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A gluten-free label regulation issued a year ago by the United States Food and Drug Administration takes effect today.
Any food makers voluntarily labeling their products as "gluten-free" must meet all of the requirements of the FDA's new definition. This includes that the food must contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten.
Labels including the claims of "no gluten, free of gluten, and without gluten" are also required to meet the new guidelines.
Food manufacturers will have a year after the rule is published to ensure their labels comply with the new regulation.
According to the FDA, "gluten" refers to "proteins that occur naturally in wheat, rye, barley and cross-bred hybrids of these grains," and approximately 3 million people in the United States have celiac disease, an autoimmune disease where gluten triggers antibodies that attack and damage the small intestine.
Sheenagh King, registered dietitian and bariatric program manager for the Center for Bariatric surgery at The Longstreet Clinic in Gainesville, said she believes the new labeling requirements will be helpful to consumers.
"For someone who is trying to eat gluten-free, regardless of the reason, knowing that if the product says it's free of gluten and less than 20 ppm, it's really going to help someone as a consumer," she said.
A gluten-free diet has been steadily increasing in popularity throughout the country, with many people claiming the lifestyle is healthier than traditional diets.
For someone suffering from celiac disease, however, a gluten-free lifestyle is a medical necessity.
"If you truly have an issue with gluten, it's not a fun way to live," said King. "You have GI (gastrointestinal) upsets, bloating, diarrhea, constipation ... the person has an actual allergy to gluten."
Untreated, the disease can lead to more serious conditions such as nutritional deficiencies, osteoporosis, infertility, and gastrointestinal cancers. The only treatment is to adhere to a strict, gluten-free diet and lifestyle.
King also said it's important to note the difference between those with celiac disease and those with a gluten intolerance or sensitivity.
"Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition, it's hereditary. Gluten intolerance (while also a condition) is more of a sensitivity as opposed to an actual allergy," she said.
To diagnose celiac disease, "they actually have to do a biopsy of your small intestine," she added.
Both can often be misdiagnosed, she said.
"It's challenging for physicians to figure out that is indeed what is going on with someone who has major GI issues."
In addition to those with celiac disease and gluten intolerance, there are individuals without any type of gluten-related condition who are choosing to adopt the lifestyle for their own personal preference.
Avoiding foods with gluten can be especially tricky, King said.
"There's a lot of hidden sources that gluten is in, and you have to watch for sauces, dressings, gravies, even in broths and bread crumbs, and some lunchmeats — the main offenders are going to be breads and grains," she said. "White flour, whole wheat, any type of grain, pastas, even beer."
The easiest way to adhere to a gluten-free diet is to eat fresh foods, such as fruits, nonstarchy vegetables, lean meats, beans and seeds and stay away from grains, she said.
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The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant Kazuo Otani (ASN: 39089432), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company G, 2d Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 34th Infantry Division, in action against the enemy on 15 July 1944, near Pieve Di S. Luce, Italy.
Advancing to attack a hill objective, Staff Sergeant Otani's platoon became pinned down in a wheat field by concentrated fire from enemy machine gun and sniper positions. Realizing the danger confronting his platoon, Staff Sergeant Otani left his cover and shot and killed a sniper who was firing with deadly effect upon the platoon. Followed by a steady stream of machine gun bullets, Staff Sergeant Otani then dashed across the open wheat field toward the foot of a cliff, and directed his men to crawl to the cover of the cliff. When the movement of the platoon drew heavy enemy fire, he dashed along the cliff toward the left flank, exposing himself to enemy fire. By attracting the attention of the enemy, he enabled the men closest to the cliff to reach cover. Organizing these men to guard against possible enemy counterattack, Staff Sergeant Otani again made his way across the open field, shouting instructions to the stranded men while continuing to draw enemy fire. Reaching the rear of the platoon position, he took partial cover in a shallow ditch and directed covering fire for the men who had begun to move forward. At this point, one of his men became seriously wounded. Ordering his men to remain under cover, Staff Sergeant Otani crawled to the wounded soldier who was lying on open ground in full view of the enemy. Dragging the wounded soldier to a shallow ditch, Staff Sergeant Otani proceeded to render first aid treatment, but was mortally wounded by machine gun fire. Staff Sergeant Otani's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
Medal Awarded: 21 June 2000
Action Date: 15-Jul-44
Service: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Company: Company G
Battalion: 2d Battalion
Regiment: 442d Regimental Combat Team
Division: 34th Infantry Division
Medal of Honor awarded posthumously 56 years later
21 June 2000
Kazuo Otani—of Japanese heritage—was part of a group of 22 Asian-Americans who had their medals upgraded to the Medal of Honor in 2000. The upgrade was part of a Congressional measure that reviewed the actions WWII soldiers of Asian background who may have been passed over for the Medal of Honor on account of racial bias. As Otani was killed in action in 1944, his medal was awarded posthumously and was given to his family.
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My Fender Twin Amp Not Working - get your guesses in
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I was practicing tonight for a gig tomorrow at a local festival. About an hour into the practice (not running very hard and not playing constantly), my Fender Pro Tube Twin Amp stopped working. I don't have time (or really the knowledge) to troubleshoot and fix it myself, so I'm taking it in tomorrow morning in hopes that my local tech can get it working. Let me tell you about it and tell you what I've checked so far. Let's see who can guess the problem.
Seriously, the real problem is that I will have to use a solid state MG series Marshall instead of my tube amp. I will try to make it out alive.
For a while now, the amp has had an intermittent hum that isn't loud, but annoying at times. The hum volume was consistent regardless of the position of any volume/gain/tone/reverb/etc knob on the amp. Nothing made the volume of the hum change. The hum would show up when the amp was cold or hot. It would go a way whenever it felt like it.
When the amp stopped working, the hum was there, but no signal from my guitar could be heard. After a little troubleshooting, the hum is no longer there. I can not detect any sound at all coming from the speakers at this point.
I pulled the three fuses (main fuse and two under the balance & bias plate) and checked for continuity, but all three were good. I swapped every tube in the amp with old tubes I have that were still working just fine when I swapped in the TAD power tubes and JAN Phillips preamp tubes I now have.
I pulled the chassis out of the enclosure and visually inspected things... lots of capacitors and resistors in there. There was no obvious damage. I screwed everything back together.
