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Cali All Day Eatery
This morning I had breakfast with Kristina at Cali before she boarded her plane headed back to Cali.
Sitting pretty on Newmarket's trendy little Nuffield Street, Cali All Day Eatery boasts great food, a good atmosphere and some serious California vibes; The space is light and spacious, with a simple and minimal design. The menu is inspired by the State of California. It draws the health craze, incorporating trendy superfoods that are contrasted with the boldly indulgent recipes and flavours that the U.S of A is famous for.
I have eaten here a few times so I can vouch for most of their menu items and say that they are all pretty good.
Today, we ordered the brioche French toast and the big breakfast to share (a solution to our indecisiveness). and we were thrilled with both of our choices!
The way that the food is plated here is as colourful and creative as a San Francisco street and as aesthetically appealing as a west coast sunset.
Overall, we had a "hella good" experience brunching at Cali this morning. You could go as far as saying that it is a pretty "gnarly" place to eat!
It is laid-back but glamorous.
It is health conscious but indulgent.
It is a good dose of the Sunshine State for overcast little Auckland.


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When a new user is added to a LiveAgent, it is necessary to define agent role. Roles determine agent's responsibilities and possibilities. In LiveAgent, it is possible to choose from default roles.
There are some default types of user, like owner, admin and agent.
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text: I strongly believe in and enjoy developing with and alongside a small cohort of teachers. I've spent the last three years working as a Teaching Group Facilitator, meeting regularly with a group of other writing instructors. This year I've taken on the role of Lead Facilitator, acting as a liaison between current Facilitators and Program Directors. I helped develop our team, our yearly goals, and our week-long instructor orientation. I provide support and mentorship to our Teaching Group Facilitators and am in the process of creating a training session and manual for future program leaders.


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In the Bible the Kingdom of God is a really big deal. So big a deal in fact that in the gospel of Mark it's the first thing that Jesus talks about. Before we hear him say anything else in that gospel we hear him say, "The Kingdom of God is at hand". In the account of The Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew's gospel, Jesus says the Kingdom and righteousness are the very first things we should seek. In Acts 1, after his resurrection and before his ascension, Jesus spoke about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom is also the subject of Paul's preaching and teaching.
So yes, the Kingdom of God is a big deal but we are not always sure exactly what it is. Many of us understand that the church is essential to the Kingdom of God. But the church and the Kingdom of God are not exactly the same thing. In fact, the church is part of the Kingdom but the Kingdom is bigger than the church.
Christians do not always even agree on when the Kingdom happens. It is already here and yet it is also still coming. It is present but it is also in the future, which is one reason we pray, "Your Kingdom come".
That the Kingdom is bigger than the church is certainly true. Wherever people promote the cause of Christ, with the love of Christ, for the sake of Christ, whether by what they say or what they do, there the Kingdom of God is being established by the King.
Those of us who follow Christ and want work out his program in the world, soon find that we face obstacles and opposition. The work seems never-ending. It also seems to be accompanied by brokenness and lack of resources. And there are our limitations, human limitations. Our motivation and our energy are limited. The Apostle Paul puts it this way: our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly realms.
So Paul, in Ephesians 6, tells Kingdom workers to put on the full armor of God and then he very helpfully explains what that armor is. For those of us who understandably wonder if our work in the Kingdom makes any difference, our King Jesus tells us a short, but very important story. Jesus says, "The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds you plant in the ground, yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade." (Mark 4)
It is so important to remember this parable. The small acts of obedience that we do for Jesus, repairing someone's floor, painting the trim for someone unable to do so themselves, or teaching Bible stories to their grandchildren, may seem small, but in the Kingdom of God they are a really big deal. These acts of obedience are empowered by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection of Christ is finally what accomplishes and advances His Kingdom.
But we have to see and believe this. For that, we must have the eyes of faith. We must have eyes that see that "those who are with us are more than those who are with them". (II Kings 6:16) If we have those eyes we can keep going, knowing that our obedience, no matter how small, will have tremendous results in the Kingdom of God.
~Pastor Arlan Koppendrayer


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Looking out of the window just now, I simply had to take a photograph of the inky blue sky. The moon was there in a classic shape with (I think) Venus shining nearby.
Sights like these almost always provoke a memory; this time, one of a conversation between a five or six year old Edward and his Grandma as they walked home from, I think, Hull Fair. Mark and I walked close behind them, within earshot of their conversation.
The sky was of a similar colour, the moon shining brightly and the single spot of light sufficient to prompt comment from my Mum,
"Oh, look at that beautiful star, Edward"
"Well, Grandma, it's not really a star you know, it's a planet. I think it's Venus"
Result, one speechless Grandma who never made the same mistake again - and of course, one of those family sayings which gets trotted out whenever there's a single star (or planet) in the sky, whether it be Mars, Venus or whatever, because we are really not known for our astronomical knowledge however much we boggle at the night sky on evenings like these.
Not to mention the fond memory of one small boy - soon to be 25 - and his devoted Grandma, who we miss especially at this time of the year.


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Will the CIA Assassinate Trump? "He's Being Really Dumb For Questioning Russia Conclusions"
It isn't just that Donald Trump routinely thumbs his nose at the establishment, insults media figures he sees as unfair and bucks conventional wisdom. It is that President-elect Trump is defying the will of the deep state, military industrial complex base of ultimate power in the United States. That is why he is treading dangerous waters, and risks the fate of JFK.
Anonymous - Message to the Citizens of the World VII 1/14/17 (Please Share)
(Before It's News) Largely in response to the number of people rising up from various countries around the world all expressing their dissatisfaction with highly centralized forms of big government, and the growing global police state, for slightly over a year the group Anonymous has been releasing a series of messages to the citizens of the world. On January 14th, 2017, they have just released their newest message. It begins as follows: "When criminals have the power of government on the their side, there is no stopping them… History shows that the only way of altering these familiar reigns of terror is stealing the government back from them by any means necessary…
"Globalist Are Pedophiles" - Practices and Beliefs
(Before It's News) One doesn't need to be an investigative journalist or a serious researcher to realize that human traits like virtue, morality, dignity, integrity, righteousness, honor, or even just common human decency are hardly in abundance in today's world. Because I do a lot of writing about the New World Order and the global elite, it was suggested that I look into a possible connection between globalists and child sex rings, child pornography, or pedophilia. As a writer, I spend virtually all day reading and writing, so I come across a lot of subjects or issues that most people never see.
