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Hazel Lenora Spradling
As Interviewed by Emerson S.
"There was a water fountain and water fountain there. One said 'white' and the other said 'colored.' Thats when I noticed it, but I didnt understand it."Read Interview
Omar Houache
As Interviewed by Hussam D.
"Heroes are not visible or circulating among the population. They were either in the front or in prisons... But the real heroes for me were those who died during the revolution."Read Interview
Juana G.
As Interviewed by Dylan Baldridge
"Sometimes, I will find out that one of my friends was undocumented, but they would never tell me."Read Interview
Sean and Yuko C.
As Interviewed by James Caras
"I felt that it was either because I was Japanese or I was a woman. I think the guy at the other shop thought I was under-educated and so I would pay that much. "Read Interview
Richard L. Gabler
As Interviewed by Max Henneke
"Although I was totally disabled for at least the last 22 years, I was not granted total disability compensation until about 3 months ago."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Nicholas Manavi
"The fact that I put my papers to immigrate to the States; I automatically became the enemy of my own country."Read Interview
Stephen Plaisance
As Interviewed by Andrew Plaisance
"Leading from the front is what leaders should be doing, always setting the example..."Read Interview
Margie C. Costa
As Interviewed by Neel Rao
"I could contribute, in a small way, to the empowerment of an educated woman. So she gets financial independence and, more importantly, she can recognize her true potential."Read Interview
Lillie Corle
As Interviewed by Amy Reed
"We were all just there to get our education."Read Interview
Michael Henderson
As Interviewed by Ava Patterson
"We're supposed to be all God's children, and we're supposed to love one another. Why can't we show that?"Read Interview
Rabbi Alan Freedman
As Interviewed by Billy T.
"I think that religion provides a real opportunity to try to promote social justice because it represents a broad section of our society. If religious leaders can get together and put aside their theological differences in order to serve a cause, thats a very powerful statement. You dont want to paint over the differences, because there are beliefs I dont share with Christians or Muslims, but when youre able to put that aside and say its more important for us to come together as religious people to address a particular issue that makes a powerful statement."Read Interview
Alan Buckholtz
As Interviewed by Jessica G.
"The police department had hundreds and hundreds of officers between the protesters and the hotel for the obvious purpose of protecting the hotel, and more particularly the president."Read Interview
Francis Boyd Moore
As Interviewed by Isabella Giunta
"As I saw people around me, I saw contemporaries and peers change and I've also seen some that never have changed, still haven't, and never will."Read Interview
Florence Temple
As Interviewed by Nathan Hamilton
"I think we just need to just learn how to get along with each other and look at others. Everybodys not the same, you know? We just have to respect the differences in people."Read Interview
Nancy Kibler
As Interviewed by Abbe Kelly
"They bombed anything that would have helped the German war effort..."Read Interview
Kinko Ogura
As Interviewed by Michael Masuo
"When I was little, there were people that we were segregated from called the Buraku people. I was not sure why these people were segregated from us, but we were told to stay away from them. Back then people thought that the Buraku people were kind of gross and not like normal Japanese people. When we walked through their area of town, we felt uneasy and a little bit frightened. "Read Interview
Rajeshwar Sastry
As Interviewed by Avani Sastry
"[Both young and old] were uniform in their approach for gaining independence, and the only motive for them was self-sacrifice and liberating the country from foreign rule."Read Interview
Karen O'Neil
As Interviewed By Elinor L.
"A girl looked at me and said, very disparagingly, 'You're Jewish, aren't you?'"Read Interview
Courtney C.
As Interviewed by Callier C.
"Its like smelling really bad, and you can smell yourself. You cant do anything about it, but youre aware that everyone thinks you reek. Thats what it is like when youre battling, and you cant stop talking, and your thoughts come really, really fast, and youre impulsive, and you have a temper, and youre irritable. Its like having a really bad smell."Read Interview
Jose Luis Aguilar
As Interviewed by Sonia Aguilar
"I don't know why we discriminate each other, if God made us equally."Read Interview
Bobby Earl Smith
As Interviewed by Madison E.
"I think the flaws come about when someone in the system takes a shortcut."Read Interview
O.S. and G.E.
As Interviewed by Madeline Lee
"The biggest protest is living an open and free life."Read Interview
Hubert Heinen
As Interviewed by Gavin K.
"The first notice that I really took of something being strange was in 1948 when the Dixiecrats bolted from the Democratic Party because of segregation."Read Interview
Judy R. Hodgson
As Interviewed by Reed Rogers
"I guess the biggest hero and most influential was Martin Luther King, Jr."Read Interview
Ayan Ismail
As Interview by Margeaux Brown
"The social injustice in Somalia was horrendous."Read Interview
Rita Lucio
As Interviewed by Jonathan Churchett
"I think unions have gotten weaker. I think people think that theyve outlived their purpose, but theres been a lot of instances where I think, what would this have been like without the union to represent us?"Read Interview
Mouin Fattouh
As Interviewed by Janette Fattouh
"[They] became a resident while I couldn't because I followed the law."Read Interview
Steve Crow
As Interviewed by Max Genet
"There really isn't any person who shouldn't have access to medical care."Read Interview
Pam Greenstone
As Interviewed by Roxy Bonafont
"I would love it if people were educated enough to understand that I'm no different from them. But I don't think that will ever happen."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Bennett S.
"I think that I learned a lot, I grew a lot from war and, like I said, war is unfortunate. I feel proud of what I did. I'm glad I made it back."Read Interview
Derek Hill
As Interviewed by Kennedy S.
"I was a platoon commander at the time of 9-11, but I was part of a 5000 men army that had already been deployed."Read Interview
Margarita Wolleben
As Interviewed by Rachel Wolleben
"We all come here with something already prepared for us to live, and that is to make this world a better place than the one that we found when we were already born."Read Interview
Chuck Reese
As Interviwed by Jackson Hughes
"There are people who will think negatively of all kinds of people, whether youre a minority or not. There are people that will think negative attitudes about white people, or negative attitudes about southerners, or negative attitudes about people who live in Texas, or different religions. And so when youre one of those groups that are targeted more specifically, you get a real keen insight into what that feels like."Read Interview
Ruben Vargas
As Interviewed by Manny Escobar
"I changed the path I was on."Read Interview
Agustin Morquecho
As Interviewed by Adina Morquecho
"Many places would not accept mexicans in their shops. Everything was still so racist.There are some things that you can change but most of the stuff is impossible to change."Read Interview
Mark Hammond
As Interviewed by Michaela Norton
"I was never discriminated against because I was the privileged class. I was white. I noticed a lot of discrimination against blacks. I remember specifically, I would go into a corner store, and there would be six or seven blacks waiting to be served. I would walk in, and they would serve me right away, and ignore the blacks."Read Interview
Brian Turner
As Interviewed by Currie L.
"Racism is...as much as anything, just ignorance of what the other race is."Read Interview
Liz Mueller
As Interviewed by Jake R. Paterson
"I dont think in a country as wealthy as ours, that its okay for people to live in a place that doesnt have heat or air conditioning. Or in a house that has really poor conditions. Or that forces a family to pay more than half their income for the rent."Read Interview
Marimel Ansdell
As Interviewed by Alexandra Andsell
"And before we got the food we had to sign a paper saying we would vote for them."Read Interview
Berta Gojer
As Interviewed by Daniel Gostein
"The government took over ownership of everything. From big companies, to little stores, nothing. Everybody works for the government,"Read Interview
Annemarie Prinz
As Interviewed by Matthew Prinz
"I went to school for eight years. After eighth grade, my mother told me I had to earn money because my father was sick. I had started school after 6, so by eighth grade I was 14. After eighth grade, I worked in a general store owned by a person named Mr. Müller, and I worked there for 10 years until I got married. "Read Interview
Veronica Castro De Barrera
As Interviewed by Bonnie Adams
"Little by little I was able to build beautiful friendships and I was enrolled in a class called English as a second language, which was a safe haven for all the immigrates and foreign language students who were participating in this class. So we become almost like an extended family in that class and that was beautiful years.."Read Interview
Juan R. Valadez
As Interviewed by Riley Simpson
"I remember telling this one kid in particular The world is full of people who are going to trying to knock you down. You cant help them."Read Interview
As Interviewed by P.M.
"I hated being pushed, shoved, and called names during passing period."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Gina C.
"You can criticize people, or even yourself, but don't use violence."Read Interview
Patricia Griffin
As Interviewed by Andres Cortez
"You had to be careful on not going to jail, and it all depended on who the police were."Read Interview
Asad Kirmani
As Interviewed by Uma Riddle
"I had a group of friends in the mosque who were also in my high school, and we wanted to start a Muslim Association."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Sarah B.
"A lot of things that people say the first time they meet Morgan is; 'What's wrong with her?'"Read Interview
Eden Harrington
As Interviewed by Alberto Edwards
"When we looked at their cases, one of the things that we figured out was that if you had the money to hire a good lawyer, that was the best way to avoid getting the death penalty. People who had appointed lawyerswho didnt have enough money to hire experts or conduct an investigationthose were the people who ended up on Death Row."Read Interview
Paul H.
As Interviewed by O.L.
"I think churches are microcosms of society at large. Society at large thinks that its unacceptable, the church thinks its unacceptable, too. Its not something I was taught in Sunday school or anything that had to do with church. Not that I remember anyway."Read Interview
Lillian L.
As Interviewed by Kelly H.
"Color is not an object, you know. You didnt think of people as colored."Read Interview
Michael Stone
An Interview by Jake Atlas
"You could just hear the bombs, and they were using napalm and bombs, helicopters and what not. You try to maintain a neutral position, but almost everyone sympathized with someone. It was impossible not to."Read Interview
Rosa Hernandez
As Interviewed By Eduardo H.
"It was very helpful the choice of my parents bringing me here at a young age."Read Interview
Eliza Galaher
As Interviewed by Carly M.
"I think it's important for people to know that there are many, many things that define a person."Read Interview
Robin S.
As Interviewed by Ben Wangrin
"I don't want to feel so lost and dependent on everyone again, even as wonderful as they were. It's just a bad feeling to know that you're old and you can't do anything for yourself."Read Interview
Barbara Becker
As Interviewed by Max Becker
"Then in the 60s, it became a matter of listening to the speeches, observing on TV, knowing how limiting segregation was to the black people, and taking a side, and making clear your views that there should be equality for both races."Read Interview
Kamran Asdar Ali
As Interviewed by Raavi A.
"One has to be kind to others, irrespective."Read Interview
Jean L. Turner
As Interviewed By Dabrelle Dickson
"You never look at the persons skin color, but you look at the person."Read Interview
Peter Polgar
As Interviewed by Kaitlin P.
"I guess at eight years-old these things are more adventuresome than worrisome."Read Interview
Guadalupe Rodriguez
As Interviewed by Jeremiah Arias
"Living in Austin, segregation was different -- not drastically worse, but in a larger, more major city, discrimination was a little worse."Read Interview
David M. Davis
As Interviewed by Collin Davis
"There were some people that thought that whole area of the world was like dominoes. You know if you line them up and you knock one down, it knocks them all down."Read Interview
Kristen Burnett
As Interviewed by Cameron Wynn
"The bombing around me was still going on until 1946. They shot at kids. They told kids do not pick up anything. They would plant pens and paper and crayons on the street so the kids could pick it up and it would explode in their face. We were told, do not, do not pick up anything."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Lena T.
"We had comments said to us like, You Mexicans need to go home. Well, we weren't very sure what that meant because we arent from another country. We were born and raised here."Read Interview
George B.
As Interviewed by Zac Zalles
"I couldn't do a lot of things my friends and brother could do just because I was physically limited. I could do some things and I couldn't do others, but that was the basic issue."Read Interview
Steve Elliott
As Interviewed by Simon Barrera
"It gives me a lot of perspective, as I said before, when you see the poverty that other people are facing, and their hardships. It makes you so much more appreciative of the situation you have."Read Interview
Janice Caroline
As Interviewed by Patrick Miller
"The economy was very, very bleak. The economy, I mean, pay would have been very minimal and my dad worked very hard."Read Interview
Anh Thomas
As Interviewed by Ryan Thomas
"I left Vietnam in 1975 with the last exodus of American soldiers."Read Interview
Beverly Fisher
As Interviewed by Darian Fisher
"To show how the journey that she had taken with her father being in prison from the time she was a baby until the present, how it made her feel and the struggles she had gone through as a young girl."Read Interview
Don Henderson
As Interviewed by A. Downing
"To me, it was always an issue. In high school, I remember arguing with people and with teachers about how civil rights should be afforded to gay people, just like it was to everyone else."Read Interview
Steven Todd
As Interviewed by Izzy Heffington
"You don't get to choose how bad a crime is. If somebody steals something, you don't get to choose what they take or how many windows they break. The victim gets next to no rights. The criminal gets all of the rights."Read Interview
Ramsey W.
As Interviewed by Tai Hoang
"I wasnt good with authority. I wasnt violent, but I was angry and loud all the time. Mostly you just couldnt believe a word I said. I think Im different today."Read Interview
Kerrie Summerfield
David Poor
"I think as a country America is not as accepting to gay people that I thought they might be at this time. I think a lot of it has to do with elderly not liking it. So I do think we have a very unacceptable confirmation as a country compared to others. And where marriage is legal has to do with a lot of things. But for the younger generation it is getting more acceptable because being gay is not your role but for them to be exposed to it is good."Read Interview
Francisco Alfaro
As Interviewed by Christian Alfaro
"Life is full of problems, so you have to face everything that you can with an open mind and live the best way you can."Read Interview
Benito M.
As Interviewed by Lorenzo Pesina
"I grew up in Texas as a free man. But growing up, I had huge problems within my life. I was treated wrongly in my life by cops, whites and blacks, and just about everything. In my belief, our society will always be white-dominant. It was always about the color of our skin and about what we, as people, had in our blood."Read Interview
Tan Huynh
As Interviewed by Satvik Kolluri
"If you see videos and images of that last day -- where everybody was just going crazy, trying to climb onto the next US helicopter, plane, or ship -- we were part of that group."Read Interview
Chawhun Chai
Interviewed by Brian G.
"We were walking and singing, and all of a sudden here was a bomb that dropped at the head of the mob. That was the first real encounter of the real blood situation. I saw people were carried out covered with blood. Two people were killed and several wounded."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Jose M.
"We do have a bit less freedom. First of all, its harder to get a job and I guess its also is harder to get a drivers license. Those are the two things that bother me the most."Read Interview
Laura Selis
As interviewed by Henry Selis
"I'm sure that there's a part of them that never wanted to be haunted..."Read Interview
As Interviewed by Mason M.
"We dont want to rely on peoples goodwill to care for our family. It should be a right, not dependent on anyones mood or political orientation or community values."Read Interview
Volma Overton Jr.
As Interviewed by Laurel Morris
"My cousins and I used to go in there and run into the white restrooms all the time. We would drink out of the white water fountains, just to piss them off."Read Interview
Ricardo Garcia
As Interviewed by Christopher Garcia
"I could tell he did not like me for some reason. At one time he even asked me if I spoke English."Read Interview
Lisa G.
As Interviewed by Sabrina S.
"I told my mom, and she totally flipped."Read Interview
J. Robert Selman
As Interviewed by Saskia H.
"People, now that the war is part of the past, and so long ago, are beginning to become wiser about what war is, and they know that war is not something that you can just start for any reason. It's extremely, extremely serious. It's something that's going to kill you in the end."Read Interview
Sid Hall
As Interviewed by Bridget Kelly
"I realized that he was my friend, and I cared about him, and he didnt choose to be gay any more than I chose to be straight."Read Interview
Jobert G. Harris
As Interviewed by Nika Sarraf
"As I said, its hard to understand it unless you experience it, me describing it doesnt adequately paint a clear picture for you. If you can imagine walking into a store, and being shadowed just because of the color of your skin, if you can imagine standing at a counter and being ignored just based on the color of your skin, if you can imagine being asked to get up to give another member of this society access to something just based on the color of your skin, if you can imagine being denied access to something or access to a particular facility in public, just because of the color of your skin, if it can be assumed about you that you actually know nothing, just based on the color of your skin, then thats the tip of the iceberg when it comes to describing some of the aspects of racism."Read Interview
Ria Ralli
As Interviewed by Ari Takvorian
"We couldn't believe somebody had actually killed him!"Read Interview
Vicente Sanchez
As interviewed by Anthony Sanchez
"Freedom has a price that some pay dearly and never take it for granted."Read Interview
Martha Shaftel
An Interviewed by Ellie Zambarano
"My mothers mother went with her to the concentration camp and was selected to go to the right side, and the people that went to the right were mostly the elderly, the infirm, or women like my grandmother, who was carrying and baby and had three younger ones with her. She went to the right for extermination."Read Interview
Paul Buntyn
As interviewed by Abby Bourgeois
"I would go to church during the week, but on Friday nights I found myself on my way to listen to Malcolm speak."Read Interview
Rama Rao Kancharla
As Interviewed by Varun Sudunagunta
"Even in wartime we had free time in which we played sports or shot rifles for fun."Read Interview
B.V.A. Rao
As Interviewed by Ujwal Swamy
"You have your language, your administration will be in the language, your government business will be in the language, and you can develop your language like anything."Read Interview
Edward R. Arevalo
As Interviewed by Eric Arevalo
"And he said, 'No, Im just pulling your leg. Im just letting you know that anytime there is a conflict you will be called on and you need to be ready.'"Read Interview
T.J. Romero
As Interviewed by Jerardo Sandoval
"There is no kind of terror that you can experience except what man does to man during war. Its really ugly and scary. It haunts you the rest of your life."Read Interview
Christine S.
As Interviewed by Eric S.
"To get a good assessment for a subtle disability, one that doesnt stick out like a sore thumb, you have to have an outside party."Read Interview
Nathan Hickman
As Interviewed by Jadyn B.
"We cant help who we are. It is a hard life. I cant understand why anyone would choose it."Read Interview
Efstathia Kappou-Berberidou
As Interviewed by Filippos Kallivokas
"Greeces first engagement in the war was the conflict with Italy."Read Interview
Steve Basile
As Interviewed by Elliott Moore
"I think his impact is only now realized because he was not just a gay rights leader, he was a civil rights leader."Read Interview


