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First they came for the light bulbs…
Michele Bachmann's light bulb paranoia goes much, much deeper than you think:
As Bachmann explained to a perplexed chamber, sustainability, as defined by UN agreements like Agenda 21 and the UN Biodiversity treaty, would mean an end to resource extraction as we know it. "Last year in one of our committees, we had a guy come in and talk about the sustainable way of life," she said. "And he gave the definition of sustainable and it struck me as kind of odd. He said that what sustainable means is that we've already taken everything out of the earth that we're going to take out."
And then Bachmann brought up a now familiar topic. "We already have all of the light bulbs that we need to have in the earth," she recalled the expert saying. "We don't need to make any more light bulbs. And so I'm thinking, 'You mean for all time? And that's part of sustainability, is for all time we already have the light bulbs that we need and apparently we'll change filaments as they go out.'"
Read the full story, on the fringe conspiracy theory behind the presidential candidate's anti-sustainability crusade, here.
"But to some conservatives, Agenda 21 became something far more nefarious—a gateway to a global government built on a radical doctrine of secular environmentalism.
As these conservatives saw it, the agreement paved the way for the entire planet to be controlled by a central bureaucracy: Humans would be cleared out of vast swaths of settled areas—like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for example—and instructed to live in "hobbit homes" in designated "human habitation zones" (two terms embraced by tea party activists). Public transportation would be the only kind of transportation, and governments would force contraception on their citizens to control the population level. A human life would be considered no more significant than, say, that of a manatee. "Sustainability," the idea at the heart of the agreement, became a gateway to dystopia."


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As Kelly Ayotte prepared for her first campaign speech, as a candidate for Senate in 2009, she was nervous, but not about her message.
"I'm worried about my voice thing," she confided to an aide, pausing during a run-through. "My voice tends to do this cracking sound."
|"I call them like I see them, and that means not just with the opposing party, but with my own party."
Today, Ayotte's voice is still distinctive — she seems to speak more from her throat than her diaphragm — but her words are resonating.
She has attracted public notice with her sharp criticism of the administration's response to the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, in which four Americans died. She has pushed for a thorough investigation and was among a group of senators who last month demanded a meeting with White House officials to discuss the incident.
Meanwhile, she has broken with her party's conservative base on a host of other issues, including immigration reform. Ayotte notably supported a Senate compromise that would create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants at the same time that border security is tightened, a proposal that has been met with wariness by House Republicans who fear that border security will be neglected if the measure is passed.
At 45, Ayotte is the youngest woman in the Senate, and as a prominent conservative woman she is often mentioned as part of a potential Republican national ticket. But her trajectory to this point has been startlingly short; five years ago, she hadn't ever run for office.
In New Hampshire, the attorney general is nonpartisan and appointed by the governor -- and Ayotte was appointed three times, once by a Republican and twice by a Democrat. She was the first woman to hold the position, which some associates described as her dream job.
But when Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., decided to retire at the end of his term, in 2010, Ayotte was his pick to replace him. Gregg met with her in New Hampshire to urge her to run, as did Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, then chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Ayotte wasn't sure she wanted the job — particularly with two children at home, then aged 2 and 5.
"She wasn't gung-ho right out of the gate," said one Republican familiar with the early recruiting process. "It definitely took some, 'We need you, the country needs you, the state needs you.'"
The lure of public service was strong for Ayotte and her husband, Joe Daley, a former military A-10 pilot. Ayotte resigned as attorney general and launched a campaign.
Although she had the blessing of the NRSC, Ayotte didn't have strong ties with Republicans in her own state. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, she could recall only a single Republican meeting she had attended before she ran for Senate.
And, in a primary race against wealthy candidates who could fund their own campaigns, Ayotte had neither a network of donors nor any experience raising money.
Ayotte and her husband, whose landscaping and snowplow business was now the sole source of income for their family, sat down together and drafted a list of 1,000 people whom they could ask for $100.
They doggedly worked this simple strategy, and it paid off. "That's how you get your first $100,000," Ayotte said.
If Ayotte's early fundraising was stronger than expected, her polling was less impressive. Activists resented her for campaigning like a front-runner, and her ties to the NRSC were a liability during the 2010 Tea Party wave. By early summer 2010, with the primary election in September, the outlook was dire.
"The race was a mess," said one New Hampshire Republican strategist with close ties to Ayotte. "She was going to lose."
Ayotte put in a call to her close adviser, Rob Varsalone, a veteran of New Hampshire politics who was then working overseas, and asked him to return. He agreed — and the campaign started to shed its made-in-Washington air.
"People really liked her, and when they met her, they wanted to support her," said Periklis Karoutas, who helped lead the campaign of one of Ayotte's major challengers, businessman Bill Binnie.
