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Amateur documentary filmmaker Pete Sheppard meets a despondent Gladys Glover in New York City's Central Park while working on his latest project. Gladys reveals that she has just been fired from her job modeling girdles and wonders how she can make a name for herself. Pete encourages her to realize her dreams and promises to send her tickets to his film screening. Later, walking in Columbus Circle, Gladys sees a huge blank billboard and, envisioning her name written there, decides to rent it for the three-month minimum. Several days after Gladys has her name painted on the billboard, wealthy young businessman Evan Adams III complains to his advertising firm that his soap company traditionally rents the Columbus Circle billboard for the spring season and demands Gladys be forced to give it up. Gladys meets with Evan and the agency representatives, but refuses their proposal of returning her money and an additional five hundred dollars. Back at her apartment, Gladys delightedly discovers that Pete has just moved into her building. She encourages him to visit Columbus Circle and thanks him for giving her the inspiration to follow her dreams. The two arrange a date for that evening, but Gladys is forced to rearrange it when Evan telephones and asks her for another business meeting. That night with Evan, Gladys insists on driving through Columbus Circle several times to admire her sign and despite her thrill at going to a famous nightclub and Evan's unabashed charms, Gladys refuses his offers to give up her billboard. When Gladys returns home, Pete assails her with criticism about the billboard, which he visited, but Gladys remains undaunted. The following week Gladys meets with Evan and several of his board members, but refuses to surrender her sign until Evan finally offers her six signs at prime locations throughout New York City. At lunch with Pete, Gladys gloats over her multiple signs, then wonders if she should have held out for eight. Pete protests that she should be trying to be with people, not above them, and when he asks Gladys what her name stands for, she cannot say. Later while shopping at Macy's, across the street from one of her signs, Gladys receives a burst of attention from shoppers when she gives her name to a saleslady, to Pete's dismay. Several weeks later, Gladys and Pete enjoy an afternoon at a diner, although Gladys laments that the lease on her signs expires in three days. Just then, the couple is startled when they hear reporter Brod Clinton discussing the mystery "Gladys Glover" signs on the television over the bar. Gladys takes offense at Clinton's sarcastic tone and telephones him to demand an apology and ask if he wants to know the truth. Sensing a potential quirky human interest tale, Clinton agrees to meet Gladys and after hearing her story, finds it so ludicrous that he believes he can get her some air time on television. Pete tries to talk Gladys out of the idea, but when she learns she would be paid for any appearances she makes, Gladys agrees, hoping to extend the lease on her billboards. Gladys' nervous, then bubbling appearance on The People Speak is a success and, as Pete watches in horror, Clinton quickly becomes her agent, signing her for several shows including a stint as a guest contestant on a panel show with famous personalities. Evan learns of Gladys' success and, feeling partially responsible, signs her up to be the "average American girl" representative of his soap company. Soon Gladys is the center of a nationwide advertising campaign and earning large amounts of money. Agreeing to dinner with Evan, Gladys breaks a long-planned date with Pete to visit his parents in Jersey. Later, when Pete sees Evan in his sports car waiting for Gladys, he warns Evan not to take advantage of her, but Evan scoffs at him. Evan takes Gladys to his apartment, where he plies her with champagne and attempts to seduce her, promising her a national publicity tour. Gladys abruptly declares that the average American girl should not be in this kind of situation and departs. Gladys' advertising fame continues, but one afternoon she returns home to find a projector in her room and a note from Pete, instructing her to watch the film, entitled "Goodbye Gladys." In it, Pete reveals that he is in love with her but cannot compete with her obsession with fame and Evan's wealth and good looks. When Gladys runs to Pete's room, she finds another tenant there. At her next advertising appearance for a weight loss product, a gloomy Gladys complains to Clinton that the engagements are becoming increasingly undignified, but Clinton waves her concern away. The following day Clinton takes her to a military air base, where a fighter plane is to be named after her. Gladys stumbles over her rehearsed lines several times and then bolts, before Clinton forces her to return. At the podium, however, Gladys declares that her name does not stand for anything and that each Air Force enlistee is far more worthy of the honor, even in their anonymity. Gladys suggests christening the plane "One of the Crowd" instead. Gladys then reunites with Pete, declaring she is through with fame, and the two head for Jersey.


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Now that we know how much it will cost to ride Apple's cloud, Steve Jobs finally has confirmation that the last of the big four record labels is on board.
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The latest edition means that Apple will be able to offer music on its new service from artists on the four major record labels in this country.
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Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, suggests that you find out whether the recruiters, doctors and nurses involved in the study are "likely to be influenced in their judgments by money or professional connections to the study sponsor." Watch more on considerations of clinical trials »
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On Saturday, Liberty University will surpass 10,000 graduates in one year for the first time.
At Commencement 2011, which begins at 10 a.m. at Arthur L. Williams Stadium, Liberty will honor its 10,930 graduates in front of an estimated crowd of 30,000.
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You'd think it would be pretty simple to draw a line. Right? This post discusses an enhancement I'd like to make to my current reporting - and I'm pretty sure that technically I can do it. The question is whether I should . Consider my current "Memory by address space within Service Class" graph. Here's a sample: And here's what I think I might like it to look like: Obviously the line's... [More]
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I had no intention of posting anything else this week.
Ever since Anita of A Mad Tea Party announced a poori-party, I kept toying with the idea of making some. It was after all, very tempting. However, there was only one small problem - never in my life had I made a poori before! But there was so much information on the making of pooris doing the rounds of so many blogs here during the last week that I was slowly warming up to the idea.
Armed with a wealth of knowledge thanks to Indira, Anita, Bee & Nupur, I finally decided to make some pooris.
I mixed together some flour, semolina, salt and oil with warm water and started kneading away. (You know you are definitely out of shape when you work up a sweat just kneading some dough. You also know you don't care enough to do something about it when you proceed to fry the same dough and eat it! Healthy eating be damned!)
Since it's my first time making these things, I had no idea how long to knead... I just kept kneading the dough till it begged for mercy.I allowed it to rest for about 30 minutes & then proceeded to make, roll & fry my pooris in hot oil. I was so thrilled with what I saw. My very first poori had puffed up so beautifully & looked really good. Beginner's luck, huh? I did not know whether to eat it or take a picture of it.
Pooris and aloo-bhaji go together so well.
