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ISBE Hot Topics - Spring 2014
Standards & Assessments Updates
Illinois schools are implementing a number of changes related to learning standards and state assessments to ensure all students are prepared to succeed in college and careers. These current and pending initiatives include:
- Common Core Learning Standards Implementation — Districts are implementing the new more rigorous Illinois Learning standards, incorporating the Common Core, and seeing the benefits of engaged learning and improved understanding of core concepts.
- Raised cut scores — the 2013 ISAT scores offer a better picture than previous scores of how well students are prepared for college and career and pave the way for new testing.
- New Report Card — Along with new standards and a new emphasis on growth, the state's School Report Card debuts October 31, 2013 with a new streamlined look and more information about each school to help drive community discussions and school improvement.
- 5Essentials Survey— Teacher and student survey generates feedback on school learning conditions and climate.
- New Growth Model Using Value Tables — The State is adding an assessment metric, a Value Tables Growth Model, to show how much schools have improved from one year to the next.
- New Online Assessments (PARCC)— Set to debut in 2014-15, this new testing system will better measure progress and be 100 percent aligned to the Common Core standards.
About College and Career Readiness
In today's economy, students need to pursue postsecondary education if they wish to lead meaningful and rewarding careers. Research shows that as a person continues on with education, her average annual income increases and the likelihood of unemployment decreases.
As it stands now, however, too many students fail to enroll in postsecondary education and graduate with a degree in a timely manner. For every 100 Illinois students that enter the ninth grade, only 42 will immediately begin college and 20 will finish their degree within 150 percent of the program time (i.e., six years for a Bachelor's degree and three years for an Associate's degree). Once enrolled in a postsecondary program, many students require remediation to meet the demands of college coursework.
College and Career readiness impacts the state's economy as well: thousands of positions go unfilled as employers struggle to find qualified applicants. ISBE is addressing the need for better college and career preparation through a number of initiatives. Improved college and career readiness within Illinois' elementary and high schools will pave the way for student success in higher education, lead to increased economic opportunity for students, and support the state's economy as a more educated and skilled workforce becomes available.
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Illinois joined more than 40 states in a collaborative effort to raise learning standards and improve college and career readiness for all students, regardless of where they live. The new Common Core State Standards establish clear expectations for what students should learn in English language arts and mathematics at each grade level. The standards are high, clear, and uniform to ensure that students are prepared for success in college and the workforce.
By emphasizing depth over breadth, the Common Core ensures that students have comprehensive understanding of key concepts. Illinois adopted the Common Core in 2010 and teachers and administrators across the state are fully implementing the new standards during the 2013-14 school year. Many schools have already begun to incorporate elements of the new learning standards into their curricula. The Common Core determines what educators should teach, not how they should teach. Teachers will continue to have the freedom to tailor lesson plans to the individual needs of their students. The Common Core's higher standards and emphasis on applying knowledge to real-world situations will better prepare Illinois students for the challenges facing them after high school graduation.
Click here to visit the ISBE New Illinois Assessments based on the Common Core page.
Common Core Fact Sheets
- CCSS Implementation Fact Sheet Word Version
- CCSS ELA Standards Fact Sheet Word Version
- CCSS Math Standards Fact Sheet Word Version
Common Core Support Information
- Building the Machine Video Clarification Papers:
Common Core FAQs
Common Core Presentations and Webinars
In order to align state assessments with the more challenging standards of the Common Core, ISBE raised the performance level cut scores of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in January 2013. The State Board, working with an expert advisory committee, looked at the necessary college and career readiness scores of 11th-graders and then set scores for each elementary grade level accordingly. In short, it worked back from the high school readiness scores and set grade-level appropriate scores to ensure that elementary students will be on track for college and career readiness. This means that students will be measured against college and career readiness benchmarks earlier – starting in third grade – to ensure they're prepared to succeed in high school and beyond rather than waiting for the 11th grade Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE) to yield this information. As expected, the higher performance levels mean that fewer students met or exceeded standards on the ISAT this year.
The decline in test scores is not a reflection on student capability or teacher performance, but rather a result of implementing more rigorous learning standards under the Common Core and raising the performance level cut scores. During the 2014-15 school year, ISBE will replace the ISAT with a new assessment that is fully aligned with the Common Core.
Raised Cut Scores Fact Sheets
Raised Cut Scores FAQs
ISBE released a new interactive School Report Card on October 31, 2013. The redesigned Report Card more accurately reflects a school's academic performance, climate, and learning conditions through information that is accessible to parents, educators and policymakers. It now includes information about a school's extracurricular activities, special programs, advanced coursework, honors and awards.
Watch the Video! (13:31)
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By measuring student growth over time instead of only reporting a snapshot-in-time score from an annual standardized test, the latest report card provides data that reflect how much schools are helping students improve academically. The redesigned report card makes information about school performance and improvement more accessible, offering educators, students and their families and local community members the opportunity to
help improve outcomes.
Click here to visit the new Illinois Report Card Website
Click here to view a short video about the new Illinois School Report Card (1:39)
Click here to view an informative video about the new Illinois School Report Card (13:31)
New Illinois Report Card Fact Sheets
New Illinois Report Card FAQs
New Illinois Report Card Communication Documents
At-a-Glance Report Card Samples
Sample Documents and Letters
Zip File of All Report Card Communication Documents
The Illinois 5Essentials Survey is a diagnostic tool that equips schools with fine-grained data on five leading indicators of school environment:
- Effective Leaders
- Collaborative Teachers
- Involved Families
- Supportive Environment
- Ambitious Instruction
The survey was administered to teachers and 6th through 12th grade students in Spring 2014 in schools that did not offer the survey last year and in Race to the Top School Districts.
Research has shown that schools strong in three to five of the Essentials were 10 times more likely to improve student learning than schools weak in three to five of the Essentials. Those differences remained true even after controlling for student and school characteristics, including poverty, race, gender and neighborhood characteristics. Strength on components within the Essentials also correlated with increased teacher retention, student attendance, college enrollment and high school graduation.
In 2012-13, the inaugural year of implementing the 5Essentials Survey across the state of Illinois, 87 percent of all public schools in the state met the required 50 percent participation threshold to receive survey results. More than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible students across Illinois took part in the survey.