With less than one week before the primary election, the Republican candidates gathered onstage for a final televised debate. The moment demanded a stellar performance by Ayotte.
During the debate, Brooks Kochvar, Ayotte's campaign manager, and former Gov. Steve Merrill, a close adviser, watched from the green room. They broke an hour of silence only at the very end, with a triumphant high-five.
A few days later, Ayotte eked out a victory by fewer than 2,000 votes.
"It's really a baptism by fire when you get into a Senate race for the first time," said Jim Merrill, who ran the campaign of another challenger, Ovide Lamontagne, who finished second to Ayotte. "You find your voice and you become a better candidate on the stump, and she did. You could see her grow into the leader you see today."
Ayotte has been on a steep learning curve since her election.
Before she became a go-to surrogate for Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, Ayotte didn't know whether to endorse a Republican candidate at all.
"She was new to the whole arena, and she was a little unsure of herself, a little unsure of the process, unsure of what the rewards would be, uncertain of the right path to take," said one New Hampshire Republican operative.
It took a personal appeal to her husband from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to begin to seal the deal. A meeting among Daley, Ayotte and Romney followed, and Ayotte endorsed Romney in a surprise announcement soon after.
When he won the Republican nomination, Romney ultimately considered Ayotte as a potential running mate, although she was not vetted. Among the campaign's concerns was her lack of experience.
"I think I would have been ready," Ayotte told the Examiner. "Certainly I'm someone who's worked hard in the Senate, even though I was relatively new there. I had run an office as attorney general. But that wasn't for me to judge."
Ayotte has shaped her role as a senator much like she approached her campaign: with the discipline and deliberate work ethic of a prosecutor. She has, as the third amigo to Republican Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made foreign policy her cornerstone issue, and Ayotte appears frequently on cable news and Sunday morning television programs to share her views, most recently regarding Ukraine's political turmoil.
And Ayotte has largely avoided political drama — except on matters she considers vital.
A few months ago, with a government shutdown looming as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, threatened to hold up funding in a quixotic effort to unwind Obamacare, Senate Republicans met in the Capitol for a regularly scheduled strategy session.
The closed-door meetings are not often entertaining and rarely fiery — but on this day in October, Ayotte was explosive. She assailed Cruz for backing Republicans into a political corner, and she criticized him for working with outside groups that sought to unseat Republican senators.
"I call them like I see them, and that means not just with the opposing party, but with my own party," Ayotte explained in an interview. "I just thought the shutdown was the wrong strategy."
The standoff drew headlines, but Ayotte wasn't out of character: Her independent streak is central to her brand as a lawmaker. And the party has begun to pay notice.
Later this month, Ayotte will moderate a discussion among Republican candidates at a mega-donor confab in Colorado, hosted by the prominent GOP moneyman Paul Singer.
"I look at it as an opportunity for me to support our Republican candidates and our party, to help us get a majority in 2014," Ayotte said.
Ayotte is looking not only to 2014 but also to another high-stakes election: her re-election bid in 2016, when strategists in both parties predict she could face a fight for her political life against Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan. In a recent Public Policy Polling survey, Ayotte led Hassan by 6 points.
"If we have a candidate with a pulse in a presidential election year, Ayotte doesn't have a shot," said one New Hampshire Democratic strategist.
Ayotte isn't taking any chances, and she has been privately working to recruit a strong Republican candidate to oppose Hassan for governor this year.
And since the day after Ayotte was elected to the Senate in 2010, a small group of her closest allies has worked to ensure she will be competitive. The advisers — former Gov. Merrill, former Gov. Craig Benson, Varsalone, and Steve Duprey, a former New Hampshire GOP chair — have been laying plans for campaign strategy and staff, mapping out the potential political landscape, and running vote models.
Ayotte had other plans for that day after the election: to stand on a busy street corner in Manchester, N.H., and thank her constituents.
"I thought she was joking," Kochvar said.
She wasn't — and Kochvar and a handful of campaign staff stood outside holding signs that read, "Kelly says thanks." Ayotte joined them, smiling to cars and passersby, with a sign reading, "Thanks NH."
The glow hasn't subsided.
"I have to pinch myself sometimes," Ayotte said. "The ability to serve first as attorney general and then as a U.S. senator is certainly more than I could've hoped I'd accomplish ... I really don't have ambitions beyond this."

