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About AFJN
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Dear AFJN Members and Friends,
As we mail out this March issue of Around Africa, we are also heavily into preparing for the Jubilee 2000/USA Mass Mobilization on April 9 here in Washington, DC. We anticipate tens of thousands of people coming to take a strong stand against the debt burdens of poor countries in Africa and around the world, debts which poor people had no hand in contracting, yet which deprive them and their children of health care, education and development. These crushing debts held by the wealthiest countries and institutions in the world are a legacy of colonial exploitation and Cold War policies that fall heaviest on the poorest people in Africa. By draining entire populations of vital resources they badly need to combat poverty, these debts help fuel conflicts, the AIDS epidemic and corruption. The Catholic Church has consistently asserted that these debts are unjust and should be canceled.
Please make every effort to join Ezekiel and me and other AFJN members at the Mass Mobilization for Debt Cancellation on the Mall in Washington, DC on April 9. Urge others to come with you. Recruit a busload from your parish or community. Make AFJN banners and signs for the event. Stay to lobby your members of Congress (MCs) on Monday, April 10.
For an April 9-10 information packet, contact the Jubilee 2000/USA office directly by phone at 202/783-3566 or by email at <firstname.lastname@example.com>. You can also register on line for the event from AFJN's web site at http://acad.cua.edu.
Finally, we have been working hard for the past two years to oppose the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a trade bill now before Congress. AFJN feels strongly that this measure will harm the interests of Africa's poor majority. A combined House and Senate committee will shortly conference on a final version of the bill which will then be sent to Congress for a vote. If it passes as expected, President Clinton has promised to sign it into law. Now is the time for you to urge your representatives and senators to reject this legislation. Phone or write to your MCs, share with them your experience of Africa and your conviction that U.S. policy must serve the needs of marginalized people before it helps U.S. corporations profit from Africa. See the AGOA alert inside this issue.
Larry J. Goodwin, Executive Director
Angola: AFJN Responds to State Department
In early December last year, AFJN helped to host an Angolan peace delegation to Washington, DC. Benjamin Castelo, Director of Church Action in Angola, Rev. Gaspar Joao Domingos, General Secretary of the Council of Christian Churches of Angola and Jose Sebastiao Manuel, Director of MOSAIKO, an affiliate of the Department of Justice and Peace of the Angolan Catholic Episcopal Conference, met with U.S. church leaders, members of Congress and Clinton Administration officials to seek support for the peace process in Angola. Chief among the officials was Dr. Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Following that visit, the AFJN Board of Directors wrote to Dr. Rice urging the State Department to heed the recommendations of the peace delegation. These included freezing UNITA's assets, providing intelligence to the UN enquiry on sanctions busting in Angola, pressuring states that covertly or overtly support the conflict on Angola, more U.S. Diplomatic efforts to end the war and increasing U.S. assistance to meet the humanitarian crisis.
In her response to AFJN's board, Dr. Rice expressed dismay at what she termed the lack of understanding of U.S. policy in Angola. She stated the U.S. government's condemnation of Jonas Savimbi and its belief that a political settlement is the only hope for a lasting peace. She noted the extent of U.S. support for humanitarian programs and its commitment to political, social and economic reform in Angola.
Here is AFJN's reply to Dr. Rice, signed by AFJN's president, Fr. Seamus Finn, OMI, on behalf of the Board of Directors.
28 January 2000
Dear Assistant Secretary Rice:
Thank you for replying to our letter of December 15, 1999. The letter from our Board of Directors was not intended to cause you dismay but to amplify the concerns of our colleagues from Angola. We wish to strongly note that we never stated or implied that the U.S. is "cheering the conflict on and ignoring the plight of innocent civilians" as you remarked. And while we welcome the enclosures included with your letter, we are not clear how they address the issues we raised. They essentially spoke to the arms, military equipment and petroleum embargo against UNITA. We are at pains to see how the policies mentioned in your enclosures have significantly constrained UNITA efforts in pursuing the war.
In our letter, we specifically drew your attention to a recommendation from Human Rights Watch/Africa that the U.S. provide intelligence to assist the United Nations' Special Envoy in identifying sanctions busters. Recently we learned that the Special Envoy will release his report in March, naming individuals and countries complicit in undermining the UN sanctions against UNITA. We hope the U.S. will vigorously and publicly act to ensure that persons or countries so named will be brought to justice.
We appreciate the much-needed U.S. humanitarian support to the people of Angola. On the other hand, we believe that if the U.S. froze UNITA's assets and brought its political influence to bear in a major way, the chances for peace would be dramatically increased.
AFJN is convinced that the United States has the leverage to advance the cause of peace and stability in Africa. The recent decision by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to use the Security Council presidency to lift up AIDS and peace issues in Africa testifies to this. We welcome such U.S. led initiatives at the United Nations and prayerfully hope they translate into meaningful policies that will bring lasting peace to Africa's people.
Again, we wish to thank you for taking the time to respond to our letter. We look forward to working with you in the future on Angola and other issues of critical importance to Africa. We are available to meet with you on these matters if you would find that helpful.
Rev. Seamus Finn, OMI
United Nations Proposed Peacekeepers for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
At the recently concluded Security Council meeting on Africa, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed sending 5, 537 UN peacekeeping troops to the DRC. According to Annan, the regional and international implications of the war in the DRC warrant deployment of UN forces. He reiterated the need to address the region's long term humanitarian, development and security needs. The Security Council passed a resolution on January 26 saying that it would act promptly on the deployment. The resolution hinges on the premise that the belligerents will cease all hostilities and respect fully the terms of last year's Lusaka Accord.
The Clinton Administration has asked the U.S. Congress to approve support for the peacekeeping troops. The U.S. is expected to shoulder a significant amount of the program's expenses and needs congressional approval for funding. According to Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, the stakes are too high to ignore the DRC's crisis. "If the conflict spirals out of control," he said, "it could destabilize central and southern Africa. It is self-evident that if the UN does not do what it can to assist those who want peace in the Congo, the result will be certain humanitarian and security disaster."
Some members of Congress, particularly Sen. John Warner (R-VA), have expressed doubt about any new UN peacekeeping activity until the Balkan crisis is settled. According to Warner, the United States has spent upwards of $10 billion in the Balkans but the situation remains largely unresolved. Given that fact, he objects to the U.S. spending money on peacekeeping efforts in Africa.
Some observers point out that Annan's recommended troop strength is grossly inadequate to deal with the mammoth problem of peacekeeping in the DRC, a country one third the size of the U.S. The Lusaka process required an estimated 25,000 troops to police the accord. In the DRC, at least six different Congolese warring factions and seven African countries are involved in the conflict, and the peace accord has been violated by all of the parties to the agreement.
The difficulty of bringing peace to the DRC is complicated by South Africa's stance toward the process. Initially, the U.S. was counting on South Africa to play a leading role in ending the crisis. However, a South African official confided to the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), a UN information outlet, that while South Africa may send medical or communications personnel, it had no commitment to providing ground troops. This position resembles the U.S.' own decision not to send ground troops to the DRC.
Yet, if an early resolution of the DRC crisis does not happen, Central Africa will be in dire straits and its people will continue to suffer intensely. This is the message that Cardinal Frederic Etsou, Archbishop of Kinshasa, will bring to Washington, DC in February. AFJN and the National Endowment For Democracy (NED) are facilitating the Cardinal's visit as he meets with U.S. government officials, members of Congress and various NGO's working on Central Africa. The Cardinal is expected to stress the urgency of U.S. support to end the crisis in his country and the need for more humanitarian support.
