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Welcome back, kids, to part two of The Scoop's t Two Part Very Special Episode. When we last saw our heroes, we covered the decade-by-decade history of the sitcom, and ended on a dramatic cliffhanger of the metrics we were going to use to determine the best ever out of a sea of contenders. Now let's pick back up where we left off with the thrilling conclusion…The Sitcom GOAT Metrics.
My goal while combing through years and years and even more years of sitcoms was always to determine if there was a way to remove as much subjectivity as possible surrounding how we judge the best one ever. After careful consideration, I landed on a list of 5 things we can use as our metrics to determine the top spot. Disclaimer: Filling out these 5 things requires some forms of subjective thought, but this gets us closer to making the strongest case possible.
Just to revisit what the five categories in the GOAT Metrics, they are as follows.
A show gets points for filling the most out of the following categories –
- Best lead character
- Best supporting cast
- Best theme song
- How many seasons it aired
- Was there such a high demand when it ended that there was a spinoff?
All of these things are very solid in principle, but after more research, I would like to amend number 5 to say "Were the characters so loveable that they inspired a spinoff?" because that is a more accurate measure of where the show was. Sure, some shows took characters at the end of their run and started the spinoff once the show ended, but that discounts others that were so popular that they coexisted at the same time as the original. We are going to call this the Laverne and Shirley effect.
Of course, there were other spinoffs prior to Laverne and Shirley, but theirs was the first show to spin off and become much more popular than the original. Laverne and Shirley debuted on its own in 1975, and by its second season was the most watched American television show, far surpassing Happy Days in the ratings. That means more in the big picture than a show being spawned after a show ends its original run.
I would also like to add here, before we get started, that there are 5 total shows that we are covering below, but one show is being purposely left off, being replaced by another. By all of the metrics we have established, The Cosby Show should rank on this list, but you will not find it here. I have written and rewritten and eventually deleted my thoughts on Bill Cosby because this is supposed to be fun, but nothing is less fun than reading 500 words of anger expressed solely at one person. The short version is that I feel terribly for these women, and I hope that Cosby gets each and every thing he deserves for what he allegedly did to them. His show isn't on this list because I cannot and will not separate what he allegedly did to those poor women from what he did on television. In my opinion, he is a disgusting human being who will not be mentioned here going forward.
So now that we have established the rules that we are following, let us celebrate the situation comedies that rank among the best ever, and name The Sitcom GOAT.
Friends (NBC, 1994 – 2004)
Best Lead Character – The best thing about Friends is that the ensemble was always bigger than individual success, and as such it never truly had one lead character. All six main characters carried major individual storylines; the cast negotiated their contracts together so no one person made more money, and all ended on a bright note.
Best Supporting Cast – Again, this is about the group, so the supporting cast acted as the main character. That is also what took away from the show in the later years. Joey was a strong character the first few seasons, one of the best on the show even, but without someone to pair him with, the writers eventually just played a terrible game with America about how dumb they could make him before Italians started setting cars on fire. As for the rest, the show went in the natural direction of pairing them off, but quickly ran out of steam and fresh storylines towards the end of the run. That is bound to happen after 10 years, but no other show on this list went from excellent the first few years to limping to the finish line.
Best Theme Song – You may very well be tired of "I'll Be There for You," but that is only because you heard the song so much outside of the show. This is the only song on our list that actually reached #1 on the Billboard Top 40 and stayed there for multiple weeks. It took the nation by storm, when nobody told us it was going to be this way (clap, clap, clap, clap). I'd like to immediately apologize for that last joke; it may be the dumbest thing you read all week.
How Many Seasons It Aired – Friends was on the air for 10 years, but it is very easy to forget how excellent this show was the first few seasons. Haircuts were being copied, "How you doin'?" could be heard everywhere, and the show was a cultural phenomenon. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing something about the show, and even though I have no proof, I think Starbucks owes part of its success to Friends because everyone wanted to have their own version of Central Perk with their friends. You can't prove me wrong. In the end, Friends was nominated for 62 Emmy Awards, but only won 6 during its entire 10 year run. Part of the lack of wins is the way the cast submitted themselves, but part of that is that it was always more of a show for the people than the critics. Friends holds up very, very well which is further proven by its recent boom on Netflix. Watch the first season again sometime soon and remember just how good and funny that show is.
