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Donkey has been in my care for over a week, rearing its head a good few times each day, inviting me to interact, to let it grasp at and keep a hold of my attentions. And often, more often than not, it has succeeded. So why am I still not sure if I want to let it stay for good or not?
Cansei de Ser Sexy aka CSS**'s second album after their mainstream-courting self-titled debut of 2005/06 (it was first released in their native Brazil before being picked up by Sub Pop for worldwide distribution) fizzes with all the pop savvy of its predecessor, but it doesn't shout loud enough nor kick wildly enough to make as substantial an impression on senses now well-worn by the band's hyperactive shape-pulling and slick choruses. Since that debut vocalist Lovefoxxx has become an indie-scene celebrity, hanging off the arm of a Klaxon, and her band's music has become a staple of student night dancefloors the country over. Everyone knows 'Let's Make Love…' and 'Alala', and knows how to swing their hips in an appropriate manner. They've become songs you soak in and sweat out without realising it, your twitching limbs able to operate autonomously, leaving your brain free to engage in bar-side small talk.
Donkey is sleek and well formed, but lacks spark. It has played out time and time again, but not once has one song leapt from the pack of eleven and given its parent record a new dimension previously unheard. Its production is flat and uninspiring, and does nothing to bring what could be colourful concoctions truly to life. Where's the passion? I guess this is the most notable shortcoming of CSS's second: while their first wasn't the greatest example of modern pop songwriting it still dripped attitude and ambition, the desire to succeed beyond expectations. Donkey reeks of complacency, sounding exactly like its catalyst wasn't a flash of creative inspiration but a stern e-mail from the band's label asking when they'd have some new songs to play them.
The band's excellently crafted vocal hooks are still evident: 'Give Up' is a sing-along that'll keep Astoria-sized venues bouncing when CSS tour in October, and 'Left Behind' is probably the most impressively elegant of these could-be-punchier numbers, and an obvious choice for lead physical single in the context of the whole album. 'Move' is a jolly, weirdly Euro-dance quick-stepper with overtones of Police-ish white-boy reggae; contradictorily, 'Reggae All Night' isn't reggae at all, but a sirens-and-whizzes affair with Lovefoxxx's vocals filtered through Tron helmet earpieces. There is_ talent on display. Really. You just need to _really concentrate and listen through the choking gloss.
But that is about as enthusiastic as I can get about Donkey, sadly. It's not a bad album – there are songs to bop a bonce about to when no care in this world is bothering you – but it simply doesn't develop the band's sound as heard on Cansei de Ser Sexy. Actually, it's not as good as its makers' first, given the flatness of the overall production which falls well short of capturing the dynamism of the band's live show. Had Donkey kicked with more vigour it could've been a fun-times soundtrack to summertime parties and road-trips alike. But it's so lacking in life that I'm afraid I'm going to have to move it out immediately. It's doing _nothing _for the ambience in here.
In fact, the more it hangs around it the more it's stinking the place up. What an ass.
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The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra Satellite just yesterday. The orange hues are actually false color—MODIS detects far more of the electromagnetic spectrum that just visible light, and that's the best way to display its data—but that doesn't detract from the raw beauty of the image. [NASA via Discover]
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg believes the Bible's teachings don't line up with supporting President Trump. CNN Town Hall moderator Erin Burnett asked Buttigieg if he thinks it's possible for a true Christian to support the president. Prior to quoting his previous remarks on the president's evangelical support, she prefaced her question, "To the point […]
Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage upon his arrival in Africa and warned the faithful against dabbling in witchcraft.
With the western world captivated by such bestsellers and movie franchises as Harry Potter and Twilight, Africa is seeing the darker side of the occult. Several countries are battling a resurgence in child sacrifice — as native witchdoctors promise health and prosperity if a human child is ritually mutilated, then murdered.
The pope talked about the danger of combining Christianity with traditional African magic. Even though baptized into the Catholic Church, some faithful are being seduced by the promises of paganism, he noted. The pope condemned such practices, particularly those which lead to the sacrifice of children and murder of the elderly.
"Tens of thousands of Angola's Catholics lined the streets of the capital for a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI, who urged the country's faithful to reach out and convert people who believe in witchcraft," reported Victor Simpson in the South African daily Mail & Guardian newspaper.
"In today's Angola," the pontiff said on Saturday at a mass in Luanda, Angola, "Catholics should offer the message of Christ to the many who live in the fear of spirits, of evil powers by whom they feel threatened."
Simpson reported that the 81-year-old pontiff, wearing white robes, looked tired and moved slowly in the tropical heat.
Meeting with bishops from Angola and the nearby nation of Sao Tomé, the pope repeated his warning against witchcraft, then praised marriage and said the low percentage of couples formally married "shows a lack of spiritual maturity," according to the news website RomeReports. He asked the bishops to promote a traditional family life amid a culture of co-habitation.
"The first problem is couples living together before marriage," he said. "This contradicts God's plan for generations and the human family."
Why would the pope speak out against witchcraft?