Action: Write to your MCs, especially your Senators, urging them to
support the administration's funding request for the UN's DRC peacekeeping
force. Send letters to the U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510 and to the U.S.
House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Rethinking the World Trade Organization
What are the best steps for developing countries to take toward integration into the world economy? This was a central question at the heart of the November World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, WA for both WTO participants and protestors.
Martin Khor of the Third World Network recently wrote reflecting on WTO policies, analyzing elements of this question and offering some critical suggestions.
Seattle raised many issues for developing countries about trade, financial and investment liberalization. Each of those categories contains profound social justice implications because they have direct consequences for people struggling with poverty. Khor notes that on the one hand, trade is essential for development and growth. On the other hand, trade liberalization (unregulated market-driven trade) has significant negative effects on developing countries. Globally, there is a widening gap between rich and poor countries, and a growing gap between rich and poor people within countries. So-called "free" markets have not benefited everyone.
For example, Khor cites the United Nations Human Development Report 1999 that the top 20% of people in the world's richest countries enjoy 82% of expanding export trade whereas the bottom 20% enjoy barely more than 1%. Also, the UN Trade and Development Report 1999 shows that rapid trade liberalization has led to sharp increases in imports for developing countries, but exports have failed to keep pace making their trade deficits higher in the 90s than they were in the 70s. Furthermore, it shows no direct correlation between trade liberalization and economic growth.
Khor makes the point that trade must be accompanied by other factors such as the development of local enterprises, farming, human resources, technology, export capacity and markets. As important is the fact that developing countries must be free to determine the rate and scope of liberalization, combined with the ability to support their small-scale farmers and fledgling businesses. He argues that a freeze should be put on steps to impose more liberalization on developing countries and that rich countries have to correct the inequities and imbalances in the world trading system that work against developing countries. Among other things, developing countries must be fully included in global decisions about trade.
Developing Countries Haven't Benefited
Implementation Problems
Steps to Take
Khor suggests a number of steps that need to be taken to safeguard the legitimate development needs of developing countries.
The full text of Martin Khor's article is on the AFJN web page under
"What's New."
Africa Trade Bill Moves in Congress
AFJN has consistently opposed the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a trade bill now heading toward the last stages of passage. AFJN is convinced that this measure will ultimately harm the interests of Africa's poor majority. A combined House and Senate committee will soon conference on a final version of the bill which will be sent to Congress for a vote, probably in April or May. If it passes as expected, President Clinton has promised to sign it into law.
AFJN particularly objects to the eligibility requirements in the House version, the criteria African countries must meet to qualify for trade benefits with the U.S. These requirements define an economic model that has already been found tested and wanting. Imposed through structural adjustment-like conditions, they have increased unemployment, poverty and inequality throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Notable are those that compel Africans to remove restrictions on foreign investors and treat them on an equal basis with nationals, that pressure governments to cede their legitimate role of social and economic oversight to the private sector, and that insist upon an acceptance of intellectual property rights formulated by outside interests.
AFJN also objects to the Senate mandating the use of U.S. cloth, yarn and thread in African apparel production for it to enter the U.S. duty free. This requirement effectively eliminates any advantage to Africans of the bill's textile provisions.
Now is the time to contact your representatives and senators urging them to reject this legislation. Share with them your experience of Africa and your conviction that U.S. policy must serve the needs of marginalized people before helping U.S. corporations profit from Africa.
It is particularly important to contact the members of the conference
committee. The Senate conferees are Sens. Roth (R-DE), Grassley (R-IA), Lott
(R-MS), Helms (R-NC), Moynihan (D-NY), Baucus (D-MT) and Biden (D-DE). House
conferees have not yet been named. However, the following representatives are
key and may be appointed as conferees. Reps. Gilman (R-NY20), Royce (R-CA39),
Thomas (R-CA21), Archer (R-TX07), Crane (R-IL08), Rangel (D-NY15), Gejdenson
(D-CT02), Payne (D-NJ10) and Levin (D-MI12). If you are any of their
constituents, please make a special effort to contact them right away on this
Ivory Coast Coup
Alassane Ouattara, a candidate in the upcoming elections and a former International Monetary Fund official, visited Washington in early February to assure assuring the U.S. of his commitment to transparency and good governance. In interviews with French newspapers he justified the coup and suggested that Mr. Bedie brought upon himself his own demise. Bedie had changed the constitution to prevent Ouattara from running in the last election on the excuse that Ouattara was not "purely Ivorian" since one of his parents was from Burkina Faso.
A major factor in Bedie's overthrow was the fact that the army was not being
paid on time. According to various news sources, this was partly due to the high
level of corruption in the government and to the fact that the prices of cocoa
and coffee, Ivory Coast's main exports, had plummeted. What will happen to a new
government if it cannot change the drop in these prices? Now that Ivory Coast's
first coup has taken place, the possibility of another one happening becomes
more conceivable.
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The Bush administration made clear on Friday that it will do virtually nothing to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. With no shame and no apology, it stuck a thumb in the eye of the Supreme Court, repudiated its own scientists and exposed the hollowness of Mr. Bush's claims to have seen the light on climate change.
That is the import of an announcement by Stephen Johnson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, that the E.P.A. will continue to delay a decision on whether global warming threatens human health and welfare and requires regulations to address it. Mr. Johnson said his agency would seek further public comment on the matter, a process that will almost certainly stretch beyond the end of Mr. Bush's term.
The urgent problem of global warming demands urgent action. And the Supreme Court surely expected a speedier response when 15 months ago it ordered the E.P.A. to determine whether greenhouse gas pollution from vehicles (and, by extension, other sources) endangers human welfare and, if so, to issue regulations to limit emissions.
Mr. Bush initially promised to comply, and last December, a task force of agency scientists concluded that emissions do indeed endanger public welfare, that the E.P.A. is required to issue regulations, and that while remedial action could cost industry billions of dollars, the public welfare and the economy as a whole will benefit.
The agency sent its findings to the White House. The details of what happened next are not clear. But investigations by Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Edward Markey have established that the White House, prodded by Vice President Dick Cheney's office, decided to ignore the findings refusing at first to even open the e-mail containing them and then asking Mr. Johnson to devise another response that would relieve the administration of taking prompt action.
Along the way, the administration engaged in what Senator Boxer has aptly called a "master plan" to ensure that the E.P.A.'s response to the Supreme Court's decision would be as weak as possible.
This campaign of obfuscation and intimidation included doctoring Congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change; ordering the E.P.A. to recompute its numbers to minimize the economic benefits of curbing carbon dioxide; and promoting the fiction that the modest fuel-economy improvements in last year's energy bill would solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.
All this is unfortunate but not surprising. Mr. Bush spent years denying there was a climate change problem. And while he no longer denies the science, he still insists on putting the concerns of industry over the needs of the planet.
We were skeptical last week when Mr. Bush joined other world leaders in a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century. We worried that without nearer-term targets there would be too little pressure on governments to act. Now we have no doubt that he was merely posturing. The next president, armed with the E.P.A.'s findings, can and must do better.


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Alcohol and Drug Rehab Options
When it is time to choose a drug rehab treatment program for self or someone you care about, there is a variety of options to consider. First, there are dozens of types of approaches to treating drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Some programs will only deal with alcohol and others will be out-patient only, etc. The following is only a brief outline of some of the options you can choose from. To find out which addiction treatment program would suit you best it's highly recommended you consult with a drug rehab placement specialist who can answer all your questions on the subject of drug and alcohol abuse.
