Enjoy running and walking along Brisbane's best fun run course at The Sunday Mail Bridge to Brisbane on Sunday, August 25. As Queensland's largest fun run, Bridge to Brisbane attracts over 30,000 participants and is a fun day out for the whole family. Participants will also be able to gain access to exclusive deals at many South Bank businesses by showing their race-day bib.
Runners in the Bridge to Brisbane have a great reason to choose to fundraise. Each runner gets two times on completing the race – their race time and their Hero Time. Hero Time equals their race time minus one second for every $1 they raise for charity. So there's no better reason to ask your supporters to run for you in the Bridge to Brisbane Day.
Setting up an online supporter page in the Bridge to Brisbane is easy – during registration, your supporters will choose to raise money for you by selecting your charity from a list of all the charities included in the event.
Step 1: Register as an event participant online at the Bridge to Brisbane official website.
Step 2: During the registration process, participants will be prompted to set up an online supporter page as part of their run.
Step 3: Once registration has been completed, you will automatically be taken to your new Everydayhero supporter page.
Step 4: Personalise your page with a profile photo and tell everyone why you're supporting your chosen charity.
Step 5: Share your unique supporter page link with your friends, family and colleagues via email and social media.
Setting up a fundraising team is a great way to build a sense of community for all your supporters in the event. Once you've created your fundraising team, make sure you invite anyone supporting you in the event to join. Need help setting up a fundraising team? download our guide here.
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We recommend that you engage with your supporters by encouraging and thanking them for fundraising for your charity as part of their participation in The Sunday Mail Bridge to Brisbane. If you need help with your supporter engagement we have a dedicated Professional Services Team full of digital fundraising experts ready to help!


Cornell professor Chris Barrett, author of Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability, presented a seminar on poverty persistence and intervention, March 24, 2014. The talk, hosted by Heifer International, included an analysis of the impact of Heifer International farm animals on malnutrition.
Barrett is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and David J. Nolan Director of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of international development, environmental and resource economics, international trade, markets and price analysis, agricultural production and distribution, and applied econometrics.


As the seasons change here at Green Mountain at Fox Run I never cease to be amazed at the brilliance of the fall foliage season. I've lived in Vermont for 21 years and it never gets old. There is such beauty in the heart of what nature is showing us, and when we can truly take it in, it can be so awe inspiring. As the last leaves fall, we're promised new growth in the not too distant future.
With that in mind, and as we celebrate our 45th year here at Green Mountain, again, I think about years of change and growth and the 10,000+ women that have been through our program. As a founding thought leader in the health and wellness industry, Green Mountain has continued to evolve and grow in so many ways – in programming, staff, activities, immersions, and more.
All in the interest of continuing to support hundreds of amazing, beautiful women every year.
With the evolving research base, we've added a new Metabolic Health Coaching Package – our skilled dietitians work one-on-one to address metabolic health concerns, including insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, PCOS, and more.
With that, we welcome an addition to our nutrition team, Ruth Goldstein, MS, RD. Ruth is a Registered Dietitian whose primary focus is on whole foods nutrition and helping patients set practical goals that reflect their lifestyle and health needs. She believes patients are experts in their own lives and joins with them on their healing journey to provide support, encouragement, and direction. Ruth's background and approach is a perfect fit to our expert team.
This past summer we introduced a higher intensity fitness option, the Fitness Adventure Program. This optional add-on gave women looking for a more challenging fitness experience the opportunity to try fun, outdoor adventures such as zip-lining, ropes courses, SUP (stand up paddle boarding), kayaking, and more, while exploring our beautiful area in the mountains of Vermont.
This comes from our (somewhat) new Fitness Manager, Bibiana Sampaio, BS, CPT. Bibi brings energy and positivity to our community, offering expertise in functional fitness with modifications for anyBODY.
As some of you know, we're proud to offer the only center in the country exclusively for women who struggle with binge and/or emotional eating. This began at an off-site location about a mile from our main campus in the heart of Ludlow. At the beginning of 2018 we made the decision to move this back to the 'mothership' here at GMFR. Coming back 'home' allowed our many participants to better access our clinical services, instead of impacting the experience with additional transitions between the two locations.
We've also expanded our program to better serve women at any stage of an emotional eating behavior continuum, whether concerned with emotional eating, dealing with emotional overeating, or struggling with binge eating. We continue to offer expert care for women, in a unique, one-of-a-kind women's only, retreat-based setting, and addressing only emotional overeating/binge eating behaviors, as opposed to eating behaviors that are more restrictive or with compensatory behaviors. This allows our treatment and care to be specialized, which encourages more focused healing. By opening up our program to all of the eating behaviors on this continuum, and lowering the cost by half, more women are able to access the potential for growth and change in this program. We're excited by these changes to better serve our women.
We are also incredibly excited to welcome our remarkable new Chef Greg Rems. With a wealth of culinary experience and skill, Chef Greg dove right into the Green Mountain program, making delicious changes to our menu and leading interesting new cooking demos with our women. We're excited for the coming year with him leading our culinary team!
This year we also launched new week-long and weekend retreats, and updated existing programs with new workshops, activities, and immersions. Some new additions to 2018 included Gut Health Week, Fall Foliage Adventures complete with Forest Bathing, Sound Healing experiences and new additions to our popular Mindfulness Retreat in January 2019, new dance instructors, and more.
We're also excited to once again offer a limited number of triple rooms, back by popular demand. The reintroduction of triple accommodations allows us to offer our program to more women at a lower rate.
Many have already reaped the benefits of our growth recently. We've had a lot of energy here, with more participants than ever attending our program.
Our Women's Center for Binge and Emotional Eating continues to offer expert care as the only center of its kind exclusively for women in a retreat-based setting.
As I approach my 4th year with Green Mountain, I too have transitioned and changed along the way, as a woman, as a human, and as a GMFR staff person. I pause to reflect, to take it in and to allow myself to be awe-inspired by the growth I've seen over the past 4 years.
Ironically, I spent a week at a mindfulness retreat with none other than the great Jon Kabat-Zinn, which was a powerful experience for me and allowed me much time to reflect on the many aspects of my own growth and change. It was during the Mountain Meditation that I reflected on Green Mountain's evolution. One of my favorite parts of the meditation was: "Through it all, the mountain sits, experiencing change in each moment, constant change, yet always just being itself. …calmness abiding all change…".
I reflect on the heart of Green Mountain at Fox Run. Like the meditation – while the 'weather' around our Green Mountain constantly changes, the heart always remains just itself: a community of women growing, healing, and learning. The bedrock of Green Mountain being a growing, evolving, body of science and research, uplifting hundreds of women every year with compassion, encouragement, and connection.
During our program, we often take women through a mindful labyrinth walk, encouraging reflection on their own growth and healing through their stay. Upon exiting the labyrinth, there is an opportunity to walk the 'corridor' of Green Mountain women who have been there before them. Prior Green Mountain women have left a stone of intention at the labyrinth. Walking this corridor, women take in the intentions left for them from prior women. Intentions for peace, freedom, success, and joy. At the end of the corridor, they, in turn, can also leave a stone of intention for future women, and so it continues. With that, I'll end my musings with an intention for continued growth and change at Green Mountain at Fox Run, for our women and our program. Allowing continued transformation into our beauty.
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Screening | Cuba and the AIDS Crisis
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 4:30–6 pm
Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium
Cuba and the AIDS Crisis: The Companion (El Acompañante, 2016), Pavel Giroud. Introduced by: Christopher Schobert, critic for The Buffalo News and writer for Buffalo Spree
part of Cuban Cinema and Culture, Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English Dept.
