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Chapter 0121 – Controlling The First Position
Now in the 3rd round of the Tournament, of all the participating cultivators, the 1st position was now completely dominated by Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng had a total of 140 points, which was far beyond that of the person in the 2nd position, Situ Yu, with a total of 60 points. The 3rd was Chi Zi Wen with 30 points and the last was Ling Naixin with 20 points which simply couldn't even be compared.
The ranking of the five 5 Star Academies once again shuffled, the 1st place was still taken by Falling Star Academy with a total of 251 points. The God Wind Academy which was placed last till now, was now at the 2nd place with a total of 216 points. The Clear Sky Academy with 190 points, was placed 3rd. Thunder Academy with 158 points, was in 4th place. While the last place was taken by Luo Huo Academy with a total score of 155 points.
Ning Cheng who still standing on the platform swept with his eyes, of the three people left within the tournament, other than Situ Yu, the other two looked fearful and apprehensive. Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin knew clearly that they were definitely not a match against Ning Cheng.
But Ning Cheng did not feel the need to challenge Situ Yu, as long as he defeated Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin, then the position of the God Wind Academy as the 1st would then be ironclad. But at the same time he knew that he could only challenge two times more, and it just happened that there were only two people that he wanted to challenge.
But against all expectations, after Ning Cheng swept a glance at the rest of the people, he unexpectedly turned around and slowly walked off the platform.
Ling Naixin heaved a sigh of relief, what she most feared was that Ning Cheng would immediately challenge her next. But the one who looked even more relieved was Chi Zi Wen, although he was not sure why Ning Cheng did not go ahead and continue to issue challenges while still standing on the platform, but he was glad that at least he did not have to face against that monster, Ning Cheng.
One of the Essence Building Cultivator from the Clear Sky Academy suddenly said, "Now coupled with our Clear Sky Academy's Situ Yu, there are only 4 people left. Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin are definitely not a match for Situ Yu, so as long as Situ Yu challenged them, then we definitely can take the second place."
Ming Hao Kuo said with a sneer. "No one will challenge us. If there is nothing else unexpected happening in this 3rd round. Then it would definitely end here. That Ning Xiao Cheng has no intention of helping the God Wind Academy to take the 1st place, otherwise he would have definitely taken the initiative to challenge Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin. Regardless of whatever reason why that Ning Xiao Cheng gave up on taking up the 1st spot, we all shouldn't make any other moves. It truly is regrettable, if not for that bastard who was truly blind, then that Ning Xiao Cheng would have definitely been a disciple of our Clear Sky Academy."
"What Teacher Ming says is definitely right, if I got rid of Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin, then indeed we will be able to take up the 2nd position. However, I am sure that once I beat those two people, that Ning Xiao Cheng would definitely challenge me next. The reason why the God Wind Academy does not continue to issue the challenges. Is so as to preserve their spot of the second place. Even I do not have even half a grasp on that Ning Xiao Cheng, this person is definitely very mysterious. Once I lose to him, the Clear Sky Academy would definitely be ranked last." The True Condensation cultivator, Situ Yu who was standing behind spoke up.
"Whether it is the 2nd position or the 3rd position, the difference between them was definitely not this big until now. Since Situ Yu will not go out to fight, that Ning Xiao Cheng would also not come out to challenge. Moreover, that Falling Star Academy's Chi Zi Wen and that Thunder Academy's Ling Naixin would also not come out to challenge on their own initiative." Ming Hao Kuo also nodded, showing his approval towards the words spoken by Situ Yu. When he saw Ning Cheng make his move, he knew that if Situ Yu and Ning Cheng fought then, regardless of it they took the 2nd or the 3rd position, it would only end up in Situ Yu's death.
As Ning Cheng did not continue to issue challenges, and the other people also saw that there was no one else willing to come up to issue or take challenges, as such the scene unexpectedly turned cold.
For the 3rd round really hit such a level. Everyone could see the problem; everyone could see that Ning Cheng was the person who was controlling the 1st position in the tournament. Although none of them knew why Ning Xiao Cheng was doing such a thing. Wasn't he not willing to let the God Wind Academy to take the 1st position, and as such was not continuing to issue the challenges.
As Ning Xiao Cheng did not come to the platform to issue the challenges, the rest of the people also did not dare to come to the platform to issue their challenges. Although Situ Yu could come up and challenge, but he was afraid of Ning Xiao Cheng. What's more, even if he defeated Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin, he would still not be able to take the 1st place. But in case anyone dared to take away the 2nd position of the God Wind Academy, it would only end up in angering that monster, Ning Xiao Cheng, that kind of gain would definitely not even be equal to half the losses that they would incur in the aftermath.
The old man presiding over the 3rd round also obviously knew about this situation, as he flew up and gently landed on to the platform, and spoke with a clear and resonant voice, "Ning Xiao Cheng, do you still want to continue and issue challenges?"
As he saw it, Ning Cheng was fully in control of what Academy would come 1st, as long as Ning Cheng was willing to challenge, the God Wind Academy would definitely take up the 1st place. If Ning Cheng was unwilling to challenge, then the Falling Star Academy would be the one taking up the 1st place.
Ning Cheng hurriedly cupped his fists in front of him and spoke: "This junior's strength is limited, for the God Wind Academy to obtain the 2nd position, we are already very satisfied, it is not that this junior is not willing to continue and issue out challenges. However, if some of the people here wish to challenge me, then this junior would definitely accept the challenge."
The old man then swept his eyes over to Situ Yu, in his eyes, only Situ Yu would be able to resist against Ning Cheng for a bit. Once Situ Yu defeats Ning Cheng, then the Clear Sky Academy would take up the 1st position.
"This junior is not much confident in winning, therefore is not willing to continue to challenge." Situ Yu also responded hastily.
Hearing that Ning Cheng and Situ Yu were both not willing to continue to challenge, Chi Zi Wen and Ling Naixin were completely delighted. Both of them did not wait for the old man to ask them, before they also immediately came forward and clasped their fists as they bowed and spoke that they also had limited strength, and thus cannot continue to challenge. At least Chi Zi Wen had fought once on the platform, but Ling Naixin right from the start to the finish did not even step onto the platform even once.
The old man presiding over the 3rd round nodded his head, and immediately announced in a loud voice, "The Tournament of the 5 Star Academies is now over, the Falling Star Academy takes the 1st place with 251 points. Because the Angry Axe Valley is going to open soon, the Falling Star 5 Star Academy is now promoted to a 6 Star Academy, but the promotion ceremony will take place in 6 months, during this period, the Falling Star Academy can consolidate their resources from the three Lower Class Continents……."
Liu Xian glanced at Ning Cheng, although he also had expected this, but he was not as clear as Ning Cheng on this matter. He now knew that what Ning Cheng had said was right, as the old man had even allowed the newly formed 6 Star Academy to consolidate all the resources of the Lower Class Continents. In addition to the Angry Axe Valley opening in advance, there still was another meaning, it was to look at the overall strength of the newly formed 6 Star Academy, otherwise why would they immediately choose the 6 Star Academy just after finishing the tournament?
Thinking that the God Wind Academy did not currently have a Profound Core Cultivator watching over it, Liu Xian subconsciously shivered in fright. If God Wind Academy was the one to obtain the 1st place, then the God Wind Academy could not do anything without the help from the Intermediate Class Continent. Wanting to consolidate the resources in all the Lower Class Continents, it was simply a dream.
Not to mention any of the other 5 Star Academies, even some of the more powerful 4 Star Academies did not pay much attention to the God Wind Academy. If the God Wind Academy had obtained the first position then it would not have been a prelude to advancing to a 6 Star Academy, but rather a prelude to its death. Because the Falling Star Academy had the strength to back it up, it did not mean that the God Wind Academy also has the same strength.
"Ning Cheng, this time I really have to thank you." Liu Xian spoke with some fear.
"Deacon Liu, you don't have to be so polite, I am also a disciple of the God Wind Academy." Ning Cheng said with a smile, as he was rejoicing in his heart. Although he had already guessed the intentions of those people. But for the most part, he was concerned about Ji Luo Fei. He had never thought that his guess would actually come true. These people from the Intermediate Class Continent. Really made the newly appointed 6 Star Academy to bear the brunt by themselves.
