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These sweet raw Apple Walnut Balls are a healthy snack. They are great to take on hikes or traveling.
I won multiple packages of dates recently, which inspired me to make different types of raw fruit bars. In addition to these Apple Walnut Balls, I also made Cashew Cranberry Bars and Banana Pecan Balls.
The Cashew Cranberry is the sweetest of all of them, so I included them in my dessert section. The Apple Walnut Balls and the Banana Pecan balls are more like protein bars in my opinion.
You could make these into bars, but I found it easier to form balls. They could also be used as a crumble and added to granola or coconut yogurt. They are perfect to pack for lunch, on a hike, or just stashed in your car or purse for a quick snack.
I dehydrated the apples, but if you don't have a dehydrator, you can buy them already dehydrated. I have gone through phases of eating a raw vegan diet throughout the 18 years that I have been a vegan. A dehydrator is one of the must-have appliances for a raw vegan diet.
These energy bites are made with raw ingredients making them a perfect snack!
This is the dehydrator that I own. I've used it to make crackers, fruit roll-ups, and more. It's similar to a slow cooker in that it's set it and forget it.
Cut apples into large chunks and dehydrate at 110° for 24-36 hours, depending upon the size of the chunks. If you do not have a dehydrator, you can purchase dehydrated apples with no preservatives at most natural food stores.
Pit dates and mix all ingredients in a food processor until ground.
Form into balls or bars. It may take a bit of working the mixture for awhile, but they will turn into balls. To make handling the mixture easier, you may want to refrigerate it first. You could add more dates, if needed.
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Family reunites after more than 60 years
Family reunites after 60 years.
By Aria Janel | September 1, 2019 at 11:48 PM EDT - Updated September 2 at 5:46 AM
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE) - After being apart for more than 60 years, a set of twins are finding their way back to their family.
In 1951 Betty Hagan and Bobby Benedict were placed into foster care and adopted. For years, they thought the only family they had was each other.
"We lost them in the system because they were small and they got adopted out, and we could never find them," said older sister Patty DiGilio.
68 years later they are reuniting with two of the eight siblings they never knew they had.
"I would make the statement a lot of times: I wish I had a sister to be close to and now we found out all of this," said Betty.
20 years ago, Betty's sister-in-law started the search to find Betty's family but recently handed the project over.
"When I gave Daniel the information in March he just took over and ran with it, and he found them," said older sister Jan Stanley. "I'm as excited about it as they are".
Betty, Bobby, and their two sisters, Dorie and Patti, have been in contact for the past six weeks, filling each other in, and introducing them to their other siblings living all around the world.
"They were never out of our minds, we always loved them, and missed them," said Dorie Ritchie.
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Dwayne Johnson's 'Black Adam' Is Reportedly Banned In China Over These Comments
Nov. 6 2022, Published 9:59 a.m. ET
Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam is DC's best release in years and continues making waves worldwide except in China, according to rumors. During press runs, actors share views on their movies and real-life situations, which sometimes causes trouble for the movie.
Pierce Brosnan, who played Doctor Fate in the Warner Bros. Discovery production, reportedly commented about the Dalai Lama leading to a ban on the movie in China.
The Forum revealed that a GQ interview caused this restriction in the Asian country, known for having strict rules.
China Bans 'Black Adam'
Although the forum website isn't official, it was right about the Chinese theaters banning other superhero movies - Venom - Let There be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Fans speculate that the ban resulted from the storyline contravening several China Film Administration policies.
Some of these themes include anti-heroism, which sees the villain thrive throughout the movie. With violent scenes coupled with violent scenes and religious themes, it's easy to see how China could ban Black Adam. However, there's yet to be an official confirmation about this rumor.
Keeping Holy Beads
The interview in question had Brosnan sharing his story about meeting the Dalai Lama years ago while reminiscing on his essential beads. He said the spiritual leader gave him some beads that saved his life fifteen years ago.
It was given to me by the medium of the oracle. I went to the Dharamshala to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Apart from the Indian traveling beads from the Dalai Lama, Brosnan also carries a rosary bead around "as a good catholic boy."
Why Is Supporting Tibet A Problem For China?
The Chinese annexed Tibet in 1959, and the Dalai Lama has been exiled from the region since then. So, Brosnan's support of the Dalai Lama appears as an insult to the Chinese Government, and that causes them to react.
As an actor, China can only react to that statement by blackballing movies with Tibet references as they're against its movie board.
A Box Office Hit Regardless
Regardless of "losing" the Chinese market Black Adam has recouped its $200 million budget and made an extra $62.9 million profit at the Box Office despite releasing at peak Halloween season.
It received mixed reviews from critics who praised the actors but panned the screenplay and plot. Though the audience reception was widely positive, we saw it at the premiere.
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Scalable Capital Raises €50M in Funding for Robo-Investment Platform
Jul 22 2020 · 14:19 UTC by Teuta Franjkovic · 3 min read
Scalable Capital has raised €50 million in a Series D funding round. BlackRock and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, among others, participated in the round.
Startups oriented on developing tech-based platforms in order to help make investments are constantly in high demand, are now basing themselves on an expanding market of investors getting more confident to rely on technology to undercut broker fees and accelerate the process. Scalable Capital, the Munich-based startup that created a platform to monitor and manage investment portfolios investing in shares, trades and exchange-traded funds for a flat fee of €2.99 per month, finally managed to close a funding round of €50 million ($58 million) in order to widen its business.
Right now, Scalable deals with approximately 80,000 clients across Germany, Austria and the UK.
Using its services both directly and through bank partners, the startup stated it has more than $2 billion under management on its platform and the plan is to build even more products for those clients, add more clients in those regions, and potentially look to more countries in Europe.
Scalable Capital Funding Was Supported by Old and New Investors
CEO Erik Podzuweit admitted that Series D was made at a post-money valuation of €400 million ($460 million).
The investment allegedly came from various new and existing investors, including BlackRock, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. It brings the total raised by the startup to €116 million ($133 million).
The last few years have seen an authentic boom of startups, and banks, often aiming at technology built by startups, such is the case with Scalable, building financial technology tools that help people circumvent slow, costly, and often less transparent legacy banking services. In place of the occupants, startups are developing apps and web-based platforms in order to enable their clients to make faster, more efficient, less costly and numerously more financial transactions.
That trend has been sped up undoubtedly in the few recent months, as people were spending a lot more time in front of their computers at home as part of social distancing measures made in order to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Services that were usually organized in person are now transferring to being carried out online. It is true though, that this trend was present even before the coronavirus outbreak but now with even, they have more limited options, people are making the shift faster.
Getting Away from Less Beneficial investments
It seems that this is even the case in the world of investing apps.
In spite of the bigger economic fall boosted by the world health pandemic, those with money for investments are still doing so, not just in order to get to new opportunities that are being created, but also to get away from all the investments that might be less beneficial in this "new normal."
It seems a bit paradoxical for a startup to set out to "democratize" its services for managing ones' wealth, as Scalable likes to explain its service, considering that wealth management is not something that the most of people will ever have the resources to need to think about, but the trend seems to play out at all levels of the economy.
And that means startups are gathering assets in order to meet that demand to rattle traditional brokers.
Podzuweit therefore stated:
"In times of Covid-19, our funding round is a powerful signal; it shows that our focused, digital business model is convincing the investors."
For now, Scalable managed to create its business out as both a B2B and B2C service. For the former, it sells its tech to banks who want to offer a "robo advisor" option to its investor clients. The B2C service was launched last month and it offers a service directly to investors themselves.
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Lightning talks (5 - 10min): short talks and allow time for feedback and questions.
Misc. topics -Communication with SciComp: we have talked about we often don't know what service or utilities SciComp has provided us. Nor did there is an efficient channel for them to know what we actually want and need help for. FHBig can surely fill up the gap and make the two-way communication channel possible and easier. There are some discussion about cloud (beagle) and AWS. Sounds like getting a workshop from SciComp would be helpful.
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Physical common workspace: This was brought out after the meeting. Wouldn't be nice to have consolidate Bioinformatic and SciComp consulting to the same hours and place? Wouldn't be nice to have a common workspace for all of us to share and work and have serious conversations?
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Taylor Swift's Miss Americana Is Pointless in the Instagram Era
A question lurks beneath every moment in the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana: Where does the Swift persona end and Swift, the person, begin?Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
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With social media, there's very little that celebrity documentaries can show that fans don't already know all too well.
