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As food justice advocate Joy Moore pointed out to a room full of mostly white folks in food and farming: When you hear "urban" and youth" in the same headline it's never good news. It's usually something negative associated with drugs, violence, and crime, right?
But at the annual EcoFarm Conference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove on Friday Moore, who teaches cooking and gardening to Berkeley youth, moderated a panel where young city dwellers received top billing to showcase some of the positive programs they're helping to run in their communities.
So we meet Tenise Murphy, a farmers' market coordinator for Farm Fresh Choice, a program of Berkeley's Ecology Center, begun by Moore and other food activists, to get fresh, organic, sustainable, and affordable food to low-income residents.
We meet Jamila Chandler who shows us a slideshow of the work done by Urban ReLeaf, a non-profit that has planted and maintains 8,500 trees along median strips and public sidewalks in otherwise barren neighborhoods in Oakland and Richmond.
Chandler gives a shout out to fellow panelist (and her mom) Kemba Shakur, a former corrections officer, who started Urban ReLeaf because she wanted to find ways to both beautify and improve the health and environment in blighted urban enclaves surrounded by freeways and pollution — as well as employ black youth after witnessing so many of them in her former job.
And we meet Paul Walker, the self-appointed smoothie maker who helps run the Purple Lawn Cafe in East Oakland. Heads up: it's not purple or a cafe but it is a mobile food booth offering hot, healthy, affordable eats in an an area not known for such offerings.
Walker works with ex-Air Force man Jason Harvey's non-profit organization Oakland Food Connection, which builds school and community gardens in East Oakland and runs a farmers' market every Saturday on MacArthur Boulevard in the Laurel District.
Harvey provides a recent historical perspective on African Americans' roots in both farming and food production. Harvey was raised among elders who knew how to grow food and canned and preserved. And he notes that the Black Panther Party of the mid-1960s and early '70s introduced a free breakfast program for children, which helped spawn the federal government's school breakfast program that continues to this day.
Fast forward a couple of decades and many urban, low-income communities of color are riddled with corner stores selling mostly junk food or liquor — and their residents are struggling with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, while also dealing with hunger and malnutrition.
Oakland Food Connection, working in collaboration with like-minded groups such as People's Grocery, Mandela Marketplace, and City Slicker Farms, is part of a growing movement to bring good grub to so-called food deserts in East and West Oakland.
Murphy is also a part of an umbrella organization known as Rooted in Community, a national grassroots network and project of the Earth Island Institute, that seeks to encourage youth to take up leadership positions in food and farming in their neighborhoods.
Kim Allen, the garden program manager for Berkeley Youth Alternatives, (previously profiled here) was on hand to spread the word about the worthy work of Rooted in Community.
There's nothing like the enthusiasm, optimism, and idealism of the young to make a room full of adult conference attendees sit up and pay attention.
This is the second conference I've attended in the past few months where urban youth wowed the crowd.
In October last year the Community Food Security Coalition Food, Culture, Justice Conference held in New Orleans highlighted the food and farming work of youth in the town devastated by Hurricane Katrina. We took a tour of school gardens in various stages of development, including a local Edible Schoolyard affiliate where gumbo is on the menu and a line on the kitchen classroom wall marks how high the water rose during the storm.
At a panel discussion we met poised and articulate students from The Rethinkers, who pushed to improve lunch in cafeterias at several schools. And we also heard about a novel education experiment from youth living in the impoverished Lower Ninth Ward who are part of an inspired garden program run out of a former corner store known as Our School at Blair Grocery.
There, Nat Turner and his small team of staff work with youth in an alternative school setting to grow micro-greens that are snapped up by the town's leading chefs, including John Besh, who owns culinary hot spots Luke, August, Domenica, and La Provence.
It's not just Oakland, Berkeley, and New Orleans: Across the country — as the national membership of Rooted in Community reveals — innovative food and agriculture projects created for and run by the next generation of farmers are sprouting up all over.
And collectively they have a simple message they want to convey about what we eat: Everybody has a right to good food.
[This post originally appeared on KQED's Bay Area Bites.]
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Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The attempt being made by fans and/or members of the group calling itself the Die Hard [sic] Sports Supporters Union to have President-elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo pardon former Black Stars' midfielder Mr. Sulley Muntari and have the latter reinstated onto the team, in order to ensure that this unarguably talented soccer player take part in the 2017 African Cup of Nations or AFCON 2017, is wrongheaded and one that ought not to be tolerated under any circumstances whatsoever (See "Ghana's President-Elect Nana Addo Urged to Pardon Muntari" Ghanasoccernet.com / Ghanaweb.com 12/14/16).
It is a wrongheaded petition because the suspension of Mr. Muntari from playing for the country's senior national soccer team was squarely predicated on the abject lack of discipline on the part of the subject of the petition, a filthy rich Ghanaian-born resident of Italy who presumed to cavalierly ride roughshod over the members of the management team of the Black Stars, to wit, the executive operatives of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
In the case of Mr. Muntari, this involved the brutal mauling of Mr. Moses Armah, then-member of the Black Stars' technical team for the 2014 Brazil World Cup soccer tournament.
Not only was such brutal physical assault unconscionable and ethically unacceptable by any measure, the imperious attitude of the assailant made matters even worse. In other words, the flat and stubborn refusal to promptly apologize for his boorish behavior effectively torpedoed his chances of being fielded in any future tournaments on the global soccer scene in which the Black Stars' qualified to participate.
But what is even more significant to observe and/or highlight here is the fact that the GFA's management team's decision to indefinitely suspend Mr. Muntari was effected through a due process of the standing rules of the association. In sum, the alleged assailant was afforded the legitimate right to defend his gross misbehavior the abject failure of which had resulted in his suspension.
We must also quickly point out that the mere fact of him being widely perceived as a generously talented professional soccer player, does not in any way excuse Mr. Muntari's egregious misconduct. Consequently, any attempt to grant him a pardon is apt to flagrantly violate the GFA's, as well as FIFA's, established code of conduct; and this is the last thing that a remarkable former soccer player and devotee of the game like President-Elect Akufo-Addo would like to indulge himself in.
Needless to say, it would also be tantamount to a gross violation of the professional integrity of the executive operatives of the Ghana Football Association, as well as the integrity of the game itself.
Absolutely nobody ought to be held over and above the rules of disciplinary and ethical conduct, merely on account of talent; and on the part of the members of the Die Hard Sports Supporters Union, the avid desire of Ghanaian soccer fans to have the AFCON championship-title famished Black Stars clinch an African Cup of Nations laurel in the offing.
It also goes without saying that ethical conduct of the highest order is part and parcel of the process of becoming a global representative of Ghanaian soccer culture or our national pastime. Mr. Muntari's indefinite suspension from participating in the international assignments of the Black Stars ought to serve as a salutary deterrent to all talented soccer players and the youthful fans who look up to the likes of Mr. Muntari for meaningful leadership and desirable human conduct.
The sort of boorish Darwinian conduct allegedly exhibited by Mr. Muntari and a couple of his former teammates in Brazil, to be certain, has absolutely no place whatsoever in the civilized sphere of FIFA-sponsored soccer tournaments. And it is solemnly hoped that all arguments would end on this note.


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To Migrate Or Not To Migrate? "The level of brain drain in Africa cannot be a good thing for the continent and may be partly responsible for its persisting underdevelopment."
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Students are leaving Africa in large numbers to study abroad and the impact of that on the continent is profound.
To migrate or not to migrate.
