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gluten free breakfast cereal with fruit (10 minute meal)/
If you asked me one of the things I miss most, being gluten free, I would say cereal. When I was a little girl, I tried to have cereal for every meal. Of course, this was not allowed since I grew up with a healthy, balanced diet. I can recall a St. Patrick's day at 7 or 8 year old where I refused to eat the brisket and potatoes on my plate. This was shocking for two reasons. One, I am part Irish. Two, my favorite food for ever and ever has always been mashed potatoes. I really held strong and finally got my way, so I had Lucky Charms for dinner which obviously goes down in history as the best dinner ever. I think I remember it so vividly because it was the only time I ever won that battle. Fast forward to now, sure, I can have gluten free cereal but most of them are made with tons of refined sugar. So aside from a few favorite replacements like gluten free Peanut Butter Panda Puffs and Purely Elizabeth Granola, I have become fond of hot gluten free breakfast cereals.
This recipe is super simple, super delicious, super healthy and surprisingly, super filling. I like to make a big pot of hot gluten free breakfast cereal, save it for the week and add the tasty toppings each time I prepare a bowl. It is also perfect for a simple yet beautiful weekend brunch dish. I love these toppings but you can easily change them up. If you do, share your new recipe back with me, please! #feelinglikeakidagain
Serves: 4
Prep & Cook Time: 10 minutes
Fresh From the Market:
- 1/2 c. Blueberries (2 tbsp. per serving)
- 1/4 c. Pomegranate Seeds(1 tbsp. per serving)
From the Pantry or Fridge:
- 1. c.Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal
- 3 1/4 c. Water
- 1/4 c. Coconut or Almond Milk (unsweetened, not full fat)
- Honey (optional for drizzle)
From the Spice Rack:
- 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp. Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. Sea Salt
Cooking Instructions:
- Prepare the hot gluten free breakfast cereal, per the instructions on the bag. Bring the 3 1/4 c. water to a boil (a sprinkle of sea salt is optional). Add the 1 c. gluten free breakfast cereal, cook for 10 minutes and stir occasionally. This will yield 3 1/2 cups.
- Once cooked, add the 1/4 c. coconut or almond milk to make it creamy, plus the vanilla extract, sea salt and cinnamon.
- Measure out each serving (just over 3/4 c. hot cereal) and then add the toppings so they don't get soggy. Top the gluten free breakfast cereal with blueberries, pomegranate seeds and honey (optional). You can even sprinkle more cinnamon on top for extra flavor. Yum!
Since Holly is gluten free, too, and because of her obsession with food every second of the day, she is allowed to lick the bowl when I make this on the weekend. You can also easily bring this to work by keeping the hot cereal in a glass container and bringing unopened crates of the berries and seeds. If you have leftover blueberries or pomegranate seeds, try these delicious recipes!
Gluten Free Waffles with Blueberries
Berry Good Skin Detox Smoothie
Quinoa Salad with Feta, Pomegranate Seeds & Raisins


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For many years now, most Christian homeschoolers have been anti-dating, encouraging something known as courtship instead. Why do we do that? How is courtship superior to dating? Is it truly more biblical? I don't think so.
A quick look through the concordance will show what I mean. Let us start with the word 'date.' We will not find it; it is not in the Bible; it was an unknown concept. The same thing goes for the word '€œcourtship.' It also does not appear anywhere in God's Word. The word 'court' is found there, with three different meanings. Scripture speaks of the court of the king, a court of law, and the outer court(yard) of the Temple. Nowhere does the word refer to anything relating to romance or preparing for marriage.
If the Bible doesn't talk about courtship or dating, how do we pursue romance and marriage? What are God's plans for His people to find mates? While Scripture does not tell us in so many words, I do believe it gives guidelines in that area. Let's look at the key concepts involved here.
The Bible often speaks of betrothal (or espousal), but never tells us exactly what it was. However, we can learn much from the Biblical examples of it. Joseph and Mary were betrothed when she was found to be with child. Joseph would have had to divorce her to be out of the bonds of marriage. The Song of Solomon is a love story between a betrothed couple. The 'bridegroom' in Matthew 25 was coming to retrieve his betrothed from her father's house when the five foolish virgins were closed out of the feast.
Historically, we know that betrothal was a commitment to marry. It was much more permanent than most of us consider engagements today. A betrothal was a LEGAL commitment, binding on both parties, as a marriage. Once a couple was betrothed they were, 'off the market,' no longer available for any type of romantic activity. Barring an extremely unusual circumstance, the betrothed couple was married for life.
Wait! How did this couple ever get to this point. How did two young people decide to become betrothed? What brought them together? Here is where I get radical, but I believe it is also Biblical. Bear with me, and I will show you what I mean.
The Bible doesn't tell us anything about the ritual of courtship, or any ritual prior to the betrothal commitment, but we do get a few hints. The first one comes in the often-repeated words: 'give their daughters in marriage.' This always refers to fathers and seems to imply bestowing her as a gift upon the chosen husband. How was he chosen? That is the most important question of all– the answer to our dilemma in this area.
Let's look at two particular Biblical examples of this — one that I believe was done the right way and one that was not. It is interesting that these two examples were succeeding generations of the same family– Isaac with Rebekah and Jacob and his wives. For purposes of my own, I will deal with them in reverse chronological order.
How did Jacob meet and fall in love with Rachel? The Scripture tells us that he was sent by his father to find a wife from the members of their extended family on his mother's side. Once he was there, he fell in love with Rachel. All the Bible tells us about how this happened is that she was beautiful and that he loved her. While it is never stated that the attraction was primarily physical, we are given to believe that this may have been the case. At any rate, Jacob loved her enough to work seven years for the right to marry her. We are all, no doubt, familiar with the treachery of Laban in giving Jacob the wrong daughter and Jacob's honor in remaining with her in spite of his disappointment. We also know the story of Jacob later marrying Rachel also and all of the heartache that followed for an entire family.
