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Across the country neighborhoods are suffering from a lack of access to quality grocery stores and fresh produce. This phenomenon is popularly known as the food desert. Food deserts limit residents' nutritional options. When combined with other factors like household incomes and educational attainments, food deserts may result in numerous public health challenges such as high levels of obesity and malnutrition. Today, almost a quarter of the country's ZIP codes are considered food deserts.
Unfortunately, food deserts have also been found to disproportionately affect low-income neighborhoods. In fact, more than 55% of all ZIP codes with a median household income of less than $25,000 can be categorized as food deserts. Addressing food deserts has therefore become an equity issue for many downtowns and cities.
Although attracting a new grocery retailer and building a new supermarket in food deserts may appear to be a direct solution, numerous studies have found this strategy to have very little real impact on the eating habits of households in the area. Three separate studies conducted by researchers around the country found that the introduction of a new supermarket does not result in significant changes in household food availability, children's dietary intake, reported fruit and vegetable intake or body mass index. Given that the grocery attraction strategy can be extremely costly and time-consuming, especially in underserved markets, it's important that cities consider alternative solutions that may be slightly cheaper but more effective.
Often, underserved markets and food deserts already have an existing base of corner stores, delis, and bodegas (whatever you're calling it in your region). These convenience stores don't necessarily carry fresh food but they are existing assets in these neighborhoods that can be leveraged. These stores are already in physical spaces and because they're in convenient locations (I mean, they're on every other corner) they're already being used by residents. These factors make them a great starting point for increasing the supply of fresh produce and healthy foods in food deserts.
Many cities have acknowledged the strength of these assets and begun to establish corner store incentive programs to help introduce fresh produce on the shelves of corner stores. These initiatives have been structured in various ways but they largely aim to address three of the biggest hurdles faced when re-designing corner stores as fresh food access points. Here's what you need to do if you're thinking of leveraging your existing corner stores:
- Store owner engagement and education
Unfortunately, many early corner store initiatives overlooked the importance of engaging corner store owners and their staff. These programs would typically start with a survey of residents to get a sense of their grocery shopping patterns or a physical assessment of corner stores. Without building the support and coalition among store owners themselves, however, many programs fell through because there was a lack of understanding of the barriers faced by business owners and a lack of understanding of their business models.
One city that overcame this is the Healthy Corner Store Initiative in Providence RI. Before even surveying customers, the Initiative set out to survey corner store owners in order to garner interest and participation in the program.
- Financing
Expanding corner stores' product offerings to include healthy foods and fresh produce can be costly to business owners. There are costs involved in purchasing these additional products, in purchasing new equipment to house these products, in re-outfitting stores to accommodate additional shelves and equipment, in purchasing new point-of-sales systems that accept EBT, and finally in improving facades to attract new customers.
As such, healthy corner store programs need to include financial incentives that can offset all of these additional costs to corner store owners. Programs across the country offer a mix of loans and grants to fund the various interior and exterior store improvements. In Philadelphia PA, for example, over one hundred corner stores were provided with investments ranging between $1,000 and $5,000 to expand inventory of produce and other healthy products.
- Operations and management
Often the greatest hurdle in converting corner stores is the lack of knowledge amongst small business owners on how to purchase, price, stock, store and handle fresh produce. There are many ways to address this.
First, education. The St Louis Healthy Corner Store Project hires mentors with grocery retail experience to provide technical assistance and support to participating corner stores. And in Philadelphia PA, over 480 hours of training was provided between 2004 and 2012 to corner store owners.
Second, B2B support. To solve the difficulties faced in purchasing fresh produce in small quantities, several programs have connected corner stores with smaller local suppliers like farmers or wholesale warehouses willing to provide produce at no minimum purchase amounts. If there's already a farmers market operating nearby, think about connecting those farmers with corner stores.
Although we hate to admit it, sometimes attracting a full service grocery store isn't the best option.
We must remember, however, that bringing fresh and healthy foods closer to underserved communities is only one step in the process. The availability of these goods must also be marketed and promoted to the right audiences. And information about how to cook these products needs to be made easily accessible.
Partnering with existing local medical institutions and health organizations is a great way to market corner store improvements and educate residents on how to prepare healthy foods. Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, for example, offers cooking demonstrations weekly in the community in partnership with City Harvest.
Addressing food deserts is an enormous task and we need to be aware of all the options available. If your food desert already has thriving corner stores that already serve local residents, then think about how these assets can be leveraged to close the gap in access to fresh produce and healthy foods.


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When I was a kid smoking weed in high school, I was convinced that marijuana would never be legal. The idea that it's legal now, I'm in my late 40s, it's shocking to me."
Scott Alexander speaks in rapid-fire paragraphs brimming with information about modern marijuana laws, politics and culture. He's the lead writer on Weedcraft Inc, the first original video game developed and published by popular indie label Devolver Digital. Weedcraft Inc is a tycoon or world-building game, similar to Civilization or Tropico, but players start out as low-grade weed dealers and build their empires from there. It's in beta now, and the full game is due to drop some time in April.


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FOR 50 years, children have been learning to swim and lifesave in Lough Graney, thanks to a community initiative supported by Irish Water Safety Clare.
On Saturday, July 29, the thousands of people who learned to swim will be invited back to the shores of Lough Graney to celebrate this milestone.
To mark the occasion, the community will run a number of free, water-based activities. On the day, two locals who both participated in the swimming lessons, Ken Collins and John O'Mara, will take to the water to show off their skills, as part of a charity swim, in aid of Raheen Hospice.
Each year, the swimming lessons take place over the last two weeks in July and between 50 and 60 children partake each week. People come from all over East Clare and South Galway to join in and learn how to swim.
This annual event has been made possible by a team of dedicated local volunteers, including Kathleen McNamara, who has been secretary for 18 years.She explained how the lessons work.
"You get your instructors from the Irish Water Safety and, over the years, we would have found it quite difficult to get instructors. They are more inclined to go to the seaside resorts so we have always had a struggle to maintain instructors. It often meant putting them up and providing food for them and we have done that over the years to ensure the continuation of the event," she said.
Kathleen added that the participants get much from the experience of learning to swim in the lake. "We find having the two weeks strengthens the level of swimming and swimming in the lake means you do become a strong swimmer. That is, of course, in conjunction with swimming in the pool the rest of the year. We find the two weeks in succession really brings them on big time," she said.
In more recent years, Frances Brady has taken an active role as organiser.
John O'Mara outlined his family's long-standing association with the lessons.
"Living only a few hundred metres from Lough Graney, I've always had an affinity to the lake. I practically grew up in it, although I'm finding it hard to warm to it, since we decided to take on the 5km charity swim. My grandfather, Tommy, organised the first swimming lessons 50 years ago," he said.
The lessons continue to be popular and John said that, with numbers holding steady at 50 to 60 each year, he is hoping it can run for another 50 years. "Learning to swim is a key life skill, along with the advantages of making tons of friends through lessons and various events, keeping fit and being confident in knowing we are capable of saving a life, if the need arises," he said.
It was at the lessons that John became friends with Feakle man Ken Collins and, to this day, they continue to use the skills they learned, as both compete in triathalons. Ken said he spent eight or nine years attending swimming lessons at Lough Graney, from the age of seven or eight. He did the full two weeks every summer. "We also learned first aid, which is handy and great to have, and we learned about water safety. It was always an enjoyable two weeks in the summer," he said.
He added that, although John and himself would swim as part of the triathalon series, the 5km swim they've chosen to undertake will be no easy task. "It will be a challenge alright and there's no point in doing it, if it's not going to be a challenge. We've swam 4km before and this is 5km," he said.
For their charity swim, they chose Raheen Hospice as the beneficiary. "When we decided to do the swim, we wanted to pick something local and Raheen Hospice does great work. My aunt spent a bit of time there when she was diagnosed with cancer and another aunt goes to the daycare centre," Ken said.
John added, "They do so much good work; so many people we know have benefited from the excellent care they provide."
The celebrations this year, for the 50-year milestone, will include boat races, similar to the regattas previously held on Lough Graney, and the Angling Club Cup will be up for grabs as part of this. In addition, people can try out kayaking, zorbing and paddle boarding and can sample food from the barbecue. The Irish Water Safety boat will also be in attendance.
Events get underway from 12 noon and will run until 4pm. All are welcome to come along.
Each area has a local secretary who is the local organiser and, over the years, there have been different people involved.


