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On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, friends and family gathered at Rudy's Pub and Grill to watch our favorite chef, Chef Joe Youkhan battle for the title of "Chopped Champion". Rudy's was gracious enough to have most of the television screens on the Food Network so everyone could have the best vantage point for the show.
As the show title came on, we started to cheer for our local culinary hero from Orange County, CA. Chef Joe owns and operates the Tasting Spoon food truck and catering. Some of his family, including his dad, traveled here from New York to help cheer him on. If you have not seen Chopped before, there are 3 rounds: Appetizer (20 minutes), Entrée (30 minutes), and Dessert (30 minutes). At the beginning of each round, the chefs are given a basket of mystery items and can use items from the show's fully-stocked pantry (staples like eggs, milk, vegetables, seasonings, spices, flour, etc.) It's a similar premise as Iron Chef, but they just need to make one dish for each round. The mystery items usually throw a curve ball to the chefs, making them think on their feet and turn on the creativity. Chef Joe's competitors were Chef Maxcel Hardy (personal chef to the stars in NY), Chef Ashley Fahr (freelance catering chef and food stylist in NY), and Chef Laurie Potts (Executive Chef of Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, TN).
Here's a rundown of the dishes Chef Joe made on the show:
In the Appetizer round, the chefs opened their baskets to: pickled pig's feet, butter beans, coleslaw mix, and sweet potato chips. Joe decided to make Butter Bean and Pig's Feet Cassoulet with Sour Cabbage Slaw served with Smoked Tomato Bruschetta. He also used jalapenos, pancetta, and chickpeas in this dish. Chef Joe said, "When I saw the butter beans, I immediately thought cassoulet." The water left from rinsing the pig's feet was a little vinegary so he added it to the coleslaw mix to make the sauerkraut. The sweet potato chips were used as texture to replace traditional bread crumbs in a cassoulet. The judges PROs were: amazed with complexity of flavor in 20 minutes whereas a traditional cassoulet takes a couple of days to cook; sauerkraut play with the coleslaw. The judges CON was: cassoulet should evoke some type of broth but it was not present and would have been perfect to use the bruschetta to soak it up. Joe said he used chicken stock but it was fully absorbed into the dish. As the judges deliberated, Joe's competitors complimented his attempt to make a cassoulet. As the chefs made their way back into the kitchen, we were all quiet awaiting the verdict. Chef Ashley was "chopped" and the room exploded with cheering as Chef Joe advanced to the next round.
In the Entrée round, the chefs opened their baskets to: venison tenderloin, watercress, eggplant, and pecan pie. The first thing Joe said was, "What am I going to do with a full pecan pie?" Joe decided to make a Five Spice Seared Venison with Potato Gnocchi and Eggplant Pecan Pie Caponata. He also used flour, butter, and parmesan for the gnocchi and made his own five spice from coriander, cumin, cinnamon, hot paprika, and black peppercorns. At the end of 30 minutes, Joe said, "Holy Cow! I just did gnocchi. It's very ambitious. But I definitely made a solid dish that is possibly going to get me to the dessert round." The judges PROs were: amazed how much work Joe squeezed into just 30 minutes; bold flavors of the dish; attempting to make gnocchi; eggplant caponata was the star of the dish with briny, vinegary, and acidity. The judges CONs were: venison was black and blue (which I would have eaten in delight), not rare – but raw in the middle, but at least it was not overcooked; gnocchi was more like a dumpling – too much flour made it dense. As the judges deliberated, the chefs talked about their kids. I know how hard Joe works and I know it just kills him that he doesn't get to spend as much time with them as he would like to. Upon the judges' return, Chef Laurie was "chopped" and the room again exploded in cheers as Chef Joe advanced to the final round.
In the Dessert round, the chefs opened their baskets to: chai tea latte, lady gala apples, black licorice, and puff pastry. Joe decided to make a Deconstructed Roasted Apple Strudel with Chai Tea Black Licorice Cream. He also used heavy cream, bourbon, brown sugar, currants, vanilla bean, and raw apples for texture. Chef Joe was sweating as the final seconds were ticking away and mentally counted the main ingredients to make sure they were all utilized. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Time's up! Please step back." The judges PROs were: not too sweet, well balanced; celebrated the apple with deeper notes when cooked; liked the idea of licorice, apple, and raw texture. The judges CON was that the puff pastry was raw, but both Chef Joe and Chef Maxcel had the same problem. As the judges deliberated for the last time, Joe said to Maxcel, "This race is neck and neck for sure. Whoever wins buys the first drink" as they both smiled and bumped fists. The crowd in the restaurant screamed as Chef Maxcel's dish was revealed. "And that means, Chef Joe Youkhan, you are the Chopped Champion!" A lot of us were in tears as Joe said, "I look like a big mean guy but when I talk about my kids, I cry." Have fun on your culinary trip to Italy with the family. You all deserve it for all that you do!
If you missed it, the episode title is "Hoofin' It!" Look for it in reruns on the Food Network.
For information about Chef Joe Youkhan:
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Bioinorganic Chemistry
Research projects that are currently pursued in my group relate to the biological role of nitric oxide (bioinorganic chemistry and biophysics), the development of homogeneous catalysts for the generation of the sustainable energy carrier hydrogen (organometallic chemistry and energy sciences), and recently, porphyrin-based materials for non-linear optics.