Jacob began his search for a wife in the right way. He followed the appropriate procedure. He started out with his father's approval; he asked for and received her father's blessing. He was cheated out of what he really wanted. Who can blame him for being upset? However– and here is the rub– he failed to follow through in his duty to his wife. He never learned to love her or to cleave to her as God had taught since Adam and Eve. He still loved Rachel, even though he was married to Leah, and that was his undoing. However unjust his marriage had been, it was binding in the eyes of God and clearly was the Lord's will for Jacob. After all, it was through Leah that Jacob became an ancestor of the Messiah, not through Rachel.
Now let us look at Jacob's parents, Isaac and Rebekah. They never saw each other until their wedding day. Rebekah was brought to Isaac by Abraham's servant, an arranged marriage if ever there was one. By our standards, this might be expected to be a disaster– two people stuck in a loveless marriage. Yet, Genesis 24:67 tells us that Isaac loved her from the beginning. We can only assume that she responded to him the same way. Their marriage was by no means perfect, but they were spared the deceit and bickering that resulted from the double marriage of Jacob.
What made the difference? I think it was the commitment to love the spouse, even when they had not chosen each other. Nowhere does Scripture tell us to marry the one we love, but its pages abound with commands to love the one to whom we are married. Any husband and wife who both truly do that will have a good marriage, no matter what.
Are we really any closer to understanding God's design for romance? I hope we are. I think His Word leads us to see that how we choose a mate is not as important as who we allow to do the choosing. For evidence of this, look at the way God led Abraham's servant to Rebekah (Genesis 24), making clear His choice of her for Isaac, and contrast that with the choice God made for Jacob and how he responded to it.
If we wait upon the Lord and are attune to His leading, finding a mate will not be a problem. Perhaps, that is why it is never directly addressed in Scripture. Perhaps, it is not something on which we should dwell. If we simply live our lives in close communion with God, He will provide us with all good things, including the perfect mate. When that choice is made clear is when, I believe, Biblical romance begins, not during the search.
Courtship, as practiced today, is often just another form of dating. It still involves actively being on the lookout for someone to marry. The concept of not dating and waiting until you are ready to marry to court a girl has often led young men to see every young lady they like as a potential mate, thus a subject for courting. When this happens, is it really any different than dating? Young ladies are too quick to accept the attention of any young man as a potential mate, thus allowing themselves to become emotionally involved before it is appropriate to do so. This leads to heartaches and problems.
How then is a young person to find God's choice for a mate? Let us again go back to Rebekah. How did God provide her with a husband? What was she doing to find him? Genesis 24 shows us that this young woman was merely going about her daily routine. She was doing what she should be doing where she should be doing it. She was a faithful member of her father's household and the community. It was her spirit of service that led her to the man who took her to her husband. Isaac, at the same time, was not actively pursuing her. He wanted a wife, but he trusted his father and his God to bring her to him at the right time. Would that we could teach our children to live this way, enjoying life in Christ, serving Him and others, never thinking about whether the girl next door or the guy who works across the hall (or anyone else) might be The One.
Scripture does teach that parents are to be a vital part of their children's romantic life, and it may happen in many ways. It may be the parents who actually introduce the couple to each other; parents should be consulted for approval before the marriage is undertaken; in many cultures parents are even expected to choose their children's spouses. Whatever form this may take, I believe there is an even more important role for parents to play.
I think we should be actively teaching our children, from their earliest years to see ALL people as friends and all Christians as brothers and sisters. The young person who truly relates to others in that way will not entertain unwholesome thoughts or develop crushes on one another. We should train our children to wait on the Lord for ALL things, including the provision of a life mate if He so desires.

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- The TLUD stove is an improved stove that can save 50 to 60% fuelwood, thus saving time and money.
- In addition to firewood, it also allows use of waste biomass such as twigs, coconut shells, wood chips, peanut shells and many other crop residues, which are available for free or at a very low cost in the villages.
- The burning of the stove is clean, producing very little smoke and soot. This helps in improving the health of the women, young children and old people who spend many hours inside the house and suffer from the smoke and soot from the traditional chulha.
- The charcoal produced by the stove can either be sold thus providing income to the family, or it can be converted into a soil fertilizer, which can improve crop yields and soil quality for a very low cost.
- The stove is very easy to use and does not need any attention once the fire gets going.
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We hope to replace the extremely inefficient and polluting three-stone chulhas that are normally used in the villages for household cooking. This will reduce the firewood consumption and resulting deforestation, reduce air pollution caused by smoke and soot produced by incomplete combustion, and offer good quality charcoal to village households for free, which they can use to improve their crop yields. We have started conducting demonstrations in the surrounding villages as well as on farms in Auroville. Once the practice spreads, we hope to install demonstration trials in the surrounding villages to show the effect of biochar soil amendment.The stove comes with two stainless steel canisters, which can be used for continuous cooking. However, there is also an option of buying the stove with only one canister and, if and when needed, buying the additional canister later.
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Skeleton Replacement Programme
Hi all, and welcome to another of those rare developer updates where I talk shop. But first, for those that are not versed in coding, a simple introduction to what I'm trying to accomplish.
What is SRP?
SRP can be explained like this. Imagine you were building a horse. You start with a skeleton. Then you add muscles, nerves, lymphatic system, glands, organs, and finally skin. Then you press "run" and the horse starts moving. Dominance server and client are very similar to this – the skeleton is a set of procedures that deal with how messages are passed around – opening and closing of sockets, passing requests from the player to the procedures handing them and replying with results so that a browser can display them. Muscles? Command thread that executes player requests. Lymphatic system? Logging of events. Glands? Chat system. Organs? Various procedures doing this or that.
Now, imagine that once the horse is up and running – as it currently is – you suddenly realise:
- Holy crap – that's a horse!
