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With the holiday season approaching, Meals on Wheels and McKesson Medical-Surgical have teamed for their "Holiday Angels" gift drive to benefit Meals on Wheels clients. Most clients who rely on Meals on Wheels for nutritional meals also rely upon the organization for their holiday remembrances and daily necessities, such as toiletries, safety items, warm socks and gloves, as well as gifts for grandchildren in their care.
The number of Meals on Wheels clients in Henrico County has jumped by 20 percent since last year, according to officials.
Often, clients' "Holiday Angels" wish lists provide the only holiday remembrances that they and their grandchildren will receive. Meals on Wheels' partnership with McKesson Medical-Surgical – the Richmond-based national distributor of medical supplies and equipment—seeks to brighten the holidays for these less fortunate neighbors through the "Holiday Angels" gift drive. McKesson's employees provide specially requested items for children, as well as larger items for homebound adults.
The organizations hope to provide more than 5,500 items this year and need the public's help to reach that goal.
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By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: November 19, 2000
EVEN at a time when the working definition of opera is extremely loose, the growing body of works that the composer John Moran calls operas -- the latest of which, ''Book of the Dead (Second Avenue),'' opens tomorrow at the Joseph Papp Public Theater -- is likely to strain an opera fan's notions of the form.
It isn't just that his subjects are peculiar by operatic standards, or that his works have always been presented by theater companies. After all, however odd ''The Jack Benny Program'' (1989) might have seemed, with its streams of repeating snippets from Jack Benny reruns and its psychedelic imagery, it wasn't that much quirkier than, say, ''Einstein on the Beach,'' by Mr. Moran's mentor and professional role model, Philip Glass.
And in yoking the story of Charles Manson in ''The Manson Family'' (1990) to the characters of the television show ''Hawaii Five-O,'' Mr. Moran was in sync, however idiosyncratically, with the then-nascent trend of turning news events into opera.
What really makes his works odd, as operas go, is that they tend not to involve live singing, surely one of the defining elements of opera as it has been practiced since 1600. Actually, the outer acts of ''Book of the Dead'' do include a singer, and there was some live singing in ''The Manson Family.'' But for the most part, those works (and all of Mr. Moran's others) are scored not for singers but for actors who lip-sync to a tape prepared by Mr. Moran.
What they lip-sync is mostly speech, from which Mr. Moran teases melody by repeating phrases and fragments until the shapes of their inflections are as familiar as what is being said. When he does lapse into more conventional melody, it tends not to be the acrobatic sort favored by 19th-century Italian opera composers, or the heroic vocalizing of German opera, but something simple and direct.
Nor are there orchestral accompaniments in Mr. Moran's operas. When he needs orchestral sounds -- or, for that matter, rock-band sounds -- he makes them on a synthesizer. Musically, he is an eclectic: in ''Book of the Dead'' one hears passages that touch on Bach, Mahler, Berg, Puccini, retro lounge rock and salsa, without quoting particular works directly.
He prefers to make this music himself rather than entrust it to live musicians. A live ensemble, in any case, would have to be prohibitively diverse, given the variety of music he draws on. In much the same way, ambience and sound effects are not left to the vagaries of live performance. Anything the audience sees -- a character walking across the stage or opening a door, for example -- has a corresponding sound effect in Mr. Moran's soundtrack.
Because this demands a tight choreography that adds mime to lip-syncing, the works might even be more accurately called ballets than operas. Mr. Moran, an easygoing 34-year-old, did not dispute that point, but while he referred to ''Book of the Dead'' as an opera several times during a recent conversation at the Public Theater, it turns out that he sees connections with another art form entirely.
''This cast has been working on this for a year, most of them,'' the composer said, just after a rehearsal. ''And it's really dense. To separate your sounds from everybody else's takes enormous study. But what we do is, we talk about animation a lot. The whole soundtrack is made before anything else, and it's extremely specific, yet there's room for the actors to interpret it. They each have to study their character and decide that, 'If the character is having such and such a thought right here, how am I going to show that physically?' It's like being an animator. But it's not me animating the actors; it's more them puppeteering their own bodies.
''I'd say that what's most related to what I do is Disneyland,'' he added. ''What I'm basically working toward, at this point, is trying to create Disneyland-type rides. But I want them to be feature-length, and I don't want them to be based on a pre-existing commercial product. I'm not trying to make Moranland, or one particular place. I'm trying to make different attractions. This is not really opera anymore; it's an attraction.''
In purely technical terms, it is an extraordinary undertaking for a composer who has virtually no formal schooling. Born in Nebraska in 1965, Mr. Moran never completed high school, and an attempt to study informally at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln, where his father was assistant dean of arts and sciences, went nowhere. But he had sung children's parts in opera productions and was drawn to composition, so when the Philip Glass Ensemble performed in town, Mr. Moran telephoned all the hotels in Lincoln until he found Mr. Glass and told him he wanted to compose operas.
''As I remember it,'' Mr. Glass said, ''this skinny kid came up and gave me a tape, like all the skinny kids with tapes do, and, believe it or not, I listen to them, at least in a haphazard way. And I was struck right away. This was a born theater creator, even at that age, which was about 20. This is a rare thing. When I think of born theater people, I mean people like Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk and Richard Foreman, and John was young and in Nebraska.


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Five simple indices of surface temperature are used to investigate the influence of anthropogenic and natural (solar irradiance and volcanic aerosol) forcing on observed climate change during the twentieth century. These indices are based on spatial fingerprints of climate change and include the global-mean surface temperature, the land-ocean temperature contrast, the magnitude of the annual cycle in surface temperature over land, the Northern Hemisphere meridional temperature gradient and the hemispheric temperature contrast. The indices contain information independent of variations in global-mean temperature for unforced climate variations and hence, considered collectively, they are more useful in an attribution study than global mean surface temperature alone. Observed linear trends over 1950–1999 in all the indices except the hemispheric temperature contrast are significantly larger than simulated changes due to internal variability or natural (solar and volcanic aerosol) forcings and are consistent with simulated changes due to anthropogenic (greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol) forcing. The combined, relative influence of these different forcings on observed trends during the twentieth century is investigated using linear regression of the observed and simulated responses of the indices. It is found that anthropogenic forcing accounts for almost all of the observed changes in surface temperature during 1946–1995. We found that early twentieth century changes (1896–1945) in global mean temperature can be explained by a combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing, as well as internal climate variability. Estimates of 'scaling factors' that weight the amplitude of model simulated signals to corresponding observed changes using a combined normalized index are similar to those calculated using more complex, optimal fingerprint techniques.
