October 25th – Breaking News in 1955

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Being at a loss for anything newsworthy today, I flashed back to the news headlines of 1955. See here.

1955 was a very prolific year, news wise. According to The People’s History website, these were some of the top headlines.

  • The St. Laurence Seaway opens
  • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger
  • The first McDonald’s was erected
  • TV dinners, featuring fish sticks, went to market
  • James Dean killed in auto accident in California
  • Coca Cola, previously available in bottles only, was now sold in cans
  • The average minimum wage in the USA reached $1.00 per hour
  • 7 out of 10 US families owned a car
  • USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, was launched
  • The original Salk polio vaccine was introduced
  • The Mickey Mouse Club debuted
  • California Disneyland opened
  • The Baghdad Pact was formed to unite the Middle East
  • The…

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Upside Down Tomato Tart

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Equal Measures: Upside Down Tomato Tart! If I were a fairy princess, in the Land of Make Believe, I would wrap myself in puff pastry and nibble my way out. Just so you know…puff pastry is paper-thin layers of buttery dough. It’s like a chef’s all-time secret never-fail pastry dough that practically makes everything look and taste gourmet. When baked, the layers of butter release steam that turns the dough light and flaky. Thank goodness it is sold prepackaged in the freezer section of most grocery stores. All you need to do is let it thaw for about 45 minutes and it’s ready to be transformed into your latest craving. I’ve heard it makes an incredible pizza dough, so I see that on my list of recipes soon. In the meantime, take advantage of tomato season. This recipe can slay dragons.

UPSIDE DOWN TOMATO TART

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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Gives Remarks at the Civil Rights Division’s Virtual Conference: Confronting Hate: Strategies for Prevention, Accountability and Justice | OPA | Department of Justice

Pursuant to my directive and the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, the Civil Rights Division is also expediting its review of federal hate crimes. Over the past six months, the department has charged more than 17 defendants with federal hate crimes, including in the case of the death of Ahmaud Arbery. We have also secured convictions in a number of notable hate crime cases.

For example, in 2019, a shooter killed one and wounded three others at a synagogue in Southern California. The defendant then set fire to a nearby mosque. Last month, that defendant pleaded guilty to all 113 counts and agreed to spend life in prison without parole.

The Justice Department will continue to use its criminal enforcement tools effectively, but we understand that our work must go beyond criminal prosecutions. So we are also hard at work maximizing the use of our non-criminal resources. For example, I have directed the establishment of a full-time Language Access Coordinator within the department.

In doing so, we hope that improved language access will improve people’s willingness and ability to report their experiences with hate. In another example of non-criminal action, the Civil Rights Division recently worked with the Department of Education to identify resources for students and families facing pandemic-related harassment. In keeping with our commitment to language access, that product was translated into several languages.

Source: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Gives Remarks at the Civil Rights Division’s Virtual Conference: Confronting Hate: Strategies for Prevention, Accountability and Justice | OPA | Department of Justice

If Environmental Protection Could become the Most Popular Topic on Earth

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If Environmental Protection could become the most popular topic out there

We would be able to look forward to having clean water and clean air

So let us help more people to be aware of the damage that is being done

We have a battle to fight and somehow it can be won

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We can talk about the impact of climate change on the lives of people on small islands these days

And how we will save a lot of cash when we treat the environment in better ways

We can build environmental protection awareness in a simply way for the children to understand

They will learn eco-friendly tips and start planning to take care of life’s demands

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We can tell the business owners who pollute the environment how they will lose everything after a while, so…

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Mini cheesecakes!

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Hi everyone! I had tried cheesecakes for the first time and it was incredibly fun..

These classic new york cheesecakes were very delicious and also easy to make!! I went for smaller cheesecakes because it was my first time and making a big 6 inch one was a little out of the place. Anyway, I always heard that making cheesecake was a hard task and you needed a lot of practice to do so. But, once I made them, I knew that it was all just a thought and that anyone who has cream cheese can make them easily.

Starting off with the recipe,

Ingredients required:

8-9 digestive biscuits/graham crackers

1/4 cup unsalted butter

1/2 cup cream cheese

2 tbsp fresh cream

1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk

1 1/2 tbsp corn flour

1/2 cup whipping cream

Directions:

First, crush some biscuits in a chopper or food processer and add melted…

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Mãe, ensine a sua filha que nenhum buquê de flores, joias ou pedidos de desculpas [ sem mudança de comportamento] justificam uma agressão.

Vivaldi translation of title: Mother, teach your daughter that no bouquet of flowers, jewelry or apologies [without changing behavior] justify aggression.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Começo escrevendo esse texto dizendo que nada justifica uma agressão.  Portanto, cabe as mães conversar francamente com suas filhas para que desde pequenas, elas possam crescer não aceitando a agressão como uma coisa natural. O intuito maior do meu trabalho, é levar conscientização a mulher nesse aspecto relacionado a violência doméstica. A mulher que é vítima de uma situação de violência, ela precisa poder se defender, e não se acostumar com maus tratos, limitações ou qualquer outro tipo de violência que possa vivenciar durante a sua vida em relação ao casamento, namoro e outros. A mulher é a maior responsável por ela mesma. Portanto, cabe defender a si e as filhas para que estas, não repitam as suas histórias.

A mulher exerce um papel muito forte dentro da relação. Não existe só a obrigação de fazer. Há uma obrigação de exigir também. A equidade é uma coisa muito…

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Minbari Mondays, All Alone in the Night, and Deadly Struggles

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      This  week’s set of incidents is the 11th report for our Earth standard year 2259, sent to us from our future by Ranger Mayann, writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed:

      Greetings, from Tuzanor:

     The three incidents of this report, only one of which takes place on your Babylon station, will have important repercussions for our Babylon station, once known as Babylon 4.  All are life and death struggles, and all are crucial history to The Anla’Shok.  For this reason, I take the time, in  what is now your earth year 2278, to write to you.  I write from over 200 years in your future, to tell you that you are not all alone in the night.  The Anla’Shok “have always been here” waiting for you.

Since your year 1260, in any case.

 

The first struggle is that of Delenn, who has made…

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