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State cancels winter draw down of Glasgo Pond
By Adam Bensonabenson@norwichbulletin.com(860) 908-7004
Nov 1, 2014 at 3:14 PM Nov 1, 2014 at 10:05 PM
Homeowners along Glasgo Pond in Griswold and Voluntown will have a much easier winter ahead of them, after state officials announced on Saturday they planned to delay construction on a failing dam.
"We're very excited we're going to have more time to figure out what needs to be done," Griswold First Selectman Kevin Skulczyck said after learning of the news. "It's a reprieve."
Shallow wells at 10 Griswold homes near the pond have been dry since Oct. 1, when the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection conducted a 5-foot draw down of the pond to evaluate the 146-year-old dam's condition in preparation for a larger draw down next year to repair the structure.
"They have hoses running from house to house, and those with a drilled well are loaning water to those who don't" have one," said sate Rep. Steve Mikutel, D-Griswold, who has been working with the state to get some relief for the homeowners. "It's like living in a hurricane (recovery)."
But Mikutel said just how long that reprieve will be is still unknown. What is clear is that a major winter drawdown of the pond has been put on hold, halting any further possibility of a prolonged water shortage through the coldest months of the year.
Mikutel said representatives from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office called him Saturday with that news.
It's a crucial development, because residents whose homes are on the pond were confronting a 15-month, $3 million dam repair project set to start in February.
To alleviate dependency on Glasgo Pond's water level, the only option for homeowners is to invest in a drilled well, which carries a price tag of around $7,000. For people on a fixed income, acquiring a loan high enough to cover that is untenable.
Griswold leaders said Saturday they're continuing talks with local lenders to try and set up a low-interest plan that could secure capital for wells to be drilled.
In the meantime, Mikutel said, he's just happy his constituents will make it through the winter without having to use communal water sources.
"It gives them time to make a decision," he said. "Residents have much more time to come up with their own resources."
Griswold resident Randy Bronson, whose Shore Drive home is near the pond, said his 14-foot-deep well is almost ready to use again – it's about 3 inches below the minimum amount he needs to operate it for the house.
"It's slowly coming back in. I do believe it's going to be at the point where we can use it again, because obviously the hose deal isn't going to continue to work," he said.

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Latin American and Latino Studies
Educational Studies
Elaine Allard
Assistant Professor (on sabbatical 2018-19)
Email:eallard1@swarthmore.edu
Pearson Hall 203
Emergent bilingual youth—students who speak another language at home but are in the process of learning English at school and elsewhere—are one of the fastest growing and most under-served populations in U.S. schools today. Those arriving in the United States and entering the system at the secondary level face particularly steep challenges as they must learn complex content through a new language in a system ill-equipped to address their needs.
My career began as a high-school English as a second language (ESL) teacher in North Philadelphia where my classes were populated with young Latinos from drastically different educational backgrounds. Students with superior private education in their home countries often developed English quickly and breezed through their classwork, while others from half-day rural schools had trouble focusing during our long school days and struggled with the same assignments. Those born in the U.S. and educated in Philadelphia spoke English well but had trouble in my class and others, due to on-going struggles with reading and writing that left them unable to test out of ESL. I quickly found that "teaching and learning English" entailed very different approaches for students with such diverse backgrounds. These teaching experiences and others raised questions about language learning, immigration, and schooling that led me to pursue graduate studies in educational linguistics. Now, through my scholarship and teaching, I aim to illuminate the complexity of newcomers' experiences so that educators can more effectively meet their language-learning, academic, and affective needs.
My ethnographic study of a suburban ESL program focused on latecomers, adolescent immigrant students who arrive well into the school year. Through a year-long study of a beginner ESL cohort, I considered how different facets of students' backgrounds as well as teachers' language practices impacted immigrants' school experiences. Currently, I am examining the personal and community resources of recently arrived immigrant teenagers at an urban ESL program in order to propose curriculum, pedagogy, and language policies that teachers can use to leverage these resources. Close collaboration with a former Swarthmore student, now classroom teacher, guides this work. Our partnership has generated curriculum development for her newcomer class; a conference presentation on teaching newcomers; and a paper on language policies in linguistically diverse classrooms. Her classroom has also served as a site of research and practice-teaching for current Swarthmore students. One student conducted a thesis project about immigrant boys, trauma, and classroom behavior. Another developed a series of lessons on plant biology for an after-school greenhouse club designed for students with agricultural experiences in their home countries. In addition to independent projects like these, I welcome advanced students as assistants on my ongoing research.
Like most of the courses in the Department of Educational Studies, my classes offer students multiple opportunities to connect theory and practice through school and community based fieldwork, student- teaching, and research. Students in EDUC 53, Educating Emergent Bilinguals, make weekly visits to ESL, bilingual, and content classrooms in the Philadelphia region, while students in EDUC 56, Teaching English as a Second Language plan and co-teach 5-week thematic units in Philadelphia schools. In 2013, students in the honors seminar, EDUC 153, Latinos and Education conducted asset-oriented research at Olney High School and its surrounding neighborhood. They spent the semester volunteering in classrooms, interviewing staff and families, conducting home visits, and engaging with research and theory in Latino education. Their investigation into how the school's ESL department could build stronger connections with language minority families culminated in a student-run professional development session for ESL teachers. Teachers told us that it was the best professional development session they'd had that year. In 2016, students in EDUC 65, Educational Research for Social Change: Qualitative Methods learned the nuts and bolts of qualitative research as they conducted a study of preschool choice in West Philadelphia. Using observation, interviews, and surveys, they identified challenges and proposed solutions for a preschool looking to diversify its school community. Their work resulted in a presentation to the school's parent-board and a research report that continues to be used today.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Swarthmore College
Selected Publications & Presentations
Allard, E. & Apt. S. (2017). Translanguaging pedagogies in "almost-bilingual" classrooms. (Manuscript in preparation).
Allard, E. (2017). Re-examining teacher translanguaging: An ecological perspective. Bilingual Research Journal, 40 (2), 116-130.
Allard, E. (2016). Latecomers: The sources and impacts of late arrival among adolescent immigrant students Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 47 (4), 366-384.
Allard, E. (2015). Undocumented status and schooling for newcomer teens. Harvard Educational Review, 85 (3), 478- 501.
Allard, E. & Apt, S. (2015). Curricular Innovations for Teaching New Arrivals. (XIII Congreso Puertorriqueño de Investigación en la Educación, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, March 2015)
EDUC 014: Pedagogy and Power: Introduction to Education
EDUC 053. Educating Emergent Bilinguals
EDUC 056. Teaching English as a Second Language
EDUC 065. Educational Research for Social Change: Qualitative Methods
EDUC 096/097/180: Thesis/ Honors Thesis
EDUC 153. Latinos and Education


VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI named the members of a papal commission he established in March to investigate a series of leaks of letters exchanged among Vatican officials and between the officials and the pope himself.
Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, 82, a former president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, will lead the commission. The two other members are 88-year-old retired Slovakian Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; and the retired archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, 81.
The commission of cardinals "will act at all levels on the strength of its pontifical mandate" to investigate the "recent leaks of reserved and confidential documents on television, in newspapers and in other communications media" and "bring these episodes fully to light," said a Vatican press release Wednesday.
The commission met for the first time Tuesday, the statement said, "to establish the method and timetable for its activities."
A Vatican tribunal was to look into taking legal action against those who gave the documents to reporters, and the Vatican Secretariat of State was to carry out an administrative review of every Vatican office.
While some of the leaked letters are gossipy, others include allegations of serious financial misconduct.
The leaks being investigated by the Vatican began in January with the publication of letters written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano when he was secretary-general of the Governor's Office of Vatican City State. The archbishop, who now is nuncio to the United States, warned of corruption, abuse of power, a lack of transparency in awarding contracts and opposition to financial reforms.
Later leaks included a letter from a Vatican official questioning the current reform of the Vatican's finance laws and letters from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan arguing over control of a Catholic hospital.


