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Partners + Napier
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:15:32 GMT
Rip Van, a fast-growing food innovation company on a mission to reinvent today's snack foods, has hired integrated creative company Partners + Napier to establish a brand position that fuels Rip Van's continued growth and further disrupts the $605 billion snacking category.
Rip Van's roots date back to 2010 when Co-CEO Rip Pruisken debuted what would become the company's signature Rip Van Wafel, inspired by the stroopwafel pastries he ate growing up in Amsterdam, to fellow students at Brown University. Today, Rip Van Wafels are available nationwide at retailers such as Starbucks, Whole Foods, and Peet's Coffee, served on American Airlines and Alaska Airlines flights, and in hundreds of tech company cafeterias.
While the Rip Van Wafel continues to gain momentum in both the cookie and bar segments, Rip Van's ambitions go far beyond the humble stroopwafel. Looking to the future, Rip Van's leadership saw a clear need to solidify the brand's position as a food innovator that tackles the challenges category leaders and other newcomers have ignored.
"Rip Van was founded on the simple belief that we can improve people's lives by inventing better snack foods," said Jim Low, who joined Rip Van as president in October 2019, bringing with him senior sales and marketing experience from companies like Mondelez and Schuman Cheese. "As snacking moves from a treat occasion to the way we eat, people are looking for more nutritional value. We see this as an immense opportunity to bring excitement to the category, creating snack foods that are delicious but won't compromise your health."
With 94 percent of consumers reporting snacking at least once daily per Mintel, and 50 percent of consumers reporting two to three snack occasions each day, Rip Van is focused on satisfying consumers' desire for convenient, delicious and health-conscious treats.
"We're honoured to have the opportunity to work with Jim Low again, on a project that plays to our strengths in both food and health," said Sharon Napier, chair and founder of Partners + Napier. "As Rip Van sets its sights on its next phase of growth, this important strategic assignment will strengthen its position as a force for change in the snacking category."view more - Hires, Wins & Business
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An heirloom can be defined as a traditional or heritage plant variety that is preserved generation after generation through small scale agricultural practices. Throughout history, small-scale family farmers and gardeners have taken pride in preserving plant heritage through seed saving. Preserving heirloom plants is vital to the future of safe food. Fortuitously, there are plenty of food revolutionaries who are playing major roles in heirloom seed preservation including Jere Gettle, founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, deemed by the New York Times as "The Indiana Jones of Seeds". We can all do our part in our own gardens by saving our seeds and growing them year after year, sharing our harvests and sharing our seeds with our neighbors. Seed saving is one of the single most important things a backyard organic gardener can do for the future of food.
History of Garlic
The origin of garlic can be traced back to Central Asia. Garlic's illustrious history includes reverence in a vast array of ancient cultures and has been traced back to use in Roman, Greek and Egyptian civilizations and is mentioned throughout Ayurvedic medicine. It has been considered sacred by many civilizations that used garlic not only for its culinary charm but also for its highly medicinal properties. Garlic is the earliest documented plant used by humans. Garlic is a natural antibiotic which has been used in many cultures to prevent and treat a plethora of diseases. Garlic is loaded with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
According to the extensive research done on garlic collections around the world by Dr. Gayle Volk, Cryobotanist with the USDA in Ft. Collins, Colo., the varieties of garlic worldwide have been narrowed down to 10 distinct varietal groups. Five varieties are hard-necked including Rocambole, Porcelain, Purple Stripe, Glazed Purple Stripe, and Marbled Purple Stripe. Three are bolting hard-necked varieties that may produce softnecks including Asiatic, Creole and Turban. Two are soft-necked varieties which include Silverskin and Artichoke.
There are many stories of garlic being recovered from ditches, swamps, abandoned farms and the like. According to David Stern, founding director of the Garlic Seed Foundation, "stories like these prove the tenacity of garlic. Garlic has an enormous presence of life, meaning that it is highly adaptable and incredibly strong". David states that American scientists discovered garlic growing and thriving in unbelievable growing conditions in the Ural Mountains which borders Afghanistan, the Soviet Union and China. This garlic was found growing at high altitude in almost no topsoil, exposed to harsh elements including strong winds and extremely cold temperatures. David highlights that garlic is one of the few plant species that has three separate means of reproduction: vegetative via the bulbil (clonal daughter), vegetative via the cloves in the bulb, and sexually above 4,000 feet via flowering.
Gateway Garlic Urban Farm
St. Louis, Mo., is home to a recovered lost heirloom garlic that has been hiding out at an abandoned farm for over 70 years. The discovery was made by the founder and owner of the Gateway Garlic Urban Farm, Mark "Carondelet Garlic" Brown, who truly understands the importance of garlic.
Mark became intrigued after finding out that between 25 percent to 30 percent of heirlooms are recovered by individuals who have found them still growing at abandoned farmsteads. He immediately began his quest to find lost heirlooms in the river city region. In 2011, Mark found a series of farmsteads and went door to door asking if he could search for crop remnants on their land. He first located the original foundation and searched the perimeter. He searched many farmsteads and discovered nine separate garlic varieties. From those 9 varieties, he collected 50-100 samples of each and transplanted them into berms he built at the Gateway Garlic Urban Farm with the intention of saving the seed stock. He sent those nine separate varieties off to an organization in New Zealand to have them tested.
According to the tests, one of those varieties was said had its own genetic drift, which means that it meets the criteria to qualify as its own variety. This variety, merely scallion size, was found on an abandoned farmstead that had trees growing through the original farmhouse foundation. The garlic was growing around the foundation and even under the forest canopy. This land had not been farmed for over 70 years. This garlic variety recovered is a member of the Rocambole family with the origin being traced back to Eastern Central Europe. Mark says, "This makes since because it was found on a farm that was settled by German immigrants". The recovered heirloom is a hardneck type of garlic that is closely related to the German Red Garlic variety.
After Mark discovered the importance of this lost variety, he went back to the site where it was found and asked permission to collect the remaining plants. He dug up over 40,000 garlic plants and transplanted them into the Gateway Garlic Urban Farm. He grew this variety in raised berms of pulverized clay with a top dressing of compost.
The first year, he saved most of the seed stock and planted it in the fall. He sorted through thousands of cloves, only selecting the largest ones to be planted so that the final outcome would be a larger bulb of garlic. He donated 40 lbs of the smaller cloves of garlic to Mutual Aid, a local food pantry. Mark spent over 2 years reconditioning these plants. Mark stated that, "Garlic becomes highly adapted to its environment, reseeding itself as the bulbils drop to the ground, meaning this garlic has been replicating itself for over 70 years". After 3 years of nurturing this resilient variety of garlic in historic Carondelet at the Gateway Garlic Urban Farm, he decided to name the garlic Carondelet. According to Mark, the Carondelet variety of garlic is unique in that it is highly adaptable; it withstands the bitter cold winter temperatures in the Midwest and is also drought tolerant. According to Mark, "the Carondelet variety of garlic endured this past winter like a champion compared to the Creole and Mediterranean varieties" The flavor is moderately tangy and spicy. It is fairly easy to peel, especially with the technique that requires shaking garlic between two metal bowls.
