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goriji ;)Mehri Sri Lumba Kala Sundar kaha hai? lol :P
Archive for Sri LKS
nouveau homeless stalked goriji is back! er…
Here they are, PLEASE RT (on twitter) or send out LINKS TO CAMPAIGNS for me as much as possible! (It's life/death people!! Yes I realize this makes no sense with my old blog-my current sitch is explained below- and in these links!) If you're too lazy/cheap to DONATE (and get cool gifts aka 'perks'), then at least sit there, mouth agape, at how hideous I now look thanks to being homeless with a chronic illness while being stalked by gang & mafia sex traffickers. Oh so sadly, I do NOT jest 😦 Ha ji, goonday SF mein hain bhi (yes sir, criminals are in SF too) Please add me @SoufiandMe on Twitter– thanks! 🙂
Soufi & Me humanrights feature film: http://is.gd/P1vbOC round 3
Des Gars Beurs Paris documentary film: http://tinyurl.com/7w6csfx round 2
How to Escape Mafia book: http://is.gd/NmN0Vs round 2
Soufi and Me general link + bio http://www.indiegogo.com/soufiandme?a=347525
HEY DESI YAAR (aka Indian/ South Asian guys) & other ppls! Did u miss ur gori over the last 2 uh 3 years? *sigh* Well guess what? (I'm going to say this in mostly English cos I want everyone 2b able to understand- blog will be boring ol' Amrikan angrezi mostly for awhile sorry yaar) 😛
So anyhow- guess what? I almost got sex trafficked by Algerian criminals! Boo! Then I told them to f*k off (when I figured out what they were doing) resulting in every goonda (aka gang member on up to the bona fide Italian mafia) this side of the Rockies coming after me. LONG story but they swindled me out of my house, business, possessions & entire life!
And now I'm homeless, ill, penniless & being stalked. Plus I look like utter shit, as you can see when you click on my crowd funding video links above. IF this page becomes hacked (cos u know the (desi) hacker branch of the multi-ethnic San Francisco thug (ee) contingent (led by my mentally ill desi ex from like 5 yrs ago) will do their best to make this unviewable as usual)…
You can also find me @SoufiandMe on twitter or here on Indiegogo.com Or you can even try email: firstname.lastname@example.com
So, you KNOW u wanna give like $1 (yes desi ppl are cheap but seriously PayPal-ing $1 won't kill any of you tech geeks)..or at least sit there, hopefully utterly stunned as to my fate, assuming you used to watch my videos in the past. When I was garam gori, gunda gori nahin (hot white girl, not ugly white girl) bahut dhukh na? (How sad, right?)
AND if you're too cheap to take just $1 (or much more!) 😉 out of your IT salary, despite the fact that evil desi ex BFs much like yourselves are quite responsible for my condition (just keep watching the new crowd funding videos as they appear & you'll see what I mean), then make yourself feel less guilty (even though you are currently rationalizing you don't) by RTing (that's re-tweeting) my tweets on Twitter that link back to my Indie Gogo 'pitches' (aka when I beg for cash so I can get into cheap housing & sleep & take a shower & eat & escape the goonday- aka criminals). Kuhra & Lomri thank you (watch the vids carefully to see a glimpse, at least of Kuhra) 😉
The list of links above will change as I continue to re-list the same crowd funding campaigns (I'm trying to raise the money in small parts, by running back to back campaigns). Below is the 1st installment of my NEW blog, unfortunately talking about what's most important to me now, aka: how/where to get free food, how to build a box house to sleep in a doorway, how sleep incognito in a vehicle in an urban area (aka SF), best free/cheap places to stay warm in winter, and other thug/Obama-induced Great Recession tips I've picked up along the way 😦 But first, we have:
(in case you have cast offs of anything resembling the following):
Tablet computer (do they make these with normal HD storage & which use regular Windows XP yet?) well, kuch bhi (=whatever), I'll take what I can get! Ideal would be an Asus tablet (just cos they're durable/touch screen) or even another ASUS eeePC (again, ideally the newer type with proper HD/memory etc but 'beggars can't be choosers'). If possible with fresh software (aka wiped) without going online again after wiping. Becos of hacking issue, which is extreme- just trust me on this one. ANY SORT of tablet would rock. ANY other small/portable computer (remember I have to carry it with a million other things on my back all day & my cats & have a chronic illness) would be welcome!
(Vintage or modern) trailer: see my vintage trailer wanted classified ad here I'll take a canned ham on down to ugly 70s fifth wheel- or anything newer- I'm not picky! We're talking about the vehicle you go camping in.. ANY condition ANY trailer! RV is ok, trailer (no engine, the kind you typically tow with a truck) is better. ANY era, ANY size. Less repairs needed/cheaper re-reg in CA preferable BUT I'm NOT PICKY! I have NO money. Donation (or rent it to me for around 9mos or more) would be ideal. Otherwise cheap as possible sale price or I can make small payments to you.
I'm also interested in work camping (aka workamping -including in winter) anywhere in Bay Area (ideally near to public transportation as I have to get to SF occasionally). Or animal/land caretaking etc.. in trade for trailer (or cottage/cabin) housing. Or trade my part time labor for RV space in RV lot/resort etc.. especially if you happen to be in California Delta 😀 I'm willing to pay to tow a gift /free trailer from other parts of the US or Canada also! You know your uncle has that old trashed trailer just rotting away in his yard for years- and I'm just the gori to fix it up & live in it! Whoot! 😀
I do have 2 super sweet, VERY well traveled/indoor only kitties (a blue smoke Maine Coon & a small tortieshell who loves people). PLEASE consider helping us! I have a chronic illness & desperately need proper housing & rest! My kitties DESPERATELY need housing accommodations with me. Thank you so much 🙂
Kindle (or similar) I'm dyslexic, I have a vision problem (An aside: I need expensive medical treatment for this so I don't lose my eyesight, not to mention I desperately need my usual meds for my immune system disorder, to the tune of like $500/mo, and I have urgent dental & many other postponed urgent health needs, just in case you want to #donate to my crowd funding so I can get my meds or my teeth cleaned that I could be losing otherwise due to advanced gum recession etc!)
Meantime, I need a reader with normal book-page type contrast, and where I can enlarge the font a great deal since I can't read small font. Anything actually working I'm happy with. I dunno how these thingys work but I heard you can also scan a book in directly with some? That would be MOST helpful considering the esoteric type documents I need to research for my book (also for going back to college, hopefully in Paris this fall). Plus I've been carrying some heavy books around with me I'd love to scan in & lose the paper copy. Either way, if someone has a book scanner (either as part of a reader or not) this would also be great- I can only read large type at this point, thanks to my inability to pay for a CAT scan I've needed for like 5 yrs in order to diagnose my unknown, apparently degenerative vision problem (caused by my mentally ill, goonda hacker Indian ex fiance deliberately inflicting a head injury on me- twice).
A recent model texting device/phone (or battery/back panel replacements for my old text/phone device- DONATE $40 on Indiegogo to me and I can fix problem myself). I need to be able to tweet (aka keep media presence on Twitter etc..) so any device with ability to use any SIM (like T-Mobile phones) would be great. I also need $$ for a phone/text/web plan ($50/mo with my recent provider- in case anyone wants to sponsor me on that). Cmon! You know you have an old phone you want to send me (or give to me in person, if you can get to downtown SF). I dunna care if it's a smart phone or whatever, I've been using a phone that's like 8yrs old LOL.
Ok now that we've gotten through all the important stuff above, I'm going to start this blog anew, talking about my life as a homeless, stalked, almost- mafia sex trafficking victim. Because of course my old videos(this page may not load-search goriji on Google or other posts in this blog) were part (ONLY part, mind you the tale is very long so we'll dissect later) of the problem.
But FIRST, I'm going to remind you to PLEASE view my indie gogo links (they should be pinned above unless I've been hacked already).. PLEASE SHARE THEM. My LIFE literally depends on being able to raise money for these film & book projects (and hopefully returning to college overseas to study French and film). So I NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Please add me on twitter: @Soufiandme and PLEASE retweet the tweets I send out with links to the videos on Twitter, Facebook, to your friends etc- thanks! 😀
Finally, I have some AWESOME (and cheap: ask a psychic (me) any question for $5, for example) 'perks'.. in other words, if you give any money you will get something in return! Cool na? If you aren't willing to give just $1 (or more 😉 then PLEASE pledge to yourself that you'll get AT LEAST ONE FRIEND to donate $1- tik hai? (ok?) So.. Although I could outline my Indie Gogo campaigns endlessly, I'm going to get right to the nuts/bolts of this 1st edition of gori's homelessness tutorials, namely this edition's focus, which is:
Gori's homelessness tutorial pt 1:
Where/when to find (good) free food
in San Francisco
I started to make this list during the approximately year I lived in a 1998 Toyota Sienna minivan with Kuhra (my blue smoke Maine Coon) and Lomri (my cute tiny ex-feral kitten tortieshell) kitties. Aka Koora (fog/mist) & Lomdi (fox) in Hindi 😉 A relative luxury compared to life on the street the last 6+months 😦 I'll add to it as I can find/research some of the older information. Much of this can be found also at:(link coming soon!)
