The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. ~George Sheehan
Well, it seems that my friends Madison Moross and Phannie Haver of the Radiance Movement have made a video about their Studio! I'll let the video below tell you What Radiance movement is all about, but I will say that If you're living in the L.A. area, and you or someone in your family would like to learn to dance, then please, go down to Santa Monica and check them out!
And, If anybody out there would like to send them a donation, I know they would greatly appreciate it!
For More information about Radiance Movement, or to make a donation, check out the links below.
Jamabi: View Radiance Movement:
Radiance Movement, Santa Monica, Ca.
Radiance Movement on Facebook
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Recipie of the day: From Allrecipies.com
The Best Meatloaf Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 6 servings
Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 egg
1 dash ground black pepper
1 cup soft bread crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup steak sauce, (e.g. Heinz 57)
1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup diced green bell pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
In a mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, salt, egg, black pepper and bread crumbs. Pour in the milk, 3 tablespoons of the steak sauce, onion and green bell pepper.
Place the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and shape into a loaf. Brush the top with the remaining steak sauce.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until done. Allow to stand 5 minutes before slicing.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 286 | Total Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 105mg
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Original Recipe Yield 6 servings
Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 egg
1 dash ground black pepper
1 cup soft bread crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup steak sauce, (e.g. Heinz 57)
1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup diced green bell pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
In a mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, salt, egg, black pepper and bread crumbs. Pour in the milk, 3 tablespoons of the steak sauce, onion and green bell pepper.
Place the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and shape into a loaf. Brush the top with the remaining steak sauce.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until done. Allow to stand 5 minutes before slicing.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 286 | Total Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 105mg
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OH SHIT! IT LOOKS LIKE I GOT PUNKED!!!!!
I put up a short post yesterday about a tatto artist being sued by his ex... Well, it turns out that it was fake. Click on the link below and read all about it...
That Viral Story About The Poor Woman Stuck With The Poop Tattoo? Sorry, It’s Totally Full Of Crap. | The Smoking Gun:
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That Viral Story About The Poor Woman Stuck With The Poop Tattoo? Sorry, It’s Totally Full Of Crap. | The Smoking Gun:
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Occupy L.A. protesters gone, so judge rejects restraining order - latimes.com
Occupy L.A. protesters gone, so judge rejects restraining order - latimes.com:
November 30, 2011
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected as "moot" the request by Occupy L.A. demonstrators for a temporary restraining order to prevent police from disbanding their encampment on the grounds of City Hall.
The protesters' petition for court intervention was e-filed late Tuesday and didn't reach the chambers of U.S. District Judge George H. King until 8 a.m. Wednesday, the judge said in denying the request.
"In the interim, all participants in Occupy Los Angeles were removed from City Hall park by the Los Angeles Police Department," King said in the one-page order. "Given last night's events, plaintiffs' requested relief is no longer applicable. Accordingly, plaintiffs' application is hereby denied as moot."
Occupy L.A.: 360° photos | Photos | Video | Live webcam
About 300 people were arrested early Wednesday and police evicted protesters from the tent city that had been set up outside City Hall for nearly two months.
A lawyer for the protesters, Carol Sobel, did not immediately return a phone call asking why the petition was filed overnight, instead of accompanying the group's Monday lawsuit alleging that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deadline for dismantling the camp was a violation of protesters' free-speech rights.
Sobel said Tuesday that the court wasn't obliged to respond expeditiously to the constitutional rights complaint.
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November 30, 2011
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected as "moot" the request by Occupy L.A. demonstrators for a temporary restraining order to prevent police from disbanding their encampment on the grounds of City Hall.
The protesters' petition for court intervention was e-filed late Tuesday and didn't reach the chambers of U.S. District Judge George H. King until 8 a.m. Wednesday, the judge said in denying the request.
"In the interim, all participants in Occupy Los Angeles were removed from City Hall park by the Los Angeles Police Department," King said in the one-page order. "Given last night's events, plaintiffs' requested relief is no longer applicable. Accordingly, plaintiffs' application is hereby denied as moot."
Occupy L.A.: 360° photos | Photos | Video | Live webcam
About 300 people were arrested early Wednesday and police evicted protesters from the tent city that had been set up outside City Hall for nearly two months.
A lawyer for the protesters, Carol Sobel, did not immediately return a phone call asking why the petition was filed overnight, instead of accompanying the group's Monday lawsuit alleging that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deadline for dismantling the camp was a violation of protesters' free-speech rights.
Sobel said Tuesday that the court wasn't obliged to respond expeditiously to the constitutional rights complaint.
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The Latest from The Raw Story
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Cops, movers refuse to foreclose on 103-year-old woman | The Raw Story:
By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In a heart warming story just in time for the holiday season, a 103-year-old woman in Atlanta avoided foreclosure of her home Tuesday afternoon, thanks entirely to the kindness of strangers.
According to WSBTV Atlanta, movers hired by Deutsche Bank AG and police were ready to go through with the bank’s request to remove Vita Lee and her 83-year old daughter from their home.
However, when they first got sight of Lee, they had a change of heart and declined to go through with it.
“I saw the sheriffs who came to put them out, take off and leave,” community activist Michael Langford said to WSBTV. ”I gave all glory to God.”
Lee, whose daughter was rushed to the hospital to the hospital from the stress of possibly facing an eviction, was relieved that the movers and police had compassion for their condition.
“I know God said when things go wrong, he’ll make it right,” she said.
And Lee decided to give Deutsche Bank a message if they pondered to still go through on the foreclosure.
“Please don’t come in and disturb me no more,” she reportedly said. “When I’m gone you all can come back and do whatever they want to.”
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank this past May for $1 billion. The bank is being sued for “repeatedly lying” to the Federal Housing Administration about mortgages issued by a company called Mortgage IT Inc, which it purchased in 2007. The bank assurred regulators that the loans met federal standards, but taxpayers ended up paying out hundreds of millions in insurance claims when the majority of the company’s borrowers defaulted.
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Cops, movers refuse to foreclose on 103-year-old woman | The Raw Story:
By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In a heart warming story just in time for the holiday season, a 103-year-old woman in Atlanta avoided foreclosure of her home Tuesday afternoon, thanks entirely to the kindness of strangers.
According to WSBTV Atlanta, movers hired by Deutsche Bank AG and police were ready to go through with the bank’s request to remove Vita Lee and her 83-year old daughter from their home.
However, when they first got sight of Lee, they had a change of heart and declined to go through with it.
“I saw the sheriffs who came to put them out, take off and leave,” community activist Michael Langford said to WSBTV. ”I gave all glory to God.”
Lee, whose daughter was rushed to the hospital to the hospital from the stress of possibly facing an eviction, was relieved that the movers and police had compassion for their condition.
“I know God said when things go wrong, he’ll make it right,” she said.
And Lee decided to give Deutsche Bank a message if they pondered to still go through on the foreclosure.
“Please don’t come in and disturb me no more,” she reportedly said. “When I’m gone you all can come back and do whatever they want to.”
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank this past May for $1 billion. The bank is being sued for “repeatedly lying” to the Federal Housing Administration about mortgages issued by a company called Mortgage IT Inc, which it purchased in 2007. The bank assurred regulators that the loans met federal standards, but taxpayers ended up paying out hundreds of millions in insurance claims when the majority of the company’s borrowers defaulted.
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HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!
The way to express our gratitude for life is by being truly alive, not hiding from life in a corner or watching life pass us by.
~don Miguel Ruiz
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Caramelized Baked Chicken Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Caramelized Baked Chicken Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 6 servings
Ingredients
3 pounds chicken wings
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 cup honey
1 clove garlic, minced
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Mix together the oil, soy sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Pour over the chicken.
Bake in preheated oven for one hour, or until sauce is caramelized.
Footnotes
British English recipe for Caramelised Chicken Wings.
French recipe for Ailes de poulet caramelisees.
Australian recipe for Caramelised Chicken Wings.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 393 | Total Fat: 15.6g | Cholesterol: 48mg
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Original Recipe Yield 6 servings
Ingredients
3 pounds chicken wings
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 cup honey
1 clove garlic, minced
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Mix together the oil, soy sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Pour over the chicken.
Bake in preheated oven for one hour, or until sauce is caramelized.
Footnotes
British English recipe for Caramelised Chicken Wings.
French recipe for Ailes de poulet caramelisees.
Australian recipe for Caramelised Chicken Wings.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 393 | Total Fat: 15.6g | Cholesterol: 48mg
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Well Damn.
I'm not a vindictive person (well, not really), but that's what I call Revenge...
click on the link below to see what I mean.
Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was...:
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click on the link below to see what I mean.
Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was...:
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Monday, November 28, 2011
MARTIAL ARTS I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT - HARIMAU SILAT
Harimau means "tiger" in Bahasa Indonesia. Pencak Silat Harimau comes from the Minangkabau tribe in the western part of the island of Sumatra.
Although the harimau exponent can fight in all ranges of fighting, this form of silat is very famous for it's groundfighting tactics. So famous in fact, that many silat styles have incorporated these tactics in thier repetoire to some degree, including the 2 forms I practice.
On the ground, the Harimau exponent has five foundations-his two feet, two hands, and his back which can be an advantage against his opponent who only has 2 feet for standing. In executing the ground tactics, the Harimau fighter find his legs most important.
The Harimau fighter has very powerful legs. This style is very deceptive, and many an upright attacker is surprised by quick defeat. The ground-hugging Harimau fighter is evasive and clever. The speed and power of his legs and feet can demolish an ordinary upright defense.
Much of what I wrote here is from the You Tube playlist I made about Harimau style Silat, which you can find in the sidebar, or you can just click HERE.
In addition to the playlist, I posted 2 videos below from You Tube which explains in detail what Silat harimau is all about. This first video is of Pendekar Richard Crabbe De - Bordes, who talks about his style of Harimau.
His Harimau system comes the Hanafi family, and was predominantly introduced and propagated by Pendekar Suchi Guru Besar Richard Crabbes de Bordes and his students.
Silat as propagated by the Hanafi family is the legacy of a warrior tradition tracing its ancestry back to the sixteenth century and the great warrior and founder of the clan Lubuk Ngantungan, Poyen Lebeh
Pendekar Suchi Guru Besar Richard Crabbe de Bordes, nicknamed "Machan Hitan", the "Black Tiger", places heavy emphasis in his instruction on Bela Diri (self defence). Continuing the warrior tradition of which he is a part, there are no sporting applications to the Silat that he teaches.
For more information about this school of Harimau Silat, check out Pendekar De - bourdes website at www.de-bordes-fcs.com. Pendekar De - Bourdes's student Guru Scott McQuaid also has a great web site, www.blacktrianglesilat.com.
The second video clip is an episode of Pendekar, a documentary type show featuring styles of Pencak Silat on Indonesian Television. This particular episode features the Silat Harimau school of Edwel Yusri datuk rajo gampo alam, a famous Harimau Silat teacher who has taught and demonstrated all over europe, and was the fight choreographer for the 2009 Action Movie MERANTAU, starring Iko Uwais.
Herman Cain Releases 9-9-9, The Movie | Addicting Info
Herman Cain's policies are getting stranger and stranger... Anyway, click on the link below to check it out.
Herman Cain Releases 9-9-9, The Movie | Addicting Info:
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Herman Cain Releases 9-9-9, The Movie | Addicting Info:
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Today's message from your Ministry of Wake The Fuck Up!
Someone posted this video on Facebook, and I thought I'd post it here.
