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Last week I started both of my grade 9 science classes on their very first inquiry project. Titled "Mutant Nation," it is a project that I have discussed on this blog before. The basic premise of Mutant Nation is as follows:
"The year is 2030. Designer mutations have changed the face of humanity. A new company, Genetically You, is offering people the chance to buy customizable genetic mutations. As an employee of this company, it will be your job to design a brand new mutation and accompanying marketing campaign."
When I originally designed this project, it was aimed at a Biology 30 class where there is a deeper focus on genetics and the students could really get into the nitty gritty of DNA. This being a grade 9 science class, it had to be toned down quite significantly. As stated by the program of studies, genetics is only cursorily addressed, thus limiting students to the very basic facts about DNA.
Over the course of this year, I've found that my students handle work better when it is divided up into smaller pieces that can later be tied together to form a finished product. So I broke it down and split it into five "tasks," and each one is handed in before the next task begins.
- Design a Mutation
- The DNA Effect
- The Public Domain
- The Marketing Campaign
- The Bioethics Committee
In Design a Mutation, students are introduced to the project and have a chance to brainstorm ideas about what they'd like to do. I found that by presenting the project in a fashion that mirrors The X-Men, students were more receptive to the overall concept. To get them started, I referenced the "X-Factor," or the mutation found in all X-Men which give them their powers. Though it is only a single mutation, it is one that affects their entire physiology. However, in giving students the choice over what their mutation could be, the are quick to make choices that will present difficulty later on in the project. Each chosen mutation had to be approved before the students could continue. My criteria for approval was essentially that all mutations had to be physiological, keeping away from things like telepathy and telekinesis.
In The DNA Effect, students outline how their mutation will affect the customer. The goal of this task is to examine the primary function of the mutation (aesthetic vs functional), and how it will affect the physiology of the customer.
For the third task, The Public Domain, students have a chance to look at the wider-range of implications their mutation may have on the human population. As these mutations will all become part of the customer's DNA, they must consider how it will affect the children and grandchildren. They must also consider what effect this will have on the human population as a whole.
The fourth task, The Marketing Campaign, is less question-based and more hands-on. Here students have a chance to actually design their marketing campaign and how their product will be sold to the public. It is at this stage that they can employ various technologies such as Xtranormal or iMovie for videos, word processors for print ads, or iWeb for websites. Though it varies from medium-to-medium, I encourage all students to be as creative as possible and use their knowledge of commercials and ads to come up with something that they would see as alluring.
In the final task, The Bioethics Committee, students examine the ethical considerations associated with altering the DNA of their customers. Topics like the FDA and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) would be excellent discussion starters. Furthermore, links to social studies can easily be made by referencing any eugenics programs that have occurred in the past. The most notable of these being the Aryans and the underlying meanings of an "aryan race." It would not be unexpected for some students to stop at this point and say that their mutation is probably not something that should be sold to the public because it might be dangerous or harmful.
Despite all the work that will have gone into the project by this point, the process is intended to mirror the actual steps required for a product to be approved for sale to the public, and therefore a select few students may recognize that their product should not be sold to the public. In many cases, this would be the desired outcome because so many of the mutations will likely be so incredibly outrageous that to introduce them into the collective human genome would be disastrous for the species as a whole. However, this is unlikely given that many of the students will believe their mutations to be "cool" and thus the obvious choice for introduction to the public.
I have yet to implement the 3rd task for both classes, but I intend to keep posting as the project progresses as a method for reflection. At this point all I can say is that the project appears to be succeeding, but I won't know for sure until closer to the end.


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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa home and tribal affairs department has recommended the sacking of three prosecution directorate officials deported from Thailand recently over 'sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour'.
A case in this respect has been sent to the chief secretary's office for action, officials of the home department and directorate of prosecution told Dawn on Wednesday.
They said the three were part of a batch of 25 probationary officers, who were in Bangkok to attend a prosecution training arranged by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the US State Department.
A senior official said the officials in question were on probation and since rules were different for them, a removal from service case against them had been forwarded to the chief secretary's office for necessary action.
Suspects under training in Thailand were deported after incident
Sources said the officials facing the axe included two from Mardan district and one from Waziristan and that they're charged with calling a hotel maid to their room twice and molesting her.
They said the three were also caught filming girls at a swimming pool and bringing masseurs to their rooms.
Another official claimed district public prosecutor from Kohat Zaheeruddin, who was the supervisor for batch, endorsed the charges.
He added that the trainees were charged by the US embassy in Thailand.
The official said the three also faced a language barrier as none of them knew Thai language and thus, making things difficult for them.
He however said the accused denied charges of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.
A prosecution directorate official said a batch of 25 probationary officials left for Thailand on Jan 18.
He said the training began on Jan 20 and the harassment incident occurred shortly thereafter leading to the deportation of the three by Thai authorities.
The official however expressed ignorance about the recommendation for the sacking of the officials, saying it was the domain of the provincial home department, which was the directorate's parent department.
He said the three officials had been suspended and would be given show causes notices.
The official said the training was provided by the INL and that at least 100 prosecutors had so far attended it.
He said the training was held in Bangkok due to visa-related problems faced by the US trainers.
"The INL also informed us about the harassment incident by email," he said.
Director general of the provincial prosecution department Adil Sidiq is also in Bangkok following another batch for the same training.
A prosecutor requesting anonymity said the officials sent to Thailand for training course were newly-appointed prosecutors, whose selection had caused resentment among old staff members of the directorate.
He said the US agency had also shared 'all documentary evidence' against the officials with the directorate and asked the relevant authorities not to recommend such people for foreign training in future.
"The episode has brought them face to face with a strange situation in which their acquaintances are calling them whether or not they are the officials named for sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour," he said, adding that he himself received at least three to four such telephonic calls.
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March 21, 2013
Reggie Bullock
Dexter Strickland
Roy Williams
JOE DALFONSO: We're joined by North Carolina student‑athletes. Questions, please.
Q. Dexter, y'all had some struggles this year getting things going. What has it been about the last couple weeks where you seem to put things a little bit more together?
DEXTER STRICKLAND:Â I would say just confidence and our experience, just growing as a team.
I think we all, you know, have an understanding of what we supposed to do on the floor.
The freshmen, them having more experience game after game, them having more confidence, like I said. You know, we're just playing well together.
Q. Do you feel right now you're playing as well as you've played all year?
REGGIE BULLOCK: We're playing our best basketball right now as a team. Everybody have confidence in each other. We've grown as a team by every game. We just listening and doing the things that coach want us to do. So we're growing as a team right now. We're playing our best basketball.
DEXTER STRICKLAND: The same thing. I think now we are playing at our potential. I think we can do better, though. I think the losses against Duke made us better. The second loss against Duke also made us better. The loss to Miami I think was going to motivate everybody on our team to even play harder.
We're just ready to play tomorrow night.
Q. Reggie, you really did a much better job on the boards against Miami than you did against Maryland the day before. What did you do to offset their size advantage? What do you have to do tomorrow?
REGGIE BULLOCK: Not get away from the things we've been doing to win games. Stick to continuing to hit the boards, sharing the ball well, and just playing tremendous defense on the defensive end.
