NASA Talks :: NEMO

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 11, 2013 | Bryan TX

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Blizzard Moves Through
This image was taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7:01 a.m. EST. Two low pressure systems came together and formed a giant nor'easter centered right over New England creating blizzards from Massachusetts to New York. the image was created by NASA's GOES Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Image credit: NASA/GOES Project
Page Last Updated: February 9, 2013
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NASA Official: Brian Dunbar

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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2446.html

MooPig Site Review :: "Austin Nutritional Therapy - Home"

Captured by Pat Darnell | Feb 10, 2013 | Bryan TX

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Austin Nutritional Therapy - Home: "Austin Nutritional Therapy --  Elaine DiRico, BA, NTP, FDN "

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Do you need a Nutritionist?

Well, because the food on your menu is no longer the food of your youth, you might consider the ramifications of that stuff you are eating.

If you wake up and hear that food is becoming scarce in the world, you need a Nutritionist. If you hear that they are genetically fiddling with the foods you eat, you need Nutritionist. If your "doctor was unable to offer anything more than the standard advice on diet, ... narcotics for pain, and an anti-depressant; and these were not routes that you wanted to take ..." you need Elaine DiRico.

Here in Austin is the best one. Elaine DiRico is who you should correspond with about all your nutritional how's and why's.

" ... I have found my passion. There is nothing as satisfying as seeing someone whom you have worked with and come to care about become happier and healthier. I teach classes, I have learned to enjoy public speaking, I have met amazing people and my own health has never been better. Let’s call it a win-win ... "

I have had numerous conversations with Elaine, and she has not only coached me, but inspired me to get off my butt, and make this body of mine hum again.

Below is the reading list of Elaine's that lends her own nutritional goals.

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http://www.austin-nutritional-therapy.com/
http://www.bioticsresearch.com/
http://www.hughchou.org/calc/chol.php
http://www.ewg.org/
http://w.wwwwhfoods.com/#ld
http://www.carbs-information.com/glycemic-index.htm
http://healthimpactnews.com/
http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/
http://www.botanicalmedicine.org/
http://poojasway.com/

Blogging Department :: "The Common Good"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 10, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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It's not easy finding subjects to blog about. Blog was short for Business Log, now it has lots of other forms and meanings. The major thing it has done is change social order. Discover your business, and make a daily log. It has a time stamp and file on a server. That makes it personal and public, and patented. Your blog is your patent.

Some how the first responders are no longer just news media jockeys. The camera phone and the bystander, who just happens to know how to blog, is the first witness on the scene. On youTube you find what you can't find on TV.

So who is responsible for what is and what isn't displayed for the public eye? I think blogging is response to absurd network news hype, and inaccurate newspaper stories. If anything, the witness to events is no longer second hand news coverage, rather it is you where you stand!

"It's a trend," think the media jugheads. "We the people thrive on bad news, we see it in the blogs." So they begin an onslaught of bad news. Typical.

Emphasis on bad news makes for an unlevel playing field. There is good news out there, and some bloggers try to make it their business. Thus, lots of flip flopping about whether there really is good in good. What some describe as the common good is not the common good of others.

Here's today's lemming. The dip in property tax collections that was predicted did not happen.

Property Tax Collections on the Rise Again « Eye on Housing:
Some analysts expected large declines in property tax collections for state and local governments in the wake of the Great Recession. However, this drop has never happened, despite historic price declines for owner-occupied housing. In fact, recent data demonstrate that property tax collections are on the rise again, leading to higher effective property rates for homeowners and other property owners.

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This elevated tax burden is significant, especially when one considers the decline in housing prices since 2006 – a decline that led many to incorrectly conclude that property tax payments would also significantly fall. According to the Case-Shiller national house price index, housing prices are down a little more than 30% over the last six years. Yet the decline of property taxes paid from the peak is negligible (0.4%). This means that the effective tax homeowners pay on their homes remains high.

Taxes paid by homeowners and other real estate owners remain the largest single source of taxes for state and local governments. At 34%, property taxes represent a significantly larger share than the next largest sources: individual income taxes (22%) and sales taxes (21%).

There are several reasons why property taxes have not dropped with housing values.

• First, assessments of value tend to lag.
• Second, Property tax authorities can adjust tax rates, increase them as property values decline.
• Taxes paid by homeowners and other real estate owners remain the largest single source of taxes for state and local governments. At 34%, property taxes represent a significantly larger share than the next largest sources: individual income taxes (22%) and sales taxes (21%).

NEXT WEEK :: So You Want to be a Property Owner!

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http://eyeonhousing.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/property-tax-collections-on-the-rise-again/
http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-case-shiller-home-price-indices/en/us/?indexId=spusa-cashpidff--p-us----
http://www.nahb.org/generic.aspx?sectionID=734&genericContentID=155396&channelID=311

MooPig Home School :: "What to Read"

Something Happened on the way to Work
Afterward by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 9, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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After reading the Fountainhead I swore I would not ever read another book by Ayn Rand. I'm a homegrown yellow tail Texas Democrat. 