Historically, nitric oxide (nitrogen monoxide, NO) has always been viewed as an environmental pollutant, generated from the burning of fossil fuels, due to its toxic and corrosive properties. Together with its homolog nitrogen dioxide (NO2), it is one of the main contributors to smog. NO is in fact poisonous to humans at very low concentrations of only 100 ppm in air. This general view of NO as an environmental pollutant and toxin changed dramatically in the 1980's when it was realized first that humans are capable of NO biosynthesis for the purpose of immune defense and signaling. In humans, NO is generated by the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isozymes, which belong to the cytochrome P450 family. For the purpose of signaling, NO is produced by endothelial (e-) NOS in the endothelial cells that line the inner surface of arteries (blood pres¬sure control), or by neuronal (n-) NOS in the brain for nerve signal transduction. The important cardiovascular and neuronal regulation by NO is then mediated by soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), which serves as the general biological NO sensor/receptor protein in mammals. NO is also pro¬duced in macrophages by inducible (i ) NOS for immune defense. In 1992, NO was therefore voted the molecule of the year by the magazine Science, followed by the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998.
Interestingly, the role of nitric oxide in vasodilation is exploited by certain blood-sucking insects that inject NO into the bites of their victims using small NO-carrier heme proteins, the so-called Nitrophorins (Np). Furthermore, nitric oxide occurs as an intermediate in dissimilatory denitrification, which corresponds to the stepwise reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen for the purpose of anaerobic respiration by soil-dwelling bacteria and fungi. New biological functions of NO and its oxidized and reduced derivatives (nitrite, nitroxyl, peroxynitrite, etc.) are still discovered. Importantly, many of the biologically important reactions of nitric oxide are mediated by heme proteins.
In summary, nitric oxide is a double-edged sword in biological systems: on the one-hand side, it is a primary signaling molecule in the human body, but on the other hand, higher concentrations of NO as they appear in certain disease states (chronic inflammations, septic shock) are detrimental as NO is also a highly toxic molecule. Because of this, the concentration of free NO is tightly controlled in the human body, and the mechanisms for this regulation are currently heavily investigated. One central pathway for the detoxification of NO in biological systems is the reduction to nitrous oxide (laughing gas, N2O) as catalyzed by the NO reductase (NOR) enzyme family. Prominent examples for these enzymes are found in denitrifying bacteria and fungi, and many pathogens. Bacterial NOR (NorBC) reduces NO to nitrous oxide at a mixed heme/non-heme active site, where the heme shows axial histidine coordination. In comparison, the same reaction is performed by fungal nitric oxide reductase (P450nor) at a single heme active site, which, in contrast, has an axial cysteine ligand. Finally, flavodiiron proteins in pathogenic bacteria use a dinuclear non-heme iron active site to catalyze this reaction. We are investigating the electronic structures and reactivities of iron-NO complexes (in particular iron porphyrins) to elucidate the reaction mechanisms of these NORs using a two-pronged approach. Biophysical studies in collaboration with the Ballou laboratory (Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan) focus on cytochrome P450s and flavodiiron proteins, using enzyme expression and purification, site-directed mutagenesis, and spectroscopic studies applying UV-Vis absorption, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), resonance Raman, nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS), and stopped-flow absorption spectroscopy. In our biomimetic inorganic studies, we are developing synthetic inorganic model systems for these NOR enzymes to study their reaction mechanisms. First, "simple" model complexes of type [Fe(TPP*)(L)(NO)]n+ (TPP* = tetraphenylporphyrin type ligand; L = N-donor, thiolate, etc.) are synthesized, which allow for the routine investigation of the porphyrin substituent and trans-ligand effect on the coordinated NO. This is followed by the design and synthesis of specifically tailored model systems for these enzymes that capture key features of their active sites. These compounds are then investigated using a variety of spectroscopic techniques (see above) in correlation with DFT calculations. The obtained results are not only important for the understanding of the mechanisms of these enzymes, but are also relevant for the various other biological functions of NO mentioned above, as mediated by nitric oxide synthase (NOS), soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), and nitrophorins. In dissimilatory denitrification, nitric oxide is produced by the reduction of nitrite (see above), which (amongst others) is performed by a Cu enzyme (CuNIR). In collaboration with Prof. Dr. K. Fujisawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan), model studies on this enzyme are performed using hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate, tris(pyrazolyl)¬methane, and bis(pyrazolyl)methane ligands. Finally, the coordination chemistry of Ru(III) complexes with NO is also explored as a means of NO-delivery and photochemical release in vivo. The synthesized model complexes are investigated using the multitude of spectroscopic techniques mentioned above.
Political leaders around the world are calling to move from the total reliance on fossil fuel to an energy economy based on alternatives to petroleum. In this respect, hydrogen is the ultimate clean fuel with the highest achievable energy density, and its use as primary energy source is therefore desirable. However, ~95% of the current hydrogen production stems from natural gas reforming, and hence, from fossil fuels. Hydrogen could be produced electrochemically from water; however, current catalysts for hydrogen production are either inefficient or based on expensive (unsustainable) platinum catalysts. Besides the substantial cost factor, the global platinum production would not be sufficient to support the demand for electrochemical catalysts for a global hydrogen economy. Catalysts based on inexpensive and abundant metals are desperately needed for (a) electrochemical production of hydrogen as energy carrier, and (b) energy extraction (utilization) of hydrogen via oxidation in fuel cells to power, for example, automobiles. In particular, catalysts that are able to activate H2 for energy extraction are very rare. Nature provides a model for the design of such catalysts in the form of the hydrogenase enzymes, which are extremely efficient in catalyzing the generation and oxidation of hydrogen using dinuclear Fe-Fe and Ni-Fe clusters as catalysts. In our research, we are developing dinuclear Fe-Fe and mixed-metal clusters that are suitable for practical applications in fuel cells in collaboration with the Thompson laboratory (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan). These catalysts are organometallic analogs of the active sites of the hydrogenases, and hence, are biologically-inspired but not biomimetic in order to increase their stability and adapt them to the envisioned application conditions.