ABOUT the riverrun Global Film Series: The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world. The series is produced by riverrun, with support from the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the UB Department of English, the Juxtapositions Lecture Series, and James Agee Chair in American Culture, SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson. For more information, contact Tanya Shilina-Conte, tshilina@buffalo.edu and Jocelyn E. Marshall jm225@buffalo.edu. Further information about the riverrun Global Film Series at: globalfilmseries.wordpress.com
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As one of the preeminent artists of his time, Charles E. Burchfield was celebrated in the first solo artist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1930. This exhibition featured dozens of his earliest watercolors.

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Mr. Grotting works with Frazier's Growth Buyout team to identify investment opportunities in hospital outsourcing and services.
Mr. Grotting joined Frazier Healthcare Partners in 2010 and serves on the boards of Northfield (formerly Prezio Heath) and Solis Mammography, both Frazier portfolio companies. He now serves as a Senior Advisor to the firm.
Before joining Frazier, Mr. Grotting served as CEO of medical device reprocessor Ascent Healthcare Solutions from 2004 to 2009 when it was acquired by Stryker Corporation. Prior to Ascent, Mr. Grotting was Chairman and CEO of Bridge Medical, a software company focused on eliminating preventable medication, lab specimen, and blood transfusion errors in hospitals. AmerisourceBergen acquired the company in 2003 following successful commercialization of Bridge Medical technology. Prior to Ascent and Bridge, he served in senior executive positions at Minnesota based Allina Health System and Oregon-based Legacy Health System.
Mr. Grotting is currently serving on the boards of Vizient, Universal Hospital Services, Honor Health, Vocera Communications, Ediom and St. Olaf College Board of Regents.


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Selena Gomez | Career Retrospective
Actress and singer Selena Gomez was born on July 22, 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas. She is the daughter of Mandy Teefey and Ricardo Gomez. Her mother is of part Italian ancestry, and her father is of Mexican descent. She was named after Tejano singer Selena, who died in 1995.
Her first acting role was as "Gianna" in the popular '90s children's television show Barney & Friends (1992), alongside Demi Lovato from 2002-2004. Gomez also had roles in Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003), Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005), and House Broken (2006).
Gomez moved to Los Angeles, California when she booked the lead role of "Alex Russo" and rose to fame in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place (2007). She then starred in Another Cinderella Story (2008) on ABC Family, had her first voice-role in the animated film Horton Hears a Who! (2008), and co-starred with childhood friend, Demi Lovato, in Princess Protection Program (2009).
In 2009, Gomez released her first album with her band called "Selena Gomez & the Scene," which ranked #9 on the Billboard 200 album charts. Gomez later released two other albums with her band and starred in Monte Carlo (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Hotel Transylvania (2012).
In 2013, she released her first solo album "Stars Dance" and the lead single "Come & Get It" from the album, became Gomez's first top ten entry on the Billboard Hot 100 list. She starred in Getaway (2013), Rudderless (2014), and Behaving Badly (2014).
In 2015, she released her second solo album "Revival," which debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 list, and starred in Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), In Dubious Battle (2016), and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016). She made her third solo album "Rare" in 2020.
BornJuly 22, 1992
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101 wins & 199 nominations total
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Sofia Carson, Keke Palmer, Nick Jonas, and more Disney Channel stars, then and now.
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(October 9, 2015) She confirmed that she was battling lupus for several years and underwent course of chemotherapy.
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Known for her contributions to pop and Latin music.


Grew up… without his father, who was killed when Chris was young. Luckily, his dad's good friend Tony Soprano looked after Chris. Tony affectionately refers to Chris as his "nephew," though he's actually a cousin to Tony's wife, Carmela.
Relationship Status… in a long-term relationship with Adriana La Cerva. Chris and Adriana, despite their sometimes abusive and tumultuous relationship, have a strong and passionate bond. But especially given the dangerous world they live in, will they end up combusting?
Challenge… rising up in the mafia ranks. Christopher wants to be a glamorous gangster, but he's having trouble getting recognized by the leaders of North Jersey: "It's not like I'm getting somewhere playing by the rules." His impatience and impetuousness could get him in big trouble.
Personality… immature, irresponsible, and capricious. Chris's various addictions often get in the way of his business ventures, which isn't doing him any favors in the eyes of his boss and mentor, Tony Soprano. Tony is basically family, but even his indulgence with Chris' excesses may have a limit.
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Interview: Nihil Young is all into music
Italy's Nihil Young is a very busy man running his prolific Frequenza label. With Frequenza notching up a brilliant 10 years, we chat to the boss about his early days, successes, pitfalls, his new remixes for KMS and Spinning Records and his stunning new "Ascension EP" …
A birdy tells us you were once a competitive level turntablist, tell us a bit about your early days as a DJ?
I started DJing at home when I was about 13 years old, I grew up listening to old school Hip Hop, amongst other genres, and I fell in love with the sound of scratching. When the internet was relatively young, I found out about the DMC championships and started following the likes of Q-bert, D-Styles, A-Track and all the top class turntablists. When I learned about the endless possibilities of cutting, scratching and juggling I decided I had to buy a set of Technics myself and learned my craft, I was addicted! Then I found out about the Italian ITF turntables competitions and signed in when I was 15.
When I learned about the endless possibilities of cutting, scratching and juggling I decided I had to buy a set of Technics myself and learned my craft, I was addicted!
So coming from Hip Hop and scratch background, what turned you on to making house and techno and who or what inspires your sound today?
I started moving to House and electronic music in general as my brother was spinning some vinyl records and I was also a disco and funk lover. I started listening to all those great remixes of classics that I used to love and remixing really caught my attention. I started to develop a passion for House music and later on, Techno, thanks to a couple of friends who introduced me to some Minimal and Techno records including Moonbootica and then Stephan Bodzin.
Being inspired by the sounds of Bodzin, Booka Shade, Apparat and so on, I decided my goal was to learn music producing. These names definitely inspired me in a big way in the beginning, but to tell you the truth, I barely have time to explore new artists and sounds these days as I prefer having a clear mindset when I produce. I also don't want to sound like a copy of a copy and I'm trying to be honest, genuine and passionate with the music I produce.
Being inspired by the sounds of Bodzin, Booka Shade, Apparat and so on, I decided my goal was to learn music producing.
What was your first big break release, your most successful to date and your personal favourite own production or remix?
I had a very lucky beginning when I started the market was different, Beatport was the new big thing and you could sell vinyl copies easily. My first vinyl record was my own "Bye Bye My Brain", which included a great Ramon Tapia remix. It sold out quickly and did well with digital sales too. I then had a couple of collaborative tunes with John Acquaviva, a no.1 Beatport Techno Top 100 remix for Spektre, and a remix for Matador on Sleaze Records.
One of my most successful releases was probably Less Hate "Soul Doubt" on Kindisch Berlin, it was played by Hot Since 82 on BBC Radio One, and the follow up 'Bambino' was played by Sasha. These were some of my proudest moments so far.
You've just released your brand new "Ascension EP", championed by Tiesto no less! Please tell us a little about the 2 tracks, the inspiration behind them and how they sound?
This year marks the first 10 years of my career as a producer, so my intention was to summarise all that I've been doing in the past until now, including minimal, techno, electro, melodic and progressive sounds. So basically it is a mixture of Techno, Progressive and Electro that you can hear on 'Ascension' – a tune inspired by my spiritual path and by many good reads. Meanwhile, you can hear a more organic, minimalistic approach to 'She', dedicated to my wife and to all the mothers.
"Ascension EP" is out now on Frequenza Records. Have a listen »
You've also just landed back on Kevin Saunderson's KMS label with a remix of Josh Bess ft Vanity Crime "Body Flow", what can you tell us about that?
I've been working with KMS for the past 3 years, they are a second family to me, I'm good friends with Dantiez and DaMarii and I have the utmost respect for Kevin. My friend Vanity Crime has been releasing on Frequenza as well. This remix I did for Body Flow was crafted in my studio during a live session I did with my controllers and synths, I wanted to put it out as it was, symbolising a more free approach to music making.
