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ARC Instructor Deb Colley just returned from Mammoth where she & several ARC grads attended the Sierra Nevada Youth Empowerment Program. This new program provides a venue where "urban and rural youth from throughout the state of California...convene to discuss community issues and bridge the divide between their experiences."
The SNYEP is a recent addition to the Sierra Business Council's annual conference, titled this year: "Sierra Solutions Conference: Tools for Sustainable Communities, Economies and the Environment".
Here's Deb's conference report:
I want to report on this conference on several different levels: literacy and leadership, exploring self and community for the internship, individual student growth, and opportunities to represent and network for all the ARC programs.
Literacy and Leadership
In terms of ARC outcomes, this experience was full of literacy development opportunities. They were asked to make a poster of community issues in the Tahoe Truckee Area, report in front of the other youth, and then they put together a presentation to present in front of 200 adults (all business owners, city planners, etc). They were amazing. They wrote an outline for their presentation and then narrowed down what each of them were going to say on a note card (they even made outlines for what they were going to write on their post cards). Each of them were extremely motivated to choose their words wisely, and when reporting on immigration and gentrification issues in their community they each worked really hard to make sure that the information they were sharing was about bringing awareness instead of being controversial. Mara also had the opportunity to read her poem in front of this 200 something audience and Jasmine read her youth of the year speech. The director of the SBC actually quoted Mara in his closing speech, which was really special and empowering for her. AND BEVERLY! When she got up to talk about her community issue, made steady eye contact with the audience, stood still and strong, and kept her hands away from her face and hair (huge steps of growth for her in terms of speaking in front of an audience).
During the different conference sessions, I challenged the girls to split up and go to sessions that interested them. I was worried that they would get nervous and want to stick together, but they had no problem taking that challenge on. I made sure they sat with someone who could help them with big vocabulary words. I sat with Beverly and Mara at a session titled Connecting People to the Land. First thing they did when they sat down was pull out their journals and started taking notes! pages of notes! I wrote down and defined big complicated words that came up, and they immediately copied them down (things like land trust, long range planning, stake holders, environmental justice, particulate matter, clean air act, clean water act). Session talked about the importance of involving the community in city planning and also the importance of people knowing their basic social and environmental rights and holding the government accountable. At the end Beverly asked a question that related to the topic she is covering in her intern project about how to engage the hispanic community... it was GREAT! Ruby brought a list of words to me each time she came out of a session and wrote down the definitions I gave her.
There was one particular conference session about Youth Empowerment and Engaging Youth in the community. For the first half, all the youth participants (20 students) sat in the middle and had a fish bowl discussion about youth community issues. This was another great public speaking opportunity and the facilitator was really good at asking the students to be specific and to think of reasons for their opinions. Jasmine spoke alot during this, but she had to think through her answers a little more, and other students challenged her point of view (which was great for her to think about the different sides of arguments). Ruby, Mara, and Beverly spoke much less than most of the other students, which was huge learning for me. We still have work to do in terms of building self confidence in unplanned public speaking. I asked them about it afterward, and they agreed that they feel silly sharing their opinions when they don't have the same huge vocabulary pool to pull from. I tried to encourage them to continue speaking up even if they didn't have any fancy words... and after that they really did try and shared some inciteful and inspiring things with adults.
Jasmine learned how to network, and she collected alot of people's business cards.
In terms of leadership, these ladies helped set the tone for the group in terms of working hard. They always had their journals, they were always taking notes. They were also great participants, they were present, excited, and supportive. When the group went climbing Mara and Beverly in particular volunteered to belay, recruited a back up belayer, and cheered people up the wall. AND BEVERLY! again... she amazed me. She said she wasn't sure if she wanted to climb, but got on the wall in the end and zipped up and down the wall (she spent something like 20 minutes + on a climb this summer). She had a huge smile on her face when she got down.
I asked them to not speak spanish when they were with the group and we talked about reaching out to others and spreading ARC compassion. They had trouble with this at first, Jasmine of course always slipping into spanish to tell a joke or to share a saying, but after a while they started noticing that they were leaving people out that they wanted to get to know and made a significant change.
Overall, I felt like I got to see them use so many things they had learned from ARC. They challenged themselves, they were excited about any opportunity to learn new vocabulary, they had an awareness of others and were supportive, they processed their experience with me and others, they used the public speaking skills they had learned at ARC, they continued to talk about and work on the ARC core values, and they completely blew the adult conference participants away.
