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fruit mince tarts
- 1 quantity shortcrust pastry
- milk, for brushing
- icing (confectioner's) sugar, to dust
fruit mince filling
- ½ cup grated Granny Smith (green) apple
- ¼ cup (40g) currants
- ¼ cup (35g) slivered almonds
- ¼ cup (35g) chopped pitted dates
- ¼ cup (30g) dried sweetened cranberries
- 25g butter, melted
- ½ cup (90g) brown sugar
- ¼ cup (60ml) orange juice
- To make the fruit mince filling, place apple, currants, almonds, dates, cranberries, butter, sugar and orange juice in a bowl, mix well, cover and soak for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 160°C (320°F). Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface until 3mm thick. Use a 6.5cm-round cookie cutter to cut out 24 rounds. Line 24 x 1½ tablespoon-capacity (30ml) lightly greased mini-muffin tins with the rounds and spoon in the filling. Re-roll pastry scraps to 3mm thick and use a small star cookie cutter to cut out 24 stars. Brush tops with milk and bake for 25 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire racks and dust with icing sugar to serve. Makes 24.


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The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
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By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called . . . THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort's hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits—for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.
From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.


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Islamic State fighters in Libya have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes over the past 18 months. Many of the women captives are being turned into sex slaves to reward the extremist group's warriors.
Ruta Fisehaye, a 24-year-old Eritrean, was lying on the bed of the truck's first trailer. Beside her lay 85 Eritrean men and women, one of whom was pregnant. A few dozen Egyptians hid in the second trailer. All shared one dream — to reach Europe.
The gunmen ordered the migrants off the truck. They separated Muslims from Christians and, then, men from women. They asked those who claimed to be Muslims to recite the Shahada, a pledge to worship only Allah. All of the Egyptians shouted the words in unison.
"There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God."
"Allahu Akbar," the gunmen called back.
Fisehaye realized then that she was in the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Her captors wore robes with beige camouflage print — clothes she had not seen on other men in Libya. Most of them hid behind black ski masks. A black flag waved from one of their pickup trucks.
"We were certain that they were taking us to our deaths," recalled Fisehaye, a Christian who wears a black-thread necklace to symbolize her Orthodox faith. "We cried in despair."
Her captors had another end in mind.
As Islamic State battles to expand in Libya, it is rewarding its warriors by exploiting the great exodus of African migrants bound for Europe.
Since the group emerged in Libya in late 2014, some 240,000 migrants and refugees have traversed the war-torn country. Over the past 18 months, Islamic State fighters have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes, according to 14 migrants who witnessed the abductions and have since escaped to Europe.
The fighters then enslaved, raped, sold or exchanged at least 63 captive women, nine of whom described their ordeal in detail to Reuters. Their stories comprise the first corroborated account of how Islamic State turns refugee women into sex slaves using them as human currency to attract and reward fighters in Libya. It is the same blueprint of abuse it employed on Yazidi women in Syria and Iraq.
Because of its proximity to southern Europe, and its shared borders with six African nations, Libya is Islamic State's most important outpost outside Syria and Iraq. It is territory that the group is fighting hard to defend.
In August, U.S. fighter jets bombed Sirte — the stronghold of Islamic State in Libya — in an attempt to wrench the city from the group's control. The airstrikes have revived a stalled military assault that Libyan brigades launched earlier this summer.
Sirte is strategically important for Islamic State. The city sits on a highway connecting two hubs of Libya's people-smuggling trade — Ajdabiya in the northeast, where migrants stop to settle fees with smugglers, and fishing ports in the west, where boats depart for Europe every week.
From this bastion, Islamic State has found numerous ways to profit from the refugee crisis, despite the group's declaration that migration is "a dangerous major sin" in the September issue of its magazine, "Dabiq."
The extremist group has taxed smugglers in exchange for safe passage and has used well-beaten smuggling routes to bring in new fighters, according to Libyan residents interviewed by phone, a senior U.S. official and a U.N. Security Council report published in July.
Brigadier Mohamed Gnaidy, an intelligence officer with local forces mustered by the nearby town of Misrata, says Islamic State has recruited migrants to join its ranks, offering them money and Libyan brides.
It has also extracted human chattel from the stream of refugees passing through its territory, according to the accounts of Fisehaye and the other survivors who were interviewed. Five of six mass kidnappings verified by Reuters took place on a 160-km stretch near Sirte in March, June, July, August and September of last year. The sixth occurred near Libya's border with Sudan this January.
This story is based on interviews with Fisehaye, eight other women enslaved by Islamic State, and five men kidnapped by the group. Reuters spoke to the refugees in three European countries over four months. Two women agreed to speak on the record, risking the stigma that besets survivors of sexual violence. Reuters was unable to reach the Islamic State fighters in Libya or independently corroborate certain aspects of the women's accounts.
Before she left Eritrea, Fisehaye (rhymes with Miss-ha-day) felt trapped in her job as a storekeeper for a government-owned farm. Like most young Eritreans, she was a conscript in the country's long-term national service, which lasts well beyond the 18 months mandated by law. She could hardly get by on her meager wages of $36 a month. But she also felt she could not quit and risk angering the state, which is often accused of human-rights violations.
Fisehaye, a petite woman whose smile easily takes over her entire face, decided to take a risk. In January 2015, she walked across the border into Sudan with a cousin and two friends, her heart set on Europe.
In Khartoum, Sudan's capital, Fisehaye spent four months raising the $1,400 she needed to pay a smuggler for a trip to Libya. She tried and failed to find a lucrative job. So, like thousands of refugees before her, she called on relatives abroad to pitch in. She talked to recent émigrés and found an Eritrean smuggler whose clients gave him a glowing review.
Before setting off into the desert, she heard stories about armed outlaws who rape women in Libya. She paid a doctor for a contraceptive injection that would last for three months.
"Once you leave Eritrea, there is no going back. I did what any woman would do," she said.
The first leg of her journey went off without a hitch. In May, her convoy crossed the Sahara and reached Ajdabiya in northeast Libya. Fisehaye believed the worst was behind her. Though no one counts migrants who die from sickness, starvation and violence in the desert, refugee groups say more may perish there than drown in the Mediterranean Sea.
"No one stopped us in the Sahara … and the smugglers told us we shouldn't worry about Daesh," she said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State. "I never expected to see an organized state like theirs in Libya."
She was wrong.
On the night of the kidnapping, the armed Islamic State fighters ordered Fisehaye and the other Christians back onto the truck. The men climbed onto the front trailer and the women, 22 in all, onto the back. They drove east, threading the same road they had driven hours earlier. A pickup truck with a mounted machine gun trailed close behind.
A half hour later, the truck turned right onto a dirt road and the soft glow of a town's lights shimmered ahead. A few male captives had seen videos of Islamic State beheadings. Realizing the gunmen belonged to the group, the men jumped off and ran into the flat desert. Gunfire erupted. Some fell dead, others were rounded up. A few got away.
"We thought it would be better to get shot than beheaded," Hagos Hadgu, one of the men who jumped off the truck, said in an interview in Hållsta, Sweden. He wasn't caught that night and made it to Europe two months later. "We didn't want to die with our hands and legs bound. Even an animal needs to writhe in the hour of death."