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Prevention Before Cure
Our health system is good at fixing up sickness, if we have an accident or get an infectious disease, get ear ache or a sore tooth, then it's good to know that we have world class medical professionals and a system to deal with all of that.
But, let's face it, our health system is not so awesome at preventing us from getting sick, and providing us with the tools to have a great life where our health allows us to flourish and reach our full potential.
We're adequate at producing the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
But what of the preventative vehicle to stop us falling ill in the first place?
At PreKure™ we are big fans of what has been achieved in medicine. As part of the health profession, we all stand on the shoulders of giants in so many ways – Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Joseph Lister, Otto Warburg, Watson and Cricks….thank goodness for their curiosity, bravery and tenacity in the face of what would have no doubt been severe opposition from the medical minds of the day.
Yes, we've come a long way, but each change has been painful and slow.
In 1846, Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found that if doctors washed their hands after the autopsy of dead mothers then this reduced neonatal death from sepsis 9-fold. Yes… 9-fold! Unfortunately, this doctor's findings were not adopted by the medical fraternity who refused to accept that they themselves could have been a cause of death.
He never got to see his breakthrough as he was ostracised then institutionalised for a mental breakdown. In a terrible twist of fate, he died himself of sepsis in the mental institution.
Let's face it, when it comes to accepting new evidence for changes in medicine, history tells us we're cynical and we're slow, even when the evidence and the need is overwhelming.
Citrus on boats to prevent scurvy.
It took more than 50 years to move on the evidence that smoking kills to doing something about it.
It took about the same time from learning of the evidence that asbestos caused lung cancer to doing something about that.
"Human health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
World Health Organization (WHO), 1948
The World Health Organization (WHO) defined human health in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." And they were right. Yet today, 70 years later, most countries in the developed world spend very little on prevention. These countries spend approx. 10% of GDP on "health". By way of example, this equates to 18 Billion dollars that the New Zealand Government spends on healthcare each year, yet it is estimated that < 1.0%, of this is spent on prevention of chronic disease through supporting healthy lifestyles and other activities such as preventing smoking, alcohol moderation, physical activity, healthy diet, and reducing overweight/obesity.
The large majority of that 18 billion dollars goes on treatment of chronic conditions and over spending on end of life care which often provides very little extra quality or quantity of life.
Let's face it, we spend billions on sickness and very little on health. It is time to tip the balance. We simply cannot out-treat these diseases, we need to prevent them from occurring in the first place.
Currently we are unable to achieve the WHO wholistic goal of health as every 'health system' in the world is being crushed by the burden of lifestyle disease. Our hospitals are full of patients who are overfed yet undernourished. Our hospitals are full of patients in need of curing. Average Life Expectancy for males in the world's developed countries is approx. 80 years and some 83 years for females. However, 'Healthy Life Expectancy' is more like 65 and 67 years respectively.
What of these 15 or so missing years? Today, some 20% of our lives will on average be spent with a disability – a functional limitation that requires assistance. Although we are living longer than our predecessors we are unfortunately spending proportionally less of our lives in good health. This is also known as the disability transition… the worldwide trend away from communicable to non-communicable diseases.
The stark reality is that we now have systemic failure in our health systems. The financial dominance of Big Pharma and to an extent Big Food in modern medicine has conned the system into massive spending on pharmaceuticals and one-off treatments. The poor cousin is lifestyle medicine.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
In scientific terms it is a blend of complex physiology and behavioural sciences that prevents preventable diseases and treats modifiable illness. It is estimated that 50% of all cancer could be prevented by not smoking and maintaining a healthy weight. Eliminating cancer is not a moon-shot but rather an earth shot. It is achievable.
We define Lifestyle Medicine as a personalised prescription of behavioural sciences and psychology, nutrition, sleep and movement.
Something in here about mental health from Dr Julia ### Tedx
Lifestyle medicine is the medicine of the future. It is clinically sound and evidence-based. It is the answer to increasing not just the human lifespan but more importantly the human healthspan.
The need for strengthening of medical education and training in the prevention of disease is now both compelling and urgent. The opportunity to do so abundant. We are living in times of great change but also of massive possibility. The triple revolution of machine, platform and the crowd will and is irrevocably changing traditional medical practise. There is now enormous amounts of human knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm distributed all over the world that is available and able to be focused online.
"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison, American Inventor, 1900s
As Thomas Edison stated "The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
The established giants of today's industry are beginning to take notice. Amazon, Berkleyshire Hawaway and JP Morgan Chase recently formed a JV aimed at exploring healthcare tech with a specific view to preventative medicine.
We are also seeing innovative Upstarts such as Prolon – a clinically tested fasting mimicking program currently awaiting FDA approval. This product is directly aimed at Diabetes reversal and prevention.
Could we be at the tip of a tipping point?
Perhaps, yet the large majority of health professionals have little or no training in the complex physiology and behavioural sciences that constitute lifestyle medicine and that must be understood if they are to prescribe the changes their patients require. Not only that, but what training does exist is often tainted by commercial interests and science that is now well out of date.
71% of medical schools in the USA provide less than the recommended 25 hours of nutrition education, and 36% provide less than half that amount (Adams et al, 2015). A 2017 report by medical educators from Harvard Medical School proposes a major restructuring of university medical education to graduate "science-minded" and "service-minded" physicians with the capacity to advance population health.
The way we do medicine has fundamentally changed. Patients now expect their nurses, doctors, and dietitians to understand the new science of nutrition and lifestyle medicine.
We all need to learn to change medicine… as the new world needs new knowledge.
The new world is preventative, customer centric, future focused and about thriving not just surviving. This is a rapidly moving and exciting field that can and will deliver health, or as we like to call it; a PreKure, to those who need it most.
To advance population health we must PRE Cure…that is prevent ill-health in the first place and optimise for wellbeing.
The old world was one of drugs, outdated nutrition guidelines and written clinician's nutritional guides based on poor science. The old world was palliative, Big Pharma and Big food centric. Let's change medicine.
PreKure is a Lifestyle Medicine Movement. We're out to fuel a tipping point!
We believe that the WHO's wholistic and broad definition of health is achievable for all of us. The prescription is three-fold
Live with meaning and purpose
Cultivate your social networks positively, and
Eat well… Sleep plenty and Move every day …OR in other words nourish your body and soul.
Nourish your learning.
We believe that prescribing lifestyle medicine should be as easy as prescribing drugs. We believe that the definition of medical and/or health professional needs to be expanded to include those at the frontline of health, including personal trainers, nutritionists and health coaches. We believe that medical and allied health professionals should work together without the burden of any form of stigma for doing do.
PreKure is a medical education and training organisation. We believe that all medical professionals should have easy access to the latest research. We believe that constructive and open debate is the way forward and will ultimately lead to less confusion, not more. So we provide continuing medical education courses that are based in the irrefutable evidence that Lifestyle Medicine works to PreKure disease.
PreKure is also a provider of curative and preventative health-change programs. We believe that both patients and health professionals should be empowered and encouraged to try N=1 self-experiments, enabling a deeper appreciation of new treatment approaches. We believe in learning by doing. The way we interact with patients has fundamentally changed. Patients now expect their nurses, doctors, and dietitians to have a deep empathy with their personal plight.
Together we can prevent ill-health before a cure is needed. We can help create a tipping point and shift from a sickness system to a health system if we pull together.
#PreventHeartDisease #PreventDementia #PreventCancer #PreventDiabetes
At PreKure™ we use this year's thinking and this year's evidence. A 2018 Science Advisory just released by the American Heart Association conclude's by stating that
"Enhancing physician education and training in nutrition, as well as increasing collaborative nutrition care delivery by 21st century health systems, will reduce the health and economic burdens from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease to a degree not previously realized."
Together we can eliminate the over prescribing of medication that offers little or no benefit, poor nutritional advice and programs which don't work, and have the health community embrace nutrition as medicine. And that's a vision we believe is worth fighting for.


