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Someone - ORBITT II
Release: 20-06-2020 | Label: [PIAS] / [PIAS]
The ORBIT II release will be an art release as well as a musical one. It will contain 12 psychedelic pop songs on 12” mixed-colour vinyl, beautifully designed artwork on both the outer and inner sleeves and a set of five interactive artwork cards. All artwork is designed by Someone herself, portraying a surrealist, dreamy universe filled with abstract plant-shapes, cosmic constellations and glowing sunsets. The five interactive artwork cards each match up to a song from the album and when viewed through the “Someone presents: ORBIT” app on a smart-device, the artwork will spring to life in Augmented Reality. This triggers the matching song to play and allows for a deeper connection with the lyrics as they appear in mid-air around the frame. Viewers can even interact with the abstract shapes and planets through touch and swipe, drawing them further into a trippy world in which 3d animation and cosmic music merge together perfectly.
On the story behind the songs themselves, Someone offers: “Orbit II is very much an album that is about now. Right now. The goal was to put together a full emotional spectrum, touching on my insecurities and worries about the future (“Every move you make feels out of line / and these days you get frightened by the weather”), the politics and social issues going on in the world right now (“Move easily, the map before you like a melody, moving blissfully beneath the sheet of truth”) but also the more personal struggles and discoveries that come with being this age. Not all super heavy stuff either. Phone addiction. Boring sex. Stuff you can talk about, laugh about. Maybe cry about. ‘Orbit II’ isn’t meant as a personal diary log for me to vent my feelings and that’s that. I’d like it to be more of a bolstering experience, a conversation starter for people who recognize themselves in these songs. The music is optimistic, even if the lyrics sometimes wade into some pretty harsh waters and this balance – to me – helps to bring perspective, positivity and a little humor into the mix. I like the metaphor of space. I guess it is part escapism (the whole ‘Planet B’ idea) but it is also so intriguing to me because it is (quite literally) universal. We all look up to this huge starry expanse above our heads, every night. We know it exists, we can see it with our own eyes, but we (at least, most of us) have never been there. To me, that represents boundless possibility, sparking the imagination but also tying us all together. It’s something we share.”
1 The Deep 2 Pull It Together 3 Once More, With Feeling 4 Suzy Dance 5 Two Satellites 6 You Live In My Phone 1 Braver Times 2 I Can’t Remember How To Talk To You 3 Day’s Gonna Come 4 Playground Love 5 From Here 6 Forget Forgive


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text: To decipher the packages, it helps to know how tofu is made. To make tofu with whey, you have to have a lot of it and let it ferment. It has a slightly more pronounced taste (saltier) than adding gypsum powder as a coagulating agent. ¾ to 1 tablespoon honey, more or less to taste It's tricky and requires careful calibration. Burgers. It’s silky, creamy, and looks a bit like mozzarella cheese. Unlike most store-bought tofu, these homemade curds are flavorful enough to eat with just a splash of tamari and a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds, scallions, ginger, or bonito flakes. Directions With a slotted spoon, gently ladle the curds and transfer them into the cloth-lined tofu mold. ¾ cup neutral oil (such as peanut, grapeseed, canola) Linda Schneider is a home cook who is obsessed with good food and all things local. 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil Once opened, refrigerate tofu and use it within three to four days. Make Silken Tofu cookpad.japan. You can use any coagulant of your choice too. So I had to make it myself. Ingredients This is the type of tofu used for Chinese desserts with simple syrups. Less common, but available at Japanese markets, some health food stores, and, of course, Amazon, is powdered nigari—magnesium chloride. Place a small tea towel over the ramekins to prevent condensation from dripping into the ramekins. Silken tofu. Homemade tofu requires only two ingredients – fresh unsweetened soy milk and nigari (a coagulant) that transforms the milk into curds. Pour the soy milk into the colander. Great Tofu Dishes. Place the molds in the steamer tray and position the lid slightly ajar to minimize the amount of condensation dripping down. Transfer the soybeans to a blender along with 2½ cups of the reserved soaking liquid. Although somewhat similar to silken (soft) tofu since no weight is placed on tofu to extract liquid, this type of tofu is not quite silken in texture. Prepare your tofu … The brine is actually magnesium chloride, a byproduct of extracting salt from sea water. Stir the soy milk several times and remove any skin that has formed. Chinese Nigari Tofu is likely to be extra-firm, so in the west the impression is that all Nigari Tofu is extra-firm. Transfer your tofu from the mould to a resealable container and store it in the fridge until you're ready to use it! 