They got some big guys, so we have to rebound as a team and get out in transition and run.
Q. Villanova has had some trouble defending the three‑pointer. That's something you do well. Can we expect a lot of three‑pointers from you guys?
DEXTER STRICKLAND: I think you can. With us having a small lineup, it allows the floor to be more spaced out, allowing myself, Marcus, to drop to the basket, find our great shooters who are Reggie, Leslie, and P.J. I think we're going to do a great job as far as shooting and attacking on offense.
Q. Reggie, it sounded like you take that as a challenge when you're playing a team with a lot of big guys, rebounding. Is that something you relish?
REGGIE BULLOCK: Every day in practice coach always tell us at the backboards with us going small, sticking P.J. at the 4. I know it's tough for us to get a lot of rebounds, so I try to live on the backboard and do whatever it takes to get opportunities and extra plays for my team. So I just try to live on the backboards.
Q. Dexter, Carolina traditionally plays big men, post inside out. This is a departure for your program. Have people taken to it around the program, fans and whatnot?
DEXTER STRICKLAND: I think so. I think everybody's now accepted the fact that we're going small. I think we're playing well at it. I think the first time we switched up the lineup was the Duke game.
Even though we lost that game, I think it brung us together as a team. I think we won six games in a row after that. We just saw what type of team we could be with that lineup and we stuck with it.
To this day, I think we're still playing, you know, better with that lineup.
Q. Some people are saying that because of the history that Coach Williams has with this area, he may get booed tomorrow when you are introduced. Was that something you would pay a bit of attention to? Might that motivate you? Have you talked about that?
DEXTER STRICKLAND: Absolutely not. We have not talked about it at all. I don't think coach cares about getting booed. I'm pretty sure he's experienced that throughout his whole career of coaching. That's probably the least of his worries.
But we're not focused on that at all. We're not focused on the fans and them booing us or them booing Coach Williams. That's not what we thinking about.
Q. Reggie, what do y'all know about Villanova in terms of their style of play? What kind of challenges will they present for you?
COACH WILLIAMS: They try to play physical. They got some good guards. James Bell, the Hilliard kid. They can shoot the ball, they're very aggressive.
We've been hearing a lot of things about them being tougher than us as a team. I know my guys going to be ready to come out and battle tomorrow. We're going to have to be able to solve those type of problems on the court.
JOE DALFONSO: Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. Good luck tomorrow.
We're joined by head Coach Roy Williams. We'll ask him to make a statement on his club being here in Kansas City, then go to questions.
COACH WILLIAMS: We're excited to be here. You know you've been coaching too long when one of your former players is in the media and looks older than you do (laughter).
We're excited to be here. There were times early in the season when people wondered if we were going to be in any tournament. Right now you have the post‑season NIT and 13 other tournaments. We didn't know if we would be in any of them.
We have a great group of guys that throughout the course of the year tried to get better in each and every practice. It was our goal when we started, when we went to practice over at Rockhurst, was to try to get better.
Down the stretch we won eight of our last 10, and nine of those games we played pretty well. Last home game against Duke, didn't play well. They whacked us pretty good.
Our team is excited about being here. They've never really been in this position where they're major contributors for a team in the NCAA tournament.
Reggie started for us last year after Dexter got hurt, but everybody else, this is a first‑time experience for them.
We're excited about being here and hopefully we'll play well.
Q. All the years you were at Kemper, what do you think of this place? First time here?
COACH WILLIAMS: I've never been out on the court. I hope it looks a helluva lot better than this part does. There's not very many great media rooms in the world, but there's some beautiful facilities. I've heard great things about it, but I literally have not walked out on the court yet.
Watching the tournament on TV, some things that have happened the last two or three years, everybody says it's a great venue. The locker room looks great. My guess is it will be fantastic when we get out there.
Q. I'm sure for a coach it's a privilege to get here, whatever the path. You did take a different path this year. Normally in your career you've coached a lot of inside out, big men. Has it been an interesting challenge to coach this way with the four guards, more much a perimeter team?
COACH WILLIAMS: That's a good way to put it. It's been interesting and it's also been scary because it's not something I have been comfortable with.
Most coaches develop a philosophy, a style that they stick with most of the time. If you've done it for 25 years as a head coach, you're probably not going to change very much because you dance with who brung you kind of thing.
It was a major change for us, it was something I was not comfortable with. I'm still not comfortable with it. Your job as a coach is to just not let things go. You have to keep trying things to become more successful.
At Miami, they whacked us about 150 points or something like that. We spent a lot of time in the locker room when the guys were in with the media, the next day on Sunday. We felt like we needed to do something because it wasn't working.
P.J. has really added a great deal to us offensively. He's a good defensive player as well. He's just not as big. Our rebound numbers early were good, but the most important, Ws and Ls, were not very good.
But going small, we've been able to spread the floor a little bit more, open up some things offensively. Other teams have turned it over a few more times than we were earlier. That's helped us getting the break going.
We have not done a very good job of rebounding the basketball last 10 or 12 games, however many it's been. We added some things in one area, but gave up some in another area.
It has been interesting, but scary, too. It's probably been good for all of us, including the coaching staff.
Q. Does it become easier in college basketball to win with a freshman point guard than it used to be?
COACH WILLIAMS: I don't know that it's ever easy to win, period. I know it's not easy to win with a freshman point guard because there's so many things he hasn't seen.
Last year halfway through our season we knew we would have Marcus, Kendall Marshall, it was going to be a great scenario. Marcus would learn from him. Be able to do some things, be able to avoid the extreme highs and lows that a freshman goes through so much more than anyone else.
I've played a lot of freshman point guards. Greg played with us at Kansas. Jacque Vaughn, coach for the Orlando Magic, played a heck of a lot and started as a freshman; Aaron Miles started as a freshman; Jeff Boschee started freshman; Kirk Hinrich started as a freshman; Ty Lawson started after the first five games as a freshman for us at North Carolina.
It's been done, but it's not easy by any means. We're a little more complicated than other people. I give the point guard more responsibilities than other people. I knew with Marcus that I had a kid who was very intelligent to begin with, but had great basketball savvy. It was probably easier for him than it would be a lot of other people.
Q. You mentioned a couple familiar faces that you've seen. Have you given any thoughts to what kind of reception you expect tomorrow?
COACH WILLIAMS: I really haven't. We've been a little busy trying to win a game. For me, University of Kansas and Lawrence was a great 15 years of my life. I've said it this way before: I gave my heart, body, and soul for 15 years, and I loved it.
When I went back to North Carolina, it was a very emotional thing. It's a very emotional thing when I didn't go the first time, and it was when I did go the second time.
I'll use this analogy. A guy stopped me in the airport, said, Coach, I just wanted to say hello, but I wanted to tell you I'm a big time Jayhawk fan.
I said, I am, too.
He walked off. Went down a couple gates, came back a few moments later and said, You surprised me.
I said, I was there 15 years, had wonderful players that I loved, it was family and always will be. It's not immoral to love two institutions.
When I was a coach at Kansas, it was my favorite school. North Carolina was my second favorite school. I happen to be coaching at North Carolina now, and it's my favorite school and Kansas is my second favorite school.
I realize some people were upset when I left. Hopefully time is going to cure a lot of those problems.
