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Hello again everyone. I've another question for all of you, if that's okay. I don't get near enough vegetables- I don't think I get any, in fact, during my average day. But I have braces, and everything I've tried it kind of hard for me to chew. Either it's completely impossible (-should've seen me try to bite into a carrot the other day. You probably would've laughed at me- ) or it's just hard and takes to long (-I cut some zucchini and squash into slices, and I only ate about half of the amount I packed in my school's designated lunch time.-)
So, does anyone have any suggestions? I'd prefer things easy to get, and anything that won't require cooking would be amazing. I'm scared of anything that gets to high temperature, myself. Ehehe.
Tons of thanks!
What sort of foods do you currently find easy to eat?
If you quite like zucchini (which we call courgettes in the UK) and want to persevere with this vegetable, I would have thought an ideal way to prepare them would be to:
slice the zucchini lengthwise with a vegetable peeler (or a Dutch style cheese slicer), pop them into a colander/sieve with a sprinkle of salt, leave them for 10 minutes and then add the slices to a pan of boiling water. Boil them for no more than one minute and quickly drain them and give them a rinse with cold water.
This will change your courgettes into lengths of vegetable 'pasta', just dress then with any pasta sauce or salad dressing. They shouldn't catch in your braces and they are easy and quick to eat.
If anyone uses an oven in your house, then perhaps you can try popping an eggplant (aubergine) in with the food being roasted and making Baba ghanoush. (Just google for recipes - basically it's an eggplant spread made with eggplant pulp, tahini, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil, you can add other spices/seasonings to taste)
Cucumbers: cut them into matchsticks, sprinkle with salt, leave in a sieve for ten minutes, rinse them well with cold water and drain them. Then you can add a little soy sauce, vinegar and a touch of sesame oil for easy Japanese style 'pickles'.
And, of course, there's avocado. If tomato seeds are a problem, you can deseed them and combine with avocado and anything else you like to make a guacamole style dish.
But if you let us know which foods you are comfortable eating, it should help with meaningful suggestions for vegetables.
Thanks for all the suggestions! I definitely want to try that zucchini one.
The only thing's I've really had any trouble with are vegetables- and it's not a pain issue, just that they're hard, so they take longer to eat than I have at lunch. I have trouble with sushi, or other foods that are a little big to fit into my mouth, but I don't run into many foods like that that I can't just cut up.
Are avocados normally cooked in some way, or can you just cut them up and throw them in a lunch box?
I think tomatoes are fruits, and I believe I read somewhere online that cucumbers are fruits as well, so I'm not sure if I should count those into my daily vegetable intake. =/
Yes tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin are ALL fruits! And strawberries are not. But these are all technicalities; the important distinction is not whether plant foods are technically fruits (they contain seeds, and started off as the ovary of the plant) or veges, but whether they're full of sugar or not. Count all non sugary plant things as veges and you'll be OK.
Avocados are normally eaten raw, but they go brown and unappetising quite fast unless you dip them in lemon juice or some other acid after they're cut. It might be easier (or not) to take one whole and cut it at lunchtime, you don't seem too familiar with them so here is how you do it: you cut it in half as much as you can (there's a big stone in the middle you just have to cut around) then hold one half in each hand and twist in opposite directions. The halves separate, with the stone still stuck in one of them; you can pry it out with your knife. Then you just scoop the flesh out with a spoon.
But how about soup? Winter is coming up where you are, so make some cream of vegetable soup and take it in a vacuum flask.
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Aw... i think i know what kind of braces you have... a friend of mine had to wear it when we were teens. It had little rubber strings that didn't alow her to open her mouth properly. That sucked.
She used to bring her food to school (which is not the normal thing in Spain) and she usually brought peeled tomatoes, cut in very tiny bits. You can easily peel tomatoes by putting them in boiling water for less than a minute, taking them out and letting them cool down. I don't recall her tomatoes to have seeds so just pop them out if you dislike them.
you can use fruit and other veggies as much as you want, they do count for your daily veggie income.
I love Loretta's recipe of "zuccini pasta", btw :) you can roast some zuccini slices in a pan or in the oven with a little olive oil as well, it'll be tasty and tender.
You can also boil broccoli (cut in small florets), this may take a little long but you may have broccoli for 2 or 3 days :)
You can also have... i don't know how they are called... they are sweet and look like a little orange *n_n* we call them "mandarinas" or "clementinas". They don't have seeds and are mostly juice.
You can also try pears, but make sure you choose the ones that have more 'watery' meat. They are soft to the point that they almost melt in your mouth.
good luck! :)
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Hi there! I'm a newbie on here - what a FAB site!! I think you will have more of the same prob with root vegetables unless they are sliced thinly and cooked as suggested above, the Zucchini is a great idea - I'll be trying that too!
You could also cut it into thin slices - as above, brush it with healthy oil (I always use coconut oil) and griddle it. (You can do the same with courgettes or marrow). Not sure what they call them there but we have Sugar Snap Peas here (a bit like Mange Tout or flattened long green beans) - they are crunchy but exceptionally light to crunch- nothing like a carrot. Mushrooms can be cut into nice manageable sizes and an excellent source of nutrition especially when eaten raw, also Tofu/micro protein have many health benefits and is very manageable. Avocados are lovely, but are a bit of an acquired taste, not many of my friends or family like them! You could also try grating carrot, ginger, celery, broccoli and/or cauliflower into your usual food - that way you get the nutrition but without the hassle - and even if you don't like the flavours, just add a tiny bit so that don't really notice them!
Good idea to do soups - hot or cold, if you have a juicer or a blender - that would be even better to start the day with maybe carrot, celery, apple and ginger drink!
I hope this helps
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your carrot experience took me back 15 years! apparently, you still don't get told that you'll have to change your eating habits drastically before they glue stuff to your teeth and join that with wires. i remember trying to bite into a carrot, too. i was very embarassed when my mom though it funny.
veggies that seemed to work well were generally smaller or cut up, softer things.
frozen peas, tinned beans and chick peas are easy to find, prepare and eat with braces.
raw veggies are really hard. it's a lot easier if you steam them- that's not really "cooking", just clean and cut them as you would when eating them raw, then put them in a steamer for some minutes. they'll be a lot more manageable.
stuff that has to be cooked, but is still easy to eat are green beans, cauliflower and broccoli and diced sweet potatoes. everybody should eat more sweet potatoes, as they are really, really yummy and good for you, too (the kind i mean is pink skinned and white inside. what's it called? they are lovely, i could marry one.).
