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How to Do Lots of Work Effortlessly
Lots of Work Load? "Dont Panic"
Most of us in this busy world face this problem, of being stressed out in lots of work pressure. Don't make you life a series of to-do lists, while trying to be more productive. When lots of work is there to do, don't get much anxious, don't panic, be cool, don't look at all of your tasks at once, priorities your tasks, then start doing. Its seems very easy to say, but not seems easy when I used to face these problems. Still now I have workload, as I have been writing this article for one week, part by part, because I couldn't get time to sit and complete it in one session, LOL.
We have to follow some way to do things faster, better, cheaper, spend our time more effectively and in most sophisticated way. But never concentrate to do more tasks in less time, instead we should focus on enjoying the work we are doing. Here are some tips you would like to follow:
Tips to Do Work Effortless, To be More Productive
Planning: Planing is the most important factor while you are about to complete lots of work in less time. Most of the time, most of us are out of suitable plan. As a result we face lots of problems within the work time. We can't find the perfect way to complete a task, we are unable to find how to start, what exactly I have to do and when, and how, and so on. Many people use to make a routine of planning for weeks and days. But in some situation, or in different kind of task, as my experience, that doesn't work. In my opinion make you days routine in that very day, not before 1 week or so. Never rely on any static routine, that you made and will go for 1 month or 1 year. Make routine dynamically as the requirement of tasks. Write down
Take Breaks: Taking breaks increase productivity, it's a universal truth, it's been proven in studies. Listen music, take a nap, go for a long drive or walk, spend times with your friends, go for a restaurant, pub, etc. Spend time doing your favourite task, say your hobby.
Power Question. Write a question in a paper and keep it at your desk to help you stay focused: You can write something like "Am I making utilizing my time right now?" or "Is this the most productive use of my time?" or "Am I going to the right path to finish my job in right time?" etc.
Have Fun, Be Cool, Keep Smile in Face and Keep a Positive Outlook: You are in a serious business that is competitive & you need to show creativity in regular basis doesn't mean that you have to be serious all the time. Smiling or having fun in between work doesn't mean you're not working hard. Enthusiasm doesn't mean you're not competitive. Being positive doesn't mean you don't know about challenges. Choose to enjoy your time at work. Find others who are like this and spread good cheer. It's contagious and it grows. Try to avoid gossip and negative chat. It can be tempting, but it doesn't serve anyone well, including yourself.
Learn from Criticism. Don't turn down critiques from others immediately, even if they are in the list of your unwanted persons. Most of the time people you don't like, or people who don't like you may be giving you more honest feedback than you can get from others. Don't take it personally. Even if it is personal, who cares? Listen, process, and then decide what positive action you might want to take.
Just Go Ahead, Don't Hesitate or Think to Much: Thinking itself takes a lot of effort which you should save for doing the job. So do, don't think. If you make errors, make correction after-while, as far as the wrong turn doesn't turn to a dead end. When you have to think a lot and cant find the right way to start a task, then just go for it, start it first, you will find the way in slowly. Try to think while you work. Take the first step with bravery.
And at last
Try to avoid the tasks that you don't want to do:

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In the film that opened this year's Miami Film Festival, The Chambermaid of the Titanic, Olivier Rodriguez is again racked with unconsummated passion for one who would have willingly given herself to him, as he was in Horseman on the Roof. In that film, Rodriguez gallantly escorts a young married noblewoman through harrowing adventures, and though she makes little effort to hide her attraction, the well-brought-up young colonel keeps his hands off her until . . .
Until she is struck with cholera and, in order to save her life, he spends a whole night vigorously rubbing her naked body to restore circulation. She lives, and, in an epilogue, the narrator seems to indicate she will leave her husband and go to him. But before any of that can happen, the movie ends.
In the new film, made in France by Spanish director Bigas Luna, Rodriguez is a young worker who wins a prize in a race: a visit to England to witness the sailing of the Titanic. Staying at a fine hotel for the first time in his life, the young man offers to share his room with a beautiful French woman hired as a chambermaid on the ill-fated ship. Although his dreams betray how much he wants her, and her behavior shows she would welcome him, the faithfully married Rodriguez spends the night lying chastely next to the comely chambermaid. In the morning she is gone. And when he returns to France and learns the ship has sunk, he begins to spin fanciful tales of their lovemaking.
Teasing the audience
There's a filmmaker's joke here. Rodriguez is probably the most attractive male working in movies today, and to have him play a never-mess-around straight-arrow is a way of teasing the spectator who would desire him. Sophisticated directors like to make the spectators accomplices in convoluted games of desire. An Italian movie I saw in my youth, Seduced and Abandoned, had the young Stephania Sandrelli complain about how she was so skinny that no man was interested in her. La Sandrelli was gorgeous in that film. Years later in The Comformist she was even more so. And even lately, in films like Stealing Beauty, she can play an older woman who can drive a young man to distraction. When in my youth I saw Seduced and Abandoned, I almost rose from my seat shouting, ``Me! Me! I'm interested!''


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Optimism at CPAC's Pro-Life Panelby Michael J. New
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A visit to the area is essential for anyone interested in evolution and the origins of Mankind and an explanation of the Rift Valley and Africa's big picture. It is a complete semi desert experience focusing on game drives. An impressive landscape from the Rift Valley gives the visitor an amazing natural welcome to an area extraordinarily rich in wildlife. The camp offers stunning views of the Manyara National Park, Rift Valley, Ngorongoro highlands and on clear days even Oldonyo Lengai a sacred mountain to the Maasai. In the wet season, the Manyara and Tarangire Pans fill with water which attracts huge flocks of flamingos and other wading birds. The area is also the only place in East Africa where one is often able to see the migration herds of tens of thousands of Wildebeest and Zebra, followed by predators. Although the migrations do occur in other areas of Tanzania, the tree cover prohibits a view of the magnitude that you are able to see at Maramboi Tented Camp because of the exposed nature of the surrounding grassland.
20 spacious tents built on ample wooden decks and 10 lodge rooms, ideal for families.. They all have en suite facilities and private veranda with 24 hours 220V electric lighting. Activities include, game drives, bird watching on the shores of the not too distant Lake Manyara and cultural interaction with Datoga and Maasai tribes, whose bomas populate the adjacent land.


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Sales to long-standing Group customers remained not only resilient but actually increased. There were major "new entries", one of the most noteworthy being the Iberian market's leading producer in terms of volumes, the Pamesa Group.
Sacmi has strengthened its position on the Spanish market, with sales in 2016 higher than those in the previous year, demonstrating that Sacmi continues to be esteemed by long-standing customers and is more than capable of attracting new ones, even in technological areas traditionally dominated by competitors. This, then, was the conclusion reached by the Group Ceramics Division's analysis of its performance in Spain, one of the world's top five ceramic-making nations and, along with China and Italy, responsible for two-thirds of global exports.
A look at the data for the Spanish market shows that the increased sales regard all the machine types in the range, from energy-efficient EKO kilns (a total of 17 over the two years, 9 in 2016) to hydraulic presses (in total 11 machines sold in 2016, 25 in the two years assessed); key orders have been placed for high tonnage presses specifically designed to handle large formats. Note also the 7 multilayer driers sold since the beginning of the year (out of a total of 17 horizontal and vertical driers sold during the two-year reference period).
Following the excellent feedback obtained at the Tecnargilla fair in Rimini - in terms of both interest shown and the flow of visitors to the Sacmi stand - the Group continues to lead the Spanish market in the ceramic body preparation field: 7 modular mills of varying size and dimensions were sold between 2015 and 2016, plus 4 spray driers, including the all-new ATM 250, a next-generation machine launched this year and specifically designed to meet the needs of the Spanish market.
