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Seriously Meatless: Tortilla Casserole Recipe
Vegetarian recipes from Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog, Herbivoracious.
Note: Serious Eater Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog Herbivoracious drops by every Wednesday to share a delicious recipe to expand our vegetarian repertoire.
Tortilla casserole isn't authentically Mexican, beautiful, or fancy in any way. It's simply a delicious, homey way to put a healthy and inexpensive vegetarian entree on the table. If you have kids, odds are it will be a hit with them too. In my family we like to put something like this together on Sunday night and refrigerate it, then bake and serve it for dinner early in the work week. That guarantees us at least one hot home-cooked meal even if no-one has time to cook.
This recipe is for the basic tortilla casserole. The most complicated thing it asks you to do is dice an onion. You can embellish the basic recipe in any number of ways. For example, add finely diced zucchini or bell pepper, roasted poblano peppers, or corn kernels. You could also replace the refried beans with whole pinto or black beans, or add a tablespoon or so of minced chipotle pepper to the sauce.
If you have time, garnishes of crema (Mexican sour cream), fresh cilantro, and lime slices are nice. This dish provides a great opportunity to break out all of those hot sauces crowding your refrigerator door—everyone can doctor it up to their own preference of chile heat.
- 1 dozen corn tortillas (preferably a day or two old)
- 1 15-ounce can vegetarian refried beans (preferably not non-fat)
- 1/2 medium onion, finely diced
- 3 cups jarred salsa or enchilada sauce (mild/medium/hot as you like)
- 5 ounces (about 1 1/4 cups) grated Monterey Jack cheese
- 5 ounces (about 1 1/4 cups) grated cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 400°F if baking immediately. Lightly grease a casserole (roughly 9x9 inches).
Lay down 3 tortillas, slightly overlapping, and then top with 1/3 of the refried beans, onion, salsa, and cheese (reserving some for the top). Make three layers this way, then cover with a final set of tortillas and the reserved cheese. You can stop at this point and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake until the cheese is bubbly and heated through, about 30 minutes (or 45 if it was refrigerated). Remove the top and attentively broil for a moment to brown the cheese. Serve with additional salsa and hot sauces.
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LITTLE ROCK — Penciling in teams from the Southeastern Conference, bowl games in Birmingham and Shreveport best have an eraser.
Under the SEC's recently announced bowl agreements, the Birmingham Bowl and the Advocare V100 Bowl will be fortunate if there are any bowl-eligible SEC teams to pick from when it comes their turn.
Just for grins, let's use the 2012 SEC standings and apply the bowl structure that goes into effect in 2014, including the four-team College Football Playoff. For starters, Alabama would have been one of the four teams in the CFP along with Notre Dame. Since Ohio State was ineligible, there is a solid argument that Oregon and Georgia — on the lip of the goal in the SEC championship game vs. Alabama when time ran out — would also be included.
Under a contract that kicks in Jan. 1, 2015, the SEC will send a team to the Orange Bowl at least three times during a 12-year period. That could occur after the 2014 season since the first national semifinals will be in the Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl with the championship game in Arlington, Texas. Put Florida in the Orange.
At that point, the Capital One Bowl would have first choice of the other SEC teams. Considering that Texas A&M had Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, the game in Orlando would go for the Aggies.
Remaining in the pool of bowl-eligible teams would be South Carolina, Vanderbilt, LSU, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss. Still to select would be games in Tampa, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, Tenn., and two sites new to the SEC — Houston, Texas and Charlotte, N.C. That's six games divvying up five eligible teams before Birmingham and Shreveport ever get involved.
Admittedly, the SEC won't always get two teams in the CFP. For instance, if the playoff was in effect this year, an unbeaten Louisville, plus two other impressive champions from power conferences, would limit the SEC to one representative. On the other hand, the Sugar Bowl will have an SEC team every year that the game in New Orleans is not involved in the playoff.
In 2012, Arkansas was one five SEC teams which failed to win the six games necessary to be bowl eligible. The number of non-qualifiers will be about the same this season and six Ws will be even more difficult to come by when league teams upgrade their schedules to meet the demands of TV and the mandate of SEC commissioner Mike Slive.
On a lighter note, a former co-worker with the sort of sense of humor conducive to being a political cartoonist forwarded some football funnies in an e-mail. To be politically correct, I deleted the names of specific schools in all but one instance where the color of the uniforms was essential. Even then, there are two options.
Why do (Texas or Tennessee) fans wear orange?
So they can dress for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.
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What do you say to a XXXXX football player dressed in a three-piece suit?
"Will the defendant please rise."
If three XXXXX football players are in the same car, who is driving?
The police officer.
How can you tell if a XXXXX football player has a girlfriend?
There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.
How did the XXXXX football player die from drinking milk?
The cow fell on him
How do you get a former XXXXX football player off your porch?
Pay him for the pizza.
How many XXXXX freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb?
None. That's a sophomore course.
