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Saturday, June 30, 2012
British singer Adele pregnant with first child
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China Slowing Nuclear Buildout In Response To Fukushima
Lasrick writes "Yun Zhou writes about the end result of China's long reconsideration of nuclear power safety in the wake of Fukushima. Important details about the decision to adopt designs created in China, and incorporate Gen III in those designs." The short version is that they won't be building more Generation II reactors, opting instead to only build Generation III reactors (which have passive safety systems). Instead of relying entirely on the AP1000, China is speeding up the design of their own Generation III reactors. Plans are still in place for 70GW by 2020, but that date will likely slip due to regulatory delays and the temporary construction moratorium.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery?
That's the proof of a supernova in 774?
Yeah, that's credible.
One wonders what the "wonderful serpents" were.
You're simply not going to get a definitive record of a celestial event in 8th century Europe. Records are very scanty, often non-existent. This is so marked that it's led to an entertaining conspiracy theory [wikipedia.org] or two [wikipedia.org] claiming that the early Middle Ages didn't actually exist and were faked at some later date. Back in the real world, there's so little evidence for most things about Anglo-Saxon England that the claim that the people of York chose Ethelred, son of Mull to be their king is almost as suspect as the claim about the wonderful serpents.
So the best you can usually hope for in the English 8th century is a monk somewhere recording events in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (or a Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- there were a few of them made at different times and in different places). The Chronicle doesn't really go for detail. They sum up a year in a few declarative sentences, with no description, so you're never going to get a description of a celestial event, you're going to get a simplfied interpretation of it. This interpretation will be in terms that the monk or the eyewitnesses he got his information from understood. They didn't know anything about supernovas, but he knew about miraculous crosses in the sky, like that which appeared to the future Roman Emperor Constantine during his fighting against his rival Maxentius. So whatever it was that someone saw, it got interpreted as a crucifix.
The point isn't that something definitely appeared in the sky in 774. There's a chance that someone made up the red crucifx, or hallucinated it, or the chronicler lied or garbled a story he heard fifth-hand. But if it did happen, there's no reason to think that there will be better written evidence than a vague line in one copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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96% Yellow Submarine
I don't mean to sound trite, but they should just rename this film "Drug Trip: The Movie" and be done with it. Seriously.Ok then, with that out of the way, I must say, this is a bit of a hard film to really rate or review. Obviously I'm gonna have to do just that, but it is a bit difficult for me.This fantasy centered around The Beatles going out to stop a bunch of creatures caleld Blue Meanies who have taken over a place called Pepperland combines the terrific music of The Beatles with really cool and unique art disrection and visual styles to create a film that is really just an otherworldlt experience. Just so you know, I didn't see this high, but I did have a couple of drinks. I really cn't say what would be the best way to experience this film. I leave that up to you.There's a story, but it's pretty much just a thin clothesline to hang some great tunes and trippy visuals on. This will probably not appeal to some people, but, I at least got something out of it, even if I don't truly know how I feel about this film-hence why my rating is mainly a formaility.I do think this should be seen though, because it is entertaining, and there's some wild stuff going on, even if it does get a bit too self indulgant with the psychedelia. At least there's the music and some subtle, dry humor to make the film more than just trippiness.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Ephron blazed trail in male-dominated industry
FILE - This Nov. 3, 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Nora Ephron is very ill, according to a representative for her publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her condition on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, hours after celebrity columnist and friend Liz Smith published what appeared to be a memorial for the writer. Smith told The Associated Press that she had spoken to Ephron's son Tuesday morning and was told that Ephron was dying. She said when she heard that funeral plans had already been arranged, she published the column on the website Women on the Web. Latimer did not provide any additional information on Ephron's condition. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - This Nov. 3, 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Nora Ephron is very ill, according to a representative for her publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her condition on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, hours after celebrity columnist and friend Liz Smith published what appeared to be a memorial for the writer. Smith told The Associated Press that she had spoken to Ephron's son Tuesday morning and was told that Ephron was dying. She said when she heard that funeral plans had already been arranged, she published the column on the website Women on the Web. Latimer did not provide any additional information on Ephron's condition. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Before Nancy Meyers, before Sofia Coppola, before Julie Delpy and Kasi Lemmons and Nicole Holofcener, there was Nora Ephron.
She was a rare woman writing and directing in what was (and still is) the male-dominated industry of filmmaking. Ephron staked out her spot on the cinematic landscape with a distinctive voice and formidable wit. Now, she leaves behind a legacy of classic moments and quotable lines after succumbing to leukemia Tuesday at age 71.
The very mention of her name calls to mind a certain kind of movie, something you can't say about many filmmakers, regardless of their gender. They were romantic comedies, yes, but ones for smart women, about smart women, with characters who had both bite and vulnerability to them. Maybe they were a tad too hyper-analytical or neurotic but they were always highly verbal and, more often than not, destined for the kind of happy ending they deserved.
Meg Ryan forged and reinforced her status as America's Sweetheart with roles in movies Ephron either wrote or wrote and directed: The best of these was 1989's "When Harry Met Sally ... (directed by Rob Reiner)," followed by "Sleepless in Seattle" in 1993 and "You've Got Mail" in 1998, both with Tom Hanks in winning form as Ryan's likable everyman co-star.
Decades later, you can still say the line, "I'll have what she's having," and everyone will instantly know what you're talking about. That's how lasting Ephron's work has been and will remain.
Back in the late '80s and early '90s, Kathryn Bigelow was a rare fellow female filmmaker ? and since has gone on to become the only woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for "The Hurt Locker" ? but she's focused on action pictures. Barbra Streisand also tried her hand at directing around this time with "Yentl," ''The Prince of Tides" and "The Mirror Has Two Faces." But Ephron continued on and endured, for better and for worse.