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I first met Debra Ann Mumm and Ryan "Motel" Campbell in the weeks leading up to the party the Coachella Valley Independent threw last October to celebrate the launch of our monthly print edition.
Debra's Venus Studios Art Supply sponsored the event at Clinic Bar and Lounge by donating a 10-by-5-foot canvas (and other materials), on which Campbell painted a gorgeous work of art during the party. (The painting was then donated to the LGBT Community Center of the Desert for the nonprofit's Center Stage silent auction.)
To say I was impressed by both Mumm and Campbell would be an understatement: They always display an intense passion for the Coachella Valley, its art and its artists.
That's why I was not at all surprised when Mumm announced she and Campbell were raising funds for PLANet Art Palm Springs (www.exhibitps.com), a project to bring in four renowned muralists in early April to create four murals on and around downtown Palm Springs' Arenas Road.
From what I know of Mumm and Campbell, I was sure they'd dot their I's and cross their T's when it came to planning, permits and permissions. Sure enough, they got a thumbs-up from the city's Public Arts Commission, as well as all of the needed permissions from the property owners along Arenas Road. Since the city of Palm Springs has no law regulating murals—at least that Mumm or anyone else to whom the Independent has spoken can find—it seemed like clear sailing for PLANet Art.
Such was not the case: As the PLANET Art artists began to paint on the weekend of April 4, police showed up and reportedly threatened to arrest them if they didn't stop.
Brian Blueskye has a comprehensive report that we posted online yesterday, and will be our May print-edition cover story. That issue will hit streets next week.
There is some good news coming out of this mess: In May, the Palm Springs City Council is slated to take up the mural matter, and will hopefully develop a policy and procedures to prevent such problems from happening in the future. (We'll definitely keep everyone posted on what happens.)
But even if the city of Palm Springs gets its act together in May, that does not excuse the city for what happened to Mumm, Campbell and the other PLANet Art participants in April. Unless there is some law or statute that everyone is missing, the city officials who had a role in stopping PLANet Art—costing Mumm and Campbell no small amount of money—should be ashamed. If there's no law regulating murals on the books, and Mumm and company did everything possible to get proper permission—including getting an endorsement from a city commission—then what they did is legal. Period.
People like Mumm and Campbell, who are stepping up and trying to make our community a more beautiful, culturally aware place, should be celebrated, not threatened with arrest. This seems like common sense doesn't it? Alas, the city of Palm Springs was lacking any and all sense when it shut down PLANet Art.
'Art Is Not a Crime': The City of Palm Springs Looks to Enact a Policy on Murals After Shutting Down a Highly Publicized ProjectApril 24 2014
The weekend of April 5 and 6 was going to be big for Debra Ann Mumm and local lovers of public art.
The owner of Venus Studios Art Supply had joined renowned local muralist Ryan"Motel" Campbell to launch PLANet Art Palm Springs. The project brought four renowned mural artists to downtown Palm Springs' Arenas Road area to paint four large-scale murals.
Proper funds had been raised; the city's Public Arts Commission had even endorsed the week long project. Everything was ready to go.
Except it wasn't.
As the artists started to paint, the police showed up and told Mumm and Campbell that their project was not authorized—it was illegal. Police reportedly threatened arrests if the artists continued to paint.
Campbell took to Facebook and other social media to vent his frustration. He even posted a picture of the police arriving and shutting down the project.
"ART IS NOT A CRIME," Campbell wrote.
Today, out-of-place white paint can be found along the edges of some of the walls where the murals were intended to be—Lulu California Bistro, Eddie's Frozen Yogurt, Clinic and StreetBar—illustrating the sudden stoppage of the project.
"I wish I could explain what exactly happened," Mumm said. "The news articles that came out about it didn't say a lot, because there wasn't a lot of explanation for the actions the city took. We showed up to paint, and the police came and said they were told to cite us if we began to work.
"It came as a bit of a surprise to us. We had followed all the procedures that we had to follow for the area we were painting in. There were no permits needed for that area as far as using the sidewalk and everything like that."
However, Palm Springs City Manager David Ready told the Independent that what Mumm and Campbell had planned was not allowed—despite the endorsement of the city's Public Arts Commission.
"Currently, the city does not allow murals," Ready said, adding that the Public Arts Commission lacks the authority to approve mural projects on its own. "However, the City Council had asked to create a policy that would allow murals. The Arts Commission looked at it, and the Planning Commission is currently looking at it, and the City Council will consider it on May 7."
Mumm said she's seen no law or ordinance prohibiting murals in Palm Springs.
"There aren't any procedures for murals in Palm Springs," Mumm said. "Because there are no procedures, they are taking it from the standpoint that murals aren't allowed.
"I'm not sure exactly what happened. It was very clear about the dates we were doing this and moving forward, and that there was nothing in the city language that prevented us from doing that."
Ready also said that property owners did not have proper permits for the murals.
"They never received a permit from the city," Ready said. "The property owners did not receive or request any approvals."
Mumm responded that her group did everything possible to get all the proper approvals.
"We thought we only needed use permits for the sidewalks, because all of Arenas is private, and the Arts Commission approved the project."
The confusion has cost Mumm and Campbell. The project featured out-of-town artists for whom Mumm had made accommodations; it was funded, in part, by locals to bring more arts and culture into the city of Palm Springs. (Mumm and Campbell are still raising funds, by the way.)
Mumm said she hopes a fair policy will be put in place on May 7.
"At this point, we've created a lot of public support," Mumm said. "It's clear that the city needs to move forward in making a procedure, because the public is very anxious for this project to move forward. At least we've created that dialogue."
One of the artists included in the project is Los Angeles painter Saber, described by The Washington Post as one of the most respected artists in the field of murals. (The others are APEX, Jeff Soto and Chad Hasegawa.) Saber went with Mumm to the Public Arts Commission meeting after the project was halted.
"(Saber) was instrumental in helping the city of Los Angeles develop their mural policy," Mumm said. "We brought copies of the Los Angeles city mural policy to maybe try and help them develop some kind of program."
Mumm said the plan is to continue work once the city enacts a mural policy and approves the project.
"We're still on board," Mumm said. "The artists came here to paint, and they still want to paint, so we're just going to continue to move forward. It's just an extreme delay. … At the very least, it's created the dialogue and created the conversation, especially after the illegal mural activity."
"Illegal mural activity" is a reference to the mural that James Haunt painted at Stewart Fine Art, 2481 N. Palm Canyon Drive, and the mural at Bar, 340 N. Palm Canyon Drive, painted by Fin DAC and Angelina Christina. There was no attempt for the creators of these murals to get city approval, according to Palm Springs city officials.
"It's my understanding from the Public Arts Commission meeting that they'll develop the policy, and once the policy is developed, Bar's and James Haunt's mural will both have to go through that procedure," Mumm said. "They'll make sure they're compliant with the newly formed ordinances, and it's clear that there will be no grandfathering of existing murals. That's the language that I heard at the meeting. But again, the policy hasn't been developed yet."
Mumm said the mural issue is getting caught up in the ongoing conversation about the nature of Palm Springs—and what belongs and doesn't belong.
"The problem with art is not everyone is going to like it," Mumm said. "Bar has a fairly controversial mural. It's a little bit provocative. … What we were bringing to the plate was a little more palatable publicly. I've heard people say about the Bar mural that it looks like a strip club. We're trying to bring internationally recognized, quality artists and experienced muralists to the valley. I love Angelina Christina's work, but that particular piece (at Bar) got some attention, and maybe all the neighbors aren't happy about it. There was no public forum for them to come out and say, 'Oh, man. You can't do that.' There was no approval by the Public Arts Commission, either. Everyone just wants the opportunity to weigh in on the subject."
She also points out that murals have been great for other cities.
"It has made such a big difference for Miami," Mumm said. "They have the Art Basel event, which draws $500 million in revenue to the Miami area in one week. I know there have been a lot of surveys done that cultural tourism is beneficial. It's beneficial for businesses. … If you keep doing it, there's bound to be something for everybody."
What about people who claim that murals don't "belong" in Palm Springs?
"I grew up here, and I was born in Indio," Mumm said. "I've seen a lot of changes to Palm Springs from the time when I was a teenager. … I see extreme value in preserving our history, and there's a lot of significant architecture here. … But the new generation, there's not a lot to attract them or newer businesses to the area. There's a lot of clinging to the past, and there's a certain part of that past that's important. I'm a big fan and have a lot of respect for what Palm Springs stands for. I think this just adds to it. We're not taking away from anything that is Palm Springs, but adding something new and creating a new dynamic that can be more than one-dimensional for Palm Springs. It doesn't have to be just one thing."
"Forever Marilyn," the Seward Johnson statue that spent about two years at the intersection of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive, was the subject of a debate over whether or not it was tasteful—or even art.
"I wasn't a fan," Mumm said. "But I'm a fan of what the statue did for the community. Everybody took pictures with the Marilyn. I'm a local, and I don't like the Marilyn statue, but I have to admit: I have pictures of her on my cell phone."
When asked whether murals are a good fit for the city, city manager Ready wouldn't comment specifically, but he did say the city has noticed the potential.
"I think that's why the City Council requested that we bring forth a policy on murals," Ready said, "because they recognize murals could certainly have a place in Palm Springs."
Mumm said that murals are also a good source of graffiti prevention.
"We've been invited to bring our program to Desert Hot Springs, Cathedral City, Indio, and even Indian Wells is even interested in looking at some murals," Mumm said. "They realize the potential for what we're offering. It is a graffiti deterrent.
"I know if (someone) went up and tagged on a Saber mural, (the tagger) wouldn't last long," she said, laughing. "There is a lot of respect even in that culture for significant work like that. You do not tag on a mural unless you're an idiot, and your whole community around you knows you're an idiot."