The power tubes are about 4 years old and the preamp tubes are about 2 years old. I play somewhere between 6 and 8 hours a week. I drive the amp hard enough to sometimes need the full power setting, but I might be able to get away with the 1/4 power setting most of the time if I tried. I definitely don't run hot enough to overdrive the clean channel. I use both clean and gain channels. I use the vibrato occasionally. I never use the reverb. I use a few pedals from time to time to either get a different distortion sound or boost the level for lead work. Those are in line on the input. I have a multi-effects pedal I run through the effects loop, but rarely use it for anything other than a tuner.
That's about all I can tell you that might matter. So get your guesses in and see if you can call the busted part(s).
Here's a schematic of the amp if anyone wants to see it.
|10th October 2010, 03:09 AM
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I took the amp in today. The electronics tech guys were not there today. The guys that were there did some simple troubleshooting, like plugging an external speaker cab to see if that would work. That didn't do it.
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If the tubes and fuses were truly good, my next guess will be an electrolytic capacitor fried.
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Why guess ? Take a multimeter or an oscilloscope and measure along the signal path, working from the input onwards. First determine operating conditions for all the tubes, then trace the input signal (instead of strumming your guitar or using a signal generator you can use some other signal source, say powerline voltage stepped down with transformer at least 200-times assuming ~115V mains voltage, or computer/CD player etc. playing at very low volume - say at 1 or 2 out of 10).
mod verb, transitive /mod/ to state that one is utterly clueless about the operation of device to be "modded" and into "fixing" things that are not broken; "My new amplifier sounds great so I want to mod it."
|10th October 2010, 02:00 PM
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Given your fault description, it was obvious that it could not be the speaker so I hope the techies there are better than their non-tech colleagues!
Diagnosing faults remotely is not easy. Guessing would only be useful if it were known that there is a common fault like this on that particular amp. Looking at resistors/capacitors can sometimes find a fault, but usually not.
You didn't tell us what troubleshooting you did to get rid of the hum, after the music faded. That might give a clue. Of course, you could have introduced an extra fault!
|10th October 2010, 06:16 PM
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Arnulf: Because you can't play a guessing game without guessing.
DF96: The non-tech guys answer the phones, run the register, and sell guitars. Well, one of them is the owner, so he usually just talks about fishing. The hum went away shortly after all the amp stopped working. It wasn't actually fixed. It may or may not have anything to do with the other issue.
|10th October 2010, 06:28 PM
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About da hum - was it at 60 cycles or something higher? If higher take a guess as to about what - say 500 hz - or sumpt'n like that.
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|10th October 2010, 06:32 PM
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Here is a link to a schematic - is it the right one?
DIY audio can be expensive but getting to see things go up in smoke - that's priceless!!!! ..... "whatever - call it brainfart of Mighty ZM"
|10th October 2010, 06:43 PM
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The hum was pretty low. It might have been 60 cycle. It wasn't consistent at all and kind of sounded like it was boiling in and out at times.
That schematic is not the right one. I've got a link to the correct schematic in the first post in this thread. It's the newer Pro Tube series of amp, not the old Twin Reverb.
|10th October 2010, 07:13 PM
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Without a scope and signal source it's gonna be hard to find.
The most common problem I found with ax amps was the darn phone jacks getting broken down due to wear and tear. Usually the contacts wind up getting mauled and will no longer make or break connections properly - so check your pins and insulators on the phone jacks. (I do not have much experience with ax amps - mostly PA stuff and home stereo stuff). (Unless you wanna include a buncha Military and Government radar kinda stuff).
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Much has been written and said about the astoundingly tone deaf performance of White House spokesman Jay Carney during this past month of scandals. The former journalist has lost the confidence of the people who were once his colleagues due to his unwillingness to tell the truth about his own deceptive statements (never mind those he represents in front of the press) about the Benghazi talking points or even to acknowledge that he has changed his story. The same applies to the shifting story he has told about the Internal Revenue Service scandal and when the White House learned about it.
The latest iteration of Carney's story contradicts earlier ones that claimed they knew nothing about the investigation. Now it appears that the White House chief of staff and other officials learned of the situation over a month ago and actually consulted with the Treasury Department about how to soften the blow when it finally went public. Like everyone else following this story, I look forward to finding out who was the genius who decided that IRS official Lois Lerner should be the one to let drop the news with an apology and also saying she didn't know math.
But anyone looking for an explanation for his unashamed stonewalling and obfuscation got an answer yesterday during an exchange with CBS News's Major Garrett in which he compared questions about the White House's conduct about Benghazi and the IRS to those who pursue the birther myth. In other words, anyone who has had the temerity to notice the lies and the trimming is cordially invited to shut up.
What can you say about an administration that considers leaking stories to the New York Times that make the president look like a national security hero kosher but seeks to criminalize journalism that points out his mistakes?
What can you say about a White House that doesn't think it is obligated to acknowledge that it has changed its story about these scandals so often that even its chief flack can't keep them straight?
Jay Carney's crack about birthers told us all we need to know about any of this.
To talk about birthers when the whole country knows Carney has been slipping and sliding through the lies that have been told about Benghazi and other topics show us the crew that currently works at 1600 Pennsylvania think they are above criticism. They believe their political opponents are not only wrong; they are illegitimate and not worthy of a hearing.
While journalists are disgusted with Carney and even his masters in the West Wing may be scratching their heads about his recent performances, he really isn't the problem. His contempt for the truth and for those who question his "Emperor's new clothes" approach to transparency is symptomatic of the kind of second term arrogance that many of us suspected would undo the "hope and change" crowd once the president was re-elected.
Obama's win last November has convinced Carney and other White House loyalists that they can afford to thumb their noses at decency and even honesty since their still-popular boss can no longer be held accountable by the voters. But what they forget is that even re-elected presidents can't behave like monarchs.
It is never a good sign for a president to behave as if it is beneath him to acknowledge problems. It's even worse when those paid to spin him start to act in the same manner.
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Democrats will regret treating this as a partisan issue.
Whenever a former Obama administration official's name comes up in the process of investigating the Trump campaign's alleged links to Russian sources, Democrats take the position that the right's penchant for "whataboutism" neutralizes the implication of wrongdoing. The Democratic objective is to shame those who are committed to crafting a full and unbiased portrait of the events of 2016 into ignoring inconvenient facts, but the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee remains unintimidated.
