"I'm starving, and I'm exhausted," my partner said arriving home around 7pm. In the kitchen, this week's home within my home, I mock rolled my eyes before looking down to see his hand tremble. Eating 700 calories over the last 12 hours was not enough.
Our final verdict: we should have bought donuts. We were full. We laughed. Maybe a week of donuts would not be 'ideal,' but we should have created healthy meals that were higher calorie and more filling. Sounds like a great idea, a no-brainer, right? Thirty minutes of joking about 'just how many beans is too many' later, neither of us had solved hunger. We agreed that CalFresh can't be "enough." Don't get me wrong; CalFresh is amazing! Each year, CalFresh lifts more than 1 million Americans above the federal poverty line, increasing their household budgets by an average of over $2,000 annually. CalFresh (SNAP) is our nation's strongest line of defense against hunger and poverty AND it is not enough.
The past five days I've felt exhausted, lethargic and unmotivated. I've had enough energy to work out once, compared to almost daily, and have woken up almost every morning with a headache. In an attempt to maintain a "healthy" diet, we've denied ourselves the calories we need to be healthy and functioning. As a result, we both lost at least a pound of body weight. The irony was not lost on me as so many poor Americans struggle with chronic health conditions spurred by overweight and obesity. The foods which fill also kill.
Not wanting to "give up," I pulled up a list of local food pantries within my work zipcode, maybe we could supplement?? Two of 12 food pantries on the list were open on a Friday. I called both and found out the foods being distributed today were: potatoes, oranges, bread, ramen and pastries. Gluten free leaves me with (more) potatoes and oranges; helpful, but still probably not enough.
I thought about taking advantage of Saturday's City Height's Farmer's Market "Fresh Fund," an awesome program that allows CalFresh and WIC recipients to 'double' their produce purchases any six weeks out of the year (up to $20), but we don't have any money left.
While a silly, ego driven part of me is disappointed in not being able to "life hack" this challenge, a deeper part of me realizes that this is a challenge that cannot be 'won.' In our society, poverty is all too often reduced to a series of bad decisions on the part of the impoverished, stripping those more fortunate of any responsibility. For me, this experience was one important step on a path towards better understanding and connecting with a deeper sense of community. I will continue to challenge myself to connect with experiences and individuals that draw light to my privilege and that provide me opportunities to interact and give back to making our community more just.
For anyone reading that is wondering what they can do, I challenge you to create your own way to connect. Try the Challenge for a day, for 3, for a week if you can and donate whatever additional money you might have spent that week on fighting hunger. As we enter the increasingly circusesque elections, pay attention to and consider voting for candidates committed to building a strong society that includes provides opportunity and access to basic resources for all.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I went grocery shopping for the week. I didn't go with a list, but I had some general ideas of what I wanted. $30.67 isn't much, so I started by doing a lap of the store, writing down prices and attempting to balance my limited budget. I quickly learned that carbs are cheap and would be filling, but are clearly not as healthy. I cut out pasta sauce to buy cucumbers and I dropped grape jelly to add on bananas and a few more apples. I relinquished my coffee addiction. And with every item I bought, I stopped to examine if there was a cheaper alternative.
At the end, I had calculated in my head that I was at $30, give or take a few. And that's when I realized how stressful it is living on this budget. If I got to the register and my total was $31, I could afford to just buy the extra food and remove an apple from my stash for the week. But the 450,000 people in San Diego who do this every day are faced with this same experience, and they may not be able to afford the extra cucumber or the 2lb bag of carrots. They may have to ask the clerk to return an item, stall the line, etc. I was surprised to feel some of that fear and anxiety as I approached the register. I left with $1.07. It was the most conscientious I have ever been while shopping at the grocery store and it was a clear reminder of how thankful I am for my food security.
The week, as a whole, went pretty smoothly. I never felt like I was going to have to skip a meal, but by the conclusion of my Sunday dinner I will have only 2 extra potatoes, 1/3 of a box of pasta, and a few slices of bread remaining. I only got hangry once, so I call that a win, but I didn't give myself much wiggle room on my budget. There were a few really difficult aspects to my meals, the first being the repetition. Every breakfast consisted of a bowl of cereal with milk and every lunch consisted of a peanut butter sandwich, a piece of fruit, and a small portion of vegetables. Dinner was more variable and was always the meal I enjoyed most.
After a long day of work the last thing I want to do is cook. During a typical week, I'll make something easy like grilled cheese or pick up something on the way home. This week, I didn't have that option but the temptation was always there. It often felt like there was less time in the day because I was spending so much more time worrying about my meals; making lunches, measuring portions, and cooking every night. Again, I realized how much more conscientious I was about what and when I was eating.
Eating on a budget is manageable. Eating healthy on a budget? That's a bigger challenge. As a health professional, it was an eye opening experience to the challenge of finding cheap, fresh vegetables. If I was a diabetic and I was trying to limit my carbohydrate intake, I would have drastically failed my diet this week. My core staples at every meal were cereal, bread, potatoes, and pasta; carbs, carbs, and more carbs. They were filling, and as a non-diabetic, made this challenge a little more manageable. I was able to find cheap fruits, but those are high in simple sugars that I advise my patients with diabetes to avoid. I successfully included less expensive, lean meats in my diet, but my week was lacking in bright, fresh, green vegetables. That is the issue with the limited amount of money provided to CalFresh users; either we need to work towards increasing the monthly CalFresh allotment or decreasing the price of healthy options. Easier said than done, certainly. But I have hope that Hunger Action Month and this week's CalFresh Challenge have raised awareness to these issues and that we may continue move towards ending food insecurity.
Q1: What are some of the items you have purchased and eaten?
Salads and sandwiches have been my lunch and dinners; bananas for breakfast. I've been drinking water all day.
Q2: How's the Challenge going for you so far?
Difficult! I am in an intense training program, and the lack of food and energy is making it hard for me to focus. I also don't have energy or will do do my daily exercise regimes.
Q3: What has been the most eye opening moment?
When I realize I have to make the food that I have purchased last for days.
On the first day, I forgot my lunch and drink for work so I stopped by McDonalds to purchase a $1 unsweetened tea and a MC Griddle total of $4.73; then one of my peers invited me to a working lunch. He offered to pay and I agreed. (normally I would offer to pay the total check, but was proud that I didn't) For day two, I remembered to bring my lunch and snack and for dinner, we eat what I had cooked the night before. For day three, I remembered my lunch and drink and took out meatballs and sauce I froze over the weekend.
So far it's going okay since I stocked up on groceries on the weekend, but this morning I noticed that fresh fruit, vegies and protein is very low since my son and my teenage daughter are feeding themselves for lunch and before I get home. I will need to go shopping today.
The restrain on eating out or inviting a friend. I really had to think about this something that I normally do not have to do. I am feeling very blessed for the job and resources I have, and can only imagine what single mothers/fathers go through.
OK. I've eaten on a stricter budget before. It requires forethought and discipline, so it's a commitment that takes some resources.
I don't feel good today, so typically I would treat myself to something healthy and delicious, like a whole-food smoothie or brownie from a specialty shop. I'm not sure how to comfort myself, since I typically use good (expensive) food.
For my family of four, eating on about $17 a day has meant difficult choices between healthy and not-so-healthy options.
With two very active, soccer-crazy kids, not to mention a meat-and-potatoes-loving dad (that's me!), protein is very big deal in our house. But a limited food income led us to forgo a lot of meat options. Ground beef or turkey was just too much; so were chicken breasts. Instead we went with chicken drum sticks and hot dogs. Our normal taco night was a little less fun: we stuck to bean-and-cheese burritos. All of us are eating peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. This is no big deal for my 8-year-old son, who eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch almost every day of his life, but the rest of us would prefer a little more variety. But a pound of sliced turkey for lunch was $8 or $9; no way we could do that.
Other examples of our cost vs health problem: a loaf of white bread, which seems to have the nutritional content of cotton candy, is about three times cheaper than a loaf of whole wheat. I'm happy to say we went with whole wheat, but it sure was tempting to go with the 99-cent loaf. Instead of my wife's usual, delicious spaghetti sauce, which includes sausage and other fresh ingredients, we went with bottled sauce. Not so delicious.
This is our family's big lesson: we are so fortunate to not have to make these kind of choices on a weekly basis.
Blog entry by Mark Martin, Senior Consultant with the State Assembly Budget Committee.
Our week started off well enough… however, I'm learning that my attempts to make meals palatable and interesting may have cost us our food security.
