Exposure therapy can be very effective when done in a way that gives a sense of empowerment and helps people defeat their fears. If you have a client who has avoided eating normal meals or meals out at restaurants, challenge meals can be a great intervention for them.
Challenge meals are something that I usually suggest to a client after we've been working together for a while. We've sat in the therapy room a number of times and I've built a therapeutic alliance with them. I assess for their fear foods. I find out what their "red" foods are – their biggest fear foods, their "yellow" foods are foods that are moderately anxiety provoking and their "green" foods – ones they eat regularly and don't usually feel guilty about. They've relayed their goals, their history and are comfortable in the room with me. Once this stage has been set, we begin working towards their goals. Often times, their goals include a desire to normalize their eating habits or to be able to eat in social situations without sinking into extreme guilt afterward. When I see that the client is motivated and willing to take some risk in order to accomplish their goals, I present the idea of a challenge meal to them. I let them know that sometimes I go out to eat with my clients in order to help them find normalcy around food and restaurants. I ask if this is something they might be interested in trying. If fear, other types of resistance or hesitancy comes up, we process that. I may use Motivational Interviewing techniques in order to help them find benefit in pushing themselves towards their goal.
Once the client has agreed to a challenge meal, I start with the easiest scenario first. We start with green level foods and see if we can make a "normal" meal out of them. So for example, if they're regularly eating tuna fish, but eat it with vinegar instead of mayonnaise, and with vegetables instead of bread, we see if we can create something a bit more normal and a bit more challenging. So I might suggest tuna with mayo on bread or if bread is too scary, perhaps we'd start with a cracker or tortilla. During the preparation phase, I negotiate with the client and their eating disorder on what would be challenging yet doable.
The goal is for the client to feel successful so that they desire to try again. It's like learning to lift weights at the gym, we start with lighter, easier weights until our body gets used to it and builds up to the heftier weights. The first few challenge meals may be done in the office and the client may bring the food or the therapist may bring the food.
When the client is ready to eat at a restaurant, we prepare by negotiating where they want to eat. We also decide what we will say if we bump into anyone we know in order to keep their confidentiality. Sometimes we agree to say we know each other from school or a friend or sometimes a parent's friend. I am very careful to speak quietly and refrain from any intervention when others' could overhear. I usually ask them if there's a restaurant they've been wanting to try or if there's a type of food they'd like to get support around. Once we pick the restaurant, then we look at the menu. When eating a challenge meal in a restaurant, depending on that particular client, we may decide what they will be ordering before we go to the restaurant or we might negotiate once we get there. Depending on what would most ease the clients' anxiety, we may do this right before going to the restaurant or the week before. I wouldn't want them to fret all week about what they'll be eating, but sometimes it helps ease anxiety to get used to the idea and sit on it for a week. Timing of this is at your and your clients' discretion.
If the challenge meal is in the office, begin the meal as soon as possible in order to leave the most time afterward to digest and process and reduce the risk and desire for a purge. The client can use the bathroom before the meal begins so that they won't need to use it for at least an hour after the meal.
If the food needs to be ordered in a restaurant, help the client decide what to order, ask if they'd like an appetizer or a side dish and assure them they will only need to eat an appropriate amount. So if they get an appetizer and a main course, they might only eat half of each, depending on their satiety cues. Eating a variety of foods is good practice to combat ED. If they're getting overwhelmed by the menu, help them to narrow it down by quietly reminding them of the original goal they had in mind. For example, "well, when you chose this restaurant, you wanted pizza, so let's stick with that – and you can get a vegetable to go with it and that will provide all the food groups: starch, fat, protein and veg. So which type of pizza looks or sounds the most appetizing to you right now?" This way they still have choice, but the overwhelming choices are paired down for them. Pay attention to what they're ordering to make sure it's an appropriate meal. If they're ordering an appetizer only, be sure it includes all the food groups and possibly suggest they order 2 appetizers or have a roll with their appetizer to supplement their meal or they may just need an entre. Salads are usually not an appropriate challenge meal, but a salad with a challenging appetizer may make sense. Diet foods are not appropriate for challenge meals, so eliminate any diet drinks or egg whites, protein bars, etc. Make sure the food YOU order is also not triggering to your client. They are watching you. If you order the same meal as them, it may make things easier on them. When they have progressed further along, this may become part of the challenge – to tolerate your food item while they eat theirs.
Set the stage for the meal by activating the body signals that have been shut off for so long. Ask the client on a scale of 0-10 with 0 being supremely starving and 10 being so stuffed they feel sick and unable to move – the most full they've ever felt in their life – what number are they at right now? You can use a hunger cue card like the one shown here.
Identify their hunger signal and yours and if you're in a group, have each member identify how hungry they are both emotionally and physically.
The actual process of a challenge meal should not be emotionally heavy or food focused. Try to steer the conversation away from inspecting or commenting on the food or body or fullness. Instead, talk about lighter appropriate topics like the weather, the atmosphere in the room, how their day was, sports – a movie or TV show. In a group, playing a game can be very helpful. Some favorites are "contact" or thinking up famous peoples' names in alphabetical order.
Eating the meal should not take more than 30 minutes. Sometimes clients will try to cut food into tiny pieces or take very small bites or eat very slowly. This will require an intervening prompt from you. Something like "please take normal bites" or "that's cut small enough, let's start the meal now" or "we've got 15 minutes left, please keep up the pace so we can finish the meal on time" are some prompts you might use. It is our job to help them contain and combat their ED voice. We state the prompt clearly, yet quietly so others' don't over-hear and we say it neutrally and without judgment. If they're still playing with their food and interventions aren't working, I usually just let it be rather than getting into a struggle with them in public and process what happened later.
If they're getting an especially challenging meal and they're anxious about it, I will suggest they can cut their meal in half and just start with the first half. After the first half, we can check into hunger cues and see how they are with continuing. I often tell clients that I believe it is more important that they feel successful in eating a challenge meal, but perhaps less of it, than eating too much and feeling overly full and triggered to purge. This is true in an outpatient therapy setting. Residential or partial hospitalization has more containment and ability to monitor clients after the meal, so that's a different story. But for my purposes, I don't believe feeling overly full is in the client's best interest.
The more exposure, the more the client will get used to eating food and eating it in challenging settings. This helps lay the foundation for less social isolation and more ability to tolerate food and restaurants. Really and truly, one meal at a time really does make a difference. Supporting a client through a challenge meal shows them that they are capable and gives them a successful experience to remember when they're ready to try it on their own.
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Palestinian Authority terrorists resumed firing rocket attacks on southern Israel Sunday afternoon.
Three short-range Qassam rockets were launched at the Eshkol Regional Council district area by Gaza terrorists at about 4:30 p.m.
One of the missiles exploded in a residential area, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, but residents of the area had managed to reach their bomb shelters in time.
No one was physically injured, authorities said, although residents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had symptoms triggered by the attack.
There were no reports on property damage.
The window of safety in which to reach shelter in that area is approximately 15 seconds from the time the Color Red incoming rocket alert system is activated, until the point of impact.