One option is the government funded drug rehabs that offer services that range from walk-in clinics to residential treatment and can be 12-step based or not. These programs are normally the first avenue that drug addicts and alcoholics will seek out, and as expected they also normally have a waiting list.
Other options are short term private residential addiction treatment programs. These will rarely be under 30 days; most will offer 30-45-60 or 90 days program. These programs have a wide variety of approach when it comes to treating drug addiction and it is best to talk with a drug addiction placement specialist for more details.
Long term private residential drug rehab centers are another option and are often recommended for those struggling with a long-time drug addiction or alcohol abuse. In some cases, it can take up to six months to overcome one's past behavior patterns. Some of the private drug rehab centers will also have on-site, permanent medical staff and other professionals to aid in your recovery.
A person's drug addiction or alcohol abuse can be so severe that a medical Detox will be their only option before entering a drug rehab program. It is due to the severity of the case and the effects of coming off certain drugs and alcohol. It can require daily medical exams and constant surveillance by a certified physician.
Another option is when the drug addict or alcoholic is so in denial or in a self-destruct mode to use service of a professional substance abuse interventionist. These are qualified addiction counselors who know how to get a person to realize they need to stop this behavior and get help. Intervention is done in collaboration with a drug rehab center ready to admit the person right away.
In every option, the method used to treat the drug addict or alcoholic can vary, and it would be beneficial to consult a professional drug rehab placement specialists in order to know what addiction program is best suited for you or your loved one.


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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Small Signs of Spring
1. Bidens humilis Golden Eye
2. Petunia Blue Daddy
3. Lobelia Rainbow Mix Cascading
4. Petunia Fire Chief
5. Malope The Vulcan
6. Petunia Dolce Limoncello
7. Amaranth Love Lies Bleeding
8. Petunia Lady Purple
9. Malope Glacier Mixed
10. Nicotiana Breakthrough Mix
11. Old Fashioned Vining Petunia
12. Pink Baby's Breath
13. Petunia Titan Mix
14. Lobelia White Compact
I've planted nine of each of the above varieties. I hope they all sprout. So far both lobelias are up along with the old fashioned vining, dolce limoncello and fire chief petunias. The Bidens are showing as is the Baby's Breath. Still waiting on the rest.
You can see just how tiny they begin..
I'm pleased with my four orange and one silver geraniums. They're growing well.
Still no sign from the impatiens or fuchsia. So far only one of the mix geraniums has sprouted. I should mention that these seeds are all at least two years old, some even older, so any germination is a pleasing event.
The next planting will be around February 27th and will include salvias, more amaranthus, gazania, snapdragons, Ace of Spades Scabiosa, and dahlia seeds.
It's very pleasant to lose myself within thoughts of growing flowers for our garden. Last week I applied with or checked back on 20 different businesses in my pursuit of a job. Haven't heard anything yet. I'll continue to dream of spring, it's better that way. Hope everyone's weekend is great.
10 comments:
- mmichele said...
oh that is lovely. we can't start our seeds yet... too early. zone 3b. what is your zone?
- February 16, 2008 at 3:09 PM
- Victoria Williams said...
Michele - Our zone wavers between 5 and 6. So, much warmer than 3b. The coldest I remember was -25˚ and that was years ago.
- February 16, 2008 at 3:24 PM
- Kylee Baumle said...
You're getting me anxious to start my seeds! I'll be doing it soon. You're going to have some really pretty things!
- February 16, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- Bek said...
Your winter sowing goes along really well! I started last week my first attempt with a few seeds. I am still waiting for them to germinate. I noticed the Amaranth love lies bleeding in one of the catalogues and thought I need to get this this year. It sure looks very interesting.
- February 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Oh how those colorful sprouting things do make my eyes happy!
It's been such a long winter...
- February 17, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Naturegirl said...
Holy moly look at all the blossoms already! We are still under mountains of snow banks!! I adore photos of your Chelsea..MORE please!!(let me know when you post them I don't want to miss them!!) hugs NG
- February 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM
- Victoria Williams said...
Naturegirl - no blossoms yet! Those are the "eventually" photos. The "hope" pictures. We're still in the middle of winter.
- February 18, 2008 at 6:47 PM
- Wurzerl said...
I' m sure your "hope" pictures will be wonderful plants very soon!You are so busy and the seeds are very promising. I like the varieties and the colors of your flowers. But I can wait to meet them all in Summer blooming in your garden.
Have a nice time!
- February 19, 2008 at 7:03 AM
- Rosemary said...
Love your pictures of the seedlings, what a nice taste of spring.
Your gardens will be fabulous this year.What a lot of satisfaction you will have to see your babies growing.
I am afraid no signs here yet lots of snow still on the ground.
Wishing you luck on the job hunt .
- February 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- Reginas Cottage said...
I like all these flowers,such as
have sown out.Unfortunably I had still none luck with the seeds of
summer flowers.Thereof I must always
all summer flowers buy,what very
expensive is.Your garden looks in the
summer sure pretty .
I wish you a wonderful rest week,
- February 21, 2008 at 1:03 PM


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Happy Thanksgiving & Holiday Market preview
Thanks to our farmers, thanks to you for your interest and support of locally grown!
Our holiday market opens Saturday with farmers market vendors in front of Boone Street Market and additional crafters at the Storytelling Center. Every Saturday from Nov 28th to Dec 19th!
Participating vendors:
· Wreaths by Eric Isenberg on Nov 28 and Dec 5
· Wreaths & centerpieces by Rogue Harbor farm Dec 5..maybe Dec 12
· Sentelle's Sausage
· Tim Roberts Pottery
· Barbara Cara Pottery
· Sticky Paws Pet Treats
· Sheek Treats Pet Treats
· Free Reign Farm goat's millk soap
· Woodshop Kitchen Fine woodwork, spoons, cutting boards
· Dona Eva Tamales and Salsa (starting Dec 5)
· Earth Thyme green cleaning products
Nov 28th is also Small Business Saturday and the tree lighting in Jonesborough (6pm). Boone Street Market will be open until 8pm—We'll have soup and grilled cheese available all afternoon/evening, plus hot chocolate and more!
And while you're in town Saturday, be sure to visit our very own Debbie Kruse at her new coffee shop venture…"The Corner Cup" in Old Town Hall!
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TUM School of Management Executive Education Center is offering the TUM Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. The course takes place in partnership with the TUM edX Professional Series: Six Sigma and Lean Qualitative Tools for Quality and Productivity (QPLSx), for participants who have already acquired the TUM Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certificate or who are seeking to acquire it.
Our Green Belt certification is a 100% online program and focuses on the implementation of a suitable real project in the participant's working environment. The selection and technical supervision of the project must be supported by a manager of the participant in the role of a Sponsor of the project.
Our Six-Sigma Master Black Belt Dr. Reiner Hutwelker supervises the projects methodically in individual coaching sessions and joint group meetings. Each participant will receive 16 individual coaching sessions and will participate in a minimum of 10 group sessions. The coaching covers all phases of the DMAIC, from project selection to its implementation.
Participants will apply important tools of the DMAIC cycle using the free software sigmaGuide and Minitab (trial version allowed). The participant summarizes the results of the application of these tools for each DMAIC phase in a personal Project-Story-Book. The results are evaluated in every phase by Dr. Reiner Hutwelker. With written feedback and individual coaching, errors in the application of the tools are corrected in each phase and options for their use are shown. After the positive evaluation of the results of a phase in the Project-Story-Book, the participant is in each phase obliged to also present the achieved results to his/ her Sponsor. The Sponsor has the last word in each phase and decides on further necessary corrections or the transition to the next DMAIC phase.
