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BLIND martial arts expert Mark Paterson has become a highly qualified teacher. The partially sighted master has overcome numerous obstacles in his life but achieving the eighth Dan black belt qualification is his most treasured. Mr Paterson, who is registered blind after being born with only seven per cent vision, launched a business venture with the support of his qualification. With a guiding hand from Action for Blind People, he has set up classes in Guis¬borough and Redcar and is now planning to teach a class around Teesside.
Redcar-born Mr Paterson, who lives in Skelton, teaches a modernised system of the Japanese fighting technique Aiki-jiyu jutsu. He said: "I'm probably the highest trained martial arts expert in the area – the eighth Dan is the highest accolade in the black belt. "The techniques I will be showing in my new classes use everything from throws and locks to pressure point fighting. "The old system, which dates back to tenth-century Japan, centres around sword fighting, so I've modernised it to protect people from weapons such as baseball bats and knives, which are more common on the streets today."
Thanks to help from Action for Blind People, which helps blind and partially sighted people into employment, Mr Paterson has secured funding and drawn up his business plan. His love for the technique began in Malaysia, when he lived there as a child with his parents. His hobby continued back home in the UK and when he failed to find a teaching class in the area, he practised on friends. As time went on, he learned other disciplines such as Tae Kwon Do and Jujitsu and got the teaching bug in 1995 when one of his instructors became ill and Mark took over the class. If you are interested in learning martial arts, contact Mark on 07979557227 for details on your nearest class.


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To celebrate 2014, I would like to share my Top 13 Vegan Eats + Recipes on vegan miam for 2013. 2013 was a fabulous year: We traveled to Latin America for the first (and second) time with trips to Bogota and Buenos Aires, visited and revisited a few U.S. cities, and returned to Europe for Summer in Valencia and the Winter holidays in Paris. I've tested a few fabulous cookbooks and crafted some more insanely delicious dishes, one of which won the best Appetizer for Virtual Vegan Potluck and some of my dishes were featured on VegNews Online.
I would like to thank you and to all my lovely readers who stopped by here this year; to all my amazing guest bloggers who shared their beautiful vegan recipes and stories and to all the amazing folks who offered my readers giveaways. Lastly, a massive thanks to my partner Doni the official "Photographer" of vegan miam who helped contribute to some review & travel posts this year while I edit photos and craft vegan dishes. Thank you so much for all of your kind comments during the year and your words of support, advices, encouragement, friendship mean more than you know! xx
Let's start with my Top 13 Vegan Eats. We spent most of our travels in Spanish-speaking countries. I haven't had the chance to post some vegan eats from Bogota, Las Vegas, and Buenos Aires this year, but I hope I will post them soon!
2013 past travels
1. Chicago (view posts)
2. Bogota, Colombia (view posts, some in progress)
3. Las Vegas (in progress)
4. Valencia, Spain (view posts)
5. Buenos Aires, Argentina (view posts, some in progress)
6. Philly (view posts)
7. Paris, France (in progress)
1. (Chicago, IL) Slurpin' Turtle: Vegan Tofu Mushroom Noodle Soup with whole wheat ramen noodle, silken tofu, Japanese mushrooms and kabocha squash.
2. (Chicago, IL) The Waldorf Astoria Chicago: Vegan Toasted Quinoa with rutabaga, baby carrots and orange.
3. (Bogota, Colombia) Naturalmente Restaurante Vegetariano: Quinoa patty (Medallon De Quinoa), rice with corn (Arroz con choclo), eggplant tempura (Tempura de Berenjena), and veggie salad with beet and tomato (Ensalada de Hortalizas).
4. (Bogota, Colombia) Bici Burger: Vegan Bacon & Soy Patty Burger (bbq con tocineta), all burgers come with three different vegan sauces: garlic mayo (mayonesa de ajo), black olive mayo (mayonesa de aceitunas negras), sweet onion maple sauce (salsa de cebollas dulces en maple syrup).
5. (Bogota, Colombia) Zukini Vegetariano Restaurante: Bandeja Paisa with green and yellow fried plantains, homemade arepas and chicharrines. The bottom is a sweet guava puree. Soup contains white hominy corn and vegetables.
6. (Portland, Oregon) Departure Restaurant + Lounge: Chef Gregory's Chia, Pumpkin and Seaweed cracker with avocado, a slice of red onion, chopped scallions and spicy miso sauce.
7. (Valencia, Spain) Tarta de Zanahoria: The main course – Lasaña Boloñesa (Bolognese Lasagna), it was a popular dish for the day. The other main course – Crepes de Boletus (Boletus, or Mushrooms Crepes).
8. (Valencia, Spain) Loving Hut Valencia: Sushi, croquette with aioli & herbs, and on top of the sushi is Seitan Al Puerro (Seitan with Leeks). The right side shows a vegetable fritter and other Asian dishes.
9. (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Vita Cafe: We had a vegan fugazetta with homemade vegan cashew cheese, roasted onions and olives. It was pretty tasty. Fugazetta is a very traditional Argentinian pizza of a thick crust with melting cheese and roasted onions.
10. (Buenos Aires, Argentina) L'epi Bakery: We picked up our favorite Pan de Campo bread and brought it back with us. The ingredients are wheat flour, water, salt and naturally sourdough (levain). The Pan de Campo pairs well with soups, sauces, pasta, and even on its own with creamy salad.
11. (Philadelphia, PA) HipCityVeg: From their "Burgers & Sandwiches" list, we ordered Crispy HipCity Ranch ($8.50) with battered chick'n, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles & peppercorn ranch. This was probably the best burger we've had on the East Coast. Initially we suspected the sandwich would use Gardein or Beyond Meat but we were pleased to discover it used neither of these. The peppercorn ranch was fantastic and provided a bit of bite.
12. (Philadelphia, PA) Vedge Restaurant: I ordered the $9 Cheesecake with carrot cake ice cream, waldorf salad and celery gel & walnut dirt. When it comes to ice cream, you can taste the carrot cake, wow! I was pretty impressed that the flavor of the gel went pretty well with the cheesecake. The desserts may look small, but they are pretty filling.
13. (Paris, France) Gentle Gourmet: Had a vegan creme brûlée with Grand Marnier and glazed oranges for dessert. I like that they incorporate more French desserts…there aren't many bakeries that veganize traditional French desserts at the moment. Can we see some vegan rum baba and Éclair?!
My Top 13 Recipes of 2013: I've made dozens more dishes this year compared to 2012! My Salt & Pepper Tofu Gua Bao won the best Appetizer for Virtual Vegan Potluck and some of my dishes were featured on VegNews Online.
1. Curry Japonés de Verduras (vegano) – Vegan Japanese Curry
2. Vegan Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
3. Crispy Carrot + Potato Gnocchi (Homemade) with Walnut Pesto
4. Salt + Pepper Tofu Gua Bao (Virtual Vegan Potluck Appetizer Winner)
5. Chipotle Seitan Tacos with Jicama Slaw + Charred Corn + Aderezo de Aguacate
6. Chicken-Free Salad with Dill
7. Kañiwa + Quinoa Salad with Grilled Veggies and Cilantro Tahini Dressing
8. Chimichurri Quinoa + Grilled Tofu
9. Watermelon Radish + Carrot Salad with Sesame Vinaigrette
10. Watermelon Gazpacho with Finger Limes
11. Mediterranean Harissa Stew with Purple Sweet Potato
12. Fagioli All'Uccelletta + Crispy Polenta Medallions
13. Vegan Radiant Orchid Alfajores with Coconut Dulce de Leche (Stokes Purple Sweet Potato)