That is the question, right? Unless you have already answered the question and answered with your feet and emigrated to a foreign land. Then maybe you would think that is the wrong question and that maybe it is more instructive to ask for the reasoning behind deciding to migrate in the first place. That might help since it avoids the assumption that emigration is a viable alternative for everyone.
Most recently, emigrating from the continent of Africa for education purposes has become more popular. In their droves, African students are leaving the ramshackle educational systems of their home countries behind and enrolling in foreign universities so much so that foreign students have become a lifeblood for universities in the West, and this has led to universities which see themselves as behind in the admission of African students organising roadshows to African countries to get a larger chunk of the 'largesse'.
And it is really a largesse when you consider the gulf between tuition fees paid by African students in foreign universities and those paid by students from the countries where those universities are located. It could even be said that these African students are subsiding the university education of European students, which is paying a high price for receiving an education which might be better instructed back home using home grown illustrations and examples.
When some Africans are migrating for educational reasons, others are shifting continents for better career and job opportunities. This can actually be more difficult to achieve, as one can't exactly buy one's way to a good job like one might a place in university. I am not exactly claiming the university admissions can be purchased but the point remains that having a large supply of money does help a lot.
So because it is quite difficult to achieve career progression by moving to the West, the sight of highly educated Africans doing menial jobs is a pretty common one. Of course there is dignity in labour, in any job even, but sometimes it just feels like such a waste. The continent is crying out for more efficient use of its human resources while some of its people slave away in foreign lands working graveyard shifts.
A common thread linking both ways of emigration is the innate desire to better one's fortunes even if it means leaving ones homeland. The level of brain drain in Africa cannot be a good thing for the continent and may be partly responsible for its persisting underdevelopment.
The lesson in this is, and a very instructive lesson at that, if the continent took care of its people better, maybe its people would not see reason to flee its shores. Maybe then the question of whether to emigrate or not would be a moot one.
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Despite enjoying long periods of possession and territory, Scotland came out on the wrong end of a hard-fought game at Murrayfield, tries from George Kruis and Jack Nowell settling the contest in England's favour.
Scotland have now not scored a try in their last six home matches against England in the Six Nations, who will hold the Calcutta Cup for another year.
Cotter told BBC Sport: "I thought we created opportunities [but] we didn't finish them off. We weren't accurate enough, there's a lot more to come from this team I think.
"Disappointed with the way they let those opportunities pass. It will be quickly identified and put the frustration behind us. We can't do much about this one but we're going to certainly look to the next one.
"We can do better than that, we know we can. Cut down a few basic errors, become more accurate, we start believing again. That game was there to be won. That's the hard cold fact of the situation."
Captain Greig Laidlaw, who converted three penalties, echoed his coach's sentiments, saying: "I don't think there was much between the teams.
"If you look at the second half there's probably momentum shifts where we've coughed up a few high balls, I think we lost about three of our line-outs.
"When we held the ball in the first half we were causing England problems and we were right in the game. It's disappointing for us because that's what we've been working on - concentration for 80 minutes.
"We made it easier for England in the second half. We created opportunities in the first half, it really is a simple game at times, if you lose the ball you make it hard for yourself."


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Book Review: Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Jan 27, 2009
Getting your baby into a healthy sleeping pattern is important not only for your sanity and rest but for the health of your baby as well. Studies have shown a strong correlation between the quality & quantity of sleep that children get and their ability to learn and adapt. In his book, "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" Doctor Marc Weissbluth gives us guidelines in helping our children to get the right kind of sleep. It is well known that poor sleep makes children irritable but he goes further and shows how it can actually lead to labels like ADD and hyperactivity. He explains that while children may have hereditary blocks to sleeping well, parents can have a huge impact in helping our children sleep properly. He first gives us a picture of what healthy sleep and healthy awake time looks like and then gives guidelines for establishing healthy sleep at each stage of a child's development from infancy to adolescence. While he focuses on prevention of sleep problems, he also gives an age-appropriate action plan for correcting them. For families with two careers, multiples or other obstacles to establishing good sleeping routines he gives practical tips to help.
This book is full of helpful information. With that being said, I will say that not all of his recommendations work. According to his book my daughter should have been sleeping through the night at 9 months old. It wasn't until she was 13 months old though before that became a reality. Until this happened my daughter would wake up a couple times a night and was obviously very hungry. She definitely has a fast metabolism and I think that contributed to it. She would go to sleep right after eating even if she wasn't asleep when I laid her down. My recommendation is to take the info in the book and combine it with your parental instincts to create the best situation for your child.
While he does mention SIDS, he doesn't explain what causes it. I would recommend reading my earlier article on that, "SIDS Prevention."
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Source: Integrated Waste Resources
Pretty impressive to lead the charts, right? But at the cost of what?! Our country alone generates 1.43 lakh tonne wastes per day. We have moved from houses to skyrise buildings due to paucity of space, so where do you think all this or most of this 1.43 lakh tones of waste goes? Landfills! Public garbage dump, incineration! And the after effects range from infertile land, communicable diseases to poisonous gases in the atmosphere. The problem of waste management is so huge that it has now turned into an industry with only a handful of players taking it upon themselves to solve the problem. Not as competitors, but working hand in hand.
Source: Hindustan Times
Firdosh Roowalla- The King Of Composting
I first learnt of Firdosh Roowalla through an article published in 2015 in Sakaal Times. The article talked about an entrepreneur in Pune who converted the old school concept of waste degradation into a simple soil nutrient production system. I decided to reach out to him. After a quick phone call, Firdosh immediately liked the idea of a story based on him and was kind enough to take some time out for me on a busy Monday morning.
As a Puneite, anyone living in the Koregaon Park – Kalyani Nagar area is considered to be affluent in living and conduct, with their prosperity showing off at every syllable they utter and every step they take. But this perception was belied when I met Firdosh, waiting for me at the gate of Kumar Presidency in Koregaon Park.
Dressed in a simple shirt, jeans, and pair of chappals with a plastic bag in hand, Firdosh is every bit an environmentalist and a social entrepreneur. No jazzy clothes, no swanky electronics, this humble man is warm and welcoming to anyone who comes to him seeking knowledge about his craft. There is a sense of stability and control in his gait and yet he doesn't mince words while expressing his disagreement on the way people handle waste.
Firdosh Roowala at one of his sites
Firdosh Roowalla, founder of the Green Thumb Compost, gets upset seeing our environment getting buried in the increasing pile of waste. A nature lover at heart and a green thumb too, Firdosh blended his passions to start his organization. Here's the story of his journey so far:
Firdosh's Organization deals with degrading kitchen and garden waste into soil nutrient compost. Every composting unit has 2 types of installations – the kitchen waste composting and the garden waste composting. As simple as it may sound, the safety concerns in this process are many.
Every time the waste is put into pits for composting, dry leaves are used to cover the pits. These dry leaves are first shredded using the shredder designed by Firdosh. Once the compost is formed it is sieved and introduced to the soil before plantation.
Compost before sieving
Firdosh and his employees face safety hazards, not from working in the composting pits but from the waste that is disposed.
"Waste is a problem because people are refusing to segregate"
Lack of segregation is the root cause of the increasing municipal solid waste. Segregation at source is not properly carried out, leading to non-degradable wastes being dumped into landfills, ultimately degrading the land quality. This stems from the attitude of people who find it below their dignity to segregate the waste in their houses. This problem can be well addressed if reselling items like glass bottles, metals, and plastic pet bottles are separated. These also fetch a good market price when resold.