We All Lose: Obama's Legacy and What It Means for a Trump Presidency
"This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus.
Early in his first press conference as president-elect, Donald Trump said he would make pharmaceutical companies bid for U.S. business because they were "getting away with murder" on drug prices. Indexes that track pharmaceutical stocks plummeted. It was classic Trump, doing what economists call "jawboning," or moving markets today with threats of action in the future. Presidents and Federal Reserve chairs have jawboned before, usually from behind a podium or in a carefully crafted statement.
Gotcha! Proof of State Department lie in Iran deception
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki The American Center for Law and Justice, which alleges the Obama State Department manipulated video to conceal a spokeswoman's admission of lying to the public about the Iran deal, says it now has definitive evidence to back its claim. The deleted section contained a question from the Fox News Channel's James Rosen during a daily press briefing Dec. 2, 2013: "Is it the policy of the State Department, where the preservation or the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned, to lie in order to achieve that goal?"
Billionaire Soros doubles bet against US stocks — RT Business
Soros Fund Management has increased its bearish bet against US companies on the S&P 500 index. Its billionaire owner will make money if the index collapses. Read more The Standard & Poor's 500 is an American stock market index based on market capitalization of 500 large US companies having common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on NASDAQ.
'We're all on the Titanic', as old bear says get ready for ugly stock market crash — RT Business
Swiss investor Marc Faber is known for his pessimistic view of stock markets, and says the S&P 500 index could soon lose more than half of its value. A rally since late June has the S&P 500 up nearly seven percent in 2016, setting new record-highs almost every day. Faber predicts the index could first grow to 2,300 points from the current 2,182 before the nosedive.


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Hyderabad was founded by Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah in 1590 AD at the Golconda Kingdom. It is the fifth largest city of India and is a Metro now. Hyderabad and Secunderabad are together known as twin cities.
Hyderabad is divided into two parts- Old City and New City. The Old City has historical monuments, buildings, and bazaars while the New City on the North of the Musi is full of modern buildings, offices, schools, colleges, and malls.
Secunderabad is at about 7 kilometers towards the north of the Hyderabad City passing through the Hussain Sagar Lake.
Hyderabad is situated at 1760` above the sea level.
Its temperature varies between 40– 22C in summer and 22– 13C in winter
Pin Code – 500001
STD Code – 0842
Indian Airlines City Office at Saifabad, Ph. No. 236902
Airport – 842051-3
By Air: Indian and almost all other private airlines offer round the clock domestic and a few international services.
By Rail: excellent train services available to all Indian cities.
By Road :
It has NH 7 – Varanasi-Nagpur-Bangalore-Kanyakumari
And NH 9 connecting Bombay-Pune-Sholapur-Vijayawada
Distances from:
Aurangabad – 599kms.
Nagpur – 468kms.
Vijayawada – 271kms.
Visakhapatnam – 837kms.
Bhubaneswar – 1063kms.
Bhopal – 813kms.
Tirupati – 651kms.
Delhi – 1453kms. Kolkata – 1516kms.
Mumbai – 739kms.
Chennai – 704kms.
Bangalore – 566kms.
Places to see:
It was built in 1591 AD. It has four minarets built upon four granite arches facing the four directions, each side measuring 60
in length and 42 in width. Each minaret is of 90
high with four stories. The height of each minar (pillar) from the ground level is 180. You can have a glimpse of the suburb from atop the minars. The four granite arches face North, South, East, and West. Each of the four pillars faces a highway. Each minar has four stories and last upper part consists of one mosque and a school.
Replete with Islamic art and architecture situated at the Charminar South Gate, this mosque claims its antiquity to 1614 AD from the era of Emperor Aurangzeb. Its length, breadth, and height are 225
, 180 and 75
respectively. ride. Boating on Husain Sagar is very pleasant and enjoyable, especially with family and friends.
On the opposite side of the State Library and by the side of River Musi, this amazing museum is situated which has a rare assemblage of the old and the rare and modern and the beautiful. This museum is open from 10 AM to 5 PM.
A tourist can hire or share a boat ride based on the number of hours
King of Warangal built this fort which is one of the rarest edifices India boasts of. The height of the fort is 400
and the circumference of the fort wall is 5 miles with 87 semi-circular bastions. The fort has nine gates, namely, Fateh Darwaja, Banja Darwaja, Pattancheru Darwaja, Bahmani Darwaja, Jamati Darwaja, Moti Darwaja, Mecca Darwaja, New Fort Darwaja and Bodli Darwaja of which nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 are open to public now. height made up of granite stones weighing eight tonnes.
The Hindustan Charity Trust, a Birla foundation has constructed this amazing temple of exquisite craftsmanship at Kala Pahad opposite to Noubat Pahad with Lord Venkateswara at 9.5
1. Fateh Darwaja – the main gate of the fort.
2. Ravindra Bharati – the famous National Theatre of Hyderabad
3. Osmania University – established in 1918
4. Nehru Zoological Park – situated beside Mir Alam Tank Road, 2kms. From Charminar. It is the biggest park of its kind in India.
5. Osman Sagar – a reservoir built in 1920 across the Musi River, 20kms. away from the city covering an area of 18 square miles
6. Ajanta Pavillion – has arts and paintings of the like of Ajanta & Ellora Caves near the building of Hyderabad Museum.
7. Qutub Sahi Tombs
8. Macca Masjid – a fine monument of Oriental Architecture & Islamic art of 16th century AD.
Hyderabad is the city of pearls and unless you visit a pearl merchant of the likes of Mangat Rai at Charminar or at other places, you cannot give your friends and relatives a better presentation at a cheaper rate.
For Biriyani, a good number of standard outlets exist unless you visit big ones for better taste, and, of course, with better cost.