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American Caprice – Morton Gould (1913-1996) Shenandoah – Traditional Deep River – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Down By the Riverside – Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938) At Sea – Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) Sueño Recurrente – Angelica Negron (b. 1981) New World A-Comin' – Duke Ellington (1899-1974) God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday (1915-1959) I'll Be Seeing You – Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do – Billie Holiday (1915-1959) I Loves You, Porgy (arr. Nina Simone) – George Gershwin (1898-1937) Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin (1898-1937) Please reserve your free ticket here: And join the Facebook event.
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An iconoclastic pianist whose artistry has been called "luscious, moody and dreamy" by the The New York Times and "ravishing" by Fanfare Magazine, Lara Downes takes inspiration where she finds it, going beyond labels and categories to make music that is timeless and timely, starts conversations, and resonates with the world we live in. She engages audiences of all ages with her charismatic presence, intellectual curiosity, and masterful command of her artistic voice. She is a trailblazer onstage and off, inspiring her audiences with a musicality that the Huffington Post has called "addicting – Downes plays with an open, honest heart." Born in California and raised in Europe, Downes' interest in connecting music to a wide and inclusive breadth of human experience mines her own mixed African American and Eastern European background and her peripatetic upbringing. Her recent chart-topping release, America Again (Sono Luminus, 2016) was selected by NPR as one of "10 Albums that Saved 2016", and hailed as "a balm for a country riven by disunion" by the Boston Globe. The recording, her tenth solo release, is in many ways the coming-of-age memoir of an artist who has found her own way and carved her own path through American music, taking inspiration from the legacies of family, history, art and culture to express the diversity of American realities and American dreams. In her own words: "I've traveled all around this country and played for audiences in small towns and big cities. I've learned that my music is a bridge to unexpected friendships with people who come from very different versions of America than my own. There is no such thing as a typical American life, and there are millions of American stories. American music has a complicated history, full of contrasts and contradictions, just like my own, and I've learned that what is most beautiful about me comes down to my contradictions and contrasts." Not surprisingly, Lara is comfortable in a diverse range of venues, from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) and Yoshi's (SF), and is a tireless advocate and activist for underserved audiences beyond the concert hall. Lara's music is available on over 200 digital platforms throughout the world, and her recordings are beloved by listeners far outside of the core classical audience. A laureate of the prestigious Sphinx Organization Medal of Excellence, Downes has been recognized as a leader in expanding the reach of the arts, as a performer, an entrepreneur, and a cultural visionary. She enjoys creative collaborations with a range of leading artists, from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to singer Rhiannon Giddens, beatboxer Kevin Olusola, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, and her partnerships with prominent composers span genres and generations to bring significant new contributions to the 21st Century repertoire. When not on the road recording or performing, Lara serves as Artist in Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis, where she mentors the next generation of young musicians as Director of the Mondavi Center National Young Artists Program. She is a Steinway Artist.