Finally, we have started a new project that is focused on the development of porphyrin-based materials for optically-limiting and non-linear optical applications. Here, we put our expertise in the synthesis of functionalized porphyrins to work to generate materials that contain linked porphyrin building blocks.
M. G. I. Galinato, J. G. Kleingardner, S. E. J. Bowman, E. E. Alp, J. Zhao, K. L. Bren, N. Lehnert, "Heme-Protein Vibrational Couplings in Cytochrome c provide a Dynamic Link that Connects the Heme-Iron and the Protein Surface", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2012, 109, 8896 - 8900
N. Lehnert, "Elucidating Second Coordination Sphere Effects in Heme Proteins using Low-Temperature Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy", J. Inorg. Biochem. 2012, 110, 83?93
A. C. Merkle, N. L. Fry, P. K. Mascharak, N. Lehnert, "The Mechanism of NO Photodissociation in Photolabile Manganese NO complexes with Pentadentate N5 Ligands", Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 12192-12203
T. C. Berto, N. Lehnert, "DFT Modeling of the Proposed Nitrite Anhydrase Function of Hemoglobin in Hypoxia Sensing", Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 7361-7363
T. C. Berto, M. B. Hoffman, Y. Murata, K. B. Landenberger, E. E. Alp, J. Zhao, N. Lehnert, "Structural and Electronic Characterization of Non-Heme Fe(II)-Nitrosyls as Biomimetic Models of the FeB Center of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase (NorBC)", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 16714?16717
M. G. I. Galinato, T. Spolitak, D. P. Ballou, N. Lehnert, "Elucidating the Role of the Hydrogen Bonding Network in Ferric Cytochrome P450cam and corresponding Mutants using Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy". Biochemistry 2011, 50, 1053-1069.
M. G. I. Galinato, C. M. Whaley, D. Roberts, P. Wang, N. Lehnert, "Favorable protonation of the (mu-edt)[Fe2(PMe3)4(CO)2(H-terminal)] hydrogenase model complex over its bridging mu-H counterpart: a spectroscopic and DFT study". Eur. J. Inorg. Chem, 2011, 1147-1154 (special issue: Hydrogenases)
N. Lehnert, J. T. Sage, N. Silvernail, W. R. Scheidt, E. E. Alp, W. Sturhahn, J. Zhao, "Oriented Single-Crystal Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy of [Fe(TPP)(MI)(NO)]: Quantitative Assessment of the trans Effect of NO", Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 7197-7215
T. C. Berto, V. K. K. Praneeth, L. E. Goodrich, N. Lehnert, "Iron-Porphyrin NO Complexes with Covalently Attached N-Donor Ligands: The Formation of a Stable Six-Coordinate Species in Solution", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17116-17126
V. K. K. Praneeth, F. Paulat, T. C. Berto, S. DeBeer George, C. Nather, C. D. Sulok, N. Lehnert, "Electronic Structure of Six-Coordinate Iron(III)-Porphyrin NO Adducts: the Elusive Fe(III)-NO(radical) State and Its Influence on the Properties of these Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 15288-15303
K. Fujisawa, A. Tateda, T. Ono, Y. Miyashita, K. Okamoto, F. Paulat, V. K. K. Praneeth, A. Merkle, N. Lehnert, "Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of Mononuclear Copper(I) Nitrosyl Complexes: End-on versus Side-on Coordination of NO to Copper(I)", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1205-1213
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Here he stands. His eyes burn with sweat, his back aches from the combat pack laden with tools of the trade, his legs rubbery from the lactic acid coursing through his muscles. He is dressed for combat: His boots are dusty, his uniform is salty, and on his shoulder is a small patch that wordlessly explains his willingness to suffer so greatly: it is the American Flag.
Warrior: a brave or experienced soldier or fighter.
"Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, and what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there
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-----Introduction within modern combat soldier pamphlet published by the United States Military.
Warrior Ethos
What is Warrior Ethos? At first glance, it is just four simple lines embedded in the
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Sustained and developed through discipline, commitment, and pride, these four lines
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Hero: a person typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
Brave: ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage; endure or face unpleasant conditions or behavior without showing fear.
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In sports are you a hero if you shoot the winning basket? When playing on a level floor in an air conditioned room with no cumbersome equipment, sleep and food easily accessible, medical personnel and ice packs at the ready in the wings, where are the mortal screams of fallen comrades on the battle field?
Lets take a look at Marvel Comics in Part Two.
Super hero is a fictional character who has amazing powers, super human powers.
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Distinguished Service Cross
Distinguished Service Cross (United States) is the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the United States Army, awarded for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force.
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The Profile in Courage Award is a private award given to recognize displays of courage similar to those John F. Kennedy described in his book Profiles in Courage. It is given to individuals (often elected officials) who, by acting in accord with their conscience, risked their careers or lives by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or pressure from constituents or other local interests.
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The Civil Courage Prize is a human rights award which is awarded to "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor." It is awarded by the Trustees of The Train Foundation annually and may be awarded posthumously.
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Courage to Care Award is a plaque with miniature bas-reliefs depicting the backdrop for the rescuers' exceptional deeds during the Nazis' persecution, deportation and murder of millions of Jews.
Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage is a prize awarded by Georgia Institute of Technology to individuals who uphold the legacy of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., whose actions in Atlanta, Georgia and testimony before congress in support of the 1963 Civil Rights Bill legislation set a standard for courage during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s.
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the saga of the red pants
So I bought these red pants. I got the idea that I needed to have a pair, and after significant online research* this is the one upon which I decided. You know, because if you're going to get red pants, you might as well go all the way.
