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/ Expedition food advice- UK
Currently going through the final prep for a few expeditions for my ML assessment. I have mostly done single days/nights on the hills but am keen to link days now. The one thing that is giving me trouble is the food element.
So, to all you hillwalkers and ML holders out there, what cooking kit/food do you take? I have no allergies so any advice appreciated. I do have a jetboil, but boil in the bag is really expensive. I'm certain there are other options. Also, I'm really not a 'foodie'. I have a budget to play with so I could invest in a small stove or other kit if needed to make life a little easier.
I look forward to the replies!
Cous Cous is lightweight cheap and simple and you can pour water from your jetboil into a bowl and leave it to stand to cook which stops your jetboil getting caked in burnt on food.
my favourite hill food is a pack of tuna, cooked noodles and some form of stir fry sauce, takes about a minute to heat it all together and very nutritious.
This ^ but pour the hot water into the silver packet and roll shut. Makes a good hand-warmer and no washing.
Also microwaveable ziplock sandwich bags can take boiling water too without melting. I put in porridge, dried milk, dried fruit and then hot water to make a great breakfast.
Jet boil stove, ainslie hariott flavoured cous cous or similar with smoked sausage (doesn't need kept cold) or peperami. I take the cous cous in a tub and then rehydrate in the tub thus keeping the cup of the jetboil cup clean. I also take a big plastic mug so I can have a drink whilst boiling more water.
Cup a soups, hot chocolate and cappuccino or latte sachets avoid messing around with powdered coffee or milk. I don't bother with tea bags as you have to carry them out. The mountain house food bags are okay... and dead easy to prepare - if the weather is rubbish something that you just add water to can be a lot less stress. Chilli and curry ones are edible but could do with more salt/ chilli flavour. Actually adding a tomato cup a soup to the mountain house stuff works okay as it gives some extra flavour etc.
For breakfast I confess to eating a mountain house chilli on my assessment but flapjack, malt loaf etc are all good.
Whatever you do take some stuff you want to eat! Jelly babies, flapjack chocolate work for me but everyone likes different stuff. It's not the time to discover that you really hate the stuff you've brought with you.
Good luck with the assessment.
In reply to Hans:
Quite a few ideas on this thread above. I have a simple gas stove that is easy and a multi fuel for very cold weather and places you cant buy gas. If you are possibly going to be in that situation in future then a multi fuel stove might be a good idea as you already have the jetboil.
What do you mean by expedition? Is it longer than few weeks?
I can survive over a week with a balanced diet of bars and dried fruit. I started eating porridge in the mornings (porridge oats, powder milk and some hot chocolate works well). Then something like a protein bar (with higher amount of carbohydrates) for lunch and then another bar in the evening. Fill gaps between meals with some trail mix, light bars, etc. Whole dried bananas are very tasty and high in calories. In my last 9 days unsupported hike I followed (my own) rule that food should be 450-500kcal per 100g or I'd better leave it at home.
I tend to take some electrolyte tablets (Nuun, High5, etc). I have no idea whether they do any good or not, but they taste nice and I do not experience fatigue, cramps or something else. Some tea, coffee or hot chocolate helps to wake up in the morning and boost your mood if weather isn't very nice. Same with dark chocolate or mint cake - they aren't nutritious and should not be used as a main meal, but they help to move faster!
Get the plain couscous and chuck it in a food bag with a cuppa soup and a pepperami chopped through it. Much cheaper than the ready made ones. A little individually wrapped cake bar (swiss roll type thing) with instant custard is a great pudding. Both can be made with just boiled water, no need to keep it cooking once boiled so uses less gas. Breakfast, porridge is good as others have said, and cheap!! I take a more pepperamis for breakfast too, protein in the morning keeps you going well
I wouldn't go for jet boil stove, get something lighter. If you are going to work as an ML, start looking after your knees now, and cut out all excess weight.
For my assessment, I took the boil in the bag stuff, which was a curry and smash. you can eat the curry out of the pack and then chuck the smash in with hot water an it soaks up all the juice.
I also had super noodles mixed with chicken cup of soup with a pepperami, very filling,
for brekkie I had croissants, which are lightweight and easy to pack although end up a bit flat also had more noodles and a energy bar, though the instant porridge stuff you can get nowadays looks better,
I brought plenty of energy bars and fruit pastles to keep nrg up throughout the day, for lunch I had more croissants, snickers
I've done no assessments, but tonnes of experience in being 1) a picky eater and 2) discovering on a trip several years ago I didn't want to eat everything I'd actually brought with me.
Last year I got it down to
Chocolate muesli for breakfast with boiled water (not sure I could ever stomach it again though!)
You get packets of pasta from Heinz, 4 different flavours, they can be hard to find (some supermarkets don't do them, some do), they're square shaped, and no added water needed, just pour the goo in and heat. I find 2 of these does dinner well.
Or on a short trip, a full blown curry - 9 mins boil in the bag rice, chuck out the water, pour the rice out the packet, throw tinned chicken tikka on top of the rice, give it a mega heat-and-stir for 5 mins till piping. All from Asda.
Incomparable after a day on the hills, possible on one (big) pot, mega serving.
Add to that random snacks/Smarties cookies/lucozade, and I managed 3 months in the Highlands on pretty much that diet.
Some extremely interesting ideas there guys; cous cous is something which I hadn't thought about, but makes sense. Deffo muesli/porridge oaty goodness for breakfast. Sandwich bags taking boiling water is a great idea! I'll experiment at home, but I think this solves a problem or two. I'm hoping to do three day expeditions, as this will be expected during the exam. If I get food right, I may be able to go for a little longer.
Cheers, keep the ideas flowing! Cooking time methinks...
Keep in mind that you consume more food if you stay active. However, sometimes it is easy to skip a meal or two a day if you are fairly busy. If the night is cold, a cup of hot chocolate makes you twice happier.
Remembered a couple of others while out today,
If you roll out a pack of marzipan and add chopped nuts, dark chocolate, seeds, dried fruit (basically whatever you like) and knead it all together you get a log of awesome which does snacks for several days. I can't stomach it when I'm not on the hill but I now make a big batch at the start of winter and take a slice off, pocket the slice and that's all my days hill food - works really well.
+1 for smoked sausage, similar to the tuna packs for adding some protein which helps you recover over multi days and stops you waking up hungry.
NEVER try and cook porridge directly in a jetboil. You may get away with it once or twice, but when the porridge gods turn on you you will never get your stove back. If you cook anything in the jetboil (generally ok with really liquid stuff) then DON'T leave a spork in there. Nothing puts you off your dinner like melted plastic. Also, don't believe the people in the shop that assured you that the neoprene can't catch fire. It can. Furthermore, don't trust the piezo lighter when cooking in the wet, like a mini electric fence.
Having said all that I think you'll be fine with a jetboil, mine's just had a fairly rough life. Trust me on the porridge.
Back to the question in hand, if you don't mind cleaning your pans then a few supermakets now stock a brand called "look what we found" that do posh bagged meals, they're pretty good and way cheaper than camping food although they contain their liquid so quite heavy.
Cherry pie filling plus broken biscuits/scones/anything doughy is an awesome camping pudding.
If you don't like eating trail mix at home, you won't like eating it on the hill!
Malt loaf is excellent unless you drop it in the sea.
I recently met the concept of stromboli, like a rolled up pizza bread dough full of cheese and whatever you like, they're properly durable to have in your bag and taste awesome (if you're any good at cooking).
Making your own Popcorn is a good morale booster on anything expeditiony and it's actually prety good for you.
I take those dairy-stix you sometimes get on trains for tea, they're easily tough enough to not break in your bag and are much nicer than powdered milk.
If you're going for a few days you may have to accept that some of the meals aren't going to be particularly apetising. I find it helps to have a few treats, which I inevitably regret eating on the first night.
Thai curry paste livens up even really crap food.
A great way to find new ideas is to set off with no food and see what you can find in the newsagents/rural corner shop.
I know that when it get's really bad, I still have a dehydrated beef stroganoff from my very first Duke of Edinburgh practice that I keep in my first aid kit. I'm scared to eat it now, as I'm worried it's like samsons hair and when I finally have to eat it bad things will happen. Probably food poisoning from eating an out of date dehydrated beef stroganoff.
Hopefully some food for thought. Trust me on the porridge.
Some whole sun dried bananas and M&Ms will make any trail mix edible for everyone! Some great ideas for trail mix can be found in Holland & Barrett. I have never seen whole sun dried bananas or dried blueberries anywhere else.
Trail Mix + porridge. (avoid using jet boil for cooking)