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When most people think about Squid the word instantly conjures up images of mediteranean holidays and those delicious deep-fried calamari squid rings. The ones with the crisp fresh batter just begging to be drenched with tangy lemon juice, squeezed from freshly cut wedges.
Unfortunately though if not cooked correctly Squid turns into the infamous chewy "squid elastic" which im sure most of us have encountered when eating in the local Greek or Italian resturaunt. Or when trying to faithully recreate the dish we enjoyed on our holidays, at home. More often than not we wrongly blame the ingredients when really it is a question of knowledge or technique.
The trick to achieving perfect squid rings is to firstly make sure you have small calamari squid (larger squid are best left to slower cooking methods). Secondly the oil must be heated to a high temperature and thirdly and the most important of all is to make sure that the squid is cooked for ONLY a few minutes. We are seriously talking no more than 2-3 minutes or else it will be ruined. That is why you need hot oil. In the time the batter cooks and goes golden at a high temperature the squid will be perfect. If the oil is to low the batter will brown in to long a time meaning the delicate squid inside is rubbery. The squid rings are then best served with a wedge of lemon, and taste delicious with lemon squeezed freshly over it. Try!
Squid however is rather more versatile than you think! For example squid ink which is easy to obtain can be added to a basic pasta dough and creates a special black 'squid ink' pasta. This looks dramatic plated and has a subtle, gentle, squid essence (taste) running through it.
Another great Italian squid dish, which is my personal favourite thing to do with squid, is the slightly less well known stuffed squid in tomato sauce. These are whole squids with the heads, tentacles and quills removed, filled with a delicious bread stuffing, fried, and then slowly cooked in a tomato sauce. Often served with Spaghetti.
So if you would like to try doing something a bit different with squid, I gurantee you will find this recipe easy. It is fool-proof and the results are stunning! So this is how you do it!
As a useful tip if you want a richer sauce you could try making a sauce in advance, such as this one and then use this as the sauce base and simply add the fried squid and cook per below instructions. By the way if you do this ignore the Passata sauce in the recipe. If you do not know what Passata is or can not find it. Use good quality chopped tomatoes instead it will work out fine. Hope that helps.
(serves 4)
4-5 whole squid. If you have a decent fish monger, purchase the fresh ones. Otherwise I recommend you purchase frozen ones, as then at least you have some knowledge over how "fresh" they are. Supermarket fresh fish counters can be quite variable places. Who knows how long "fresh" fish has been lingering on their counters.
1/4 of a fresh white loaf of Bread (approx 300g)
2 handfuls of flat leaf parsley
2 clove of garlic crushed up
2 anchovy chopped up (optional)
1/2 teaspoon of capers chopped up (optional)
3-4 black olives (pitted/stoned) chopped up (optional)
2 Medium sized egg yolks (keep the whites for meringues, for dessert! etc)
4-5 cocktail sticks (1 per squid, so adjust accordingly)
1 Jar of Passata 500g approx
3 tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive oil.
1 clove of Garlic crushed!
Some salt and black pepper to season
- Remove the tentacled heads from your squid bodies, and the skin, and gently push on the bodies to expose the "plastic" quill which is in the middle, then pull it out. Alternatively have your fish monger do it. Put the cleaned squids to one side.
-Next cut the tentacles off the heads, just below the eyes, make sure no "beaks" are still in the tentacles, and rub-off any skin. Keep the tentacles and put to one side! If your squeamish about legs, discard the lot and ignore this step (but that is hugely wasteful, and im sure nobody would throw them!).
- Ok now your ready to stuff! Grab the squid bodies, open them gently, and using great care, put the "bread" stuffing into them. Take care not to overfill, or they will split, but you do want them to look quite plump. Once filled take a cocktail stick, and gently pierce and "stitch" the open end, so that your effectively sealing it shut with the cocktail stick going through the once open end. Be careful not to tear the skin. Put them to one side!
- In a sauce pan, heat 1 tablespoon of the Olive oil, add the garlic, fry for a few minutes, then add the jar of passata. Cook gently at a simmer and go immediately onto the next step.
-In a frying pan (of suitable size) heat the remaining Olive oil, and GENTLY add the squid bodies, and the tentacles, cook until slightly golden. Take off the heat immediately, and add to the simmering tomato sauce.
-Season the sauce, and continue to simmer very gently, covered, for about 1 and a half, to two hours. To get the consistency you want, cook the sauce for the last 30 or so minutes uncovered. Remove from heat, and serve with spaghetti, or a pasta of your choice.
NOTE: This is also keeps excellently for reheating, or once cooked the squid and sauce could be easily portioned, and frozen again to have another day.
Cook some Spaghetti to 'al dente', drain, and add some of the above sauce to the Spaghetti to coat well. Add some of the tentacles to each portion together with one of the stuffed squid. Best served with a fairly robust but mild red wine, such as a merlot, or a sangiovese.


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Translation from German: Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung, schwarze Löcher
Interview: Chaos, conspiracy, black holes
Professor Dr. Otto E. Rossler over the dangers of the LHC at the CERN
Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung, schwarze Löcher, Part 1 of 5
The largest particle accelerator of the world, the Large hadron Collider (LHC) of the European organization for nuclear research (CERN), is to help, to experience more over the emergence of the universe. Chaos researcher professor Otto E. Rossler sees a danger for the earth, whose fall he can introduce in the LHC however. Golem.de spoke with Rossler at the edge of the Transmediale, which carry the title "Conspire" in this year. For mankind the scientists at the CERN see however no danger, how a leading scientist of the LHC project explained opposite Golem.de.
It is already quite a while ago that the chaos research made publicly attentive on itself. Also over black holes for a long time nothing more was reported. Both is already nearly normal. But the Transmediale of this year dedicated itself in the citizen of Berlin house of the cultures of the world to the topic of the conspiracy. "Conspire." is the slogan of this year of the steeped in tradition festival for art and digital culture. With professor Otto E. Rossler the curators invited completely special key note a Speaker to their conference. The habilitierte biochemist, chaos researcher and untiring reconnaissance aircraft in the service of the natural science and art are among other things well-known for it, the Rossler Attraktor to have discovered and the theoretical school of the Endophysik to have justified. Both brings up for discussion natural phenomena, which are only with difficulty understandable with common, rational approaches. A conspiracy within the physical world.
In May this yearly is to begin at the European organization for nuclear research (CERN) one of the most important attempts of physics. The Large hadron Collider (LHC) – the largest particle accelerator of the world – is used to experience by the collision of protons more over the emergence of the universe. Largest hopes lie in it to occupy on the one hand the Higgs mechanism – a theoretical explanation model for asymmetrical behavior of elementary particles – and on the other hand the Hawking' dematerializing theorem for black holes. The latter in particular would be a sensation, since so far nobody knows exactly, what black holes are real and how they behave. After Hawking they would have to dematerialize directly after their emergence and be thus harmless. But there is not the practical proof for it yet. Rossler states against the fact that black holes do not have to dematerialize necessarily and remain very probably stable could. And that could become quite dangerous.
Golem.de: Mr. professor Rossler, Sie it believes that the experiments with black holes at the CERN could be dangerous. What for is a man behind so a theory? Could you introduce yourselves please briefly?
Professor Otto Rossler: One is always unsympathisch itself. I have several identities. I saw no character scientific. I make everything and am responsible therefore for nothing. Before 35 years I was habilitiert in theoretical biochemistry. That remained also actually my field of activity until today, but it was added then still some. For example the chaos research, which developed only in the course of the time.