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FIFA Soccer 08 Hands-On: Be A Pro mode
We strap on the shin guards and take to the field with FIFA Soccer 08's Be A Pro mode.
As we mentioned in an earlier preview of FIFA Soccer 08, EA Sports is introducing a Madden-like Be A Superstar mode to this year's soccer offering (or to be more precise, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game). Called Be A Pro, this new mode will allow gamers to take the role of one specific player, controlling all of their actions within a match. We took Be A Pro through its paces at the Australian media launch of FIFA 08 recently, and it looks to be a great addition for those who take their football seriously.
According to EA reps, Be A Pro is all about training the legions of FIFA gamers out there how to play as an individual soccer player for the eventual introduction of full 11-on-11 online matches planned for FIFA 2010. As it stands, FIFA 08's Be A Pro mode will be limited to offline when it ships later this quarter, although EA has confirmed it will release an update which will allow 5-on-5 online matches shortly after release. The 5-on-5 mode is only planned for US and European gamers at this stage, so FIFA 08 players in other countries such as Australia will have to do with offline play.
As the Aussie FIFA 08 launch was partly to hype the fact that Australia's A-League will be included in the game, we played as Sydney FC defender Mark Rudan in our Be A Pro offline experience. Playing in Be A Pro automatically defaults the camera to a wide end-to-end shot which allows you to see your chosen player in relation to both team members and opponents on the field. In what was a neat touch, however, the camera would pan down and go right behind our player if we held the ball for longer than a few seconds. This close-up angle--which was reminiscent of the roadie run camera in Gears of War--gave a real sense of urgency to the play.
As the point of Be A Pro is to emulate what it would be like to be a real player, handy position markers popped up on screen to tell us exactly where we should be positioning our player--as Rudan is a defender, arrows pointing us back would appear every time we strayed too far into the top half of the field. Red circles would also appear underneath players we needed to mark, which occasionally ended up in hairy situations during our gameplay session as we had strayed too far away from our targets while attempting to chase the ball.
If you do feel the urge to attack or set up a play, gamers can call for the ball from their teammates using the pass button. Through balls can also be called for, although team mates did ignore our calls when we were clearly in a bad position. You can also urge one of your computer-controlled team members to take a shot for goal, although once again they won't blindly obey your instructions if they're not in an ideal scoring position.
Everything players do in Be A Pro mode will be scored (as per EA's stated goal of "training" gamers on how to be individuals). Good passing, intercepts, staying close to your marked targets, and more will earn you points. These points are tallied in an on-screen performance bar which rates your performance in the game so far--the more green on the bar, the better you're playing your position.
While we didn't see the 5-on-5 version of Be A Pro, our taste of the offline mode is making us keenly look forward to this feature (which is even more of a pity as us Australians probably won't be able to play it). FIFA 08 is slated for release in the third quarter of this year.
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I have a guitar that was my grandpa's. Washburn model #1915. It's in great condition, X-cept needs new strings. I can't seem to find valuation on it. Can anyone help?? Thanks :D
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"Subway Guitars" have one at $500. That's optimistic 'dealer price'.
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So many times during the day, I feel like I'm being rushed.
In the grocery line, I feel like I'm always going way too slow after the transaction is made – hurry up and get that change into your wallet, lady, we're done with you so move along! In traffic, I'm honked if I'm obeying the speed limit. At work, people are constantly checking in to remind me of the ten deadlines I had to meet ten minutes ago.
It's like this all day. So when I get home, I'm still in this hyper-speed warp and I cook dinner as if I were racing against the clock like an Iron Chef. And what's all the rush for? Because I can't wait to watch some pathetic TV show that's so good it puts me to sleep.
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Max shows you how to make a music syncing light up orb clock, he writes –
"Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod's creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in slightest light conditions though his Light Orb is tight let us say. So we checked out RGB lights at Hackedgadgets.com. Which is cool and uses 4 Red, 3 Green, and 3 Blue LEDs.
Well during our google search for Light Orb HOWTOs, we came to the Ambient Devices schematic and their technical notes. Well it says that with the right voltage, you don't need to use resistors.
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In a speech delivered at a conference between the two countries' governments, Ghana's Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia called upon United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to aid in bringing the African nation's fledgling bauxite ore sector into global prominence.
Speaking at the inaugural U.S.-Ghana Business Forum late last week, Bawumia said that the United States's success and expertise at developing its own bauxite trade would be of benefit to both countries.
He continued by saying that his government is currently establishing a framework for developing and marketing bauxite and is in search of partners to help it access the country's ore cache which, he estimated, could yield bauxite for well over half a century.
"We have begun the process of establishing an Integrated Aluminium Industry (IAI) through a joint venture process to enable us to develop key critical growth-enhancing physical infrastructure while adding value to our mineral resources. We are almost at the end of establishing a government holding company by the name Ghana Integrated Bauxite and Aluminum Development Authority (GIBADA).
"This holding company will be entrusted with all bauxite resources on behalf of government for such purposes."
Ross responded by expressing a hope that the two states would soon develop a robust trade relationship, noting that it is Washington, D.C.'s hope that its dealings with Africa in general would mature beyond grants and aid packages.
He went on to opine that Ghana is moving in the right direction with this move to strengthen trade ties instead of seeking financial aid from Western countries.
Ross was in Ghana last week to head a delegation of 60 members of the Trump administration's President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) in a fact-finding mission in the country. The aim of the visit was to identify opportunities for and challenges to doing business in Ghana and deliver those findings to the U.S. president for action to develop the two countries' trade relationship.


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I would like to talk for a moment about the floating head pictures from yesteryear (like the late 70s and 80s).
If you are between the ages of 20 and 35, you probably have a picture like the one above of my sweet, darling husband as a baby. There is always a cute smiling baby and then a more serious baby in profile, larger than life, floating to the left. Of course they also did this for kids too and sometimes for adults. I have one where I am floating above my sister who is holding an umbrella. It is weird and creepy and looks like the sky is raining little girls. Why, why did they do this? I've come up with a few reasons:
1. Photographers wanted to show off their genius. Way back when digital retouching wasn't even a glimmer in a photographer's eye, they did everything in a dark room. The art of photography was as much the developing as the taking. This floating head business was tricky stuff and required the exposure of 2 negatives at the same time. I really don't know too much about dark-room stuff. I am all digital for good reason!
2. Parents got 2 photos for the price of one. I think this is the main reason my mom always bought the floating head picture. She was thrilled to get 2 pictures (very pricey) in one. And two posses, serious and fun, in one. What a deal.
These really are not good reason, are they? Nope. I didn't think so. I don't know when the fad faded away like the serious likeness floating in the corner of a photograph, but I am not sad to see it go. Now with digital photography, you can afford to get more than one pose of your child -- both serious and fun. If you want a floating head picture, I am sure I could do something digitally for ya for old times sake.


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September seems to be flying by - I think mostly because I've been keeping myself so busy! I have fun plans tonight, but the rest of my weekend is looking pretty low-key. My fingers are crossed that it stays that way!
ONE - A Little Late with Lilly Singh
I've loved watching Lilly Singh's YouTube channel, and I think it's amazing she has her own late night show. She adds so much diversity to the late night scene, and representation is so so important! Her show is on WELL after my bedtime, so I'm still watching her on YouTube, but it's still a big step!
TWO - Disability on TV
Just like Lilly Singh's new show is doing a lot for representation, people want to see disability representation on the screen, too! As this article says, "Authenticity is the new frontier."
THREE - Silk Scrunchies
Whenever I get a blowout, I like to pull my hair back at night when I sleep to make it last a few days. But I hate getting that ponytail crease that comes from using a ponytail holder all night. I've been trying out these silk scrunchies, and I'm a fan. They're also supposed to help with frizz and hair damage, too.
FOUR - Best Movies on Netflix
Looking for something to watch this weekend? The New York Times listed what they think are the 50 best movies on Netflix. I'm currently deep in a re-watch of the original Beverly Hills, 90210, but once I'm finished with that I'll be checking out this list.
FIVE - Taylor Swift in Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone. It's a great read because she's a lot more honest and blunt than she's been in the past - it's a little glimpse into her life, and the new album (which I'm obsessed with).