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Senators Sneak Amendment to Make Israel Boycott Illegal
While Senators Cardin and Portman are trying to sneak a last-minute amendment into the budget bill to make BDS illegal - violating free speech - 26 states are also moving to make boycotts of Israel illegal. We speak to IPS's Phyllis Bennis about the anti-BDS efforts in the US
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MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Marc Steiner. It's great to have you with us.
It looks as if Trump blinked and back down insisting on the border wall funding. So while the government may not see a shutdown, the bill to keep the government open may contain a sneaky end run around Congress, with an amendment by Democratic Maryland Senator Ben Cardin and Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman that would impose criminal and civil sanctions against all organizations that participate in boycotts of Israel.
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, or BDS, as it's popularly known, has picked up supporters and become more effective in the last few years. The reaction to it from the Israeli government and their supporters has been to seek legislation nationally and at the state level to criminalize boycotts of Israel. This has raised the hackles and opposition not just from pro-BDS activists, but civil rights and civil liberties organizations, as well as two prominent Jewish-American senators, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Dianne Feinstein of California. The reactionary tentacles of the anti-BDS movement have pushed 26 states to pass laws making the boycott of Israel illegal, which has come to light recently because in Texas, Bahia Amawi, a Palestinian American who, after nine years of working with children as a speech pathologist, was denied her contract, because she refused to sign it. Why? Because it now includes a clause barring her from participating in any boycott of Israel.
BAHIA AMAWI: Having grown up as a Palestinian I know firsthand the oppression and the struggle that Palestinians face on a daily basis. You know, I have to set an example for my kids. We've got to stand up for what's the justice, and for rights, and equal opportunity for everybody, and humane conditions. And so for me it was an easy decision in that aspect. You know, so I could not sign it. It's baffling that they can throw this down our throats, you know, and decide to protect another country's economy versus protect our constitutional rights.
MARC STEINER: To work our way through all of this we once again welcome to the program the director of the Institute for Policy Studies' New Internationalism Project, and author of the book Understanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and co-author of the new report Shrinking Space and the BDS Movement, Phyllis Bennis. Good to have you back with us here on The Real News.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: Good to be with you, Marc.
MARC STEINER: So just immediately, what do we know about where this stands in Congress now, with the vote coming in around the budget? Is this going to get in, are they going to sneak it through? Where is it now, do you know?
PHYLLIS BENNIS: No one knows except the very few people that are actually negotiating between the House and the Senate, putting together a plan that would be a so-called must vote decision that has to be made by midnight Friday night. So this is little more than 48 hours from now, and we still don't know whether Cardin has succeeded at getting–Cardin and Portman have succeeded–in getting this terrible bill in there. This will be a vote that's taken without any possibility of discussion, any amendments, nothing. This will be an up or down vote, and the Republicans, of course, have the majorities in both houses. So we just don't know what's going to happen, whether Cardin has gotten away with this or not. It's all being done in secret.
Partly because, as you've mentioned already, Marc, there is massive opposition to this bill. The ACLU came out early and powerfully against this bill and various iterations of it, and has challenged the state bills that are underway in–now it's up to 26 states around the country. So we're looking at a situation where it's a very unpopular bill, including among people who are often supporters of the U.S.-Israeli alliance in one or another form. But this one goes directly to the question of freedom of speech in the United States by making it a crime to call for boycotts of Israel. And part of the irony here is that part of the reason that we're seeing these attacks on the rise, escalating so quickly, is precisely because BDS is starting to work. It's having a real impact globally. It's providing enormous levels of education for people in this country and around the world where the campaign is underway. And it's having an impact on Israel. And it's for that reason that you see this lashing out by the Israeli government, that has now passed a law making it illegal for any international supporter to enter their country.
And as well as that, we're seeing here in the United States coming from Israel supporters all around the country 26 states now providing these kinds of proposed resolutions–it's passed in a number of countries–sorry, in a number of states. Passed in a number of states. And the courts are already starting to rule against it in in Kansas and other places. Courts are finding that it's an illegal violation of the First Amendment. I don't think most members of Congress want to go publicly up against the ACLU. It's too important an organization, particularly for Democrats, and it's too popular an organization among their voters, among their base. They don't want to do it publicly. So the way they're doing it now is this secret means of going through the process of figuring out what's going to be put into the budget bill that will not be able to be discussed, will not be known until the last possible moment. No amendments allowed. And the vote will be up or down. And the question will be are you willing to allow the closing down of the government to prevent this bill? And we don't know if any members of Congress would be willing to do that.
MARC STEINER: Well, there are a couple aspects here I'd like to explore I mean, one of the fact inside the Jewish community itself–you know, I read in the Jewish Forward, which is a liberal Jewish newspaper out of New York; it's been around for over 100 years–has come out against this, saying this is a mistake. The Anti-Defamation League, even though they don't publicly–they publicly do not support, support the legislation, they issued a report that was leaked out, saying this will be disaster for not just Israel but the Jewish community in America if this passed. So clearly there's some dissent here.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: Well, there's massive dissent in the Jewish community. And that's a wonderful thing. We're seeing a shift in the Jewish community that we have not seen since–in my lifetime. You know, when I was a Jewish kid growing up in California there were really no options. If you identified as Jewish you identified as pro-Israel. That was what was out there. Right? It was the same for you, I think, growing up, right? We didn't have choices like that.
MARC STEINER: I was a member of Habonim as a kid. So yes. Yes, right.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: Right, exactly. I was a counselor a Jewish youth group, and Jewish summer camp, and all that stuff. But what's different now for these young people growing up in the Jewish community, it turns out that being Jewish is distinct from and separate from and not at all bound up with being a supporter of Israel, and particularly a supporter of the ongoing Israeli oppression of Palestinians. So what we see is organizations on the right the left and the center in the Jewish community that we never had before. You still have AIPAC and ADL and all the others on the, on the right. But they're mostly older people now. They have money, they have influence, and they have a lot of old people. Then you have in the center you have an organization like J Street, which has been very important in breaking taboos about what happens on the Hill. And on the left you have Jewish Voice for Peace in the lead; one of the most rapidly growing organizations within the Jewish community. I'm honored to serve on the board of JVP. And we now have several hundred thousand online supporters, chapters in 40 countries. Fifteen or sixteen thousand paid members. It's just growing leaps and bounds. And JVP specifically supports BDS.
MARC STEINER: So we also have a case, which has brought to the attention what's happening on a state level, of Bahia Amawi in Austin, who is a speech pathologist; a Palestinian American born in Germany. After nine years of working with children can't work with them any more after September because she refused to sign–now the document to teach says you cannot participate in boycotts of Israel. I mean…
PHYLLIS BENNIS: It's an extraordinary thing. The language that's going on in many of the states is actually even more harsh than the national language. It's going against individual contractors like Ms. Amawi, as we just heard. And we're hearing it about the threats against any organizations, any business. So what the message is, essentially, is that Palestinians are attacked when they use violence to fight for their liberation, and now they're being told it will also be illegal to use nonviolence. The essence of BDS and the reason it's such an important movement around the world is that it's calling for a nonviolent economic and academic and cultural pressure on Israel, nonviolent pressure, to end three specific arenas of international law violations that Israel has carried out. And it says we will boycott Israel. We will call for sanctions against Israel. We will call for divestment of corporations from Israel as long as it is continuing those violations. There's nothing violent about it. And yet it's being treated now as a crime.
So in the case of a Palestinian-American woman in Texas who's been a very successful speech pathologist for nine years now, she's being told, well, you can't work for the city anymore. You can't work with the City of Austin, Texas because our contracts are ruled by a state law that says you must sign on to an agreement that you are not now and never will in the future support a boycott of Israel. It sounds like the language of McCarthyism. Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of the Communist Party? Now it's are you now, have you ever been, and will you ever be in the future a supporter of nonviolent boycotts against Israeli violations of international law? That's an outrage.