Golem.de: How do you define chaos research?
Rossler: That is, if they want, a form of applied mathematics. One concerns oneself there with oscillations. Only that the oscillations are somewhat more complicated. One can get periodic oscillations with two interacting variables with impulse and place. If one adds however still further variables, as for example a pendulum at the swing, then one has already four variables and the condition for chaos. Chaos is thus simply an oscillation possibility of systems, where several particles and variables can interact with one another.
Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung,
schwarze Löcher, Part 2 of 5
Golem.de: Wherein does the difference between chaos and coincidence lie?
Rossler: These chaotic oscillations have it actually that they are very irregular. They do not repeat themselves only taken in very long periods and strictly at all. That works coincidentally. But if one has the appropriate equation and from different computers with the same computational accuracy and the identical in each case configuration lets compute, then one will produce the same trajectory from the same point of origin always exactly, the same picture, the same movement. Then it is thus no coincidence. One calls it also deterministic chaos. The term comes from Edward Lorenz.
Golem.de: Is there also and term table chaos?
Rossler: With difficulty. Thus if one takes noise in, which is evenly and datistic, then it looks still exactly alike. One can thus hardly differentiate between it. In former times one even meant that it would have to be always disturbed and it has for a long time lasted to one accepted that the coincidence can come also from the inside and is not only added from the outside. But most sadistischen systems are naturally a little disturbed. Then the chaos is mixed with genuine coincidence. Then there is thirdly still the really genuine coincidence of quantum mechanics. That is still much, many coincidentally as the chaos. Wolfgang Pauli calls that the primary coincidence. It is produced behind the world, while the chaos comes in the world still with right things. It is only infinitely sensitive in relation to small changes. But the coincidence behind the world, in the quantum mechanics, which is not so far avowedly.
Niels bore, one of the pioneers of quantum physics, times from a journalist one asked, what quantum mechanics is actually. There has bore it back-asked: "credit it a matchbox in the bag, an empty?" – "no?!" – "", here is one. Have do they a cube in the bag?" – "no." – "is here one. Then I can explain to you, what quantum mechanics is. Open the box completely carefully. Do please the cube completely carefully inside. Close it completely carefully and then give you them me completely carefully." Then it took the box with the cube and turned it completely slowly. Around 180 degrees. Then it vibrated violently and turned back it just as carefully again. Then it gave it to the journalist and said: "now you make the box please completely carefully again on… That is quantum mechanics." Quantum mechanics is thus the coincidence, which comes behind the back of the world. That is another coincidence than the chaotic coincidence, with which it happens still with right things.
Golem.de: They spoke on the Transmediale in Berlin about the danger of black holes. How do you explain, what a black hole is?
Rossler: A very humorous man, John Wheeler, the famous pupil of Einstein, invented. Its most famous theorem reads: "a black hole does not have hair". That is, each object, which falls there, loses all its characteristics. Up to three: the mass, the energy and the angular momentum. Wheeler is meanwhile 96 years old. For 50 years it waits on the Nobelpreis. He would have earned it completely surely, but he is always ignored. Why, I do not know.
Golem.de: And now with the experiments in the Large hadron Collider at the CERN is its chance again there?
Rossler: No, he has to do thereby nothing. Although, but! If the world goes down shortly therefore, it with security still fast a Nobelpreis gotten. There you are right.
Golem.de: Thus you fear, the world because of the black holes produced perhaps artificially in the LHC will go down?
Rossler: Yes, at the CERN a machine is built, with which the first time in the history of mankind black holes on earth could be produced. Nobody knows whether it goes. The probability lies about around the 10 per cent.
Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung, schwarze Löcher, Part 3 of 5
Golem.de: But how one can build, what for something, from which one does not know exactly at all it at all is?
Rossler: Exactly. One has there so theories, which forecast one that it could go and that it should even go. But completely surely one cannot be thereby. That is with all physical theories like that that one does not check up everything, what it depends on and one gropes so for a long time in the dark, until one catches and then of a realization speaks something!
Golem.de: And how one recognizes that one built a black hole now?
Rossler: Yes, that is a completely important question! It turned out that one cannot find the Dinger at all. Although one produced it. Until it is too late. The Dinger hides itself, because they do not have radiation effect.
Golem.de: But the Hawking theorem to black holes means nevertheless something else.
Rossler: Yes, there is this famous theorem of Stephen Hawking. It set up that in the 70's-years. Afterwards dematerialize black holes, which means that such micro black holes, how they are to develop in the LHC would verpuffen immediately. This realization be based on the initially mentioned realizations of Wheeler. I can prove however that the objects swallowed by a black hole very probably keep their mass and their angular momentum, their energy however to lose.
Golem.de: They contradict it thus?
Rossler: Yes, it is however very heavy to attack it. Almost the entire scientific community stands behind it. And as the durchoekonomisierte science enterprise today, is larger the power of the consent runs than those the reason.
Golem.de: Do you stand with this opinion alone there?
Rossler: No, there are also different scientists, who say. There are at least two internationally admitted. One is called Bill balance spring from Canada and the other one is called Adam D Helfer from the USA. Both wrote essays, from which it follows that the black holes do not evaporate probably. To only prove they cannot do it. Thus I am my knowledge the only one.
Golem.de: Which danger saves such an artificially generated black hole?
Rossler: The amazing is, no humans believes that that is dangerous. Recently a reader letter was in the magazine picture of the science, now in the January, which commentates the article, which was brought in September over the LHC. It says, which is very interesting that one expects from the experiment so marvelous things here, where still no humans know, what at all thereby comes out. But one knows one against the fact completely reliably that it is harmless! (laughs) that is absurd. One cannot say: I do not know, what comes out, but I know that it is harmless. That aufgespiesst this reader in picture of the science well. This absolutely idiotische Naivitaet of physicists.
Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung, schwarze Löcher, Part 4 of 5
Golem.de: But which is the concrete danger? I understood that not yet completely.
Rossler: The danger is that a small black hole forms and then evenly not dematerialized. The probability is quite high that it flies away, but there is a completely small probability that it does not fly away. One wants to produce of it one million per year. Those are enough, in order to say that of it one will not dematerialize completely surely. This would circle then in the earth and occasionally with an elementary particle, an atomic nucleus or a quark would collide and it would up-eat. The question, which remains, is, how long it lasts then, until this small black hole grew sufficient strongly, in order to finally up-eat the whole world. That sounds absurd, is however last end very probable. There is an estimation with BBC Horizon that this 50 million years will last. That is the official Worst Case Scenario. But they forget with the fact that there is chaos and non-linearity. Thus it grows many faster. I came in such a way on a factor of 50 months!
Golem.de: Thus does a black hole function in principle? It eats atoms?
Rossler: Yes, it can only eat, it can not decrease, it is, it can dematerialize, but I broken-made, unfortunately that. Growth functioned thereby similarly as money by the interest and compound interest on the financial market increases. That happens also not linear, but exponentially.
Golem.de: The remedy would be another black hole?
Rossler: No, there is no remedy. The thing is hopeless, after 50 months the earth on a centimeter would have shrunk. It would be nothing more there, not only no more life, there but also the earth would be away, only their weight would be – as small black hole.
Golem.de: What happens, if two black holes meet one on the other?
Rossler: Unite. Then there is a larger. There there is also a theorem, again from Hawking, which mentioned that black holes can grow in each case, they cannot remove. It set up that, before it discovered dematerializing. Dematerializing negated this theorem as it were then. There it was no longer good as as before. Naja, is correct not completely, it later also still different good things made, but in the case the first theory was better than the later.
