Odds and Ends

How to Bake Kale Chips

Posted by on Apr 4, 2012 in Blog, Observer, Odds and Ends | 4 comments

How to Bake Kale Chips

I stum­bled onto this recipe a few months ago: chips or crisps made out of kale.  The leafy super­food is, well, super. Vitamins, good things, pro­tein, and blah blah blah. Read this for more infor­ma­tion about the crazy good­ness that is kale. More impor­tantly, it bakes up to a very crispy-crunchy snack with no gluten or starch. Brilliant.   1. Wash and dry oodles of kale. Really dry. 2. Chop the leaves off the hard stem and try to keep the leaves in fairly medium-large pieces. 3. Toss with olive oil and sea salt. Alternatives: add lemon juice, gar­lic pow­dered or minced, or...

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Brilliant TSA Waste Breakdown

Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 in Activist, Blog, Odds and Ends | 0 comments

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This is very clever ad for an online crim­i­nal jus­tice degree. Beautiful graphic and solid information!

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Quote: Towns on Divine Predestination

Posted by on Apr 1, 2010 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

“… to say that God has cho­sen some and passed over oth­ers is to breach the nature of God. God is One, which means He is Unity and acts in per­fect har­mony with His nature. Every part of God influ­ences every other attribute of God. One attribute can never act in iso­la­tion from the oth­ers, hence God can­not be guilty of act­ing igno­rantly or with a dou­ble mind. The nature of God expresses His love, as well as His jus­tice. The Bible teaches that God so loves the world, hence this emo­tion is con­stant to all crea­tures at all times. Unconditional elec­tion implies...

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Flamingos!

Posted by on Sep 9, 2009 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

Flamingos!

Flamingos!, orig­i­nally uploaded by lorien. Laguna Hedionda.

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Volcano Southwest of Uyuni in Bolivia

Posted by on Sep 1, 2009 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

Volcano Southwest of Uyuni in Bolivia

Volcano, orig­i­nally uploaded by lorien. Early in the sec­ond day of the tour of the Uyuni region, this vol­cano was vis­i­ble for much of the trip. Taken 23...

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Photo: Crust of the Salar de Uyuni

Posted by on Aug 28, 2009 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

Photo: Crust of the Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni, orig­i­nally uploaded by lorien. The ground on the salt flats of the Uyuni in Bolivia is just a com­par­a­tively thin layer of earth crust over water. Gas emis­sions break through the salty crust and cre­ate these shapes which stretch out far into the...

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