The fighters deposited the migrants at an abandoned hospital perched in a scrubland near a desert town called Nawfaliyah. They searched the women for jewelry, lifting their sleeves and necklines with a rod, and hauled them into a small room where a Nigerian woman was being kept.
The next morning, one of the fighters' leaders, a man from West Africa, paid the women a visit. He brought a young boy, one of at least seven Eritrean children Islamic State had kidnapped in March, to serve as his translator.
"Do you know who we are?" the man asked.
The women were silent.
"We are al-dawla al-Islamiyyah," the man explained, using the Arabic for Islamic State.
He reminded the women that Islamic State was the group that had slain 30 Eritrean and Ethiopian Christians back in April, filmed the massacre, and posted the video online. The caliphate would spare their lives because they were women, he assured them, but only if they converted to Islam.
"Or we will let you rot here," he warned.
Fisehaye found conversion an unholy thought. Along with the other women, she fired a volley of questions at the man: Can we call our families and tell them where we are? Can they pay you a ransom for our freedom? Can you tell us what you did to our brothers? Our husbands?
The man offered few answers and no solace.
Three weeks later, in the first week of Ramadan in June, fighter jets bombed the abandoned hospital compound and some of the buildings collapsed. It is difficult to determine who was behind the attack. Both the U.S. military and western Libyan groups have claimed raids on nearby towns around that time.
In the ensuing chaos, Fisehaye and the other women sprinted past the debris and ran barefoot into the desert. The hot ground seared their feet. The captive men, who had been held in the same compound all along, ran ahead.
Before long, the fleeing captives made out the silhouettes of a pickup truck and men with assault rifles ahead of them. The armed men waved for the migrants to stop then opened fire. The women stopped. Most of the migrant men escaped, but eleven were rounded up and flogged. Their whereabouts are unknown.
The airstrikes continued through the week. Eventually, Islamic State fighters moved the women to the abandoned quarters of a Turkish construction company in Nawfaliyah, two hours away.
The makeshift prison housed graders and dozers from road-work projects of the mid-2000s, their metal bodies rusting under the intense heat. Itinerant workers had scribbled their names and countries on the compound's walls. Fisehaye and the other women stayed in a small room where the drywall sweated when temperatures rose. A Korean family — a pediatrician, his wife and her brother — were jailed in another room.
It only took a week for Fisehaye and the other women to attempt another breakout. Nine escaped, but not Fisehaye. Instead, she was brought back to the makeshift prison and whipped for days. The Korean doctor tended to her wounds.
A few weeks later, in early August, 21 other Eritrean women joined Fisehaye's group. They too had been kidnapped along a stretch of highway in central Libya. One woman came with her three children, aged five, seven and eleven.
Throughout the summer, Islamic State consolidated its hold in central Libya. In Sirte, Islamic State fighters crushed a Salafist uprising by executing dissenters and hanging their bodies from lampposts. In Nawfaliyah, they paraded decapitated heads to silence dissent.
Then, in September, the group's emir in Libya, Abul-Mughirah Al-Qahtani (more commonly known as Abu Nabil), advertised his domain's "great need of every Muslim who can come." He summoned fighters, doctors, legal experts and administrators who could help him build a functioning state. He levied hefty taxes on businesses and confiscated enemy property, just as his group had done in Syria and Iraq.
The ranks of Islamic State fighters swelled. At its peak, the group may have had 6,000 fighters in Libya, based on the U.S. Army's estimates, although the Pentagon drastically cut that estimate this month to a thousand fighters in Sirte.
The single men, most of whom flocked from other parts of Africa, needed companions, and Islamic State enlisted older women in Sirte to help. The women, called 'crows' because they dressed in black, visited townspeople's homes and registered single girls older than 15 as potential brides, says Brigadier Gnaidy of the Misrata forces.
As the group's ambitions grew that summer, so did its need for women. Islamic State's take on sharia permits men to take sex slaves. The kidnapped women, unprotected and far from home, became easy targets. In mid-August, more than two months after Fisehaye was abducted, Islamic State fighters moved the 36 women in their custody to Harawa, a small town they controlled some 75 kilometers (46 miles) from Sirte.
As Fisehaye and the seven other women Reuters interviewed describe it, life in Harawa was almost quotidian at first.
There were no air strikes, beatings or threats of sexual violence. The captives — the Eritreans kidnapped in June and August, including Fisehaye, two Nigerians, and the Korean couple and their relative — lived in a large compound by the town's dam. In the next few weeks, they were joined by 10 Filipino medical workers kidnapped from a hospital in Sirte, a Bangladeshi lecturer taken from a Sirte university, a pregnant Ghanaian captured in Sirte, and an Eritrean woman captured with her 4-year-old son on the highway to Tripoli.
It was here that Fisehaye bonded with Simret Kidane, a 29 year-old who left her three children with her parents in Eritrea to seek a better life in Europe. She was among the women kidnapped in August.
Kidane befriended one of the guards, Hafeezo, a Tunisian mechanic turned jihadist in his early 30s. Hafeezo helped the women navigate their new life in captivity. He brought them groceries and relayed their demands to his superiors in Sirte. He comforted them when they cried. He counseled them to forget their past lives and embrace Islam. That way, he promised, they may be freed to find a husband among the militants. They may even be allowed to call home.
The women asked for religious lessons, and Hafeezo brought them a copy of the Koran translated into their first language, Tigrinya. He also brought a small Dell laptop and a flash drive on which he had uploaded religious texts and lessons on the lives of fallen jihadists.
Fisehaye succumbed first. In September, after three months of captivity, she converted to Islam and took on a Muslim name, Rima. Her conversion had a domino effect across the compound; Kidane and the others followed suit a month later.
"I could see no other way out," Fisehaye said. "Islam was one more step to my freedom. They told us we would have some rights as Muslims."
After their conversion, Hafeezo brought them black abayas and niqabs, loose garments some Muslim women wear to cover themselves. He kept his distance and refused to make eye contact. Instead, he supervised their piety from afar.
Another guard, an older Sudanese fighter, taught them to pray. He recited verses from the Koran and made the women write down and repeat his words. When the guard moved to a new job in Sirte, Hafeezo brought a flat-screen TV and played them videos of religious lessons and suicide missions. As promised, Hafeezo allowed the women to call their families.
In December, frequent gunfire punctured the relatively quiet life in Harawa. Food became scarce. Hafeezo was often called to the frontline and disappeared for days. One day, he took Kidane aside and told her to prepare for what was to come. The leadership had changed — Islamic State's emir in Libya had died in a U.S. airstrike a month earlier — and the women's fate along with it.
"You are now sabaya," Hafeezo told Kidane, using the archaic term for slave. There were four possible outcomes for her and the other women, he explained. Their respective owners could make them their sex slaves, give them away as gifts, sell them to other militias, or set them free.
"Do not worry about what will happen to you in the hands of men," Kidane says Hafeezo told her. "Concern yourself only with where you stand with Allah."
