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The City that Ended Hunger
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. by Frances Moore Lappďż˝ "To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer."
In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does a democracy look like that enables citizens to have a real voice in securing life's essentials? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible or a pipe dream? With hunger on the rise here in the United States�one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps�these questions take on new urgency. To begin to conceive of the possibility of a culture of empowered citizens making democracy work for them, real-life stories help�not models to adopt wholesale, but examples that capture key lessons. For me, the story of Brazil�s fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a rich trove of such lessons. Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry. Then in 1993, a newly elected administration declared food a right of citizenship. The officials said, in effect: If you are too poor to buy food in the market�you are no less a citizen. I am still accountable to you.
The new mayor, Patrus Ananias�now leader of the federal anti-hunger effort�began by creating a city agency, which included assembling a 20-member council of citizen, labor, business, and church representatives to advise in the design and implementation of a new food system. The city already involved regular citizens directly in allocating municipal resources�the 'participatory budgeting' that started in the 1970s and has since spread across Brazil. During the first six years of Belo�s food-as-a-right policy, perhaps in response to the new emphasis on food security, the number of citizens engaging in the city�s participatory budgeting process doubled to more than 31,000.
The city agency developed dozens of innovations to assure everyone the right to food, especially by weaving together the interests of farmers and consumers. It offered local family farmers dozens of choice spots of public space on which to sell to urban consumers, essentially redistributing retailer mark-ups on produce�which often reached 100 percent�to consumers and the farmers. Farmers� profits grew, since there was no wholesaler taking a cut. And poor people got access to fresh, healthy food. When my daughter Anna and I visited Belo Horizonte to write Hope�s Edge we approached one of these stands. A farmer in a cheerful green smock, emblazoned with 'Direct from the Countryside,' grinned as she told us, 'I am able to support three children from my five acres now. Since I got this contract with the city, I�ve even been able to buy a truck.' The improved prospects of these Belo farmers were remarkable considering that, as these programs were getting underway, farmers in the country as a whole saw their incomes drop by almost half. In addition to the farmer-run stands, the city makes good food available by offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to bid on the right to use well-trafficked plots of city land for 'ABC' markets, from the Portuguese acronym for 'food at low prices.' Today there are 34 such markets where the city determines a set price�about two-thirds of the market price�of about twenty healthy items, mostly from in-state farmers and chosen by store-owners. Everything else they can sell at the market price.
'For ABC sellers with the best spots, there�s another obligation attached to being able to use the city land,' a former manager within this city agency, Adriana Aranha, explained. 'Every weekend they have to drive produce-laden trucks to the poor neighborhoods outside of the city center, so everyone can get good produce.' Another product of food-as-a-right thinking is three large, airy 'People�s Restaurants' (Restaurante Popular), plus a few smaller venues, that daily serve 12,000 or more people using mostly locally grown food for the equivalent of less than 50 cents a meal. When Anna and I ate in one, we saw hundreds of diners�grandparents and newborns, young couples, clusters of men, mothers with toddlers. Some were in well-worn street clothes, others in uniform, still others in business suits. 'I�ve been coming here every day for five years and have gained six kilos,' beamed one elderly, energetic man in faded khakis. 'It�s silly to pay more somewhere else for lower quality food,' an athletic-looking young man in a military police uniform told us. 'I�ve been eating here every day for two years. It�s a good way to save money to buy a house so I can get married,' he said with a smile.
No one has to prove they�re poor to eat in a People�s Restaurant, although about 85 percent of the diners are. The mixed clientele erases stigma and allows 'food with dignity,' say those involved. Belo�s food security initiatives also include extensive community and school gardens as well as nutrition classes. Plus, money the federal government contributes toward school lunches, once spent on processed, corporate food, now buys whole food mostly from local growers. 'We�re fighting the concept that the state is a terrible, incompetent administrator,' Adriana explained. 'We�re showing that the state doesn�t have to provide everything, it can facilitate. It can create channels for people to find solutions themselves.' For instance, the city, in partnership with a local university, is working to 'keep the market honest in part simply by providing information,' Adriana told us. They survey the price of 45 basic foods and household items at dozens of supermarkets, then post the results at bus stops, online, on television and radio, and in newspapers so people know where the cheapest prices are. The shift in frame to food as a right also led the Belo hunger-fighters to look for novel solutions. In one successful experiment, egg shells, manioc leaves, and other material normally thrown away were ground and mixed into flour for school kids� daily bread. This enriched food also goes to nursery school children, who receive three meals a day courtesy of the city. 'I knew we had so much hunger in the world. But what is so upsetting, what I didn�t know when I started this, is it�s so easy. It�s so easy to end it.' The result of these and other related innovations? In just a decade Belo Horizonte cut its infant death rate�widely used as evidence of hunger�by more than half, and today these initiatives benefit almost 40 percent of the city�s 2.5 million population. One six-month period in 1999 saw infant malnutrition in a sample group reduced by 50 percent. And between 1993 and 2002 Belo Horizonte was the only locality in which consumption of fruits and vegetables went up. The cost of these efforts? Around $10 million annually, or less than 2 percent of the city budget. That�s about a penny a day per Belo resident. Behind this dramatic, life-saving change is what Adriana calls a 'new social mentality'�the realization that 'everyone in our city benefits if all of us have access to good food, so�like health care or education�quality food for all is a public good.' The Belo experience shows that a right to food does not necessarily mean more public handouts (although in emergencies, of course, it does.) It can mean redefining the 'free' in 'free market' as the freedom of all to participate. It can mean, as in Belo, building citizen-government partnerships driven by values of inclusion and mutual respect. And when imagining food as a right of citizenship, please note: No change in human nature is required! Through most of human evolution�except for the last few thousand of roughly 200,000 years�Homo sapiens lived in societies where pervasive sharing of food was the norm. As food sharers, 'especially among unrelated individuals,' humans are unique, writes Michael Gurven, an authority on hunter-gatherer food transfers. Except in times of extreme privation, when some eat, all eat. Before leaving Belo, Anna and I had time to reflect a bit with Adriana. We wondered whether she realized that her city may be one of the few in the world taking this approach�food as a right of membership in the human family. So I asked, 'When you began, did you realize how important what you are doing was? How much difference it might make? How rare it is in the entire world?' Listening to her long response in Portuguese without understanding, I tried to be patient. But when her eyes moistened, I nudged our interpreter. I wanted to know what had touched her emotions. 