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"I'm not funny. What I am is brave." -Lucille Ball
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In their recent Dairy issue, Edible Manhattan has the heartbreaking story behind the sudden demise of Milk Thistle Farm, as seen through the lens of Milk Thistle’s once thriving — and delicious — relationship with Chef Christina Tosi and Momofuku Milk Bar:
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Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre of Tulsa, Oklahoma holding up a sign on Tuesday, at the capitol to protest anti-abortion legislation in the state. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman.
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I want you to stop being afraid...
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It Only Takes A Girl campaign, very moving.
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It’s a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings – one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one. Today, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay. The dock landing ship Oak Hill has been gone for nearly three months, training with military allies in Central America. As the homecoming drew near, the crew and ship’s family readiness group sold $1 raffle tickets for the first kiss. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta bought 50 - which is actually fewer than many people buy, she said, so she was surprised Monday to find out she’d won. Her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, was waiting when she crossed the brow. They kissed. The crowd cheered. And with that, another vestige of the policy that forced gays to serve in secrecy vanished. By Corinne Reilly The Virginian-Pilot
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George Whitman, 1913-201. It is with sadness that we mark the passing of Shakespeare & Co. proprietor George Whitman, a good friend to th[e Paris Review] magazine and to literature generally. Whitman played host to literary giants and hundreds of itinerant travelers. A living legend and a certified character, he for decades managed to balance the demands of an artistic institution and a popular tourist attraction. He’ll be missed and remembered.
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Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters? Joss Whedon: Because you're still asking me that question.
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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African American carrier for the US Postal Service. Despite her age, she never missed a day of work in the ten years she carried the mail and earned the nickname “Stagecoach” for her reliability. Fields loved the job, despite the many dangers and difficulties such as wolves and thieves (she was an excellent marksman, defending her route with a revolver and a rifle). The people of Cascade so loved and respected Fields, that each year on her birthday they closed the schools to celebrate the occasion. They even built her a new house when she lost her home in a fire in 1912.
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Mari Carmen Ecoro, an immigrant from Central Africa, was 34 and raising two school-age daughters in Queens when she decided to complete her high school equivalency degree through WNET, the local New York public television station that offers a televised GED series. Two degrees later, Ecoro was appointed a presidential adviser on education in her native country, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. This month, Ecoro receives her third degree, this time a master of science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education. “I always wanted, from a young age, to help my fellow human beings help themselves,” said Ecoro.
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bill nye for making science approachable to generations
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the first woman ever to officially register and run in the Boston Marathon, in 1967: Kathrine Switzer (click through for audio). Her running coach scoffed at the idea when she first brought up the possibility, but when she ran thirty miles with him in training he was forced to think again. They registered her by initial only (women weren’t officially allowed to race in the marathon until 1972) and she completed the race despite the fact that she was heckled verbally by officials and one man completely lost it and tried to rip her number off her back.
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Beth Shanahan I didn't know any of this! What a woman! Impressive drive!
Jessica Watson - Circummnavigator. Jessica Watson was eleven years old when she first heard the story of Jesse Martin, the 18-year old who, in 1999, became the youngest person to complete a non-stop, solo circumnavigation of the globe. The story stuck with her, and by the time she was thirteen she informed her parents that she intended to do the same thing. Watson’s trip was controversial before it even began, with many critics fuming over the debate of “how young is too young?” She was too inexperienced, too immature, and far too young to endeavor into something so dangerous, they claimed. To add fuel to their fire, during a sea trial, her sailboat, Ella’s Pink Lady, collided with a 63-ton, 738-foot bulk carrier, which resulted in a broken mast that she had to tend to before her official launch. Having dealt with the problem successfully and with confidence, she later wrote that, “Any doubts about whether I could cope mentally…vanished.” It wasn’t all smooth sailing after that first collision either; she experienced a “ferocious” Atlantic storm “with 4 knockdowns in one night…winds over 75 knots and waves of 15 meters and higher.” Nevertheless, On March 15, 2010, after sailing for 210 days straight, Jessica Watson became the youngest person to circumnavigate the world–solo, unassisted, and non-stop. She completed her circumnavigation when she landed in Sydney Harbor three days before her seventeenth birthday. Yeah, she did this at the age of sixteen.
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Irena Sendler 1910-2008 A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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elizabeth taylor "Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, all make us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished. " -her son
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Dean Germeyer for treating a little old lady with class.
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The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a Harvard minister, theologian and author who announced that he was gay a generation ago and became one of America’s most prominent spiritual voices against intolerance, died on Monday in Boston. He was 68.
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OutMilitary A true hero of the LGBT community. RIP.
Richard Alley, geosciences professor of Pennsylvania State University, because of this www.youtube.com/w...
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Rev. Peter J. Gomes the coolest rev in America. "Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers, Professor Gomes has fulfilled preaching and lecturing engagements throughout the United States and Great Britain. He was named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion and American Life. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons, the Book of Wisdom for Daily Living, were published by William Morrow & Company. He has published in total ten volumes of sermons, as well as numerous articles and papers. His most recent work, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, includes extensive commentary and observation on the interrelations of Church and State throughout history and particularly in recent US history. On September 15, 2008 he appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his book. During this interview, he also states that he was baptized Catholic and claims gospels are "a dime a dozen." Gomes surprised many when he revealed in 1991 that he is gay,[2] and has since become an advocate for wider acceptance of homosexuality in American society. However, he has stated that he has remained celibate. A lifelong Republican, Gomes offered prayers at the inaugurals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in August 2006 he moved his registration to Democrat, supporting the gubernatorial candidacy of Deval Patrick, who would later become the first African-American elected governor of Massachusetts. (Gomes, 2006) In 2008 Henry Louis Gates featured Gomes and his family on the PBS documentary African American Lives 2. A DNA test showed that Gomes is related to the Fulani, Tikar, and Hausa peoples of West Africa. Gomes is also descended from Portuguese Jews through his paternal grandfather who was born in the Cape Verde Islands.[wikipedia]"
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james joyce and sylvia beach (the first publisher of ulysses)
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the global warming skeptics vs the scientific consensus
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Dorothy Counts, the first African American girl to attend an all-white school school, being taunted by her peers. This girl's strength ... I can't begin to imagine.