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil. Place the cloth liner (that comes with your kit) or several layers of cheesecloth or unbleached natural muslin inside the tofu mold, allowing the cloth to drape over the sides of the mold. The process is easier and quicker than you might think. 1. Make a coagulant solution. 8. Add a small amount of liquid Nigari to your fresh soy milk for instant silken tofu. Place the soybeans in a large bowl. Carefully remove the cloth and let the tofu sit in the cold water for 30 minutes. The amount of nigari tofu coagulant should be about 1 percent of the soy milk but it varies depending on the product so follow the instructions on the package. Add a small amount of liquid Nigari to your fresh soy milk for instant silken tofu. Directions Turn off the heat and stir to deflate. Boil over moderately high heat for exactly 8 minutes, stirring constantly with a heatproof rubber spatula to prevent sticking and scorching. Cover and let rest 3 minutes. 2 small garlic cloves, crushed/grated Cover the pan with a lid that is lined with a clean, dry dish towel (fold up the edges over the lid to … To make silken tofu, you will need to cool down/almost chill the soy milk before adding the nigari, and then pouring the mixture straight into molds that will go directly in a steamer (no pressing involved). Bring to room temperature before serving. No commercial Tofu maker would ever use epsom salt in Tofu! I couldn't find tofu in my neighborhood as I'm living abroad, and when I did find it at an Asian supermarket, it was huge and expensive! Tofu can also be found in a variety of other foods including hot dogs, burgers, ice cream, sauces, desserts, and shakes. But if you are like me, who don’t want to spend time finding some fancy ingredients, then this method is for you. Place the tofu on a plate, and if using within eight hours, cover and keep in a cool spot. Add the coagulant to the soy milk. Red chile flakes to taste 6. Here’s how you can make soy milk (the building block of tofu), firm tofu, and silken tofu at home—with a recipe for pan frying (and sauces) to boot. Submerge the tofu in cold water for 5 minutes. This allows the tofu to become firm. Then grind the soaked beans in a blender with the soaking water, briefly heat, and then strain. From a time standpoint, making tofu doesn’t take long, though preparing the soy milk requires a few steps. Silken tofu has a high water content and a delicate custard-like texture. Looking to amp up your beef stew but unsure where to start? Spoon 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons of the nigari solution into a large heatproof glass bowl. Pan-Fried Tofu this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 3. Chinese Nigari Tofu is likely to be extra-firm, so in the west the impression is that all Nigari Tofu is extra-firm. Pour into the molds to a depth between 1 and 2 1/2 inches. From a cooking standpoint, tofu is a blank canvas with endless possibilities. Soft, firm, extra-firm, nigari, silken. Advertisement. 1½ tablespoons tamari (or soy sauce) Toasted sesame seeds for garnish. Silken tofu requires a slightly different process than pressed tofu. The peanut-sesame sauce can be made a few days in advance and refrigerated. 3. 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar The hardest part, at least for me, is remembering to soak my soybeans overnight. When nigari is added to soy milk, it separates into bean curds and whey. Tofu can be a good source of calcium if the coagulant used to make it is a calcium salt. Add 1 tablespoon of warm water and whisk until smooth but not too loose. You can also add Nigari to cow's milk or goat's milk for fresh homemade ricotta cheese. Mix until the coagulant completely dissolves. Press the tofu for 15 minutes. 3. You can scramble this tofu, bake this tofu or fry this tofu. Other coagulants include sea water, lemon juice, liquid nigari, and vinegar. Cook the soy milk 8 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until the liquid starts to foam up. Remove the ramekins from the steamer and allow them to sit another 10 minutes at room temperature to firm up. I don't think it's a deal maker or breaker. Cover and gently steam for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the tofu is set and has a jiggly, custardy texture. May 19, 2017 - How to make silken tofu with nigari substitute https://www.facebook.com/num.num.nums/?ref=page_internal Blend until you have a smooth puree. Remove the weight. Combine the scallions, garlic, tamari/soy, sesame oil, and chile flakes in bowl. Gather the ends of the napkin or cheesecloth and squeeze to extract as much of the soy milk as possible; the remaining solids should be nearly dry. I order nigari online, and I’ve found gypsum in kitchen shops (in the beer making section). Silken tofu is mostly used