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Lightly salt the raw veggies in the bowl with about a tablespoon of table salt. This draws the water out of the veggies so your dressing can soak in. After a minute or two get your hand in the bowl and scrunch the veggies a bit to draw out the liquid. Do this for about a minute. Then use a paper towel to lightly soak up the excess water. Just toss it on top of the mixture and give it a squeeze. Your veggies should look slightly less raw and softer. |
Now time to add the dressing ingredients! Lightly dust the top with sugar, then drizzle over your sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, canola oil, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Toss. Then add pepper and sesame seeds to the top and toss thoroughly. Cover and chill for at least 20 min before serving to let flavors soak in. |
Then eat! Serve with other great summer salads, potstickers, or on top of BBQ salmon. OK I see what my friends are talking about with the food snaps. I'm hungry now. |
Are you surprised? Next to the real estate and housing industry, the travel industry is said to be the second largest industry in the world. Did you know that in the USA more money is spent on travel annually than on healthcare, more than on telecommunications, far more than on computers and surprisingly, even more than on food? Travel is a 7 trillion dollar plus industry worldwide and is expected to continue to grow dramatically over the next two decades as members of the baby boom generation fulfill their number one goal: to travel more. Younger generations are becoming more adventurous as well. People worldwide, in developing nations and developed nations, desire to travel more as they are exposed to new worlds on the Internet and as their incomes continue to grow. We live in an increasingly smaller world. And, as people earn more and more money in their home travel businesses, they receive many wonderful travel bonuses and get to travel a lot more. There are currently a couple of home-based businesses in the field of travel and leisure that have become extremely popular within the past year. After carefully studying their business models, their compensation plans, their benefits […] |
Every woman starts to become interested in skincare as she ages and sees those fine lines forming around her eyes and mouth. Those wrinkles and sagging skin that just doesn’t glow like it used to. And many women start to realise that natural skincare products are by far the best skincare products. But how do you find the best natural skincare products? However the first question to ask is why would you want to use natural skincare products? What does “natural” mean and what is the difference between “natural” skincare products and other skincare products? There is no formal definition of “natural” when it comes to skincare and anti aging products. However to me “natural” means “safe” skincare products. Safe? Aren’t all skincare products safe? Why would they be unsafe? Sadly the answer is that not all skincare products and anti aging products (or cosmetics or beauty products for that matter) are safe. It is gradually becoming known that many skincare and anti aging products and cosmetics, perfumes, body care and beauty products contain ingredients that may in fact be damaging to your skin or even your health. I first became aware of this when my young daughter had a […] |
Exceptions: What Does It All Mean? |
Everyone in the pro-life movement agrees the ultimate goal is ending abortion. |
The debate—which is intensifying—centers on how to get there. Should we make progress in stages, or strive for complete victory immediately? Or is there a way to pursue both? |
Some claim the only course is to accept political realities and take what politicians are willing to offer. These so-called pro-lifers agree to passing legislation that violates God’s command that all life—not just some—is sacred. |
In many cases, their stance even goes against what their organizations claim to stand for. |
This is “unprincipled” incrementalism. |
On the other hand, “principled” incrementalism treats all innocent life equally—no distinctions, differences, or exceptions. |
This approach keeps its focus on the ultimate victory of ending all elective abortions, but until that goal is reached will work to place as many limits on the horrific practice as possible, so long as it does not discriminate against any group or class of pre-born children. |
Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) supports principled incrementalism. We’ve proven in the harsh world of Georgia politics that treating all human life equally is a winning strategy. |
We’ve made significant progress without yielding to political arguments that attempt to justify accepting the life-compromising middle ground. |
Looking ahead, GRTL believes the ultimate victory can only be achieved by adopting a “Personhood” amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
Such an amendment, currently before the Georgia Legislature for consideration, would grant legal protection to all innocent life at any stage of development, from the pre-born to the elderly and infirm. |
Such an amendment is also the best defense against legal challenges. |
The key question becomes what separates principled from unprincipled incrementalism? |
The difference between both approaches became crystal clear when the U.S. Congress began debating a meaningless fetal pain bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks fetal age . |
The effort is meaningless because everyone knows it will never pass the Senate and even if it does, President Obama has said he would veto it. The whole effort is political pandering designed to let some members of Congress go back home and claim they voted for a pro-life bill. |
GRTL took the brunt of criticism when we stopped supporting the measure after a rape and incest and fetal anomaly exceptions were added at the last minute. |
We have been accused of sabotaging an attempt to save at least some lives. |
