiled weakly, "Honey everyone does that." She hoped that would be the end of the subject.
Jeni asked, "Do you do that too?"
Freda said, "I have been known to do that several times a day."
Jeni said, "A friend of mine showed me how to do that a few weeks ago and now I can't stop playing with myself."
Freda served a green salad with a couple of bottles of dressings so that Jeni could select one she would like. Afterwards she got up and brought a roast to the table and served Jeni some meat along with the vegetables from the pot and sauce along with a potato. Then she served herself. When she sat down Jeni would not let the subject die.
Jeni asked, "When did you start playing with yourself?"
Freda thought for a moment, "It was a long time ago. I think I was about your age."
Jeni asked, "How did you find out about it?"
Freda said, "An older cousin showed me."
Jeni asked, "What did she do?"
Freda thought for a longer moment before answering. She didn't know if she should tell Jeni everything or not. "As I remember it my cousin was visiting me for a few days and we were sleeping in my bed. We were talking after the lights were out. She asked me if I had ever rubbed my crotch. I didn't know what she was asking so she offered to show me."
Jeni was defiantly interested, "How did she do it?"
Freda could tell that Jeni was getting horny. "She put her hand between my legs and ran her fingers over my vulva. She made me feel so good. When she took hold of my hand and place it on her own vulva I found that hers had hair on it like my mother's. I copied what ever she did to mine."
Freda hoped that would be the end of the conversation about the subject. No such luck. Jeni wanted to talk about how her friend showed her.
Jeni said, "A friend of mine from school and I were playing at her house a couple of weeks ago. She had a play-house in her back yard that she used to play in when she was younger. It looked like a Swiss Chalet. It was wider at the top than the bottom so the walls slanted outwards. It was painted yellow with cute little shutters painted red and white. There were even little flower boxes under the windows. It even had a little half bathroom with a sink and toilet. She told me that it used to have play stove and such in it. She said she had them removed and a bed and wardrobe put in so she could sleep out there. She didn't want her mother or siblings in her room. She had shared a room with a younger sister until she moved out to the play house."
She went on to tell Freda, "She sat on her bed facing me and pulled her panties aside and rubbing her pussy. Then she pulled my panties aside and rubbing my pussy. We do that a lot now."
It disturbed Freda that the topic was exciting her so much. She cleaned up the table and served Jeni a bowl of strawberry Jell-O with Cool Whip on top while she did the dishes. When Jeni brought her the bowl she told her that she could watch some TV for a while.
When she was finished with the dishes she dried her hands off and hung the dish towel up to dry and went to the family room and sat down in her favorite chair. She picked up a romance novel and started reading in hopes that Jeni would just watch the TV.
Jeni was not finished. She came over and pushed the book out of the way and sat on Freda's lap and curled up and hugged her as she asked, "Will you please show me what women can do with each other to have fun?"
Frieda said, "I can't do that. Your mother would kill me if she found out that I was messing around with you."
Jeni kissed her on the mouth and begged again, "I won't tell what we do."
Freda felt her panties getting wet. Jeni had put on a simple old dress that she had all but outgrown. The waist was well up her ribs and the skirt was only half way down her thighs. She was bare footed and her panties were old and worn too. They were so tight that they were cutting into her flesh. Freda could see the impression through the cotton dress. She placed her hand on the round butt and felt the elastic leg band cutting into her bottom.
Jeni asked, "Is there more that women can do besides rubbing their pussy?"
Freda said, "If we do anything you can never tell anyone. That means you can't tell you friend what we do and you can never tell your mother for sure.
Jeni promised, "I will never tell anyone."
Freda stroked her butt and said, "Honey you are too young to be getting into lesbian sex."
Jeni said, "I like it and want to know everything."
