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Power For The People
Nuclear Power Plant in France
The good thing about the recent Paris conference on climate change is that all the countries in the world agreed they needed to do something about global warming, the bad news is they couldn't agree on a workable solution. Everyone wants to move away from a world that is powered by carbon to one that is powered by renewable energy sources like solar, wind, water or geothermal heat and, while each of these certainly has potential, they also have many limitations that don't make them very practical. There is however, one power source that is very practical and could quickly help us make the transition to a cooler planet, and that's nuclear energy.
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to generate heat which is then cooled to create steam which in turn drives turbine generators that produce electricity. Nuclear power plants are almost identical to coal or gas fired plants in how they function with the critical difference being they don't send any nasty pollutants into the atmosphere, only harmless water vapour. Nuclear power plants with their ubiquitous water cooling towers have been in operation since the 1950's and currently supply the U.S. with 20% of it's electricity, 15% of Canada's and a whopping 80% of France's. It was high oil prices in the 1970's not fears of global warming that got France embracing nuclear power in a big way but the logic still applies if you want to reduce dependence on carbon.
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown
Critics of nuclear energy point to the accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima as reasons to avoid going this route but the actual number of people who died has been greatly exaggerated by urban myth. Nobody died in Three Mile Island, 31 people died in Chernobyl and, while 6 workers died in Fukushima, none of the deaths were from radiation. While there was some radiation in each of these surrounding areas, the cancer rate for the population is only expected to increase marginally over the years. Just like people feel safer travelling by car instead of by airplane, even though the risk of accident and death is much greater, the same irrational thinking applies to nuclear energy, even though hundreds of these plants are operating around the world without incident.
Currently only 2.5% of the world's energy consumption is supplied by nuclear power in spite of 438 nuclear power plants in 30 countries, but there are another 70 under construction with China leading the pace with 24 of the total and another 60 in the planning stages. Likewise for India which has 6 under construction now and another 50 in the planning stages. Even still it's hardly a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of energy supplied being supplied by fossil fuels.
Coal-fired power plant
It's a good thing countries like India and China are switching as fast as they can from coal to nuclear power. Coal has been the cheapest way for them to get started but it's the worst offender for pollution and the smog it produces is making the entire country ill. But while we point our fingers at developing countries and their impact on global warming we conveniently overlook our own bad habits if it's going to make things inconvenient. And our worst habit is the suburban lifestyle in general and the automobile in particular.
Coal loading facility in North Vancouver - photo by Junie Quiroga
We aren't going to reduce global warming if we don't reduce the amount of C02 we put into the atmosphere and we aren't going to reduce the amount of C02 we put in the atmosphere if we don't reduce the amount of gasoline and diesel we burn by driving our cars. In the meantime, our economy depends on selling fossil fuels to the world. But we have also developed the CANDU nuclear technology that we use here and have sold abroad and perhaps this is the perfect time to accelerate those efforts. In fact the CANDU Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Huron is the largest nuclear power plant in the world. So what's it going to be, coal or nuclear power for the people?
Bruce Nuclear Power Plant
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Simple, fresh, easy, delicious. All the boxes you want to check off when looking for a quick meal in the dead of summer.
This week's French Fridays with Dorie recipe is for Salmon and Tomatoes en Papillote. Salmon is too fishy in flavor for me, so I substituted the much milder tilapia. Cherry, or grape, tomatoes are quickly seared in a skillet to enhance their flavor. I am only starting to eat any tomato that is not cooked to mush and sliced mine in half and cooked them a bit longer than the recipe called for to make them more palatable to me. I have to say I actually enjoyed the tomatoes quite a bit!
Freshly plucked basil leaves are placed on sheets of foil as a bed for the fish. The fish is then dressed simply with olive oil, thyme or rosemary, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Slices of lemon and more basil leaves lie atop the fish. The seared tomatoes are placed alongside the fish and the package is bundled up and tossed in the oven for a quick ten minutes or so.
This recipe is really quite lovely. Simple and elegant. I liked cooking en papillote and think you could try it on the grill as well. If I were serving this for guests I would use parchment paper for a prettier presentation. Tres parfait!
Glad you enjoyed. This is our usual method of fish preparation (we just change out the fish, seasonings & citrus, etc) and I love that it can go in the oven or on the grill!
Very nice job! How funny! I totally agree with you about the salmon & the tomatoes! I've been buying heirloom varieties at the farmers' market which are much more palatable to me. We also have several plants in our garden that are just starting to produce tomatoes.
Great idea using parchment paper for guests. A lot more elegant!
Looks so fresh! Perfect for summer!
I love the idea of substituting in the tilapia. I didn't even think about the other fish you could use in this recipe!
How pretty that first picture. Love how the tomatoes pop out. I agree this recipe is a keeper!
