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Getting Crazy with Oatmeal: 19 Sweet and Savory Oatmeal Toppings
Chocolate oatmeal. Made with one heaping tablespoonful of cocoa for each cup of old-fashioned oats. Stir well before cooking, to dissolve lumps. Tasty and cheaper than using Nutella.
Like congee, oatmeal can be made in the rice cooker. If I use the rice cooker, I cannot burn it.
What kitchen tools have you barely used?
A meat-tenderizing mallet. I'm mostly vegetarian.
The mandoline. It's too much work to get it out and set it up. I just use a knife.
A suribachi (for grinding sesame seeds to make gomasio). I buy pre-made gomasio at the supermarket. Great with brown rice!
One odd thing that I do use: a Japanese pickle press, for making pickled vegs. It turns out to work fine for pressing water out of tofu.
Cook the Book: 'My Pizza'
After a twenty-year hiatus, I started baking my own bread again. What was the impetus? The New York Times and no-knead bread. These days, my daily bread is Peter Reinhart's Struan bread, but I still have fond memories of the first no-knead loaves that came out of my Dutch oven.
Grace/prayer at a dinner party
I'm a Buddhist. I *hate* being expected to participate in rituals that assume I'm Christian. I'll keep my mouth shut if it's someone's home (their house, their ways) but if it's a public occasion (a company picnic, a farewell lunch at work) I'll complain.
The Worst Thing I Ever Found in My Food
Metal shavings in a can of tuna. Lucky I saw them.
How did you do with 2011's New Year's Food Resolutions?
Using programs free on the web (Lose It and Eat Watch), I lost 22 pounds.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Korin Knife
An old Japanese carbon steel knife with a wooden handle; bought cheaply from a friend of a friend who was moving.
Jazzing up Tongan watermelon drink
Thanks all. I think I'm going to try hazelnut syrup with a little juiced fresh ginger. No booze, if I want my roommate to drink any. He doesn't like hard liquor ... says it disagrees with him.
Spice Hunting: How to Do a Spice Audit and Reclaim Your Pantry
I also use the glass jars from the supermarket spices -- wash them up and relabel them with my label machine. I refill them from the bulk spices at my food co-op. They're stored in a dark cupboard, on several of those revolving carousels.
Looks organized, but I *do* have spices that are years old and need to be tossed. Mostly things like oregano and tarragon. I am cooking Middle Eastern, Persian, South-Southeast-East Asian food these days.
Cook the Book: 'Home Cooking with Jean-Georges'
I'm too poor to eat out; my chefs write cookbooks. I imagine Madhur Jaffrey making chickpeas with onions, tomatoes, and amchur, basmati rice, and Gujarati-style green beans on the side. Just ever so much better than I do it.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Legacy of the Lentil
Dal made with red lentils and amchoor (sour mango powder), over a mixture of long-grain brown and red rice, with a topping of fresh green chutney (cilantro. mint, red onion, garlic, chillies, lemon juice, and raw sugar).
How many do you have, and what spices can you not be without?
Dozens. I don't want to count. I use a LOT of mustard and cumin seeds, grind my own chai masala, and swear by amchur and za'atar. However, some of my favorite dishes don't need anything more than Hawaiian sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper.
What's your secret kitchen "cheat" tool?
My one-cup tea mug and strainer. In constant use. I have learned to economize by steeping old leaves with a few pinches of new. Keep adding pinches, I can get four or five cups out of the strainer before I put the leaves in the compost bucket and start fresh.
This may work for me because I drink assertive China teas like lapsang souchong and pu-erh.
Cook the Book: 'Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume'
Yogurtlu tatlisi.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Dinners in Under 10 Minutes
Start pasta. Cut up feta cheese if not crumbled. Cut up onion and garlic, saute. Add frozen chopped spinach to onions and garlic. Can also add frozen, chopped bitter greens, like collards. Combination of spinach and bitter greens is best. When frozen greens have thawed and cooked, add cut-up or crumbled feta. Let feta melt. Add salt and freshly-ground pepper. Drain pasta. Put feta and greens over pasta. This dish freezes well, so make a lot and freeze some to microwave later.
I didn't give amounts because you'll have your own ideas about the right proportions. You could of course do this with fresh greens. That would taste better but take longer. The virtue of this quick-and-easy method is that all the ingredients can be kept on hand for spur-of-the-moment meals. You can cut corners even further with pre-crumbled feta and a jar of minced garlic.
Rice Cookers: Talk To Me! I Eat Rice! I Need a New One
I have a battered 15-year-old Panasonic with NO bells and whistles that works fine for me. Did you know that you can cook the morning oatmeal in the rice cooker? No more burnt oatmeal.
My latest food obsession...
Frozen grapes. They become sweeter as they freeze (which is why icewine). Ice cream for us dieters.
Ed Levine's Caloric Journey, Week 176: Do You Have Diet Clothes?
OR, you can weigh yourself every day and enter the results in a free online program called The Hacker's Diet, which calculates your average weight (a weighted average, biased towards more recent results; as used for finding stock trends). Pay attention to the average (a red line on the weight chart) not the daily readings, and the disadvantages of weighing every day disappear. I like watching my red line slope down.
Drink the Book Giveaway: 'Homemade Soda'
I'm already making my own ginger beer, but would love to have more recipes. My one attempt at winging it, the carrot-ginger soda, was a disaster. Not only did it taste bad, it blew up.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Cookbook Keepers
Joy of Cooking & Bittman's How to Cook Everything
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking & World of the East Vegetarian Cooking
Maider Heatter's Book of Great Desserts & Book of Great Cookies
Rose Levy Beranbaum's Cake Bible
Peter Reinhart's Artisan Bread
I should give a shout-out to the website The Fresh Loaf, which taught me how to bake bread. Reinhart's book has been helpful, but it built on skills I first learned from The Fresh Loaf.
Cook the Book: 'Super Natural Every Day'
A slice of homemade whole wheat bread, topped with white cheddar cheese, heated in the microwave and sprinkled with salt and freshly-ground pepper.
Put your shopping carts back where they belong, Please!
I'm disabled with arthritis and it hurts me to walk. If the cart stand is near the handicapped parking space, I'll use it, but in most cases, the stand is far away. Or so it seems to me. I make an effort to place the cart where it won't block anyone or roll into cars.
Ed Levine's Caloric Journey, Week 170: A Change in Course
I weigh myself every morning but ... I don't take the weight seriously. I enter the figure in an online program called the Hacker's Diet, which uses an averaging algorithm to calculate the weight TREND. It graphs my weight for me, as white dots for the weight readings and a red line for the weighted average. I am losing between half a pound and a pound a week. My graph is a red line sloping downwards, with the white dots dancing below. My weight can vary by several pounds (water weight, how much I ate the previous day) but as long as the red line keeps going down, I know I'm losing weight. The program doesn't cost anything. It's worth a try.
Tracking calories with Lose It is also helping.


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By Michael Hughes
There's one good thing about working with words. It is difficult – if not impossible – to find a mechanical replacement.
Even the best grammar-fixing and spellchecking programs have major flaws. So I'm fairly confident of continuing a career of putting nouns, verbs, adjectives and the like in place. I don't expect to walk into IIE one morning and see C-3PO from Star Wars sitting at my desk.
