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BROOKLYN, NY--(Marketwired - Apr 18, 2013) - As a bold statement in the bottled water industry, today Fred Water recommended refilling the brand's water bottles again and again! Fred's flask-shaped bottles are BPA and phthalate-free, making them safe to use and refill. As the only bottled beverage choice on the convenience store shelf that is made for refilling, Fred Water is built to last and constructed of recyclable PET #1 plastic. As Earth Day 2013 approaches, Fred's message is clear: use the Fred bottle over and over, unapologetically!
"People have become so accustomed to the drink-and-toss concept, which we think is sad. Fred bottles can be reused many times and retain their original integrity and safety for drinking water," said Adam Gayner, co-founder and CEO of Fred. "The truth is, the world needs a solution to the copious amounts of bottles being tossed, and this is one solution that consumers can stand behind."
Pocket, purse and backpack friendly, Fred is the brand you want to take with you when you're on the go. Unlike the increasingly popular aluminum SIGG bottles, PET #1 plastic bottles are flexible, lightweight and are safe to keep in a pocket. While falling with an aluminum SIGG bottle in your pocket could cause injury, Fred Water bottles are flexible enough not present the same health issue.
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Two guys in Brooklyn created a brand that advocates the indisputable greatness of water, and they offered it in a bottle that makes staying hydrated easy. Today Fred's pocket-friendly, refillable bottles are BPA-free and Phthalate-free, and come carrying velvety smooth, exceptionally pure natural spring water from the USA. Since Fred Water believes in reincarnation, the bottles can be upcycled into super soft t-shirts when they are end-of-life. Refill and respect: Learn more at FredWater.com.
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AMD's New Atlanta Data Center Showcases Chip Maker's Technology
AMD's New Atlanta Data Center Showcases Chip Maker's Technology
by Jeffrey Burt
In Charge of AMD's Consolidation Effort
Overseeing the massive undertaking are Andy Bynum, corporate vice president of global infrastructure and operations at AMD, left, and Jake Dominquez, the company's corporate vice president and CIO.
AMD Data Center From the Outside
The facility doesn't look like much from the outside, where it's distinguished from other nearby buildings by the address on the front of the building. However, once it's fully stocked next year, it will run AMD's entire North American operations—from its business units to its engineering efforts.
At the Controls
Lamar Washington, critical environment manager for AMD at the Georgia data center, talks about the building management system that enables administrators to keep track of everything going on in the facility, from the health of the servers to the amount of power being used. AMD employs 21 people to keep the data center up and running.
Getting Systems Ready for Use
In the center's staging room, engineers test systems before they are used in the facility's data halls. These servers are from AMD's Austin facility.
AMD's Diamond Data Hall
The Suwanee data center, which is being built in a modular fashion, has room for up to 10 data halls. Currently, two are up and running, including the Diamond Data Hall, which is pictured here. Each data hall is 1,500 square feet, and runs servers from Hewlett-Packard and Dell, as well as AMD's own ServerMicro business.
Powering AMD's Business
These HP servers, housed in the Citrine Data Hall, are among those being used by AMD to run its business and engineering operations. The two data halls house 204 racks of computing equipment. By virtualizing more than 90 percent of its servers, AMD was able to decommission 76 percent of the physical systems and 72 percent of the virtual machines used in Austin. The company also compressed rack space by 45 percent.
Keeping the Hot Aisles Hot
A key part of the data center's efficiency is keeping the hot aisles between racks as hot as possible, according to AMD's Washington. Plastic flaps at the entrances to the aisles are used to keep the hot air contained.
The Cycle of Data Center Air
Cold air is pumped from the floor into the cold aisles, then sucked in through the front of the racks to cool the equipment. The hot air is discharged out the back of the racks into the hot aisles, where the air is moved through vents in the ceiling and into these cooling units, where the air is cooled and sent back into the data center. Nine cooling units are used for each data hall.
Powering the Data Halls
Each data hall has a room that houses the generators that keep the systems running as well as the UPS backup systems to ensure there's no downtime if a generator fails.
Storage for Tape Storage
AMD uses this room to store tapes that each hold up to 1,600 gigabits of data.
Looking Into the Future
The Diamond and Citrine data halls constitute only two of 10 that can fit into the center. The massive space shown here can house up to six more data halls, according to AMD executives.
Even More Computing Space
Two other data halls will be housed in this space in the facility.
Laying the Groundwork
AMD engineers have begun getting this part of the data center ready for another data hall, putting in such basics as the pipes for the chilled water that will help keep the data hall cool.
The Fresh Georgia Air
Given its Southern location, AMD doesn't use outside "free" air much to help cool the Suwanee facility. However, there are times when it's cold enough outside—like around 45 degrees or lower—that the air can be used, Washington said. The orange pipes pictured here help bring in air from the outside.
Keeping the Air Safe
The AMD facility has a system that analyzes the air in the data center for any problems or smoke. The orange pipes here "sniff" the air and feed it into the system.
Cooling the Data Center
The pipes in this part of the facility chill and pump cold water throughout the data center. The system runs 752 gallons of water each minute. The chains with the green tags enable administrators to isolate water valves as needed.
Keeping the Water Cool
Outside the chiller room are the units that make sure the water is cooled before it's pumped through the data center.
In Case of Water Emergency
Should anything disrupt the main water supply, data center administrators can tap the water in this 60,000-gallon storage tank, which AMD's Washington said would give the facility about 36 minutes of water.

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I have never been an easy traveler. I have never "rushed" well. I do not "rush well" in particular, these days. How is it possible to lose a walker? Let me tell you.
Still in preparation
For the trip.
I am not
An easy traveler.
I left my walker
In women's T-shirts
At Target,
Had to ask an employee
To find it for me.
He did.
I left my walker
In the parking lot.
We drove back
To find it.
We did,
In the lost
And found.
We listened
To comedy sketches
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Wrote our own sketches
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I am not
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FC: Geography Rocks! 6 elements of Geography Rachel Cronin
1: Bibliography Mixbook.com chennaicircle.com navfltsm.addr.com World Geography text book muralsforkids.com
2: THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS :) Location can be described in two ways: Absolute and Relative
3: Relative Location :) Most people locate a place by relating it to another place. | When people use relative location they use a common store, resurant, or entertainment center (movie theatre, park, ice skating rink)
4: Absolute Location Absolute location is the exact spot where a certian place is. | To Find Absolute location you use imaginary lines called longitude and latitude. With these lines you are able to find an exact spot where a place is.
5: A place is a certain space with physical and human meaning | Places and Regions!! | A region is a group of places, grouped together by certain charact-eristics
7: Physical Systems Geographers study and figure out how certain natural disasters effect Earth's surface
8: Some of the natural disaster that they study are FLOODS HURRICANES and VOLCANOES
9: geographers also see how people shape, or effect the earth. They try and find out how people compete or work togther | HUMAN SYSTEMS
11: Geographers also look at the environment and try and find out how people use the environment. | Environment and Society | they also look at the results from they changes people make to the environment.
12: One thing they also look at is the physical enviroment because it effects where and how people can move from one place to another. Mountains or desserts form barries that humans can not get across. IN other areas human activities cause changes in the physical environment, like dams.
13: Uses of geography | There are tons of uses for geography. Its used to see how plants and animals developed in the past Also to find data on Physical features. Also helps find important places like fire stations


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Posted: May 07, 2013
Micaela Cyr led Harvard with 31 goals in 2013 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior captain Micaela Cyr of the Harvard women's lacrosse team has been named to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) All-Northeast Region second team, it was announced Tuesday.