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Programs: In addition to its land preservation programs, the Trust's Education Programs are designed to compliment the mission of battlefield preservation. The Trust is, again, uniquely qualified to spread the word through our school curricula, website, media outreach and informational communications. The Trust has long been aware of the need for history education to teach students about the Civil War's role in shaping our American heritage. Our education activities, outlined below, are meant to raise awareness and engage new audiences in the cause of battlefield protection. The Trust's website www.civilwar.org, includes details on preservation, Civil War history, and a "classroom" section with lesson plans and other resources for teachers and students; innovative "Battle Apps" are smartphone-based applications that allow a user to tour Civil War battlefields from anywhere in the world. They feature video, audio, photos and GPS-enabled "virtual signs," enhancing the battlefield education experience; Teacher and Student Programs multiple programs ranging from a poster and essay contest for kids to workshops and curriculum guides for teachers (grades 5, 8 and 11). The Trust also sponsors a prize in Civil War history through National History Day; Hallowed Ground, the Trust's quarterly magazine, includes articles on history, preservation techniques and upcoming events and includes the Junior Pages written to engage middle-school-aged children; Civil War Discovery Trail, a heritage tourism initiative that links more than 600 Civil War sites and promotes visitation through themed itineraries; it is recognized by the White House as one of sixteen National Millennium Trails. By encouraging travel to Civil War sites, we are able to educate the tourist while showing states and communities that there are economic benefits to preserving their unique Civil War heritage; Park Day, an annual volunteer clean-up day cosponsored by Take Pride in America and The History Channel aimed at caring for the Civil War sites we cherish.
The Trust continues to achieve major success in saving America's unprotected Civil War battlefields endangered by sprawl. Through acquisitions and grants, the Trust has preserved 32,000+ acres in 20 states, including Bentonville, NC, Chancellorsville, VA, Shiloh, TN, Champion Hill, MS, Brices Crossroads, MS, Averasboro, NC, Morris Island, SC, Fort Donelson and Shiloh, TN, Appomattox Court House, VA, Brandy Station, VA, Port Republic, VA, First Deep Bottom, VA, Fisher's Hill, VA, Rappahanock Station, VA, Ream's Station, VA, Trevilian Station, VA, Richmond, KY and Rich Mountain, WV. Even in the midst of perhaps the most difficult economic environment in decades, The Trust has maintained a total membership of approximately 55,000 individuals in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Each quarter, every member receives our 48-page award-winning magazine, Hallowed Ground, as a free educational membership benefit. This magazine highlights how their support helps preserve endangered Civil War battlefield land, advances the cause of education about that period in our Nation's history, and educates them on key elements relating to the Civil War. The Trust depends upon its members to help fulfill its battlefield preservation and education missions every year through their dues payments, as well as additional charitable gifts. Finally, the the Trust does have a major donor society, named The Color Bearers, comprised of generous individuals who make dues payments of $1,000 or more annually. Membership in this group was approximate 925 at the end of 2011.
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My last post about being determined in life made me think of something my buddy told me tonight. I went out with a few friends to grab a bit to eat and share some laughs and I told my buddy about a few things going on right now in my life (like everyone, I have a few challenges I'm facing). My mom called me this morning to notify me that my grandfather has passed away. While I wasn't very close with him it is still sad and it reminded me of the other individuals I have lost throughout the years as well. I shed some tears this morning and felt a lot better after. I told my buddy in the pub tonight, "Man, it's like I'm being tested!"
In life, we are faced with challenges and sometimes they build up at once. The outcome can be sink or swim. The way I see things is we have to survive, because we don't plan on failing. One of my friends said, "That's the way I see it! I think, I survived, so I can make it the next time too! The way I see it is things are just making me stronger!" She's great, and I could't have said it better myself.
Keep pushing forward.
- blissmanifesto said: I'm sorry about your grandpa. And I hope everything works out all right. Although, honestly, no matter how things work out, it's too soon to tell what the long-term outcome might be. So whatever happens will be okay.
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What if Buffett and Icahn retire in 2013?
Here are 4 investors who could potentially take up the mantle.
While neither Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) Warren Buffett nor Carl Icahn, who runs Icahn Enterprises (IEP), have shown any signs of slowing, the thought is in the back of investors' minds and it begs the question: Who will be the next generation of Wall Street leaders.
For decades, Buffett and Icahn have been a sort of yin and yang when it comes to investing styles, and their outspoken ways have been a compass for many investors.
Buffett, who champions stock investments with a holding period of "forever," is often cited as an ambassador of long-term investing and his annual letter is required reading for many.
In contrast, Icahn has never been known as a patient type. While some follow Buffett's holdings for potential stocks to pay for a child's college education, investors watch Icahn's activity for corporate break-ups, board ousters and takeovers that can create instant shareholder value.
During the dot-com bubble, Buffett avoided high-flying tech stocks in favor of tried and true names like Coca-Cola (KO) -- to the scorn and then admiration of others. In the financial crisis, Buffett stepped up as the most credible advocate of equities through the stock market sell-off and eventual recovery. Multi-billion dollar investments in Goldman Sachs (GS) and General Electric (GE) were seen as an example of savvy investing and public service, and put Buffett's imprimatur on both companies at a time of critical need.