puréed or blended into recipes. Blend silken tofu into a batter to make French toast or Matzoh Brei. SILKEN TOFU Drain, reserving the soaking liquid. Ingredients ¼ cup tamari or soy sauce I found gypsum at a local home-brewing supply store (less than $2 for a 2-ounce container, which is plenty), or you can order online. ½ cup filtered or spring water And if you want to experience truly luscious, custardy tofu, then silken tofu is what you’re looking for. 2. Add ½ cup of the reserved soaking liquid to the blender, pulse, and add any puree remaining in the blender to the pot. Store it in the refrigerator for few hours. Mix the nigari in the individual cups of soymilk, using a ratio of about 1 teaspoon of nigari to 1 1/2 cups of the soymilk mixture (the ratio is about 2 percent nigari). It goes particularly well with three things: 1) A peanut-sesame dipping sauce, 2) a toasted chile oil, and 3) a soy-sesame-scallion dipping sauce. Add the soy bean puree and bring just to a boil (be careful not to let it boil over). Making tofu (soybean curds) follows this same principle. I was looking for recipes to make tofu at home (i'm lazy, i just make it from store-bought organic soy milk). 2. SOY MILK The Japanese use Nigari, or magnesium chloride. Burgers. You can also add Nigari to cow's milk or goat's milk for fresh homemade ricotta cheese. 7. So I had to make it myself. Matcha, Black Sesame, and Kinako Neapolitan Cookies. 4 scallions, thinly sliced This won't flavor the Tofu, and gives nice firm Tofu. In a large pot, bring 3 cups of the filtered water to a boil. Mix the soy milk and the coagulant In a large bowl, slowly mix in the coagulant mixture and soy milk. Add it to veggie burgers, stir-fries, or soups or stews such as Korean biji-jjigae. Gypsum produces a more tender tofu. Once the tofu and cloth are free of the mold, unwrap the tofu. Equipment: Plastic or wooden tofu mold (alternatively, you can use a small colander) lined with cheesecloth. Pat the tofu dry and slice into 1-inch cubes. If you want a firm tofu then; Keep the tofu in a container and add some iced water on it. Epsom salt should never be used to make Tofu. Add the spring water. Follow her adventures at Wild Greens and Sardines. 3 cups soy milk, chilled or at room temperature (avoid warm or hot soy milk, as it may cause the soy milk to curdle). From a taste standpoint, the flavor of homemade tofu may not be drastically different from commercial tofu. The te Directions Japanese (who had started the whole tofu thing) would traditionally use nigari, mineral-dense seawater precipitate. Kinugoshi, a custard-like tofu often served in the summer, can be made with no fancy equipment and three simple ingredients: water, soybeans and Epsom salt. The resulting tofu can be any of the textures that tofu comes in (silken, cotton, extra-firm etc.) Stir the nigari into a cup with a few tablespoons of water. Garnish with sesame seeds. How To Make Silken Tofu: 1. The magnesium chloride makes a subtly sweeter and nuttier tofu than the more neutral and very mildly chalky Epsom salt, but the difference is slight. To accompany your tofu, consider one or more of the simple and tasty dipping sauces listed below. When the first side is brown, turn and cook on the other side. This step allows the tofu to fully set and will produce firm tofu. The silken tofu is ready. That’s soy milk and lemon juice. Tofu can be made with either crystallized or liquid nigari, which is composed primarily of magnesium chloride and produced by the extraction of salt from seawater. For silken tofu, gypsum or calcium sulfate, rather than nigari, is recommended. My recommendation is to use nigari and/or gypsum (calcium sulfate) to make your own tofu. It’s all about that creamy texture, which the highly mechanized, commercial tofu that floods the market today simply does not have. Ingredients Stir vigorously in a zigzag pattern 6 to 8 times, add 1/3 of the nigari mixture, and give it a quick stir. We are experiencing an error, please try again. Continue to squeeze and press until all liquid (soy milk) has been removed. Rather than coagulating the milk and forming the tofu in trays, silken tofu is made by coagulating the soy milk in the package it’s to be sold in. 1. Keep stirring until the coagulant has completely dissolved. And also hard and tasteless. Now squeeze the tofu in the cheesecloth to drain excess water. When the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the heat to a simmer. Serve the tofu immediately, or store it in fresh, cold water in the refrigerator for up to a week, changing the water every other day. Heat the oil in a cast-iron or nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When simmering, add the pureed beans to the pot. ), curding time, and even the nutritional composition of the final product. Preparing the soy milk in advance saves time, such that all you need is 30 to 40 minutes to create a fresh batch of homemade tofu. ), curding time, and even the nutritional composition of the final product. It also costs a fraction of the price, since all you need to make soy milk are soybeans and water. 