Making the bhaji was a breeze as this is something I make regularly for masala dosas.
Here's how I made aloo-bhaji.
5 medium potatoes, boiled, peeled & cubed
1 medium onion, peeled & thinly sliced
A small piece of ginger, peeled & grated (about and inch long)
5- 6 green chillies, finely chopped
½ tsp red chilli powder
½ tsp coriander powder
A pinch of turmeric powder
For the seasoning:
1 Tbsp oil
1 tsp urad dal
1 tsp mustard seeds
3-4 curry leaves
A pinch of asafoetida
Salt to taste
Heat oil in a pan & add all the ingredients for the seasoning.
Add the onions followed by the green chillies, ginger and the powders. Sauté till the onions are transparent.
Add the cubes of the boiled potatoes and about half a cup of water.
Cover and cook for 5-7 minutes.
Serve hot with pooris.
I am off to join Anita's party now! Yay!
Friday, August 17, 2007
Pigging out on Pooris
I had no intention of posting anything else this week.
Cooked by TBC on Friday, August 17, 2007
Labels: Breakfast, Lunch, Poori-bhaji
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- Nandita said...
That HARDLY looks like the effort of a first timer and your aaloo bhaji is almost the same as mine...was that a tamil recipe too?
My first time in your blog and i shall be around often to check out your beautiful stuff!
- August 17, 2007 at 11:26 PM
- archana said...
Puri bhaji is looking toooo delicious. I am feeling hungry :)
- August 18, 2007 at 12:08 AM
- Manasi said...
Oh WOW!! lovely pooris! first time? they look perfect!
i want to make pooris too, but I just had a notice from the hubby.. he is dragging me off to the gym tomorrow (morning and evening ..my weekend is ruined :(
- August 18, 2007 at 12:14 AM
- Anita said...
So glad you could come, TBC! Wonderful pooris, and from a Budding Cook! See, how easy it really was?!
And what is this about "healthy eating be damned?" Poori-bhaji is very very healthy! ;-) Whole wheat flour, and boiled potatoes! And all those endorphis that started their whirl within our body just at the thought of it, and the getting together with friends at the party - all very very healthy! Bon apetit!
- August 18, 2007 at 12:16 AM
- Vcuisine said...
The pooris look yummy. Viji
- August 18, 2007 at 12:18 AM
- bee said...
another one bites the dust. that poori looks perfect.
- August 18, 2007 at 1:55 AM
- Latha Narasimhan said...
Hi came to know there is a poori party from you dear! Poori and aloo subzi are one of the best combinations! Nice mouth watering recipes.
- August 18, 2007 at 3:31 AM
- Kajal said...
I imagine your face with smile....when you make this puri first time....Really it is nice work and also your puri is fully puff.....great work.:)
- August 18, 2007 at 5:03 AM
- Nupur said...
Your puris are picture perfect! Lovely photos. I have not made puris since I wrote that post soooo many months ago :)
- August 18, 2007 at 7:39 AM
- SeeC said...
Stunning TBC. Perfectly puffed.
Could you tell me what flour (exactly) you used.
Love to have some.
- August 18, 2007 at 8:49 AM
- Laavanya said...
Wow! Great looking Pooris and Bhaji TBC and that too at your first attempt. I remember too that I've never had trouble with pooris. Of course I'd have the occassional flat ones but mostly they puffed up okay. Chapathis though, it took me several attempts, variations to get them decently soft.
- August 18, 2007 at 9:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
great Pooris.....
I ate them all.....Please make more...
your better half...
- August 18, 2007 at 11:57 AM
- Coffee said...
The is a perfect balloon TBC!!! I am sure you are so proud of it. :) Thanks to Anita, we all finally jumped to the idea of making puri's. :)
- August 18, 2007 at 12:07 PM
- Coffee said...
I think you can change you name from The budding cook to the perfect cook :P
- August 18, 2007 at 12:07 PM
- TheCooker said...
That poori looks perfect!
- August 18, 2007 at 12:31 PM
- Aruna said...
Great looking pooris for a first timer...!!
- August 18, 2007 at 9:59 PM
- Anita said...
I agree, TBC is beginning to look a complete misnomer!
Look, you made someone real happy,and they are asking for more! :-D And you said not-healthy?!
- August 18, 2007 at 11:07 PM
- Lia said...
hi thanks for visiting me, u have great recipe and food over here, i shall be back frequenly, thanks :)
- August 19, 2007 at 8:58 AM
- TBC said...
Welcome & thank you for saying that:-)
I don't know whether it is a tamil recipe but this was the way my mom always made it:-).Mom's always have the best recipes, don't they?
Thanks for stopping by & do come back when you get a chance.
Archana, thank you:-)
Manasi,thanks. You can't go wrong when you follow the recipes of such great cooks/bloggers.
Lucky you, my hubby has completely given up on me now:-( I keep meaning to do something but that day never comes!
How could I not when you are the hostess?I cannot wait to see the others too. There are a couple of first-timers like me.
Um , my PB is not even as " healthy" as some of the others'.It was made of APF you see:-( . you know my story.....
Viji, thanks;-)
Bee, yeah, I caved!& thank you.
BTW, I read your cluri story a couple of times & showed it to my hubby too.We enjoyed it so much!
thank you:-) Why don't you join us?
Thank you so much. You really make me feel so good.
Nupur, thank you very much. I got my tip for adding rava from your recipe:-)
Seec, thank you.All Purpose Flour.
:-)... but I hear it is usually made with wheat flour, I did not have any!:-(
Laavanya, thanks!I'm actually very proud of myself:-)
I've never made chapatis either..maybe that shd be next for me!
- August 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM
- TBC said...
Anon H,
Your wish is my command;-)
Coffee, thanks! I am actually very pleased with myself;-).
I liked yours a lot too... esp with the step-by-step description in pics.
The perfect cook? You are being very nice now.For now I'll just stay the budding cook. Besides,it's better this way coz if things don't turn out like expected,I can always say, "hey, I'm just a BC, if you want great recipes, go to The Spice Cafe";-)
The cooker,thank you :-)
Aruna,thank you. I appreciate all the encouragement :-)
Yeah, or so I'm being told..