- Well, yeah, self, what did you expect? I thought we were building a horse, no?
- No, self, dammit, I wanted a ZEBRA!
- Are you insane? A horse is not a zebra! Why did you build a horse then?
- Because I made a mistake, all right? Can we just paint it with stripes?
- No. You gotta start at the skeleton again. You can probably salvage most of the organs though…
- Aww crap.
The Mistake
Hello, shared state. Those of you that know what shared state is probably can skip the entire developer diary as they will have perfectly clear idea what I did wrong. To put it simply – a shared state, or in my case, shared memory – is memory shared between various parts of the server so that all of them would have immediate access to things such as Topology, Player Registry etc.
Then, the threads work using those things. Then some other thread changes those things while other threads are still using them. Then we get chaos, breakage, and crashes. Naturally, methods exist that help alleviate this – locks, semaphores etc, but in my particular case (where I have all of this in place) things still break. Of course they do!
There is a solution, one that is probably clear as day to all the developers working with multi-threaded applications, but only recently revealed to me. I'll paste a quote from the ZMQ guide:
To make utterly perfect MT programs (and I mean that literally), we don't need mutexes, locks, or any other form of inter-thread communication except messages sent across ZeroMQ sockets.
By "perfect MT programs", I mean code that's easy to write and understand, that works with the same design approach in any programming language, and on any operating system, and that scales across any number of CPUs with zero wait states and no point of diminishing returns.
If you've spent years learning tricks to make your MT code work at all, let alone rapidly, with locks and semaphores and critical sections, you will be disgusted when you realize it was all for nothing. If there's one lesson we've learned from 30+ years of concurrent programming, it is: just don't share state. It's like two drunkards trying to share a beer. It doesn't matter if they're good buddies. Sooner or later, they're going to get into a fight. And the more drunkards you add to the table, the more they fight each other over the beer. The tragic majority of MT applications look like drunken bar fights.
The list of weird problems that you need to fight as you write classic shared-state MT code would be hilarious if it didn't translate directly into stress and risk, as code that seems to work suddenly fails under pressure. A large firm with world-beating experience in buggy code released its list of "11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code", which covers forgotten synchronization, incorrect granularity, read and write tearing, lock-free reordering, lock convoys, two-step dance, and priority inversion.
Yeah, we counted seven problems, not eleven. That's not the point though. The point is, do you really want that code running the power grid or stock market to start getting two-step lock convoys at 3 p.m. on a busy Thursday? Who cares what the terms actually mean? This is not what turned us on to programming, fighting ever more complex side effects with ever more complex hacks.
Some widely used models, despite being the basis for entire industries, are fundamentally broken, and shared state concurrency is one of them. Code that wants to scale without limit does it like the Internet does, by sending messages and sharing nothing except a common contempt for broken programming models.
What to do what to do…
I was reading this guide while looking to rip out the old TCP-based communication layer server and client used to talk to each other. It's full of problems, causes random player disconnects, it's slow and inefficient. Obviously, I knew this day would come – as early as week 2 I knew that JSON/TCP, at least in the way I was using it – was fundamentally broken and unsustainable. The solution I received though – after reading the guide referenced above – was that the server not only should be using proper queues to talk to the client, but to talk to itself as well.
Well, now is the time to rip it apart, dump the old skeleton, and replace it with a zebra.
So, what's the plan?
Well, self, the plan is as follows. See the old picture?
We're going to alter it to look like this:
- Client doesn't open a new TCP connection to the server for every new player. It connects with a single 0MQ socket and uses that for both internal ("Hello, are you alive?") and external ("Player Jozo wants his spellcasting status.") requests.
- Client uses 0MQ sockets internally to shuttle messages between Flask-SocketIO NameSpace (the thing that responts to player's websocket requests) and the server. No more shared state there either.
- Server uses 3 sockets for internal communication: One for exclusive async pipeline to the C&C thread, one to task info threads with updates and one to publish state changes.
- Both Info and Command threads no longer communicate with the client directly. They pass their results back to the main server thread which in turn proxies them to the client.
- Both Info and Command threads have the ability to request other threads to do some work (C&C just finished morphing units, it tells some other Info thread to pass back the results) by telling the server to order the work on other threads. Previously C&C directly talked to info threads which lead to even more issues with shared state being altered without the main thread knowing it.
- Any Info/Command thread can request a state change by politely telling the server "player XY has been banished, here is the updated player list, get rid of him". In practice only the command thread has the authority to effect state changes – which the main thread publishes to all other threads that require it.
Where are we right now?
As of today, a skeleton exists that is able to connect a player's browser, accept a websocket request, pass it along the pipeline to the server, which responds. In practice this is demonstrated on "ping":"pong" request (that carries information about tick status. So – the skeleton is there. Now it's a matter of transplanting all the organs, and this is not trivial.
For example, the entire system that handled user login and elder creation has to be rewritten. Previously players connected directly with an exclusive connection; this raised an event, server would send a hello, player would send authentication object, etc etc. Now there are no "phone ringing" or "they hung up" events.
Also, pycant is now much closer to the server – where previously it was just a proxy, now it helps with tracking the players, their connection status, and is responsible for helping to log them out after timeouts. Technically, it did all of these things previously but in practice it often made a mess. I'm confident the new architecture is going to behave much better.
That's all for this update, keep in touch and follow the Court Events to see how SRP development goes.


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Nupinion are fundraising on Kickstarter
Denise is co-founder of Nupinion, an ethical big data company dedicated to improving media literacy. Nupinion is developing free tools which empower digital citizens to break through media biases, regional and linguistic barriers and mitigate information overload. It offers a new way of searching and navigating internet news content. Denise has a PhD in Statistical Genetics from Oxford, and is passionate about using technology for social impact.
Q: What is your background? What made you decide to become an entrepreneur?