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Named one of Rolling Stone's Must Read Music Tell-Alls of 2016, Homeward Bound:The Life of Paul Simon, by Peter Ames Carlin is the definitive biography of one of the greatest musical influences of the 20th century. Veteran rock biographer Carlin (who's also written biographies on Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney) took on the task by interviewing more than 100 people from Simon's past, from ex-girlfriends to collaborators, even though Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel refused to participate.
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Can We Both Be Right?
Sometimes, I talk with my friend George on the phone, and afterwards, I feel like falling fast asleep or pouring a stiff drink. It's exhausting. We go round after round, bringing up finer theological minutiae, critiquing each other's viewpoints and offering alternatives. We debate, we bicker, we condescend, we laugh, and we say we'll do it again in a few weeks.
One thing that has already been presented a few times at the divinity school is the notion of being part of 'the academy.' In 'the academy,' they say, there is open and honest debate. The point is for your opinions and theories to be criticized so that truth can be the ultimate winner. Of course, whenever you add egos into the mix, it looks like something more than truth is trying to 'win.'
Every time that George and I talk, it's very apparent that we're coming from two completely different perspectives. We're coming from different lifestyle situations, different upbringings, and we're at different stages in life. All of this inherently shapes our theological worldview. And, in the interest of diversity and understanding, I can't say one of us is more right or enhanced or 'winning' because of it. However, George clearly thinks you can, and he is happy to claim that his viewpoints have such characterization. I try to say that I'm open-minded and willing to change my stance (I'm part of 'the academy,' right?) should the evidence or logic or anything else suggest I do so.
And while I would love to take a holier-than-thou attitude about such open-mindedness, all I really want to do is learn more. I want to be in dialogue, not so that I can try to have all of the answers, but rather so that I can make sure I'm asking the right questions. But with someone like George, who freely admits that he will never change the opinions he has now (at age 25) regarding Scripture, God, Jesus, money, or politics, can I gain anything from our conversations? After a few talks, I can almost predict what he's going to say, and when he's going to drop Romans 8:28, John 8:32 or John 14:6 like trump cards, effectively ending whatever historical context claim I was trying to make on any given issue. Is such a dialogue with my college friend even beneficial to either of us?
Unfortunately, lots of religious dialogue leaves people worn out and burned. Because someone, somewhere, at some time wanted to ultimately prove they were right more than anything else, someone else hates to discuss religion. It is deeply personal and incredibly academic all at once. It's not like calculus, wherein you can throw out some numbers, graph a line, and everyone agrees, regardless of where they grew up, or who their parents were, or what they believe in. Religion seems to be both unifying and divisive all at once, and therefore many folks just want to keep this double-edged sword tucked safely in its sheath.
Such is the case with post-9/11 Muslims and post-Falwell Christians. Their faith was hijacked by a minority voice that seems to speak the loudest. In today's world, you don't have to be right; you just have to be loud. And when there's no one pushing back to challenge your viewpoints or presentation of information, you will come across as correct, right, and in the know. Those who don't question things will think you're the authority on stuff and may even blindly follow you. This is why religious dialogue is needed across all faiths. Even if we've got our opinions that we'll die trying to defend, a diversity of voices must be heard on all issues, so that those of us who may be undecided can listen and choose for ourselves.
So what should I do with George? Does he need me to point out to him that blindly accepting every word as literal in his NIV Bible can be a dangerous slippery slope to play on? Do I need to make sure to listen to his belief that the world was created in six 24-hour days, because I, too, could have my opinions completely wrong on this one? Or are we just wasting 45 minutes every week or so that would be better spent drinking beer or playing golf together?
As much as the sound of beer and golf delights me, I hate to sacrifice theological banter for the sake of convenience. Religious truths are hard to grasp and are best when wrestled with instead of pandered to. As I heard a Buddhist once say at Harvard Divinity School, "Nothing great theologically comes without struggle." That's right – the best analysis I've ever heard about theology came from a Buddhist, not a Christian.
Ultimately, I don't think that an answer for this dogma dilemma is as easy to come by as George's conclusions are for him to draw. George said to me last night, "Sam, I just need to make sure I'm hanging around people who think exactly like me." I think that's both a dangerous and boring place to be.
So, I'm happy to discuss all things philosophical, religious, Christian, or otherwise. I prefer to do this during happy hour, so if you hate me halfway through, at least you enjoyed a cold one on tap. Please know that I don't have all the answers, nor do I think I ever will. And I will never claim to speak on behalf of all Christians. I will always listen, but will call you out when your loud voice is lying. My only hope is that we can be friends at the end of it and then go feed hungry people together. That's all this thing is about anyway, right?


