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The president and congressional leaders met this morning at the White House to discuss ways to reduce the deficit — and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says there's a 50/50 chance a debt limit deal will be reached in 48 hours — but just what the meeting accomplished is not yet clear.
Prior to the meeting, Republicans sent seemingly mixed signals about whether they would be open to "revenue increases" — a term all too often used as a euphemism for tax hikes.
Yesterday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the No. 2 GOP senator, said Republicans have agreed to between $150 billion and $200 billion in revenue increases [see updates below]. Today, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the No. 2 GOP representative, reiterated the party's commitment to no new taxes.
Of course, tax hikes aren't the only way to raise revenues, and Kyl, especially, promotes the sale of government lands as an alternative to tax increases. He has also proposed increased fees for government services. Cantor has suggested a sort of tax compromise, saying Republicans would agree to close certain tax loopholes as long as those loopholes were offset by tax cuts elsewhere.
These comments make it hard for me to not be cynical about the result of the deficit reduction meetings. How much you want to bet they will net moderate cuts and the least controversial revenue raisers the Republicans can muster, but no more? Procedural reforms — those most important to ensure the country doesn't run up against the debt ceiling issue again and again — will likely be lost in the shuffle, leaving principled conservatives in Congress with little choice other than to vote against a deal that will ultimately pass. After all, the closer we've gotten to the debt ceiling deadline, the less the key players seem to talk about anything other than cuts and revenues. Very few have continued to talk about the debt ceiling itself and, to my knowledge, no Democrats have yet signed on to "Cut, Cap and Balance," nor have they proposed procedural reforms of their own. (Please somebody tell me if I'm missing something here — I'd love to find out I'm wrong on this!)
In the interest of staying positive, though, I'm going to reflect back on Sen. Ron Johnson's comments on a conference call this morning and Rush Limbaugh's impassioned remarks on the subject on his show today (more on that shortly). Too bad neither of them were in the meeting at the White House.
Update: The president issued a brief statement at the end of this morning's meeting to say nothing has been agreed to and talks will continue through the weekend. Whoop-de-do.
Update: Kyl's office responded to my story, concerned that this post makes it sound as though Kyl said Republicans agreed to tax increases (as Reuters and others wrongly tweeted). I thought I made it clear the revenue increases Kyl was referring to were land sales and government service fee increases, but just to be sure there's no confusion about what he actually said, here are his on-the-floor remarks, posted at Breitbart TV.
Of course, I'm far more OK with the revenue increases Kyl's talking about than I am with tax hikes, but it doesn't change that I'm disheartened by all the discussion of revenues, in general. I'd rather Republican leadership put Obama on the defensive for not more seriously and publicly discussing procedural reforms like statutory spending caps.
Update: Yet more information from Kyl's office. These discussions in which Republicans said they'd consider certain kinds of revenue increases — the discussions to which Kyl was referring and to which I was responding — actually occurred during the now-defunct Biden talks.
"What the GOP tentatively agreed to was as part of the failed and now-defunct Biden debt discussions – not part of any current [discussion] between Obama, Boehner and McConnell," Kyl's spokesman explains. "Also, the Reuters story you link to suggests that an agreement or deal has been struck. That, too, is not correct."
In other words, when Reuters reported Republicans had agreed to revenue increases, the wire service was reporting old pseudo-news (i.e. the "news" that, during the Biden talks, GOPers tentatively agreed to certain kinds of revenue increases) and making it sound fresh. I've delinked this piece from the misleading Reuters report. I also changed the homepage excerpt to "Reuters takes Kyl's comments out of context."


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Colleges Overproducing Elementary Teachers, Data Find
Though universities' economics departments preach the gospel of supply and demand, that principle is not always followed when it comes to their education departments.
Data, while imprecise, suggest that some states are producing far more new teachers at the elementary level than will be able to find jobs in their respective states—even as districts struggle to find enough recruits in other certification fields.
For some observers, the imbalances reflect a failure of teacher colleges—by far, the largest source of new teachers—and their regulatory agencies to cap the number of entrants.
"If you increase the number of elementary teachers beyond what the market will bear, you are going to be forcing far too many trainees into an overburdened K-12 system," said Arthur McKee, the managing director of teacher-preparation studies at the Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality. "We need to have some equilibrium so we can set up strong clinical programs. And everybody wants to do that."
But scholars who study the issue acknowledge that, even if a net oversupply of elementary teachers exists in some states, remedies are difficult. They are complicated, such scholars say, by a lack of comparable, cross-state data and by the complex and variable nature of the education labor market.
And at a more conceptual level, agreement in the field is limited about whether—and how much—individual preparation programs should bear the responsibility of aligning their production of teachers to state or local market needs.
"Would we raise this question about English majors? It's sort of notorious that English majors get jobs waiting tables, ... but people still do it because they enjoy it and find it a useful thing to do," said Jim H. Wyckoff, a professor of education and policy at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. "So I'm a little concerned about treating education differently from other disciplines."
Telling Figures
Questions of teacher supply and demand have been raised for decades, predominantly in light of view of "shortage" areas or large demographic trends. By contrast, the particular effects of oversupply have been far less probed.
For this article, Education Week examined data from states' own labor projections and from supply-and-demand analyses, then cross-checked them with federal data submitted by the states as part of the reporting required under Title II of the Higher Education Act.
Some states produce enough elementary teachers to fill anticipated openings, but others produce twice as many as needed—or more.
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|New York
New York state's bureau of labor statistics anticipated the need for 2,800 elementary teachers in 2011-12. The state prepared more than twice that many, or about 6,500 "childhood education" specialists in 2009-10, the state's most recent Title II data show.
According to Illinois' supply-and-demand report from 2011, roughly nine new elementary-teacher certificates were issued in the state in 2009 for every one first-time teacher hired in 2010. By comparison, only two special education certificates were issued per slot.
Such data come with important caveats, including the varying ways of calculating the teacher-supply pool and estimating labor projections.
Scholars attribute the trends to the teaching labor market, which generally leaves it up to individuals to decide whether to pursue the profession, according to Robert E. Floden, an education professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.
"There is not a tight link the way there is in other countries, where there is a management of access to particular majors in higher education, tied to perceived needs of teachers, and also a national system for getting teachers who have graduated to the hard-to-staff places," Mr. Floden said.
The United States is also a much more fluid market, in which many states draw from their neighboring states' supplies.
For example, Maryland data show that despite having teacher shortages in more than a dozen fields, the state produces nearly enough elementary teachers in-state to meet districts' needs: 1,000 elementary teachers in 2010-11, a year in which 1,100 were hired.
Yet of the 723 new hires in that group, fewer than half were from Maryland's own teacher colleges; the others came from out of state.
Finally, the tendency toward oversubscription in the elementary fields is also a function of candidates' interest, said Amee Adkins, an associate dean of the college of education at Illinois State University, in Normal, and the president of the Illinois Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
"It's content material they were less intimated by," she said, ticking off a list of reasons. "Kids are cuter when they're little. And it's probably when [the candidates] remember having the most fun in school."
Raising the Bar?
Groups such as the National Council on Teacher Quality have advanced one compelling argument for why policymakers should be concerned with supply-and-demand mismatches.
If colleges produced fewer elementary-level teachers, the council argues, they could be more selective about whom they admit and give candidates more intensive experiences, including the full year of student-teaching that national organizations for teacher-college accreditation have endorsed.
