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Like pacifists or pro-lifers: vegetarianism, in itself, is merely an ethic -- not necessarily a religion.
In the Table of Contents to Rynn Berry's 1993 book, Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes: Lives & Lore from Buddha to the Beatles, Pythagoras is described as an ancient Greek religious teacher.
Gautama the Buddha is similarly described as an ancient Indian savant and religious teacher.
Mahavira is described as the historical founder of the world's oldest vegetarian religion---the Jains of India.
Plato (and Socrates) are described as Pythagorean philosophers who are the founders of the Western philosophical tradition.
Plutarch is described as an ancient essayist and biographer, famous for his Lives of notable Greeks and Romans.
Leonardo da Vinci is described as an "Italian Renaissance man; Leonardo is one of Western Civilization's greatest geniuses."
Percy Shelley is described as a "scientist, classicist, aesthete, Shelley was probably the most gifted English Romantic poet."
Leo Tolstoy: "Nineteenth century Russian author, Tolstoy is considered to be the world's greatest novelist."
Annie Besant: "Nineteenth century English social reformer and spiritual leader...at once a feminist, a labor leader, a theosophist, a freethinker, a devoted mother and a founder of the planned parenthood movement. She is one of the most remarkable women of modern times."
Mohandas Gandhi: "Indian civic and spiritual leader; inventor of the hunger strike; architect of Indian independence; father of modern India."
George Bernard Shaw: "Celebrated wit; peerless music and drama critic; essayist and dramatist of genius."
Bronson Alcott: "American transcendentalist philosopher; father of Louisa May Alcott; founder of the first vegetarian commune, Fruitlands."
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg: "World-class surgeon, pioneering nutritionist, and food inventor extraordinaire. Kellogg invented peanut butter, flaked cereals, and the first meat substitutes made from nuts and grains."
Henry Salt: "Venerable figure in the vegetarian movement; author of such vegetarian classics as Seventy Years Among the Savages, and Animal Rights."
Frances Moore Lappe: "Author of Diet for a Small Planet (1971), Lappe's two million copy bestseller put vegetarianism on the map, and awakened Westerners to the nutritional and economic benefits of a vegetarian diet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer and Malcolm Muggeridge are described as "the first major literary figures in the West to turn vegetarian since Tolstoy."
Brigid Brophy: "Noted for her formidable intellect, Brigid Brophy is an English novelist, biographer, and critic of the first rank. She is the first major woman novelist to become a vegetarian."
Ethical considerations influenced Benjamin Franklin, who became a vegetarian at age sixteen. Franklin noted "greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension." In his autobiographical writings, Benjamin Franklin called flesh-eating "unprovoked murder."
The poet Percy Shelley was a committed vegetarian. In his essay, "A Vindication of Natural Diet," he wrote, "Let the advocate of animal food...tear a living lamb with his teeth and, plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood... Then, and only then only, would he be consistent."
Shelley's interest in vegetarianism began when he was a student at Oxford, and he and his wife Harriet took up the diet soon after their marriage. In a letter dated March 14, 1812, his wife wrote to a friend, "We have foresworn meat and adopted the Pythagorean system." Shelley, in his poem "Queen Mab," described a world where humans do not kill animals for food.
"It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action," wrote Mohandas Gandhi. "I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage."
Gandhi wrote several books in which he discussed vegetarianism. His own daily diet included wheat sprouts, almond paste, greens, lemons, and honey. He founded Tolstoy Farm, a community based on vegetarian principles.
In his Moral Basis of Vegetarianism, Gandhi wrote, "I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it...I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
Kim Bartlett of Animal People in Clinton, WA, similarly writes:
"Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion that 'people come first' or that 'people are more important than animals.' Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals -- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to believe that humans are superior to other animals.
"If people want to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like to be treated ourselves."
Food expert Frances Moore Lappe, author of the bestseller Diet for a Small Planet, once said in a television interview that we should look at a piece of steak as if it were a Cadillac.
"What I mean," she explained, "is that we in America are hooked on gas-guzzling automobiles because of the illusion of cheap petroleum. Likewise, we got hooked on a grain-fed, meat-centered diet because of the illusion of cheap grain."
As it stands now, about half of the harvested acreage in America and in a number of European, African, and Asian countries is used to feed animals. If the earth's arable land were used primarily for the production of vegetarian foods, the planet could easily support a human population several times its present size.
I understand there are conservative Christians who fear vegetarianism... which is kind of like being afraid of nonsmoking, nondrinking, or recycling.
Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, pointed out that 220 million Americans were eating enough food (largely because of the high consumption of grain fed to livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries.
The following points and facts are excerpted from Please Don't Eat the Animals (2007) by the mother-daughter writing team of Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
--Albert Einstein
"Each year, the meat industrial complex abuses and butchers nearly nine billion cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, chickens, and other innocent, feeling animals just for the enjoyment of consumers.
"Each year, nearly 1.5 million of these consumers are crippled and killed prematurely by heart failure, cancer, stroke, and other chronic diseases that have been linked conclusively with the consumption of these animals.
"Each year, millions of other animals are abused and sacrificed in a vain search for a 'magic pill' that would vanquish these largely self-inflicted diseases."
--Alex Hershaft, PhD, president, Farm Animal Reform Movement
When analyzing 8,300 deaths in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany among 76,000 men and women in five different, large studies, researchers concluded that vegetarians have a 24 percent reduction in death from heart disease.
Similarly, in the famous Oxford Vegetarian Study, where 6,000 vegetarians were compared with 5,000 meat-eaters over nearly two decades, scientists found that the rate of death from heart disease was 28 percent lower in vegetarians than in meat-eaters.
One study analyzed eighty scientific studies in leading medical journals. The analysis found that vegetarians had lower blood pressure, and were less likely to suffer from stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure.
A large German study of nearly 2,000 vegetarians found that deaths from heart disease were reduced by over one-third, and that heart disease itself was far less than that of the general population.
Another large study examined the coronary artery disease risk of young adults ages 18 to 30 and vegetarians were found to have much higher levels of cardiovascular fitness and a greatly reduced risk of heart disease.
"The process of gradual blocking of the coronary arteries begins not in adulthood but in childhood...and the main cause of this arteriosclerosis is the steadily increasing amount of fat in the American diet, particularly saturated animal fats such as those found in meat, chicken, milk and cheeses.
"If there was another disease that caused half a million deaths a year, you can be sure that the public would be acutely aware of the danger, and that the cure or prevention would be universally practiced."
--Dr. Benjamin Spock, author, child expert
"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."
--Dr. Dean Ornish, author, Reversing Heart Disease
Stroke is the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Vegetarians have a 20 to 30 percent reduced risk of having a stroke. Stroke, like heart disease, is associated with diets high in saturated fats, and the vegetarian diet is naturally low in these fats.
The Oxford Vegetarian Study found cancer mortality to be 39 percent lower among vegetarians when compared with meat-eaters. The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer found vegetarians suffer 40 percent fewer cancers than the general population.