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Calloway v. Boyd et al (INMATE 2)
Plaintiff: Tyricka Lavon Calloway
Defendant: Louis Boyd, Phyllis Billups, Kim J. Thomas and Robert Bentley
Case Number: 2:2012cv00087
Filed: January 30, 2012
Court: Alabama Middle District Court
Office: Montgomery Office
County: Elmore
Presiding Judge: Truman M. Hobbs
Referring Judge: Wallace Capel
Nature of Suit: Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
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Introduction — Guatemala is providing a Pensionado plan. This is really a permanent residency allowing someone to live within Guatemala for that rest of the life. The Pensionado gets a Cedulla the industry national identification card that could allow the individual to open up a banking account in Guatemala without having showing the actual passport using their home nation. The Cedulla is really a high technology digital IDENTITY card. The actual identity greeting card can reveal a authorized name customization for extra banking privateness. With the actual Cedulla it's possible to travel with no passport in order to five additional central united states countries, off the actual grid as they say.
Time Body – The procedure takes around 2-4 days, so 3 weeks is really a fair approximation of times frame. One does need to be in Guatemala throughout the process. Five Celebrity hotels operate about $100 in order to $145 the night with respect to the season. You'll be able to stay within Antigua, Guatemala the industry lovely vacation resort community (search engines Antigua Guatemala). A sizable steak dinner inside a five celebrity restaurant is all about $20. You will discover things inexpensive here.
Fee – The entire fees tend to be $8, 000 for just one person, $9500 for any couple. Each child is definitely an extra $1000. Children should be under 18 years of age. All costs are paid in the beginning of the applying. Fees could be paid through cash or even wire move. We don't take checks simply because they take lengthier to obvious (thirty days) compared to program requires to accomplish.
Pensionado Financial Requirements – This program is with regard to retired or even disabled individuals. There isn't any age limitation. One comes with to display financial obligation. An earnings of $1000 per month is required. This is actually $1250 for any married few. This is really stated inside a declaration towards the government. The actual income is actually proven along with bank claims, stock agent statements and so on. Income could be private found from opportunities, rental qualities etc. It may be beneficial to additionally present precious metal and platinum eagle Visa credit cards as extra support with regard to financial self-reliance. You won't have permission to operate as a worker for other people. You could be self employed in your business.
Guatemala Taxation's – Guatemala doesn't tax just offshore derived earnings. Money arriving from beyond Guatemala isn't taxed. Your own pension, investments and so on from beyond Guatemala aren't taxed. Should you had the shoe shop in Guatemala you'd pay taxation's. There is really a VAT associated with 15% upon some products. A plasma TELEVISION costs several hundred dollars a lot more than in UNITED STATES. USA vehicles are regarding same price with no discounts that are better within USA. European as well as Asian vehicles are more expensive. Solid wooden furniture is actually far less expensive than within USA as well as better high quality.
Official Paperwork Needed – You need their passport, delivery certificate as well as marriage permit if hitched. If feasible marriage permit and delivery certificate ought to be the more contemporary variety along with seals and so on.
Language Necessity – Not one. You don't have to speak The spanish language. It is a good idea to begin taking the spanish language lessons AS SOON AS POSSIBLE when right here or prior to. There are numerous computer programs which are excellent. Rosetta Rock is well-liked. We perform advocate understanding the vocabulary. Our lawyer and personnel all talk English nicely. The much better hotels as well as restaurants may have English loudspeakers. Most from the Doctors talk English. Many establishments don't speak English too.
Rights within Guatemala – You've the rights of the citizen except you can't vote as well as cannot obtain a passport. As the Pensionado you aren't supposed to find work being an employee with regard to others. This isn't the reason for the plan. You may own home, start companies, own companies, have financial institution accounts, obtain mortgages and so on.
Time to become Citizen – The standard time is actually five many years. After you're a citizen for 3 years to may apply to achieve the residency period shortened to 3 years from the standard five many years. Only citizens might have passports, not really residents.
Cross Edge Travel like a Resident – There's a Free Edge Treaty within Central The united states. With the Guatemala Residency IDENTITY card you are able to travel through land or even boat to the following countries with no passport required: Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras as well as Belize. Costa Rica offers signed the actual treaty but is famous for not really honoring this so don't rely on them. If you pass commercial airline you'll need a passport. Your house country won't know where you stand since the actual passport isn't being swiped. You won't be in a position to open financial institution accounts within the other countries just by showing your own national identification card (Cedulla), simply Guatemala.
Name Alter – What you can do is the actual maiden name of the mother could be added on your resident IDENTITY (Cedulla) like a third title. If you had been Daniel Boone now as well as your mother first name had been Smith you can now end up being Daniel Boone Cruz. This is really a lawful as well as customary exercise in Latina America but obviously optional. Now whenever you open your money in Guatemala it will likely be in title of Daniel Boone Smith and never reference your house country within the records. No is and absolutely nothing illegal however this enables you to fall with the cracks.
Guatemala Financial – Like a Pensionado citizen in Guatemala you could have a banking account in Guatemala without having showing the passport or even any ID out of your home country. ABSOLUTELY NO passport required. What can be achieved is the actual maiden name of the mother could be added on your resident IDENTITY (Cedulla) like a third title. If you had been Daniel Boone now as well as your mother first name had been Smith you can now end up being Daniel Boone Cruz. This is really a lawful as well as customary exercise in Latina America but obviously optional.
Now whenever you open your money in Guatemala it will likely be in title of Daniel Boone Smith and never reference your house country within the records. No is and absolutely nothing illegal however this enables you to fall with the cracks. Guatemala doesn't have tax treaties with regard to information discussing with any kind of country. You will see no discussing of any kind of banking info for taxes reasons (any kind of tax or even tax associated case). Guatemala doesn't have Mutual Lawful Assistance Treaty (MLAT) using the USA, North america, UK or even EU Nations. This indicates sharing associated with information with regard to criminal cases is going to be difficult.
Other Nations Pensionado Residency Applications – Using the Panama Pensionado program there's a zero possibility of ever starting a banking account without showing your house country passport. We know those who have tried this particular with numerous Panama Banking institutions. The Compact country of panama banks aren't allowed to consider the pensionado ID or perhaps a permanent residency IDENTITY to open up a banking account. The mobile phone companies within Panama won't open a merchant account without 1 showing a house country passport regardless of what sort associated with Panama long term residency they've. All the actual panama residency applications, permanent, pensionado or else, are simply long phrase tourist visa, time period. Panama residency ID's associated with any sort do not let for any kind of cross edge travel with no passport. There are extremely few Pensionado programs these days. There tend to be residency applications. They generally take about 6 months to procedure a residency and something needs to stay in the united kingdom during this time period.
Does 1 Live Free of charge in Guatemala? – Oh think about it such as the USA within the 1950's. Law enforcement cannot enter into your home with no search bring about. None of the "I noticed a weep for help" rubbish. Warrants in the patrol vehicle radio aren't happening. The police will require evidence of the violation associated with law to obtain a warrant. We didn't say likely cause as with a sensible person might deduct blah blah blah, that's USA not really Guatemala. Not really a common thing to determine a research warrant released here. When the police stop your vehicle you can won't let all of them search this. You may also call your own lawyer as well as wait before lawyer comes after which the research proceeds, your decision. The law enforcement will usually be polite along with a request to find a car will be like if you find an emergency along with a roadblock situation to capture fleeing felons have been shooting from police or even something extreme. Not a typical thing.
We have a type of police known as Transito. Traffic police officers is what they're. They don't have any guns. They've cool yellow-colored green outfits with whitened helmets such as Bermuda Law enforcement. They may only perform traffic or even auto gear violations. Normally they'll have the side from the road setup and appear at cars to ensure they possess a current label. They may check trucks to determine if their own loads tend to be secure or even not. When drawn they request driver license to ensure it is actually current. None of the – "where have you been going, can one look inside your trunk, have you got any weaponry, have anything I ought to know about". None of the happens having a traffic cease. If you need to do get the ticket simply send your own lawyer right down to appear for you personally and spend fine. Absolutely no point program. Very uncommon to actually see radar and not saw laser beam yet within Guatemala. People do not even make use of radar sensors. Never noticed any pace or red-colored light digital cameras. They perform offer car parking tickets with regard to parking infractions and they may be generous in this region in a few locations. Seats are inexpensive, relax. A few towns such as Antigua trunk cars. In no way park illegally within Antigua these people love car parking enforcement. Antigua includes a special tourist police that tend to be on nearly every corner when it's busy. They frequently speak English and you'll find all of them very courteous and wanting to help. Should you say you would like leather belts they'll even let you know where this type of store which sells that's located.
