As we all know, or I thought we all knew, "Dr. Johns" is a novelty store for lingerie and sex toys. Now "Dr. John" says he is running for Lincolns city council. Not that I have anything against this but I just think it is really funny.
I found an article on WOWT.com that says...
The "Dr. John" of the Doctor John's sex shops says he's running for Lincoln city council.
John Haltom owns seven "lingerie novelty boutiques" in several states, including Nebraska. Two of the stores are in Lincoln.
The 41-year-old says he's been a civic activist since his twenties, fighting for people's gun rights and against censorship.
Haltom's been convicted in other cities, including Omaha, of selling sexually explicit videos. However, he says his political run is no publicity stunt.
The Republican is one of six candidates for the three council seats at stake in the April 7 primary.
I believe it is going to be hard for people to take Dr. John seriously. After all he does own a lingerie store and he has been in a lot of trouble with the law.
Since then I have found out they have turned down Dr. John to be on the City Council but I can't find anything that shows it. The website I thought would have an article on it, took it off
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Master Cleanse
For the past five day I have been taking part in what is called a "master cleanse" http://therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse.htm
http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/17/master-cleanse-in-detail/ < this one is better! :)
The cleanse is a 10 day detoxification process in which you don't eat for 10 days and you drink a water mixture including freshly squeezed lemon juice, pure maple syrup and Cayenne pepper. I also drink an herbal tea laxative at night and sea salt water in the morning
I did a lot of research upon doing this because obviously eating for ten days doesn't seem healthy let alone appealing.
Anyhow, at the end of the day today I will have completed day 5! This has probably been one of the hardest things I have ever done but has shown me how strong of a person I am. It hasn't been easy and I doubt the next 5 days are going to get any easier but so far it has been worth it.
I challenge you to check it out yourself. The website I gave above gives some pretty good info on it and if you are really interested you can buy the book, like I did!!
http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/17/master-cleanse-in-detail/ < this one is better! :)
The cleanse is a 10 day detoxification process in which you don't eat for 10 days and you drink a water mixture including freshly squeezed lemon juice, pure maple syrup and Cayenne pepper. I also drink an herbal tea laxative at night and sea salt water in the morning
I did a lot of research upon doing this because obviously eating for ten days doesn't seem healthy let alone appealing.
Anyhow, at the end of the day today I will have completed day 5! This has probably been one of the hardest things I have ever done but has shown me how strong of a person I am. It hasn't been easy and I doubt the next 5 days are going to get any easier but so far it has been worth it.
I challenge you to check it out yourself. The website I gave above gives some pretty good info on it and if you are really interested you can buy the book, like I did!!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Smile - rough draft column
let me know what you think so I can get this turned in :)
In 1999 an artist known as Vitamin C came out with a song entitled “Smile.” The song “smile” talks about exactly that, smiling, when things get tough. Vitamin C couldn’t have said it better than me in the Corus where she repeatedly says “put a smile on your face, and make the world a better place.”
Is it possible that a smile is contagious? According to Dictionary.com smiling is defined a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth. I believe a smile is one of the easiest life changing gestures you could ever give someone. More times than not people think that they have to donate a certain amount of money, or go to a different country to make a difference. But whatever happened to the simple gesture of a smile. Even when you don’t feel like smiling Vitamin C reminds us
When thing's isn't right, there's not need to fightand everything nice Please be polite even when you're hurting Don't forget to smile Give love to our nation, big or small When you do good, you'll get your reward United with undivided we fall Put a smile on your face and greet one and all
My spring break of 09’ did not consist of laying on the beach in Panama City Florida nor did it consist of clubbing in South Padre. My spring break consisted of family time in Bellevue Nebraska and developing my own idea of a way to influence someone’s life.
My cousin Stephanie and I are partners in crime when it comes to doing random acts of kindness but for this particular spring break we decided we were going to make a gigantic sign and hold it on a bridge on Dodge Street, a main street, in Omaha.
Deciding what to put on the sign was one of the more difficult things for us. We had to come up with something, short, inspiring in some way, not offensive, and something with an immediate response so we could tell if we were successful in perhaps making someone’s day go from bad to good.
“Have a good day” was far too bland and “Pray, he listens” could have gotten us into some trouble seeing as though we were in the heart of Omaha.
After a couple days of thought, we came up with “Honk if you are smiling.”