Mark comes from a long line of farmers in the Northern Illinois and Wisconsin regions. Some of his earliest childhood memories are of harvesting and eating raw sunflower seeds with his siblings and helping his parents harvest peas at the 2 lot urban farm he grew up on in Chicago. His parents were victory gardeners. His paternal grandfather was a ploughman at the turn of the century. Growing food is a part of his heritage. Mark Brown, a Saint Louis transplant has been farming in Missouri for 13 years and has been active in Urban Farming in St. Louis since 2005. In 2007, he founded the Gateway Garlic Urban Farm in the Carondelet Neighborhood, which now has 10 members and 15 allied growers. Mark also spearheads The St. Louis Garlic Fest, which began as a private event with friends enjoying garlic dishes together over a decade ago. The St. Louis Garlic Fest is now in its 6th season and has drawn a crowd of over 3,500 individuals in recent years.
A Network of Organic Growers
Mark Brown is a member of The Missouri Organic Association. Mark is passionate about building a network of allied farmers, sharing resources between organic growers, educating others including the youth about organic farming and sharing the harvest with local food banks. He has helped start many urban farms in the St. Louis area including Tarry There Gardens, a small urban permaculture farm. Mark recently built a 12 x 40 ft poly tunnel using 100% recycled and reclaimed materials where he demonstrates bioponic, aquaponic and hydroponic growing methods. The poly-tunnel and the farm are used as an outdoor education center for the Oak Scouts. Gateway Garlic Farm has open free plots for beginning urban farmers who wish to learn how to grow their own food or sell food at markets. The Gateway Garlic Urban Farm centers on community involvement, outreach and education. They work closely with local food banks such as Mutual Aid and Haven Street. They donate produce on a regular basis to these and other area food banks. Mark owns and grows food on several lots throughout South St. Louis from Dutchtown to Carondelet. He sells produce to several restaurants in St. Louis and shares it with neighbors and friends.
In light of the recent tragedies in Ferguson, Mark and a group of friends, farmers, organic food activists, social activists and volunteers mobilized in Ferguson, Mo. bringing with them the harvest from their fields and donated nonperishable food items. According to Mark, "they created a mobile free food oasis to counter the food desert that was already existing there. They gave away free organic produce and taught healthy eating habits to Ferguson residents"
"It's small farmers who will help end hunger in our world while simultaneously teaching it to be more sustainable." – Mark Brown
Planting Garlic This Fall
Simply place the unpeeled garlic (flat side down) in a small furrow 6-8 inches apart. Slightly cover with soil so that you can still see the tip of each clove. Mulch the entire patch of planted garlic heavily with straw (a layer that is 6-10 inches thick). The straw helps to suppress the weeds but the garlic stalk is able to emerge through the straw in the spring. For a larger garlic bulb, cut the garlic scapes as soon as they emerge. Harvest bulbs in early July. To harvest, tug the stalk gently out of the ground with both hands from the base of the plant. Peel the outer dirt layer and hang in a cool dry area until they have cured for about 2-3 weeks. The curing process allows the volatile oils to go into the bulbs.Garlic bulbs (heads of garlic) can be broken apart and the unpeeled individual garlic cloves can be planted in prepared loose soil this fall (typically late October) to be harvested next July.
Find out more at www.gatewaygarlic.comFollow Mark's blog at GatewayGarlic.blogspot.comFollow them on Facebook atFacebook.com/gatewaygarlic.
Photo by Kari Pillow. To see more photos from the event, check out Kari's Facebook photo album.


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Domestic Violence and Gun rights in Colorado is an important matter and requires a knowledgeable and experienced Denver Domestic Violence Attorney. The average person knows that anyone faced with a domestic violence conviction may face jail time, fines, and probation.
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Urban Cottage, a poem by Odyssey/Dorchester scholar-in-residence Nia Gabrile
Jun 25th, 2013 by edudley
Urban Cottage
Perhaps they're all dead
No spider I see
Just another web lingering in a stairwell corner
In the house of wood and light
I manage to fight off a creeping heebie jeebie
And forget about the creepy crawler
Crawling up through the floors to hitch a ride on my back
My hair twitches
But I know it's just the dust
It blankets everything here
Window ledges
My shoulders
My hands
The edges of my thoughts
It becomes the carpet where no carpet, draperies or sofa exists
My friend and I whisper
Dust bounces off
Instruments of wood, paper, glass
Carrying our voices from the
First floor to the third
Our voices a symphony for the spiders
Lurking in corners I have yet to discover
I suppose we are their entertainment
Just as mesmerized by the music we make
As I am by the perfume of a little wooden cottage
In the middle of Woodlawn
Spiders clap silently
As we humans tend to our work
Constructing a form of beauty
Out of chaos and loss
–At least we are attempting to do so–
Debris of our construction lies
Outside the window on a low rooftop deck
I imagine, one day, the deck clean, made into a brilliant white by the sun
Me and my Playbook sitting on a silver chair
Watching a Metra ride by
But I'm really sitting on the edge of a plank of wood
A platform step
While dust falls like snow into the crevices of my being
And a Chicago wind hurls itself against the windows
But it doesn't have the strength to come inside
Only sunlight floods this room
Illuminating doors inside me I didn't know existed
Enveloping me like a cocoon
While I attempt to weave a dragonfly
Out of bits of wing, leg, eye, antennae
And I know that, today,
I am in a most beautiful place
Nia Gabrielle is a writer, photographer, and a graduate of the Odyssey Project, located in Chicago, Illinois. Nia is always looking for a way to create something whole and beautiful out things broken and made ugly. She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence with Dorchester Projects.
Copyright © February 2013 by Nia Gabrielle


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IMF Georgieva Coronavirus Impact
12 Feb 2020
Washington, DC, United States
1. Exterior of International Monetary Fund headquarters
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director:
"Let me first say that before we think about the economic impact, we have to recognize that this is a tragedy for people that are affected, those who lose their lives and their families and communities. And therefore it is right to concentrate first and foremost on restricting the epidemics and then making sure that less people suffer."
3. Midshot of Georgieva
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director:
"We are still at the point of quite a lot of uncertainty. So I would talk about scenarios rather than projections. In terms of scenarios, the more most likely scenario we now view is a V shaped impact. In other words, sharp decline in economic activities in China, followed by a rapid recovery and a total impact on China relatively contained. Therefore, impact on the world economy also contained. But we need to remember that there are uncertainties on the nature of this epidemic and on the way it is impacting sectors of the economies and value chains. We often make comparisons between SARS in the early 2000s and the Corona virus. We have to remember that the virus is different. China is different and the world economy is in a different place. This virus spreads differently than SARS and has already exceeded the number of people who lost their lives, in comparison to SARS. The Chinese economy is much more significant for the world. Then it was 8 percent of the world economy. Now it is 19 percent and it is much more integrated in Asia and with the rest of the world. Therefore, disruptions are more likely to cascade down to other countries. And 3: the world economy in the early 2000s was in a very strong shape, whereas today we are projecting a relatively modest global growth... 3.3 percent. It is a sluggish recovery after a downward in the last that year. For all these reasons, we have to carefully assess what the impact is, and turn a scenario into projections. We expect to have more data based on the restart of factories and production in China within the next week to 10 days. Ask me again then."