It's the latter argument that appeals to Arthur E. Wise, an independent consultant and a former president of the Washington-based National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
"I think this is the real conundrum in all of this, because of course we lose approximately half of new teachers, which means we have not fully prepared many of these people. Or we want them to learn on the job, some of whom succeed and some of whom do not," he said. "We could improve, enhance, and extend the quality of teacher preparation, and therefore produce better-qualified new teacher graduates, but probably fewer in number."
There's a financial argument to consider, too. States subsidize an important part of teacher training through public university systems and loan-forgiveness programs. When teachers must go out of state to find job openings, states lose out on that investment.
The NCTQ contends, moreover, that states and programs could cut back on production while raising standards: A widely cited Educational Testing Service report from 2007 found that despite improvements, elementary teachers continued to have lower qualifications than other college graduates, so there is room for growth.
"We could raise the bar and get teachers with higher aptitudes in classrooms and still have plenty of elementary teachers," Mr. McKee said.
Policy Black Hole
However common-sense the idea of better aligning supply and demand is, few policy models for doing so are available to replicate.
Some teacher colleges have tried to redirect candidates interested in elementary teaching into other certification fields. At Illinois State, those efforts have had mixed results, Ms. Adkins said.
Special education, she noted, has proved especially challenging.
"It's almost enough to be an identifiable pattern that [elementary candidates] who are redirected to special ed., and who have not had any sustained experience with people with disabilities, don't persist with those majors," she said.
A few states have charged their preparation programs with boosting numbers in shortage fields. Michigan's review of its programs, updated in 2008, now gives points to programs for preparing more teachers in high-need subjects. The credit makes up only a small part of the review, however, and all but four institutions received that credit for 2010-11.
Michigan state schools Superintendent Michael Flanagan said in an interview that he would consider taking action to put more of an emphasis on teacher supply and demand.
"In so many ways, [the programs] do such good work," he said, "but they can't be an ancillary part of this system that's so autonomous they don't have to worry about these issues of supply and demand."
It is not entirely clear how much authority other state agencies have to demand similar changes.
That's the case in Minnesota, where state officials are working to produce better supply-and-demand data, but may not be able to compel programs to address mismatches.
"We don't mandate that institutions adjust the pool of teachers to market needs," said Richard Wasson, the director of educator licensing for the Minnesota education department. "We ask that they think about it, but there's no regulation that governs their production of teachers."
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Objections to policy-based solutions tend to center on the imprecision of the data, as well as research showing limited links between teachers' preservice characteristics and their classroom performance.
Scholars agree that one of the challenges in determining teacher-workforce needs is the shortcomings of the data: They're rough estimates at best and rely on varying, and often obscure, state-defined criteria.
In a 2009 study of Midwestern states, the federally funded REL-Midwest, at the American Institutes for Research, found that states used a broad range of calculations in their supply-and-demand analyses, some basic and others quite sophisticated. Their uses differed significantly, too: A few states disseminated their analyses widely; others provided the bare minimum and only in response to legislative demands, according to Jim Lindsay, a senior researcher in the Naperville, Ill., office of the research and evaluation firm.
The state figures presented in the box on the opposite page should be interpreted with caution. For example, not every "program completer," a term defined differently by each state for the federally required Title II data submission, actually will go on to teach immediately, if at all. Such individuals belong to what economists call the reserve workforce—people certified to be teachers who could theoretically join it in the future.Additional imprecisions lie with the calculations used to estimate future demand for teachers, which are typically produced by state labor bureaus.
"They do a pretty good ballpark job, but the analyses make certain assumptions about who's qualified to teach certain classes," said Michael B. Allen, a Washington-based independent consultant who has written about teacher supply and demand. "And there are assumptions, obviously, about what your student-to-teacher ratio should be. I don't think they're horribly off, but they're off enough that it could make a difference in terms of what states should do to encourage their programs to produce more teachers in some subjects and fewer in others."
"I'm a little worried that you raise the bar around things like academic ability, ... and that doesn't necessarily get better-quality teachers," said Virginia's Mr. Wyckoff. "It may change the way the workforce looks—it could make it more white, for instance—but it's not clear that it would improve the workforce."
Researchers also point to other problems: First, a degree of overproduction is desirable so that districts can be choosy in their selections. And the decentralized nature of the K-12 labor market means that distribution can be uneven, even if net supply is adequate. Even states flush with elementary teachers can face shortages, particularly in urban and rural areas.
"You have programs in remote, rural areas where the local school district really wants them to take their kids and prepare them so they can come back to teach," Mr. Floden of Michigan State said. "And they would be quite resistant to being told, 'You have to set much higher standards.' "
Meanwhile, the specifics of how teachers move from state to state is not well understood, because data systems typically cannot track a teacher after he or she moves out of state.
Kim Walters-Parker, the director of educator preparation for the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board, believes that more information is needed on what happens to those teachers who don't or can't immediately get an elementary teaching job.
If those individuals go on to dental or law school, the scope of the problem is different from taking, for example, a lower-skilled job while waiting for a teaching opening or filing for unemployment benefits, she said.
"We need to figure out in an economic sense how big of a problem this is," Ms. Walters-Parker said. "If we overproduce teachers, and they're working as paraprofessionals making a lower wage, earning less money, less likely to [repay] student loans or pay taxes, we're not getting our investment back."
Kentucky, she said, is linking its education and labor databases to give a better picture of what happens to the teachers it produces.
Cash Cows?
Proposals for restricting the number of elementary teacher-candidates are also likely to face resistance from higher education because they could cut into colleges' bottom lines.
At the elementary level, producing teachers is a relatively inexpensive enterprise, since it does not require extensive access to laboratories or equipment, as do science and other secondary-level fields. And given the increasingly tuition-based nature even of public colleges, few incentives exist for colleges to voluntarily restrict enrollments.
"It puts us in a difficult position with our enrollment offices," said Illinois State's Ms. Adkins, "because our enrollment offices want enrollments."
That's why Mr. Wise sees the institutional level as the problem.
"From the point of view of a dean of a school of education, the incentive to reduce credit-hour production is challenging, because of course you have fewer enrollees and fewer faculty members and so on," he said. "If you're going to put controls on this, they need to be externally generated," such as state licensing boards.
Whether the issue of oversupply will catch on among policymakers remains uncertain, given other forces now reshaping the teaching profession. Those include not only demographic shifts, such as the expected retirement of thousands of baby boomer teachers, but also policy ones.
New evaluation and pay systems are increasing scrutiny on individual teachers' performance and seem likely to affect who chooses to enter the workforce.
In some states, fewer students are majoring in elementary education. For instance, the Associated Press reported in December that the California State University system, by far the largest preparer of teachers in the state, lost 20,000 enrollments in less than a decade. Illinois' enrollments are also down by about 20 percent from four years ago, according to Ms. Adkins.
Still, anecdotes about an extremely competitive elementary marketplace remain.
Mr. Flanagan, the Michigan state superintendent, noted that his daughter, a world-languages teacher, was able to find a job in the state. Not so her colleagues who majored in elementary education.
"All of her friends are in either Arizona or Florida," Mr. Flanagan said. "All of them."
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One of the things I like to do with this blog is to take rare and forlorn (and relatively short) books that I've enjoyed over the years and condense them down to the heart of the book's message while retaining the poetry of the author's language. It's for my own enjoyment, hopefully for yours as well, and I hope that it will influence at least some to search out the complete books for the home library.