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AIM: To review the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on Registered Nurses and nursing students. BACKGROUND: Work-related stress among nurses is estimated to be the biggest occupational health problem after musculoskeletal disorders. DESIGN: A mixed-method systematic review incorporating quantitative and qualitative data was conducted.
Professional values are integrated into undergraduate nursing curricula and taught in various ways. A significant influence on students' developing values and their definition of a 'good nurse' are the nurses they interact with in practice. The aim of this paper is to present the findings from a study that explored the professional values that graduating students viewed as important and how these values were illustrated in the behaviours of the nurses whose clinical practice they admired and wished to emulate.
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Out on a Limb Apple CSA Newsletter Wednesday, September 15th
Greetings from Palermo! Each week during the apple season we explore both familiar and uncharted territory in various orchards around Maine. This past Monday we traveled to several places - an old orchard in North Jay whose owners were interested in having John identify some of their mystery trees, The Apple Farm, in Fairfield, Cayford Orchards in Skowhegan, and lastly to Francis Fenton's wonderful Sandy River Orchard in Mercer to enjoy some pleasant conversation, pick some Wealthys, and gather more samples for the Common Ground Fair. We excitedly deliver to you week #2's apples and hope you find them as tasty as we do.
This week's apples:
Martha Crab M. baccata seedling. Excelsior, MN, c. 1889. A large-fruited crab apple suitable for fresh eating as well as for jellies, jams and other cooking enterprises, Martha has extremely crisp yellowish flesh and a sweet and sour flavor that really packs a punch. Jason Davis of Cayford Orchards in Skowhegan introduced me to the old tree during a visit a few years ago. The crab had been part of his family's orchard for generations. The tree is medium-sized, annually bearing, extremely long-lived and hardy. Grown conventionally.
Beacon Malinda x Wealthy) U of Minnesota, 1936. A dessert (fresh eating) variety also suited to sauce and other cooking, Beacon has a slightly thick skin and a firm crisp texture. The flavor is mild, subtly acidic and not overpowering. It would go well with cheese. It also might be good in a pie but we haven't tried it here. Very heavy bearing and extremely hardy, Beacon is Mark Fulford's most consistantly reliable tree at Teltane Farm. It was Mark who introduced me to the apple many years ago. Grown organically.
St. Lawrence Early fall. Thought to be a Fameuse seedling. Canada, 18th century or earlier. Recommended particularly for sauce, the very white flesh is dense, firm and mildly sub-acid. It's not sweet. The medium-sized roundish fruit is easily recognized for its light green skin and very distinct dark red stripes. One of the classic northern New England varieties, it's still found occasionally in old orchards. the extremely hardy tree bears good to heavy annual crops, ripening unevenly over several weeks. Like most other early season varieties, not a storage apple. From The Apple Farm, grown using IPM (integrated pest management). Red Gravenstein Late Summer. Uncertain Italian or German origin, 17th century or earlier. The most famous of all pie apples, Gravenstein is also good for dessert and sauce. There are numerous strains of the apple, this deep purple-red strain can be found in old orchards in southern Maine. Mary Jones used this Red Gravenstein from Sweetser's Orchard in Cumberland to win the Maine State Pie Championship a few years ago. She told me it's "sweet but very hard to describe…real nice…full-bodied…wonderful flavor." Ripens earlier than most cooking apples, over the course of several weeks. It's a minor miracle that Mary "somehow saved them until January for the State Championship." The tree is large, vigorous, perfectly shaped and hardy to about central Maine. Grown conventionally. Wealthy Fall. Cherry crab seedling. Excelsior, MN, 1868. An absolutely excellent all-purpose variety, Wealthy is also considered to be one of the best of all pie apples. The flavor is more sweet than tart and the texture is soft without being mushy. The fruit ripens over a long period. It's also a good acid source for fermented cider. Our old friend, long-time orchardist, 95-year-old Francis Fenton of Sandy River Orchards, believes Wealthy—not McIntosh—should be the favorite commercial apple of northern New England. The trees his father planted in Mercer 104 years ago are still going strong. The naturally small sized extremely hardy tree is productive moderately vigorous and long-lived. Grown conventionally.
Variety Spotlight: Peter Gideon & Wealthy, Martha, and Beacon
Peter Gideon was born in Ohio in 1818. When he was still young, his family moved to Illinois. In 1849, he married Wealthy Hull. Wealthy was a descendant of Joseph Hull, founder of Barnstable Mass, and the niece of Isaac Hull, commander of "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812. Peter and Wealthy moved to Minnesota in 1853 where they farmed and raised seven children in Excelsior. Gideon was a man with a mission. Soon after arriving in Excelsior, he planted 350 apple trees from seed, and thus began his long search for an apple hardy enough to survive in Minnesota. Years earlier back in England, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew had unknowingly assisted him in his effort when in 1784 they imported the Siberian crab (Malus baccata). Siberian was subsequently the first crab to be imported into the US, long before the days of small, pink flowering trees on suburban lawns. Siberian is a huge tree with small, variable fruit, suitable for jelly. It is exceedingly hardy and crosses easily with the domestic apple. Gideon was perhaps the first to take note that M. baccata imparted its hardiness to its seedlings. He determined that the future of apple breeding in northern areas would be to cross M. baccata with common apples.
In about 1860 he sent to Bangor, Maine for seeds of Cherry Crab, a variety of Siberian crab (or Siberian cross) of unknown origin with small yellow fruit and a red blush. Sending to Maine for seed was an expensive endeavor in those days, and Gideon was not a rich man. How he even knew about the seed source in Bangor is only a guess. But he did. The result was a seedling apple that he named 'Wealthy' after his wife. Wealthy became an instant hit in Excelsior, then throughout the state, and before long, in all northern fruit growing areas.
