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Recipe from Wayne Settoon of Baton Rouge, La.
Total Time: 15 minutes - 30 minutes
1 pint each strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries or any available
¾ cup sugar (this varies depending on the sweetness of the berries)
1 jigger Grand Marnier Liqueur
1 each angel food cake
1 quart heavy whipping cream
1 cup powdered sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Combine berries, sugar & liqueur in a bowl, mix and set in refrigerator for two days.
2. Place cake in freezer the day before you plan on making this dish.
3. Whip heavy cream to soft peaks, then add sugar & vanilla extract and continue to mix to stiff peaks.
4. Fill a large pastry bag with a decorate tips & whipped cream.
5. Slice cake into 3 equal layers.
6. Separate juice from berries with a sieve.
7. Place juice in a squirt bottle works great.
8. Now you are ready to assemble. Put first layer of cake in bottom of Trivial dish.
9. Fill middle with whipping cream & run a bead around the outer edge of cake at glass.
10. Squirt juice on exposed cake fully then lay berries on the same area.
11. Repeat the steps for the next two layers…save one nice berry to be place onto of middle whipping cream.
12. Let sit for 30 minutes before serving and hopefully it won't last much longer after it is served.
Servings: 12 - 15
Comments: This is a good light dessert for the summer months.
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The Central Connecticut men's basketball team fell to Northeastern by a score of 83-69 on Saturday evening in the Cabot Center. The Blue Devils (0-3) will return to action on Saturday against Rider at Detrick Gym.
Redshirt freshman Khalen Cumberlander scored a career-high 20 points with 14 coming in the second half. Cumberlander was nine-of-15 from the field and two-of-three from behind the arc. His previous career-high entering today's game was five points.
The Huskies (1-2) used quality shooting to take a 39-34 lead into halftime. Northeastern connected on 16-of-30 shots (53.3%) from the floor and six-of-12 (50.0%) from behind the three-point arc.
Northeastern's Demetrius Pollard hit four three pointers in the first five minutes of play to give the Huskies an early 14-6 lead.
CCSU worked its way back into the game behind senior Terrell Allen's eight points. Allen was three-of-three from the field with a pair of three pointers in the period. He also grabbed two boards and blocked two shots in the half.
The Blue Devils were unable to overcome the slow start and trailed the entire game. Northeastern hit the first two baskets of the second half to take a 11 point lead. The Blue Devils were able to close the gap to single digits, but CCSU never got closer than a two possession game.
Senior Matt Hunter pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds and added nine points. He also had four steals.
Allen finished the game with 11 points. Junior Kyle Vinales, the leading scorer for the Blue Devils through the first two games of the season, missed the game with an injury.
The Huskies shot 50.9% from the field and 52.6% from behind the three-point line for the game. CCSU shot 43.1% and 35.3% from beyond the arc.
The Blue Devils were called for 22 personal fouls, which put the Huskies on the free throw line 26 times. Northeastern connected on 17-of-26 free throws. While CCSU was just seven of 10 from the line.
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No, it's not this.
It's not "na nach nachman"
It's not even the Wizards of Oz...
(You'll see, this is totally cool).
Gaza's airport, known as "Dahaniyeh" or "The Yaser Arafat International Airport of Peace" looks rather impressive based on it's webpage.
Truth be told, the airport has seen better days. In it's days of grandeur, the EU pumped millions of Euro into this Palestinian weapons/terrorist/drug smuggling center. Sounds like the sort of airport where security was sort of like this:
(The real clip I wanted to use from "Airplane!" of terrorists running through the metal detector, and then the security guards beat up an old lady who beeps when walking through)...or the "Spinal Tap" airport security clip [hamayvin yavin])
But I digress.
Seriously though, after the Palestinian Authority continued launching terror attacks at Israel, IDF forces "shut down" the airport -- they bombed and bulldozed it back into the stone age.
Seems like some of the IDF D9 bulldozer drivers have a sense of humor (or at least some nationalistic pride).
Here it comes...
Go to Google's web based satellite maps. (maps.google.com or use Google Earth) to the location of Gaza's runway.
The coordinates are: 31.237564, 34.271239 -- you can simply enter them in and zoom in.
(Come on, give it a go...)
If you don't want to bother looking it up on your own, keep reading...
I've saved you the trouble; the exact location is below.
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Do you like the Magen David (Jewish Star) bulldozed into the runway?
Zoom out to see it in relation to everything else.
Cool, eh?
hat-tip: Channel 2 News via rotter.net
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael


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In the wake of the terrible massacre of 20 first-grade kiddies (and 6 adults) by an evil, likely-deranged lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the usual gun-control hyenas are braying.
This time, however, they may succeed in their gun control agenda, at least in getting assault weapons banned.
The Usual Hyenas:
CNN anchor Don Lemon (pic above) went on an anti-gun rant on Monday morning: "We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. They should only be available to police officers and to hunt al-Qaeda and the Taliban and not hunt elementary school children."
In a Twitter exchange on Saturday, MSNBC host Ed Schultz asked "Why should anyone own an assault rifle ?" and proposed a "confiscation of these types of weapons". He also told one poster that "a Glock pistol qualifies as an assault weapon."
On NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg renewed his perennial call for punitive federal gun control laws in the United States by lying that shooting deaths "only happen in America." Not true. There have been shootings in other post-industrial societies, including Oslo, Norway; Winnendon, Germany; Kauhajoki, Finland; Beslan, Russia; Monash University, Australia; Dunblane, Scotland. (For those shootings, go here.)
Chicago mayor and former Obama White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel is calling for a nation-wide ban on assault weapons. When he was Obama's COS, Emanuel famously said that "No crisis should go to waste."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) has pledged to revive a law banning assault weapons at the opening of the next session of Congress in January.
Ominous Signs:
The powerful pro-2nd Amendment National Rifle Association (NRA) shut down their Facebook page and have not had any Twitter activity since the massacre on Friday morning. NRA officials have kept quiet. On Twitter, NRA president David Keene and NRA members have received death threats — calls for them to be shot. The irony of anti-gun people issuing death threats appears to be lost on everyone.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who has been a strong supporter of 2nd Amendment rights with an A rating from the NRA — is signaling he's changing his mind. On Monday outside the Virginia Capitol, Warner said: "I've been a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights. I've got an A rating from the NRA. But the status quo isn't acceptable. I've got three daughters. They asked me on Friday evening, 'Dad, what are you gonna do about this?' There's got to be a way to put reasonable restrictions, particularly as we look at assault weapons, as we look at these fast clips of ammunition."
Obama's Hypocrisy
Gun rights advocates believe Obama will now focus on making gun control a top issue; one said, "It's in his DNA to push this issue. This would be his crowning achievement, if he can ban guns."
What is noteworthy is that, despite Obama's decrying of gun violence, since he has been president, prosecutions for breaking gun laws have diminished sharply — a drop of 40% since the zenith reached under George W. Bush, which was 11,000.
Meanwhile, the American people are responding with an upsurge of gun purchases, even more than the marked increases in gun buying since Obama first occupied the White House.
In Colorado, for example, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation received 4,154 requests for background checks from potential gun buyers on Saturday, the day after the Connecticut shooting. That was so many the CBI couldn't process them all and the backlog grew to nearly 18 hours. Extra staff was brought in over the weekend and workers are still trying to clear the backlog.