I started with Ernest Callenbach's Living Cheaply With Style (which I need to continue soon) and followed with Taylor Caldwell's Dialogues with the Devil (which I will also return to).
When I used to buy record albums, it was rare when I liked every song on the album. Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon comes to mind as one that should never be listened to as singles but always as a whole composition. People nowadays rarely buy a whole CD but instead download their favorite songs.
Books are like that as well. Because I love words, sentences and ideas so much, it's a fun exercise for me to find the gems of language and ideas within books. Once condensed, when I read them, the words and ideas flow effortlessly like extended poems. Adding memorization of passages to the exercise was once common practice, sadly not so much anymore, but it further instills lessons beyond your mind and into your soul.
In this book, there are incredible closeup photos of animals, taken by Art Wolfe. When you look into the eyes of these animals, it's hard not to feel that something more is there, behind the eyes. It's an old adage that "the eyes are the windows of the soul." I believe that to be true.
Here, though, I'll use my own photos, beginning with one of the two cats in my home.
[Kowalski, Gary. The Souls of Animals. Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1991. pp v-7.] Please note that this book has been newly revised by the author. The version below is from the original, unrevised edition of 1991.
— Gary Kowalski has served as a Unitarian Universalist minister in Memphis TN, Seattle WA, and Burlington VT, since graduating from Harvard Divinity School. He has written on behalf of animals for many years, with the best of his sermons published in 1989 by Harper & Row, Best Sermons. He is also the author of Between Species: A Journal of Ethics.
We should understand well that all things are the
Work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great
Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the
Rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and
Winged peoples; and even more important, we should
Understand that the Great Spirit is also above all
These things and peoples. When we do understand all
This deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and
Love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be
And act and live as the Spirit intends.
— Black Elk
FOREWARD: by John Robbins
— John Robbins is the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated book Diet For A New America published by Stillpoint in 1987.
Have you noticed how often it is that small children are fascinated by and take delight in animals? They seem to experience a kinship, an affectionate bond with other creatures that helps to make them whole and who they are. Can you remember the first time you saw an elephant? Or a giraffe? We're talking major excitement here, wide-eyed jubilation.
Yet our adult society views animals in quite another way, as commodities or resources, as things, objects, and tools. We use them. We eat them. We experiment on them. They no longer enchant and delight us.
We see them now only as means to our ends. We don't know what we have lost.
The Souls of Animals is an eloquent and timely book that can help us regain our connection to the mysterious and wonderful creatures who share this planet's adventure with us. It is a beautiful book, and it is a healing one, for it brings to our consciousness the awareness that we need to regain if we are to learn to live in harmony with the natural world.
This book will open your heart and your mind to the mysterious and wonderful companions who fly, walk, crawl, and otherwise populate this beautiful Earth.
Ann Mortifee once wrote, "You can't see a bright tomorrow with yesterday's eyes." Gary Kowalski has given us a book that brings us new eyes, eyes with which we can again look at the world and ourselves with respect and reverence, eyes that can enable us to participate in the sacred potential of Creation.
. . . The Souls of Animals is about our kinship with life. It is a step away from loneliness and alienation, a step toward finding ourselves welcome and well amongst the Earth community. It is about learning to take our place with reverence and respect in the council of all beings.
What is Spirituality?
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master, he eats when he's hungry and sleeps when he's tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.
"I think I could turn and live with the animals, they're so placed and self-contained," wrote the poet Walt Whitman. "I stand and look at them long and long." He goes on:
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image. He barks at the mail carrier and the newsboy, but in contrast to some people I know he never growls at the children or barks at his wife.
So my dog is a sort of guru. When I become too serious and preoccupied, he reminds me of the importance of frolicking and play. When I get too wrapped up in abstractions and ideas, he reminds me of the importance of exercising and caring for my body. On his own canine level, he shows me that it might be possible to live without inner conflicts or neuroses: uncomplicated, genuine, and glad to be alive.
Mark Twain remarked long ago that human beings have a lot to learn from the Higher Animals. Just because they haven't invented static cling, ICBMs, or television evangelists doesn't mean they aren't spiritually evolved.
But what does it mean for an animal (including the human animal) to be spiritually evolved? In my mind, it means many things: the development of a moral sense, the appreciation of beauty, the capacity for creativity, and the awareness of one's self within a larger universe as well as a sense of mystery and wonder about it all. These are the most precious gifts we possess, yet there is nothing esoteric or other-worldly about such "spiritual" capabilities. Indeed, my contention is that spirituality is quite natural, rooted firmly in the biological order and in the ecology shared by all life.
I am a parish minister by vocation. My work involves the intangible and perhaps undefinable realm of spirit. I pray with the dying and counsel the bereaved. I take part in the joy of parents, christening their newborns and welcoming fresh life into the world. I occasionally help people think through moral quandaries and make ethical decisions, and I also share a responsibility for educating the young, helping them realize their inborn potential for reverence and compassion. Week after week I stand before my congregation and try to talk about the greatest riddles of human existence. In recent years, however, I have become aware that human beings are not the only animals on this planet that participate in affairs of the spirit.
This book is about the spiritual lives of animals. Up to now, much has been written about the intelligence of animals and their ability to solve problems. But spirituality is related less to problem-solving than to the kinds of problems we are even able to consider. We may contemplate death, for instance, without ever really hoping to "solve" the problem of our own demise. In reflecting on the spiritual lives of animals, therefore, I am concerned less with raw brain power, memory, and learning ability than I am with more subtle facets of intelligence such as empathy, artistry, and imagination.
Investigations of interspecies spirituality take us into unmapped territory. Are other animals conscious of themselves, as we are? Do animals grieve or have thoughts and feelings about the end of life? Do animals dream? Do they have a conscience or a sense of right and wrong? Do other species make music or appreciate art?
I am not a zoologist or expert on animal behavior. Probably no one with academic training in the field would ask such audacious questions; doing so would be regarded as unscientific and a sign of naivete. Fortunately, however, the clergy have a professional license to ponder issues that others consider imponderable. As twentieth century shamans, we are allowed to examine enigmas like "What makes us human?" and "What makes life sacred?" The danger here is that we are often in over our heads. But at least we are swimming in deep water and out of the shallows. In searching for answers to such queries, I have found, we not only enrich our understanding of other creatures, we also gain insight into ourselves.
Without anthropomorphizing our nonhuman relations we can acknowledge that animals share many human characteristics. They have emotional lives, experience love and fear, and possess their own integrity, which suffers when not respected. They play and are curious about their world. They develop loyalties and display altruism. They have "animal faith," a spontaneity and directness that can be most enlightening.
To me, animals have all the traits indicative of soul. For soul is not something we can see or measure. We can only observe its outward manifestations: in tears and laughter, in courage and heroism, in generosity and forgiveness. Soul is what's behind-the-scenes in the tough and tender moments when we are most intensely and grippingly alive. But what exactly is the soul? Soul is the point at which our lives intersect the timeless, in our love of goodness, our zest for beauty, our passion for truth. Soul is what makes each of our lives a microcosm – not just a meaningless fragment of the universe, but at some level a reflection of the whole.
No one can prove that animals have souls. But if we open our hearts to other creatures and allow ourselves to sympathize with their joys and struggles, we find they have the power to touch and transform us. There is an inwardness in other creatures that awakens what is innermost in ourselves.
