Tis the season to hop on a plane on visit family. All across America families are queuing up to visit or to take a well deserved holiday, but what waits in store for them? Long lines, their personal belongings riffled through even their shoes checked and all liquids over 3 oz's thrown out. Not to mention extra hidden costs, no meals or drinks, no pillows, no blankets heck not even peanuts are being offered by some. Some even charge to check even one bag, but something even worse waits in store for 10-15% of those people who wake up, pack there bags and stand in those really longs lines and I can sum it all up in just one word - Double booking. I am not talking about those traveling stand by I am talking about those that bought a seat on a plane who believed that they spent good money for a good ticket only to be turned away.
In my mind I see this as nothing short of fraud.
So how do they decide who gets bounced? First come first serve? single passengers, those that are not making a connecting flight? If I pay for something I want what I paid for if I pay for 3 day shipping I want 3 day shipping, if I pay for a seat on an airplane leaving at a certain time I expect my bum to be in that seat at that time.

fraud

Pronunciation:\ˈfrȯd\Function: noun Etymology:

Middle English fraude, from Anglo-French, from Latin fraud-, fraus

Date: 14th century

1 a: deceit , trickery ; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b: an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : trick2 a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : impostor ; also : one who defrauds : cheat b: one that is not what it seems or is represented to be

synonyms see deception, imposture

or another definition

Definition of Fraud

All multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get an advantage over another by false suggestions or suppression of the truth. It includes all surprises, tricks, cunning or dissembling, and any unfair way which another is cheated.

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th ed., by Henry Campbell Black, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1979.

My new blog home
http://telishag.blogspot.com/

For a while I have looked for a new home and while I don't want to lose all my work or friends that I have here on y360 I have tried many different sites and while I do love facebook its not a blog site. Then I found blogger it has many of the traits I love in y360 including tagging and a blog cloud. http://telishag.blogspot.com/ this is my new home and while I will still drop by my other sites to stay in touch with friends the majority of my blogs will be at my new home.
If y360 changes into something new I will try here again however I don't think yahoo is even trying to make a new blog site anymore.
So adieu I have loved this but yahoo is not going to cave they refuse to fix this site or make us a new one so I join the vast exodus moving to new greener places.

The picture is one of my Christmas houses that I paint for my own little one of a kind Christmas village.
Merry Christmas

Creamy Chicken Enchiladas
151
Calories

Hands-on - 30 min. Oven/Exercise - 30 min. Creamy Chicken Enchiladas
Creamy, comforting and “to die for” are the best ways to describe this.
My complete thanks to Diane Petersen for contributing this favorite recipe from her mom, Barb Filler.
Preheat oven to 325°.
6 (4 oz each) skinless, boneless chicken
breast, cut into strips
1 can (4 oz) chopped green chilies
1 cup light sour cream
1 can (10¾ oz) cream of chicken soup
(Campbell’s Healthy Request)
1 can (10¾ oz) evaporated skim milk
1 can (21/4 oz) sliced black olives (opt)
1 cup reduced-fat shredded cheddar cheese†
10 6" flour tortillas
5 cups frozen cut green beans
5 cups frozen crinkle cut carrots
Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and
place over medium-high heat. Brown chicken turning
frequently. Add chilies during last 2 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, mix together and heat
over medium-low heat.
Place olives and cheese in assembly line.
Spread 1/2 cup of soup mixture over bottom of 9" x 13" baking dish.
Lay 5 tortillas on a clean countertop. Put 1 T soup mixture in a line down the center of
each. Follow with: 2 T chicken, 1 T cheese and 1 tsp olives. Roll up and place in dish.
Repeat with remaining 5 tortillas. Pour remaining soup mixture over tortilla rolls. Sprinkle
with remaining cheese. Place in oven and set timer for 20 minutes. Micro cook veggies and dinner is done!

Nutrition information for 1 enchilada, 1 cup vegetables
337
20%
7.5 g
3 g
5 g
55 mg
573 mg
26 g
32 g
7 g

Simple Baked Chicken & Rice
147
Calories


Hands-on - 10 min. Oven/Exercise - 60 min. Simple Baked Chicken & Rice
Got 10 minutes? That’s all it takes to get this tasty favorite in the oven, leaving you with 1 whole hour.
Preheat oven to 375°.
1 can (10¾ oz) cream of mushroom or
cream of chicken soup
(Campbell’s Healthy Request )
1 can (14½ oz) reduced-sodium chicken
broth, 1/3 less sodium
1/3 cup light sour cream or nonfat plain yogurt
1 bag (16 oz) California blend frozen
vegetables
1 can (10 oz) cooked white chicken,
rinsed and drained
1½ cups Uncle Ben’s whole-grain instant
brown rice, dry
1 tsp dried onion flakes
10 grinds fresh ground pepper
Stir together in a 9" x 13" baking dish.
Add to dish and stir.
Cover and put in oven to bake.
Set timer for 45 minutes.

At sound of timer, uncover and continue baking 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, set table, grab a salad and open the can of apricots. It’s dinnertime!
Menu
Simple Baked Chicken
& Rice
Tossed Salad
Apricot Halves
Serves 6
Nutrition information for 1¼ cups
270
11%
3.5 g
1 g
5 g
18 mg
555 mg
13 g
46 g
3 g

So this is a cross between 10 book reviews and an insight about the Author, As a mother and an avid book lover Dr. Seuss is a genius one of the most brilliant authors I have and will ever read. While he writes to children all his stories give depth, thought, entertainment and many times something to chew on long after the story is over.