Studies have shown that decreasing a woman's animal fat intake can reduce the chances that she will die from breast cancer. A large-scale, long-term study in the Netherlands found a powerful connection between the amount of animal fat consumed and the rate of prostate cancer. A review of a dozen studies found dietary fat strongly correlated with prostate cancer.
Ovarian, uterine, and endometrial cancers have all been shown to be strongly correlated to the amount of animal fat in one's diet, and vegetarian women have significantly lower rates of these cancers.
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all the natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
--Dr. Neal Barnard, Executive Director, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
"Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rate of coronary disease of any group in the country. They have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate."
--William Castelli, MD, Director, Framingham Heart Study
"Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings..."
--Dr. William Roberts, editor-in-chief, American Journal of Cardiology
Les Brown of the Overseas Development Council calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only ten percent per year, it would free at least twelve million tons of grain for human consumption--or enough to feed sixty million people.
There must be a moral or an ethical basis for one's vegetarianism, otherwise one is likely to backslide, and return to flesh-eating. The nutritional data keeps changing, which causes opponents of animal liberation to react with amusement.
Opponents of animal liberation liken it to a scene in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, Sleeper, in which a natural food faddist, unwillingly placed in suspended animation, wakes up two hundred years into the future, to find that what he'd thought would be the wave of the future, didn't happen…
…the foods that were thought to be unhealthy in the 20th century were found to be health-supporting in the 22nd century.
In the '70s, Dr. Tarnower's Scarsdale Diet had a vegetarian option which was practically vegan, as dairy products were excluded. But Dr. Tarnower permitted diet sodas without restriction, which nutritionalists now are saying should be consumed less frequently.
In The MacDougall Plan (1983), Dr. John MacDougall advocated a plant-based diet, high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, with no animal products, oil or salt. And no intoxication, including no caffeine.
Keith Akers in A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983), similarly said:
"Almost any vegetarian diet is an improvement over the typical Western diet, but the best diet of all would also eliminate refined and processed foods, as well as most (if not all) animal products — in short, a total vegetarian (vegan), whole foods diet. This is a fairly radical claim, and one which should not be accepted uncritically…"
John Robbins' Pulitzer Prize nominated Diet for a New America (1987) makes veganism appear as reasonable and mainstream as recycling.
John Robbins shows in easy-to-read language, with charts and graphs, that most of the degenerative diseases plaguing the affluent West are self-inflicted wounds, and are virtually unknown in other parts of the world…
…and migration studies show that when persons immigrate to the United States and begin eating animal products in excess, they're plagued by the same diseases as everyone else. Genetics and heredity are not a discernible factor.
My friend Greg Sims and I heard John Robbins speak in Solana Beach, CA in July 1989, where John Robbins said he'd recently appeared on the television talk show Geraldo… indirectly indicating just how mainstream his vegan views in Diet for a New America really are!
John Robbins said the evidence continues to mount: autopsies on heart patients show saturated fat and cholesterol as the problem — not spinach and tofu!
And that a diet high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, moderate in protein, and low in cholesterol is health supporting.
The Atkins diet (popular over a decade ago) went against the mounting evidence, although the real intent of the Atkins diet was not good health but quick weight loss.
When Dr. Atkins passed away, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) said his death was indicative of the dangers posed by the Atkins diet.
Peter Singer (author, Animal Liberation) himself admits his Introduction to Keith Akers' A Vegetarian Sourcebook:
"Despite all the books on vegetarianism, there is a need for a thoroughly reliable sourcebook covering all the main arguments for being a vegetarian of one sort or another. There cannot be a definitive book that will do this for all time, for new medical evidence keeps coming in, and the ecological situation and the treatment of farm animals are gradually changing."
At the World Vegetarian Day festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco, CA, in September 2000, Elliot Gang, a writer for the now-defunct Animals' Agenda told Gaverick Matheny of Vegan Action and myself that advocating vegetarianism for health reasons is comparable to saying, "Rape is wrong, because you might catch venereal disease."
No. In each case the moral reason is the real reason to abstain. Because we live in such a narcissistic society, it's not surprising people are won over by the health arguments first.
It's comparable to the bumper sticker which reads:
"Don't Drink and Drive. You Might Hit a Bump and Spill Your Drink."
Again: my understanding is there must be a moral basis for one's abstaining from meat, fish, fowl, etc., just like abstaining from cannibalism, because otherwise it's very easy to backslide and return to flesh-eating.
As an example, in the late '80s, I met a woman volunteering with San Diego Animal Advocates. She said when she first became a vegetarian, she was doing so for health reasons, and didn't think a piece of turkey at Thanksgiving or Christmas would hurt her. But she said when she learned about factory farming, animal abuse, etc. she won't touch meat, period!
Congressman Dennis Kucinich first went vegan in the '90s, influenced by a past girlfriend. I've heard that Ingrid Newkirk (Executive Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) encourages vegans to sleep around, convince their significant other to go vegan, and then move on to someone else, to increase the number of vegans!
This could have adverse effects: if the break-up is less than pleasant, one of the partners might return to meat-eating out of spite!
Again, a moral or ethical basis must be at the heart of one's vegetarianism. The nutritional data keeps changing…
But as an ethic, vegetarianism (not harming animals), like pacifists or pro-lifers, has stood the test of time and has served as the basis for entire religious traditions. (Buddhism, Jainism, Pythagoreanism, and possibly early Christianity all immediately come to mind.)
Misturu Kakimoto of the Japanese Vegetarian Society writes: A survey that I conducted of 80 Westerners, including Americans, Englishmen and Canadians, revealed that approximately half of them believed that vegetarianism originated in India. Some respondents assumed that vegetarianism had its origin in China or Japan. It seems to me that the reason Westerners associate vegetarianism with China or Japan is Buddhism. It is no wonder, and in fact we could say that Japan used to be a country where vegetarianism prevailed.
Gishi-wajin-denn, a history book on Japan written in China around the third century BC, says, There are no cattle, no horses, no tigers, no leopards, no goats and no magpies in that land. The climate is mild and people over there eat fresh vegetables both in summer and in winter. It also says that people catch fish and shellfish in the water. Apparently, the Japanese ate fresh vegetables as well as rice and other cereals as staple foods. They also took some fish and shellfish, but hardly any meat.
Shinto, the prevailing religion at the time, is essentially pantheistic, based upon the worship of the forces of nature. According to writer Steven Rosen, in the early days of Shinto, no animal food was offered in sacrifice because of the injunction against shedding blood in the sacred area of the shrine.
Several hundred years later, Buddhism came to Japan and the prohibition of hunting and fishing permeated the Japanese people. In 7th century Japan, the Empress Jito encouraged hojo, or the releasing of captive animals, and established wildlife preserves, where animals could not be hunted.
There are many similarities between the Hindu literature and the Buddhist religions of the Far East. For example, the word Chaan of the Chaan school of Chinese Buddhism is Chinese for the Sanskrit word dhyana, which means meditation, as does the word Zen in Japanese. In 676 AD, then Japanese emperor Tenmu proclaimed an ordinance prohibiting the eating of fish and shellfish as well as animal flesh and fowl. Subsequently, in the year 737 of the Nara period, the emperor Seimu approved the eating of fish and shellfish.