For ages people have known that animals have a balance and harmony we can learn from. "Ask the beasts, and they will teach you," counsels the book of Job. Other creatures have inhabited the earth much longer than we have. Their instincts and adaptations to life are sometimes healthier than our own. In the Letakots-Lesa, "wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn." The concept that other living beings can be our spiritual guides is really nothing new.
This book is devoted to exploring the extent to which animals are our soul mates and fellow travelers, sharing in the things that make us most deeply human. Each chapter looks at a different facet of animal experience. Why do animals play? What are their fears and fantasies? What does the world look like through their eyes? How close are their experiences to our own?
A book like this probably raises more questions than it answers. Yet if the questions serve to make us more awe-ful and reflective about the other creatures who walk this planet, swim its oceans, and soar its heights, the book will have served its purpose. For I believe that if we are to keep our family homestead – Earth – safe for coming generations, we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life.
With love and affection, then, I dedicate these pages to the animals of the world, but especially to my own spiritual guide. Other people have their mentors, masters, and teachers. I have a doggone mutt.


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Let's Bring Tu Bishvat Into The 21 Century!
The holiday of Tu Bishvat (or Tu bishevat) always summoned to mind a couple of boring dried fruits on a paper plate given to us as ten year old kids in yeshivah. It wasn't really very exciting, and I particularly remember almost breaking a baby tooth as we tried to bite off a bit of the dried black hard-as-a-rock carob boxer strip that was touted as a special new fruit by our teachers. Being one of the producers of The Sephardic Heritage Museum film project, I had the honor of interviewing over 300 community members, many of whom remember celebrating the exciting holiday of Tu Bishvat way back in Syria. I was astounded to hear that the now pandemonium holiday of Purim was a mere passing around of Syrian pastries like Samboosak and Graybeh to their neighbors, but Tu Bishvat or "Id Il Jar" (pronounced Eed El Jar- the holiday of trees) was the one holiday that the children and parents alike truly looked forward to. Every year, a month before the holiday, the moms started to sew luxe velvet bags with a drawstring that would soon contain exotic fruits that the children had never seen before. We take our pineapples, watermelons, and mangos for granted nowadays, but I doubt that there were carts in the souk in Aleppo that exhorted these wonderful sweet new treats. I was told that it would take the adults weeks to seek out and save these fruits to excite the children and keep the memories of the Tu Bishvat holiday alive.
Upon speaking to one of my Tu Bishvat bakers (below), Margalit Dweck, I was astounded to hear that she and her husband have a Tu Bishvat dessert "seder" table every year on the eve of the holiday (this year Tu Bishvat falls on Friday evening, January 25, 2013). Rabbi Joe Dweck reads from the special Tu Bishvat book (photo below), points out the new fruits to his children, and recites the berachot. He proceeds to tell some Tu Bishvat stories, and the kids show off their Tu Bishvat art creations made in school. As a special treat, Margalit whips up a pomegranate martini shared by her and her husband.
Rabbi Joseph Dweck was kind enough to relay to me some Tu Bishvat fruit for thought. He mentioned the halachic aspect of how, when a Jewish person plants a fruit tree, he is not allowed to eat from it for three years, and of course the new year to begin counting begins every year on Tu Bishvat,(so if you planted a tree a month before Tu Bishvat- by the time TuBishvat rolls around 4 weeks later, that first year is already counted).
On an even more inspirational level, Rabbi Dweck explained our human connection to the trees, and how it even began with the story of Adam and Eve. The holiday of Tu Bishvat should inspire us to see the beauty and sweet flavor of Hashem's proud work- the wonderful shades of red, green, and orange… plus the abundant flavor and juiciness that exudes from each one of the fruits that our trees bear. Did you ever stop to think that we are similar to the trees? We try to grow strong, establish rock solid roots, and try to bear beautiful fruits that we are be proud of – our children, hessed, mitzvoth, and our work.
My sister in law constantly tells me that I am truly an old soul, and a gnawing ache in my heart propels me to believe that she is right. As The jewish Hostess, I have planted myself into the awesome job of treasuring the old customs while adding a splash of modern hues and excitement to our holiday ambiance.
Enjoy the jolt of awesome color, new fruits, gorgeous flowers, and Tu Bishvat cakes baked by our fabulous community bakers. Keep scrolling below for more details about each photo.
A huge thanks to Miriam and Manny Haber who graciously allowed me to use their beautiful home for the photo shoot. Miriam is the ultimate Jewish Hostess.
Morris Antebi, photographer extraordinaire shot these fantastic photos for The Jewish Hostess in a flash. I was impressed with his professionalism, the most up to date digital photography equipment and the sharp artistic detail that he was able to capture with his magical lens. Please check out his Facebook page HERE. His commercial work and wedding and video portfolio is not to be believed. Thanks Morris!!
Thank you Vicki Majors for bringing over the much needed tree trunks for the cake displays!
Cherry Blossom fabric for the table runner by Marimekko for Crate and Barrel. Run over to Crate and Barrel for some great table decorating ideas!
Candy and chocolate tree built into the dining room chandelier by Louis of Avenue J Florists.
Candy and Chocolate displays and Gifts by Lucy Aini and Edlo Sorcher.
Check out their CANDY and CHOCOLATE website HERE.
More kosher delicacies from CANDY and CHOCOLATE.
Here I mounded fresh new fruits and the Shiv'ah Minim – strawberries, grapes, figs, apricots, pomegranates, dates, olives (back left), and fig bread by Mikhayla Bibi.
Fuchsia cotton berry napkin by Crate and Barrel.
Gorgeous and useful circular white resin tray above by Parci Parla.565 Kings Highway New York, NY 11223
Note the Tu Bishvat berachot prayer books (above)for new fruits at the Tu Bishvat seder.
An amazing "Strawberries Dipped in Chocolate Tree" by Custom Berries Plus.
All strawberries are checked and cleaned and hand dipped in pareve or milk chocolate.
Note the delicious grapes that are dipped in chocolate and nuts on the base of the tree!.
By Esty Mosseri. Check out Esty's Instagram page HERE and her WEBSITE HERE.
Luv at First Bite by baker Marlene Cohen. The perfect Tu Bishvat cake! (above)Branches and cherry blossoms! The bottom tier of the cake is a fluffy coconut cake, frosted with a parve buttercream frosting. The second tier is a strawberry vanilla cake, also frosted with buttercream frosting. Love at First Bite caters all kinds of kosher parties including showers, engagement parties, bar mitzvahs and more!
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Margalit Dweck is famous for her fabulous artistry in kosher baking for any hostess event. Floral Tu BIshvat Petit Fours (above) atop a monstera leaf are just a tiny show of Margalit's talent. Follow Margalit here on Instagram.
Mari Gindi's Batter Up Confections are the talk of the town. Customized kosher baked goods for your every occasion. Check out her website HERE.
Adelle Soffer's almond and/or coconut date balls are the perfect healthy Tu Bishvat and all year round healthy snack go-to. Each date is cleaned and checked.Follow her Instagram feed HERE.
Sweet Cakes by Sara Azizian. Sara can be reached at 646-400-7751 and/or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Instagram @sweetcakesbysara'. All the decorations are made from sugar and are edible. The flowers are from the Almond Tree called Almond Blossoms. The almond is mentioned many times in the Torah. It is described as "Among the best of fruits". The almond blossom was also supplied as a model for the Menorah which stood in the Holy Temple.