The work in 2013 helped Illinois establish a statewide benchmark, or baseline, for the 5Essentials Survey that will allow Illinois schools to track their year-to-year progress. The 2013 administration also provided a valuable opportunity to incorporate educator feedback into the 5Essentials survey going forward.
The State Board reviewed the Illinois 5Essentials Survey process and has implemented some improvements, including increased security measures. The agency worked with educators across the state to review all survey questions and ensure they were applicable to all parts of our large and diverse state.
Each school will receive a 5Essentials Report, offering an analysis of results for each of the five indicators or "Essentials," and guidance for improvement. Results will be shared publicly upon the release of the State School Report Cards in late October 2014. The 5Essential Reports are part of ISBE's commitment to work transparently and collaboratively towards preparing every student in the state with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in college and careers in the 21st century. The 2014 survey window is closed.
2014 Illinois 5Essentials Rostered Survey Report
Click here for more information.
5Essentials Fact Sheet (3/14)
5Essentials Survey FAQs (3/14)Top
To complement its initiatives promoting college and career readiness, ISBE is also implementing the Value Table, a new metric to gauge student and school performance over time. The Value Table is a growth model that tracks student progress over a period of two years to allow schools to see the change in student achievement, rather than a snapshot-in-time of student achievement.
The Value Table has four performance categories and considers student growth to be movement from a lower proficiency level to a higher proficiency level. Improving and faster-paced progress earns higher scores, while worsening or slower-paced progress earns lower scores. Students who consistently meet or exceed standards earn additional points for maintaining excellence. The Value Table contextualizes the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) performance targets set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and provides educators with an effective measure of student progress.
Click here to visit the Balanced Assessment page.
New Growth Model Using Value Tables Fact Sheets
New Growth Model Using Value Tables FAQs
New Growth Model Webinars and Presentations
- Measuring Student Growth Presentation and Draft SLO Templates (2014)
- Student Growth Training Module Series (2014)
- Using a Value Table to Determine School and District Growth Webinar- November 25, 2013 (31:18)
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Measuring Student Growth - October 24, 2013
- LUDA Fall Conference - Student Assessment Update Presentation - October 3, 2013
- Implementation of Value Tables as a Growth Metric Webinar- September 5, 2013 (33:42)
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Growth Model Value Table
- Score Ranges for Value Table
Illinois is among more than a dozen other states working together to create new assessments specifically aligned with the Common Core learning standards as part of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). These new online assessments in English language arts and mathematics place a greater emphasis on constructed response questions and more closely resemble the work that students typically do in the classroom.
Schools will administer the PARCC assessment multiple times throughout the year so that teachers can identify problem areas for students and make more informed decisions about instruction. The new assessments will replace the ISAT and make their debut in time for the 2014-15 school year.
PARCC Assessment Fact Sheets
PARCC Field Testing Fact Sheets
PARCC Assessment FAQs
Other Documents
- Letter from State Superintendent Koch to Parents/Guardians
- Understanding the PARCC Field Tests
- Parents' Guide to New Assessment in Illinois
- Parent Resources
- List of Participating Districts and Schools in the 2014 PARCC Field Test (3/17/14)
Click here to access PARCC Assessment Webinars and Presentations
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Tommy Morrison, the former heavyweight champion who stood toe-to-toe with Lennox Lewis and George Foreman and later tested positive for HIV, died Monday. He was 44.
Morrison died Sunday night at a Nebraska hospital, said Tony Holden, his longtime promoter and close friend. The family would not disclose the cause of death.
In 1993, Morrison beat Foreman to win the WBO heavyweight title, only to lose it to unheralded Michael Bentt in a defeat that scuttled a showdown with Lewis. Morrison would fight Lewis a couple of years later, getting knocked out in the sixth round in Atlantic City, N.J.
Morrison, nicknamed The Duke, never reached the status of such contemporaries as Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, but it was surely a full career.
He was a prodigious puncher whose bid to fight in the 1988 Seoul Olympics ended at the hands of Ray Mercer, who later dealt Morrison his first professional loss. He had a starring role in Rocky V alongside Sylvester Stallone. And perhaps most memorably, Morrison tested positive for HIV when the virus still carried a significant stigma, only to declare later the test was false.
Along with numerous legal issues, including a prison sentence that stemmed from weapons and drunk driving, Morrisons name became attached to headlines that would eventually overshadow his work in the ring.


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HPS908 - Psychological Intervention 2
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1 x 3 hour class and 1 x 1 hour seminar per week
Building on HPS977, Psychological Intervention 1, this is both a theoretical and practical unit that provides the opportunity for students to evaluate the evidence base for, and to develop skills in the delivery of a range of therapies to individuals across the lifespan. At the commencement of the unit, students will access materials related to the evaluation of therapy efficacy and effectiveness, in line with the scientist-practitioner approach, Class topics include therapies to address clinical problems in adults and adolescents, such as complex anxiety disorders, and therapies for issues commonly encountered in children, such as ADHD, child depression, school refusal and other behavioural problems. In addition, adaptation of therapy interventions for people with intellectual disabilities and older adults will be covered.
Many of the therapies studied are based on a cognitive behavioural framework, in line with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. A major focus will be on the development of therapy skills through the use of instructional observation, simulated therapy sessions and role-play, feedback and discussions. Each four hour session will commence with a seminar on the topic linking theory and research to therapy techniques. This will be followed by a practical session in which students will observe a role play of a therapy session demonstrating an intervention from the previous week. These role plays will be presented by students rotating in the roles of therapist and client.
Assessment task 1: Assignment (3000 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Role-play presentation 15%
Assessment task 3: OSCE* 45%
*Note: The OSCE is a hurdle requirement, thus students must achieve a pass grade in order to pass the unit.
Prescribed texts
Barlow, D.H. (ed) (2014). Clinical handbook of psychological disorders: A step-by-step treatment manual (5th ed.). New York: The Guilford Press
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If you've just added a URL to your site, or a page has significantly changed since the last time it was crawled, you can ask Google to crawl it.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Phillip Willms and friends measure a great hammerhead shark before releasing it during the 2011 Sharkathon tournament.
COURTESY PHOTO RUSSELL WEIR Surf anglers come from all over Texas and beyond in their beach vehicles loaded with stout rods and expensive reels for a shot at big sharks and Sharkathon glory.
COURTESY PHOTO RUSSELL WEIR A shark swims away in the surf after being released by a Sharkathon contestant.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Joseph Prince measures a bull shark during the 2012 Sharkathon event on Padre Island National Seashore. The fish was released alive.
