Aubergine (eggplant) has been making a regular appearance in our veg box recently which is good news for us. Aubergine is delicious regardless how it is cooked (although I know that some, including Baby Green, dislike the mushy texture aubergine has when cooked in a liquid). This delicious Middle Eastern spread celebrates the smoky flavour of oven baked aubergine.
Baba Ganoush is a favourite in our household, and by household I mean Baby Green, as it is an undisputed truth that if he likes a dish, it stays on the menu. We are delighted that Baby Green likes Baba Ghannoush, as the recipe contains a fair amount of healthy fats and calcium contributed by the tahini, both of which are particularly important for a growing child.
The aubergine is baked whole and without the addition of any oil or salt. Lemon juice adds a nice zing which enhances the flavour of the dish. For a three-ingredient dish, this packs a lot of flavour and nutrition, and is pretty easy to prepare to boot.
Traditionally the aubergine for Baba Ganoush is roasted whole over an open flame, wrapped and cooked in a hot oven, and, once cooked, the flesh is scooped out and blended with the remaining ingredients. I include the skin of the aubergine in this recipe as it is a powerhouse of nutrition and I do not think that it detracts in any way from the flavour of the final dish. While roasting the aubergine over an open flame is really optimal for achieving best flavour, the aubergine will nevertheless be delicious simply baked, uncovered, in a hot oven. A drizzle of a very good quality (organic) cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil can be added once the Baba Ganoush is prepared, but it is not necessary.
In keeping with the plant-based whole foods ethos, I use a dark tahini in all of our recipes. This does not reflect the seed variety, but means that the entire sesame seed is used. The lighter (in colour) versions generally have the husk removed. Again, I do not think this alters the taste, or rather, if it does, it only does so to impart a deeper and richer flavour, and I am happier knowing that I am using whole ingredients in our dishes. As I have previously noted in respect of seed and nut butters on the market, it is often the case that these contain added vegetable oil and sometimes also other "nasties" which are best avoided. We generally look for a tahini that contains only whole sesame seeds.
Keep in mind that the tahini that you find may not have the same consistency as ours: the brand we use provides a very thick texture, so a safe bet is to use the below measurements and add more tahini to taste or to achieve the desired texture. The mixture can also be thinned out by adding a little water.
Prick aubergines all over with a knife or fork (this lets out steam to avoid an explosion in the oven) and place on an oven rack and into a preheated oven for 60 minutes.
Once cool to the touch, cut off and discard the top with the stem and split the aubergine open lengthwise. Cut once more lengthwise to quarter the aubergines and finally chop into chunks and place in a food processor.
Juice the lemon and add the lemon juice with the tahini to the food processor and blend to smooth.
Put some of the blended mixture aside for any youngsters and salt the remaining mixture to taste and blend for a further minute or so.
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Dutch Concerts to Benefit Crailo Historic Site
On Sunday June 7 and Sunday June 14, specially researched and custom designed Dutch concerts will be performed by two different musicians groups at the First Presbyterian Church at 38 Broadway in the city of Rensselaer at 3pm. The public is invited to take part and enjoy one very high style concert and, in contrast, one concert for the common folk. The concerts will benefit the Crailo Historic Site.
The first on Sunday June 7 features classical Dutch music of the Golden Age. Musicians of Ma'alwyck perform this Dutch repertoire on clavichord, traverso flute, cello, and violin-instruments popular in the first half of the seventeenth century. Director of Musicians of Ma'alwyck, music historian and virtuoso, Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz has researched and arranged a program fit for the Dutch wealthy middle
and upper classes of the first half of the seventeenth century. The popular regional musical group researched documents at Yale and in the Netherlands in order to present this concert.
The Bells and Motley Consort of Olden Music presents the second concert steeped in seventeenth folk tradition from the Netherlands and Flanders which will be held on Sunday June 14. John and Sondra Bromka, the musical couple that make up this distinctive group, have lived in the Dutch and Belgian countryside studying and teaching music of an earlier time. The instruments used in all of Bells and Motley's performances are antique or created as authentic reproductions of early musical instruments. John has made many of the instruments himself and audience
members will be introduced to a different look and sound of music&#8211a look and sound enjoyed by the common person of Holland and Flanders in the 1600s.
Gauging from the multitude of paintings depicting Netherlandish culture, music and dance was an important part of life in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from rollicking village peasants on upwards. In truth, no part of Europe offers better documentation of the arts of musical pastime than the Netherlands during these years, thanks to the skilled and ambitious painters, musical publishers, and composers of this region. Artists' images leave such a rich legacy of vivid musical scenes that we can almost hear the paintings come to life, be it a village celebration with festive bagpipes, or an intimate indoor scene including the gentle lute.
Crailo State Historic Site will add ambiance to the musical events by offering images of select Dutch paintings and staff members in historic costume.
These concerts are offered as a historic musical experience and to help ring in the Quadricentennial Commemoration and the upcoming permanent exhibit debut of A Sweet and Alien Land: Colony of the Dutch in the Hudson River Valley at Crailo State Historic Site on July 4 and 5 from 11am to 5pm.
Both concerts will be held at 3pm at the First Presbyterian Church at 38 Broadway just a block north of Crailo. Concert goers are invited to the lawns at Crailo following the concert for a reception of Dutch and Flemish cheeses, mustards and pretzels. Drinks will also be served. We plan to offer a sneak preview of Crailo's very special Marketplace Museum Shop during the receptions.
Tickets are $22.50 per person per concert or just $17.50 per person per concert if purchasing the series. Child tickets are $12.00 each. Checks may be made out to Friends of Fort Crailo and receipt of your check secures your place at the concert or concerts. Checks may be mailed to Friends of Fort Crailo, 9 ? Riverside Avenue, Rensselaer, NY 12144. For more information please contact Crailo at 518-463-8738.
Friends of Fort Crailo is a not-for-profit educational organization that supports the research and interpretive projects at Crailo State Historic Site. Crailo State Historic Site is one of 35 state historic sites and 176 state parks administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. For further information about New York State Parks and Historic Sites, go to www.nysparks.com.