A change of vibe, you've a catchy remix out for Mike Mago X Dog Collective 'Always On My Mind' on Spinnin' Records, which has quite a commercial sound compared to your usual productions. Did you enjoy making it and do you feel it's important for an artist to experiment with other genres and move outside their comfort zone?
Yes, yes and yes. I absolutely love all styles and genres and I feel the need to explore them. Mike is a good friend and he's such a super cool guy, when he asked about the remix I couldn't say no, even if this is not the style that I've been working on for the past 2 years. And to tell you the truth? The song is fresh and the lyrics are so cute.
If I hadn't enjoyed making it, I wouldn't have done it :). And yes, I do feel that it's important not to get stuck in a single genre forever as it's always good to learn. And for a self-taught produces as I am, song making is a great deal of learning and practicing, when you have vocals, real instruments and real recordings to deal with.
I personally have to move outside my comfort zone every single day due to my main job in the studio, so I'm very used to it!
You release under other alias', please tell us a little about those projects and how they differ from your typical Nihil Young productions?
When I created "Less Hate" I was living in Berlin and I had a lot of personal issues to deal with at the time. One of many was the fact that I felt that my main project was ruined by previous experiences with other producers. So I wanted to start from scratch, with a different sound without anyone knowing who I was. Less Hate was more about deeper, organic, melodic, micro-house sounds in the beginning, it was going very very well, but I wasn't very balanced back then and I started messing around with too many genres. Somehow it became a Disco thing, then a G-House thing and so on.
Nevertheless, I was contacted by none other than Etienne de Crecy who asked me to remix his single "ou". I also made an album called "Memento" on King Street and a few remixes for legends like Roland Clark and Dennis Ferrer. As if that wasn't enough, I then created another project called 7th Star to explore darker, more electro and deep techno sounds. I had good releases on excellent labels, but I couldn't keep up with everything and a couple of very traumatic life lessons didn't help. Hence my 2 year hiatus.
Some quick-fire questions for Boy Oh Boy
Your Frequenza label is 10 years old this year, you must be very proud! What are your favourite 5 releases from the label since you first started out?
Yes, it's been amazing and I'm very happy to see the label's first 10 years. These are my top 5 releases:
1 John Lagora ft. Jansen – Bitch inc. Maetrik Remix
2 Nihil Young – Bye Bye My Brain inc. Ramon Tapia Remix
3 Simina Grigoriu – Project Boondocks EP
4 Matteo Scaioli – Deepchandi inc. Andreas Henneberg Remix
5 Nihil Young ft Ninetto – Doomed inc. Gary Beck Remix
Have you any Frequenza celebration parties or release in the pipeline to celebrate?
Yes, I've got Ramon Tapia to remix a tune for Frequenza and the release will coincidentally happen exactly 10 years after the 'Bye Bye My Brain EP'. I also intend to get some artists I had on board to do more singles and remixes. I'm also working on a series of events in Europe.
How do you see Frequenza evolving in the next 10 years?
A couple of things I'm working on is releasing Sample Packs for Frequenza Sounds, creating another sub-label and developing Frequenza Black further. Frequenza will stay the same as I always love to discover new talent and give them room to express themselves, without being genre-bound or an elitist entity.
There will be label parties, that's for sure. It's been very difficult for me, having to do everything by myself, to think about parties. But lately, I am happy to have found a good handful of trusted friends with whom I'm proud to create a team and I will have more time and chances to focus on that too.
What part of your job do you enjoy the most, writing and producing, performing or running the label and how do you manage to juggle it all being a one man band?
As I mentioned before it can be very time consuming having to take care of all the legal side, distribution, A&R, artwork design. Even the website that I've been rebranding and updating for the past 7 years, and so forth. That's what's kept me from making a lot more records than I have, but I truly love taking care of the label as well as much as making music in the studio and Djing.
What's the best new piece of studio kit you bought recently?
Sub37 from Moog. Wowsers!
What else have you got coming up that you can share with us?
I intend to work on my second full length album this spring and summer. I will also have "Ascension" and "She" remixed. The first confirmed remixers are Teenage Mutants and Johnny Kaos. I just signed my next single "Teonanacatl" to Toolroom Records, I just worked on a set of Techno tunes with my friends Pols and I'm currently working on new songs for Mike Mago's BMKLTSCH.
One project I'm very happy about is "Dimethyltryptamine", a collaboration with my friend Durtysoxxx, coming soon on his Funk'n Deep label, which includes Konrad and Konstantin Yoodza remixes. And, I will also be releasing again soon on KMS records with some new remixes and EPs, including a few collaborative ones with The Saunderson Brothers.
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The top 25 titles, all appearing on 2 or more "Best Foraging" book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 75+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
Also, see our article on The Best Mushroom And Foraging Books.
A cook-book which incorporates a tour of the British countryside in search of wild ingredients. The book presents all the recipes from both of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's television series of the same name, as well as new recipes. Guidance is included on where to find the ingredients.
Full-color illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms by their key features.
Learn all about the interesting and delicious wild harvest of Alaska, western Canada, and the Northwest in this significant illustrated volume on 147 wild plants.
Full-color photographs face detailed descriptions of 250 plant species in the western United States and Canada, covering field identification, habitat and range, edibility, medicinal uses, and more.
Foraging the Mountain West is a hands-on manual for identifying, harvesting, and preparing real food. It is written for the backpacker who would rather bring more knowledge and fewer provisions into the wilderness. It is intended for the happy homemaker who wants to eat well and spend less. It is ideal for the creative chef who wants to explore new ingredients and impress diners with novel dishes.
Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods – these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free and delicious pickings to be found in the British countryside, and how to prepare and cook them. First John touches on the basics for the hedgerow forager, with an introduction to conservation, safety, the law, and all the equipment that you may need. Next he guides you through the tasty edible species to be found. Each one is accompanied by photographs for identification, along with their conservation status, habitat, distribution, season, taste, texture and cooking methods – not forgetting, of course, some fascinating asides and diversions about their taxonomy and history. Fifty species are covered, including bilberries, blackberries, raspberries, common mallow, dandelions, hedge garlic, horseradish, pignuts, nettles, sloes, sweet chestnuts, water mint, bulrushes and wild cherries. After this there is a section describing the poisonous species to steer clear of, with identifying photographs as well as warnings about nasty 'lookalikes'. Finally, there are thirty delicious recipes to show how you can make the most of your (edible) findings. Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hedgerow is an indispensable household reference, and an essential book to have by your side for every trip into the countryside.
If there is a frontier beyond organic, local, and seasonal, beyond farmers' markets and sustainably raised meat, it surely includes hunting, fishing, and foraging your own food. A lifelong angler and forager who became a hunter late in life, Hank Shaw has chronicled his passion for hunting and gathering in his widely read blog, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, which has developed an avid following among outdoor people and foodies alike. Hank is dedicated to finding a place on the table for the myriad overlooked and underutilized wild foods that are there for the taking—if you know how to get them. In Hunt, Gather, Cook, he shares his experiences both in the field and the kitchen, as well as his extensive knowledge of North America's edible flora and fauna. With the fresh, clever prose that brings so many readers to his blog, Hank provides a user-friendly, food-oriented introduction to tracking down everything from sassafras to striped bass to snowshoe hares. He then provides innovative ways to prepare wild foods that go far beyond typical campfire cuisine: homemade root beer, cured wild boar loin, boneless tempura shad, Sardinian hare stew—even pasta made with handmade acorn flour. For anyone ready to take a more active role in determining what they feed themselves and their families, Hunt, Gather, Cook offers an entertaining and delicious introduction to harvesting the bounty of wild foods to be found in every part of the country.