In 1875 Gideon became the first superintendent of the Minnesota State Experimental Fruit Farm in Excelsior. The farm later introduced many excellent apples, pears, plums and small fruits. Its most important introduction has been Honeycrisp, but HC is only the most recent in a long line than began during Peter Gideon's tenure as director. One of the many apples the farm has introduced along the way was Beacon, a Wealthy x Malinda cross. Gideon continued to cross crabs and apples. His most well known apple after Wealthy is called "Gideon". There are still old Gideon trees in Maine, including an ancient one at Peacemeal Farm in Dixmont. He also introduced a number of edible crabs, including Martha and Florence, both named for his daughters. Gideon died in 1899.
This week's recipes:
Apple Honey Custard Pie, from the famed Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen. Featuring Flaky Butter Pastry from Apple of Your Pie, by Eileen Maher Kronauer. If you love custard AND apple pies, like we do, this is the right recipe to try as fall approaches. A warm, soothing custard really adds to the familiar apple pie flavor. Substitute maple syrup as the sweetener for a positively New England experience.
Crust: (makes two shells! either make two pies at once or freeze for later!) 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ½ tsp. salt 1 Tbsp. sugar 15 Tbsp. cold, unsalted butter cut into ½ in. pieces 1 large egg, slightly beaten 8-10 Tbsp. ice water
Filling: 2 cups peeled, cored, and sliced apples 4 large eggs ¾ cup honey 1 cup yogurt 1 tsp. vanilla ½ tsp. cinnamon ¼ tsp. salt Crust directions: Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Using a pastry blender or your hands, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal with pea-sized bits. Refrigerate 10 minutes to chill. Whisk together egg and water in a small bowl. Add three tablespoons of egg mixture to dry ingredients, stirring with a wooden spoon, then continue to add egg mixture one tablespoon at a time until dough begins to clump together. Form dough into two balls, then flatten into two 4-inch disks, wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough from the center, rotating with every roll to ensure an even circle. Transfer to pie plate, trimming and decorating the edges as desired.
Filling directions: Preheat oven to 375˚. Spread apple slices evenly over the unbaked pie shell. Combine remaining ingredients in the blender and run at high speed for several seconds. Pour custard over apples. Sprinkle on some nuts (walnuts or almonds recommended), if desired. Bake 45 minutes or until solid when jiggled. Cool to about room temperature before cutting.
Apple Cheddar Pizza, courtesy of Matt Warren, a friend who works for Clover, a popular food truck that cooks up local vegetarian food in downtown Boston. This pizza was a hit, and especially delicious with Red Gravensteins!
Pizza dough for 1 pizza 1 large red onion, sliced 2 small (or 1 medium) apples, sliced very thin 2-3 cloves garlic, minced very fine 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded 2 Tbsp. neutral oil of your choice
Directions: Caramelize onions over low heat with a bit of oil and a pinch of salt until brown and sugary. (Be careful not to let it burn!) Roll out dough and transfer to greased baking pan, stretching dough to fit pan as much as possible without tearing. Coat pizza lightly with oil. Shape crust. Spread garlic evenly over pizza (but not the crust). Add caramelized onions to pizza in an even layer. Add apple slices, leaving 1/2 inch between each slice. (The slices must be very thin or they will not cook quickly enough.) Cover pizza with cheese, being careful not to cover apple slices too thickly. Bake at 500˚ until crust is brown, cheese is melted, and apples are cooked.
If you have any recipes or tips you'd like to share, please comment on our blog at http://outonalimbcsa.wordpress.com/
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." -Mark Twain
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Fats are on the forefront of our minds everyday. As new studies crop up, the choices can seem all the more confusing. But here's the skinny on fats as it stands today.
Not all fat is bad. In fact, including fat in the diet is necessary for healthy functioning. Fats and oils supply calories and essential fatty acids, and help us to absorb important fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E and K. Rather than trying to avoid fat altogether, consider the type and the amount.
A healthy eating pattern means that 20 to 35 per cent of your daily caloric intake should come from fat. For women, that equates to between 45 to 75 grams, and for men, somewhere between 60 to 105 grams. Fat in the diet comes from two sources; the "hidden" fats that are already in the foods we eat, and "added' fat such as salad dressings, spreads like butter or margarine, and cooking oil. Read the Nutrition Facts Panel on packaged foods to learn how much fat is in a product, limit the amount of fat you add to foods, and choose "healthier" fats.
Not all fats are created equal. Let's start with the less healthy fats. First we have the saturated fats. Saturated fats can be found in processed foods or foods made with hydrogenated oils such as lard. Saturated fats are also in hard margarines and animal products like butter, full-fat dairy and fatty meat, as well as some cooking oils such as coconut and palm oil. You should limit saturated fats. The unhealthiest fat is trans fats. Try to avoid trans fats altogether. Trans fats are found in commercially prepared baked foods like doughnuts and pastries, deep-fried foods, and many packaged cookies and crackers. Again, read the Nutrition Facts Panel on packaged foods to check for trans fats. And watch for the words "vegetable shortening" or 'partially hydrogenated oil' in ingredient lists; that tells you there are trans fats in the product. Both saturated and trans fats are linked to a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
Now for the good fats! Healthy fats are unsaturated, and include monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Canada's Food Guide recommends including a small amount -- 2 to 3 tablespoons -- of unsaturated fats in your diet daily. Choose soft, non-hydrogenated margarine, and when you cook with oil, stick with unsaturated varieties such as olive, canola, soybean or peanut oil. But remember -- when it comes to calories, fat is fat. Even healthy fat is relatively high in calories, so use sparingly. A little bit of healthy fat in the diet is good for your heart, but too much can be bad, because it can contribute to obesity and other factors related to heart disease.
Try these tips for getting the right amount, and the right type, of fat in your diet:
• Nuts are a great choice for a healthy snack because they contain fibre that helps with satiety (fullness) and they are a source of healthy (unsaturated) fats. Choose unsalted, and pre-portion nuts to single serving size--which is ¼ cup.
• Fish, especially cold water fish like salmon, mackerel, rainbow trout and sardines, is an excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids, a type of polyunsaturated fat associated with heart health. Enjoy fish at least twice a week.
• When having meat, choose leaner cuts, trim visible fat and use a lower fat cooking method like broiling or grilling. Remove skin from chicken before cooking.