Now this may seem kind of bland as well, but we picked this one for a number of reasons. First of all we decided to put honk because we wanted to have an immediate response. If we wouldn’t have put honk we would have never of known if people even noticed us let alone read what we wrote.
We decided to use the word smile because we both feel like the power of the smile is contagious. Driving is one of the single most relaxing things to do, in my opinion. It gives you time to think and sort things out but more times than not your probably not going to be smiling in your car.
Did it ever occur to us that maybe, just maybe someone driving beside you was having a worse day than you were and just the small gesture of a smile could have totally turned that day around.
Stephanie and I stood on the doge street bridge for about an hour during rush hour and counted how many honks we got. Not knowing how this was going to turn out I was pleasantly surprised at the response we got.
We received 97 honks! Now whether or not this person was simply driving down the road smiling because they heard something funny on the radio, was involved in a funny phone conversation or maybe just saw our sign and decided to smile I believe Stephanie and I helped make Dodge street a happier place.
In 1999 an artist known as Vitamin C came out with a song entitled “Smile.” The song “smile” talks about exactly that, smiling, when things get tough. Vitamin C couldn’t have said it better than me in the Corus where she repeatedly says “put a smile on your face, and make the world a better place.”
Is it possible that a smile is contagious? According to Dictionary.com smiling is defined a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth. I believe a smile is one of the easiest life changing gestures you could ever give someone. More times than not people think that they have to donate a certain amount of money, or go to a different country to make a difference. But whatever happened to the simple gesture of a smile. Even when you don’t feel like smiling Vitamin C reminds us
When thing's isn't right, there's not need to fightand everything nice Please be polite even when you're hurting Don't forget to smile Give love to our nation, big or small When you do good, you'll get your reward United with undivided we fall Put a smile on your face and greet one and all
My spring break of 09’ did not consist of laying on the beach in Panama City Florida nor did it consist of clubbing in South Padre. My spring break consisted of family time in Bellevue Nebraska and developing my own idea of a way to influence someone’s life.
My cousin Stephanie and I are partners in crime when it comes to doing random acts of kindness but for this particular spring break we decided we were going to make a gigantic sign and hold it on a bridge on Dodge Street, a main street, in Omaha.
Deciding what to put on the sign was one of the more difficult things for us. We had to come up with something, short, inspiring in some way, not offensive, and something with an immediate response so we could tell if we were successful in perhaps making someone’s day go from bad to good.
“Have a good day” was far too bland and “Pray, he listens” could have gotten us into some trouble seeing as though we were in the heart of Omaha.
After a couple days of thought, we came up with “Honk if you are smiling.”
Now this may seem kind of bland as well, but we picked this one for a number of reasons. First of all we decided to put honk because we wanted to have an immediate response. If we wouldn’t have put honk we would have never of known if people even noticed us let alone read what we wrote.
We decided to use the word smile because we both feel like the power of the smile is contagious. Driving is one of the single most relaxing things to do, in my opinion. It gives you time to think and sort things out but more times than not your probably not going to be smiling in your car.
Did it ever occur to us that maybe, just maybe someone driving beside you was having a worse day than you were and just the small gesture of a smile could have totally turned that day around.
Stephanie and I stood on the doge street bridge for about an hour during rush hour and counted how many honks we got. Not knowing how this was going to turn out I was pleasantly surprised at the response we got.
We received 97 honks! Now whether or not this person was simply driving down the road smiling because they heard something funny on the radio, was involved in a funny phone conversation or maybe just saw our sign and decided to smile I believe Stephanie and I helped make Dodge street a happier place.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Goal: Karoke (CHECK)
My cousin and I decided to do karoke on St. Patty's day at a bar called The Korner... We had an amazing time and did a good job entertaining. (we are going back friday)
I think the reason why doing Karoke was one of our goals is because both me and my cousin have a passion for music/singing but we both suck at it major!! The only place its really ever acceptable for us to sing is in the shower and in the car where NO ONE can hear us!!
Goal: skateland (CHECK)
Some of you may wonder why skateland was one of our goals. Not only was skateland the "cool" thing to do while growing up but my cousin and I used to go EVERY Friday and Saturday and even sometimes during the week. When we became "too cool" for skateland we stopped going. (ps. its now called skate city) We always talk about going back but never get around to it. Well we did......