College basketball, we got enough to worry about without worrying about whether they're going to clap or boo when I come out. 19,000, I'm all right then. First time we went and played at Kentucky, I was booed by 24,000. Regardless of how bad it is, it's not going to outnumber that.
Q. You had pretty good luck for quite a while in your career having guys stay around maybe an extra year. That has not been as much the case recently. How hard an adjustment has that been for you?
COACH WILLIAMS: It has changed the whole culture of college basketball. We lost 11 guys to the NBA draft in the last eight years, early, not counting some of the seniors. It's very difficult.
In 2005, we lost basically the entire starting club. Won the national championship, came back the next year, we were still okay. In 2009, we lost four of the five starters. The next year we were not very good. We kept getting guys hurt that year, too. So it added to it.
The landscape has really changed. You almost have to recruit like you're a junior college and understand you're lucky if you have a guy more than one year. I think we understand that.
It's still been difficult.
Last year mid‑season I thought we were going to lose two guys, we ended up losing four. There's no way you can replace that at the end of the year.
It's what it is. It's sad to me because I'm a college basketball fan. I'm a college basketball guy. In some ways college basketball has become just a bus stop for a lot of people. The worst thing is, it's become a bus stop for a lot of families and everybody else that think their son should be leaving.
So it has made it difficult, yeah.
Q. You briefly referenced the '05 game with Villanova. Villanova fans still remember that call at the end of the game. What do you remember about it? Was that your closest call on your way to that '05 national championship?
COACH WILLIAMS: I just remember I thought it was the greatest call I'd ever seen, that kind of thing. No.
I remember there was one a couple before that that I almost lost it myself. It's typical of what goes on in college basketball.
I remember they played great. We got our point guard in foul trouble. He fouled out. We had our backup point guard that made two big free throws for us. That was a big‑time game.
You know, that year in '05, I was trying to think quickly here, we had a big‑time game with Wisconsin, as well, big‑time game with Villanova, Michigan State we were down at halftime, Illinois in the national championship game it was tied with four minutes to go.
All of our games that year down the stretch were pretty difficult.
'09 when we won it, we didn't have any close games. Won every game by 12 points. I like that part better, to be honest with you.
Villanova has been successful. I may miss this, I hope not, eight of the last nine years they've been to the NCAA. Jay does a great job. I tried to call him yesterday, trying to get on his good side. I was going to try to give him a real good restaurant here in Kansas City to eat.
But that game was a big‑time game for us, no question.
Q. Could you talk when you went to the four guards, you shoot the three very well, rebounding has been affected a little bit. What are a couple strengths with this team with this lineup, and a couple things this team has struggled with, as well?
COACH WILLIAMS: Well, the positives: we do have a lineup a lot of times where we have three really good three‑point shooters out there. James Michael is not a low‑post player. He's a guy that drives us to the basket and gets the 12‑ to 15‑foot shots. If you have guys that can stretch the defense, you help James.
Dexter is the guy who puts the ball on the floor and drives the ball to the basket.
I think we've also defensively been able to get a few more turnovers with this lineup, and that's enabled us to get our fast break going.
On the negative side, we don't block any shots. We block the same number of shots that I would block, that's about it. We do a terrible job rebounding the basketball.
It has been good for us. We made the decision to try something to see if the positives outweigh the negatives. So far we think they have. But there's no question that it's give‑and‑take.
But that's what coaching is. What you're trying to do is put the puzzle together. Sometimes the pieces don't actually fit completely, so you have to change the puzzle a little bit or change the pieces a little bit.
We tried to get our best five basketball players on the court, and thought that would give us the best chance to win.
Q. Looking at the minutes, could you comment on your bench. I see a lot of games you play 11 guys. Outside of Leslie McDonald, those minutes are limited. Describe what your bench gives you right now.
COACH WILLIAMS: It depends from game to game. If they give us something when they get in, they get another chance. I always felt like when you make substitutions, you can help us if you don't hurt us. So give us something positive.
I picked on Greg there when Greg played for us at Kansas. Greg didn't start, but he could shoot the dickens out of the basketball. As a matter of fact, I said something like that the other day. My players never even heard that. They didn't know what the dickens it was.
When Greg came in the game, he gave us something. If he made a shot, I let him play some more. If he missed a shot, Greg, come over and sit beside me a little more.
Leslie's gonna play. One of the big guys is going to play because we need to go big at some point during the game.
I made this statement the other day. I do not care about you personally during the game; I care about our team. I am not going to do something just to please you and not be fair to everybody else. I'm going to play the guys who I think is going to give us the best chance to win.
After the game, off the court, I do care about you personally. If you go out there and screw it up twice in a row, expect for your rear‑end to come out. I think I'd be unfair to the other kids if I keep putting you out there and you keep screwing it up. I'm not the smartest guy, but I'm sure not the dumbest guy either.
Q. You've downplayed your role in this late‑season turnaround. This is the second year in three years that you've made a switch mid‑season that was significant and really helped the trajectory of the team. How do you think you've seen your coaching style and philosophy evolve over the years, if you think it has?
COACH WILLIAMS: I think it's changed all the time because players change. There's things I believe in that I got from Coach Smith. There's no question about that. But players change, so you got to change your style a little bit.
Hopefully in college you can recruit guys that you can believe that play the style you want to play, but sometimes you're surprised, or sometimes guys get hurt, or sometimes it just doesn't work.
I think you have to be willing to make changes. It's not comfortable for me.  I like to pick five guys and say, You're my guys, these other two or three are going to play a lot. If you want to change that, you got to beat those guys out. But sometimes you do have to make changes.
I'm one of the most stubborn guys you've ever known, but sometimes you need to be a little more intelligent than that.
Q. In your study of Villanova, what impresses you most about them?
COACH WILLIAMS: It's strange, I watched the St. John's game, Marquette game. Steve Robinson's watched five or six so far. We still have some time before 6:00 tomorrow.
They're a balanced team. They can shoot the ball, but they can also score inside. They can drive the ball to the basket. They can rebound it.
The first part of the Marquette game, they were so good defensively it was ridiculous. That's the thing that jumped out about that right there, how good they were defensively.
In the St. John's game, they would turn it over. I would say, All right, we have a chance. Then they would make St. John's turn it over as well.
I think the balance of their team, there's not one thing that you can take away that will make a major effect on the outcome of the game. You can't say, I've got to do this to Pinkston or this to Bell, if I do that, the game is going to be ours. I think they're a difficult team to guard, and I think that's part of it, too.
JOE DALFONSO: Thank you very much. Good luck.
COACH WILLIAMS:Â Thank you.
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Joining a CSA is akin to a marriage. Inherent between the farmer and members of Community Supported Agriculture is the agreement–for richer, for poorer, for better or worse. Members pay for their "shares" up front, long before seed planting, and then share risk with the farmer. Risk of hail, insects, drought, or something that goes wrong on the farm, it's all part of the deal. It's this partnered risk that inspires today's risotto with bok choy.
For better, our bok choy tasted like the delicate cabbage it is, with crunchy white stalks and tender green leaves. For worse, the greens were riddled with pinholes from a beetle's feast before the pick. Our Ranui Gardens CSA farmer and crew do their best to mitigate bugs naturally but sometimes they arrive uninvited. The organic bok choy was perfectly delectable.