This month, the committee has met with a variety of senior Obama officials behind closed doors amid its probe of the Russia affair, including former Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The committee will meet with former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday.
These interviews are apparently being conducted in the effort to get to the bottom of why incoming Trump administration officials who were inadvertently captured in intelligence intercepts of foreign targets were conspicuously "unmasked" with their names and the details of their conversations leaked to the press. Trump administration opponents call the issue a distraction, but it's a matter of grave national importance.
Those who are disinclined to look too deeply into the issue of "unmasking" have latched onto a comment from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr like flotsam in a shipwreck. "The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes," Burr said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman whose reckless conduct compelled him to recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign's conduct. "I'll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened," he added. Fewer have, however, paid much attention to Burr's full quote. "Clearly," he added, "there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it's not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it."
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A month earlier, the Washington Post disclosed that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn had privately discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in phone calls prior to the inauguration. The transcript of those intercepted communications was related to reporters, despite its highly classified nature. This revelation contradicted the transition team's repeated denials that any such conversations between Flynn and Kislyak took place and it served as just cause for Flynn's termination.
Flynn was a liability and should never have been placed in such a sensitive role. His dismissal was a relief, but the methods by which he was discredited established a dangerous precedent. If a private citizen swept up in routine intercepts of communications with foreign agents can be "unmasked" to achieve a political purpose, even if that purpose is defensible, it won't be long before that precedent is applied toward more ambiguous ends.
Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to have been the target of a politically motivated intelligence reveal. As reported by, again, the Washington Post, the attorney general apparently misled U.S. officials and members of Congress with regard to the nature of his contacts with Russian officials. According to communications intercepted by "U.S. spy agencies," Kislyak related the details of two conversations he apparently had with then-campaign advisor Sessions to his superiors in Moscow. Sessions was not personally swept up in those intercepts, but Kislyak mentioned his name and the substance of those intercepts was related to Post reporters.
The outlet stressed that it could not confirm the authenticity of the intercepts as they could in Flynn's case, but President Trump went ahead and did that for them. "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions," the president declared on Twitter. "These illegal leaks, like [former FBI Director James] Comey's, must stop!"
This particular leak was widely viewed within the context of the ongoing public feud between the president and his attorney general, but it should not be so quickly dismissed. In cryptic testimony before Congress, Comey revealed that Sessions's recusal from the investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia had nothing to do with Justice Department rules. He said he knew that recusal would be forthcoming, but he could not say why in an unclassified setting. Comey's disclosure and this leak may not be unrelated.
Trump administration opponents who celebrate these unprecedented disclosures because they damage the administration are being extraordinarily parochial. This is an assault on the American social compact. The precedent being established now erodes the prohibitions on using intelligence gathering as a tool to discredit your political enemies. Democrats can bet that this practice will be deployed against them in the foreseeable future. In the process, political actors will render intelligence products suspect, weakening their utility for policymakers and, thus, making America less safe.
It is a tragedy that Democrats have not followed the lead of Senator Burr and other Republicans who are treating the issue of "unmasking" as seriously as they are the unprecedented efforts by Moscow to shape the course of American political affairs in 2016. Like the hacks of Democratic targets, this is not a partisan issue. The "unmaskers" will one day come for Democrats, and they will regret their silence in this pivotal hour.
Will Mattis Betray the Gulf Allies?
Has Mattis gone rogue?
At the core of the Qatar dispute is the question of Qatar's support for extremism. While many Gulf states have histories of donating to or promoting radical Islamism, many have made real reforms. Saudi Arabia, for example, became much more serious about the need to curtail support for radical groups after the Kingdom started suffering blowback with terrorists targeting foreigners living in Saudi Arabia and senior Saudi officials. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, meanwhile, has cracked down not only on the Muslim Brotherhood but has also moved to sever the life-line Egypt often provided Hamas leaders in Gaza. Qatar, however, continues to set itself above the rest in its support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and other moderate Arab states are rightly confused, if not frustrated, by the muddled U.S. response so far. After all, diplomats and official from these states say, both Democratic and Republican administrations in the United States have both long beseeched them to take a no-nonsense approach to extremism and to operate in a coordinated fashion against regional threats.
When they finally do, the White House flip-flops and the State Department urges compromise and negotiation. Evenhandedness is not a virtue when one side is right and the other wrong. To negotiate with regard to the acceptance of terrorist groups is, however, a very dangerous precedent. If the United States re-engaged in Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda's bases there or began operations in Syria to counter the Islamic State, Washington would greatly resent outside powers demanding that the United States compromise with either.
In the wake of the Qatar crisis, now in its second month, Turkey set up a military base in Qatar, much to the outrage of the states seeking to pressure Qatar into compliance. That base's closure remains a key demand among moderate Arab countries.
Now word comes that the U.S. military is planning to conduct military exercises in Qatar with the Qatari and Turkish militaries. Daily Sabah, a once independent paper which was seized by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and transferred to his son-in-law, quoted Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah as saying, "Qatar, Turkey and the U.S. regularly conduct military drills in Qatar. In the near future, a joint drill will begin by the three countries."
Like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has sought to temper President Trump's impetuousness on a number of foreign policy issues. While this can often be a good thing when done behind-the-scenes and in the course of a normal policy process through the National Security Council, the Pentagon conducting its own private foreign policy creates confusion and risks antagonizing allies.
Mattis already displayed a tin ear for timing when, just days after Trump sided with the moderate Arab states and called Qatar out on its funding of extremists, the Pentagon announced a multi-billion dollar arms sale to Qatar. To conduct military exercises in Qatar with Turkey suggests Mattis is choosing sides and endorsing the positions of Qatar and Turkey. Perhaps he is motivated by the desire to maintain access to the al-Udeid Air Base. If this is the case, though, he confuses the Pentagon's preference for the status quo with broader U.S. interests. To prioritize preservation of the al-Udeid Air Base over broader interests effectively tells Doha that it need not reform its behavior and that it can use the U.S. presence as a "get out of jail free card."
Should Qatar's announcement of military drills be true and should Mattis go ahead with the exercises, he also risks undercutting efforts to repair the damage which the Obama administration caused with America's traditional allies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Those governments remain furious with how they believe President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry threw them under the bus.