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Information on burning in smoke control areas and garden bonfires.
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Within a Smoke Control Area it is an offence to cause the emission of smoke or burn any "unauthorised" fuel. This applies to residential properties, as well as commercial/industrial operations. Any fuel being used in a Smoke Control Area must be specifically authorised for use, unless it is being used in an "exempt" appliance i.e. one which has been proved to be capable of burning fuels without emitting smoke. Authorised fuels and exempt appliances are specified within Statutory Instruments made by the Government. This includes wood-burning stoves and similar appliances.
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Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) in a speech at National Taipei University of Technology yesterday dismissed a rumor that he was going to announce his presidential candidacy.
The speech was titled: "The Cans and Cannots of the Legislative Speaker: 40 years in legislature."
Speculation has been rife that Wang will announce his intention to represent the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in the presidential election next year, despite his constant denials over the past few months.
Media reports on Wednesday said that he would be "releasing important messages" in yesterday's speech, which had been suspected to be related to his potential presidential candidacy.
Wang said the speculation was nonsense, adding that the speech was not a "political occasion."
"It was only about my 40-year experience in and reflections on the legislature, and my advice to it," he said.
His "advice" echoed calls from the public and both main political parties for a governing system with responsibility commensurate to its power.
"The extent to which the president authorizes and respects the Cabinet determines the quality of policy execution, and only when we have a stable Cabinet can quality policy implementation be upheld," he said. "The most recent two presidents have each had about five premiers during their terms, with a total of 11 premiers taking office during the two presidents' terms; with this frequency of alteration, how far can policy execution go?"
"As the proverb in English says: A rolling stone gathers no moss," Wang said. "This is where the flaw lies in our system; the president has the power, but holds no accountability, while it is the other way around for the premier. The policies come from the president, but it is the premier who has to face the legislature and be bombarded by questions and dressings-down from lawmakers."
On the "cans and cannots" as a legislative speaker, Wang said the autonomy of the legislature must be upheld and that he must remain above the blue-green fray.
"Some accused me of being [covered with a blue skin while having green bones], while the truth is that I am blue-skinned with Taiwanese bones, meaning that I work under the Republic of China with Taiwan's spirit," he said.
He also defended cross-party negotiations in the legislature, which many young people have criticized as underhanded.
"With the current system, we are able to process bills more efficiently, and it is not entirely correct to say that [dealings] have been closed-door, as they are open to lawmakers in general, their assistants and government officials and are audio-recorded," he said.
What a legislative speaker cannot do, Wang said, is frivolously over-interpret his or her power to mobilize police.
"I had been asked to use police power to remove those lawmakers who obstructed the legislative proceedings by occupying the podium, but I have never granted it. The law does not grant me the right to do such thing, which can be done only when public safety is jeopardized," he said.
He laughed off a student's question asking him what he would do to regain people's trust if he was to be elected president, saying the question was "too sensitive."
Wang also declined to provide a clear answer on the question of whether he supports a parliamentary system, emphasizing that his stance as a legislative speaker does not allow him to make public his own views when the legislature is soon to make constitutional amendments with him presiding over negotiations.


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The obvious location for round rugs is under circular furniture such as coffee tables and dining tables. Under normal circumstances we dismiss circular shapes as not being for us, yet they can be used to give a room to give a room or hallway that touch of elegance with the simple use of curves without over domination of the space.
Think about a the shape as design element, for example larger sizes can be used partially under furniture such as corner suites and beds to create really funky effects.
Round as a Pound
Circular elements can really accentuate a hall, making it appear larger and wider if you find your hallways appear too narrow. If your decor is neutral then why not try a beautifully patterned or a bright colour to really set off the area, drawing the eyes to the shape on the floor and the way it contrasts with the colours in your hall. If your passageway seems too large and empty then a good quality mat can add colour, substance and style whilst reducing the appearance of a bare hallway. Shapes can make a house seem more inviting, making it appear warmer with a contemporary look. Even a plain neutral colours can revitalise the most boring of rooms, especially if your decor is quite bright. Curves can give a tiled or laminate flooring dimensions in warmth and style, choose soft, pale, pastel colours for dark coloured floors and maybe bright primary colours for lighter coloured floors.


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Creature — Spirit
Whenever Diviner Spirit deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.
Sentience is its natural habitat.
Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han
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- If Diviner Spirit deals combat damage to its controller (perhaps because damage was redirected), that player will draw twice that number of cards. (2013-10-17)


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The difference between "dependent" and "dependant"
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Which is correct?
The ________ variable is what is being measured in an experiment.
a. dependent
b. dependant
Answer: a.
Dependent is an adjective meaning reliant upon. Dependant is a noun, meaning one who is dependent, as a child is reliant upon her parents.
The value of the dependent variable depends on the input to the equation:
In a simple mathematical equation, for example:
a = b/c
the dependent variable, a , is determined by the values of b and c.
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I got a Pocket Operator PO-20 for Xmas (here if you're interested: https://teenageengineering.com/products/po). It's a pretty awesome bit of kit – quite limited but fantastic for pushing you towards a more minimalist music making mind set.
This is my first track! Looking to write a bunch of short 8bit game loops for games I'm designing, let's see how I get on!


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Back in the late 60s I stumbled upon Orthomolecular Medicine while working at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, the US' oldest psychiatric hospital.
At that time orthomolecular treatment was showing very good success in the treatment of schizophrenia, along with vitamin C, in very high doses.
Vitamin B3, or niacin, is also very helpful for fetal alcohol syndrome treatment, lowering cholesterol and other inflammatory states.
The non-flushing type of B3, niacinamide, is very helpful for Rheumatoid arthritis.
Now that the push is on for Big Pharma to take over control of supplements, and if the senior senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, has his way President-Elect Obama may close a noose around your access to supplements too.
In the mean time this study shows that supplements are very successful in treating serious health concerns, and there is no record of death or serious injury from using them.
Tell your doubting doctors that science back this up! And don't forget to let your members of Congress know you want not control over supplements by the pharmaceutical industry, and you want them covered in all health care plans.
(Note that presently the only vitamins approved under the Senior Medicare Drug Plan are Pfizer's)
A vitamin found in meat, fish and potatoes may help protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease - and even boost memory in healthy people.
US researchers found vitamin B3 lowered levels of a protein linked to Alzheimer's damage in mice.
The Journal of Neuroscience study also showed the animals performed better at memory tests.
UK Alzheimer's charities said people should not start taking the vitamin before results from human studies.This suggests that not only is it good for Alzheimer's disease, but if normal people take it, some aspects of their memory might improve
Professor Frank LaFerla
University of California, Irvine
The vitamin, also called nicotinamide by scientists, is sold in UK pharmacies and health food shops.
It has already been shown to help people suffering from diabetes complications and has some anti-inflammatory qualities.
The researchers, from the University of California at Irvine, added the vitamin to drinking water given to mice bred to develop a version of Alzheimer's disease, then tested the levels of certain chemicals associated with the condition.
They found that levels of one, called phosphorylated tau, were significantly lower in the animals.
This protein is involved in abnormal 'deposits' in brain cells, called 'tangles', which contribute to the brain damage which progressively affects people with Alzheimer's.
Using 'water mazes', the team also found some evidence that memory was enhanced in both 'Alzheimer's' mice and unaffected mice.
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Dr Kim Green, who led the study, said that human tests were progressing: "Nicotinamide has a very robust effect on neurons. It prevents loss of cognition in mice with Alzheimer's disease, and the beauty of it is we already are moving forward with a clinical trial."
His colleague Professor Frank LaFerla, said: "This suggests that not only is it good for Alzheimer's disease, but if normal people take it, some aspects of their memory might improve."
Susanne Sorensen, the head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said the research was "interesting" and pointed to new ways to treat the condition.
"From the research, it appears that Nicotinamide has more than one beneficial effect on nerve cells including the facilitation of the recycling of the 'bad' phosphorylated tau.
"Nicotinamide occurs naturally in meat, fish, beans, cereals and potatoes and is cheap and easy to take.
"However, more research is now needed to explore the possible mechanisms involved so we can better understand if Nicotinamide could have the same effect in people and, if it does, what level of vitamin intake would be required."
Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said until the human research was completed, people should not start taking the supplement.
"These are exciting findings, but until the results from the human clinical trial are announced, people should be wary about changing their diet or taking supplements. In high doses vitamin B3 can be toxic."
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The current proposal seeks activation ofthe ROO phase of a K99/R00 award (1K99DE018085). The Pl, Dr. Manika Govil, is a statistical geneticist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine's Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics. She has fulfilled the career development aims planned for the K99 phase and is ready to move to an independent position in the ROO phase. The institutional support and environment have been instrumental for the Pi's achievements. A goal of the K99 phase of the Pi's work was to gain fundamental knowledge of craniofacial and dental genetic disorders, with special emphasis on understanding the etiology, epidemiology, and phenotypes of CL/P. A deeper understanding of CL/P and other complex genetic traits is critical to the development of methods with computationally feasible implementations that will be capable of modeling the expected heterogeneity in the data to identify multigenic causes. Her long-term goal is to become an independent, interdisciplinary research scientist with a funded research program that will bring together expertise in statistics and computer science to advance our understanding of complex traits like craniofacial and dental genetic disorders. To achieve these goals. Dr. Govil has completed training under Drs. Mary Marazita and Veronica Vieland during the K99-phase of her grant. Dr. Marazita is the PI on several craniofacial and dental genetic grants, and has expertise in orofacial research. Dr. Viejand is the PI on grants relating to methods development for complex traits, as well as grants for the analysis of complex traits like autism and CL/P. The experimental focus ofthis proposal is on the development and implementation of computationally feasible statistical genetic methods, in particular, extensions to the posterior probability of linkage (PPL), a model-free likelihood-based class of methods;comparison ofthese methods to other existing statistical approaches, and their application to the analysis of complex craniofacial and dental genetic disorders like cleft lip with or without cleft palate and oral health disparity.
Complex genetic traits including craniofacial and dental genetic disorders like CL/P constitute a significant public health burden. The aim ofthis project is to further our understanding of CL/P and other complex traits by developing, implementing computationally, and applying in analyses, statistical methods that are capable of modelling genetic factors, with/out possible environmental factors, that may be responsible for such traits.
|Govil, Manika; Mukhopadhyay, Nandita; Weeks, Daniel E et al. (2018) Novel caries loci in children and adults implicated by genome-wide analysis of families. BMC Oral Health 18:98
|Letra, Ariadne; Menezes, Renato; Cooper, Margaret E et al. (2011) CRISPLD2 variants including a C471T silent mutation may contribute to nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 48:363-70
|Letra, A; Menezes, R; Fonseca, R F et al. (2010) Novel cleft susceptibility genes in chromosome 6q. J Dent Res 89:927-32
|Letra, Ariadne; Menezes, Renato; Govil, Manika et al. (2010) Follow-up association studies of chromosome region 9q and nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate. Am J Med Genet A 152A:1701-10
|de Carvalho, Flavia M; Tinoco, Eduardo M B; Govil, Manika et al. (2009) Aggressive periodontitis is likely influenced by a few small effect genes. J Clin Periodontol 36:468-73
|Marazita, Mary L; Lidral, Andrew C; Murray, Jeffrey C et al. (2009) Genome scan, fine-mapping, and candidate gene analysis of non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate reveals phenotype-specific differences in linkage and association results. Hum Hered 68:151-70