Incredible Wild Edibles covers 36 of the best edible wild plants in North America: fruits, berries, nuts, shoots, leafy greens, root vegetables, culinary herbs, teas, and syrups that boast exceptional flavor and nutrition. The plants chosen represent every habitat and every region in North America, from the northern forests to the southwest deserts, from the largest cities to the wildest mountains. Rather than cover hundreds of species in brief accounts that leave the reader unsure of how to proceed, Samuel Thayer encourages readers to thoroughly learn one plant at a time. Each of these traditional foods has a rich culinary and cultural history―a wholesome past that is still relevant for our health and happiness today. The text is fully accessible to the novice, but remains botanically accurate and has the in-depth information that seasoned foragers crave.
Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Wild Edible Plants. Nature's Garden follows the same award-winning format of Samuel Thayer's first book, with in-depth chapters covering 41 new wild edibles. In this volume you will find the most authoritative accounts of several important food plants, such as hackberry and American lotus, available anywhere. You will find mouth-watering photography of cranberries, blueberries, huckleberries, strawberries, wild plums, and more. You'll hear of new methods for using dandelions. You'll finally be able to make sense of the tricky wild lettuce/sow thistle group. You'll discover that wild carrot and poison hemlock can be reliably told apart, thanks to a detailed chart accompanied by 19 photographs.
Here is a classic collection of inventive recipes and imaginative cooking ideas from the all-time master improviser and gatherer of healthful wild foods.
Here Euell Gibbons shows the reader how to enjoy the culinary and medicinal virtues of herbs and wild plants. Drawn from the author's wide knowledge of plants as well as from the lore of native Americans and early settlers, the information is supplemented by nutritionists at Pennsylvania State University who worked with Gibbons on analysis of the entries.
A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed information on how to identify them, where they are found, how and when they are harvested, which parts are used, how they are prepared, as well as their culinary use, ecology, conservation, and cultural history.
This beautifully photographed book offers up dozens of creative recipes and instructions for preparing a pantry full of preserved foods, including Pickled Acorns, White Sage-Lime Cider, Wild Kimchi Spice, Currant Capers, Infused Salts with Wild Herbs, Pine Needles Vinegar, and many more. And though the author's own palette of wild foods are mostly common to southern California, readers everywhere can apply Baudar's deep foraging wisdom and experience to explore their own bioregions and find an astonishing array of plants and other materials that can be used in their own kitchens.
Katrina Blair's philosophy in The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is sobering, realistic, and ultimately optimistic. If we can open our eyes to see the wisdom found in these weeds right under our noses, instead of trying to eradicate an "invasive," we will achieve true food security. The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is about healing ourselves both in body and in spirit, in an age where technology, commodity agriculture, and processed foods dictate the terms of our intelligence. But if we can become familiar with these thirteen edible survival weeds found all over the world, we will never go hungry, and we will become closer to our own wild human instincts―all the while enjoying the freshest, wildest, and most nutritious food there is. For free!
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Recognition Method Based on Wigner-Hough Transform for Poly-Phase Code Radar Signal ()
Wenxu Zhang, Bing Wang, Fuli Sun
College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.
In order to solve the recognition of polyphase code radar signal, this paper gives two methods based on Frank code, i.e. the high-order spectrum recognition method and the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) method, by analyzing the micro characteristics of polyphase code signals in time and frequency domain respectively. And a recognition algorithm based on Wigner-Hough transform (WHT) is developed in this paper. We verify the validity of each method by computer simulation and give relative merits and demerits. A set of results demonstrate that the algorithm based on Wigner-Hough transform has better recognition performance in low signal-to-noise (SNR) than others.
Radar Signal Processing, Polyphase Code, Fractional Fourier Transform, Wigner-Hough Transform
Zhang, W. , Wang, B. and Sun, F. (2017) Recognition Method Based on Wigner-Hough Transform for Poly-Phase Code Radar Signal. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, 10, 128-137. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2017.108B014.
In recent years, a class of polyphase code radar signals (Frank, P1, P2, P3, P4 code) which is derived from linear frequency modulation (LFM) have wide applications in field of radar anti-interference system. Combining the doppler tolerance features of LFM and high range resolution of phase encoding, polyphase code signals have excellent pulse compression performance [1]. While in electronic battlefield, signals are intertwined and highly dense and there is a variety of modulation methods, which causes no priori in detection signals [2]. Thus, it is significant to analyze the characteristics of polyphase code signals from complicated signals and develop an efficient and feasible method for signal detection and recognition.
Polyphase code signals have similar time-frequency characteristics with LFM signals. Referring to the methods of LFM recognition, a mass of research results have been acquired for polyphase code signals detection and parameter estimation. For example, paper [3] proposed a way to detect the LFM polyphase code signals by combining Wigner-Ville distribution with Hough transform. It was verified by simulation and the results showed that this method had preferable anti-noise performance. In order to detect the polyphase code signals and estimate parameters accurately in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), paper [4] developed a method based on WHT. It was achieved by improving the kernel function of WHT and accumulating energy of multiple ridge lines of WVD in polyphase code signals. The experimental results demonstrated that this approach proposed was effective to detect and estimate the polyphase code signals in low SNR and it was not affected by encoding types. And a signal processing method based on integral quadratic phase function and fractional Fourier transform was proposed by DuQin [5]. It had a clear advantage of small calculation and little cross interference items. So the accuracy of parameter estimation was enhanced obviously. A kind of detection to multiphase coded pulse compression signal using Radon-Ambiguity transform (RAT) was given in paper [6], but there were no methods to estimate waveform parameters.
In this paper, we focus on the detection and estimation of Frank code in polyphase code signals by high-order spectrum recognition method, fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) and Wigner-Hough transform (WHT) respectively. The detection based on high-order spectrum recognition method is easy to practice theoretically but difficult implementation on hardware design. The one based on FRFT is achieved by rotating coordinate axis to get the optimum status of signal gathering. It has an excellent filter performance. The detection and parameter estimation to polyphase code signals using WHT are done by taking example by detecting LFM signal using WHT. The recognition performance is great especially in low SNR.
2. Analysis of Polyphase Code Signal
Phase coded signal is a kind of pulse radar signal, usually expressed in the form of complex signal
where is the signal amplitude. is the carrier frequency of signal. is a phase code sequence changing with time, which is related to the type of encoding modulation used.
Supposing a coding cycle is , which is divided into equal width sub- pulses, and . represents the width of the code. The coding period is . Table 1 shows the modulation phase of several common polyphase code pulse signals.
The paper mainly uses Frank code as an example to carry on the simulation and the discussion.
The phase transition diagram for the Frank code when was shown in (a) of Figure 1; (b) is the time domain waveform of Frank code; (c) is the spectrum of Frank code.
Table 1. Modulation phase of poly-phase code.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 1. State Distribution of Frank code. (a) Phase-changing of Frank Code. (b) Time Domain Waveform. (c) Spectrum Distribution.
3. Basic Recognition Method of Polyphase Code Signal
The high-order spectrum recognition method and the FRFT recognition method are widely used in LFM and two-phase and four-phase coded signals, and they have been gradually applied to the polyphase code signal. The paper introduces the application of the two methods in the polyphase code firstly.
3.1. High-Order Spectrum Recognition Method
Perform a quadratic operation on Frank codes
Remove the mean after the quadratic operation, and then take the Fourier transform of operation results. From the following simulation, Figure 3, it can be seen that the side lobes are well reduced, and making it easier to find the main peak at the time of detection. Perform the fourth-order calculation for Frank code, it can be seen the inhibitory effect for side-lobes is better than the second- order. However, it is difficult to accurately determine the arrival of the signal in low signal to noise ratio, the general use of correlation detection. Perform quadratic or quadratic operation for the received signal by the above method, then do Fourier transform operation, theoretically it can achieve a better detection results [7].
