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The Eureka Union School District is extremely pleased to announce that our students continue to demonstrate their exemplary achievement and ongoing progress on statewide assessments. The Eureka Union community remains exceptionally proud of these fine achievements as reflected by each school's impressive results on the recently released California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). A total of 2,314 students in grades 3-8, including students with special needs, were tested for specific content areas in English Language Arts and Mathematics.
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The evolution of movie distribution is starting to affect my behavior at film fests. Tech has all of a sudden gotten personal.
For the first time in the New York Film Festival's 54-year history, it opened with a documentary, Ava DuVernay's 13TH, a searing look at the dysfunctional American prison system — and I didn't lift a finger to attend. (N.B.: I've seen it now, it's quite powerful, but the following comments aren't about the quality of the work.) This picture is distributed by Netflix and became available for streaming while the fest was still underway. I also knew the docs HAMILTON'S AMERICA and GIMME DANGER were headed for streaming or PBS before the month was out. This choice has arisen before, at Sundance. But Sundance happens to happen in midwinter, a fallow period on the annual movie schedule. The broad-release windows are far enough away that at high altitude it seems worth it to check out stuff like WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? or FREEDOM SUMMER then and there. (I would never want to miss the next SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN by so much as a day.) But in the hipness of time, by NYFF's autumn I want to know in advance the distributor and the release pattern before I give up a precious festival slot. Lots of previous NYFF entries have debuted theatrically within days of their fest screenings — even streamers still need that public release for notoriety and Oscar qualification — but there's something more immediate about being able to punch it up at home on your own schedule. You may never ever do that. Most Netflix queues are very long. Later, gater. (A film-sprocket joke.) But if that recent additional option dampens attendance at certain fest screenings, it'll be interesting to see if/how that affects selection and programming in the future. As always, one never knows, do one?
Here's my take on the eleven films I saw this year, in order of screening:
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA**** Kenneth Lonergan is becoming more and more surefooted, both at the keyboard and the viewfinder. This is a subtle, confident meditation on grief and loss with frequent brushstrokes of levity, a movie made with such assurance that the story seems inevitable. Casey Affleck plays Lee Chandler, a morose handyman in Boston who is so tightly wound that early on, when he thinks two guys in a bar are literally looking at him the wrong way, he clocks them both. The rest of the picture gracefully and patiently shows us why: Lee has barely lived through an almost unutterable tragedy and now faces yet another upending trauma. The hollow look, the way he recoils from other human beings, the barren brokenness is off-putting at first, but as we discover details (shown in unannounced flashbacks, each calmly cut together as if it were the next present-day scene) the character gains dimension and color, served perfectly by Affleck's trademark laconic mumble. The New England setting looks gorgeous, and a superb supporting cast, led by Lucas Hedges as a nephew whose path intersects with Lee's, never falters, not even when a well-known star shows up for a cameo. Lonergan has come a long way since YOU CAN COUNT ON ME; his screenplay is sophisticated enough to deliver some redemption while reminding us that not everything in life can be tied up with a neat little bow, not even in the movies.
TONI ERDMANN**** A beauty that marches to its own drummer, Maren Ade's new film is a screwball comedy about an ingratiating screwball, played by the marvelous (and that's the word) Peter Simonischek. It's also an intimate father-daughter story with real resonance, thanks to Sandra Huller's brave, sensitive performance. Winfried is a lumbering freethinker who is always looking for the next practical joke, while Ines climbs the corporate ladder in her tailored black pantsuits. They seem to be emotional oil and water, and the film is essentially Winfried's attempt at connection, but that makes it sound far too stuffy. The comic and dramatic tracks unfold simultaneously; we're never far from the proverbial spoonful of sugar. There are piles of hilarious surprises, so I mustn't reveal too much more, but let's just say that the appearance and even identity of the title character gets a huge laugh. This film was the darllng of Cannes this year and the New York audience also ate it up. At one point they were shrieking so loudly that they would have missed a great topping line if not for the subtitle (it's mostly in German, but there's enough English to keep us off balance). That came during a bravura five-minute sequence toward the end that just might go down in movie comedy history. At 2:42 I found it a tad indulgent, but patience earns a huge profit.
PATERSON*** (U.S. Premiere) A new Jim Jarmusch flick is always of interest and this year NYFF has two, including GIMME DANGER, a documentary about Iggy & the Stooges. That subject seems an odd fit for Jarmusch's dialed-back style, but there it is. This one is more in the zone. Adam Driver plays a city bus driver who scribbles poetry in his free moments. His name is Paterson and he lives in Paterson, New Jersey, just as did his idol William Carlos Williams, whose famous epic poem is called—but you guess. We spend a week with Paterson, his loving but ditzy wife (the pixieish Golshifteh Farahani) and their scene-stealing English bulldog Marvin, and the days are essentially the same. He gets up, eats Cheerios, walks to the depot, writes for a few minutes, drives all day (his recreation is eavesdropping: folks, the bus driver can hear you), goes home, has dinner, walks Marvin past a bar where he enjoys one beer, and heads back for bed. Paterson's patience is inexhaustible: his wife burbles with out-of-reach ideas and is visually fixated on black-and-white designs on everything from shower curtains to cupcakes. He's more polite than you would be on his first bite of her dinnertime cheddar-and-broccoli pie. The only conflict comes from people around him, until Marvin causes a heartbreaking event. We also hear Paterson narrate some of his poetry — it's good, written for the movie by a ringer — and none of this would work if we didn't buy that. Jarmusch specializes in finding the strangeness in normalcy, and there's so much going on just to one side of the principals, barely in frame: for example, the offhand appearances of different sets of twins seems somehow foreboding, but it's played as nothing more than a pattern recognizable to a poet. This is not for the antsy viewer, but it encourages us to keep our eyes and ears open to the wonders around us, because they are definitely there.