How is the XXXXX football team like an opossum?
They play dead at home and get killed on the road.
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The work has earned numerous awards, recently including "Furniture of the Year 2012" and "Designer of the Year 2011" (Elle Decoration Sweden), "German Design Award (Gold) 2011" by the Federal Republic of Germany and "Best Domestic Design 2010" (Wallpaper).
Claesson Koivisto Rune were also in 2004 honoured to be the First Swedish architects ever to be exhibited in the international section of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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For my first experience as a DM, I'm taking the Kobold Hall adventure included in the first DMG, and repurposing it. The overall idea is to turn it from a 5 encounter delve to a "Level 1 to Level 2 adventure" (8 to 10 encounters, as I've read), to make it a bit less linear, if possible, and to adapt it to the updates that monsters got with the following books. I can use the monsters from the Monster Vault and the Reavers of Harkenwold adventure.
One of the modifications I planned was a simple skill challenge either at the beginning or the end of the adventure (spoilered in case any of my players get here)
the players have something stolen from them in the Fallcrest Market, by a member of the River Rats gang, and they have to chase him. If they succeed, they get their belongings back. If they fail at the challenge, they get to fight some thieves.
I will vary the skill challenge level depending on the player's level, of course.
What else could I do? I was thinking that I might add some more encounters, perhaps before actually getting to kobold hall. I'm open to suggestions or links.
for example, a fight with spiders and other simple monsters in the forest outside the hall if the players try to cut through the woods.
Ideally, I'd like the other encounters to not be all about kobolds, but I didn't find a way to put, say, goblins inside Kobold Hall and still respect the idea that the dragon at the end is siding with one band of kobolds and hasn't eaten these new critters.


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The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibres, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.
Version 6.0 was published on March 19, 2020, 3 years after the Version 5.0 was introduced and 15 years after the launch of the 1st Version. The high ecological and social requirements as well as worldwide practicability and verifiability were considered in the revision work, in order to achieve a reliable and transparent set of criteria.
The information in this section provides an overview of the content and basic requirements of the standard. It does not reflect all criteria of the standard and can therefore not be used for any official purpose.
The aim of the standard is to define world-wide recognized requirements that ensure organic status of textiles, from harvesting of the raw materials, through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing up to labelling in order to provide a credible assurance to the end consumer.
Textile processors and manufacturers are enabled to export their organic fabrics and garments with one certification accepted in all major markets.
The consensus of the Founding Organizations was that a clear and unambiguous understanding of the content required that the Global Standard itself focuses on compulsory criteria only. The standard covers the processing, manufacturing, packaging, labelling, trading and distribution of all textiles made from at least 70% certified organic natural fibres. The final products may include, but are not limited to fibre products, yarns, fabrics, clothes and home textiles. The standard does not set criteria for leather products.
The key criteria for fibre production can be identified as:
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Social criteria based on the key norms of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) must be met by all processors and manufacturers. They must have a social compliance management with defined elements in place to ensure that the social criteria can be met. For adequate implementation and assessment of the following social criteria topics the listed applicable key conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) have to be taken as the relevant basis for interpretation.
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Sleep Apnea Treatments
Treating Sleep Apnea at Home
You may be able to treat mild cases of sleep apnea by changing your behavior, for example:
- Losing weight.
- Avoiding alcohol and sleeping pills.
- Changing sleep positions to improve breathing.
- Stopping smoking. Smoking can increase the swelling in the upper airway, which may worsen both snoring and apnea.
- Avoiding sleeping on your back.
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
Continuous positive airway pressure -- also called CPAP -- is a treatment in which a mask is worn over the nose and/or mouth while you sleep. The mask is hooked up to a machine that delivers a continuous flow of air into the nose. This air flow helps keep the airways open so that breathing is regular. CPAP is the most common treatment for sleep apnea. There's also bi-level positive airway pressure, or BPAP, which is similar to CPAP but the air flow changes when you breathe in and then breathe out.
Sleep Apnea and Dental Devices
Dental devices can be made that help keep the airway open during sleep. Such devices can be specifically designed by dentists with special expertise in treating sleep apnea.
Surgery for Sleep Apnea
If you have a deviated nasal septum, enlarged tonsils, or a small lower jaw with an overbite causing the throat to be too narrow, surgery may be needed to correct sleep apnea.
The most commonly performed types of surgery for sleep apnea include:
- Nasal surgery: Correction of nasal problems such as a deviated septum.
- Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP): A procedure that removes soft tissue on the back of the throat and palate, increasing the width of the airway at the opening of throat.
- Mandibular maxillar advancement surgery: Surgery to correct certain facial problems or throat obstructions that contribute to sleep apnea.
Other Treatment Options for Sleep Apnea
There are minimally invasive office procedures that reduce and stiffen the soft tissue of the soft palate. While these procedures have been effective in treating snoring, their effectiveness in treating sleep apnea in the long term isn't known.
