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Disco Queen Donna Summer dead at 63
Singer loses battle with breast cancer
Donna Summmer, the Queen of Disco, died Thursday morning, her family confirms.
The Associated Press reported that Summer in Florida following a battle with breast cancer.
Summer was a five-time Grammy winner, with a string of hits that included "I Feel Love," "Last Dance," "MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Love to Love You Baby" and "She Works Hard for the Money."
Her family issued a statement confirming her death and adding that they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy."
Summer was a five-time Grammy winner who shot to super stardom in the '70s with iconic hits including Last Dance, Hot Stuff and Bad Girls.
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VICTORVILLE � The Victorville Sheriff's Explorers brought home the overall first-place award for the first time from the Central Coast Explorer Competition.
"It's just an amazing sense of accomplishments that these kids were able to achieve this during this very tough two-day competition," said San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Marc Bracco, lead advisor for the group.
The group of nine Explorers ranging in age from 15 to 20 years of age placed in seven competitions and brought home the overall first-place trophy. That's a remarkable accomplishment considering the Victorville station had two first-year Explorers attend the competition.
"You usually see these trophies go to the posts with older Explorers who have more experience at the competitions," said Explorer Lt. Michael Dilger, 20, of Victorville. "I have always told the Explorers we're the best, and now we able to prove it."
More than 40 Explorer posts from California, Nevada and Arizona attended the weekend competition and participated in events such as nighttime traffic stop, felony traffic stop, nighttime suspicious circumstances and driving under the influence investigation.
Posts are then asked to participate in a surprise scenario, which this year was a hostage crisis situation.
The Victorville group took home first-place trophies in the hostage crisis scenario, nighttime traffic stop and vehicle search. The team placed second in felony traffic stop, oral interview and driving under the influence investigation. They also brought home a fourth-place trophy for nighttime suspicious circumstances.
"This is a testament to the kids' dedication and training," Bracco said. The Explorers trained for nine months at least twice a week for the competition, he said.
Explorers also receive real-world experience when they go on ride-alongs with deputies, said Karen Hunt, spokeswoman for the Victorville station.
Even the advisors brought home trophies.
One advisor took first place in the female advisor obstacle course and another placed third in the male advisor obstacle course.
"This makes me excited to return next year and defend our title," said Dilger, who is working to become a deputy.
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A new type of "bath salts" called "Amped" is being used in Virginia, poison control officials there report. The drug, sold as a ladybug attractant, is likely also being used in other parts of the country, according to ABC News.
Dr. Rutherford Rose, Director of the Virginia Poison Center, said at least six cases of people ingesting Amped have been reported in the state.
Amped and other bath salts have amphetamine-like qualities. Common effects are teeth grinding, jerking eye movements, profuse sweating, high blood pressure, high body temperature, fast heart rate, anorexia, diminished thirst, paranoia, hallucinations, seizures, significant violent outbursts, self-injurious behaviors and suicidal thoughts and acts. Deaths have been reported as the direct result of the abuse of these drugs.
"Despite laws that have outlawed certain chemicals within these drugs, chemists easily change a chemical or molecule within the compound to give it a similar or more potent property, and, because it is a different chemical entity, it is no longer illegal," Dr. Rose said. "These drugs are a time bomb. It's like playing Russian Roulette."
The drugs carry labels warning against human consumption. The American Association of Poison Control Centers reports that in 2011, there were 6,138 calls regarding bath salts, up from 304 in 2010. As of March 31, poison control centers received 722 calls about bath salts so far this year.
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A quick post today to show you a card I made for my friend Linda who has just a little too much stress in her life right about now. I sent it to her in one of our clear plastic envelopes so the mailman will be able to see it and, hopefully, get a bit of cheer from it as well.
Did you know our clear plastic envelopes can be sent through the regular mail?
I haven't used my Top Note die in a while - I guess because we now have so many lovely little shapes of framelits - but Top Note is still one of my favourite shapes. The perforations around the inside edge are the perfect little addition to add visual interest.
At any rate - I said some prayers for Linda last week and will continue to keep her in my thoughts. And I wanted to send her a cheery card to let her know that she is loved.
We send so many of our "good wishes" by Facebook nowadays - it felt good to send something a little more tangible. I think I need to send a few more "Thinking of You" cards. How about you?
My challenge to you is this, then. Don't 'just' talk to your friends on Facebook. If someone needs a kind word or a long-distance hug - SEND them one! Remember how you feel when you open mail that is not junk mail? Well, go ahead and pass that on!
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text: So the winner has been chosen. Both myself and the Olympus UK team went through all the amazing #TG850MAY photo entries and unanimously agreed on the winner. The theme for May was to post 'action' or 'tough' themed photos and this one from Joseph Choi really captured so much action in the boy doing an awesome flip. The emotion in the face is epic too. Congratulations go out to Joseph who has won an Olympus Stylus Tough TG-850 camera. Thank you to everyone else who took part, keep checking back for more photography competitions coming soon.


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Sixteen horses, comprising one of the largest prospective fields in the history of the race, have been entered for Saturday's Maryland Hunt Cup in Glyndon.
Included in the lineup are Cabral, winner of the My Lady's Manor and Grand National point-to-points in his last two starts, and Tom Bob, who has previously finished second in the 4-mile steeplechase.
Four women jockeys, the most ever, have been named to ride. They are Blythe Miller (on Cabral), Sanna Neilson (Tom Bob), Anne Moran (The Wool Merchant) and Liz McKnight, who entered two horses, Pleasant Sea and Cotuit. However, she is only expected to run one of them.


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I have ammonia problems again. I had stripped all my diapers and thought I solved the problem, but apparently not. I was feeling very frustrated that I couldn't solve the problem. I know many CD parents like the challenge of determining the problem, and then fixing it, but I don't. I don't want stink issues.
I even gave a fleeting thought to throwing in the towel...
Then I had a blow out. I put one disposable on Little Man while I stripped my diapers again, and he had a blow out. Poop up his back, down his legs, all over his clothes. I had forgotten about blow outs - we don't have them with cloth.