Thursday, March 12, 2009
A piece in progress
So when I was a senior in high school my little sister Caitlin had one of her best friends commit suicide. This was hard for her, as it would be for just about anyone.
Anyhow, 4 years later I still see struggle in her eyes because of some events that led up to his suicide. My sister means more to me than anything in the world and to see her hurt and still have a heavy heart makes me hurt.
I felt as though she had never really fully recovered from this incident and I wanted to help.
SO, what I decided to do was interview her about everything from how they met to how she still feels about him committing suicide, try and make it a prevention and a "lesson learned" kind of story and then send it to Seventeen Magazine and see if they wouldn't publish it to help other kids who deal with this kind of stuff.
I decided to write it in such a way that it was in first person, though her eyes, but I wrote it.
Needless to say I sent my cover letter in (which is a paper that tries to "sell" your piece and the things I wanted attach with my piece such as the 5 stages to grieving) and they sent me a letter back saying they are interested but they don't have a spot for it now but they would keep it on file. Perhaps it was an easy way to let me down but even so I still work on the piece every now and then JUST IN CASE and I still find things I am uneasy about in the piece but I would like an outsiders opinion. SO... here ya go!
Anyhow, 4 years later I still see struggle in her eyes because of some events that led up to his suicide. My sister means more to me than anything in the world and to see her hurt and still have a heavy heart makes me hurt.
I felt as though she had never really fully recovered from this incident and I wanted to help.
SO, what I decided to do was interview her about everything from how they met to how she still feels about him committing suicide, try and make it a prevention and a "lesson learned" kind of story and then send it to Seventeen Magazine and see if they wouldn't publish it to help other kids who deal with this kind of stuff.
I decided to write it in such a way that it was in first person, though her eyes, but I wrote it.
Needless to say I sent my cover letter in (which is a paper that tries to "sell" your piece and the things I wanted attach with my piece such as the 5 stages to grieving) and they sent me a letter back saying they are interested but they don't have a spot for it now but they would keep it on file. Perhaps it was an easy way to let me down but even so I still work on the piece every now and then JUST IN CASE and I still find things I am uneasy about in the piece but I would like an outsiders opinion. SO... here ya go!
Spring break Goals
Okay, every time I come home for a holiday or summer my cousin (aka best friend) and I make a list of things we want to "accomplish" or just simply do while I'm home. These are usually things that you wouldn't just do every day. Typically when we do these things, big or not we try and see how much we can get out of it. My cousin and I are the type of people that can make just about any situation interesting.
We came up with five things and out of these five things I'm going to try and pick on that is the most successful and write my column over it.
1. Sing karaoke
2. Hold an inspirational sign over the dodge street bridge in Omaha
3. Go into an "all lights" store that we always pass but never go into
4. Work out everyday
5. Go to skateland (a skating rink that used to be the "cool" thing back in the day)
Although these might seem like weird things to you, you have to understand Stephanie and I. We ARE weird.
I'm guessing the one I will write my column on is number 2 because this is something we have always wanted to do by seeing other people do it, but we never get around to do it.
I'm going to try and keep you guys posted through blogs and pictures on how these work out for us!
Talk to you soon!
We came up with five things and out of these five things I'm going to try and pick on that is the most successful and write my column over it.
1. Sing karaoke
2. Hold an inspirational sign over the dodge street bridge in Omaha
3. Go into an "all lights" store that we always pass but never go into
4. Work out everyday
5. Go to skateland (a skating rink that used to be the "cool" thing back in the day)
Although these might seem like weird things to you, you have to understand Stephanie and I. We ARE weird.
I'm guessing the one I will write my column on is number 2 because this is something we have always wanted to do by seeing other people do it, but we never get around to do it.
I'm going to try and keep you guys posted through blogs and pictures on how these work out for us!
Talk to you soon!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Trayless Tuesdays
With an average of 70 gallons of water being saved and food waste reduced by 50% universities all over the Country are taking part in what they like to call “Trayless Tuesday’s.”
Trayless Tuesday’s was a program designed to eliminate the amount of water used to wash the trays in a cafeteria and to help reduce the amount of wasted food by taking away trays, leaving students with only plates to fill.
Although students from all over including University of Minnesota, New York University, Concordia University, and even right here on UNK’s campus express the inconvenience of the Trayless Tuesday’s, statistics show that it is a very effective program.
