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One day in September, I joined the Chinese restaurateur Dai Jianjun for a foraging expedition on a remote mountainside in Zhejiang Province. Ahead of us, our guide, Bao Laichun, cleared a path, hacking at branches with a bamboo-handled machete. The hawthorn trees around us were heavy with fruit, and, amid bamboo groves and tall grasses, birds and grasshoppers sang, butterflies flitted, and vivid beetles crawled on the ground. It was early in the morning, and the mountaintops were still obscured by mist. "You just can't trust the ingredients you buy in the markets," Dai told me, battling his way through the undergrowth. "Vegetables laced with chemicals. Fake birds' nests held together by glue. Even hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake—most of them are farmed elsewhere and simply made to 'take a shower' in the famous lake before they go to market." Bao vanished into the undergrowth, reappearing halfway up a pine tree that was swathed in a large-leafed vine. He shook the vine to show us the wild kiwifruits that hung from its stems, and began to slash at it, throwing branches to the ground. We plucked off the walnut-size fruits and filled a basket with them. Then we made our way back to Bao's farmhouse, stopping occasionally to taste wild chestnuts and grapes, and for Bao to dig a wild-lily bulb out of the earth with his knife.
Dai is the owner of the Dragon Well Manor, a restaurant in Hangzhou, the provincial capital. In an age of industrialization, dire pollution, and frequent food scares, the Dragon Well Manor is committed to offering its guests a kind of prelapsarian Chinese cuisine. Dai assures them that everything he serves will be made from natural ingredients, untainted by pesticides or melamine, and with no added MSG. Each morning, his buyers drive out into the countryside to collect the best of the season's produce. Often they make several trips in a day: a quick dash to a nearby farm to pick up freshly harvested vegetables; a longer journey to inspect a pig or collect a consignment of eggs; an evening excursion for freshwater fish, shrimp, and eels. At other times, they will drive into the mountains, hike for hours, and then stay overnight before returning to Hangzhou with, say, a batch of wild shiitake mushrooms. Dai accompanies them when he feels like it, partly because he enjoys the outing and partly, as he told me with a mischievous grin, to make sure they don't cheat him by buying produce in a supermarket.
The Manor has never advertised and steers clear of media attention, but it has a devoted following among Zhejiang's public figures and wealthy businessmen, who come to unwind on the secluded terraces of its landscaped garden before retiring to a private room for a dinner of seasonal delicacies. Guests can look through the "purchase diary," a large leather-bound volume containing copies of each day's contracts with the farmers and artisans who supply the kitchens, along with photographs of them picking vegetables, making rice wine, and slaughtering pigs. Dai has never heard of Chez Panisse or Stone Barns, but he is engaged in a similar mission: to guarantee the integrity of his food supplies while shoring up a dying culinary and agricultural heritage.
Dai, now in his fortieth year, is an affable man with a square brow beneath a dark brush of hair, and a cigarette, as often as not, on the go. He grew up in Hangzhou, the son of a low-ranking Communist Party official and a factory worker. Like many of his generation, he was given a good socialist name, Dai Jianjun (Dai Build-the-Army), though these days everyone calls him by the nickname A Dai. An early interest in food was encouraged by his grandmother. "She instilled in me the idea that cooking was about ben wei, the essential tastes of things," he told me.
Dai spent six years running a restaurant catering to the Hangzhou tourist trade, made a lot of money, and then decided that he wanted to do something more rewarding. "Originally, I just had the idea of creating a landscaped garden, a beautiful place that would showcase the culture of Hangzhou," he said. "But I needed to find a way to make it pay for itself, which is why I decided that it could also be a restaurant."
The Lower Yangtze Region, in which Hangzhou lies, has long been a cultural center. The Song-dynasty poet Su Dongpo served as governor of the city in the eleventh century, and since then the region has been associated with the cultivated life of the Chinese literati, scholar-gentlemen who spent their leisure hours writing poetry and conversing in gardens and teahouses. Hangzhou is one of China's most attractive cities—Marco Polo described it as "without doubt the finest and most splendid city in the world." It is particularly renowned for its West Lake, whose shores are framed by hills and ornamented with temples and pagodas.
The wider region, encompassing Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces, is known as yu mi zhi xiang, "land of fish and rice," for its fertile soil, easy climate, and plentiful produce. From its lakes, rivers, and canals come not only fish but also eels, crab, and shrimp, as well as aquatic vegetables like water bamboo, water chestnut, and lotus. Bamboo grows in the hills, and rice in the paddy fields; other specialties include water shield—an aquatic herb, from Taihu Lake, near the city of Suzhou—and intensely flavored cured ham from Jinhua. In the fall, people come from all over the Chinese mainland to eat the famous hairy crabs of Yangcheng Lake.
The cooking of the Lower Yangtze Region is subtler and more delicate than Sichuanese or Hunanese cuisines, and its character is more difficult to pinpoint. A renowned chef I met in Hangzhou told me, "Our flavors are as varied as the Sichuanese, but they tend to be light and bright, without that heavy spiciness. We emphasize seasonal produce, and the essential tastes of our raw ingredients." He pointed out that Hangzhou cooking uses comparatively little oil, salt, sugar, or starch—which, he suggested, makes it healthier than other Chinese cuisines— and that it heeds Confucius' insistence on fine and delicately cut food.
In 2000, Dai started renting a plot of land on the outskirts of Hangzhou. It was a derelict plant nursery with a few shabby buildings and concrete yards, but it lay amid the picturesque tea fields of the district of Longjing, or Dragon Well. He began landscaping the site, but the restaurant itself started in an ad-hoc manner. "It was really more of a hobby than a business," he said. "We began by inviting people we knew to taste a few things, and then they recommended the place to their friends."
We were talking over green tea in his study one afternoon. When Dai is not out with his buyers, managing the restaurant, or socializing with his guests, he retreats to this quiet room, which has its own courtyard and a view of the hills, to read and write or play the guqin, an ancient Chinese zither.
After a year, Dai told me, he closed the restaurant for refurbishment. He hired elderly craftsmen to design and plant the garden, and to construct a series of wood-framed buildings in a broadly traditional Hangzhou style. He became preoccupied with the idea of reviving the dishes known by past generations. He had read the work of Yuan Mei, China's Brillat-Savarin, an eighteenth-century scholar-gentleman who abandoned his career as an imperial bureaucrat to retire to Nanjing, where he designed his own garden and wrote a seminal cookbook, "Food Lists of the Garden of Contentment." Although, as an educated man, Yuan Mei probably never cooked himself, he was a meticulous gourmet. He recorded his impressions at dinners in grand houses and collected recipes from Buddhist monasteries. He gave his chefs detailed instructions and quizzed them on culinary practice. He had a dislike of flashy cooking, and once wrote of going home hungry after a forty-dish banquet.