COURTESY PHOTO RUSSELL WEIR This year 4,000 anglers vied for 450 shark spots in the 10th annual Sharkathon surf-fishing tournament scheduled for Oct. 25-27.
COURTESY PHOTO RUSSELL WEIR Bob Underbrink releases a tagged bull shark during a Sharkathon tournament. Sharkathon anglers tag sharks year round for the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
COURTESY PHOTO RUSSELL WEIR Bob Underbrink drags a bull shark back into the surf for release during a Sharkathon tournament.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Amy DeVilbiss measures a blacktip shark during the 2012 Sharkathon nonprofit surf-fishing tournament.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Sharkathon headquarters is a busy and crowded happening each October when contestants learn who won the big payouts.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Jason Gutierrez measures the wingspan of his stingray during last year's Sharkathon.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Duke Washmon and friends prepare to release a big tarpon during the 2009 Sharkathon surf-fishing contest and fundraiser.


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Poll workers at Hanahan High School reported a slow turnout Tuesday morning for Hanahan's Precinct 3. There were never more than three people in line. The special primary election was held Tuesday for the Congressional District 1 seat left vacant by Tim Scott, who became a U.S. Senator on Jan. 3 following Jim DeMint's resignation. For all of the results, see ourgazette.com. This is the first election in which state law requires voters to show a picture ID in order to vote. As of midday there had been no problems with voters coming to Hanahan High School, according to poll worker Louise Fowler. Fowler said voters simply show their ID and no longer need to bring a voter registration card because the voters' information can be pulled up on a poll computer. "I know who you are but I still need to see your ID," poll worker Marilyn Redmond said to a voter she appeared to know from the community. Redmond said she suspects some voters may have driven by the school, which was in session, and seen the full parking lot and cars parked on the grass and decided to not vote, or stop by later. Redmond said she expected more people to show up near the end of the workday or after school was dismissed. Berkeley County School District Public Information Officer Susan Haire said the poll locations are trying to be kept as separated from classrooms as possible. She said due to increased traffic the district is encouraging the public to be aware of the bell schedule. For future reference, the schedule is available at the district's website www.berkeley.k12.sc.us. "We've worked closely with election officials to make sure polling locations are very clearly labeled," Haire said. "Normally it happens on days when the schools are closed. Because this is happening on the first day of PASS (Palmetto Assessment of State Standards) testing it's adding a layer we don't usually have. "We've been careful to communicate directly with our parents to remind them it is a voting day and it is PASS testing. We're encouraging them to allot extra time when they're bringing their child to school."
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Art Writing
Course No. ACD303 Credits: 3.0
How do we describe visual works of art in words? The aim of this course is to introduce some models of art writing, discuss the theory of this important activity, and then get the students to practice that activity by writing about the art of some CIA senior painters. We begin with an historical study of the How do we describe visual works of art in words? The aim of this course is to introduce some models of art writing, discuss the theory of this important activity, and then get the students to practice that activity by writing about the art of some CIA senior painters. We begin with an historical study of the practice of art writing. Then we focus on the theories of art writing developed by some influential contemporary art critics. Finally, we arrange for these CIA painters to visit the class, talk about their art, and then make appointments to talk with students in the class. Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.expand collapse
Art, Craft, Design History Emphasis: Senior Research Paper
Course No. ACD 415 Credits: 3.0
Research paper required of seniors pursuing the Visual Culture Emphasis. Not open as an elective. Offered spring. Pass/fail.
Artist as Author
Course No. ACD482X.1 Credits: 0.0
This course will investigate the differing practices and modes of thought that intersect the practice of the Artist. To do this the course will track the analogous discourse concerning authorship that begins with the advent of Modernism and contributes significantly to the development ofÊ Post-Modernist - Thought.Ê By constructing a genealogy of those theorist who have most significantlyÊ addressed the questionÊ What is an Author,Ê this question will not only permit students to build a model of authorship for themselves, but also come to an understanding that discourses are tran-historical and emerge from one generation addressing the concerns of another.ÊÊ This will permit them an insight into the historical development of theory, practice and thou htÊ how theseÊ produce differing though not necessarily opposing stances that both form and objectify our self-conception ( subjectivity). Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.expand collapse
Artist's Book Now: Artist's Book as Image
Course No. PRI 231-331-431 Credits: 3.0
This studio course focuses on boundaries of book form, emphasis on image and concept, and selection of appropriate form [output] to content. Students will be encouraged to view the book as a conceptual space. Deeper development of sequencing and narrative in traditional and nontraditional formats. Forms covered on individual project basis as dictated by idea/concept for appropriate output/manifestation. Considerations include sculptural, installation, digital output, etc. Examples and contemporary developments regarding the evolution of the artist book are examined through texts, through the use of our library's artist book collection, in discussion, and during critiques. Notes: This course is open to all, and fulfills an introductory, intermediate and advanced level elective course.
Artist's Book: Narrative + Form
Course No. PRI 232-332-432 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Jennifer Craun
This studio course is for students interested in producing sequentially developed imagery via linear book structures. Historical examples and contemporary developments regarding the evolution of the artist book are examined through texts, through the use of our library's artist book collection, in discussion, and during critiques. Due to technological advancements over the last century artists now have a variety of media with which to explore output of book projects. The class will expose students to the nature and potential of different book structures as well as a variety of materials. The course will heighten the student's ability to utilize the interaction of sequenced content -- the act of turning pages-- to express the continuity of an idea flowing through a continuum. Students realize the potential of narrative, sequence, and pacing, together with the importance of combining word and image. Note: Open Elective. Required for Fourth Year Print Majors.
Arts Journalism
Course No. LLC 205WX Credits: 3.0
In this elective course, students will study various forms and stages of writing about art for publication. In addition to reading and discussing effective examples of published writings on art, students will produce a total of 20 pages of writing throughout the semester in the form of reviews, interviews, profiles, and feature stories. Students will alternately function as writers and editors as they produce written work that is expressly conceived and shaped for publication. Through reading and writing assignments, discussions, and in-class exercises, students will gain a well-rounded knowledge of arts journalism from multiple vantage points: as readers, writers, and editors. Students will gain experience in producing finished articles that can be published online through various websites and blogs, eventually including CIA's own online journal. As a Sophomore writing elective, this course will fulfill LLC 104 requirement and also serve as a valuable component of CIA's new writing concentration. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution requirement. Creative Writing Concentration course.