In an effort to "beat" the doldrums associated with eating on a tight budget, I created a varied meal plan, one that would keep my partner and I both satisfied and interested in the food we are eating. A part of me did this in solidarity with budget meal planners and preparers, usually women, across the nation who are tasked with creating something "delicious" and cheap. The other part of me wanted to see if the "you can eat gourmet on a budget" recipes that litter Pintrest and Mommy blogs across the nation actually held up.
The verdict: I can cook amazingish meals (aka Pad Thai inspired rice, chicken and egg) on a CalFresh budget, BUT it takes 3-4 hours per day.
In addition to meal planning and shopping, I am literally spending 3+ hours each night to cook and prepare meals. Last night, I spent hours boiling and shredding chicken, cooking and crumbling egg, and cooking and seasoning rice for our Pad Thai lunches. There's no way that I could do this and hold down a full time job long term, especially if I had kids.
As a result of spending so much time on food, other parts of our lives have suffered. I no longer have time for connecting with friends, going to the gym, or doing other things that I enjoy. Cooking, preparing meals, washing dishes and planning for the rest of the week (ie bean counting) has taken over. Spending 3-4 hours per day is not a realistic solution for most Americans. While the USDA claims that SNAP recipients spend an additional ~90 minute per week on meal planning and prep, I call "Fact Check" on that one.
Also as a result of focusing on food, I forgot and missed a deadline today for paying a parking ticket- costing me an extra $50. There are so many things that could be said about the larger context of living in poverty and the impact that stress has on our lives.
Yep, you are right, the above photo is a first world problems meme from this site. The title of today's post is an ode to one of America's true funny men, Bill Murray and this movie. Today's meals are basically a reprise of Day 2, which is a useful time to point out that one of the things you almost certainly give up when you can't make the money work is variety. That I'm even typing about the variety in my food options with the tragically bad refugee situation in Europe right now is the worst possible version of first world problems. That last link is to the fifty funniest first world problems memes because, well, if all I write about is serious stuff I probably wouldn't read it, either. No one reading this personally created the conditions that cause so many people to experience hunger, so while we can work together for policy that helps improve it, I'm not out to shame people or create some sad beginning to the day. Instead, today I'll give a brief reprise of the day's meals and then delve into something really, really cool. Here goes. As mentioned, I started the day with these eggs.
A couple notes. To make this whole thing work I had to do it in four servings each to last over two days. This compromises the whole variety problem, but is more realistic in terms of buying the ingredients you need. Also, it assumes there are exactly two single adults. Abouthalf of the children in California are living at or near poverty (yes, you read that right). So obviously many of the families receiving aid are not a couple single adults. Next year I may redo this effort as if we were a family with three kids in it to get a better picture. As far as I can tell from this calculator, a family of three (two kids and single mom – yes, unfortunately, it's usually the mom who has to pull all the weight) maxes out at about $132 per week, or about $6.30/day – better but not great. And that's the MAXIMUM. It's also worth noting that food stamps are meant to be a life raft to get people across difficult water until they can get a firm footing on dry land. Way too often this is just a story those of us who don't need the help tell ourselves to deal with the severity of the problem. No, just because you or I aren't receiving help any more doesn't mean everyone can just miraculously overcome. These problems are complex. I promise not to spend too much time on my soapbox on this, but I really think we'd do better with more empathy and less blame, more ladders and fewer walls.
Blog entry by Omar Passons. To read more about his journey, you can check out eat.drink.give.go.
The repetitive nature of my meals this week is getting to me by now. I will be very glad to not see oatmeal for a while after the challenge. It's also been difficult being the only one from my house taking the challenge this week. It's hard to come home and see my family eating some of my favorite home cooked meals (tuna and shrimp ceviche this week) while I have lentils and rice and pasta with sausage again. I've also been craving ice cream. Nothing major, but I do think that there is something about having a restricted food budget that makes you obsesses about what you're eating, what you wish you were eating, and how much you resent not being able to eat it.
The only restriction this week to indulging on snacks is the limitation of my budget this week but it also reminds me of the debates about what SNAP recipients can and should use their benefits for. As it stands right now, CalFresh recipient can purchase food and seeds meant for human consumption. They cannot purchase any alcohol, tobacco, or hot and prepared meals (San Diego County is one of seven counties in California that allow eligible homeless, disabled, and individuals over 60 to use their CalFresh benefits at participating restaurants).
However, the debate of restricting what CalFresh recipients is, unfortunately, an old story. Missouri's been attempting to ban recipients from buying seafood and steak, Maine is attempting to prevent recipients from purchasing junk food, Wisconsin wants to regulate what is purchased by recipients. These restrictions on CalFresh recipients are part of a larger move to place higher restrictions on low income individuals overall. While the feasibility of these initiatives is doubtful, they highlight a very real perception we have in the US that the poor have it too easy. That the poor should be suffering. That poor people are actively choosing junk food over nutritious meals and that the best way to encourage better nutrition for low income individuals is by policing their behavior.
Given this rhetoric, it's not surprising that not all eligible individuals apply for benefits.
I think about food a lot. Usually, it's with excitement. My day dreams consist of dinner brainstorming, making lists for my next grocery store run, and what new things I could do with cookie butter.
These past few days I've been thinking about food even more.
And my thoughts haven't been too pleasant.
For the most part I have been satisfied with my meals. For breakfast these past two days I've had oatmeal which is a usual part of my diet. I do miss, though, the raisins and walnuts that normally accompany it.
For lunch yesterday I made a rice bowl from Monday's leftovers consisting of black beans, green peppers, tomato and some jalapeno. I snacked on carrot sticks too.
Dinner was a bit of a struggle.
Yesterday, fall hit New York with full force. It looked like a handful of trees turned colors overnight, and the day was overcast with a nippy breeze. Throughout work I kept thinking about how nice it would be to change into sweat pants and have a hot bowl of soup. But then reality set in and I remembered that I didn't fit soup into my budget. Even if I could whip up a broth with the veggies I had, I would be out of food for the rest of the week.
It looks like CalFresh doesn't take into account spontaneous cravings.
The forecast for today was warmer than yesterday, so I felt that a kale salad for lunch would be appropriate.
Dinner, today was a deconstructed potato taco.
I am used to satisfying my food cravings and whims without giving them a single thought. If I want soup on a chilly Autumn day, I can stop by the grocery store or indulge in Panera take-out (and pick up a warm latte while I'm there). If I change my mind, I know I have enough food in my fridge and in my pantry to make a number of satisfying replacements. If I'm not in the mood to cook anything at all, there are four different delivery places programmed in my phone.
The restrictions of this challenge are suffocating.
And I still really, really, want soup.
What a person is (or isn't) eating could also be what is eating them.
When my colleagues announced that they would be taking the CalFresh challenge, I knew right away that I probably couldn't join them. My limited diet prohibits the digestion of everything from pasta to alcohol to nightshade plants. To sneak a glass of wine is one thing but ingestion of any food on the prohibited list for a whole week would have health consequences that could range from mildly annoying to painful. While I'm fairly certain that I probably could have found a way to adhere to a budget, it was the mental exhaustion of creating a meal plan for a diet that I already struggle with under the best of financial circumstances that I found to be the biggest hurdle.
Poverty snakes its way into every single aspect of a person's life. It manifests as food insecurity, inadequate housing, environmental illness, a sub-par education, and an increased likelihood of encountering violence. The physiological consequences of dealing with just one of those aspects is substantial, but the mental health effect is equally if not more significant and is likely to have a generational impact.
Yes, just about everyone over the age of 15 is stressed out in modern-day America regardless of income, but not everyone's stress is based on having to make choices over who eats in the household, which prescription pill to cut in half or skip for the day, or if the converted garage you're illegally living in will be discovered. And even those of us who have climbed past the first rung on Maslow's hierarchy of needs may still have a lingering fear if you spent a little too much time in your childhood worrying about the basics like what you'll eat and where you'll live. Layer a health issue on top of the lingering trauma of lack in a critical area and it's enough to make you throw your hands up in the air.
To be food insecure is to have to worry. A burnt meal or a dropped plate is concerning; a child with diabetes or celiac disease requires immense strategic planning with very limited resources. Mental wellness is just not achievable when a person has to worry about what they're going to eat, or how what they are eating may affect their health.
What it does: One of the largest comprehensive pieces of legislation that guides and provides funding for federal farm and food policies. The Farm Bill funds the CalFresh/SNAP program, the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), USDA Snack Program, Food Distribution Programs for Native Americans, among other food and nutrition programs.