When you are a mega-celebrity, the partition that separates real life from performance becomes wafer-thin—especially if you're the kind of celeb who stages their own life on Instagram, like an autopaparazzo. The distinction is further confused for the subjects of the currently booming subgenre of pop star documentaries, which attempt to collapse the wall entirely by inhabiting the lives of entertainers like Lady Gaga (Gaga: Five Foot Two), Beyoncé (Homecoming), Katy Perry (Part of Me), and Serena Williams (Being Serena). The latest of these, Netflix's Miss Americana, trains its camera on Taylor Swift, an artist known for both her social media prowess and her skill in controlling what, exactly, the world knows about her.
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There is little sense of why Swift—or director Lana Wilson, known for her documentary film After Tiller, about doctors who perform third-trimester abortions—chose to release Miss Americana now. Her last album, Lover, came out last summer. She's not at a crossroads in her career. Her most recent public relations dustup, involving the record executive Scooter Braun and licensing rights, goes unaddressed. (Filming seems to have ended before the fallout began.) Instead, the film responds to some of Swift's more persistent criticisms, like being "cold-blooded and calculating," possessing a "ridiculous victim mentality," and "peddling a lie" about who she really is behind the pop-star veneer. Miss Americana is Swift's attempt to humanize herself, to show a peek at the real person who wears the celebrity skinsuit.
In the documentary, we watch Swift come to grips with 15 years in the spotlight. Sort of. She invites cameras into her recording studio, workshopping song lyrics on her iPhone. She ducks fans and paparazzi outside her house and explains that she had an eating disorder, worsened by seeing her body captured in so many surprise photographs. She rereads her teenage diaries and pets a kitten while playing the piano.
A question lurks beneath every moment: Where does the Swift persona end and Swift, the person, begin? It goes unanswered. Instead, the key moments of the film—some of which are endearing, some of which are not—feel more like an extension of the brand Swift has so successfully created than a look at what's behind it.
For fans, parts of the film will feel like watching a rerun. We've already seen the making of the music video for "You Need to Calm Down," because before it appeared in Miss Americana, Swift made an Instagram story about it. We've already met her mom's "cancer dog"—a Great Dane named Kitty—on social media, too. She told fans about her mom's cancer diagnosis on Tumblr back in 2015. We know her political beliefs because she posted them online too.
Celebrities don't owe anything to their fans, nor should viewers expect any real glasnost in documentaries about their lives. But without real candor, the genre feels like an extension of what artists already put out on social media—like a 90-minute-long TikTok. As the writer Amanda Petrusich wrote in her review of Gaga: Five Foot Two in 2017, the modern pop-star doc "often either feels like unapologetic hagiography or is revealing only in extraordinarily calculating ways." The documentaries are personal, often uncomfortably so, but they aren't sincere. The intimacy is superficial.
The trope is repeated again and again. In Homecoming, we see more of the hardworking, creative, superstar Beyoncé we already knew. The struggles of having just given birth to twins, via emergency C-section, are largely downplayed. When Lady Gaga takes her top off in Five Foot Two, it's clear that she's trying to appear naked, emotionally and otherwise—yet she struggles to articulate her history of chronic pain, sexual assault trauma, and reliance on antipsychotic medications. The worst of these is perhaps the new YouTube docu-series on Justin Bieber, Seasons, which amounts to several hours of watching Bieber trot around the recording studio with his new wife. The 2012 documentary about Katy Perry, Part of Me, manages to knock the star off balance a little—only because the cameras happen to be rolling when Perry goes through a painful divorce from Russell Brand, capturing a backstage meltdown from the heartbreak. The result is deeply humanizing.
The documentaries, then, only serve to extend the self-curation of pop stars' personal stories. That's a product of the genre, says Chris Moukarbel, who directed Five Foot Two. "If this were a documentary about WikiLeaks, it would be a totally different process," he says. Instead, he and other filmmakers want to work with artists to tell a story together, with approval from the celebrity at the end. For that reason, the documentaries appear tightly edited, with the celebrities controlling the narrative. "Even if they try to stay guarded, though, the idea is there's inherently some information coming through to the viewer that is revealing," Moukarbel adds. He points to Truth or Dare, the 1991 documentary about Madonna, which he obsessed over as a kid. "That's a very highly constructed movie, but the things that audiences remember and the things that were most iconic, were these details she couldn't necessarily plan—like the fact that she always drank Evian water," he says.
Miss Americana has its share of moments like this: Swift feeds her cat directly on the kitchen table, like a member of the family. Her oven is covered in kitchy magnets. She has all of her teenage diaries, one of which includes the preface "my life, my career, my dream, my reality." Still, it's hard to grasp what any of this adds up to. What the film shows more of is Swift reacting to other people's reactions to her: detached disappointment when she learns that her album has not been nominated for a Grammy; frustration when her father dissuades her from making an Instagram post about the 2018 midterms; sparkling relief when her producers like a lyric she has written; all-consuming self-doubt when Kanye West interrupts her award acceptance at the 2009 VMAs.
In another scene, Swift appears at the 2018 American Music Awards, wearing a mock-neck mini dress affixed with thousands of mirrored squares that catch the light of the photographers. She sparkles like a walking disco ball. It's an apt metaphor for the version of Swift we see in the film: a composite of everyone else's opinion of her, reflected back. Miss Americana shows us the fractals of Swift as a public person—first a precocious young songwriter, then a newly political entity—but there is no real through line to connect them, other than that Swift's perception of herself hinges entirely on other peoples' perception of her.
If the genre does one thing well, it's exposing the profound loneliness of a life in pop music. Lady Gaga languishes in her beautiful home; Katy Perry crumples in the heartbreak of her divorce. Taylor Swift, who popularized the "girl squad," seems perhaps the loneliest of all. In Miss Americana, Swift's only regular companionship comes from her mother and her cats. Swift's boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, appears only momentarily. When she reflects on winning Album of the Year in 2016, she recalls having no one to celebrate with. "Shouldn't I have someone that I could call right now?" she says of the memory. It's the most authentic moment of the whole thing. Whether onstage or off, in her real life or in performance, it's exceedingly lonely at the top. That's something you can't fake for the cameras.
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To a high degree, newspapers mirror the viewpoints of the political elite, a bolster to the 'elite-driven media' theory about editorial viewpoints, according to a new analysis in thejournal Media, War&Conflict.
The scholars from the University of Copenhagen elite-driven media theory may explain why support for the war efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have been remarkably consistent in the small, non-belligerent nation of Denmark.
While political discussions concerning the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have been heated in some countries (America, for example, until President Barack Obama was elected, then protests stopped), political parties and public opinion in Denmark have generally been supportive of the war efforts during the last decade, despite the high level of involvement by Danish forces and – relatively speaking – high level of casualties. Danes overall seem to feel like they were harbingers of the problem the world sees with Muslim countries. A decade ago the liberal country nonetheless enacted tough new immigration reform designed to keep out the disenfranchised most likely to engage in acts of terrorism.
The new analysis, conducted by media researchers from The University of Copenhagen, covered five national dailies and their editorial stances on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
"Our research demonstrates, as the 'elite-driven media' theory suggests, that the editorials reflect dominant viewpoints among the political elites: When the elites are in agreement, the newspapers display a similar agreement and reproduce dominant arguments. When political elites disagree, it makes room for a higher degree of diversity among the newspapers," says Professor Stig Hjarvard who conducted the analysis with his colleague Associate Professor Nete Nørgaard Kristensen.
Limited focus on the soldiers' experience
The four national newspapers Jyllands-Posten, Berlingske, Politiken, and B.T. have generally been supportive of the Danish military efforts, particularly in the case of Afghanistan and Libya. During the invasion of Iraq there was disagreement among the newspapers, mirroring the political divisions in the Danish parliament and public opinion in general. However, when dominant political parties reached consensus about the subsequent deployment of Danish troops in Iraq, critique in the newspapers became less dominant.
"The analysis clearly shows that the arguments in favor of military efforts have to a large extent concerned humanitarian ideals and general international obligations towards alliance partners in the 'war against terror'. The editorials of Danish dailies have only to a limited extent dealt with the specific assignments, problems and consequences Danish soldiers have been facing during the three wars," explained Nete Nørgaard Kristensen who points to the niche newspaper information as the only media in the analysis that departs from the overall pattern.
To a higher degree, this newspaper has been able to develop and sustain editorial viewpoints independent of existing consensus among the political establishment.
"Such niche media as Information may, therefore, play an important role for sustaining alternative arguments when the political elites and the major news media display a high level of consensus," Kristensen says.
Stig Hjarvard concludes, "Considering the important role of national news media in framing the public agenda during these three wars, the existing news media supply may not be sufficient to ensure a diverse representation of arguments and viewpoints when politicians have decided to go to war."
Citation: Stig Hjarvard, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, 'When media of a small nation argue for war', Media, War & Conflict April 2014 vol. 7 no. 1 51-69 doi: 10.1177/1750635213516560. Source: University of Copenhagen
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I must say that overall I�m really impressed with this particular site. You can easily see that you�re enthusiastic about your writing. If only I had your writing ability I anticipate more updates and will be returning.