"Many types of waste like wine bottles, pet bottles, aluminum fetch good market value. If segregation is done properly, coupled with recycling, then only 10-20% of the total waste will go to the municipal solid waste."
How Can People Contribute To Managing Waste?
"Most of the waste is not waste at all. Overconsumerism – the attitude that I can buy and throw – is a problem. I have received good dry fruits, whole watermelons, mangoes in waste"
Waste management is all about 3 Rs – You reduce, reuse and recycle.
People are directly jumping to the recycle part. The ideal amount of kitchen waste per family is supposed
to be upto 500 gms per day. Today it crosses 1 kg and a lot of it is not waste in the first place.
Waste management is not something that is confined to landfills or the city recycling plants. It needs to start right from our houses. People at large need to understand what exactly is considered as waste. Not everything that doesn't look perfect is a waste. Food wastage is a burning problem around the world.
The problem of waste can be easily solved, if we start today with simple things like…. say, keeping separate dustbins for kitchen waste and dry waste? Sounds pretty simple! It might just lend a hand to green warriors like Firdosh in keeping our environment safe and clean.


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When Bruce Nelson accepts his Howie Award as Outstanding Artist, it won't be the first time he has walked across the stage at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. This actor, who estimates he has appeared in around 12 Rep Stage productions on various stages at the college, is no stranger to receiving audience applause there.
And there will be much to applaud during the 16th annual Celebration of the Arts on Saturday, March 23. As a major fund-raising event for the sponsoring Howard County Arts Council, this year's gala is expected to raise $75,000 to $80,000, according to Coleen West, the arts council's executive director.
The gala program bestows Howie Awards for longtime achievement in several categories, has a Rising Stars competition for young performers, and includes entertainment by local performers.
"We're really excited to be on the stage for this gala," says Misako Aoki-Oda, whose Columbia-based Misako Ballet Company will perform a piece titled "A Dance for Sonata #1" as part of that evening's entertainment. Five members of her company are collaborating on this piece with dancer Lester Holmes, choreographer Eva Anderson and pianist Brant Challacombe, all of whom are active participants in the Howard County arts scene. Challacombe also will accompany several of the Rising Stars during their numbers elsewhere in the evening.
Emcee for the event is Richard W. Story, senior vice president for marketing at JPB Enterprises, Inc.
Howie Award recipients such as Nelson won't have to sing — or dance — for their supper at the gala, but only have to take a bow, make a short speech, bask in the applause and otherwise enjoy the evening.
Nelson's fellow Howie winners are Shawn Costello for Outstanding Arts Educator, Kevin Kelehan for Outstanding Business or Community Supporter, and husband-and-wife Pat and Steve Teller for the Legacy in the Arts Award.
"It's surprising in that I'm not far enough along to have a retrospective kind of award," says Nelson, 47, who lives in Baltimore City. "It's a tremendous honor and underscores my feeling that staying local works."
Bruce Nelson definitely qualifies as a local kid who makes good. This New Jersey native moved to Columbia as a child, graduated from Wilde Lake High School and then from Towson University.
He acknowledges that he really came into his own as an actor with Rep Stage roles in plays including "The Mystery of Irma Vep," "Travels With My Aunt," "The Dazzle," "The Violet Hour," "The Goat," "Hysteria" and "Faith Healer."
"Rep Stage helped with building my career and my acting technique. The shows got such nice notices and I got plum roles," he says.
Nelson singles out one of his frequent directors, Kasi Campbell, for helping him develop as an actor at Rep Stage. He observes that working regularly with a particular company enables "you to develop a shorthand with the people you're working with and have a real connected feeling."
Initially known as a comedian, Nelson has become more versatile with his roles. He's currently a company member at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, where he has continued to expand his comic and dramatic range.
Nelson also has been gaining recognition for lead roles at Center Stage in Baltimore, where he portrayed Edgar Allan Poe in a play last fall; and where he'll appear this fall in the Captain Spaulding role associated with Groucho Marx in the 1928 musical comedy "Animal Crackers."
In the Baltimore-Washington corridor, Nelson has performed with other companies including Woolly Mammoth, Folger Theatre, Olney Theater Center, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Signature Theatre.
Nelson recently formed a business called Stage Presence to assist business leaders in improving their presentation skills. He teaches at Stevenson University, and formerly taught at schools including Howard Community College; and he formerly worked as a theater teacher in Howard County with Project Access and All-County Improv.
Doing 'what has to be done'
If Bruce Nelson is a middle-aged actor still building his legacy, the Howie winners in this year's Legacy in the Arts category have been around a lot longer. Indeed, Pat and Steve Teller have been involved in theater for 42 years. It all began when Steve had a government job in Germany and Pat auditioned for "The Subject Was Roses" at the Frankfort Army Playhouse. She acted and did jobs at the front of the theater, he worked backstage, and it led to subsequent on-stage roles together.
Flash forward to life in Maryland and the couple appeared as actors with companies including Laurel Stagecrafters and the Gingerbread Players.
These Elkridge residents have been active with theater in Howard County for the last 27 years, including a long stint with the Columbia Community Players. They eventually appeared less often as actors and more often in house management capacities, with Pat typically handling reservations and ticketing, and Steve doing everything from building sets to hanging lights.
After Steve retired from a federal government job in 2009, he was named technical director at Slayton House, where the diverse events he handles include the musicals ambitiously produced by the Columbia-based Silhouette Stages. He's also on that theater's board of directors.
"I do whatever has to be done," Steve, 69, says in the matter-of-fact way of somebody who makes sure that the show will go on. He adds that "I try not to be part of the stage crew, because they have everything down to a science."
Steve Teller is a man of the theater who clearly loves being part of the show, but not being in the show itself.
"It keeps me involved in theater," Steve explains. "I enjoy watching people who are watching what we put on stage, but you don't see me up on stage. I like to think that what I do enhances things."
"Steve and I have been on stage, so we have that experience, but we like being behind the scenes better. There is less stress and no lines to remember," laughs Pat, 71, who especially enjoys the direct interaction she has with the public through helping out at the box office.
Just as Bruce Nelson and the Tellers are dedicated to the theater, the recipient of this year's Howie for Outstanding Arts Educator, Shawn Costello, has a lifelong dedication to teaching art. She has taught art in the Howard County Public Schools for 24 years, and currently teaches at Lisbon Elementary School.
Her contact with art is hardly limited to the classroom. This professional artist paints portraits, does illustrations for children's books, leads a summer painting program at the home she owns in Maine, and even helps create nine-foot walking puppets for the annual Lisbon Horse Parade.
"I'm really blessed that I'm in a community that appreciates art. It's a place where you can imagine you're in a 'Field of Dreams' out here," says Costello, who lives in a converted barn in West Friendship.
She observes that the agricultural heritage of western Howard County is reflected in classroom drawing assignments.
"If I ask my students how many of them have pigs, at least a third of them have pigs or cattle or horses," she says.
Not only does farm imagery frequently appear in the student artwork, but it also seems to filter into everyday conversation. When asked her age, Costello has a good-natured reply: "I'm not a spring chicken."
Whether in the classroom or on stage, the arts are nurtured in all sorts of ways. Such artistic activity takes money and the organizational ability to target it wisely, which is why there's a Howie given out for Outstanding Business or Community Supporter of the Arts. This year's recipient is Kevin Kelehan, who is a partner in the law firm of Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett and Scherr. He has provided legal guidance for the Columbia Festival of the Arts for around 10 years, does pro bono work for Howard County government and public schools, and is on Howard Community College's Educational Foundation Board, where he co-chaired the college's recent capital campaign.
