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The name Maccabee, probably meaning "hammer," is actually applied in the Books of Maccabees to only one man, Judas, third son of the priest Mattathias and first leader of the revolt against the Seleucid kings who persecuted the Jews (1 Mc 2:4, 66; 2 Mc 8:5, 16; 10:1, 16). Traditionally the name has come to be extended to the brothers of Judas, his supporters, and even to other Jewish heroes of the period, such as the seven brothers (2 Mc 7).
The two Books of Maccabees contain independent accounts of events (in part identical) that accompanied the attempted suppression of Judaism in Palestine in the second century B.C. The vigorous reaction to this attempt established for a time the religious and political independence of the Jews.
First Maccabees was written about 100 B.C., in Hebrew, but the original has not come down to us. Instead, we have an early, pre-Christian, Greek translation full of Hebrew idioms. The author, probably a Palestinian Jew, is unknown. He was familiar with the traditions and sacred books of his people and had access to much reliable information on their recent history (from 175 to 134 B.C.). He may well have played some part in it himself in his youth. His purpose in writing is to record the deliverance of Israel that God worked through the family of Mattathias (5:62)—especially through his three sons, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, and his grandson, John Hyrcanus. The writer compares their virtues and their exploits with those of Israel's ancient heroes, the Judges, Samuel, and David.
There are seven poetic sections in the book that imitate the style of classical Hebrew poetry: four laments (1:25–28, 36–40; 2:7–13; 3:45), and three hymns of praise of "our fathers" (2:51–64), of Judas (3:3–9), and of Simon (14:4–15). The doctrine expressed in the book is the customary belief of Israel, without the new developments which appear in 2 Maccabees and Daniel. The people of Israel have been specially chosen by the one true God as covenant-partner, and they alone are privileged to know and worship God, their eternal benefactor and unfailing source of help. The people, in turn, must worship the Lord alone and observe exactly the precepts of the law given to them. The rededication of the Jerusalem Temple described in 4:36–59 (see 2 Mc 10:1–8) is the origin of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah.
Unlike the Second Book of Maccabees, there is no doctrine of individual immortality except in the survival of one's name and fame, nor does the book express any messianic expectation, though messianic images are applied historically to "the days of Simon" (1 Mc 14:4–17). In true Deuteronomic tradition, the author insists on fidelity to the law as the expression of Israel's love for God. The contest which he describes is a struggle, not simply between Jew and Gentile, but between those who would uphold the law and those, Jews or Gentiles, who would destroy it. His severest condemnation goes, not to the Seleucid politicians, but to the lawless apostates among his own people, adversaries of Judas and his brothers, who are models of faith and loyalty.
The first and second Books of Maccabees, though regarded by Jews and Protestants as apocryphal, i.e., not inspired Scripture, because not contained in the Jewish list of books drawn up at the end of the first century A.D., have always been accepted by the Catholic Church as inspired and are called "deuterocanonical" to indicate that they are canonical even though disputed by some.
First Maccabees can be divided as follows:
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John Makely / NBC News
Six months after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, a heavily damaged home in Mantoloking sits untouched.
BREEZY POINT, N.Y. -- The construction noises are almost constant at daytime in this coastal enclave six months after Hurricane Sandy, but for many residents whose homes were badly damaged, recovery is moving at a slow pace – or not at all.
Many of those displaced by the so-called superstorm say they are stuck in limbo, trying to raise money to pay for repairs or replace their homes while coming to grips with new, federal flood-zone maps that many fear will make it too costly for them to return.
"We're no better off than we were six months ago," said Kieran Burke, a fire marshal who lost his home to a massive fire that erupted at the height of the storm. " ... I'd like to have an idea when I can tell my wife our children can go home."
Burke's dilemma is not unique to hard-hit Breezy Point, where more than 75 percent of the homes were either consumed by fire or suffered flood damage.
Some 39,000 people in New Jersey remain displaced by the storm, Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday. The number of New Yorkers still out of their homes is unclear, though federal officials said 350 households in the affected region are still getting money for hotel or motel stays.
"We've just got the tip of the iceberg in terms of the amount of work that needs to be done," said Michael Byrne, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's senior official in New York state for the Sandy response and recovery.
Though people now have some resources to rebuild, he said, they "still have some tough questions to answer ... especially people that are in high-risk areas: 'How do I rebuild?' or 'Do I leave, do I seek a buyout?' So, there's still a lot of tough issues to be worked out."
While some neighbors are almost ready to move back home, others are still unsure how much of their property can be rebuilt following the storm.
Sandy blasted ashore on Oct. 29 near Brigantine, N.J., leaving more than at least 147 people dead in its wake in the Caribbean and the U.S., according to the National Hurricane Center. Nearly 74,000 homes and apartments in New York and New Jersey, where it made landfall on Oct. 29, sustained damage, according to FEMA.
Some 450 homes in New York were destroyed by the storm, while approximately 46,000 in New Jersey were destroyed or sustained major damage, according to FEMA.
FEMA has given more than $1.3 billion to more than 180,000 Sandy victims in Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $7.1 billion in claims.
View an interactive panorama: Sandy-battered town, then and now
Some survivors whose homes sustained minor damage quickly returned home, as did some others who were able to shelter in place while they repaired and rebuilt.
But in devastated communities like the Irish-American enclave of Breezy Point, many residents had to wait for the gas, power and water to be restored and insurance funds to come through -- if they did -- while still paying mortgages plus rent.
"Some families and some lives have come back together quickly and well and some people are up and running," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week. "Some people are still very much in the midst of the recovery. You still have people in hotel rooms. You still have people doubled up. You still have people fighting with insurance companies, and for them it's been terrible and horrendous."
That seems a fitting description of Karly and Anthony Carrozza's situation in their neighborhood in Brick Township, N.J., which is dotted with "for sale" signs. Reconstruction work immediately ground to a halt in January, when FEMA released initial drafts of its new flood maps, which placed the community into the highest risk zone, they said.
John Makely / NBC News
Karly Carrozza and her husband, Anthony, can't start the rebuilding in Brick Township, N.J., until FEMA's flood zone map -- and the guidelines that come with it -- are finalized.
If the maps are finalized as drawn, residents' homes would have to be raised 11 feet and placed on pilings. Some state residents who don't meet the requirements could face flood insurance premiums of up to $31,000 a year, according to Gov. Christie.
"The cost to put this on pilings would not be worth the value of the house. It wouldn't make any sense," Anthony Carrozza, 34, an equities trader, said this month of their small home on a lagoon.
But the couple would have to pay off their $300,000 mortgage if they wanted to demolish the house and start anew.
"We're all kind of in the same boat in a sense that until they have the final maps come out we can't make any decisions," Karly Carrozza, 36, an account executive, said.
She has joined a group of New Jersey citizens facing the same difficult choices -- called Stop FEMA Now -- to advocate for changes to the flood maps. They also have recently ventured to New York City to band forces with homeowners there.
She feels if they don't act, their coastal community will never be the same.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a bill has been reintroduced in New York that would provide legal protection for architects who volunteer their services during disasters. New York Assemblyman Steve Englebright, the bill's sponsor hopes it will be voted on by June. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown speaks with Englebright and also Lance Brown of the American Institute of Architects about the proposal.
"You could be in the middle class and enjoy a house on the water and I just feel like that's all going to change because a lot of the people around us who are going to walk away -- their homes are worth nothing," she said. People who could afford to put the houses up to code "are going to come in and just scoop up the property," she added.
In the meantime, the couple is staying nearby with Karly's parents to avoid paying rent in addition to their mortgage. Tarp and plastic cover part of the inside of their home, which took in a few feet of water.
"There's people whose homes look much worse than ours, but it's almost like we're in no different of a predicament because our hands are tied," Karly said. "We can't make any decisions, we can't move back. ...We're in no different a predicament today than we were the day after the storm."