Video Description from You Tube:
Uploaded by stefbot on May 27, 2011
Article: http://www.fdrurl.com/FP1_Article
Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FP1_Podcast
An article for the premier issue of the new e-zine Freedom's Phoenix by Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world - http://www.freedomainradio.com
Blazing another trail to tomorrow, FreedomsPhoenix is helping to launch the voluntarist movement into the future with Digital Publishing.
Original content on your Tablet, Smart Phone, Book Reader allows you to interface with your favorite writers and fellow readers on the go with a downloaded eZine with content unlike any other Magazine.
FreedomsPhoenix is taking a giant leap into the future,... and government is not invited,... but you are.
Here is a list of writers:
Stefan Molyneux
Jacob Hornberger
Walter Block
Ron Paul
Boston T. Party
Simon Black
Charles Goyette
Thomas Woods
Doug Casey
Larken Rose
Glenn Jacobs
Vin Suprynowicz
Butler Shaffer
Anthony Gregory
Angela Keaton
William Buppert
Marc Victor
Ian Freeman
Powell Gammill (Senior Editor FreedomsPhoenix)
Ernest Hancock
Josh Manuel (RonPaulForums)
Terry Bressi (checkpointusa.org)
Michael Nystrom (DailyPaul.com)
Brock Lorber (alternative currency article)
The Future of Freedom is the Truth of the Past
Lessons in Propaganda from Government Education
By Stefan Molyneux, MA
Host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world.
http://www.freedomainradio.com
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln
Introduction
Try asking a web site for directions without typing in a starting point. The web page will rightly tell you that this is impossible. If you are lost on the ocean, you cannot plot a course for Tahiti.
In a famous chapter from George Orwell's "1984," Winston Smith tries asking an old man what life was like before socialism, but can extract only scraps and faded scenes from the ancient man's broken recollections.
In order to seal you in slavery, your government must pretend that you were never free. It must shatter your true history into facile propaganda, into fairy tales that endlessly repeat the fantasy that your political leaders rescued you from the scary chaos of liberty.
The murder of memory is the first crime of the State -- and the source and sustenance of all its other crimes.
Why do we believe this propaganda, these fairy tales?
I submit that it is to avoid the knowledge of our own enslavement.
Most people's beliefs are ex post facto justifications for the after-effects of brute power. Almost no one wants to pay taxes -- otherwise, why force them? -- but because we are compelled to, we find solace in pretending that our tax money does great and necessary good in society -- and comfort ourselves with the lie that without taxes, charity, benevolence and civilization itself would collapse...
Category:
Education
Tags:
education indoctrination literacy illiteracy philosophy school teacher lesson student learn conspiracy students teachers tutorial
License:
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Video Description from You Tube:
Uploaded by stefbot on May 27, 2011
Article: http://www.fdrurl.com/FP1_Article
Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FP1_Podcast
An article for the premier issue of the new e-zine Freedom's Phoenix by Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world - http://www.freedomainradio.com
Blazing another trail to tomorrow, FreedomsPhoenix is helping to launch the voluntarist movement into the future with Digital Publishing.
Original content on your Tablet, Smart Phone, Book Reader allows you to interface with your favorite writers and fellow readers on the go with a downloaded eZine with content unlike any other Magazine.
FreedomsPhoenix is taking a giant leap into the future,... and government is not invited,... but you are.
Here is a list of writers:
Stefan Molyneux
Jacob Hornberger
Walter Block
Ron Paul
Boston T. Party
Simon Black
Charles Goyette
Thomas Woods
Doug Casey
Larken Rose
Glenn Jacobs
Vin Suprynowicz
Butler Shaffer
Anthony Gregory
Angela Keaton
William Buppert
Marc Victor
Ian Freeman
Powell Gammill (Senior Editor FreedomsPhoenix)
Ernest Hancock
Josh Manuel (RonPaulForums)
Terry Bressi (checkpointusa.org)
Michael Nystrom (DailyPaul.com)
Brock Lorber (alternative currency article)
The Future of Freedom is the Truth of the Past
Lessons in Propaganda from Government Education
By Stefan Molyneux, MA
Host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world.
http://www.freedomainradio.com
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln
Introduction
Try asking a web site for directions without typing in a starting point. The web page will rightly tell you that this is impossible. If you are lost on the ocean, you cannot plot a course for Tahiti.
In a famous chapter from George Orwell's "1984," Winston Smith tries asking an old man what life was like before socialism, but can extract only scraps and faded scenes from the ancient man's broken recollections.
In order to seal you in slavery, your government must pretend that you were never free. It must shatter your true history into facile propaganda, into fairy tales that endlessly repeat the fantasy that your political leaders rescued you from the scary chaos of liberty.
The murder of memory is the first crime of the State -- and the source and sustenance of all its other crimes.
Why do we believe this propaganda, these fairy tales?
I submit that it is to avoid the knowledge of our own enslavement.
Most people's beliefs are ex post facto justifications for the after-effects of brute power. Almost no one wants to pay taxes -- otherwise, why force them? -- but because we are compelled to, we find solace in pretending that our tax money does great and necessary good in society -- and comfort ourselves with the lie that without taxes, charity, benevolence and civilization itself would collapse...
Category:
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HAPPY MONDAY!!!
Whoever controls the belief, controls the dream. When the dreamer finally controls the dream, the dream can become a masterpiece of art.
~don Miguel Ruiz
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Anthony de Mello - Awareness pt.13a awareness w/o evaluation
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Anthony de Mello - Awareness pt.13 awareness without evaluating everything (part 1 of 2). see all videos in order at http://awareness.tk
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Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds
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Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds:
First Posted: 11/27/11 08:58 AM ET Updated: 11/27/11 09:01 AM ET
As cities around the country have swept Occupy Wall Street camps from their plazas and parks in recent weeks, a number of mayors and city officials have argued that by providing shelter to the homeless, the camps are endangering the public and even the homeless themselves.
Yet in many of those cities, services for the homeless are severely underfunded. The cities have spent millions of dollars to police and evict the protesters, but they've been shutting down shelters and enacting laws to prohibit homeless from sleeping overnight in public.
In Oakland, Atlanta, Denver and Portland, Ore., there are at least two homeless people for every open bed in the shelter system, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chapel Hill, N.C. -- two other cities that have evicted protesters from their encampments -- things are better but far from ideal. In Chapel Hill, according to the HUD study, there are 121 beds for 135 homeless people, and in Salt Lake City, 1,627 for 1,968.
Heather Maria Johnson, a civil rights attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, said most cities in the U.S. lack adequate affordable housing, emergency or transitional housing, or other social services for people who are either homeless or are in danger of losing their homes. "This was true before the current economic crisis and remains true today, particularly in areas that have cut social services due to budget concerns," Johnson said.
According to HUD, job losses and foreclosures helped push more than 170,000 families into homeless shelters in 2009, up nearly 30 percent from 2007. Of course, those are some of the same problems that have inspired people to protest.
ATLANTA
After Atlanta's Mayor Kasim Reed forcibly evacuated Occupy Atlanta from a public park, protesters moved into a homeless shelter. As it turned out, the shelter had been tied up in court battles with the city for a few years, and the city had planned to close it. The shelter was scheduled to be shut down a few days after the protesters moved in, but that date has since been postponed indefinitely and protesters have taken up the shelter's cause.
Local stakeholders -- including city officials, the local business development group Central Atlanta Progress, Emory University and other business interests -- have been trying to boot the Task Force homeless shelter from its home as it sits on a valuable piece of real estate.
The fight between the shelter and its opponents goes back at least to 2008. In a recent court case, the task force that runs the shelter contended that Emory University had been trying to rid their area of the shelter for years. Emails released in court show that officials from Emory approached major private donors to the task force to make their case against the shelter, and that they talked with investors about foreclosing on it. And in recent weeks, the shelter has fought the city to prevent local authorities from turning off their water.
Some point out that the media has been paying more attention to the shelter's troubles since the protesters' arrival. Earlier this month, the county told a local TV station that tuberculosis had broken out at the shelter. Protesters told HuffPost that they thought these claims were bogus.
One protester, Tim Franzen, said he'd been living in the shelter for weeks and had yet to see signs of anyone getting sick. He described the claim as an attempt to smear the Occupation and the shelter.
So did Shab Bashiri, another protester. "The city wants to shut it down with absolutely no alternative," she said. According to Bashiri, the protesters had not only been "occupying" the shelter but had also been sleeping outdoors in areas where homeless people stay.
The shelter is the largest in the southeast, housing more than 1,000 people on some nights. "The city doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with 1,000 people," Franzen said. "So where would they go? We don't know."
Atlanta has been flagged as one of the worst cities nationally in which to be homeless and has the widest income gap between rich and poor.
Many protesters argue that the city should fund the shelter with the money they've spent on dealing with the protest. The mayor's office reports they spent nearly $500,000 in just two weeks dealing with Occupy Atlanta, most of it on overtime pay for police. Maurice Lattimore, who helps run the shelter, said $500,000 could fund the shelter easily for two years. He noted that the city hasn't put any money into the shelter's coffers since the court battle began three years ago.
The Atlanta mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment.
PORTLAND
In Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam Adams said despite his support for the Occupy movement's principles, the Portland camp was getting dangerous. After the eviction, the mayor pointed to the presence of homeless people and people with mental illnesses. Nearby businesses had been pressuring him with claims that homeless residents were scaring away customers.
Judas James, a member of Occupy Portland who is himself homeless, said the protesters have tried to help homeless people who sought shelter with them by providing food, medical attention, tents and blankets.
"If there was money there for them, these people could be taken care of," James said. "It's hard because we want everyone to be safe, and we just don't have the resources to help them with it."
If the city were to take care of them using the money they've spent to pull down tents and clean up the park, it would amount to nearly $850,000, according to data from Mayor Adams' office.
Adams has acknowledged that the Occupy Portland movement has highlighted the city's homelessness problem, and said he supports a lot of the protesters' positions.
The city has invested $13 million towards relieving homelessness in the past five years and has devised a long-term plan to combat the problem. Yet, in an attempt to climb out of a budget hole of over $3 billion, Oregon has slashed its funding for social services by more than $73 million.
Amy Ruiz, a spokesperson for the mayor, wrote in an email that "providing social services and maintaining peace are not mutually exclusive. The City must, and does, do both." Ruiz pointed out that several nonprofit organizations, which receive money from state and local governments, had moved several dozen homeless people out of the Occupy camps into shelters, motels and other "lower-impact, and safer, camps."
Ruiz said more than 20 outreach workers representing at least seven organizations reached out to the homeless at the encampments before shutting them down.
Dennis Lundberg, an outreach worker, told Adams that the camp was doing more harm than good to Portland's street youth, who preferred the camp to the shelter system because they could reap the benefits of free meals without submitting to the sorts of rules imposed by the shelters.
DENVER
In October, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock came out in support of new legislation that would ban homeless people from sleeping in public places overnight.
"We only have one downtown," Hancock said at the time. "We cannot afford to lose our city core. If people don't feel safe going downtown, that is a threat to the very vitality of our downtown and our city."
A couple weeks later, Hancock said he didn't want to allow protesters to set the precedent for sleeping in tents in the public parks. This was a prelude to Denver sending in riot police to evict the protesters.
Johnson, the civil rights attorney with the NLCHP, said the organization has noticed a nationwide increase in laws that criminalize homelessness, including laws that prohibit sleeping, sitting or storing belongings in public spaces, even when there is insufficient shelter space.
She argued these criminalization measures cost far more to municipalities than providing adequate shelter to people. Citing studies conducted in 13 cities and states, she said that it costs on average $87 per day to jail someone, compared to $28 per day to house them in a shelter. "With state and local budgets stretched to their limit, it's profoundly irrational to waste taxpayer money on these expensive criminalization policies," she said.