Take a tub of cooked pre cooked stuff like bacon bits,sausage,boiled eggs etc and add it to some baked beans.
if its your ML assessment youre going to be smashing Calories left right centre upwards of 4000 a day depending on your body.
Have energy bars, trail mix, flapjack, boiled sweets, biscuits ready to hand.
not very fun for washing but i have custard, broken biscuits over treacle cake.
Best thing to do is experiment. I like throwing mixed bean into everything with cous cous. great calories, easy and tasty
Agree with that....or just a stock-cube and the peperami, which I do a lot.
But yes, couscous is one of the best hill foods going for fuel economy!
I have a very similar attitude to expedition food. Have done 4 day solo hikes without a stove and have been very happy with energy/protein bars, flapjacks, dried fruit, peanuts, oatcakes, dried sausage and chocolate. I try to make all food average at a minimum of 500kcal per 100g. Individual lower density foods only make it on the list if I compensate with nuts/seeds and other tasty things with astronomical amounts of fat (remembering that 1g of carbs and protein is 4kcal and 1g of fat a whopping 9kcal).
Being quite a slim girl this means I can have 500g of food per day (at least 2500kcal compared to my maintenance of about 1500kcal). This is very sustainable for short trips of about 3-5 days. Beyond that I want and need more calories to keep energy levels up.
my favourite expedition foods:
-good chunky individually packed flapjacks, my local corner shops often have a great variety.
-trail mix - salted peanuts, other nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, dried fruit, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate buttons or m&ms. I make up one bag per day for easy portioning. Usually 100g per day, sometimes 200g if I'm also using it for lunch
-super cheap chocolate bars (the 30p supermarket ones taste fantastic on a hill)
-this amazing spread called lotus biscoff spread (at least thats what its called in this country) 590kcal per 100g!
If I have weight left I'll also bring some nice hard mature cheese for my favourite dinner ever - oatcakes, cheese, chorizo and a nice wee dram of whisky
>tasty things with astronomical amounts of fat (remembering that 1g of carbs and protein is 4kcal and 1g of fat a whopping 9kcal).
Exactly. Protein is about 4kcal as well.
To be honest, I never packed food for each day before last week. I just calculate estimated amount of calories and then just take whatever I want during the hike. It's not a good practice as the diet can be imbalanced and you might run out of food (or take too much). Packing food in sandwich bags for each day is quite good idea as I have some energy reserve in fats which I would not mind to get rid of. For an overnight trip, it worked perfectly.
Can I just say a HUGE thanks for all these replies! Got some awesome ideas now; totally psyched to start using some on the hill this time next week. 2 months off work to nail the ML.
'Trust me on the porridge'! Love it. I do trust you, don't worry. No porridge will be going remotely close to my jetboil.
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Against the power that bred it."" ward man. On the present occasion his demeanor was unusually sedate, and he “ May the ghost of Shakspeare pardon beckoned us to dinner with the air of an me!” returned M- " but I have alexecutioner. He had fought in the Revo- ways thought the shade-bestowing leaves lution, but of this, strange to say, he and honeysuckles, like those same favorites, never spoke. Around his neck, and next jealous lest the rays of royal favor should bis bosom, was hung by a silken cord an illumine aught beneath them. But how old shilling, which I believe he valued those noble lines march along, like Leonmore than his life. He had received it | idas to Thermopylæ! Let us imitate them
now by a march to dinner, for here comes At the conclusion of our repast, Robin Robin to summon us, and Emily will join entered, bearing cautiously on a silver salus before we have carved our way to ver a single bottle, well laced with antique Elysium.”
cobwebs, so as to resemble some beggared He led the way, and I followed, to a follower of Charles II. during the Protecbanquet worthy of Apicius.
torate, the spirit of loyalty still glowing We had not been long seated, when brightly beneath his dilapidated garment. Emily entered. She had doffed her che- The precious liquid was decanted with all quered morning-gown for a dress of the the ceremony that its racy and refined purest white. Her face was calm and flavor warranted. Emily rose
as she even cheerful; I could scarcely withdraw touched the glass to her lips, saying, my gaze from her clear, polished forehead “You to your wine and I-to my harp. and eye, whose quality of light was ex- "Play softly, my child," said Mquisite indeed. She either felt or affected " for Bacchus must not be a second time the liveliest pleasure, and displayed a con- assailed with the chorus of the frogs.” versational power almost equal to her “You have never given me the history father's, and quite as captivating. It is of this wine,” I observed, as Emily left surely one of the most gratifying cordials the room. in this melancholy vale,"' to witness “No! and I never shall. I hate to some lovely young woman discover with hear a wine's pedigree paraded like a out art, effort, or pedantry, in tones of horse's ; it is in bad taste, and a poor subrichest eloquence, the treasures of a gifted stitute for better conversation. Wine and highly cultured mind—a mind not in should be judged by its inspiration. We ferior to that which Schiller has well are too republican here to value ancestry described as "insatiable, ever stretching in anything." into the dim distance, and pursuing through “And yet you are very apt to inquire the remotest stars the image of its dreams." about a man's father," I said, very quiSuch a spectacle gives a man assurance etly. that woman's sensorium is not limited to Well, you are half right, my boy, notbeing pleased with a trinket or tickled withstanding Eve brought forth Cain ; with a compliment; that she may be children often reflect their parents menrelied on as a companion as well as petted tally and morally, but always physically. as a toy. It is melancholy to see that half of It wounds me to the core, to behold a a generation which principally controls the man cast in one of nature's fairest and destinies of the next, so completely absorb- firmest moulds, unite himself to a dised in the color and fashion of a dress, in cased or unhealthy woman; or to see a compliments as insignificant as the tailor- blooming virgin, the wholesome blood made creatures which concoct them, in their mantling in her cheeks, bestow her hand looking-glasses and in themselves, that upon sickly, scrofulous wretch really their brains seem to have been en- whose eye is kindled by Hymen, when tirely consumed in the nourishment of the cold hand of Death is laid upon his their hair, which is frequently made to lungs. They should pause before conconceal half the forehead, as if to hide its tracting so fatal an alliance; before gratiemptiness. Or worse even than this, to fying a misplaced and selfish desire at the be thus accosted by one who, despairing expense of their offspring. A man in the of her exterior, has determined to rival choice of a wife, or a woman in the acceptDe Stael, as you assist her to ice-cream- ance of a suitor, owes a duty to their “ Have you read Junius' Letters ? Are country and their descendants. For how you familiar with Plutarch's Lives ?” and can we be justified in deliberately entaila thousand other queries, as abruptly in- ing upon the bone of our bone and flesh troduced to your notice as a sudden of our flesh, an early and premature disstreak of lightning to your neighbor's solution ? If the principle of life is strong barn. Let the galled jade wince, if she within us, we are false to humanity, and will. Alas! I am now
to Heaven, if we wilfully inoculate it withi “Indifferent though the smile or frown decay, and consign the reptile to the craOf beauty be.”
dle of the impotent Hercules.”
This was said calmly and seriously; it them lie. And when generations yet unflung back upon me the gloomy thoughts born shall cluster there, the generous tear that had occupied me at the spring, and will fall for the man-not to the hero. which Emily's gaiety had effectually dis- There let them feel that he was one of missed. The change must have extended them, and within reach of their sympato my face, for M- instantly re- thies—and elsewhere the Gothic spire or marked
the Grecian column may proclaim the “Why, you are twirling your empty demi-god, awakening homage and exultglass, as though you expected to churn ation. wine out of atmospheric air. Such amia- The tears were trickling down bis ble dejection would really to honor to a swarthy cheeks as he concluded; but sixteen-pointed sermon on the uncertainty never did meteor start from darkness to of life. Alas, that I should have been light with more velocity than his face guilty of preaching at such an unseasona- resumed its customary fixity. With him ble hour! Nay, was that meant for a it was—come light, come darkness—no smile? Oh, sad caricature! The paren- twilight. thesis at your mouth was like the two “Is he not a phenix ?” said Mmelancholy ejaculations enclosing the two Robin left the room ; "I thought he Sophonis bas."
would have gone off in a blaze. Lo! I made a desperate effort to recover there is Emily's harp in full vibration. By myself, whilst he replenished our glasses, all the books, Morpheus is heir-apparent and selecting a third, filled it to the brim. to Bacchus, and I shall give him his
“ Robin," he continued, “you must succession, especially as I concede, with join us in a libation to your patron Euripides, that our ancestors displayed saint.”
little wisdom in assigning music to the The eccentric individual addressed, ad- joyous feast, but should have reserved vanced to the table with one gigantic it to dispel the cloud of sorrow. stride ; and M-raising the glass in brow is not quite clear yet, go, and be bis hand, exclaimed slowly and with much wiser than your forefathers.” dignity—“To the memory of Washing- I did not hesitate to obey him, but ton!"
sought Emily in the parlor. I found her " The fiend has passed out of me into playing that charming air of Beethoven's, Robin,” I said, seeing that our friend had upon which De Beriot has constructed his clutched the back of Emily's vacant chair magnificent tremolo. As her fingers almost convulsively with both hands. struck the last chord she said, “Do you
" You are thinking,” said M- know that this little bijou gives me more touching his arm, “that had you the relief than would all the medicines in the power, you would build a monument at world. My heart is calm and at ease Mount Vernon, that would put to shame now; it has the habit of transferring its Pompey's Pillar, or the Pyramid of palpitation to the harp.”. Cheops itself; are you not ?”
"May it always remain there, Emily," Robin shook his head slowly, and with. I replied, " and leave you but the healthy out moving a muscle answered, “No!” | beat of life; the malady that music cures and then raising himself to his full height, cannot be deeply rivetted.” as every feature took a sudden leap from I would fain believe so," she rejoined, apathy to intense excitement, his lip quiv- “and when all is quiet here” (she laid her ering and his big, dark eye almost blazing hand upon her breast) "I am tempted to he burst forth
laugh at the fears which are at times so "No, sir! Elsewhere let the tall shaft appalling.” cleave the clouds, and lift to heaven the The surest proof that they are unimage of him who was greatest and best ; founded,” I said. and let the pilgrim come and gaze with
"Well, I am not now disposed to quesmingled pride and admiration. But at tion their evidence, so let us dismiss the Mount Vernon no stately monument must subject. I would avoid either ridicule or conceal the green turf embosoming his re- sympathy." mains; unadorned and undistinguished let You shall have none of the latter, VOL. IV. NEW SERIES.
Emily, until you can produce a better first book of Kings, to this effect — And title to it.”
it came to pass, that when the evil spirit “I assure you I am not covetous of so from God was upon Saul, David took a high an honor; a title to sympathy never harp and played with his hand, and Saul involved a lawsuit.”
was refreshed and was well, and the evil There is a certain species of conversa- spirit departed from him.' This is a high tion which derives all its sweetness from the compliment to your favorite pursuit, and opportunity that calls it into existence, my recollection of it is only attributable to and from the circumstances inspiring it; your proficiency. Whether you are gratwhich defies repetition, as it was never ified in receiving praise where you exdesigned for a third party; and which, pected a secret, I know not ; for the above all, should never be retailed in the discrimination of Aquinas himself would first person. It is born beneath the ray be insufficient to determine which is dearof the intensest feeling, and withers under est to woman—the indulgence of her the chilling influences of a colder clime. vanity, or the gratification of her curi
“ Draw to that shutter a little,” said osity.' Emily, “the sun is right in my
face. "My dear father," replied Emily, “the There~I will reward you with a slow light of your praise is hidden beneath the movement from Mozart's Entfürhrung, bushel of your censure; your honey is which is more like the song of a pensive flavored quite too decidedly with the angel than mortal music.”
Sardinian poppy; but I thank you She sung the brief adagio—I have never high an authority, that music is so nearly heard it since-in such a manner, that I allied to heaven, that a demon fled at its felt my innermost soul acknowledge the sound.” truth of her last proposition. Beautiful Your nap has been a short one,” I and accomplished girl! When, at this said, addressing Msilent and remote hour, the mind allows “ Short! When I left you, the sun the senses to slumber as if in consideration had a fourth of his course to run, and now of past services, turning to memory for his fiery disc is scorching the horizon. old impressions, unambitious of new ones, But do not imagine that I slept through I recall thy perfections so well adapted to the whole interval; one hour suffices me, bestow, instead of losing the joys of Eden, and the two others, which you were I fear that reviving regret is not entirely pleased to condense into a short nap, stifled by the sweet conviction that thou were devoted to such exercise as the mind art now enjoying the reward of thy is entitled to." virtues !
“Those shadows have had a most She had concluded the air, and her wonderful growth,” I said, surveying from fingers were trickling carelessly over the the window the lengthening outlines of the strings. Her uplifted eye still retained old oaks upon the grass. the inspiration of the dreamy strain, when “Yes," he replied, “ the growth of I heard a whisper in my ear, repeating Otus and Ephialtes was nothing to it. A Benedict's outrageous soliloquy—“Is it short nap of three hours! In what denot strange that sheeps' guts should hale licious fairy-land have you been roaming, the souls out of men's bodies ?" I started pray? Well, time is like a cone standing from my reverie, and recognized M-at on its base, where the circles in planes
parallel to the plane of the base may re“Secrets! Oh exquisite !” said Emily, present years or days; the space we springing forward ; “I insist upon being travel is increased or diminished, as afflicmade lord keeper of the little vagrants.” tion compels us towards the ground line,
“I have not the heart," said M- or joy elevates us to the tapering vertex. “to disappoint so reasonable a curiosity, Your orbit has been around the very top.” and I will insure your secrecy by the assur- "And you, sir, I hope, have not been ance that you are at liberty to divulge circling near the base ?" it anywhere or to anybody. I was then “No, my course was midway. But merely reminding this young gentleman of put away your instrument, my child, or a passage in the sixteenth chapter of the sing some English, Irish or Scotch air,
that I can comprehend; your selections lle gave Emily his arm, and I followed
The air was now pleasant, and the birds “Now, my dear father," replied Emily, and beasts seemed rejoicing in the golden "your prejudices on this score are surely serenity that attends a summer sunset. most unfounded. There is no earthly
There is no earthly The sun, just dipping beneath the horizon, reason why music should be despised for retained all bis light without half his heat. want of simplicity. Because we admire Large banks of purple clouds fringed with the songs of Burns, or the idyls of gold were clustering around him, and here Theocritus, are we prevented from accord and there light fleecy specks hung on the ing homage to the lofty and studied ma- borders of the radiant mass, rejoicing in jesty of Paradise Lost or the Divine the effulgence, and changing their gorComedy? The musical faculty is as sus- geous livery with the rapidity of a fanciful ceptible of cultivation as any other, and belle determined to display the variety and yet when experts in the art venture an extent of her wardrobe. The sun is ceropinion and evince a partiality, their con- tainly suggestive of similes. clusions are scouted at by the uninitiated "See those sycophant clouds," said as at variance with their tastes, and their M-“how they turn their bright sides ideas."
to their monarch, while they frown gloomi“Ghost of Aristophanes ! Emily--what ly upon all beneath them: honey to their a broadside! I sink my colors. But re- master, gall to their inferiors. Aye, their member, my child, I only said your fa- glories are fading now; they will soon be vorite jingles were above my mark-not left black and desolate enough, perhaps below it : I charged myself with inca
to weep ere many hours.” pacity, not your German or Italian fan
The tiny hills in the distance still held tasias with absurdity."
on to a few loitering beams, with the “ But you have done so before,” she said tenacious grip of some love-sick damsel to with a smile; “ admired the Bucolics, but a fickle lover. We watched the splendid despised the Æneid.”
pageant to its close, and then retraced our "Only because I could not understand steps. the latter. I am far from disputing your We sat in the ample porch as long as position, my daughter; there is a progres- the night-air permitted. I will not atsion in music as well as in mathematics ; tempt to repeat the brilliant and varied and though I may have occasionally conversation with which M- regaled laughed at your devoting as much time to us; I feel the injustice I have already your quavers, as Miss Ringlet gives to her done him, and dare not peril bis reputacurls, I assure you that I deem your tion any further. Among the many things favorite recreation anything but a frivolous which gave zest to hours, not remembered pastime, at war with more serious pur- without a sigh, was a song of Emily's,
I would not hesitate to employ a running thus: lawyer, because he might, after the stern toils of the day, prefer the canvas to “ Had I the Peri power to hie parchment, or happen to perpetrate a From star to star on viewless wing, sonnet at his own fireside; I am not quite
Ah, yet no wanderer were I !so prejudiced as to censure a lecturer for
There is one sweet spot in the sky
Where I would ever cling.
“ And though 'mid halls all bright and fair solid and deeply rooted, and the sturdy My jewelled foot might proudly roam ; Tuscan or Doric column uphold a sub- No earthly beck could lure me there, stantial and enduring mass; the light
While Allah yields the bliss to share
My Azim's tented home !"
Thus Zara sung, while her dark lash fung
O'er her bright eye a soft eclipse; without impairing the strength of the edi
And while the mellow music hung fice. But if we dally here much longer Still thrilling on the minstrel's tongue, we shall miss the sunset.”
Young Azim sealed her lips.

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Two Filipinas, both victims of sexual abuse in varying degrees, yearn and search for the truth behind the statement of a renowned anthropologist: that merely a few generations ago, the Bontok Igorot lived in what seemed to be an unthinkable utopia — a rapeless society.
The search centers on the municipality of Bontoc, the locus of Bontok culture. Through judiciary archives, local government records, and the oral narratives of Bontok elders, the mission does find its holy grail, albeit almost dead: suffocating under the inevitable weight of alien culture and mass media. If at all, the rape-less society still exists, but only within small, close-knit Bontok communes. Still exists, but trapped in the rapidly-fading past: the last evidence proving its very existence is the collective memory of Bontok elders who do not even know each other, all saying “Idi, awan! Tatta, addan …” (“In our days, there was none! But today, there is rape…”)
In a country where the universality of women’s oppression is widely condoned, how did a rapeless society ever become possible?
Festivals Participated / Recognitions
Winner-Finalist Award (Documentaries), New York Festivals 2015
Best Documentary, Gawad Urian Award 2015
Special Mention, Cine Totoo Philippine International Documentary Film Festival 2014

domain: sociology


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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to strike down Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate targeting healthcare workers at federally funded facilities. The measure passed on a party-line vote of 49 to 44.
No Democrat senators voted with Republicans to repeal the mandate, but GOP senators were able to get the resolution through the Senate because six Democrats missed the vote, The Hill reported.
The bill was sponsored by Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who physician, and former military officer. Before voting began, Marshall argued that the CMS vaccine mandate is “not about public health or science.” Read More
Joe Biden has announced that his administration will be ending the declaration of a national emergency on the southern border that was first declared by the Trump Administration, as reported by Fox News.
President Trump first declared the national emergency in February of 2019, which allowed him to allocate billions of federal dollars to the construction of the wall after Congress repeatedly blocked his efforts to do so. The move allowed for nearly 500 miles of new border wall to be constructed by the end of his first term. Biden announced the decision in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in which he described the policy as “unwarranted.” Read More
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order Friday banning all public gatherings of more than 250 people in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Read More
President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, amid media hysteria and a tumbling stock market. The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 1,700 people in the United States, and killed 41 of them. Read More
President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency Friday afternoon in response to the coronavirus outbreak, various reports claimed. Read More
After the United States Congress voted to end President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border, the President vetoed that resolution; yesterday, the Senate failed to override his veto, according to Politico. Read More


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The road to net-zero is littered with the debris of broken promises, but Toronto-based Greensoil PropTech Ventures is steadfast in its commitment to decarbonizing the real estate sector.
This month, the company will be closing its $100 million PropTech Ventures Fund II (GSPV Fund II) after receiving a major investment from the Liechtenstein Group in October.
As a result, Greensoil will be able to fulfill its lofty proptech ambitions by funding start-ups in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Israel that deploy innovative technology, software, and AI to lower the carbon footprint of the built environment.
According to latest estimates, 39 per cent of global carbon emissions are produced by the real estate sector. Approximately 70 per cent of these greenhouse gases are generated by building operations, while the remaining 30 per cent are the result of construction activity.
Accordingly, investing in cutting-edge proptech companies is of vital importance to the overall goal of achieving significant emissions reductions in the real estate sector, the largest asset class on the planet.
Greensoil PropTech Ventures is one of Canada's leading players in the field, which over the last five years has seen over $100 billion of venture capital invested in North American companies.
Established in 2012 by Dutch-Israeli investor Gideon Soesman and Alan Greenberg, a long-standing Canadian real estate developer and former president of MintoUrban Communities Inc., Greensoil has embarked on a mission to "digitize and decarbonize the built environment."
The Toronto-based company targets mid-stage venture capital (VC) opportunities in the proptech sector which is rapidly transforming existing buildings into vastly more energy efficient, and hence profitable, properties.
"As impact investors, achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more equitable world are our market-making missions," Soesman, co-founder and managing partner of Greensoil Investments, said.
"Greensoil Investments believes in the venerated Hebraic ideal known as 'tikkun olam' – that we bear a fundamental responsibility to repair and improve the world."
Greensoil gets vote of confidence from Liechtenstein Group
Greensoil PropTech's commitment to the greening of the real estate landscape led the Liechtenstein Group, an investment outfit owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, to partner with the pioneering Canadian VC fund.
This allows the company to embark on a new series of investments in cutting-edge tech firms to further leverage its sustainable real estate portfolio.
"The Liechtenstein Group is known for taking a thoughtful, holistic approach to increasing sustainability in real estate, agriculture and other key sectors," Soesman said. "We are pleased to work with an entity whose culture is so deeply rooted in sustainability and innovation."
The GSPV Fund II launched in March 2021 and has thus far committed three-quarters of its capital to investments in six proptech disruptors: Oxygen8, Wynd, Home365, Miru, Intelligent City and Ivy Energy.
Greensoil's investment selection process is governed by a strict corporate policy of funding only companies capable of "making a real contribution" to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Greensoil also practices due diligence to avoid greenwashing by ensuring its partners deliver regular progress reports.
Tech synergies and the overlap between proptech and climate tech
One of the central aspects of Greensoil PropTech's strategic vision is what Gideon describes as the "overlap between proptech and climate tech" in reducing a building's energy consumption.
"We're looking at making buildings energy independent, having better insulation of windows, having more fresh air, and areas like that," Gideon said. "What we've seen in the last couple of years is going from a system where you have a few very large energy sources that are all being transferred to the building environment, to a new setup where the building is generating its own energy by using alternative energy sources and then using those in a smart way.
"If at the same time you can lower the energy consumption and still achieve those same goals, then you have a double win."
Greensoil targets smart building systems, AI energy distribution
Greensoil's VC fund has been investing in leaders in the deployment of wide range smart building systems such as high-efficiency HVAC systems, AI energy distribution software and advanced building materials.
One such company, Ivy Energy, located in San Diego, Calif., pioneers software that tracks and bills corporate and residential tenants separately on the basis of how much of regular power grid energy they use versus solar energy usage.
"In the case of Ivy, it's providing vital technology with respect to the billing of energy consumption," Gideon explained. "If you have panels on your own standalone house, for example, it's simple. It's your energy and it's between you and the utility company. When you use the energy, you pay for the energy, or during those periods where you're using the solar energy, obviously you're not paying for it.
"But in cases where you have a larger building with multiple tenants, it becomes complicated because you need to determine and differentiate between who's using solar energy and who's using the regular energy when there's no sun outside. You need software to organize all of that and then to make sure that you can also bill the tenants in the building.
"That's what Ivy is enabling."
Greensoil takes stakes in Miru Smart Technologies, Intelligent City
Two Canadian projects which are outstanding examples of Greensoil's state-of-the art tech investments are Miru Smart Technologies and Intelligent City, both based in Vancouver.
Miru is bringing next-generation electrochromic windows to the residential and commercial real estate markets, blocking unwanted UV rays and controlling building temperatures with automated tinting. Miru's glass tech also extends the battery life of electric vehicles by reducing the energy needed to heat and cool cars, allowing vehicles to travel up to 10 per cent farther.
"In the case of Miru, by adjusting the tinting of the window, you can save a lot of energy because a lot of energy gets lost in the facades of the buildings and the windows," Gideon said.
Another target for Greensoil is modular construction. Vancouver-based Intelligent City employs a group of architects, designers and engineers who utilize proprietary software to create customized mass timber housing and commercial buildings.
"Modular construction is absolutely a core interest for us," Gideon said. "We do believe that we will see more and more modular construction because you can use more energy-efficient materials. This makes it both cheaper and faster to build and obviously it will be using less carbon in the whole process.
Proptech investing is 'an art'
Greensoil expects to a become one of the world's pre-eminent proptech players by continuing to provide the seed capital that will lead to a brighter, cleaner and greener built environment.
"We (intend to) invest more in earlier-stage, seed investments in emerging technologies, for example, stuff that is really new and where we want to make a smaller bet," Soesman said. "We do a lot of research on the different companies we invest in and . . . ultimately, we want to invest in the best companies and especially those that have excellent management.
"But in the end, as I always say, 'It's not a science, it's an art.' "

domain: economics


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- Popular Nigerian singer Viktoh recently took to social media to share his latest achievement with fans
- The former YBNL music star acquired a sleek new Mercedes Benz and he shared the photo online
- Numerous fans and music lovers congratulated Viktoh on his new ride as they celebrated with him
Popular Nigerian singer Viktoh has joined the big leagues of celebs with his latest acquisition.
The music star recently bought himself a Mercedes Benz and he took to social media to share the good news with fans.
On his official Instagram page, the former YBNL artiste posted a photo of himself seating on his sleek new ride.
Viktoh accompanied the now-deleted photo with a caption about his new German ride.
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Nigerians react to news of Viktoh’s newly acquired Benz
Internet users had different comments about Viktoh’s good fortune. Most of them congratulated him while others noted that it was well deserved. Read some of their reactions below:
“No wonder I never hear him song since, him just dey on a low de bomb.”
“Who dey depress don buy Benz.”
“This guy no dey play. I don't care how he get his money. Congratulations to him.”
“But this guy no Dey sing again na.”
“E don tey wey u sing ooo. Where Una dey do osholee and which work dey go now.”
“The guy don too suffer, I’m really happy for him.”
Singer Viktoh recounts becoming an Uber driver because of hard times
Former YBNL artiste, Viktoh, gave fans a brief narration about a troubling time in his past.
Segun Arinze featuring Wizkid: Colleague hails veteran actor as he flaunts lovely singing voice in viral video
The singer said he sold his car some years ago and was forced to start ordering cabs just to get to his destination. He said there were also times when he had to trek.
Viktoh added that most people in the Gbagada area of Lagos can bear witness to his story. He recounted turning down ride offers simply out of shame.
Sharing further, the singer added that he was still making good music while he was going through the challenging phase.

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On 22nd December 2013 a manifestation against racism took place in Kärrtorp, a suburb south of Stockholm, following a violently disturbed manifestation a week earlier. A mere 16,000 people gathered to show their solidarity for the cause. Here is a short photo reportage.
René Timmermans (born in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, 1968) is a freelance travel and landscape photographer.
Although he is born and raised in the Netherlands René is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.


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If you love Doritos, you will love this casserole.
Great Fall Recipe.
Segment sponsored by Bulk Priced Food Shoppe.
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Recipe from Living with Amy.
Great served with a side of cheese or with soup.
This recipe was featured on the menu at the Treasury Restaurant in Ripon.
Recipe featured on Living with Amy.
The hint of chipotle pepper gives this cupcake a little kick.
This is a delicious cupcake twist on a classic dessert.


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Also, if you happened to miss Friday's edition of the Gay Truth Booth, check it out here
Next week's edition should be pretty cool because I think that we're going to be doing a video version of the Truth Booth. We'll see how it turns out.
Pretty normal Monday at work. I'm about to do a Build and Burn class and my legs are nervous for the work out their about to endure. More from me later. Bye. Or as Britain would say..."Cheerio."


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The stinging rebuke from the IMF arrived at the worst moment for the UK government.
With sterling selling off and borrowing costs spiking on Tuesday, the fund issued a statement at around 8pm London time, chiding the UK for its plan to implement £45bn of debt-funded tax cuts and urging it to “re-evaluate” the package.
Using language reminiscent of missives directed at emerging markets in the grip of currency crises, the IMF said it was “closely monitoring recent economic developments in the UK” and was “engaged with the authorities”. Chief among the fund’s objections was that the “untargeted” fiscal package risked working “at cross purposes” to a Bank of England trying to stamp out soaring inflation.
Coming almost five days after Kwasi Kwarteng, UK chancellor, delivered his mini budget, the timing of the IMF statement raised eyebrows. It was sent out in response to media requests, rather than as a planned statement from the fund, raising speculation it might not have been fully vetted.
In fact, senior managers at the IMF, including managing director Kristalina Georgieva, were consulted on and ultimately approved its release, according to a person familiar with the matter. While the UK knew the fund was critical of the tax-cutting package, it was not given an advanced copy of the statement, said another person briefed on the events. The IMF declined to comment.
One former IMF official said he almost “fell out” of his chair after reading the statement. In just 130 words, the fund had sparked a global debate about its role as surveyor and commentator on global financial risks and its status as a lender of last resort.
“If you have a mandate for global financial and economic stability, you have to have a view,” the person said. “The question is how much of that do you convey?”
The unusually sharp criticism directed at a G7 country also raised questions about whether the IMF had overstepped its remit by commenting on domestic policy outside of a normally scheduled review, an update to its global economic outlook, or bailout talks.
For the opposition UK Labour party in the middle of its annual party conference, the statement was a gift. In addition to fuelling a sense of crisis engulfing the British government, the IMF’s criticism of tax cuts that would “benefit high-income earners” and “likely increase inequality” chimed perfectly with Labour’s own attacks on Kwarteng’s fiscal plan.
The IMF also paved the way for a chorus of international censure, especially from the US. Later on Tuesday, Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, stopped short of condemning the tax cuts but echoed the fund’s language by saying Washington was “monitoring developments very closely”.
Yellen also noted that, like the US, the UK had a “significant inflation” problem and a central bank focused on trying to stem spiking prices.
By Thursday, the Biden administration had sharpened its attacks. “Business people want to see world leaders taking inflation very seriously,” said Gina Raimondo, US commerce secretary. “And it’s hard to see that out of this new [UK] government.”
But two people familiar with the matter said the US did not push the IMF to intervene. Finance ministers in France, Germany and Spain have also all criticised the fiscal package.
Regardless of the timing and tone of the statement, remaining silent was not an option, according to people familiar with the fund’s approach. The UK’s fiscal policy was so directly at odds with the advice the IMF had repeatedly given: that countries should refrain from “large and untargeted fiscal packages” at a time when central banks were trying to stamp out inflation.
Adding to a sense of urgency at the fund was the scale of the financial turmoil in the UK, and the possibility it could soon spread to other major markets.
“This is a time when everywhere monetary policy has to fight inflation and fiscal policy needs to help,” said one IMF insider. “But they are doing exactly the opposite and the central bank now has to print money to buy debt,” they added, referring to the Bank of England’s emergency £65bn intervention in the gilt market to prevent a pensions meltdown. “It’s the worst thing you could imagine.”
Larry Summers, the former US Treasury secretary who had criticised the IMF for not weighing in earlier, said the statement had “underscored how aberrant the behaviour” of the UK’s government had been.
“When there’s a crisis situation or policies that are manifestly irresponsible, it’s kind of natural for the IMF to take some kind of note,” he told the Financial Times after the fund’s intervention. “I don’t think the IMF should distinguish between its rich country shareholders and its emerging market shareholders.”
Some economists said the economic instability in the UK would have triggered alarm even in tranquil times, but that the fraught global backdrop had served to magnify Britain’s problems.
“We are dealing with a level of fragility that turns things that possibly would not have been shocking into shocks,” Sarah Bloom Raskin, former deputy Treasury secretary in the Obama administration, said in an interview.
Bloom Raskin, who also served as a Federal Reserve governor, added: “When self-imposed wounds of the sort we see in the UK occur, in the midst of non-neutral and active central bank policymaking, the cascading effects on financial stability may be all the more unpredictable and unprecedented.”
However the fund has also come under fire for being overzealous in its rebuke of the UK and its unscheduled statement has generated criticism from former officials, Tory MPs in the UK and Republican lawmakers. One prominent British financial commentator called for a boycott of the “outrageously arrogant” institution, arguing it was a “faddish, hypocritical body” that had become “explicitly aligned with the Joe Biden left”.
One former IMF official said: “The fund has real problems coming up with so many developing countries, so why go and mess around with one country that, no matter what it does, will be in reasonably good shape for the next year or two?”
“I certainly don’t recall any uninvited, unwarranted and off-the-cuff comment like that on anybody’s economic proposal,” they added.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers demanded to know why the fund had not commented on what they see as the Biden administration’s fiscal irresponsibility.
Although the recently-passed package of clean energy and healthcare measures was offset with tax increases, last year’s $1.9tn Covid-19 stimulus was unfunded while a student loan forgiveness programme was this week estimated to cost $400bn. Yet the IMF has largely backed Biden’s fiscal policies, touting the positive impact of the last pandemic stimulus.
“It is puzzling that the IMF felt it necessary to opine on a G20 nation’s domestic policy, and to only now oppose a ‘large and untargeted fiscal package’,” said Bill Hagerty, the senator from Tennessee. “Where were the IMF warnings when the Biden Administration pushed through trillions in fiscal stimulus as our economy was overheating?”
Additional reporting by Chris Giles in London and Kiran Stacey in Washington


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One of the highly touted features of the iPhone is the abundance of applications available for near-instantaneous download and seamless installation. In traditional Apple fashion, in order to keep full control of the software environmnet and maintain this seamless experience, Apple exercises strict control over which apps are made available through the app store. Short of jailbreaking your phone, there is no other way to install third-party software.
The process by which apps are submitted and reviewed strikes many as highly inefficient. (It also strikes many as anti-competitive, but that is not the subject of this post. There are legitimate economic arguments supporting Apple’s control of the platform and for my purposes here I will take those as given, although for now I remain agnostic on the question.) Developers sink significant investment producing launch-ready versions of their software and only then learn definitively whether the app can be sold. There is no recourse if the submission is denied.
(Just recently, we witnessed an extreme example of the kind of deadweight loss that can result. A fully licensed, full-featured Commodore64 Operating System emulator, 1 year in the making, was just rejected from the app store. )
Unfortunately, this is an inevitable inefficiency due to the ubiquitous problem of incomplete contracting. In a first-best world, Apple would publicize an all-encompassing set of rules outlining exactly what software would be accepted and what would be rejected. In this imaginary world of complete contracts, any developer would know in advance whether his software would be accepted and no effort would be wasted.
In reality it is impossible to conceive of all of the possibilities, let alone describe them in a contract. Therefore, in this second-best world, at best Apple can publish a broad set of guidelines and then decide on a case-by-case basis when the final product is submitted. This introduces inefficiencies at two levels. First, the direct effect is that developers face uncertainty whether their software will pass muster and this is a disincentive to undertake the costly investment at the beginning.
But the more subtle inefficiency arises due to the incentive for gamesmanship that the imperfect contract creates. First, Apple’s incentive in constructing guidelines ex ante is to err on the side of appearing more permissive than they intend to be. Apple knows even less than the developers what the final product will look like and Apple values the option to bend the (unwritten) rules a bit when a good product materializes. While it is true that Apple’s desire to keep a reputation for transparent guidelines mitigates this problem to some extent, the fact remains that Apple does not internalize all the costs of software development.
Second, because Apple cannot predict what software will appear it cannot make binding commitments to reject software that is good but erodes slightly their standards. This gives developers an incentive to engage in a form of brinkmanship: sink the cost to create a product highly valued by end users but which is questionable from Apple’s perspective. By submitting this software the developer puts Apple in the difficult position of publicly rejecting software that end users want and the fear of bad publicity may lead Apple to accept software that they would have like to commit in advance to reject.
The iPhone app store is only a year old and many observers think of it as a short-run system that is quickly becoming overwhelmed by the surprising explosion of iPhone software. When the app store is reinvented, it will be interesting to see how they approach this unique two-sided incentive problem.
Update: Mark Thoma further develops here. He didn’t ask in advance for permission to do that, but if he did I would have given encouraging signals but then rejected it ex post.


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When Pro Bowl linebacker Roquan Smith takes the day off, there are massive shoes to fill. Nobody quite delivers the fire-and-brimstone pregame speeches like he does.
On Saturday, it fell to 32-year-old Kyle Van Noy to fill in, addressing the Ravens through sheets of cold rain. It was an admirable attempt.
“He did all right,” linebacker Patrick Queen said. “He’s kind of like on the more calm side. He doesn’t curse. He doesn’t try to get extremely hype. He try to do the little bouncing around stuff like we’re in high school. But, out of 10, I would probably say like a three out of 10.”
The pregame speech is the only area where the Ravens’ 30-and-over pass-rushing and defensive line corps hasn’t delivered this season. With Van Noy, Jadeveon Clowney, Michael Pierce and Brent Urban’s career performances throughout the campaign, a theme has emerged:
Old guys rule.
Amid a tedious 17-10 loss that meant very little in the grand scheme of things, the best moment for the Ravens came in the second quarter, when Clowney plowed through Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph for a strip sack. Though Clowney, who will turn 31 next month, was slow to realize it, the play meant for the first time in his career he had reached 9.5 sacks, triggering a $750,000 incentive in his contract.
For two weeks, Clowney had been telling his Ravens teammates how close he had come to that money. Though he got one sack in San Francisco on Christmas, he felt he had missed two others. Against Miami last week, he missed a sack of Tua Tagovailoa that would have pushed him over the top.
So it was his Baltimore compatriots who were the first to tell him, Yes, Jadeveon, you did it. Clowney celebrated by waving his hands in fitful circles and dancing while the Steelers were still in the huddle.
“That was a very long celebration,” Pierce remarked. “That might be a record for longest celebration.”
Clowney’s elation had plenty of merit. Aside from the money, which Clowney joked isn’t going far — “I got three kids; I gotta continue to look after them,” he said — setting a career high in sacks in his 10th season is a huge bounce-back for the outside linebacker after a disappointing end to his tenure in Cleveland (three sacks in 2022).
The Ravens scooped him up close to the start of the season with relatively modest expectations. Clowney blew them out of the water, helping Baltimore lead the NFL in sacks. Though he narrowly missed his goal of reaching double-digit sacks for the first time, he credited his offseason regimen with preparing him to have one of the best seasons of his career.
“We stayed consistent, stayed doing workouts — even when I didn’t want to,” he said. “Even going to the clubs. After the clubs, wake up the next morning, go in. Work hard, play hard, baby.”
Clowney wasn’t the only Raven who cashed in Saturday. Before kickoff, ESPN reported that Pierce, who has played six of his seven NFL seasons in Baltimore, agreed to a two-year, $7.5 million extension to keep him in purple and black through 2025. After being plagued by injuries the past two seasons, “the Juggernaut” has played in every regular-season game this year and set career highs in snaps and QB pressures.
Pierce seemed surprised by the opportunity to continue playing in Baltimore, the place he’s come to think of as his NFL home. While his stats will never stand out among his peers, Pierce thinks of himself along the lines of Albert McClellan or Anthony Levine – the “glue guys” who keep the Ravens’ defensive machine humming.
“Those were guys who took a liking to me when I was undrafted and kinda showed me the way,” Pierce said. “So it’s an honor to them that I’m still playing and I kinda know what’s going on. And I just try to follow in that kinda mold.”
Though Saturday’s game was entirely forgettable, the Ravens vets kept tacking on to their substantial seasons. Van Noy added a sack to come to nine for the year, a career high despite not being signed until Week 4. The two-time Super Bowl champ may not be the speech specialist, but he’s helped stoke a sense of calm. “Some of the higher-stakes games that KV has been in, he’s been giving a lot, a lot of good advice, just keeping guys mentally focused throughout the whole season,” Pierce said.
Pierce added six tackles and helped keep the pressure on Mason Rudolph, who was sacked three times. Brent Urban had to leave the game to be checked for a concussion, but that doesn’t change that he also had a career high in sacks (three) this season while filling a key role, especially in run-stopping.
Alongside sack leader Justin Madubuike (13 sacks), the veteran group has set a tone for the defense that has been greater than the sum of its parts. Coach John Harbaugh said particularly of Van Noy and Clowney, “they followed through with everything they said they wanted to do and more.”
Even though they may not have the same invigorating speeches as Smith — and who does? — their confidence and calm have been a guiding force for the Ravens, who’ll need even more of both in the games to come.
“When you have guys like that, that know the game so well, that have been in the game for a long time, they find ways to still do their job but try to weave their way through and do something else on their own,” Queen said. “Those guys help every single person in our room. Hats off to those guys for being the guys that they are, because they didn’t have to come in trying to help anybody, but they did.”


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That’s right. What indeed? MOVES notation is a single-line notation. It notates melodic ideas. Its aim is simple and single-minded. To get you playing like singing in the shower. You can go on to more complicated stuff after you master this.
Most improvisation methods draw on so many sources – chord theory, scales, modes, licks and patterns – that conflicts and hesitations are almost built-in. When you are playing with chord changes, do you need to have the chord chart in front of you? Do you relate the name of the chord to your choice of note and let your ear take it from there? There are so many possible approaches, is your plan to go through the formulas one by one to create variety? Plus, the improvising process gets complicated by so many heterogeneous inputs, and further clouded by doubts such as
- Do I sound modern enough?
- Why do I keep playing the same thing?
- There must be other scales I can play on this
- Why can’t I play more outside?
- That’s too derivative, etc etc
How can you create a thing of beauty with all that going in your head? So the purpose of MOVES notation is to train you to listen to just one inner voice, and to train that inner voice to be the sole pilot of your instrument, unencumbered by doubts and feverish calculations. Now, that doesn’t mean harmony is irrelevant. Far from it. But that harmony has to be in your Inner Ear first before you can say anything meaningful about it on your horn. And that means training your melodic muscle to respond to what you hear.
For those of you who want to get started but have no access to a piano or guitar to help you hear those chords, here is a chord selector I made years ago. Just turn the dial at left, select your chord qualtiy and hit “play chord”. Then try singing along with the chord. Above all don’t think of this as a test! As Duke Ellington famously said: “If it sounds good, it is good.” The purpose is to get your ear responding to that harmony and piloting your voice. It is about getting the rider into the saddle. Only that way will you ever play convincing music on your horn.
Or failing that, do what Charlie Mingus was advised to do when he started out. Play along with the radio!
And remember to check out the MOVES page and leave your comments here!
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This originally ran in Reggae Report in 1996.
"Soul Almighty" will undoubtedly go down as one of the
most unusual Bob Marley discs ever released. Recorded during
the heyday of Rock Steady, these cuts reveal a side of the
late Reggae legend which will certainly intrigue.
Interesting and informative liner notes from Marley
historian Roger Steffens explain that in late 1966, Johnny
Nash saw "this guy...named Bob Marley" perform at a
spiritual Rastafarian gathering called a "grounation" and
the following day insisted to his partner, Danny Sims, that
they sign him "immediately."
This ultimately led to the recording of numerous
tracks, of which these 16, after incredibly painstaking
restoration, have finally been released. At the time of
their partnership, the yet-to-be-dreadlocked Marley was
apparently going to be marketed as a soul singer (remember,
Reggae had yet to evolve), and Sims imported - get this -
Aretha Franklin's band to supply the music.
These talented musicians proceeded to learn Rock Steady
and the results are quite pleasing. The majority of the
soul-injected tunes are well-known Marley compositions,
beginning with an excellent version of "Rock Steady" and
moving through such classics as "Bend Down Low," "Put It
On," "Mellow Mood," "How Many Times," "Nice Time" and the
title track. You'll also find some rare R&B songs not penned
The bottom line with "Soul Almighty" is if you're
unfamiliar with the greatness of Marley's work on the Island
label, this disc can wait. But if you're a devoted fan, and
- like myself - crave everything Robert Nesta Marley has
ever recorded, then this one is a must hear.
Just wanted to add that I reviewed this before it became a CD-ROM,
and it is outstanding. Hours of info on Marley! Highly recommended.
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Dynamic behavior of liquids in containers under low-gravity is discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the equivalent mechanical modeling for liquid sloshing and large motion during coasting and settling phases.
To investigate the interaction between the droplets in the spray combustion, microgravity experiments were performed. The experimental apparatus mainly consists of a combustion chamber, an 8 mm video camera and a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera. Fuel droplets of butanol or hexanol are arranged 2-dimensionally, representing the fuel droplet cloud in the splay. Electrically heated nichrome wires ignite the fuel samples simultaneously. The 35 mm camera observes the flame shape history. The effects of sample space on the flame shape are investigated . Main results obtained are in the followings: Because of the interaction between droplets, the unsteady combustion period. in which fuel vapor is accumulated around the droplets, becomes long . As the result, the steady state combustion is not observed in the combustion process and the flame size keeps increasing until it dis appears.
The diffusion coefficient of liquid lithium, which is expected to show large isotope effects because of its small atomic mass, was measured by the long capillary method under the microgravity due to the launch of the sixth TR-IA rocket. The detailed description is given for the procedure of the microgravity experiments for the very aggressive materials such as liquid lithium. The smaller diffusion coefficient was obtained for 7Li in liquid 6Li compared with the case of 6Li in liquid 7Li. These behaviors were discussed based on the theoretical calcula tions successfully in a qualitative manner from the point of view of the hard sphere model, in which the hard sphere diameter was determined from the theoretical point of view.


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Relatos bilingues das minhas aventuras pelo mundo.
That first photo reminds me of all those postcards we used to receive from friends and family on holiday.
Ah, how nice. It would make a beautiful postcard!
Adorava saber das vossas voltas. Escrevam!I would love to hear more about you. Feel free to comment!


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(Gray News) – The Internal Revenue Service is increasing the standard tax deduction to account for inflation in 2022.
The adjustments generally apply to income tax returns that will be filed in 2023, depending on the IRS.
The changes represent more than 60 tax provisions, but the IRS has said the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act rates will not be changed.
Of interest to many taxpayers, the standard deduction for married couples filing jointly for tax year 2022 will increase to $ 25,900, an increase of $ 800 from the previous year.
According to the IRS, single taxpayers and those who are married but file separately, the standard deduction increases from $ 12,550 to $ 12,950, an increase of about 3.2%.
For heads of households, the standard deduction will be $ 19,400 for the 2022 tax year.
Here’s a breakdown of marginal rates by tax bracket, according to the IRS:
- 37% for single taxpayers with income over $ 539,900 ($ 647,850 for married couples filing jointly)
- 35% for income over $ 215,950 ($ 431,900 for married couples declaring jointly)
- 32% for income over $ 170,050 ($ 340,100 for married couples declaring jointly)
- 24% for income over $ 89,075 ($ 178,150 for married couples filing jointly)
- 22% for income over $ 41,775 ($ 83,550 for married couples filing jointly)
- 12% for income over $ 10,275 ($ 20,550 for married couples filing jointly)
- 10% for the income of unattached individuals with an income of $ 10,275 or less ($ 20,550 for married couples applying jointly)
It is standard practice that adjustments are made each year to reflect consumer prices. The flat-rate tax deduction has increased by around 1.2% for tax year 2021.
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Think you're giving an elaborate gift on Valentine's Day? Sorry, you've just been outshined by Future.
The Atlanta rapper today announced a new album, a new tour and a collaboration with Maroon 5. That's quite the three-course meal, so let's break this down piece-by-piece.
This Friday, Future is releasing a surprise new self-titled album. Just in time for President's Day, we have no idea what the album consists of as the songs are all listed as "Track 1," "Track 2," etc., but for his first release since last year's Purple Reign mixtape, he's probably got a lot to say and a lot of emotions to work through, which is Future just how we like him.
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Future has also announced what might be the biggest hip-hop tour of the summer. The Freebandz-sponsored Nobody Safe tour features Migos (with a dab of ranch), Tory Lanez and Kodak Black. Select dates also feature Young Thug and A$AP Ferg.
Plus, Future's also featured on the new Maroon 5 single "Cold" that dropped today. His vocals mesh surprisingly well with the Maroon 5 soundscape. For those keeping score at home, Future was given twice the amount of time that Kendrick Lamar received on last year's Maroon 5 single, "Don't Wanna Know."