Bok choy risotto is an enjoyable fusion of mild yet distinctive bok choy flavor and soft, chewy creamy rice. Stir chopped bok choy into the pot at the last minute–the leaves wilt and the stalks keep their pleasing crunch. It's a perfect way to highlight bok choy's sweet assets and disguise any disaster. No one would ever know about (what?) holes.
Is it bok choy or pac choi, this Asian leafy green? Google search tells us pac choi and bok choy and pak choi are different spellings of the same leafy green cabbage cousin. John spells it pac choi. Is that what it's called in the seed catalog?
This recipe is easy and quick when you use an Instant Pot pressure cooker. The risotto is done in 5 minutes, compared to the 30+ minutes it takes to stir traditionally cooked risotto. While the pressure cooker is doing its job, you can be chopping the bok choy and setting the table. I include directions for both cooking methods in the recipe instructions.
Risotto's trademark creaminess comes from starchy rice, like Arborio. Many risottos are finished with cheese and butter, making them richer and even creamier, but because bok choy flavor is so delicate, I didn't add cheese. Stir a dollop of goat cheese in with the bok choy if you want, as in this risotto with kale, but shy away from aged cheeses, like Parmesan. Last night we topped our bok choy risotto with poached eggs–excellent!
If you don't own a pressure cooker yet–put one on your wish list. My Kuhn-Rikon 8-quart pressure cooker is a kitchen workhorse and will last me the rest of my life. There are less expensive models out there too. (Both Amazon pressure cooker links are affiliates.)
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More bok choy recipes:
Bok Choy and Carrot Stir-Fry with Toasted Cashews on Letty's Kitchen
Cold Noodle and Bok Choy Salad on She Knows Food and Recipes
Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Hoisin Sauce on Kalyn's Kitchem
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- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup chopped garlic scapes or diced onion (see note)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1 ½ cups Arborio rice (see note)
- ½ cup white wine or beer (see note)
- 3 ½ cups vegetable stock (see note)
- 3 cups (1/2-inch pieces) chopped bok choy, both leaves and trimmed stems
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon Real Salt , as needed
With a pressure cooker:
Over medium flame, heat the oil in the pot. Stir in the garlic scapes and minced garlic. Cook and stir about a minute.
Add the rice, stirring to coat the grains with oil. Pour in the wine and cook until the wine has been absorbed.
Add the vegetable stock, all of it.
Close the lid and, over high heat, bring the cooker to high pressure.
Lower the heat, making sure to maintain the pressure, and cook for 4 minutes. Reduce the pressure immediately by the carrying the cooker to the sink and running cold water over the lid. Avoid running water over the top valve mechanism.
Risotto traditional method:
Have 5 to 6 cups of vegetable stock ready, simmering in a saucepan.
Follow directions for pressure cooker risotto up until adding the stock.
Over medium high heat, add the vegetable stock ½ cup at a time, stirring with a wooden spoon. When the stock has been absorbed, ladle in another ½ cup of stock. Continue in this fashion, adding and stirring, rice absorbing the liquid, until the rice is done.
For both pressure cooker and traditional risotto methods:
When the rice is done, some liquid should remain in the pan unabsorbed. The risotto should be runny but not thin, with soft chewy texture.
On low flame, stir in the bok choy and red pepper flakes. Taste and add salt, if needed.
Ladle into warm bowls and serve immediately.
- I used scapes because they are in our CSA box. Diced onion is the fine.
- Arborio is short grain rice which, when cooked, produces risotto's creamy texture. Don't use a substitute. I found Arborio rice in the bulk bins at our natural food market.
- You don't have open a bottle of wine when all you need is a ½ cup—use beer instead. It's easier to drink the rest of a beer.
- If you want to omit the wine/beer, add a tablespoon of lemon juice at the end.
- Without a pressure cooker you need 1 to 2 more cups of vegetable stock.


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Author has written 8 stories for Legend of Zelda, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Bleach.
Hello all.
Okay, here's the lowdown:
Name: Brittany
Location: Sunny San Diego, California
School: San Diego State, go Aztecs! (Not really, we kinda suck)
Some random stuff about me:
I love to read and write (obviously), as well as watch movies, hang out, be random, people watch, and hang with friends. I have a little sister named Kelsey and two beagles that I love to death. I'm left-handed and proud of it. I'm a hopeless romantic who is cynical enough to realize I am one. I believe the best kind of humor is laughing at yourself, though I admit that I'll laugh at anything. ANYTHING. I have no control over my laughter. It's ricockulous. I consider myself easy-going and chill, and I generally go around being tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic. I'm really clumsy; I've broken my toe, pinkie, wrist, finger, and ankle. Not all at once, thankfully. I am also a neat freak, perfectionist, and spelling Nazi.
I'm really quite a boring person now that I think about it, but I'm hoping my writing is way more exciting than my life.
Contact Me: Feel free to PM me or send me an e-mail. I love talking to new people, even if it's about mundane stuff. I don't get much of a chance to escape from this social bubble that the outsiders call "college", so hearing from people from outside my little world is awesome (not to mention refreshing). New friends are always good to have! I'm pretty quick with replies, so go ahead and shoot.
Adios, amigos!
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Jack Hamilton had for some time wanted to prove to newspaper editors in mid-America that economic and political development in the third world is a good news story in their towns. Last month he got his chance.
Taking a temporary absence from his job as a World Bank public relations official, Mr. Hamilton recently reported for work at the American, a newspaper with a daily circulation of 25,000 in the Mississippi town of Hattiesburg.
His temporary assignment: Find the links between this Southern city of 40,000 (and its surrounding counties), and developing nations - then write about it.
Many journalists recognize the growing importance of United States ties with the world's poorer countries. But they and their editors are often afraid stories on the subject will bore their readers, Hamilton says.
They think it's like ''wrapping garbage even before it was put in print,'' as Hamilton puts it.
That seems especially true in the heartland of the US where economic ties with third-world nations are not nearly as obvious as in the nation's port cities.
Indeed, Frank Sutherland, managing editor of the American, was somewhat skeptical about Hamilton's chances for coming up with any stories of genuine interest or importance.
Now, since ex-foreign correspondent Jack (John Maxwell) Hamilton has turned in a series of five stories and photos, Mr. Sutherland admits: ''There are more connections - cultural, historical, economic, political - with the third world than anybody would guess.''
Hamilton's first story, which ran on Sunday, tells of soybean and wheat farmer Joe Morgan, who has never traveled abroad. Most of Mr. Morgan's soybeans are shipped to Asia to be made into soy sauce, even though he himself has never tasted soy sauce.
Morgan's prosperity, the article notes, depends largely on the economic and political stability of the third world. When the Soviets occupy Afghanistan and the US imposes an embargo on wheat shipments to the Soviet Union, he's hurt.
If third-world foreign debts prompt these nations to restrain imports, that hits his business too. When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries boosts prices, Morgan pays more for the 28,000 gallons of diesel fuel he uses each year in his farm equipment. When population pressures prompt Panamanians to deforest the hills along the Panama Canal, low water levels make it tougher for the ships carrying his wheat or soybeans to move through the canal.