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Schiavello recognises the rich Indigenous heritage of this country and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Schiavello acknowledges the past, recognises the present and looks forward to contributing to a brighter future.
Creating equal opportunities for Indigenous Australians
The Schiavello Group is committed to having 3% of its related workforce represented by Indigenous employees by 2020. Our Indigenous Participation Plan is structured according to the three broad pillars of reconciliation.
Relationships – Encourage and foster meaningful, long term relationships with the Indigenous community.
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I am pleased to present our 2017-2019 Indigenous Participation Plan, which formally extends our existing Social Responsibility actions to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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The 10 Best Bottles of Cheap Bourbon to Drink Now
By Jonah Flicker December 5, 2021
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Bourbon is America's whiskey — literally, as it can only be made here in the United States. There are countless top-shelf, limited-edition, unicorn bottles to hunt down, and many of these are quite good. Of course, they're also extremely expensive. We've covered some of these spirits in our Whiskey of the Week series.
Fortunately, you don't have to empty your savings fund to get your hands on a decent, or even very good, bottle of bourbon. So what is the best cheap bourbon that's actually worth drinking? In this cocktail journalist's opinion, there are quite a few to add to your bar cart.
For the purposes of this guide, we've stuck to the best bourbon under $30. Here are ten of the best bourbon brands from different American distilleries to track down.
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1. Old Grand-Dad
Old Grand-Dad is part of Jim Beam's "Olds" collection, which also includes Old Crow, Old Overholt, and Old Tub. Old Grand-Dad stands out for its high-rye mash bill, meaning it has a greater percentage of rye than many other bourbons adding more spice to the palate. It also comes in several different proofs, but the bonded version is one of the best – at least four years old and exactly 100 proof, making this good for cocktails or sipping.
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2. Heaven Hill Old Style
Heaven Hill is a Kentucky distillery that makes so many worthy brands, including Elijah Craig and Evan Williams. But the most budget bourbon that comes out of there, Old Style, is also a decent bottle. To be fair, it can be hard to find outside of Kentucky, but it's possible. And it's much more readily available than the Green Label expression and much cheaper than the rebranded bottled-in-bond version. Expect a bourbon around four years old, with simple notes of vanilla, caramel, and stone fruit that is surprisingly satisfying.
Heaven Hill Old Style
3. Benchmark
There are several different expressions in Buffalo Trace's Benchmark lineup of bourbons, but the core Old No. 8 brand is a decent bottle that might be taking a little dig at Jack Daniel's Old No. 7. This is another unassuming but steady 80-proof bourbon, with classic notes of caramel, chocolate, and vanilla that make it dependable rather than exciting. Try this one in an Old Fashioned to see how it holds up.
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Benchmark Bourbon
4. Fighting Cock
Fighting Cock is a bourbon that kind of seems like Heaven Hill's answer to Wild Turkey, given the name and the 103 proof, just two degrees higher than Wild Turkey 101. It's used to carry an age statement of six years, but that was discontinued (although the brand website still mentions that age). Regardless, this is a bright, spicy, slightly hot bourbon that packs a punch for a bottle that mostly sells for less than 20 bucks.
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Fighting Cock Bourbon
5. Old Crow
Old Crow is easily one of the most overlooked bourbons made by Jim Beam, and you can kind of understand why. This is bottom-shelf bourbon priced accordingly, although it has its fans. The name comes from Dr. James C. Crow, an important figure in whiskey history, and the brand was said to be a favorite of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain. It might have been better quality then, but give this one a try if you're looking for a decent budget bottle that hits most of the right spots.
Courtesy of Beam Suntory
6. Wild Turkey 81
Let's be clear, Wild Turkey 101 is the better pick, with a proof that is 20 points higher than this bottle. However, the 81 proof version is a few bucks cheaper, so we're going to include it here on this list. Both are aged in alligator char barrels, or casks that are deeply charred, and are aged for similar lengths of time. The 81 just doesn't have the spice and heat that makes the 101 so enticing, but it's still a good budget bourbon to check out.
Courtesy of Wild Turkey
7. Evan Williams
Evan Williams is another Heaven Hill inexpensive bourbon to check out. This is a very popular brand that drinks well above its price, with deep notes of caramel, char, fruit, and vanilla. There are other expressions to check out, like the Bottled in Bond and Single Barrel, but regular old Black Label is both a good sipper and mixer. Try this in an Old Fashioned and you could mistake it for something twice as expensive.
Courtesy of Evan Williams
8. Larceny
Larceny is a wheated bourbon, meaning wheat is the secondary grain in the mash bill (68 percent corn, 20 percent wheat, 12 percent malted barley) instead of the usual rye. This bottle will cost a bit more than some of the others, but you can usually still find it for less than $30. The palate is on the sweeter side, with nice notes of butterscotch, plum, and cherry. This is a good one to try making some drinks with to see how it differs from your usual bourbon made with rye.
9. Jim Beam
Jim Beam White Label — you know it, you might not exactly love it, but you have certainly thrown back a shot. This is a top-selling American bourbon brand for several reasons, including its affordability and uncomplicated flavor profile. White Label is basic bourbon, but that's not a dig, it's a testament to a brand that anchors the distillery and allows it to make so many other more interesting whiskeys. So don't forget to include this in your hunt for budget bottles.
10. Four Roses
There are ten recipes included in the core bourbon from Four Roses, the result of the distillery's use of two mash bills and five different yeast strains. Each one is slightly different, but they all come together in this complex and very drinkable bourbon, which is a terrific neat, on some ice, or in a cocktail. There are more expensive expressions worth checking out like the Small Batch and Single Barrel, but pick up a bottle of this for your home bar.
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Airborne transmission of Covid-19 can't be ruled out, says WHO
10:14 Wednesday, 08 July 2020
Posted on July 8, 2020 by newadmin wrote in COVID-19 News, iRadio App.
It's after more than 200 scientists wrote an open letter to the WHO.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has acknowledged the possibility that Covid-19 could be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air while in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings – cannot be ruled out.
If the evidence is confirmed, it may affect guidelines for indoor spaces.
An open letter from more than 200 scientists had accused the WHO of underestimating the possibility of airborne transmission.
Margaret Harris of the WHO says the possibility of it spreading in crowded or poorly ventilated areas cannot be ruled out.
"That is why many countries have been asking people to wear masks when they are on public transport, places where it is difficult to ventilate or in enclosed spaces such as shops to minimise the possibility of transmission."
Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO, fears there could be a sharp increase in coronavirus fatalities in the coming weeks.
"What we have seen in the month of June is an acceleration in the number of cases and what has not accelerated with that is the number of deaths "But we know that it takes time and there is a lag phase.
"Some of this may be lag, we may see deaths start to climb again because we have only really experienced this rapid increase in cases over the last five to six weeks."
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2017 Professional Development Grants
June 10, 2017 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
CLTA-USA has awarded the 2017 Professional Development Grants to the following regional associations:
CLTA-California, CLTA-Oregon, CLTA-Texas, CLTA-Virginia, CLTA-Washington, New England CLTA, Oklahoma-CLTA, CLTA-Indiana
Please visit here for more information about regional associations affiliated with CLTA-USA:
http://clta-us.org/about-clta/regional-cltas/
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National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society
The National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society is founded to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of college students in learning Chinese as a second language, to encourage them to continue to study Chinese after they graduate from college, and to promote the study of Chinese language, literature, and culture in the United States.
This year the National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society inducted 25 students. Congratulations to the Honor students and their faculty sponsors! For a full list, please visit
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June 8, 2017 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The CLTA-USA has awarded the 2017 Professional Development Grants to the following regional associations:
CLTA-California, CLTA-Oregon, CLTA-Texas, CLTA-Virginia, CLTA-Washington, New England CLTA, Oklahoma-CLTA, CLTA-Indiana
Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese
May 31, 2017 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese is now calling for applications. The award supports the attendance of pre-collegiate and collegiate teachers at training workshops, seminars, conferences, and other in-service learning experiences at local, national, or international levels; and/or to collaborate with a mentor teacher. The application deadline is October 31, 2017. For more information, please visit the CLTA Awards page.