"I'm very humbled by it," Kelehan says about receiving a Howie. Observing that it's important for members of the business and legal community to do their part for cultural and educational activities in the county, the 61-year-old Baltimore City resident adds that "the entertainment side is not something I do normally" as a real estate lawyer.
Exhibit A on the entertainment side, if you will, is that when comedian Paula Poundstone makes an appearance for the Columbia Festival of the Arts this May, Kevin Kelehan will have inspected her contract in advance. Poundstone will be telling the jokes, but he's doing his part to make everybody happy.
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When I was a child, there were precious few easy to read books. I cut my teeth on Dr. Seuss and Dick and Jane. These days, there are countless phonics books, sight word books, and easy readers, just waiting to take our kids on the journey from new reader to chapter book connoisseur.
Most easy readers are divided by reading levels, but you should know that each series uses a slightly different system for rating their books. If your child is reading at level 2 in one series, it doesn't necessarily follow that she will be at level 2 in a different series.
Let's take a look at each of the major easy reader series and see what makes each one unique.
Bob Books
These are some of the best phonics books on the market for very beginning readers. The first books focus primarily on 3-letter words with short vowels, and the words and sentences increase slightly in difficulty with each new book.
The authors now have books on sight words, and these are written in the same systematic way as their phonics books. Some children may find the Bob Books rather dull, but very beginning readers often find the simplicity and the graduated pace very helpful.
Now I'm Reading!
This relatively new series is a lot of fun, and it has a lot in common with the Bob Books. These easy to read books also come in groups of well-structured stories, focusing on short vowels, long vowels, and sight words in a very clear manner. To my mind, the stories and the art are more engaging than the Bob Books, with funny animal plots (such as an ape on a date who ate all the food when his date was late). The authors of this series—which is abbreviated Nir!—also offers children's plays and activity books called 'Read It, Write It, Draw It'.
I Can Read Books
Scholastic Readers,
Ready to Read, and
Step Into Reading
These easy to read books have a great many things in common with each other. To begin with, they are distinct from picture books and other children's books because of their smaller size, like a skinnier version of chapter books. Unlike the Bob Books and Nir!, these series freely combine words with long and short vowels, and sight words. Many of the books have a page in the back highlighting words from the book, which kids can practice.
These series are distinctive because they use many different illustrators and authors, so there is quite a variety of book types. There are both fiction and nonfiction, and many favorite characters from films or from harder picture books are featured. In fact, the main difference between the series seems to be the selection of characters found in each.
In addition to the characters unique to each series, and the superheroes that all of them seem to feature, each series has a few popular favorites. The I Can Read Books feature Fancy Nancy, Berenstain Bears, Frog and Toad, Veggie Tales, and Amelia Bedelia, Scholastic Readers has Clifford, Magic School Bus, Scooby Doo, Poppleton, and I Spy books. Step Into Reading is more film based, with Disney and Pixar characters such as Toy Story, Nemo, and Ariel, but it also has a nice selection of nonfiction history and science books. Ready to Read is full of familiar characters: Dora, Olivia, Spongebob, Smurfs, and Peanuts, to mention a few.
Elephant and Piggie
, by Mo Willems
This delightful series is quite different from other easy to read books. There are no levels (the difficulty is comparable to reading levels 1 or 2 in other series). There are just two characters, the friends Elephant and Piggie. While the vocabulary is simple, the stories are quirky and funny; my fifth graders would read these over and over. The man is a genius, and his other books are fabulous, too.
Dr. Seuss
Beginner Books
Speaking of genius, how can we leave out the grandfather of all easy to read books? Hop On Pop, Fox In Socks, Green Eggs and Ham, Cat In the Hat, and other favorites are part of the Beginner Books collection that will be simpler for young readers to handle.
Stone Arch Readers
These beginning readers are super-colorful, ultra-cartoony, and have more than your average trucks, cars, and robots. Quirky and fun, each page has full-color illustrations with the text in various spots throughout the page. Each book is a kid-magnet; they won't be able to put these down.
Nate the Great,
by Marjorie Sharmat
He had big teeth... He sniffed me. I sniffed him back. And we
were friends. These fun detective stories are easy to read and are perfect for paving the way to chapter books.
Investigative first graders will want to read the whole series!
To find out more about any of the series on this page, just click on its title or picture. You will be taken to The Book Depository, where you can see the individual books in each series, and you have the option to buy books if you like. (Find out why I am such a fan of the Book Depository.)
The most important thing is that kids like their books, so base your book choices more on interest than on strict reading level. A more difficult book that your child loves will motivate him to keep learning, while a relatively easy book will still give some good practice. A bookshelf full of beloved books is one of the best ways you can help a child enjoy reading.


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The 2016 Asia Cup T20 will start on Wednesday when India will take on the hosts Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Being the No.1 T20 side in the world, India will look to continue their hot form in the shortest format of the game.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh are raring to go and play their best game. They may not be the favourites to win the tournament, but they are a dangerous side at home.
One can expect a riveting clash when the neighbouring nations face off in opening match of the 2016 Asia Cup T20.
Here is a look at the key battles in the match.
1. Rohit Sharma vs Mustafizur Rahman: A contest cannot to watch out for. The last time these two had faced each other, the left-arm seamer Mustafizur got the better of the India opener Rohit. But the kind of form Rohit is in at the moment, it is going to be a tough task for the talented medium pacer to have the same kind of impact. Those off-cutters can trouble the best, but how effective it will be this time arounf, only time will tell.
2. Shikhar Dhawan vs Mashrafe Mortaza: The left-handed batsman from Delhi has also been in good touch recently with his willow. He was the highest scorer in the series against Sri Lanka. Dhawan and Rohit have given India just the kind of start that MS Dhoni wants in this format of the game. Bangladesh captain Mortaza will have to be effective against Dhawan in the early overs. Mortaza can swing the new ball and swing has always troubled the left-hander. But he has to be wary about his line and length because if he is wayward, Dhawan will pounce.
3. Virat Kohli vs Shakib Al Hasan: Kohli cannot do anything wrong at the moment. He is the only batsman in the world with an average of above 50 in T20 cricket. Kohli has been in superb form and he will look to continue that in the Asia Cup as well. Shakib is an intelligent bowler. He can deceive batsmen with his flight and chages of pace. He creates an angle when he bowls to a right-hander. His push-through balls are also deceptive. Kohli will have to be careful while playing this talented all-rounder.
4. Soumya Sarkar vs Ashish Nehra: The swashbuckling left-hander is a threat for India at the top of the order. Sarkar can run away with a game if he is on song. He is extremely efficient in giving Bangladesh good starts right at the top. Nehra will look to trouble Sarkar with his swing early on in the innings. The veteran left-arm seamer has the knack of giving India early breakthroughs, and that is exactly what they need when they face Bangladesh in the opening match of the Asia Cup 2016.
5. Mushfiqur Rahim vs R Ashwin: The pocket-sized dynamite that is Mushfiqur can cause serious havoc if he gets going. Mushfiqur is one of the best batsmen in the Bangladesh squad currently. The right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman hits the ball cleanly and thus India need someone like Ashwin to counter that. Ashwin's economy rate in the Sri Lanka series was just above 3 runs an over, which is outstanding in T20 cricket. Not only does he have an impressive economy rate, but he also picks up wickets. This one is surely going to one of the battles to watch out for.


