Hot Sauce

Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 6 Carolina Reaper peppers
• 1 small onion
• 2 medium tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup water

Instructions

• Heat oil in a pan and add peppers, onions and tomatoes.
• Cook about 10 minutes.
• Add vinegar, salt and water.
• Simmer 20 minutes to allow flavors to develop.
• Transfer to a food processor and process until smooth.

Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 small red bell pepper
• 3 cloves garlic chopped
• 6 bhut jolokia peppers
• 1 small onion
• 3 medium tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ½ cup water

Instructions

• Add all ingredients to a large saucepan.
• Add water to cover and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Allow to simmer about 20-30 minutes to soften.
• Transfer to a food processor and process until smooth.

Champagne Vinaigrette

INGREDIENTS

• 3/4 cup Olive Oil
• 1/4 cup Champagne Vinegar
• 2 tbsp Honey
• 2 tbsp Dijon Mustard
• 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
• 4 Garlic Cloves
• Salt (1/2 tsp), Pepper (1/2 tsp) and Hot sauce (1/2 tsp) to taste

PREPARATION

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and puree until smooth.

Henry Ford Inspiring Quotes

Coming together is the beginning.

Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success. 

Albert Einstein most inspiring quotes 

 I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
 Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
 Information is not knowledge.
 Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
 Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
 A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
 A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
 All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
 Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The Platinum Rule by Dave Kerpen

For years, I've written about the simplicity and power of the Golden Rule in business: Do unto others as you would want done to you.

It's a splendid concept, except for one thing: Everyone is different and, the truth is, in many cases what you'd want done to you is different from what your partner, employee, customer, or investor would want done to them.

So I came up with the 'Platinum Rule': Do unto others as they would want done to them. The Platinum Rule is decidedly more difficult than the Golden Rule. It's easy to know what you'd want, but it's much harder to truly put yourself in another person's shoes, walk around, and understand his/her perspective. While it's harder to do that, it's much more powerful in business, and in life.

The Golden Rule, as great as it is, has limitations, since all people and all situations are different. When you take the time to truly listen and understand the point of view of the other person in a situation, walk in her shoes, and feel empathy, only then can you do what she'd want done--and assure yourself of a better outcome. If I had applied the Platinum Rule in the business relationship I described, I certainly would have first talked to my partner about my plan, and avoided an unfortunate outcome. Next time, I'll remember: Platinum trumps Gold.

Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable Local. He is also the cofounder and chairman of Likeable Media and the New York Times bestselling author of Likeable Social Media and Likeable Business. @davekerpen

How do voters assess candidates’ ‘2 visions’?

How do voters assess candidates’ ‘2 visions’?

It is the easy way out to blame the politicians

however we elected them to represent our views and interest in congress. if they are not effective, we elect to replace them. We, the people, have to agree in the ways to solve the woes of our country. Try to get concenses with the politicians out of the way at the different venues of your daily life. We, the people, have to make the tough choices. Our country needs to spend less and produce more; are we, the people, up to the challange?

Cutting $60B in mandatory spending:

Minimum tricare op expense $3B
Increase Freddie & fannie fees $2B
Eliminate public health plan $3B
Limit medical malpractice suits $3B
Reduce the Medicaid federal matching rate $15B
Raise Medicaid eligibility age $3B
Copay for Medicare home episodes $3B
Manufacturers pay drug rebate $7B
Base social security adjustments on inflation $5B
Raise social security early eligibility age $6B
Raise social security eligibility age $6B

Cutting $100B in discretionary spending:
Reduce DoD funding by 0.5%/yr $26B
Eliminate TRICARE Prime $7B
Cancel Strike Fighter program $10B
Reduce non-DoD funding by 0.5%/yr $26B
Limit highway funding to revenue $6B
Fees pay for aviation security $2B
Eliminate rail subsidy $4B
Eliminate transit star program $2B
Food safety inspection paid by fee $1B
NIH funding at inflation level $4B
Government regulations paid by fee $1B

US Financial Data

Deficit: $1.6T

Spending: $3.8T

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid: 57%

Defense: 25%

Domestic Spending: 13%

Federal Debt: 5%

Revenue: $2.2T

5% of Tax Payers contribute $1.2T

61% of Tax Payers contibute $1.0T

34% of Tax Payers contribute $0.00

Top reasons health insurance cost is high

1. The McCarran-Ferguson Act preventing interstate competition.
2. The antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from competition.
3. The insurance company regulator being the state where the company's home office is.
4. Insurance plans providing superfluous coverage among other things.
5. The federal government regulations preventing insurance companies from offering a smorgasboard of coverage choices.
6. The overuse of medical resources by patients

Saving your Relationship

Couples who are trying to work their way back from a near-divorce are faced with the ultimate challenge. Rebuilding trust and infusing the partnership with love takes introspection, forgiveness and a lot of time and effort. Here are some points for couples to consider when healing a damaged relationship .