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Collections, Conservation, Sustainability
The Past, Present, and Future of Corn
Posted by mbgadmin on October 30, 2017
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Agenda for Sustainable Development to guide global efforts through 2030. A large part of the agenda focuses on investment in agriculture as a key tool to end poverty and hunger, which result in sustainable development and can help address climate change. As a world-renowned botanical institution, the Missouri Botanical Garden is not only leading the efforts to ensure plants play a role in achieving the agenda's goals but also continuing its longstanding tradition in ethnobotany and preserving plant diversity.
In 2016, the Garden received an assortment of seeds, but they weren't just any seeds. There are 53 accessions in the collection, possibly one of the largest in the country, of a wild ancestor of modern corn called teosinte. It was given to the Garden by Dr. Mary Eubanks, a retired biology professor at Duke University who has worked with corn extensively. "My goal for the collection is that the seed be available for education and research, especially since some of the accessions are no longer available from the USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture] or CIMMYT [International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center]," she wrote in an email to Andrew Wyatt, Vice President of Horticulture and Living Collections.
Teosinte, a wild ancestor of modern corn, looks very different from the corn kernels we know today, but the two are genetically similar.
The new collection is important because it allows the Garden to preserve the genetic material that is key to corn research and supports the long-term conservation of crop wild relatives. It now lives in the Garden's Seed Bank at Shaw Nature Reserve, where it is stored in freezers to maintain its viability. "The associated data that came with this collection is very detailed. It has directions to the site exactly where it was collected," says Rebecca Sucher, Living Collections Manager. "It's really important that we know exactly where it came from and what genetic entity it represents."
Considering that only three crop species—rice, maize, and wheat—account for more than 60% of the daily crop caloric intake by people around the world, having access to the genetic diversity of corn has significant implications both for research and education. "This collection provides the evolutionary context through which specimens can be compared to the domesticated crop we know today," says Dr. Allison Miller, Associate Professor of Biology at Saint Louis University and Research Associate at the Garden. "In addition to that, botanical gardens also provide a great bridge for people to think about the food we eat, where it comes from, and how it's grown. Corn is a great place to start."
Corn from Concho, Oklahoma, a rural area where the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho were settled at the end of the 19th century.
North American pop corn in the historical collection in the Garden's Herbarium.
The Garden has a long history with corn. It can be traced back to Dr. Edgar Anderson, who was Director of the Garden in the 1950s and is considered the Garden's first ethnobotanist. His interest in corn led to many publications on the subject, including several with Dr. William L. Brown. Together, they published the monographs on the two maize types that, when hybridized, gave rise to the Corn Belt Dent race that is the foundation for all hybrid corn today. "In essence, most of what is grown in the United States nowadays and in large parts of the globe goes back to William Brown and can be tied back in some way to the history of the Missouri Botanical Garden," says Dr. Rainer Bussmann, former Director of the Garden's William L. Brown Center.
The new living collection of teosinte complements a historical collection of corn in the Garden's Herbarium. The Edgar Anderson Maize Collection includes some 6,000 ears that represent the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. In addition to these collections, the Garden's Peter H. Raven Library contains extensive literature, some of which dates back to the mid-16th century, on the origins, evolution, and historical uses of corn. "We now have a complete documentation, you could say, from the seed to the plant," says Dr. Bussmann, "and this is what makes the Garden such an important repository."
The corn tassel collection in the Garden's Herbarium represents the second half of the historical Edgar Anderson maize collection.
So when Dr. Eubanks decided to give her collection to the Garden, there was a very good reason to do so. "Very few institutions have such a strong taxonomic background, the ethnobotanic expertise, the necessary resources and tools like our seed bank and genetics lab, and the horticulture knowledge as the Garden does," says Dr. James Miller, Senior Vice President of Science and Conservation. "We're thrilled Dr. Eubanks saw that as well when looking for a place for her valuable collection."
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> Frequently Asked Questions
Where did you get all those books?
The books were bought one at a time, as a result of searching and looking in every possible place.
In the beginning, every Greenleaf Classics book ever seen was bought, because they were all new discoveries. Over time, it became clearer that the books were published under various imprints using a logical numbering system. That led to having a want list in the traditional vintage paperback collecting way - showing missing numbers and numbers needing an upgrade. With a want list, it became even more work to find the books, because not just any Greenleaf Classics book would do anymore.
Traditionally, Greenleaf Classics books have been actively suppressed. Thrift stores throw donated copies into the dumpster. Used book stores won't buy them for resale. Estates take them to the land fill before the sale. This means that searching for the books is more work and a different experience than building a collection of say, the first 500 vintage Bantam paperbacks.
The primary method of acquisition has been active book scouting in every flea market and used book store in every city ever visited. The tricky moment in searching for vintage Greenleaf Classics books is how to ask about sex novels without appearing too creepy.
"Not that we're the type of people who would be interested in old porn books,
but if we were, where would we go to buy them, or to sell them?"
Why does this archive stop in 1975? Didn't Greenleaf Classics Publishing continue to release books until the 90's?
This archive holds the books that were published under the influence of the first management team headed by William Hamling. When Hamling was convicted of obscenity and forced out of the business in 1974, a new management team took over. The set of writers and cover artists changed dramatically at that point. The older style of writing and packaging was dropped and a new approach was adopted. The early period of books are called "Vintage" in this archive to distinguish them from the later period books, which could be called "Modern".