Were The Characters So Loveable That They Inspired a
Spinoff? – One spinoff, immediately after the final season. That show was Joey and that show was bad. No need to waste time talking about it.
Seinfeld (NBC, 1989 – 1998)
Best Lead Character – Jerry Seinfeld was terrific on Seinfeld and the main reason is that it is so uniquely written in his voice. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David have two of the strangest comedy minds of all time, and Seinfeld's delivery was honed over years and years of being a hall of fame stand-up comedian. The only way that the show ends up on our Mount Rushmore here is because Jerry was always such a strong driving force on the show. With that supporting cast, anyone who wasn't comfortable in their own skin would have been absolutely steam-rolled.
Best Supporting Cast – This is where Seinfeld separates itself from the competition from the 90s, and frankly, Friends can't compare at all. Elaine, Kramer, and George alone would be enough, but with so many other supporting characters like George's parents (which include the always hilarious Jerry Stiller), Newman, and even Soup Nazi, who are all perfect in their roles, but it helps that the writing for them always put them in the best position to succeed. That makes all the difference because you would never have a storyline of one of them having an identical twin and using the lazy filming style where it's clear they aren't really talking to each other.
Best Theme Song – It may not be a theme song in the sense that you know every word and sing along, but shouldn't the purpose of a TV them song to be instantly recognizable, much like a sort of branding? Few other themes are more strongly tied to one show the way Seinfeld's is to it. That counts for something in my opinion.
How Many Seasons It Aired – 9 full seasons and all of them are very, very strong, but it is also unique in the way that its popularity and critical acclaim grew towards the end of its run. 68 Emmy nominations and 10 Emmy wins, but during the 90s it came down to Seinfeld and Friends, and Seinfeld dominates heads up. Seinfeld had everything from the ratings to the awards to the street cred.
Were The Characters So Loveable That They Inspired a Spinoff? – The closest the show came to a spinoff was the brief rumors that slick-talking Jackie Chiles had a show in the works with Jerry and Larry, but that was quickly debunked and outside of a reunion type show on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Nothing else has ever happened, which is not surprising since those characters started and ended together. Separately none of them would have had the same impact.
Happy Days (ABC, 1974 – 1984)
Best Lead Character – Arthur Herbert "Fonzie" Fonzarelli is the most recognizable sitcom character of all time. Yes, of all effing time. He drove this show and made a generation of young adult men dream of snapping their fingers to get a woman. The Fonz popularity juggernaut went from a small character during season one, to being listed as the sole lead by the end of the series, and his leather jacket currently sits in the Smithsonian. If you think another character is more well-known than him, then you can sit on it.
Best Supporting Cast – The cast from top to bottom is very, very solid, but what puts them in the top three is that they have sitcom legend Ron Howard populating their program. Ronny Howard was on two legendary television sitcoms for a total of 14 years, and through the early 80s you could not name a more recognizable sitcom face, not to mention how he helped shape the medium into what it turned into. He is in the television hall of fame (that's not hyperbole, he is in the real TV HOF), and just to run up the score he was in Harrison Ford's first major movie (American Graffiti) and John Wayne's last movie prior to his death (The Shootist). What did you ever do?
Best Theme Song – Just click play below and let the overwhelming need to grease back your hair and go to a sock hop wash over you.
How Many Seasons It Aired – 11 full seasons on the air, but the last few were pretty rough. That won't deduct from the total points though because even after Happy Days "jumped the shark," it still got credit because it invented the phrase "jumping the shark." I'm sure there are kids who say that phrase and don't even know where it came from or what it means. I didn't believe it could be that bad, and went back to watch the episode for myself, but little did I know that Fonzie wore shorts and a leather jacket while attempting this feat and looked ridiculous the whole way. I'm here to tell you,"jumping the shark" is legit.