5. Midshot of Georgieva
6. Exterior of IMF
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Provider type: Psychotherapist
Patient Age: Adult, Geriatric
Services Provided: Consultation, Clinical Evaluation, and Psychotherapy
Kathy is accustomed to working with individuals with general adjustment issues, as well as with individuals who have complex and challenging health problems, and emotional adjustment issues related to such problems. She is especially sensitive to the demands placed on parents of disabled children, caretakers working with the elderly, and caretakers of, or individuals with terminal illness. She has particular interests in differential diagnosis and the mind-body connection, and utilizes a variety of approaches, including cognitive –behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, clinical hypnotherapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction practices to treat adults with either general life-adjustment issues, or major mood disorders (depression/anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD) and other stress-related conditions.
Kathy Coughlin is a Master's Level Clinician, dually licensed to practice as both a Mental Health Counselor and a Rehabilitation Counselor. She received her Master's Degree (M.Ed., with a concentration in Counseling Psychology) from Cambridge College in 1986, and served on the faculty there from 1986-1993, teaching graduate level courses in Counseling Psychology.
Kathy is experienced both in teaching and in counseling individuals with severe disabilities and chronic complex medical/emotional disorders. Formerly a Special Education teacher, she was one of several teachers selected to help implement Chapter 766 in an institutional setting for severely multiply-handicapped youth, and she later went on to help develop, implement, and coordinate a community-based, education program for institutionalized children, adolescents, and young adults with severe medical, neuro-cognititve, and behavioral disorders.
Kathy worked for 23 years as a counselor for the State of Massachusetts Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, helping adults with physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities to identify their vocational strengths, and to pursue and achieve optimal employment and independent living goals. She is knowledgeable about the public vocational rehabilitation process, and is familiar with the variety of service delivery systems available to individuals in need of public assistance."
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This 1920 20-60 HP Illinois steam traction engine was built in 1920, in Sycamore, Illinois. A canning company in Valders, Wisconsin, bought it new to use in their mills. From there, wherever it went, I don't know. My family wound up with it. We've had it for about thirty years. We also have a 45 HP Case engine built in 1910.
My dad, Wyman Boettcher from Chilton, Wisconsin, owns it. He has always said only 75 were made and there are only three left, but I believe there are at least four. That's my dad in the photograph, in the straw hat and bibs. This picture was taken the second weekend after Labor Day at Calumetville, Wisconsin. My father's birthday is on March 17, so I hope seeing this steam traction engine on the back cover is a good gift for him.
When I was young I could run this engine by myself at the age of seven. I also carried wood for many years for other steam traction engines at other shows. My dad and I would go to shows around the state. The first thing I would do when we got to the shows was run over by the steamers and ask the engineers if I could climb on and blow the whistle.
I have run Frick, Illinois, Rumely, Reeves and Case engines. I hope to run more. I love to talk to people about steam traction engines, so if you have the time, write a letter and I will respond. It always feels good to hear from a steam engine man. If anyone has old pictures of steam traction engines, may I see them? I will return them.
Also, if anyone knows the right color for the engine, please let me know. I do hope to hear from some of the steam engine men.
The engine can be seen on display on the second weekend in August in Chilton, Wisconsin, at the fairgrounds. We hope to see you there!
In addition to the 1920 60 HP Illinois steam traction engine, we have a 45 HP Case engine built in 1910.
I want to thank my father for getting me involved with steam engines. I always hoped to own my own steam engine someday. When I got married on June 26, 1999 (to a wife who loves steam tractors), her father bought a 60 HP Case for our wedding gift. We love our engine and hope to buy more to add to this one. So, if there is anyone out there who has a steam engine in their backyard that they don't use, please send me a letter.
I'd like to share the following story about a steam engine that blew up. I read this story and the writer is unknown.
"Ashland, Ohio, July 1901. The boiler of Ora Emmens threshing engine blew up Monday forenoon with marvelous results and miraculous escapes. The engine and boiler were demolished and parts were hurled hundreds of feet.
"The boiler had been leaking and it was brought to Mohn's shop in town last Saturday. Mohn put a plug in the boiler and pronounced it safe. About eight o'clock Monday morning Jackson noticed that the boiler was leaking slightly. He at once notified Kissel, then stepped upon the foot board of the engine, signaled a stop with the whistle, reversed the lever and had just stooped down to scrape out the fire when the explosion occurred. The noise was deafening and the effect was awful. A huge cloud of dirt and steam enveloped everything. With tremendous force, the huge engine and boiler, excepting the one drive wheel, was lifted 20 feet from where it stood while parts were scattered everywhere. Jackson was hurled far and away to the southwest, lighting in the field where clover had been cut. The distance was afterward measured and found to be 142 feet. His escape from death was not much wonderful than of John Kissel who stood about 12 feet to the rear and left side of the engine. The steam and water escaped toward him knocking him a distance but only injured his face somewhat. The worst injury came to John Werman who was feeding the machine. The belt struck him upon the head, cutting a gash about six inches long. Pieces of iron just missed him and made dents in the machinery as he leaned over for a sheaf."
I want to say to all steam operators to make sure you always have enough water in the glass. If you notice a little leak let the steam die down so you won't blow up a boiler.


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Blountstown throttles Holmes County
BONIFAY — Corin Peterson had 136 total yards and scored three touchdowns, as Blountstown defeated Holmes County 40-0 in a District 3-1A prep football game on Friday.
The top-ranked Tigers improved to 9-0 overall and finished 4-0 in a district-title run. The Blue Devils were limited to 39 total yards and dropped to 0-8, 0-3.
Hunter Jordan passed for his 116 yards and two touchdowns in the first half, both to Peterson on strikes of 24 and 92 yards. Blountstown notched all of its scores in the first half and finished with 326 total yards.
Peterson also scored a 12-yard rushing touchdown in the first quarter. Shon Peterson rushed for 69 yards and a TD and Ja'Vakiel Brigham capped the scoring with a 4-yard run in the second quarter.
Chad Leavins led Holmes County with 34 yards on 21 carries. Justin Bice completed one of his three passes for 13 yards.
Holmes County completes district play at Chipley next week. Blountstown is off next week and ends the regular season at home against Bratt Northview Nov. 8.
Baker 54, Franklin County 13
BAKER — There were no surprises at Baker School's Doug Griffith Memorial Stadium on Friday as the undefeated Gators hosted a winless Franklin County team for Homecoming 2013. Baker scored two touchdowns in the first three-and-a-half minutes of play and didn't look back on the way to a 54-13 win.
The Seahawks broke into the scoring column against the Baker reserves when Alex Causey scored from 48-yards out with 7:38 left in the half. Another short field set up a 10-yard touchdown pass from Beck to Jonathan Gatewood with 4:58 left in the half. Smith's pick six with 1:26 left in the half pushed the lead to 47-7.
Franklin County fullback Trenton Lee scored from a yard out in the final seconds of the game. Beck finished the night with 100 yards in total offense as he threw for 73 yards and ran for 27 yards.


