After thinking about other ways to use ricotta I thought, why not Mexican? I'm sure nobody who knows anything about enchiladas would ever use ricotta but I'm not pretending I know anything other than what tastes good.
The thought of biting in a huge hunk of cream cheese makes me shutter. I like ricotta because it's light and creamy. It was beautifully green (thanks to some spinach) and light but full of flavor.
Blend ricotta and spinach in a food processor, or by hand (chopping spinach first).
Pan fry the ham and taco seasoning just until golden and warmed through.
Stuff each tortilla with the ricotta mixture and top with ham.
Roll them up and put them into a baking dish.
Top with enchilada sauce and bake 20 minutes at 375.
Finish with shredded cheese and bake 3 minutes to melt.
I liked this seemingly strange combo. I actually had the ham around so that's why I added it but I really liked it in here! You could easily use shredded chicken, sauteed peppers & onions, or corn and black beans…or whatever. These were cheesey inside and out and had some textural contrasts too.
Put 2-3 tbs of the avocado mixture into the center of the wrappers. Tuck 2 opposite corners towards the center, and then roll the corner closest to you to the center and roll it away from you (like rolling up a burrito).
Fry for a few minutes on each side.
Remove and let cool on paper towel.
These were pretty good. Not as good as the restaurant, but I liked it. Mr. J wasn't a big fan so I had his for lunch the next day. That's when I remembered they're served with some creamy dipping sauce.
I mixed some ranch dressing, bbq sauce, and taco seasoning. Ohh my goodness. That's the ticket! Don't knock it will you try it!
The other night, I was prepping dinner and I was following a recipe. I actually rarely follow recipes. I consider them "suggestions" or jumping off points in most cases. I read a lot of blogs and google a lot of recipes so it is often mishmash of an "adapted from." Following recipes can be stressful and it takes even longer! You might be surprised how quickly I can whip something up if I'm not blogging it!
Things were going well, then going poorly, and it was crazy. Part smelled really good but the other part seized up. I burned my hand (not badly, don't worry mom!) and almost dropped the entire cast-iron skillet (which contained the entire meal). The external flash I nab from Mr. J wasn't working, I chose a pan a bit too small, and the pup was underfoot.
While all of this was happening, I was rocking out to my kitchen radio the previous owners of the house so kindly left. Kelly Clarkson's "oldie" "Beautiful Disaster" came on. How appropriate for this meal?! It was seeming like just that.
In a medium saucepan, heat the milk. Whisk in the cornmeal, then whisk in the boiling water and cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until very thick, 15 to 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, then stir in the butter and honey.
Preheat the broiler. Meanwhile, in a large ovenproof skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat until smoking. Add the chorizo and bacon and render the fat for 3 minutes. Stir in the pork and cook, crumbling the meat, until browned, about 8 minutes.
Season with the thyme, chili powder, coriander, salt and pepper. Add the onion and garlic and cook for a few minutes to soften. Stir in the beer to deglaze for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes to heat through.
Spoon the thick cornmeal over the pan and spread evenly. Top with the cheddar and brown under the broiler for 2 minutes. Serve from the skillet, garnished with the cilantro and scallions.
So, check out what happens when you read the first step and overlook the fact that the water should be boiling water. In the time it took to heat the water (after adding the cornmeal to the milk) it totally seized up. I was going to dump it and start over but I was feeling especially determined. I whisked as much as I could once the water was finally boiling. Seriously though, milk and cornmeal are cheap ingredients and wouldn't have set me back.
After all that I bet you're wondering how it was. It was good, not amazing. I think the chorizo and bacon would add a bit more flavor. We joked it was Pork-Liker's Tamale Pie rather than Pork-Lover's Tamale Pie since I omitted 2 of the 3 porks. I used fresh tomatoes and think canned would have boosted the flavor too. That's quite the creative licensing given the fact that I said I was following the recipe.
I liked the cornmeal topping and I appreciated that this wasn't a million ingredients. It reheated surprisingly well too. It was a fun and I was glad to have a different Mexican meal for a change.
I have to do a price breakdown for these Chicken Enchiladas because they were so filling and actually used so few ingredients. Cheap? Easy? Quick? YES PLEASE!
I whipped these up for dinner in a hurry and was thrilled. They were really good and I'd never made enchiladas before. I don't know what was stopping me.
Dust chicken with taco seasoning before grilling it. Once cooked through, shred the chicken.
Sautee the onions until almost translucent and add in the cooked chicken, corn, tomato sauce. Cook for 5 minutes.
Fill four tortillas with half of the cheese, and the chicken mixture.
Place the filled enchiladas, seam side down, into a baking dish on top of ¼ cup of enchilada sauce.
Top them with the rest of the sauce and bake for 20 minutes.
After taking them out of the oven, top with remaining cheese.
I served the enchiladas with the best tortilla chips I've ever had. They're Tostitos artisan recipe chips with roasted garlic & black bean. Yum. These are seriously really good.
That was it! I thought they were filling and easy enough to just serve the enchiladas with some chips and salsa. Mr. J LOVED it. I was afraid it might be a bit too spicy for him but he really liked it. I tell ya, he loves anything with a sauce!
The enchilada sauce was much spicier before it was cooked. I'm not sure why. I got a mild canned sauce but I hear they're not hard to whip up.
Chicken enchiladas would be an easy one to prep in advance and just assemble and bake when ready. I'll totally make them again. I still need to make my own taco seasoning…I use it so much and hate that it seems to only come in packets.
total: $8.51 for 4 enchiladas ~$2.12 per serving.
Do you see that? Crazy! I already had frozen corn and salsa but the rest is totally cheap. The pricing really surprised me. I knew this meal was cheap but it makes a single $4 frozen enchilada look pitiful!