A: As a statistician by training, I have always been intrigued by the idea of uncovering insights from big data. My interest in journalism arose during the Greek debt crisis. I read news from Greece, the UK and Germany and found the difference in coverage shocking. I was disappointed that technology was not being put to better use in order to facilitate access to this diverse content and expose bias in media coverage. It was at that point that my co-founders and I began thinking of how we can use our skills to address these problems. When we recognised that we could solve these issues for people and also build a more advanced analytics platform for businesses, we decided to start a company.
Q: What is your definition of entrepreneurship?
A: Putting ideas into action and your money where your mouth is. Execution. Anyone can have an idea. It takes an entrepreneur to turn that idea into reality.
Q: How and when did you know your idea was good enough to develop it?
A: We wanted to create something that puts control in the readers' hands and that provides the opposite of the personalised content that is promoted by other news startups. In our hearts we always felt this was worth pursuing, and the customer development that we carried out during the Lean Launchpad at SBS validated the problems we wanted to solve. However, we faced a lot of push back in the last few years, as we were constantly faced with the view that no one is interested in breaking out of their news bubble. It is only with the recent developments in the USA and UK that people started to take note that hearing each other is very important. This has really propelled us forward.
Q: So what would you say are the top 3 skills that needed to be a successful entrepreneur? Why?
A: Storytelling: Even if you have the most brilliant product in the world, and even if it is free and does not require a disruption of consumer habits, you still need a great team to convey your story so that people can understand what you have to offer.
Determination: Starting a company is an extremely testing journey. You can expect no favours, there is no altruism, and you are on your own. As DeadPool says: maximum effort.
Ability to balance others' opinions and self-conviction: You are clearly in love with your idea but constantly need to challenge yourself that you are solving a problem that others are also perceiving. The opinions of others can easily kill off your enthusiasm or the core of the original idea that drives you.
Q: What is your favourite part of being an entrepreneur?
A: I can be creative and have full control over how I try to build the product that I am passionate about.
Q: What individual, company or organization inspires you most? Why?
A: We are inspired by Google. In many ways we are trying to do the opposite to them. We do not personalise our algorithms, we respect user privacy and serve no ads. In many ways we are trying to solve some of the problems Google perpetuates. However, Google represents a few things that are really powerful. First, that you can grow without 'losing your soul'. Second, they are constantly innovating. Third, their offering promotes social initiatives and produces free tools like Google Jigsaw and Google Scholar. This does not stop them from successfully monetizing other parts of their business. Nupinion embraces this concept, the idea that you can build a powerful engine that can do lots of wonderful things, some of which you want to give away for free because of the impact on society.
Q: If you had 5 minutes with the above indiv/company/org, what would you want to ask or discuss?
A: I would like to ask Google how they balance the free social products with the more lucrative sides of the business which keep the company going. The drive to 'make money' can tempt a business to sacrifice certain features of its free offering. Finding the right balance or method for this is something that I want Nupinion to have, so that we always serve our mission of helping people inform themselves.
Q: What has been your most satisfying or successful moment in business?
A: When we finished our prototype and showed the first few people, I watched what they did and saw that they liked it. It felt incredibly validating being able to finally create what had lived in our imagination, and then to witness people understand its value.
Q: What would you say have been some of your mistakes, failures or lessons learned as an entrepreneur?
A: There are two things that really come to mind. The first is that I should have been less intimidated by some of the feedback that we have received. Nupinion has faced a lot of cynicism, which in the past influenced our confidence in the viability of what we are trying to do.
The second big mistake is for a long time to have thrown our weight behind technology development. While this has not been time wasted, we should have focused equally on storytelling, understanding users better, looking for initial users and so on.
Q: How have you funded your ideas? Are there any sector-specific awards/grants/competitions that have helped you?
A: This is the first time that we have sought out funding. For the last three years we covered server costs ourselves. We have been helped a great deal by our participation in the Lean Launchpad and the Science and Innovation Programme at Oxford University Said Business School.
Q: What is good about being an entrepreneur in Oxfordshire? Bad?
A: I think there are only upsides to being an entrepreneur in Oxfordshire. We have immediate access to a lot of talent here, London is at the doorstep, there is a high concentration of capital and the city is very well physically connected to the rest world as it is always easy to jump on a plane from Heathrow.
Q: If a new entrepreneur or startup came to you looking for entrepreneurship resources, where would you send them?
A: The Launchpad at SBS, Oxford Entrepreneurs, any meetups on how to be agile and carry out effective customer development and UX design.
Q: Any last words of advice?
A: Show other people that you believe in what you are doing.


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Firstly… Happy Pancake Day!! – Even though I'm not at home, used my mum ma's (love her) amazing recipe to make some of my own. YUM! I've definitely eaten way too many pancakes today, sure you all have too… to be honest, you'd be crazy not too.
It's officially been a week since I arrived in Spain and it is so nice to have some sun!
I will be out here for a total of four months, trying to work on my Spanish, so I still have time to get a tan and have lots of fun, eating amazing food… I´m staying out here with a family that I know (so don't feel completely lost), in a little town called Onda, near to the city Valencia – very beautiful.
The first week has been quite hard though, even though I have felt extremely welcomed and I understand a lot of people are saying, Spanish people speak incredibly FAST! It's just part of their culture. Just means that I have to be 'on the ball' all the time, I can feel my brain working extra hard!
Although I understand a lot, it is hard to have a full length conversation with someone, that will come in time I'm sure but, it's quite frustrating really. Especially because I am such a chatter box usually… The most annoying thing is not being able to communicate 'properly' with the families son, I always love being around children, having a laugh and in this case playing pirates and dragons but when you can't fully understand what he's saying to you (because he speaks so fast!) it is very annoying. I often find myself doing the Penguins of Madagascar, "Smile and Wave" act.