Jeni placed her hand on Freda's breast and gave it a squeeze. She worked her hand down the front of Freda's blouse. The front had buttons and she unfastened a couple and worked her hand inside the cup of her bra. She pulled her DD breast out of the cup and admired the way it looked. The areola matched the size of her breast. It was the size of a coaster and the rubbery nipple was a big as an Even-Flow baby bottle nipple. She lifted the breast up and took the nipple into her mouth and sucked on it like she expected to get milk from it.
Freda was lost. She gave up fighting the girl and let the girl suckle all she wanted. She even found the bottom of Jeni's dress and slid her hand under it. She marveled at the velvety smoothness of her thigh as she hand found the panties. The elastic in the leg was so tight that any attempt to get her hand under the elastic would end in her breaking the band. She opted to just stroke her bottom. She ran her fingers up and down the crack of her ass forcing the material into the valley. She could not resist smelling her fingers and thrilled at the aroma of the girl's asshole.
Jeni stood up and reached under her dress and pulled her panties off. As they went down her legs Freda was able to see the brown hash-mark in the bottom of the panties. After Jeni stepped out of them she climbed back onto Freda's lap.
Freda had seen the red marks cycling her legs where the panties had cut into her soft flesh. She placed her hand on her butt and rubbed the flesh in an attempt to smooth the marks away.
Jeni pulled out Freda's other tit and started playing with it. She looked right into Freda's eyes and asked, "Will my tits ever be as big and wonderful as yours?"
Freda smiled, "They probably will be as big as your mothers."
Jeni thought about that and seemed pleased with the image in her mind. She was playing with one while sucking on the other. She made sure to suck on both nipples while Freda stroked her butt.
Freda unbuttoned Jeni's dress and pulled it off of her shoulder. It fell to her lap where it would stay until Jeni stood up again. Freda inspected the girl's upper body. Her skin was almost perfect. There was only a brown birthmark on the back of her right shoulder and a mole next to the areola on her left tit. Or should I say where her tit would be someday. She ran her hand all over Jeni's body and thrilled at the reaction when she touched the girl's nipples.
Jeni was thrilled beyond belief. She would suck the nipple of Freda's left breast into her mouth and pulled her head back stretching her tit out away from her body surprisingly far. They continued to play this game for a long time. It was as thrilling for both of them.
Jeni was the first to become impatient. She stood up and her little dress fell away. Her feet were planted on the floor shoulder width facing Freda.
Freda sat there looking at the girl for a long time. She marveled at the perfection of her skin. There were only a couple of scars on her knees left over from some scrape in the past as some mishap like falling off of street skates or running after an errant baseball. Her eyes could not avoid looking at the girl's crotch.
Jeni had a swollen vulva from her previous masturbation efforts and the skin had a reddish glow. Freda could not resist reaching out and placing her fingers and thumb on either side of her flesh right where her legs met her vulva and squeezing the fatty meat. She stroked the bulge for a short time and gently inserted a finger between the crack and felt the moist flesh. She saw the reaction of Jeni when her finger touched the clitoris. Then she gently inserted her finger into the girl's vagina where she masturbated her until the girl's legs buckled. She had to catch Jeni and lower her to her lap where she hugged the child while she recovered.
Jeni was ready for something more. She tried to stuff her hand between Freda's legs but the skirt was in the way. Freda finally had to put Jeni on her feet and stood up. She unbuttoned her blouse and removed it. Then she unbuttoned her skirt and unzipped it allowing it to fall to the floor. The bra was still under her breasts so she unhooked the back and let the shoulder straps fall off of her shoulders and join the other clothes piled up on the floor at their feet. Freda was down to her panties. Her large breasts swung as she moved. She bent over at the waist and her breasts sagged as she hooked her panties and pulled them down her body. They seemed to sag after they were down past her butt. They joined the scattered clothes like a pink layer on the mixed mess.
Jeni stood there fixed in place as she watched the women disrobe. Like everyone else gravity was pulling her flesh down but to a young girl she thought she was looking at the most beautiful woman on earth. The pubic area was unshaven and the hair was sparse enough that the girl could see her flesh and the smoky colored labia protruding out of her vaginal opening. Freda sat back down in her favorite chair and spread her legs so that the girl could see everything.