Tacos make dinner feel like a party! I couldn't remember making tacos since living in this apartment (about a year and a half). Mr. J swears we have but I don't think so. We've definitely had burritos and even a tortilla pie, but I don't think I've made hard tacos in years! I wanted something a bit more than a few tacos for the meal so I thought of empanadas….or my version.
My favorite Mexian would cringe but I LOVE them with puff pastry, rather than pie dough. Since I'm not the slightest bit Mexican, I don't care. Puff pastry is so flaky and buttery that I can't switch to pie dough no matter how much of an impostor it makes these.I had a craving for tacos and was loving the fact that these weren't going to require too many ingredients other than what I had on hand.Again, work is nutty right now and will be for about 40-something more days so tacos were a fun & quick weeknight meal.Remember when I became a genius and started getting up an hour earlier each morning? I chopped my veggies for the empanadas and defrosted some of the other ingredients so I was a step ahead when I got home.
These are so easy and a great side. Anything goes in empanadas but I think they make for the perfect warm side or appetizer and since I was serving them with tacos, I figured a veggie filling would be best. Puff pastry is flaky and puffs just how the name suggests so mine never seem to stay closed and I'm A-OK with that. This time I pinched the opposite corners together (making them less and less authentic all the time).
My tacos featured ground chicken, refried beans, lettuce, corn, cheese, and salsa in hard taco shells. I used some leftover ground chicken from my lasagna meat mix.


Although the very first of the Bullis (as the VW bus was called) were produced in 1950, in Wolfsburg, it was on 8 March 1956, production began in Hanover, sparking an international motoring classic.
To celebrate this 60th anniversary, the Historical Museum of Hanover is organising a retrospective on the beginning of Transporter production with a special exhibit that runs from 9 March to 26 June 2016.
Vehicles from the factory's own Bulli collection can be seen as well as video reports by eye witnesses to that time period, as well as in photographs and exhibits that depict the plant's history.
Professor Thomas Schwark, Director of the Art History Museums of Hanover: "The exhibit shows living industrial history, which began when the Bulli came on-line and also shows the effects the plant had on the development of the state capital in the post-war time period. The Bulli is indispensable, especially in our historic museum, because it is an expression of the role and importance of the VW Transporter plant for Hanover and the entire state of Lower Saxony. We have brought together many exhibit items to create an interactive exhibit that is very fitting to the anniversary year "775 years of Hanover".
Production of the vehicle that would become the "workhorse of the economic wonder" began in 1950 in Wolfsburg. When the hundred thousandth Bulli came off the assembly line in 1954, it was clear that the Transporter needed its own dedicated plant. Production capacity at the main Wolfsburg plant was no longer sufficient to cover demand. Alongside Beetle production, it was possible to manufacture 80 Bullis per day, but 330 were needed.
Prof. Heinrich Nordhoff, General Director of Volkswagenwerk GmbH, chose Hanover for the production site. Initial construction work began in mid-February 1955 – in the middle of an ice-cold and very snowy winter – at the north of the city, south of the Mittelland Canal and right next to the autobahn at Mecklenheidestraße in the city district of Stöcken.
Simultaneously Volkswagen was already training its new employees in Transporter manufacturing. An extra train was added to the train schedule, and these employees took the 4:10 am train from the main train station to Wolfsburg where they were instructed in production of the Bulli.
After just one year of construction time, the first Bullis came off the assembly line of the just built Transporter plant on 8 March 1956.
Jobs at the new Volkswagen plant were highly coveted. They paid more than twice the typical wage in other jobs: an average hourly wage of 2.50 German Marks instead of 1.20 German Marks. In 1955, a kilogram of coffee cost around 10 DM – and a kilogram of bread just 68 pfennigs. In the 1950s, many people quit their secure jobs in order to build the Bulli at the new Transporter plant in Hanover.
The Bulli developed into a successful model far beyond the domestic market. In 1962, the workforce celebrated production of the millionth VW Transporter, 'Made in Hanover'. After the T1, production of the successor model, the T2, began in 1967. In turn, it was followed in 1979 by the T3, by the T4 in 1990 and by the T5 in 2003. The sixth generation has been coming off the production line in Hanover since 2015.


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Singapore and Indonesia Sign Agreement to Collaborate on Health Promotion
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Singapore and Indonesia will collaborate to prevent and control diseases, promote healthy living and develop human resources under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong and his Indonesian counterpart Dr Nila Djuwita Farid Moeloek signed the MOU on health cooperation at a bilateral meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday (May 22).
Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong and his Indonesian counterpart Dr Nila Djuwita Farid Moeloek signed the MOU on health cooperation at a bilateral meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday (May 22). Image: Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia
The Ministry of Health said the two ministers were there for the 72nd World Health Assembly where they affirmed the excellent health relations between Singapore and Indonesia, and agreed on the importance of regional cooperation and coordination in dealing with communicable diseases.
Building on a ministerial conference held in Singapore last year to discuss diabetes, the health ministers also shared their concerns and plans for combating non-communicable diseases and exchanged ideas on promoting healthy living.
"Singapore looks forward to deepening health ties with Indonesia under the auspices of the newly signed MOU," the MOH said.
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Bo Levi Mitchell, CGY vs. TOR ($11,200): Mitchell represents a nice pivot off the more expensive Mike Reilly ($11,800), and he offers a ton of upside himself, especially in this matchup. The Argonauts have given up more passing yards than every other team except the Alouettes, allowing 301.3 yards per contest. They've also allowed the highest completion percentage (70.1), highest average yards per pass (9.7), highest QB rating (95.2) and highest passer efficiency rating (111.7). Just as important, they've allowed the second-most completions of over 30 yards (26). Conversely, Mitchell leads the CFL in completions of over 30 yards (32), has eclipsed 20 fantasy points in four of his last five games and is averaging an impressive 319.5 passing yards per game at home this season.