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We've traveled to Albany more times than we can count to advocate for legislation that helps to promote energy efficiency. With help from our partners across the state, that legislation – Green Jobs Green New York – became a reality in 2009.
Since then, we've knocked on hundreds of doors.
We've tabled at community events and presented at churches and neighborhood association groups.
And we've convened over a dozen energy efficiency contractors in our community to form our program.
We're in year three and we're looking to expand. We started out in Erie County and now we're looking to connect with home and small business owners in Niagara and Cattaraugus Counties too.
So we're having an ambassador event to kick things off.
"In 2008, Erie County Homeowners with income at or below 80% of the annual median income paid $267,516,827 more than they could afford for their energy bills."
The above is a statement from the 2011 LIFE Energy Affordability Gap report. Energy bills continue to rise and our beautiful housing stock continues to age – the need for energy efficiency in our region will only increase from here.
In the past, we've partnered with trusted allies like NYS Assemblyman Sean Ryan, Village of Kenmore Mayor Patrick Mang and Buffalo Common Council Member Michael J. LoCurto to help us get the word out about our program. We're so grateful for these partnership and know this is only the beginning.
Why are we having an ambassador's event on May 15, 5:30 PM at Coco Bistro & Bar?
Because our friends and neighbors continue to deal with rising energy costs.
Because we need jobs in our community and we believe they can be created through the weatherization sector.
Do you have a friend or neighbor who endured this harsh winter without proper insulation or a proper furnace in their home?
Want to help drive real job creation in our community?
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This selection was commissioned by the very proud wife Of a member of our Navy who is being promoted to Captain next month.
This piece is approximately 37″ wide by 20″ high. It contains over 210 individual pieces of glass.
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This selection was commissioned for a Naval Aviator who is being winged in Kingsville, Texas on September 1st. He will then be flying the F-18.
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NFL faces lawsuit from former players over brain injury risks
The violent nature of professional football returned to the spotlight Thursday as thousands of former players affected by concussions teamed up for a legal fight against the NFL that could last years.
A lawsuit unifying more than 80 cases by more than 2,000 former NFL players was filed Thursday in Philadelphia, accusing the league of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries.
Of those players, at least 125 played at some time for the Chiefs, including three members of the club's Hall of Fame, guard Ed Budde, defensive tackle Curley Culp and defensive end Art Still.
Plaintiffs hope to hold the NFL responsible for the care of players suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological conditions. Helmet-maker Riddell, Inc. also is named as a defendant.
"That was the plan all along, to put all the lawsuits in one package," Culp said. "I have two concerns — they're going to do something about making the game safer as the rules are concerned, and maybe do something with the equipment."
The lawsuit has punctuated a turbulent offseason for the NFL, particularly in the area of violence. The league has spent the past few months dealing with the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal as well as the suicide of former star linebacker Junior Seau.
Seau's death may or not be related to a concussion, as suicides of some other players, including former Bears safety Dave Duerson and Falcons safety Ray Easterling, but it reflected the difficulties some players have in adjusting to life after football.
"The one thing I am in it for is some of my teammates and good friends are losing their lives and a lot of their faculties and I want the awareness to be known that there is a direct correlation to concussions," said Mark Collins, who played for the Chiefs in 1994-96 after spending eight years with the New York Giants. "I want the fans to know about it, and I think the NFL is seeing there is a correlation to it.
"When I got into this game, like others, from junior high all the way through to college and pros, we were told, 'You may walk away from this game with a broken leg or a busted knee or a broken this or broken that,' but we were never told that concussions were part of the deal. We were told the helmet would protect us. You find out later in life it is not protective."
According to the lawsuit, the NFL, "like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associated with repetitive blows producing sub-concussive and concussive results and the fact that some members of the NFL player population were at significant risk of developing long-term brain damage and cognitive decline as a result.
"Despite its knowledge and controlling role in governing player conduct on and off the field, the NFL turned a blind eye to the risk and failed to warn and/or impose safety regulations governing this well-recognized health and safety problem."
The league has denied similar accusations in the past and issued a statement on Thursday saying: "The NFL has long made player safety a priority and continues to do so. Any allegation that the NFL sought to mislead players has no merit. It stands in contrast to the league's many actions to better protect players and advance the science and medical understanding of the management and treatment of concussions."
The reason the cases — 86 have been filed in the past 10 months — were merged in what is called a master complaint was to expedite judicial efficiency.
"There are so many different claims, it's more efficient to bring it in front of one judge," said Paul D. Anderson, an attorney who operates the website NFLConcussionLitigation.com. "That way Roger Goodell doesn't have to fly all around to several different forums. All the lawyers can get together. There are more than 50 plaintiffs lawyers at least with various skills, and this is a way to get them all together and work together."
The first decision federal district judge Anita Brody will make sometime in the next few months is whether these lawsuits even belong in court. The NFL has filed a motion that any potential claims must be made under the labor agreement's grievance procedure and are pre-empted by the collective-bargaining agreement with the players.
"It's a pretty difficult argument," Anderson said. "The law is not clear on it. Half the case law is on the NFL's side, and half the case law is on the players' side. The merits of the lawsuit and the injuries and damages that are going to have to be proved in front of a jury aren't going to be discussed.
"Right now, there is an upfront, technical legal argument. The NFL is arguing that this is fundamentally a labor dispute, and these claims don't belong in court and should be heard in front of an arbitrator. Judge Brody's decision will probably not be made until 2013."
In the meantime, the lawyers for the plaintiffs are doing all they can to win in the court of public opinion. They held a teleconference on Thursday that included Easterling's widow, Mary Ann; and former NFL running back Kevin Turner, who has been diagnosed with ALS, a condition some have linked to head trauma.
"Nothing gets me steamed quicker," Turner said, "than seeing the NFL, as late as 2007, with their head neurologist saying one-word answers to journalists asking about the connection between head trauma and some of these diagnosis Parkinson's and dementia and kept saying there was nothing to do with it.
"I want the NFL to stand up and be accountable for its actions. That's how we can prevent more people from suffering and keeping this great game that has plenty of benefits, but we can make it safer. I'm hoping that's what we do."
Former NFL general manager Charley Casserly wonders how the players can specifically target the NFL.
"How do you know the problems you have," Casserly said, "came as a result of playing in the National Football League on a particular hit?"
The NFL finds itself in the difficult position of balancing the way it promotes the game's physicality and celebrates big hits while protecting the safety of its athletes. During the past two seasons, Commissioner Roger Goodell has handed out several hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines to players for illegal hits, including multiple offender James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In addition, the Saints' head coach, Sean Peyton, and top linebacker, Jonathan Vilma, were given season-long suspensions for participating in a scheme that paid cash bounties for knocking opposing players out of games with violent tackles. Gregg Williams, an Excelsior Springs native who was the Saints' defensive coordinator at the time, was given an indefinite ban from the NFL for his role in the scandal.
"There needs to be a cleansing of the James Harrison mentality in the NFL," said Marc Ganis, president of the Chicago-based sports business consulting firm, Sportscorp Ltd. "Not just for the players in the NFL, but for the players in college, in high school, in youth football who emulate the NFL stars. You can have great physicality, great athleticism without these kinds of head-on collisions.
"Is the reason for the NFL's popularity, these very strong collisions that often that lead with the head? That is so overstated. Fans watch the NFL primarily because of the competitiveness of the games. This is not the Ultimate Fighting Championship. This is not the World Wrestling Federation. This is not professional boxing. Roger Goodell is incredibly moral and ethical, and he wants to be able to reduce the injuries to players across the board, and in particular head injuries."
Neither Anderson nor Ganis believe the concussion lawsuit will bring the NFL to its knees.
"The NFL is a $9 billion industry and projecting $20 billion of revenue by 2020," said Anderson, "but there could be a global settlement later down the road, and I don't think it's going to bring them to their knees. It's the biggest sport in all of America. They have the money.
"But they also have a really good legal argument. Why give up when you have the law partially on your side right now? Morally, no doubt. All these tragic stories pull at the heartstrings of most people. But the law can be a different animal."
Ganis put it more succinctly.
"It's a hot issue now," Ganis said. "Next year there will be a different issue."