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By Jose Lopez-Sanchez of Dead Curious
Sometimes being a rock band means headlining the Irving Plaza ballroom. Sometimes it means providing entertainment at the state fair.
This dichotomy is part and parcel for a popular touring act in 2015 according to Katie Jayne Earl, vocalist and percussionist of California natives the Mowgli's. (Yes, that's how the name is spelled.)
"Honestly, you just kind of get booked at all sorts of kind of unique and interesting gigs when you play music for a living," Earl begins, taking me aback with her almost "aw-shucks" earnestness and the kindness in her voice. When we speak a few weeks ago, Earl and the rest of her bandmates are finally back in Los Angeles for a few days of rest after a heavy dose of Middle America.
"We just played the Du Quoin Illinois State Fair. Actually, I don't even know if it was a State Fair – it was just a 'fair,'" Early adds, quickly trying to temper any traces of disappointment in her voice. "But it was cool! There were some weird animals there, and, like, potentially not cool animal practices, which kind of made me sad."
While competing for audience attention with a tractor pull in a field in Southern Illinois is hardly champagne wishes and caviar dreams, Earl maintains an unwavering enthusiasm that is threatening to infect me. As our conversation goes on, I find myself thinking in sepia tones about the old-fashioned symbolism of state fairs: cotton candy, meats on a stick, and deep-fried American values (read: a high probability of encountering Donald Trump supporters).
But Earl understands the reality of being in a rock band means long cross-country slogs, countless nights spent in anonymous hotels, and weeks on months away from friends and loved ones, all for the chance to have your art connect with individuals on a deeper level. The Mowgli's aren't above putting in the work necessary to leave their mark on the music industry. The slate of shows scheduled for the Mowgli's upcoming tour – Atlanta's Masquerade, Boston's Paradise Rock Club, San Francisco's Fillmore – indicates that they're doing a pretty fine job of that. And, of course, they kick it all off with a Saturday afternoon at DC's inaugural Landmark Festival.
As Earl puts it, regardless of the "where," it's all about the personal connection.
"You know, we just go there to meet people who are nice," she says. "Good ol' people going to the fair."
The Mowgli's play Landmark Festival this weekend and NYC's Irving Plaza on November 18. Kids in Love is out now on Island Records.
Four of the Mowgli's are from the Calabasas, California area. Do you guys feel like you all share a common background or musical culture of sorts? Or do you each bring a different perspective?
We all bring a different perspective, for sure. The shared perspective is actually that we all came from pretty religious backgrounds. We lived in a good neighborhood and there was a lot of money around us in the Calabasas, which isn't to say that anybody in the band came from a ton of money, but our neighbors would be directors or producers. We went to school with, you the Kardashians! We went to school with these really big names, and you were kind of just exposed to a lot of music, a lot of different art. It's a suburb of LA, so a lot of people who live there work in the creative world, whether it's film or television or music. You're exposed to that at a young age. So even though we all came from different musical backgrounds, in one way, I think the idea that grew up with that exposure is a shared influence.
A lot of people don't have the luxury of growing up in an environment that fosters creativity to that extent and permits you to explore.
A lot of people just grow up getting music from the radio. That's the music they know. We grew up with so many friends whose parents were in really great bands, and friends whose parents were studio musicians or the big acts – not necessarily radio acts but acts that you may not have heard if you lived in a rural area that had three radio stations
Do any of these bands or acts stand out for you from your childhood? Do you remember thinking, like this is so cool! when you were maybe growing up?
Los Angeles is four hours away from Las Vegas and my parents went to Vegas with a lot of frequency. Vegas has been weirdly a family-friendly place over the last twenty years – like, they got casinos and they got a water park! So we grew up having vacations in Vegas, and one of the things we did as a family was go to shows. One of the things that really stood out to me was seeing Liza Minnelli perform in a Vegas show when I was a kid. It just stayed with me my whole life, and it was such an incredible performance. It was so engaging. As an eight- or nine-year-old kid. I was as deeply engaged as my thirty-something-year-old mother, so you know that was something. She was just a true entertainer. I never forgot her gift of engaging us.
You wrote "I'm Good" as part of an anti-bullying campaign. Is that a subject that's near and dear to the band? How did you get involved with that?
Well, if I'm being totally honest, yes and no. We got approached by a group of people that were kind of putting a thing together, and our message has always been spreading love and positivity. It totally aligned with our beliefs – not necessarily that we were on this anti-bullying kick but we definitely heard that this was happening and thought, "Yeah, this is something we'd be happy to be a part of, so, we got involved."
We were writing the album, we got finished recording the album that week, and we were very excited about it. We thought it was totally done and we were like, "We gotta go in and do this anti-bullying thing tomorrow. We'll just go in and do that real quick." But we turned the song over to the label and once they heard it, they were like, "Change of plans. This is going on the record. We were like, "What? That's not even what we wrote it for!" But they were like, "You know, it really aligns with your message, and it's something that you guys could really do something great with." So we ended up moving some things around and putting it on the record
Is it ever challenging to maintain that kind of positivity? Or is it kind of natural to you guys at this point?
I think both of those things are probably true. Right now, in particular in the world, there's' a lot of really heavy and negative stuff happening. It feels super overwhelming at times. I have this internal battle, like, what are we doing? We should be on a plane somewhere and doing something good, and sometimes we're just in the van, driving to these shows. We could be doing something. If we were in one place, we could be doing something about it.
But then once you step on stage, you realize that the music has reached a lot of people who have been feeling the same way. It kind of makes sense. You remember why you're doing what you're doing.
There's no two ways about it, though. There's a lot of negative stuff in the world. We definitely don't live in a bubble of sunshine and rainbows so far in our creative careers, but we've chosen to combat that negativity with positivity. We don't know if it will always be sunshine and rainbows and stuff like that; we're pissed about some stuff and we're sad about a lot of other stuff. We don't know how we're gonna explore that.
It is a challenge sometimes to stay happy, but we are happy doing what we love to do and we are happy reminding other people to be positive and feel good, and when we step on stage, I think it suddenly makes a lot of sense and becomes clear what we're doing
A lot of the most moving and impactful songs of all time express those kind of feelings of anguish or sadness or political injustice even in your own personal art and music. Is this something that you explore?
Definitely. We have some songs even on Kids In Love – there's this song called "What's Going On" and a lot of the lyrics were inspired by a lot of homeless people we see in L.A. There's these lyrics – like, "I was on a walk / I saw an old lady talk straight to a clock / Her head must have been up in space" – and they're real. There's a woman that lives on our street and she talks to a clock all the time.
It's hard to express these really layered issues in a few words, in a verse, in a chorus. That's why poetry is such an interesting art form. It's something we explore, and I think we're always going to be growing as artists, individually and collectively. We're all experiencing all sorts of things in life, and people in the band go through their own personal struggles, and we kind of universally go through these struggles as a generation, and all those things will continue to contribute to what we do next or what we put out in the future
Is there any kind of artist – not necessarily musician – that's really captivating you presently?
