tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242237432024-03-13T16:05:26.130-04:00Cranial SoupPeas, carrots, green beans, and gray matter.Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04973805741360160102noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24223743.post-49980778673936813862010-05-24T07:36:00.001-04:002010-05-24T08:13:15.217-04:00Thank you, Henry Ford, for another fine product.<p><a href="http://www.kingsford.com/about/index.htm" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline" title="Charcoal_bag" alt="Charcoal_bag" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_qlCAUZtia6Q/S_pkxH9AbAI/AAAAAAAABCQ/qOyTHz7EjPc/Charcoal_bag%5B10%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="141" height="176" /></a>Henry Ford didn't waste anything. Wood and sawdust byproducts from automobile fabrication were used to make charcoal. </p> <p>While he didn't invent the charcoal briquette (<a href="http://www.hpba.org/consumers/barbecue/fun-facts-about-barbecue" target="_blank">Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer</a> did, in 1897), he did found the Ford Charcoal company, which later became the <a href="http://www.kingsford.com/about/index.htm" target="_blank">Kingsford Company</a>. </p> <p>When E.G. Kingsford, a relative of Ford's, brokered the site selection for Ford's new charcoal manufacturing plant, Ford Charcoal was renamed to Kingsford, in his honor. </p> <p>Creative thinking and frugality turned a waste disposal problem into a money making opportunity, leading to the founding of a company that today manufactures about 80% of the charcoal briquettes sold in the US, and recycling about 1 million tons of wood scraps, each year.</p> <p>Thanks to Henry Ford being such a frugal guy, and a smart one at that, Americans have come to enjoy the ritual tradition of going outside on a beautiful summer day and cooking our food there, with a smoky barbeque, rather than in our kitchens and heating up the whole house. </p> <div class="zemanta-related"> <h6 style="font-size: 1em" class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</h6> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://notecook.com/main-course/chicken/simplest-way-to-barbeque-chicken-wing/">Simplest Way to Barbeque Chicken Wing</a> (notecook.com) </li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://notecook.com/main-course/meat/barbecue-recipes-the-best-which-you-can-ever-think-of/">Barbecue Recipes: The Best Which You Can Ever Think of!</a> (notecook.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703880304575236511225717650.html">The Grill Looks East</a> (online.wsj.com)</li> </ul> </div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; float: right; border-left-style: none" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=bf0e319d-a5a3-4e60-939d-9abec968b070" /></div> Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04973805741360160102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24223743.post-40062306829700479162007-02-28T02:20:00.001-05:002007-12-26T05:25:52.554-05:00A Classroom Divided<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px" height="141" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/omgplzstfukthx/R3IsL9ifr_I/AAAAAAAAAN0/JggBpI-M1Qk/SNAG-0229%5B4%5D" width="138" align="right"></a>In 1960, after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a third grade teacher decided to give her class a powerful lesson in discrimination by separating them into 2 groups. </p> <p>On the first day she told all the blue eyed children that they were better than brown eyed one, and reinforced it throughout the day. She gave them special privileges, treated them better.</p> <p>She told the brown eyed children that they were inferior...stupid, and reinforced this throughout the day. She took away privileges, wouldn't allow them to play with blue eyed children, wouldn't let them drink from the same fountain. She made them wear a collar so you could tell at a distance what color eyes they had.</p> <p>Then she switched it...told the children she was wrong. And repeated this lesson so that all could learn what it felt like to be judged by something that doesn't matter.</p> <p>She continues to teach this lesson today...to both children and adults.</p> <p>Watch all 5 videos (total time: 46:00) What happens and how people react may amaze you.</p> <p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html" target="_blank">A Classroom Divided</a></p> Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04973805741360160102noreply@blogger.com0