I will never be able to speak as fast as they do, that's for sure! However, hopefully I will get used to their pace and become more confident in actually speaking… for now I just wish they would S-L-O-W D-O-W-N! At least give me a chance 🙂
There is some good in it though, being able to understand a lot more than speak, i've already experienced and understood a lot about the culture… Last week for example, along with the family we attended what they call 'Carnival' – all the children dress up according to a topic they have been learning, in this instance it was a mixture of pirates, animals, nature and more, and they walk the streets with a live band for all the parents and family to watch.
It was quite an interesting experience, I could never imagine anything like that back home, we all seem so boring compared to this – ha-ha. it was amazing to see everyone gather together and watch the whole school parade about the streets. Parents and families were so proud and I don't think anything could have wiped the smile off the children's faces at that moment in time. Truly wonderful! It was just so nice to see a community come together like that. Something I have never experienced before but would definitely recommend – How fun must that be for everyone involved!
Just wanted to share that with you all! Hope it was ok and maybe you took one or two things from it too. Have a lovely rest of the week, for now, go eat some Pancakes!!
Sneak peak of my next blog! …
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After a plant-based diet rid South Shore native and entrepreneur Pat McAuley of a number of health issues he battled since childhood, he was all in. He left his career in craft beer and set out to share his story in hopes of positively impacting the lives of others. He soon realized there was a major problem... there was nowhere for him to eat in the Boston area. Even worse, there was nowhere to hang out and enjoy a few craft beverages alongside a plant-based meal. Not cool... So, like any beer loving entrepreneur would do, Pat set out to solve the problem and make plant-based eating more convenient, approachable, and fun in Boston.
As fate would have it, a friend of a friend introduced Pat to Marissa Hughes, a restaurant industry veteran who shared his passion for plant-based cuisine. Marissa just so happened to know one of the premier plant-based chefs in all of Boston, Will Hernandez, and the rest was history. Rewild is a reflection of Pat, Marissa, and Will's collective life experiences. You'll notice taco's inspired by Will's El Salvadorian roots, fish and chips inspired by Marissa's childhood summers in Rhode Island, and a draft list inspired by Pat's excessive beer snobbery.
Rewild is Boston's first 100% plant-based beer hall & cafe. We combine the best local craft beer, wine, kombucha, and artisinal coffee with plant-based versions of your favorite pub foods in a social atmosphere that celebrates local artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs.
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Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Gillard was central to the successful management of Australia's economy, the 12th biggest economy in the world, during the Global Financial Crisis and as Australia positioned to seize the benefits of Asia's rise. Ms Gillard is the first woman to ever serve as Australia's Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister. In October 2012, Ms Gillard received worldwide attention for her speech in Parliament on the treatment of women in professional and public life. Ms Gillard is a non-resident Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in Washington. In February 2014, Ms Gillard was appointed chair of the Global Partnership for Education, a leading organization dedicated to expanding access and quality education worldwide. Ms Gillard also serves as Patron of Camfed, the Campaign for Female Education, which tackles poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. In recognition of her public service, Ms Gillard was awarded a Companion in the Order of Australia in January 2017. Ms Gillard's memoir is called My Story.


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Susan Chow: a very active feng shui practitioner
Susan Chow is a feng shui expert who is not only known in the country where she lives but in the rest of the world as well. She has worked as a feng shui consultant and has given many lectures to several direct audiences as well as to different TV networks around the world.
Among the TV channels and shows in which this feng shui practitioner has appeared we find The Designer Guys from Home and Garden Television, Feng Shui Life Television, Homes to Go, Balance: Television for Better Living in Canada and Casa Club TV among others. Besides TV, she has also been a guest in many radio shows as well as she has written several articles and given interviews for various publications.
An important amount of Susan Chow's knowledge was learnt from Grand Master Yap Cheng Hai of Malaysia, allowing her to achieve a Feng Shui Mastery Diploma. She has also learnt from Lillian Too and Master Raymond Lo from Hong Kong, allowing her to achieve a very complete training on feng shui. In addition to all this, she is also certified by the Feng Shui Institute of America.
This feng shui expert was born in Hong Kong and spent her childhood in Canada where her Chinese culture roots still surrounded her and were learnt by her from her family. She received her formal education from the Business Management School at Ryerson Polytechnic University where she achieved her professional Degree.
Susan Chow counts with a very wide resume and work history which continues far from what we have already told. Among the other activities we can name from her resume, we can find her as a Founder and President of Feng Shui National Inc., of FSN Consulting Inc., as well as she was also a Founding Director of the Feng Shui Association of Canada.
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(CNSNews.com) – Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe defeated Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia's gubernatorial election on Tuesday 47.9 percent to 45.5 percent (with 6.6 percent going to Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis), even though McAuliffe lost among women—who are married.
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Startup of the Week: OrganizeYourPeople
If you've ever run a small business, you've probably asked yourself in frustration "Why do I need so many tools to manage employees?"
That's the question Jennifer Aubin and Kevin Sedran set out to answer when they founded OrganizeYourPeople in 2010. OrganizeYourPeople is a web-based human resources information system (HRIS) that enables small medium businesses to consolidate all employee information, track vacation requests, goals, learning management and time, measure employee metrics, create reports, and bring all of the HR documentation into one secure, centralized location.
We recent met with Jennifer Aubin to learn more.
How did you come up with the idea for your startup?
I've been in the field of HR strategy for over 10 years now and know first hand that the issue with human resources in small to medium sized businesses is that it's painful! The reason being that small businesses can't afford, nor do they require a full-time HR Manager and HR tools for them aren't commonplace. So who's left to deal with employee organization? Typically the senior financial person, Controller or the CFO and their go-to HR tools include word, excel spreadsheets and file folders, all of which may or may not be secure. So senior management has to go through one spreadsheet to determine how many vacation days a person has left, then they go through some word documents to determine what their benefits cover. What if all of this information was in one location and employees could find it themselves?