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Bar owner and family robbed at gunpoint inside their home
Posted: Sep 30, 2014 12:30 AM CDT | Updated: Nov 5, 2014 3:54 PM CDT
Germantown - The Washington County Sheriff's Office says a group of men wearing masks ransacked and robbed the Last Stop Saloon on Rockfield Road in Germantown early Monday morning.
The bar owner spoke exclusively with CBS 58 Monday evening about the incident. According to the bar owner, the incident happened around one o'clock Monday morning, when a 27-year-old man walked out of the tavern, and confronted by six men.
Investigators say they took the man back inside the bar, and grabbed the 21-year-old bartender.
The bar owner says the six men went into his home that's connected to his establishment, woke up him, his girlfriend, and his 4-year-old daughter.
\"I was begging and pleading. I told them I had my kid. They threw me to the ground. Took my kid. Woke up her with the gun. My kid freaked out. Threw her and my girlfriend down to the ground.\" The bar owner, said.
The owner says the six men brought everyone downstairs to the basement, tied them up, and left the scene of the crime.
\"They told us to count down to 300, and just heard them take off.\"
For the near future, the owner plans to keep the bar closed, and says he is in the process of moving his family.
None of the victims were physically hurt.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 262-335-4378.


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S.358 - Census IDEA Act116th Congress (2019-2020)
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] (Introduced 02/06/2019)
Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Senate - 02/06/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions)
Government Operations and Politics
Cosponsors (22)
Cosponsors: S.358 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)All Information (Except Text)
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] | Cosponsor statistics: 22 current - includes 18 original
* = Original cosponsor
Sort by Sort by: First to LastLast to FirstAlphabetical - By NameAlphabetical - By PartyAlphabetical - By State
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Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]* 02/06/2019
Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]* 02/06/2019
Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] 05/01/2019
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] 07/08/2019
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] 07/21/2020
Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] 09/10/2020
02/06/2019 - Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]*
02/06/2019 - Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]*
05/01/2019 - Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
07/08/2019 - Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
07/21/2020 - Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
09/10/2020 - Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Cosponsors by U.S. State or Territory


