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The End of Bin Laden
Pretty much the whole world is ablaze with the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at the hands of a U.S. Special Forces unit. It turns out that he wasn't hiding in a dirty cave in the mountains after all, but was in a mansion compound just outside of Islamasbad, Pakistan. So why did it take ten years to track him down? Frontpagemag.com has a pretty good working theory:
America failed to locate Osama Bin Laden for almost 10 years not because it wasn't trying hard to find him, or because American intelligence is incompetent. It took so long because the Godfather of Terror was surrounded by many Muslims who would rather protect him with their lives than give him up to America — and no amount of financial reward was going to convince them to give him up.
There is no doubt that many Muslim leaders knew exactly where Osama was hiding — and that it was not in the caves of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but in a huge mansion with very high fences that indicated to the whole neighborhood that someone big was hiding there. . . . But gradually the love affair of many Muslims with Bin Laden started fading away and other jihadist heroes took his place. That was a signal to the leaders of Pakistan and perhaps other Muslim leaders to go ahead and give him up to the United States since it is now less dangerous for them and perhaps can be used as leverage for some demands from the U.S. government.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which according to the AP "seeks the establishment of a state run according to Islamic principles through peaceful means" and has "a more moderate approach," naturally condemned the mission as an assassination.
Another Flotilla of Firearms?
Just a year after a violent confrontation when Israeli security forces stopped a flotilla trying to run the Gaza blockade (which resulted in some Photoshop shenanaginsby the international press), another flotilla is being readied for the same purpose. Oh, not the purpose of helping Gazans.
It turns out that Gaza is doing just fine as far as the necessities of life go. No, it's for the purpose of making Israel into the bad guy again–and maybe getting some weapons into terrorist hands while they're at it.
Fukushima Continues to Melt Down
I posted a neat little graph from xkcd some weeks ago showing just how little radiation we're getting from the plant here in the States. I wasn't trying to downplay the crisis; I was trying to show the fallacy of panicking over here. Japan needs help (though they won't admit it), not hystrionics. The sad fact is, however, that things aren't going good, as the blog post at the title link explains. The post translates an interview with Michio Ishikawa of the Japan Nuclear Technology Institute, which includes this lovely detail:
"I believe the fuel rods are completely melted. They may already have escaped the pressure vessel. Yes, they say 55% or 30%, but I believe they are all melted down. When the fuel rods melt, they melt from the middle part on down.
(Showing the diagram) "I think the temperature inside the melted core is 2000 degrees to 2000 and several hundred degrees Celsius. A crust has formed on the surface where the water hits. Decay heat is 2000 to 3000 kilowatts, and through the cracks on the crust the radioactive materials (mostly noble gas and iodine) are escaping into the air.
"Volatile gas has almost all escaped from the reactor by now.
Again, no panicking allowed. As David Brenner reports in the Wall Street Journal:
We know enough to say with some confidence that the radiation-related risks are small immediately outside the 20-kilometer evacuation zone in Fukushima, very small in the rest of Japan, and minuscule in other countries, including the United States. Clearly, the radiation risks are not big enough to change our travel plans (even to Tokyo or Kyoto), and certainly not big enough to stop drinking the water or eating the food even close to the evacuation zone.
Japan needs material and spiritual support right now, not panic.
Pain at the Pump
If you're like me, you're facing sticker shock at the gas pump. As Jack Kelly points out:
Oil prices are rising because (a) the value of the dollar is declining, which makes everything we import more expensive; (b) the Middle East, where most of the world's oil is produced, is in turmoil; and (c) because the Obama administration has sharply restricted oil drilling at home. Gasoline prices could be cut in half within a few years if those restrictions were lifted, according to Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The price of gas is a dollar a gallon higher now than it was at this time a year ago. Most of the rise has come since Mr. Obama imposed a partial ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
The last oil price spike ended on July 14, 2008, which, noted Will Collier, "was the very same day then President George W. Bush lifted, by executive order, a federal ban on offshore drilling."
The price of oil began to rise again in January 2009, which, coincidentally, was the month Mr. Obama announced he would reverse Mr. Bush's order.
There's another good reason for America to work at increasing our energy independence by any means necessary. Mexico will soon stop exporting oil, as reported by the New York Times:
A drilling platform in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap field in the gulf, Mexico's biggest oil project.
Mexico, the third-largest supplier of foreign oil to the United States, could lose the capacity to export crude altogether within a decade without major new investments in exploration and production, warns a research group report released on Friday.
The country's shift from exporter to importer would deal a severe blow to Mexico's federal government, which depends on oil sales for roughly a third of its budget, said the report, a two-year investigation by researchers with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston.
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While visually rich, Santana Row, San Jose, is a little over the top for me. Still, my family had a very nice meal at a famous pasta chain restaurant there, recently, and thoroughly enjoyed our time.
The restaurant we were originally aiming to dine at had about 25 hopefuls outside alone, just waiting to get in, and the seating was expected to take nearly 2 hours. We decided to browse other queues for better forecasts.
After 2 or 3 table submissions, we settled at the relatively humble and very pleasant Pasta Pomodoro. The decor was nice, the furnishings modest and clean, and the atmosphere warm. Our host seated us near the open kitchen, where we enjoyed watching the cooks rustle frypans with hasty aplomb over a blazing grill fire from a comfortable distance.
I selected the Penne Portobello, a mildly rustic blend of pasta, mushrooms, and basil with bits of chicken and sausage. The dish was good, the portion light and the meats a bit scarce, if adequate. I counted the cost of the ingredients as netting a huge profit, but factored in the location and other overhead, and counted myself blessed for a good meal in great company at a reasonable price!
The fresh squeezed lemonade was an ample portion of the best restaurant version made in my memory by far! For a rare dessert, I quite enjoyed a well made chocolate soufflé, "dolce cioccolato", a fluffy but substantive blend of "cake" filled with thick, semi-sweet liquid chocolate, and dressed with a dollop of good, lightly sweetened, real, fresh whipped cream; a drizzle of chocolate sauce, a dusting of powdered sugar, and a fresh mint leaf. I should caution the baker, however, he or she seems heavy handed on salt! A little bit on mine, and excessively on a bread pudding I sampled.
Our server was both kind and professional, and that made the time even better. When the staff came out to sing happy birthday to our table neighbors, the girl who made the announcement spoke at the top of her lungs. She was not obnoxious, and would do well to use her voice to help earn her keep.
Our family rounded out the evening by walking the row in the cool night breeze and window shopping. A nice end to a near-perfect meal.


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I just saw this on Facebook and HAD to come here and let you all know! Because I would be doing my job if I didn't!
OPI's next polish collaboration will be with rock goddess Gwen Steffani!!! I really really really hope this isn't someone messing with my emotions, because this is going to be a great collection!
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I saw this on You Tube. A kid's project really but thought it fun to try. One of the eyes has slipped round but it looks like he's looking down. Thanks for looking. I do welcome and appreciate all your comments.