As industrial engineers know, the same can't be said for other professions. IEs often have been at the forefront of automating systems. But they also have been called "human engineers" because of the attention paid to worker interfaces. So when a worker says "I feel like a robot," the good IEs work not only to optimize the system, but to make sure that the staff members involved feel, well, human.
Mark Graban tackles that in the cover story "Good Change," which starts on Page 30. The industrial engineer was surprised to hear the "I feel like a robot" claim when he moved from manufacturing to healthcare. Just like in the automotive industry, Graban writes, kaizen and other lean principles were the keys to improved efficiency and better results for the workers and their customers. Graban details the introduction of kaizen into the medical field, its growth, best practices and hospitals that have undergone remarkable lean transformations.
In fact, this issue of Industrial Engineer has several healthcare options to examine. On Page 14, there is a news article about how a Boston hospital revolutionized its emergency department to the joy of its patients. And Health Systems columnist William "Ike" Eisenhauer tackles overcomplicated modeling on Page 24.
And, as always, February brings the opportunity to learn with a visit to the Society for Health Systems' Health Systems Process Improvement Conference. Visit www.shsconference.org to register.
Learn how to make sure your healthcare workers are efficient, effective and feel like people. Humanity will thank you.
Michael Hughes is managing editor of IIE. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or (770) 349-1110.

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Washington Divas wide receiver Juliette Baker-Brice celebrates her touchdown catch with teammate and tight end Kesee Halliard as Baker-Brice's catch made the score 13-6 in the second quarter of the Women's Professional Football playoffs on Saturday, June 22, at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md. The D.C. Divas are making their 10th playoff appearance, which ranks second in women's pro football history.
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Fresh doubts over Philip Clarke's strategy at Tesco were raised yesterday after the surprise resignation of the founders of the Giraffe restaurant chain acquired by the supermarket last year for almost £50 million.
Only a week after Mr Clarke's abrupt ousting as chief executive, the retail giant has parted company with Juliette and Russel Joffe, who said it had been "an incredibly emotional decision to step away from our business".
The news led to further questioning of Mr Clarke's strategy of trying to turn some large Tesco Extra stores into retail destinations with high street names including Giraffe family restaurants,


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Sharon Osbourne Teaches 'Charm School' Girls How to Instigate a Drink-Throwing, Hair-Pulling Catfight
Last night, VH1 finally aired the Charm School reunion show where Sharon Osbourne and contestant Megan Hauserman got into a fight so epic, it sent Hauserman to the hospital (and to the LAPD).
In the series, Osbourne aims to reform the Rock of Love rejects whose attitudes, drawn-on eyebrows and hastily purchased breast implants could use a little mentoring. However, Osbourne's somewhat less-than-polite expulsion of Hauserman in episode four ("Yeah, you changed your clothes today, but Megan, in here you're still a bitch... a real fucking bitch") engendered hard feelings between the two that lasted until the reunion show, where a simple, drunken anecdote about Hauserman's spayed Chihuahua led to a massive battle royale. Still, even though Osbourne appeared to instigate and escalate the fight, audience sentiment stayed on her side; we're only sorry that VH1 cut away before the other, Hauserman-hating Charm School contestants could climb atop their desks in wobbly six-inch heels, crying, "O Captain! My Captain!"


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Flyers mailed out to Dora graduates regarding the July 2 Dora all-school reunion inadvertently showed $20 as the adult meal price. The correct adult meal price is $10.
Due to this error, the deadline to send in registration and meal payment has been extended to June 15. For information regarding the reunion, contact the organizers at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Andrew Tyndall Interview Now PostedSubmitted by kentbye on Fri, 2005-08-12 10:39. Status | Tyndall
The Echo Chamber Project interview with Andrew Tyndall is now posted here.
If there is anyone who can comprehensively characterize the television news leading up to the war, then it's Andrew Tyndall.
Tyndall has been monitoring the three major nightly newscasts for over 17 years for his organziation called Tyndall Report. And his observations are definitely worth paying attention to.
I can't say whether or not the data support 100% of his conclusions, but I can say that he has made the most accurate characterizations than anyone else that I interviewed -- just from comparing my own analysis and conclusions from this pre-war time period.
I have a feeling that there will be a lot of excerpts from this interview in the final film.
Here is one of the many interesting and unique points that Tyndall makes:
There's two ways to look at how the military correspondents -- the Pentagon correspondents covered the war. One is to say that they weren't treating the debate over going to war seriously -- in other words, they were treating the war as an inevitability. Second way to look at is they were accurately treating the war as an inevitability, in that they'd talked to people in the Pentagon, and they knew that knew the diplomacy was irrelevant, and that the war was going to happen whatever happened at the United Nations. So they were either incredibly honest with us, telling us, "There's no point in worrying about the diplomacy. The only thing that matters is the military." Or they were incredibly dismissive of us, in that they said, "What you think or say or do doesn't make any difference at all, because the decision's been made for you on your behalf."
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Jonthan Landay Interview Now PostedSubmitted by kentbye on Thu, 2005-08-11 15:23. Landay | Lobe | Status
The Echo Chamber Project interview with Jonathan Landay is now posted here.
The Knight Ridder team of Landay, Warren Strobel and John Walcott have continued to scoop major news organizations in investigating the intelligence surrounding the war in Iraq.
Here's a compilation of their stories. And this blog post provides a timeline on the pre-war reporting on the doubts surrounding whether the Aluminum Tubes could be used for uranium enrichment (i.e. nuclear weapons development).
Jim Lobe, the Washington Bureau chief for Inter Press Service, describes how the mainstream media could have performed during the build-up to the war in Iraq:
The media had a lot of options as to how it was going to cover the run-up to what was almost certainly going to be a war. And they could have done as Knight Ridder did, which was really putting a lot of investigative resources and good people into finding out what was going on behind the scenes -- Why were we going to war? What was the root of all of this? What was going on in the Pentagon in terms of doing the strangest things with intelligence? What was outside of kind of accepted rules of institutional behavior that made this so extraordinary? Or they could decide, as most of the media did, that they would really get involved in kind of the mechanics of war preparation -- Embedding their journalists into parts of the Army that would then be involved in the invasion. And obviously the latter was the easier course.
BBC Article Has a Picture of Me on OurMediaSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2005-08-10 16:37. Communications | PR | Status
There is an article on the BBC website today called, "Citizens do media for themselves" that features a screenshot of OurMedia.org with my picture on it.
The article doesn't explictly mention me or The Echo Chamber Project -- it was written before my first vlog episode was featured on the front page.
The caption reads, "Ourmedia members are encouraged to be creative"
I discovered this from vlogging pioneer Steve Garfield who wrote to me saying, "the picture in this story makes you look creative."
Progress on Phase 01Submitted by kentbye on Tue, 2005-08-09 17:36. Drupal | Folksonomy | Roadmap | Status
Part of my Phase 01 vision for this project was to have a way to collect feedback from volunteers on the different interview sound bites.
I've been able to successfully upload all of the sound bites from the Bill Plante interview into Drupal.
You can check it out here: http://www.echochamberproject.com/flexinode/table/2.
At the moment, only I'm able to add folksonomy tags to these sound bites, but I'm looking at ways for volunteers to tag these sound bites as well. Currently, there isn't an existing solution, and I'm asking around it anyone has some good ideas.