Nice substitution! The tomatoes really make your photograph, too. We love salmon and en papillote cooking, so this week's recipe was right up our alley.


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This selection comes from Leah Silvieus's book Season of Dares, available from BullCity Press. Purchase your copy here! Our curator for January is Rax King.
Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She spent her early childhood and adolescence in small towns in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of two chapbooks, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Season of Dares (forthcoming from Bull City Press in fall 2018). Her full-length book of poetry was a finalist for the Kundiman, Orison Books, and Agape Editions book prizes and is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2019. Her recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review Online, The Collagist, and Boxcar Poetry Review among others. She is a recipient of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and Fulbright and serves on Kundiman's Junior Board and as a mentor on The Brooklyn Poets Bridge. She received her bachelor's degree in literature from Whitworth University and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She currently travels between New York and Florida as a yacht Chief Stewardess and serves as a Books Editor at Hyphen magazine.
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"Let's get you out of this boat"... my favorite scene... what's yours?
Today is Palm Sunday - I was confirmed on Palm Sunday 33 years ago... Ps 73:23 Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
How did you pronounce "Sarayu" when you were reading the book? To hear it's proper pronunciation was interesting for me. I read it as "Suhryu" with emphasis on "ry". Movie clarified proper of "Sahreeyu" with emphasis on "sah". I have a horse (In a virtual world called second life) that I named Sarayu. He was recently replaced given the advanced technology. Everybody knows I have not named my new horse yet and are giving me suggestions. I have just decided, this moment, that he will also be named Sarayu. I love being able to introduce Spirit to those that do not know.
I don't have a favorite scene yet... I need to see the movie again. I have an hearing deficit and missed the first quarter of the movie before, out of frustration, going to customer service for hearing assist device... which they had.. and which was totally amazing. I like the scene where max is so freed that he takes off without Jesus. Jesus reminds Max that it's always better to be together.
Papa IS Freedom to me. The Shack story helped me understand so much of what I "knew" about God. "Papa does not desire slaves (prisoners)". Knowing His Love for me is the most freeing, giving gift. He Loves me right where I am. So much religion never put us in His arms right where we are. Religion always told me to be something different, do something different and THEN I'll be loveable... time to rest and be Loved.
I'm not sure what "confirmed" means Ana... I think it is a Catholic ritual of sorts? Kinda like how the Protestant has baptisms I guess? Whatever it is... what a special memory !
I guess I pronounced it SaraYU as if it were Hebrew...often think of her when working in my garden.
Looking forward to reading from you after your "all ears" experience... in this movie dialogue does matter!
I have got to get this movie on dvd. I did see it in the theater, but need another dose.
I'm looking forward to the DVD too.
Thanks. I may have to get it from Amazon America because I bet it won't come out in Australia on DVD for many months.


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[Review] Surgeon Simulator CPR (Nintendo Switch)
September 13, 2018 10:00 am Published by Mike Scorpio Leave your thoughts
Developer: Bossa Studios
Publisher: Bossa Studios
Category: Simulation, Party, Multiplayer & Action
Release Date: September 13, 2018 (EU & NA)
Who needs to spend 7 years in medical school when you can just play Surgeon Simulator with no experience necessary! Perform "not-so-intricate" procedures like heart and brain transplants in the surgery, down the emergency room hallway, or in an ambulance.
Back in 2013, Bossa Studios unleashed Surgeon Simulator onto the world via Steam with two surgeries that you can perform; Heart and Brain. In 2014, it released on iPad along with two new operations; Eye and Teeth Transplants. It also featured a new challenge of having to perform operations whilst running down a corridor. The game later received DLC that added new challenges like Ambulance, Space and Alien Autopsy.
Where Surgeon Simulator really found popularity was on YouTube. A number of well-known YouTubers like PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye have spent many hours recording and streaming themselves playing Surgeon Simulator. It also made the jump to console on the PS4 in the summer of 2014. Four years later and it is now the Nintendo's Switch turn with the Rebranded Surgeon Simulator CPR (Co-op Play Ready).
The very nature of the game is to be as realistic as possible without being too literal with realism. Everything has a cartoon feel to it which is just as well as you have to hack and slash and butcher your way through patients. The animation aesthetic helps desensitized what is actually a very bloody and serious affair. The music adds edginess but not so much that it undoes the surrealism that has been set by the game's graphical choice.
Set in the first-person perspective, You play as surgeon Nigel Burke. Your role as surgeon, is to perform delicate surgeries with the tools at your disposal. Operations can take place in the Surgery, in the middle of a corridor or even whilst riding inside an ambulance. As severe as the operations are, this is certainly not a game to take seriously as the intentionally bad controls are designed in a way so that you have no choice but to blunder through each operation.