During the twelve hundred years from the Nara period to the Meiji restoration in the second half of the 19th century, Japanese people enjoyed vegetarian style meals. They usually ate rice as staple food and beans and vegetables. It was only on special occasions or celebrations that fish was served. Under these circumstances the Japanese people developed a vegetarian cuisine, Shojin Ryori (ryori means cooking or cuisine), which was native to Japan.
The word shojin is a Japanese translation of vyria in Sanskrit, meaning to have the goodness and keep away evils. Buddhist priests of the Tendai-shu and Shingon-shu sects, whose founders studied in China in the ninth century before they founded their respective sects, have handed down vegetarian cooking practices from Chinese temples strictly in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha.
In the 13th century, Dogen, the founder of the Soto sect of Zen, formally established Shojin Ryori or Japanese vegetarian cuisine. Dogen studied and learned the Zen teachings abroad in China, during the Sung Dynasty. He fixed rules aiming to establish the pure vegetarian life as a means of training the mind.
One of the other influences Zen exerted on the Japanese people manifested itself in Sado, the Japanese tea ceremony. It is believed that Esai, founder of the Rinazi-shu sect, introduced tea to Japan and it is the custom for Zen followers to drink tea. The customs preserved in the teaching of Zen lead to a systematic rule called Sado a Cha-shitsu or tea ceremony room is so constructed as to resemble the Shojin, where the chief priest is at a Buddhist temple.
Food served at a tea ceremony is called Kaiseki in Japanese, which literally means a stone in the breast. Monks practicing asceticism used to press heated stones to their bosom to suppress hunger. Then the word Kaiseki itself came to mean a light meal served at Shojin, and Kaiseki meals had great influence on the Japanese.
The Temple of the Butchered Cow can be found in Shimoda, Japan. It was erected shortly after Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1850s. It was erected in honor of the first cow slaughtered in Japan, marking the first violation of the Buddhist tenet against the eating of meat.
An example of a Buddhist vegetarian in the modern age: Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese writer and poet of the early 20th century, who wrote a novel entitled Vegetarian-Taisai, in which he depicted a fictitious vegetarian congress His works played an important role in the advocacy of modern vegetarianism. Today, no animal flesh is ever eaten in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and such Buddhist denominations as the Cao Dai sect (which originated in South Vietnam), now boasts some two million followers, all of whom are vegetarian.
The Buddhist teachings are not the only source contributing to the growth of vegetarianism in Japan. in the late 19th century, Dr. Gensai Ishizuka published an academic book in which he advocated vegetarian cooking with an emphasis on brown rice and vegetables. His method is called Seisyoku (Macrobiotics) and is based upon ancient Chinese philosophy such as the principles of Yin and Yang and Taoism. Now some people support his method of preventative medicine. Japanese macrobiotics suggest taking brown rice as half of the whole intake, with vegetables, beans, seaweeds, and a small amount of fish.
In his 1923 book, The Natural Diet of Man, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg writes: According to Mori, the Japanese peasant of the interior is almost an exclusive vegetarian. He eats fish once or twice a month and meat once or twice a year. Dr. Kellogg writes that in 1899, the Emperor of Japan appointed a commission to determine whether it was necessary to add meat to the nations diet to improve the peoples strength and stature. The commission concluded that as far as meat was concerned, the Japanese had always managed to do without it, and that their powers of endurance and their athletic prowess exceeded that of any of the Caucasian races. Japans diet stands on a foundation of rice.
According to Dr. Kellogg: the rice diet of the Japanese is supplemented by the free use of peanuts, soy beans and greens, which constitute a wholly sufficient bill of fare. Throughout the Island Empire, rice is largely used, together with buckwheat, barley, wheat and millet. Turnips and radishes, yams and sweet potatoes are frequently used, also cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes. The soy bean is held in high esteem and used largely in the form of miso, a puree prepared from the bean and fermented; also tofu, a sort of cheese; and cho-yu, which is prepared by mixing the pulverized beans with wheat flour, salt, and water and fermenting from one and a half to five years.
The Chinese peasant lives on essentially the same diet, as do also the Siamese, the Koreans, and most other Oriental peoples. Three-fourths of the worlds population eats so little meat that it cannot be regarded as anything more than an incidental factor in their bill of fare. The countless millions of China, writes Dr. Kellogg, are for the most part flesh-abstainers. In fact at least two-thirds of the inhabitants of the world make so little use of flesh that it can hardly be considered an essential part of their dietary
Misturu Kakimoto concludes: Japanese people started eating meat some 150 years ago and now suffer the crippling diseases caused by the excess intake of fat in flesh and the possible hazards from the use of agricultural chemicals and additives. This is persuading them to seek natural and safe food and to adopt once again the traditional Japanese cuisine.
Leading Protestant theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, taught: We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. Schweitzer opposed the use of animals in entertainment. I never go to a menagerie, he once wrote, because I cannot endure the sight of the misery of the captive animals. The exhibiting of trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and cruel punishment the poor creatures have to endure to give a few minutes of pleasure to men devoid of all thought and feeling for them.
Leading Protestant theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, taught: We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.
Schweitzer opposed the use of animals in entertainment. I never go to a menagerie, he once wrote, because I cannot endure the sight of the misery of the captive animals. The exhibiting of trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and cruel punishment the poor creatures have to endure to give a few minutes of pleasure to men devoid of all thought and feeling for them.


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Last time I studied French was in High School, so to say my French is rusty is a huge understatement. I got this story after translating the original article using Babel Fish. Babel Fish is good, but sometimes its translations are not totally clear.
So, with that disclaimer, here is a link to the original article: Victoire de l'Église de Scientologie contre l'UNADFI
and here is a link to the English translation: Victory of the Church of Scientology against the UNADFI

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For those of us Marylanders in close proximity to the Chesapeake Bay, it's a rite of passage to learn to pick your own crabs. It was not, however, a skill I expected my boys to be interested in. Both are picky eaters and as toddlers, their food rules included the following:
- food must not under any circumstances be mixed together
- one type of food must not touch another
- food with odd or interesting consistency is forbidden
- food under no circumstances should be the color of poo
|EXHIBIT A: the boy
|EXHIBIT B: the crab
|EXHIBIT C: rather dramatic claw crushing
I wonder if it was as entertaining for my parents as it is for me.


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I am a Franco-Spanish political scientist born in Perpignan, France (1976), and currently residing in Madrid.
My educational background includes: a Bachelor of Secondary Education in France, specializing in economics and sociology (Section B or ES); two years of law studies in France; and, a preparatory year of political science (Prépa Sc – Po) at the Integrale Institute in Paris.
I received a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with an emphasis in political analysis, and I trained as a Fellow Intern at the press service of the French Embassy in Spain.