What has been the biggest challenge so far?
Letting companies know that we're here to help them organize their people and companies truly understanding the value our application offers.
What's new with your startup that we can share?
OrganizeYourPeople is launching a learning management tracking (LMT) and time tracking tool soon.
Personally, do you think it is more difficult to raise capital or find the right talent?
That's a tough question. It really depends on what you're looking for in terms of talent and what type of investment you need. You first need to understand your goals, whether it's finding talent, i.e. what do you need this person to do EXACTLY or what type of investor(s) do you want, i.e. what do you need your investor to bring to the table to help you/your company grow.
What has contributed to your success to this point?
12 years of working with early stage companies and a lot of patience, though I'm still working on that part! You need to be 100% behind your vision and you can't let go, but you do need to remain flexible. Perseverance and patience are a must.
What made you choose to go down the path of entrepreneurship?
I think entrepreneurship is like eye colour… you're born with it! You see a need, you create a solution and you don't let go. I've been working with early stage companies for over a decade now and saw the need for a tool that could replace so many ad hoc tools that companies are using to organize their people and thought there must be a better way. This passion and drive has created our application.
What are your thoughts on Calgary's startup community?
Our startup community has grown immensely over the years. I've been part of this community for over a decade now and am still regularly amazed at how the tech community is continually evolving.
I would like to see a larger investment pool and also more media attention around our great start-ups… How many people actually know that companies like Stumbleupon and Tynt started here? What about EZ-Robot, those guys are amazing!
What do you and your startup need?
We're looking for clients/users, the right partners, mentorship is always great and we'd be open to the right investment. Please check us out at www.organizeyourpeople.com or email us at email@example.com.
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Welcome to Intriguing People 2018, our annual celebration of Las Vegas' cultural trailblazers and social trendsetters. See more from this year's series here.
Growing up, Dan Marrazza was that classmate who found endless ways to entertain you. He could recite every year that the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup—24 of them—and all Yankee World Series wins—22 then, now it's 27—in 10 seconds. In the hallways at Montclair Kimberley Academy in his native New Jersey, he'd garner laughs popping out from behind walls or firing off puns with his quick East Coast wit. He wasn't much into the prep school's high tea—he seldom drinks caffeine—but he'd often stuff his slack pockets with desserts for later. His mornings and weekends were for hockey practice—he played left and right wing, a "total beanpole," he says, at 5-foot-11 at 12 years of age.
"My personality now is very much what I was like as a kid," says the now 6-foot-5 30-year-old. "I like my ice cream. I like my hockey. I like to tell jokes."
These days, though, Marrazza has a much bigger platform for joke-telling than the classroom. As the senior writer for the Vegas Golden Knights, he has stirred up national headlines over the team's sensational Twitter account. Marrazza's the man who has managed that profile—and the team's Facebook and website content—since June 2016, bringing their social media presence from zero to nearly 800,000 combined followers. His colleague Alyssa Girardi now handles Instagram (a post he held through May 2017) and Snapchat posts, and both work collaboratively with the team's vice president of communications and content, Eric Tosi, but it's a 24/7 gig nonetheless, one that Marrazza works at meticulously and efficiently.
"I sleep with two phones by my head," Marrazza says. "One on one side, one on the other." He sends the team's first daily tweet before he's out of bed. Then he's tweeting in his bathrobe. In the checkout line at the grocery store. On Christmas morning. Days off don't exist when you're the voice of an NHL franchise—especially one that's likely making the playoffs in its debut season.
Much like the hockey team, Marrazza is still getting used to his success. At age 15, Marrazza sought after and secured an internship with sports media legend Stan Fischler, which ignited his professional "marriage" with hockey. He earned a B.A. in Science from Ithaca College in upstate New York in 2009. In the years that followed, Marrazza worked a string of internships and contract jobs—including Olympic hockey coverage for NBC Sports, for which he earned a national sports Emmy.
"For a lot of years, I thought I was ready to get a [full-time] job. But the merry-go-round would skip. The musical chairs would expire. And I would take another internship," Marrazza says.
About one year before he was hired by the Golden Knights, Marrazza moved home to his parents' New Jersey basement to save money and freelance write. It was during that time when Marrazza earned bylines in Sports Illustrated, ESPN and The New York Times.
"If I got a job when I was 22 and never had to go through that, it's almost like going to the supermarket where the food's there for you. I was taught that you had to hunt for your food," he says. Long hours spent "hunting" meant racking up 28,000 miles in a matter of months driving around the East Coast for whatever his freelance gigs required of him. It was on the road, sleeping in his car or in his parents' basement—where his Emmy collected dust atop a crate—where Marrazza's mind developed an imagination that now lends itself so well to 280 characters on Twitter. "My brain got really wild with new ideas," he says.
Dan D'Uva, now a radio broadcaster for the Vegas Golden Knights, hired Marrazza as an intern when he was the director of public relations and broadcasting for the ECHL's Trenton Devils in 2010. It was D'Uva who first tasked Marrazza with running a hockey team's Twitter account.
"In 2010, nobody knew what Twitter was going to turn into. What I did know is that he could connect with people," D'Uva says. On the Golden Knights' Twitter account, Marrazza does so by accessing his arsenal of pop culture and sports knowledge. In preparing for each game, he keeps a Word document of potential tweet ideas, but says that most are sent 10 to 20 seconds after their conception.
While Marrazza is clear to distinguish the Golden Knights' account from his own personality ("This is a company voice that has been approved through multiple players," he says), it is clear to anyone who meets him or follows his personal account (@DanMarrazza) that he is the star player behind the keyboard.
Marrazza's humor has earned the attention of many celebrities (comedian Norm Macdonald, wrestlers Chris Jericho and Bret Hart, writers and actors from Boy Meets World, The Wonder Years and others, whose names Marrazza can rattle off much in the way he did sports championships as a kid), several of whom have requested to meet him in person at games.