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So much for loyalty, France.
French mag and couture Bible Elle magazine honored Yank Michelle Obama with first place in the category of "political chic" women in its annual Best Dressed list released this week, proclaiming Obama is more stylish than her French counterpart Carla Bruni.
Obama bested Bruni, who came in second on the list, her second time around with the silver medal: last year, the French first lady and wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy lost to Asma Assad, the Syrian president's wife.
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Obama and Bruni have been compared in the media for their twin fashion senses and political sensibilities -- both are expanding the role of first lady in their respective nations and both are considered style icons.
Fashion critics have praised Obama for her mixes of high and low-cost clothing choices as well as her bold statements -- including the infamous sleeveless top that had some questioning her right to bare arms. The first lady notoriously chose a simple black-and-white off the rack dress during her husband's presidential campaign that had women everywhere rushing to pick up a copy of their own from the local mall.
Other winners in French Elle's annual Best Dressed list were Tilda Swinton, who picked up honors in the "Stylista" category, "Bombshell" winner Scarlett Johansson, and "Red Carpet" champion Penelope Cruz.


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Brought to mind by Sunday's poem (Poem #938)...
(Poem #940) The Palace
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for a Palace such as a King should build. I decreed and dug down to my levels. Presently, under the silt, I came on the wreck of a Palace such as a King had built. There was no worth in the fashion -- there was no wit in the plan -- Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran -- Masonry, brute, mishandled, but carven on every stone: "After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known." Swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew, I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew. Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it, slacked it, and spread; Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead. Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet, as we wrenched them apart, I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder's heart. As he had risen and pleaded, so did I understand The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned. * * * * * When I was a King and a Mason -- in the open noon of my pride, They sent me a Word from the Darkness. They whispered and called me aside. They said -- "The end is forbidden." They said -- "Thy use is fulfilled. "Thy Palace shall stand as that other's -- the spoil of a King who shall build." I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers. All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years. Only I cut on the timber -- only I carved on the stone: "After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known!"
(1902) Notes: quoin: An external angle of a wall or building; also, one of the stones or bricks serving to form the angle; a corner-stone ashlar: A square hewn stone for building purposes or for pavement sheer: The fore-and-aft upward curvature or rise of the deck or bulwarks of a vessel [Anything more appropriate? That's all I could get out of the OED - m.] Man's relationship with Time has ever been an uneasy one, and all the more so for its essentially one-sided nature - time sweeps on heedless of man or his works, of whether he "goes gentle into that good night" or "rage[s] against the dying of the light". And with Time come its attendant evils - entropy, decay, and, of course, Death, making the vain bid for immortality one of the most poignant of human impulses. (On the other hand, it is the same impulse that gave us the pyramids and Shakespeare's sonnets, so perhaps 'vain' is not quite accurate). Today's poem is an interesting look at that relationship. The king's tone is a curious mixture of pride, cool efficiency, and a genuine sympathy for the dream of the deceased builder, and his reaction to the "Word From the Darkness" is wonderfully philosophical, particularly for a king in the "open noon of his pride". Gratifyingly if not unexpectedly, Kipling's verse proves equal to the (somewhat weighty) subject. The language is consistent and nicely balanced, and there are several lines that made me shiver (still, despite all I have learnt of criticism, one of my primary criteria in deeming a poem 'good'). One phrase seems slightly out of place ("I cleared me ground for a palace"), but that's most likely due to a minor difference in dialect. Links: Kipling Biography: See Poem #17 Other Kipling poems on Minstrels: [broken link] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet_4.html -martin


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Inmates at the Dallas County jail have a chance to take part in a digital printing program made possible through a partnership with El Centro College.
The Dallas Sheriff's Department print shop, located inside the jail's North Tower, offers an in-house printing option for Dallas County employees to order anything from business cards to brochures, as well as other items such as decals and magnets.
This vocational program is at no cost to tax payers. Sheriff Marian Brown and the Dallas Sheriff's Department are committed to helping train a future workforce.
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Lighthouse also provides outreach to schools and other community organizations. As a training agency, Lighthouse offers education and clinical supervision to help prepare graduate students, counselors seeking licensure, and other helping professionals to better serve our community.
Lighthouse Weather Policy
Lighthouse follows Baltimore County Policy for weather related delays and closings. In the event of a delay, Lighthouse will open at 11:00AM. When schools are closed, Lighthouse is closed for the day.


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We introduce a new way of quantifying the degrees of incompatibility of two observables in a probabilistic physical theory and, based on this, a global measure of the degree of incompatibility inherent in such theories. This opens up a flexible way of comparing probabilistic theories with respect to the nonclassical feature of incompatibility. We show that quantum theory contains observables that are as incompatible as any probabilistic physical theory can have. In particular, we prove that two of the most common pairs of complementary observables (position and momentum; number and phase) are maximally incompatible. However, if one adopts a more refined measure of the degree of incompatibility, for instance, by restricting the comparison to binary observables, it turns out that there are probabilistic theories whose inherent degree of incompatibility is greater than that of quantum theory. Finally, we analyze the noise tolerance of the incompatibility of a pair of observables in a CHSH-Bell experiment.


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Because of our location, High Point University is in the unique position to offer many experiential opportunities to our students. Located in one of the largest metropolitan areas in North Carolina, High Point University has direct ties with the community and many businesses in the surrounding area. Students also have the chance to participate in activities associated with the High Point Furniture Market, the premier furniture and design exhibition in the world, which is held twice each year during the fall and spring semesters. Many top industry professionals speak to HPU students at program sponsored events regarding marketplace trends and workplace expectations, giving our students unique access to some of the best minds in the field. Board members and other industry experts also serve as guest speakers in the classroom.
There are many opportunities for our students to enjoy challenging learning experiences that will last a lifetime, including participation in internships, interacting with professionals and working on competitive projects with other students. Graduates are prepared to enter the job market after graduation because, regardless of which major they choose, they are exposed to a variety of courses and experiences that will enhance their overall marketability to employers. As a result, they have flexibility in the workplace and are perfect candidates for promotions and lateral moves.