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I am Dr. Norman Quintero. I am a product of an American public school system which provided me education and opportunity, despite economic and medical challenges throughout my childhood. Over the past decades, I have dedicated my life and my career to serving our community and its children. I continue my commitment to giving them a voice as a social advocate.
I hold multiple doctorates, professional licenses and am a mental health practitioner. My credentials and qualifications in academics are complemented by extensive experience in business. My passion for public service, compassion for our students, is only slightly more important than the ability to efficiently manage the limited budget of our Perris School District.
Almost 90% of our kids are socio-economically disadvantaged. To 50%, English is a second language. I continue to work daily among our neighborhoods, across our nation, and with families who deserve the opportunity and education for a better life. My family and I were one of those.
I bring specific solutions to the district's current failures. I will assure fiscal responsibility and accountability. I will demand results from all faculties and administrators. Most importantly, I will accommodate the needs of every individual student and their parents.


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Local Indian Catholics allege discrimination within their own church
A small group of Indian Catholics is petitioning the Vatican to stop what they claim are discriminatory practices in their U.S. churches. The Knanaya, a small sect estimated at 400,000 worldwide, have concentrated in the Chicago area over the last five decades. Now a rift over whether they should continue their ancient observance of endogamy, where members only marry within their ethnic group, has spilled into public view.
"The Knanaya are essentially a 1700-year old Christian caste," explained Ligy Pullappally, an attorney and Knanite who lives in suburban Chicago. "You cannot marry into a Knanaya community and become a Knanaya, you cannot convert to it, because it is a biological-based tradition."
Pullappally is one of a small, but growing, group of American Knanites who have filed a canonical lawsuit within the Catholic Church's legal system. She and the others have married outside the Knanaya church, an act that they claim has led to discriminatory treatment. In Pullappally's case, her husband is Protestant, and so she says her family is being denied certain rights.
"[T]he right to conduct your wedding at that church, the right to baptize your child at that church," said Pullappally.
A fellow complainant, Lukose Paret, produced several letters he attempted to send to a priest at one of the two Chicago-area churches, along with receipts showing they were declined and sent back unopened. He and others say they are barred from joining church committees, their homes are shunned during Christmas caroling events, and their children are not welcome to participate in youth activities.
"Basically the Knanaya church is walking a tightrope between maintenance of these age-old endogamous traditions, and knowledge that America is a new land where inclusivity is the rule," said Pullappally.
The disagreement within the church spilled onto the streets in March, however, when several hundred Knanaya rallied outside their bishop's house in Elmhurst. The protest was in response to a letter issued by Bishop Jacob Angadiath, who oversees the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago. Angadiath had ordered churches in the diocese to be more inclusive of mixed-Knanaya families, or families where only one spouse is a full-blooded Knanaya. Angadiath did not respond to multiple requests for interview.
"It is totally against our principle," said Tomy Myalkarapuram, president of the Knanaya Catholic Congress of North America, a laypeople organization that claims 20,000 members. "We have every right to remain as (an) ethnic group and as (an) endogamous group," he added.
Myalkarapuram said endogamy is the essence of the Knanaya community, and that the larger Catholic Church should not ask the Knanaya to sacrifice a defining characteristic of their identity. In fact, since the Knanaya church was folded into the Catholic Church several centuries ago, the concept of endogamy has never sat well with Rome.
"It sounds as if you are excluding people from the church if you have your own separate endogamous church," said Richard Swiderski, an anthropologist who studied Knanaya endogamy in India.
Swiderski said the Catholic Church held its nose and allowed the Knanaya in India to continue the practice, but that it did not intend for the tradition to be carried over to other countries. However, he noted that any forced change would run afoul of long-held beliefs.
"The practice of endogamy is this very idea that (the Knanaya) represent the pure doctrine, (that) they are hereditary representatives of the pure doctrine," he said. "The only way they could maintain that was to continue marrying only among themselves."
Swiderski said the Knanaya believe they descended from Middle Easterners who settled in southern India in 345 AD., making them racially distinct from other Indians. He said ever since then, they have tried to preserve their spiritual distinction, a belief that they represent a version of Christianity untainted by outside cultures, through endogamy.
The controversy may ultimately be resolved by people within the community: a younger generation of Knanites who debate whether endogamy makes sense in an American context.
In the meantime, Pullappally says the church has already lost one of its youngest members -- her son. Days before he was baptized, she explained her decision not to have it done in a Knanaya church.
"He's going to be baptized in a Roman Catholic Church, but not the Knanaya church," said Pullappally. "I don't want the occasion of something joyful, like a baptism, to be marred by hostility."
Odette Yousef is WBEZ's North Side Bureau reporter. Follow her @oyousef and @WBEZoutloud.