Shifting sands have covered nearly all remnants of Kieran Burke's bungalow in Breezy Point.
The family home, which sat for decades on what were known as the "sand lanes" in this idyllic seaside community, burned to the ground with nearly 130 other residences in the fire – the largest in the city's modern history – that was triggered by the storm.
The Army Corps of Engineers removed the charred remnants earlier this year, leaving just sand across a broad swath of an area known as The Wedge.
John Makely / NBC News
Kieran and Jennifer Burke, with 2-year-old Kieran Jr., visit the lot where their home stood before it burned to the ground the night that Hurricane Sandy hit.
Located in one of the older parts of the private cooperative, Burke's home, like those of his neighbors, wasn't fronted on a city-mapped street. That means he will need approval from the NYC Board of Standards and Appeals on rebuilding plans.
The agency has vowed to expedite the process, and the Breezy Point Cooperative is working with architects to design homes that will meet expected new city building requirements, as well as those from the flood maps – a preliminary version of which should be released in the coming weeks. So Burke is still waiting to break ground.
"It's devastating. It's angering," he said of the shifting planning landscape. "I'm paying a mortgage on an empty plot of land, we're paying rent in a place that we're displaced in, that I have no conception of when I'm going to have the ability to move out of."
Burke, a New York City fire marshal, and his wife, Jennifer, both 40, have a two-year-old son, Kieran Junior, and they just welcomed another boy, Matthew, a little more than two weeks ago. They've been living in an office converted into an apartment in Yonkers, north of Manhattan and about an hour's drive from Breezy Point.
"It doesn't really seem to look any different than when I was here before, and I would have thought at least some of the other parts of it would have progressed a bit," Jennifer Burke, a pharmaceutical research manager, said this month as she stood on the spot where her kitchen used to stand. "We're just still waiting and still hoping. … The hardest part is just not knowing."
A few blocks away, in a corner of the community facing Jamaica Bay, the Fischers have moved back into their two-story home, even though it sits amid empty lots where neighbors once lived and is still being worked on.
Christina and Barry Fischer, parents of five children, broke their lease early from a rental in northern Queens in late March because their FEMA rental aid ran out and they had expenses piling up (the FEMA money later came through).
Some painting, tiling, sanding and cabinet work is among what remains to be done on the first floor, but now their children – ranging in age from 5 to 15 – can ride their bikes on Breezy Point's quiet streets, go to church or the store by themselves, play on the beach and catch up with friends who have returned.
When asked how it was to be home, one of the children, William, 10, exclaimed "Great!" as he snacked on Mallomars. "I can actually go outside."
Miranda Leitsinger / NBC News
Georgia Fischer, 5, sifts sand with beach toys. She has Charcot Marie Tooth Disease, a common nerve disorder that can make it hard to walk, and apraxia, a speech disorder. Her parents had to re-arrange therapy and classes for her in the wake of the storm.
Nonetheless, the road has been hard, with Christina Fischer, 35, taking leave from her job as an adjunct professor at St. John's University in Queens to focus on rebuilding, including battling with the insurance over money and fighting for months to get help from the city's "Rapid Repairs" program.
That program, a first-ever federal-local initiative, offered to install free boilers, hot water heaters and do the necessary electrical work to restore power, but many who applied encountered long delays and sloppy workmanship when they did get service.
The family also has two special needs children whose classes and therapy sessions had to be re-arranged in the aftermath as people were displaced and classrooms flooded.
But the Fischers weren't complaining in early April when a reporter met with them to take stock of how far they'd come. Tim, 7, pushed his bike through the sand, Georgia, 5, watched a movie on a computer tablet and the family dog, Scout, sat atop a pile of laundry as Barry Fischer, a 45-year-old electrician, tested out the new washer and dryer.
"The three greatest words in the English language: home sweet home," Barry said. "There ... is nothing better."
Slideshow: Then and now in Breezy Point
For subway station devastated by Sandy, road to recovery just beginning
Six months after Sandy, Atlantic City is betting on a comeback

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Baked Coconut Shrimp
Day 2 of our little tropical getaway and it is with Baked Coconut Shrimp. I love these and I am not opposed to deep frying when it is a treat but to make these for a week day meal that is a bit over the top even for me. So the real treat here is having coconut shrimp mid week and have them taste just as good with less calories!!! Have these with a big salad and your family will be thrilled.
My friend Jill gave me this recipe and it is from a site called Simply Gluten Free. They can easily be made gluten free by purchasing the rice flour Panko crumbs. With the shrimp, the recipes also includes a mango dipping sauce. I thought it was perfect with the shrimp but Amber and Ken felt it didn't go. Oh well, to each their own. I am a huge lover of mango and I now have some in the freezer for smoothies, can't wait.
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 tsp. Kosher salt
- ½ tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- 1 lb. large shrimp, peeled and de-veined with the tails left on
- 1½ cups Panko Bread Crumbs or Gluten Free Panko Crumbs
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- Cooking Spray
- 1½ cups mango chunks, thawed
- 1 tsp. Sriracha sauce or to taste
- Juice of 1 lime
- Preheat oven to 425F. Prepare two baking sheets with either parchement or Silpats.
- Beat the egg whites and then whisk with the salt, pepper and garlic powder. Toss is shrimp and then remove to another bowl reserving the extra egg white onto a rimmed dish.
- Have two other plates ready one with 1 cup of bread crumbs and the other with the remaining bread crumbs mixed with the coconut.
- Now dip the shrimp in the bread crumbs then back into the egg whites and then into the coconut mixture pressing to adhere the coconut to the shrimp. Place on the prepared baking sheets.
- Spray each shrimp with the cooking spray and bake for 6 min. Then turn shrimp over and spray the other side with the cooking spray and bake another 5-6 min until they are golden brown and the shrimp are pink.
- Measure out the mango into a glass measuring cup. Add the lime juice and the Sriracha sauce. Using a hand blender blend until smooth. Alternatively use a blender. Pour into small serving bowls and serve with the shrimp.
Recipe adapted from Simple Gluten Free by Carol Kicinski


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Take Anne of Green Gables, for instance. How many "kindred spirits" want to travel to Prince Edward Island as much as they want to meet Anne? They want to paddle across The Lake of Shining Waters and experience The White Way of Delight in all of its beauty.
We choose the settings for our stories in different ways. But regardless of how they originate, I've noticed there are three primary types of settings writers deal with. I'll break them down below, as well as provide tips for how you can make your setting stand out.
Well-Known, Highly-Visited Settings (for example, New York City)
- Find a unique angle to freshen it up. Don't settle for generalities or cliches. Hone in on a particular neighborhood, a particular store or shop, a park, etc. (Think Breakfast at Tiffany's. Or how about Sleepless in Seattle, when they meet at the top of the Empire State Building?)
- Make sure the setting details are accurate. Since your readers have likely been there, they'll notice any inconsistencies or misportrayals. And you don't want to pull them from the story with a setting flub that's easily fixable.
- Play up the unique aspects. Whether it's the town name, like Krista's book, or a unique geographic location (a beach town, for instance), bring those things to the forefront in the story. Let them be key players. Think of the setting as another character in and of itself, with its own quirks and personality.
- Present the setting from an authentic viewpoint. It might mean you've already spent time there, or it might mean you need to go on a research trip (or do a virtual visit online). Look at the setting from fresh eyes and seek out the traits that first get your attention. Your readers are relying on you to transport them there, and they want the full experience, not a high-level skimming.
Fictional Settings Based on Real Settings (For example, The town in my book is set in the same geographic area as a town where I grew up. I gave it a different name to give me creative liberty with the story details.)
- Create unique details, but avoid making them too over-the-top. Readers want to be transported to a great story setting, but they also want it to be believable. Once you cross the point of being too outrageous, the reader may give up on the book altogether.