Cyr, a first-team All-Ivy League choice, concluded her stellar career with 73 goals, 28 assists and 101 points. A native of Lexington, Mass., Cyr earned three All-Ivy honors during her career and led the Crimson with 31 goals, 16 assists, 47 points and 29 ground balls as a senior in 2013.
An attacker, Cyr played in all 14 games and ranked second on the squad with 36 draw controls. During conference play this season, Cyr amassed 24 points on 13 goals and 11 assists, and she tallied at least one goal in every Harvard contest this spring, while scoring multiple times in 10 games.


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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review
Since the end of the first film, everything appears to be going great for Peter Parker and his alter-ego Spider-Man. He's graduating from high school and taking down mobsters, but even though it looks like his life is perfect he's still haunted by the memory of Gwen Stacy's father and the promise that he made and broke.
The guilt destroys their relationship, which begins the teen love story section of the film. Though the acting by the two leads, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, is excellent, their relationship troubles occasionally crossed over from very adult and realistic to an almost Twilight stalker situation.
There are so many new characters in the film that needed to be established, which took up a large portion of the films running time. Max Dillion aka Electro, played by Jamie Foxx, was a little disappointing as a character. From the trailers, he looked like a broken man who was lonely and pushed around and I genuinely felt sorry for him. Seeing more of his development in the film, he comes off less sympathetic and more unstable and that's before he gets any super powers.
The other big villain in the film is the Green Goblin, who, in this version of the story, is Harry Osborn. Harry, played by Dane Dehaan, was Peter's childhood friend who transferred to a boarding school when they were kids, but has returned to take over Oscorp after his father passes away. Unfortunately, he is also the heir to a rare degenerative disease, which drives him to continue is fathers work in an attempt to find a cure.
Peter reenters Harry's life to help him through the loss of his father. The two quickly reconnect and there are some nice scenes that show them reminiscing about old time. Ultimately, Harry ends up being a much more sympathetic villain than Electro. His motivation to survive his illness is very relatable and there are times when you might find yourself routing for him, which could help in the upcoming Sinister Six movie.
Though there has been a lot of fan complaining about having three villains in the film, the Rhino is actually more of an extended cameo appearance by Paul Giamatti. His accent was over the top and cartoony and his presence was unnecessary and one of the worse parts of the film.
Though her alter-ego Black Cat doesn't make an appearance, Felicia Hardy does. Felicity Jones brings the character to life for the first time in a live action film. While she doesn't do much, having her in the film does hint at some interesting places that the third instalment might go. That's if she doesn't get pigeonholed as the token female member of the Sinister Six.
Felicia is just one of many parts of the film that served to setup the future of this film universe. While some of them were fun, they do slow down the plot and rob the characters that they hint at of a real origin story. With Doc Ock's tentacles and Vulture's wings on a wall in Oscorp how can either villain have a decent origin?
While it was the previous movie that promised fans the untold story of Peter's parents, it's this one that actually delivers the goods. Don't get too excited though as the revelation may actually disappoint some people who expected a bit more. It might have been better if Peter was left in the dark and just the audience was shown the truth behind his parent's disappearance.
Electro is the villain with the most fight scenes. His power is very visual, which is fun to watch though it you may not need to fork out the extra money to see the film in 3D. Having said that, the 3D is clearly superior to the first film and who doesn't like swinging around New York in IMAX.
The story is slow to get started, but the last hour is so fast and exciting that it almost makes up for dragging you through some pretty boring moments. With a running time of 2 hours and 40 minutes, it is a monster of a film and it's easy to see that some editing would have improved the finished product.
Though you may be bored at times, the end is done so well that you can't help but forgive some of the earlier flaws.
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A source told Sports Illustrated's Robert Klemko on Thursday that police have yet to release a video that shows Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his fiancée unconscious before dragging her.
Rice was arrested early Saturday morning in Atlantic City, N.J., after what was originally described as a "minor physical altercation" with fiancée Janay Palmer, who was also charged and released in the incident.
According to a summons obtained by ESPN.com after the incident, both Rice and Palmer "struck each other with their hands." Rice knocked Palmer unconscious, according to the summons.
TMZ released a video online this week of what it said displays Rice dragging a seemingly limp, motionless woman out of a Revel Casino elevator.
Michael Diamondstein, Rice's attorney, told the Baltimore Sun that the video showed "the very end of what transpired."
Source says police have yet-to-be-released video of Ray Rice knocking fiancée unconscious before dragging her. Expect a suspension.
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ACLAÍ has been open for just over 12 months now. Also in 12 months, I have had 1 year at the helm of strength and conditioning for the cork Senior Football team, worked as a presenter for a TG4/ BBC documentary, got shortlisted for an Irish Blog Award, continued to work as strength and conditioning tutor at Setanta College, moved house twice, and built a garden fence and gate with my bare hands and the help of my mate Darragh. The learning curve has been steep, and I wanted to share a few of the most valuable lessons from the last year of entrepreneurship with you.
1. Quality over Quantity
Everyone has heard the motto 'quality over quantity' before. For us at ACLAÍ, this means making sure that the service to our clients is up to scratch before we bring another element of the business online. At ACLAÍ, we do personal training, and we do it very well. But we are a young and expanding business with an energetic, and highly educated team at the core. Every week we have new ideas on how to expand our services, provide great value to a specific demographic, or extend our reach. However, we are very careful that we are extremely happy with the level of service we currently provide before launching into a new project. That's why we recently went back over all our systems, and made our personal training system even better. More support structures for clients, more efficient administration, additional accountability, and a better programming system. Quality is everything for us at ACLAÍ. From our service, our staff, and our systems. So lesson #1 is, its better to provide a smaller range of high quality service, than a high number of mediocre services…..there are enough people out there doing that already!
2. Work will go on forever (if you let it)
As with any worthwhile endeavor, you can ALWAYS improve. If you are a musician, you will be able to relate to the fact that you can keep improving for the rest of your life. In business, it appears to be the same. The systems can ALWAYS be improved, there are ALWAYS going to be DIY jobs to do, programs to write, articles to post, emails to respond to, admin work to finish. If we were robots and didn't need any sleep, or require food, water, or social interaction, then we could all spend every minute of our time improving in our given field. However, we all know that this is not the case.
Therefore, I have learned the importance of dedicating blocks of time to deal with different things. Keeping a to-do list, and keeping a personal schedule as a guideline to the time I have available for the various tasks lifted so much pressure off me that I could rest assured I would get to the important things each week. This includes personal time like training, playing a few tunes on the flute, or just relaxing somewhere or going out for a meal. Without some system of organizing tasks into time, my mind would be doing over time. See point 4 below for more on this!
3. Don't sweat the small things
This is the title of a neat little book that I read, and never were truer words spoken. Having a clear focus, and having little room for error is a great way to sharpen the mind. Starting a business from nothing is like a game of chess where one move could provide fatal. Especially in the early days, I felt like we were a business in the Intensive Care Unit!
Sometimes things have gone to plan in the last 12 months, and sometimes they have not. However, when I look back at what has been achieved in the past 12 months, the change we have helped our clients make in their lives, and the medals that have been won by our sporting clientele, and the fact that the world did not end at any stage during the last 12 months, despite what I might have thought at the time, then getting hot and bothered over small things is a waste of time and energy, as well as adding an unnecessary burden. In fact, many things that were not previously in the 'small things' category are now firmly in there! Having a core list of priority tasks that need to be done each week has helped keep the focus on what matters, and the rest takes care if itself!