Freda cupped both of her breasts in her hands and rolled her nipples between her index and middle fingers. One by one she lifted each tit and sucked on her own nipples in front of the girl. Jeni knelt on the floor between her legs and placed her hands on the woman's thighs. She was practically worshiping at the alter of lesbianism. She wanted this to last forever. The smell was being burned into her memory so that she would always recall the aroma emanating from her lovers crotch.
The flesh was moist from the heat of the woman's body and the pubic hair had the odor of urine along with the odor of her vaginal fluids. The thrill of parting her first adult woman's labia and getting her first look at the hooded clit was enough to inspire her to lick the opening without being asked. After her first taste she was not about to stop. When Freda placed her hands on the back of her head she knew she was doing what the woman wanted. They moaned and stroked each other in their desire to please one another.
Freda was quick to climax. When she did she bathed Jeni's face with her juice only to pull her up her body and lick and kiss the face of her young lover until the face no longer smelled of her cunt.
Freda pushed Jeni away and lowered her to the carpet on the floor. Then she mounted her body much like a man would so that she could kiss her mouth and grind her pubic area into the girl's. She worked her way down her body until she was in position to perform oral sex on Jeni. She used her mouth to suck and lick the girl's little clit until the girl was someplace between heaven and hell, ecstasy and pain. Just when Jeni thought she could stand it no more Freda wet her finger in her little vaginal opening without penetration then she slide her finger over her pudenda and tickled her sphincter. She thought she was going to pee but instead she had her first orgasm.
The magic moment of release was the most wonderful experience of her young life. After they recovered they talked about what women could do with each other.
Freda was not about to penetrate Jeni's hymen but she told her about dildo's, vibrators, beads that could be inserted into either her vagina or anus. She told her about butt plugs and other things like nipple rings and clamps.
Jeni wanted to try everything but Freda wanted her to take it slow. She cautioned Jeni about being so obvious about her sexual desire that she would draw attention from her mother or school authorities. They slept together that night and made love well into the morning hours.
Jeni was too young to take Freda's advice and not only practiced what she had learned on the girl that had first shown her about masturbation but she sought out other girls to play with. When her mother caught her in her bedroom sucking the pussy of a girl from her school Jeni didn't tell where she learned what she was doing but she was watched by her mother very carefully after that.
When her mother asked Freda what she should do about it Freda assured her that it was probably a phase that she would out grow eventually. Freda cautioned Jeni about getting caught again. Freda made sure that Jeni's mother would never catch her making love to her daughter. She would only take her to bed when her mother would not be around.
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Nura Gili News Ed. 25
18 December 2015
Our final edition of Nura Gili News for the year the weeks leading up to the end of the year area are always particularly busy for of us here at Nura Gili and 2015 was no exception.
Enjoy the stories and I wish you all a wonderful holiday, with time to rejuvenate with family and friends before the new challenges awaiting us in 2016.


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A Proper Preface for Lent says, "You bid your faithful people to cleanse their hearts and prepare with joy for the Pascal Feast; that fervent in prayer and works of Mercy, and renewed by your Word and Sacraments they may come to the fullness of grace …"
Works of Mercy Let us be especially diligent in Lent to:
- Bring food every Sunday for homeless clients at Loaves and Fishes
- Fill the collection basket in the front hallway with the item requested by Daybreak
- Volunteer help for someone needing assistance
– Invite someone to church
- Call or send cards to people on the Intersessions Prayer List
- Serve at Weekend Lunch
Fervent in Prayer We can open ourselves to the presence of God by:
- Setting aside a time of day for silent contemplation, or some new prayer practice
- Coming to Morning Prayer at 9:15
- Coming to Wednesday Healing Eucharist at 12:10
- Walking the labyrinth
- Pray the Jesus Prayer throughout the day
- Reading Compline in the Book of Common Prayer before going to sleep
– Praying for people and situations you hear about in the media
– Fasting
Renewed by your Word and Sacraments There is an abundance of spiritual books to study:
- Read any of the Gospels.