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At Sunnybank Special School students and staff come from a broad range of social, cultural and refugee backgrounds. The school is proud of its high level of multicultural enrolments.
School students and their families are involved in a large number of school activities. These include the school sports day, multicultural day and the end of year awards and school concert. All students are active participants, supported by their families and the community. These events are highlights of the school year.
The school participates in a number of community events such as the Lions Circus, Rotary Picnic, Darling Point Fun Run, Bus and Tram Art Competition and Special Mini Ekka. These provide an opportunity for the students to share with the wider community.
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Last night, I took Alyssa up on her offer of one free ticket to the PBS taping of The Artists Den with Sheryl Crow at the Plaza Hotel. Aside from it being too random to pass up, I actually am an avid listener of the Sheryl Crow Pandora station – it's like the Lilith Fair in your headphones.
When we first got there, the whole thing seemed very unorganized – booze was downstairs, standing room only etc. etc. but then it got good. Sheryl was awesome and played most of her old songs (sprinkled with some of her new country songs, which are pretty cheese), and we got to stand under Katie Couric's balcony seating.
Katie is apparently a huge fan. She spent the whole time canoodling with her man and taking videos of the concert on her phone. I checked her Instagram to see if she posted any photos from the concert. She didn't, but she did post this:
I was really hoping to meet her at the VIP after party at the Oak Room (yeah we had access, we are fancy) so I could charm her and she'd take me under her journalistic wing, but she left the show early.
The show ended on a great note with "Everyday is a Winding Road," so we were excited when she came back for an encore. Apparently they thought it would be an awesome idea to end the concert with a song that made everyone want to go blow dry their hair in the tub.
"Waterproof Mascara" is a new country jam about Sheryl Crow's fatherless children and it includes the line "Thank God they made waterproof mascara 'cause it won't run like his daddy did."
So after that song ended everyone kind of laughed about it and was like okay kiss kiss goodnight, I'm going to go never listen to that again. But then Sheryl came back. Since this was taped for TV she had to do some songs over again. This was one of them. Seriously? Luckily she redeemed herself by having to redo "Steve McQueen" after that.
But then, she had to do the mascara song AGAIN. Three times. She even apologized for being such a "womp." I mean, yes, you are a womp right now Sheryl. The only upside, we thought, was that by this point we knew the lyrics so we could pretend to get really into it and they would want to tape us for the show.
Even after three renditions of the most depressing song ever written, I was still loving the Sheryl so I was all for going to the Oak Room to meet her. The first thing I noticed is that she's super tiny, the second thing I noticed is that she's super nice. Alyssa happened to come across an article about her in Rolling Stone so she brought it to get signed. After she signed it, my girl Sheryl remembered that she had yet to shake my hand so she initiated the best-friendship – which is good because I would not have let her off the hook. My name is Lidia and it's nice to meet you, Sheryl – and I'm not letting you get away without hearing it!
We couldn't get a photo with her because she was in and out really quickly, but we stayed afterward and hung out with all 5 people who actually showed up to the after party. And by "hung out" I mean we sat by ourselves and had all the free cheese and salad and wine.
Then we left the plaza to head back home and Alyssa stepped on a rat – just a little reminder of our real place in this world after a night of luxury.


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I want to start this post by letting it be known that I don't have a terrible job. It seems that the negative experiences seem to constantly seep out in my online rants, but there are good things too. Like today for example a graduate from last year came to me and told me that she was in community college and she was there because of me. If I hadn't supported her, she wouldn't be in college right now. It gave me that warm fuzzy feeling.
In other news I was finally polled last night by a media group.
I always read about these political polls about where Americans are with their political leanings or interests and I think, "whatever, they never asked me!"
but they did, they did. My opinion, no matter how small it is will be heard. The two issues that I said were most important in the upcoming election were health care and the war. I thought about it and can't believe that I didn't say education. I guess I don't see the pitfalls as much working at a charter school, even though I am very aware of their existence.
My voice is heard, and I hope other voices are heard as well in this upcoming election.
Here is a link to an important bill that was just vetoed:
Let congress know what you think about children's health care.
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The funny thing about those two topics being most important to you is that all the candidates dance around both of those topics. I would say that they are two of the most important for me too and I'm frustrated that I haven't gotten a concrete answer from anybody. May go third party this time?ReplyDelete
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A new month… a new day…
So much potential
So much to do…
Why is it that I always want to read what I don't have to?
Have to read – "Macroeconomics"
Want to read – "The Art of War" &" Phantastes."
Today, I am thankful for the decent distractions college life presents and the beautiful Seattle city lights.
Coffee and Seattle are synonyms.


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Road trips are a summer staple, as essential to the warm-weather months as sunburns or cannonballs in the deep end. And all memorable journeys are bound by a few important rules. Mine? Snacks are a must, the driver's in charge of the radio and — most importantly — no sleeping while I'm at the wheel. If I'm awake and driving, then you're awake and passenger-ing. Plain and simple.
Not that it's all that easy to fall asleep in a moving car, anyway. Thanks to rumble strips, stop lights and hairpin turns, sleeping on the road can be as hard as sleeping on a plane. The strange thing, however, is that while there's plenty of advice on how to sleep while crammed in coach, there's not much on the ins and outs of catching shuteye in the car. For the sake of roadtrippers everywhere, I reached out to several sleep professionals to secure some answers and discovered that dozing on the road comes down to two things: safety and seat angle.
My rule about "no sleeping while I'm driving" mostly exists to protect me from being bored and lonely, or needing to lower the radio (roaaaad trrrripp!). But Rafael Pelayo, a professor at Stanford University's Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, points out an additional safety aspect. When passengers are sleeping in the car — especially on long trips — the driver may be more likely to nod off as well.
"What'll happen is while you're sleeping the driver will try to be considerate and keep everything quiet and calm...keep the music down to help you sleep," he said. "That'll make the other person sleepy also."
According to Pelayo, it's only safe for passengers to sleep in a car when at least three people are present. In that scenario, at least one person can stay up and keep the driver company while the other sleeps.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, there may be a few factors that can heavily influence a passenger's ability to fall asleep.
First off, Pelayo says that the safest way for a passenger to nod off is in the backseat, so a second passenger can stay awake up front with the driver. In most cases, this means that the passenger will either have to sleep sitting upright or lying across the seat. The former is uncomfortable, and the latter, while more conducive to shuteye, is less safe in the case of an accident. So that's not really ideal.
If the backseat happens to recline, however, then you're in luck: Past research (admittedly from several decades ago and focusing on a small sample size) suggested that adequate sleep can be achieved while sitting up if the chair reclines at an angle of 40 degrees or greater. The same study found that sleeping while sitting nearly straight up, on the other hand, resulted in poor sleep quality compared to sleeping while lying down. Although, more research is needed to draw any definitive conclusions. (For the record, several years ago Slate asked Michael Decker of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine whether it was possible to get a good rest sleeping while sitting up and concluded that it is — but also pointed to the same research suggesting that 40 degrees is the ideal reclining angle.)
In general, then, it seems that having to sit up without an adequate reclining angle poses the biggest hurdle to travelers trying to get some rest, whether it's in a car, plane or other mode of transport. This really is no surprise, especially if you consider what happens to the body during sleep.
During slow wave sleep, our muscles become relaxed. Ever nod off at your desk during work or school? Well, then you've likely felt yourself slip or or slump forward, waking up as a result. Unless you're lying down or reclining in a stable position, you'll likely wake yourself up as soon as you start to drift. Not ideal for erect slumber, in-car or otherwise.
General common sense comes into play with car Zzzs, too. Pelayo suggests planning ahead if you want to sleep while traveling and knowing what time you want to rest and for how long. It's best not to drink caffeine within six-ish hours of the time you'd like to sleep, and Pelayo also recommends avoiding over-the-counter sleep medication, which he says may not last long enough to be effective. And it's usually easier to fall asleep in a cool environment, so blasting the air conditioning may help as well.
Of course, the conditions that are most conducive to a passenger's rest may leave the driver feeling sleepy too, so there's a risk factor no matter what, Pelayo cautions. And this makes it all the more important to make sure at least one person is awake and engaging the driver in conversation.
So, given the right conditions, it is possible for passengers to get quality rest. But it's not best practice, as far as safety or summer vibes are concerned.