That overview article also probed the influx of about 2,300 Vietnamese to the nearby gulf coast (and a much smaller number to Hattiesburg itself) that has resulted from political turmoil in Southeast Asia.
In addition, the story reveals other local connections with the third world. A large number of medical doctors in the state, for example, received their education abroad; that the southern Mississippi Chevron refinery buys more than two-thirds of its oil from developing countries; and that Bolivian peasants, desperate for a cash crop, produce the cocaine that is part of the local drug problem.
Another of the stories focused on Mississippi companies that depend on sales and imports from developing countries. Hamilton showed that Hercules Inc., a chemical plant, used to get rosin from pine stumps in the area, but now imports the rosin from China at half the cost. A local music distributor imports guitars from South Korea. Another firm imports steel from Brazil.
Miller-Picking, a custom air-conditioner maker, in some years exports as much as 90 percent of its sales to developing countries. With these local examples, the article discusses the issue of protectionism vs. open trade.
The new Leaf River Forest Products plant in neighboring New Augusta, the article shows, has seen the biggest potential growth market for its pulp in less developed countries. The sales strategy for the company includes Indonesia because that populous nation has just introduced compulsory elementary education , and that means it will need more books and the pulp to make the paper with. So increased literacy in Indonesia means more sales for Mississippi's pine forest region.
Hamilton also was able to discover a local angle for foreign aid by writing about church charities.
Cora Joyce and Ralph Davis (both missionairies in Ghana) spoke about the food problems in that African nation at the Temple Baptist Church earlier this year.
After their talk, the congregation doubled its contribution to missionary activities to $18,000, adding an extra $8,800 for the Davis's mission.
Hamilton says there is a ''general feeling'' in Hattiesburg that government foreign aid is a waste of money. But, he notes, its citizens are most generous in their personal giving to meet foreign needs.
Of course, the goal of Hamilton's project was not just to get several articles published in the American. Instead, he says he hopes the series will be a model to demonstrate to newspaper editors across the country that there are good local stories with third-world angles.
American editor Frank Sutherland agrees.
''We shouldn't leave these stories to the urban press,'' Mr. Sutherland said. ''We see these stories as existing in all the heartland of America.''
Any newspaper of, say, 25,000 circulation can find third-world issues ''in its own backyard,'' he says.
Sutherland hopes his own staff has been educated to the possibilities of such stories in the future. His staff has already produced three articles to run along with the Hamilton stories.
Susan Siltanen, a faculty member at the School of Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi, will be surveying American readers before and after the articles are published to see whether the stories are read and whether they boost the awareness and concern of readers about third-world issues.
Already the newspaper has had some indication of interest from readers, notes city editor Bill Sutley. ''It goes along the line of, 'I didn't know we had any relations to the third world.' ''
Now back at the World Bank, Hamilton plans to publish a booklet outlining the experiment and its results for distribution to editors and writers working for the nation's smaller newspapers.
Although the World Bank is mentioned only once in passing in the articles, the bank was interested enough in the project to pay Hamilton's salary during the few weeks he spent at the American.
Bank officials hope that out of such endeavors, US citizens will become alert to the growing interdependence of the nation with the developing countries. Such knowledge might make it easier for congressmen to support foreign aid, including financing of the World Bank.
Editor Sutherland, as president-elect of the Society of Professional Journalists, may well talk about the project with his colleagues around the country. Hamilton plans to write about his experience for The Quill, the society's monthly publication that circulates to many editors around the country.
A half century ago, Floyd Gibbons, a top foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, wrote to a China stringer: ''You must always write down - don't be 'intellectual,' the people who buy the Tribune in Chicago don't understand . . . about Far Eastern politics - they want hot stories about battles and bandits.''
Hamilton wants to remove the remnants of that journalistic attitude in mid-America.
Small town newspapers are unlikely to be able to afford their own foreign correspondents because of their expense. But, he says, they can snoop out the third-world angles in their own areas at little or no extra cost. He figures he has proved it.


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THE HAGUE — On the first day of his trial, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who stands accused of genocide against Bosnia's Muslim population, refused to appear in court on Monday and sent word once again that he wanted more time to prepare his defense in proceedings that aim to cover three years of warfare and widespread brutality against civilians.
With no lawyers present to represent Mr. Karadzic, a potentially historic moment — the trial of the most senior Bosnian Serb leader called to account for the horrors of the 1990s — fell flat. The presiding judge, a soft-spoken jurist from South Korea, ended the session in less than 20 minutes but warned that the trial would continue on Tuesday anyway.
Even from his cell, Mr. Karadzic, a former psychiatrist turned extreme Serbian nationalist, managed to distress a number of the victims' families. More than 160 people had made the 24-hour trek by bus from Bosnia to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and part of the group watched through the bulletproof glass of the public gallery.
As the short session closed, many in the group shouted in anger and frustration. Munira Subasic, one of the organizers of the group, said the majority had to return to Bosnia during the night because they had no money for hotel rooms. Several women who said they had lost husbands and sons in the war said they felt betrayed by the court.
The judge, O-gon Kwon, last week wrote a private letter to Mr. Karadzic, asking him to reconsider his position not to attend. Mr. Karadzic had announced his absence in a letter to the court, after he lost his appeal requesting more preparation time.Continue reading the main story
The judge, who sat on the bench that struggled with the often unruly Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president, has ample experience with chaos in the courtroom and evidently tried to reach out to Mr. Karadzic.
Reading from his letter to Mr. Karadzic, the judge stressed that "we will do our utmost to protect your rights."
He added that Mr. Karadzic could ask for extra time when needed for cross-examining witnesses, for example. But the judge also hinted that his absence could force the court to impose a lawyer, stripping Mr. Karadzic of his right to defend himself.
A panel of four international judges is trying Mr. Karadzic, 64, who is viewed as one of the main architects of what was called the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia — that is, the violent removal of non-Serbs from a range of towns and villages during the 1992-95 war. He faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including two counts of genocide.
On Monday, a lawyer for Mr. Karadzic, Marko Sladojevic, said his client would not be in court on Tuesday.
He said Mr. Karadzic was working his way through more than a million pages of prosecution documents, adding, "He wants a trial and tell his side of the story but he still has months of work and does not want to commit legal suicide."Continue reading the main story


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The conservative canonization of Ronald Reagan as the patron saint of the tax cut has always been a vexed rite. For one thing, Reagan actually raised taxes in 1982, when the country was sunk in a grim recession and the president's economic advisers were sounding alarms over the gaping hole created in the federal budget by his 1981 package of tax cuts. Regardless of what has recently been said about the Gipper on the GOP hustings, the awkward truth for conservatives is that he increased taxes to fund government spending, just as Keynesians are supposed to do.
The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is an uglier practice: unionbusting, of the most brutal variety. To this day, commentators hail Reagan's handling of the 1981 strike staged by the nation's air traffic controllers as the defining moment of his fledgling presidency. Not only did the sudden dissolution of the strike—and the controllers' union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization—seal the reputation of our first post–New Deal president as a bare-knuckles foe of liberalism's most influential single constituency, organized labor; the PATCO episode also became mythologized as the landmark case of Reagan's signature leadership style, an instinctive commitment to "stand firm and stand for the truth," as GOP presidential candidate and Reagan disciple Newt Gingrich rhapsodized in a primary debate last year.