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- 5. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- 2. CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, VIC, Australia
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Jason Blake scored two goals and Rick DiPietro displayed more confidence in making 33 saves, lifting the surging New York Islanders to a 4-1 victory over the slumping Washington Capitals on Saturday night.
Blake has goals in four of five games for the Islanders, 6-1-1 in their last eight. Washington, still smarting from a 7-1 home loss to Toronto on Friday, lost for the sixth straight time -- including two overtime defeats.
Richard Park and Trent Hunter also scored, and Alexei Yashin had two assists for the Islanders.
Alex Ovechkin had the lone tally for Washington, scoring early in the third period.
DiPietro denied two earlier scoring chances by Ovechkin, last season's NHL rookie of the year. The flashy forward twice fired pucks from the slot that DiPietro stopped. Eric Fehr also was turned aside when DiPietro quickly slid across the crease and handled his one-timed shot from in front.
Blue Jackets 5, Wild 3
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sergei Fedorov had two goals and two assists to lead Columbus past Minnesota, ending an eight-game losing skid and handing Ken Hitchcock his first win as the Blue Jackets' coach.
Hitchcock, 408-249-100 in stints with the Dallas Stars and Philadelphia Flyers, was hired Wednesday to replace the fired Gerard Gallant.
Anson Carter added a goal and two assists and Nikolai Zherdev had a goal and an assist to lead the Blue Jackets to match their season high in goals. Fredrik Modin also scored for Columbus and goaltender Fredrik Norrena had 19 saves to pick up his first NHL win.
Pascal Dupuis, Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Stephane Veilleux scored for the Wild.
Thrashers 1, Panthers 0
ATLANTA (AP) -- Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 16th goal, and Kari Lehtonen stopped 37 shots to give Atlanta the victory over Florida.
Coming off a 3-2 loss in a shootout Friday at Tampa Bay, Atlanta won for the second time in three games.
Lehtonen, who allowed Dan Boyle's game-tying goal with 11 seconds left in overtime the night before, made 12 saves in the third period.
The Thrashers' goaltender improved to 4-0 against Florida.
Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1
TORONTO (AP) -- Petr Tenkrat, Marc Savard and Brad Boyes scored, and Boston held on to defeat Toronto.
Toronto captain Mats Sundin returned to the lineup and scored a power-play goal in the third period, but the Maple Leafs looked sluggish in the first two periods -- a night after routing Washington 7-1 in their biggest offensive output of the season.
Sundin, who missed three weeks with an elbow injury, spoiled Tim Thomas' shutout bid at 12:04 of the third.
But Boyes, a former Leaf, gave Boston an insurance goal at 15:44 by redirecting Patrice Bergeron's pass from behind the net.
Flyers 4, Canadiens 2
MONTREAL (AP) -- Simon Gagne had two goals and an assist, and Philadelphia scored three second-period goals to end Montreal's season-high three-game winning streak.
Gagne set up Mike Knuble's go-ahead goal 15:43 into the second before making it 3-1 on a power play with 11.9 seconds remaining in the period. He added his second goal of the game -- his team-leading 13th -- with a short-handed effort with 2:08 left in the third.
Sami Kapanen scored early in the second and Antero Niitymaki made 29 saves for Philadelphia, which won its second game in as many days following a three-game losing streak.
Alex Kovalev and Saku Koivu scored for Montreal.
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Ask Not for Whom the Closing Bell Tolls
I was startled at first by the news that Deutsche Börse DBOEF -1.65 % was in advanced talks to take over NYSE Euronext, the parent of the venerable New York Stock Exchange. For most of my life, the Big Board and its iconic all-American imagery—the fluttering flags above the columned facade, the ringing of the bell, and the crowded trading floor—have embodied American capitalism.
No doubt some will insist that the NYSE be preserved as a U.S.-based institution. But they may want to consider a recent historical parallel, the London Stock Exchange, which is nearly a century older than the NYSE. In November 2006, Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ 0.62 % offered to buy the London Stock Exchange Group for just under $24.70 a share, or $5.13 billion. The offer was promptly rejected by the LSE as failing "to recognize the outstanding growth record and prospects of our group on a stand-alone basis, let alone the exchange's unique global position," as the exchange's chief executive said at the time. LSE shares quickly traded just above the offer price.
As the LSE cranked up its takeover defenses, there was ample nationalistic rhetoric about the importance of the exchange to London's stature as a world financial capital. Nasdaq's offer expired in February 2007, and it failed to gain the 50% of shareholder votes necessary to complete a takeover. In September 2007, it sold most of its stake in the London exchange at a handsome profit to Borse Dubai, with LSE shares trading at around $28.
So how have the LSE shareholders who deemed Nasdaq's offer to be so grossly inadequate fared? LSE shares were trading this week at $14.40, down 31% from Nasdaq's offer and off 36% from where shares were trading when Nasdaq sold its stake.
Not that NYSE Euronext's shareholders have fared any better. Since Nasdaq made its offer for the LSE, NYSE shares fell 60% to $37.80 from $95, an even worse performance. I'm sorry to say that I was a shareholder during some of that trajectory and ended up selling at a loss. Given that lackluster performance, it is no wonder that it is a takeover target now. NYSE shares rallied 14% on news of Deutsche Börse's interest.