I collect vintage Greenleaf Classics books too. Do you have duplicates you want to trade?
Why haven't we met? Contact the site. Let's do a trade.
Can I use an image from the site on another website?
You are welcome to use images from the site for personal, educational or other non-commercial uses. When publishing the image on a website, include the citation information that appears near the image or the URL for the page where the image came from.
Can I get a publication-quality copy of an image.
Yes. Contact the site for information about obtaining a high resolution version and publication information.
Can I link to the website?
Please do. When you are sharing a link to lead people to the site, use the URL to the entry point page, "http://greenleaf-classics-books.com/vintage" with anchor text of "Vintage Greenleaf Classics Books".
Here is a snippet of HTML that you can cut and paste for use on a website.
Vintage Greenleaf Classics Books
What about the books like the 50 titles in the Greenleaf Keyhole imprint published in 1969? Why aren't they included in the archive?
Several imprints have not been published on the web site yet such as the GK imprint you mention and others. Adding imprints to the web site's database is an ongoing process.
The web site is open now, even as other imprints are being added. We reached the "OK to Publish" milestone when all the imprints with colorful painted covers were entered. The other imprints have B&W line drawings and photo covers.
They will be added over the coming weeks.
How do you know about the real authors who wrote the books under pseudonyms?
Over a recent ten year period, Earl Kemp published an award winning eZine that included details about his work at Greenleaf Classics Publishing as senior editor. It is a wonderful memoir of his days working at the publisher. He tells great tales of his days working at what he calls "The Porno Factory". Earl is a major source of information about the identity of the true authors who wrote the books.
Lynn Munroe has been actively researching the writers behind the bylines of vintage Greenleaf Classics books. He publishes his findings on his web site, Lynn Munroe Books. For example, his most recent report covers the latest revelations about titles that Lawrence Block wrote for Greenleaf Classics.
We all owe a huge debt to both of these people for their years of work.
How do you know who painted the cover art?
For many covers, that is still a mystery. The artists who painted the covers did not sign their names and there are no known business records that might tell us.
One artist who became well-known is Robert Bonfils. It took a few years to locate and contact him, as described in this story, Bonfils Cover Art is Back. Robert Bonfils has reviewed most of the books in our collection and has identified which covers have art that he painted and which do not.
He has kindly provided us with the names of several staff artists who worked with him at Greenleaf Classics Publishing and pointed out images that they did, providing us with characteristics of their styles. From this, an attribution can be made with some certainty for the art that has a very distinct style, such as the books with cover art by Tomas Cannizarro.
Before his death in 2012, staff artist Darrel Millsap was very helpful in verifying for us that he did the cover art on books attributed to him.
In a few cases, there is a clear statement from Robert Bonfils that he did not paint the art for book covers that some sources have said he did. For this reason, those books are attributed to the artist "Unknown". Those books also include an explicit note saying that Robert Bonfils has reviewed the cover art and says he did not paint it.
Everybody claims that this or that book has cover art painted by Robert Bonfils while others disagree. Where can I see all the vintage Greenleaf Classics books having cover art painted by Robert Bonfils?
In recent years, Robert Bonfils has continued to review the book cover art in an ongoing process to complete the research and arrive at the correct artist attribution for every vintage Greenleaf Classics book. Robert has given clear statements about whether he did or did not do the cover art for each of the books shown him.
In mid-2013, the last major batch of books were reviewed by Robert, giving the go-ahead to publish the findings. This web site is the first time that the complete and correct information about which book covers have art by Robert Bonfils could be available because the research had not been completed earlier.
Even though the major research has been done, there are still a few books that have recently arrived in the collection, that have not been reviewed yet. The review process continues. But the research is complete enough to publish what is known so far.
It is now possible to browse a set of book covers having art by Robert Bonfils and have confidence that you are seeing the right story.
Click here to browse Vintage Greenleaf Classics Books having cover art by Robert Bonfils.
I see that a seller on the internet is listing a book / original art and says the author / artist is different than is shown on this web site. Should I tell you about it so you can fix your web site?
There are many bits of misinformation about the vintage Greenleaf Classics books that are in circulation because there has been no definitive place to publish it for public review and verification.
In fact, our efforts to share the data to have it reviewed and improved may have inadvertently contributed to the spread of misinformation. Early versions of our data set have been passed around with the intent to have the data reviewed.
Those early versions of the data set may be getting used by folks who do not understand that the review versions contained many default (and wrong) field values as place holders while correct information was assembled. For instance the name "Robert Bonfils" was the value of the artist field for all the books in many imprints, while the correct artist attribution was being researched. In other cases, a field value might have been the best known information at one time but it's been eclipsed by later revelations.
Now that the major stages of research has been done, this web site holds the most complete and correct information. All previous versions of the data set are out of date. The current version is here for public review and correction to establish this web site as the gold standard for information, so that the amount of misinformation is reduced.
If there is authoritative information to support a seller's claim that differs from what is on this site, we want to hear about it. Please contact us in such a case.
Where can I get a copy of one of the Greenleaf Classics books?
The Internet is the place to find all kinds of goods, including vintage Greenleaf Classics books. However, eBay has rules prohibiting the sale of many Greenleaf Classics titles on their site, continuing the tradition of suppressing these books in the used book market. Nonetheless, vintage Greenleaf Classics books can be found on many venues on the Internet.