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Hans Gebhard has, like many, been around cars since he was a youngster. His dad repaired cars on the side when he was growing up and showed him the ins and outs of repair and modification throughout his formative years. While Hans worked the majority of his life repairing heavy equipment and doing cars on the side, around eight years ago he finally made it official, forming Fine Line Restoration.
Around that same time is when he started building the black and orange '66 Nova you see here.
"At the time I had no money," said Hans. "But as the years went by I was able to add various items, like the TCI front clip and the rear seats."
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before Hans could even get in the position to upgrade the chassis, he had to actually acquire the car. Which almost didn't happen.
"I always wanted a '66 but they were just too expensive," he said. "One day, the day after Thanksgiving in fact, I was flipping through the Denver Post and came across what seemed to be a pretty good bargain."
Hans got the seller to email him some pictures and although the car was torn apart and didn't run, it looked to be in good shape. And at $2,000, was a steal.
"I called the guy back—he lived like four hours up in the mountains somewhere, and he said that somebody was on his way up to get it," Hans said.
The race was on. Hans, with the assistance of his uncle, hitched up his trailer and headed up towards Walsenburg, Colorado. En route they ran into one of the Rocky Mountain's famous early season snowstorms. At one point the trailer jackknifed, nearly hurtling them off of a 1,000-foot cliff. Not wanting to relinquish the "miracle find" they soldiered on.
"When we got there, the seller told us that the other guy had already showed up," Hans said. The stoic Viking's fortitude nearly turned to tearful regret until the seller, a younger guy who may have just tired of the project, continued: "He showed up here without a trailer and left," he said.
As luck would have it, Walsenburg is a one-horse town, so the guy's plan to rent a trailer didn't exactly pan out. Hans came prepared with his 20-footer. "It really was a miracle find," he said. "Each and every piece was hanging on the wall blasted to bare metal. It wasn't running, so we had to push it on the trailer."
Once he got the car back to his garage in Brighton, Colorado, Hans messed with the electrical elements here and there and got the car running.
"Then I took it for a drive and realized the tranny was slipping," said Hans. "So the first thing I did was to install the '86 700-R4."
One has to imagine the neighbors' reaction as Hans putted down the street in an old Chevy with no glass or panels, but that state of affairs would only last until he put the panels on, got them lined up with a bit of metalwork, then took it apart again for paint.
"I actually painted it twice," Hans said. "I always had this picture of a Chevy truck with flames, and I always wanted to paint my dream car that way. But when I finished it was really ugly, so I resprayed it."
The current two-tone consists of House of Kolor Sunset Pearl up top, and black from the same company down below, while the scheme is broken up with a "Fine Line" of Orion silver fading to violet pearl. Finishing exterior touches include the chromed bumpers and two-inch cowl hood. The dazzling paint job may be the highlight of this medium-dollar build, but that doesn't mean Hans forgot about the rest of the car.
The motor is the same '70 383 stroker that came with the car, but with a few additions. On the intake side there is a Quadrajet carburetor, an Edelbrock manifold, and a K&N 6.5-inch air filter. Hans also added an AFE aluminum radiator with two one-inch cores. He also raised the alternator a few inches with custom brackets found online. He estimates the horsepower at around 370, and the sound from the Hooker Headers leading to the 3.5-inch custom exhaust through the Flowmaster mufflers has a fitting growl for that kind of power.
Albatross Upholstery came through in the one area of car building that Hans doesn't do. It did the rear seat, while the fronts hail from Corbeau. After Hans got the door panels and carpet in from Classic Industries, he drove it around for a few years. Then as his company started to take off, he went all out for the TCI front clip and a few other upgrades, like the three-inch driveshaft.
"I had no money when I started the build," said Hans, "so while the suspension utilizes Air Ride components like the tank and lines, the front and rear mounts for the Slam Specialties airbags I custom made."
After incorporating the TCI front clip to these other suspension components, Hans attended a Super Chevy show, garnering accolades in the form of Best in Class and Best of Show honors. It was around this time that yours truly approached him to be featured in the magazine. It took a while, but here it is. And if you think this Nova is one "sick sixty-six," then wait until learn see what he's got cooking now: a twin-turbo big-block Nova with close to six figures invested.
"I figured this one is worth some money as it is," said Hans referring to his finished '66. "So I'm doing to the other one all the things that I couldn't to this."
We have seen a build picture of new Nova, and if Han's two-tone creation is an example of what he can do on a budget with his one man company, we can only assume that his next build is going to be straight evil.


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Dr. Scott Higgins brings extensive experience and diverse skills to his position as Research Scientist. Prior to joining the International Institute for Sustainable Development, he worked for Fisheries and Oceans Canada as research scientist for the Experimental Lakes Area, focusing on algal ecology, primary production, climate change and the effects of invasive species on freshwater ecosystems. As a graduate student and post doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Higgins researched on water quality in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Malawi, Africa for the University of Waterloo and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, and on the ecological effects of invasive species on aquatic ecosystems for the University of Wisconsin's Center for Limnology.
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Mark Lee Gardner, nationally known western historian, musician, and consultant, is the guest speaker for the Bent's Fort Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association at Rocky Ford's Grand Theater Saturday, July 12, at 1 p.m.
Mark Lee Gardner, nationally known western historian, musician, and consultant, is the guest speaker for the Bent's Fort Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association at Rocky Ford's Grand Theater Saturday, July 12, at 1 p.m.
All members of the Bent's Fort Chapter will be admitted free of charge. Non-members will be charged $15, which covers admission and membership in the Bent's Fort Chapter for 2014.
The SFTA is dedicated to preserving, protecting, exploring and celebrating the story of this historic trail.
Gardner writes for both popular and scholarly audiences, having published with several university presses and periodicals, such as Wild West Magazine, which named him Best Author in its annual "Best of the West" issue for 2014.
He is the author of "To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett" and "Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape."
He has just returned from California, where he was awarded two Spur Awards. The first was for "Shot All To Hell" (Best Western Nonfiction Historical), and the second was for "The Other James Brother" (Best Western Short Nonfiction) that appeared in Wild West Magazine.
The highly prestigious Spur Award is an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America. Founded in 1953 with only four categories, all in the Western genre, the award today has expanded to include 16 categories. Gardner joins many of the finest authors of over a half century, some of whose works have been made into classic films.
An authority on the American West, he has worked with the National Park Service, PBS Television, National Geographic Magazine, and the New Mexico Humanities Council. He has been a guest interpreter at Bent's Old Fort NHS, where he has performed songs of the Santa Fe Trail with Rex Rideout, with whom he has made music CDs.