Were The Characters So Loveable That They Inspired a Spinoff? – Only the top spot can claim more well-known spinoffs than Happy Days. Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy alone are more than enough to rival most any other competitor, but there was also Joanie Loves Chachie, Biansky's Beauties, and Out of the Blue, which brings the total to a staggering five, and that doesn't include the early 80s animated The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. Sure, not all of them were hits, but the top two alone top every other spinoff from our top 5, with the exception of the top spot.
Cheers (NBC, 1982 – 1993)
Best Lead Character – Sam "Mayday" Malone was one of the best written and acted characters in the history of the situation comedy. It was perfect timing to cast Ted Danson before he went on to making movies and before he was a household name, because I'm not sure anyone else could have made that character as loveable. He had such a presence, but some very underrated comedic timing that he has never gotten enough credit for.
Best Supporting Cast – When you replace Coach, one of the most likeable characters on the show who passed away prior to season four, with Woody "I put the Hunger in Games" Harrelson, then you know that you are dealing with producers who have a lucky horseshoe crammed right up their ass. Throw in Carla, Cliff, and NORM!!! and you have yourself some of the most memorable characters you will encounter.
Best Theme Song – Fun fact, I enjoy the occasional adult beverage, and in many a watering hole I've heard regulars burst into an unprompted performance of this song. This has happened several times and none of them are related circumstances. Cheers has not only one of the best theme songs ever, it is secretly the alcoholic National Anthem.
How many seasons it aired – 11 full seasons, top 10 in ratings 8 out of 11 of those seasons, a record 111 Emmy nominations, and 28 Emmy wins. This show was an absolute beast when it aired.
Were The Characters So Loveable That They Inspired a Spinoff? – Forget about the short lived show about Carla's deadbeat Italian ex-husband, have you ever heard of a little show called Fraiser? Cheers aired for 11 full seasons, with the Fraiser character debuting in the 1984 season. Fraiser aired for 11 full seasons ending in 2003-2004, which by my public school math means that Kelsey Grammer played the same character for a record 20 full years.
All of those televised situation comedies are legendary, stand the test of time, and all pale in comparison to the top spot. Ladies and Gentleman, without further ado, I present to you The Sitcom GOAT!
All in the Family (CBS, 1971 – 1979)
Best Lead Character – Archie Bunker changed the game when it comes to what Americans expected from their TV characters. His voice was so different, and so popular, that there was even a phrase coined called "The Archie Bunker vote" during a presidential campaign, which referred to the urban, working class vote. He was controversial and loveable all at the same time, which is all due to Carroll O'Conner giving a weekly nuanced performance that literally nobody else could have pulled off.
Best Supporting Cast – The main cast of Edith, Gloria, and Michael were all outstanding, but throw in George Jefferson who is a beast in his own right, and good luck finding a better top to bottom cast. They combined to form the struggle between the Greatest Generation vs. Baby Boomer and white America vs. black America, and everyone had an equal opportunity to shine.
Best Theme Song – I have searched high and low through the bowels of the interwebs and I cannot find an earlier example of a sitcom theme song being performed by its main characters. There is a simplicity and perfection between the two of them singing this song just warms my heart, but it would not have held up if you did not believe the love between Archie and Edith.
How Many Seasons It Aired – Airing for 9 seasons and setting records the entire time, All in the Family set the standard of what to expect from a sitcom. It was number one in the ratings from 1971 – 1976, which made it the first to be ranked at the top spot for 5 consecutive years, and also was the first show to feature all 4 main characters winning an Emmy. All together, the show accounted for 22 Emmys and nine full years of greatness that holds up to this day.
Were The Characters So Loveable That They Inspired a Spinoff? – All in the Family is directly responsible for The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude, Archie Bunker's Place, Gloria, 704 Hauser, and Checking In. Holy mother of sitcom legends, are you kidding me?! Not only is this list unbeatable, but if we were expanding this list from 5 to 10, then a couple of those shows make the list. Game, set, and match…bitches.
Stephen Balding is the Entertainment Badass for The Scoop. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenB_41.


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Episode 14: Barry Solomon on Legal Marketing and Technology
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In Episode 14 we talk to Barry Solomon, lawyer, former BigLaw CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) and current President of Foundation Software Group. Foundation develops experience management software for law firms.