Kidane did not share this detail with Fisehaye or the other women, hoping to save them from despair.
Later, one of Hafeezo's superiors came to the compound to take a census. He wrote the women's names and ages on a ledger. He asked them to lift their veils and examined their faces. He returned a week later and took two of the youngest women, aged 15 and 18, with him. On December 17, he sent for Kidane. That day, he gave her to a Libyan member of an Islamic State brigade in Sirte. Despite her repeated pleas, her new owner refused to reunite her with Fisehaye.
Kidane and the teenage women escaped and are now seeking asylum in Germany.
In late January, a stomach ulcer confined Fisehaye to her bed. Stress made matters worse. Returning from a hospital visit one afternoon, she witnessed a child, no older than 9, shoot a man in the town square.
Soon after, she and the remaining female captives moved to a warehouse in Sirte where Islamic State stored appliances, fuel and slaves. A group of 15 Eritrean women, who had been kidnapped in July, and three Ethiopian women kidnapped in January joined them that week.
The warehouse became, to the women, a last frontier of defiance. As new Muslims, they argued for better healthcare and the abolition of their slavery. They absorbed beatings in response.
Resistance proved futile. An Eritrean fighter called Mohamed, who had often dropped by to survey the women, purchased Fisehaye in February. He never said how much he paid for her. But he seemed gentle at first, asking after her waning health and her past life in Eritrea.
"I was confused. I thought he was going to help me. Maybe he had infiltrated Daesh. Maybe he wasn't really one of them. I started harboring hope," Fisehaye said.
Instead, he raped her, repeatedly, for weeks.
"No one ever showed us which part of the Koran says they could turn us into slaves," Fisehaye said. "They wanted to destroy us…so much evil in their hearts."
She plotted her escape but could not find a way out.
Then her owner lent her to another man, a Senegalese fighter. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza, the Senegalese had brought his wife and three children to the Libyan frontline. Fisehaye was to work, unpaid, in Abu Hamza's kitchen.
The work was busy but bearable, until one night in mid-February when Abu Hamza brought an Eritrean woman from the warehouse. He raped the woman all night.
"She was screaming. Screaming. It tore my heart," Fisehaye recalled. "His wife stood by the door and cried."
The next morning, Fisehaye convinced the battered woman to run away with her. They left the city behind and ran into the desert. No one stopped to help them and they were caught by religious police on patrol outside the city.
The police returned both women to captivity. The battered Eritrean woman went back to Abu Hamza. Mohamed took Fisehaye to a three-story building in Sirte that he shared with two other fighters.
Fisehaye moved in with a 22-year-old Eritrean woman and her 4-year-old son, both of whom belonged to a Tunisian commander named Saleh. Another 23-year-old Eritrean lived down the hall with her 2-year-old son and a daughter to whom she gave birth while in Islamic State custody. That woman and her children belonged to a Nigerian fighter who called himself al-Baghdadi.
Fisehaye's roommates said the men raped them on multiple occasions. They told their stories on condition of anonymity.
"There was no one there to help me. So I kept quiet and took the abuse," the Eritrean mother of two later said. "I stopped resisting. He did as he pleased with me."
In April of this year, Libya's nascent unity government stationed itself in a naval base in Tripoli. Separately, rival factions — the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the east and brigades from towns in the west — plotted to attack Islamic State from opposite flanks.
In Sirte, meanwhile, Fisehaye and her roommates learned that one of them, the mother of two, would soon be sold to another man.
The revelation pushed them to plot an escape. They pretended to call their relatives but talked, instead, to Eritrean smugglers in Tripoli. They studied their captors' schedules. They surveyed their surroundings whenever the Tunisian commander Saleh, in a cruel prank, left the house keys with his slave but took her son with him.
Finally, on the early morning of April 14, the women grabbed 60 Libyan dinars, about $40, from Saleh's bag and broke out of the house through a backdoor. But Sirte looked ominously deserted in the early morning and, fearing they would be caught, the women returned to the house.
They ventured out again, hours later, when the city came to life. They walked for hours before a cab stopped for them. Fisehaye negotiated with the driver in halting Arabic. She told him they were maids who had been swindled by an employer. She gave him a number for an Eritrean smuggler in Tripoli.
The driver negotiated with the smuggler over the phone. He agreed to drive them for 750 dinars ($540), to be covered by the smuggler once the women arrived in Bani Walid, five hours away.
In the end, it took the women 12 hours to get to Bani Walid. As promised, the Eritrean smuggler paid for their escape and took them to a holding cell. There, they shucked off their niqabs and cried with joy. They prayed for the dozens they had left behind.
Fisehaye borrowed the smuggler's phone and called her father in Eritrea. Soon, word of her escape spread among her friends and relatives. They settled her debt and paid the smuggler another $2,000 to get her on a boat to Europe.
In May, during a month when 1,133 refugees drowned at sea, Fisehaye crossed the Mediterranean. Her 10 months of captivity had come to an end.
She traversed a path trod by many refugees, across Italy and Austria, and reached Germany a month after her escape. She is now seeking asylum there.
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This comprehensive anthology will serve both as a text for serious students of mysticism and a reflective collection for those first exploring its thought. Biographical and historical data, as well as the mystic's key ideas and information about why the particular text was selected introduce each mystic to the reader.
Fifty-five mystics or mystical theologians, ancient and modern, are represented, including: Origen, Augustine of Hippo, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, the anonymous author of Cloud of Unknowing, Thomas a' Kempis, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales, Therese of Lisieux, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, and Karl Rahner.


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GREELEY, Colo. — At the conclusion of his statement, Frank Rzucek, the father of Shanann Watts, said he has a message for Chris Watts, who sat silently behind him in an orange jumpsuit in court.
Without turning, he read his last sentence: "Shanann says she's super excited for justice today."
Frank Rzucek was the first person to read a statement at Monday's sentencing hearing for Watts, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 6 to killing his pregnant wife Shanann, and their two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, in August in the small town of Frederick, Colorado.
"I trusted you to take care of them, not kill them," Frank Rzucek said in the court. "And they also trusted you."
He said after their murders, Watts carried them out of the house "like trash," buried Shannan in a shallow grave and put the girls in used containers of crude oil, noting that he had watched video surveillance.
"You heartless monster," he said. "You have to live with this vision every day of your life and I hope you see it every time you close your eyes at night."
Shanann's brother, Frank Rzucek, Jr., echoed those sentiments in his statement, saying he prays Watts never finds a moment of peace or sleeps well at night. Weld County District Attorney Michael J. Rourke read the brother's statement while he stood next to the podium.
"You went from being my brother, my sister's protector, one of those most loved people in my family, to someone I will spend the rest of my life trying to understand," the statement read.
He said he wrote the statement full of hate and betrayal. Watts wasn't "even worth the time it takes for me to put this pen to this paper," the statement read.
He said Watts was his family's hero. They looked up to him. They trusted him to keep them safe.
As Rourke read the statements to the court, Frank Rzucek, Jr. looked back at Watts, who barely raised his eyes from the table in front of him throughout the sentencing.
"You took away my family from this earth, but you can never take them from my heart," the brother's statement read. "You took away my privilege of being an uncle to the most precious little girls I have ever known."