When will there be space for action: The Farm Bill is typically renewed every five years and it was just recently authorized in 2014. The latest version of the Farm Bill included $8.6 billion in cuts to the SNAP/CalFresh program.
For more information, please visit FRAC Action Council.
What it does: Provides the guidelines and funding for federal child nutrition programs including School Breakfast, National School Lunch, Child and Adult Care Food, Summer Food Service, the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Programs, and Women, Infant and Children (WIC).
When will there be space for action: The current law is due for reauthorization by September 30, 2015.
The state legislative session is over for this year but we wanted to share which bills have passed both the house and the senate and are now waiting for the Governor's signature.
What it does: Provides tax credit incentives for farms to donate surplus produce to local food banks to help increase the access of fresh fruits and vegetables for low income Californians.
What it does: Creates a Matching Grant Program that allows California to bring money from the federal government to allow low income Californians to double up their CalFresh benefits at participating farmers markets.
For additional information on the bills that passed and died this legislative session, please check out Hunger Advocacy Network's 2015 Legislative and Budget Agenda.
As the nation prepares for another potential government shutdown by October 1st, CalFresh recipients might see a delay or postponement of their benefits for next month. If Congress is unable to reach a compromise within the next week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not have the funding available to continue benefits for recipients which could be detrimental for CalFresh/SNAP recipients. For more information, please click here.
Today I woke up hungry. To be honest I can't tell yet if this is because my normal portion sizes are just way too big or if I didn't get enough to eat. Nevertheless, this felt like the real start of the challenge, for a couple reasons that I'll get into in a moment. Today actually went mostly smoothly, but it wasn't without some interesting observations. Let's get into it. For breakfast, there wasn't much choice, it was either eggs or cereal. Fortunately, my wife and I had a chance to have breakfast together, so we went with option B.
The whole meal (eggs, toast, coffee, creamer, and veggies in the eggs) was $1.83/serving. That's not bad, though it is almost half of our daily budget. I left this meal feeling pretty satisfied. It's not actually more than I frequently get in a breakfast, but I knew I was going to be downshifting my daily caloric intake so I ought to not leave myself without fuel. We did this with fancy Omega-3 eggs from cage free chickens that are like $6 or $7/dozen. That price comes down considerably if you go for the regular eggs I grew up on. Breakfast complete, I headed off to work realizing that I'd have to "cheat" for lunch. The rules of this challenge say to try to avoid free food. The only reason I can think of for this is that the more well off you are or the more professional your job setting perhaps the more likely you are to either have people throw food at you all week or at least to have friends who offer you home made carne asada for free after you've had a day eating green goo (wait, maybe that last one is just me). I wonder about the premise and how closely these rules match the real life situations of people who get food stamps. I may try to do some research on this point. Still, a friend I am quite fond of had a thing he'd asked me to come to and so I wasn't going to be the weirdo eating split pea soup while everyone else was enjoying the three courses he had graciously provided.
I skipped the dessert and also tried to eat somewhat light. I imagine that meal would have been about $15, or a quarter of my whole weekly budget. I couldn't have used Calfresh at the restaurant but you get the point. I was grateful for the kindness of that friend and even learned some tips for financial independence over lunch. But I couldn't help thinking as I learned about certain ways to leverage the existing rules to lower my tax burden on the backdrop of having food I didn't pay for that this was like a double whammy of the rich getting richer. This isn't to call anyone in that room "rich" necessarily (after all, how would I know), but it does seem like it's pretty easy in my line of work to drift from meal to meal, blissfully not worrying about how much food I do or do not eat.
I occasionally break out my lesson of the pencil reference for my mom when she accuses me of wasting food. "Not so," I say, "the food isn't being wasted because whether I eat it or not all of the people who were able to feed their own families because of my purchase have already been paid. So whether I stuff myself or leave some on the plate, it isn't really being wasted." If you read that last link you'll find the lesson and a critique of it. I didn't have time to check the source, however. By the way, my mom was born in 1933, so she is really having none of my nonsense about the philosophy of food waste. I don't buy it as much as I did when one of my law professors busted it out the first day of law school, but the lesson does serve a useful purpose. I care deeply about the struggles many people face, and economics lessons helps remind me that not every "solution" to a societal problem actually is a solution – nor necessarily better than the problem it solves. It's why I think every politician should be required to know something about the law of unintended consequences before they take office. Sometimes we choose to make decisions despite knowing that there will be costs, but term-limited career elected officials rarely need to worry about the negative consequences of policies and as a result we can end up with popular decisions in the short run that have negative consequences that are only born by the people who remain. In the context of food, it's how some can score cheap points on the backs of poor people because they aren't made to see how certain policy decisions really do make it harder to get nutritious food. I digress. Back to the food.
A tuna melt, vegetables, and water (I include the water mostly because it has been serving as my filler during meals – though, in San Diego at least, the cost of that water is going up with this whole drought thing). The tuna was Wild Planet sustainably pole and line caught albacore tune from Costco. A 5 ounce can costs $2.50 (but can only be purchased as part of a 6-pack for $14.99). I added this part for two reasons. First, it's important to me to care about how our food gets to our plate, so we try to be thoughtful about it when possible. Second, it is much easier to care about these sorts of things when you can afford an annual Costco membership. I wonder if San Diego Hunger Coalition accepts donations of Costco memberships – or better if Costco would donate group memberships for Calfresh recipients.
Challenges: I skipped my afternoon snack today so I would have more wiggle room to budget my dinner. I ended up going over the daily allotment by $.03 and realized how much every single item counts. Normally, when making meals, I tend to snack on the veggies as I chop them but I knew that if I did that, I would not have any to put on my pita. My self-control was definitely tested.
Lessons Learned: I found myself becoming very creative with the ingredients I had. Instead of looking up recipes that may require me to go out and purchase additional items, I just took a look at what I had and chose to go with a Greek theme and just threw this together. A week ago, I probably would have purchased an item such as my pita creation for $5+ on the go. Now that I know I can make one for under $2, this will be added to my weekly lunch schedule. Plus, I made an additional one for lunch tomorrow!
Blog entry from Jaqueline Hess from Feeding America San Diego. Jacqueline is taking the CalFresh Challenge for the entire month of September! To access all her entries, you can visit her site here.
I felt surprisingly confident on the first day of the Challenge. I had coffee and oatmeal in the morning, something I will be having every morning this week. For lunch, I had pasta with peppers and chicken jalapeno sausage from Trader Joe's. Since most of our office is participating in the Challenge this year, we got to share stories of our shopping experience prepping for the week. It was interesting to hear about their anxiety and stress at the store as they planned out their meals this week and it was even more fascinating comparing it to my non-stressful shopping experience.
At around 1pm I realized I need to budget more coffee into the Challenge. My coffee addiction started in high school and it has fluctuated quite a bit. I have tried to quit, to cut down, to replace coffee with tea but it never works out. I probably should have accounted for how much coffee I drink a day a bit more. Luckily, I have some leftover money to account for my coffee addiction.
Dinner went pretty well as well. I cooked a staple for me: ground turkey with spices, potatoes and tomatoes with some basmati rice. I love this because it's a quick and easy recipe and I can always have some leftover for the next day.
For day 2 of the challenge, I had leftovers for lunch and for dinner I had some lentils and rice. During the second day we also discovered that this month Whole Foods is having 25 cent coffee! It might be the best news of the week so far.
Overall, it seems like I'm having a relatively easy start to the Challenge but I attribute it to the fact that I've been on benefits before and I had to learn to master meal planning with a limited budget. Taking the Challenge this week has made me think a lot about my AmeriCorps experience. As an AmeriCorps member, my stipend was not considered income so when the county calculated my benefits, I was eligible for the full benefit amount: $200 a month before the cuts to SNAP funding and $189 a month after the cuts to SNAP funding. My monthly stipend came to roughly $1,547 a month towards the end of my term. If my income was calculated to determine my CalFresh benefits, I would only be eligible for $16 a month.