Dai decided that his restaurant would have the kind of Hangzhou dishes that Yuan Mei would have enjoyed, prepared with local ingredients according to the theories of Chinese medicine and the solar terms of the old agricultural calendar. He wanted to serve things that are rare in restaurants: "the nourishing soups given to nursing mothers, humble vegetables, cooling dishes to be eaten in the heat of summer." He told me that Yuan Mei had insisted that the art of cookery began with the selection of the raw ingredients. "He believed that a chef could take credit for only sixty per cent of the success of a banquet, and that whoever did the shopping should take credit for the rest," Dai said. "He wrote that just as a stupid person would remain stupid even if taught by Confucius and Mencius, a poor ingredient would be tasteless even if cooked by Yi Ya, the legendary Chinese chef of the Zhou dynasty."
Dai was also influenced by a booklet he had read about scientific advances and the food of the future. "I came to believe that when you change the life cycle of a plant or an animal you end up with something that is barely the same species," he said. "I decided that my restaurant would use only traditional produce, free from chemicals and genetic modification."
In early-twenty-first-century China, Dai had set himself an almost impossible task. Gastronomy, like most aspects of Chinese culture, suffered in the Maoist years. Early Communists associated fine dining with the corrupt excesses of the old regime. In 1927, Mao Zedong witnessed peasant associations in Hunan ban the recreational activities of the wealthy, including banqueting. Mao himself had a lifelong dislike of refined and exotic food, preferring the coarse ingredients and robustly spicy flavors of Hunanese peasant cooking. The nationalization of private business, largely completed by 1956, is remembered as the start of a long decline for China's restaurants. Later, the Cultural Revolution led to a general assault on bourgeois pastimes, including fine dining. Elderly chefs were taunted by their apprentices, and elegant restaurants were instructed to serve "cheap and substantial food" for the masses.
The spread of monosodium glutamate on the Chinese cookery scene, in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, induced further amnesia about some of the core arts of traditional cooking. MSG, which was identified in seaweed in 1908 by a Japanese scientist and launched as a commercial product soon after, became popular in China at a time when food was short, and basic ingredients were rationed. For people unable to afford meat with their rice, MSG—which is known in Chinese as wei jing, "the essence of flavor"—offered a magical shortcut to umami flavors. By the mid-nineties, it had become an inescapable ingredient in professional kitchens, eclipsing the old skills of making stocks from whole fowl, pork ribs, and dried seafood.
The past decade or two have seen other changes in the way Chinese people eat. As recently as the early nineties, many Chinese lived on a diet of fresh seasonal produce bought from street markets. Supermarkets, refrigerators, and processed foods were rare. Since then, urban sprawl has encroached on arable fields; street markets and small restaurants have been swept away as cities are redeveloped; and Western fast-food chains have opened branches all over the country. Meanwhile, firms such as Carrefour and Tesco have persuaded the middle classes to shop in supermarkets, and processed foods have become widely available. And as the Chinese demand more meat, to supplement their traditional diet of grains and vegetables, there has been a dramatic increase in intensive animal farming.
This sudden elongation of the food chain and the industrialization of food production have been accompanied by an explosion of health scares; the recent scandals of baby milk, chocolate, and eggs tainted by melamine are just the latest. Corruption has obstructed attempts to crack down on rogue food companies; in 2007, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration was executed for taking bribes and dereliction of duty. Pollution is rife, with widespread contamination of farmland and irrigation water. A recent survey found that food safety was a major concern of the Chinese public.
Inevitably, there is a growing market for lü se shi pin, "green food products," for which newly affluent consumers are willing to pay a premium. Some restaurants offer dishes made with "pollution-free" pork raised in Tibet or wild mushrooms from supposedly pristine forests. Specialist tea companies sell leaves from plantations that are purportedly far from the fallout of factory chimneys. But, with a rampant black market in fake products of every description, it is hard to know which claims to believe.
For Dai, the only solution was to cut out the middlemen and source his own ingredients from producers. "My family thought I was crazy, trying to buy everything from the countryside—my mother told me I'd go bankrupt!" he said. "Most of our farmers can't supply us in any great quantity, so we have to buy from many different households. We have perhaps two hundred suppliers for vegetables alone. I don't even know what the total number is, but I guess it must be three or four thousand."
There is no main dining room at the Dragon Well Manor. Instead, it has eight private rooms, each with its own terrace, scattered in pavilions around the garden. They are furnished in the spare style of the Ming dynasty, with framed paintings and calligraphy on the walls. The restaurant is almost always fully booked, and each of its two daily seatings—lunch and dinner—can accommodate no more than eighty-eight people. The staff numbers just over a hundred: cooks, waitresses, buyers, administrators, gardeners, and runners to carry the covered dishes from kitchen to dining room. The restaurant has no à la carte menu: customers decide how much they want to spend and let the kitchens send out whatever is good that day.
"We have seventeen cooks," Dai said. "In a normal restaurant, the same number would be expected to serve more than thirty tables. But although we are expensive by local standards, we are by no means at the top of the range. Our cheapest set menu works out at around three hundred yuan a head"—about forty-five dollars. "If people pay more, we will give them luxuries like the last baby chestnuts of the season. By now, we do manage to cover our running costs and our taxes, but I'll never recoup my investment. But then I don't do it for money. I'm content just to feed people who really appreciate what we do."
Dai's main worry is that traditional farming and cooking won't survive another generation. During two weeks that I spent in Hangzhou, in two different seasons, I accompanied him on visits to half a dozen or so rural suppliers, and in almost every household the parents and grandparents were keeping up the family farms, while the children had left for the cities. One fisherman who provides most of the restaurant's fish and shrimp quipped that his son was more interested in shang wang—surfing the Internet—than in san wang: casting a fishing net. The oldest supplier is ninety-three years old.
Dai sees himself as a custodian of traditional skills. "My senior chefs are all officially retired workers, but they are teaching the younger chefs how to cook without MSG," he said. "And when this place was built I made sure that there were younger workers around who could learn from the old master craftsmen." He dreams of one day opening a self-sustaining farm where schoolchildren can learn about the origins of what they eat. "In the past, everyone who grew up in the countryside knew how to raise pigs and fowl, and understood the old agricultural calendar," he said. "But things have developed so quickly, and we are losing touch with our traditions." Still, he is aware of the limitations of his project. "We can only do this on a small scale," he told me as we finished our tea. "China has so many people, and so little land. If everyone tried to eat this way, there wouldn't be enough food to go around. But we must try to sustain our agricultural lore and culinary skills for future generations."
After our exertions in pursuit of wild kiwifruit that day, we returned to our guide Bao Laichun's farmhouse. Dai and I sat at a table in the living room with his chief buyer, Zhou Guofu, who is also his maternal uncle. Bao handed cigarettes to all the men while his wife brought us green tea. It was an old-fashioned mud-brick farmhouse on the brink of a spectacular valley. Silk gourds hung amid yellow blossoms from a vine on the terrace, and water collected in a stone vat fed by a mountain stream. The family's vegetable plot was a patchwork of crops: peanuts and soya, maize and rape. Bao's work foraging for Dai supplements his income as a bamboo transporter. His wife runs a free-range-chicken farm, supplying eggs and birds to the restaurant's kitchens.