Frank Rzucek, Jr. explained that his family did not want to pursue the death penalty because they believe nobody has the right to take the life of another.
"My family and I can finally grieve after today," his statement read. "If anything, we will come out of this stronger than we were before, and we will continue to pray for your family."
The final member of the Rzucek family to speak was Sandra Rzucek, Shanann's mother. She started her statements by thanking those who had helped her family, ranging from the town of Frederick to the FBI. She also thanked everybody who had sent the family cards, prayers and kind messages, which came in from all over the world, she said.
She wore a purple ribbon at the podium, which has become a sign to honor the memory Shannan and her children in Frederick.
Shanann loved Watts and their children with all of her heart, she said. Her family was her world.
"We loved you like a son," she said at the podium. "We trusted you. Your faithful wife trusted you. Your children adored you. And they also trusted you."
They will stay protected by God and his angels, she said, and her family will continue loving them.
"Not only did you take a family of four — your family of four," she said. "You took your own life."
Watts was sentenced to five life sentences with no possibility of parole on Monday.


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Pig Face: A Love Story (Greetings from Clark Air Base)
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik2014 Watercolor on paper 4 in. x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist.
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Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is conceptual artist working with craft and food to tell the stories of migration. Sita holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College, and an M.F.A. in interdisciplinary art and an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. Raised in Los Angeles and based in Oakland, she is Indian and Japanese Colombian American. Sita has exhibited and collaborated in the US, Holland, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Mexico. Her projects include installing curry powder in a European castle, importing artisan goods over the US-Mexico border, and leading workshops about food, migration, and memory in Hong Kong. Her most recent project, Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall, involved the collaborative construction of a border wall made entirely of piñatas. The East Bay Express described it as "the most joyous political critique of the year."
Sita is also a co-founder of the People's Kitchen Collective (PKC), who were named in 2016's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' YBCA 100 list. They are recipients of the Center for Asian American Media's (CAAM) Advocate Award and were awarded support by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Open Spaces Program. PKC recently exhibited with For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Crosslines pop-up museum. The goal of The People's Kitchen is to not only fill our stomachs but also nourish our souls, feed our minds and fuel a movement.
See also peopleskitchencollective.com.
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For the Love/Hate of Curry
A golden, aromatic spice blend that is prized by some and reviled by others, curry powder is a polarizing substance. Over the past five years I have used it as a dye, perfume, and pigment in my art practice. But I rarely eat the bottled stuff.
What, exactly, is curry? It is a delicious dish and an inadequate word. As food historian Thy Tran once told me, it is a word that falls short because it attempts to use the language of the colonizer to describe the many foods of the colonized. The first reference to curry powder was published in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1961), a book to aid British housewives in the particulars of maintaining a proper home in the colonies. I began to trace my own history through an alternative spice route. Being Indian and Japanese Colombian American, we ate curry all the time in our house. Indian cooks don't usually use curry powder--but my mother, who is Colombian-born Japanese, made the kind that came out of a box. She mixed it with chicken, carrots and potatoes to create one of my favorite meals (coincidentally, the most popular brand of curry powder happens to be my initials, "S&B" and so I took it as a sign that I was meant to work with the material). Why does Japan's #1 dish come from a package? Japan was introduced to curry by the British who made a roux of flour and fat with the spice blend. The Indian varieties? Those were more difficult to define. My father is from a small village outside of Kolkata. I still have no idea what is and isn't a "curry." Neither does my family. It's just food in sauce – but it's so much more.
After my first installation with curry powder in 2008, I searched the phrase "smells like curry" online. I suppose I expected to find a racist joke or two and a few recipes. Instead, I found thousands of entries referring to the way Indian people smelled. The one I will always remember was a posting on Yahoo! Answers:
Q: Help, my neighbor's house smells like curry.
A: Call the INS.
I became obsessed with this anonymous entry. For the first time I realized that race is constructed by more than what we see.
Over the next few years I sprinkled curry powder through the streets of Oakland, opened a Curry Institute (2011) at Whitman College, where visitors could chart their own Curry Cartography, and worked with perfumer Yosh Han to create a curry perfume called Gilt (2010) just because I wanted everyone to have the right to smell like curry. Eventually the spice pieces made their way onto the walls themselves.
Although my ingredients span the globe, I always source my materials from family-owned businesses. I had been purchasing ingredients from Bombay Bazaar, a hidden grocery store that had closed and re-opened in San Francisco's wildly gentrifying Mission district. The last time I went in to say hello, the store had disappeared. Shelves, fluorescent lighting, and all. It is with the last batch of spices purchased at this shop that I created Dear Indian Grocery Store both in the bathroom of 18 Reasons in San Francisco and at the San Jose Museum of Art in November 2013. Feeling yet another loss in a city I recognize less and less, I wrote an open letter to the grocery store. This letter always accompanies the installation. As with my previous installations, the excess curry powder collected from the installation will be used to dye napkins and tablecloths for a sliding-scale community dinner. The curry powder is reserved for the art - it is rarely used in the cooking of the meal.
Most Indian cooks would never be caught with curry powder in their kitchens - it limits the complexity and variety of a dish. This powder is India concentrate. This is the myth we expect in Indian supermarkets, restaurants, and, yes, even people. But this complicated blend has also been transformed into the unique flavors of comfort all over the world.
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1 cup warm water (100 to 110 degrees)
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 package active dry yeast
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
Coarse-grain cornmeal, for dusting
mozzarella cheese
assorted toppings (pictured: pepperoni, Italian sausage, spinach and mushrooms)
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Preheat the oven to 500. Place 16-inch (or larger) pizza stone on lowest shelf position, for 30 minutes. Pour warm water into a small bowl. Add sugar, and sprinkle in yeast. Stir the mixture until the yeast is dissolved. The water should look tan. Let yeast stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. In a food processor, combine 2 3/4 cups flour and salt, pulse three to four times. Add yeast mixture and 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil. Pulse until the dough comes together, adding more flour as needed until dough is smooth and not sticky when squeezed. Transfer to clean surface. Knead four or five turns into a ball. Coat the inside of a medium bowl with olive oil, and place the dough in the bowl, smooth side up. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, and place in a warm spot or a cool oven until doubled in size, about 40 minutes. Remove plastic wrap, and use your fist to push down on the center of the dough. Fold the dough in half four or five times. Turn dough over, folded-side down, cover with plastic wrap, and return to the warm spot/cool oven to rise again. Wait until the dough has doubled in size, about 30 minutes. Punch down the dough, and transfer to a clean surface. Divide the dough in half, and knead each half four or five turns into a ball. Place one of the dough balls back in the oiled bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Lightly flour a clean surface, place the dough ball on top, pat into a flattened circle, cover lightly with plastic wrap, and let rest 5 minutes. Begin to flatten and push the dough evenly out from the center until it measures about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. Leave a 1/2 inch border of unflatted dough around the edges of the circle. Sprinkle cornmeal all over the surface of a pizza peel, and set aside. Lift the dough off the surface, and center it on top of your fists. Rotate and stretch the dough, moving your fists until they are 6 to 8 inches apart and the dough is several inches larger. Then place your fists under the inside of the outer edge, and continue to stretch the dough until it reaches about 12 inches in diameter. The dough will drape down over your forearms. Start over if the dough tears or gets to thin. Do this carefully, preserving the raised edge. Place the pizza dough into a circle on top of the cornmeal-dusted peel. Distribute pizza sauce on the dough, leaving the 1/2 inch of raised dough bare. Sprinkle with cheese and toppings. Slightly tilt the peel, and place the front tip of peel on the back side of the stone. Slide the pizza off the peel, centering it on the stone as best you can. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbling. Repeat with remaining dough.