But, the second-order and the fourth-order computing are not easy to achieve in the hardware design. The consumption of hardware resources of the detection system is very high when do the corresponding calculation and recording of multiphase code signals with certain pulse width. And the output of the Fourier transform of the Frank code doesn't make sense for subsequent data analysis.
3.2. Recognition Method Based on Fractional Fourier Transform
The Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) of the signal is defined as
where represents the FRFT order, represents the FRFT operator, represents the FRFT transform the kernel.
The rotation angle is .
The FRRT of the signal can be seen as the rotation of the axis of the signal on the time-frequency plane around the origin by counterclockwise rotation of the -angle to the -axis. Different rotation angles correspond to different frequency modulation bases. And the optimum aggregation characteristics can be achieved at the optimum rotation angle. Figure 2 shows the degree of ag-
Figure 2. Aggregation degree of signals under different orders.
gregation of signals at different orders [8].
The FRFT three-dimensional distribution of the Frank code signal is shown as Figure 4. On the parameter plane , the Frank code signals have two high spikes with the same coordinates. Let the coordinates be , which is the best fractional rotation angle of Frank code. The distances of adjacent peaks are both . Combining the time-frequency distribution of Frank code and the FRFT domain spectrum under angle , it can be given as follows.
The bandwidth of the Frank code signal
The coding cycles of codes
The width of codes
The number of codes
The estimated value of carrier frequency
where is the frequency value at the intersection of the main ridge line and the frequency axis of the bar of the Frank code signal, and the estimate is . is the spike coordinate of the signal on the parameter plane. , is the number of signal spike.
The time-frequency curve of the Frank code signal can be regarded as the time-frequency curve of the LFM signal shifted by a certain delay. So we can draw on the LFM signal detection method based on fractional Fourier transform [9].
4. Method of Polyphase Code Recognition Based on Wigner-Hough
Wigner distribution is a time-frequency analysis method, which is usually used to analyze the non-stationary signal. The Hough transform is a method for detecting the graphical features in image processing. The Frank code is detected by performing the Hough transform for the Wigner distribution results, and mean- while the parameters of the signal can be estimated [10].
The Hough transforms' principle of extracting straight lines.
On any point in the image space , using the transformation
to transform it into a curve, , in the parameter space . The points in the same line by the transformation can get the corresponding bar curve in the parameter space.
This curves go through the same point . Finding this point in the parameter space it means to have found the corresponding line in the image space.
The time-frequency distribution of the detected signal is taken as an image, then using Hough transform to detect straight line in this image. This translates the problem of the detection and parameter estimation of the Frank code signal into the problem of searching for the local maximum and its corresponding coordinate in the parameter space. The time-frequency distribution of the Frank code signal is a number of parallel ridge lines. And it exhibited multiple peak points on the parameter plane after Hough transform [11].
The definition of signal's WVD
Perform Wigner-Hough transform of the signal by a straight line equation, .
5. Computer Simulation and Performance Analysis
In order to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the method, using Frank code to do the following simulation analysis. The center frequency is , The carrier frequency is .
The two spectrum distribution figures can be got by performing the second- order and the fourth-order operation for Frank code and then doing Fourier transform after removing the mean value. They are shown as Figure 3. It can be seen the noise and side lobes are well suppressed through the method from the figure. Thus it verified the validity of the method based on high-order spectrum.
The FRFT three-dimensional distribution of the Frank code signal is shown as (a) of Figure 4, and its spectrum in the FRFT domain is shown as (b).
Due to phase quantization, the WVD distribution of Frank code is multi-ridge distribution on the Wigner time-frequency plane. The three-dimen- sional distribution of the signal through Wigner-Hough transform is shown as Figure 5. There are multiple spikes in the figure due to phase quantization.
When the noise is increased to , the spectrum of the signal after each method is shown as follows.
Figure 3. High-order spectrum distribution of frank code. (a) Second-order spectrum distribution. (b) Fourth-order spectrum distribution.
Figure 4. Spectrum distribution based on FRFT. (a) Fractional-order spectral distribution. (b) FRFT domain spectrum.
Figure 5. Wigner-ville distribution and wigner-hough distribution of frank code. (a) WVD. (b) WHT.
Figure 6. Spectrum distribution through the three methods under −2 dB. (a) Second-order spectrum distribution. (b) FRFT domain spectrum. (c) WHT.
As is shown in Figure 6, that the high-order spectrum is almost unrecognizable under . The recognition performance of the high-order spectrum method is bad in low SNR. The method based on FRFT is superior to high-order spectrum method, and it has good filtering performance. The recognition performance of the method based on WHT in low SNR is significantly better than the first two. Since this method is suitable for polyphase code recognition in low SNR.
Non-stationary signal is one of the main research objects of modern signal processing, and there are many kinds of theoretical analysis methods for it. In this paper, it is introduced the characteristics of polyphase code in time and frequency domain, and the three kinds of recognition methods of polyphase code signal, i.e. high-order spectrum, fractional Fourier transform recognition method and recognition method based on Wigner-Hough transform. The effectiveness of each method is verified by simulation, and the method based on WHT has great performance in low SNR, Which can provide reference for the identification of multi-phase code radar signals.
This work is supported partly by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61301205 and No. 61571146, National Defense Based Science Research Program under Grant No. JCKY2013604B001. This paper is funded by the International Exchange Program of Harbin Engineering University for Innovation-oriented Talents Cultivation.
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S19 distance exemption is 'unworkable' says CPT
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Trade body's consultation response says DfT guidance for local journeys and for 'less than cost' operations are deeply flawed
The Confederation of Passenger Transport has slammed proposed distance limits in guidance for Section 19/22 regulation as 'wrong in principle and unworkable in practice.'
Responding to the Department for Transport's consultation as it tries to rectify infringement of European Union regulation, the CPT has said important wording has been omitted from the exemption proposal for S19 holders: 'The words 'the nature of goods carried, or' which give an indication of the intention of the regulation, have been misleadingly omitted from the consultation.
'We believe that any formulation that is of any use to the community transport sector will facilitate unfair competition between licensed and unlicensed operators. The Government previously removed this exemption from the goods sector for this reason (among others).
'In order to determine whether a given operation has only a minor impact on the market because of the distance involved, you would need to look at the distances involved in all the operations in a given market (such as the market for home-to-school transport in Morpeth) and restrict operation under permit to, say, the first 20% by increasing length.'
The CPT's response adds: 'The exemption is not intrinsically linked to commercial/non-commercial operation and could have the unintended consequence of a large increase in the operation of unlicensed minibuses.'
The CPT also takes issue with the exemption for services charged at less than cost. It says that the European Commission is likely to clarify the definition of 'non-commercial' as 'not generating income' when it issues its Mobility Package this year: 'Deleting this exemption now will save having to change the law again almost immediately,' it says.
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Though suggesting changes in wording, the CPT supports the S19 exemption from O licensing for work which the commercial sector does not contest. It also predicts that the new guidance will have a negative impact on some community transport groups, but points out that, on the other hand, some commercial operators will be able to stay in business.
Steven Salmon, Head of Policy Development said: "CPT has always maintained that the market rules for local transport should be based on safety and consumer protection, and not on the charitable status of players. The DfT consultation moves in the right direction, but it raises a number of detailed suggestions which worry us because they risk replacing one sort of unfair competition with others."


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Paganini has been my constant companion for as long as I can remember and has always brought me luck. I've known for years that I wanted to record his First Violin Concerto so it is very exciting to celebrate its 200th anniversary (it was written between 1817 and '18) with this release.