No matter which type of setting you write, the key is to keep it unique and realistic. A well-written setting will enhance the story, not detract from it, and it will likely create lifelong fans. All you have to do is visit Prince Edward Island to see the proof. :)
What types of settings do you typically write? How did you end up planting your stories there? What are some of the quirks or unique "personality traits" of your settings that play a role in the story?
*Special note: There's a fourth type of setting I didn't cover here--fictional story worlds created by fantasy writers. Since I have no expertise in this area, I'm leaving it to the capable hands of the fantasy experts. :)
**Green Gables photo from www.anneofgreengables.com.
***Deer photo from http://minnesota.publicradio.org.
Sarah Forgrave is a stay-at-home writer-mom who feels blessed to pursue her calling and passion. She writes contemporary romance for the inspirational market and is a contributor to the webzine Ungrind.
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Huw Stephens has a kindly face: a shame in many ways, as he's a radio presenter. Fortunately for us, he's also a good radio presenter with a lilting, welcoming voice, so all is not lost.
Having spent the last eight years on Radio 1 (the last three with his own shows, including the Unsigned Show – a slip of oxygen for those non-Top 40 indie bands), the Cardiff native is finally putting on his dream event – the weekend-in-Cardiff blow-out that is the SWN Festival.
"We had loads of different names for it," recounts Huw, peeling (and offering sections of) a tangerine. "Diff Fest. Cardiff Calling, Cardiff Crawl – they all seemed a bit boring really. Then I thought about 'Nodin' – Welsh for note – but we got worried about all those potential headlines: 'Nodin off'… We wanted something like Sonar, Latitude etc, so we came up with SWN."
'Swn' is Welsh for sound, and enforces the notion of the event as more than just a bunch-of-bands-in-a-city cash cow that seem so common at the moment. There is a strong focus on Welsh bands for the event, which Huw is quick to point out.
"The bill's about 50/50… there are some great bands like The Hot Puppies, Richard James, Texas Radio Band and Victorian Gentlemen's Club, and they're Welsh-based." He smiles: "Having the Welsh bands is a key aspect of the festival – it's a Cardiff event, but these bands play the area all the time, so it was important to bring big names from outside the city to attract interest and, conversely, bring people in who could discover these bands."
Indeed, it seems that, for a city which seems to have a growing popularity and cultural kudos, it has taken a while for music to take its hold on the place. "That was definitely the case," demurs Huw. "There was nothing else happening in Cardiff – take Scotland, things like the Fringe in Edinburgh, it's massive. There's always stuff in London, and Bristol, and I thought: why isn't this happening here? There hasn't been anything here since Radio 1 came and did 1 Live In Cardiff, which was years ago.
"If Cardiff's going to be an even more thriving city, we need a big festival. We plan to do it annually. I'm from Cardiff and live there half the time. I went to Reykjavik for Iceland Airwaves and had an amazing time. Reykjavik's a small city, as is Cardiff, and I thought, 'we can do this too'."
It does seem remiss that Wales doesn't really have a flagship event in the way that Scotland has T in the Park and Ireland Oxygen, DiS suggests. Huw nods in vigorous agreement.
"Fflam was meant to be our T in the Park, and they cancelled it because of the weather. You don't cancel a festival because of the weather!
"Wales has always had that problem, really – Scotland is a bigger country, so politically and culturally, they always seem to be ahead of us. We have the Green Man Festival, though, which is going from strength to strength. But this is about the centre of Cardiff and being in the centre of town and seeing loads and loads of bands – and a way for people to see the city."
And the broadcaster is adamant that there is lots to see and appreciate all year round, not least musically: "There are a lot of good, and dedicated promoters. Bands like Los Campesinos! came out of a scene where people come to the same indie nights and see the same bands. I think it's developed organically and naturally. It's as big as something like Leeds, but it's had quite a close-knit indie scene for a while."
Huw has been broadcasting on Radio 1 for nearly a third of his life. "I started doing the Evening Session with Beth when I was 18 (for five years) and now I've been doing my shows for three years, it's pretty amazing." Clearly, he's used his position to get this event off the ground. "I'm aware of, though I've done it on my own, the fact that people know who I am that leads them to help out with it. But in terms of favours, well, I wish I could have pulled them. But agents deal in money, sadly… If I have used my name then, fine: that's just to bring it a focus really."
It is clear though, that the event is one that reflects both his tastes and his remit as a DJ and someone entrusted to spread the word of new (and good) music around: "It definitely ties in well, I tried to be representative. Even the big bands – The Cribs, Cassius, Two Gallants, Edwyn Collins - they're people I adore. We worked with promoters too - Peppermint Patty, Luce, Twisted by Design (name checked in a Los Campesinos! song).
"Some of the labels I approached, such as Heavenly, Domino, and Wichita, have been absolutely fantastic, brilliant and really keen to work on it and put the bill together. They've been great – more than I thought they'd be. I'm always pessimistic, and that way you're pleasantly surprised.
"I'm also very excited about Beirut - they have never played in Wales before. Plus bands like Yeasayer, Sons and Daughters – it's a good mish-mash. I'm very excited about the art and film bits, too… We didn't want to make Swn an industry-type thing or something too NME-esque, but equally not too obscure – but, then again, in my head Bobby McGee is number one…
"I hope this event reflects the fact that bands are being successful in their own world. Take a band like Kotki Dwa – they've done their own thing. It's about making something special."
And next year?
"We've been so busy putting the first one together, we haven't thought about moving on yet. We want to do it next year whether it's a success or even if we barely get away with it. But how many more bands, acts or venues we can get, we haven't thought about. It'd be brilliant if agents were calling me…"
You hope and think it will work out, because, alongside the quality and undoubted vision of it all, you get a genuine sense that it's a labour of love. "I've been wanting to do it for years and I can't believe it's actually happening," says Huw, a little misty-eyed.


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The Highlights of The Call to Fatima Triduum in Dublin 7-9th October 2011
The highlights of the Triduum in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary that took place in Dublin 7 to 9th October 2011:
1. The Poor of Dublin receiving 500 Rosary Beads and some requested Fr Andrew to be enrolled in the Brown Scapular for Our Lady's protection as they walk the streets at night. This was the first time they were contacted in this way and they made us all feel so welcome at the feeding station they called the Day Centre.
2. Continuous Adoration and promotion took place over the three days promoting the International Eucharistic Congress in June 2012.
3. Over 70 school children heard the stories about the three children of Fatima with the visit of the Angel and all the children were enrolled in the Brown Scapular and each child received Rosary beads and a free copy of the award winning film The Call to Fatima DVD to share with their families at home. There were children from many different faiths but it was not an issue for the children or the teachers.
4. Close to 5000 Rosary beads were distributed free and a similar number was enrolled in the Brown Scapular over the three days by Fr Andrew Apostoli (Franciscan of the Renewal – Vice postulator for Archbishop Fulton Sheen -Based in New York / EWTN ). Our Lady told us that world will be saved by the prayer of the Rosary and the Brown Scapular=)
5. Great highlight of The Call to Fatima Triduum in Dublin were Confessions, Rosary recited in many languages,Holy Mass and music from Louise Irvine and the inspired talks by Fr Andrew, Sr Angela (based in Fatima and is the Vice postulator for the cause of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta) and Thomas McCormack which appeared to uplift the faithful.
6. All who attended were encouraged to start the Rosary and the devotion to the Five First Saturdays and Adoration in their parish.
7. Several people asked The Call to Fatima film team to come to their parish and present the Message of Fatima to their parishioners.The light of Fatima was shining brighter in Dublin on the feast day of the Rosary / First Friday from the 7 to 9th October.


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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The Value of Historical Racism
That's really not my purpose here.
However, recently Dear Daughter brought home an assignment she received from her literature teacher, and it caught my attention. The smidgen of literature teacher that really IS hidden away somewhere in the darkest places of my being instantly noticed a great assignment, and it was just icing on the cake that Dear Daughter received a score of 100 with the words Superb and Wow written across the paper in red.