MARC STEINER: Well, you know, as we approach this new Congress coming in it remains to be seen how this develops and unfolds, with all these new young congressmen coming in who have very different points of view. I look forward to after the first year of getting back with you to really talk about that and see how this unfolds. We're here talking with Phyllis Bennis. And Phyllis, I wish you to have a great holiday coming up, and a Happy New Year.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: Thank you. The same to you.
MARC STEINER: And I look forward to talking to you after the new year.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: I look forward to it.
MARC STEINER: I'm Marc Steiner here for The Real News Network. Thanks for joining us. Take care.
Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow and the Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. Her books include Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror, and the latest updated edition of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.
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Preterm birth linked to lower school grades during adolescence
By Albina Suleymanov On Jan 20, 2023
A large Danish population-based study found that preterm birth before 34 weeks of gestation was associated with lower scores in math and language tests in adolescents compared to those born at 40 weeks.
However, a study published in BMJ found no significant difference in late brain cognition between children born at 34–39 weeks of age and children born at 40 weeks of age.
Researchers recognize that cognitive outcomes are not only predetermined at birth, but are also highly dependent on social conditions.
It is estimated that around 15 million babies are born prematurely before 37 weeks of gestation worldwide each year. The last weeks of pregnancy are important for fetal brain development, and preterm birth is thought to have a negative impact on later brain function.
However, previous studies were relatively small, limited mostly to one dimension, or did not adequately account for other factors that may have influenced the results.
To more accurately determine the effect of gestational age (gestational age in weeks) at birth on long-term cognitive function, the researchers analyzed data from all siblings born in Denmark between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 2003.
A total of 1.2 million babies were born during this period, of which 792,724 had at least one sibling, allowing researchers to take into account genetic factors such as the mother's intelligence.
Using national enrollment information, the researchers analyzed gestational age at birth as well as their written Danish language and math scores at ages 15-16, as well as separately scores on intelligence tests taken by 227,403 siblings around the age of 18. in the call.
The analysis also took into account potential confounding factors, including gender, birth weight, parental age, education level at birth, number of older siblings, and family factors shared by siblings.
The researchers calculated how much above or below average the test score was and compared that score for siblings at each gestational age with the score for full-term siblings in the class.
Overall, 44,322 (5.6%) of 792,724 babies were born before 37 weeks. Of these, only those born before 34 weeks had math scores that were significantly below average than those born at 40 weeks, and scores progressively declined as prematurity increased.
In terms of written language, children born at 27 weeks of age or less showed significantly lower scores than average.
An analysis of military recruitment intelligence test scores, measured in IQ scores, also showed significantly lower test scores for those born before 34 weeks.
And those born after 34 weeks saw a drop in IQ of less than one point compared to those born after 40 weeks. But there was a 2.4-point IQ drop for those born between 32-33 weeks, a 3.8-point drop for 28-31 weeks, and a 4.2-point drop for those born before or before 27 weeks.
This is an observational study, so a cause cannot be determined, and the researchers also acknowledge some limitations. For example, smoking during pregnancy was not reported until 1991 and test results may differ from actual results such as lifetime income.
But they say the study has the benefit of a large sample size and that the design of the sibling comparison likely explains other factors, such as the mother's smoking. The results also appeared to be similar after further analysis, such as including children who failed exams, suggesting that the results stand up to scrutiny.
While the reasons for these results remain unclear, the researchers note that because cognitive decline is associated with reduced quality of life and early death, their results "highlight the need for further research on how to prevent these negative effects."
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Beyond "Post-Sacrificial"
Filed under: GA — adam @ 7:00 am
I've been using the phrase "post-sacrificial culture," generally in conjunction with the "Axial Age acquisitions," to refer to the breakdown of the "imperative exchange" constitutive of sacrifice. Sacrifice involves an imperative exchange because the human member of the community offering the sacrifice (bringing his goat, or whatever, to the altar) is following an order issued by the deity to offer up some of the fruits provided, ultimately, by that deity; while, in exchange, the sacrifice represents a request, on the part of the one offering the sacrifice, that the deity continue providing these benefits (more goats). In a sense, our culture is not post-sacrificial, and it may be that no culture can ever be so, definitively—we engage the institutional orders around us in terms of imperative exchanges all the time, simply by assuming if we "play by the rules" we will be commensurately rewarded, and in resenting the failure of the institutional center to hold up its end of the bargain. But it's still correct to call our culture post-sacrificial, because our "sacrifices" are figurative and not directly measurable—we speak in terms of trust, consent, contract, and so on, and keep extending those terms into areas where the "superstitious" nature of our "faith" on institutional structures would be embarrassing. But the fact that it would be embarrassing, for most, in most situations, to say we offer up a "piece" of ourselves not so much to our boss (which would feel especially ridiculous) or even the institution, but to some "idea" of the institution, even one we don't really "believe" in, is what makes us post-sacrificial.
But any concept with a "post" (or, for that matter, a "neo") in it is still a placeholder, and therefore unsatisfactory. Now, we can say much more about how we have arrived, through those "Axial Age acquisitions," at a "post-sacrificial" culture. Sacrifice is "embarrassing" because it has been discredited, and it has been discredited because the violent centralizing involved in sacrifice—we commit violence against this being that we all focus on in exchange for peace and prosperity—has been revealed as fraudulent. It's our own mimetic desires that confer centrality on the "sacred" being, not any attribute of the being itself. And we see this because all sacrifice tends towards human sacrifice and, paradoxically, as Eric Gans shows in The End of Culture, does so the more God Himself is understood in "human" terms—that is, more as a mediator between humans than a central focus precluding the emergence of humans as centers in their own right. If the gods give us food, then we owe them food in return; if God has created us out of nothing, we owe him everything, even our firstborn. But how could even that be enough?
Human sacrifice emerges along with human hierarchy, as the first figures to make a claim to permanent centrality were sacral kings, who were no doubt often killed in manners that, with immense variation across cultures, became increasingly ritualized. The sacral king mediated between the community and the cosmos, and if that mediation went wrong sacrificing the king would restore it; at a certain point it would make sense to regularize the oscillation between effective and ineffective mediation. Divine kings introduced layers of bureaucratic mediation between themselves and those they ruled, so they themselves could no longer be sacrificed. But divine kings eventually established justice systems to deal with disputes between the new centers inevitably created within those new "layers" between themselves and the people. Regularized forms of compensation are established. Large scale imperative exchanges are established between the divine king and those situated in the various layers, all of whom bring tributes to the divine king who has, of course, provided his people with everything. With a justice system, injustice becomes a possibility; if injustice becomes a possibility, it is also possible for the system as a whole, in failing to remedy that injustice, to itself be unjust. And its unjust nature could be concentrated in a singular figure, a victim who has become meaningful in a new way, by being victimized precisely as a result of revealing systemic injustice. The sacrifice of such a victim in order to resolve some crisis would take on the ritual sacrificial forms but would be impossible to "contain" within those forms. This process would set in motion the erosion of sacrificial forms, and of the imperative exchange they institute.
So, the divine king inches ever closer to demanding a "total" gift or sacrifice, but can only do so in terms that are so monstrous that the more civilized regions of the system make it possible to see those terms as an indictment of divine kinship itself. From here, those in a position to negotiate in some way with the divine center can go in one of two directions: toward cynicism and nihilism, on the one hand; or, towards another form of "total donation" on the other. Cynicism and nihilism can only be a local phenomenon indulged in by the privileged. The new kind of total donation is to a new kind of center, which cannot be embodied in a central figure, and certainly not a central ruler—this is a center that commands a refusal to engage in the discredited forms of violent centralizing. A genuinely and completely post-sacrificial center would be devoted to propagating and embodying, or signifying, this command. Very few do so wholly, but it is only a certain number, which we couldn't determine in advance, which would necessary to exemplify the limits of sacrifice and preventing the social order from being engulfed in it.