If we're being honest, some of her later work didn't come close to the level of her best-known and best-loved films. "Hanging Up" from 2000, which she and sister Delia co-wrote and star Diane Keaton directed, felt shrill and slapsticky. "Bewitched" (2005), a big-screen version of the 1960s sitcom which she directed, wrote and produced, seemed like a gimmicky strain.
But her final film, 2009's "Julie & Julia," ended her career on a stronger note. Ephron directed Meryl Streep to one of her 17 Academy Award nominations for her joyous, pitch-perfect portrayal of pioneering chef Julia Child. And it was Streep who would play a version of Ephron herself in one of the earliest films she wrote, 1986's "Heartburn," based on her own scathing novel inspired by her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein.
Ephron herself was a three-time Oscar nominee for the screenplays she wrote or co-wrote for "When Harry Met Sally ..." and "Sleepless in Seattle" as well as for her first produced script, for 1983's "Silkwood," directed by friend and frequent collaborator Mike Nichols and again starring Streep in the real-life nuclear drama.
Looking back on the A-list names listed in this piece, it's a real testament to her talent that high-quality actors and filmmakers were drawn to her and wanted to be associated with her again and again. And we haven't even mentioned Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher, Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, Steve Martin, the list goes on.
It's that kind of singularity of voice and vision that sets an example for filmmakers to come ? both male and female.
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UN court acquits Karadzic of 1 genocide count
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2009 file photo former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICTY has acquitted Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial on Thursday, June 28, 2012. Judges say prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support the genocide count covering mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Michael Kooren/Pool, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2009 file photo former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICTY has acquitted Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial on Thursday, June 28, 2012. Judges say prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support the genocide count covering mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Michael Kooren/Pool, File)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday of one of the two genocide charges he faces but upheld 10 other counts at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.
Presiding Judge Oh-Gon Kwon said prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to "be capable of supporting a conviction of genocide in the municipalities" ? a charge covering the mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war.
While the dismissal of one genocide charge was a setback for prosecutors, judges upheld 10 more charges, including a genocide count covering Karadzic's alleged involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Prosecutors finished presenting their evidence in May and earlier this month Karadzic had asked judges to dismiss all 11 counts against him, saying prosecutors had failed to prove their case.
Karadzic's lawyer, Peter Robinson, welcomed Thursday's rejection of the genocide charge.
"Dr. Karadzic and myself both thought it was a courageous decision of the trial chamber to say at this stage of the case that there was no genocide in the municipalities in Bosnia in 1992," Robinson told The Associated Press outside the court. "But I do expect that the prosecution will want to appeal this decision."
Prosecutors had no immediate reaction.
But survivors of the Bosnia war, which left 100,000 people dead, said the decision could set back any reconciliation.
"We are shocked and disappointed," said Edin Ramulic, who heads an association of victims in Bosnia's Prijedor region. "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
Karazdic's trial will continue later this year on the 10 remaining counts and he will begin his defense on Oct. 16. He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
The court has repeatedly ruled that the massacre in Srebrenica was genocide, but has never convicted any suspect of genocide for the campaign of killings in the Bosnia towns and villages at the outset of the war.
Judges said Thursday there was enough evidence to uphold charges including murder and persecution in the early stages of the war, but the killings did not rise to the level of genocide, which requires prosecutors to prove intent to wipe out a specific group of the population in whole or in part.
Karadzic was arrested in 2008, 13 years after he was first indicted on charges of masterminding Serb atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. His trial started in 2009 and prosecutors rested their case in May.
Karadzic's former military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic also is on trial on almost identical charges. The first witness in that trial is scheduled to begin testifying early next month.
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Associated Press writer Aida Cerkez in Sarajevo contributed to this report.
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When the aliens call, who'll answer?
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In a recently conducted poll, 19 percent of the respondents said they thought Washington, D.C., would be the most likely landing zone for a UFO. But if that ever happened, who's the best person to lead the welcoming party? About 65 percent said they'd rather have Barack Obama than Mitt Romney handle the situation.
By Alan Boyle
A new poll suggests that 77 percent of Americans think there's evidence that aliens have already visited Earth. The same poll suggests most Americans think President Barack Obama would do a better job than presumptive GOP challenger Mitt Romney if we had to fight off an alien invasion. And if we have to rely on a superhero to save us, they'd rather go with the Hulk than Batman.
That somewhat silly survey was conducted to tout a "Chasing UFOs" TV series on the National Geographic Channel, but the results raise a serious question: If an alien civilization does get in touch with us, who's in charge of figuring out what to do?
"Nobody's in charge," says Seth Shostak, who is senior astronomer at the California-based SETI Institute as well as the chairman of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Permanent Study Group.?Shostak and I will be talking about SETI?? the search for extraterrestrial intelligence?? as well as its serious and silly implications on "Virtually Speaking Science." The talk-show program gets under way at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT/SLT) on BlogTalkRadio and in the Second Life virtual world. If you can't tune in on time, don't fret: The hourlong program will be archived on the Web and on iTunes.
As the poll done for National Geographic suggests, a good number of people suspect the aliens have already arrived, presumably on UFOs or through interdimensional travel. Most scientists scoff at that idea. "Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?" British physicist Stephen Hawking asked earlier this month. But Shostak thinks it's only a matter of time before extraterrestrial civilizations actually do make themselves known, by sending signals across the light-years. Almost a decade ago, he predicted that we'd detect those signals by the year 2025, and today he told me he's sticking by that prediction.
During our pre-show interview, Shostak laid out his rationale for the 2025 date and discussed how an alien-contact scenario is likely to go down. Check out this edited transcript of the Q&A, and join us for "Virtually Speaking Science" tonight.