According to Revekka Balancier, the communications director of the homeless outreach program Denver Road Home, the city's homeless shelters are at capacity every night, and many have long waiting lists. And she noted that the city's homeless population is growing. A report from 2009 found that 10,604 people were living on the streets and in area shelters on the night the survey was conducted. By 2011, that number had increased by 6.5 percent, to 11,377.
A spokesperson for the mayor said that the city works with Denver Road Home and other organizations to "comprehensively address the needs of our homeless population."
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Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds:
First Posted: 11/27/11 08:58 AM ET Updated: 11/27/11 09:01 AM ET
As cities around the country have swept Occupy Wall Street camps from their plazas and parks in recent weeks, a number of mayors and city officials have argued that by providing shelter to the homeless, the camps are endangering the public and even the homeless themselves.
Yet in many of those cities, services for the homeless are severely underfunded. The cities have spent millions of dollars to police and evict the protesters, but they've been shutting down shelters and enacting laws to prohibit homeless from sleeping overnight in public.
In Oakland, Atlanta, Denver and Portland, Ore., there are at least two homeless people for every open bed in the shelter system, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chapel Hill, N.C. -- two other cities that have evicted protesters from their encampments -- things are better but far from ideal. In Chapel Hill, according to the HUD study, there are 121 beds for 135 homeless people, and in Salt Lake City, 1,627 for 1,968.
Heather Maria Johnson, a civil rights attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, said most cities in the U.S. lack adequate affordable housing, emergency or transitional housing, or other social services for people who are either homeless or are in danger of losing their homes. "This was true before the current economic crisis and remains true today, particularly in areas that have cut social services due to budget concerns," Johnson said.
According to HUD, job losses and foreclosures helped push more than 170,000 families into homeless shelters in 2009, up nearly 30 percent from 2007. Of course, those are some of the same problems that have inspired people to protest.
ATLANTA
After Atlanta's Mayor Kasim Reed forcibly evacuated Occupy Atlanta from a public park, protesters moved into a homeless shelter. As it turned out, the shelter had been tied up in court battles with the city for a few years, and the city had planned to close it. The shelter was scheduled to be shut down a few days after the protesters moved in, but that date has since been postponed indefinitely and protesters have taken up the shelter's cause.
Local stakeholders -- including city officials, the local business development group Central Atlanta Progress, Emory University and other business interests -- have been trying to boot the Task Force homeless shelter from its home as it sits on a valuable piece of real estate.
The fight between the shelter and its opponents goes back at least to 2008. In a recent court case, the task force that runs the shelter contended that Emory University had been trying to rid their area of the shelter for years. Emails released in court show that officials from Emory approached major private donors to the task force to make their case against the shelter, and that they talked with investors about foreclosing on it. And in recent weeks, the shelter has fought the city to prevent local authorities from turning off their water.
Some point out that the media has been paying more attention to the shelter's troubles since the protesters' arrival. Earlier this month, the county told a local TV station that tuberculosis had broken out at the shelter. Protesters told HuffPost that they thought these claims were bogus.
One protester, Tim Franzen, said he'd been living in the shelter for weeks and had yet to see signs of anyone getting sick. He described the claim as an attempt to smear the Occupation and the shelter.
So did Shab Bashiri, another protester. "The city wants to shut it down with absolutely no alternative," she said. According to Bashiri, the protesters had not only been "occupying" the shelter but had also been sleeping outdoors in areas where homeless people stay.
The shelter is the largest in the southeast, housing more than 1,000 people on some nights. "The city doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with 1,000 people," Franzen said. "So where would they go? We don't know."
Atlanta has been flagged as one of the worst cities nationally in which to be homeless and has the widest income gap between rich and poor.
Many protesters argue that the city should fund the shelter with the money they've spent on dealing with the protest. The mayor's office reports they spent nearly $500,000 in just two weeks dealing with Occupy Atlanta, most of it on overtime pay for police. Maurice Lattimore, who helps run the shelter, said $500,000 could fund the shelter easily for two years. He noted that the city hasn't put any money into the shelter's coffers since the court battle began three years ago.
The Atlanta mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment.
PORTLAND
In Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam Adams said despite his support for the Occupy movement's principles, the Portland camp was getting dangerous. After the eviction, the mayor pointed to the presence of homeless people and people with mental illnesses. Nearby businesses had been pressuring him with claims that homeless residents were scaring away customers.
Judas James, a member of Occupy Portland who is himself homeless, said the protesters have tried to help homeless people who sought shelter with them by providing food, medical attention, tents and blankets.
"If there was money there for them, these people could be taken care of," James said. "It's hard because we want everyone to be safe, and we just don't have the resources to help them with it."
If the city were to take care of them using the money they've spent to pull down tents and clean up the park, it would amount to nearly $850,000, according to data from Mayor Adams' office.
Adams has acknowledged that the Occupy Portland movement has highlighted the city's homelessness problem, and said he supports a lot of the protesters' positions.
The city has invested $13 million towards relieving homelessness in the past five years and has devised a long-term plan to combat the problem. Yet, in an attempt to climb out of a budget hole of over $3 billion, Oregon has slashed its funding for social services by more than $73 million.
Amy Ruiz, a spokesperson for the mayor, wrote in an email that "providing social services and maintaining peace are not mutually exclusive. The City must, and does, do both." Ruiz pointed out that several nonprofit organizations, which receive money from state and local governments, had moved several dozen homeless people out of the Occupy camps into shelters, motels and other "lower-impact, and safer, camps."
Ruiz said more than 20 outreach workers representing at least seven organizations reached out to the homeless at the encampments before shutting them down.
Dennis Lundberg, an outreach worker, told Adams that the camp was doing more harm than good to Portland's street youth, who preferred the camp to the shelter system because they could reap the benefits of free meals without submitting to the sorts of rules imposed by the shelters.
DENVER
In October, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock came out in support of new legislation that would ban homeless people from sleeping in public places overnight.
"We only have one downtown," Hancock said at the time. "We cannot afford to lose our city core. If people don't feel safe going downtown, that is a threat to the very vitality of our downtown and our city."
A couple weeks later, Hancock said he didn't want to allow protesters to set the precedent for sleeping in tents in the public parks. This was a prelude to Denver sending in riot police to evict the protesters.
Johnson, the civil rights attorney with the NLCHP, said the organization has noticed a nationwide increase in laws that criminalize homelessness, including laws that prohibit sleeping, sitting or storing belongings in public spaces, even when there is insufficient shelter space.
She argued these criminalization measures cost far more to municipalities than providing adequate shelter to people. Citing studies conducted in 13 cities and states, she said that it costs on average $87 per day to jail someone, compared to $28 per day to house them in a shelter. "With state and local budgets stretched to their limit, it's profoundly irrational to waste taxpayer money on these expensive criminalization policies," she said.
According to Revekka Balancier, the communications director of the homeless outreach program Denver Road Home, the city's homeless shelters are at capacity every night, and many have long waiting lists. And she noted that the city's homeless population is growing. A report from 2009 found that 10,604 people were living on the streets and in area shelters on the night the survey was conducted. By 2011, that number had increased by 6.5 percent, to 11,377.
A spokesperson for the mayor said that the city works with Denver Road Home and other organizations to "comprehensively address the needs of our homeless population."
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SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO
I've been watching this video series on You Tube for some time, and I thought that they would be great for my Sunday School video posts. However, since there are links to the whole video series, and the website, etc. in the video description, I decided to post only this video. You can find links to the entire series, and the Discovering Religion web site in the sidebar under "Mankind's Many Paths To God".
Video Description From You Tube:
Uploaded by DiscoveringReligion on Mar 15, 2010
The first installment of my original series "Discovering Religion". In this episode I discuss the apparent conflicts that exist with our present observable reality and our past archaic religious traditions that not only seem to contradict one another, but all that we have discovered through the scientific method.
Note:
The Shia denomination of Islam believes that a young boy by the name of Mahdi, born in 869 CE, is Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam. The Shia believe Mahdi was hidden by God at the age of five where he remains awaiting for God to proclaim the time of his return.
From wikipedia:
The Twelfth Imam will return as the Mahdi with "a company of his chosen ones," and his enemies will be led by the one-eyed Antichrist and the Sufyani. The two armies will fight "one final apocalyptic battle" where the Mahdi and his forces will prevail over evil. After the Mahdi has ruled Earth for a number of years, Jesus will return.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi
This is very scary stuff folks! Although not ALL Muslims believe in the Hidden Imam, history is a good indicator that radical views such as these can be extremely dangerous, despite the size of the group adherent to the beliefs.
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MUSIC CITED:
Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Hours Soundtrack - I'm Going To Make A Cake
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PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70E757541E8576D7
TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=147
WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovering-Religion/143122652390020?ref=ts
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Uploaded by DiscoveringReligion on Mar 15, 2010
The first installment of my original series "Discovering Religion". In this episode I discuss the apparent conflicts that exist with our present observable reality and our past archaic religious traditions that not only seem to contradict one another, but all that we have discovered through the scientific method.
Note:
The Shia denomination of Islam believes that a young boy by the name of Mahdi, born in 869 CE, is Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam. The Shia believe Mahdi was hidden by God at the age of five where he remains awaiting for God to proclaim the time of his return.
From wikipedia:
The Twelfth Imam will return as the Mahdi with "a company of his chosen ones," and his enemies will be led by the one-eyed Antichrist and the Sufyani. The two armies will fight "one final apocalyptic battle" where the Mahdi and his forces will prevail over evil. After the Mahdi has ruled Earth for a number of years, Jesus will return.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi
This is very scary stuff folks! Although not ALL Muslims believe in the Hidden Imam, history is a good indicator that radical views such as these can be extremely dangerous, despite the size of the group adherent to the beliefs.
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MUSIC CITED:
Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Hours Soundtrack - I'm Going To Make A Cake
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PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70E757541E8576D7
TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=147
WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovering-Religion/143122652390020?ref=ts
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Category:
Education
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HAPPY SUNDAY!!!
We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don't have the eyes to see.
~don Miguel Ruiz
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Southwestern Turkey Soup Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Southwestern Turkey Soup Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 8 servings
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups shredded cooked turkey
4 cups vegetable broth
1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chile peppers
2 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
salt and pepper to taste
1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced
1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Directions
In a large pot over medium heat, combine turkey, broth, canned tomatoes, green chiles, fresh tomatoes, onion, garlic, and lime juice. Season with cayenne, cumin, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes.
Stir in avocado and cilantro, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes, until slightly thickened. Spoon into serving bowls, and top with shredded cheese.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 184 | Total Fat: 9.8g | Cholesterol: 33mg
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Original Recipe Yield 8 servings
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups shredded cooked turkey
4 cups vegetable broth
1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chile peppers
2 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
salt and pepper to taste
1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced
1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Directions
In a large pot over medium heat, combine turkey, broth, canned tomatoes, green chiles, fresh tomatoes, onion, garlic, and lime juice. Season with cayenne, cumin, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes.
Stir in avocado and cilantro, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes, until slightly thickened. Spoon into serving bowls, and top with shredded cheese.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 184 | Total Fat: 9.8g | Cholesterol: 33mg
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Friday, November 25, 2011
El Danzón Music Video - Rachel Lynn Sebastian
Here is Rachel Lynn Sebastian performing in her second video, El Danzon. If you want to know more about this amazing artist, you can find her website in the music section of the sidebar, or you can just click HERE.