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John White, HAM vs. BC ($5,400): Speaking of mispriced starting running backs, White comes in very affordable in Week 16 after not being in the player pool in his first game replacing Alex Green (hand) last week. White compiled 16.0 fantasy points versus the same Lions squad he'll face in Week 16, leaving him poised as a strong play once again. The Lions have also allowed the third-most rushing touchdowns (14), along with 5.0 yards per carry. White is also viable as a pass catcher, and the high-powered capabilities of his team's air attack should help keep the defense honest.
D'haquille Williams, EDM vs. WPG ($10,100): Williams somewhat underwhelmed in Week 15, but he still found his way into the end zone for the fifth straight game. Williams has 20-30 fantasy-point upside any time he takes the field, and the Blue Bombers come in ranked in the bottom half of the CFL in multiple passing categories. Williams has nine receptions of over 30 yards on the season already, and given his typical target share and increased responsibility in the wake of Derel Walker's knee injury, he shapes up as worth paying for in a bounce-back spot in Week 16.
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Edmonton Eskimos vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers ($4,700): The Eskimos get a crack at one of the more mistake-prone quarterbacks in the league in Matt Nichols, which should allow them the opportunity for at least a couple of turnovers. Nichols has already thrown 12 interceptions in 2018, including multiple picks in two of his last three games. He owns a 4:7 TD:INT on the road as well, while Edmonton checks in second only to the Lions with 15 interceptions on the season. They should also be able to pressure Nichols into errors a fair amount of times, as the Bombers have yielded 25 sacks on the season while the Eskimos check in second in that category as well with 33. Furthermore, Edmonton is allowing opponents the fourth-fewest plays per game (55.2), which should help limit Winnipeg's opportunities.


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'Girls less confident as they grow older' – new research
Category: Right to life, survival and development
New research from Girlguiding UK shows that girls become less confident as they grow older and become more aware of the barriers they could face at work. The research is based on a UK - including Scotland - survey poll of girls and young women.
A poll of 1,627 girls and young women showed they felt less powerful as they progressed through secondary school.
Only a third of the 17- to 21-year-olds questioned felt they would do as well as their male peers, against 90% of the nine- to 10-year-olds.
"It is our responsibility to change this," said Girlguiding Chief Executive Julie Bentley.
The young women interviewed were a representative sample and not necessarily connected with Girlguiding, says the charity.
The results show:
90% of nine- and 10-year-old girls felt they would have the same chance as boys at succeeding in their chosen jobs
this dropped to 54% among 11- to 16-year-olds
and to 35% among 17 to 21-year-olds.
Only a quarter of the older group said they felt "powerful" compared with a third of 11- to 16-year-old girls.
Girlguiding says the data charts how girls' attitudes to themselves change as they become more aware of the barriers facing women in the workplace.
The full survey, carried out online by Childwise, will be published in September.
Click here for full BBC article on this issue.


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Social adjustments in middle age are less affected by traditional beliefs and stereotypes than personal adjustments. However, social adjustments are affected to some extent by traditional beliefs such as "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" – the new "tricks" being new social skills – or "Once a leader, always a leader." For example, middle-aged men and women who were not leaders in school or college may feel that they now have no hope of achieving leadership roles in either the vocational or social worlds.
Middle-aged people who subscribe to the philosophy that aging people should be inactive and remain on the sidelines contribute little to the enjoyment of others in social situations.
Middle-aged men and women who allow their appearance to deteriorate and make little or no effort to improve it are more likely to be neglected or rejected in social situations than those whose clothing and grooming make them look more youthful and attractive.
Middle-aged people who never learned the social skills of their peers when they were younger, or who allowed their earlier-learned social skills to become rusty during early adulthood, feel ill at ease in social situations and either withdraw from them or play onlooker roles.
Men and women who find family members more congenial than outsiders and family activities more enjoyable than community activities will not be motivated to broaden their social horizons to include outsiders and community activities.
Middle-aged people who are plagued by financial problems stemming from unemployment, support of elderly parents, or education of children are unable to participate in many of the social activities of their friends or to belong to community organizations. As a result, they become socially isolated.
While most middle-aged people have fewer family responsibilities than they had when their children were young, some are still under pressure to help both financially and through personal aid grown children, grandchildren, or dependent elderly parents. This reduces not only money for social activities but also time to engage in them.
Some middle-aged men and women, especially those who married early and were deprived of the social experiences their unmarried contemporaries enjoyed, now want an active social life as evidence of their popularity. This can be hazardous if, in the effort to achieve this goal, men and women break up the established patterns of their lives, seek adventure and excitement outside the home, and neglect their work.
Socially mobile people often find it difficult if not impossible to break into the close-knit social networks of other middle-aged people in their new neighborhoods or communities. As a result, they must play the role of involuntary isolate or affiliate themselves with any group that will accept them, regardless of congeniality of interests or values.
Note that many of these conditions are carry-overs from earlier stages in the life span, especially adolescence and early adulthood. That is why those who have not made good social adjustments during the earlier years of their lives are not likely to do as they grow older.
Making poor social adjustments in middle age is hazardous because, with advancing age, most men and women must rely more and more on the companionship of outsiders, as their spouses become ill or die and as their grown children become increasingly preoccupied with their own lives. Middle-aged persons who do not master the important developmental task of achieving adult civic and social responsibility are likely to be lonely and unhappy in their old age and may find that it is too late then to make good social adjustments.