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One of the best pizzas I've ever had. Crispy crust, yummy sauce, fresh mozzarella and our favorite toppings. I especially liked the mushrooms. We sauted them in a little olive oil before placing them on the pizza. I think that is a little tastier than just plopping raw ones on there. We also grilled some Italian sausage and drained some frozen spinach. Much tastier and much less greasy than delivery pizza. It takes a bit of time and effort but you will be well rewarded.
Another pizza option: pesto pizza with sundried tomatoes and artichoke hearts.
I recommend that you use a peel when making the pizza. It is the easiest way to get the pizza on and off the pizza stone. Nothing else works quite as well.


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The LG Watch Urbane follows closely in the footsteps of the LG G Watch R, the first smartwatch with a full circular Plastic OLED (P-OLED) display, which LG launched in October 2014. While the LG G Watch R was designed with the active user in mind, the LG Watch Urbane is more formal with a thinner profile making it perfect for either men or women. Resembling a luxury timepiece, LG combined a classic design and innovative features to add style and convenience to everyday life while raising the already high standards set by its predecessor.
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For Week Ending October 24, 2015
Data analysis from September national numbers revealed that new home sales underperformed slightly from what was originally expected. Some say this indicates market cooling, but with October giving way to November, it means we will soon have another month of sales to prove or disprove naysayers.
In the Twin Cities region, for the week ending October 24:
- New Listings decreased 2.5% to 1,233
- Pending Sales increased 10.7% to 934
- Inventory decreased 15.7% to 15,650
For the month of September:
- Median Sales Price increased 8.1% to $221,650
- Days on Market decreased 8.5% to 65
- Percent of Original List Price Received increased 1.0% to 96.6%
- Months Supply of Inventory decreased 23.9% to 3.5
All comparisons are to 2014
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Hiawatha / The Belle Stars
I guess Two Tone spawned The Belle Stars. Never in all my years, until tonight, did it hit me that 'Hiawatha' is based on a ska beat. Having formed off the back of The Bodysnatchers demise, it's with fondness I recall seeing them for the first time at Dingwalls, with Madness and The Selecter and God knows who ruling the Camden Town in crowd roost. The lineage becomes pretty clear. Only took thirty years to dawn on me.
And if memory serves me well, it was Naomi on WNYU's New Afternoon Show, who played the grooves off 'Hiawatha' around Christmas of '81. This weather brings that all right back.


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Disney hasn't yet announced that a fifth Indiana Jones film is in the works, but according to a deal they just struck with Paramount, Disney will gain marketing and distribution rights to future Indiana Jones films. I have to think that means they'll be making them too. Of course they are. Disney would cut an orphan's belly open if they thought there was a penny in it.
The Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures have reached a distribution and marketing agreement for the Indiana Jones franchise.
Under the arrangement, Disney gains distribution and marketing rights to future films, in addition to retaining the ownership rights it secured when it acquired Lucasfilm.
Paramount will continue to be responsible for distribution of the first four films in the franchise and will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and released.
Disney has not officially announced that a fifth films is in the works.
That said, Disney will likely move quickly to get a film in motion. [emphasis mine] Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger has expressed a lot of interest to monetize the brand ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm last year.
The last installment, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," grossed $783 million worldwide. [Variety]
Crystal Skull is sort of a double-edged sword in this situation. My first reaction would be to say "isn't the last Indiana Jones proof that there shouldn't be anymore Indiana Jones movies?!" While the gullible, glass-half-full simpletons among you will counter with, "What's wrong with that? There's no way it could be as bad as the last one!"
Maybe, maybe not. Basically, it's Star Wars VII all over again. I don't want to fight with the people who've dedicated their lives to trying to recreate the world as it was when they were 10, so I'll simply point out how weird it is that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is still 78% recommended on RottenTomatoes (for counterpoint, my original review). First the same guy directs Star Wars and Star Trek, now the same company owns Star Wars and Indiana Jones? Pretty soon Disney is going to own your couch fort, your fears, and everything you ever jacked off to.


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Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who scored as a caddish newlywed in "The Heartbreak Kid" and later had roles ranging from Robert De Niro's counterpart in the comic thriller "Midnight Run" to the bedeviled father in the "Beethoven" comedies, has died. He was 86.
Grodin died Tuesday in Wilton, Connecticut, from bone marrow cancer, his son, Nicholas Grodin, said.
Known for his dead-pan style and everyday looks, Grodin also appeared in "Dave," "The Woman in Red," "Rosemary's Baby" and "Heaven Can Wait." On Broadway, he starred with Ellen Burstyn in the long-running 1970s comedy "Same Time, Next Year," and he found many other outlets for his talents.
In the 1990s, he made his mark as a liberal commentator on radio and TV. He also wrote plays and television scripts, winning an Emmy for his work on a 1997 Paul Simon special, and wrote several books humorously ruminating on his ups and downs in show business.
Actors, he wrote, should "think not so much about getting ahead as becoming as good as you can be, so you're ready when you do get an opportunity. I did that, so I didn't suffer from the frustration of all the rejections. They just gave me more time." He spelled out that advice in his first book, "It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here," published in 1989.
Grodin became a star in the 1970s, but might have broken through years earlier: He auditioned for the title role in Mike Nichols' 1967 classic "The Graduate," but the part went instead to Dustin Hoffman.
Grodin did have a small role in "Rosemary's Baby" and was part of the large cast of Nichols' adaptation of "Catch-22″ before he gained wide notice in the 1972 Elaine May comedy "The Heartbreak Kid."
He starred as a Jewish newlywed who abandons his comically neurotic bride to pursue a beautiful, wealthy blonde played by Cybill Shepherd. The movie was a hit and Grodin received high praise. He commented: "After seeing the movie, a lot of people would approach me with the idea of punching me in the nose."
"I thought the character in 'The Heartbreak Kid' was a despicable guy, but I play it with full sincerity," Grodin told the A.V. Club in 2009. "My job isn't to judge it. If it wasn't for Elaine May, I probably would never have had that movie career."
In the next few years, Grodin played in a lavish 1976 film remake of "King Kong" as the greedy showman who brings the big ape to New York. He was Warren Beatty's devious lawyer in "Heaven Can Wait," and Gene Wilder's friend in "The Woman in Red" (Less successfully, he appeared in May's 1987 adventure comedy "Ishtar," a notorious flop). His turn in 1981's "The Great Muppet Caper" was typically dedicated as a thief wooing Miss Piggy.