"Sourcing our ingredients was a nightmare at first," Zhou said. The buyers spent months driving out to remote villages, meeting farmers, and trying to set up a network of suppliers. They commissioned peasants to rear free-range chickens and ducks, to feed pigs a traditional diet of grain and vegetables, and to sow their fields according to the solar terms of the old agricultural calendar. Through word of mouth, they found people who were prepared to gather wild lily flowers, to catch paddy eels and turtles. "But we were groping in the dark," Zhou said. "And sometimes the peasants deceived us, passing off factory-farmed pork as home-raised meat, or using chemicals on the sly."
According to Dai, even his own buyers were at first so irritated by his stringent demands that they sometimes did their shopping in regular markets. He began to insist on visible proof that they'd really bought from peasant producers—a requirement that eventually gave rise to the photographs and contracts displayed in the restaurant's purchase diary. Gradually, he persuaded his staff to take his project as seriously as he did, and they managed to iron out many of their early problems. "We learned to look for insect bites in our greens, a sign that they were free of pesticides, and to tell the difference between factory-farmed and farm-raised pork," Zhou said, adding that relations with suppliers have become friendly. "We pay them a premium, so they are willing to give us what we want."
We gathered around the table for lunch in the warm sunlight that streamed through the open front door of the farmhouse. Bao's daughter brought out the dishes from the kitchen, one by one. The vegetables were all homegrown or foraged, and cooked in home-pressed rapeseed oil. There was water bamboo, stir-fried on a wood-burning stove with a little sliced pork and a dash of Shaoxing wine; pumpkin leaves with chili and garlic; celery with pressed bean curd; sesame greens, a wild vegetable with an herbal taste; sweetpotato stalks with chili and garlic; silk gourd with pork and chili; and a potful of guo ba fan, an old farmhouse favorite of steamed rice with a crisp golden crust.
I complimented our hosts and asked if this was the kind of food they normally ate. They assured me that it was, and Dai hooted with laughter. "What complete rubbish!" he said. "I know perfectly well you wouldn't eat sweet-potato stalks and pumpkin leaves by choice! You're only serving them to humor me." He turned to me. "As far as they are concerned, this is just the stuff they feed to their animals! They are just too polite to say so—they don't want to admit that they are serving pig food to their honored foreign guest." He turned to Bao and his wife and asked, "Isn't that true?"
The couple smiled with embarrassment and admitted that this was so. Everyone laughed. And later that afternoon, when we arrived at our next stop, to inspect a pig due for slaughter later in the week, the lady of the house was sitting on the kitchen floor, chopping up sweet-potato stalks for the doomed animal's dinner.
On another day, I went to visit the Dragon Well Manor's head chef, Dong Jinmu, a gruff-voiced man with thick eyebrows and a dry sense of humor. He began by giving me a tour of the kitchens. We watched two elderly brothers grind soybeans in a hand-turned mill, and then boil the soy milk in a wok over an old-fashioned wood-burning stove. According to Dong, when Dai opened the restaurant, he persuaded the men to move their entire village bean-curd workshop into his garden. Now they make fresh soy milk and bean curd every day. Dong himself had a hand in building their stove. "We sacrificed a large cockerel in the traditional way, cutting its head off and splashing blood over the site," he told me.
It was early in the morning, and in the main kitchen younger chefs were cutting up vegetables and butchering pork. On either side, there were smaller rooms: one for making cold dishes, one for soups and stews, another for pressing fruit juices. In a prep room, shelves were stacked with entire Jinhua hams, as well as with huge winter melons, pumpkins, and an assortment of vegetables. Dried bamboo shoots soaked in a large basin on the floor. A little farther away, in an outbuilding open to the yard, several women were plucking and cleaning chickens.
Before coming to Dragon Well, Chef Dong worked for forty years at Louwailou, Hangzhou's most famous restaurant. Dai approached him after his retirement, realizing that he would be a repository of disappearing recipes and skills, and also recruited two other retired chefs, Guo Ming and Yang Aiping. But even these three initially struggled with Dai's rigorous approach to traditional methods. Dong thought that dispensing with MSG would be commercially disastrous, but Dai insisted, and Chef Dong started once again to make the rich stocks that his old shifu (master chef) had taught him during his apprentice years, in the nineteen-sixties.
As the lunchtime service started, Dong and Guo went to their wok stations. Guo was making soups and stir-fries that included peasant dishes like scrambled eggs with chives, while Dong took charge of red-braised dishes and banquet delicacies. "Taste a bit of this," he said, handing me a sample of golden liquid from a bowl at his side. It was an elixir of dried scallops and chicken, their flavors marvellously distilled, that he uses to enhance and enrich his soups and sauces. And then he offered me a taste of a sauce in a simmering potful of red-braised fish tails, an astonishing wine-dark liquid. This is what people mean, I thought, when they say "depth of flavor." The taste was like gazing into a deep, ancient pool.
In the early evening, I joined one of the restaurant's reception staff, Qian Lu, on a terrace overlooking a pond, and we lay back on bamboo seats, sipping Dragon Well tea and eating nuts and dried fruits. Boulders had been strewn here and there with artful artlessness, and lotus leaves tilted drowsily in the water. At dusk, a woman had begun to play the guzheng, a large zither, under a canopy on a little island in the pond. The low hills of Longjing rose all around. Listening to the music, gazing out over the pond, and chatting with Qian Lu, who was wearing a pale silk qi pao embroidered with flowers, I felt that I had been transported into the world of the great eighteenth-century novel "Dream of the Red Chamber," whose author, Cao Xueqin, was from the Lower Yangtze Region. Then Qian Lu took a call from Dai on her wristwatch cell phone. "These qi pao don't have pockets, so we can't carry normal cell phones," she said.
At dinnertime, we joined Dai, his uncle Zhou, and some friends in one of the private dining rooms, a hall with wooden pillars supporting raftered ceilings. A large round table in the center of the room was laid with fine blue-and-white china, made to order in China's ancient porcelain capital, Jingdezhen.
A waitress served us fresh warm soy milk, seasoned with soy sauce, preserved mustard tuber, pieces of deep-fried dough stick, paper-thin dried shrimp, and chopped scallion. It was the kind of dish that makes a Hangzhou person sigh. It's rare, nowadays, to find such stone-ground soy milk. Even in the villages, people have discarded their old stone querns and use electric mills instead.
The meal began with a selection of appetizers: crisp young ginger, pickled in a sweet-sour marinade; slices of pressed bean curd made by the elderly brothers and bathed in a luxurious stock; the wild sesame greens we'd shared with Farmer Bao; tiny cucumbers, picked that morning, with a dip of sweet fermented sauce; crunchy jellyfish with local rice vinegar. Waitresses in qi pao and pearls poured us glasses of freshly pressed juice: yellow peach and wild kiwi, from the fruit we'd helped to gather.