"For many in the Western world, 'witchcraft' may seem a benign form of New Age spirituality; the chaplain's handbook for the U.S. military recognizes 'Wicca,' a modern form of witchcraft, as a legitimate religious practice," writes John Allen Jr., writing for the National Catholic Reporter. "Across Africa, however, things look very different. The working assumption is that magical powers are real, but they're demonic – a conviction that can have devastating consequences. Even after converting to Christianity, many Africans keep one foot in this cluster of beliefs and practices rooted in traditional African spirituality."
Patrick Lafon, former secretary general of the bishops' conference in the African nation of Cameroon, told Allen that many Catholics in Africa may show up for mass on Sunday, "but if there's sickness in the family, they'll also consult their tribal medicine man to find out who placed the curse and what they need to do to lift it."
In February 2007, the Catholic University of East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, held a three-day symposium on witchcraft. Experts warned that witchcraft is "destroying" the Catholic Church in Africa, in part because skeptical, Western-educated clergy don't take the beliefs behind it seriously.
"It is important for the Church to understand the fears of the people, and not to attribute them to superstition," said Michael Katola, a lecturer in pastoral theology. "Witchcraft is a reality; it is not a superstition. Many communities know these powers exist."
Katola warned that inadequate Catholic responses are driving some Africans into evangelical Pentecostalism.
"Many of our Christians seek deliverance, healing and exorcism from other denominations because priests do not realize they have redemptive powers," he said. "If we don't believe in the existence of witchcraft as Satanism, then we cannot deal with it."
Sister Bibiana Munini Ngundo told Allen that the Catholic Church has not paid sufficient attention to "integral healing," leading people to put their trust in diviners and magicians. Father Clement Majawa of Malawi listed 14 categories of witchcraft practiced in Africa, and argued that the Church's denial "only escalates the problem."
"Since Christ in the Gospels encountered the devil, it is proper for Christians to accept the reality of witchcraft," Majawa told Allen.
"In his remarks today, Benedict XVI alluded to one reason why the church has sometimes been reluctant to challenge witchcraft: an exaggerated 'live and let live' spirit of tolerance," reported Allen. The pope noted: "Someone may object: 'Why not leave them in peace? They have their truth, and we have ours.'"
In the end, the pontiff said, such timidity does no one any favors.
"If we are convinced that, without Christ, life lacks something, that something real – indeed, the most real thing of all – is missing, we must also be convinced that we do no injustice to anyone if we present Christ to them," the pope said. "Indeed, we must do this. It is our duty to offer everyone this possibility of attaining eternal life."


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I wouldn't so much mind the Oreo novelty invasion, but they're starting to hit me where it hurts. The most basic Oreo my grocery store sells is Double Stuff; the classic Oreo is gone.
This isn't to say I don't enjoy innovation with my Oreos; I just prefer to do the innovating myself. After spending a recent afternoon dipping Oreos into a mug of milky coffee, and going through yet another caffeine and sugar high rant about how coffee and chocolate combined ARE THE BEST THING EVER, I decided to try the mix as ice cream. Well, first I took a nap. Then ice cream. Long story short: it's a keeper.
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A little history about this website
Ragged Edge Online launched in January, 1997 -- back then we called the site "Electric Edge." You can wander back through the years, if you're interested, at http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/archiveindex.htm
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Well, I've posted about him before, but here I go again. William Boyd HILL (one of my paternal great-grandfathers) and his parents constitute a brickwall I would love to bust down and so they are the topic of this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post.
I've featured the Hills before in a Surname Saturday post and even got as far as identifying Hill's wife's name (it was SIMPSON), which helped lead me to their family burial plot.
William Hill lived with his wife and children in Philadelphia in the mid- to late-1800s. According to census records, he was an Irish immigrant working as a grocer. I have yet to figure out when he came to the U.S. and via which port (if he even came straight to the U.S.; many Irish landed in Canada first).
I would absolutely love to learn more about William and his parents because they are my closest Irish ancestors. Finding out where in Ireland that line hailed from would be a treat.
My plan for tracking down more on William is to start by looking for information about his death. I need to see if a death certificate exists for him, or barring that, an obit or other evidence of his death (this hopefully will be easier now that I know the year of his death thanks to his tombstone). Thanks, Randy Seaver, for the prompt to re-investigate this line!


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Burger, Martin (17th century)
Martin Burger, a Swiss Mennonite, born "auf der Burg," in 1643 joined the Mennonite congregation in Rynach, canton of Bern. He was seized on 2 March 1646 and cross-examined on 6 January 1648, in which he made detailed statements about his confession of faith. He says that he left the state church because its doctrine and life did not agree; therefore he united with the Anabaptists because he heard that they were a peaceful and upright people; he had also found that they gave alms, loved one another, did not swear, and were not unchaste. Therefore he wanted to stay with them. Concerning infant baptism he says he does not believe that it harms the children, but whether it is beneficial he will leave to God. The Bible says, "He who believes and is baptized"; faith must precede baptism. But a child knowing nothing about faith can neither consent nor refuse. The government is instituted by God to punish the evil and protect the good, and a Christian can be a member of the government if he conducts himself according to God's will. Of warfare he replies that Christ has proclaimed peace and commanded prayer for the enemy.