In 1988′s "Midnight Run," Grodin was a bail-jumping accountant who took millions from a mobster and De Niro was the bounty hunter trying to bring him cross-country to Los Angeles. They're being chased by police, another bounty hunter and the Mob, and because Grodin is afraid of flying, they are forced to go by car, bus, even boxcar.
Grodin and De Niro improvised in many scenes in the film, revered as among the greatest buddy comedies. Often Grodin was genuinely trying to amuse his more intimidating co-star. One line he threw at De Niro: "You ever had sex with an animal, Jack?"
"I moved a little more toward drama and he moved a little toward comedy," Grodin said at the time. "And we met on a very good ground."
"Beethoven" brought him success in the family-animal comedy genre in 1992. Asked why he took up such a role, he told The Associated Press he was happy to get the work.
"I'm not that much in demand," Grodin replied. "It's not like I have this stack of wonderful offers. I'm just delighted they wanted me."
Amid his film gigs, Grodin became a familiar face on late-night TV, perfecting a character who would confront Johnny Carson or others with a fake aggressiveness that made audiences cringe and laugh at the same time.
"It's all a joke," he told The Los Angeles Times in 1995. "It's just a thing. It was a choice to do that."
His biggest stage success, by far, was "Same Time, Next Year," which opened on Broadway in 1975 and ran nearly 3½ years. He and Burstyn were two people who — though each happily married — meet in the same hotel once a year for an extramarital fling. Beyond the humor, the play won praise for deftly tracing the changes in their lives, and in society, from the 1950s to the '70s. Critic Clive Barnes called Grodin's character "a monument to male insecurity, gorgeously inept."
After 1994′s "My Summer Story," Grodin largely abandoned acting. From 1995 to 1998, he hosted a talk show on CNBC cable network. He moved to MSNBC and then to CBS' "60 Minutes II."
In his 2002 book, "I Like It Better When You're Funny," he said too many TV programmers' believe that viewers are best served "if we hear only from lifelong journalists." He argued that "people outside of Washington and in professions other than journalism" also deserved a soapbox.
He returned to the big screen in 2006 as Zach Braff's know-it-all father-in-law in "The Ex." More recent credits include the films "An Imperfect Murder" and "The Comedian" and the TV series "Louie."
Grodin was born Charles Grodinsky in Pittsburgh in 1935, son of a wholesale dry goods seller who died when Charles was 18. He played basketball and later described himself as "a rough kid, always getting kicked out of class."
He studied at the University of Miami and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, worked in summer theater and then struggled in New York, working nights as a cab driver, postal clerk and watchman while studying acting during the day.
In 1962 Grodin made his Broadway debut and received good notices in "Tchin Tchin," a three-character play starring Anthony Quinn. He followed with "Absence of a Cello" in 1964.
He co-wrote and directed a short-lived 1966 off-Broadway show called "Hooray! It's a Glorious Day … and all that." That same year, he made his movie debut in a low-budget flop called "Sex and the College Girl."
In 1969, Grodin demonstrated his early interest in politics by helping write and direct "Songs of America," a TV special starring Simon and Garfunkel that incorporated civil rights and antiwar messages. But the original sponsor pulled out and Simon later called the little-noticed effort "a tragedy."
Simon returned with a special in 1977 that spoofed show business and featured Grodin as the show's bumbling producer. Grodin and his co-writers won Emmys.
Grodin and his first wife, Julia Ferguson, had a daughter, comedian Marion Grodin. The marriage ended in divorce. He and his second wife, Elissa Durwood, had a son, Nicholas.
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Welcome to Katmai National Park
Welcome to the Katmai National Park Information Page
Here you will find all you need to know about the natural history of the park.
Learn about the geology, trees, mammals, birds, or other plants and wildlife of the area.
Katmai National Park and Preserve lies about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, just west of King Salmon. Kodiak Island lies just off the Katmai Coast to the east.
Getting There
The closest major airport to Katmai National Park is Anchorage, AK with smaller airports at Kodiak and Homer, AK.
There is no road access to Katmai National Park except from King Salmon. The dirt road from King Salmon goes to Lake Camp at the edge of the park. Lake Camp provides access to boats for Naknek Lake and Brooks Camp.
The only other road in Katmai National Park and Preserve is the road from Brooks Camp to the Valley of 10,000 Smokes. It is a 23 mile dirt road, that makes three river crossings before reaching Three Forks cabin offering a view of the Valley of 10,000 Smokes.
Visitors can take advantage of the daily bus tour offered by the concession from Brooks Camp.
Daily commercial flights operate between Anchorage and King Salmon. Charters air taxis and boat tours are available from King Salmon, Anchorage, Homer and Kodiak. Scheduled service into Brooks Camp is available from King Salmon by float plane and boat. Many area lodges provide their own transportation to the park.
Capsicum bear spray is not allowed on commercial airlines. Bear spray should not be taken within the cabins of air taxis. Let your pilot know if you are carrying bear spray so it can be placed in the floats of the plane.
Access to the park and preserve is by aircraft (float planes generally land on Naknek Lake), and by boat or ship. Snow machines can be used in deep winter during some years when temperatures are sufficiently low to form thick ice. King Salmon is the nearest local community.
Establishment the Katmai National Park
Katmai National Park and Preserve was proclaimed as Katmai National Monument on 24 Sep 1918 and established as a national park and preserve on 02 Dec 1980. Boundary changes were made: 24 Apr 1931; 04 Aug 1942; 20 Jan 1969; 01 Dec 1978; 02 Dec 1980. It was wilderness designated on 02 Dec 1980.
Size and Visitation of Katmai National Park
Acreage – as of September 23, 2000
Katmai National Park and Preserve
Federal Land – 382,074.00
Non-Federal Land – 36,625.22
Gross Area Acres – 418,699.22
Katmai National Park
Federal Land – 3,611,494.73
Non-Federal Land – 63,034.95
Gross Area Acres – 3,674,529.68
Visitation – 1999
Total Recreation Visits – 51,399
The majority of visitors come from early June through mid September.
Among all this diversity, Katmai National Park and Preserve is famous for its brown bears and fish populations. Bristol Bay streams, including the Naknek River, are the source of some of the world's largest salmon runs and appear to have been so for about the last 4000 years.
Trophy-size game fish such as trout inhabit many of the park and preserve streams. The bear come to feed on the fish, sometimes in unusually large concentrations. There is a migratory caribou herd and it appears that in the past there was a more regular presence – enough so that hunting caribou was a regular aboriginal activity. Overall, Katmai National Park and Preserve contains at least 29 species of land animals, 6 of sea mammals, 150 species of birds, and 28 of fish, as well as uncounted intertidal and coastal species.
Visitor Guide
Brooks Camp facilities are handicapped accessible as well as the bear viewing platform on the lower river. We caution those of limited mobility that a large number of bears remain in the vicinity of Brooks Camp. Very close encounters are common and require visitors to move briskly. The Brooks Falls Trail and Platform are not handicapped accessible. At times in July, the Falls Trail may not be appropriate for those visitors that can not move quickly off the trail, into the woods
Basic Visit Recommendations
Bear viewing at Brooks Camp is best in July and September. There are few bears in August, though they still are seen occasionally. July and September are crowded, expect waits and time limits when going to the Brooks Falls Platform in July. Weather and bears are always a factor at Katmai National Park and Preserve so plan extra time to work around delays.