Local flea markets, tag sales, and used book stores are still good sources, if you have the patience and look long enough.
In the 60's, many Greenleaf Classics titles sold more new copies than some "mainstream" fiction on the best-seller lists. Yet even for those titles, the number of copies still extant is relatively low. With so many active and effective social processes for suppressing the books, they mostly ended up in landfills.
If there is a specific book you would like to have, contact the site to ask about it.
Where can I buy the original art used on the covers?
As related in Earl Kemp's memoirs mentioned above, almost all of the original art work was burned as a way to limit what government snooping could find out about the Greenleaf Classics publishing operations.
By chance, a few pieces of art have survived and show up for sale in various places. Contact the site if you are interested in original cover art.
I have a book that is shown on the web site. What is it worth?
This site documents that the books exist. No effort has been made to report on their market value. The karmic value of rescuing any vintage Greenleaf Classics book from destruction is at least a million plenary indulgences, but that's not cash, which is what you were probably asking about.
Take it to a PBS Antique Roadshow, or better yet, leave it in an unpaid locker that is sold to a Storage Wars winner. Then there will be a sure valuation about the treasures within.
"Wow! That's worth a hundred bucks all day long."
- Darrell, while digging through the boxes.
"In that condition, for that title, it's worth about three dollars."
- Book store owner, during the checking-it-out scene.
Do contact the site if you have a large group of the books and want to sell them. We are always buying books in clean condition. We pay more than they're worth. :-)
I have a book that is not shown on the web site. It must really be rare. What's it worth?
A book that is not in the collection is not necessarily worth more than one that is. It's not in the collection because the books arrive in random order and it has not arrived yet. For most books, there is nothing special or more valuable about it because it shows up later than the others. One that shows up later is simply one that show up later.
It's the old joke: "Time exists so the books won't all show up at once."
Do contact the site to offer such books. We want to get copies of every title. There is no better place for the book to be than in the collection, where it will be given respect and treated well.
Please contact us if you have a book in our set of needed books.
I found a mistake on the website. Does anyone care?
Absolutely. Please contact the site and explain what mistake you see. The goal is to have correct and useful information on the site. There is a long history of fixed mistakes. It's part of the package when dealing with so much unknown material.
I have a suggestion about the site - it should ....
Please contact the site and explain what you wish it would do.
I want to make a line of greeting cards / coffee mugs / votive candles / t-shirts and/or publish a POD book using images from your web site.
The images on the site are copyrighted and registered. They are not in the public domain, nor are they free to use in any commercial way. If you have a business plan, contact the site to arrange for licensing. High definition images of very good quality are available and customized image work may be arranged.
The books have dates associated with them that includes both a year and a month. How did you determine what month to use?
Month values were assigned based on the books being published at a rate of four or eight per month. The copyright statement inside the book gives a year. When 48 books in a row have the same copyright year, publised at four per month, it is possible to assign each group of four books to a different month, starting with January. Each book in the group of four can be assigned sequential days of the month.
The intention of assigning this type date value into the "date" for a book is to provide a way to sort them by a single date field and maintain the result in publication order. With just the year value, sorting by date produces a random order within a given year.
Further, the intent of this type date field is to enable browsing books having a given year and month. This shows books that were on the newsstand at the same time. We can then see what it was like to visit a store to shop for books during that month.
This date field is not intended to document the exact day the books were printed and sent to the distributor.
Why didn't you use registration data from the copyright office to document the exact publication date for each book?
That's a great idea. However, a few campaigns have been mounted to review those copyright records with mixed results regarding date values.
Many copyright registration entries have exact dates that make sense as the date the book was published. Others have date values that are not consistent with other books published at the same time. A few books have multiple registrations with slightly different dates in each registration. The conclusion is that the dates in the copyright registration entries are as much fiction as the bylines on the books.
The date in the copyright registration is an unreliable source about when the books were publshed. Also, the value can't be used for sorting while maintaining publication order. Thus, there has been no urgency to get those date values, since they don't serve any useful function except to capture the fact that a given value was submitted on the copyright registration.
If the date information is ever extracted from the copyright records, that would be excellent information to include and publicize on this web site. Similarly, if anyone wants to collate the page count, the exact book size, the front cover blurbs, keywords to tag the cover art or story, or first and last sentence, those would also be interesting attributes to track for each book. Such information would be added to this web site if it were available. Contact us if you have such information or want to help create it.
I saw a book showing the cover art of Robert Bonfils. The author promotes his knowledge of Greenleaf Books in posts to his chums in a Yahoo discussion group. Is he associated with this site?
No. But he did obtain a CD-R of our early data set and cover scans described in the History of the Vintage Greenleaf Classics Books Collection.
Despite never contributing to the archive, he has promoted himself as an expert on vintage Greenleaf Classic books based on what he has found on the CD, even going so far as to publish a Print On Demand book. The POD book includes text from the Illustration Magazine article about Robert Bonfils along with low resolution images from our data set. If you bought the book, do not trust the story it tells. It is based on uncorrected, tentative information that has been known to be wrong for years.
Now that this web site exists, the guy can find accurate information to share with his chums. He can appear even smarter.
Enough answers to questions. Let's look at the books.
But wait, I have a question. What...? When...? Where...? Why...? Who...? How?
More questions are welcome. Contact us. We'll answer them then.


