The Demise of Respect

http://www.cambiatapress.com/CVMIA/respect.html

pax,
Maggie

http://randomlight.blogspot.com

"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world. Indeed, it is the world." --LeGuin

Fwd: Science Policy Bootcamp, The Memoir, and Introducing OCW Scholar

"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world.  Indeed, it is the world."

--Ursula LeGuin

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In maggie's January 2011 Newsletter: New Courses | OCW Scholar | Updated Courses Highlights for High School | Views from Supporters New Courses 4.205 Analysis of Contemporary Architecture 7.345 Survival in Extreme Conditions: The Bacterial Stress Response 18.786 Topics in Algebraic Number Theory 21L.310 Bestsellers: The Memoir ESD.273J Logistics and Supply Chain Management ESD.712 Tools for Analysis: Design for Real Estate and Infrastructure Development ESD.864 Systems Modeling and Assessment for Policy ESD.934 Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector RES.STP.001 Science Policy Bootcamp SP.733 Special Topics at Edgerton Center: Developing World Prosthetics STS.025J Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective Introducing OCW Scholar - New Course Materials for Independent Learners OCW is pleased to announce - OCW Scholar - new courses designed for independent learners to gain proficiency in introductory college-level science, mathematics, technology and other foundational subjects. The courses are arranged in logical sequences and include a number of resources such as lecture videos, detailed course notes, self-assessment tools, help and homework videos, and solutions to exams and sample problems. OCW Scholar courses are also supported by OCW's pilot program with OpenStudy, which encourages fellow learners to collaborate and turn to each other for questions, answers and discussions. The first five courses in the OCW Scholar series are: 3.091SC Introduction to Solid State Chemistry 18.01SC Single Variable Calculus 18.02SC Multivariable Calculus 8.01SC Physics I: Classical Mechanics 8.02SC Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism We would love to hear what you think of these courses. Please send your feedback to: ocw-feedback@mit.edu. > Find out more about these courses Updated Courses 1.258J Public Transportation Systems 3.40J Physical Metallurgy 6.035 Computer Language Engineering 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science 14.126 Game Theory 15.083J Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 21H.968J Nature, Environment, and Empire ESD.77 Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization SP.725 D-Lab: Medical Technologies for the Developing World > See all courses > Subscribe to the RSS > Become an OCW Course Champion Highlights for High School To help celebrate MIT's sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary, the MIT Museum has collected quite a few objects and stories that highlight the Institute's history and innovation. One of the objects on display is the wrecking ball professor Walter Lewin has used in his classes to illustrate various laws of physics. See how he risks his life to explain the conservation of mechanical energy in the work, energy, power section of Highlights for High School. > See more video demonstrations Views from Supporters "I have decided to invest in MIT OCW as I think it's a beautiful and powerful concept. I have spent hundreds of hours learning learning neuroanatomy from Prof. Gerry Schneider's classes. As neuroscience is my own research area these courses have been invaluable to me. At this point, I've been become addicted to MIT OCW and have moved onto other subjects outside my primary research area, including genetics, computer programming and sociobiology. I am happy to be able to donate to the MIT OCW project, and I hope that it will continue to grow and receive the goodwill it deserves from the wider community." -Laurence, Student, Ireland > Read more Tell us what you think of OCW at ocw-feedback@mit.edu. We hope you were able to learn something new today, or refresh your skills from any of the courses in this month's newsletter. Please consider showing your support and help keep OCW going and growing. Donate today. OCW is grateful for the support of: Stay connected to OCW. MIT NOTICE > Privacy and Terms of Use MIT OpenCourseWare is located at: One Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

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Independent voter's take on Healthcare Reform

There are two politically-active people in my neighborhood whom I really trust and appreciate.  This letter is from one of them.

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Before responding to Guthrie's survey on healthcare reform, you may be interested in reading this. It was sent to me by an independent voter.

 