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The kind of sweet potatoes you are talking about are called kumara here in New Zealand (I think people in other countries just call them sweet potatoes don't they?), and they were a staple in the diet of the Maori before the pakeha arrived. Still are come to think of it.
They're dry inside and are very high in fibre. Less fattening than potatoes believe it or not - even though they do taste very sweet. Those who do not have braces on their teeth should try them made into chips (French fries) with sour cream. Delicious.
They are also good roasted, boiled and mashed, or baked in their skins. Some of them have fibrous bits under the skin which you can easily see - those ones are no good baked, you need to peel them.
kumara. i learned a new word, thank you!
yes, around here they are simply called sweet potatoes (süßkartoffeln), together with other potatoe-looking things in all colours. i sometimes have a hard time finding the ones i'm looking for, but if i get them, i cut them in thick chunky rounds which i pre-cook in salted water and then slowly fry in clear butter (and a little extra brown sugar perhaps) until they caramelise. the smell is like baking cookies and the taste is even better.
it's not the healthiest way to prepare them, but it's just so good. goes very well with anything hot and spicy, a side of veggies with tomatoes and bell peppers, for example..
not so sure if this recipe is bento-friendly. better change the butter with a little oil and drain them on some paper towels, i guess..
ah. next week, i am going to hunt the kumara in heidelberg!
And probably in a new language. I wouldn't imagine you learn too much New Zealand Maori in Germany.
I make a vegetarian curry from them too - Thai green curry paste, kumara, coconut cream, onions, garlic, ginger etc.
Another idea may be to simply try some frozen, cut-up veggies. Every time I nuke (microwave, I mean) a batch, I remember, again, that freezing does something to the fibre in veggies, breaking it down somehow. You wind up with a *much* softer vegetable post-freezing.
I've tried broccoli, fava beans, carrot-cauliflower-water-chestnuts, peas, corn, brussels sprouts, and lots of others. The softer-than-normal seems to apply to all of those, and to frozen fruit, too!
Try it. It may be a quick-and-easy solution. :)
I hated my braces, so I know what you mean having to figure out what you can eat without having a huge mess on your hands. Streaming and stir-frying vegetables until they are soft is probably the best way to be able to eat them with braces. Although, unless you have a ton of time to spend brushing your teeth after lunch I would recommend against broccoli and cauliflower (they are horrible to get out of braces especially when they are new, eventually you will be able to aim food directly back at your molars, so until you have some practice it might be wise to avoid them in public).
Also remember to try and avoid staining your teeth while the braces are on, coffee and what not can leave you with little white squares on your teeth. Plus if you have the clear braces you have to be even more careful not to stain the actual braces themselves, I had to give up mustard when I had mine one and as a teenager that was one of my major food groups.
OMG you are right about the stains and the broccoli!!! o_O
I had to wear braces... well they were not braces. I could actually take that hideous thing out of my mouth to eat and brush my teeth. It was extremely uncomfortable to talk properly, though u_u
on the protein side, you can try boiled chickpeas and beans. They are soft and offer lots of variations :)
Also, try olives, grapes and bananas.
I wouldn't recommend strawberries due to their little seeds! they can get inside your braces and hurt like hell.
Anyway try not to rely too much on potatoes. They are nice and tender but if you eat too much they may make you fatten a little bit.
I never tried sweet potatoes and never saw them on the market o_o pics anyone? :D
The pink ones at the back of the picture, by "nutritional information" are the traditional kumara the Maori have eaten for centuries. We call all sweet potatoes kumara, but the orange and yellow ones are newcomers. We've only had them available for the last 15 years or so, but I think they are the "normal" sweet potatoes in America.
A little side note: We in New Zealand lost many of the old strains of traditional kumara, but there's a culture collection in Japan where many of them are saved. This place keeps seeds of a huge variety of the things, so New Zealand relies on Japan for heritage kumara!
I can confirm that the orange sweet potatoes are "normal" sweet potatoes in North American, even though many call them yams (sometimes they are even labeled as yams in the store).
Yes. And they're wet inside, not dry and floury like the pink ones. I will never forget being presented with "candied yams" as a side dish at Thanksgiving dinner at an American friend's house. They were mashed with lots of butter and brown sugar, and then had marshmallows sprinkled on top and grilled. It was sweeter than any dessert; not my cup of tea at all.
What you had was probably made from "canned yams" which are all kinds of disgusting considering how good the real deal is. In the version I make I roast the sweet potatoes (with well washed skins, so they can go in the mash) and mash with some butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg topping with a pecan and oat crumble. I usually go with less then half the butter and sugar called for in most recipes for the holidays and omit them all together when I make it for myself, since they are sweet enough from roasting that further sweetening is not necessary.
No no, this was here in New Zealand, where we do not have such things as canned yams. She made it out of orange kumara and did NOT use less than half the butter and sugar called for in the recipe. American food is generally much sweeter than we are used to here in NZ. The only even vaguely sweet things we would have on our main course plates would be kumara, pumpkin, carrots, or apple sauce (no added sugar) or pineapple with pork. Things with sugar added are for dessert, and your candied sweet potatoes sound as though they'd make a very nice one. With cream poured all over to cut the sweetness a bit.
I'll never forget the look on my friend Wil's face when he bit into a piece of cornbread when we were eating at a soul food place in Washington DC. The thought of a "cake", which is what it tastes like to us, with our main course was very foreign. And he was talking about buying a bread machine so he could make sugarless wholemeal bread while he was living there - don't know if he got around to it.
hum, we do not have sugary food in spain, only in desserts (which are VERY sweet!). The sweetest thing i have ever eaten (considering only 'western' food) is the apple sauce my mother cooks for her meat pudding. And that's not a typical spanish dish, so... ;)
Anyway thanks for the pics, I'll look for those sweet potatoes next time i go to the market! ^^
Anyway thanks for the pics, I'll look for those sweet potatoes next time i go to the market! ^^
In Spain sweet potato is called boniato (or moniato in Valencian/Catalan). I used to have it in Alicante years before I ever saw it in England.
Just as you've said, it's most known as a traditional dessert ingredient but I have family who like to bake them in hot embers along with chestnuts.
They are made into pastissos at Christmas (it's also made into bollos, a sweet bread)
recipe here: http://www.comarcarural.com/valencia/recetario/pastisdemoniato.htm
Although only the pastisset with the orange filling is made with boniato, I assume the others are stuffed with cabello de ángel - the sweetened flesh of a kind of pumpkin that looks like a huge zucchini.
I've only seen the orange fleshed kind in Spain, and this is the kind most commonly sold in England. I'm afraid I'm not much of a fan.