Cosmic Log: Do you still feel that 2025 is a good time frame for alien contact? And maybe more importantly, how do we know we're getting closer to the date?
Shostak: People ask, 'Are you getting close?' And we no more know whether we're getting close than Chris Columbus knew he was getting close to the Americas?? we might some palm fronds a day or two out, but other than that, we don't know. In some sense, it' come as a complete surprise if we get a signal. We know that from false alarms. They never occur when you expect them, because you never expect them.
But in terms of the prediction, that's based on the following: We're looking for needles in a haystack. If you ask, when are you going to find a needle, you need to know three things: How big is the haystack? How fast are you going through the hay? And how many needles are in there? We know two out of three. The haystack's the galaxy, and we know how fast we're going through it. We don't know the number of needles. So I took estimates of the number from the Drake Equation, and figured that it's two dozen years out. What's happened in the meantime is that the funding crisis has slowed things down a bit.
Q: Do you think you need to revise the 2025 date?
A: I think 2025, 2030 is about right, given that we can continue to do the experiment.
Q: Is it a steady process, or is there an increasing rate of hay examination?
A: This is all predicated on an increasing rate. That's the march of technology, which is mostly digital electronics. Computers keep getting faster and faster at any given price point, and that's good news for us. We can look at a larger chunk of the radio dial at once. We can go through the stars faster. Or we can look at bigger hunks of sky at once. It's mostly computing power that is responsible for the increasing speed of SETI. We're not sitting around with earphones the way Jodie Foster was.
Q: Could it be that the patterns of communication by extraterrestrial civilizations take a form completely different from what we assume?
A:?We kind of know what areas SETI is weak in. It's been slow, in the sense that you've got a couple of hundred billion star systems in the galaxy, and if you can look at only a couple a day, that's really slow going. That might take forever. Can we look at more stars in a given time, with adequate sensitivity?
The second thing is, it may be that you really have to look for a long time at any given star system. Of course, we don't do that. We look at any given star system, at any given frequency, for at most a few minutes. Some other search programs look for one and a half seconds at any given star system.?If the aliens are broadcasting in our direction once a week, or once a day, or once an hour, we're not going to see it. We know that's a problem.
Another issue is that the aliens may not know we're here because they haven't picked up 'I Love Lucy' yet. They don't know Homo sapiens is here, they just know that Earth is a planet with biology. They may not be motivated to target us relentlessly with reality television. They may broadcast now and then, with a little ping just to see if anybody's here. You really need an experiment that can pick up an intermittent, maybe one-off signal that's designed to ping the planet. Everybody knows that. That's a technology issue, but it's an issue that's getting better.
Q: Has anybody come up with a concept for an all-sky, all-the-time receiver?
A: Yeah, well, all-sky, all the time, all frequencies?? that's what you'd looove to have. On paper, you can design an instrument that can look at the entire sky. All frequencies, that's another problem, but you can certainly cover more frequencies than we do. It's all a question of whether you can afford to build such an instrument. The answer is, no, not now. It takes an enormous amount of computing power to do that. However, one thing you can say about the future is that there will be more computing power. This is not impossible. This is not like building rockets to go at 99 percent of the speed of light. That might work on paper, too, but in practice, that's a long way off. But this is something where you can say, with the computing power of a few decades hence, it becomes a practical thing.
Q: Assuming that alien signals are detected by 2025, is humanity ready for that?
A: Well, I don't know how much planning has been done. We've revised some protocols, but those are just the immediate steps you take if you pick up a signal. They deal with practical matters, like checking the signals out and alerting everybody. But I don't know that there's any large-scale effort to prepare humanity, any more than there was any preparation by the Indians in the Caribbean in case a Spanish ship showed up. I don't think that's a problem, to be honest. In poll after poll, the public has said they believe the aliens are out there. They see them on television every night, and at the movies every third weekend. A third of 'em think the aliens are already here, but they don't see a problem with that, either. Nobody's staying home. Everybody's still going to work.
I think that psychologically, everybody could handle it. It's just be a big news item. Whatever it would be, people would find it interesting. But they'd be savvy enough to realize there's no immediate threat. The aliens would be 500 light-years away, and we pick up their signal. ?There's no reason to think that people would go just completely non-linear.
The long-term consequences are less predictable. People would ask, should we broadcast back? Should we send a rocket in that direction? What should we do?
Q: Who would be in charge if there was an alien signal? Assuming that scientists confirm that there's an anomalous signal pattern, hinting at extraterrestrial intelligence, what's the procedure?
A: I don't think that there's anybody designated to be in charge. There was a flap a few years ago, involving an official at the U.N., but that was all a red herring. She quickly admitted that she's not in charge. Nobody's in charge.
Look, the real people who will be in charge will be the media, because they'll be reporting it. In some sense, whoever finds the signal is probably in charge. If it's us, then somebody at the SETI Institute will be called. Or suppose it's the Berkeley group. Well, they're in charge. Or maybe it's a group that comes across the signal by accident. There's no hierarchy. Anyway, you know how the media work?? they're not going to follow the rules.
There's no danger in any of this, except for one thing: That's the idea that you're sitting around, and suddenly there's a signal, and you call a press conference. That's not the way it will happen. We get signals all the time, and someday one of those signals will pass all the tests, and it slowly emerges as a real signal. But it takes something on the order of five days before you're convinced. During all that time, the media knows about this, because there is no secrecy. But there's no press conference yet, because the scientists aren't yet sure themselves. This time lag means there will be all sorts of stories before the official word is out. It isn't because of leakage, it's because anytime anybody finds something interesting, they may mention it. They'll put it on their blog. Who knows what they'll do?