For people unable to use a CPAP, an implanted device called Inspire is now available. The device, called an upper airway stimulator, consists of a small pulse generator placed under the skin in the upper chest. A wire leading to the lung detects the person's natural breathing pattern. Another wire, leading up to the neck, delivers mild stimulation to nerves that control airway muscles, keeping them open. A doctor can program the device from an external remote. Also, those who have Inspire use a remote to turn it on before bed and turn off upon waking in the morning.


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Inside the home, the furnishings have grown to suit Michele and Dave's country tastes. Michele notes that she is particularly proud of her oak dining room set, custom-made by Amish furniture makers in Lancaster county, a bargain quilt that was "a steal," and some attractive antiques.
The family has expanded as well. Daughter Emily was born 21/2 years ago. And Homer, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, joined the household three years ago.
With its pristine view, modern conveniences and room to grow, Michele is sure she has just the right house. But, she says, she feels like "building it took forever" because home-building requires so many decisions -- the kind of homey decisions she continues to struggle with today.
"I'm design-challenged," says Michele. "I know what I want, but I can never pull it together. I can't accessorize."
One of her greatest challenges was the well-used family room. "The room is OK, but there are a few things that we just 'put here for now' when we moved in that are still in the same spot six years later," she complains.
"I have more of a 'scientific' mind. I am not creative. I just need that extra something to pull the room all together, and I just don't seem to have the ability to do it," says Michele, who works as a manager in the pharmaceutical industry at PharmaNet in Blue Bell, Montgomery County.
She also struggled to choose window treatments. "I didn't know what to buy. I just bought something to match the couch," she says.
Michele says she's always felt there's just something missing in her family's favorite room. So, she did what any scientifically minded, designed-challenged homeowner would do -- she requested a Morning Call Makeover at www.mcall.com.
Readers nominated her home along with two others in online voting and Makeover designer Nancy Carroll chose to take on Michele's challenge.
Nancy started by visiting Michele to assess what was needed. They browsed through catalogs, got a clear picture of Michele's tastes and settled on a $1,200 budget to purchase accessories, window treatments and at least one new piece of furniture to cozy up the room.
As I pull into the driveway, Nancy is already at work, putting together a new console table from D&D Home Furnishings, just one of the items she gathered on what she calls her "power-shopping" spree. I grab a screwdriver and jump right in.
With the table assembled, Nancy takes me inside to show me why she selected Michele's home. The home already has a good start, she explains -- nice furniture, some great accessories, some beautiful antiques. "It feels great to be here," says Nancy, as she makes her way through the rooms.
Like a tiger in a cage at feeding time, Nancy paces, eager to get started as our photographer takes his "before" shots of the family room. Her head filled with ideas, Nancy can barely contain her enthusiasm.
When she finally is set free to decorate, there's no stopping her.
First, the window treatments
Nancy quickly removes the blue panels, leaving the sheers. In a matter of minutes, blue-and-white Waverly panels hang in their place. Leaves in the Waverly pattern speak softly to the subtle leaves on the sheers, giving them new vitality. The overall look is much more vibrant.
She keeps the conversation between fabrics going by adding a four more pillows to the sofa in front of the window. One pillow, made with the same Waverly print as the curtain panels, ties everything together, while a gold pillow will "talk to" gold accents to be added elsewhere in the room, Nancy explains.
She also adds a touch of blue-and-white Waverly print to the pretty, daisy-adorned sheer valances Michele already has on the narrow windows in the eat-in area of the kitchen at the far end of the family room. Alone, the valances looked a bit weak but when framed with the Waverly fabric, the daisy pattern pops. As we admire the look, Nancy confesses that she couldn't find valances in the Waverly pattern. With a little seam-ripping and re-stitching, she cleverly crafted the valances out of pillowcases.
On to the foyer
Nancy moves to the foyer, where she plans to recycle the blue curtains from the family room to set off the large, second-story window above the entryway.
There Michele has displayed a collection of antiques, including a high chair used by her and her mother, and some wooden boxes purchased on Friday jaunts to The Green Dragon farmers market in Ephrata.
Nancy climbs a tall extension ladder
and hangs the blue panels on each side of the large window, framing the amazing view of the countryside.
To emphasize the "Barnesville, Pa." theme of the foyer -- the words printed on one of the wooden boxes -- Nancy puts red silk geraniums in the boxes. The flowers speak to the reds in a large quilt Michele has hanging on an adjacent wall. As a finishing touch, Nancy hangs an antique carpet-beater above the door to lead the eye from the entrance up to the antique display.
Family room revisited
Back in the family room, Nancy moves the rocking chair Michele had as a child to its new spot next to the fireplace. And several members of Emily's stuffed-cow collection find a home on the rocker that Michele's mother, Holly Fatzinger, repainted just the right colors -- cream with decorative yellow flowers, green leaves and little blue butterflies. (Nice job, Holly!)