However, if you go to the Caribbean stores, you can find varieties with white and pale flesh. It's firmer and, in my opinion, tastes much, much better. I really like the white fleshed sweet potatoes.
Best I've had though were purple skinned satsumaimo freshly dug from an aunt's allotment. She had a special kitchen implement that allowed her to roast the sweet potatoes on the top of a cooking range. Absolutely delicious! But very sweet. The idea of a yakimo man (kind of like a mobile ice cream vendor, but with hot embers instead of a freezer) didn't make sense to me until I tried them, only then did I understand how children and those with a sweet tooth could get excited when they heard his cry.
Another vegetable option (although they are technically herbs) are plantain or green bananas. (Green bananas, and sometimes plantains, are very difficult to peel though, a suggestion given on the TV by Levi Roots was to put the unpeeled bananas into a bowl and pour over boiling water, then leave them for 20 minutes. Then the skins should come off easily - you can use a knife for this).
Plantains and green bananas can be boiled, baked or fried.
ooookaay. Boniatos. now i know what it is!!!
Never tried them. My mum is not a fan of them u_u
I agree that a lot of American food can be overly sweet, but I tend to stray from tradition for the health of those around me and just plain preference.
I know cornbread can be quite sweet the way most people make it, sort of like this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/down-home-with-the-neelys/honey-cornb... which most people top with more butter and honey. But there are also cheese, jalapeno, and other savory varieties that I find more interesting and are quite easy to make without a bread machine.
Storing your carrots completely submerged in water will make them softer and easier to eat.
I just got my braces off 2 weeks ago. I feel your pain on the limited food options. I'd always pack lunch to work so that I have enough time to brush my teeth after I eat. My go-to veggies were boiled-until-soft carrots & broccoli, canned corn, steamed spinach & napa cabbage, and stir-fried eggplant. Sorry but you need to cook them so they'll be soft.
My other suggestions are: drink tea and coffee with a straw, avoid curry and mustard, always have toothbrush and mouthwash/toothpaste with you and always brush after you eat, floss every night.
I had the clear brackets and the adhesive around them are the stain magnet. Yes, I actually did everything I suggested above, and no I was not left with white squares after the braces were removed. I'm eating curry like crazy now. Hang in there, the result will be worth it!
Great thread! My boyfriend just got braces (he's 28) so I'm going to need to think about this too!
I would recommend edamame, lima beans, green beans. These all taste great lightly steamed (you can make them in the microwave!) and they are very soft when cooked. I add some almond slices to my green beans.
Other great soft veggies are bell peppers, and they come in lots of pretty colors! Roast or boiled potatoes are yummy when it is cold out!
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This is the first volume of its kind to analyze homicides in the light of a theory of interpersonal conflict. Before this study, no one had compared an observed distribution of victim-killer relationships to "expected" distribution, nor asked about the patterns of killer-victim age disparities in familial killings. This evolutionary psychological approach affords a deeper view and understanding of homicidal violence.
Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. With the decoding of the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues, and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.
The book opens with an introductory chapter by Chagnon and Irons tracing the origins of human behavioral ecology and its subsequent development. Subsequent chapters, written by both younger scholars and established researchers, cover a wide range of societies and topics organ-ized into six sections. The first section includes two chapters that provide historical background on the development of human behavioral ecology and com-pare it to two complementary approaches in the study of evolution and human behavior, evolutionary psychology, and dual inheritance theory. The second section includes five studies of mating efforts in a variety of societies from South America and Africa. The third section covers parenting, with five studies on soci-eties from Africa, Asia, and North America. The fourth section breaks somewhat with the tradition in human behavioral ecology by focusing on one particularly problematic issue, the demographic transition, using data from Europe, North America, and Asia. The fifth section includes studies of cooperation and helping behaviors, using data from societies in Micronesia and South America. The sixth and final section consists of a single chapter that places the volume in a broader critical and comparative context.
The contributions to this volume demonstrate, with a high degree of theoretical and methodological sophistication--the maturity and freshness of this new paradigm in the study of human behavior. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other professions working on the study of cross-cultural human behavior.
Lee Cronk is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. Napoleon Chagnon is professor of anthropology, emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. William Irons is professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
The 17 contributors to Ã'sun across the Waters delineate the special dimensions of Ã'sun religion as it appears through multiple disciplines in multiple cultural contexts. Tracing the extent of Ã'sun traditions takes us across the waters and back again. Ã'sun traditions continue to grow and change as they flow and return from their sources in Africa and the Americas.
It's no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it's natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human.
Yet there's more to our shared primate heritage than just our violent streak. In Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal, one of the world's great primatologists and a renowned expert on social behavior in apes, presents the provocative idea that our noblest qualities—generosity, kindness, altruism—are as much a part of our nature as are our baser instincts. After all, we share them with another primate: the lesser-known bonobo. As genetically similar to man as the chimpanzee, the bonobo has a temperament and a lifestyle vastly different from those of its genetic cousin. Where chimps are aggressive, territorial, and hierarchical, bonobos are gentle, loving, and erotic (sex for bonobos is as much about pleasure and social bonding as it is about reproduction).
While the parallels between chimp brutality and human brutality are easy to see, de Waal suggests that the conciliatory bonobo is just as legitimate a model to study when we explore our primate heritage. He even connects humanity's desire for fairness and its morality with primate behavior, offering a view of society that contrasts markedly with the caricature people have of Darwinian evolution. It's plain that our finest qualities run deeper in our DNA than experts have previously thought.
Frans de Waal has spent the last two decades studying our closest primate relations, and his observations of each species in Our Inner Ape encompass the spectrum of human behavior. This is an audacious book, an engrossing discourse that proposes thought-provoking and sometimes shocking connections among chimps, bonobos, and those most paradoxical of apes, human beings.
Benson tracks the development of tobacco farming since the plantation slavery period and the formation of a powerful tobacco industry presence in North Carolina. In recent decades, tobacco companies that sent farms into crisis by aggressively switching to cheaper foreign leaf have coached growers to blame the state, public health, and aggrieved racial minorities for financial hardship and feelings of vilification. Economic globalization has exacerbated social and racial tensions in North Carolina, but the corporations that benefit have rarely been considered a key cause of harm and instability, and have now adopted social-responsibility platforms to elide liability for smoking disease. Parsing the nuances of history, power, and politics in rural America, Benson explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide.
Through original and insightful ethnography, Dávila shows that class in the neoliberal city is increasingly defined by the shopping habits of ordinary people. Moving from the global operations of the shopping mall industry to the experience of shopping in places like Bogotá, Colombia, El Mall is an indispensable book for scholars and students interested in consumerism and neoliberal politics in Latin America and the world.