Although such celebrity interactions are still a surprise (and a delight) to Marrazza, D'Uva says that his success isn't surprising at all. "To have the kind of success that [Marrazza] has found is not an accident. You don't just stumble into the kind of gig that he has. For as long as I've known him, he has put himself in a position to succeed."
There was a time when that position looked like a basement. Now it's in an office overlooking the ice at the Golden Knights' practice facility, City National Arena. Or on a private plane, when he's traveling with the team to an away game. Then in a hotel room, where he can charge both phones and order ice cream from room service, of course.


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A lovely meal with friends. We are embarrassed to say that this was our introduction to "coppiette," a rope-like strand of dried, spicy meat (akin to our beef jerky, though more tender and not packaged in plastic). Here, chopped into small, bite-size pieces, the perfect complement to a glass of wine.
Figs--fresh and dried, for comparison and contrast--for dessert, along with a lesson in how to select a perfect, ripe fig: make sure the green "shirt" is "torn" (slightly open) and there's a small hole at the bottom. Peel and eat. As Jack Kerouac wrote of the apple pie he consumed at stops across the country, "it was delicious, and nutritious of course."
For figs he might have added, "sensual." On the sensuous fig, we have the testimony of D.H. Lawrence in his poem, "Figs." "The vulgar way [to eat a fig]," he wrote, "is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out the flesh in one bite."
"The fig is a very secretive fruit" [continued Lawrence].
"As you see it standing, growing, you feel at once it is symbolic.
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Have You A Self Practice?
After forming a relationship with yoga, though going to classes, doing a teaching training, having private lessons or diving into self learning and research, eventually you will come to a place of self practice. This is where yoga as a practice begins. This is where the deeper understanding of relationship begins. After all the first relationship to nurture is that with ones self. How we treat ourselves on the mat is ultimately how we are outwardly in relationships. It doesn't matter what style of yoga you gravitate towards, or maybe it's a meditation practice that serves you best.
It is our belief here at ITSA Life as Abode Yoga Teachers & Practitioners, that it is through a consistent self practice we can learn to balance times of inward stillness and moments of outward joy. The secret, is understanding that this is, in fact, a "practice". This is not something that can be learnt and know from that moment forward. It's something that needs to be consistently applied daily. It requires constant attention so we don't forget and lose sight of the present moment.
Self practice is the space where you can find your place through all levels of you everyday. By allowing yourself to be led by your unique intuition in this way, you will strengthen your ability to stay present with your truth and travel the way of your divine life . It is through this process that we each become consciousness and are able to live a sacred way of life that is true to our heart.
How to develop a self practice?
Firstly you need to create a ritual for each of your bodies, mind heart & skin. This needs to give yourself what you NEED through a ceremonial approach. This allows loving mindfulness that will engage and enrich you. Through this process you will feel more and know yourself further to clearly be able to supply everything you need inside and out, and manifest the natural feeling of wanting to everyday. The more you are naturally giving of yourself to yourself, the greater your abilitywill be to give and be open to receive in the present moment. This will ignite a natural cycle of give and receive that is organic, without effort, as its an exchange that is happening from and to the heart. This is a higher heart relationship. When we manifest & strengthen this conscious power of self love , we transform our life from the inside out. It is then through our connection and communication with others and our surroundings where we are able to share and transfer such essence to extend and grow. If we reach and raise the touch of this higher heart relationship , its our belief that will become infectious to others and they will knowingly do the same.
I highlighted NEED as the choice of how you service this, (the ritual you choose, which cannot be an external need, rather an internal one) for creating stillness and balance. You may have received ideas from others of beautiful rituals to offer yourself, but if it's not a clear answer to your hearts needs, the misalignment will remain leaving you feeling unfulfilled. This is not to say you shouldn't be open to trying new practices and see how they fit for you. The more openness you show here the better. The challenge rests within the consciousness you show yourself as you practice , as it slowly becomes more obvious which techniques are most beneficial to your SELF. Though this acute awareness your self practice will gain momentum leading to a more whole being, in perfect flow with the world , inside and out.
Where to begin?
Take a moment to be with yourself and ask your heart these questions. Send your answers in to us and we will send your personal Abode Yoga Practice Foundation, designed by Randall Simpson. Otherwise stay tuned for our next weeks blog covering the general Abode Yoga Practice Foundations.
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Whats your favourite day?
Whats your favourite time of day?
Whats your favourite scent?
Whats your favourite thing to do & why?
Where do you feel most happy?
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Where do you feel mostsafe?
Where do you feel most at ease?
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About Me
I have been interested in the healing arts ever since I was six years old and my tonsils were taken out. The first merit badge I received as a boy scout was for first aid. :) Because of my interest in the human body, I earned a BS in Biology and Chemistry. After college, I worked as a fireman and paramedic for 13 years. Healing, I have found, comes in many forms. For example, I have long believed in the healing qualities of music. As a musician and singer-songwriter, I started using music to bring happiness and healing to people (and myself!) since first learning to play the guitar when I was 12 years old. Also, I have found mindfulness, meditation, and yoga to be instrumental in my own healing and well being.
After being a fireman, I had an enjoyable and successful career in IT as a Microsoft Certified Engineer, but I realized that my gifts and passions still lay in the healing arts, so I decided to pursue a career in massage therapy, knowing it to be a powerful tool for bringing stress relief, wholeness, and healing to the body and mind for an improved quality of life.
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Pullman Auckland has appointed Veronique Delattre as the hotel's new General Manager, effective April 2018.
Originally from France, Delattre first joined AccorHotels in 1998 and has since worked in hotels across the globe in locales like Poland, Russia, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
"I've lived and worked in many countries and embrace the challenges and rewards that come with each experience.