Imagine yourself after a night out, so full of liquor and your motor skills shot to pieces. Your hands fumbling about in front of you trying to grab whatever you can. Now picture yourself in that state whilst in the operating theatre with some poor soul who has you as their doctor. It's not a case of if the operation will be a success but how long you can go without calling for a body bag and decide to just harvest the blighter's organs instead.
There is certainly a lot of dark humour to be found in this game that it is borderline worrisome. You never quite master the controls and just picking up the surgical tool you want is deserving of applause itself. Every tool has a purpose but you don't get told what does what. The only "Tutorial" per se by inserting the floppy disks that accumulate after operations into the PC in the reception. Only then will you have a better idea of which surgical tool should be used for, unless you actually are a Surgeon then you should probably know already.
When you begin the game, you will find yourself at a cluttered desk. To the left is the aforementioned computer and the floppy drives. In the centre are your patient files where you can choose the operations you would like to perform. You can also access the main menu here and alter settings like controls and language. Your achievements can also be found here. Some achievements you will obtain by completing operations. Others by performing absurd tasks like performing an operation whilst drugged, electrocuted or both. You can even pull off a number or hand gestures like flipping the bird, showng your appreciation to heavy metal and pinky swear. Hey, if this is what counts for achievements, then sign me up.
Your first operation as a newly unlicensed surgeon is to perform open heart surgery on a victim, uh I mean patient, the affectionately named "Bob." First up is cracking open the rib-cage with the saw or hammer or even a coffee mug if you are feeling ambitious. While you are at it, you could even pimp slap the poor sap with said coffee mug. After getting the Ribs out of the way, it is then time to tackle the vital organs. The lungs won't pull themselves out. As you bumble your way through, you may notice that your victim, I mean patient (Why do I keep saying that) may be losing blood. To help stop the bleeding, there is a green syringe that you can just prod into the patient and it will stop the blood loss rate. Be careful not to prick yourself with it otherwise, you will become delirious and if you though it was difficult before, you are in for an even harder time now.
Should this happen, prick yourself with the white syringe, if you can find it. This will get you back on form. Once you make the necessary incisions to pop out the bad organ, you can proceed to insert the new one. As long as the new organ goes into the cavity, you are golden. You don't even need to reattach it. You can then move on to the next assassination, uh, operation (Oh, who am I kidding? you will most likely murder most of your patients before successfully saving one).
As regards to controls, they are purposely atrocious and will give you a newfound respect to real-life surgeons as it is not an easy profession. The Switch version has the added functionality of supporting a second player in the form of another hand. If you thought it was hard enough with one hand, wait until you are trying to squeeze two hands into an open chest cavity. Each player takes a single Joy-Con to control a singular hand. Rotating the Joy-Con will rotate the hand and pressing the Joy-stick in will recentre the hand to its neutral position. You would think that motion control would give you an edge of standard button controls but nope. I found the motion controls even more baffling and found that playing the Switch in handheld mode was the safest bet.
I have often joked about if only the human body could be more like cars. Where if a part fails, you could simply chuck out the damaged part and slap in a new one. Surgeon Simulator CPTR is pretty much that. It is Motor mechanics but with human body parts. The carefree attitude of the game relies on how gloriously bad you do as opposed to how incredible you can be. Throwing vital organs around or fumbling for surgical tools on trolleys as they clamber about as you run down a corridor. Surgeon Simulator CPR is like a cross between Carry On Doctor, Monty Python and Frankenstein. If you don't find it funny, you will be fuming like a steam train.
Chaos and hilarity are two words that come to mind when I think of Surgeon Simulator CPR. For something that is centered around one of the most delicate and precise professions in the world, Surgeon Simulator turns it on its head, smashes its skull with a hammer and then scoops out its brains with a plastic spoon. I have a new found respect for anyone in a green apron now as it is an incredibly tough job to do what they do. The whole debacle can be hilariously funny until you actually want to play through sensibly. Then it is an absolute nightmare as everything in the game is against you. There is a true sense of accomplishment when you finally do succeed, even if only with a D rank. The most fun you can have is challenging your friends to try and do better. In short Surgeon Simulator CPR is funnily disturbing, whilst disturbingly fun to play.
The Verdict: 7/10
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"More than a simple guard"
BY HENDRIK THIELEMANN
Issue 2 – September 2018
Taking off and landing on a grass or gravel runway requires a robust aircraft. Even as resilient as the Dornier 228 is, there can be advantages to having additional protection.
For some pilots, landing on unpaved runways is nothing out of the ordinary and may even seem an exciting prospect. For others, the bumpy experience can be quite a shock to the nerves. Interestingly, more than half of the world's 42,000 airstrips are unpaved.