It'll be very, very messy. And the corollary to this is that you can probably expect a lot of false alarms. There'll be something interesting, and a lot of people will write about it, and three days later it turns out to be nothing.
Q: Some people worry that our own radio signals are advertising our presence in what could be a rough neighborhood, but I take it that's not a concern of yours.
A:?There are people who get their knickers in a knot about this deliberate broadcast stuff. National Geographic is supposed to be collecting tweets to broadcast as an answer to the "Wow Signal." I personally don't get heartburn about broadcasting. The fact is that NBC is broadcasting all the time, right? You can say, well, that's a weak signal. Sure it is. But if you're really worried about broadcasting into space, don't just shut down the publicity stunts. You better shut down the radars at the Seattle-Tacoma airport, too. They're broadcasting into space all the time.
Tune in "Virtually Speaking Science" on BlogTalkRadio or in Second Life?? and bring lots of questions. Seth Shostak and I will be at the StellaNova Small Auditorium, courtesy of the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics, starting at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT/SLT) tonight. If you miss the live event, don't worry: It'll be archived by "Virtually Speaking" on BlogTalkRadio as well as iTunes.
More nuggets from the National Geographic UFO poll:?
- The "Aliens Among Us" survey polled a random nationwide sample of 1,114 Americans between May 21 and May 29. The poll was conducted by Kelton Research, which used email invitations and online surveys. Quotas were set to ensure reliable and accurate representation of the total U.S. population ages 18 and older. Margin of error is +/- 2.9 percent.
- More than one-third of those surveyed (36 percent) believe UFOs exist. Eleven percent are confident they've spotted a UFO, and 20 percent know someone who claims to have seen one.
- Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) said Obama would be better-suited than Romney to handle an alien invasion. Seventy-nine percent believe the government has kept information about UFOs a secret from the public. Nineteen percent think Washington, D.C., is the most likely landing zone for a UFO, while 28 percent think a UFO would touch down in Roswell, N.M.
- Seventy-seven percent think there are signs that suggest aliens have visited Earth. Most of these people said that the evidence came in the form of photographs (60 percent) and videos (57 percent) of UFOs.
- If aliens landed, 22 percent said they would try to befriend the visitors. Fifteen percent said they would run away, 13 percent said they would lock their doors, and 2 percent said they would try to inflict bodily harm.
- Seventy-one percent think that aliens are more likely to exist than are superheroes, vampires and zombies. But if aliens attacked Earth, 21 percent said they would most likely call on the Hulk to deal with the havoc, compared with Batman (12 percent) or Spider-Man (8 percent). Fifty-five percent believe there really are officials like the "Men in Black" who claim to be agents and threaten those who come forward with UFO sightings.?
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The Magic Of Thinking Big (cont) | Brisbane Personal Trainer ...
Believe You Can And You Will pages 15-22
Several years ago after addressing a group of businessmenin Detroit, I talked with one of the gentlemen who approached
me, introduced himself, and said, ?I really enjoyed your talk. Can
you spare a few minutes? I?d like very much to discuss a personal
experience with you.?
In a few minutes we were comfortably seated in a coffee
shop, waiting for some refreshment~.
?I have a personal experience,? he began, ?that ties in perfectly
with what you said this evening abput making your mind
work for you instead of letting it work agai~st you. I?ve never
explained to anyone how I lifted myself out of the world of
mediocrity, but I?d like to tell you about it.?
?And I?d like to heal? it,? I said.
?Well, just five years ago I was plodding along, just another
guy working in the tool-and-die trade. I made a decent living
by average standards. But it was far from ideal. Our home was
much too small, aid there was no money for those many things
we wanted. My wife, bless her, didn?t complain much, but it was
written all over her that she was more resigned to her fate than
she was happy. Inside I grew more and more dissatisfied. When I
let myself see how I was failing my good wife and two children,
I really hurt inside.
?But today things are really different,? my friend continued.
?Today we have a beautiful new home on a two-acre lot and a
year-round cabin a couple hundred miles north of here. There?s
no more worry about whether we can send the kids to a good
college, and my wife no longer has to feel guilty every time she
spends money for some new clothes. Next summer the whole
16 BElIEVE YOU CAN SUCCEED AND YOU WILL
family is flying to Europe to spend a month?s holiday. We?re
really living.?
?How did this all happen)? I asked.
?It all happened,?- he continued, ?when, to use the phrase
you used tonight, ?I harnessed the power of belief: Five years ago
I learned about a job with a tool?and?die company here in Detroit.
We were living in Cleveland at the time. I decided to look into
it, hoping I could make a Jittle more money. I got here early on
Sunday evening, but the interview was not until Monday.
?Mer dinner I sat down? in my hotel room, and for some
reason, I got really disgusted with myself. ?Why,? I asked myself,
?am Ijust a middle?class failure? Why am I trying to get ajob that
represe.nts such a small step forward??
?I don?t know to this day what prompted n:e to do it, but
I took a sheet of hotel stationery and wrote down the names
of five people I?ve known well for several years who had far
surpassed me in earning power and job responsibility. Two were
former neighbo?rs who had moved away to fme -subdivisions.
Two others were fellows I had worked for, and the third was a
brother?in?law.
?Next-again I don?t know what made me do this-I asked
myself, what do my five friends have that I don?t have, besides
better jobs? I compared myself with them on inteiligence, but I
honestly couldn?t see that they excelled in the brains department.
Nor could I truthfully say they had me beat on education, integ?
rity, or personal habits.
?Finally, I got down to another success quality one hears a
lot about: initiative. Here I hated to admit it, but I had to. On this
point my record showed I waS far below that of my successful
friends.