I love the book the Lorax and the cartoon movie as well, it was my first brush with any thing "earth friendly" and stayed with me well into my adult hood. I recycle, save water, reduce and reuse whenever possible. I don't just do it because "the earth needs me" I do it because I have the ability & knowledge to do it. When more people start to recycle because WE CAN the better we will be.

I will continue to share these wonderful stories with my children and hopefully my grandchildren for years to come, so here are some fun facts about some of his books and his life. Even if it is one day late for book Tuesday :).

1. The Lorax. In case you haven’t read The Lorax, it’s widely recognized as Dr. Seuss’ take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. The logging industry was so upset about the book that some groups within the industry sponsored The Truax, a similar book—but from the logging point of view. Another interesting fact: the book used to contain the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie,” but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. Dr. Seuss agreed and said that it wouldn’t be in future editions.

2. Horton Hears a Who! Somehow, Geisel’s books find themselves in the middle of controversy. The line from the book, “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” has been used as a slogan for pro-life organizations for years. It’s often questioned whether that was Seuss’ intent in the first place, but I would say not: when he was still alive, he threatened to sue a pro-life group unless they removed his words from their letterhead. Karl ZoBell, the attorney for Dr. Seuss’ interests and for his widow, Audrey Geisel, says that she doesn’t like people to “hijack Dr. Seuss characters or material to front their own points of view.”

3. If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”

4. The Cat in the Hat was written basically because Dr. Seuss thought the famous Dick and Jane primers were insanely boring. Because kids weren’t interested in the material, they weren’t exactly compelled to use it repeatedly in their efforts to learn to read. So, The Cat in the Hat was born, and I must agree: it’s definitely more interesting.

5. Green Eggs and Ham. Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss’ editor, bet him that he couldn’t write a book using 50 words or less. The Cat in the Hat was pretty simple, after all, and it used 225 words. Not one to back down from a challenge, Mr. Geisel started writing and came up with Green Eggs and Ham – which uses exactly 50 words. The 50 words, by the way, are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

6. Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! It’s often alleged that this book was written specifically about Richard Nixon, but the book came out only two months after the whole Watergate scandal. It’s pretty unlikely that the book could have been conceived of, written, edited and mass produced in such a short time; also, Seuss never admitted that the story was originally about Nixon. That’s not to say he didn’t understand how well the two flowed together. In 1974, he sent a copy of Marvin K. Mooney to his friend Art Buchwald at the Washington Post. In it, he crossed out “Marvin K. Mooney” and replaced it with “Richard M. Nixon”, which Buchwald reprinted in its entirety. Oh, and one other tidbit: this book contains the first-ever reference to “crunk,” although its meaning is a bit different than today’s crunk.

7. Yertle the Turtle = Hitler? Yep. If you haven’t read the story, here’s a little overview: Yertle is the king of the pond, but he wants more. He demands that other turtles stack themselves up so he can sit on top of them to survey the land. Mack, the turtle at the bottom, is exhausted. He asks Yertle for a rest; Yertle ignores him and demands more turtles for a better view. Eventually, Yertle notices the moon and is furious that anything dare be higher than himself, and is about ready to call for more turtles when Mack burps. This sudden movement topples the whole stack, sends Yertle flying into the mud, and frees the rest of the turtles from their stacking duty. Dr. Seuss actually said Yertle was a representation of Hitler. Despite the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random House – what was disputed was Mack’s burp. No one had ever let a burp loose in a children’s book before, so it was a little dicey. In the end, obviously, Mack burped.

8. The Butter Battle Book is one I had never heard of, perhaps with good reason: it was pulled from the shelves of libraries for a while because of the reference to the Cold War and the arms race. Yooks and Zooks are societies who do everything differently. The Yooks eat their bread with the butter-side up and the Zooks eat their bread with the butter-side down. Obviously, one of them must be wrong, so they start building weapons to outdo each other: the “Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch,” the “Triple-Sling Jigger,” the “Jigger-Rock Snatchem,” the “Kick-A-Poo Kid”, the “Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz,” the “Utterly Sputter” and the “Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo.” The book concludes with each side ready to drop their ultimate bombs on each other, but the reader doesn’t know how it actually turns out.

9. Oh The Places You’ll Go is Dr. Seuss’ final book, published in 1990. It sells about 300,000 copies every year because so many people give it to college and high school grads.

10. No Dr. Seuss post would be complete without a mention of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! I couldn’t find much on the book, however, so here are a few facts about the Dr. Seuss-sanctioned cartoon. Frankenstein’s Monster himself, Boris Karloff, provided the voice of the Grinch and the narration for the movie. Seuss a little wary of casting him because he thought his voice would be too scary for kids. Can you imagine the cartoon with any other voice?! If you’re wondering why they sound a bit different, it’s because the sound people went back to the Grinch’s parts and removed all of the high tones in Karloff’s voice. That’s why the Grinch sounds so gravelly.

Tony the Tiger, AKA Thurl Ravenscroft, is the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” He received no credit on screen, so Dr. Seuss wrote to columnists in every major U.S. newspaper to tell them exactly who had sung the song.