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Accessory is one of the things which we carry from earlier years to still now. Accessory of an object is to make the object more efficient, useful and to improve its features and to make it look stylish.
When it comes to Human beings Accessories are major things to show off. What is the reason for you to wear an Accessory? Obviously, you like it, and to attract some folks, to look unique, and the last and main reason is to show your attitude to others through that. And it is implicit way to show your mood.
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But the real fact is, Accessories are the things that shows the character which the person intended to become and hides the real character of that person. For example if you saw a person who look like a rude guy because of his Accessories and Dressings but his real character will be very polite. So don't judge the character of somebody only with the outlook.
Why we are hiding our real character behind these Accessories? Because we are trying to attract somebody/everybody by showing "I'm unique and I differ from others".
The reason to attract somebody is to make them know your presence and make them to look at you. Nowadays most of the boys are trying to attract girls and most of the girls are trying to attract boys through the accessories. So the accessory is a common thing for both.
But in earlier years, Accessories are designed for girls, to attract the guys. Because Accessories are used to decorate girls and make them look very pretty.
Why the accessories are meant to be a decorative element for women?
Aren't they pretty without these accessories?
Because they are treated like objects, the term decorate refers to some objects that are intended to look pretty and attractive.
Women are been treated like decorative objects in male dominated society. And they thought girls are born to serve men. Then the Accessories are been created to decorate women, to get the attention of men.
Nowadays we are been influenced to do that, it is not our mistake it came from our ancestors. But there is a difference now the Accessories are available for both girls and guys to attract opposite sex. what's the difference says is, after some struggles to get freedom for women as like as freedom of our country there are some changes in our society.
Even though it is a male dominating society, some freedom is there for girls. Girls are doing many things as like as guys and in some areas they are doing even better than guys. Now guys are trying to attract girls as like as girls did in earlier years. So we both are trying to attract opposite sex through our outlooks and accessories and in many ways.
So accessories are mainly designed to attract opposite sex. This is the way how I see the accessories. How do you see it? convey it through comments.


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Alexander Stepanov, PhD is a GIS Architect in A&F Administrative Systems and an Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Stepanov is leading the design and implementation of the Enterprise GIS for the UMass Amherst. His work involves system architecture design, maintenance of ArcGIS Servers and SDE central data warehouse, as well as development of new workflows and web applications. Dr. Stepanov has a BS in Computer Science from St.Petersburg State Technical University, Russia. He received an MS in Regional Planning and a PhD in Operations Research from UMass, Amherst. Dr. Stepanov's research interests include integration of Operations Research methods and GIS for decision support, large scale evacuation and emergency event modeling, data interoperability, spatial databases and data modeling. In his work Dr. Stepanov uses innovative ways to integrate GIS/BIM/CAD and 3D modeling. He is actively involved in the GIS community, is a regular presenter at the GIS conferences, and is a member of a Leadership Team, ESRI Facilities User Group. Dr. Stepanov has been working with the GIS technology for over a decade. With a rapid rate of technological development, Dr. Stepanov's mission is to bring industry experience and best practices into the classroom.
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... or "Why is my client so fat?"
InfoPath is really cool. To some degree, it actually delivers on the ancient promise of "productivity without programmers." Fundamentally, it's a form design and publication tool - end users can design forms and publish them to a server where the people who need to fill out the form can access it, fill in the data, and submit the data to a predefined data store.
When combined with SharePoint, there is generally no reason a developer needs to be involved at all - users can lay out forms, create lookups, create *cascading* lookups, add validation, and so on. If the data is simply to be aggregated in a SharePoint forms library, the whole thing is automagical and can be queried directly at the end.
I think it's a wonderful thing for developers because personally I find building generic forms for standard business data collection somewhat, uh, tedious. I'd much rather be solving larger business problems and inventing the next bread slicer.
"But Philo," you ask, "what does this have to do with fat, er, smart clients?"
Simple - the #1 question regarding InfoPath is "does everyone need InfoPath on the desktop to use an InfoPath form?"
The answer is "it depends."
Since InfoPath is all XML based (the form definitions are saved in a cab file, but fundamentally they're an XML Schema; the form data is an XML document with a pointer to the XSD), then no - you could easily write an ASP.Net page or a Windows forms client that uses the form XSD to generate the form data in a properly-formatted XML document. But that's not really what the questioner is asking - they want to know "can people without InfoPath on their desktop use the InfoPath forms with no additional coding?"
Think about it - boil that question down and it's "can we get all the InfoPath functionality without InfoPath?" To which the polite answer is "no."
Why not?
Anyone who's done web development has faced this question: "Can we have spell checking in this data entry form?" Often this happens on a contract where one delivery requirement is for complete client-side validation. Well, in essence this means that every time someone downloads the form, they need to download a dictionary as well. Rich text formatting, validation, spell-checking - these are all requirements we've faced, and we've either bought tools or coded them ourselves.
This means:
- Additional development cost
- Additional testing cost
- For web-based clients, additional download sizes (often massive ones)
InfoPath offers a rich platform for end users to create forms on that provides the full power of the Word libraries (spell checking, grammar checking, rich formatting), a solid client-side validation model, .Net-based code behind (in SP1, download the preview), and offline capability. That's right - a web-aware solution that works in an offline mode, no additional code on your part necessary.
[One caveat in here is where the data goes. As I mentioned above, if the data is going into SharePoint, the end user can build the whole thing. If it needs to go into a business system, the IT Department may have to get involved to provide the data consumer. InfoPath consumes web services very nicely, in keeping with a service-oriented architecture.]
Web-based solutions definitely have a place, and the open architecture of InfoPath forms even allows web-enabling data entry and/or display of the form itself. But when you're talking about robust data entry requirements, web-based solutions generally run out of steam quickly. The client wants a form with spell-checking, client-side validation, offline capability, etc, etc, etc. You can build it, but it's going to be pricy, and it only solves one problem.
InfoPath gives developers the ability to let clients create their own forms with little or no developer intervention, and allows developers to move on to solving bigger and better problems. So you have to ask yourself how you'd rather spend your day: "Hey John, can you move these three fields five pixels to the right?" or "We need someone to build a proof of concept for the new smart phone client the Operations Department needs" ?
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Have you met snowflake?
Snowflake is the only known albino gorilla in history!
He was a male wild-born Western Lowland Gorilla captured from the Equatorial Guinea and lived at the Barcelona Zoo for almost 40 years.
His albinism was non-syndromic oculocutaneous. In simple English, this means he had white hair, light eyes, pink skin, photophobia and reduced visual acuity. At the Barcelona Zoo, researchers who studied Snowflake learned that the he had poor vision, due to a lack of pigment in his eyes. He often frowned in an attempt to protect his eyes from bright light. They also mentioned that his vision problems appeared to reduce his coordination and confidence. In the wild, such difficulties might have prevented Snowflake from ever reproducing — or perhaps from even surviving at all.
He was the most famous resident of the zoo in Barcelona, Spain and he died on November 24, 2003, when from cancer. It was said that Snowflake enjoyed a fantastic quality of life, and interacted normally with his children and grandchildren. Though Snowflake has been long gone for close to 13 years now, his legacy remains. In his time at the zoo, he fathered 21 gorillas. He also has grandchildren, two of whom were twins (which is remarkable as the birth of twins is rare in gorillas).
None of Snowflake's offspring, however, is albino (several of the grandchildren have had light patches on their hands or feet at birth, but they disappear with age). That's because Snowflake's albinism was the very rare product of a genetic coincidence: both his mother and his father had to carry a specific gene.
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A Nigerian arrested with drugs worth Rs. 4 crore in Delhi :- On Monday, a Nigerian drug smuggler – Okey Chikoo Mathew was arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police with 1550 grams of heroin.
After the tip of a youth Parveen, the drug smuggler was arrested from Nawada, under the Uttam Nagar police station in Delhi from a private house. Parveen, belonging to Odisha, worked for him earlier and was arrested by Delhi Police last week.
The police officer said that during patrolling in Kullu last week, our patrolling team arrested Parveen. He was arrested with 15 grams of heroin in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. During the investigation, Parveen disclosed that he is working for some Nigerian national (Okey Chikoo Mathew) who supplies drug to Himachal Pradesh. On his
The Superintendent of Police in Kullu District – Padam Chand said that on his tip, our team visited the Delhi and arrested Mathew with 1550 grams of heroin (approx Rs 4 crore). Mathew was also arrested in 2014 in Manali with 20 grams of heroin and was later released in 2015 after trail.
The police officer said that we seized the drug from Mathew of worth Rs. 4 crore. This Nigerian man – Mathew was also arrested in 2014 in Manali with 20 gms heroin. The case has been registered under Section 21 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.