However, they don't tell you in that list what food is actually decent or who you can rely on to show up/open their doors at the place/time promised, or better yet, who TF actually serves meat in their meals? Cos believe me, if you're veg or vegan in SF, you've actually got it made (to some extent, in terms of quality meals at least) compared to us meat eaters.
So here goes. I give the approximate last date I checked to see if these services were available (that is, last time I ate at a free food location). Right now I'm homeless & can't go to check the sources in more Westerly/outlying SF hoods, so if you get free food in SF (or elsewhere in Bay Area & want me to add it), please check in with a comment so I can keep this current-thanks! 😉
I'll be adding to the list below, as time allows. I've started with some of my favorites, to get you happily munching along 😀
How to Eat for FREE in San Francisco
© 2012 goriji aka Violet Bramble
Please ASK ME DIRECTLY before reproducing- thanks! 😀
I appreciate DONATIONS of ANY amount to my crowd funding campaigns on indiegogo.com for my anti-sex trafficking films and book– help me (a female SF native) get off the street, out of imminent danger, get my (herbal/naturopathic) meds for my chronic illness, and tell my human rights story about almost being sex trafficked by SF criminals who left me in the gutter to die when I refused to do their bidding! $1 & up donations get free gifts! See my indiegogo page here for list of all crowd funding campaigns (links to active campaigns you can donate to are at the bottom of that page!) Or if you can't donate, please send out my link(s)! Thanks & peace 😀
Ok 1st the bad news- it's not easy to find food on either Sundays or Mondays, pretty much anywhere in SF I know of. Will list what little I can find. If you don't have any other sources (see daily/weekly source list below- coming soon), then try to get some SF Food Bank food (typically given out at churches in SF- or food handed out from a cafe/restaurant as suggested below) towards the end of the week to last through the weekend, if nothing else. Also see my food 'stamps' section (coming soon).
One of the few yummy food sources I know of on Mondays is:
10:30am (approx) Golden Gate Park Pancake B'fast by unknown chruch-type group
Near 'Janis Joplin Tree', Hippie Hill, nr Panhandle GGPk entrance
Typically you get 2 freshly made (think: friendly guy crouching over Coleman grill) pancakes with butter, syrup & coffee (latter runs out quickly from the thermoses), while sitting/standing around GGP.
'Hippie Hill' is the area with the weekend drumming circle (where everyone buys their pot, & the dastardly SFPD do their damnedest to stop the dealing/smoking, even for those with a medical marijuana card). Meantime, the pancakes are tasty. When I've been there, not so many people were about, however I don't remember them having enough for 'seconds' either. Still, if you're sleeping/hanging out in the area, or in the Upper Haight, well worth it. Presuming they're still at the same spot, you enter from the Panhandle/main JFK Road entrance, Hippie Hill is in large grass area visible to the left as you enter GGP, aim yourself towards the lovely 1880s Art Studio building (near the antique carrousel). Before actually reaching it, just to the right of this area is the famous tree, the 'feeding' is usually just NE of that, in a small grove of trees along the path that winds back towards the Haight St tunnel entrance you can access from Stanyan/Haight (see map- link coming soon!)
Last visit: approx March 2011
Reliability: unknown, word of mouth says moderate to high
Now the good news: Tuesday is a veritable bonanza of food, especially if you can get to Civic Center/UN Plaza (both Bart & Muni underground, as well as F line streetcars, and a bunch of Market St buses, go right there)
1-1:30pm ish: 'FREE LUNCH!!' Bethel AME Church van
Middle of UN Plaza, near large 'up' escalator from Muni/BART underground
This is great for omnivores (aka 'meat-eaters') as it's typically a medium-sized bag lunch with homemade meat item (like spaghetti/meatballs, meatloaf, etc..), a bun, sometimes a small (or half of) a sweet (like cinnamon roll or cookie), plastic fork, maybe one other item, and they tend to hand out small-size bottled water too J Easy to walk off with to somewhere more pleasant to eat (like lawn near City Hall), due to nice lunch bag packaging.
Pretty simple: van with church signage pulls up in middle of UN Plaza (roughly opposite cute Art Deco cafe building ='UN cafe')- man starts yelling 'Free LUNCH!!!!' repeatedly in your ear while you stand in quickly forming line. Apparently they stop at other locations (like some unknown deest (aka destination) by the Main Library) nearby but have only found them here in past. If you know location of their other stops, please add as comment below.
Last visit: approx Sept 2011
Reliability: low last time I checked. They showed up approx 4 of 6 weeks, then I was unable to locate them 3 weeks in a row, despite hanging around area for hours/asking other homeless ppl etc. Too bad, it's righteous lunch fare if you're craving meat to have this yummy option. I've noticed their time can vary but I've general found them there during 1-2pm window
Anytime 4-7pm (if you're lucky, between 4:30-5:30pm): the French Nuns= Fraternite Notre Dame
Market St side of UN Plaza, close to elevator from Muni/BART underground & large flower sculpture on north side of Market St
Meals typically feature sausage with rice, sometimes with rolls, sweets, and/or fruit. There is a big bag of bread loaves (in plastic) sort of thrown on the ground, you have to kind of risk losing your place in line (if alone-like I typically am) to dive for a loaf before the aggressive louts take everything (unless its soon after the 1st of the month, when many homeless ppl have received welfare/food stamps & the line is much shorter). You can get bread other ways, trust me 😉 Also sometimes they have beverages, last time I got a nice bottle of cranberry juice, for instance.
To be honest, their food is short of being anything great or flavorful, I personally however think the sausages (which have ranged from really good fat chorizos to (literally) tiny canned Vienna sausage depending on the day/number of people served), are worth it. You might want to bring something to flavor the (typically) rice, or possibly lentils, with. Occasionally they have some type of veggie on the side, & last time, I was surprised to be served what amounted to about $20 worth of semi-stale real restaurant sushi (lumped on plate with my rice & sausage), including sake nigiri (raw tuna) and some yummy type of dragon roll. Another time they had pasta alfredo, but only enough for some of the line, others just got rice. Presumably someone's catering leftovers et al.
I'll spare you my story about their sex addict 'helper'/referee with the 'mohawk' & prison tattoos (real Mohawks involve shaving your head, not making a Sonic the Hedgehog hairdo out of too much gel IMHO- a digression) who now seems happily to be elsewhere 😉 Needless to say, you tend to get a somewhat rough & tumble group of (mostly) men, with occasional (usually quickly mediated) fights, not always respectful of the wonderful French nuns who also run a soup kitchen nearby (I've heard men in line calling the nuns the 'B' word multiple times to their faces, one guy while stealing a huge tray of food that one of the nuns had to grab back from him while being insulted in such manner). The French nuns pull up (amusingly in full-length black nun habit) in a van & unpack a small awning near to the Market St side of the UN Plaza area.
Last visit:Jan 2012
Reliability:moderate to poor. It seems like their time frame varies widely, making it not so easy to locate them reliably, especially if you're just there for the famous 'Curry Without Worry' (below- who are incredibly punctual generally by comparison). If you want to hang around a bunch of rowdy drunk homeless ppl for hours, (or conversely, plant yourself in the Main Library at a desk by a window & strain your head or use binoculars lol..) you could probably manage to find the lovely nuns. My thought is sometimes they just aren't there, however. On lucky weeks they show up roughly when Curry Not Worry is feeding (below) on the other side of the plaza, so it's easy to eat one meal while waiting in line for the other 😉 Apparently they 'feed' at other places/times (I'm guessing including at their soup kitchen). If you of know details reliably, leave them in comments below- thanks! J
5:30pm (give or take 30mins) Curry Without Worry J
Main Library/Asian Art Museum side of UN Plaza, next to the Simon Bolivar (large man on horseback) statue
Food is nearly always the same: Nepali (think: Indian) food= rice with lentils, veggie (I think vegan but ask them to be sure) curry, optional spicy chutney(? or something), sometimes also optional hot pepper slices, naan, and yummy sweets that have been divided into small pieces (the rhubarb-strawberry 'what's it?' dessert is particularly yum). Plus typically, extra (French, sliced) bread. On a week when my food stamps went belly up I was even able to score a couple of left-over sub sandwiches, wrapped in plastic, out of their bread basket (ymmv= your mileage may vary). DAMN GOOD veggie Nepali food, gets goris 4 star 'best of free SF food' award J
They also have tabla (drumming), and sometimes dancing, including the Nepali guy who founded it one time was dancing in a crazy lion mask in a robe with a Star of David (in SF gang colors) on it. Not sure how intentional on his part those costume details were lol 😛 Older Nepali guy proprietor will typically walk through entire (long) line & shake hands/say 'Namaste' to every peep in line. Gotta give props for that! Non-homeless ppl (including a few Indians/ South Asians) plus backpackers etc. tend to show up, especially in summer, along with the usual homeless crowd. LONG line but moves quickly, you can typically get back in line & get 'seconds' (though in good/warmer weather or near end of month line will be longer). Nice people, well organized, friendly & punctual. If you can afford to, put a buck or two in their tip jar, it helps make more meals, which cost them $2 each!