Despite it being an everyday task for many Dornier 228 pilots, landing on unpaved runways can still pose certain challenges. With dust and rocks flying around, there is always the risk of damage to the aircraft and its paintwork. If you recently got a cool new paint job, damage caused by such debris could be really nnoying, as well as costly.
"Equipping an aircraft to land on an unpaved runway involves much more than just attaching a set of protective fenders," says Jörg Wittmer, who represents the Dornier 228's customer service provider, RUAG Aviation in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. "There are all sorts of places that an aircraft requires protection from debris." The landing gear's actuators and hydraulic lines are particularly exposed during gravel landings and the underside of the fuselage, the tailplane and the aircraft lights also require special attention.
This is why operators all around the world use gravel kits, special equipment that protects the aircraft from the damage caused by repeated landings on unpaved surfaces. Norway's Lufttransport AS, for instance, has fitted out both of its Dornier 228 aircraft with gravel kits to support landings on gravel, and even on snow for serving its routes on Svalbard. GAM used the gravel kit to help it reach the town of Taroom in Queensland, Australia on a gravel runway some 1,100 meters long. Other operators using gravel kits include the German Navy who, like other special mission aircraft, use the gravel kit to protect their selected equipment. Important mission equipment such as 360 ° radar antennae, radomes and/or electro-optical and infrared turrets need protection from stones that can potentially be stirred up by the front gear. Air Marshall Islands, who serves destinations in the South Pacific, have even seen landing strips made out of coral.
Operators can customize the solution to best suit the environmental conditions in which they operate. They can choose special paint finishes and coatings to protect the fuselage and landing gear, and to have the edges of the landing gear door and tailplane reinforced to improve their durability, if required. Special fenders that prevent the wheels from kicking up debris that hit the aircraft during take-off and landing are also available. Given that the lights are an integral part of aircraft, the range of protective options also includes robust light covers.
Today, RUAG Aviation offers the gravel kit as an option for new aircraft and as a retrofit solution for older Dornier 228 classic aircraft. For new generation Dornier 228 aircraft, careful consideration has been given to gravel landings, and the optimizations advanced accordingly. The new five-blade propellers of the Honeywell-TPE331 engines have a smaller diameter compared to their predecessors; this increases the distance between the propeller and the ground. The gravel kit is more than just a simple guard; it consists of multiple solutions that can be selected to suit specific terrain. Whether it is required for touchdowns on the hot and rocky terrain typical of Australia or Somalia, or on snow and ice in Norway or Canada – the gravel kit improves landing safety.
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Six years ago, my life changed. Many changes can be good--getting married, which I had already done. Having a baby, which was a wonderful change for me. This change, however, I think can only be called good because God allowed it. Even six years later, I do not understand why this happened to me.
Sunday, July 2, 2006, 5:30 AM: I wake up with the worst pain in my head. It feels like there's a bug biting the inside of my skull, and if I pound hard enough on my head, the bug will stop biting me. I doze fitfully for the next 3 hours, trying to sleep but unable to because my fist keeps making its way to my temple.
8:30 AM: I finally get out of bed and almost stagger to the door. My leg feels a little funny, but the sensation is overshadowed by the constant pain in my head. I stumble around the house in a daze, limping and dropping things as I get ready for church. My husband gets himself and our not-yet-eight week old son ready, every few minutes asking me if I'm okay and do I need to go to the doctor.
9:30 AM: We pull in the church parking lot and the pastor's wife is standing there ready to greet us. My husband stops the car, jumps out, and gives our baby to the pastor's wife. He is ready to get back in the car and drive me to the hospital, but I get out and hand over the diaper bag. Being a brand new mom, I have lots of concerns to relate. He only had one bottle, and he would need it soon, but I said that was okay, there was no way I would be gone more than four hours. Diaper this, and change of clothes that, and my husband is shushing me back inside the car. He speeds the five minutes to the hospital.
10:30 AM: After waiting in the ER for just under an hour, I get called to the back. I can't walk by myself anymore, and my right arm is completely useless. The nurses take one look at me and usher me back to a bed, where they proceed to hook me up to all kinds of tubes and machines.
LATER: I look up from my hospital bed and see my baby. He looks so calm and happy. My gaze turns to my husband. He does not look happy. It almost looks like he's crying. Am I going to die?
A COUPLE DAYS LATER: My mom is here now, taking care of my baby. I don't have solid conscious thoughts, but I can hear him crying a lot. His swing is next to my bed, and when he rocks in it, the creak-creak soothes me as well. A scary looking doctor walks in and presses some medication into my hand. My husband asks what it's for, and the doctor waxes eloquent about the commonness of depression after a woman has a baby. Depression? Excuse me? We try to tell the doctor I am not depressed. My brain is just swollen and bleeding. He points out that every time he walks in the room to check on me, I do not seem very happy. Of course I'm not happy. MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE!