ECP Featured on OurMedia's Front Page!Submitted by kentbye on Tue, 2005-08-02 09:25. PR | Status | Vlog
I just discovered that the first Echo Chamber vlog made it up onto the front page of OurMedia.org! This is great news, and will provide some great exposure for the project.
This is great timing as I just start to promote the project beyond the New Media blogosphere.
10 Interviews at Conference on ConsciousnessSubmitted by kentbye on Thu, 2005-07-14 10:21. Conference | Status
I've been back from a Conference on Consciousness and Healing put on by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for a few days now, but my Internet has been down again preventing me from making too many updates.
My wife and I attended the conference for our personal and professional interests, and I was able to conduct 10 brief stand-up interviews with consciousness researchers, quantum physicists, human rights advocates, Worldview & Values researchers, and leaders from the Complementary & Alternative Medicine movement.
What insights did I gain?
Well, there are actually a lot of parallels between the conflicts between Objective Mainstream Media vs. Subjective Blogs / New Media Technologies and between Objective Mainstream Medicine vs. Subjective Mind-Body Healing techniques.
The conference participants provided a lot of insight for the importance of holistic thinking, being inclusive of many different perspectives, how subjectivity and worldviews filter perception, and the importance of how community and collaboration can be facilitated through relationships and conversation.
I got a lot of great sound bites to flesh some of these ideas out, and I plan on introducing some of the concepts in my videoblog in order to start spreading some of these ideas to a wider audience. I intend for this to help build community and momentum around this project to develop the tools for collaborative citizen videojournalism that makes it both viable and scalable.
Below is a list of the people that I interviewed at the Consciousness & Healing Conference
Tag Cloud Development UpdateSubmitted by kentbye on Tue, 2005-07-05 16:34. Development | Drupal | Status | Tagcloud
I'm happy to report that my tag cloud font distribution algorithms were able to catch the eye of Bèr Kessels -- the author of the tagadelic module -- he passed word to Steven Wittens who is helping implement logarithmic thresholding into the tagadelic module.
I chatted with Kessels and Wittens on the #drupal IRC channel this afternoon, and found out that personalized tag clouds are also on Kessels' development track. I'm still pushing group tag clouds created from different user profile identities (i.e. creating tag clouds for the tags from anti-war and pro-war identified users). More details in the 2nd & 3rd flowcharts here.
Wittens also reported that he's implementing a one-line tag cloud query in MySQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS count, d.tid, d.name FROM term_data d INNER JOIN term_node n ON d.tid = n.tid WHERE d.vid = 1 GROUP BY d.tid, d.name ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 60
I don't even know the syntax of MySQL yet or fully understand this. But I thought I'd share it here in case any one else might be interested.
UPDATE: Wittens responded below that he just committed the latest tagadelic version here. Here's ECP's tagadelic tagcloud
New Computer ArrivedSubmitted by kentbye on Fri, 2005-07-01 14:52. EchoChamberProject | Status
My new Macintosh was delivered today!
I had to purchase a faster Macintosh with more RAM and a better video card, and it should be arriving tomorrow. The straw that broke the camel's back was that my current machine doesn't have enough hardware to run Final Cut Pro 5.0. And even if I just upgraded that hardware, my computer doesn't have a fast enough processor to run Motion 2.0 -- which can create a lot more dynamic and animated graphics.
So I'm excited to get my new hardware up and running so that I can start figuring the details for interfacing Final Cut Pro's XML capabilities with Drupal for collaborative editing.
I'm also excited to start getting some audio and video out there.
Echo Chamber Project Vlog & Podcast Coming SoonSubmitted by kentbye on Thu, 2005-06-30 11:55. EchoChamberProject | FinalCutPro | FireANT | Status | Vlog | Website
Videoblogging pioneer Chuck Olsen announces (via The Last Minute) that the new iTunes 4.9 features the capability to watch videoblogs (vlogcasts) along well as podcasts. What does this mean? Olsen says, "it could change everything and introduce videoblogs to the masses."
The word on the street seems to be that this iTunes feature doesn't have nearly as much functionality as the FireANT software where users can subscribe to vlog RSS feeds and have it automatically download videos.
But this latest development fits with the proliferation of personalized video and audio online that was identified by many of the New Media leaders that I interviewed at the Personal Democracy Forum. Vlogs and podcasts are going to be a lot more prevalent over the next 5-10 years, and culture is no longer going to come strictly from the centralized mass media.
So it's time to jump on the bandwagon and start using vlogs and podcasts to collaboratively produce my documentary on the failures of the mainstream media. I might as well be one of the early adopters of these new media technologies.
I had to purchase a faster Macintosh with more RAM and a better video card, and it should be arriving tomorrow. The straw that broke the camel's back was that my current machine doesn't have enough hardware to run Final Cut Pro 5.0. And even if I just upgraded that hardware, my computer doesn't have a fast enough processor to run Motion 2.0 -- which can create a lot more dynamic and animated graphics.
So I after I get more of my Phase01 development mapped out, then expect to see some Echo Chamber Project podcasts and vlogcasts coming within the next month or so.
Internet TroublesSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2005-06-22 17:16. Drupal | Status | Website
I've been having all sorts of things go wrong with the Internet and this website this week.
My DSL connection has also been going off and all week, and I have a pending trouble ticket with my service provider.
And if you've tried to visit this site within the last day and couldn't, it's because there was something that went wrong with my Drupal settings after my system administrator upgraded the server with new software. I'm not sure what exactly went wrong since everything that happened to get it fixed was behind the scenes between my system administrator and my Drupal-guru Moshe Weitzman.
Many thanks goes out to Weitzman who helped get this site back online by installing the latest version of Drupal HEAD and fixing a bug.
This Drupal upgrade means that I now have some of the latest and greatest features like AJAX support for free-tagging (i.e. drop down menus containing a list of similar folksonomy tags already used). However, being on the cutting edge also means that there is less stability in other features.
We'll see how it goes.
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During the earliest weeks of the college football season, there are almost certain to be cupcakes all over the place.
Week 1 is has plenty to offer.
While there are certainly some excellent matchups between very talented teams, it is always fun to pick out those cupcake games with spreads higher than most can imagine.
But what games in Week 1 offer the tastiest cupcakes of them all? Oregon is always a favorite for this award, as are teams like Ohio State, USC and many others.
So, here are the 15 tastiest cupcakes of college football's opening weekend.
*Games, presented in EST, are selected based on predicted final score


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Support Migdal Ohr by purchasing letters in the Torah Scroll that will be written in honor of Rabbi Grossman's 70th Birthday.
Posted on: July 15th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
Supporters of the freezing of Israeli settlements have yet to provide evidence that it helps peace. They also need to recognize that they are undermining the legitimacy of Israel's right to its own soil, all while depriving Palestinians of their livelihoods and paving the way for more terrorist acts.
Posted on: July 13th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Since Qadhaffi was overthrown a year ago, conflicts have broken out between the tribes and the main ethnic groups in Libya, Arabs and Berbers, and it was clear that the new political framework, in order to be an acceptable and legitimate system, must consider the social, tribal structure of the population and not try to fight it.