I ordered them online and waited excitedly, whiling away the days by posting this photo on Facebook. A couple of dozen people weighed in. "They remind me of Dittos," one said, referring to the 70s jeans that featured big bell bottoms, bright colors and a booty-loving cut. "I think I had these in the sixth grade," said another. Some people loved them, some hated them. A few kindly assured me, "You can pull them off."
Now, this is true of me. I generally can pull off the slightly outlandish ensemble. There's a freedom in being odd-looking to begin with, and I am on the tall side, both of which help. And please don't hate me, but clothing tends to fit me. (I think it's the consolation prize I got for being pale, deaf in one ear, and debilitatingly anxious, plus other even less attractive traits I'm not fool enough to point out.)
The pants finally arrived. Since so many had been asking about them, I announced
the news on Facebook. "Try them on!" people exhorted. "Post a photo!" So I did. To be honest, I was wondering about the fit. Particularly in the front. They looked funny in a way I'll only describe using the words of the great philosopher Clinton Kelly: "The little nubbin in the boat." It appears, he writes, "when a woman is wearing pants that are too tight in the thigh, too loose in the waist and too high in the rise." The only solution: Buy the pants in a bigger size and tailor them down.
Long story short: I called the store. I ordered a second pair of red pants the next size up. I waited excitedly for them to arrive. They showed up today, I tried them on. The little nubbin was still there, only this time the pants were too big. No tailor in the world could save these pants for me.
Both pairs went back this afternoon. I'm a little sad they didn't fit. But as my fashion writer friend Teri pointed out on Facebook, "Like most good dressers, you are well aware that you will be truly satisfied when you get EXACTLY what you want...."
She's right. What do you all think of these?
*Dear friends who keep asking about my third novel: This is why it is taking so long.


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Project Manager: Samtsogye (Whitney)
This project alleviates nuns' need to buy expensive fuel, improves the nuns' health, and increases the nuns' time to read scriptures, which they now do instead of collecting fuel.
An anonymous private donor funded this project
Samtsogye is from Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. She is currently working towards an Associated degree in English at the Qinghai Normal University Nationalities Department English Training Program.
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What? 14 Solar Cookers for Tawa Gongma Nunnery
Who? Tawa Gongma Nunnery, Lhabrang Township, Xiahe County, Gannan Prefecture, Gansu Province
Photos of project implementation
The delivery truck comes slowly along the nunnery's footpath.
One of the solar cookers the nuns received.
The nuns gather around the delivery truck.
The nuns were very glad to receive the solar cookers.
The nuns discuss how to transport the solar cookers.
Solar cookers are taken off the delivery truck.
Dam-Chetsomo and some other nuns are taking the solar cooker from the truck
Project Summary
• To alleviate nuns' need to buy expensive fuel (coal, wood, yak- dung, sheep pellets) for cooking. Saved money can be used for other such essential daily necessities as flour, cooking oil, and medicines.
• To save the nuns' time (which is usually spent getting fuel).
• To improve the nuns' health and reduce health risks from long-term exposure to smoky kitchens in each nun's room.
• To increase nuns' time to read scriptures, which they will do instead of collecting fuel.
The total cost of the project was 2,200 Rmb: 1,400 RMB was donated by an anonymous private donor, the recipient nuns provided 700 RMB in local contribution, and the project manager contributed 100 rmb to pay for her transportation to the project site. The solar cookers were bought from Liu Ji Tai Yang Zao Company in Xunhua. Each solar cooker cost 150rmb, including transportation, and there were a total of 14 solar cookers.
• Fourteen solar cookers were purchased and given to 28 nuns.these cooker will be used by all 51 nuns.
• In using their solar cookers, the nuns will be able to dramatically reduce the amount of fuel that they use and will be able to save money. Before they got the solar cookers, each year they had to spend an average of 170rmb for coal, sheep pellet and wood, and 56rmb for yak dung. We predict that by using the new solar cookers, each nun will be able to save at least 180rmb per year on fuel.
• The nuns' will also save time that they previously spent waiting for the fuel sellers in the morning. Each morning they would spend about five hours walking down to the road, waiting for the fuel sellers, and carrying the fuel back up the hill. Now that the nuns have solar cookers, they will be able to spend many of their mornings doing other activities.
Tawa Gongma Nunnery is located in Tawa Gongma village , in the south of Xiahe County (historically known as Lhabrang), Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. Xiahe is 278 kilometers from Lanzhou, the provincial capital, and 290 kilometers from Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province.
Some of the Nuns of Tawa Gongma Nunnery
Lhabrang Background:
Lhabrang is located in the southwest of Gansu province. It is a great religious center that attracts thousands of worshippers and tourists every year. In and around Lhabrang are six major religious centers: the Tantra monastery, the Lhabrang monastery, one Nyingma nunnery and two Sarma nunneries. Large-scale religious rituals are held in Lhabrang six times per year. Due to its religious significance, it is known as the "cultural art palace" of Buddhism, or "small Lhasa". In addition to attracting locals from the 13 townships of Xiahe County, Lhabrang draws both Chinese and western tourists to its wide array of religious activities and the unique atmosphere of its monasteries–especially the Lhabrang monastery, which is the biggest yellow hat sect monastery in Amdo.
Tawa Gongma Nunnery (mtha' ba gong ma'i jomo'i sgar) Background
Contributed by Professor Charlene Mackley of Reed College
The Tawa Gongma nunnery, a small but thriving community of 51 young nuns living on a hill just east of the famous Geluk sect monastery of Lhabrang (founded 1709), protect a long historical legacy of their community there. However, since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s allowed some Tibetan Buddhist communities to re-establish themselves after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), these nuns are among the most marginalized of Buddhist practitioners in the Lhabrang valley (Xiahe County seat). Thus at present, in contrast to the two other nunneries in the valley, the Tawa Gongma nuns live cramped in tiny handmade homes on the hillside, with no plumbing or running water, and very few ways to earn money. Yet, under the guidance of their two head nuns, they persevere in training new young nuns in basic Tibetan literacy, and in carrying out their annual calendar of Buddhist rites in a tiny makeshift assembly hall erected on the spot where the original hall once stood. Charlene Makley, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College, who conducted ethnographic research among the Tawa Gongma nuns between 1992-2002, found that there were several reasons for this situation that were far beyond the nuns' control.