THE NEXT MORNING: After talking about the pros and cons, my doctor (my BRAIN doctor, not my "be happy" doctor) decides to prescribe steroids. Maybe they will help my brain get back to its normal size. I just hope that I don't get thrown in jail for taking steroids, but at this point, I would almost risk it to make the pain go away.
LATER: Wow, steroids are powerful things. I can talk again, I can cuddle my baby, I can even sit up. All this happened just in time, too, because I have several visitors. I am certain I look like a train dragged me several miles because that is how I feel, but at least I can half-smile at them and thank them for coming.
THURSDAY: Doctors and nurses form a steady stream in and out of my room. One doctor wants me to squeeze both of his hands. Another one wants me to do something akin to "Waddly-Atcha". I wasn't very good at that before half my brain died, and they want me to do that now? Raise your legs, hold out your arms, can you say the alphabet? Where did those blissful days of sleep go??
FRIDAY: The therapy nurse comes and puts a huge contraption around me. We walk down the hall and back. Well, she walks. I hobble. Then I rest in my bed, and before I know it, she's back for another round. And another. And another.
SATURDAY: I have to have a procedure done, to make sure the swelling in my brain has gone down enough. The doctor also wants to see if there is any indication as to what caused this in the first place. They put a needle in my femoral artery and push a probe up to my brain, where they release dye. They use a machine to see if any of the dye leaks out of the veins and arteries in my brain. I look up at the monitor and think, how cool is that that I can see my own brain. They must have given me some kind of pain med, because the next thing I know, a nurse is standing over me trying to pop my leg off at my hip. Not literally, but the pressure she is applying to where they put that needle is making me really mad. I start hitting her and yelling at her to leave me alone. (Yelling, in a drugged state of mind, equals quiet slurring, but to me I was yelling.) My husband is there too, trying to calm me down. So he's in on it too, huh? And here I thought I wasn't going to die.
MONDAY MORNING: I am going to therapy! I've always wanted to say that. EMTs show up in my room with a stretcher. I think it is their first day on the job, because first they put it too high; I can't climb on. Then they lower it all the way to the ground and I feel like I have to sit on the floor to get on. I know I must have been wheeled through the hospital when I came, but I was mostly unconscious, so I didn't know to be embarrassed. The drive to the hospital that has the therapy wing is long, and I spend the trip psyching myself up to be able to walk and do things for myself before the week is out. Sure enough, Friday afternoon I got discharged from therapy.
Although I'll never be the same as I used to be, I have slowly come to accept the new version of me. Being able to laugh at myself and realizing that if I can't change it, there is no use worrying about it are the two biggest things that are different. And wouldn't you know, both of those changes are good.
I will never forget those days. How thankful I am that I could spend that week in the hospital with you, caring for tiny little William as I helplessly watched you struggle. William and I will never forget the vending machines!
I felt so helpless not being able to come. It was so hard hearing everything second hand. I am just so thankful for Bill and your mom being there. I was so thankful for God giving peace to me knowing He was in control even of that circumstance.
Thank you for sharing your story, Jessica!


It seemed for a while there all I was blogging about was this gluten-free book and that gluten-free book, (and this one as well!) and giving away copies of them all. Then, all of a sudden, it stopped. Well, my dear readers, it's time for another book review and giveaway! That's right, St. Martin's Press has graciously allowed me to review a copy of Gluten-Free Made Simple by Carol Field Dahlstrom, Elizabeth Dahlstrom Burnley, and Marcia Schultz Dahlstrom, as well as share a copy with one of my lucky readers!
When I received my copy of Gluten-Free Made Simple, my first impression was that it was a lovely, colorful book. There are photos for every recipe – something I know is a deal-maker for a lot of people. (When chatting with my sister-in-law a while back, she mentioned that is a key thing that sells her on cookbooks – she wants to see what it looks like, and that photo will help entice her to make the recipes!) This book definitely delivers beautiful photos. But what I noticed, as a gluten-free cook and baker, was how simple the recipes truly were. The ingredient lists were short, and most recipes could be made in a few quick steps. This book was written to not only appeal to me, but chiefly to appeal to a large audience of varying levels of kitchen expertise and time. Gluten-free cooking seems overwhelming to a lot of people (hence why Shirley has dedicated an entire blog to living gluten-free easily), especially those who have limited or no cooking skills. The transition from drive-thru to being comfortable with home-cooked meals is a difficult one for many. This book does an excellent job of assisting those new to gluten-free or looking for new gluten-free recipes make that transition.
There are many delicious recipes in this book I'm dying to try – from an easy meatloaf recipe, to cinnamon rolls (that you don't have to roll out!), pineapple muffins, and strawberry pie. But as the temperatures have been creeping up around here lately, I opted for a simple, cool salad – the quinoa tabbouleh.