BELIEVE YOU CAN SUCCEED AND YOU WILL 17
?It was now about 3 A.M., but my mind was astonishingly
clear. I was seeing my weak point for the first time. I discovered
that I had held back. I had always carried a little stick. I dug into
myself deeper and deeper and found the reason I lacked initiative
was because I didn?t believe inside that I was worth very much.
?I sat there the rest of the night just reviewing how lack of
faith in myself had dominated me ever since I could remember,
how?! had used my mind to work against myself. I found I had
been preaching to myself why I couldn?t get ahead instead of
why I could. I had been selling myself short. I found this streak
of self-depreciation showed through in everything I did. Then it
dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until
I believed in myself.
?Right then I decided, ?I?m through feeling second-class.
From here on in I?m not going to sell myself short.?
?Next morning I still had that confidence. During the job
interview I gave my newfound confidence its fll?st test. Before
coming for the interview I?d hoped I would have courage to ask
for $750 or maybe even $1,000 more than my present job was
paying. But now, after realizing I was a valuable man, I upped it
to $3,500. And I got it. I sold myself because after that one long
night of self-analysis I found things in myself that made me a lot
more salable.
?Within two years after I took that job I had established a
reputation as the fellow who can get business. Then we went into
a recession. This made me still more valuable because I was one
of the best business-getters in the industry. The company was
reorganized and I was given a substantial amount of stock plus
a lot more pay.?
Believe in yourself, and good things do start happening.
Your mind is a ?thought factory.? It?s a busy fa.ctory, producing
countless thoughts in one day.
Production in your thought factory is under the charge of
two foremen, one of whom we will call Mr. Triumph and the
other Mr. Defeat. Mr. Triumph is in charge of manufacturing
positive thoughts. He specializes in producing reasons why you
can, why you?re qualified, why you will.
The other foreman, Mr. Defeat, produces negative, deprecating
thoughts. He is your expert in developing reasons why you
can?t, why you?re weak, why you?re inadequate. His specialty is
the ?why-you-will-fail? chain of thoughts.
Both Mr. Triumph and Mr. Defeat are intensely obedient.
They snap to attention immediately. All you need do to signal
either foreman is to give the slightest mental beck and call. If the
signal is positive, Mr. Triumph will step forward and go to work.
Likewise, a negative signal brings Mr. Defeat forward.
To see how these two foremen work for you, try this example.
Tell yourself, ?Today is a lousy day.? This signals Mr. Defeat
into action, and he manufactures some facts to prove you are
right. He suggests to you that it?s too hot or it?s too cold, business
will be bad today, sales will drop, other people will be on edge,
you may get sick, your wife will be in a fussy mood. Mr. Defeat is
tremendously efficient. In just a few moments he?s got you sold.
It is a bad day. Before you know it, it is a heck of a bad day.
But tell yourself, ?Today is a fme day,? and Mr. Triumph is
signaled forward to act. He tells you, ?This is a wOl1deifill day. The
weather is refieshing. It?s good to be alive. Today you can catch
up on some of your work.? And then it is a good day.
In llke fashion Mr. Defeat can show you why you can?t sell
Mr. Smith; Mr. Triumph will show you that you can. Mr. Defeat
will convince you that you will fail, while Mr. Triumph will demonstrate
why you will succeed. Mr. Defeat will prepare a brilliant
case against Tom, while Mr. Triumph will show you more reasons
why you like Tom.
Now; the more work you give either of these two foremen,
the stronger he becomes. If Mr. Defeat is given more work to
do, he adds personnel and takes up more space in your mind.
Eventually, he will take over the entire thought-manufacturiug
division, and virtually all thought will be of a negative nature.
The only wise thing to do is fire Mr. Defeat. You don?t
need him. You don?t want him around telling you that you can?t,
you?re not up to it, you?ll fail, and so on. Mr. Defeat won?t help.
you get where you want to go, so boot him out.
Use Mr. Triumph 100 percent of the time. When any
thought enters your mind, ask Mr. Triumph to go to work for
you. He?ll show you how you can succeed.
Between now and tomorrow at this time another 11,500
new consumers will have made their grand eptry into the U.S.A.
Population is growing at a record rate. In the next ten years
the increase is conservatively estimated at 35 million. That?s
equal to the present combined metropolitan population of our?
five biggest cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, and
Philadelphia. Imagine!
New industries, new scientific breakthroughs, expanding
markets-all spell opportunity. This is good news. This is a most
wonderful time to be alive!
All signs point to a record demand for top-level people in
every field-people who have superior ability to influence others,
to direct their work, to serve them in a leadership capacity.
And the people who will fill these leadership positions ar~ all
adults or near adults right now. One of them is you.
The guarantee of a boom is not, of course, a guarantee of
personal success. Over the long pull, the United States has always
been booming. But just a fast glance shows that millions and millions
of people-in fact, a majority of them-struggle but don?t
really succeed. The majority of folks still plug along in mediocrity
despite the record opportunity of the last two decades. And
in the boom period ahead, most people will continue to worry,
to be afraid, to crawl through life feeling unimportant, unappreciated,
not able to do what they want to do. As a result, their
performance will earn them petty rewards, petty happiness.
Those who convert opportunity into reward (and let me
say, I sincerely believe you are one of those, else you?d rely on
luck and not bother with this book) will be those wise people
who learn how to think themselves to success.
Walkin. The door to success is open wider than ever before.
Put yourself on record now that you are going to join that select
group that is getting what it wants from life.
Here is the first step toward success. It?s a basic step. It
can?tbe avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can
succeed.
HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER OF BELIEF
Here are the three guides to acquiring and strengthening the
power of belief:
1. Think success, don?t think failure. At work, in your home,
substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you
face a difHcult situation, think, ?I?ll win,? not ?Til probably
Believe?YOU CAN SUCCEED Arm YOU WILL
lose.? When you compete with someone else, think, ?I?m
equal to the best,? not ?I?m outclassed.? When opportunity
appears, think ?1 can do it,? never ?1 can?t.? Let the master
thought ?1 will succeed? dominate your thinking process.
Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that
produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite.
Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thought?that produce failure.
2. Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think
you are. Successful people are not supermen. Success does
not require a superintellect. Nor is there anything mystical
about success. And success isn?t based on luck. Successful
people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief
in themselves and what they do. Never-yes, never-sell
yourself short.
3. Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the
size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.
Think big goals and win big success. Remember
this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easiel~certainly
no more difficult-than small ideas and small plans.
Mr. Ralph J. Cordiner, chairman of the board of the
General Electric Company, said this to a leadership conference:
?We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself
and his company-a determination to undertake a personal
program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man
to develop ?. Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in
his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is?something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do?it for you.?
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States divergent in plans for health care ruling
CHICAGO (AP) ? As the nation awaits the Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, states across the country are considering how they will respond to the historic decision. Some Democratic-led states vow to push ahead with various provisions no matter what happens. In some Republican territories, elected officials insist they will try to hold off on implementing the law, even if the court upholds it. And most states are bound to miss key deadlines if the law or even pieces of it survive.
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PUSHING AHEAD:
One contingent of states plans to stay the course regardless of the high court ruling.
Oregon's Legislature voted in 2009, a year before Obama's overhaul was approved, to create an online state health insurance exchange. If the court strikes down only the federal requirement that almost everyone obtain health insurance, the state's exchange director Rocky King says he still can build a profitable exchange to launch in 2014.
"We assume we can go forward," King said. "It may make a difference in terms of the number of people we can enroll, but we think the exchange has value with or without the mandate."
If the court strikes down the entire health care law, however, the exchange would lose more than $60 million in federal grants and thousands of potential customers. In that scenario, state officials would have to wait for cues from the Obama administration and for Congress to decide a path forward, King said.
California has been a model for the federal health care overhaul since the law's passage and has begun implementing parts of it already, including the beginnings of health care exchanges. The state also has banned insurers from refusing coverage for children with pre-existing illnesses and allowed young adults to stay on their parents' plans through age 26.
California passed its own state legislation to ensure those measures are preserved even if the federal law is thrown out. But that doesn't mean the state is unaffected by Thursday's ruling. As one of the law's biggest financial beneficiaries, it stands to gain as much as $15 billion annually in federal money for health programs.
Hawaii also has been moving full speed ahead and joined several states last year in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the new law.
"Our goal is universal health coverage here," said Beth Giesting, who was hired as a coordinator to implement the overhaul's changes in Hawaii.
In Massachusetts, which laid the groundwork for the federal health care law with a sweeping 2006 state program, officials say they will continue efforts to expand coverage to nearly all residents no matter what. But like California, the state could lose hundreds of millions in assistance if the federal law is knocked down.
"Even in a worst-case scenario of the health care law being struck down entirely, Massachusetts is going to forge ahead," said Glen Shor, executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority.
___
DIGGING IN:
On the other side are Republican leaders who vow that no matter how the Supreme Court rules, they will not act on the overhaul before November, when they hope the GOP can win back the White House and the Senate and repeal the law.
Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said this week that only in the event of a GOP defeat would Wisconsin "figure out some alternative within the state."
Robert Kraig, executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a health care advocacy group that supports the law and expanding health insurance coverage, said the governor is "on the far end of the spectrum in terms of trying to block the law and doing nothing to prepare for it."
But Walker is not alone.
Lawmakers in Idaho, where about 19 percent of residents are uninsured, were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2010 requiring the state to sue the federal government over the overhaul. Last year, they toyed with the idea of nullifying the health care law and have taken no steps toward implementation since. Now they're banking on the Supreme Court turning down the measure or a future repeal.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Florida Gov. Rick Scott and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley have said they too will wait until November to before acting on any surviving parts of the law.
___
MOVING MONEY:
Millions of people already have received new benefits under the law. But those could disappear it is struck down, and many states are trying to figure out what to do if that happens.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a big supporter of the federal overhaul, extended Medicaid coverage last year to 84,000 vulnerable adults. But Dayton has said little publicly about the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling for Minnesota. That leaves many unanswered questions about the fate of the people Dayton switched to the joint federal-state Medicaid program from less generous state-funded programs.
A ruling against the law also would threaten other planned expansions, such as in Washington state, which received $128 million to help set up its insurance exchange and an additional $200 million for its preexisting-condition insurance pool. Officials are uncertain whether that money could stay with the state or would have to be returned.
In Michigan, the law has brought widespread benefits: More than half a million seniors have received some free preventive health care services this year. And 1.8 million residents now receive preventative services with no co-pay. Another 57,000 young adults in Michigan are on their parents' health insurance plans.
Last week, U.S. Health and Human Services director Kathleen Sebelius visited Detroit to announce grants for six Michigan health centers to help expand access to care under the law. Officials there aren't sure what they'll do if that money disappears.
Funding for North Dakota's 15 community health centers may be jeopardized, and three other planned centers might not be built if the federal law is overturned.
___
SWEATING DEADLINES:
Most states have taken few ? if any ? steps toward creating the insurance exchanges that are a cornerstone of the health law. The online marketplaces would allow people and small businesses to comparison-shop for health insurance.
So if the court upholds the mandate to establish exchanges, many states will have to scramble to get their plans approved by January and the programs running a year later. As of March, only 13 states and Washington, D.C., had adopted plans for exchanges.