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Q: How to save Tomorrow date tasks in core data and how to get these tasks into table view in Swift? How to save Tomorrow date tasks in core data and how to get these tasks into table view in Swift ?
When i print("Objects are in Tomorrow Task : (filterTomorrowTask.count)"), then it shows nil array.
I dont know how to fix this bug. I am new to Swift, so dont know how to fix this issue.
Utility Class :
class FilteredData
{
    static func filterTomorrowTask(filteredObject: String) -> [Task]
    {
        let fetchRequest: NSFetchRequest<Task> = Task.fetchRequest()

        var user: [Task]? = nil

        let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "date_from == %@", filteredObject)
        fetchRequest.predicate = predicate

        do {
            user = try context.fetch(fetchRequest)
            return user!
        }
        catch {
            return user!
        }
    }

}

ViewController.h
//CoreData Object
var filterTomorrowTask: [Task] = []

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        self.tomorrowFilterTask()
        self.tblToday.reloadData()
    }

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int
    {
        if tableView == self.tblTomorrow
        {
            print("Tomorrow Count \(filterTomorrowTask.count)")
            return filterTomorrowTask.count
        }
        else
        {
            return 0
        }
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
    {
        if tableView == self.tblTomorrow
        {
                let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TomorrowTaskCell", for: indexPath) as! TomorrowTaskTVCell

                let filteredResult = filterTomorrowTask[indexPath.row]
                cell.lblTask.text = filteredResult.task_name
                cell.tfTime.text = filteredResult.time_from

                return cell

        }
        else {
            let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TomorrowTaskCell", for: indexPath) as! TomorrowTaskTVCell

            return cell
        }

    }

func tomorrowFilterTask()
    {
        isTomorrow = true

        //Adding 1 to Current Date
        let today = Date()
        let tomorrow = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: 1, to: today)
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateStyle = .medium
        formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
        let strTomorrow = formatter.string(from: tomorrow!)

        filterTomorrowTask = FilteredData.filterTomorrowTask(filteredObject: strTomorrow)

    }

A: You can Try using Func as Below Once
class FilteredData
{
    static func filterTomorrowTask(filteredObject: String) -> [Task]
    {
        let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: "Your Entity Name")

        var user: [Task]? = nil

        let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "date_from == %@", filteredObject)
        fetchRequest.predicate = predicate

        do {
            user = try context.fetch(fetchRequest)
            return user!
        }
        catch {
            return user!
        }
    }