Exploring Self and Community/Focusing on the Internship Project
It was pretty amazing for these ladies to share and compare their community issues with other youth. It really helped them break down some misconceptions that they had, but it was also very emotional for them to realize that so many people had no idea that there was such a large hispanic population in Tahoe, or what is was like to be an immigrant and/or an english language learner. And they also learned how controversial the whole immigration issue really is. They took every thing in with such grace, and still had the courage to share their experiences and perspectives. Beverly actually learned so much from people that she decided to change her topic from just trash to gentrification ( a word she learned this past week). She hadn't realized that it was an issue until this conference and then got really passionate about it. If anything, the conference reinforced the importance of youth sharing their voice and perspective about their communities and also gave them opportunity after opportunity to explain their issue and why it is important. They were completely fired up each time we had an intern meeting between sessions.
Individual Student Growth
I am going to be brief here, because I could write a page for each girl.
Jasmine and Ruby stormed... oh man it was intense! but were able to come back together and work it out! I felt like they were able to move beyond somethings left over from the 07 summer.
Mara and I talked a length before the conference about her fear to mingling and hanging out with people who were not Hispanic. At one point she said something to me like, "I don't get along with Americans" and I asked her whether she thought that was a self imposed statement or a fact ( I also pointed out that I was American and that we had a really close relationship full of trust, respect, and laughter and she tried to argue that it was because I was an ARC instructor and therefore not an average an American, HA!). She was really nervous before the conference, but I watched her speak more english than spanish AND reach out to other youth participants and adults. She gave her poem to a Piute elder that was at the conference too. And then, when she got up during the awards ceremony, she shared that she had learned the importance of talking to people of different ethnicity (yes, she used that word instead of race) and that she found that she can be friends with anyone. And then she shared how important it was to do everything with style and explained what style meant to her (and I am of course crying in the back).
Ruby had this realization about the impact she can make in the world. I think so much of her efforts to be involved in so many things at school has been so focused on breaking out of a stereotype and being different. But she was really struck by the degree to which people, youth and adults, listened to her and believed in her and realized that she can make a difference in here community. She shared that she wants to be the pebble in the pond and that she DOES believe it is possible for her to be that. Huge growth in self worth and confidence from just a year ago.
Jasmine was made for conferences and networking and public speaking. This girl has NO inhibitions. It was great to see her in action. She wrote something in her youth of the year speech about the importance of creating yourself instead of finding yourself, and she shared that this conference reinforced her belief that it really is all about creating yourself.
Beverly came out of her shell, made new friendships with the 07 girls, and found her voice in the group. She is a really responsible individual, listens intently to others, always gives 100%, and keeps an open mind. She shared that she never knew that adults cared about youth, and that now she knows to always share her perspective because you never know who is listening. I thought this was a great realization for a young woman who tends to be quiet and reserved. She never lost her temper with anyone, and was always able to talk it out!
And for me... I am completely amazed by the new level of trust and respect I built with these guys over the weekend. We had alot of fun together as an ARC group, but I was also able to talk with each of them on a very personal level at some point. I also learned the importance of structure and youth/adult collaboration. these guys have so many great ideas and are really good a motivating their peers. I should really be engaging them more with the ARC outreach programs in order to draw our ARC family closer together.
Representing and Networking for ARC as an organization
Our students speak for themselves... and they were constantly talking about their ARC experience, how they grew from it, and all the support they are continuing to get from ARC. Adults were continually blown away by their maturity and how well spoken they were. And as a result so many people came up to me at the conference and asked me about ARC and its programs, students, and wanted my card ( I REALLY needed one this weekend). There were a lot of people from the Mammoth Bishop area (business owners, city council members, the environmental programs director at mammoth in particular) who were interested in started and ARC program in their area for the large number of hispanic students in their area (I have their contact information). There was also a student from Mammoth who is "half mexican" as he put it, who said he would help start an ARC program if we were interested. I made no promises and said I would share this all with my director.
Overall, the amount of interest and desire to support ARC was amazing. I know that much of it was due to our amazing students representing us, but it certainly helped to have me their to explain the program and its different locations. I definitely think there was more potential to really network, get support, and perhaps future funding for our programs.