2. The curds are … 8 cups soy milk (recipe below). Fresh soy milk will keep 3-5 days in the fridge (to drink). Lemon juice and vinegar won’t yield as much and the flavour won’t be quite the same. Discard the remaining nigari solution. You can buy gauze at a pharmacy or buy at the baby section (I found it at a bib section). 4. The process for making silken tofu is somewhat different than the one for pressed tofu outlined above. If you like an ultra-soft, custardy tofu, then you may prefer the silken variety. When the oil is hot, add the tofu and sprinkle with salt. 1/3 cup chile flakes (gochugaru, Korean red chili pepper powder) Divide the soy milk amongst six 4-ounce ramekins or small heatproof bowls. 1. 3. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/08/fresh-silken-tofu-recipe.html Cover and let rest 3 minutes. Learn about JAPANESE-STYLE SILKEN TOFU NIGARI, a Meat & seafood, -Other meats, --Tofu - all types product by Morinaga Nutritional Foods, Inc. in the The Natural Products Brands Directory Silken tofu with ginger syrup (tahwa) Tofu really has a sensational sweet side as Luke Nguyen shares on of his all-time favourite desserts. You can use it if you want, but your Tofu will be bitter/sour. You can buy nigari overseas at the pharmacy, look for Magnesium that's ok to be ingested and make a 30% concentration. As for the leftover soybean pulp, referred to as okara, it’s completely edible. OrganicVeganGluten Free Product Info Nutritional Info How to Use Ingredients: Water, soya beans*(26%), firming agent: nigari (magnesium chloride). Ingredients needed: – 1 1/3 cups dried soybeans – Coagulant: You have several choices in this department: 1) 2 tsp. At this point you can make tofu or you can cool and chill the soy milk in the refrigerator for a few days in an airtight container until you’re ready to make tofu. Advertisement. Simmering cut tofu for 5 minutes firms up tofu … Living in Japan really changed my views on tofu, as it is a staple food item there. © Antonis Achilleos. Soak overnight at room temperature, 10 to 14 hours. Carefully pour the mixture into the prepared sieve. liquid nigari … Cover and let stand overnight at room temperature. In a nutshell, tofu is made by mixing freshly prepared soy curds with a coagulant. As well, add tofu to miso soup or Korean jjigae stew, mapo tofu (a fiery bowl of Sichuan goodness), stir-fries, or use it to create dessert. Ingredients However, the creamy, silken, custardy texture of homemade tofu is memorable and sets it apart from the store-bought stuff. You can enjoy your homemade tofu as is, but I like to crisp it up in a hot skillet with a little bit of oil. Carefully remove the tofu from the mold and unwrap. It’s silky, creamy, and looks a bit like mozzarella cheese. Nigari can be purchased at Japanese markets and online at myworldhut.com. To make silken tofu, you will need to cool down/almost chill the soy milk before adding the nigari, and then pouring the mixture straight into molds that will go directly in a steamer (no pressing involved). Food & Wine is part of the Meredith Corporation Allrecipes Food Group. To make homemade soy milk, you must first soak the soybeans overnight. If you’re looking for a homemade tofu kit, look no further.This Yamako kit was so functional and worth it, that I bought a second one! The great thing about making your own soy milk is that it is free of preservatives and other unwanted ingredients, including sweeteners. This tofu will also help you make this amazing Perfect Fried Egg – Sunny Side Up. Credit: ... Nigari is popular in Japanese tofu, where it's added to create a smoother, almost creamier texture to the tofu. For the Silken Tofu 2 cups of fresh soy milk - cold from the fridge 1/2 teaspoon of Nigari 1/4 cup of room temperature water For the Ginger Syrup 1 hand of ginger 1.5 cups of sugar (white or golden but not brown) 2 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice 1 cup of water Preamble I looked all over the net for a good, easy recipe for silken tofu but they Gently steam the soy milk until the tofu has set. Tofu can be made with either crystallized or liquid nigari, which is composed primarily of magnesium chloride and produced by the extraction of salt from seawater. 2. Leave me a comment. You can actually make tofu from store bought soy milk just with two simple ingredients.. Pinit. 1 block pressed tofu, drained well Copyright 2020 - Taste, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC. It’s surprisingly super easy. My personal favorite is tofu made with nigari (comes in granular, flake, and liquid forms) because it makes a firmer tofu. Wrap the tofu in the cheesecloth and place some weight on it. Tofu Pudding Recipe. Directions Making your own soy milk isn’t hard, but it does require a bit of patience as the soybeans have to soak overnight. Japanese (who had started the whole tofu thing) would traditionally use nigari, mineral-dense seawater precipitate. We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out.