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No, you couldn't make this up!
The British media in particular likes to take the piss out of people with April Fool's jokes. Once a year they publish entirely bogus stories, some quite imaginative, that continually fool people. One always has to be extra aware on April 1st.
The gay PinkNews paper published an April Fool's article about a new iPhone application going by the name of Kroozr. According to the article you install the app on your phone and when you turn it on it will scan all men in the vicinity and tell you who is gay and who isn't, using "its inbuilt Kinsey Scale."
They even claimed to have "developed a 'filtering' feature, whereby you can set the app to scree out men with ponytails, bumbags or Chinese symbol tattoos."
What a hoot! Come on people, really? Did they think this pathetic joke would fool anyone? After all exactly how would a phone be able to scan only men and then determine who is or isn't gay by the scan? And how would it weed out people based on tattoos or, as the article said "those wearing sandals with socks?"
Of course, the whole point of my report is that someone did fall for the story. And not just someone who is an anyone, but one of the major Right-wing Christian fundamentalists in the UK. Green, who has been exposed as an abusive husband and father, wrote up a story repeating the claims of the joke story, except Green reported them as true.
Green wrote, regarding the non-existent iPhone app:
"Everything about the depravity, the sadness, the lack of normality, even of humanity, the promiscuity driven by the pathology of homosexuality is distilled into this story."
Okay! Dare I point out that if this "story" shows all the depravity, etc., of being gay, then there is none since the story is fake. Admittedly this man's entire faith relies on believing claims which are ridiculous on the face of things, but still, you might have thought that given the April 1st tradition of printing bogus stories, he might have been slightly more discerning.
His blog, described by his as "a radical, Biblical, forthright, Christ-centered ministry" pushing for "Godly government" gives no indication that Green could discern fact from fiction. His article on the fake app is entirely serious and reports the story as absolutely true. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if he removes that article. Just in case, I've illustrated this article with a screen capture of the entire article. If the link to the article shows it to be removed just view this illustration here for the entirety of it.
Note: As we assumed Green has finally caught on to his foolishness and changed the content of his blog. For information on what he did see our update on this here.
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How we Started
After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in the spring of 2014, Jason Steinberg moved to the tiny island of Pohnpei, Micronesia to teach high school English. While teaching at Madolenihmw High School, the students showed a passion for playing basketball. Having coached basketball for three years, Jason jumped at the opportunity to coach the boys and girls of MHS.
The problem was that the students didn't have sneakers or jerseys. For weeks, students would show up every day after school and practice barefoot or in flip flops. Students would pass up their bus ride home from school in order to play two hours of basketball in their bare feet. Without sneakers, they would often finish practice with cuts and injuries and then have to walk home to their village, which for some of them was up to 10 miles away. Jason recognized the students' passion and decided to start fundraising in order to purchase sneakers and jerseys for the team. Together, Jason and the students of MHS raised enough funds to provide sneakers and jerseys for every student who wanted to play.
The students on the team didn't just show improvements in their basketball skills, but also became more attentive in school and felt happier on a day-to-day basis. Jason saw similar changes in the students participating in the music club at school – students who would regularly attend the music club showed improvements in schoolwork and heightened confidence. Jason left the island feeling more confident than ever that expressive outlets such as sports and music can have a meaningful impact on people's lives. He also knew that there must be other kids around the world whose lives could be improved through sports and music, but who wouldn't be able to afford the proper equipment.
When Jason returned to the States after the school year, he created the International Sports and Music Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping schools and shelters around the world plan and fund sports and music initiatives in their communities. Soon ISMP grew into an international family of people who passionately believe that sports and music can make the world a better place.