And you're not born knowing what you want, either. People assume they ought to know automatically what they want, which tends to be whatever the convention it is in your culture. For some that means marrying off to "a good provider," for others it means achieving a senior managment position, for others it means a Personal Relationship With Jesus.
Your own idea appears only when you have the actual experience of what you want. You can't know until you taste it. We all start with a false idea of what we want in life, inherited from others during childhood, before we gain any perspective about life. The false idea has to be given up and the real desires have to be discovered. They may make others uncomfortable. They may make you uncomfortable at first, because you inherited your comfort zone from others.
You will either recognize this and overcome it, or you will always pursue what other people want you to want, convinced it's what you want.
I am convinced that how happy a person becomes in life depends on how much time they spend learning what they want. Just to know what makes you glow inside is the work of a lifetime. Your real, heartfelt wants accumulate over the years, as you stumble into new experiences that electrify you.
How quickly that happens depends on how often you do what you're not used to doing. That means travel hastens it, and habits stifle it. Doing scary and unfamiliar things hastens it, doing comfortable things stifles it. You can't know what you want until you taste it. Do more tasting.
Don't make the mistake of thinking what you want is just one thing. Each of our personalities is so intricate that we will resonate with thousands of categories of experiences, from the kind of clothes you feel best in, to the city you want to live in, to the person you want to grow old with, to the way you take your coffee. You may not know these preferences of yours yet, even if you assume you've known for thirty years.
Your wants are always going to be more articulate than the ones you inherit from society. They are more specific. They make something tingle in your consciousness in a way that nobody else will understand. That's why you can't listen to anyone else when it comes to what you want in life.
I'm slowly learning what I want, and I only began to learn, really learn, once I discovered that I don't already know what I want — that the things I've been chasing all this time have been other people's wants.
What do you want? Tell me, but don't answer too quickly.
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WRTI Spotlight
Miguel Zenón Quartet explores the Americas on its bracing new album
WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Nate Chinen
Adrien Tillmann
The Miguel Zenón Quartet: Henry Cole, Zenón, Luis Perdomo, Hans Glawischnig.
"The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing," observed the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano just over half a century ago. "Our part of the world, known today as Latin America, was precocious: it has specialized in losing ever since those remote times when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations."
Galeano was writing in Spanish: those are the opening sentences of his book Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent), first published in 1971. And if that sounds like an unusual source of inspiration for a jazz artist, you may be overlooking the recent works of Miguel Zenón.
An alto saxophonist, composer-bandleader and 2008 MacArthur Fellow, Zenón has long drawn inspiration from the cultural histories and legacies of his homeland, Puerto Rico. His angle of approach has sometimes favored the folkloric, and sometimes tacked more cerebral — but what always holds true is the laser focus of his inquiry and the intense clarity of his execution.
During the pandemic slowdown of 2020, Zenón redirected some of that energy. He still managed to release new music — notably a gemlike duo album, El Arte Del Bolero, that he and pianist Luis Perdomo originally performed as a livestream at The Jazz Gallery — but he also stepped up his research on the indigenous peoples and colonial powers of the early Americas. That story resonated with Zenón's perspective on Puerto Rico, and led him to create a new book of music.
The resulting album, Música de Las Américas, is yet another reminder that the Miguel Zenón Quartet — with Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Henry Cole — should be considered one of the finest working small groups in improvised music. They kick off the current leg of their tour this Thursday at Esperanza Arts Center, before continuing on to dates in New England and the Midwest.
As is usually the case with Zenón's music, an idea mutates through musical expression. One case in point is the composition "Venas Abiertas," a direct reference to Galeano's book, which begins in a low, murmuring register and gradually assumes a 7/4 pulse. At 3:20, the band shifts again, into a pointillist funk groove, as Zenón reels off a solo.
Among the other sources informing this music is an anthropological study by Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, titled Taínos y Caribes: Las culturas aborigenes antillanas (Taínos and Caribs: The Aboriginal Cultures of the Antilles). As Zenón notes in press materials: "They were the two predominant societies but were very different: the Taínos were a more passive agricultural society while the Caribes were warriors who lived for conquest." He evokes that dualism, and an air of conflict, in the album's thrilling opener, "Taínos y Caribes." (Listen closely to Perdomo, who's on fire throughout the track.)
The quartet has played Philadelphia just a handful of times over the years — at the Clef Club, the Painted Bride, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. And this week's show has a particular resonance for the group. "We've been looking forward to our concert at the Esperanza Arts Center for a while," Zenón tells WRTI. "They've been doing great things for the community in Philly and we're all very excited to get to share our music there."
The Miguel Zenón Quartet performs at Esperanza Arts Center on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m.; find tickets here. Música De Las Américas is out now; buy it here.
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Nate Chinen has been writing about music for more than 25 years. He spent a dozen of them working as a critic for The New York Times, and helmed a long-running column for JazzTimes.
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EghtesadOnline: A joint commercial forum, scheduled in Tehran on March 13, will host businesses from Iran and India.
EghtesadOnline: Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian military jets, which violated its airspace, and captured two pilots amid escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the recent developments in disputed Kashmir.
EghtesadOnline: Iran and India, which have both suffered deadly militant attacks in the past week, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in combating terrorism in the region.
EghtesadOnline: India's Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited could buy 0.9 million tons of Iran oil in its 2018/19 financial year, said Vinod S Shenoy, the company's director of refineries.
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EghtesadOnline: India would like to trade with Iran without violating any international laws, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Thursday.