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SAN FRANCISCO – A series of drawings is spread across the table in front of Ayman Nijim. One of them, in hues of yellow and blue, shows a row of helmeted stick figures – the Star of David carefully traced above each – bearing machine guns with a tank to their rear. On the side is a wall smeared in red and brown.
"Do you see those dots?" asks Nijim, 29, a community-based mental health worker in the Gaza Strip, as he points to a flurry of pencil marks decorating the wall. "They're bullet holes."
Such are the visions of youth in Gaza, says Nijim, whose organization Afaq Jadeeda, or New Horizons, works with young residents of Nuseirat Refugee Camp, one of eight such camps scattered across what many have described as the "world's largest jail." Over half of its residents, he says, are youth.
Some 53 percent of Palestinians are under 18, according to the latest figures, many growing up in conditions resembling concentration camps, with limited access to necessities like running water and electricity. Their experiences – and the trauma they carry – are the focus of New Horizons, part of the Bay Area-based Middle East Children's Alliance. The group uses a combination of art, song and dance therapy to create what Nijim calls "healing communities."
This article focuses on an ongoing and vital project supported by the Middles East Children's Alliance (MECA), called "Let the Children Play and Heal." Please consider a year-end gift to MECA to help continue this vital work in Gaza at this especially difficult time.
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Attaining that goal involves a process deeply embedded within the culture and context of Palestine, and more specifically Gaza, where community, religion and resistance are integral to identity.
"We do not have terms like post-traumatic," Nijim notes, because the trauma is "ongoing … the bombs are still falling," most recently in November during a brief but bloody flare up in violence that claimed six Israeli lives. Palestinian casualties numbered in the hundreds, many of them children.
Under such conditions, the question of healing becomes more one of perseverance, as Nijim explains it, of remaining whole amid a brutal conflict that has lasted now for almost 65 years.
A faculty member with the International Trauma Treatment Program in Olympia, Washington, this is Nijim's first visit to the United States, a fact he notes with a touch of irony.
"I can travel to San Francisco, but I have never seen Jerusalem," he says, referring to the disputed city claimed as a capital by both Palestinians and Israelis. Without the checkpoints, it's an hour's drive from his home in Gaza.
A Life of War
"War has followed me my entire life," says Nijim, whose quick smile contrasts sharply with his taut frame and etched face. With a sardonic chuckle he recalls traveling to Baghdad in 2003 to pursue a degree in journalism and French, just ahead of the U.S. led invasion that toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. It was during that conflict, he says, that he realized he wanted to work with youth.
"I spent three days under a bridge in Baghdad," Nijim remembers, noting that local Iraqis refused to offer him refuge for fear that he could be mistaken as a foreign fighter. "I had no money, no [means of] communication, there was no electricity … I was just 20 years old and I was afraid."
That's when it dawned on him, the realization that his fear and sense of "powerlessness" were daily realities for millions of Palestinian youth. He returned home that same year and began working with the non-profit Save the Children Sweden. He joined the 20-strong staff of volunteers at New Horizons in 2006.
Nijim says the symptoms he sees include hyperactive and attention deficit disorders, extreme introversion, and anxiety. They manifest most clearly in the daily workshops he conducts with students in United Nations-run elementary and middle schools in the camp. A student who buries him or her self in the corner during a group dance, for example, and who might be dismissed by teachers as simply shy could in fact be exhibiting signs of trauma, he explains.
"92 percent of the kids in Palestine are coping with some form of trauma," he says, offering the example of one 5 year old who in 2008 during a three-week Israeli offensive dubbed Operation Cast Lead, which claimed over 1000 Palestinian lives, witnessed the death of 27 relatives.
"His face was covered in shrapnel," says Nijim, who met the child during a program he led called Learning From the Rubble. "It was traumatic for me to see him."
Seeds of Future Conflict
When Nijim was seven years old, he and some friends were playing on the street. It was past curfew and so they ran into a nearby friend's house, where they were soon confronted by a group of Israeli soldiers.
"They beat us … they asked, 'Did you throw stones?' We all said yes, together."
Such politicization still permeates today's Palestinian youth, he says. Favorite songs include tunes with lyrics like, "We are the children of Palestine … we live without living."
Critics have accused New Horizons and similar projects of fueling anti-Israeli sentiment – and with it hatred of Jews – by encouraging students to express such views. Nijim says in response that it isn't about hatred of Jews, but rather "hatred of the occupation." He is adamant about this point. "I do not like the word 'hate,'" he says.
But such acts of cultural self-assertion – which include the child throwing a stone at oncoming tanks – are also integral to his work. Referring to programs that include Arab folk dances and songs, Nijim says, "resilience and self esteem" are critical to the creation of a healing community.
"I would rather die," he adds, "than have my psyche destroyed."
Other projects include training mothers in how to respond to trauma, as well as possibly bringing in Buddhist techniques of mindfulness. But with conditions worsening by the day, the challenges continue to mount.
In the latest clash, says Ziad Abbas of the Middle East Children's Alliance, traveling with Nijim, Israel dropped more than 1500 bombs on Gaza, which measures 139 square miles. "If you measure the number of people living in each square mile," he says, "and then consider how many of those are children…"
On Wednesday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the United States would sell Israel munitions worth $647 million in order to make up for that spent military inventory. The deal "will include the supply of 6,900 precision bomb kits" as well as "10,000 bombs of various kinds."
For Gaza's citizens, it's a distressing sign.
Things are in fact getting so bad, notes Nijim, that once-taboo subjects like mental health disorders are increasingly being acknowledged within Palestinian society. "People are fearful they are losing the future," says Nijim.
As to the conflict, which enters its 65th year in May of 2013, the future from Nijim's perspective is indeed bleak. "Without a political transformation, without an end to the killing of Palestinian children, we will end up with a generation of hardliners."