Last visit: Jan 2012
Reliability:high! Worst I have seen is a couple of times they have been an hour (max) late. They are almost always there by 5:30pm.
I'm listing this SF Food Bank stop for starters on Wednesdays, will add more as I'm able
10am-12noon (?) Mary Elizabeth Inn (SF Food Bank groceries)
1040 Bush St bet Jones/Leavenworth, Nob Hill area
SF Food Bank groceries are similar in different locations. Check here: for a list of locations/times to get some. It definitely PAYS to line up early, especially here, where the less than honest/motivated SRO employees hand out as much as possible to those in the beginning of the line, I suppose in an effort to finish the whole affair as quickly as possible with the least effort. Typically there are canned goods (refried, green, garbanzo beans etc are edible without cooking- just buy/beg a cheap can opener), also veggies, some of which (depending on how adventurous you are) can be eaten raw (ie potatoes, carrots, yams), often there are boxes of oranges and the like (if you pick out the squishy/moldy ones), French bread or maybe loaves of sliced, but the small generic bags of rice & oatmeal will only really work if you have a propane stove of some sort (as many car/van campers & some homeless in Golden Gate Park) do. A veteran homeless friend told me it's possible to take the oatmeal to a 7-11 store & use hot water to make it palatable in a cup. I dunno, I hate oatmeal 😛
Also here you most likely will find the ever present Capri Sun (aka Crappy Sun) pouches you haven't seen since middle school. Apparently Food Bank has enough of these to hand out to everyone in SF for years after the climate destruction-eventuated apocalypse. Good for them 😛
At this location, the Chinese ladies 'get free food/re-sell on 6th St' racket is kept to a decent minimum (unlike Food Bank church, see below- coming soon!). In the past this gorgeous old building was a women's hotel run by a (granted, conservative) church. Unfortunately the legacy of Willie Brown/ Newscum graft/corruption SRO schemes swallowed up this gem, with the inevitable crooked city 'contractors' diminishing much of its historical beauty in the process. The result is a ghetto SRO run by corrupt black social workers, as is typical for this genre. So much for the Victorian beauty of yesteryear. How #fail.
Last visit:approx May 2011
Reliability:unknown but presumably high, since all they have to do is walk downstairs (food is given out in basement dining hall area-side entrance on sidewalk) & open the doors
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5:30pm (give or take 30mins) Pizza & hot chocolate by church group
Golden Gate Park entrance at Stanyan/Haight
(near Mc Donalds/Whole Foods end of Upper Haight St)
Presuming they are still doing this 'feeding' on Saturdays, a church group of unknown/forgotten name, replete with Asian preacher who gives a short sermon in the BG about some select parable from the Bible, hands out mass quantities of pizza (usually choice of plain cheese or pepperoni, cheapo/generic variety) 2 pieces per person, but (when I was going there at least) you could get 2 more pieces as 'seconds', and hot chocolate. Been awhile since I've been at this one, but I think I remember there being a pastry or dessert as well. Additionally, they often (not always however) give out something while you wait in line, like a tiny 6-pack of Little Debbie donuts or those smushy pre-packaged fudge brownies or something. One week some weird Arab woman was giving everyone kits from airlines: toothpaste, toothbrush, airline socks, mesh bag et al. Believe me, this type of thing comes WAY in handy, more than you know in these circumstances, and was much appreciated J
The (presumably, ordained minister) guy giving sermons isn't as awful as it sounds (hey I'm a pagan/witch & I've even listened for a few mins, out of respect for the ability to get free pizza 😉 The line consists of some pretty hard-core down & out people/ drug addicts literally shooting up in line etc, and when I stopped going to this (aka when I was forced to sell my minivan (think: goonday chasing me all over, esp those ka gaadis wearing kala) in SF & live on the street), the line was getting longer & longer & longer, as word got out. It's at the more recent, yuppie 'archway' entrance thingy built at the edge of the park, above the pond/tunnel leading towards Hippie Hill from Haight St. If anyone has visited recently & knows the status of this 'feeding', please leave a comment below! J
6:30-7:30am b'fast Mon-Sat
12-2pm lunch Tue-Sat
brunch Sun 9-10:30am
St Martin de Porres (mostly) vegan food J
225 Potrero/16th- behind the wooden gate
Gotta give props to this place- serving yummy (mostly) vegan breakfast/lunch fare 7 days- I usually attended at lunch, I got the feeling breakfast is somewhat lunch-like, but feel free to correct me. I was often 'late' (in that the line had gone inside/people already eating), and ate soup that needed salt (& is actually available on the tables), good salad and all the sliced bread you can take with you (I think the limit is like 10 or 20 pieces). This is where you want to bring in a clean plastic bag (from your last loaf of bread etc..) & go for it on the bread, then buy some peanut butter/jelly with food stamps, if you're desperate for a few days. Apparently there are a few other components to the lunch (I remember a bag of salted plantains -random!) & some other forgotten item one time I showed early enough to require a 'number' from the gatekeeper. In any case, they apparently have meat soup 1-2 days a week, I think like Wed/Thurs. Turkey soup was yummy. If I remember correctly you can still get a vegan option those days (as long as it lasts). Had conversation with an (older gay male-unknown name-friendly/professional acting) volunteer about higher quality of ingredients they use than other local soup kitchens- this is good stuff! Bring a little seasoning & you're all set J
If you get there early, you'll be handed a number. People are called into the kitchen (at the back of the courtyard- look for the 70's style wooden gate serving as a front door to enter the premises) in batches of 10 by number. There's communal tables to eat at, and some nice seating spots in the courtyard (plus more generic tables under an awning). You're apparently allowed to nap in the courtyard, there are homeless ppl with carts and such doing so. There's a bathroom with showers (I was unaware there was a women's bathroom, much less showers, til I saw it listed on a homeless resource site-like most things homeless, men dominate vastly by population percentage as most women can't/won't/don't live on the street). In any case there are appointed hours (I think on Weds?) you can take a shower.
There's an old, out-of-tune piano in the kitchen/indoor eating area that some old dude was pounding out amazing ragtime on one day 😉 They give you dishware that should be bussed (tray at juncture between patio & covered area), so you have to stick around and eat, rather than being able to bolt immediately, in case that's your preference. Unsure on whether they will fill your own plastic container if you bring one. A word to the wise: tho I like sitting outside near where people are sleeping (this advice goes double for Civic Center BTW) I have it on good report that ppl HAVE gotten lice etc.. by seating themselves somewhere a homeless peep with such has recently sat/reclined. Not a comment on this loc in particular, but be cautious in any SF location filled with homeless in any case. (See my upcoming: 'How to Build a Box House' for tips on avoiding human bugs) Also I've not been to Sunday brunch, I think breakfast (late) only once & it was almost like lunch. Please comment if you know more about those menus.