Tabbouleh is traditionally a Lebanese bulgur salad with parsley, mint, tomato, cucumber, and spring onions, tossed in a simple lemon juice and oil dressing. However, bulgur is off-limits on a gluten-free diet. Quinoa makes a fine substitute (a superior one, in my opinion). It's easy to make, and is something you can prepare ahead of time, making it a great side dish for company. It's the perfect summer side dish (or even main dish!). I opted to use chives instead of the green onions in this recipe, vegetable broth instead of chicken, and I used some golden cherry tomatoes I picked up from Good Earth Organic Farm last weekend. This is one of those definite "go-to" recipes for this time of year.
In a large bowl combine quinoa, cucumber, parsley, green onions and mint. Drizzle with Tabbouleh Dressing and toss to coat. (I didn't use all of the dressing.) Cover and chill for 4 to 24 hours. Stir tomato into quinoa mixture just before serving. Serve on lettuce leaves. Serves 4.
In a screw-top jar combine 3 tablespoons canola oil (I used olive), 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoons water, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cover and shake well.
Now, for the giveaway part!
I will be giving away 1 copy of Gluten-Free Made Simple by Carol Field Dahlstrom, Elizabeth Dahlstrom Burnley, and Marcia Schultz Dahlstrom. The giveaway will end at midnight, Saturday, June 25, 2011. I will chose a winner via random.org.
– Leave me a comment telling me what dish you wish you could make gluten-free without a lot of fuss.
That's it! Best of luck! And even if you don't win, I encourage you to check out Gluten-Free Made Simple by Carol Field Dahlstrom, Elizabeth Dahlstrom Burnley, and Marcia Schultz Dahlstrom on Amazon.com. It's a great "go-to" book when you're looking for easy gluten-free recipes.


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Ahead of the Curve?
9780253339508: Hardback
Release Date: 22nd July 2001
4 figures, 1 index
Series United Nations Intellectual History Project Series
UN Ideas and Global Challenges
Louis Emmerij
Richard Jolly
Thomas G. Weiss
Hardback / £52.00
Ideas and concepts are arguably the most important legacy of the United Nations. Ahead of the Curve? analyzes the evolution of key ideas and concepts about international economic and social development born or nurtured, refined or applied under UN auspices since 1945. The authors evaluate the policy ideas coming from UN organizations and scholars in relation to such critical issues as decolonization, sustainable development, structural adjustment, basic needs, human rights, women, world employment, the transition of the Eastern bloc, the role of nongovernmental organizations, and global governance.
The authors find that, in many instances, UN ideas about how to tackle problems of global import were sound and far-sighted, although they often fell on the deaf ears of powerful member states until it was apparent that a different approach was needed. The authors also identify important areas where the UN has not stood constructively at the fore.
Preliminary Table of Contents:
List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures
Foreword, Kofi A. Annan
1. Four Powerful Ideas and the Early Years
2. Development Hits Its Stride
3. Employment Creation and Basic Needs
4. UN World Conferences and Global Challenges
5. Current Orthodoxy, The New Social Question, and Policy Alternatives
6. The Socialist Bloc's Collapse
7. Widening Global Gaps
8. Governance, Good Governance, and Global Governance
9. Conclusion: The United Nations and Ideas
Louis Emmerij is Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Until 1999 he was special adviser to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before that he had a distinguished career as president of the OECD Development Centre, rector of the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, and director of the ILO's World Employment Programme. Among his recent books are : Economic and Social Development into the 21st Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), editor; Limits to Competition (MIT Press, 1995), co-author; Nord-Sud: La Grenade Degoupilée (First, 1992); Financial Flows to Latin America (OECD, 1991), co-editor; Science, Technology and Science Education in the Development of the South (Trieste, 1989); One World or Several? (Paris, 1989), editor; and Development Policies and the Crisis of the 1980s (OECD, 1987).
Richard Jolly is Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. Until mid-200 he was special adviser to the UNDP administrator and architect of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report. Before this, he served for fourteen years as UNICEF's deputy executive director for programmes, and prior to that a decade as the director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Publications to which he has contributed include: Development with a Human Face (1998); The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (MacMillan, 1995) Adjustment with a Human Face (Clarendon Press, 1987); Disarmament and World Development (1984); and Planning Education for African Development (1969).
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project and editor of Global Governance. From 1990 to 1998 as a Research Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, he held a number of administrative assignments (Director of the Global Security Program, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Associate Director), served as the Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN system, and co-directed the Humanitarianism and War Project. He has also been executive director of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. His latest books are Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in Humanitarian Crises (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999); Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention (Westview, 2000), 2nd edition with Cindy Collins; and The United Nations and Changing World Politics (Westview, 2001), 3rd edition with Roger A. Coate and David P. Forsythe.