I've been finding a lot of original programming – this kind of series television. Netflixing, if you will. It feels to me like it's like film, which I love, but it's kind of deeper. With a season of a show or multiple seasons, there's character development that films don't offer. It feels almost like you're reading a novel sometimes; like you're watching a really good show. Some of them are really great and it feels like you're reading a novel!
I love reading, and I'm very inspired by it. There's some incredible people in the world right now doing incredible things and I feel they're the most incredible things, like Malala Yousafzai. It's people like that that just blow me away. She's probably one of the most inspiring people I've ever known about. Anyone who's willing to be strong in the face of great oppression or darkness and just combat it with light and positivity and strength, you can't help but put them on a pedestal in your own heart and mind
What are the causes that you're involved with personally? It sounds like animal welfare is something that matters to you, is there anything else?
Every tour, we try to link up with some type of charity. Our first big tour was called the Random
Act of Kindness tour, and we did some things with food banks in different cities we visited. Our last tour we teamed up with yellowribbon.org, which is a grassroots suicide prevention hotline, which makes itself available to people who feel like they need someone available in the moment. This tour, we're talking about some pretty cool things. We haven't exactly landed on anything, so I don't manna give too much away but we're definitely trying to tie in some kind of creative endeavour with the charities and causes. All I can really say for sure is that it's really going to be geared towards a more global level this level.
With all of these experiences over the past six years, what's been the most rewarding experience for you?
Anytime you do "Late Night" or anything, it's really great. It's really exciting. But I think the kind of moments that can bring you to tears or grow that frog in your throat is when you're playing for a large crowd and they're singing the words back to you and they're words that were written to make people feel good. When you actually see them singing 'em and smiling and feeling the lyrics it's an incredibly powerful experience. I've never known anything like looking out to sing word to people and they're singing them back to you
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Full of sage and caraway
OK so it should be clear by now that my dad is an impressive baker. Obvious that I aspire to his excellence. Evident that my childhood baking memories unfailingly involve him. (Mom, I swear that there are some posts on the way that detail your prowess in the kitchen as well; let it be known that while Dad provided half of my cook's DNA, Mom provided the other half.) So I will not belabor the point. I shall simply share another of Dad's recipes: herb breadsticks.
Mmm, herb breadsticks. These crunchy, chewy, buttery treats were made for the Thanksgiving table. They are chock full of sage -- the herb that would come to mind first if you forced me to make a list of herbs evocative of Thanksgiving. (If you forced me to make such a list, though, that would be kind of strange.) They also include a healthy amount of caraway seeds, which adds a wonderful salty dimension to the breadstick. They are loads of fun to make, rustic, beautiful and homespun.
Good luck getting them all to the Thanksgiving buffet, though. You'll think, Oh, there are lots of breadsticks here. I'll just have one more. Then soon you'll be full of sage and caraway and the bread basket will be empty. Try to remember that Thanksgiving is about bounty and harvest and sharing. The cornucopia is never shown depleted of its stores.
Maybe I can get Husband to hide the breadsticks from me. Seriously, I've just eaten three of them.
1 package yeast
1 1/4 c. water, between 105-115 degrees Fahrenheit
3 T. sugar
1 1/2 T. kosher salt
3 t. caraway seeds
1 t. ground sage
3 1/2 c. flour
1 T. unsalted butter, melted, plus more to brush over the finished breadsticks
Sprinkle yeast into the water, then add sugar and whisk to dissolve. Let sit until foam develops on the yeast mixture, about 10 minutes.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer combine salt, caraway seeds, sage and flour. Whisk to combine. Pour in the 1 tablespoon of butter, then the yeast mixture. Fit the mixer with the dough hook and knead for 10 minutes. The dough will form a warm, smooth ball.
Remove the dough from the bowl and lightly oil the inside of the bowl with olive oil. Roll the dough in the bowl to coat it in oil. Cover with plastic wrap and a tea towel and let rise 1 hour, or until a finger punched in the center doesn't rise back up.
Divide dough in two pieces. Roll out the first piece to about 6" x 12". (It is not necessary to flour the work surface; there is plenty of oil to prevent sticking.) Using a bench scraper, cut the dough into 12 pieces. Then, using your fingers, roll each piece to about 12" long. Repeat with the second piece of dough. Place breadsticks on Silpat-lined baking sheets, cover with plastic wrap and a tea towel and let rise until double in size, about 45 minutes.
Mid-way through this second rise, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake the breadsticks for 18-20 minutes. Remove to a wire rack set over a baking sheet and brush with melted butter. Consume!
Makes 24 breadsticks.
Posted by Dianne at 11:57 PM
Labels: Thanksgiving
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This was first attempt at baking bread of any type on my own. My mother was a wonderful cook and an extraordinary baker. People often don't believe me but I think I was 15-16 years old before I ever saw purchased bread product in our house. I remember they were Pilsbury croissant rolls. Anyways, although I love to cook, bake muffins and such, I just never baked bread. They turned out wonderful and were a nice little reminder of older times. Thanks for the recipe!
- November 27, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Dianne said...
Kimberli, I'm so glad the recipe turned out well for you -- thank you for reading! How lucky you were to have wonderful home-baked bread in your house growing up...yum.
- November 28, 2008 at 7:18 AM
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Do you ever contemplate why there are some couples that stay happy in their relationship for a very long time? Have you considered the reasons why others are in conflict from the beginning of their relationship? Well, there are many ways to cultivate a happy relationship or marriage. This article has some examples of simple things couples should practice every day to cultivate a good and happy relationship.
1. They are honest to each other about everything
Lack of trust is one of the reasons why couples cannot cultivate a happy relationship. When you do not feel like you can completely believe what your partner is telling you, this creates a barrier between the two of you hindering connection.
Despite how big or small the lie is, if you are not honest with each other, distance and doubt will start to come between the two of you and become a hindrance of your happiness. Even though the truth is ugly find a way to tell it to your partner, you might end up being surprised with their optimistic response.
2. Happy couples make their relationship a priority
Many couples end up apart after many years together, with little or no love left for each other. Couples can grow apart for some reasons. One of the major reason couples grow apart is because they invest more in their work and forget to create time to be with their partner. For a happy relationship, both individuals have to create time to be with each other.
3. They have fun with each other
Happy couples enjoy each others company. They are deliberate about bringing happiness into their relationships. Couples should make and plan dates once in a while. During the actual date, couples should practice being in the moment and enjoying each moment. You can laugh just as hard at breakdowns in your plans as you can when the plan goes well.
4. They have mutual respect
Couples should not treat each other as scapegoats on which to dispose all their frustrations and unpleasant emotions. Constant accusations, critics, and unsolicited advice destroy the respect and trust essential for the life of couples. Couples who have a healthy respect for each other enjoy a happy and mutually beneficial relationship.
5. They maintain seduction
Couples should maintain a certain degree of uncertainty to keep their desire alive. For example, they should keep some distance and be wary of routines. Furthermore, humans have a tendency of desiring what they do not already possess.
6. They have transparency
It is perhaps not necessary to say everything, but couples should be able to confide in each other. Couples can practice sharing their emotions, needs, hopes, expectations, and positive feelings. Statistics indicates that expression of negative emotions or feelings has destroyed many couples.