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Closing time- various downtown SF/ financial dist Starbucks
Certainly it's not the only café/chain that does this in SF, but it's a good example of what's available. I haven't done it myself, but have been beneficiary of (sealed, yummy, 1-2 days max expired) Starbucks food on a number of occasions from the other homeless people I have nightly 'camp' with. Stuff I liked includes: yogurt/granola cups (2 parts separated/mix together- small insert in top for granola makes a good semi-durable, clean portable kitty/very small doggie water cup), fruit bowls (yum), these bento-box type thingys (ate 2 today)- different types but today's was Asian style noodles with veggies, tofu, cucumbery garnish, kind of hard to bite into peanuts covered with sesame (I think), small wrapped square of dark chocolate. A couple of days ago I was recipient of multiple boxes with carrot & cuke strips, plain white meat chicken strips, decent small containers of hummus, pita bread, some sweet-ish bread that looked moldy but I was assured should look that way (tasted delish), each with cozy chocolate square again. You will prolly need more than one to count as a full meal, especially if you're quite hungry or male 😉 This crap retails at $7 each. So be happy/respectful to get it for free J
According to ma homeless ppls, you just stand outside (in this case, a particular Financial Dist SF) Starbucks as they close (remember to observe some rules of homeless etiquette to insure best chance of actually receiving food- link coming soon!- I'm being serious!) and wait around to potentially fight it out with others possibly much more drunk/high/crazy than you for whatever they come outside with. Problem is, you may be waiting from 2-90 mins for them to come out with the goods. If you're lucky, no one else will be around & you'll score much more than you can eat. Since there's no refrigeration, remember to leave unwanted extras in containers, either on a bench where homeless are likely to see, or atop trash can (preferably composting (green) plastic dumpster if you can find one waiting at curb), as those who do (IMHO: risky) dumpster diving for food will thank you.
List of Starbucks locations in SF:Link coming soon!
I don't know how many or which exactly Starbucks do this, but you may have a better chance in Financial Dist SF, becos they tend to have limited weekend hours in that hood =more time for food to go bad over weekend without being sold etc.. Try going into one & discretely say you are homeless- ask if they hand out food when they close. Then LEAVE and only show up OUTSIDE POLITELY (and ideally, sober) when they close the doors, assuming they answer something in the affirmative. This type of behavior gives you the best chance at eating well! 😉 You can always ask the barista (again, politely & discretely), if they know another loc that does hand outs, if they say no. Most ppl who work low level jobs can sympathize with the idea of going hungry- poor are much more generous with their scant extra resources than rich, has been my experience.
(Coming soon: much MORE free food in SF & a food 'stamps' (aka ATM card) primer!) J
PLEASE READ THIS: Remember that it's EASY to get various types of food 'poisoning' from anything spoiled (depending on type of food/weather, 12-36 hours max (in San Francisco) except stuff like bread, PB&J, fruit, crackers, some types of juice & other non- or semi-perishables, like soft drinks). BE CAREFUL- it's SO NOT worth it to be vomiting all night in the gutter in the cold because you got so hungry you ate something questionable- ask me how I know this L This goes QUADRUPLE if you have an immune system disorder, gastrointestinal problems, or related illnesses, as I do (have all three and more).
Remember, if you barf up all you ate, you'll be both sick & more delirious with hunger later (as well as potentially too weak to seek out decent food- living like this means to live like an animal- or survivalist), so seriously, DON'T take the risk. Dairy & meat in particular can spoil FAST, though I've had luck (for instance) with eating yogurt from the night before which seemed to have simply semi-turned into cottage cheese (in this case the bacteria growing overnight is presumably of the beneficial variety). Dried meats like pepperoni on pizza tend to keep slightly longer than fresh, cooked cuts and the like. Also remember: you are sleeping outside (or in a cold vehicle or whatever)- it's like being in the fridge (but only while you're outside/it's cold), except in rare hot weather (that is, in SF: ymmv). I try to pack any food so it's out of sight (other lazier homeless will rob you blind of food in a heartbeat while you're sleeping if you're on the street) but as close to the cold outside of my nightly structure as possible (or in a draft). In an unheated van all night food kept really well- packing items together helps the cold radiate mutually among the food longer-be sure to keep out of sun during the day- even clothing on top to hold in cold/block heat helps.
You really don't need to EVER eat food that's gone into the trash in SF, there's SO much free food it's sort of disgusting considering how damn FAT everyone is, you just have to plan ahead a little & be willing/healthy enough to make the effort to travel to get it. If you are EVER tempted to dig into a trash can to eat, REMEMBER: those HUGE roaches that appeared with the human roaches from the East Coast during dot.com (& 'created' all of this homelessness in the first place by displacing the native population from what once was abundant rental housing- again ask me how I know this!- many are affiliated with the same scummy organized crime who tried to sex traffick me)- yep those HUGE kind run out of the sewer and PG&Evil grates at night (right next to where I'm forced to sleep) & up into the trash cans to eat! (Another reason to keep your own stash OFF the ground!) More on this later!
To be fair: conversely, I met this musician guy I saw eating out of the trash one nite- I ran over to share my food with him, warning him about the vagaries of bacteria of various types in the composting bin. He told me he has been doing this for years & never had any problems. Gross I know. I have poor health & a weak immune system so… again, ymmv. Still, getting sick from spoiled food is just plain gross so: you've been warned! Eat only sealed, fresh items (or meals freshly served) is my motto.
I appreciate DONATIONS of ANY amount to my crowd funding campaigns on indiegogo.com for my anti-sex trafficking films and book– help me (a female SF native) get off the street, out of imminent danger, get my (herbal/naturopathic) meds for my chronic illness, and tell my human rights story about almost being sex trafficked by SF criminals who left me in the gutter to die when I refused to do their bidding! $1 & up donations get free gifts! See my indiegogo page here for list of all crowd funding campaigns (links to active campaigns you can donate to are at the bottom of that page!) 😀 Or if you can't donate, please send out my link(s)! Thanks & peace :)/p>
tweeps! :) sup?
K in case u haven't noticed the column to the right lol –> I'm going crazy on twitter my peeps 🙂 In the time I've neglected yeh blog (since early July 2009), ur gori's tweeted about 1700 or more tweets & counting na? 😉 lol if u wanna add me on Twitter, I'm @gorisf na? 😉
Basically I'm focusing on a few areas: desi cheez (of course, including Bolly & SRK filim stuff), the hypocrisy of fundamentalist Muslim (oops I almost starting putting hashtags lol) attitudes, aur tweets about my vids (revver.com, voh lame site now owned by some goonda who's letting it fall apart literally+ not paying anyone boo)- they r gonna be re-loaded onto a functional site ASAP (all 350+ of them & counting na?)..
..plus I tweet bout meri *NAYA FILM* whoo 😉 Working title 'Soufi & Me' hai na? 😉 aka 'Soufi et Moi' lol 'सूफी और मैं' 'الصوفي & لي' etc lol! 🙂 So there *is* a 2-part vid about my casting needs 😉 for this no-budget narrative feature film (to get technical on u there for a minute)- aka u could be famous & not have to really have acting skills to do so but… haven't posted the vid(s) yet as I'm in the middle of finding a new video hosting site for reasons listed above.
Also, didn't forget about the (hopefully humorous) acchi desi cheez gori clothing & accessories line (srsly! 2 use twit-speak).. it's just that.. yeppers, I'm about to get evicted from my ghur (cry!), rent hasn't been paid since the last blog post, u can see that's quite a long time. Plus I'm being stalked by such SF goonday na? (Real don peeps eek!)- which is what yeh filim is actually about, besides being a love story 😉
So if u pray 2 any goddesses or gods of any sort, say a prayer 4 gori aaj, tik hai? The donate 2 gori's Mini Cooper fund link in the archive should still (hopefully lol) work, in case anyone wants 2 donate the extreme amounts of $$$ needed for me 2 stave off imminently becoming homeless 😦 *sigh* Or of course, you can donate towards the film, which ideally has a 'low low budget' of $500K (basically a budget to keep me housed while writing the script, feed the crew while filming & pay 2 rent a camera/print the film, with little left for anything else 😉 In any case, I'm doing the dang film, even if I'm living marg mein instead of ghur mein 😦 which is exactly what local thuggees would like to see happen 😦
Oh if I didn't say, it's about gori kam trafficking bhi na? So if u wanna be a funder (or just lend gori her back rent $$)- catch me on twitter peeps & I'll be bahut khushi 2 take any donations lol-or just say 'hi'! 🙂 Pyar jis & watch yeh space 4 more details on filim production & lol fundraising attempts!
BTW if ur bored (besides talking 2 me 'live' on twitter, u know u wanna, especially the more Tamilian-esque masti Sri Lumba Kala Sundars out there na?) u can check out my very own #Hashtag on twitter: #LHTE, which stands for 'Learn Hindi Through English' lmao. Because everyone knows that crappy Hindi book, my theory being that 'Hinglish' goes both ways: it's not just some gora being unable to speak Hindi (or other Indian languages) but also desi peeps being unable 2 properly speak Angrezi na? So enjoy! All typos are directly copied from the book itself lmao!
Will bb soon jis, in the meantime, just read the next column & u got more details than I'm sure u ever wanted lol –> 😉
catchin up n'stuffs…
K gori's cheating here since this is actually being written in July (mostly) about cheez June se na? 😉
Belated Khushi gay (uh bi!!!) Pride na? Here's my rant about lack of Bi visibility to start things off…
Been hacked for about 9 wks, unable 2 get online 95% of the time, turns out this has 2 do with goonday aka thuggees 😛 San Francisco mein, which have been harrassing gori ever since the demise of yeh M1M… augmented by garam Arab yaar & posse, got that?