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Bill was defeated by the votes of 139 deputies in the 250-seat parliament
Pope Francis asserts that Armenian massacre first genocide of 20th century.
Nationwide ceremonies mark 23rd anniversary of civilian deaths during battle for strategic town in Nagorno-Karabakh region where A
White House exhibits the "Armenian orphan rug" regarded as a symbol of so-called Armenian genocide
Azerbaijan has always stood with Turkey's Prime Minister's on allegations regarding the 1915 Armenian incidents.
Faik Ali took out all the evidence he had to prove that the Armenians that were living in Kutahya were innocent after Talat Pasha wanted to enforce the law being made about deporting the Armenians. Faik Ali stated that he would withdraw from his position if they enforced this law, and after he had threatened them to leave, Talat Pasha took a step back and cancelled the deportation.
A 35-volume compilation of Turkish-Armenian history composed by 350 historians is to be published.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged for the rebuilding of Turkish-Armenian ties after Turkish PM Erdogan offered unprecedented condolences to relatives of those who died during the incidents of 1915.
After the meeting, Aram Atesyan said that he was pleased with Erdogan's message of condolences to the descendents of the victims of the 1915 tragedy in which many Armenians lost their lives.
Despite offering condolences last week, Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to call the events of 1915 a genocide.
Injustice against Armenians and Kurds in Turkey is no longer taboo, said Germany's President Joachim Gauck during an official visit to Turkey.
Chair of State Committee on Diaspora Affairs Ibrahimov backed Turkey against Armenian claims of 'genocide'.
A number of Armenian community representatives have suggested that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be given the Nobel Prize for his efforts to make peace between Turks and Armenians.
President Ilham Aliyev backs Turkey and accuses Armenia of not wanting peace in the Caucasus.
"Today we commemorate the Meds Yeghern and honor those who perished in one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century" Obama said.
The 1915 events took place during World War I, when a portion of the Armenian population living in the Ottoman Empire sided with the invading Russians and rose up against the Ottoman authority. The uprisings were followed by a decision by the Ottoman Empire to relocate the Armenians living in eastern Anatolia.
Turkey has called for the research of the 1915 events to be carried out by a commission of Turkish, Armenian and international historians, the Turkish Prime Ministry said in a statement earlier on Wednesday ahead of the anniversary of the events.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offered what the government said were unprecedented condolences to the grandchildren of Armenians killed in World War One
American historian Justin McCarthy says genocide allegations binds Armenians together because "they define themselves by this pain and suffering".
Historians will discuss Armenian genocide claims using findings of international studies.
The U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said the evaluation of the 1915 events should be left to historians.


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Ever wanted to hear Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger belt out an opera? (Really, you have?) Well, now you can.
The brothers behind "Conan the Barbarian: The Musical" (and also the more recent "Robocop: The Musical"), Jon and Al Kaplan, have once again retooled a yonder hit starring America's favorite Austrian import into an irreverent fan tribute.
"T2: The Opera," fuses footage from James Cameron's first "Terminator" outing and its bombastic sequel to streamline the epic sci-fi story into a CliffsNotes type run down. The sweeping three-minute opera, sung solely by the titular gun wielding Terminator, makes for a surprisingly moving opus. Get that Kleenex out. [via Cinematical]


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An important safety briefing for local pilots is being held in Mount Isa next week.
The free aviation safety briefing to be delivered by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority will be held on Wednesday, September 13 at 6 pm.
All local pilots are urged to attend the briefing at the Ibis Styles Hotel.
Pilots will learn lessons from past accidents and give feedback and suggestions to CASA.
The briefing will focus on pilot pre-flight and in-flight decision making, flying within personal limits and hazards during landing.
CASA's Peter Gibson says the briefing is part of a national aviation safety campaign.
"Getting pilots to think and talk about aviation safety issues is the key aim of the briefing," Mr. Gibson says.
"This is not just CASA talking but a chance to share safety knowledge and experiences."
People attending should book online at the CASA website.
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If I'm going to finish all of these recipes before the End Times, I'm going to need a
little lot of help from my friends. My sweet friend Kelly, who blogs at Jet and Bean asked me a few weeks ago if I'd ever made the Wild Rice Salad from How Easy is That? I told her that I hadn't, and then shamelessly asked her to write a blog post for me if she decided to make it. Lucky for me (and for you all) she said yes! If you see something that I haven't covered yet on The List and you're interested in contributing a guest post, please let me know!
…and apologies to Kelly and readers. The formatting is all wonky because WordPress and our outdated software aren't playing well together. I have several posts lined up and waiting… Thanks for your patience!
A perfect Easter lunch is one that shouts, "Christ is risen! Rejoice!" but can also be made the
day before and is ready to eat within thirty minutes of arriving home from church. We
sometimes get it in our heads that salmon is the thing to eat on Easter, so I was looking for a
rice dish that could be made the day before and served cold. Ina Garten's Wild Rice Salad
looked perfect, both for its simplicity and its use of pecans. We (happily) have a surplus of
The salad was simple and quick to toss together. I used red wine vinegar instead of
raspberry vinegar and threw in a little extra of everything except the oranges. This was my
first experience with trying to segment an orange like a chef on a reality show, and it proved
to be just as tricky as it looks. Many orange segments were lost in the process.
The end result was a nice dish that was overshadowed by everything else we ate for lunch on
Easter. It had to compete with broccoli and bacon salad and parmesan baked zucchini, and
that's a tough heat. We ate the leftover wild rice salad on Monday night with chicken and
vegetables, and gave it a much more glowing review. It's not necessarily a holiday worthy
recipe, but much nicer than what I would usually serve with chicken and vegetables on a
Monday, which is probably just a glass of water. It's a good make ahead side for a weeknight
family dinner.
A terrible dish is one that is less than the sum of its parts, like a bowl of Cheerios and
ketchup. A fantastic dish is one that is so much more than the sum of its parts, like a
s'more. Do I ever just want to eat a marshmallow? I do not. But would I devour a s'more at
any given moment? Yes. Definitely. A good weeknight dish is on that is equal to the sum of
its parts, like a cold salad that tastes like wild rice with fruit, pecans, and craisins.
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Charges have been dismissed against Gamecock basketball player Rakym Felder, who had been charged in connection with an incident in Five Points over the summer.
Felder was arrested July 13 by Columbia police and charged with third-degree assault and battery, Richland County court records indicated at the time. The charge stemmed from a fight in Five Points in the early hours of June 30, according to a Columbia Police Department incident report.
The decision to drop the charges was made by the city's prosecutor, Columbia police spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons told The State. Timmons would not say why the charges were dismissed.
Messages left with Felder's attorney, Neal Lourie, and USC athletics spokesman Steve Fink were not immediately returned Thursday afternoon.
Felder played a key role in USC's Final Four run this past season and had been expected to replace P.J. Dozier at point guard. He is not enrolled at USC in the fall semester, but with the charges dropped the door could be open for him to return next semester.
Felder was charged July 13, and a judge released him the same day on personal recognizance. He had been suspended from the team since June 30.
"Due to some unfortunate decisions by Rakym, he has been suspended indefinitely from our program," Coach Frank Martin said in a statement when Felder's suspension was announced last month. "I will continue to help Rakym grow as a young man even though basketball is not part of our relationship right now."
Felder released the following statement Aug. 16 through Lourie:
"I'm very sorry for my recent behavior that led to my arrest and school suspension. I take full responsibility for my actions and make no excuses for my conduct.
"I apologize to the entire University of South Carolina family including our loyal fans, President Pastides, Board of Trustees, Athletic Director Ray Tanner, Coach Martin and his staff, and my teammates. I know I have let you down and I will have to work hard to regain your trust."