Some of the people who had a bit of understanding towards the situation of the God Wind Academy, immediately understood why the God Wind Academy intentionally did not take the 1st place, as a result they were secretly admiring the savviness of the God Wind Academy.
The old man presiding over the 3rd round continued speaking, "Besides the Falling Star Academy advancing to a 6 Star Academy, they would also be awarded with a limited amount of resources for the time being, moreover the winners of each of the three rounds would also be rewarded separately. Because the winner of the first and the second round is Falling Star Academy's disciple Yue Ying, Yue Ying will also receive the stated prizes, moreover she is also presented with an opportunity from the Jia Continent's Celestial Globe 7 Star Academy to come and join their ranks, of course the Celestial Globe 7 Star Academy would definitely compensate the Falling Star Academy with appropriate resources."
"As for the 1st position in the 3rd round of the tournament, Ning Xiao Cheng from the God Wind Academy, Ning Xiao Cheng besides obtaining the stipulated prize, would also obtain one of the quotas to enter the Angry Axe Valley, this quota will not be of the 20 stipulated quotas given to the Lower Class Continents. All the cultivators that have filled the respective 20 quotas for the entry into the Angry Axe Valley, will follow us tomorrow to the airship that would carry us all towards the Jia Continent together. After six months, all the cultivators from the Hua Continent who entered the Angry Axe Valley, will similarly be delivered to the Mo Ze Grand Plaza directly by the same airship."
Ning Cheng thought that it really was as he had thought about, that old man really wanted to take away Yue Ying.
Although Liu Xian wanted to get the benefits of the God Wind Academy taking the 1st place and although the God Wind Academy could not take the first spot to advance to a 6 Star Academy, but he was still very satisfied, he had actually got three quotas for entry to the Angry Axe Valley. If he added Ning Cheng, then it was a total of 4 people. It was simply inconceivable to him. If their disciples could come back from the Angry Axe Valley, he knew that they would certainly bring back some good treasures. It would not be such a bad luck to them, as with those resources, they could even help the Dean of their God Wind Academy who was also a Profound Core Cultivator, to recover from his injuries.
Thinking about the Profound Core Dean of their God Wind Academy recovering from his injuries, Liu Xian immediately became excited, as he hurriedly spoke to Ning Cheng, "Ning Cheng, this time in the Angry Axe Valley, can you help my God Wind Academy to look after the other three people."
Ning Cheng had not yet spoken, when at the same time Meng Jing Xiu took the initiative to speak, "Deacon Liu, I would like to volunteer myself to go to the Angry Axe Valley. I also request Deacon Liu, to fulfil my lifelong desire to enter the Angry Axe Valley."
Having said that to Liu Xian, Meng Jing Xiu then turned towards Ning Cheng and gave a deep bow as she spoke, "Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, in the past I used to look down on people, still I ask Senior Apprentice Brother Ning to be generous enough and not bother with a vulgar woman like me. The quota for entering the Angry Axe Valley for the God Wind Academy was obtained by Brother Ning, this Jing Xiu shamelessly asks Senior Apprentice Brother Ning to give her a chance. This Jing Xiu must go to the Angry Axe Valley to fulfil her duties."
Before Meng Jing Xiu was very rude towards Ning Cheng, which made him loathe her a bit. But later on when he came to know that Meng Jing Xiu was just a straightforward person, he did not speak up. She was following her own goal, unaware that she was being impolite to others during her journey, although he did not have a favourable impression towards Meng Jing Xiu, he at least did not despise her or loathe her that badly.
Meng Jing Xiu had wanted to participate in the Tournament of the 5 Star Academies, because she desperately wanted to enter the Angry Axe Valley, now that she said that she wanted to fulfil her duties in the Angry Axe Valley, didn't it also mean that she had a map of the inside of the Angry Axe Valley, or was it perhaps because of some other secret?
Anyways, this quota was up to Liu Xian to fill, he did not have any influence on it, as he already had his quota. Thinking of this, Ning Cheng spoke in a light voice, "Deacon Liu is the Foreign Affairs Elder of the God Wind Academy, so all the decisions for the God Wind Academy will be made by Deacon Liu. No matter what choice Deacon Liu makes, I will always agree to it."
When Liu Xian heard Ning Cheng's words, his mind and heart were both filled with happiness, as he spoke with a smile, "Meng Jing Xiu is one of our God Wind Academy's most outstanding True Condensation Cultivators, not to mention about the previous two rounds, Meng Jing Xiu even proved her strength, so of course, you can certainly have one of the quotas."
"Many thanks to Deacon Liu, many thanks to Senior Apprentice Brother Ning." Meng Jing Xiu was not someone who had cultivated her behaviour, but that did not mean that she did not know how to thank her benefactors.
After Liu Xian agreed to Meng Jing Xiu's request, he turned around to Ning Cheng and said, "Ning Cheng, of the other two disciples from our God Wind Academy that are going to the Angry Axe Valley, one of them is called Cang Shuo, and the other one is called Ruimu Danqin."
At this point, Liu Xian beckoned, and a young man and an even younger girl stepped out from behind him and came to the front.
The young man had almost the same cultivation level of that of Meng Jing Xiu, True Condensation 6th Level, he looked ordinary but had a firm and resolute face. But as for that young girl, Ning Cheng estimated that she would only be around 16-17 years in age, however her cultivation was definitely not low, it was at True Condensation 5th Level. This young girl had a pair of bright eyes but because of her long and abnormally thick lips, she looked a bit ugly, and was even a bit of a match to her name.
"Ning Cheng, these are Cang Shuo and Ruimu Danqin, Cang Shuo's father is the current Dean of the God Wind Academy who is in closed door training. Ruimu Danqin is one of the geniuses that my God Wind Academy managed to rope in, I want to ask you to take care of the two of them in the Angry Axe Valley……." Liu Xian asked Ning Chen in a very sincere tone.
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French pâtisserie shops are both delicious and a feast for the eyes. Éclairs, chocolate religieuse, mini lemon tarts, tuiles and canelés, are all perfectly lined up in glass cases making it difficult to choose just one. Part of the appeal of these desserts is the obvious care that goes into their preparation and decorating. Their identical size makes presentation straightforward and almost calming for customers (calming in the only way you can be while faced with life-changing pastry decision making).
Presentation in cooking and baking is just as important as the taste. Even for the most basic and humble dessert, uniformity adds to the appeal. Indeed, cookies are not immune to presentation needs. Older baking books will advise bakers to drop cookie dough by the teaspoon or tablespoon full. This results in various sized cookies of lopsided proportions as well as sticky hands. Enter, the cookie scoop, which, is the same thing as an ice cream scoop but has a handy release mechanism that drops the dough onto the pan without needing an extra spoon or urging the dough out with your fingers. The cookie scoop allows the baker to reach precision in both the size and shape of the cookie.
Cookie scoops come in various sizes as well. My recommendation is to have several sizes on hand. Consider the following sizes when purchasing a cookie scoop:
- Teaspoon: When preparing cookies for children or as part of a larger plate (think of a Christmas cookie tray), I would recommend a teaspoon sized cookie scoop. This allows for little hands to pick them up (and not waste them) and for delicate presentation.
- Tablespoon: for cookies that you bring into the office, where people do not want to commit to a huge cookie before tasting it but are likely to come back for seconds.
- Extra large (like a ¼ cup): If you are following Christina Tosi from Momofuku Milk Bar (she recommends a 2 ¾ ounce or 78 gram scoop for her famous compost cookies) or are preparing cookies for a bake sale.
Apart from measuring and shaping cookie dough, the cookie scoop can also be used for muffin batter, meatballs or items that you want a uniform size and without getting your hands dirty. Of course, you could use it twice in one day- once to scoop cookie dough and a second time to scoop so ice cream on top of the freshly baked cookie.
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- Bake according to instructions.