But a budding cook is still learning & is allowed to make mistakes;-)
That was my hubby earlier just being very silly!:-)I wondered where he had disappeared suddenly;-)
Thank you for stopping by.It is nice to have you here:-)
- August 19, 2007 at 11:31 AM
- Kristen said...
Oh yum! I have never made this, but what a delicious looking recipe!
- August 19, 2007 at 9:13 PM
- Roopa said...
poori bhaji is looking awesome girl :)
- August 20, 2007 at 12:14 AM
- Padma said...
Poori Bhaji looks delicious with that raita!...Great to see u at Mad tea party!
- August 20, 2007 at 8:59 AM
- Sharmi said...
all the bloggers are going crazy on pooris. it is raining pooris every where:) very beautiful pics. aloo is my favorite with poori.
- August 20, 2007 at 9:44 AM
- Hima said...
They are just perfect. So tempting puffed up puris.
- August 20, 2007 at 9:49 AM
- sunita said...
Are youb sure you haven't made puris before?...those look perfect!!!
- August 20, 2007 at 10:22 AM
- Richa said...
puris look lovely, so does the bhaji!
- August 20, 2007 at 10:58 AM
- TBC said...
Kristen, thank you:-) It's basically fried bread.
Roopa, thank you:-)
Padma, thank you!.I am just waiting for Anita's round-up.
Yeah, when Anita calls, how can you not go:-)
Hima, thank you:-)
Sunita, lemme think... ummm yup!.. pretty sure sure it's my first time. I've seen my mom do it, of course but never went anywhere near her!;-)
Richa, thank you:-)
- August 20, 2007 at 11:32 AM
- Sreelu said...
one happy puffed up poori's,its been raining poori's all over in the blogsphere.
Thanks for the comments on my blog, added you to my blogroll
- August 20, 2007 at 2:38 PM
- musical said...
Picture perfect, drool inducing goodness in that platter!
- August 20, 2007 at 3:47 PM
- Prema Sundar said...
poori celebration everywhere and cant wait to eat it ... pls someone send it to my house!!!!!
looks lovely.
- August 20, 2007 at 4:27 PM
- Suma Gandlur said...
Those pooris look all puffed up and happy. That's pretty awesome for a beginner.:)
- August 20, 2007 at 5:42 PM
- Nirmala said...
I love pooris. Just adore them. Can't make them -- eat them out or wait for my mom to make them. Yours look fabulous.
- August 20, 2007 at 11:05 PM
- Happy Cook said...
For a first time poori maker it looks Delicious................just like a professional puri...
And reading all the other comments, one comment caught my eye from your better half, so sweet of him, so when are you going to make puris for him again :-))))
- August 21, 2007 at 7:44 AM
- TBC said...
Sreelu, thanks for stopping by:-) & thank you for adding me to your roll:-)
Musical,thank you:-)
Prema,I already sent some your way...u didn't get 'em? ;-)
Thank you. I was mighty pleaded myself;-)
Nirmala, making mom or even hubby make 'em sound good;-)
Happy Cook,
Welcome & thank you :-)
Yeah, my hubby was just being rather silly. He had never eaten pooris made by me before and was very happy to see'em:-)
I don't think anytime soon though coz my arm still hurts from all that kneading!:-)
- August 21, 2007 at 10:17 AM
- Savithri said...
Your pooris look so delicious! I am drooling:)
- August 21, 2007 at 11:30 AM
- Grihini said...
Lovely looking poori's. Too good to believe for a first timer. Well done.
Tnanks for stopping by at my blog. Me too a budding cook, just like you. But u are way ahead girl..and excellent composition of the pictures too. :)
- August 21, 2007 at 12:03 PM
- TBC said...
Savithri, thanks:-)
Grihini, thank you very much for your kind words. Hope to see you around :-)
- August 21, 2007 at 12:33 PM
- Priyanka said...
Those puris look amazing TBC. CHecked out other recipes too.YOu have some unique recipes girl like the kamal kakri sabzi and the kale stir-fry... will be back for more....
- August 21, 2007 at 2:36 PM
- Coffee said...
And now I know you are a flaterrer as well ;)
- August 22, 2007 at 12:33 AM
- TBC said...
Priyanka, thank you:-)Comeback soon;-)
Coffee- huh? I always was thanks to the sweet things I eat!;-)
- August 22, 2007 at 11:06 AM
- Raaga said...
For the first time, these look the pooris of a pro. Way to go girl!
- August 23, 2007 at 12:43 AM
- Jyothsna said...
Looking at those pooris, you still call yourself a budding cook??
- August 23, 2007 at 11:52 AM
- SHUBHA said...
amazing recipes and equally amazing pics.... thanx for all ur comments tbc...:) i havent registered with food blog desam... how should i do that??? kindly suggest... i cudnt get time to update my blog for some days now.....back now... temme how can i register therE??? r u registered there too??
- August 23, 2007 at 1:50 PM
- TBC said...
Raaga, Thanks:-) I was pretty pleased with myself too.
Thanks for saying that.Very nice of you.
Shubha- I'll see on your blog.
- August 24, 2007 at 10:50 AM
- neroli said...
*First* time's the charm for you!
How wonderful! Thanks for the lovely inspiration.
- August 25, 2007 at 1:09 AM
- TBC said...
Welcome & thank you. :-)
Beginner's luck, eh?
- August 25, 2007 at 10:09 AM
- Latha Narasimhan said...
Dear, you are most welcome to send a recipe of your choice!
- August 30, 2007 at 10:27 AM
- Latha Narasimhan said...
didnot get your mail. please do send again.
- August 30, 2007 at 9:44 PM
- lakshmi said...
reg janmastami mail - no problem, if you leave a comment with link to your post, its more than enuff, we'll pick up details :). thanks.
- August 31, 2007 at 10:39 AM
- TBC said...
Latha/Lakshmi- all sorted out now. thanks:-)
- August 31, 2007 at 1:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
- October 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- TBC said...
Anon: glad you stopped by. :D
- October 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM


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The theme of the current season of the Martha Graham Dance Company is "Myth and Transformation" — how choreographers use old stories to make contemporary statements. The use of myth can be a powerful method for tapping into the timeless, but the transformations can also say more about the period when they were made than about the period in which they were set.
On Wednesday at the Joyce Theater the first of three programs in a two-week season opened with Graham's "Phaedra," from 1962. In her introductory remarks, Janet Eilber, the company's artistic director, recalled how members of Congress denounced the dance's lewdness, and she set it in the context of miniskirts and free love.