'I knew we had so much hunger in the world,' Adriana said. 'But what is so upsetting, what I didn�t know when I started this, is it�s so easy. It�s so easy to end it.' Adriana�s words have stayed with me. They will forever. They hold perhaps Belo�s greatest lesson: that it is easy to end hunger if we are willing to break free of limiting frames and to see with new eyes�if we trust our hard-wired fellow feeling and act, no longer as mere voters or protesters, for or against government, but as problem-solving partners with government accountable to us. |
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I have been to Brasil many times, life is not easy there for the poor, unlike what this article seems to be stating. I have also been to several socialist countries and the average quality of life is much lower then what the poorest American would accept here. There's no such thing as a free ride, anywhere or anytime. "Peoples Restaurants," hmmm...where have I heard that equaltarian term before? I'll stick with free choice even if it costs me more then 50 cents a meal. |
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far from Socialist, Brazil is one of the world's fastest growing economies mostly because of sustainable practices such as this and using natutral gas instead of importing oil. I am a registered independent financial advisor btw. you dont have to sell me the free market dream. |
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Thanks for this article. I strongly support these programs. More Latin American (and third world in general) countries need policies to shift their focus to giving their farmers a better life by growing healthy food for the citizens of their own country, as opposed to cash crops to be exported. No one should be starving while all the land is gobbled up by colonial agribusiness that also depresses our ability to be self-sufficient in food in the US. |
- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 11 at 12:15
The huge elephant in the room here is population. This planet is going to have to shrink as oil production declines. There is a lot of pain down the road and its a huge reason why growing your own food (even a small portion) is a good idea. Hopefully we can slowly "power down" over the next 100 years, but I doubt it. Keep planting trees! |
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Underwater Volcano Eruption Spews A Massive 'Raft' Of Rocks Off The Coast Of New Zealand
On Thursday August 9th, a New Zealand Air Force plane flying about 1,000 kilometers northeast of the island's biggest city, Auckland, encountered a strange sight - A brilliant white light that resembled an ice shelf, sparkling from the clear blue waters of the South Pacific ocean.
They immediately notified their superiors, who in turn requested some scientists to accompany them aboard a Navy ship and investigate the cause of the unusual glow. Upon closer examination, they discovered that the floating objects that stretched out over 10,000 square miles were not pieces of ice, but golf-ball-size pumice rocks that were floating atop the surface of the ocean.
While it took some clever sleuth work to identify the source of the rocks, NASA satellite images were finally able to trace it to the lava spewed by an underwater volcano called Havre Seamount that lies south of New Zealand's uninhabited Kermadec Islands. The scientists believe that the underground activity was caused by the 157 small earthquakes ranging from 3.0 to 4.8 that rocked the area between July 17th and 18th.
Fortunately, pumice which are igneous rocks formed when the volcanic lava solidifies, are soft and light and cause no harm to ships floating across. However, as the captain of the Navy ship attested, it was still a little intimidating to maneuver across a rock formation the size of Belgium!
This is not the only volcanic surprise the New Zealanders have had to deal with in the last two weeks. On August 5th, Mt. Tongariro, a complex structure of volcanic cones that have developed over a period of 275,000 years, suddenly came alive after lying dormant for over 110 years, spewing out magma boulders and ash that covered a large part of the country's North Island and causing major flight disruptions. Luckily, no one was injured.
If that wasn't enough the country's largest and most active crater, the White Island volcano erupted on Tuesday, August 8th, after being silent for almost 12 years. Since this volcano cannot seem to stop for months and sometimes even years once its gets started, scientists are concerned that it may be just the beginning of many more eruptions to come!
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There's no doubt that Ubisoft Bluebyte are aiming for a more hardcore crowd with their latest Might & Magic game, a free-to-play game that runs in any browser. Problem is, most players who regard themselves as hardcore also have strong opinions on both free-to-play and browser games - mostly negative ones.
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Macaroni And Beef Bake
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1 1/2 pound lean ground beef
1 1/2 small onions, chopped
14 ounces canned tomato soup
2 cups water
2 2/3 cups elbow macaroni
3 cups canned creamed corn
2/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Heat a heavy nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Saute ground beef and onion 5 minutes, stirring to break up meat, until browned. Discard excess fat.
Stir in soup, water, macaroni and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Reduce heat to low, cover partially, and simmer about 8 minutes, or until macaroni is just tender.
Stir in corn and transfer to a lightly buttered casserole. Cover tightly and bake 15 minutes. Remove cover and sprinkle with Cheddar cheese. Bake about 15 minutes longer, uncovered, until bubbly and cheese is melted.
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Next time you are watching Jurassic Park, why not do a little crafting too by making some DIY dino lighting? Think Geek has come up with some of the most delightfully nerdy lamps one could conjure.
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Dear Local Network Leaders, It was wonderful for our Board to dance and talk with those of you and your Local Network who were able to attend our delightful 2012 Festival: Dance A World Of Hope!
It's going on a couple of years (yes, already!) that we began making the changes from Chapters to Local Networks and we just wanted to check in with our remaining Local Networks; with you and your members. There have been no new ones and our remaining ones are: Hawaii, Ontario, Colorado, Potomac, and NY/Conn.
Our website, under Local Networks, has all the how to's and forms both for those who want to form a new Local Network and for those who are use to the old Chapter versus the new Local Network ways. Please let your members know that everything is on the web. Note too that you each have a Board Consultant assigned to your Local Network and we would be glad to answer any questions and discuss issues concerning Local Networks: Wendy for Ontario/New York and myself for Hawaii/Colorado/Potomac.