Posted on: July 13th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Rubin Reports
Israel's has had dramatic success in terms of economic progress. The country has become a world leader in high-technology, medicine, science, computers, and other fields. It has opened up new links to Asia. The discovery of natural gas and oilfields promise a massive influx of funds in the coming years. And the idea that Israel is menaced by the failure to get official peace with the Palestinians is a staple of Western blather but has no big impact in reality.
Posted on: July 12th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Rubin Reports
If there is an Islamist president and parliament who pass laws that correspond only to Sharia and who appoint Islamist judges and al-Azhar shaykhs then Egypt will be a Sharia state. No doubt though the Constitution will be interpreted by many Western observers of proof that the Brotherhood and Salafists have moderated.
Posted on: July 12th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
The decision was the final ruling in a legal battle that went on for years. On 9 July 2005, the Palestinian Authority called for a worldwide Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Campaign against the Jewish State. The Cour de Cassation, the Supreme Court of France, reaffirmed that publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli products is a case of incitement to discrimination on the basis of nationality.
Posted on: July 12th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
Abbas is not interested in reaching any deal with Israel: he knows that such a move would require him to make concessions. Abbas knows that Israel will never give him 100% of his demands; that is enough for him to refuse to sign any historic agreement. Like Arafat, Abbas does not want to go down into history as the first Palestinian leader to make concessions, especially on sensitive issues such as refugees and Jerusalem.
Posted on: July 12th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
The upshot of the Levy Committee Report will be that Israel will end the de facto building freeze and start construction of settlements in earnest. It will also signal the end of the pursuit by Israel of the two-state solution. The Israeli center will no longer believe that Israel is an occupier and instead will believe that the land is theirs, which it is.
Posted on: July 11th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
A tight, organized network of Iranian terrorists seems to be using elementary schools, universities and government institutions -- not to mention manipulating the multicultural system -- to promote its messages of propaganda and hate, apparently with the ultimate goal of conquering the "infidel."
Posted on: July 11th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → J.E. Dyer
The period of the Obama tenure, and now the 2012 election, are forcing Americans to reconsider, in a way I'm not sure we have for a good 200 years, what the vote means, and what politics means to our lives. Since 1792, the sense has gradually crept upon us that when we elect a president, we are electing our collective future. That sense took a giant leap forward with the FDR presidency, and frankly, it took another one when Reagan entered office.
Posted on: July 10th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Rubin Reports
Because of political reasons and especially due to the ideological monopoly of certain forces over Western institutions, most of the academics, analysts, journalists, and politicians who speak on these issues get away with pushing the moderation thesis. They are virtually never asked to provide proof. This wrong idea thus sets current U.S. policy and creates a great risk of future crisis, instability, repression, and severe damage to U.S. interests.
Posted on: July 10th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → J.E. Dyer
The Tumultus Post-Americanus is now well underway. There is no initiative on our collective part – we have done nothing but react in the last three years – and possibly even less appreciation of how the world is changing. The forms of international discourse – the processes of the UN, the G-8 and G-20, the IMF – are being adhered to now because they are a convenience, not because they produce anything useful.
Posted on: July 10th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
Whenever the Muslim Brotherhood are asked if Sharia law will be imposed, the response is that their intention is to build a "democratic and civil state" that guarantees freedom of religion and the right to peaceful protest.. But anyone who traces the actions of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists over the past decades -- in Egypt, Tunisia or anywhere else in the Arab world -- will see that their intention is to further Islamize their societies, not to create civil alternatives.
Posted on: July 10th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Jordan has managed until now to remain untouched by these problems, and King Abdullah II knew how to navigate matters of the kingdom in a way that the waves of the revolution washing over the rest of the Arab world did not yet wash over his kingdom. But in the past few weeks - mainly since the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco - a different sort of problem is now becoming apparent: the problem of radical political Islam.
Posted on: July 9th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
Forty-five years after the Six Day War, declassified transcripts of the Israeli cabinet and government committee meetings in the days after war that ended on June 10, 1967 were released this June. The documents provide a breathtaking insight into the efforts of Israeli leaders to reach a peace settlement with the countries and groups which had been at war with Israel.
Posted on: July 9th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
In March last year, thousands of Palestinians, inspired by the "Arab Spring," launched their own protests in the West Bank to demand reforms, democracy, and regime change. But the Palestinian revolt was short-lived. Abbas's security forces, backed by Fatah thugs, attacked the young men and women who were protesting in the center of Ramallah, torching their tents and beating them with clubs and rifle butts.
Posted on: July 9th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
I am a Democrat and do not agree with many of Sheldon Adelson's political views, but I think it's outrageous for the National Jewish Democratic Council to level unfounded allegations against Adelson. I don't know who Harris purports to speak for as President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, but his partisan gamesmanship is an embarrassment to many Jewish Democrats.
Posted on: July 9th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
The half-life of Polonium-210 is 138 days. This means that after 8 years, only about 4.3 x 10-7 — 0.00000043 — of the original amount of Polonium would be left. So even if Arafat's iconic underwear had been loaded with the stuff after his death, it would be undetectable, or at least at much lower levels than the Swiss laboratory found.
Posted on: July 9th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
Brown Lloyd James, according to its website, "is managed by an elite group of distinguished former news executives, top-level White House and Downing Street political advisors, high-profile entertainment industry executives and experts in international affairs. Our staff have been at the right hand of presidents, prime ministers, media barons – and yes, even The Beatles."
Posted on: July 6th, 2012InDepth → Analysis → Rubin Reports
Yasir Arafat is dead. I sat across from him in his Gaza office. He even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his book shelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. But it's not my fault. I told him to start jogging and cut down on sweets.But he didn't listen.
Posted on: July 5th, 2012InDepth → Analysis
The UN Security Council has not managed to have a discussion about Syria since April, but President Obama has finally figured out how to have the Council "briefed" on the subject by Navi Pillai – a renowned Israel-basher: give up Israel for Syria. As a veto-wielding member, the U.S. could have nixed the program, but instead insisted only that the Syrian meeting be held in the morning and the Israel-bashing in the afternoon; Ms. Pillai will have time in between for lunch.
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Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert wants a win against Wigan on Sunday to finish as high up the table as possible.
Villa are already guaranteed Premier League football next season but Lambert has set his sights on a strong finish to a campaign that had for so long threatened to end in disaster.
A run of just two defeats in six matches – against Chelsea and Manchester United – has led them to the safety of 16th but they could still finish as high as 11th.
"Anyone looking at our football, we never looked like a team that were panicking and launching the ball into the penalty box and hoping for the best," he told the club's official website.
"We played some unbelievable football in games. The lads have been a credit to the club, the way they have turned it around.
"We want to try and get up that table as best we can. We have an opportunity to win a game of football and try to jump a few places."
Lambert also said his side will be going all out against Wigan to secure the three points, for the sake of their travelling fans.
"We won't go up there thinking the whole thing is done and dusted. We have 4,000 people coming to watch us," he said.
"We want to finish as high as we can. Whether it happens you don't know.
"But we have an opportunity to jump a few places.
"I'm never one to just rest and think 'job done.' You have to look forward. Sunday is a game to try and win."