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The Influence of News Media on Political Elites
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The forthcoming article "The Influence of News Media on Political Elites: Investigating Strategic Responsiveness in Congress" by Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson, René Lindstädt and Ryan J. Vander Wielen is summarized here:
It is hard to imagine democracy in action without a free press. News media provide a crucial link between elected representatives and the people they represent. Scholars tend to focus on the influence news media have on members of the mass public. Yet we should also consider how news media influence the behavior of elected representatives. After all, politicians are consumers of news, too.
The incremental roll-out of Fox News in the late 1990s helped us investigate the influence of news media on elected representatives' behavior by creating something akin to a natural experiment. Between the introduction of Fox News in 1996 and its nationwide availability by 2002, some U.S. House districts had cable systems with Fox News in the channel line-up, while others did not. Moreover, the roll-out of Fox News was unrelated to the political characteristics of voters in the districts. This allows us to compare the voting behavior of U.S. House members who had Fox News in their districts to those who did not; and it also allows us to compare the voting behavior of U.S. House members before and after Fox News entered their districts.
We focused on votes in the U.S. House that divided the parties, with the majority of Democrats and Republicans taking opposing positions, because these are the sorts of issues on which the influence of news media is expected to be most evident. Our analysis of these votes finds that Fox News did, indeed, influence the voting behavior of U.S. House Representatives, but not in a uniform fashion.
First, the influence of Fox News was most apparent in the months approaching Election Day. At this point in the election cycle, Fox News caused Republican members of Congress to be more likely to side with their party on partisan votes and caused Democratic members to be less likely to side with their party. Thus, Fox News bolstered Republican coalitions on partisan votes toward the end of the election cycle. However, we find no evidence of differences in voting behavior across members with and without Fox News in the early months of the election cycle. This pattern of voting is consistent with the explanation that members of Congress respond to the news media in a strategic way. They are more responsive to news media when voters are paying attention (i.e., closer to Election Day).
Second, the influence of Fox News strengthened as the composition of congressional districts became more Republican. These findings imply that politicians do not respond to news media in a vacuum. Rather, the effect of news media on political elites depends in large part upon members' electoral landscapes.
Our research demonstrates that elected representatives respond to news media, but their response is constrained and contingent. Our findings also suggest that the steady polarization of the U.S. Congress during the late 1990s cannot be blamed on Fox News. If anything, Fox News may have done more in its early days to bring members of Congress together—in support of the Republican agenda.
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Join the spunky and powerful Sparkle Dragons as they blast their glitter fire and put their brains together to save the queendom from polka-dotted pollution in this hilarious, easy-to-read graphic novel.
Meet the Sparkle Dragons: the spunkiest crew in all of Princess Puff's queendom! Trixie is fierce with brains and beauty. Rue is tough as nails with a heart of shimmering gold. And, last but not least, Glinda, who often has her head in the clouds, but her out-of-the-box problem-solving can be her strongest asset. With their unique powers combined, they are an unstoppable force! And let's be honest: fighting off bad guys with glitter beams can be pretty hilarious . . . and sticky!
Bad guys can be quite clever in this queendom, but the Sparkle Dragons don't miss a trick. When the Rain River is polluted with polka dots, Robert—not Bob—the Troll takes the heat for it. But he says he is innocent! Not to worry—the Sparkle Dragons are hot on the tails of the true culprits. That is, if Princess Puff and her unicorn BFF will stop getting in their way. How can the Sparkle Dragons fire up a rock-solid case to prove Robert's innocence and find out who is really at the bottom of these polluting polka dots?
Emma Carlson Berne is the author of over one hundred and twenty books for juvenile, middle-grade, and young adult readers. She has worked with American Girl Publishing, Disney Lucasfilm, Simon & Schuster, PJ Library, Lonely Planet Kids, National Geographic Kids, and Scholastic, among others. She often ghostwrites under the names Jake Maddox, Lila Stewart, Elizabeth Woods, and Hailey Abbott. She is a keen horseback rider and lover of nature and animals. She enjoys running and walking, hiking, camping, and cooking. Emma lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and three young sons.
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Literatur
 August Schiebe: Universal-Lexikon der Handelswissenschaften: enthaltend: die Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtskunde. Band 3, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig und Gebrüder Schumann, Zwickau 1839, S. 204.
 Kleineres Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon für den Handgebrauch. Band 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, S. 69.

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Altes Maß oder Gewicht (Griechenland)
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Trump at opioid summit: Countries that kill drug dealers have much less of a drug problem, you know
AllahpunditPosted at 10:01 pm on March 1, 2018
I'm trying to locate this on the spectrum between "take him seriously but not literally," as his supporters do, and "take him literally but not seriously," as the media does. I think it falls somewhere in the gray zone of stuff he'd like to do and would do if American norms were different. But since they aren't, he's left musing wistfully about how much better things would be if law enforcement could just take the gloves off with the bad guys, a theme he's returned to occasionally as president.
It's also a point he's reportedly made in private. The fact that we're hearing it now fits with POTUS's drift recently towards "letting Trump be Trump," to borrow a phrase from Corey Lewandowski. He was enthusiastic about gun control yesterday; he declared a trade war on steel and aluminum imports this morning; now here he is fantasizing about a Duterte-type solution to America's drug problem. All of those positions are what you'd expect from a nationalist strongman. Maybe the days of POTUS rubber-stamping conservative policy pushed by Ryan and McConnell are over.
"He says that a lot," said a source who's spoken to Trump at length about the subject. "He says, 'When I ask the prime minister of Singapore do they have a drug problem [the prime minister replies,] 'No. Death penalty'."…
But the president doesn't just joke about it. According to five sources who've spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty…
Trump has said he would love to have a law to execute all drug dealers here in America, though he's privately admitted it would probably be impossible to get a law this harsh passed under the American system.