Mattis may be more refined than Tillerson in his efforts to blunt Trump's excesses. To conduct his own foreign policy, however, is bad in any instance. To do so in such a counterproductive way and to again betray moderate states, which have only done what successive U.S. administrations have asked them to do, may risk damaging alliances beyond the point of no return.
Partisanship Masquerading as Wisdom
Anger over health care clouds the left's judgment.
Nate Silver spoke for most of the liberal blogosphere when he objected to the mainstream media's coverage of Senator John McCain's speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
McCain appeared in the Capitol just days after he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye. Amid that process, doctors discovered that a particularly malignant form of brain cancer was responsible for the clot. Despite his condition and his recovery, McCain made his way back to Washington to vote on a motion to proceed with a debate over the process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Following his critical vote, which allowed the motion to carry only after the vice president broke a tie, McCain gave a stirring address extolling the virtues of the republic and the Senate, while also castigating his congressional colleagues over their approach to the health-care reform process.
"Among younger and less traditional reporters on Twitter," Silver began, "a lot of people are pointing out McCain's inconsistency in scolding McConnell's process but nevertheless voting for the motion to proceed." Silver added, however, that more traditional reporting outlets in print and on television were far more awed by the remarks. They didn't seem to recognize the inconsistency that so irritated the Twitter-verse.
"Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight know that I have a lot of beefs with the establishment media," Silver wrote. "Moments like these, where they elevate style over substance, are a big part of why."
The self-selected, cloistered, like-thinking population of professional cynics on political Twitter is a bad target for professional statistical analysts to critique. Moreover, this criticism is a value judgment founded not in rationality but pique.
McCain's speech on the floor of the Senate was worthy of all the praise it received if only because not every political observer has yet abandoned basic human decency (a frailty that political Twitter discourages). McCain is by any definition an American hero who spent his life serving his country. On what may be his last speech to the nation from the upper chamber of Congress, the man deserves a hearing. Silver and his colleagues did not give him that.
McCain's speech was mostly dedicated to the dysfunction of the body in which he serves. "When I hear the Senate referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body, I'm not so sure we can claim that distinction with a straight face today," he said. "Our deliberations can still be important and useful, but I think we'd all agree they haven't been overburdened by greatness lately."
McCain implored his colleagues to ignore the professional rabble-rousers who have made a career of sowing internecine discord. "To hell with them," he said. "They don't want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood." If this speech started to sound like an appeal to bipartisanship, that became explicit in the following sentence.
The senator said that the virtue of the American system is found in those features that stifle one-party governance. "Top-down" "parliamentary maneuvers" that abandon the process of regular order to govern without bipartisan consent have poisoned and radicalized the country. And to repeat Democratic mistakes by shutting the other party out of the process of reforming one-sixth of the American economy would be a mistake.
"I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered," McCain said. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today."
Only ignorance of what a motion to proceed is or rage-induced blindness over the concept of repealing the Affordable Care Act could lead Silver or those for whom he speaks to make their claim. McCain's vote to proceed with a debate is entirely consistent with regular order, to say nothing of his stated reverence for the process of deliberation in the Senate. His insistence that he would not support the health care bill as it exists, without major reforms (including a bipartisan buy-in and, likely, a return to the committee process), is also intellectually consistent.
I would add that it is clear that the activist left with whom Silver has lumped himself simply didn't, or wouldn't, hear the substance of McCain's address. The senior senator from Arizona delivered a moving and eloquent statement of affection for the extraordinary history of the American republic. He painted a portrait of the United States as a fundamentally moral nation. He shared his love for the institutions that have made the American Constitution the world's longest surviving governmental charter. And while he criticized American politics and the politicians who practice it, his reverence for the American system of government—to say nothing of the prosperity and security it has afforded the American people for nearly a quarter thousand years—was infectious.
The left dislikes that kind of sentimentality. They find it mawkish, at best; chauvinistic, at worst. But an American who has dedicated his life to his countrymen, often at great cost, is owed a little maudlin schmaltz, even if the popular Twitter clique does not share those sentiments. Not only was McCain's vote consistent with his opinions, his speech was a moving tribute to the country he loves. It's a shame, but a telling one, that the left didn't hear any of it.
A Familiar Paranoia
Donald Trump sees disloyalty even in his closest supporters.
In a performance that would have shocked sensibilities if they weren't already flogged to the point of numbness, President Trump delivered a nostalgic, campaign-style stem-winder on Monday to a troop of boy scouts. The commander-in-chief meandered between crippling self-pity and gauche triumphalism; he moaned about his treatment by the "fake media," praised himself for the scale of his Electoral College victory, and pondered aloud whether to dub the nation's capital a "cesspool" or a "sewer." Most illuminating in this manic display was an exposition on the virtues of fealty. "We could use some more loyalty; I will tell you that," the president mused. These days, Trump seems fixated on treachery—among Republicans in Congress, among his Cabinet officials, and among his subordinates in the administration. His obsession may yet prove his undoing.
Donald Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. That has become obvious, and not just because Trump's new communications director (whose portfolio seems to consist of inflating the president's ego in friendly media venues and purging the administration of experienced political professionals) admitted as much. Trump told the New York Times that Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign was "very unfair" to him personally. The president has criticized his "beleaguered" attorney general for taking a "weak" position on prosecuting Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, and investigating the Ukrainian government's efforts to support the Clinton campaign.
This is all post hoc. Trump expressed no interest in re-litigating the charges against Hillary Clinton (which his former FBI director dismissed as beyond the scope of prosecution) in November of last year. The tenor of Trump's agitation with his attorney general is proportional to the tempo of new revelations regarding the special counsel investigation into the president's campaign, many of which were first revealed to the public cryptically in Trump's own public pronouncements. As a self-described campaign operative, Sessions was obliged to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign's activities, and he did so in February. The move reportedly irritated Trump at the time, but his outrage has boiled over only as the probe has begun to ensnare his family.