4. Don't Add MORE Pressure on yourself…..
I'm sure that some of you can relate to this one. Since opening the door of ACLAÍ in August 2013, it has been a roller coaster ride. The highs of getting great results for our clients and seeing the business grow, and the lows of putting in the hard hours, working until 2am to have things ready, getting the rent together in the early days, and getting bogged down in the red tape or administrative tasks that can seem frivolous on the surface, but are 100% essential for the survival and effective functioning of the business. The one big way that I have adapted over the past 12 months is that I have become sensitive to all the pressure I used to put on myself. Because of the extra responsibility, and the drive to provide a top class service to our clients, all of a sudden there was no room for the pressure I would normally have put myself under personally. Statements beginning with "I have to do xyz…", "I must remember to...", "I should have done...", "I would love to...", "I really want to...", are all but a thing of the past. Owning a startup business has cleared the path of a lot of mind junk and has allowed for clear thinking and a 'get it done' attitude that gives clarity of thought and productive days. If something pops into my head that I would like to do, I put it into my notebook, and store it there until such a time that I can deal with it. There appears to be enough pressure in running a business without piling on some additional pressure myself with even more deadlines and expectations. Funny enough, these days I got A LOT more done, both in the business and in my personal life, when I am not forcing things, rushing from place to place, and just letting it happen. As the saying goes "Seek, and you shall NOT find."
5. Few Know the Way…and even FEWER walk it!
I knew this before I started out on the ACLAÍ adventure, but every day it becomes clearer. The 'health and fitness' industry is so far of the mark in terms of helping people gain long-term health that sometimes it makes my mad inside! This topic deserves an article of its own, but to put it in context, I opened a Cork newspaper this morning to find a particular add stating that you could go there for 6 weeks and lose 40 pounds ! Of course, they are very careful not to say that it was done in 6 weeks, but the add is CLEARLY made to make people think it was! This type of deception is both unrealistic and dishonest in my own opinion.
Let me level with you. I am not a personal trainer. I am not even a fitness instructor, and I have ZERO certificates in spinning, TRX, body pump, aerobics, or circuit training, etc. I am a sport and exercise scientist, as are the rest of my coaching team at ACLAÍ. We study how the body works, how it moves, and the things that bring REAl health. We are not from the 'health and fitness industry'. We come from another planet to the 'fitness instructor/ personal trainer', and this is probably what makes me so incensed by the nonsense I see in the papers every day.
Heavy exercise and calorie restriction will make you lose weight, but it wont necessary make you HEALTHY! Health is what allows you to be mobile for your whole life. It protects you against disease; it gives you energy and allows you to enjoy life. Being 'skinny' does none of these. The 'health and fitness industry' is missing the point totally. Exercise and does not equate to health. It is but one factor that contributes to health. Mental health, cultivating sustainable lifestyle habits, social interaction, enjoyment of movement, eating unprocessed foods, getting enough sleep and rest, and engaging in meaningful and taking part in rewarding activities all form part of being healthy. How does this all happen in 6 weeks?!
I'm not saying that we are the only place in Ireland that considers these things in our philosophy, but there are very few people out there who do. And even less who act on it. Its time for people to reclaim the ability to live long and healthy lives, and not be duped by the shiny newspaper adds that promise the world, but deliver very little, and a lot of the time end up doing more harm than good. This is probably the same in any industry, but I know I would not want an accountant with a part time weekend qualification, who promises to do our full set of accounts in 20 minutes, for next to nothing in return to do the ACLAÍ accounts! And that brings me nicely to the next lesson in 12 months in business.
6. Numbers are Important, but they are not everything
Going back to the Intensive Care Unit analogy, for a startup business, the numbers are critical. Keeping a close eye on things like cash flow, schedules, budgets, payroll (and the list goes on), is crucial for our survival. We have targets that we want to hit, and deadlines to make. However, the big lesson I have come to learn in the past 12 months, are that they are not THE important things.
THE important things are health, movement, enjoyment, and relationships. Eating nice food, and staying hydrated. Resting enough, and being kind to people. For me, these are among what really matters. I could go a week without keeping an eye on the cash flow from the previous week, and the business would probably be ok. However, a week without sleep, or without wholesome food, water, or movement, would have much longer lasting negative effects. Doing this over the course for a year or more could even be catastrophic! Sometimes I can take my eye of what's important, and neglect a relationship, miss a good nights sleep, or not get enough water on board, but I just try to get back on course when I realize what has happened.
This Article is by ACLAÍ Owner,and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Ainle Ó Cairealláin MSc CSCS.


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NOSH Live Pitch Slam: Your Brand Center Stage
The Pitch
The challenge? Create a lasting impression in 4 minutes. Present your brand on the NOSH Live stage and get noticed within the healthy food industry.
The Players
Emerging natural food brands competing for the crown. Respected industry veterans (investors, brand owners, retailers, and consultants) judging the finalists. Engaged conference attendees and livestream viewers.
The Prize
An industry awareness advertising package valued at $10,000. Actionable advice from expert judges. Priceless exposure.
Accelerate Growth with Industry Awareness and Connections
NOSH Live Pitch Slam puts your brand in the spotlight. Craft your perfect pitch and present on the main stage to the audience, our panel of expert judges from brands, retail, investment, consulting and design and to our international livestream audience. Brands that pitch gain a certain celebrity status among attendees during the show, making conversations with experts, investors and partners happen naturally.
After your brand pitches, our judges will provide instant feedback on market opportunity, packaging, viability and the pitch. The winner will receive the title of Pitch Slam Champion, an interview on the livestream and an awareness package valued at $10,000.
Prioritize Attending, This is a Commitment
While there are no costs associated with applying, Pitch Slam participants must be registered attendees for the conference. Only 5 brands are pitching, but more than 100 brands will be attending. Our editorial and marketing teams will be meeting with as many brands as possible at the event as well. We want to share your stories with our audience, the Pitch Slam is just one of the many ways to get there!
Pitching creates opportunities to have conversations with experts who can help answer your questions and partners who can help grow the business, but you can also find these opportunities through savvy networking at NOSH Live. The main stage and bootcamp content are focused on actionable insights in topics like growth, capitalizing your company, production and marketing.
If you pitch, your time is not always your own. We start by asking you to make a short, smart-phone quality video to show us who you are. There are presentation guidelines and deadlines. You will need to prepare ahead of your pitch and then receive instant feedback -- both positive and critical -- from the judges and the audience.
That said, no matter how well your pitch is received, most of the judges are available for feedback after and many are happy to maintain a relationship with participants. Pitching might mean you miss some valuable on-stage insights or a great conversation. There are trade-offs that will make the experience different than attending without pitching. It is worth the time and effort, but there is a lot of time and effort necessary to craft the winning pitch.