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The Three Layers Of Business Success
1. Techniques: Tricks and tips you can implement to get a result. These elements focus on the micro level of your business, for example, things you can do to market with social media like facebook or digg, or plugins you can get for your wordpress blog, or scripts you can use to help syndicate your content or do keyword research, or different website graphical elements and which convert better. These are "how to" type instructions that most people love learning, but often cause a sense of overwhelm as they pile up over the course of an event, and are by far the most common element covered in presentations.
2. Processes: At this level you are collecting various techniques and turning them into a process that delivers an outcome. This is not just about one small outcome, this is creating a system that results in money at the end and drives the cashflow of your business. The focus in this case is how to set up the system and how to automate it. Brian Johnson's presentation is a good example of this level of thinking, as he revealed a simple yet multi-layered process they use focused on webinars to make sales of their courses.
3. Strategies: At this level we are talking more about overall concepts that make up your business. Strategies are the psychology behind why you choose certain processes to get things done. Strategic thinking is about the macro level – the big picture – and should guide all your decisions. John Carlton, although focusing on how to sell with words, almost always talks at the strategic level, in particular when it comes to understanding your customer's emotional desires.
Each of these layers is important, and it's not wrong to focus on any one particular level. However, what I found interesting was very few people, or really I should say businesses, manage to successfully master all the layers, my business included.
Some people are great with techniques and can drive incredible amounts of traffic and make tons of money, but it all happens in a haphazard way without any direction. The evolution at this level is to find a point of distinction in your marketplace and a business model you can stick to long term so you're cashflow becomes steady and – here's the important part – you can step away from your business by leveraging automation.
Other people – and I lump myself in this group – are great at focusing on what they are good at and have a sound business model and differentiation strategy, but they haven't gone through and completed all the steps necessary to automate the process. You know the process and what you should do, but because there are certain things you don't like doing, or you are lazy or sitting in your comfort zone, you never take the next step.
The truly successful businesses execute a strategy at all levels. They build processes, test and tweak them until they have created an optimized machine, then go to work throwing as much traffic at it as they can so they can reap exponential profits.
These businesses also have the capabilities to integrate new techniques instantly, and as such it's not overwhelming to learn new tricks because they can easily be tested for performance. If they work they become a permanent part of the process, if not, they are discarded. New techniques you learn at an event don't stay on the to-do list for very long because these businesses know that speed of implementation is why they are good at what they do.
The Elimination Of Constraints
It becomes clearer and clearer to me as I learn more about business, that the key to growth is a systematic elimination of constraints in order to create greater capacity and an ability to move on new ideas quicker.
Once you have the ability to do whatever you want to do, no longer is execution hampered by a lack of resources. Instead the focus turns to learning as much as you can and quickly testing to determine the best combination of ideas for maximum impact.
Spending some time reflecting on why you can't do certain things in your business is a way to determine your constraints. In most cases you are going to come up against a knowledge constraint or a technology/resources constraint. You either don't know how to do something (or even know that you need to do something) or you can't do something because you don't have the people or money or technology to make it happen.
If you can't build a website, hire a tech person. If you don't understand how to sell on webinars, attend a webinar that sells something so you can learn how others do it. If you don't know what your customers really want, then spend some time talking to them to better refine their needs, wants and desires. Learn what you need, why you need it, then build it. If you keep doing this for long enough you will have one of those businesses everyone else wants to emulate.
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Ecmandu is arguing that Ecmandu is a fool.Orb wrote:If Ecmondu's can assert that he may be crazy, to abide by rules, which are contradicted and subverted by the ad hominem of the very debate, then, he may probably safely assert that he is no fool.
Yeah, don't post here until after the debate.Ecmandu wrote:Oh I broke the forum rules.. I just saw the big red thing on the top of the screen... delete my posts here Carleas. I went back and checked other debates to see if they did this before and they did, so that's why I posted here. Even though they got away with it, maybe the rules were different for other debates, sorry Carleas.
In book six of the Republic, the question arises about why philosophers have a bad name in the city. The common view in Athens was that the only reason Socrates lived till he was seventy was that the common folks could not tell the difference between a fool and a philosopher. They seemed indistinguishable. Both fools and philosophers spoke of equally outlandish things. Thus, the philosopher was perfectly safe so long as most city-dwellers took him to be merely mad, deranged, or babbling.
Robert Lynd (1879–1949) was an Irishman who lived much of his life in England. He wrote an amusing essay, "On Not Being a Philosopher," in It's a Fine World (1930). I found it reprinted in a collection called Great English and American Essays (1960). The essay is charming. It begins when the author overhears someone in a hotel restaurant ask another patron whether he had "read Epictetus lately." On reflection, Lynd realizes that, in fact, though he had Epictetus on his book shelves at home, he had never read the famous slave philosopher (d. 135 A.D.).
Lynd, curious man that he was, decides to make up for lost time. He figured that "wisdom was found in books." If you found a book and read it, you would become wise. Reading was a shortcut or bypass to living the experience of becoming wise. But it did not seem to work that way in practice. He read Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, the great Stoic philosophers. He still found that he did not much follow their advice.
Now the Stoics did not like to be disturbed in their souls. They longed for a peaceful life, tranquility. They showed their mastery of fate, chance, and pain by remaining imperturbable before them. This indifference allowed them, it is said, to be calm even in the worst of conditions—storms, robberies, sufferings, earthquakes, or betrayals.
But, as Lynd observed, it is rather human to be annoyed at little things. The Stoic philosopher tells us to be patient when you have to ask a waiter "for a wine-list three times." Lynd thinks the purpose of the waiter is to wait on table. The unperturbed and uncomplaining philosopher may wait there all night for the waiter to show up. But the ordinary bloke begins raising his voice after ten minutes and calls the manager after fifteen. Which is the superior philosophy—the one that notices little things (or big things) or the one who doesn't notice much of anything?
"Nearly everybody is agreed that such men as Socrates and Epictetus were right in their indifference to external things," Lynd writes. "Even men earning £10,000 a year and working for more would admit it. Yet, while admitting it, most of us would be alarmed if one of their dearest friends began to put the philosophy of Epictetus into practice too literally. What we regard as wisdom in Epictetus we should look on as insanity in an acquaintance." Philosophy, in other words, is not too practical.
Lynd, like Machiavelli, is worried that all the noble ideas are but "dreams," impossible to put into effect—admirable perhaps, but of no real purpose. Lynd at least thought the problem is that we wanted to be wise without making any effort to be so. We could just read something and, lo, we would become wise, sort of effortlessly.
If Socrates was not right, Lynd observes, he was the "greatest fool that ever existed." And if he was right? Do we really mean that little things should not bother us? The trouble with the Stoics of whatever era, including our own, is that their indifference to pleasure and pain is a species of pride. The idea that a human being cannot or should not be affected by what happens to him from chance or with pain is the suspicion that our bodies are not real, not part of us or of the universe. We are to be temperate, to be sure, to rule our pleasures and pains. Aristotle, as usual, had it right. The problem is not the existence of pleasure or pains itself.
Our senses are avenues to reality for us to know. We are to know, and yes, enjoy, everything that is according to its own proper being. There can be no rejection of the world that is not, at the same time, a loving of the world.
The Christian view of the Incarnation does not mean that we love the world by escaping from it or denying it. We keep the world by loving it and living in it in an order that sees the good of things even in their limitations. We meet the goods of our universe by knowing their limits. Thus we know what they are, what they are not; what we are and what we are not. This understanding too was called "foolishness," as Paul tells us in one of his letters.