And so I was brought back down to earth. Yes, there are sometimes stink issues and problems to overcome, but I don't have blow outs, I'm saving money, and I'm not leaving mounds of disposable diapers in landfills for years to come.
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Sunk into darkness and eerie silence, nights always give me the creeps. However, I can't wish them away just like that. It's past midnight. I find the sleep elusive. I toss and turn on the bed. I now get into my feet; walk to the window and look out at the sky. She's not azure. The dark, passing clouds, making the sky a canvas, draw on it sketches of beasts and beauties. Sketches, both absolute and abstract.
Now, I see in the canvas a silhouette of an elephant squatting between two narrow rocks. Following this, comes a lion with abundant, flowing mane. But before long, the nocturnal clouds erase them … replace them with the shadows of dogs and cats; donkeys and does et al. So fastidious are the clouds that they never allow an image to remain on the canvas even for a moment.
To my great joy and excitement, the canvas now displays my mom's turmeric anointed face with her deep-set eyes gleaming and forehead sporting a big red Bindi. "Amma", [mom] I cry aloud as I did decades ago when she was carried to the crematorium.
Thoughts fly.
It was the month of 'margazhi' [winter]. I was bedridden with measles. Mom had just returned home from the temple braving the icy weather. She had been doing this for long; going to the temple at the wee hours during the winter and praying for me. But tragically, she died during one of those winter mornings. Massive heart attack. She complained of chest pain and collapsed when she was feeding me plain rice porridge. Isn't god cruel sometimes?
'Mom, can I rest my head awhile on your lap? Will you please rock me the way you did when I was a kid so that I can catch up with the elusive sleep', I moan and gaze at the sky again. I feel flustered. For, mom is not there. Dissolved by the clouds, she is now only in bits and pieces. I can see only her nose- ring.
"When will I see mom again"? I implore to the clouds, my voice trembling, tears streaming down the cheeks.
"Never again. What you saw was not your mom, but an optical illusion". The clouds quip while vanishing around the corners of the sky.
I stand stupefied by the window looking at the sky, which is as empty and void as my mind.
Mom, are you really an optical illusion?" I say to myself, but can't see the sky for tears.


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"Even if your natural tendency is to focus on the negative, you can learn to redirect pessimistic thoughts and frame them in a more optimistic light," says Caroline Adams Miller, Washington, D.C.-based professional coach and author of "Creating Your Best Life." "Optimists expect good things to happen in their lives and work toward creating positive change to make those good things come true. Pessimistic people come up with reasons why they shouldn't even try."
It takes work, but it's worth the effort. Miller points to research showing that optimists tend to be happier, living longer and healthier lives with stronger relationships.
Take-away tip: Even if you tend to focus on the negative, you can learn to redirect pessimistic thoughts and frame them in a more optimistic light.
To become a more optimistic thinker, look inward and listen to what's playing on your "internal radio station," says Karen Reivich, Ph.D., research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center and co-author of "The Resilience Factor."
Your personal playlist sends you messages when you're running late for a meeting, deciding whether to go for a run, or struggling to get dinner on the table for your hungry family after work. Building awareness of what's playing in your head is a critical first step to learning how to become more optimistic, says Reivich. Figure out if you're sending yourself negative warnings or soothing tips that help you put things in perspective.
"One of the most important ways to promote optimism is to learn how to challenge your own negative beliefs or your tendency to catastrophize situations and give up too soon," says Reivich.
Jot it down: Channel your positivity by writing several daily hopeful thoughts, along with personal evidence of positive outcomes. Writing at least two "optimisms" daily for six weeks can make a dramatic difference in your life. By writing down optimisms, you begin to realize good things are just as likely to happen as bad things.
"The ability to find and use evidence to contradict pessimistic thoughts is what we call real-time resilience," says Karen Reivich, Ph.D., research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center and co-author of "The Resilience Factor."
"It quiets the self and enhances a sense of confidence and competence and optimism. That's something anyone can practice," she says.
Make life lists. Write down five goals that you've achieved and that you enjoy thinking about, says Miller. Research shows that the happiest people have clear-cut life goals, take risks, and persevere. Then, on a fresh sheet of paper, write down five goals that you'd like to accomplish. Goals should be specific, measurable, meaningful, and challenging.
Silence your inner critic. Aim for a three-to-one ratio of positive to negative comments and thoughts. If you catch yourself with a negative thought, fight back by repeating a positive affirmation.
Take a time-out. Every day, set aside time -- even if it¿s just five minutes -- to appreciate the beauty around you, from your child's gleeful giggles to a full moon to the first signs of spring.
Treasure the moment. With your family, decorate a treasure box and fill it with blank index cards. Throughout the week, write down any special moments that happen and ask everyone to do the same. At dinner (or when the family gathers), take turns pulling a treasure from the box and reading it aloud. This exercise boosts optimistic thinking and encourages conversation.
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These were just some pics I took in Santa Cruz at Natural Bridges. The One on the left is actual tide pool with the crabs and everything moving. The one below is the rocks where the tide pools changed the look of the rock. I just thought the were cool.
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This annual fireworks display is put on by Aerial Arts Fireworks.
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Jack Gallagher's The Persistence of Memory (In Memoriam Brian Israel) is a longish piece with a concertante cello part, excellently played by Bogdana Peneva. In structure, the piece uses the five stages (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance) described in Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's seminal book, On Death and Dying. Each stage corresponds to a section in the work, with a final section consisting of an abbreviated version of the opening material. This is an attractive work, with its use of ostinato, fine orchestration and an extensive percussion part. To my English ears it sounded rather Copland-esque [listen -- track 1, 1:18-2:25]. But given its length, I never felt that Gallagher explored his theme in sufficient depth.
Werner Pelinka's Diagonal is rather an effective piece for strings with a concertante violin part. Based on a line from Goethe's Faust, 'Das EsigWeibliche zeiht uns hinan' ('The Eternal Woman draws us on') the piece contrasts a masculine Allegro energico opening movement [listen -- track 2, 0:01-0:59] with the more feminine Sostenuto final movement. The two movements are separated by the diagonal of the title where a series of pedal points rise from the lowest to the highest notes. The composer's own programme note leaves it to our own imagination to consider how the diagonal might link or divide the two parts.