In a clearly written style, this introduction also provides the background necessary for further study. The new chapters cover such topics as the politics of identity, and the transition from modernism to postmodernism. As with the earlier editions, this third edition of what has become a classic in the discipline still serves as a basic text and structure for a full course.
Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were "getting religion"—praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he found, don't worship any god at all, don't pray, and don't give much credence to religious dogma of any kind. Instead of being bastions of sin and corruption, however, as the Christian Right has suggested a godless society would be, these countries are filled with residents who score at the very top of the "happiness index" and enjoy their healthy societies, which boast some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world (along with some of the lowest levels of corruption), excellent educational systems, strong economies, well-supported arts, free health care, egalitarian social policies, outstanding bike paths, and great beer.
Zuckerman formally interviewed nearly 150 Danes and Swedes of all ages and educational backgrounds over the course of fourteen months. He was particularly interested in the worldviews of people who live their lives without religious orientation. How do they think about and cope with death? Are they worried about an afterlife? What he found is that nearly all of his interviewees live their lives without much fear of the Grim Reaper or worries about the hereafter. This led him to wonder how and why it is that certain societies are non-religious in a world that seems to be marked by increasing religiosity. Drawing on prominent sociological theories and his own extensive research, Zuckerman ventures some interesting answers.
This fascinating approach directly counters the claims of outspoken, conservative American Christians who argue that a society without God would be hell on earth. It is crucial, Zuckerman believes, for Americans to know that "society without God is not only possible, but it can be quite civil and pleasant."
Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical industry, and psychotropic drugs. Charting how these worlds intersect with the wider popular culture, she reveals how people living under the description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for manic behavior. Mania, Martin shows, has come to be regarded as a distant frontier that invites exploration because it seems to offer fame and profits to pioneers, while depression is imagined as something that should be eliminated altogether with the help of drugs.
Bipolar Expeditions argues that mania and depression have a cultural life outside the confines of diagnosis, that the experiences of people living with bipolar disorder belong fully to the human condition, and that even the most so-called rational everyday practices are intertwined with irrational ones. Martin's own experience with bipolar disorder informs her analysis and lends a personal perspective to this complex story.
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Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China's Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers' perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.
The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.
Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
The second edition of this popular text has been updated throughout and includes four new chapters on language revitalization, social media and social revolutions, human migration, and the role of NGOs in international development practice. Students can now engage with the most up-to-date issues while learning to think anthropologically.
"War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.
In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one-in-ten or even one-in-five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by contrast—despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—fewer than one person in a hundred died violently. The explanation: War, and war alone, has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence. Strangely enough, killing has made the world safer, and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer too.
War has been history's greatest paradox, but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time. If we can survive it, the age-old dream of ending war may yet come to pass. But, Morris argues, only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next.
Contributors are Robin Balliger, Shannon Dudley, Pamela R. Franco, Patricia A. de Freitas, Ray Funk, Garth L. Green, Donald R. Hill, Lyndon Phillip, Victoria Razak, and Philip W. Scher.
Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with less.
Stuffocation is one of the most pressing problems of the twenty-first century. We have more stuff than we could ever need, and it isn't making us happier. It's bad for the planet. It's cluttering up our homes. It's making us stressed—and it might even be killing us.
A rising number of us are already turning our backs on all-you-can-get consumption. We are choosing access over ownership, and taking our business to companies like Zipcar, Spotify, and Netflix. Fed up with materialism, we are ready for a new way forward.
Trend forecaster James Wallman traces our obsession with stuff back to the original Mad Men, who first created desire through advertising. He interviews anthropologists studying the clutter crisis, economists searching for new ways of measuring progress, and psychologists who link stuffocation to declining well-being. And he introduces us to the innovators who are already living more consciously and with more meaning by choosing experience over stuff.
Experientialism does not mean giving up all of our possessions. It is a solution that is less extreme but equally fundamental. It's about transforming what we value. Stuffocation is a paradigm-shifting look at our habits and an inspiring call for living more with less. It's the one important book you won't be able to live without.
Praise for Stuffocation
"The revelations come fast and furious as he asserts that acquiring 'stuff' is often just an easy way to ignore the tougher questions of life, dodging 'why am I here?' and 'how should I live?' for 'will that go with the top I bought last week?' Tart and often funny . . . [Stuffocation] will be an eye-opener for those long ago persuaded that more is better. A scintillating read that will provoke conversation (or at least closet cleaning)."—Booklist
"James Wallman deftly hits upon a major insight for our times: that acquiring 'stuff' and 'things' is not nearly as meaningful as collecting experiences. Some of the happiest days of my life were when I had nothing and lived on a houseboat. Without stuff to tie me down, I felt completely free."—Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS and author of the New York Times bestseller Start Something That Matters
"A must-read . . . We think that more stuff will make us happier, but as the book nicely shows, we're just plain wrong. A great mix of stories and science, Stuffocation reveals the downside of more, and what we can do about it."—Jonah Berger, author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious
"Wallman offers a deeply important message by weaving contemporary social science into very engaging stories. Reading the book is such a pleasure that you hardly recognize you're being told that you should change how you live your life."—Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice
"With a sociologist's eye and a storyteller's ear, Wallman takes us on a tour of today's experience economy from the perspective not of businesses, nor even of consumers per se, but of everyday people."—B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, authors of The Experience Economy
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Edited by the noted Hispanist José Juan Arrom, Pané's report is the only surviving direct source of information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. The friar's text contains many linguistic and cultural observations, including descriptions of the Taíno people's healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death. Pané provides the first known description of the use of the hallucinogen cohoba, and he recounts the use of idols in ritual ceremonies. The names, functions, and attributes of native gods; the mythological origin of the aboriginal people's attitudes toward sex and gender; and their rich stories of creation are described as well.
Wiegele evocatively captures the religious and everyday experiences of her informants' lives in poor squatter neighborhoods of Manila. She is particularly sensitive to El Shaddai's delicate and often contorted relationship with the Catholic Church, which accepts the movement reluctantly, fearful of losing the loyalty of millions of faithful Catholics. While anchored in the local realities of the Philippines, Investing in Miracles will be of great interest to readers elsewhere for its exploration of religious seduction and interpretation, the interface between religion and politics, and the relevance of religion for the urban disenfranchised.
In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present.