That's from Jonathan Swan, who followed up with his story on Twitter:
I've learned in past two days that Trump has talked up the Chinese, Filipino and Singaporean systems of killing drug dealers to even more people than I originally thought. List includes members of Congress (including some in leadership) & foreign leaders.
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 27, 2018
Kellyanne Conway told Swan that when Trump talks about executing drug dealers he's talking about major traffickers, particularly the sort of scum who specialize in highly lethal synthetic drugs like fentanyl. Why execute the man who poisons another with his own hand while sparing the man who floods a county with drugs which he knows will end up killing many people? Lay aside the question of whether the death penalty would be a much stronger deterrent to traffickers than a long prison sentence would. And lay aside the question of how easy or difficult it'd be for the D.A. to show that a particular lethal dose originated with a particular trafficker who had trafficked a particular amount of drugs in total. Is there a moral case for punishing major dealers with death? Of course there is, and it would produce an interesting public and constitutional debate if Trump pushed for a federal law handing judges the power to order death for certain classes of especially dangerous traffickers. It might not be bad politics either, with Democrats stuck between signaling their seriousness about opioids by siding with Trump and maintaining their generally anti-death-penalty stance.
But c'mon. What Trump has in mind here ideally isn't extending the federal capital punishment guidelines. This is a guy who's congratulated Duterte personally on the "unbelievable job" he's doing in cracking down on drugs in the Philippines. That "unbelievable job" includes cops and "vigilantes" killing literally thousands of people in the streets, not after a trial and 20 years of appeals. Duterte, in fact, has fantasized about killing all of the country's drug addicts — not dealers or traffickers, but addicts. If Trump didn't have a history of admiring ruthless strongmen in other countries, especially when they crack down hard on dissenters, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on his sweet talk with Duterte. But he's not a fan of due process (except when it comes to men accused of abusing women). The sort of "toughness" with drug dealers he'd *like* to show, I assume, has nothing to do with trials and sentencing.
That shouldn't stop him from introducing a death penalty proposal for traffickers, but if you're seeing civil libertarians on social media grousing about his comments here, that's why. It's not that major drug dealers don't deserve major punishments. It's that, after nearly three years as a politician, Trump's strongman pretensions still make people nervous.
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Stafford County is a portion of that wide stretch of territory of the State of Kansas embraced in the great bend of the Arkansas River. At a point twelve miles south, and thirty miles west of the southwest corner of the county, the river takes a northeasterly direction, which it follows for a distance of about seventy miles, until it reaches a point seven miles north of the center of the north line of Stafford County, when it turns to the southeast, which course it pursues until it reaches a point about twelve miles south and sixty miles east of the southeast corner of the county, from which point its course is almost due south. Stafford County is centrally located in the territory embraced within this bend of the river.
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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has completed its investigation into the Oct. 2, 2007, explosion at Xcel Energy's Cabin Creek plant in Georgetown, CO, that killed five workers and injured three others.
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The closest confined space rescue unit was about 75 minutes away. The trapped workers died about an hour before the response unit arrived.
The CSB claims Xcel and RPI impeded the investigation. The agency had to seek assistance from the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver. Xcel went to federal court seeking to block release of the CSB report. The court sided with CSB in favor of the report's release.
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Libyan National Army Kills Terrorist behind Mass Beheading of Christians
"Al Mahdi Denqo" The Libyan Arab forces, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Hifter, are going after the terrorists across the Libyan territories to eliminate them." — Libyan MP Talal al Mahyub WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced it has successfully...
"Al Mahdi Denqo"
The Libyan Arab forces, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Hifter, are going after the terrorists across the Libyan territories to eliminate them."
— Libyan MP Talal al Mahyub
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced it has successfully completed an operation to kill or capture the jihadist mastermind of the mass beheading of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christian workers and one Ghanaian Christian whom the jihadists had kidnapped in the Libyan city of Sirte on February 15, 2015. After the beheadings, jihadist Al Qaqa'a Ben Omro pointed his bloody knife toward the sea and declared: "We will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission."
After the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, Libya was invaded by jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood militias. The regular Libyan army was disbanded and the radicals took over. In September 2012, one of their attacks killed the United States Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith as well as two CIA contractors trying to defend them in Benghazi.
Field Marshall Haftar's Libyan National Army liberated Benghazi and all the areas east to the Egyptian border, pushing the jihadist forces west toward Tripoli.
In southern Libya, the mastermind of the mass beheading of the helpless Christian men, bearing the nom de guerre "al Mahdi Denqo," was surrounded by an LNA counter-terrorism unit. He was ordered to surrender but resisted and was killed along with two more jihadist associates affiliated to the Islamic state militant group (IS) in Libya, according to LNA spokesperson Ahmed Al-Mesmari.
"This is a great day for Middle Eastern Christians and for Christians all over the world," said AMCD co-chair, Tom Harb. "Christians are being persecuted and killed for their faith in numbers not seen since Roman times. At least in this instance, thanks to General Haftar and the LNA, there is a measure of justice, and the families may find some peace."
"It also demonstrates why General Haftar deserves Western support," added AMCD co-chair John Hajjar. "His goal is to protect minorities from the jihadists who would exterminate or drive them out of Libya. The justice of his cause is clear."
The chairman of the committee on defense and security of the Libyan Parliament, Libya, praised the LNA operation and compared it to US forces eliminating the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, a few years ago: "The Libyan Arab forces, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Hifter, are going after the terrorists across the Libyan territories to eliminate them. Our elected parliament appointed FM Hifter in 2014 to rid the country of the terror forces which have been attacking Libyans, Arabs, and Westerners on our soil. This operation is a just response to the massacre of our Egyptian innocent brothers who were working in Libya to feed their families and were targeted by these monsters. The LNA will continue to fight these radicals, and along with the counter-terrorism forces of the Arab Coalition and our friends in the US, Europe and the rest of the world, we will defeat this terror threat."