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"Luke is a talented defensive midfielder who has played at the highest level of youth soccer in the USA. His distribution from defense is consistently at a high level of play and he possesses great athletic ability. The professional coaching he has received from the New England Revolution staff has provided him the platform to excel at the NCAA Division I level at CCSU. He is a top-class person and we are extremely fortunate that he has chosen CCSU to continue his soccer career and education."-Head Coach Shaun Green
RYAN TAYLOR - South Windsor, CT - Forward
Taylor, a South Windsor, CT native, plays for Oakwood Soccer Club in the US Soccer Development Academy. He has played for Oakwood since the age of nine and established himself as a consistent goal scorer with the club. While at Oakwood, Taylor was selected to the US Soccer Regional Training Center in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2009, he played an important part in Oakwood's Northeast Region League Championship win. After transferring to Watkinson School from South Windsor High, Taylor tallied 30 goals and eight assists, leading Watkinson to the New England Prep School Championship, WNEPSSA Small School Championship, Hudson Valley League Championship and CISAC Championship.
"Ryan is one of the most exciting players to come out of Connecticut this year. He has tremendous speed, athletic ability and an instinct for scoring goals. He had great coaches at Oakwood Soccer Club, so he will come to the Blue Devils highly prepared for Division I soccer. We expect Ryan to be a major contributor to the starting line-up from day one. We are looking forward to seeing Ryan in a Blue Devil jersey next fall."-Head Coach Shaun Green
NICK TUNIC - Larchmont, NY - Forward
Tunic, an All-American forward from Larchmont, NY, played for Westchester FC in the US Soccer Development Academy. Prior to playing for Westchester, Tunic played for the TSF Academy team from 2009 to 2012 where he ranked as the top goal scorer all three years. In 2010, Tunic led TSF Academy to the Match Fit Chelsea Invitational Championship and was named the tournament's top goal scorer and team MVP. During his senior campaign at Mamaroneck High School, Tunic was named Section One's Large School Player of the Year and the Journal News Westchester/Putnam Boy's Soccer Player of the Year. He netted 24 goals and eight assists in Mamaroneck's perfect 16-0 regular season. Following the season, Tunic was selected to the NSCAA High School All-America Team and is one of only six New Yorkers named to the All-America Boy's Soccer Team, the only one from Westchester County.
"Nick is an exciting player. He is a proven goal scorer who has a knack for scoring game-winning goals. Nick will compete immediately for playing time in an attacking role with the Blue Devils. We are very fortunate to have another 'All American' high school athlete join our program." -Head Coach Shaun Green.
ANTHONY MARRA - Glen Head, NY - Midfield
Marra is a Glen Head, NY native and plays for Gottschee Soccer Club in the US Soccer Development Academy. Marra also played for Met Oval Academy team and for St. Anthony's High School.
"Anthony is a very technical player who will compete immediately on the left side of midfield. His distribution off the ball is at a very high level of play. He has competed at the best level of youth soccer in the USA and will add experience and depth to our midfield."-Head Coach Shaun Green
CARSON D'AMBROSIO - Coventry, CT - Goalkeeper
D'Ambrosio is a standout goalkeeper from Coventry, CT and is a current member of Oakwood Soccer Club U18 Academy team in the US Soccer Development Academy. The 6-3 keeper was an important player for the Oakwood team that advanced to the 2010 West Virginia Regionals and won the 2009 Connecticut State Cup Championship and Region I Championship. D'Ambrosio has been a member of Oakwood Soccer Club since age nine and was also a two-year varsity letterman for RHAM High School.
"Carson is an exceptional goalkeeper from Oakwood Soccer Club. He has the potential to be a phenomenal Division I goalkeeper at CCSU. He is big, strong and very talented. We are very excited that Carson has selected CCSU to play collegiate soccer."-Head Coach Shaun Green
DAN CASEY - Westborough, MA - Defender
Casey is a tenacious defender from Westborough, MA who currently plays for FC Bolts Celtic team in the US Soccer Development Academy. He was captain of the Bolts Pre-Academy team his freshman year. Prior to playing at FC Bolts Celtic, Casey played for the prestigious New England Revolution Academy team. Casey was also captain of the New England Eagles Maple Premier team and played for Westborough High School.
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MICHAEL MILLER - Brampton, Ontario - Goalkeeper
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"Michael will be a strong addition to our goalkeeping and we expect him to compete for playing time immediately. Mike has great reflexes and shot stopping ability. At 6-3 and 190lbs, he is definitely a presence in goal. Mike will play this spring for the Blue Devils."-Head Coach Shaun Green
CHARLIE GIOVENCO - Deer Park, IL - Defender
Giovenco is a transfer defender from Valparaiso University in Indiana. He played two years at Valparaiso before transferring to CCSU. At Barrington High School, Giovenco was ranked among Top Drawer Soccer's top-20 recruits in the Midwest. He earned All-Area recognition from the Daily Herald News as a senior, was named to the IHSA All-Sectional Team and was an All-Conference selection. Giovenco played club soccer for the Chicago Sockers FC Academy in the US Soccer Development Academy and started nearly every contest on the back line for the Sockers. He was also selected to the Illinois Olympic Development squad.
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[Note: Google today announced All Access, a music service that blends subscription-based streaming, search and access to your own purchased music. Details in the update below.]
When Google's I/O Conference kicks off today, expect to see the search giant get into the streaming music business in a big way.
The subscription music service will be part of the Google Play Store, according to a story at The Verge, the result of deals signed with Warner Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. In doing so, Google enters an increasingly competitive arena, competing against established players like Rhapsody, Spotify and Rdio. Microsoft recently began exploring the space with its Xbox Music service.
But with an entry today, Google would be beating a key rival to the market:
When Google rolls out the new services tomorrow at I/O, it will mean that it gets the jump on Apple, which is also trying to launch a new streaming-music service. According to reports, Google's subscription services would resemble Spotify, and offer on-demand songs that would be streamed to their PCs and mobile devices. In contrast, Apple is working on an online radio service that is said to be more akin to Pandora, a service that plays songs at random similar to traditional radio.
Google's YouTube is, of course, already a huge destination for music, and The Verge reports it will have a separate subscription service. YouTube on Monday began offering pay-per-month video channels.
Google already offers music for purchase, with a cloud-streaming option similar to that offered by Amazon.com. But this would be an all-you-can-hear service providing access to full catalogs of music.
Interestingly, Google Play's subscription service won't offer a free option, according to the New York Times. That's an unusual move for Google, which is known for providing free services that are supported by advertising. There's no word on how Google will charge for a music subscription, but competitors like Spotify typically charge $10 a month.
Google I/O kicks off with the keynote address today at 11 a.m. CDT. I've embedded the livestream below. The Verge has a good roundup of what to expect.
Update: Google has named its subscription service Google Play All Access. Like Spotify and Rdio, it lets you listen to music on demand for a monthly fee, with applications for Android devices and the Web. All Access relies on Google's search capabilities to provide recommendations and create artist- and genre-based radio stations.
All Access will cost $9.99 a month, with a 30-day free trial. Those who sign up for the trial before the end of June will pay $7.99 a month.