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The banded elm bark beetle Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov is a bark beetle native to Asia, ranging from the Caspian Sea (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) to Korea (Anonymous, 2004). The "chevy" beetle was first collected in insect traps set in Aurora, CO (a suburb of Denver), and Ogden, UT, in April 2003 as part of the USDA Forest Service-APHIS Rapid Detection and Response project (Duerr, August 2004, pers. comm.). However, it was quickly determined that the beetle is established from California to the Midwest (Anonymous, 2004), as far east as Michigan (Haack, 2004). State records demonstrate that S. schevyrewi was present in Clovis, New Mexico, as far back as 1998 (Anonymous, 2004).
The banded elm bark beetle was probably introduced as a hitchhiker in wood packaging with bark attached (Anonymous, 2004).
In the United States, the beetle has been observed to attack and kill drought-stressed Siberian elms (Ulmus pumila) (Anonymous, 2004). So far, the beetle has attacked only American (U. americana), English (U. procera), rock (U. thomasii), and Siberian elms in the United States; but in Asia it has a broader host range, including willows (Salix spp.), fruit trees such as apricot, cherry, and peach (Prunus spp.), and Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) (Anonymous, 2004).
The biology of S. schevyrewi is similar to that of S. multistriatus, another exotic bark beetle native to Europe introduced decades ago, which has been the principle vector of Dutch elm disease in the United States (Anonymous, 2004). However, the the banded elm bark beetle beetle appears to be more aggressive; in areas where it has become well established, it is much more abundant in dying elms than is S. multistriatus (Anonymous, 2004).
At this time, the banded elm bark beetle appears to pose a moderate risk to elms planted as shade trees or as windbreaks throughout the inland West, particularly during periods of drought (Anonymous, 2004).
Anonymous. 2004. Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov – An Asian bark beetle new to the United States. http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/fhm/reports/pest_update_s-schevyrewi.pdf. Accessed August 2004
Duerr, Donald. August, 2004. dduerr(at)fs.fed.us, personal communication.
Haack, R. 2004. Forest Diversity and resistance to native exotic pest insects. International Union of Forest Research Organizations D7/D8, August 10 – 13, 2004, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand.


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Ronald Martin Wilson (1886–1967)
Ron Wilson was born in Brisbane and, like his father, attended the Normal School. Later a pupil of the Brisbane Grammar School, he passed the Sydney Junior Public Examination in 1902 with a silver medal in Physiology. In 1903 Ron entered his father's office, becoming his chief architectural assistant five years later. While working in the office he obtained a Certificate in Art and Design at the Brisbane Central Technical College and exhibited drawings and modelling in the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland's annual exhibitions in Brisbane.
In 1911 when the newly established University of Queensland offered its first courses in engineering, Ron Wilson enrolled immediately. He graduated in 1915 with first class honours in Civil Engineering, winning the Walter and Eliza Hall Travelling Scholarship. This took him to the United States of America for two years to study architectural engineering, in particular structural steel and reinforced concrete construction. His lengthy report was later serialised in 1922–23 in the Building journal. Travelling to Britain in 1917, Ron joined the Ministry of Munitions and later the Ministry of Food, overseeing the planning and construction of factories and cold stores. Before returning to Queensland in 1919, he studied at London's Architectural Association and completed a town-planning course at the University of London.
After nearly a decade's absence, Ron Wilson rejoined the family firm. In 1920 he entered partnership with his father in the restyled firm of Alex B. & R. Martin Wilson, Architects and Architectural Engineers, reflecting his engineering expertise. In 1921 Ron was awarded the University of Queensland's first Master's degree in Engineering. Though his unparalleled credentials as an architect-engineer did not result in the commissions he hoped for, the 1920s were productive years. He was elected an Associate of the Queensland Institute of Architects and a foundation Associate of the Institution of Engineers (Australia). For several years he lectured on town planning to civic and professional bodies in Brisbane and in 1930 was Chairman of the Town Planning Association of Queensland. Both Alex and Ron Wilson were early advocates for a central city square and prepared proposals for the site of the old Normal School, bounded by Edward, Adelaide, Creek and Ann Streets, to become a large civic space similar to London's Trafalgar Square. In a reduced form this became Anzac Square. In 1924 Ron proposed a visionary expansion of the square with a formal park linking Queen Street to Adelaide Street built above an arcade of shops and an underground car park, realised more recently as Post Office Square. He was a member of the University Design Selection Committee appointed in 1921 to consider sites for a permanent University. In 1926 as a member of the Cross River Commission he prepared a minority report recommending alternatives to a proposed bridge linking Kangaroo Point to the city, which eventually became the Story Bridge. His architectural works carried out at this time included Southport Ambulance Station, a teaching block and swimming pool at Somerville House, South Brisbane Memorial Park and Ithaca Presbyterian Church.
After Alex Wilson's retirement in 1928, Ron continued the firm as R. Martin Wilson, Architect and Architectural Engineer. In December 1929 he married Olga Esme Mansfield Wallis. The onset of the Great Depression limited any opportunities that sole practice might have offered to make the most of his engineering skills. However, Ron succeeded in maintaining his practice while many architects were forced to leave the profession. On 8 October 1930, after some bleak months, he made two entries in his diary, 'Job at Toogoolawah' and 'Son born'. The former was the Toogoolawah's Alexandra Hall, and the latter was Blair Mansfield Wilson. As conditions slowly improved Ron's commissions included a School of Arts at Gatton, a Presbyterian Church Hall at Hill End, Birt's Wharf at Newstead (on the site of his father's first commission), bowling clubs at Graceville and South Brisbane, the landmark Cliffside Flats at South Brisbane and his own riverbank home at St Lucia. Having lived through the 1893 flood, he designed the floor of the house to be above flood level and braced its foundations to resist the impact of flood borne debris. During Brisbane's 1974 flood, the house remained six feet above water while some of the neighbouring houses were inundated.
Ron Wilson served on the Council of the Queensland Institute of Architects and was a foundation Fellow of the succeeding Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA). Like his father, he was honorary architect to the Presbyterian Church of Queensland and a member of the Royal Queensland Yacht Club. A keen yachtsman, he was honorary measurer for the Club and prepared schematic proposals for yacht marinas along the bay from Darling Point to Lota Creek. These proposals led to the establishment of the Royal Queensland Yacht Club House and Marina at Manly. He was also a member of the St Andrews War Memorial Hospital Planning Committee.
During the Second World War Ron Wilson, while maintaining his own practice, worked for the Allied Works Council, designing sewerage plants for military establishments. Shortages of materials and limitations on private buildings continued long after the war and it was not until well into the 1950s that conditions improved for architectural practice. His first major project after the war was the Presbyterian Church at St Lucia (1952), of which he was a founder.
Ron was 70 when his son Blair joined the practice in 1956. Whilst he continued practicing for the next decade, supporting the development of his son's architectural career, his quest for knowledge never waned. Towards the end of his life he attended lectures at the University of Queensland on topics such as the matrix theory for the design of indeterminate structures, and anthropology. He died on 19 July 1967, survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.


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MES Appoints DynaFusion as Authorized Distributor in India
Model Engineering Solutions GmbH Appoints DynaFusion Technologies Pvt Ltd as Authorized Distributor in India.
Bangalore, India, October 29th 2012: Bangalore, India based DynaFusion Technologies Private Limited announced today that it has signed an official distribution agreement with Model Engineering Solutions GmbH (MES), Berlin, Germany.
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Hi Everyone,
When I was in college, I was a member of ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Being a member meant that you 1) had hope that someday you would actually graduate to become an engineer, and 2) had exclusive access to the ASME conference room, an area that was about 10'x12', with a file cabinet, a table and chairs, and a door that locked. Hmmm…
I'm bringing this up, because every time something goes wrong, I always remember the poster that hung on one of the walls in that room. It was titled "Murphy's' Law for Engineers," and as you can guess, it listed several things that would go wrong if even the slightest possibility existed that it could go wrong.
I thought of the poster this past Saturday, when we all arrived at the library to film our next four episodes. I had picked up the camera equipment the day before – camera, tripod, newly-charged battery, microphones. I slid the camera into place and was about to turn it on when I realized that it already was on, which was unusual, but I didn't think much of it, until I flipped open the LCD monitor. The room came into view on the monitor, and then about 1 second later, the battery light flashed with a warning that the battery was almost dead (it didn't say that, exactly, but you get my drift.). Naturally, I flipped the camera off and on again, because the possibility of the battery being dead was not one I could entertain.
Unfortunately, it happened again.
It was at this point that I remembered the poster. Specifically, "The 2nd worst thing you can hear the tech say is "Oops!" The worst thing you can hear the tech say is "oh s**t!"
That was me, and I wasn't saying "Oops." Yup, the battery was almost dead, and our first guest was arriving in less than fifteen minutes.
Another Murphy's Law: "It is never wise to let a piece of electronic equipment know that you are in a hurry."
We all scoured through the camera bag, looking for another battery, the charger, a plug…we found the battery charger, figured out how to slide the battery in, and for a few seconds, we actually believed that that thing was going to charge itself up in time. You might think, why not just plug the camera in? Funny thing is, the camera doesn't "just plug in." You have to know that this other smaller adapter fits into the camera where the larger battery normally goes, and then you have to connect it to the battery charger, which then plugs into the wall…
I would NOT PANIC. We would work it out. And we did! Yea, Ed!
Lesson learned. Next time, I'll check the 'on' switch and grab the spare battery.
P.S. After that, everything went great! The next episode will be posted within a few days.
Keep writing:).