As usual, the politicians were upset for the wrong reasons. In the Greek myth that "Phaedra" recounts, Aphrodite causes the queen to lust after her own stepson, with fatal consequences. By today's standards, the choreography is far from explicit about that lust, though it is clear enough. In the final image, a leering Aphrodite spreads her legs as far apart as they can go.
The trouble is that Aphrodite doesn't do much except leer. Whether in response to the 1960s or to more internal forces, "Phaedra" represents a coarsening of Graham's art. As Phaedra's husband, Theseus, Tadej Brdnik manages to slap his thighs with dignity, but it's not Blakeley White-McGuire's fault that her Phaedra is no more than a victim.
When she thrusts a knife toward her crotch, it's hardly an endorsement of the sexual revolution. A stylized vision of Phaedra's mother copulating with a bull presents female sexuality as a curse. This isn't "Sex and the Single Girl" (published the same year). It's an aging artist (Graham was pushing 70) applying her sure storytelling skills to rage at involuntary desire.
The rage of Achilles is the driving force of "The Iliad," but the Achilles in Richard Move's "The Show (Achilles Heels)" isn't so much angry as vain, sealed off in his beauty. He gazes into his hand as if it were a mirror. The heels he wears are high, gold and sparkly.
The work, made for the White Oak Dance Project in 2002 and paired with "Phaedra" as a more recent example of myth transformation, is certainly of its time in the games it plays. Achilles appears on a "reality game show." The dancers lip-sync dialogue from Hollywood Golden-era films of the story, mocking clunky exposition while making use of it.
Is the cheapening an indictment of the present or an indulgence? Should the sniggering at dramatic old voices extend to Graham, whose technique Mr. Move borrows for Helen of Troy (majestically embodied by Katherine Crockett)? Mr. Move's dance won't decide, though its magpie style achieves moments of poetry. It's best at expressing the tenderness between Achilles and his lover, Patroclus.
Achilles speaks in the recorded voice of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who originated the role. That's a dance hero's armor to wear, but Lloyd Mayor, an apprentice with the company when Mr. Move chose him, has everything that the role requires, except celebrity: a beautiful face, sculptural technique. One thing Mr. Move knows for sure is how to pick 'em.


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All the areas that Jen Hatmaker decided she had in excess and wanted to go against them. Just looking at the front of the book and seeing that list, I knew she and I were probably two peas in a pod.
I recently got into a little book club that is reading the book 7 by Jen Hatmaker and I immediately knew that I was going to love/hate the book because I knew that it was going to enrich my life… by ruining it. {Ha!} But I've just finished another of her bible studies and I'd heard such great things about this one, so when my friend Mandy asked me if I wanted to read it with her and a couple of friends, I jumped on it. We're only reading one chapter a month and then doing the "experiment" that follows to attack a specific area of excess.
Cause there is no question that I struggle with excess in my life.
I mean, heck, one area of excess, food, is the entire topic of this blog!
You really, really, really need to read the book to get the full understanding of what is going on here (and trust me, it is totally worth the read and very quick and easy, especially if you only read a chapter a month)! Basically, Hatmaker chose 7 foods to eat for a month:
- spinach
- avocado
- egg
- chicken
- wheat bread
- apples
- sweet potatoes
Oh, and water only to drink! I'll be adding doTerra lemon oil to my water, but that's medicinal.
I'm doing pretty much the same thing but with these variations:
- I'll be eating rice instead of wheat bread because, well, honestly I'd eat nothing but bread. Rice isn't as "enticing" to me so I'll only eat it when I need it.
- I've added popcorn to the list. I know, I know… why popcorn!?!? It's a light, slightly filling snack for me. I might get rid of it later or I might just ignore it as an option, but for now it's on there.
- When I eat out (which is not very frequently at all), I'm going to try to get as close to the 7 foods as possible, but, for example, if I go to Jason's Deli and they don't have avocado out then I'll eat a close replacement of fresh veggies.
- I'm going to allow balsamic vinegar into the mix. Now, this might seem like a decadence to you, but I'm a Ranch and Blue Cheese kind of girl, so this is still a major sacrifice for me to only use balsamic and oil on my spinach.
I wanted to record what I ate, but I'm not going to post that every day in an individual blog post, so I'm just going to come back to this post and update it every few days with what I ate but actually more importantly HOW I ate it. Just in case you feel like doing a 7 Fast "Hatmaker Style"!
Sunday – Day 1
- Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled and then "fried" into a roll up burrito (imagine the egg part of an omelette without any of the "stuffings"), apple
- Lunch: Went to Jason's Deli with my parents: spinach, red bell peppers, carrots, balsamic
- Annnnnnnnnd then there is no point in recording anymore today because I got a massive migraine (possibly from withdrawaling from coffee which gives me terrible headaches and exaustion) and then it got so bad that I (sorry to be gross) puked my guts out mid afternoon. So I pretty much ate toast and bananas the rest of the day.
Monday – Day 1, for reals
- Breakfast: 1/2 apple, sliced into spears using one of these, 1/2 avocado, cubed (For breakfast? Yep! When you're hungry, you'll eat anything!)
- Snack: handful of air-popped popcorn, plain (Uhhhhh, that's not on the list. I know, but I think I'm putting it on my list. So, yeah, I'm doing an "8 Fast" I guess. Hehe)
- Lunch: 1 cup of cooked basmati rice, and then an hour later: 1 cup of cooked basmati rice mixed with 1/2 avocado cubed small
- Dinner: Chicken Noodle Soup at Chick-fil-A. Well, I thought that I didn't eat out a lot. It really is very rare (it really only happened two days in a row because my husband is out of town).
- Snack: handful of air-popped popcorn
Tuesday – Day 2
- Breakfast: 1/3 sliced fuji apple, 1 scrambled egg
- Snack: 1 grilled chicken strip
- Lunch: 1/2 cup basmati rice mixed with 1/2 cubed avocado and 1 small baked sweet potato, skin removed, cubed (much better than I expected!)
That's all so far, but I'll keep coming back to update. I'm not sure yet if I'll go for 4 weeks like she does or just go through until the end of February even though I started earlier. Either way, there will eventually be at least 28 days of "what-I-ate" and then I'll post a blog at the end of the month with my thoughts!