You may camp anywhere in the park, but for backcountry camping, please obtain a permit from the Brooks Camp Visitor Center or park headquarters in King Salmon. There is one campground available, the Brooks Camp Campground.
Entrance Fees
There will be a $10.00 per person per day user fee at Brooks Camp. Visitors spending the night will pay on a per night basis; those visiting just for the day will pay by the day. For example, a lodge guest or camper staying four nights, will pay $40.00 in user fees even though they will actually be staying at Brooks Camp for five days. A single day visit will cost $10.00. In addition, there will be a $5.00 per person per night camping fee.
Katmai is one of the greatest fly fishing spots in Alaska. An Alaska fishing license is required for fishing; and all state rules apply.
Food and Supplies
Meals are served at Brooks Lodge and are available for all visitors to Brooks Camp. Brooks Lodge Trading Post sells white gas, fishing gear, some snack foods, souvenirs, and other limited supplies.
Katmai is a vast wilderness of deep, cold lakes, long scenic valleys, volcanic landscapes, and a diverse seacoast. Located at the northern end of the Alaska Peninsula, this rugged country offers opportunities for long crosscountry backpack trips or short day hikes. Boaters can canoe, float or kayak lakes, rivers and streams in Katmai. With adequate preparation, proper equipment and certain skills and knowledge, the hiker can have a safe, memorable experience.
Lodging Facilities
A concessioner provides accommodations and food service at Grosvenor Lake and at Brooks Camp from about 01 June to mid September. Reservations are necessary. Because of a change of the reservation system, reservations will not be available until after 15 Mar 1998. For more information on this, call Karen Gustin, or Mark Wagner at 907-245-3305
Meals and accommodations are also available at King Salmon and at other private lodges.
Permits and Reservations
Reservations are taken for Brooks Campground and Brooks Camp Use Permits. Use permits are required for all visitors that come to Brooks Camp.
Pet Information
Pets are allowed in Katmai National Park and Preserve with one exception. Pets are not permitted at Brooks Camp, or within 5 miles of Brook Camp, because of the high visitor use and concentration of bears. Bears and pets generally do not tolerate each other.
Programs and Activities
A variety of interpretive programs are available at Brooks Camp throughout the summer. Evening slide programs are presented nightly by interpretive rangers. Ranger led cultural walks to an archeological site are conducted each afternoon. Other walks and programs may be offered during August.
Visitor Center
King Salmon Visitor Center is located next to the airport terminal in King Salmon. It is operated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, with a partnership with the National Park Service, Bristol Bay Borough, and Lake and Pen Borough.
The visitor center has exhibits of the local area as well as interpreters that will provide information on the entire Katmai National Park and Preserve region. Bear resistant canisters are available at the King Salmon Visitor Center for those planning to use the backcountry.
Brooks Camp Visitor Center is open early June to mid September. There all visitors attend the Brooks Camp Bear Etiquette School to learn how to behave around bears. This includes watching the Brooks Bear Orientation video. Books, cards, and posters are sold at the Visitor Center. Bear resistant canisters are available at the Brooks Camp Visitor Center for those planning to use the backcountry.
Weather of Katmai National Park
Summer temperatures are usually about 60 F. Cool, overcast days, with strong winds are common. Be prepared for cold rainy weather as well as some warm, sunny days. Spring and fall temperatures are cool with cold nights. Winters are cold with about six hours of sunlight.


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Thanks (again!) to Ginger at Adventures in Autism for this article.
Blaylock on Mitochondria and Vaccines
Mitochondria and Vaccines
From Russell L. Blaylock M.D.
As the person who first proposed the microglial/excitotoxin hypothesis (JANA 2003;6(4): 21-35 and J. Amer Phys Surg 2004; 9(2): 46-51) I feel I should explain the connection between microglia/excitotoxicity and mitochondrail dysfunction. My hypothesis was confirmed two years later by Vargis, et al in which they demonstrated chronic levels of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines as well as microglia and astrocytic activation in the brains of 11 autistics from age 5 years to 44 years, even though they never mentioned excitotoxicity as a final mechanism. I wish to address the mitochondrial issue, which has become of major interest with the appearance of the Hannah Poling's case.
In my original hypothesis, later expanded in a number of other articles, I explained that when the systemic immune system is overactivated, the brain's special immune system, consisting of microglia and astrocytes, also becomes activated.
The microglia normally remain in a quiescent state called ramified microglia. Upon activation, they swell, assume special immune receptors in their membranes and move within the extracellular space. In this activated state they act as immune presenting cells and can secrete a number of inflammatory chemicals, such as IL-1, IL-2, IL-6, IL-12 and IL-18, TNF-alpha, chemokines, complement and two excitotoxins called glutamate and quniolinic acid. They also generate a number of powerful free radicals and lipid peroxidation molecules.
A number of studies have shown that when you use powerful immune adjuvants, as used in vaccines (especially when combined), this inflammatory/excitotoxic reaction within the brain is maximized. With the first vaccine (or natural infection) the brain's microglia are in a semi-activated stated called primed. If you re-vaccinate the animal or person within 1 to 2 months, these primed microglia overreact intensely, pouring out even higher levels of the excitotoxins, inflammatory cytokines and free radicals. Each subsequent set of vaccinations worsens this process.
These inflammatory/excitotoxic secretions damage the developing brain, which is undergoing its most active development at the very time the child is receiving 24 vaccines. This vaccine schedule exposes the child to a priming HepB vaccine at birth, 6 vaccines at age 2 months, then 5 vaccines at age 4 months, 7 vaccines at 6 months and finally 8 antigens at age one year. Each successive multi-dose barrage of vaccines intensely activates the brain's microglial system and the microglia activate the astrocytes, which also secretes, inflammatory cytokines, free radicals and excitotoxins.
Experiments in which this pattern of immune stimulation is simulated using a vaccine adjuvant, demonstrate that it produces significant disruption of brain development. The greatest damage in these experiments is to the cerebellum and frontal lobes, which is also the primary sites of damage in autism. Further, food allergins also act as brain microglial activators, thereby worsening and prolonging the original immune/excitotoxic effect produced by the vaccines.
So, how does mercury play into all this. Mercury in extremely small concentrations (nanomolar concentrations) can activate microglia, trigger excitotoxicity and induce significant mitochondrial dysfunction. Blocking the glutamate receptors (that trigger excitotoxicity) also blocks most of the neurotoxic effect of mercury at these concentrations. That is, most of lower-dose effects of mercury in the brain are secondary to excitotoxicity. The mitochondria produce most of the energy used by neurons and a number of studies have shown that suppressing mitochondrial function by itself is not enough to alter brain function, but it is enough to magnify excitotoxic damage. That is, it is the excitotoxicity that is disrupting brain function and development.