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In 1972 the small country of Bhutan, on the Northeast border of India, had a new ruler. Taking over after the death of his father was 17 year old Jigme Singye Wangchuck, known as the Fourth Dragon King, which is much easier to pronounce for us Westerners. It was a time when the isolated country was opening itself up to modernization, and facing the very live question of what would be the relationship between these economic forces and the traditional Buddhist spiritual and cultural values. So, the Fourth Dragon King, in his first year of leadership, coined the phrase Gross National Happiness. At first this was a casual, informal idea that he proposed to the nation – but it was taken seriously and adopted by scholars in Bhutan who developed an extensive survey instrument to quantify the nation's overall well-being. After 34 years of rule, in 2006, the Fourth Dragon King gave up his throne and initiated the country's first ever parliamentary elections. Maximizing Gross National Happiness remains a guiding value in Bhutan for setting public policy. (For a fun 3 minute video about this history link HERE)
We are used to hearing about Gross National Product, GNP, or the closely related Gross Domestic Product, GDP, which is a measurement of the overall value of goods and services in a particular country in a given year. When GDP goes up, we say that the standard of living is rising. In 2011 the GDP of the United States was over 15 trillion dollars, more than twice that of the second highest nation, China.
In contrast to Gross National Product, which is purely a measurement of economic activity, Gross National Happiness, GNH, has developed over the years to account for a number of aspects of human and planetary wellbeing. By definition, happiness is quite subjective, hard to measure, hard to quantify and impossible to reduce to graphs and charts. But this GNH idea has been adopted by various scholars and organizations around the world and in the last few years a number of different indicators and indexes have been developed to measure Gross National Happiness. One of these, the Happy Planet Index, this year ranked Costa Rica as the happiest country on earth for the second year in a row. Nicaragua ranks as the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere economically, but turns out to be the 8th happiest in the world. In April of this year the United Nations issued its own World Happiness Report. The report states "We increasingly understand that we need a new model of humanity…Should the world pursue GNP to the point of environmental ruin, even when incremental gains in GNP are not increasing much (or at all) the happiness of affluent societies?"
I really like that line, "We need a new model of humanity." It sounds very biblical, something right out of the mouth of the Apostle Paul, or Jesus himself.
In Matthew 5, at the beginning of The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches a series of beatitudes, each beginning with the same word: blessed. What does it look like to be blessed? Blessed are the poor in the spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are the meek. This particular word translated 'blessed' can also be translated as 'fortunate.' It can also be translated 'happy.' You're in privileged circumstances if… Fortunate are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Happy are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. The Common English Bible, a newer translation which is a joint project of a wide collection of faith communities and aims for accuracy as well as accessibility for readers, uses Happy throughout the beatitudes. Here is how the beatitudes sound in this translation:
"Happy are the hopeless (poor in spirit), because the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Happy are people who grieve, because they will be made glad.
Happy are people who are humble, because they will inherit the earth.
Happy are people who show mercy, because they will receive mercy.
Happy are people who have pure hearts, because they will see God.
Happy are people who make peace, because they will be called God's children.
Happy are people whose lives are harassed because they are righteous, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs."
"Happy" is a tricky word. Partly because it's such a moving target. What one era or generation defines as happiness will shift in the next. Happiness has been a part of our national psyche ever since it obtained a prominent place in our Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men – all people – are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." We've been pursuing happiness ever since, with varying degrees of success. Personally, I would have to say that Graeter's black raspberry chip ice cream is one of the more perfect pursuits of happiness that we have achieved.
In an essay titled, "A History of Happiness," Darrin McMahon traces some of the changing ideas about happiness through the centuries. He starts by stating: "I think it is probably fair to assume that most Americans today consider happiness not only something that would be nice to have, but something that we really ought to have—and, moreover, something that's within our power to bring about, if only we set our minds to it. We can be happy, we tell ourselves, teeth gritted. We should be happy. We will be happy. That is a modern article of faith. But it is also a relatively recent idea."
He traces the linguistic roots of the word and notes that in every Indo-European language, without exception, happiness is a cognate with words meaning luck. Happiness is related to happenstance, well out of our own control, a thought captured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the words of the monk: "And thus does Fortune's wheel turn treacherously And out of happiness bring men to sorrow In other words, the wheel of furtune controls our happenstance, and hence our happiness." I have to admit that in reading this I couldn't help but notice that phrase "Wheel of Fortune" and think about Pat Sajak and Vanna White cheering on some starry eyed contestant to avoid bankruptcy and get a hide dollar roll. Out of our control.
McMahon also points back to the ancient Greeks and Romans who had notions that happiness could be earned and worked for, although it may involve sacrifice and discipline, an idea we still carry. He also cites Aristotle to highlight that happiness was viewed more as a moral reality than an emotional state. Aristotle wrote: "Happiness is a life lived according to virtue."
McMahon ends his essay by making some comments on the peculiar modern condition that he calls the unhappiness of not being happy, and suggests that if we focus more on the happiness of those around us and less on our personal happiness, that it might lift us all into a more enjoyable life.
The book of Deuteronomy gives a listing of covenantal blessings and cursings which follow a fairly simple formula. If you obey the Lord, and carefully follow the Instructions of the law, you will be blessed. If you disobey, you will be cursed. In the words of Deuteronomy 28:4 Obedience to Torah means, "Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl." The blessings continue to be named and include military victory, material prosperity, good weather for growing crops, and a long life with many children." This stands as something like covenantal orthodoxy through a fair amount of the Hebrew Scriptures, such that the Gross National Happiness of Israel is connected with the faithfulness of the people and the kings who lead them. But there are cracks in that narrative that occur all the way through. Abraham and Sarah are prosperous materially, but are childless up until their very old age. There are droughts and famines and military losses that couldn't be explained entirely through this kind of grid. Perhaps most famously, the prosperous and righteous Job loses all his children and wealth and even his own health, through no act of unfaithfulness on his part. Although the Bible doesn't use the language of happenstance, it appears that these forces have been having their way throughout the centuries and that they can't be contained simply by right moral action.
Blessed are those who…. Happy are the ones who….
It doesn't take too long reading through the beatitudes before one realizes that there's more going on here than just another happiness index, one more version of a list of things that lead to a fulfilling life.
Leading up to Jesus' giving the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew has just told us that Jesus had been traveling and teaching throughout the Galilean countryside and villages, announcing good news and healing every disease and sickness. And then there's this sweeping statement about people bringing to him all those who had various diseases, those in pain, those possessed by demons, those with epilepsy, and those who were paralyzed – all those suffering from mental and psychological and physical ailments. We could say that these are the people who found themselves confronted with difficult realities beyond their ability to control. And it says, "Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up a mountain." And when you go up a mountain, and give a long monologue, you get a sermon on a mount, and when it's a really good sermon, it's the sermon on the mount. And these are the kinds of folks who are around when Jesus speaks these beatitudes. It would have been quite a scene.
And because Jesus was more into giving good news than good advice, we can imagine that these beatitudes are intended, not so much to present a list of spiritual qualities for the people to attain, if you do enough of this then you'll be blessed and happy, but as a way of naming the ways that they were already blessed, as a way of telling them, these walking wounded, or, perhaps, the unable-to-walk wounded, that, despite evidence to the contrary, they are in privileged circumstances. Is anybody here hopeless? Well, you're in luck, because the kingdom of heaven is for folks just like you. Is anybody here hungry and thirsty for food or for justice? You are most fortunate to know that hunger. One must first be empty before one can be filled. Commentator William Barclay suggests that that initial word – blessed, fortunate, happy – could also mean "congratulations."
The beatitudes include inner dispositions and attitudes, like humility, and poverty of spirit. They include actions that one does, like mourning, and making peace. And they include actions done to you, like being harassed or persecuted because you've done right. Many of these we might spend a fair amount of energy trying to avoid. They're not conditions we typically associate with happiness or being blessed. They're counter-intuitive.
It's almost as if Jesus is leading the crowd in a rendition of "If you're happy and you don't know it, clap your hands." If you're hopeless, humble, hungry, harassed, then congratulations, you're happy and you don't know it, yet. Clap your hands. You will soon come to realize that you stand in a privileged position. And you will be filled, you will inherit the earth, the kingdom of heaven, the beloved community is all yours and no one can take it away from you. If you grieve, if you're pure in heart, if you show mercy, if you make peace , then you're happy and you don't know it. Stomp your feet. You're already participating in this beloved community, the new model of humanity.
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, it says that the crowds were amazed, because he was teaching them like someone with authority. I wonder also if they were a bit confused. What kind of statements are these? Did he just say what I think he said? I imagine that part of the reason they felt he taught with such authority, such power, was that it wasn't just that they had been promised some kind of future blessing which will come about over the course of time, but that, in hearing the words, they actually experienced themselves as blessed, as being in privileged circumstances, as being filled with a deep happiness they couldn't quite explain. The beloved community was theirs, is ours.