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Howard Somers Conant papers, [ca.1946]-1985
Image and Media Gallery has 31 items from this collection
Sound RecordingStephen Greene, Robert Morris, and Jack Tworkov panel discussion
Sound RecordingInterview with Irving Kaufman
Sound RecordingJohn Opper seminar discussion
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Conant, Howard Somers, b. 1921
Painter, Art teacher
Active in N.Y.
Collection size: 2.6 linear ft.
Collection Summary: Seventy taped recordings of untranscribed interviews with artists, panel discussions, lectures, and conferences and 5 transcripts of lectures by artists; correspondence; photographs; typescripts; and printed material.
Audio tapes include untranscribed interviews of Robert Motherwell, Nov. 10, 1964; Raymond Parker, John Opper and Tania, 1965; Stephen Greene, Robert Morris, and Jack Tworkov, Nov. 17, 1966; Marshall McLuhan and Jacob Blumner, Oct. 25, 1967; and Yayoi Kusama, Feb. 15, 1964; lectures delivered by Conant, Buckminster R. Fuller, Adolph Gottlieb, Frederick Kiesler, John Opper, James N. Wines and others; lectures and panel discussions of conferences of the Institute for the Study of Art in Education, Nov. 17, 1967 and Nov. 9, 1968; panel discussions sponsored by New York University, including "Synthesis in Modern Architecture, Painting and Sculpture," Oct. 22, 1965; and "The Art Student and the Future of the Avant-Garde, Nov. 29, 1966.
Also included are recordings of lectures and panel discussions, mainly transcribed, and partial typescripts, notes and other material relating to NYU's "Contemporary Artists on Art Series," organized and moderated by Conant, Oct.-Dec. 1960. Particpants in the series included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lawrence Calcagno, Helen Frankenthaler, Balcomb Greene, Stephen Greene, Hilaire Hiler, John Humphrey, George J. McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Louise Nevelson, John Opper, Milton Resnick, Esteban Vicente, Ruth Vollmer and Hale Woodruff.
In addition, there are letters from James Brooks, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Duane Hanson, Thomas Hess, Thomas Hoving, Sidney Janis, Philip Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko, John Russell, Ben Shahn, Eve Sonneman, Theodoros Stamos, Edward M. M. Warburg, Adja Yunkers, and others, many relating to requests for employment or responses to Conant's letters asking artists to participate in classes or conferences; an unpublished study on the "Training of Artists," conducted by Conant for NYU in 1959, including correspondence and typescripts of statements by twenty-eight artists; a typescript of a lecture "Popular Culture," by Maxine Greene delivered at an NYU art education conference, 1971; photographs of participants in an NYU seminar, 1964; and miscellany.
Biographical/Historical Note: Art educator, painter. Chairman of the Department of Art and Art Education at New York University from 1955 to 1976.
Donated by Conant, 1978-1989.
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Malmö Museums at Malmöhus Castle
Photo: © Johanna Rylander/Malmö Museer
Castles get built, castles get destroyed and they are adapted to the suit the purposes of the age. And then in peacetime they become museums. Just like Malmöhus Castle.
Castles get built, castles get destroyed and they are adapted to the suit the purposes of the age. And then in peacetime they become museums. Just like Malmöhus Castle.The fascinating history of this castle starts in 1436 when Eric of Pomerania built a citadel here, which was destroyed. Turn the clock forward to 1537 and King Christian 111 builds the castle that you will see today. Back then, and indeed until 1658 the castle and the surrounding region was part of Denmark. Up until 1914 the castle was used as a prison and it must have been a pretty uninviting place to be incarcerated. But the castle is now used for more cultural purposes and houses some of the collections of Malmo Museums. The castle grounds, buildings and the moat around them are all worth visiting.
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Timothy G. Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations
Timothy G. Mitchell is senior vice president of nuclear operations at Entergy, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. He is responsible for the overall safety, security and reliability of the operating fleet.
Prior to this position, Mitchell served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for Indian Point Energy Center, Palisades Power Plant and Cooper Nuclear Station. Cooper is owned by the Nebraska Public Power District and Entergy Nuclear provides management services to the plant.
Mitchell previously served as senior vice president of engineering and technical services for Entergy Nuclear. He oversaw key areas of Entergy's nuclear operations including engineering and project management.
Mitchell also served as vice president of operations for Entergy's Arkansas Nuclear One and was responsible for the continued safe and efficient operation of the plant.
Mitchell began his career as a start-up engineer for Wolf Creek, Hope Creek, South Texas Project and Comanche Peak. He joined Entergy at ANO as a plant engineer. He held various roles increasing in responsibility including system engineering manager, training manager, Unit 2 operations manager and director of nuclear safety analysis. Later he transferred to Waterford 3 as director of engineering prior to promotion to general manager of operations at ANO in 2005. He has more than 32 years in commercial nuclear power experience.
Mitchell has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas.
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Last week marked the start of LCV's nearly $2 million nationwide campaign to hold climate change deniers accountable for their extreme anti-science positions. This week, we're keeping the pressure on these four members of Congress by releasing new television ads pushing form action on climate change:
The first ad targets Senator Ron Johnson (WI):
The second ad targets Congressman Mike Coffman (CO-6)
The third ad targets Congressman Rodney Davis (IL-13)
The fourth ad targets Congressman Dan Benishek (MI-1)
These elected officials hold extreme anti-science positions that are at odds with their own constituents and NASA, who has said that human activity is contributing to the climate crisis, and that extreme weather is increasing due to climate change. If we want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to call out the climate change deniers who standing in the way of progress.


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The Checkout Live at Berklee: Ferenc Nemeth
October 8, 2014 by David Tallacksen
Filed under Berklee, Live
Watch video of drummer Ferenc Nemeth's concert with Chris Cheek on saxophone and Matt Garrison on bass, live from the Berklee College of Music's Cafe 939 on Oct. 8 at 8 p.m.
This was the first in our series of The Checkout Live! concerts, which present critically acclaimed, New York-based alumni of the Boston music school as they return to their alma mater. Upcoming live broadcasts from Berklee include saxophonist Uri Gurvich on November 5, the Revive Big Band on December 3, Katie Thiroux on February 4, 2015 and Gregorio Uribe on April 1, 2015.
Jon Batiste And Stay Human Live At Newport 2014
August 6, 2014 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Live, Studio Sessions
Michael Blake's World Time Zone
June 17, 2014 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Live, Studio Sessions
Michael Blake performs at the 2014 Vancouver Jazz Festival on June 22 and 24.
Round Robin Improvisations At 92Y Tribeca
May 13, 2014 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Live, Studio Sessions
The Undead Music Festival and Red Bull Music Academy present a round-robin concert at New York's Town Hall on May 14, 2014.
Pianists Robert Glasper & Jason Moran Play Live
April 1, 2014 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Interviews, Live
The Checkout Live: Melissa Aldana Crash Trio at Berklee
October 10, 2013 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Berklee, Live, New Music
The Checkout presents tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana's Crash Trio live at the Berklee College of Music's Cafe 939 in Boston, MA.
Listen to the audio:
Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone
Pablo Menares, bass
Francisco Mela, drums
Set List:
"Bring Him Home" (Aldana)
"Turning" (Aldana)
"You're My Everything" (Warren/Young)
"Tira Pie" (P. Menares)
"SP" (Aldana)
The Checkout: Highlights from jazzahead!