CERTAIN WOMEN*** A soft, sensitive melding of Maile Meloy stories, faintly connecting in the screenplay of director Kelly Reichardt. We are in Nowhere, Montana; the most urban place we see is Livingston, population high four figures. Three dramatic tracks follow a lawyer (Laura Dern) dogged by a disgruntled client (Jared Harris), a woman (Michelle Williams) whose family is building its own home, and another attorney (Kristen Stewart) who endures an eight-hour round trip from Livingston into the country to teach a weekly class in school law and infatuates an introverted ranch hand (Lily Gladstone, the movie's real find). All the women are in different emotional places and want different things, but they each have to reach down and summon determination, even the quiet horsewoman who can barely look her idol in the face. There are thin threads beyond setting which join the tales: for example, at one point a character from another story walks through in the background, out of focus and casually ignored. The acting is fine all around, but whenever she appears you can't take your eyes off Ms. Gladstone, even though she barely speaks and only changes expression very subtly; her attraction isn't played as overtly sexual but you can definitely feel the heat. This performance is a career-maker.
JULIETA**** Another adaptation of short stories, this time from Alice Munro — realized by none other than Pedro Almodovar. It depicts the tumultuous events in a Madrid woman's life extending some thirty years, and the title role is taken by two different actresses. We meet Julieta at age 50, played by Emma Suarez as a middle-aged beauty whose face is weary and drawn with emotional pain. After a chance meeting with an old friend, she abruptly disappoints her lover by changing their long-standing plans and sits down to write to her estranged daughter, beginning with the fateful night she met the girl's father 25 years ago. Julieta at 25 is played by the glorious Adriana Ugarte, and gradually we learn the reasons for her torment and the split with the daughter. Almodovar manages to make the ladies appear to be the same person through gradual aging and a beautiful handoff some years later, in a defining visual moment that the French call a coup de cinema: Ugarte's hair is being toweled off after a bath, but when the towel is removed, it's Suarez once again in a near-perfect fit. Wow. There is some humor (notably from Almodovar regular Rossy de Palma as a Miss-Gulchian housekeeper), but much less of the wit and wackiness we've come to expect from the maestro, replaced here by portent and more drama, less melo. It's seamless filmmaking that respects its audience by allowing loose ends to dangle until the moment their joining is needed. I'm not familiar with the source material, so I can't speak to Almodovar's merging of three Munro stories or shifting the setting from Canada to Spain, but it looks like it was meant just for him.
PERSONAL SHOPPER** (U.S. Premiere) Olivier Assayas follows up CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA by bringing back Kristen Stewart as yet another assistant, who desultorily selects and buys haute couture for a wealthy Parisian woman. She has just lost her beloved twin brother to a congenital heart condition which she shares. She also believes herself to be a medium. These three premises get jingle-jangled together, none too neatly, as Assayas attempts a modern-day ghost story. The arm's-length attitude of Stewart's one-note performance, while suitably intense, prevents us from getting inside her head or caring about what happens to her. There's enough arty murkiness to cause post-screening arguments over what we've just seen. Assayas is certainly talented: things go bump in the night with style and tension, and believe it or not, a suspenseful, eerie scene is composed almost entirely of text messages on a smartphone. But while I admired the attempt to keep so many dramatic balls in the air at once, I couldn't buy the end result. Too bad: I loved Assayas's version of DAY FOR NIGHT, 1996's IRMA VEP.
20th CENTURY WOMEN**** (Festival Centerpiece, World Premiere) A near-perfect invocation of a little-regarded time and place: Santa Barbara, 1979. The last vestiges of the counterculture have morphed into New Wave posing, and Ronald Reagan waits in the wings. No cell phones, no Internet, no MTV. Everybody still smokes. But life goes on in the rambling house of an unusual extended family, encompassing room renters and hangers-on. Mike Mills's attention to period detail sets the stage wonderfully for a career performance by Annette Bening as the crash pad's single-mother matriarch: still beautiful but cosmetically mature, she shines with life-force. The other two 20th-century women are fire-haired punk tenant Greta Gerwig and too-experienced teen Elle Fanning, who sneaks over from her own house to sleep — just snooze, no sex — with Bening's hormonal son (a sensational Lucas Jade Zumann). A freelance carpenter (Billy Crudup) is also in the house and the story mix. I loved the amount of attention paid to the son's dramatic arc: he's a good boy who is nevertheless kicking at his stall, and his rebellious yet devoted relationship to his mom feels genuine. For fogeys like me, it's painful to accept that 1979 is far enough gone to actually inspire nostalgia, but it is and does. A real crowd-pleaser that ought to have a nice commercial life.
SIERANEVADA**** (U.S. Premiere) A pitch-black comedy about a dysfunctional family which gathers in its deceased patriarch's Bucharest apartment to send off the old man with rituals, food and wine. The range of (mostly) comic clashes and conspiracy is so broad that at one point the camera rests in the middle of a hall and simply pans left and right as one or another door opens with the latest crisis. Other times the camera is locked down for ten minutes or so as the actors, I assume, improvise. The net effect is that it all appears to be happening in real time in front of us as if we're another guest, even when we briefly leave the apartment at one point. The feast, which looks delicious, is delayed and delayed because a ritual must first be performed, and the priest is late. When he finally arrives, his chants and prayers are interminable and some guests are dying from hunger before he issues his laugh-out-loud exit line: "Brevity is the soul of wit." I'm partial to movies like this because we can all recognize aspects of our own families, whether we're related by blood or by lot: humanity is international. Cristi Puiu (THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU) has a twinkle in his eye, unlike several quarrelsome family members. At 2:53 it's way too long (that trip outside isn't really necessary; the crucial monologue could have been staged indoors), but I loved it anyway. We never find out the meaning of the title.