I often found this disparity challenging, especially since my work as an AmeriCorps member meant I was meeting with clients on a daily basis that were living on similar incomes yet they were not eligible for the same benefit as I was. What made it more difficult was knowing that the individuals I worked with were actively searching for higher earning jobs without any success. Some went back to school to improve their chances and ended up with high student loan debt and limited options for advancement, others battled with debilitating mental health issues while attempting to maintain their jobs, while others strived to make a better life for their children in positions with highly fluctuating work schedules.
For me, having access to the full CalFresh allotment not only gave me access to more nutritious meals but it gave me peace of mind that I knew where my next meal was coming from and that I had one less thing to worry about. For the clients I worked with, CalFresh was a lifeline but it was not always enough. They understood that the benefits were a temporary safety net and they were never proud to be receiving CalFresh. Contrary to what some of the myths about CalFresh recipients are, the clients I worked with all looked forward to the day that they would not to rely on CalFresh to make ends meet.
Now that I have moved away from doing direct service, I feel like doing the CalFresh Challenge this week is a good reminder of why I focus on fighting hunger and food insecurity. It's a good reminder that the work we do in raising awareness and limiting the barriers to accessing this much needed resource is great but also that by talking about public benefits in a more open setting, we are also hopefully working towards de-stigmatizing CalFresh.
Day 3: Food without pleasure.
Food is such an inextricably linked part of my world, my aesthetic – heck, my husband is a chef and I have a Master's degree in Food Studies. You can imagine why the magical internet linked our online dating profiles together that fateful day, and you can further imagine how much of our pleasure derives from sharing food and cooking.
Yesterday morning and afternoon were fine, as I generally do not eat extravagant or terribly exciting foods during my work day (though sometimes I do since we work in a vibrant Mexican, Vietnamese neighborhood of San Diego), but when I got home I began to stare down the monotony of another dinner of pasta, rice, or beans as its main component. I haven't been really hungry, per say, because I am filling myself with foods that satiate, but my palette is screaming for flavor and my heart misses that from which I derive pleasure: the creativity of dreaming up my next dish, the excitement of culling together the ingredients and making them meld into a wonderful treat. When you work really hard all day, and life is hectic, sometimes the most fulfilling moment in that 24 hours can be a great meal and a lovely glass of wine. At least for me it can be.
I am writing a book on prison food and I write a lot about the monotony of repetitive meals and the deprivation of choice. I am very, very slightly glimpsing toward that feeling of having simply meals that fill the belly rather than ones that delight. I have read that with poverty comes a huge amount of boredom, and I am beginning to see how detrimental to spirit that can be.
Food is a true pleasure. Almost universally people find happiness and community in it. It is the one thing we are forced to do every day to keep ourselves alive that we can also turn into moments of sheer happiness. All of that changes on food stamps.
The above image came from this fascinating brief history of the food stamp program. A few years ago I was moved by the idea that I could help create awareness among my circles about hunger issues through this thing called the CalFresh Challenge. You have to live off $4.38 per day, which is the amount a single adult receives in the food stamp program in California. The last time I did it, I wrote about many of the things that people don't understand, like why businesses and poor people both lose if you over regulate what items are included, how this started out as a Republican/Bi-partisan ideal to help the very poor, and even simple things like eligibility criteria. Today is day one, here's how it went. The day before we started (a Sunday), my wife and I planned our meals for the week, went shopping, and then itemized the costs of everything. The first really shocking thing was that our initial meal plan came out to about $84 – or $23 more than we would receive if we were getting food stamps. Figuring out how to shave over $20 off an already sparse meal plan was pretty tough. We cut about $15 and are sitting tight for now to see what else can be trimmed.
Another thing to notice is that the amount of money available in food stamps has actually gone down for recipients by over 10% since 2012. An $8/week reduction may not seem like much to most people, but it made the process that much more challenging. On top of the reduction in food benefit, the actual costs of the food (and likely everything else one has to pay for) has gone up. We made a couple of the same items as last time and you can see the price per serving is higher this year. So, there's that.
As for the food, it was a pretty tame first day. I started with these. A reasonably priced item at .55 cents per serving including organic fancy pants 2% milk. When I got to work I immediately went for some hot tea. I think I'll be staving off hunger with water and tea. I have an office job, so it's easy to get some hot water and technically the coffee is available at no charge. I am passing on coffee this week because I can't afford it.
Lunch was an oldie but goodie, split pea soup! Here's what I wrote about it – and its incredible nutritional value – last time (link).
This is a great dish if you are trying to stretch dollars. It is a $1.33/serving (compared to $1.08 in 2012), which is a little high for lunch, but worth it. The pale, slimy green appearance probably would turn kids off, but it tastes good and is super nutritious. You need a microwave to make it work, but other than that it's a pretty easy choice. It occurs to me that if I had an outside job, like on a construction or landscaping gig, I'd probably have to make different choices about my lunch just due to the lack of a kitchen. I'll be interested to hear other stories of what is possible from others who either do this challenge or just live their lives with this budgetary constraint.
I read on one of my favorite news sites how according to the author doing this type of thing is a stunt. To be sure, some politicians and others do this so they can play gotcha games with the other side. Former California Republican gubernatorial candidate Neal Kashkari kind of set the gold standard for trolling with his pretending to be homeless for a week. The sad part is, had he just focused on sharing the lessons that such harsh conditions teach us, it could have been a really useful thing. His effort probably was a stunt. But there's a danger in minimizing efforts to call attention to the challenges that being poor or nearly poor brings. Most people won't know and don't generally have time to really understand what it's like to have to stretch your money because you only have $4/day to eat with. This is an opportunity to help get more information to people. And, hopefully, more empathy. Using someone's dire circumstances to score cheap political points is a bad idea. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I guarantee no one I speak to this week will know that while food prices went up, the amount available to live off went down.
On another front, the people in my office are really decent human beings. And they love to share their baking skills with everyone else. In fact, I went in to fetch some hunger-masking ice cold water from the break room and found this.
I hear it was delicious. I had to skip it to stay on the path of this challenge. Truth be told, if your place of employment serves food you probably augment your personal food supply with at least one meal this way. I recently learned from an uncle that my grandmother stretched their very limited food supplies in Little Rock in the '50s by bringing home the leftovers she prepared as a cook for her wealthy employers. Nevertheless, I get the idea of trying to be true to the spirit of the campaign, so I passed on this lovely looking cake.
It's amazing how much more slowly you eat when you know the next meal is eight hours away and you don't have money to just grab a quick pick-me-up. I'm only one day into this thing and am already remembering one of the things that I think is really most important. The experience of hunger shapes how you handle other things. It's like going on a long walk with a mild ankle injury. You can get the job done, but there isn't a point where you don't notice that something's not right.
These "taco" lettuce wraps were only $3.44/serving and they were delicious. A couple things. First, as a native San Diegan whose first food love is Mexican food, I know the idea of calling anything without a tortilla a taco is sacrilege. But when your motivation is partially to convince yourself that something isn't as odd as it seems a little suspended disbelief never hurt anyone. Second, they actually were good and I didn't miss the tortilla. I'm not just making the best of it, I was really surprised to find this to be true. Not sure if I could permanently leave the warm goodness of the Pancho Villa tortilla forever, but the occasional substitute may be good for the wallet and the waist.
Day One unfolded as mostly a success. I shared the story with a few work colleagues, so am raising a little awareness, and I'm ready to tackle day two. We had three healthy meals all for about $5.32 each. Yes, we blew our daily budget on the first day by .94 cents (over 20%), but we wanted to get started on the right foot and will look to make that up later in the week.
It looks like I am off to a pretty lousy start.
I spent last night at my friend's house to offer her support as she adjusted to cat ownership. We relocated Minnie from her home of seven years in Connecticut to Beacon, NY.
Have you ever sat with a cat in a carrying case for an hour in a half in a car?
It was a traumatic experience for us all.
To recover we ordered pizza, drank wine, watched movies, and eyed Minnie as she explored her new home.
To cure the headache I woke up with today, I felt it was a good idea to eat a few slices of the leftover pizza.
I wasn't able to get on the right track until dinner time. Running errands all day forced me to skip lunch; needless to say, I was famished when it was time to make my first CalFresh meal.
I have the feeling I will be eating a variety of this meal throughout the week. These tacos are stuffed with black beans, brown rice, a sliver of green bell pepper, a wedge of tomato, and a nib of roasted jalapeno.