Asian Art Survey
Course No. ACD 372 Credits: 3.0
This course serves as a "survey" or a window for the art of multiple cultures. This lecture/exercise/discussion-style course explores the art and visual culture of Asia, focusing on India, Japan and China. Political, religious, social, and visual aspects of art will be stressed in class. In order to understand the art and civilization of these three countries, we will look at art objects ranging from ancient archaeological finds, medieval architecture to modern and contemporary art. Subjects such as women artists, performing arts and animation will also be discussed in this course. The content of this course will be generally divided into pre-Modern, Modern, and Contemporary eras in which art and visual culture will be discussed with geographic perspectives. As the semester progresses, some additional readings and films may be assigned. Each student is encouraged to find examples learned in the course and apply them to his/her intellectual development. Visual Culture Emphasis course.
Autobiographical Narrative in African Literature
Course No. LLC 207W Credits: 3.0
Faculty Olatubosun Ogunsanwo
This course consists of six first-person accounts, which highlight the socio-historical and psychological significance of the autobiographical narrative in the black experience. The autobiographical mode is one of the predominant forms of literary expression in black literature, dating back to the "slave narrative" of the eighteenth century, just as it is in the hands of African artists a prominent literary form that is characterized by its predominantly collective and communal narrative voice. The course will focus on the interface between individual life-story and collective (social) history. It will also consider in the postmodernist sense the thin line between fiction and history (art and life), while exploring individual consciousness as an art of rhetorical self-definition and subjectivity. The last two books include two generational responses to womanist issues; and both of them problematize the autobiographical art-form. There are six videos primarily to provide socio-historical background to the course. The videos, as visual texts, are also meant to create a critical interface with the 6 literary socio-constructs, with a view to stimulating your deep insights into the course. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution requirement. Creative Writing Concentration course.
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Nintendo will sell its new Wii U game in two versions, starting at $300, beginning on Nov. 18 in the United States. The company made the announcement a few minutes ago at a news conference in New York, answering the biggest remaining question about its new console.
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By Tom Konecny, Toledo Free Press Staff Writer
The final push is on for residents to participate in Toledo's online survey, which will provide direction for the five-year CONPLAN (Consolidated Plan). The survey began June 2 and remains open until July 2. It will help shape the 2015-20 federal funds the city receives through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The survey is conducted through the City's Department of Neighborhoods to identify needs for the next five years, and is open to anyone, even nonresidents who are knowledgeable about the issues facing Toledo.
"This is really the cookbook of what you want to do," said Tom Kroma, director of the Department of Neighborhoods. "I want to have a tuned cookbook and dial in on the plan with the dollars that we have. The block grant continues to decline so we need to make the best value of those dollars and get the best outcome."
This is the first time the survey is being conducted online. Feedback has not only been strong – over 1,000 have already responded, compared to about 200 five years ago – but Kroma said HUD believes Toledo's response has exceeded other communities comparable in size.
"Actually, it has picked up in the last few days because of our efforts to let people know there's only a few days left," said Melva Wagner, administrative analyst at the Department of Neighborhoods. "It's on the city's Facebook page. We just keep sending reminders as much as we can that they still have a chance to fill out the survey."
"By doing this online it opens up a lot of doors and information," Kroma said. "It's really good, thoughtful stuff."
The city had used a consultant to conduct the survey in the past, but now handles the work in-house. Doing so was not only a cost-cutting move, said Kroma, but also because city staff know the community better than anyone, and know where to go to get input. Wagner said staff has visited Job and Family Services, senior centers and mental health boards.
The city also held nine neighborhood public forums throughout Toledo during June, where residents could vocally express their wants and needs. Only about 60 attended all nine forums combined, which Wagner doesn't attribute to disinterest, but rather that the online survey saves time and is easy to use.
Survey results specifically help to identify community needs via housing, neighborhood and economic development, homelessness, social and human services, public services and transportation/infrastructure. A 29-member committee will then interpret the results to identify funding priorities in the areas of community, economic and housing development and in the fight against homelessness.
The committee is comprised of various community members who have expertise in the areas of education, health care, housing, social services and others.
"We rounded it out get a good sampling of folks that know the community," Kroma said. "No one was put on the community just because they knew someone. We really wanted people that are involved and know what's going on. We've never had a steering committee of this magnitude before."
Wagner indicated there is no minimum number of surveys required in order receive funding, but the larger the survey sampling size, the truer the representation of the whole.
Toledo has been receiving HUD funding since 1974. HUD began requiring five-year plans in 1995, at which point the city began conducting surveys.
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Nu'Al: About confrontation and the absence of that
Let me start this conversation with confrontation as a skill.
Confrontation is an important skill of the Masters. Confrontation is a basic knowledge to live your life to the fullest potential. If you are able to confront any situation, you not just going to have a long and successful life, but if it possible for you to believe, life eternal. Confrontation is a must skill for everyone who wishes to reach higher levels of self-mastery. If you have the ability to confront anything, you can do everything. Those who cannot, will remain victims to their own powers.
Your inner self is like a flock of sheep. If the 'sheep' don't learn to stick together in the danger, they going to scatter and sheep by sheep fall prey for the predators. Just like your soul. If you manage to keep your 'flock' together, you've learned the most important lesson of this level. It is a choice of you. If you choose to re-learn it, you need to do it in little steps. With the decision made, nature will take care of the rest, re-teach you by providing those little steps. Big steps will only keep you away from reaching your goal.