In the end, it is not really such a good idea not to be a philosopher. The real issue is what kind of philosophy we embrace. If we embrace one that makes us totally immune to the events of the world, we are hardly worthy to live in this world. Still Socrates was right: "It is better to suffer evil than to do it." Before we can do this suffering, we must first know what is evil and what is good. If we do not make the effort to know this difference, it really does mot make much difference what we suffer or what we enjoy
iambiguous wrote:Just out of curiosity, is this debate basically just an exercise in irony?
phoneutria wrote:In b4 Uccisore folds.
I really don't see this "debate" going well for anybody including those reading it.
phyllo wrote:Philosophy is not like a bank account or bucket where a contribution is a measurable quantity like money or water which is accumulated. What is a contribution to philosophy? What is a worthwhile contribution to philosophy? What is a worthless contribution to philosophy?
Arbiter of Change wrote:Won't this debate end in a sort of paradox? If Uccisore proves Ecmandu isn't a fool and bans Ecmandu, doesn't it make Ec a fool for accepting the debate in the first place?
phyllo wrote:Ecmandu needs to focus and address the points. Maybe he needs a Snickers bar.
OTOH, this might be a clever tactic showing that his posts are nothing more than worthless babble. In that case, brilliant.
phyllo wrote:You must admit that in terms of foolishness, Ecmandu has a clear advantage.
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Its been awhile since my last update, I've just been working away on my upcoming show, working away on the comic and doing some other miscellaneous pieces... This friday at my favourite bookstore in the city, The Monkey's Paw, I'll be showing some of those miscellaneous pieces... A bunch of us designed shelf labels for the store, nothing too insane, but they were a lot of fun to make and I'm looking forward to the reception... Come by, look at some reaaaaally small drawings, browse through the stock of old, rare, and bizarre books...
Below is the press release and scans of what I drew...
Also, another update is coming soon, it will have some more drawings, new comic stuff, photos of piles of firewood that I chopped at my parent's cabin... Also, I just decided that I'm moving to New York in September for four months to work on the center piece of my upcoming show... I'll be there all autumn, if anyone wants to meet up or see the studio or whatever, email me cause I imagine I'll be a bit on the lonely side while I'm there...
Ok, here is the press release, I hope everything that I wrote makes sense, I just woke up a few minutes ago and my brain is still in idle...
July 23 - August 10
Reception: Friday, July 25, 5-9 p.m.
Next week, Toronto's most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop hosts an unprecedented site-specific group art show: the Monkey's Paw Section Label Project.
Responding visually to the cultural content of an entire bookstore, 13 Toronto artists have created (very small) section labels for all 52 subject categories throughout the Monkey's Paw. Their work will be mounted on our shelves and on view from July 23 to August 10. A public reception will be held at the shop on Friday, July 25, from 5 to 9 p.m.
All participants are regular visitors to the Monkey's Paw, and bring to the project first-hand knowledge of the shop's aesthetic and cultural bent. In style, they range from literalist illustrators to austere conceptualists; but all share a demonstrated fondness for whimsy, pathos, and subversion. They are:
Stephen Appleby-Barr
Katie Bethune-Leamen
Diane Borsato
Shary Boyle
Nicole Collins
Nicholas Di Genova
Kristan Horton
Michael Maranda
Olia Mishchenko
Jenn Murphy
Lauchie Reid
Derek Sullivan
Jacob Whibley
The Monkey's Paw differs from other bookshops in a number of ways, not least in its imaginative organization and complete lack of signage. Although the books on the shelves are carefully arranged by subject, the shelves themselves are not usually labelled. Nothing interrupts the organic flow of one section into the next, so browsing becomes an act of exploration and discovery: "bookshop as narrative."
The Section Label Project sets out to interpret, or re-interpret, that narrative. These thoughtful works add new dimensions of significance and mystery, and deepen the complexity of the relationship among books, browsers, and environment. They look damned cool, too.
All 52 section labels are available for purchase at a uniform price of $150 apiece. In addition, the Monkey's Paw is publishing a full-colour Section Label Project catalogue in the form of a limited-edition poster/shelf map. Both the original artwork and the catalogue will be offered for sale beginning Wednesday, July 23. We hope you can join us for this uncommon event
We remain,
The Monkey's Paw
1229 Dundas St. West
Ok, here are the tags...sorry the scan is so bad, but it does get bigger if you click it...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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In case you didn't get enough blasts from Brinke Guthrie's past on Monday, here's another chapter from his storied history: his stint as Banana Man while working for a Cincinnati radio station in the late 1980s ("way before this hack," he notes). I'll let him explain:
Our morning show's theme was "Those guys are bananas." One of them wore a furry banana costume in the TV spot. So one morning, our programming director calls me at like 8am on a Saturday, and the conversation went like this, word for word:
Him: "Brinker? Say … if we had a superhero mascot called Banana Man, what kind of voice would you do for him?"
Me (sound asleep, but using a huge Ted Baxter voice, and improvising on the spot): "Um … Greetings, citizens! Banana Man is here. Be looking for me … because I'll be looking for you!" [That tag line would become my signature phrase, but I didn't know that yet.]
He says okay and hangs up. I roll back over, think nothing more of it.
Monday morning he hands me the suit you see in these photos and says, "You're the B-Man!"
So we did a promotion we'd ask listeners to send us a card telling us where they'd be Thursdays at 4pm. And if you were there, and you had a radio on with the station playing, and any kind of sign that said "Q102," I'd hand you 5K in cash on the spot. Fifty $100 bills, wham wham wham.
Every Thursday (a key day in radio ratings — all big contests usually drop on Thursdays) we'd go all sorts of places. One time we went college lecture hall where the prof said, "Stop the film, there's a Banana Man here!" Another time we went to a young lady's house. She was like 20 with five kids already, had no money, poor part of town, and we peer in her window, and there she is, clutching her radio while sitting on the couch with her kids…
She was waiting for me.
We burst into her house. Like they do on Cops.
People were crying. It was great. Everyone was called "Citizen," because everyone was equal in Banana Man's eyes. If I knew your name but not the other guy, he'd feel bad. So everyone was "Citizen."
On non-Thursdays, I'd waddle (you waddle in a banana suit) into some public place with $100 in ones, and just throw handfuls up in the air, to reinforce the illusion. The local food court downtown where all the secretaries went — in I go. A local eatery where the competition station was having a luncheon — anywhere. Even in our corporate offices — right into the CEO's office. The admin looks shocked — "You can't go in there!" I go in anyway. He's meeting with the head of the radio division. "Greetings, corporate citizens!" He cracks up, and I go into my act. Toss a few ones at 'em, then out the door.
I had billboards, my own theme song (I stole the Elvis intro theme from his Vegas shows). I got chased around when I'd wear the suit in my VW convertible.
These photos show me at the Reds' Riverfront Stadium offices, and also giving Bengals coach Sam Wyche a $1000 check for his homeless shelter. And that fellow looking dubiously at me is my pal at the time, Richard Marx.
Bigger than the Beatles.
I think it's safe to say you won't find any job histories like that on some lame-ass site like LinkedIn.
Meanwhile: New ESPN column today, about BP caps. Enjoy.
Blue meanies: "With a 4-2 home loss to the Bruins last night, the Blues finally lost a regulation game in their home jersey this season," writes Ethan Kassel. "They had been 16-0-4 in that uniform. The loss leaves the Rangers' Winter Classic jersey (2-0-0) and the Sabres' third jersey (4-0-0) as the only NHL uniforms that have yet to suffer a regulation loss this season."