In Obama's home state of Illinois, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn considered an executive order to establish an exchange, but state Rep. Frank Mautino said it's too late. The first year of the project will have to be a joint state-federal exchange, he said.
In Michigan, House Republicans have refused to let state officials start setting up the MI Health Marketplace before the Supreme Court ruling. Gov. Rick Snyder is one the few Republican leaders who has acknowledged considering a state-federal partnership to get an exchange in place.
"I'm just trying to be a pragmatist here," Snyder said Tuesday.
In Indiana, Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels ordered state agencies to investigate the cost and feasibility of an online health insurance marketplace in January 2011, but Daniels told the agencies to keep their work in the planning stages until the court ruled.
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Associated Press writers Carla K. Johnson in Chicago; Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis.; John Miller in Boise, Ida.; Kathy Barks Hoffman in Lansing, Mich.; Tom LoBianco in Indianapolis; Shaya Mohajer in Los Angeles; Jonathan Cooper in Salem, Ore.; Oskar Garcia in Honolulu; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Wash.; Martiga Lohn in St. Paul, Minn.; James MacPherson in Bismarck, N.D.; Chet Brokaw in Pierre, S.D.; Bill Kaczor in Tallahassee, Fla.; and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, S.C. contributed to this report.
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Mali rebels open fire on protest, one killed
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JAMES' BLOG: Change Management Issues
Change Management Issues
At the moment the company is researching change management issues and have discovered a lot of mistakes that caused failure. We noted five common mistakes:Mistake #1:?Not envolving the employees?- leaders must actively involve the people most affected by the change in its implementation. This will help ensure employees at all levels of the organization embrace the proposed changes.?
Mistake #2:?Not enough leadership?- several leaders focus too much on management and too little on leadership.
Mistake #3:?Ignoring current corporate culture?- when people in an organization realize and recognize that their current organizational culture needs to transform to support the organization?s success and progress, Mistake 3change can occur.
Mistake #4:? Lack of communication?- change management communications need to be targeted to each segment of the workforce. It should be delivered in a two-way fashion that allows people to make sense of the change subjectively.??
Mistake #5:?Lack of skills and resources?- change does not happen through goals and exhortation alone. Like any business operation, It also calls for the right skills and resources, Organizations often simply fail to commit the necessary time, people, and resources to making change work. Paradoxically, successful behavior change often demands the very skills the change Is trying to create.
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SEO or PPC? | Netregistry Blog
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), PPC (Pay Per Click) ? digital marketing is an acronym-heavy minefield that businesses can spend precious resources attempting to decode. That?s why it?s helpful to understand the pros and cons of each marketing strategy before determining the one that?s right for you and your business objectives.
Although the most effective marketing plans integrate both strategies, maximising ROI (Return On Investment) depends on your understanding of the characteristics of each. Our roundup of digital marketing facts will help you on your way.
PPC is better for conversions; SEO is the biggest driver of traffic
It?s true that pay per click (PPC) advertising is a powerful conversion tool ? the context-sensitive nature of the model sparks more clicks than its search engine optimisation (SEO) counterpart. However, SEO accounts for 88 per cent of all web traffic, while PPC generates a modest 12 per cent. These are important statistics to consider when deciding on a specific online marketing technique that is in line with your priorities.
PPC is easier to customise
It?s important that your online marketing techniques are agile enough to adapt to changing business needs, such as new customer subsets and products you?re interested in highlighting. PPC is the obvious winner in this department, allowing marketers to change a campaign?s keywords in moments. Conversely, SEO keywords are usually incorporated into titles, headings and unique quality content ? a fact that makes implementing change a risky and labour-intensive affair.
PPC achieves a higher ranking in SERPS
Because paid ads create higher profits for search engines, PPC ads are displayed at the top and along the right hand side of a search page, boding well for the online visibility of your business. However, SEO?s capacity to draw long-tail traffic equates to greater longevity in terms of search.
SEO?s higher barriers to entry create a stronger competitive advantage
Using SEO as your primary online marketing strategy demands extensive keyword research and a considered approach to quality content creation. But this means that nailing good SEO practices from the onset and maintaining these as your business evolves is likely to generate traffic and conversions over the long haul. Mastering good SEO can give you a ranking that?s consistently higher than your rivals ? an attribute that gives you a powerful competitive edge.
If there is one point that online businesses must take away, it is that SEO and PPC both have a significant place in the digital marketing landscape. Dependent upon what you are trying to achieve online, your budget and your current business goals, SEO and PPC have different attributes that can help you achieve your goals.
In this fast pace digital world, it can be confusing and difficult to know what the best practice is; you might need to have a chat with an SEO or SEA expert who would be able to provide you with a more guided outline of your next digital step.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Injecting life-saving oxygen into a vein
ScienceDaily (June 27, 2012) ? Patients unable to breathe because of acute lung failure or an obstructed airway need another way to get oxygen to their blood -- and fast -- to avoid cardiac arrest and brain injury. A team led by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital has designed tiny, gas-filled microparticles that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly oxygenate the blood.
The microparticles consist of a single layer of lipids (fatty molecules) that surround a tiny pocket of oxygen gas, and are delivered in a liquid solution. In a cover article in the June 27 issue of Science Translational Medicine, John Kheir, MD, of the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital, and colleagues report that an infusion of these microparticles into animals with low blood oxygen levels restored blood oxygen saturation to near-normal levels, within seconds.
When the trachea was completely blocked -- a more dangerous "real world" scenario -- the infusion kept the animals alive for 15 minutes without a single breath, and reduced the incidence of cardiac arrest and organ injury.
The microparticle solutions are portable and could stabilize patients in emergency situations, buying time for paramedics, emergency clinicians or intensive care clinicians to more safely place a breathing tube or perform other life-saving therapies, says Kheir.