7. They forgive and forget
All human beings are flawed and fallible. Couples should not be hesitant to ask for forgiveness if one of them hurts the other. On the flip side, couples should learn to forgive and forget if they are wronged by their partner. Furthermore, happiness is preferable to revenge.
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A citizen panel Wednesday night voted 7 to 0 to sustain a complaint that a Portland police sergeant violated the bureau's policy on truthfulness by lying about the law to get a protester to stop filming him and other officers.
The Citizen Review Committee's vote directly challenges the "not sustained'' ruling by the sergeant's supervisor, Traffic Capt. Stephanie Lourenco, and the bureau's Police Review Board.
The committee's challenge will now go to the police chief for consideration. Officers found to have been untruthful in the past routinely have been fired.
Committee members said they were perplexed by the captain's reasoning for her finding, even though Sgt. Erin Smith acknowledged he misrepresented the law to get protester Benjamin Kerensa to stop videotaping him during a Nov. 30, 2016 demonstration in front of fuel storage facilities in Northwest Portland over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Smith admitted to falsely telling Kerensa that he didn't have the right to film officers and threatened Kerensa that he could be arrested if he didn't stop.
The citizen committee a year ago had found Smith violated the bureau's directive on professional conduct by misrepresenting the law to Kerensa and improperly threatening to arrest Kerensa who was lawfully filming officers.
Police Chief Danielle Outlaw agreed with those findings. But she also sent the case back to internal affairs for further investigation, asking investigators to consider whether Kerensa also violated the bureau's policy on truthfulness.
Following the latest internal affairs investigation that included another interview with the sergeant, Lourenco said she could not sustain the untruthfulness allegation but recommended a debriefing with the sergeant.
She found Smith's deception was permitted under an exception in the policy, which says it's ok to not be truthful when "necessary to protect the physical safety'' of an officer or another bureau member.
Lourenco referenced Smith's latest interview in which he said he used deception to distract Kerensa, de-escalate the encounter and get him to back away from another officer who was issuing a citation to him.
The sergeant "made a very quick decision to try to get compliance without escalating the situation,'' Lourenco said.
Committee member Andrea Chiller said she just "didn't buy'' the sergeant's or captain's explanation.
A lot of what the sergeant said "undercuts his own credibility,'' she said.
Chiller said she wondered how lying to someone can be construed as a de-escalation technique. "Why would someone calm down if they think the officer is lying to them?'' she asked.
Chiller suggested the sergeant's safety explanation was an "after-the-fact'' excuse.
Committee vice-chair Candace Avalos agreed. " How is lying about your right to film going to make the officer more safe?'' she asked.
The police captain attempted to explain her reasoning further, but it only continued to baffle committee members.
"I don't think anyone is disagreeing that this behavior by the sergeant was inappropriate,'' Lourenco said. But Lourenco said she said the bureau's policy has an exception, allowing deception "when necessary'' to protect one's or another's physical safety.
"Necessary doesn't exclude all other possibilities,'' the captain said. "Every officer is going to have a different threshold. What's the safety risk that allows me to lie? That's not spelled out in this policy.''
Committee member Daniel Schwartz countered that the video evidence captured of the 2016 encounter involving Kerensa showed there was no perceptible threat to an officer.
"I don't believe a reasonable person can look at the video evidence and conclude that the exception applied,'' Schwartz said. He said he was thankful Kerensa knew his rights.
Kerensa said it sounded like the traffic captain was making excuses for the sergeant. "I had the constitutional right to film the police,'' he said. "There's no circumstances where an officer should be allowed to infringe on First Amendment rights.''
The citizen committee's challenge will now go to the police chief, who can agree with its finding or not, and then determine what level of discipline Smith will face for his actions. The committee also recommended the police bureau re-examine its policy on truthfulness and make sure any exceptions are narrowly construed.
Committee members commended Outlaw for taking another look and directing internal affairs to consider the additional violation.
"That's a positive,'' Collier said.
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In the midst of all of the darkness we find ourselves in, there are exciting and positive things happening. We can't dwell on death but we can work on taking care of Mother Earth.
A young woman named Meryl Marsh is the director of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. This is a world wide organization that devotes itself to preserving the DNA of our oldest and strongest trees on the planet; trees which have survived drought, fires, insect infestations and the greed of loggers.
Ms. Marsh and her team cut limbs off of these trees to use them to preserve the DNA, and the genetic memory held within the DNA. All living things have DNA and we are connected to the Universe and to each other. Guns, fire, saws, brutality cannot break that connection.
The people in this project are working to ship these small branches in coolers to specialized labs where they pare them down and root them and try to grow again that wonderful tree that it came from.They are having a 2 % success rate. Yes, it does sound small but as they learn more I know they will have more successes.
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When presence is really the greatest present of all.
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Growing up, I'm sure many of us asked our parents or family members for presents we thought we couldn't live without. It's interesting to look back on these days and realize how we focused on what can be considered trivial nowadays. Growing up, it may have dawned on some earlier than others, we learned that the most important gift we can give anyone is our time. The older we get, we start seeing family members starting their own families and friends becoming close acquaintances. This isn't a reflection of us as a person by any means but is simply a product of time. Knowing this, it's important to be continually aware of the necessity to make the most of whatever opportunity we have with our family and friends.
While participating in treatment at any of the residential facilities such as Merito, Prado, or 9th Street, we are separated from those we hold near and dear while we attempt to put our lives together after addiction took its toll on it. We're given the opportunity to reflect and realize how our actions while we were using deeply affected the people we care about. We lied to them, stole from them, and drifted away from the very relationships that made the essence of our characters. Even though not everyone takes the opportunity to reconnect with their loved ones while in treatment, some are able to re-establish their familial or friendly bonds.
Accompanied with guilt and shame because of the actions we participated in during our addiction, it's a humbling when we realize that we are still worthy of the love and affection that our family and friends have to give us. We want to continue making amends to those we hurt in our addiction but the only real way to do so is by being active in their lives. Actions will always speak louder than words and while we can continue to stay that we are changing, the only way that we can really prove that is by being around for our family and friends. By being present with them once we have gone home, or when they come to visit for family day, showing them that we are there with them in that moment, sober and clear minded, speaks volumes without a single word being shared.
It's easy to take our family and friends for granted even when we aren't active in our addictions. We get so caught up in the many distractions that life has to offer than we fall prey to ignoring the present moment. We can be black mirrored by constantly living in and through our phones that we take those in our present environment for granted. We can get so caught up with the fear of missing out of what's going on in the world that we don't even know what's happening with our own families. The solution to this is simple. Setting aside time for family and friends is the first step, but unplugging from the world and being present, aware, and most importantly clean and sober when we are with those we love is the highest compliment and best gift we can ever choose to give someone.
John Pascua MSW


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September 16, 2019 at 11:55 JST
The Miyagi Stadium in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, will host Tokyo Olympic soccer games. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan that will host Olympic soccer games says his city has received no funding from the central government that has promised to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to help in the reconstruction of the region.
The Japanese government and Tokyo 2020 organizers are hoping to use the Olympics to showcase Japan's recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Several Olympic events, including soccer and baseball, will be held in northeastern Japan.