The assignment she had been given also had real worth to discuss here since it involved race relations and how we use our own experiences and our daily situations to pass judgment on the strangers we encounter.
Dear Daughter's assignment involved the poem On the Subway by Sharon Olds.
Here is the original poem:
The boy and I face each other.
His feet are huge, in black sneakers
laced with white in a complex pattern like a
a set of intentional scars. We are stuck on
opposite sides of the car, a couple of
molecules stuck in a rod of light
rapidly moving through darkness. He has the
casual cold look of a mugger,
alert under hooded lids. He is wearing
red, like the inside of the body
exposed. I am wearing dark fur, the
whole skin of an animal taken and
used. I look at his raw face,
he looks at my fur coat, and I didn't
know if I am in his power-
he could take my coat so easily, my
briefcase, my life-
of if he is in my power, the way I am
living off his life, eating the steak
he does not eat, as if I am taking
the food from his mouth. And he is black
and I am white, and without meaning or
trying to I must profit from his darkness,
the way he absorbs the murderous beams of the
nation's heart, as black cotton
absorbs the heat of the sun and holds it. There is
no way to know how easy this
white skin makes my life, this
life he could take so easily and
break across his knee like a stick the way
his own back is being broken, the
rob of his soul that at birth was dark and
fluid and rich as the heart of a seedling
ready to thrust up into any available light.
Sharon Olds is an American poet and author. Previously she was the director of the Creative Writing program at New York University where she currently holds the Erich Maria Remarque professorship. Generally, I would say the majority of her poetry isn't appropriate for upper elementary or even some middle school age children. She covers some heavy topics including death, sex, and biographical sketches that are heavy with pain and regret at times. Ms. Olds even states of her work, "I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain."
In an interview from The Guardian she states, ""Poems like mine - I don't call them confessional, with that tone of admitting to wrong- doing. My poems have done more accusing than admitting. I call work like mine 'apparently personal'. Or in my case apparently very personal."
On the Subway is obviously written from the point of view of a white woman. Dear Daughter's assignment was to rewrite the poem from the prospective of the black youth. She and a partner penned the following they titled Light and Dark.
Their poem reads:
A woman and I face each other.
I see through my squinted eyes.
She looks hesitant, almost frightened,
Like she is in a dark valley by herself.
I start drifting off and thinking to myself.
When all of a sudden, I come up with a solution
For her subtle emotions and realize..
Am I the cause of all of this?
We sit on opposite ends of a moving train,
Through darkness with only little light.
The light hits her pale face continuously and
I start to wonder if she even notices I stare through
My hooded eyes.
She glowers at me.
Like l have trapped her in darkness with no light.
She dresses in animal fur while I am wearing jeans
And a hood.
I could easily grab what is hers and make it mine.
But I don't
While she could easily take what is mine and make it hers.
For I am black and she is white, and in this society it is so
Easy for her; everything is thrown at her and she doesn't
Even have to try.
While I work all day and night
Praying I won't lose my job and have to fight even harder
Just to survive.
She probably wonders if I'm planning anything behind
My closed eyes.
But I am wondering the same.
Our ancestors have caused us to be skeptical of each other.
But would we still think this if they had not?
Probably so, because she represents light,
While I represent darkness.
I think it was an interesting assignment. On the Subway would be an excellent piece of poetry to share with students to open up an honest discussion regarding first impressions and how stereotypes of all types work against us.
Students not only had to read Sharon Old's work very closely in order to complete their assignment, they also had to put themselves in the shoes of the young man and analyze what he might be thinking or feeling. But, I think the meat of this assignment is merely based on how we look and how others view us.
However, an honest look at race relations in this country would include much more than just role-playing. Historian, Robin D.G. Kelley advises, "[Racism] is not about how you look, it is about how people assign meaning to how you look."
....and how people assign meaning has so much to do with history and historical events.
In 2007, researchers from the University of Texas released a study that concluded black and white children were more likely to find racism unfair if they were taught the history behind racism in America. The study determined white children who had more lessons concerning historical racism were defensive, didn't accept stereotypical views and had more racial guilt. See the press release here.
Along that line the American Anthropological Association has put together the RACE Project which strives to explain the differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race.
The main website for the RACE Project can be found here. The interactive exhibit includes historical artifacts, iconic objects, compelling photographs, multimedia presentations, and attractive graphic displays that offer vistors to RACE an eye-opening look at its important subject matter.
The exhibit is traveling around the county…a tour schedule can be found here.
Follow this link to view a video titled History: The Story of Race. It's a little over eight minutes, but worth viewing and could be a good start for a series of lessons regarding historical racism.
....and that paper my daughter brought home with the very large 100 written on it????
Why it's on my fridge, of course!
3 comments:
- Sarah Smith said...
Requiring students to shift roles and write from the perspective of the other character in the poem is a great exercise. Supporting it with information from the RACE Project students will truly gain a deeper understanding of racism. Some of the photographs from the RACE Project made me think about a lesson I would like to try. I think I'll have students write two voice poems taking the viewpoint of a pair of people from a photograph. They would need to include historical facts from the time period as well as analyze the inner workings of both voices. Can't wait to find the right time to try it out! Any suggestions on how to implement?
- Theresa Milstein said...
I agree that while it's a wonderful assignment, without discussing some of the background, it only goes so far.
The mirror poem is well-done. She deserved the A.
- TS said...
I have to admit I found the original poem uninteresting. From a personal standpoint I just didn't like it. But the idea of having students rewrite a poem is a good idea. It makes them really think about the words, the emotion behind the words and utilize that thought process to create something new.


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She won two gold medals last summer and now gymnast Aly Raisman is the favorite to win the Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing with the Stars, at least in the eyes of one Las Vegas oddsmaker.
Raisman, one of the members of the U.S. "Fierce Five" gymnastics team at last summer's London Olympics, has been given odds of 5 to 1 to win, Las Vegas oddsmaker Johnny Avello told ABC News.
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To celebrate my sister-in-law's swearing in to the New York bar on Monday, we went to Blue Smoke for lunch. I ordered a pulled pork sandwiched stacked about as high as my chin, and in a frightening act of who-is-this-girl and what-did-you-do-with-Deb, finished all but one or two bites of it. Later, we (mercifully) spent some quality time at the gym, and at the exact moment that Alex said "Mmm… leftover applewood-smoked chicken for dinner!" I realized not only was I still full, I had the dreaded Meat Hangover.
We all detox differently. Some of us imbibe themselves with (I'm sorry, somewhat frightening) Master Cleanses for weeks on end, others eschew breads, starches or noodles for as long as they can keep away, and a good lot of us chug water and chomp crudites till the bad feelings pass. But my Meat Hangover, like all of my other afflictions, came with very specific instructions: fruit salad, yogurt and whole grains, and I was too glutted to argue.
Unfortunately, it's just not fruit salad season, but deciding to throw my food mile-related guilt to the wind, I grabbed one of everything that looked edible. The grocery gods must have been smiling on me that day, because even blackberries were marked down to two dollars. I also had the great pleasure of buying Liberté yogurt for the first time, and it just might be the best thing since Total, so thank you to whomever whispered that brand name in my ear.
When it came time to make bran muffins, however, I most embarrassingly became one of those reviewers on Epicurious that changes everything ("I replaced the cornmeal with Fritos and sugar with Splenda and cheese with skim milk, and I have to say, this recipe is terrible!") yet expects similar results. Realizing I only had super-fancy butter left in the apartment, stuff I've been saving to make shortbread, I replaced the butter with oil. I exchanged yogurt for sour cream, because, it's also what we had around, and swapped the raisins with dried cranberries because my husband, although he is wrong, has some strange issue with raisins I dare not to delve into the psychology of. Then, as if I had not maligned the recipe's original intent enough, I added a quarter-teaspoon of cinnamon, to warm up the flavor.