Icahn, who takes a more standoffish stance with companies he invests in, nevertheless draws a similar amount of respect among investors. First called a corporate raider in the takeover of now-defunct airline TWA, Icahn has gone on to become known as the scourge of corporate cronyism, shareholder destruction and C-Suite mismanagement.
In the wake of Time Warner (TWX) and AOL's (AOL) disastrous merger, Icahn drove the breakup of the dysfunctional media monolith and his actions can be seen as driving each company's newfound success -- as well as that of Time Warner Cable (TWC).
Icahn drove the split up of Motorola (MOT) and his prying on intellectual property assets were seen as a key driver of Motorola Mobility's eventual acquisition by Google (GOOG), just as handset struggles hit the likes of Research In Motion (RIMM) and Nokia (NOK). In 2012, Icahn's been a key to the realignment of Chesapeake Energy's (CHK) board.
Still, while Buffett and Icahn may have an enduring impact on the investing world and some of America's top companies, neither man will stay in the game forever. In 2012, Buffett and Icahn showed their biggest signs yet of transition.
Buffett formally said his son Howard would be Berkshire's value guardian and he indicated that the investing conglomerate has found a replacement for the legendary value investor.
On a far more serious note, Buffett said in April he has a treatable form of prostate cancer, while reiterating his love of his job. More recently, Buffett increased the price at which he's willing to buy Berkshire shares back, according to TheStreet, an option the "Oracle" had been hesitant to use given his track record of outperforming the S&P 500 ($INX).
In 2011, Icahn formally closed his hedge fund Icahn Capital to outside money and in 2012, he set aside $3 billion for his son Brett Icahn and a portfolio manager David Schechter. Still, recent moves like Chesapeake Energy and a large stake in Netflix (NFLX) show he's willing to make big new investments.
The question of what would happen were Buffett and Icahn to retire raises crucial questions. Who will be the next generation of investing leaders and how will their approaches differ from the value and activist ones championed by Buffett and Icahn respectively?
The answers aren't easy. In recent years, legendary investors like Stanley Druckenmiller of Duquesne Management, George Soros of Soros Management and others have all closed shop to outside investors.
Meanwhile, once high-flying hedge funders like Philip Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners and John Paulson of Paulson & Co. have fallen on hard times.
Below are four recommendations for a next generation of investors in case Buffett and Icahn go from investing green to the golf course.
Daniel Loeb of Third Point Capital Management
Thanks to Loeb, Yahoo (YHOO) is on its fourth -- and most highly-regarded chief executive -- in just over a year's time. Talk about channeling your inner Carl Icahn.
Were Icahn to retire, it appears Loeb of Third Point Capital would be most suited to keep open an activist investing playbook full of C-Suite firings.
At Loeb's insistence, Yahoo entered 2012 with a fully reconstituted board and the company's co-founder Jerry Yang all but disappeared from the company. Like Icahn, Loeb used the pen to assert much of his power, outlining in multiple screeds why the company's board of directors and management needed to go, while highlighting the value of minority-owned assets abroad.
Loeb even played detective in rooting out inconsistencies in former chief executive Scott Thompson's resume, which eventually got the ex-CEO fired. Loeb's penmanship also sketched much-hyped deals, such as a proposal to sell most of Yahoo's stake in Chinese e-commerge giant Alibaba for $7.1 billion.
Now with Marissa Mayer at the helm, there are signs Yahoo! may be on the verge of reinventing itself into a more full-service media company, after it was trounced in Internet search by Google (GOOG).
Under Loeb, Third Point Capital has also made savvy bets on the likes of insurer AIG (AIG), a split of Kraft Foods (KFT) and Murphy Oil (MUR), which also looks to be headed down a split-off route.
If Icahn were to retire, Loeb might very well be the most vocal investor to carry the activist torch. Another firm to watch is the smaller, but fast moving Jeffrey Smith-run Starboard Value, which agitated for a shakeup at AOL in 2012 with mixed results.
William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management
Most of the press surrounding Pershing Square Capital Management's William Ackman centers on the hedge funder's muddled turnaround bet on struggling retailer J.C. Penney (JCP). However, quietly, 2012 turned out to be a banner year for its other investments, such as Canadian Pacific (CP) and General Growth Properties (GGP).
Meanwhile, after pushing the likes of Wendy's (WEN) and McDonalds (MCD) to embrace franchising and a much less risky balance sheet, the sometimes activist investor teamed up on a takeover and IPO of Burger King Worldwide (BKW), which has performed strongly.