- Follow an online meditation – maybe Richard Rohr's
- Attend the Wednesday night Lenten study and Compline service
– Pick up your free copy of "Lenten Meditations" from ERD – Episcopal Relief & Development
- Make an appointment with Fr. Ben for Confession and Absolution (Reconciliation of a Penitent p. 447 BCP).
– Attend a Sunday school class
Prepare with Joy All these practices lead to one point: the celebration of new life in Jesus. Easter is little more than a Rite of Spring unless we prepare our hearts for joy with mercy, prayer, Word and Sacraments.


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As America's second largest city, with its West Coast mentality, green city initiatives, and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger quoted as stating "The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy", there is understandably a significant green-conscious community. Many LA restaurants offer an eco-friendly dining experience, however, in the home of the Hollywood film industry where not everything is as it seems, it is not uncommon for restaurants to make such claims to lure in eager unsuspecting diners. With so many patrons seeking out locally sourced, organically grown, and sustainably raised foods, readers are encouraged to do their due diligence. Here are few eco-friendly food options we're keen to trust:
Tender Greens
6290 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, California
(323) 382-0380
With several locations scattered across southern California, Tender Greens appears to be one of the most dedicated organic and environmentally conscious restaurants around. Just how dedicated? Their online menu indicates where each specialty ingredient in each dish comes from! Crunchy lettuce from Scarborough Farms, blue cheese from Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, and chorizo from Espinola Meats - it's all there. For all the micro managers out there, each ingredient even links to the website of the producer, and it doesn't end there. For all the health nuts, Tender Greens also provides a menu calorie counter. So, for example, if one was to order roasted roma tomato soup with basil oil to start, the marinated flat iron steak as a main, with a side of baby spinach with cabernet vinaigrette, one should expect to take in about 570 calories, 33 grams of fat, 27 grams of carbohydrates, and 44 grams of protein, not to mention 83% RDI of vitamin C, and 43% RDI of iron.
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Los Angeles, California, USA
(310) 854-0234
Much like the first moon landing, O! Burger has staked their flag to the claim for being the first totally organic burger joint in the Los Angeles area. Everything from their meat patties and buns to their ketchup and fries are certified organic. Their website even provides useful information pertaining to the various benefits of organic foods as well as further information as to steps they've taken to insure that their restaurant is as green as it gets. The most amazing part is that it's actually really affordable!
Sage Organic Vegan Bistro
Los Angeles, California, USA
(213) 989-1718
Sage serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner and offers a wide variety of dishes from burgers, wraps, and salads to curries, pastas, and mushroom steaks. They make a point of offering a seasonal menu that is prepared in conjunction with the help of local farmers as includes ingredients that are organically grown and pesticide free.
3823 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California, USA
(323) 663-6885
Don't worry, they do the foraging for you! This restaurant's claim to fame is in finding the best locally raised meats and organically grown vegetables. The owners of Forage promote sustainable dining practices as an essential component of building a better world. The menu changes depending on the quality and availability of seasonal ingredients, with a choice of about 3 or 4 appetizers and an equivalent number of mains, and you can determine just how much protein you want - choosing from small, medium, or large to reduce waste.
Life Food Organic
Los Angeles, California
(323) 466-0927
More of a vegetarian health food store than a restaurant, Life Food offers smoothies, soups, salads, and desserts in their café. They also sell packaged raw foods and supplements all while taking a very earth-conscious approach to their ingredients and packaging. A great place to eat and shop, one could make a pleasant afternoon out of a trip to Life Food Organic.