Next, Nancy rolls out a new floral area rug, centering it under the square coffee table. Blues in the rug bring new life to the blues in Michele's Broyhill sofas from J.C. Penney. Yellows speak to the flowers on the child's rocker and the new pillows on the sofa. Even more magical is how the reds in the rug suddenly make you notice the red brick in the fireplace.
With just the fabric additions alone -- the drapes, pillows and rug -- the room has come alive significantly. Everyone already is "oo-ing and ahh-ing."
Focus on furniture
Nancy makes a few minor changes to the furniture floor plan. She offsets the blue plaid sofa at an angle to the eat-in area to open up the room and increase traffic flow between both areas of the large room. On the empty section of wall behind the angled sofa, she positions the new console table assembled a few hours earlier.
The only other piece of furniture Nancy moves is a small A-frame table that she brings from the foyer to a new spot under the window in the dining-area of the room.
Time to accessorize
Now it's time to really turn on the finishing touches.
Nancy fills in some of the blank space to the left of the mantel by placing another large silk plant to join the one already there.
She removes Michele's static row of family pictures, scattering the framed prints instead into groupings on the occasional tables throughout the room. With just a few at each place, they now actually are much easier to see.
She then removes a large wreath from above the mantel and relocates it to an empty wall in the kitchen. In its place, she hangs a large, colorful print that previously hung behind the sofa. The colors in the print come alive in the company of the new drapes and rug.
Nancy then adorns one end of the mantel with a copper container filled with luscious green silks. Next to it, she places a blue-and-gray pottery vase. On the opposite end of the mantel are more silks, more blue-and gray pottery, and gold-trimmed books from Michele and Dave's library in the next room. A Longaberger picnic basket goes at the bottom right corner of the hearth and -- voila! The fireplace has instant eye-appeal.
Nancy can't resist the handsome books and returns for two more short stacks to place under the lamps on the end tables on each side of the sofa to add a design touch and give them more height. Mom Holly observes it's been difficult to read while sitting on the sofas because the lamps were a bit too short.
Nancy throws in one more decorating accessory for Holly -- an attractive wall clock now graces the wall opposite the sofa by the window. "My mom says she never knows what time it is when she visits," says Michele.
Finally, Nancy finishes the console tabletop, which has received several family photos, with a newly assembled lamp with creamy silken shade and a brick-colored vase. She fills the bottom shelf with a large silk philodendron, a blue and white vase and a matching plate in a cast-iron stand. On the wall, in the place of the large photo now hanging over the mantel, she hangs a collection of three scenic prints purchased at Marshall's.
Among Nancy's favorite accessory additions to the room is a cream-colored box she puts on the coffee table. The hardware on its drawers is identical to the hardware on the coffee table's drawers. The perfect place to tuck away TV remotes, it also serves as a design element. Nancy tops it with silk yellow gerber daisies, a pillar candle on a tall chunky stick and a small, framed photo of Emily. The colors speak perfectly to Michele's old rocker next to the fireplace.
Nancy puts a large silk on top of the tall, handsome entertainment center and removes a photo of Emily placed much too high to view.
To complete the room's transformation, Nancy rolls out another rug to add a bit color and warmth under the light oak kitchen table. Its tan and blue fibers beautifully complement the room's decor. And, it feels good under your feet, Michele adds.
Everyone stands back to take in the finished project -- a transformation from stark to absolutely stunning.
Giving the final nod of approval, Michele says, "Now, this finally looks like a home that's lived in."
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Well we are officially on the market!!! For some bizzzaarrrooooo reason, Blogger decided to delete my last post. So who knows if we will ever see it again. But here is a recap...
- Happy Mothers Day, blah blah blah (yes, it has been a while. I have been BUSY!)
- We decided to explore the idea of moving and started checking out homes.
- We found a house that we LOVE. This House-
- Our Realtor showed another client our house as a "test" to see what she thought. She is a single, older lady, and loved our house except the hill that you come down to get to our Cove and the majorly HUGE backyard (things we can't change). But her feedback was encouraging enough for us to take the plunge!
- We started getting our house ready every waking second we could. We even ***GASP*** HIRED some work out. If you know me, you know that is NOT something I do. ;)
So that pretty much brings you up to speed. Now, we got a call Friday night that another contingent offer had been made on our house, and they were countering. But that they would entertain other offers also. So we put ours in and "technically" listed Sunday afternoon, although today was the first day we were ready to show. Our offer was accepted as a backup contingent offer. Basically we just have to sell our house first. Which I am hoping we will because I know that the other people are moving from a city with a slower real estate market than ours. That said, who knows! I know we will end up where we need to be. Where the Lord wants us. I just hope it is that house. HA! Cole tells me all the time that I can't change the Lord's mind. But that doesn't always stop me from trying!
We had the Realtor's tour today and about 16 people came through, and we also had our first "real" showing this morning also! I am anxiously awaiting feedback from our realtor. Oh how I hope they all liked it and hope we get an offer! That would be AWESOME!!! But I know I need to be patient in this market.