Lagu Lagu Manis II by Betty Beath is the result of journeys to Java and Bali. The music is based on Javanese and Balinese musics, recollected in the quiet of the composer's study. An attractively melodic piece, this translation of the exotic into conventional western music lacks the distinctiveness, vigour and dynamism of other essays in this genre such as the gamelan sections in Britten's The Prince of the Pagodas [listen -- track 3, 0:07-1:33].
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This week's focus will be on Kansas Jayhawks center, Jeff Withey. Through the first ten games of the season, Withey is averaging 14.1 points per game, 8.1 rebounds, and an astounding 5.4 blocks. He's had several games with five or more blocks. To say Withey is a defensive anchor would be an understatement. He cleans up a lot of mistakes and breakdowns by the perimeter defenders with his defensive rotations. Not only does he do it with size, but it certainly helps to have a 7' 1.5" wingspan to contest, alter, and block shots with. Another remarkable part of Withey's early season play has been his ability to stay out of foul trouble, which allows him to stay on the floor for 32+ minutes per game.
Withey is an efficient scorer with a soft touch around the rim. Not only is he scoring more, he's also drawing more fouls and going to the free throw line more. In fact, he is enjoying career highs in minutes, field goal attempts, and free throw attempts. According to Synergy, he is logging 1.12 points per possession through his ten games. His shots are coming in the paint, which explains the high shooting percentage. Withey favors posting up on the left block a little too much, but it is clearly in his comfort zone. He shows a few good moves out of his post ups, including a drop stop to the baseline and hook shot. His strength and size allow him to pin defenders and take passes over the top for easy baskets. He has range out to the elbows, but not enough consistency. He shoots them in rhythm, but clearly favors to play with his back to the basket.
The thing I like most about Withey is that he isn't afraid of contact. He can finish strong around the rim even with a lot of hands slapping at the ball. He's smart enough not to bring the ball down on offensive rebounds, which is something I see too many big men do.
Withey has backup center written all over him. An NBA comparison at this point would be Omer Asik, especially when it comes to defense and rebounding. Withey is slightly more polished than Asik offensively, and any offense he provides to the team that drafts him will be a bonus. Withey rotates well to cover drivers and he shows out and recovers on high ball screens. He is projected to be a late first round to early second round pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. If he continues his strong play for the remainder of the season, he will certainly be playing in the NBA. Kansas has a tough test coming up against Ohio State, where he will likely match up with Evan Ravenel, Amir Williams, and Deshaun Thomas.
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This page covers the development of botanical art in Asia between 600 and 1900 AD.
Below I have developed (and am developing) sections relating to the countries which have the strongest traditions of painting plants and flowers
...the Chinese or Japanese artist approaches the painting of flowers with a humility that is rarely encountered in the West
Two recurrent names are already emerging. 'The East India Company' and 'Sir Joseph Banks' are associated with a lot of the discoveries of plants and the development of botanical illustration in the 19th century.
The image in the banner is a crop of the Plate of Cephalotaxus harringtonii from the Flora Japonica
...flower painting as in independent art, untainted by medical or other practical considerations, began in China as early as the seventh or eighth century AD and was carried on with enthusiasm through these centuries when, in the West, Nature was still an object of mistrust or even fear
Wilfrid Blunt (The Art of Botanical Illustration' - West and East)
Chinese flower painting
Chinese painting techniques
T'ang Dynasty (618-906 AD)
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960 AD)
Sung Dynasty (960-1279)
Early Qing dynasty (1644-1912)
The commissioned paintings were executed on thick, cream English watercolour paper, predominantly produced by Whatman and made from cotton rag, measuring at least 48 x 36cm.
The Plantsman
Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection: Images of Nature
by Judith Magee
The Natural History Museum has developed a book to show off prime images from the Reeves Collection of paints of the flora and fauna of China. These were sent back from China to the UK in the early 1800s and now form part of the Reeves Collection at the Natural History Museum in London
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: The Natural History Museum
Published First Edition: 1 Mar. 2011
Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection: Images of Naturefrom Amazon UK
His detailed careful depictions of plants and animals avoided all personal expression and are extremely valuable for their scientific accuracy as well as their artistic perfection.
Ustad [Master] Mansur has become such a master in painting that he has the title of Nadiru-1-'asr [Wonder of the Age], and in the art of drawing is unique in his generation.
Comment made by Jahangir
"This year [A.D. 1620], in the little garden of the palace and on the roof of the chief mosque, the tulips blossomed luxuriantly. There are many blue jessamines in the gardens, and the white jessamines that the people of India call chambili are sweet-scented.... I saw several sorts of red roses: one is specially sweet-scented.... The flowers that are seen in the territories of Kashmir are beyond all calculation. Those that Nadir al-casr Ustad Mansur has painted are more than 100"
Jahangir, Tuzuk, II, p. 145
Colonial India and the East India Company
Recording plants in paintings seems to have been reinforced by Europeans resident in India who either wanted records of their time living in India or wanted practical records because of their job. So, for example, a number of physicians working for the East India Company were interested in botany and plants and wanted paintings of what they found.
Company School Paintings (18th and 19th centuries)
Many Indian artists worked for patrons in the East India Company. The term used for this body of artists is the Company style. Many had been trained in schools set up in major cities by the British to train Indian artists in Western Techniques. Company School artists typically worked in watercolour on paper and recorded whatever interested their patrons. The style in fact varied by the different centres/cities. They recorded all aspects of the land and culture. Some artists specialised in producing large paintings of the plants and flowers of India.
Very few Company paintings of plants seem to have been digitised. However a number are regularly included in botanical art exhibitions at Kew.
Company Painters
Collections of Indian Botanical Art
The Cleghorn Collection (RBGE)
Several thousand botanical drawings were commissioned in India, from Indian artists, by Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).