There were echoes of dishes I had tasted at the restaurant earlier in the year, but much was different. Loquats, whose juice we had drunk in May, were no longer available, and the season for wild shrimp was past. And at the end of this, my second stay in Hangzhou, I realized that I really had seen the origins of much of what I ate. Our first main course was a stir-fry of tender chicken with tiny chestnuts, so young they were still crisp and yellow: visiting the farm where the chicken had been raised, I had been scratched by the bristles of wild chestnuts. There was red-braised belly pork with dried bamboo shoots, the meat as dark as molasses and so soft you could sink a chopstick into the flesh: I had heard the shrieks of the pig, seen its throat slit and its blood thunder into a basin, and tasted its flesh, poached in water, barely half an hour later. And in the fragrance of the dish was the memory of a Shaoxing wine factory where I had wandered among the stacked wine jars, sealed with lotus leaves and clay.
A waitress entered and laid a soup tureen on the table. She announced the dish as wu ming ying xiong—"nameless heroes." Steam rose from a milky broth, in which a carp rested in the silky folds of bamboo-pith fungus. Scarlet wolfberries and sliced scallion were scattered on top, like jewels on pale flesh. The waitress ladled the soup into small bowls, each with a piece of fish and a lacy morsel of fungus. The liquid was xian, richly savory, replete with delicious fish flavors, and yet the fish itself was not overcooked. Dai explained that this was a gongfu cai, an "art" dish, whose elaborate preparation was invisible in the simplicity of its final appearance. Small crucian carp were used for the broth, simmered for their flavor and then discarded. The whole carp in front of us had been poached, briefly, in their stock. "So you see," Dai said, "the vanished crucian carp are the dish's 'nameless heroes.' "
After the meal was over, I walked back through the garden, to the gate where Zhou, the buyer, was waiting to take me home. Fragments of conversation and laughter drifted from hidden terraces, and a few lights shone among the trees. I wandered over the stone bridges, through the shadows of willow and winter plum. Osmanthus trees were in bloom, and the night air was filled with their honeyed fragrance. ♦


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If you're a dude or one of the many readers who found Elizabeth Gilbert to be a whiny, self-indulgent yuppie, the film adaptation of "Eat Pray Love" could probably be re-titled "Sit Bored Leave."
But if you count yourself among the millions of fans who fell in love with one of Oprah's favorite thiiiiings, Gilbert's uber bestselling memoir of the journey she took after her marriage fell apart, then this film is as highly anticipated as a new "Twilight" flick is for a 15-year-old who shops at Hot Topic.
Starring Julia Roberts and directed by "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, the story moves from Italy (Eat) to an ashram in India (Pray) to a village in Bali (Love), all the while featuring halo-lighting and soft focus on Julia, who has never looked more ravishing, and Murphy's blatant cinematic subtext.
In Italy, he focuses on the mouth, with lusty shots of slurped spaghetti marinara, couples kissing and rolled r's tripping off the tongue; India translates into shots of hands clasped in prayer, hands eating, hands clapping, hands scrubbing; and in Bali, where Liz becomes whole, the camera pulls away, taking in Roberts' entire being and the world around her with soaring shots reminiscent of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's photographs in the coffee table tome, The Earth From Above. You can't accuse Murphy of being a discreet visual storyteller but purists should be pleased to see that he sticks pretty faithfully to the road map of the book, though that becomes both a help and a hindrance.
Gilbert's inner monologue, which, of course, drives the narrative of her book, often becomes either expository voiceover or lingering shots of Roberts gazing beatifically into a sunset here, neither of which are very engaging. The few times Murphy veers off-course, striking out into new territory, the film hits upon some of its best moments, such as when Elizabeth confronts and makes peace with the guilt she feels about divorcing her husband (Billy Crudup in a small but well delivered role) on a rooftop in India. Thankfully, one of the book's most beloved characters, Richard from Texas, not only remains intact but is brilliantly rendered by Richard Jenkins in a scene-stealing performance.
While it can be difficult to sympathize with a woman spending a year frolicking across the globe, having liaisons with Billy Crudup, James Franco (as her post divorce rebound fling) and Javier Bardem (the man who inspires the Love portion of the story), you'll nonetheless walk out craving pizza, passion and plane travel.
Though not necessarily a second helping of the film itself.

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The recent series of tornados and floods in America has severely damaged many communities, from the Midwest to the South, and left them with enormous rebuilding tasks. Amy Glasmeier, head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is a leading expert on regional and local economies in the United States, and on regional economic planning. MIT News spoke to her about the reconstruction challenges that lie ahead.
Q. Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., have both suffered catastrophic tornado damage this spring. These two cities have different economic histories: Joplin has been a mining hub, while Tuscaloosa has had a more diversified economy and a major university. Still, beyond the immediate, visible aspects of these tragedies, what are the common long-term dangers these cities face, in terms of sustaining economic activity?
A. Economic problems will emerge to the extent that the local economy is tied to trade and transportation. If the infrastructure is compromised, economic activity that was situated there due to location and access may pick up and move, or shift orders and business just to keep customers happy. There may also be some residual effect associated with concern that the region is vulnerable to this type of disaster. You can see the reluctance to invest in New Orleans as a side effect of the [Hurricane Katrina] disaster of 2005. If the business sector is highly interwoven, and firms that were untouched drew the majority of their market from local businesses, then there will be a slump and the remaining business could be affected.
There also is the people side of the equation. Key infrastructure such as hospitals, schools and other major employers like big-box stores were heavily damaged or destroyed. This not only removes the provision of services, but also weakens those that remain. If the population declines, then demand for goods and services declines, and business that might otherwise rebuild may see their markets wither and therefore choose not to stay. We have to take into account the changing nature of retail, which is being done more and more on the web.
On the other hand, a total disaster is an opportunity if there are sufficient funds to start new operations, support infrastructure upgrades and foster renewal. The question here is whether local businesses will be a part of this [process], or if organizations from outside move in. A lot depends on the condition of a place before its disaster — whether it was strong and vibrant, or moribund and dying slowly.
Q. What are some specific steps or investments urban and economic planners should keep in mind, in order to help rebuild communities and their economies, after events such as these?
A. Important issues include introducing new technologies, because upgrading opportunities arise out of disasters. Population dynamics are important: Was the population growing, stable or declining? Was the majority of consumption from local or non-local businesses? If rebuilding is an option, then a community should consider the spatial location of people and economic activity. Maybe a town was planned around a previous-era infrastructure that has outlived its useful life. Communities should not rebuild exactly what was wiped away, without considering how to make the planned nature of the community better and more responsive.
Q. You've studied regional disparities in wealth throughout the United States. To what extent are these events now exacerbating the economic problems in parts of the South, and in the process creating new difficulties for lower-wage workers?
A. Disasters hit the poor with ferocious power. The poor have little, and are often left with little. They often lack cash reserves or even wealth embodied in assets that might have been obliterated. A lack of insurance is common in low-wealth communities. At the same time, during the rebuilding phase, remaining infrastructure such as housing and local services will become scarce, and prices will rise. Low-income and low-wealth individuals can end up having to relocate outside existing population boundaries simply to find places to live. In addition, low-wealth individuals may be more reliant upon local service providers and social services in general. If these services were damaged or destroyed, then the social safety net that some people relied upon would be destroyed. These types of goods and services take time to form and will take time to replace. If there isn't concern about the existing level of disparity, then the consequences can be particularly tough for low-wealth individuals.