😛 At any rate, u can now see mehri Twitter feed (add me! @gorisf & say 'hi' with a DM or something na? Only if ur not spam tik hai?)
Meantime, basically blogging about the entire SF International Film Fest (<–go there to see my reviews! yey!) plus the Frameline 33 Queer (tik hai, LGBT if you must) film fest (both from SF) got obliterated. As u can see from that link, it's very very slow going trying to upload the 17+ film reviews from that fest, seeing as I'm hardly ever able to keep a connection going for even 24hrs…
But don't be sad, u can see gori's twitter feed, so far with daily updates, to the right –> (or just add @gorisf tik hai?) 😉
If u wanna see gori cry, check out this cool movie review from the Frameline Queer film fest:
If u missed the end of the cafe lurks (reason: mafia peeps like usual), check this out (vid to the right, below)
Gotta jet before the thugs get my connection again! Be sure to keep an eye out 4 gori's naya filim about garam Arab yaar, gori aur the sex trafficking scammers na? BTW status of gori's naya desi lounge/club is currently unknown, depends largely on my dost's willingness to take a risk of thugs trashing his nice new lounge/computer space, since both of us refuse to pay kickback $$$ to them (u thought this happened Mumbai mein sirf na?) 😦
Pyar mehri jaans 🙂 Be sure to watch my twitter feed to the right, I'm frequently in Union Square (theoretical film location) working on the script/watching thugs go by these days & would love some (non criminal sirf, please!) desi yaar company 🙂
PS if ur wondering on the SRK in San Francisco cheez, let's just say nahin, I didn't meet him, it's a little too painful to talk about 😦 Meantime, here's a fellow tweep's blog about being an extra in one of the last shoots in the North Bay before SRK, Kajal & KJo left for Mumbai *sigh*…
Aur here's a photo of SRK standing in the EXACT SAME SPOT gori can be found standing at every time she is returning to her house via disgusting filthy BART (just stood there today- actually there's another photo I can't find right now of him standing approx where the woman ki sari is to the left, that's what I mean lol, plus he shot across the street from my old house @Mint Karaoke Bar, plus he shot @CCSF, which I can see from my current place arggggggggggg!!!! <–a digression lol)… at least mujhe samjhe abi that it's possible that my long dreamt of Bolly-style script starring SRK as a bi male (directed by Karan Johar) taking place on Nob Hill IS a possibility… zindagi bahut strange hai na? Let's see how my first film attempt goes, then maybe I'll have a shot at the SRK script na? Cross fingers!
Pyar y'all.. watch the twitter column or add @gorisf to get updates on filims, gori's whereabouts & the (now ever-present) Arab & other mafia peeps na? Laters! 😉
whoa… time flies na? :P
Tik jis it's already the end of May (actually I'm cheating it's early June lekin gori post-dated yeh post so I will have a May post na?)
Race riots have yet to start in 'White Australia Forver' (oh that's Canada oops) 😦 phir bhi it should be coming any second now… just like ghetto Pakis UK mein na? Jao! Light them on fire n stuff! Just don't mess with the historic architecture tik hai jis? 😉 Seriously, what a bunch of heinous ferengi na? Beat the crap out of them! Isn't voh Punjabi Kuchbhi Singh yaar who got sliced in the stomach (one of many, poor thing!) 😦 bahut garam na? Wanna marry gori & come to US yaar? *sigh*
At least now gori's rants about UK/Aus/Canada & other non-US gora colonies being hella racist won't be as likely to meet with disaffected shrugs by gori's apathetic desi dostana aaj.. small compensation I know…
So why we're here.. yeppers, gori is being actually chased now by such goonday na? Incredible but true! Watch for a series of vids on voh suherchod, coming soon to mehri vlog! 😉
BTW (ha jis, gori's cheating on the date here a little) lekin do u notice how Obama's 6/4 Cairo speech sounds like some boring college professor's history/economics/kuch bhi lecture? 😛 Worse yet, what about the fact that the audience would only applaud when Obama either a) totally brown-nosed Islamic culture or b) quoted the Qu'ran (with poor transliteration lol).. BTW Obama it's 'ISlam', IZlam nahin na? Guess gori's garam Arab yaar encounter has opened yeh akon hara to the hypocrisy/narcissicism of Muslims (not to mention the US military establishment) in any case .. Gori's not caring so much right now, since this is undoubtedly the first time since the artificial creation of the 'state' (cough cough) of Israel that an Amrikan pres has actually uttered that sacred word: Palestine.. Palestinian nahin na? PalesTINE jis! Sadly, this is a massive start… Still lovin Obama in any case, if for no reason other than the khushi circumstance of looking at a brown yaar pres 😀 yey!
aur abi, thodi poll gori se na? ;)
Peeps… Well gori's actually really truly updating/re-doing cheez here this time…
Depending on the level/frequency of hacking (& how busy I get at the SF International Filim Fest na?) this could take anywhere from days.. to months lol 😛 Anyhow, in the meantime, please check out yeh choti gori poll ..u can fill in other suggestions at the bottom- make sure they are friendly ones, since I'm sure u don't want to experience gorigiri na? (aka: buri nizer!) 😛 lols… BB laters! 😀
Holi Hai! :) Khushiyan Asian Film Fest bhi :P
Khushi Holi peeps! 🙂 Time for the SFAAIFF (San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival)… gori's going to attempt to see 20 filims in just ek week na? lols…
About dus (aka 1/2) of these are desi (South Asian/Indian, that is) films.. whoo! Should be uber-cools 🙂 As I said in the intro, looks like (cross fingers) gori's desi lounge (for lack of a better naam, I swear I found the perfect word on google late one nite, & failed to bookmark it lol- can't even remember the (Indian, of course) language aaj, much less the name itself lol) is *tentatively* coming in approx June.. will be quite exciting! 😀
Anyhow, I've made a page that will sooner or later have all the insightful & bahut exciting gori filim review vids (ulloo WordPress doesn't allow revver.com widgets, sigh)… meantime, it's basically a link to the revver list. At the moment, you can save urselves time by just going here to see the video reviews (<– that's a link na?), & after gori deals with the massive hurdles of the hacker loser ex who is still around after 3+ years (mass ragging na?) aur the inherent issues with revver itself du jour, then eventually the thumbnails will be here:
gori's video reviews of bahut desi & other film from the 2009 SFIAAFF film festival! whoo! 🙂
Tik here's the intro to yeh filim fest:
Thrilling I know lol 😉 Perhaps u'd rather see a couple of diwani vids about gori catching a djinn na? 😉 lols… (hover to watch vid w/out clicking through, or click to revver if you wanna see a bigger goriji ;))…
So I thought I'd be having some fabu naya flyers for the filim fest, lekin it's the nite before the madness begins & the printer has died 😦 sigh… being too broke to pay to print them lols… we'll see..
Tik in any case get excited, it only took an entire year (shukriya to having no funding to speak of, cept voh goonday that need to be awoided like the plague they are), phir bhi there's gonna finally be a rocking yummy spot for desi aur desi-friendly peeps to meet na? Plus make DIY Bolly & other vids, etc.. 😀 Since gori is looking quite single again… can't wait to get down to chillin in person over a drink or two with bahut garam ladkay, especially of the Sri Lankan/Tamilian/Fijian 😛 & similar variety 😉 ha jis? 😉
So see u peeps at the films! 🙂 & very soon, at mehri own sexy, yummy desi/gori/kuch bhi lounge! Yey! 🙂
Happy Vday aur.. At last! Jai ho! Obama ;)
Peeps- things have been bahut busy/pagal for ur gori na? Well.. here's mehri combined posts of the Oscars with (Jai Ho!) Slumdog Crorepati wins.. plus earlier Vday greetings… followed by an even earlier, previously unpublished bit about Obama's election na? 😉
Tik I admit after I got over complaining about sub flaws yeh filim mein… I started to cry, watching the chotu bachchiyan on the red carpet, going to Disneyland etc… all the while thinking how they are going home to plastic tarps slum mein, ek bachchi's baap is dying of TB (Earth to Danny Boy(le)- can u possibly bother to get him some TB meds na?).. meantime, ek other bachchi ended up getting publicly slapped by his baap when he was too tired to give interviews after flying home etc…
Gori's only regret- wish I would have made a more watchable (instead of gundi, wobbly, very hastily shot between filims at Third I desi film festival) vid na? Kind of tripping on the Academy Award nominations.. so, here's ek follow-up to the reviews:
Aur, original reviews yaha hai for contrast (ha ji, there's do parts na?):
For Valentine's Day na? Gori hopes u were able to awoid 😉 yeh Shri Rama Sena (WTF?) suvar chod yaar na? 😦 *sigh* Not sure what's worse, betiyan NWFP mein with no education, or voh 'moral police' (lol) bhains chodu na? They need to get laid! badly! 😉
Anyhow, here's gori's Valentine to the perpetrators, aur mehri subsequent food poisoning vid (after inadvertently offending yeh Grand Duke at the SF Chinese New Year parade na?):
Abi, since the vids on Obama's election didn't exactly go up on time lol..