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The new visual, "HOPE",was created to symbolize the trials and errors while chasing dreams. People run into brick walls
along the way, and they give up hope.
The late Randy Pausch said it best; "The brick walls are there to stop the people that don't want it badly enough." Do whatever it takes to
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The night's soundtrack was brought to you by Hot 97's DJ Juanyto & KillerHipHop.com's DJ Eric Kidd.
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Mixtape: Mike Check – Stars, Dreams, & Elbow Grease
After making his name by winning several prominent competitions, Mike Check releases his highly anticipated debut project, Stars, Dreams, & Elbow Grease. Reach for the STARS, follow your DREAMS & put in a little ELBOW GREASE.
Last Thursday, KillerHipHop & DJ Eric Kidd was at Sullivan Hall rocking the release party for this project and when I say this project will be one of the top mixtapes of 2013, just remember where you heard it first.
Hip-Hop is alive and well. You can hear amazing talent and pure Hip-Hop soul throughly in Mike Check's EP.
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Event: Mike Check's EP Release Party With Hot 97's DJ Juanyto & KHH's DJ Eric Kidd
WireLion, The Legion Media Group, Hot 97, HipHopWired, and KillerHipHop will be presenting an event celebrating the release of Mike Check's Stars, Dreams & Elbow Grease EP.
The event will be hosted by Kazeem Famuyide of HipHopWired.com
Music by Hot 97's DJ Juanyto & KillerHipHop.com's DJ Eric Kidd
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Video: Mike Check – Pluggin' Away!
Up-and-comer, Mike Check, has a new single, "Pluggin' Away!". The record gives everyone a feel good vibe. "Pluggin' Away!" has a motivational message and the video portrays captivating images to replicate his lyrics. Making sure that he lets everyone know that he is dedicated to his music.
Stop by SRB Brooklyn this Friday, 12/14, to catch his performance with a live band.
Mike Check's debut project – Stars, Dreams & Elbow Grease – is dropping February 5th.


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Are you guys having an equipment problem? Currently where I have been for the past 4 days has download speed of 80 Megs/sec.
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This morning I launched Dish Anywhere on my Firestick and it appears to be working normally.
So what happened?
I have no idea...
As a suggestion It would be great if Dish had a site dedicated to network or equipment issues and the status. Just a suggestion.


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Blessed are the cheesemakers: Wendolyn
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A brand new, cider brandy-washed cheese from Trethowan's dairy
"To be honest, it was really a mistake at first," says Todd Trethowan of the luminous washed rind cheese sitting squatly in front of me. Together with his brother, Maugan, the cheesemaker had spent decades developing their signature Gorwydd Caerphilly, to the point where its perfect consistency was earning multiple awards.
You can well imagine his dismay when, on a routine storeroom check eight years ago, Todd found several of their ripening caerphillys developing a fine dusting of an orange mould, known as b-linens. "It's latent in the atmosphere but it favours damp conditions, like the mould on your shower curtain." Unlike your shower curtain, however, when Todd and Maugan came to try the cheese they were surprised to find it wasn't—well, gross.
In fact, it was "lovely," Todd laughs. Though not quite fit for sale yet, it was more than good enough for their own consumption—so the talented brothers started experimenting. They washed it, trying first with salt water, then cider, then cider brandy, to encourage the bacteria to settle and develop the rind. They played with different shapes and sizes: the cheese you'll see today is far shallower than when it started out.
Farmhouse cheesemakers
Of course, being farmhouse cheesemakers, they use the same milk as they do for the caerphilly, sourced solely from their small herd of pedigree organic Holsteins and Jerseys—and they use the same hard-pressed, two months-matured make.
But where their caerphillly is naturally-rinded, citrusy and clean tasting with a slightly creamy, crumbly texture, their Wendolyn—as Todd and Maugan eventually dubbed it, after their late mother—is pungent and squidgy, with just a narrow pale layer of harder, caerphilly-like cheese running through it, like a relic of what it might have been.
What a difference bacteria make. Just by washing the outside of a cheese, Todd can transform it entirely. "You paint it and this beautiful orange rind appears," he says—like invisible ink, but with b-linens. The effects on the inside are just as dramatic: the texture softening, the taste deepening and the smell thickening such that it barely resembles its pale, citrusy cousin. "It is like alchemy," he marvels.
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Though similar to Stinking Bishop in colour and texture, the make of these cheeses is so different the comparison is quite invalid. "It's more of a cross," says Roi on the stall, "between Irish cheeses Gubbeen, Cardo, Durrus and Ardrahan."
Roi has worked in cheese for many years, both continental and British: yet he's never seen anything quite like Wendolyn. The hint of cider brandy, sourced from legendary cider maker Julian Temperley up the road, adds a further boozy twist to the brilliant rind. "I do believe there is something about the terroir of an area, and cider is very much associated with Somerset," Todd says. "This is a nice marriage."
Six months ago, about eight years after its accidental inception, Wendolyn won gold at the British Cheese Awards. Since then it's been selling out rapidly. Some might say this is a classic case of learning from your mistakes; we say, if at first you don't succeed, add cider brandy.


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Criticizing the Federal Reserve and loving gold seem to go hand in hand. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a noted opponent of the Fed, dedicates a large portion of his portfolio to gold, mostly by owning shares of gold miners such as Goldcorp (NYSE:GG). Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has attacked what he calls the Fed's "Jelly Donut Policy," and has put a big chunk of his fund in the Market Vectors Gold Miner ETF (NYSEMKT:GDX), while John Paulson has long held a big position in the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEMKT:GLD).
But Mark Spitznagel, CIO of Universa Investments -- a hedge fund with about $6 billion in assets -- isn't a big fan of gold. In his book The Dao of Capital, Spitznagel strongly opposes the Fed, blaming it for our current economic malaise, and a likely crash to follow; still, he doesn't share his fellow critics' enthusiasm for owning the precious metal.
Gold as the anti-Fed play
Traditionally, gold is regarded as a way to bet against the Fed -- more specifically, to bet against its current policy decisions. The Fed's critics allege that, through several rounds of quantitative easing, the Fed has debased -- even destroyed -- the U.S. dollar. Gold, which backed the dollar at least partially until 1971, stands as a sort of alternative currency.
An ounce of gold today will still be an ounce of gold 10 years from now, but a U.S. dollar will probably not have the same purchasing power in 2023. This stationary property of gold fuels some investors' enthusiasm for it, but at the same time, it serves to draw in its critics.
Warren Buffett, in his 2011 letter to investors, observed that all the world's gold was worth about $9.6 trillion. If an investor had such a large sum of money, he or she could, in theory, purchase all the gold in the world -- or all the farmland in the U.S., along with 16 ExxonMobils. In 100 years' time, the investor who bought the farmland and ExxonMobils would've generated many trillions of dollars worth of profits, whereas the one who bought the gold would still just be holding gold. When you get down to it, gold just isn't a productive asset.
How gold could threaten civilization
Spitznagel shares Paul and Einhorn's disdain for the Fed, but he largely agrees with Buffett. In fact, though he acknowledges that gold is the "perfect medium of exchange" and a great long-term store of value, he warns that gold obsession is unhealthy, even dangerous, for society. Instead, he would rather see investors put their money into productive assets, though he admits that it's a difficult thing to do right now.
This is what Spitznagel told me:
I can't begrudge anyone for their gold holdings. As dollars are clearly a decaying asset, there's sound economic logic behind gold's long-term appreciation. But if everyone just invested in gold, civilization would slowly come to an end.
He continued:
I would hate for everyone to be a gold bug; that would be a disaster. People need to invest in productive, real assets, such as farmland. We can thank the Fed that this is such a scary thing to do these days -- it is the real paradox of Keynesianism.
Moreover, while Spitznagel believes gold will maintain its value over the long run, he's concerned that investors holding gold today will get burned:
There's lots of noise in its valuation, due to momentum investors. How many people acquire gold only after it goes up, and dump it when it doesn't? I'd recommend the opposite strategy. By definition, gold, with zero intrinsic value, is a pure greater-fool investment, requiring a greater fool than you who is willing to take it off your hands. It has value only because we all agree that it does.
Should you have some gold in your portfolio?
As an inflation hedge, holding a token amount of gold makes sense for any portfolio. In the event of severe inflation, gold's price appreciation could help to offset the damaging effects to any cash or bond holdings.
But as Buffett notes, buying gold isn't investing, and investors shouldn't overload their portfolio with the yellow metal. Certainly, among Fed critics, there seems to be an unhealthy obsession with owning it. Hopefully, some of these investors will consider Spitznagel's advice.