First of all concentration is important. You learn concentration by keeping your mind in the present moment. Not in the past, not in the future, and certainly not in any other place, but right here, right now. It is a very hard task to re-learn for all of those in this era of time. You have learned to be distractible. It has became a lifestyle for most of you. That is why you are a victim of everything that surrounds you. Everyday people has knowledge of their power equal to nothing. They think they are at the mercy of coincidences, luck, circumstances, God or whatever outside forces they can think of. They either chose to or by their education fell victim to this way of belief system and this habitual way of thinking. They don't know (or chose not to know) any better, and they try their hardest to make it alone, separated from their true self. You have to understand: this is a mass creation. Mankind overall chose to stick to material, tangible things, things which you can grab and keep. This happened because you become afraid. Long ago a decision has been made to experience fear, doubt and separation. The origo separated itself to particles. First there was light then light created darkness with a decision to experience its own absence. This subject will be addressed in a later session. Little steps, remember? ☺
You as mankind, decided to cut yourself off from the support of the tree of life, the tree of knowledge. The branch will run dry soon without the support of the roots or the trunk. The tree also could make a decision to cut the supply off from the branch, when it is going in a wrong way, and risking the existence of the whole. Sometimes men have a tendency to become like these dry branches, and just out of stubbornness keep on grow towards the bitter end, risking the life of the whole, just because unable to confront their own 'mistakes'. Just to be literal, the inability to confront a mistake means that you are aware when something what you do doesn't work (meaning it is not supporting survival) but you still keep on doing it, just because you cant confront the fact you have grown your branch into the wrong way. That lack of confrontation could cost your whole tree suffering and dying. Until you still stick to the material, to havingness instead of beingness, you keep yourself cut off from the true inside wisdom, and you will not understand the true knowledge which comes from your roots. But it is only a decision, you can decide any time otherwise.
Start your practice with confronting your mistakes by being honest to yourself and confess them one by one, little by little. Start with the easier ones, go one by one, taking off the layers and covers, peeling off the dried bark from your soul. If you find a branch of yours which dried off completely, draw back your life force from it, and let it fall off by itself. Direct your energies into new shoots, which has the connection and the support of the root and other parts. Confront the loss of the old, let it go in peace, and direct your energies into the young and living, the easily formable. The innocent and trustful part of yours may seems weak in your eyes, but yet it is your most strongest, possess more strength than you could ever imagine. Stop growing into the wrong direction today: this is my first lesson to you. Confront your mistakes, confess them, and wake up into a great and fresh new life.
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(June 23, 2010) - Hagerstown Community College professor Thomas Clemens recently published "The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume I: South Mountain," the first part of a two-volume historical, annotated manuscript that details one of the most famous campaigns of the Civil War.
The manuscript itself is the work of Ezra A. Carman, a Union colonel in the 13th New Jersey Infantry, who was later appointed as the historical expert to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894. After the war, Carman wrote a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland Campaign, using firsthand accounts from war veterans and his own personal experience. In addition to eyewitness accounts, the manuscript includes maps and photos. A biographical dictionary will be included in Volume II, which is expected to be released in 2012.
According to Clemens, Carman's manuscript sat untouched for decades in the Library of Congress, referenced by historians but never published in its entirety. Clemens, recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign, began studying the campaign as part of his doctoral dissertation, and has spent the last 11 years editing and annotating Carman's manuscript. The campaign itself Clemens has studied for more than 30 years.
"I see it as the pivotal campaign of the Civil War," says Clemens. "This is the campaign that made the Emancipation Proclamation possible and ended the Confederacy's hope of winning the war. It led to the Battle of Antietam, where more Americans were killed in a 24-hour period than in any other battle in Civil War history. Overall, it is incredibly compelling."
A professor of history and political science, Clemens earned his doctoral degree from George Mason University, where he studied under Maryland Campaign historian Joseph L. Harsh. He is a licensed tour guide at Antietam National Battlefield and is one of the founders of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, Inc., where he currently serves as foundation president. Clemens has been teaching at HCC since 1978.
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Today I was driving with my daughter to go to the bookstore and drop off something for a friend. She lives near where I used to live when I was pregnant with Naomi. On the way back from my friends house, I drove over to where I used to live. I made a quick right turn, when I knew I probably shouldn't. This paticular street and area just SCREAM Naomi. It all flashes back to me. I remember I would drive just down the street to work, I was a nanny. I was SO happy, even tho I was seperated and on the verge of divorce from my then husband. I just was so happy carrying my little girl feeling her movements, all the while, I was getting very very sick, I had no idea what lay ahead of me.
i went and parked where I used to live and said to Sadie "this is where your mommy lived when I was pregnant with your sissy" and I just started to cry. I stared up and remembered I would always do my laundary up there outside. I walked to the stores which were right down the street. I remember everything. I just miss my little girl. And in 16 days, it will be 2 years since my Naomi has been gone. I cannot believe it. I miss her so very much.


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Last week wasn't a great one for Lolita. While Nemo buried us in two feet of snow, the tumultuous passage of a delightful kidney stone began its painful descent through my bowels, knocking me out for almost 4 days. Needless to say, I missed Valentine's Day; it passed me by in a Percocet fueled haze. I had promised the husband-man to make him whatever he wanted for V-Day, and he requested paella – something very difficult to make in the traditional way with the crappy electric stove I've got. But never one to back down from a challenge, I did – in my more lucid moments – ponder how I could create a paella -type meal for the ol' man given my kitchen's limitations. By Saturday, I'd both birthed that stone and had figured out this dish: a deconstructed paella construct, replete with all the flavors we'd tasted that glorious spring in Barcelona when we ate panfuls of the stuff along the sparkling Mediterranean coast. My creation contains all the seafood I could pack into the dish — scallops, shrimp, cod, clams, and lobster – along with deep roasted peppers, a chicken chorizo risotto, and a saffron butter-cream. With a some toasted baguette served ala pa' amb tomaquet, each bite transported us back to our Iberian adventures in a way only good food can do.
Reconstructed Deconstructed Seafood Paella
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 cup arborio rice
3-4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup minced onion
1/2 cup dry sherry
1 tbs tomato paste
1 quart seafood stock
1 large chicken chorizo sausage
chili powder, hungarian paprika, black pepper, sea salt, EVOO
2 tbs butter
1 cup heavy cream
4-5 threads of saffron
4 littleneck clams
2 lobster claws
1/3lb cod
2 large scallops
4 large shrimp
Because it takes a little while, I start by roasting my peppers. It's easy: roll them around in EVOO, lay them on a baking sheet, and sprinkle them with salt and pepper before throwing them in a 400° oven. Roast for about 10 minutes, rolling them over every few minutes so the skins blacken. Remove them from the heat, toss them and all the juices from the pan into a bowl, and cover with plastic wrap until cooled. Then you can remove the skins very easily. Set this aside for now.
I make risotto all the time — just search for it here on my blog and you'll see several different preparations. This one was different for me, though, since I usually aim for a white risotto and not a red one, but it still started the same: I sauté my minced garlic and onion in EVOO in a small saucepan until just translucent, then I add my rice. I stir everything to coat well with the oil, and to toast the grains of rice a bit to make them more receptive to the liquids I'll be adding.