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text: One of my favorite spots whenever I come home is the factory at Franklin. It's where we go to the farmers' market, paint pottery, and eat at Saffire - a hidden gem where they have Prosecco, to-die-for cheddar chive biscuits, and a crabcake arugula salad (that I order every single time). Added bonus: cute boutiques that carry Free People and a giant rocking chair for us to play on.


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Christmas in Houston is always...pretty much what you expect it to be. It could be anything between 25 and 75F, the traffic in front of the Galleria and Baybrook Mall will look worse than you've ever seen it, people drive even more rudely than normal (probably because, in my estimation, they leave their brains at home for the entire of December), and you will not get done everything you meant to, though you have given it the old college try. Frustration in the city - like any city, anywhere - is par for the course.
I'm not an organized person, either, so the holidays will usually not go as smoothly for me as I ever hope. Nevertheless, I do still have a few Favorite Things.
I love driving down Post Oak and seeing the rows of white-lighted trees.
I love walking in a store and smelling cinnamon.
I love turning out baked goods that make people gush.
I love that my husband, as much as he misses sometimes, always gets me Just The Right Things for Christmas. (To wit: an iPod dock with speakers and a box set of Good Eats DVDs.)
I love that people put Santa hats on their dogs.
I love seeing little girls in pretty red dresses, and little boys in dress-up shirts and pants.
And no matter what we've been through, or how often they drive me crazy, or how much trouble it took me to figure out what to get them...I love my family, and my friends, who are the "family I choose."
There have been times this year when it's been hard to be grateful. Times when I just wanted to hibernate, just to hole up with Bryan and the cats and knit and nosh and watch TV for days on end. Some of them have even been within the past few days.
But the thing is: I have a good life. A husband I'm crazy in love with, parents that adore us, more good friends than I ever imagined, a great job, a kitchen full of food and gadgets, and a lovely stash of yarn. It's not perfect, but it's really, really good. It is, in the end, the Best Christmas Gift of All.
Thanks to all of you for reading, to the commenters, to the knitters I see regularly and the bloggers that I don't - for the inspiration and the cookies and the yarn and the friendship. I wish an abundance of blessings on all of you...
...and that every day is full of things you love.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
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The Whole30 diet is something that has given me great inspiration over the past few months. I have yet to complete a Whole30, but learning about the Whole30 lifestyle has helped me make some big changes in my food habits. It has helped me to THINK about what I'm eating, KNOW what is IN my food, and to LEARN what foods make me feel GOOD. I've learned that some of the things I once couldn't live without actually don't make me feel so great, and that I feel BETTER with out them – I'm looking at you breads, excessive amounts of cheese, and junk food. Tricky little jerks.
Another big change in my food choices is actually where I get my food from. Since January 2016 I have been obtaining my produce (and now eggs, too) from a non-profit, mission-based organization calledHungry Harvest*. Hungry Harvest sources produce that is on its way to the dumpster (for being too small, too big, oddly shaped, etc.) and delivers it to your house. I LOVE IT. But it is challenging, because you cannot completely control what produce you will be receiving. That makes meal planning difficult, but I have learned to get creative with my meals, and to use online recipes as inspiration for creating my own masterpieces instead of following them to a T.
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That's what makes my Hodgepodge Hash "recipe" so great – it's versatile. I use what ever veggies I have on hand, throw them in a cast-iron skillet and BAM, I have a yummy, veggie packed breakfast. I usually make this on the weekends, because it's best when its crispy crunchy. However I'll also make a big batch in the evenings to pack up for on-the-go breakfasts during the week.
Each time I've made this it has been different, because the items in my pantry and fridge have been different. I hope when you make this it will be different too! I have included the ingredients to a few versions of this I have made, as well as the actual steps in creating it, below. But first, here's a quick, non-specific, list of what you'll need:
- A cast-iron skillet or baking sheet
- Healthy fats such as olive oil, avocado oil, or ghee
- Potatoes: red, white, yellow, purple, sweet – any kind, really
- Something green: broccoli, brussels, spinach, kale, etc.
- Extra veggies: onion, carrots – what ever is in your fridge
- Protein: eggs, meat of choice, cheese (optional)
Ingredients: Version 1
- 2 small potatoes (1 red skin, 1 yellow skin), cubed
- 1 carrot, chopped into rounds or half rounds
- 1 small head of broccoli
- 5 large brussel sprouts, cubed
- Avocado oil
- Salt & peper
Ingredients: Version 2
- 1 russet potato, cubed
- 1 carrot, chopped into rounds or half rounds
- 1/2 white or yellow onion, cubed
- 1 jalapeño
- Sprinkle of shredded cheese (optional)
- Avocado oil
- Salt & pepper
Ingredients: Version 3
- 2 small yellow potatoes, cubed
- 1 small head broccoli, chopped
- Halved brussel sprouts
- 1/2 onion, diced
- Coconut oil
- Salt & pepper
Regardless of what vegetables you throw into your veggie hash, the directions remain basically the same. You can use a cast-iron skillet or an oven-safe tray pan.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- If you're using a cast-iron: place skillet on the stove over medium heat while the oven preheats.
- Add oil to the skillet, and add in the larger veggies – like the potatoes, carrots and brussel sprouts – these items take longer to cook. Let them cook in the skillet as the oven warms up. Don't forget to season with salt and pepper!
- Once the oven is ready, add in the rest of your ingredients – onion, broccoli, bell peppers, tomatoes, etc. Give everything a quick stir to distribute the oil over the newly added veggies and then toss the skillet into the oven on one of the higher racks.
- If you're using a pan:
- Spread out the larger veggies on the pan, coat in oil, add salt and pepper. Place in oven on one of the higher racks.
- Bake for about 10 min, then remove from the oven to add the rest of the veggies. Mix together and place back into the oven.
- Bake until the edges of the veggies are crisp and browned, it usually takes around 25 – 30 minutes.
- ADDING EGGS: I love serving this hash with eggs. Cook them to your preference – scrambled, fried, etc. OR… do it the best way and cook them on top of the hash. Just before your hash is finished in the oven, pull out the skillet or pan, and crack an egg or two on top. Throw it back in the oven, turn the broiler on (500 degrees) and cook for an additional 5 min. You will have yummy, ooey-gooey eggs.
- TIP: When baking your veggies, be careful not to over crowd the pan. Veggies that are piled on top of each other will not get crispy.
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About a year ago, I found a reference in another blog to a visit to Brooklyn by JFK, which apparently took place right in front of Dubrow's Cafeteria.
Today I found another reference to what may be the same event, in an article by Carol DeMare, as the subject of her story recalls JFK's assassination:
"Albany attorney Jerry Weiss, was 18 and working in the accounting department of Irving Bank and Trust Co. on Wall Street while attending college. A co-worker heard it over the radio, and "we thought he was kidding, and when we realized he wasn't, a pall came over, and by the time we left ... it was dark and dismal." The subway was dead silent "and people were literally crying, tears running down their cheeks," Weiss said. "It was the most eerie awful train ride home ever."
Weiss, 61, was energized seeing the candidate in Brooklyn outside Dubrow's Cafeteria where 10,000 came out. "This figure jutting up from a convertible, it was magical. I think he stood for the notion we can be better than we are as a nation, so when it was lights out, it was a terrible blow."


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Camping Close
This trip was designed to let us get away for two nights but with Mike needing to work the Boston City Football Club match on the Saturday, to stay close to home. Or close to Malden anyway! We stayed at the Pine Camping area in Salisbury and were lucky enough to have a site that was away from the seasonal campers and very quite. Charlie was a bit out of sorts being away from Rosie and Daisy, and Mike locked the keys in the camper and we had to call a locksmith... and it hammered down rain Saturday night into Sunday... but it was still a really relaxing time. I had this realization that when we camp, we are literally surrounded by living things. The trees, the birds, the insects, the microbes in the soil - everywhere there are living things. But our 'normal' live is devoid of living things except for house plants and pets. Not sure that's a good design for humans.


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The Plate names John's latest book one of the year's top 5!
Courtney Malvik
April Fulton, senior blogger for The Plate, the food blog of National Geographic, names John's latest book one of the year's top 5! Read the article here.