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Comprises 34 essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science to illuminate Greek and Roman political thought in all its diversity and depth.
Offers a broad survey of ancient political thought from Archaic Greece through Late Antiquity
Approaches ancient political philosophy from both a normative and historical focus
Examines Greek and Roman political thought within historical context and contemporary debate
Explores the role of ancient political thought in a range of philosophies, such as the individual and community, human rights, religion, and cosmopolitanism
Ryan K. Balot is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. The author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (2001) and Greek Political Thought (Blackwell, 2006), he specializes in the history of political thought.
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Choice editors preview their favorite books and websites of 2011— full list of Outstanding Academic Titles announced in January 2012 issue
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MIDDLETOWN, CONN. – Honoring the best in scholarly publishing, Choice’s annual “Outstanding Academic Titles” list is widely recognized in the academic community for its sweeping coverage of the most significant scholarly titles published each year. The full “Outstanding Academic Titles, 2011” list will appear in the January 2012 issue, featuring 629 exceptional titles spanning 54 disciplines. Comprising less than 9 percent of the titles reviewed by Choice during 2011 and 2.5 percent of those submitted during that same time span, these exceptional titles are truly the “best of the best.” The entire list may be viewed on Choice Reviews Online; nonsubscribers can register for a free trial to access this feature.
As a special preview to the full 2011 list, this year the Choice subject editors chose from among the 2011 list their favorite print and digital resources. These diverse picks run the gamut from art, finance and history to philosophy, science and public law and reflect many of the year’s most important academic offerings. The “top” lists can also be viewed on Choice Reviews Online.
Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles, 2011: Top 25 Books
- Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, by Jeff Madrick. Knopf, 2011. 464p ISBN 9781400041718, $30.00. Reviewed in December 2011 Choice.
- The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture, by Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant. Counterpoint, 010 (c2009). 324p ISBN 1-58243-580-4 $26.00; ISBN 9781582435800, $26.00. Reviewed in March 2011 Choice.
- Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, by Jennifer Homans. Random House, 2010. 643p ISBN 9781400060603, $35.00. Reviewed in June 2011 Choice.
- The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life, by Jesse Bering. 1st American ed. W.W. Norton, 2011. 252p ISBN 9780393072990, $26.95. Reviewed in August 2011 Choice.
- Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It, by Paul R. Epstein and Dan Ferber. California, 2011. 355p ISBN 9780520269095, $29.95. Reviewed in October 2011 Choice.
- Children of Fire: A History of African Americans, by Thomas C. Holt. Hill and Wang, 2010. 438p ISBN 0-8090-6713-7, $30.00; ISBN 9780809067138, $30.00. Reviewed in May 2011 Choice.
- China's America: The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000, by Jing Li. SUNY Press, 2011. 302p ISBN 1-4384-3517-7, $85.00; ISBN 9781438435176, $85.00. Reviewed in October 2011 Choice.
- Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, by Louis Hyman. Princeton, 2011. 376p ISBN 9780691140681, $35.00. Reviewed in July 2011 Choice.
- Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science, by Sissela Bok. Yale, 2010. 218p ISBN 0-300-13929-2, $24.00; ISBN 9780300139297, $24.00. Reviewed in January 2011 Choice.
- Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet, by David G. Victor. Cambridge, 2011. 358p ISBN 9780521865012, $40.00. Reviewed in November 2011 Choice.
- How to Live, or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Sarah Bakewell. Other Press LLC, 2011 (c2010). 389p ISBN 9781590514252, $25.00; ISBN 9781590514269 e-book, contact publisher for price. Reviewed in September 2011 Choice.
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick. Pantheon Books, 2011. 526p ISBN 9780375423727, $29.95. Reviewed in August 2011 Choice.
- The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, by Samuel Moyn. Belknap, Harvard, 2010. 337p ISBN 0-674-04872-5, $27.95; ISBN 9780674048720, $27.95. Reviewed in February 2011 Choice.
- The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, by Colin Dayan. Princeton, 2011. 343p ISBN 9780691070919, $29.95. Reviewed in October 2011 Choice.
- Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf. North Carolina, 2010. 529p ISBN 0-8078-3413-0, $65.00; ISBN 9780807834138, $65.00. Reviewed in February 2011 Choice.