Walter Marlin
June 13, 2011
Are the traditional methods and materials for building construction in need of rethinking? The cube is the most efficient for interior living spaces but the resulting upright and flat exteriors surfaces are the opposite of aerodynamic. Could construction materials and techniques be better suited to potential extreme weather?


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Please join us for a multimedia presentation and panel discussion of Mary/Maryam: A Bridge Between Two Faiths on Wednesday, April 15 in the ZSR Auditorium (Room 404) at 6:00 p.m.
Third year DFP student Kelly McKenna will share her journey to Indonesia where she explored the country's cultural and religious diversity with a focus on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the roles she may play as a bridge for interfaith dialogue. Kelly's multimedia presentation will be accompanied by a panel discussion featuring Islamic Professor Dr. Nelly van Doorn-Harder, University Chaplain Tim Auman and Imam Khalid Griggs.
The event is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Chaplain's Office and Paul K. and Elizabeth Cook Richter Memorial Funds.
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Social and Emotional Development in Toddler Years
I can't count how many times a mother comes to the office in tears because she feels that she has run out of tricks in her bag to deal with her toddler. Feelings of frustration, bewilderment and guilt come hand in hand with surviving the toddler years. One of the major dilemmas for parents is how to balance discipline with freedom, and create limits. Parents are left to follow their hearts, gut feelings and of course, their children's cues to guide them.
Social and emotional development involves three major areas: the home, school/daycare, and the neighborhood. Of all of these, the home is the most influential in a child's life: it is here that parents and children establish a secure foundation from which to venture forth confidently. The challenges that face a toddler include acceptance of limits while maintaining autonomy. Toddlers learn how to rein in aggressive impulses and interact with a growing circle of playmates and adults. Success in attaining this goal is based on prior emotional development, occasionally using images of trusted adults to give them security in times of adversity or stress.
Many parents find their toddler perplexing and difficult to understand and children of this age have rapid, frequent shifts between clinging dependence and defiant independence; between sophisticated-sounding language and infantile helplessness, and between pure joy and uncontrollable rage. These confusing behaviors can put a toll on the parents' confidence and patience. Your pediatrician can offer you guidance emphasizing realistic expectations for behavioral and emotional development as well as acknowledging parents' feelings of guilt, anger and confusion. A lot of moms and dads are hesitant to raise such concerns during their doctor's visit because they feel embarrassed or assume that this is not an appropriate topic for discussion.
Toddlers, in general, need leadership. They need clear, realistic, firm but gentle guidance as well as praise and support when they are due. Sometimes, the best way to lead is simply to serves as a good example. Watching parents clean up spilled food or, even better, allowing him to help (when old enough) is an effective teaching tool. The old-fashioned message of "do as I say, not as I do," is being rejected by many modern parents with whom I speak. Modeling the behavior that you hope to elicit from your child is the best way to teach the lesson. And remember that your commitment to establishing order, discipline, and responsibility should be modeled with or without your toddler's participation. In other words, even before your toddler is old enough to clean up after herself, she will watch YOU creating an environment that is orderly and has limits. Eventually, she will want to mimic this herself.
The first step in emotionally bonding with your toddler is to acknowledge, understand, respect, and meet their needs. Toddlers love to play and experiment and they need their parents' votes of confidence. For instance, allowing a child to occasionally make a "mess" within acceptable boundaries during playtime allows him to feel worthy as well as trust your leadership and guidance. When limits are set, children respond, not out of fear or because they were threatened with punishment, but because they want to reciprocate the care and love that's been given. Again, there must be a healthy balance between empowering your child by allowing him free expression, and saying" no" when the child wants something that may pose harm to himself and others, or is unhealthy or simply not feasible. Your toddler can handle accepting the limits of reality as long as he knows that you understand his feelings and love him unconditionally. Another pearl of wisdom I share with parents is that toddlers are not much different than we are in many respects; after all, what adult doesn't like to have their feelings acknowledged and accepted, even if they are irrational?
It's wise for parents to master the art of "trusting and waiting." Try to trust your ability to teach and lead and wait for your children to model your behavior at their own pace. Children respond best to modeling and following leaders as opposed to control. Look at the long-term goal for your child's sense of self over momentary convenience. Enjoying your toddler for who he is and not what you want him to be is key. Parents have to separate their own emotional needs from what their child feels and needs. Lastly, embrace your child's uniqueness as well as your own. Your toddler is his own person with his own motives and individual qualities. Every stage in a child's life has its own purpose and we simply need to acknowledge and respect their needs fully during every stage, allowing them to mature and move on to the next phase.
*The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the writer.
Dr. Pearl Cenon
A pediatrician in private practice in New Jersey for over 15 years, Dr. Cenon (we like to call her Dr. Pearl) also has two children of her own. Dr. Pearl's husband, Kevin McDonough is also a pediatrician and they work together. She writes basic posts about topics that interest many parents, from skin care and nutrition to seasonal issues, such as allergies and colds. Her kind, approachable tone in each blog post will have you looking forward to the next one.


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So! I saw these WitOut top five lists and I wanted in. But! I can't bring myself to type words of praise for people or generally anything at all. Therefore! I'm going to talk some shit out of school. Kissing and telling your way through stand-up isn't the only way to comedy, but if you do the Google for "comedy and dating" there's like a lot of stuff. With all the exaggerations and downright falsehoods that pepper a stand-up routine, it might be easy to take for granted that all — or at least many — of the nightmare ex-girlfriends and idiot ex-boyfriends we hear about on stage are based on real people. Real people, who probably don't like to be the butt of jokes. But too bad! Because that's what you get when you date a comic, unless you date that rare performer who doesn't talk about their personal life, opting instead to talk about the mathematics of pizza or fantasize about sex with eagles. Anyway here are five slabs of love roadkill I left in my wake this year. Maybe you'll recognize one or two.
5. The Artist – Me and this Droopy Dog looking motherfucker went on a handful of dates and then he tried to U-Turn me into the Friend Zone. Which is completely against the rules of Friend Zone. You have a window of time after meeting a person to detour them into the Friend Zone, but you cannot retroactively be like "I un-fuck you" and then go backwards in life and have friend beers at JB's like it's no thing. It is a thing! Artists are clueless about rules and you can't say boo to them. These guys are like the male equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. They lure you in with their creative spirit and passion and their "aesthetic" or whatever, and then they spring you with their bland everyday doucheyness and you remember that they're just people and not glittering wood-gnomes like Rupert Everett in that Shakespeare movie.