The Roxburgh Icones (RBGE)
William Roxburgh (1751-1815) was known as the 'Father of Indian Botany'. In India he commissioned about 2500 drawings of Indian plants from a team of Indian artists. These are known as the 'Roxburgh Icones'. RGBE have a a set of about 500 extremely fine, partially coloured, ink copies based on the original Roxburgh Icones, made in the Calcutta Botanic Garden 1815-20. The names of the botanical artists employed by Roxburgh are not known.
Dapuri Drawings: Alexander Gibson & the Bombay Botanic Gardens
by Henry J. Noltie
A book about the watercolour paintings of plants grown in the botanic gardens in Bombay in the middle of the 19th century. These were commissioned by Alexander Gibson, an East India Company surgeon. Gibson wrote the Bombay Flora with Nicholas Dalzell.
An unknown Portugese-Indian artist created the watercolour paintings which were made between 1847 and 1850. The plants are not all native to Bombay and western India. Half are exotics from as far afield as Argentina and Australia.
The book includes information about Gibson's life and work (including his role as a pioneering forest conservator) and a history of Dapuri and Gibson's other botanic gardens.
Hardback, 240pp, 340 x 240mm, full colour illustrations throughout
Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo
by Henry J. Noltie
This trilogy of volumes in a slipcase forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796–1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo.
Paperback (cased), 511pp, 296 x 234mm, full colour illustrations throughout
Available from Royal Botanical Garden Publications
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These days, trolls are a real problem. The shadowy figures lurking beneath bridges should be the least of your worries though. It seems that when people lose face to face interaction, they lose a sense of responsibility, respect, and seem to have no filters. Hate flows like a river in the form of racist, sexist, and downright offensive remarks. Cyber bullying is on the rise and there seems to be no end in sight. Have the morals of our society been downgraded with this influx of technology? Is the hate we are seeing the same amount as before, just more easily seen? Are people living with split personalities, or is how a person interacts online what really shows there true character? These are difficult questions that are crucial to understanding where our society is headed, and what actions must be taken if a diversion is necessary.
In reference to our society's morals, I do believe that we have taken a step back in recent years. I'm not going to blame it all on technology, but I must say the internet has played a large part. Here's a broader look at the morals of today's society, which doesn't specifically focus on online interactions. http://agnosticism-atheism.yoexpert.com/ethics-and-morality/do-ethics-matter-a-21st-century-view-on-morality-643.html I believe online actions are at the epicenter of this issue, but are not the only topic that should be discussed. I think most people can admit that the internet has brought about negativity in all of us at times. Some people however, are extremely hateful when given access to this valuable resource. Here's great advice on how to deal with some of this negativity on a daily basis. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/01/digital.haters.netiquette/index.html Trolls on the other hand are a different issue. I think that these kinds of people are destined to behave like animals, online or not. Some of the actions by trolls described in "Unmasking Reddits Violentacrez the Biggest Troll on the Web" made me sick. Like when asked the creepiest thing he'd done a troll replied "perhaps oral sex with my 19 year old step daughter." I believe that as a society we must choose to ignore this kind of person because they really aren't worth acknowledging.
Regardless of the method of communication, people should realize that they are accountable for what they say. Living with a different personality when nobody knows who you are is just ridiculous. The thoughts that flow freely when people are anonymous are just suppressed when contact is face to face. This is done to avoid conflict with ones beliefs, and is a sign of a coward.
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In a conference call with investors earlier this week, Papa John's founder and CEO "Papa" John Schnatter blasted the National Football League's handling of the national anthem protests saying, "The NFL has hurt us and, more importantly, by not resolving the current debacle to the [players' and owners'] satisfaction, NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's."
It comes as no surprise the "official pizza" of the NFL and the Super Bowl would feel the financial impact of the negative brand association generated by the league's current unpopularity. Reports indicate that Papa John's will try to reverse the current trend by removing the NFL Shield and other references in future advertising.
After recent comments by Papa John's competitors, Pizza Hut and DiGiorno, the media appears to be developing a narrative that pizza companies may be on opposing sides of the anthem protest issue.
Yahoo! Finance, which is owned by Verizon (2 – Lean Liberal), published an article with this headline: "Pizza Hut counters Papa John's claim of NFL hurting pizza sales." The story refers to a statement made by the CEO of Pizza Hut's parent company, YUM! Brands, who said his company was "not seeing any impact" from the anthem protest controversy.
However, the article also quoted a Bloomberg financial analyst who appeared validate Papa John's position saying, "I'm not blaming them for citing it. If this is a permanent thing, they have to figure out where to spend some of those ad dollars."
On the other hand, DiGiorno, which is owned by Nestle (2.4 – Lean Liberal), took direct aim at Papa John's via Twitter in an attempt to gain a piece of the pie in the midst of this week's pizza coverage:
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While Domino's (2.7 – Lean Liberal) has not yet added any sauce, could we be seeing a new pizza war heating up the ovens? 2ndVote has the background research showing where all these companies align on political and cultural issues so you can know what is actually delivered in that box:
Papa John's (5 – Conservative)
Papa John's financially supports The Salvation Army, an organization that supports Pro-Life values and traditional marriage.
Pizza Hut (2 – Lean Liberal)
Pizza Hut's parent company, YUM! Brands, contributes to the YWCA and National Urban League, organizations that are members of the anti-2nd Amendment Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV). The YWCA is pro-abortion and supports same-sex marriage and National Urban League supports sanctuary city policies.
Domino's (2.7 – Lean Liberal)
Domino's has donated to Equality Michigan, a liberal LGBT advocacy organization that opposes religious liberty protections for business owners.
DiGiorno (2.4 – Lean Liberal)
DiGiorno's parent company Nestle supports the economically burdensome Paris Climate Agreement and contributes to Planned Parenthood supporters Susan G. Komen and March of Dimes.
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On Feb. 20, a restaurant article comes out with the headline "Why Shoppers No Longer Care About Green". Read the article, in the second sentence no less, and you'll see that the number of Americans that respond to a question about buying green is 36%; EXACTLY the SAME percentage as answered that same question a year ago.
To the minimal defense of the headline writer, the percentage is is not the 300% growth rate from the year before that (12% vs. 36%). But, my point is that if you are an average reader and maybe you're not a committed green person, then you'll now see that the trend has now stopped and you now don't have to worry about it.