Here are some reminders about how our Local Networks system works best:
January 26, 2012
Dear Local Network Leaders, Your SDG Sacred Dancing Board sends you 2012 Greetings and hopes you are all dancing up warm winter days!
Now that you all have had time to digest our new system for community Sacred Dance Guild leadership, let me reaffirm some of the ways we are supporting one another:
Be sure to go to our website's Local Network page and:
We're looking forward to "Dancing a World of Hope" with you all July 24-29 in Holland Michigan at Hope College for Festival 2012. Be sure to keep on buzzing in on our ever-evolving WEBSITE for all the latest www.sacreddanceguild.org!!
Thank YOU for all the "Dancing The Sacred, Moving The World" work that you all do in your local areas...
JoyBeth Lufty SDG President Dancing The Sacred, Moving the World
June 6, 2011 Hi Everyone, I hope you all have had time now to dance from being a "Chapter" into becoming a "Local Network", checking out all our Local Network information on our website and letting us know your questions. This e-mail is to simply check in with you all and share more about all the changes. One of the biggest changes has been that there will be no more rebates and that SDG will receive 50% of your future local workshop profits. We've been asked "why?" As simply put as possible, the world and SDG has greatly changed over the years. While SDG's yearly budget has more than tripled, even without a salaried Executive Director (which we will have to have in the future for SDG to continue), its only way of making an income, membership, has not. In fact, it has gone the opposite way. That is why we have expanded our programs and are now working on expanding our membership and other ways to bring in the necessary income to be able to continue to resource, network, and educate Sacred Dance, on the local, national, and international levels. As you continue to transition from the Chapter Structure to Local Networks, be sure to start (or continue) to use: our SDG logo on your publicity, our Liability and Photo Release Forms, our Insurance for your LN events, our Online Membership Directory to find Sacred Dancers in your area, our Event Calendar, Facebook, Journal, & Local Network Newsletters to post your events, our Traveling Workshops and Presenter Package Rosters, as well as Resource Library and Business Directory to find resources to use... We want to post your event photos and write ups on our Website and in our Journals. Let us know if you have a Facebook Page or Website as a Local Network so we can also post this on our SDG website. We always will want Local Network Sacred Dancers to volunteer for our SDG Board of Directors, to teach at/share/ and help us to produce our Festivals, to sign up as Traveling Workshop Presenters/Coordinators and to help coordinate SDGO Benefit Events. And of course, your SDG Board of Directors is here for you to share ideas of how to spread Sacred Dance far and wide in "Dancing the Sacred, Moving the World" together... JoyBeth Lufty SDG President for your Board of Directors
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Here's a tricky problem for all you budding game designers out there: in a game that merges the FPS and RTS genres, allowing you to seamlessly switch between the two perspectives at the push of a button, how do you prevent the player from favouring one style of play over the other?
Well, Atomic Motion has settled on a devious solution. Rather than both viewpoints having unique and subtle strategic advantages in certain situations, it's made the FPS and RTS perspectives so equally terrible that you'll repeatedly try to escape from one only to wind up in the other. So whether you like it or not, both sides get a good airing. Problem solved!
Though executed badly, the idea here is sound - take a regular through-the-eyes sort of shooter and give it a bird's eye tactical view for all your strategising needs. From on high you can order your squad of three (a gun man, a grenade man and a rocket man) to run to different places and shoot at things, and from inside the skulls of your men you can do much the same, except with a better chance of actually killing something.
The D-pad lets you flit between the minds of your commandos, who have names like Shadow, Thor and Crazyface, while the Y button alternates between the aforementioned FPS and RTS views.
Split personality
Whether or not it was splitting the game in half that caused both to become so worthless, we can't tell. In both guises Raven Squad runs the gamut of shoddy design: enemies lie in wait behind corners in a jungle-themed hedge maze, stirring to life as you approach them, only to appear deeply confused about their situation.
The flappy-lipped animations and voice-acting are comedic, the agonisingly bland levels are as satisfying as trying to munch your way out of a styrofoam avalanche, and the weapons feel about as ineffective in the FPS mode as your squads do in the RTS mode.
It feels like two terrible games stapled together. Like a game developed by two teams, each slacking off in the hope that the other would make something decent enough to prop them up. Raven Squad is less a genre-blend than a genre car-crash. But even then, car crashes are generally more interesting to watch.
You'd be a Raven lunatic to buy it
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The Connecticut Athletic Trainers' Association (CATA) strives to improve the quality of health care for athletes, patients and clients and enhance the profession of Athletic Training, through leadership, education, and cooperative efforts with other organizations and allied health professions. The CATA is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization.
ECSU Collects 102 Coats - Julie Alexander, Athletic Trainer and ECSU Women's Soccer Team
CATA Winter Coat Drive of 2014-2015 has begun with coat drop off locations as seen below:
Danbury Orthopedics (Nov. 20th - Dec 20th) -- 73 Sandpit Rd., Ste. 203, Danbury, CT. Hours for drop off: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 5:00pm.
Select Physical Therapy (Dec 1st - Dec 20th) -- 29 North Main Street, West Hartford. Hours for drop off: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 7:00pm and Saturday 8:00am - 12:00 pm.
The Taft School ( Dec 1st - Jan. 5th ) -- Odden Arena (lower level) -- Hours for drop off: Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm with closures Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Therapeutic Bodyworks (Nov. 20th - Jan 31st ) -- 20 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 3, West Hartford. Hours for drop off: Monday - Friday 8am - 6pm and Saturday 8:30am - 1:00pm.
Congratulations to Craig Denegar, PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA for receiving the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award and Gary Morin, PhD, ATC, LAT for receiving the Athletic Trainer Service award at the NATA 65th Clinical Symposia & AT Expo last week in Indianapolis, IN.
The CATA is working on proposing an update to the practice act to reflect the evolution of the profession. We want to insure that ATs can practice in practice settings consistent with national trends. As the CATA gears up to finalize changes to the current CT scope of practice, we wanted to ensure that our membership understands these changes. This is a long process and we still have a long road ahead but we feel confident and would like to share a summary of these changes with you.