"This is a short-term oxygen substitute -- a way to safely inject oxygen gas to support patients during a critical few minutes," he says. "Eventually, this could be stored in syringes on every code cart in a hospital, ambulance or transport helicopter to help stabilize patients who are having difficulty breathing."
The microparticles would likely only be administered for a short time, between 15 and 30 minutes, because they are carried in fluid that would overload the blood if used for longer periods, Kheir says.
Kheir also notes that the particles are different from blood substitutes, which carry oxygen but are not useful when the lungs are unable to oxygenate them. Instead, the microparticles are designed for situations in which the lungs are completely incapacitated.
Kheir began investigating the idea of injectable oxygen in 2006, after caring for a little girl who sustained a severe brain injury resulting from a severe pneumonia that caused bleeding into her lungs and severely low oxygen levels. Despite the team's best efforts, she died before they could place her on a heart-lung machine. Frustrated by this, Kheir formed a team to search for another way to deliver oxygen.
"Some of the most convincing experiments were the early ones," he says. "We drew each other's blood, mixed it in a test tube with the microparticles, and watched blue blood turn immediately red, right before our eyes."
Over the years, Kheir and his team have tested various concentrations and sizes of the microparticles to optimize their effectiveness and to make them safe for injection. "The effort was truly multidisciplinary," says Kheir. "It took chemical engineers, particle scientists and medical doctors to get the mix just right."
In the studies reported in the paper, they used a device called a sonicator, which uses high-intensity sound waves to mix the oxygen and lipids together. The process traps oxygen gas inside particles averaging 2 to 4 micrometers in size (not visible without a microscope). The resulting solution, with oxygen gas making up 70 percent of the volume, mixed efficiently with human blood.
"One of the keys to the success of the project was the ability to administer a concentrated amount of oxygen gas in a small amount of liquid," Kheir says. "The suspension carries three to four times the oxygen content of our own red blood cells."
Intravenous administration of oxygen gas was tried in the early 1900s, but these attempts failed to oxygenate the blood and often caused dangerous gas embolisms.
"We have engineered around this problem by packaging the gas into small, deformable particles," Kheir explains. "They dramatically increase the surface area for gas exchange and are able to squeeze through capillaries where free gas would get stuck."
The study was funded by three awards from the Technology Development Fund at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and a U.S. Department of Defense Basic Research Award to Kheir.
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- John N. Kheir, Laurie A. Scharp, Mark A. Borden, Edward J. Swanson, Andrew Loxley, James H. Reese, Katherine J. Black, Luis A. Velazquez, Lindsay M. Thomson, Brian K. Walsh, Kathryn E. Mullen, Dionne A. Graham, Michael W. Lawlor, Carlo Brugnara, David C. Bell, and Francis X. McGowan, Jr. Oxygen Gas?Filled Microparticles Provide Intravenous Oxygen Delivery. Science Translational Medicine, 27 June 2012 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003679
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'Hunger Games' Star Jennifer Lawrence: Real-Life Hero
Actress rushes to help a young woman lying in her lawn Monday.
By Audrey Cook
Jennifer Lawrence Assisting A Fainting Woman Outside Her L.A. Apartment Complex
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Jennifer Lawrence doesn't just rush to action on the big screen. The "Hunger Games" starlet was walking her dog outside her L.A. apartment complex Monday when she stumbled upon a young woman lying on her back on the lawn. According to X17, Lawrence raced over to help the young woman while someone nearby called the paramedics.
A photographer on the scene told the photo agency, "Jennifer ran outside her apartment when she heard a girl scream and immediately called 911. When the EMT arrived, she stayed to make sure everything was OK. She was really scared for the girl."
The Santa Monica Police Department told TMZ, "The young lady who collapsed was a juvenile and was part of a group that was together," adding that "alcohol may have played a role in the incident."
Lawrence, sporting a casual look in gray sweatpants and a black tank top, got on the ground to assist the woman and stayed by her side until paramedics arrived. It's unclear why the woman was in front of Lawrence's property, but paramedics treated the unidentified woman on the scene, and she was then cleared to leave.
Lawrence isn't the only celebrity who has played superhero recently: Patrick Dempsey came to the rescue a little less than two months ago, saving a teenager who crashed his car outside the "Grey's Anatomy" star's house.
Lawrence is gearing up to reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in the "Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire," slated to hit theaters in November 2013.
Would you rush outside to help an injured stranger if you found them on your property? Share your thoughts!
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Frugal Recipe ~ Crockpot ~ Steak Fajitas | St Augustine Qpon Posse
?I plan on making this today ? as long as the kiddos give me enough time to prepare the ingredients this morning
Steak Fajitas?
Recipe From Two Frugal Momma?s
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| 1 | beef flank steak (about 1 pound) |
| 1 | medium onion, cut into strips |
| 1/2 | cup medium salsa |
| 2 | tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro (optional) |
| 2 | tablespoons fresh lime juice |
| 2 | cloves garlic, minced (I use more) |
| 1 | tablespoon chili powder |
| 1 | teaspoon ground cumin |
| 1/2 | teaspoon salt |
| 1 | small green bell pepper, cut into strips |
| 1 | small red bell pepper, cut into strips |
| Flour tortillas, warmed | |
| Additional salsa Cheese, sour cream, green onions and any other toppings you?d like to add | |
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Cut flank steak lengthwise in half, then crosswise into thin strips; place meat in slow cooker.
Combine onion, 1/2 cup salsa, cilantro, lime juice, garlic, chili powder, cumin and salt in slow cooker.
Cover; cook on LOW 5 to 6 hours.
Add bell peppers. Cover; cook on LOW 1 hour.
Serve with flour tortillas and additional toppings.
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