}

or just simply Without Creating a Special Instance of User
class FilteredData
    {
        static func filterTomorrowTask(filteredObject: String) -> [Task]
        {
            let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: "Your Entity Name")

            let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "date_from == %@", filteredObject)
            fetchRequest.predicate = predicate

            ///Handler
    do
    {
        let response = try context.fetch(fetchRequest)
        return response as! [Audio]

    }
    catch let error as NSError
    {
        ///failure
        print(error)
        return [Audio]()
    }
        }

    }


Located 29 miles east of Salem and 7 miles from Highway 22 on the Little North Fork of the Santiam River, Bear Creek is the beautiful day-use park and the first Marion County's campground. Surrounded by old-growth Douglas fir, hemlock, and other conifer trees, Bear Creek offers an excellent picnicking, hiking, fishing and swimming opportunities.
There are hiking trails through the park and down to the river including a stairway. The small swimming but beautiful pool situated downstream of the trail. The bank is packed with boulders and river rocks.
Each site of the 15-site campground has a fire ring and picnic table, three of them are handicap accessible.
81 miles northeast of Eugene.
Turn left onto North Fork Road, and continue for about 7.5 miles to the destination on the left.


Where do my Badge Go ?
Click the uniform for a quick guide to show the position of the most common Beaver Scout Badges.
What Badges can I get ?
Click this link to see a list of Activity badges and what to do to get them.
Beaver Scouts wear a common uniform, this uniform consists of a blue Beaver sweatshirt, group neckerchief (scarf) and woggle. The neckerchief and woggle, along with the first badges, are presented to the Beavers during their investiture.


Lorient travel here as the only unbeaten side in Ligue 2 and I have to admit they have surprised me this season. This is somewhat of a banana skin type fixture because Orleans have won their last two home games, including a shock 4-0 against Paris FC. However, I have to say overall that I fancy Lorient to get the job done tonight. They aren't a great price but should win. My preferred pick for the game is over 2.5 goals though. I sense this will be an open type of match. Orleans haven't defend very well this year and I sense that Lorient have the type of players who can take advantage. Could take over 2.25 and be more conservative but I am willing to be more aggressive here.


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24 isn't over yet, Fox says
'We are really exploring what the future might be, perhaps as an anthology storytelling franchise,' Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden says
By Lynette Rice
August 08, 2017 at 01:35 PM EDT
The clock will keep ticking on 24, if Fox has anything to do with it.
Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden said the network is exploring new ways to continue the franchise, even though it released star Corey Hawkins out of his commitment for future installments.
"We are really exploring what the future might be, perhaps as an anthology storytelling franchise," Walden told reporters Tuesday at the Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills. "We felt really good about a lot of the last season. It was a hard decision to make, whether to bring it back or not. We let Corey out of his obligation so he could do his Broadway play. It felt like the right thing to do, to take the pressure off around upfronts."
But Fox continues to believe there is still time left on the franchise.
"It felt like, where we left off, we can continue telling stories about those exact characters," Walden continued. "It felt very close to the original. Our goal is to make something that generally extends the life of the franchise. Viewers got a taste of 24 again. It had the urgency of real time. It whetted their appetite."
Walden said the network has met with longtime franchise producers Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, and Joel Surnow about the next evolution.
Last season, the new iteration of 24 with Hawkins averaged 6.08 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49. Former star Kiefer Sutherland was an executive producer on the show.
"As well made as 24:Legacy was, and we did think it was well made, telling that story that was so close to iterations that people had seen, begged a kind of comparison and made people think, 'Oh it's the same thing and Kiefer isn't in it,'" Fox President David Madden told reporters. "And obviously Kiefer was not available to us. We said that kind of ticking clock urgency can apply to all sorts of venues so we're exploring a couple different avenues right now. We're not locked into one yet. But Howard and Brian are really excited about it. 24 will be back on our air."
The network seemed less committed to bringing back Prison Break but Fox execs aren't ready to close the book on that franchise that returned to middling ratings this spring.
"We're always interested in new angles and stories that come out of our library," Madden added. "If the producers thought about how to explore a new iteration of it, we're be excited to talk about it."
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On May 16th, at TechEd North America, Microsoft disclosed a lot of information about, and took System Center Orchestrator for a spin in it's first public outing!
"The System Center Orchestrator Beta marks a significant milestone, indicating a move of the codebase from the Opalis subsidiary to Microsoft System Center. This has many positive benefits, including a removal of the licensing complexity around the "grant" of Opalis, greater alignment to the Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria and also things like the Support Lifecycle," Adam Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager stated.
The table below contains some more detailed information about the system requirements and other features of Orchestrator. The table below is designed to highlight the key changes being made for the Orchestrator release, and also any differences between the Beta and RTM.
In addition, Microsoft will be running an Evaluation Program. If you fill out the form for the Orchestrator CEP you'll not only be part of the program which includes guided tours of the new features, ready made environments and calls with the Product Group, but you'll also be notified the minute that the Beta is available to download!


* To no one's surprise, president nominates Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce and Michael Froman as U.S. Trade Representative.
* Even as Hill Republicans mull various tax and spending schemes as hostages for debt limit increase, Club for Growth and Heritage unite to demand "path to balanced budget." This bears close watching.
* New conservative legal challenge to Obamacare aims at "discriminatory" effects of insurance purchasing subsides. This, too, bears close watching.
* Slate serially publishing riveting memoir by Gitmo detainee.
* Reese Witherspoon comes clean on GMA about Atlanta bust.
Back in a very short while.


