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As part of my plan to help heal myself (I've developed a rather bad case of allergies as well as something akin to ADD, OCD and depression), I'm going to slowly make my way onto a macrobiotic diet. My plan for now, until I get used to it, is to make one of my daily meals sort of macro. Generally what this means is that rather than going to Jack in the Box for a burger, fries and soda (and I was vegan!), I'll be eating a meal of miso soup, grain (generally brown rice since one of the allergies that popped up recently was gluten), a mix of raw and cooked veggies, tofu or beans and seaweed (if not in miso soup). A great idea I had was the idea of bringing all the items and rolling up some temaki (hand roll sushi) with the seaweed, some or all the grain, protein and cooked veggies and eat the raw veggies and miso on the side. One of the clearest thoughts I've had in months!
However, in an effort to make this an easier transition, I'd like to add a touch of flavor to the tofu and/or grains. So, long story short, does anyone have any great recipes or ideas for either a marinade/flavor for tofu or perhaps a fried rice/grain?
|Date:||August 1st, 2007 04:24 am (UTC)|| |
An easy, basic, and old school marinade can be made out of dark sesame oil, shoyu (soy sauce), ginger, and a bit of mirin and water. I will usually forego the water just because I like my flavors a little stronger.
But marinades can be conceivably made out of so many different things. In summer months like these a marinade made with some lemon or lime might work nicely. The most common ways I use to flavor my foods come from shoyu, ginger, mirin, the oils I use be they EVOO, toasted sesame, sesame, peanut, etc. etc., miso, and occasionally some spice.
In a lot of cases it depends on how strict you are trying to make the macrobiotic meal. When it comes to cooking stricter macro food flavor will generally come from the interaction of the different foods you are cooking together rather than a more traditional way of cooking where flavor is added from spices, garnishes, and other things that add flavor. If you are thinking about eating a more "transitional" diet you might just want to go on a "vegan leading towards macro" route. Basically avoiding dairy, meat, sugar, processed foods, but not going down the strictest path and foregoing spices, herbs, nightshades, etc.
That is more or less how I eat now and while I'm not afflicted with any illnesses or anything it strikes a pretty decent balance between convenience, healthy eating, and hands-on cooking. I also rarely eat junk food, but that is more because I don't have the cravings (which may or may not be a result of how I eat).
Sorry my answer wasn't simpler. If I had a better idea of how you were eating and cooking I could give a little more specific advice I suppose. But basically the macro meal doesn't need to just be something like brown rice, boiled kale, miso soup, and then like likely a cooked bean and tofu thing. I mean, I grew up macro and if I ate like that I would definitely go crazy from the simplicity.
Thanks for all the marinade tips! I can understand why it may seem a bit odd where I'm coming from, so some more info may be in order.
Right now, I'm in a very weird place in my life. I'm being constantly bombarded with stress. I work full time (though I'll be going to part-time Aug 20th), attend online classes for now (also will return to school on campus on the 20th) and have a live-in beau. Over the past six or so months, I've developed a gluten intolerance, some sort of environmental allergy that all allergy tests can't find (then again, they didn't find the gluten intolerance either), various hormonal issues along with a horrible amount of brain sludge. I can't learn because I can't focus at all. I also am very easily provoked to extreme emotions. I know that a lot of this is due to stress, but I also can't help but believe that part of it isn't due to how I eat.
Several years ago, I was vegetarian. I went vegan for awhile, but fell off the wagon when it became too difficult to have meals out with friends (how my friends and I generally socialize). As I discovered (through a gluten-free diet) that gluten was to blame for the horrible acid reflux that 4x the recommended dose of anti-acid meds wouldn't touch, that removed even more of the options I had available to me so I started eating meat.
For some reason, that one thing totally trashed my diet. I was recently made middle management and since then, the stress of it has made me so tired that I can't cook for myself. At this point, all I really eat is rice pasta with some sort of sauce, processed meats (Hot Pockets, fast food, etc.) and a reasonable amount of restaurant Japanese food. I know all the chemicals, hormones and other junk are most likely the source of the brain sludge and probably all the mood issues as well.
My reason for going basic at first is because, due to my schedule, I have very little time to cook or plan meals. I can do a baked tofu, a pot of brown rice and some steamed veggies very easily and divvy it up into bento boxes for the day. Add some miso soup and seaweed and you've got a meal! Starting next semester, I'll probably be eating most, if not all, my weekday meals away from home so quick, easy and simple is best! :)
I have several macro books (Hip Chick's Guide, Glow, two other cookbooks from Christine Pirello and The Macrobiotic Way... I love books, what can I say? :) ) that I'll be using to make myself fancier stuff on weekends or other times when I get a chance to cook (or my boyfriend's kind enough to help me out) but right now, I'm taking it one meal, one day at a time.
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my best suggestion would be to go vegan. One macro meal a day may make a difference, but if 2 of your other meals are hot pockets and Jack in a Box you aren't going to see the results you really want.
My suggestion would be to go vegan first. Going macro is awesome, but with you time commitments switching to vegan would probably be easier. I have a lot of vegan friends and convenience is never really too much of a problem for them. Being vegan is a lot easier to hack than macro and generally vegan places are easier to find and accomodate. I've been vegan/macro my whole life and never really had too many problems eating out. I mean I live in a city and with friends that generally wouldn't ever get fast-food anyways. If my friends only wanted to go to taco bell or w/e I would definitely have a hard time eating out (I don't know about your specific case).
Also, living on-campus may make your food options even more difficult than they are now.
Basically, I think you should see a lot of improvement if you switched your diet. I have a lot of vegan friends who had similar problems and when they switched over a lot of them just went away or stopped being problematic. But I also think your best bet would be to go vegan, and if you are still able to do one macro meal a day while being vegan that would be awesome.
The other thing that would help out is finding local vegan resources and things to help you get started. If you know or find people who are vegan and can cook with them, eat with them, w/e that would be tremendously helpful to making the transition easier. There's also tons of online resources for macro and vegan recipes and I'm sure for finding out about vegan stuff locally. You can also use www.manygrains.com to see any macro resources/people around your area.
Hope this helps!
Thanks again for all the help! I can definitely see where you're coming from. I felt much better when I was vegan in the past (no congestion, etc.) but it was made rather difficult by the fact that none of my friends are vegan and we either eat out or go to the movies for get-togethers. I guess I'll just have to encourage more trips to Sipz (our local Asian vegan place) over anything else. As a general rule, none of us are fast fooders (except for me lately), we just like to try new places. :)
Another lucky thing for me is that I'll still be living off-campus the whole time (I'm 25 and in a partnership so on-campus living's not really an option for me) so I'll have access to all my nice kitchen stuff.
I'll probably try using the next few weeks to transition to vegan and see where I go from there. I just know that, in the past, I was a lazy/junk food vegan. I was raised on fatty warm foods, so they're what I crave. I rarely eat a raw veggie because I don't like cold crunchy food. I need to get used over that quickly!
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oh man, I am definitely all about cold and crunchy, or warm and thick and soupy. Really solid chunky stuff not as much.
I think as you more and more become an accomplished vegan cook (or macro if you get that far) you'll end up craving junk food less and less. I'm a few years younger than you but I've found that as the years have gone on and especially in the past couple all my cravings for junk food have just naturally subsided. If anything I would chalk it up to the fact that I've stopped being satisfied unless I actually eat substantial food and the fact that I can cook in a variety of ways and make sure all of my food is flavorful. I know my cousin (who grew up similarly) is also finding the same to be true.
Once your home-cooked meals get more attention and you become more familiar with them and how you like to eat and cook I think junk-food will also start to naturally start to diminish (if you'd be interested in that).
Most definitely. I'm very concerned for my health between my stress and my mother's medical history, so the less junk, the better, right? :)
I'm very much a soup girl. I'm always happy with a soup. I should probably start cooking up crazy amounts of vegan soups and freezing them for lunches. I could probably live off of soup, pasta and stewed vegetables for the rest of my days and be a happy little clam!
I think the most important step for me will be planning my time in advance, making food in large enough quantities, packing it up and remembering to take it with me! I'm naturally spacey and forgetful so this can be toughest part for me. I have no problems eating vegan. It's just that I'll get into pinches where I forgot food and my blood sugar's hit rock bottom, so I'll grab anything!

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Beaches was written by Iris Rainer Dart. The book was published in 1977 by audible.com. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.
Loudmouthed, redheaded Cee Cee Bloom has her sights set on Hollywood. Bertie White, quiet and conservative, dreams of getting married and having children. In 1951, their childhood worlds collide in Atlantic City. Keeping in touch as pen pals, they reunite over the years ... always near the ocean.
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Susan Sarandon is about to get a large tax cut for her role in saving the US from a Hillary Clinton presidency; so is Colin Kaepernick. That’s 2017 in a nutshell: The country is beginning to experience the fruits of a misguided hatred of Clinton that helped make Donald Trump president.
I’ve no doubt Sarandon and Kaepernick will put that money to good use in their personal lives. For decades, Sarandon has donated and worked for worthy causes. She's traveled to Nicaragua to help feed needy infants and their mothers, given to charities designed to help end world hunger, and supported civil liberty groups. Kaepernick rightly deserved all the accolades he’s received this year, including the comparisons to Muhammad Ali, a trailblazer willing to sacrifice the prime of a professional athletic career to promote a higher cause. And he’s donated a significant amount of money, and time, to causes he holds dear.
I single Kaepernick and Sarandon out not because they are bad people, but because even conscientious Americans like them made a grave mistake when they allowed their distaste for Clinton and an imperfect Democratic Party to blind them to the threat of Trump. As the country continues to grapple with the consequences of his presidency, we should remember that we are here in part because some underestimated the threat he posed.
In June 2016, Sarandon (who supported Bernie Sanders in the primary before endorsing Jill Stein) said on the Young Turks that “in a way” Clinton was more dangerous than Trump. “They’re both talking to Henry Kissinger, apparently,” she said. “She did not learn from Iraq, and she is an interventionist, and she has done horrible things, and very callously. I don’t know if she is overcompensating or what her trip is. That scares me. I think we’ll be in Iran in two seconds.”
Well, Clinton lost—and many observers are worried that the US is inching closer to war with Iran.
Kaepernick has used his voice to raise incredibly important issues even while being ridiculed and jeopardizing his professional football career. But he bought into a false narrative in September 2016 when he claimed there was little difference between Clinton and Trump, saying it was embarrassing to see the US have two “proven liars” as the presidential nominees. “You have to pick the lesser of two evils. But in the end, it’s still evil,” he said.
He couldn’t even stick to that and didn’t vote in the end, claiming that either Trump or Clinton would just be “another face that’s going to be the face of that system of oppression. And to me, it didn’t really matter who went in there, the system still remains intact that oppresses people of color.”
This is not a screed against either Sarandon or Kaepernick, each of whom deserves respect for choosing to use their privileged positions in service of those not nearly as fortunate. Individual voting decisions are always complex, and a few quotes can never fully capture any voter’s motivations.
Neither is this an attempt to absolve Clinton of her flaws and faults. She was one of the least popular presidential nominees in American history because of choices she made. She should have anticipated the potential ramifications of setting up a private server for her emails while secretary of State. She could have mustered the courage or had the foresight to vote against the Iraq war. She and her husband could have decided against making high-dollar Wall Street speeches and other dubious choices that haunted her during the campaign. She used the term “super predator,” popularized by an Ivy League criminologist who wrongly anticipated a surge in violent crime among young men, particularly young men of color, to argue in favor of her husband’s 1994 crime bill. As secretary of state, she argued in favor of a robust military role in parts of the Middle East, policies that are still playing out in ugly ways in places such as Yemen and Libya and Syria.
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There were honest critiques of Clinton. But there was also a caricature of her as a liar and a fraud that ultimately helped Trump.
And despite the claims that Clinton did not do enough for vulnerable and people of color, after college she did not head to Wall Street when she could have—she went to the Children’s Defense Fund instead. And she went undercover to expose racial discrimination in Alabama. And she was an important figure in the formation of a program that still provides health insurance for millions of poor children. And she, like so many other talented women, often sacrificed her own ambitions to help further her husband’s. When she was a senator she was praised by colleagues from both parties for her ability to get things done. She was not in favor of going into Libya because she wanted another war; she believed it would help prevent what some believed was a pending massacre. No, she is not from the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party, but neither is she an amoral warmonger. If she seemed likely to continue Obama’s interventionist policies and continue to use drones—well, Sanders said he would use drones to fight terrorism as well.
There were honest critiques of Clinton. But there was also a caricature of her as a liar and a fraud that ultimately helped Trump—who didn’t have her record of public service or her experience. The narrative that both candidates were equally tainted by scandal was pushed by many disillusioned leftists and helped along by a media that gave a disproportionate amount of coverage to Clinton’s emails. Voters looking for an excuse to cast a ballot for Trump or stay home in disgust were given one by the anti-Clinton brigade.
There were many other reasons why Clinton lost by a razor-thin margin, including James Comey’s last-minute decision to announce a reopening of the email investigation and her campaign’s own poor decision not to aggressively campaign in the upper Midwest.
But when a unique threat like Trump arises, we must be able to recognize it and respond accordingly. And that’s where Sarandon and Kaepernick, among others, failed.
Sarandon and Kaepernick likely have real empathy for 800,000 or so DACA recipients whose future is uncertain. They may cry for the record number of civilian casualties that have resulted from the way Trump has prosecuted long-simmering wars in the Middle East. They probably hate that the Justice Department has rolled back the police oversight policies from the Obama administration. I’m sure they are terrified by how emboldened white supremacists are in the Trump era. But the decision made by voters like them in November—to prioritize their disdain for Clinton over everything else—helped pave the way for all of that, and more.
It wasn’t just 63 million mostly white voters who put Trump in office; he was helped by Americans who deluded themselves into thinking there would be no material difference between a Trump and Clinton presidency.
Had Clinton been president this year instead of Trump, DACA recipients and their supporters would not have to wonder whether they would face deportation come March and could be pushing for actual immigration reform. Had Clinton been president, 2017 would have been spent debating how best to improve and expand the Affordable Care Act rather than by a desperate attempt to save it. Democrats would have had a fifth vote on the Supreme Court to shore up women’s rights and voting rights. If there was a tax reform bill, it would have been better constructed to help the poor and middle class. Kaepernick and Sarandon were wrong: There was a big difference between Clinton and Trump, and we’ve been seeing it all year.
The good news is that the tide has begun to change. The young black voters who were lukewarm to Clinton and those who opposed her for a variety of reasons are energized and have made their presence felt already in elections. We’ve seen it happen in Virginia and New Jersey and even Alabama, which is sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in a quarter of a century. For that, Democrats can thank the black vote, in particular black women. If they don’t take those votes for granted, they could retake one or both chambers of Congress in 2018.
It was one thing to imagine a Trump presidency in the abstract; seeing the real thing in action has moved people like nothing else.
For all the talk about whether Trump won because of an ill-defined economic angst among the white working class, greed among the richest Americans, or racism, there has not been enough about why Americans who should have—and in some cases did—oppose Trump didn’t set aside their differences and vote for the alternative.
Politics is sometimes about voting not for the lesser of two evils but the best option you have—while simultaneously working to improve those options. I hope we have learned those lessons after 2017. If not, we will remain susceptible to a repeat of the disaster of 2016.
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Abbott ducks Rudd's call for economy debate
TONY Abbott has ducked a challenge to debate Kevin Rudd on the economy.
Asked on Network Ten whether he would accept the prime minister's offer to debate him next week at the National Press Club, Mr Abbott said it was more important that Mr Rudd name the election date.
Asked whether he was too scared to debate Mr Rudd he said he debated Mr Rudd every day.
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Grove Veterinary Clinic is located at 448 East Olive Street (Highway 20), next door to the US Bank and across the street from Newport Rental, in Newport, Oregon on the Central Oregon Coast.
I would like to bring my pets to your clinic, but how do I get my records from my previous veterinarian?
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Are the veterinarians available for after-hours emergency care and advice?
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Willamette veterinary hospital is the closest 24 hour emergency veterinary hospital; they are located in Corvallis. Their phone number is 541-753-2223.
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Why do you need a fecal sample if I can't see any worms?
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During the public briefing held on 21 June, youth voices from peasant organizations, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, Women organizations, and other CSIPM constituencies in different territories, shared their perspectives, concerns, and priorities regarding the sections that integrate the CFS Policy Recommendations, which will be discussed during the second and final round of negotiations from July 4 to 6.
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Public briefing moderated by Julia Spanier, from the CSIPM Youth Working Group
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- Sefu Sanni, World March of Women | Recommendation 1 “Provide an enabling environment for youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems.“
- Stefania Tripodi, OHCHR | The role of Human Rights in the Policy Recommendations.
- Paula Gioia, Women and Gender Diversities Working Group: The links between both policy processes.
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Honorable Mention of the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards
Two collections by an important Asian American writer -- Camp Notes and Other Poeems and Desert Run: Poems and Stories -- return to print in one volume.
Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak of World War II when her family was removed to a concentration camp in Idaho. Camp Notes and Other Writings recounts this experience.
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"The core poems of Camp Notes and the title come from the notes I had taken when I was in camp, and it wasn’t published until thirty years after most of it was written. I was simply describing what was happening to me, and my thoughts. But, in retrospect, the collection takes on a kind of expanded meaning about that period in our history. As invariably happens, because Japanese American internment became such an issue in American history, I suppose I will be forever identified as the author of Camp Notes. Of course, I try to show that it’s not the only thing I ever did in my whole life; I did other things besides go to an internment camp during World War II. So, in some ways I keep producing to counteract that one image that gets set in the public mind. At the time that I was writing it, I wasn’t necessarily a political person. Now, when I reread it, even to myself, I think it probably has a greater warning about the dangers of being not aware, not aware of one’s own rights, not aware of helping other people who may be in trouble. I think that it does speak to our present age very acutely." -- Mitsuye Yamada, "You should not be invisible”: An Interview with Mitsuye Yamada, Contemporary Women's Writing, March 2014, Vol. 8 Issue 1
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Located outside Hanoi, near Dinh To village, is the ancient Chua But Thap, built in the 13th century. Seven houses align on a 100 metre axis flanked by 32 long corridors of 26 column bays.
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SARASOTA COUNTY — The Sarasota metropolitan region once again figured among America’s 20 fastest-growing urban areas, cinching the 11th spot on the list by adding enough new residents last year to create another city the size of Venice, according to census figures released today.
In a population spike reminiscent of the pre-housing-bust days, the metro region defined by Sarasota and Manatee counties swelled by an estimated 20,123 people between mid-2014 and mid-2015, for a growth rate of 2.7 percent. That compares with a less than 1 percent growth rate four years ago, when the region ranked just 152nd among 381 U.S. metropolitan districts in terms of population gain.
The rebound is not isolated to this area.
People are moving in droves to the Sunshine State, fueling a substantial population boom reminiscent of the 1980s and ’90s that picks up speed with every annual U.S. Census update. Of the fastest-growing urban areas nationwide, six belong to Florida – the most of any state and the highest number anywhere since the 2010 decennial census.
Besides Sarasota, other Florida metros making this year’s list include Fort Myers, Naples, Punta Gorda, Orlando and The Villages, a retirement community north of Orlando.
The rankings evoke both pride and concern in a state whose many assets seem outflanked only by the looming challenges of accommodating its rapid growth.
“Hopefully people will wake up and realize that growth is coming and we need to plan for it, because a lot of what made Florida beautiful is being threatened right now,” said Rich Doty, GIS coordinator and research demographer at the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research.
With growth comes challenges
Chief among the state’s most pressing, population-related issues, Doty said, is access to clean, abundant water. Experts have warned about Florida’s dwindling and deteriorating water supply for years – the U.S. Geological Survey raised alarms back in the 1960s – but the problem has worsened as more people enter the state and rising sea levels threaten the already fragile aquifers.
The swelling population also puts increased demands on transportation infrastructure, which communities have long managed through the use of impact fees assessed on new commercial and residential developments.
Elected officials across the state voted to lower those fees after the Great Recession, when new development all but stopped. Now that construction has rebounded, though, community advocates want to see the fees raised.
“Impact fees were done away with in essence, and now, of course, they’re saying we haven’t really recovered yet, but I think the numbers tell a different story,” said Bill Zoller, vice president of the Sarasota County Council of Neighborhoods. “We’re booming. We’re back where we were.”
Indeed, the city of Sarasota issued a record number of building permits in the most recently completed fiscal year, which ended in September. It permitted 8,402 projects valued at more than $330 million, municipal records show.
In downtown Sarasota alone, some 1,700 new apartment units are under construction, said Norm Gollub, downtown economic development coordinator for the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
“A lot of people like the climate, and they want to get away from the brutal winters,” Gollub said. “But I don’t think we’re unusually fast when compared to other portions of Florida. I think we’re actually on par.”
Permitting activity increased last year in Manatee and Sarasota counties, too, with 23,764 and 30,330 new development projects, respectively, valued at nearly $939 million and $623 million.
In all, the Sarasota metro area had an estimated 768,918 residents as of last July. That’s compared to 748,795 people in July 2014.
As in previous years, Manatee County saw the majority of the metro region’s growth, welcoming 11,598 new residents to Sarasota County’s 8,525. Both counties had more deaths than births, so the growth was driven entirely by migration.
Most people who moved here hailed from other states, but an estimated 2,383 people came from outside the country. That’s about the same number of international migrants as the previous year, the census figures show.
But while international migration remained stable both in the Sarasota metro area and statewide, domestic migration saw a significant uptick, jumping 50 percent here and nearly 44 percent statewide.
“That tells us the economy is improving,” Doty said. “There are more jobs in the state now, and it’s more attractive for retirees. Also, the real estate markets are picking up back home so people are able to sell their houses and retire to Florida.”
While cities continue to attract many of these retirees, traffic congestion and a general lack of affordable housing have pushed others into the county, where thriving retirement communities continue to flourish.
The Villages, for example, led the nation’s metro growth the third year in a row. And the county in which the sprawling retirement community sits – Sumter – was the fastest-growing in the state and 16th fastest-growing in the nation.
Other fast-growing counties include St. Johns, Osceola and Lee. Manatee County placed fourth statewide; Sarasota County placed 19th.
The federal government updates the county and metro area population estimates annually to follow population changes since the last census, conducted in 2010. The data incorporates births, deaths, survey information and other data.
The numbers are interesting, Doty said, but they’re useless without context.
“It’s not just the numbers themselves. It’s what they mean; it’s the implications,” he said. “We have the information, but whether we make intelligent decisions to act on it is another question.”


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“This is an economic development bill for the people and should not be an economic development bill for legislators.” — State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, D-Acton, arguing for a five-year buffer between legislators leaving office and working for casinos. The Senate approved a one-year ban.
First former state Sen. Warren Tolman af Watertown announced that he was not running for the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate even before he announced that he was. Then Newton Mayor Setti Warren, who announced that he was running, last week folded the tent on his campaign and said he was not. With two
Once considered a leading contender to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, Newton Mayor Setti Warren quietly bowed out of the race Thursday after realizing he could not beat Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren. Some may question why he would quit just days before the first Democratic debate (scheduled for Tuesday at UMass Lowell).
The part of Senate Ways and Means Chairman Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre, will be played by legendary actor James Caan.
An effort by Lowell teenagers to lower the voting age in municipal elections to 17 has been deemed unconstitutional by Sec. of State William Galvin. In a legal opinion issued this week, Galvin’s office writes that the “Vote 17” campaign is “inconsistent with the Massachusetts Constitution.” Seventeen-year-olds do not meet the Constitutional qualification that Massachusetts
“I got in to this race for one reason and one reason only — to beat Scott Brown. And I am getting out now for one reason and one reason only — because I no longer believe I have a clear path to victory in this race.” – Newton Mayor Setti Warren, in a Thursday
Newton Mayor Setti Warren is planning to end his bid for U.S. Senate on Thursday, according to a source close to his campaign. Warren was one of the first Democrats to formally announce plans to run for the seat held by Republican Scott Brown. Despite being sworn in as Newton’s mayor less than two years
All eyes will be on Chelmsford once the results of the latest redistricting effort are released. Word is, the town will lose one of its four state representatives. At 33,802 residents, Chelmsford is nearly large enough to consist of a singular state-representative district, but the town is divided into four districts. Chelmsford selectmen and some
Long time Senate observers were taken aback the other night when Senate President Therese Murray, during a nasty debate over the casino gambling bill, slammed the gavel down in Billy Bulger fashion, and called for a recess, ending the debate. The heated debate was over a proposal dealing with legislators getting jobs at the casinos


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Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were sentenced for prison in a corruption reference but later got bail.
NAB had filed the petition in the Supreme Court last month challenging an earlier decision by the Islamabad High Court suspending sentences given to Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and son-in-law Capt (Retd.) Safdar in the Avenfield properties reference.
A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar had heard the petition on October 24, and issued notices to the former premier and his daughter.
The Supreme court had observed that it would not take notice of the appeal against Capt Retd. Safdar’s sentence suspension, since his prison term was only one year.
The NAB prosecutor in attendance had told the bench that the Islamabad High Court order comprised of 43 pages.
To this, the chief justice had observed that the order should have taken 1.5-2 pages at the most. Ask anyone, if they have ever seen an order taking up as many as 43 pages, the chief justice had remarked.
The court hearing was adjourned for November 6, today.
NAB has classified in its petition for declaring the September 19 Islamabad High court decision null and void. NAB officials claim that the “IHC had failed to appreciate that through its order, it had seriously prejudiced the case of the prosecution by holding that the trial court judgement suffered from obvious and glaring defects and infirmities and that the convictions and sentences handed down to the accused might not be sustained ultimately.”
NAB is affirmative that Supreme court will restore the Sharifs sentence suspension and cancel the bail given to the accused in the corruption reference.

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DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Deadline understands that Hugh Jackman has dropped out of PalmStar’s buzzy title Collateral Beauty and that the producers are now out to sign Johnny Depp. Scheduling is the reason behind Jackman’s exit, with the Australian star’s Wolverine commitments making it impossible for him to shoot Collateral Beauty this year. The deal with Depp still has some way before being set. The project is one of the more competitive ones in the marketplace right now.
PalmStar Media and Likely Story paid $2.25 million for the Allan Loeb script. At the time Jackman and Rooney Mara were attached to star with Me And Earl And The Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon making this his follow-up directing effort to the Sundance favorite. Principal photography is set to begin in the fall with PalmStar financing. Mara remains attached along with Jason Segel.
The plot centers on a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.
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Hot off his Sundance breakout “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is lining up his next project with two of Hollywood’s biggest talents. Sources tell Variety that Gomez-Rejon has attached himself to direct “Collateral Beauty” with Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara attached to star.
Allan Loeb wrote the original screenplay, which is set in a New York ad agency and focuses on a man whose life is flipped upside down after experiencing a tragedy that sends him down a path of deep depression. Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar and Bard Dorros are producing.
The drama does not have a distributor or financier, yet the attachment of Jackman and Gomez-Rejon should make it one of the hotter packages in town.
After winning both the grand prize and audience award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Me and Earl” made Gomez-Rejon a must-get filmmaker for studios and high-profile projects. But the filmmaker, who got his start on TV (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), is said to have fallen in love with Loeb’s script.
“Collateral Beauty” reunites Jackman and Mara, who recently starred together in Warner Bros.’ Peter Pan origin story “Pan,” which opens in October.
Jackman just finished “Eddie the Eagle” opposite Taron Egerton. Mara, star of “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” has a big year starting with her Cate Blanchett romancer “Carol,” which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival this Sunday. She most recently wrapped production on Jim Sheridan’s “The Secret Scripture” and next month starts shooting drama “Blackbird.”
Jackman, Mara and Gomez-Rejon are all repped by WME. Gomez-Rejon is also repped by LBI Entertainment, while Management 360 also backs Mara.
CAA, Marks Law Group and Anonymous Content represent Loeb.

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Thousands of people who were promised the New York Department of Homeless Services’ Advantage housing voucher are uncertain about where they will be living next month after Gov. Andrew Cuomo cut the voucher from the state budget on March 14.
The effects of the cut will reach thousands of people currently living in city shelters, as well as up to 15,000 individuals and families who use the voucher to pay for affordable housing units.
But the Advantage voucher was merely a Band-Aid covering a large wound that persists in New York City’s affordable-housing system, according to homeless advocacy organizations such as Coalition for the Homeless, whose staff has spoken out about the voucher’s role as a “revolving door” to homelessness.
On March 22, the Coalition sent out an “action email alert” saying, “City data show that more than a third of families who’ve left the ‘Advantage’ program have returned to apply for shelter — but the Bloomberg administration still wants to keep this failed program running.”
Despite critiques of the program, some people accepted it as their only hope for getting out of shelters.
“Advantage was a disaster, but the city couldn’t have taken away the only option in a more callous and mean way,” said Craig Hughes of the Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership, or SNAP, which provides social services and a free community computer lab. The abruptness of the cut leaves many people without housing options in the near future.
“The idea that someone with a low wage can pay rent in a city with such high rents is a miscalculation,” said Hughes, remarking that Advantage voucher recipients are required to work part-time in order to qualify for the program.
For families living in housing or shelters, the loss of the Advantage voucher will be especially trying, according to Hughes. “The homeless shelter population is overwhelmingly families,” he said. “It’s really hard for families.”
The Department of Homeless Services is telling people currently residing in shelters who were expecting to move to housing basically to “sit tight,” according to Claire Cuno, a SNAP intern. For more than a decade, SNAP has been working with residents of Fort Greene’s Auburn homeless shelter, which serves singles and families and is run by the Department of Homeless Services.
Outside the Auburn shelter, a few residents shared their stories of dealing with the shelter system and the Advantage voucher. Although not all were familiar with the voucher or directly affected by its eradication, many were eager to anonymously express their opinions of living in the Auburn shelter.
“I feel like I’m in jail,” said a young woman who left her home in the Bronx due to family complications but still works there as a home-health aid. “I’m 23, not a child,” she said. According to her, the shelter’s strict environment, including its use of metal detectors at the entrance, are stifling.
Her friend, 22, and also from the Bronx, complained that she was ill and the shelter staff had revoked her bed pad. When asked about the housing voucher, she said her caseworker suggested a Single Room Occupancy option, but that didn’t suit her. “I want my own apartment, and I’ll struggle to get that,” she said.
Not all residents shared complaints, however.
“For the most part they treat me fine,” said a 29-year-old woman who moved to New York City seven months ago from Georgia. She said she came to the city without a penny, a job lead or a place to stay.
“The shelter gets gross sometimes, but that’s because people don’t clean up after themselves,” she said. “We have to put our own foot forward; we can’t rely on our case workers or the staff.”
Although some single homeless people will be affected by the voucher cut, families will be hit the hardest.
A father, 35, who resides at Auburn while working as a sous chef said his family would be stuck without the Advantage voucher. “No matter how much money I make, I have to sit and wait for housing,” he said. He has already been impacted by funding cuts when the Children’s Advantage Voucher that helped families get into Section 8 housing was taken away in the past few years, he said.
Some families might have to leave New York City but are unsure of exactly where they’ll go, said a mother of three. After residing in Auburn for three months, she was about to receive the Advantage voucher when the cut happened. She said her caseworker, who is appointed by the DHS, has no idea what her options are for housing.
Currently, organizations like Coalition for the Homeless and Legal Aid Society are filing a lawsuit against the city on behalf of people who are currently using the voucher to pay for housing. On March 28, a state court judge ordered that current Advantage tenants in this situation must continue to receive the voucher assistance during April, according to a Coalition for the Homeless update.
The ruling was made on the basis that it is unlawful to cancel assistance that has already been promised. A court date has been set for April 21 to determine how the city will account for these families moving forward.
The Department of Homeless Services did not respond to inquiries for this article.
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Some of the capital’s best Chinese cuisine is available at the award-winning Ming Court, replicating the reputation of its Michelin-starred namesake in Hong Kong. Flavourful Chinese cuisine, including tempting Cantonese delicacies is on the menu at Ming Court. Aside from the appetising à la carte offerings and convenient set menus, the devoted service, inspiring lake views and seven private dining rooms create a memorable dining experience.
Lunch: 11:30am – 2:00pm
Dinner: 5:30pm – 10:00pm

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Russian Aircraft Designer Alexei Tupelov DiesAlexei Tupolev, a noted Russian aircraft designer who helped build the first Soviet supersonic passenger jet and the Soviet space shuttle, has died at the age of 76, news reports said unday.
Tupolev died in Moscow on Saturday, Interfax and NTV television news reported.
In Soviet times, Tupolev supervised the development of military and civil aircraft, including the Tu-144 supersonic jet and the Tu-2000, the Soviet version of a space shuttle.
He began working on the Tu-144 in 1963 and continued to work on it until its first flight in 1968. The supersonic jet fell into disuse after a Tu-144 crashed at a Paris air show in 1973 and because of the high cost of its continued operation.
The Tu-160 jet bomber was made on a prototype of the Tu-144.
Tupolev also helped design the Buran space shuttle, which was modeled after the U.S. space shuttle. It made one unmanned test flight in 1988 before its development was abandoned for lack of funds.
He had worked on many projects with his father, the famed Soviet aircraft pioneer Andrei Tupolev, who died in 1972.
The elder Tupolev created more than 100 types of military and civilian aircraft, including the Antonov-25 and the Tu-104, the Soviet Union's first passenger jet.
He also worked on the Tu-144 project with his son.
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Columbia Public Schools anticipates more funding from the state this year — but less from the federal government.
The district anticipates $400,000 in new revenue for next school year from state funding sources, including the Foundation Formula, the Classroom Trust Fund and transportation funding, Linda Quinley, the district's chief financial officer said. But she projected about $1 million less in federal funds.
Other increases in the budget come from a projected increase in assessed valuation of properties within the school district. This increase accounts for $3.2 million dollars to the budget, Quinley said.
Speaking at a work session Thursday, Quinley, who is also the district's chief operations officer, presented the proposed budget for the 2017-2018 school year to the school board. The numbers presented were preliminary and could change between now and the final budget that will be presented to the board in June, she said.
“Where we are over in expenditures is the state (funding), and that is a big surprise to us," Quinley said.
Fully funding the Foundation Formula proved controversial in the Missouri General Assembly this year. The House approved funding the whole formula, but Senate leadership opposed it. Eventually, Senate Republicans broke with leadership and joined Democrats to fully fund the formula, which added $45 million to the state's education budget.
Although Quinley anticipates some increased revenue, she projects about $1 million less in federal funding next year. This reduction comes from reduced funding from federal programs including Medicaid, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Title funding and eRate funding according to her presentation.
More money might be in store for the district, but it's too early to say, she said.
Quinley said an increase of $860,000 to the 2017-2018 school year is also projected based on an increase from $974 to $1,000 for average daily attendance with Proposition C money.
Prop C is a source of school revenue that comes from sales tax. Money from Prop C is likely to account for $16,655,400 for 2016-2017 school year, which is a .003% increase from the year before and less than what was predicted when the 2016-2017 budget was passed in June 2016, according to the presentation.
The difficulty with predicting revenue sources such as the Prop C fund is that it changes from month to month, Quinley said. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recommended schools to budget $1,000 per average daily attendance for the 2016-2017 school year, but that increase in sales tax revenue hasn’t occurred as predicted, Quinley said.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recommends that $1,012 be allocated for 2017-2018 budgets. This is a 5.17 percent increase from last year.
“We are going to be a little bit cautious about that amount,” Heather McArthur, the district's administrative project manager, said. “We are still at $1,000, and it may come in below that.”
63 percent of the district's funding comes from local sources, and that number is predicted to rise to 65 percent next year. The increases allow the budget to include a $4 million increase in salaries, Quinley said.
The 2017-2018 proposed budget projects $214,492,215 in revenues with expenditures of $213,052,131. This means $1,440,085 would go toward the operating fund balance.
The projected actual budget for the 2016-2017 school year is $211,023,507 in revenues and projected expenditures of $206,860,565. The excess revenue will go toward the operating fund balance and will benefit the district in the long run, Quinley said.
There will be a budget hearing open to the public at 6 p.m. on June 7 at the Aslin Administration Building, 1818 West Worley St. The board is scheduled to vote on the budget at 6:30 p.m. on June 12.
Residents can email budget questions and concerns to email@example.com before June 5.


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The Big Ten Conference announced today that Gopher men's golfer Erik Van Rooyen has been named Big Ten Conference Player of the Week. This is the first Big Ten Conference weekly award for Van Rooyen and is the first Minnesota player to be named player of the week since Robert Bell received the conference's selection on Sept. 28, 2011.
Van Rooyen, a senior from Oudtshoorn, South Africa, finished second at the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate this past weekend, leading the Gophers to a tie for fourth place finish. His second place finish is the best of his career at Minnesota and is also his sixth career top-10 finish.
Van Rooyen was in contention through all 54-holes but fell just one stroke shy of collecting his first collegiate victory. He opened the tournament by tying a career-low with a six-under par 66 leading to his tournament card of six-under par 210. Van Rooyen is the first Gopher player to finish an event under par since he carded a four-under par 212 last spring at the LSU Invitational.
Van Rooyen leads the 2012-13 Gophers with a 73.77 stroke average and heads into the upcoming schedule with a career stroke average of 73.69, the ninth-lowest career average in the history of the program.
Minnesota will head to South Bend, Ind., this weekend to take part in the Fighting Irish Classic, hosted by the University of Notre Dame. The teams will play three rounds of 18 holes, beginning on Sunday, Oct. 7. Live scoring will be available throughout the 54-hole event via golfstat.com.
Three Future Gophers Sign NLIs
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Will Grevlos, Lincoln Johnson and Harry Plowman-Ollington will join Minnesota's team in fall of 2018.
Gophers Fall Rewind
11/2/2017 - M. Golf
Minnesota played four tournaments before the current season break that will last until February.
Carlson, Smith Take on New Roles
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After six years as head coach, Carlson becomes the department's director of men's golf, while three-year assistant Smith ascends to associate head coach


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The concrete monument commemorates all the people killed by the atomic bomb in 1945. It was designed by Tange Kenzo in the shape of a saddle which is supposed to "protect" the victims from the rain.
The cenotaph contains a list of all the A-bomb victims and an epitaph which reads: "Rest in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated". Come here to pay your respects.
Wikipedia (Japanese) http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Phone +81 82 242 7831
Address Hiroshima, Japan
Coordinates 34°23'34.715" N 132°27'9.264" E

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At the January 10 School Board meeting, Lila Tucker of the Town of Paoli district was re-elected as the school board president. Tucker and her fellow board members are responsible for securing the well-being of th students and ensuring the improvement of Indiana schools.
“As members of the board, they employ a superintendent and pass and enforce policies,” said superintendent Greg Walker. Tucker has been a member of the School Board since 2015. Her current term ends on December 31, 2020.
Each district votes on and elects an official from their own district, but after the 2020 census revealed how quickly the Township of Paoli has been growing in recent years, they decided on a different approach.
“Each division must be within 15 percent of being equal to each other,” said Walker.
After going through three different options, they settled on keeping an officer for each district, but opening up the voting to all residents. Next fall, three of the current school board members’ terms will be ending, so school board elections will be held with this new form of election.
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A demo of a file repository of the CSE Dept by Mr. Shali K R was held in the Advanced Computer Lab on 25 August 2017. The file repository had been officially launched during the inaugural ceremony of Computer Science Dept Association held on 24 August 2017. The main objective of the repository is to collect and store all department files in a single location for future references. The repository has been configured using the Free Software “Nextcloud”.
The repository can be accessed through the link http://nextcloud.vidyaacademy.ac.in . However, the repository is password protected and only authorised persons can access the repository.


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The bank said it would pay an interim dividend of 2 pence per share, equivalent to around 340 million pounds in total
Barclays will pay out more than a billion dollars in dividends and buybacks to shareholders after beating first-half profit forecasts as bad loan fears receded and investment banking fees remained strong.
The British bank, which reported a near-quadrupling in first-half profits, said it would pay an interim dividend of 2 pence per share, equivalent to around 340 million pounds in total, after the Bank of England (BoE) scrapped payout curbs in July.
Barclays will also buy back its own shares worth 500 million pounds, as it forecast bad loan charges would remain below historical levels due to the improved economic outlook and low default rates on unsecured lending.
CEO Jes Staley told reporters he planned to stay a “couple more years” but would at some point look at succession plans.
The bank said that the full impact of the wind-down of government support measures on customer finances was not yet known.
No one has really lived through the unwind of these schemes, and therefore we don’t entirely known how many furloughed people will get jobs or not get jobs, Finance Director Tushar Morzaria told Reuters.
Barclays shares rose 3% at 1130 GMT.
The bank reported profit before tax of 5 billion pounds ($6.94 billion) for the six months to June 30, well above the consensus forecast of 4.1 billion pounds from analysts polled by the bank and up from 1.3 billion a year ago.
The results were boosted by the British lender releasing 742 million pounds in cash set aside for bad debt charges that have yet to materialise, as government support measures prop up the economy.
Barclays undertaking a further share buyback and upping its half-year dividend marks another step on the road to recovery for the UK’s major banks and financial sector, at large, from the dark days of dividend suspensions, said John Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin.
Barclays’ investment bank continued its strong run, as volatile markets during the pandemic led to frenzied trading, while companies have raised record amounts through blank-cheque investment funds and stock listings.
Equities income rose 38% and investment banking fees from advising on deals rose 27% in the first half of the year, Barclays said.
Its fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) business meanwhile fell 37% against a strong first half a year earlier.
The bank said its costs rose 10%, mainly from 300 million pounds of expenses associated with cutting its real estate footprint and higher bonuses due to its improved performance.
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After convincning three of the country’s biggest sourcing events to band together and hold their respective shows under one roof last year, the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (Citem) plans to take Manila FAME, its biannual design and lifestyle fair for the world market, “to the next level.”
This time, Manila FAME aims to guide seasoned exhibitors as they explore uncharted possibilities in furniture design. At the same time, it wants to boost the chances of those in the garments business to sell their products, consisting mainly of clothes and accessories, abroad, by focusing on the high-end resort-wear niche.
Member-manufacturers from Manila Now, Cebu NEXT and Bijoux Cebu will gather at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City from March 14-17 to welcome foreign and local buyers.
A fashion show, “Manila Wear,” will feature clothes and accessories of 21 of the country’s leading designers on opening night. Consisting of five pieces per designer, the “tropical-wear” collection would focus on creative uses of indigenous materials mixed with imported fabrics and components for the world market.
In a media conference at Shangri-La Makati, Citem executive director Rosevi Gaetos was joined by New York-based Filipino fashion designer Josie Natori, Inno Sotto and JC Buendia, as well as leading furniture designers Budji Layug and Kenneth Cobonpue.
Apart from featuring some of their products in the exhibit, the designers will also act as advisers to fellow exhibitors. Natori and Cobonpue manufacture their own products.
“My marching orders from (Department of Trade and Industry) Secretary Greg Domingo last year was to unify the design industry,” said Gaetos. “Now, our objective is to bring back design not just to its glory days, but to the next level. With stiff competition from China and our Southeast Asian neighbors, we have to produce world-class products that are uniquely Filipino.”
Since last year’s consolidation, Manila FAME saw a 97-percent increase in buyer attendance and a 64-percent increase in export sales. This year is only the beginning, added Gaetos, but it marks the start of the Philippines’ bid “to reclaim the title as the region’s design center.”
As founding member of the Fashion Design Council of the Philippines (FDCP) in 1995, Natori has dreamed to see more Filipino designers, be it in fashion or furniture, blaze a trail abroad. This latest development, she said, brings the country closer to achieving this goal.
“I can see it coming because together we are stronger. Our time has come, and what differentiates and gives us an advantage from the rest is our multicultural heritage,” said Natori.
Part of her dream is to make “Manila Wear” a brand in itself, a seal of excellence, if you will, that assures buyers of quality, consistency, and fresh designs. Natori wants to replicate for the fashion industry the earlier successes experienced by the furniture industry, led by such names as Layug and Cobonpue.
Even the absence of a textile industry, a major factor that has hampered Philippine fashion from taking off globally, hasn’t dampened Gaetos and company’s spirits.
“The country’s garments industry was decimated by the quota system,” said Gaetos. “To further complicate the situation, we no longer have a textile industry.”
But the country still has a considerable source of indigenous materials from traditional weavers in the provinces. Gaetos hopes to marry these handwoven materials with imported mass-produced materials to produce garments that are uniquely Filipino.
“We still have an edge in design,” said Natori. “The challenge is to find the Filipino soul and bring it out.”
Buendia, FDCP president, believes that prevailing global trends favor handwoven fabrics like piña, sinamay and abaca, which the country is known for.
“In the ’80s, it was more of Japanese influences,” he said. “In the ’90s, it was the Chinese’s turn to influence design. Now that there’s a demand for organic materials, I think it’s time for a Filipino aesthetic to influence the world. For instance, 99 percent of the world’s abaca comes from the Philippines. This material is used for hats they wear at the Ascot races. There’s so much potential.”
As one of Manila FAME’S advisers, Sotto finds the opportunity to collaborate and exchange ideas with colleagues in the creative industry a welcome one.
“Collaborating with experts who raise the bar and show what excellence is all about is always exciting,” he said. “As a designer, it has continued to open my eyes to new possibilities and other aspects of design.”
Layug and Cobonpue would curate a segment on the venue’s second floor devoted to furniture design. Cobonpue also hopes that it would become the blueprint of future fairs organized by Manila FAME.
Cobonpue is a foremost example of someone who has learned to make do, adapt, and even thrive despite the dearth of locally available raw materials.
“Like the garments industry, the same thing is happening in furniture,” he said. “Because of the log ban, we have to import wood. Around 80 percent of what I do uses imported components.”


text: I have been busy lately without much time for the blog. Sorry about that. I ran out this morning and got the pictures of the two Christmas cards I have made. I know, it's about time. So, here is the first one which I have named Christmas reindeer. I used my big shot to cut red pp with the slots in them. I then cut kraft cardstock to fit inside the slots. I tied a green ribbon around these two layers. I added on top a dry embossed reindeer that is from Sizzix. I then simply stamped on Merry Christmas on the bottom with my new Papertrey ink stamp set. I love it. I hope you do to. These could easily be done in bulk for you holiday card sending. Have a great day!