Golem.de: But a black hole is not a real hole, but it is subject, only strongly consolidated?
Rossler: A black hole is as it were a so strongly compressed subject. So strongly that even the light can no longer away. There is there the black sign in such a way specified radius, which Karl black sign, a friend of Einstein discovered. It means that according to the Einstein theory there is a compression diameter, which is so strong for each mass that even the smallest mass tightens locally so strongly that the light of it cannot no more. Besides can be assigned still somewhat on it. It lasts however eternally, until it arrives there. And one knows that the light, which ascends from the edge of a black hole is not only infinitely red-shifted, thus in its wavelength slowed down and/or increased is, but that it needs also infinitely for a long time, until it comes out. One knows. But one believes strangely enough, a body could fall there in finite time, although the light needs infinitely for it… One does not see already, there is correct somewhat. There participates a calculation error. The error is however already 90 years old. Therefore it is improbable that the science accepts in the short term that it exists. Because it like that blamabel is.
Golem.de: Do black holes have actually such an enormously large attraction, how it is often implied straight in Science Fiction films?
Rossler: Those have exactly the same attraction, as each mass of the same size. Thus if the earth were a black hole with scarcely a centimeter of diameters, then the attraction would be unchanged. The moon would circle exactly the same around this point like now around the earth, because this point would be just as heavy as the earth.
CERN holds dangers for very small
Professor Otto Rossler addresses the CERN in Switzerland with his statements directly. Golem.de inquired therefore with Michelangelo Luigi Mangano, a leading scientist in the LHC project, which position takes the CERN for the position of the critic.
Interview: Chaos, Verschwörung, schwarze Löcher, Part 5 of 5
Golem.de: Which hopes lie in the attempt to create black holes with the LHC?
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN): First it is the principal purpose to examine with the Large hadron Collider the Higgs mechanism – a theoretical explanation model for asymmetrical behavior of elementary particles -. But we will naturally try to take most out of the LHC. If it is possible to generate and then examine black holes, we will do that naturally. However we do not talk here about black holes, how they are described by Einstein or Hawking – thus those, which we can observe as extinguished star in the universe. In addition one braeuchte 10 to the power of 16 times more energy than we at the CERN for the order has. We talk here about microscopically small black holes, from which there are so far only theoretical models, we thus at all do not know whether they exist at all.
If we discover it however with our attempts, then it would prove that our universe consists not only of four dimensions (three space dimensions plus the time), but of many more dimensions. This would revolutionize the perception of our environment! Think only of pagings in the philosophy and art, which caused relativity theory! That would be a sensation! Similarly the Phoeniziern, the magnetism had discovered and owing to the compass their ships to thus navigate more surely could – without however to know that they had discovered thereby the condition for electricity and our modern civilization.
Golem.de: Why do you that it is not dangerous think, for creating black holes?
Mangano: We are conscious us of the concerns, which circulate in the public. The CERN will publish a brochure in approximately one month to the topic. We have here all family, friends, children and used and we them to danger would never expose. We concerned ourselves here very intensively with these questions. it believes 99.99 per cent of my colleagues that the black holes will dematerialize. We accept nothing the defiance in the publication mentioned that they could remain stable. But even then they should be harmless: Black holes move very fast. Thus they would travel through theoretically directly by the earth. Black holes behave a little like the electrically neutral neutrino. They react only very slowly and can fly by several thousand kilometers iron, before they collide at all with somewhat. Those, which would be somewhat slower and were caught by the gravitational pull of the earth, remained existing in the earth core and could actually subject take up. But they became after 5 billion years – the time, until the sun expires – only a few kilograms weigh.
Golem.de: From where do you know that?
Mangano: If they would react more strongly, there would be no neutron stars in the universe. The universe is fully with cosmic rays, thus high-energy jets, which develop with the explosion of stars. One can observe these from the earth. Most of these jets have a substantially higher energy than we in the LHC ever producing could. Thus if the LHC can create black holes, these jets can do it also. Besides it can be observed that each neutron star, which we discovered in the universe, by a large number of such cosmic rays were already bombarded and with black holes be therefore full could. Neutron stars have however a much higher density. The subject there is 10,000 Millarden mark more closely than in the earth, why a black hole – if it would actually cause damage – 10 billion time "eat such a star faster" and would destroy quasi immediately. We know however from neutron stars, which are years old 100 million.


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Ghana striker Kwesi Appiah is fully fit for the final 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya later this month.
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South Dakota is among the cheapest states for families due to the state's affordable child care costs, which are the fifth lowest in the nation.
And yet, 36.7% of single mothers in South Dakota live in poverty — slightly lower (33.8%) than the national average.
South Dakota has implemented several key programs for its most vulnerable members of the community — most notably single mothers.
What these program lead to is the development of these women into productive citizens who are capable of being financially independence.
01South Dakota Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
TANF is a temporary public assistance program for low-income families with children under age 18. These benefits are time-limited to 60 months in a participant's lifetime.
In South Dakota, a single mother of two may receive up to $615 but may vary based on who lives with the family, who is eligible in the household and other income available to the family.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low income South Dakotans buy the food they need to stay healthy while they work to regain financial independence.
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The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program is a special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children up to the age of five.
It provides nutritious foods along with nutrition education, breastfeeding support and information on where to apply for free or low-cost health care or other needed services in the community.
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South Dakota CCAP helps low-income families pay for the child care while they work, attend school, or both. Eligibility is based on the family's gross income and household size.
The program helps pay for child care for children under age 13 (or up to age 18 for children with special needs) if the family's income is less than 175% of the Federal Poverty Level.
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If you have received a disconnect notice, you may apply for Energy Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP) any time from October 1 through March 31.
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However, not all schools participates in the program, so it's best that you check with your school's Financial Aid Office to see if your school offers SDNBGP.references
- South Dakota operates a heating assistance program using LIEAP funds, but does not offer a cooling program.
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No one can say the haven't seen the rapid decline of this country in every possible way. The government are hell bent on destroying all that is good in GB. That is inline with Tory policy, create a hue divide between the haves and the have nots constantly increasing the wealth of the very small minority at the top.
In true Tory tradition it is always a case of profit before people.
There is not one single aspect of life which has improved since 2010 and little wonder when we analise the cabinet. They are all so out of touch with reality so as to make them ineffective.
Cameron must be he worst Prime Minister we have suffered for decades, not so much for what he does and stands for himself although that is very substantial but for how he allows his Ministers to get away with their destructive acts.
None of them are truly fit for purpose. Osborne is destroying all aspects of the welfare system aided very significantly by Duncan-Smith, Grayling has destroyed MoJ, he doesn't need any help,he is doing a great job on his own.
All that come from the spin doctors are lies, lies and more lies.
There are no real quality politicians left who could be leaders apart from Ken Clarke who really is too old to be effective other than that the Tory part and consequently the Government is full of self important Hurrah Henrys who care for nothing other than their increasing bank balances.
What is needed are more genuine peoples MPs, people like Dennis Skinner, a more genuine person one couldn't wish to meet and Alan Johnson, a good down to earth northener, also Margaret Hodge who says it as it is impartially and honestly. There are more on the back benches who have never been members of the Bullingdon Club and are not part of the Astor dynasty, let us just hope that come May sufficient voters turn out to put a few more people with real backbone into power!
There isn't a single aspect of life for the ordinary man in the street which has improved since 2010 when the Coalition Government came to power. Every single benefit has gone to the top 1% of the population. And the reason is very plain and simple, throughout the period of that Government the authorites have put profits before people.