"A great book should take you somewhere, and a great cookbook is no exception… Long before it was trendy to serve sustainable, local, and organic food, Maryland native Shields was doing it at Gertrude's, a modest modern restaurant tucked inside the Baltimore Museum of Art. This fall he reissued his prescient chronicle of the waterman's way of life and traditional cooking on the mid-Atlantic coast. It includes how to "pick" steamed crabs (seasoned with Old Bay, natch), prepare country sides like Green Beans With Country Ham and Sautéed Peanuts, and make the quirky relish known as chow-chow. In this edition, he throws in a chapter on "libations," which wasn't such a big thing back in 1987."


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Through the coming days and the dark storms they'll bring
I'll ride with you.
As the vitriol flows and the weak seek to alarm,
I'll ride with you.
When the light begins to fade and the fear-mongers start to sing,
I'll ride with you.
If you feel hopeless, unable to find calm,
I'll ride with you.
For we are not a nation built on the fears
of an irrational and deranged few.
We are Australians and
we'll ride with you.
We won't give in to hearsay and small minds incapable
of discerning false from true.
We'll ignore them, scorn them and pity them.
We'll ride with you.
The future of this country is one
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We'll ride with you.
For, in the end, we are all human,
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- Chicken sausage
- Broccoli
- Spinach
- Kalamata olives
- Mozzarella cheese
- Homemade pizza sauce
- Homemade pizza dough
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Notes: I made this pizza for my Aunt Bev when she was visiting from Australia. She wanted a healthy pizza and that's just what she got. It was light, summery, and fresh.
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In addition to grilling the toppings, both pizzas were cooked on the grill.
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Baby carrots…baby corn…baby zucchini…baby spinach. Can you guess the theme to this week's pizza?
I tossed baby carrots, baby corn, and baby zucchini in garlic and herb basting oil then roasted them in the toaster oven for 20 minutes. After pre-baking the dough I spread on homemade pizza sauce, sprinkled on mozzarella cheese, added baby spinach and the roasted baby vegetables. I baked the pizza for 8 minutes at 500 degrees.
This was a fun to pizza to make! I'm looking forward to our collective beginning again so I can use locally grown vegetables to make nutritious pizzas all summer long. I'm also looking forward to future experiments with other "baby food."
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Tagged baby, mozzarella cheese, pizza, roasted vegetables
February is heart health month so today's pizza is a healthy one. This pizza includes two ingredients I have not used before: figs and pistachios. First, I ate my share of Fig Newtons when I was a kid, but have never been much of a fig person. The health benefits of figs are undeniable; they are high in fiber and full of iron. Second, pistachios, which help lower cholesterol and control blood sugar are great on salad, but they are an ingredient I had never considered putting on a pizza before today. To add to the health benefits of this pizza, I also included spinach, which has flavonoids and carotene that protects against some cancers.
Here's how I created this pizza. I started by spreading a mixture of sauteed shallots and olive oil on my homemade pre-baked pizza crust. Then, I sprinkled on mozzarella cheese and chopped spinach, pistachios and figs before baking it on my pizza stone for 10 minutes at 500 degrees.
I thought the figs might be too sweet, but this pizza turned out nicely. This was a vegetarian pizza that even a meat lover would enjoy. It was light, but packed full of flavor. Lastly, and it's just a small thing, but I like the way I chopped the spinach in small strips for this pizza and will use this method when I make pizza with spinach in the future.
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Here's a pizza that I made this summer and even wrote about, but forgot to post!
Sometimes I go a little overboard with fresh ingredients. This pizza was one of those times. Here are the ingredients and the reasons I chose to use them on this pizza.
First, Andrew asked to have brie as the cheese on a pizza. It was so delicious last time I used it so I was excited to use it again. Second, my mom gave me a stash of sun-dried tomatoes that she made from her garden and I thought they would go nicely with the brie. Third, our neighbors shared some fresh rosemary from their herb garden. Fourth, we had fresh corn on the cob from our CSA and having never used corn as a pizza ingredient I decided to throw that on. And finally, to give the pizza color, I added some fresh baby spinach.
I had a fun time assembling this pizza. First, I spread homemade pizza sauce on my pre-baked dough. Next, I diced the brie as small as I could in hopes that when it melted that it would cover the pizza well. Then I sprinkled it on the sauce and some shredded fresh baby spinach. I rehydrated the dried tomatoes in warm water, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper, finely chopped rosemary, and tossed them on the pizza. Lastly, I cut the corn off the cob and sprinkled that on as well. I baked the pizza in the oven for about 10 minutes.
This pizza had the most fresh ingredients I have ever used on a pizza and it was bursting with fresh flavor! If you make this one for yourself I think you will agree that it tastes like you are taking a bite out of a garden. This was a delicious summer pizza recipe.
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The R.E. curriculum that we follow is locally defined by the Standing Advisory Council for R.E. Children are taught about religion and are encouraged to learn from religion through a variety of topics, taught through Early Years, KS1 and KS2. Through the teaching of different religions we encourage children to be respectful of the religious practices of those that observe them.
We have made close links with local churches who support the teaching of Christian Festivals – Christingle and Easter. Queens Park is close to hand which offers a Faith Tour – visiting a Sikh Temple, Church and Hindu Temple.


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Taking on the streets of Amsterdam!
We would like to congratulate everyone who finished the race and thank you all for making this another successful UPR edition.
Every year we try to bring you to some new location and neighborhood of Amsterdam. This year we chose for a more central route, hitting the bustling city center, taking you along some busy streets and nice an refreshing parks and squares. All in the search for the ultimate UPR photo set.
We are very proud to have had so many participants this year, new and old, beginner and experience photographers came together for this exciting photographic experience. Not only that but we were also very happy to see so much media attention to our event. If you want a recap of the day's event and how it went for some of our participants, please check out the following videos and audio reports.
Valérie Jardin - Audio podcast with Maurice Vliegen
Festival Journaal - Video cast from Salto.nl
Cafe Obscura - Video cast from Niels Kemp Creative and Michel Maat
In the end what matters is that you came and that you did your best to finish and that above all, that you had fun participating.
Lovely to see surprised new faces, realizing this is indeed a race and you have to give the energy the whole day, as well as many regular followers, now more laid-back, becoming more picky with their choices. But, honestly, what we enjoyed and appreciated the most is the interaction with everyone. Even if this is a tight-schedule day, everyone is so collaborative, motivating, giving tips to each other, and giving us constant feedback.
Over the years, the most valuable thing has been the beautiful network formed around this event. We would like to thank Alicia Sanz andBeatriz Pineda, for helping us out with the race day tasks, to all of checkpoint locations we visited and finally all participants for following us and translating our ideas into great images!!!
We hope to see you all at the exhibition!! In the mean time here's some snapshots of that day.
1st prize
Jurgen Onland
Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM + Fokko Muller street photo workshop + UPR photo prints
Theme 1
I finally became an old guy (Anton Corbijn)
Guillaume Groen
Van Duuren Media Photo book + UPR prints
The GT winners are out and they found their "Water in the city" photo.
As it is becoming customary on our Amsterdam event, we participate in a global theme alongside other photo marathons around the world. This means that all around the world in each separate photo marathons we all shared a common theme, this year it was a rather suitable theme for Amsterdam.
We're proud to be among many great cities like Dublin, Shenyang, Nice, Patras, Copenhagen and Berlin.
The winners of this theme will be shared amongst all photo marathons and be shown on each respective city exhibition event.
Jury favorite
Selecting the best photo sets and the best theme winners is quite a challenge for our Jury. Many times they select a winner for their body of work while still having preferred a photo from another participant, these are the individual photos that each Jury liked the best.
Heleen Peeters
Ellis Petri
Degreef & Partner Lowepro Toploader zoom 50 AW II black + UPR prints
Marius van Pijpen
Degreef & Partner Joby Gorillapod SLR-ZOOM + UPR prints
Bas Losekoot
Rob van Hoorn
Degreef & Partner Carry Speed DS-2 (Prime) camera sling strap + UPR prints
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These are the companies and entities that contribute and support our event. We are not only very grateful for their help but also honoured to have such distinguished brands associated to our event.