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Cengage Learning Awards for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Cengage Learning Awards for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language is calling for applications. CLTA members who wish to improve Chinese Foreign Language education in the US through the design, development, and application of new pedagogy, innovative classroom practices, and teaching tools (e.g. multi-media) are welcome to apply. The proposal deadline is November 31, 2017. For further information, please visit the CLTA Awards page.
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Report on the 2016 Annual Membership Meeting
January 1, 2017 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
CLTA's Annual Membership Meeting was held in Boston, MA during the ACTFL's Annual Conference on Saturday, November 19, 2016. The meeting kicked off with a reception – many thanks to the sponsors for the wonderful meal. CLTA's President, Helen Shen, started the meeting with a warm welcome and expressed her appreciation for the membership's support and for the support of CLTA's Board of Directors.
The 2nd CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning was held on April 1-3 at the University of Maryland, College Park. 300 people were in attendance, which included 2 keynote speeches and 2 plenary speeches with book exhibitions, 130 paper presentations, 10 workshops and 20 teaching demonstrations, and an information session.
As a result of the recent CLTA poll, a majority of the members voted to hold CLTA annual conferences independently. The tentative plan is for the conference to be held in April 2018 in Washington, D.C. Once more details are available, they will be disseminated to the CLTA membership.
The Steering Committee reported that it established 12 special interest groups and created the publication of the CLTA monograph in 2017. Also, Professor Janet Xing of West Washington University was appointed to serve as the new JCSL Editor.
Afterwards, the Committee Chairs each took a minute to report to the CLTA membership the tasks and goals of each committee.
Congratulations to the following award winners:
CLTA Jiede Award: Eric A. Pelzl, University of Maryland, College Park
CLTA Action Research Award: Ruihua Liu, International Leadership of Texas
Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant: Xue Xia, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Xizhen Qin, University of South Florida
CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award: Yun Yao, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Tao-chung Ted Yao Memorial Award at CLTA-S2: Eric A. Pelzl, University of Maryland, College Park
Tao-chung Ted Yao Memorial Award at ACTFL/CLTA: Liulin Zhang, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Haomin Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
China Sprout Presentation Award: Qiuping Yuan, Lake Shore High School, MI
Peking University Press Publication Award: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xinjia Peng and Jing-Yun Chen
For this year's ACTFL/CLTA Annual Conference, CLTA accepted 50 sessions and 58 papers. Effective January 1, 2017, there will be a membership rate increase across the board. Four new Board Members were elected to the CTLA Board, which include one K-12 teacher and three higher education teachers. CLTA now has 10 regional member associations. This year also marked the initiation of CLTA's National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society. 31 candidates from 10 institutions were induced to the Society.
In closing, CLTA President Helen Shen acknowledged the outgoing Officers and Board Members: JCSL editor, 2 Officers and 4 Board Members. She then closed the meeting by welcoming the new 2017 Steering Committee, the 2017 Board of Directors, and the 2017 CLTA President Chaofen Sun.
(Written by Lisa Podbilski)
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Figure 2: Prof. Zheng-sheng Zhang received a plaque of appreciation from Professor Helen Shen, the 2016 President of CLTA, for his 8-year service as the JCLTA editor.
Figure 3: Ms. Ruihua Liu was awarded the 2016 Action Research Grant.
Figure 4: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xinjia Peng and Jing-Yun Chen received the best article prize from Ms. Xiaoxia Deng (first on the right) of the Peking University Press.
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Annual Meeting Online Program Update
July 6, 2016 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The 2016 Annual Meeting Online Program has been updated. 07.07.2016
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STARTALK 2016 Programs
March 17, 2016 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
STARTALK has just published their list of programs for 2016. Chinese language teachers in the U.S. may apply for a program of interest to them. Here is the URL: https://startalk.umd.edu/public/find-a-summer-program/?f[0]=im_field_st_language%3A39&f[1]=im_field_program_participant_typ%3A183
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Annual Meeting Program – Update
August 6, 2015 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The CLTA Annual Meeting program has been updated (11/13/2015).
Annual Meeting Program
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CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award – 2015 Call for Applications
January 26, 2015 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
(Deadline: March 31, 2015)
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The 2014 CLTA Annual Conference Witnesses Another Year of Growth
By Fangyuan Yuan
With Contributions from Weidong Zhang, Claire Kotenbeutel, and Yea-Fen Chen
Dec.15, 2014
The Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) successfully held its 2014 annual conference in conjunction with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in San Antonio, TX from Nov. 21-23, 2014, with the theme of "Reaching Global Competence." This (inter)national event brought together hundreds of Chinese language educators from around the country and attracted a number of international attendants. A dozen publishers and vendors exhibited their recent publications and showcased their services related to Chinese teaching and learning.
This year, the conference featured 70 panels, 11 roundtable discussions, and 4 poster sessions. About 250 presenters shared their research findings and teaching experiences, and discussed issues and challenges relating to teaching and learning Chinese as a second language at different levels. A variety of topics were covered, ranging from classroom research, curriculum design, syllabus development, technology-assisted teaching, articulations between high schools and universities, language policies, study abroad, to textbook development, to name just a few. Almost all the panels were well attended and followed by engaging discussions. In addition, two workshops were offered with more than 60 participants for each on the topics that were particularly attractive to our new/young members: "Empirically-based Instructional Strategies and Best Practices in CFL Classrooms" by Prof. Jin Hong Gang and "Teaching Chinese with Technology" by Professors Phyllis Zhang, Tianwei Xie and Jun Da. As in past years, CLTA set up a special booth hosting the event of meeting-with-authors in which some recent publications authored by our members were displayed.
One of the important events at the conference was our General Membership Meeting where old friends and new colleagues gathered together, exchanging ideas and renewing friendships. This year's meeting was chaired by Prof. Hongyin Tao of UCLA, President of the Association for the year 2014. Prof. Tao reported to all the members about the major initiatives, work and achievements of the year 2014, together with the chairs of different committees. Here are some highlights:
Professor Emeritus Tianwei Xie of the California State University, Long Beach, received this year's Walton Lifetime Achievement Award for his years of outstanding service as a Chinese educator in general and invaluable contributions in the area of technology-assisted teaching in Chinese language instruction in particular. Congratulations and Happy Retirement, Professor Xie!
One achievement that drew our warm applause is the success of the First International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning held at Indiana University – Bloomington in October 2014. According to Yea-Fen Chen, Chair of the symposium's organizing committee, there were about 300 scholars and Chinese instructors from a number of countries coming to the symposium, which truly was "international". Prof. Tao extended special thanks to everyone who made it a great success and announced that the second symposium will be held at the University of Maryland in 2016 with the exact dates to be determined.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors and timeless efforts of the Fund-Raising Committee, this year the Association received the donations in the amount of $11,832 from 11 agencies, publishers, vendors, institutes and individuals as of Nov. 1, 2014, which enables us to establish some new awards and grants to our outstanding individual members and affiliated regional associations.
At the meeting, Prof. Tao announced several important changes and possible changes, which signify a new development of the Association. The highlights are as follows:
The association's name was changed from the "Chinese Language Teachers Association" to the "Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA" with the Chinese name from中文教师学会 to 美国中文教师学会. This change was endorsed by the majority of the members with about 90% saying yes according to an electronic ballot. Likewise, about 95% members who voted supported the initiative to design an official logo for the Association. For this purpose, a competition will be launched among the members.
Starting from 2016, the CLTA's journal will be published by John Benjamins. The name of the journal is suggested to be changed from the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA) to Chinese as a Second Language — the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA, and its Chinese name is still under discussion. These name changes will be subject to the approval by a majority vote of general members.
A new on-line journal will be launched in 2015, focusing on publishing articles about K-L2 Chinese teaching.
There are several changes in the leadership of the Association. Yea-Fen Chen of Indiana University will step down at the end of 2014 as the Executive Director after years of whole-hearted dedication and hard-working commitment, and Prof. John Jinghua Yin of the University of Vermont will take over the task. Prof. Yin's duty as the newsletter editor is handed over to Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt of the University of Oregon.