I was in the third cylcle of the doctoral program "Political Conflict and Peace Negotiation" in the department of Political Science and Public Administration II with approved courses at UCM. I have completed a paper on "The Modern Fundamentals of the Theory of Political Conflict". My Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Political Science and Public Administration is based on a research project on "Church/State Conflict in Today's Spain".
For many years, I have combined positions in the private sector, such as human resources and communication, with my academic pursuits. Presently beside my doctoral studies, I am a researcher and an employee of the Department of Political Science and Administration at UCM. I am a also a researcher for a research group at the univeristy, as well as a teacher for certain courses and degrees.
I regularly participate as a speaker at conferences, seminars and roundtables on topics in my field, such as: church/state separation in Spain; the question of Catalonia; the French political system; and the American political system .
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Kraig Powell, Republican legislator, plans Park City forum
January 28, 2014
Kraig Powell, the state legislator whose district includes Park City, is scheduled to host a forum on Saturday in Park City to talk about the 2014 session of the Legislature.
The event is scheduled from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. in Room 109 at the Park City Library and Education Center. Powell, who is a Republican from Heber, also represents a portion of the Snyderville Basin as well as points outside of Summit County.
Powell will discuss what he sees as important issues the Legislature faces this year and outline some of the bills he will sponsor. He said he hopes for a lengthy opportunity for questions and answers on Saturday.
Powell anticipates talking about one of his bills dealing with state alcohol laws. The bill would remove the requirement that a restaurant prepare alcoholic beverages behind a wall. It would also remove a requirement that a restaurant patron be asked if they intend to dine before they are served alcohol.
Another bill Powell will sponsor would provide a way for people to obtain renewable energy though bulk purchases with others through a city or a county government.


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But there's no indication that Casca was raped by the apostles who captured her.
Next we see bloody genitals. Could you hand me a Q-tip? I'm going to get a sample for the crime lab.
Hey man, I didn't draw it. And that quote isn't what I said...
I'm saying gross to this whole discussion. I can't believe this is a topic we're seriously talking about. The made-up quote was clearly a gag pointing out how laser-focused you are on genital penetration. Think of it as me verbally shaking you and asking you ARE YOU SERIOUS?
...after Guts sees all of his comrades dead, the last straw is Casca, unconscious, being toted around like a trophy by one of them (much like the others' remains were by other apostles). Then Guts made a mad dash to save her, only to finally be stopped in his track when Volkov bit his arm. Now this is a pretty desperate scene as Guts is rushing to her, trying to avoid her being impaled (and most likely killed) ignominiously. Then, as he watches powerlessly, the apostle stops. The scene freezes as Femto is born. Guts has to watch it all, him descending, and then actually raping her...
Not to dredge up an old topic
First off, the apostles didn't eat her or tear her to pieces for a reason.
Then the next time we see Casca, she's hoisted by the tentacle apostle and she seems unconscious or in a daze. Why is she not screaming her head off or terrified?
Next, there is a lot of blood specifically around her genitals. She has other scrapes and cuts but there is a lot down below and I recall there even being panels that highlight this.
Lastly, later on in the series, there are several times where crazy Casca is assaulted by men who want to rape her and she has flashbacks. However her flashbacks are always of the apostles, never of Griffith. Almost as if there was some horrible trauma related to the apostles that she associated with rape...
There are other small things like the fact that most of the apostles surrounding her when Guts sees her are phallic in pretty distinct ways. This doesn't prove anything per se, but it seems to imply quite a lot about what these guys were up to.
Also from a story telling perspective, the tension seems somewhat lessoned if the deed is already done
but then again they were likely going to finish her off in the most degrading way possible.
That's just what you're doing.
She's special in that she's a woman. That's just what you're doing.
And that one apostle was going to kill her right there and then, in front of Guts.
That apostle wasn't among those who had captured her either, so maybe they fought for who would have the right to eat her (which is what they mention when capturing her, by the way, not rape)?
They certainly all seemed to take pride in how many sacrifices they'd "got".
Anyways, if she'd already been raped by everything around at that point, why hadn't they eaten her or torn her to pieces? Your point actually casts more doubt on your interpretation than it adds credence to it. Why keep her alive after having raped her? It makes no sense.
And that's assuming the process of raping her with monstrous appendages wouldn't have already killed her or severely wounded her. When Femto violated her, she was rather sensitive, as is explicitly shown to the reader. Had she been butchered by monsters I doubt it would have been the case.
Because she's struggled to exhaustion or until they knocked her unconscious? It's not like being raped would necessarily make her unconscious either...
You don't recall it well. She's bloody from various cuts across her body, not specifically there. There's a picture of blood dropping from that area as well as from her thighs, but the sequence implies that it's fresh, having been drawn by the claws of the apostle holding her. The shot of her when Guts first sees her shows no blood flowing from that area, and it would have had it been bleeding that profusely from the beginning.
First off, symbolically, an innumerable number of apostles with the Eclipse as a background is a more fitting comparison for the danger posed by some scoundrels than the single image of Femto does. It can be explained from that consideration alone. It'd be hard to reproduce the "surrounded by enemies" feeling with just Femto.
Second, by the time Femto raped her she was barely conscious and in an altered state of mind/state of shock. The last time we saw her fully conscious is when she's being seized by the apostles (which was in itself already a serious violation for her). That was a traumatic moment, maybe the one when she in her full consciousness felt the most despair and hopelessness (though it's hard to argue given that Femto's ignominious act pushed her over the edge of insanity), hence why she's reminded of it.
It implies a lot about what the one holding her was about to do. What was done before is not known. That being said, in volume 18 there is a scene when she's being assaulted and she has a flashback to that time. We see specifically the same apostles who surround her before Guts sees her, all around her while she screams and about to grab her with various "tentacles". At that point, according to that picture, she's still intact. Not a drop of blood on her whole body. If we assume the one who ends up holding her just won the grabbing contest before Guts arrived, well that removes pretty much all mystery from the event.
Those "flashback" scenes aren't necessarily reliable though, as the one in volume 23 seems to be a more fanciful representation.
And the storytelling perspective is what matters most here, I believe. Simply said it's about what makes sense...And really, do you think something that important to the story would have been completely omitted? That the readers would have had to rely on inconclusive drops of blood from tiny shots to deduct what had happened? I mean the rape by Femto was a big deal, a huge deal. It's an important part of the story, depicted elaborately, and was traumatic to everyone involved, including the reader. ...But what is it if Femto's just number XX on the list of aggressors? It would just ruin it....
Thanks for the new title Walter. But I guess fair enough that this is a separate topic.
Nope. Look at volume 13 again.
They corner her and say "Sacrifice. A sacrifice. Woman... Sacrifice. Sacrifice. Woman sacrifice. Eat now?. Sacrifice. Before that... Sacrifice. Before that... Yes... Before that... Before..." And then rip off her clothes. They don't argue over who's going to eat her. They leer and make mention of doing something before eating her.
Now maybe between panels they fight over who does what first. We don't see that. But the whole scene is creepy and ominous and rapey as hell.