The standard Guatemala law enforcement are known as the dark police (policia negro) simply because their vehicles and outfits are dark. They possess guns. They don't work visitors and can't pull a person for visitors reasons. They're crime fighters just. They usually ignore a person. The police will most likely never show should you call these phones come to your dwelling or when they did it might take considerable time. I in no way knew one to have their property robbed. We reside in gated towns with equipped guards. We now have alarm techniques. When the actual alarm will go off 2 ex army guys in the alarm company on the motorcycle include guns. Frequently in regarding five min's. One conceals behind cover and also the other strolls around to determine what is actually up. They've body armor and therefore are serious guys. So you've the equipped guards locally, some kind of fence, the alarm and today the security alarm guards appear. Never knew one to have their home conned.
The attorneys and courtroom system can not work in the harassing method like within USA. This isn't a culture that wants lawsuits. Lawyers do lots of contracts, property law, loved ones law, criminal regulation but few people like going civil lawsuit. If you start your business and don't bother others, no one is going to be bothering a person. People here don't go out and begin trouble using their lawyers such as up northern. People will often settle their own differences much more sanely here compared to USA. That said never actually sign any property agreement or even any contract with no lawyer to examine it. I believe this guideline applies anyplace. The freedom here's very apparent.
Firearms — A citizen can make an application for permission to possess and have concealed guns. Assault weapons aren't allowed to become purchased now meaning no centerfire guns under a present law which will expire in a couple of months and will not really be restored, as the political speculate. There tend to be some currently registered attack rifles that may transfer but would need to be kept in your home only, absolutely no carrying. They'll be hard to locate and probably in. 223 quality.
You might have handguns in a common quality and 12 ga. Shotguns within semi-auto, pump motor, double barreled and so on. Glocks, CZ, Beretta, Sig Sauer, Walther, Jerico, and Bull would be the popular high quality handgun manufacturers. Mossberg as well as Remington tend to be popular shotgun manufacturers. Franchi can make a 14″ pump motor in 12 ga that's sold like a regular shotgun and may be included on the carry enable, legal as well as nice for that car. It's possible to get plastic material shoulder stocks for many glock pistols as well as Jerico pistols. The stocks aren't a limited or managed item. This really is called a brief barreled rifle in certain countries. Typically the most popular handgun calibers tend to be 9mm as well as. 40 but there are plenty of 45acp.,. 380, as well as. 22 pistols obtainable. Anyone that thinks they can't defend on their own adequately having a Berretta or even Glock handgun along with a 12 ga pump motor shotgun within an urban environment doesn't know what they're talking regarding, end associated with story.
One is only permitted to purchase seven hundred rounds associated with ammunition monthly for every gun possessed, range bullets excluded. The majority of manage without having shedding any kind of tears. Importing guns is really a possibility however they are never likely to consider a lot more than two weapons being brought in. A 49 gun selection is possibly an arsenal or perhaps a store towards the customs authorities, forget this. Same together with your 35, 000 models of bullets. We possess quality shotgun bullets and high quality Magtech, handgun ammo within the gun shops. The weapon and bullets variety in the united states is not really here but we now have anything you'll need for practical self-defense. Absolutely no handloading. That's considered a good ammunition factory in the majority of Latin The united states countries.
It's possible to own a good unlimited quantity of firearms within their home. Each firearm includes a title certificate for this similar to some car name. A individual can just have 12 weaponry included on the carry permit. Rotating guns about the license can be done but a large pain within the neck, sick advised. You will find at minimum 18 weapon stores within Guatemala City and also the suburbs. There are plenty of weapons in Guatemala. We now have 100, 000 protection guards most having a Mossberg 12 ga maverick gun grip or perhaps a. 38 quality revolver. All of us keep the homes, towns, stores, department stores, restaurants safe this way. It doesn't let the actual criminals consider root.
This paragraph is really extensive because many people are getting away police says and weapon ownership is really a cherished correct and all of us applaud as well as support this particular right. However no regulation says you need to own the gun and several people don't own weapons. Guatemala is really a free nation and we don't impose the will upon people.
Knives as well as Edged Weaponry – Lots of people carry machetes on the belts, usually within the countryside. Could be startling in the beginning since it appears like a blade. They rely on them to focus on the property. A solitary edged foldable knife having a blade associated with 3. 9″ or even less could be carried inside a pocket or about the belt within an urban region but isn't restricted in the united kingdom. There tend to be no dimension restrictions within the code with regard to non-folding kitchen knives. There is really a prohibition towards automatic knifes, stilettos (unsure of lawful definition) as well as daggers (again unsure of lawful definition). If a person ask exactly where assisted files etc stand the solution is we don't know. Could end up being construed being an automatic or even not? Exact same for flippers. Laws and regulations not described clearly. In most cases knives aren't considered the prohibited product and enforcement isn't tight, but follow what the law states. This area was incorporated because a number of our clients tend to be escaping through oppressive law enforcement states as well as their rights are extremely important for them and therefore to us too.
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Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck
Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck
A man died Tuesday morning after being hit by a truck near Princeton Drive and Silver Avenue.
Albuquerque police said a preliminary investigation indicates that the pedestrian was walking on the sidewalk in a residential area when the pickup truck went up onto the curb and struck the pedestrian on the sidewalk.
After the crash around 11:20 a.m., the man was rushed to the hospital where he died.
Expect delays in the area. Police advise drivers to avoid this intersection for the next few hours.
Police said they are interviewing the truck driver.
Action 7 News is following the story and will update it as soon as more information is available.


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Mistletoe is a hemiparasite plant that latches onto trees, removing water and nutrients out of it. Hemiparasite is a parasitic plant that derives some nutrients from other plants and is capable of photosynthesis. Studies have shown that mistletoe parasitic plant has led to other species an evolutionary loss. While mistletoe lacks cellular machinery in the important component where other organisms are reliable in converting glucose into energy-carrying molecule ATP.
It was being observed long back the loss of respiratory capacity in unicellular eukaryotes that leads to parasitic or symbolic lifestyle, as per Etienne Meyer from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany. In addition, it's the first case that has been reported related to multicellular eukaryote where most of the respiratory capacity being lost.
Possibilities of life without mitochondrial complex I in multicellular eukaryotes still remains unknown as per Hans-Peter Braun of Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany. Recently studies recommended the mitochondria genomes of the Viscum species present within the cellular powerhouse has lost genes encoding complex I subunits, that has been the first among the multicellular eukaryotes. Provided no such precise proof about mistletoe that lacked the complex, might be genes encoding complex I have been transferred through mitochondria into the nuclear genome.
However, the team of Braun's demos a biochemical proof related to mitochondria of European mistletoe lacks completely with complex I, thereby reducing the amounts of complex II and V simultaneously. Besides complexes III and IV form that has been referred to as "remarkable stable respiratory supercomplexes", resulting changes in the plant's entire respiratory chain.
Might be this adaptation towards the parasitic lifestyle have the chances of saving the plant, the energy that is required to accumulate these mitochondria complexes. More investigation is required to see whether mitochondria of other parasitic plants species reduced the respiratory capacity that actually relates to mistletoe.


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Media Suddenly Interested in Muslim Opinion of Gays
After years of ignoring survey data and news reports that weren't conducive to boosting Islam's image, so-called new media is leaping on a Pew survey showing American Muslims to be more LGBTQ-tolerant than white evangelicals. Yes, just that particular strain of Christianity, adjusted for race:
U.S. Muslims are as tolerant as Protestantism in general, and slightly less tolerant than the average for all the subsets of Protestantism listed (white evangelical, white mainline, black Protestant) as well as Catholicism, but acknowledging this undercuts the alliance-building aspect to disseminating this news. And as the game of telephone and the dynamics of meme-spreading dictate, this will distill into "Muslims are more queer-friendly than Christians" when it's being triumphantly told at the bar tonight. The same survey shows that less than half of foreigners support homosexuality, but that's information likewise not congenial to progressivism, so don't expect any headlines.