SON OF JOSEPH*** (U.S. Premiere) Bent spirituality and baroque satire from Eugene Green, a drama about a disillusioned, rebellious Parisian kid's search for his, later just a, father. Satisfyingly skewered is the French publishing industry ("nothing is invented," M. Green insisted afterward), as the kid discovers a high-rolling caddish book man is his long-deserted biological pop. Then he meets someone better, unaware that he's the big shot's brother. The director has a distinctive way of staging what would normally be intimate, personal scenes with austerity of language and motion; at times it's anti-natural, almost as if we're watching animatronics. (This oddly stilted effect is evidently even more pronounced to French speakers.) He also winkingly overlays the story with a Biblical subtext expressed in "chapters," down to the ass which accompanies "Joseph" and "Marie" on a fateful journey toward the end. It's too mannered to be a classic, but it's quite enjoyable, pleasantly perverse in its own sweet way.
ELLE*** (U.S. Premiere) Paul Verhoeven's first feature in ten years, and first ever in French (it's France's submission for next year's foreign-language Academy Award), is a genre-bender that really coaxes the gamut of emotions from its audience. It's either a comedy with a very dark subtext or (my take) a very dark movie with some funny stuff in it. It also shares DNA with whodunits and thrillers, but it's not really that either. As Verhoeven warned us before the screening, this film can be painful to watch at times. Before we've even caught our breath, the very first sequence depicts a violent rape. We are left completely at sea, unable to understand the victim's oddly muted reaction. She is played incandescently by Isabelle Huppert, whose character is a video-game executive and the daughter of a reviled mass murderer: whew! I don't mean any criticism when I say this story is populated by outrageous and awful human beings — that's on purpose — but afterward we struggled to think of one "good guy" at all. (I think there's only one in the entire flick. After you see it, I'll tell you who.) While the credits were rolling I was thinking about this dramatic miasma and I would have given only two stars, which I consider a negative evaluation, because I was sinking under so much funk at that point. But we kept talking about it while waiting for our last movie (I heart film fests), and I realized that Verhoeven's deliberate untidiness — he'd said afterward that he left some story threads unresolved so the audience could fill them in on their own — was actually a great strength. The more I thought about ELLE afterward, the more I auto-revised my opinion. (Shades of the French New Wave!) By the time the Oscars roll around, I may even wish another star upon it in hindsight. Be warned: this movie plays rough. But look how it affected me.
THE LOST CITY OF Z*** (Festival Closing Night, World Premiere) An old-fashioned widescreen epic, a "movie movie" like they used to make, this is the story of Lt. Col. Percy Fawcett and his nearly lifelong obsession with a lost city in the Amazon rain forest. We pick him up as a young turn-of-the-century British officer who is sent on a mapmaking mission to ward off a looming dispute between Bolivia and Brazil. The jungle scenes are raw and exciting, and after some real scares Fawcett, whose noble chin belongs to a very capable Charlie Hunnam, comes to respect and admire the native people, especially when he finds evidence of a superior technology that was evidently developed in antiquity and in isolation. His expeditions back to "Amazonia" span nearly thirty years and are interleaved with stretches of life at home and some harrowing duty in the trenches of World War I; both Hunnam and wife Sienna Miller age very well, assisted by convincing makeup. It's meant to be a grand adventure in the wild combined with gentlemen's discourse by the stuffed shirts in England, sort of the PBS version of Indiana Jones. One can quibble with the balance because the movie really comes alive when we return to the jungle, again and again. In the tradition of such spectacles, the job of the director is to stay out of the way, and James Gray lets us concentrate on the story and forget about the production, except for one aspect, and here I must make a filmlover's confession. This piece was shot on 35mm film and proudly projected that way for the Alice Tully Hall audience, but I have to say it: whether I've been desensitized or simply aging, I prefer digital projection. Celluloid looks great for brightly lit exteriors, and Darius Khondji's landscapes earn oohs and aahs throughout. But for low-light scenes, especially interiors, the image is softer and it's easy to be distracted by reel-change cue dots and other degradation on the film stock, even though it should have been the first time through the projector for this print. Some people like the look, just as some prefer to hear music from a needle vibrating on vinyl (and they may have a point). I don't mind any perceived "harshness," and at my age I want the image razor-sharp. It may be unhip of me but it matters for real: we wanted to check a musical piece and we couldn't make out the teensy type as the end credits rolled by. It was slightly out of focus and thus illegible at the world premiere. This film is a nice diversion, a respectful and capable throwback of a production with great support by Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson (hey, Kristen Stewart's not the only teen vampire turning into a real actor!), but sue me: I bet it'll look even better on Blu-Ray.
WISH I'D SEEN: BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK, MOONLIGHT, MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA, ONE-EYED JACKS (on the big screen)
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Last year when I was expecting I made this blanket:
It is the Tweed Baby Blanket by the famous Jared Flood. I chose Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light because of its softness even though I knew it would pill. The softer the yarn, the more it tends to pill... But you know, for a newborn baby it has to be soft. You can see by the photos that it has been used a lot.
The pattern has now been updated with a version with three colors instead of two, and I'm very much tempted to knit this three colored version. Maybe not as a baby blanket but just as a cozy knitted piece for the sofa.


text: >> Cathy Horyn to Weigh In on Twitter During Upcoming Fashion Weeks —Suzy Menkes may carry her laptop around through Fashion Month, tapping out timely reviews from the front rows, but she has yet to transmit her thoughts via Twitter. The same can no longer be said about Cathy Horyn, who in addition to her usual blogging and reviewing will be joining the Twitter brigrade. T's Horacio Silva announces: "In news that should send shivers down the backs of designers: Cathy Horyn is finally going to start tweeting this season." [@themoment]


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Watch Alvaro Morata's equalizing goal.
With a dominant Barcelona leading Juventus 1-0 in the Champions League final, a moment of brilliance from the Italian side leveled the score in the second half.