A newer study has shown conclusively, that mitochondrial activation using a vaccine adjuvant not only suppresses mitochondrial function but that the damage cause by this mitochondrial suppression is actually produced by excitotoxicity. Blocking excitotoxicity completely blocks the microglial-induced neurotoxicity and mitochondrial damage cause by the vaccine.
A great number of studies have shown that activating the systemic immune system repetitively worsens neurological disorders caused by other things and can initiate neurodegeneration itself, that is prolonged. The inflammatory cytokines interact with glutamate receptors to dramatically increase excitotoxic damage. We know that autistic children have elevated CSF and blood levels of glutamate, which confirms the presence of the excitotoxic process.
Basically, what we see is a process triggered by sequential, massive vaccination that primes and then activates the brain microglial/astrocytic system, triggering the release of massive amounts of inflammatory cytokines, chemokines and excitotoxins. This suppresses the mitochondria and the resulting energy loss further worsening the excitotoxic damage. Because of continued immune activation systemically, both by food allergies and natural infections, the brain's immune system remains in an active state, leading to suppression of brain pathway development and neural function. This is why the change in the vaccine policy beginning in the mid-1980s, triggered the epidemic of autism. The mercury just aggravated the process.
I warned a number of people and published my warning, that removing the mercury from vaccines would not stop the high incidence of autism, because it was just part of the picture. We must also appreciate that there are a great number of sources of mercury besides vaccine-mainly environmental and from dental amalgam.
For more information on this mechanism you can read my original articles on my website –www.russellblaylockmd.com. Also I have written more papers on my website under the heading -Information. All the information is free. I have several newer articles appearing in Medical Veritas and the Journal of Alternative Therapeutics in Health and Medicine.
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.


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James, 1
1. James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings.
2. Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,
3. for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
4. And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5. But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it.
6. But he should ask in faith, not doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind.
7. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8. since he is a man of two minds, unstable in all his ways.
9. The brother in lowly circumstances should take pride in his high standing,
10. and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away "like the flower of the field."
11. For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, its flower droops, and the beauty of its appearance vanishes. So will the rich person fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
12. Blessed is the man who perseveres in temptation, for when he has been proved he will receive the crown of life that he promised to those who love him.
13. No one experiencing temptation should say, "I am being tempted by God"; for God is not subject to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14. Rather, each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
15. Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.
16. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers:
17. all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change.
18. He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19. Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
20. for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
21. Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.
22. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
24. He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.
25. But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
26. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.
27. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook says it will start applying warning labels to some "fake news" stories that users share on the social network.
Articles that are known to be false -- seemingly published with the intent to trick people -- will be marked with what Facebook is calling a "flag."
Below the headline there will be a red label that says "disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers."
Users will be able to click on a "learn why this is disputed" link to get more information.
Facebook will not be doing the fact-checking itself. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that "we do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves, but instead rely on our community and trusted third parties."
So those third parties will be fact-checking organization that have committed to the International Fact Checking Code of Principles, which was recently established by Poynter, a journalism organization.
Several dozen fact-checking organizations around the world have signed on the code of principles.
"We'll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations," Facebook VP Adam Mosseri said in a blog post Thursday. "If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why."
Facebook is making it clear that users will still be able to post whatever they want, no matter how bogus, on their own Facebook pages. But "you will see a warning that the story has been disputed as you share," Mosseri said.
And the disputed stories "may also appear lower" in the algorithmic News Feed that appears on the Facebook home page.
Facebook and other social media companies are under pressure from users and journalism advocacy groups to combat the proliferation of so-called "fake news." While the term has many definitions, and partisans have started to exploit the term, one specific type of "fake news" involves stories that are designed to deceive. One example from the 2016 election: claims that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump.
Mosser said that is the area Facebook is focusing on -- "the worst of the worst, the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain."
These hoaxes have proliferated on Facebook recently, though there is considerable disagreement about how big of a problem it is.
At a recent journalism industry conference, Facebook representatives said that addressing the spread of knowingly fake stories is the #1 priority at the highest levels of the company.
Zuckerberg has said that he does not believe "fake news" stories about the campaign tilted the result of the 2016 election. But in a Facebook post last month, he said "we take misinformation seriously" and pledged that the company would be doing more.
Also on Thursday, Mosseri said Facebook is testing "several ways" to report hoaxes through the site.
"We've relied heavily on our community for help on this issue, and this can help us detect more fake news," he said.
Facebook is also working on reducing the "financial incentives" of posting fake stories, he said.
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Exclusive Interview! Whistleblower Derrick Faust Comes Forward!
In this fascinating part 4 episode of the New Age Deep State series, Dark Journalist welcomes former insider to Corey Goode's camp Derrick Faust for an exclusive interview on what really is behind the Cult Marketing Campaign that is driving the commercialization of the Blue Avian, Sphere Being Alliance 3-Year Disclosure marketing plan.This campaign is the brainchild of self proclaimed Time-Traveling Astronaut Corey Goode and his Business Partner Roger Ramsaur and includes unusual aspects like a therapy network to help cope with disclosure and a Comic Book based on Goode's adventures in Secret Space.
'Disclosure' Corporation Swallows Grassroots Truth Effort
Derrick, who had a successful career in the Navy for 7 years before jointing the Stillness in the Storm blog and being a volunteer for Mt Shasta conferences that featured Corey Goode, decided to come forward when he saw that the cult marketing plan was turning from a genuine movement into a vehicle for the greed of shady marketers who wanted to exploit the public's genuine interest in topics like the Secret Space Program and UFOs. The promo campaign for Corey's Kids was the worst example of the promotion ploy as young adult volunteers were used to create a niche with the youth market by pretending to be experts on complex subjects in alternative media. They were to be used to promote Comic Books, Video Games, and Secret Space Program gear stores around Goode's theme of being a chosen messenger of Blue Avian Aliens!
Archon Ritual in the Desert
Derrick also recounts a disturbing change in his friends,' Corey's Kids' Jordan Sather, Teresa Yeneros, and Justin Descamps after they attended a ritual during the Contact in the Desert event in May at a cabin where Goode and Ramsaur only allowed their chosen few to attend. So much for Unity in the Community. The undertones of bizarre cult activity and occult imagery that surrounds Goode and the 3 Year Disclosure marketing program invite a deeper look at exactly what is going on in this strange circle of followers. Does it relate to a story recounted by Corey Goode of attempts to have him indoctrinated into a cult before he went public with his bizarre story of being in the SSP Alliance?
The Courage to Come Forward
Let's open our minds and hear the truth from Derrick Faust who is someone that was there in the midst of the Goode Disclosure Promotion effort. He became disillusioned when the emphasis switched from moving the culture to a new consciousness to what he eventually realized was nothing more than a money making commercial enterprise. The marketing team regarded the honest individuals involved in the effort as commodities to be used to further an agenda of greed and celebrity. When he saw the degeneration of people and organizations he had previously believed in he decided he could no longer stay silent and became a Whistleblower of Truth.
Note: Due to the important nature of this video and it's many revelations, you may at your discretion download it and upload it to your channel with proper citation and share it with your viewers to make sure it is not censored. -DarkJournalist.com


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