Video Description fro You Tube:
Uploaded by rachellynnmuziq on Nov 2, 2011
Rachel Lynn Sebastian, in collaboration with Peacemaker Studios, has just released her second music video, 'El Danzon'. The project was inspired by the song 'El Danzon', a bilingual hit, that she released with producer Eric Monsanty. The story of the song is brought to life in this cinematic and epic portrayal of a Cuban woman (RL) who's soldier husband (played by actor Mandell Anthony) was proclaimed lost in battle.
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Uploaded by rachellynnmuziq on Nov 2, 2011
Rachel Lynn Sebastian, in collaboration with Peacemaker Studios, has just released her second music video, 'El Danzon'. The project was inspired by the song 'El Danzon', a bilingual hit, that she released with producer Eric Monsanty. The story of the song is brought to life in this cinematic and epic portrayal of a Cuban woman (RL) who's soldier husband (played by actor Mandell Anthony) was proclaimed lost in battle.
Category:
Music
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El Danzon Music Video Rachel Lynn Sebastian Mandell Anthony Ezekiel Willis Ezequiel Martinez Shawn Lyon Peacemaker Studios Come to Mama Vintage Beach Female Singer Original Song Songwriter
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Dad's Leftover Turkey Pot Pie Recipe - Allrecipes.com
So, What are you going to do with all that leftover turkey? Here's an idea: Try this turkey pot pie—you can even use some of yesterday's veggies, too.
Dad's Leftover Turkey Pot Pie Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 2 9-inch pot pies
Ingredients
2 cups frozen peas and carrots
2 cups frozen green beans
1 cup sliced celery
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup chopped onion
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 3/4 cups chicken broth
1 1/3 cups milk
4 cups cubed cooked turkey meat - light and dark meat mixed
4 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
Directions
Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place the peas and carrots, green beans, and celery into a saucepan; cover with water, bring to a boil, and simmer over medium-low heat until the celery is tender, about 8 minutes. Drain the vegetables in a colander set in the sink, and set aside.
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and cook the onion until translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in 2/3 cup of flour, salt, black pepper, celery seed, onion powder, and Italian seasoning; slowly whisk in the chicken broth and milk until the mixture comes to a simmer and thickens. Remove from heat; stir the cooked vegetables and turkey meat into the filling until well combined.
Fit 2 pie crusts into the bottom of 2 9-inch pie dishes. Spoon half the filling into each pie crust, then top each pie with another crust. Pinch and roll the top and bottom crusts together at the edge of each pie to seal, and cut several small slits into the top of the pies with a sharp knife to release steam.
Bake in the preheated oven until the crusts are golden brown and the filling is bubbly, 30 to 35 minutes. If the crusts are browning too quickly, cover the pies with aluminum foil after about 15 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 539 | Total Fat: 33.2g | Cholesterol: 65mg
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Dad's Leftover Turkey Pot Pie Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 2 9-inch pot pies
Ingredients
2 cups frozen peas and carrots
2 cups frozen green beans
1 cup sliced celery
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup chopped onion
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 3/4 cups chicken broth
1 1/3 cups milk
4 cups cubed cooked turkey meat - light and dark meat mixed
4 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
Directions
Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place the peas and carrots, green beans, and celery into a saucepan; cover with water, bring to a boil, and simmer over medium-low heat until the celery is tender, about 8 minutes. Drain the vegetables in a colander set in the sink, and set aside.
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and cook the onion until translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in 2/3 cup of flour, salt, black pepper, celery seed, onion powder, and Italian seasoning; slowly whisk in the chicken broth and milk until the mixture comes to a simmer and thickens. Remove from heat; stir the cooked vegetables and turkey meat into the filling until well combined.
Fit 2 pie crusts into the bottom of 2 9-inch pie dishes. Spoon half the filling into each pie crust, then top each pie with another crust. Pinch and roll the top and bottom crusts together at the edge of each pie to seal, and cut several small slits into the top of the pies with a sharp knife to release steam.
Bake in the preheated oven until the crusts are golden brown and the filling is bubbly, 30 to 35 minutes. If the crusts are browning too quickly, cover the pies with aluminum foil after about 15 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 539 | Total Fat: 33.2g | Cholesterol: 65mg
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IT'S BLACK FRIDAY!!!
They call today Black Friday. Yeah right, like WE had something to do with it.(just kidding!!!) Actually, today is the biggest shopping day of the year, and the "official" first day of the Holiday Season. (Although to me, the holiday season starts on Halloween). To those of you who want to know, here's a definition from Wikipedia:
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many British Commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many non-retail employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005,[1] although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate,[2] have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.[3]
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.[4] Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black".[5]
For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00, but in the late 2000s, many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including Target, Kohls, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. An online petition with more than 200,000 virtual signatures is aimed at asking Target not to open so early.[6] Walmart opened at 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving and Toys 'R' Us at 9:00 pm. In 2010, Sears was open on Thanksgiving day.
Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, the day after occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November.
The news media have long described the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year.[3] In earlier years, this was not actually the case. In the period from 1993 through 2001, for example, Black Friday ranked from fifth to tenth on the list of busiest shopping days, with the Saturday before Christmas usually taking first place.[2] In 2003, however, Black Friday actually was the busiest shopping day of the year, and it has retained that position every year since except 2004, when it ranked second.[1]
Black Friday is popular as a shopping day for a combination of several reasons. As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas it inaugurates the Christmas season. Additionally, many employers give their employees the day off as part of Thanksgiving leave, increasing the potential number of shoppers. In order to take advantage of this, virtually all retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales. Recent years have seen retailers extend beyond normal hours in order to maintain an edge, or to simply keep up with competition. Such hours may include opening as early as 12:00 a.m. or remaining open overnight on Thanksgiving Day and beginning sales prices at midnight. In 2010, Toys 'R' Us began their Black Friday sales at 10:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day and further upped the ante by offering free boxes of Crayola crayons and coloring books for as long as supplies lasted. Other retailers, like Sears, Aéropostale, and Kmart, began Black Friday sales early Thanksgiving morning, and ran them through as late as 11:00 p.m. Friday evening. Forever 21 went in the opposite direction, opening at normal hours on Friday, and running late sales until 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.[7][8] Historically, it was common for Black Friday sales to extend throughout the following weekend. However, this practice has largely disappeared in recent years, perhaps because of an effort by retailers to create a greater sense of urgency.
The huge population centers around Lake Ontario in Canada have always attracted cross border shopping into the U.S. states, and as Black Friday became more popular in the U.S. after 2001, many were traveling for the deals across the border. In 2009 several major Canadian retailers had their own version of the day by running promotions to discourage shoppers from leaving for the U.S.[9] Canada's Boxing Day is comparable to Black Friday in terms of retailer impact and consumerism, but Black Fridays in the U.S. seem to provide deeper or more extreme price cuts than Canadian retailers, even for the same international retailer.
More recently, Black Friday has been exported to nations outside of North America such as Australia and the United Kingdom by major online retailers like Amazon or Apple.
Origin of the term
Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869 in the United States. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving was made in a 1966 publication on the day's significance in Philadelphia:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[4]
The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, as shown by two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:
Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army–Navy Game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.
The derivation is also clear in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:
Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. ... "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."
The term's spread was gradual, however, and in 1985 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that retailers in Cincinnati and Los Angeles were still unaware of the term.
Accounting practice
Many merchants objected to the use of a negative term to refer to one of the most important shopping days in the year.[12] By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).[13] The earliest known use, which like the 1966 example above was found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, is from 1981, again from Philadelphia, and presents the "black ink" theory as one of several competing possibilities:
If the day is the year's biggest for retailers, why is it called Black Friday? Because it is a day retailers make profits -- black ink, said Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall. "I think it came from the media," said William Timmons of Strawbridge & Clothier. "It's the employees, we're the ones who call it Black Friday," said Belle Stephens of Moorestown Mall. "We work extra hard. It's a long hard day for the employees."[14]
The Christmas shopping season is of enormous importance to American retailers and, while most retailers intend to and actually do make profits during every quarter of the year, some retailers are so dependent on the Christmas shopping season that the quarter including Christmas produces all the year's profits and compensates for losses from other quarters.
Violence
Whereas the 1996 film Jingle All the Way depicted a comedic dramatization of somewhat chaotic antics that people may go through in order to achieve their holiday shopping goals, recent years have seen a marked increase in extreme chaos resulting from people's desires to take advantage of Black Friday sales.
In 2006, a man in Roanoke, Virginia shopping at Best Buy was recorded on video assaulting another shopper.[16] Unruly Walmart shoppers at a store outside Columbus, Ohio, quickly flooded in the doors at opening, pinning several employees against stacks of merchandise.[17] Nine shoppers in a California mall were injured, including an elderly woman who had to be taken to the hospital, when the crowd rushed to grab gift certificates that had been released from the ceiling.[18]
In 2008 a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 5:00 a.m. opening of the local Walmart. As opening time approached the crowd grew anxious and when the doors were opened the crowd pushed forward, breaking the door down, and trampling a 34 year old employee to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim's fate, expressing refusal to halt their stampede when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer. Shoppers had begun assembling as early as 9:00 the evening before. Even when police arrived and attempted to render aid to the injured man, shoppers continued to pour in, shoving and pushing the officers as they made their way into the store. Several other people incurred minor injuries, including a pregnant woman who had to be taken to the hospital.[19][20][21] The incident may be the first case of a death occurring during Black Friday sales; according to the National Retail Federation, "We are not aware of any other circumstances where a retail employee has died working on the day after Thanksgiving."[19]
During Black Friday 2010, a Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of a Toys 'R' Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to shoot other shoppers who tried to object.[22] A Toys for Tots volunteer in Georgia was stabbed by a shoplifter.[23] An Indianapolis woman was arrested after causing a disturbance by arguing with other Wal-Mart shoppers. She had been asked to leave the store, but refused.[24] A man was arrested at a Florida Wal-Mart on drug and weapons charges after other shoppers waiting in line for the store to open noticed that he was carrying a handgun and reported the matter to police. He was discovered to also be carrying two knives and a pepper spray grenade.[25] A man in Buffalo, New York, was trampled when doors opened at a Target store and unruly shoppers rushed in, in an episode reminiscent of the deadly 2008 Wal-Mart stampede.[26]
History
That the day after Thanksgiving is the "official" start of the holiday shopping season may be linked together with the idea of Santa Claus parades. Parades celebrating Thanksgiving often include an appearance by Santa at the end of the parade, with the idea that 'Santa has arrived' or 'Santa is just around the corner'.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many Santa parades or Thanksgiving Day parades were sponsored by department stores. These include the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, in Canada, sponsored by Eaton's, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sponsored by Macy's. Department stores would use the parades to launch a big advertising push. Eventually it just became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started.
Later on, the fact that this marked the official start of the shopping season led to controversy. In 1939, retail shops would have liked to have a longer shopping season, but no store wanted to break with tradition and be the one to start advertising before Thanksgiving. President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date for Thanksgiving one week earlier, leading to much anger by the public who wound up having to change holiday plans.[27] Some even refused the change, resulting in the U.S. citizens celebrating Thanksgiving on two separate days.[27] Some started referring to the change as Franksgiving.
In 2011, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, there is currently a boycott against Black Friday known as Stop Black Friday or Occupy Black Friday. The movement calls for people to boycott publicly traded and large retail stores with a history of political donations to show economic solidarity and to force the lobby to back the candidates that they want.
