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POPSCarol Casey Blog is called Dear Baby, What I love about you! Author Carol Casey blogs on parenting & grandparenting issues..The Shame of Temporary Blog Abandonment..A month has gone by and all the great blogs I wrote in my head never made it to the computer. I just took another webinar on social media and blog abandonment was listed as a big NO-NO.
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POPS3,000-year-old oak barrel of butter found in Kildare bog
more (at source): The barrel is also split along the middle, which is common with utensils filled with butter found in the bogs. A conservator at the National Museum, Carol Smith, told that the butter expands over time, causing the split. The barrel is about three feet long and almost a foot wide, and weighs almost 35kgs, (77lbs). The butter has changed to white and is now adipocere, which is essentially animal fat, the same sort of substance that is found on well-preserved bodies of people or animals found in the bog. The two men put the barrel in the cab of their tractor and brought it back to their base. "We put it in a black plastic bag," Mr Fitzharris explained. And last Tuesday in the Conservation Department of the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks, the two men were reunited with the barrel in the company of Monasterevin man and one of the museum's keepers, Pádraig Clancy and conservator Carol Smith. Mr Clancy was contacted by Bord na Móna's archaeo
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POPSEFT Tapping Insiders Club The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is simple to use technique for stress, anxiety, trauma, abuse, hurt, depression, procrastination, anger, money issues and more. The Tapping Insiders Club is launching with a number of give aways to give you a taste of what the full club will offer.
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POPSDoctor critical of Baucus promotes single-payer plan The fight to get Congress to consider a single-payer health provider system is as much an indictment against the press as it is against Congress. Congress refuses to look at what many doctors say is better alternative because the private health insurance system would require too many reforms to make it more accessible to the very people they are supposed to be helping. Adopting single-payer system would cut too deeply into their piece of the pie, or possibly eliminate it. For the press to take its lead from the president and congress negates freedom of the press. Sure they have Freedom of the Press to print whatever they want, unfortunately they print only what they want. They don’t report everything the public wants to know about. This underscores my main complaint against the press.
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POPSMerlin Mann on the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking Related: the work of Carol Dweck at Stanford; John Scalzi's 10 things teenage writers should know about writing , which includes point 1, "The Bad News: Right Now, Your Writing Sucks" and point 2, "The Good News: It’s Okay That Your Writing Sucks Right Now."
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POPSYoung Single Missing Mother To further put pressure on the "someone" who must know what happened to Melanie Metheny, CUE Center from Wilmington, NC has erected a billboard with Melanie's information on it in hopes of finding a resolution to this case for her family. After erecting a billboard in Whiteville, NC, within 2 weeks there was a break in the case of Carol Dowless, someone came forward, and she was found after 3 years. We hope that the same answers can come for the Metheny family and that 3 children will have answers. http://www.findmelanie.com/ http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/metheny_melanie.html http://missingpiecesshow.homestead.com/MissingPiecesEpisode47Archive.html http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=12553 http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/CUE Center
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POPSNot Dead Yet Apparently people are actually starting to use the Segway. But does a couple really need three?
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POPSAnchorage can demand higher quality in affordable housing An editorial from the Anchorage Daily News. The houses look great, if a bit large. You might not know it, but garages are actually a new idea in Alaska, so that's nice that these include them! Right now, the Anchorage housing market is still insanely tight, as it was in the 1980s. As long as oil prices stay high, developers will only want to build low-quality, high-priced homes. Tons of speculation going on up North! But then, check out Cook Inlet Housing Authority's other projects. Everything is high quality.
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POPSMistakes Were Made, But Not by Me! (a book recomm) Dr. Tavris - is a social psychologist and author of Anger and The Mismeasure of Woman. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications. This lecture, entitled “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts,” is based on her new book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson.
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POPSodd: Irish Going Wilde in China. GBS FollowUp " THE CENTRE IS conceived as a nexus for information and cultural awareness within China itself as well as exchanges between China and Ireland. One of the driving forces behind the centre is Dr Jerusha McCormack, who formerly taught courses in American, Anglo-Irish and English literature at University College Dublin. She has just returned to China to teach for another semester alongside her colleague John Blair and Carol Taaffe, a doctoral student from Trinity College. "McCormack opened the centre with a paper on Oscar Wilde and the Daoist sage Zhuangzi (or Chuang Tsu, as he was known in Wilde's time). She discovered that Wilde read and reviewed the first complete English translation of Zhuangzi's work in 1890. "In fact, his reading of Zhuangzi transformed Wilde into the radical and brilliant thinker we know today: one need only look at The Soul of Man under Socialism or the essays in Intentions to see Zhuangzi's impact," says McCormack."
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POPSmy tahoe ad As part of General Motor's recent Tahoe ad competition, I made this spoof commercial to bring home to people that we are all responsible in some way in our daily lives for the war in Iraq, environmental degradation, etc...SUV drivers perhaps more than others, but we're all responsible. Here's John Woolman's quote to which I allude at the end: "May we look upon our treasures and the furniture of our houses and the garments in which we array ourselves and try whether the seeds of war have any nourishment in these our possessions, or not." (John Woolman was an 18th century Quaker who traveled across the American colonies advocating against conscription, military taxation, and especially slavery.) We won't have peace in the world until we realize our own complicity in war and work to eliminate it. PEACE NOW! carol
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POPSBeing labeled as 'Gifted' Undermine Personal Growth? I was quite a timid and shy boy,and later on for that I got called 'gifted' just because of the fact that I was concentrating on homework when other kids were doing what a 'normal' kid should do,that is playing outside.Now several years later just a few days ago I found myself still being called 'gifted' by my high school philosophy teacher,which could have possibly--according to this theory--resulted in my miserable failure today at the monthly tests,and I would say that the praise did do something to my ego which just arrogantly let the classes and real learning slip through. We made fun though,of me,saying things like I failed 'cause I was too talented by the dumb test standard,or 'being illogical is a sign of superb genius' etc. I gotta change my attitude,huh?
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