Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms

6-1-Pho, Vietnamese fast food in Clintonville

The restaurant — owned by Lisa Bui and her husband Ian Capotosta — will feature customizable Vietnamese bowls and subs.

“We want to present these cuisines in a modern way without losing their authenticity,” she says. Bui adds that they hope to introduce Vietnamese fare to customers who might be intimidated by it.

Their goal is to keep the menu simple, with three bowls, four subs and two appetizers. Bowls include pho, rice or cold noodle salad. For soups, diners choose from chicken, beef or a vegetarian broth; every meal is customizable through the choice of proteins like beef, chicken or meatballs. There are four house-made subs, all versions of the Vietnamese banh mi sandwich. Bui said they’re making nearly everything from scratch, including their own pate and mayonnaise. Meals will range from about $8 to $9.75.”

Story in Columbus Alive. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2015/08/06/fast-casual-vietnamese-6-1-pho-opens-in-clintonville.html

What is Pho?  Wikipedia definition:  “Phở or pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup consisting of broth, linguine-shaped rice noodles called bánh phở, a few herbs, and meat, primarily served with either beef or chicken. Pho is a popular street food in Vietnam and the specialty of a number of restaurant chains around the world. Southern Vietnamese eat it for breakfast and occasionally lunch, whereas those from northern Vietnam consume it at any time of day.”^]

Cecile the lyin’

Her salary is $400,000/year and her net worth is over $4 million.  It’s a great business model.

The Zuckerberg baby

I've been watching the hype about the Zuckerbergs' pregnancy and their previous miscarriages. I'm having trouble with the value system that says it is a baby in the womb when the parents desire it, but a parasite and clump of cells when they don't. Who gets to decide that? The same people who say Cecil the Lion is worth more than a race horse that breaks its leg and is put down, or dog that doesn't meet breed specs for its size so it is destroyed, or aborted baby parts for sale.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-mark-zuckerberg-baby-20150731-story.html

Obama and Iran

A new 416 p. book is out in Iran by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  that describes how to "outwit America" and says their Supreme Leader is the “The flag-bearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.” . . .

“The fundamental flaw in the Obama administration's approach to Iran is one of poor judgment: Obama believes that Iran isn't that bad, and America really isn't that good. He wants to bring them up a peg, take us down and peg, and then over time everybody will be friends.”

Buck Sexton

http://nypost.com/2015/08/01/iran-publishes-book-on-how-to-outwit-us-and-destroy-israel/

Two great worship services, one Sunday morning at the Lake

Services on the East side of the Pavilion at Lakeside at 8:30 a.m. is always wonderful.  Communion looking over the lake, brilliant sun, cool breeze, and a good sermon by Pastor Irwin Jennings. Then breakfast at the patio.  Today I decided to also take in the more formal service at Hoover Auditorium at 10:30  to hear Dr. Sergei Nikolaev, professor of Evangelism and President of the Moscow United Methodist Seminary in Moscow, Russia.  There were four selections by the Firelands String Quartet, prelude, postlude, offertory and anthem with the choir—a different kind of wonderful. Dr. Nikolaev told us a little about himself—raised in a atheist home in the USSR, he became a Christian while studying engineering physics.  One grandfather was educated and a teacher, but an atheist who travelled giving “sermons” on atheism, and the other was a simple bee-keeper, an Orthodox Christian who had icons in his home and would cross himself before meals. When the children of the family would ask what he was doing, they were told he was just a crazy old man.  I’m looking forward to his lectures this week.  He said as a Methodist, he doesn’t experience overt persecution, but his church is considered a cult by many and there is peer pressure and some harassment. With the problems between Russian and Ukraine he doesn’t see the Methodists as having some of the problems of the other Protestant groups in part because they are unified by one bishop and one seminary.  They pray for each other.

http://blog.lakesideohio.com/2015/08/02/preacher-of-the-week-the-rev-dr-sergei-nikolaev/

The BMI doesn’t tell the whole story, but . . .

I took the test. Much better than last summer at this time.