Lesley Chera's cured Sicilian, Kalamata, and Cerignola olives are specially seasoned . Choose from in a variety of different flavors- Spicy, Rosemary, Lemon, Jalapeño, Zatar are just some of the flavors in Lesley's repertoire … Some are are even seasoned w fennel and citrus peel.. Perfect for any meal and a beautifu hostess gift. Lesley's favorites are served with wine and good friends. Follow @LesleyChera on Instagram.
Jeanette's Olive Garden (above) sells specially seasoned pitted cured olives in many flavors such as Zaatar,Lemon Zest, Jalepeno, Tapanade And Stuffed Mozarella Olives too!
Pitted and Kid friendly too! Makes a perfect gift and for your own Shabbat table! Follow @JeanetteCohen on Instagram.
"My name is Mikhayla Bibi. I'm a graduate of Jerusalem Culinary Institute where I received my certification in both the culinary and patisserie arts. I was employed by Eucalyptus, one of Jerusalem's most highly regarded restaurants as the bread baker. In addition I learned many biblically historical dishes which is part of the theme of this bread. Figs and Dates both among the seven species perfect for Tu B'shvat. Enjoy!"
I actually got to taste Mikhayla's white meringue bowl filled with cream and topped with fresh grapes and pomegranate seeds. Divine! Follow Mikhayla's Instagram page HERE
Leila Akkad designed this Macaron Cherry Blossom Tree to fit in perfectly with our Tu Bishvat theme. Each macaron hung like an individual cherry blossom which had a gorgeous effect on the holiday table. Leila designs gorgeous macarons for your every hostess need. She actually created the macaron menorah featured HERE on The Jewish Hostess. Follow Leila HERE on Instagram for more fabulous kosher macaron creations!
When Shirley bar Nathan heard that I was working on a Tu Bishvat table, she ran over with this hot pink flower arrangement that worked perfectly with my modern rustic theme. Thanks Shirley! Follow Shirley's fantastic floral shop here on Instagram.
Check out the fabulous centerpiece that she made for my Rosh Hashanah table HERE.
Sophia Cohen's new Urban Pops are the talk of the town! Made with fresh fruit, and frozen to perfection, makes me just want to lick these delicious pops right off the screen!
Flavors like apricot, blueberry, watermelon, mojito, pina colada, and limonata are just some of her citrus delights. Email Sophia Cohen HERE for more info!
My niece Shirley Dana is an amazing baker. Her desserts are made in her own strictly kosher, dipped kitchen, and are baked personally from scratch to order. She works hard to create sweets that not only taste like heaven, but that can be seen as tiny works of art as well. Using only the finest ingredients, her desserts can be glamorously displayed at an event, but equally enjoyed on a cozy night at home. Check out her website HERE.
"Tu bishvat encompasses a variety of delicious fruits and nuts that represent Israel, but it goes beyond that. In my eyes, the holiday also serves as a reminder for how our country was built, all the hard work that went into it (and continues to go into it), all of the men and women who joined forces to create our homeland. This kosher cake contains dried fruit and is encrusted with almonds, a clear correlation to tu bishvat. Frosted with chocolate to represent carobs, the top is decorated with date balls. They're dusted with pink sanding sugar to tie in the gorgeous pink and brown theme. Circle-shaped and filled with so many accompanying flavors, the cake symbolizes all the different "flavors" that have worked together, not in a hierarchy but rather equally in a circle, to form our beautiful country." By Yvonne Orfali- The Cravery. Check out Yvonne's Instagram feed HERE.
The official liquor of the Tu Bishavt Holiday! Mahia Fig Liquor! Kosher. Distilled by the Nahmias family.
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Gold Rimmed Coffee Cups by Michael Wainwright.
Rimmed Resin Circular Tray by Parci Parla.565 Kings Highway New York, NY 11223
Close up of resin tray below.
The bags and tags below were hand stamped with a cherry blossom stamp by moi! When Miriam told me that as a child in Mexico they would run into the house with wide paper bags on Tu Bishvat excited for their delicious new and dried fruits from their parents,(originally from Aleppo, Syria) they played a game of, "Who sees 'Id Il Jar?" (the holiday of trees). And when the kids said- "WE SEE HIM!!!" They would fill up their bags with candy. Inspired by her story, I decided to recreate my own rendition below…..
So easy and fun to make these hand stamped cherry blossom craft bags! I also purchased the wood grained cardboard boxes above from Paper Source.
I think I almost bought the entire store out! Check out Paper Source HERE
Phew! All done….
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Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, second only to water. Green tea in particular has gained great popularity in recent years, largely due to the tremendous amount of research showing its ability to support the body's natural defenses against problems such as arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, weight gain, and cognitive impairment.
The History and Mythology of Green Tea
Archeologists have found that people in China and India ate tea leaves steeped in boiling water as far back as 5,000 years ago. Green tea has been used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for centuries as a stimulant, diuretic, and astringent (to control bleeding and help wounds heal), and to support heart health. Additional uses of green tea have historically included treating flatulence, regulating body temperature, regulating blood sugar, promoting digestion, and improving mental processes.
There is a popular legend in India concerning the origins of the tea plant. It is said that when Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was traveling through China, he became frustrated at his inability to stay awake during meditation so he tore off his eyelids. They say that a tea plant sprouted from the spot where his eyelids fell, and the plant gave him the ability to stay awake, meditate and reach enlightenment.
Currently about 500,000 tons of green tea is produced each year throughout Asia and in parts of the Middle East and Africa. It is mostly consumed by people in Asia, the United States, Europe and some parts of North Africa.
There are three main varieties of tea – green, black and Oolong – that come from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. To make green tea, the newly harvested leaves are immediately steamed to prevent fermentation and preserve the natural polyphenols. This process also preserves the green color of the leaves. When the leaves are allowed to partially ferment, they turn into Oolong tea; and when they fully ferment, they become black tea.
What's So Good About Green Tea?
Green tea contains high concentrations of polyphenols, called catechins, which have potent antioxidant properties. Antioxidants are essential to good health because they neutralize free radicals – harmful molecules that damage our cells and DNA, and increase vulnerability to numerous illnesses including heart disease and cancer.
Although there are six primary catechin compounds in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is the most active and also the most studied. It is 100 times more effective in neutralizing free radicals than vitamin C and 25 times more powerful than vitamin E.
Green Tea and Natural Cancer Defense
Because significantly less cancer is found in Asian populations than in North American and European populations, and because the people in Asian countries tend to drink a lot more green tea, a great deal of research has been focused on the possible ways green tea might support the body's natural defenses against cancer.
After studying green tea and cancer for 16 years, U.S. Veterans Affairs scientist Santosh Katiyar, PhD, MS, is convinced that green tea, because of its rich polyphenol content, is among the most potent tumor-inhibitors that nature provides.