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Scientists have found microorganisms within Kentucky shale that are eating the ancient carbon locked within the rock. This previously unrecognized dietary habit could have a prevalent role in the weathering and erosion of similar sedimentary rock at many other locations, say the researchers.
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Becca Sue, you are phenomenal in your honesty and your DIRE pursuit of health and wholeness. I applaud your hard hard hard work in coming this far - seriously, LOOK how far you have come. From couch to marathon training. Seriously. Second, I don't know if I know anyone with such an INTENTIONAL heart toward her husband and child. If there is one thing I could say about you, and one thing alone, it is that you love like you mean it, 100% of the time. That is hard to do and hard to find. I cheer for you and Dan coming through this difficult season and will pray for continued strength and recovery. I think it's awesome that you're seeing a physical therapist. Your willingness, almost without a second thought, to seek help from people who are well qualified is a beautiful thing. Whether academic, spiritual, emotional, professional, or now physical, this is something I've seen you do time and again, and it's awesome. I think it makes Abba really happy that you draw on the resources around you to help you be as built up as you can be. And finally... there are worse things than Taco Bell. At least, if you're going to do something unhealthy, it's a ranchero chicken soft taco with extra ranchero sauce.

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January 26, 2017
OLSON, et al., Plaintiffs,v.CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants.
DER-YEGHIAYAN, District Judge
matter is before the court on Defendant City of Chicago's
(City), Defendant County of Cook's (County), Defendant
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employee's (AFSCME), and Defendant Vito Barbara's
(Barbara) motions to dismiss. For the reasons stated below,
the motions to dismiss are granted in part and the remaining
state law claims are dismissed without prejudice.
Elizabeth J. Olson and Edward E. Olson allegedly own the
property at 3359 S. Lowe Avenue in Chicago, Illinois (Subject
Barbara allegedly owns the neighboring property located at
3361 S. Lowe Avenue in Chicago, Illinois (Neighboring
Property). Plaintiffs contend that on August 14, 2008,
Barbara erected a fence in a walkway between the Subject
Property and the Neighboring Property. According to
Plaintiffs, the fence is approximately ten to thirteen inches
away from the Subject Property and prevents all use and
access to the Subject Property. Plaintiffs contend that
Defendants engaged in a civil conspiracy to deny Plaintiffs
the use of the Subject Property in violation of
Plaintiffs' equal protection rights. Plaintiffs include
in their complaint claims against all Defendants alleging
equal protection violations brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C.
§§ 1983 and 1985(3).
Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) (Rule 12(b)(1)) requires a
court to dismiss an action when it lacks subject matter
jurisdiction. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1); see also Ezekiel v.
Michel, 66 F.3d 894, 897 (7th Cir. 1995)(stating that
when reviewing a motion to dismiss brought under Rule
12(b)(1), the court "must accept as true all
well-pleaded factual allegations, and draw reasonable
inferences in favor of the plaintiff"). When subject
matter jurisdiction is not apparent on the face of the
complaint and is contested, "the district court may
properly look beyond the jurisdictional allegations of the
complaint . . . to determine whether in fact subject matter
jurisdiction exists." Sapperstein v. Hager,
188 F.3d 852, 855-56 (7th Cir. 1999)(internal quotations
omitted)(quoting United Transportation Union v. Gateway
Western Railway Co., 78 F.3d 1208, 1210 (7th Cir.
1996)). The burden of proof in regards to a Rule 12(b)(1)
motion is on the party asserting that the court has subject
matter jurisdiction. Id.
ruling on a motion to dismiss brought pursuant to Rule
12(b)(6), the court must draw all reasonable inferences that
favor the plaintiff, construe the allegations of the
complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and
accept as true all well-pleaded facts and allegations in the
complaint. Appert v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter,
Inc., 673 F.3d 609, 622 (7th Cir. 2012); Thompson v.
Ill. Dep't of Prof'l Regulation, 300 F.3d 750,
753 (7th Cir. 2002). A plaintiff is required to include
allegations in the complaint that "plausibly suggest
that the plaintiff has a right to relief, raising that
possibility above a 'speculative level'" and
"if they do not, the plaintiff pleads itself out of
court." E.E.O.C. v. Concentra Health Services,
Inc., 496 F.3d 773, 776 (7th Cir. 2007)(quoting in part
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 1965
(2007)); see also Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Inc.,
673 F.3d at 622 (stating that "[t]o survive a motion to
dismiss, the complaint must contain sufficient factual
matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is
plausible on its face, " and that "[a] claim has
facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content
that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that
the defendant is liable for the misconduct
alleged")(quoting Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S.
662 (2009))(internal quotations omitted).
Claims Brought Against the City of Chicago
In the
instant action, Plaintiffs allege that the City participated
in a conspiracy to violate Plaintiffs' equal protection
rights. The City argues that Plaintiffs' complaint should
be dismissed because the claims against the City are barred
by res judicata and the complaint was not filed within the
statute of limitations period.
Res Judicata
City argues that Plaintiffs' claims brought against the
City are barred by the doctrine of res judicata. Under the
doctrine of res judicata, "a final judgment on
the merits of an action precludes the parties or their
privies from relitigating issues that were or could have been
raised in that action." Barr v. Bd. of Trustees of
W. Illinois Univ., 796 F.3d 837, 839 (7th Cir.
2015)(internal quotations omitted)(quoting Allen v.
McCurry, 449 U.S. 90, 94 (1980)). In Illinois, a party
seeking to invoke the doctrine of res judicata must show: (1)
that there was "a final judgment on the merits rendered
by a court of competent jurisdiction, " (2) that the
prior action was "the same cause of action, " and
(3) that the prior action involved "the same parties or
their privies." Chicago Title Land Trust Co. v.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan *975 Sales, 664
F.3d 1075, 1079 (7th Cir. 2011)(citing Hudson v. City of
Chicago, 889 N.E.2d 210, 215 (Ill. 2008)); see also
Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Johnston, 763 F.3d 723,
727-28 (7th Cir. 2014)(stating that under Illinois law the
doctrine applies when "(1) there was a final judgment
on the merits rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(2) there is an identity of cause of action; and (3) there is
an identity of parties or their privies")(internal
quotations omitted)(quoting River Park, Inc. v. City of
Highland Park, 703 N.E.2d 883, 889 (Ill. 1998)).
2012, Plaintiffs filed a federal civil rights claim (2012
Lawsuit) against the City for alleged violations of
Plaintiffs' equal protection rights. Plaintiffs do not
dispute that there was a final judgment on the merits in the
previous action. In the 2012 Lawsuit, the court granted the
City's motion to dismiss on June 12, 2013, finding that
Plaintiffs' claims were not filed within the statute of
limitations period. The Seventh Circuit upheld the district
court's dismissal on February 13, 2014 and on April 22,
2014 Plaintiffs' request for rehearing en banc was
denied. The United ...
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Leaves are falling, temperatures dropping, and things are slowing down in Walla Walla. Without the demands of weekend catering and preparing meals for others, I have time to focus on my own family's needs. A leisurely visit to the farmers market last week was a rude awakening and realization that my own children need my nutritional counseling and planning.
It all started with an innocent stop at the WIC booth, where they were promoting healthy eating and sampling butternut squash soup. Wanting to support the cause, I took a sample and encouraged my kids to do the same. Nope. Okay, how about just a bite of mine. No thank you. I begged and pleaded, asking them to be good role models and show how much nutrition knowledge and appreciation they had. Still no.
Inspired to give it another shot and prove to them(and myself) that they would like squash if given a chance and a good recipe, I prepared delicious roasted delicata rings for dinner. My husband gobbled them down, my son ate a few, but I had to do my best persuading to get my daughter to eat a measly two pieces.
Normally I can get them to eat vegetables and they do like most vegetables, but I have gotten out of the habit of preparing them beyond the mandatory lunch carrots, evening unthawed frozen veg, and occasional salad. I realized that if I, a trained chef and educated nutritionist is having a hard time serving enough fresh vegetables in my house, imagine how the rest of the nation is doing. I figured it was time I address this situation and get back into preparing more fresh vegetables in my home.
So why even bother? Does it really matter if we skip the vegetables at mealtime? Yes! It does matter! Let's take a look at a typical day of meals in our household, without the vegetables. Oatmeal and orange juice for breakfast, peanut butter + jelly and apple for lunch, chicken and rice for dinner. With a diet like this, we exceed the recommended daily allowance for carbohydrates, but get less than a quarter of the necessary vitamins and minerals, like Vitamin A, E, Calcium, Potassium, and Niacin, and very little antioxidants. Adding a handful of carrots at lunch, a small spinach salad and some yams at dinner fills the nutritional gap easily with little fuss. The vegetables add more color, variety, and flavor to the meal and supply essential dietary fiber and protective antioxidants.
Having spent two years studying nutrition, I know the importance of a balanced diet based on whole foods. I understand we need whole grains for their dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. We need fruits and vegetables for their antioxidant power, to protect our cells from damage by free radicals, their fiber for proper digestion, and vitamins and minerals for regulating body function and maximizing cell production . I know each different colored vegetable offers a different nutritional profile and we should eat a variety of colors each day. Knowing all this, I'm making this change one of my top priorities in this downtime from work. Keeping my family healthy is as simple as spending a little extra time planning and chopping vegetables.
Here's my plan: Write a menu on Sunday for the following week. Buy all necessary dry foods and vegetables, including kids in choosing veggies of the week. Prep carrot, cucumber, red pepper sticks for lunches; add a little water to avoid drying out and cover. For nights I work late, prep meat and vegetable, label and place in fridge. Write menu and any cooking notes on fridge door, for myself and husband. Have a backup bag of frozen veg and frozen cheese pizza, for emergency. Have chopped veggies ready to add to emergency pizza, if needed. Include and enjoy as much local fresh produce as possible, while it's still available.
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Roasted Delicata Squash Rings
Delicata are cylindrical squash with yellow skin and green stripes. Their skin in thin, so there is no need to peel before cooking. They are high in Vitamin A and Vitamin C, and are a good source of fiber.
2-3 delicata squash
olive oil
salt and pepper
garlic, optional
Cut squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out seeds and discard. Lay cut-side down and cut into half-moon rings, about a half inch thick. Toss with olive oil, salt, pepper, and optional garlic and bake in oven at 350 for about 30-40 minutes, or until tender.
Common Excuses Why We Don't Eat More Vegetables
There are a million excuses people use to explain why they don't serve more vegetables at mealtimes . For some of the most common excuses out there, I have a solution. It's not convenient. Keep ready-to-eat vegetables in the front of your fridge, packed and ready to go when you are. I don't like them. Many folks expect that vegetables will be bland or taste bad. Try new options or add vegetables to the foods you already know you enjoy, like chili, stews, pasta, pizza and so on. And make sure not to overcook them or they will be unappealing! I don't know how to serve them. Buy some new cookbooks that focus on vegetables or borrow some from the library. Ask friends for ideas or check with your local farmer his favorite way to prepare his produce. Fresh produce spoils too quickly. Buy in small quantities and use within the week. Prep some vegetables so they are ready to be used without much fuss. Keep a list on the front of the fridge what's inside. Consider buying frozen vegetables, as they last much longer. Other snacks are more convenient. Try single serving veggie packs or cut up vegetable sticks yourself and wrap for on-the-go snacks. They cost too much. Buy produce in season and on sale. Buy frozen. Shop around; some stores may have one-stop shopping, but not necessarily the best prices. Buy a little bit at a time to avoid costly waste.