The cafeteria right here on UNK’s campus did a trial run on Trayless Tuesday’s during the months of November and December hoping to receive positive feedback from not only the students at UNK but the food budget. Chartwells, the dining company at UNK has decided to make Trayless Tuesday’s part of daily dining starting in January 2009.
But the real debate here doesn’t lie in whether or not it is convenient or inconvenient for the students. The real debate is being educating the students on how much water it takes to wash all the trays in one particular day. This also leads us to take into account how much food is being wasted due to the convenience of the trays.
According to Dineoncampus.com a study showed that if there were approximately 600 students in a cafeteria in one day, it takes approximately 100 minutes to wash all the trays adding up to 70 gallons of water going to waste. Schools that go trayless one day per week reduce waste by an average of 1/3 on those days some reporting as much as a 50% reduction in waste, in turn reducing food cost by 4.9%.
It is obvious that Trayless Tuesday’s is effective but convenience is still overpowering the minds of students, every Tuesday.
Although Trayless Tuesday’s has a catching ring to it, why Tuesdays? Would it be just as effective if students were forced to forgo trays on both Saturday and Sunday’s when typically, the cafeteria isn’t as busy?
Perhaps educating students on the reason this is being done and showing students visually and statistically the effects what one day without trays can do, they will support Trayless Tuesday’s
Kelly McPherson from ABC news did an interview with a student at Morrisville State, he explains if he tray he probably would have ended up wasting half of what he picked up and by only having a plate he will more than likely eat everything on it.
Students see both the pros and cons but in order to get support there needs to be more time spent on educating students on the reasons why the action is being taken rather than enforcing the action. With that being said there needs to be more than just a random sign placed randomly in the middle of the cafeteria saying “save water, go trayless.” Although students are not going to spend twenty minutes reading an article while listening to their stomachs growl, statistics placed around the cafeteria along with pictures will better set the stage for the change.
Trayless Tuesday’s is a great way to make a change, but we need to get everyone to believe it, let’s educate those around us all while eating trayless.
Trayless Tuesday’s was a program designed to eliminate the amount of water used to wash the trays in a cafeteria and to help reduce the amount of wasted food by taking away trays, leaving students with only plates to fill.
Although students from all over including University of Minnesota, New York University, Concordia University, and even right here on UNK’s campus express the inconvenience of the Trayless Tuesday’s, statistics show that it is a very effective program.
The cafeteria right here on UNK’s campus did a trial run on Trayless Tuesday’s during the months of November and December hoping to receive positive feedback from not only the students at UNK but the food budget. Chartwells, the dining company at UNK has decided to make Trayless Tuesday’s part of daily dining starting in January 2009.
But the real debate here doesn’t lie in whether or not it is convenient or inconvenient for the students. The real debate is being educating the students on how much water it takes to wash all the trays in one particular day. This also leads us to take into account how much food is being wasted due to the convenience of the trays.
According to Dineoncampus.com a study showed that if there were approximately 600 students in a cafeteria in one day, it takes approximately 100 minutes to wash all the trays adding up to 70 gallons of water going to waste. Schools that go trayless one day per week reduce waste by an average of 1/3 on those days some reporting as much as a 50% reduction in waste, in turn reducing food cost by 4.9%.
It is obvious that Trayless Tuesday’s is effective but convenience is still overpowering the minds of students, every Tuesday.
Although Trayless Tuesday’s has a catching ring to it, why Tuesdays? Would it be just as effective if students were forced to forgo trays on both Saturday and Sunday’s when typically, the cafeteria isn’t as busy?
Perhaps educating students on the reason this is being done and showing students visually and statistically the effects what one day without trays can do, they will support Trayless Tuesday’s
Kelly McPherson from ABC news did an interview with a student at Morrisville State, he explains if he tray he probably would have ended up wasting half of what he picked up and by only having a plate he will more than likely eat everything on it.
Students see both the pros and cons but in order to get support there needs to be more time spent on educating students on the reasons why the action is being taken rather than enforcing the action. With that being said there needs to be more than just a random sign placed randomly in the middle of the cafeteria saying “save water, go trayless.” Although students are not going to spend twenty minutes reading an article while listening to their stomachs growl, statistics placed around the cafeteria along with pictures will better set the stage for the change.