Of course, no one foresaw the intervening financial crisis, which drove down the value of all the world's exchanges as trading volumes plunged. But other exchanges managed a better performance, such as CBOE Holdings, CBOE 0.50 % the result of a merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, and Atlanta-based electronic upstart IntercontinentalExchange. ICE 0.28 %
More fundamentally, when I first invested in the New York Stock Exchange, I considered it and fellow exchanges to be near-monopolies, able to deliver high profit margins to their owners. But technology and the rise of rivals like the IntercontinentalExchange have demonstrated that geography is irrelevant. Face-to-face market making is a historic relic, one that makes a nice photo opportunity on the trading floors in New York and Chicago, but one that has almost entirely been supplanted by computers. Exchange trading already is evolving into a competitive, low-margin business where low costs and large scale will determine the survivors.
No wonder the world's exchanges are rapidly consolidating. Just this week, the London exchange itself, after extolling the virtues of its stand-alone status and its "unique global position," agreed to merge with TMX Group, the Canadian owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, in a belated recognition that it was at risk of being marginalized. (For these reasons, I'm not interested in owning stocks in any of the publicly traded exchanges.)
Under the proposed Deutsche Börse-NYSE combination, the still-unnamed company would be incorporated in the Netherlands and have dual headquarters in New York and Frankfurt. In a sop to the French, the "technology arm" would be in Paris. Why not put the server farms and technology unit in North Dakota, to cite just one low-cost, environmentally friendly possibility?
The idea that New York will lose its luster as a world business center as a result of the takeover—as some have maintained—strikes me as ludicrous. Few objected when Goldman Sachs Group GS 0.22 % and other banks moved their back-office functions out of Manhattan. World financial capitals are distinguished by their willingness to embrace the free flow of capital and human talent. Trying to preserve the glories of the past through protectionism is a doomed endeavor (see: the British Empire).
The New York Stock Exchange is indeed a venerable symbol of American capitalism. But using that as a reason for blocking a merger just doesn't hold up.
—James B. Stewart, a columnist for SmartMoney magazine and SmartMoney.com, writes weekly about his personal investing strategy. Unlike Dow Jones reporters, he may have positions in the stocks he writes about. For his past columns, see: www.smartmoney.com/commonsense.


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Nearly 50 years of Mentoring in Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region of Western Massachusetts.
What if every child fulfills their potential? What if every child is set on the right path today? What if every child in America graduates high school and college, and gives back to their community? What will that start?
It would be the start of SOMETHING BIG.
Local Big Brothers Big Sisters Named One of Country's Best
Greenfield Recorder May 17, 2015— About two years ago, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County faced a budget deficit again for the sixth year in a row.....This year, our agency was recognized as one of the best Big Brother Big Sisters agencies in the country by the Nationwide Leadership Council of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
BBBS of Franklin County named 2014 Gold Standard Award Winner by the Nationwide Leadership Council
The Nationwide Leadership Council (NLC) of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is pleased to recognize Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies who have achieved success in 2014. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County, Inc is one of 10 winners of the Gold Standard Award. The award recognizes that the local agency is in the top 5% of BBBS agencies in the country who have not only met national criteria for providing high quality programs, but has also increased their revenue by at least 5 percent allowing for growth of children served in 2014.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County, Inc. joins other winners BBBS of Metropolitan Chicago, BBBS of Greater Kansas City, BBBS of Metro Milwaukee, Inc., BBBS of Tampa Bay, Inc., BBBS of the Bluegrass, Inc., BBBS of Greater Pittsburgh, Inc., BBBS of Santa Barbara County, BBBS of Southern Minnesota and BBBS of the Greater Miami Valley.
As a Gold Standard Award winner Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County has been invited to apply for both the Agency of the Year and Board of the Year awards at the national level. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County was recognized at the Big Brothers Big Sisters National Conference held on June 2 - 3, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA.


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Learn how to prep, pose, wrap, transition, and soothe newborns and newborn safety. You will also learn tips and tricks to help you have a successful newborn portrait session (how to prepare ahead of time, how parents should prepare, and things to do during the session as well!) I will teach you how to build sets, how to create beautiful lighting specifically for newborn skin and poses, and help you build confidence when handling these precious miracles! I will teach you how to have quicker more successful sessions so you are not spending 3 or 4 hours on one newborn and only coming out with a few good images. I offer hands on experience. Mentoring takes place in my studio in Yukon.
I try to keep my studio very calming and relaxing so that when children walk in they are instantly comfortable. In my first room I have a lobby area, a newborn station, A high key white stage . In the middle room I have numerous set ups that I change out every 3-4 weeks, areas for individualized sets, and also some of my large drops that I use for family sets on the roller. In the back I have a prop room that is packed like sardines full of stuff to help me be creative for each session (only half of the room is pictured) and then my bathroom of course! (bed is currently not set up)
Schedule from now through August is now open for booking!
A peek at my studio!
Welcome to my website!
My name is Lora Scantling! I have had a love for photography since I was a little girl! Every time my mom asked me what I wanted from the store it was always a disposable camera and it would take me just a few days of setting up my stuffed animals, posing my friends, or finding perfect sunsets and I would run to her begging her to develop the images so I could see what they looked like! over the years My love for photography grew but it wasn't until my first daughter was born that I finally started to build my talent. Within a few months of taking courses, buying a lighting kit, and setting up a studio in my living room I quit my job at the hospital and started doing photography full time!
I am a member of PPA (Professional Photographers of America) and learned photography from NYIP (New York Institute of Photography) I have been published several times through social and news media sites for multiple work. I have been featured on the Today show, huffington post, cosmo, yahoo, Inspire fine art magazine, in touch, msn, and many many more!
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NHSRA Adult Board of Director's meeting, Thursday June 16 at 2PM
General Membership Meeting, Thursday June 16 at 3PM
1) Minutes
3)Old Business
A. 2017-18 SF contract awarded to Hastings
4) New Business
A. Calendar versus Raffle
B. Rodeo News
C. National Rule Changes
D. State Finals
E. Parking & Pens at rodeos
F. Election of new directors
Public responses will be limited to 2 minutes.