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies -- Mark Tessler, general editor
Attention is focused primarily on the most recent and scientifically valid applications commonly employed by working forensic anthropologists. Readers will therefore learn about innovative techniques in the discipline, and aspiring practitioners will be prepared by understanding the necessary background needed to work in the field today. Instructors and students will find Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice comprehensive, practical, and relevant to the modern discipline of forensic anthropology.Winner of a 2015 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors AssociationFocuses on modern methods, recent advances in research and technology, and current challenges in the science of forensic anthropologyAddresses issues of international relevance such as the role of forensic anthropology in mass disaster response and human rights investigationsIncludes chapter summaries, topicoriented case studies, keywords, and reflective questions to increase active student learning
Resentment of Indians can run high among settlers, and the consequences can be fatal. The discovery of the Indian prevented local ranchers from seizing his land, and led a small group of men who believed that he was the last of a murdered tribe to dedicate themselves to protecting him. These men worked for the government, overseeing indigenous interests in an odd job that was part Indiana Jones, part social worker, and were among the most experienced adventurers in the Amazon. They were a motley crew that included a rebel who spent more than a decade living with a tribe, a young man who left home to work in the forest at age fourteen, and an old-school sertanista with a collection of tall tales amassed over five decades of jungle exploration.
Their quest would prove far more difficult than any of them could imagine. Over the course of a decade, the struggle to save the Indian and his land would pit them against businessmen, politicians, and even the Indian himself, a man resolved to keep the outside world at bay at any cost. It would take them into the furthest reaches of the forest and to the halls of Brazil's Congress, threatening their jobs and even their lives. Ensuring the future of the Indian and his land would lead straight to the heart of the conflict over the Amazon itself.
A heart-pounding modern-day adventure set in one of the world's last truly wild places, The Last of the Tribe is a riveting, brilliantly told tale of encountering the unknown and the unfathomable, and the value of preserving it.
Now, because a grass fire in August 1983 cleared the terrain of brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological examinations of the battlefield in 1984 and 1985, we have many answers to important questions.
On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custer's scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost 100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.
Shrouded in myth, the island was idealized by outsiders, who considered it a tropical Shangri-La. But as the world was to discover two centuries after the mutiny, it was also a place of sinister secrets. In this riveting account, Kathy Marks tells the disturbing saga and asks profound questions about human behavior.
In 2000, police descended on the British territory -- a lump of volcanic rock hundreds of miles from the nearest inhabited land -- to investigate an allegation of rape of a fifteen-year-old girl. They found themselves speaking to dozens of women and uncovering a trail of child abuse dating back at least three generations.
Scarcely a Pitcairn man was untainted by the allegations, it seemed, and barely a girl growing up on the island, home to just forty-seven people, had escaped. Yet most islanders, including the victims' mothers, feigned ignorance or claimed it was South Pacific "culture" -- the Pitcairn "way of life."
The ensuing trials would tear the close-knit, interrelated community apart, for every family contained an offender or a victim -- often both. The very future of the island, dependent on its men and their prowess in the longboats, appeared at risk. The islanders were resentful toward British authorities, whom they regarded as colonialists, and the newly arrived newspeople, who asked nettlesome questions and whose daily dispatches were closely scrutinized on the Internet.
The court case commanded worldwide attention. And as a succession of men passed through Pitcairn's makeshift courtroom, disturbing questions surfaced. How had the abuse remained hidden so long? Was it inevitable in such a place? Was Pitcairn a real-life Lord of the Flies?
One of only six journalists to cover the trials, Marks lived on Pitcairn for six weeks, with the accused men as her neighbors. She depicts, vividly, the attractions and everyday difficulties of living on a remote tropical island. Moreover, outside court, she had daily encounters with the islanders, not all of them civil, and observed firsthand how the tiny, claustrophobic community ticked: the gossip, the feuding, the claustrophobic intimacy -- and the power dynamics that had allowed the abuse to flourish.
Marks followed the legal and human saga through to its recent conclusion. She uncovers a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered and codes broken: a paradise truly lost.
For centuries, religious teachers from many traditions have used stories to instruct their followers. When Swamiji tells a story, the local barber rocks in helpless laughter, and a sari-wearing French nurse looks on enrapt. Farmers make decisions based on the tales, and American psychotherapists take notes that link the storytelling to their own practices. Narayan herself is a key character in this ethnography. As both a local woman and a foreign academic, she is somewhere between participant and observer, reacting to the nuances of fieldwork with a sensitivity that only such a position can bring.
Each story s reproduced in its evocative performance setting. Narayan supplements eight folk narratives with discussions of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. All these stories focus on the complex figure of the Hindu ascetic and so sharpen our understanding of renunciation and gurus in South Asia.
While Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels raises provocative theoretical issues, it is also a moving human document. Swamiji, with his droll characterizations, inventive mind, and generous spirit, is a memorable character. The book contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on narrative. It will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of anthropology, folklore, performance studies, religions, and South Asian studies.
Case studies and theoretical essays introduce the basic principles necessary to identify and explain the symbols and practices each unique human group holds sacred or inalienable. The authors apply the methods of political science, social psychology, anthropology, journalism, and educational research. They build on the insights of Gordon Allport, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber to describe and analyze the patterns of behavior that social groups worldwide use to maintain their identities.
Written to inform the general reader and communicate across disciplinary boundaries, this important and timely volume demonstrates ways of understanding, predicting and coping with ethnic and sectarian violence.
Contributors: Badeng Nima, David Brown, Kwanchewan Buadaeng, Patrick B. Inman, Karina V. Korostelina, James L. Peacock, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Wee Teng Soh, Hamadou Tidiane Sy, Patricia M. Thornton, Mohammad Waseem.
Makingoffers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing. The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design, visual studies and material culture.
In "Overcoming Nervousness," Steiner shows us how exercises in thinking also give us the calm centered sense needed to lead purposeful, healthy lives.
"Facing Karma" takes us to the heart of life, where we experience suffering and happiness. The law of karma that determines life's experiences and encounters also helps us develop the self-knowledge required for self-transformation.
Finally, "The Four Temperaments" show us how the union of hereditary factors and our own inner spiritual nature shape our psychology. The guide here is the ancient classifications of sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. Renewed understanding of these allows us to develop a truly modern spiritual psychology, which is the basis of all real inner development.
With its many practical exercises, mantras, and meditations, this book is a fundamental introduction for anyone beginning or needing encouragement along the path of inner development.
Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community not just the elite think about and experience "politics" in ways that include much more than merely voting.
This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made some new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people.
Complete List of Authors (pictured)
From Left to Right, bottom row: Enrique Murillo, Jr., Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick-McGlathery.