4. The Premature Commitment-Phobe – This guy! I met him at the after-hours club, which, okay, yellow flag, but I was there too. Anyway we spent a couple nights that week watching movies he got off Pirate Bay, and we had an inside joke where one of us would say "Winter's Bone" to the other and the other would say "Winter's Bone" back, the joke being that he didn't enjoy the movie Winter's Bone so much. It was very low-tech. But then, a week after we'd met, we were back at the after-hours, and he had taken an Ecstasy pill, because that's still a thing somehow, and he decided that 2:45 in the morning on Ecstasy was a good time to talk about, in his words, The Status of Our Relationship. 2:45 in the morning on Ecstasy, by the way, is a terrible time to have an adult conversation about anything beyond, "Could you be a lamb and get me some Vick's Vapo-Rub at the CVS? I'm rolling my face off." But nonetheless we had The Talk. And it turns out we didn't have a whole lot to talk about, having only gone out on two teenage stoner dates in a week, but since he was having a such a violent mouth seizure of commitment-phobia anyway, he said, "You make me feel butterflies, but I don't want to feel things, because I'm cold and dead inside." So much Emo and Club Drugs! It was like being on a date with a Hot Topic store. So I said, "Later corpse, I'm not a necrophiliac." I mean, I said that onstage after I had written a bit about it. In that moment I think I asked if we could still do it, because it was getting late and I didn't want to take a chance on somebody else's beer goggles. The point is, The Premature Commitment-Phobe is like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He can detect movement, so if you do anything at all he is going to flip out and chew you up right out your Jurrasic Park outhouse, with his words of Emo.
3. The New Age Full-Body Hugger – Just to start off with a "duh," there are many different ways to touch people and not touch people based on feelings. For example, if I am your casual acquaintance, I do not kiss you full on the mouth and press my body from knees-to-shoulders against yours when I am saying hello to you at a bar. That is not a friend touch. That is a something else touch. The New Age Full-Body Hugger is someone I've known casually for some years, and who surprised me with his very forward body-hug/lip-lock maneuver at a bar this one time. And me being just barely human, my body experienced a response to that touch. So I got his phone number and I did the practical thing: I sexted him. And don't you know this motherfucker *emailed* me a full three days later, in the most passive toothless pop-psychology terms you've heard since "show on the doll," that I had misunderstood his intentions. The New Age Full-Body Hugger, cousin to The Artist, is too ethereal and free spirit-y to be taken to task. He just doesn't have your, like, hangups? And if you started taking yoga maybe you'd be like, a more centered person? And less likely to jump to weird "Western" conclusions just because someone was harmlessly trying to align chakras with you? You can never be mad at this guy, because he couches his aggression in warm fuzzy babble. But seriously fuck him and his collection of pewter dragons. I don't know how they do things in French Canadia, but in America you shake your friend's hand.
2. The Hooker – This guy and I didn't get to a first date either, but it still made for a good story. We exchanged numbers at a piano bar, and when I got home I Googled his phone number and the top result was his escort profile on RentBoy.com, complete with nudie pics. Then I was like, I'll still date him because in the end at least I'll get some free hooker, but then he asked me how old I was and I said 30 and he didn't talk to me anymore. But I got the catch phrase "Your taint is on the internet next to your phone number!" from that, and I can't wait to put that one a boutique line of t-shirts and outerwear. It's gonna be the next "Git'r Done!"
1. The Successful Ex – What's the opposite of Schadenfreude? Like when someone's accomplishments make you miserable? There's no kick in the stomach like the knowledge that your ex is flourishing while you flail your way from one boozy venue to the next, trashing all the weirdos you dated after he dumped your ass like a sack of unemployed potatoes. Still, it could be worse. You could be dating another stand-up comic, for example, and that's just Russian Roulette with all the bullets in.
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The acceleration of technology means that the near future may bring radical changes to all of us. Major developments in technologies like anti-aging, nanotech, genetics, computing, robotics, and geo-engineering are going to make the next few years very exciting - and possibly also very dangerous. We could gain god-like powers - but we might also lose sight of our humanity, and destroy everything that we used to hold dear.
What's your view? Are things improving? Too slowly or too quickly? Are we are entering a new golden age? Or is the potential "Technological Singularity" something to fear? What does it mean to talk about "Human 2.0" and "Humanity+"? Or perhaps you view such talk as techno-hype? Maybe you just like the practical side of technology and want to find out more about possible paradigm shifts?
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(CNN Student News) -- Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Broken Government: Health Care: Critical Condition when it airs commercial-free on Monday, May 19, 2008, from 4:00 -- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)
Program Overview
At least 47 million Americans lack health insurance, driving them to emergency rooms for medical care and desperate measures to pay for needed treatment. In the latest edition of CNN's "Broken Government" series, CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates the crisis in health care and medical insurance and takes a hard look at proposals for a better safety net.
Grade Levels: 9-12, College
Subject Areas: Health, Social Studies, Government, Current Issues
Objectives: The CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Broken Government: Health Care: Critical Condition and its corresponding discussion questions and activity challenge students to:
Curriculum Connections
Standard 2. Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health
Level IV [Grade: 9-12]
Benchmark 2. Knows how individuals can improve or maintain community health (e.g., becoming active in environmental and economic issues that affect health, assisting in the development of public health policies and laws, exercising voting privileges)
Benchmark 5. Knows how public health policies and government regulations impact health-related issues (e.g., household waste disposal controls, clean air, disposal of nuclear waste)
McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks), 2550 S. Parker Road, Suite 500, Aurora, CO 80014; Telephone: 303/337-0990.
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Standard III. People, Places and Environments: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.
Standard V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.
Standard VI. Power, Authority, and Governance: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.
Standard X. Civic Ideals and Practices: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship in a democratic republic.
The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://ncss.org/).
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Suggested Activity
Divide your students into four groups and assign each group one of the following different demographic groups:
Have each group member survey at least two people from his or her assigned age group to find out their views on the U.S. health care system. Help your students to brainstorm a list of survey questions, such as:
Have each group summarize its findings and share them with the class. (Note: You'll want to encourage students to preserve the anonymity of their respondents.) Then, direct students to note the similarities and differences among the different groups' responses. Challenge students to explain some possible reasons for the results. Then ask: Were you surprised by any of the responses? What, if anything, did you learn from the survey? Did this activity impact your views on America's health care system and health care reform? Explain.
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[Note from Kate: I can't believe I think there might be a need to say this, but there might be… This is a personal essay that Thorn is sharing with us because I asked her to. It's intimate stuff about her mother's recent death. It is not a freakin' polemic. So if anybody comes in here and starts arguing about where the blame for her mother's death really lies, or trying to tell her she's wrong about things she's said in this personal essay, the comment will be deleted, and the author will be banned. I will be compulsively checking e-mail while I'm away, even if I'm not posting. Don't try it.]
Guest post by Thorn
My mother died on May 1st of this year. A little more than two months ago.
It's very difficult for me, on a lot of levels. She and I had a very difficult relationship, for a long time, and so while we weren't fighting when she died, it's mostly because we weren't exactly on speaking terms, either.
That's difficult for me to cope with.
But people understand that. People get that. And so a lot of people have been very kind and reassuring, reminding me that even if we never could seem to just talk to each other, she knew I loved her just as I knew she loved me.
What's more difficult for me to cope with is the anger.
It's hard to even know where to begin, to express this white-hot rage I carry.