- The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the Twenty-First Century, by William K. Carroll with Colin Carson et al. Zed Books, 2010. 273p ISBN 9781848134423, $124.95; ISBN 9781848134430, pbk, $37.95. Reviewed in March 2011 Choice.
- The Powers That Be: Global Energy for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond, by Scott L. Montgomery. Chicago, 2010. 350p ISBN 9780226535005, $35.00. Reviewed in August 2011 Choice.
- Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier. Simon & Schuster, 2010. 589p ISBN 0-684-86854-7, $30.00; ISBN 9780684868547, $30.00. Reviewed in April 2011 Choice.
- RNA: Life's Indispensable Molecule, by James Darnell. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2011. 416p ISBN 9781936113194, $39.00 Reviewed in December 2011 Choice.
- The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, ed. by Ian Douglas et al. Routledge, 2011. 664p ISBN 9780415498135, $240.00; ISBN 9780203839263 e-book, $240.00. Reviewed in November 2011 Choice.
- Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation, by Christopher Sieving. Wesleyan, 2011. 265p ISBN 9780819571328, $75.00; ISBN 9780819571332 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780819571342 e-book, $14.99 Reviewed in December 2011 Choice.
- This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity, by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. North Carolina, 2010. 484p ISBN 9780807832967, $45.00. Reviewed in February 2011 Choice.
- The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Terror, by Garrett M. Graff. Little, Brown, 2011. 666p ISBN 9780316068611, $27.99 Reviewed in December 2011 Choice.
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, by Edward Glaeser. Penguin Press, 2011. 338p ISBN 9781594202773, $29.95. Reviewed in July 2011 Choice.
- What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up, by Christian Smith. Chicago, 2010. 518p ISBN 9780226765914, $40.00. Reviewed in March 2011 Choice.
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- ArtsConnectEd. Reviewed in February 2011 Choice. http://www.artsconnected.org/
- California Language Archive, from the University of California, Berkeley. Reviewed in December 2011 Choice. http://cla.berkeley.edu/
- Ethnographic Video Online. Alexander Street. Annual academic subscription (unlimited users): $1,220 - $2,495; one-time purchase: $12,500 - $50,000 with annual access fee. Reviewed in November 2011 Choice. http://alexanderstreet.com/
- First Street. CQ Press Annual academic subscriptions, based on FTE, average $10,500/year. Reviewed in September 2011 Choice. http://firststreet.cqpress.com/
- Mashable: The Social Media Guide. Internet Resource. Reviewed in July 2011 Choice. http://mashable.com/
- Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford. Annual academic subscription, based on FTE, ranges from approximately $1,000 to $15,500, with significant discounts available. Reviewed in May 2011 Choice. http://www.oed.com/
- Philosophy Bites, by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. Internet Resource. Reviewed in April 2011 Choice. http://philosophybites.com/
- Public Library of Law, from Fastcase.com Inc. Reviewed in June 2011 Choice. http://www.plol.org/Pages/Search.aspx/
- Scitable, by Nature Publishing Group. Reviewed in March 2011 Choice. http://www.nature.com/scitable
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Painting from Black artist Alma Thomas sells for record $2.8 million
A particularly rare painting by Afro-American artist Alma Thomas, which until recently was in a museum in South Carolina, sold for a record $ 2.8 million – and its buyer remains a mystery.
Until a few months ago, the painting “Alma’s Flower Garden” hung in the Greenville County Museum of Art.
The painting was to be one of the cornerstones of a traveling exhibition about Thomas’ life and work, including her youth in Columbus, Georgia, her years in Washington, DC, and her transition from a middle school art teacher to an artist on her own work. In the early 1970s, at the age of 81, Thomas became the first black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Her work – often abstract paintings with patterns and bold colors – became known to a wider audience during President Barack Obama’s tenure after First Lady Michelle Obama discussed adding Thomas’ painting “Resurrection” to the Old Family Dining Room on the White State Floor House.
The Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful touring exhibition opens in July at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. The organizers recently decided on details of the pieces to be included when they learned that “Alma’s Flower Garden” had been sold, said Jonathan Walz, one of the traveling exhibition’s co-curators.
Walz works at the Columbus Museum in Georgia in Thomas’ hometown, where the traveling exhibition will close in the summer of 2022.
Walz said the painting was sold and didn’t know who was “like a bomb”.