While, Ackman's moves mirror the hostile, restructuring and M&A plays that Carl Icahn has been known to make, Ackman nevertheless has a long-term value investing style that resembles Buffett's. Still, Ackman has been known to criticize the takeover premium that Buffett often pays to add a company to Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio.
If Buffett or Icahn were to retire, Ackman could be a helpful proxy on the investing zeitgeist. General Growth, Ackman's best investment in recent years, was a distressed real estate deal made at the nadir of the financial crisis. Burger King and J.C. Penney, meanwhile, were a mix of retail turnaround investments, with a side of real estate as well.
With a recent hostile push at Procter & Gamble (PG), Ackman has set his sights on a Buffett-like consumer products giant and winning board seats on Canadian Pacific -- one of the largest corporations in Canada -- signals the hedge funder's clout.
Look to Ackman to wield an array of investing strategies similar to Carl Icahn, while displaying a Buffett-like ability to find a good bargain in any market.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Kingdom Holding Co.
If we confined a search for possible successors just to the U.S., we would miss some of the most obvious long-term trends in the investing world -- namely the emergence of international investing magnates.
No one represents a new foreign investing class in the U.S. more than Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The Prince made a crucial if not controversial investment in Citigroup (C) at the outset of the financial crisis, and has been a long-time champion of once beaten down tech giants spanning from Apple (AAPL) to Priceline.com (PCLN).
What Alwaleed may represent is a new class of sovereign wealth investors with a proclivity to make all types of investments, be they a quick trade, equity infusions into a struggling financial institution or venture capital investing in the likes of Twitter.
Meanwhile, the Prince -- who sometimes can be seen on CNBC or Bloomberg -- also may be the most deep-pocketed trader in the world. While Alwaleed's Citigroup trade displayed the investors importance, it nevertheless hasn't compared with Buffett-bank plays like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.
A long-held position in Saks (SKS) has recovered well, after nearly getting wiped out at the height of the financial crisis.
By making venture bets in emerging tech behemoths like Twitter, Alwaleed also straddles an important intersection between Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital Management
In the boom, bust and then boom of the past 10 years, arguably no investor has gained more notoriety and praise than David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital Management.
Einhorn's displayed skill distinct from Buffett and Icahn in being able to understand the fragility of the U.S. economy and certain business models to identify stocks to short. Meanwhile, as a long investor, Einhorn has also done good work spotting easy bargains, such as Apple headed into 2012.
The famed short seller and emerging value investor, nevertheless, appears to have a Buffett- and Icahn-like ability to learn from investing failures.
Einhorn emerged in the financial crisis as an authority on the fragility of the banking system, only after losing his shirt on an investment in failed subprime lender New Century Financial. While the trade was steeped in red ink, it laid the foundation of Einhorn's most famous trade -- a short of investment bank Lehman Brothers prior to its collapse.
Since then, Einhorn has seen mixed success in weeding out alleged accounting irregularities at the likes of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), and he's been able to spot overvalued stocks, such as Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), bucking Wall Street trends.
Increasingly, Einhorn has served as the authority on rooting out value traps, frauds and stock bargains. In a market where most stocks have recovered near post-crisis highs, Einhorn's skills are especially crucial.
There's strong indication that Einhorn has carved out a long and short investing style as distinct as Buffett's value approach or Icahn's activism.
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My 2010 year in photos.
After graduating from The Art Institute of Atlanta in December 2009 and moving in with my mom while I got my future settled, I drove back down to the dirty south to pick up Rufio from his fathers, he was going to be staying with me forever instead of him. Pretty much January was a custody battle for Rufio. After being a city dog for most of his 1 year of life, I brought him to the farm and he really didn't know what to do with all the space. He was used to small apartments and designated pee times. Now he had fields to play in and a dog door. January was discovery.
The record blizzard of DC slammed us with 6 feet of snow for three weeks. It was also the same month of my birthday. I ended up cutting my hair off, getting my septum pierced, finally getting my camera tattoo, harry potter tattoo and Bo came to live with us. That whole month was nothing but snow and body modifications. Also re decorating the basement I was living in while cursing the high heavens that rained a shit storm on the Tri State area. I also was also dubbed the God Mother of my God son, Graysen, and we went to Harpers Ferry a whole lot.
Was the beginning I started taking photographs of my food and posting them. I was also in the transition of discovering which route I wanted to go with photography, and what style I wanted to project. I was also still learning lots of different things at the time. I can also say how I've taken pictures has changed every month when i learned something new. This was also the same month I made the radar for my dog prints photograph, Rufio road my skateboard and I went into DC a lot. This was everyones favorite picture from that. Also to be noted, I have been single this entire time and I got the keys to my apartment in San Francisco. To which still to this day, has yet to be fully moved into.