Concerning the oath he states that it is said at a certain place that the oath settles a thing. But he remains with yea, yea and nay, nay. Again on 13 January 1648 he and Hans Stentz were asked whether they will change their minds. Then Martin Burger declared that he would stick to that which God has given him to understand, let it cost what it would. Thereupon both were placed in the penitentiary at Zürich, but soon escaped. Nothing more is known of Martin Burger.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 302.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972: 107-115.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born Ayaan Hirsi Magan on 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch liberal politician and feminist. She was MP for the liberal People's Party for Democracy between 2003 and 2006. She currently works for a conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
- Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
- Hirsi Ali: "Never confuse Islamic Sharia and the Muslims who really mean it with those extremist Christians who live in the United States", Jihad Watch, 13 July 2007
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a video interview, CBC News, 11 July 2007
- Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
- Speech on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, 14 February 2008[specific citation needed]
- ...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
- NOS Journaal, official Dutch newsrail, 8 pm, August 30, 2006. "Met gelijkgezinden kun je alleen maar een kerkdienst* houden, en zoals bekend, houd ik niet van kerkdiensten." "Kerkdienst" means church service of a Christian denomination, such as Mass (liturgy) and cannot be used in Dutch to describe a Muslim prayer service.
- I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.
- 7 News Sydney, (April 4, 2017)
- Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they're using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us."
- Quoted in "Ayaan Hirsi Ali slams protesters who prevented her visit to Australia," Emily Ritchie, The Australian, (April 5, 2017) [1]
- Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
- Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands.
- "Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009)
- The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
- "Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009)
Infidel (2007)[edit]
- People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
- Introduction
- In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.
- Chapter 1: Bloodlines
- The man, who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan, picked up a pair of scissors. With the other hand, he caught hold of the place between my legs and started tweaking it, like Grandma milking a goat. "There it is, the kintir," one of the women said. Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my inner labia and clitoris. I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat. A piercing pain shot up between my legs, indescribable, and I howled. Then came the sewing: the long, blunt needle clumsily pushed into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and anguished protests, Grandma's words of comfort and encouragement. "It's just this once in your life, Ayaan. Be brave, it's almost finished." When the sewing was finished, he cut the thread off with his teeth.
- Chapter 2: Under the Talal Tree
- This was Saudi Arabia, where Islam originated, governed strictly according to the scriptures and example of the Prophet Muhammad. And by law, all women in Saudi Arabia must be in the care of a man. My mother argued loudly with the Saudi immigration official, but he merely repeated in an ever louder voice that she could not leave the airport without a man in charge.
- Chapter 3: Playing Tag in Allah's Palace
- With our grandmother staying behind in Somalia, my mother had nobody with whom to share tasks and plans. She could do nothing on her own. She wasn't supposed to go out on the street without these new guardians of ours, our uncles, and neither were we. To phone them she had to scuttle down to the corner grocer, with my ten-year-old brother in tow acting as her protective male.
- Ch. 3
- We had already learned part of the Quran by heart in Mogadishu, although of course we had never understood more than a word or two of it, because it was in Arabic. But the teacher in Mecca said we recited it disrespectfully: we raced it, to show off. So now we had to learn it all by heart again, but this time with reverent pauses. We still didn't understand more than the bare gist of it. Apparently, understanding wasn't the point.
- Ch. 3
- In Saudi Arabia, everything bad was the fault of the Jews. When the air conditioner broke or suddenly the tap stopped running, the Saudi women next door used to say the Jews did it. The children next door were taught to pray for the health of their parents and the destruction of the Jews. Later, when we went to school, our teachers lamented at length all the evil things Jews had done and planned to do against Muslims. When they were gossiping, the women next door used to say, "She's ugly, she's disobedient, she's a whore--she's sleeping with a Jew." Jews were like djinns, I decided. I had never met a Jew. (Neither had these Saudis.)
- Ch. 3
- On September 16, 1978, there was an eclipse of the moon in Riyadh. Late one afternoon it became visible: a dark shadow moving slowly across the face of the pale moon in the darkening blue sky. There was a frantic knocking on the door. When I opened it, our neighbor asked if we were safe. He said it was the Day of Judgement, when the Quran says the sun will rise from the west and the seas will flood, when all the dead will rise and Allah's angels will weigh our sins and virtue, expediting the good to Paradise and the bad to Hell. Though it was barely twilight, the muezzin suddenly called for prayer--not one mosque calling carefully after another, as they usually did, but all the mosques clamoring all at once, all over the city. There was shouting across the neighborhood. When I looked outside I saw people praying in the street.
- Ch. 3
- [In Ethiopia,] Abeh enrolled all three of us in school, which was taught in Amharic. We spoke only Somali and Arabic, so everything was completely foreign again for a little while. It wasn't until I could communicate that I came to a startling realization: the little girls in school with me were not Muslims. They said they were Kiristaan, Christian, which in Saudi Arabia had been a hideous playground insult, meaning impure. I went bewildered to my mother, who confirmed it. Ethiopians were kufr, the very sound of the word was scornful. They drank alcohol and they didn't wash properly. They were despicable.