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Carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds make up the skeleton of all organic molecules. However, creating such ubiquitous C-C bonds artificially is still a complicated task. In particular, since several molecules used in medicine, pharmacology and material chemistry contain aryl groups, devising a way to efficiently and selectively introduce this chemical group is a major goal for organic chemists. Currently, most arylation reactions require harsh reaction conditions, including high temperatures and excess additives.
Scientists at the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), devised a method to selectively introduce aryl groups into C-H bonds at room temperature. Published in Nature Chemistry, the study also clarifies the details of this reaction, which turned out to be different from the conventional idea.
In simple terms, the procedure consists of three main steps. Firstly, the iridium catalyst activates the C-H containing substrate. Secondly, the arylsilane attacks the metal, creating an intermediate molecule. The team crystallized such intermediate and demonstrated that oxidizing the iridium center of the intermediate (third step) is beneficial to achieve a low energy arylation reaction.
The proposed reaction mechanism was verified with electroparamagnetic resonance, cyclic voltametry and computer simulations. "Developing more efficient and environmetally benign oxidation system is our next goal," concludes Kwangmin Shin, first author of the study.


A list of secret quests is below. Look at your own risk!
This section of our wiki is dedicated to the logging of secret game content. All forms of quests, secret quests and methods to obtain special items can be listed here. By working in teams overcoming some quests becomes a lot easier - this page offers the results of many hours of discussion in our Quests Forum.
By proceeding into this page, you agree that you are willing to be exposed to spoilers and will not repost these spoilers outside this page. If you would prefer to solve these quests on your own then please close this page. Before editing this page please be sure to consult the relevant thread in the Quests Forum (link above).
The Raid (Burying) appears only on Friday at Sheriff John Fitzburn.
The Raid (Listening) appears only on Tuesday at the Coyote desert of Capura.
The Raid (Ambushed) appears only on Wednesday at the Dickson Forest.
After finishing Hernando's Sword (Hernando's Sword), you'll receive a new quest in which Waupee asks you to destroy the sword for 500XP. If you accept and complete the quest, one Hernando's Sword gets deducted from your inventory. This quest has no further impact on the game, and you cannot get the sword back unless you find or buy another one.
Equip Fancy Dress Coat, Aztec Gold (Treasure Hunt), and a Sombrero.
The quest epilogue contains a hint towards the three keys: the fact that the third key is droppable in fort battles (boxes).
Fill the bucket by doing 10 (5) minutes Stream Fishing while having the Empty Bucket equipped. You'll get a Full water bucket.
Visit Henry and exchange the Full water bucket for the Fire-Extinguishing Bucket.
Visit the quest giver at the Property.
Accept and complete The Murder (The Property). You will receive an Old Photo of the victim.
Question four people about the crime in the county and one in the county north. They will appear as quest givers (white dots).
Do the following jobs around the victim's estate until you get 6 pieces of evidence as drops; make sure you have got the Photograph equipped.
Visit the Sheriff and choose the murderer. The murderer is Mr. Cartwright, the horse breeder. Your decision has no further impact on the game, other than the rewards.
Travel north a sector and complete The Murder (Go Catch the Murderer). After beating Mr. Cartwright in the duel, you will receive 1000xp and a Rusty Colt Buntline.
Equip the Gold Dust and do Felling Tress until you receive the canoe.
Equip a Pickaxe (Iron Mining) and Transport Ammunition until you receive A Strange Lump of Dirt.
Go River Fishing with the lump equipped, and have the job end between 18:00 and 22:00 Server Time. You will receive A Dirty Item.
Get 100 FMS (Fine Motor Skills) and equip a Hammer (Repairing Fences). Visit Henry Walker and complete The Golden Treasure (With Patience and Finesse). You will receive A Dusty Revolver.
Go Drilling for Oil with a Roll of Cloth (Trading) equipped until you find the Golden Revolver product.
With ten Fool's Gold (Prospecting) In your inventory and the Golden Revolver equipped, do Transporting Ammunition until your motivation is lower or equal to 30%. You will then receive the Golden Colt.
Do Straightening the River with Spade (Digging Graves or Building Irrigation System) equipped, ending between 20:00 and 24:00 Server Time. You will receive A Dirty, Bent Piece of Metal.
Do Charlatan with A dirty piece of metal equipped until you receive the Golden Blade.
Do Granite Mining with the Golden Blade equipped until you receive the Sharp Golden Blade.
Do Iron Mining with Sharp Golden Blade equipped and six coal in your inventory until you receive the Golden Sabre.
You need the three keys in your inventory.
Key 3: As a drop from boxes in fort battles, Grave Robber, Work as a Traveling Merchant, or through the market.
Equip the slip, then do Charlatan until you find A Treasure Map!.
Equip A Treasure Map! and do Treasure Hunt until you find the Treasure Chest.
Go to the Forest Meadow with the Treasure Chest equipped, and trade the Treasure Chest for the Golden Gun.
Note: the Three key note, the Treasure map and the Treasure chest have got a drop rate of about 3% per half hour, so you do need a little luck. Eventually you'll find them though.
Have a newspaper in your inventory and do the job Selling Newspapers *The Western Star* until you find Stinky Fish.
Have an orange in your inventory and do the job Picking Sugar Cane until you find Candied Orange.
You can do one trick and one treat quest. You'll get different medals, but there is no further impact on the rest of the quest.
The Stinky Fish and Candied Orange will disappear after quest completion.
Go to Old Lady, 3rd row, 3rd column seen from the upper left corner of the map, and complete Halloween (A Small Favor).
Evil Twin uses the same weapon as you do. Equip a pillow or no weapon for your best chance to win.
Visit Henry Walker and complete Halloween (Death).
Death will always use a Rusty Tomahawk, so equip your best weapon.
Note: The first quest for each Quest-giver must be completed within a week of their release. The following quests have no time limit.
Once all of the above quests have been completed, go to Sheriff John Fitzburn and receive your Rotten Eggs by completing Easter (Happy Easter).
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Q: Negation of subsets
Negate If $A \subseteq B$ then $C \subset B$