New Adult Director Meeting, Friday June 17 at 2PM
To All Nebraska High School Rodeo Members and their Families,
It is with a sad, disappointed heart that I share these comments. PLEASE READ the following…
I received a text message from the Nelson Rodeo Committee sharing that some of their 4-H archery equipment had been vandalized. The equipment was housed in the building where the student dance was held the Saturday night of the rodeo weekend. The equipment was intact and moved on Thursday evening prior to the rodeo to a spot in the building that was blocked off to the public. The equipment was taken out the week after the rodeo in preparation for a practice session and that is when the vandalism was discovered.
They also reported to me that several of the students attending the Saturday night dance and playing on the activities set up especially for the high school rodeo students were rude and disrespectful.
The Nelson Rodeo Committee consists of ALL volunteers. They work hard before, during and after the rodeo to produce a two day event for the Nebraska High School Rodeo Members/Competitors and their families. The Nelson Rodeo has a beautiful fairgrounds and welcome us, the Nebraska High School Rodeo Families, with open arms.
I also received a call from the people offering the concession stand at the North Platte High School Rodeo and they stated to me that they had the concession stand during the college rodeo and the high school rodeo and they have never experienced such a RUDE bunch of people as the High School Rodeo people on Sunday at the 2015 North Platte High School Rodeo.
As the Nebraska High School Rodeo Board of Directors we rely on our Rodeo Committees to produce the practice rodeos for all our Nebraska High School Rodeo members. We also rely on numerous Sponsors and Donors to help produce the practice rodeos, as well as providing awards for State Finals!!! Reports like this could make committees think twice about wanting to host rodeos and we could lose Donors and Sponsors!! And this is negative publicity for the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association – NOT GOOD!
At the very least – WE ALL, Nebraska High School Rodeo members, as well as family members, need to be respectful to our rodeo committees and those entities helping with and around the rodeo!
Jana Jensen
Nebraska High School Rodeo Vice President
Ground Rule for 2014 Nebraska High School Rodeo State Finals and National High School Finals Rodeo
Reined Cow Horse link
Students check out the link to the National Reined Cow Horse Association's introductory video of the NHSRA's newest event. Tentative plans are for an introductory level clinic this fall and competitions next spring. Anyone interested in learning more about this event can contact JB or Sonya Atkins.
In the event that you are sending your contestant to the rodeo alone or with a friend, you need to be aware of the following consequences if your contestant is hurt. According to Nebraska Laws, if the ambulance is called upon to render aide to an injured contestant, the contestant CAN NOT refuse transport. They will, however, be treated under Implied Consent, then transported. Only a parent or LEGAL guardian can refuse transport, unless the contestant is an emancipated minor. The people that you send your son/daughter with, also, can not refuse care/transport once it has been initiated. So the bottom line is, if your contestant son/daughter is injured, and the ambulance is called, they will go to the hospital, unless YOU are there to sign a refusal.
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Comic Books
NBM Publishing has announced its spring 2016 list, and if it seems a wee bit familiar, well, that may be because the publisher's recent books received such an enthusiastic reception that it's dishing up more of the same. But there are a few twists.
Let's start with Paper Dolls, by the husband-and-wife team of Kerascoët, whose Beautiful Darkness (co-authored with Fabien Vehlmann) was nominated for an Eisner Award; NBM has also published their Beauty and Miss Don't Touch Me, both created with Hubert. Their graphic novels are well-loved by critics, but what NBM is doing here is something a bit different: Paper Dolls is an art book, featuring a lot of extra touches and published in a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies. The concept sounds extraordinary:
All-New Doop (Marvel): It's perfectly appropriate for any series starring peripheral X-Men character Doop to be a weird one, however, the miniseries collected in this trade paperback is weird in a weird way.
Doop was created by writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred for their iconoclastic (and somewhat -controversial) 2001 X-Force run, which was then relaunched under the name The X-Statix. The premise involved a group of celebrity-wannabe mutants who used their powers for fame and fortune by starring in a reality show; holding the camera was a mysterious, gross, floating, potato-shaped green creature that spoke its own, indecipherable language and answered to the name Doop.
Milligan imagined a dramatic behind-the-scenes life for the character in a two-part, 2003 Wolverine/Doop miniseries, and writer Jason Aaron ran with the joke, including Doop as a member of the faculty at the Jean Grey School during his Wolverine and The X-Men run. For the most part, Doop functioned as a background joke, one more signifier of the zany environment of the new school for young mutants, though Aaron did pair with Doop's co-creator Allred for a one-issue story that focused on the character as a behind-the-scenes, floating potato-thing-of-all-trades.
Milligan returns to the character for this miniseries, in which Allred only provides the covers, while David LaFuente draws the majority of the art. Milligan takes Doop's behind-the-scenes portfolio to an extreme, marking him as a character capable of traveling through "The Marginalia," entering and exiting the comic-book tales in order to influence their outcome.
The story Doop influences here is "Battle of the Atom," the Brian Michael Bendis-helmed X-Men crossover that involved Cyclops' X-Men team, Wolverine's X-Men team and an X-Men team from the future engaged in a fight over what to do with the teenage original X-Men plucked out of the Silver Age and currently hanging around the present.
[Editor's note: Each Sunday, Robot 6 contributors discuss the best in comics from the last seven days — from news and announcements to a great comic that came out to something cool creators or fans have done.]
Two sure signs the year is drawing to an end: It's snowing in Massachusetts and the Best of the Year lists are starting to appear. Publishers Weekly released theirs yesterday, and there's something interesting about it: Although there is a separate category for comics, several graphic novels are nominated in other categories as well.
This is by no means unprecedented—after all, Maus, one of the first graphic novels, won a Pulitzer Prize—but we seem to be seeing more of it. Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? won the inaugural Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. This is a prize with only three categories, yet two graphic novels made the final round (the other was Cece Bell's El Deafo, which was a finalist in the Young Readers category). Gene Yang was a speaker at the National Book Festival gala in September, giving him a prominent platform to speak to general readers who might pick up a graphic novel, as opposed to die-hard fans of the medium, and it's become more and more common for graphic novels to make the shortlists for general book awards.