The membership meeting bid farewell to the 4 retired board members who had been working diligently for our members during the past three years. They are Professors Der-lin Chao, Jane Kuo, Miao-fen Tseng, and Phyllis Zhang. The meeting also welcomed 5 newly elected members including Professors Wayne Wenchao He, Nan Jiang, Jiangling Liao, Yun Xiao, and Fangyuan Yuan. For the year of 2015, Prof. Chengzhi Chu of UC Davis will serve the President of the Association and Prof. Helen Shen of the University of Iowa the Vice President. Altogether there are 12 committees with five new ones. For the names of the 2015 CLTA Board of Directors and officers, please refer to the composition chart at the end of the report. You can also visit our website at http://clta-us.org/ for more details.
Professors Nyan-Ping Bi, Cecilia Chang, Helen Shen, and Zhengshen Zhang presented the following awards to the recipients:
The Action Research Award was awarded to Binnan Gao of Elon University whose winning project is "Developing Effective Techniques of Correcting First-Year Students' Pronunciation Errors".
The Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language. The winners of its first prize are Crista Cornelius, Donglin Chai, and Bing Mu from Ohio State University whose project is "Tiyan rizhi: Maximizing Community-based Learning in Chinese Study Abroad Contexts." The two recipients of the second prizes are Shijuan Liu from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Sue-mei Wu from Carnegie Mellon University, with the projects titled "Content-Based Instruction With Emerging Technology for A Mixed Level" and "The Chinese Folk Performance Curriculum: Leveraging Technology" respectively.
The Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant was presented to Carl Polley of the University of Hawai'i Kapi'olani Community College and Ruihua Liu from the Houston Independent School District.
The CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award recipient is Lan Zhang of the University of Memphis.
The Jiede Empirical Research Grant was given to Yun Yao from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign whose project is titled "Chinese Character Recognition in Native and Second Language Learners."
The Peking University Press Publication Award was presented to Han Luo from Lafayette College whose article is entitled "Chinese Language Learning Anxiety and Its Associated Factor"
The Walton Presentation Prize was awarded to Yu Wu from Boston University.
The CLTA Professional Development Grant was presented to nine regional associations, including the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California, Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Southern California, Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas, Chinese Language Teachers Association of Virginia, Chinese Language Teachers Association-Washington State, Georgia Chinese Language Educators, Iowa Chinese Language Teachers Association, Oklahoma Chinese Language Teachers Association, and Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers.
Prof. Chengzhi Chu, our 2015 President, concluded the membership meeting with a brief speech. He expressed profound thanks to Prof. Hongyin Tao for his outstanding leadership and dedicated work, and heart-felt appreciations to all the CLTA members for their trust and support. Speaking about the work of 2015, he introduced the functions and responsibilities of the 12 standing and ad hoc committees of the Association and called for member participation in the CLTA Logo design competition, fundraising initiatives, on-line vote for new board members and Vice President, and the Chinese National Honor Society Initiative.
CLTA 2015 Board of Directors, Committees and Officers
President Chengzhi Chu 储诚志
Immediate Past President Hongyin Tao 陶红印
Vice President Helen Shen 沈禾玲
Executive Director John Jing-hua Yin 印京华
Steering Committee Chengzhi Chu 储诚志 (President, chair)
Hongyin Tao 陶红印 (IPP)
Helen Shen 沈禾玲 (VP)
Cecilia Chang 張曼蓀
Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋
Nyan-Ping Bi 畢念平Cecilia Chang 張曼蓀
Chengzhi Chu 储诚志
Stephanie Divo 何思培
Wayne Wenchao He 何文潮
Nan Jiang 蒋楠
Song Jiang 姜松
Claire Kotenbeutel 柯凯瑞 Jianling Liao 廖建玲Helen Shen 沈禾玲
Hongyin Tao陶红印
Yun Xiao 萧云
Fangyuan Yuan 袁芳远
Mindy Zhang 张敏
Archives Committee Stephanie Divo 何思培 (chair)
John Jing-hua Yin 印京华 (ED)
John Chang 張文光 (Webmaster)
Scott McGinnis 馬思凱
Awards Committee Cecilia Chang 張曼蓀 (chair)
Nyan-Ping Bi 畢念平; Fangyuan Yuan袁芳远
Chinese National Honor Society Committee Mindy Zhang 张敏 (chair)
Claire Kotenbeutel 柯凯瑞
Helen Shen 沈禾玲
(Ad Hoc) CLTA Logo Committee Jianling Liao 廖建玲 (chair)
Finance Committee Claire Kotenbeutel 柯凯瑞 (chair)
Fangyuan Yuan 袁芳远 (secretary)
Fundraising Committee Song Jiang 姜松 (chair)
Jane Kuo 郭珠美
Jiede & Action Research Awards Committee Nan Jiang 蒋楠 (chair)
Nyan-Ping Bi 畢念平
Jianling Liao 廖建玲
Media and Publicity Committee Fangyuan Yuan 袁芳远 (chair)
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt井茁 (newsletter editor)
Wendong Zhang 张伟东
Jie Zhang 张洁
Nominating (& Election) Committee Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋 (chair)
Program/Conference Committee Yun Xiao 萧云 (chair)
John Jinghua Yin 印京华 (ED)
Extended program committee invited from current members
Professional Development Committee Nyan-Ping Bi 畢念平 (chair)
Mindy Zhang张敏
Regional Associations Committee Wayne Wenchao He 何文潮 (chair)
Headquarters John Jing-hua Yin 印京华 (ED)
Alice Wang (Finance Assistant to the ED)
JCLTA Editorial Board Zhengsheng Zhang 张正生(editor)
Scott McGinnis 馬思凱 (associate editor)
Journal of K-12 Chinese Language Teaching Annie P. Zeng (editor)
Newsletter Zhou Jing-Schmidt 井茁 (editor)
Web-team John Chang 張文光 (webmaster)
Alan Peterka (web developer)
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2015 Annual Meeting Call for Papers
December 3, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The 2015 Call for Papers for the CLTA annual meeting are now available on the Meeting page.
Submissions are due January 14, 2015.
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Call for Papers – International Association of Asian Studies
October 13, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The International Association of Asian Studies will host its national conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 9-14, 2015. This conference is expected to have more than 3,000 attendees. In addition, not fewer than 325 research sessions, round tables, panel discussions, performances and demonstrations will be scheduled throughout the week. In addition to the many scholarly sessions, the conference will also include many exhibitors, a career fair and health screenings.
Persons interested in presenting a paper, round table, etc. should submit an abstract, not to exceed two (2) pages that are related to Asian and Asian-American experiences. Subjects may include, but are not limited to: literature, demographics, history, politics, economics, education, health care, fine arts, religion, social sciences, business and many other subjects. Please indicate the time required for presentation of your paper (25 OR 45 minutes).
Interested scholars should submit his/her abstract with presenter's name, institution/organization, address, phone and email no later than Saturday, November 8, 2014. Please forward abstracts to: Dr. Lemuel Berry, Jr., Executive Director, NAAAS & Affiliates, PO Box 6670, Scarborough, Maine 04070, or by fax to (207) 839-3776, or via email at naaasconference@earthlink.net.
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Symposium Program Now Available
August 31, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The full program for the CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning is now available for download.
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Annual CLTA/ACTFL Convention Program
July 19, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The program for the 2014 Annual CLTA/ACTFL Convention is now available online. Please note the program will continue to be updated as we changes are needed. ACTFL also has a session search page available on their website.
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CLTA-ISCLTL Registration Open!
April 20, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
Early Bird Registration for the first CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching & Learning begins today (4/20). Current CLTA members can register at member rates. The Symposium will take place October 25-26th, in Bloomington, Indiana. More information can be found on the conference information page. Visit the Online registration form to register today!
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2014 CLTA Professional Development Grants are awarded
The CLTA Regional Associations Committee is happy to report that, after a careful review and approval by the CLTA Steering Committee, the 2014 CLTA Professional Development Grants are awarded to the following associations (in alphabetical order):
Chinese Language Teachers Association of California (CLTAC)
Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Southern California (CLTA-SC)
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas (CLTA-TX)
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Virginia (CLTA-VA)
Chinese Language Teachers Association-Washington State (CLTA-WA)
Georgia Chinese Language Educators (GCLE)
Iowa Chinese Language Teachers Association (ICLTA)
Oklahoma Chinese Language Teachers Association (OKCLTA)
Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers (WACLT)
It is with great enthusiasm that the CLTA honors the creative energy that these regional associations have brought to the CLTA in 2014. Please join us in congratulating them for their hard work in preparing and offering professional development opportunities for local Chinese language teaching professionals. Also, please encourage your local organization to establish an official affiliation with the CLTA if they have yet to do so. Once affiliated with the CLTA and maintaining current membership, your local organization becomes eligible to submit a proposal for a 2015 Professional Development Grant. Please visit http://clta-us.org/about-clta/regional-cltas/ for information about regional affiliation procedures.
CLTA Regional Associations Committee
Nyan-Ping Bi (chair)
Jane Kuo
Mindy Zhang
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CLTA STUDY ABROAD SITE VISIT AWARD – Due March 31, 2014
March 6, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
Recognizing that study abroad experiences play an integral part in the development of second language acquisition, CLTA is delighted to announce the launch of the 2014 CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award. Initiated by the Associated Colleges in China (ACC), a study abroad program in China administered by Hamilton College, this newly established award supports site visits to study abroad programs in China and Taiwan. The primary goal of this award is to help teachers to gain insight into their students' learning processes in the target setting, and encourage teachers to design effective instruction to advance students' linguistic and cultural competencies beyond study abroad programs.