Fortunately, this muffin is a winner, no matter how hard you try to wreck it. Lighter and fluffier than any bran muffin that has previously graced my palate, it's moist but still structured and not the least bit cake-like (a muffin no-no, in my book). I baked them in brioche molds — to counter my ongoing guilt about buying the tins over six months ago and using them for everything but their initial purpose — resulting in a pretty, ruffled treat. And just like that, my meatover dissipated. Just in time, really, as I've just heard about this Dinosaur BBQ place, and must have my way with it soon.
Sour Cream Bran Muffins
Adapted from Gourmet, October 1991
Makes 12 muffins
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened or 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, beaten lightly
1 cup sour cream or yogurt
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/2 cup raisins, cranberries, or other diced dried fruit
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup miller's bran (available at natural foods stores, specialty foods shops, and some supermarkets)
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream together the butter or oil and the brown sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy (will be far less light or fluffy if oil is used), beat in the egg, the sour cream or yogurt, and the molasses, and stir in the raisins or other dried fruit. In a bowl whisk together the flour, the baking soda, the salt, the cinnamon (optional) and the bran, add the mixture to the sour cream mixture, and stir the batter until it is just combined. (The batter will be lumpy.) Spoon the batter into 12 well-buttered 1/3-cup muffin tins and bake the muffins in the middle of a preheated 400°F. oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are golden brown and springy to the touch. Turn the muffins out onto a rack and let them cool.


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This is team "Bayshore Barkers" at the Tampa Bay Humane Society's Bark in the Bark in the Park. All of these are owned by myself and coworkers. We got our company "Bayshore Solutions" to sponsor the event!
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Over the years, many readers have emailed me with questions about the cameras and lenses used to take photos on Simply Recipes.
I thought I would take a minute to describe the equipment, software and a little of the process I use here.
I'll start with the cameras I use even though any photographer will tell you, it's not the equipment but the eye of the photographer that's important.
I couldn't agree more! Though good equipment does help when you have challenging lighting, which is often the case in the kitchen.
At the end of the article I list lots of links to tutorials and resources if you are interested in learning more about food photography.
If you have any questions about my process I haven't addressed here, please ask in the comments. I'll answer them if I can.
Camera Equipment
When I launched Simply Recipes in 2003, I had a simple point and shoot digital camera. In 2005 I started shooting with Canon's entry level DSLR camera—a Canon Rebel, with a Canon 50mm f1.4 lens and a 60mm macro lens.
In 2007 I started using a Canon 5D with a Canon 100mm macro lens. I later upgraded to a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens.
These days I am shooting with a Canon 5D Mark III and the same 24-70 lens. This camera is probably overkill for my purposes, but it has two main advantages. It takes beautiful shots in low light conditions (the usual conditions for the method shots in my kitchen) because of its high ISO range, and it's very easy to use for shooting HD video, something I hope to do more of. I usually shoot in "AV" mode, or "aperture priority", which alters the amount of light coming into the camera and affects the depth of field of the focus. I haven't quite gotten the hang of "manual" mode, yet. Still working on it!
As you navigate through the site, the older recipes tend to have photos that were shot with older models of cameras, though I occasionally reshoot recipes from the archives.
Photos of the more recent recipes are shot with either the Canon 5D Mark II or Mark III.
I've also recently starting doing video, using the spectacular HD video capabilities of the Canon 5D Mark III. As I create videos, you'll be able to see some of them here on the Simply Recipes YouTube channel.
If you are in the market for a camera and are looking for the next step up from a point and shoot, I do recommend the Canon Rebel, a camera model I used for several years. It's an excellent, affordable, entry level digital SLR camera, the SLR standing for "Single Lens Reflex".
The main advantage of an SLR is that you can swap out the lenses depending on your needs. With the Rebel I recommend a Canon 50mm f1.4 (or its much less expensive sister, the Canon 50mm f1.8), and a Canon 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens for the close-up shots.
With the Canon 5D Mark III I use a Canon 24-70mm lens. It's a pricey lens, but I absolutely love it and never take it off the camera. It's a great lens for food photography.
And then there's the iPhone. What an amazing device it is! All the more useful because unlike the big DSLR cameras that are heavy and you have to think to lug around, your mobile phone is usually with you, ready at any moment for a photo, should the opportunity arise.
I know some photographers who take absolutely stunning photographs with their iPhone. The photos of the sunflower and seeds on this recipe were shot with my iPhone.
Whenever possible, I shoot in Camera RAW format, which allows the greatest flexibility in post processing. With a RAW file you can make adjustments that result in a jpeg to use on your site, or a high resolution file for print, but without damaging the source file.
The workflow software I use is Apple Aperture, which I don't actually recommend. But I invested in it years ago, and now it's what I know and use.
Many of my food blogging colleagues use Adobe Lightroom with which they are very happy. And some friends use Capture One, which has good reviews as well.
Once I've reviewed the photos I've shot in Aperture, I then edit them in Adobe Photoshop. I may increase the exposure, adjust the color balance or white balance, and adjust the contrast to get the final photo I want. I may also crop the photo or add a watermark.
Left – before Photoshop, Right – after Photoshop
Photoshop is a professional tool, with a steep learning curve. Years ago I subscribed to the tutorials at Lynda.com to learn this software. Lynda.com's tutorials are self-paced and very well done. For $25 per month you have access to a library of thousands of tutorial videos, and many are provided for free, just so you can see how useful they really are. Lynda.com also has tutorials for Photoshop Elements, a more basic photo editing tool.
Lighting and Staging
A few years ago now, when I was first starting this site, I asked the lovely Clotilde of Chocolate and Zucchini for advice regarding taking photos. I hated what my photos looked like, and hers always looked so gorgeous. She recommended that I
1) never use the camera's flash, and
2) use indirect natural light whenever possible.
I have since learned that lighting is pretty much everything. Whenever possible, I take photos in the middle of the day, to take advantage of the good natural light.
By mid afternoon my home is almost completely shaded by a neighbor's redwood trees, making capturing photos with natural light more challenging.
I usually shoot with the light from the window behind the subject, and bounce light back into the shadows with a large piece of white poster board.
I have white sheer material draping over the windows to soften the light. I'll shoot anywhere in the house (or garage, or backyard) where I can get good light.
I'll use a small table or box and put a background on top of it, depending on what I want the background to be.
I have a couple of marble tops, several cutting boards, a large piece of slate, and a World War II foot locker that is a drab olive green and wonderfully scuffed. Here I'm shooting on slate.
The resulting photograph gives the illusion that the salad is shot on a slate table, but in reality, it's only a 16″x16″ slate tile. The light from the window is coming in from behind the salad, creating highlights on the salad.
Props and Plates
One of the coolest things about food photography is that you have a good excuse to buy props! Antique sterling, old and worn transferwear, steeply discounted Limoge porcelain, shabby wooden chopping boards, anything goes if it helps the food look good.
Right before the food is ready, I peek into my pantry closet where I keep a rather large collection of plates and bowls, to pick out a few that I think may look with the food.
Most of these plates I've acquired over many years of visiting thrift shops, flea markets, and antique stores. Small plates work best, as do muted colors, and a matte (not too shiny) surface.
Of course there are exceptions to every rule. One of my favorite plates to shoot with has a bright cobalt blue hand painted design. Chocolate brownies look great on that plate.
Please feel free to ask questions about my photography set up or the plates or props I'm using in the comments. If I can answer, I will!