There is no small amount of absurdity in the fact that Jeff Sessions is perhaps the most loyal of Trump's associates in Washington. His every action has been designed to shield Trump from the consequences of his own recklessness. When Donald Trump was still regarded by the majority of GOP officeholders as a liability and a usurper, Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to endorse the rogue candidate. He was a stalwart campaign-trail surrogate and turned in a workmanlike performance at the Justice Department. When Trump fired his FBI director, Sessions refused to testify before Congress as to the nature of pertinent conversations between the president and his Cabinet. When privilege did not protect those conversations, Sessions insisted that he had simply forgotten many of the particulars.
Perhaps more than most, Sessions helped to make Donald Trump the president. As attorney general, the former senator has been effective in overseeing an increasingly restless Justice Department populated by people who chafe amid Trump's regular attacks on them and their superiors. Even now, by declining to be goaded into resignation, Sessions is protecting the president. Trump seems to imagine that Session's removal would clear the way for a new attorney general, who would be free to dismiss Robert Mueller and dissolve the special counsel's office at will. But that wouldn't happen. Trump would merely ignite a political firestorm and be faced with the task of finding another person to serve as a punching bag atop his least favorite agency.
This is all to say nothing of the fact that such a masochistic individual would have to be confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. In that process, lawmakers would surely seek assurances that the new attorney general would not touch the special counsel's office. The Republican-led Congress is already conducting four of their own investigations into Trump's campaign. The president's extraordinary relationship with Russia has forced the GOP-led legislature to prepare a sanctions bill that robs the presidency of its freedom to administer those injunctions.
This all might seem like hostility, but it's precisely the opposite; it's guidance of a kind that a political novice with self-destructive impulses sorely needs. But this sort of protection, too, has led the president to wallow in melancholy and a sense of betrayal. "It's very sad that Republicans do very little to protect their president," he wrote of the incoming sanctions bill.
The kind of paranoia on display in Trump's attacks on his most loyal partners in government is not unfamiliar. It is the kind that mistakes a desire for self-preservation—an instinct found in every successful political actor—as weakness and perfidy. Trump is fortunate enough to have surrounded himself with people devoted enough to him to know when his requests are inappropriate or when the president is better served by preserving the appearance of their independence. The fact that Trump finds even that kind of pantomimed insubordination intolerable is disturbing. This is a man who would sacrifice competence for sycophancy. In a less robust system of constitutional laws, they are the impulses of a leader who would corrupt the very government he manages. They still might.
In his attacks on Sessions—an early Trump supporter, a dedicated public servant, and a man with more goodwill among Republicans on Capitol Hill than the president may ever possess—Trump might have gone too far. Even Trump surrogates who are loath to criticize the president when he most deserves it are no longer being shy. Perhaps they know the bell will toll for them one day, or maybe they sense the danger of the moment. If past behavior is a guide, these defections won't compel Trump to rethink his conduct. In fact, they might only reinforce in Trump the notion that he is surrounded by traitors.
Salaita, Out
Sympathy deferred.
I have written before about Steven Salaita. Once a tenured professor of English at Virginia Tech, he resigned from that position on the strength of an offer from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign to serve in the American Indian Studies program. But in the summer of 2014, UIUC rescinded the offer, mainly over of a series of reprehensible Salaita tweets.
Let the tone of one exemplify many others: Concerning three kidnapped Israeli teens—there was already reason to believe they had been killed—Salaita opined, "You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing." As I noted at the time, reasonable people could disagree about whether the offer should have been rescinded.
Ultimately, UIC paid $875,000 to make the case go away. But it was troubling that some on the left chose not only to defend Salaita's academic freedom—as one might defend the freedom of the Westboro Baptist Church to say vile things—but also that they made him into a kind of hero. To this day, he remains an elected member of the National Council of the American Studies Association and is still from time to time invited to give lectures at prestigious places about how he is not allowed to speak.
He has been occupying a chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut. But that was not a tenured or tenure track position and, apparently, no one else will offer him a job. So he has decided to leave academia.
We will now be endlessly subjected to the claim that Salaita cannot find a job merely because, as he puts it, he has "disdain for settler colonialism." The problem is, he says, that academia is a "bourgeois industry that reward self-importance and conformity."
That is nonsense.
First, Steven Salaita's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, roughly that Zionism is the problem and that turning Israel into a pariah state is a prudent and moral way of dealing with it, may be foolish and morally obtuse. But it is hardly out of bounds in academia and well over a thousand academics have expressed public support for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Many of them occupy tenured positions at prestigious colleges and universities and, at least as far as I can tell, pay no professional cost for holding the very same set of views Salaita wants us to think is too hot for academia to handle.
Second, in the field Salaita inhabits, a pro-BDS position is not a nonconformist position. It is famously the official line of the American Studies Association. The Association for Asian American Studies, which preceded the ASA in passing a boycott resolution, passed the resolution unanimously with nary an extension. Over four years ago, I observed that not one scholar in that field had publicly dissented. As far as I know, that remains the case today. Salaita himself, in spite of a thin scholarly record, was offered a job at UIUC, the flagship of the Illinois system, presumably on the strength of his activism. There is no doubt in my mind that were it not for his disgusting tweets, he would be happily tenured at U of I spouting the same line he was spouting before he got into trouble.
Of course, people who take radical positions, even if those positions are popular in their subfields, may find themselves under closer scrutiny than people who don't, even at colleges and universities that are supposed to value unconventional thinking. That's unfortunate, and should be decried. Indeed, the U of I's defense of its decision to rescind Salaita's offer in terms of civility was unconvincing and rightly earned the disdain of academic freedom organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the American Association of University Professors. People do sometimes lose their jobs over this kind of thing. But Salaita's views are not what undid him. He was undone by his own callousness and recklessness, neither of which has he found any reason to regret.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.


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New Heartland Homes residence has groundbreaking in Park Rapids
Ground was broken Thursday for a new Heartland Homes residence, to be designated the Double H.
Its soon-to-be residents arrived at the site on Western Avenue South to cheer the initiative.
Their current home, built in 1978, was intended for eight residents, with several small rooms, Heartland Homes executive director Curt Cannon explained. It was not designed for wheelchair use, but two of the current residents use them.
The structure does not meet current needs, nor will it meet future needs of clients as they age, he said.
The new residence will house four and will be completely handicap accessible. It will have two self-contained apartments with kitchenettes, dining areas, communal living space, and American Disabilities Act-compliant bathrooms.
The house "allows clients to live a more independent lifestyle while still maintaining supervision," Cannon explained.