Oh... did I mention that I met and spent quite a bit of time with Steve Hagler from the Stewardship Council? He had the opportunity to engage with our students, which maybe reinforced how amazing ARC is.
So the take home message from this entire conference is that is was definitely worth our time and effort, it completely supported the ARC intern project, and that I need a business card. I think that we should engage ARC interns in this conference again in the future. They should be working on a related project to help them focus, engage, and motivate themselves. We should definitely share this years finished project with the SBC, as their conference really helped jump start and fire up the process.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
ARC Grads participate in the "Sierra Nevada Youth Empowerment Program"
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Lisse Daugaard-Gordon
Club Team, Cat 2 MTB, Cat 3 Road & Cyclocross, Cat 4 Track
The skinny tire bug bit Lisse again while riding with Ingrid at one of Boulder velodrome's final sessions. After a 14-year hiatus, she's excited to race road and track again as part of another strong team. Lisse brings aggression and teamwork gained while racing on a dominant Cal Poly SLO squad at numerous Collegiate National Championships for road, mountain and track. After a few years of not racing, she turned to the long stuff: 24-hour and epic-style mountain bike races. Now, Lisse is wrapping up graduate school in May 2013 as a nurse practitioner, and looks forward to a fun season of less studying and more racing, particularly on the track.
Personal Goal: Re-earning my track upgrade, racing Master's Track Nationals in 2013, and having fun road racing with teammates again.
Nickname: Don't really have one currently, but "Angry Mama" came across the PA in past track racing days.
Hometown: Ventura, CA
Current Home: Boulder, CO
Racing Disciplines: MTB, road, CX, and track
Strengths: Mean descender on the tarmac! Not bad on the dirt and rocks either.
Racing Since: 1995
Favorite Race: technical crits (road), 500m and points race (track), and 24-hour solo (mtb)
Hobbies: When I had hobbies (before grad school), riding one of my many bikes! I also enjoy camping & backpacking with my husband, or reading a book with my cat curled up in my lap.
Status: Bike mechanic on permanent retainer
Favorite Post-Race drink: Naked Green Machine or Acai Machine
Favorite During-Race drink: water
Bikes: Road (Specialized Ruby), MTB (Yeti ASR-SL & Yeti 5), CX (Yeti), track (TBD)
Racing Highlights: 2007 24-hours of Moab (solo, 3rd), 2007 Vapor Trail 125 (1st female)
Roller or trainer: Rollers for spinning/technique, trainer for punishment
Bibs or shorts: Bibs
Skinsuit or Kit: Skinsuit and shiny stilettos
Speedplay, Look or Shimano: Time … eurotrash, baby!
Carbon or steel: Steel … it bends back if you crash. But all I have now is carbon… yikes, better not crash!
If you could ride your bike anywhere, where would it be: I look forward to mountain biking in Peru someday, and road riding in the hills of Spain.

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|Comparison of water quality between sources and between selected villages in the Waterberg District of Limpopo Province; South Africa: with special reference to chemical and microbial quality.
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 shows, excerpt 3 minutes for flavor, a bit of commentary or set-up. Well, when I got to the month of May and saw three weeks of Raintree County–and remembered my interest and involvement with this book and the world of its author and his suicide at the peak of his worldly success–I made a new plan. My most important story of 2014, reading and thinking about Raintree County in the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.
Raintree County was published in 1948, the same year as Indiana University professor Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and these two authors and these two books might actually illuminate each other.
Also, a quick note to let you know that the music you hear within these programs is from the soundtrack to the movie Raintree County, the 1957 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint and Lee Marvin. Johnny Green was the composer.
Part I excerpts the May 6th episode Taking the Measure of Raintree County and my guests are Don Gray, emeritus professor of English literature at Indiana University; Eric Sandweiss, Carmony Chair in the Department of History at IU and Editor of the Indiana Magazine of History; and Cherry Williams, Curator of Manuscripts at The Lilly Library at Indiana University. Much of this episode focused on an exhibit of Lockridge Jr.'s personal papers, manuscripts, and family memorabilia showcased at the Lilly Library, in particular the one artifact that serves as the novel's framing device, The Illustrated Historical Atlas of Henry County Indiana of 1875.