The last town hall meeting will be held via webinar/webex the week of the CATA symposium - pre registration is REQUIRED and a link will be sent to you with directions on how to access the web ex. This is for CATA members ONLY. Click Here to Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cata-town-hall-meeting-webinar-tickets-10648388617
If you are interested in assisting the CATA with the scope report or other issues related to the scope of practice, please contact Eleni Diakogeorgiou, Co-Chair, CATA Governmental Affairs Committee firstname.lastname@example.com or one of the Executive Council members (CATA Executive Council).
HB 5113 An Act Concerning Youth Athletics and Concussions passed by consent in the Senate early this morning. The CATA has received a great deal of recognition within the legislature for our efforts on the bill this session. Betty Gallo, Joe Grabarz and everyone else at Betty's firm have been instrumental in helping us get the changes in language we wanted, and in advocating on our behalf for the bill.
Roger K. Guyas – 1932-2014
We in Connecticut have lost a longtime colleague this week and would like to send out our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends around Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut and the country. Anyone who knew Roger knew of his gentle, warm, and happy spirit laced with a very witty humor. This is a time for everyone to remember and celebrate his life.
Please see link for his obituary and arrangements.
James Doran
CATA President
April 24, 2014: Substitute HB 5113, "An Act Concerning Student-Athletes and Concussions" was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives in the CT General Assembly today. The bill will move next to the Senate. The bill would require education for athletes and parents, and for parents to receive and provide informed consent about the risk of concussions. It will also require schools to report concussions to the State Dept. of Education. An amendment was added to create a task force to study concussion-related issues in youth sports (non-school related). CATA would be included in the task force.
The bill does not place limits on contact in football practice or apply to referees and other officials.
Click here to read the version of the bill (LCO #4151) that was passed
Click here to read the amendment (LCO #4192) creating the task force.
Check your e-mail for an action alert with information on how to contact your State Senator!
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If you have a question, please email the rabbi at firstname.lastname@example.com. She will respond to you and may anonymously post your question here.
QUESTION: Rabbi, I'm not really comfortable coming to a synagogue because I don't know anyone there.
RESPONSE: Many people who have not been to synagogue recently do feel uneasy. That's why we work to make new people feel welcome. To learn what we do, you can watch our YouTube Channel to see one of our regular Shabbat services. Sign up for our newsletter, view our albums on Facebook, or contact me. The only way to get acquainted with the community is to show up. Attend a Shabbat Service with us or one of the classes.
QUESTION: Rabbi, Can you explain why in Jewish tradition someone is considered Jewish because of their mother, not their father? Note: The following response answers this question from an academic and halachic standpoint. Read the bottom for TBOR's position on this issue. Matrilineal descent - Apparently scholars think that it was NOT a Biblical principle re: Matrilineal descent, however, the orthodox, naturally derive it from Torah.
RESPONSE: TORAH ALLUSIONS TO MATRILINEAL DESCENT "In Deuteronomy 7:1-5, in expressing the prohibition against intermarriage, G-d says "he [i.e., the non-Jewish male spouse] will cause your child to turn away from Me and they will worship the gods of others." No such concern is expressed about the child of a non-Jewish female spouse. From this, we infer that the child of a non-Jewish male spouse is Jewish (and can therefore be turned away from Judaism), but the child of a non-Jewish female spouse is not Jewish (and therefore turning away is not an issue). Leviticus 24:10 speaks of the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man as being "among the community of Israel" (i.e., a Jew). On the other hand, in Ezra 10:2-3, the Jews returning to Israel vowed to put aside their non-Jewish wives and the children born to those wives. They could not have put aside those children if those children were Jews."http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm
"Prof. Shaye D. Cohen is the Literature Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University...found that matrilineal descent evolved from an original policy of patrilineal descent. In the Torah, a person's status as a Jew seems to come from his father. Joseph was married to a non-Jewish woman, and his children were considered Jewish. The same was the case for Moses and King Solomon. The change to a policy of matrilineal descent came in late antiquity. Prof. Cohen has two theories about how this came to be. One is that the Tannaim, the rabbis who codified the concept of matrilineal descent, were influenced by the Roman legal system of the time. According to two sources from the end of the second century CE and the beginning of the third century CE, in a marriage between two Romans, a child would receive the status of his father. In an intermarriage between a Roman and a non-Roman, a child received the citizenship status of its mother.
Cohen presents both theories, but admits that neither have been conclusively proven." http://wwwww.myjewishlearning.com/ask_the_expert/at/AsktheExpert--Matrilineal_descent.shtml "Matrilineal descent, the passing down of a child's Jewish identity via the mother, is not a biblical principle. In biblical times, many Jewish men married non-Jews, and their children's status was determined by the father's religion. According to Professor Shaye Cohen of Brown University: "Numerous Israelites heroes and kings married foreign women: for example, Judah married a Canaanite, Joseph an Egyptian, Moses a Midianite and an Ethiopian, David a Philistine, and Solomon women of every description. By her marriage with an Israelite man a foreign women joined the clan, people, and religion of her husband. It never occurred to anyone in pre-exilic times to argue that such marriages were null and void, that foreign women must "convert" to Judaism, or that the off-spring of the marriage were not Israelite if the women did not convert." Talmudic Times "Sometime during the Roman occupation and the Second Temple period, a law of matrilineal descent, which defined a Jew as someone with a Jewish mother, was adopted. By the 2nd century CE, it was clearly practiced. The Talmud (Kiddushin 68b), which was compiled in the 4th and 5th centuries, explains that the law of matrilineal descent derived from the Torah. The Torah passage (Deut. 7:3-4) reads: "Thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor shalt thou take his daughter to thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods." Some scholars believe that this new law of matrilineal descent was enacted in response to intermarriage. Others say that the frequent cases of Jewish women being raped by non-Jews led to the law; how could a raped Jewish woman's child be considered non-Jewish by the Jewish community in which he or she would be raised? Some believe that the matrilineal principle was borrowed from the Romans.