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Fundraising campaign and restoration of St John the Baptist Church
A major fundraising campaign began in 2009 to save the building as a place of worship and a centre for the local community. The first step raised £700,000 which in 2014 allowed us to replace the church's large, original roof. It had leaked for over twenty years. In stage 2 nearly £500,000 were raised to replace the remainder of the roof (the narthex) and develop a community space, new lavatories, new kitchen facilities at the west end of the church. In 2017 an electrical fault caused old curtains around the high altar to ignite. The fire was short-lived but intense, and resulted in smoke damage on most of the surfaces of the church, especially in the chancel. Fortunately the church was insured and Ecclesiastical Insurance paid for much of the interior to be cleaned in 2018. The cleaning process removed some of St John's historic grime as well as the effects of the high altar fire. Some of the damage to the magnificent reredos behind the altar was too severe for full restoration to be possible. On the other hand, St John's was cleaner at the end of 2018 than it had been for decades.
The people who love St John's will always be grateful to the individuals and organisations who stepped in to help financially. It is no exaggeration to say that this jewel of a church was saved by them. More about our supporters
In 2019 we will launch the third and final stage of our ten-year programme to make St John's fully sustainable. Phase 3 of our renovations will replace our old heating and lighting systems. It will allow us to restore the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament and upgrade spaces around the church so it can make the most of its ability to generate revenue and serve the community better.
Could you help fund our restoration?
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of IHS Markit
Hottest Play in the USA:
Wolfcamp Play, Midland Basin, West Texas
11:30 AM Wednesday, April 19, 2017
at the Cascades
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Tyler, TX 75709
Cost: $20
Peter Blomquist works for IHS Markit in the Dallas office as a geologist and Technical Advisor in Petra and Kingdom Geology. He has a Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. During his 20 years' experience as a geologist he has explored for a variety of commodities, including oil & gas, diamonds, high-calcium limestone, water, sand & gravel, and abandoned water wells. His job responsibilities have included those of staff geologist, consulting geologist, university instructor, entrepreneur, facilities engineer, and independent operator. The key lesson that he learned while in operations is that the pumper never calls with good news. Peter is a Registered Professional Geologist in the State of Texas and an active member in AAPG, West Texas Geological Society, and the Dallas Geological Society.
A total of 116,383 wells have been drilled for oil and gas in the Midland Basin of West Texas, which includes 101,647 oil and gas producers. Historically, the most productive portions of the Basin are in the south and center. Wolfcamp production follows this same trend.
The Wolfcamp Formation (Wolfcampian-Leonardian) exists across the entire Midland Basin and was first drilled as a vertical oil play in the 1950's. Various operators experimented with horizontal wells in the Wolfcamp during 1990 – 2001, and the results of those early efforts were inconsistent. No additional wells were drilled in the play until 2007 – 2010 when six more wells were drilled. Activity accelerated in 2011 when 57 wells were drilled in this resource play, and with the success of those wells, interest in the play increased dramatically.
Stratigraphically, the Wolfcamp Formation is complex, consisting of mostly shale and argillaceous carbonates, with sand and sandy intervals near the basin edges, and facies that exhibit abrupt lateral changes. The Wolfcamp has stacked pay potential, with six possible target zones, or benches in which to direct horizontal wellbores, designated top-down as the A, B, C (upper and lower), and D (upper and lower) zones. The most drilled targets to date are the A and B zones in the section. The Wolfcamp Shale has excellent shale rock properties; it fractures well and has a good range of total organic carbon, e.g., between 2% and 7%. Structure does not appear to be an influence in this play.
The total number of horizontal wells in the Midland Basin through January 2017 is 5,123, with 3,318 horizontal wells completed in the Wolfcamp interval. Wolfcamp horizontal wells can exhibit substantial initial production (IP) values. To date, 28 wells have had IP's greater than 2,000 BOPD, with an average IP of all Wolfcamp horizontal wells of 680 BOPD. Although this play is still in the juvenile stage, cumulative production to date is 181 million BO. Recent drilling has increased lateral lengths to 13,000 feet, with Pioneer Natural Resources leading this effort. Average lateral length for the Wolfcamp horizontal wells is 7,100 feet, and 122 wells have laterals greater than 10,000 feet. Estimated ultimate recovery is greater than 500,000 BOE per horizontal well from multiple zones, which increases with increasing lateral length. Based upon areal extent, thick and abundant source rocks, and multiple producing horizons, the Wolfcamp Play is one of the largest resource plays in the world, particularly when combined with the overlying Spraberry Formation. Total recoverable reserves may exceed 35 billion BOE for the Wolfcamp horizontal play.
Like a good fishing hole, this play has captivated the locals, in addition to attracting new players. The new attention, plus strong IP's, existing infrastructure, and multi-stacked pay zones have pushed average land acquisition prices over $25,000 per acre, with some recent deals topping $50,000 an acre. This is the hottest play in the country and continues to grab headlines.


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In the independent-broker-dealer industry, where regulatory spanks seem like an everyday occurrence, Cambridge Investment Research Inc. has emerged as the poster child for a well-behaved firm.
The IBD has exactly one re-portable event on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s BrokerCheck database: a $12,500 fine in June 2007 related to reporting requirements for certain fixed-income securities transactions.
"I wish I had a secret recipe to share," said Amy Webber, president of Cambridge, which has nearly 2,500 advisers, $56.6 billion in assets under management and $461.4 million in reported 2012 revenue (the most recent full-year data available). "Every time something horrible happens in our industry, it harms our collective reputation."
A closer look at how Cambridge and other IBDs that seem to fly under Finra's radar approach their businesses reveals what industry watchers pinpoint as keys to minimizing regulatory action.
One of her firm's most critical business activities is recruiting, said Ms. Webber, who has been with Cambridge for 16 years.
"You have to do your due diligence on the advisers you are aligning yourself with," she said.
Ms. Webber pointed out, however, that it isn't a silver bullet.
"Good people can turn bad, and good people can get in situations where they lose their better judgment," she said.
Commonwealth Financial Network, which has about 1,500 financial advisers, $71 billion in AUM and $712.1 million in 2012 revenue, had a fairly long stretch without a scratch on its regulatory record.
The company had 18 regulatory events reported on BrokerCheck overall through 2009, then not another until 2013, when it had one.
The reprieve from regulatory action wasn't due to any overnight changes in Commonwealth's business practices, chief compliance officer Paul Tolley said.
In addition to focusing on carefully vetting its advisers, the firm continually updates its processes to avoid regulatory noncompliance.
"We revise and improve on an ongoing basis," Mr. Tolley said.
"We try to be one step ahead of what's going on [with regulations]," he said. "We'll never be perfect, but when we make mistakes, we take steps to correct them so they don't happen again."
Cambridge also focuses heavily on ensuring its compliance department forges a strong relationship with its advisers, Ms. Webber said.
One way the firm does this is by seeking input from its advisers when the industry faces a rule change. The goal is to make sure that the compliance process will work well for the advisers.
"If we don't make the process work for them, they are more likely to make a mistake," Ms. Webber said.
The size of an independent broker-dealer makes a difference, said Peter Chepucavage, an attorney and industry consultant at Plexus Consulting Group.
"The more reps you have, the more likely you are to get complaints and disciplinary actions," he said.
Indeed, LPL Financial, which ranks as the largest IBD, with about 13,500 representatives, has a total of 43 regulatory events reported.
But there are small firms that, comparatively speaking, rack up a sizable number of regulatory problems.
National Securities Corp., which has 594 reps, has 54 events reported. The firm declined to comment.
In fairness, compliance costs can run high for broker-dealers and prove a particular stumbling block for smaller independent broker-dealers.
"It can become very hard financially for some independent firms to stay in compliance," said Howard Spindel, an industry consultant and senior managing director at Integrated Management Solutions USA.
Commonwealth's most recent regulatory run-in involved the sale of nontraded real estate investment trusts after Massachusetts' head regulator, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, set his sights on the investments.