So, if we don't want to call this order "post-sacrificial," what should we call it? Part of the difficulty is that liberalism "launders" sacrificial imperative exchanges through a post-sacrificial order. Needless to say, scapegoating goes on constantly within a liberal order—much of it remains symbolic, which raises a question: are we irredeemable scapegoaters, so the best we can do is make scapegoating more symbolic, and less violent?; or does a liberal democratic system predicated upon symbolic scapegoating prevent us from more decisively marginalizing scapegoating? If the latter is the case, the only way of creating an order that would be more than merely "post-sacrificial" would be the establishment of an order we might call "charismatic autocracy." "Charismatic" in Philip Rieff's "graceful" sense of charisma as deferral in obedience to an absolute imperative (in our terms, the imperative to defer violent centralizing). "Autocracy," meanwhile, is essential, because as long as we have hierarchical societies, someone will be at the center, and the only way to avoid constant accusations of illegitimate usurpations of the center and hidden powers behind the temporary occupant of the center would be to place the occupant of the center beyond any external criteria of "legitimacy." That would represent a radical curtailment of sacrificial logics, because the desire to replace the figure at the center is the most "bad faith" desire possible because it self-evidently represents an attempt to be closer to the center oneself. A general renunciation of that desire would represent a quantum leap in the deferral power of all members of the social order. The argument for such an order would be predicated upon the assumption, for which we could find a wealth of practical examples, that symbolic scapegoating is really just a "gateway drug" prepping us for the real thing. The "charismatic" component of the "autocracy," then, is less a quality possessed by than conferred upon the autocrat, who is himself in fact desacralized and represents nothing more than the need that someone occupy the center. (This doesn't mean a social order wouldn't want, and couldn't arrange for, the best possible person to occupy the position—it just means that such arrangements must themselves be bound up with the irreducibility of the central authority.)
In grammatical terms, "charismatic autocracy" involves a movement past "imperative exchange" to "interrogative imperativity." Under the regime of imperative exchange, declarative culture is ultimately a kind of scorekeeping, trying to figure out the respective "values" that are being exchanged. To this day, most discussions of morality take this form. But once the imperative is to resist or defer imperative exchanges, an interrogative, a question, is introduced explicitly into the proceedings. Not the question, "how much is this worth," which is never a real question because it's just a way of accommodating oneself to the powers framing the existing order; rather, the question is, what violent centralizing lies at the end of this imperative exchange? All the linguistic means by which you construct yourself as a center then become open to "interrogation," as either demands for a better "deal" or "intimations" of the creation of new centers that would render any deal irrelevant. Only the demand for this state of questioning can satisfy the command for a total donation.
Within the imperative exchange, declaratives essentially involve haggling over prices—what one owes the gods/institutions, what they owe us, and, further down, what we owe to each other, whether in market terms or in terms of honor and kinship. Within interrogative imperativity, declaratives take on a far wider scope, that of converting possible (and impossible) imperative exchanges into a rule or constraint for deferring "analogous" imperative exchanges. The first question, rather than, "how do we get what we're owed," becomes more like, "what makes you think obligations can be calculated?" And then an inquiry is opened up into all the different ways people can imagined they're owed this or that—and once the strict terms of obligation have been displaced many more such possibilities become imaginable. All the mythical and ritual imperatives you are obeying to imagine each and every one of them become evident. Narratives accordingly shift from telling of the spiraling out of control of one imperative economy until it leads to a reset, to putting all imperative economies in question, exposing the imbalance in all presumed balances.
The most powerful way of doing this is originary satire, which involves turning every threshold and boundary into a narrative wherein figures on both sides of the boundary or threshold turn into each other, so that the terms of some expected imperative exchange are reversed. That is, the "vocation" or telos of the sentence is represent other scenes within the scene of composing and hearing/reading the sentence itself. Everything grammar does—tense, mood, aspect, etc.—it does in order to articulate relationships between the scene of utterance and the other scene(s) it refers/defers to. In that case, all these boundaries and thresholds are themselves materials for originary satire: the relation between present and past, between a continual and a completed action, between possible and actual are all abstracted and re-embedded in narratives. It's just as easy to say we spoke with each other a thousand years ago as it is to say we spoke with each other yesterday; that we are in the middle of doing something that's been going on for decades and is further metastasizing even as we speak as it is to mention where we are right now; something that is unbelievably unlikely can be set alongside something that seems obvious; linguistically, you could be saying what I think as easily as I can. Originary satire targets chunks of language, stereotypical sentence types, which tend to harden into the marshalling of evidence for imperative exchanges, for their beneficial or inevitable nature—i.e., sentences that supplement imperative exchanges, rather than extracting samples of language from them so as to remind us that language is always received on a scene. In simpler terms, our expectations of one another rest on the bedrock of imperative exchanges, and the purpose of disciplinary spaces aimed at satirizing those expectations is so that we can see them, ultimately in order to construct charismatic and autocratic modes of interaction requiring more "input" into the construction of expectations. In truth, this is the most realistic use of language, because we are always, still, on the originary scene, which can never "close."
The concept of "interrogative imperativity" makes it possible to pose more explicitly a question that has been implicit in my earlier discussions of literacy as a kind of supplementary originary scene: why is the scene of classical prose objectionable, or worth exposing? Because it fulfills one imperative of the declarative (to defer imperatives by "absenting" the demanded object) by renouncing the other imperative of the declarative—to articulate other scenes with the scene of language itself. This means that the literate declarative scene can only keep reiterating and justifying its own supplementations (again, all the "beliefs," "assumptions," "claims," "suggestions," "implications," etc.) so as to sustain the unitary prose scene—it must systematically obfuscate the declarative's grounding in the ostensive-imperative world. Classical prose and the "classic" disciplines are interested in making beliefs, assumptions, etc., unequivocal, that is, used the same way by everyone—for this reason, they cannot construct, or even imagine, the possible ostensives and imperatives that would come before any "belief" or "assumption." Originary writing, in that case, restores this grounding, but not, of course, by pretending the literacy revolution never happened. Rather it takes the nominalizations constructed by classic prose as names which we can apply beyond their restriction, imposed by classic prose, to the unitary scene—most directly, by applying them to the disciplinary iterations of classic prose itself. So, originary writing obeys an imperative from the center discovered/invented by the nominalizations of classic prose and the disciplines. That imperative is to generate more potential ostensives and what these ostensives do is name sites of emergent dangerous violent centralization, as early on in their onset as possible. Some nominalizations will end up being genuine names for practices of advanced deferral; some will turn out to have been incitements toward violent centralization—the work of the disciplinary space is to iterate these nominalizations/names so as to discover/expose which is which (or to detour them to new uses).
When we study "reality," that is, what we are doing is inventing and deploying concepts enabling us to detect potential sites of mimetic contagious outbreak. We can do this because of the cognitive consequences of literacy, which parallel and contribute to the discrediting of sacrifice. But classical prose and its metaphysical superstructure just contain and normalize sacrifice by classifying and ordering the markings of the potential victim rather than relying on the spontaneous crisis. Still, it is only through that prose and those superstructures that we can generate the terms of a charismatic autocracy. The supplementary concepts used to simulate a shared scene for writer and reader can be turned into means for generating new scenes of origin of deferred scapegoating. If you take a concept out of its context so as to conceptualize the context itself you create a disciplinary space within that context—that disciplinary space will either reveal that the discipline (the "context") is too bound to its unitary scene to generate further potential ostensives, or recover and prolong the origin of the discipline/context in a recontextualized ostensive.