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The threat and promise of dangerous ideas
Here's another provocative Paul Graham essay, this one about heresies. Excerpts:
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.
What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed.
It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.
Is our time any different? To anyone who has read any amount of history, the answer is almost certainly no. It would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right.
Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?
If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.
The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. …
If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s– or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
Back in the era of terms like "well-adjusted," the idea seemed to be that there was something wrong with you if you thought things you didn't dare say out loud. This seems backward. Almost certainly, there is something wrong with you if you don't think things you don't dare say out loud.
What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for. [2]
Of course, we're not just looking for things we can't say. We're looking for things we can't say that are true, or at least have enough chance of being true that the question should remain open. But many of the things people get in trouble for saying probably do make it over this second, lower threshold. No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
Read the whole thing. I am reminded of a fascinating symposium on Edge.org, the science site, in which scientists were asked to state what was their "dangerous idea," defined as "an idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true." What makes the idea dangerous, it seems to me, are one, possibly two, things: 1) to express it would put one in danger from his peers or the wider community, and/or 2) if everyone came to believe it, bad things would happen.
I don't speak of "dangerous ideas" in scare quotes. There really are dangerous ideas. The late critic Roger Shattuck wrote a terrific book a few years back called "Forbidden Knowledge," which explored the history and contours of dangerous ideas. There really are good reasons to make certain ideas taboo. But there are always more ideas that are taboo than there are ideas that ought to be taboo. Graham again:
So if you want to figure out what we can't say, look at the machinery of fashion and try to predict what it would make unsayable. What groups are powerful but nervous, and what ideas would they like to suppress? What ideas were tarnished by association when they ended up on the losing side of a recent struggle? If a self-consciously cool person wanted to differentiate himself from preceding fashions (e.g. from his parents), which of their ideas would he tend to reject? What are conventional-minded people afraid of saying?
Graham advises, perhaps surprisingly, that keeping a free mind means keeping tight rein on your big mouth:
The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. And if you feel you have to say everything you think, it may inhibit you from thinking improper thoughts. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy. Draw a sharp line between your thoughts and your speech.
I would like to poll you readers and ask for your dangerous ideas. I'm going to be selective in posting them. Be thoughtful when you write, and do your best to explain why you think it might be true, and why it's dangerous (if you need to explain it).
As an aside, I think the existence of heresies within our political parties, and (especially on the Right) the existence of a loud and forceful brigade of enforcers who punish heretics, is largely responsible for the lack of imagination and constructive, creative thought in American politics. All those Republican presidential candidates who never, ever will consider a tax increase, no matter what, are terrified of Torquemada. To Torquemada, though, this looks like simply holding the line on an important principle. Then again, political parties are not churches. As a religious believer, I think churches are right to hold the line on heresy. Political parties? No.
Say, I'm going down to Georgetown today for an all-day conference. Don't know how often I'll be able to check in on this site to approve comments. Please don't think I'm ignoring you if it's a while before yours posts.
UPDATE: To expand, let me talk a bit about conditions under which certain ideas (including mere information), even true ones, can be dangerous.
A few years ago, I was at a journalism conference overseas attended by reporters from the US, Western Europe, and countries in the Global South. We Western reporters were conditioned to believe that if you have truthful information, you should report it, and let the chips fall where they may. Yet our colleagues from India said that their newspapers routinely withheld religious information from reports of inter-religious violence (e.g., a Muslim man suspected of attacking a Hindu woman) — even though such information was often vital to a more complete understanding of the story. Why? Because they live in a country in which religious passions can quickly become inflamed, leading to mob violence and murder. In their country, this was not an abstract threat. They lived with it every day. It was easy to see, therefore, why these journalists engaged in a kind of self-censorship that would have been viewed disreputably in the West.
Or would it have been? Many US media outlets have a policy of not identifying race or color of a criminal suspect, lest it feed into stereotypes. This is in most cases indefensible, particularly when a suspect in a violent crime is on the loose. Yet it is routine. Similarly, the US media in general has avoided critical reporting on the radical leadership of many mainstream American Muslim organizations. My view is that they have internalized the desire to protect ordinary Muslims from persecution — a laudable goal, but one that is, I think, unjustified in this country. Ten years after 9/11, most Americans still do not understand how powerful the radical Muslim Brotherhood is within the ranks of the US Muslim leadership. And for that, I blame non-Muslim American journalists.
Nevertheless, I concede that the Indian journalists at my conference are correct, and that there are times when the responsible thing to do is to withhold information, or to decline to express ideas, when the harm in doing so can outweigh any good that could come of it. It is difficult, even impossible, to come up with a foolproof method for deciding when this is the case. As Paul Graham avers, we often tell ourselves (and others) that we are forbidding certain ideas (by which I mean to include the publicizing of information) for the greater good, but what we are really doing is identifying "heresy" to protect the interests of individuals or groups. In the Church sex abuse scandal, I believe that bishops who fought tooth and nail to keep the crimes committed against children private were, in many cases, proceeding from what they truly thought were laudable motives (e.g., to protect the image of the Church and, therefore, the faith of common people in its integrity, the loss of which — the faith, I mean — could be deleterious to their salvation). But as we now know, what they were really doing was protecting themselves and the clerical class from the justified scrutiny of others — and, in so doing, allowing monstrous crimes to continue unchecked.
The difficult thing about this is that both things can be simultaneously true. That is, bishops were not necessarily wrong to seek to keep these horrible things secret — not at first. Not everything that can be said should be said. Had they used this silence as a cover to effectively deal with the crisis, it would have been justifiable. But they did not; they used it as an excuse to avoid dealing with the problem. Without sunshine, the rot grew.
We can see that in retrospect, of course, but it is devilishly difficult to understand this in real time. It is very hard to know which taboos ought to be observed, because they serve a morally justifiable function, and which ones are unsupportable, and should be abandoned.