And what's extra-hard about it is that I can't really talk to many people about it. I've tried, but most of the responses I've gotten only serve to piss me off more.
See, this is what I'm pissed off about: my mom is dead not because she was fat, but because of how she was treated for being fat.
She died at home, alone, from a blood clot that had formed in one of her legs and traveled to her lungs, killing her.
The coroner's report says that she had deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and probably had been dealing with it for some time. In fact, the coroner said that the past year or so, when she kept having "asthma attacks" that weren't helped by her inhaler? It was actually very small blood clots blocking parts of her lungs. But nobody knew that.
My mom was fat. And not just 'a little overweight'. She was fat. She was 5'1″ and her weight generally hovered somewhere around 280 pounds. She wore between a 26 and a 30, depending on the usual vagaries of style, cut, maker, etc.
She'd been fat for most of my life, I never really knew her as being any different. It was hard for her — her brothers and sisters all take after a different part of the family, so they're all slim and have little trouble staying that way. My mom, on the other hand, took after the other side of her family. Where my aunts and uncles are slender-to-trim, my mom was built like an Italian matriarch. She took after their grandmother, who really was an Italian matriarch, and well… there you go.
Mom became "chubby" in high school, and only got heavier after each of her two pregnancies (myself and then my younger sister), and even heavier as she got older and her metabolism slid firmly into Neutral. I think she looked at her siblings and felt… unfit. Not as in, "out of shape" but as in "defective, inadequate, unsatisfactory."
My mom was the kind of person who really, truly believed that if she only followed the rules, she would be rewarded. She would get what she wanted and needed. She just had to follow the rules.
Except, like most people, she had a hard time following the rules. So, while she couldn't follow the rule that said she had to be thin, she did the next best thing, and was deeply ashamed of herself and her body. She carried that shame with her everywhere. She tried to not let it slow her down, but there were times when it did. There were times when I think she'd managed to somehow forget she was fat, and try to just live her life, only to get smacked down by some random occurrence that served to put her back in her "place."
Still though, she believed that if she followed the rules, she'd be okay. So she tried to follow them. She avoided having her picture taken. She struggled to remember to wear dark solid-colored clothing, even though she really loved fashion and bright colors and oh-my-god, the zig-zagged sequin-top dress she loved so much. Even when we were hip-deep in the '80s and that kind of thing was okay, I thought it was hideous. She loved it. She made a show of not caring how I wrinkled my nose at her when she put it on, and wore it anyway. I think though, looking back, that it probably did hurt her feelings a little bit.
Mom was a person whose feelings were always right on the surface. All that shame she carried around about being fat, about having gotten pregnant before she'd gotten married, about every single rule she'd ever broken, every little thing she'd ever thought she'd done "wrong" — it all meant that you didn't have to try hard to hurt her feelings. They were right there, exposed, and all it took was a word or a sigh or a good eye-roll (and I was a World Champion Eye-roller by age 10, I tell you whut), and she'd be hurt.
And with all that shame, and with so little support from her family or her husband, once Mom got hurt, she had a hard time healing from it.
So when I was about 11 years old, and Mom went to see her doctor because of some problem she was having, and he scathingly told her that her problem was she was fat, and not to come back to him until she'd lost 50 pounds? Yeah. It hurt her. It hurt her bad. But she believed in the rules. And so she tried to ignore how hurt she was and focused on trying extra-hard to get back to following those rules.
So she went on Weight Watchers. This was back before the allegedly more convenient "Points" system. This was back when you had to buy a little food scale and weigh out your half-cups of cottage cheese and three ounces of a boneless, skinless boiled chicken breast or whatever atrocities they made people perpetrate on themselves back then. She tried. She really did try. But she had an eye-rolling 11-year-old and a whiny 7-year-old and a husband who didn't care what she did, but by god her diet wasn't going to mean he had to eat "that shit" too. He wanted his meat-and-potatoes meals just like always, and if she wanted to cook a separate meal for herself that was fine, but it better not cost much more money than they were already spending on that damn Weight Watchers crap as it was.
After a few months with very limited success, of course she quit.
But I tell ya, that goddamn Weight Watchers food scale sat on our kitchen counter for years afterward, almost like some kind of holy relic. Or perhaps it was supposed to be proof to anyone who came over that she really had tried. She really had made the attempt. It was almost like some kind of exhibit, a way to show she was properly ashamed of her fat.
So, having been unable to meet her doctor's demand that she lose 50 pounds, she followed the only part of his stated rule that she could: she didn't go back.
From that point on, whenever she got sick or injured and someone suggested she go see a doctor, she brushed them off. "Oh, they're just going to tell me I'm too fat. Don't worry, it's just a cold/a sprain/a whatever. I'll be fine."
To be fair, that's not to say she never went back again. She did. But only when she had to. And by "had to", I mean she only went when enough people had gotten on her case about whatever it was that she could no longer fend them off with excuses, and wound up going just to get them off her back. And once my sister and I grew up and left home and my parents divorced, most of us didn't see her frequently enough to strong-arm her into going to the doctor anymore.
But it still happened once in a while. Which is how she wound up with that asthma inhaler that hardly ever worked. She'd wound up short of breath and wheezing one too many times with my sister around, and finally my sister ordered Mom to see her doctor.
So Mom made the appointment and went, but she took all her fat-shame with her, and did her best to at least mitigate the awfulness of her sin — that she hadn't lost 50 pounds, and in fact had gained some more besides — and she was going back to the doctor anyway. So she tried not to take too much of their time. Went in with a probable diagnosis at the ready, even, thanks to her daughters' histories of asthma. She didn't want to bother them too much, you see, even though by then it had been two decades since her last physical. She thanked the doctor when she got the prescription for the inhaler, and never called back when it sometimes didn't work, because she didn't want to take up their valuable time on a rule-breaker like her.
Meanwhile, since the inhaler wasn't working so well, she started to curtail her activities. The adult singles group she was a part of held dances on a regular basis that she'd always been very fond of. She didn't stop going, but she spent most of them sitting on the sidelines, or taking pictures. She started to beg off from doing things with my sister and her kids (I having long since moved out-of-state), or if she did go along with them to the zoo, she often had to stop earlier or take more frequent breaks.
During her last year of life, my mom had given up most of the healthy physical activities she had enjoyed, because her "asthma" was so bad. I'm sure some of those attacks were indeed asthma, but other times she'd wind up out-of-breath from doing hardly anything at all, and I know it mystified all of us.
A few days before she died, she fell down in a parking lot. Tripped, I guess. The coroner said that may have been what dislodged the blood clot which eventually killed her. Of course, if she'd been getting decent medical care, she might have gotten proper treatment for all this long before, and maybe she'd still be alive today.
But, you know, that doctor had told her not to come back until she'd lost 50 pounds, and she trusted him. She took him to heart. He was a doctor, after all.
I hope he's proud of himself. His words, over 20 years ago, helped kill my mother.
She spent her last two days in pain, having difficulty breathing, and not once did she call a doctor or try to get some help.
You see, she still hadn't lost that 50 pounds.