It was one of six independent broker-dealers that in aggregate agreed to pay $21.6 million in restitution to clients over issues related to improper allocation amounts of such investments in client portfolios, according to an InvestmentNews report.
And the firms collectively have forked over nearly $1.5 million in fines.
Commonwealth's share was $2.6 million in restitution and a $300,000 fine.
For its part, Cambridge avoided getting tangled up in Mr. Galvin's nontraded-REIT sweep, despite offering the investments to its clients.
The products represent a relatively small part of the firm's business, Ms. Webber said.
"We have someone here look at every one of those transactions," she said. "But if you're doing a high volume, it's harder to avoid human error."
Larry Papike, president of industry recruiting firm Cross-Search, pointed to the importance of supervising advisers, who can be scattered across the country, as another key to avoiding regulatory run-ins.
"After you bring in quality people, you then need to monitor their business on the back end," he said.
"The bigger firms have regional supervision. They have staff that goes into offices on a regular basis so they know what they're doing," Mr. Papike said.
Cambridge does exactly that.
The firm still structures itself with offices of supervisory jurisdiction, Ms. Webber said.
"I know some [firms] are moving away from it, but we still believe in that structure," she said.
Industry experts also agree that while regulations can be burdensome for both independent broker-dealers, which are supervised by Finra, and registered investment advisers, which are overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the broker-dealer rules seem to be more cumbersome.
Cambridge has independent RIAs that have been in business for 20 years, and "last year had the SEC show up at their door for the very first time," Ms. Webber said.
Without question, regulatory requirements can be a thorn in the side of IBDs.
"It's a complex environment and is changing now more than ever," Ms. Webber said. "It would be nice if we could take a step back and create more-effective regulations instead of just adding more-difficult regulations."
Sarah O'Brien is a freelance writer in Hampstead, Md.


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The connection between access to broadband and the availabilityof innovative health care may not be immediately apparent, but a new web-based interactive mapping tool developed by the Federal Communications Commission's Connect2Health Task Force make the correlations increasingly clear.
Mapping Broadband Health in America lets the public, health officials and government agencies find the intersection between broadband connectivity and health at the national, state and county levels.
"The reality of broadband is that everything it touches is transformative," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said at the Aug. 2 launch event in Washington, D.C. "Yes, broadband is transformative for healthcare, but, no, broadband is not totally available."
The FCC collects broadband data by county and has opened and integrated that data for the public. The tool is intended to provide critical data and insights about health care's relationship with broadband so officials can create data-driven policies and provide services to areas in need.
After identifying the areas with connectivity gaps, public and private sector organizations and local communities can work together to develop solutions. "The map can coordinate those kinds of life-saving activities. The map can help focus on areas that need help. The map can direct resources," Wheeler added.
Users can generate customized maps filtering broadband access, adoption and speed against health measures like obesity, diabetes and physician access in rural or urban areas. The map will show all selected metrics and the intersections.
Data can be downloaded for counties or states in a variety of formats including JSON, XML, SHP, KML or CSV. Application programming interfaces are also available, the FCC said.
Downloaded files can be integrated with external data for customized analyses. For example, a user can generate a map relating connectivity and health metrics to veteran populations.
By integrating broadband and health data, the FCC was able to determine that access to health care, the quality of care and health outcome metrics are very different in connected communities verses digitally isolated communities.
"To use public health parlance, broadband connectivity has become a social determinant of health, along with income, education and rurality," FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said at the launch event.
The map also illustrates a major connection between rural counties and health issues, with 60 percent of rural Americans living in counties with high chronic disease and little broadband connectivity. Some communities are living in what Clyburn referred to as "double burden" counties, or areas where the highest health needs and lowest connectivity intersect.
The tool is the result of the task force's "Beyond the Beltway Series." Members traveled around the country to learn how communities leverage broadband technologies and next-generation communication services to improve access to health services.
For example, the task force witnessed how broadband-enabled health technologies are improving access to mental health care for veterans in Houston where there is a shortage of mental health providers. A public-private partnership in Mississippi also brought broadband, diabetes education and remote monitoring to diabetes patients in an area where broadband was not previously available.
This is the kind of innovation the FCC and its partners hope to push with the mapping tool. "It will help us identify both gaps and opportunities and empower us to construct bridges at the intersection of broadband and health precisely where they are needed," Clyburn said.
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Screened Porch with Wood Burning Fireplace and Paver Patio
This a beautiful screened porch that we built in Fort Mill, SC in the Springfield neighborhood. We started by extending the concrete floor out and pouring a large footing for the large wood burning fireplace. From there we built the screened porch and then the fireplace followed. The porch uses an aluminum screen track system with a darker screen for added privacy. To finish off the ceiling we used a beaded pine board with a matching pine trim and sealed it with a Sherwin Williams semi transparent wood stain. The fireplace was veneered with natural stone, hearth and mantle along with a large wood storage outside of the fireplace. Afterwards we built large paver patio with rounded edges and a step off into the yard. This project turned out to be very fun to build and very functional for the entire family. We always want you to Enjoy Being Outside.
Open Porch with a Trex Deck
This spacious open porch in Harrisburg, N.C. was designed to let the owners enjoy their outdoor space without enclosing their porch with screens. The deck surface is covered with Trex Transcend deck boards in Spiced Rum with hidden fasteners for a seamless, smooth feel. The deck rails are Trex Transcend post sleeves, skirts, caps, and railing along with black, round aluminum ballusters. The open porch has a gable roof with a detailed front gable design. The ceiling is a tongue and groove pine beaded panel with a Sherwin Williams stain. The ceiling also has 4 recessed can lights and a ceiling fan with all wires and switches hidden in the hollow, laminated porch columns with Sherwin Williams paint to match the exterior trim of the house. Step outside of the house and immediately you feel like you can relax and enjoy being outside.
Screened Porch with Fireplace and Wall Sconces
Here is a beautiful screened porch in the Murrayhill section of Charlotte. The porch is tall enough off of the ground to accommodate the homeowners need for a workshop down below. The floors are pressure treated pine with a Sherwin Williams stain. The porch walls consist of 6x6 Cox laminated porch posts and the railing is round, black aluminum Deckorator ballusters. The ceiling consists of 1x6 V-Groove panels with a pickled Sherwin Williams white stain. The room is balanced off with a vent free gas fireplace with cultured stone, large cedar mantle, stone hearth and a TV for loads of fun evenings outside with family or friends. The room is lit up with 7 wall sconces and 2 ceiling fans keep it cool during the warm summer nights.
Lake Porch
Deck with Decorative Iron Railing
This deck incorporates iron railings along with lights in the vertical portion of the steps. Other features include Trex decking in a great color scheme to match the house design.


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See a string of prayer flags, billowing and wind-tattered, hanging over the street and you know: you're back in Tibet. Or at least, as close as you (I guess that means "I") can get. The "real" Tibet, sitting up there on a plateau somewhere around 4000-5000 meters above sea level, has been closed to foreigners for some time now. It's possible to fly or train in to Lhasa and get shuttled around in a jeep for a hundred bucks a day, but there's no entry for those who want to roam freely, sleep by the rivers and under the stars, and sip yak butter tea in an dark shack with a grandma.
Then again, I've also heard it said by foreigners and Tibetans alike that Tibet is no longer Tibet; globalization (Sinozation?) has come, and the whole area has been diluted ethnically, religiously, and socially by the influx of Han Chinese looking to be among the first to set up shop. In part, this is the same story that's going on in small and out-of-the-way place all over the world; in part, it's also a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government to water down Tibetan identity to the point where the population is no longer homogenous enough to protest together. It's working; many Tibetans have left Tibet and live in Yunnan and Qinghai (neighboring provinces in western China), in Bhutan, in Dharamsala (where HH the Dalai Lhama presides over the Tibetan government-in-exile) and, you guessed it…in Arunachal Pradesh.
But first, we had to get there…meaning a 280km ride with a total of 20,800m of gross altitude gain (that's two and a half Mt. Everests) and one mountain pass at 4,200m. Not the highest in the world, but it's up there. High enough to make your head spin, anyhow. There was no doubt that the road would be rough, but we had also expected it to be empty. Quite the opposite! Loads of military convoys passed by daily, sometimes with as many as ten or twelve big rig-sized jeeps, taking soldiers to the hill tactics training stations around Tenga, or transporting various branches of paramilitary and Indo-Tibetan Border Police force soldiers back and forth to their homes in the plains. The region isn't exactly volatile – like I mentioned in the last post, there's almost no violent insurgent activity to speak of, only a general strike every month or so – but it borders China, so I guess they've always got to be on guard.
In addition to the surprisingly large military presence, there were two medium sized towns along the way and several smaller ones, so that we managed to get hot food and a guesthouse just about every night. In fact, every square inch seemed to be either populated, forested, or cultivated, so we couldn't camp at all on the whole way up. We've also got our own predilection for bathing to blame for that.
Kids playing in front of a stupa in Bomdila. This photo captures the diversity of Arunachal nicely: the two main ethnic groups are Monpas (left and center), who are descended from Tibetans but have been living in Arunachal for generations, since long before the Chinese government started stirring up trouble, and plains Indians, usually from poorer northern states like Bihar.
One of my favorite things about the developing world in general is how even young children assume responsibilities like running errands, cooking, and caring for siblings.
One of Chris' favorite things about the developing world is how nobody bats an eye when you ask if you can borrow their baby for a picture.
Kind of Hindu-looking auntie cooking the quintessential Tibetan dish: Momos! Veg dumplings, stuffed with cabbage when they're lame, cabbage and chives when they're decent, or cabbage, chives, and textured vegetable protein when they're crazy awesome. Nonveg versions also available.
Morning assembly at a school. Depending on the school, the students might sing up to three different national anthems – each in a different language! The Indian anthem in Hindi, the Tibetan one in Tibetan and the local (Monpa) one in Monpa. The schools here are generally English-medium and the principal was addressing the students in English…that I couldn't really understand.
Up at the "upper Gompa" (the bigger of two monasteries in town), there was a weeklong vigil following the passing of one of Tibetan Buddhism's highest Rinpoches (masters). Hundreds of villagers sat around the monastery grounds repeating mantras, saying prayers, and counting prayer beads, while monks sat inside and chanted for hours on end, presumably to give the lama's soul the strength to cut all its ties with this world and move on to the next. It being such a somber occasion, I didn't feel right taking pictures. Except in the back, where a few monks were preparing vats of Yak butter tea (ingredients: milk, Yak butter, salt…it's not easy to swallow, but it does fill you up and keep you warm).
"Sir, take our picture." "No, don't" "Quiet, let him take it!"
Phurpa, a Monpa guy (27) serving in the Assamese Rifles squad of the Indian army, posted in Manipur, charged with patrolling the Burmese border and combating Meitei (local manipuri tribe) insurgents who have their home base on the other side. What a world!
We met Phurpa at a snack shop in Tenga in the afternoon and he told us to call him when we got to Bomdila that evening. He helped us find a hotel and invited us down to his house the next morning, where he served us tea, shared some nice crackers from the military store, gifted us two Nepali mountie knives, played a few Tibetan pop videos for us on his Samsung tablet, and introduced us to the music of American rapper Machine Gun Kelly. What a world!
On the way out of Bomdila and on the way to Dirang, we stopped in a tiny little town to try and scrounge up some lunch. No luck; the closest thing to a restaurant there served only instant noodles. I started pestering a guy who looked like a non-local and eventually he caved, admitting that he and his companions were working for a hydel (hydroelectric) company and that they had a bungalow and a cook just around the corner. Score! They fed us rice, dal, veg curry, and omelettes, and even invited us to stop by again on our way down.
Interesting tidbit: the village will get fifty years (was that right?) of free electricity for letting the company build a dam and plant there.
We weren't the first cyclists to take this route, but we are few and far between enough that the kiddos haven't lost their curiosity.
Near old Dirang, a village sandwiched between forested mountains and overlooking the stream that runs between them. Everything seemed to be in pretty good shape, but these kids still came up to me while I was taking a picture and pointed at my water bottle. "Pani, pani!" Needless to say I poured them each a cup.
A family in Old Dirang who invited me for a cup of tea while I was strolling around the village taking photos.
Also in Old Dirang: a pack of kiddos who up until a moment before had all been rolling around in the grass together.
Monks on the way to New Dirang.
Kalachakra ("Wheel of Time") temple in New Dirang. They had had a birthday party for HH the Dalai Lama that morning with lots of music and prayers. We had been told that it would last all day and that we should for the evening ceremonies, but when we got there we found out that everything had been cut short to mourn the passing of the aforementioned Rinpoche.
By the time we got there, nothing was going on except for a few people doing prostrations in front of one of the stupas and a few others walking in circles around it, spinning the prayer wheels on each go 'round.
That evening, walking across a rickety old bridge just for the heck of it.
Just on the other side was…well, not a park, but a kind of green space with enough miscellaneous objects in it that the kids could enjoy themselves. One favorite activity was scrambling up the wire mesh that was holding the stone wall together.
Another was sliding down the electric cable.
Both in one shot.
The runt.
Uncle Chris causes a traffic obstruction.
One great thing about India (and lots of other places out here) is that if you stand around looking perplexed for long enough and someone will come solve your problem. Due to rough roads, Chris' front rack had snapped. This guy came over with some extra rubber strips and fixed everything right back up. Who needs a $100 welding job? 1000km later and still going strong!
Moments after laughing at Chris and feeling superior because of my bicycle's outstanding durability, I noticed something. My back brakes weren't working, because my back rack had partially collapsed. This guy fixed it with a steel splint and, again, a bit more rubber. (more details about bike breakdowns in a following post).
I was surprised to see how many aunties were out on the road doing hard labor. Wages for laborers vary by region and kind of work, but most figures I've heard are between $1 and $3 per day.
This was the face he made even after I asked permission to shoot.
Commanding officer Kumar, from Bihar, in charge of a 90-man paramilitary squad in a town called Jang where we got stuck there during a two day general strike. We could have defied the traffic ban and ridden on to Tawang, but Chris' rim had pretty much snapped in half the previous night, so we were S.O.L. And S.O. food since all the markets and shops were also forcibly shut down. CO Kumar took pity on us and had his cook whip us up a lunch even though technically we civvies ought not even be hanging around the base.
Finally, Tawang! Home of Tawang monastery, the biggest and oldest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the world after only Potala Palace in Lhasa. More about that in a later post.
At the park outside the monastery we met a couple of Tibetan dudes sitting around. They mentioned that it was some sort of Independence Day celebration and drove us down to the Tibetan community center, where we got to stuff our faces with Tibetan cheese and mini-bell pepper casserole, and got to have beers poured for us by these guys:
The three oldest Tibetans in Tawang. They came over the Himalayas ON FOOT during the mass exodus after the Chinese invasion in 1959. Some of them had been in the Tibetan army and had been part of the advance party clearing the way for HH the Dalai Lama himself. The two on the left are widowers, the one on the right was once a monk who now lives by himself in solitude and mostly makes ends meet by going around performing rites for people.
The younger generation.
Far left is Tenzin, who speaks perfect English and used to work at a Walmart call center in Delhi. Walmart sales reps in the states would call him to ask whether a customer there at the customer service desk was allowed to return a certain item.
Not sure about the guy next to Tenzin.
In the middle is Tashi, who runs a little diner with his uncle. The menu consists of Chai, yak butter tea, beef dumplings, and beef noodle soup. He also lent us his motorcycle so we could go on an excursion for a day.
Between me and Chris is Jack, who runs a hotel and a restaurant. He offered to let us stay, but when we went to check out his hotel, his wife told us that everything had already been booked. Shucks.
Bottom right in Yellow is Pema, niece of the owner of the hotel Chris and I stayed at in Tawang. She studied in the biggest city in the northeast and then got posted to a tiny village school way up in the mountains. She invited us down for a day to check it out, chat with the principal (in shades), meet the kids, and tell them a little about our trip.
We also took a walk to yet another terrifyingly rickety bridge.
Jhamtse Gatsal, another school, both heartbreaking and heartwarming. The name means "Garden of Love and Compassion;" it's a "children's community" on a hilltop within sight of Bhutan where orphans, abused, and other disadvantaged children from the nearby villages come to live, learn, heal, and grow. About ninety children live together in simulated "families" of 20-ish kids each. They study a standard Indian curriculum during day, but with lots of direct interaction from the teachers. They also get lessons in Tibetan language, Monpa culture, Buddhism, and have lots of sports and creativity time. They even take care of the community grounds, helping out in the farms, gardens, and grounds-keeping. If I had a little more to contribute in terms of permaculture and gardening knowledge, I'd definitely stay there for a few months. I may still do that.
Jhamtse will be having a fundraiser in Boston in November. Please go if you can and share if you can't!
We both felt the urge to stay at Jhamtse for a few weeks or more, but with only a couple days left on our Arunachal "Protected Area Permit," we had to head back down to Assam pronto. Chris' bike was busted and we had neither the time nor the desire to do the whole 280km again in the other direction, so we hitched a ride in a big old lorry and did the whole thing in 2 days rather than seven, spending the night in between in our trusty tents, pitched in the truckbed. A little grimy, but at least we were safe from the rain. And probably more comfortable than the two drivers, who slept on fold-down bunks in the cab.
One of our drivers, Lobsang, is on the right. He used to study in Bangalore but had to come back to Tawang to take care of his alcoholic mother. He said he makes about $50 a month as an assistant driver. He spends about 10 hours a day in the truck, four or fives days a week.
"Why are elephants grey, huge, and wrinkly? Because if they were small, round, and white they would be aspirin."
I'm not sure whether it's funny…but this guy certainly doesn't know.
After an excruciating 16 or so hours on the Heinous, Hellacious, Atrocious, Bodacious Arunachal roads (during which time I actually learned to sleep sitting upright in the half-lotus position), we finally made it back to the low- and smooth-lands of Assam. Chris popped his busted bike on a rickshaw, had it wheeled over to the bus station, and we bussed our way over to Guwahati for some major rest and repairs.


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serves 6-10
What You Need
For The Pork
1 TBS oil
1 shallot, diced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 jalapeno, minced
2 TSP fish sauce
1 1/2 LB boneless pork loin, thinly sliced
2 TBS coconut sugar
2 TBS water
For The Mango Salsa
1 mango, diced
1/2 cup cucumber, diced
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1/4 cup red onion, diced
Juice of 1/2 a lime (about 1 TBS)
Salt, to taste
For The Spicy Slaw
3 cups slaw mix
1/3 cup mayo (more depending on preference)
1 TBS sweet chili sauce
1/2 TSP hot sauce
1 TBS apple cider vinegar
1/2 TBS honey
Juice of 1/2 a lime (about 1 TBS)
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
2 TBS fresh cilantro, chopped
Additional Ingredients
Corn tortillas
Fresh cilantro
For The Pork
1. Whisk together the fish sauce, sugar and water. Place pork in a bag and pour sauce over. Let marinate for at least 30 minutes.
2. In a large pan, heat oil over medium heat. Add shallot, jalapeño and garlic and cook for about 2 minutes.
3. Slightly turn the heat up and add in the pork with the marinade. Cook until no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
For The Mango Salsa
1. Combine all ingredients into a medium bowl and set aside in fridge.
For The Spicy Slaw
1. In a small/medium bowl, whisk together the mayo, sweet chili sauce, hot sauce, apple cider vinegar, honey and lime juice.
2. Season with salt and pepper. Taste to see if you need to add any additional ingredients.
3. Place slaw mix, red onion and cilantro in a bowl and pour mayo mixture on top. Give everything a good toss and set aside.
1. Fill your corn tortilla first with slaw, then top with meat and then top with the mango salsa.
2. Garnish with additional cilantro and enjoy!
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Say goodbye to bottled water. These faucet filters purify sans plastic.
Don't trust those ancient house pipes. A water filter right on your faucet should be your second line of defense against unwanted chemicals that can pollute your tap water.
Brita is a household brand that's gained a lot of trust! Using this faucet filter is as simple as popping it on, screwing it around the faucet opening, and done — no tools needed. Plus, its compact design makes it around 40% more space-efficient than most units.
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Unlike Culligan's other model, this faucet filter provides you with a stylish, fully chrome aesthetic — perfect for modern kitchens. And you can rely on it for two months or 200 gallons.
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What's better than being able to sip into pure, filtered water on-demand from the comforts of home? Doing so without shelling out a fortune. Fortunately, this affordable (under $30) faucet filter makes that a reality. Enjoy up to 200 gallons of consistently great-tasting H2O.
If you want the best, you need to get the best. The Aquasana faucet filter leads the purifying charge — filtering 10 times more contaminants than the average alternative. But this filtering powerhouse doesn't extract everything (not the good stuff, at least). Vital minerals like potassium, magnesium, and calcium stay intact, thanks to selective filtration technology.
No need to sweat the headache of a rigid faucet filter that won't fit into your sink. Use this unit's free-moving design to swivel it 360 degrees into the most space-efficient position.
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If you would like to join a big annual FRP gathering of the year, please read on this.
This event is hosted by RS Owners Club Bristol. The club stand is RPOC.
The event takes place on Saturday July 4th, and as with previous years FRP and Puma owners invited to participate in a giant paddock display, and (for FRPs) the famous lunchtime parade around Castle Combe circuit (typically 3 laps). All Pumas park in the same display area.
The parade cost is one admission fee and a £5 donation to the event's charity.
So for one FRP and one driver it will be a combined cost of £17* if you want to parade at lunch time.
Advance* entry ticket to the show (each occupant of your car will require a ticket, including drivers) - £12.
Children under 16 get in for free
(*Tickets on the day will be more).
No dogs on site (accept guide dogs).
Due to the popularity of this event, I will be purchasing our tickets in advance; this allows our group of arriving Puma's to smoothly enter the site in one group without having to stop to buy tickets on the gate.
If you want to know more and join the event please post below.
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Choosing the Best Window Treatments: Curtains
While curtains can add a stylish, polished look to any room, choosing the right ones for your window treatments can be a challenging endeavor. That's because there are simply so many fabric and pattern options out there that making your choice can be overwhelming. Here are a few of things you need to consider to get started. Ready-Made or Custom-Made Curtains Ready-made curtains offer affordability, style, and insulation – and they can also be installed much more quickly than custom-made curtains. There are, however, a few drawbacks. For one thing, they can't be customized to fit every window perfectly, meaning [READ MORE]


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Incidents of arson have increased by more than 16 per cent in Wakefield.
Emergency crews are having to deal with a rising number of deliberately started fires across the district, with 971 recorded between April 2017 and March 2018.
By comparison, firefighters attended 815 arson incidents during the previous 12 months, figures from a West Yorkshire Fire Authority report show.
The Fire Service said it is closely monitoring derelict buildings, often a target for arsonists, to reduce the number of incidents.
Almost 80 per cent of the incidents were classed as "secondary fires", which include bonfires, wheelie bin fires and piles of rubbish that have been set alight.
The remainder, classed as "primary fires", involve the most serious kind of incidents, such as attacks on inhabited buildings and cars.
In the report, the Fire Service said it had a database of all empty buildings in the district, which was helping to address "arson hotspot areas".
It added: "The increase in arson incidents is mainly due to the number of deliberate secondary fires that we are attending.
"The development of robust processes for early identification and regular monitoring of derelict sites has prevented many premises becoming the target of arson.
"The South Kirkby Hub (Fire Station) has actively assisted in enhancing arson awareness and education within the district.
"A new project has been implemented with partners to deliver education and awareness to the travelling community within the district."
The number of malicious false alarms the service is dealing with has stayed roughly the same, with South Emsall and Castleford among the most attended places for the offence.
Meanwhile, property related blazes, fire related injuries and road incidents attended by the Fire Service have all fallen.