Black Thursday
In recent years, retailers have been trending towards opening on Black Thursday, Thanksgiving evening. In 2011, Walmart, will for the first time launch its holiday sale at 10:00 PM on Black Thursday.[28]
Online
Cyber Black Friday
The term Cyber Black Friday refers to the online version of Black Friday. According to Hitwise in 2010, [29]
Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong start, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in popularity. For the 2nd consecutive year, Black Friday was the highest day for retail traffic during the holiday season, followed by Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The highest year-over-year increases in visits took place on Cyber Monday and Black Friday with growth of 16% and 13%, respectively.
Advertising tip sites
Some websites offer information about day-after-Thanksgiving specials up to a month in advance. The text listings of items and prices are usually accompanied by pictures of the actual ad circulars. These are either leaked by insiders or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.
In recent years, some retailers (including Walmart, Target, OfficeMax, Big Lots, and Staples) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisements are copyrighted and are trade secrets.[30]
Some of these retailers have used the take-down system of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a means to remove the offending price listings. This policy may come from the fear that competitors will slash prices, and shoppers may comparison shop. The actual validity of the claim that prices form a protected work of authorship is uncertain as the prices themselves (though not the advertisements) might be considered a fact in which case they would not receive the same level of protection as a copyrighted work.[31]
The benefit of threatening Internet sites with a DMCA based lawsuit has proved tenuous at best. While some sites have complied with the requests, others have either ignored the threats or simply continued to post the information under the name of a similar sounding fictional retailer. However, as the DMCA allows websites 24 hours to comply with the take-down notice or file a counter notice, careful timing may mitigate the take-down notice. An Internet service provider in 2003 brought suit against Best Buy, Kohl's, and Target Corporation, arguing that the take-down notice provisions of the DMCA are unconstitutional. The court dismissed the case, ruling that only the third-party posters of the advertisements, and not the ISP itself, would have standing to sue the retailers.[32]
Usage of Black Friday Advertising Tip sites and buying direct varies by state in the U.S., influenced in large part by differences in shipping costs and whether a state has a sales tax.[33] However, in recent years, the convenience of online shopping has increased the number of cross-border shoppers seeking bargains from outside of the U.S., especially from Canada. Statistics Canada indicates that online cross-border shopping by Canadians has increased by about 300M a year since 2002.[34] The complex nature of additional fees such as taxes, duties and brokerage can make calculating the final cost of cross-border Black Friday deals difficult. Dedicated cross-border shopping solutions such as the Canadian shopping platform Wishabi [35] and Canada Post’s Borderfree exist to mitigate the problem through estimation of the various cost involved.
Cyber Thanksgiving
The term Cyber Thanksgiving, refers to online retailer's Thanksgiving Day promotions. According to The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey):[36]
Thanksgiving Day is becoming increasingly important for online sales, according to e-commerce watchers. It has become the lead-in for five days of online deals experts say are causing some bargain hunters to shop online instead of standing in line at stores.
“Thanksgiving interestingly enough has turned into a really big sales day for us in the last couple of years,” said Greg Ahearn, senior vice president, marketing and e-commerce, for Wayne, New Jersey-based Toys “R” Us. “Everybody’s looking for information about what’s going to happen on Black Friday, but when they hit the Web sites they realize there’s a bunch of great deals there, and free shipping,’’ he said. “And if they get the right deals on the products that they’re looking for, they actually create a purchase on Thanksgiving Day as opposed to waiting for Black Friday.”
Cyber Monday
Main article: Cyber Monday
The term Cyber Monday, a neologism invented in 2005 by the National Retail Federation's division Shop.org, refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday based on a trend that retailers began to recognize in 2003 and 2004. Retailers noticed that many consumers, who were too busy to shop over the Thanksgiving weekend or did not find what they were looking for, shopped for bargains online that Monday from home or work.
So, what am I doing today? I'm going to go to downtown L.A. and check out some deals, and tonight, I'm going to go get the small fake christmas tree out of the garage and set it up in my bedroom.
Oh, And if there's some die - hard shoppers who read this blog, check out this web site.
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many British Commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many non-retail employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005,[1] although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate,[2] have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.[3]
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.[4] Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black".[5]
For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00, but in the late 2000s, many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including Target, Kohls, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. An online petition with more than 200,000 virtual signatures is aimed at asking Target not to open so early.[6] Walmart opened at 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving and Toys 'R' Us at 9:00 pm. In 2010, Sears was open on Thanksgiving day.
Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, the day after occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November.
The news media have long described the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year.[3] In earlier years, this was not actually the case. In the period from 1993 through 2001, for example, Black Friday ranked from fifth to tenth on the list of busiest shopping days, with the Saturday before Christmas usually taking first place.[2] In 2003, however, Black Friday actually was the busiest shopping day of the year, and it has retained that position every year since except 2004, when it ranked second.[1]
Black Friday is popular as a shopping day for a combination of several reasons. As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas it inaugurates the Christmas season. Additionally, many employers give their employees the day off as part of Thanksgiving leave, increasing the potential number of shoppers. In order to take advantage of this, virtually all retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales. Recent years have seen retailers extend beyond normal hours in order to maintain an edge, or to simply keep up with competition. Such hours may include opening as early as 12:00 a.m. or remaining open overnight on Thanksgiving Day and beginning sales prices at midnight. In 2010, Toys 'R' Us began their Black Friday sales at 10:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day and further upped the ante by offering free boxes of Crayola crayons and coloring books for as long as supplies lasted. Other retailers, like Sears, Aéropostale, and Kmart, began Black Friday sales early Thanksgiving morning, and ran them through as late as 11:00 p.m. Friday evening. Forever 21 went in the opposite direction, opening at normal hours on Friday, and running late sales until 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.[7][8] Historically, it was common for Black Friday sales to extend throughout the following weekend. However, this practice has largely disappeared in recent years, perhaps because of an effort by retailers to create a greater sense of urgency.
The huge population centers around Lake Ontario in Canada have always attracted cross border shopping into the U.S. states, and as Black Friday became more popular in the U.S. after 2001, many were traveling for the deals across the border. In 2009 several major Canadian retailers had their own version of the day by running promotions to discourage shoppers from leaving for the U.S.[9] Canada's Boxing Day is comparable to Black Friday in terms of retailer impact and consumerism, but Black Fridays in the U.S. seem to provide deeper or more extreme price cuts than Canadian retailers, even for the same international retailer.
More recently, Black Friday has been exported to nations outside of North America such as Australia and the United Kingdom by major online retailers like Amazon or Apple.
Origin of the term
Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869 in the United States. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving was made in a 1966 publication on the day's significance in Philadelphia:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[4]
The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, as shown by two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:
Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army–Navy Game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.
The derivation is also clear in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:
Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. ... "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."
The term's spread was gradual, however, and in 1985 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that retailers in Cincinnati and Los Angeles were still unaware of the term.
Accounting practice
Many merchants objected to the use of a negative term to refer to one of the most important shopping days in the year.[12] By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).[13] The earliest known use, which like the 1966 example above was found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, is from 1981, again from Philadelphia, and presents the "black ink" theory as one of several competing possibilities:
If the day is the year's biggest for retailers, why is it called Black Friday? Because it is a day retailers make profits -- black ink, said Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall. "I think it came from the media," said William Timmons of Strawbridge & Clothier. "It's the employees, we're the ones who call it Black Friday," said Belle Stephens of Moorestown Mall. "We work extra hard. It's a long hard day for the employees."[14]
The Christmas shopping season is of enormous importance to American retailers and, while most retailers intend to and actually do make profits during every quarter of the year, some retailers are so dependent on the Christmas shopping season that the quarter including Christmas produces all the year's profits and compensates for losses from other quarters.
Violence
Whereas the 1996 film Jingle All the Way depicted a comedic dramatization of somewhat chaotic antics that people may go through in order to achieve their holiday shopping goals, recent years have seen a marked increase in extreme chaos resulting from people's desires to take advantage of Black Friday sales.
In 2006, a man in Roanoke, Virginia shopping at Best Buy was recorded on video assaulting another shopper.[16] Unruly Walmart shoppers at a store outside Columbus, Ohio, quickly flooded in the doors at opening, pinning several employees against stacks of merchandise.[17] Nine shoppers in a California mall were injured, including an elderly woman who had to be taken to the hospital, when the crowd rushed to grab gift certificates that had been released from the ceiling.[18]
In 2008 a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 5:00 a.m. opening of the local Walmart. As opening time approached the crowd grew anxious and when the doors were opened the crowd pushed forward, breaking the door down, and trampling a 34 year old employee to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim's fate, expressing refusal to halt their stampede when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer. Shoppers had begun assembling as early as 9:00 the evening before. Even when police arrived and attempted to render aid to the injured man, shoppers continued to pour in, shoving and pushing the officers as they made their way into the store. Several other people incurred minor injuries, including a pregnant woman who had to be taken to the hospital.[19][20][21] The incident may be the first case of a death occurring during Black Friday sales; according to the National Retail Federation, "We are not aware of any other circumstances where a retail employee has died working on the day after Thanksgiving."[19]
During Black Friday 2010, a Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of a Toys 'R' Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to shoot other shoppers who tried to object.[22] A Toys for Tots volunteer in Georgia was stabbed by a shoplifter.[23] An Indianapolis woman was arrested after causing a disturbance by arguing with other Wal-Mart shoppers. She had been asked to leave the store, but refused.[24] A man was arrested at a Florida Wal-Mart on drug and weapons charges after other shoppers waiting in line for the store to open noticed that he was carrying a handgun and reported the matter to police. He was discovered to also be carrying two knives and a pepper spray grenade.[25] A man in Buffalo, New York, was trampled when doors opened at a Target store and unruly shoppers rushed in, in an episode reminiscent of the deadly 2008 Wal-Mart stampede.[26]
History
That the day after Thanksgiving is the "official" start of the holiday shopping season may be linked together with the idea of Santa Claus parades. Parades celebrating Thanksgiving often include an appearance by Santa at the end of the parade, with the idea that 'Santa has arrived' or 'Santa is just around the corner'.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many Santa parades or Thanksgiving Day parades were sponsored by department stores. These include the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, in Canada, sponsored by Eaton's, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sponsored by Macy's. Department stores would use the parades to launch a big advertising push. Eventually it just became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started.
Later on, the fact that this marked the official start of the shopping season led to controversy. In 1939, retail shops would have liked to have a longer shopping season, but no store wanted to break with tradition and be the one to start advertising before Thanksgiving. President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date for Thanksgiving one week earlier, leading to much anger by the public who wound up having to change holiday plans.[27] Some even refused the change, resulting in the U.S. citizens celebrating Thanksgiving on two separate days.[27] Some started referring to the change as Franksgiving.
In 2011, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, there is currently a boycott against Black Friday known as Stop Black Friday or Occupy Black Friday. The movement calls for people to boycott publicly traded and large retail stores with a history of political donations to show economic solidarity and to force the lobby to back the candidates that they want.
Black Thursday
In recent years, retailers have been trending towards opening on Black Thursday, Thanksgiving evening. In 2011, Walmart, will for the first time launch its holiday sale at 10:00 PM on Black Thursday.[28]
Online
Cyber Black Friday
The term Cyber Black Friday refers to the online version of Black Friday. According to Hitwise in 2010, [29]
Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong start, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in popularity. For the 2nd consecutive year, Black Friday was the highest day for retail traffic during the holiday season, followed by Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The highest year-over-year increases in visits took place on Cyber Monday and Black Friday with growth of 16% and 13%, respectively.
Advertising tip sites
Some websites offer information about day-after-Thanksgiving specials up to a month in advance. The text listings of items and prices are usually accompanied by pictures of the actual ad circulars. These are either leaked by insiders or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.