May 14, 2013 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Live, Shows
The Checkout visited the jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Germany. We brought back some concert audio, thanks to a partnership with Radio Bremen. Hosted by WBGO's Josh Jackson.
Hour One highlights – Omer Klein, subtone, Taksim Trio and Han Bennink.Hour Two highlights – Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Django Bates Beloved, Yotam and Eric Vloeimans with Oliver's Cinema.
Newport Jazz Festival Coverage on WBGO and NPR Music
August 2, 2012 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Live
WBGO, WGBH and NPR Music present continuous coverage of the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend. Josh Jackson hosts from Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island.
The following times are for broadcast only. Official set times are on the Newport Jazz Festival schedule (pdf).
Saturday, August 4th
11:00am Broadcast Preview
11:15am Pedrito Martinez Group
11:50am John Ellis Double-Wide
12:40pm Jack DeJohnette Group
1:40pm Dafnis Prieto Sextet
2:25pm Darcy James Argue Secret Society
3:25pm The Bad Plus w/ Bill Frisell
4:25pm Three Clarinets
5:05pm Jack DeJohnette All-Stars
6:10pm Bill Frisell Plays John Lennon
7:00pm END
Sunday, August 5th
11:00am Broadcast Preview
11:05am Lewis Nash Quintet
11:50am Jenny Scheinman/Bill Frisell
12:20pm Kurt Elling
1:00pm Rudresh Mahanthappa and Samdhi
1:55pm Three Cohens
3:00pm Miguel Zenon Rayuela Quartet
4:00pm Ryan Truesdell Gil Evans Centennial Project
4:40pm John Hollenbeck Claudia Quintet + 1
5:20pm Tedeschi/Trucks Band
7:00pm END
The Checkout Live: Ingrid Jensen at Berklee
June 5, 2012 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Berklee, Live, Shows
The Checkout presents trumpeter Ingrid Jensen's quintet performance at Berklee College of Music. Recorded April 12, 2012 in Boston, MA.
Listen to the audio only:
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet/effects
Lage Lund, guitar
Gary Versace, piano/keyboard
Matt Clohesy, bass
Jon Wikan, drums
Set List:
Opening Part 1 (K. Wheeler)
Opening Part 2 (Jensen)
Travel Fever (M. Olin)
Higher Grounds II (Jensen)
91 (M. Rossy)
At Sea (Jensen)
Producer and Host: Josh Jackson
Mix: David Tallacksen
The Checkout Live: Kendrick Scott Oracle at Berklee
May 29, 2012 by Josh Jackson
Filed under Berklee, Live, Shows
The Checkout presents drummer Kendrick Scott and Oracle performing at Berklee College of Music. Recorded March 8, 2012 in Boston, MA.
Listen to the audio only:
Kendrick Scott, drums
John Ellis, sax/bass clarinet
Taylor Eigsti, piano/keyboard
Joshua Crumbly, bass
Set List:
Apollo (Walter Smith III)
Too Much
Cycling Through Reality [video highlight]
All compositions by Kendrick Scott unless otherwise indicated.
Producer and Host: Josh Jackson
Mix: David Tallacksen


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Amazon.com Inc. unveiled the new Kindle DX today, taking a dramatic step into the e-textbook market. GalleyCat prowled the packed press conference at Pace University in New York City, trying to find out why cash-strapped students would pay $489 for this new device.
We landed a short video interview with Steven Kessel, SVP of worldwide digital media at Amazon, and the executive delivered a pitch aimed straight at college students. When the device is released this summer, Kessel believes that students will see a value in the Kindle DX's reading experience and pay a premium price.
Earlier today, GalleyCat interviewed an executive at another e-textbook company who thinks that students will prefer laptops to the Kindle DX.


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Couscous with Beef and Vegetables
|For couscous
|2 Pound
|Olive oil
|1 Tablespoon
|Chilled unsalted butter
|4 Tablespoon
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|For beef
|Vegetable oil
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|3 Cup (48 tbs), finely chopped
|Harissa powder
|4 Teaspoon
|All spice powder
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground black pepper
|To Taste
|4 Medium, peeled and cut into 2 inch pieces crosswise
|4 Medium, peeled and cut into 2 inch pieces crosswise
|2 Inch, cut into 2 inch pieces
|2 Cup (32 tbs), drained
|Ripe firm tomatoes
|3 Medium, quartered
|Cold water
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|6 Medium, peeled
|4 Small, cut into 2 inch pieces
|1 Pound, peeled and cut into 2 inch pieces
1. In a large shallow pan, combine couscous, 2 cups salted water and olive oil. Using you palms, mix till well combined.
2. Cling wrap and keep aside for 15 minutes.
3. In a deep casserole, place water for boiling.
4. Place a colander which fits well on top of the casserole pot and cover evenly with muslin cloth/ cheese cloth.
5. Once water has boiled, reduce flame and place 2 cups of soaked couscous over muslin cloth. Use palm of your hands in order to spread them.
6. Once couscous starts to steam, add more couscous in similar fashion and allow to steam.
7. Once all the couscous has been transferred to the lined colander, steam uncovered for 20 minutes.
8. Once steamed, remove on to large shallow pan, spread and allow to cool.
9. Once cooled, add butter and remaining salted water and mix well using palm of your hands.
10. Re steam following same procedure as before for 15 more minutes.
11. In a deep frying pan/ casserole, heat oil.
12. Once hot, add onions, beef cubes, all spice powder, harissa powder, salt and black pepper. Mix well and sauté on a high flame for 6 to 8 minutes, while stirring continuously.
13. Add tomatoes, chick peas, carrots, cabbage and turnips, mix well and cook for a minute.
14. Add cold water and bring to a boil.
15. Once boiled, remove beef and vegetables on to a serving platter and cover with aluminium foil.
16. In the same pot, add pumpkin, zucchini and potatoes and bring to boil. (Add water if required for boiling).
17. Once boiled, reduce and cook over a low flame till vegetables are cooked.
18. Add foil wrapped beef and vegetables and mix well. Heat on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes.
19. Remove from flame; transfer all sauce on to a medium sized bowl.
20. Keeping aside 1 cup sauce, combine remaining sauce with 3 teaspoons harissa powder and mix well. Pour on to a sauce boat.
21. On a large platter, place couscous mound at centre. Arrange beef and vegetables all around it. Pour reserved 1 cup sauce over couscous to keep it moist. Serve with accompanying sauce in sauce boat and a salad of your choice.
Recipe Summary
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 8973 Calories from Fat 2797
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 321 g494.3%
Saturated Fat 66.3 g331.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 129 mg43%
Sodium 2020.2 mg84.2%
Total Carbohydrates 1312 g437.5%
Dietary Fiber 181 g724%
Sugars 127.9 g
Protein 247 g494.5%
Vitamin A 1718.3% Vitamin C 951.4%
Calcium 148.1% Iron 295.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Houses » Camillaun Lodge
Camillaun Angling Centre is a premier Guest House and renowned Brown Trout Fishery with wet and dry fly fishing, dapping and trolling on Lough Corrib in Oughterard, Co Galway, Ireland.
Camillaun, situated in a secluded riverside setting is family run with all the advantages of a modern house yet still embracing the elegance of bygone days.