U.S. Muslims have changed their opinion on LGBTQ matters more rapidly than other groups (likely due to their being relatively upper-income, urban, and college-bound, and thus prone to getting the cultural memo) so you get the sense that a Most Improved Award is being treated as a Gold Star. It also speaks to the idea that seemingly contradictory alliances that are more hypothetical than real have a way of becoming real over time.
Of course simple surveys like this don't capture the intensity of anti-gay sentiment, a rather crucial point. Sure, Huffpo, make Kim Davis the face of evil all you want, but it wasn't an evangelical who murdered 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub last year.
catholic · evangelical · Huffpo · Islam · Orlando · pew · progressives · religion
"The worst method of dying, except for all the others"
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, culture
An extract (published in the latest New Yorker) from Dying: A Memoir, a book written by the late Cory Taylor, written as she contemplated her approaching death from cancer:
Yes, I have considered suicide, and it remains a constant temptation. If the law in Australia permitted assisted dying I would be putting plans into place right now to take my own life. Once the day came, I'd invite my family and closest friends to come over and we'd have a farewell drink. I'd thank them all for everything they've done for me. I'd tell them how much I love them. I imagine there would be copious tears. I'd hope there would be some laughter. There would be music playing in the background, something from the soundtrack of my youth. And then, when the time was right, I'd say goodbye and take my medicine, knowing that the party would go on without me, that everyone would stay a while, talk some more, be there for each other for as long as they wished. As someone who knows my end is coming, I can't think of a better way to go out. Nor can I fathom why this kind of humane and dignified death is outlawed.
No, it would not be breaking the law to go out on my own. The newspapers are full of options: hanging, falling from a great height, leaping in front of a speeding train, drowning, blowing myself up, setting myself on fire, but none of them really appeals to me. Again I'm constrained by the thought of collateral damage, of the shock to my family, of the trauma to whoever was charged with putting out the flames, fishing out the body, scraping the brains off the pavement. When you analyze all the possible scenarios for suicide, none of them is pretty. Which is the reason I support the arguments in favor of assisted dying, because, to misquote Churchill, it is the worst method of dying, except for all the others.
But it's an option that many church leaders, so busy these days screaming about 'religious freedom', are doing everything they can to deny to everyone, regardless of faith, for what are (despite the other excuses they give) primarily religious reasons.
Anti-SJW Sentiment in China
Comments off · Posted by mupetblast in culture, Odds & Ends, Race
I say anti-SJW, though it could just as easily apply to plain ol' regular cosmopolitan globalists, I suppose. Here's an interesting article at openDemocracy on the use of "white left" in China as a racial-cum-political epithet:
If you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it's impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo, or literally, the 'white left.'
Apart from some anti-hegemonic sentiments, the connotations of 'white left' in the Chinese context clearly resemble terms such as 'regressive liberals' [*] or 'libtards' in the United States. In a way the demonization of the 'white left' in Chinese social media may also reflect the resurgence of right-wing populism globally. The term first became influential amidst the European refugee crisis, and Angela Merkel was the first western politician to be labelled as a baizuo for her open-door refugee policy.
Read the whole thing. The author notes the lack of "experiential motivation" for this attitude, and how it even extends into a very American thrashing of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (but not Donald Trump).
*The link here is to an article at HuffPo claiming "regressive liberal" is an Islamophobic term. So am I to understand that a claim that one is insufficiently liberal is something conservatives do? Yes, actually I am. Once you understand that much of what passes for conservatism these days is simply yesterday's liberalism (or today's liberalism, albeit an embattled one), it begins to make sense. That makes someone like Dave Rubin operationally conservative even if they'd resist that label.
The Social Justice Left and…the Social Justice Left
In a piece that reads as if it's describing campus leftism but is apparently not, Reuters reports,
Since President Donald Trump's election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York's Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw.
Although not as powerful as the religious right, the "religious left" is now slowly coming together as a force in U.S. politics. The new political climate is also spurring new alliances, with churches, synagogues and mosques speaking out against the recent spike in bias incidents, including threats against mosques and Jewish community centers.
The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, which encourages alliances between Jewish and Muslim women, has tripled its number of U.S. chapters to nearly 170 since November.
Seems there's little difference in practice between defense of religion for its transcendental claims and defense based on identity. Atheist Jews coming to the rescue of Muslims to combat racism – of which "Islamophobia" is considered a subset – with zero reference to holy books, imams or rabbis, is quite standard, even if it's more likely to involve a vagina costume.
If the original, god-fearing social justice left feels outgunned by the religious right, they need not worry. Their secular counterparts have them covered, and wield enough clout to render whatever remains of the Moral Majority small enough to drown in a (holy water-filled) bathtub.
Pope Francis and "Fake News"
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, politics, Religion
It was perhaps not that surprising that Pope Francis would look to involve himself in the controversy over 'fake news'. The terms in which he did so were, however, unexpected….
The Guardian reports:
Pope Francis has lambasted media organisations that focus on scandals and smears and promote fake news as a means of discrediting people in public life. Spreading disinformation was "probably the greatest damage that the media can do", the pontiff told the Belgian Catholic weekly Tertio. It is a sin to defame people, he added.
Using striking terminology, Francis said journalists and the media must avoid falling into "coprophilia" – an abnormal interest in excrement. Those reading or watching such stories risked behaving like coprophagics, people who eat faeces, he added.
The pope excused himself for using terminology that some might find repellent. "I think the media have to be very clear, very transparent, and not fall into – no offence intended – the sickness of coprophilia, that is, always wanting to cover scandals, covering nasty things, even if they are true," he said. "And since people have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia, a lot of damage can be done."
He also spoke of the danger of using the media to slander political rivals. "The means of communication have their own temptations, they can be tempted by slander, and therefore used to slander people, to smear them, this above all in the world of politics," he said.
Now let's scroll back to a passage in a speech that the pontiff gave in Bolivia last year:
"The new colonialism takes on different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain 'free trade' treaties, and the imposition of measures of 'austerity' which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor…"
As I observed in the course of a post on the Corner:
Not for the first time with Pope Francis, we see traces of conspiracism (a demagogic standard, I'm afraid to say) in his use of the phrase 'anonymous influence' and the suggestion of dark works by 'corporations' and 'loan agencies'.
Not for the first time….
During the course of his notorious Lampedusa speech on immigration in 2013, Francis conjured up images of dark forces at play.
Writing in Law and Liberty not so long after, Anthony Daniels had this to say:
The Pope's use of a term such as 'those who take the socio-economic decisions in anonymity' was strong on connotation but weak on denotation, itself a sign of intellectual evasion. Who, exactly, were 'those' people? Wall Street hedge fund managers, the International Monetary Fund, opponents of free trade, African dictators? Was he saying that the whole world economic system was to blame for the migration across the Mediterranean, that the existence of borders was illegitimate, that Denmark (for example) was rich because Swaziland was poor, that if only Losotho were brought up to the level of Liechtenstein (or, of course, if Liechtenstein were brought down to the level of Lesotho) no one would drown in the Mediterranean? There was something for everyone's conspiracy theory in his words…
And then there were Francis' comments (reported by ABC) in the wake of the murder of an elderly French priest by Islamic terrorists earlier this year:
Pope Francis says the world is at war, but is stressing that it's not a war of religions. Francis spoke to reporters on the papal plane en route from Rome to Poland, where he began a five-day visit Wednesday. Asked about the slaying of an 85-year-old priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday, Francis replied: "the real word is war…yes, it's war. This holy priest died at the very moment he was offering a prayer for all the church."
He went on: "I only want to clarify, when I speak of war, I am really speaking of war … a war of interests, for money, resources. … I am not speaking of a war of religions, religions don't want war. The others want war."
As I noted at the time on this site:
[A]s for the Pope's claim that "religions don't want war", I can only suggest that he spend more time with the history books and, for that matter, some of the less benign passages in various sacred texts.
The final insult both to the truth and thereby to the victim is Francis' resort (yet again) to conspiracy theory, with his references to some shadowy conflict over "interests, for money, for resources".
Demagogues typically resort to conspiracism out of delusion or malice, as a device to mislead and, often, to draw the audience's attention away from what is really going on.