"This desire to see and experience the world has enabled me to share that knowledge with the talented people around me, and ensure memorable experiences for our guests," Veronique said.


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Work: Why are there so few decent jobs now?
10 December 2014
This is the second in a series of edited extracts from Why Things Are Going To Get Worse And Why We Should Be Glad by Michael Roscoe.
Why are there so few decent jobs now?
In the book I explore the idea that we don't need to work as much any more because machines can produce most of the stuff we need, and therefore we can spend more time relaxing and enjoying the fruits of the labour of all those robots.
Although this is theoretically possible, there are several reasons why it doesn't work, except perhaps in a closed system where the state controls the raw materials and the means of production and the people are rewarded for doing nothing.
I show why Marx had to be right when he said that labour is the source of all economic value, and how, in fact, work is the source of all value in our lives. Without work, we have nothing.
Which is why it is so important that we reverse the trend of declining real employment. I demonstrate how this decline is linked to the financialization of the economy, ever-rising productivity and the inequality that results from these related factors, and why digital technology is making things worse.
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Older women at increased risk of homelessness as rents rise and jobs disappear
Older women who find themselves out of the workforce and do not own their own home in Western Australia have emerged as a new group increasingly at risk of homelessness.
UnitingCare West chief executive officer Sue Ash said historically the homeless had been single and older people.
However, welfare providers were now helping more families, people with disabilities, and older women who were lacking secure accommodation.
"People between 55 and 65, particularly women, are going from travelling ok to being poor, and we think that is going to have a very big impact in the next three to five years," Ms Ash said.
She said as women retired or lost their jobs, many suffered from not having worked full time or accessed superannuation all their lives.
"Many women have worked part time which means they haven't been eligible for super all their career and if they've been working part time, they've often been under the threshold for compulsory super," she said.
A 27 per cent gender wage gap in WA meant women's nest eggs were usually smaller, Ms Ash added.
Shelter WA executive officer Chantal Roberts said she had tried to help a woman who could no longer afford her rent.
"The real estate agent rang me wanting to get some information about options for an older woman who was a tenant and on a pension," she said.
"She'd already gone through a couple of rental hikes and she knew she would not be able to afford the next one, and the rent was about to be put up again.
"This woman had no family, there was nowhere she could go. The real estate agent could really feel for her but there was nothing they could do. If the owner wants to put up the rent, the rent goes up. It's really bleak."
Ms Ash thinks the trend toward a greater diversity of people at risk of homelessness has emerged in the last three or four years.
"The cost for the community is you have to have a much more diverse response to homelessness because these different groups need different responses," she said.
Homelessness not just an urban problem
According to the 2011 census, just under 10,000 people were counted as homeless in WA.
Community Housing Coalition of WA executive officer Barry Doyle notes though that 10 per cent of these were sleeping rough and the other 90 per cent were in inadequate or unsuitable accomodation, sleeping on couches, in domestic violence refuges or staying with family.
Homelessness was not only an urban problem. Ms Ash said people became more disconnected and disengaged the further away they were from the systems and structures of the community.
On the edges of Australia's largest open-cut gold mine - Barrick and Newmont Mining's Superpit, in the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie - a group of Aboriginal people live out in the open.
"They have no home, no blankets," Marelda Tucker, from Kalgoorlie's Bega Garnbirringu Health Service said.
"It's freezing cold winter there, sitting next to a makeshift fire.
"It's staggering the contrast. Some of these people aren't well, they're in need of medical attention and they're walking around as soon as the sun rises."
Ms Tucker's organisation provides breakfast for the homeless, as well as blankets and clothing. They bring people in for showers and take them to medical appointments.
Aboriginal community controlled health services provide similar services around the state.
Elderly couple sleeping in park
There was also the ongoing problem of people who came to Perth for medical treatment or to visit families in hospital and could not afford short-term accomodation.
They were stuck in the park for six weeks with a blanket, just an elderly couple. Their family didn't know where they were, because they don't have a phone.Marelda Tucker
"I know of a couple that got stuck in a park in Perth, due to a communication breakdown in the health system," Ms Tucker said.
"They were stuck in the park for six weeks with a blanket, just an elderly couple. Their family didn't know where they were, because they don't have a phone."
Mr Doyle predicted the number of homeless would continue to increase as people struggled to pay their rent when they retired and went on waiting lists for public housing.
He said the biggest problem for community housing providers was the difficulty in finding stable, long-term rental accomodation for homeless clients.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has predicted the demand for public housing in Perth will increase by more than 50 per cent by 2024, relative to 2009, because of an overall shortage of housing and the high cost of renting or buying.
Affordable housing strategy out of reach for homeless
The WA government plans to deliver 20,000 affordable homes by 2020 through its Affordable Housing Strategy.
As of December last year, it had provided social housing to more than 4,000 people on very low incomes and with no other viable housing choices, including 1,174 houses allocated to homeless people.
More than 1,100 dwellings had been built under the National Rental Affordability Scheme, and more than 6,400 moderate-to-low income households that could not otherwise access finance were helped to buy a home through the Keystart home loans program.
Shelter WA's Chantal Roberts said Keystart had worked well.
But Mr Doyle argued the Affordable Housing Strategy had a very strong focus on home ownership, but that was out of reach for the homeless.
"The state Affordable Housing Strategy has, it seems to me, lost its way in so far as three years after its publication we still don't have any detailed strategy to increase the social housing system," he said.
"This is a big problem because fundamentally the issue of growing the social housing system and homelessness are one and the same."
Ms Ash believed the pressure on most welfare groups for services was growing.
She said UnitingCare West would not cope without $1 million in donations from the community and church.
"We are completely funding a family homeless program out of charitable donations and corporate support at the moment because there's no government funding," she said.
State Housing Minister Bill Marmion was contacted for comment.
Topics: homelessness, perth-6000, kalgoorlie-6430
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