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The OHSAA announced Sunday the locations of next Friday and Saturdays state semifinal contests.
Aurora (Division II) and Mogadore (VI) are still alive among local programs and will take the field this weekend with an opportunity to play for state championships next week.
Both games are scheduled for Friday, Nov. 23 with a 7:30 p.m. kick.
Aurora (12-1) will take on Toledo Central Catholic (12-1) at Huron Memorial Stadium in Huron. Kick is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Mogadore (13-0) will square off with Newark Catholic (11-2) at New Philadelphia Woody Hayes Quaker Stadium


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The most exciting thing we've ever heard about the long in-development The Crow reboot arrived just a little more than a week ago when it was revealed that The Avengers' Tom Hiddleston had been having discussions about playing the title role. So naturally it turns out that those reports may have been overblown.
Deadline has effectively splashed cold water on the idea of seeing the Thor villain dress up in goth makeup and become Eric Draven, saying that "A simple conversation has been over-hyped and reported like it was going to happen." But while the site throws that option out the window, they offer up what they believe to be an actual possibility: Alexander Skarsgard. Apparently the True Blood star has been getting a ton of offers ever since his version of Tarzan was put on hold at Warner Bros, and the site says that The Crow "[is] Skarsgard's role if he wants it."
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|three little pigs, build, house
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|After reviewing the story of the 3 little pigs, students get into groups and build three houses out of different materials. Then, the houses are tested with a fan to see if the "big bad wolf" can knock their houses down.
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|House 1: Paper
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|Know the three little pigs story.
|1. Tell story of the three little pigs. 2. Assign students to pairs, and distribute pairs evenly into three different stations (one station for each house) 3. Plan/Discuss possible house designs with partner 4. Construct house out of given materials 5. Rotate through stations until every group has build three houses. 6. Test designs by using a fan to see if the houses blow down.
|Limit the amount of tape/glue students can use for their houses.
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The Greenwall Foundation has chosen Harvard Law School Assistant Professor I. Glenn Cohen '03, who is a leading expert on the intersection of bioethics and the law and a Radcliffe Institute fellow, as a recipient of one of three Faculty Scholar Awards in Bioethics. The award allows recipients to conduct extensive independent research to help set public policy and standards of clinical practice.
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Harvard's Cookbooks Speak of Our History
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute houses 100,000 volumes tracing the history of women in America, including 20,000 cookbooks and cooking related materials. Stars within that collection are the papers of M.F.K. Fisher, the Rombauer Beck team of "Joy of Cooking," and everything Julia Child, from her cookbook collection to television scripts to private letters.
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Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online
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Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books
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Editor's note: Dorothy A. Brown is a professor of law at Emory University's School of Law and author of "Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials, and Problems."
(CNN) -- On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who happens to be black, suggested that opposition to him and President Barack Obama in part is due to racial animus. For that, he has been vilified.
He has been accused of trying to scare people to the polls (as if listening to the evening news wouldn't already do that), stoking racial divisions and throwing down the race card. And he is asked rhetorically "is it possible to oppose Obama and not be a racist?"
The response to the attorney general's words has been very heated, and there is an obvious explanation.
"This Week" allowed many whites to hear what a black man is thinking about race. Most whites don't know because most whites don't have interracial conversations about race. To be fair, neither do most blacks. It's just that we know what other blacks are thinking because, well, we talk to other blacks about race.
"This Week" allowed a window into the thinking about race from a black person's perspective. That is unusual, given the dearth of guests of color on shows such as "This Week."
If anything, this points out the need for white America to hear more voices from people of color. But if you look at Holder's actual words, there really isn't anything surprising, or especially bold, in what he said.
He said: "There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some, there's a racial animus."
Let's review: He said "I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver," but it is as if when certain whites hear the word race (or a derivative) as the explanation for any part of an event, they go situationally deaf.
Poll after poll shows how blacks and whites view our country through different lenses. Consider a recent Gallup poll that asked whether the justice system was biased against blacks. While 69% of whites answered no, 68% of blacks answered yes.
How does this happen?
Because by and large when talking about race in America, whites have conversations with other whites and blacks have conversations with other blacks. What Holder said is very different from what whites who don't talk to blacks generally hear. As I tell my students when I teach about race and the law, I note that important breakthroughs on race can only come when you have a conversation with someone who doesn't look like you and doesn't think like you.
But this is not a level playing field. Blacks and whites can look at the same event and come up with completely different perceptions.
When a black person says this is about race, many whites say we're playing the race card. But when a white person says this has nothing to do with race, rarely does he or she ever get called on it. In this case, Holder, a black man, very gently said race could ... maybe... possibly have something to do with a piece of it, and look at what happened.
Let's take a few examples that to me show unprecedented hostility directed toward the President, in my opinion, because he is black.
First, the utter nonsense about the President's birth certificate; it refuses to die -- it is actively kept alive -- despite all the evidence to the contrary. Second, the number of pictures or posters at rallies with the President's face on a monkey's body. Third, Congressman Joe Wilson yells "you lie" during the President's State of the Union Address.
If anything, Holder was too tepid in his analysis, but I'm sure that's a function of his knowing that whenever he says anything about race, he gets pummeled.
The real lesson for me is the paucity of guests with the same views as Holder who are given a national platform the way that he was.
If week after week, on issue after issue, blacks were invited on as guests and allowed to inform the discussion, after a while, there would be fewer and fewer instances of situational deafness.
Whites would come to understand that there is more than one way of looking at something -- especially when it comes to race -- and when it comes to race, would not ignore the expertise that lies in black voices.
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The Design Council Slide Collection comprises over 22,000 images, mainly of British design from the late 1940s to 1990. It was begun shortly after the Second World War by the Council of Industrial Design (CoID), an official design promotion organisation that was set up by the British government in 1944. The CoID was renamed the Design Council in 1972, and today it continues to fulfil the role of the UK's national strategic body for design.
The majority of images in the collection show products of various kinds, but there are also many images of architecture, urban design, interior design, graphic design, engineering design and corporate identity. However, the collection is more than an extensive record of British design over more than four decades. Because the collection originally supported the core educational and advisory role of the CoID/Design Council, it also forms a visual archive of the changing scope, policies and ethos of its parent organisation. Indeed, the collection contains a multitude of unique images that record many of the specific practices and techniques that the CoID/Design Council used in its efforts to improve and champion British design, and also influence the taste of consumers.
The following historical account of the CoID/Design Council up to early 1990s aims to demonstrate one of the key strengths of the collection - its coherence and integrity as a rich source of visual evidence relating to the strategies employed to reform and promote British design in the second half of the twentieth century. The significance of the material is highlighted further by locating the changing priorities and agendas of the CoID/Design Council within wider economic, social and political contexts.
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I'm not sure how you don't get more comments. Extremely entertaining and great art every day. A tough loss two days in a row but I love visiting.ReplyDelete
your the artist - u can do what u want! =) luv that!ReplyDelete
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I'm pretty sure most prefer everything in color everyday anyway. However, I understand if it makes it easier for you to keep around half of them colorless.ReplyDelete
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