Barry distinguishes marketing from business development and explains how the two should work together. Barry says the key to good business development is to really listen to clients about their needs.
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SLAVE LAKE – Many residents who have fled the wildfire in High Level are overwhelming some evacuation centres.
The mayor of Slave Lake, Tyler Warman, says about 700 wildfire evacuees from High Level and nearby First Nations have registered in his community.
The main evacuation centre, however, hit capacity on Tuesday and some High Level residents are being turned away.
Rachelle Elsiufi with CityNews says residents are being re-directed.
"What we know is that it shut down at 10 o clock last night and they're telling evacuees from High Level to go to High Prairie. Last night there was also no hotels available."
Other evacuation centres are open in Peace River and Grande Prairie, where some temporary facilities are being set up.
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"For a brief little minute, it was like if I lose my house that's fine. I've got the important things in life," says one resident. "As long as my family is safe that's all that matters."
Our @CityRachelle is in Slave Lake today, as evacuees from the High Level wildfire register at reception centres. Follow her for the latest on Alberta's ongoing wildifre situation. #yeg #yyc #ableg pic.twitter.com/BFhnxEDth0
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Those helping evacuees in Slave Lake know this feeling all too well.
The town was evacuated because of a wildfire in 2011 that destroyed parts of the community, and Mayor Warman says they learned a lot from that experience.
Warman says they did a ton of training on how to help other communities, and are thankful to be able to put it to good use.
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After recent national events, I had made a vow to avoid pointless snarkiness and the overall venom that I liberally applied to some of my previous opinion posts. It seemed right to dial it back a bit as people were upset about things in general, and there was no point in adding to the deluge of rage that is congealing atop society, like a skin on a thick soup. There is just so much indignation and hate, that I had my little Kumbaya moment and wanted to be a better person. The reviews would still be honest and I would still make bad jokes. There would just be a reduction in bile. I almost made it a month, too.
Then The Game Awards happened.
Geoff Keighley has taken it upon himself to put together these yearly shows, shows that ostensibly put the focus on the developers of the games as well as the gamers who played them. It was supposed to be something that avoided the dryness of the DICE Awards in the public eyes, adding a bit of showmanship and glitz to the proceedings, while celebrating everything that makes the past-time special. This is absolutely a worthy endeavor. It's too bad that it's coming from someone who thought G4 was a great place to work, because what we get instead is a platform that reinforces to our co-workers and family why we're the weird ones that really should grow up. Here. Let me show you something:
That photo, folks, makes the subject appear as though he was beached, died and the sun dried and cracked his skin open, spilling the entrails upon the sand. Like the type of thing that people would pass, casting disgusted glances and muttering that something really should be done before people get really sick. It's the type of mess that would require highly specialized HAZMAT teams earning danger pay to clean up. That photo is me after a drunken night out. I am happy to show it to the public, posting it on a popular gaming site to be disseminated to the English speaking gaming populace. That is how little sense of shame that I possess. Why is this here? To drive home the magnitude of the following statement: The Game Awards embarrasses me.
I hate to make a comparison to movies, as the two mediums are wildly different and the comparison has been done to death. In this case, it's apt. Compare The Game Awards to the shows that the film industry puts on. The Oscars, the Golden Globes and so on. These have a sense of fun, pander to the audience, but don't make the viewer wish to murder themselves. Someone who is not a film fan could catch part of the show and not be left wondering why film buffs are willing to engage in the works those people produce. The Game Awards can't even rise to the level of the Kid's Choice Awards or even the MTV Movies nonsense that was going on at some point.
Take this year's show as an example. More time was spent on the ridiculous man dressed like a robot razor than to the actual games being celebrated and the people who made them. I mean, I for one am very much looking forward to the Kojima and Del Toro's Death Stranding starring Safety Razor Bot, and the scene where Link pulls the safety razor out of the stone looks like a cool little nod to A Link to the Past, but I don't believe that Safety Razor Bot will have the staying power that Clint Howard does in movies.