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Under the Silver Lake (2018)
6.8Sam, intelligent but without purpose, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.
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Stars: Andrew Garfield, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner, Riley Keough


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EDWARDSVILLE – The Madison County Board on Thursday appointed a new county administrator and director of information and technology at a special meeting called into legal question by board members.
County Board Chairman Kurt Prenzler called Thursday's meeting at a re-organizational meeting Monday, Dec. 5. At that meeting, Prenzler allowed former board member Stephen Adler to preside because of Adler's familiarity with the board's procedures. But representatives of the Madison County State's Attorney's Office said Thursday that Adler had no authority to chair the meeting and the re-organizational meeting, at which newly elected board members were seated, would have to be reconvened.
"This meeting is not a legal meeting," Edwardsville Democratic board member Jack Minner said.
But Prenzler, who cited a "critical situation" of not having a county administrator, said he believes Monday's meeting met legal requirements.
"I am confident, 100 percent, that that meeting was absolutely legal," Prenzler said.
"Both of these positions are essential for the running of this county," he said.
The appointment of Doug Hulme, who served as a deputy treasurer under Prenzler, passed 15-13, with board member James Futrell absent. Hulme's salary will be $120,000 per year.
Before the vote, board member Nick Petrillo, a Granite City Democrat, questioned Hulme's qualifications for the job. He said Hulme lacks a master's degree in public administration, although he does have a master of business administration degree.
"Does he have 7 years of experience that has anything to do with government?" Petrillo asked Prenzler.
Prenzler defended his pick for county administrator.
"I think Mr. Hulme has done an outstanding job as deputy treasurer," he said. "In my opinion, Mr. Hulme is very qualified for this position."
Granite City Democrat Arthur Asadorian called for a closed session to discuss the appointment for director of information and technology, Rob Dorman. After the closed session, the board reconvened and Granite City Democrat Michael Charles Parkinson made a motion that Dorman's hiring be contingent on a background check. After a discussion of the county's procedures for background checks involving members of the Madison County Sheriff's Department, including Sheriff John Lakin, Parkinson withdrew the motion.
With 4 votes against, the board approved Dorman's appointment to the position at an annual salary of $108,000.
Just before the meeting adjourned, board member Michael Walters, a Godfrey Republican, questioned his colleagues' motives in their opposition to the appointees.
"Mr. Prenzler has every right to appoint new people," Walters said. "Everything that has happened since you've been sworn in has been, in my mind, pure politics."
Parkinson responded that he was only seeking a transparent approach to governance.
"People that are put in public trust should be vetted," he said.


