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This is my take on one of the best known Korean dishes. Actually, just like with so many Oriental dishes, there are as many versions as there are people that cook it. Very simple and fast to prepare and yet so tasty.
1 Lb. bag frozen baby cuttlefish, cleaned
1 small carrot, julienned
6" piece of seedless cucumber
3 green onions
1/2 small cooking onion, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, chopped and divided into 2 equal parts
1" piece of ginger, chopped and divided into 2 equal parts
Soy sauce
Peanut oil
Sesame oil
1/2 package of dangmyeon noodles (sweet potato starch noodles)
You can substitute cellophane noodles (mung bean or glass noodles) for dangmyeon but Korean noodles have nicer texture.
Defrost cuttlefish in refrigerator overnight.
, pat dry and marinade in a bowl with 1 tsp. of peanut oil mixed with 1/2 tsp. of sesame oil and 1 part each of chopped garlic and ginger. Mix well and marinade in refrigerator for 2 hours. Wash
Cook noodles till al dente, about 3 minutes, drain and drop in bowl with cold water. Drain again, cut into 6" long pieces and toss with 1 Tbs. of soy sauce, 1 tsp. of sesame oil and 1 tsp. of peanut oil and reserve.
In a skillet heat 1 Tbs. of peanut oil till haze forms over the pan. Stir-fry rest of garlic and ginger for few seconds and then drop in cooking onions, carrots and cuttlefish. Stir-fry for 2 minutes, add green onions, mix well and then transfer into bowl with noodles. Mix well and season with hot sauce and/or soy sauce to your taste. Serve on individual plates and garnish with cucumber slices.


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At the end of May a cycling four act opera will be played in southern Poland. Beskidy MTB Trophy is an absolute must-be for mountain biking enthusiasts. This is, beyond any doubt, the hardest bike race held in this part of Europe and one of the most demanding ones worldwide. It is not only about the altitude or elevation. Here the cards are being held by technical, wild and virgin trails – one of the last of its kind in civilized part of Europe.
Boarder trails through Czantoria, Stożek or queen climb of Rysianka are definitely not going to be left out this year. We are also not leaving Czech Beskids behind, which offer more trails than we could possibly fit in one stage at once. If the weather is going to be kind for us, you will have a unique opportunity to experience beautiful views of Tatra mountains (the highest mountain range in Poland), while riding the best local single tracks placed in Rysianka mountain group.
We want to make the Trophy more available for the less experienced and undecided riders who feel a bit overwhelmed by the Trophy's legend. That is why we offer a shortened version of the race. It will also consist of 4 stages, but they are going to be shorter (approx. 40-50 km). The whole race will cover around 170km. Do not be afraid – those of you who choose the short option will also get a pass to the real "Beskid ecstasy". Less quantity does not mean less quality.
Each year we set you new challenges and provide riders with fresh attractions. Every subsequent edition covers broader area of Beskidy. Trophy is great fun and gives you satisfaction of victory over the trails, the mountains and, most importantly, over yourself. In this race the win is often a question of strong will and physical crises are overcome by the strength of one's head. The shortened version of our stage race is a way to encourage the less experienced riders to taste "the Beskid ride" without pushing their limits too far. Not only the winners of the classic Trophy distance, but all Finishers will feel the pride of achieving ambitious goals.


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We've all heard the phrase 'if you've got nothing good to say, say nothing at all' many times. But how many of us apply this age old adage to our own lives? Whether it's gossip or just idle talk, there is no use for it.
In the time of Facebook and Twitter, we are constantly being invited to share our opinions and thoughts via social media. There is nothing wrong with healthy discussion and debate, but we must always be conscious of what exactly we're saying on these forums: is it constructive, is it positive, is it helpful? If not, then we should refrain from speaking for the sake of doing so.
The internet makes many of us feel like we're experts on many things, but in reality, many of us don't have a clue what we're talking about half the time. We jump into discussions and conversations about topics we know nothing about simply for the sake of adding our two cents, because we think we can just google things and become experts within minutes. This results in idle talk, since we're talking for the sake of just talking. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't speak.
Gossip is another form of idle talk that many of us engage in without even knowing it. It usually starts very easily, as someone comes to us complaining about a mutual friend or family member or even someone we've never met. Even if we don't have the intention to engage in gossip, before we know it, our mouth has run away with us and we're complaining about that person too. We all know of the verse in the Quran that tells us not to backbite one another, for it is a grievous a sin as eating the flesh of your dead brother (Surah Al-Hujrat, verse 12) but we easily forget it.
So how do we stay away from idle talk and gossip? By thinking before speaking. By filtering the things that come out of our mouth. Before saying anything, ask yourself whether what you're saying will hurt someone, whether it will have a positive effect, and whether it is constructive. If not, try to rephrase it so that it is more pleasing. If you can't do that, don't say that. No one needs to hear it.
There is a reason why we have two ears and only one mouth. We should listen more than we speak, and not engage in idle talk.
A reminder for myself before anyone else.


text: Great news! It is gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) pupping season, and Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge is using a HD camera to give scientists insight into this event. It isn't easy to observe events that happen during Maine's worst weather conditions, and this camera means that scientists can observe seals during the whole pupping season from the comfort of their computer screen and without disturbing these 300-pound pinnipeds. Seal Island has the second largest gray seal colony in the United States, and is not too far from Hurricane Island (although Google Maps wouldn't give me directions...I suppose they are still working on their inter-island transit time). You can read more about gray seals here. Speaking of seals, if you want to come out to Hurricane Island for our Maine SEAL program, I promise you will get to see seals lounging on the ledges to the East of Hurricane Island!


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a twentyfifteen book launch
Date: Oct 7, Tue, 7:30PM
Venue: National Museum of Singapore
Address: 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
The Land of My Heart is a new series of work by visual artist John Clang, resembling picture postcards addressed to Singapore ahead of her 50th birthday. By re-appropriating the icon of the Singapore Girl, he contemplates on vestiges of identity and personal memories encapsulated in nostalgic spaces of a rapidly evolving motherland, after having based his practice abroad for close to 16 years. Travel with Clang on his emotional journey and own a unique piece of his memory.
Book signing session included.
To learn more about the project, please visit www.twentyfifteen.sg
Special thanks to PLATFORM, Tay Kay Chin, Darren Soh, Ernest Goh and Leonard Goh


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Culture » August 18, 2016
Can There Be a Party of the Left in Britain?
Party brass may not like it, but Jeremy Corbyn's popularity could herald a new era for Labour.
Manufacturing had taken an enormous blow under Thatcher, as had unions. Neither revived under Blair.
We may be watching the Labour Party's death throes. It gets harder by the day to recall that heady time less than 20 years ago when Labour won the General Election—after 18 years of Tory rule—with a huge majority. So what's happened? Paradoxically, given its title, Richard Seymour's Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics charts a history of the party's decline.
It's a long story of successful efforts by the Labour Party establishment to keep its left wing under control and as far as possible from power. Under Tony Blair, the party was firmly centre-right. Yes, there were a few improvements on welfare and taxation, but Blair was in thrall to Thatcherism, and his government did little to reduce inequality and nothing to return privatised industries and utilities to public ownership. Manufacturing had taken an enormous blow under Thatcher, as had unions. Neither revived under Blair.
Some say it was Blair's 2003 decision to join Bush in invading Iraq and the war's disastrous aftermath, followed by "the expenses scandal"—MPs were caught getting fat at the public trough—that inspired this country's current scepticism about politics, as demonstrated by the fact that the electorate has shrunk across all parties.
Then there was the world recession of 2008, which was not the Labour government's fault. Indeed, Gordon Brown, who was then the prime minister and a vocal opponent of austerity, saved the UK and some of Europe from even greater economic catastrophe, but the recession probably cost Labour the 2010 election. For the next five years, we lived with a coalition government of Tories and Liberal Democrats.
During that period, Labour MPs were weak in critiquing that coalition's austerity policies, and even promised more of the same. Their defeat in May 2015 owed a good deal to the almost total obliteration of Labour in Scotland and severe inroads made by the far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP).
The errors and misjudgements of Labour MPs let Jeremy Corbyn emerge as the party's first-ever leader from its "hard" left wing. Corbyn's candidacy inspired thousands of people, old and young, to join or rejoin the party to support him, as I did. Last summer Corbyn was elected by a huge majority of party members. He stands for nuclear disarmament and a genuine welfare state.
At the moment, there are 229 Labour MPs in the House of Commons and 172 of them want Corbyn out. They insist he is no leader, is incompetent, that he was lukewarm about Europe and is making their party unelectable. As I write, another leadership contest is planned. Again, members are allowed to vote, and about half a million have signed up—though this time, they will have to pay £25 to do so unless they can prove they're long-term members.