“Congratulations! Your healthy weight is well worth the effort. It reduces your risk of serious health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. To maintain a healthy weight:

•Embrace healthy eating by choosing a variety of nutrient-rich foods, including fruits, vegetables and whole grains and small amounts of energy-dense foods like olive oil, nuts and dried fruits.

•Exercise. Aim for 30 to 60 minutes of moderately intense activity daily.

•Set action goals focused on specific healthy activities such as improving muscle tone through strength training or starting a daily food and activity diary.”

http://www.mayoclinic.org/bmi-calculator/itt-20084938

A high amount of body fat can lead to weight-related diseases and other health issues and being underweight can also put one at risk for health issues. BMI and waist circumference are two measures that can be used as screening tools to estimate weight status in relation to potential disease risk. However, BMI and waist circumference are not diagnostic tools for disease risks. A trained healthcare provider should perform other health assessments in order to evaluate disease risk and diagnose disease status.

Another way to estimate your potential disease risk is to measure your waist circumference. Excessive abdominal fat may be serious because it places you at greater risk for developing obesity-related conditions, such as Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease. Your waistline may be telling you that you have a higher risk of developing obesity-related conditions if you are¹:

• A man whose waist circumference is more than 40 inches
• A non-pregnant woman whose waist circumference is more than 35 inches

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/index.html

Following the logic of the left

 

An inspiration for all people, but especially women

Big game hunting in Zimbabwe is important for its economy

"Hunting in Zimbabwe with Georgia Safaris for some of the finest African dangerous game hunting trips available. Over the past 20 years Georgia Safaris specialized in Cape buffalo hunting, African leopard hunting safaris and sable antelope hunting. John Hunt has been leopard hunting in Zimbabwe for almost 40 years.

We focus on hunting two of the African Big 5 but also have affordable elephant hunting safaris available of up to 30 pounds a side. Lion hunting in Zimbabwe is subject to availability of tags."

http://www.huntinginzimbabwe.com/

Why is the world aflame over Cecil the lion and not Cecile the CEO who sells baby parts?

 ‪#‎lionslivesmatter‬, ‪#‎unbornbabieslivesmatter‬

There is a civil war brewing among librarians

Librarians are missionaries, although non-pacifist.  They are also members of the most liberal of all professions: 223:1 liberal to conservative. There is a disagreement about the mission.

http://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.230/

There is a growing rift between those who believe the library’s most fundamental purpose is to support and advance the goals of its host institution and those who believe the library’s most important role is as an agent of progress and reform in the larger world of scholarly communication. Although these two areas of endeavor are not mutually exclusive, they are in competition for scarce resources and the choices made between them have serious implications at both the micro level (for the patrons and institutions served by each library) and the macro level (for members of the larger academic community). The tension between these two worldviews is creating friction within librarianship itself

Cecil the lion and Cecile the CEO

Weep for Cecil but remember he's an animal; pray for Cecile and remember she's killing human babies and getting paid for it.

The killing of Cecil the lion has been at the forefront of international outrage regarding big game hunting and now the Obama administration says they will join in helping investigate his death. The Hill reports that the administration is “ready to take action” and offer support to the Zimbabwean government. Earlier this month, American dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil outside a Zimbabwean park.

Laury Parramore, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service said, “The Service is deeply concerned about the recent killing of Cecil the lion. We are currently gathering facts about the issue and will assist Zimbabwe officials in whatever manner requested. It is up to all of us — not just the people of Africa — to ensure that healthy, wild populations of animals continue to roam the savanna for generations to come.”

Although it is wonderful that the Obama administration has strong convictions about the killing of animals, it is unbelievable that this concern outweighs the trafficking of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood.

http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/31/obama-will-investigate-death-of-cecil-the-lion-ignores-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-babies/

Doesn’t Zimbabwe, which allows big game hunts, have any other problems Obama needs to be concerned about?  Poverty?  Disease?  Education?  He’s done zip for Africa.  Far less than Bush or Clinton during their terms in office.