Additionally, the article makes a great statement to marketers and sellers; STOP CHARGING A PREMIUM because you can. Consumers don't like it and won't pay for it in this climate. If it's inherent (e.g. fair trade), cool. If it's just a bump to be green and the consumer can't understand it, stop it.
Contrast that article with one on March 11, from Sustainable Life Media entitled "Survey: Young Consumers Fight Global Warming by Buying Green" and you'll get a completely different take on who is buying green and why. A whopping 64% of the age group 18-34 believe humans cause climate change and by buying green they make a difference. The article goes on to quote the CEO Kevin Tuerff at GreenCanary Sustainability Consulting saying "this should serve as a wake-up call to sellers and marketers of current and future green products".
So which is it? Only a third of consumers care, which is what most in the retail sector will read; or is it two thirds of the younger group and half of the population at large? Anyone with comments, please feel free to respond.
I'm off to CAMEX, the College Book Store industries annual trade show. In terms of that retail segment, this is the ONE BIG show. I'll let you know what I find out from these buyers and where they think they and their customers are.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After playing to an overtime shootout during the regular season, second-seeded Duke and seventh-seeded Boston College needed overtime again Thursday in the ACC Championship quarterfinals. Sophomore midfielder Margaux Paolino knocked in the game winner four minutes into overtime to lift the Blue Devils (16-2) to the 3-2 victory.
"Boston College is a great team who brings a lot of energy and put a lot of pressure on us," said head coach Pam Bustin. "They wanted this game and we knew that. I'm really pleased with the way we played. I thought we stayed pretty connected. I think we just have to maintain our composure in different pockets of the game. They changed some things up and I thought we did a good job of countering that."
The teams combined for just seven shots in the opening half, which saw the Blue Devils go up 2-0 on a pair of Rose Tynan tallies, and the defensive battle continued after the break. Duke's defensive penalty corner unit defused the Eagles' first attempt of the day but Boston College was able to break through on the ensuing play. Maddy Dorn converted at the right post to trim the margin to one with 21 minutes remaining.
Momentum stayed with the Eagles, who notched the equalizer on a goal by Carly Kauffman in the 68th minute. The call was upheld following a video review, and despite three consecutive chances for the Blue Devils on penalty corners at the end of regulation, the match remained tied at 2-2.
Duke drew a corner a couple of minutes into overtime and saw Alyssa Chillano's initial drag turned away by Boston College goalkeeper Sarah Dwyer. Senior Ashley Kristen corralled the rebound off of Dwyer's pads and Paolino provided the diving finish into the back of the cage to secure the Blue Devils' spot in Friday's semifinals.
Tynan and Ainsley Gill propelled the Blue Devils to an early lead, with Tynan finishing on the Gill feed from the baseline less than four minutes in. Tynan notched her team-leading 14th goal of the season on the scoring play.
Duke capitalized again less than five minutes later, as Tynan found her way back to the front of the goal cage and put away a ball from senior Ashley Kristen on the right side of the circle.
"That's the kind of spark we've been working on," Bustin said of Tynan's two early scores. "Right out of the gate, sustain it, continue to have that movement on the forward line. We did fall back on that a little bit where we need to keep creating those opportunities."
The Blue Devils continued to control possession and held Boston College without a shot on goal for the half to carry the 2-0 advantage into the second period.
Duke rounded out the day with a 13-6 advantage in shots, and led in penalty corners, 7-2. Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sammi Steele wrapped up the game with two saves to four by the Eagles' Dwyer.
The Blue Devils advance to Friday's semifinals at Louisville's Trager Stadium, where they will face the third-seeded Cardinals, who advanced with a 3-2 defeat of Syracuse Thursday afternoon. Friday's semifinal contest will be broadcast on RSN and ACC Network Extra at 2:30 p.m.


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To honor President Obama or not? This controversy is not about what should be said at Catholic universities, but about what should be said by a Catholic university.
By Richard W. Garnett
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What it is not
To understand what the controversy surrounding Obama's invitation is about, it is important to understand what it is not about.
Most important, the issue is not, as some commentators have suggested, whether Notre Dame should welcome, engage, debate and explore a wide range of viewpoints. Of course it should. It was, after all, a central message of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council that "nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo" in Christians' hearts, and the same can be said for the work of a Catholic university. Such a university has nothing to fear from — indeed, it has the best possible reasons to welcome — inquiry, investigation, argument and testing. And so, no one could reasonably oppose inviting the president to Notre Dame for discussion and dialogue on immigration, education, health care — or even abortion.
The question on the table is not whether Notre Dame should hear from the president but whether Notre Dame should honor the president. A Catholic university can and should engage all comers, but in order to be true to itself — to have integrity — it should hesitate before honoring those who use their talents or power to bring about grave injustice. The university is, and must remain, a bustling marketplace of ideas; at the same time, it also has a voice of its own. We say a lot about who we are and what we stand for through what we love and what we choose to honor. The controversy at Notre Dame is not about what should be said at Catholic universities, but about what should be said by a Catholic university.
It is also a mistake to frame the controversy in terms of academic freedom. Obviously, this freedom, properly understood, is central to the mission of any great university.
Even so, no one is proposing limits on what can or should be discussed, debated, taught, studied or written by students or scholars. The American Association of University Professors is right to insist that "the opportunity to be confronted with diverse opinions is at the core of academic freedom," but wrong to imagine that this principle requires a university to be indifferent to the messages it sends through the honors it confers.
No university is entirely neutral; every university makes decisions about what to affirm, through its policies, as good or true. One can (and should) affirm the right (and duty) of scholars at Catholic universities to be true to their scholarly vocations while still asking whether Notre Dame is being true to itself.
Blogger's Comment: Let me make that stronger. An institution selling itself under the rubric of "Catholic" can never be neutral. It must have above all a single issue which is "Christ." To say "Christ" is to say God and the Absolute. That Absolute is a Person. But the Person of Christ – as prototype of every person – is self-determining. Remove self-determination, and you remove freedom. Remove the person by abortion, and you remove the only absolute that grounds freedom.