But like most political decisions, Reagan's sacking of PATCO wasn't so much a pure expression of composure and principle as it was the unanticipated outcome of a convergence of far messier, contingent and nonideological forces. Joseph McCartin, a professor of US history at Georgetown University, patiently lays out the full background and aftermath of the PATCO tragedy in Collision Course, an absorbing, detailed and shrewdly observed chronicle of the strike and PATCO's unlikely rise and fall.
The first of the saga's many related ironies is that the nation's air traffic controllers never enjoyed the legal right to bargain collectively with their employers in the government, let alone to stage a mass walkout from their posts. Government employees had the right to form unions only within tightly circumscribed limits, which had been laid out in Executive Order 10988, signed by John F. Kennedy in 1962. As McCartin notes, Kennedy's order was a rear-guard action, urged on him by advisers who "feared that Congress might enact a bill that gave workers too many rights and unions too much power"—a strategic calculation that, viewed in the resolutely corporate cast of Congressional politics circa 2012, sounds like a transmission from a faraway galaxy. Beyond acknowledging that federal workers could use union representatives to air grievances about working conditions, the order barred unions from negotiating wages and hours, and failed to establish an agency to oversee and arbitrate even the narrow sphere of grievances employees were permitted to raise. Kennedy's labor secretary Arthur Goldberg and domestic adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan pushed hard for the order to include provisions for an official negotiating framework to handle union demands; as Moynihan argued at the time, "if we do not grant this to the unions, in lieu of the right to strike, it is to be doubted that we will accomplish much. Indeed, unless we provide some way out of deadlocked negotiations, it would seem rather questionable to start down this road at all."


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The two bands most transparently ambitious about (and best positioned for) being The Biggest Band In The World are duking it out in their own private transatlantic fight for Christmas #1 today: Earlier it was America's the Killers with their holiday (RED) "Boots" and a video directed by Napoleon Dynamite/Nacho Libre director Jared Hess, now it is England's The Coldplays with the even more on the nose "Christmas Lights." The video is directed by Mat Whitecross and filmed in London on Thursday November 25th, 2010, a working day because British people don't believe in Thanksgiving. Coldplay wrote the better song, made the better video (those violinist Elvises are delightful), but the Killers had the good sense to go the charitable route.
Edge on Aesthetics: Coldplay
Edge on being like The Edge: The Killers
But this is the season of giving, and in that spirit I give you Coldplay's superior though selfish holiday song "Christmas Lights" with visions of violining Elvises dancing above their heads.
Buy it at iTunes.com/coldplay. The band will perform it for the very special return of Top Of The Pops: Christmas Edition on 12/8. You can win tickets to the taping which might be a nice thing for the Chris Martin fan in your life. Coldplay.com has details.


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Orange Fudge And Mocha Fudge Recipe
Here is a recipe for Orange Fudge and one for Mocha Fudge which you can do separately or you could make a two layer fudge
Orange Fudge
Butter for greasing
1 1/4 lb granulated sugar
2/3 cups evaporated milk
2 oz butter
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
2 tablespoons orange juice
Mocha Fudge
Butter for greasing
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
1 tablespoon instant espresso coffee powder or coffee granules
1 bag (12 oz) white vanilla baking chips (2 cups)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Orange Fudge
Line the bottom and sides of 8 or 9 inch pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging 2 opposite sides of the pan, and grease the foil with butter.
Place the sugar and the milk into a thick pan over a moderate heat and stir occasionally until the sugar is fully dissolved.
Add the butter, orange rind and juice, and stir gently while bringing the mixture to a temperature of 115°C.
Remove from the heat, beat until it is the consistency of thick cream, and pour into the prepared pan.
When it is nearly cold, remove from the pan using foil to lift and cut into one inch squares.
Mocha Fudge
Line bottom and sides of 8- or 9-inch square pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging 2 opposite sides of pan; grease foil with butter.
In a 2-quart nonstick saucepan, mix the milk and the espresso powder. Stir in the baking chips. Heat over medium-low heat 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until chips are melted and mixture is smooth. Stir in the vanilla extract, pour into the prepared pan and gently press with hand to smooth top.
Refrigerate about 2 hours or until cooled and firm. Remove from pan, using foil to lift and cut
into one inch squares.


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Dabis covers a lot of ground as a storyteller while delivering a smart, focused performance.
Ultimately you're left with a drama so contained, it can be neatly wrapped up in single sentences of passed-on wisdom.
Notable chiefly for its knowing, comfortable depictions of female relationships, sibling relationships, familial relationships. Also its determination to rise above some of its more sitcommy plot points.
You believe in these people, you care about them and their struggles. And in the end, you wish them all the best.
There's goodwill to go around in Dabis' modestly engaging yarn, from its appealing performances to the times it zeroes in on the ways culture, tradition and individuality cause headaches and heartaches as much as comfort.
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The creative producer: Michael Klinger
Spicer, A. H. (2009) The creative producer: Michael Klinger. In: Archives and Auteurs Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, September 2009. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/11267
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Michael Klinger was the most successful independent producer working in the British film industry during the 1960s and 1970s. However, there has been no critical account of his work and he is barely mentioned, if at all, in standard histories of British cinema. This paper outlined his career and its significance, the role of the producer and the Michael Klinger archive - the repository of materials held in SCA – and the AHRC-funded project to catalogue and interpret them. This is original work, based on new primary sources, which sheds much light on a neglected period of the British film industry.


text: After a brief hiatus, it's time to get back in the ring! Marty is joined by guest Carly Ballerini to help him get back in the swing of things. She's the daughter of a bi-polar clown and a very funny lady. Carly pulls no punches about her very unorthodox childhood & her struggles in adulthood. She's a bad ass lady & you're gonna find out why. Let's podcast!


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It must be said that things don't begin well, however, with its focus the film's star bitch, 15-year-old Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), who looks to be the queen of her snotty private high school in Beverly Hills. Appearing at first to be the result of some hideous experiment whereby Reese Witherspoon's Election spunk and drive was spliced with the power-lusting evil of at least a couple of the Heathers, Kimberly soon shows herself to be an entirely different sort of villain. In the process of escorting a quiet new Arab student, Randa Azzouni (Adi Schnall), around campus and explaining to her the facts of life and a clinical cost/benefit analysis of the two of them being friends (Randa gets to hang out with one of the school's stars, while Kimberly thinks she looks prettier standing next to Randa), Kimberly drops in this little nugget, "I have respect for all races. But I'm really happy to have been born white." She then proceeds to list, in descending order, the races she would prefer to be, and then patiently explains to Randa - in her flat, rational, almost toneless voice - exactly why Arab would be her last choice ("No offence.").
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We're far too excited about the new season of this epic anthology series.
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After a couple of weeks of speculation, the Irish quartet are getting back together for the 20th anniversary of their 1998 formation.