• Experiment with fresh herbs, lemon juice and vinegars to add flavour to potatoes and vegetables instead of butter, and when baking replace half the oil in the recipe with unsweetened applesauce.


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Just footsteps from my door is a beaver dam surrounded by a beautiful wetland. I walk by it almost every day, but as yet have been unable to spot the reclusive residents that live in One Beaver Place. And that is part of the mystery of beaver lodges for me; all the excitement is taking place under the cover of mud and branches. As a lover of all creatures, I'd like to think that this small wetland created by my flat tailed friends is a beneficial part of our neighborhood. So, I decided to do some research and find out more about these elusive critters . . .
Simply put, beavers build dams on rivers or streams, then build their lodge in the newly created pond. Using their sharp front teeth, they cut trees and dense plant material to first construct a the dam wall, then move on to making the lodge, which provides a durable habitat for them to live in safely all year. Beavers do not hibernate, and as herbivores feed year round on stored branches, underwater vegetation, and wetland grasses. The female beaver may be larger than the male, both ranging up to 50 pounds, with a lifespan of 20 years in the wild. They have poor eyesight, but the beaver's good hearing, sense of smell and strong webbed feet help them to avoid danger. They will rapidly slap their tail on the water to sound an alarm, then quickly dive under water for up to 15 minutes to elude predators.
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A raffle featuring donations from local businesses, a baked goods table and a "pink out" table featuring dollar store cancer support items all contributed to the $535 final amount.
The event was organized with a $40 budget by first-time fundraising coordinator and team mom, Michelle Burr.
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If you've ever watched a talent competition on TV and thought "I really wish they'd all just go for broke and leave everything they have on the stage," this is the half-episode for you. This is the most in-your-face hour of the show ever. Please put your tray tables in the upright and locked position.
[Time-stamps still need to be finalized, sorry.]
[SPOILER ALERT for near the end, kind of. Although if you're reading this and can understand it without watching and enjoying the whole thing first, stop wasting time on the Internet and use your joyless robot-like focus to go cure cancer or something.]
This show has a way of making me appreciate songs I didn't appreciate before, and Pentatonix is about to do that with "Dog Days Are Over", whose popular recording (by Florence + the Machine) doesn't seem to go anywhere and holds no interest for me. But before that, they immediately make that same arranging misstep they made last week by exposing a 6th between Kirstie and Mitch [0:08], and Kirstie is doubling Scott's note, so while it's technically a triad, it's really spread out and choral (not in a good way). But then they morph into a VImi9(no5) [0:11] that's downright chilling, partly because that's how you use dissonance, and partly because Avi is projecting a double-low B(!) that I'd be lucky to hit after a good night's sleep. They repeat the choral-to-chilling progression again, and then Mitch & Kirstie do this dead-on staccato violin-ish figure (one on 8th-notes, the other hitting a 16th-note occasionally) [0:28], which mostly stays on the tonic but sounds like it's moving even when it isn't. At this point I'm suspecting that they're going to sidestep the harmonic-boredom issue of the original song by changing the textures instead. And when they start slowly marching forward, the audience cheers [0:49], because even they know that something insane is bound to happen.
The tempo doubles, they go all-out dynamically, and by the chorus [1:08] they're doing this freaky lurching march that reminds me of either Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video or a poem that Charles Ives set to music. The descending "gone" [1:14] is really striking for some reason; there's something about the tone of Kirstie's and Scott's voices in tandem, like they were meant to shred their vocal chords together. The sudden transition from good old-fashioned screamin' into Mitch's pretty solo [1:21] confirms that they're playing with textures the way that Afro-Blue plays with harmony; this hasn't been an harmonic journey, but it's felt like a journey anyway. I get really nervous for Mitch here, because the stability of the pitch of the song is resting on his shoulders, but he pulls through.
There's a staggered entrance under the solo [1:36], and since there's no cue in the lead and we're way out of tempo, I wonder if the staggering is intentional or a subtle mistiming-- either way it's pretty! Following the most sedate harmonies we've heard from Pentatonix all season, Mitch ends with his first all-out belting note of the season (he's been saving that this whole time?), and then all belting hell breaks loose with all three uppers singing at the top of their ranges [1:52]. When Mitch & Kirstie re-sync [1:55], they're in 3rds, and this is why 3rds are better than 6ths: when the arrangement counts on volume and you've only got two voices to work with, 3rds work better acoustically, even if it doesn't complete the chord. Oh, and then this section ends with Scott belting too [2:05], and then Scott belts some more like he's being punched in the gut, and then the whole thing climaxes with all three belting for four beats [2:29] and then everyone abruptly cutting off mid-note to expose the lead; even Kevin's snare cuts off perfectly. When the audience stands to applaud, I feel like they should just drop their mics and storm off-stage. Good gravy, people.
And this is the opening number of the challenge. What a gauntlet to throw down. (And offstage, Avi's a big mush! God bless 'im.)
Considering the role that "All Of The Lights" (o/b/p Kanye West) plays in recent contemporary a-cappella lore, Urban Method had better hit this one out of the park. (A second song "featuring Rihanna"! My goodness, she's everywhere.)
Great stabs (sorry to get violent on such a violent song!) on that dissonant ostinano [x:xx] leads to an oddly blended VII* that distracts me for a moment. On Mykal's entrance, they use what sounds like a combination of their great group flange (harking back to episode 1) combined with Liz's super-cool high phasing thing. They build really well on that texture (while Mykal isn't a marquee singing soloist, he's a better singer than Kanye West), but under "ghetto university" (end of phrase) they lose the chord-- sounds like [?] is going for a III root and may have lost his intonation in his turn to Mykal, and even then it doesn't match anyone else. More good textures under the next section, but Kim and Liz(?) sing an empty 4th (implying VII) on "all of the lights" (end of phrase again), everybody loses their tuning again with the under "y'all to see this" (end of phrase yet again), and then come back to some great dissonances. Usually a group will either be well-tuned all around or not gel, but they're back-and-forth; like Afro-Blue in previous episodes, they sometime hope the energy will help them coast through but they forget to solidify their transitions between phrases.