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Friday, November 28, 2008
Not-So Delicious Coconut Milk Yogurt
The blueberry and raspberry flavors were good but not great, certainly not worth the $1.99 spent on each of them. In general they were way too sweet and had a bit of an after taste that sticks with you until your brush your teeth. The vanilla was completely inedible. The slight aftertaste of the blueberry and raspberry flavors was the entire taste of the vanilla flavor. Everything was wrong with it. Too sweet and yet tart at the same time. I was starving so I tried to finish it but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, instead I just brushed my teeth to get the taste out of my mouth and left the house hungry.
If you feel like shelling out $1.99 for yogurt that is just ok then I would recommend the blueberry and raspberry flavors. Steer clear of vanilla. But honestly, that money can be better spent elsewhere.
Update: It's very rare that I reject a comment on this blog but I have to say for this particular review I've had to reject at least 4 from people with some really mean-spirited comments regarding my review. And trust me using the term "mean spirited" is an extremely watered down version of what has been written - all this over a little coconut yogurt review. I wanted to take this time to clarify my review, especially for those who just read the title but not the entire review. I really liked the blueberry and raspberry flavor (hated the vanilla). But overall I don't recommend this yogurt not based on the taste but on the cost. I had a little extra food income this month so I splurged and bought some blueberry, passionate mango and strawberry banana flavored coconut yogurt. At Whole Foods it was about $1.89 and at Publix/Krogers it was $2.59! And that's just for one little cup of yogurt! Frankly, that's absolutely ridiculous.
What makes the whole situation even worse is that I'm now head over heels in love with the strawberry banana flavor and in a semi-like with passionate mango. I wake up in the morning wanting a cup but who can afford $2.59 each morning for just yogurt? I've also heard rumors that there's a pina colada flavor out there that I would love to try. Really the only flavor that I don't like is vanilla. As you read above. It makes my tastebuds revolt against me.
So hopefully this has cleared up my position on coconut yogurt and the hate mail can stop now.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Restaurant Review: Village Pizza Company Atlanta, GA
Village Pizza Co. ( 186 Carroll St., Atlanta, GA 30312) , nestled in the heart of the Cabbage Town district of Atlanta, has an excellent assortment of vegan ingredients including soy based vegan cheese, vegan sausage, vegan beef and vegan pepperoni in addition to just about any other type of veggie you like on your pizza. The prices are low and the slices are huge. For me one slice of the Village Vegan Supreme Pizza (pictured above with vegan cheese, vegan sausage, vegan pepperoni, vegan beef olives, bell peppers and onions) is more than a meals worth. Here's a quick guide to all things vegan on the Village Pizza Co. Menu:
21 different types of vegetables (and fruit) including: mushrooms, onion, green peppers, red peppers, Roma tomatoes, black olives, green olives, broccoli, baked eggplants, artichoke hearts, garlic, jalapeño peppers, banana peppers, pepperocini, pineapple, sundried tomatoes, zucchini, basil, spinach & summer squash
Vegan Meats: beef, pepperoni, sausage
House Salad (minus the mozzarella) with balsamic vinaigrette – romaine lettuce, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, black olives & Roma tomatoes
Green Salad (minus the feta cheese) – mixed field greens, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, red peppers, broccoli, Roma tomatoes, black olives, cucumbers and pepperocini
Spinach Salad (minus the feta cheese) – spinach, Roma tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette
Specialty Pizzas:
Veggie – mushrooms, onions, green peppers, black olives, green olives, Roma tomatoes, garlic and cheese (make sure to ask for soy cheese)
Veggie Supreme – spinach, eggplant, sun dried tomatoes, red and yellow bell peppers, summer squash, zucchini, broccoli, Roma tomatoes, garlic and cheese (make sure to ask for soy cheese)
Village Vegan Deluxe - vegan cheese, vegan sausage, vegan pepperoni, vegan beef, mushrooms, black olives, green olives, green bell peppers and onions
The Village Calzone (minus the ricotta and Parmesan cheese) – garlic, Italian spices and your choice of filling from the toppings selection (ask for soy cheese instead of mozzarella)
Village Pastas:
Classic Marinara – Roma tomato sauce made with extra virgin olive oil, sautéed onions, garlic, red wine, basil herbs and spices
Panini Sandwiches:
Veggie Delight – mushrooms, onions, red bell peppers, green peppers, artichoke hearts, black olives, tomatoes (ask that they replace all cheese with soy cheese)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Pillsbury Pizza Crust (Vegan Calzone Recipe)
I used the thin crust pizza dough to make a gooey cheesy vegan calzone and the leftover dough to make garlic knots. Recipe follows:
Vegan Spinach Calzone
Yields 2 Calzones
1 package Pillsbury Thin Crust Pizza Dough
½ cup vegan mozzarella
½ cup tofu ricotta
½ cup steamed spinach
Canola oil spray
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Roll out Pillsbury thin crust pizza dough on a lightly floured flat surface. Cut dough in half with pizza. Divide vegan mozzarella, tofu ricotta and steamed spinach evenly amongst two sides of pizza dough. Fold dough over to cover cheese/spinach mixture and use the pizza cutter to round out the edges dough. Crimp the ends of calzone closed with the tip of a fork all the way around dough.
Lightly spray a foil lined baking sheet with canola oil. Transfer calzone's from working surface to baking sheet and spray tops lightly with canola oil. Bake for 10 minutes allow to cool slightly and serve.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Veganism Made Simple: 24 cupcakes, 3 minutes, $5
My new favorite is Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Butter Cake Mix. Despite the name there isn't an ounce of butter or any other type of animal products in this cake mix. In fact, nearly the entire line of Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Cake Mix is vegan including:
- Banana Supreme
- Butter Recipe Golden
- Butter Recipe Fudge
- Classic Yellow Cake
- Dark Chocolate Fudge
- Devil's Food Cake
- German Chocolate
- Lemon Supreme
- Orange Supreme
- Pineapple Supreme
- Red Velvet Cake
- Spice Cake
- Strawberry Supreme
Now here's the trick. The back of the box calls for 2/3 cups water, ½ cup softened butter and 3 eggs. This can be easily veganized. Try the following substitutions:
- Replace the ½ cup softened butter with ½ cup softened Earth Balance
- Replace the 3 eggs with 3 teaspoons Ener-G egg replacer whisk together with ¼ cup warm water, ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce and ½ teaspoon baking powder
Follow the directions on the back of the box and within 3 minutes you have yourself a full batch cupcakes or a mouth-watering cake.
I topped it off with Pillsbury Creamy Supreme Chocolate Fudge icing (many of Pillsbury's frostings are also vegan, but always do a label check just to be sure).
All in all these cupcakes cost me less than $5. The cake mix was $1.07 (but I had a coupon for 50 cents off so it only cost me 57 cents!), frosting $1.50, cupcake liners $0.99. Everything else I already had around the house bringing my grand total to $3.56.
Cooking Notes:Be sure to only fill the cupcake liners somewhere between 1/2 - 3/4 full. If they are too full you'll end up with cupcakes that are delicious but look disastrous. If you accidentally fill up the liner too full then wait until cupcakes are completely cooled before you take them out the pan then let them sit at room temperature or in the refrigerator overnight to stiffen up a bit. You can proceed to ice them from there although the center will still be a bit crumbly.
Also in place of 3 eggs you can also use ¾ cup pureed soft silken tofu or 4 ½ teaspoon Ener-G Egg Replacer whisked with ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons warm water
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Vegans Guide to the Universe Part 5: Egg Replacer 101
After a good deal of trial and error, Google searches, triumphant tries and complete culinary flops I finally came up with a working list of egg substitutes for nearly every recipe.
Baking (1 egg equivalent):
¼ cup unsweetened applesauce + ½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ cup pureed soft silken tofu (plain)
1 tablespoons ground flax seed simmer in 3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons water + 1 tablespoon canola oil + 2 teaspoons baking powder
Scrambled Eggs:
1 pound firm or extra firm tofu, drained and crumbled – find your favorite tofu scramble recipe and you're off!
Quiches, Omelettes and Frittatas:
Firm of Extra Firm Silken Tofu should be used in place of eggs. Popular Recipes are the Papa Chorizo Frittata, Susan V.'s Vegan Omelette for One and Susan V.'s crustless Quiche
Ener-G Egg Replacer is also an excellent choice for replacing eggs in baked goods. 1 ½ teaspoons + 2 tablespoons warm water whisked together equals 1 egg. 1 box has over 113 servings! So it's a great low-cost way to replace eggs in baked goods.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Restaurant Review: Healthful Essence - Caribbean Vegan Restaurant (Atlanta, GA)
When I walked in I was immediately greeted by several members of their helpful staff and was elated to see that the food was served in a "hot bar" style where all the food was already prepared, piping hot and just waiting for me. Meals ranged from $2-$10 (choice of 1 item to 4 items respectively). And the serving sizes are very generous. For my first meal I went conservative with brown rice, barbeque tofu and plantains ($8 and enough for two meals). The brown rice is not your typical brown rice it was beautifully seasoned and mixed with a variety of different color bell peppers. The bbq tofu was the perfect texture and the sauce was amazing! Definitely homemade, I've never tasted sauce that good coming out of a bottle. Of course the plantains were perfect, it takes a lot of effort to mess up plantains.
For my second trip I moved away from my comfort zone and into unknown territory. There was something on the menu I thought I'd never hear of at a vegan restaurant - curry goat. I never had this dish in my omnivore days and two out of my 6 companion animals are goats (one of which is named Curry) so the thought of eating anything that might even closely resemble the taste of my beloved goat just grossed me out. But...with much hesitation I tried it. It wasn't bad and if there wasn't a goat named Curry in my backyard right now I probably would have liked it.
Other must try items on the menu are the Jerk UnChicken, Fried UnFish Cakes, Curried Vegetables and Collard Greens. The only thing that Healthful essence is missing is my all time favorite, the Jamaican Veggie Patty. But the rest of the food is so delicious that I will forgive them on this one point.
Update!!! After taking a brief hiatus I found myself back at Healthful Essence and the food is better than ever! With some delicious additions to the menu including...drum roll please...Veggy Patties! Not only that but you simply must try their raw foods bar as well. The Spicy Kale Salad and Nori Rolls are worth every penny and will literally make you want to lick your plate clean. And don't get me strated on the Chickpea Patties. I dreamt of them last night and woke up craving them this morning. If a dish is able to make it into my dreams then it truly holds a special place in my heart.
They also now take credit and debit cards for orders over $10 so no need to run to the ATM before venturing down to Healthful Essence.
Hours of Operation:
Monday 2pm - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 8 pm
Saturday 12pm - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Papa Chorizo Frittata: The Recipe
Note: If these pictures seem a bit familiar it's because I blogged about this recipe during Vegan Mofo (I just failed to provide the actual recipe that went with it)
24 ounces extra firm silken tofu
2 tablespoon nutritional yeast
3 tablespoons potato starch
½ teaspoon stone ground mustard
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon onion powder
Combine all frittata filling in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a large bowl and set aside.
3 tablespoons canola oil
2 red potatoes cut into ½ inch cubes
½ cup white onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 link vegan chorizo, crumbled (I pulse in a food processor for about 30 seconds)
¼ cup chopped roasted red peppers
2 tablespoons flat lead parsley, chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
In a large sauce pan heat warm oil over medium to medium high heat. Add potatoes and onion and cook until potatoes are tender (about 8 minutes). Add garlic and chorizo and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes. Turn off heat and stir in roasted red peppers and parsley.
Stir filling into frittata mix.
Lightly oil a 9 inch spring form pan or a quiche pan. Pour frittata mix into pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until filling is firm and you can run a clean toothpick through it.
Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes. Remove frittata from pan and serve. (Can be served warm, room temperature or cold)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Purely Decadent Ice Cream (made with Coconut Milk)
Growing up I hated coconut with an unnatural fervor. However, when I became vegan my taste changed and all of a sudden me and coconut's were BFF's. I started experimenting with everything I could get my hands on from Thai curries and soups to raw coconut ice cream. Although I love the taste of raw homemade ice cream it does require that you crack open 2-3 Thai coconuts. After doing this about 4 or 5 times I realized that I had wasted at least an hour of my youth cracking open coconuts. Even though the rewards were great it ultimately wasn't worth it.
Purely Decadent's Coconut Ice Creams, although not raw, are a dream come true! When I saw them in my grocers freezer I immediately wanted to try every flavor but opted for trying their Vanilla Bean (because if you can't make a good tasting vanilla then what's the point?!) & Cookie Dough. The vanilla bean was perfect. I mean perfect. There was a light hint of coconut taste but otherwise it tasted like a traditional vanilla bean ice cream. This says a lot considering that I don't like the soy based Purely Decadent Purely Vanilla. With a couple spoon full's of vanilla bean settling down happily in my stomach I moved on to the Cookie Dough. After the first taste it was like finding your one true love. Fireworks went off, a gospel choir appeared in my living room and began singing "O Happy Day" and I swear the pups started doing the electric slide. Did I mention that I liked it?
Aside from the amazing flavor this new line of ice cream offers it also has a huge plus for those who suffer from allergies. The chocolate, coconut and vanilla bean flavors are all soy free and the cookie dough is gluten free. As an added plus, all flavors are made with agave nectar which has a low glycemic index.
In Atlanta, this frozen treat runs about $4.99 for a pint. If you're on a budget, like most of us are, the Turtle Mountain website does offer coupons so check it out at http://www.sodeliciousdairyfree.com/index.html.