- Chapter 4: Weeping Orphans and Widowed Wives
- Numbers were a mystery to me. I was so far behind. It was only in Nairobi, at age ten, that I figured out anything at all about the way time is calculated: minutes, hours, years. In Saudi Arabia the calendar had been Islamic, based on lunar months; Ethiopia maintained an ancient solar calendar. The year was written 1399 in Saudi Arabia, 1972 in Ethiopia, and 1980 in Kenya and everywhere else. In Ethiopia we even had a different clock: sunrise was called one o'clock and noon was called six. (Even within Kenya, people used two systems for telling time, the British and the Swahili.) The months, the days--everything was conceived differently. Only in Juja Road Primary school did I begin to figure out what people meant when they referred to precise dates and times. Grandma never learned to tell time at all. All her life, noon was when shadows were short, and your age was measured by rainy seasons. She got by perfectly well with her system.
- Chapter 5: Secret Rendezvous, Sex, and the Scent of Sukumawiki
- My mother saw herself as a victim. Once upon a time she had shaped her future and made decisions -- she had left Somalia for Aden, divorced her first husband and chosen my father--but at some point, it seemed, she lost hope. Many Somali women in her position would have worked, would have taken control of their lives, but my mother, having absorbed the Arab attitude that pious women should not work outside the home, felt that this would not be proper. It never occurred to her to go out and create a new life for herself, although she can't have been older than thirty-five or forty when my father left. Instead, she remained completely dependent. She nursed grievances; she was resentful; she was often violent; and she was always depressed.
- Ch. 5
- Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
- Chapter 13: Leiden
- Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
- Chapter 15: Threats
- In October 2002, I flew to California. It was the first time I had ever been in the United States, and I realized almost immediately that my preconceptions of America were completely ludicrous. I was expecting rednecks and fat people, with lots of guns, very aggressive police, and overt racism – a caricature of a caricature. In reality, of course, I saw people living perfectly well-ordered lives, jogging and drinking coffee.
- Ch. 15
- Of course, I also encountered hostile reactions in campaigning. People called me names, even spat at me; I received more threats. The most remarkable people, to me, were those who apparently approved of everything I said but nonetheless wouldn't dream of voting for the Liberal Party. It reminded me of Somalia: they wouldn't vote outside their clan.
- Ch. 15
- Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience or their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that "Islam is peace and tolerance."
- Chapter 16: Politics
- I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
- Epilogue: The Letter of the Law
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)[edit]
- Here is something I have learned the hard way, but which a lot of well-meaning people in the West have a hard time accepting: All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. A culture that celebrates femininity and considers women to be the masters of their own lives is better than a culture that mutilates girls' genitals and confines them behind walls and veils or flogs or stones them for falling in love. A culture that protects women's rights by law is better than a culture in which a man can lawfully have four wives at once and women are denied alimony and half their inheritance. A culture that appoints women to its supreme court is better than a culture that declares that the testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man.
- This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
- Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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Rewind: In April 2010, we examined the "guerrilla tactics" of black organic farmers looking to combat food deserts in urban areas.
"Usilima hua huli.'' (If you don't farm, you are not eating.)
—Bena (Tanzania) Proverb
Veronica Kyle of Chicago is not happy, but she is hopeful. Her upset stems from knowing that too many blacks and Hispanics living in urban settings must travel far to purchase fresh, nutritional, appropriately priced fruit, vegetables and meat products. During that trip, they traverse food deserts. She says those are neighborhoods that major supermarkets have effectively redlined, where shops sell 20 fried chicken wings for a dollar, where there are too many liquor and fast-food stores. Where there are far too many dialysis centers and where too many amputees, the victims of poor diets, walk the streets.
Kyle is an outreach coordinator for Faith in Place, an umbrella organization of more than 500 Illinois religious congregations united ''to promote clean energy & [SIC] sustainable farming.'' Speaking optimistically, Kyle declares, ''there are black people getting serious about changing this unhealthy paradigm.''
For more than a decade, across the country, there's been a growing network of African-American locavores, or farmers, vendors, and fans of naturally or organically cultivated vegetables and livestock grown or produced within a 150-mile radius of markets. They meet up in some of the most unlikely places, from Brooklyn, N.Y., to the southeastern part of the country to Wisconsin to Chicago to northern California. Many of the farmers, descendants of blacks who fled sharecropping and segregation during the Great Migration, now sell victuals at farmers markets that are becoming fixtures in black neighborhoods. The farmers also sell to food co-ops in the same areas. Some supply produce to black-owned (and other) restaurants, as well as well-known natural food supermarkets.
But before we go all Alice Waters, it makes sense to ask, are these farmers growing vegetables and raising cattle organically? It's hard to say, since the U.S. Department of Agriculture does not quantify organic farm ownership by race or ethnicity. But we do know this: According to the USDA, there were 20,000 organic farms in 2007. The same census reported that there were about 2 million farmers nationwide. Of that number, 32,000 were black. The average African-American farmer is 60 years old with a 116-acre farm.
But never mind the stats—or the lack thereof. Let's talk about what know: Black farmers have always gone organic. They had no other choice. According to Will Allen, a Wisconsin sustainable lifestyle visionary, black farmers couldn't afford to do otherwise. Today, most still use old-school methods: They use animal, not lab-produced fertilizer, rotate crops and create tools that fit their needs.
In 2008, Allen won a MacArthur ''genius award'' for ''transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations'' via his nonprofit group, Growing Power. It is dedicated to creating sustainable urban food systems where everything produced is used or used up, that provides healthy food, creates jobs and unites communities. Today, Growing Power has a cooperative of 300 farmers who deliver market baskets to food deserts in Milwaukee and Merton, Wisc., Chicago, and training facilities in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Mississippi.