Top row: Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, and Don Nonini.
"Love and Hate" was intended to complement Konrad Lorenz's book, "On Aggression," by pointing out our motivations to provide nurturing, and thus to counteract and correct the widespread but one-sided opinion that biologists always present nature as bloody in tooth and claw and intra-specific aggression as the prime mover of evolution. This simplistic image is, nonetheless, still with us, all the more regrettably because it hampers discussion across scholarly disciplines. Eibl-Eibesfeldt argues that leaders in individualized groups are chosen for their pro-social abilities. Those who comfort group members in distress, who are able to intervene in quarrels and to protect group members who are attacked, those who share, those who, in brief, show abilities to nurture, are chosen by the others as leaders, rather than those who use their abilities in competitive ways. Of course, group leaders may need, beyond their pro-social competence, to be gifted as orators, war leaders, or healers. Issues of love and hate are social in origin and hence social in consequence. Life has emerged on this planet in a succession of new forms, from the simplest algae to man--man the one being who reflects upon this creation, who seeks to fashion it himself and who, in the process, may end by destroying it. It would indeed be grotesque if the question of the meaning of life were to be solved in this way.
As the author notes in the preface of this new edition: "I discuss the phylogenetic origin of our behavior and motivations, which provide the basis for our cultural evolution and thus for our humanitarian hopes." In language that is clear and accessible throughout, arguing forcefully for the innate and "preprogrammed" dispositions of behavior in higher vertebrates, including humans, Eibl-Eibesfeldt steers a middle course in discussing the development of cultural and ethical norms while insisting on their matrix of biological origins.
Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Chicago was a tumultuous and exciting city in 1889. Immigration, industrialization, urbanization, and politics created a vortex of social change. This lively chaos called out for both celebration and reform, and two women, Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams, responded to this challenge by founding the social settlement Hull House. Although Addams is one of the most famous women in American history and a major figure in sociology, Starr remains virtually unknown. On Art, Labor, and Religion is the first anthology of Starr's writings and biography and makes evident her contributions to national and international sociological thought and practice.
In addition to co-founding Hull House, Starr actively brought the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain to Chicago through extensive and intensive relations with this group of artisans, theorists, socialists, and proto-sociologists, founding a number of important societies based on their ideals and practices. Her writings on art, like those of William Morris and John Ruskin, stress the need for a unitary life and meaningful work that is aesthetically expressive and in harmony with nature and the community. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, she gained national fame as a visible socialist and advocate for women's labor movements whose activism helped secure greater safety for many strikers. An adherent of Fabian socialism, Starr's writings on labor unrest reflect her turning away from aestheticism toward more active political engagement. Her firm commitment to feminism, expressed between 1892 and 1920, reveal a pragmatic belief in human improvement, more inclusive democracy, and our capacity to end major social problems. On converting to Catholicism in 1920, she left Hull House to follow a more private spiritual journey, eventually entering the Benedictine religious order where she remained until her death in 1940. Her late religious and mystical writings renounce her former activism and the "Protestant ethic" in favor of an otherworldly dedication and an ordered life of prayer and devotion to Christ.
Her essays make a distinct contribution to our knowledge about early sociology and the social settlement movement. This volume restores a significant figure to her rightful place in American social history.
Mary Jo Deegan is professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the author of Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School and the editor of George Herbert Mead's Essays in Social Psychology, both available from Transaction. Ana-Maria Wahl is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She specializes in labor studies and comparative sociology with an emphasis on Mexico.
In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum—a West Indian boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a Hasidic spiritual leader and an orthodox Jew stabbed by a Black teenager. The ensuing unrest thrust the tensions between the Lubavitch Hasidic community and their Afro-Caribbean and African American neighbors into the media spotlight, spurring local and national debates on diversity and multiculturalism. Crown Heights became a symbol of racial and religious division. Yet few have paused to examine the nature of Black-Jewish difference in Crown Heights, or to question the flawed assumptions about race and religion that shape the politics—and perceptions—of conflict in the community.
In Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of difference in Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of fieldwork and interviews, he argues that identity formation is particularly complex in Crown Heights because the neighborhood's communities envision the conflict in remarkably diverse ways. Lubavitch Hasidic Jews tend to describe it as a religious difference between Jews and Gentiles, while their Afro-Caribbean and African American neighbors usually define it as a racial difference between Blacks and Whites. These tangled definitions are further complicated by government agencies who address the issue as a matter of culture, and by the Lubavitch Hasidic belief—a belief shared with a surprising number of their neighbors—that they are a "chosen people" whose identity transcends the constraints of the social world.
The efforts of the Lubavitch Hasidic community to live as a divinely chosen people in a diverse Brooklyn neighborhood where collective identities are generally defined in terms of race illuminate the limits of American multiculturalism—a concept that claims to celebrate diversity, yet only accommodates variations of certain kinds. Taking the history of conflict in Crown Heights as an invitation to reimagine our shared social world, Goldschmidt interrogates the boundaries of race and religion and works to create space in American society for radical forms of cultural difference.
Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history.
Rebel Rulers is informed by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly's extensive fieldwork in rebel-controlled areas. Focusing on three insurgent organizations—the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) in Congo, and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in Sudan—Mampilly's comparative analysis shows that rebel leaders design governance systems in response to pressures from three main sources. They must take into consideration the needs of local civilians, who can challenge rebel rule in various ways. They must deal with internal factions that threaten their control. And they must respond to the transnational actors that operate in most contemporary conflict zones. The development of insurgent governments can benefit civilians even as they enable rebels to assert control over their newly attained and sometimes chaotic territories.


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**"Dani." Louis says. I look up and he takes my chin....
Our Little Secret (15+)
- by LouisLover4evercheekeys
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- Published: 20 Jun 2013
- Updated: 3 Sep 2013
- Status: Complete
**"I went over to her, pulling her arm and going into the prop room. "HEY! DID I SAY YOU COULD TOUCH ME?" she screamed. "Why do you hate me so much?" I say coldly.Her eyes widen and she looks at her feet at a loss for worse. "Is there even a reason?" I say softly. She looks up into my eyes. "Harry I-" she stopped with her mouth open, not knowing what to say. I laugh to myself. "We used to be so close." I touched her cheek and she surprisingly leaned into it, her eyes closed. "Sometimes a little too close." I smile.She opens her eyes and pushes my hand away. She shakes her head no. "Why Olivia? Because at the moment I don't know the reason why I hate you." I said getting out of the prop room. Did I just say that to her? I stop and think about going back. I can't I already said it, but it wasn't true. I don't hate her. I like her. A lot"**
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New lens for camera
Posted by Margaret Shaw on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Under: Photos
In : Photos
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|Margaret Shaw
|Kirkby Stephen, Eden Valley, Cumbria, England
|My blog summarises my life as an artist. It's a bit like a diary: New artworks completed. Artworks in Progress. Photos I've taken. Things that inspire me. Where I'm exhibiting. Things I've learnt. And anything else that I think blogworthy.