Part II excerpts the May 13th program which consisted of my interview with Ross Lockridge Jr.'s second son, Larry Lockridge, whose biography Shade of the Raintree was re-issued by Indiana University Press this year in a 20th anniversary edition.
Part III excerpts my interview with Ernest Lockridge, the oldest of son of the Ross Lockridge, Jr. and author of several novels, Prince Elmo's Fire being the most successful, and a kind of photo expose/memoir called The Skeleton Key to the Suicide of My Father.
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Annette Palmer, age 45, died tragically in a wreck on I-81 in Sullivan County, Tennessee on January 18, 2013. It was after midnight and she was a back seat passenger in a Ford Focus driven by her adult daughter. It was cold and snowy and weather conditions were deteriorating as they traveled north. Suddenly the car spun out of control due to black ice on the road and came to a stop in the middle of the northbound traffic lanes.
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Although the driver's post-accident urine drug test showed a high level of marijuana metabolites, the driver denied smoking pot since he had left California several days before. The trucking company, and their toxicology expert, argued that the driver was not impaired, and that the urine test could not be used to prove impairment. They blamed the wreck on Mrs. Palmer's daughter for losing control of her car which had bald tires that were unsafe for the road conditions. However, Mrs. Palmer knew nothing about the condition of the tires. She was just coming along to help her daughter move.
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The impact injured Plaintiff's low back and eventually he underwent surgery after months of conservative treatment. He was not able to return to work as a fuel truck driver.
Hubert "Hu" Hamilton served as lead counsel for the Plaintiffs.
Sarah Pierce vs. Lookout Property Management, Inc. and Battlewood Apartments, Ltd. Superior Court of Catoosa County; Civil Action No. 2012-SU-CV-1044, was settled in August 2013 under a confidentiality agreement prohibiting disclosure of the amount paid.
On Sunday morning, April 10, 2011, the plaintiff drove over to the Battlewood Apartment complex in Ft. Oglethorpe, GA to deliver yard sale items that one of the residents had purchased from her the preceding day. She delivered the items to the apartment, and while descending a long metal and concrete ramp to return to the parking lot, she fell. Something caught her foot, and her right ankle turned under her. She then fell off the concrete portion of the ramp and onto the nearby sidewalk, breaking the distal portion of her right fibula, sustaining a right malleolar fracture in the ankle joint, along with a fracture at base of her fifth metatarsal and a lateral cuboid fracture. The severe fracture required open reduction internal fixation, using a metal plate and seven screws to reattach and stabilize the fractured fibula. Months of rehab, with limited weight bearing followed.
Investigation revealed a steep slope on the right side of the concrete portion of the ramp which caused the plaintiff's right ankle to turn under her and shatter. Her surgeon testified that the ankle supinated or was rolled under, placing stress on the ligaments and bones on the lateral side (outside) of the ankle. The force pulled the distal end of the fibula off as the ankle rolled underneath. The injury was exactly the type of injury the doctor would have expected if the ankle was turned under as the foot went off onto a steep slope to the right.
Plaintiff's architectural expert testified that ramp violated numerous provisions of both the International Building Code (IBC) and the Georgia Accessibility Code, and Plaintiff contended that what happened was exactly what the various Code requirements and standards were designed to prevent – a fall. The case was settled at mediation after being placed on the pre-trial calendar for the September term of court in Catoosa County, with Hu Hamilton as lead counsel for the Plaintiff.
In 2011, the employee spent months working in California, and was exposed to coccidioides, also known as Valley Fever. Around Thanksgiving, he became very sick. It took months for the medical professionals to determine the diagnosis, and when they finally did, the workers' compensation insurance company refused to acknowledge that the condition was related to the employee's work in California. Patrick Cruise filed a lawsuit on behalf of the injured worker, and hired a specialist from Vanderbilt to determine causation and impairment. Although the employee suffered from permanent lung damage, and permanent impairment, he was able to return to work. Just prior to trial, the Court ordered the parties to mediation. The mediation resulted in a settlement of $240,000.00.