SAAFON certified organic members Mary and Nelson James, know what benefits organic farming can reap. They own the 20-acre Dogwood Nursery Farm, in Maple Hill, N.C., and raise free-range chickens and pigs, as well as turkey, rabbits and pesticide-free herbs and vegetables. Their customers include a local four-star restaurant and Whole Foods. In an interview with North Carolina A&T's School of Agriculture's 2008 small farmer of the year, Nelson James, says, ''That's what small farming is going to come to: a pick-a-pack here and a pick-a-pack there. You just cannot have one thing and survive.''
In northern California, the communal nature of modern black farming meshes with the vertical integration model of business: Get the food from the ground, to the food stand, to the restaurant, to the customer.
Jay Foster, 37, is the chef and his wife, Deanna, is the administrator of the neo-soul food Farmer Brown's restaurant and Farmer Brown's Little Skillet in San Francisco. The four-year-old restaurant, says Foster, makes a deliberate political statement by using African-American farmers to supply the kitchen, and a diverse staff to cook and serve the food. ''I wanted to do it in such a way that incorporates the meat and vegetables that you can get here with the recipes of southern chefs like Edna Lewis. But I couldn't find the black farmers,'' Foster says
It took a Morehouse College grad in Oakland, and the owner of restaurant to help make the connection. David Roach, 45, is the organizer of Mo' Better Food, a nonprofit group that supports urban gardens, aquaculture farming. and a founder of an April through November farmers' market in Oakland. He is also a friend of Keba Konte, a co-founder of Guerilla Café, an organic and natural food restaurant in Berkeley.
Meanwhile, back in the Midwest, the 40-acre Black Oak Center for Sustainable Renewable Living has connected a historic farming community and a prominent Chicago church in Pembroke, Ill., an overwhelmingly black town 60 miles south of Chicago. In 2009, Fred Carter and his wife, Dr. Jafunza Wright, set up a farmers' market at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (Yes. President Obama's former church.) Now between 10 and 14 farmers provide seasonable vegetables, corn, all types of greens, peas, cucumbers and lettuce. Carter's group has also been recognized recently for teaching more than 1,000 students at the Betty Shabazz International Charter School about sustainable agriculture.
Black Vermonters are no strangers to farming; they've lived in the state since Revolutionary times. Ras Oba Jacobs, a native of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, arrived a couple of hundred years later. Initially, he picked apples and did other farm work. Then he and his wife, Dafina, founded the Afikan Zion Organic Roots Farm in West Wardsboro, Vt. In the mid-1980s, they began bringing produce down to New York City, first to Bushwick, Brooklyn, then Harlem and the Bronx, and finally settling in with the Hattie Carthan Community Garden farmer's market in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Jacobs says he sells a full range of vegetables grown naturally without additives or pesticides, at the market every Saturday from June through November. ''We are just guerilla farmers trying to do what we can,'' he says.
These innovative farmers, and particularly those who live in or near cities, may be perfectly situated to benefit from the small-scale, communal future of farming. Will Allen demonstrates that with the small footprint of aquaponics—cultivating plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment—careful recycling and the use of renewable energy, people can be fed more responsibly—and money can be made. ''It doesn't make sense to continually have to ship produce 1,500 miles to a city, when it can be grown nearby,'' he says.
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James Ernest Caithness was born at No.7 George Row, Bermondsey (just south of the River Thames) on 17 May 1839. His father James Ramsey Caithness (1815-60), a Master Mariner, and mother Elizabeth Watson nee Ridges (1815-51) had married the previous year in
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had been both born & baptised as James Edward but decided he preferred the
middle name Ernest at some point during his life.
There was a strong maritime tradition in his family. His grandfather James Caithness had seen action whilst serving in the Royal Navy against the French in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His father James Ramsey and his uncle George had received their education at the
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Young James Ernest was to witness the harsh realities of a mariner's life. His father James Ramsey had his fair share of accidents – through no fault of his own. The worst incident perhaps was in 1855 when one of James Ernest's brothers, likely to have been Alfred Douglas, was killed during a fire on board the 'Flying Dragon' whilst his father was in command (the same ship had also caught fire the previous year under Captain Carter off Simon's Bay). James Ramsey Caithness himself died in 1860 'after a long and painful illness' aged 44.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters)
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court ruling that struck down a Republican-backed state law
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to a woman before an abortion.
The move puts state Attorney General Roy Cooper,
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Cooper said the decision to appeal was not an endorsement of the
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"While I oppose laws like this that force the state into women's
medical decisions, the state will appeal this ruling because
legitimate constitutional questions remain that should be decided by
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The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive
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law on constitutional grounds. They contended the requirement that
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performing an abortion infringed upon their right to free speech.
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles agreed,
writing that a state does not have "the power to compel a health
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ideological message in favor of carrying a pregnancy to term."
As governor, McCrory has said he did not think an appeal was
necessary or worth the cost because most of the abortion law had
taken effect.
Some see political motives by the attorney general in a move that
separates Cooper from the more urban, liberal segment of his party
in a state that remains largely rural and socially conservative.