Of course, it is understood that money must be made. These shows are expensive to put on, and it's not like prime time networks are clamoring to air an awards show centering around games. Hell, we are their competition. Still, there needs to be some class, some refinement to what we are showing the public. Instead, we get commercials within commercials, awkwardness that would make Steve Carell feel a tinge of pity and ask us to walk it back (trailers are not part of the complaint. Honestly, it's the only reason the vast majority of the audience bothers with the show). The Game Awards is a mockery of decorum and the audience. Geoff Keighley, please stop it. I mean really. For $%^&'s sake, mate.
(Also, Trending Gamer? Trending Gamer? What is that nonsense even supposed to mean?)


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I literally bought a ** dollar top up card to renew my service, but y'all keptme on the ** plan and told me I needed to pay to switch it! I'm not going to pay for something I had already purchased! Keep up with your plans!
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I'd give them a two out of five on communication.
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For that I would say one out of five.
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Call them early in the day or late. Don't forget any personal or account information you might need for Virgin Mobile to know who you are.
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by Loris Cecchini
Venice Biennale 2017
at the Fondaco die Tedeschi
During the Venice Biennale there are art installations all over Venice. You just can't see everything. You'd have to spend a month! So, sometimes you have to go off of a photo and other times you just happen upon a space that has a sign out front and pop in for a look. In this case it was the former.
I'd seen an intriguing photo advertising this site specific installation by Italian artist Loris Cecchini and curated by Hervé Mikaeloff. It was made from thousands of movable thin steel modules. "A nod to algorithms found in nature and industrial design materials."
To me it felt like being in some kind of space age organism ...
"The title, "Waterbones," underlines the morphological lightness and freeness and appears as a biological metaphor: The cells open and bloom, releasing molecular components in interaction with the space, developing autonomous and self-sufficient ways."
~Loris Cecchini
The shapes and materials were reflective and beautiful! Though they were not moving, they seemed to dance through space. I wish I could have laid on the floor under them and listened to Bach. They felt somehow musical to me.
It's funny because I read the following quote after writing the above.
"The installation is composed of eight thousand identical elements in shiny steel linked together. The structure is continually varying thanks to the element's hookup system. The particularity stands in the geometry of each element and in the fact that they are internally empty: This creates a great lightness in the overall structure that gives me the possibility to expand and contract the form in an organic way, almost as if it were becoming a biological element. The final result is a great "dancing" form in the space that is offered in continuity with the architectural structure."
~Loris Cecchini
As modern as the space looks, the actual building opened in 1228 and is a historic building right on the Grand Canal in Venice. It was rebuilt after a fire in the 1500s in the Italian Renaissance style. It's right near the Rialto Bridge and used to be the headquarters and restricted living quarters of Venice's German merchants.
In the 20th century it was used by Venice for the "Poste Italiane" and in 2008 it was bought by the Benetton Group. Rem Koolhaas was hired to incorporate a huge shopping area inside. There were a lot of beautiful things but I was on an art mission and didn't stop to shop!
"I have devised my creative language around the ideas of the object, the model and architecture. Often the work refers in different ways to the idea of inhabiting space. Currently, I am exploring the space of sculpture and of the environmental installation according to a notion of the parcelization of material, almost a sort of molecular deflagration of sculpture, in which scientific phenomenology becomes an intimate structure and go-between for vision ..."
~Loris Cecchini
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I love how seeing various kinds of artists broaden you perspective of what art can be and also how it impacts your immediate mood or state of mind. This experience has happened to me over and over visiting many art exhibitions. On this occasion, I did leave with a sense of lightness and a burst of positive energy that still took me by surprise!
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The present study was performed to examine whether residues 36–62 of TNFα contain the chemotactic domain of TNFα, and whether the p55 and p75 TNF receptors are involved in TNFα induced chemotaxis. The chemotactic effect of TNFα on PMN was inhibited by the mAbs Hrt-7b and Utr-1, against the p55 and p75 TNF receptors, respectively. Both receptors may therefore be required for mediating the chemotactic ...