The guest accommodation includes rooms with beautiful views of the Owenriff River and countryside. New facilities have recently been added which include a games room with full size snooker table, a fly-tying desk and reading lounge. In the garden there is a hard surface tennis court and gazebo with hot tub, the latter being particularly welcome to the cold and tired angler! There is a large boathouse with rod racks, drying and freezing facilities. We have a substantial selection of trout flies available for purchase and excellent advice is at hand. The boats moored in the garden have direct access to Lough Corrib.
Deirdre is an accomplished cook, having run her own restaurant in the village for seven years. Dinner is a set menu and is taken in a single sitting. She is happy to cook your catch. Advance booking is required, you may bring your own wine.
Based at Camillaun you need no longer worry about the car as the village of Oughterard, with its restaurants, hostelries and tackle shops is just a short walk via a leafy pedestrian way. The house is open to guests from March to October.
The Fishing
Oughterard is the angling capital of Lough Corrib, one of the most important wild brown trout fisheries in Europe. The trout season extends from 15th February to 30th September and there is the added bonus of salmon from late May.
Angling methods are fly fishing, both wet and dry, dapping and trolling. Rods can be hired and life jackets and nets are provided with each boat. Ghillies may be arranged on request. Freezing facilities are also available The house is well situated for anyone wishing to visit the Connemara sea trout and salmon fisheries, for which fishing should be requested in advance.
Camillaun encourages our anglers to adopt a catch and release policy whenever possible.


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Jim grew up in a small town in southeast Kansas, and while everyone else his age was listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Jim was listening to Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed and Son House. He started playing blues clubs at the advanced age of 13, and these legendary blues figures, along with artists like Sam and Dave and Wilson Pickett, became great influences on both his vocal and guitar style.
His family attended a small Baptist church, and Jim had the opportunity to merge these blues influences with gospel music, which draws strongly from the blues tradition. He led and performed gospel music and sang, along with his four brothers, in churches throughout the surrounding area.
Jim took a four year break from music while he served in the United States Marine Corps, but says "he still had the blues." After his military service, Jim and his family relocated to Southern California. There he picked up his guitar again and made his living as a musician, performing the blues throughout L.A. and Orange County. He also was in demand as a studio vocalist.
As a songwriter Jim has several film credits and a couple of songs cut by Edgar Winter. His credits include the film, "The Waterdance", which starred Wesley Snipes, Eric Stoltz and Helen Hunt, in which both his song and performance were used.
Jim's voice and guitar playing can also be heard throughout the critically acclaimed 2010 PBS Documentary "For Love of Liberty".
Jim eventually moved with his family to Colorado Springs during which time he quickly became a prominent figure on the regional blues scene. While running his own acoustic music venue for several years, Jim also built up and mantained a heavy gigging and festival schedule.
Big Jim (along with his duo partner John Stilwagen) were finalists in the 2011 International Blues Challenge Solo/Duo Category.
Quote from Chick Cavallero (Colorado Blues Society), "they filled the room with more energy and sound than any two guys should be able to pull off. Sitting tall in his chair, Big Jim accompanied his honeyed voice on guitar and two unique wood boxes under his feet that he stomped on to get a drum beat and even some tambourine rattling from. John Stilwagen rounded out their set with his impressive keyboard skills and a lot of humor. These guys are a class act you need to see and become familiar with!"
Before leaving Colorado, Jim also won the 2012 Telluride Acoustic Blues Solo Competition.
"Contest winner Jim Adam gave us some of the best and most authentic blues I have heard in a while. This man definitely deserved winning the Acoustic Blues competition" – listenupDenver.com
In July of 2013, Big Jim relocated to the sunny state of Florida and was promptly selected by the Blues Alliance of the Treasure Coast to represent them in the 2014 International Blues Challenge in the Solo/Duo Category.
"Jim's emotional singing, sliding swampy guitar with that right hand thumping bass, combined with his stomp box and foot tambourine make for a powerful performance."


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A Gift that Gives Back for Generations
BUFFALO, NY - Here at Canisius, tradition runs deep: The college's academic programs challenge the way students think; its Jesuit values develop men and women of character.
Past generations of alumni helped build this Canisius tradition by including the college in their estate plans. Planned gifts make a Canisius education engaging and affordable because they provide a permanent source of revenue for student scholarships, academic programs and research.
They also enable Canisius alumni to leave a legacy that fits within their philanthropic goals. No matter the size, each gift expands the minds, strengthens the bodies and enriches the spirits of today's students – and tomorrow's.
Create your legacy. Make a planned gift to the Rev. James M. Demske '47, SJ, Society by calling the Office of Advancement at 716-888-8200 or clicking here.
Pictured above (l-r): Gianna Yockel '15, Daniel Buonaugurio '15, Carl Carballada '56, HON '81, Ashli Terrigino '16, Alexandria Salansky '15, at the Endowed Scholarship Brunch in April 2014


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Lemonade is synomous with the summer season. There is no disputing the fact that a lemonade can make a 100 degree afternoon instantly feel like a cool Fall night. True, this little recipe won't get you featured on a show like Knife Fight, but it will make you instantly popular among your desperatley dehydrated friends. So what's so special about this Lemonade recipee? Well, it's "grilled." Made Man has the full breakdown over on their webstie, but lets look at what you need before you head on over. The full list of ingredients include:
- 6 pounds of lemons
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of honey
- 2 rosemary springs
- 1 cup of bourbon (of course)
- Ice
Check out the full reciepe at Made Man and be sure to tip your waiter on the way out.


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Exclusive: Joe 'Yoely' Lhota on his Relationship With the Jews
Republican mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota has never been to Israel. He didn't join Mayor Rudy Giuliani on his trip to Israel in 1997 because he was acting mayor when Giuliani was overseas. Nevertheless, Mr. Lhota shares something in common with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: they both have faith in Arthur Finkelstein. For those who don't know, Arthur J. Finkelstein masterminded the merger of Likud and Yisrael Beitenu in the most recent Israeli Knesset election, which retrospectively granted Netanyahu his third term as Prime Minister (but also cost both parties more than 10 seats). Mr. Finkelstein also helped Netanyahu get elected as Prime Minister in 1996. Among his current clients are Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, who is running for reelection in the upcoming municipal vote, in October.
The Brooklyn born Finkelstein, who was raised in Levittown and Queens, scored his first significant win as a pollster/strategist in 1970, when James Buckley ran on the newly minted New York Conservative Party line and unexpectedly won a Senate seat in a three-way race. Finkelstein went on the help elect New York Republicans to office such as Alfonse D'Amato and George Pataki.
According to the latest Campaign Finance Board filing, the Lhota campaign paid Mr. Finkelstein $49,500 for polling. In a conversation with this reporter, Mr. Lhota confirmed that Mr. Finkelstein was hired as a pollster for the campaign.
Interestingly enough, John Catsimatidis, Lhota's rival in the Republican primary, hired John McLaughlin, who worked as a pollster for Bibi Netanyahu in the Likud primaries in 2005, and later as a Likud campaign adviser in 2009.
Mr. Lhota also recalled his personal relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who served as mayor of Jerusalem at the same time Mr. Giuliani was mayor of New York. "He used to come to New York all the time. He would spend time in my office. We used to go cigar smoking," Mr. Lhota recounted. "I was so proud when he became Prime Minister," he added.