This is the link to our MLS for our house. You might note some paint changes. Bleh. My beautiful blue dining room and red foyer is gone. :( But I know my Brookline Beige is more appealing to the masses. Don't worry...Aegean an Teal WILL make an appearance in my next dining room. It might just become a signature color for me. I don't know. ;)


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Good evening ladies. I'm at crossroads in my career well I'm at crossroad with everything in my life at the moment but I will like to address career today.
I am a paediatric nurse with 16 years experience. I love nursing children. However the politics and everything else that came with it really put me off. I had to leave clinical nursing for family balance and I have been working in commissioning. I have become so frustrated with the system that I no longer want to be a part of it. My job entails assessing children who have health needs over and above is being currently provided by the NHS. I recommend the support packages needed to support their health and sit on a panel with social care and education (who have also assessed as required) to request funding for the recommended packages. I see the suffering and understand the suffering of families ( because I am those families in my private life) and listen to the responses and views of the professionals on the panel. I see how much money is being squandered on reaction to crisis instead of investment to save in support systems that actually make a difference. I see support systems created by people with good intentions who haven't got a clue that their amazing ideas are actually not what the service users need or they will never engage with the service because the lack of understanding of the service users needs has made it not fit for purpose. I have lost all belief in a system I represent and I don't know what to do about it.
I am trying to be rationale and not walk away from my job as it is contract and that ends in March. Financially I am not able to leave my job and doing so will make things worse. So I am trying to find a plan that will keep me going knowing that I will eventually be able to do something that truly makes a difference.
My thoughts were to try and create a service that supports women and females on the spectrum especially women with late diagnosis. I am one of those women and Autism is not one of my problems. As an adult woman most of my problems are the traumas I live with that developed as a result of not being supported as a person with autism and my struggles to compensate for my limitations. That is individual to most people with autism that's why we don't all turn out the same. We are individuals, we are people, we are different. You know one autistic person, you know one autistic person. You get the gist.
I am thinking of sending out a survey to as many women with autism as I can. The criteria will be late diagnosis 18 and above so all adult women.
I will like to know if they had access to a support service what support would they require to lead a functional life
What does a functional/ fulfilling life mean for you?
Secondly what are the issues women have struggled with that led them to seeking diagnosis
Would you be interested in helping with my survey please? I need to do something and I need to start somewhere. I apologise for taking up your time.
I'd appreciate it if you are able to show your interest in the comments below.
I will also post in the ADHD group as well because we coexist in many cases and it will make sense to have a service that includes both.
Thank you.
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Today I can finally admit I was a fraud. Nobody knew me because I didn't know myself.
The beginning
I have started this blog for my sanity or what is left of it. I am at a place where I am struggling to stay alive. The sucidal thoughts are strong. I am fighting on a daily basis for the children that have chosen my as their mother. Right now I don't feel worthy and I know I am letting them down but the biggest guilt is the emotional deficit that my leaving this world will cause in their lives. However I cannot continue to live like this because for me death before you die is worse than physical death.
My struggles with mental health has been for most of my adult life and I had struggles as a child. I came from a place of fear of Mental illness, ignorance of mental health, fear of Mental health, fear of people finding out and ignorance regarding treatment. Being a black African woman with first hand knowledge of the stigma of Mental health was real. My uncle has schizophrenia and I witnessed and still witness the suffering he has had to endure due to his illness.
I continued to go around in circles in survival mode as a functional depressive. It seemed that all my efforts where failing, life started to close in on me and at that point I came to the realisation that I had to surrender.
My life did not make sense. I didn't even like the person I had become. It had got to that's point where I started to question my identity:
"Who am I?"
"What is my purpose?"
The "Who am I" was the hardest journey I have ever had to go through in my life. Most people at one point or another ask this question because it is not uncommon for us to lose ourselves in the journey of life being a parent, a spouse, trying to secure financial security e.t.c but for me the farther back in life I went I realised that I had always struggled with identity. In trying to find my identity I have opened the proverbial PANDORA's BOX.
This is a journey that I have had to take alone because of my deep rooted distrust. I had discovered that my struggles stem from the desperation of trying to fit in and trying to navigate a neurotypical world with a lack of understanding.
I was recently diagnosed with ASD ( formerly Aspergers) PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) subtype. I was also diagnosed with severe ADHD.
I cannot find the words to describe the last 4 years of my life but I have had to face the demon that has kept kept me in bondage to start to release myself. The demon of FEAR.
Now I realise that in order to move forward I have to release the Demon of SHAME. I have realised that in order for me to live in my truth I have to rewire my brain of it's learned behaviour. In my quest for direction I have to be clear so that I attract the energy that will bring positivity and light to me life.
