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The Daily DeMo - Edition 8

DD58 :: Monday - Today I learned more about the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Still trying to figure out how I feel about it.

DD59 :: Tuesday - Grady Nichols is playing at Bradley Fair on Thursday night. yay!

DD60 :: Wednesday - How Compassion International started: {via Anne Jackson}

Back in the 50’s, a preacher named Everett Swanson went to Korea. Driving through a town, he saw piles of war orphans huddled together to keep warm. The military would drive up to these groups and make them scatter, not wanting anyone to discover the huge orphan problem the country faced. The children that didn’t survive the cold were thrown into the back of military trucks like sacks of trash.

Obviously upset by what he saw, Swanson sought counsel. The key question someone asked him was,

“Now that you’ve seen what you’ve seen, what are you going to do about it?”

DD60.1 :: I read about The Q Line that runs through downtown Wichita. I've seen the markings on the street for the trolley stops, but haven't ridden it. I think I'll put that on my list of things to do this summer. [It amuses me that they call their FAQs "QTips."]

DD61 :: Thursday - Bears don't pee when they are hibernating. Their systems sort of "recycle" everything until it's time to wake up.

DD62 :: Friday - "Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City sits at the intersection of wealth and poverty, where some sleep in the lap of luxury only yards away from those who rest their heads on cardboard and concrete each night." {via PioneerWoman}

DD62.1 - Dave Ramsey covers lunch for his entire 265 team members once a week. {via @ramseyshow}

DD62.2 - When making black fondant, start with a cocoa base and then add color to make black. Otherwise the fondant will taste funny because of the amount of food coloring used when starting with a white base.

DD63 :: Saturday - I have some friends who have a son with an arachnoid cyst on his brain. It won't be removed, but every year they have to take him in for an MRI to make sure it hasn't grown. If it does ever grow, he will have to get a shunt put in to drain it. Scary!

DD64 :: Sunday - I learned the steps to the Charleston! I definitely need some practice, but the basics are there.

DD65 :: Monday - My bath mat has a lot more dust in it than I thought it could hold...

DD66 :: Tuesday - Three well-known climbers died in China.

DD67 :: Wednesday - [I messed up my Google Notebook by not refreshing the page before I started typing more stuff, so I lost everything that I'd saved for the last two days. This DD comes from my friend Mandy.] "I have a great factoid for your Daily DeMo. Monday, our professor told us that everyone gets cancer about every seven years but our immune systems are able to fight and eradicate it. I found no support of this factoid when I googled it, but you never know!"

DD67.1 - We rotate half of our close friends every 7 years. The size of our social network stays the same, but the people inside it change.

DD68 :: Thursday - Always double-check email addresses before sending an email. Oops!

DD68.1 - I did some research for friends on the background behind Gentlemen's Clubs (and why they are not so gentlemanly today), and also the phrase "Get outta Dodge."