For one, the Tawa Gongma nuns struggle, along with all nuns in Lhabrang, to find lay support against the deep-seated preference of Tibetan Buddhist laity for the ritual services of monks. This gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism has a long legacy, especially in places of Geluk sect monastic dominance like Lhabrang, yet Makley found that lay preferences for monks were even more marked under the 1980s reforms. In Tibetan regions, a lineage of fully ordained nuns was never established; all nuns in Tibet are thus technically novices. Nuns' communities were never politically powerful as institutions the way monks' communities could be, and their facilities were usually smaller and poorer appendages of those of monks. Tibetan nuns historically played social roles that reflected the ambiguous status of their renunciation. Nuns living in nun communities were often expected to maintain closer ties to their natal families than monks (i.e., in remaining subject to household labor obligations), and some women found ways to take vows and remain in the household. In addition, nuns had very different ritual relationships to the lay community than monks. They did not perform the crucial services for specific goals such as divination and chanting at various life events, especially funerals, provided by monks to lay households. Instead, lay investment in nuns' activities required an exceptional generosity because nuns' rites for laity represented more "unfocused merit-making" to benefit sentient beings in general. In such a context, the prestige and power of celibate monkhood in this region, and the crucial importance of women to the household economy explain why, despite a definite shortage of marriageable men locally, only a tiny minority of young, never-married women entered the monastic life.
Another reason for the relative marginality of the Tawa Gongma nuns in contemporary Lhabrang hinges on local history. This is because crucial state permissions and start-up funds for rebuilding in the 1980s depended on monastic communities' claims to relative antiquity in the valley. Accounts of the number of nuns in Lhabrang prior to 1958 vary due to conflicting understandings of the histories of the nun communities there. Most young nuns in post-Mao Lhabrang came to join two Geluk nunneries that were affiliated with Lhabrang monastery by the reign of the fifth Jamyang Shepa (1916-1947), the ruling lama of Lhabrang. These were the Tawa Gongma Nunnery and the Hwontshang Hill Nunnery, situated on the hills just to the east and west of the monastery respectively. The Lhabrang nunneries, like most historically, had their own small groups of senior nuns who acted as teachers, mentors and administrators for younger nuns, and they were largely autonomous in the day-to-day running of the community. Indeed, they operated as separate assemblies modeled on the monk assemblies, with nun officials corresponding to the major monk officials in the assemblies, and their own calendars of ritual observances. Estimates of the combined population of those original communities on the eve of the Chinese Communist victory range from 80-100 nuns. Far overshadowed by the great prestige of Lhabrang monastery (with up to 4000 monks in its heyday), the history of those nun communities barely surfaces in histories of the monastery. What little has been written about them (a paragraph here and there) has been collected from oral histories and legends.
Makley found that in the 1990s many of the elder nuns had passed away, and the remaining nuns had to compete for precious state support as they tried to re-establish all-important links to prestigious patron lamas. The Hwontshang Hill Nunnery was able to monopolize the funds for rebuilding allocated to Lhabrang nuns by the state in the early 80s (about 18,000 yuan). Negotiations for state support for nuns in Lhabrang also allowed for the establishment of an entirely new community of Nyingma nuns there. When in the 1980s the Religious Affairs Bureau decided to recognize the Hwontshang Hill nunnery as the only nunnery for state support, a group of Nyingma nuns who had recently come to Lhabrang as devotees of a charismatic Nyingma lama there managed to gain state recognition as another "school" of the Hwontshang nunnery. In the 1990s, both the Hwontshang Hill Nunnery and the Nyingma Nunnery had elder nun representatives on the monastery's "Democratic Management Committee", the committee which after reforms was the most important liaison between monastic communities and the institutions of the state. Thus with concerted advocacy and fundraising efforts, the two communities were able to secure state and private funds to separately build beautiful assembly halls by the late 1990s.
In effect, the young nuns who came to join the Tawa Gongma Nunnery in the 80s and 90s, lacking the prestige of elder nuns and the support of local lamas, were cut out of state-supported rebuilding efforts. However, according to local Tibetan historians, the Tawa Gongma Nunnery was actually the most ancient nunnery in the valley . Those accounts state that the Tawa Gongma nunnery was established in 1781 by a nun from the Chedzong Lango region in Tshe (ch. Hezuo) with the support of the 2nd Jamyang Shepa, during the period in which he was engaged in greatly expanding the monastery's facilities and influence. By contrast, the Hwontshang Hill Nunnery was very recent, having been established during the reign of the 5th Jamyang Shepa in 1925. In an interview with Makley in 1995, the two head nuns of Tawa Gongma Nunnery proudly spoke of this historical legacy, a link to the past they had heard about from elder nuns, since passed away, who had quietly lived there through the Maoist years. The head nuns insisted that they had stayed at their site even after post-Mao state officials only recognized the Hwontshang Hill Nunnery because the nunnery's main lama, based at a Geluk monastery just north of Lhabrang, had admonished them to stay and protect the historical legacy of the 2nd Jamyang Shepa.