On September 7, 2012, in Hamilton County Circuit Court (Tennessee), a jury returned a verdict of $3,500,000 for Marcus Black, who sustained a severe head injury when his motorcycle struck the rear of the vehicle ahead of him on one of the bridges in Chattanooga. The chain reaction was triggered by a texting driver in the traffic ahead ahead of Mr. Black. The texting driver drove off, so her identity was unknown and she was never located. Suit was filed against Mr. Black's uninsured motorist insurer. Eyewitnesses testified concerning the actions of the unidentified Jane Doe driver, and the jury found Jane Doe 75% at fault for the wreck, while allocating 25% fault to Mr. Black. Damages were reduced to $2,625,000 under Tennessee's comparative fault rules and judgment was entered accordingly.
Mr. Black was represented by Patrick Cruise, who achieved an outstanding result for Mr. Black, while increasing public awareness of the dangers posed by texting while driving.
Holder v. Great American Ins. Co., No. 1:11-cv-00276 (U.S. Dist. Court, Eastern District of Tenn.): The Plaintiff became disabled as the result of a serious occupational injury in 2005. He was paid benefits for two years, at which time, his benefits stopped. The Occupational Disability Policy required the plaintiff to remain disabled after two years, and be approved for Social Security Disability. The Plaintiff was not approved for Social Security until about five years after his injury, and when he was approved, it was for SSI instead of SSDI. The defendant contended that there was insufficient proof of disability and that receipt of SSI disability benefits did not meet the requirements of the disability policy. The Plaintiff retained Patrick A. Cruise of The Hamilton Firm in 2011, after which suit was filed. The case was settled October 2012 at mediation in Nashville, TN. The terms and conditions of the settlement are subject to a confidentiality agreement.
Barrow v. Velsicol Chemical, LLC, 2:10-CV-02540, United States District Court (W.D. Tenn.): The plaintiff sustained a back injury while attempting to load his tanker with hydrochloric acid (HCL) at the defendant's facility in Memphis, Tennessee. On July 15, 2009, as the plaintiff was standing on the HCL loading ramp, the metal grating on the ramp platform suddenly gave way, causing injury to the plaintiff's lower back. The plaintiff's injuries required extensive medical treatment and spinal surgery. The injuries were such that the plaintiff was unable to return to work. Plaintiff brought suit alleging that the defendant was responsible for maintaining the loading platform and had created the dangerous condition by previously improperly repairing the area where the Plaintiff was injured. The defendant denied liability and fault. The case was settled in May of 2012. All matters relating to the terms and conditions of the settlement are subject to a confidentiality agreement. The Plaintiff was represented by Patrick Cruise of The Hamilton Firm and David Bateman of The Bateman Law Firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Marc Beck v. FM Global, et al, Case No. 11VS184780C, Fulton State Court, Atlanta, Georgia, was settled in December 2011 for a confidential amount. A boiler service technician sustained severe head, brain and facial injuries in a boiler explosion at a poultry plant in Gainesville, Georgia on January 14, 2008, The plaintiff was an employee of a boiler service company who was sent to switch fuel supply for the boiler from gas over to fuel oil. The boiler supplied steam for the plant, and they wanted to maintain pressure while the change over to oil took place. Investigation of the explosion by the Georgia Department of Labor determined that the oil supply and return lines had been reversed, causing an excessive accumulation of fuel in the hot boiler as Mr. Beck attempted to fire the burner on oil. The burner had not been fired on oil since a new boiler was installed two years before. Plaintiff contended that the lines had been reversed when the new boiler was installed by another boiler service company, and that the manufacturer of the burner had supplied a defective manifold making it possible to inadvertently reverse the lines at the point of attachment to the burner. The boiler inspection company which had last inspected the boiler prior to the explosion was also named as a defendant. Mr. Beck was represented by Hubert Hamilton.
Jury Verdict of $784,676.65 in Fire Loss case against Nationwide Insurance Company in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, Tennessee in a six day trial that was successfully concluded on November 9, 2011, O'Neal v. Nationwide. The fire originated in a Christmas tree that Mrs. O'Neal had just put up the night before the fire in December 2009. Nationwide refused to pay, contending that a family member had intentionally set the house on fire. The jury concluded otherwise as Plaintiff's expert had found a melted plug blade in an electrical receptacle adjacent to the tree that Nationwide's expert had missed. The evidence suggested an electrical origin due to a short or arcing at the receptacle. The verdict included a bad faith penalty of 18%. Hubert Hamilton and Patrick Cruise served as trial counsel for Mrs. O'Neal.