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Some people in the UK hate Halloween. Some say it is nothing more than an imported American idea that encourages kids to go around annoying people and begging for treats, while others refuse outright to let their kids go out on Halloween night because they say it is a celebration of a pagan festival. The truth is that both these camps are wrong. Halloween actually has its roots in an Irish festival, and it also has links to a Christian celebration. These days, Halloween is nothing more than a bit of fun for kids and adults alike, so here are ten little titbits of information about Halloween that may not have known.
1. Halloween began as a Celtic tradition
It all began around 2,000 years ago in Ireland with a festival known as Samhain. The ancient Celts believed that Halloween was the night that this world and the next came closer together to allow those that had departed during the year to cross over to the other side. Of course, if the two worlds overlapped on this night, then the dead could come back to life and haunt the living, hence the traditions of Halloween.
2. 'Halloween' is contraction of All Hallow's Evening
If you have ever wondered where the word Halloween comes from, it is a shortening of the words 'All Hallow's Evening', which means all saints evening. Halloween is the night before All Saints Day, a day for Christian remembrance of the dead, including the saints and martyrs.
The tradition of wearing masks on Halloween night goes right back to the earliest days of the celebration and it had nothing to do with trying to scare the pants of the neighbours. Because Halloween was the night that the spirits could walk the earth, people wore masks to fool the spirits into thinking that they too were ghosts.Today, of course, that tradition has grown into the wearing of things like horror movie Halloween costumes.
4. Trick or treating was not an American invention
Although the modern tradition of trick or treating for candy is widely thought to be an American gift to those of us who would prefer a peaceful night in on 31st October, this is a tradition that has its roots in Europe. On All Souls Day, another name All Saints Day, or Halloween, poor people would knock on the doors of the wealthy and be given a piece of soul cake, which was a type of shortbread, in return for a promise to pray for the dead of that house.
5. Halloween is now, commercially, second only to Christmas
Halloween has become so popular that is now a multi-billion dollar business that comes second only to Christmas. In the United States, around 3 billion dollars are spent every year on costumes and the sales of candy skyrocket by another 2 billion dollars.
6. There is a medical name for the fear of Halloween
Some people don't just dislike Halloween; they have a morbid fear of it. People who are seriously afraid of Halloween are said to be suffering from Samhainophobia. The name means a fear of Samhain, which is the ancient Celtic name for Halloween.
7. There are Roman traditions of Halloween too
Halloween is a festival that has taken traditions form many other different festivals including the Roman festival Pomona. This was a festival that celebrated the goddess of the harvest, Pomona, and that is why apples, nuts, and dates feature in the celebration with things like bobbing for apples.
The Jack O' lanterns carved out of pumpkins that we see today on Halloween night, would have originally been made of turnips or other root vegetables. They were placed in the windows of homes to scare away the evil spirits. The idea for using pumpkins, did originate in North America, but the original tradition started in Europe
9. They celebrate Halloween in china too
Many countries have a tradition similar to Halloween. In China, it is called The Lantern Festival, or Teng Chieh. In China on Halloween night, people hang lanterns outside their homes to help guide the spirits and they leave food and water out for their ancestors.
10. Michael Meyers mask in the 1978 movie "Halloween" was William Shatners face
OK. So this is not, strictly speaking, a Halloween fact, but it is interesting nonetheless. The scary mask that Michael Meyers wore in the 1978 movie "Halloween" was a cheap Star Trek Captain Kirk mask that had been painted. The movie was made with such a small budget, they had to buy the cheapest props they could find.
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The band's entry for the competition has not yet been revealed. This year is the first time that Orda have made it through to a Turkvizyon selection final and will be hoping to replicate the success of Zhanar Duaglova who won the competition in 2014.
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The U.S. Department of Education has selected Chemeketa to be one of just 67 colleges and universities across the country to test whether expanding incarcerated individuals' access to financial aid will increase their participation in education programs. The experiment is called the Second Chance Pell grant program.