A final reason for the relative marginality of the Tawa Gongma nunnery in contemporary Lhabrang has to do with the intensifying tensions under reforms between young rural Tibetan women's aspirations and the needs of their households. Makley found that in the 1990s and early 2000s, unprecedented numbers of young women were leaving rural regions to seek opportunities for work and education in urbanizing places like Lhabrang valley (the Xiahe County seat). They did this even as Tibetan households often chose to keep daughters home to hold up the household subsistence economy while sons were sent to become monks, or to seek secular education or wage labor in the increasingly competitive market economy. In this context, Tibetan Buddhist nunneries in Lhabrang, especially because as Geluk nunneries they were often perceived by nuns to offer more equal opportunities for Buddhist education than Nyingma nunneries, held out one of the only viable options for rural women to find community and education outside of rural households and arranged marriages. Thus, even as numbers of young monks dwindled into the late 1990s, numbers of nuns have increased dramatically relative to nun populations before.
According to Makley's estimates, there were about 200 nuns affiliated with the Lhabrang nun communities in 1995, at least 80% of whom were under the age of 40. This was over twice the number of nuns reportedly living in Lhabrang just prior to the Communist victory in 1949. Most young nuns in Lhabrang are from relatively impoverished Amdo farming regions outside the Lhabrang valley in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, or in Tibetan regions in northern Sichuan and southern Qinghai provinces. In 1995, there was a housing shortage for such new nuns, and many lived with nun roommates, or rented spaces in lay households.
In the contemporary context then, Makley found that all nuns in Lhabrang had to face intensifying scrutiny and gossip from local laity and monks because they were uniquely visible as young women who were opting out of crucial household labor. The Tawa Gongma nuns were particularly susceptible to this because they lacked the mitigating prestige of state support and a local lama. Thus, even though, like the other nun communities, the Tawa Gongma nuns enforced strict rules concerning public behavior, they had to endure frequent local gossip about their motivations and capacities for serious learning. These factors, along with intensifying competition among Tibetan ritual specialists for dwindling lay support under market reforms, meant that the Tawa Gongma nuns were at the bottom of locals' priorities, forcing most to rely for subsistence on meager contributions from family members, begging, or physically taxing fasting services. Yet their perseverance and integrity in maintaining their nunnery and seeking out new educational opportunities from lamas is a testament to the power of rural Tibetan women's aspirations in the face of social and economic obstacles.
There are approximately 50,000 people in Lhabrang city. In Tawa Gongma nunnery there are 51 nuns. The youngest nun is 13 years old, and the oldest is 56. The majority of the nuns are 30-50 years old.
Almost all of the nuns in the Tawa Gongma nunnery have had some formal education. Of the 51 nuns, 41 hav e graduated from primary school and 20 have attended some middle school. There are five nuns who have no f ormal schooling, but who learned how to read and write in the nunnery. In addition, all of the nuns have furthered their education in the nunnery. All of the nuns are literate and can fluently chant all kinds of Tibetan scripture. This is a big accomplishment. However, the nun's talent for reading scriptures goes unrecognized because the local people never ask the nuns to chant in their homes. In this area, people believe that asking the nuns to read the scripture is a shameful thing, and instead they always ask monks to chant. By chanting scriptures, the monks can earn 20 rmb per day, receive three free meals and free transportation.
Cash income
Most of the nuns in Tawa Gongma nunnery make barely enough money to survive. The cost of fuel, food, medicine, water, and electricity per person per year is about 350 RMB. This figure includes only enough money for two meals per day. The average nun is able to make about 420 RMB per year through fasting rites, begging, and family support. At the end of the year, the nuns use whatever money they have leftover to purchase clothing for themselves and food for the Losar (new year) celebration.
The hardworking nuns earn this small amount of money in two very harsh ways: The first is by begging. Every month, the nuns go to surrounding villages to beg for small amounts of money, food, or anything else that generous families may be willing to give. Unfortunately, the townspeople people often scold them and say that they beg out of laziness. People also say that they have become nuns because they don't want to do housework, or cannot find husbands or have some physical problems such as blindness, or deafness. When they g o out begging, they are mistreated by village children, who throw rocks at them and poke them with sticks. The children get bad ideas about the nuns from their families. W idespread prejudice against the nuns leads to fewer and fewer families who are willing to give donations to them.
The second way that the nuns earn money is by performing a religious ritual called 'Nongnay' (fasting) to earn money. Compared to the monks of Lhabrang, the nuns have very few opportunities to earn money for performing religious rituals. N ongnay is a ritual that monks do not perform, and thus it has become the nuns' chief source of income . When performing Nongnay, the nuns do not eat, drink, or speak for two entire days. After practicing this ritual, the nuns can earn some money. Usually, rich families give them 10–13rmb per ritual and poor families give them 5rmb. Practicing this religious ritual on a regular basis causes many health problems for the nuns. They are very susceptible to diseases and are often sick. In addition, they usually have very low energy, look much older than their age, and almost all of the n uns are unhealthily under weight. Over the past 10 years, more than half of the nuns, including Ani Rakzen Droma, the leader of the nunnery, have contracted serious illnesses that required them to stay in bed. Ma ny of the villagers believe that these sicknesses are a direct result of practicing Nongnay, but the nuns have no choice but to do the ritual. When a family asks the nuns to practice Nognay, they must concede, because this is one of the only ways that they have to earn money for survival. In addition, they are afraid that if they were to refuse, it would increase the prejudice and rumors against them, and people would say that the nuns don't want to help others.
Because they barely make enough money to survive, their natal families support them by donating small amounts of food, butter, cheese, or oil. They also receive an average of 150 rmb per nun per year from their families.
The nuns themselves do not have any fields. Their families do, however, and these fields create the income that partially supports them. A rich family has about 7mu of land, with which they can earn 2,000 rmb per year, and a poor family has about 4 to 5 mu, with which they can earn about 1000rmb per year.