"This groundbreaking book is the first volume of a projected series by the United Nations Intellectual History Project of which the coauthors, affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center, are codirectors. Although many institutional histories of the UN have been written, this pioneering work fills a gap in scholarship by focusing on the UN as a crucible in the world of ideas in the economic and social realms. Oftentimes eclipsed by global political events, many of these ideas have not only raised global consciousness and permeated international public policy discourse but have also inspired and precipitated important international initiatives. The book's nine chapters trace the evolution of these ideas chronologically and thematically, highlighting the UN's role as an epicenter of global discussions of such critical transnational issues as sustainable development, structural adjustment, women's rights, population growth, the environment, and global governance. Carefully researched and well documented, this dissection of the UN's contributions and failures in the areas of international economic and social development is an important addition to the literature. A must purchase for academic libraries with major UN and/or international development collections. Upper—division undergraduates and above." —D. Ettinger, George Washington University, Choice, May 2002


Eatonville, the first incorporated all-black city in the nation, also is important in African-American history as home of Zora Neale Hurston, the Harlem Renaissance writer known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. As a result, the Zora Neal Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts hosts an annual festival in Eatonville, a still-thriving town. Now a suburb of Orlando, Eatonville no longer is a backwoods town in a rural area, as described in Hurston's novels. Eatonville remains, however, a cultural gem – one that beckons you to visit.


1920's Antique rhinestone celluloid hair comb.
Gorgeous Antique Celluloid Hair Comb from the Art Deco era. Silver sheen encrusted with perfect blue faceted rhinestones. This piece is picture perfect. It is 5 inches wide and 6 1/2 inches from the top, and the tines of the comb are over 3" long! This is a masterpiece.


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Watch Chinese Box
Chinese Box is a romantic drama that was released in 1997. The series in set in the city of Hong Kong during the time that Britain was pulling its government and troops of the city, and turning it over to its independent government. The film follows a journalist who has come to the area to report on the events, and has fallen in love with a local woman. The series looks at their romance during the massive change, and what may come to their romance as the result of the man leaving and his recent diagnosis of cancer. Together they go out to make a documentary of the events.
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Chinese Box is a 1997 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 39 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.3.
Where to Watch Chinese Box
Chinese Box is available to watch free on Tubi TV and Vudu Free. It's also available to stream, download and buy on demand at Apple TV, Amazon and Vudu. Some platforms allow you to rent Chinese Box for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.
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Tim DeForest has been geeking out on various elements of early 20th Century pop culture for most of his life. He is the author of several books on old-time radio, comic strips and pulp fiction. His first book—Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America--was published in 2004. Radio by the Book: Adaptations of Fiction and Literature on the Airwaves, was published in 2008. Tim also wrote Fort Laramie: A Review and Episode Guide and Frontier Gentleman: A Review and Episode Guide. Tim also maintains a blog about comics, radio and pulp fiction.
Tim has also written magazine articles on military history and the American West. He regularly teaches several Bible studies and has served as a short-term missionary in Haiti and south Sudan.


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Kemet Expert
African Centred Egyptology
Guest Post by Dr Vanessa Davies: Egyptology and Africana studies
Dr Vanessa Davies is the founding organizer of a new initiative named The Nile Valley Collective , here she shares her research and thoughts on the divide between Egyptology and Africana Studies.
There needs to be a marriage between Egyptology and Africana studies
In the US, there is a divide within the university system between white Egyptology and Africana studies. By white Egyptology, I mean the Egyptology programs in the US, which are largely staffed by white people, whose research questions and interests trickle into mainstream popular culture via television shows. I use this phrase "white Egyptology" out of respect for the people who work on Egypt and Nubia through the lens of Africana studies. In the US, most scholars of Egyptology are white. Most scholars of Africana studies are Black. This racial and scholarly divide reflects unstated or understated racisms that have underpinned white Egyptology since its inception in the US as part of the university curriculum. This divide must be bridged.Egyptology as a research discipline was established by white European, and later American, scholars to address the questions and perspectives that interested white audiences, scholarly and popular. The two earliest professors of Egyptology in the US, both white men, received their appointments at the turn of the twentieth century. Their graduate education in Germany and in the US was rooted in Semitic languages and cultures and followed Eurocentric interests of that time in looking for connections between ancient Egypt and the stories in the Bible. They separated Egypt from Africa.
As time went on, scholars of African descent studied Egyptology and engaged with white Egyptologists: W. E. B. Du Bois, Leo Hansberry, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Theophile Obenga, just to name a few. These scholars brought new perspectives and new research questions to white Egyptology. But they were ignored or pushed away from it.