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TLF makes an impact because its founder, team, and volunteers, live out what they believe and speak. Their words are backed by action. The impact they have affects not only foster youth but their foster families and expands to the greater community. Their model for leadership camps and mentoring is so effective that many other groups are asking for TLF's help. TLF is building up an entire generation one youth at a time.
As a volunteer, I have really enjoyed the opportunities available to interact with foster teens from various group homes. Summer camp was a great first step to getting involved. I was blown away at how "normal" the foster teens were at camp. They seemed liked normal, everyday teenagers, smiling, laughing and playing. There are other great opportunities for volunteers and foster teens to get involved with TLF on a monthly basis. Programs such as monthly fun activities, one on one mentorship, group home mentorship and a wonderful, practical, hands-on program called Path of Life, which kids are taught basic practical life skills such as how to open a checking account, how to cook, or how to shop healthy. I am excited to be apart of such a wonderful organization and look forward to serving in even a greater capacity.
Teen Leadership Foundation approaches teens who have been abused not as broken people who deserve lowered expectations, but as the strong, courageous people they are. TLF begins with the premise that every foster teen has the potential to achieve success. TLF believes in kids so the kids can believe in themselves. Young people who believe they have worth and value make better choices. Better choices lead to better results. I also find the TLF business model very impressive. TLF does not exist to build itself into some powerhouse. Thousands of kids annually are powerfully influenced by volunteers (which makes the influence for kids all the more meaningful) and 2 paid staff. Remarkable.
I've been a full-time Chaplain working with At-Risk youth for 27 years. The people and programs I've encountered with Teen Leadership Foundation over the past several years are a huge blessing to me and "my kids." Having a camp/program designed uniquely for At-Risk youth has proven to meet their needs so much more effectively than a standard camp. I've seen kids benefit from their weekend TLF experience far more so than a standard weeklong camp. And, and immense added blessing, is the amazingly low cost to us, because TLF depends on God to provide through generous supporters. If not for this, most of our kids would not be able to attend any Christian camp at all. I highly recommend TLF for all At-Risk youth, and to anyone who wants to support or volunteer with an effort that God uses mightily to bless what society may see as "the least of these."
Teens who for various reasons, are not able to live with their biological parents, and find themselves Dependents of the Court System, are often labeled by various terms: at-risk youth, group home kids, troubled teens, juvenile delinquents. What they need more than anything is a glimmer of hope! Kids who are today a part of the state foster system, are the modern day orphans. Some are truly without parents or family. Others are from homes where they're experience physical and/or sexual abuse or neglect. Others have parents who have chosen drug use over good parenting, and/or one or more parents are in prison. Short of actually becoming a foster parent, spending time with hurting kids at camp is the quickest and most effective way to let them know that there is hope... that someone cares.
When a young man or woman emancipates, many TLF volunteers remain either close to them. Everyone can do something: the existence of Teen Leadership Foundation is a Godsend! To join with this effort is to join with God, loving the fatherless! Start today: www.teenleadershipfoundation.org/donate
Most sincerely, MSW, OC
Foster teens in our country are one of the most overlooked people groups in our communities. They often feel neglected, depressed and alone. They are kids in our community that desperately need our help and support. Foster families need to be supported and helped as they take on this important job of caring for and loving foster teens. Sometimes being a foster family can be overwhelming and hard work.
Having a safe place for foster teens to go to like Teen Leadership Camp is such a blessing to the teens as well as the foster family. The foster teens are blessed by camp and in turn it also blesses the family caring for the youth.
As a foster mom who was able to send 3 of my teens to Teen Leadership Camp for 2 summers now I was able to see firsthand all the good that came from taking part in is camp. it was a really great experience for the kids. They had the opportunity to get away in the mountains for 3 days, with peers and great counselor/role models. They loved the ropes course and team building activities and well as the special speakers and the opportunities to share their story with other teens who have gone through the same kind of things. Camp was a mountain top life changing experience. Something that so many foster kids need and few get the opportunity to experience. The program is well planned. The teens have lots to do over the 3 days, and when it is time to go home, they are all emotional because of the positive impact the camp has had in just a few days. The camp is very positive for all involved and makes a positive impact on the youths lives, that will last a lifetime.
I am thankful for the many blessings this camp gives these kids and all those who are lucky enough to be involved! Please ask how you can help bring more camps to your community, county, state!
You're needed: www.teeenleadershipfoundation.org/donate
was born and raised surrounded by alcohol, drugs, and sex by the time I was 5 years old and was basically the mother of my 3 younger siblings (so I felt). One day my mom abandoned me at school. My teacher took me home, and after a few days called child protective services. I was sent to foster care. That was 10 years ago!
After some time being in foster care I got the opportunity to attend Teen Leadership Camp (TLC). I just had my 18th birthday and this past summer was my last time attending TLC. Each year I was able to see the same counselors. I look forward to camp each year; it's a community of people who really care about you. Each year as camp ends we all make a pact to see each other again in one year. My first year at camp my counselor and I really bonded and she has been a mentor ever since. As my last year of school ends and I am exploring the direction of life she is right there with me with each decision. She has been the one consistent person in my life for 4 ½ years now.
My life has changed in so many ways from the Teen Leadership Foundation. You can be a part of changing a life like mine.
-become a camp counselor – become a long term mentor- provide resources for teen leadership foundation to add more camps
Elissa; Former TLC camper and emancipated youth
In 2009, 29,471 children across the U.S. aged out of foster care without an identified support system. Of the children who are not adopted by the age of 18, 32% will rely on public assistance, and 27% of males and 10% of females will become incarcerated, 60% will be homeless within one year.
Most people who consider adopting school-aged children rarely consider adopting a teenager. The Teen Leadership Foundation brings meaningful long lasting relationships to teens in foster care. As a representative of many who are on the frontlines bringing child welfare and protection to these youths I support Teen Leadership Foundation for many reasons.
*Their camp (teen leadership camp) and mentoring programs bring a bright future full of love and support and a real sense of belonging.
*The weekend places the beginnings of healing and hope and dramatically changes the course of live for a teen in foster care.
*Our youth come out of camp with a real sense of change, goal setting and a purpose in life.
This season and for many more please join me in brining financial sustainability to the Teen Leadership Foundation. You are needed now: www.teenleadershipfoundation.org/donate
Southern California Child Welfare representative
As a pastor who is active in working with foster teens in our community, I have truly treasured my relationship with TLF. Its founder, Lisa Castetter, is a hands-on director who works tirelessly in supporting foster teens. TLF is able to bring churches and other non-profits together to join forces in making a difference in these young people's lives.
I can't say enough great things about Teen Leadership. Their founder, Lisa Castetter, is an incredible visionary with the knowledge and ability to implement that vision into tangible results. The amount of foster teens the organization is able to reach (deeply) each year is remarkable. I'm honored to be a part of this great idea and excited about its future. -CJ Casciotta


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Do you believe that if you are in a time of desperation that a police officer would assist you? This is what I believed in until the day of September 16, 2004. This is an incident that took place nearly five years ago, yet it still disturbs me. Maybe in giving this story a voice, it will help me to overcome the memories of this terrible incident.