The vote is in.  You now know who is for corporate interests (anti-American people)  and who is for the people.  All Republicans and 3 democrats voted to remove the following benefits from the American people. •Insurers are prohibited from taking away your coverage based on an unintentional mistake on an application •Families are protected from having their coverage capped by lifetime dollar limits on benefits if someone is in an accident or becomes sick •Insurers are required to spend at least 80% of your premium dollars on health care and quality improvement, instead of insurance company administrative costs, big salaries, or marketing •Insurers must submit premium rate increases of 10% or higher to states (and in some cases the federal government) to determine whether they are reasonable •Insurers can no longer deny coverage to children who have pre-existing conditions ranging from cancer to asthma •Parents can keep children under the age of 26 as dependents on their plan, if they do not have coverage of their own •Small business owners can better compete by providing tax credits and by increasing their purchasing power through competitive private health insurance Exchanges •The life of the Medicare Trust fund will be extended to at least 2029, a 12-year extension as a result of reducing waste, fraud and abuse, and slowing cost growth in Medicare. This will provide you with future cost savings on your premiums and coinsurance. •Medicare will take strong action to reduce payment errors, waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare. The President has made a commitment to reduce Medicare fraud 50 percent by 2012. The Affordable Care Act makes an historic, ten-year, $350 million investment to prevent, detect and fight fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program—including criminal efforts to exploit the new law. Visit Stop Medicare Fraud for more information. •In 2011, if you hit the prescription drug donut hole, you will get a 50% discount on brand-name drugs. Every year after, you will pay less for your prescription drugs in the donut hole until there's complete coverage of the donut hole in 2020. Between now and then, you will get continuous Medicare coverage for your prescription drugs. •The coordination of care between doctors and the overall quality of care will improve so that you will be less likely to experience preventable and harmful re-admissions to the hospital for the same condition. •Hospitals will have new, strong incentives to improve your quality of care. •Starting in 2014, the Affordable Care Act offers additional protections for Medicare Advantage Plan members by taking strong steps that limit the amount these plans spend on administrative costs, insurance company profits, and things other than health care. •Starting in 2014 if your employer doesn't offer insurance, you will be able to buy insurance directly in an Exchange -- a new transparent and competitive insurance marketplace where individuals and small businesses can buy affordable and qualified health benefit plans.  Exchanges will offer you a choice of health plans that meet certain benefits and cost standards.  Starting in 2014, Members of Congress will be getting their health care insurance through Exchanges, and you will be able buy your insurance through Exchanges too.   •Reduction of $138 billion in the federal deficit over a 10 year peroid, according to the Congressional Budget Office.  It will cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the second ten year period.  Repealing the act will increase the federal deficit by $230 billion over 10 years. •And much more.  Email me if you want more... Only 18% of the American people favored repeal of the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act.  And the Republican party is trying to repeal it.  What is wrong with this picture?  And to think we Americans gave the party of hate, hostility, fear, greed and deceit ideology the control of the House.  What does this tell us about Americans?  Are we totally oblivious of what is going on in America?  The Republicans just voted to end your health care rights but to keep the same benefits for themselves.  Are we nuts?   Why would Americans favor a party or ideology that is against humanitarian causes?  The Republican party is against humanitarian causes.  They prove it time and time again.  They are against  those that are not extremely wealthy and expect the remainder of Americans to  serve their needs.  They voted no to health care for Americans, but get to keep their government health care.  Voted to not extend unemployment benefits for those in need.  Voted no to Wall Street Reform.  Voted no to the Consumer Protection Act.  They voted  no to saving jobs for policemen, firemen and teachers.  They forced big tax cuts for the billionaires (causing tremendous debt), using tax cuts for the middle class as hostage.   I can go on and on with their anti-American actions.  It is so easy to understand their motive and for the sake of me I can't understand how they get any support from a kind and decent American.  Well, yes I can.  It's money,  I got mine and screw you attitude and many Americans are just uninformed. Please tell me where I am wrong.  I would love to be wrong.  If you can't tell me where I am wrong, remember to vote every congress person out of office that voted for the repeal of the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act whether Democrat or Republican.  I will not forget. Repeal of the Patient Protections And Affordable Care Act will not be repealed.   It will not get by the Senate and our President would veto it anyway, but you must remember this House vote in the election of 2012.  Always be for the people. http://www.healthcare.gov/index.html

Logged Those  blinded by fear, beliefs, feelings and emotions will not see the truth. You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created your problems. Doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity. Always be for the people..... the advancement of all people .... always vote against the party that ignores the less fortunate.  (Poor and Middle Class)     RAY BEAUFAIT INDEPENDENT USA - SOUTHERN INDIANA BEAU1943@AOL.COM Beau