Paganini represents a turning point in the musical evolution of the 19th century. He was hailed as a genius by Schumann, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, and a large part of Liszt's compositions are an attempt to transfer to the piano Paganini's transcendental skill. His miraculous technique and his personal magnetism created a collective rock-star type obsession. Paganini's writing was inspired by his close friendship with Rossini and indeed nourished by Italian opera in general, which he often conducted himself. His first performance of Matilde di Shabran in Rome, was followed by a famous drunken masquerade with Paganini and Rossini parading around the city in drag, strumming two guitars and singing appeals for charity.
I believe it's simply wrong to play Paganini's music concentrating on the violin gymnastics instead of the musical background and 'vocal' lines. You need to know and cherish Rossini and bel canto to fully appreciate and be a convincing interpreter of his music, and this is precisely what I wanted to portray when recording his famous concerto, arguably one of the most demanding pieces in the violin repertoire.
In recent years I have also been looking into lesser-known Italian repertoire in particular from the first part of the 20th century. Much of this was virtually purged from concert repertoire after the painful experience of Fascism. Even Respighi is mostly performed abroad and avoided in his homeland, and Casella, Malipiero, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Busoni, Alfano, Pizzetti and Wolf-Ferrari are too often left to gather dust in archives and libraries.
My curiosity for this repertoire was sparked a few years ago when I was asked to play a little-known concerto in Russia with the wonderful Tatarstan Symphony. I started researching and came across the Wolf-Ferrari, a grand post-Romantic concerto inspired by opera, and, in my opinion, a masterpiece.
The concerto is an oasis of simple but heartfelt passion and humorous commedia dell'arte moments, contrasting almost shockingly with the realities of Europe in 1944, perhaps as a kind of psychological refuge from so much barbarity. After the first tournées by the young dedicatee, Guila Bustabo, with whom the composer is said to have been in love, the concerto was struck by misfortune. First when all the copies were destroyed by an allied bomb (as Bustabo recalled in a 1945 interview for Gramophone) and later when Guila herself fell into disgrace, accused of collaborationism in the post-war years. I was sure it would become a very special piece for me, and it has, so much so that I decided to pair it with the Paganini for my debut concerto recording.
I love the voice and how it relates to phrasing on the violin, so the idea of an opera-inspired CD was in the making for years and I knew I wanted it to be with my husband Daniele Rustioni. One of the perks of being married to a conductor is that I get to see lots of opera performances which I love and don't involve me in any professional way, but inspire me at every turn. I was sure that together we would bring a common idea and expressive intent to the recording and that every moment building up to the live concert and sessions would prove inspirational and exhilarating. Working with the CBSO and getting to perform the UK premiere of the Wolf-Ferrari was unforgettable and I'm thrilled we can finally share the result!
Francesca Dego is quickly developing into one of the most sought-after young violinists on the international scene. Regularly appearing with the world's leading orchestras, recent and future highlights include her London concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, La Verdi Orchestra Milan, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.


Two Social Media Tips All College Applicants Must Consider Immediately!
I'm often asked how, or even whether, students applying to college should manage their social media presence.
It's a prudent question. Schools can check your public online presence, and the rising trend is that they increasingly do.
Is it a certainty that the schools you apply to will seek out and scrutinize your social media accounts? Of course not! However, schools presently do check frequently enough that you should be proactive and prepared.
Below are two quick tips that every applicant should consider, immediately!
First, identify and mitigate any risky online presence you may have on line (especially Facebook and Instagram).
Second, feature an easily manageable positive social media presence (LinkedIn is an excellent choice).
There are of course other steps one may take, but as this is meant to be a brief post I will keep the advice limited to the following two.
Note: The first is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than the second!!
I advise all of my students to make Facebook and Instagram private when submitting college applications.
Facebook profiles are rarely flattering, often potentially unflattering, nearly impossible to scrub. Instagram profiles often contain random silliness, and sometimes worse. Both are hence riddled with risk.
Don't take any chances that something you believe to be silly will be interpreted admissions personnel as egregiously offensive. You may be right; it may be innocuous. But the power dynamic isn't equivalent at the moment. When it comes to getting accepted, their opinions of you matter more than your opinions of you.
Mitigate the risk. Go private. You can go back to being public later.
If you want to establish a positive, flattering online presence, LinkedIn is an excellent place to start.
LinkedIn accounts are simple to keep clean, primarily because the professional culture doesn't encourage less thoughtful engagement.
In short, just about everyone wants to look good (or at least professional) on LinkedIn. Consequently, potentially risky silliness is far less likely to spill over into your profile, because such silliness just isn't very common on the site.


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eltonioni wrote: So we can see what we should be aspiring to, could you point to one such successful complex political and social system.
None without fault as you might expect, funnily enough the EU has many of these characteristics as do many member states and USA, none has the full set yet sadly.
I'd add Canada, which has made a pretty good job of resisting its inherently fissiparous undercurrents since BNA in 1867. It has stayed effectively bilingual at Federal level, trilingual or more in parts; has resisted armed insurrection (Riel in 19th c, FLQ in 1960s), armed invasion (from US in 1812 - military - and US-harboured 'Fenian raids' in late 19th c) and further threats thereof (notably during US Civil War and Prohibition); it has coped peacefully with major territorial adjustments which could have been destabilising shocks (legacy of Oregon Treaty 1846, incorporation on N&L in 1949, creating Nunavut in 1999). Meanwhile, it has largely honoured its legacy (pre-1867) and later Treaties including sovereign Reserve rights with its First Nations, effectively welcomes and absorbed and Canadianised immigrants from all over the world, and contributed (and bled) far beyond its weight in war (voluntarily joining larger alliances in a cause perceived to be just) and peace-keeping.
Much to be proud of ..
PostPosted:Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:40 pm
by Paul_Sengupta
eltonioni wrote: So we can see what we should be aspiring to...
funnily enough the EU has many of these characteristics as do many member states and USA
Shining beacons of government and democracy there...
Yes, scarcasm.
PostPosted:Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:13 pm
by johnm
@Paul_Sengupta please don't suggest the U.K. might take any moral high ground here
PostPosted:Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:03 pm
by PaulB
Interesting take on conspiracy theories here in The New Yorker
During the 2016 Presidential election, Zeynep Tufekci was watching tapes of Trump rallies when she noticed something odd. Tufekci, an associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a self-described techno-sociologist, found that YouTube began cuing up for her videos filled with racist diatribes and Holocaust denials. She wondered what was going on, so she created another account and began watching clips of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This time, she found herself directed to what she later described in the Times as "videos of a leftish conspiratorial cast," including some that argued that the U.S. government was responsible for the attacks of September 11th.
Tufekci concluded that YouTube had decided that the best way to hold viewers' attention was to push them toward more and more sensational material. The motive wasn't political; it was commercial. And probably the scheme wasn't the work of a cabal, or even a person, but of an algorithm. "What we are witnessing is the computational exploitation of a natural human desire: to look 'behind the curtain,' " Tufekci wrote.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... y-theories
PostPosted:Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:59 am
by eltonioni
Unless we decide that state regulated (controlled?) media is a good idea we're going to have to suck it up in general, picking off the actual, rather than perceived or wished for dangers along the way.
The problem is that credulous folk love having their prejudices fed, which is why people still read junk like the Sun, Express and Mail. Facebook, Twitter and the like just make that orders of magnitude worse.
Getting mechanisms to limit the impact is not a small task and they never have been and I rather think never will be wholly effective.
eltonioni wrote: Unless we decide that state regulated (controlled?) media is a good idea we're going to have to suck it up in general, picking off the actual, rather than perceived or wished for dangers along the way.
We're already seeing this to some degree with the BBC pandering to vested interests for fear of losing funding and the widespread use of D notices on dubious grounds, which is why leakers and whistleblowers are growing in numbers and need protection.