Spurred by the civil rights movement, universities in the US began establishing departments in the 1960s and '70s that were dedicated to the history and culture of Africa and the African diaspora. The establishment of those departments was vital to correct the false and dehumanizing claim prevalent in the US that Africa had no history and that by extension African-Americans and Africans elsewhere in the world did not share in the human experience of history.
With a few exceptions, as Africana studies grew and flourished, it did so largely without contact with white Egyptology. White Egyptology, as it moved from solely a graduate program to being a small part of the undergraduate curriculum, did so largely without contact with Africana studies.
This unfortunate divide reflects the longstanding and incorrect separation of ancient Egyptian culture, and to a lesser extent ancient Nubian culture, from its African context. White Egyptology programs in the US are typically found in departments centered on the Near East (the term denoting the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, the Levant, and related zones).
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most white Egyptologists had no knowledge of the other ancient cultures in Africa. Their ignorance about the wider cultural context of Africa and about connections between Nile Valley and other African cultures has largely been perpetuated with each subsequent generation of Egyptologists.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Besides one class on ancient Nubia and one on art historical theory, all my coursework was focused on Egypt. For language study, one could take Egyptian and Near Eastern languages, such as Akkadian or Sumerian, or Arabic, but there were no offerings on other ancient languages of Africa, such as Berber or Meroitic.
Imagine the fruitful work that white and Black Egyptologists could do if they were placed within Africana studies departments. Imagine the dialogue that could take place about ancient African cultures, the explorations of the widespread reception of ancient Egypt and Nubia in myriad cultural expressions over the decades.
W. E. B. Du Bois understood the race divide in academic pursuits (Davies, 2020). He wrote the histories of African people because he knew that to omit them is "scientifically unsound and also dangerous for logical social conclusions."(Du Bois, 1946: vii): Yet, despite the fact that he read widely on Egyptology and published on Nile River Valley history, he wrote this disclaimer in his 1939 preface to Black Folk, Then and Now, "I am no Egyptologist. That goes without saying." He then proceeded to describe exactly what ideas and which Egyptologists he disputes. A few years later, when he published The World and Africa, his description of the Egyptologists he engages with reads like a who's who of the field at that time. At what point does Du Bois "get" to become an Egyptologist? The same question must be asked about Leo Hansberry, the African-American professor never recognized by white Egyptology, whom Du Bois described as "the one modern scholar who has tried to study the Negro in Egypt and Ethiopia [i.e., Sudan]"(Du Bois, 1946: x).
The divide between white Egyptology and Africana studies must be bridged to open up Egyptology and to make it more inclusive. Going forward, Egyptologists must be better versed in other ancient cultures of Africa, must dialogue with communities of color, must understand the questions and viewpoints that abound in Africana studies, and must respect the reception of these ancient cultures by people of African descent today.
The divide between white Egyptology and Africana studies perpetuates the separation of Egypt from the rest of Africa. It privileges the people in Egyptology programs as "qualified" to speak about Egypt and, from the perspective of Egyptology, confers the opposite on people in Africana studies. That divide separated Du Bois, Hansberry, and other scholars from white Egyptology. We must not maintain that racist, divisive system.
Davies, Vanessa. "Egyptological Conversations on Race and Science." Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2018. https://rockarch.issuelab.org/resource/egyptological-conversations-about-race-and-science.html.
Davies, Vanessa. "W. E. B. Du Bois, a new voice in Egyptology's disciplinary history / W. E. B. Du Bois, une nouvelle voix dans l'histoire de l'égyptologie." ANKH: Revue d'égyptologie et des civilisations africaines 28/29: 2020.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The World and Africa. [1946] 2015.
Author Kemet ExpertPosted on August 3, 2020 August 3, 2020 Categories Africana Studies, Guest post, History of Egyptology, KemetTags Africana Studies, Guest post, history of egyptology
3 thoughts on "Guest Post by Dr Vanessa Davies: Egyptology and Africana studies"
Karem says:
Thanks Dr Davies. Something that stands out to me in this is;
Terms like 'inclusion' are sometimes buzzwords used by white liberals to avoid committing to a more concrete agenda regarding inequality. Can you elaborate on what 'inclusion' looks like regarding Egyptology ? Egyptology falls in the domain of culture. What can placing culture in the centre of conversations about racial inequality do to create concrete equality and justice ?
Deidra McIntyre says:
Africana studies department scholars and all who know better need to always compare Kemet to ancient and existing inner African cultures. The more the mainstream learns these connections, debates them, and accepts them, then likelihood mainstream Egyptology will be forced to improve its curricula and pedagogy.
Mohamed Kamara says:
Thanks for this, Vanessa. I agree with you completely. Africana Studies cannot really be complete without the recognition and foregrounding of the role/place of Egyptology in it. I believe it is a matter of time before this reality becomes too evident for anyone to ignore it.
Keep up the good work!!
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