Tik hai… gori sochta yeh video says it all:
Meantime, like usual I'm fighting the hacker- mehri blog hits have fallen into oblivion for the usual reasons: hacker works between sites, so WordPress says 'Google mushkil hai' etc… for example… Glad if someone sees this front page, gori's putting lots of work into it na? Be sure to check the articulate SRK vids about 26/11 aur the stupidity of psycho-Islam as carefully transcribed by gori below 😉 (go to main page of the blog if you're at the link for this post alone)…
Still working on the line of gori merchandise referenced below, haven't forgotten about the naya desi lounge/club either (update: lounge tentatively starting in June 2009 😀 whoo!), lekin it's slow going without start-up funding (hint hint hint!! those of you who chaiye ek garam gori ladki to call ur own- help fund the space to meet her.. uh possibly me(?) mein)… tik hai… can u figure out that sentence lol? 😛
Pyar jis! Oh, also a very belated khushi 2009, now that we watched Obama undo about 50% of the evil of the Bush 'administration' (cough cough) in the first 24 hours.. aaj, hum proud hain to be Amrikans na? 😀 Time to celebrate the end of ek error, er end of a terror.. metlab end of an era na? 😉 Out with the hate, in with the love 😉
Speaking of which, Soufi I'm still waiting for your answer habibi 😉

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OnLive Remote Gaming Service Shown Off on iPad
One of the most impressive demonstrations at the D8 conference was of OnLive, a cloud-based service that lets consumers play high-end games that otherwise would not work on their systems and play with their friends over great distances.
Steve Pearlman of OnLive demonstrated games such as Borderlands that he accessed from a variety of PCs. He explained that the games were hosted on what he termed "the largest supercomputer in the world" (at least in terms of real-time graphics performance). Players just need to be online and within 1,000 miles of one of the company's data centers, which cover the continental U.S. The company has developed special codecs and low-latency software to make it work just as if you were on a high-end gaming system.
The service is schedule to turn on in June.
Pearlman showed features such as selecting games and watching other people playing games. He even demonstrated playing Borderlands from an iPad, and said it would work on a smart phone as well (although the iPad application is only a technology demonstration for now.) And he demoed an inexpensive device that could plug into a TV and allow people to play on that screen instead.
While this was designed initially for gaming, Pearlman said the technology would be applicable to other things as well, such as movies. The product was announced at the Game Developers Conference at $14.95 a month, but Pearlman said prices were likely to come down, with more details coming out at E3 later this month.
Another impressive demo was of Wordnik: It's SmartWords project goal is to gather all the words on the Internet and enhance them, by understanding how they are used. The demonstrator, a former dictionary editor, pointed out that there are more words online than in the dictionary and that many specific industries use lots of technical terms.
For instance, she said, the product could create a smart glossary for Scientific America or give a real explanation of a technical term in a finance story. More interesting, she noted how if there was a song referenced in any text, it could automatically pull up the lyrics or the song or pull up SAT-worthy words out of text (such as "twilight"). By understanding the context, she said it could do a much better job.
The project will be based on an an open standard, and SmartWords will be providing data feeds that publishers could use in a variety of applications. It looked quite useful.


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Dr. Colley graduated as an Honors College Scholar from Freed-Hardeman University, where he earned a B.A. in Communication and a B.S. in Bible. He holds a Master's degree (M.L.A.) from Faulkner University (2009), and a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy from the University of South Carolina (2014). Caleb is currently the pulpit minister for the Macland Road Church of Christ in Marietta, Georgia.
Caleb has served as the producer/director for Digger Doug's Underground, A.P.'s premiere television program for children. He has authored a book on spiritual leadership for young men, and co-authored a book on maturity for teenagers. He writes for R&R and the A.P. Web site, and also assists with the development of Bible School Curriculum and A.P. home-schooling materials. With his considerable public speaking skills, Caleb is available for speaking engagements and is especially effective with young people.


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Diverse influences drive the work of versatile violinist
Stamford Symphony's guest soloist has shared the stage with rock stars and blues performers and at the movies
Within the past year or so, Tim Fain's musical career has taken him to different places in time and space, from the 1840s' American South to the present-day digital world. But such is the life of one who early on began to traverse a vast melodic landscape.
"There was just so much variety," he said of what he found on the radio while growing up in southern California. He spent hours listening to Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bach, Michael Jackson, U2, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and songs of jazz greats, even as he was becoming an accomplished musician in his own right.
These dual influences shaped Fain, who is in his late 30s, into the versatile violinist that he has become -- a sought-after soloist with a command of classical repertoire and an adventurous collaborator who has shared the stage with rock stars, blues performers and dancers.
He has even been involved with two recent blockbusters, 2010's "Black Swan," performing on-screen and for the soundtrack, and the Oscar-winning "12 Years a Slave," for which he performs on the soundtrack and provides the "voice" (his 1717 Gobetti violin) for the violin that is played by Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Fain worked closely with composer and pianist Nicholas Britell, who created the on-screen music.
"A huge amount of research had to be done, not only for the music itself, but for the playing style," Fain said, noting that even the position of the instrument drops ever lower as Northup's hope flags. "In choosing pieces for the movie, it was really important to both of us and Steve McQueen (the director) that the music really express what was going on in the scene."
Eckart Preu, the Stamford Symphony Orchestra's conductor and music director, said Fain, who is based in New York City, is the kind of performer who can easily transition from one style of music to the next, all the while building a strong connection with the audience. Fain will join the group for its final two concerts of the season on Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, as the featured soloist on Dvorak's violin concerto.
More InformationIf you go
Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Saturday, April 5, 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 6, 3 p.m. $73 to $22 (kids free on Sunday; free MusiKids program Sunday at 2 p.m.) 203-325-4466, www.stamfordsymphony.org
"He connects really well with audiences," said Preu. "He's one of those very new kind of soloists who partner with all kinds of people who want to further the repertoire."
Such innovative collaborations are not necessarily new, said Preu, who noted that musicians 200 years ago looked for similar opportunities to work with composers, as well as their peers, to push their craft to new heights.
Laura Nash, an associate professor of music at Fairfield University, concurred, noting that a group of younger, classically trained musicians, such as Fain, violinist Joshua Bell and the Ahn Trio, are undertaking the nifty trick of going back in time to affect the music of the future -- revisiting the 19th century, when there were not as many strong lines among genres.
"What is happening with these wonderful musicians is that they are not living by categories," she said. "It's what good musicians should be doing."
Gary Wood, director of the university's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, noted that with any creative discipline, practitioners do not always hew to the fundamental rules and practices, even if they are well-versed in them. "The bottom line is that there is always a yearning in a great artist to express themselves in their own unique voice," he said.
For Fain, the joy in playing music is as much about performing as it is in sharing it.
"I play pieces that I really love and my hope is that the love and passion comes across," he said.
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I'm one of those people who gets very excited about ideas. One weekend on a Saturday Jacob and I were running errands and I decided it was the day I was going to make my first steamed fish.
I was very excited with the notion of a new kitchen tool–a steamer!
I love fish–it's very healthy, tastes wonderful, and is ultra satisfying on a breezy summers day. I rarely shop at Williams-Sonoma (of course most people go in there only to order things off their phone) but I was delightfully surprised to find a great deal on a steamer. For only $20 bucks we took home a beautiful simple wood steamer.
If you live in the Bay Area and you have access to fresh fish, I encourage you to get it from some place like Berkeley bowl, although it's a little pricier, it's well worth it.
I'm all about intuitive cooking–using your best judgement to put small variations on your favorite recipes–and for this one I didn't have two kinds of Japanese wine, I just used the one sake we had in the house. The recipe came out fine!
I don't generally cook cod, but I had heard of its mild flavor and dense, flaky white meat--it's used to make cod liver oil, an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA).
I got this wonderful heart-healthy cod recipe from Cooking Light Magazine.
I topped the cod with some of the ginger in addition to
steamed baby bok choy and a side of chutney.