Praying that God would reveal Himself to me through this experience… through this "experiment"!
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Special-needs Families Offer Insight on Challenges
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- Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 06:56
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 06:56
- Written by Administrator
The panel was composed of 10 families with special needs -- from children with educational or physical challenges to adults with medical problems -- with representation from all services, as well as the active duty and reserve components.
The panel's aim was to help DOD officials "get a pulse" on the challenges special-needs military families face, said Rebecca Posante, deputy director of the office of community support for military families with special needs, which oversees the department's Exceptional Family Member Program.
"We want to make sure what we think are the issues are what the families think are the issues," she said, "and see if we're going in the right direction."
Panel members spotlighted three key areas of concern: consistency, communication and health care, Posante said.
Across the board, panel members raised issues about the consistency of special-needs services across the branches and between the active duty and reserve components. For example, if a Navy member goes to an Army facility, that member should expect to receive the same quality and similar types of services, Posante said. And, people should get the same support regardless of activation status or uniform, she added.
Family members wanted to know, "Why do we get this when we're here, but not in another place?" Posante said.
Panel member Debora Childs, wife of Navy Chief Petty Officer Louis Childs, said she was pleased this issue was brought to the table. The couple has five children, three of whom are enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program. Their 11-year-old daughter, Desiree, was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia at birth and has asthma, and their two adopted sons, 14-year-old Jordan and 10-year-old Scottie, have issues ranging from learning disabilities to autism.
The 17-year Navy spouse said she hopes the department can find a way to make the program universal across the branches to "make sure the language is the same, the application process is the same and the services are the same" for all. That way, she said, if she's living near an Air Force base, she can be assured the experts there will know what types of services she's supposed to receive regardless of her service affiliation.
These consistency issues, Childs noted, can be compounded when moving. Parents want to ensure important services aren't interrupted during transition, she said.
Fellow panel member Army Maj. Charlotte Emery, mother of twin boys and a military lawyer at Fort Belvoir, Va., said she'd like to see better consistency regarding respite care for children. Her 2-year-old sons both are enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program. One was diagnosed with autism at 18 months and his brother with developmental delays for speech, language and socio-emotional behavior.
Emery said she relies on respite child care for a break from her full-time job and parenting of the twins and her older daughter. Just a few hours for a run or a nap can carry her through the tough days when the boys are running around nonstop, she said. However, the ease of getting a few hours of child care varies from service to service.
"It's disconcerting, when you see such a difference between service branches, especially when we're in such a joint environment," she said.
Military families with special-needs families all start the same process with the same form, she said, and "everything that flows from that form should mirror."
Communication is another point of concern, Posante noted. It's an ongoing challenge to ensure the right information is getting to the right people in a timely manner. Her office, she pointed out, already is working this issue. They just launched a mobile website, she explained, that can be accessed via smartphone with the simple swipe of a barcode.
The site offers a program overview, links to service program sites and features an Exceptional Family Member Program contact locator. "We're hoping this will open up the program to a lot of younger people," she said.
Posante said military families who aren't near an installation, including those of the National Guard and reserves, can call a Military OneSource consultant for support and to discuss special-needs concerns. Families can receive 12 free consultations per year by calling 1-800-342-9647 or by visiting the Military OneSource website.
On the topic of health care, families discussed the need for better education regarding benefits, Posante said. Panel members suggested TRICARE develop an online health care course that describes benefits for special-needs families clearly and in detail. An online course, she noted, is "very doable."
Other health care issues, Posante explained, center on Extended Care Health Option, or ECHO, a supplemental program to the TRICARE basic program that offers financial assistance for a certain set of services and supplies for eligible active duty family members.
The panel also discussed fiscal constraints and how the current austere budget environment would affect the program, Emery noted.
"Much of the time, we were talking more policy -- how to do more with less," she said. "What should we do to optimize successes for everyone? What can we do that wouldn't be cost-added, but effective?"
Emery said the family members tried to give personal examples, but veered away from keeping the topics too personal, trying to make sure they addressed the big-picture issues that affected the most people possible.
It was encouraging to note that "much of what we discussed, they are already working on or had conceived of," Emery said of Posante's office. "We were validating where they're already headed. That's the telling point. We weren't that far apart."
Officials will use the panel's feedback and suggestions in an after-action report, which will help them devise an approach to tackling these issues, Posante said. Some of the suggestions, such as TRICARE online training, can be implemented quickly, while other ideas will call for a longer haul, she added.
Either way, the plan is to bring the same family members back in six months to evaluate progress and offer suggestions for the future, she said.
"I walked away feeling like we had a real partnership with the families," Posante said, noting her gratitude for the families' participation. "A lot of what we're doing, we're right on track, but a few things we might need to put a new focus on."
Childs said she was grateful for the experience.
"I feel extremely hopeful," she said. "The people who put this together really valued and sought our opinion. They encouraged us to be frank, and reassured us that they will take the suggestions and will apply them to the program appropriately, accordingly, and the program will be better than it is today."
Related Sites:
Exceptional Family Member Program [ http://www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil/pls/psgprod/f?p=MHF:HOME1:0::::SID:20.40.500.5188.8.131.52.0.0 ]
Military OneSource [ http://www.militaryonesource.com ]


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Microsoft's cloud storage service, SkyDrive, has received several updates in past few weeks, and the progressive updates continue to integrate it well across Windows Phone and Windows. While you can share files on SkyDrive via email, and use your friends' addresses across Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn using the connected address book, you can also get a link to any file or folder on SkyDrive and send that link to friends. You can choose to let friends edit or add files, or choose to make the link read-only.
Although these SkyDrive links have been shortened by about 40%, recently, SkyDrive enabled shortened URLs for these links using the new http://sdrv.ms domain. The sdrv.ms links are furnished via Microsoft's partnership with bit.ly. Since, it is bit.ly at the backend, the shortened URLs include additional features like adding a '+' to the end of any short URL to see statistics or generating a QR code for that URL by appending '.qrcode'.
- Select any file or folder on SkyDrive Web, and click on the Share link in the sidebar.
- In the Share dialog, click Get a link, and then click the Create button according to the required permissions.
- Click the Shorten button next to the generated link to obtain the shortened URL.