Our position is in direct opposition to a recently-released flyer by a prominent pro-life group that claims the measure will: “provide nationwide protection for unborn children capable of feeling pain, beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (equivalent to “22 weeks of pregnancy”), the beginning of the sixth month.” |
Protection for unborn children? Really? |
The ad omits the fact that the measure includes specific language which will condemn thousands of children conceived by rape or incest to a death sentence, simply based on their manner of conception. |
“I don’t see how anyone who claims to be pro-life, who says they respect the sanctity of all life, can agree with a rape and incest exception,” said GRTL Dan Becker. “You’re not standing on principle: you’re stuck in the quicksand of political expediency.” |
Becker added that GRTL has the deepest sympathy for victims of such crimes and strongly urges that perpetrators be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. |
However, to allow abortion in such instances is an example of unprincipled incrementalism because it says that those children are somehow less deserving of life. |
Becker added that he agrees with what pro-life advocate Jill Stanek recently posted on her blog: “To be clear, a person professing to be pro-life who holds a rape/incest exception is actually pro-abortion with exceptions.” |
In other words, unprincipled incrementalism in effect echoes Planned Parenthood’s position that only “wanted” children are worthy of life. It says we should be able to decide which children are acceptable and which aren’t. |
And since a child conceived by rape or incest may act as a constant reminder of the crime, we should allow the mother the freedom to be spared that grief. |
But if we say such emotions or feelings are justifications for abortion, where does that logic end? It’s a slippery slope that can easily lead to aborting children who might depress us because they are the wrong sex, or are shorter than was hoped. |
Many cultures already target girl babies for abortion because boys are considered more valuable. |
Even worse, such discrimination could ultimately lead to Nazi style eugenics where whole races of people or religions are targeted for elimination. |
On the other hand, principled incrementalism makes no such distinctions. It does not abandon the belief that all human life is sacred and created in the image of God. |
Before it was amended, the federal fetal pain bill was principled because it protected all children after 20 weeks—there were no distinctions of some children after 20 weeks who are worthy of life and some who are not. It did not set a precedent of creating unequal categories of children after 20 weeks fetal age. |
While such measures fall short of the ultimate goal, they do advance the cause without discrimination. And they don’t violate the Biblical command that a child should not be put to death for the crimes of its father (Deut. 24:16). |
So what’s the conclusion? What’s the difference between principled and unprincipled incremenetalism? |
Until all elective abortions are constitutionally banned, principled incrementalism supports a partial victory as long as the language of the bill does not clearly discriminate against specific groups of pre-born children, such as those conceived in rape or incest, or those with fetal anomalies. |
Because achieving constitutional protection for all innocent life is a long-term goal, failure to support principled incrementalism is in effect a “save the none” approach. |
On the other hand, unprincipled incrementalism is willing to accept legislation that does create and discriminate against categories of pre-born children, thereby condemning them to death. It’s unprincipled because the legislation specifically says some children are less worthy of life and can be sacrificed in a shameless attempt to look pro-life. |
”With your unwavering support and God’s guidance, we will succeed in ultimately ending the tragedy of abortion, while making principled progress along the way,” Becker said. |
Sources: steavedeace.com; lifesitenews.com. |
by Wayne DuBois |
GRTL Media Relations Advisor |
Brave New World Quotes |
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1. Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? This passage comes from Chapter 3, when Mustapha Mond is explaining the history of the World State to the group of boys touring the Hatchery. “Mother, monogamy, romance”can be seen as a concise summary of exactly the issues with which John will be most concerned. And “feeling strongly” is what John values most highly, and also what leads to his eventual self-flagellation, insanity, and suicide. Mustapha is saying that by doing away with these things, the World State has finally brought stability and peace to humanity. John’s critique of this position is that stability and peace are not worth throwing away everything that is worthwhile about life—“mother, monogamy, romance” included. Another facet of World State philosophy that is encapsulated in this quote is the idea of constructing a world in which human beings have only one way of behaving. The World State is an enormous system of production and consumption in which humans are turned into machines for further production and consumption. The world “allows” them to be happy by creating a system in which not being happy—by choosing truth over soma—is forbidden. 2. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . . . This quotation comes from Chapter 5, when Lenina remembers waking up as a small girl and, for the first time, hearing hypnopaedic messages whispered into her ear. She is reminded of the quote by a discussion with Henry Foster about the fact that all humans, regardless of caste, become equal after death. This quote illustrates the power of mind-numbing repetitiveness of the hypnopaedic rules and beliefs that form the basis of World State society. The message also highlights the hypocrisy of the conditioning: it may be true that “every one works for every one else,” but it is also true that certain castes have a much better time of it than others. 3. Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, |
Like drops within the Social River; |