Application and eligibility information can be found on the CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award page. (Deadline: March 31, 2014)
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CENGAGE LEARNING AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE IN THE TEACHING OF CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
(Deadline: July 31, 2014)
CLTA is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language. Established with the generous support of Cengage Learning, a multinational leading provider of educational solutions, this award is designed to encourage CLTA members to contribute to the improvement of Chinese Foreign Language (CFL) education in the United States through the design, development, and application of new pedagogy, innovative classroom practices, and teaching tools (e.g. multi-media).
See more information on eligibility and submission process.
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Call for Nominations: 2014 CLTA WALTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Deadline: April 30, 2014)
February 23, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
The CLTA Walton Lifetime Achievement Award, founded in 1998 by friends and colleagues of Ronald Walton, and funded in 2005 by a perpetual endowment from the Cheng & Tsui Company in honor of Ronald Walton's (1943-1996) lifetime dedication to Chinese language education and cross-cultural understanding, is given for overall contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy. All members in the community of Chinese language teaching and research, with the exception of current CLTA officers and members of the Board of Directors, are eligible for the award. The Walton Award consists of a plaque presented at the CLTA Annual Meeting.
To nominate a candidate for the Walton Award, please submit: 1) a letter of nomination describing the candidate's scholarship, service, leadership, and innovative contributions in the field of Chinese language teaching, 2) a current Curriculum Vitae of the nominated candidate, and 3) two letters of support from other CLTA members addressing the candidate's accomplishments in the categories mentioned in (1).
More information about the CLTA Walton Lifetime Achievement Award on our website: http://clta-us.org/awards/clta-walton-award-walton-presentation-prize/
Nominations for the Walton Award should be sent (preferably as PDF file attachments via email) by April 30, 2014 to Cecilia Chang, cchang@williams.edu; or by postal mail to:
Cecilia Chang
Associate Professor of Chinese
Department of Asian Studies
85 Mission Park Drive
The name of the winner will be announced and Award presented at the CLTA Annual Meeting. The name of the winner will also be reported in the January issue of CLTA Newsletter and on this web page.
Thank you in advance for your nomination submissions.
Chair of the 2014 CLTA Awards Committee
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Jiede Grant Applications due March 31st
The deadline for applying for a Jiede Grant is March 31. For detail information of application, please visit the CLTA website: http://clta-us.org/awards/jiede-empirical-research-grant/
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CLTA-ISCLTL Submissions Open, Due: March 18th
The CLTA-ISCLTL Online Proposal Submission opens today (2/15). Please submit your proposal at http://conference.clta-us.org. You will need to create a username and password first. You will find the call for proposals and proposal submission guidelines on the site.
Looking forward to seeing you at the Symposium at Indiana University this October.
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Yea-Fen Chen (Committee Chair, Indiana University)
Der-lin Chao (Hunter College)
Chengzhi Chu (University of California, Davis)
Wei Hong (Purdue University)
Helen Shen (University of Iowa)
Hongyin Tao (University of California, LA)
Mindy Zhang (Indiana Academy)
全美中文教師學會第一屆中文教學國際研討會
全美中文教师学会第一届中文教学国际研讨会
The First CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning: http://clta-us.org/clta-iscltl/
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CLTA Sponsorship Guidelines
February 7, 2014 /in NEWS! /by CLTA
Newly available CLTA Sponsorship Guidelines have been posted on the CLTA Donations page. Your contributions to the organization are very much appreciated.
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The 12th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese: Deadline reminder
Please be aware that the deadline for submitting a proposal to present at the 12th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese is February 15. Please visit http://clta-gny.org/14conf/14conf.html for details. Keynote speakers will be announced shortly.
Teaching Chinese in the Global Community:
Developing Communicative Competence in a New Age
The 12th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese, sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York (CLTA-GNY), New York University and Nanjing University, will be held on Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, 2014 at New York University's Kimmel Center. The full conference program begins with breakfast on May 3, and ends after lunch on Sunday, May 4. We welcome your participation!
As Chinese language educators, we are charged with the task of teaching Chinese to studentsof all ages, from a wide variety of backgrounds, with widely varying interests and experiences and differing motivations for studying Chinese. Our students often have limited knowledge about China and limited exposure to Chinese language and culture.
The world continues to get smaller as advances in technology connect us more closely every day. Yet, at the same time, gaps in our understanding still occur – cultural insensitivity exists and we fail to understand each other and truly respect our varying cultural viewpoints. So, as we consider culture, we must not just traditional culture, which informs our deepest belief systems, but also modern and popular culture, which reflects the real lives of our students and their counterparts in China. I t is not enough to teach language alone: we must teach culture, develop cross-cultural values such as mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, empathy, and many others through comparative and contrastive study of Asian culture and Western culture.
As teachers, we need ongoing support and training in understanding the schools in which we teach, our students and their parents; well-planned and structured training in new trends of standards-based learning to align our teaching to the Common Core Standards, immersion strategies, and the teaching of culture. We must find ways to reach our students, digital natives for whom technology is second nature and whose ways of learning may be influenced by the key role that multimedia devices play in their lives. We must base our teaching on the latest theoretical and linguistic breakthroughs to assist us in developing our instructional plans and syllabi for the teaching of Chinese.
We must be committed to improving the quality of Chinese instruction in schools, and to the development of a student population with a global competence. Join us at the 2014 Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York to discuss these ideas and continue in the professional development of the Chinese teaching community!
We invite you to submit a proposal for our conference! All proposals on the teaching of Chinese in are welcome, including but not limited to innovative approaches in addressing the following areas of interest:
• CULTURAL Competence: developing global competence and mutual understanding, working with diverse students, pragmatics.
• TECHNOLOGICAL Competence: using technology to engage our students and advance their learning
• PEDAGOGICAL Competence: curriculum and instruction, including standards-based teaching and learning and assessment
• LINGUISTIC competence: research and advances in linguistics to inform our teaching
• PROGRAMMATIC competence : Teacher training and professional development, sustainability of programs, articulation of programs.
The CLTA-GNY Conference Committee welcomes submissions of one-page proposals on subjects relevant to the above themes or other topics of interest to the K-16 Chinese teaching community. Papers may be either in Chinese or English. Panel proposals as well as proposals for individual papers will be considered. All proposals will be reviewed anonymously. Individual papers will be grouped into panels by themes. Panels will be 75 minutes long with four presenters.
Proposals should be submitted to clta.gny@gmail.com as a Word document and are due no later than February 15, 2014. Late submissions will not be considered.
Questions: clta.gny@gmail.com
The conference website is http://clta-gny.org/14conf/14conf.html, where you can see updates, info about registration, conference venue, hotel recommendations, conference chairs and conference committee.
The conference fee is $30.
We'll be only accepting online registration.
Keynote speakers will be announced in due time.
Hope to see you all at NYU next May!
CLTA-GNY Conference Committee
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York
http://clta-gny.org
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2014 Jiede Award Application Deadline
Applications for the Jiede Grant are due March 31. For detailed application information, please visit the CLTA website: http://clta-us.org/awards/jiede-empirical-research-grant/
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Background: Aflatoxins are fungal toxins which may be present in some foods and due to their negative health effects, represent a major concern for humans and food industries. In the present study, total aflatoxin contamination in products from eight feed materials production centers located in Qom City of Iran were evaluated by an ELISA technique in November 2012.
Methods: A total of 40 feed samples were analyzed for total aflatoxin. The samples were collected randomly from eight feed materials production centers (C1-C8) located in Qom city. Samples were conditioned in sterile plastic container and kept at 4 ᵒC until analyses that were carried out in same day.
Results: The total average of Aflatoxins concentration in samples were 1.83µg/kg. All samples demonstrated total aflatoxin levels lower than European :::union::: standard and National Standard of Iran recommended limits.
Conclusion: Considering the low values of aflatoxin contamination, maintaining vigilant preventive measures is recommended.These results do not preclude the need for continuing comprehensive studies for aflatoxin contamination.
Keywords: Aflatoxins, Agricultural Crops, ELISA, Iran.