Currie v. Farmer, Case 08 CV 7097, Walker State Court, LaFayette, Georgia: Jury verdict totaling $792,500, on March 11, 2010, for a 39 year-old self-employed roofer/sheet metal fabricator injured in a bad wreck two years previously. On a Sunday afternoon the plaintiff had taken his Harley motorcycle out for a ride over to his mother's house. As he cruised along a rural roadway near Chickamauga, Georgia at a safe speed, a Buick Skylark, driven by an 88 year-old man, suddenly turned left directly in front of him. The impact shattered the plaintiff's left ankle. The orthopedic trauma surgeon was able to use steel plates and screws to put the bimalleolar ankle fracture dislocation back together, but the plaintiff was left with a painful arthritic ankle with limited mobility. The jury awarded $50,000 for medical expenses, $37,500 for lost earnings to date, $379,000 for future lost earnings, $20,000 for pain and suffering to date, plus $306,000 for future pain and suffering. The biggest challenge faced was overcoming sympathy for the defendant, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, after defense counsel made a big show of the fact that the defendant was ill. The trial judge prohibited further appeals to sympathy and the jury took seriously our admonitions not to let "outside reasons" influence their determination of the proper amounts of money required to balance out the harms and losses the plaintiff suffered, and justice was served. Hubert Hamilton and Patrick Cruise served as trial counsel for Mr. Currie.
Michael Nordone v. RSB Logistics, No: 4:08-cv-2-HLM, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Battling against strong headwinds, including an unfavorable report and opinions from the investigating state trooper, a client who could not remember what happened, and very inconsistent statements from the only eyewitness, a favorable settlement of $1,100,000 was reached after mediation in June 2009.
The Plaintiff was self-employed, performing high-end woodworking and remodeling when this wreck occurred on January 31, 2006. He was returning home from a job site in Dalton, GA, accompanied by an employee, in a modified 2003 F350 work truck when they were rear-ended by the RSB tractor-trailer, driven by a 70 years old driver, as they were northbound on I-75. The truck driver claimed that the plaintiff cut in front of him, moving suddenly from the right lane to the middle lane, and then slowed down so he could not avoid the wreck. The only eye-witness, the employee riding in plaintiff's vehicle, had given different versions of what happened, so his value as a witness had been seriously compromised. However, the plaintiff's case was aided by inconsistent data downloaded from the electronic control module (ECM) in the RSB truck. In addition, no data was found on the restraint control module (RCM) in the plaintiff's truck when RSB's expert attempted to download the data shortly after the wreck. This raised suspicion of improper downloading or even spoiliation.
By the time of mediation, the plaintiff had recovered much of his functional abilities, but he will not be able to return to full-time work.


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Mango Breakfast Cobbler
Mango Breakfast Cobbler
adapted from p 215 of Ani's Raw Food Kitchen
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1 1/4 cup almonds
1 vanilla bean, scraped
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup pitted and packed medjool dates
2 Tablespoons coconut oil or butter
4 cups Mango, pitted and diced
1/4 cup agave syrup
To make crust, place almonds, vanilla, and salt into food processor. Lightly process into small pieces. Add dates and coconut butter, process to mix well.
Sprinkle half of the crust onto bottom of a loaf pan.
To make filling, toss together all ingredients. Scoop onto crust. Top with remaining crust.
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Thai Spring Rolls with Almond Dipping Sauce
(makes 4 servings)
Thai Dipping Sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
4 kaffir lime leaves
1 Tablespoon Nama Shoyu
2 Thai red chilies, to taste
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons raw almonds
1 lemon's juice
1 cup water, as needed
1 zucchini, julienne
1 cup mung bean sprouts
1/2 bunch basil, de-stem
1/2 bunch cilantro, de-stem
1/4 bunch mint, de-stem
1-2 Thai chili, finely chop
3 large collard green leaves, de-stem and half
To make dipping sauce, place sauce ingredients into your blender, adding water as needed. Blend smooth.
To wrap, place leaves onto flat surface. Layer with fillings, and roll.
Serve with dipping sauce.
Blueberries & Coconut Kefir Kream
Ani's Garden Pate Roll-ups
Ani's Garden Pate
(makes about 4 servings)
1 cup almonds
1 1/2 cup celery
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp garlic
1/4 cup carrots
1/8 cup onion
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
Place all ingredients into your food processor, then process to mix well. Wrap a few tablespoons of pate inside a collard leaf with a sheet of nori.