Oh, make us now together run |
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. |
. . . |
Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, |
Kiss the girls and make them One. |
Boys at one with girls at peace; |
Orgy-porgy gives release |
This song is sung during the Solidarity Service attended by Bernard in Chapter 5. It gives an example of the banal “religion” the World State uses to keep its members in conformity with societal rules. The song’s silly wording helps emphasize the triviality of the ceremony. It also contrasts with the snippets of Shakespeare that John quotes later in the novel. The theme of anonymity is a metaphor for the whole of World State society, whose aim is to create humans that are as indistinguishable from each other as machines made on an assembly line. The repeated calls to “Ford” also point out the connection to the assembly line. Finally, the last stanza’s “orgy-porgy gives release,” like the Violent Passion Surrogate, the Pregnancy Surrogate, and soma, is a signal that the World State has not been able to entirely annihilate human nature. There is still some need for release, some need to experience strong emotions that has not been entirely wiped out through conditioning. The Solidarity Service is one of many... |
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How US Presidential Elections Impact the Stock Market |
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After this week's market wrap-up, Jim Puplava and Lowry Research's Chris Diodato discuss how US presidential elections typically impact the stock market, depending on the margin of victory, economic issues being faced at the time, and other factors that we can learn from for today. |
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Writing by Dictation Speech Recognition - Is this writing? |
As technology continues to provide tools to help us write more easily, are we still considered good writers if we depend on these tools? |
Online web-based dictation tools can be an incredible resource for reluctant writers. Speaking helps you express your ideas, understand who you are and helps you learn about yourself which is what writing does too. Speaking your thoughts using an online dictation tool like Online Dictation - Speech Recognition allows students to get their ideas and content down on paper easily. ( Speak > Copy and Paste into a Google Document ) |
Ideas and content is one of many areas that Online Dictation tools can help a struggling student. If you have never been in a classroom during a writing block, many times it will take students 1-3 class periods just to get their thoughts down on paper, and some never do without the help of a teacher. Some of these students may be given low marks on rubrics that they are struggling with ideas or content. Is this really true? Do they really not have an idea of what to write about? Or is the issue the physical writing/slow typing that gets in the way of trying to share their idea and content? A classroom where students can dictate their writing piece during the pre-writing process gives them the opportunity to get their thoughts down on paper quickly, a feeling of independence (not needing an adult to scribe for them) and ultimately spend more/most of their time editing and revising. This polishing of a writing piece is where students learn how to improve upon their initial thoughts. If our struggling writers are having difficulty just getting words on paper, then they often lose access to time in all parts of the writing process that help them become better writers. Online dictation tools allow students to share their ideas more easily, but is dictation an acceptable form of writing? |
There are precedents where well known writers dictated their books. Winston Churchill, Alexander Dumas and Montaigne are said to have dictated their work to secretaries. The revising and editing of the work was done by hand after the dictation was typed out by the secretary. Even recent authors like Dan Brown are known to have used dictation software to write their books – saving money on secretaries. Stephen Hawking is a well known British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who wrote a book called A Brief History of Time. He is almost entirely paralyzed and communicates through a speech generating device. Would his ideas in the book be any less valuable if you knew that he did not physically write a single word? So if dictation is good enough for Prime Ministers, and published authors why are we not using these tools regularly in the classroom if they are free? What skills do we feel students will miss out on? Why does this not translate down to students? State Testing? |
What are your thoughts about online dictation tools? Are they finally robust enough to be used universally in classrooms? |
If any of you are wondering if I typed this blog post or used an online dictation tool...does it matter? |
FREE Web-based Dictation Speech Recognition Tools |
- Online Dictation Speech Recognition |
- Chrome Extension Simple Dictation |
Here is how we use Online Dictation in the Pre-writing, Drafting process with some kids. |
Other things to consider: |
Pros for Online Web-based Dictation tools |
- Allows us to model that speech can be written down and read back to you |
- It can speed up the writing process. |
- If you think verbally, you may lose good thoughts during the slow typing process. |
- Typing becomes a non-issue for drafting writing pieces |
- This strategy enables children from other cultures/languages to bring their different experiences into the classroom to share. Sharing dictations and then translating the dictation can enrich other students' experiences and allow the language barrier to be overcome. |
Cons for Online Web-based Dictation tools |
- Some people think visually ( writing, outlines ), rather than completely verbally ( speaking ) |
- Verbal communication is linear, where writing allows you to skip around. - - - - State writing tests are still paper and pencil |
Welcome to Ohio Athletic Trainers' Association! |
OATA Election |
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