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The title says it all. Perfect backdrop for any TV show or corporate video with a little more pop "edge" and "bite" to it. This pack is very varied and offers various sub-genres of pop:
All is Fine (2:46) – http://audiojungle.net/item/all-is-fine/2591141
Smile (1:49) – http://audiojungle.net/item/smile/2908067
Synth Power Anthem (2:08) – http://audiojungle.net/item/synth-power-anthem/3503300
Air (2:27) – http://audiojungle.net/item/air/2675345


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What the Well-Dressed Fracker Is Wearing
Demand is rising for "frackwear"—sturdy shoes and fire-resistant clothes— that oil and gas workers can wear to protect themselves from wires and explosions, Shelly Banjo reports on MoneyBeat. Photo: Carhartt.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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02.23.13: The No. 15 ranked (NJCAA DII poll) CCRI Lady Knights basketball team hosted the No. 20 ranked (NJCAA DI) Avengers of ASA College from Brooklyn, NY on Saturday. The Lady Knights fell to the Avengers 74-68. With the loss the Lady Knights fall to 21-4 on the season.
On Saturday the Lady Knights celebrated their annual "Pink Out" where they raised money for Breast Cancer Awareness. In addition, they also celebrated Sophomore Day for their seven sophomores playing in their final regular season game at the Cullen Fieldhouse. They were: Co-Captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY), Co-Captain Jess Randall (Warwick, RI), Treedy Ward (Boynton Beach, FL), Moe Plummer (Fairfield, CT), Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, CT), Lindsey Nash (Manchester, CT), and Jenna Ayala (Paterson, NJ). Head Coach Kate Lynch commented about her special group of sophomores: "I love our sophomores. They're a really fun group to be around and they work hard day in day out. They've built this program to where it is right now and that's a testament to the type of young ladies that they are; tough, focused, determined. We are all going to miss them next year, but we still have the regionals to focus on right now and I know they're looking forward to preparing for playoffs." She later added: "I'm so proud of what they've accomplished both as individuals and as team. They've been through a lot of adversity together and it has only made them stronger. I couldn't be prouder or luckier to have coached and had the opportunity to get to know these sophomores."
The Lady Knights knew that they were going to be in for a tough contest playing a national ranked Division I program that has four players over six feet who are also fast and tough minded players. However, the Lady Knights always play with plenty of moxie on their home court and came focused to play. In the first half the avengers size and quickness pushed the Lady Knights back on their heels as the avengers went into the break leading by eight points 34-26. In the second half the Lady Knights dug deep to keep the Avengers close. CCRI played at a frenetic pace late in the game to force some avenger turnovers which they used to close the lead to just four points with just 29 seconds left in the game after two made free-throws from Sophomore Moe Plummer making the score 71-67 but that is a close as the Lady Knights would get as they fell by the final tally of 74-68.
The Lady Knights were led by Moe Plummer who scored a career-high and game-high 21 points, including three 3-pointers followed by sophomore Nyjah Porcher scoring 13 points, including 11 in the second half with eight rebounds and five of the Lady Knights' seven steals. The eight rebounds for Porcher give her 488 for her career to tie her with Roxanne Reid (2003-04) for third on the CCRI All-time rebounding list. Sophomore Co-Captain Jahira Smith added 14 points with five assists, four rebounds, two other two Lady Knights' steals and an emphatic blocked shot. Smith now has 953 career points and needs just four points to become CCRI's all-time leading scorer to pass Amanda Ward who scored 956 from 2003-2005.
Coach Lynch commented on the Lady Knights' effort during the game: "I think we played very hard. We made some mental errors which cost us, but playing a team like ASA will certainly prepare us for our regionals."
The Next game for the Lady Knights will be this Saturday March 2nd when they will host the Region XXI Tournament. The schedule of game sis a follows:
Saturday March 2nd
12noon Game 1: No. 1 seed CCRI (21-4) vs. No. 4 seed Orange County CC (15-15)
2:00pm Game 2: No. 2 seed Monroe College (20-5) vs. No. 3 seed Dean College (15-8)
Sunday March 3rd
1:00pm Championship game (winners of games 1 and 2 Saturday)
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
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November 15, 2011 at 7:30pm to December 24, 2011 at 7:30pm – Artists Repertory Theatre - Alder Stage Will Sherlock Holmes crack his own case? Literature's favorite quirky inquisitor is infused with the spirit of a crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge in an unusual holiday show crafted by Seattle veteran play… Organized by Artists Repertory Theatre | Type: performance
August 6, 2011 to December 31, 2011 – Portland Art Museum Do you have an object you would never give up? Something that lives on your wall, your mantle, or buried in the corner of your dresser drawer? Something that evokes a time in your life, a place you m… Organized by Portland Art Museum | Type: exhibit
October 10, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Portland Children's Museum Builders of all ages and skill levels are invited to explore, build and play in LEGO® Castle Adventure. In this exhibit kids and their families can construct LEGO® structures, learn about real-world… Organized by | Type: portland, children's, museum
October 10, 2011 to December 11, 2011 – Lewis & Clark College In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Bonnie Bronson Fund, this exhibition debuts new work by the Bonnie Bronson Fellows, some of the Pacific Northwest's most influential… Organized by | Type: museum, event
October 11, 2011 to February 5, 2012 – Museum of Contemporary Craft Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Craft, the exhibition 75 Gifts for 75 Years celebrates an important milestone in the history of one of the oldest modern craft institutions in the United State… Organized by | Type: art, event
October 12, 2011 at 10am to December 31, 2011 at 2pm – Heathman Hotel A unique and delicious walking tour where you'll taste the foods, sip the drinks, meet some artisans & vendors in their shops - while exploring Portland. If you watch the Food Network or consider… Organized by Gary Corbin | Type: food, tour
October 14, 2011 at 3pm to December 31, 2011 at 6pm – Heathman Hotel The Chocolate Decadence tour showcases the Rose City's spin on the world's favorite sweet indulgence. While the coffee junkies and beer snobs are yammering away about their respective libations, you'… Organized by Gary Corbin | Type: chocolate, tour
October 15, 2011 at 11am to March 17, 2012 at 1pm – Pioneer Courthouse Square What mysteries lurk behind the bright lights of Portland's hippest art galleries, chic shops, bookstores and microbreweries? Come to Jamison Square at 6 PM on First Thursdays and find out! Upon arri… Organized by Gary Corbin | Type: scavenger, hunt