It doesn't matter what we try and do we meet a brick wall when we seek resources.
I've applied to have a stairlift installed at my home to allow me to get out, something I haven't done for more than six months now but my application after two years is still on hold because local social services have been cut to such an extent that they just haven't been able to visit me to assess my needs.
We have had heavy snow today but gritting and ploughing has been halved because of cutbacks at the council. I can no longer use the mobile library service, it has gone as a result of cutbacks, as has our local community hall, our refuse collection service, our road repairs department, our local swimming pool, day centres for the elderly, youth clubs for our young people etc etc.
Baci in 2010 I set up a Facebook page called the Campaign for the protection of our welfare state, no one was interested yet look what we have lost!! Street lights, policemen, firemen you name it we have lost them.
Throughout the country we are facing disaster after disaster except round Chipping Camden of course.
Of course I don't mean that Christianity itself is failing but what is failing is the church establishment and it is failing because to a large extent it is out of touch with the man in the street.
The church which I love has become an exclusive club for those at a certain level in society. No longer does it follow the open to all principle which we genuine Christians should adhere to.
I mention in my book A LIFE OF SENTENCES how I was shunned by the church some years ago resulting in my breaking, albeit temporarily with the Anglican Communion. (A Life of Sentences from Amazon.com or olympiapublishers.com). Since then I have had a similar experience when the Vicar from my local church visited me a couple of times to celebrate communion at my home as I was housebound. He said he was going to arrange for a visit every six weeks, that was avove two years ago and since then I have heard nothing. What does that say about the caring church?
The thing is I still love my church although it obviously doesn't reciprocate. Once again I will not be able to take communion at this most joyous time of the year which is a source of great disappointment.
The church, if it is to survive must realise it is of the people and for the people.
How many other Christians are like me, strong personal faith but no church family. At the present time, in fact for sme months I have been totally housebound and therefore can't get out to search out a church but in any event how does one do that?
I managed to contact my local Anglican church some 3 years ago and a couple of ministers did visit me. Indeed on the last visit I had an arrangement was made that the minister would visit me every six weeks to celebrate Communion. Up to now, well over two years I haven't heard a word, no visit, no explanation nothing!!
But bak to me question, how does one go about finding a church, especially when housebound and virtually immobile. and I suppose following on from that how important is it to have a church? Is it not possible to still be a good Christian, even if in isolation.
From personal experience I can tell followers there are some wonderful people from the Christian Community working both as paid members of chaplaincy teams and as volunteers in various capacities. There are also a number of truly excellent organisations working in the field such as the Prison Fellowship and it is really important that what all these people are doing is fully recognised. It is only by recognising what is being done that we will encourage more from our great Christian family to think about also helping prisoners and ex prisoners.
So much could be achieved if we can only bring ourselves, as Christians, to accept offenders without being prejudiced or judgmental. Yes, it can be very hard, many is the occasion when whilst in prison I have counselled or given an advice to someone serving a sentence for an offence which attracts hate, perhaps child abuse or something similar and I have been approached by 'ordinary' prisoners asking me why I have even talked to the 'nonce', it is hard to understand but behind the label is a person crying out for help and who am I to judge whether he is worthy of that help or not?
In my life there have been a number of low points, when I've been sent to prison and particularly when I was admitted to hospital having suffered a serious stroke.
It's at these low points when I find my faith is at it's strongest and invariably I have adopted the philosophy of picking myself up, dusting myself down and starting all over again. For me this has always worked, encouraged by the knowledge that God is by my side I could never give up and it has always worked.
Positive thinking, backed by faith, is the way to approach life and it will always bring positive results, I can tell you it works from personal experience.
I am often reminded of how important it is to take the positive route through life by the well known text FOOTPRINTS. God will always be alongside us whether we realise it or not, it's up to us to play our part by thinking and acting in as positive a manner as we can.
I would love to be able to explain to those who have not yet found the Lord just what a warm and wonderful feeling of confidence we get from knowing we have this all embracing love protecting and guding us.
Go in peace, go in joy,go in love
Up until recently I have felt myself lapsing somewhat and perhaps not showing as much Christian love in my everyday life as I should. It really is so easy to get side tracked and allow ones emotions to take control especially when we are surrounded by all the evil there is in the world today. I suppose that is the hard part of being a good Christian, being able to turn the other cheek.
I have been wronged so many times in my life, just how many will become clear later this year when my book A LIFE OF SENTENCES is published but I can say in all honesty that I hold no grudges against those who have wronged me. I cannot bring myself to judge them, not to judge anyone, life is far too short.
It often isn't easy but we must try to understand peoples actions, whatever they are, rather than make judgements on them.
It is no secret, indeed my book is about them, that I have seved several sentences but I have never been too concerned about that. I have always taken great strength in the knowledge that the judgements which sent me there were judgements based on man made laws and whilst I respect them because they are what keep society running as it does the only judgment I really fear is that judgment that I have to face when I face the Lord and that judgment is comforted by the fact that God knows everything, He alone knows my full life story and it is on that that my fate will be decided.
The absolute important thing in life is that we, as good Christians, and I know many other faiths feel the same is that wherever and what as we go through life we share love and compassion with those we meet on life's journey. WE need to do that in any way we can in both a practical sense and equally in an emotional sense.
I don't have any great theologcal knowledge but I do know that when I have shown love to another in any way I always feel a warm glow inside.
Same when I gve gifts for any occasion. Whatever it is I am giving I do so in the knowledge that there is far more pleasure in giving than in receiving. That doesn't mean I don't like to receive gifts myself because I do but the feeling I get when I have given, be it to an individual or a group like a charity, is far above and beyond any other.
Go in peace, go in joy, go in love.


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My son attends a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) middle school program and so I keep an eye out for an STEM-related news. Earlier this month Business Insider ran a rather interesting story about the perceived STEM shortage in our nation, Americans Won't Like Hearing The Real Reason That Silicon Valley Is Pushing So Hard For Immigration Reform.
According to Walter Hickey, author of the Business Insider article, "there isn't really a STEM shortage. There are plenty of graduates of technical fields in the U.S. There is a different kind of shortage, but the American people won't like to admit it."
Hickey goes on to explain, "What there is, is a shortage of ultra-elite American-born talent, and Silicon Valley wants to hire the very best in the world. The view from Silicon Valley is that a lot of the U.S. talent, while bountiful in number, just doesn't stack up."
So, it sounds like the STEM shortage is just a myth propagated by a select few companies and their executive teams that want to hire the best workers in the world. I understand the desire to hire the best but if you're stepping on the backs of your fellow Americans to do this, then that is wrong.
The solution to this problem isn't immigration reform. In my opinion, the solution is better STEM education programs here in the United States. If foreign workers, many of whom receive an American college education, are far superior to our own citizens then it is our education system that needs reformed, not the immigration system.
This is where programs like the one my son is attending come into play. As a sixth grade student, he completed almost the exact same biology course that high school freshmen take. The way his middle school is set up, students that start there in grade six will take AP biology as high school freshmen.
The school can do this because the middle school is actually housed on a local high school's campus. So, the students have access to high school teachers and high school coursework as early as sixth grade. The advanced opportunities also apply to those students that are gifted in math. If a sixth grade student is ready to take geometry, then that is the math class she will take. A representative from the middle school escorts the student to the high school classroom and she takes geometry alongside freshmen and sophomore students.
Interestingly enough, the high school students have taken the middle school students under their wing; they're proud of them and proud that their high school is hosting this unique program.