Pope Francis is not in a position to lecture anyone on fake news.
The Other "Identity Liberalism"
Comments off · Posted by mupetblast in culture, Uncategorized
Mark Lilla's piece for The NYT, "The End of Identity Liberalism," has been making the rounds lately, and for good reason. See passages like this:
For a full year I read only European publications, not American ones. My thought was to try seeing the world as European readers did. But it was far more instructive to return home and realize how the lens of identity has transformed American reporting in recent years. How often, for example, the laziest story in American journalism — about the "first X to do Y" — is told and retold. Fascination with the identity drama has even affected foreign reporting, which is in distressingly short supply. However interesting it may be to read, say, about the fate of transgender people in Egypt, it contributes nothing to educating Americans about the powerful political and religious currents that will determine Egypt's future, and indirectly, our own. No major news outlet in Europe would think of adopting such a focus.
But speaking of identity liberalism – and Europe – I'm reminded me of the work of Adam Tebble of King's College in London, and his notion of an emergent "identity liberalism" on the continent with the jagged coastline. I became aware of Tebble's writings after attending an Institute for Humane Studies event in my days as a student. And while his conception of IL – national identity centered around a shared liberalism, as opposed to a liberalism couched in terms of sub-national racial and gender identity – is different from what Lilla has in mind, it's worth highlighting as the profile of European-style atheist (or agnostic) nationalism rises stateside.
For Tebble, identity liberalism "employs a progressive identity-based normative discourse typically considered to be the preserve of the multicultural left to defend a right-wing politics of assimilation." He has in mind former Marxist Pim Fortuyn and his pro-gay but anti-Islam "far right" cohorts. Fortuyn was if you'll recall gunned down in 2002, by an animal rights extremist who defended his act of shooting up by claiming Fortuyn punched down. One could also include the gay contingent of Marine Le Pen's fan base.
You see cursory evidence of this kind of identity liberalism gaining respectability among liberal and left-leaning intellectuals. Think the upstart publication Quillette, or Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report, and likely many a fan of Sam Harris. Though far from outright nationalists, they're at least willing to entertain the hard questions avoided by their SJW counterparts. And you certainly get the impression that efforts at assimilation are not frowned upon in this crowd. As libertarians have a rough year and the alt-right is basking in glory, the stock of this of old-fashioned-turned-new liberalism is performing somewhere in between.
Of course if the gullible editors at the Guardian are any indication, there's little difference between the alternative right and these other identity liberals in the minds of the establishment left. Or at least its journalistic division.
adam tebble · Islam · marine le pen · pim fortuyn · rubin report · Sam Harris
Morrigan's Hotel
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, Religion
Writing in The Guardian, Alex Mar explains how making a documentary film "about a handful of fringe religious communities around the country" led her deep into the pagan world.
The article is an interesting account of where the search for meaning (whatever that may be) can take the credulous and the restless, and, beyond that, of the eternal appeal of the divine – and the break from the banality of everyday existence that comes with celebrating it.
The ritual was a devotional to the Morrigan, the heavyweight Celtic goddess of war, prophecy and self-transformation. In the center of the circle, surrounded by her ritual crew, stood Morpheus, with all eyes on her.
At the time Morpheus' day job was working for a federal environmental agency, not, perhaps the most thrilling of line of work. Being possessed by an ancient Celtic goddess on the other hand….
Dressed in black, in a leather corset and a long skirt slit up each side, she wore her hair in elaborate, heavy braids that hung to her waist. She stalked the circle's edge, flapping the vulture wings she'd strapped to her arms and staring into the crowd. Her slender body doubled over, as if suddenly heavy, and began bobbing up and down as if something was bubbling up inside her.
The sight of a possession, for those who'd never witnessed one, was alien, impressive. After what felt like a long time, she raised her head up and in a growling voice not her own, announced that she was Morrigu! Badb Catha! The roomful of witches circled closer, tightening around her, and a fellow priestess lifted a heavy sword above our heads: she directed us to take a vow. "But only if it's one you can keep. Don't take it lightly."
As Morpheus (or the goddess she was channeling) continued heaving, breathing hard, hundreds of people crowded in, taking turns to raise their hand up and touch the tip of the blade.
I was one of them.
Mar, who also went on to write a book (Witches of America) on this topic, argues that there are now as many as a million "self-identified witches (typically called pagan priests and priestesses)" in the U.S.
In the past, it may have been tempting to dismiss this community as Earth-loving crystal collectors or velvet-wearing goths. In fact, the dozens of esoteric but related traditions share a spiritual core: they are polytheistic, worship nature and hold that female and male forces have equal weight in the universe. Pagans believe that the divine can be found all around us and that we can communicate regularly with the dead and the gods without a go-between. They don't believe in heaven or hell; many subscribe to some version of reincarnation, or a next world called the Summerland.
In other words, it's nonsense, but to each his (or her) own…
And then we get to the key point:
Throughout my life, most of my friends have been fashionable atheists of the creative classes, but it was becoming clearer to me that this does not exempt anyone from the very human need for meaning. As someone with a strong "religious impulse" but without a practice to relate to, I'd long been envious of people whose lives are structured around a clear system of belief. It seems like a tremendous relief, to be able to wake up everyday with a shared sense of purpose versus the low-level existential pain of living without something to believe in, a religious tradition to guide and ground you.
Most people, it seems do indeed feel that way: It's hard-wired within and some of the more evangelistic atheists (for whom, I suspect, atheism is, in all probability, a surrogate religion) would do well to remember it. Religion will always be with us. What matters is the form that it will take.
But note my reference to 'most people'. There is another group, a happy few (or perhaps not so few) who find the absence of any overarching 'meaning' to be something of a relief, and that, far from being a source of "low-level existential pain", "living without something to believe in" (at least 'believe' in a capital B sense of the word) can be a pleasantly liberating experience.
Transcendence, no thanks.
An "Urgent Need For More Exorcists" (Apparently)
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, Religion
A sharp rise in the number of people dabbling in Satanism and the occult is fueling a growing demand for more exorcists on both sides of the Atlantic. Speaking in tongues, levitating and vomiting nails may seem far-fetched to most people, but experts from the Catholic Church in Italy and the US claim there is an urgent need to recruit more priests as exorcists in order to combat sorcery and black magic.
Valter Cascioli, a psychologist and scientific consultant to the International Association of Exorcists, which is endorsed by the Vatican, described as an "emergency" the lack of priests capable of fighting the forces of evil.
"The lack of exorcists is a real emergency. There is a pastoral emergency as a result of a significant increase in the number of diabolical possessions that exorcist priests are confronting," he told La Stampa newspaper.
Dr Cascioli teaches courses in exorcism at the Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum, a Vatican-backed university in Rome. "The number of exorcists has increased in recent years, but there are still not enough to deal with a dramatic situation that affects, above all, young people who use the internet a lot.
The Internet, always guilty….
Back to the Telegraph:
"There is a broad spread of superstitious practices, and with that a growing number of requests for help from people who are directly or indirectly struck by evil.
"It is dangerous to underestimate a phenomenon that is caused by the direct actions of the devil, but also by a decline in faith and values."
He called for the establishment of a permanent training college or university where Catholic priests would be taught how to counter the malign influence of the Devil. "There doesn't exist a training institution at university level. We need an interdisciplinary approach in which science collaborates with religion, and psychiatrists work with demonologists and exorcists."
He said it was important not to confuse cases of diabolical possession with psychiatric illnesses. Only one per cent of people who claim to have problems with demons have real need of an exorcist, he said.
Still, one percent represents, I suspect, quite a number. Who knew?
Father Gary Thomas, whose training in Rome was chronicled in the book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, and Father Vincent Lampert, whose work has featured on the television show Paranormal Witness, said demonic possessions were the result of an increase in drug and pornography addiction.
That the former can be associated with severe psychological problems is, of course, only a coincidence, while the reference to pornography as, in a real sense, an 'addiction' is a sign that we have entered territory where the science is not—rigorous.
The Telegraph:
They also pointed to a rise in the popularity of "pagan activities", such as using a Ouija board to summon the dead, the failure of the mental health care system, a spiritual void in the lives of Americans and the diminishing authority of the Church.