"We were selected because Chemeketa has a long and successful history of providing educational programs in Oregon's correctional institutions," said Jonathan Tucker, executive director of corrections education at the college.
Chemeketa offers the only complete college degree program for incarcerated individuals in Oregon. Currently over 175 students at two prisons are involved. The college estimates the recidivism rate among its graduates to be 6%. Oregon's Criminal Justice Commission reports that of felons released from prison in 2012, 40% were convicted of a new crime within three years.
"Access to Pell grants will help reduce the financial barriers that prevent our population from educational opportunities to build their confidence, learn skills or a trade and be better equipped to succeed outside," said Tucker.
A 2013 study from the RAND Corporation, funded by the Department of Justice, found that incarcerated individuals who participated in correctional education were 43 percent less likely to return to prison within three years than prisoners who did not participate in any correctional education programs. RAND also estimated that for every dollar invested in correctional education programs, four to five dollars are saved on three-year re-incarceration costs.
A 1994 Congressional change to the Higher Education Act eliminated Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated individuals in federal and state penal institutions. Under the Second Chance Pell grant program, the Secretary of Education will waive existing financial aid rules that prohibit otherwise eligible students who are incarcerated from accessing Pell grants.


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|Picture from a website with ways to get rid of the smell.
At first, I was convinced that it was the black and white cat that walks the neighborhood all the time, but...
Um, no. I was staring at a real life Pepé Le Pew.
Um, no. I was staring at a real life Pepé Le Pew.
You know what? I'm a big fan of cartoon Pepé. He's very cool, but I've never really wanted to meet him in person.
How did I not smell him?!
So I freeze, and Pepé stares back. He's not moving either. "What do I do?" I wonder, since getting up and trying to head for the door might scare it, and I'd have to cross the stairs. I can't breathe, and I say a quick prayer that he doesn't decide to come up the steps.
I'm trapped.
He loses interest, turns around and saunters right back under my porch.
Noooo! Now I have no way of knowing if he actually left! It's garbage day tomorrow, and they are always here bright and early, so it's imperative that I take it to the curb before I go to bed.
I took the opportunity to get back in the house, but I was sooo worried that I would scare him and he would spray under the porch... Wouldn't that be lovely?
Worse thing is, if he's still there, he could end up blocking the stairs, and I could end up stuck like a frozen turkey being held hostage by a skunk.
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This lovely creature is my new porch kitty. He loves cuddles and purrs loudly. He gives me big head butts and shows up every morning around 8AM and leaves us at night around 9PM. He wears a little bell around his neck, so you always know when he's around. He reminds me of my dearly departed cat Simba, and I'm always happy to see him show up. I'm not allowed pets here, but porch kitty gives me all of the perks with none of the drawbacks. Except missing him on days his mom doesn't let him out to play.
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I believe that teaching and research are synergistic activities. Excellence in one does not come at the cost of another, it improves it. Any institution short changing one is suffering a loss of intellectual capital.
I believe that we do not have the right tools to quantitatively measure the impact of an academic. This does not mean that we shouldn't try, but it does mean that we should take our tools less seriously.
I believe that excellence in the classroom cannot be scripted.
I believe that academic freedom means the ability to follow the path of knowledge for its own sake. We do not yet know which bits of fundamental knowledge will yield applied advances. I believe in useless knowledge.
I believe that the goals of being a good academic and being a good scientist should be in alignment. Academic freedom is the ability to do this in the face of broken incentive structures.
I believe that if you are writing a paper merely for increasing the length of your CV, you are doing it wrong.
I believe that science only works when it is open. I believe in making my papers openly available on the web, in sharing data, and treating publication as communication first, accolade second.
I believe in open access. Science that is locked up behind a paywall isn't science.
I believe that learning is doing. Education is not "infotainment" and it's better to demonstrate learning through projects than tests.