In the 55th minute, Juventus' Carlos Tevez received a ball in the box and wheeled around with a left footed strike. Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen made the initial save, but the rebound trickled straight to the foot of Alvaro Morata, who converted an easy tap-in.
Morata's goal leveled the match at one goal apiece.
Morata, a Spaniard who played for Real Madrid until this season, also tallied the winning goal against his former club in the Champions League semifinal.
Barcelona is trying to win its first Champions League title since 2010-11, while Juventus is looking for its first European championship since 1995-96.
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By Alma-Sue Haduick
A.The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) plays a large role in global food safety, and the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rule is something every U.S. importer needs to be aware of, since compliance to FSVP begins May 2017. Let's review how to help your suppliers be ready.
The rule was created for two protective reasons: to prevent potentially adulterated food from being exported to the U.S., and to ensure imported food is produced under the same food safety requirements as domestic products.
Two players in this program are domestic importers of food product to the U.S. and foreign suppliers (the establishment which manufactures/processes food, raises animals [including fish], or harvests food exported to the U.S. without further manufacturing/processing by another establishment). Both have active roles in the FSVP and responsibilities and requirements to ensure proper food safety.
The importer is responsible for verifying that the food produced by the foreign supplier was manufactured, raised, or harvested in accordance with relevant sections of the FD&C Act, depending on the type of food being imported. The importer will be held responsible by FDA for the food safety of all imported food products, including food-contact substances.
What is needed to demonstrate that FSVP requirements are being met? For the most part, the importer's responsibilities are the same as those of a U.S. manufacturer who sources raw materials and ingredients locally.
To help meet FSVP compliance, the importer needs to:
- Develop a written hazard analysis for each type of food being imported to determine whether there are any hazards requiring a control.
- Determine the foreign supplier's compliance history with food safety regulations, to include those of country of origin, other "ship to" countries, and FDA. The compliance history should include results, corrective actions, and verification of those actions.
- Assess the applicability of other food safety factors such as storage and transportation practices.
- Approve or disapprove the supplier based on the verified activities.
The importer also will have to develop, implement, manage, and document certain verification activities designed to meet the requirements of the rule. These include:
- Use of foreign suppliers. Establish a plan and follow written procedures to ensure foods are being imported only from foreign suppliers.
- Foreign supplier verification procedures. Establish and follow written procedures for ensuring that appropriate foreign supplier verification activities are conducted in respect to the imported foods.
- Supplier verification. The FSVP activities must show that the hazards requiring a control in the imported food have been minimized or prevented.
- Frequency of verification activities. The verification activities must be carried out within appropriate timeframes to ensure timely evaluation of control measures, and effective corrections and corrective actions.
- Appropriate verification activities. Some examples of appropriate activities include, but are not limited to: initial and ongoing on-site audits, initial and annual on-site audits for identified hazards needing a preventive control which can cause serious adverse health effects or death in humans and animals (SAHCODHA), sampling and testing of the food product, review of the foreign supplier's relevant food safety records, and other supplier verification activities that are appropriate based on foreign supplier performance and the risk associated with the food, such as storage and transportation activities essential for food safety or temporal/seasonal changes that might affect food safety.
Auditing is a mandatory requirement for this program. The FSVP rule requires that the program is audited by qualified individuals. The importer can use external qualified individuals to undertake the product hazard analysis and supplier evaluation, and develop and implement the verification activities to assure compliance. However, the importer must document the review of external evaluations and verification activities, assess their conclusions, approve/disapprove, and sign off.
Finally, the FSVP has to be re-evaluated every three years or when failures occur that would affect the safety of the imported product, such as doubt of the effectiveness of a preventive control, the food safety performance of the foreign supplier, or importer awareness of information that might affect the safety of the product.
Alma-Sue Haduick is Director, Quality Assurance, AIB International


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I get a lot of pleasure out of coming up with new ways to roast chickens. I tend to do this with out a lot of thought to recipes and just do it all by feel, and haven't had a terrible experiment yet. So I'm usually pretty confident when I do that.
Last Sunday night I stuffed rosemary leaves under the skin of a 4 pound chicken, rubbed it down with salt and olive oil and then stuffed half an orange inside the cavity and squeezed the other half on top of it.
I then added in some Shipyard Pumpkin Beer (which isn't too pumpkin spicy and mostly just pumpkin) for added moisture. And I cooked it for about 2 hours at 375F. I also took the jus of the orange, olive oil and beer and reduced it for a really lovely sauce.
I did not put points together for this as I was making it, because I'm stupid.
But to guess, it's roughly 3 points for a 3 oz serving of chicken and I used about 6 fl oz of beer which is 3 points, the fresh orange were zero, the olive oil used was about 2 tbsp for 6 points, the one sprig of rosemary was also zero points. I estimate that with the jus from the pan (I took off a lot of the oil that was on top in the pan) one serving of the chicken it was equal to about 7 or 8 WW points.
And damn it turned out well. I was so pleased with how that chicken came out.
I served it with fresh pasta and vodka sauce, roasted onions and peppers and a big salad. Those sides all in were roughly 11 points. So it was a pretty hefty dinner but so, so good.
I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it because my father is pretty against the taking of pictures of ones food, so yeah…
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Can A Job Transform One's life?