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John C. Mutter is deputy director and associate vice provost of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and a professor in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of International and Public Affairs. Mutter uses his natural science training and social science intuition to examine questions concerning the role of disasters in economic development and human welfare. A question he is addressing is: “How much of the global inequality in development status can be attributed to the particular burden that the poorest people face from natural extremes such as hurricanes and earthquakes?” Mutter believes that this question is extremely important, as meteorological extremes are expected to increase as a result of human-induced climate change, and he is working to help those who are most vulnerable to horrific natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. In addition, Mutter leads the Earth Institute’s partnership with the UNEP’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, researching environmental degradation as both an outcome and a driver of disasters and conflicts. His studies range from the global analysis of disasters and development to an examination of the immediate and long-term mortality impacts of Hurricane Katrina (hence the morgue visits), where he has established a program to assess the specific vulnerabilities of communities of different social class, race, age and gender.
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this guy at the Rally to Keep Fear Alive/Rally to Restore Sanity
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What can satellite imagery tell us about the impact of humanity’s transformation of the landscape on climate and ecosystems? A lot, according to Ruth DeFries, ecosystems expert, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology at Columbia University and the Earth Institute’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC).
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Shahid Naeem, Director of science at the Earth Institute’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), Naeem works with others to study the environmental consequences of declining biodiversity. “Everywhere, ecosystems are becoming more and more impoverished, losing species at staggering rates,” says Naeem, “and once they are gone, it is extraordinarily difficult to bring them back.”
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Peter Schlosser, Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Senior Staff Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Associate Director and Director of Research at the Earth Institute. “He studies Earth’s hydrosphere, past and present climate, and human impact on the environment. ‘Whether we can turn the world from a non-sustainable to a sustainable path has been on my mind a lot,’ said Schlosser. ‘I don’t think we have a real answer yet, but the important thing is that we can see a path forward that is supported by technological innovation.’”
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Vijay Modi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “The key, he has found, lies in assembling people with the skills he needs and a desire to apply them to what, at first, might seem to be a problem not traditionally associated with those skills. For example, in recent work to understand the problem of local water access in Africa’s Sahel region, Modi assembled a team that included a remote sensing specialist, an expert on entrepreneurship and business, and a social scientist with experience understanding people’s environmental decision-making.”
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Mark Cane, the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. ‘In 1985 Mark Cane and his student, Steve Zebiak, published the results of a model they developed to predict the movement of warm water across the tropical Pacific Ocean in a cyclical phenomenon known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. ‘Science should be more than just an academic exercise,’ said Cane. ‘We’re not just predicting this thing in the Pacific; we’re trying to predict all these consequences around the world that people care about.’”
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Upmanu Lall, Director of the Columbia Water Center and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
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![George Whitman, 1913-201. It is with sadness that we mark the passing of Shakespeare & Co. proprietor George Whitman, a good friend to th[e Paris Review] magazine and to literature generally. Whitman played host to literary giants and hundreds of itinerant travelers. A living legend and a certified character, he for decades managed to balance the demands of an artistic institution and a popular tourist attraction. He’ll be missed and remembered.](http://media-cache2.pinterest.com/upload/49610033364923094_h90243Ti_b.jpg)
![Rev. Peter J. Gomes the coolest rev in America. "Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers, Professor Gomes has fulfilled preaching and lecturing engagements throughout the United States and Great Britain. He was named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion and American Life. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons, the Book of Wisdom for Daily Living, were published by William Morrow & Company. He has published in total ten volumes of sermons, as well as numerous articles and papers.
His most recent work, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, includes extensive commentary and observation on the interrelations of Church and State throughout history and particularly in recent US history. On September 15, 2008 he appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his book. During this interview, he also states that he was baptized Catholic and claims gospels are "a dime a dozen."
Gomes surprised many when he revealed in 1991 that he is gay,[2] and has since become an advocate for wider acceptance of homosexuality in American society. However, he has stated that he has remained celibate.
A lifelong Republican, Gomes offered prayers at the inaugurals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in August 2006 he moved his registration to Democrat, supporting the gubernatorial candidacy of Deval Patrick, who would later become the first African-American elected governor of Massachusetts. (Gomes, 2006) In 2008 Henry Louis Gates featured Gomes and his family on the PBS documentary African American Lives 2. A DNA test showed that Gomes is related to the Fulani, Tikar, and Hausa peoples of West Africa. Gomes is also descended from Portuguese Jews through his paternal grandfather who was born in the Cape Verde Islands.[wikipedia]"](http://media-cache-ec0.pinterest.com/upload/49610033364745077_qeU5VnzA_b.jpg)
Steph38 Couldn't love this more.
sugarpie project • i heard the quote but didn't see the photo. ♥ it. hope you're well, ms. salt.