Some of the nuns' families also raise livestock. The average nun's family owns one donkey, two pigs, two cows and 50 sheep. By selling the mature livestock and offspring, and the dairy products that these animals produce, they can earn between 800 to 2500rmb rmb per year, depending on how many family members are working to raise the livestock. This amount of money is used to support the entire family, and to support the daughter in the nunnery. Usually, each family gives 150 rmb per year to the nunnery, in addition to small amounts of butter cheese, and oil. Most families are large, with more than ten people, and some families also have to pay tuition for children in school. Hence, the families' living conditions are very poor.
The weather in Xiahe county is usually cold. In our hometown there is no clear distinction between spring, winter, summer and autumn. Most months are winter. In July the weather is little bit hot, but after that people cannot say goodbye to their sheep skin robes. Because of the cold weather, the nuns spend abou t 170rmb per person per year on fuel (firewood and yak dung). The cold winter also makes the nun's lives difficult because it makes it difficult for them to go outside to beg and earn money.
No access to nunnery
The Tawa Gongma nuns have many different problems that combine together to make their lives difficult. One of these problems is the very limited access to their nunnery. The terrible condition of the current path that leads from the main road to the nunnery makes it very dangerous and difficult to reach the nunnery, which causes the nuns to be isolated from their community. This path freezes over entirely during the winter months, and becomes dangerously muddy during the wet season, making it very difficult to use for 12 months of the year. This lack of access causes many problems for the nuns:
In winter, when the road is not frozen over, the snowmelt from the surrounding mountain floods the small road and makes it nearly impossible to travel on. This makes it difficult for all of the Tawa Gongma nuns to leave or return to their nunnery. The muddy, icy road is most dangerous for the older nuns, who simply stay in their dormitories for the majority of the wet season because they cannot make it down the mud path without slipping.
No access to basic living needs such as fuel and milk
Another problem caused by the terrible condition of the footpath is the nun's lack of access to vendors who supply milk, fuel, and other necessities to the townspeople. Due to the muddy, slippery footpath, these vendors refuse to travel to the nunnery to sell their wares without charging an extra fee. Hence, the nuns must either pay double for these items, or spend half of the day waiting at the main road to meet the vendors and then drag the merchandise up the muddy footpath to the nunnery.
Ani Rinzig is on the left side
I interviewed Ani-Rinzing, the leader of this nunnery. She is 54 years old. She said that she is very happy that the nuns got such good quality solar cookers. After a week I asked her how the solar cookers were working, and she said the solar cookers are excellent, and that they use them every day. She explained that since the roofs of the nuns' small homes are not sturdy enough the support the weight of the solar cookers, they decided to put the solar cookers together in a villager's yard where all 51 of the nuns can use them. They are currently rebuilding their nunnery, and after the new nunnery hall is finished being built they will move the solar cookers to the yard of the nunnery. She said that now the nuns don't have to wait for the fuel sellers on the street or pay double price for fuel. She thinks that because of the solar cookers, each nun will save around 180rmb in a year because they will only need to spend money for fuel to use on cold or cloudy days.
I also interviewed Ani-Goncho, who has been a nun for 34 years. She has carried coal and yak-dung from the lower market to the nunnery for many years. She believes that carrying coal hurt her leg so much so that now she limps. Before she got the solar cooker, her impoverished family needed to send yak-dung, wood and sheep pellets by donkey transport from 11 kilometers away. This took almost 8 hours. After she got the solar cooker she doesn't need to burden her family. While I was interviewing her she said thank you to the donor again and again.
Tsedrom, on the left, with another nun
Thirteen year old Tsedrom said she is very happy to get a solar cooker because she doesn't need to accompany the older nuns go to the crossroads to look for dung sellers for around five hours every day. Instead, she is able to use that time to read scriptures and to learn more about Buddhism.
|March 25,2006
|Holding a meeting with nuns
|Whitney &the nuns
|March 26,2006
|Contacting with the company
|Whitney &Lillian
|April 1,2006
|transport the solar cookers to the nunnery
|Whitney& brother &the driver
|April 2,2006
|Distributing the solar cookers to the nuns
|Whitney &nuns and brother
|April 3,2006
|Taking pictures of the solar cookers in the nuns' dorms
|April 4th, 2006
|Interviewing the nuns
Thank You Letter
Dear Donor,
Tawa Gongma Nunnery has 51 nuns, and our lives depend on fasting and begging. Sometimes our families gave us a little money for food and fuel. Our families graze sheep and a few yaks in order to make a living. But during the past few years the weather has changed gradually and there has been less rainfall than normal. Because of this, the grassland has become dry and many livestock have died. That being the case, many local people have difficulty in earning money from selling animals. So we cannot get family support and we cannot get food and money from begging, since many people here depend on herding. These days, we are rebuilding our chanting hall, which before was a one roofed hall without walls. We are rebuilding because the old hall really cannot continue to be used. So our financial problems are now more serious than before.
During this difficult time, our nuns received 14 solar cookers from you. This solved many problems that have grown through the years, and freed a number of us so that we can attend the morning chanting group. Now we are using the solar cookers in many ways. We can make bread, boil water, cook food, and make hot milk tea, so we want to say thank you, and we are praying everyday for you to have good luck forever!
Faithfully yours,
Tawa Gongma Nunnery


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Conversion was the third release in the first series of Big Finish Productions' Cyberman audio series.
Publisher's summary Edit
Fear is Humanity's greatest enemy. The Cybermen can free us from it.
The Cybermen... The great civilisation we could have been... if we'd taken another path. A purer path. The Scorpius strategy is now in full operation. There will be victory in Orion...