It's worth paying attention to that reference to the 'diminishing authority of the church'. There's some truth to that. The decline of established religion has meant that people are willing to go elsewhere to satisfy their spiritual needs, and on occasion, sadly, to some highly unsavory destinations. But Satanism is not proof of Satan.
What we do see in this story is the church using the Devil as an argument against behavior, from drugs to porn, to overdoing it on the Internet, of which it disapproves.
And, none too subtly, it is, in a way, also using the Devil as a recruiting sergeant to fill its own pews.
That's not to argue that many senior churchmen do not believe in the Devil (some more literally–and, so to speak, frequently–than others) but sometimes all that talk of the threat Old Nick allegedly represents does seem very convenient.
The Clowns of Salem?
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture
Once upon a time it was alien abductions, and not so long before that, the Satanic panic of the 1980s, a wave of hysteria that spilled over into some of the child abuse prosecutions of that era with sometimes appalling consequences.
Now there is this.
The Independent reports:
Sightings of creepy clowns trying to lure children away are spreading across the US, with no-one sure whether the whole thing is a hoax or a terrifying new trend in abductions.
Four states have now reported the sinister sightings.
They began in South Carolina, before spreading to North Carolina and have since surfaced in Georgia and Alabama….
In Georgia, police said they had received numerous reports of clowns trying to talk to children as well as a threat by someone promising to dress up and kidnap school pupils….
Officers finally solved part of the mystery on Thursday, saying they had charged two people with making false police reports after they say the pair called 911 to report that people dressed as clowns were trying to lure children into a white van.
Police who responded to the calls found found two people in a white van who had run out of gas, and found no clown masks or costumes, and the 911 callers admitted the whole thing was a hoax.
The reports are not entirely new, however.
Bakersfield was among the towns in California that was gripped in2014 by dozens of reports of clown sightings including some saying they were armed.
Ayahuasca and the D'Ohs of Perception
Madness, too much time in the desert or just the right hallucinogenic concoction all seem to be reasonably reliable routes to mysticism. Ayahuasca is (the New Yorker reports) "an intensely hallucinogenic potion made from boiling woody Banisteriopsis caapi vines with the glossy leaves of the chacruna bush" an—bonus—it comes with added 'indigenous' chic.
The story begins with some Americans wandering through the Amazon (of course it does) in the early 1970s (of course it did).
[T]he travellers found themselves in a psychedelic paradise. There were cattle pastures dotted with Psilocybe cubensis—magic mushrooms—sprouting on dung piles; there were hammocks to lounge in while you tripped; there were Banisteriopsis caapi vines growing in the jungle. Taken together, the drugs produced hallucinations that the brothers called "vegetable television." When they watched it, they felt they were receiving important information directly from the plants of the Amazon.
The McKennas were sure they were on to something revelatory, something that would change the course of human history. "I and my companions have been selected to understand and trigger the gestalt wave of understanding that will be the hyperspacial zeitgeist," Dennis wrote in his journal. Their work was not always easy. During one session, the brothers experienced a flash of mutual telepathy, but then Dennis hurled his glasses and all his clothes into the jungle and, for several days, lost touch with "consensus reality." It was a small price to pay. The "plant teachers" seemed to have given them "access to a vast database," Dennis wrote, "the mystical library of all human and cosmic knowledge."
Hyperspatial zeitgeist. Consensus reality. Plant teachers. The mystical library of all human and cosmic knowledge.
The New Yorker:
Most people who take ayahuasca in the United States do so in small "ceremonies," led by an individual who may call himself a shaman, an ayahuasquero, a curandero, a vegetalista, or just a healer. This person may have come from generations of Shipibo or Quechua shamans in Peru, or he may just be someone with access to ayahuasca.
Naturally, wicked Western materialism takes a knock:
Ifcocaine expressed and amplified the speedy, greedy ethos of the nineteen-eighties, ayahuasca reflects our present moment—what we might call the Age of Kale. It is a time characterized by wellness cravings, when many Americans are eager for things like mindfulness, detoxification, and organic produce, and we are willing to suffer for our soulfulness.
We are?
Well, you will:
The majority of users vomit—or, as they prefer to say, "purge."
The New Yorker:
The process of making ayahuasca is beyond artisanal: it is nearly Druidical. "We pick the chacruna leaf at sunrise in this very specific way: you say a prayer and just pick the lower ones from each tree," a lithe ayahuasquera in her early forties—British accent, long blond hair, a background in Reiki…She and her boyfriend serve the ayahuasca—"divine consciousness in liquid form"
A background in Reiki.
The New Yorker:
When a person drinks ayahuasca, a plant-messenger molecule targets the neurons that mediate consciousness, facilitating what devotees describe as a kind of interspecies communication.
If the plant really is talking to the person, many people hear the same thing: we are all one. Some believe that the plants delivering this message are serving their own interests, because if humans think we are one with everything we might be less prone to trash the natural world. In this interpretation, B. caapi and chacruna are the spokesplants for the entire vegetable kingdom.
Ecologically aware too. Is there anything that ayahuasca is not?
In any event, if you are interested in this sort of thing (I am) it's well worth reading as a fascinating, accidentally revealing look at the appeal of ritual, superstition and the cult of the pre-modern.
Ayahuasca · Hallucinations · Mysticism · spirituality · superstition


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Today is one of the few times that I not only woke up with nothing to say but didn't see anything in the AP wire that inspired me so it's time to empty the brain of some thoughts:
First some reader/listener feedback:
A reader pointed to this post about stolen railroad track and suggested that instead of story about metal theft if might be a dry run for a terror attack. I hate to admit it but that never crossed my mind.
The solo show got high marks from people who have commented, I'm thinking I might do that at least once a month.
The appearance on Fox 25 and the NY Post article both got great reviews from readers and listeners.
Lombardi said that when you get in the end zone act like you've been there, before, but I think it's ok to save the game ball the first time you make it.
I'd love to hear some guest suggestions btw.
Is Nancy Pelosi STILL blaming Bush for the current economy? I guarantee that if the economy remains in this state the Democrats will be blaming George Bush right up until Jan 20 2013, at which time they will Blame Sarah Palin
Or Herman Cain
or Tim Pawlenty
or Maybe even Mitt Romney
BTW will the Democratic Senate actually ever do ANYTHING?
Speaking of Palin in today's LA Times there is a piece by Andrew Malcolm wich pointed out that Palin had her Paul Revere history right and the MSM has it wrong. Yes you read that right, in the LA Times! Do you realize how many liberals are going to be spitting up into their cereal this morning?
And Yet Morning Joe's "News you can't use" segment that didn't find Anthony Weiner worthy of touching is going all out on Palin this morning. Don't any of these people actually READ history?
There is also a hubbub about people editing the Paul Revere page on Wikipedia. Seriously anyone who uses Wikipedia as a primary source for anything is really foolish, Glenn Reynolds put it best years ago, on uncontroversial topics Wikipedia is ok, otherwise no.
Although last weeks show was fun, I really hope I don't do another show that is filled with Weiner jokes, but Andrew Breitbart apparently has a HUGE scoop coming out today that will break it wide open.
I remember a few years ago I was at a library in the Museum of Science in Boston and looking at a book on Tornadoes, I was stunned to see that where I live is "Tornado Alley" as far as Massachusetts is concerned, I was even more stunned to see Nature confirm it this week.
Remember at the beginning of the season when everyone said the Yankees would not be a factor this year?
I also noticed that people were hitting Jeter for poor performance. Listen, I'll bet that he will trade personal numbers for first place any day of the year. That's what a leader does and why Red Sox fans like myself still fear him with the game on the line.
Hockey and Basketball should not still be played during June.
I'm not a fan of the Slutwalks but Jessica Valenti make an important point on Morning Joe concerning this today: "Would I be sitting here if they were called 'empowerment walks'?"