In the laboratory, studies have shown that tea catechins act as powerful inhibitors of cancer growth by scavenging oxidants before cell injuries occur, reducing the incidence and size of chemically induced tumors, and inhibiting the growth of tumor cells.(1)
Following are a few examples of the conclusions from these studies:
• When female rats with breast cancer were given green tea extract, there was a 70% decrease in tumor weight, slower tumor development and less malignancy.(2)
• A 2007 study looking at the mechanisms by which EGCG inhibits breast cancer cells concluded that "green tea and EGCG offer attractive antitumorigenic agents that can be easily and safely incorporated into daily lives."(3)
• A study of green tea's effect on breast cancer conducted at the Boston University School of Medicine concluded, "Although EGCG inhibits multiple cancer-inducing cellular programs, the fact that it profoundly improves the histology of the DMBA-induced tumors argues for its value in being incorporated into the diet for chemoprevention against environmental carcinogens."(4)
• A Korean study looked at the chemopreventive effects of green tea against cigarette smoke-induced mutations called sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) that may contribute to tumor growth. Participants were divided into four groups: non-smokers, smokers, smokers drinking three cups of green tea a day, and smokers drinking three cups of coffee a day. After six months, the rate of SCE was significantly higher in both the smoking group and in the smokers who drank coffee, though the rate in the group of smokers who drank green tea was comparable to that of the non-smokers – implying that green tea can block the cigarette-induced increase in SCE.(5)
Note: Green tea should not be used if you are undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. Radiation kills tumor cells via oxidation and green tea has antioxidant qualities that could interfere with radiation therapy.
Green Tea and Cardiovascular Health
In a 2008 review of current scientific evidence relating to green tea's ability to support a healthy cardiovascular system, scientists reported that the more green tea people consumed, the lower their risk for cardiovascular disease.(6)
Here are the results from two other individual studies dealing with green tea and cardiovascular health:
• A 2009 study looked at the cardiovascular effects of short-term green tea consumption. Participants were asked to drink four cups of green tea per day for 14 days without altering any other part of their normal diet. At the end of the two weeks, the participants showed reductions in blood pressure, fasting total cholesterol, body fat and body weight. These results suggest that green tea may have a positive role in reducing cardiovascular risk factors.(7)
• A 2001 study conducted in Japan found that the tea catechin EGCG inhibited the oxidation of LDL cholesterol in vitro.(8) Since the oxidation of cholesterol is what causes it to become "sticky" and form plaque in the arterial walls, inhibiting its oxidation is an important factor in preventing cardiovascular problems.
Additional Health Benefits of Green Tea Demonstrated
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Although the majority of green tea research seems to have focused on cancer and cardiovascular disease, there are also hundreds of other studies evaluating the benefits of consuming green tea for just about any health issue you can imagine – from asthma to genital warts, and from dental cavities to the common cold.
Following are a few samples of other areas of green tea research:
Diabetes Risk – In an interesting study done in 2004, researchers looked at glucose metabolism in both diabetic mice and healthy humans. They found that green tea promoted glucose metabolism in healthy humans and lowered blood glucose in diabetic mice. They concluded that the study "provides evidence that green tea has an antidiabetic effect."(9)
Weight Control – Based on recent data from human studies indicating that green tea extracts may support body weight reduction by increasing thermogenesis and fat oxidation, a German study looked specifically at the effect of EGCG on weight loss. They found that EGCG "has the potential to increase fat oxidation in men and may thereby contribute to the anti-obesity effects of green tea."(10)
Rheumatoid Arthritis – Investigators at the University of Maryland and Rutgers University examining the effects of green tea polyphenols on rheumatoid arthritis found that green tea significantly reduced the severity of the arthritis. They suggest that green tea affects arthritis by promoting positive changes in various arthritis-related immune responses.(11)
Cognitive Functioning – A 2006 study of 1,003 volunteers examined the association between green tea consumption and cognitive function in humans. Researchers concluded that a higher consumption of green tea is associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment in humans.(12)
To Drink or To Supplement…
Is it better to drink your green tea or to take a green tea extract supplement? While drinking green tea is certainly good for you, there are a couple of reasons why supplementing with EGCG-rich green tea extract is better:
• Convenience. It would be difficult to drink the quantity of green tea needed each day to provide the recommended amounts of EGCG – often 10 cups a day or more. Or you could take a single veggie cap of ProHealth's Green Tea EGCG Extreme – the most potent green tea extract on the market today.
• 99.6% caffeine free. Even if you could drink the needed 10 cups a day or more of green tea, you would be getting a great deal of caffeine with it. The Green Tea EGCG Extreme supplement contains only a tiny amount of caffeine.
In Summary
Green tea – studied extensively in humans, animals and laboratory tests – contains powerful antioxidants and has been shown to promote good health. Research continues as more and more specific health benefits are discovered each year.
1. Dufresne CJ, Farnworth ER. A review of latest research findings on the health promotion properties of tea. J. Nutri Biochem 2001; 12(7):404–421.
2. Kavanagh KT, et al (2001). Green tea extracts decrease carcinogen-induced mammary tumor burden in rats and rate of breast cancer cell proliferation in culture. J Cell Biochem, 82:387-398.
Full journal article: www.bu.edu/cms/www.bumc.bu.edu/whirc/files/PDF/Kavanaghetal.pdf
3. Belguise K, et al. Activation of FOXO3a by the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate induces estrogen receptor a expression reversing invasive phenotype of breast cancer cells. Cancer Research 67, 5763-5770 (2007).
Full journal article: www.bumc.bu.edu/whirc/files/2008/11/belguise_canres.pdf
4. Belguise K, et al. Green tea polyphenols reverse cooperation between c-Rel and CK2 that induces the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, Slug and an invasive phenotype. Cancer Research 67, 11742-11750 (2007).
Full journal article: www.bumc.bu.edu/whirc/files/2008/11/belguise_dmba_canres.pdf
5. Lee IP et al. Chemopreventive effects of green tea against cigarette smoke-induced mutations in humans. J Cell Biochem 1997; Suppl 27:68-75.
6. Jochmann N, et al. Green tea and cardiovascular disease: from molecular targets towards human health. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2008 Nov;11(6):758-65.
7. Emad Al-Dujaili, et al. Effects of green tea consumption on blood pressure, total cholesterol, body weight and fat in healthy volunteers. 2009 Endocrine Abstracts 20: P470.
8. Osada K, Takahashi M, Hoshina S, Nakamura M, Nakamura S, Sugano M: Tea catechins inhibit cholesterol oxidation accompanying oxidation of low density lipoprotein in vitro. Comp Biochem Physiol Part C Toxicol Pharmacol 2001, 128:153-164.
9. Tsuneki H, et al. Effect of green tea on blood glucose levels and serum proteomic patterns in diabetic (db/db) mice and on glucose metabolism in healthy humans. BMC Pharmacol. 2004 Aug 26;4:18.
10. Boschmann M, Thielecke F. The effects of epigallocatechin-3-gallate on thermogenesis and fat oxidation in obese men: a pilot study. J Am Coll Nutr. 2007 Aug;26(4):389S-395S.
11. Kim HR, et al. Green tea protects rats against autoimmune arthritis by modulating disease-related immune events. The Journal of Nutrition. Nov. 2008:138(11):2111–2116.
12. Kuriyama S, et al. Green tea consumption and cognitive function: a cross-sectional study from the Tsurugaya Project 1. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Feb;83(2):355-61.
* Karen Lee Richards is Lead Expert specializing in Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS for HealthCentral's ChronicPainConnection (www.chronicpainconnection.com). Karen is co-founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) and was Executive Editor of Fibromyalgia AWARE magazine for four years.
Note: This information has not been evaluated by the FDA. It is general and is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure any illness, condition, or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.


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57 injured when ferry strikes dock in lower Manhattan (photos)
NEW YORK -- Authorities say about 57 people were injured in a Manhattan ferry crash this morning -- two of them critically.
Officials at the scene gave this breakdown of injuries: two critical; nine serious; 17 guarded, and 29 minor.