"It's an interesting and odd kind of twist," said Michael Bitzer, a
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Suzanne Buckley, director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina,
said she was resigned to an appeal, noting state lawmakers recently
passed a law allowing the legislature to initiate its own appeal.
"This is obviously a controversial issue, but in reality it's a
legal issue," Buckley said. "We'd rather see an appeal based on the
rule of law than one based on an extreme political agenda."
Chris Brook, legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina, said he
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A Massachusetts man is facing charges for allegedly using a pet python to beat his girlfriend as she soaked in a hot tub, injuring the woman and ultimately killing the snake.
West Springfield police say 34-year-old Keith Paro is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of domestic assault and battery, larceny over $250, wanton and malicious damage over $250, and cruelty to animals.
Police say the couple got into an argument on Tuesday night and Paro removed the snake from a cage and "began beating the female repeatedly." Police say Paro threw the snake in the hot tub when he was done, and it died.
The woman suffered bruising to her knees, back, arms and stomach.
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- 6 ounces uncooked penne pasta
- 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute mushrooms in oil for 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, basil and salt; cook and stir for 5 minutes. Drain pasta and add to the skillet. Stir in cheese; heat through.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 188 calories, 5g fat (2g saturated fat), 9mg cholesterol, 335mg sodium, 28g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 3g fiber), 7g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1/2 fat.
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SO simple to make--lets you spend the time you need on the main course. Great flavor combo--my kids devour this. I do not use the mushrooms--other than that I do not have to make any adjustments--good as is written. Very Mediterranean in flavor!
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Revolting! I thought the combination of ingredients sounded good, but it's terrible - I threw out the leftovers.
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I have made this recipe numerous time for my husband. It is one of his favorites. The only thing I do differently, is I use an 8oz container of feta cheese.Ronda
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The stock lens on my Canon T2i (18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS) does a good job; as good as the two much more expensive Macro lens I've used. The trouble is that it's very plasticy and flimsy. I have to set up about 500 shots with a polarized filter and every time I move the filter the whole things sort of shifts/ not something I have a problem with on the macro lens.
This is all in regards to shooting artwork. I had some great help on here which advised me to go with a Macro lens for the flat optics. I found a great 35mm one by Tokina that allows me to get closer than most other macros. However I also found the stock lens took great photos too (just as sharp and indistinguishable from the Tokina) from the 35mm to 55mm setting. This I found to be ideal because it meant I didn't have to move the whole camera for every shot. I could just zoom in a bit.
However, zooming out, anything lower than 35mm, I start to notice the distortion (fisheye, or bubble effect). This in itself is correctable, but if there is a lens that can zoom that minimizes this that would be ideal too. I have no idea if this is possible though as I'm sure zoom lenses will always have distortion.
Ideally I'd take all the shots with the 35mm macro. But with the amount of work I have to photograph and the time it takes to adjust the copystand, well it's just not worth the extra effort, when software can easily make some minor adjustments.. I know not all will agree with this, but I'm not unhappy with the results even from the cheap stock lens. So if I can minimize issues then great. Another good lens will be worth the investment for this project. I'm not sure if there is an advantage to going USM. I don't' need quiet, I just need to be able to micro focus from the computer with the Canon utility, and that I can easily do fine now with all the non-usm lenses.
My results have been quite sharp, but if there is a lens that can get even sharper I'd like that too. Plus, my copystand is limited and if I have larger works I have to get on a ladder to check the settings and polarizer filter on the 35mm setting, and this is just not feasible. With the zooming lens I can take photos of all the work from a much closer distance. I don't' need quite as far as the 18mm setting but a lens that starts not much higher than this would be ideal.
A couple other things of note for anyone photographing artwork. I did receive a lot of great help here. I went an got a nice light kit and set it up at 45degree angles, etc... But no matter what I did I could not cut the glare of the light off the canvas and colors were washing out. I had read about cross polarization but frankly in all the help I received no one mentioned it. I can tell you now that if you are photographing oil paintings, or anything with a moderate degree of reflectivity, you have to have cross polarization. This isn't just the filter on the camera, but also the lighting has to be polarized too.
You actually need to block out virtually all other light in the room. You then need linear polarizing filters for the lights (I found some that covered my softboxes entirely) as well as a circular polarizer for the lens. I must say, it's like magic how it makes the light disappear before you very eyes, yet still lights the subject! I actually found a great post on here discussing cross polarization and how it works for artwork, but I can't find it now! However this blog posting by artist Mike Sass has a couple of great examples of the cross polarization results: http://sassart.blogspot.com/2010/08/photographing-artwork.html
On top of that I was put in touch with a photographer from a major auction house who photographs artwork every day. In a nutshell, they go with a wide angle lens and shoot as far away from the subject as possible (I was surprised but that helps keep everything in focus). They shoot at as high an f-stop as possible, with 100 iso and long exposures with strobes, with only polarized lighting on most oils. They always use software to make corrections, from lens distortion to color, as polarizing filters do certain things to certain colors.
They also keep their tripod on a track so it's always centered. In a way I'm glad I didn't' get all their advise ahead of time because I would not have had the studio to make it happen, nor the time. Doing the copystand approach means I can photograph all the various work laid down and easily centered, in the same profile, and I don't have to hang anything. And this means I can do the mass amount of unframed work too.