But with less than a year to go before the opening ceremony, Yutaka Kumagai, the mayor of Rifu in Miyagi Prefecture, says his city has seen no funding from the central government.
"There is no help from the government, we don't have any budget from them, none," Kumagai said on Saturday. "Tokyo 2020 is said to be a symbol of the reconstruction but when it comes to the budget, we don't have any budget from the Olympic games here in Rifu."
Kumagai made the comments during a media tour of Miyagi Stadium, a 49,000-seat facility in Rifu that will host men's and women's football at the 2020 Olympics.
About 50,000 people are still displaced in the Tohoku region as of August, according to the Reconstruction Agency.
Yoshiaki Suda, the mayor of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, concurred with Kumagai. Like Rifu, Onagawa is a coastal city that sustained heavy destruction.
"We haven't received any subsidy, even one yen, from the central government," Suda said. "Whatever we do for the venues, for the hospitality for the Olympics, we have to do ourselves."
Some media reports have made the claim that the Olympics have hampered the reconstruction efforts, taking workers away from the region to help with construction in Tokyo.
Japan is one of the most earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas in the world. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 quake offshore caused a tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The quake and tsunami heavily damaged coastal neighborhoods in northeastern Japan and took more than 18,000 lives.
Tokyo, which projected total costs of about $7.5 billion in its winning bid for the games in 2013, is reportedly spending about $20 billion to prepare the city to host the games.
A group of anti-Olympic activists, many from outside Japan, have held small protests and other events this summer under the Japanese title "Han-gorin no Kai" — which translates roughly to No Olympics. They oppose Olympic spending, which they say cuts into budgets for housing and environmental issues.
They also call for more money to rebuild Fukushima prefecture located northeast of Tokyo. Organizers say Fukushima is a main focus of the Olympics, staging baseball, softball and soccer games there to persuade the world the area is safe.
Tokyo organizers have faced a series of hurdles as they prepare to host the games.
In August, Tokyo's summer heat forced an Olympic women's triathlon qualifying event to be shortened because of high temperatures that are likely to impact next year's games.
Tsunekazu Takeda, the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee, was forced to quit earlier this year when he was implicated in a vote-buying scheme to land the games. He has denied wrongdoing, but acknowledged he signed off on about $2 million that French investigators allege went to buy votes.
Visit this page for the latest news on Japan's battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
Haruki Murakami and other writers read from books before selected audiences at the new Haruki Murakami Library.
The Asahi Shimbun aims "to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" through its Gender Equality Declaration.
Let's explore the Japanese capital from the viewpoint of wheelchair users and people with disabilities with Barry Joshua Grisdale.


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|March 1, 1914(1914-03-01)[1]
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
|April 16, 1994 (aged 81)
New York, New York, United States
|Novelist, Essayist, Short story, Writer
|Fiction, Short Stories, Criticism
|Notable work(s)
|Invisible Man
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914[1] – April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). Research by Lawrence Jackson, one of Ellison's biographers, has established that he was born a year earlier than had been previously thought.
Ellison was born in Oklahoma City on March 1, 1914. Ellison's father, a small-business owner and a construction foreman, died when Ralph was three. Many years later, Ellison would find out that his father hoped he would grow up to be a poet, and named him after the great American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison's mother raised him and his brother Herbert, while working as a domestic and nursemaid.
Early in life he became enamored of music, studying trumpet and piano. Ellison lived at a time when several great jazz musicians were in Oklahoma City, so he became immersed in that genre of music as well as the classical composition which he studied in school. Jimmy Rushing would be a particularly strong influence; years later he would include the essay "Remembering Jimmy" in his book of criticism Shadow and Act. Music was a constant theme both in his personal life and in his writing.
In 1933, Ellison entered the Tuskegee Institute on a scholarship to study music. Tuskegee's music department was perhaps the most renowned department at the school, headed by the conductor Charles L. Dawson. (The Tuskegee choir was invited to play at many prestigious locations throughout the world, including Radio City.) Ellison also had the fortune to come under the close tutelage of the piano instructor Hazel Harrison. While he studied music primarily in his classes, he spent increasing amounts of time in the library, reading up on modernist classics. He specifically cited The Waste Land as a major awakening moment for him.
After his third year, Ellison moved to New York City to earn money for his final year. He decided to study sculpture and he made acquaintance with the artist Romare Bearden. Perhaps Ellison's most important contact would be with the author Richard Wright, with whom he would have a long and complicated relationship. After Ellison wrote a book review for Wright, Wright encouraged Ellison to pursue a career in writing, specifically fiction. The first published story written by Ellison was a short story entitled "Hymie's Bull," a story inspired by Ellison's hoboing on a train with his uncle to get to Tuskegee. From 1937 to 1944 Ellison had over twenty book reviews as well as short stories and articles published in magazines such as New Challenge and New Masses.
During WWII Ellison joined the Merchant Marine, and in 1946 he married his second wife, Fanny McConnell. She supported her husband financially while he wrote Invisible Man, and typed Ellison's longhand text. She also assisted her husband in editing the typescript as it progressed.
Invisible Man explores the theme of man's search for his identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of an unnamed black man in the New York City of the 1940s. In contrast to his contemporaries such as Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Ellison created characters who are dispassionate, educated, articulate and self-aware. Through the protagonist, Ellison explores the contrasts between the Northern and Southern varieties of racism and their alienating effect. The narrator is "invisible" in a figurative sense, in that "people refuse to see" him, and also experiences a kind of dissociation. The groundbreaking novel, with its treatment of previously taboo issues such as incest and white America's distorted perceptions of black sexuality, won the National Book Award in 1953.
In 1955, Ellison went abroad to Europe to travel and lecture before settling for a time in Rome, Italy, where he wrote an essay that appeared in a Bantam anthology called A New Southern Harvest in 1957. In 1958, he returned to the United States to take a position teaching American & Russian literature at Bard College and to begin a second novel, Juneteenth. During the 1950s he corresponded with his lifelong friend, the writer Albert Murray. In these letters they commented on the development of their careers, the civil rights movement and other common interests including jazz. Much of this material was published in the collection Trading Twelves (2000).
In 1964, Ellison published Shadow And Act, a collection of essays, and began to teach at Rutgers and Yale, and continued to work on his novel. The following year, a survey of 200 prominent literary figures was released that proclaimed Invisible Man as the most important novel since World War II.
In 1967, Ellison experienced a major house fire at his home in Plainfield, Massachusetts, in which he claimed 300 pages of his second novel manuscript were lost. This assertion is disproved in the 2007 biography of Ellison by Arnold Rampersad. A perfectionist regarding the art of the novel, Ellison had said in accepting his National Book Award for Invisible Man, that he felt he had made "an attempt at a major novel", and despite the award, he was unsatisfied with the book. Ellison ultimately wrote over 2000 pages of this second novel, most of them by 1959. He never finished.
Writing essays about both the black experience and his love for jazz music, Ellison continued to receive major awards for his work. In 1969, he received the Medal of Freedom; the following year, he was awarded the coveted Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by France and became a permanent member of the faculty at New York University as the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, acting from 1970-1980.