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It's Art Basel weekend once again in South Florida. Art Basel is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 40 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Exhibition sites are located in the city's beautiful Art Deco District. After work I had to rush to a location to do a small shoot that turn out nice. Immediately after the shoot I went looking at the new murals they painted in the Art Deco District. As I saw them I was acting like a kid in a candy store filled with excitement.
If you get the chance try and check out some of the galleries this weekend. If not you can just go browsing and you will be surprised by the free art you will encounter. Below are a few images I snapped while walking around.


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The Budget and Finance Committee is responsible for allocating the Student Activities Trust Fund, which is made up of the Student Activities fee. This fund covers all student clubs, the Office of Student Activities and Leadership, the Harbor Art Gallery, the Student Arts and Events Council, as well as funding for special events and new student initiatives.
The Budget and Finance Committee also manages the General Contingency Fund, which sponsors special events for the UMass Boston Community. Funds from the GCF have gone to alternative spring/winter break relief trips, such as Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans; fundraising events on campus, such as the Beacon Dash; bringing guest speakers to campus, such as poet Jericho Brown; and sponsoring special, multi-part events, such as the Student Senate-organized Distinguished Alumni Dinner.
Budget and Finance Request Guide | Request Form (Electronic Submission)
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[Watch] My Chemical Romance Live in Session at Maida Vale
On Wednesday My Chemical Romance paid a visit to Zane Lowe and the legendary Maida Vale Studios. They dropped by to perform some new tracks from their latest album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Up top you can watch them perform their second single "Sing" and then after the jump, treat your eyes and ears to a performance of the infectious "NA NA NA" along with album track "The Kids From Yesterday". You can pick up their new album over here and look out for them as they are set to head out on tour in February next year. Tickets went on sale this morning (December 3rd) so if you're lucky there might be a few available!
The Kids From Yesterday


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The nRF52840 System-on-Chip (SoC) is an advanced, highly flexible, ultra-low power multiprotocol SoC ideally suited for ultra-low power wireless applications. It is particularly well suited for smart home and advanced wearable applications, including wearables for payment and medical purposes, as well as for industrial sensors and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
The nRF52840 SoC is built around a 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4F CPU with 1 MB flash and 256 kB RAM available on the chip. The embedded 2.4 GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth® low energy (Bluetooth 5), 802.15.4, ANT, and proprietary 2.4 GHz protocols. It is on air compatible with the existing nRF52 Series, nRF51 Series, and nRF24 Series products from Nordic Semiconductor.
Nordic Semiconductor provides full support for its platform within OpenThread and actively participates in the development of OpenThread by co-authoring the core of this stack.
OpenThread running on the nRF52840 SoC is a Thread Certified Component.
Important notice
Due to legal restrictions, support for hardware-accelerated cryptography utilizing ARM CryptoCell-310 is only available in mbedTLS library (libmbedcrypto.a) provided with the nRF5 SDK for Thread. The library available in the OpenThread repository does not support hardware acceleration. You can still use it, but the commissioning procedure takes much more time in such case. For the best performance and user experience, use the library provided with the SDK.


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Top EU diplomat to visit Cuba over bilateral ties
Havana, March 4: European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini will visit Cuba on March 10-11 to push forward talks that could finalise an agreement on normalising bilateral ties.
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno on Thursday said the visit will be "very important" in the current situation, Xinhua news agency reported.
Cuba and the EU on Thursday started a new round of talks to reach a bilateral agreement on political dialogue and cooperation.
"We are very hopeful with this round and we believe we can make substantial progress," Moreno said.
Christian Leffler, deputy secretary-general for Economic and Global Issues at the European External Action Service, who co-chairs the talks with Moreno, said the two sides "are in a good position to advance in a very substantive way in negotiating the future framework agreement between the EU and Cuba."
According to the EU delegation, this round of talks will address human rights, institutional provisions and general provisions of the agreement.
Cuba is the only Latin American country without a bilateral treaty with the EU.
Negotiations between the two sides started in April 2014 at the request of the EU, which moved to accelerate the normalisation of relations after Havana and Washington announced a historic detente in July 2015.
The two sides have concluded six rounds of talks and negotiations on trade cooperation that ended in December 2015.