Also to note for anyone that's doing a similar project, I'm taking pictures with a gray balance card and a color balance card in every shot, so no matter how off the original RAW captures might be for these 1000 or so photos, I'll be able to correct them in the future. You wouldn't normally have to do this for every shot as you can create a profile with just one, but as my lighting sometimes has to change, or with adjustments to the size of the work, whether it's polarized or not, etc... it just is easier to leave the balance cards in each shot next to the subject.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on, but this project is overwhelming my life! I knew there was no way to really learn without doing it, but now I've confirmed it!


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This plugin helps to show process costing on Manufacturing Order based on BOM
Manufacturing Process Costing in Odoo
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Manufacturing Order flexible material consumption in workorder just like in Odoo 13.
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Module help to show Cost Price inculded BOM which calculate from cost of All componant of Bill of Material.


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D3 Publisher is releasing Dream C Club, a hostess drinking game we've covered before. D3 Publisher is releasing the game for the Xbox 360, and here's a trailer from D3 Publisher.
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Landon Donovan is returning to Everton on a two-month loan.
The Los Angeles Galaxy made the announcement on Thursday, giving the Toffees some attacking help as they try to climb the standings after a slow start. Everton are 12th in the English Premier League and have just 15 goals in 14 league matches.
"I am delighted that we have managed to get Landon back. He will give us some good experience," Everton manager David Moyes said. "He did well for us when he was over two years ago and hopefully will return with those same qualities. His season has just finished and like last time we need him to hit the ground running because the games come thick and fast at this time of year."
Donovan will be available to play starting with the Jan. 4 home match against Bolton and will stay through the Feb. 25 Merseyside derby at Liverpool. He scored two goals in 13 matches during a loan to Everton from January to March in 2010.
"The opportunity to return to Everton and play for such a well-respected club and a manager that I hold in such high regard was something that was simply too good to pass up," the 29-year-old midfielder and forward said. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Everton in 2010 and I'm hopeful that we can experience similar success this time around."
Donovan scored 16 goals in 34 games for the Galaxy this year, including the one that won the MLS Cup final against Houston last month. He is to return to the Galaxy on Feb. 26, ahead of the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal against Toronto.
"This is a great opportunity for Landon," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. "During the final months of the 2011 season he was limited because of an ongoing injury, and he just started to get his legs back during the playoffs. Therefore, I think that this opportunity with Everton comes at a perfect time as he is rested and ready to go."


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Is this how you want to start your morning?
Not that any time is a good time for Tori Spelling's mashed up face but it's especially hard first thing. But viewers of the fourth hour of The Today Show this morning were greeted with this sh-t as Tori filled in for Hoda Kotb alongside Kathy Lee Gifford.
Tori Spelling on morning television?
Homewrecker on morning television?
I did an interview last week and this came up. How the MiniVan can forgive anything under the guise of motherhood. Never mind that she skanked out someone else's husband and took away a baby girl's father – since she gave birth to her own children, suddenly she's part of the Mom Club. And all is forgiven.
Pregnancy is the ultimate whitewash.
I hate people. Very often these days.
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A woman of the church
A diverse parish and the body of Christ have helped one woman has found her place not in but as part of the church.
Guest blog by Kathleen P. Hockey
Sometimes I am not sure I keep the faith. During those times with a flip wave of the hand I say, "I'm done with this!" I rant and rave, badmouth the new conservative trends in the church, and sometimes (horrors) I skip mass in a sort of twisted statement of discontent. I ask myself why I should be active in a church that spends so much time on the issues of liturgical semantics and sexual mores, while at the same time attempting to convince the world of the virtue of celibacy. What about poverty, alienation, and genocide?
Being corrected for my unorthodox opinions, directed challenges, and alignment with the so-called cafeteria Catholics that are really the most alienated from the community is not fun.
Yet, in spite of these times of disgust I find myself volunteering, participating, and thinking the struggle is worth it. The church, after all, is more than institutional majesty and a few self-proclaimed keepers of orthodoxy.
The faith community where I worship has no less than 30 ministries, most of which exist to serve of the poor, sick, grieving, and incarcerated. The pastor has delegated all parish administrative responsibilities to deacons, laymen, and laywomen while he spiritually ministers to the faithful—and not so faithful. He is so well liked that three retired priests—one conservative, one liberal, and one physically challenged—have made their home at our parish. Having four priests of such different persuasions and gifts provides a model of religious diversity. Needless to say our church is full on Sunday with women and men serving at the altar, the veiled and jean-clad all kneeling together worshiping in genuine camaraderie.
This kind of parish community is why I remain faithful. It gives me hope that in spite of the polarization and injustice so often talked about and bemoaned, quietly in many corners of the church world tolerance, equality, and charity prevail.
There is one more thing that keeps me faithful. It is the realization that our church is a global church. While I am safe and sound in the United States, both male and female Catholics in other countries are being suppressed or exterminated for the faith. Now that is faith, being willing to die rather than not be Catholic. It makes the pettiness here seem downright sinful.
Remaining faithful means I must define myself differently than "a woman in the church." I am not a woman in the church; I am a woman of the church. "In the church" means someone or something else is the church and I am in it. "Of the church" means as a Catholic I am part of the essence of church, the people of God. With that definition being a woman doesn't matter regardless of what some may think.