TEMPLE BETH OR Those who are of patrilineal descent are welcome to join our congregation. Please contact the rabbi for further details.


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I have had this hair dryer for over a couple of years. It is a little bit heavy but dries my hair quite quickly. I like the ionic function, which helps reducing frizz. Only two speeds and 2 hot hair functions and a cold hair button (the latter is very handy).
When it will stop functioning I will switch to a Parlux though (it is what most pro haidressers use).
Overall a good product for its price.
Good, but not as good as my Chi iron... took a little longer to straighten my super curly hair, and I needed to do some blowdrying after.
Nice dryer, better than cheap brands like Vidal Sasson. I think its less damage and dries faster for sure. A little on the heavy side. I still have to flat iron afterwards. Oh well, what can I expect, miracles or something??? Would buy again.
I love this dryer , it not only looks great , but it dries my hair quick and smooth. It looks very sleek and professional . I searched many places(read many reviews) for a dryer like this and was well reviewed at folica I paid $59 I see its $96 at amazon. Well worth whatever you spend it.
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1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; | 1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. |
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Every day, we are amazed at the stories created by the Airbnb community. When a traveler shares a home with a host, what happens can be nothing short of inspiring.
We want to share these stories with the world. Everyone should know about Tama, a host from New York who was able to remain in her home despite being hit hard by the financial crisis. And Jonathan, a Los Angeles host who gets to spend more time with his family and ceramic studio because of hosting.
That's why we created Airbnb Stories—a new part of Airbnb dedicated to sharing the incredible experiences and meaningful trips of the Airbnb community.
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This scholarship is awarded annually to four students attending an accreditted university in the state of Georgia. These students will be competing at the annual STMA Student Challenge. Next year the competition will be held at the STMA Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX; this scholarship is designed to defray the cost of airfare, lodging, and conference registration. Your support could make an incredible impact on this scholarship fund. If you or your company are interested in supporting this scholarship please contact our Treasurer:
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If you are considering a move to the cloud, you may need to re-think your approach to all aspects of your business—including marketing, IT purchases, sales compensation, and customer relationship management. The Cloud Profitability Program (CPP) scales Microsoft insights on cloud via virtual events and on-demand resources, with the goal to help Microsoft partners build and grow their cloud practices. The program is designed for traditional and hybrid businesses, C-level and business decision makers (BDMs) at large partner organizations, and companies which deliver project-based, managed, and IP services. The weekly Cloud Profitability web series features streaming videos to help Microsoft partners learn how to become profitable in the cloud. In addition, a cloud subject matter expert is on hand to answer live questions via a Q&A chat. The sessions take place every Wednesday at 8:30am Pacific Time. You only need to sign up once to register for the complete series. Check out the new season starting in January 2015. Watch for a reminder one day prior to each session start.
Learn how Entity Framework (EF), a must-have for developers, can simplify your work! See how EF 6 can create databases for you, and find out how to manage that creation. Plus, explore advanced topics, like managing transactions and integrating stored procedures. And get a look forward into the improvements coming in EF 7!
Roll up your sleeves to explore the wow factor with new gameplay, artificial intelligence (AI), and animations! Expand upon the prototype from the previous courses in the C++/DirectX Game Development series. Learn add more depth to the overall game, increase your understanding of project potential, and decide where to go from here.
Get a good look at ASP.NET Web API technology, uses, and nuances, including token-based security features, route attributes, error handling, and versioning. See why it is the ideal way to surface APIs that target browsers and mobile devices. Whether you're brand new to the framework or you want to take your design to the next level, this course has practical information for you.
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Deploying a new desktop operating system can seem like a daunting task. In addition, sorting through the wealth of information about windows deployment can be overwhelming. This track provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to each step in the Windows 7 deployment process from application compatibility testing and volume activation to image creation and data migration.
By the end of the course, you will have gained an understanding of the tools, processes, and best practices that will help make your Windows 7 deployment a success.
Data Analysis is meant to provide your company with Breakthrough Insights that empower you to act and react in a competitive environment. This course is designed to show you how you can take advantage of the newest features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The 7 modules of this course will introduce you to concepts and practices such as:
- Developing and Managing a Business Intelligent Semantic Model - Enriching your BI Semantic Models with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) - Leveraging Master Data Services (MDS) in your Data Warehouse
You'll get a chance to see What's new for MDS and learn tips and tricks to using Data Quality Services (DQS). When you have completed this course you'll have learned how Microsoft SQL Server 2012 can help you create secure, reliable, Business Intelligence Semantic Models using Analysis Services and how to improve the quality, credibility and consistency of your business data.
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This Microsoft SQL Server Training is designed to train IT professionals and developers how and when to move their database solutions to the cloud. The name really says it all, it's how to migrate to the cloud on your terms and have the ability to scale on demand, not just scale up but to scale down as your business and marketing conditions dictate. The 3 modules of this course will teach you:- Virtualization in the Private Cloud (two parts)- Beyond the Hype - Hybrid Solutions for On-Premise and In-Cloud Database Applications You will learn how to Microsoft SQL Server fits into your organization's virtualization strategy and how you can have the best of on-premise and cloud-based solutions.
Having a comprehensive database solution is important to any organization but being able to report out on the data and visualize it in ways that provide breakthrough insights is even better. This Microsoft SQL server training course is designed for IT professionals understand how to implement the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 that will enable them to provide insightful and visual reports. The 9 modules of this Microsoft SQL training course will teach you:
- Introduce you to Self-Service Alerting - What's new in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and PowerPivot - How to use Power View for insightful visual reports - How to build great Business Intelligence Semantic Models for Power View - Deploying and managing PowerPivot in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for SharePoint - A Deeper understanding of PowerPivot in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - How to install and configure Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration mode - An overview of Reporting Services in Microsoft SQL Azure - What's new Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services
You will learn how to gain valuable insights from the reports that you create, how to create interactive visual reports and presentations as well as how to move on-premise reports to the cloud using SQL Azure Reporting tools.