OBITUARY

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were lost in bureaucratic red tape long ago. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

1. Knowing when to...

"Change we can believe in" Score Card

Here is a briefed version of the 44th president's platform , it can be used to measure the change believed in against the actual change by 2013.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

The United States has the largest GDP in the world (3 times the next largest) but AMERICANS have grown it only 2% per year for the past 10 years (1/6 the performance of of China’s and 1/5 of the Emirate’s); that ranks the US in the bottom 15% of the less productive nations of the world along with Greenland, Iceland and Ecuador!

GDP is one of the measures of national income and output for a given country's economy. GDP is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within the country in a calendar year and it is given a money value. More on GDP...

The real cost of something touted as FREE

The lure ...

Persuasion vs.Force (by Mark Skousen)

Too Many Laws
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Taxation is the price we pay for civilization." But isn't the opposite really the case? Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society, the higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. Too often lawmakers resort to the force of law rather than the power of persuasion

Disagreement Exchange Guidelines

The point of the exchange is to reach a solution not to win, be right, or make your partner wrong. Follow these steps.

BEYOND DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE (DAS)

Just like the age-old question of which operating system (OS) and computer platform to choose when buying a computer, both network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies have their place in the network storage arena. For companies that need to move beyond direct storage, considering NAS or SAN makes sense.

How do you know which one will work for you? Read on ... SAN vs NAS

Climate Change Facts

The earth is about 4.5 BILLION years old. We have reliable temperature data from about the last 200 years. Even using all 200 years of data we are looking at the last 1/22,500,000th of the history of the planet. The last 200 years of temperature readings could not be considered determinant on a planet 4.5 BILLION years old.To put that in terms you can wrap your mind around, about 120 million people voted in the last election; imagine Gallup releasing a poll where they sampled 5 registered voters all in the same city.  200 years would be (statistically) the same as asking 1/2 of 1 person how they were going to vote and from that predicting a winner.

Read on ... Global Warming NOT

WHAT BROUGHT DOWN THE ECONOMY

Mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) are simply shares of a home loan sold to investors. They work like this: A bank lends a borrower the money to buy a house and collects monthly payments on the loan. This loan and a number of others -- perhaps hundreds -- are sold to a larger bank that packages the loans together into a mortgage-backed security. The larger bank then issues shares of this security, called tranches (French for "slices"), to investors who buy them and ultimately collect the dividends in the form of the monthly mortgage payments. These tranches can be further repackaged and sold again as other securities, called collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Read on ... The Economy Killer

Life Proverbs

• Luck happens when hard work meets opportunity
• Experience is gained knowledge paid by the price of being wrong
• Give a fish: feeds for a day. Teach to fish: feeds for life
• Philosophy: Questions that may never get answered. Religion: Answers that must never be questioned
• The road to success is always under construction
• Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there
• Efficient is doing things right; effective is doing the right thing
• Rather choke on greatness than nibble in mediocrity because did not bite off more than can chew
• Some are destined to succeed, the rest must be determined
• Schooling opens the doors, you enter by yourself
• Success is the intelligent use of mistakes
• Failure is an event, not a person
• Winners have answers losers have excuses
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift called the present

ENTITLEMENT

As defined in wikipedia (Entitlement) someone's belief to be deserving of some particular reward or benefit.

Once we leave our mother's womb, we are only entitled to the air we breath, anything else we must earn.

Living on the land does not entitle Native Americans to own it
Slavery does not entitle Blacks to preferential treatment
Immigrating earlier does not entitle settlers to priority rights
Being on the Arm Forces does not entitle veterans to lifelong benefits
Immigration does dot entitle newcomers to immediate benefits
Race does not entitle people to guaranteed opportunities
Creed does not entitle beleivers to priority in heaven

Citizens blame the government for inefficiencies nonetheless citizens are part of it
Citizens want the government to provide nonetheless citizens complain of insolvency
Employees talk about the wellness of the compny as if they were not part of it

Society today is all about Symbolism over Substance
It is all about feeling good about yourself while doing nothing

FOR A HAPPIER LIFE TRY TO...

Give Yourself a Break ...
We always tell ourselves the story of the one that got away. You can't move forward if you spend time focusing on what you should/would/could have done. It's over, and its time to move on. The fastest way to do this is to write all of your regrets down on paper. Make a list of all your personal and financial if-only; for example, "If only I had saved more money. If only I hadn't quit that job. If only I hadn't taken the job I have." After reading the list aloud to yourself, get rid of it. Let it all go by literally burning the list.

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