Song stylist Nancy Wilson's over five decade singing career is notable for more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. Her musical vocal style has been described as jazz, blues, cabaret, and pop though she declined being relegated to any one category.
Her singing has been characterized as sensitive, sensual, soulful, but she always said that she simply told stories. She was a consummate entertainer with class, beauty, elegance. Others have observed "She sold her VOICE ... not her body ... embodied poise and respect."
I awoke to the sad news on Thursday December 13th -- that vocalist Nancy Wilson had died -- and want to remember her here.
Ms Wilson's talents became nationally prominent beginning in the mid-1950's, continuing until her retirement in early-2010s. She was born February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio south of the state's capitol, Columbus, where she later attended high school. She began singing as a teen, then won a talent contest with appearances on the ABC affiliate WTVN. She entered college for a teaching degree but returned to her original talents after winning an audition to sing with Rusty Bryant's band. She sang at local clubs, in 1956 toured Canada and the Midwest to 1958 with the band when she made her first record under Dot Recording.
She followed jazz alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley's advice and moved to New York City in 1959 where filling in for another singer at the blue Morocco earned her a regular booking. Singing four nights a week and working days as a secretary at the New York Institute of Technology. Capitol Records signed her in 1960 as she successfully released her first single with which she's often identified: "Guess Who I Saw Today".
Subsequently her career flourished with TV appearances, national coast to coast prominence and international recognition as she continued recording for American and Japanese labels. Later years she engaged in youth education programs, hosted NPR's Jazz Profiles from 1996 to 2005.
My husband had recalled to me her early years during his avocational professional jazz musician years with his own groups in Columbus, Ohio. Many years later prior to his retirement he came home from the office one day saying he had surprisingly encountered her in the hall of the local California university where he was now an administrator. She was there to engage with that University's Music Department and students.
I was reminded of when working in Columbus at NBC-TV affiliate, WLW-C, with the live daily audience participation weekday talk show and quintet that Ms Wilson had been one of the many celebrity guests who welcomed performing with our talented musicians whenever appearing in concert or at prominent clubs in town. She was in peak popularity and renown but had returned to provide support to a friend opening a club called The Sacred Mushroom (jazz-folk-beat-coffee house) near the Ohio State University campus. She was a warm, gracious personable young woman who cared about others.
Nancy Wilson has been the recipient of much recognition including NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award; Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame award, Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; was a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement with many awards; received honorary degrees; recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and so many more awards. "She co-founded the Nancy Wilson Foundation, which exposes inner-city children to the country. " as noted HERE.
She married again in 1973 and subsequently gave up singing in some venues, such as supper clubs. For the next two decades was busy with her personal and professional life – singing, family, and adjusting to the death of both parents. In 2006 medical issues became evident, eventually some lung issues developed, also her husband died after a long illness with renal cancer.
"On September 10, 2011, she performed on a public stage for the last time at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio" south of her birth city. Wilson is quoted, "I'm not going to be doing it anymore, and what better place to end it than where I started – in Ohio."
Nancy Wilson died December 13, 2018 at her home in Pioneertown near Southern California's Joshua Tree National Monument after a long battle with kidney cancer. She was 81 years old..
"Did I Remember" Video has pictures of lovely Nancy Wilson at various stages of her life.
Her final album "Turned to Blue" won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Album in 2006.
"My Life Has Turned to Blue" A poem written by Maya Angelou is the title track.
"When Sunny Gets Blue" 1962 album "Hello Young Lovers"
Wishing you the merriest of Christmases ... happiest Hanukkah !
Early twentieth century Christmases my Mother described are surely different than what I experienced mid-century. The differences are magnified in our twenty-first century. She grew up on a farm in northeastern Ohio, actually born in the nineteenth century. As youngsters she and her brothers and sisters led interesting horse and buggy days lives.
My mother described occasional dates her father believed to be to attend a church meeting, that sometimes might have ended up elsewhere as she loved to dance. Then the ride home, whether buggy in amenable seasons or sleigh in snowy winter, would be cozy for snuggling with the horse needing no guidance -- always knowing the way home -- just like self-driving cars will be.
Her father, my grandfather who died many years before I was born, was considered by his friends and neighbors as progressive. He was strongly supportive of women's rights. He also felt women and girls should not be expected to perform outdoor heavy-duty farm work with all they had to do -- keeping house, cooking, though tending the foul, gathering the eggs and engaging in any gardening with flowers, herbs and vegetables they might enjoy was agreeable.
Farmer friends used to tease him by asking when he was going to get a car. He sarcastically told them that he was waiting for an aero plane. What would he think of cars today? Little did he imagine the development of the airline industry, a trip that went to the moon, projected space travel.
He's also noted for having become frustrated waiting for one of the neighbor women on their telephone party line to finally end her call. The telephone system then was a technology requiring the caller to crank a set number of short and long rings to reach the party they wanted. One day there was some important matter he needed to reach a neighbor farmer about, but every time he checked the line after long waits in between the line was still busy as that neighbor kept talking, a frequent problem with her. The last check he listened long enough to hear her say, "...and so I washed down..as far as... 'possible'..." when he interrupted by saying, "Why don't you go wash 'possible' and get off this line?"
An ancestor helping settle northeastern Ohio was a protestant minister of a major religion prevalent yet today. Church involvement and activities were always a significant part of life, providing spiritual sustenance and a social network for the far-flung rural community residents. Christmas was a most significant time of year with special serious meaning, but the secular Santa Claus joys were enjoyed, too, during my Mother's youth.
Farms then and now, especially if there are animals on the land require 24/7 care. My grandfather had several cows to provide milk for butter, cheese, smearcase (cottage cheese), plow horses to work, some fast trotters for buggy pulling when the family needed to travel and smart walking horses for individual riding. Of course, there were a few hogs, chickens, ducks. To control any vermin in the corn storage area (beginning of silo usage), also the barn and hay mow, domestic cats prowled and resided there, also often becoming pets along with the family dog(s) to ward off strangers and predatory creatures.
Animals showcased creature and human life, procreation activities, birth, the unique attraction of helpless newborn piglets, foals, calves, kittens, puppies, chicks. Love and loss, sometimes injury and illness, also death was a natural stage of life. Responsibility for others was vital. Care for the earth's vegetation, insects such as bees needed for pollination of plants and so much more pertinent to human survival and environmental preservation was learned. Despite all, prayers were not always answered. Life was not always fair.
Indoor plumbing had not yet been adopted by many in rural areas, so unheated outhouses sat off some distance from the house – usually one-seaters, but some accommodating more users simultaneously were luxurious two and three-seaters, probably appreciated by families with many children. A hand pump for water was centrally located at the front yard's distant edge from the house, but also accessible to the barn since buckets of water would be needed both places.
Fresh water was needed daily for wash basins placed on small stands (one lovely maple wood stand with a birdseye maple drawer I have) in each bedroom to provide moisture for clearing sleep from the occupants eyes each morning, or to cleanse the hands during the night if the beside covered pot had to be used. Who would want to trudge down the stairs in the dark, to the outhouse, especially in a stormy or icy snowy cold winter? Of course, these prone to being smelly pots had to be lugged daily to the outhouse to be relieved of their contents, freshened so they could be returned bedside for the next night, a job not readily welcomed.
Downstairs firewood previously cut to kindling and larger split log sizes had to be carried inside, kept in supply for the wood burning kitchen stove and oven, any other heat-producing stoves or fireplaces in other rooms.
How baking was done still marvels me -- sustaining an even consistent temperature with a wood stove -- no temperature dial there. Meats butchered earlier in the year and relegated to the outdoor refrigerator-like storage room dug into the earth and earlier harvested fruits from the apple, peach, plum trees and vegetables in a fruit cellar were at the ready when needed, some dried, if care had been taken to prepare each year's supply at harvest time.
Plenty of water was needed for cooking with some heated on the stove for other usage. Hot water was especially needed on nights a periodic tub bath was scheduled for the various individuals. Bath tub/shower type bathing was not a daily activity for each person as we indulge ourselves today, sometimes soaking in luxury with hot water readily flowing with the turn of a knob.
Woolen clothes to be worn during winter would have been brought out from storage earlier, aired of moth ball aromas. There was no dry cleaner to regularly freshen them after wearing, plus people had no deodorants. Mother said she didn't recall any B.O. (body odor), but speculated that "Maybe we all just smelled bad so nobody noticed".
The parlor as one room in the house was known, was kept pristine for special family occasions and entertaining visitors. (I have a rich-looking dark cherry drop leaf table from my grandmother's parlor.) Everyday living activities took place in the rest of the house, often frugally to conserve wood, they centered around a single heated stove in the kitchen as outdoors winter's winds howled in blizzards, freezing temperatures.
Mother's recollection of the Christmas holiday and preparations was intriguing to me. She said the actual setting up their decorated Christmas tree was never done in advance. The children went to bed Christmas Eve and when they awoke in the morning, miraculously a colorful ornamented tree appeared downstairs. When the oohs and awes subsided Santa would make his grand entrance with his bag of presents for distribution.
The ecstatic children were so accustomed to their father being in the barn doing his daily early morning chores they thought nothing of the fact he wasn't in the house with them when Santa arrived. Mother said years later she marveled that it never occurred to them that Santa was their Dad so he must have had a pretty good costume and disguise.
I wish I had talked further with her, or maybe I've forgotten what she said, about Christmas tree ornaments, what sort of gifts they received. I expect there were a lot of handmade items, especially from the girls who would be learning all sorts of sewing skills, knitting, crocheting, tatting, hooking rugs, making quilts, sewing clothes items, also for their Hope Chests.
Likely the boys were into various crafts of woodworking, little toys maybe, or sleds. Store-bought gifts would likely have been rare, perhaps expensive. I know she spoke of my Grandmother's wealthy sister and her husband, a doctor in Atlanta, Ga, sometimes sent special items -- or, remembrances from the uncle sailing around the world during his U.S. Navy career. No doubt hand-me-down clothing had been remade as a matter of practicality and was like-new to the recipient. I know books were treasured items, all sorts of print, pictures, and writing instruments with ink, paper to write and draw.
Christmas preparations, singing in the choir, pageants, and celebrating with religious music, for which my Mother played the church piano as she did for weekly services was her practice when she became older.
Some traditions from days of yore continue, others change, commercialization has increased from her generation to mine and from mine to that of my children, even more for their children.
Will there be more Christmas changes and in what way in future decades, I wonder?
How do those who observe Hanukkah perceive any changes through these same decades, including with their gift giving rituals?