Previous Contestants Who Made the Commitment to Pitch
Past Expert Judges
Deb Hannah
Director, Retail Brand Partnerships, Starbucks
Deb Hannah
Director, Retail Brand Partnerships, Starbucks
Deb joined Starbucks 5 years ago, and for the past year has led the Retail Brand Partnerships team. She and her team run the snack category across North America and have the enviable task of finding new food brands for Starbucks stores that customers can feel good about—ones made with simple, pure ingredients and crafted with love and care. Prior to working with food entrepreneurs to build a snack business for Starbucks stores, Deb spent 12 years in traditional consumer packaged goods. At Starbucks she created the shopper marketing and shopper insights function from the ground up, and managed various coffee brands for the FDMC channel including Starbucks packaged coffee, Seattle's Best, and VIA Instant coffee. At Kimberly-Clark she worked in various brand management and innovation roles. There she managed the creation of multi-brand marketing programs and the brand and shopper marketing efforts for the U by Kotex® launch, which won numerous awards including an IRI product Pacesetter, a Silver Effie for Shopper Marketing, and a Gold Hub Prize. Prior to Kimberly-Clark, Deb worked as a consultant with several leading retailers for Kurt Salmon. Deb has an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Dave Baram
Founding Partner, VMG Partners
Jane Miller
CEO, HannahMax Cookie Chips
Jane Miller
CEO, HannahMax Cookie Chips
Jane Miller is a 30-year food industry executive with experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She is also the founder of Janeknows.com, a career advice website geared towards young leaders starting their careers. She is the author of Sleep your Way to the Top (and other myths about business success), a sassy business book targeted at Millennials. Currently, Jane is the CEO of HannahMax Cookie Chips and recently, Jane was the CEO and President of ProYo, a high protein natural food and ingredient start-up. Previously, she was the CEO and President of Charter Baking Company, a private-equity backed rollup of organic and natural bakeries. Over the course of her career, Jane was part of an executive team that brought Hostess out of bankruptcy, worked for HJHeinz as the Chief Growth Officer and then the President of the UK & Ireland Division, and she ran the Western division of Bestfoods Baking. The first fourteen years of her career were at PepsiCo, where she rose to be the President of the Central division of Frito-Lay. Jane currently serves as a board member at the University of Colorado Leeds Business School, Eldorado Springs Artesian Water and Madhava Sweeteners. Her involvement as a mentor for young professionals and start-ups resulted in her being named the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for the Denver Business Journal in 2013, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce's Women Who Light the Community in 2015 and the Naturally Boulder Industry Leader Award in 2016. In 2015, Jane established the Jane Knows Scholarship Fund at Leeds supporting students who are the first in their family to go to college. Jane has a Russian Studies degree from Knox College in Galesburg, IL, where she received a 2017 Alumni Achievement Award, and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.
Tracy Miedema
Vice President of Innovation & Brand Development, Presence Marketing
Tracy Miedema
Vice President of Innovation & Brand Development, Presence Marketing
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest and with family roots in the Deep South, gardening, gathering, hunting and preserving real food shaped her basic food philosophy: know where your food comes from, prepare it with care and enjoy time around the table. With nearly 20 years serving the natural and organic food industry, Tracy has focused on building transformative food brands for consumers and building enterprise value for companies. As Vice President of Innovation and Brand Development, Tracy Miedema heads up innovation at Presence Marketing the nation's leading natural products broker, where she oversees the company's two investment portfolios. From start-ups to Fortune 50 food & beverage, she works closely with companies to optimize their growth, profitability, and positive impact on people and the planet. She has served for 5 years on the US Federal regulatory advisory committee for organic, the USDA National Organic Standards Board, including Chair of the Board. Past roles include Director of Product Innovation for Earthbound Farm/ WhiteWave Foods, creating consumer brands for Stahlbush Island Farm, and Marketing with General Mills' Small Planet Foods Division. Since 2012, Tracy has led graduate student teams in product innovation at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Tracy holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from Western Washington University. She is lives with her family in rural Oregon.
Pete Speranza
Business Development Principal, 301 Inc.
Pete Speranza
Business Development Principal, 301 Inc.
Pete Speranza, A native New Yorker, joined General Mills 21 years ago. He spent his first 15 years honing his skills in supply chain/engineering across all the General Mills platforms and temp states while receiving an MBA from the University of Minnesota. From there, He took on a business development role and helped to create and shape the General Mills venture arm called 301INC. He currently leads a lot of the scouting activities and manages the supply chain efforts across the portfolio. Pete also has a lot of passion about helping the local food innovation ecosystem and has founded the food division for the largest state-wide innovation competition in the country called the MN cup. He is also a food innovation thought lead and has spearheaded a vision of creating a national recognized food innovation hub for the state of Minnesota. This effort has cultivated into a local organization called Grow North. A fun fact about Pete is his first career was as a professional ice hockey player which took him around the world.
Jon Sebastiani
Founder, Sonoma Brands
Jon Sebastiani
Founder, Sonoma Brands
Jon founded Sonoma Brands in January 2016 to invest in high-growth, emerging consumer brands and selectively incubate new concepts. Through Sonoma Brands, Jon intends to build a leading growth equity fund exclusively focused on the CPG space. As a successful entrepreneur with experience in building multiple brands, Jon understands a founder's need to look beyond capital and select a partner with value-add capabilities around sales, marketing, supply chain operations, and R&D. Jon oversees current and prospective portfolio investments and leads the firm's investment and operation teams. Jon began his career steering the sales & marketing for Viansa, his family's winery, and eventually leading the business as President, becoming one of the most successful destination wineries in the Napa and Sonoma valleys. After helping drive the M&A process leading up to Viansa's sale, Jon served as Managing Director of wine.com, assisting in the turnaround toward its first profitable quarter. As an avid runner training for the New York City Marathon in 2009, Jon realized the opportunity to turn jerky, a commonly used training food, into something truly special. Influenced by his wine background, Jon founded KRAVE Pure Foods ("KRAVE") to create a differentiated jerky brand with culinary-inspired flavor profiles and all-natural ingredients. As the Founder and CEO of KRAVE, Jon led one of the most disruptive, fastest growing CPG brands in the industry, culminating in the company's acquisition by The Hershey Company in 2015.
Natasha Case
CEO & Co-Founder, Coolhaus
Natasha Case
CEO & Co-Founder, Coolhaus
Natasha Case founded Coolhaus in 2009 with Freya Estreller after she was working in architecture at Walt Disney Imagineering. They launched their architecturally-inspired, unique ice cream sandwich company from their barely driveable postal van at the Coachella Music Festival to an audience of 100,000. They built a loyal following over the festival weekend and returned to LA to an abundance of viral press, a rapidly building social media following, and an eager foodie audience. Since then, Natasha has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 Food & Beverage, Zagat 30 Under 30, Linked in 10 under 35 for Food & Leisure, as well as being featured in many national publications and radio like Cosmo, Dwell, and NPR, and TV shows including Food Network's Chopped, Barefoot Contessa, Unique Sweets, Good Morning America, King of Cones, Andy Cohen Live and many more. The company has become one of the leading innovative small dessert businesses, growing significantly to include 4 trucks and 2 storefronts in LA, 2 trucks and one cart in NYC, and 4 trucks in Dallas, Texas. Moreover, consumers can now find Coolhaus' pre-packaged ice cream sandwiches, hand-dipped bars, and hand-packed pints in 6,000+ gourmet grocery stores nationally, including Whole Foods and Gelson's, and larger retailers like Meijer and Safeway, and now internationally in Asia and the Middle East.