This course provides IT Professionals and business decision makers with a comprehensive look at the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server as they pertain to creating reliable, secure and robust Mission Critical applications. The 9 modules of this course will teach you:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Security enhancements - Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design Patterns, Architectures and Best Practices using AlwaysOn - T-SQL Cookbook - Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enhancements - Mission Critical application testing with Distributed Replay - AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances and other High Availability enhancements - Improve Application Availability Using AlwaysOn - A Deep Dive Into Availability Groups - AlwaysOn - Active Secondary Part 1 - Readable Secondary - AlwaysOn - Active Secondary Part 2 - Enabling Backup On Secondary Replicas - Using The Power Of Extended Events For Tracing And Troubleshooting
You will learn how Microsoft SQL Server can give you confidence to build mission-critical applications that are reliable and secure.
The Microsoft Solution Accelerators (SAs) are free out-of-band tools and utilities which can be downloaded to enhance existing Microsoft technologies. This Microsoft private cloud course provides an overview of six of the most common SAs used in datacenters, highly virtualized environments and private clouds. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) will analyze and help configure the environment. The SCVMM Self-Service Portal (SSP) and Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) provide enhanced management for Hyper-V virtual machines. The Security & Compliance Manger (SCM) and Data Classification Toolkit (DCT) help maintain a healthy and secure environment. By the end of this course you will have a new set of tools you can utilize to plan, deploy, manage and secure your virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud infrastructure.
This course focuses on proving an overview of the Microsoft cloud technologies and how using these technologies can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. Module 2 will provide an infrastructure overview and how to use System Center 2012 to provision a private cloud. We will examine the set of tools available to you to configure and deploy infrastructure components; enabling you to deliver IT as a Service. The third module will provide an overview of the tools in System Center 2012 used to manage the underlying resources to achieve predictable application service delivery, and how to keep your applications running healthy by improving performance and monitoring.
In this course, we will discuss how the System Center 2012 Orchestrator and Service Manager components enable you to deploy, automate, update, and manage service offerings within your private cloud. Microsoft's approach to self-service delivery will be discussed, and how System Center responds to end-user service requests. We will cover methods to challenging operational issues, and how using Orchestrator and Service Manager can allow the IT Pro to automate, standardize and offer self-service IT processes in the private cloud.
This module will help you discover the benefits of this useful new software assurance benefit from Microsoft. We will explain the benefits of Advisor and how it can be used to optimize your installations of Windows Server, and Server Workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint. You will also understand Advisor's high-level architecture for optimizing data security, privacy, and control, all delivered through a user-friendly cloud service. Additionally, we will show how to use the Advisor service to proactively avoid problems, resolve issues faster, and reduce downtime. We will show you how to make the most use out of this tool to help you better manage your data center and cloud infrastructure.
This course will provide an overview of System Center 2012 Licensing programs. We will look at these programs in the context of Microsoft private cloud solutions, and how the combination of the Windows Server 2008 operating system and System Center enables you to obtain the most cost effective licensing you need for your private cloud. As System Center 2012 is being delivered as an integrated private cloud management solution, we will analyze the server management license transition programs for existing System Center users. Further, we will discuss specific Microsoft licensing programs such as the Enrollment for Core Infrastructure, and how licensing for private cloud solutions maximizes your private cloud value while simplifying purchasing.
This course will outline how you can use System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager to protect your private cloud. You will learn how to use new capabilities to recover your infrastructure due to failures in the datacenter. We will demonstrate how DPM can be used to back-up and recover several common Microsoft server products, and subsequently how using DPM can provide increased service levels in your environment. Additionally, we will show how DPM works with other System Center products including Orchestrator, Operations Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager to ensure high availability of your cloud environment.
This presentation provides an introduction to System Center 2012 and the Microsoft private cloud solution. You will see how System Center 2012 brings together data center management and the benefits of private cloud services in a single product. We will show how using this product will enable your business to respond better to challenges and opportunities by having a more agile and responsive IT resource. In addition, we will discuss Microsoft's approach to the private cloud, and provide an overview of the key System Center 2012 components that are a part of this vision. Each of the components will be introduced and we will discuss how each will help you drive higher value from your existing IT assets.
Learn how Microsoft can help you responsibly enable this vision to "Consumerize the IT" inside your company, by safely enabling employees to work and communicate anywhere, anytime, on a device of their choice. The first overview module is designed to paint the entire picture at a 200 level and then the remaining modules are designed to give you 300 level knowledge for specific scenarios across the various products which relate to Consumerization of IT (i.e. how to configure MDM in SCCM 2012). This course is NOT designed to make you an expert in each product all-up after the base is installed (i.e. you won't know how to architect, design, or deploy "Product X").
Instructors | Introducing Bill Anderson a Principle Program Manager at Microsoft with over 20 years of experience in the system management space, and David Tesar a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft with 10 years of experience in the field with a focus on security products.
Associated Certification(s) | MCSA: Windows Server 2012Associated Course(s) | Course 20410B: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012; Course 10324: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Desktop Virtualization
This course introduces server virtualization features and capabilities within Windows Server 2012 that enable customers to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization and make the optimum use of server hardware investment. These features include:
- Hyper-V Replica, providing replication of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) between two locations for business continuity and failure recovery.- Live Migration and the changes in Windows Server 2012 to enable different migration scenarios.- The ability to run larger VMs on physical hosts.
After completing this Windows Server Virtualization course—through a series of videos, virtual labs, and whitepapers—you will have a detailed understanding of how Windows Server 2012 goes beyond virtualization technology to provide a complete platform for building a private cloud.
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This Windows Server 2012 Training is designed to provide you with the key details of Windows Server 2012. The seven modules in this course, through video and whitepaper, provide details of the new capabilities, features, and solutions built into the product. With so many new features to cover, this course is designed to be the introduction to Windows Server 2012. After completing this course, you will be ready to dive deeper into Windows Server 2012 through additional courses in Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) dedicated to each topic introduced in this "Technical Overview."