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Medium: Sandstone
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Dates:ca. 1479-1400 B.C.E.
Dimensions: 14 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 3 3/4 in., 29.5 lb. (38 × 30 × 9.5 cm, 13.38kg) mount (dimensions as installed): 15 1/2 × 12 × 4 in. (39.4 × 30.5 × 10.2 cm)
Accession Number: 37.1352E
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Catalogue Description: Fragment of a sandstone stela. Preserved is the right end which bears representation of an offering table surmounted by offerings (right hand portion only preserved) to the right of which are a male and female facing left. The man holds both his hands up before him. Behind him the woman stands with her arms at her sides. Above the man is an inscription. Above the woman is an inscription. Both these figures stand a tiny bit above the base line which supports the offering table. The figures are tall and thin. The technique is crude shallow sunk relief. Condition: Diagonal gouges across ground, but not across figures.


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A key feature of the building is the 3,000m2 copper cladding, which has 65% recycled content and can be recycled again in the future. Crucially, this affordable material does not suffer from atmospheric corrosion, will patinate as it ages and requires no cleaning or maintenance. 88 light-pipes are incorporated in the roof, drawing natural light into the venue with the aim of achieving annual energy savings of up to 40%.
A flexible system of retractable seating allows the internal arena to be reconfigured for specific events with capacity requirements up to a maximum of 6,000 seats; the system is electronically activated, enabling the configuration to change easily and quickly. The form of the arena is a simple structural box housing the 2,750m2 field of play which is surrounded by a vibrant, multicoloured interior. All visitors, regardless of disability, enter the arena via a glazed concourse level that encircles the building, offering views of the activity taking place within and illuminating the venue at night.
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Press Release (Palais des congrès)
Montréal, March 9, 2016 — As the Featured Partner for March, the Palais des congrès de Montréal is pleased to take part in the city's initiative to make public art a component of Montréal's brand, for both leisure and business tourists. Launched in October 2015, the portal features over 600 works of art across the Montréal territory the public can find in parks, metro stations or public buildings, showcasing the artists and offering theme-based tours and discovery packages.
Some of these works are housed in the Palais des congrès. Says Amélie Asselin, communications and public relations advisor at the Palais des congrès de Montréal: "We are proud to contribute to and promote Québec knowhow and culture, and to be able to display it before the 800,000 business tourists who visit the Palais each year and give them opportunity to enjoy a memorable cultural experience in Montréal."
Translucide, Jean-François Cantin
This work of art speaks to the Palais' vocation as a place where people simultaneously pass through and come together, where points of view are shared and perceptions mingle. Inside the main glass façade, a hand and face evoke the connection between human senses and human thought.
Éolienne V, Charles Daudelin
This "mobile" features five steel masts anchored onto a circular concrete basin. A long rod sits atop each mast, and the rods spin and bend whenever the wind blows. The vertical, linear installation is meant to contrast with the surrounding architecture, nearby expressway and crowded space, while the basin affords the artwork its own well-defined expanse.
Lipstick Forest, Claude Cormier et associés
Patterned after the hundred-year old maples that line the avenues in the old city, our forest is perfectly adapted to the futuristic environment of the Palais des congrès. The hand-cast trunks hover between the concrete slabs of floor and ceiling, on a site straddling the underground Ville-Marie expressway. A positive symbol of the reality of nature in our contemporary world, Lipstick Forest might be artificial, but it's definitely not fake.
Ailes couleur du temps, nuage de soleil, Micheline Beauchemin
Suspended from a trapeze of synthetic cables, this creation is composed of 7,000 polished silver aluminum rods 4 to 20 feet high and 38 feet long.
Over and above the collections exhibited in the city's various museums, Montréal enjoys a rich and diversified public cultural heritage from all types of artists. One of the reasons why Montréal's cultural scene is so lively and dynamic.
About the Palais des congrès de Montréal
Recipient of the AIPC Gold Quality Standards certification, the highest in the convention industry, and also shortlisted by the AIPC for the World's Best Congress Centre award, the Palais des congrès de Montréal attracts and hosts conventions, exhibitions, conferences, meetings and other events, and generates major economic benefits for Québec. www.congresmtl.com