Greg Fleishman
COO & Co-Founder, Foodstirs
Greg Fleishman
COO & Co-Founder, Foodstirs
Greg has created and grown some of the world's largest and most successful brands during his 20- year career - launching 1,500+ items across 17 food and beverage categories into 12 countries - focusing primarily on the "green space." A seasoned veteran with deep knowledge of the natural & organic products industry, Fleishman plays an integral role as COO and co-founder of Foodstirs Modern Baking where he oversees corporate strategy, sales, marketing and operations. Prior to joining Foodstirs, Fleishman co-founded Modern Alkeme Japanese Supertonics along with Real Housewife of NYC, Jules Wainstein and industry leader Larry Praeger. He currently serves as Co-founder of Purely Righteous Brands (PRB), a boutique advisory firm dedicated to fostering the growth of green space companies some of whom include Bonafide Provisions, Once Upon a Farm, Hail Merry, REBBL, Chameleon Cold-Brew, and GT's Kombucha. Under PRB, Fleishman has served as chief marketing & strategy officer for Suja, the #1 cold-pressured fresh juice brand in the US where he led business strategy, marketing, innovation, and retail customer development. Prior to that, he served as chief marketing officer at Sambazon, the maker of fresh amazon superfood-based beverages. As CMO, Fleishman led marketing, strategy, innovation and business development for Coca-Cola's FUZE & Energy portfolio. He also worked for more than 14 years as an executive marketer at Kashi/Bear Naked and Kelloggs. In 2016, Fleishman was named to Forbes List of Top Consumer Catalysts. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Demeter Biodynamic, Nuun, Modern Alkeme, 4 th & Heart, and Foodstirs.
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Data Management Platforms The world of marketing seems to become more complicated every day. There are more media channels, more data, more service providers, and more parts of the organization getting involved. But, at its core, marketing is still all about one thing - communicating with people. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that, on the other side of the reports, the analytics, and the technology, there is a real person having a conversation with your brand. Most of the effort that goes into online marketing has been focused on churning through different combinations of search terms, banner ad placements, and websites searching for ways to optimize each media channel. But, online marketers are increasingly looking to focus more on people and on the audience, rather than just media.


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In the not so distant future you will either have Alzheimer's, or know someone that does. ~ Bob DeMarco
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Marist Institute for Public Opinion, and in concert with Home Instead Senior Care, indicates that Americans now fear a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease more than a diagnosis of cancer.
Forty-four percent of Americans now fear Alzheimer's. The same poll indicated that 33 percent fear cancer.
An ABCNews poll conducted in April indicated that forty-one (41) percent of Americans have a relative or close friend that lives (or lived) with Alzheimer's disease.
I would suspect that by 2016, described as the tipping point by Rudy Tanzi, the number of adult persons who know someone living with Alzheimer's first hand will be approaching 100 percent.
Over 1,200 adult Americans, on average, are diagnosed with Alzheimer's each day.
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In 2010, Dr. Oz said the following to his audience on his television show:
Everyone in the audience is either going to get Alzheimer's, or know someone who has it.
A chilling prediction of the future.
More than 60 percent of Americans favor increased Federal spending for Alzheimer's research. It is easy to understand why - they know someone personally, or know of someone, that has Alzheimer's or is suffering from memory loss.
The ABCNews poll found that Democrats are 12 points more likely than Republicans to support higher funding.
Sixty-one percent (61) of Americans say they are unprepared to deal with a person diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
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Bob DeMarco is the Founder of the Alzheimer's Reading Room and an Alzheimer's caregiver. The ARR knowledge base contains more than 3,811 articles with more than 306,100 links on the Internet. Bob lives in Delray Beach, FL.
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United Win Over Houston Brings To Mind Old Feelings Of Arrogance
DC United's incredible win this past weekend over Houston brings to mind the old feelings of arrogance that used to waft all through RFK Stadium. No matter what the season or the situation, it seemed like United could always count on a victory at home. Even in the beginning of the dark ages, that horrific 2000 season, United's mystical aura of invincibility still commanded respect in RFK, no matter who was coming to town, and no game showed their invincibility more than when they put out the Chicago Fire.
Ironically, it was also the third game of the year in 2000 when DC played the Fire, and it was one of their earlier young prodigies that sparked the win on that incredible day back in April of 2000. This year it was Freddy Adu and Alecko Eskandarian that sparked DC's thumping win, but back then it was a young Ben Olsen that simply stole victory away from a much better Chicago Fire team.
United had been decidedly unimpressive in their first two games that year as well, but while the 2006 version of DC United still managed to get points in their first two games against mediocre teams, the 2000 version of the team had been nowhere near as successful. DC had started that season overconfident and were absolutely crushed in their home opener 0-4 by the LA Galaxy. Then, before that outrage could even be forgotten, DC suffered another horrific loss, 2-3, to the hated Metros on the road in the second game of the season.
So, with United facing the division leading (and eventual 2000 MLS Cup runner-up) Chicago Fire team that included Peter Nowak, Lubos Kubik, and the incomparable Hristo Stoitchkov, as well as Dema Kovalenko and current assistant coach Tommy Soehn, DC faced the very real chance of going 0-3 for the first time since 1996 if they didn't get their act together right quickly. But surely, United would regroup in the friendly confines of RFK. We'd won three of the first four MLS Cups hadn't we? And been robbed of the other by Bozo the Ref in 1998. Surely the universe would realign itself into the correct order when United came home and started to win again, wouldn't it?
However, even with that in mind, there was still quite a lot of trepidation in the United faithful that day. Not only was there just the very beginnings of horror that this team might not be as invincible as United teams are expected to be, but United's first team defense was decimated with early season injuries.
Carlos the Rock Llamosa was out with a groin pull and Carey Talley was hobbled as well, so United had to go without two of their four starting defenders, and their backups hardly inspired confidence.
Geoff Aunger was to take over at right back for Talley, but at that time 'the baby faced assassin' was known more for blissfully skipping away from horrific career-ending collisions than he was for actual defending. And, with him being lined up closer to our goal rather than in defensive midfield where his carnage was put to good effect, it meant that he could be giving up devastating free kicks close to our goal, which might be crucial in deciding the match.
And then there was poor Judah Cooks, who was to take over for the smooth operator from Colombia. Now, young Judah had a cool name, but he had barely played any meaningful minutes and he was assuredly not a signal for dancing and singing among the faithful. Still, he was putting on a DC uniform, and in those days that meant you were going to find a way to excel.
Unfortunately, the game didn't play out that way. First of all, it was brutally rainy, windy and cold. Not 1996 or 1997 MLS Cup brutal, windy and cold, but quite honestly very close to those conditions, and it was Easter weekend then as well, so with the rain and cold along with the holiday, the crowd was pretty sparse to say the least. No real home field advantage there as it were.
Second of all, Chicago simply put the hammer to DC for most of the game. DC had taken a miraculous lead with a John Maessner goal totally against the run of play when Maes gathered in a poor clearance at the edge of the box and pounded a shot past Chris Snitko in the Fire goal. But the Fire were buzzing around the DC goal like moths to a flame and had simply been unlucky to score.
For example, in one of the most incredible plays ever seen in RFK, Stoitchkov thundered down the left side of the field, and at full speed glanced up and cracked a wicked 40-yard curling cross right onto Ante Razov's right eyebrow as he leaped towards goal. Unfortunately, Razov wanted the cross on his left eyebrow, so he missed the header just wide, but you get the idea. Chicago were just storming the gates like orcs to Helm's Deep.
And finally, DC's defense was overwhelmed by the Fire, and nobody crumbled more than poor Judah Cooks. I mean, he was really trying to do his best, but the Fire simply were so much better than he could ever hope to be. He just broke down under their pressure and even resorted to using his hands, but still couldn't keep them under control. He batted a ball off the line to prevent a sure goal for Chicago and got away with it. He then just gave up any real pretense at defending and began swatting at the ball like he was playing volleyball, as well as grabbing players like it was rugby. How he wasn't sent off in the first half was amazing and should still be used as a training film for budding referees.