Keep your users safe and protect your infrastructure by using advanced Windows 8 technologies like AppLocker, BitLocker, and Windows Firewall. In this course, you will explore the security and privacy options in Windows 8 and learn how to manage a secure Windows 8 environment.
Use proven best practices and the free tools in the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit to streamline your deployment in any size organization. In this course, you will receive guidance and tools to help you prepare to deploy Windows 8.
Windows 8 delivers experiences users want, offers new possibilities for mobile productivity, and provides IT with a more secure, easy-to-manage infrastructure. In this Windows 8 course, you will find out what's new in Windows 8 and get an overview of key features for IT professionals.


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"I've heard from families that have moved into the neighborhood that they've been told they shouldn't even look at Teller," says Benson, a member of the school's Collaborative Decision Making committee (CDM). "We've literally had people who haven't even visited Teller decide to enroll their kids elsewhere. I don't know what's behind its reputation, because no one can ever tell us what, specifically, they've been told about Teller. It's all so vague."
The bad rap dates back more than a decade, however, to when there were two elementary schools in the Congress Park neighborhood: Teller, at 1150 Garfield Street, which served the lower-income families on the eastern side, and Stevens, at 12th Avenue and Columbine Street, which served the western, more affluent side of the neighborhood.
Stevens closed in the early 1990s because of low enrollment, but instead of being flooded with former Stevens students, Teller's population declined dramatically from 349 in the 1995-96 school year to 281 today. The reason for the drop is a Colorado policy that allows parents to enroll their children in schools outside their neighborhoods, a choice that parents in Congress Park have been making.
DPS knows of at least 53 kids in the Teller attendance area who go to other Denver public schools, including Bromwell, Palmer and Steck.
Of the six families with elementary-aged kids on Dave Meggitt's block, his is the only one with children who attend Teller. The rest are spread out between Park Hill Elementary, Bromwell Elementary, Stanley British Primary, a private school in Park Hill, and Good Shepherd, a Catholic school in Congress Park. None of these is as racially and economically diverse as Teller, a factor Meggitt thinks may be behind the flight from the school.
Almost 30 percent of Teller students are Hispanic, 30 percent are black, 37 percent are white and the rest are Asian and American Indian; 12 percent are native Spanish speakers, and 68 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. This makes Teller representative of the entire Denver school district, where 53 percent of the students are Hispanic, 22 percent are white, 20 percent are black, 23 percent are native Spanish speakers and 69 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. By comparison, Bromwell, which is recognized as one of the best public elementary schools in Denver and is one of the most sought-after, is 86 percent white; only 1 percent of the students there speak Spanish, and just 8 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.
"I like Teller because it's racially diverse. I want my kids to grow up in the real world," Meggitt says. "I think a lot of parents feel their kids will get a better education somewhere else, but I beg to differ. I get really defensive when people compare us to Bromwell."
But that is exactly what is happening, say some parents. To compete with Bromwell and other schools that are luring students out of the neighborhood, parents and staff are proposing changing the school's name to Congress Park Elementary.
"Park Hill Elementary has a lot of students from our neighborhood. People love living in Park Hill, and they feel tied to the school of the same name," says Julie Lang, a Teller parent and chairwoman of the school's CDM. "And everyone in Congress Park loves to live in Congress Park, so why not call the neighborhood school Congress Park Elementary?"
The idea first came up at a CDM meeting last fall but wasn't floated publicly until a couple of weeks ago, when the school approached Congress Park's neighborhood association. CDM members are now accepting feedback from neighbors but won't approach the Denver Board of Education unless the majority of the community supports the name change.
Teller principal Karti Lyons says the marketing effort is necessary because parents have so many choices of where to send their kids. "Teachers are basically ambassadors to the school," she explains. "My struggle is to get the word out that Teller is a great school with a veteran staff." (Almost 80 percent of the teachers at Teller have been there more than eleven years, compared to 47 percent district-wide.)
Aside from changing the name, the staff at Teller also hopes to offer a full-day, tuition-based kindergarten next year as a way to make it more attractive to local parents. "One of the problems in Congress Park is that we have no daycare that feeds into the elementary school, like in Park Hill," Lang explains. The school will charge $250 a month for the service, but it needs to enroll twenty children by May 1 to be able to hire a teacher. The school may also add Spanish instruction at the kindergarten level and eventually add Spanish as an after-school program for all students.
Parents say Teller has made huge improvements to its academic offerings and that student discipline problems -- fights and the use of foul language on the playground -- that may have contributed to the school's poor reputation have declined. About four years ago, Teller started a peer-mediation program in which teachers train students how to resolve problems on the playground; this year, 25 fourth- and fifth-graders have volunteered to mediate disputes during lunchtime. Lyons says playground problems have been reduced by 90 percent since the program began.


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa City man is appealing his life sentence for the role he played in the killing an Iowa City landlord nearly four years ago.
22-year-old Justin Marshall filed an appeal this week with the Iowa Supreme Court.
A jury convicted Marshall in February of first-degree aiding and abetting in a murder for the October 2009 shooting death of 64-year-old John Versypt, of Cordova, Ill.
Police say Versypt was checking on his properties when he was shot in the head during an attempted robbery. Marshall and two other men were arrested.
At his sentencing last month, Marshall declared in the courtroom that he had been wrongly convicted.
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Payton doesn't always hit a home run, even if she does have a remarkably high batting average. I say this because the current show, PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations, is not, in truth, one of her greatest hits. Although, to be absolutely fair, it's not a miss either.
My initial reaction to the show was pretty negative. When the young woman behind the information desk asked me what I thought of it, I jokingly asked for my money back. But my early appraisal of the show has softened through repeated viewings. On my first run-through, I thought it fell flat. On the second round, I noticed that even if there were some really terrible things in the show, most everything else was good -- some of it very good. During my last turn, it occurred to me that the show looked tight as a whole, even taking into account those dreadful pieces that were on display.