If it was a gang rape it probably took a while. Perhaps by the time Guts found her they were done and ready to kill her. It sure looked like they were about to mount her on the tentacle apostles head like another trophy, similar to what Wyald did with the village girl who helped the Hawks. They weren't keeping her alive to show to Guts. He was just another sacrifice and they'd have had no notion of what she meant to him. He just caught up to them as they were about to kill her.
I'll turn it around to you. If they weren't doing anything to her, but were just fighting over her, then why was she in one piece? They are giant monsters that probably would've torn her to pieces if they fought over her. So you're saying that they were gentle about it?
In the real world sure. But this is a manga where the protagonist takes on massive injuries that would kill a normal man and survives. Who wields a sword the size of a park bench. It's not as if Miura hasn't played around with what is realistic. If you want to be pedantic, there were plenty of those phallic apostles with visible *ahem* human sized appendages. Plus, who's to say she wasn't injured? I already mentioned the blood.
I have the volume right here. She has various cuts across her body but that area has a large stream of blood and it's focused on. And following that panel Guts flies into a rage as if that detail put him over the edge. As far as when Guts first sees her, that area is never really seen until then. Her body is up and facing away. Look again.
I agree, but what was the trauma the apostles inflicted that keeps bringing her back to this moment? What made her in a state of shock and gave her such a sense of despair and hopelessness?
That's a pretty big assumption. Trauma via grabbing contest.
Thematically I agree with you. I do think it's stronger if Guts arrives just before anything "bad" happens. That Femto stops them and then does it himself. Especially considering how he first met Casca. But from what we are shown, I think Miura is implying something very dark without having to go into gruesome detail. I don't like it, but it's there.As far as why it wouldn't be explicitly shown? Do we really want to see that? Showing Femto do it is one thing, showing a hoard of Lovecraftian beasts do it is beyond pornographic. That would be my guess as to why it is only implied. Plus leaving things to the readers imagination (such as Griffith's face in the iron mask) can make things seem even more horrible.
You know how amongst the carnivorous predatory pack animals such as wolves and lions, it is for the alpha male pack leader that the most juiciest and tastiest meat from the prey is reserved? I tend to think something quite like that went down among the apostles, who partook in the Eclipse, when they nabbed Casca. She was the lone young female out of the whole pool of their otherwise all-male victims. As she was special in that way, rather than killing her outright themselves, the apostles were "saving" her up just for their boss. If anyone was gonna maul and savage Casca, it was going to be Femto. The apostles merely held her up and "unwrapped" her open for him.
I took it that Femto emerges precisely because he aimed to prevent Casca from dying at that point so he could have his way.
Seriously can you guys stop that?Yeah sorry, it's a bit immature, had to laugh at the 'sloppy seconds' comment though.Don't you think you're overestimating Femto's abilities if you believe he could plan his own birth down to that level of detail?
Well i'm just speculating, the timing is impeccable though, maybe its more the IOE's influence on events.
Does Femto's rape seem to be a bit out of character in a way?
I mean when we see Femto and Griffith post eclipse he has no regard for Guts whatsoever, and seems to lack emotion.
But raping Casca was obviously meant to hurt Guts, why would he bother if he felt Guts was so beneath him at this point? Maybe he needed to get it out of his system before he could forget about Guts completely?
So the good side of Griff died, I liked that Griff.
Uh, welcome to the series...?And I agree with Aazealh, the continued use of "rapey" in this thread is becoming disturbing, and needs to stop. You guys do realize the term trivializes the concept of rape, right? Hell, the tone of this whole discussion does...
Femto also ended up creating the vessel for his incarnation in the process
His thought process could have been: "This payback for everything you caused, Guts. I'm going to violate the woman you love before your eyes" or "Woah hey check me out, I think I'll go rape Casca. What? Guts it still alive? Whatever bro I'm busy"We'll never know for sure!
Do you think that the vessel had to contain some Femto to work? That's why Guts corrupted son was the only eligible vessel
it contained Femto's evil seed?
But now it could potentially be a weakness as we are seeing with the Moonlight boy.
Yeah I was just confused before with the incarnated Griffiths persona, but understand that any compassion he has it comes from the baby's influence and that Femto has none of Griffiths good quality's. Like Guts said 'that thing,...is not Griffith'


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Trigger Warning: Depression, Anxiety, Suicide
I had a meeting with my dean this morning to try to set up some sort of academic plan, so that I still can get financial aid. Unfortunately, at the credits I'm at, it's impossible.
That kind of surprises me. I've been ill for a year, chronically diagnosed — which, in turn, has rendered some serious psychological effects, namely depression and anxiety as I've mentioned before. And never mind the attempted credits, even the actual ones I received aren't all that great grade-wise.
But having to pay double the money for a college within which I am currently suffering through a million and a half different things, including not telling my parents, doesn't encourage me to pick myself up. It only pushes me down further. My advisor pretty much sat in front of me, with a completely barren look, and said, "Sorry, I can't come up with a plan. Even with the maximum amount of credits you take, you only reach 63% out of the necessary 70%."
This is what she meant: I'm counting your withdrawals from the semester you had to drop because of your chronic condition, and according to all the attempted credits and the completed credits, this percentage determines whether you get to pay to continue to learn, or sink within loans upon loans to pay to continue to learn, or stay home and sulk in your failure. Tell your parents about your mental illnesses, despite them not accepting it as a real thing. Inform them of the trouble you're going through, and they'll help you out! They're your parents, so this obviously goes to the conclusion that they will just accept you with open arms and agree to pay $24,000 out of pocket. It's not a big deal, really.
It's a big deal when your family is barely able to afford your education. It's a big deal when they think their daughter is making them proud, completing a degree, being steadfast and entering the real world with confidence and intelligence. It's a big deal when they brag about how successful she will be, and how they won't ever have to think twice about buying something lavish for themselves. It's a big deal when they expect the care they've given to their children to be paid off in order for them to live in peace and out of stress. So, sitting here in this small office, staring this lady for a good 2 minutes with the ideals and dreams fading away right before me — it is a very huge. fucking. deal.
I couldn't take it anymore. I broke down. I've never cried in front of a person before, especially not a goddamn academic advisor. I hate getting emotional to try to fulfill my needs, but this time around, I couldn't stop the tears from rolling.
"Will I be eligible in the future to get financial aid?"
And she said, "Of course. But that most likely won't be until your senior year — if you make it that far."
I'm currently in my sophomore year. And I know I screwed myself over. I'm fully aware of my inability to live up to the standard of a "normal" student. I see my friends around me graduating with honors and jobs lined up for them. And I have to live with this failure, but I so wish the rest of my family wasn't involved. That burden should fall on me alone. I'm stuck relying on my father — who works nights, and returns in the morning, haggard and weary, but eager to provide for the children who will make him proud one day — and sacrificing his life some more. Wonderful.
"But what if I—? Or—? Maybe I can—? Please, I'm begging you, please help me."
"Sorry, I understand your concerns. I understand your pain. But you have to be responsible for fixing this. Otherwise, we're looking at a dismissal by Spring next year."