It's time that the BBC replaced the gaps between programs with customer advertisements rather than it's own advertisements. That would go some way to alleviating that specific problem as well as the TV license and all the bad things it causes.
PostPosted:Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:51 am
eltonioni wrote: It's time that the BBC replaced the gaps between programs with customer advertisements rather than it's own advertisements. That would go some way to alleviating that specific problem as well as the TV license and all the bad things it causes.
I'm inclined to sympathise it really has lost its way in all sorts of areas
PostPosted:Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:51 pm
Was there ever a bigger, longer running, or more risible conspiracy committed than the one perpetuated by the BBC? It would be funny it wasn't criminalising and imprisoning thousands of people.


Would you describe a little about your writing process, the way that you dig into the human condition and into everyday world happenings, weaving in the internal questions and concerns of your characters?
Sarah Stone: In "Stage Fright," the chapter that contains this passage, one of my central characters, Julia, an actress, is leaving the Bay Area for the New York theater scene and has spent everything she has for a cheap trip around the world on the way. She's leaving her dominating older brother and codirector, trying to figure out how to live her life on her own. She doesn't have a strong sense of self, and she's always experiencing herself as acting, on and off stage. In Zanzibar, she takes up with Piers, a damaged actor, and though she's genuinely sympathetic towards him, she's still making choices in how to perform that sympathy.
When I'm writing fiction, I don't feel as if I'm making things up. It's as if the characters exist in some other place, living their lives, and it's my job to get to that other place and translate what's happening. I try to tell the truth about them, and if something feels invented or false, I go back to them and listen harder until I know what they're thinking and doing. Once I'm in that other place where the characters live, I'm inside them, rather than observing them from the outside, and their questions and concerns become part of what I bring with me as I translate them onto the page.
Sometimes it's tricky when I'm so distracted by life that I can't get to that place. The pleasure in writing, for me, comes from having other places to go and lives to live, so many discoveries to make. Because their world is also the everyday world—with its inexplicable and fantastic elements, its daily chores, its mortality and irrationality, its baffling horrors and generosities. So though I wouldn't say I understand our world better from living in my characters' world, I feel more able to face the difficult aspects of reality. With luck, when I manage to tell the truth about my characters and their lives, my readers would then also be more able to come to terms with the world.
I would love to know what type of life you imagine for Brian if he did not believe in octopi having a soul? How would his life be different than the one he has in Hungry Ghost Theater?
SS: Over time, whenever I would take breaks from working on a different book, which I couldn't get right, a family came into focus—the family of Hungry Ghost Theater—the Zamarins: Julia and Robert, who run an experimental theater troupe, and their sister Eva, a neuroscientist looking for the roots of empathy, their parents Philip and Lily, who are moving into old-old age during the time of the book, and Eva's three children, Katya, Jenny, and Arielle, a talented, strange child who struggles with self-destructive and addictive impulses as she grows into her teen years. Mental illness and addiction run through the family, and a streak of cruelty too, but at the same time, they're often very loving. I was always interested in them and curious about them.
At a certain point, I realized that I'd been writing a book that was a fight with and homage to Dante's Inferno—it has nine different pieces, set at different moments in the life of the family and the outsiders they affect. The non-family characters matter just as much, though they get less page time. Brian is a patient in an outpatient mental health clinic where Katya's working as a temp. Given the mental health issues in her family, she's very drawn to this kind of work, and then to Brian, so that she begins crossing boundaries with him (the family's not great on boundaries). Though all the characters here are invented, I worked as an aide in a locked psychiatric facility when I was young, and also as a temp in a clinic rather like Katya's. So I got to know amazing people with serious reality disorders.
Brian has his lucid moments and then his breaks. Often people with serious mental illnesses are very honest, very open: they're less likely to create masks and personas, which doesn't mean that they're not performing sometimes. We human beings are a highly performative bunch. It's so interesting to watch us. But Brian lives in an animate world, full of beings. I don't see how he could help thinking that octopi have souls. Could he have a different life than he does? Can any of us? How much are our beliefs affected by our biologies vs. our decisions? That's a real question. I don't have the answer, though the book wrestles with some possibilities.
Lily: I want you to put one thing on that dream board that has nothing to do with climate change, world hunger, or war and torture.
Philip: There's nothing on here about war and torture yet. I'm trying to figure out how to represent peace and human rights. Without putting in any pictures of people holding hands.
I also really appreciated how you incorporated playwriting into Hungry Ghost Theater. When I first saw a script written out in playwriting format woven into your novel, it was impactful and so apt because the novel is about actors, directors, and the theater. Were the sections of your novel always in playwriting format? Did they take other forms in earlier drafts of your manuscript? Did you struggle at any point in working with this format?
So I would sneak away from the novel I regarded as "work" to write stories or study playwriting, always with a mixture of reckless freedom and guilt. The Zamarin family took over the plays too. When I knew Hungry Ghost Theater was a book, the plays were clearly part of it. Not simply plays written by the characters but the characters' lives seen as plays in two of the sections: their lives literally become theater. One of these plays is realistic, and the other takes place in six different hells. I did struggle with the format. Fortunately, I have wonderful initial readers who help me see what is and isn't working, so I can revise. Ron, my spouse, who I met in our MFA workshop, is my first reader. Then there's my writer's group, who I've counted on for more than a decade. And Peg Alford Pursell, editor and publisher of WTAW, read so deeply that she helped me transform the book in its final stages, including the plays. They all helped me feel that the plays belonged in the novel, and they all showed me different ways to work with them.
I rolled over, pressed a pillow over my ears, and tried to go back to sleep or at least to pretend until it was time to wash in the cold water bucket we kept behind a sheet above the creek. When they came back in, I was on my stomach with my eyes closed, breathing as regularly as I could, but I suspected they knew I was pretending.
Reading this reminded me of how I feel on my "bad days" whenever I see mothers walking their babies in strollers down the sidewalk, the babies bawling and kicking, red in the face; at such times I've always thought, I know exactly how you feel, Little One. I wonder what you imagine life would be like if (adults) all stopped pretending.
SS: I'd be very interested to see what the world would be like if everyone stopped pretending. Maybe it would be great. Maybe it would be a disaster. The big difficulty might be figuring out how to stop pretending to ourselves: when you think of the problems created by deception, they're easily matched by those created by self-delusion, denial, and the desire to be deceived. And I do think that Julia would have liked to have been bawling and kicking at that moment. But, even if she weren't full of ideals and trying to rise above jealousy, or even if she had someplace else to go (which at that point, she doesn't feel she has), what good would that do her with either her brother or her ex?
I feel that we, as artists/writers, are often like the cattle farmers—we lead our readers into places of grief over and over. You do this so courageously and empathetically. Do you have any thoughts or advice about your role as an artist, knowing that you can break the hearts of your readers again and again, with your work?
If, as writers, we're honestly going into the characters' worlds and reporting on what they say and do, then sometimes there will be heartbreak. Often, though, there will be humor. And hope. I'm very big on hope, even in dark moments.
Because sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves the story that everything is already over than to do the work of moving forward from grief. I know people who say, "It's too late to do anything about the world, so I've decided to spend the rest of my life just dancing." I'm a big fan of dancing! But there's some work to do as well.
Our hearts get broken, really smashed to pieces sometimes. Nonetheless, we figure out how to incorporate grief and move forward anyway. Maybe we're more empathic toward other people because our own hearts have been broken by loss. Not always. There's a choice there. That's one of the things I'm most interested in as a writer. How do you go through hell and climb back out again? That's the story Dante told in his Inferno. There's a reason we've loved that poem for centuries: we need it in order to survive.
Nancy Au's writing appears in Tahoma Literary Review, The Pinch, Beloit Fiction Journal, Lunch Ticket, SmokeLong Quarterly, Foglifter, Forge Literary Magazine, among others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University where she taught creative writing. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus, and is co-founder of The Escapery (theescapery.org). Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology. Her full-length collection, Spider Love Song & Other Stories, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2019.