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Many classical Islamic sources argue that it is not permissible for non-Muslims to reside in the Ḥijāz, especially Mecca and Medina. Such arguments are usually based on a famous Prophetic saying, "Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of the Arabs", and on the reported action taken by the second caliph ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to remove non-Muslims from settlements in western Arabia. In this article, it is argued that the contradictory nature of the evidence for this expulsion casts serious doubt on whether such a widespread action actually took place, certainly not in the decades immediately following Muḥammad's death. It concludes that the widely attested classical prohibition on non-Muslims residing in the Ḥijāz rather had much more to do with the gradually evolving need to draw up firmer communal boundaries, which could help distinguish Muslims from others, and the role played by sacred spaces in doing so.
From medieval times until today ideas of heredity through lineage and of merit through slave status have jostled for pre-eminence as explanations for transitions of Mamluk royal authority. This article contributes to this debate through an analysis of events in late 1341 marking the transition from the reign of one of the sultanate's most successful rulers, al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn, to that of his sons. This is achieved by focusing on the whereabouts of one of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad's most powerful agents, Qūṣūn al-Sāqī al-Nāṣirī, and on how this amir monopolized power in Egypt and Syria in such a way that his accession to the sultanate seemed inevitable. The article then demonstrates how things went wrong for Qūṣūn and how his failed attempt to obtain the sultanate triggered a Qalāwūnid dynastic succession practice that was to remain dominant for many decades.
This article analyses the teaching of international law in the late Ottoman Empire. It argues that the Ottomans were interested in teaching European international law to equip Ottoman bureaucrats with the skills necessary for evaluating and regulating the complex interrelation between the Ottoman Empire and the European states, to defend the vital interests of the Empire against European legal penetration via extraterritoriality, and to understand the legal basis of the European system of which the Empire had officially been accepted as a part by the European Great Powers since the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris in 1856. The article focuses on the courses, scholars and textbooks in the field of international law in the Ottoman Empire during three periods. The preliminary period (1859–76), witnessed the emergence of the first courses, scholars and literature on international law; in the Hamidian period (1876–1908) these courses were stabilized and systematized in line with higher education reforms in the Ottoman Empire; and finally, in the post-Hamidian period, the opening of new schools of law in the countryside and the reformation of existing schools allowed the teaching and literature of international law to flourish.
In 688/1289 Nawrūz Aqa, a leading Mongol magnate, began a rebellion in Khurasan to resist the Ilkhan Arghun's attempts to centralize power and loosen the Mongol aristocracy's grip on provincial government. The rebellion of Nawrūz was significantly different from any Mongol uprising that had occurred in the Ilkhanate to that date: it was distinguished by the successful fusion of Chinggisid and Islamic traditions of political and spiritual authority to support Nawrūz's challenge against the Hülegüid monarchy. This new hybrid political philosophy allowed Nawrūz to mobilize both the sedentary and nomadic populations of Khurasan to overhaul the power structure of the Ilkhanate. The present study of the early career and rebellion of Amīr Nawrūz will reveal how his movement forced the Turco-Mongolian leadership to reconfigure its political, social and religious relationships, among themselves and with the sedentary Muslim population they ruled.
The term aṣ̌a- stands in the centre of ancient Iranian thought. It is a pivotal concept in Zoroastrian religious lore, but is not, in its significance, coeval with Zoroastrianism. As an object of eschatological longing, aṣ̌a- has Indo-Iranian roots. It is, in Old and Middle Persian texts, primarily understood as a synecdoche for the divine sphere where the religiously dutiful expect to lead a blessed mental existence after death. Aṣ̌a- is also a deity of the Old Avestan pantheon, thus a deified concept. Finally, the term is regularly used in the Gāthās as both the authoritative instance of measuring human (religious) conduct, and the normative goal of therapeutic (eschatological) activity. In this latter usage, too, and in agreement with its form and etymology, aṣ̌a- signifies a concrete phenomenon. There are good reasons to think that this phenomenon is the world as it was "put together" by Ahura Mazdā, and only subsequently sickened by the forces of deception. Translations to date, such as "truth" and "order", are examined, all of which are shown to have serious problems. In conclusion I propose to translate aṣ̌a- as "cosmos".
This paper argues that sura 53 contains a number of problems, of which the most intractable is the question: who is speaking in the oracular, part I? The answer is not God, nor is it easy to see how it could be the Prophet. Since the Prophet is undoubtedly responsible for the sura as a whole, the solution tentatively proposed here is that he found part I in an earlier text current among his people, such as a collection of oracular verdicts.
The valley of Dantig in Amdo plays a central role in Tibetan Buddhist historical literature as the place where the monastic code was maintained during the tenth century after the dissolution of the monasteries in central Tibet. This article shows that a manuscript (now kept at the British Library) carried by a Chinese pilgrim monk through this region in the 960s, which mentions Dantig, is the only direct documentary evidence of Tibetan monastic culture in this region at this time. The authors also show how the name Dantig, which has been previously unexplained, derives from the Sudāna Sūtra, a Buddhist narrative of exile and return that is directly relevant to the aspirations of the refugee monks from central Tibet who settled in the region.
This article examines philological problems relating to descriptions defining the tathāgatagarbha, or "buddha-nature", in Sanskrit sūtras and exegetical literature, together with the variant Tibetan translations of these descriptions in the bKa' 'gyur and bsTan 'gyur. Attention is called also to some possible philosophical implications of these variant descriptions.
In Quran 7:163–6, God punishes the inhabitants of "a town by the sea" who have collected fish from the sea on a Sabbath by transforming them into apes (qirada). Almost none of the attempts to find a precedent for this punishment in pre-Islamic texts have been plausible. This article argues that this scene reflects post-biblical traditions referring to Numbers 11:19–20. This biblical passage deals with the Israelites who consumed quails that had come from the sea; they were doomed to partake of the meat until it came out of their nostrils and became loathsome to them. This was their punishment after having expressed their discontent with the manna, while craving for meat and fish and vegetables. The midrashic sources describe various obnoxious bodily effects which the meat of the quails had on their unrestrained eaters. It will be suggested that the punitive transformation into apes, suffered by the people of the town by the sea who ate fish, represents the Quranic reshaped version of the bodily infliction which the quail eaters suffered as a result of eating the quails that came from the sea. In support of this suggestion, several points common to the biblical quail eaters and the Quranic people of the "town by the sea" will be highlighted.
The mid-fifteenth-century Taoist Canon (Zhengtong daozang 正統道藏) contains five specimens of a religious artefact called "Great Peace Symbol" ("Taiping fu" 太平符), dispersed between five texts spanning about a millennium. The introduction to this paper discusses the meaning of the Chinese word fu 符 and its most widely used English rendition, "talisman". The article briefly presents the source of each specimen, attempts a deconstruction of its morphology, and analyses its modus operandi, thus providing a basic methodological model to outline the historical evolution of the category of "fu" artefacts from early medieval portable devices endowed with specific apotropaic functions – like charms and amulets – to multipurpose ritual implements designed for use within the framework of early modern Taoist liturgy. The epilogue introduces a sixth specimen, differently named but morphologically and functionally related to the latest three "Great Peace Symbols".
The mark known as the "trace of prostration" (sīmā) that is mentioned in the Quran is well established in Islam as being a physical blemish on the forehead. Such marks on the forehead are widespread in religious traditions, often denoting community membership and piety. The Quranic instance fits this tendency. The forelock is also a symbol associated with the forehead that the Quran mentions, although that piece of hair carries negative connotations. This common feature of a person's appearance can, in other cultural situations, denote membership and piety just like a mark on the forehead. The vocabulary of the Quran incorporates images from the past, although the evidence is too slight to allow origins to be traced; popular religious ideas and practices have many sources beyond scripture.
Ban Gu's compilation of the Han shu may be seen in the context of a number of intellectual and religious developments. By his time the idea of the Tian ming and the theory of the Wu xing were being applied to imperial times. Officials were quoting the sayings of Kongzi to support their arguments, and the writings of distinguished scholars such as Jing Fang, Liu Xiang, Liu Xin and Yang Xiong were well known. The religious controversies that had begun in the reign of Chengdi had died down. The pursuit of scholarship had received a new impetus thanks partly to the discussions held in 79 ce. Ban Gu drew somewhat freely on existing literature, being prudent to select material that would not arouse enmity; his sister called on official documents to complete her part of the history. As an innovator Ban Gu introduced chapters on subjects that had not been treated in the Shi ji, such as bibliography and the laws. Ready to criticize the actions of officials or the character of an emperor openly, he also contrived to do so implicitly.
This paper investigates the belated formation of the China Bible House, the first national Bible society in China, as a result of the interplay between the politics of foreign Bible societies and the indigenizing Chinese church in relation to rising nationalism during the Republican era. The challenge of Chinese nationalism to Christianity drove foreign Bible societies and Chinese Protestants to work towards the indigenization of Bible work. However, distrust and conflicts hindered foreign Bible societies' co-operation among themselves and also with Chinese Protestants. While Chinese church leaders saw the founding of a Chinese Bible society as a manifestation of the Chineseness of the Protestant church in China, they agreed with foreign Bible societies on the global identity of Bible work, which justified the latter's continuing presence in China. This understanding, together with the need for foreign financial support and expertise, explains why Sino-foreign co-operation existed in Bible work in China.
Many scholars have stressed that regional dynamics led to the outbreak of the Musin Rebellion, the largest rebellion in eighteenth-century Korea. Scholars have examined the economic and political situation leading up to the violence and concluded that political marginalization caused Kyŏngsang Province elites (from the Southerner faction) to launch the rebellion. This paper analyses evidence from official sources about rebel motivations, rebel geographical associations and the court view of the causes. Although post-rebellion government statements acknowledge tensions between the court and many Kyŏngsang Province elites, rebel testimony showed no evidence of any anger about discrimination against elites from a single region. There is also inconsistent evidence of regional concerns in the membership of the rebel organization, which was drawn from three southern provinces and mainly concentrated around the capital. My findings challenge the conclusions of regionalist scholars and place the Musin Rebellion in a trajectory of late Chosŏn rebellion that was attempting to redress factional political discrimination and was not caused by regional concerns.
Digitized text repositories (such as al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr, al-Maktaba al-Shāmila and Maktabat Ahl al-Bayt) open new horizons in the study of early Islamic history. By employing them it was found that ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd had at least four courts, two in Kūfa and two in Medina, and at least two estates cultivated by sharecroppers, one in Rādhān near Kūfa and another in Saylaḥīn near Qādisiyya. His situation is comparable to that of a member of the pre-Islamic Sassanian landed aristocracy of absentee landlords. He also had three households in three different places. The desire for control and worldly assets is human, and those who lack it never make it to the highest echelons of power. Put differently, hagiography should not be mistaken for historiography. Whether or not Ibn Masʿūd's Rādhān should be linked with the Rādhānite Jewish merchants remains an open question.
Berber in the Sahara and southern Morocco, and several West African languages including Soninké, Mandinka and Songhay, all refer to the five Islamic daily prayers using terms not derived from their usual Arabic names, and showing striking mutual similarities. The motivation behind these names has not hitherto been explained. An examination of Islamic sources reveals that many correspond to terms attested within Arabic from an early period but which have passed out of use elsewhere. Others, with a more limited distribution, reflect transfer from a time-keeping system widely attested among Berber-speaking oases of the northern Sahara. These results demonstrate that the variant prayer terminologies attested in the ḥadith reflect popular usages that were still commonplace at the time when North Africa was conquered, and underscore the conservatism of non-Arabic Islamic religious terminology in and around the Sahara.
Almost five decades ago the late Stanislaw Chojnacki, one of the founding fathers of Ethiopian art history, began the task of describing the themes in Christian Ethiopian painting. Since then, others have contributed to the study of different subjects in Ethiopian art. Yet there are still gaps in our understanding of Ethiopian iconography. The aim of this study is to help fill these gaps by offering some remarks on the iconography of the Holy Women at the Tomb in fourteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript illumination.