Can a job posting transform one's life? I wouldn't have believed it, but almost to the day I went to Papua New Guinea to work - my life was altered forever. Ever since I was posted to work in Buluma, a small coastal village which lies in between the Hoskin Airport and Kimbe, the capital of West New Britain Province,it had definitely changed my perspective of looking at things. Almost before I unpacked my bags in Buluma, I had more insect-bites than I ever had since the mandatory army training days in Singapore. Within a year, I could no longer even remember life before Buluma. For me, my initial two years working contract eventuated into twenty four years of residency in Papua New Guinea.The experience opened my eyes, my ears and my sensibilities to the ritual of an expatriate working in Papua New Guinea, but most important of all, the simpler daily life of a villager I came to know. Before, I had only read about this life , and finally I was a witness, participant; and was making it happen. From the beginning, Buluma is a place where I could not be alone. Each weekend, the company mess was filled to overflowing. At the table, there were always occupied fifteen or even twenty people. The guests list often included the local school teacher, missionary lay preacher, expatriates, volunteers from various countries, workers and villagers for long festive meals. Subsequently, many of the the guests would adjourned to my veranda for another round of drinks for the road. Before long, I could not go to Kimbe to replenish my pantry or collecting mails in the postal box at the post office without the errant turning into a social events.
In West New Britain province, I was struck by the timeless rhythms of daily life of the villagers. The menfolks rise before daybreak to head out to the reefs and lagoons.Women tend gardens, raise children and prepare meals of fresh fish and kaukau (sweet potato), singapore (yam) and tapiok (cassava) plantains (banana). Children help with family chores, scrubbing dirty clothes in the fresh water creek and cleaning fish hauled in by their fathers. This subsistence lifestyle, as well as physical and geographical isolation has help to reinforce an enduring way of life for many generations. Unfortunately, not for long.
Since the late 70s, however there has been an accelerated migration from the villages to the cities. Shift towards a wage economy, according to many village elders "we are not as self sufficient as we used to be" they lamented. Many people, especially the young ones have moved to the cities like Lae and Port Moresby, the national capital city, in search of jobs and wages. Like an old friend of mine said, "seduced by the bright lights of the cities just like insects attracted to the kerosene hurricane lamps at night in their village, to meet their untimely death. Yes, the salt spray and sea's simple gifts can't stem entirely the desire for material goods that sends many villagers to the cities in search for jobs.
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Plenti cristmas i go pinis, time bilong yu na mi i stap long Buluma.ReplyDelete
I tink men na meri live long Buluma change pinis, also spiritual, custom, life blong village.
Hem i samesame long countri(Inaka) bilong olgeta world.
Tasol memori bilong PNG influence mind long yu na mi, hem i bikpela tru.
Hi YK,ReplyDelete
Hemi tru mani Krismas igo pinis. Tasol tingting bilong bipo hemi stap long leva b'long yumi. Mi no ken lusim tingting taim yumi stap long Buluma. Ologeta Sunday yumi wantaim ol proman b'long yumi stap long nabis na kukim kaikai na singsing. Hemi hamasmas b'long yumi. Yumi no save ologeta proman b'long stap gut ol nogut nau? Tenyu tru igo long Bro b'long mi olsem long sharim dispela taim wantem mi. Mi likim alogeta wantok b'long yumi stap gut yet long Buluma.
uncle philReplyDelete
thanks for visiting my blog - lily's wai sek hong. i too am like you, trying to test out recipes of yesteryears.
i have my comments come to me through my email and from there i will know which post the comment is from. I used to have trouble like you but this problem has been solved.
Hi Uncle Phil,ReplyDelete
I found you through Lily's blog.
Thanks for sharing your experience in Papau New Guinea.
In general, I think people tend to take things for granted and wish for more money and power. It is only through experiences of others (like yours in this instance) that we are reminded to look at life in a different angle.
Simple is beautiful.
Hi Blessed Homemaker,ReplyDelete
How lucky can your loved ones be! Please continue your good work and be blessed with the thought that you are an envy to many young mums back home. "You are a legend" that what an Aussie will say. Meaning you are a champion!
Hi Lily,ReplyDelete
Terima kasih, sama sama. The pleasure is mine.
Please keep up your good job of sharing your family recipes and showing us how to cook all those food we took for granted in our childhood. Many of us are now living abroad as students, expariates or starting out as migrants in our new countries look into your blog to enjoy some of our edible memories there :)


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Cal Poly women's basketball advances to Big West Tournament final
ANAHEIM - Molly Schlemer scored a game-high 26 points, taking over in the second half, as the Cal Poly women's basketball team topped rival UC Santa Barbara 62-43 in the semifinals of the Big West Tournament.
Almost mirroring the Mustangs men's team's quarterfinal game from Thursday, Cal Poly turned a slight four-point halftime lead into a runaway victory Friday at Honda Center.
Also finishing with nine rebounds, Schlemer had just six points at the break as Cal Poly led 22-19 while struggling to its season-low first-half point total. The Mustangs opened the game 0 for 8 from the field during a 6-minute scoreless stretch to start the game.


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Vintage 1935 Coed Two-Piece Knit Dress #179
Clarks ONT Knitting & Crochet Cotton, 10 balls [For Blouse only, 4 balls].
Set of 6 double-pointed bone knitting needles 2 ½ mm size [or circular knitting needles 2 ½ mm size for skirt & set of 6 double-pointed bone needles 3 ½ mm size.
#5 Steel Crochet Hook
9 sts = 1 in;
12 rows = 1 in.
7 sts = 1 in,
9 rows = 1 in.
Beginning at bottom, cast on 376 sts on 6 needles 2 ½ mm [or on circular needle].
Work 3 ins in garter st [ k 1 rnd, p 1 rnd].
On next k-rnd, * k 92, p 2, repeat from * 3 more times.
These p sts give the appearance of a pleat that is continued to the top of skirt.
Repeat this rnd until there are 24 rnds of stockinette.
25th rnd: * P 91, p 2 together, p 2 together, repeat from * around.
26th rnd: * K 90, p 2, repeat from * around.
27th rnd: P around.
Work 24 rnds same as 26th rnd, then work a p-rnd, decreasing 2 sts on each of the 4 pleats as on 25th rnd.
Next rnd: * K 88, p 2, repeat from * around.
P next row.
** Continue making 24 rnds in stockinette, then a p-rnd with 2 decreases at each pleat, then 1 k-rnd, then a p-rnd. Repeat from ** until 5 ridges in all have been made.