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Megan Ellison's Big Hollywood Gamble: a Movie Studio for Grown-Upgrades
By Ben FritzDow Jones Newswires
Hollywood's newest studio doesn't operate out of a majestic multiacre lot or a sleek office tower but an unmarked former art gallery whose lobby is decorated with thousands of VHS tapes arranged in a giant "A."
Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures has a distinct vibe that isn't imposing like Twentieth Century Fox or Universal Pictures, nor high-tech like Netflix Inc. or Amazon.com Inc. Like its social media savvy millennial founder, Annapurna projects an image that is retro, artistic and bespoke, even as it is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to compete directly against those giant companies and others that dominate Hollywood.
Personally wealthy thanks to her father, billionaire Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison, the 31-year-old Ms. Ellison has produced and financed several Oscar-nominated pictures in the past five years, including mid-budget adult dramas "Zero Dark Thirty," "Her" and "Foxcatcher."
Until now, though, Annapurna has been a small company whose movies are released by other studios, such as Sony Pictures Entertainment and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures.
Last year, Ms. Ellison decided she wanted more control over how her movies are released and full credit, as well as full profits, when they succeed, according to people familiar with her thinking. She tripled Annapurna's staff to nearly 120 so it could release and market its own movies, and produce television shows and videogames. The release this weekend of "Detroit," a historical drama from "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, marked the first time Annapurna has distributed and marketed a film itself.
Annapurna's expansion comes as the original, mid-budget movies Ms. Ellison favors are struggling for attention against major studios' superheroes and reboots. At the same time, deep-pocketed Amazon and Netflix have aggressively moved onto Annapurna's turf, raising prices for the hottest indie movie ideas and increasing competition for consumers.
"The fact that Megan is building an independent outfit and taking the risks she is taking puts her in a pretty singular space," said Dede Gardner, a partner in Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, that has signed a deal to work on several projects with Annapurna.
Ms. Ellison, who never gives interviews, declined to comment through a spokeswoman.
Privately held Annapurna doesn't share financial results, but it has had a mixed record at the box office. Along with such hits as "Sausage Party" and "American Hustle" have been flops including "Her" and "The Master." Ms. Ellison has been frustrated working with other studios that controlled when her movies were released and how they were advertised, leading her to build those capabilities in-house, said the people close to her.
With "Detroit," Annapurna is using a particularly risky movie to make that leap, and not only because so few adult dramas have succeeded at the box office recently. The $35 million picture about the killing of three African-Americans by police during riots in 1967 is opening near the end of a summer packed with big budget "event" films, known in the industry as "tentpoles." After playing in 20 theaters this weekend, it will be released nationwide Friday against an adaptation of the popular Stephen King book "The Dark Tower."
Annapurna didn't initially intend to release "Detroit" itself. After financing the movie, the company late last year offered it to other Hollywood studios, but was unable to strike a deal. At least two companies passed after concluding its commercial prospects were small, according to people at studios who evaluated the film.
Early reviews for "Detroit" have been positive.
"This is the kind of movie Hollywood used to make on a regular basis, but the industry [now] relies on mega-mega-tentpoles that sell in China, " said "Detroit" writer and producer Mark Boal. "Megan has a different business model."
Focus Features, part of Comcast Corp.'s Universal, and Fox Searchlight, part of 21st Century Fox Inc.'s Twentieth Century Fox, are the two remaining studio labels making low- to mid-budget adult movies, similar to Annapurna. Other major studios like Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc.'s Paramoun Pictures and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. have exited that segment of the business after sustaining losses.
Netflix and Amazon, meanwhile, are betting big. They have bid the prices for hot pictures at festivals such as Sundance so high that Focus and Fox Searchlight have pulled back on acquiring finished films, once a key part of their business. Now, both primarily produce movies themselves and look to develop long-term relationships with filmmakers, said people close to those companies.
Amazon, which has previously relied on partners like Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. to release movies it acquires, such as this summer's hit "The Big Sick," plans to release its own films starting with Woody Allen's "Wonder Wheel" in December. That will make it an even more formidable competitor.
To build her company into a fully functioning studio, Ms. Ellison has made high-profile hires, including a former head of marketing at Fox and Sony as Annapurna's president, a veteran of Weinstein Co. to run distribution and a former programming chief at HBO to oversee TV.
They work in the studio's offices, a former gallery and several adjoining buildings in West Hollywood, Calif., that a company controlled by Ms. Ellison bought for roughly $35 million last year, according to property records.
Annapurna also has signed deals with companies that will release its movies outside the U.S. and with Hulu, which will be their first home on television, providing guaranteed money that reduces the risk on its productions.
To sustain its overhead, Annapurna will release roughly eight films a year, including some from other companies that aren't auteur-made indies, such as a remake of "Death Wish," starring Bruce Willis, from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
What Annapurna spends its money to make, however, is still largely defined by Ms. Ellison's taste for material and filmmakers, said people who have worked with her. In May, she committed to a biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney that will star Christian Bale and be directed by "The Big Short"'s Adam McKay. Paramount let it go, concluding the $50 million production was too risky.
"Megan loved the script and Adam, and she didn't pause," said Ms. Gardner, also a producer on the Cheney movie.
Write to Ben Fritz at ben.fritz@wsj.com