October 16, 2011 to March 4, 2012 – OMSI Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS & The Brain includes more than 200 authentic human specimens and highlights neuroscience, brain development and performance. Through respectful, aesthetic displays… Organized by | Type: omsi, show
November 2, 2011 at 10am to January 22, 2012 at 5pm – Portland Art Museum Ghost Ships is a trio of actual sailboats that have been reconfigured and programmed by the artist to periodically unfurl sails, pivot rudders, and simulate navigation. The sailboats will seem to sai… Organized by Portland Art Museum | Type: art, exhibit
November 5, 2011 at 11am to March 3, 2012 at 1pm – Portland Downtown Central Library Turn your Rosetta-stone brain on high and unravel the mysteries hidden in the stacks, on the walls, and places you never imagined existed in a public library. Upon arrival, a highly-trained Run Brai… Organized by Gary Corbin | Type: scavenger, hunt
November 5, 2011 at 8pm to December 23, 2011 at 10pm – La Superior (Portland) Come to La Superior (North Portland location only) for a margarita, and get 2 FREE tacos nightly anytime after 8pm. Our margaritas are the best! Made with fresh squeezed lime juice and our house made… Organized by | Type: nightly, special
November 18, 2011 at 10am to December 24, 2011 at 7pm – St. John's district, Old Salvation Army Building, across the street from Pattie's Home Plate A craft market with unique, handmade art and crafts such as quilts, jewelry, wood carvings, stuffed animals, high-quality prints of original paintings, and more! Store Hours: Mon - Sat 10 am - 7 pm;… Organized by Laura Woodruff | Type: art/craft, market, for, the, holidays, and, other, occasions
November 25, 2011 to January 1, 2012 – "Oregon Zoo" Annual holiday lights display at the Oregon Zoo! Celebrate the holiday season amid the sparkling lights and brilliant hues of ZooLights.* More than a million lights transform the Oregon Zoo into a… Organized by Zoo Lights | Type: zoo lights
November 25, 2011 at 4pm to January 1, 2012 at 4pm – Alberta Main Street Alberta Main Street presents Tannenbaum Madness Tannenbaum Madness is a walking window tour of whimsical, wacky and artistic trees. Over 30 Alberta Street businesses are creating sights not to be mis… Organized by Alberta Main Street | Type: holiday, fun
December 2, 2011 at 3pm to December 18, 2011 at 6pm – Alpenrose Dairy Winter wonderland fun is back at Alpenrose Dairy as Storybook Lane reopens once again for the first time in six years. Portland's family owned and operated dairy is partnering with 4-H of Multnomah… Organized by Alpenrose | Type: holiday
December 7, 2011 at 8pm to December 10, 2011 at 11pm – Helium Comedy Club Jon Dore from IFC's "The Jon Dore Television Show""The Jon Dore Television Show" on IFC and on Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" list. See him LIVE at Helium Comedy Club!Wednesday, December 07 @ 8:00… Organized by Helium Comedy Club | Type: comedy, stand-up
December 8, 2011 from 5pm to 7pm – Fir Ridge Campus Free blood lead screenings and healthy homes outreach! Organized by Alison Sheldon | Type: festival
December 8, 2011 at 7pm to January 1, 2012 at 2pm – Imago Theatre ZOOZOO IN PORTLAND FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON with the World Premiere of "Cats!" Imago brings to life the antics of our everyday household cat in a not so everyday way. Don't miss the premiere of "Cats!"… Organized by Imago Theatre | Type: theatre
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Bisons finish fifth in Belmont Intercollegiate
April 4, 2006
The Lipscomb Bisons golf team finished fifth in the 2006 Comfort Inn and Suites Belmont Intercollegiate held at Old Natchez Trace Country Club.
The Bisons shot 875 (219-292-292) as a team in the 54-hole tournament Monday and Tuesday in the 11-team tournament.
Lipscomb's Taylor Lewis finished eighth overall with a three-round total of 214 (69-73-72).
Dustin Lynch tied for 12th place with a score of 217 (72-74-71). Cody Hale tied for 16th with a score of 220 (74-70-76). Parker Beck tied for 29th with a 224 (76-75-73). Paul Warren finished 64th with a 243 (81-85-77).
Belmont won the tournament with a score of 853 (286-287-280).


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The emphasis of this lesson is deepening students' understanding of how and why we measure precipitation across the globe. Students will look at NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data gathered during hurricanes and how this data can... (View More) prove essential in helping scientists forecast the amount of precipitation. Students will also learn how the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission is enabling scientists to collect new information on hurricanes. The lesson uses the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
Students will learn about how human activity impacts Earth's climate through reading a NASA press release and viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment. Then students will examine simple mathematical models that predict changes in the Earth system in... (View More) response to human activity. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school textbooks. The modules cover specific math topics at multiple levels of difficulty with real-world data and use the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
This is a lesson about the Cassini mission to Saturn. Learners will create their Saturn Discovery Logs. They will use the Saturn Discovery Log to chronicle their journey of discovery about Saturn and Cassini through nonfiction writing. For their... (View More) first log entry, students will draw what they picture when they hear the words "Saturn" and "Cassini," and add labels and captions to their drawings. Students will share their work with partners. This is lesson 1 of 12 in "Reading, Writing & Rings!" for grades 3-4. (View Less)
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[Lady Bird Johnson with a Man and a Costumed Woman]
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Col. City girls track gets hot at Homestead
FORT WAYNE — "The weather may have been hot, but our runners, jumpers and throwers were hotter last night," Columbia City Head Coach Bob Fahl said after the Lady Eagles track team beat Homestead Tuesday."Homestead has twice as many kids on the rosters as we do," Fahl said. "I thought it was going to be close."The score wasn't as close as Fahl thought it'd be. In fact, Columbia City won by 22 points after taking first place in 11 out of 16 events.While some wins came without surprise, such as stand-out Samantha Roush in both the 800- and 1,600-meter runs, Fahl said some other wins were more unexpected.Marissa Evilsizer won the 300-meter hurdles — on only her second time running them in a varsity event.Brooke Werstler won a difficult 3,200-meter race, edging her Homestead opponent by seven seconds.Fahl also touted the efforts of Hannah Wappes.To read the rest of this story, see the April 10 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.