Speaking of Morning Joe again the anger over Edwards after the MSM tired to bury the story is laughable, but at least it wasn't as bad as this quote from Scarborough:
"If you keep dropping using drones killing civilian men, women and children all you do is make more Terrorists"
he said this in the Anniversary of D-Day, the day will come when people forget it's significance, but can you imagine if this show was on in 1944?: "If you keep dropping Bombs on German cities killing civilian men, women and children all you do is make more Nazi's"
If like me you weren't willing to wait till next week and watched Doctor Who from the British feed you now know who River Song really is. I sure hope that the "Good Man" she kills isn't who we expect.
BTW if you don't want to wait till Saturday in the US the clip of the big reveal is on Youtube here.
Speaking of Doctor Who I've been way behind in reviewing the Big Finish CD's but they have been pretty good.
The 8th doctor stories are now going to be replaced by a 4th Doctor Series featuring Tom Baker, The new McGann stories are going to be folded into the main series again.
Sadly Elizabeth Sladen had agreed to do new audios with Baker just a few days before she died.
BTW the last 8th doctor Adventure To the Death written by Nick Briggs seams to have been specifically tailored to get the Doctor to the mindset to destroy both the Daleks and the Time Lords per the new series. Quite a season/series finale.
Speaking of season finales I sure hope the Big Bang series finales means that Raj gets to develop as a character. He is the only one that has not been allowed to grow.
Saw Hangover 2 with the family, it was not my first choice but it was funny. I think the series works because in addition to the weird comedy it is basically, like the first one, a detective story.
I suspect the new Green Lantern movie will be absolutely horrible, but as a Green Lantern fan since I was 13 how can I not go see it?
I'm still angry about the comic books out of SF, it is yet another version of the Big Lie.
BTW if you wonder why I'm so unwilling to trust the Arabs on the middle east it's because of this event that took place 44 years ago this very day:
Gravely disappointed, desperate, the king (Hussein of Jordan) retorted with a warning of his own. If the fighting continued, Jordan would have no option but to corroborate Nasser's charge of an Anglo-American conspiracy.
It was not an idle threat, as Hussein proved a half-hour later, when a phone call arrived from Cario "Will we say that the U.S. and Britain [are attacking] or just the United States?" asked Nasser, inquiring whether the British even had aircraft carriers. Hussein responded, "United States and England" agreed to issue a statement to that effect immediately. Nasser was heartened. "By God," he exclaimed, "I will make an announcement and you will make an announcement and we will see to it that the Syrians will make an announcement that American and British airplanes are taking part against us from aircraft carriers. We will stress the matter. And we will drive the point home." Six Days of War page 226
Remember King Hussein was OUR ALLY. The most pro-US arab country out there, and they were ready to sell us in a second for a political advantage. That's why I don't trust Jordan any more than the rest of them.
Confession is a lot like housecleaning. If you go often you will find that you tend to have less tolerance for small sins within yourself and will avoid them. Just like housecleaning, if you tend to excuse a dirty house it will remain dirty.
I confess I'm much better with Confession than with housecleaning.
A correction, last month I opined that the job numbers were skewed by the McDonalds hiring spree, I was one month early, it was THIS month that the McDonalds numbers kicked in. Mea Culpa.
It is a very odd thing to be recognized when I go places. As long as I have the hat people tend to know me.
I just can't afford to go to the Smart Girl Politics event in St. Louis, I'm Hoping to go to Blogcon but the radio show will have to make more money before that happens, or I'll have to be sponsored.
I really haven't shaken the Tip Jar much but when it comes down to it, after expenses I'm taking in a whole lot less than I did on Unemployment and trips like the Palin hunt were expensive for me. I need a new Lawn Mower, and we use a Board and a stick to keep the Dryer door shut while it is running. If anyone is in a position to kick into the Tip Jar it will be much appreciated.
If you are in a position to kick in Big then I can run a ad on the radio show promoting a favorite charity of yours (provided said charity doesn't conflict with Catholic moral Belief).


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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dean's Dip for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
These Buffalo Ranch Chicken Poppers are perfect for parties, dinner, or even the kiddo's lunchbox if they're okay with a little kick. Crunchy, poppable, and perfectly delicious.
When I was growing up, we had a lot of parties. Block parties, Halloween parties, and pool parties. Both my grandmothers excelled at hosting parties, and I like to think that my sister and I get our party-throwing skills from them.
At each party, we always had a great mix of homemade and store-bought snacks. It isn't a party without seven layer dip, or Dean's Ranch Dip, both of which are exceptional paired with Doritos.
So when Dean's Dip offered to partner with me to create a recipe featuring their new Buffalo Ranch Dip, I was all over it. Any reason to make and eat party food!
If you know me in real life, spicy buffalo wings aren't something I normally reach for. While I like a slow burn, intense heat is not something I look for in my food. The good news is, this Buffalo Ranch Dip is perfect for both timid eaters and heat seekers alike. While I lightly dip my chips in, and get a small coating, James can go full-on-dunk, and we're both happy with the heat level.
And in making this chicken, I added just a little extra cream cheese and an egg, both of which helped to mellow out while enhancing the fantastic bold flavor provided by Dean's Dip Buffalo Ranch Dip.
Even better? These Buffalo Ranch Chicken Poppers are kid approved. I shared them with friends, and got a resounding thumbs up from even the littlest in the group.
Panko provides a nice crunch to these baked chicken bites. You can serve them as dinner by making bigger chunks, or as I have here as an appetizer. I think each bite-sized popper is perfect as is, but serve the bites with extra dip so folks can kick up the heat if they want to.
You're gonna love 'em. Creamy ranch meets bold buffalo in one dip. And you can pick it up in the refrigerated section of the grocery store. I found mine near the sour cream.
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Buffalo Ranch Chicken Poppers
- 1/2 cup Dean's Dip Buffalo Ranch Dip
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan
- 1/3 cup cream cheese , softened
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 egg
- 2 1/4 cups panko bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast (roughly 3 large breasts)
- More Dean's Dip for serving
- In a medium sized bowl, mix Dean's Dip Buffalo Ranch Dip, grated parmesan, cream cheese, kosher salt, black pepper, and garlic powder together until well combined. Add egg and whisk until egg is completely incorporated. Set aside.
- In a second bowl, combine panko and dried parsley. Stir until the parsley is well distributed.
- Chop chicken breasts into 1" to 1.5" sized chunks. Place all chicken in the Dean's Dip mixture. Stir to completely cover the chicken and let chill for approximately 20 minutes.
- When chicken is ready, preheat the oven to 425°F. Place a cooling rack on top of a baking sheet. This allows air to circulate around the whole chicken piece and get crispy on all sides.
- Take one chicken popper from the dip mixture, and drop it into panko mixture, rolling until fully covered. Place the chicken piece on the cooling rack, and repeat until all chicken has been covered in panko.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until chicken is golden brown and cooked through. Test with a thermometer, making sure internal temperature reaches 165°F.
- Serve immediately with dip, or refrigerate once cool and reheat prior to serving. These would also freeze well.
- Please note that because of the large quantity of chicken poppers, you may need more than one baking sheet/cooling rack combo, or you may have to work in batches. Just remember to keep the chicken refrigerated in the dip mixture. Do not dip in panko until just prior to baking, or the breadcrumbs will get soggy and not crisp up again.


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No matter who wins, things will get messier
Even if Donald Trump loses the U.S. presidential election next week, the wells are poisoned. Either "Crooked Hillary" becomes president, and spends the next four years fighting off legal challenges and fearing assassination by Trump's more deranged admirers, or Trump becomes president, and the United States becomes the world's biggest, most dangerous loose cannon.
The race was probably always close. The last-minute decision of FBI director James Comey to hint publicly he might reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state has undoubtedly made it closer.
Inevitably, the media took this to mean he had reopened the case, and it is hard to believe he did not act with malice. As John Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, said: "Director Comey's letter (to Congress) refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are, and director himself notes they may not even be significant."
Trump already was claiming the election was "rigged" against him, and he might not accept a Clinton victory. Comey has created an equal and opposite likelihood that Democrats will regard a Trump victory as illegitimate, and refuse to accept him as president. Either way, it will be the "birther" conspiracy again, but this time in seven-league boots.
This is almost entirely Trump's fault. With constant lies and threats and personal abuse, he has brought the entire electoral process into disrepute, and the American media have let him get away with it because he is "entertaining". As Les Moonves, chairperson of the CBS television network, admitted eight months ago: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."