The first six pages of Beautiful Darkness comprise one of the more dramatic sequences you're likely to see in any comics work. On the first, a saucer-eyed young blonde is having hot chocolate and cake with the fancily dressed man she met at the ball, and then something is falling from the ceiling — "But this isn't how things were supposed to turn out!" — and after a quick, desperate struggle, the reader is treated to maybe the last thing he or she might expect to see. It's creepy, scary and intriguing, a potent dare to stop reading, and an irresistible lure to turn the page.
The book is a collaboration between writer Fabien Vehlmann, who wrote the quirky, Jason-drawn comedy Isle of 100,000 Graves, and Marie Pommepuy, one-half of the art team known as Kerascoët, who drew the Miss Don't Touch Me books, and who rather lavishly renders this story. Publisher Drawn and Quarterly bills it as an anti-fairy tale, but adding "anti-" seems a bit much, given how closely elements echo fairy tales and more modern, but still classic, children's literature: Thumbelina and Tom Thumb, most especially, with at least a touch of Hansel and Gretel near the ending. There's some Beatrix Potter in here, particularly in the visuals, and anyone who has read or encountered any adaptation of the The Borrowers will find much of that as well.


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Three teenagers arrested in connection with a robbery last week at an apartment complex on Seymour's east side have been charged as adults, police report.
Gregory B. Vires, 17, Scottsburg; Michael W. Jones, 17, Crothersville; and Jacob E. Easley, 17, Seymour, face charges of burglary, robbery and criminal confinement in connection with the incident reported at an apartment complex in the 600 block East Oak Street.
Two Seymour men, Myron S. Walker, 20, and his brother, Jamontrae Bennett, 18, face similar charges. The brothers were arrested Thursday.
Seymour Detective Greg O'Brien said weapons were displayed during the incident, reported at 11:29 p.m. Wednesday.
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Nissan has traditionally given bigger discounts than its more frugal Japanese cousins — Toyota and Honda — and for December, that yuletide tradition continues.
Nissan is offering a wide array of hefty cash-back and low-financing options across its entire lineup, barring new entries like the Juke or the GT-R sports car. Relatively inexpensive models like the Versa have up to $2,000 cash back. The relatively new but slow-selling Cube also gets $500 cash back. The Altima Hybrid, which is sold in limited markets, has up to $4,000 cash back on it, depending on the region.
Unlike some brands, which are nearly done with the switch to the 2011 model year, nearly 40% of Nissan's inventory is from the 2010 model year, so these 2010 deals should be somewhat easy to come by.
All highlighted models have 0% to 3.9% financing for 60 to 72 months, depending on the model. Most of these deals are good until Jan. 3.
If you're looking for a lease deal, you may be somewhat disappointed. We could find only three models – the Altima, Rouge and Sentra – that have subvented leasing plans, and all three require largish money-down agreements.
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Add energy efficiency to your home by choosing the right window coverings. An insulating window shade will quickly pay for itself by lowering your heating and cooling bills. Cellular shades are the best insulator with year-round efficiency, and shutters are also a great choice. Roman shades and custom drapery with thermal lining also provide good insulation. Remember that shades must be closed to provide insulation, so choose a fabric opacity that fits your lighting needs. Solar screen shades provide view-through and summertime efficiency but should be paired with another treatment for nighttime privacy and winter insulation.
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Floating Doctors Inc
20964 Waveview Dr
United States
BRIDGE Number: 5976778676
Dr. Benjamin La Brot
Karine Tchakerian
Benjamin LaBrot, Sky LaBrot, Karine Tchakerian
The Floating Doctors Mission is to reduce the present and future burden of disease in the developing world, and to promote improvements in health care delivery worldwide.
Our Goals Include:
Providing free acute and preventative health care services and delivering donated medical supplies to isolated areas.
Reducing child and maternal mortality through food safety/prenatal education, nutritional counseling and clean water solutions.
Studying and documenting local systems of health care delivery and identifying what progress have been made, what challenges remain, and what solutions exist to improve health care delivery worldwide.
Using the latest communications technologies to bring specialist medical knowledge to the developing world, and to share our experiences with the global community and promote cooperation in resolving world health care issues.
1. Mobile Clinics
The mobile clinic is the backbone of our project and not only acts as acute treatment and long-term patient management, but also as our introduction to the community. The mobile clinic forms the basis of the community acceptance that make our activities possible, and most of our other projects evolve from situations we encounter during mobile clinics.
2. Public Health Research
In 2011, we instituted a new program of data collection during our regular clinical activities. In Panama, where we visited more than 25 communities multiple times in rotation, we re-designed our patient treatment records to include detailed health and demographic data, and began ongoing subjective community assessments.
3. Volunteer Program
Volunteering with Floating Doctors provides experienced clinicians and students alike with the unique opportunity to see advanced and unusual disease cases, hone their clinical diagnostic skills, and challenge their ability to best outcome possible for a patient, even with limited resources. In 2011 Floating Doctors was approved as a training elective by the Ventura County Medical Center's Family Practice Residency Program, and in December UCLA's Global Action In Nursing (GAIN) program joined us in Panama for their first mission.
4. Health Education
The biggest problem we see causing health problems everywhere we have worked is lack of health knowledge. Every individual patient is an opportunity for the caring clinician to impart health knowledge, but we also recognize the need to extend health education into communities. Knowledge is power, and health education puts the power and responsibility for health back into patients' hands. Education can be held and passed on in communities, saving lives many miles and many years from where it was first given.
5. Professional Training
Our mission includes providing training and assistance to existing local services, especially first-response emergency services. We also held first-aid seminars for local cruisers and expatriates and maternal health education for local Parteras (local midwives), identified and began training a group of high school students to provide education to others in their communities, and began publishing regular articles on first response and health issues for the community in Bocas del Toro.