In recent years, some retailers (including Walmart, Target, OfficeMax, Big Lots, and Staples) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisements are copyrighted and are trade secrets.[30]
Some of these retailers have used the take-down system of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a means to remove the offending price listings. This policy may come from the fear that competitors will slash prices, and shoppers may comparison shop. The actual validity of the claim that prices form a protected work of authorship is uncertain as the prices themselves (though not the advertisements) might be considered a fact in which case they would not receive the same level of protection as a copyrighted work.[31]
The benefit of threatening Internet sites with a DMCA based lawsuit has proved tenuous at best. While some sites have complied with the requests, others have either ignored the threats or simply continued to post the information under the name of a similar sounding fictional retailer. However, as the DMCA allows websites 24 hours to comply with the take-down notice or file a counter notice, careful timing may mitigate the take-down notice. An Internet service provider in 2003 brought suit against Best Buy, Kohl's, and Target Corporation, arguing that the take-down notice provisions of the DMCA are unconstitutional. The court dismissed the case, ruling that only the third-party posters of the advertisements, and not the ISP itself, would have standing to sue the retailers.[32]
Usage of Black Friday Advertising Tip sites and buying direct varies by state in the U.S., influenced in large part by differences in shipping costs and whether a state has a sales tax.[33] However, in recent years, the convenience of online shopping has increased the number of cross-border shoppers seeking bargains from outside of the U.S., especially from Canada. Statistics Canada indicates that online cross-border shopping by Canadians has increased by about 300M a year since 2002.[34] The complex nature of additional fees such as taxes, duties and brokerage can make calculating the final cost of cross-border Black Friday deals difficult. Dedicated cross-border shopping solutions such as the Canadian shopping platform Wishabi [35] and Canada Post’s Borderfree exist to mitigate the problem through estimation of the various cost involved.
Cyber Thanksgiving
The term Cyber Thanksgiving, refers to online retailer's Thanksgiving Day promotions. According to The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey):[36]
Thanksgiving Day is becoming increasingly important for online sales, according to e-commerce watchers. It has become the lead-in for five days of online deals experts say are causing some bargain hunters to shop online instead of standing in line at stores.
“Thanksgiving interestingly enough has turned into a really big sales day for us in the last couple of years,” said Greg Ahearn, senior vice president, marketing and e-commerce, for Wayne, New Jersey-based Toys “R” Us. “Everybody’s looking for information about what’s going to happen on Black Friday, but when they hit the Web sites they realize there’s a bunch of great deals there, and free shipping,’’ he said. “And if they get the right deals on the products that they’re looking for, they actually create a purchase on Thanksgiving Day as opposed to waiting for Black Friday.”
Cyber Monday
Main article: Cyber Monday
The term Cyber Monday, a neologism invented in 2005 by the National Retail Federation's division Shop.org, refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday based on a trend that retailers began to recognize in 2003 and 2004. Retailers noticed that many consumers, who were too busy to shop over the Thanksgiving weekend or did not find what they were looking for, shopped for bargains online that Monday from home or work.
So, what am I doing today? I'm going to go to downtown L.A. and check out some deals, and tonight, I'm going to go get the small fake christmas tree out of the garage and set it up in my bedroom.
Oh, And if there's some die - hard shoppers who read this blog, check out this web site.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Less than 1 hour left of Thanksgiving...
Well guys, I couldn't finish off Thanksgiving without adding in this video from IDEALLY ILCA on Bahamian Mac n Cheese.
Uploaded by IdeallyILCA on Nov 21, 2011
How to make QUICK SIMPLE and TASTY Macaroni & Cheese
Ideally ILCA xoxo :D
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How to make QUICK SIMPLE and TASTY Macaroni & Cheese
Ideally ILCA xoxo :D
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A Message to Danni El
Hi there.
All this week, I've been sending messages about Thanksgiving, which if you haven't guessed already, is my favorite holiday. But now, I wanna send a Thanksgiving message to a special person.
Ladies and Gentelmen, This is Danni El.
She is a musician. A very talented musician. I made a post a while back about how I met her, but now I want to go into a bit more detail.
It was April 16th, 2011. It was an ordinary enough day, or so I thought. But I was about to learn, as the author Dan Millman discovered on a large rock one day, that there are no ordinary moments. I was out in Hollywood doing something very important (Which I'll tell you about someday). I had finished my buisness and was hurrying back to the Hollywood - Highland Red Line Station. But just before I got there, I heard a sound, a very beautiful, angelic sound that was calling to me, so I turned around...
And THIS is what I heard:
I stood there, watching this woman perform that beautiful song, which I found out later that day was named Colores, totally mesmerized. When she finished, she took a brief break, and I got a couple of dollars out to tip her and go, but then, she sat down on a stool, stood her guitar up, and started playing it like a drum, as she started to perform this song:
I didn't stay long enough for her to finish the song, because the time left on my Bus transfer was about to run out and I had to get going... but in her guitar case, she had a cardboard sign that had her name, her facebook page, her You Tube page, and her twitter. So, I borrowed a pen, wrote down her information, and when I got home, I tracked her down on FB(so to speak), sent her a message introducing myself, and added her as a friend.
I also added links to her FB page, her YouTube Channel, and her Twitter to this blog (you can find them in the Side Bar) And when she was doing live shows, I posted announcements about them on my FB page and on this blog.
I'm not going to go into much detail about what happened since I first met her, other than what I already posted in the past few months. It's just that there's not much more than that.
Well, except maybe the promise I made to her...
Well anyway, now that I told you all a little bit about who she is, here's my message to her. I'm not much of a poet, so I'm just gonna send this straight out.
Thank You, Danni.
Thank you Danni, for coming out here to show the world your music,
Thank You Danni, for teaching me that we are the ones who can make the difference....
Thank You Danni, for teaching me to have peace and love in my heart where ever I go.
Thank You Danni, for showing me that VEGAN FOOD ROCKS!!! (Even though I would still prefer a steak, burger, or fried chicken any day)
Thank You Danni, for teaching me how to do THIS
And last, but certainly not least,
Thank You Danni, for all the love - filled hugs!!!
Well Danni, I don't know exactly where you are right now, but I know that wherever it is, it's a better place to be right now, because you're over there.
And I hope you come back soon.
But Anyway Danni, Wherever you are, Whatever you're doing,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
P.S. I miss you, Danni.
All this week, I've been sending messages about Thanksgiving, which if you haven't guessed already, is my favorite holiday. But now, I wanna send a Thanksgiving message to a special person.
Ladies and Gentelmen, This is Danni El.
She is a musician. A very talented musician. I made a post a while back about how I met her, but now I want to go into a bit more detail.
It was April 16th, 2011. It was an ordinary enough day, or so I thought. But I was about to learn, as the author Dan Millman discovered on a large rock one day, that there are no ordinary moments. I was out in Hollywood doing something very important (Which I'll tell you about someday). I had finished my buisness and was hurrying back to the Hollywood - Highland Red Line Station. But just before I got there, I heard a sound, a very beautiful, angelic sound that was calling to me, so I turned around...
And THIS is what I heard:
I stood there, watching this woman perform that beautiful song, which I found out later that day was named Colores, totally mesmerized. When she finished, she took a brief break, and I got a couple of dollars out to tip her and go, but then, she sat down on a stool, stood her guitar up, and started playing it like a drum, as she started to perform this song:
I didn't stay long enough for her to finish the song, because the time left on my Bus transfer was about to run out and I had to get going... but in her guitar case, she had a cardboard sign that had her name, her facebook page, her You Tube page, and her twitter. So, I borrowed a pen, wrote down her information, and when I got home, I tracked her down on FB(so to speak), sent her a message introducing myself, and added her as a friend.
I also added links to her FB page, her YouTube Channel, and her Twitter to this blog (you can find them in the Side Bar) And when she was doing live shows, I posted announcements about them on my FB page and on this blog.
I'm not going to go into much detail about what happened since I first met her, other than what I already posted in the past few months. It's just that there's not much more than that.
Well, except maybe the promise I made to her...
Well anyway, now that I told you all a little bit about who she is, here's my message to her. I'm not much of a poet, so I'm just gonna send this straight out.
Thank You, Danni.
Thank you Danni, for coming out here to show the world your music,
Thank You Danni, for teaching me that we are the ones who can make the difference....
Thank You Danni, for teaching me to have peace and love in my heart where ever I go.
Thank You Danni, for showing me that VEGAN FOOD ROCKS!!! (Even though I would still prefer a steak, burger, or fried chicken any day)
Thank You Danni, for teaching me how to do THIS
And last, but certainly not least,
Thank You Danni, for all the love - filled hugs!!!
Well Danni, I don't know exactly where you are right now, but I know that wherever it is, it's a better place to be right now, because you're over there.
And I hope you come back soon.
But Anyway Danni, Wherever you are, Whatever you're doing,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
P.S. I miss you, Danni.
A Counter-Culture Thanksgiving
A Counter-Culture Thanksgiving - Exposing The Truth:
November 24, 2011 By T Kelly
That time of year is upon us again, when Americans will play along with traditions that have been largely corrupted by an establishment who seeks to propagate a dehumanizing culture of lies. Those may seem like strong words to describe one of your favorite times of the year, but just bear with me for a minute. I’m not suggesting that we do away with Thanksgiving altogether, or any other holiday for that matter. These are tough times that we are living in and having a day to relax and spend with loved ones is one of the most positive things that we can do. Especially in this culture where the family unit is demonized and being replaced with various state institutions, it is very important to make time for the people in your life. However, that doesn’t mean that we have to go along with a lot of the false historical narratives that have infected our most cherished celebrations.
Thanksgiving is by far the most obvious example, so it will probably be the best place to start.Since we were children our heads were filled with lies every single Thanksgiving; lies that rationalized and justified the genocide that took place so this country could be colonized.
Now that we live in the information age, people are a lot less likely to believe the downright fiction that has been passed off as history for generations.
Unfortunately, there are still way too many people who insist on playing along with these stories for the sake of fitting in or “respecting tradition”.
Our generation is the first in history to have access to alternative viewpoints, so let’s take the leap and create a culture that is actually empowering to those who adopt it.
Unfortunately the people that are responsible for creating mainstream culture have no interest in our well being. We are the source of their power, so in order to keep us under their control, they feed us a culture that programs us to operate according to their wishes. They do this by infecting some of the things that we enjoy the most with their toxic ideas. This is extremely common with holidays because they are so sacred to so many people. All that we need to do is remove the specific toxic ideas from contemporary culture and replace them with something that is actually beneficial.
As far as Thanksgiving is concerned, we really need to counteract the nationalistic folklore that has accompanied this holiday throughout our lives. If anything, it should be a day about preserving the true history of what happened, keeping the native culture alive, and paying respect to the people that were slain at the hands of our oppressors’ ancestors. Notice I didn’t say “my ancestors” or “our ancestors”, because that would not be a true statement. The people that are truly responsible for imperialism throughout history have progressively handed their power and plans down through their bloodlines. In other words we are being oppressed by blood descendants of the people who were oppressing our ancestors; the very people who committed and planned this genocide of which I speak.
To say that there was just one civilization here before colonization began would be a disservice to the diverse culture of the pre-Columbus Americas. Making the generalization that every tribe in that hemisphere was the same would be like saying that Canada, Mexico and the United States had identical cultures today. Contrary to the Europeans claims that the Americas were a vast uninhabited wilderness, there was actually a massive native population that numbered in the hundreds of millions. Traces of this large population seemed easy enough to destroy at first, considering the natives put a great deal of care into making as little an impact on their environment as possible. However, as time passes archeologists are continuing to uncover evidence that the pre-Columbus civilizations were much more advanced and populated then the historical record has told us thus far.