It was on that day of September that my daughter fell ill. What appeared to be a stomach flu turned out to be a life changing experience. After impatiently awaiting on the results from her blood work, we learned how serious her illness really was. Jessica's blood-glucose level was nearly eight hundred, and she began showing signs of becoming lethargic. The pediatrician instructed my mother-in-law and I to drive to Vanderbilt, and not to make any stops along the way. Knowing how serious this was, we rushed off to the hospital. On our way we realized that we made a wrong turn, so we pulled off the interstate to a local gas station where we found a police officer that was on duty. For a moment I felt an ounce of relief knowing that the office would help my daughter. In a state of panic, we approached the officer and explaining to him how we had gotten lost and needed to get my baby to Vanderbilt immediately. It was his response that will haunt me for the rest of my life. He calmly stated that the only action he could offer was to call the ambulance; my heart fell to the ground with his cold response.
Realizing we had no time to wait on an ambulance, I called her pediatrician, and he found us in a matter of a few minutes. He saw that my daughter looked weak and was falling asleep, and he instructed me to keep her awake the best that I could. It was only a matter of about ten minutes when we arrived at the entrance of the children's hospital. She was then diagnosed with Type One juvenile diabetes, and treated in the Intensive Care Unit for Diabetic Ketoacidosis, a life threatening condition that occurs when ones blood sugar reaches dangerous levels.
It wasn't until now that my story had a voice. Believe me, I'm not saying that every police officer would have acted this way, but I felt that it needed to be known what happened to my daughter and I on that horrific day. I just hope that my story will touch others and make them think twice before turning down someone who is in desperate need for help. As sad as this is to say, I will never trust another police officer again.
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At sixteen Lilavati was banished from her mother's kingdom by her stepfather. She was the rightful heir, but with the queen carrying a new child she had to choose between exile or death. Instead of facing the executioner, she fled in the middle of the night like a common thief—leaving behind everyone and everything she ever loved, including the dashing knight who'd stolen her young heart, Naresh.
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(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dimension Data, the global technology solutions and services provider, and NTT Communications, the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT Group, will create a single 'cloud powerhouse' by bringing together their cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities under the management of NTT Communications to deliver transformative, cloud-based solutions and innovation to clients of both organizations around the world.
Dimension Data and NTT Communications employ some of the most highly-skilled, sought-after cloud experts in the market. Bringing together these experts under the management of NTT Communications means the combined capabilities will have the power to drive innovation into the market and deliver the services that today's organizations demand.
Both companies will retain their existing strategic partnerships under the new structure.
"Enterprises have an increasing need for hybrid IT to accelerate their digital transformation. Working together to enhance our cloud and value added services, combined with our industry leading networking, global data center assets and security capabilities, both Dimension Data and NTT Communications will offer clients a more compelling hybrid IT value proposition," said Tsunehisa Okuno, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Business, NTT Holdings. "NTT's extensive R&D investments will also enhance the range of services available to clients."
Dimension Data Group Chief Executive Officer, Jason Goodall said: "Combining our cloud IaaS assets provides enterprises on their hybrid IT journey with a unique combination of services and expertise, on a global basis. We'll deliver services at-scale and provide a level of innovation not currently available in the managed cloud-based hybrid IT solutions space."
Katsumi Nakata, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT Communications said: "We're excited that our augmented capabilities and broadened footprint will take us to the next level in global cloud IaaS platform, coupled with one of the largest software-defined network services that connect over 190 countries worldwide, more than 140 global data centres, and the world's leading Tier 1 IP network. We are confident that we will continue to deliver superior results and contribute significantly to the success of both our clients and our cloud business."
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Jason Mercier Wins World Poker Tour Alpha8 St. Kitts for $727,500
The World Poker Tour Alpha8 traveled to St. Kitts this week for their latest $100,000 buy-in poker event. After attracting 15 entries and generating a prize pool of $1,455,000, the title went to Team PokerStars Pro and two-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Jason Mercier.
For the victory, Mercier earned $727,500 and his first WPT Alpha8 trophy.
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Nine players returned for action on Day 2 of the two-day event, and it was Olivier Busquet leading the way. Only the top three spots were set to earn a cash result, which meant six players had to go home empty handed.
First to go was Daniel Colman, who couldn't add another big result to his massively impressive 2014 that has seen him earn a whopping $22,389,481. After his bust, Talal Shakerchi fell in eighth place, followed by Alec Torelli in seventh. At this point, Busquet still held the chip lead by a solid margin over Mercier in second place.
Busquet then busted Bill Perkins in sixth place with the versus the , but he suffered a hit when Kathy Lehne doubled through him on Hand #40 of the final table. According to WPT live reports, the flop hit both players very well. Busquet flopped the nuts with the , and Lehne hit two pair with the . After the money went in on the flop, Lehne hit a full house on the turn when the paired the board to give her the double.
Busquet maintained the chip lead despite this set back, but things went downhill from here.
On Hand #58, Busquet fell out of the chip lead after Tony Guglietti moved into the top spot. Then, on Hand #65, Antonio Esfandiari was busted in fifth place by Lehne as she vaulted into the lead, pushing Busquet back down to third, and basically tied with Mercier. Finally, on Hand #77, it was all over for the online heads-up sit-n-go specialist.
Down to just over 100,000 in chips, Busquet opened to 12,000 from the button with the blinds at 3,000/6,000/1,000 in Level 13. Mercier moved all in from the big blind, and Busquet called to put himself at risk for 104,000 total. He had the and was ahead of Mercier's . The flop gave Mercier the lead with a pair of queens, and the turn left Busquet needing an ace on the river to stay alive. He wouldn't get it when the peeled off, and that sent the remaining three players into the money.
Three-handed play started with Lehne having a big chip lead over her two opponents, Mercier and Guglietti. She had 826,000 in chips to Mercier's 348,000 and Guglietti's 326,000. Over the next 40 hands, Mercier pulled closer to Lehne while Guglietti seemed to tread water. Finally on Hand #117, Guglietti's tournament came to an end.
Guglietti was all in on the board with the against the for Mercier. The river completed the board with the , and that sent Guglietti out the door in third place with a payday of $291,000. This hand also gave Mercier the chip lead, and he took his 825,000 in chips into heads-up play against Lehne's 675,000.
From there, Mercier really put the pressure on and used his heads-up experience to finish the job. Entering the match, Mercier was 14-5 in live poker tournaments when reaching heads-up play and 23-9 combined in live and online events. He quickly moved his chip stack to over 1 million before ending things on Hand #151.
On the final hand, Lehne raised to 30,000 from the button with the blinds at 5,000/10,000/1,000. Mercier reraised to 80,000, and Lehne called to see the flop come down . Mercier checked, Lehne bet 75,000, and Mercier called. The turn was the , and both players checked to see the fall on the river. Mercier bet 165,000, and Lehne raised all in for 430,000. After thinking for a bit, Mercier called with the . Lehne had an inferior two pair with the , and that meant she was eliminated in second place.
For her finish, Lehne earned $436,500 and moved to over $500,000 in career lifetime earnings — good enough to catapult her to 46th on the women's all-time money list. Mercier, on the other hand, scooped up the $727,500 first-place prize and moved into 11th place on poker's all-time money list, leapfrogging Scott Seiver. Mercier also climbed to 13th on the 2014 money list with over $3.67 million in winnings this year.
*Data courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
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