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This course will cover search engine technologies, which play an important role in any data mining applications involving text data for two reasons. First, while the raw data may be large for any particular problem, it is often a relatively small subset of the data that are relevant, and a search engine is an essential tool for quickly discovering a small subset of relevant text data in a large text collection. Second, search engines are needed to help analysts interpret any patterns discovered in the data by allowing them to examine the relevant original text data to make sense of any discovered pattern. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and the major techniques in text retrieval, which is the underlying science of search engines.
-You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
Week 1
-During this week's lessons, you will learn of natural language processing techniques, which are the foundation for all kinds of text-processing applications, the concept of a retrieval model, and the basic idea of the vector space model.
Week 2
-In this week's lessons, you will learn how the vector space model works in detail, the major heuristics used in designing a retrieval function for ranking documents with respect to a query, and how to implement an information retrieval system (i.e., a search engine), including how to build an inverted index and how to score documents quickly for a query.
Week 3
-In this week's lessons, you will learn how to evaluate an information retrieval system (a search engine), including the basic measures for evaluating a set of retrieved results and the major measures for evaluating a ranked list, including the average precision (AP) and the normalized discounted cumulative gain (nDCG), and practical issues in evaluation, including statistical significance testing and pooling.
Week 4
-In this week's lessons, you will learn probabilistic retrieval models and statistical language models, particularly the detail of the query likelihood retrieval function with two specific smoothing methods, and how the query likelihood retrieval function is connected with the retrieval heuristics used in the vector space model.
Week 5
-In this week's lessons, you will learn feedback techniques in information retrieval, including the Rocchio feedback method for the vector space model, and a mixture model for feedback with language models. You will also learn how web search engines work, including web crawling, web indexing, and how links between web pages can be leveraged to score web pages.
Week 6
-In this week's lessons, you will learn how machine learning can be used to combine multiple scoring factors to optimize ranking of documents in web search (i.e., learning to rank), and learn techniques used in recommender systems (also called filtering systems), including content-based recommendation/filtering and collaborative filtering. You will also have a chance to review the entire course.
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In a dark, silo-shaped room in the upscale Jardim Europa neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, last month, an impassioned aesthetic debate was underway, though it would have been tough for anyone walking into the room to tell. I was at a place called the Museum of Image and Sound, lying on my back with seven other people, all of us completely silent in brightly colored hammocks that had been hung around a circular scaffolding. Our feet angled together toward the center of the room and our heads radiated out like lotus petals. We were all staring up at the ceiling, where two video works were being projected, both featuring a pale, red-headed woman who looked like a Nereid sprung to life. In the first video, she navigates her way through a candy-colored world — a birch forest; a long airportlike corridor; a leaf-strewn sidewalk that the camera scuttles along low and fast, as if from the vantage point of a bug.
In the second video, pieces of which would have been instantly familiar to anyone who visited the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art in New York last winter, the same woman crawls naked through the grass, and super-zoomed-in images of her apple-stuffed mouth alternate with that of a fairly nasty-looking black pig's. The sequence ends as the woman rises from a body of water with menstrual blood dripping from the crotch of her white underwear, turning the water — and thus the whole screen and the room — a deep crimson.
Pipilotti Rist, the Swiss artist from whose overflowing mind and cameras these images came, finally got up and walked around, and so did everyone else on her creative team, a group that functions like a close-knit family, with Rist as the cool but fiercely involved mother. They had been in Brazil for almost two weeks at that point, installing what amounted to a mini-retrospective of Rist's career in two small contemporary art spaces in São Paulo, one of which was this small, scrappy museum housed in a handsome white Modernist building that was once a private house.
The disagreement that morning — one that had been building for days — was whether to leave the circular room with the single video installation originally planned for it, a piece from 2005 called "A Liberty Statue for Löndön"; or to add the second one, a newly conceived work that Rist had been editing at a furious pace from footage she first used in "Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)," her multi-projection installation that became a huge hit last year at MoMA. That work, a video-in-the-round immersion, transformed the museum's ungainly atrium into what one critic described variously as a bordello, a pleasure dome and an opium den, a work that seemed to cause the masculine-feeling museum to (at least metaphorically) ovulate.
"Pour Your Body Out" was one of Rist's most ambitious pieces. And for many Americans it was an introduction to her signature methods: bringing the world right up to your nose, radically, uncomfortably close, in a boldly feminist way that upends conventions of beauty and body image, but doing so while inviting you to relax, stretch out, put your feet up and not feel preached to or even particularly confronted.Continue reading the main story
Rist, who lives and works in Zurich, pursues this goal with a kind of missionary zeal and a stupendous work ethic born of her Swiss Protestant upbringing. After a few fallow years beginning in 2000 when she says she felt burned out as an artist and moved to Los Angeles to teach, she has roared back and, at 47, is an undisputed star, one of the most-sought-after artists of her generation. At the same time that she was mounting the MoMA exhibition, she was completing the editing of her first feature-length film, "Pepperminta," which made its debut in September at the Venice Film Festival and has been received so far with mostly positive, if perplexed, reviews. (Variety predicted that its commercial prospects would be "as flat as a stick of Doublemint gum.") When I first met her a couple of weeks after the debut, she gave me the beginner's summary of the hallucinatory plot, which she conveyed with all the gravity of someone synopsizing "Citizen Kane": "It is about a young woman and her friends on a quest to find the right color combinations and with these colors they can free other people from fear and make life better."
As corny as that might sound, it is more or less what Rist herself has been after for much of her 20-year career and what was driving the debate that morning in São Paulo at the Museum of Image and Sound. Rist felt strongly that she wouldn't be giving Brazil her all if she showed only older work in both her exhibitions. So on a Saturday evening, struck by what she called "my Saturday-night fever," she began to edit a new video, a painfully slow process using only the laptops she had brought with her. Her assistants — including Rachele Giudici, her studio manager; Davide Legittimo, her video specialist; and Markus Huber Recabarren, who helps design her installations — argued that adding the new video was, as a formal matter, pretty ragged and that it was also a disservice to the older work. "It's like saying it's not good enough," Giudici told me.
Rist emerged from the exhibition room with her arms crossed, a pained expression on her face. Nobody seemed to want to say anything. I asked her if she had made up her mind.
"Ja, we keep it," she pronounced. "Maybe it's not so clear, artistically," she added, "but it's O.K. I can be not clear, for São Paulo." Turning to Karin Seinsoth, a project coordinator from her Zurich gallery, Hauser & Wirth, she put a hand on her shoulder and told her: "Don't take it personally. It means a lot to me that you were all against it."
Then Rist strode over to where a man was at work painting the title of the piece on the wall and pointed to a blank space. "We will add it here," she said. "Now we must find out how in Portuguese you say 'Bonus track.' "
CRITICISM OF RIST'S work, to the degree that there has been much, has usually focused on the concern that it is too colorful and friendly, especially in the realm of video art, whose roots lie mostly in using television-like images as a cudgel to knock people out of the trance largely fostered by television itself. (Take, for example, "Think," Bruce Nauman's 1993 wickedly simple work, which consists of images of his head bouncing toward each other like basketballs on two stacked monitors as he shouts "Think!" over and over at the viewer.)
Some people complained that Rist's work, especially in its early days, was too close to the experimental end of the music-video world, the kind of thing you wouldn't have been surprised to find in the wee hours back on MTV's "120 Minutes." But in many ways this is what Rist, who speaks of her admiration for the work of music-video auteurs like Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham, was after. She has always viewed art as a kind of bonus track, something that should openly seek to cause joy and that we should be happy to discover, like a gift, on the regular song list of life. In one of her often-repeated observations about video work, she compares it to the capaciousness of women's handbags — with "room in them for everything: painting, technology, language, music, lousy flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness" — a woman's canny update of Matisse's already canny statement about wanting his art to be like a comfortable armchair for the tired businessman.
Rist often speaks about her distress that over the last 40 years or so, at least since the rise of Conceptualism, the gulf between the world of contemporary art and the world in general seems to be widening, with art viewed by too many people as some kind of parochial game played among artists, institutions and collectors. "When I see a really good work of art, sometimes I could just cry because more people aren't going to know about it," she says.
During our first conversation in New York, where she had stopped off briefly on her way to Brazil, she told me: "The whole question of how to put art into regular life is what interests me the most. I treat art as a service. I think of myself as a service worker."
Her own life is roughly coincident with the history of video art, which became possible with the production of the first consumer camera rig and video recorder by Sony in 1965. Rist has never engaged in any serious drawing or painting and, unlike many of her contemporaries, has made comparatively few sculptural pieces or other objects to satisfy collectors. I asked her why she is attracted to video work in a world already oversaturated with video images and screens, and she said it is precisely because of that fact. People spend an increasing portion of their waking hours now looking at moving images created by pixels; but most of that imagery is created under "commercial pressure," as Rist calls it, to sell things or support advertising. Though she certainly strives to complicate this visual environment, it's not one she judges with anything like straightforward anticonsumerism. "We've lived with this for a long time," she says. "We have the power to know which pictures we want to keep and which pictures we want to excrete from our minds." But she argues that we also need artists — she uses the wonderfully utopian term "free citizens," which can encompass a whole lot of what's being made for YouTube — to create a bank of other kinds of imagery as a counterbalance.
"Using moving images as much as possible for purely philosophical and poetical reasons and goals," she says, "can work as a shield or exorcism of the over-image-reproduced world." And the way to do this, in her opinion, is to borrow the language of television and movies that has become our visual lingua franca, with its color and speed and sensuality, then to reshape it profoundly — to let it wander off square screens and into the world, to heighten its color, to scramble the feeling of distance it gives us that simultaneously brings comfort and a kind of powerlessness. "I use the same ingredients, I think, but I am cooking a different meal," she says.