First addition is wine: a nice glug or two of dry sherry, which I stir in well, cooking over low heat, until all the liquid is absorbed.
Then I start adding my seafood stock, which is simmering in another pot on the stove. You want to use warm stock, which will keep the rice cooking instead of cooling it down with each addition. I add about 4 ounces at a time, stirring well continually, until each batch of liquid has been absorbed by the rice. It takes about 30 minutes to stir a good pot of risotto.
At about the halfway point, I decide to add a tablespoon of tomato puree. Traditional paella always has a bit of tomato in it, and this concentrated condiment gives just the right of sweetness and acidic kick to the dish. Oh, and I keep adding stock and stirring.
My risotto is almost done. It has increased in volume significantly, and when I test a grain with my tongue and teeth it is just tender all the way through, with a slightly al dente center. At this point, I add all the juices from my roasted peppers, which have been sweating all their delicious goodness into the bowl all this time.
I've cooked my chicken chorizo and chopped it up real good like.
Along with my chopped roasted peppers, the chorizo adds the unctuousness needed for a good paella – where chicken and sausage definitely belong. I keep this warm on the back burner until I'm ready for it.
To prepare my seafood, I create a poaching liquid, starting with butter and saffron and the last 4 ounces of my seafood stock.
I whisk the contents of the pan vigorously, emulsifying the butter and stock into a rich base.
I then add my cream, and layer my seafood into the pan to gently poach. My cream/butter has been tinted a thrilling yellow from the saffron threads, and the scent emanating through the kitchen is divine. I cover the pan, shaking it from time to time to encourage the fishy stuff to swim around, before using tongs to flip each piece so it can cook through thoroughly.
When the clams are open, and the shrimp and scallops are opaque, everything is ready to serve.
Here's where the "reconstruction" bit comes in. I've been obsessing about forms these days, 'cuz I love the idea of stacked meals. I'm too cheap to spend the $20 or so on real cooking forms, so I have a tendency to cannibalize all sorts of stuff in my kitchen to make shapes I can work with. This is a tea canister from some swanky over-priced tea shack, but with the bottom removed it makes a decent, entree-sized form for my purposes. I start by laying my strips of pepper out on the plate, before spooning a layer of rice into the form, followed by bits of the cooked cod, another layer of rice, then a layer with my shrimp and scallops, before topping it off with more risotto.
Crowning my tower of delight is my succulent lobster claw, which is flanked by eat-me clams and standing in a rich, sweet pool of saffron butter-milk. I've toasted some slices of baguette, rubbed them with garlic, and served them with a tomato half doused with EVOO, garlic, and sea salt – which is scraped across the crusty bread, leaving a swathe of tasty red yumminess to compliment the dish. All the component parts of a paella are here: fresh, tender seafood, rich, creamy rice, roasted peppers and spicy sausage, chicken, and of course, saffron. An elegant meal in honor of a long love affair: with both my husband, and food glorious food.


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Sat, May 26th, 2012, 11am to 11.45am PST – we will be broadcasting LIVE! (as long as the internet connection is strong enough)
Join me for this LIVE netcast celebrating my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast". This event is being broadcast from 11 to 11.45am PST on Sat May 26th, 2012 from San Francisco, CA.
Please stop by if you're in the SF embarcadero area:
I'm starting to netcast for the first time again since I conceived of and executive produced 'Fiber' back in 1995, before ISDN or T1 were available! 'Fiber' was the World's 1st online fashion show event ever, and it was broadcast over copper phone lines to the Mbone at UC Berkeley, CA, and then out to the world!
Thanks for joining me here and for helping me celebrate my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast"! Love you all xo, ani
I visited Erewhon Natural Foods in Los Angeles on May 28, 2011 along my book tour for Ani's Raw Food Asia. Erewhon is my favorite Raw Food store. These beautiful photos are courtesy of the very talented Sherman Lee at http://www.digitalslimages.com.
Juan Hernandez, the store manager, makes sure to offer the largest range of Raw Food products and brand, and has created the nexus for Raw Foods here in LA. Juan was one of my earliest supporters of my SmartMonkey Foods packaged and prepared foods products.
Each year's visit celebrating my new book always draws a packed house. I love Erewhon!
I showed everyone how easy it is to make my Mushroom "Bul Go Gi", from Ani's Raw Food Asia, page 186, using mushrooms marinated in tamari or nama shoyu (raw soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, asian pear, and sweetener of choice like agave or brown rice syrup. We topped off these beautiful Lettuce Wraps, from page 188, with my version of a traditional Korean Gochujang Sauce, page 225, made with miso, sesame oil, chile powder, and sweetener like agave.
Following my food demo and Q+A…next, I get to sign books and meet people 1 on 1!
This tour, many people had me sign multiple copies of Ani's Raw Food Asia for friends and family. I do love when people bring their entire collection for me to sign too…..a blessing for me.
My friends Ron Gilmore and Caroline Jue create an awesome animated series called Rawman & Green-Girl. They are doing great work educating and sharing information about our food sources.
Elaine R. Johnson hand delivered this beautiful porcelain sculpture she made to me all the way from Arizona with her mom. Elaine is amazingly talented. I can't even begin to express my gratitude for such a beautiful gift.
This is the beautifully talented Elaine R. Johnson. She told me how challenging porcelain is to work with….cracking as it dries, or cracking out of the kiln during baking. A labour of love, it shows!
I was honored to have been invited to speak on a panel with superstars (from left to right above) Rachelle Carson Begley (married to Ed Begley), Sophie Uliano (NYTimes best selling author), Izabella Miko (actress), Carly Harrill (blogger ghost writer), Karen Stewart Brown (fashion designer), Kris Willey (host of WotGG), and Alexandra Spunt (author).
The focus of this panel was how we came into our careers. I explained how I used to work in a corporate environment that was not recycling, was wasting energy, and was using styrofoam cups for one 4 ounce shot of water. I realized my raw food catering and the weekly events I was hosting (to feed myself good food) was a successful business. So, I decided to leave corporate America to focus 100% on my prepared packaged foods, catering, and events. I followed my bliss because I believed raw foods helped people feel better and healthier. It also helps us tread lightly on our Planet.