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|Bunnie getting ready to go to the supermarket, c 1987
|Nick Zappia, Steven Sluiter,Tyrone (I can't remember his last name), and me having dinner in my 'cucina microscopico' on Federal Hill, c 1984(?). P.S. I'm still using that enameled tin-topped table in my kitchen)
|Joanne Miller, Tobin, Kevin Nolan and me at my 40th birthday party at Bunnie Brennan's house, 1994
|Can anyone guess this location??
|Linda Watson, The Undisputed Queen of Barbecue (retired).
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Loving Affirmations:
- I am open to change and transformation. It is easy to grow and change in the atmosphere of love. (I think this one came from Louise Hay's 'You Can Heal Your Life.)
- I am light! Darkness comes and goes, but there is always light!
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- I am light! Darkness is only a lack of light, therefore there is always light! (This is a variation of something Marianne Williamson said at 'Celebrate Your Life.')
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From Star Wars toys to part of the late David Torrie's massive postcard collection, it was a busy day at Taylor's Auction Rooms on Saturday.
Whilst the sale raised in the region of £30,000, it appears that the 100 lots of Star Wars items were not necessarily the stars of the show.
Mr Ian Taylor explained that whilst there had been interest from all over the world in the Star Wars items, it was traditional items like Dinky Toys and Hornby trains that had caught the imagination of the international buyers.
He went on to say that train sets from the sale were going as far afield as Australia and New Zealand.
But there were several sales going on at Taylors that day, including militaria, furniture, coins, porcelain and even a sale of redundant Angus Council groundcare equipment.
One sale which had a constant stream of bidders was that concerning part of the huge postcard collection of the late David Torrie.
Mr Torrie was a former editor of the Dandy comic, and many a Desperate Dan script emerged from his canny and couthy brain.
He collected postcards from many sources, and if you wanted to have a blether with him, all you had to do was head for the nearest car boot sale and complete a lap clockwise and one anti-clockwise, and you'd be sure to bump into him, at which point much hilarity would ensue.
He was a popular guest speaker at clubs and societies, with topics as diverse as the history of DC Thomson comics, to local history, lavishly illustrated with postcards.
Mr Taylor said: "We have sold 850 lots, numbering tens of thousands of postcards.
"The majority have gone to British buyers all over the country, but there has been interest from abroad, and you never know where it will come from."
There is to be one further sale featuring Mr Torrie's postcards.
One disappointment at the sale was the withdrawal, before the start, of model ships which had been in the DP & L office for many years.


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"John Koening calls i vemödalen. The fear that you're doing something that's already been done before, that everything that can be done has been done.
Just about every successful initiative and project starts from a place of replication. The chances of being fundamentally out of the box over the top omg original are close to being zero.
But no one is asking you to be original. We're asking you to be generous and brave and to matter. We're asking you to step up and take responsibility for the work you do, and to add more value than a mere cut and paste. Give credit, definitely, but reject vemödalen.
Sure, it's been done before. But not by you. And not for us."
-Seth Godin


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This post is part of our Non Sequitur Fridays series, which will feature a different Wistian's take on a non-Wistia-related topic each week. It's like our "employee of the month" but less "of the month"-y. Ron Hong is an engineer at Wistia. This is his first Non Sequitur Fridays post!
As a kid, I was obsessed with paper airplanes. I would spend hours upon hours painstakingly folding them, experimenting with materials, design, and throwing techniques.
I'd bring paper with me wherever I went so I'd never be caught bored. And when I was without a stable, flat surface to fold or without adequate space to launch, I'd sit and brainstorm, thinking up crazy new designs that just might work.
At a school book fair, I found a book about paper airplanes full of new designs to try. It even had a section on design concepts that blew my mind. Concepts like making the nose heavy to keep it pointed forward when thrown, launching from where the weight was balanced fore to aft, curling the tips of the wings up for planes that tended to nosedive, and curling them down for planes that shot straight up in the air.
I must have made a thousand paper airplanes before I picked up that book, and another thousand after that. Even though I don't spend so much time on paper airplanes now, there's still something about folding one and watching it soar that makes my heart jump a little with excitement.
There is only one paper airplane of my own design that I can remember how to fold. I called it the "Speedometer" because... well, it was speedy. In retrospect, not the greatest of names, but I remember being pretty proud of myself for coming up with it.
Note the stabilizers on the wings. These help the airplane stay level, despite asymmetries from imperfect folds. This was a breakthrough technology in the R&D division at Ron Hong Paper Airplanes Corp.
And since we now have the luxury of the Internet to look up paper airplane designs, I went ahead and Googled "best paper airplane" and made one of those.
After I constructed both models, there was only one thing left to do. Fly them.