I discovered how to take a broken lens, throw some dust on it, and convert it to take pictures like a film camera. I got uninterested in the photos after awhile, but I ended up loving taking pictures of flowers with it. Jamie and I won a photojojo contest where we got a free camera, which we both don't use at all. I shared my shape with everyone. I started taking a lot of sunset pictures, ate a lot of sandwiches and Bo wore glasses for awhile. I landed my job at the comic store in DC, which a lot of my time was spent commuting into the city, discovering new ways to take pictures of my dogs and being a cat.
I was doing a lot of dating and skateboarding around DC. I came home to perfect weather and laying around outside. I met Jason, and then soon after I ended up slicing my foot open after stepping on a vase. I got 8 stitches, then 16 more stitches a week later. From here on out I was bed ridden for a good 2-3 months. Most of my pictures were taken from inside since I couldn't move, and crutches were my friend. I also missed being able to wear shoes. So then I ended up making myself into an avatar, then cutting my hair completely off because it was hard washing it in the sink. I'm assuming when you get injured, you don't think rationally. Eventually I came back to work, made some home made bread, and had some pretty yummy dinners.
I played with my film cameras a lot. Especially playing with Polaroids. I built a lot of forts, and in my opinion they were incredibly awesome. Made some weird faces, colored my hair. Went to Starbucks a lot. Ate some pretzels, and my blog turned into FIFA world cup 2010. I was strictly rooting for Mexico & Japan. They both were an emotional break down for me whenever they won or lost a match. My flowers I planted were turning out beautifully. Ice cream was currently my best friend. Rufio wasn't doing shit. I ghetto rigged my tripod to take pictures in the storm, hung out with a lot of my dogs during a heat wave, and finally got my pair of chucks on my feet after having surgery on my foot. Nothing really interesting or big happened other than getting shoes on my feet. My whole blog turned into Futbol obsessed and I took a lot of pictures of myself watching the match. Real interesting right? I know.
I created my cereal series and started selling the pictures. I didn't know people would love looking at pictures of a bowl of cereal, especially since we all stare at it every single day. Most of us, 5 times a day. It was very humbling to me. I started sending out pen pal care packages to a lot of people, which snowballed into me having a lot of pen pals and writing to a lot of people that I met from here, strangers and friends. I was very dedicated to everyone. There were a lot of fireworks. My dad was also very kind to me by cooking me dinner when I went to go visit him. Or buying me dinner. This only lasted a month. Somebody gave away a free couch, which I took. Snapped pictures of myself. Shaved off the side of my head. Sold a lot of pictures on etsy. Bo wore shoes, and I got a monkey balloon hat. It was a fun month, although I do dub this month, "The 31 days no great photographers that I knew got picked for the photojojo contest." We tried though. Everyone did their best, and we all bonded over how not one of us won that stupid fucking contest at all.
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Thanksgiving was here! The leaves were falling, the trees were getting awfully bare. Hot cups of tea and chocolate fought off the cold weather that was coming in. It was all I was taking pictures of mostly. Green Tea every single morning and wine at night. Jamie showed me a link to make button cookies, which i ended up making for myself. Lots of group photos of the dogs were attempted. And there were a lot of play times. Lunch consisted of the basic food groups. After thanksgiving we went and got our Christmas tree. Harry Potter came out and I had to update my tattoo picture. And Bo and I went for walks around our mountain town.
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Every time I go home I discover something new in my parents' fridge that looks amazing, but contains a forbidden ingredient, implying that I cannot eat the food. This weekend, I found a spicy eggplant hummus. I thought to myself, I make a mean hummus. I can easily re-create this store-bought hummus. And that's just what I did!
Jen's Roasted Eggplant, Roasted Red Pepper Spicy Hummus
2 cups chickpeas
3 tbsp tahini
¼ cup liquid (you choose - water, olive oil, liquid from cooking chickpeas if you soaked the chickpeas overnight and then cooked them)
Juice of 1 lemon
2 cloves of garlic, minced
Sea salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
1 red pepper
1 small eggplant
1 jalapeno pepper
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Poke holes in eggplant. Cut red pepper in half. Place both eggplant and red pepper on a cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes, or until roasted. Red peppers should have skin side up.
2. Mix all ingredients in a food processor. Add more liquid until desired consistency is reached.
I like to use beans that I soak overnight and then cook. A large bag of beans is around $2, and supplies enough beans for many, many meals (or in this case many, many batches of hummus)! People seem hesitant to eat a lot of beans because beans are known to produce gas. This will not happen if you cook them properly!
To prepare dried beans into gas-free, easily digestible, edible beans, follow these instructions*:
1. Measure the amount of beans (peas/legumes) required and sort through them and remove any misshapen, discoloured or damaged beans. Also remove any dirt balls, gravel, or other foreign objects and discard them.