From here on, work in stockinette, making the 2 decreases at each pleat [8 decreases] every 25th rnd for 8 times.
Work straight for 10 rnds.
Make decreases next rnd, work straight 8 rnds, decrease next rnd, * work straight 4 rnds, decrease next rnd, repeat from * 5 more times. Bind off, but do not break thread.
With crochet hook make beading as follows: sc in next st, ch 5, 1 sl st on wrong side of skirt in 6th rnd from top and 3 sts to the left of sc on edge of skirt, * ch 5, 1 sl st on edge in 6th st from last sc on edge, ch 5, 1 sl st in 6th rnd from top and 3 sts to left of last sc on edge.
Repeat from * around.
Fasten off and run elastic through beading.
Beginning at neck, cast on 124 sts on 4 needles 2 ½ mm size.
Work rnds of ribbing of k 2, p 2 for 1 1/8 ins.
Change to 3 ½ mm size needles, with 41 sts on 1st needle, 21 on 2nd, 41 on 3rd, and 21 on 4th.
1st rnd: P around, casting on 1 st at beginning and at end of each needle [8 sts increased].
The increases form lines that give the effect of raglan sleeves.
2nd rnd: K around.
3rd rnd: Work same as 1st rnd, this and subsequent odd rnds until there are 107 sts in each larger section and 87 sts in each smaller section.
Even rnds are worked same as 2nd rnd.
From here on, work back and forth along one 107-st section as follows: * work in stockinette for 15 rows, then make a ridge [2 purl rows], repeat from * 3 more times, work 15 rows stockinette, on the last row making 5 decreases [to decrease work 2 sts together].
Change to 2 ½ mm size needles and work ribbing of k 2, p 2, for 45 rows. Bind off.
Work other 107-st section the same way.
Work back and forth on one 87-st section in stockinette, decreasing 1 st at end of every 5th row until 62 sts remain.
Change to 2 ½ mm size needles and work ribbing of k 2, p 2, for 45 rows. Bind off.
Make other sleeve and sew up seams.
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Vauxhall has given some attention to its fourth-generation Vauxhall Corsa supermini line-up, refining the engine range down to variants of an improved version of its 1.4-litre petrol engine and enhancing the value proposition on offer. If you want a sharp deal on a car in this class, you'll get it on this one, but there are also other reasons why a Corsa might suit.
The revised Corsa range is built entirely around versions of its improved Euro 6.2-compliant 1.4-litre petrol engine - so no diesels, 1.0, 1.2 or 1.6-litre units any more. There is though, the choice of either 5 or 6-speed manual gearboxes or an automatic. You can have the 1.4-litre powerplant in normally aspirated form with either 75 or 90PS - or with a turbo with either 100PS or (in the top GSi) with 150PS. The Corsa has always been a pretty entertaining steer and it's helped in this regard by a low centre of gravity, a stiff front sub-frame and sharp suspension geometry. This features special front knuckles, plus carefully chosen spring rates and dampers to reduce the pitching movement you'd normally get at the front during sharp braking manoeuvres. Following the current trend, the steering system is electrically-powered and is speed-sensitive with a UK-specific tune to cater for our roads. That's not enough to enable this car to offer the kind of precise feedback you'd get in, say, a Ford Fiesta. But as standard with this set-up, you do get something which most owners will probably find a lot more useful, namely a clever 'City' mode that makes low speed manoeuvring and parking far simpler.
On to design. This fourth generation Corsa was essentially a re-skin of the previous third generation version, but it still looks quite fresh, especially when dressed up in the manner that most variants now tend to be. At the front, 'eagle eye'-shaped headlamps incorporate Vauxhall's signature 'wing'-style LED daytime running lights. Between them is a low, sporty trapezoidal grille with a chrome bar for the Griffin badge that sits above front foglamps embedded in chrome-trimmed air inlets that are intended to make the car look wider, lower and more purposeful. Which is certainly the profile demeanour of the three-door version, always supposed to be the sportier of the two Corsa bodystyles. That's further emphasised by an upper windowline that drops to the rear in an effort to make the car look coupe-like. On the slightly more conservative-looking five-door version, the beltline extends upwards, creating a more dynamic connection with the roof spoiler. Drop inside and you'll find an instrument panel themed around horizontal lines and featuring in most models a 7-inch Intellilink infotainment colour touchscreen that dominates the centre of the dash and is smartly mounted in a high-gloss surround. In the back, this Corsa is much as it always was, remaining one of the more spacious superminis you can buy with plenty of room for two fully-grown adults - or three children - in this five-door model. Inevitably the three door bodyshape is a little more claustrophobic. Out back, there's a 285-litre boot.
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Report: Monster wants extension to decide on picking up Cup Series option
Monster Energy apparently wants to take some more time to decide if it wants to continue being the sponsor of the Cup Series.
According to Sports Business Journal, the company has asked for an extension from NASCAR regarding its two-year option. Monster is currently in the first year of a two-year deal to sponsor the Cup Series. The deal has a two-year option and Monster was set to make a decision on that option by December.
The news of the reported extension request comes as NASCAR got thrust into the middle of President Donald Trump's anthem debate thanks to comments by Richard Childress and Richard Petty.
The news also comes as television ratings for the first two races of the playoffs have cratered. Per Sports Media Watch, the races at Chicago and New Hampshire could potentially be the lowest-rated races dating back to 2000.
A 1.3 would be second-lowest NASCAR rating at any track since at least 2000 — and mean that last 3 races have been lowest rated since '00. https://t.co/o9bIbDh4Io
— Sports Media Watch (@paulsen_smw) September 25, 2017
Monster is reportedly only paying $20 million in rights fees to NASCAR for the Cup Series sponsorship, a drastic decrease from what Sprint had been paying to be NASCAR's top sponsor.