6. Mobile Imaging
Since our very first mission to Haiti in the wake of the 2010 Earthquake, our portable ultrasound has consistently been one of our most invaluable tools. Small enough to fit in a backpack and with enough power to run all day, over 400 ultrasounds were done in 2011. The ultrasound is also regularly used to examine gallstones or cholecystitis, kidney stones, bladder stones or tumors, ovarian cysts, tumors of the uterus, liver and abdominal problems, aneurysms and testicular lumps. It was the first piece of mobile diagnostic equipment carried by Floating Doctors and has become a symbol for our commitment to making the paradigm of 21st century medical technology available to the developing world.
7. Patient Chaperoning
We believe that an important job of primary care clinicians is to help patients understand what care is available and how it can be accessed. In more developed nations, this may require only a few minutes of explanation, but our patients operate at significant disadvantages-distance, bigotry, poor quality of care, and expense all separate our patients from successfully receiving care.
In 2011, hundreds of hours in Honduras, Haiti, and Panama were spent coordinating patient transport, making appointments and accompanying patients to existing health services, microfinancing costs of surgeries, procedures or examinations, and providing aftercare and follow-up for patients after treatment.
8. Ethnomedicine
In Panama in 2011, we developed relationships with indigenous natural healers, or 'Curanderos' in the Bocas del Toro province. They make hundreds of different preparations for every ailment, but these indigenous medical preparations have not been systematically studied, primarily due to mistrust of foreigners.
As widespread resistance to antibiotics becomes more common, and as new diseases emerge to plague to swelling human population, it is more important than ever to leave no stone unturned in the search for tools to fight these infections. There are many medicines waiting, out in the jungle, and this is an opportunity to help find them before they are gone forever.
9. Asilo
The Asilo, a government nursing home in Bocas del Toro, was one of the facilities that we had first been invited to Panama to assist We found a unit without regular medical care, but with a wonderful staff of no more than a cook, cleaner and nurse on each of the two day shifts and two on the night shift. There are 27 patients there, all elderly, ranging from totally mobile to totally bedridden, some without sight, some without limbs, many with varying degrees of dementia-and they all have to be fed, bathed and changed, the floors cleaned, meals prepared and cleaned up after.
We will remain committed to maintaining a regular presence in the Asilo, and continue to involve more volunteers and people from the community in helping the patients, improving the facility and extending that commitment to other facilities and other communities.


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Artist biography
Tucker moved to the USA in 1977 and later became an American citizen. By the early 1980s he was particularly interested in creating a tension between mass and open spaces. Later in the decade he returned to modelling after having worked consistently with constructed forms, bringing primordial masses to the brink of figuration in bronzes such as Gaia (2.08×1.19×3.23 m, 1986; Rome, Gal. Isola di Milano, see 1987 exh. cat., p. 19), which intimidate by their large scale and mass.
The New Generation: 1965 (exh. cat., intro. B. Robertson; London, Whitechapel A.G., 1965), pp. 65–70
R. Morphet: 'William Tucker', The Alistair McAlpine Gift (exh. cat., intro. A. McAlpine; London, Tate, 1971), pp. 88–105
William Tucker: Sculpture, 1970–73 (exh. cat., intro. A. Forge; London, Serpentine Gal., 1973)
William Tucker: Gods: Five Recent Sculptures (exh. cat., intro. D. Ashton; London, Tate, 1987)
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lets go fish
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lets go fish
you are complaining about tuckers control, how bout you look at his walks, or do you only look at the few ok numbers.
he hasnt been down this road before. he was up for 13 innings while we were out last year,
tucker has shown down in the minors that he has been working on things and that they have been working...
ok i understand, that he was good for a portion of the year, but he was bad for a couple game stretch and has been terrible since he got sent down. what makes him any better than he was before?
i wanted to bench uggla for friday and/or sturdays game.
so amezaga made 1 mistake, he should never play again, right
well judging by the progress made in the minors, tucker is.
how do you know what he has worked on in the minors. i would trust a guy who has barely given up runs after bein gsent down than a guy who could do nothing but give up runs.
kensing has made no...
he was reliable for a stretch and unreliable for an = stretch.
that doesnt make him reliable all the time. that makes him up in the air.
logan was never reliable, he was good for a...
ok, and he still hasnt made improvements. at least call up tank who actually has shown improvement in his minors stint. not a guy who has a 6 era down there
that is last year.
tucker has been better in his minor league stint and seems to be getting used to the reliever role.
kensing has been **** in the minors and i wouldnt call a career 5 era proven not to mention he...
see marlinsfan24's last post. it said he was reliable last year
tucker is a reliever now. in aa he has been lights out and he has shown actual IMPROVEMENTS to fix his problems in aa.
last year he pitched 13 innnings.
I WOULD CALL UP A GUY LIKE TUCKER WHO actually has made progress in the minors.
can you make me one of beasley marion and wade
Idk why they would call up Kensing considering hes been terrible.
come on fredi, why are oyu giving ccantu a day off
it doesnt say anything about helms for some reason but i guess it is right. i am actually now that i think about it not that pissed. he...
WTF, Y DOES EVERY TEAM in the race play the nationals and pirates so often. is it me of has it seemed like the nats and the brew crew has been playing for the past week
im going halladay or webb
lets look at it each night, tonight, we need 6 strong innings from anibal and we will hit pinero so tonight should be a win. the only 2 games im up in the air with is wdnesday a little and tomorrow...
for baseball luck, i say we get swept. anything i say is the opposite so were looking pretty good here
I would never trust Sanchez if we move into the playoffs unless he really impresses over the next month and a half
i was actually in here


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A Visual Guide to Psoriatic Arthritis
What Is It?
When you have psoriasis -- a condition that makes thick patches of itchy red, white, or silvery skin -- you could get psoriatic arthritis, too. The inflammation of your skin comes from your body's immune system going haywire. Your immune system might also attack your joints, making them swollen and stiff. An early diagnosis can prevent or limit the damage.