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Ethan: Twenty-five! My God, how can you stand it? And how old are you anyway?
Phil: Eight each from John McKernan, Angus King and John Baldacci, plus two from LePage makes 26, so listen and learn, young Jedi. Unlike the others, this speech was a plea for facing facts about where Maine is relative to the U.S. and the world. Be bold and courageous, the governor told the Legislature.
Ethan: While I certainly have not witnessed 25 State of the State addresses, what I did find surprising is how much he used the moment to say how bad things are in Maine. Usually, a guy who has been governor for two years would be saying, "Maine is on the move," as King pronounced from the second day on the job.
Phil: He touched on several accomplishments like avoiding the unfunded pension crisis, restoring integrity at the Maine State Housing Authority and the Maine Turnpike Authority and improving the permitting process for businesses.
Ethan: Certainly, but his focus was much more on the problems in Maine as opposed to his accomplishments since becoming governor.
Phil: That's what I like about him. He isn't spending time fluffing up his feathers. He used his moment to be very blunt about the key things that inhibit our prosperity: unpaid bills, short changing our students, energy costs stifling businesses and many Mainers feeling the cold. He passionately declared, "Maine needs to fix these things now." I agree with him.
Ethan: I do, too, actually. In my opinion, he's right to say education must get better, that energy costs have to be reduced and that our business climate must be improved. The problem is his answer to these problems and his lack of results. Had I given the Democratic response I would have said, "The governor's right. Maine does need to get better. And you had two years to start getting things back on track, and it didn't work."
Phil: Sometimes you stun me. You're the same guy who blames former President George W. Bush for all that ails America. Yet, poor education, low wages, high energy costs and hundreds of millions of unpaid bills is LePage' s fault in just two years? Do you realize how hyper partisan and narrow minded you appear to be?
Ethan: First of all, I have never blamed Bush for all that ails America. I blamed him for what Obama inherited, just like you blame Democrats for what LePage inherited. Both are fair. Second, I agree with LePage that he should be honest with Maine. I actually found it refreshing. I was simply saying that we Democrats should not be disagreeing with the problems he has laid out. We should be disagreeing with his solutions.
Phil: Disagreeing with his solutions? Lowering taxes, reducing regulations and ending political nepotism are solutions people should oppose? You Democrats perplex me!
Ethan: Did you drink too much coffee this morning? Speaking of taxes, I found it very interesting that LePage said, "Let's not raise taxes, right now." You think there was an opening there for some compromise on long term revenue?
Phil: I caught that, too. Maybe he was referring to the possibility in his second term? If you listened to the vision he has, the long-term revenue is right before us. All the Legislature has to do is be courageous enough to address the points he made, and our revenues will grow from having more taxpayers earning higher incomes.
Ethan: The ideology that lowering taxes will increase revenue died when Bush's tax cuts turned a huge surplus into a deficit.
Phil: Geez, how is it possible that I like you so much? I can't even convince you that a change in attitude toward small and family business will get our economy moving again, which in turn will grow revenues in our beloved state.
Ethan: Personally, I actually think he was extending a subtle possibility for compromise. If he gets some of what he wants (charter school funding, program cuts, welfare tightening), he might be willing to close some loopholes or target some revenue enhancements.
Phil: So let's talk about his less controversial message: guns. What did you think about his announcement to convene a governor's task force on domestic violence to explore taking guns away from abusers?
Ethan: Oh, yes! I can't believe I forgot to bring that up. LePage calling for gun control! I was so excited I almost called his office offering to be his token liberal appointee.
Phil: And how about his assessment of some lobbyists and legislators using the system to enrich special interest groups at the expense of hard-working Mainers? Was he referring to anyone or group you know?
Ethan: Are you talking about the Chamber of Commerce opposing minimum-wage increases or when the governor proposed building a new prison no one seems to think we need?
Phil: I was referring to the new mandate by the Public Utilities Commission, forcing Mainers to pay higher energy prices to subsidize offshore wind power.
Ethan: Well, either way, after what LePage dished out on Tuesday, I suppose we should all be depressed about the state of our beloved state.
Phil: No, no, young Skywalker. Our fearless leader has merely dished out some truth, and the truth will always set you free. Or, in my case, motivate the person who decided to "key" the door of my car, while you and I were analyzing my 26th State of the State address.
Ethan: LePage was right. Things really have gone to hell in a handbasket.


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Tauchnitz, Carl Christian Philipp (1798-1884)
Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz (1798-1884), a prominent German book dealer, and a warm friend of the German Mennonites. In the winter of 1830 a Baptist preacher in London told him about the German Mennonites, and when he returned to Germany he visited Weierhof, Monsheim, Kindenheim, Spitalhof, and Sembach. In 1831 he became acquainted with several congregations in Baden, where "the Easter days passed very pleasantly and blessedly." On 17 April of that year he preached in Spitalhof on the occasion of the baptism of J. Rothen. He also preached at the Weierhof and in Oberflorsheim. He frequently took part in the conferences of the Mennonites in the Palatinate and Hesse. He promoted the publication of the first Palatine hymnal (1832) by friendly persuasion of the opponents of the book. He corresponded with most of the Palatine preachers and by word and deed aided in the revival of the brotherhood. He also published several Mennonite works, among them three books by Johannes Molenaar (Catechismus 1841 and 1854, Andenken 1844, and Evangelische Stimmen 1844, a collection of sermons), one by Herman Reeder (Predigten 1843), and one by B. K. Roosen (Menno Symons 1848). He was especially interested in the founding of a Mennonite theological school, but in vain. He rendered a lasting service to the Mennonites as well as to other free churches.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 283.
Mennonitische Blätter (1884): 38, 43.
Mennonitischer Gemeinde-Kalender (formerly Christlicher Gemeinde-Kalender) (1899): 43.
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Neff, Christian. "Tauchnitz, Carl Christian Philipp (1798-1884)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 12 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Tauchnitz,_Carl_Christian_Philipp_(1798-1884)&oldid=143942.
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Neff, Christian. (1959). Tauchnitz, Carl Christian Philipp (1798-1884). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 12 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Tauchnitz,_Carl_Christian_Philipp_(1798-1884)&oldid=143942.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 685. All rights reserved.
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I set out on a mission to find a great recipe that used ripe bananas. It did not take long before I found this recipe for Banana Oat Cookies at Simply Daily Recipes. I knew I just had to try making these cookies.
I got to work right away making them. After they were finished I tried one. Let me just say that these cookies are incredible! They were so good that it was hard for me to keep my hands off of them!
If you are looking for a snack that tastes like banana bread, but does not kill you on pointsplus+ values then this is the cookie for you!
|Here are the ingredients
|First mix together the margarine and sugar.
|Then, mix add the egg and bananas.
|In a separate bowl, mix together all of the dry ingredients. I added the oats first.
|Then the flour.
|Next, the salt,
|baking soda,
|raisins, and coconut.
|Stir all of the dry ingredients together.
|Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
|Stir until you have cookie dough!
|I use a scoop to help me with my portions. This makes all of the cookies the same size!
|Place dough on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.
|When the cookies have finished baking, remove the from the oven.
|Place the hot cookies on a rack to cool.
|I managed to avoid eating any dough while I baked the cookies!
|As a reward, I ate one cookie to see how they turned out. Let me know tell you that the one I tried was great!
. . . . . . . . . .Banana Oat Cookies
Source: Simply Daily Recipes
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 egg
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas (2 medium)
2 1/2 cups oats
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/3 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup shredded coconut
Get the oven hot to 350ºF. Spray oil on cookie sheet.
Beat sugar and butter until fluffy in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed. Stir in egg and bananas.
In a separate bowl, add all the remaining ingredients together. Add the dry ingredients to the wet in thirds, run mixer on low speed. Stir until dry ingredients are moistened.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls (use a 1 inch scooper) about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until edges are golden brown and almost no indentation remains when touched in center. Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from sheet to wire rack. Cool completely before storing.
These cookies are very good the next day. They become moist after being stored in an airtight container, so it's important to cool them completely before storing.
This recipe idea came from my secret cookie book. I added the raisins and coconuts, and skipped the suggested vanilla frosting. There are ways I could have made this recipe healthier; next time I'll use them.
I'll definitely make these again the next time I'm craving banana bread but don't have enough ripe bananas on hand.
Serves: 36; PointsPlus: 3
Serves: 48; PointsPlus: 2