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The Regional Representative, West Africa, of City & Guilds, Kingsley Koranteng, has bemoaned the neglect of vocation and technical education in the country by successive governments."Technical and vocational education has not received the needed attention and support from successive governments of this country, though, it is seen by all as the catalyst for this nation's industrialisation agenda, and for that matter, equipping our youth with employable skills, thereby reducing poverty," noted Mr. Koranteng in an interaction with some media personnel in Accra on Monday.
According to him, technical and vocational education had received little attention, because much emphasis had been placed in developing the various academia institutions in the country.
Other contributory factors, he noted, were lack of equipment and quality teachers to support training, a situation he said, had impacted negatively on the "calibre of technical graduates we produce."
That notwithstanding, Mr. Koranteng expressed dismay at not having in place a qualification credit frame to map technical awards to academic awards, saying, "this explains why technical graduates are frustrated by employers placing them wrongly with inappropriate salary and job levels."
The universities, he said, had contributed to compounding the issue, by denying technical graduates entry to further their education.
He also expressed shock at some the attitude of some parents towards technical and vocation education.
"What is interesting is that no parent wants his or her child to take to technical or vocation education, yet they want to enjoy electricity, water to flow through their taps, their telephones to work constantly, to have internet access," he noted.
Technical and vocational education, according to Mr. Koranteng, had made countries like the United Kingdom (UK), Malaysia, Taiwan, China, and India great nations because of enormous investment, and the importance they attached to that sector.
To that effect, he urged policy makers to place much importance on technical and vocation education when formulating policies, in order to help develop the country, especially, as Ghana prepares to exploit oil and gas in commercial quantities.
One of the biggest challenges confronting technical and vocation education, according to Mr. Koranteng, had to do with recognition from employers and some educational institutions, drawing into account how some employers discriminate against technical and vocational graduates when it comes to job placement and salary.
"It is sad to know that efforts to provide skills for our youth are twisted by some institutions in this country. City and Guilds Health Care award train persons to become professional careers with internationally recognised certification. However, the Nurses and Midwifery Council is twisting these efforts by preventing government hospitals from employing these graduates, although they need their services," he noted.
He, however, appealed to the Ministry of Health to intervene in the way the Nurses and Midwifery Council was frustrating certificate holders of City and Guilds Health Care from being employed in Government hospitals.


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This is a picture I drew years ago with charcoal. I was feeling very sad about a loss in my life.
Sitting on my bed one day, I just grabbed my drawing pad and started this without anything particular in mind. I drew the tree and then the rest just flowed out of my heart. My emotions were so strong that I was crying as I drew. I imagined going to this place and leaning against the rock ( on right almost out of pic) to be alone and mourn. I named it "A Place to Weep."
I felt so much better when it was finished. It was comforting to create a space that was there for me, as I was feeling at the moment. Somehow in this setting I was able to accept the sorrow as a part of my life, the pain was softened and it was okay. The mountains in the background were like the future, where the sun was still shining and God was watching over me.


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I'd like to relate a little observation from today's job that illustrates why I have become rather ambivalent about working in Hollywood:
We're making a commercial for Scotts Advantage. Apparently they make fertilizer steroids for your overwatered, resource wasting lawn. The stuff is toxic. You're not really supposed to handle it, breathe in its dust, or spill it on the healthy parts of your lawn. We're shooting in Pasadena at a really nice house with a perfect lawn. We were warned not to let the Scotts Advantage stuff spill all over the healthy lawn as it would chemically burn the lawn or something. In an effort to comply with the location requests a piece of black cloth was put over the part of the lawn we were shooting. As the fertilizer spilled it collected on the cloth and rapidly fell off of it and into the lawn. When the cloth was moved for the shot the stuff went everywhere. In short, the lawn was not protected.
What makes me laugh is that the cloth is a perfect example of Hollywood caring: half-ass and ineffective but hey, shouldn't we get points for trying?
Ah, Hollywood. So coy. So disarming. So pointless.
In regards to Obama's state of the union address: the more things change the more they stay the same.
Peace out, bitches!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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More of the same Blame Bush Blame Bush listen Bush is out of office that card has been played out long ago. This is 1 of the reasons Nancy Pelosi has only a 20% approval rating…
Nancy Pelosi: Blame George W. Bush, bash the Chamber of Commerce
With her party down in the polls and poised to lose potentially dozens of seats in the mid terms, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will use one of her last major speeches before the elections to hit two favorite Democratic targets: George W. Bush and the Chamber of Commerce.
"We have lost millions of jobs to outsourcing under President Bush. We don't intend to repeat that policy – no matter how much money the Chamber of Commerce dumps into our elections," Pelosi plans to tell the Women of Steel Convention in Pittsburgh on Monday, according to prepared remarks.
Democrats in recent weeks have started ripping the right-leaning Chamber in recent weeks, claiming they are dumping foreign money into American congressional elections — a charge the organization has denied.
Pelosi's speech Monday is one of her highest profile appearances in the run-up to the midterm election. A group of her Democratic colleagues have backed away from her, saying they wouldn't support her for speaker should the party keep the majority. Pelosi's October has largely consisted of fundraising, and her public campaigning schedule has been lighter. She'll be in New York Tuesday, raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Pelosi also plans to push the Democrats' "Make it in America" mantra.
"'Make it in America' is our rallying cry," she plans to say, according to prepared remarks. "The USW has been our partner. President [Leo] Gerard has been one of our most eloquent allies. And the Women of Steel demonstrate every day that when we 'make it in America,' our workers have a chance to make it in America."


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Objective: In order to understand reasons for the low priority of the work in primary health care among physicians, we studied differences in the work stress and in health and health related lifestyle between general practitioners (GPs) and hospital physicians. Method: A cohort of 226 GPs and 523 consultants from Finland responded to a questionnaire survey. The responses were linked to data on registered sickness absence. Results: Compared to consultants, GPs reported higher job strain (odds ratio 1.76, 95% CI 1.23-2.53) and perceived overload (2.29, 95% CI 1.65-3.16) but were less likely to report poor team climate (0.65, 95% CI 0.46-0.91) and procedural injustice (0.49, 95% CI 0.34-0.72) and interactional injustice (0.62, 95% CI 0.44-0.88). Differences in lifestyle, perceived health, psychological distress and long sick-leaves between GPs and consultants were small. Short sick-leaves were more common among GPs, but this difference disappeared after controlling for work characteristics. Conclusion: As far as reasons of the recruitment crisis in primary health care concern the working conditions studied, job strain and heavy workload overweigh the attractiveness resulting from good climate and low organizational injustice. The non-significant differences in health may indicate that there are no differences in total work stress between GPs and consultants. In tackling the recruitment problems in the field of health care, it is of particular importance to achieve an awareness of the sector specific adversities in the working conditions.
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text: First things first; I have to admit, I was sleeping on Big K.R.I.T. I didn't believe an artist named "Big K.R.I.T." could be so dope until I saw his name on all the 2010 year end lists. I decided to give the guy a proper listen-through and now I'm sorry I slept. The dude can rap. Here he is teaming up with Grillade, who always provide the smoothest of groves. The two of them will be doing an entire EP together and I can't wait. Check the track out and download if you like:


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A new global report
from UNICEF, From the First Hour of Life: Making the case for improved infant
and young child feeding everywhere, provides a global status update on infant
and young child feeding practices and puts forth recommendations for improving
them. The report is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on breastfeeding and
Part II looks at complementary feeding practices. Each part reviews the most
recent evidence on infant and young child feeding practices and provides
updated global and regional estimates and trends, where available, as well as
disaggregated analyses.
You may reach the
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Microfiber hair towels? Feh, I say. Feh.
When your hair weighs at least a kilo wet, you need more than the average wrap to dry it within, say, six hours of washing. Enter the simple oversized cotton tee. I have enough of these lying around to make a whole quilt, front and back. Towels with nap tend to leave me frizzy even if I pile on the Kinky-Curly, plus they're too small. Today's T-shirt had me dry enough to go out within three hours, with minimal frizz and lovely loopy curls.
…which will fall out tomorrow when I brush my hair, but whatever. I had a great hair day.