I will like to use this platform to release my thoughts, to get and receive encouragement, for healing, for practical advice, for forgiveness, to find peace, for self acceptance, to promote awareness, for education, to stomp out ignorance.
I am on a journey to master self love in the discovery of the person I was create to be.
I am grateful for my journey so far because through the pain I am realising that life journey is preparation for my greater good.
I am on a journey to finding my purpose.


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Young Bridgeport musician wins University of New Haven scholarship
BRIDGEPORT -- Demetri Smith's fingers tap out an effortless tune on his keyboard in his third-floor bedroom on Catherine Street. Amplifiers share space with clothes in the closet. On the wall is a poster of Jimi Hendrix.
The 18-year-old Bassick High School senior considers himself a rap artist, but it is his business acumen that has helped him win a four-year full-tuition scholarship to the University of New Haven. Over four years, that amounts to more than $120,000.
"Honestly, it is a huge blessing," Smith said. "I really didn't think about how I was going to pay (for college)."
Smith is one of four incoming freshmen to win the online competition to the UNH College of Business, which required contestants to create a Facebook page for a business they wish to launch or are already operating and write a business plan. Students had to define what the business is, what it does, why it is unique, why it is needed and how it will be positioned to achieve and sustain long-term success.
"I knew what I was talking about, and that was what counted," said Smith, who proposed a business called Velocity Music Group that would help find and market young urban artists through social media, bookings and recordings.
Born in Bridgeport, Smith spent six years in Florida, his freshman year in Stratford and the last three years in Bridgeport. He has been singing since second grade. In addition to keyboards, he plays the saxophone and drums. His band is called, "CVOB," which stands for Connecticut's Very Own Best.
The group also includes Shyheim Akinloye, Jermaine Young, Addoneys Cruz, Alex Phouangphiarith and Reggie Short. They have performed on a number of college campuses and local venues. On YouTube, Smith has posted a number of videos under the stage name Max Velo.
"Since I can remember, I've been involved in music," he said. "So when I talked to my mentor, she told me to write down all my skills and what I already do that I am passionate about, which was everything musically and music-industry related. I just put a name on it and called it a record label."
Mentor Vanessa Liles said it was a bit more than that. She has worked with Smith for about three years. They met when she was an adviser to BuildOn, a community service club at Bassick. Smith recently traveled with that club to help build schools in Nicaragua. Liles now works at the United Way.
"Demetri is just an amazing young man, very creative and tenacious. He understands his situation and has worked hard academically to get what he needed," said Liles. "He is focused on his future."
In 10th grade, on a field trip to Deloitte in Stamford, Smith deemed it the kind of place in which he could see himself someday. Not that he didn't need nudging. Liles said Smith likes to do a lot of things at once, so it's been her job to help him focus.
For the business plan, they met for hours at Dunkin' Donuts.
"My job was as a coach. He did all the work. We talked about what would help him stand out. And he stood out," said Liles.
The plans were judged by a team of business leaders and Elizabeth Davis, dean of the college.
"The winners did an excellent job of presenting outstanding ideas and clearly demonstrated the kind of business thinking that is a cornerstone of the college," said Davis, noting that she liked that the plan was focused on a young market, ages 16 to 25.
This is the second year UNH has run the contest.
The other winners include Evan Souza, of Sherman; Lauren Ritchie of Fort Worth, Texas; and Mitchell Fliss, of Sparta, N.J. The university will work with them to further develop their plans if they so choose.
"I was not counting on getting it, but when got it, I was ecstatic," said Smith.


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Marines evacuate S. Sudan embassy staff
A new Marine crisis response task force conceived after the Benghazi, Libya, attack was dispatched on its first major mission Friday, when the unit evacuated U.S. embassy personnel from South Sudan.
As violence swept the young East African nation, Marine air crews aboard two KC-130 Hercules planes flew about 20 diplomatic staff members and citizens of other countries from Juba to Entebbe, Uganda, according to the U.S. Departments of State and Defense.
The special purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force from Moron, Spain, had staged about 150 Marines — including reconnaissance infantrymen, logistics and aviation personnel — at Entebbe and Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, several weeks ago after an alleged coup attempt in South Sudan sparked political and ethnic clashes.
They were standing by with planes and MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft, not knowing if they would be needed in South Sudan, when Gen. James Amos visited Camp Lemonnier Sunday as part of a holiday tour in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
U-T San Diego was with the Marine commandant when he stopped in Djibouti, before a rebel attack on the South Sudanese city of Bor this week sent his task force into action.
"We're America's insurance policy," Amos told the Marines. "You buy insurance because you don't know what's going to happen in the future. That's why America has a Marine Corps. Because the world is uncertain."
Amos was en route to Spain to meet with the crisis response force when violence surged in South Sudan on Dec. 21. That day, four U.S. Navy SEALs on an evacuation mission in Bor were wounded when their Osprey was hit by small-arms fire.