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Ani's Fresh Taco Wraps & Cobbler Crumble Topping Make 2009's Top 10 Recipes
My recipes for Cobbler Crumble Topping and also my Fresh Taco Wraps ranked numbers 4 & 5 for Delicious Living Magazine's Top 10 Gluten-free Recipes of 2009.
Read more about the 2009 Top 10 at Delicious Living.
Read my original article Classy Raw Cuisine with 7 recipes in the July 2009 issue of Delicious Living Magazine.
Tropical Fruits in SE Asia
It's rainy season in Bali, so it downpours buckets of rain for 20 minutes to a couple hours almost every day. It's warm, so I don't mind it. On my first rainy day, I decided to visit a local grocery store, where I found a new fruit called salak. It grows on palm trees.
This is salak. It has a brown snakeskin that's really thin. You peel it away to find what looks like garlic cloves inside. These pods of fruit contain a small seed, and taste sweet and tart at the same time.
The meat of the salak fruit is not juicy, but rather dry and firm. It has a texture similar to a pear, but not as firm and crisp, smoother in texture, and dry. Interesting texture and delicious flavor.
This brightly colored, hairy fruit is a rambutan. I love lychees, and the rambutan is very similar in texture and flavor. Rambutan is very cheap in Bali. I bought a big bag for about 50 cents. The rambutan, even at the grocery store, is always covered in crawling ants. I guess this means there's no pesticides on the fruit, a good thing.
Here in hot, muggy Bali, I live off fresh tropical fruits (durian, salak, rambutan, mango, papaya, pineapple, and banana), and enjoy only occasional greens when I find them. Back home in the States, I had been cutting back on my sugar intake over the past several months. I was concerned about eating so much fruit. But, my body is thriving on this raw food fruit diet. Combined with swims in the warm ocean, walking everywhere, and the sunshine, all this fruit is making my body leaner. I like this effect.
Ani at SF Green Festival
Mayor Gavin Newsom at SF Green Festival last Saturday. It's the largest green festival in the country. Mayor Newsom is a long time vegetarian.
The hall was packed for my talk on raw food desserts, nutrition, and overall well being. I demoed my famous Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Cake and Spiced Blueberry Cobbler, recipes from "Ani's Raw Food Desserts". There was a feeding frenzy over the sample tastes of the desserts, and they were delicious!
Read more about the SF Green Fest on VegNews Magazine's blog.
Celebrate the 1st Raw Academy in OKC!
Matthew Kenney's done it again! This time in Oaklahoma City with his partner Dara Prentice. This amazing duo has opened the 1st accredited Culinary Academy for Raw Living Foods, along with a restaurant where you can enjoy Matthew's amazing food.
Join me, Matthew, Dara, and other folks from our community on Oct 3, 2009 in OKC at 105Degrees for a day of talks, demos, dinner, and celebration!
•Philip McCluskey (weight loss)
•Karen Knowler (UK raw coach)
•Tim VanOrden (Running Raw Project)
•Anthony Anderson (raw model)
•Hope Ferdawsian (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
•Courtney Pool (Tree of Life, Gabriel Cousens)
•Penni Shelton (raw coach)
If you're anyplace near OKC on Oct 3rd, I hope to see you at this amazing celebration at 105Degrees.


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Love is in the air - for sure, the air Hinds County District 5 Supervisor Kenneth Stokes is breathing.
The Jackson official presented to fellow supervisors this week a resolution commemorating Valentine's Day, conjuring up images of delicious chocolates and red roses. And beheadings.
Stokes' ode was unanimously approved by the five-member board and signed by its new president, District 2 Supervisor Darrel McQuirter of Clinton. ...


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Obama back in Washington
President Obama has arrived back in Washington DC with his family to begin his second term in office.
Live updates
Obama faces first big test of his second term
President Obama is back in Washington and back to work. Wall Street had its worse day this year as markets reacted to fears that the ongoing political deadlock between Republicans and Democrats will push America over a 'fiscal cliff' and back into recession.