This event was held in Culver City, Los Angeles, CA on Saturday May 14, 2011. These beautiful photos are courtesy of photosbyKailas.com. Thanks Kailas!
I had so much fun celebrating the pre-launch of Ani's Raw Food Asia at Artisanal LA in Santa Monica.
All of these beautiful photos were taken by the amazing Sherman Lee. Thanks Sherman!!
It was a weekend full of local and seasonal gourmet foods (though way too much bacon! – what's up with bacon these days?) and great expert panels and talks.
I love this fish eye photo, it was a full crowd with great people old and new to raw foods and the raw food diet and lifestyle. Thanks to the wonder woman organizer Shawna Dawson for all her support, for announcing my talk over the loud speaker, and for putting me and Ani's Raw Food Asia in their printed program.
Q+A is my favorite part of my appearances because I get to listen and interact with my new friends.
It's always so nice to have my brother Max and my family with me at my events.
This lovely lady kept asking me about how to learn to make raw food. I say if you're interested in making food, you have to learn how to make all foods first. Then you can translate it into raw food prep.
Libby drove all the way up from San Diego with her friends just to grab an early copy of Ani's Raw Food Asia.
Please check my homepage and also my calendar of events for upcoming events and stops along my book tour. Hope to see you all very soon. xoxo
Vitamix hosted a Mix + Mingle reception at Expo West where I signed another 100+ books in the evening. Earlier, I had signed 200+ books at the Vitamix booth.
These photos were all shot by the amazing talented Sherman Lee….love his photography!
They had the bartender make up my blended frozen Raspberry, Orange, and Lime mocktail.
Ken Spector of LivingEco.com has been a host for years, interviewing hundreds, if not thousands of people.
The beautiful Elenia Love, a long time friend.
Carolyn Scott, the Healthy Voyager. Look at her skin glow.
Debbie Merrill is super fit, and a rollar skating pro!
Bob Linden, host of Go Vegan Radio.
Chris Whitcoe, Vivapura…love their spirulina sprinkles, and John Kohler, Living-Foods.com.
My family attended too, here's Max Phyo, my brother who runs GoSuperLife.com.
The Vitamix team that made this all happen. xoxo
Vitamix invited me to sign books for 2-hours at their booth on Day 2 of Expo West. We had a line that was so long the other vendors complained our fans were blocking their booths. Hum…I would have thought they'd be stoked to have a captive audience to sell to.
Even the fire marshall was called in because our line was too long. A good problem to have! I signed 200+ books in 2-hours! (Plus, I signed another 100+ at our reception later that eve.) Thank you Vitamix for generously gifting these books to our friends and fans.
This is the amazing Vitamix team that made this all happen. You can see the video of my 60-minute DVD they're including with the TurboBlend-VS playing in the background.
I love Expo West because I get to connect with old friends I haven't seen for a while. Here's Elizabeth Castoria from VegNews Magazine. Their booth was just down the isle from Vitamix.
I found the beautiful fitness model Koya Webb. I love how ripped this girl is…so pretty.
This was the most brilliant display at the Expo. GoRaw simply hydrated their bar, and set it to sprout over time. Perfect demonstration of why raw….raw generates more life. Now, try that with processed cooked food.
Eric Botner is an amazing man helping make superfoods available to the mainstream. Earth Circle Organics was one of the generous sponsors for my Gastrawnomique dinner event last November. And, they have a cacao and cashew crunch that is sweetened with coconut syrup (the latest in low glycemic sweeteners) that is to live for!
Chris Ochs at Sunfood was another generous sponsor for Gastrawnomique.
After a day of being inside a huge convention center under fluorescent lights, I needed an oxygen infusion. Luckily, I found an oxygen bar, AirHeads, at the Seventh Generation booth, and plugged in for several minutes to recharge.
I ran into many, many other friends including Ryan and Jeremy Black from Sambazon, Frederick from Big Tree Farms, Jane Kim from Sea Tangle Kelp Noodles, my friends at Sequel, ….but unfortunately didn't get photos with them.
Next…photos from the Vitamix Mix + Mingle with moi later that evening.
My NYC tour kicked off last Monday at Rockefeller Center on the set of LX New York at NBC studios. I chat about the benefits of a raw food diet with hosts Janice Huff and Jane Hanson. You can watch my segment here, though it's stretched out horizontally and the audio is out of synch. (As soon as I get my own copy of the segment, I'll repost)
Tuesday evening, I had a food demo, talk, and book signing at Bonobo's Restaurant. The room was packed with folks eager to learn more about raw food nutrition and recipes. I demonstrated how fast and easy it is to make my Simple Rosemary Oregano Noodle Salad with zucchini, tomato, avocado, and herbs.
Pictured above is Rose Voisk of the World Olympians Association. She was a gymnast in the 1948 London Olympics. She looks great, is vibrant, and strong. A testament for eating well.
Wednesday evening, I was hosted by the lovely Hyacinth Mills of New Life Journeys and her Montclair Raw Food Meetup Group. I demoed my Super Cacao-Coconut Energizer smoothie recipe from page 39 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials. Hyacinth's group is full of vibrant folks excited about raw foods. Her husband and 2 boys are handsome as can be, and Hyacinth has a natural glow of beauty. A great spokes model family.
I had randomly bumped into Hyacinth at Port Authority late on Monday night, 2 evenings before our event, as we were both catching our buses back to NJ that night. What's the chances of that? It's magic!
Thursday night I was at Organic Avenue for a workshop hosted by Mia Santos Andres. Above are my lovely assistants Sara, Sam, and Lee who helped to prep my recipes and samples, and then helped me set up before my workshop. They all had that glow of inner health and beauty. What angels!
In my workshop, I demoed my Tomato and Tarragon Bisque, page 137, Pad Thai Kelp Noodles, page 227, and Strawberry Kream Pie, page 266 from Ani's Raw Food Essentials. It was another packed house with great audience participation, questions, and book signing.
Thanks Mia for a great event, and for my goodie bag full of green juice in the cute Organic Avenue bottle, and BlackBird Truffles, handmade by raw model Anthony Andersen. Yum!
Mia is so pretty, I look shiny. Ha haaaa. I can't wait to get back to NYC before another 6 years passes….
I had the honor of meeting Dr T. Colin Campbell at the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down last weekend in Watkins Glenn, New York, where we were both invited to speak about vegan lifestyle, health, and diet. He's pictured above with his wife Karen.
