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JCPenney’s ‘Hitler’ Teakettle Sells Out Online
Updated, May 29, 1 p.m.: You’ll have to visit JCPenney stores in person to buy the teakettle that resembles former German Chancellor and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Over Memorial Day weekend, a user on social news site Reddit noticed something odd: a teakettle that looked like Hitler. The Michael Graves Design Bells and Whistles Stainless Steel Tea Kettle ($40)
Malcolm Gladwell: Biracial and proud of it
English: Malcolm Gladwell speaks at PopTech! 2008 conference. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cover of Outliers: The Story of Success
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/malcolm-gladwell/9/
I have just listened to three audiobooks read by author Malcolm Gladwell. I have heard of him and his books but just happened upon his Tipping Point and Blink both of which are worth a read. He is not quite as smart as John McWhorter because in his interview with Gates he peppered his answers with lots of ”ahms, and you know” I’m like WTF? This guy is not doing a good interview. Was he nervous or was there bad chemistry between the two talkers. During his many lectures Gladwell is well, coherent and not stumbling over his words.
My only problem with his thesis in Blink about thinking without thinking is that one is not using the brain or thoughts to reach lightning fast accurate assessments of situations that would harm them if they were to stop and think. It’s called intuituion and it operates above the mental plane not on it. So technically he is not correct but subjectively I can give him a pass on the book. It gets people to thinking about intuition or making choices without thinking but intuiting and TRUSTING THAT INTUIT.
Oh and how can I forget the Outliers about success. This October his new book ” David and Goliath” should be out in print.
He confirms one thing I know from my past life research that nurture and culture are huge and they are passed down just like genes to offspring. Not only that but particular traits are indeed part of a family’s DNA.
I also found this link about his genealogy and that his grandparent was named Thomas Adams. That’s strange because that’s my maiden name and my grandfather, not the same person of course, was also named Thomas Adams!
I will have to do a little more research because we in fact could be related through our European ancestors. It’s ironic because my anglo ancestors are mostly on my father’s side hence the name Adams. However, my mother’s people are Mediterranean hence my olive coloring and Italian ways.
More later on this guy. He has interviews on youtube also you can check out.
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- Malcolm Gladwell (mtradogna.wordpress.com)
- Malcolm Gladwell Hates the Main Branch of the NYPL, Thinks We Should Replace It With Luxury Condos (observer.com)
- Malcolm Gladwell: Biracial and proud of it (heloise8.wordpress.com)
Fears Grow of a Himalayan Tsunami as Glaciers Melt
Melting glaciers and rising temperatures are forming a potentially destructive combination in the deep ravines of Nepal’s Himalayan foothills, and the Phulping Bridge — on the Araniko Highway linking Kathmandu with the Chinese border — is a good place to see just how dangerous the pairing can be.
A bare concrete pillar stands there, little noticed by the drivers of trucks, laden with Chinese goods, that rattle along at high speeds across the bridge, about 110 km from Kathmandu.
Terror in London Sparks Tensions, Upsurge in Islamophobic Attacks
Violence and fear travel swiftly, and faster still in the era of tweets and status updates and 24-hour rolling news. Just after 2 p.m. on May 22, police answered a call to an incident in Woolwich, southeast London. A 25-year-old soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, leaving the local barracks, had been hit by a car and then hacked to death in front of horrified onlookers.
The Press: Buy One Get One Free
Fox News Channel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the latest government/Obama scandal of scandals Eric Holder, whom we know has just got to go before he further ruins the rep of the DOJ. James Rosen who is the head of Fox has made his rounds on the airwaves. Is Eric after him in particular? It seems that Rosen might be a spy!
With the press, in the worthless state they find themselves often in the tank for Obama anyway except for a precious few press and media outlet DOJ or rather the press, has a big friend in the WH in the form of the Dem-controlled government. Fox News seems to be the main target of the illegal requests for information. But that is only the beginning of this scurilous scandal.
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Is Dan Brown reading “The Trough”?
English: Dante Alighieri’s portrait by Sandro Botticelli. Tempera 54,7 x 47,5 cm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Dan Brown has a brand new book. http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Robert-Langdon-Dan-Brown/dp/0385537859/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1_7M8V#reader_0385537859Here is an insider link from Amazon on some pages, a lot in fact, of this book.
The title is simply “Inferno” as in Dante’s inferno. I postulated some years back and posted it on this web site that using letters and reading the symbology if you will, that Dan Brown was Dante Bruno (brown), which would have been his name had he used it isntead of Aligheri.
The book is also an audiobook which is quite expensive but I will read or listen to it eventually. In what I’ve read so far he uses one of my methods of reading letters to uncover truth.
Now that I’ve met the character I was missing when I wrote my book I should be able to return to that in future it seems. Until then, I keep looking and finding.
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- Dan Brown’s Inferno… Do or Don’t? (unputdownables.net)
- Roll over, Dante: Dan Brown’s Inferno is one hell of a novel (guardianlv.com)
- Dan Brown’s Inferno: first look at bestselling author’s new novel (telegraph.co.uk)
update: I’m still here!
Bull Market – sculpture at Toronto-Dominion Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A permanent fixture in the grassy courtyard of the office complex, “The Pasture” by sculptor Joe Fafard comprises seven lifelike bronze cows. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The end of this school year saw me jettison some things. The first to go was my prolific blogging both here and on blogcritics. I can’t say I don’t miss it. It did not pay here nor there. So I thought I would make my own money. I opened a stock account and as reporting now and again–it’s going gangbusters.
I have doubled my initial 10K startup. Correction: I did a quick and dirty look at the withdrawals from my porfolio and they come to 11K, and I still have 15K of stock left. So if I sold every position now, I would actually be ahead a whopping 15,000 since January 2013!
I was only in the market to make a little money as in interest on account that I was not getting and this bull market happened on my way to making a little interest.
Everyone is scratching their heads over this market. I am ringing the register with glee.
I know I’ve met the person I was looking for to complete my story. Things are not going smoothly or as expected so I have nothing to say about this meeting except that we met.
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Rick Warren: Son bought 'unregistered gun'
By Greg Botelho, CNN
(CNN)--High-profile Pastor Rick Warren tweeted Thursday that his son who shot himself late last week had bought an "unregistered gun" from "someone over the internet."
"I pray he seeks God's forgiveness," wrote Warren, a best-selling author and the head of Saddleback Church, referring to whoever sold his son the gun. "I forgive him."
Having a busy and bad year at work
You know I got depression and other problems and really know that teaching in this mileu is not easy for me. I guess it’s all karma. I also had good news and maybe that’s why things seem to be falling apart. I am sure that I’ve met my soul mate. He is gorgeous and worth the wait.
He showed up on my birthday this year. He’s also Jewish can you believe that? Well, Heloise has dated almost every ethnic group including Jewish men, in the past.
More later. It’s still new and unsettled yet. But I knew it was he on first sight. He looks like he stepped right out a Roman History, ancient, book. He’s Jewish but looks Roman. He’s the one I just could not find.
Warren Buffett may be souring on stocks
The Oracle of Omaha still likes the market -- but he's hardly pounding the table.
FORTUNE -- In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) shareholders, released Friday afternoon, Buffett says he still believes U.S. stocks will "do well." He notes that he made his first stock purchase during the bleakest part of World War II, so even if things look not so great right now, you should end up doing fine as well.