SkyDrive URLs also include OpenGraph support so that you get a neat thumbnail preview when you share the links on sites like Facebook.


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Lawsuit: Ohio school didn't have enough security
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — Family members of three teenagers killed in an Ohio school shooting two years ago claim in a lawsuit that the school didn't have enough security and that the alternative school the shooter attended didn't properly evaluate the risks he posed.
The families and a student wounded in the shooting filed the lawsuit Thursday against both schools and some current and former administrators. It came on the second anniversary of the shooting at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland, and just hours after the father of one of the slain students was found dead at his home.
Authorities were continuing to investigate the death of Russell King Sr., 48, who was one of the parents listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Investigators said they found no signs of foul play, but are not saying how he died.
The families alleged in their lawsuit that Chardon administrators knew the high school needed more security and failed to make changes. The school had an "alarming lack of security and inadequate policies and procedures," the lawsuit said.
"Because this is now a legal matter, it would be inappropriate for the district to comment," Chardon Superintendent Michael Hanlon Jr. said in a statement.
Prosecutors said T.J. Lane fired 10 shots at a group of students inside the cafeteria in February 2012. Lane went to the high school each day to catch a bus to Lake Academy Alternative School, where he was a student.
Lane, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, later pleaded guilty and is serving three life sentences.
The lawsuit said Lake Academy administrators failed to properly evaluate Lane and did not warn others about his mental instability and the likelihood of him becoming violent. Lake Academy's director did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
The families are seeking more than $25,000 in damages. King's son, 17-year-old Russell King Jr., was killed in the shooting. Daniel Parmertor and Demetrius Hewlin, both 16, also were killed.
The lawsuit was the third filed by the families. A lawsuit over a fund created to help the families was settled last September while a wrongful death lawsuit against Lane and his family is pending.
The wrongful death suit alleged negligent supervision by Lane's parents and grandparents.
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This will be the last 'TimeForArt' post before the release of Z4R2.
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To view the previous movies, visit Sneak peek #2 and Making Time For Art #3.
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|Lorine & Kathleen, Guelph Civic Museum
Kathleen was waiting at a long table when we arrived. There was a large box opened at her side and she was looking through a book. Two extra pairs of white gloves lay on the table for hubby and I to wear and Kathleen turned another book over to me.
The two books Kathleen had ready were the Acta Nostra Yearbooks for Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute which both my parents attended. Several aunts and uncles as well as my grandmother's and grandfather's brothers also went there. So the odds were that I'd find something in them that related to an ancestor - and perhaps even a photograph!
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A lot of the museum holdings are indexed which makes searching a bit easier. So in the case of some of the yearbooks, Kathleen knew that my mother's name was somewhere in that 1933 book. We just didn't know what page so it did require careful scrutiny to find.
I found out quite a bit that afternoon. I learned from a 1929 GCVI Yearbook that my father had graduated from High School and was working at Holman Luggage. I never knew that. A 1927 Yearbook gave a little light-hearted description of my dad which I really enjoyed reading. My father died when I was 14 so my memories of him are limited and the yearbooks enabled me to get a better sense of him as a teenager.
|1909 Guelph Fire Department
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And as he died long before I was born, I never knew him. In fact only one photo of him taken circa 1916 existed in the family, so seeing him 7 years earlier was a thrill. Kathleen was a font of knowledge about Guelph - its buildings, its history, and she informed us that 1909 was the first year that the Fire Department became an official paid organization. Prior to that time it was a volunteer department. Imagine! My grandfather was one of the first paid Firefighters in Guelph! I'm thrilled to know this.
We looked at many items during the next 3 hours. The Museum is moving to a new location so I could not see all the physical objects they hold which have some relation to my family, but I was able to view many on their computer. Kathleen kindly printed out several interesting documents and photos for me and I'll go back in September when they are settled in their new location.
Here is my advice if you decide to hunt for ancestors at a local museum:
1. Email or phone the museum to ask about their services and fees.
2. Provide a brief list of the names (with dates) of ancestors who you are searching.
3. If the museum has information or documents, ask if you can reserve a time to visit and view the holdings that relate to your ancestors. Perhaps you will be as lucky as me and find a Kathleen who is willing to assist you.
4. Show up on time if you have a pre-arranged appointment.
5. Take your genealogy notes (preferably on a laptop, iPhone or iPad), paper, pencil, pen and your Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner if the Museum allows it. Ask first! I was able to scan many items of interest at the Museum.
6. Thank the museum staff and leave a generous donation even if they have a set fee for research services. Most museums need money to continue acquisitions and hire staff. Usually their research fees are minimal so please leave a donation above and beyond any charges. Kathleen gave us quite a bit of her time, and was enormously helpful. I felt it was well worth $100.00 so that is the amount I gave. As well my husband dropped some bills into the donation jar at the front door. It was money well spent
Kathleen has continued to send me photos and information via email and I am one overjoyed genealogist!


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In a confusing burst of adaptability, Dove Vivi offers slices of anything on their menu at any time. They are able to accomplish this by building slices to order; the premade cornmeal wedges are loaded with toppings and baked at the diner's request. This resulted in both a stunning array of topping choices and an absurdly long wait time. Opting for the daily special Potato and Pancetta ($4.25 cash, $4.75 credit), I bought in to the promise of fresh, well-prepared ingredients with seasonal flair.
After a stomach-croaking wait, the slice arrived. Its slight size for the price was shocking, as was the Chicago-style upsidedownyness of the ingredient arrangement. Herbed tomato sat atop a bed of crispy sizzled pancetta and silver dollar potato slices, while a blend of smoked and fresh mozzarella played the role of bottom layer sauce position ingredient. Rather than the anticipated corny flavor, there was a harmonious incorporation of corn into a rather mild, crisp crust. Fantasies of savory cornbread were quickly diffused.
The stewy tomato element was excessive and dominant, saved partially by a bright rosemary accent. The combination overshadowed any smoky nuances in the cheese or pancetta. Still, the pre-rendered porky element was flavorful and well-prepared. The potatoes were also nicely crisped and presented, yet their flavors were muted underneath the acidic tomato crown. The best bites were potato and cheese-heavy, without question.