Final Notes
When I started taking photos of food in the early days of Simply Recipes, the results weren't all that stellar. However, with some decent equipment, and a lot of advice, I'd like to say that the photos around here have been improving. If you are interested in food photography, here are some terrific resources:
- LearnFoodPhotography.com – an entire site devoted to helping us improve our food photography
- Photographing FOOD – a useful set of PDF ebooks by professional food photographers and stylists, each issue is $5 (excellent value)
- CreativeLive – great video tutorials on photography, design, software and more
- PicMonkey.com – free photo editing service
- How to Edit Your Pictures to Look Professional on Your iPhone – a detailed tutorial on how to edit your photos with Snapseed by Laura Bashar of Family Spice
- Photography Tutorials, Tips, and Gear from Diane Cu and Todd Porter of White on Rice Couple
- Photography posts and tutorials from Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman
- Food Photography Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials from Taylor Mathis of Taylor Takes a Taste
- Learning the Visual Elements of Design by Sylvie of Gourmande in the Kitchen
- Food Photography Styles and Trends by Stephanie of Desserts for Breakfast
- 10 household items that can improve your food photography – so creative! From Pinch of Yum
- Matt from Writefood on Food Photography
- Inspiration from Keiko of Nordljus who takes breathtaking photos
- Adobe Lightroom tutorial – from Marc of No Recipes
- Food Photography Post Processing Tutorial (Lightroom) from Melissa Hartfiel
- Why Lightroom may be the only photo editor you need – from Kevin and Amanda
- A comprehensive list of resources and tutorials regarding all aspects of food blogging, including photography, from Lori, The Recipe Girl
- Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling – Book by food photographer and blogger Helene Dujardin
- Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers – Book by food photographer and blogger Matt Armendariz
Note: Most of the equipment mentioned in the article is linked to a page on Amazon where you can buy the equipment. I do receive a small commission from Amazon from sales made from these links. The commissions go to support the operations of this website.
This post may contain links to Amazon or other partners; your purchases via these links can benefit Simply Recipes. Read more about our affiliate linking policy.


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I'm happy to share the following post by Griselda Cruz. Griselda is a seventeen-year-old high school student in Washington Heights who is studying health careers and sciences. She is also an intern at the New York Center for Juvenile Justice. Griselda says some very generous things about I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. Although it's always nice to share those kinds of comments, I wanted to repost her review of the book because I was struck by the insights she has into these locked up young people and by her compassion for the lives they are forced to live. I've seen this reaction before in other young people who have read the book. The stories seem more real to them in ways that may not be so for older readers. In one way or another, young readers know firsthand—as friends, friends of friends, brothers, sisters, classmates—the kind of kids I write about. And because of that familiarity they have a greater understanding of our youth culture. You can check out more of Griselda's writings on her blog at the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative website.
A Story that Caught My Eye by Griselda Cruz
Lately I've been reading a book that Yuval, my supervisor at the New York Center for Juvenile Justice, recommended to me. It's called I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup by David Chura. The book is told through the eyes of David Chura, a high school teacher at an adult facility in Westchester County. Everything is exampled in details; kids come up to him sharing personal stories, real life events that you can't even imagine. From young ages these kids have been struggling, abandoned, neglected by their drug abusive families. These are really tragic stories. They make you wish that these kids' pasts could have been different, then they wouldn't be where they are at now, facing serious time.
Like this young man named Ray: It was his 21st birthday and he really didn't seem too happy. He tells us about how his mother was a drug abuser and that was what caused him to be taken away from her at 5. His father was no longer in the picture. He was in state prison. So Ray moved from home to home or lived in the streets. And to make matters worse he was raped at the age of eleven by a nineteen year old male. After that the suicide attempts began and he felt everybody thought he was a nobody because he didn't have a family.
But one day his father came home and Ray lived with him for some time. With his father being around, his uncles, aunts, and cousins started to accept him again. It seemed like he suddenly had a family. But he knew deep inside it was only like that while his father was there. Then his father disappeared again. He was allowed to live with his Aunt Sally for some time, but he thinks it's only because his father left her money. The aunt would lock him up at night with a bucket to use for going to the bathroom and a pitcher of water to drink. Wow, his own family! Soon Ray was back where he started—in the streets. One day he thought things would turn around when this drug dealer took him in and treated him like his own family. But again that came to an end too. He got into some trouble that caused him to be facing time in jail.
None of these things would have happened if Ray had had a good early childhood. It's like from a young age he was cursed to have a terrible future. But Ray also said that he blames nobody but himself. It takes a mature person to say that and really mean it! There are so many other powerful stories in this book. I'm half way through and I recommend this book to a lot of my peers because they think they have it hard, when others have had it worse!


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 21, 2013, 12:00 AM
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City agrees to share $50 million with schools
Original post made on Jun 21, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 21, 2013, 12:00 AM
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a resident of another community
on Jun 21, 2013 at 7:53 am
Why not share it with LASD too since Mountain View residents also attend those schools? Some Mountain View kids are getting the benefit of this additional money and others are not.
a resident of St. Francis Acres
on Jun 21, 2013 at 8:07 am
@parent - The shared revenues come from the Shoreline Community District which is not located in the LASD Boundaries but in the Mountain View Whisman and MVLA Union High School boundaries.
City Council should be applauded for this generous and voluntary sharing.
a resident of The Crossings
on Jun 21, 2013 at 8:41 am
With regard to what MV-LASD parent said, I think you are not seeing the big picture.
The Mountain View City Council has approved MANY building projects in the NEC (North of El Camino) area. These projects have the potential to bring hundreds of new students into those areas. All of of these projects are within the LASD boundaries, yet the MVCC has yet to address the strain that puts on LASD. As a matter of fact, when they were asked by LASD to help deal with the effect of projects THEY approved, they, in effect, said it wasn't their problem.
As a resident of Mountain View with a child that attends LASD schools, I find this callous attitude toward dealing with a problem that they largely created very disturbing. It is embarrassing to have my city causing problems for the district my child attends.
If the MVCC was concerned with the issue THEY helped create, I would expect they would put some effort into solving it. Rather than approving more and more high density housing, they should work toward assisting LASD in obtaining an appropriate school site in the NEC area.
As parent stated, why should some MV kids benefit from this sharing and others not?
a resident of St. Francis Acres
on Jun 21, 2013 at 9:11 am
@psr - I agree with you and have been pushing for the City Council to do more to help the MV Kids attending schools in LASD (in particular for facilities).
That said, if the Shoreline Community District didn't exist, the property taxes would flow into the Mountain View Whisman and MVLA Union High school districts NOT into LASD. Hence it just seems fair that these revenues be shared only with those districts.
a resident of The Crossings
on Jun 21, 2013 at 9:56 am
I think the main point is that MVCC should be using city resources to deal with city problems. They have created an issue in the El Camino/San Antonio area, yet they won't deal with the problem. The more of us that voice that to them, the better. I'm glad ANY school will benefit, but ALL MV kids should benefit because they all have parents that have to deal with the MV city government.
I find the second-class treatment that my area (which is actually Monroe Park, although the MV Voice doesn't recognize that as an area in MV, although it exists) receives from the city upsetting. I used to do more shopping in MV than I do now because of it. I now tend to shop in Los Altos because my own city direct resources away from my area, choosing to use it only as a cash cow.
I hope that changes, but until it does, I will continue to spend in Los Altos as much as possible.
a resident of another community
on Jun 21, 2013 at 10:46 am
Perhaps all MV children should be in MVWSD. That way the city would not have any conflicting motivations toward funding them and providing them with adequate facilities.
a resident of The Crossings
on Jun 21, 2013 at 8:43 pm
@LASD parent : Although that might be a nice idea from 50,000 feet above, do you really think that is fair to the people that bought into the area for the schools and, in some cases, a particular school? I'm sure you remember the uproar a few years ago, when LASD changed the district lines and sent some kids from Almond to Springer. Would you really want to recreate that on a massive scale? Wouldn't getting a few city officials to agree to work together for everyone's benefit be a LOT more reasonable? Why should those funding the schools be made to suffer?
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jun 21, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Oh, there it goes. that suggestion that the MV kids should be bumped from the LASD. Predictable.
The fact is, it isn't the MVCC's responsibility to provide space for schools. It is up to the LASD, which serves parts of MV and LA. Just like it isn't the responsibility of the LACC to provide school space in South Los Altos for the Cupertino School District.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Jun 25, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Missing $4,363,322. According to the "County of Santa Clara Compilation of Tax Rates & Information" for 2012-2013 (pg. H-10), the QUASI Redevelopment agency property would have paid MVWSD $7,237,322.40 in this tax year. That's of factor of 2.5X more than offered (and accepted 4-1). Or 40 cents on the property tax dollar.
Long live the Gov. who eliminated general statute RDAs! With the LCFF school funding reform, MVWSD will in future years be getting the old Castro Street RDA $$.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jul 9, 2013 at 7:52 pm
This issue was first reported by the Mercury News. Look up 2004 stories -- "Mountain View's Shoreline sees rising tide of prosperity: Tax District's proceeds stay at home" and "Mountain View's haves and have-fewers."
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George Zimmerman said in his first media interview Wednesday night that he didn't regret getting out of his car to follow Trayvon Martin on the night of their confrontation.
"I feel that it was all God's plan, and for me to second-guess it or to judge it ...," he said, trailing off.
Later in his interview on "Hannity" on Fox News, Zimmerman maintained that he didn't follow Martin, however.
Zimmerman, 28, who is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Martin, 17, said that he had never heard of Florida's Stand Your Ground law before their Feb. 26 incident. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.
"I'm not a racist and I'm not a murderer," Zimmerman said.
At first Zimmerman said there was nothing he would have done differently. But he sought to clarify that statement as the hourlong interview ended.
"I do wish that there was something, anything, I could have done that wouldn't have put me in the position where I had to take his life," he said of Martin, who lived in Miami Gardens.
Staring directly into the camera, Zimmerman issued an apology to everyone, including his wife, Martin's parents, and the country.
"I'm sorry that this happened. I hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions, that it's polarized and divided America, and I'm truly sorry," he said.
The Martin family quickly responded to Zimmerman's interview Wednesday night.
"George Zimmerman said that he does not regret getting out of his vehicle, he does not regret following Trayvon, in fact he does not regret anything he did that night. He wouldn't do anything different and he concluded it was God's plan," the family said in a written statement provided by their attorney Benjamin Crump.
Martin's father, Tracy Martin, said "We must worship a different God, because there is no way that my God would have wanted George Zimmerman to kill my teenage son."
Zimmerman apologized to Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton earlier in the interview as well.
"I am sorry that they buried their child. I can't imagine what it must feel like. And I pray for them daily," he said.
Zimmerman said that Trayvon Martin punched and broke his nose as he reached into his pants pocket for his phone on the night they met in a gated community in Sanford.
"I was shocked. I looked up, and he punched me and broke my nose," Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman said that after the first hit, Martin started bashing his head into the concrete sidewalk.
"As soon as he broke my nose, I started yelling for help, because I was disoriented. And he started slamming my head into the concrete," he said.
Zimmerman said that what happened was "a tragic situation."
"When I was in jail obviously I was in solitary confinement, and I had a lot of time to think and to reflect. I just think it's a tragic situation. I hope it's the most difficult thing I have to go through in my life," Zimmerman said in the interview, with his attorney Mark O'Mara sitting beside him at a location in Seminole County.
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Zimmerman maintained that it was his voice heard screaming on a 911 call – one of the disputed points of the case. Martin's family and attorneys have said that the Miami Gardens teen was the one screaming.
Zimmerman said that Martin's demeanor and body language were confrontational on the night of their encounter at The Retreat at Twin Lakes. Martin was on his way back from a 7-Eleven. Zimmerman said he was headed out to Target.
After they started fighting, Zimmerman said, "At that point, I realized that it wasn't my gun, it wasn't his gun, it was the gun."
After Martin was shot, "He sat up and he said something to the effect that 'You got it, or you got me,'" Zimmerman recounted.
His attorney, O'Mara, said definitively for the first time that he would use Stand Your Ground in his defense of Zimmerman.
Even though Zimmerman told a dispatcher that he thought Martin was running on that night, he told Hannity that Martin was skipping and going away quickly, but not running.
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Zimmerman remains free on $1 million bond after being released for the second time recently.
Zimmerman, who took a tour of the Seminole County Jail as a community watch volunteer, told Hannity that he has seen firsthand that the facility treats its inmates with respect.
Carly Shanahan, a Fox News spokeswoman, said no payment was made for the interview, NBC News reported. Hannity reiterated that during the interview, and Zimmerman said that a previous report that Hannity offered to pay his legal fees "never happened."
Phyllis Kotey, a professor at Florida International University College of Law and a retired judge, told NBC News that there were various potential reasons why O'Mara would allow Zimmerman to be on TV.
"Clearly they are trying to humanize (Zimmerman) some more and give his story some traction," Kotey said.
She also said it may be a test.
"It's a chance to hone the story and test it – test versions, what works, reactions, to see what's going to happen," Kotey said. "It's an opportunity to see how a particular position will play."
An email requesting comment, submitted via Zimmerman's legal defense website, wasn't immediately returned.


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Every year near the beginning of the school year, I ask the families of my students to work together to make a family project with pictures of loved ones to help provide a home school connection. I keep them displayed all year so the child can look at the pictures anytime. Last year, we sent home a file folder cut into the shape of a t shirt and hung them on hangers from the ceiling.
You can see more of them here in the post, "I Like Me!".
This year, I sent home a piece of scrapbook paper and asked them to add photos and decorate the page as a family. For now, I've hung them on a bulletin board to resemble a quilt, with the caption, "Our classroom is stitched together with love!". (Thanks to all who sent in caption suggestions on Facebook!) We still have a few more to be sent in before our quilt is complete, but it's looking pretty good so far. We'll leave this up for a couple of weeks, but when we're ready to change the bulletin board, we'll place each square somewhere around the classroom, so the children can see them all year. Just like many of us have pictures of our families on/near our desks, children want to see pictures of themselves and their family. It gives them a sense of both security and belonging. It's important for little ones to have that connection.
Do you have a way of helping the children make that connection while they are at school? I'd love for you to share it in the comments!


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Blueberry lemon cake with coconut crumble topping
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal446
- fat27g
- saturates17g
- carbs50g
- sugars34g
- fibre43g
- protein5g
- salt0.55g
- 300g butter, softened
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 425g caster sugar
- zest 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 6 eggs, beaten
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Heat oven to 180C/fan 160/gas 4 and grease and line a 20 x 30 cm cake tin with baking parchment. Beat together 250g of the butter with 250g sugar and the lemon zest until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, break up 4 eggs with a fork, then gradually beat into the butter and sugar mixture, adding a spoonful of flour if it begins to curdle. When the eggs are incorporated, fold in the flour and a third of the blueberries, then spoon into the tin. Flatten the surface with a spatula, sprinkle over another third of the blueberries, and bake for 20 mins until the surface is set.
To make the topping, melt the rest of the butter, then stir in the coconut and remaining sugar and eggs until combined. Warm the lemon curd gently for a few mins in a small pan until it is runny and pourable.
After the initial baking, scatter the remaining blueberries over the top of the cake, drizzle over the lemon curd, and crumble over the coconut mixture. Bake for a further 20-25 mins until the coconut is golden. Leave the cake in the tin to cool. Cut into 16 squares and store in a tin, interlined with greaseproof paper.


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Starting, sort of
Sadly, exams have proven to take up more time than expected. Today's exam was ok, easier than I expected. Also easier than previous exams from this lecturer. At least my last exam is on Wednesday, so after that I'm free.
I have however managed to do some investigative work.
I looked at pynie, to determine whether there's anything worth reusing. As it happens, pynie hasn't been working for quite a while now. I tried to bring it out of bitrot, but I didn't have enough knowledge of NQP/PCT and didn't bother to do more than make it build. Furthermore, PCT isn't particularly friendly towards python developers.