Heartland Homes offices, located on Fair Avenue, will be moving from the basement of the current house to the upstairs. Some of the community programs conducted downstairs will also move upstairs to accommodate clients who are unable to navigate stairs.
Since its inception in 1978, Heartland Homes has added four houses and leases space above Bearly Used.
Residential clients are 23 in number with 33 community program clients, those living independently or with family but requiring daily services.
Fifty-eight are employed by the nonprofit with funds derived from federal, state and county agencies.
A board of directors oversees major organizational changes and decisions.


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by Kristin Nador/@KristinNador
Writers are a serious lot. We are serious about our craft. We are serious when we write and serious when we can't. We are serious about getting published and oh so serious when we get rejected. Yes, you are a writer and you love writing. You love talking about writing. You love having written even more. When is the last time you had FUN writing?
I had a great writing session yesterday thanks to a post on The Write Practice. Joe Bunting and crew do a great job of encouraging writers to practice with a variety of suggestions and prompts. Joe also encourages readers to share their practice and give feedback to others in the blog comments. Yesterday's practice was all about clichés.
Check out Cliches: Not In My Backyard
The goal: write for 15 minutes using as many clichés as possible. I like clichés. They remind me of those noir detective movies from the 40's. I discovered a treasure trove of clichés, euphemisms and figures of speech on ClicheSite.com. After scrolling through pages and pages of clichés, I wrote a list of my favorites and the challenge was on.
An afternoon's challenge became the following short story. Can you find all the clichés?
Better The Devil You Know Than The Devil You Don't
I stood inside the entrance to Max's Bar, shaking out my trenchcoat. It was a dark and stormy night and the rain was coming down in buckets; it was a real toad strangler. I needed a drink before my appointment. Take it from me, playing both sides of the fence takes its toll.
"What'll it be?" Max said when I bellied up to the bar.
"Double scotch, neat."
Quick as a whistle, Max poured the scotch and slid the glass straight as a nail to stop in front of me. I wanted to get hammered, but I knew the score. I needed my wits about me for this appointment.
"Here's mud in your eye."
Down the hatch went the Scotch and Max nodded. It was good to the last drop.
I thought about Betsy. She was the best thing since sliced bread, as pure as the driven snow, with a heart of gold. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. But Pops always said you can't have your cake and eat it, too. I burned that bridge, and now I was drowning my sorrows and watching the clock, waiting for my appointment to arrive.
The joint was hot enough to fry an egg in, so I loosened my tie, and scoped the place. I was caught off guard.
She was a dead ringer for Jean Harlow, with blue eyes as cold as ice. My mouth dropped, and she gave me a wink. Quick as a New York minute she stood beside me, grinning from ear to ear. A gold digger from the wrong side of the tracks, to be sure, but I could go head over heels for her regardless. Pops never said nothing about not having the icing on the cake.
"Fancy meeting you here," she purred in my ear. She was fine as wine. Knock your socks off gorgeous.
"What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
"I'm Sheila. Out sowing your wild oats? I'd love to join you."
She wiggled up onto the bar stool. She was a little rough around the edges, nothing to sneeze at, but I'd be out of the frying pan and into the fire with this one.
"I'm waiting for someone."
I turned on my stool to face the door. My heart would turn on a dime and she'd have me under her thumb. I needed to shut this dog and pony show down before I got too worked up.
"Wake up on the wrong side of the bed, honey? I can turn that frown upside down. Your place or mine?"
"Listen, you're a good egg, but… I'm waiting for someone."
"Zip your lip." She hopped off her stool, grabbed my face with red talons, and planted her lips on mine. "What you see is what you get. You can take that to the bank."
I cut to the chase. "Not interested."
"What am I, chopped liver?" Sheila stomped off in a flurry of cheap perfume and fake feathers.
Just then the door opened and a gust of rain blew across the tables. Max grumbled. "Hey, were you born in a barn? Shut the door!" My appointment had arrived.
The handwriting was on the wall. Big Gus wasn't coming, but he sent three of his goons in his place.
One was a mountain of a man, and looked a little long in the tooth to still be in the business, with a face only a mother could love. The other two walked in joined at the hip. Tall, wiry and dressed to the nines, they were two peas in a pod.
"Long time no see", the big one said.
I had a memory like an elephant but I didn't recognize him.
"You're a marked man, Franconi. You couldn't leave well enough alone. You had to make a mountain out of a molehill. If you hadn't made a federal case out of it, you'd have been free as a bird. You could have just chewed the fat with Big Gus, let him call the shots, and you would have gotten off dirt cheap."
I reached inside my coat, but the two tall ones had circled the wagons and got the drop on me.
"Just a cotton-pickin' minute here!" Max hollered as he reached under the bar for his shotgun. The big one beat him to the punch and blew him away. Patrons scattered everywhere, and one young guy still wet behind the ears lost his lunch.
"Listen, we might have gotten off on the wrong foot," I said. "It's true. I didn't want to listen to Big Gus. But Big Gus is a money-grubber, plain and simple. It's no skin off my nose if you want to take orders from him, but the long arm of the law isn't far behind. You're in over your head, fellas. I wouldn't want to be in your place for all the tea in China. Big Gus is small potatoes. I can sweeten the pot and up the ante."
"Wake up and smell the coffee, Franconi. Your ship has sailed. You made your bed, now you gotta lie in it."
He scratched his head. He was ugly as sin.
"You can't just pull a rabbit out of your hat and make us think you have something for us worth turning the tables on Big Gus. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but I've been around the block. I was busting heads for Big Gus before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye. If you're not a team player, you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of moving up in this business. You're a bad seed, Franconi."
I was going to have to wing it, but I had an ace up my sleeve.
"Here, I have the plan right here. I'll lay my cards on the table, and if you three join me, we can swim with the sharks. Survival of the fittest, you know, and Big Gus will thank his lucky stars we don't share with the competition."
I stared at him, stone-faced, while I reached into my coat pocket.
"Share with the competition? What's that got to do with the price of eggs?"
He may have been strong as an ox, but he was dumber than a box of rocks.
"You're going to get your just desserts," the big one said.
"Hit the deck!" yelled one of the tall ones.
Two shots rang out at the drop of a hat. The matching suits fell like trees.
"Eat lead!" screamed the big one.