text: Shawn Barber: The Tattooed Portraits - An Outsider's View of Another World Story and photos by Mitch Gurowitz My trip to the Joshua Liner Gallery for the opening of Shawn Barber's Memoir: The Tattooed Portraits Series was yet another door opening into another world for me. I went there to view the work of a fine artist who specializes in painting tattooers and tattooed people. While I'm no stranger to art or to galleries, I've only recently joined the ranks of the tattooed a few months earlier as a celebration of my 50th birthday. My mind skipped between the excitement of seeing Shawn's artwork up close and meeting him and the subjects of some of his work, and also concern that the reception would be a gathering of a very exclusive and private group of professionals... A group that may not appreciate an outsider walking into their world... I introduced myself to Shawn at the beginning of the evening, bought his new book, started to tell him a bit of my story and quickly stopped. "This is your night, I really don't mean to bore you with my reason for being here." He smiled and replied, "Absolutely not. I'm here for you guys tonight." A few months earlier, I was sitting in a chair getting the outline for my first tattoo. The one I had been talking myself out of for the past 35 years. There was no going back; the echoing voices were about to be silenced. Those voices had been repeating: "You know what old guys' tats look like, green blobs with no shape or form, or the blurry names of girls they didn't marry." This was going to be painful and permanent, and if I found a bad artist, or a good artist on a bad day, I'd have to walk away with bad art as a punishment for the rest of my life. At the beginning of the year, I had stumbled across Jeff Johnson's book Tattoo Machine... "You aren't thinking about getting a tattoo," my wife announced. I said no, I just found the journalism fascinating as a look into a world that I never knew existed. Later my wife reiterated her statement when I started watching a few of the reality shows about tattoo shops. I couldn't help but think how amazing the art form is, and the people who were creating it were from the same land of misfits that I came from: skateboarders, punk rockers, artists who loved their craft, and the individuals who paved the way before them. A secret society in which people had to endure rigorous and sometimes abusive apprenticeships in order to have the opportunity to learn their craft. I really wanted to be part of it in some way. So rather than dreading my upcoming milestone birthday, I was going to celebrate it – with a tattoo. I'd been secretly downloading images for the past three years. I researched artists too. After a while a bunch of famous names kept repeating, as well as a local artist named Paul Nolin. I put together a silhouette of my passions and hobbies. Paul said he could make my idea work, but he didn't think it would result in something I'd be happy with. He asked what brought me to his shop, and I blurted out "I think your Japanese style is really great." Now he knew why I was really there, and he steered me toward a Japanese dragon half-sleeve that I am happy and proud to look at every day. So my discovery of this new world brought me to Shawn Barber's show, and I observed a fascinating paradigm there: artwork was being appreciated in an art gallery, by viewers who had incredible collections of art on their own bodies, and they were taking photos of photorealistic paintings of other tattoo art collectors. Shawn's artwork is breathtaking. His sense of shape, placement, expression and recreation of light sources are incredible, and to view his oil paintings up close and see the brushstrokes was an experience unto itself. As the evening progressed, I noticed a lot of very familiar faces: artists, people who make the machines and equipment. Kim Saigh, Oliver Peck and Chris Nunez were among the many great artists in attendance, as was musician and Ink Master host Dave Navarro. I enjoyed watching artists enjoying the exhibition, and I did my best to capture a few images of the night and of people appreciating the fantastic display of Shawn's creativity. Walking back to catch a train after the event, I thought about how fortunate I was to have a chance to view these paintings among a group of artists with a real appreciation for the artwork brushed onto the canvases -- and the artwork within the artwork displayed on the people within the paintings. ---------- Mitch Gurowitz is a printing professional and a concert and sports photographer who lives in New Jersey with his corporate historian and blogger wife Margaret, young artist daughter Alice, and two Bengal cats. He waited 50 years for his first tattoo, and is busily planning the rest of his personal art exhibition. For more info Mitch can be found here: Twitter: @mitchg or Facebook: www.facebook.com/mitch.gurowitz.


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Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone for "The Runaway General," a history-making piece that prompted President Obama's dismissal of U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The Associated Press for its coverage of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times for their courageous coverage of corruption and the abuse of power in Russia.
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin of The Washington Post for "Top Secret America," an investigative report that detailed the enormous ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned in the decade after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives and a group of other staff writers at the Los Angeles Times for their explosive coverage of the working-class city of Bell.
Amy Brittain and Mark Mueller of The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) for a series that revealed rampant steroid use and fraud among cops and firefighters in New Jersey.
Dan Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman of Bloomberg News for "Education Inc.," a series of scathing reports on the for-profit college industry.
John Diedrich and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for "Wiped Clean," a series that uncovered how infrequently the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the licenses of lawbreaking gun dealers.
Dexter Filkins and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times for a behind-the-scenes look at the war in Afghanistan.
New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez for columns that exposed a major scandal in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.
T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Daniel Zwerdling and Susanne Reber of National Public Radio for a collaborative effort that found the U.S. military was falling woefully short in treating soldiers who suffered from traumatic brain injuries.
A.C. Thompson of ProPublica, Raney Aronson-Rath and Tom Jennings of PBS' "Frontline" and Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy of The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.) for "Law and Disorder," which examined brutal actions taken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Sandy Close, executive director of New America Media, an alternative news source that supports thousands of ethnic media outlets. In 2007, Ms. Close organized the Chauncey Bailey Project, a team of reporters whose investigative work led Oakland police to arrest those responsible for killing Mr. Bailey, who was a Polk Award-winning journalist.
Winners of the George Polk Awards are picked by a committee of jurors made up of Long Island University faculty members and alumni. They select the winners from entries submitted by journalists and news organizations and nominations made by a panel of reporters and editors. The group includes some past Polk Award recipients. For more information, visit the George Polk Awards Web site at www.liu.edu/polk.
On Wednesday, April 6, the annual George Polk Seminar, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts on Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, located at the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede a panel discussion, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. The seminar, entitled "Piercing the Veil of Secrecy," will feature Washington Post correspondent Dana Priest, winner of the 2010 George Polk Award for National Reporting; A.C. Thompson of ProPublica, who earned the 2010 George Polk Award for Television Reporting; and Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings, recipient of the 2010 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.
On Thursday, April 7, Long Island University will host the George Polk Awards Luncheon at noon at The Roosevelt Hotel, located in Manhattan at 45 East 45th Street (at the corner of Madison Avenue). Associated Press correspondent Kimberly Dozier will be the citation reader. A poster exhibit displaying work by the Polk Award winners will commence at 11:00 a.m. A limited number of tickets are available.
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