He goes on:
Other uniforms that have performed well are the Sharks' third (9-1-0), the Red Wings' home (25-2-1), and the Rangers' third (6-1-0). The Canadiens' home jersey and Hurricanes' away jersey have each been defeated eight times in OT or a shootout, tying for the lead in that category. The Oilers' road uniform has the most losses overall, at 9-20-2.
The most successful away uniform is that of the Flyers, at 20-9-2. The only winless designs are the Flyers' Winter Classic jersey (0-2-0) and the Kings' pruple heritage jersey (0-1-2). The Islanders are 1-5-2 in their awful third jersey, while the Panthers are 1-2-1 in theirs. All other uniforms have won at least twice.
Uni Watch News Ticker: New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren, an old pal/colleague, has informed me that the mag is holding a little contest to design some Jeremy Lin gear that doesn't suck. Yes, this is very much in keeping with the law requiring the Times to be at least two weeks late on any pop-cultural trend, but whatever — Hugo went out of his way to tell me, "This is something we'd love for your Uni Watch community to know about and participate in," so take a second to feel flattered and then get crackin'. Just don't submit any designs for a suit of armor with a dent in it — pretty sure that idea's been taken. … Utah basketball wore 1976-77 throwbacks the other night. "That's the season when they won the WAC championship," notes Landon Fretery. … Some interesting background on Syracuse basketball wearing blue uniforms (from Rick DiRubbo). … The votes have been tallied and Indiana now has an official plaid. … Check out this headgear being worn by Oscar Robertson (good find by Nick Houser). … Missouri's new football uniforms won't be unveiled until April 14, but someone has already created a blog about them (from Rob Bratney). … The San Jose Earthquakes are using a series of retro photos for their season tickets (from Kenn Tomasch). … Reprinted from yesterday's comments: New logo apparently in the works for TCU. … Annals of Bizarre Uni Violations, Chapter 371: A high school girls' swimming team has been retroactively stripped of its county championship due to improper shaving. And no, I don't know which body part was shaved, so please don't ask (from Benji Boyter). … New Euro 2012 home kit for England. … Spring training is also taking place in Japan, and the Yomiuri Giants have a pitcher in camp named Kyohei Ohdachi, who's wearing No. 016 (from Jeremy Brahm). … John Hasson lives in Wilmington, Delaware, where he spotted these tremendous Notre Dame- and Villanova-themed cement trucks (or, in John's words, "the FUCKING COOLEST cement trucks I have ever seen"). … Look, I know education budgets don't allocate much funding for design, but come on. Timmy Steffes spotted that yesterday in Virginia. The school's teams are called the Ponys. Lame. "¦ New Adidas shoes for NASCAR's Brad Keselowski (from Adam Jackson). "¦ Edward Kendrick has created a spreadsheet showing all the alternate NBA uniforms worn so far this season. "¦ Florida baseball's orange sanitaries were the subject of a bit of commentary during the broadcast of last night's game (from John Carton). "¦ Yesterday's Ticker included a link to a hockey jersey with Velcro-seamed sleeves, so the jersey could be easily shed in case of a fight. "This modification was previously done by Basil McRae of the Minnesota North Stars in the 1989-90 season," says Fred Teigen. "The league outlawed the practice after a large brawl in Chicago when McRae got into three fights. I own the jersey McRae wore that night. It's been in my collection since shortly after that brawl." "¦ Oooh, check out this Chargers picnic set. "¦ David Trett was poking around at a thrift shop in Chapel Hill and discovered a foot locker with a cool old UGA logo.


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This Rob Dunbar is NOT Robin Dunbar the Archaeologist.
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate — and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification.


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Sun, May 16 2:00pm
We Got the MeatLong winter and missing your meat(wave)? We got what you crave this Sunday when we kick start the Meatwave back into action!
Sun, May 30 2:00pm
The Meating of LifeThe meaning of life? Easy answer, Meat! Come get all philosophical as we eat the reason we were all put on this good earth.
Sun, Jun 13 2:00pm
Meat in the MiddleThis weekend the Meatwave pays homage to meat sandwiched between two pieces of bread. Creations of hamburgers and sausages are in order.
Sat, Jun 26 5:00pm
Meat-a-thonEver think a one-day Meatwave just isn't enough? Well then the Meat-a-thon is for you. The meat starts flowing Saturday afternoon and doesn't let up well into Sunday. Come out either day, or both...slumber party is included for all those whose meat comas prevent traveling.
Sat, Jul 10 2:00pm
MeativersaryIt's been nearly a year since the Meatmaster went and got hitched. Come celebrate the occasion with us in the only style we know how, with lots o' meat.
Sun, Jul 25 2:00pm
Carne-valIt's time for everyone's favorite celebration of meat once again. Grab you steaks, chops, and ribs and take them to grill to rejoice in all that is meat.
Sun, Aug 8 2:00pm
Meatomic BombWatch out! The Meatwave is about to drop, it ain't gonna be pretty. One wave of the meat after another is in store, with no signs of showing any mercy.
Sun, Aug 29 2:00pm
The Meat Also RisesGrilling bread is awesome, grilling meat to put on that bread is even more awesome. This weekend we'll be making bread stuffs and then topping or stuffing them with delicious, delicious meat.
Sun, Sep 19 2:00pm
Meaterial GirlI have a theory that the ladies be lovin' the meat just as much as the men. This Meatwave we'll prove that by letting the ladies do the grilling.
Sat, Oct 2 2:00pm
A Meats to an EndSad day for meat lovers everywhere, the end of the Meatwave season is upon us. Come out for the last hurray and fill your bellies with loads of the delicious meat to hold you over until next year.


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Introducing the mushroom bureau
This site is run by the Mushroom Bureau, which is responsible for the generic publicity of all fresh cultivated mushrooms sold in Britain.
The Bureau is funded voluntarily by its members who are predominantly mushroom growers and trade alliances to the industry in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact:
Mushroom Bureau
C/O Kindred
Kindred – 4th Floor
Dean Bradley House
52 Horseferry Road
Email: email@example.com
Tel: 020 7010 0800
For all media enquiries, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
Mushroom Bureau
C/O Kindred
Kindred – 4th Floor
Dean Bradley House
52 Horseferry Road
Tel: 020 7010 0800
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Dental Implant Complication Expert
We occasionally see patients that have developed complications post implant placement. Most implants placed are successful, however some implants will require additional, specialized care.
The following situations are indication that the implant has developed complications and will require specialized treatment:
- When brushing, the gums around the implant bleed
- The gums are inflamed around the implant (bluish-purple or red)
- The gums around the implant are swollen
- The area around the implant is painful or sensitive for long periods of time
- Pus is coming from the gums or implant site
- The implant is loose
- You can see the threads of the implant
Implant Problems can be caused by poor placement originally, lacking integration with bone or infection.
Proper Implant Placement is critical for the successful outcome of your implant. If the implant is placed in the wrong position, typical biting and chewing can cause the implant to loosen or fall out. Loose implants are more prone to infection as well.
Infection around the implant is called peri-implantitus which usually includes bone loss. This is usually caused by poor oral habits (lack of brushing and flossing), health problems such as diabetes or habits such as smoking.
Dr. Jennifer Cha has developed an instrument specifically designed to remove failing and/or compromised implants. This instrument allows us to less invasively remove and replace implants.
As implants become more and more popular, many more doctors are placing them, and since training varies from doctor to doctor, we are having a large number of people coming to us with complications. The American Dental Implant Center can fix ANY complication, no matter how bad or "hopeless" the case may be. At the American Dental Implant Center we have placed over 30,000 implants, and we have the tools and the knowledge needed to fix any implant problems that may arise.