Warning Signs
Stiff, puffy, sausage-like fingers or toes are common, along with joint pain and tenderness. The psoriasis flares and arthritis pain can happen at the same time and in the same place, but not always. You may also notice:
- Dry, red skin patches with silvery-white scales
- Tiny dents in your nails
- Nails that separate from the bed
- Fatigue
- Eye redness and pain
Back and Heel Pain
One form of psoriatic arthritis can inflame the joints in and near your spine. It's called spondylitis, and it causes back and neck pain.
Another form causes pain, tenderness, or swelling where tendons attach to your bones, like in your heel. It can also affect your hands, knees, hips, and chest.
An arthritis specialist called a rheumatologist can diagnose psoriatic arthritis and recommend a treatment. They'll look at your joints and skin for any swelling, pain, or nail changes. Your doctor may also order X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, or CT scans to check for joint damage. Blood, joint fluid, and skin samples can rule out other forms of arthritis.
If your arthritis is mild, you might only need an over-the-counter medicine with ibuprofen or naproxen when your joints are sore. A corticosteroid shot into a joint can lessen heat, swelling, and pain. Prescription drugs called DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs) relieve severe symptoms. They slow or stop psoriatic arthritis from getting worse and can ease skin problems. Your doctor may suggest other things to treat your psoriasis, too.
Biologic Medicines
Biologics are a newer kind of drug used to treat psoriatic arthritis. They target parts of your immune system. They can slow down damage to your joints and ease symptoms like joint pain, swelling, and scaly skin. Your doctor may prescribe one for you when other drugs aren't working.
Pain and swelling get worse when you're not active. Swimming and walking in a pool are good no-impact cardio workouts that ease pain and also build strength and flexibility. (Shower right after you get out of the pool so the chlorine doesn't dry your skin.)
If you're not sure how to get moving safely, a physical therapist can help.
Living Well
About a third of people with psoriatic arthritis have a mild form that doesn't change over time. Others need long-term treatment for their symptoms. Even severe psoriatic arthritis doesn't have to be disabling, though. Pro golfer Phil Mickelson (a spokesman for the drug Enbrel) credits an early diagnosis and good treatment with helping him overcome near-crippling pain to stay in the game.
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UpToDate: "Psoriatic Arthritis (Beyond the Basics)."
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Framed Art Print
Choose from a variety of frame styles, colors and sizes to compliment your favorite Society6 gallery, or fine art print - made ready to hang. Fine-crafted from solid woods, premium shatterproof acrylic protects the face of the art print, while an acid free dust cover on the back provides a custom finish. All framed art prints include wall hanging hardware.
Skull is a part of my series, Emination. It has been a study of figures and their recognizability being blurred and distorted to a point of near abstraction bringing fresh light to the subject matter.


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Great plugin.
How can I show a specific unlisted album? I tried using the shortcode of [nak_google_picasa_albums show_albums='#####']. That worked when inputting the ID of a public album, but it wouldn't work when I input the ID of an unlisted album. Seems I need a place to enter the authkey for the unlisted album.


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Phone Booths Phase Out
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Traditional phone booths are disappearing across the country and people in Henderson, North Carolina spoke out on Wednesday (7/28) about the technological change.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Traditional phone booths are disappearing across the country and people in Henderson, North Carolina spoke out on Wednesday (7/28) about the technological change.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - NTT East and NTT West (Japanese Telephone Companies), will soon launch a full-scale IP TV phone for their subscribers, providing users with better images, easier access and lower prices.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - British scientists said on Wednesday (August 11) they had received permission to clone human embryos for medical research, in what they believe to be the first such licence to be granted in Europe.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - The Mars rovers continue to send back intriguing new photos and scientific data from the Red Planet, but they are showing signs of "aches and pains" as they pass their two hundred day mark, more than twice their expected life expectancy.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Smugglers take notice.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - China on Sunday launched a satellite that will carry out land surveying and other scientific projects for several days before returning to Earth, government media reported.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - A project designed by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities was on board the Genesis space capsule that crashed in a Utah desert.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Despite the installation of new processors over the weekend, state computers used to process welfare benefits still are not working properly.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Three top Hollywood studios are throwing their considerable weight behind one of two competing formats for the next generation of DVDs, citing in part the need to stem piracy.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Ring tones are so yesterday. If wireless companies have their way, the next multibillion-dollar surprise in the cellular business will be "Ringback" tones.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - As part of its reincarnation, America Online Inc. is creating its own software for browsing the Web and playing movies and songs. It's a question of staying relevant in an increasingly broadband world.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Seeking to make inroads against lower-cost competitors, Apple Computer Inc. introduced a cut-rate computer the size of a paperback and a tiny iPod that starts at $99 but holds far fewer songs than the company's hard drive-based music players.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - Any parent knows: kids don't always pay attention when it's time for the school bus to take them home.
Posted: 10/27/2006 - A hacker broke into a wireless carrier's network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the Secret Service agent investigating the hacker, the government said Wednesday.


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Food Fight: French Meadow vs. Patrick's Bakery chocolate cake
Here's an idea for the State Fair: deep-fried chocolate cake on a stick. It would be like a warm, fresh brownie, only with a kicky crunch. It would be like a chocolate doughnut, only with fudge-y interior frosting. It would be like a Twinkie, only with ingredients containing less than four syllables. See, that's the thing about chocolate cake. It's good no matter what. While we busy ourselves with our future award-winning State Fair recipe, see how two local chocolate cakes match up:
The best chocolate cakes, like the best candy bars, inspire creativity. All you Twix manglers and Reese's freaks know what we're talking about here. French Meadow's Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake ($4.50) has all these beautiful, separate components to peel and swipe. I even got out some pretzels at one point to cut away sections of the thick, fudge-y frosting. Each portion -- bouncy cake layers, buttery filling, and heavyweight frosting -- goes a capella with ease, and the whole package: divine.