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INCREASED plasma- and tissue levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) during inflammatory diseases, have suggested a role of ET-1 in the pathophysiology of inflammatory reactions. The authors have studied the effect of ET-1 on cytokine release from monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages. ET-1 increased secretion of TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-6 in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Optimal ET-1 concentration ...
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Rural Nebraska clinics worried by anti-abortion effort
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska clinic administrators worry an attempt to slash funding for abortion providers could force clinics throughout the state to cut services or close, leaving thousands of low-income women without access to reproductive health care.
The proposal would allow state officials to reduce or eliminate funding for the state's two Planned Parenthood clinics that perform abortions. But it also could mean less funding for clinics that specialize in reproductive health but don't provide abortions, according to providers who are imploring lawmakers to strip it out of the state budget.
Some Democratic members of the budget-writing Appropriations Committee said last week they didn't realize how the wording would affect the health care providers. Gov. Pete Ricketts included the language in his proposed budget.
"If they want to try to close these centers because of their political views, then sneaking it into the budget isn't the right place," said Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln. "This is a policy decision."
Lawmakers gave the budget preliminary approval Wednesday on the promise they will try to reach a compromise before the next vote.
At issue is budget language that would require the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to prioritize certain health care providers over others when awarding federal Title X money. Title X money helps cover the cost of preventative care and family planning services, such as birth control, tests for sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer screenings. It can't cover abortion services, but abortion providers can and do receive the money for other services.
The language would allow the department, a part of Ricketts' administration, to deny or reduce funding for clinics that only provide reproductive health services. Supporters of the proposal say those facilities can still apply but argue funding should first go to hospitals and health care facilities that offer a wider range of services.
Abortion-rights advocates said it's a clear effort by lawmakers to score political points.
"It is definitely a political attack on reproductive health care," said Rachel Lopez, a Des Moines-based spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which includes Nebraska.
A December Obama administration regulation would have prevented states from withholding Title X funds from organizations that provide abortions or using a tiered approach, as the Nebraska proposal would. Congress overturned that rule in March.
One organization that would not be prioritized for funding under Nebraska's budget is Tecumseh's Family Health Services, which serves about 2,000 primarily low-income people in the state's southeastern corner.
Executive Director Jean Brinkman said the organization receives about $180,000 a year — 80 percent of its budget — from Title X funds and would have to close if the funding stopped. The organization doesn't provide abortions.
"If we close, you're probably going to see an increase in STDs, unwanted pregnancies and HIV rates" because southeast Nebraska doesn't have other options for affordable STD testing, treatment or contraception, Brinkman said. Many of the people who use Family Health Services don't have the money or transportation to go elsewhere, she said.
"It's going to be awful for the people of southeast Nebraska," Brinkman said. "They can't, they won't drive to seek these services in bigger cities."
Karen Bowling, executive director of the social conservative group Nebraska Family Alliance, said her organization supported the funding change because it would help a variety of health providers. However, an alert the alliance sent out to followers Monday said its members had the opportunity to "seize one of the most significant pro-life victories in Nebraska in years" by decreasing taxpayer funding for abortion providers.
The proposal would prioritize funding for federally qualified health centers, which the U.S. government recognizes as providing comprehensive services care including primary, preventative, dental and mental health care. The state has seven federally qualified health centers, but there are none south of Lincoln or in the vast stretch of central and western Nebraska between Grand Island and Gering. Bowling said she hoped new priorities would encourage current providers to locate in central Nebraska.
Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, said nothing in the budget would necessarily prevent Planned Parenthood or other providers from receiving Title X funding. But he said the Nebraska Catholic Conference's objection to any taxpayer money going to abortion providers does play a role in the organization's support for the budget language.
"The main issue here is ensuring that Title X funding goes to facilities that provide the most comprehensive health care," Venzor said.
Grand Island's Central Health Center will have to cut back on its services if it loses Title X funding, executive director Brady Kerkman said. The reproductive health care center, which doesn't provide abortions, receives $250,000, 20 percent of its annual budget, through Title X. It serves about 4,000 patients a year.
The center has expanded its services to provide mental health care, vaccinations and refugee health screenings. It's also looking to add a mobile medical unit that could provide testing and medical services for people who can't travel to the center. But other initiatives could fall by the wayside if Title X funding is dropped, Kerkman said.