"The idea was to put together an exhibition about something I was seeing in the art world: artists mining the poisonous, ecstatic and health-related sides of pharmaceutical substances," Payton says. "I wanted to put that particular topic out there right now, because it was new and because it would be controversial."
I have to take issue with this second point. PILLish is absolutely not controversial, but that's not Payton's fault. It's hard, if not impossible, to elicit controversy with fine art these days, and the crowd that stops by the MCA is, I dare say, particularly difficult to outrage -- especially when the topic is drugs.
Casting a wide net, Payton chose pieces in which drugs were used as either ad hoc art materials or as narrative content. Organizing an exhibit that surveys international currents by using the work of famous artists is a difficult proposition for a small place with a tight budget like MCA. Shipping and insurance costs are high, and work of the hottest artists is often in short supply, if not completely inaccessible, so Payton was able to get only a few major artists, who are represented only by minor works.
When I mentioned to Payton that there were not many important things in the show, she immediately brought up Larry Clark's photos. Clark's multi-part "Kids Portfolio," a series of color photos depicting teenagers doing drugs and having sex, does, I have to admit, qualify as a major work by a major artist. And it might even be one of the few things in PILLish that could actually qualify as being genuinely controversial, because the subjects are underage.
But making my point is Fred Tomaselli's "Metalectual," because it's one of the artist's Iris prints and not one of his famous relief sculptures made of wood and pills and capsules. The print, in which skeins of color made from little pill shapes spiral across a black field, is very nice, though very modest in size. Larger and consequently more impressive is Damien Hirst's "Tetrahydrocannabinol," a color etching of dots that is part of his famous series in which dots stand in for pills. In this piece, Hirst laid out circles meant to express the chemical makeup of the substance that gives marijuana its hit.
More like the Clarks, there's another group of photos that qualify as being important works by an important artist: Nan Goldin's C-prints, which record her stay in a drug rehabilitation center in London. The photos are out of focus and hung so that they wrap around a corner in the main space. The one of the Christmas tree at the Priory, a facility that treats heroin addicts, is particularly poignant.
The exhibit includes a lot of photos and photo-based pieces, including digital prints. In addition to the Clarks and the Goldins, there are those by Richard Billingham, Glenn Brown, Thomas Ruff and Albert Chong. Technically, the video installation "The Pits," by David Critchley and Dr. Elizabeth Lee, is also photo-based, but the less said about that self-indulgent effort, the better. (Too bad Payton thought to devote an entire gallery to this nonsense.)
There are few sculptures and no paintings worth mentioning in PILLish, but there are two remarkable wall hangings made of found materials by Tom Fruin, a New York artist who is not as famous as most in this show. In "Vial Piece," Fruin sewed and tied together, among other things, the little plastic envelopes and vials that crack cocaine is sold in, gathering the material for the work on the streets of his neighborhood. The other hanging is similar in concept and appearance. In addition to being beautiful, the two Fruins use the illegal drug culture as a way to explicate the current urban environment.


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on June 4, 2009If you've seen any of Hulu.com's ads starring Alec Baldwin or Seth MacFarlane as aliens, you've heard that the company's stated goal is to destroy the world. In reality, its aim is to dominate the quickly merging TV-Internet landscape, and with the launch of a new desktop application, it's gotten that much closer.
The app, launched last week in beta, brings some new features to online viewing that make it feel more like a traditional TV experience especially with a computer hooked up to your big-screen. It has a new interface that's as smooth as scrolling through TV listings. But more importantly, your computer's remote control can now be used for online viewing, meaning no more getting off the couch to flip through clips to see how Conan did against Letterman in the new late-night battle. I had never even used my laptop remote, but the moment I realized what this application was capable of, it was off to buy batteries (apparently unused batteries do die).
The Hulu desktop application is not perfect it has many of the same limitations as Hulu.com. There's no Seinfeld collection, and episodes do expire (my summer plan of watching Friday Night Lights was dashed over the weekend). And it is not for the faint of memory your old college laptop probably won't be able to run the desktop application.
Still, if being forced to watch Jon and Kate laugh all the way to the bank this summer isn't your idea of quality television, Hulu's got your back. Now if only we convince the alien overlords to keep it free...
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Just made this last night to eat this morning, turned out amazingly! I served mine with fresh raspberries and a little 0% fat yoghurt and the husband had raspberries with dates and almonds. Brought us around to muesli as a more regular breakfast now!
If you've never eaten muesli the Swiss way - soaked in freshly squeezed orange juice and dished up with grated apple and yoghurt - then you've never really given it a chance. It makes a much more exciting breakfast than muesli with just a slosh of milk.
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- * 200g porridge oats
- * 150g mixed dried fruit of your choice, such as raisins, sultanas, dried apricots, dates, prunes
- * 100g nuts of your choice, lightly toasted if you have time
- * 100g wheat flakes (optional)
- * 3-4 tbsp seeds, such as pumpkin, sunflower, sesame or flax (optional)
- To serve (for 1)
- * 1 crisp eating apple
- * Juice of 1-2 oranges (or a little milk, if you prefer)
- * Sugar or honey
- * Plain yoghurt
1. To make the muesli, put the oats in a bowl. Roughly chop larger dried fruits, such as apricots, dates and prunes. Leave the nuts whole, or chop them roughly if you prefer. Add the fruit and nuts to the oats, together with the wheat flakes and seeds if using, and stir to combine. Tip into an airtight container, seal and store in a cool, dark place until required.
2. For a serving of muesli, put about 50g of the muesli mix into a bowl. Coarsely grate or finely chop the apple (including the skin) and add this to the muesli. Squeeze the orange(s) and add the juice to the bowl (or use milk, if you like). Stir to blend everything evenly and leave to soak for about 10 minutes. Finally, sprinkle over just a little sugar or trickle over some honey, add a good dollop of yoghurt and serve.
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