Mykal's rap from the chair is backed with that great dissonant ostinato again (which is far better than that cheesy horn synth Kanye uses), and I could listen to that all day. At the end of the second time around… they peter out at the end of the phrase(!), like half of them forgot to sing. Weird! The rest of the section goes well, with what sounds like adapting the notes of the dissonant ostinato into block harmonies on text, and it works really well ("all I can say is ohhhhhhhh" in particular), and the transition into the bridge is really, really solid. The bridge itself is solid too and keeps up the intensity… and now, the moment we've all been waiting for: the microphone wave. I've seen groups move their mics for effect before (M-pact's technique** in particular is seared into my brain), but this takes it up a notch [x:xx].
I just wish this had been a chord and not just a unison! Man, that'd been hot! Tony's trumpet is somewhat better than [?]'s saxophone from earlier, and background block is okay, but I'm still distracted (in a good way) by the octave mic wave. They suddenly transition into loud mode, and it's a full texture, but Katie bites off more than she can chew on the high notes [x:xx]. I mean, she hits the note, but she just sounds yelpy way up there and better serves the group singing in the middle of her range, which of course is the opposite of what the judges have been implying about her. Still, they're definitely "leaving it all on the stage", and it's a very effective performance all around. And speaking of Katie and the judges…
The judges keep putting Katie on a pedestal [x:xx, x:xx], almost like they're trying to create a cult of personality around her so that voters have something to hang their mental hat on-- Mykal (or Tony or Liz or any of the rest) aren't enough? Speaking of the rest, Ozzie, previously known to me only as The Short Guy for the last nine episodes, finally gets recognized by Ben Folds; go baritones! (Well, he's marginally shorter than Tony's mohawk, anyway.)
(Why does Nick Lachey start laughing for no reason [x:xx]? A rare hiccup from the otherwise great editors? Also, in the backstage interview, I'm just now realizing how ridiculous Tony's and Mykal's outifts are: crisp purple button-downs and ties, then striped hoodies and scarves, then jackets on top… how many layers are they contractually obligated to wear? And in L.A. during the summer?!)
Shawn Stockman says here that Afro-Blue "have to understand that every song doesn't need a jazz chord, it just needs some heart." For God's sake, enough already with the "heart". Oh wait, the judges chose Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come". They're really forcing the group's hand (or heart) here!
No surprise, Afro-Blue is playing it safe (Aires-style) with Christie on the lead, and they wisely pick up the tempo from the Cooke original. Tasty five-part chords, including a IV9 - IIIalt9 - VImi9 progression they do in both A sections*** [x:xx and x:xx], raises the hope that they're going to use the jazz chords. (Yes, IV-III-VImi is in the original, but not like this.) The dynamics are really good here, even though the range so far has been from soft to very soft.
The B section [x:xx] contains Christie's best solo work of the season-- she's leaving enough on stage for everybody else-- over a certainly tasty but surprisingly harmonically static background, until they start the build to the next section, which has more pivots around on a V9 chord than most other groups' songs have total chords, and yet it seems lazy for them. And the final A section [1:40?] is awesomely twisty. I'm not even going to try to analyze the chords here, but damn this really works. (Kevin from Pentatonix stands up in his opera box to confirm this.) In the coda they repeat that great progression [x:xx], and then they start marching forward, singing in the most guttural gospel style we've heard this season [x:xx], starting low and eventually inverting up to raising the roof, melodically and metaphorically. They shout out a strong bVII/bVI that leaves us floating exquisitely in the air… and Reggie does his most overt conducting the season, which I would normally find distracting, but it's so visually effective here, it being part of the church vibe and a declaration of (presumed) finality at the end of the competition. And what's their declaration? A major triad. The simplest chord they've sung this whole season, and it's heart-breakingly powerful. "Sure, we can end on a long major chord like everybody else. Wanna hear it? Here it goes. BOOOOOOOOOOOM."
Since this is Afro-Blue's last full song of the competition, let's acknowledge what's been sitting in plain sight this whole time: we've got an (essentially) black group, from a historically-black college, promoting the best of the African-American musical tradition, singing a song about segregation (and with a white girl on alto to boot). When Christie started ad-libbing and Reggie conducted the final sequence, I teared up a little, I won't deny it. (I also teared up the second, third, fourth and fifth time I saw it. I will deny the sixth time, just so I can keep my man card.)
(I'm a little annoyed that Integriti's only "solo" moment in this whole season, aside from a mere seven beats in "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (episode 5), is in the backstage interview. The only reason I even know her name is from NBC's web site! And earlier was the first we'd heard Ozzie's name mentioned at all on-screen. Shame on y'all, Outlaw Productions. At least mix up the interviews in the video packages so everybody gets at least one chyron at some point.)
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100 15 of them, a/k/a The Dartmouth Aires. Sara explains the judges' choice of "Shout" (o/p/b the Isley Brothers, also popularized by Otis Day & the Knights) as "bringing a party to the stage", and Samantha and I were immediately wary. I personally find "Shout" to be one of those songs that's more interesting in the verses than the choruses ("Grenade" being a more recent example), and I hope that the Aires can not only bring some harmonic interest to the chorus, but also not turn the traditional cut-time into a hoedown. And Michael O.-O.'s taking lead. Again. If they win the record contract, they may as well call them "Michael and the Aires", because I don't know half of these guys' names and might not even be able to recognize their faces, and I've been blogging this show for ten weeks.
Just like in "Sympathy for the Devil", somebody's singing a 3rd (A below middle C) of the tonic (F) out of tune over and over [x:xx], which is a problem considering half the song is on the tonic. I understand what they're trying to do with the lower syncopated figures, but it's got to hit the right pitch every time or it sounds like an afterthought. Upon further listening, it sounds like there's three guys singing that 3rd! Why?! The "say you will" part [x:xx] is less muddy-- low notes are fine as long they're offset by something else, otherwise it's like a really chipper dirge. The syncopated 3rd continues its out-of-tune charge through the arrangement, in the form of "you gotta, you gotta" [x:xx] that's worse than before. Hard to believe this is the same group that delivered a precise "Bohemian Rhapsody" and well-layered "Save a Horse..." a few weeks earlier; the frenetic choreography is taking a serious toll here.