That’s not the only thing lied about in our history class. The ruling classes were also well aware that there were unexplored continents on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Many early European civilizations took voyages to the other side of the Atlantic over a thousand years ago; it is even believed that early Irish and Norse cultures actually had trade established with some Native American tribes. All of this information was hidden from most of the general public; only the nobility who were literate and had a decent understanding of history knew that the world was twice as big as most people believed. Oppressive warmongering rulers always hide important information from their subjects so they are easier to control and more willing to accept subpar living standards. This situation is no different. The popular myth that the world was flat was merely propaganda to keep any explorers from traveling west and discovering the new world before they were ready to conquer it for themselves.
Due to lack of resources, and the extensive crusades and inquisitions that were raging in Europe for many centuries, it took the elite until 1492 to make their official move across the Atlantic Ocean. Prior to this, only exploratory voyages were taken to the new world in order to prepare and gather information for future colonization.
When the elite were ready for conquest they sent an inquisitor and mapmaker by the name of Christopher Columbus to begin the Native American genocide and colonization process. Columbus was not an explorer, but one of the few elite members of society that had access to occult information such as the existence of the Americas.
Two years before Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas in 1490 he created a map which actually showed portions of North America, namely Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. This proves that Columbus knew exactly where he was going when he set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus most likely obtained this knowledge through a secret society he belonged to called “the Knights of Christ” which were apparently a surviving underground order of the knights Templar. This connection would explain why all three of Columbus’s ships from his famous first voyage were flying the colors of the knights Templar, the Maltese red cross. Regardless of where Columbus got his information his mission was certain, to harvest natural resources using native slave labor and to claim land for the catholic monarchy. This colonization would be the start of the most brutal genocide in known human history.
This is sadly the true history of the place that we live in, and while it may be unpleasant there is a lot that can be learned these from historical tragedies. By continuing to perpetuate the ethnocentric myths about the founding of this country we are ensuring that these lessons from the past will remain hidden.
In the counter-culture it isn’t necessarily our goal to completely eradicate all traces of contemporary culture form our lives, but our goal is simply to create a culture that is our own. Let’s enjoy Thanksgiving with our families without playing along with the traditional misinformation that holds very little value in relation to the true origins and nature of this holiday.
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/counter-culture-thanksgiving.html
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November 24, 2011 By T Kelly
That time of year is upon us again, when Americans will play along with traditions that have been largely corrupted by an establishment who seeks to propagate a dehumanizing culture of lies. Those may seem like strong words to describe one of your favorite times of the year, but just bear with me for a minute. I’m not suggesting that we do away with Thanksgiving altogether, or any other holiday for that matter. These are tough times that we are living in and having a day to relax and spend with loved ones is one of the most positive things that we can do. Especially in this culture where the family unit is demonized and being replaced with various state institutions, it is very important to make time for the people in your life. However, that doesn’t mean that we have to go along with a lot of the false historical narratives that have infected our most cherished celebrations.
Thanksgiving is by far the most obvious example, so it will probably be the best place to start.Since we were children our heads were filled with lies every single Thanksgiving; lies that rationalized and justified the genocide that took place so this country could be colonized.
Now that we live in the information age, people are a lot less likely to believe the downright fiction that has been passed off as history for generations.
Unfortunately, there are still way too many people who insist on playing along with these stories for the sake of fitting in or “respecting tradition”.
Our generation is the first in history to have access to alternative viewpoints, so let’s take the leap and create a culture that is actually empowering to those who adopt it.
Unfortunately the people that are responsible for creating mainstream culture have no interest in our well being. We are the source of their power, so in order to keep us under their control, they feed us a culture that programs us to operate according to their wishes. They do this by infecting some of the things that we enjoy the most with their toxic ideas. This is extremely common with holidays because they are so sacred to so many people. All that we need to do is remove the specific toxic ideas from contemporary culture and replace them with something that is actually beneficial.
As far as Thanksgiving is concerned, we really need to counteract the nationalistic folklore that has accompanied this holiday throughout our lives. If anything, it should be a day about preserving the true history of what happened, keeping the native culture alive, and paying respect to the people that were slain at the hands of our oppressors’ ancestors. Notice I didn’t say “my ancestors” or “our ancestors”, because that would not be a true statement. The people that are truly responsible for imperialism throughout history have progressively handed their power and plans down through their bloodlines. In other words we are being oppressed by blood descendants of the people who were oppressing our ancestors; the very people who committed and planned this genocide of which I speak.
To say that there was just one civilization here before colonization began would be a disservice to the diverse culture of the pre-Columbus Americas. Making the generalization that every tribe in that hemisphere was the same would be like saying that Canada, Mexico and the United States had identical cultures today. Contrary to the Europeans claims that the Americas were a vast uninhabited wilderness, there was actually a massive native population that numbered in the hundreds of millions. Traces of this large population seemed easy enough to destroy at first, considering the natives put a great deal of care into making as little an impact on their environment as possible. However, as time passes archeologists are continuing to uncover evidence that the pre-Columbus civilizations were much more advanced and populated then the historical record has told us thus far.
That’s not the only thing lied about in our history class. The ruling classes were also well aware that there were unexplored continents on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Many early European civilizations took voyages to the other side of the Atlantic over a thousand years ago; it is even believed that early Irish and Norse cultures actually had trade established with some Native American tribes. All of this information was hidden from most of the general public; only the nobility who were literate and had a decent understanding of history knew that the world was twice as big as most people believed. Oppressive warmongering rulers always hide important information from their subjects so they are easier to control and more willing to accept subpar living standards. This situation is no different. The popular myth that the world was flat was merely propaganda to keep any explorers from traveling west and discovering the new world before they were ready to conquer it for themselves.
Due to lack of resources, and the extensive crusades and inquisitions that were raging in Europe for many centuries, it took the elite until 1492 to make their official move across the Atlantic Ocean. Prior to this, only exploratory voyages were taken to the new world in order to prepare and gather information for future colonization.
When the elite were ready for conquest they sent an inquisitor and mapmaker by the name of Christopher Columbus to begin the Native American genocide and colonization process. Columbus was not an explorer, but one of the few elite members of society that had access to occult information such as the existence of the Americas.
Two years before Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas in 1490 he created a map which actually showed portions of North America, namely Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. This proves that Columbus knew exactly where he was going when he set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus most likely obtained this knowledge through a secret society he belonged to called “the Knights of Christ” which were apparently a surviving underground order of the knights Templar. This connection would explain why all three of Columbus’s ships from his famous first voyage were flying the colors of the knights Templar, the Maltese red cross. Regardless of where Columbus got his information his mission was certain, to harvest natural resources using native slave labor and to claim land for the catholic monarchy. This colonization would be the start of the most brutal genocide in known human history.
This is sadly the true history of the place that we live in, and while it may be unpleasant there is a lot that can be learned these from historical tragedies. By continuing to perpetuate the ethnocentric myths about the founding of this country we are ensuring that these lessons from the past will remain hidden.
In the counter-culture it isn’t necessarily our goal to completely eradicate all traces of contemporary culture form our lives, but our goal is simply to create a culture that is our own. Let’s enjoy Thanksgiving with our families without playing along with the traditional misinformation that holds very little value in relation to the true origins and nature of this holiday.
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/counter-culture-thanksgiving.html
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wishing all of you out there a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The World's Best Turkey Recipe - Allrecipes.com
The World's Best Turkey Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 1 (12 pound) turkey
Ingredients
1 (12 pound) whole turkey, neck and giblets removed
1/2 cup butter, cubed
2 apples, cored and halved
1 tablespoon garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
2/3 (750 milliliter) bottle champagne
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse turkey, and pat dry. Gently loosen turkey breast skin, and insert pieces of butter between the skin and breast. Place apples inside the turkey's cavity. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place turkey in a roasting bag, and pour champagne over the inside and outside of the bird. Close bag, and place turkey in a roasting pan.
Bake turkey 3 to 3 1/2 hours in the preheated oven, or until the internal temperature is 180 degrees F (85 degrees C) when measured in the meatiest part of the thigh. Remove turkey from bag, and let stand for at least 20 minutes before carving.
Footnotes
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 591 | Total Fat: 29.3g | Cholesterol: 214mg
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Original Recipe Yield 1 (12 pound) turkey
Ingredients
1 (12 pound) whole turkey, neck and giblets removed
1/2 cup butter, cubed
2 apples, cored and halved
1 tablespoon garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
2/3 (750 milliliter) bottle champagne
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse turkey, and pat dry. Gently loosen turkey breast skin, and insert pieces of butter between the skin and breast. Place apples inside the turkey's cavity. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place turkey in a roasting bag, and pour champagne over the inside and outside of the bird. Close bag, and place turkey in a roasting pan.
Bake turkey 3 to 3 1/2 hours in the preheated oven, or until the internal temperature is 180 degrees F (85 degrees C) when measured in the meatiest part of the thigh. Remove turkey from bag, and let stand for at least 20 minutes before carving.
Footnotes
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 591 | Total Fat: 29.3g | Cholesterol: 214mg
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Carving Turkey Article - Allrecipes.com
Carving Turkey Article - Allrecipes.com:
1. First of all, don't feel required to carve tableside. Though a common tradition in many families, it's perfectly fine to carve the turkey in the kitchen and bring the arranged platter to the table. This especially holds true if you're a novice at carving.
The Tools
Use a carving knife or a chef's knife. The longer the knife, the better it will work, as a long, smooth slicing motion will make for better slices. We used a long carving knife with oval indentations along the blade to reduce friction.
Tip: Be sure to let the turkey rest for at least 25 minutes before slicing: this helps the juices redistribute through the meat, making for a better-tasting turkey. (It also makes it easier to carve.)
2. Remove the drumsticks and thighs. Start by pulling a drumstick away from the bird and using the knife to disconnect the thigh bone from the body. Set it aside to carve later, and remove the second drumstick.
3. Remove the wings in the same fashion to fully expose the breast for carving. The wings on modern, commercial birds contain very little meat, so they're often used mainly for presentation on the platter.
4. To carve the bird, make sure it's lying on its back, breast-side up. Begin with a long horizontal cut at the base of the breast. You might be able to feel where the breast meat ends and the bone begins--cut as close to that area as you can.
5. Begin slicing the breast from the top down, working at a slight angle to cut away from the carcass. The horizontal cut at the bottom provides a convenient stopping point, making it easy to finish each cut. Transfer slices to a warmed serving platter.
6. To carve a drumstick, hold one end and slice off one side. Lay it flat on the cutting board and continue carving. Slice each side, turning the drumstick a quarter turn until you've removed all the meat.
7. Place the thigh on the cutting board and begin slicing parallel to the thigh bone. Cut into even strips.
8. Arrange the rest of the meat onto the warmed platter and serve.
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1. First of all, don't feel required to carve tableside. Though a common tradition in many families, it's perfectly fine to carve the turkey in the kitchen and bring the arranged platter to the table. This especially holds true if you're a novice at carving.
The Tools
Use a carving knife or a chef's knife. The longer the knife, the better it will work, as a long, smooth slicing motion will make for better slices. We used a long carving knife with oval indentations along the blade to reduce friction.
Tip: Be sure to let the turkey rest for at least 25 minutes before slicing: this helps the juices redistribute through the meat, making for a better-tasting turkey. (It also makes it easier to carve.)
2. Remove the drumsticks and thighs. Start by pulling a drumstick away from the bird and using the knife to disconnect the thigh bone from the body. Set it aside to carve later, and remove the second drumstick.
3. Remove the wings in the same fashion to fully expose the breast for carving. The wings on modern, commercial birds contain very little meat, so they're often used mainly for presentation on the platter.