Despite prior corn crust prejudice, the outer lip was one of the highlights of the slice. Perfectly crisped on the outside with an interesting interior textural of rough-ground corn, the cornicone yielded a comforting salty, sweet affect. Overall, the experience was marred by a value perception, but the flavors were on point. I no longer fear the cornmeal crust.
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Enforcing order: Urban policing in a volatile city
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Didier Fassin's Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity Press, Cambridge UK, 2013), a study conducted over 15 months of field work that depicts the hostile relationship between youths and police in riotous France. Fassin, an ethnographer, worked closely with anti-crime squads in one of the largest precincts in the paris region to show a unique perspective into the lives of police tasked with enforcing social order in the name of public security. For more information on the book, visit the publisher's website. Fassin's book can also be purchased on Amazon.
Six months before the events at the end of 2005, certain incidents in one of the reputedly problematic neighborhoods in the town seemed to me richly informative about the sequence of events that could lead to what the police unions later described as a "riot," but which a French engineer living in the neighborhood compared to a "ratonnade," that is, a form of ethnic cleansing against Arabs.
I had accompanied uniformed officers on foot patrol or in marked vehicles several times in this neighborhood, made up of two- or three-story blocks, pleasingly designed, set amid green spaces. The contrast between its peaceful appearance and its bad reputation was remarkable.
A resident, a member of a small Jesuit community, told me of the patient efforts of the tenants' association to induce respect for the environment and improve relations within the community: graffiti had disappeared from the walls, the acts of petty vandalism had diminished, a block party had just been held in the park adjacent to the apartments, donations had been collected from residents to fund a weekend by the sea for a group of teenagers. But the social reality as he described it was far from idyllic: unemployment was high among the youth, and everyone knew that drugs were being dealt.
As to the relationship between the local population and law enforcement, it was consistently deteriorating. There were constant stops and frisks, always targeting the same young men, which had no effect on illegal activities but raised tensions. When a resident called the police about a mundane problem such as a noisy gathering in a square, the response was so brutal and, ultimately, counterproductive that most had given up making complaints.
"The atmosphere between residents and the police has become horrible," my informant concluded. I recognized this myself as I accompanied officers in the afternoon and evening, and witnessed their interactions with young people during checks and searches. The aggressive attitude and scorn of the law enforcement agents was met with hostile silence and mute rage.
In this tense atmosphere, a resident called the police one evening in May to complain of an all-terrain vehicle being driven in the adjacent park and causing noise pollution. Three uniformed officers turned up to stop the young driver, who attempted to flee but fell off his quad bike, without hurting himself. The accident allowed the police to catch him and bring him under control. Seeing their friend in difficulty, a dozen teenagers who were in the vicinity rushed to his rescue and formed a threatening circle around the officers, who, outnumbered by their opponents, had to retreat and call for reinforcements.
Once alerted, all the uniformed and anticrime squad patrols active that night swiftly arrived, overrunning the project as they searched for suspects. The police deployment was striking and brutal. On that spring evening, many children were at the playground, the youngest under the watchful gaze of their parents. In the ensuing disorder, a number were pushed. One officer, aiming to intimidate a nine-year-old he had judged insolent, put the barrel of his Flash-Ball to the boy ' s head. A mother who tried to shield her children was questioned aggressively. Horrified residents looked out of their windows as the police stormed the neighborhood paths and the stairways of the buildings. The door to the apartment where the family of one of the suspects lived was broken down, the furniture
overturned and several persons hurt, including the teenage sister of the young man being sought. She was doing her homework, and, as she came out of her room at the wrong moment, she was roughed up, ending the night in the hospital with a broken arm and a neck injury. Her brother – a well-known drug dealer – was finally arrested but released a few hours later, when the police realized he was blind and could not therefore have been involved in the initial altercation.
The Alliance police union, known to be close to the right-wing government, spoke of "attacks of indescribable savagery" against the police, making reference to officers "set on and seriously injured."
The Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme) local representatives wrote to the state prosecutor denouncing "racist and sexist insults that particularly shocked the local residents because death threats were added." The following day, the town hall organized a meeting with residents' representatives, who condemned 'the disproportion between the incidents and the police response, and the stigmatization of non-French residents," while the mayor met the commissioner to discuss with him the "vicious spiral" of violence on both sides, the "gulf between law enforcement agents and inhabitants," and his "anxiety as to whether the police have the will to protect local residents' safety."
When I discussed these incidents with the mayor, he said he was shocked by the brutality of the operation, which had affected all residents indiscriminately. Later I met one of the leaders of the tenants' association, who told me that such incidents wiped out months of patient efforts to improve life in the neighborhood, and even led residents to see criminals as victims. The commissioner, for his part, protested that once again the police were being blamed. He criticized the mayor, whom he suspected of playing politics with the affair, and accused the tenants' association of adding fuel to the flames. He could not imagine the former, as head of the municipal police, and the latter, which in its own way was committed to maintaining order, as allies. He regarded them as adversaries with whom it was necessary to compromise, but certainly not collaborate.
The officers I spoke to during the following days admitted that the serious injuries evoked by the union amounted to one of the three who had chased the driver of the all-terrain vehicle spraining his ankle.
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing can be purchased here, or visit the publisher's website for more information.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - On April 4, several Santa Clara student-athletes representing three women's programs helped welcome the LA-based Step Up Women's Network to the Mission Campus for an afternoon of sightseeing and fun.
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Idoit40fans wrote:Fleury will start only because Bylsma loves him for some reason.
Henry Hank wrote:Honestly the Pens should sweep. The Isles aren't good. They are one of two playoff teams that doesn't have a positive goal differential. They have the worst goals against of any playoff team, going against the highest scoring team in hockey. Worst five on five differential of any playoff team. Penalty kill isn't good going against the second best unit in the league. Below average faceoff team. Also not a lot of playoff experience on that team. This is not a good match-up for them as the Pens' strengths play right into their weaknesses.
Upsets happen but this shouldn't be close. What happened 20 years ago is irrelevant. I've been heavily critical of this team but I expect them to be much more focused this year.
ExPatriatePen wrote:From the NY Long Island media. They're still living in the past.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnist ... -1.5165501
thehockeyguru wrote:I'm interested in seeing what 4th line HCDB goes with. To play a guy like Glass over Bennett and even Kennedy would be a mistake.
mariojr wrote:I don't remember 75. Was 8. Started becoming aware of hockey that fall, I think.