I figure the bridge, which is traditionally slower and bluesier, will be better for them, but as good as their blend is, they seem to be singing the wrong chords; everything stays on the tonic despite the tenors reaching up to that high ^flat-7. Actually, I'm hearing lower tenors(?) singing ^b3-^2-^1 in parallel fifths with the "correct" ^b7-^6-^5 on "noooooooobody else", and it further muddles the situation. I know, I normally don't judge based on "original recordings", but both of the popular recordings of this song have so much more going on in that section, with quick I-IV-I7-IV-I progressions up top even the background, that this seems like a simplification.
Choral time! The oo's are well-blended [x:xx], but the VI back to I feels rushed, like a bad edit. Why even go back to the tonic-- why not hang out on the IV to build some tension? What's the rush? And to get us to Michael hamming it up unnecessarily? Interesting that they don't parallel that rush back to I the second time [x:xx], where they instead stay on IV for what feels like forever (to point where the guys are catching breaths all over the place) underneath [?]'s squealing and Michael's "You been so good to me"; I wonder why that choice was made.
The final section starts fairly full and high energy, and their play on the softer/louder gimmick [x:xx] is very clever. I really like the sub-section that follows the judges' cameos [x:xx], where they go all-out up-tempo gospel (I can practically see the tambourines); yes, it resembles a hoe-down, but at least it's got a lot of layers to it-- longer figures, the syncopated figures, the bass/VP of course, and somebody screaming at the top of their lungs-- and they're visually committing to it (and how!). When they all fall down the first time, here's an example of an obtrusive conductor diminishing the effect of the staging [x:xx]. If everyone is supposed to get knocked out by Michael, they could've gone with him building in a cue in his solo; it doesn't even look like anybody's looking at the conductor anyway! (Michael's charisma is reflected in Kim's grin from the opera box.)
For their first "conducted" chord, I think it's a IV, but it's a little fuzzy. And like Afro-Blue, they holler a I for their final chord [x:xx]. Verdict: Afro-Blue did it better, although that slide into it was really good. And they do literally leave everything, including their unconscious bodies, on the stage. (I'm not liking the visual implication here that Michael is controlling everybody and reveling in it-- living up to the "God-like" as Ben put in the video package. It's a little creepy.)
So, at the end of this party, I'm putting The Aires at the bottom, but only marginally. This is such a strong top 4, I have to split hairs, especially when taking the quality of the whole season into account. But instead, Afro-Blue and the Aires have to go head-to-head for the final spot, allegedly because the judges were deadlocked. (An odd number of judges deadlocked? Seems mathematically unlikely. Also, I heard a rumor that the judges ultimately consulted with the producers until the wee hours, but for all I know they started taping at midnight.)
Afro-Blue chose (I presume well in advance) an abridged "American Boy" for their encore, and it's stronger than the first time (in episode 3). The harmonies are thicker (skipping the opening of the verse was a good iead), the moving figures are more assured, Eliza's even sultrier on her super-short solo, the movement is more fluid, the Brooklyn shout-out is clearer, the balance on the end sequence is 100% better… oh man, this is stellar.
The opening chords of The Aires' "Somebody To Love" [x:xx] are as beautiful as they were in episode 7, but Michael seems to be hamming up even more this time. (Even the bass is looks bewildered, not in a staged way, but genuinely, like he's wondering how and/or why Michael is holding that note out for so long.) They stay on pitch, they keep up the energy, and the last chord (Iadd2, what else?) is beautiful as well, but taking the degree of difficulty into consideration, there's no contest here.
Also, taking the record contract into account in my hypothetical "decision", I'd assumed that the producers would want to get the Aires out of the way so they wouldn't have a musical fraternity-- one that also simultaneous exists in the parallel dimension of college-- to deal with. A friend on Facebook put it this way:
I just can't see the producers allowing a college group to win. It's too problematic for them. These kids are all going to drop out for a $200K music contract? Remember there are more than a dozen in the group... "Um, mom... dad… I want to drop out from Dartmouth to sing a-cappella music with 14 other guys. We even get $13,000 each! What? You never support anything I do! I hate you!"
Sara goes with the Aires… Shawn goes with Afro-Blue… and Ben, in a vague, terse statement that has launched the conspiracy theories on the intertubes again (and somewhat contradicts his own blog), goes with the Aires. The idea of a final without Afro-Blue would've been inconceivable in week 1, and honestly, I'm still having trouble conceiving it now. My favorite conspiracy theory: Sony didn't want another Take-6-style jazz-R&B group again and pushed the judges to eliminate them. If it's true: What do you want, Sony? If jazz-R&B groups are superior, then jazz-R&B groups are superior.
Well, there it is, the final round. (I'm posting this several hours after voting closed, but you should've voted anyway!) I'll chime in again with a summary of the finale and some final thoughts about the season. However, I won't be writing about the season finale in nearly as much detail as usual, as it's not a competitive episode, I'm not adept at live-action snark for snark's sake (that's this guy's job), and I'll be watching it in a bar surrounded by far snarkier people. Yay a-cappella community!
* We're in a minor key, which is rare on this show, so III, VI and VII are the minor-scale versions, i.e. "flatted" in relation to the parallel major scale (whatever it is).
** If anyone can recall the song-- it's a jazz-rock tune, I think, and they sing two quick notes on mic, then immediately pull the mics away and echo themselves-- I'd appreciate the help. I last heard it in '03(?) at the IAJE convention, probably.