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The Sevenfold Chord of Being
The range of the manifestation
Sri Aurobindo examines the seven fold mode of all cosmic existence as enumerated by the Vedic seers and quotes the famous verse from Rig Veda: �In the ignorance of my mind, I ask of these steps of the Gods that are set within. The all-knowing Gods have taken the Infant of a year and they have woven about him seven threads to make this weft.� (The Life Divine, pg.276)
Taking the Vedic suggestion as a template, Sri Aurobindo constructs a scaffolding that not only houses the gradations of cosmic existence but also serves as a framework to accommodate the movement of evolution and the movement of involution which precedes the evolution; it also explains the movement from unity to multiplicity and vice versa and poises the creative consciousness of the Supermind in its proper place. In doing so he does not strictly adhere to the seven principles but elaborates a eighth as he himself acknowledges that the Vedic seers themselves were not rigid in fixing numbers for they had spoken not only of seven Rays but also of eight, nine, ten or twelve. In a letter on the significance of symbols he had commented, �Sat, Chit, Ananda, Supermind, Mind, Life, Matter are the seven [seas of consciousness mentioned in the Veda]. But in this Yoga one sees many levels of consciousness...� (CWSA 30,pg.148-149)
The two aspects of Consciousness
The basic and fundamental Reality of the cosmos is the experientially perceived triune oneness of Sachchidananda ---it is a complex of Existence (Sat), Chit (Consciousness) and Bliss (Ananda). These are not additive principles but different poises of the same Reality.
Sri Aurobindo further qualifies the �consciousness� component, describing that it has two aspects:
1. Illuminating � the state and power of self-awareness, and
2. Effective � the state and power of self-force. (The Life Divine, pg.276)
In Sachchidananda, these two aspects of Reality or Being are dormant. This is natural as the Reality at this stage is unmanifest, absorbed in itself.
To shift from unmanifest to manifest Reality there must interfere a creative consciousness which is an intermediate principle .In fact, it is the fourth principle of the Higher Reality after the three principles of Sat, Chit and Ananda. Sri Aurobindo describes this creative consciousness as the Supermind or Real-Idea. It is a consciousness whose task is to program the qualities of Sachchidananda so that they can be aroused from dormancy and start to be active to release potentialities that would build the cosmos.
The first important thing that happens is that in the Supermind, the �illuminating� and �effective� aspects of Consciousness that were present in Sachchidananda in a dormant state become translated as:
1. A divine Knowledge that automatically is self-aware of the plan of the cosmos, and
2. A substantial Will which is in perfect unison with the divine Knowledge and automatically and spontaneously works out the divine plan with perfect clarity and harmony. (Ibid, pg.276-277)
Sri Aurobindo elaborated that in the Supermind, �there is no division between Knowledge and Will, each acting on each other or rather fixed together in oneness and therefore infallible�. (CWSA 30, pg.409)
Unity and Multiplicity
The Supermind runs a sort of program (like a software program) so that the oneness of the Supreme Reality can be translated into the multiplicity. This is a great contribution of Sri Aurobindo as prior to him nobody could explain how the unity became the multiplicity and the traditional explanation was that it was by Maya. Swami Vivekananda however was bold enough to point out that Maya was a descriptive and not an explanatory term. (Vivekananda, Swami: Complete Works, Mayavati Memorial Edition, Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, 10th ed, 1989, Vol. II, pg. 97)
The process of translating the unity to the multiplicity is complex and undergoes two phases:
�a double faculty of comprehensive and apprehensive knowledge; proceeding from the essential oneness to the resultant multiplicity, it comprehends all things in itself as itself the One in its manifold aspects and it apprehends separately all things in itself as objects of its will and knowledge.� (The Life Divine, pg.277)
Thus there are two operative principles of the Supermind:
(a)	The Comprehending principle � This enables the creative idea destined to produce a variegated multiplicity to be held as an in-built program even in an indivisible and unitary consciousness.
(b)	The Apprehending principle � This enables the pre-programmed vision of creation to move from a consciousness that is indivisible and unitary towards a divisible and multiple manifestation.
In the spiritual parlance of India, the unity of consciousness is Knowledge and the multiplicity that has lost contact with the unity is the basis of Ignorance. As the Supermind upholds both the unity and the multiplicity, �It is the secret Wisdom which upholds both our Knowledge and our Ignorance�. (Ibid)
Higher and subordinate Powers
The Higher principles in the domain of Knowledge that is based on oneness are represented by their subordinate principles in the domain of Ignorance where the link with oneness is lost in the play of the multiplicity.
(a)	The Sat or Existential aspect of Sachchidananda becomes Matter.
(b)	The Chit or Chit-Shakti or Consciousness-Force aspect of Sachchidananda becomes Life-Energy.
(c)	The Supermind or creative consciousness or the Real-Idea becomes Mind
(d)	The Ananda or Bliss aspect of Sachchidananda becomes the Psyche or true psychic entity (soul-entity) at the nodus of mind, life and body and is veiled by the desire-soul in front. The nature of the psychic entity is pure Bliss, it is not tainted by the Inconscience. (Ibid,pg.277-278)
Matter, Life and Mind appear successively as the evolution proceeds from the Inconscience where the Superconscient had descended through a process of involution. However the psychic entity is an exception for it does not carry the impurity of the Inconscience. It is not an evolutionary product but the result of the direct descent of the Ananda-principle in the human consciousness (Of course, a personality builds up around the psychic entity and this personality evolves, but that is another thing). Because of its intrinsic purity, it is held back in the inner or subliminal recesses and can only be accessed �through the development of the individual consciousness towards universality and transcendence�. (Ibid, pg.278)
Thus the existence we perceive at the level of the manifestation is �a sort of refraction of the divine existence, in inverted order of ascent and descent�. (Ibid) Sri Aurobindo himself presents this range in a tabulated form:
Table 1 :The range of the manifestation: Principles and Subordinates
The link between upper and lower hemispheres
The gradation of the Being provides a framework for the two-way communication between the upper and lower hemispheres: When the Unmanifest unitary Reality of Sachchidananda existing in infinity and eternity has to manifest in space and time, it has to do so through the creative medium of the Supermind.
When the manifest beings aspire to resurrect the unitary consciousness in the matrix of the manifestation and without rejecting the manifestation, they have to progress through the illuminating medium of the Supermind to the divine being. (Table 2) Thus the Supermind functions in different denouements.
Table 2 : The denouements of the Supermind
Sri Aurobindo explains:
�The knot of the two, the higher and lower hemispheres, is where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity; for by that rending, by the illumining descent of the higher into the nature of the lower being and the forceful ascent of the lower being into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of the omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence�. (Ibid, pg.278-279)
Sri Aurobindo adds that if the aim of human life is not just an escape from the cycle of birth and death into some blank or luminous Void, then the human being has to develop his potentials to an infinite extent so as to be able to mediate between the upper and lower hemispheres for some other goal .The activation of the Supermind principle and rending of the veil between mind and Supermind would lead to that high goal that would not reject the world, instead, �such a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of the Divine in the creature must be that high-uplifted goal and that supreme significance�. (Ibid, pg.279) The human being would be able to live a �Life Divine�.
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Tainted cultures, state-sponsored doping & blurred lines: how easy is it for elite athletes to stay clean?
by Julia Cook - 26 November 2019 0762
These days it's hard to go more than a week without seeing exploits of a new drugs scandal within sport. Almost five years after the revelations of state-sponsored doping in Russia came to light, the entire sporting world is still reeling from the issue, and little has been resolved. And more
"I almost led a secret life": Phil Harris on becoming Britain's best figure skater, looking ahead to Beijing 2022
by Matt Bowers - 19 March 2018 20 March 2018 02408
Ahead of the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships in Milan, we spoke to three-time British national champion Phillip Harris about his rise to the pinnacle of the sport. The 28-year-old Blackpool native was stranded in a London airport with an unexpected moment to reflect, eagerly waiting for details on his delayed
Swedish defenseman Calle Ackered thriving in "more offensive" British ice hockey
by Matt Bowers - 5 January 2018 8 March 2018 05677
Ice hockey is not exactly a staple of British sporting culture. In fact, when you mention the very word "hockey", most Britons assume you're talking about a different sport entirely. However, the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and teams like the Guildford Flames are changing that. With top players from around
Does she even lift though? Why yes, yes she does.
by Adam Samuel - 18 October 2017 24 October 2017 01648
Sports Gazette caught up with Great British International Weightlifter Amber Sheppard following her success at the recent British Junior Weightlifting Championships. In a wide-ranging interview, she explains her unusual path into the sport, combs over the highs and lows of her career thus far, and discusses her ambitions and motivations