I believe that pride comes from hard work. Very few people can point to an "easy A" class as a life changing one. Similarly, the papers that ultimately have the most impact are those that stretch you the most.
I believe there is a difference between hard work and burnout. Burnout is antithetical to creativity.
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In her six and a half years at the Missouri Attorney General's Office, Joanna tried cases in federal and state courts throughout Missouri. In addition, she developed expertise in Medicaid regulations and compliance and has worked extensively with the Missouri Medicaid Audit and Compliance Unit and other state officials at MO HealthNet and the Department of Health and Senior Services.
Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Joanna was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison, LLP in New York City. There, she worked on securities fraud, white collar criminal defense, and wage and hour litigation.
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In 2006, I took a small amount of money from my bank account and bought some shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill
I wish I would have pawned all my worldly possessions along with those of my friends and family. The stock gained nearly 10 times its original value in just six years, climbing from about $45 to a peak of $440, before stumbling after its recent earnings report.
When I bought Chipotle, I didn't do any thorough financial analysis or even look at its P/E ratio, but I knew it was a great company, having visited their stores several times, and I knew it had just IPO'd so it seemed like a great time to buy. Going to college in Colorado, Chipotle's home state, gave me an advantage over other investors as I had early access and awareness of the company as well as the ability to see its popularity among my classmates, who raved about it. It seemed clear to me that this company was bound for success.
Recalling that experience, I decided to look back and see what lessons I could learn as I search for the next 10-bagger. The following are three key factors that I think investors should look for.
1. Mass appeal
Peter Lynch famously encouraged investors to "buy what you know" -- whether that knowledge is geographical, job-related, or something else -- as this is one of the best ways to find an advantage over the market. Simply paying attention to what products people are raving about and what companies are just better than the competition can be one of the first hints of a multibagger.
For example, I don't see a lot of corporate logos on car bumpers, but I've noticed that Apple
Other companies that have exemplified these characteristics include Under Armour, whose logo has become as ubiquitious as the Nike swoosh, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
2. Growth potential
This part may seem obvious, as pretty much every publicly traded company is focused on growth, but some parts bear explaining.
Stocks can appreciate in two ways: earnings growth or valuation. Of course, earnings growth is preferred, but an increasing P/E ratio is often a sign of a highly regarded brand such as the ones identified above and should not necessarily be a cause for concern.
Look for companies with a growth rate of 25% or more and with plenty of room to expand. In retail, using companies such as Chipotle or Lululemon as an example, this can be as simple as looking at store counts. Considering both companies have just a fraction of the locations of larger competitors McDonald's or Gap, it seems they should be able to grow revenue for years to come as long as their products remain popular.
Growth potential with consumer goods companies can be more difficult to gauge. Look for a low market share, new products in the pipeline, and opportunities abroad. Apple's iPhone, for instance, still has a relatively low market share despite trouncing the competition in profits.
Perhaps the best example of a company that keeps generating new growth opportunities is Amazon.com
3. Size
Finally, the third quality to look for in a potential 10-bagger is the right size. Companies like Apple and Amazon clearly have mass appeal and growth potential, but are too big already to grow 10 times in size. Even most of the other companies listed above are already worth around $10 billion in market value, and considering only a small list of companies have reached $100 billion, it seems like we should be looking at smaller targets.
A market cap of around $1 billion seems like an ideal size for a potential 10-bagger. Companies this big are small enough to have room to grow, since $10 billion is a reasonable goal for most publicly traded businesses, but they're also big enough to have proven themselves, have a track record, and are generally profitable.
Chipotle, Lululemon, Green Mountain, and Netflix were all in this $1 billion range before their shares took off. For young growth companies, that cusp seems to be a good indicator of when to invest.
Now that we've examined the primary factors to use in identifying potential 10-baggers, I'll next take a look at a few stocks that fit these criteria. Click here for my next article, where I'll discuss stocks that I think could become 10-baggers.