You don't understand my pain. You'll just call the next student in line, while I walk out of that office in hysterics.
When I got home, I pretty much wanted to just end everything, there and then. I thought if I wasn't around anymore, I wouldn't bother anyone around me anymore. I tried to sleep to shake off the feeling, because I've been suicidal in the past before, and I always try to sleep it off, hoping the feeling will decrease upon awakening. But it didn't — The pit of my stomach still felt uneasy.
And just when I was looking for distractions to keep my mind off of how in the world I'll bring the topic up to my parents without having an anxiety attack — my friend called me. I had texted her that I lost my aid earlier that day, and after talking for about 2 hours or so, she told me: "You're an idiot."
She asked me for my GPA and I told her it was at an abysmal 1.7, and she went and calculated (with my limited credits for next semester) that even if I got straight Bs, I would still end up with a 2.1 by the end of this fall, and thus be above the cumulative GPA requirement for 2.0. She literally said, "Your advisor was attempting to scare you in order to do better. There is no fucking way I will let you get anything less than a B next semester. Raising your GPA is hard, but it's not the end of the world impossible, like she told you. And go to community college to transfer credits to raise that 63%?! Is that really her sage advice? Utter bullshit. You know you're already applying for an internship, so you'll probably end up with 3 credits right? If you continue it till spring, that's 6 extra credits. You don't have to go to a community college, what the actual fuck was that woman telling you."
And this enraged me — not at my friend, who always manages to calm me down when I start getting like this, but at the thought that scaring me into hysterics was actually seen as a way to get me to change. Especially when the problem at hand isn't even that hard to resolve. I get that my advisor may not entrust that I'll get straight As or Bs given my current track record, but was it really necessary to push me to the ends of wanting to kill myself?
Aren't academic advisors supposed to know shit? Why do so many college kids complain that these people don't help anyone? Isn't the whole point of them to try to get students out of their messes? Like, I don't understand how there are dozens of advisors for every campus, responsible for the well-being of students, but doing absolutely nothing in the end to actually aid them. There's barely any guidance or direction, there's absolutely no understanding, and everything comes down to policy, policy, policy. And I'm not against policies or anything. Like, I get that it's necessary in a big school to maintain some sort of efficiency in order to sustain the student body. But advisors are literally trained to handle situations like these, and instead of actual knowledge and information, I'm forced to just be consoled over my mistakes.
On top of everything, I told my advisor about my illnesses, I told her that I was trying to do as much as I could — I just need another chance, or some sort of way out of this. But she just told me to call my University's health services.
I've been to those health services for two different types of sessions. They barely helped, and so just telling me to go there to fix my problems won't magically raise my grades — it'll have me lingering around still searching for the actual answer — one I hope to not be too late in finding. I wish that there was a better system than just: Be the same as the rest, or leave. We have no room for failures.
And here I am, still determined to beat the odds. I'm aware of the reality, I know my nature — but I still kind of can't get over the fact that I can be better. I do want to take the responsibility — I messed up. I know that. But I want escape out of this hell as fast as possible.
It's also not about the education or the courses I'm taking. They're not particularly difficult for me to get good grades in. I took AP courses in high school and got As and Bs, so I don't have a problem with the learning or content. If anything, the courses here are far easier than anything I've faced in the past. The problem isn't in the grades, it's in the mental state I'm in, and I need solutions, not sympathy.
So I've decided to be proactive. I asked my friend to have study sessions two days of the week for like 3-4 hours where we literally just do our homework and force each other to study. I also figure, it might not be bad to start taking medication, at least until I'm a bit more in control of myself. I will also try to get this internship, and try to gain experience that way. And in all of this, I truly hope I won't just become overwhelmed all over again and quit and fail my classes halfway through the semester, I really really do.
I am willing to try anything out, honestly. I just kind of wish I wouldn't be shut down before I even had a chance.


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This year our Christmas shopping has been planned with military precision. Our wedding is just two days away now so I'm both pleased and relieved to say all our gifts are wrapped and under the tree, ready and waiting for our return from honeymoon on Christmas eve.
For those still searching for inspiration I've created a whistle stop guide to help out with every eventuality. Happy searching everyone!
For her…
I have to admit I find women easier to buy for, and I firmly believe you can't go wrong with lovely bath products.
Perfect for those who enjoy fruity flavours, the Café de Bain range is available from Superdrug. Inspired by and titled with quirky French patisserie references, each and every product from the range sounds simply delicious. I had the pleasure of trying out their raspberry and rose collection, and loved it.
For those looking for a luxury, Olverum bath oil is ideal for unwinding. Decribed as 'Bath Nirvana' a bottle would be the perfect gift for stressed family members who should be taking time to relax over the Christmas break. Containing ten essential oils, Olverum is formulated to help ease tired muscles and aid a great nights sleep.
For members of the family who would prefer to be out on the town than staying in taking a bath, the Trevor Sorbie Multi Wand is simply brilliant. I've been sent one to try out (Full review to follow…) and I really can't speak highly enough of this new gadget.
Three styling tools in one, the wand makes it incredibly easy to create different styles of curls, from natural waves to bouncy ringlets. The ceramic barrels ensure a smooth rather than frazzled finish, and quite honestly I don't know how I've lived without it. Ideal for friends or family, I'd recommend adding this to your own Christmas list as well.
For him…
I find men hugely difficult to buy for, so this year I've decided to go down a more practical route. There are some handy shaving kits available. with some great moisturising products to add to their routine.
A really well-known brand, Gillette have some great gift packs available which feature their proglide flexball razor. The sets also include shaving gel, and can be found in Boots or Tesco. I'd also recommend hunting down their '3 in 1 Instant Moisturiser' to add to any gift. Husband-to-be put it through its paces, and it passed his morning routine test with flying colours.
For those looking for stocking fillers you really couldn't go wrong with the range of offer from the Real Shaving Company. Leaving you change from five pounds, their range is perfect for adding a little something for them to open.
The branding is smart and understated, with a selection of creams, gels and balms available. Husband-to-be tried out their Super 8 Balm and Super Slide Shave Gel, and they've definately found a new fan! More importantly they look particularly smart on our bathroom shelf… definitely a great alternative to the vast range of mis-matched Star Wars bath paraphernalia available at the moment!
For a couple…
A bit of an extension of for him and her, I'm a big fan of a matching set, and this pair of travel bags would be perfect for when you're off on your travels. These two Arran Aromatics Bath & Body gift sets come in fabric zip bags, with beautifully scented mini toiletries inside each one.
Perfect for a couple with an exciting holiday in the new year, this would be ideal gift to send them on their way.
For foodies…
It was only a few years ago that the balsamic and oil duo was the foodie gift of choice, with almost every home sporting one or two quirkily shaped infused bottles filled with chillies or rosemary. Rather dated now its nice to see something altogether more modern on offer from Borderfields.
Premium cold pressed rapeseed oil, the gift packs include lemon, chilli and garlic flavours, promising to add some extra flavour to your festive favourites.