Despite having only nine ingredients, this dish presents a wide variety of flavors, textures and colors with crisped cubes of ōtoro, tender kabocha gnocchi and a creamy grilled lemon emulsion that brings the two components together. The salt and rendered fat from the ōtoro forms a crisp golden brown shell on the outside of each cube, while the medium rare center melts like butter on your tongue. The kabocha gnocchi are sweet, tender and brimming with umami from a generous dose of pecorino romano in the dough. All this richness is kept in check by the bracingly tart and mildly bitter grilled lemon emulsion.
Before being adapted as a frozen dinner staple in the US, Piccata was a delightful Italian preparation of veal, lightly floured and pan-fried before being enrobed in a citrusy emulsion made with the pan drippings from the meat. This modern adaptation recaptures some of that original goodness and takes it to the next level by pan frying medallions of Bigeye Tuna to a perfect medium before glazing them with a shallot, caper and lemon sauce. A generous sprinkling of gremolata on top not only brightens the palette of the dish, it also brightens the flavor profile with verdant parsley, pungent garlic and citrusy lemon zest.
This simple appetizer comes together quickly and the terrine can be made in advance. For your pittance of effort, you'll be rewarded with a terrine that's mostly tuna, just barely held together by a dashi gelée. The gelée instantly liquefies as it comes in contact with your mouth, swirling around the satiny tuna imbuing it with its smoky brine and intense umami. Paired with rich creamy slices of avocado and dressed with a tangy ponzu that's redolent of fragrant yuzu, this makes for a delightfully light first course, perfect for a mid-summer menu.
With ruby red sheets of Bluefin tuna lacquered with a sweet soy sauce glaze, atop a crispy sesame tortilla slathered with spicy ssamjang, this tuna sashimi pizza is a playful take on the Neapolitan classic, drawing influences from Mexico, Korea and Japan. Topped with crisp, juicy slices of asian pear and threads of green shiso, each bite of this light appetizer is different from the last. The trick to getting the tuna sliced so thinly is to use a very sharp long knife and a piece of tuna that's still partially frozen.