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorLankford/videos/vb.130873066975024/931954260200230/?type=2&theater

How to make oven baked rice

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Oven-Baked-Rice

350 degrees, spray a casserole dish, heat 2 cups of water and add butter and salt.  Add 1 cup dry brown rice.  Bake for 25-30 minutes in covered dish.  Remove and fluff.

Now, don’t lose this again, understand?

Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

Foods that fight inflammation

Your immune system attacks anything in your body that it recognizes as foreign—such as an invading microbe, plant pollen, or chemical. The process is called inflammation. Intermittent bouts of inflammation directed at truly threatening invaders protect your health.

However, sometimes inflammation persists, day in and day out, even when you are not threatened by a foreign invader. That’s when inflammation can become your enemy. Many major diseases that plague us—including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and Alzheimer’s—have been linked to chronic inflammation.

Today I’ve had all of these except fish and I had fish tacos on Tuesday evening. Ooh, I feel so healthy!

Safe, affordable healthcare for women

Hillary and the White House are doubling down on the Planned Parenthood (sic) selling of baby parts.  She's calling it "safe, affordable healthcare for women," not evil, not death, not parts for profit, not babies. And the White House is really slick--calls the videos fraudulent, I suppose because restaurant noise was edited out (the entire videos are also available if you have the stomach for pure evil).

Let's say you're a Democrat or an Independent or a Libertarian and OK with abortion or a woman’s right to choose when it's a blob of cells, because about 90% are aborted at less than 13 weeks and don't look like a baby to you.  But 1.4% are over 21 weeks, or about 10,225 a year (CDC reports 730,322 abortions in 2012). Those are live children who could survive outside the womb, who can feel pain, cry, turn somersaults, and hear their mothers' voices. What's a good number for you before you call it what it is?

The word police on campus

"Language has been described as complicated, intriguing and beautiful.” So opens the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide,” whose unstated purpose is to make language a lot more complicated and less beautiful. “We offer this guide as a way to promote discussion and to facilitate creative and accurate expression,” the authors assert. “This guide is not a means to censor but rather to create dialogues of inclusion where all of us feel comfortable and welcomed.” 

Oh boy. So what is offensive? Well, the photo with the guide shows no one of European origin--not Irish, German, Serbian, French, Russian, or Finn. Everyone is thin, good looking and dressed alike in denim and white. No one is disabled. No males in the photo, although one person appears to be gender-neutral or transitioning.

 https://web.archive.org/web/20150730183429/http://www.unh.edu/inclusive/bias-free-language-guide?

Senior citizen, elder, and elderly have been banished from the guide—back to “old people.” When I was a college student I thought anyone over 25 was an old person. HA!  Micro aggression has been subdivided to micro-assault, micro-insult and micro-invalidation.

Canadian train tour

Not this summer, but maybe next year. http://www.agawatrain.com/packages-schedule/  We love train travel.

Welcome aboard one of the most popular train tours in North America. This one-day wilderness excursion will transport you 114 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, over towering trestles, alongside pristine northern lakes and rivers and through the awesome granite rock formations and vast mixed forests of the Canadian Shield.

Outreach and engagement

Expansion at the highest levels of academe should never surprise me, but it does. "Outreach and engagement" is for vice presidents or associate provosts of universities, and as I look through their names and photos, it's a good way to add females and minorities to white privileged administrations. The titles are often added to "diversity" jobs. They even have their own consortium.

 http://engagementscholarship.org/resources/university-based-engagement-offices

Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz has named a 10-member committee to search for the vice provost for Outreach and Engagement. The committee will be chaired by Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries Carol Diedrichs, and also includes Ola Ahlqvist (Geography), Eric Anderman (Educational Studies), Trevor Brown (John Glenn College of Public Affairs), Ronald Hendrick (FAES), Mark Shanda (Theatre), Natasha Slesnick (Human Sciences), Sarah Thompson (student representative, Social Work), Eric Troy (Student Life) and Kimberly Lambert (Human Resources, ex officio). Associate Vice Provost Stephen Myers will manage the day-to-day operations of the Office of Outreach and Engagement until a vice provost is hired.

Pretend I’m a lion