Owen Smith is standing against Corbyn, and is not markedly more charismatic. But the party, most of the press and some of my friends are convinced that a party led by Corbyn is a party of protest, uninterested in power and therefore to be resisted.
There's been a good deal of name-calling. Corbyn has been called "devious" and "vain" by some devious and vain senior politicians. Len McCluskey, a union boss and Corbyn backer, has called the whole thing "a squalid coup." Corbyn supporters are accused of throwing bricks through an MP's office window, while Corbyn himself is said to have locked himself in his office.
Corbyn may win this leadership contest again, in which case it seems likely that the party will split and cease to serve as an effective opposition. If there is a solution, and there may not be, it lies in electoral reform. Our first-past-the-post system, which in the May election resulted in a Conservative government that was supported by only 37 percent of the voters, no longer suits our differences and anomalies. But I doubt there is anyone or any party that will risk all to introduce some form of proportional representation.
I shall vote for Corbyn because of his policies, because he has inspired a lot of people to return to the Labour Party, and because the parliamentary party has refused to listen to him or to his supporters.
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Jane Miller lives in London, and is the author, most recently, of In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts (2016), a collection of her In These Times columns and interviews.
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- Jeremy Corbyn Spent Passover With a Group of Socialist Jews. Here's Why I'm Not Insulted.
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Hi, crafty friends!
It's May here from Mayholic Design. Today I'm so excited to be guest designing for the Right at Home blog, sharing a fun thank you card that I created with Sunflower and Script Greetings.
I started by stamping the sentiment from the Script Greetings stamp set with black ink on A2 sized white cardstock. Next, I created my own stamped background by stamping the sunflower images on A2 sized white cardstock. FYI, I haven't stamped two detail layers on the center of each sunflower.
Then I filled in the gaps with some tiny dots using the Copic Marker: E31 Brick Beige. If you are looking for an easy way to dress up your stamped background, the dotting technique will give your card more unique finished look. Small details make a big difference!
I also created a matching envelope. After I stamped the sentiment from the Script Greetings stamp set with watermark ink on the flap of my envelope, I heat embossed it with platinum embossing powder.
You can watch my full process in the video below.
That's all for today. I hope my inspired you to create something fun today. Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy crafting!


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by Sara Via, PhD
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and EmPOWER, Maryland's energy efficiency program, are two of Maryland's most effective programs for reducing air pollution and addressing climate change.1 Strengthening these proven programs is essential if Maryland is to reduce CO2 emissions in 2030 by 40 percent, as mandated by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act (GGRA) of April 2016. Meeting the 2030 goal will put Maryland on a trajectory to the 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 that scientists now deem essential to limit global temperature increase to 2O C. The 2030 goal was unanimously approved in November 2015 by the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and approved by the Maryland General Assembly in the 2016 session in the GGRA renewal. Although Governor Larry Hogan was widely praised for his bipartisan spirit in signing the GGRA legislation, the Hogan administration is now wavering in its support of both RGGI and EmPOWER. This compromises Maryland's progress toward the crucial emissions goals.
RGGI and EmPOWER are proven programs. RGGI is a regional market-based program for reducing emissions from power plants. In the nine RGGI states, power companies must purchase an "allowance" for each ton of CO2 emitted, rewarding companies that produce power most efficiently. Each year, there is a "cap" on the amount of CO2 that can be released. When the cap declines, so does the allowable amount of air pollution. EmPOWER Maryland is the program that coordinates and funds residential and commercial energy efficiency. Energy efficiency is the cheapest and healthiest way to satisfy our future need for power.2 Last year, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) mandated that Maryland's utilities must develop programs to reduce electricity demand by two percent each year, establishing Maryland as a national leader in energy efficiency. By reducing the need for dirty power, EmPOWER saves Marylanders money and improves health. These two programs are good for Maryland:
RGGI and EmPOWER clean the air and improve health. Since the inception of RGGI, carbon pollution in the region has declined by 30-37 percent.3 This not only reduces rate of climate change, but has large and immediate positive impacts on health. In Maryland, with an asthma rate twice the nation's average, air pollution sends tens of thousands to hospitals and causes hundreds of premature deaths each year. Through annual reductions of the allowable cap on air pollution, RGGI is improving health and saving lives—an estimated $6 billion value for Maryland since 2008.4 Over the past eight years, EmPOWER has reduced peak demand (the exceptional call for power on extremely hot days) by 15 percent, and has cut overall demand by seven percent.1 Shaving the peak is particularly important because power companies increase the use of the dirtiest power plants to meet these brief periods of high demand for power. The PSC order to reduce demand by two percent per year will go a long way toward cleaning Maryland's air, because if we don't use the power, we escape the air pollution that comes from generating it.
RGGI and EmPOWER benefit Maryland's economy. The funds raised from selling allowances are returned to the states and used for the benefit of consumers and to support energy efficiency and renewable energy. By reducing reliance on dirty power, these investments multiply RGGI's impact on climate pollution. As of fall 2016, Maryland has received $533 million from RGGI. Spending the RGGI funds on energy efficiency and renewables provides a big boost to local economies, a benefit estimated at $200 million for Maryland between 2011 and 2014.5 Energy efficiency and renewables also create good-paying jobs that can't be outsourced. Since 2008, RGGI has produced over 30,000 job-years across the nine states, and more jobs have been created through support of energy efficiency under EmPOWER.
RGGI and EmPOWER benefit Maryland's residents. To date, RGGI has saved Maryland residents over $450 million in energy bills, with more to come, as energy efficiency upgrades keep paying off year after year. In addition, reduced air pollution means better health, and investments by RGGI and EmPOWER in weatherizing homes also pays large dividends in increased health, particularly of low-income residents. Marylanders want these programs—a recent poll organized by Sierra Club revealed that 79 percent Marylanders support RGGI and want it strengthened.
RGGI and EmPOWER at a crossroads. In 2020, the annual reductions in the pollution cap under RGGI are scheduled to stop, and the RGGI states are now reviewing the program to determine what happens then. Analyses show that we need a five percent annual cap reduction,6 to meet the climate goals accepted by all nine RGGI states—35-40 percent reduction in carbon pollution by 2030, and 80-90 percent reduction by 2050.7 However, in Maryland, the power company NRG Energy has lobbied hard to resist the cap reductions, fearing that this will raise the price of allowances and drive purchases of power from adjacent non-RGGI states. Despite RGGI's proven economic and health benefits to the state and its residents, the Hogan administration appears to be swayed by the power company's arguments. Currently, Maryland is not supporting the five percent cap reduction and appears to be trying to encourage other RGGI states to support a weaker 2.5-3.5 percent annual reduction in allowable carbon pollution.
The support of the Hogan administration for EmPOWER is also wavering. As announced by the Maryland Department of Energy earlier this year, there will be no expansion of EmPOWER's budget. EmPOWER is funded through a $0.00578/kWh surcharge on power bills (about $5 for an average customer using 1000kWh/month). Governor Hogan resisted an increase in the surcharge even though the reduced use of power through energy efficiency will lead to lower monthly bills, particularly for customers who take advantage of EmPOWER's many programs. For example, BGE's PeakRewards program8 pays residential customers $25 a month for the ability to turn off their air conditioners for a few hours during 1-5 very hot afternoons each summer, and $6.25/month for the same periodic control of residential water heaters in the winter months. A customer with a single heat pump nets $100 from the air conditioner control and $25 from the hot water control each year, for a total that is nearly twice the $60 per year average surcharge. Residents who take advantage of the free Quick Energy Audit offered through their utility will receive about $60 in free energy efficiency supplies, while those who obtain a full energy audit for $100 (reduced by EmPOWER from $400) will receive a detailed report with suggestions that will reduce their overall energy use by up to 25 percent through upgrades subsidized by EmPOWER rebates.
Because of changes in the composition of the PSC under Governor Hogan, environmentalists and health advocates fear that the two percent reduction mandated in 2015 may be in jeopardy. This would continue the impacts of dirty power on health and cost Maryland's businesses and residents billions over the next few years for power they could have saved.
What's at stake? Will Maryland meet that crucial 2030 goal for reducing emissions or not? Scientists say that we need to eliminate 90 percent of all carbon emissions by 2050 to keep climate change impacts to levels that are even roughly manageable.9 If we start to fall behind in 2020 because RGGI and EmPOWER have been weakened, it will be very hard or impossible to catch up.
What can you do? Call Governor Hogan's office and urge him to
- Support a strong RGGI with a five percent annual cap reduction from 2020-2030, and
- Support EmPOWER Maryland and maintain the PSC's mandated two percent annual demand reduction.
In your conversation, you can mention the economic and health benefits of these two programs—proven job creation, reductions in electric bills and cleaner air for all Maryland residents. Also, stress that you want Maryland to reach the 2030 goals for reducing carbon pollution, which means acting NOW.
During this holiday season, supporting policies that clean Maryland's air is probably the best gift that you can give your kids and grandkids.
Listen to Dr. Via discuss these issues on WYPR's On The Record with Sheilah Kast (12/13/2016).
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1 Maryland Department of the Environment. 2015 The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Update. Available at: http://www.mde.maryland.gov/programs/marylander/documents/mccc/publications/2015ggraplanupdate/climateupdate2015.pdf
2 American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. 2016. The greatest energy story you haven't heard: How investing in energy efficiency changed the US power sector and gave us a tool to tackle climate change. Available at: http://aceee.org/research-report/u1604
3 Morris, Jackson. 2016. NRDC blog, available at: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jackson-morris/rggi-states-poised-triple-down-climate-progress.
4 Acadia Center. 2016. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Status Report. I. Measuring success. Available at: http://acadiacenter.org/document/measuring-rggi-success Acadia Center. 2016. Appendix to: Synapse Energy Economics. 2016. RGGI: A model program for the energy sector. www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/RGGI_Opportunity_2.0.pdf
5 The Analysis Group. 2015. The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. Available at: http://www.analysisgroup.com/uploadedfiles/content/insights/publishing/analysis_group_rggi_report_july_2015.pdf
6 Synapse Energy Economics. 2016. RGGI: A model program for the energy sector. www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/RGGI_Opportunity_2.0.pdf
7 Acadia Center. 2016. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Status Report. I. Measuring success. Available at: http://acadiacenter.org/document/rggi-achieving-climate-commitments/
8 Baltimore Gas and Electric. Peak Rewards Program. Described at: http://bgesavings.com/
9 National Research Council. 2011. Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Available at: https://www.nap.edu/download/12877
Dr. Sara Via is Professor of Biology and Entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is co-lead on Chesapeake PSR's Climate Health Action Team.


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Utah Administrative Code
The Utah Administrative Code is the body of all effective administrative rules as compiled and organized by the Division of Administrative Rules (see Subsection 63G-3-102(5); see also Sections 63G-3-701 and 702).
NOTE: For a list of rules that have been made effective since October 1, 2019, please see the codification segue page.
NOTE TO RULEFILING AGENCIES: Use the RTF version for submitting rule changes.
R152. Commerce, Consumer Protection.
Rule R152-32a. Pawnshop and Secondhand Merchandise Transaction Information Act Rule.
As in effect on October 1, 2019
Table of Contents
- R152-32a-1. Authority.
- R152-32a-2. Exempt Businesses.
- Date of Enactment or Last Substantive Amendment
- Notice of Continuation
- Authorizing, Implemented, or Interpreted Law
R152-32a-1. Authority.
These rules are promulgated pursuant to Utah Code 13-2-5(1) and 13-32a-102.5(1) to facilitate the orderly administration of the Pawnshop and Secondhand Merchandise Transaction Information Act, Utah Code Title 13, Section 32a.
R152-32a-2. Exempt Businesses.
(1) The owner or operator of a business that is not a pawnbroker is exempt from the requirements of Title 13, Chapter 32a if the owner or operator deals exclusively in one or more of the following consumer products:
(a) scrap metal acquired by a scrap metal processor pursuant to Section 76-6-1402(10);
(b) antique items as defined in Section 13-32a-102(2);
(c) used furniture;
(d) used appliances;
(e) used games (i.e., card games, table-top games, and magic tricks), except as specified in this Subsection (3); and
(f) used children's products, except as specified in this Subsection (3).
(2) The owner or operator of a business that is not a pawnbroker shall comply with Title 13, Chapter 32a if the owner or operator buys or sells a used or secondhand item that is other than an exempt item pursuant to this Subsection (1).
(3) Notwithstanding the exemptions listed in this Subsection (1), the following consumer products are not exempt from the registration, uploading, retention, and other requirements of Title 13, Chapter 32a:
(a) sports trading cards;
(b) electronic games, video games, and gaming systems;
(c) electronic and acoustic musical instruments (non-toys);
(d) motorized ride-on scooters/vehicles, whether titled or non-titled;
(e) bicycles/scooters designed for use on a public street;
(f) golfing, snow skiing, snowboarding, or water skiing equipment (non-toys);
(g) rare or collectible toys (i.e., trading cards, original issue versions of classic games, and dolls or decorations that are signed or numbered);
(h) child transport devices, including:
(i) strollers and jogging strollers;
(ii) bicycle trailers;
(iii) car seats; and
(iv) baby backpacks, frontpacks, and similar strap-on carriers; and
(i) any item reasonably similar to a consumer product listed in this Subsection (3).
pawnshops, consumer protection, secondhand merchandise dealers
Date of Enactment or Last Substantive Amendment
October 16, 2014
Notice of Continuation
May 17, 2018
Authorizing, Implemented, or Interpreted Law
13-2-5; 13-32a-102(23); 13-32a-112.5
Additional Information
For questions regarding the content or application of rules under Title R152, please contact the promulgating agency (Commerce, Consumer Protection). A list of agencies with links to their homepages is available at http://www.utah.gov/government/agencylist.html or from http://www.rules.utah.gov/contact/agencycontacts.htm.


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High School Sports
Chris Bradley, Modesto High
Modesto, quarterback
It didn't take long for Chris Bradley to enjoy the benefits of playing quarterback in Modesto High's spread offense, which has four receivers on the line of scrimmage and the quarterback operating out of the shotgun. In his second game, Bradley set school records for single-game passing yards (353) and touchdowns (five) in a thrilling, 41-39 loss to Franklin of Stockton.
"We were using this offense last year, but then we lost three receivers and went to Plan B," said coach Rod Long, whose quarterback was 17 of 37 and also ran for a TD. "Quarterbacks love to throw the ball, so they'd love the offense.This is a lot of fun to play and watch."
Bradley has thrown for 560 yards and eight TDs in two games, with just one interception in 72 attempts.
"We've only been sacked once and our offensive line deserves credit for giving Chris the confidence to stay back there and make the right reads," Long said. "We have the quarterback and receivers to make this work."


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Lovelane is a therapeutic horseback riding program that has a dramatic impact on the social, cognitive and physical development of children with an array of special needs. Therapeutic horseback riding focuses on achieving wide-ranging therapeutic goals in a unique and motivating setting. The benefits from therapeutic horseback riding, especially for children with special needs, are derived from using the movement of the horse to work the muscles of the rider to achieve therapeutic goals. The three-dimensional, rhythmical motion of the horse's movement stimulates and works the muscles of the rider. And because the horse's gait is almost identical to the human gait, the motion of the horse simulates the normal sensory-motor input of walking.
Core to Lovelane's mission is to treat each individual child as therapeutically as we can and to integrate what we do to address and enhance all areas of their lives. We do this through our personalized sessions, our long‐term commitment to their growth, our constant communication with their families and through our intimate experience with their ever‐changing needs and development.
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Texas Holdem Playing Styles
The common advice spread throughout most Texas holdem poker books and on advice sites online states that the best way to play is tight and aggressive.
This advice has been dispensed so many times that it's repeated without thought.
And it might be true.
But what if you're not exactly sure what tight aggressive means? And do you want to take someone else's word for it or do you want to decide what the best way for you to play is yourself?
The four standard playing pairs are listed below with explanations and examples to help you get a solid understanding of exactly what each means.
While it's true that most good players lean toward a tight aggressive style, the truth is the very best players adjust their playing style based on a number of factors. They play tight and aggressive when it's the most profitable, but they can switch to loose aggressive play when they need to and even tight passive if it's profitable.
If you've done a great deal of study you're probably surprised to see a mention of tight passive play in any situation turning a profit.
But that's the problem with advice sites and books that simply repeat what they've read.
Here's an example of a situation where tight passive play can be profitable. Surprisingly, sometimes in the same situation loose passive play can be profitable.
If you're in a Texas holdem game with a couple maniacs and / or players on extreme tilt all you have to do is get in the pot with a better starting hand than your opponent and let them lead the betting. They'll hang themselves with over aggression and all you have to do is sit back and take their money.
In some of these situations if you start firing back at them it can help them snap out of their poor aggression plays. Of course sometimes it just makes them push harder, but if all the money ends up in the middle either way, why take the chance of breaking them out of their poor play?
Tight Aggressive
Tight aggressive play involves playing a smaller percentage of starting hands than most players and playing in an aggressive manner when you enter a pot.
So often players want to know an exact percentage of hands they should play or that make them tight instead of loose.
The truth is that each game is different and has a different percentage. As a rule of thumb a tight player will play 20% of her hands or less in most games. A loose player will be playing 30% or more of the hands. What you do with the hands between 21 and 29% have more to do with the other players at the table than anything else.
The greater the difference between your playing ability and that of your opponents, where you're play is superior, the more hands you can play profitably. Rarely will you see a situation where you can play too tightly to be profitable. Usually the opposite is the case.
Most players play too many hands to be profitable.
The reason aggressive play is usually the best option for Texas holdem is because every time one of your opponents is forced to make a decision they have an opportunity to make a mistake. Every time one of your opponents makes a mistake it is profitable to you in the long run.
When you check or call and never bet or raise the only way you can win a pot is by showing down the best hand at the end.
If you bet and raise, you can win by showing down the best hand at the end or by forcing all of your opponents to fold.
You still need to play smart and use pot odds and what you now about your opponents to make the correct decisions, but if you can't decide if checking and calling or betting and raising is the best play, lean heavily toward betting and raising.
Constantly put pressure on your opponents and they'll make more mistakes.
When you combine aggressive play with tight starting hand requirements you give yourself the best odds to have a better hand when you enter the pot than your opponents.
Simple math shows that the person who starts the hand with the best hand wins more often than the person who starts with a worse hand.
The main reason that everything you read says that tight aggressive play is the best way to be a winning Texas holdem player is because it's the easiest way to teach someone who isn't very good that can quickly make them a better player.
While there's nothing wrong with this, and being a winning player is the goal, you shouldn't just assume that tight aggressive play is the most profitable way to play.
If you're a great poker player you may find that loose aggressive play is more fun and more profitable.
Loose Aggressive
When you play loose and aggressive you play most hands in an aggressive manner and you enter more pots than most players.
Loose aggressive play is the second most popular style of play for Texas holdem players.The problem with this style of play is you have to be a good overall poker player to play it profitably.
Most players can play aggressively but end up playing too many hands. This happens to be a fun way to play Texas holdem because you end up being involved in more hands but it can lead to long term losses for poor players.
When you play a loose style you end up starting too many hands behind your opponents. This means to turn a profit you have to be able to maximize your profits when your hand improves enough to win and learn how to get out of pots where you're not going to win as cheaply as possible.
At the end of the day poker boils down to maximizing your winning hands and minimizing your losing hands. If you're able to master the skills required to make these adjustments, especially while playing no limit Texas holdem, you can show a strong long term profit playing a loose aggressive style.
If you enter 10 pots and only win two of them, you have to make more in the two pots than you lose in the eight other ones. So if your average loss in the eight pots is $100, you have to win at least $400 in profit in each of the two pots you win to break even.
The best players can win $500 or more in the winning pots while keeping their losses to $100 or less in the eight losing pots.
The aggressive style of play is still the best option in most situations for the same reasons that were stated in the last section.
Tight Passive
Tight passive play is when you play fewer starting hands than your opponents and you play them in a passive manner. You tend to check and call and rarely raise.
Passive play tends to get a bad name when it comes to Texas holdem playing styles for good reason. When you play passively you don't force your opponents to make decisions and you rarely win pots where you don't show down the best hand.
These two things alone generally make passive play the worst choice.
If you're going to play passively you have to play tight in almost every situation. You have to make sure you enter most pots with a better hand than your opponents to make up for the pots you give away by not playing aggressively.
You should only consider tight passive play when the rest of the table is paying loose and they tend to all be betting aggressively.
Loose Passive
When you play in a loose and passive manner you play more hands than most players and you check and call in most situations instead of betting and raising.
Loose passive play is the worst choice in almost every situation. When you play loose, you enter the pot with a worse hand than most of your opponents on average and when you play passively you only win when you have the best hand.
This combination makes it almost impossible to play for a long term profit. The only games where loose passive play can show a slight profit are if everyone else is playing tight and aggressive. Even in these games it's a challenge to win.
Unless you're a top level Texas holdem player you should avoid playing a loose passive style at all times. It simply isn't a profitable style.
The Opposite Theory
Many good players use something that can be termed an opposite theory. They start playing a style opposite of the rest of the table.
So if the rest of the table is playing loose they'll play tight or if the rest of the table is playing tight they'll loosen up.
Overall this is a decent way to play, but you need to be careful not to go too far away from aggressive play no matter how the rest of the table is playing.
You've seen a few situations where passive play can be profitable mentioned above, but until you reach a high level of play you need to stick to aggressive play in most situations.
When Passive Play Is Correct
When you're drawing to a better hand and you're not a favorite and the pot odds show a long term profit you should check and call instead of betting aggressively.
The only other situation where passive play can be profitable has already been mentioned. When a few opponents are on tilt and / or are playing like maniacs you can play in a passive manner, but even in this situation aggression is still more profitable.
Limit or No Limit
In limit Texas holdem you need to focus more on tight and aggressive play than any of the other styles. Even if you're the best player in the world you'll show the most profit at the majority of limit tables by only playing your best hands and playing them aggressively.
Limit play is more direct and mathematical than no limit play in many aspects. The amount you can get into the pot on every round is limited and it's hard to trap an opponent for a big score. When your opponents are only losing a set bet on each round as they chase their long shot draw you're still winning but you aren't able to put the maximum amount of pressure on them.
When you're playing no limit you can afford to play more starting hands if you're good enough to know when to get away from losing hands and can extract more profit from your winning hands.
You have to take everything you know into account when deciding how to play each hand and every round of each hand. The more you know about your opponents and how they play the better your chances to play the best style against them.
Most players make the mistake of picking a playing style and sticking with it no matter what. But the best players adjust their style based on everything they know.
One of the most important things to understand when considering your playing style is your position.
- From early position and the blinds you need to stay tight because you'll play the hand out of position.
- From late position you can change to a loose style in many games and show more profit than staying tight.
As your position changes going around the table you can play more hands. It's like a clock starting at the small blind and going around the button.
The Value of Changing Up Your Play
At the lower levels of play most of your opponents aren't paying attention. They don't know if you're a good player or a bad one, if you play tight or loose, or if you're passive or aggressive.
As you start playing better competition some of your opponents will realize your overall playing style. They'll start using it against you if they see that you never change the way you play.
A player sits down at a no limit Texas holdem game and folds every hand for two hours. He finally makes a raise with a hand and one of the other players calls and says she has to see what hand is good enough for the ultra-tight player to make a raise with.
The hands involved aren't important. What's important is that at least one other player at the table is paying enough attention to know that the first player is playing a very tight game.
When the other players, or some of the other players, are good enough to pick up on your playing style you need to change up your play occasionally to avoid being too predictable.
The key is doing it in a way that doesn't cost you too much money in the long run.
If you start playing small suited connectors from early position it changes your play, but it costs too much in the long run to make it worth doing.
Consider playing a medium suited connector once per playing session from early position, or raise with a small pair from middle position once every 20 times you have one.
While plays like this probably won't improve your overall profit on the individual hands, it can more than make up for it by showing your opponents a different playing style to consider.
Don't blindly follow advice just because it seems to be the same everywhere you look. As you can see from what you've learned on this page a single playing style isn't always the most profitable.
If you're still learning how to play Texas holdem stick with a tight and aggressive playing style. But as your play improves start experimenting with different styles in different situations to see which ones show the most profit.


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Golf: Fore You for the week of Feb. 29
Happenings around the Valley for local golfers
A weekly look at happenings around the Valley for local golfers, compiled with the assistance of Bill Finn. Submissions can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Upcoming tournaments
Friday, Fresno Bee's 13th annual Kids Day Golf Tournament at Dragonfly GC. For full details and to sign up, contact Diana Farmer at 559-441-6358 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
March 21-24, 69th Len Ross-Fresno City Junior Amateur Golf Tournament at various courses. Full details and online registration http://1LjTOZa. Registration deadline March 15.
April 2-3, Tulare County Amateur Golf Championship at Valley Oaks GC. Men's and women's championship, handicap flights. For full information and to sign up, call 559-651-1441.
Airways GC
Upcoming: March 19, NCGA Four-ball net championship qualifier. March 31, SIR branch No. 159 Novelty Tournament, 9:30 a.m. April 16-17, NCGA Regional Zone Qualifier.
Ongoing: For any questions regarding club membership info and tournament registration, go online at http://ghin.com/eclub/fresnoairwaysgc.
Results: Women's Club Charter Trophy Tournament – Champion: Reva Neeley 209; Runner-up: Laura Smith 214. Flight 1: Angie Cisneros 217, Sue Yamasaki 222, Mary Walter 222; Flight 2: Diane Vasquez 220, Sherry DiStefano 223, Liz Wright 228; Flight 3: Yvonne McCrary 216, Mary Valk 220, Jean Mustachio 226.
Belmont CC
Upcoming: Tuesday, ladies club tournament, 9:30 a.m.; Friday, dinner and bingo, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, Bridal show. March 11, Pairing dinner, 6:30 p.m.; March 13, Saint Patrick's Day Tournament, 9 a.m.; March 17, Elvis Dinner show, 6:30 p.m.
Bluff Pointe Golf Center
Ongoing: "First come, no tee time" rounds. Nine holes in under two hours. Call 559-275-0600 for details.
Winter program: "Ask the Pro" Jim Perez every Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. Free lesson with purchase of a bucket of range balls. If you have any questions or need directions, call 559-275-0600.
Central Valley Junior Golf
March 6, Central Valley Junior Golf tournament at Pheasant Run GC. Nine holes, stroke play. 1 p.m. tee time. Open to ages 9-18, parents may caddie. Entry fee includes golf and range balls. For more info, text Pamela at 559-269-6369.
Christian Golf Club of Central California
Upcoming: March 11-12, 36-hole tournament at Cypress Ridge GC. Tee times are 11 a.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday. For information and to sign up, contact Norm Wiens at 559-289-0343.
Dragonfly GC
Upcoming: Friday, Fresno Bee's 13th annual Kids Day Golf Tournament benefiting Valley Children's Hospital. For full details and to sign up, contact Diana Farmer at 559-441-6358 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Saturday, Fowler Buddah Church Golf Club tournament, noon; Sunday, Sierra Nikkei Tournament, 10 a.m. and the Porterville MAGA Tournament at 11 a.m. March 7, senior golf tournament, 9 a.m.; March 12, Noonster tournament, 12:15 p.m.
Ongoing: Every Thursday at 9 a.m., Ladies Club weekly tournament.
Hole in One: On Feb. 24, Art Trask aced the 176-yard No. 5 hole using a 3 rescue.
Eagle Springs G&CC
Ongoing: Women's Club is taking new members for regular play on Wednesdays. Book a corporate, club or fundraising event. For info and to sign up, call the pro shop at 559-325-8900.
Exeter GC
Ongoing: Monday special, $6 all-day golf (except holidays, cart not included); Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, nine holes walking for $10, $15 with cart, 18 holes walking for $17, $27 with cart. Friday all-day golf for $10 (cart not included). On weekends and holidays, play nine holes for $11 ($5 extra with cart) or 18 holes for $18 ($28 with cart). Children under 10 play for $5 all day. Pull carts $1.
Upcoming: Ladies Day, 9 a.m. Wednesdays, Thursday scrambles (men/women), 8:30 a.m. green fees plus $2.25; Saturday men/women scrambles, 1 p.m., green fees plus $11.
Fig Garden GC
Ongoing: Daily specials for golfers, $44 for non-members after 10 a.m. and $30 after 1 p.m. Includes cart. Members pay $34 after 10 a.m. and $25 after 1 p.m. $149.99 mini-member discount card for 2016. There are 14 new membership programs for 2016.
Upcoming: June 25-26, Fresno County Amateur Tournament. For information, 559-439-2928 or go online at www.figgardengolf.com.
First Tee of Fresno
Announcement: Wells Fargo has agreed to donate $10,000 to First Tee of Fresno to become the presenting sponsor of the 53rd annual Cinco de Mayo Charity Golf Tournament. The tournament is May 6 at Copper River CC. Details: www.thefirstteefresno.org.
Golf Channel AM Tour
Upcoming: Saturday-Sunday, Morongo GC in Beaumont will host Golf Channel AM Tour's SoCal Open tournament. March 12, Morgan Creek GC in Roseville. March 13, Bayonet GC in Monterey. March 20, Eagle Vines GC in Napa. For details and sign-ups, contact Sacramento/Central California Tour Director Steve Neer at 559-360-2720 or email@example.com.
Lemoore GC
Ongoing: Little Linkster junior clinics every Saturday at 10 a.m. (weather permitting). Five years and older are welcome. $25 per month, no equipment necessary.
Demo days: Pro club fitting advice every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Launch monitor technology. Try out Ping, Titleist, Callaway, Taylormade, Tour Edge, PXG & Muira.
Membership program: 2016 Players Club memberships now available. Members receive NCGA handicap, one dozen Titleist Pro V1s, access to NCGA qualifiers and guaranteed weekday/weekend green-fees rate of $20. Membership costs $110.
Specials: Ladies play for half-price every Saturday. NCGA Youth on Course always available. Call pro shop at 559-924-9658.
Len Ross Junior Golf Center
Ongoing: Free golf clinics, 1604 S. Teilman Ave., Fresno, boys and girls 8-17, all equipment provided. Group lessons also available. Details, sign-ups at 559-485-2724 or firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
Madera Muni GC
Ongoing: Revolution memberships, $99.95 for seven days a week, $79.95 Monday-Thursday, includes green fees at seven other courses. Unlimited cart additional $99.95 month at home course. Unlimited range balls $19.95. Junior memberships $100 per year. Footgolf specials, adults play 18 holes for $8, kids $4.
Ridge Creek GC
Ridge Creek GC
Upcoming: March 9, SIR branch No. 159 four-man best ball tournament, 9 a.m.
River Park Golf Center
Demo Days: March 26, Callaway 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; April 17, TaylorMade 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Ongoing: Youth on Course, $2 for nine holes; senior and military play nine holes for $7 on weekdays, $10 weekends/holidays. Pro instructors Cindy Vining, Patrick Horvath, Gary Green and Brandon Sherwood. Call 559-448-9467 or visit www.riverparkgolf.com for their profiles and rates.
Specials: Limited number of Green Grass Club memberships still available at $500 per year, which includes $200 range credit, free golf Monday-Thursday all day, free fitting, and access to the members-only all grass practice area. Star Wars head covers are available in pro shop.
New Group Lesson Program: Try our Group, Club or Company Free Instruction Clinic Program. Call the pro shop at 559-448-9467 for full details and to sign up your group.
Summer camp: Nike Junior Camps are back. Call pro shop or register online. Camps go 9 a.m. to noon Monday-Thursday and include Nike amenity package for participants. Dates are June 13-16, June 27-30, July 11-14, July 25-28, Aug. 8-11.
Riverside GC
Ongoing: Play 18 holes for $27 per person on weekdays after 11 a.m. and $35 on weekends after 11 a.m. Includes green fee, cart and range balls. Not valid on holidays or with any other offers.
Upcoming: March 12-13, Spring Get Together 36-hole tournament and annual club meeting. Full details and sign-ups on website. May 21-22, 89th Fresno City Amateur, men's senior, masters and handicap flights, and the ladies championship and handicap flight. May 28-30, Fresno City Amateur Championship flights. Applications available at pro shops and online at email@example.com.
New Course Membership Program: Club 99 program consists of a one-year membership, costs $35 per month, includes $14 rounds with cart and unlimited range balls up to an hour before twilight. Call pro shop at 559-275-5900 or check online at www.playriverside.com.
Sherwood Forest GC
Upcoming: March 20, two-man best ball and senior two-man NCGA qualifier, 9 a.m. start; March 24, SIR branch No. 159, two-man scramble tournament, 9 a.m.; April 10, Masters-Pro Member Individual Net plus Pros score, 8 a.m.; May 15, member/guest day, 8 a.m. Details: 559-787-2611.
Tulare GC
Ongoing: Ladies Day every Thursday at 9:30 a.m; Twilight special after 3 p.m., $25 per person includes cart. Call pro shop at 559-686-5300 or go to tularegolfcourse.com/green-fees.html for details.
Valley Oaks GC
Ongoing: Youth on Course, $5 after noon, seven days a week, $2 small range bucket.


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Unmistakable luster. A wide variety of alloys and colors. Tarnish resistance. A long and fabled history in jewelry making. All of these properties make gold grist for the jewelry designer's imagination. If you want to incorporate the singular look of gold into your work, there are easy ways to do it without creating a solid gold piece of jewelry. From techniques such as keum-boo to products like bi-metal, gold lends itself particularly well to use as an accent. Read on for seven simple ways jewelers can incorporate gold into their work.
Gold Charms and Findings
If you want to start working with gold without fabricating, adding small gold findings to your work is the easiest solution. Maybe it's a gold chain or a gold clasp on a traditionally silver necklace. Or trying one of your bestselling silver pieces in mixed metals. If you're looking for the rich color of 24K gold, vermeil (or sterling silver with a heavy plating of 24K gold) is a great, affordable option.
Best For: A simple way to test out whether gold resonates with your market.
Getting Started: Explore a wide range of gold findings and chains.
Mixing Your Metals
Small gold accents on a silver piece can raise the value of your work and provide visual contrast.
Best For: Jewelers who are using fabrication methods and want to raise the perceived value of their work while experimenting with mixed metals.
Getting Started: Browse gold fabrication metals, such as bezel wire, gallery wire, sheet and more.
Keum-boo is an ancient Korean technique used to permanently fuse 24K gold foil to silver and other metals. The process is fairly simple, though you will need to understand how to depletion guild in order use keum-boo on sterling silver.
Best For: Inexpensively adding small gold accents to a finished piece.
Get Started: Watch a video on the keum-boo process. Then find the products you need to try it here.
Gold Leaf
A much thinner version of the foils used in the keum-boo technique, gold leaf is ideal for use with organic materials such as wood. Because it is incredibly thin and fragile, it should be handled with great care and applied using a quick-drying varnish developed for this purpose.
Best For: Accents on organic materials such as wood, stone and leather.
Get Started: Learn how to apply gold leaf in this quick tutorial. Then shop all gold leaf, including new lemon gold and red gold shades, here.
Aura 22
A liquid 22k gold, Aura 22 allows you to literally paint gold accents onto your pieces as easily as painting onto a canvas. The only special equipment needed is a paint brush and a kiln. After application, you will need to fire and burnish the piece to make the bond permanent.
Best For: Use with metal clays and other textured pieces.
Get Started: Learn how to apply Aura 22 to your pieces in this video. Then pick up a container and give it a try.
Pen-plating is a simple process that uses an electrical charge to deposit a microscopic layer of gold (or other metals) over nickel, gold or platinum, as well as silver, copper, brass and steel (though you will need to nickel plate these metals before you add the gold). Pen-plating solutions are available in 24K and 14K yellow gold, as well as in rose gold. They are priced based on how many pennyweights of gold are contained in the solution.
Best Uses: Economically and precisely adding small amounts of gold to silver or other metals
Get Started: Watch this video on how to plate 24k gold onto silver. Then explore pen-plating solutions and systems.


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- 1 half inch Boppayakaya (Green Papaya) – medium, chopped into pieces
- 2 chilies Green
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- 2 tbsps Sesame Chili powder – Red *
- 4 Curry leaves **
- to taste Salt
- 1 tbsp Oil
- Microwave the papaya pieces with ½ cup water until tender (it took about 6 mins in my mw).
- Heat oil in a sauté pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds; after the seeds splutter add curry leaves and green chilies.
- Then add the microwaved boppayakaya, turmeric, sesame powder and salt. Cover and cook for 5 minutes for the flavors to mingle.
- Uncover and increase the heat to medium-high and cook for 2-3 minutes, until the pieces turn slightly golden brown around the edges.
- Serve hot with rice and sambar.
Boppayakayakura also tastes yummy sautéed with the same way with just some curry powder.
* Sesame-Chili powder: Dry roast 1/2 cup sesame seeds with 6 red chilies until they are slightly golden. Grind into smooth powder with little salt. This can be used in curries with potlakaya (snake gourd), beerakaya (ridge gourd) or bottle (sorakaya gourd).
** I did not buy curry leaves for the past one and half months. Twice the quality was poor and last week, they had about 10 leaves in the packet for 99 cents. I didn't miss them too much and then I thought it was just me, but I read this at Jugalbandi and I guess curry leaves are dispensable in an Indian kitchen.


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Illegal immigrants are opting out of government welfare programs out of fear of Trump Administration crackdowns coming done the pike, reported POLITICO on Monday.
Due to a proposed Trump Administration rule to deny legal status to illegals on welfare, both legal and illegal immigrants have been inundating health care providers with calls demanding they be dropped from federal assistance programs like WIC. "Agencies in at least 18 states say they've seen drops of up to 20 percent in enrollment, and they attribute the change largely to fears about the immigration policy," says the report.
WIC, or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is a federally-funded assistance program from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), providing health benefits and services for low income mothers and their children.
Illegal immigrants are asking to be dropped from the welfare program because they are scared of being deported, while some legal immigrants apparently believe their legal status will be in jeopardy because of rumors circulating about potential Trump Administration rules, according to health officials speaking to POLITICO.
There were some 7.4 million women and children enrolled in WIC when President Donald Trump first took office; that number declined to roughly 6.8 million in May. The drop-off in WIC enrollment is also being attributed to a bolstered economy and a decline in immigrant birth rates.
WIC, created in 1974, is a "largely immigration-blind" program, notes POLITICO; "most of the infants it serves are citizens born in the U.S. regardless of their parents' immigration status."
President Trump has continued his tough-talk from the 2016 election to the present when it comes to illegal immigration, threatening a government shutdown if a southern border wall is not soon funded.


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Jack S. Blocker. A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 368 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1067-3.
Reviewed by Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-SHGAPE (March, 2009)
Commissioned by James Ivy
Choosing Migration
In this copiously researched book, Jack S. Blocker uses quantitative history and elements of immigration and regional history to illuminate the roots of the Great Migration of African Americans out of southern states into the urban Lower Midwest, defined as Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In doing so, he advances two arguments. He contends that racist violence, while significant, played a smaller role than economics and structural factors in African Americans' decisions to migrate and in their choices of destination. He also argues that prior to World War I African Americans did not migrate from the South directly to major metropolitan areas, but instead to "nonmetropolitan" areas, i.e., small cities and towns (p. 1). Thus, African Americans recapitulated the experience of "European Americans, whose metropolitan shift had occurred through stages encompassing a protracted period in small towns, an 'age of the village'" (p. 1). The first argument proves persuasive, the second less so.
According to Blocker, the first significant black migration into the Lower Midwest occurred during the Civil War, when twenty-one thousand came to Ohio, eleven thousand to Indiana, and twenty thousand to Illinois, where the Union Army operated a huge "contraband" camp at Cairo. These refugees paved the way for a slow but steady Gilded Age migration of African Americans north from Kentucky and Tennessee. Blocker astutely links this migration to available transportation, noting that while travel by rail from Kentucky to the Lower Midwest was relatively easy, travel from the Deep South could take thirty hours and multiple changes. During the Gilded Age, black and white migrants chose the same rapidly growing midwestern cities, towns, and villages as destinations, indicating that their choices were based on economics. Thus, Oberlin, Ohio, an abolitionist stronghold with a good reputation when it came to race relations, drew few black migrants, but Cairo and Evansville, Illinois, drew many.
Blocker argues that African Americans sought economic opportunity in smaller midwestern cities and towns, areas he calls "nonmetropolitan." These towns tended to be located in the southern tier of the three states, relatively close to migrants' old homes in the Upper South. Linked to the Midwest's prosperous agricultural sector by trade, these towns offered more jobs for African American men than for women.
Having gotten his migrants to the Lower Midwest, Blocker then describes the worlds in which they lived. He begins on the local level with three case studies: Washington Court House and Springfield, Ohio; and Springfield, Illinois. A small market town, Washington Court House was home to 742 African Americans in 1890, 13 percent of the town's total population. Blocker argues that the equal ratio of men and women indicates that migrants came to Washington Court House as families. The community was not yet racially segregated, although the new suburbs then being built were white only. Black men held unskilled and semiskilled jobs, and women worked as domestics. Washington Court House offered little advancement for black workers. However, 48 percent of black heads of household in 1900 owned their homes, a percentage nearly equal to white home ownership in the town.
Springfield, Ohio, had a population of about 38,000 in 1890, of which 3,549 were black. Springfield had more single men living alone than Washington Court House did. The town's metalworking industries offered jobs to black men, albeit without much hope for advancement. Black women had better chances to find jobs in this larger town. On the one hand, fewer people of any race owned their homes, but the black home ownership rate was 23 percent to the white rate of 38 percent. On the other hand, as Blocker notes, people who persisted in the town, whether black or white, were more likely to own their own homes.
Springfield, Illinois, had proportionately fewer African Americans than the other two towns. Although it had a more diversified economy, that did not lead to greater opportunities for African Americans, who were employed mostly in semiskilled, unskilled, and (for women) domestic jobs. However, Abraham Lincoln's town was the most residentially segregated of the three, with black housing clustered in seven locations. A higher percentage of African Americans owned houses in Springfield, Illinois, than did in Springfield, Ohio, but less than in Washington Court House.
Through these case studies, Blocker demonstrates the "severely limited" job market facing black migrants (p. 81). As he points out, this is not news. However, Blocker's findings concerning home ownership are striking. In all three towns, persistence correlated highly with home ownership, but it seems to have been easier for African Americans to buy houses in small towns than in small cities. The bigger the town, the harder to live the American dream of owning one's own home.
On the state level, African Americans in the Gilded Age could and did exert some political power, due to the precariously balanced nature of the two-party system in the Lower Midwest. Although the overwhelming majority of African American men voted Republican, Democrats in the Lower Midwest made concerted efforts to detach black voters from the GOP. In this competitive situation, it was possible for African Americans to participate actively in the political system, as voters and as officeholders.
After the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act in 1883, all threestates passed laws outlawing discrimination in public accommodations. In Ohio and Indiana, the legislatures were under Democratic control at the time. Ohio had more black voters than the other two states. According to Blocker, this set off a "bidding war" for black support, resulting in the repeal of laws providing for segregated schools and prohibiting interracial marriage, and the passage of laws prohibiting other forms of racially based discrimination (p. 86). Illinois's politicians were less committed to fighting legal inequality, but did support significant changes in state laws tending toward greater equality for African Americans. While Indiana had Reconstruction-era laws forbidding local schools from excluding black children, and passed an antilynching law in 1899, by the end of the century it was one of only two northern states prohibiting interracial marriage.
Despite this progressive record, state legislation had less impact on the lives of black migrants than local custom. Blocker's most telling examples concern education. Some communities "desegregated" schools by placing all black students in separate classrooms within white schools, and others never desegregated. Alton, Illinois, resegregated its schools in 1897 after twenty-five years of integration. Gilded Age black migrants resisted discrimination in education through the means available to them: public demonstrations, boycotts, the courts, and the political system. In the Alton school case, a black father took the system to court, resulting in a battle that lasted eleven years, "seven jury trials, and five state supreme court appeals" (p. 96). Although the plaintiff eventually won, Alton school authorities used technicalities to keep their schools segregated until the 1950s.
This regional overview, coupled with Blocker's detailed case studies, sets the stage for the most interesting chapter in the book, "Violence: Patterns of Attack and Riposte." Between 1885 and 1910, according to Blocker, "antiblack collective violence in the Lower Midwest included twenty completed lynchings and at least six attempted lynchings, five nonfatal mob attacks, four fatal mob attacks, and five full-scale riots ... dispersed only by a significant military force" (p. 105). Blocker describes riots and lynchings throughout the Lower Midwest. Mobs of white immigrants attempted to drive black migrants out of the mining fields. Lynch mobs killed men accused of crimes ranging from rape to murder. In 1894, an attempt to lynch a man accused of raping a woman belonging to a locally prominent family in Washington Court House resulted in a full mob assault on the courthouse, which had to be defended by a state militia unit. In 1900, Akron had a race riot in which a white mob "dynamited and burned its own city hall in an attempt to kill a black prisoner," but was foiled by the Ohio National Guard (p. 119). In Evansville, a long and complicated sequence of events including a white riot and resistance by armed African Americans concluded with the town under martial law in July, 1903. In Springfield, Ohio, white mobs attacked black-owned saloons in 1904 and 1906. The 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, is "the region's best known race riot before World War I," probably because a race riot in Lincoln's hometown pushes all the irony buttons (p. 128). It was also one of the most brutal.
In analyzing the factors leading to race riots, Blocker cites rivalry for jobs, white fears of black sexuality and/or black crime, an amorphous sense among whites that their town's black population was growing too large, revenge for specific crimes, and a general attempt to establish white supremacy at a time when African Americans were making economic progress and asserting their political and legal rights. As he notes, collective antiblack actions seem overdetermined, as "the factors cited could well have existed generally throughout the region" (p. 123). Yet "antiblack collective violence flared only in some, indeed, in a minority of communities" (p. 123). Those communities tended to have relatively large African American communities, but not all towns with large black populations had riots: "violence required the coming together imprecise though varying combinations of a variety of favorable conditions and propelling forces" (p. 124).
In their reaction to antiblack collective violence, African Americans in the Midwest demonstrated that they did indeed have a little more freedom than they might have had in the South. Black newspapers crusaded against mob rule, as did black self-help groups ranging from Sunday school conferences to women's clubs. Most strikingly, African Americans armed themselves for collective self-defense. Blocker found that African American oral histories of the Springfield, Illinois, riot featured tales of "agency rather than victimization" (p. 133). For example, grocer Edward White, armed with guns and ammunition sent to him by relatives in Chicago, marched from his store to his house "all day and all night long, he had a gun on each shoulder ... and when they saw him with all his guns, they turned and went the other way" (p. 133).
Blocker provides additional fascinating information concerning mob violence. In the Midwest and the South, African American agency included more than resistance to lynch mobs. On occasion, African Americans actually participated in lynch mobs, as the case of an Ohio mob that hanged a black man accused of assaulting a respectable sixty-five-year-old African American widow. Nor were African Americans the only mob victims. In the Midwest, twenty-nine African Americans and twenty-six whites were lynched between 1889 and 1918.
African American migration to the Lower Midwest began to pick up pace in the 1890s, swelling into the phenomenon known as the Great Migration in 1915. Black southerners who wanted to move to cities chose the Midwest rather than the South for economic reasons: cities close to them in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama had fewer, poorer jobs than cities across the Ohio River. When African Americans did move to southern cities, they often became jumping-off places for migration north. As Blocker puts it, "A narrow path led to Memphis and Nashville, but a broad highway beckoned to Chicago, Indianapolis, Dayton, Toledo and Cleveland" (p. 143). Although he is speaking in socioeconomic metaphor, in fact transportation innovations created "broad highways" for black migration out of the South. By 1930 migrants could travel from Mississippi to Chicago by rail in eighteen hours.
While not discounting the "push" of southern white antiblack collective violence as a factor influencing black migration to the North, Blocker emphasizes the economic "pull" of better jobs and a developing, attractive black urban culture in bringing southern blacks to northern cities. However, northern white violence led African Americans to choose one city over another. During the Progressive Era, people in Ohio and Indiana, whether black or white, migrant or southern, tended to move from rural areas to urban areas, but African Americans skipped the small cities and moved directly to the largest. Blocker says that in Ohio all the towns and cities that had experienced lynchings or riots experienced shrinkage in their share of the state's black population--but so did towns with the same socioeconomic characteristics where nothing overtly bad had taken place. African Americans moved to places with black populations large enough to offer some protection. Thus, Akron, with its booming industrial economy, pulled white migrants but repelled African Americans because of its violent history and its small black population, 451 in 1890. Dayton had jobs and a black community four times bigger.
In Illinois, however, African Americans and whites tended to choose the same industrializing cities, and African Americans did not vault over smaller cities to go directly to Chicago. As Blocker notes, Chicago had a large black community, a vibrant culture, and black institutions ranging from churches to hospitals and banks. However, Chicago also had a bad reputation for mob action against African Americans during strikes in 1899, 1900, 1904, and 1905. Blocker points out that academics may distinguish between mobs attacking African Americans over jobs and mobs attacking African Americans over race, but it probably made little difference in terms of the city's reputation among black migrants. Chicago did not begin to outdraw other Illinois industrial cities until the Great Migration.
The trickle of black migrants out of the South became a flood in 1915, and continued through the 1920s. At this point, black migrants could make choices on where to go based on many different factors: information about destinations from previous migrants; newspaper stories from the Midwest's multiple black papers; the pull of good jobs; aversion to communities with bad names, racially speaking; and the yen to be in a place where things were happening. While the choices made create a collective pattern, Blocker notes that the people involved made them individually, based on their own experiences and desires. Thus, black midwesterners sometimes stayed in small towns, even those with bad reputations, because they just did not like living in the big city, whereas other young people moved to Chicago for the same reason young whites did: bright lights, big city.
Blocker concludes that African Americans' movement north was "for the most part a deliberate and orderly one" (p. 219). As he notes, this contrasts with the more dramatic view of African Americans in "headlong flight from southern oppression" (p. 219). It also contradicts James W. Loewen's recent work on "sundown towns" (Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism [2005]), which describes African Americans being driven out of small towns in the North and finding refuge in cities. Blocker prefers to emphasize black agency and to place African Americans well within the "picture painted by modern historians of human mobility" (p. 219). That is, "migration responded to identifiable disappointments, dangers, and opportunities" (p. 219).
I find unpersuasive Blocker's contention that African Americans, like whites, experienced an "age of the village," a sojourn in small towns and smaller cities before moving to metropolitan areas. The African American migrants who moved from Kentucky to Washington Court House in the 1870s are not the same people who moved from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1920s. To subsume all these different people moving at different times into one group called "African American migrants" does not facilitate our understanding of the migration process. Moreover, as a rural historian, I am dubious about lumping small towns of six thousand and small cities of thirty thousand together, much less calling them villages. As a historian of the South, I was surprised at the concept that European Americans (Blocker's preferred term) passed through stages from rural to village to urban life. This was not the experience of most white southerners in the twentieth century, who, like their black neighbors, often moved directly from farm to industrial city (or, in the postwar South, to metropolitan suburb) without ever living in villages, or even small towns. Blocker effectively shows that black migrants moved to small towns and cities in the Midwest in the post-Civil War period, that they and new migrants from the South moved from place to place in search of safety and better jobs, and that by the time of the Great Migration this search led black migrants to the region's metropolitan areas. That is an achievement in itself.
However, this book's major contribution lies in the way that Blocker contextualizes the Great Migration. He provides ample evidence supporting his contention that African Americans, while responsive to the danger of antiblack collective action, made migration choices based primarily on economics plus structural factors. The word "nuanced" is overused in academic reviews, but if any book deserves it, this one does. A Little More Freedom is also old-school in its use of quantitative history, reminding me of the required readings when I was in graduate school in the 1980s--which was, according to Blocker, about the time he became interested in this project. I applaud his persistence, which has produced an impressive piece of work.
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I love making my own salad dressing. It's quick, easy and tastes so much better than store bought varieties. This is my go-to dressing recipe. I adapted it from a recipe over at The Nourishing Gourmet. I wanted something that used apple cider vinegar. I am always looking for ways to get more of it into my family's diet.
If fresh herbs are in season, feel free to use them. It makes this even better!
If you don't have fresh herbs on-hand, dried herbs work just fine. Because my little ones eat this I only put one clove of garlic. If you like more of a kick, add two or three cloves. I like using both regular Dijon mustard and coarse mustard or whole grain Dijon. The addition of raw honey is really what makes this dressing perfect, in my opinion.
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- 1 cup high quality, organic olive oil
- 1/2 cup raw apple cider vinegar
- 1 TBS, or more raw honey
- 1 TBS Dijon mustard
- 1 TBS coarse/whole grain mustard
- 1-3 gloves fresh garlic
- 1/2 tsp dried basil or 1 tsp fresh
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme or 1 tsp fresh
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- Place everything in a blender or food processor and mix until creamy.
- Serve on salads or as a marinade.
- Store in refrigerator.
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A Traditional Wedding In Nunavut
Nunavut may be placed conveniently in the Toronto area but then there is something about the traditions here being followed religiously. Wedding traditions always felt like cliché and to those who think boldly, it will be a bold thing to even consider thinking out of the box. While there is nothing wrong with themed weddings, there certainly is nothing that could be wrong about following the traditions. If you are in Nunavut, you would want to get married in a white gown and in a long aisle, maybe in a church or chapel like your folks used to.
Some things just do not fade they say and in weddings, that white gown made famous by Queen Victoria is something that has made a long way and has changed how brides wore their best dress on their biggest day. The elegant queen want nothing else but the essence of purity and innocence on her wedding and that has became the best symbol of a wedding day.
Modern brides have a wide range of choices when it comes to wedding gowns and dresses but white or creamy shades never go out of style. In Nunavut, wedding gowns sold by vendors are mostly of this shade and certainly, brides love them. On some rare cases, there are women who opt to use heirloom wedding gowns too which is sweet and heart-warming.
Traditions are very important not only with weddings but with almost everything in life. It would not hurt to at least get that comforting guide of how to do things. Should you be resentful about having almost the same things on your wedding day as with every other wedding you have attended and heard of? Of course you should not. Nunavut would be a place that will show you, wedding traditions others are so eager to get rid off actually make immortal impressions.
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Cahagnes is a commune in the Calvados region of the Normandy bocage, with a population of around 1400. A rural area renowned for it's Dujardin Cider, organic milk and dairy products, poultry, cattle, and horse-riding.
Within reach easy reach of Cahagnes, major tourist attractions include the Bayeux Tapestry (Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux) (23 km), D-Day Landing Beaches (32 km), Memorial de Caen (34 km), and Coutances Cathedral (49 km) .
Britanny Ferries have three sailings a day between Portsmouth and Caen.The closest airport to Cahagnes is Deauville Airport (74 km). Dinard Airport (110 km) has scheduled and holiday charter services from the UK
Cahagnes has1379 inhabitants. A lot of them live in one of the 50 hamlets located up to 4 km from the centre. Most residents now work now in nearby towns : Caen, St Lô, Vire, Bayeux,…
The "Commune" is part of CALVADOS district, itself part of BASSE NORMANDY county. Basse Normandy and Haute Normandy (Rouen area) will be united in the coming months.Marcel Bonnevalle has been Mayor since 1984.
Cahagnes is located 8 km from Villers-Bocage (where most commercial activities can be found) and 30 mn from the center of CAEN.
Traces of an important bronze age village with twenty big circular houses were found 20 years ago when excavating before building the motorway.
From the Middle Ages, Cahagnes grew to be an important village, up to 2000 people were living here in 1800.
Cahagnes's old church dated of 14th century was destroyed by German forces before they retreated on 28th of July 1944.
The new church was consecrated in 1966.
The village was bombed and largely destroyed during the Battle of Normandy,
Cahagnes was liberated on 31st of July 1944 by the 43rd British Infantry Division.
Cahagnes has everything of a typical Norman bocage village :
Milking cows or beefs pasture on the green fields for the pleasure of the lucky ramblers who could discover the famous view of norman cows under apple trees. (It is just nearby the smaller military cemetery where British Lieutenant James Marshall Cornwall is buried .
Cahagnes is in the norman traditions with the organic dairy « Vrai » [2] producing the well-known fresh cream, or with some farmers making their soft white cheese for the local markets.
Along with these activities, several poultry farms are implemented with their own slaugther house.
Normandie county has also a long story of stud farms, which has been recognized this year with the organisation of the world equestrian games at Caen.
In Cahagnes, two equestrian centres enjoy the youngest as the oldest.
Cahagnes had its own cider works founded by Ernest DUJARDIN in 1926, it has been sold to a big multi-national company before being recently closed.
But smaller farms still propose cider, pommeau and calvados and other home-made spirits such as famous Calvados around Cahagnes in the "Traditional road" [3].
Two organic market garderners also take place on the territory.
Cahagnes has not only rural activities, but is also a good area for craftman implementation: leveller, carpenter, builder, electrician, plumber, metal worker and landscaper are installed in our village.
From citizen side, Cahagnes is a pleasant village to live at any age, thanks to the presence of few shops and people care services, but also thank to the dynamism of the various associations.
Shops : proxy market, hair dressers, repair garages, pharmacy, post office.
People care services : medical house, services that can be offered to person in need.
Rebuilded church with a mass every Sunday.
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LAC (Leisure At Cahagnes) : village library, kid camps,
Sport : football, cycle ride, tennis, badmington, gym
Twinning club with Horsted Keynes
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Hunting club
Senior club
War veterans club
Arts : painting club
At last, Cahagnes is a place for hosting tourist with its camping and pond for fishing, many B&B. [5]
The village is well centered to visit D-Day museum and beaches, Mt Saint Michel (1 hour), Bayeux (30mn), Caen (30 mn).
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[4] http://www.ce-bief-cahagnes.fr/ ; www.cecahagnes.fr
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Away from the hubbub in Taipei, President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday spent a warm and peaceful day in southern Taiwan, visiting a Buddhist monastery and the Lioukuei Orphanage in Kaohsiung.
At the orphanage, Chen spoke about the assassination attempt on him and Vice President Annette Lu (
"It is God's will," Chen said, that he was able to escape the election-eve attack.
"It has been one year since that shooting incident. Since then I have become convinced that my life was spared through the grace of God," he said. "After the shooting, I realized that my life does not belong to me, my wife nor my children, but to this land and the people of Taiwan."
Chen said that he is looking forward to having the truth about the shooting uncovered, and that he has never opposed the establishment of the special committee to investigate the incident.
"I support a truth investigation special committee if it is established in conformity to the Constitution," he said, apparently referring to the Council of Grand Justices' ruling last December that some of the clauses of the March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee Statute (
"Just like I was not afraid of the vote recount, owing to the fact that I didn't fake the ballots, I am not afraid of an investigation into the shooting incident, as it was not my doing," Chen said.
He said that both Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (
While repeating that he would like to know who wanted to have him killed, Chen said that he would not interfere in the investigation, but would let it go where the evidence takes it.
Chen expressed his gratitude for the investigation task force's efforts and urged the public to support the investigators while recognizing their hard work.
In response to questions that have been raised by pan-blue supporters about why he was not wearing a bullet-proof vest on the day of the shooting, Chen said that it was not unusual at all.
"Because I never believed that something like an assassination attempt on the president would happen in Taiwan, I did not wear a bullet-proof vest at any of my campaign events during that period," he said.
In response to a question about why there were no blood stains on his underwear despite the fact that he had been shot in his lower abdomen, Chen said it has been his habit to wear his underpants much lower than his stomach.