We wrote less than two weeks ago that NASCAR's main goal for the 2017 playoffs should simply be to stay out of its own way. With spoiler-altering allegations at Chicago, insipid anthem protest threats and now news that Monster wants to be more deliberate with its decision to keep sponsoring the Cup Series, the premise of our column has already been trashed and left in tatters on the floor.
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'As many holes as a Swiss cheese': the UK tax system loses money abroad
The week has not started well for George Osborne. As well as being hauled before the Leveson Inquiry today, a series of stories over the weekend have revealed the UK tax system hemorrhaging money abroad.
Investigations by The Sunday Times, and German TV programme Frontal 21 have revealed, once again, the allure of using opaque tax jurisdictions to circumvent domestic tax duties.
Calling abroad
Vodafone has made the news again this week as a Sunday Times investigation revealed the mobile phone company did not pay a single penny in corporation tax in Britain last year.
Despite generating several hundred million pounds from British customers the phone company has avoided paying any corporation tax to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Tax was avoided through the employment of a series of legal accounting manoeuvres involving a network of companies domiciled in opaque tax jurisdictions.
In March an undercover sting by the Bureau and Private Eye revealed that Vodafone's office in Switzerland appears to be little more than a shell, indicating their main purpose is tax avoidance.
Read the Bureau's Vodafone sting here.
The Sunday Times investigation, meanwhile, focuses on Vodafone subsidiaries in Luxembourg. Loans made by the Luxembourg branch to the UK are paid back with interest, allowing the UK business to funnel profits to Luxembourg, where it can enjoy a lower rate of tax if it negotiates with the tax-man.
Vodafone has previously faced criticism for a supposed 'sweetheart deal' with HMRC. The arrangement allowed it to pay £1.25bn, rather than £2.2bn in tax following the acquisition of Mannesmann, a German telecoms company in 2000.
The company responded to the Sunday Times investigation saying that Britain accounts for less than 4% of its total profits. Vodafone also assert that it paid approximately £700m to HMRC in payroll and other taxes last year and that tax credit generated in Luxembourg has 'no bearing on UK taxation.'
Deal or no deal?
The expose of Vodafone's tax affairs comes at a crucial moment in HMRC's dealings with international tax affairs. A landmark agreement is currently being drawn up with Swiss authorities to attempt to manage the movement of UK money abroad.
The HMRC's permanent secretary for tax Dave Hartnett has suggested that the deal with Switzerland will raise between £4bn – £7bn.
However the efficacy of the agreement has been thrown into doubt following an undercover investigation of an almost identical agreement between Switzerland and Germany.
Reporters from German show Frontal 21 posed as investors looking to invest $4m in Swiss companies, specifically looking for ways that by-passed the German-Swiss tax deal.
One of the methods that the reporters discovered was that by creating a Swiss GmbH, a legal entity, rather than a company, they could by-pass the agreement, which specifies only 'pure holding companies'.
These technical tricks of the trade and loopholes led tax expert, Thomas Koblenzer to describe the German-Swiss deal as having 'as many holes as a Swiss cheese.'
Now campaigners are suggesting that the same weaknesses in the UK-Swiss agreement could result in the UK losing tax revenue.
The Tax Justice Network (TJN) has identified over 10 loopholes which could allow UK companies to escape the new rules. The organisation has called the government's plans a 'major over-estimation which misleads the British public'.
In a statement on the TJN's blog Nicholas Shaxson, author of 'Treasure Islands – tax havens and the men who stole the world', states, 'There is a very strong likelihood that this deal which guarantees tax haven secrecy, will spread like a cancer through the global financial system. This is because many countries are now considering similar agreements. They are either tax havens that want to copy Switzerland, or victims of tax evasion that want to copy the UK.'
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(38:49) Eve Lederman is the author of the book "Letters from My Sister: On Love, Life and Hair removal" available on Amazon.com and New York City Barnes & Noble locations. Lederman describes the book she wrote with her sister like this: "Letters From My Sister is a memoir of our lives in progress comprising a collection of correspondence. Our offbeat adventures run the gamut from men to careers to hair removal, and we blame all our frustrations and fears on our Jewish mother who used to buy an entire tongue pickled from the butcher. She'd plop the whole organ down on the table like an autopsy. We were traumatized by that tongue."
Michael Molyneux, staff editor of the City section of the The New York Times said "The Lederman sisters serve up a warm slice of life on the edge, with an edge. A thoroughly enjoyable tale of urban escapades." Matthew Cooper, White House correspondent for Time Magazine called the book "A racy conversation worth wiretapping, and an uproarious celebration of free speech." And Wayne Fisk, Director of Programming for ABC Broadcasting called it "An entertaining and tantalizing literary lap dance."
Mentioned in this Episode
--Letters From My Sister on Amazon
--More Lederman readings at The Moth
--A Good Uplift (the bra documentary)
--The Moth
--Shag: the website
--Shag's Zodiac: Offbeat Adventures in Astrology
--Shag's Little Book of Love: Dating, Mating and Mischief Making
--Pink Panther Cockatil Party
--Orchard Corset
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Episode 20: NYC Author Eve Lederman
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Labels: a good uplift, eve lederman, letters from my sister, shag, the moth
2 comments:
- ryanprice said...
Mark, this was the best episode of Orlando Arts Podcast ever! It must take a lot of work to do - if you were getting paid for it I would think it was worth the effort. You should apply for a UA grant (or whatever to produce these, or something.
- ryanprice said...
Also, where do I get an embed code so I can share this with people?
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Getting back to some basic common sense values for life, politics and justice. Encouraging honesty, integrity and accountability within all levels of Government, along with the transparency of the processes used to reach the decisions made.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
So This is Democracy?