82 was painful, and became more so in retrospect when the team collapsed so utterly, so absolutely, over the next two years that it took them five more years after drafting Mario Lemieux just to make the playoffs again (when 16 out of 21 teams made it). I was at Game 3; the only Pens playoff game I ever attended. I remember how the Pens strategy of holding the Isles rush up at the Pens blue line or in the neutral zone kept the game close. They might have been the forerunners of the NZT.
93 - well what else needs to be said about it. I couldn't really mourn it properly, since I was at a Rasta Rafiki show at Thirsty's and determined to have a good time regardless. It just really started to hit me the next day.
I worry about how effective will be Crosby and Malkin. The former will not be full strength, the latter cannot shoot due to ongoing shoulder problems. Remember when Jagr tried to play in 2001 against the Debs? Not much good he did then. Hopefully Malkin's 3 pt night against Carolina indicates that he's ready to dominate, but then, that goalie sucked.
And there's the rub. Goaltending is probably 50% of hockey, maybe more. Fleury has had a fine season and his stats are similar to Vokoun's, but Vokoun's stats include a horrible 3 game stretch that's long behind him. More recently, Vokoun has been much better than Fleury, both statistically and by the eye test. He's better at rebound control, better at positioning, better with the glove hand, better seeing the puck (through a screen), and better handling the puck. The only thing Fleury has over Vokoun is Fleury's quicker, especially side to side. Fleury makes spectacular saves, Vokoun makes them look easy. Of course, it's going to be Fleury for Game 1; he's the No. 1 goalie and it would take more to change that than what's happened so far. But I wouldn't hesitate to go to Vokoun for Game 2 if Fleury has a bad game 1, or if they fall behind 2-0.
Pens in 6. But if it goes to 7, Isles win.
RxBandit66 wrote:thehockeyguru wrote:I'm interested in seeing what 4th line HCDB goes with. To play a guy like Glass over Bennett and even Kennedy would be a mistake.
I'd agree with that, only because the Isles give up a ton of goals, and having BB or TK in there at least gives the option of another RH shot who can score. BB has played with surprising grit, and TK does lift his game in the playoffs.
**The Isles are a team that will really struggle to defend 4 good scoring lines. Their bottom pairings just don't match up well against a Morrow/Sutter/Cooke or a BB/Jokinen/Adams combo. Putting Glass out there, who has not been good on the PK and provides no offense would seem to play into their hands. If Bylsma rolls 4 lines the Pens will roll over the Isles.
thehockeyguru wrote:
I'd expect a combo of
Dupuis - Crosby - Iginla
Kunitz - Malkin - Neal
Cooke - Sutter - Morrow
Adams - Jokinen - Bennett
But if it was me, I'd have Jokinen on the 3rd and Sutter on the 4th.
sil wrote:thehockeyguru wrote:
I'd expect a combo of
Dupuis - Crosby - Iginla
Kunitz - Malkin - Neal
Cooke - Sutter - Morrow
Adams - Jokinen - Bennett
But if it was me, I'd have Jokinen on the 3rd and Sutter on the 4th.
I bet it will vary based on the game situation. If the pens are down, move Jokinen up and move Cooke down. If the pens have a nice lead in the third...give us all the Cooke we can get on that third line.
pcm wrote:With Sid and Brooks likely out tomorrow, will these be the lines?
I'd be concerned going into a game with only 3 centers. I'd rather a 4th line of Adams-Vitale-Kennedy/Bennett. Vitale's faceoff work has been dynamite. It's mind boggling why he's not on the PK...
Though probably Engelland will be in there instead of Despres.
Nizzy wrote:Letang Eaton
Martin Despres
Niskanen Murray
Engelland isnt better than Despres
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - "The Jewish Agency is very relevant to Jews in South America searching for a sense of belonging," says Ravital Poleg, who will soon take on the post of chief representative in Rio de Janeiro, after a five-year stint as Consul at the Israeli Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.
There are some 95,000 Jews in Brazil, with most of them living in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other smaller cities. The Jewish Agency deals with many aspects of their community services, including aiding Aliyah, Taglit-birthright, Masa, educational programs such as Machon for Youth Leaders from Abroad, the Hillel youth movement for students, related school activities, and student exchange programs, and more.
Poleg's life story could serve as a chapter in Zionist history books – and one she says could serve as a role model for those yearning for a closer attachment to Israel.
In the 1950s, Revital's parents – who had been living on kibbutz - decided to pioneer in then nascent central city of Kiryat Gat, in the newly-developed Lachish region in the western Negev desert.
The Jewish Agency founded the Lachish Region Authority, which was meant to absorb the massive wave of Aliyah throughout the 1950s and create a continuum of communities between the Gaza Strip to the south, and the Har Hevron region to the east.
"This was my education at home," she recalls. "My father was a founder of the Aliyah Bet (second wave of pre-state immigration to Israel) and clandestine immigration via The Jewish Agency, and my mother was an immigrant from Chile," who taught her Spanish at home. "I experienced a very 'Israeli' childhood, with all the parts of society that came to the region."
The communities were planned and built to accommodate Jews from the same, mostly middle-eastern countries, as part of conclusions drawn from earlier waves of Aliyah.
The villages were run by a system of "Transitional Farm Management," meaning that, since most of the immigrants were originally from urban areas, and unfamiliar with farming and pursuing agricultural livelihoods, Jewish Agency employees aided them in gradually developing their homesteads into independent, agriculture-based villages.
Poleg says that, growing up under such circumstances suited her, and that the need for "integration" as a putative newcomer, "was a vague concept, because I lived among all Aliyah members as an equals."
Her decision to work with the Jewish Agency followed a long development period, in which she worked in the Youth and Pioneer Departments (of the Jewish Agency), served as administrative assistant for then Knesset Chairman, and former Agency director, Avrum Burg, and was later active in founding the Peres Center for Peace.
"I am ready to begin this task," she says of the new post, adding that, "we have much to offer and this is my real challenge with the local community."


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Andrea has strongly voiced his concerns of the impact of climate change and advocated the need to support the future of organic viticulture combined with higher altitude plantings. The wines of Fontavera are a direct result of his ambition, seeking out older, organically farmed vineyards grown on higher, cooler sites.
Fontavera Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie DOC (12pk)
Fontavera Sangiovese (12pk)