We have a natural resource we are not using. It is the most valuable resource we have, and the one that makes us who we are, yet, we fail to use it to its full extent: our Imagination.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge... knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world"
Dear readers, we have a problem. You may or may not be aware of it. As loyal readers of The Creativity Post, you might not experience it personally because you obviously acknowledge the benefits of Creativity. But it is a global problem. It affects the future of education, the roadmaps of thousands of companies, and maybe even national and international politics.
We have a natural resource we are not using. It is the most valuable resource we have, and the one that makes us who we are, yet, we fail to use it to its full extent. Instead of being the first and most important tool in Education, Business, and Personal Development, it is often totally ignored. If you wonder what this magical yet rarely used resource is, the answer is our Imagination.
To be honest, I suspected we have a problem before looking it up. But this Google Trends chart is mindblowing. It presents the relative search volume of different search terms over a period of 13 years. When comparing the search volume for Innovation with a more refined search for Innovation with Imagination, the refined search volume is less than 1%.
So among all the individuals, managers, and leaders searching for the term Innovation, probably seeking to improve it in their lives and organizations, only a few make the next step and look for Imagination to refine their search. In other words, they don't assume Imagination has anything to do with improving Innovation.
While this chart looks much better, the search volume for Imagination is still just about 30% of the searches for Innovation. Naturally, not all the search for Imagination are done in the context of Innovation, but even if we assume they are, the data still indicates the majority of people are still not making this connection.
Try comparing the search volume for Education with the search volume for Imagination, and you will get more or less the same results. In fact, there's a more apparent correlation in search volume between Education and UFOs than between Education and Imagination. Is this how most people perceive Education? A discipline with no room for Imagination?
And if you try comparing searches for Innovation/Education with the search volume for the term Observation you will once again get the same results: there seems to be no connection between these concepts in the minds of people searching for information about them.
Something has to change. We are the only species on earth capable of deep observation and imagining. In fact, we were born to do so. Observation and Imagination are not only the key to Creativity. They are the key to empathy, critical thinking, and conscious. It only makes sense that areas as Education and Business Innovation will be based on Imagination and Observation. As this is not the case, we have to bring them back into the picture proactively. Let's harness Imagination and Observation into everything we do personally and professionally.
When I started developing seempli I knew the key to igniting, improving and maintaining Creativity is the ongoing practice of our Observation and Imagination skills. The core of Creativity is our ability to see things differently.
Improving these soft skills is essential for personal growth. Like many other soft skills, they are the key to achieving profound positive change. But when it comes to business organizations, public organizations, or the Education System, you need a great deal of maturity to invest in such soft skills of employees without seeing its immediate day-to-day application. From the data above it seems that in many (if not most) cases, this connection is far from being obvious to the very same people who would benefit from it most.
Now is the time to bring these two important skills back to day-to-day context, and let them shine and introduce a creative impact in all areas of our personal and professional lives. And the way to do it is by applying Observation and Imagination as the core - the driving force - of concrete and effective processes.
Acknowledge Observation and Imagination as core skills in your organization. Innovation is a result. Education is a goal. Without clearly articulating which soft skills are needed to achieve these targets and without setting the ground for practicing these soft skills, it just won't happen.
If you think you were either born with an imaginative mind or you weren't, you are just plain wrong! The Observe-Imagine skill is like a muscle. If you don't use it for some time, it gets weaker. But like any muscle, you can get it back in shape and improve your performance. All you need to do is practice as much as possible. It's not only achievable, but it is also loads of fun, and starting your day with a smile is a priceless bonus.
In The seempli Creativity Platform we use Seeds and Prisms as the building blocks for an infinite number of creative challenges. Each of them is an invitation to observe and imagine. When you play with seempli on a daily basis, your mind becomes used to seeing thing differently - it's like learning to walk: at some point, it becomes so natural and effortless you just do it. And that's a great time to bring it to actual use.
Once you master the Observe-Imagine skill, you can apply as an integral part of day-to-day challenges and processes. The Observe-Imagine cycle can be a driving force for problem-solving, ideation, learning processes, and numerous other applications. That's what we are designed to do best - it's our natural resource - so why not use it on a daily basis in our organizations as well as in our personal lives?
We use seempli Gears for that purpose. seempli Gears TM are Creative Processes that are built on the Observe-Imagine cycle as their core. It's a simple and effective way to bring back Imagination and Creativity to the front, and apply them to your real challenges and opportunities.
This is where I should probably write a closing statement. Instead, I want you to write it.
Think of a challenge you are facing. Think of it as an opportunity. Give it a title with no more than five words and write it on a piece of paper. Now, throughout the rest of the day, think of the words you wrote - think of them as a Seed - and mindfully observe the world around you. Open your mind, try to see as much as possible. Expect the unexpected, and maybe, just maybe, by the end of the day, you will gain new insights on your opportunity and what you should do next.
Now, imagine what you can achieve by mastering the Observe-Imagine skill and applying it to every aspect of your life. Whatever you imagine would be a perfect closing statement.