Republicans say they are prepared to work with the president. Washington Correspondent Robert Moore reports:
Romney memorabilia on sale after election defeat
Cameron and Obama discuss Syria and Libya in phone call
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said that Mr Cameron's phone call with US President Barack Obama last around five minutes. He summarised the conversation as follows:
Cameron calls to congratulate Obama on victory
Downing Street has tweeted this photograph of the Prime Minister speaking to US President Barack Obama.
Mr Cameron congratulated him on his recent election victory and spoke about the "outstanding relationship" the UK and US share.
Kenyan twins named Obama and Romney
Twins in Kenya born on US election day have been named Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Mother Millicent Awuor, 20, gave birth in a hospital near the President's father's rural village and named the older boy after the Democrat and the younger after the Republican challenger.
Obama is highly popular in the east African nation and had a beer named "president" in his honour after the 2008 election.
The name Barack means blessed while Obama was the given name of his great-grandfather.
Obama to visit Burma this month - report
Barack Obama will make a state visit to Burma this month, a Burmese government official reportedly told The Associated Press.
The official said the visit is scheduled for 18 or 19 November and the US President would meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and government officials, AP reported.
The newly re-elected Obama would be the first US President to visit the country.
A long to-do list for Obama in his second term
President Obama arrives back in Washington
Electoral votes still being counted in Florida
Votes in Florida, a state with 29 electoral registers, are still being counted, including absentee ballots.
On Tuesday President Obama won 303 electoral college votes to Republican Mitt Romney's 206, helping him past the 270-vote winning post first.
President Obama gets back to work in Washington
President Obama has arrived back in Washington DC with his family to begin his second term in office.
The US President will tackle a looming budget crisis and work with Republicans in Congress, the Party which retained control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, but failed to take the Senate.
Latest ITV News reports
A long to-do list for Obama in his second term
Now Barack Obama has secured four more years in the White House he must tackle the growing list of challenges facing America.
Obama returns to office with America in disunited state
While both parties called for unity in Barack Obama's second term to solve the USA's problems, Mark Austin found voters fearful of gridlock.


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News Organizations Want Juvenile Court Proceedings Opened For Autumn Pasquale Murder Case
November 16, 2012 2:39 PM
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WOODBURY, N.J. (CBS) — A Family Court judge in Gloucester County, NJ is considering a motion to open to the news media the proceedings related to the murder of a Gloucester County girl last month.
Judge Colleen Maier is being asked by lawyers for several newspapers and the Associated Press to open the door to hearings involving the death of Autumn Pasquale.
Two Clayton, NJ neighbors, ages 15 and 17, are being held as juveniles on murder charges.
Prosecutors plan to seek waivers to put the two defendents into adult court, where all proceedings would be open anyway. But sources indicate the formal application for that waiver has yet to be filed.
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Treehugger founder Graham Hill on cover of Inc. magazine.
Simmer down ladies (and eco-minded entrepreneurs): coverboy Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger (the world's largest green media company), is on the cover of Inc. magazine. Why?
As Graham told Inc.:
"There's a lot of pressure to have an office, but if you can trust your employees and if you don't have a lot of physical stuff like prototypes, then it's a great model. You're going to save a bunch of money on real estate, and it's going to be good for the environment, because you're not commuting, and you're not using an office."
Graham's got a green, practical and modern (remind you of TH?) idea to teach us something about: How to Run a Virtual Company. I just participated in an Inc.-hosted live video chat on Justin.tv with a beardy, wetsuit-wearing Graham—he was generous, as always, with tips on vonage, skype, paying employees via paypal, the eco-$avings of running such a company (no commutes, fewer plane tickets, no office).
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3 Responses to "Treehugger founder Graham Hill on cover of Inc. magazine."
Yet his parent company has given a show to Sarah Palin and is stripping down eco programming on Planet Green.
Focus on the positive !.If Graham Hill is able to influence ten people who influence ten people who influence ten people then steps are being taken in the right direction.Graham only has a certain amount of control and is doing his best to spread awareness of going green.
There is only so much one person can do and Graham Hill is trying,pushing and doing whatever he can with the tools he has.Great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Graham Hill keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Barbara do you have any suggestions on what else he might be able to do to improve upon
which he does have controle over?(not what he doesn't…ie,his parent company)?
Graham Hill' s mission/ goal was to bring green mainstream and from this angle and from the amount of evidence (action on treehugger) I feel He has accomplished this.


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