Fwd: [MaxFit Ladies] New doc: Paleo Recipes-mmm mmm good

Christina Childers Guy posted in MaxFit Ladies. Christina Childers Guy created a doc "Paleo Recipes-mmm mmm good". here are a few recipes my friends and I have tried and we love. I will try and post more in here like once a week or something. The Paleo Diet Cook Book is the best, by Dr. Loren Cordain. I cook out of it everyday. Some of the ingredients to start out can be expensive, but I usually make enough to eat on it for a couple of days. let me know what you think   Pumpkin Paleo Pancakes   2 eggs 1/2 cup canned pumpkin 1/2 cup almond butter 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp nutmeg -change from original post - did it by mistake and liked it more :) 1 tablespoon Agave   2 tablespoons chopped pecans - topping 2 tablespoon real maple syrup - topping   Coconut oil - for the pan     Mix everything up real good - sometimes that nut butter is clumpy - and make pancakes as usual (except you're gonna use the coconut oil in the pan) and add the pecans and maple syrup at the end. The recipe above makes 2 good size pancakes.       GREEN EGGS AND HAM Ingredients: • 1/2 Avocado • 3 hard-boiled eggs • juice from a fresh lemon • Sea Salt & Fresh Ground Black Pepper, to taste • Bacon crumbles (I used Turkey Bacon just b/c I had it and needed to use it up, will make without next time) Instructions • Cook up some bacon so it's nice and crispy. Set aside. • Mash the avocado in the bottom of your bowl. (We love our avocado tool from Williams Sonoma.) • Juice a fresh lemon over the mashed avocado. • Sprinkle with a little sea salt & fresh ground black pepper. • Mash it all together. • Peel & chop your hard-boiled eggs. (I like to chop each egg in quarters.) • Add the chopped egg to the bowl. • Sprinkle a little more lemon juice, sea salt, and pepper atop the eggs. • Combine everything together. • Garnish with some cooked bacon. • Eat. Enjoy :)         BLASTED BROCCOLI Ingredients • 1 ¼ pounds Broccoli crowns, cut into florets (about 8 cups) • 3 ½ tablespoons olive oil, divided • 2 garlic cloves, minced • Large pinch of dried crushed red pepper • Sea Salt, to taste • Fresh Ground Black Pepper, to taste Instructions • Preheat oven to 450. • Toss broccoli and 3 tablespoons Olive Oil in large bowl to coat. • Sprinkle with Sea Salt and Pepper. • Transfer to rimmed baking sheet. • Roast 15 minutes. • Stir remaining ½ tablespoon Olive Oil, Garlic, and Red Pepper in a small bowl. • Drizzle Garlic mixture over broccoli; toss to coat. • Roast until broccoli is beginning to brown, about 8 minutes longer. • Season to taste with Sea Salt & Pepper. • Serve, and eat, immediately. Spaghetti Squash Italiano you need a spaghetti squash, 1 tbs of fresh basil and oregano, 2tbs chopped cilantro, 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil (evoo) and 1 tbs flax seed oil (found in the organic vitamin section). I also add a jar of hunts tomato sauce (unsalted) so that its more like spaghetti to me. I just heat it and put it on top at the end.    Spaghetti Squash Italiano preheat oven to 425. Cut sp. squash in half long ways, and gut. Fill large glass dish with 1 inch of water, place halves down (cut side down) and bake for 45 mintues (originally i tried this in the microwave and mine came out crunch too-in the oven it didnt) when you grab the sp. squash and the sides cave in (please use an oven mitt-no burning your bodies) then its done. You scrap it out and put it in a bowl. No in a small bowl mix basil, oregano cilantro and the oils with the tomato sauce (you can warm it if you like) stir well and then pour over squash. Sometimes when I do this, I also add turkey meat to it. Let me know how it goes. I like it because the squash is semi sweet. Just dont expect it to taste like spaghetti cause then you will be disappointed.     View doc View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Read aloud

Read-aloud

Cheat day damage control

ALA, Garlic
Green Tea
Espresso
Grapefruit Juice
Cinnamon
GLUT-4 exercises
Tomato Salsa (’nuff said)

MaxFit Bootcamp Workout

YouTube
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"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world.  Indeed, it is the world."

--Ursula LeGuin

Savannah VGW

Savannah VGW

Student Pilot Journal

http://www.aircenter1.com/2/previous/2.html

She working with Eddie at Air Center One. Good writer.

Martin Luther King chant

Martin Luther King, Martin
Luther King, Martin Luther
K-I-N-G, Martin Luther King!

(repeat)

Solo 1: Justice!
Solo 2: Equal rights!
Solo 3: Liberty and free-dom!
All: He had a dream that "We shall overcome."

(repeat)

Dunkin,' dunkin' Doughnuts

Dunkin, dunkin doughnuts,
Buy 'em from a shop.
Fill me fulla sugar carbs
An' luv me til I pop!     (eyes roll on "luv")

Americanized verse for Orff Schulwerk song "Davy, Davy Dumpling."

Tune:
Sol sol la la sol-- mi--
Sol sol la la sol-- -- --
Sol sol la la sol sol mi mi
Sol sol sol sol high-do !

Body accompaniment:
Pat(knees), pat, pat, pat,
Pat, pat, pat, clap!
Pat, pat, pat, pat,
Pat, pat, pat, clap!

Progression to instruments:
Sit in a circle, have instruments to pass around. The group will maintain the body motions and singing, replacing the movements with instruments as they become available. Distribute one instrument or instrument type at a time. Pat becomes a drum beat or C-G on bells/xylophone. Clap becomes a cymbal crash or triangle tap. At the end of the song, maintain the rhythm with finger snaps as instruments are passed to the next person around the circle.

AOPA Online: Elektra One rolls out

AOPA Online: Elektra One rolls out

Young conductor, musical joy.

http://www.choralnet.org/268945.html

Pigs-in-Training

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7JQYWdFzZU

pax,
Maggie

http://randomlight.blogspot.com

"The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world. Indeed, it is the world." --LeGuin

"bridge to nowhere" Construction project II

Chrissie's amazing pond creation.

New year's hike--the most amazing staff