As Amos landed the next morning in Moron, the task force's Hercules and Osprey aircraft were lifting off for the 3,400-mile journey to the Horn of Africa. He caught up with them during a pre-planned stop at Camp Lemonnier to visit Marines staffing the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa based there.
"This is why we're here. Your C-130s took off as we were landing, your V-22s were taking off with Marines in them," Amos said. "We provide an ability for national leaders to be able to look at a crisis at any time and say, what kind of force can I send in there right away?"
Rapid response
Marine Col. Scott Benedict took command of the new special purpose task force in late July. The unit, which is focused on crises in northern and western Africa, became fully operational with a force of about 500 in September, he said.
It has been dispatched several times to Italy, stopping at a naval air station in Sicily that serves as a forward operating base, as potential crises boiled in Libya.
"What we are really talking about is reaction time," Benedict said in an interview at Camp Lemonnier. "By being closer, we greatly shorten that reaction time. That provides confidence to those putting their lives in danger doing their diplomatic mission. They can have confidence knowing that some of their fellow countrymen are in a position to support them."
The crisis response force is the newest of a constellation of rapid response units of varying sizes the Corps has arrayed in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf.
Another Marine special purpose task force based at Sigonella, Italy, has been busy in recent years training with allied military forces in Africa, in countries such as Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Senegal. Some of those Marines were in Uganda when the SEALs were wounded in South Sudan and assisted in their medical evacuation.
Benedict can use his security force of ground troops to fight into an embassy or conflict area if needed to protect U.S. government lives or interests. The Osprey, with its ability to refuel midflight and land vertically without a runway, adds flight range and flexibility compared with helicopters.
The task force could serve as a toehold until a larger force such as a Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed on Navy ships arrives. Or it could act as a security force to permit commercial planes to evacuate embassy personnel.
Its presence may even deescalate a crisis, Benedict said.
"Nothing is getting less complicated in the world. A force like this that allows us to get rapidly to a point of friction I think in a lot of ways has a deterrant aspect," he said.
All the services have been tasked with a presidential directive to better protect U.S. embassies from extremist groups.
Amos said the Marine crisis response task force in Moron was — "besides winning battles" in Afghanistan — "probably the most significant thing we've done in the last year and a half as far as adjusting the Marine Corps for what people are now calling the new normal, which are these crises that are happening around the world.
He and other Marine leaders conceived of the unit in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three Americans with San Diego ties, Amos said.
Ship-based Marine Expeditionary Units no longer linger in the Mediterranean. Amos wanted a task force for northern Africa with its own aviation and logistics, making it more robust than his Marine Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams near hot spots.
"It gives decision space to the president and the secretary of defense and the national command authority. It gives them the ability to go, 'OK good, I've got Marines in there now, let's see what happens with the situation,'" Amos said.
Benjamin Benson, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, said in a statement: "One of the lessons learned from the tragic events in Benghazi was that we needed to be better postured in order to respond to developing or crisis situations, if needed."
Horn of Africa
Djibouti is about a three-hour flight from South Sudan, underscoring what military commanders describe as an acute "tyranny of distance" in Africa.
About 45 U.S. Army soldiers based in Djibouti with the East Africa Response Force, an Army quick reaction force formed in May, remain in Juba several weeks after they were sent there to secure the U.S. embassy.
Not including the recent influx of crisis response Marines, the U.S. normally has about 4,000 troops at Camp Lemonnier with Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, as well as an undisclosed number of special operations personnel.
Djibouti lies just 20 miles across the Red Sea from Yemen, a battleground for Islamist radical groups and U.S. drone strikes. Somalia is also a focus, because of piracy and al Shabab, the terrorist group allied with al-Qaeda that killed scores of people this year in an attack on a mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
The United States primarily plays a supportive role in the fight against al Shabab, by enabling and training with allies deployed for the African Union Mission in Somalia against violent extremist groups.
"The Africans are taking care of Africa in their eyes," Army Maj. Gen. Terry Ferrell, commanding general of the Horn of Africa task force at Camp Lemonnier, told Amos.
Marine Col. Phil Millerd, officer in charge of Marines on staff there, said, "You see this change in Africa where now the other nations are willing to step up to the plate and learn to help others as well, not only themselves."
Why should Americans be concerned about such a distant region?
"Instability in the Horn of Africa impacts our stability in the United States. Currently they have aspirations to be a global force, a threat to our nation — the insurgents, the violent extremists who work here," Ferrell said. "If instability is not stabilized by the African nations along with our support, then it can come to our homeland."
Millerd added: "Terrorist organizations, just like anyone else, need support. They need money, they need training, they need equipment. We are going to try to prevent them from having a safe haven anywhere in the world."
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This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.
Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.
I don't think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.
Let's take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F
But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to 'chase' your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!
What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 'in the hole'. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.
Let's take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!
You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!
Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.
If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive 'red' numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!
Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time "no worries, it's got to be black next time…. Surely?"
But let's go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.
We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It's black. We chase our loss by 'doubling up' and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1
I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.