ALL AREAS OF THE HOME In all areas of your home, check all electrical and telephone cords; rugs, runners and mats; telephone areas; smoke detectors; electrical outlets and switches; light bulbs; space heaters; woodburning stoves; and your emergency exit plan.CHECK ALL CORDSQUESTION: Are lamp, extension, and telephone cords placed out of the flow of traffic?
RECOMMENDATION: In case of emergency, telephone numbers for the Police, Fire Department, and local Poison Control Center, along with a neighbor's number, should be readily available.
Check and replace batteries and bulbs according to the manufacturer's instructions.
RECOMMENDATION: A bulb of too high wattage or the wrong type may lead to fire through overheating. Ceiling fixtures, recessed lights, and "hooded" lamps will trap heat.
If you do not have a 3-hole outlet, use an adapter to connect the heater's 3-prong plug. Make sure the adapter ground wire or tab is attached to the outlet.
Move appliances closer to wall outlets or to different outlets so you won't need extension cords.
If you don't have a step stool, consider buying one. Choose one with a handrail that you can hold onto while standing on the top step.
Lower the setting on your hot water heater to "Low" or 120 degrees. If you are unfamiliar with the controls of your water heater, ask a qualified person to adjust it for you. If your hot water system is controlled by the landlord, ask the landlord to consider lowering the setting.
Consider replacing the existing switch with a "glow switch" that can be seen in the dark.
Be sure that all containers are clearly marked with the contents, doctor's instructions, expiration date, and patient's name.
NOTE: Many poisonings occur when children visiting grandparents go through the medicine cabinet or grandmother's purse. In homes where grandchildren or other youngsters are frequent visitors, medicines should be purchased in containers with child-resistant caps, and the caps properly closed after each use. Store medicines beyond the reach of children.
RECOMMENDATION: "Tucking in" electric blankets, or placing additional coverings on top of them can cause excessive heat buildup which can start a fire.
QUESTION: Do you avoid "tucking in" the sides or ends of your electric blanket?
Use electric blankets according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Don't set electric blankets so high that they could burn someone who falls asleep while they are on.


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Rachel Dolezal's story is currently spreading like wildfire. Currently living in Spokane, Washington, Dolezal serves as the president of the local chapter of the NAACP and is an adjunct faculty member in African studies at Eastern Washington University. She is currently being investigated by the city of Spokane as to whether she lied about her race on her application to serve on the citizen Police Ombudsman Commission.
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Dolezal checked off African-American on her application and presents herself as African-American despite the fact that she is white, according to her biological parents Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal. There is so much to this story, and with each thing I uncover, I keep digging deeper and deeper. Like with most viral sensations on the internet, I became quickly lost down the Rachel Dolezal rabbit hole, and what I found was incredibly interesting.
Most of Dolezal's online presence is steeped in black culture, particularly art. It should be noted that there usually isn't an issue with a white person teaching African studies or using black people as subjects in their art. The problem in this case is that Dolezal seems to be appropriating black culture while passing herself off as black when she is apparently not.
More: Rachel Dolezal says she doesn't care if you think she is black
Her art is actually beautiful and very evocative, but knowing about the artist and her attempts to pass as a different race gives them a whole new, disturbing meaning. Her work speaks to the black experience, something she purports to have personally lived, and yet, has she?
In her piece "My Place," Dolezal provides some context for the painting of a young black girl standing in a field. "The original is painted on panel with a puzzle-piece texture, revealing that this image is about connecting parts of myself and finding my sense of place," writes Dolezal on her blog. "The background is a sunset where I was born in Montana, and the model is a girl in Cape Town, South Africa, where my family lived for 5 years."
What she doesn't clarify is that she never lived with her family in Cape Town, according to her mother. Using the picture of a young black girl in a piece about identity is both bold and shockingly brazen, not to mention very inappropriate. At the same time, perhaps it speaks closer to Dolezal's deluded sense of truth than anything else.
And then, there are her tweets.
https://twitter.com/HarlmRenaissanc/status/174029399329480704
Like her art, she is claiming black culture in her tweets, continuing to craft this persona that is based, ostensibly, in fiction. The more we learn about Dolezal, the more confusing and intricate her story becomes. Hopefully she will soon speak for herself so we can understand her motivations behind all of this, from her arts to her social media presence to her career (which also includes experience as a Zulu dancer and African hairstylist). For now, the mystery of Rachel Dolezal continues.
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He chuckles, a brief moment of levity as the longtime heavyweight contender prepares for his Saturday comeback bout against Blagoy Ivanov in Wichita. It's been nearly three years since Rothwell was in the Octagon, where he saw a four-fight winning streak snapped by this weekend's headliner, Junior Dos Santos in April 2016.
That was bad enough, but what was worse was the two-year USADA suspension Rothwell received for a failed drug test in 2017. And it hit him hard, so don't expect any quotes from him about recharging his batteries, getting some time to himself, or letting his body rest.
He does note that he's happy to get some new Reebok gear during fight week, but other than that, it's not necessarily excitement that he's feeling in his return, but something more than that.
Rothwell knows it won't be easy. He's 37 years old, he's been out of action since 2016 and he's fighting a killer in Ivanov. And there are more killers waiting for him after his bout with Ivanov.
Before the layoff, Rothwell was a scary dude, too. In his 4-1 pre-suspension stretch, he finished Brandon Vera, Alistair Overeem, Matt Mitrione and Josh Barnett in succession and had built a reputation as not just an elite heavyweight, but an entertaining one with a unique but captivating charisma. None of that should have changed, but he admits that the outside world looks at him as someone facing an uphill climb in his return.
I remind him that George Foreman took ten years off and then won the heavyweight title in boxing. Then there's Georges St-Pierre, who won the UFC middleweight crown after nearly four years away from the sport. So he's not named Georges or George, but there is a precedent for successful returns after long layoffs.
But some fighters are at their best with their back against the wall. Ben Rothwell is ready to prove that he's one of them.


Will a Late Payment Hurt My Credit Rating?
Q: If I am a little late with a credit card payment, do you automatically get late fees, a higher interest rate or will it hurt my credit rating?
A: You should try your very best to be timely with all your credit card payments, because if you are late on a bill, you do risk late fees, potential interest rate hikes and possible damage to your credit score. All of these possible consequences, however, can only be done within the context of existing federal laws.
For example, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, also known as the Credit CARD Reform Act, went into effect in 2010.
Among other things, it prevents credit cad issuers from retroactively increasing your interest rate, unless you've been 60 days or more late paying your credit card bill.
Also, the Card Act requires your credit card company to give you 45-days notice before an interest rate hike, up from 15 days notice. You can legally reject a rate hike and close the account. Under this scenario, you would have the right to pay off the debt over five years at your original interest rate.
If you don't close the account, and you accept a rate hike, it's important to know that there are limits on how long banks can impose so-called "default rates" (i.e. higher interest rates) after you've been late paying a bill.
Under the Card Act, default rates can only be charged for six months, provided you pay your credit card bill on time during that period. After six months, your credit card issuer must restore your rate to its previous level.
When it comes to your credit rating, though, a late payment can haunt you a lot longer. The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows negative information (such as late payments) to be included in your credit reports for up to seven years.
The good news is that just being a "little" late on a credit card payment – say a few days or even a week – won't impact your credit rating. Creditors can only legally report you to the credit bureaus if your payments are late by 30 days or more.
There is one final caveat for those making late payments: If you have a special financing offer or a promotional rate (such as a 0% deal), being late with a payment, even only a few days late, may mean that you jeopardize that special low rate.
So again, always do everything possible to pay all your credit card bills – and other bills too – on time.