Trippie Redd dropped out of his opener performances on Travis Scott's Astroworld Tour. According to TMZ, the red-headed rapper cited production issues and interrupted set times as the reason.
The source told TMZ that the "rapper has become frustrated over the course of the tour with Travis' production crew." Trippie reportedly feels the crew takes too long to assemble Travis' elaborate stage, causing Trippie's show times to be pushed back and his set times shortened. Scott is also said to be frustrated with it too.
Scott has come under fire for his elaborate set design. Last week, Tommy Lee threatened to sue him for copying his stage design. He has yet to respond to the accusations of copyright infringement.


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Radiophonic Workshop
by det on April 17th 2007 to music
Some goodies from the Radiophonic Workshop, firstly the link to Alchemists of Sound documentary posted in the forums back in Novemeber 2005.
A documentary called Electric Music Machine I found on youtube. I found some information on it a while ago (when I first started this post) but I can't find the source anymore…
This fly-on-the-wall documentary about five days in the life of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop has a slightly odd history. It was conceived not as a broadcast programme, but as a straight-to-video release, and was originally titled "Opus 10259" (because the Workshop had worked on 10,259 projects by that point).
Filming took place in early 1985, but then the idea of releasing it as a sell-through video was dropped. Everything went quiet for three years, and then, after some extra filming in late 1987 (the Richard Attree segments), the programme finally saw the light of day on BBC-2 at 3.05pm on Tuesday 29th March 1988 to celebrate the Workshop's 30th anniversary. To date, that is its one and only transmission.
It's a nice little narration-free doco that does an excellent job of presenting a snapshot of the work that was going on in the Workshop at a time when the "traditional" methods of manipulating sounds using reels of tape were beginning to be supplanted by new technologies like MIDI.
Just so that the Who fans aren't unduly disappointed, I should point out that this documentary about the Workshop is possibly unique in that it doesn't make any mention of Doctor Who whatsoever, although the piece that Peter Howell is seen to be working on – for a Newsnight special called "D-Day To Berlin" – sounds an awful lot like mid-80s Doctor Who incidental music, at least in its early stages.
It's been split into five parts on youtube:
Finally a radio documentary from 1979 called Wee Have Also Sound Horses, the title a reference to Francis Bacon's 1626 novel 'The New Atlantis'
Shape of Things That Hum
by det on February 13th 2007 to instruments
Eight part series made by Jacques Peretti from 2001, looking at cult electronic instruments and how they have influenced modern music.
Here are the links to each episode:
[1 – AKAI]
[2 – TR808]
[3 – TB303]
[4 – Simmons Drums]
[5 – Fairlight]
[6 – DX7]
[7 – Vocoder]
[8 – MiniMoog]
Found via post at kvr.
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The Day Rob Ford Was Confronted by a Topless Jogger
Well yesterday he came back from rehab, but refused to answer any questions from journalists.
All we got from him was a hollow apology, and a campaign speech.
But today Rob Ford was confronted by an ordinary citizen, who told him exactly what he thought of him.
And in so doing spoke for so many in Toronto.
Who are so sick of him embarrassing himself, his city, and his country.
And all Rob Ford could do was run like a CHICKEN.
No doubt like his good buddy Stephen Harper has instructed him to do...
Because as I told you the other day, Boss Harper and his Cons are now effectively managing the Ford campaign.
Ford can run, but he can't hide. And if he won't answer all those embarrassing questions reporters want to ask him.
Then wherever he goes, the people of Toronto will ask those questions for them.
Like Joe Killoran, my new hero, did today.
Yup. I bet it won't be long before the Fordzilla is wishing he was back in that luxury rehab. Or sucking on a crack pipe eh?
Because if he thought the last two months were hard, the next two months are going to be even harder.
We will not let that grubby bigot escape his past.
He will be held accountable.
And that Con hog is going down...
Labels: Con Klowns, Rob Ford, The End of Con Toronto, Toronto Election 2014
bcwaterboy said...
Didn't they just give out the Order of Canada today? I think the shirtless jogger (hot one at that) deserves one for doing exactly what should have been done at the shameless campaign stop Ford made yesterday. Very nicely done and good choice of words.
Ford deserves an award for the acting job he did. They must have done more than a few run throughs on that one. But hey if the voters of Toronto buy into it, they deserve him. Lets hope Chow gets her voters out and that will be the end of Ford, or at least one of them.
hi bcwaterboy...I have to agree with your opinion of the shirtless jogger. That's the best citizen confrontation with Ford I have ever seen. It needed to be said after the disgraceful way the Fordzilla is trying to dodge questions from the media. And of course, if it was up to me, Joe Killoran would be getting an Order of Canada TOMORROW... ;)
hi e.a.f....yes it was quite a performance wasn't it? It was well written so he couldn't have written it himself. And he clearly spent a lot of time in the last few days rehearsing in front of a mirror, or more likely a spin doctor from the Con regime. They need to buff up his image badly for their own reasons, and from what I hear, they are now pulling his strings...
Noah said...
His "rehab" has probably been focused media training. The Cons sent Hudak to the states for his, and in every appearance you could see him going through the scripted motions of body language and tone. We'll be seeing the very same from Ford over the next while, until he breaks again and is found drunk, drugged, and disheveled ranting at or about someone.
Im in love with Joe Killoran, his Fordian Confrontation was the best piece of news footage I have ever seen.
It was way better then watching Ford smoke crack and Toronto can be proud that the same city that produced and promoted jerks like bob and doug, also produced superheroes like Mr Killoran.
This polisci teacher that happpened to be jogging needs to get into politics and fight for his city, it was great seeing him. I hope he keeps popping up on the Ford campaign trail, Olivia chow should hire him to do so:)
hi Noah...yes, there's no doubt that Ford spent the last few days studying method acting. And I must admit for the first minute or so he almost had me fooled, until the mea culpa became Vote for Me !!!! But his message just doesn't make sense. He's telling us all that he's got a problem he can barely control, and will be fighting his craving for every drug under the sun for the rest of his life, and that stress could drive him over the deep end, and hoping that we'll feel sorry enough to make him mayor again? Hmmm...something tells me it's not going to work... :)
hi deb...you can't be in love with him I am !!!!!!! Oh wait, you can. I forgot he's straight !#@!!!!! But seriously I was incredibly impressed by Joe Killoran, with or without his shirt on. He delivered his message loudly but without being offensive or vulgar. After reading some stories about him I can see that he is a very good teacher. And yes we need more people like in politics to really shake things up. ...
agreed, glad to see Toronto has you and Joe fighting for the people.
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Bend Studio's first date with the Uncharted series and their outing on the Vita has been voted by fans as the best game on Sony second-generation portable console.
With the end of the year fast approaching and the world not having ended, it is time to get back into the swing of things as we bring you coverage of just what is happening in the world of video games. Starting off by seeing which Vita games gamers voted for as their favourite.
The PlayStation Blog held a poll recently where they asked gamers to vote for their favourite titles in a number of categories and with both the Fan's and Editor's Game of the Year sorted, It is now time to move on to the same category for the Vita.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss was the launch title to have when the Vita was first released. A lengthy campaign, decent replay value and its use of the Vita's features made it stand out from the rest. It still remains one of the best experiences the Vita has to offer and according to fans, it is the best.
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Le qualificazioni del singolare maschile del Millennium Estoril Open 2021 sono un torneo di tennis preliminare per accedere alla fase finale della manifestazione. I vincitori dell'ultimo turno sono entrati di diritto nel tabellone principale. In caso di ritiro di uno o più giocatori aventi diritto a questi sono subentrati i lucky loser, ossia i giocatori che hanno perso nell'ultimo turno ma che avevano una classifica più alta rispetto agli altri partecipanti che avevano comunque perso nel turno finale.

Teste di serie

  Jaume Munar (qualificato)
  Roberto Carballés Baena (ultimo turno)
  Juan Ignacio Londero (ritirato)
  Pedro Martínez (qualificato)

  Pedro Sousa (primo turno)
  Carlos Alcaraz (qualificato)
  Brandon Nakashima (primo turno)
  Liam Broady (primo turno)

Qualificati

  Jaume Munar
  Nuno Borges

  Carlos Alcaraz
  Pedro Martínez

Tabellone

Sezione 1

Sezione 2

Sezione 3

Sezione 4

Collegamenti esterni

Millennium Estoril Open 2021

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