*** I'm presuming the structure of the song is A-A-B-A'-coda.
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WARREN BLOOM is a vegetarian libertarian feminist capitalist musician educator. He was a founding member of mixed pop group Spur Of The Moment at Brandeis Univ., sang with Jazz Vocal 2 at the Univ. of Miami (Best College Jazz Choir runner-up, 1997 DownBeat awards), and musical-directed the summer pro group The Hyannis Sound. Since returning home to New York, he's been musical director and/or bass and/or VP for numerous a-cappella projects in NYC, including pop/jazz quintet Doo*Wa*Zoo (Best Jazz Song nominee, 2000 CARAs), pop/rock sextet Dobsonfly (heard in the film The Rules of Attraction) and rock/R&B septet Invisible Men (Audience Favorite, 2005 New York Harmony Sweepstakes; 4 out of 5 on RARB). He served as a staff arranger for an early incarnation of Total Vocal, and was MD, co-arranger and sound tech for Minimum Wage's Blue Code Ringo at the 2002 NYC Fringe Festival (Best Musical Comedy Act, 2002 Time Out New York year-end awards), and co-arranger for their 2007 off-Broadway production. He spent a year as a composer/lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, but left to be director of instrumental music at Talent Unlimited High School in Manhattan. He currently teaches general music (K-5) at the Robert Fulton School (P.S. 8) in Brooklyn Heights, and has spent nine summers teaching musical theater (middle & high school) at the Usdan Center for the Arts in Huntington, L.I. "On the side" he's judged 17 ICCA and ICHSA shows since 2002 (including both 2006 finals), and is a freelance voiceover artist, live sound tech and music copyist. He holds music degrees from Brandeis Univ., the Univ. of Miami and CUNY Hunter College. He's from the beigest place in the world, and currently resides with his cutie and her cat in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Final episodePosted by dntodd on 11/27/2011
I agree that was a powerful last hour of the final episode. Dog Days Are Over was my favorite performance of the entire season by any group. I think you phrased it perfectly - Pentatonix is for texture what Afro Blue is for harmony. And how about Avi's overtones at the beginning?
To feed the conspiracy, just go to Ben Folds blog on the nbc website. He openly states that Afro Blue was his personal favorite.
Thanks for sharing thisPosted by padmalakshmi on 02/06/2012
I think you phrased it perfectly - Pentatonix is for texture what Afro Blue is for harmony. And how about Avi's overtones at the beginning? online high school


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I struggle to find the words to describe how content I feel sat in a small field listening to sheep. One of Iceland's best glaciers sits a few kilometres back down the road. I can see four different waterfalls from my tent and all around me is a mix of the sound of the wind, of animals and the rustling of my tent. Two birds chase each other through the warm light, flying fast across the field before diving in to a patch of scrubby long grass. As always the campsite is filling later in the day. I have been quietly enjoying the sun for hours and only now is it starting to get busy. I came to Svinafell, just past Skaftafell because the campsite is quieter, better maintained and the showers are included!
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We're there interesting points in my day that might take this beyond an unusually short two paragraphs? Yes. There was a drive-by shooting at the small waterfall I was taking photographs of. I was finishing up my own work and the small pull over area was getting crowded. I had spent some time being too polite with a German landscape photographer. I had arrived first and she had dashed over as I was setting up and began taking her own photos. Then she looked sheepishly sorry. Something about also pulling an SLR out of my bag made her realise what she had done, but I explained that I was in no rush and sat around enjoying the rushing sound of the water and exploring around the site. Waiting is important too and it gave me time to look for other photographs.
As I was packing up and getting back in the 4x4 a white car screamed to a halt, in lane on the 1. There was the faint sound of recorded noises for digital camera and then it tore off again. Thankfully the traffic in this part of Iceland is so sparse that you can just about get away with this kind of behaviour without having someone run into the back of you. There are a number of people that I have met along the way who are in Iceland as part of the stop over program that Iceland Air now run where you may have a 7 day stop over for no extra cost in one direction. I am here for three weeks and even then I think I will struggle to do the 1 route in that time and have certainly got plenty to come back for and have several different types of holidays. Seven days would be an immense, rip-stop tour of absolute highlights but even then, would you really be in such a rush as to not pull over and open a car door? In such a beautiful place, that is 'I've been there and here's proof' pushed to an extreme.
This evening I have also demonstrated Botha great act of planning and a terrible lapse in preparation. I don't have any beer. Even when I went to the petrol station that is also Skaftafell's cafe and corners shop, I forgot to pick some up. I did however come away with some tourist tat and mutton salami (it's apparently a local delicacy and really good!). But it's ok - when passing through Gatwick, I grabbed a bottle of a rather pleasant single malt to see me around. I opened it this evening and am not disappointed! And so I'm sat in the growing golden light of another beautiful Icelandic day. Here's to the rest of you! Sláinte mhath!


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As part of V-Day -- the global movement aimed at stopping violence against girls and women -- Big Soul Productions and Native Earth stage a benefit reading of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, directed by Jani Lauzon. Couldn't ask for better talent, with performers including Michelle St. John, Jennifer Podemski, Kristen Thomson, Six Nations Chief Roberta Jamieson and others. There's also a pre-show silent auction and music by Tamara Podemski, Fides Krucker and Lauzon.
Proceeds from the show fund Nekenaan Second Stage Housing and Nellie's. This year, 10 per cent of V-Day's worldwide proceeds go to aboriginal women's organizations. See listings, page 72, for details.
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Caught three of the productions at Madness And Arts 2003, an international fest that examines the connection between creativity and mental illness. The most striking was Ryuzanji & Company's Educating Mad Persons, a stylized piece by Shuji Terayama in which an eccentric Japanese family tries to find and kill its one mad member in order to maintain family honour. A blend of traditional and postmodern theatre, it features not only the six family members but also six black-clad puppeteers who physically manipulate them. In the hands of a disciplined acrobatic troupe the result was marvellously theatrical.
Mental health is a difficult topic to broach with many people, but it's even harder to discuss with youngsters. Nicola Baldwin's Cracked, presented by London's Y Touring Company, tried to cram too much narrative content into an hour-long piece about a teenager dealing with depression and a similarly troubled rock star she idolizes.
Better was Gayle Grass's Iris The Dragon, a piece by Workman Theatre Project directed by Patricia Vanstone, in which a worried, fearful boy (Darren Flynn) "whose brain is ill" gets support and advice from an otter (Colin Doyle) and a swamp dragon (Ellen-Ray Hennessy). In green, gold and red and dragging a 20-pound scaly tail, Hennessy charmed the young audience with her energy and heart. The festival continues with other productions; see listings, page 72, for details.


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