Is the answer, $A \not \subseteq B \wedge ((C \not \subseteq B) \vee ( C = B))$

A: No: the negation of "X implies Y" is "X is true and Y is false." You've written the negation as, "X is false and Y is false." (Do you see why?)

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Genetics and age combine in their effect on gene expression: for people with the AA genotype, ageing and environmental stress reduce the activity of the gene, those with the GG genotype see the gene become more active with age.
"Ageing wasn't this difficult when I worked on worms." This comment by a first author on our recent Genome Biology paper is a recognisable lament to many of us who work in genetics. Ageing is a simpler problem when it comes to worms. You watch their birth; you watch their death; you can tell which of them are further along the path than others.
There are many model organisms where we understand ageing pretty well. We know how to alter a fly's DNA to make it live longer, we know how to feed a mouse to do the same. But until my C. elegans anti-ageing cream takes off among the worm population, what we really need to do is learn how this knowledge applies to humans.
The Genome Biology paper discusses the relationship between ageing and gene expression, the very first stage at which the genetic code is read within the cell. As we've seen in our research, changes to gene expression in our cells can be a starting point for disease that affects the whole body. The most basic example of this is expression quantitative trait loci, where, for example, we change the genetic code in a specific location, a single gene becomes more active and downstream we see an increased risk of cancer. A simple story of nature in action.
The paper tackles many aspects of ageing and gene expression, including how cellular processes change with age and the connection between cancer and ageing. But I want to focus on a different aspect of the paper: the change in the role of genetics as organisms age. It is here that we see, for the first time, evidence in humans that directly mirrors our experience with model organisms.
One aspect of genetics in model organisms that hasn't translated over to humans is that the genetic effects we observe in animals are often highly specific to a particular environment. The old dichotomy of nature and nurture doesn't hold: nature requires a particular nurture to show its effect. In human genetics, partly because it's hard to measure nurture and possibly because we're different and special, we haven't seen genetic effects that change much because of environment. Nurture has been effectively ignored when we're looking at nature, but this paper specifically tests the assumed split between genes and environment.
Because ageing can be seen as the cumulative sum of everything we have been exposed to over the course of our lives, we can ask the simple question: does this cumulative sum change the way genes are expressed? Of the 3,529 genes where genetics has a known effect, we found that for 610 the evidence suggested that the effect changed as we aged and as our environments changed.
Expression quantitative trait loci have been much studied because they promise to build the entire story of the role of genetics in disease from the ground floor up. With this paper we begin to see that at the ground floor, nature and nurture are already intertwining.
The direct effect of these expression quantitative trait loci depends on context; the stresses the person has experienced. This was obvious for model organisms because within laboratories the environments and stresses can be quantified and controlled easily. Discovering this outside the lab will be difficult, but with this study we begin to see that we are not so different from the animals we have studied and that our genetics is not necessarily our destiny.
Andrew Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Genome Informatics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute where he works on the EuroBATS project.


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2021-02-25 00:43:06 | New Zealand police reveal student binge drinking strategy: more pubs | New Zealand
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Story by: Eleanor de Jong in Queenstown The Guardian
It's an unusual request from police: more pubs.
But officers in a South Island city renowned for student recklessness and couch burning say they wish more drinking holes would open, as it helps them manage the revellers.
Dunedin is known for its student lifestyle, cheap rents, wild street parties and hedonistic vibe, associated with the 20,000 students who attend the country's oldest university, Otago.
With the new semester nearly underway students are descending on the city in their thousands, which usually spells disaster for police and emergency services. The season has become known for stampedes and riots, and spikes in hospital admissions for injuries and alcohol poisoning.
"There are literally 20,000 students having the time of their lives," vice-chancellor Harley Hanes told RNZ. "All the university tries to do is keep body and soul together while these young people are taking their final steps to adulthood."
Despite a dip in couch burning incidents – down from 250 in 2010 to 13 last year – police say more needs to be done to manage out-of-control student behaviour – and the introduction of more pubs would help.
Sergeant Ian Paulin, an alcohol harm reduction officer, told RNZ more pubs would help manage the risks associated with student binge drinking by bringing it out of the shadows.
"What would really help us if we had a couple of large-capacity licensed premises that students could drink in, they would love that and we would get them in a controlled environment," Paulin said.
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"But until we have a change in the price differential between an off-licence and an on-licence it probably won't happen."
Dunedin is home to more than 20,000 students. Photograph: David Wall/Alamy Stock Photo
In a pub or bar a glass of wine costs between NZ$7-15 (£3.50-£8), while in a supermarket an entire bottle can retail for as little as NZ$7 – an attractive option for cash-poor students, who often live on less than NZ$250 a week.
Over the past five years several student pubs have closed in north Dunedin as students eschew high prices for cheaper and faster alcohol consumption at home in their student flats.
Hospital workers have said "pre-loading" leads to more cases of alcohol poisoning and injuries, and more arrivals at the emergency department.
Paulin told RNZ that his officers were taking a softer stance on managing street parties as it was safer for students to be outside than crammed into small spaces in old houses, were stampedes could occur.
In September last year the student pub Starters successfully lobbied the council to allow it to stay open til 3am several nights a week, arguing the pub was safer for its clientele than their crowded flats, with no supervision from sober adults.
The bar is owned and run by Otago University Students' Association.
"It's a very special case," district licensing committee chairman Colin Weatherall told the ODT. "It's the only establishment in that part of town that caters specifically for students."
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Happy Birthday, Flannery!
Strike Up the Band
The Twentieth Century's Blake
Many visitors to Andalusia ask about the record player in Flannery O'Connor's room. We're asked, too, what kind of music Flannery liked. Though the writer often claimed to have a tin ear and had a terrible time learning how to play the piano when she was younger, she nevertheless had fairly sophisticated musical tastes. Her album collection includes recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Stravinsky that were given to her by Thomas Stritch. Everything outside the classical repertoire, she claimed, sounded like the Beatles. Apparently her birds had similar tastes. Flannery claimed that when she was listening to music the peafowl outside her bedroom window would sometimes join the chorus. The phonograph was a gift to her from the sisters at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Free Cancer Home in Atlanta. According to a letter to Stritch (Habit of Being p. 562), someone had apparently given the nuns a new record player for Christmas and so they decided to send their old one to Flannery. O'Connor enjoyed a close relationship with the sisters at the cancer home. From the time she helped them get their book, A Memoir of Mary Ann, published they expressed their love and gratitude by occasionally sending Flannery gifts. Among these is an inscribed crucifix presently hanging on the wall above Flannery's bedside table.
Big doings at Andalusia next week. Next Thursday, on what would have been O'Connor's 85th birthday, the mayor of Milledgeville and other dignitaries will be on hand to proclaim March 25th "Flannery O'Connor Day." If you're in the area come on out and help us celebrate the birth of our favorite writer. We'll even have peacock birthday cake to mark the occasion!


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Middle Years at StAC approximates ages 11 - 12 and 13 - 14, which usually equate to Years 6 – 9. In recognition of the fact that the Middle Years is a time of major transition from a "primary" to "secondary" orientation, there is a need for particular monitoring of student transition from the JY section of the College, and of students entering from local Catholic and State schools at Year 8 level. Significant rites of passage for students involved in these transitions have now become part of College life.
Establishing close ties with other schools sharing similar interests, including "feeder schools".