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Q: Google Cloud Memory Store (Redis), can't connect to redis when instance is just started I have a problem to connect to redis when my instance is just started.
I use:
runtime: java
env: flex

runtime_config:
  jdk: openjdk8

i got following exception:
Caused by: redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisConnectionException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out

RedisConnectionFailureException: Cannot get Jedis connection; nested exception is redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisConnectionException: Could not get a resource from the pool

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out

after 2-3 min, it works smoothly
Do i need to add some check in my code or how i should fix it properly?
p.s.
also i use spring boot, with following configuration
@Value("${spring.redis.host}")
private String redisHost;

@Bean
JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory() {
    // https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/quotas
    RedisStandaloneConfiguration config = new RedisStandaloneConfiguration(redisHost, 6379);
    return new JedisConnectionFactory(config);
}

@Bean
public RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate(
        @Autowired JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory
) {
    RedisTemplate<String, Object> template = new RedisTemplate<>();
    template.setConnectionFactory(jedisConnectionFactory);
    template.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
    template.setValueSerializer(new GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer(newObjectMapper()));
    return template;
}

in pom.xml
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-redis</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>

A: I solved this problem as follows: in short, I added the "ping" method, which tries to set and get the value from Redis; if it's possible, then application is ready.
Implementation:
First, you need to update app.yaml add following:
readiness_check:
path: "/readiness_check"
check_interval_sec: 5
timeout_sec: 4
failure_threshold: 2
success_threshold: 2
app_start_timeout_sec: 300

Second, in your rest controller:
@GetMapping("/readiness_check")
public ResponseEntity<?> readiness_check() {

    if (!cacheConfig.ping()) {
        return ResponseEntity.notFound().build();
    }

    return ResponseEntity.ok().build();
}

Third, class CacheConfig:
public boolean ping() {
    long prefix = System.currentTimeMillis();
    try {
        redisTemplate.opsForValue().set("readiness_check_" + prefix, Boolean.TRUE, 100, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        Boolean val = (Boolean) redisTemplate.opsForValue().get("readiness_check_" + prefix);
        return Boolean.TRUE.equals(val);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        LOGGER.info("ping failed for " + System.currentTimeMillis());
        return false;
    }
}

P.S.
Also if somebody needs the full implementation of CacheConfig:
@Configuration
public class CacheConfig {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(CacheConfig.class.getName());

    @Value("${spring.redis.host}")
    private String redisHost;

    private final RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate;

    @Autowired
    public CacheConfig(@Lazy RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate) {
        this.redisTemplate = redisTemplate;
    }

    @Bean
    JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory(
            @Autowired JedisPoolConfig poolConfig
    ) {
        // https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/quotas
        RedisStandaloneConfiguration config = new RedisStandaloneConfiguration(redisHost, 6379);

        JedisClientConfiguration clientConfig = JedisClientConfiguration
                .builder()
                .usePooling()
                .poolConfig(poolConfig)
                .build();

        return new JedisConnectionFactory(config, clientConfig);
    }

    @Bean
    public RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate(
            @Autowired JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory
    ) {
        RedisTemplate<String, Object> template = new RedisTemplate<>();
        template.setConnectionFactory(jedisConnectionFactory);
        template.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
        template.setValueSerializer(new GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer(newObjectMapper()));
        return template;
    }

    /**
     * Example: https://github.com/PengliuIBM/pws_demo/blob/1becdca1bc19320c2742504baa1cada3260f8d93/redisData/src/main/java/com/pivotal/wangyu/study/springdataredis/config/RedisConfig.java
     */
    @Bean
    redis.clients.jedis.JedisPoolConfig jedisPoolConfig() {
        final redis.clients.jedis.JedisPoolConfig poolConfig = new redis.clients.jedis.JedisPoolConfig();

        // Maximum active connections to Redis instance
        poolConfig.setMaxTotal(16);
        // Number of connections to Redis that just sit there and do nothing
        poolConfig.setMaxIdle(16);
        // Minimum number of idle connections to Redis - these can be seen as always open and ready to serve
        poolConfig.setMinIdle(8);

        // Tests whether connection is dead when returning a connection to the pool
        poolConfig.setTestOnBorrow(true);
        // Tests whether connection is dead when connection retrieval method is called
        poolConfig.setTestOnReturn(true);
        // Tests whether connections are dead during idle periods
        poolConfig.setTestWhileIdle(true);

        return poolConfig;
    }

    public boolean ping() {
        long prefix = System.currentTimeMillis();
        try {
            redisTemplate.opsForValue().set("readiness_check_" + prefix, Boolean.TRUE, 100, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            Boolean val = (Boolean) redisTemplate.opsForValue().get("readiness_check_" + prefix);
            return Boolean.TRUE.equals(val);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOGGER.info("ping failed for " + System.currentTimeMillis());
            return false;
        }
    }
}

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Q: how can i iterate a for loop for every seven days How can i write a for loop in perl that should execute a block of statements every week.
For example: Begin Time is: 00:00:00 Monday, then again the loop should iterate at 00:00:00 Monday next week.
Thanks for any input.
Regards,
Chandu

A: cron (or whatever other task scheduler your operating system uses) is the correct tool for this, not Perl.
However, in the simplest case, this can be done in Perl with sleep 604800;, which will wait 604,800 seconds (i.e., 7 days) before proceeding to the next statement.  No loops are required.

A: Here you can make a timer that runs over a week. It is not related on day of week, but you can start it on Monday and it will be started again on next Monday.
use strict;
use warnings;

use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval usleep);
# 1 week equal 168 hr
for(;;) {
    # put your codes here
    # ...

    for my $h (0..167) {
        for my $m (0..59) {
            for my $s (0..59) {
                for my $ms (0..999) {
                    print "$h:$m:$s:$ms\n";
                    usleep(1000);
                    $ms += 0.001;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


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