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Mediterranean Madness: The Search for KC's Best Middle Eastern Food
Annie Fingersh, RampageWired, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy|December 7, 2022
Kansas City is filled with amazing Mediterranean restaurants, but the question is, which one is the best? As a certified foodie, I felt it necessary to try some of the most talked-about and popular Middle Eastern restaurants in KC to find out once and for all: Who does it best?
I traveled around the city with my food partner-in-crime, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (HBHA) senior, Illy Hammer, to sample some of the best falafel and hummus. We went to Sinbad's Grill, Amir Mediterranean Grill and Bakery, Hummus and Pita, and Baba's Pantry. Here are the definitive rankings of the best falafel and hummus in Kansas City:
Both the impossibly crispy falafel and beautifully smooth hummus were exceptional at Hummus and Pita. Image by Annie Fingersh.
#1: Hummus and Pita, 8039 Santa Fe Dr, Overland Park, KS
The patio was crowded on a beautiful fall day, and upon walking into the restaurant, I was greeted by the smell of roasted garlic and delicious spices. The casual dining experience only added to the laid-back vibe the restaurant had. After receiving the food quickly, the falafel was served piping hot and was the ideal two-bite size. It was perfectly greaseless, a feat hard to achieve with such a crispy exterior; one you could truly hear the 'crunch' of when you bit in. Just the right amount of falling apart in your mouth, but not too much that the structure was impaired. Garlicky and herb-y boldness were accompanied by a texture as light and soft as souffle.
Their hummus was the perfect complement to the ethereal falafel: it was as smooth as butter, and Hammer said that she could "eat it like pudding." The perfect medley of acidity and tahini in the hummus was matched with a wonderfully spicy chutney-like substance in the center of the dish. When eaten with warm, grilled pita bread, the flavors melded together in a transportive way. Without even noticing, Hammer and I had suddenly eaten the whole container of hummus with spoons, just like pudding. So, if you're looking for truly some of the best hummus and falafel in Kansas City, go to Hummus and Pita.
The hummus at Amir had a pure quality to it, and the flavor of the chickpeas was a great complement to the spices. Image by Annie Fingersh.
#2: Amir Mediterranean Grill and Bakery, 8216 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS
The storefront is small and unassuming, but the food houses big flavors and textures, indicative of classic, basic, Mediterranean food. Service at Amir's was not the quickest, but Hammer and I were given delicious baklava while we waited. Amir's hummus was a much different style than Hummus and Pita's, it was pure and unadulterated of many spices and tahini; the flavor of the chickpeas were prominently displayed. While not as smooth as Hummus and Pita's, the texture of the hummus was a good medium (in between ultra-smooth and chunky). It was served with spiced whole chickpeas, olive oil, and cucumber and tomato slices, which all complemented the flavor of the hummus. Their falafel was a one-biter, but fell apart perfectly and was steaming hot; Just as crispy as Hummus and Pita's, but not quite as greaseless, giving Amir's solid standing as the second best falafel and hummus in Kansas City.
While the sumac onions in the falafel had a great flavor and texture, overall, the falafel was not as ethereal as I expected. Image by Annie Fingersh.
#3: Baba's Pantry, 1019 E 63rd St, Kansas City, MO
As one of Bon Appetit's 50 best new restaurants in the U.S., I was expecting more from Baba's Pantry. The first time I went there, I was greeted by a 40-minute wait, so, the next time, I ordered over the phone to beat the crowd. While the hummus had a great consistency, impossibly smooth and thick, it was clear why the texture was so: one of the prominent flavors was the olive oil used for that beautiful mouth-feel. The flavor of the olive oil overpowered the other subtle notes of the hummus, such as the mild acidity and minimal tahini. However, it was served with delicious pickled cucumbers and radishes, more olive oil on top, and chives. Baba's falafel was nicely crisp, and the breading was a little chunky, which I enjoyed. It was stuffed with sumac onions, and this unique addition greatly improved the falafel. As for the flavors of the falafel itself, they were not as bold as I would have liked; I wanted more spices and garlic to go along with the delicious onions and crisp exterior. Overall, I was left wanting more from Baba's.
Both the falafel and hummus had room to improve, but still, Sinbad's produced a solid contender. Image by Annie Fingersh.
#4: Sinbad's Grill, 7002 W 83rd St, Overland Park, KS
Sinbad's Grill, while slightly deserted, still took a good amount of time to make the food. Sinbad's falafel was crispy, but a little greasy. The texture was chewy in a way that I did not love, compared to the soft, falling-apart texture of the other falafels we tasted. However, the flavors were on point and had the perfect amount of garlic and spices. The hummus had a good mouthfeel, but was reminiscent of Baba's hummus: not much flavor beyond olive oil and chickpeas. It had a good amount of tahini, but could have used more acidity to cut the richness. Sinbad's Grill was decent, but not even on the same level as some of the other wonderful spots mentioned above.
While I enjoyed all of these Middle Eastern escapades, Hummus and Pita stands in a league of its own. So, the next time you're craving some top-notch falafel and hummus, head on over!
This story was published in RampageWired on Nov. 20, 2022.
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Auguste-Joseph Desarnod, or Desarnot (Russian: Август Осипович Дезарно; 1788, France - 15 April 1840, Saint Petersburg) was a French-born engraver and battle painter who spent most of his life in Russia. He is sometimes referred to as "The Elder", to distinguish him from his son of the same name, who lived from 1812 to 1850, and was also a painter.