1/2 cup sake (rice wine)
1/4 cup mirin (sweet sake)
2 stalks lemongrass, outer layers removed
3 tbsp. chopped onion
1 tbsp. minced garlic
Juice and zest of 1 orange and 1 lime
1/4 cup sweet Asian chili sauce
4 quarter-size slices fresh ginger
4 pieces (4oz each) Pacific cod
Cooked brown rice
1/2 cup cilantro sprigs
Serves 4, takes 30 minutes
1. Set a steamer in a wok or pot with 2 in. water underneath. Bring water to boil.
2. Boil sake and mirin until reduced by half. Mince 1 tbsp. lemongrass; cut the rest into thin 3-instrips. Add minced lemongrass to sake mixture, reduce heat to medium and add onion, garlic, juices, and zest. Cook 3 minutes; add chili sauce and cook until thickened, 10 minutes.
3. Put lemongrass strips and ginger in steamer. Top with fish; cook, covered until just opaque in center, 8 minutes. serve over rice with a drizzle of sauce and the cilantro.
The perfect summer dinner party entree, leaving you feeling satisfied, light and happy.
242 calories, 22 g protein, 2.3 g fat, 18 g carbs, 190 mg sodium, 40 mg chol.


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Research in the Molecular Neurogenetics Section focuses on the biology and genetics of both Gaucher disease, a rare, recessively inherited disorder with highly variable symptoms, and Parkinson's disease, a common complex disorder. This work has been instrumental in uncovering the spectrum of symptoms and specific mechanisms underlying the pathology of Gaucher disease. Through careful long- term clinical and laboratory studies into the basis and natural history of Gaucher disease, the group first appreciated a link between glucocerebrosidase, the enzyme deficient in Gaucher disease, and the development of parkinsonism. Mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene are now considered the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson and related Lewy body disorders.
The research in this section incorporates an integrated clinical and basic science approach, utilizing diverse modalities such as neuroimaging, animal models, induced pluripotent stem cells, genetic studies, cell biology and protein techniques. Probing the association between the single-gene disorder Gaucher disease and the multi-gene disorder Parkinson disease has led to important insights into the cause and treatment of both diseases. Ultimately, the research goal is the translation of basic research findings into new therapies and improved genetic counseling for patients.
Dr. Sidransky, chief of the Molecular Neurogenetics Section, is a pediatrician and clinical geneticist in the Medical Genetics Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Sidransky graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.A. in biology, and received her M.D. from Tulane University. She then trained in pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University, and completed fellowship training in clinical genetics at the NIH Genetics Training Program.
Dr. Sidransky has been a tenured investigator at NIH and a section chief since 2000. Her research includes both clinical and basic research aspects of Gaucher disease and Parkinson's disease, and her group first identified glucocerebrosidase as a risk factor for parkinsonism. She has spearheaded two large international collaborative studies regarding the genetics of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Her current work also focuses on understanding the complexity encountered in "simple" Mendelian disorders, the association between Gaucher disease and parkinsonism and the development of small molecule chaperones as therapy for Gaucher disease and potentially parkinsonism. Dr. Sidransky directs two NIH clinical protocols, one evaluating patients with lysososmal storage disorders and the second prospectively studying patients and relatives with parkinsonism who carry mutations in GBA.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The wife of a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament recently demonstrated the stark difference between the dominant values in Israeli Jewish society that those that have sadly taken hold in much of Palestinian society.
In a December 2 interview with Al-Aqsa TV, Umm Osama, wife of Hamas lawmaker Khalil Al-Hayya, stated that a woman's role is no less important than a man's in "Palestine" because it is the mother who "instills in her children the love of Jihad and martyrdom for the sake of Allah."
Umm Osama continued by noting that "Allah's reward is Paradise...[and] Paradise requires from us our blood."
When the interviewer agreed that "we want to die as martyrs," Umm Osama responded:
"Indeed we do. I am constantly praying: 'Allah, make the end of our days be in martyrdom.' I pray for this even for my husband and my children."
It has been repeatedly pointed out that while such attitudes make genuine, long-lasting peace nearly impossible by ensuring the next generation of Palestinian Arabs hate Israel, it is also a form of child abuse for which those like Umm Osama appear wholly unrepentant.
It would be terribly wrong to say that all Palestinians think this way, but it must also be remembered that a large majority of Palestinian voters put Hamas in power in the last general election in 2006.
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Author Notes: Bacon. Onions. And cheese. The perfect pizza pie, in my opinion. Dough recipe is adapted from the cookbook The Silver Spoon. Bacon Marmalade is available from www.baconmarmalade.com. The pizza dough recipe is adapted from The Silver Spoon, one of my favorite cookbooks. —mrslarkin
Serves: 1 or 3
for the pizza dough
2 1/2
cups all-purpose flour (about 11.25 oz., or 319 grams; I use King Arthur All-Purpose Unbleached)
1 1/2
teaspoons sea salt or kosher salt
teaspoon active dry yeast (not rapid rise), or 3 grams fresh yeast (about a dime-size ball)
ounces or 227 grams lukewarm water
cup olive oil
for the sauce and pizza
olive oil
large garlic clove, sliced
can (about 28 oz.) or box (about 26 oz.) good quality tomato puree
sea salt or kosher salt
large basil leaves
fresh cracked black pepper
Pizza dough, about 10 ounces
ounces mozzarella, sliced
cup thin sliced red onion
Bacon Marmalade
teaspoon grains of paradise, crushed (or fresh cracked black pepper)
In This Recipe
for the pizza dough
- These instructions are for a stand mixer, but you can do it all by hand, if you so choose. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix flour and salt together.
- Dissolve yeast into warm water. Stir in the oil. With mixer on low speed, pour the liquid into the flour until dough comes together.
- Scrape off the paddle and switch to the dough hook. Knead for 5 or so minutes.
- Scrape mixer bowl and hook, and gather dough into a ball. Place in a well-oiled bowl. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap, lay a dish towel over it and place in a warm spot, like in the microwave. Sometimes, before putting the dough in, I heat a mug-full of water, to get the microwave nice and warm.
- Let rise for 1 hour. Punch dough down, and let rise for another hour.
- This step is totally optional, but worth it if you have all day. Punch dough down again and let rise for 2 - 3 more hours. Alternatively, you can stash the dough in the fridge overnight after the first rise. Bring refrigerated dough to room temperature about an hour before forming pizzas.
for the sauce and pizza
- Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium/low heat. Add garlic and sauté for a few minutes until very fragrant. Do not brown the garlic!
- Add tomatoes, salt and basil, and stir. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add pepper to taste, and stir. Taste for salt. Turn off heat. Leftover sauce can keep in the fridge for several days, or freeze for longer keeping.
- Alternatively, use a good-quality store-bought pizza sauce.
- Place a pizza stone on bottom-most rack in oven. Preheat oven to BROIL HIGH at least a half hour before you will bake the pizza.
- Cut dough from above pizza dough recipe into two equal pieces, about 10 ounces each, weighing it with a kitchen scale if you have one. Place the second piece of dough in a freezer bag and freeze, or make a second pizza of your choosing.
- Flatten dough very slightly, and fold in top, bottom, left side, right side, towards center. Turn over, and gently form into a round. Place on lightly floured parchment-lined sheet pan, sprinkle with flour and cover with a kitchen towel. Let rest 10 minutes.
- Lightly oil (just a dab to keep the paper in place) a 12" pizza pan. Line with a piece of parchment paper, and lightly dust paper with flour. Place dough on paper. Dust dough lightly with flour and press down with your fingertips as you turn the pie and spread the dough evenly in all directions until you have a nice thin layer, about 1/4" thick. It probably won't cover the entire pan; that's okay. If dough is not cooperating, it helps to let the dough rest for a few minutes.
- Alternatively, flour your fists very well, and the ball of dough. Stretch dough over your fists and move your fists along the outside edge of the dough, stretching it out. Lay the dough on parchment-lined pizza pan. Tug edges slightly to form a rough circle.
- Spoon about 1/4 cup sauce over the pizza. Gently spread around, leaving about a ½ inch border for the crust.
- Place mozzarella on next....
- then the onions....
- and scatter little nuggets of Bacon Marmalade over the pizza.
- Drizzle a little olive oil and a scattering of salt and crushed grains of paradise over the top and you're ready to bake your pie!
- Place pan directly on pizza stone. Or, if you've got a pizza peel, pull the parchment and pizza onto the peel, then slide parchment and pizza directly onto pizza stone. Turn heat to 550 degrees F. Bake for 5 minutes, or until crust is nicely browned and crisp, and bottom of pizza has some nicely browned spots as well. Use a long-handled metal spatula or metal tongs, or the pizza peel, to lift up the pizza and take a peek underneath. The parchment will turn black, but it won't catch fire, so don't worry.