Photos: Ferry crash in New York injures 57 people
Passengers aboard the vessel, the Seastreak Wall Street, said scores of people who had been standing, waiting to disembark, were hurled to the deck by the impact.
"We were pulling into the dock. The boat hit the dock. We just tumbled on top of each other. I got thrown into everybody else. ... People were hysterical, crying," said Ellen Foran, 57, of Neptune City, N.J.
The accident, which ripped open part the boat's hull like an aluminum can, happened at 8:45 a.m. at a pier near the South Street Seaport, at Manhattan's southern tip.
Firefighters were still carrying people away on flat-board stretchers an hour after the crash.
Some 326 passengers were aboard the ferry, which had arrived from Atlantic Highlands, N.J., a section of the Jersey shore still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
Passenger Frank McLaughlin, 46, whose home was filled with 5 feet of water in the storm, said he was thrown forward and wrenched his knee in the impact.
He said some other passengers were bloodied when they banged into walls and toppled to the floor.
Dee Wertz, who was on shore, waiting for the ferry, saw the impact.
"It was coming in a little wobbly," she said. "It hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb."
After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally. Wertz said passengers raced off once the ramp was down.
"I think people just wanted to get the heck off the boat as soon as they could," she said.
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Zack Greinke wins Dodgers debut, 3-0 over Pirates
Not too bad, as far as first impressions go.
Zack Greinke pitched two-hit ball into the seventh inning of his splendid Dodgers debut, leading Los Angeles to a 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.
Andre Ethier homered and Los Angeles got RBI doubles from Matt Kemp and Adrian Gonzalez. Greinke, who signed a $147 million, six-year contract to join the Dodgers during the offseason, struck out six and did not walk a batter in 6 1-3 innings.
"First impressions are important," Greinke said. "But I'm just trying to get one out at a time. No matter who it is, they're the most important batter at the moment. That's kind of what I do, and hopefully everything takes care of itself."
Before the game, even Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he hadn't seen Greinke much.
The right-hander was on a limited pitch count after throwing only 13 innings during spring training, but he made his 92 pitches count Friday and showed why he was in such high demand last winter.
"He was able to spot the fastball, threw the cutter, threw the two-seamer, four-seamer, the velocity was firm, and his slider was a good pitch," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "He threw two or three 3-2 breaking balls to keep you off the fastball. A handful of breaking balls that are 72-74 mph.
"It was a tremendous show of control, and controlling bat speed. All those three-ball counts, (but) we couldn't push him over the edge."
Greinke yielded just a two-out single to Garrett Jones in the second inning and a one-out single to Andrew McCutchen in the seventh.
The 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner said his first start for a new team didn't bring any added pressure, and he just did what he normally does.
"I think it's rare to have that kind of touch with his breaking stuff. He was pretty amazing, really," Mattingly said. "He was like Felix (Hernandez). I've seen both those guys pitch when they were 19 and both of them had great command early, and great touch with their off-speed stuff early, and you don't see that."
Besides Greinke getting his first victory in his first Dodgers start, there were other firsts for Los Angeles. Ethier hit his first home run of the year, Kemp got his first hit and Gonzalez had his first RBI.
For Kemp, his RBI double in the sixth off Pirates starter Jonathan Sanchez (0-1) not only increased the lead to 2-0, it also ended an 0-for-12 start to the season.
"I'm excited about that one," Kemp said. "There's more to come though, there's more to come."
Immediately after Kemp's double, Gonzalez doubled into the right-field corner to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead and knock Sanchez out of the game.
Greinke (1-0) began his Dodgers career by retiring the first five batters he faced. With two outs in the second, he gave up a hard one-hopper by Jones that second baseman Mark Ellis couldn't handle. The play was ruled a hit.
Greinke responded by setting down the next 14 hitters until McCutchen lined a single to center in the seventh. Mattingly swiftly made his way to the mound to take the ball from Greinke, who missed a couple of spring starts because of inflammation in his elbow and the flu.
"That's as far as he's been," Mattingly said. "We wanted him to be below 100 (pitches). That was a fairly long inning there when we scored and you could tell he wasn't quite as sharp."
Greinke got some help from his defense, particularly shortstop Justin Sellers in the fifth. Sellers robbed Jones of a hit with a diving, backhand stab of a sharp grounder, bouncing up and throwing to first.
Brandon League pitched the ninth for his first save of the season, completing the two-hitter.
Sanchez was no stranger to the Dodgers, pitching against them for the 18th time in his career. All 17 previous appearances came with the Giants.
Like Greinke, Sanchez retired his first five hitters. But the sixth batter in the lineup, Ethier, drove a 2-2 pitch into the right-field bleachers.
Los Angeles broke through again in the sixth. After Mark Ellis' leadoff walk, Kemp and Gonzalez had back-to-back doubles to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead, ending the night for Sanchez. He went five-plus innings, allowing three runs and six hits.
After Greinke came out in the seventh, Paco Rodriguez, Kenley Jansen and League combined to hold the Pirates hitless for the final 2 2-3 innings.
NOTES: Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley (bruised finger) made his last rehab start for Class-A Rancho Cucamonga on Thursday and is slated to come off the disabled list and start next Wednesday in San Diego. Billingsley missed the final five weeks of the 2012 season with an injured elbow. ... Pirates catcher Russell Martin returned to Dodger Stadium for the first time since playing his final game with Los Angeles on Aug. 3, 2010. Martin, who spent the past two years with the Yankees after the Dodgers let him go following the 2010 season, received mostly boos from the crowd when he came to bat in the second inning. ... The Pirates went homerless for the fourth game in a row and remained the only National League team without a home run this season.


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Britain's 'Iron Lady,' Margaret Thatcher, laid to rest in formal ceremony
LONDON -- Britain's Iron Lady was being laid to rest Wednesday with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing political figure.
A coffin containing the body of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was driven from the Houses of Parliament to the church of St. Clement Danes for prayers ahead of the former leader's full funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral.
From there the coffin -- draped in a Union flag and topped with white roses and a note from her children reading "Beloved mother, always in our hearts" -- was borne on a gun carriage drawn by six black horses of the Royal Horse Artillery to the cathedral, where 2,300 invited mourners awaited.
Spectators lining the route broke into applause -- and scattered boos -- as the carriage, escorted by young soldiers, sailors and airmen, passed by.
Some staged silent protests by turning their backs upon the coffin. One man held a banner declaring "Rest in shame." Along the route, arguments broke out in the crowd between Thatcher supporters and opponents.
An honor guard of soldiers in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats saluted the coffin as it approached the cathedral, while red-coated veterans known as Chelsea Pensioners stood to attention on the steps.
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip arrived last among the mourners, who included dignitaries from around the world, 11 prime ministers and former U.S. Secretary of States Henry Kissinger and George Schultz.
Dozens of people camped out overnight near the 17th-century cathedral in hopes of catching a glimpse of Thatcher's flag-draped coffin and its military escort, and hundreds had arrived hours before the funeral.
"I came to commemorate the greatest hero of our modern age," said 25-year-old Anthony Boutall, clutching a blue rose. "She took a nation on its knees and breathed new life into it."
Flags on government buildings were lowered to half-staff across the country but not all Britons were joining the mourning.
"Like anyone else she deserves a decent funeral, but not at the expense of the taxpayer," said protester Patricia Welsh, 69.