2. Soak 1 cup of dry beans in 3 to 4 cups of cool or room temperature water and let the beans soak 8 hours or more uncovered. (12 hours for chickpeas (garbanzos) and 24 hours for soybeans). Avoid using soybeans as they usually require a pressure cooker.
3. Throw away the water the beans soaked in (very important!).
4. Rinse the beans several times with fresh water.
5. Put the beans in a large pot so that beans fill only ¼ of the pot and add fresh water until the beans are covered by 1 inch, or so of water.
6. Bring the beans and water, uncovered, to a boil on high heat.
7. When the beans are boiling, a white foam or froth will generally form on top. Scoop this off and discard it. This is part of what contributes to gas.
8. Add extra water if needed so the beans are still at least 1 inch under water and turn the heat down to very low. Just low enough so the beans are barely bubbling. They cook best at this temperature.
9. Add 1 tsp. ground fennel or preferably 1 tsp. savory to the beans. This also improves their digestibility. (Optional)
10. Cook for 1 ¼ hours or more until the beans are very tender and a bean can easily be mashed with the tongue on the roof of the mouth.
11. Always chew beans slowly, never eat them fast or when under excessive stress or tiredness.
12. Have some raw foods first in a meal before eating the beans to aid in their digestion.
Yes, this method of cooking beans takes time, but in my opinion, the benefits outweigh the costs. You can also cook more beans than you need and freeze the leftover beans. Then you can use them for a last-minute meal!
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State Judge: Texas Failing to Properly Fund Public Schools
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Austin state judge John Dietz, a Democrat, ruled that the Texas Legislature has "failed to meet its constitutional duty to suitably provide for Texas public schools." The judge stayed his ruling until July of next year to give the legislature, which will next convene in January, an opportunity to make additional changes.
More than 600 school districts, educating about three-fourths of the five million K-12 public-school students in Texas, filed a legal challenge in 2011, after the state cut more than $5 billion from school budgets, citing fiscal pressures.
Judge Dietz sided with the schools last year, ruling that Texas wasn't spending enough to meet its constitutional duty to provide a "general diffusion of knowledge." Afterward, legislators increased spending on K-12 public schools by about $3.5 billion.
But Texas school districts returned to court, claiming the increase was still insufficient to meet the demands of educating children in the fast-growing state, now home to more than 26 million people. On Thursday, the judge concurred that the state's school-finance system remained inadequate. . . .


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Delaware Art Museum will need to sell more paintings?
I posted in a previous blog about how auctions are not necessarily living up to expectations.
Whether works of art or other collectibles, such as stamps.
Two immediate examples with a Delaware connection:
That prized, unique 1856 British Guiana one-cent, Black on Magenta stamp - owned by the late eccentric John duPont, convicted in the murder of Olympic wrestler David Schultz - was auctioned off for nine-and-half million dollars. Yes, an incredible sum for a mere scrap of paper, billed as the most expensive man-made object ever sold (by size & weight). But, that sum fell short of projections: $10 to $20 million. No matter that probably every stamp collector in the world covets that scrap of paper. (I learned about it at a very early age.)
Then, the Delaware Art Museum's "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" was auctioned for four-and-quarter million dollars at Christie's. Again, a significant sum, but falling far short of initial projections: $8.4 million to $13.4 million.
If that trend continues, the art museum would have to sell four or more works to achieve its fundraising goal of thirty million dollars.
The museum may also be a victim of its own publicity. If would-be buyers assume the embattled museum HAS to sell, lower bids are probably inevitable. And some art enthusiasts with big wallets may nevertheless steer clear of these works, given the controversial circumstances of their sale.
Looks like the board members overseeing the art museum will draw yet another round of criticism.
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Wed, Jun 18, 2014 9:13am
Am I the only one who finds the art museum's lackluster sale riotously funny? At this rate, the museum won't have any art to display, and the museum will be taking donations off parents' refrigerators to display.
Close the museum. There are plenty of other options 40 minutes from here in Philly. Delaware isn't a big cultural mecca.
Wed, Jun 18, 2014 4:55pm
Just have the federal government divert 1% of the funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That'll close the gap easily.
Wed, Jun 18, 2014 4:57pm
So did Nancy Schultz get a cut from the postage stamp owned by her husband's killer?
Mike from Delaware
Wed, Jun 18, 2014 5:37pm
Maybe a partnership with Philly's museum.
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 1:33am
Actually the Delaware Art Museum represents a unique exhibition, featuring the local influence upon the national art scene. The same paintings in any other location, would not carry that lesson.
The Philadelphia School was a group of painters from which the main flow of art branched and took off. Imagine a tree with big branches and an offshoot grows into the main trunk.