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How to Donate to hudhud Relief Fund
The other day we wrote an article on about hudhud cyclone relief fund. Today few people still started asking us questions on how to donate to funds!
Well, if you are from India, then you should add these following account details to your Indian bank account and send funds. Some banks approve the payee immediately, few banks take time though. You can set the account type to savings while sending funds.
Account name: AP CM Relief Fund
SBI account: 33913634404 (or) 34243087405 (For SBI Account holders)
IFSC Code: SBIN0002724,
Branch Name: SBI Treasury Branch, Gowliguda, Hyderabad.
If you are using an SBI account then try to add the second SBI account, the first one doesn't work for SBI to SBI transaction.
Alternately, if you wish to send money from outside India, then you can use, XOOM money transfer service:
Gowliguda (Hyderabad) (500002017)
Cheques can be sent to Deputy Secretary, Revenue Department, L-Block, AP Secretariat, Hyderabad.


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When successful restaurant brands like Sweetgreen, a modern fast-casual salad concept, serve a carrot-chile vinaigrette as a signature dressing, it signals something is shifting in how consumers are enjoying heat.
"It's all about how you create complexity," says Andrew Hunter, founder of Chef Andrew Hunter, a culinary development agency based in Los Angeles.
"Think about different attributes in your ingredients and how you can complement them." In fact, complexity, nuance and flavor depth are all driving excitement around menu items that boast some kind of heat component. Here are four opportunities to deliver high heat.
- Togarashi—is a seven-ingredient Japanese spice blend including two types of peppers, roasted orange peel, black and white sesame seeds, hemp seed, ginger and seaweed. It's got high heat, but made really interesting through layers of complex flavors. Menu potential is significant. At Gigi in Miami, the Smoked Ribs features a togarashi honey. At Ink in Los Angeles, radishes get a garnish of togarashi and miso butter.
- Battered peppers—Rounding out the mouthfeel of a fiery pepper with a savory, crispy batter is a beautiful thing. In fact, the road to craveability often sees that very combination. Crispy jalapeños garnishing a salad or bowl build add a high-impact finish. A burger studded with a few pickled and battered Serranos, maybe stuffed with cream cheese, add an unexpected, but welcome hit of flavorful heat.
- Sambal—Hailing from Southeast Asia, this hot sauce brings seriously bright-hot heat with a magical combination of chile pepper, rice wine vinegar and citrus. But it also has just a touch of funk—a long finish with nuanced, deep flavor thanks to fish sauce and shrimp paste. Knowing that the modern use of heat embraces this kind of multi-faceted personality, it's no surprise that sambal is adding its flourish of heat to menus across the country.
- Green Harissa—Harissa, with its fiery red profile, has made big moves on menus today, but we're now seeing green harissa coming onto the field. Boasting jalapeño, cilantro, parsley, cumin, lemon juice and oil—with regional tweaks here and there—it's got a mellower heat than its red cousin. Used as a sandwich spread or dolloped atop a bowl build, green harissa lifts flavor beautifully.


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by Craig Mill
on Mon Jan 09, 2017
Technology to support learners with literacy difficulties such as dyslexia can make a big difference.
Using free resources provided by CALL Scotland such as WordTalk, the Scottish Voices, Books for All, combined with a range of Windows built-in tools, free downloads and commercial software, support technology should be available to everyone.
The infograph highlights a range of support tools that are compatible with the Windows Operating System (OS) into 5 categories:
- Text-to-speech
- Computer Voices
- Colour Contrast and Highlighting
- Speech Recognition
- Word Prediction
Find out more and download the Technology to Support Dyslexia infograph.
Find out about our half day seminar "Supporting Learners with Dyslexia Using Technology" when the CALL Scotland team will be sharing knowledge and expertise on a wide range of hardware, software and apps that can support dyslexic learners to meet their learning objectives.
Spelling, Grammar and Autotext in Word
Due to layout and space restrictions, some tools have been omitted, although they play an important part in supporting literacy. For example, the Spelling and Grammar checker in Microsoft Word can help learners to identify and amend spelling and grammar mistakes. The keyboard shortcut F7 is a quick way to identify spelling errors.
Also in Microsoft Word AutoText and AutoCorrect can be used to automatically correct common spelling errors such as 'teh' to 'the' or 'acomodation' to 'accommodation'.
Reading Accessible Books on a Windows computer
Using a Windows computer, whether a desktop or tablet, is a great way of reading accessible books from the Books for All Database, as books in PDF format can be adjusted to suit the needs of different learners, such as background colour, magnification or speech.
For more information on using technology to support reading and writing, visit the CALL Dyslexia section of the website.
Legal Requirements
And don't forget, ensuring that pupils have access to support technology is a legal requirement, a responsibility we all have. CALL has produced friendly step-by-step guides based on Scottish Government guidance to help: Legal Requirements for Computer Accessibility and Inclusive Learning Resources.
The poster is designed to be printed in A3. The electronic copy (PDF) includes clickable links to resources.
Icons by Flaticon (adapted by Craig).