Dr Campbell is the author of the best selling book The China Study. Campbell says about his research in the Philippines "In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer…" A 20-year research project partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine found that "People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored," said Dr. Campbell.
In the Farm Sanctuary 'People Barn', I spoke to a full house about the benefits of the raw food diet, why whole and unprocessed foods are important, showed everyone how fast and easy it is to make a healthy Strawberry Kream Pie using just a handful of ingredients, from page 267 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials, and then passed out pies to taste. Folks thought the pie was delicious. You can't really go wrong with dates, cashews, almonds, vanilla, and strawberries.
Next, Dr. T. Colin Campbell took the stage, and reinforced many of the same concepts I had presented. He explained why taking supplements doesn't work, and emphasized the importance of avoiding processed foods like all the junk vegan convenience foods on the market. He explained how protein turns-on cancer cells in the body.
In the USA, we promote high protein diets made up of about 80 percent protein. Most Americans eat around 50 percent protein. However, Dr. T. Colin Campbell advocates a diet of at most 20 percent plant-based protein for optimal health and longevity.
My mom and step dad came to the Farm for the weekend, and left inspired by all the great speakers and information, as did everyone! I can't wait to visit the Farm Sanctuary again very soon.
Last weekend, I was invited to speak and demo my raw foods at the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down annual celebration in Watkins Glen, NY. It was a huge honor to be included in the speaker lineup with founder Gene Baur and T. Colin Campbell, author of the China Study. The Hoe Down was one of the best organized events I've attended.
Volunteers helped me prepare pies for over 120 people in about 30 minutes just before my presentation. We chose the manual 'food processor' style of hand mixing dates with almonds. Good forearm exercise.
Strawberry Kream Pie, from Ani's Raw Food Essentials. Made with dates, almonds, cashews, vanilla, and strawberries. Simple and delicious.
A photo of my raw food demo, taken by Morgan Jamie Dunbar.
It's so much fun to sign books after a raw food demo and talk. I love having this opportunity to connect with other like minded folks in the community.
Later, I got to visit the animals out on the other part of the 200 acre farm. This guy was 3,000 pounds big, what a cutie pie!
Amazing to stand in the pasture with a flock of sheep as the sun was setting. It was so peaceful. Actually, I rested really well on the farm every night.
That evening was the Barn Dance where we line-danced first, then it broke out into a full on night club with a packed dance floor until after 1am. Everyone had tons of energy and was jumping up and down, especially Gene Baur, who was wringing sweat out of his t-shirt! My hair was soaked in sweat too. I noticed no one stunk of body oder, and people's sweat didn't gross me out as it usually does. That's a huge plus for eating clean, vegan, and raw.
I realized this was my 20th year reunion from Cornell, and I hadn't been back to Ithaca since I graduated in 1990 (except returning briefly for my brother Max's graduation in 1993). So, it was a double treat to visit Ithaca and Farm Sanctuary. I'm looking forward to the next Hoe Down in California, and visiting New York's Farm Sanctuary again soon.
My introduction to Sarasota RAWked! Exploring my idea that creating something together with other people in our raw community, rather than going it alone, is more fun, plus makes a bigger splash. We produced and threw down a pumping RAWktail Party, it was the biggest and most successful raw event in Florida to date! Dress code was RAWkstar, of course. A wonderful event and a very warm welcome to Florida and Sarasota.
A RAWstar RAWktail Party isn't complete without headshots. Is that too cheezy?….
We brought together a fun crowd of local hipsters, movers, and shakers. Raw foods help us feel great, look our best, and fuel up for a long night of celebration. Raw food is also great for recovery, detox, and combating damage after a night of partying too hard and not sleeping enough.
The event was held at the Weller Historic Estate, and it was filled with rich period furniture and wonderful styling details. The host Jeff Weller is below in the white button down and jeans. I was to discover later that Jeff gives great massages!
The Weller Historic Estate was at full capacity with well over 120 attendees, and the energy was contagious.
I demoed 4 recipes, which follow below, while people stood around a 20 foot long table to watch and learn how to make fast, easy, delicious raw food treats. Below is Bryant Meyers, to the right, an ingredient sponsor who's home is packed full of cutting edge healing therapy machines like an infrared sauna and scalar wave technology. I was skeptical at first, but the scalar waves made me pass out and sleep restfully the following day. Now I'm a believer.
Above is the spread for our Taco Wraps, served in a cabbage leaf. With raw food, it's easy to have our 'kitchen' anywhere, even in the living room.
Lisa Tomasi, in pink, runs the Naples raw food meet up group. She saved the day and was the best assistant I've ever had! A testament for raw foods, Lisa drove over 2 hours to come to the event, worked all night, drove home, then came back the next day again. An enegizer bunny and beautiful woman.
The man in black above is Vincent Dessberg, who has a roof top garden on a warehouse in the industrial area of town, called "I Grow My Own Veggies". He sponsored cabbage, edible flowers, herbs, and strawberries. I harvested from Vincent's garden just a few hours before the party. It was amazing to see so much food growing on top of an industrial warehouse!
Now, for my recipes. Enjoy!
Ginger Lime Aid
Place all into blender, and blend. Serve immediately.
Raspberry Daiquiri
Place all into blender, blend and serve immediately.
Fresh Green Taco Wraps Filled with Taco Nut Meat, Avocado, Tomatoes, and Mole Sauce
Taco Nut Meat
Place all ingredients into your food processor and process into small pieces.
Mole Sauce
Place all into blender, blend smooth.
Toppings and Shell
To assemble tacos, into each cabbage leaf, spoon Taco Nut Meat. Top with avocado, tomato, and cilantro. Drizzle on your Mole Sauce, and enjoy.
Strawberries with Cashew Kream and Chocolate Sauce
Cashew Kream
Chocolate Sauce
To make Cashew Kream, place cashews, honey, vanilla, and water into blender. blend smooth. Add as little water as possible for thicker consistency.
To make Chocolate Sauce, place honey or agave and cacao in blender. Blend smooth.
To assemble, scoop Cashew Cream into serving bowls. Top with your favorite berries. Drizzle over Chocolate Sauce and serve.
Visit GoSuperLife.com for organic ingredients, kitchen tools, and specials on Kelp Noodles and sproutable raw Cashews.
Photos are Copyright 2010 and courtesy of a very handsome man named Rich Schineller.
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