Though named the Philadelphia School, most were residents from the Brandywine Valley in both states... As today, where culture from places other than New York or Los Angeles gets put down, so did everything then not originating from New York or Washington back then.
However, those two influences in art were dead-ends... Photography put them in the ground. The Philadelphia School, however, carried painting forward as filling the void photography could not cover....
Many of the magazine covers with which we were familiar came from this group....
This bit of history would not be represented and would be forgotten, if this museum closed... or its collection were scattered across the globe....
It has a very important role to play in the uniqueness of Delaware's artistic culture....
Don't take my word for it. Visit it... It is cheapest on Sundays between 12--4....
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Eschewing attention grabbing gore and frightwigs, Kevorkian puts his faith in solid characters and a slowburn escalation of dread.
He gets an impressive performance from Harry Treadaway as the haunted, guilt stricken Matthew, partying when his younger brother Tom (Palmer) wandered off to the park and never returned.
Part "is he barking or not" psychological drama, part whodunit, and part ghost story, The Disappeared anchors its horror movie trappings in a gritty, permanently overcast South London council block setting and the tenants orbiting the troubled teen.
His sorrowful, hair-trigger tempered dad (Wise) may know more about Tom's disappearance than he's letting on, and Matt forms a delicate relationship with an abused neighbour (Leeming, incongruously posh accent neatly explained away) while dodging a gang of hoodies more dangerous than any visitation he spots through a window or hears on tape.
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(UPDATE) Mayor's office disputes de Blasio's claim on counterterrorism
UPDATE: After Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's office was quick to dispute criticism leveled by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at a breakfast on counterterrorism this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office stepped in with a clarification.
Kelly had expressed concern that none of the mayoral candidates had requested a terrorism briefing with the NYPD, arguing that it calls into question their commitment to counterterrorism efforts.
Wiley Norvell, the spokesman for de Blasio's government office, said that was untrue of de Blasio.
According to Norvell, the public advocate's office requested just that on Aug. 29.
"After the president's remarks on Syria, the office requested a briefing from the NYPD on the city's counterterror efforts," said Norvell, adding that the office "is working with City Hall to schedule it."
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At a breakfast with the Association for a Better New York and the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday morning, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it's "imperative" we know where mayoral candidates stand on counterterrorism efforts.
Almost 12 years to the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Kelly expressed concern that the people vying to be mayor of New York City do not take the threat of terrorism seriously enough, and won't exhibit the same "resolve" as Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Kelly reeled off a list of five terror threats against New York City in the last 10 months alone, counting among them the allegation that the Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the catastrophic Boston Marathon bombing were headed to New York.
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About two miles southwest of the city of Blaine, remnants of a significant era of the towns heritage are gathering dust, hidden from public view.
By Memorial Day, Drayton Harbor Maritime (DHM) and Whatcom County Parks and Recreation want to lift the veil of years since the Semiahmoo Museum closed.
What were trying to do is tell a story out there, DHM director Richard Sturgill said. We want to tell people about our heritage. The museum, housed in what used to be the Alaska Packers Association bunkhouses, closed in 1995 following parks department budget cuts. County parks has committed to maintain the building, but DHM will operate the museum. We wouldnt be able to do this without DHM, said parks operations manager Lynn Givler.
What we hope to do is twofold, Sturgill said. Our mission is to preserve our maritime heritage, and we can also provide economic stimulus by drawing tourists; people can learn about our heritage and spend money here. According to a 1997 report of the Travel Industry Association of America, people traveling to see historical and cultural exhibits spend an average of $615 per trip, $190 more than the average for all types of travelers. We want to convey to the public that theres an economic asset there, Sturgill said. People might come to Blaine and buy a sandwich and maybe spend the night.
Marge Reichhardt, the museums curator in its former incarnation, said it would be an asset to the community. I think a lot of people will appreciate that the museum is there, she said. I think its invaluable to have access to local history, and theres a lot of history there as far as the cannery era.
In preparation for the reopening, county parks has re-roofed the two buildings and installed a new heating system. We put the building in as good shape as we could to protect the exhibits, Givler said.
Among the exhibits under the new roof is a 32-foot Bristol Bay sailboat, the only kind allowed to fish in Bristol Bay, Alaska until 1951; APA made many of the boats on the spit and towed them north en masse for the salmon season. Another old display under the new roof is a model of a fish trap, an example of giant mazes that were sunken into Puget Sound fishing grounds such as Point Roberts until they were outlawed in 1934. A new feature will be a video documentary about APA.
County parks will also be responsible for duties such as upkeep of the building and cleaning bathrooms, while DHM will coordinate volunteer docents to oversee the museum during the weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
To that end, Sturgill has already met with the Semiahmoo womens club to recruit volunteers. He also invites community members to attend DHMs
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