I'm a big fan of citrus, so we used the Lemon oil to add a little kick to our Sunday roast chicken. Safe to say it was a hit, and we'll be stocking up on these little bottles when they run out.
From something savoury to something sweet, this limited edition Bonne Maman Madeleine Christmas tin is quite simply perfect. The cakes are delicious, with hints of almond and vanilla combined in a classic buttery madeleine.
The perfect addition to cosy evening snuggled on the sofa watching Christmas films, we paired them with steaming hot chocolate after a very chilly Sunday afternoon dog walk.
For the home…
An cosy evening in wouldn't be complete without a hot water bottle to keep you toasty, and this soft touch Sherpa fleece hot water bottle from Edinburgh Woollen Mill is ideal for hiding away from the horrid winter weather… so much so that Ruby seems to have claimed it for herself!
I often just pick up odd candles here and there, and I have to admit I have never tried a reed diffuser, so with that in mind the luxury moments collection from Arran Aromatics was a very welcome addition to our home.
Boasting a slightly spicy festive citrus scent, the aroma isn't intrusive or overpowering, simply a pleasant background note. A welcome change from florals, this set would be a lovely gift for any home bird.
For anyone who is truly difficult to buy for, don't panic, and have a browse through the vast array of magazine subscriptions on offer. A monthly magazine through the door is the gift which keeps on giving, and lets face it, anything that isn't a bill is always going to be a nice surprise!
Christmas seems to have crept up on us quickly this year, almost disguised in the excitement and hubbub of our wedding. For us, missing Christmas was just unthinkable, so we booked a honeymoon with flights which ensured we'd be home safe and sound just in time for Christmas Eve.
The big day has finally arrived and we get married tomorrow! In a few short days I'll be sipping cocktails sunning myself on a Jamaican beach, so I'll be taking a blogging break for a couple of weeks.
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas, without any last minute shopping stresses!
My Christmas Gift Guide
This year our Christmas shopping has been planned with military precision. Our wedding is just two days away now so I'm both pleased and relieved to say all our gifts are wrapped and under the tree, ready and waiting for our return from honeymoon on Christmas eve.


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With Juanita Sheridan's Hawaii marriage certificate, info from the Advertiser article, and a little bit of Googling, I found Richard "Dick" Lundy, Juanita's second husband who she was married to while working at Disney. It turns out that Dick Lundy was well known in animation circles and credited with working on the early Disney classic "Steamboat Willie" as well as helping to develop Donald Duck. For those interested in Lundy's career after Juanita, check out a letter from Dick Lundy to Mary Mayerson.
Another Animation History blog by Joe Campana actually had biographical information about Dick and his marriage to Juanita, including the addresses of the houses they lived at. Camapana's blog page about another Disney animator Art Babbitt told of a 1934 summer trip that Babbitt took with Dick and Juanita Lundy to New York, sailing back through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles.
How did Campana get all of this information – had he known Juanita and Dick personally? Could he have information that would lead me to the real Lily Wu? I had never tried to contact a blogger before and didn't know if it was correct blogging etiquette to do so, but there was an email address listed, so I threw out the questions anyway.
I became a real fan of hard-working, independent bloggers everywhere when Joe answered me back right away with a very informative email:
"Here is everything I have on Juanita Light (Lundy…)
She was born 15 November 1906 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Her parents appear to have been John R. and Ora B. Light, they had both been born in Texas.
At the time of the 1910 census the family was living at 917 W. California Street in Oklahoma City.
(a copy of the 1910 census page is attached)
As far as her marriage to Richard "Dick" Lundy, I have only been able to confirm that they were married for a few years 1932-1934. The marriage may have started earlier and ended later, but I have not been able to find dates as yet. (Dick was single in April 1930 and he had remarried by 1939.) There is no record of any children from this marriage.
She must have been gone from the Disney Studio by 1936 — at the time Social Security Numbers were issued to all employees. I would guess that she would have had good reason to leave at this time because the studio was really expanding during production of Snow White.
Regarding the trip from New York; I am including a copy of the passenger manifest. I cannot imagine what brought them to vacation together, but this must have been the few weeks in summer when the studio was closed for a hiatus.
As best I can figure, she passed away in (or around) Guadalajara, Mexico in May, 1974 as Juanita Graham.
(Though I am not totally certain that this is her, I do know that the "Juanita" in this case was born 15 November 1906, and had lived in Hawaii — because that is where her Social Security Number was issued.)
I have researched the work and lives of almost 500 people who worked in and around the field of animation. Information that was very hard to find when I began this work some fifteen years ago. Most of the information I have was obtained by digging through city and state records, old phone books and city directories in the main branch of the Los Angeles Library. More recently I have turned to Ancestry.com to further my research."
Well I knew about digging through old phone books in the library, but I had not heard of Ancestry.com. This little gem of a database would lead me to all sorts of future discoveries, and I will be forever indebted to Joe Campana for being the first one to tell me about it. Although a fee is required to access most of the information on Ancestry.com, at most public libraries you can log on for free! If you are looking for info on dead people, this is the nearest thing to heaven on earth.
So here are Robin's Rules of Research #2 & #3: Never hesitate to contact a blogger for leads on obscure pieces of information; and make Ancestry.com one of the first stops when searching for clues on elusive dead people.


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Saturday, April 07, 2007
It's been a long time since I've posted anywhere, but after seeing my good friend Suzie's blog, I decided to give this another shot.
Krys and I recently adopted Bobbi. Bobbi is a gorgeous longhair English shaded cream dapple dachshund. (That's Krys and Bobbi snuggling at the beggining of the blog.) She's our baby.
We've been working very hard to train her for dog shows. She seems to be a natural in many ways, but she has a hard time learning to not be shy when people approach her. Our little girl was rescued from a kennel in Oregon and may always have fearful behaviors. We're hoping we can help her be the brave girl we know she is on the inside.
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Measuring public relations return on investment, or any marketing return on investment is always a dicey matter. Unless your marketing expenditure equates to a direct increase is sales or a favorable upturn in public opinion, it is really guesswork.
Social media has many distinct advantages. ROI measurement in the form of trackbacks, blog posts and comments is immediate and qualifiable. Companies and agencies also get to be a mouse in the proverbial corner during conversations between consumers.
The best reason to be in the social media arena? You consumers expect you to be there. If you're not, they'll be looking for other places to be heard. The social media paradigm is here to stay. You might as well get on board sooner rather than later.


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Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
When I let the things around me, finances, friends, enemies, weather, traffic, or whether or not I have eaten lunch today affect the decisions I make, I'm not making the best choice…Except in the case of lunch. Food…mmm
But for real, so many distractions come into play every day to misdirect, mislead and misguide from our path that it becomes easy to make mistakes. With any choice, big or small, compare the options to the Word. To do that one must know the Word.