More than 700 soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lined the route to the cathedral and around 4,000 police officers were on duty. Security was stepped up after Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 170.
Parliament's Big Ben bell was silenced for the funeral service, which was to include hymns and passages from the Bible read by Prime Minister David Cameron and the late premier's granddaughter, Amanda Thatcher.
The woman nicknamed the Iron Lady transformed Britain during her 11-year tenure from 1979 to 1990, privatizing state industries, deregulating the economy, and causing upheaval whose impact is still felt. She died on April 8 at age 87.
Thatcher was given a ceremonial funeral with military honors -- not officially a state funeral, which requires a vote in Parliament. Still, the proceedings will feature the same level of pomp and honor afforded Princess Diana in 1997 and the Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002.
That has raised the ire of some Britons, those who believe her legacy is a socially and economically divided nation.
Retired teacher Henry Page stood outside the cathedral Wednesday bearing a sign protesting the funeral's reported $15 million cost -- "Over 10 million pounds of our money for a Tory funeral!"
Cameron insisted the ceremony was "a fitting tribute to a great prime minister respected around the world."
The dean of St. Paul's, David Ison, has acknowledged the funeral has divided opinion, but said the service itself would be a somber affair.
"There is no tribute," he said. "There is no eulogy, and that was Mrs. Thatcher's decision. It's not being triumphalist. It's not a celebration of her life and her achievements."
Some high profile guests sent their regrets, including former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan -- whose husband Ronald had a close relationship with Thatcher -- and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who shared key moments in history with the late prime minister. Germany's Angela Merkel sent her foreign minister, while from the U.S., the Clintons and the Bushes declined to attend.
Alicia Castro, Argentina's ambassador to the U.K., also declined. Thatcher went to war in 1982 to retake the Falkland Islands after Argentina invaded the remote British territory off the South American coast.


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300 YEARS OF YALEOfficial Yale statement of athletic philosophy
Yale University offers its students a liberal education, one which has as its focus the intellectual and moral development of the individual, and which gives students a foundation for learning throughout their lives.
Yale has long recognized that such an education is not fostered by its academic component alone. Part of it is constituted by those challenging and pleasurable experiences and extracurricular activitieslike varsity and recreational athleticsthat enable an individual to give fuller force to academic training.
As a part of its great athletic tradition, Yale sponsors over 30 varsity teams, with broad opportunities for participation by men and women, in which athletes of proven ability have the opportunity to test their skill and valor in intercollegiate competition.
Through its commitment to competitive athletics, Yale demonstrates its belief that the lessons such engagement teaches are many and enduring. Among these are learning how to strive to win, to compete with pride and honor, to make sacrifices, to persevere when all seems lost, and to develop a sense of obligation and responsibility for others.
These lessons make athletics a school for accomplishment and character, and for the athlete they represent an invaluable part of the non-academic aspects of a liberal education.
Because Yale views athletics as a component of liberal education, complimentary to its central academic mission but not superior to it, the University requires that aspiration and achievement in competitive athletic endeavor play a proportioned role within any student's school life.
The University also subscribes to the Ivy agreement, the principles of which delimit the role competitive athletic endeavor play in the life of the University or of any individual student within it. These principles include the belief that student-athletes should be generally representative of their class and admitted on the basis of academic promise and personal qualities as well as athletic abilities; that financial aid to student athletes be awarded in the same way it is awarded to other students, that is solely on the basis of financial need; that student-athletes be held accountable to the same academic standards as other students and that athletes make normal academic progress toward their degrees.
In addition to its sponsorship of competitive sports, Yale supports a wide range of extracurricular programs, including those which present significant opportunities for recreational and instructional participation. The University provides supervision for over 30 club sports and has developed a large intramural program, which present undergraduates, graduate students and faculty fellows with the opportunity to participate in competitive sports throughout the calendar year.
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Soriano to handle DH duties in Interleague Play
SEATTLE -- Alfonso Soriano was the designated hitter for Friday's Interleague game in Seattle and will likely handle that role in the Cubs' six-game West Coast swing against the Mariners and Athletics.
Soriano's first game at DH was a success, as the veteran slugger went 2-for-4 with a home run off Hisashi Iwakuma in the Cubs' 5-4 loss on Friday.
Ryan Sweeney and Brian Bogusevic will be getting the action in the outfield for the Cubs with Soriano serving as the DH. The Cubs will have to figure out how to get everyone at-bats when David DeJesus returns from a sprained right shoulder. DeJesus was in Chicago, continuing his rehab.
"A couple of them might be part of our future, left-handed hitters who are better athletes, two-way players," manager Dale Sveum said of Sweeney and Bogusevic. "We'll work it out to figure out the playing time."
Sveum will talk to Soriano about playing time if there's a significant change for the 37-year-old outfielder.
"You're not going to just do something like that to a guy who's had that kind of career," Sveum said. "I'll have to figure out how to get these guys their at-bats with matchups, or whoever's the hottest. A lot of times those things work themselves out."


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Mexican Eats: Guelaguetza
In a borough that's not particularly know for it, Hell's Kitchen hosts a pocket of good and cheap Manhattan Mexican food. Bodegas with back-room kitchens serving respectable tacos and dot 10th Avenue and tiny take-out joints shuttle burritos to the doors of many. Guelaguetza, on 47th Street, is a fine emblem. A sliver of a grocery selling Mexican boxed goods, toilet paper, and pour-it-your-self coffee, there's a kitchen in back. The green awning outside reads La Rosita, but it's the husband and wife team behind Guelaguetza crafting satisfying versions of the classics.
Through the corridor, there's nice knitted tablecloths on the four small tables and the walls have been painted a bright yellow to diminish any forming claustrophobia. The owner's young daughter, Sara, usually occupies the back corner table for a better view of Yo Gabba Gabba! playing on a TV overhead. Deliverymen on breaks come in for plates of scrambled eggs with ham and rice and beans with warm tortillas on the side. Family members stop by for milanesa tortas and to tussle playfully with Sara.
There's cheap egg-on-a-roll breakfasts and $3 hamburgers but it's the Mexican food that rises above the tide of perfunctory deli-dishes. The tortas ($7), with layers of headcheese, ham, cotija cheese, avocado, and pickled jalapenos are decent. There are quesadillas and sopes made by hand (both $2.75), filled with ground beef picadillo, cheese, or mushrooms, drizzled with crema and piles of lettuce. Note the taco guelaguetza ($5.00) slipped onto the center of the menu. More commonly known as a taco placero or market taco, this dish from the historically poor regions of the Southern states of Mexico gathers scraps of rice, raw jalapenos, and hard-boiled eggs to heap them, dry, onto an oversized tortilla. I have yet to truly enjoy one.
Place your order at the window to the kitchen, where you can peek back and watch the proprietress stir pots of stewing beans and trim beef tongues. Whatever daily braise she's tending to is usually delicious. Recently it was a green chile stew of pork ribs and perfectly cooked nopales, with a pleasant crunch and no sign of slime. The tacos ($2.50) come double-tortilla'd, filled with salted beef cecina, al pastor, or chicken, and topped with cilantro and onion. They're ordinary, that is, unless you order the sangrita, a jumble of diced goat meat and onions, thickened with goat blood, a sort of loose blood sausage the color of a dark bruise. Heavy with clove, cinnamon, and a deep earthiness that only comes from eating life itself, it is both memorable and highly recommended.
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