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Cast Edit
- Paul Hunt / Android - Barnaby Edwards
- Samantha Thorn - Hannah Smith
- Liam Barnaby - Mark McDonnell
- President Karen Brett / The Cyber-Leader - Sarah Mowat
- Prime Reordin / Newscaster - Toby Longworth
- Vice-Admiral Charles Hendry / Spavin - Ian Brooker
- Brynner - Samantha Sanns
- The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner / The Cyber-Leader - Nicholas Briggs
References Edit
Individuals Edit
- After being captured by the Cybermen, Paul Hunt was partially converted on the orders of the Cyber-Planner.
- Samantha Thorn is aware that Liam Barnaby is attracted to her.
- President Karen Brett has ordered Cybermen to be deployed among the Earth Empire's internal security forces. She has assigned cybernetic commando units to keep the peace in all major population centres on Earth, supposedly in order to protect the people from retaliation by the increasingly desperate androids.
- On the instructions of the Cyber-Planner, Karen Brett declares martial law throughout Earth and announces that she intends to personally lead the final assault against the Android Horde in the Orion system.
- On the Scorpius Seabed Base, Karen Brett undergoes complete cyber-conversion.
Spacecraft Edit
- Antares is the flagship of the android fleet. It is under the command of Prime Reordin.
Species Edit
- Androids are capable of vomiting.
- The androids are considering committing genocide against humanity in order to deprive the Cybermen of their "raw material."
- Prior to being deported to the Orion system, certain androids served as doctors to humans. This practice had ended by the time that Barnaby was born.
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Notes Edit
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Continuity Edit
- Hunt leaves a message for President Duncan Levinson telling him that he was right and that he must cancel Scorpius. (AUDIO: Scorpius)
- Hunt recalls Karen Brett's reaction to seeing a Cyberman for the first time on Reticek IV and the death of her parents. (AUDIO: Scorpius)
- Samantha tells Prime Reordin about the Sword of Orion incident in the Garazone system in 2503. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)
- The Cybermen's Master Hibernation Vault is located on Telos. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
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Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008* with Nicholas S. Souleles, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; David S. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau; Robert McClelland, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Abstract: Using special questions added to the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we measure the response of household spending to the economic stimulus payments (ESPs) disbursed in mid- 2008. We find that, on average, households spent about 12-31% of their stimulus payments on non-durable goods during the three-month period in which the payments were received. Further, there was also a substantial and significant increase in spending on durable goods, in particular autos. Improving on previous research, these spending responses are estimated with precision using only variation in the timing of ESP receipt. We also find some evidence of an ongoing though smaller response in the subsequent three-month period, though this response cannot be estimated with precision. Further, we find little evidence that the propensity to spend varies with the means of delivery (paper check versus electronic transfer). The estimated responses are substantial and significant for older, lower-income, and home-owning households. Finally, we evaluate a complementary methodology for quantifying the impact of tax cuts, which asks consumers to self-report whether they spent their tax cuts. The response of actual spending to the ESPs is indeed largest for self-reported spenders, though self-reported savers also spent a significant fraction of the payments.
Presented staff briefing for the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC on May 2010.
Professor Daniel Diermeier
The Kellogg Reputation Central web site
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Business people have long recognized the importance of reputation. However, despite a substantial body of research, a solid methodology for quantify reputation is lacking. Advances in text analytics and in computational linguistics more generally are now allowing such quantification.
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"Risk in the Health Care Industry: The Patient Safety Education Project"
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The influence of affect on beliefs, preferences and financial decisions (with Brian Knutson). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
"The Neural Basis of Financial Decision Making"
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"Understanding Trust" (with Anna Toldra and Luigi Zingales)
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"Trusting the Stock Market" (with Luigi Guiso and Luigi Zingales). Forthcoming, The Journal of Finance.
"Procrastination and Impatience" (with Ernesto Reuben and Luigi Zingales).
"Social Capital as Good Culture" (with Luigi Guiso and Luigi Zingales).
"Long Term Persistence" (with Luigi Guiso and Luigi Zingales).
"Are You Trading Predictably?" (with Steven L. Heston, Ronnie Sadka and Lewis D. Thorson). Financial Analysts Journal. Vol 67, No. 2. 2011. CFA Institute
Portfolio Risk Analysis, (with Gregory Connor and Lisa Goldberg). Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2010
"Pricing the Commonality Across Alternative Measures of Liquidity" (with Ronnie Sadka) Journal of Financial Economics 87 (January 2008): 45-72.
"Intraday Patterns in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns" (with Steven L. Heston andRonnie Sadka). Journal of Finance 65(4): 1369-1407. 2010.
This research won the Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize.
"Factor Models of Asset Returns" (with Gregory Connor). Wiley. 2009
Professor Deborah Lucas
Professor Sandeep Baliga
"Mnemonomics: The Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Memory Kludge " (with Jeff Ely)
"Liquidity and Manipulation of Executive Compensation Schemes" (with Ulf Axelson)
"Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace?" (with David O. Lucca and Tomas Sjöström)
Professor Keith Murnighan
"Cheating Makes You Smarter: The Relationship Between Deception and Cognitive Sophistications" (with Long Wang, Northwestern University)
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"Immorality from Guilt in Ethical Decision Making: Overdo and Overcorrection" (with Long Wang, Northwestern University)
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Professor Torben Andersen
VOLATILITY: PRACTICAL METHODS FOR FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS (with Tim Bollerslev, Peter Christoffersen and Francis X. Diebold). Forthcoming, Princeton University Press.
Financial Market Volatility: From ARCH and GARCH to Stochastic and Realized Volatility" (with Tim Bollerslev). Under Preparation for MIT Press – Zeuthen Lectures.


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