Rebecca Bynum
World Council for the Cedars Revolution
September 09, 2022, 09:21 GMT
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This site from the BBC gives comprehensive information on stars: why they twinkle, what happens inside a star and more.
A short introduction to stars, followed by questions on all things star related, suitable for all age and knowlege levels.
A nice site taking you through the life cycle of a star with some good images of the different stages of a star's life.
Short piece on one of our closest stars.
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Julep Maven is the monthly subscription box for people who would rather look at their fingernails than their faces. Based out of Seattle, Washington, Julep sends either two nail polishes and one product or three nail polishes month for $19.99.
To be honest, I probably wouldn't have signed up for Julep if not for the promo I found. My promo code got me my first box for a penny. If you are interested in signing up, I highly recommend keeping any eye out for that deal, since it seems that they do it pretty consistently. The code I used was 'JULEPVIP', but I don't know whether or not that still works.
The great thing about Julep is that they offer some level of customization and they offer the option of skipping as many months as you want whenever something isn't your cup of tea. You take a quiz and are assigned one of five "style profiles": "American Beauty", "Boho Glam", "Bombshell", "Classic With a Twist", or "It Girl". If you don't like what you got, you can just switch. You can also switch it up any month as desired. The first four receive two nail polishes customized to that "look" plus one product, whereas "It Girl" receives three nail polishes only.
The not-so-great thing about Julep is the value of the boxes is not nearly as high as they pretend it is. A normal bottle of nail polish is 0.5oz. A bottle of Julep nail polish is 0.27oz… so almost half the size. These folks are trying to convince you that 0.27oz is worth $14. That's $51.85 an ounce. For reference, Opi nail polish, which costs $8 for 0.5oz, costs $16 an ounce and Butter London, which costs $14 for 0.4oz, comes in at $35 per ounce. So, sure, Julep is more cost-effective than Chanel ($30 for 0.4oz, or $75 an ounce), but that doesn't make it a reasonable price.
Discounts are available for Maven members (nail polishes are $11.20, so $41.48 an ounce), but their crazy deep discounts suggest to me that they don't even believe their nail polishes are worth asking price. For example, right now, their "Cocktail Glam Winter Collection" is 5 polishes for $24. That's $17.78 an ounce. That is a very reasonable price for high quality nail polish. If they can make a profit selling their products for $17.78 per ounce, there is no reason to pay $51.85 per ounce.
The take-home message of this exercise in math is that I do not think that Julep Maven boxes can be priced in the same way that Birchbox or Ipsy boxes can because Julep prices are not fair based on the product quality. I bought the "It Girl" box, which has three nail polishes for, if you pay full price, $19.99. That's 0.81 oz total.
If you think that Julep is worth their Maven discount rate of $11.20 per bottle, your box is worth $33.60.
If you think that Julep is worth the same, ounce per ounce, as Butter London, your box is worth $28.35.
If you think that Julep is worth the same, ounce per ounce, as Opi, your box is worth $12.96. Suddenly not such a great deal.
As a brief side note: In a feeble attempt to pretend that their nail polishes are not ludicrously small, Julep makes their bottles tall and skinny. Do you know how easy it is to knock over a tall, skinny nail polish bottle while painting your nails? Well, if you buy Julep, you will find out. I knock over chubby Opi bottles, so Julep is just a disaster waiting to happen.
With those admittedly major caveats stated, it's time to talk about nail polish!
The intro boxes are different from the monthly boxes. I think they may re-vamp them every so often, but basically they are the same month-to-month.
Delaunay, a "chili pepper red creme". I will be frank. This is fantastic nail polish. I needed exactly one coat of this to be completely opaque. I painted my nails five days ago using one coat of this polish, some Opi Fresh Frog of Bel Air on my tips, plus a top coat of Seche Vite and they look so good I am hoping they will make it to Christmas. These nails have made an appearance in my last two blog posts, so you can check 'em out there.
Daphne, a "smokey sea-foam green creme". This is also quite a lovely polish. It took two coats to get to full opacity, which is totally fine, and it looked absolutely flawless after that. It's got a great vintage vibe to it, like the color was borrowed from an old-school toaster.
Otte, a "rich camel neutral creme". I kind of think that this is an ugly color so I haven't used it yet. I am trying to convince myself to love neutral nail polishes for professionalism reasons, but so far I just can't.
Two glitters in bright pink and bright blue that I have no interest in whatsoever.
So, overall, the nail polishes themselves are pretty good. Obviously worth the $0.01 I paid for them! I have made a few purchases since this intro box, including the Pomegranate Body Creme (which smells great and feels like you are rubbing whipped cream on your belly) and the Pomegranate Body Scrub (which is a great little scrub and I am super into body scrubs in general right now). However, those were hecka Christmas discounted when I bought them and they are back up at full price now. I also bought two New Years Mystery Boxes (now sold out) for $20 each, which won't be here for a while. My plan is to stay subscribed and skip except when I am truly inspired by the options.
Like Birchbox, Julep does have a points system that you can use to get free nail polish, but the points system doesn't take purchases into account, just boxes and referrals, so it is not particularly generous. If you are interested in signing up for Julep and want to kindly give me points, you can use my link by clicking here.
Quick concluding statement about value: Arguably, getting three small nail polishes is of higher value than one big one, especially if you are the type to never finish a bottle of nail polish. Also, to clarify, I do think that these are higher quality nail polishes than Opi. Opi, although I love them so, is more amazing for their infinite color options than their impeccable formula.