Before I could react, Sheila ran towards him, guns blazing. He went down in a blaze of glory.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
"That was gutsy as all get out. I thought I was a goner."
"It ain't over until the fat lady sings."
She stood over the bodies, two revolvers in hand and ice water in her veins.
"State of the art in personal protection. You ain't seen nothing yet."
"You're a peach. I don't know how I can ever thank you."
"You'll think of something, sweetie."
I felt like a kid in a candy store.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This was mine.
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Fall 2016 Happenings
The First Day of School is Monday, August 29, 2016
On Monday, August 29, the first day of school, students should be at school by 7:45 a.m. and report directly to the gym for an Opening Day Assembly. Classes for GMTCC students will also begin on Monday, August 29. Buses will depart from Hazen for GMTCC following the first day assembly.
Student First Day Packets: Every student will receive a packet of information on the first containing vital information for parents and guardians. Parents are asked to remind their student to bring home this important information promptly.
Attention Middle School Students and Parents! A day time field trip to Hosmer Point is scheduled in early September for all 7th and 8th grade students again this year. Details will be announced during the first week of school.
Annual Student Information / Medical Information Update It is absolutely essential that the school has access to the most current information for our students, especially in an emergency situation or should your child become ill or injured at school. Please update and sign the form your child brings home in the first day packet and return it to the Guidance Office by September 12, 2016.
School Meals - the Right Fuel for Wildcats ! One of the keys to academic success for students is good nutrition. Hazen Union School will continue to serve healthy breakfasts and lunches for our students. Students can expect an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables every day. Every family should complete the Reduced and Free Lunch Application included in the first day packet and return it to the Guidance Office as soon as possible. Students who received reduced price lunch last year will be carried forward for a few days, however, parents must complete a new application each year. Applications are processed promptly and all information on the application is kept confidential.
Students not receiving reduced price lunch can purchase lunch daily or maintain a lunch account that operates on a debit basis. That is, parents will make a deposit into the account and the student will charge meals against that balance. Students will be alerted when the balance is near zero. Regular meal prices are Breakfast - $1.75; Lunch - $3.00; Milk - $.30. Parents with questions about the school lunch program should contact Patti Foster at (802) 472-2123. The meal charge policy is also available on the web page.
Stay in Touch via the Website, Facebook, Twitter and the Parent Portal Parents are invited to visit our web site www.hazen.ossu.org often to keep informed of daily happenings at school. Hazen also has a Facebook page – facebook.com/HUSVT and Twitter – twitter.com/HazenUnion and blogspots on our web page. Please never hesitate to call the school whenever you have a question or concern – 472-6511. The Hazen reception desk is staffed daily from 7:15 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. In the event of a school closing or other emergency, parents will be notified using the Alert Now automated system. Please be sure to update your telephone contact information.
Parent Portal: Parents and students can access information on grades, assignments and attendance records. To access the Parent Portal for the first time, obtain your access id and password from Ms. Marquis in the Guidance Office at 472- 2196 or email@example.com. Once you have the access codes, go to: http//ps.ossu.org/public/ and click on the blue "Create Account" button. Be sure to use the parent access id and password you have obtained from the Guidance Office under the "Link Students to Account" screen.
Student & Parent Handbook: Each Hazen student will be receive a copy of our Student & Parent Handbook on the first day of school. Parents and students should review the handbook to learn about Hazen expectations, policies, and procedures and return the signature page to the school.
Sports Physical and Athletic Authorization: All student athletes must provide proof of a current physical examination (within 2 years) and an Athletic Authorization Form prior to participating in practices or games. Parents can access the forms from our web site. Parents can also access the weekly practice and game schedule on the web site.
Important Fall Happenings to Note on your Calendar
Labor Day Holiday – School will be closed on Friday, September 2, and on Monday, September 5, 2016 in observance of Labor Day.
School Picture Day – Smile! School picture day will be on Wednesday, September 7, 2016. All students will have a photo taken for the Hazen Yearbook and Student ID even if they don't purchase a packet. Lifetouch School Portraits will provide the service and order packets will be included in the first day packet. The date for picture re-take day will be announced.
Sophomore Class Meeting with Josten's Rep: Students in grade 10 will meet with the Josten's representative and get class ring order packets on Tuesday, September 13 during TSA. Our Josten's Rep, Matt Clark, will return to Hazen on Wednesday, September 21, to collect orders from students.
Fall Open House – Come out and meet our faculty and staff at the annual Open House on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Senior Class Meeting with Josten's Rep: Members of the Senior Class will meet with the Josten's representative on Thursday, October 27, during TSA to discuss ordering caps and gowns and graduation announcements. Seniors will receive their ordering information packet at this meeting.
October Teacher Professional Days – Students will be dismissed early (11:35 am) on Wednesday, October 19, and school will be closed for students on Thursday, October 20, and Friday, October 21, to allow teachers to participate in professional development training.
Fall Parent Teacher Conferences – Fall Parent Teacher conferences will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016. School will be closed for students on this day.
November Recess – School will be closed Wednesday, November 23 through Friday, November 25, 2016.
December Teacher Professional Day – Students will be dismissed early (11:35 am) on Friday, December 9, 2016 to allow teachers to participate in professional development training.
December Recess – School will be closed from Monday, December 26, 2016 through Monday, January 2, 2016 for the December Recess. School will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
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Doughnuts, a popular snack around the capital, recently
added the sweet in a new guise:
American Mini Donuts offer it in a miniature form, while
Made Doughnut House recently reopened for business after an
absence of almost a year, writes MIREILLE DE VILLIERS,
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doughnuts sold at American Mini Donuts (top),
located in front of DG Tower on Bole Road, are small
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ill. She first started selling the pastry more than
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While she has recovered, her son, Dereje Belay, has
since taken over the café that has been serving
customers doughnuts for 12 years.
"They are real doughnuts," Dereje told Fortune. "The
machine we use to make them is from the US. The
recipe we use was developed by my mother over the
The classic doughnut has a hole in its centre. This
allows for more even cooking. As a man who clearly
takes pride in his café, he considers the quality as
most other products as inferior.
Made's doughnuts are certainly delicious. They are
slightly smaller than the "normal" ones found in the
street stalls his mother started out in. They are
also firmer in texture and as well as considerably
less oily.