Biography

He received his first lessons in painting at the École des Beaux-Arts from Antoine-Jean Gros. In 1812, he enlisted as an officer in the Hussars, participated in the French invasion of Russia, and was captured by cossacks during the Battle of Krasnoi. After his release in 1814, he remained in Russia and became a citizen; having married a Russian woman.

In 1815, he presented some of his paintings at the Imperial Academy of Arts, depicting various activities of the Russian cavalry. One of them showed a horseman pursuing a French  carabinier and, on the basis of this picture, he was elected to the Academy. Two years later, he presented more paintings with the hope of being named an "Academician", but the judges found these works to be unsatisfactory. In 1827, he was finally granted that title for a work depicting himself being captured.

In 1829, he accompanied the troops of Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch on their campaigns in the Russo-Turkish War. Upon his return in 1830, he was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir. The drawings he made were turned into lithographs and, with the cooperation of the Tsar's librarian, they were published in France in 1834 by Firmin Didot Frères. The collection was called Album d'un voyage en Turquie fait par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur en 1829 et 1830.

During his career, he received the patronage of Alexander I, Nikolai I and the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavolovich, and produced many paintings of the uniforms worn by the various guard regiments.

References

External links

 Illustrations from Album d'Un voyage en Turquie @ Travelogues

1788 births
1840 deaths
Russian painters
Russian male painters
Military art
French emigrants to Russia
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir
École des Beaux-Arts alumni

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UHA Donates $1M to John A. Burns School of Medicine in celebration of 25th anniversary of founding
December 13, 2021 in News , UHA in the News by UHA Health Insurance
Donation honors UHA founding CEO Dr. Max Botticelli
Honolulu, HI (Dec. 10 2021) – UHA Health Insurance is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding with a $1 million donation to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to support student learning.
The donation establishes the UHA Health Insurance and Dr. Max G. Botticelli Medical Innovation Endowment, which will support JABSOM's efforts to develop and implement innovative curriculum initiatives, including learning communities and problem-based learning.
In recognition of the $1 million gift, the 3,300 square-foot third-floor student learning center in the Medical Education Building was dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Botticelli during a blessing event on December 10. He was a legendary member of the JABSOM faculty, practicing physician and co-founder of UHA Health Insurance. Formerly known as the Problem-Based Learning Center, it will now be called the "UHA and Dr. Max Botticelli Student Learning Center."
"As the only medical school in Hawai'i, the critical role of JABSOM in the health of this community cannot be overstated," explains Howard Lee, UHA president and chief executive officer. "We could think of no more fitting way to celebrate our 25th anniversary than to support and encourage the development of our future physicians with this $1 million donation to honor Dr. Botticelli's legacy."
Botticelli was a strong advocate of problem-based learning in which small groups of students discuss clinical cases as part of an educational process, while a faculty member serves as a facilitator. It requires that students take an active role in their learning and fosters critical problem-solving and team-building skills.
UHA and JABSOM have intertwined histories that pre-date UHA's existence: In 1996, Botticelli, then chair of the JABSOM faculty-practice insurance plan, joined other physician-educators to found UHA as a different kind of health insurance company – one with physician leadership and a goal of improving members' health through a focus on preventive medicine and overall well-being.
Separately, Botticelli's family has long supported JABSOM through the Dr. Max G. Botticelli Memorial Endowment for Innovative Medical Education. The fund was established in 2012 to honor the values that he held as a practicing physician and educator.
The $1 million gift is the most recent from UHA to JABSOM. In August 2020, the two organizations announced the donation of $100,000 to underwrite the launch of the innovative patient-centered learning communities curriculum designed to help JABSOM graduates develop trusting doctor-patient relationships that have been shown to improve health outcomes. The program was introduced in fall 2020.
"This donation not only recognizes Dr. Botticelli – one of our founding instructors – but UHA's generosity will create a student-learning center that will deliver unparalleled training for future doctors in Hawai'i," said Jerris Hedges, dean of JABSOM.
"I think it's about the best 90th birthday present anybody could give him," said Ann Botticelli, daughter of Max Botticelli, who attended the dedication event. "To hear him honored today, not just as a doctor, but as an educator and a visionary, and to see this marriage between what he worked his whole life for––a center that's based on the kind of education he wanted to provide for young physicians by the company he founded is very special and touching, and my entire family is very grateful."
About University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine
The John A. Burns School Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is one of the leading medical institutions and one of the most ethnically diverse institutions in the United States. For more than a decade, JABSOM has ranked in the top 10% of allopathic medical schools for graduate retention with one of our UH-sponsored residency programs. Hawaiʻ's cultural diversity and geographical setting affords JABSOM a unique research environment to excel in research directed at eliminating diseases that disproportionately affect people in Hawaii and the Pacific region. JABSOM faculty bring in extramural funds of $46 million into the state, annually. In addition, JABSOM was the first U.S. medical school to create a clinical department dedicated to the health and well-being of an indigenous population, Native Hawaiians.
About UHA Health Insurance
UHA Health Insurance provides medical, drug and vision plans to nearly 4,300 Hawai'i employer groups and approximately 57,000 members. As the only health plan in Hawai'i founded by physicians, it was the first to offer preventive and wellness care focused health plans in the state. It continues to be physician led and now offers the largest physician network in Hawai'i. By meeting strict quality standards to ensure clinically sound decision-making that respects the rights of patients and medical providers, UHA received accreditation in Health Utilization Management through URAC, the independent non-profit that promotes healthcare quality.
For information, visit uhahealth.com or follow @uhahealth on Twitter.
Deborah Dimaya / John A. Burns School of Medicine at UHM
Deborah Sharkey / UHA Health Insurance


5 April 2019 - GALE notes a renewed interest in researching LGBT tourism. A new handbook was published and young researchers are trying to collect information and develop training for hospitality staff. GALE calls upon its members to help by filling in the surveys of two researchers.
Julia Sarro from Switzerland wants to create a training on the LGBTQ subject for hotels' employees so that they can be informed on it and consequently receive a gay-friendly certificate. She developed a survey to prepare the training. She needs the information before the 3rd of May to include it in her thesis.
Raul Salort is studying LGBT tourism in Marina Alta, Spain (Alicante). He also developed a survey in Spanish on this. Marina Alta is a not yet well known area south of Valencia ands just north of the well known gay resort of Benidorm. It is interesting to see what can be done to develop such an area into a more interesting area for gay, or LGBT people.
In 2017, the Harrington Press published the "Handbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality: A Guide for Business Practice" by Jeff Guarancino and Ed Salvato. This book is a worthy attempt to write a handbook for global LGBT tourism. However, this version is still quite US-centric and "gay" centric. This may be good for North American gay tourists and hospitality services focusing on that target group, but the analysis and information on other groups – like lesbians traveling with of without children, and for transgenders who may have other traveling goals than being a tourist themselves – is still limited.