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EXCEL : Calculate the number of days, months, or years between two dates
The DATEDIF function can be used for this.
The syntax for the DATEDIF function is:
= DATEDIF ( start_date , end_date , unit )
• start_date – First or starting date (eg. DATE OF BIRTH)
• end_date – Second or last date (eg. TODAYS DATE)
• unit – Function to find the number of days ("D"), complete months ("M"), or complete years ("Y") between the two dates.
Try it out.


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"Country Chapel"
September 18, 2016
The Twenty-Fifth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
"Word(s) to Live By"
Today's Verse: (John 15:16)
"You did not choose me; I choose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name."
Recite: "The Apostles Creed"
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell, and on the third day he arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
(Amos 8:4-7)
Israel's Doom
Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country. You say to yourselves, "We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers. We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave."
The Lord, the God of Israel, has sworn, "I will never forget their evil deeds."
Alternate 1st Reading:
(Psalm 113:1-2, 4-8)
In Praise of the Lord's Goodness
Recite: The Lord's Prayer
Recessional Song:
Praise the Lord!
You servants of the Lord, praise his name! May his name be praised, now and forever.
The Lord rules over all nations; his glory is above the heavens. There is no one like the Lord our God. He lives in the heights above, but he bends down to see the heavens and the earth. He raises the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from their misery and makes them companions of princes, and princes of his people.
The 2nd Reading:
The 2nd Reading:
(1 Timothy 2:1-8)
Church Worship
First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people; for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence toward God and with proper conduct. This is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth. For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved, and that is why I was sent as an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles, to proclaim the message of faith and truth. I am not lying; I am telling the truth!
In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument.
Today's Gospel According to:
(Luke 16:1-13)
The Shrewd Manager
Jesus said to his disciples, "There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master's money, so he called him in and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.' The servant said to himself, 'My master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg. Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.' So he called in all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, 'How much do you owe my master?' 'One hundred barrels of olive oil,' he answered. 'Here is your account,' the manager told him; 'sit down and write fifty.' Then he asked another one, 'And you - how much do you owe?' 'A thousand bushels of wheat,' he answered. 'Here is your account,' the manager told him; 'write eight hundred.' As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light."
And Jesus went on to say, "And I tell you; make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth, so that when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home. Whoever is faithful in small matters will be faithful in large ones; whoever is dishonest in small matters will be dishonest in large ones. If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?"
"No servant can be the slave of two masters; such a slave will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
An Interpretation of Today's Readings & Gospel
(By Amy Weborn)
Once a week, I volunteer in an after-school reading program. The children arrive at the parish following a day in a struggling school in a struggling neighborhood. The early readers may have a few words they are not sure about, but when they hit an unfamiliar word, their reaction is always the same - their eyes move from the letters and start darting about the page. There must be a hint. They're looking for a sign.
And so am I. The words of faith are mostly familiar, but at times, my inner eye tears itself from that certainty and looks about. "Where is God in all of this? I know he must be here."
He is. Not only in the words, but in the Word Made Flesh there is compassion, there is sacrificial love, there is truth boldly proclaimed, there is justice sought and charity poured out. I search the landscape beyond the page and I see that Word, illustrated.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it tis in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but, deliver us from evil. Amen.
May the Peace of the Lord be with You
Recessional Song:
1) Good News Bible (with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha)
3) Scripture-Text Datebook
1) Good News Bible (with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha)
2) Living Faith Daily Devotions
3) Scripture-Text Datebook


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Do you wish to explore some great craft projects with your creations? Maybe you just want to try something new and decorate your home. There are countless possibilities in arts and crafts projects out there. Continue reading this article for great tips!
Are you in need of a new place to find craft materials? Many places online sites offer great prices on crafts. Do a fast web search for the very best deals on your crafting materials. Some of the best Internet stores even provide free shipping to help you save money.
There is a variety of supplies you can use for your arts and crafts. Paper goods that'd otherwise be thrown away make great supplies. You can use spent paper rolls too. You can also use magazines and newspapers. Try to think of ways you can incorporate items you'd normally be trash for creative projects.
You've the option of using many types of items in your arts and crafts. Paper goods are great things to use. Toilet paper or towel rolls are excellent supplies. Magazines and newspapers are good things to use, too. Be creative with things you normally throw away and use then in your projects.
Don't push kids when they're creating their works of art. The main purpose of getting them involved is to let them express their creativity. They won't be able to create if you point out problem areas with what they're doing.
If supplies are pricey in your area, check out secondhand stores. Goodwill and similar shops have things that crafty individuals can use. Check often to see what they've as items come in every day.
Beadaholique offers shoppers a place to find everything needed to make custom jewelry. There are all sorts of beads and chains to make some excellent looking jewelry.Many people wear costume jewelry into them.
Look for a bead specialty place, like Beadaholic, to find all sorts of supplies for your custom jewelry. There are all sorts of accessories there to help you make some excellent looking jewelry. Costume jewelry is a big part of fashion nowadays. If you're interested in designing your own piece, there is a lot of money to be saved, as well as a new addition to go with your wardrobe.
You shouldn't show an example at all or show off different examples so kids can use their imaginations.
You can find plenty of crafting supplies on Etsy. This site offers items for sale from individual crafters. You can even sell your creations on this site once you make there. The site is ideal when you need unusual or vintage media for crafting.
Spray glass cleaner on a towel and wipe your mosaic when it starts to look cloudy after the mortar dries.It helps to keep your mosaic free of mortar out but you don't want powder to screw up the finish.
It's never necessary to tell a child exactly what their finished arts and crafts project must look like. Let your kids run wild with their imaginations, either by not showing examples. By showing a range of differing possibilities. For instance, they might glue a nose where you'd expect an eyebrow. Expressing their own vision is paramount to how they execute the project.
Kids of every age enjoy themselves a lot doing arts and crafts.
Etsy is an excellent site for those that like arts and crafts. they've thousands of crafts available for sale or you can find inspiration there. You may use Etsy to get a little bit extra money to help support your craft.
As mentioned before, many things can be created through crafts. Ranging from the simple to the sublime and sophisticated, many things await your discovery and creation. Use all the tips here to create some amazing things.
You should organize your crafting supplies. There are several ways to store supplies. Do it in a way that you like. It'll be easier to find the things you need. You'll also know what supplies you still have.


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National treasure Mary Berry switches on Marlow's Christmas Lights with the help of Arriva London's Heritage Fleet open-top bus RMC 1464
One of the marvellous things about this time of year for Arriva London's Heritage Fleet, is all the exciting and fun celebrations they get involved in.
Last week it was the Lord Mayor's Show, and this week it was helping national treasure and cooking legend Mary Berry switch on the Christmas lights for Marlow Town Council, by supplying them with the open-top iconic red Routemaster bus RMC 1464.
The town was packed with both young and old, all delighted to have the opportunity to get a glimpse of their baking idol Mary. If you want the ideal platform for as many people as possible to see the celebrity you've chosen to start the festive celebrations, then there's no better vantage point than using the Heritage Fleet's open-topper.
Marlow Town Council reserved a space for the bus in the centre of their historic main street, outside the Chequers pub, and invited Mary to do the honours.
The recent closure of the famous Marlow bridge, following some damage from a lorry, had also been in the news, and as the bridge was to re-open the following day, journalists from BBC London also used the open top of the bus as a discussion area to interview Mary.
Before the switch on ceremony, the Bake-Off star signed books for ticket holders at Marlow Bookshop in Spittal Street, and the Marlow Choral Society, Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Gospel Choir, the Songbirds Choir and the Tapestry Choir provided choral entertainment, while a snow machine added a special festive touch to the switch on and late-night shopping.
Arriva London are proud to have been invited once again to help Marlow with the start of their festive season, and would like to thank Marlow Council for this opportunity, and wish all of the residents of Marlow a wonderful Christmas and the compliments of the season.
Published : Thu 15th Jun. 2017 - Fri 14th Jul. 2017
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