Case 1:
This patient was originally happy with the implant they had received, however after time the gums began to recede and the implant began to protrude through the gums. The patient came to us for help. We were able to repair this implant using a ridge augmentation technique.
Case 2:
This patient shopped around and was quoted a lower price for her implants than we charged, and she had her implant placed somewhere else for cheaper. This implant had become severely infected and the infection had spread to her neck. After her doctor explained that he couldn't help her, she came back to us to see if we could fix it.
Case 3:
This patient had their implants placed 15 years prior, and since then, their doctor had retired. Over time the patient had begun to bite on their tongue. For over 5 years the patient looked for a doctor who would repair and finish the work that another doctor had performed, but every doctor they went to refused. The patient came to the American Dental Implant Center and we were able to help
Before: The position of the implants was too close to the tongue, and their alignment and position was off.
After: We removed the old implants and replaced them with new ones in the proper place. The patient has been pain free ever since.


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A theoretical model is proposed to describe coherent dark hollow beams (DHBs) with rectangular symmetry. The electric field of a coherent rectangular DHB is expressed as a superposition of a series of the electric field of a finite series of fundamental Gaussian beams. Analytical propagation formulas for a coherent rectangular DHB passing through paraxial optical systems are derived in a tensor form. Furthermore, for the more general case, we propose a theoretical model to describe a partially coherent rectangular DHB. Analytical propagation formulas for a partially coherent rectangular DHB passing through paraxial optical systems are derived. The beam propagation factor ( factor) for both coherent and partially coherent rectangular DHBs are studied. Numerical examples are given by using the derived formulas. Our models and method provide an effective way to describe and treat the propagation of coherent and partially coherent rectangular DHBs.
© 2006 Optical Society of AmericaFull Article | PDF Article
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I have drawn this model a few times. I keep experimenting with different ways of approaching the figure.
Original pastel, 10x13" on Canson paper
Artist: Jeanie Schlump
The purpose of this non-profit organization is to educate, promote and stimulate interest in fine arts and crafts, and to provide meeting opportunities in these areas for its members and the general public.


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An online degree is a new milestone in the studying process. These days the distance learning spreads worldwide. It is popular all around the globe because of the many advantages. Above all, it gives the opportunity to study to the students who cannot afford to study far from home. Thanks to the online learning, students can choose any subject and any degree they are interested in. Moreover, they can choose the program from the different institutions in any country. Here we are sharing the most important tips to study online courses effectively.
Studying online does not obligate you to stay in one place; you can travel, moving around, visit your friends or family on the opposite side of the planet without interrupting your studying process. It is a great alternative to studying abroad if you want to get the diploma from the foreign university or college. Here are the basic tips to Study Online Courses Effectively.
The tips that are supposed to help you with online studying
- Before applying for the online courses, it is expedient to find out if the distance learning is for you. Three main characteristics can help you with that. First, you have to be self-motivated because there will not be the traditional teachers and classmates that inspire you and give you a nudge every time you have to finish your paper writing or reading the textbook. Second, you have to be strongly disciplined. Without this feature, you will not be able to study consistently. The third one is that you have to love the subject you are going to study. If you assess yourself and find out that all these three characteristics relate to you, you can start your research.
- When choosing the online courses or programs, check if they are legitimate. Make sure that the companies, countries and other institutions recognize the diploma or the certificate you are going to get on the end of the course.
- The third tip is to check if the courses provide the student support services like a technical support, writing services like yourwriters.net or FAQ. You can encounter thousands of different technical problems during the classes with the access, the quality of the sound, incorrect links, etc. You need to have the opportunity to call the hotline and ask them to fix it.
- Moving forward, the fourth recommendation states that you have to be careful with the courses that are too cheap. As a rule, online classes are cheaper, but if the price is obscenely low, the quality of the courses can also be poor. Check the type of classes they provide. If you can see the professor and hear his explanations, it is a good option. However, if it is just a bunch of different PDF files, research paper writing, and links, it does not work well. Most likely, you will not learn something useful from that.
The next tip is about the textbooks. As the research states, the paper textbooks are far more appropriate and convenient than the E-books. It is easier to learn from the real book, and the material is perceived better from them. If you have such opportunity, turn the E-books into the paper ones.
- Next, do not procrastinate. It is the worst thing ever when you study online. Even if you work a full day and you are tired by the evening, stick to the schedule. It is only your responsibility and nobody will give you an extra motivation or clear deadlines. If you start to procrastinate, you risk failing.
- The problem with the online courses is that you do not have a routine schedule like in the traditional school. You do not have to go to the lecture every Monday or to finish your essay writing by the Friday. It hides some dangerous and requires you to be alert and careful. You have to create your own habits and routines for your distance learning. Furthermore, create some workspace in your house where you are going to study every day. It will help you to be more organized and punctual.


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Just because something isn't freshly baked doesn't mean it isn't fully delicious.
While I heart my oven, I also enjoy the no-sweat, no-tears kind of ease from a no-bake recipe. No preheating. No underbaking. No overcooking (yourself, or your food). Just easy peas, in-your-face satisfaction without a heat source. Done, son.
Now race to the store and buy all of the follow ingredients to make these 35 mouthwatering no-bake wonders!
{Triple} Cookie Dough Milkshake
Ooey Gooey Chocolate Caramel Tart
No-Bake Birthday Cake Ice Cream Cups
Take 5 Bites (instead of heating the Rolo candies in the oven, place the Rolo-topped pretzels on a microwave-safe plate and zap them in the microwave!)
Peanut Butter & Jelly PopTart Ice Cream Sandwiches
Buttery Biscoff Waffle Mix (you don't have to broil the waffles — just pop them in the toaster until they're nice and crisp!)
No-Bake Reese's Peanut Butter Bars from Sally's Baking Addiction
Monster Cookie Dough Ice Cream
Chocolate-Covered Seven Minute Microwave Caramels from Averie Cooks
Mexican Frozen Hot Chocolate from Wishes and Dishes
Skinny Milk Chocolate and Caramel S'mores from Something SwankyNo-Bake Key Lime Cheesecakes from Eat-Drink-Love
White Chocolate Pretzel Candy Bark from The Little Kitchen
Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce (would make an awesome sundae!!) from Heather's French Press
Raspberry Lemonade Cheesecake Parfaits
Reese's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Dip
Bear Claw Donut Bites from Carla's Confections
Individual No-Bake Oreo Cheesecakes from Country Cleaver
Coconut Banana Cream Truffle Pie from Half Baked Harvest
Biscoff No-Bake Cookies from Cooking Classy
Marshmallow Cream Filled S'mores Doughnuts from I Wash, You Dry


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I wasn't aware Apple has an iTunes site dedicated to selling educational content to universities and students. Link
Larry Lesig may run for Congress and has launched a Change Congress initiative. (Tip to Hodgkin).
Stephen Fry has launched his Podgrams and also has an enjoyable post about digital cameras.
"Just about everybody who needs a camera has one. What is wrong with that Ixus I bought three years ago? That old Pentax Optio will see me through to my old age, don't it? No! No, you crazed enemy of freedom, you wild-eyed anti-capitalist, you deranged luddite. Haven't you heard of Face Detection Technology? Smile Capture? Best Shot Automatic YouTube Uploading?WorldCat has a blog all to its own.
Shatzkin on horizontal to vertical redux.
Apax is already sniffing around Reed Business Information. Link
Tell this to Harpercollins. Link