Treating video images almost as a new form of organic life, she has installed monitors or projected images inside bathrooms, liquor bottles, seashells and, of course, handbags, as well as projecting them everywhere from a Venetian church ceiling to the plaza in front of the Pompidou Center, where she created, in effect, a television screen of Gulliverian proportions that people could congregate atop. "I wanted to get the stories out of the box and just spread them around," she has said of her work.
A fundamental conviction almost since the beginning of her career has been that most representations of life in television and film fail to capture the way we really experience color, partly for technical reasons: bright colors are usually muted slightly to avoid giving pale human skin abnormal hues. Rist herself certainly has no fear of color. When I met her one morning at the Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, people stopped to stare as she walked by, in bright blue-yellow-and-red plaid baggy pants (which, when the legs were pulled up, converted into a bubble skirt) and a matching jacket, over a canary yellow T-shirt emblazoned with the Chinese character for double happiness.
She is an almost unnervingly intense listener, who sometimes produces a pocket notebook while talking to illustrate her thoughts with charts and diagrams and seems to like talking about evolution and optics more than she does about art. Sitting there at breakfast, she pointed to a lemon wedge perched on the edge of her water glass and leaned down to peer at it through her thick black-framed glasses. "Look how yellow that is — it knocks you out — pow!" she said, mimicking a punch to the temple. "But if you filmed it or took pictures of it, it would always be a little less so. I've wanted to find a way for it not to be that way."
It was the first time I'd met her, but I felt as if I'd been spending time with Rist for years at that point. Every time I visit P.S. 1, the contemporary art space in Queens, I make a point of stopping not far from the entrance where a 1994 work of hers, "Selfless in the Bath of Lava," has long been installed. It is a video screen about the size of a matchbox, one you could easily miss, embedded in a hole in the floorboards, with hidden speakers. You try to figure out where the tiny voice is coming from and look down between your feet to see a tiny, naked Rist on the screen looking straight up at you from a sea of superimposed flame, reaching out, shouting ridiculously self-abasing things in several languages: "I am a worm and you are a flower. You would have done everything better."
Often the titles she gives her work are almost worth the price of admission themselves, a kind of verbal equivalent of her visual imagination: "Sip My Ocean," "Open My Glade (Flatten)," "Pimple Porno," "When My Mother's Brother Was Born It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill." The video that most people who have a passing acquaintance with Rist's work have seen is probably "Ever Is Over All," a mesmerizing, looping fantasia with music by the composer Anders Guggisberg, who has long collaborated with her. In it, a woman in a sky blue dress and red pumps (not Rist in this case, but a friend of hers, Silvana Ceschi) walks down a tidy Zurich street, gleefully smashing the side windows of cars with a metal replica of a sensuous kind of flower known as a red-hot poker.
Bice Curiger, a Swiss curator and a founder of the art magazine Parkett, who has followed Rist's career from the beginning, recalls the difficulty with which her exuberance was initially received: "In the context of the world of video at the time Pipilotti began, the question was: 'Is this serious work or not? Can you be so colorful and so playful and humorous?' But for me what she was doing was bringing in another temperature. A cold medium was being turned into a warm medium." She adds: "It's somehow feminist with a sensual knowledge that is completely different from the generations before her. It's not propagandistic."
For the first work of art Rist ever displayed publicly, on a bridge near Buchs, one of the tiny Rhine Valley villages where she was raised, she bought a pig's heart from a local butcher and plunked it atop a video monitor displaying an early work she made. The experience was instructive. "Nobody noticed the meat on the monitor," she recalled. "People were so concentrated on the image on the screen that they didn't even look two centimeters above."
Rist grew up in the rolling countryside of eastern Switzerland, the second-oldest child in a family of four girls and one boy, though she seems to have been the dominant personality around the house. Her given name is Elisabeth Charlotte; she created her current one, which she adopted in college, by combining her two childhood nicknames, Lotti and Pippi, the latter taken from Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren's plucky heroine, who could lift a horse with one hand. And there is more than a bit of Longstocking in Rist, who offsets the fine-boned features of a model with a tomboyish physicality. She shakes hands firmly and snorts when she laughs and falls to mechanical tasks with the easy confidence of a union plumber. She ends her e-mail messages with the exhortation "Stay Metal," a funny sign-off for someone who deals mostly in images of flowing water, flowers and the squishier parts of the body, often her own.
In grade school, she decided to move out of her house and took up residence for a couple of weeks in her family's emptied swimming pool, which had a cover that served as a roof. "My sisters would come out and visit me from time to time," she said, seeming a little embarrassed about the incident now. "I guess I just wanted to be independent." Her father, Walter, a doctor, probably had no idea that it was happening, she said, and her mother, Anna, a teacher and a strong-willed woman herself, "probably thought, Oh, she'll just live out in the pool for a while and then she'll come back. And I did."
Her family, while not exactly devout, found itself in church every Sunday, and Rist grew up reading the Bible daily throughout much of her youth. She describes herself as an atheist now. But the scaffolding of belief has clearly remained, not only in the sense that much of her work seems to be haunted by the concept of original sin and Christianity's discomfort with the body but also in the impression she gives of complete personal devotion. "I've always felt that I need to toil alone and hard to make art count," she told me. "To put enough of myself and honesty into a work that I open myself up to the possibility of pain, criticism and hurt."
She studied design and video production in Vienna and Basel and then, for six years beginning in 1988, she played several instruments and sang in an all-woman klezmer punk-pop band called Les Reines Prochaines (the Next Queens), but she was never at ease performing. Even before her time in the band, she was making Super 8 movies and found inspiration in the work of Yoko Ono and of the video pioneer Nam June Paik. Through them she came early on to the Fluxus movement's anti-elitist emphasis on involving the viewer in the artwork and eroding boundaries between art and everyday life, notions that go back to free spirits like Allan Kaprow, who coined the term "happenings." (In late September, Rist's gallery Hauser & Wirth opened its first outpost in New York by reinventing Kaprow's seminal 1961 installation "Yard," which consisted mostly of piles of tires to climb through. As I walked around the show with her, she paused in front of an old poster for the original exhibition and, pretending to wipe it with her sleeve, said, "We are only polishing their stars, the people from this time.")
Her first video work — she made it in 1986 while studying in Basel, but for all its art-school earnestness, it is still fresh today — was called "I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much." It features her in a low-cut black dress dancing manically, the camera refusing to focus on her as she repeatedly warbles the words of the title, a riff on the first line of the Beatles' song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." The piece owed clear debts to harder-edged video predecessors like Joan Jonas and Hannah Wilke and even to performance artists like Marina Abramovic. But even then Rist — who still remembers vividly when Swiss women were finally granted the right to vote in national elections, in 1971 — was forging her own kind of feminism.
It has taken shape in works like one from 2007 that was on display in São Paulo, called "Ginas Mobile." A hanging sculpture that looks vaguely like something Brancusi might have made, it's a horizontally suspended wooden branch with a copper globe hanging from one end and a teardrop-shaped screen hanging from the other. A projector in the globe casts glittery images on the screen of what at first seem to be diamonds on velvet or maybe a lava flow, but then you come to realize that what you're seeing are extreme close-ups of vulvas. (They belong to Rist and four unnamed friends, who came over for a photo session: "I couldn't ask them to do it and not do it myself," she says, smiling.) The effect is much more beautiful than it is gynecological. And as such it is a clear next-generation riff on the more confrontational works of pioneers like Wilke, who was known for photographing herself with little vulva-shaped pieces of chewing gum stuck all over her naked torso, creating jarring portraits of what looked like scarification.
Very early on Rist began to define a visual world that has now become unmistakably her own — blaring color; immersive viewing environments; the body often filmed from just millimeters away to transform it into a near-abstract landscape of flesh, smooth and wrinkled, forested with hair (some of it pubic) and freckles; a point of view that soars, plunges and twirls — an effect Rist creates with a technique she has developed in which she films with a tiny video camera attached to a lightweight handheld boom. She describes this kind of shooting as a form of dance, and a result is footage that rarely provides the viewer with the sense of distance and perspective, even of up or down, that the conventions of television and movies have led us to expect. "I want the viewer and the image to be on the same power level," she says. "I want you and the camera to feel more like one." The visual comparison that sometimes comes to mind is that of medical documentaries, the kind that show deeply color-saturated shots taken by a probe camera navigating within the human body.
"I can imagine that for some people it's too much, and we're afraid of how close she wants to take us to things in the world," says Ewelina Guzik, the lucent-skinned, red-headed woman crawling through the grass in the MoMA exhibition and the title character in "Pepperminta." Guzik, who has become an on-screen alter ego for Rist over the last few years, says that the experience of the movie was "like being on a trip but you don't need the drugs" and that working with Rist has taught her a lot about basic compassion. "She is so deeply concerned about everybody working around her — and probably also for everyone else in the world," she added. "It's a big part of what her work is about."
The opening of the first of Rist's two shows last month in São Paulo was held on a lovely spring evening at another small institution there called Paço das Artes, or the Palace of Arts. The thriving art community in the city — where people had immediately Brazilianized Rist's first name, pronouncing it "Pipiloichi" — had embraced her, and the place was packed.
I couldn't find Rist, whom I saw the night before at a party for this exhibition holed up in a bedroom on her hands and knees in front of her Macbook Pro laptop, desperately trying to finish editing the new piece for the Museum of Image and Sound. I asked Davide Legittimo, her affable video guru, where she was. "She's probably hiding," he said.
She was, but only from the adults. She was hanging out in a sunken children's play area with her lanky 7-year-old son, Himalaya, who had just arrived from Zurich with his father, Rist's partner, Balz Roth. With his mother's help, he and the other kids were festooning the walls with chalk graffiti.
I asked her if she was happy with the show. She shrugged and smiled. "I am never completely happy — you always think that there should be more," she said. But then she brightened as the kids reminded her of a new idea she had told me about excitedly, one that could serve to extend her radiant video world into the real one: playgrounds designed for adults as well as for children. "I want to build them, in cities," she said. "Just because you grow up, why shouldn't you still be able to play?"Continue reading the main story


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Mix together 2 big packs of minced pork (the kind that are two for £6 at Tesco, ie 1.5kg) with salt and crushed black pepper, garlic granules and some oregano (a good shake). From this mix make as many teaspoon sized meatballs as you can - I got about 100 out of it. Put them in the fridge on a greaseproof paper-covered tray for an hour.
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You can also use any ready-made meatballs - my preferred type are Scan Swedish Meatballs or some that Lidl sell when they have their periodic Scandinavian Specials Week.
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