Allison suggested that I might reuse the tests, but the rest is of little use. The bootstrap tests can't easily use a python testing tool, since it during boostrap Python code can't run yet. Py.test might help with that, but I'm not sure I should bother using it (as opposed to unittest).
I had planned to decide this week between using 6model or building my own object model over Parrot's existing objects. While 6model appears to be able to fully support Python, I'm reluctant to jump in and use it while it's still an external dependency. I don't particularly want to pioneer in the usage of 6model on parrot, I'd much rather someone with more 6model experience did that instead.
Whiteknight and NotFound have worked on supporting a JavaScript-like object model on top of parrot's objects, written in Winxed. This is now a part of Rosella and appears workable. The significant advantage is that it works on parrot now, not later. Also, from what I've heard, rohit_nsit08 wants to use it for his JS implementation, so I wouldn't be the only user. Although Python's object model is more complex than JavaScript's, it's conceptually similar.
I've started playing with the 'ast' module in Python3. I've figured out how to walk the AST, now I have to decide what to do with it. One option might be trying to transform it to PAST and letting parrot generate the code, but afaik PAST doesn't have a textual form that I could target. The other option is linearising the AST and generating PIR, which is likely the one I'll take unless things change or someone tells me it's a stupid idea.


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Plusnet's servers are spluttering again, with many of the BT-owned ISP's subscribers unable to access their email since yesterday morning.
The whole system had to be taken down for about an hour on Monday after "a couple of hundred" mail accounts with particularly large inboxes were putting too much strain on it.
Plusnet product development director Neil Armstrong said all the undelivered mail was safe and it was working to distribute it as soon as possible by adding extra mail collection server capacity.
The overload could have been caused by repeated spam attacks. "We saw some of these few very large accounts growing very quickly, though there may be a combination of factors," said Armstrong. He added that the problems would be fixed within 24 hours.
Following the universal downtime, service has been patchy, with intermittent outages affecting smaller groups of subscribers throughout Monday and continuing into today.
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Welcome to the Cathedral School
First class academic teaching, excellent facilities and an extensive co-curricular programme, underpinned by high quality pastoral care and the school's Christian ethos, give Cathedral School pupils the opportunity to reach their full potential, both academically and personally, in a vibrant and supportive environment.
School for our youngest pupils is a journey of exploration. They are learning about the world and their place within it, the wisdom of the past to inform and guide their future.
A traditional academic education, wide ranging co-curricular programme & community life equip our Senior pupils with key skills during these formative years.
Our aim is to prepare students for university life and beyond by helping them to achieve top examination results, develop an intellectual appetite and become well rounded individuals.
"An inclusive and caring ethos within a strong Christian framework."
"As our son leaves the Cathedral School, we wanted to write and thank you for the wonderful years he has spent at the school. He has so many happy memories to take with him, and can reflect on a positive and fulfilling experience. We very much appreciate their commitment and all the support and encouragement they have given, together with opportunities to try so many different extra curricular activities."
A parent
"Whether through joining music groups or participating in school competitions and activities, the Cathedral School has helped guide me, allowing me to develop both socially and musically, as well as intellectually. I am especially grateful to all the pupils and staff I have come to know so well for their support. I wish the Cathedral School the very best of luck for the future."
A former pupil
"We have always believed that education should not just be about academic success and at the Cathedral School, our son has been encouraged to develop into a confident, inquisitive and sociable young man. Most importantly to us, he has been happy at school. This would not have been possible without the commitment and enthusiasm of teachers who have provided engaging educational experiences, co-curricular opportunities and a genuine interest in their subjects and students."
A parent
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Anne Basting wins $40,000 for "Islands of Milwaukee"
Anne Basting, a scholar in theater and aging at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has won a prestigious, $40,000 award for a project that seeks to reconnect isolated seniors with the community in Milwaukee.
Basting won the Map Fund award from Creative Capital along with Sojourn Theater. Their "Islands of Milwaukee" project will address "decades of structural segregation" by using media, visual art installation and performance to engage Milwaukeeans with the city's homebound seniors.
The project will work with Interfaith's Neighborhood Outreach, Telephone Reassurance Programs, Stowell Associates and the Milwaukee County Department on Aging's Home Delivered Meal program to invite isolated elders to create stories and images that inspire regional conversations and action. Students at UWM's Peck School of the Arts will also work with the elders and perform in culminating public events.
The Map Fund is designed to seed projects that are rooted in experimentation and research. It is also designed to support work that explores ideas about cultural difference in terms of class, gender, generation, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Of the 41 recipients this year, Basting and Sojourn received the largest Map Fund award.
Coincidentally, we just featured Basting and her husband, filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein, in an "At Home With" feature and sidebar on Sunday.
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The Rescuer
There never was a company quite like EDS (Electronic Data Systems). It filled an opening created by an explosive technology early in the 1960s; but its founder, Ross Perot, did not recruit for technological skills. Himself trained as an electrical engineer at the Naval Academy, he had been in the middle of his class academically. He valued other qualities, in himself and others, and sought specific types for his business venture. As he said when I interviewed him recently in Dallas, "I never had any of the ideas I used, but I used them with a focus and relentlessness that is somewhat unique. What I bring to the table is that I make things work."
Perot wanted men who were, like him, doers rather than thinkers. They should be married, though he intended to take them away from their wives for long stretches of time. He favored men with military experience, preferably combat experience—an odd qualification for people who would mainly be computer programmers and operators. Like J. Edgar Hoover, he liked to recruit people from religious schools. He put them in uniform—dark suits, white shirts, plain ties, short hair, smooth-shaven. He encouraged secrecy. The firm's very name was vague, and he explained its business, noncommittally, as "facilities management." He wanted others to know as little as possible about his unit's activities. Even his closest associates should not be certain what their fellows in the company were earning. You might think he was setting up a paramilitary operation—and, in a way, he was.
The gap Perot meant to fill was more a manpower problem than a technological one. Perot had been an IBM salesman, selling the company's computers to people who were clamoring for this new wonder—who, in fact, had trouble getting the computers they wanted, so far was demand running ahead of supply. Perot, who quickly met his selling quota under these conditions, saw that the computers already in service were being used for only some of their capacity, and not even efficiently, to do the work for which they had been programmed. Tailoring the software to each business's peculiar needs, then entering all the requisite information into the program, was immensely time-consuming. The in-house programmers of most purchasers were setting up their systems tentatively, in stages, over a long period. If new programmers were hired for the initial, labor-intensive part of this process, they would have to be laid off as soon as timesaving goals were reached.
Perot saw the obvious and acted on it. If he brought in a team of specialists for fitting the computers to individual company needs, he could, by a crash effort, cut the initial programming time, eliminate the need for in-house operators, and then maintain the system for a prestated fee, while his initial team moved on to new companies. He could even set up systems for those people still waiting for their…
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We all remember the charming little blow up chair 'Plopp', which uses a production process invented by the Faculty of Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at the ETH Zurich under Dr. Ludger Hovestadt. Last week, Oskar Zieta, designer of 'Plopp' and collaborater at the ETH Zürich, presented together with ETH students a new rather advanced design of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), which was developed using the same 'FIDU' technology. These small but efficient turbines are designed for individual use. "We calculated that two turbines can supply an avarage 4 persons family household", Zieta mentioned. The low weight, minimal material consumption and the low cost of production are a big step in the development of the generation of renewable energy.
MAS students: Mathias Bernhard, Katerina Bouziana, Kent Brockmann, Günes Direk, Aphrodite Stavropoulou, Jasmin Zarali
Leadership : Philipp Dohmen, Oskar Zieta
Production: TRUMPF Maschinen AG, Baar, CH
to the Oskar Zieta interview @ Architonic
to the article 'The quiet revolution' @ Architonic