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From one perspective, the comedy Shakespeare in Love is about how the celebrated playwright beat writer's block and wrote his masterpiece Romeo and Juliet (necessitating a revamp of his stalled in-progress work Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter) after falling in love.
But look at it through the eyes of its heroine, would-be actress Viola de Lesseps. Then the story, Lee Hall's adaptation of the screenplay of the 1998 movie by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, tells how one woman prevailed over sexist social strictures to fulfil her ambition of becoming an actor at a time when women were forbidden from occupying the stage alongside men.
Toronto-based actress Bahareh Yaraghi plays Viola in RMTC's co-production with the Citadel Theatre, and for her, the play has contemporary resonance, even if it is set more than 400 years in the past.
Yaraghi was born in Iran, and emigrated to Canada when she was eight years old. She grew up in Vancouver then moved to Toronto more than a decade ago to fulfil her own acting ambitions. Once she graduated from theatre school at Humber College, Yaraghi's first big role was playing Juliet in a Toronto production of Romeo and Juliet.
"I have this line, confessing to the rest of the company in the rehearsal hall that 'I just wanted to be an actor.' Every time I say that, I feel like it's a Bahareh thing in Iran — me in a room full of people saying: 'You can't be an actor.'"
"I had no idea what I was doing," she says of her work then.
But in a way, taking on the role of Viola hit her where she lived — or where she used to live — because the gender divide in post-revolutionary Iran isn't all that different from the way it was in Elizabethan England.
"Even to this day, women aren't allowed to do what they want in that country," she says.
Yaraghi says the fight over who gets to tell the story and who gets to be on stage all play a part.
"It's never a conscious choice to look at it through that lens but it's part of who I am, and Iran is my blood, so no matter what story I'm telling, it always resonates from that part of me, regardless," she says. "In terms of playing Viola, someone who is in love with the stage and wanting to be on that stage, and being forbidden to do so, absolutely, it plays a part in the role that I'm playing."
Even Viola's plunge into the strange world of theatre was a dynamic Yaraghi could appreciate personally. After all, she is one of the few Toronto actors in a cast assembled largely from the ranks of Edmonton actors affiliated with Citadel, as well as Winnipeg actors drawn from the professional ranks of RMTC.
Out of the cast of 20 Yaraghi didn't know a single soul — something the actress had never experienced before — but everyone got along really great right from the start.
"It's kind of the nature of the piece, the chaos and the messiness of it brought us all together really fast," she says. "And to be honest, as Bahareh, I was trying to pick up what I could from every single actor because the room is filled with so much talent and comedic chops. I was in awe the way Viola is in awe with actors that she sees on stage and wanting to be a part of it."
At least Yaraghi didn't have any difficulty playing Viola's masculine persona, 'Thomas Kent.' In fact, she found it a comparative breeze.
"The funny part is that I felt so much more as Viola playing Thomas Kent than I did as Viola, being in Viola's beautiful dresses," she says. "I couldn't understand why I felt uncomfortable in the scenes in which I was playing Viola in her dresses."
Being in a restrictive large dress changed how the actress walked and how she talked. It made her walk a little bit like a princess, she says.
Compelled to examine that, Bahareh "realized that it's because she's fighting against those dresses.
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Farnoosh Samadi (Persian: فرنوش صمدی; December 23) is an Iranian director and screenwriter. her short film The Silence (2016) was nominated for a Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Career