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'Delicate' Lead Producer job
Extraordinary Bodies is looking for a new producer to take on a brand new show in development called 'Delicate'. You can find an outline of the position below. To find out more and to apply for the Lead Producer job, click on the recruitment pack button below. The information in the pack is also available in BSL and audio version through the additional buttons below.
Recruitment pack PDF
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The Lead Producer job
To produce new show 'Delicate', written by Jamie Beddard. The show will be touring Norway as well as the UK in 2022. To find out more about the show, click here.
£14,000 for 12-month, flexible freelance contract. Location independent.
3rd January 2022: Deadline for expression of interest, CV and monitoring form to us (sorry it's over the festive season, but it is a light touch application, we promise!)
w/c 10th January 2022: 30 minute two-way Zoom chats.
Before the end of January 2022: Start date!
We will work with you to remove any barriers to applying or attending a chat. Contact Becky on 07952619763 or becky@diversecity.org.uk if you would like to have an informal conversation about this Lead Producer job.
We encourage applications from people who face systemic barriers to the arts, because we need diversity of thought, experience and approach more than ever. Words like 'calm', 'creative', 'mindful', 'support', 'sensitive', 'smart' and 'careful' crop up in the job description.
Watch our short film made with communities across the country about what it means to be human
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Extraordinary Bodies is a partnership between Cirque Bijou and Diverse City.
We are funded by Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the National Lottery.
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The Future of Circus
Thinking about a career as a circus performer?
Extraordinary Bodies is committed to making circus accessible for everybody. The performing company provides professional opportunities and employment for people from diverse backgrounds including Deaf and disabled performers.
What about entering the profession if you haven't had any circus training?
Extraordinary Bodies has brought together a panel of experts to look at how to provide more accessible career pathways and develop more opportunities for Deaf and disabled practitioners to train in circus. National Centre of Circus Arts, Circomedia and Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists are working with us to develop an action plan to influence and promote inclusivity in circus training and in youth circus.
Where can you find the existing accessible circus training opportunities?
A few youth circuses are fully integrated including Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists, National Youth Circus and Circus Eruption.
Circomedia and National Centre for Circus Arts are committed to making their FE and HE training inclusive. Contact them to discuss opportunities.
Let your local youth circus or community training space know how they could make it easier for you to work with them and find out their access policy. They will make reasonable adjustments to accommodate your needs.
Do you run circus training and want to know how to be more inclusive?
One aim of the Extraordinary Bodies panel of experts is to provide inclusivity training for circus trainers so more youth circuses have capacity and skill needed to become inclusive.
We are creating a toolkit available for download from this site and we are working to ensure that training in inclusive practice is available for unaffiliated circus teachers/trainers.
For information on teacher training contact National Centre for Circus Arts or Circus Works.
For information on best practice in inclusive training please see Doing things Differently, or contact Diverse City.
Extraordinary Bodies & The British Paraorchestra
In June 2016, The British Paraorchestra invited Extraordinary Bodies to collaborate on a one-off performance of Terry Riley's iconic cornerstone of classical minimalism, In C.
Composed in 1964, In C consists of 53 short repeated melodies in C major. How often each melody is repeated, coloured or intensified, is completely the choice of each individual player – but each player also has a responsibility to the whole ensemble, and each performance is different to any other performance of the piece that has ever happened.
Extraordinary Bodies took cues from the musical structure. We devised a series of physical 'gestures' to develop and combine in a complementary style to the musical phrases. It was a fantastic opportunity to experiment with movement, sound and the senses; to share the skills of our artists with new audiences; and to work alongside a company in harmony with our vision and values.
The combined effect of Extraordinary Bodies and The British Paraorchestra playing In C was described as cathartic, uplifting and engulfing. The aural equivalent of climbing inside a giant lava lamp…
The British Paraorchestra is the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians. Based in Bristol and led by pioneering innovator of classical music, Charles Hazelwood, they are ideal allies, partners and collaborators for Extraordinary Bodies.
To bring this unique performance to your area please contact us, we are always interested in new partnerships.
This performance was commissioned for Fast Forward Festival 2016 at Bristol's Colston Hall.
First created in 2013, Weighting is an uplifting, large scale, outdoor show that combines circus, theatre and live music to tell the story of an extraordinary family. The show celebrates risk-taking, transformation and asks when is the right time to let go?
The cast includes seven extraordinary disabled and non-disabled circus and theatre artists who take to the air on a huge transformative set. A stupendously talented five-piece band, playing an original score, accompanies the piece along with a captivating BSL interpreter and dulcet-toned audio describer. The show's memorable finale includes a massed, integrated local community choir, singing and signing together.
Supported by Arts Council England, Weighting was redeveloped in 2015 with writer Hattie Naylor. We toured to 5 locations across the UK including a headline performance at Bristol's Doing Things Differently event in September 2016.
The show's haunting and memorable soundtrack, composed by Dom Coyote and Ted Barnes, is available for download along with a invitation to support Extraordinary Bodies with a suggested donation.
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Alongside Weighting, we run a groundbreaking integrated and inclusive participatory programme called Sings, Leads & Plays, inviting everyone to experience, enjoy and learn first-hand about artistic integration. In 2014-16 this was funded through Diverse City's Clore Duffield 50th Anniversary Prize Fund win.
Our journey of discovery in 2017
In 2017 we are travelling the country visiting communities in 10 different places across the UK and Ireland. In each place, we are sharing circus, music and storytelling skills with diverse community groups, in return for their ideas, stories and responses to the question What am I Worth?
We want to understand how people see their own value and how they would like their worth recognised in society.
By the end of the year we will begin to make a new show: What am I Worth?
Joyful, radical, bold and accessible, the performance will tackle head on our assessment of value and our fear of difference. It will celebrate the stories of people who create their own sense of worth, despite a culture that devalues them.
Performed outdoors by an exceptional cast of disabled and non-disabled circus, theatre and music artists, What am I Worth? will tour from summer 2018. The show will include live music, BSL interpretation and audio description, and will play to audiences of up to 1000 people.
Find out more about our journey, our partners and the communities that we are working with by browsing the map below.
This project is funded by Arts Council England's Ambition for Excellence.
Extraordinary Bodies is a company of artistic activators and activists, a collaboration between colleagues from Cirque Bijou and Diverse City, and a diverse and exciting array of creative minds, artists, theatre practitioners, musicians, writers and crew. Click on the people below to find out more.
Extraordinary Bodies is the UK's leading professional integrated circus company. We create large scale, bold, radical and joyous performance. Our artistic practice increases awareness, capacity and leadership for integration of D/deaf, disabled and non-disabled artists working equally together in the arts nationally.
We make work with, for and about our communities; work that represents the diverse makeup of our society – onstage, offstage and in the audience.
We are a strong and unlikely partnership between leading showmakers Cirque Bijou and leading arts and diversity practitioners Diverse City. Our partnership breaks boundaries and our work does too.
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Water management followed closely by waste management was the top priority for most of the schools at the Annual Green Schools Programme (GSP) awards 2013, instituted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
These awards were presented recently to school students and teachers from across India, who drive change through various green practices in their school compounds and outside.
"Students from all over the nation are doing exemplary work in environmental conservation by minimising water consumption and harvesting water, optimising their energy use, shifting to mass transport modes, and catering to biodiversity conservation in their school compound. Their efforts are laudable and we have some very motivated green soldiers present here today," said Sunita Narain, director general, CSE referring to the 36 schools that received their Green School Awards.
These awards are conferred every year by CSE to recognise schools in India that excel in their natural resource management. These schools carry out rigorous self-audit on environmental practices within their own premises, following a set of guidelines issued by CSE (for details, please visit the CSE website).
Among this year's key winners are Father Agnel School, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi; DAV Public School, Gurgaon, Haryana; and Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Sonipat, Haryana. Schools competing for the first time for the awards were also lauded for their work.
"The number of schools participating in the programme has gone up to 21,000 from 15,000 in the past two years. The programme has been extended to Sri Lanka, and two schools from there have been awarded for their work in waste management here today," said Sumita Dasgupta, programme director of CSE's Environment Education Unit which manages this initiative.
The awards are divided into two main categories – national and state. The 20 national awards are further sub-divided into two segments of 10 awards each– the New Schools (those which have done the audit for the first time and have excelled) and Changemakers (those which have already done the audit once before and continue to excel).


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En phytosociologie, l'association végétale est l'unité de base de la classification des communautés végétales dans la typologie « sigmatiste ».
C'est un concept abstrait fondé à partir d'une série de communautés réelles, mais qui permet de désigner toutes les communautés qui ont un aspect similaire, qui vivent dans des habitats similaires et, surtout, qui ont un noyau d'espèces végétales caractéristiques. Au-dessus de l'association désignée par le nom d'une ou de deux espèces prises parmi les plus représentatives (dominante ou caractéristique), les écologues distinguent l'alliance phytosociologique, l'ordre et la classe.