Inevitably, the Fire did tie it up before the half with an absolutely stunning freekick from Stoitchkov. Kubik touched the ball to Hristo and he buried one of his howitzer shots from 25-yards untouchably into side netting, then gave his famous salute to the crowd like he was a tank commander following orders from Patton to invade Germany.
So, with 45 minutes to go, it didn't look good. United were reeling and the weather wasn't getting any warmer. It just seemed like the gods were against United in this game and an 0-3 start inevitable. That surely would have cracked the invincibility of RFK for good, but the finish of the game was to become the MLS version of the Manchester United UEFA Cup finish over Bayern Munich a few years later, especially as Chicago dominated the early parts of the second half.
But the tide seemed to change in the 70th minute as the Fire's Andrew Lewis was sent off for wicked hack on Jaime Moreno. Chicago went down to ten men and United should have been able to take advantage. Unfortunately, the Fire held on until former DC player Jesse Marsch hammered in another goal to put the Fire up by a goal with only five minutes left.
That only set the stage for the greatest comeback in United history, as they won the game with two stoppage time goals.
United stormed the Fire goal over the last five minutes and earned a corner kick with a minute remaining. Olsen leaped at the ball and not wanting to waste any time, he quickly smacked a cross from the corner right to Moreno, but Moreno's shot cracked off the post. Unperturbed, La Bomba calmly slotted in the rebound to tie the game.
Incredibly, DC took the ensuing kickoff and forced another corner kick in the second minute of stoppage time. This time, Marco Etcheverry took the kick, befuddling the Fire defenders into a weak clearance that Olsen pounced on and hammered home for the winning goal. His jubilance and the team's celebration in the rain that day will live forever in the minds of true United fans for all time.
United went on to a rather ignoble fate that season, but that one victory, along with so many others over United's history, surely cements RFK as one of the most difficult road venues in MLS, as the Houston Dynamo found out this past weekend.


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A major step toward financial freedom is about getting back in touch with your money and understanding that you have the power to decide how to use it. And it's about being honest with yourself. Have you ever taken a big wad of bills from an ATM machine, then found yourself, a day or two later, nearly out of cash and unable to reconstruct exactly where you spent it? And even when you retrace all your steps, you still come up $20, $40 or $60 short? It's upsetting, but most of us feel that way most of the time: a little short, a little panicky, wondering exactly where our money is going.
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What does it cost you to live each month? If you are married or living with someone with whom you share expenses, please ask him or her to write down the answer to the same question. Most of us believe we need about $1,000 to $1,500 a month less than we actually do need to go on living the exact same way we live right now. Surprisingly, this figure seems to vary only a little bit regardless of income levels. Where does this month-to-month self-deception lead us? Into financial chaos. Often, our planned spending doesn't cover expenses that don't occur every month or expenses that just crop up.
For example:
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These big expenses hit once or twice a year, probably surprising you every time. And then there are seasonal expenses:
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Mulled Red Wine, Pear & Cranberry Pie
This ain't your Grandma's recipe! This unique holiday pie features red wine, pears and cranberries. Spices like star anise, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and orange zest gives it a kick and a distinct flavor profile. If you're a baking extraordinaire like Arley is, feel free to gussy up the pie crust by creating a lattice pattern and cutting out some seasonal shapes from leftover dough, and if you're not, well, that's okay too. Happy baking!


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Francois Hiol Hiol is the Director of CRESA Forêt-Bois at the University of Dschang, Cameroon.
Dr. Francois Hiol Hiol is the coordinator and director of CRESA Forêt-Bois (Centre Régional d'Enseignements Spécialisé en Agriculture), a Francophone regional center for special education in forestry and agriculture with the University of Dschang and located in Yaoundé-Nkolbisson, Cameroon.
Dr. Hiol began to teach at the University of Dschang in 1985, after passing the entrance exam at the ENSA and winning the water engineering degree, forest and hunting. In 1989 he was awarded the Master of Science in Forestry at Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States and in 1999 earned his PhD at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in France with a specialty in watersheds. Between 2002 and 2004, Dr. Hiol worked with the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) as the coordinator of the capacity building program of active civil society organizations in the forestry sector. From 2004 to 2006, he worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to lead conservation projects in the Mbam and Djerem national parks. From 2006 to 2007, he coordinated the Cameroon Forest Program for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). From 2008 to 2011, he worked for the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) to serve as regional coordinator of the project "Promotion of sustainable management of African forests." From 2011 to 2014, he supported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and continued to provide expertise to the Observatory of Central African Forests in the Executive Secretariat of the Commission forests of Central Africa (COMIFAC). Since 2014, Dr. Hiol has served as the Director for CRESA.


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I figured it out. I must be a genius. The recipe for a successful visit to St. Louis two years after a very rough road trip (written in great detail in FamilyPrint) was…A BUCKET. Of course, the advancing age of the children certainly aided as well.
The only way to get 250 miles by myself smoothly and effectively with as few stops as possible was…A BUCKET. You can likely guess at this point what our bucket was used for.
My kids pee often. It doesn't matter if they drink or not. They just pee a lot. Every single one of them. Heck if I was going to stop every 30 miles!
I am kind of militant when it comes to road trips though. I tend to dehydrate myself on most trips. Tim is the opposite. It is excruciating.
I padded the bucket with paper towels (each time), placed it ontop of a thick towel, and we were golden. Down the road we went to visit the Parker's.
Susan and I have known each other since first grade. She is my oldest (well…longest) friend. I love her. In eleven years, we have had eight children (Macie, Briggs, Chase, Owen, Gage, Emerson, Campbell and Avery).
Surprisingly, it went well. The kids had a great time. There were few arguments, and we were actually able to talk.
My favorite moment occured just before our departurewhen Owen decided to stick the head of an army man up his nose. Amazing how life is never dull and how the issues are always changing.


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Time: May 1, 2018 at 7pm to May 2, 2018 at 7pm
Location: Ailey Citigroup Theater
Street: 405 W. 55 St
City/Town: NY
Website or Map: http://www.buglisidance.org
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Event Type: dance
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Buglisi Dance Theatre launches its 25th anniversary season with performances at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, including a preview of Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Moss #5 Variation: Dialogues on what makes us Human." Also on the program is her magnificent "Requiem," set to Faure's Requiem, and "Bare to the Wall Suite." The splendid resident dancers will be joined by guests Blakeley White-McGuire, former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen and Lloyd Knight, currently members of the Graham Company.
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As I think about my life, I'm ever grateful for the hero in the story. When I was young, I watched The Adventures of Letterman on television. He was a cartoon, but he saved the day nonetheless!
Faster than a rolling 'O'
Stronger than silent 'E'
Able to leap capital 'T' in a single bound!
It's a word, it's a plan…it's Letterman! (The Adventures of Letterman, The Electric Company. PBS. 1971-1977.)
A damsel in distress needs a hero, doesn't she! How many times does the hero swoop in at just the right time to save the girl trapped in the villain's dastardly plan? Thankfully, every time. And what kind of terrible villain was at work in my life? The worst enemy imaginable: the one who wants to see me destroyed— body, mind, and soul—forever. For-ev-er.
Once upon a time, I was a petite young lady looking to wake up and conquer each new day in some fresh way. Home life. School life. Social life. Life was all about me, and I had the ability to meet the challenges in creative ways. But the skills I used were entirely mine. There was no need to look for the hero in the story then. Oh, I did that when I was younger, but the hero never came. I was able to meet my own challenges and succeed well enough. Good enough. Smart enough. And—bonus!—a decent number of people liked me.
