2023 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year / Military Veteran - USAF intelligence “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine” (Thoreau)
New Hampshire, USA
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When we were planning the layout of our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, we first mapped the paths of the sunbeams streaming through the windows into the trifoirum. This meant we could allow in natural daylight while protecting precious exhibits from light damage.
#Museum30 #Lighting
ALT An interior shot of museum gallery with stone walls and a wooden ceiling and floor. In the center is a long, rough-hewn rectangular stone sarcophagus mounted on black metal stands. Light from a large circular rose window behind it casts a detailed pattern of shadows across the floor. To the right of this window is another arched window alcove, and to the left, two pointed arch windows. Mounted in front of these windows on tall, black metal posts are four diamond-shaped displays, each featuring a round, colorful stained-glass medallion with religious or historical figures.
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Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.
His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.
Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.
His entire formula fits on a napkin.
Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.
That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.
"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."
That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.
Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.
The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.
Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.
The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
christian cheetham retweeted
Marxian materialism, by its own moral theory, works for enlightenment rather than emancipation. Its enlightenment is not meant to make men free, but to make them realize the impossibility of freedom.
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.@SununuSenator CALLS OUT Chris Pappas for getting nothing done for New Hampshire:
"It's interesting to hear Chris talk about the things he wants to do... he's been there for 8 years and he hasn't done any of these things."
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Did you know that Egypt controlled Gaza from 1948 until 1967, but didn’t turn it into a State called Palestine? Israel hoped to return Gaza to Egypt as part of the Sinai Peace Accords, but Egypt was uninterested in taking responsibility for the Gazans.
After a group of jihadists (including some Gazans who entered Egypt via tunnels) slaughtered a bunch of Egyptians in 2014, the Egyptian government closed the border, fearing for their own safety. It’s still closed today. They literally sacrificed a huge chunk of their land for safety from Gazans.
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“Men will learn eventually, and if they insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience.”
Hilaire Belloc
christian cheetham retweeted
Happy Birthday, Dee Dee, from the Johnny Ramone Army!
“Dee Dee was a punk. He had the look, he was a great songwriter. And he was the most influential punk rock bassist of all time. No one else even comes close.” - Johnny Ramone
#JohnnyRamone
#JohnnyRamoneArmy
#DeeDeeRamone
christian cheetham retweeted
If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.
My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
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I’m saddened to hear Dolly’s gone. Every time I saw her she seemed so positive and full of energy. In person she was gracious and gorgeous. I remember doing a Kenny Rogers special with Dolly. There was a moment when she and I were backstage. I asked her if she could tell me if a story I heard was true and she said OK. I said I’d heard that she once bought Porter Wagoner‘s song catalog when he was on hard times and a few years later, Porter asked if he could buy his songs back. She said no, she wouldn’t sell him back his songs but would give him back his songs. I asked if that was true. She said yes and nothing more. I think she didn’t like to speak of her good deeds, but being a songwriter, knowing how much songs mean to a writer, it made me have great respect for her. God bless her.
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Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
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What they say: “I’m a very empathic person.”
What they mean: “I’m a person who’s led by shallow sentimentality rather than reason.”
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The government needs to get out of the student loan business. Colleges should issue the loans and be responsible for them if the borrower defaults. Rates should be determined by the market, not by virtue signaling politicians.
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🚨 THIS is the speech that should terrify every American.
Senator Tim Sheehy just dropped the most brutal, unfiltered truth about Iran you’ll ever hear.
For 47 years the Iranian regime has been hunting us — vaporizing Marines, skinning Americans alive on camera, cutting our troops in half with EFPs, and celebrating every death.
They don’t care who you voted for.
They don’t care where you live.
They want every single one of us raped, burned, and cut into pieces.
This isn’t politics.
This is a death cult that has been at war with America since 1979… and we’ve been pretending otherwise.
Watch the full speech.
Every. Single. Second.
Then share it.
Because the regime that did this to our brothers is still standing.
Iran has never paid the real price.
It’s time they do.
christian cheetham retweeted
I am a lifelong Democrat. I served on President Clinton’s National Security Council and in the State Department under Madeleine Albright. I am also a lifelong human rights and civil rights advocate.
But every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA represents a fundamental threat to our party and our country.
This is not a story about a few idealists seeking to reduce healthcare costs. It is about a small group of radical extremists pursuing a strategy to take over the Democratic Party and ultimately our country in order to impose an agenda that would devastate our economy and fundamentally dismantle our system of government.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the full conversation between Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo and judge for yourself.
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When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.
Dates. Places. Names you can check.
Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.
Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.
Now read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer.
One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
They dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.