L'expression « association végétale » a été forgée par Alexander von Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland en 1805. Elle est utilisée en phytosociologie, discipline botanique étudiant les relations spatiales et temporelles entre les végétaux. Dans la mesure où la phytosociologie ne se contente pas de décrire des assemblages de plantes, mais étudie également les relations des plantes entre elles et avec leur milieu de vie (climat, sol), ainsi que leur répartition géographique, on peut également considérer que c'est une discipline écologique ou géographique, et cela d'autant plus que ses méthodes et concepts sont transposables à tous les types d'organismes.

Définitions
par ordre chronologique

 1910 - Groupement végétal de composition floristique déterminée présentant une physionomie uniforme et croissant dans des conditions stationnelles uniformes

 1915 - L'association est un groupement végétal en équilibre avec le milieu, caractérisé par une composition floristique dans laquelle certains éléments exclusifs révèlent une écologie particulière.

 1922 - Communauté végétale reconnue et caractérisée par son assemblage spécifique et principalement par ses espèces caractéristiques.

 1922 - Groupement végétal caractérisé essentiellement par une composition floristique déterminée et relativement constante dans les limites d'une aire donnée.

 1973 - Combinaison originale d'espèces dont certaines, dites caractéristiques, lui sont plus particulièrement liées, les autres étant qualifiées compagnes.

 1991 - Unité abstraite fondamentale de la classification hiérarchique des synusies végétales, constituée d'un ou de plusieurs syntaxons élémentaires (groupements végétaux) partageant significativement plus de caractères communs que de caractères différentiels ; les caractères taxinomiques sont prioritaires sur les propriétés structurelles, chorologiques, historiques et écologiques.

 1996 - Unité conceptuelle de base de la classification phytosociologique, définie statistiquement, exprimant la composition floristique globale d'un ensemble de communautés végétales homogènes étroitement apparentées d'une région donnée.

Tableaux phytosociologiques

Les tableaux phytosociologiques décrivent les associations végétales. Ils sont issus de relevés de terrain tirés de la littérature. La compilation de ces tableaux est effectuée, par le projet « tableaux phytosociologiques » coordonné par Philippe Julve dans le cadre du réseau Tela Botanica. Les tableaux, classés par milieux selon le code CATMINAT, sont disponibles au format Excel sur le site Internet de Tela Botanica. On trouvera ci-dessous l'adresse des répertoires qui permettent d'accéder à ces tableaux.

 Eaux marines. Eaux marines océaniques et littorales à végétation aquatique essentiellement algale.
 Littoral maritime. Littoral marin à végétation aérienne, supportant le sel, parfois épisodiquement submergée.
 Végétations aquatiques. Eaux continentales à sublittorales, douces à saumâtres, en nappes libres et affleurantes, des lacs, étangs, mares, fleuves et rivières, d'origine naturelle ou créés par l'homme.
 Végétation basse amphibie. Zones humides plus ou moins amphibies, des bords de lacs, d'étangs, de rivières, sources et dépressions diverses, à végétation herbacée basse plus ou moins éparse, ne recouvrant pas totalement le sol.
 Roselières, cariçaies et mégaphorbiaies. Zones humides, parfois amphibies, des bords de lacs, étangs, fleuves, rivières, torrents, sources, dépressions diverses, à végétation herbacée haute (roselières, cariçaies, mégaphorbiaies), recouvrant généralement complètement le sol. (voir aussi le 06/ « Tourbières » pour les tremblants de colonisation des bords de lacs tourbeux).
 Tourbières. Tourbières hautes, tourbières basses et tremblants, prairies tourbeuses. (voir aussi le 05/3.2.1 pour les cariçaies aquatiques, les cladiaies et roselières des sols tourbeux à pH neutre et les 14/4 et 14/5 pour les landes à chaméphytes).
 Parois, murs et éboulis. Parois plus ou moins verticales des murs et rochers non marins ; éboulis.
 Dalles et sables plus ou moins stabilisés. Dalles rocheuses horizontales et sables plus ou moins stabilisés, zones à sols très superficiels généralement de faible niveau trophique et supportant la sécheresse.
 Pelouses et ourlets basophiles. Pelouses, steppes et ourlets basophiles développés sur des sols riches en calcium, secs, assez superficiels et généralement pauvres en azote.
 Pelouses et ourlets acidophiles. Pelouses, ourlets et herbes vivaces des coupes forestières sur sols acides.
 Pelouses alpines. Pelouses permanentes plus ou moins pâturées extensivement, des étages alpin à subalpin des Alpes et des Pyrénées.
 Prairies. Prairies eurosibériennes des sols moyennement riches à riches en azote, subissant des pratiques agricoles variées (fertilisation, amendement, fauche, pâturage, jachère, semis…)
 Cultures, friches, ourlets, coupes et clairières eutrophiles. Cultures, friches, coupes forestières à sols perturbés, ourlets nitrophiles, lieux plus ou moins rudéralisés, et zones naturelles de caractères écologiques similaires (pieds de falaises, ourlets dunaires…). L'enrichissement trophique est lié aux animaux, aux actions humaines, à la fixation symbiotique d'azote, ou à la minéralisation active dans le sol consécutive aux éclaircies et aux remontées de nappe d'eau.
 Chaméphytaies (landes, garrigues, phryganes, etc.). Landes et garrigues à plantes vivaces ligneuses (sous-arbrisseaux chaméphytiques de quelques décimètres de haut, jusqu'à environ 1 m de hauteur).
 Buissons et haies. Haies et fourrés arbustifs, halliers, fruticées, maquis, matorrals, buissons, pré-manteaux et manteaux externes, internes, et de coupes forestières (lisières arbustives), souvent linéaires mais parfois en nappes spatiales, ou plus ou moins éclatés, constituées d'arbustes et d'arbrisseaux.
 Bois et forêts. Végétations arborescentes et herbacées intraforestières, des forêts, bois et bosquets arborescents.

Notes et références

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Kent State Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies on Aug. 19
Kent State University will hold its Summer 2017 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). Kent State will confer 1,422 degrees, including 908 bachelor's degrees, 427 master's degrees, 67 doctoral degrees and 20 educational specialist degrees.
Across the university's eight-campus system, 1,765 students will graduate from Kent State this summer, including those receiving associate degrees.
The baccalaureate degree Commencement ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. The speaker for this ceremony is Kent State alumnus Robert M. Archer, CEO and owner of Kent Watersports and its branded companies. Kent Watersports has acquired 34 companies and divested only three. These companies make and sell more life jackets than anyone else in the world. The companies also sell water skis, wake boards, wake surfers, recreational water-inflated water tubes, ropes, stand-up paddle boards, knee boards, snow boards, ballast bags and branded apparel. Archer serves on the Ashland YMCA Board of Trustees, the Huntington Bank Regional Advisory Board and the Ashland University Board of Trustees. He is involved in scholar-athlete and scholar-musician scholarships in New London and Ashland, Ohio. Archer earned his Master of Business Administration from Kent State in 1961. He and his wife of 60 years, Janet, have three children — Pamela, David and John – as well as seven grandchildren.
The 1:30 p.m. ceremony recognizes advanced degree graduates receiving their master's, doctoral and educational specialist degrees. The speaker for this ceremony is Dennis Cuneo, J.D., former senior vice president of Toyota Motor North America. After leaving Toyota, he formed his own consulting firm, DC Strategic Advisors LLC, which has advised Silicon Valley high-tech firms, multinational companies and economic development agencies in the U.S. and Canada. He is also a partner in Fisher & Phillips LLP, a national law firm. Cuneo sits on the boards of two Fortune 500 companies that are major auto suppliers, AK Steel and BorgWarner. He also serves on the boards of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, a leading automotive think tank, and SSOE, a privately held engineering and construction management firm with offices in North America and Asia. Cuneo formerly served as board chair of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve, held gubernatorial appointments in California, Kentucky and Mississippi, and was on the board of the National Association of Manufacturers, where he chaired the HR Policy Group. He earned his Master of Business Administration from Kent State in 1973 and sits on the National Advisory Board of the College of Business Administration at Kent State. Cuneo and his wife, Bonnie, reside in the Reno, Nevada, area.
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