Isn't that how most people handle the world? Is there any other way?
Maybe there is, but back then, I didn't know any other way.
Speeding down the highway in a '71 Pontiac Catalina in 1990, music blaring. Later speeding down the highway in an '96 Chevette, music blaring. Queen of the road—my own road.
Something was happening, though, behind the curtain in the realm I couldn't see.
All the pain. All the hurts. Some I chose, and some others recklessly dumped on me. I had to take it all somewhere. Without resolution, the wounds festered, cancerous to my soul. Where could a girl take the pain of life and know there could be healing? Tumbling through the villain's cycle for my life, I stuffed the emotion until implosion or explosion. Then I started again. No release. I wreaked havoc on my own life, but targeted others as often as I could to lessen the pain.
But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; Isaiah 43:1-3a
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
My pain was real, and I acted out of that pain for years. But the God of the universe was willing to rescue me when I was still an angry, spiteful, pain-driven woman for so many years. Knowing I would hate Him (and any other male figure in society)…
He took the beating, the long walk to the hill carrying that crossbeam, and the nails in his hands and feet. The wood slivers shredded his skin as he rose to draw each breath and sunk to rest between. The spear pierced his side.
He didn't have to endure that. Jesus was perfectly innocent and powerful enough to make things happen differently, if he wanted. He could have chosen to remain at a distance. He could have left me (and all of us) to the consequences and justice deserved. But love motivated every step to the cross. And love held him there.
We have no right to be even acknowledged, let alone in the presence of Holy God, in our sin-ravaged state.
But God…
In relationship.
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Language Choice and Narrative Location
As others have observed, the Aramaic writings from Qumran are limited in their putative historical background to either one of two periods. Some of these writings refer to the primordial history of the world, at the time of Enoch and Noah, or at the time of Israel's patriarchs. Others relate to the time after the destruction of Jerusalem, when Israelites were under the rule of the oriental empires of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. In contrast, no Aramaic writing from Qumran relates to the main period of Israel's existence in between these periods, that is, the days of Moses, Joshua, the Judges, and monarchies. A few words are due about each of these periods, as well as about the languages chosen to depict each of them, particularly regarding the mimetic function of Aramaic for these Qumran texts and how that language choice enhanced the message of the compositions in the collection. Since the golden age of Aramaic ultimately declined as Hebrew took its place in the first and second centuries BCE, the emergence of Aramaic writings dated generally to this period needs close consideration.
Let us begin with the writings which depict the rule of the empires. Aramaic literature—not only by Jews—chose the rule of past empires as a central focus, with particular attention given to the petty politics and intrigues of royal courts. Examples include: Ahiqar, the Aramaic scribe officiating at the court of the Assyrian king; Tobit, the uncle of Ahiqar in the same court; Daniel and his three companions; the Prayer of Nabonidus; and the obscure Qumran text now known as 4Q550, so-called "Jews in the Persian Court." As we know now, Aramaic was not only the spoken language in most of these courts, growing in prominence gradually from the Assyrians to the Persians, but often also the written language. Aramaic-speaking scribes and their kin commemorated the opportunities that occurred for them to achieve prominence. Jews, like other west-semitic minorities in Babylonia and Assyria, were no exception to this rule. At some stage in this time, and into the Hellenistic period, stories like those of Daniel were considered a foundation stone for Jewish identity in the Diaspora. The Aramaic language in which they were cast was part of the mimesis, reconstructing the assumed reality at the time of the story. Indeed, people in the Hellenistic period conceived of the past imperial courts as Aramaic-speaking, regardless of whether this image was historically valid.
Aramaic was also conceived as the language of primordial generations. During the Hellenistic period in Palestine, people did not know such languages as Akkadian and Sumerian, and were not aware of the use of those languages in the distant past. Such a conception is hinted in Bavli Sanhedrin 38:2, where Rav declares "The First Adam spoke Aramaic." For Jews in particular, Aramaic was essentially "the language that isn't Hebrew," that is, the language that was spoken before the discovery of Hebrew and before the stabilization of Hebrew/Jewish identity. The Hebrew patriarchs, as Deuteronomy 26:5 declares, had been Arameans before they gradually came to establish the Hebrew kin group, to become a nation. Take for example the Genesis Apocryphon, which conveys the history of the patriarchs Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, all of them clearly Aramaic speakers according to this scroll. Is it by chance that the Apocryphon does not reach later than the patriarchs? Would it have also depicted Moses as speaking Aramaic?
Aramaic writings from Qumran also depict Levi and his clan, Qahat and Amram, as speaking Aramaic. It is only on Sinai, with Amram's son, Moses, that Hebrew is revealed. As Moses climbed Mount Sinai, the historical moment came when the nation was created and its unique language established. Further writings originating in the same apocalyptic tradition which are imbued to Moses, are all written in Hebrew (e.g., Mosaic Pseudepigrapha like Words of Moses [1Q22] and Apocryphon of Moses [4Q375, 4Q376, 4Q409]), as are various representations associated with his successor, Joshua (e.g., Joshua Apocryphon [4Q378–379]).
Aramaic and the Growth of the Apocalyptic Tradition
It so happened, either by chance or intentionality, that the protagonists of apocalyptic visions were expected to be Aramaic speakers because of the period in which they lived. Apocalypticism draws legitimacy from the antiquity of the seer: the more ancient the seer, the more authority he conveys. Primordial figures like Enoch, Noah, and Levi, all Aramaic speakers as explained above, thus happened to be the earliest protagonists of the apocalypse. This mimetic decision also makes sense in terms of the content of the visions. As we know, the fantastic content of apocalyptic visions is widely divergent from the more refined content of the Hebrew Pentateuch. Indeed, the Pentateuch had been written in an attempt to downplay the mythology of the distant past, as part of the heroic effort of biblical authors to establish a refined sort of Hebrew epic. Several centuries later, in the early Hellenistic period, as mythological content was creeping back to the Jewish mind, it was only logical that this content first appeared in Aramaic, the apocalyptic language par excellence.
Aramaic was not only fit for apocalyptic narrative, but was also a perfect match for apocalyptic science. Thus we read about astronomy in the Enochic Book of Luminaries, as well as some mathematical calculations in Aramaic Levi Document. The Aramaic medium allowed authors to continue the ancient near eastern scientific tradition, where these teachings originated, in a new Levantine garb.
How does Daniel fit into this picture? Living in the age of empires, Daniel was also expected to speak (and write) Aramaic, and indeed, early Danielic traditions are written in Aramaic. This is the case not only in the court-tales, such as those in chapters 3 and 6, but also the apocalyptic visions, such as the visions of chapters 2 and 7 (though the apocalyptic content of the former remains debated). These traditions are related to the early traditions of the Watchers, as can be seen in Daniel 4:10. However, at some stage in the development of the tradition it became acceptable to write apocalypses even in Hebrew. This preference is part of the intricate play on language switch in the Book of Daniel, resulting in the awkwardly phrased Hebrew visions in chapters 8–12.
Case Studies in Second Temple Judaism's Literary Heritage: Jubilees and Qumran
The process outlined here reaches its culmination with the book of Jubilees and with the literature of the Yahad. Each one of these two in its own way grants precedence to the Hebrew language and denigrates the preceding Aramaic literature. Something must have happened in the second century BCE which brought about a revival of literary Hebrew and some reticence from the Aramaic genres prevalent until then. It is also of interest that 1 Maccabees was written in Hebrew. Did the shift have to do with the surge of nationalism during the Maccabean revolt, as suggested by the late Ben Zion Wacholder? Or maybe even earlier, as also Ben Sira wrote his book in Hebrew around 200 BCE? However we account for the increased usage of Hebrew by some authors during the first and second centuries BCE, while Aramaic writings were still copied and circulated, they seem to have lost precedence to the rival language of Hebrew.