Farnoosh Samadi was born in Iran. She graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. She directed the short films "The Silence" (2016), "Gaze" (2017), and "The Role" (2018). "180° Rule" (2020) is her first feature. "The Silence" her first short film co-directed by Ali Asgari, had its world premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Her second short film, "Gaze"  had its world premiere at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival and won the Grand Jury award for Live Action Short Film at 2017 AFI Film Festival, also it won the Golden Pram Award at Zagreb Film Festival in 2018. she has screenplayed "Disappearance" a debut feature by Iranian director Ali Asgari which premiered at 74th Venice International Film Festival and at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and won the award for best film at the 28th Singapore International Film Festival in 2017. her debut film 180° Rule (2020) premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, and received an award at 65th Valladolid International Film Festival for the Best Film of Meeting Point section also received two Crystal Simorgh award nominations for the "Best Sound Effects" for Amir Hossein Ghasemi and "Best Supporting Actress" for Azita Hajian at the 39th Fajr International Film Festival.

Filmography

Feature film

Short film

Awards and nominations

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External links

Living people
Iranian women film directors
Iranian screenwriters
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Dietary intake of Lumbee Indian women in Robeson County, North Carolina.
Bell, Ronny Antonio; Helen Anderson Shaw; and Mark Boberg Dignan. "Dietary intake of Lumbee Indian women in Robeson County, North Carolina." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 95.12 (December 1995): 1426-28.
The study's purpose was to obtain baseline data on diet among Lumbee women, so that, if deemed necessary, a nutrition education program could be established to help reduce the risk of diet-related diseases such as cancer, heart disease, atherosclerosis, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes, which in general are more prevalent among Native Americans in North Carolina than among whites.
The authors recruited 107 Lumbee women aged 21-60 who had lived in Robeson County at least two years, were not pregnant, and had no known disease which could affect their diet. The women were interviewed to obtain dietary and demographic information and were asked to complete a 3-day food record which recorded everything eaten during a 24-hour day. The women also completed a 60-item food frequency questionnaire. Their results were compared (see Tables 1 and 2) with results of the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II); Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs); recommendations from the American Heart Association and National Cancer Institute; and other studies of dietary intake of the Hvalapai, Seminole, Pima, Standing Rock Sioux, Navajo, and Waccamaw Siouan. Lumbee women were found to have a high intake of fat; low intakes of calcium, iron, and dietary fiber; and nearly adequate intakes of vitamins A and C. Energy intake was lower than the RDA, and fat intake was higher than recommended but similar to results of a national study. Low fiber and mineral intakes were similar to levels of these nutrients among U.S. women in general.