This, Dereje attributes to the ingredients they use
with the flour, which includes milk and eggs, as
cake does. The whole pastry is really cake like, and
instead of bland dough, traces of cinnamon can be
Yet, there is also a marked difference in price.
While a doughnut with icing sugar from a street
stall will set one back around 3.50 Br, Made's is
nine Birr, with VAT.
Dereje's wife has a similarly named café, Made
Coffee & Pizza, located around Ras Mekonnen Bridge
in Piazza. While it sells doughnuts, its focus is
more on serving pizza, something the doughnut house
does not offer, at this stage.
It also sells only about 50 doughnuts per day, as
opposed to the doughnut house that sells around 250,
according to Dereje.
Prior to taking over Made Doughnut House, Dereje was
a furniture dealer. He furnished the café from his
warehouse. There are 10 light wood round tables
around the café. The glass cake display is directly
opposite the entrance, just a few steps off the
quiet asphalt road.
Should one not wish to take one's treats away, it is
not a bad idea to sit down, as the interior is
rather reminiscent of a cosy kitchen. Almost the
entire front wall facing the street comprises
windows, letting in a good deal of natural light.
The wooden furnishings further add to the warm,
homey atmosphere.
A menu stands at attention on each table and the
fare not yet expounded upon contained therein is
hardly cheap, even before taking into consideration
that the prices are exclusive of VAT.
A cup of tea is 2.82 Br, macchiato 4.35 Br. Not to
mention the juice, traditional food, and sandwiches
also on offer, there is every variety of cakes from
banana cake (8.26 Br) to Black Forest (10.43 Br) and
Tiramisu (12.17 Br).
Doughnuts are especially popular in the US, from
where Genet Tsegaye also imported her automatic
doughnut making machine. However, unlike Made, hers
is a takeaway stall, and she only makes the mini
The owner of American Mini Donuts, located in front
of DG Tower on Bole Road, Genet's doughnuts amount
to about six grams each. Sold in small paper bags
donning the logo of the mother company, Donut Star,
the mini doughnuts are sold in servings of either
eight pieces (10 Br) or 16 pieces (20 Br).
The toppings on offer are cinnamon sugar (an
additional two Birr), as well as chocolate,
strawberry, and vanilla syrup, all four Birr per
The sugar falls right off the doughnut to assemble
at the bottom of the bag, like salt over popcorn.
However, the syrup clings and adds a welcome bit of
moisture to the dryish pastry.
Genet plans to add pineapple flavour to the options,
once the syrup she has ordered is cleared to leave
Djibouti, she told Fortune.
"It is very tasty, but costy," Mikias Bekele, 24, a
customer who came by at around 5:45pm on Wednesday,
February 9, 2011, told Fortune. "It you work it out,
a doughnut generally costs six Birr. One little
packet with syrup thus costs more than two
doughnuts, and I don't think the amount of pastry is
the same."
Aside from the machine, Genet also imports the flour
from which the doughnuts are made from Donut Star.
As her stall has only been open for about two
months, she has not yet run out of supplies with a
need to report some.
Yet, this is bound to change when she opens other
branches: One is planned at Edna Mall, to open this
week, while another, at Getu Commercial Center is to
follow seomtime in the future, according to Genet.
"Mini Doughnuts are new to Ethiopia," Genet told
Fortune. "I am hoping that the novelty of it will be
American Mini Donuts usually stays open until around
10:00pm, or when late night customers in search of a
snack dry up, according to Genet. It is usually
busiest from 5:00pm onwards, she said of the
deep-fried snack.
However, it contains some interesting vitamins, if
the placard on the window shielding the cooking
space is to be believed: it supposedly contains
niacin (B3), which lowers cholesterol; iron, needed
to make hemoglobin, the protein needed to carry
oxygen throughout the body; and riboflavin (B2), key
to maintaining humans' health.
In a rather outlandish touch, it also informs
gluttons of the calorie content they are about to
consume: 100g, or the double serving, contains
390Kcal, of which 6.5pc is fat, and only 3.5pc the
above mentioned minerals.
Be that as it may, the treat is delightful, and
these facts hardly detract from the eaters'
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Mellar, Harvey and Kambouri, Maria (2005) Observing ICT use in adult literacy, numeracy and language classrooms. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 14. pp. 61-74. ISSN 1441-0559. DOI UNSPECIFIED
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ABSTRACT: The Bob Goodwin, Jr. Collection is the personal collection of Mr. Goodwin, a former Maritime Administration official with the U.S. Department of Transportation. The collection consists of publications, papers, proceedings, publicity documents, operational papers, correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives and audio/visual materials.
EXTENT: 13.0 Linear feet
SCOPE:The Goodwin Collection has been arranged into four series; records; photographs, slides and negatives; audio and video tapes; and towboat flags. In some cases the series have been further broken down into subseries and arranged alphabetically when possible. There was no original order to the collection - the order has been imposed by Library staff.
- Series 1, Records have been further divided into four subseries. Subseries 1 consists of personal records related to Mr. Goodwin, as well as a few other people, and including correspondence, biographies, resumes and notes. Subseries 2 is made up of policy papers, and arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Subseries 3 is operational records, and includes organizational operational records, as well as background information, conference proceedings, publicity materials and other related records. This series has been arranged alphabetically, by organizational name. Subseries 4 is a small series of information related to vessels - blueprints and histories.
- Series 2, Photographs, Slides and Negatives, has been arranged to the box level, and has been separated into three subseries by material type.
- Series 3, Audio and Video Tapes, has been arranged to the box level, and has been separated into two subseries by material type.
- Series 4, Towboat Flags, has not been arranged, but consists of flags once flow on towboats by manydifferent companies, most of which are now defunct.
History:Bob Goodwin was born on May 26, 1946 at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis. Like many people of his era in St. Louis, Bob attended Catholic school, his formal education beginning at St. Margret's Parish, and after primary school continuing on to Vianney High School, where science and history came easy to him. Bob was a consumate sports enthusiast, and he played at one point or another in his formative years baseball, track, soccer and football. Bob also was very enthusiastic about extra-curricular activities, including the cub and boy scouts and Glee Club. Bob continued his education by obtaining a BA in Psychology from St. Benedicts College and graduate courses from the School of Law at St. Louis University.
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