An addiction is conceived as a repetitive usage of any substance or a compulsive consequence behavior which modifies the internal system (neurochemical changes and neuronal activity) so that an immediate reinforcement takes place, but whose negative long-term effects are harmful or cause a significant deterioration in social development. From the Scheme Therapy approach, these addictive patterns are formed departing from the avoidance of early maladaptive schemes; the individual avoids cognitions, affections or behaviors, so that the scheme is not activated.
Schema Therapy applied in Substance Use Disorders.
The precursor to the application of schematic therapy in addictions in comorbidity with personality disorders was Samuel A. Ball in 1998 in his program to which "Dual-Focus Scheme Therapy". This psychotherapy is guided by a 24-week manual working on 16 core topics and 12 individualized for each patient based on the evaluation of personality disorders and the conceptualization of early maladaptive schemes and coping strategies.
Strategies of the relapse prevention model were used by Marlatt and Gordon (1985), this training in coping skills (self-monitoring, conflict resolution and social skills) and classic techniques of schema therapy. (Ball, Cobb-Richardson, Connolly, Bujosa and O'Neil, 2005; Ball 2007).
Ball focused himself on schemas and not on the schema modes. The models of "schema modes" in Young's addictions (substance abuse and gambling) are defined as evasive coping styles, the Self-Soother Mode and the Self-Stimulating Mode.
The Self-Soother Mode is activated when the individual avoids the discomfort that appears with the activation of the scheme through addictive behaviors and compulsions such as substance use (mainly depressants like alcohol and opiates), gambling and compulsive shopping, binge eating, Internet overuse; and the Self-Stimulating Mode with high risk behaviors (parachuting, extreme sports, driving at high speed), abuse of stimulants (cocaine, amphetamines (Ball, 1998).
depressive drugs to intensify avoidant modes or the combination of drugs to intensify infant and parenting modes with substances such as alcohol and cocaine.
1.Identifying and tagging patients' modes.
2.Exanimating the origin and (where relevant) the adaptive value of the mode during childhood or adolescence.
3.Linking maladaptive modes to current problems and symptoms.
4.Demonstrating the upsides of modifying or abandoning a mode if it is interfering with access to another mode.
5.Accessing the vulnerable child through the imagination.
6.Developing dialogues between modes. Initially, the therapist will model a healthy adult mode; subsequently, the patient will perform that mode.
7.Helping the patient to generalize the work of ways to the vital situations external to the therapeutic sessions.
For working with patients with addictions, work is initially done to identify early maladaptive regimens and modes associated with drug use, as well as associated modes.For example, working with the Vulnerable Child is important to help you feel protected and understood to meet your real needs and not to meet them through consumption. With the Angry/Impulsive Child it is necessary to teach him how to express his needs and emotions in a functional and healthy way, that does not endanger his health, freedom and support networks.
Under the pressure of the Parental modes, the patient seeks to escape from the discomfort through consumption, so it is important to establish limits and to get rid of internalized demands and self-punishment.
This working mode manifests itself throughout consumption behaviors, which is why it is important, initially, that the patient identifies his Start-Upmode in order to strengthen his decision to avoid consumption behaviors and substitute them with healthier behaviors so as to avoid Start-Up schemes.
Working with this mode is complex since for the user the drug is the only way to avoid the discomfort that the schemes produce.
Initial intervention work focuses on identifying the associated elements to the Start-Upmode; for example, the tools he uses to consume (pipes, syringes, droppers, rolling paper, ashtrays, etc.), associated places (specific streets, pubs, nightclubs), consumer friends, and such. Once we have identified these elements, it is important to give them a "voice", a content to Self-Reassuring mode: they are usually permissive messages, such as "you deserve it", "just once", "nothing bad will happen".
Patient: - "Because even though I consume, 'The Cheater' (Self-Soother Mode) knows that it is not healthy, doctor".
Once the patient has identified that the Self-Soother Mode brings bigger consequences than advantages, it is easier to confront him with role-playing exercises with chairs.
Self-Soother Mode strength consists in being a "faster" solution to drug consumption problems, which is why teaching the patient to confront this mode is very important so that the patient develops self-control and also to strengthen the Healthy Adult in him.
Patients, throughout developing role-playing with the Self-Soother mode and the other modes, empower themselves as well as they learn how to self-regulate their consumption until contending that: "I do not want to consume because it will bring many negative consequences to me, it is the Self-Soother mode who wants to avoid my schemes". Consumers gradually develop self-control and seek for new pleasurable and healthy activities than consumption.
A Therapeutic Community requires the presence and the intervention of a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary technical team, whit a strong predominance of medical, psychosocial and educational components. We can consider that life in a Therapeutic Community is an attempt to reproduce a real daily life; the patients in a Therapeutic Community become active participants and are also responsible for their own therapeutic process, which, undoubtedly, favors the strengthening of self-confidence, their concept of themselves and their autonomy to achieve change.
"New networks" therapy: we work it by role-playing in front of the group; first, the therapist takes the role of the patient and the patient takes the role of the Self-Soother Mode, all the group members take turns to identify the different "shapes" and arguments this dysfunctional mode has.
¬Play Therapy: different games and activities are used to encourage new coping strategies, which in the wake of Self-Reassuring mode, make the patient choose healthier activities. This therapy also integrates rules, realistic limits, connection and acceptance, autonomy during the different games and group activities.
¬Relapse prevention: we work with Marlatt and Gordon's model (1985) but adding experiential and cognitive exercises to confront the Self-Soother Mode.
¬Modes and drawings workshop: during this workshop, patients are taught about the origins and functions of the Self-Soother Mode, as well as the identification of "their voice" by drawing and writing letters.
oPatients are requested to draw the Self-Soother Mode. Choosing the characteristics it would have, for example a person, an animal, an object, etcetera, as well as name it. Identifying upsides and downsides of this mode and also identifying the need to turn to it. To describe it as a "partner". To practice experiential exercises rejecting the Self-Soother Mode with the image they drew.
¬Crafts and healthy personality workshop: masks, puppets, dolls, Self-Soother Mode image cards, as well as the Parental and Infant mode in order to produce dialogues between modes and experiential exercises are made during this workshop.
ïArntz, A., & Jacob, G. (2012). Schema therapy in practice: an introductory guide to the schema mode approach. New York: Wiley.
ïBall, S.A. (1998) Manualized treatment for substance abusers with personality disorders: dual focus schema therapy. Addictive Behaviors, 23, 883–891.
ïBall, S.A. (2007) Comparing individual therapies for personality disordered opioid dependent patients. Journal of Personality Disorders, 21(3), 305–321.


Make yourself at home in one of the guestrooms featuring DVD players and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include coffee/tea makers, and cribs/infant beds can be requested.
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This chic pearl necklace features three 9mm white freshwater pearls, hand-picked for their radiant luster. The pearls are strung on two strands of the finest genuine leather with six sterling silver rondelle beads. The necklace is 18 inches in length.
I like this necklace but it needs some kind of way to keep it closed on the lariat. It opens easily and could come off your neck.


You know, they call the Winnebago Man the angriest man in America, but Joe and Nick of the Found Footage Festival have some footage of Wayne Brian Meyer, and this guy isn't messing around. He's a public-access star from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who starts his show with a warning that it contains "formal orders… to drop dead in the name of Jesus Christ." What happened to the other cheek, Wayne?


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# Shortcuts Teacher

If you launch a command using either a menu or through the [Command
Palette](https://atom.io/packages/command-palette), the Shortcuts Teacher will
pop up a notification informing you about how you can do the same thing using a
keyboard shortcut.

Inspired by the decades old [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
feature doing the exact same thing.

![Animated demo](https://github.com/walles/atom-shortcuts-teacher/raw/master/demo.gif)

# [TODO](https://github.com/walles/atom-shortcuts-teacher)
* Show keybindings without special characters first

## DONE
* Make an animated gif showing off the functionality and add it to this
  README.md
* Show only shortcuts for the relevant context
* Don't show duplicate keybinding names
* Put each multi-key keybinding in its own backticks.
* Show human friendly command names
* Escape backticks in our shortcut Markdown
* Put the shortcuts in a bulleted list


Even if you decide to organize your own event, we are still happy to assist and serve your needs. Whether you need to decorate your event according to a predefined theme, or creative visualization of your ideas; add any important or small detail of an event that as a whole creates an unforgettable memories – Vanilla Rental can help you fill the puzzle to make your event complete and extraordinary.
All necessary event equipment can be rented in one place, at Vanilla Rental, which will save you time and energy of looking for bits and pieces with different vendors.
We have all necessary technical and creative resources to provide creative and practical solutions for your event's needs, to create an impressive and unforgettable environment.
We provide full service, which includes transportation, installation and dismantle services.


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Our Business Law Group includes experts in financing, securities law, labour and employment law, taxation, commercial leasing, corporate reorganization, and restructuring. Members of the group include current and former instructors and lecturers in commercial, taxation and construction law.


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There is considerable debate regarding whether and how covariate-adjusted analyses should be used in the comparison of treatments in randomized clinical trials. Substantial baseline covariate information is routinely collected in such trials, and one goal of adjustment is to exploit covariates associated with outcome to increase precision of estimation of the treatment effect. However, concerns are routinely raised over the potential for bias when the covariates used are selected post hoc and the potential for adjustment based on a model of the relationship between outcome, covariates, and treatment to invite a 'fishing expedition' for that leading to the most dramatic effect estimate. By appealing to the theory of semiparametrics, we are led naturally to a characterization of all treatment effect estimators and to principled, practically feasible methods for covariate adjustment that yield the desired gains in efficiency and that allow covariate relationships to be identified and exploited while circumventing the usual concerns. The methods and strategies for their implementation in practice are presented. Simulation studies and an application to data from an HIV clinical trial demonstrate the performance of the techniques relative to the existing methods.