Trayless Tuesday’s is a great way to make a change, but we need to get everyone to believe it, let’s educate those around us all while eating trayless.
rough draft
With an average of 70 gallons of water being saved and food waste reduced by 50% universities all over the Country are taking part in what they like to call “Trayless Tuesday’s.”
Trayless Tuesday’s was a program designed to eliminate the amount of water used to wash the trays in a cafeteria and to help reduce the amount of wasted food by taking away trays, leaving students with only plates to fill.
Although students from all over including University of Minnesota, New York University, Concordia University, and even right here on UNK’s campus, express the inconvenience of the Trayless Tuesday’s statistics show that it is a very effective program.
The cafeteria right here on UNK’s campus did a trial run on Trayless Tuesday’s during the months of November and December hoping to receive positive feedback from not only the students at UNK but the food budget. Chartwells, the dining company at UNK has decided to make Trayless Tuesday’s part of daily dining starting in January 2009.
But the real debate here doesn’t lie in whether or not it is convenient or inconvenient for the students. The real debate is being educated on how much water it takes to wash all the trays in one particular day. This also leads us to take into account how much food is being wasted due to the convenience of the trays.
According to Dineoncampus.com a study showed that if there were approximately 600 students in a cafeteria in one day, it takes approximately 100 minutes to wash all the trays adding up to 70 gallons of water going to waste. Schools who go trayless one day per week reduce waste by an average of 1/3 on those days some reporting as much as a 50% reduction in waste, in turn reducing food cost by 4.9%.
It is obvious that Trayless Tuesday’s is effective but convenience is still overpowering the minds of students, every Tuesday.
Although Trayless Tuesday’s has a catching ring to it, why Tuesdays? Would it be just as effective if students were forced to forgo trays on both Saturday and Sunday’s when typically, the cafeteria isn’t as busy?
Perhaps educating students on the reason this is being done and showing students visually and statistically the effects what one day without trays can do, they will support Trayless Tuesday’s
Kelly McPherson from ABC news did an interview with a student at Morrisville State he said, had he of had a tray he probably would have ended up wasting half of what he picked up and by only having a plate he will more than likely eat everything on it.
Trayless Tuesday’s was a program designed to eliminate the amount of water used to wash the trays in a cafeteria and to help reduce the amount of wasted food by taking away trays, leaving students with only plates to fill.
Although students from all over including University of Minnesota, New York University, Concordia University, and even right here on UNK’s campus, express the inconvenience of the Trayless Tuesday’s statistics show that it is a very effective program.
The cafeteria right here on UNK’s campus did a trial run on Trayless Tuesday’s during the months of November and December hoping to receive positive feedback from not only the students at UNK but the food budget. Chartwells, the dining company at UNK has decided to make Trayless Tuesday’s part of daily dining starting in January 2009.
But the real debate here doesn’t lie in whether or not it is convenient or inconvenient for the students. The real debate is being educated on how much water it takes to wash all the trays in one particular day. This also leads us to take into account how much food is being wasted due to the convenience of the trays.
According to Dineoncampus.com a study showed that if there were approximately 600 students in a cafeteria in one day, it takes approximately 100 minutes to wash all the trays adding up to 70 gallons of water going to waste. Schools who go trayless one day per week reduce waste by an average of 1/3 on those days some reporting as much as a 50% reduction in waste, in turn reducing food cost by 4.9%.
It is obvious that Trayless Tuesday’s is effective but convenience is still overpowering the minds of students, every Tuesday.
Although Trayless Tuesday’s has a catching ring to it, why Tuesdays? Would it be just as effective if students were forced to forgo trays on both Saturday and Sunday’s when typically, the cafeteria isn’t as busy?
Perhaps educating students on the reason this is being done and showing students visually and statistically the effects what one day without trays can do, they will support Trayless Tuesday’s
Kelly McPherson from ABC news did an interview with a student at Morrisville State he said, had he of had a tray he probably would have ended up wasting half of what he picked up and by only having a plate he will more than likely eat everything on it.
- I'm still working on making each point I have run together
- making my claims a bit stronger
- and a catching ending that have 'TAV'
Any suggestions?!?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Cab
The Cab is one of my all time favorite bands. But more importantly accidently ran across a blog that one of the group members (Alexander Michael - better known as Alex) has. The blog is him just being him, sharing fun facts, meanings behind lyrics, pictures, updates, just about anything. I thought it was very interesting to see how he designed his blog and how open about his feelings he was on it.
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