“It’s sad to think that a piece like this could just go away,” he said. “It is especially important that the work of Alma Thomas as the work of an African American artist is available to the public. If it is included in a private collection, it is devastating.”
“Almas Blumengarten”, acrylic on canvas, which was painted sometime between 1968 and 1970, is particularly rare, said Walz, because it was painted for Thomas during a “transitional, experimental period”. It is one of Thomas’ only known pieces, he said, in which Thomas painted something personal for her – her garden in Washington, DC.
The Greenville News, part of the USA Today Network, left several phone messages with staff at the Greenville County Museum of Art to learn more about the Thomas painting and its status.
The museum confirmed the sale of the painting in a statement emailed to The Greenville News, saying that the sale of “Alma’s Flower Garden” broke an earlier record for Thomas’ work.
Museum spokeswoman Paula Angermeier said in the email that the museum’s board of directors unanimously approved the deactivation of the Thomas painting in October.
“About a month after the deactivation, an interested buyer representative called the GCMA and asked if the museum was interested in selling the Thomas painting,” wrote Angermeier. “The agreed price was 2.8 million, surpassing Thomas’ auction record by $ 200,000. Confidentiality was a condition of the sale. The GCMA does not know the identity of the buyer.”
Angermeier said “Alma’s Flower Garden” was sold to “support additional art purchases,” including a newer Thomas piece, according to the museum’s usual guidelines. The sale was unrelated to temporary coronavirus pandemic-triggered guidelines by the Association of Art Museum Directors that allow museums to sell pieces to pay for other operating expenses, she said.
Prior to the sale of Alma’s Flower Garden, the highest known price for a Thomas painting was $ 2,655,000 for A Fantastic Sunset, according to Christie’s UK auction house.

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'Chakravyuh' team promotes their movie at Delhi Hindu College
21 October 2012 | where: New Delhi
Abhay Deol, Manoj Bajpai, Esha Gupta and newcomer Anjali Patil visited Delhi Hindu College looking hatke. Dressed like a police, Arjun Rampal and Esha Gupta not only gave a hint of their characters in the film but also looked great in the attire. The cast interacted with the students who had turned up in large numbers. The team was seen using a jeep as their stage.


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Dover, N.H. — Presidential candidate Nikki Haley offered a call-to-action on school safety in response to a Nashville shooting that left six people dead on Monday.
A 28-year-old female shooter who identifies as transgender opened fire at The Covenant School on Monday killing three children and three adults, police said. The shooter was a former student, though the motive for the shooting was not immediately clear. The victims ranged in age from 8 years old to 61 years old.
The shooter entered the private Christian school of roughly 200 students through a side entrance, according to police spokesperson Don Aaron, and was wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol, police said. The shooter was fatally shot by police.
“While we want to lift up those families in prayer, people are going to say, ‘But what are we going to do about it?’” Haley said during a town hall style event in Dover, N.H. “There are answers on what to do about it. We have to decide as a country that we’re going to do something about it.”
She suggested schools should have only one point of entry and that every school should have a law-enforcement officer stationed on campus “all the time.” Metal detectors, which are already “present everywhere kids go,” should be used more widely in schools as well, she said.
“You’re going to hear everybody want to talk about gun control,” she said. “My thing is, I don’t want to take away your ability to protect yourself until they do those things that protect those kids and we need to make sure that happens in every school because it’s happened too often and we need to make sure that stops.”
Later, a member of the audience asked Haley what she would do to address the country’s mental-health crisis if she were elected.
Haley referred back to the nation’s school shootings and said the U.S. should have mental-health specialists in every school.
“America has failed when it comes to mental health. They refuse to acknowledge it for what it is,” she said.
She also suggested people on the street with mental-health issues should not be jailed but should instead be put on a teleconference to speak to a mental-health professional and “Get the help that they need.”
“When we start treating mental health like the cancers we treat, all of a sudden you’re going to find we have a you’re gonna find we have a healthy American population,” she said.


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It’s showtime for Google, who have ended years of tiptoeing around the games industry and have only bloody gone and done it. Google has announced Stadia, tagged as one place for everyone to play. Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the showcase, with his first words oddly being “I don’t really play games, I’m not a big gamer.” Solid start.
Unsurprisingly, Google has gone headfirst into streaming for its attempt to breach the world of gaming. It’s games as a service, on a service. How wonderful.
There's no console hardware to speak of for Google Stadia. It's a service that can run on laptops, tablets, mobile phones, PCs, web browsers, or even straight to your TV provided you have a Google Chromecast Ultra.