Live holy because of what has been done for us. Many times what we want to do and what we ought to do are not the same thing. Following the Spirit of God living within the believers is difficult and often we ignore Him and traverse a path of our choosing. We believe what we want to believe, see only the truth we want to see and nothing anyone says can change our mind because this is our life and we know best. This is a lie of the enemy and he keeps using it because it works. Satan, no not the red guy with a little pitch fork and a tail, but the real devil who was once an angel of the Lord until he let pride get the better of him and he was cast out, seeks to separate us from God in any way he can. Rarely does that mean he tries to harm us or even make things go wrong in our lives. Little lucifer will even help us get exactly what we want sometimes because it is there, when we feel on top of the world that our pride steps in and we want the credit for ourselves. All the glory to God brothers and sisters. Everything we have is His and He alone is worthy of praise.
1 Peter 2:24
"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds you have been healed."
When I do something right, which trust me is rare ;-), it is because God has given me a moment clarity and wisdom to make the right decision. I love those! I feel such peace and joy when I hear Him and obey. Its better than anything I have ever felt! Yet still I turn to other places and people for guidance when often I know what God asks of me because I do not like the answer He has given and I want someone to make me feel better about my choice. Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. Oh and if you have friends who, when asked for advice, tell you "do whatever makes you happy", leave them behind because they do not care if you make the best decision or one that follows your heart for God. They only care about temporary emotional gratification and are not living for the future. They are not even willing to take the time to think about something to tell you that may help! It is like a default setting. "Question ending in what do i do gets answer A." What makes us happy right now many times…many many many times will leave us empty, alone, ashamed, confused and afraid much sooner than we could imagine when all we were searching for was to be happy. And what are the people doing whose advice we took so readily? Probably spitting the same words on repeat from the edge of the pit you dug listening to them that did not work in the first place. Don't seek your happiness. You will not find it. Live in service to God, helping one another, loving one another. Peace and real joy will follow. Have compassion and grace for your fellow humans.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Luke 17:33
Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
Do away with keeping grudges, holding bile in your soul is no way to live. In fact we are commanded to do so! Check it…
Matthew 5:23-24
"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
Guard your hearts. Set goals for your life and work hard to obtain them. Setbacks and mistakes will come but we will make it through with God as forerunner. Never give up on yourself.
Proverbs 3:5-8
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
Do not compromise your values or beliefs for people. Anyone who pushes you to do so is not your friend. Friends support you and want you to succeed. Liars and leeches want you to go down with them and will tell you whatever is necessary to make it happen. "I love you, everyone does it, its not a big deal, one little bit won't hurt, don't be a prude" or "you're no fun", all lies and whatever it is you are letting in will find a spot and grow roots, becoming more a part of you until you forget the time when you believed it was wrong. It is then when all seems lost, but you finally see there is something amiss inside that God can work. Funny how we get to the bottom before we decide to look up and see how far we have fallen.
Be true to yourself, guard yourself, let Him work.
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Many have started back to school this month and are falling into the routine of "hitting the books." Younger students may never have known a time in which a backpack was filled with heavy books and not a tablet or when "opening a book" meant to physically turn the pages.
Bowker is the official ISBN Agency for the United States, U.S. territories and Australia, and a recent report shows how much the book industry has changed. In 1984, the year my first book was published, fewer than 75,000 titles were published. Today that number edges close to 1 million, fueled by small publishers and self-publishers.
Bowker's 2015 Self-Publishing in the United States Report states that 727,125 ISBN's were issued to self-publishers, and this figure does not include traditional publishers. Of those, 573,965 were printed, representing a 375 percent increase over 2010 (114,215). CreateSpace, owned by Amazon, has fueled much of that growth, printing 423,718 titles in 2015. Their closest competitor is Lulu, which printed 46,972 titles in that same period.
In 2010, 38,763 self-published e-books were generated compared with 153,160 in 2015, and that actually showed a decrease from 172,511 in 2014.
While the number of releases is unprecedented, the means of selling books have undergone dramatic changes and not all have been positive. Many remember Waldenbooks at Biggs Park Mall, or B. Dalton, Borders and independent book stores elsewhere. Today all Waldenbooks and B. Daltons are closed, having been acquired by major chains and then devoured.
Borders is now closed as well and Barnes and Noble has undergone a metamorphosis, offering more games, toys and non-reading materials than ever before.
For the reader, this means a shift in the way they purchase reading material, much like the music industry experienced. Many older music lovers will fondly remember browsing through LP's, cassette tapes or DVD's in music stores. Today most music is purchased electronically; many listeners have never known a time in which they couldn't download a song.
Books have been moving toward that same paradigm. Amazon sells 64 percent of all books sold electronically and 67 percent of all e-books. ("Amazon Has Basically No Competition Among Online Booksellers," The Atlantic)
While Barnes and Noble and other bookstore chains are dominated by the Big Four (Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette) online booksellers sell more titles from all the other publishers. There are no mandatory standards, so it's "buyer beware" for the reader. Some books published by indie presses are as good as the New York Times bestsellers — in fact, even self-published books are now making that prestigious list. Others are in serious need of professional editing.
Readers can discover exciting new authors and great books by listening to recommendations from others, especially book clubs and literary blogs. Amazon is a great place to see reader reviews; in fact, attempts by the author to influence reviews can get the author banned from Amazon for life. Those on social media like Facebook and Twitter will also find groups that cater to every imaginable genre.
And if you have read a book that you particularly liked — or one you didn't — you can help other readers by writing an honest review.
Writing is not for the faint of heart; the process is painstaking, often excruciating, the road to success littered with pitfalls and predators. Only the most resilient authors will still be standing when the publishing industry finally completes the largest metamorphosis in its history.
p.m.terrell is the author of more than 20 books, including two award-winning series set in Lumberton. She is also the founder of the Book 'Em North Carolina Writers Conference and Book Fair. For information, visit www.pmterrell.com and www.bookemnc.org.


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"This is a Special Pakistani Recipe.A special Punjabi recipe from Lahore.I really like this Dish."
Chicken Karahi
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"This is a Special Pakistani Recipe.A special Punjabi recipe from Lahore.I really like this Dish."
READY IN:30mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 kg chicken (in pieces)
- 1⁄2 kg tomatoes
- 10 -12 pieces green chilies
- 1 cup fresh coriander
- 1 cup yoghurt
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup cooking oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed (zeera)
- 1 teaspoon dried coriander
- 2 teaspoons dried fenugreek leaves
- 1 teaspoon black pepper (Crushed)
- 1 teaspoon garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garam masala (grounded)
- 1 lemon
- First, take a vok put it on stove.Add oil and butter.When oil gets hot, add chicken pieces for frying.Now take the fried chicken out of the vok and in the same oil add garlic and ginger paste and stir fry.After 3 minutes add tomatoes(diced) and fry.Add all spices and fry then add the fried chicken,yoghurt and fry 8-10 minutes.
- Now cover with lid.Then oil rises up.Add dry fenugreek and chopped ginger, lemon slice,fresh coriander and green chilli,cover with lid. Again lid the dish for 5 minutes with light flame on stove.
- Chicken Karahi is now ready to eat.Serve with Home-made chapati or roghni tanoori naan.
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