One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation's newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.
I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.
There is an old saying – "Don't throw good money after bad". If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don't try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.
If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.
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Box 17
Contains 1 Result:
Michigan Social Services, LIHEAP, Department of Social Services, Humanities Council
File — Box: 17, Folder: 9
Scope and Content From the Collection: Part I of the Bonior Papers include documents relating to his activities in the 10th and 12th Congressional districts of Michigan during his years in Congress, as well as his run for Governor. The collection focuses mainly on Michigan issues, particularly social, labor, and environmental. Bonior's biographical information, district schedules and participation in events are included in the administrative series. A large portion of the collection centers around his bi-yearly campaigns and...
Dates: 1976 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2002


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Water begins to recede in Sylvan Beach after ice flow melts
SYLVAN BEACH >> The water level went down in Sylvan Beach Thursday night following flooding that caused a number of residents on the east side of the village to evacuate, officials said.
Flooding in a neighborhood on the east side of Sylvan Beach caused a number of residents to voluntarily evacuate their homes, as up to six feet of water invaded certain areas.
Late Thursday morning residents in the Waterview Drive vicinity began noticing water flowing into their yards.
An ice jam created in Fish Creek - about three-quarters of a mile east of the village - and the Barge Canal was to blame. The flowing water had no place else to go except into the yards of residents, said members of the Sylvan Beach Fire Department. By 2 p.m. most of the residents and their pets had voluntarily evacuated the area and moved to safe locations. National Grid crews shut off power connections to residences that were becoming submerged by the icy water.
The blockage moved Thursday night, and water began flowing to its proper place.
Water rescue teams from Taberg and Oriskany fire departments were on hand to help evacuate residents and the North Bay Fire Department was on standby at the Sylvan Beach fire station.
Fire crews roughly estimated that between 40 and 50 homes were affected by the rising water.


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As an academic discipline it presents a unique gateway both to the richness of our cultural heritage and to the immense variety of world civilizations.
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The Dark, Dense, and Multigrain Breads of the Brighton Bazaar
Stories about the loaves we love.
New York City's Russian population has an appetite for dense, dark, whole-grain bread, which is a staple of Russian cuisine. South Brooklyn, where most Russians live, probably has more bakeries per square mile than any other part of the city. These range tiny mom-and-pop bakeries to sprawling commercial bakeries producing an impressive variety of loaves in style of the Old Country.
One of the best places to see this bounty is in the bread aisle of Brighton Bazaar, arguably the city's best Russian market. And at the Bazaar's bread counter a few steps away, you can buy aromatic, freshly-baked, glistening brown loaves coming straight from...Germany!?
At first glance, it seems insane that a Brooklyn Russian market would import its bread all the way from a city in western Germany called Bielefeld (which may or may not exist). At second glance, however, it does make a certain sense. Germans love bread, particularly fresh-baked loaves and rolls for their light evening meals. Over the last decade, big German bakeries have become experts at the "par-baked" (i.e. partially-baked) bread business, selling frozen, half-baked loaves for reheating in nearly every supermarket and grocery store. To the rest of Europe, German bread has a reputation for being healthy, nutritious, and whole-grain. So it's natural for the Russians here to have a taste for German bread, particularly the low-priced, fresh-baked loaves sold at the Brighton Bazaar.
Most of the loaves at the Bazaar's bread counter range from dark to darkest, dense to densest. My tastebuds were immediately drawn to the crustiest and gnarliest loaves. However, the Crusty loaf, with its dramatic scoring and white-floured crust, turned out to be not as flavorful as the Farmer Rusty ($4.99) bread ("rusty" may be a mistranslation of "rustic"). Like most of these loaves, this is a rye/whole wheat mix, though its pleasant, slightly crumbly texture leads me to believe that there might also be cornmeal in the blend. On the coarse side there's the Organic Rye Mix ($2.99), which is adorned with one of those Old World paper bread labels, this one signifying its European Union organic certification.
In the smooth crust category, I savored the Country loaf ($4.99), another wheat/rye mix, which had a slight but lovely aroma of hay when first sliced. However, like many of these loaves, its aroma dissipated over the next day or so, leading me to wonder if the freezing process tends to retard the flavor. Nevertheless, the Country has a dense but smooth texture that makes it a perfect base for juicy meats like pastrami and corn beef.
To cater to Eastern European tastes, the Bazaar's bread counter offers a number of extra dark and dense loaves. The standout was the Lithuanian Rye with sunflower seeds ($3.99), a heavy, near-black bread absolutely packed with sunflower seeds. Their nutty flavors the dark rye sour, while the seed oil adds a slight unctuousness to the crumb's texture. It's a perfect base for salty smoked fish washed down with a shot of icy vodka.
If you can't get to Brighton Beach, you can also head west to buy these loaves, because it appears that Hoboken's Old Germany Bakery orders its bread from the same source.
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