Kathleen P. Hockey is a social worker, author, and speaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her website is www.kathleen-hockey.com.
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"Hadoop's method of processing volumes of information directly addresses the most significant challenge facing IT today," says Marwa Mabrouk, product manager at Esri. "Enabling Hadoop with spatial capabilities is part of Esri's continued effort to derive more value from Big Data through spatial analysis."
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After a difficult midweek loss, LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said his team's struggles weren't due to poor form across the board, rather mistakes in crucial situations that cost the team dearly.
His players apparently took that message to heart.
LA cleaned up their game on Sunday to keep Chicago off the scoreboard and pick up a convincing 2-0 victory at Toyota Park.
"To come out and grind this win away was great," Galaxy 'keeper Josh Saunders said. "We took the positives from those negatives and turned them into a win here."
The win snapped a two-match losing streak and moved the Galaxy back to fifth place in the Western Conference on 23 points. LA have collected 12 points from their last six games..
The six points that got away came in games in which the Galaxy held a two-goal lead (on June 30 at San Jose) as well as a 1-1 draw in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time (on Wednesday against Philadelphia).
HIGHLIGHTS: Keane sinks punchless Fire
If the Galaxy were shaken from those results, it hardly showed.
"We had three good games in a row and then we had a couple of games where we played well but ended up losing," said Galaxy captain Landon Donovan, who played the final 25 minutes and set up Robbie Keane for his second goal.
"That was really frustrating and disappointing but our mentality was great coming here. A lot of teams might have caved and said 'You know what, we're going to try and get a point here' but we had a good mentality."
The Galaxy settled into the match rather quickly. Despite yielding the bulk of the possession in the early going, the LA drew first blood, earning a penalty kick after referee Jair Marrufo pointed to the spot when Chicago defender Jalil Anibaba handled a ball at the edge of the penalty area.
Celebrating his 32nd birthday, Keane easily buried the penalty kick, giving the Galaxy held a 1-0 lead after 24 minutes.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Fire dominate possession but not scoreline
He put the game away after taking a feed from Donovan and burying a shot from close range in the 75th minute. The goals were Keane's fifth and sixth of the season and just his third tallies since April.
"Of course we want to score as many goals as we can, but the important thing is the team and getting points on the board and that was the case," Keane said. "It was important that the team won, it's not about one individual. It's about the whole team. I'm happy enough for the team."
Up 2-0, the lone question remaining seemed to be whether the Galaxy would get their first road shutout of the year. In the end, Chicago sputtered over the final quarter hour, and LA held firm and did just that, putting an exclamation mark on the victory.
"We were great defensively," Donovan said. "Chicago has been playing really well. They're very dangerous, [have] a lot of very dangerous players and they didn't have many good opportunities. I thought our defending as a whole was great, our individual defending was great and our mentality was good. It was a very good shutout."


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By Sarah Gulbrandsen, special to USTA.com
All the way from Knoxville, Tenn., the USTA Southern 6.0 team has been a delight at the 18 & Over mixed 6.0, 8.0, 10.0 National Championships in Tucson, Ariz., highlighted by Morgan Lamons, 24, and Matt Cupp, 30, who are quite the match.
In fact, 19 months after meeting through USTA League, Matt popped the question, and Morgan said, "Yes!"
Lamons grew up in Greeneville, Tenn., and is a labor and delivery nurse at Knoxville Hospital. Cupp is from Knoxville and manages facilities and branding projects for General Motors. Both attended the University of Tennessee.
Cupp, who played baseball for 26 years, began playing USTA League five years ago, after deciding he needed a way to "quench his competitive spirit." Lamons joined her league team two years ago, after her mother and sister got her into tennis. Little did she know that picking up a racquet would introduce her to her future husband.
"Tennis has been a great form of exercise for us both, but more than anything, we have added many great friends through tennis," said Lamons, who teams with Cupp to play doubles on the Knoxville team. "Tennis has been great for our relationship. Matt and I have pretty much become permanent hitting partners."
Lamons and Cupp are getting married on Aug. 30, 2014. The proposal was romantic and thoughtful, with Cupp planning quite the event.
"I grew up in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and Matt has known that they have always been so beautiful to me and are my favorite view," Lamons said. "We had talked about getting married and actually got a head start on looking at different venues to host.
"Matt made a fake marketing brochure from a wedding venue in the Smoky Mountains, as well as a fake invitation to a wedding open house there, and then had them both sent to me. So I'm thinking that we are going for an open house, and he had actually spent the whole day with his parents setting up and decorating the perfect spot in the mountains with a great view.
"We drove up, parked and then he walked me over to this spot where he had a bench waiting for us. We sat, and he told me how much he loved me and about our future together, got on one knee, and asked me to marry him. I said, 'Yes!' He also arranged for both of our families to be hidden on the back porch of a nearby cabin so they could share the moment, too."
Partners on court and partners in life, Cupp and Lamons are eager and excited to be in Tucson for the National Championships, playing the game that they share together.
Said Lamons, "[Tennis] is something that we both love, and it's afforded us many memories together that we both have shared and experienced as a couple."


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