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First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland' s "Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland' s work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. "Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the firsttwo centuries of European occupation.
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Shiroi Koibito ("White Lover" in English) is a type of langue de chat cookie with an established name as a souvenir of Hokkaido. ISHIYA Seika, the company that manufactures it, also operates a theme park dedicated to sweets.
Along with delicious sweets, visitors can enjoy the rose garden where its namesake flowers proudly bloom.
My Iejima, Okinawa rum distillery tour!Read Later
I hopped on the ferry departing the main island of Okinawa for Iejima, which was 30 minutes away. My final destination: a tour of a certain rum distillery on the island of Iejima. I had heard that Ie Rum Santa Maria has a fabulous reputation and makes their rum from sugarcane, so I was eager to check it out!
Around 10 Million Poppy Flowers in a 7-Hectare Garden. The garden in front of the beer factory is filled with blooming cherry blossoms and poppies in spring, and cosmos in the fall.
Around 10 million poppy flowers are in bloom to enjoy from mid-to-late May. The park is free to get in to, so during blooming season the area is very crowded!
On the park's free tours, you can see first-hand the ingredients and materials used to make beer, taste the wort that becomes beer, and even taste freshly-made beer.
Enjoy a tour of the factory alongside the blooming flowers!
The trip to Tohoku's gateway station, Sendai Station, takes about 90 minutes on the Shinkansen from Tokyo. If you walk a bit past Sendai's main city area, you can find many delicious varieties of alcohol born from the rich nature of Tohoku. This time, I took a trip to both a distillery where you can sample whiskey for free and Miyagi Prefecture's one and only winery.
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Established in 1872, the Tomioka Silk Mill was opened to contribute to the modernization of Japan by the Meiji government, and it was Japan's first machine-based silk mill. In the past, Japan's government exported silk as a means to gather funds to promote the development of science and technology. Tomioka Silk Mill has remained mostly unchanged since those times. It has been registered as a World Heritage Site.
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From pancakes to noodles, here's how to achieve a 'Taste of Japan'
From pancakes to noodles, Meera Sodha's exciting new book takes you on a culinary journey to the Far East
Aubergine Katsu curry with pickled radishes
katsu curry is an unlikely looking thief of the heart, but this mysterious brown concoction is one of Japan's favourite dishes. In my take on it, the curry sauce is made using plenty of naturally sweet vegetables plus a couple of store-cupboard essentials. These modest ingredients come together to form a seductive and silky sauce much greater than the sum of its parts. It's a message to us all never to judge a dish by its colour.
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Note: The sauce freezes well, so feel free to double up when making. You'll need a blender for this recipe.
Serves 4 as a main
For the radishes
100g radishes, trimmed and finely sliced
½ tsp salt
3 tbsp mirin
3 tbsp white wine vinegar
For the curry
3 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 onion, chopped
2 medium carrots (200g), peeled and finely diced
1 sweet potato (200g), peeled and finely diced
4 cloves of garlic, sliced
1.5cm ginger, peeled and grated
2 tbsp curry powder
10 tbsp plain flour
500ml vegan vegetable stock
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 aubergines (600g), cut lengthways into 0.5cm-thick slices
200g panko breadcrumbs
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C fan/200°C/400°F/gas 6. Put the radishes into a heatproof bowl, cover with 100ml of just-boiled water, and add the salt, mirin and vinegar. Stir and leave to cool.
2. To make the sauce, heat the oil in a lidded frying pan, then fry the onion, carrots and sweet potato for 10 minutes.
3. Add the garlic and ginger, fry for 2 minutes more, cover and leave to steam through for 5 minutes. Add the curry powder, mix, then stir in 2 tablespoons of flour until the vegetables are coated. Add the stock little by little, then bring to the boil. Add the soy sauce, ketchup and ½ teaspoon of salt, then take off the heat. Blend smooth, then return the sauce to the pan.
4. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Put the aubergines on a plate. Put 8 tablespoons of flour on a second, lipped plate, then slowly mix the flour with 180ml of water and ½ teaspoon of salt to make a thin paste. Put the panko on a third plate. Cover both sides of each aubergine slice in the flour paste, shaking off any excess, then press into the panko to coat. Lay the coated slices on the prepared tray and drizzle both sides with oil. Bake for 15 minutes on each side, turn the heat up to 220°C fan/240°C/475°F/gas 9 and cook for 10 minutes more, until crisp, then take out of the oven.
5. Just before serving, gently reheat the curry sauce for 5 minutes, adding more water and salt if need be. Put 3 or 4 aubergine slices on each plate, alongside the sauce, then serve with some drained pickled radish, rice, salad leaves and a sprinkling of black sesame seeds if you like.
Sweetheart cabbage Okonomiyaki
Okonomiyaki is a type of savoury Japanese pancake, and it means 'cooked as you like it' - which in my case means laden with lots of sauce, crispy fried onions and a smattering of fresh spring onion.
Note: An 18-20cm non-stick frying pan is perfect for this pancake.
Makes 2 pancakes (to serve 2)
For the okonomiyaki
150g plain flour
1¼ tsp salt
4 medium eggs
300g sweetheart cabbage (around ½), shredded
6 spring onions, finely chopped, whites and greens separated
2 tbsp rapeseed oil
For the okonomiyaki sauce
2½ tbsp tomato ketchup
2½ tbsp HP sauce
2½ tbsp date syrup
To serve Mayonnaise
Crispy fried onions (shop-bought)
1. Whisk the flour, salt, eggs and 150ml of water together with a fork in a mixing bowl until there are no lumps and you have a smooth batter. Add the cabbage and the spring onion whites, and mix well to coat all the vegetables.
2. Now make the okonomiyaki sauce: put the ketchup, HP sauce and date syrup into a small bowl and mix well.
3. To cook the okonomiyaki, heat a tablespoon of oil in a small frying pan over a medium-high flame. Add half the batter to the pan and flatten it with a spoon or spatula to help it into a circular pancake around 3cm deep. Cook the first side for 3 to 4 minutes. You should see the scraps of cabbage and batter at the edges of the pancake starting to brown and crisp. If it is browning too fast, turn down the heat a little.
4. When it's ready, turn the okonomiyaki with a spatula (or if you are particularly confident, toss it like a pancake) and cook on the other side for a further 3 minutes. Turn out on to a plate, and repeat with the second half of the batter.
5. To serve, criss-cross the surface of the okonomiyaki with the sauce and some mayonnaise, then liberally top with crispy onions and the reserved spring onion greens.
Breakfast at Shuko's
When Shuko Oda first opened Koya in London's Soho, rumours spread around the city like hot butter. Firstly, Shuko had created some of the finest udon noodles anyone could eat without jumping on a plane to Japan. Secondly, these noodles were kneaded by foot! It transpired that both of these rumours were true, and suddenly everyone flocked to worship at the altar of this modestly brilliant place.
This dish, kama tama (or raw egg and soy udon noodles), is on the breakfast menu at Koya, although in my opinion it makes for a lovely quick lunch too. The recipe might only have three key ingredients, but it is as sophisticated as it is simple to make.
Note: The best udon noodles to use here are the plump, partially cooked 'straight to wok' noodles. If you use dried noodles, you'll only need 200g and a tablespoon of additional water to loosen when you mix them with the egg yolks and soy.
Serves 2
300g 'straight to wok' udon noodles
2 medium egg yolks
1 tbsp soy sauce
Optional: 1 sheet of nori, shredded
1. Bring a large pan of water to a rolling boil, then drop in the noodles and cook until they are al dente. This should take around 3 minutes for the 'straight to wok' udons or 4 to 7 minutes if you're using the dried wholewheat type.
2. Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, mix together the egg yolks and soy sauce. When the noodles are cooked, drain well and immediately add to the egg mixture, mixing really well so they are coated in the sauce.
3. Divide the noodles between two bowls, and sprinkle with shredded nori if you like. Serve immediately.
Extracted from East, 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha. Published by Fig Tree, €28. Photography by David Loftus
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