Notre Dame must be about that one Absolute, always and everywhere, in order to be able to examine all the issues with respect for the persons who hold them. Then, we are free to discuss and engage the truth content on the level of ideas of persons determining themselves. The freedom to discuss is built on the one value that grounds the existence of all the ideas, but which transcends discussion.
Make the person a fungible issue, abort him, and you abort freedom. Abort freedom, you abort academic freedom. To isolate the Magisterium of the Catholic Church from a fictitious autonomy of academic freedom is oxymoronic. No one is free to espouse abortion in any forum anywhere, much less at Notre Dame, without falling into the contradiction of denying the democratic character of the country, the catholicity of the university, and real freedom of thought.
Exercising religious liberty
Next, some have suggested that it threatens the separation of church and state for Catholic bishops to express regret and criticism regarding Notre Dame's decision. This suggestion is badly misplaced. A Catholic bishop who calls on a Catholic university to be true to its Catholic character is exercising, not undermining, religious liberty.
Finally, the reason some say that an authentically Catholic university — even one that appreciates fully President Obama's appeal and the historical significance of his election — should not honor him with a ceremonial law degree is not because he rejects "Catholic" views on abortion. The worry, instead, is that Notre Dame will send the wrong message and say something that is inconsistent with its Catholic character and with its commitment to human rights by honoring — at this time, anyway — a president whose record so far on abortion and embryo-destructive research is glaringly in conflict with that commitment.
The Catholic view on these matters, after all, is that there is no specifically or narrowly "Catholic" view. The church affirms that human life is sacred, and that every human being, at every stage of development, should be welcomed in life and protected in law. This affirmation rests on the same foundational principles of human dignity and equality that animate the Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, principles that were celebrated not only by Pope John Paul II but also by Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. The president's error is not failing to submit to "Catholic" authority — why should he? — but aggressively and consistently promoting policies that are unjust because they deny the basic equality of every human being.
To doubt that a Catholic university should honor Obama at this time, and to worry about the message such an honor sends, is not to engage in partisan or "single issue" politics or to deny that there are many things to be celebrated and admired about our new president's life, campaign, election and vision. Indeed, these things make it all the more regrettable — tragic, really — that he is so badly misguided on such a fundamental issue of justice.
Richard W. Garnett is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.


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Let me begin with a rant.
Look, I know headline writers and Twitterers have to shorten stuff up.
But let's keep in mind that reforming "health insurance" is not the
same thing as reforming "health care." Because insurance for care is not the care
Is the cost of care relevant to the care that people
get? Of course! Do insurance companies effectively practice medicine
when they deny coverage for expensive treatment? You betcha!
relying on changes to only one component of a very complex system to
produce systemic *and positive* change strikes me as ... overoptimistic.
Words are all we have to articulate our goals. Let's be clear about what our goals are.
Now that I have that out of my system, let's talk for a moment about mandates.
No, not that mandate. I want to talk about the mandate that, if you own a motor vehicle in the United States, you, generally speaking, have to have a verifiable way of making good on the damage that your car does to other people and property. The way vehicle owners do this varies from state to state. In most states, it's through automobile insurance. In Virginia, if you "go bare," you have to pay the state an annual $500 fee. Mississippi lets you post a bond (which is just another form of insurance if you squint at it) rather than purchasing conventional auto insurance. New Hampshire only requires you to carry auto insurance if the state concludes you're at high risk of damaging somebody.
The general principle is this: you are required to carry auto insurance (or its equivalent) to protect other people from your screw ups. And it's prudent, frankly to have auto insurance to protect yourself from your own. As far as I can tell, the idea that you have to carry auto insurance to protect other people, that is, the general public, is not particularly controversial.
What is a requirement to carry insurance? It is a mandate.
Fast forward to the much more controversial mandate to purchase health insurance, or pay a penalty to the feds--much like the Virginia uninsured vehicle requirement above.
The most commonly-heard argument for the mandate has to do the economic necessity of getting young healthy people buying insurance they probably won't use to pay for the cost of old sick people using the heck out of their insurance. That isn't what I want to discuss in this post.
There is an entirely different risk-sharing/policy setting issue. Maybe it is discussed a lot and I've been missing those discussions.
Let's consider a young person. Our hypothetical young person ("HYP") is healthy, living independently, but of modest means. HYP therefore does not purchase health insurance, because it seems to be an unnecessary expense in a tight budget. HYP is gambling. Oh, sweet bird of youth!
On a dark and stormy night, HYP, crossing the street in a clearly marked crosswalk, is hit by a speeding car which vanishes into the night (because this is a hit-and-run, we can't file a claim against the motorist's theoretically mandated automobile policy--if he or she even has one). HYP is rushed to the emergency room and proves upon examination to have a shattered pelvis, a ruptured spleen, a lacerated liver, and a possible concussion, and is also noted to have a blood glucose level of 330, suggesting hitherto-undetected type 2 diabetes. Okay, the last is piling on a little bit.
Now. As a policy matter, we decided as a society in 1986 that the public should have access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay, by means of a federal statute known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act ("EMTALA"). So the ER doesn't demand insurance information or cash up front from HYP, which is good, because HYP is unconscious and losing blood rapidly. The hospital just treats HYP. Because really, what is the alternative? Should we as a society say that it's OK to let HYP die? Or do we as a society assume the cost of HYP's care, one way or another?
Because HYP doesn't have health insurance, HYP can't get the negotiated in-network rate from the hospital. In a certain sense it doesn't matter, though, because HYP is of modest means, and couldn't pay even the in-network rate, let alone the hospital's pretend rate for the uninsured (which is another complex issue for another day--what are the hospital's actual losses from uncompensated care).
Patching HYP up even to the point where s/he can be discharged from the hospital is going to take some time. Meanwhile the bills are racking up, up, up. HYP might qualify for "charity care," depending on state law, or HYP can discharge the bills for the uncompensated care in bankruptcy. In either case, we as a society bear the cost when HYP gambles and loses. I personally would rather we bear this cost, as a policy matter, than let HYP die, or create a culture where we encourage our HYPs to just die already to save us all money. Having said that, I would still like to see a better method of risk distribution than we have now.