The best chocolate cakes can also, on the other hand, inspire pure, unadulturated, override-your-gag-reflex-and-Cookie Monster-as-much-as-possible gluttony. Such is the case with Patrick's Chocolate Raspberry Cake. While it looks like something that should be shellacked and window displayed -- with its perfectly placed raspberries, teetering, music note-inscribed chocolate disk, and uniform coating of chocolate jimmies (love those things) -- its taste, accented with raspberry filling, will not only simultaneously recall your favorite birthday cakes but will reinvent your notion of what good chocolate cake can be.
The Winner: We admit, we were a little put off by the princess-like presentation of Patrick's chocolate raspberry cake. It even came atop a gold, cardboard disk to match the golden musical notes on the decorative chocolate disk. It also looked more like a brownie than chocolate cake. But no amount of fuss or muss can distract from just how good this cake is, with its thin layers of sponge cake alternating with a moist layers of mousse, all accented by a nice raspberry filling and three delicious raspberries. And that brownie shape? Perfect shape for spearing and deep-frying! State Fair, we're coming for you!
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Hi all! I read these forums an awful lot, especially following the CHOW and EOW competitions, but I don't post too often. Anyway I've got a question that I think would be beneficial to a lot of people, but something I haven't see discussed all that frequently.
There seems to be a general consensus that the best books available on figurative anatomy are from Bridgman and Loomis, and I see Vlippu's name mentioned quite a bit as well.
I'm wondering… are there definitive texts out there for other facets of foundational studies? I'm most interested in finding something on composition, but I think solid refrences on color theory and perspective would be great to have as well.
Any suggestions? Thanks guys & gals!


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Jul 19
THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE NEIGHBORHOOD RUCKUS. Come celebrate the two years of existence this band has had with us at the LAB, were our first concert was so long ago! FREE albums will be given out at the show as well!
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This show is FREE!!!!! FREE I tell you!! Free as a bird!! There will be a lot of good tunes at this show as it is a bit of a Seattle Teen Music Show Case! did I mention it was free?
Feb 21
The Charleston - Bremerton ~ Mohawk Yard (from Hillsboro OR) https://www.facebook.com/mohawk.yard ~ The Iverson Brothers https://www.facebook.com/IversonBrothers?ref=ts&fref=ts ~ JAR ~ Fringe Shift www.facebook.com/fringeshift ~ The Nieghborhood Ruckus www.facebook.com/pages/The-Neighborhood-Ruckus/191041704318463?ref=ts&fref=ts ~ Chaotic Karisma (from Hillsboro OR) https://www.facebook.com/ChaoticKarisma?ref=ts&fref=ts
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This is a Battle of the bands where The Neighborhood Ruckus will be playing a thirty minute set with a bunch of other great bands! let us know if you want tickets by saying so on this event page and we will sell some to you!
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Shia LaBeouf Strips Down for Sigur Ros Video: Watch
Sigur Rós' new video looks like it was a transformative experience for Shia LaBeouf.
The Icelandic band's video for "Valtari" instrumental "Fjogur Piano" was released on Monday, showcasing the actor in the nude, baring all.
"Icelandic people are not prudish about people being naked," the band reportedly told TMZ after the video hit the web.
Sigur Rós Debuts 'Valtari' with Global Listening Event
The Alma Har'el-directed short film captures a domestic drama that's equal parts sexual and violent, with LaBeouf and actress Denna Thomsen in various degrees of undress and intimacy.
Among other scenes in the eight-minute video, it includes the pair locked in a skin-showing lovers' embrace that doubles intercut shots of the movements as dance choreography. The eclectic footage also documents an aquatic drug trip and a shattering conclusion.
It's not LaBeouf's first encounter the music world: the hip-hop fan has directed several music videos, including Cage's 2009 effort "I Never Knew You" and Kid Cudi's 2011 "Maniac" short film.
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Journey through 800 years of Chinese history and enter the elegant and exclusive realm of the imperial court.
Learn about luminous Korean mother-of-pearl lacquerware with the first U.S. exhibition devoted to this time-honored tradition.
Through video, textiles and works on paper, artist Ranu Mukherjee creates otherworldly landscapes inhabited by Gold Rush-era miners and fantastical beings.
Eight intricate pieces convey the rich history and expert techniques of this artistic tradition.
Discover the remarkable skills of Japanese lacquer artists and the painstaking process behind the glossy surface.
See renowned installation artist Liu Jianhua's thought-provoking new artwork that blends the classic and contemporary.
Female power and its personifications in Hindu devotional practices.
Bloody battles, passionate romance and a shape-shifting monkey warrior. Discover and be thrilled by one of the world's greatest works of literature.
Don't worry: we'll be waiting right here for you when you're all done.


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Ribollita is an authentic Tuscan stew. It literally means "reboiled" in Italian because it was inspired by what ingredients were available at hand. It originated as a peasant dish in the Middle Ages. Ribollita always included a mix of beans, vegetables, and bread to make a hearty stew. The first time I had this soup was when I studied in Florence, Italy, and it quickly became one of my favorite family style meals. On a cold, rainy day, this soup is sure to warm the heart and soul. I always enjoy adding a touch of extra virgin olive oil and red pepper flakes on top to spice it up a little.
I am so happy to bring back some of Italy to my homeland and share it with you and my family in this recipe. It's a great dish to make on a Sunday and enjoy for the next couple days. You can add fresh kale or spinach when you reheat the soup to pack in more flavor and nutrition. It only gets better as it sits, because the flavors have more time to blend together and "marry."
Servings: Serves 10 or 20 half-size
Also appropriate for vegetarian and vegan diets.
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What is the best way to handle inter-league championships for Basketball?
I had created each regional division (four geographic regions with a master, junior and open division in each) as it's own league, so 12 in total. At the end of the season the four regional teams play off against each other.
What is the best way to handle this? Any thoughts, or thoughts whether I'm even handling this correctly by separating the teams like this?