What is so frustrating about her novel is that she glosses over the technical aspect of her very technical story. She never gives any real, honest to goodness, description about architecture, while the whole story revolves around the construction industry. It is nerve racking. And then her protagonist, Howard Roark, commits an act of terror and blows up a building. Roark dynamites the building to prevent the subversion of his vision.

One source says: "How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Ayn Rand's various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author's ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the "second-handers". "

I am holding myself back on telling what I think about Ayn Rand. Let's just say that any man who thinks he is an archetype man as described in her books, is a total "putz."

Book News: Should Ayn Rand Be Required Reading? : The Two-Way : NPR: Idaho state Sen. John Goedde (half-jokingly) introduced a bill this week that would require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and pass an exam in order to graduate. (ANNALISA QUINN. February 08, 2013. LINK)

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It caused a storm on the left. "But why not," asks Michael Moynihan. It might just rid us of her noxious prose for good. (Michael Moynihan. Feb 8, 2013 4:45 AM EST. LINK )

NEXT WEEK: "Where's the Brick?"


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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/08/171454387/book-news-should-ayn-rand-be-required-reading?ft=1&f=1001
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/feb/05/bill-requires-all-idaho-kids-read-atlas-shrugged/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/08/make-them-read-rand-a-scheme-in-idaho-to-put-objectivism-in-schools.html

MooPig's Immigration Department :: "Power and determination of the Jewish faith"

Scooped by Pat Darnell | Feb 3, 2013 | Bryan TX

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Photo of Passover Seder Plate showing (clockwise, beginning from top): maror (romaine lettuce), z'roa (roasted shankbone), charoset, maror (chrein), karpas (celery sticks), beitzah (roasted egg)

Group of Indian Jews said to be from 'Lost Tribe' move to Israel:
" ... Jewish immigrants of the Bnei Menashe tribe reunite with relatives at the Ben Gurion airport on December 24, 2012 near Tel Aviv, Israel. Fifty members of Bnei Menasche are emigrating to join the 1,700 already resident in Israel, following a 2005 ruling in which they were recognized by Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar as being the descendents of the Manasseh, a lost biblical Jewish tribe. An estimated 7,200 Bnei Menasche remain in the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur are eligible to emigrate ( LAUREN E. BOHN. 12/24/12. HERE)... "

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CHURACHANDPUR, India - A group of 50 Jews said to descend from one of the 10 Lost Tribes prepared Thursday [Dec 20, 2012] to emigrate to Israel from their village in northeastern India.

The members of the Bnei Menashe community prayed in their local synagogue and then hugged their crying relatives before heading off to the airport in the Manipur state capital of Imphal, 55 kilometres (34 miles) away.

The Bnei Menashe say they are descended from Jews banished from ancient Israel to India in the eighth century B.C.

An Israeli chief rabbi recognized them as a lost tribe in 2005 and about 1,700 moved to Israel before the Israeli government stopped giving them visas. The government recently reversed that policy. About 7,200 remain in India. (ASSOCIATED PRESS DECEMBER 20, 2012. HERE) ... "

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2,000th Bnei Menashe immigrant arrives
Mirna Singsit, 18, from Manipur, honored in special celebration at Ben-Gurion Airport upon reaching Jewish homeland ... " (Ynetnews. 01.23.13, 13:15 / Israel Jewish Scene. HERE) ... "

" ... Mirna Singsit, 18, from the state of Manipur in northeast India, is the 2,000th Bnei Menashe member to make aliyah to Israel.

27 centuries of exile
“This is an incredibly emotional day for all of us,” said Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund as he welcomed Singsit and her family to Israel. “The arrival of the 2000th Bnei Menashe immigrant is a milestone for the community and for the Jewish state.

"After 27 centuries of exile, the lost tribe of Bnei Menashe is truly coming home. But we will not rest until all the remaining Bnei Menashe still in India are able to make aliyah as well,” Freund added.

Freund, who joined the flight from India, said that during the flight "we all had tears of joy in our eyes, realizing that this is part of the closure of a 2,700-year historical circle of this lost tribe."

Freund stressed that "their immigration to Israel demonstrates the power and determination of the Jewish faith: Despite being cut off for hundreds and thousands of years, they never forgot who they were and where they want to return to."
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http://www.canada.com/life/Group+Indian+Jews+said+from+Lost+Tribe+move+Israel/7726456/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3a+canwest%2fF77+(canada.com+World+News)
http://www.ibtimes.com/what-passover-jewish-holiday-history-and-rules-434380
http://scheinerman.net/judaism/pesach/haggadah.pdf
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4334963,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4324718,00.html
http://www.bneimenashe.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/bnei-menashe-move-to-israel-indian-jews-from-lost-tribe-arrive-in-holy-land-photos_n_2359086.html