4. To carve the bird, make sure it's lying on its back, breast-side up. Begin with a long horizontal cut at the base of the breast. You might be able to feel where the breast meat ends and the bone begins--cut as close to that area as you can.
5. Begin slicing the breast from the top down, working at a slight angle to cut away from the carcass. The horizontal cut at the bottom provides a convenient stopping point, making it easy to finish each cut. Transfer slices to a warmed serving platter.
6. To carve a drumstick, hold one end and slice off one side. Lay it flat on the cutting board and continue carving. Slice each side, turning the drumstick a quarter turn until you've removed all the meat.
7. Place the thigh on the cutting board and begin slicing parallel to the thigh bone. Cut into even strips.
8. Arrange the rest of the meat onto the warmed platter and serve.
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Homestyle Turkey, the Michigander Way Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Homestyle Turkey, the Michigander Way Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 1 (12 pound) turkey
Ingredients
1 (12 pound) whole turkey
6 tablespoons butter, divided
4 cups warm water
3 tablespoons chicken bouillon
2 tablespoons dried parsley
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
2 tablespoons seasoning salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse and wash turkey. Discard the giblets, or add to pan if they are anyone's favorites.
Place turkey in a Dutch oven or roasting pan. Separate the skin over the breast to make little pockets. Put 3 tablespoons of the butter on both sides between the skin and breast meat. This makes for very juicy breast meat.
In a medium bowl, combine the water with the bouillon. Sprinkle in the parsley and minced onion. Pour over the top of the turkey. Sprinkle seasoning salt over the turkey.
Cover with foil, and bake in the preheated oven 3 1/2 to 4 hours, until the internal temperature of the turkey reaches 180 degrees F (80 degrees C). For the last 45 minutes or so, remove the foil so the turkey will brown nicely.
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Original Recipe Yield 1 (12 pound) turkey
Ingredients
1 (12 pound) whole turkey
6 tablespoons butter, divided
4 cups warm water
3 tablespoons chicken bouillon
2 tablespoons dried parsley
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
2 tablespoons seasoning salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse and wash turkey. Discard the giblets, or add to pan if they are anyone's favorites.
Place turkey in a Dutch oven or roasting pan. Separate the skin over the breast to make little pockets. Put 3 tablespoons of the butter on both sides between the skin and breast meat. This makes for very juicy breast meat.
In a medium bowl, combine the water with the bouillon. Sprinkle in the parsley and minced onion. Pour over the top of the turkey. Sprinkle seasoning salt over the turkey.
Cover with foil, and bake in the preheated oven 3 1/2 to 4 hours, until the internal temperature of the turkey reaches 180 degrees F (80 degrees C). For the last 45 minutes or so, remove the foil so the turkey will brown nicely.
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Ma Lipo's Apricot-Glazed Turkey with Roasted Onion and Shallot Gravy Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Ma Lipo's Apricot-Glazed Turkey with Roasted Onion and Shallot Gravy Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Original Recipe Yield 30 servings
Ingredients
1 cup apricot nectar
1 cup apricot preserves
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon honey
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 onions, thinly sliced
6 ounces thinly sliced shallots
22 pounds whole turkey
2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried sage
2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Combine apricot nectar, preserves, ginger, and honey in a small saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until thickened and reduced to 1-1/4 cups, about 15 minutes.
Blend 3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature, 3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage, salt, and pepper in small bowl. Set aside.
Melt 2 tablespoons unsalted butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Add onions and shallots; saute until very soft and light brown, about 20 minutes.
Position rack in lowest third of oven. Preheat to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Season turkey cavity with salt and pepper. Place turkey, breast side up, on a rack in a large roasting pan. Slide hand under skin of turkey breast to loosen skin. Spread half of herb butter over breast under skin. Rub remaining herb butter over outside of turkey. Tie legs together loosely to hold shape of turkey.
Roast turkey for 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and continue roasting 1 hour 30 minutes, basting occasionally with pan drippings. Tent turkey with aluminum foil; roast 45 minutes longer. Add onion mixture, 1 cup broth, thyme, and 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh sage to the roasting pan. Roast 15 more minutes before brushing 1/2 cup apricot glaze over turkey. Continue to roast turkey uncovered, brushing occasionally with glaze. Add more broth to the pan if necessary. Bake 40 minutes longer for unstuffed turkey, and 1 hour 10 minutes longer for stuffed turkey, or until meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180 degrees F (80 degrees C). Place turkey on a platter, and tent with foil. Let stand 30 minutes. Reserve mixture in pan for gravy.
Pour contents of roasting pan into a strainer set over a large bowl. Skim fat from pan juices using a large spoon. Transfer the onion mixture to a blender. Add 1 cup pan juices, and puree until smooth, adding more pan juices and chicken broth if necessary to thin sauce to desired consistency. Transfer sauce to a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cook until color deepens, skimming off any foam, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Footnotes
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 588 | Total Fat: 28.8g | Cholesterol: 211mg
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Original Recipe Yield 30 servings
Ingredients
1 cup apricot nectar
1 cup apricot preserves
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon honey
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 onions, thinly sliced
6 ounces thinly sliced shallots
22 pounds whole turkey
2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried sage
2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Combine apricot nectar, preserves, ginger, and honey in a small saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until thickened and reduced to 1-1/4 cups, about 15 minutes.
Blend 3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature, 3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage, salt, and pepper in small bowl. Set aside.
Melt 2 tablespoons unsalted butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Add onions and shallots; saute until very soft and light brown, about 20 minutes.
Position rack in lowest third of oven. Preheat to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Season turkey cavity with salt and pepper. Place turkey, breast side up, on a rack in a large roasting pan. Slide hand under skin of turkey breast to loosen skin. Spread half of herb butter over breast under skin. Rub remaining herb butter over outside of turkey. Tie legs together loosely to hold shape of turkey.
Roast turkey for 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and continue roasting 1 hour 30 minutes, basting occasionally with pan drippings. Tent turkey with aluminum foil; roast 45 minutes longer. Add onion mixture, 1 cup broth, thyme, and 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh sage to the roasting pan. Roast 15 more minutes before brushing 1/2 cup apricot glaze over turkey. Continue to roast turkey uncovered, brushing occasionally with glaze. Add more broth to the pan if necessary. Bake 40 minutes longer for unstuffed turkey, and 1 hour 10 minutes longer for stuffed turkey, or until meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180 degrees F (80 degrees C). Place turkey on a platter, and tent with foil. Let stand 30 minutes. Reserve mixture in pan for gravy.
Pour contents of roasting pan into a strainer set over a large bowl. Skim fat from pan juices using a large spoon. Transfer the onion mixture to a blender. Add 1 cup pan juices, and puree until smooth, adding more pan juices and chicken broth if necessary to thin sauce to desired consistency. Transfer sauce to a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cook until color deepens, skimming off any foam, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Footnotes
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 588 | Total Fat: 28.8g | Cholesterol: 211mg
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A Very Valuable Lesson...
Someone posted this lesson on Facebook a few hours ago, and I thought I should post it here.
A lesson that we had learn and remember to relearn is how place people in our lives. Those that put you on a high pedestal too fast too soon and act in a way that overwhelm you after a few days knowing you, are just acting. Like all actors they can't carry the role throughout their lives and soon enough you will see the real person, a pathetic human being that have no vision and principal in life!! NEVER BE LIKE THIS!!!! - Zainal Abidin Sheikh Awab
A lesson that we had learn and remember to relearn is how place people in our lives. Those that put you on a high pedestal too fast too soon and act in a way that overwhelm you after a few days knowing you, are just acting. Like all actors they can't carry the role throughout their lives and soon enough you will see the real person, a pathetic human being that have no vision and principal in life!! NEVER BE LIKE THIS!!!! - Zainal Abidin Sheikh Awab
To the Indigenous Women, (short version) a poem by the 1491s
Uploaded by the1491s on Oct 18, 2011
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Raise Awareness and Help End the Epidemic of Violence against Native Women in the U.S.—Please Share this Video from the Indian Law Resource Center
Native women are murdered at 10 times the national rate; 1 out 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime, and 3 out of 5 physically assaulted. Even worse, 88% of the perpetrators are non-Indian and cannot be prosecuted by tribal governments. Stand and take action now to restore safety and justice for Native women. Do Something! Visit www.indianlaw.org.
A video poem made for the www.indianlaw.org. Written, performed and directed by Ryan Red Corn. The video was made in the hopes that lawmakers will take notice of the atrocious legal protection Indigenous women have. Call your leaders in Washington today and tell them to DO SOMETHING.
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HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!
All of our drama and suffering is by practice. We make an agreement with ourselves and we practice that agreement until it becomes a whole mastery.
~don Miguel Ruiz
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
More Turkey...
What! You didn't think I was only going to put 1 turkey recipie, did you? Here's another Turkey recipie, I'll post more Thanksgiving food recipies tomorrow.
Sherry's German Turkey Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Prep Time:
25 Min Cook Time:
4 Hrs Ready In:
4 Hrs 25 Min
Original Recipe Yield 18 servings
Ingredients
1 (18 pound) whole turkey, neck and giblets removed
1 medium onion, peeled
1 large carrot, peeled
1 stalk celery
1 apple, stem removed
1 orange
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
1 teaspoon soul food seasoning
1 pound sliced smoked bacon
1 turkey sized oven bag
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse the turkey, pat dry and place in a large roasting pan. Insert the onion, carrot, and celery into the cavity of the bird. Poke holes in the apple and orange so they will release their juices, and stuff them into the bird. You may have to cut some things in half to get them all inside. Spread oil all over the outside of the bird, and season with salt, pepper and soul food seasoning.
Place the turkey into an oven bag, and set back into the pan with the breast facing up. Lay strips of bacon over the entire top. Close the bag.
Roast the turkey for about 4 hours, or until the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees F (82 degrees C) when taken in the thickest part of the thigh. Let the turkey rest for 10 or 15 minutes before carving, and use the drippings in your favorite gravy recipe.
Footnotes
Tip
To get ahead for the big day, you can prepare turkey the night before, then refrigerate and roast the next day.
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 883 | Total Fat: 50.9g | Cholesterol: 326mg
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Sherry's German Turkey Recipe - Allrecipes.com:
Prep Time:
25 Min Cook Time:
4 Hrs Ready In:
4 Hrs 25 Min
Original Recipe Yield 18 servings
Ingredients
1 (18 pound) whole turkey, neck and giblets removed
1 medium onion, peeled
1 large carrot, peeled
1 stalk celery
1 apple, stem removed
1 orange
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
1 teaspoon soul food seasoning
1 pound sliced smoked bacon
1 turkey sized oven bag
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Rinse the turkey, pat dry and place in a large roasting pan. Insert the onion, carrot, and celery into the cavity of the bird. Poke holes in the apple and orange so they will release their juices, and stuff them into the bird. You may have to cut some things in half to get them all inside. Spread oil all over the outside of the bird, and season with salt, pepper and soul food seasoning.
Place the turkey into an oven bag, and set back into the pan with the breast facing up. Lay strips of bacon over the entire top. Close the bag.
Roast the turkey for about 4 hours, or until the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees F (82 degrees C) when taken in the thickest part of the thigh. Let the turkey rest for 10 or 15 minutes before carving, and use the drippings in your favorite gravy recipe.
Footnotes
Tip
To get ahead for the big day, you can prepare turkey the night before, then refrigerate and roast the next day.
Learn more about how to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving in our How to Cook a Turkey article!
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 883 | Total Fat: 50.9g | Cholesterol: 326mg
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