Our school district also offers a special STEM diploma at a different high school and although that program doesn't start until ninth grade, it still gives STEM-interested students an advantage over their peers that don't receive more intensive STEM education in high school.
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Empowering People to Cook
People living together in a meditation community are like rocks in a tumbler. Spinning around and around, constantly bumping into one another, the rocks get worn down, smoothed, polished. Sometimes we would joke about it: "Some say polished, some say ground." The process itself is not always a pleasant one, but there was no escaping it, no matter how hard we tried. Family life, life in the world, can also polish us.
As the cook at Tassajara I started out thinking that creating delicious food was the most important thing. So I composed the menus, and I decided who did what, and I finished the seasoning on each and every dish. I did things my way, the way they should be done. I was a young, inexperienced first-time manager, no doubt about it: Everybody should work the way I work, do things the way I do them. Wasn't that what being in charge was all about?
After the kitchen rebellion I felt embarrassed about going back to work there - vulnerable and exposed. Where could I ever be safe? The only safety was to trust in others, to trust in the life we were living together, trust in being revealed. Some say polished; some say ground.
The more deeply I looked, the more I had to admit the limitations of my efforts. Others had been deferring to me and not really taking responsibility for what happened in the kitchen, because I didn't give it to them. I always had to be there, since others could not function without me. Providing the answers meant I was important. And being indispensable meant I kept pointing out how great I was, how retarded they were. No one could grow. No one really got to develop his or her capacities.
How strangely disillusioning - that being important and indispensable meant being stuck. Others had been just as snared by the dynamic, yet they had postponed confronting me directly. When they did, not surprisingly, they were angry. After all, they had agreed to making me look good, while disowning their own capabilities.
When I went back to work in the kitchen, I began acknowledging other people's abilities, and letting them make decisions of consequence. I started taking regular days off and turning the kitchen over to one of the other members of the crew, each in turn. I felt an unfamiliar tenderness or compassion, since I knew that despite our best efforts, we can be so easily belittled or dismissed.
Of course as more members of the crew experienced the responsibility of generating meals, they became more sympathetic to what I had been going through. We began to share something: the work of the kitchen, the space of the kitchen, some camaraderie. I stopped feeling so alone and isolated.
Gradually I began to see what I was "doing" in a new way. Instead of striving so desperately to be indispensable, what I needed to do was train people to cook, train a successor, make myself dispensable.
Encouraging responsibility is often a delicate matter. When I worked at Greens Restaurant many years later I saw how easily responsibility can be given and taken back. The expeditor, who garnished and assembled each order, also had the responsibility of seeing that the next day's prep was done. But the head lunch cook would say, "You've got to do the potatoes now." So who's in charge? Who has responsibility? Not letting someone fail takes back the responsibility. To have responsibility means experiencing the consequences of one's actions.
Accountability, I found, was different from responsibility. If the head cook had inquired, "How's the prep going? What's left to be done?" then the expeditor would still have had the responsibility, but would have been obliged to give an accounting of how it was going and would probably have realized what remained to be done.
As a cook I had focused on the mechanics of kitchen work: cutting and scrubbing, organization and menu planning, inventory and ordering. Now I was finding out that empowering people to cook was much more gratifying. Training cooks, finding a successor - that was a goal worth working for. It has turned out to be a wonderfully engaging activity which I have spent years working on, decades, really, and it all came out of people's unhappiness with me. Out of it came cookbooks and managing Greens, cooking classes, and workshops. And I found that when I empowered people to cook, the food would take care of itself.
May you also awaken in others the thought of baking bread, washing rice, stirring soup, cutting carrots ... endlessly.
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The event itself was a total blast! It was sponsored by Missouri CommonGround and partners. CommonGround is a volunteer group of farm women who work to have meaningful conversations with non-farm women about farming and food.
In Hermann we had over 750 people hit our Wine Trail that consisted of seven stops, each featuring a custom wine and food pairing. The foods highlighted Missouri agriculture.
I had the pleasure of working the "Corn" stop - Dierberg Star Winery with Meagan Kaiser, another Missouri farmer and CommonGround volunteer.
Everyone said the food was amazing at all stops, but the corn chowder served at ours was out of this world good! I had to make it for my family when I got home on Sunday and had to share the recipe here as well.
As a corn farmer, I love that you'll be enjoying corn. But keep in mind only 1% of the corn grown in the US is sweet corn - the rest is field corn used for animal feed, ethanol, exports and over 5,000 products we all use daily!
Smokey Ham & Corn Chowder
4 ears of corn (kernels cut off and cobs reserved)
*Or 2 cans corn
1 tbs vegetable oil
1 onion, diced
1/2 pound piece of ham
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2 cups heavy cream
1 pound baking potatoes, peeled and diced
3 cups water or chicken broth
Salt and pepper
In a medium pot, heat oil. Add the onion and cook until tender, approximately 6 minutes.
Add 3 cups of water or chicken broth, or combination of both. Add ham rind and corn cobs, bring to a simmer. Cook for five minutes. Remove cobs and ham rind. (Note - I used can corn given its April and I don't have fresh sweet corn. I also used diced ham, without a bone. Because of that, I used 2 cups chicken broth plus 1 cup water drained from the canned corn for added flavor.)
Add cream and potatoes, bring to a simmer and cook 5 minutes. Add corn kernels and diced ham. Simmer until potatoes are tender, approximately 5-10 more minutes.
Season with salt salt and pepper to taste.
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The 2017 Spring Southern Star Party
posted: 887 days ago, on Saturday, 2017 Oct 28 at 01:35
tags: astronomy, outreach, Southern Star Party, Leeuwenboschfontein, events, Ed Foster, Martin Lyons, photo diary.
The 14th Southern Star Party, hosted by StarPeople, was held at Leeuwenboschfontein in the Klein Karoo from 18 to 23 October.
We had 73 guests, and the wonderful skies (SQM-L measures were darker than 21.7 mags/sq.arcsec) were scanned by 22 telescopes, several of which travelled from Canada and the USA to be with us.
Observing activities included the Beginner's Course, a La Caille Observing Marathon (co-ordinated by Deon and Ronelle Begemann), and a freezing cold Orionid Meteor Watch.
On Saturday, we enjoyed talks by Michael Wolfson (Building an Ultra-Light Dobsonian Telescope), Anton Binneman (SKA Facts & Fiction), Pierre de Villiers (Astronomy Outreach), and Michelle Cluver (How will HI-vision change the way we see our Universe?). Lightning talks, about deep-sky observing, were given by Deon Begemann, Corne van Dyk and Pierre de Villiers.
Telescopes popped up on the lawn, ready for the night's star gazing.
(top) Michael Wolfson and Deon Begemann with Michael's 12-inch ultra-portable Dobsonian.
(bottom) Martin Lyons photobombing in slow-motion.
Well-spotted, by Pamela Cooper.
Approaching sunset. Scopes out, warm clothes on.
Beautiful Girdle of Venus (the Earth's shadow) at sunset.
The cold made the front page of the local newspapers. During the evenings, temps dropped to 3°C.
My Canadian guest, Michael Wolfson, assembling his portable Dobsonian, which sports several innovative ATM solutions. At bottom-right is a delighted Michael, upon receiving the news that he'd just graduated to grand-dad!
Talks and socializing, just as important as clear dark skies for a lovely star party.
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Infosys recruitment drive has also slowed down considerably with a plan to recruit 35,000 engineers in 2013 as compared to the figure last year. In 2012 Infosys has recruited about 45,000 engineering graduates.


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