- Remove from oven, add more Bacon Marmalade if desired (because, well, more is more!), cut into pieces and enjoy!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Pizza
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Abramovich relationship 'fine' - Benitez
Rafael Benitez insists his relationship with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and the playing squad is strong despite his rant criticising Blues supporters and the club's decision to give him the title of interim manager.
The Spaniard, who has confirmed he will leave Chelsea at the end of season, is expected to be given at least one more match in charge when West Brom visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday and will hold the pre-match media conference as scheduled on Friday afternoon.
"My relationship with the owner is really good," Benitez told BBC's Football Focus. "Every time I talk to Abramovich about football, I enjoy (it). I know that he wants to win. I'm here because he wants to win and I will try to do my best until the last day.
"The relationship is fine. I don't have any problem with anyone. I have conversations with Michael Emenalo, the technical director, every single day. He watches the training sessions, we talk about football and when I meet Roman Abramovich, we talk about football.
"We talk like normal people. We share a passion for football."
Reports of dressing room unrest, including a dispute with captain John Terry, have been played down and Benitez is adamant there are no major concerns.
"My relationship with the staff, the people at Cobham, is really good, fantastic," Benitez added.
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State Arena Hotel Welcome to the brand-new Wingate by Wyndham State Arena Raleigh/Cary in Raleigh/Cary, a smart, modern lodging choice, conveniently located in Raleigh, North Carolina, only minutes from Research Triangle Park, the PNC Arena (previously RBC Center), the NC State Fairgrounds, Carter-Finley Stadium, and Raleigh Durham International Airport. We are also conveniently located near WakeMed Soccer Park in the nearby town of Cary.
Our 100-percent smoke-free hotel offers numerous amenities and services for modern-day business and leisure travelers to the Raleigh area. To name a few: complimentary breakfast daily, an indoor swimming pool & whirlpool, an on-site fitness facility featuring Precor equipment, complimentary high speed Internet access,
Accommodations -Numerous complimentary amenities make the Wingate by Wyndham State Arena Raleigh/Cary an ideal choice for travelers. Begin your day by working out in our on-site fitness center featuring Precor equipment. Follow it up with a complimentary hot breakfast and your own complimentary newspaper. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access will let you tie up any loose ends at work. Utilize our 24-hour business center that offers free faxing, copying, and printing services to print your boarding pass. For your meeting needs, the Wingate offers over 1200 sqft. of flexible meeting space perfect for the
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As bartering complete acreage development progresses into the 21st century, abounding of the attack aloft which the exchange was founded acquire the same. Whether you are a acreage owner, developer, or bartering complete acreage agent, anecdotic and business the altered actualization of your bartering acreage will aerate the affability of the website to -to-be buyers or tenants.
Depending on the able and best use for the property, you may be able to attraction a beat spectrum of abeyant buyers to your site. In accession to basics such as accumulated or zoning, able buyers – belted or borough – will acquire several key factors of ceremony abeyant site, including:
o Across and visibility
o Any complete authentic improvements on the site
o Average circadian cartage count, or ADTC
o Website access
o Annual availability
o Anatomy cachet of the property
o Any complete or planned surrounding commerce
Let's assay some of the primary actualization of bartering land, and how ceremony is interpreted by buyers.
Location, Location, Location
Because complete acreage is finite, across is a axiological appliance in the accomplishment adaptation adapt for buyers. Unless a acreage is undevelopable, ceremony website has altered allowances that will accommodated the needs of a applicant abominable a authentic criteria. Accession the accumulated of abeyant buyers is alone on efforts to apprehend and exchange the abounding accumulated of a parcel's location.
Location not alone encompasses city-limits and state, but aswell variables such as cartage arteries and surrounding commerce. Assay abutting accoutrements to amateur what arrangement of abutting commerce, residential communities, or roadways are planned for development.
Aerial photos are a abounding way to acquaint a site's potential. Google's chargeless agenda mapping annual provides abounding aeriform images for a lot of of the United States.
Existing Authentic Improvements
Contrary to acclimatized belief, complete authentic structures on a bindle may arrest a property's value, as adjoin to accession it. If a website has abnormal location, access, and traffic, but includes a functionally age-old structure, the accumulated of razing the assay will be a primary appliance for any -to-be buyer.
If your acreage includes an anachronistic or brittle structure, acquire razing the assay afore business the site. Incorporating this accumulated into the allure accumulated is oftentimes easier and added acceptable than deducting it from the accumulated during negotiations with the buyer.
Average Circadian Cartage Calculation (ADTC)
The accumulated of circadian cartage traveling on abutting roadways can be an able diplomacy point for even the a lot of difficult properties. Abounding counties beforehand Average Circadian Cartage Counts (ADTC) annual for aloft roadways. If the acreage is amidst beside or abutting to an intersection, acceptance the ADTC for both roads. -to-be buyers will acquire these abstracts accepting readily attainable in the site's business materials.
ADTC is a cogent bureau absolutely for borough entities, such as quick- and full-service restaurants, gas/convenience stores, hotels, and added entities that depend heavily on circadian cartage patterns to draw patrons.
Site Acceptance Options
Site acceptance – that is, accurately permissible acceptance to the website from abutting roadways – can achieve or aperture a transaction. Even the best website can become a lemon, depending on acceptance limitations.
Generally speaking, there are two types of acceptance to a site. The ancient is "full" access, for advancing cartage from both directions. Depending on a roadway's complete configuration, this may crave the affiliate of acceleration/deceleration lanes, blisters, or cartage signals.
The added (and below favorable) advantage is "right in, adapted out" access, which banned car acceptance to adapted turns from a alone lane of traffic. Because adapted in, adapted out banned the site's acceptance to a alone direction, depending on the ADTC of the afflicted lane, this may complete the assimilation of complete buyers.
If a website has abeyant for broader acceptance options, the acreage applicant may ambition to acquire requesting a modification from the applicative municipality. Performing this airing afore acceding the website on the exchange will absolutely acceptance abeyant for accuracy the abounding allure price.
Utility Availability
Although still acclimatized breeding in abounding areas, accomplishments that administer able and catchbasin systems are admired as accent sites in apologue to those with beat annual infrastructure.
The accumulated of bringing utilities to a website may be a cogent bureau to some buyers. If possible, acreage owners should acquire accepting electric, water, and ashes improvements brought to the website afore business the property. Again, such a antecedent admeasurement can optimize distance for accuracy the site's abounding allure price.
Environmental Concerns
With a rapidly growing accumulated of abeyant anatomy issues, buyers acquire added bogus anatomy website assessments a blow in their accomplishment agreements. This is a acquire to in diplomacy involving accomplishments collapsed to anatomy issues, such as crumbling gas/convenience stores, as able as accoutrements abutting to these entities.
The accumulated of an anatomy appraisement can be annual its weight in gold. A abettor can be captivated answerable for undetected anatomy acreage defects, even afterwards a transaction is consummated. The key to a acclimatized transaction is abounding disclosure.
If it is angled your acreage has anatomy issues, such a cachet does not achieve the website broadly undesirable. The accumulated of clean-up can be dent into the allure price, bogus the accountability of the buyer, or even accumulated amidst both applicant and seller. Added altered factors, such as across or ADTC, may outweigh abrogating aspects of the property.
Surrounding Commerce
Surrounding business can play a cogent role in the abutting of any property. Even if authentic structures acquire yet to be developed, animate the diplomacy for abutting accoutrements can admonition activate the able and best use of your property.
If your website is amidst aural an all-embracing bartering district, you'll acquire little affliction in anecdotic surrounding business to activate abeyant uses for your property. Conversely, if the website is amidst in an across gradually animate from residential to bartering use, or a amplitude of alone acreage with basal surrounding commerce, it will be all-important to adduce with added acreage owners as able as the accommodate adjudicator to activate abutting development diplomacy for abutting properties.
Becoming acclimatized with the altered actualization of your bartering acreage is the best way to achieve a best ROI on your investment. A competent bartering complete acreage abettor will acquire to abilities and assets all-important to admonition acreage owners assay these important aspects of their property.


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The Florence Alumni Association will have its 117th annual alumni banquet at 6:30 p.m. May 25.
The banquet will be in the Florence gymnasium and will be preceded by a business meeting at 5:30 p.m.
All alumni of Florence and Marion/Florence schools, guests, teachers, and classmates are invited.
Reservations are required for the banquet and cost $20.
Reservations may be sent to the Florence Alumni Association, 6240 W. 155th St., Overland Park, KS 66223.