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Location: Pollocksville, NC
Zipcode: 28573
Country: US
Zipcode: 28573
Country: US
04/05/12 09:02:20AM @soaring-eagle:
if u used wax its not enough to just stop u got to remove it wich isnt easy
06/21/11 01:54:02PM @sandra-moreno:
thanks for the friendship! and like i said before, you have beautiful dreads
thanks for the friendship! and like i said before, you have beautiful dreads
03/29/11 08:47:12AM @beje:
Which shampoo did you use? the body splash or the one from Knotty & nice? The one from Knotty and nice uses citrus oils to break down the wax and yes therefore has a strong citrus smell. I hope you can get over that because it works.
peace & light
03/28/11 10:47:59PM @beje:
Thanks for the friendship Colin, did you decide about a wax removal shampoo?
peace & love


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Works of jewelry have always been made as trophy and tribute, part of our human celebration and re-invention of natural beauty. The jeweler's art binds us across history to generations who fought and loved at the beginning of our world, and farther, to the earth itself and the stars. At TAP by Todd Pownell we remember that a simple adornment can mix the sensual clarity of moonlight with the hard splendor of our planet's profound mineral veins. As artisans we perfect these elements and deliver them, home to the sweep and tenderness of the body, like treasure washed onto sand.
Noble metals and gemstones are beautiful not only because of sheen or lustrous color but in their ultimate molecular structure, as examples and reminders of a universal order. These are qualities which are the guiding lights of craft, and as artists, we echo and honor them in the harmonies of our own works. We hope to evoke mystery, and the fast-changing yet eternal conditions of the natural world – of wind and storm, and sunlight as it spreads sharp and warm through the last minutes before night. Our aim is to distill an ultimate romance and bring it, polished, to the flesh, as an emblem of all that is deep and lovely, translated in metal and stone.
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"TAP by Todd Pownell" evolved from the varied combined experiences of it's founders, Todd & Debra. Todd is a technically trained goldsmith and graduate gemologist with fine jewelry historical knowledge. Debra's experience is rooted in the European studio atelier practice and it's jewelry fine art traditions.
Together as a couple they merged their complimentary perceptions to the romantic aesthetic that identifies the TAP jewelry design sophistication.
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Our TAP Jewelry is entirely hand fabricated by our small team of talented crafts people in our Cleveland, Ohio live/work studio. We all work with a focused attention on the craft, which is a visible aspect of our work. Together we approach the process of making jewelry with an honest respect for the innate properties of the noble metals and gemstones we use. We carry a profound awareness of their origins. As a team our studio culture promotes a healthy environment and strives for a combined positive, rewarding and challenging studio practice.
We are proud members of Ethical Metalsmiths who are jewelers for social and environmental responsibility. They support ethical mining and recycling in sourcing materials. We manage our studio operations with responsible green practices.


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The Reps on WTTN
One of the great things about hosting a radio show in Portland, besides getting access to great music is having the chance to host local artist and help share their art with the masses. Tomorrow night I'll get to host a crew of NW MCs, The Reps. Plus Neighborhood resident StarChile will also be in the building.
Be sure to tune in from 8-10pm pacific time on Saturday for great music and great conversation on KXRY XRAY FM 91.1 and 107.1FM in Portland OR and worldwide at www.xray.fm


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Washington, Aug 12 : As Hillary Clinton turned over her private server to Justice Department amid reports it contained 'top secret' emails, Bobby Jindal said she is just a single email away from serving prison time, reports IANS.
Now that the Democratic frontrunner presidential contender has asserted that she's turned over all of her emails, any breach would mean she's lied in court proceedings, her long shot Republican rival and Louisiana Governor Jindal said.
"She'd better pray the Chinese government doesn't do a document dump," Jindal said in remarks released by his campaign.
Jindal's remarks came as Clinton relented Tuesday to months of demands to relinquish the personal email server she used while serving as secretary of state.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said she has "pledged to cooperate with the government's security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them."
Clinton's emails have been under scrutiny since it was revealed that she used a private server in her home to send and receive messages when she was secretary of state.
The FBI has been looking into the security of the private server and investigators have been trying to determine whether Clinton sent or received classified information on an unsecured system.
Meanwhile, Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday two of the four classified messages discovered in emails turned over to the State Department by Clinton were labelled "top secret."
The inspector general for US intelligence agencies had reported that two of the emails not only were classified but were in fact categorized as "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information" – one of the strictest security classifications, he said.
Clinton's turning over of the server is "a welcome development," he said, but he declared: "That's a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorised person outside of an approved, secure government facility."
Clinton aides have maintained that nothing on her server was classified at the time she saw it, suggesting that classified messages were given the label after the fact.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that was the case with two emails, adding that it remained unclear "whether, in fact, this material is actually classified."
"Department employees circulated these emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011, and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton," he said. "They were not marked as classified."


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There's a lot of talk about postcode lotteries, but we don't have lotteries, we have postcode auctions.
This is because when services or amenities are tied to a location we end up paying for them through higher house prices. This is very clear with schools: many state schools are just as good as fee-paying independent schools, so being able to send your child to one is like having a free ticket to a private education. Parents who can afford it will pay a bit more for a house that's within the catchment area of one of those good state schools, ultimately driving up the price to be close to the expected value of sending their child to that school. This effect is called 'capitalisation' and, right enough, when we look at the empirical evidence it's fairly clear that house prices rise, at least to a large extent, to reflect the value of schooling in an area, especially in areas with very good schools.
This seems to hold when we look at Local Authority grants in general. This study looked at grants given to marginal Labour councils during the 2000s by central government – a proxy for money used by the central government to buy off voters in swing constituencies. (Naughty.)
What it found was that, where the supply of housing was constrained, house prices rose almost fully to reflect the value of the grant. That's a sign that the grants benefit landowners in these places in a fairly direct cash transfer to them, from people elsewhere. As the quality of the area rises, so does the price of their homes.
The same effect exists when we raise or cut property taxes like business rates or council tax in an area – property values and rents fall or rise in proportion to the rise or fall in the tax, meaning that it's landowners who benefit rather than the renting business or resident. This seems to capitalise into property values very quickly.
Why does this matter? On the one hand, it's not necessarily a bad thing for people to pay more for things like attractive neighbourhoods. The problem is that, when the money for this is coming from taxpayers from outside these areas, it's a transfer from them to landowners in those areas. There's no reason to think that this should be a welfare enhancing transfer, and if it forces renters to move by raising rents then it might well be welfare reducing.
Another problem is equity: most people value good schooling for their kids and living in low crime areas very highly, but can't afford to pay. If better-than-average state schools are only accessible to parents who can pay through higher house prices, lots of the public expense is benefiting people who can pay, and are.
The final problem is over-entanglement. For example, if quiet and leafy parts of town also happen to be the ones with good schools, you'll have a situation where some people who really like quiet neighbourhoods but don't have children are wasting money by having to pay for access to good schools, too, or are being priced out needlessly, and vice-versa for parents who just want the best schools for their children.
There's no straightforward answer to this, because some of it is unavoidable, and some of it is exactly what we want – house prices should be higher in more desirable areas so they go to people who value them most.
But attaching services to these locations is probably a bad idea because it concentrates them on people who can afford it. A school voucher-like system without catchment areas, and patient choice where people can go anywhere they want to access healthcare if a practice or hospital can admit them, could help to diminish the concentration of good services on people who can pay for it, and might drive up standards overall.
In terms of equity, doing this where possible might make the system more like a lottery (and so more open to poorer people than our auction-like system is now).
Remember that one of the main points of the education and healthcare systems is to cover people who would not be able to afford them otherwise. If lots of this is actually being captured by wealthier people and the taxes used to pay create additional deadweight costs, it might not be a highly efficient system. And it may be a good reason to prefer giving cash transfers to the poor and let people pay for services directly, so that we can better target the people we really want to help.


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|New York Times crossword of November 30th, 2001 other clues
|'South Pacific' hero
|'You Can Call Me Al' singer
|'___ framed!'
|4-Down's twin
|À la
|A restaurant patron said ...
|Actress Heckart
|Adam's-needle, e.g.
|Can't take
|Chapter in 20th-century hist.
|Church abutter, maybe
|Corner pieces
|Cracker, of sorts
|Dalmatian, e.g.
|Eden, for one
|Empathetic words
|Epiphany figures
|Eyed rudely
|Firedome, for one
|G, e.g.
|Gets specific
|Got shot in a studio?
|Happy-go-lucky person, perhaps
|Hinged flap on an airplane
|In one's cups
|It's ruled by a sultan
|Java is in it
|Kind of bone
|Legal thing
|Lid problems
|Like 'chow' vis-à-vis 'edibles'
|Like a mite
|Like Homo habilis
|Like school, sometimes
|Loser at Châlons in A.D. 451
|Make good on
|Make ___ of
|Man of means, in Manchester
|Member of a pod
|Nineveh's river
|Noisy groups
|Prepared numbers
|Pump with money
|Remington rival
|Retail store opening?
|Shout before firing
|Signature piece?
|Six Day War combatant
|Skier Mahre
|Some alerts, for short
|Some stay at home
|Some TV's
|Statement upon delivery
|Superior strings
|The patron replied ...
|The waiter asked ...
|They have short legs and long ears
|Welcome to one's home
|With pluck
|___ signum
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