In the public debate, I see an occasional (well, okay, frequent) strain of blaming the sick for being sick, which I think is quite unfair, for no other reason than that accidents happen (speaking as someone who incurred a catastrophic injury in the blink of an eye last year). And people fall victim to bad genetics all the time.
In the realm of automobiles, Americans as a society have come to accept that accidents happen, that you're not "bad" just because you cause financial losses with your car, you just have to be a responsible adult and make arrangements for the unexpected. We agree as a society (other than New Hampshire, where you live free or die) that the "arrangements" should be auto insurance.
In the realm of bodies, it would make sense for Americans as a society to accept that accidents happen, that you're not "bad" just because you cause financial losses with your body (by having unexpected medical expenses), you just have to be a responsible adult and make arrangements for the unexpected. We clearly do not agree as a society that the answer is health insurance, even though having health insurance can protect other people from catastrophic losses.
I am not sure why.
Perhaps it is because insurance is such a boring subject.
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Whilst out searching for snakes, one can come across all sorts in the tropics at night. I heard these guys far more often than I saw one but I did track one down in a handy pose. This tiny little frog is Hyla cinerea - the American green tree frog, a tremendously widespread and successful little frog which ranges all across the southern USA except California.
One thing I always miss when I return to temperate climes from the tropics is the chorus of the frogs in the evenings. Before I left Singapore I actually made a half-hearted effort to record a rainy night's frogs to play as background music and lull me to sleep back in the UK (if anyone knows of any good such recordings of Asian frogs I'm still interested in fact).


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The cooperating organizations Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group—Greece denounce the increasing wave of Albanophobia that has been reigning, in recent days, in the Greek mass media and culminated with the racist front page of the newspaper "Avriani" (12/3), which asks from the government in a provocative way to start deporting Albanians. The specific report tries to feed the lowest instincts of the citizens, since it emphasizes that "the psychosis of Greeks is totally justified".
This unacceptable generalization that presents Albanians as persons who "steal", "murder", and "spread terror all over Greece" is an ingredient element of the News on TV, especially in private stations. Our organizations point out that this propaganda against Albanians, led by TV channels and newspapers, not only brings up an undisguised racism, but also does not correspond to the reality, since, just a few days ago, a reliable research of the Criminology Section of the Panteion University ("Eleftherotypia on Sunday," 8/3) leads to the conclusion that, for instance, 70% of robberies concerning taxi drivers (which are, in an irresponsible way, attributed to Albanians by mass media) are committed by Greeks.
Whenever such a campaign of disinformation arises, the Greek government does not inform fully the citizens for the real situation, nor the exaltations of Albanophobia or, in general, xenophobia are denounced with the required vitality. On the contrary, unfortunately, the denouncements of the Prime Minister of Albanophobia of mass media (and, also, of the antisemitism of the N.D. deputy G. Karatzaferis, and of the unacceptable use of violence by police against Roma) were removed from the officially published text of the Prime Minister's speech, one year ago, during the opening of the European Year against Racism.
Consequently, it seems that this year's "Paneuropean Week of Action against Racism", which starts today, finds the political leadership unwilling to help prevent citizens from being influence by this new, outrageous and poisonous climate of hysteria. Therefore, the official ceremony of 12/3 in Athens, with the participation of top state officials, on the presentation of the first, large modern Albanian—Greek Dictionary are an obvious hypocrisy.
The cooperating organizations Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group—Greece denounce the unconstitutional and extremely racist act of the president of the village "Palio Keramidi" of Pieria Vassilis Kourkontas to forbid the circulation of all Albanian residents after sunset. The arbitrary substitution of a democratic state of law by local authorities consists a very serious blow against Democracy itself. Such deviations from the democratic system of government should result in an immediate intervention of the competent authorities.
There is no doubt that the responsibility of, mostly, private mass media is huge, since, recently, they have persistently and methodically cultivated a climate of panic and hysteria, which incites many persons to unacceptable activities. Furthermore, one could inductively refer to the action of a Ku-Klux-Klan styled group against innocent Albanians in Ikaria, which is really a shame, and to the creation of a xenophobic "Committee of Robbed Victims", consisting of people with a very clear extreme right-wing mentality. All the above incidents show that cruel racism has already become a slow bomb in the foundations of the unprepared Greek society.
In this context, our organizations think that the beginning of a preliminary examination, by the District Attorney, concerning the incident of Pieria, is a positive step, and they hope that this process will be continued without any obstacles, since it is obvious that the president of the commune committed the crime of "abuse of power". Moreover, the verbal condemnation of this act by the government spokesperson, by the General Secretary of Public Order and by the competent Prefect is considered to be encouraging. However, a continuous vigilance of the government is required, so that these phenomena that amount to undisguised fascist terrorism could be fought off.
Consequently, we remind everyone that Article 5, par. 2, of the Greek Constitution, guaranteeing, in a clear way, complete protection of the freedom of "all those who live in the Greek territory, regardless of race, sex, color or religion". Finally, our organizations address an appeal for a mobilization of the whole society, because the cases of racism have already started to be a real danger and to threaten fundamental human rights.


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In the beginning, Tom does not show any sympathy with Casy's ideas of One
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Rose of Sharon transforms from a petulant young girl who is obsessed with her pregnancy to a nurturing woman who shares her milk with a starving man. At the beginning, she is on quest of beauty and romance in life. She seems immature and shares constant secrets with her equally immature, nineteen-year-old husband Connie. Both of them have great (and unrealistic) plans for their future and for their baby. They plan to move away from the family, live in a California town, buy a house, and own a store. Sadly, Connie deserts her, for he lacks the physical and moral capacity to continue the difficulties endured by the Joad family.
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the dog run over, fearing it will harm the fetus. She complains about
not getting to drink milk and fears that her baby will be born deformed.
In the ending scenes of the novel, Rose of Sharon works with the family
in the cotton fields. She goes into labor soon after this and gives birth
to a stillborn child because of malnutrition and extreme exhaustion. Her
final action of nourishing a starving man on the milk meant for her dead
baby shows that she too shares Casy's love of the people; although she
does not bring life into the world, there is rebirth when she brings life
to a dying man.