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Anti-Semitic radio station named after Jewish womanJuly 26th, 2007
Link: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/july07/anitsemitism.htm
A final comment on Fr Rydzyk, at least until he repents in sackcloth and ashes, accompanied by his religious superiors - or else says something else outrageous.
Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, once described by the Anglican Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret", pursues Rydzyk and the Church leaders who refuse to bring this priest under control. As I've pointed out before, it is up to Rydzyk's Redemptorist superiors to act. If they refuse, however, to then it should not be beyond the power of the local Polish bishops to do something about it.
One of the creepiest radio stations in the world is named, I'm sorry to say, after the Virgin Mary. Radio Maryja, Poland's largest Catholic broadcasting agency, is obsessed with Jewish plots.
After sinking his teeth into Church leaders for their weak response to this, he points out:
You can't help wondering the rosary-clutching anti-Semites of Radio Maryja are missing a rather obvious point. I hate to break it to you, guys, but you're named after a Jewish housewife.
Polish priest can't see anything anti-semitic about insulting Jews: Redemptorists can't, either.July 25th, 2007
Link: http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52542
Polish priest Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, who runs the influential Radio Maryja, can't see anything wrong with his behaviour.
Here's a little test. Read the following and see if you can spot any statements no good Christian should make.
According to the weekly, Fr. Rydzyk was to say that the First Lady "is a witch" and "should undergo euthanasia". About the President, he allegedly said that he is a "cheat who lets himself be influenced by the Jewish lobby".
Easy, wasn't it? The odd thing is that neither Fr Rydzyk nor his superiors in the Redemptorist Order can see anything wrong with his statements, even if you can.
First, Fr Rydzyk:
Fr. Rydzyk himself does not question the authenticity of the quotes, but denies having the intention to offend anyone:
'It never crossed my mind to offend anyone. This affair is artificially blown up.'
As the brother of Polish President Lech Kaczynski said: "It's a serious problem which the Redemptorist order needs to address."
There seems to be little hope of that.
The outspoken director of a Polish Catholic radio station has denied charges that he made anti-Semitic statements, and his religious superior has backed his statement...
...Father Zdzislaw Klafka, the Polish provincial of the Redemptorist order, said that an investigation into the charges against Father Rydzyk had concluded that he "does not identify himself with the anti-Semitism that has been attributed to him." Father Klafka-- who said that his own statement was approved by Father Joseph Tobin, the worldwide head of the Redemptorist order, said that Father Rydzyk's colleagues knew he was not an anti-Semite.
Do they also support his statements that his President is a cheat and the First Lady is a witch, I wonder?
A reminder here that the Pope has tried to rein in Radio Maryja, but it is really up to the Redemptorists to lance this particular boil - something they seem unwilling to do.
Antisemitic Priest: Polish ProtestsJuly 20th, 2007
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6791421,00.html
More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.
Only 700? Still, enough to make the Guardian pay attention, and it seems there are some high profile names among them.
``As Polish Catholics, laymen and clergy, we express our moral protest against the worsening statements of the director of Radio Maryja,'' the letter says. ``It hurts us that the contemptible and anti-Semitic statements come from a representative of our church.''
The letter, posted on the Web site of the Krakow-based Center for Culture and Dialogue, calls on Roman Catholic Church leaders to bring Rydzyk in line with church teaching that anti-Semitism is a sin.
Rydzyk is a member of the Redemptorist order. An official who answered the phone at the Redemptorists' headquarters in Rome "would not comment. Calls to the order's office in Warsaw went unanswered."
Rydzyk's religious superiors are Redemptorists, not his local Bishop in Poland (although the latter should protest about him to the Redemptorist leadership). You can contact their headquarters here.
An antisemitic priest - and the chance to do something about itJuly 14th, 2007
Link: http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=312458&content_id=%7B51C89206-C557-408D-82D4-08AACDB67B53%7D¬oc=1
Antisemitic Polish priest Father Tadeuscz Rydzyk is still spreading his poison .
Father Rydzyk's extremism was previously criticized by Pope Benedict XVI. His radio station has hosted antisemites and Holocaust deniers. Join the Wiesenthal Center's call to the Catholic Church to dismiss this "Josef Goebbels in a collar."
Why hasn't this disgrace to the Catholic priesthood been dismissed long ago?
The Wiesenthal Center give us the opportunity to call on Archbishop Jozef Michalik, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, to work for his dismissal here.
Real Christian PeacemakersJuly 6th, 2007
Unlike the 'Christian' 'Peacemakers' who don't have the guts to try and protect their fellow Christians in Gaza, but stay safely in the West Bank, producing a steady drip of venom about the Israelis whose presence protects them, here are some real Christian peacemakers.
Displaying far more courage, as well as the sort of charity Christians are supposed to practise, a group of Christian volunteers are making themselves useful in Sderot.
Five Christian volunteers braved the heat and threat of Qassam rockets last week to help renovate an activities center for grandmothers in Sderot.
Apparently they do it without being nasty about anyone – not even the terrorists who are firing missiles in their direction.
Trystan Tregenza, 26, from Penzance, Cornwall, said, "It was a great insight into Sderot, my first visit to the town. There was loads of stuff we could have done, but we wanted to do some manual labor. It was nice to do something for the elderly."
What's unique about these Christian volunteers is that they already volunteer here in Israel at Bridges for Peace (BFP), a Christian organization dedicated to building relationships and understanding between Christians and Jews.
It's about "building relationships and understanding" between groups of people, not about using pretended concern about justice as a mask for the injustice of anti-semitism. It's positive and constructive, as well as quietly courageous – so called 'Christian peacemakers' take note.


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Parents observe the emergence of distinct personalities in children from the earliest days of infancy. Personality is determined largely by a person's genetic makeup. And a person's personality goes a long way toward determining how that person will adapt to his life circumstances, and make his way through the inevitable obstacles and briar patches that lie in his path.
Cornell scientists studied 70 young adult males to determine some of the innate brain mechanisms that make up the personality, from before birth onward.
People's brains respond differently to rewards, say the neuroscientists. Some people's brains release more of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which ultimately gives them more reasons to be excited and engaged with the world, says Richard Depue, professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, who co-authored the study with graduate student Yu Fu.
Their study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Vol. 7) in June, sheds new light on how differences in the way the brain responds to reward translate into extraverted behavior, the authors say.
"Rewards like food, sex and social interactions as well as more abstract goals such as money or getting a degree trigger the release of dopamine in the brain, producing positive emotions and feelings of desire that motivate us to work toward obtaining those goals. In extroverts, this dopamine response to rewards is more robust so they experience more frequent activation of strong positive emotions," Depue says.
"Dopamine also facilitates memory for circumstances that are associated with the reward. Our findings suggest this plays a significant role in sustaining extroverted behavior," Depue adds. "The extroverts in our study showed greater association of context with reward than introverts, which means that over time, extroverts will acquire a more extensive network of reward-context memories that activate their brain's reward system."
Some scientists confuse "reward" with "interest" or "anticipation of reward." Dopamine is more closely associated with anticipation of reward or pleasure, than with the pleasure itself.
Previous studies show that drinking non-alcoholic beer can trigger dopamine release — a sure sign of anticipatory brain activity. Alcohol itself triggers release of opiate-like pleasuring chemicals, then goes on to muddle the workings of the brain in inebriation.
But the central point is the genetic component of innate personality formation, something that science is just beginning to learn about.