For me, the value in Julep Maven is in the ability to add new colors. Even though the bottles aren't as large as OPI or Butter London, it doesn't bother me because I've never actually run out of a bottle of polish before I tired of it or it kind of dried out.
Yeah, I definitely see that point. I am still on the fence for sure.
i don't know why i haven't abused the 0.01 offer and signed up for some almost free polishes yet but i may have to finally do it. doubt i'll stay with it because i'm currently obsessed with butter London i owe it to myself to at least try, right? right.
Legitimately, cost effectiveness aside, the polishes are quite nice. It's certainly worth it to check 'em out.
You know, the cost-per-ounce thing troubled me. But I still kept my subscription (now four months old I think) because, you know… when nail bloggers show me pretty pictures, I look at 'em. But when JULEP shows me pretty pictures, they're actually willing to send me the polishes! Right away! (Ish.) Basically, they got me on the hook.
But then last night I was thinking about it again, and I looked at it another way: If their bottles are half the size of a regular bottle (our bottle of Eden is almost gone after three or four months, and the topcoat lasted maybe two months) then… that means that at $14 a bottle, they're actually charging me $28 for a whole bottle of nail polish.
With the Maven discount, they're charging me $22.40 for a whole bottle of nail polish.
And even with It Girl, where we get three polishes for $20, they're charging $13.34 for a whole bottle of nail polish.
Now, I'd happily pay $13-$15 for a very small handful of extremely good indie nail polishes. But these are not Cirque Arcus here. These are, you know…. regular nail polishes in very small bottles.
There's one I saw that sends you nail polish every month and donates money to something cool as well (Julep allegedly donates some too, I think less, and doesn't really talk much about where)…. I've thought about switching to whatever that box is, if I can remember.
OMG I am completely freaking out now… went to find a link for the awesome Cirque Arcus polishes (http://www.nailsandnoms.com/2016/06/review-cirque-arcus-collection-swatches-part-2/), one thing led to another, and I ended up finding two indie polish subscription boxes, ONE OF WHICH INCLUDES CHOCOLATE EVERY MONTH. http://mommydoeshernails.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-glitter-guilty-pleasures-box-review.html It looks like it's only glitter polishes, but I do love glitter…. And it's only $16.
Ooh! Love to hear your thoughts about the indies.
LOL, so would I. Well my birthday is in September, I think I'll sign up for one or two of them to celebrate!
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
Tierney, John and Roy F. Baumeister
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From the bestselling authors of WILLPOWER, a surprising look at the power of the negativity bias—and how to put it to work for us in love, work, and life.
Our negativity bias explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, why we are all so inept at giving criticism, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. All day long, the strength of bad governs people's moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics throughout the world.
Eminent social scientist Roy F. Baumeister stumbled upon this negativity bias phenomenon unexpectedly. Experiments had shown that financial losses mattered more to people than financial gains, and that bad impressions lasted longer than good impressions. To find out why, Baumeister started by looking for situations in which good events had a stronger impact than bad ones. But he and his team couldn't find any. All of their experiments proved that bad is stronger than good. And Baumeister's groundbreaking paper "Bad Is Stronger Than Good" is one of the most frequently cited in all of the social sciences.
Even though we've been conditioned to think positive, we are wired to respond more powerfully to bad—and so we fear bad feedback of all stripes. Evolutionarily, this makes perfect sense, which is why the bias is as innate as our fight or flight reflex. But in the modern era, the power of bad is a handicap. The steady diet of bad news we experience in the 21st century makes us feel helpless and eager to catastrophize, as evidenced by the soaring rates of anxiety, depression and suicide, especially among young people. In fact, you're most affected by the power of bad during your younger years, when you most need to learn.
But we can all train our brains to recognize our phobia of bad and fight back with our rational minds. In fact, bad news, bad breaks, and bad feelings are the most powerful tools we have to get better. Once we strip out our emotional response to negative inputs, we have perspective to think more effectively about the future, recast unhealthy patterns, and improve less than ideal conditions.
As Baumeister and Tierney show us in several different realms, we can use smart strategies from new science to reframe setbacks. Instead of striving to be a perfect parent or partner, you can concentrate on avoiding the basic mistakes that matter more than your good deeds. Once you appreciate the negativity bias, you can become better not just at tolerating criticism but also at dispensing it. You'll also find there are advantages to being in a bad mood, like an improved memory.
By breaking bad's hold over us, we can use the power of the negativity bias to our own ends in relationships, business, and personal growth. Properly understood, bad can be put to perfectly good use.
Roy Baumeister is the co-author of Willpower and a social psychologist who explores how we think about the self, and why we feel and act the way we do. He is especially known for his work on the subjects of willpower, self-control, and self-esteem, and how they relate to human morality and success.
John Tierney is the co-author of Willpower and writes the "Findings" science column for the New York Times. His writing has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Physics.
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SAMANTHA LONG, ONE of the Fine Gael women overlooked for the Seanad by-election nomination, has quit the party this morning saying it is ignoring female candidates.
Long, a losing local election candidate in Rathgar-Rathmines last May, emailed the party at around 10.30am this morning to say she was resigning. She told TheJournal.ie she is "relieved" with her decision.
Long was one of the two women named by Fine Gael's national executive as a potential candidate for the Seanad seat vacated by Deirdre Clune. But Taoiseach Enda Kenny instead selected Donegal-based John McNulty, a decision which has been mired in controversy in recent days.
"I am not personally disgruntled, I'm disappointed. The party is ignoring the talented pool of female candidates and is regressing the gender balance further," Long said.