In Jubilees 12, we find that Hebrew was not first discovered by Moses on Sinai, but rather already by Abraham, as an angel revealed it to him in a nocturnal vision. The gamut of Hebrew is thus extended, from the main periods of Israelite history to the marginal periods, where Aramaic once reigned. This instance squares with the strong nationalistic trend in Jubilees as a whole. The author simply could not accept that Abraham and the other patriarchs did not know Hebrew: in which language would they have encountered the Divine? In Jubilees we read the stories of Enoch and Noah, Abraham and Levi, not in their original Aramaic medium but rather in refined Hebrew form. The language shift thus goes hand in hand with a shift in content, as Jubilees domesticates the previous mythological-apocalyptic traditions by aligning them with the Torah, and by representing them in Hebrew rather than in Aramaic.
In the Qumran corpus, one encounters further advances in the preference for Hebrew. In Yahad circles, whatever is central and important should be written in Hebrew, not in Aramaic. Moreover, the figures of Enoch and Noah no longer play first fiddle at Qumran. We even encounter cases where older Aramaic wisdom is consciously translated into Hebrew, often with embellishments and reworking. Thus, we find a Hebrew Tobit at Qumran (4Q200), no doubt the fruit of translation from the original Aramaic; 1Q19 gives a Hebrew version of the story of Noah's birth; 4Q186 uses horoscopic wisdom from the Aramaic 4Q561; and, finally, the Hebrew calendrical text 4Q317 uses the calculations of the Enochic astronomical book while adjusting them to a more liturgy-oriented ephemeris.
As a summary of a long and detailed article, published in Hebrew in 2009, this treatment cannot do justice to the myriad of details contained in that full study. Nor can all the historical and textual details fit into the smooth narrative depicted above, and some deviations must be admitted. Yet on the whole, we can still tell the story of Aramaic as a language which had originally conveyed the voice of the non-Jewish margins, while at the same time benefiting from their universal aura. This golden age of Jewish Aramaic, particularly successful in apocalyptic circles, gradually declined in the first to second centuries BCE, as Hebrew became the main choice for Jews to compose their literature.
Further Reading on Topics and Texts Treated in this Article
J. Ben-Dov, "Science in Aramaic and in Hebrew at Qumran: Translation and Concealment," in Aramaica Qumranica: Proceedings of the Conference on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran in Aix-en-Provence, edited by K. Berthelot and D. Stökl Ben Ezra, STDJ 94 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 379–401.
J. Ben-Dov, "Hebrew and Aramaic Writing in the Pseudepigrapha and the Qumran Scrolls: The Ancient Near Eastern Background and the Quest for a Written Authority," Tarbiz 78 (2009): 27–60 (Hebrew).
D. Dimant, "The Qumran Aramaic Texts and the Qumran Community," in Flores Florentino: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez, edited by A. Hilhorst, É. Puech, and E. Tigchelaar, JSJSup 122 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 197–205.
E. Tigchelaar, "Aramaic Texts from Qumran and the Authoritativeness of Hebrew Scriptures: Preliminary Observations," in Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism, edited by M. Popović, JSJSup 141 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 155–71.
Author Bio
Jonathan Ben-Dov is George and Florence Wise Chair of Judaism in the Ancient World at the University of Haifa. Among his publications on the Aramaic texts from Qumran are the monograph Head of All Years: Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in the Ancient Context (Brill, 2008), and the co-edited volume Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature (NYU, 2015).
Editorial Team
The Ancient Jew Review and Trinity Western University Dead Sea Scrolls Institute forums and reviews commemorating the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the Qumran scrolls were edited by Dr. Andrew Perrin (Trinity Western University), Dr. Andrew Krause (University of Münster), Dr. Jessica Keady (University of Chester), and Spencer Jones (Trinity Western University).
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Nice Cup of Tea Helps to Heal Long-Standing Family Rift
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A family judge has hailed the miraculous benefits of sitting down to a 'nice cup of tea' after this played a central role in healing a bitter ten-year rift between parents of twin boys and enabled them to agree a shared residency order.
The former couple, who had separated six months after their sons were born prematurely, had been in dispute over contact with the boys ever since, meeting in court on no less than 24 occasions. However, Mrs Justice Pauffley said that her prompt that they should sit down together for a cup of tea had brought extraordinary results.
The judge added, "I suggested that, when the boys were dropped off and picked up, each parent should be made welcome in the home of the other, invited to sit down around the kitchen table and offered a cup of tea."
The judge said that the twins' birth had put enormous pressure on the parents' long-term relationship. When the boys came home, after eight weeks in hospital, they were extremely weak and the mother was 'intensely protective of them'. The father 'felt excluded' and the parents' relationship crumbled under the strain.
The twins, now aged 12, were less than a year old when their mother and father had their first date in court, and the judge said that 'the very sad reality' was that there had been a decade of conflict between the former couple, focused on the father's role in the boys' lives.
However, after the father described everyone in the family as 'exhausted' by the years of litigation, the judge made her 'cup of tea' suggestion and sense began to prevail. Both parents, 'to their very great credit', made concessions and agreed to build bridges.
The new spirit of compromise had led to 'a seismic shift of attitude' and the parents had put their years of conflict behind them, agreeing shared contact arrangements which would ensure the father played a full role in his sons' lives.
After paying tribute to social workers and other professionals involved in the case, the judge had 'great pleasure' in confirming a new consensus between the former couple, whereby the boys will spend alternate weekends with each parent and contact over school holidays and half terms will be shared more or less equally.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Hopi tribe can try to block the use of treated effluent to make snow on the San Francisco Peaks.
In a brief order, the justices agreed to hear arguments by Snowbowl and the city of Flagstaff that an intermediate level appellate court got it wrong in concluding the tribe has the legal standing to claim that the effluent is a nuisance. No date has been set for a hearing.
The order is a setback for the tribe which just a week earlier had urged the justices to stay out of the fray.
More to the point, if the high court sides with the ski resort and the city, that could be the last legal gasp in the multi-year bid by the Hopi and others to halt snowmaking with effluent from the city. Courts have thrown out prior lawsuits alleging everything from violations of environmental laws to infringement on religious freedom.
Central to this lawsuit is a claim by the tribe that the peaks are the "single most important sacred place the Hopi have.'' Aside from visits for ceremonial and cultural purposes, tribal members gather items for ceremonies back on the reservation.
"The natural resources gathered from the peaks ceremonial use must be pure,'' attorney Anne Lynch argued to the justices in urging them to stay out of the legal fight. "If they are tainted they cannot be used, and materials must be collected from elsewhere.''
But the legal issue is more basic: Does the tribe have the legal standing to allege a "special injury'' under Arizona's public nuisance law.'' A trial judge said no; the Court of Appeals said yes.
In taking up the case, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments by John Egbert, attorney for the resort, that nuisance claims are limited to situations where the harm is to the general public and not just members of one tribe.
John Klecan, representing Flagstaff, is making similar arguments, saying a nuisance claim would be appropriate only if the tribe could prove that the use of treated effluent on the mountain resulted to injury to "all of the public who frequent or utilize the area for many different purposes.''
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