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X-raying the past
Palaeontologists from Bochum study fossils using high-resolution computer tomography
New evidence: ammonites were probably able to swim
Method established using the shell of recent nautilus
Ammonites had a visceral mass that was protected by a helical shell with several chambers. One theory postulates that the creatures lived at the bottom of the sea. Another claims that they were able to swim by using their shell with its gas-filled chambers to compensate for the weight of their shell and soft body, rendering them neutrally buoyant. Together with his team, RUB researcher Dr René Hoffmann investigated how much buoyancy an ammonite shell could generate. First, the palaeontologists from Bochum developed a reliable evaluation technique for their CT images, using the nautilus shells as a test object. Their method now enables them to precisely ascertain the volumes of the examined shells and to calculate their weight, as well as the volumes of the gas-filled chambers. The data thus gathered indicate the buoyancy generated by the shell. In order to clarify if the ammonites were able to swim, the researchers need to know if their shell provides sufficient buoyancy to compensate the weight of the visceral mass and the shell. They estimated the latter, basing it on observations of the nautilus animal.
Technique requires special fossils
For the CT analysis, René Hoffmann needed hollow fossilised ammonites. In order to find them, he travelled to Russia and Japan, to name but two. Together with PhD student Robert Lemanis, he analysed a 0.98 millimetres large ammonite hatchling. The result: three to five gas-filled shell chambers would have been sufficient to enable the ammonites to swim freely in the water directly after hatching. The examined shell had eleven chambers. How many of them existed in the moment of hatching, however, cannot be ascertained – the larger the molluscs became, the more chambers they created. Still, the RUB analyses showed that the hatchling would not have been condemned to dwelling at the bottom, even if only one chamber had been filled with gas; using active swimming motions, the young ammonite would have been able to move around freely in water and stop itself from sinking.
Detailed article in "RUBIN", the RUB's science magazine
A detailed article with pictures can be found in the online magazine RUBIN, the RUB's science magazine: http://rubin.rub.de/en/ammonites. Text and images in the download page are free for use for editorial purposes, provided the relevant copyright notice is included. You would like to receive a notification when new RUBIN articles are published? Then subscribe to our newsfeed at http://rubin.rub.de/feed/rubin-en.rss.
Bibliographic record of the original publication
R. Lemanis, S. Zachow, F. Fusseis, R. Hoffmann (2015): A new approach using high-resolution computed tomography to test the buoyant properties of chambered cephalopod shells, Paleobiology, DOI: 10.1017/pab.2014.17


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French band will release new album in April
Phoenix have revealed a brand new single, 'Entertainment', the first track to be taken from forthcoming new album 'Bankrupt!'.
The track was premiered on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show last night (February 18) and is the first new material from the french band in three years. Scroll down to hear it. The band will release their fifth album and the follow-up to 2009's 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' on April 22.
Phoenix have been working on the record since 2011 and recently revealed that it was recorded on the same console as Michael Jackson's 1982 album, 'Thriller'. Guitarist Laurent Brancowitz bought the Harrison 4032 console on eBay for $17,000 (£10,826). Singer Thomas Mars said the band purchased the console because they "liked the idea of working with a consecrated artefact, as well as having something strange upon which to fixate between albums".
Singer Thomas Mars said: "The most mysterious part to me was that no one else – no nerd or music engineer or memorabilia freak – seemed to want it," he added. The console was shipped to Paris for the recording sessions for 'Bankrupt!', and the group originally toyed with naming the record 'Alternative Thriller'.
The tracklisting to 'Bankrupt' is as follows:
'The Real Thing'
'SOS In Bel Air'
'Trying To Be Cool'
'Drakkar Noir'
'Oblique City'
Phoenix are among the latest additions to T In The Park 2013, along side Foals and Kendrick Lamar. The band will also headline this April's Coachella Valley Festival of Music and Arts in California, and also play the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in Germany, which take place from July 7-9.