In 1975, Ellison was elected to the American Academy for the Arts and Letters and his hometown of Oklahoma City honored him with the dedication of the Ralph Waldo Ellison Library. Continuing to teach, Ellison published mostly essays, and in 1984, he received the New York City College's Langston Hughes Medallion. The following year saw the publication of Going to the Territory, a collection of seventeen essays that included insight into southern novelist William Faulkner and his friend Richard Wright, as well as the music of Duke Ellington and the contributions of African Americans to America's national identity.
In 1992, Ellison was awarded a special achievement award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Ellison was also an accomplished sculptor, musician, photographer and college professor. He taught at Bard College, Rutgers, the University of Chicago, and New York University. Ellison was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Ralph Ellison died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday, April 16, 1994, and was buried in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. His wife survived him, and died November 19, 2005.
After his death, more manuscripts were discovered in his home, resulting in the publication of Flying Home: And Other Stories in 1996. In 1999, five years after his death, Ellison's second novel, Juneteenth (ISBN 0-394-46457-5), was published under the editorship of John F. Callahan, a professor at Lewis & Clark College and Ellison's literary executor. It was a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by Ellison over a period of forty years. All the manuscripts of this incomplete novel will be published on June 17, 2008 by Modern Library, under the tentative title Three Days Before the Shooting.


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Vision alone is not enough to transform a business. Many a marketer and business leader have been sold a vision that is not matched by the meaningful ability and investment required to deliver transformation on the ground. The industry is awash with tales of companies seeking talented individuals to drive a shiny new agenda, only to baulk at making the structural changes and investment necessary to deliver. No creative leader can drive transformation without buy-in from the chief executive, while shareholders regularly take exception to any short-term decreases in share prices. Across the board, agencies and marketers have been burnt by briefs for transformation that turn out to be anything but.
Kathleen Saxton, founder of The Lighthouse Company, says the key question for marketers to ask is: is this a real and genuine transformation? She adds: "Transformation is the new authentic, in that many businesses are talking about it but few are actually delivering it."
According to Saxton, transformation requires a fundamental pivot in the business to a new product or service – the rest is simple evolution or digitalisation. "What you see in certain sectors, such as publishing, is that businesses are trying to make better what they already have rather than focusing on true transformation," she points out.
For while technology has driven the demand for transformation, the fact is that successfully delivering change remains about people. This may be uncomfortable for those industry leaders who are not equipped with the skills or desire to drive a significant change in the business. Yet on the › flipside, the growing pool of traditional agency chiefs and creatives who have successfully landed at the likes of Facebook and Google reflect the fact that the core skills of creative leadership remain in high demand.
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It's been far too long since I posted a department store building photo. This is one I know well -- the former Danks & Co. store in State College, Pa., address 148 S. Allen St.
Danks & Co. was based in Lewistown, about a half-hour south of State College. Lewistown was the shopping center for a large range of industrial small towns. Its iconic store was E.E. McMeen & Co., which became a branch of the Bon Ton chain from York, Pa., during its second expansion in the 1950s. Danks was founded by George Danks of Burnham, Pa., one of those towns, in 1924. It operated various branches, one of which opened in State College in 1942 in a moderne-designed building rare for a department store, let alone one in a small town.
Although Penn State made State College a reasonably sized city, college towns were rarely draws for regional business. To serve the students and the professors, they often had to have a different mix of merchandise than was wanted by the residents of surrounding towns and farms. Thus, the Danks store in State College was not large.
The Danks chain closed in 1995, including the Lewistown store -- which, along with the Bon Ton, had been rebuilt in suburban strip-mall style, though still downtown, in an urban renewal effort. To me, Danks in State College remains the building where I first had lunch at a Panera Bread location with Brad Thompson, who then taught at Penn State and now is at Linfield College in Oregon. The building's main use is to house the Penn State Theater Center. Now, that's adaptive reuse -- bread and circuses, so to speak.


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"Food and parks go together like a horse and carriage." That's how my dialogue with Wayne Roberts, Canadian food policy analyst and writer, began. As Roberts, former head of the Toronto Food Policy Council, starts talking about farmers markets, bake ovens, street food, community gardens and family picnics, his eyes light up with tantalizing possibilities.
We're struck by the possibilities as well. In fact, Park People's Sparking Change report, a playbook for how to catalyze social change in parks, specifically highlights how well food and parks go together. The report echoes Roberts when it states the belief that: "food is one of the most effective ways to bring people together in public space."
Informal intersections between food and parks is what has Roberts most excited. He recalls a visit to Japan where he encountered families, casually picnicking under cherry blossoms. This kind of porous boundary between public and private space is, in Roberts' opinion, the most impactful way food can play a role in parks.
Roberts sees four key ways the connection between food in parks is most powerful.
If you saw the film Citizen Jane, you understand the difference between a fear-based and hope-based orientation to public space. Jacobs once said:
"The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts… Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all."
Roberts absolutely agrees with Jacobs' assessment. Growing, making, and sharing food in parks provides opportunities for people to build trust with neighbours. Casual encounters build the social fabric of communities. Having the opportunity to break bread with neighbours in the park can lead to a friendly conversation which can, in turn, lead to borrowing a cup of sugar, a potluck dinner, or someone to call on when your kid is locked out of the house. Sometimes, it's the start of a local volunteer park group. As the Sparking Change report says, community dinners "are one of the most reliable ways to provide a comfortable, inviting space for people to meet each other."
To put it mildly, when I eat at my desk, I'm not thinking about anyone else. I'm simply shoveling food into my mouth. But as Roberts suggests, a convivial orientation to food provides people with invaluable lessons that are hard to access anywhere else. As Roberts says:
"When we eat together, we learn how share, look after one another, respect public space, be polite be social and engaged."
These lessons don't just help us at the dining table. They're critical social skills that impact every aspect of our work and personal lives. They help us be better humans to one another.
The biophilia hypothesis suggests that people have an innate, biological need to connect with nature. As Roberts puts it, nature simply makes us more relaxed and less stressed. It's a physiological fact that's been proven time and again. Today, because we live in dense cities, we often eat in a state of acute stress, a fact that has an impact on our health. In fact, many scientists believe many of our modern physical and mental health ailments are caused by nature deficit disorder.
Parks can, as Roberts says, "offset" many of these issues by providing people with places to be relaxed and experience food in a way that makes them less likely to rush, and more likely to digest and reap the benefits derived from their food. Today, when 20 percent of all American meals are eaten in the car and 40 percent of Canadians are eating lunch at their desks, a family picnic is not just good for social cohesion, it's good for your health.
Parks provide access to economic markets that might not otherwise be available. For example, the Thorncliffe Women's Committee, a group highlighted in the Sparking Change report, runs a weekly bazaar during the summer, where newcomers, many of whom are women, have an opportunity to sell their cultural foods and make a profit.
As Roberts emphasizes:
"Using food to give people access to local economies not only provides a way for people to build skills and ladder to better quality of life, it also helps money stay within a local community."
Local economies are simply more resilient economies. Supporting small start-up entrepreneurs is just another way that parks and food go together.
So, how can you take these points and act on them in your own park? Here are a few ideas to get you started: