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Another priority is mildew resistance in romaine and iceberg, especially to downy mildew.
Naturally breeders try to include some traits even as they exclude others. With romaine, for example, tightness of leaf structure contributes to higher pack outs of hearts from the field. That’s one of Syngenta’s marketing claims for Rio Bravo.
Reliant iceberg was initially targeted for desert deals, Mitchell said, but has seen some use in Salinas.
The desert deals are competitive for seed companies in part because of the number of varieties that can come into play. Some may have planting windows of just a week.

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In the world of art, women have historically been overshadowed. But times are changing... At the next edition of ARCOmadrid, they will be the stars. Who should we be on the lookout for?
A woman among paintbrushes
If there’s one essential in María Hesse’s life, it’s her paintbrushes (and her cats, almost as viral as their owner). Through them she adds colour, sensibility, and passion to the pages of all her books, capturing, from a female perspective, a unique universe full of conundrums and fantasy that explores both her own life and the lives of others like Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie, or Frida Kahlo.
While her classmates drew basic doodles, María Hesse (Huelva, 1982) illustrated her notebooks with elements connected to each detail that appeared in the stories told by her teacher in class. That’s how her teacher realised that that girl had the soul of an illustrator. A premonition that was only missing the level of success she’d achieve. Frida Kahlo: A Biography (Lumen), translated into 14 languages, appeared in 2016, followed by Marylin Monroe and David Bowie. Later, María told more intimate tales in Pleasure (Lumen), and last year she defended the rights of women to be how they want in Bad Women (Lumen).
The renowned publisher Taschen included her in their list of the 100 best illustrators in the world. Success that, thankfully, doesn’t overshadow how naturally and serenely she manages her profession-vocation. We chat to her while her cats Patti (after singer Patti Smith) and Leonora (after painter Leonora Carrington) stroll among paintbrushes and paints to the delight (and patience) of the illustrator whom, nevertheless, looks at them with the graciousness of unconditional love. “I’ll say that we have to be careful with how we name our pets, because the first one is a punk and the second, a British lady, all she’s missing is her teacup,” she laughs about her felines.
It’s only been ten years since you trained as an illustrator, do you think you’ve had a lot of success in a short period of time?
It hasn’t been that short or, in other words, a lot of things have happened in this time and recognition has been gradual. It doesn’t come overnight. Before publishing the Frida Kahlo biography, I’d already done thousands of things. I started out doing primary school textbooks, for example, which is a job many illustrators do and that, although less visible, is equally valuable. I also did custom portrait commissions and opened my online shop. There’s a lot of work behind my current visibility.
“Recognition adds value to your work, but for me it’s much more important that a reader tells me that my work moved them”
Did your talent for drawing come late in life?
Not at all. I’ve always known this is what I wanted to do. What happened was that I wasn’t able to do Fine Arts, so I signed up to Teaching. When I was preparing for the public examination, I realised that I wasn’t happy and decided to change course: “I won’t wait to pass the public examination, I’ll try to be an illustrator,” I told myself. And that’s what I did.
It’s hard for Spanish talent to be recognised abroad. This isn’t your case. How do you take the recognition by Taschen?
I don’t even think about it. Obviously, this kind of recognition adds value to your work and helps, but I don’t really care about rankings. For me it’s much more important that one of my readers tells me that my work moved them. That’s a beautiful and powerful feeling indeed.
Your work has been defined as feminist, how true is this?
I’m a woman and I’m a feminist, I can’t deny that a big part of my work follows this discourse. There’s a fight for recognition behind Pleasure or Bad Women, for example, but my work doesn’t always follow that narrative. In fact, I’m kind of annoyed at having to talk so much about feminism instead of my work processes in interviews.
Let’s talk about work then, how much symbolism is behind your drawings?
A lot, and it changes from book to book. Even the colour range changes, because I think in a very visual way and am moved by feelings. For example, in Bad Women I play with flowers and according to the women I present, I use one or another: some represent magic and witchcraft, others, tragedy. Previously, I’d used branches and leaves: in Marilyn: A Biography blue branches were related to sadness. But animals are also symbols. However, I’d rather not explain their meaning because I’d rather the reader interpret them in their own way and make the illustration their own. That’s where my work takes on the most meaning.
¿Why Frida, Marilyn and all those Bad Women and not others? Do they have anything in common with you?
They’re women I’m interested in for a variety of reasons. Perhaps Marilyn connects me to vulnerability, and Frida, to vitality. But it’s extremely hard to define that connection because when you choose a character, you don’t even think about what you have in common. You do it because they have something that interests you and to a certain extent it’s an opportunity to be her for the time, you’re making the book. At least, that’s how I experience it, intensely.
“More than fear of losing visibility or recognition, which isn’t something I need, it’s fear of not working as an illustrator”
In your latest book, Bad Women, you’ve included an extremely personal introduction encouraging every woman to be how they like without being labelled for it. Was it therapeutic?
All books are. The more personal they are, the more therapeutic. I’d say that Pleasure was more so than Bad Women because it’s a lot more about me and the moment you start to delve into yourself you experience greater healing. It’s a book about how to experience sexuality and writing and illustrating it helped me to be more authentic and honest with myself. Oftentimes, women do things because that’s what we’ve been taught is normal, and that’s how you experience it and take it in, until you suddenly understand that that’s not the case and you find your place.
Are you afraid of your illustration style going out of fashion?
It’s not a paralysing fear, but sometimes it’s there; to say otherwise would be a lie. Although more than fear of losing visibility or recognition, which isn’t something I need, it’s fear of not working as an illustrator. However, there are lots of ways to do it and, one way or another, I know I’ll carry on drawing and telling my stories, even if only a few people read them.
Can you tell us about your next project?
No (laughs). Well, alright then, my next project will be the TANTANFAN diary about recipes from films. It’ll be out in June. Regarding my next book, all I can say is that it has nothing to do with my previous work. It won’t be an essay or follow a feminist theme. It’s time for me to take a little break from my campaigning stance.

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Watertown Daily Times
By Mark Heller
WASHINGTON — Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.
Although the Amish consist of several branches, some more conservative than others, they generally rely upon a community ethic that disdains government assistance. Families rely upon one another, and communities pitch in to help neighbors pay health care expenses.
The Amish population has been growing in the north country, as well as in New York generally. The state ranks sixth nationally in Amish population and posted the biggest net increase in Amish households — 307 — from 2002 to 2007, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
Lawmakers reportedly included the provision at the urging of Amish constituents, although the legislation does not specify that community and the provision could apply to other groups as well, including Old Order Mennonites and perhaps Christian Scientists.
A professor and lawyer at Yeshiva University in New York complained last summer that exempting groups for religious reasons could run afoul of the Constitution. Marci A. Hamilton, who teaches at the University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, wrote at Findlaw.com in August, “If the government can tolerate a religious exemption, then it must do so evenhandedly among religious believers with the same beliefs. This is sheer favoritism for a certain class of religions, or even for one religion.”
In her column, Ms. Hamilton speculated that lobbyists for the Christian Science Church were responsible for the provision, given their public stance that health care reform bills around the country should include religious exemptions. In an e-mail message Friday, she said she was unaware of the Amish interest in the bill and that their objections to the mandate surprised her because the Amish do buy vehicle insurance, for instance.
Ms. Hamilton said the exemption could harm the health of children whose families avoid medical care for religious reasons, although the Amish objections relate more to insurance than to medical care itself.
Congressional aides said the exemption is based on a carve-out the Amish have had from Social Security and Medicare taxes since the 1960s. Whether Amish businesses, however, would fall under the bill’s mandates is still an open question.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., who was a key negotiator on the Senate bill, supports the religious exemption, said a spokesman, Maxwell Young, who called the provision a “no brainer.”
June 12, 2009
by Associated Press Writers, Larry Margasak and Sharon Theimer
Influential senators working to overhaul the nation’s health care system have investments and family ties with some of the biggest names in the industry. The wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, the lawmaker in charge of writing the Senate’s bill, sits on the boards of four health care companies.
Members of both parties have industry connections, including Democrats Jay Rockefeller and Tom Harkin, in addition to Dodd, and Republicans Tom Coburn, Judd Gregg, John Kyl and Orrin Hatch, financial reports showed Friday. .
Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of the Connecticut Democrat, is on the boards of Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cardiome Pharma Corp., Brookdale Senior Living and Pear Tree Pharmaceuticals.
Dodd is filling in for ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will soon start work on a health care bill.
Other publicly available documents show Mrs. Dodd last year was one of the most highly compensated non-employee members of the Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc. board, on which she has served since 2004. She earned $32,000 in fees and $109,587 in stock option awards last year, according to the company’s SEC filings.
Mrs. Dodd earned $79,063 in fees from Cardiome in its last fiscal year, while Brookdale Senior Living gave her $122,231 in stock awards in 2008, their SEC filings show. She earned no income from her post as a director for Pear Tree Pharmaceuticals but holds up to $15,000 in stock in Pear Tree, which describes itself as a development-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the needs of aging women.
The annual financial disclosure reports for members of Congress are less precise. They only require that assets and liabilities be listed in ranges of values.
Dodd sought a 90-day extension to file his report covering last year, giving him until mid-August to submit his report, but released his report Friday to The Associated Press.
Bryan DeAngelis, Dodd’s spokesman, said, “Jackie Clegg Dodd’s career is her own; absolutely independent of Senator Dodd, as it was when they married 10 years ago. The senator has worked to reform our health care system for decades, and nothing about his wife’s career is relevant at all to his leadership of that effort.”
DeAngelis said that Mrs. Dodd has hired a personal ethics lawyer to avoid any conflicts of interest and is not a lobbyist.
Other reports showed:
_ Rockefeller, D-W.Va., reported $15,001 to $50,000 in capital gains for his wife from the sale of a stake in Athenahealth Inc., a business services company that helps medical providers with billing and clinical operations.
Rockefeller is honorary chairman of the Alliance for Health Reform, a Washington nonprofit whose board includes representatives from the UnitedHealth Group health insurance company; AFL-CIO labor union; the AARP, which sells health insurance; St. John Health, a nonprofit health system that includes seven hospitals and 125 medical facilities in southeast Michigan; CIGNA Corp., an employer-sponsored benefits company; and the United Hospital Fund of New York.
_ Coburn, R-Okla., is a practicing physician. He reported slight business income, $268, from the Muskogee Allergy Clinic last year; $3,000 to $45,000 in stock in Affymetrix Inc., a biotechnology company and pioneer in genetic analysis; $1,000 to $15,000 in stock in Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company; and a $1,000 to $15,000 interest in Thomas A. Coburn, MD, Inc.
Under Senate ethics rules, Coburn can’t accept money from his patients.
_ Gregg, R-N.H., disclosed $250,001 to $500,000 in drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. stock and $1,000 to $15,000 each in stock in pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co. and Pfizer, the Johnson & Johnson health care products company and Agilent Technologies, which is involved in the biomedical industry.
_ Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate minority whip, reported $15,001 to $50,000 in stock in Amgen Inc., which develops medical therapeutics. Kyl’s retirement account held stakes in several health care businesses, including the Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and AstraZeneca pharmaceutical companies; medical provider Tenet Healthcare Corp.; CVS Caremark prescription and health services company; Genentech, a biotherapeutics manufacturer; and insurer MetLife Inc.
_ Harkin, D-Iowa, has a joint ownership stake in health-related stocks. Harkin and his wife, Ruth Raduenz, own shares of drug makers Amgen and Genentech, Inc., each stake valued at $1,001 to $15,000; Their largest health care holding, Johnson & Johnson, was valued at $50,001 to $100,000.
_ Hatch, R-Utah, a member of the Finance and Health committees, reported owning between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of stock in drug maker Pfizer Inc. He spoke to two pharmaceutical industry conferences last year. Sponsors of the conferences donated $3,500 to charities instead of speaking fees, as required by Senate rules.
Like millions of Americans, several senators took a financial hit in 2008. A sampling:
_Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., lost some $100,000 in equity in his home in Springfield and $35,000 in his Chicago condominium. Durbin, who released his tax returns, reported losing $32,259 in various investments last year, including more than $10,400 in Berkshire Hathaway and $5,535 in Fidelity stock.
_Kennedy in 2007 had four trusts each valued between $5,000,001-$25 million. In 2008, only one trust was still in that category while the rest had slipped in value to $1,000,001-$5 million.
_Hatch’s investments suffered from the banking crisis. In 2007, he reported assets of between $2,002 and $30,000 in Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. stock. His 2008 financial disclosure lists the value at less than $1,000.
One of Dodd’s investments showed a vast improvement.
A new appraisal more than doubled the value of his vacation cottage in Ireland, which has been subject of a Senate ethics complaint filed by a conservative group questioning if the undervalued property was really a gift.
The property is valued at 470,000 euros, or about $660,000, on Dodd’s disclosure report.
The previous year’s report valued the seaside home, located in County Galway, at between $100,001 and $250,000.
DeAngelis, the spokesman, said Dodd and his wife decided to have the property appraised because they felt it was time to update the information.


First published on Saturday 12 March 2005:
Audience enjoys Pet's parlez games
by Steve Teale
In all her years of performing, Petula Clark cannot have had many more welcoming audiences than the one which greeted her at St George's Hall last night.
A near-capacity crowd cheered her every song and at the end she was weighed down with more than a dozen bouquets. Interflora must have had a good day.
It was richly deserved. Petula, now 72, holds the record for the longest span in the charts for a woman (1954 for The Little Shoemaker to 2005 for a lesser known French song in, of all places, Belgium). In all, she's sold 70 million records and recorded in five languages, most notably English and French.
She has a French husband and, strangely, is regarded by the French as being almost French. Many of the songs she sang last night were in French.
She also had plenty of anecdotes to string these songs together, from meeting Charlie Chaplin in Switzerland to dancing with Fred Astaire in one of his biggest films. The woman who was billed as Britain's Shirley Temple had the audience eating out of her hand.
Petula took the audience on a tour of her career. She sang some of her well-known songs such as Couldn't Live Without Your Love and hits from two musicals which she has starred in, Blood Brothers and Sunset Boulevard.
She made them wait for her most well known song, Downtown, but it was warmly received.
She sang some songs which she had written herself and even recited a piece of poetry about life in the theatre which went down well.
But that was nothing to the applause which came for an unscripted song which she sang as an encore. It was Needles and Pins, sung in French, at the request of a man in the front row. And despite the fact that none of her eight musicians had any warning, they supported her well.
From beginning to end, her voice sounded as strong and as clear as it ever was in her hey-day.


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blanch meaning cooking
If you've ever been stumped by the terminology in a recipe, you don't have to worry about that anymore. More. Blanching and shocking is a good technique to use for vegetables that will be featured in salads. This guide is part of The New Essentials of French Cooking, the 10 definitive dishes every modern cook should master. To bake – To cook in an oven by using heat. Find more ways to say blanch, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. Some of the bitterness is removed from cabbage, leafy greens, and onions after blanching. So I turned this into a two-step process and it came out EXCELLENT, earning rave reviews from my guests! There are three ways to blanch fruits and vegetables: boiling, steaming, and microwaving. What does blanching mean? Blanching vegetables helps them maintain their crispness and color, improves flavor and reduces the chance of bacterial contamination. Whether cooking certain recipes or preparing to preserve produce, blanching is often a recommended technique. Place tomatoes in a colander. As we said, blanching softens vegetables and it also intensifies their colors. When making french fries, the cut potatoes are often blanched in medium-heat oil and then cooled before frying them a second time at a higher temperature. There's something that happens to food when it's exposed to extreme heat, but before it burns. Blanching is a cooking process which is intended to enhance the color, flavor, and texture of vegetables. Allowing space between pieces of food will allow hot air to flow through and between the food. Method. Cover and microwave on high for half of the recommended time, uncover and stir, and finish cooking. 4. It is usually set in a mould and served cold. Otherwise, blanched food is still considered raw. The amount of time fruits and vegetables should stay in the boiling water will depend on the food, size, whether it is whole or cut, and the quantity. Blanching potatoes gets a head start on the cooking process, making it quicker and easier to boil or fry potatoes. A mandoline or vegetable peeler makes quick work of thinly slicing vegetables . This will preserve the color and freshness. Plunging the food items into an ice-water bath, called "shocking," halts the cooking process and its effects. To parboil or blanch is to cook by boiling (typically in a saucepan), but only up to the point where a vegetable, pasta, or other food is beginning to soften. I leave skins on, soak in vinegar water for 20 min or so then scrub well. A bacon cooking study, "Effect of Frying and Other Cooking Conditions on Nitrosopyrrolidine Formation in Bacon" (Journal of Science, Vol. It not only cleanses contaminants from the surface, but also brightens colors and helps maintain flavor and nutritional value. However, the amount of salt can be debatable; some chefs instruct to salt the water as you would for pasta, while others believe the water should taste like brine and be heavily salted. If you don’t blanch your spinach, the color can get dull and it can lose nutrients when you freeze it. Blanching is a food preparation technique in which food is briefly immersed in hot liquid, like boiling water or oil, often but not always as a prelude to cooking it further. Whenever you need a few for cooking, just grab a handful and throw it right into your meal. Blanching is … But not everything in the world is how it ought to be and that includes recipes. However, some chefs think doing so causes flavor to be lost. Typical blanching times range from 30 to 60 seconds. The process of blanching potatoes is fairly easy. Blanching is often done in conjunction with another step, known as shocking, which involves plunging the blanched item directly into an ice water bath, so as to stop the cooking that was initiated in the blanching phase. Because vegetables and fruits are delicate, cooking them for too long (which can be as little as a minute) can turn them limp, soggy, and drab in color. It involves partially cooking something by plunging it into boiling water for a short time, then “shocking” it in ice water to stop the cooking. Blanch the cilantro by placing it in boiling water for 10 seconds, then shock it in an ice bath (a bowl of ice water). If the food is going to be cooked, that will happen later. Meaning, “mixed rice,” bibimbap is comprised of warm rice topped with different seasoned vegetables, sauce like gochujang (korean red pepper paste), and often meat and/or an egg. 3. often preparations An action done to prepare for something, especially for an event or undertaking: preparations for the opening of the new school. blanch meaning: 1. to turn pale, for example because you are shocked: 2. to make a plant pale by covering it up so…. In either case, you DO NOT need to blanch the spinach if you plan to use your freezer spinach within six months. tion (prĕp′ə-rā′shən) n. 1. The browned bones, mirepoix, and Certain almond recipes, such as marzipan and almond cookies, call for blanching the nuts to remove their skins (or purchasing already blanched almonds). per the recipe or personal preference. The basic technique involves briefly cooking vegetables in boiling salted water, then immediately plunging them into an ice water bath. Most recipes will call for adding salt to the blanching water. Another common use for blanching is to soften vegetables so that they can then be quickly cooked over high heat, like in a sauté or stir-fry. Facebook Tweet. From Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Once it is boiling, immerse the vegetable or fruit in... Steaming Method. To blanch a food, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Set a large pot of salted water to boil. (Watercress will wilt slightly and cheese will get soft.) Blanching is a food preparation technique in which food is briefly immersed in hot liquid, like boiling water or oil, often but not always as a prelude to cooking it further. On the other hand, cooking them longer will tend to overcook the other items in the pan. It. ; To blanch – To plunge tomatoes, nuts, etc., into boiling water to loosen the skin.To plunge (meat, green vegetables, etc.) Vegetables. Before cooking with prosciutto, you should know that it is very salty and has a very strong flavor, including prosciutto in dishes that can handle its flavor. Blanching is used both by home cooks and in industrial food processing. Shock definition is - a sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance. Quickly remove the food items from the boiling water and plunge them into an. To keep the stock as clear as possible, you may blanch the bones before adding them. Blanching is a heat-and-cool process that plunges a fruit or vegetable into boiling water for a short amount of time before transferring it to an ice bath, which quickly stops the cooking. Different recipes will call for different blanching times, but with blanching, times are measured in terms of seconds rather than minutes. Blancmange (/ b l ə ˈ m ɒ̃ ʒ /, from French: blanc-manger [blɑ̃mɑ̃ʒe]) is a sweet dessert commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds.. They're softened just enough so that you can eat them more or less raw, but they won't be excessively difficult to chew. Peel and thinly slice the onion. Sports > NCAA John Blanchette: A Baylor-Gonzaga matchup now would only spoil the possibility of a historic clash in April. A similar case is when we're adding raw veggies to a salad. It’s all mixed up, and usually just eaten with a spoon (no chopsticks needed). View the pronunciation for blanch. Bring the water to a boil and add the vegetables or fruits to the basket in a single layer. Meaning of blanching. Check out our guide to common (and a few not-so-common) cooking terms. After the fruit or vegetable is added to the boiling water, the water should return to a boil within 1 minute; if it takes longer, it means there is too much food in relationship to water or that the pot is too large. 5 of 31. Generally, followed by shocking which rapidly cools the food in an ice bath. Once it is boiling, immerse the vegetable or fruit in the boiling water. Immediately remove the leaves from the pot and place them in a bowl of ice water for 2.5 minutes before removing them to dry. Blanch bean sprouts in boiling salted water, then drain well. As soon as they're cool, drain the fruit or vegetable and set aside to use in a recipe or to process for canning, drying, or freezing. Heat the oil in a wok or high heat on stove, add the onion and fry until it begins to color. That way, next time you come across the instruction to blanch something, you'll know exactly what it means. You'd want to blanch and shock green beans before adding them to a Niçoise salad, for example. The process of briefly cooking food in boiling water or steam and then immersing the food in ice cold water or frozen storage to stop the cooking process. Blanching vegetables can make your vegetable platter pop. Whereas long boiling will turn green vegetables like asparagus or green beans a drab olive color, 30 seconds of blanching will turn them a bright vivid green. ... Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Blanching. This is the British English definition of blanch.View American English definition of blanch. To blanch, food is briefly immersed in boiling water (often just a minute or two), followed by an ice bath to rapidly cool off the food. — begin to turn brown and become more complex and savory. Bring a pot of water to a boil. The French have a genius for cooking with vegetables. Conveniently, you can blanch spinach on the stove top or in the microwave, then transfer it to a bowl of ice water. Definition and synonyms of blanch from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education. Toss with watercress and cheese; sprinkle with pepper and serve. Stir, add the other vegetables and let all the heat for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Danilo Alfaro has published more than 800 recipes and tutorials focused on making complicated culinary techniques approachable to home cooks. The same is true for the orange color of carrots. Blanching loosens the skin on fruits such as. Blanching isn't cooking, so you don't need aromatics, herbs or spices; instead, it's a preparatory technique that sets food up for cooking. To beat – To mix quickly and continually, commonly used with eggs. What Does Blanching Mean in Cooking? Change your default dictionary to American English. If blanching vegetables for a stir-fry, don't shock the vegetables in cold water but instead simply drain and add to the wok. General rule is to avoid filling the basket more than 1/2 full. Strain and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking. Blanching can also be done in a fat such as oil. I slice thinly with slices going into lemon water until I finish. Blanching vegetables involves cooking them quickly in generously salted water to draw out their vibrant flavors and colors. Most recipes from countries that use the metric system does not list imperial measurements, meaning Americans have to convert these recipes as most people don’t have a scale. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English blanch blanch / blɑːntʃ $ blæntʃ / verb 1 [transitive] DFC to put vegetables, fruit, or nuts into boiling water for a short time Blanch the peaches and remove the skins. If you're making your own marzipan, for instance, you'd need to blanch the almonds to remove their skins first. However, blanching can also be used to good effect with meats. Therefore, it is important to follow the time recommendations. 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Columbia's NAACP To Host Event on Policing Practices
Columbia’s local NAACP chapter wants community input on how the city can improve policing.
The organization is holding a community event to craft recommendations around five topics: racial profiling, economic opportunities, civility and accountability, mental health and community engagement.
Columbia NAACP chapter President Mary Ratliff says she wants to present around 25 recommendations related to policing and economic disparities to the city of Columbia.
Ratliff says she is encouraged by the Columbia Police Department’s involvement in the event.
“We have to...be able to talk about those biases and work through those biases to get where we want to go and they’ve shown a willingness to do that as have the community so we feel positive that we can make some things happen,” Ratliff says.
Ratliff says tomorrow’s event is the result of more than a year of working with the police department.
Ratliff previously organized a forum on community policing in August that was attended by the mayor, the Columbia chief of police and the city manager. This upcoming event is intended to build off of the ideas generated at the event.
“We find it very valuable and important to engage with our community... and to hear firsthand from them,” Brian Adkisson, communications and marketing manager for the city of Columbia says.
The event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 26 at Second Missionary Baptist Church.

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This kind of follows from the treatment question I asked earlier.
With treatment, I guess the ideal situation is to have a decent support team around you. I live with my family but I don't know how to even mention this to them.
When I was younger, I discovered they don't really believe in mental illness so I'm currently siding on not telling them anything. I've been in crisis before and was honest about having suicidal thoughts and had a counsellor contact them about my problems being serious and needing more professional treatment but it got a 'so you're a crazy person? fine, if you want to be a nutter, I'll get you help? Want that?' sort of responses so quit my quest for treatment till now.
The problem with this is, it's now making me feel I can't go to the hospital if I needed to in a crisis etc because they'd find out. So it's starting to take the control away from me it seems, to do what I need to for myself.
So I'm not sure if I should try being honest with them again or if they'll find out if worse comes to worse and can suck on it.
What's others experience with family? Have you found an approach to make them at least attempt to understand etc?
Hi, I sure they have their reasons to "not beleive in mental illness" but it is a fact.
I wish I could give you an answer but you know your parents and how they may react. It is very important to have support and I hope they can provide you with that support if you chose to tell them. Are you 18 or older? If you are 18, the hospitals may admit you with contacting family if that is your wish. Whatever you decide to do, you can depend on the support from the people at this site. Also, it's very important that if yo get in a crisis that you make sure you get to the ER with or without them. Take care, Jude
Well I do know of NAMI friend and family support groups and they have been helpful for many people. As for my family I have made a basic recovery from schizoaffective disorder and my family was supportive but it was not known until recently that one of the family members has cyclothymia (mild bipolar) and now they are coming to terms with their own recovery as well. I would definitely say NAMI has informational pamphlets even if family members don't want to go to support groups and they are easy to read and helpful for people to understand who may not be familiar with the concept of mental illness. If they can learn to understand what is going on then they should support you as they would with any other form of recovery.
Well, I understand what you're saying. I no longer live at home with my dad, but as a teen I was having some very sever mental illness issues and his reaction to this was: "Everyone has problems, suck it up." There have been many times when I was sick or needed help and got the, "You only want attention" response. So, now that I am diagnosed I don't really feel the need to tell him anything. He won't believe me, so why waste my breathe? After all, I don't live with him.
My husband knows and his family knows, but beyond that I have only told a couple of freinds and, unfortunately, co-workers because I need help at work. (although I do not receive the help I need.) I think if there was a real crisis I could depend on my husband. That's what you need is one solid person who can be there when you really need it. If you have more, that's great, but not all of us are so lucky.
I am going through this same thing myself right now. My wife knows about my diagnosis and was supportive for a while. But now, since I had her start reading,"When Someone You Love is Bipolar" she's back to,,"You're not any of that". Which my point has been, and my Psych NP picked up right from the start, that I cover it well. Considering a background of sexual abuse, yes, I tend to hide things very well,,including my emotions and moods. So I guess now, I'm back to having no one believe me. I love my wife very much. I believe my mania or hypomania was manifested in hypersexuality. I have told her about these episodes and she has forgiven me, but she thinks I'm using BP as an excuse for my past behavior. Since I've been on medication, all that's been controlled. I'm sorry I took your post and ran with it to vent a little.
Back to your post,
The rest of my family doesn't know, will probably never know and now I feel incredibly alone again. ILADVOCATE's recommendation to get in a support group is probably a good idea. I haven't done that yet myself.
I, too, have been told things like "I wouldn't know if you didn't tell me." Because I am also good at hiding my moods and my feelings. I'm good at it because I don't trust people. I don't trust people because of BPD. I am terrible at asking for help because I think I will be shot down, and funny thing, I am usually right. That's why it took 20 years to get a diagnosis and meds.
I was diagnosed with a psychotic disorder instead of a mood disorder, but I get the "I wouldn't know if you didn't tell me" thing as well with my mental illness even though I act weird and end up confusing people with my hallucinations along with my other psychotic symptoms. Well... there are some people who realize I have a psychotic disorder or I'm "crazy" before I told them, because of the above, but I also go through this as well. I sometimes end up telling people because they think I'm stoned or something and I am fighting alcoholism and take pride in how I stay clean, as hard as it is, so I would rather them know than to think that of me. I think it all has to do with people not being educated on things like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I also get people who tell me I'm OK when I'm experiencing a full blown psychotic episode as well.
I can so relate to this subject. My family on the one side refuse to believe that I have an illness, and are dead against me taking meds - so even now I get a lecture about stopping them, how bad they are for me and going cold turkey every time I see them. The other side curiously believe that there is something wrong with me, but they see it as a cognitive problem rather than an emotional one, because I have such an extremely bad memory, can't arrange or organise simple things anymore, don't understand people etc, they think the whole mood thing is a seperate issue that they have no time or sympathy for.
Living for someone else is incredibly difficult for both parties. There's a lot of denial of different sorts and stemming from different origins. Most likely the basis for all of them is fear. That's a hard row to hoe. My gramma used to tell me that every so often, out of the blue. I guess I can consider myself lucky, in a way, that mental illness, in my family, is like the odd matching sweaters worn on holidays. Nearly all of us have them. In terms of acceptance in general, if you're not an adult I am very sorry, I don't know what to say. If you are an adult, they will probably (highly probable,...though...?) learn to accept you when you really don't require their acceptance to move forward. That's just my 2 cents...
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Movies are great. At best, they can creatively inspire and entertain at the same time. At worst, they remind you what hatred feels like and gives you something to talk about. At the best kind of worst, you have a comedic experience unlike any other.
Movie Monday is exactly what it sounds like. Once a week, I’ll be sitting down and judging one movie based on a few criteria. These are:
- Cinematography: how does a movie look? Are the shots visually creative and interesting? How does the lighting and use of color improve the shot?
- Script: does the dialogue sound natural while carrying impact?
- Acting: how are the actors handling the script, and are their performances believable and engaging?
- Story: is the plot interesting and engaging? In the case of a sequel, how does it build and expand upon the prior films? In a remake, how does it set itself apart? Or how does a reboot handle the story in comparison to the original?
- Visual effects: how convincing are the special effects? Do they still hold up? Do they add or detract from the film?
- Fun: this is the most important factor. If I had fun, then the others will be more easily overlooked.
Based on these, I’ll decide whether the movie was worth my time and if it’s worth yours. There won’t be a scoring system, no A+s or 10/10s. Just a simple ‘watch it’ or ‘skip it’. In my eyes, that’s all you need, and it’s a far more effective system than numbers or letters.
Any movie can qualify for analysis. I will not be barring off films with low budgets, or those filmed in other countries. From Hollywood to China, from ten billion dollars to five, new or old, any movie qualifies for analysis.
Except for home made movies by kids or cringe inducing tweens/teenagers. Even I have a limit to the amount of bullshit I can stomach.
So pop your corn, grab a drink the size of your skull and get cozy! It’s movie night!

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Mar 19, 2013, 10:08 AM EDT
Jenson Button is hoping for rain in this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix to level up the playing field as he struggles with the new McLaren.
The closest Button came to the top of the times sheets in Melbourne last weekend was during the wet Q2 session.
But in dry conditions on race day the inferiority of the MP4-28 told. The three-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix he could only finish ninth.
“For this weekend, I don’t think we can expect an improvement in our fortunes,” said Button.
“But the thing about Malaysia is that it can be so unpredictable – particularly with the later start time on Sunday afternoon, which tends to see late-afternoon showers fall. We saw that last year, when Fernando [Alonso] won, and we know that the unpredictable weather can make it a lottery for everyone.”
“That’s something that could play into our hands – I do enjoy driving in changeable conditions, and would love the challenge of being able to run competitively in a car that we all know is not quite capable of challenging for victories yet.”
Team mate Sergio Perez produced a breakthrough performance for Sauber in last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix, finishing second, right on Alonso’s tail.
“For me, Sepang holds many happy memories,” he said. “I had one of the best races of my career there last year where I was able to push Fernando for victory until the closing laps.”
“It’s a fantastic circuit, really fast and demanding. It would be great to pull off another unexpected result for the team this year.”
May 23, 2015, 6:04 PM EDT
Chip Ganassi Racing driver will make his 300th career start Sunday.
May 23, 2015, 5:30 PM EDT
After taking the lead at the start, Stanaway goes wire-to-wire to take his first GP2 win in Monaco.
May 23, 2015, 4:30 PM EDT
Spaniard suffers another issue on his car during qualifying on Saturday, leaving him P15 on the grid before penalties.
May 23, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT
The Audi Sport ABT driver delivers a crushing win in Berlin at the disused Tempelhof airport, only to then be disqualified in the hours following the race.
May 23, 2015, 3:45 PM EDT
Live coverage from Glen Helen starts with the pre-race show at 4 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Live Extra and continues with first motos at 5 p.m. ET. Second motos will be live on NBCSN at 7 p.m. ET.
May 23, 2015, 3:30 PM EDT
Red Bull driver matches his best qualifying result of the season, but feels a top three grid slot was within reach.
May 23, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
A pink Camaro, a Justin Bieber reference and an improved maturity level: all in the second month of May for Chip Ganassi’s rising star, Sage Karam.
May 23, 2015, 2:30 PM EDT
Lotus driver will start tomorrow’s race from 15th place on the grid.
May 23, 2015, 2:01 PM EDT
Townsend Bell recaps a busy week, and a particularly busy Carb Day.
May 23, 2015, 1:45 PM EDT
While the likelihood is of a veteran triumph, can one of IndyCar’s relative “next generation” break through in the Indianapolis 500?
May 23, 2015, 1:30 PM EDT
Ferrari driver explains how the fall in temperature ahead of qualifying meant Ferrari could not challenge Mercedes in Monaco.
May 23, 2015, 12:30 PM EDT
Toro Rosso driver dropped to the back of the grid after failing to complete a weight check during qualifying on Saturday.
Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage plans to talk with IndyCar about potential changes to cars
May 23, 2015, 12:15 PM EDT
Airborne crashes would be a concern at high-speed 1.5-mile oval.
May 23, 2015, 11:30 AM EDT
Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas limped to their worst qualifying results of the season in Monaco.
May 23, 2015, 11:09 AM EDT
Team Penske credits an oval-whelming improvement during his 2014 championship season.
May 23, 2015, 10:08 AM EDT
Hinchcliffe, in a hospital gown, up and walking, in utterly fantastic news.
May 23, 2015, 9:34 AM EDT
Despite having 42 pole positions to his name before today, Lewis Hamilton had never had one in Monaco – until now, that is.
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- Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage plans to talk with IndyCar about potential changes to cars 3
- Hamilton storms to first Monaco GP pole position 0
- Vettel fastest for Ferrari in final practice for Monaco GP 0
- Chip Ganassi lobbying for IndyCar schedule changes 0
- What to watch for: IndyCar, Indy Lights Carb Day (11 a.m. ET, NBCSN and Live Extra) 0
- IndyCar driver raises concern about design of wishbone that injured James Hinchcliffe in crash 4


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Book for July 2015
The 1964 novel is the story of a virtual city for marketing research, developed to reduce the need for opinion polls. The computer-generated city simulation contains inhabitants with their own consciousness but for the most part unaware that they are made up of nothing but electric impulses in a computer. The only virtual person aware of his nature is driven almost mad by this knowledge. After the simulator’s lead scientist dies mysteriously and a co-worker vanishes, the protagonist, Douglas Hall, becomes responsible for the simulator and witnesses ever more strange events like vanishing people and missing landscape in his own 'real' world which leave him with only two possible interpretations: either he is fast becoming mad or himself living in a higher order simulator with the real 'real world' a third tier of reality. The title "Simulacron-3" refers to these three levels while "simulacron" is a derivative of simulacrum: a superficial image representing, in this case, a non-existent original.
The novel is the basis both for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 film 'Welt am Draht' and the 1999 movie 'The Thirteenth Floor', directed by Josef Rusnak.

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He’s an accomplished voiceover artist. Voicing multiple campaigns for Game and an epic social media event for Skittles.
Luke had his own radio show on Shoreditch FM, you can listen to episodes on the station’s website, here – or you can check out the archives on Luke’s Mixcloud page (or via the player below)
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FIFA has announced that the start date for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™ has been pushed forward by one day to November the 20th.
This means that the opening game for the tournament will now be hosts Qatar taking on Ecuador at Al Bayt Stadium from 19:00 Mecca a day earlier than planned.
Originally, the first game of the tournament was meant to be the Netherlands taking on Senegal at Khalifa International Stadium on the 21st of November from 13:00 Mecca, with the official opening set at 19:00 of the same day involving Qatar and Ecuador.
Now the host's opener has been forward one day to be the standalone game on day one of the tournament. In a short statement FIFA confirmed the date change; "Qatar will now play Ecuador on Sunday, 20 November at 19:00 as part of a stand-alone event.Read more on beinsports.com


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ASTON >> DaQuan Morris found himself on an island the first 24 minutes Friday night.
And no, not the type of island that calls for sunglasses and a beach towel.
Tabbed with guarding Westtown School’s shifty ball-handler Jalen Gaffney during the semifinal round of the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association (PAISAA) playoffs, Morris spent the first three quarters taking his lumps before he had the final say.
Morris came up with a pair of monumental baskets in the final minute, including the game-winning steal at midcourt that he took the distance as the Hill School beat Westtown, 51-47 at Neumann University.
“It took all game for me to figure out all of his combos, what he was doing with the ball,” said Morris, a senior guard with the Blues. “He’s a hell of a player and he had me beat a couple times tonight. When it finally came down to it, I made the right read and was able to get the steal.”
With the win, No. 4-seeded Hill School (18-7 overall) will return to Neumann on Saturday to face No. 3 Haverford School, a 62-42 winner over Perkiomen School. Two-time defending champ and top-seed Westtown (23-10), meanwhile, will watch the title game from home for the first time since 2013.
Soaking in the win and his team making its first trip to the PAISAA finals since winning it in 2014, Morris credited his team’s ‘mental toughness.’ That was the same team that at one point had lost three straight games last month before bouncing back with four straight wins.
“We’ve been preaching our mental toughness all year,” said Morris. “That’s something that we’ve been keying in on. We’ve had lapses throughout the season playing different teams. But when it comes down to it we knew we had to get the job done.
“Today was all mental toughness. We’ve been waiting to play these guys all year.”
Ask and you shall receive.
Westtown was playing without its standout senior and Duke University commit, Cam Reddish, who was sidelined with flu-like symptoms. In his absence, Gaffney scored a game-high 25 points including three 3-pointers. Sophomore Noah Collier had six points while senior forward and Indiana University commit Jakob Forrester was a presence in the paint defensively and scored four points.
“We made some mistakes with the basketball that were surprising,” said Westtown head coach Seth Berger. “We’ve had a season with a number of ups and downs. But our thing has always been to stick together no matter what. That’s true to form. Everyone will stay together even after this loss.”
Westtown looked to be in complete control of the game midway through the third quarter. After three consecutive possessions that resulted in 3-pointers amid a four-minute 15-2 run, the Moose found themselves up 41-35 late in the quarter.
The Hill School never let Westtown pull away late, though.
After ending the third quarter with a basket from Morris just before the buzzer, the Blues held Westtown to just four points in the final frame.
Caleb Dorsey hit a 3-pointer with 2:27 to go to cut into Westtown’s lead and make it 45-43. Then after the teams traded a pair of points, Morris hauled in a pass from senior Chase Audige and took it the length of the court to even it up at 45-45. Then less than 30 seconds later, he forced a steal and took it the distance to give his team its first lead since the early stages of the third quarter.
“It was a whole team effort, especially at the end,” said Audige, a William & Mary commit, “but it was all DaQuan Morris. He won that for us.
“We’ve got to come out this next game like it’s any other game. We’ve got to bring it.”
Audige finished with 15 points — including his team’s first seven points — while Morris had 12. Dorsey and Maxwell finished with eight points each.


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The Battle Against Cellulite
Cellulite is a common concern that plagues many people, regardless of age or body type. Those pesky dimples and lumps that appear on our thighs, buttocks, and abdomen can be frustrating and demoralizing. Despite our best efforts through diet and exercise, cellulite often remains stubbornly resistant. However, advancements in technology have given us hope and a powerful weapon in the fight against cellulite: cryotherapy.
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As the most powerful man on the planet, Joe Biden is normally front and centre of any gathering of world leaders. Not so when it comes to British Royal decorum. The US President and First Lady were relegated to Westminster Abbey’s rear seats, assigned a pew seven rows from the back of Westminster Abbey’s south transept.
Protocols dictate that, at the late Queen’s funeral, Commonwealth political leaders outrank those from the rest of the world, regardless of their importance. And so it was that Mr Biden found himself 14 rows from the front and nine behind Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, the neighbour that the US normally looks down upon. On this side of the pond, the world order can sometimes turn upside down.
There were other awkward encounters. Spain was abuzz that its disgraced former King Juan Carlos, a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, had not only been invited but was sat next to his son King Felipe - the first time the men had been photographed together in public since the old king went into exile.
Mr Biden, 79, sat in an aisle seat directly behind Andrzej Duda, the Polish leader, and one row in front of Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic. Jill Biden, America’s First Lady, could enjoy the company of Ignazio Cassis, the president of Switzerland, who sat to her left for the hour-long service.
Across the aisle from Mr Biden was South Korea’s head of state President Yoon Suk-yeol while two rows further ahead in the pecking order sat Emmanuel Macron, the French president.
Canada’s delegation to the funeral included actress Sandra Oh, star of the BBC's Killing Eve, who was appointed to the Order of Canada in June for her "artistic achievements". Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the opera singer, also attended with the New Zealand delegation.
In contrast to President Biden's chair at the back, all seven surviving British prime ministers attended the funeral and were seated prominently. They also brought their spouses. Queen Elizabeth's reign spanned 15 prime ministers, the first of whom was Winston Churchill and the last Liz Truss.
The seating arrangements were overseen by Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, who was in charge of the state funeral’s occasionally difficult issues of protocol. The Foreign Office - when asked what input it had had into the seating plan - referred all calls to Buckingham Palace.
With 2,200 guests packed into Westminster Abbey, the state funeral was always going to throw up potential difficulties. Just under a quarter of those invited - in the region of 500 people - were overseas heads of state or foreign dignitaries.
In accordance with protocol, the governors-general of the realms that retain the monarch as their head of state, were seated first with and elected Commonwealth leaders behind them.
That meant sitting Mr Biden some distance back, behind the new King. On the same row as Mr Biden, but on the other side of the aisle, sat China’s representative at the funeral, its vice president Wang Qishan. He was distinguishable by the facemask he wore as he walked into the abbey and which he kept on during the service.
Typically too, the US president is the last to arrive at any major function, the rest of the world kept waiting for him to show up. The US president arrived just after 10am, an hour before the service began and sat waiting with his wife without security detail.
The Bidens arrived at the abbey a little later than planned. World leaders were supposed to be seated in a 20-minute window between 9.35am and 9.55am. But the Bidens arrived 10 minutes after the cut-off and rather than being shown straight to their seats were forced to wait while a procession of George and Victoria Cross-holders went ahead of them. Only once they had passed could the president and First Lady enter the abbey.
Mr Biden had been granted the right to eschew the coaches that brought other world leaders and travel instead to the abbey in “The Beast”, the heavily armour plated limousine that was flown over especially for the occasion.
Video footage showed the car travelling slowly down Oxford Street, en route to the funeral, even being brought to a halt at one point outside a branch of the sandwich chain Pret a Manger. Mr Macron was also given permission to arrive in his own car.
There was seemingly a protocol to the coaches too. Mr Trudeau had also requested his own car but that was turned down. “A lot of great conversations can happen on a bus,” he said later. Those world leaders arriving for the buses, held waiting for them at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, did so in style.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s president, was dropped off in a black BMW with the number plate GER 1, while Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia chose a Jaguar. President Sergio Mattarella of Italy was dropped off in a Maserati with the licence plate ITA 1, which caused quite the stir among onlookers.
In Westminster Abbey, the foreign royals sat opposite their British counterparts with Europe’s longest-serving living monarch, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, at the front. King Charles III, the currently shortest reigning monarch, sat opposite.
King Abdullah of Jordan and his wife, Queen Rania, were seated two rows in front of the Gulf royals, who came unaccompanied by their wives.
Other foreign royals in the front pews included the King and Queen of Bhutan, who arrived with the Emperor and Empress of Japan aboard a royal bus from the Royal Chelsea Hospital.
King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain also travelled by bus. His father, Juan Carlos, who abdicated in 2014 after a series of scandals and publicised love affairs, and his wife Sofía arrived separately at the cathedral. But television cameras soon revealed that the disparate members of the Spanish royal family had been placed on the same pew.
It was the first photograph of King Felipe and his father together since the latter entered self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi more than two years ago.
Spain’s foreign minister, who also attended, was at pains to point out Juan Carlos’s presence was “purely the result of a personal invitation”.
At the end of the state funeral, leaders of Commonwealth realms moved on to Windsor and the slightly more intimate service at St George’s Chapel. Protocol again barred Mr Biden from attending. By the time the funeral cortege had reached Windsor, Mr Biden was on his way back to the US. For a morning at least he had learned what it’s like to be a minor figure on the world stage.
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Diwali Festival coming to Spokane this weekend
News Story by Matthew Kincanon
UPDATE: 10/20/22 at 12:15 p.m.
Wall street food festival has been canceled because of weather.
The Diwali Festival will be celebrated in Spokane on Saturday, Oct. 22, at River Park Square.
The festival is one of the major holidays celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, and it is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar month of Kartika.
Events include a Rangoli art contest and vegetarian food festival.
Through the city-wide art contest, Spokane’s United We Stand plans to celebrate the vibrant and iconic traditions of Diwali. Cash prizes range from $100 to $500 depending on age group.
The contest is open to anyone of all ages. Entries will be judged based on originality and creativity, and participants must be a resident within a 50-mile radius of Spokane.
The contest will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at River Park Square Mall. The food festival will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wall St.
The festival is free and open to the public.
You can learn more about the rules for the contest here. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
Matthew Kincanon is a former Digital Content Producer with a journalism and political science degree from Gonzaga University. His journalism experience includes the Gonzaga Bulletin, The Spokesman-Review, Art Chowder magazine and SpokaneFāVS. He said he is excited to be a freelancer at SpokaneFāVS because, as a Spokane native, he wants to learn more about the various religious communities and cultures in his hometown.


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Billie Eilish is indeed very lively and colorful, and so too is her portrait design that Spanish artist Arturo Verano has brought to life on the skim board. He combined the realistic portrait of the singer with comic elements and gaudy colors.
About the artist:
Spanish artist Arturo Verano comes from Luarca, Asturias, Spain, and works professionally as an airbrush artist. His works can be found on a number of various surfaces. One of his true specialties is creating airbrush art on surfboards and skateboards. The motifs he’s most commonly contracted to create usually consist of portraits of celebrities and TV characters. His work has already been on display in i.e. Hard Rock Cafe Madrid, and he’s done live work together with other artist for companies like Harley Davidson and Indian. In addition, he’s cooperating closely with the Spanish Ministry of Education in creating an airbrush teaching manual.
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Our readers submit a lot of marching bands as possible entrants on the Weird List. Usually, we don’t pay them much attention, because the whole concept of extreme/alternative/punk-rock marching bands is nothing especially new at this point. You got your Extra Action Marching Band, your Mucca Pazza, your Rude Mechanical Orchestra and so on. But something about this week’s band, Itchy-O, stands out from the pack of tattooed punks bashing away at quad toms.
A 30-plus-piece ensemble from Denver, the Itchy-O Marching Band (IOMB) typically begins their performance by entering the venue from the street. Drums dominate, but there are also synths, vocalists, dancers, guitar and bass, and a prominently featured Theremin. Many of the performers wear amps like backpacks, so they can move freely around the venue during the show. There’s usually a giant, dancing Chinese dragon. There are several of those massive, Japanese taiko drums, which are basically the Steinway pianos of the drum world, both in terms of sound and in terms of how much it must suck to haul them around on tour. They wear black balaclavas and often giant sombreros, which makes them look a little like a gang of anarchist mariachis. It all makes for what looks like a pretty insane, sensory overload live show (though we have yet to experience it first-hand ourselves).
With their emphasis on drums, dancers and audience interaction, Itchy-O are clearly indebted to San Diego neo-tribal performance troupe Crash Worship, although their shows are, by all accounts, relatively tame compared CW’s, which famously featured lots of fire and nudity and fluids, bodily and otherwise. To the credit of the group’s founder, Scott Banning, he acknowledges the debt, telling Denver publication Westword that, while living in the Bay Area, he became friends with Crash Worship’s Simon Cheffins, and toured with both CW and Cheffins’ later band, Extra Action Marching Band, though he’s careful to say, “I was never in Crash Worship.”
Banning, a percussionist by trade, initially started Itchy-O as a studio project; his first release under that name, in 2005, he described as “an ambient project made from the layered tracks of animal heartbeats found on vinyl from a veterinarian school.” But as he started organizing Itchy-O live shows, the project grew into a full-fledged band, evolving into its marching-band incarnation by 2010.
Following a 2011 EP, Inferno, the band released its first full-length album, Burn the Navigator, on Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles in 2014. Usually, bands built so strongly around live spectacle don’t really measure up in the studio, but tracks like “Dance of the Annunaki” (which appears on both Inferno and Burn the Navigator) are a really cool mix of heavy, syncopated percussion, squelchy electronics and weird ambient noises and vocals — in this case, random bird and jungle sounds.
At other times, Itchy-O go for a sort of tribal black metal vibe, like on “The Merkabah,” which sounds like a bhangra remix of Mayhem.
Pretty cool, right? Still, it’s clearly in a live setting where Itchy-O’s particular brand of percussive mayhem is its most powerful. So we’ll leave you with a live clip from a show they did in 2014 right here in Los Angeles — which we missed, because we are bad at our jobs. Hopefully they’ll be back soon, although touring with 36 people and a hundred or so drums can’t be easy.
We had a feeling that after their last video, the Yo Gabba Gabba-esque “Public Enemy,” Russian rap-ravers Little Big were going to return to the dark side. And boy did they ever. “Dead Unicorn,” their latest, combines child rape, skin suspension, human centipedes and the Saw movies with, well, unicorns. Dead ones. It’s hard to watch and you won’t be able to look away.
Sorry you can’t unsee that.
On the brighter side: Little Big have promised some European tour dates in February and March, culminating in an appearance at the Paaspop Festival in the Netherlands April 3-5. Given the current shitty state of affairs between Russia and the U.S., we’re not holding our breath for any Stateside dates, but maybe—like a magical, non-sewn-together-from-dead-bodies unicorn—they’ll pleasantly surprise us.
One of the weirdest music and art venues in the world is in, of all places, Phoenix, Arizona. There, the self-described “world’s oldest gay Canadian rapper,” Space Alien Donald, does shows and hosts art exhibits in a little house near the airport called Funny World. We hope to visit soon, because it sounds like the kind of place that The Man could shut down at any moment. Especially in a place like Arizona, where anyone suspected of being an alien is just one broken taillight away from getting deported.
Actually, when Space Alien Donald bought Funny World in 2011, he was apparently told by the city that it would be torn down in six months to make way for a parking lot. But three years later, it’s still there. Even in Arizona, the weirdos are winning.
How did a 70-something gay Canadian rapper wind up hosting semi-legal punk shows in his house in Phoenix? We’re a little hazy on the specifics, but according to this article in something called the Downtown Devil, the man born Donald Roth moved to the U.S. from Ontario in the ’60s to work in electronics. After working in Silicon Valley, where he faked his school records to get jobs, he eventually settled in Prescott, a small city north of Phoenix, where he began developing his sci-fi inspired alter ego, Space Alien Donald.
Donald calls himself a rapper, but that’s not quite accurate. He really just kind of sing-speaks lyrics about science, astronomy, aliens and one of his favorite topics, a hypothetical particle called the tachyon that, like many things in Space Alien Donald songs, may be legit science or may be a bunch of pseudo-scientific hooey. He does this over synth backing tracks that sometimes are just the preset beats and chord progressions built into cheap electronic keyboards. So basically, he’s like nerdcore meets Mission Man meets a less schizophrenic Wesley Willis. Only older and more Canadian.
Donald just released his latest album, Must Be Funny, on Related Records. It’s got songs about how aliens built the moon and it has penises on the cover and it’s awesome. You can stream the whole thing over on Bandcamp and buy it for five bucks if you’re awesome, too. Here’s one of our favorite tracks:
To get more of the full Space Alien Donald story, this documentary, made by one of the residents of Funny World (yeah, people live there, too), tells you all you need to know:
Big thanks to Kai of Toxic Chicken for introducing us to Space Alien Donald’s weirdness.
When your last videos featured zombies dancing in a junkyard and real-life hooligans beating the shit out of each other, how do you top yourself? For Russian rap-ravers Little Big, it’s simple: Get a bunch of dumb, off-the-shelf Halloween costumes and make a video so relentlessly, children’s-television shiny and happy, it somehow comes across as the darkest, most punk-rock shit you’ve done yet.
“Public Enemy” starts off pretty silly, with Little Biggers Olympia Ivleva, Ilya Prusikin and Sergey Gokk Makarov dressed up as, respectively, a carrot, a banana and a lobster. (Worst smoothie ever.) There’s also a bunch of other folks dressed up as various animals and vegetables, as well as cops, prisoners and that evil clown guy who shows up in all their videos. There’s even a dashingly blue-eyed guy in a turban flying an airplane who can’t possibly be a terrorist because he’s all smiles, right, Little Big? Right? What, what the fuck is happening? Are those the World Trade Center towers? And a bear, the symbol of Russia, biting a Crimea-sized chunk off a map of the Ukraine? Oh, now I get it. You’re smiling ironically. This is secretly a video about how much everything sucks. You got me, Little Big!
This video would probably have a bazillion plays by now, but for some reason, they’ve disabled embedding on it. Maybe they figure Putin will never see it if it’s only on YouTube? Anyway, yeah, it’s only on YouTube. Follow this link if you want to watch it, as I highly recommend you do.
“Public Enemy” is the opening track off Little Big’s first album, With Russia From Love, which is now streaming in its entirety (at least we think it’s the whole thing) on their website. Hopefully they’ll be making more videos for the rest of the record soon, because they continue to create some of the most outrageous, eye-popping stuff this side of Die Antwoord.
Today’s Moogfest performer needs no introduction, but I’ll do one anyway: Kraftwerk, unarguably the most influential electronic musicians of all time. Without their pioneering, all-synths version of krautrock, it’s fair to say that most of today’s strains of electronic music wouldn’t exist.
To this day, Kraftwerk live shows operate on two levels: as a purist expression of button-pushing electronica at its most mechanical, and as a sly commentary of the increasingly mechanical, button-pushing nature of modern life in general. I’m not sure if they’re still trotting out their robot doppelgangers for “We Are the Robots” these days, but I do know they’ve got some crazy 3D projections and are digging pretty deep into their catalog, playing classic albums like Autobahn and Trans-Europe Express in their entirety.
Kraftwerk plays three shows at Moogfest, one on Thursday, Apr. 24th and two on Friday, Apr. 25th. Visit the official Moogfest site for more details.
God bless Die Antwoord. If those crazy South Africans hadn’t pointed the way with their over-the-top rap-rave anthems and even more over-the-top music videos, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have the Polish “Slavschool” hip-hop of Donatan and we definitely wouldn’t have the Russian rap-rave anthems of Little Big, who are basically Die Antwoord after too much vodka.
On one level, Little Big resembles Die Antwoord so much that they almost seem derivative. Their music is glitchy and uptempo; their videos are grotesque, absurb and occasionally shocking; their lead singer is a skinny tattooed dude who used to be a hip-hop-loving performance artist. (Die Antwoord’s Ninja, aka Waddy Jones, got his start doing more high-brow, satirical with projects like Max Normal; Little Big’s Ilya Prusikin honed his mic skills doing raps dressed up as Josef Stalin.) Even Little Big’s two midget members, Olympia Ivleva and Anna Kast, are reminiscent of Leon Botha, the late Die Antwoord collaborator with progeria syndrome—although that’s probably a totally unfair comparison because for all I know, Kast and Ivleva are integral singers/songwriters/producers in Little Big who just happen to be little people.
And yet, for all the obvious indebtedness to Die Antwoord—and, I suspect, to the videos of Donatan—there’s something about Little Big that is thrillingly original, too. Their hyper-kinetic videos are especially addictive, recasting the stereotypical images of Russian culture—the folk dancers, the vodka, the tracksuit-clad hooligans, the drab, Cold War-era military uniforms, even a balaclava nod to Pussy Riot—as the ghetto-fabulous trappings of a non-stop dance party. And even though their music is almost entirely electronic, there’s a manic, gypsy-punk energy to it. They’re like a raver version of Gogol Bordello, especially on their most popular track, “Everyday I’m Drinking”:
And if you thought that was a wild ride, get a load of “Life in da Trash,” in which a junkyard doubling as a zombie prison camp turns into an apocalyptic dance party and, judging from some heavy-handed title cards, a metaphor for modern life. Prusikin told Vice UK that he’s also a big fan of Cannibal Corpse, which makes total sense after you watch this.
Little Big have an album coming out later this month—their first, I believe. They have a pair of album release shows coming up in St. Petersburg and Moscow and just released a new video earlier today to promote them. It’s called “With Russia From Love” and it gives me oddly amorous feelings towards goats. And makes me want to dance like a Cossack on meth.
P.S. Huge thanks to reader Vass for introducing us to these guys. You made our week, Vass!
So here’s an idea Jake and I came up with after too much eggnog: On Sundays throughout 2014, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite weird things that come in non-band form: blogs, podcasts, magazines, record labels, books, films, radio shows, YouTube channels, visual artists and more. There’s just too much good weird shit out there that deserves more than the occasional retweet.
We’re kicking off this new series with one of our absolute favorites: Bepi Crespan Presents…, a weekly radio show and podcast broadcasting out of Canada on CiTR Radio (also home to legendary radio personality Nardwuar the Human Serviette). Host Bepi Crespan plays a self-described mix of “difficult music, harsh electronics, spoken word, cut-up/collage and general CRESPAN© weirdness.” He favors artists like Merzbow, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Negativland and Ryoji Ikeda, but also features tons of newer bands and composers who probably don’t get airplay on any other FM radio show in the world. He remains, to the best of our knowledge, the only FM radio DJ to regularly play the twisted art-pop of TWBITW favorites Chimney Crow and Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin, and that alone makes him worthy of a hat-tip in our book.
Crespan broadcasts his show every Sunday morning from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. on CiTR; if you live in the Vancouver area, you can find him at 101.9 FM, and if you live anywhere else, you can livestream his show on CiTR.ca. Past shows are posted in podcast form on the Bepi Crespan Presents… website. So next time you’re in need of a heavy dose of avant-garde noise, give one of his shows a spin. You’re pretty much guaranteed to discover something you’ve never heard before, which is more than we can say for 99.9% of terrestrial radio anymore.
Not many bands can claim to have invented an entire genre of music, but Negativland actually goes one better than that: They invented an entire art form, a technique called culture jamming, that is now such an accepted part of consumerist, mass media culture that it’s hard to imagine anyone having to invent it. From Adbusters to Banksy to self-aware Sprite commercials to fake BP Twitter accounts, the basic concepts of culture jamming are part of our everyday vernacular at this point. But yep, Negativland coined the term back in 1984. Before that, it was hard to know what to call the band’s mix of intercepted CB-radio conversations, sampled radio announcers and commercial jingles, krautrock, processed guitars, and ambient noise. Except really, really weird.
Negativland was started all the way back in 1979 by Mark Hosler and Richard Lyons, who were then still going to high school in the East Bay. Early on, they recruited a reclusive cable TV repairman named David “The Weatherman” Wills to join the group; his homemade devices, like cellphone scanners and a sampler/oscillator called The Booper, really helped the group perfect their sound collage approach to making music.
The group’s 1987 album Escape From Noise got them a little attention, but what really put Negativland on the map was their 1991 U2 EP, which famously featured a spoof of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” accompanied by a profanity-laced, anti-U2 rant by Top 40 radio DJ Casey Kasem. The track earned Negativland its first lawsuit, from U2’s label, Island Records. After a four-year legal battle, chronicled in a book called Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2, the two parties settled—Island dropped their suit, and Negativland stopped distributing the U2 EP (although they later reissued it as a “bootleg” under the fairly awesome title—quoted from part of Kasem’s anti-U2 rant—These Guys Are From England and Who Gives a Shit).
Thirty years later, Negativland are still at it: They’ve got a new project called It’s All in Your Head FM v2.0 due out later this year, along with a handful of reissues, and band member Don Joyce continues to host a public radio “audio collage” show called Over the Edge on Berkeley’s KPFA. And hey, kids—you can book one of two totally different Negativland shows in your local planetarium, art gallery, or high school auditorium! Take your choice between either a “two-hour-long, action-packed look at monotheism” or “a wordless wall of electronic sound.” Either way, you’re bound to impress all your snooty art friends and vastly increase your chances of scoring with girls whose panties drop at words like “semiotics” and “Noam Chomsky.” [Update: That link is now dead, so apparently they’re not playing planetariums anymore. Sorry.]
We’ll leave you with a classic Negativland video from their 1989 opus No Other Possibility. The cigarettes are probably a metaphor for something, but we prefer not to dig too deep on this one and just appreciate it for its delightfully Pythonesque silliness.
Recording artists have been using found sounds and ambient noise in their works for decades, but few have done it in ways more innovative or controversial than Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner. Beginning in the early ’90s, Rimbaud, who is based in London, has used cellphone scanners, police radios and other devices to record electronically transmitted conversations and turn them into musical compositions. His work tests not only people’s notions about what constitutes music, but also people’s notions of privacy. It’s a little disconcerting to think that your cellphone chat with your girlfriend might wind up as raw material for an avant-garde electronic composer.
These days, Rimbaud’s become known as a “conceptual artist” who composes film scores, sound installations and various more high-brow projects in the art world. He also records with a experimental band called Githead. But he’s still trolling the ether with his cellphone scanner, too. On his latest Scanner album, “Rockets, Unto the Edges of Edges” (released earlier this year), he even sings a little–but the snippets of ghostly, disembodied, electronically transmitted voices are still in there. If every word in the dictionary had its own soundtrack, Scanner’s music is what you’d hear when you looked up “alienation.”
Here’s a video for a track from “Rockets.” Creepy stuff, huh?


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Solanas Vacation Club - Punta del Este
Solanas is a little outside of Punta proper, the equivalent of three city blocks from Solanas Beach and not far from Punta Ballena. We had a blast there, eventhough the walls were paper thin and our bed was two singles pushed together, and they water the grass too damn much.
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South African President Jacob Zuma's office announced Thursday that he has ordered military forces to assist police trying to control labour unrest in the nation's crucial mining sector.
Despite resolution of the longest and bloodiest strike, two more deaths were reported.
Even as miners returned to work Thursday at the Lonmin PLC platinum mine in Marikana, where police killed 34 miners on Aug. 16, labour advocates said police killed two more people: a ruling party municipal councillor who died of injuries from a rubber bullet and a miner who was run over by an armoured car.
Zuma's office said he was invoking the country's constitution to use the military to support police "in the prevention and combating of crime as well as the maintenance of law and order in the Marikana Area ... and other areas around the country where needed" until Jan. 31. The notice from the presidency referred to section 201 (2) of the constitution, which states that "only the president, as head of the national executive, may authorize the employment of the defence force."
Thursday morning, police in two water cannon trucks and several armoured cars confronted striking Anglo American Platinum miners at a shantytown where residents set up barricades of rocks and burning tires and logs. Before long, the fires died down and most of the police pulled back. The people dispersed, leaving a herd of goats milling around the water cannons.
Police spokesman Dennis Adriao confirmed that police fired tear gas and a stun grenade on the illegal gathering near Sondela settlement. There were no arrests, he said.
However, there was a fatality from the confrontation Wednesday between police and strikers. Strike leader Evans Ramokga told The Associated Press that one miner was run over Wednesday by a police armoured car and dragged several metres before it stopped. He said the man died overnight in the hospital.
Adriao said he was unaware of the incident, which occurred at the scene where police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up a march by thousands of strikers.
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text: Hi Monkeys, today's challenge was to do a new technique... I chose a drip mani. I'm not sure this is a technique but it sure is a new type of mani for me and I'd call it a technique because I'm not that great at doing designs with my dotting tool. I started with three coats of Color Club's Harp On It, a silver linear holo (picture taken in light box and you can still see the awesome). I then did just black drips on my nail using Milani Black Swift but then decided a black holo drip look would be better so I went over the drip part using Color Club Beyond. I think it's holo overload but would probably be pretty cool in the direct sunlight. Be sure to look at everyone else's manis who participated!


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RALEIGH, N.C. - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. will cut its leaf orders by nearly half this year, according to North Carolina tobacco growers.
Company spokesman David Howard declined to discuss the second-largest U.S. cigarette maker's purchasing plans on Sunday.
"In terms of our purchases, our strategy is based on what we think volumes would be, what we anticipate what our needs will be," Howard said. "As the year goes on that might change."
State Agriculture Commissioner Britt Cobb said his department had been besieged with calls over the weekend from farmers who had been told the news.
"The word is filtering around pretty strongly," Cobb said. "Farmers are worried. All we can do is just continue trying to develop some new markets for leaf tobacco."
Reynolds and Richmond, Va.-based Philip Morris USA, the country's top cigarette maker, together purchase most of North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco.
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