Many billions of dollars of free publicity later, this ignorant and bombastic "sociopath" — the word Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Trump's premature autobiography The Art of the Deal, uses to describe him — stands on the threshold of great power. And Schwartz, in an interview with the Observer last weekend, was very frightened about the possibility that he would become president.
"Staggeringly dangerous. Worse than I imagined when he began to run . . . He's way more out of control in the last couple of months than I've ever seen him. He doesn't have any core beliefs beyond his own aggrandizement and power."
Schwartz didn't find it over the top to talk about a Trump presidency in terms of martial law, an end of press freedom and nuclear war.
But the omens are not good if Trump loses the election either, because that doesn't mean Clinton wins.
Clinton would have to preside over a bitterly divided country in which almost half the population believes she has stolen the presidency, and there is a strong possibility Trump would start sending out coded calls for violence.
He already did in August, when he was whipping up a crowd with accusations Clinton would override the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which most gun-owners believe enshrines the right of American citizens to own weapons. As a solution, Trump suggested: "Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don't know."
Like most public incitements to violence, it was veiled and oblique, but it was also unmistakable. It would be heroically optimistic to believe Trump would not serve up more of the same if he loses the election. One way or another, it is going to be an ugly and frightening time in the United States.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.


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Serves 8 to 10
Preheat oven to 300ºF. Heat a heavy bottomed rondeau pan over medium-high heat and add half of the olive oil. Right when the oil begins to smoke, add the short ribs and sear all sides until well caramelized. Remove and reserve. Add the remaining oil and sear the vegetables for five minutes. Add the thyme and bay leaves and deglaze with the white wine. Reduce wine by half and add the beef stock. Bring the stock to a gentle boil and add the short ribs back to the pot. (The ribs should be covered by ¾ inch of liquid.) Cover and braise in the oven for six hours. When the ribs are extremely fork-tender and there is no resistance when pierced with a meat fork, let them cool in the liquid until they come to room temperature. Strain the vegetables and reserve the liquid for reheating the short ribs.
With a box grater, grate the corn into a bowl. It will produce a pulpy, milky product.
In a large, heavy-bottomed pan, melt butter and add grated corn. Gently cook over low to medium heat, stirring often to prevent the corn from scorching. Cook for about 10 minutes and then puree the mixture in a blender. Remove from the blender and whisk in sour cream. Adjust seasoning. Chill and reserve.
Heat oil in a large pan and sauté the mushrooms. Add the chopped garlic and cook for one minute. Season with salt and pepper. Reserve mushrooms.
Combine all ingredients and adjust seasoning. Reserve this relish; it will be used as the garnish and served at room temperature.
In a blender, combine the egg yolk, mustard, and garlic and puree until smooth. Very slowly begin adding the canola oil. When all combined, remove and reserve in a metal bowl. Add lemon juice and refrigerate until ready to add the tomato paste (recipe follows).
To a heavy-bottomed pan, add the olive oil and heat to medium-low. Add the onions and garlic and cook until translucent and very soft. Add the tomatoes and turn heat to low. Cook the tomatoes until they are very soft and resemble tomato paste. Finish with chopped thyme. Refrigerate until cold and then combine with the aioli.
To plate the dish, reheat the ribs in the braising liquid. (There should be just enough liquid to reach the bottom of the bones.) Gently swoosh the corn puree on the bottom of the plate and place the short rib on top. Place the relish on and around the plate, then garnish with a dollop of aioli on the short rib. Finish with micro greens or pluches of fresh herbs (parsley, tarragon, and basil).
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Stress in the workplace
Stress in the workplace is topic that needs to be considered and discussed openly. Awareness of stress in the workplace needs to be raised so that individuals know what causes it, what the symptoms are and if they do suffer with stress at work, ways in which they can deal with it.
According to research by Trade Union Congress, someone is made ill by stress at work every two minutes.
CV-Library.co.uk found that:
• 53.2% of workers report that stress is an issue in their current workplace.
• 61.9% believe that their employer looks down on workers who get stressed.
• 57.4% think that their manager does NOT offer support to help them manage stress at work.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) claimed that in 2015/16, 488,000 people in the UK reported work-related stress at a level they believed was making them unwell. This accounted for 37% of all work related illnesses.
It is evident that workplace stress is something that needs to be tackled across the country.
First, we need to address what the most common causes are of workplace stress . The main causes include heavy workloads, long working hours, and low morale within the workplace, unfriendly colleagues and bad management.
What can you do if you are suffering from stress in the workplace?
Start by reaching out. Talk to your manager face-to-face about any worries you have. It is more personal than sending your worries over by email and makes it easier to convey your emotion.
Look for support at home. Talking it over and getting support and sympathy to those that are closest to you can help you to regain your sense of calm.
Review your diet. Your food choices can have a huge impact on how you feel during the work day. Keep your energy and focus up, and avoid mood swings by choosing healthy meal options.
Get active. Try to add more exercise into your working day. Physical activity produces endorphins that acts as a natural painkiller and also improves the ability to sleep. Better sleep will help you to be more patient and feel less agitated which can reduce stress.
Prioritise and organise. If you findyour workload is getting too much. Try the following: create a balanced schedule, leave earlier in the morning, avoid over-committing yourself and always tackle high-priority tasks first.
Have a positive attitude. Positive thinking helps with stress management and can even improve your health. Practice positive self talk and surround yourself with positive people.
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text: As the ziggurat construction was being finished we drew the attention of the gladiator trainers of the arena. Lucky us. We were rewarded with more food and water but were selected to take part in the gladiator games in order to celebrate the finalized construction of king Kalek. We were told if we won we could eventually win our freedom. They split our group up and I was paired with Diana and her new half giant. Lucky me. All I knew about her abilities as a warrior is she liked to use a whip. Seriously, I have been whipped in the slave pens and I have never known a whip to kill anyone. I figured I would have to do all the work and hoped the half giant could at least throw his weight around. Turns out Diana had some magical powers that allowed her to kill the enemy, and the half giant was not useless either. So we did well against the creatures that were thrown against us. It turns out the other half of the group survived too. I did not see their battle but I heard they had to fight some savage Halfling.


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Good People Drinking Wine and talking to each other – Rioja Recap
Good people; check. Drinking (great) wine; double check. Talking to each other; yes!
TWG would like to thank:
Anil Patel: for sharing his expertise in working with Google Apps/Salesforce.com/Echosign.com and other SaaS tools for his small, yet influential non-profit, Timeraiser.ca. Check out their full IT portal here: http://it.timeraiser.ca. AND a big thanks for pitching in a case of the delicious Ontario white wine blend called Sibling Rivalry.
Rob Ballantyne: for sharing his photos, experiences, and deep rooted passion for Rioja wines. Not to mention the delicious bottle of 1987 Lopez de Heredia, Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva, and the bottle of 1995 Gravonia by Lopez De Heredia.
Rebecca Baran: for her flattering photo booth shots, and persistence in getting all our guest's in front of her lens. Check her out at http://rebeccabaran.com
And to all of you; our guests, colleagues, neighbours, and fellow creative professionals: thank you for making the second installment of "Good People Drinking Wine and Talking to Each Other" a resounding success.
Until next time, (we're thinking 2 months)
Your friends at TWG.
*all photos by Rebecca Baran


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Dairy with Western Union - Main Road Location
Auckland City
- Proposed Usage
- Retail
- Property ID
- 1bzf1sf
Low overheads and two income streams.
A very busy, main road location with plenty of supporting shops, banks and nearby car parking. Current average weekly sales are $12,000 - $13,000, with potential to grow further by adding more products. Additional net income from Western Union Money Transfer is on average $700 - $800 per month.
The business is looked after by the owner operator who has run this business for the last 5 years, but the dairy has been established for 30 years.
The shop is fully equipped with CCTV cameras, and an alarm. It is a very spacious shop which would allow room for more product lines. Cheap rent with a secure lease is in place.
The owner is moving to a bigger project so is selling for a realistic price.
Price $160,000 + estimated stock value $50,000.