Al is the sixteen-year old brother of Tom. His chief interests seem to
be girls and cars. He feels responsible for the Hudson that the Joads
buy and tells Tom it is part of his soul. Al admires Tom and uses the
notoriety of his elder brother to gain popularity. From the very beginning
of the novel, he wants to leave the family and work in a garage. At the
novel's end, he announces his decision to leave the family and stay back
with Agnes Wainwright, the girl he proposes to marry. He fulfills a minor
role in the novel.
Casy is viewed as a Christ figure. As an ex-revivalist preacher, he has rejected the formal Christianity, which he once preached. He, like Christ, goes into the wilderness to think things out. He realizes that there is no sin and no virtue--only action. Some actions are nice and some are not nice. He bases his philosophy on the love of people and remarks that "maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy spirit--the whole shebang. Maybe all people got one big soul ever'body's a part of." He thus arrives at the Emersonian philosophy of the Oversoul. In the early stage of the novel, Casy is still the contemplative person. He realizes that his calling lies with the people on the road and accompanies the Joads on their journey to California.
Casy fulfills his commitment to help the Joads by surrendering himself for arrest in order to protect Tom. Casy then goes to jail and learns that the poor must unite together to bring about social change. This marks the beginning of the movement from "I" to "we." He tells Tom that when a single prisoner protested against the poor quality of food, nothing happened. But when all the prisoners unitedly complained, the quality of the food improved substantially. Casy then realizes that his mission in life is to organize the migrant farm workers into unions so as to improve their living conditions. He knows that by organizing a strike he is possibly endangering his own life. Like Christ, he will gladly sacrifice himself for the good of others.
Casy preaches a religion of love. He realizes that humankind as a whole comprises an organism just like the other social units of family, corporation, union, and state. He feels a kinship with all people and sees all acts of living as holy. His belief that individual family interests should be subordinate to the common welfare of humanity and his belief that all individual souls are part of one big soul parallels Jesus' rejection of family bonding for the kingdom of Heaven's sake. Casy's initials, J.C., correspond to those of Jesus Christ. He dies in a Christ-like manner saying to his murderers that they do not know what they are doing. His message reaches the public only after his death. Tom, Casy's disciple, carries out the work outlined by him.
Casy's religion bears a striking contrast to the fierce religiosity of Granma,
the dogmatic hell and brimstone religion of the preachers who work on
peoples' fear, and the fanaticism of Mrs. Sandry. His function in the
novel is to act as the mouthpiece of the proletarian message and to provide
a juxtaposition to the Joads. The development in Tom's character can only
be seen by contrasting his former egocentric self with his later adoption
of Casy's philosophy. Casy's philosophy also guides Ma's actions.
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So the question for today is: What is your favourite book?
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I am going to cheat a bit and choose two: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Take Time to Connect
Just for a moment, think this one thought:
I am an unlimited being.
I have the power to be, do or create anything in my life that I desire.
How does that feel?
Like most people, you're probably feeling something like "yeah, I wish", or "if only that were true", or even "I wish I could believe that". To some just saying this feels like we're lying.
Some days more than others, we're able to see the possibility of "I am an unlimited being" really being a true statement.
What makes the difference of not being able to say that with conviction everyday?
On our stronger, more balanced days when we're connected to Source energy we know these things to be true. So why is it that there are days when we live in limitation? I believe it's because we don't take the time to connect to the greater part of our selves.
When I look at the times that I've felt the most connected, it's when I'm deep in Nature, when I witnessed a birth, when I was present for the passing of my best friend's child, or when I intentionally take the time to be still and connect.
But somehow in the daily hustle and bustle of survival, we tend to put everything else at the top of our "to do" list, and connection is something that we do if we have the time. It's not something that most consciously create the time for, but something that happens if we're lucky or if circumstances force us to that point.
Instead, thoughts like "I can't do that because…" seem to roll off of our tongues like we actually mean it. As Thoreau said, we "live quiet lives of desperation" rather than tapping into the unlimited power that is there for us.
The next question I hear is, "How do I do that?" Especially in today's fast-paced world where the world seems to revolve a bit faster than the day before, it can be trying to find the time to connect. I've learned that it only happens if I make the time.
Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul had one thing in common. They would each spend four hours each morning connecting to the Divine. When I first heard this, my first reaction was, "I don't have time for that!"
The interesting thing about that for me is that these were two of the most productive people ever on the planet. I have always been a very curious person, so this made me ask an important question…Could there be a connection between their productivity and their strong connection to something bigger?
What is it that they both found that works, that we don't know about?
Over the last year I've had the privilege of interviewing hundreds of "rock stars" in the world of inspiration. There are several prevailing themes that each of these folks has shared with me. Connection is one of the top ones.
By connecting we tap into not only something bigger than ourselves, but an infinite power. I if have a problem and I decide to sit down and think my way out of it, I'm using the same mind that got me into the problem in the first place. Be connecting to the Divine, I'm availing myself to infinite possibilities- options that I wouldn't even dream of being possible. But they are not only possible; they are there- just for asking.
Many of us were raised with "Ask and ye shall receive". I know the principle of that statement to be true, regardless of the religious path one may be walking.
So right now, instead of stressing over yet one more thing on your plate, go within. Go to that place of solace where all answers reside- within you. Whether that means going for a walk in Nature, listening to inspirational music, hugging someone you love, sitting quietly for 15 minutes, or talking to God…. Go do it.
Take the time to connect to you. Take the time FOR you. Although it may seem selfish to carve out time just for you when life is so busy, it's actually more selfish NOT to. The world needs all of us at our best. We can only be there for each other, when we're able to be there for ourselves.
How do we get to be there for ourselves? By connecting to the magnificence that we really are each day.
You are an unlimited being filled with infinite possibility. You have the power to be, do or create anything that you desire in your life. Be grateful for where you are, connect to the Divine, and ask and ye shall receive.
May your day be filled with unlimited blessings.