The recent Edmonton elections were indeed a democratic process. Approximately 1 out of 3 people choose to exercise their democratic right to vote and I wonder why the other two thirds of residents choose not to. Where they confused with the issues? Did they care about the issues? Perhaps the better question is were they informed about the issues in an unbiased manner, or from balanced reporting?
Edmonton's print news media folks were certainly very vocal on things for several months leading up to the election, of that there is no question. I am not sure how honourable they were, in hindsight. The Edmonton Journal would place articles done by columnists on the front page of a section of the newspaper, giving the appearance of the item being a news story and not being clear they were opinion comments and not actual news. The Edmonton Sun and The Examiner also created articles or editorials that never provided the full facts on issues.
Edmontonians were also subject to the influence of campaigns run by Envision Edmonton and Share The Facts. Perhaps more importantly, in amongst all of this, were the things the people of Edmonton were not told. I am not going to bother with diving into accusations over the Mayor and Council race, but I will bring up one point for people to ponder on...
As I have stated before, I am just starting to finally pull my head out of the sand when it comes to civic, provincial and federal politics. Better late than never I guess. With that said, I really wonder where the voices of the School Boards were in this campaign. The reason why I say this is simple. From the school board aspect, I live in the Ward B area. The incumbent for EPSB was Ken Shipka. According to the ARTES (Association for Responsive Trusteeship in Edmonton Schools) report card, Mr. Shipka was the worst possible choice. Talking with many who know a lot more about the Trustee side of things than I do, they are also of the same belief.
According to the election results, Mr. Shipka received a total of 5,013 votes. The ARTES report card also lists the best choice as being Darryl Lagerquist. Darryl received only 801... the lowest number of votes. I am deeply saddened, and if past performance is any indication, then EPSB has another rubber stamp added to it's collection.
I wonder how people are supposed to make informed decisions, if the information provided in the media is continuously biased and/or one sided... or if the School Boards don't tell you about what is going on with the people who were previously voted in?
Democracy can only be true, if you have TRUE facts to base decisions on.
In my humble opinion, the residents of Edmonton were let down in knowing the truth.
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Hi Gary,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the thought-provoking post. There was a lot going on in this election in terms of new/social media vs. traditional. My take is that old sources of information like TV and newspapers are not doing the job - did you try to watch any election results on TV? I tried, but quickly switched on my laptop. Print seems at times easily led by groups like Envision Edmonton who claim the airport issue is dividing the city (even though nobody, and I mean not a single person I know, is passionate about ECCA staying open). And then there is the Nenshi effect of how one underdog can win with ideas and new technology.
I am involved with ARTES and I think ward B was a glaring exception to what was going on with the school board elections. For example, the ward G voter turnout was up over 35% from 2007, and they decisively removed a non-responsive incumbent and instead voted for someone who promises to listen. Several progressives were voted in as trustees across the city. And remember, until this year hardly anyone gave trustee candidates the time of day, so that fact that people were talking about school issues during the campaign is great progress.
So, while find the "truth" may be harder to do between the stereo and used car ads in the paper, or after "Dancing with the Stars", new media, social or otherwise, are filling in the gaps. Almost all of the useful information I found for this election was from websites, blogs and twitter. Maybe we should stop being so passive about how we get our information and go find it. I guarantee you somebody somewhere will have posted a blog on it.
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM
There were many more school board voters but were they informed is a good question. Who on the School Board do you propose would "tell about the people who were voted in"? Fellow trustees? Administration? Or should the public do their reseatch through minutes or maybe even attend a meeting? Laura Shutiak who marginally lost against Pat Cochrane Calgary Board Chair says the result may be from voters who turned up en masse for the municipal side and while they were at the polls cast a school board vote in ignorance. Are results based on familiarity of names?ReplyDelete
Nick says progressives were voted in.Is it the same parents who send their children to alternate schools of choice who then voted for the candidates who ran on a platform of community schools or the community who has other concerns? What will the new trustees place as a priorities if, after their first few meetings, they succeed in a moratorium on school closures. How do they propose to balance the books or will they force students to attend community schools versus ones of choice? EPSB is known around the world for responding to student and parental wishes with their programs and now are they going to focus on programming for children or community real estate values?
Thanks for the comments from both Nick and Anonymous. This is the first Edmonton election that I can remember, where the bias of several of the printed news media was "ugly". The general impression I got was they seemed to be very afraid of biting the hand that feeds them. There is no question that times are tough for all forms of media. The news papers and television stations are in a very real battle for life. We can not depend on "the internet" to give us everything we need. Sure, blogs are nice... but they are no different than what columnists are doing in the papers. Finding someone you can trust to offer the truth, well... And of course, I am no exception to that either.ReplyDelete
The Ward B public forum was my first "in depth" attempt to getting involved in the trustee issues. I can thank the people in social media for bringing many of those issues to life. Issues I was never aware of before. From a voters aspect, in the past, I've been very indifferent to who I've voted for, trustee wise. Oh, that's the incumbent? Oh.. ok.. *tick*.
The results of the Ward B vote were a clear indication to me that the majority of people in the ward also did exactly what I used to do.
We can't force people to attend meetings or get involved. What we must do, is offer a way to get the truth out... a way that explains both sides (positive and negative) on the issues of the time. I saw huge signs for Shipka and many large signs for Amanda (who came in second for vote counts). When I attended the public forum, there were literally hundreds of parents and children that were in the parking lot. All dealing with Girl Guides stuff. Inside the forum, there was maybe 20 people. Only Darryl and Amanda were there to talk. Amanda made it clear her priority was "bullying", and went into little details on anything else. Darryl spent time with all of the issues. My choice was made that night, and later confirmed by the report card from ARTES.
A few nights back, the Canadian Walk of Fame event was broadcast on TV. Farley Mowat was one of the people added, and he made a comment about one of his statements many years ago. "Never let the facts stand in the way of the truth".
This election was full of facts.... and very little truth. We need to fix that.


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