Joseph Lhota, born October 7, 1954, is considered a Jew according to Jewish law. His maternal grandmother, Ita Steinberg, was born in the U.S. to a Russian Jewish family but married a Roman Catholic. She died in 1964. In an extensive interview with this reporter, Mr. Lhota said he had been aware of the fact since he was a very young man, but wouldn't use it as a tool to court Jewish votes. "I think that would be patronizing," he said.
"I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them," he added.
Asked about his personal relationship with the Jewish community, Mr. Lhota spoke of his time as budget director and deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration. "As budget director, I had great personal relationships with the folks at the MET council; With Agudath Israel; With various different COJO's, in various different parts of the city. It was very instrumental in making sure daycare vouchers were made available, and I continued that when I was deputy mayor. I maintained those relationships throughout the community. During the Giuliani administration, the Jewish community was understood, and I think there was a reciprocal affection in the administration for the Jewish community," Mr. Lhota noted.
How do you intend to earn the Jewish vote? We asked.
"I had been spending, since mid January–when I announced–a significant portion of every day fundraising, because I have to. I am running against a guy who is self funding. I am also against people who have been fundraising for the last 3 and 4 years. So I have a lot to catch up," Mr. Lhota said, explaining his absence from Jewish events. "I am making more and more inroads in very different parts of the Jewish community as the summer develops."
Speaking of the issues that are of great concern to the Jewish community, Mr. Lhota acknowledged that he still has a lot to learn. Nevertheless, he expressed great knowledge of the issues the individual in the Jewish community faces in daily life. "Every time I go to the Jewish community, the issues are the same. It's about education. Not just public school education, but also how unfairly yeshivas are being treated in comparison to others; it's about affordable housing; it's about jobs! The unemployment rate in the Jewish community is not really talked about. And crime. Even though the number of murders has dropped, other felony crimes are up. And last but not the least, treating the community fairly and equitably," Mr. Lhota said.
Mr. Lhota promised to fight hard for school choice vouchers. "The mayor can use the bully pulpit to advocate in Albany for private schools," he said. "It's important that our children are properly educated. The role of the government and the role of the state is making sure they have the proper textbooks; making sure they are secure; making sure that they have transportation. The children that go to parochial schools and yeshivas are residents and the children of taxpayers in the city of New York, and they are not getting their fair share. They are just not," he asserted.
"On the issue of tax credits, I have been in favor of that. I have yet to find a way that it would cover the full tuition, but some form of a tax credit, to give relief to parents who pay for property tax as well and all the other taxes in New York, and are also paying tuition," Mr. Lhota proclaimed.
Would you pledge to fight for it and get it done in your first term? We pressed.
"Would I start fighting for it in my first term, using my bully pulpit? I will start doing it in my campaign. However, the mayor doesn't have a vote in Albany. But rest assured, I will fight as hard as I possibly can to make sure it happens in Albany," he pledged, adding, "I couldn't make a commitment that I will get it done in the first term."
With regard to affordable housing, Mr. Lhota said he's in favor of returning to the Mitchell-Lama program that gave tax credits to private developers as long as they remained in the program, and low-interest mortgages, subsidized by the federal, state, or New York City government."We need to the same thing again. Those programs have lapsed. The government needs to partner with the private sector. The government shouldn't build the houses; the government should provide the financial incentives to developers who build the housing, and keep the rentals affordable," he said.
Mr. Lhota also raised the issue of City and State owned vacant properties, as a possible option to get more land to build affordable housing.
The third area is the federal government, Mr Lhota pointed out. "The federal government talks about closing most of the post offices. There are about 30 post offices in New York City they want to shut down. I want that property. Most post offices are surrounded by tall buildings. We would be able to take those buildings and use them as a location to put new housing, and coordinate that with some tax incentive plan."
In conclusion, out of many conversations this reporter had with Jewish voters, the following story is the weirdest so far: on the first night of Shavuot, as I was walking home from Shul, I came across a cousin of mine who asked me what I do for a living. When I told him I cover the race for mayor he started asking me this and that etc. A friend who was following him interrupted the conversation, saying that out of all the candidates, Yoely Lhota stands the best chance. "I am telling you, this Yoely Lhota knows what he's talking about. He was already in government. He's a fiscal conservative. I trust him," the stranger said.
As I was walking home, I was thinking why would this guy call Mr. Lhota, whose real name is Joseph, "Yoely?" I came to the conclusion that when uttered in one breath, Mr. Lhota's full name sounds like Joel Lhota, especially among Hasidim, whose every second or third child, if born to a Satmar family in the 80′s and 90′s, is named Joel (affectionately: Yoely).
When I recounted the story during our sitdown with Mr. Lhota, he laughed. "Call me Yoely from now on," he said.Jacob Kornbluh
About the Author: Jacob Kornbluh is described as an up and coming Orthodox Jewish Blogger, writing about Local, national and Israeli politics, and a freelance reporter for various publications. Kornbluh's work has been featured in Haaretz, the NY Times, local blogs, and on local Jewish Radio, Kornbluh also covers the NYC 2013 mayoral race in general and a focus on the Jewish vote in particular at: http://nymayor.blogspot.com. Follow Jacob on Twitter @jacobkornbluh and his daily blog: jacobkornbluh.com
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Sponsored by U.S. Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA), and Rodney Davis (R-IL), H.Res. 154 acknowledges the significant racial and ethnic disparities in cancer, the complex factors that contribute to them and the importance of continued research and public awareness campaigns that focus on cancer prevention and early detection to address these disparities.
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Bogota – More than a third of the close to 46 million Colombians are living in poverty or destitution, conditions particularly oppressive in small towns and rural areas, according to a study released in Bogota by the government statistics service.
According to the report, last year in Colombia the poor and destitute numbered some 19.98 million people, of whom some 15.24 million were poor and another 4.74 destitute.
The study, prepared by the Dane national statistics agency using a new measurement methodology and released on Thursday, shows that Colombia's national poverty index stood at 34.1 percent last year, compared with 37.2 percent in 2010.
In cities the index dropped to 30.3 percent, while in rural areas it jumped to 46.1 percent, according to the study presented by Dane director Jorge Bustamante.
The official said that more than 1.21 million Colombians emerged from poverty during that period, some 857,000 of them in urban areas.
According to the report, the figures were calculated using the multidimensional income-poverty measurement, or IPM, which guages the problem "through five dimensions involving 15 indicators."
Educational conditions, environment during childhood and youth, work history, health, public services and living conditions are the dimensions considered in the IPM, developed in 2007 by University of Oxford experts and adapted for Colombia by the National Planning Department, or DNP.
The study also offers a progress report on Colombians' per-capita income, whose national total last year was around 478,658 pesos ($266.86) per month.
In urban areas, income per capita in 2011 reached 566,192 pesos ($315.67) per month, compared with 196,675 pesos ($109.65) in rural areas.
Meanwhile in the country's 13 largest cities and their metropolitan areas, average income rose to 692,762 pesos ($386.23) monthly.
In a study of poverty covering the 2002-2010 period, the DNP concluded that the population living under the poverty line dropped in eight years from 56 percent to 37 percent.
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