Long acknowledged she is "no Lucinda [Creighton]" and insisted she was not trying to "make a headline". She said she now intends to step away from politics altogether and will not be joining any other party.
"I am delighted for the experience I've had. I am happy and emotional with my decision," she added.
Separately, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has called on Enda Kenny to re-run the by-election process as well as apologise to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
McNulty was appointed to the board of IMMA days before his Seanad by-election nomination was confirmed leading to accusations that Fine Gael has pulled a 'political stroke'.
Martin said in a statement today: "The first thing that the Taoiseach should do on his return is to apologise to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. This key cultural institution has been abused for straightforward internal Fine Gael party business reasons and it is not good enough.
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Born in East Orange, New Jersey, following high school graduation, he joined the Navy and became an optical man fixing periscopes and binoculars. He served in Guam and following discharge taught himself cabinetmaking. For several years, he exercised his cabinet making skills and also worked in construction. Leonard began making whirligigs (toys having a whirling motion) in the 1970s, inspired by personal experience and political and social themes.
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HomeNewsNationalMontgomery's Steven Reed makes History as City's first African American Mayor
Montgomery's Steven Reed makes History as City's first African American Mayor
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By Sara MacNeil, Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in municipal government for the first time in its 200-year history.
Steven Reed, the Montgomery County probate judge, on Tuesday beat television station owner David Woods in a runoff, gaining 32,918 votes to Woods' 16,010 votes with 47 precincts of 47 precincts, according to incomplete, unofficial returns. He will be sworn into office Nov. 12 at Montgomery City Hall.
Reed was the first African American elected as the county's probate judge in 2012. In 2015, he was the first probate judge in Alabama to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
"This election has never been about me," Steven Reed said in his victory speech. "This election has never been about just my ideas. It's been about all the hopes and dreams we have as individuals and collectively in this city."
Montgomery is one of only three cities in six Deep South states with a population of 100,000 or more that had not previously elected an African American as mayor. Beginning in the late 1960s, the election of first black mayors in Cleveland, Ohio, Newark, New Jersey, Detroit, Michigan, Gary, Indiana, and Los Angeles manifested black power, said Derryn Eroll Moten, chairman of Alabama State University's Department of History and Political Science.
The city being led by a black mayor is an achievement pushed forward by defining moments during the civil rights movement. The outcome of the Oct. 8, 2019 election is a product of the key figures who fought for civil rights from Alabama's capital like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
Civil rights leaders promised that an unencumbered black vote would bring real changes in American society," Moten said.
Moten said the election of Montgomery's first black mayor wouldn't be possible without groups that pushed for African American participation in local and state politics — the Women's Political Council, the Dallas County Voters League, Rufus Lewis' Citizens Club and the Alabama Democratic Conference.
Changes materialized in the South in the wake of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, with the election of Sheriff Lucius Amerson in Alabama and the election of Julian Bond to the Georgia House of Representatives. Both were elected in 1966 and became the first African Americans to hold these offices since Reconstruction.
Some say it's a paradox that Montgomery is both the birthplace of the civil rights movement and the cradle of the Confederacy. Others say it shows the resilience of African Americans that a city with a history of slavery, lynchings, white supremacy and Jim Crow laws elected its first black mayor Tuesday.
Montgomery is going through a noticeable transformation. Last year, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery to honor victims of lynching. The memorial is adjacent to the slave market site in Montgomery. It has brought several hundred thousand visitors here, many who wouldn't have visited the Deep South otherwise.
There are outside investors building downtown hotels for those visitors, and a new whitewater park and outdoor center is planned near downtown. The multimillion-dollar investment is in a near west side neighborhood inhabited predominantly by black families. It's one of the poorest areas, in need of development but often overlooked.
Before the election results were announced, local historian Richard Bailey predicted the voters would show Montgomery's progress since those days of racial terror. Reed's election is the latest example of the city reconciling its past and planning for a better future.
Now, it's the future that Reed must lead the city into.
Big changes are coming for Montgomery with the election of Reed and three new members on the City Council. The last three mayors held office for at least a decade. Mayor Todd Strange did not seek reelection.
"Montgomery is a city with limitless potential, a city that has no limits outside of our imagination," Reed said. "The only thing that can hold us back is our fears. When we come together there's nothing that we can't accomplish. "
Reed said he wants to invest in public transportation and address the issue of brown water and food deserts in some of Montgomery's communities. He talked about elevating the economy by being more receptive and supportive of young talent and making the off pace city more competitive. He mentioned working with real estate developers so artists can receive discounted rent for work space.
He said he was open to an ad valorem tax that would increase the millage rate for public education funds. He's repeatedly mentioned a full day, universal pre-K program. The program would guarantee children a spot regardless of their family's income as early childhood education can be expensive for low-income families.
Reed will be charged with overseeing the city's $260 million budget that was adopted Sept. 17. He'll deal with continued pressure on the internal service fund used to pay employee medical, dental and retirement benefits. Another issue he will take on is finding funds for salary increases for public safety employees to recruit, retain and address the issue of crime in the city.
"I'm aware that I didn't get here by myself. It took all of you on the record, off the record, on the table, under the table," Reed said. "All the things you have done to support this vision."
David Woods, Reed's opponent, told his supporters while conceding, "Going forward, we would have made Montgomery, the city of your dreams. And it is a great city. I think it'll still be a great city because the people who were here yesterday are here today, and they'll be here tomorrow. And as I continuously say, Montgomery is a special place populated by special people.
"And that hasn't changed. And we're just going to go forward and we'll try to support Steven Reed as mayor. And I just want to encourage everyone just to try to continue to work together to bring Montgomery into a unified city. You know, a unified Montgomery is a lot stronger than a divided Montgomery. And we just want to go forward in a sense of unity."
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