Google demonstrated how quickly a game can be played from someone's library. Users can click 'Play' on the Chrome browser and begin playing the game within It's an awesome idea, in theory, but it got a bit of a kick in the teeth when my video stream of the conference started buffering.
id Software's Marty Stratton got onstage to show-off Doom Eternal, claiming the game will be playable on Google Stadia at 4K, 60 frames per second, with HDR support. He said Doom Eternal took a fortnight to make playable on the Stadia, so it looks as if it's going to be a rapid process in terms of getting games on the service.
It's a long old conference so we'll update you once we hear more on Google Stadia.
Google Stadia Artists Impression
The Google GDC 2019 Gaming Announcement took place live this afternoon at 5pm GMT, or 10am PDT if you’re Stateside. A number of the industry’s biggest names took to the stage during the event, with quite the collection of publishers preparing to bring their games to Stadia.

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Texas Employers Head to Federal Court to Oppose AG Ken Paxton on Dismantling DACA
In an unprecedented move, seven Texas chambers of commerce, two pro-business consortiums and four prominent companies – including Southwest Airlines and Marek Brothers Construction – have filed a brief in federal court asking a judge to reject state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to scrap a program that shields certain young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The program is known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Paxton filed suit earlier this year in South Texas to end it.
Now, lawyers at Vinson & Elkins, representing the business coalition including the Texas Association of Business, argue Paxton’s lawsuit would damage their clients’ operations, deprive them of much needed work expertise and cost the state tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues.
Among other things, the business leaders say that if Paxton's lawsuit is successful, it would cause Texas' economy to lose more than $6 billion in gross domestic product – roughly $2 billion of that from the Houston area alone.
This coalition also includes the Hispanic chambers of commerce in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Midland, Brazoria County and the Rio Grande Valley, as well as United Airlines and Laredo-based International Bancshares Corp. All told, the groups and companies represent employers of tens of thousands of Texans.
“Granting young immigrants deferred action under DACA brings them out of the shadows and gives them the ability to participate fully in the Texas economy, which benefits Texas, in part, through higher tax revenues,” the V&E lawyers argue. The brief also notes that DACA recipients are projected to contribute about $244.7 million in Texas taxes this year.
“Enjoining the DACA initiative would damage the Texas economy by forcing Texas’s Dreamer consumers to the sidelines and reducing the revenues of Texas businesses,” the V&E lawyers said. “The instability of life as an undocumented immigrant who might be subject to deportation at any time discourages those Texans from spending their money freely.”
“In the face of DACA rescission and other recent developments in immigration enforcement, immigrant communities in Texas are increasingly holding back from economic activity, focusing instead on saving to protect their families from the economic trauma (in the form of job loss and legal fees) that comes with deportation proceedings,” the attorneys for businesses said.
In unveiling his lawsuit earlier this year, General Paxton said he would “urge the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to declare DACA unlawful and stop the federal government from issuing or renewing any DACA permits in the future.”
The suit was filed in Brownsville, where a federal judge previously agreed with Paxton about an executive order protecting the parents of young undocumented immigrants.
“Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy," Paxton said.
“Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization,” Paxton said. “Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences."
When asked if he’s frustrated with President Trump for not making progress in canceling out the executive order issued by then-President Barack Obama, Paxton said “our frustration is with three activist judges.”
“Last September, President Trump sided with the rule of law. He agreed to phase out DACA after I led a coalition requesting his administration do so or face a court challenge,” Paxton said. “Since then, three activist federal judges have blocked the federal government from cancelling DACA,” he said.
Business leaders are not alone in scratching their heads over Paxton's lawsuit.
When it was originally filed, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s number two Republican and a former Texas Attorney General, said he didn’t get what Paxton was trying to accomplish.
“I honestly don’t understand what the state is asking for,” Cornyn said. “Right now, the issue looks like it’s going all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. They’re gonna decide whether DACA can be ended.”
We’ll continue to track developments about this lawsuit.


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WASHINGTON — Gun ownership rights can be denied to people who commit reckless acts of domestic violence, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that brought a blistering dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas.
The 7-2 ruling, written by Justice Elena Kagan and endorsed by conservative as well as liberal justices, upheld the sentences imposed on two Maine men who had argued their misdemeanor convictions for domestic abuse should not trigger a federal gun control statute. Thomas and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
The federal law was intended to deny guns to people convicted of violent acts against family members, based in part on research showing they are more likely to use guns domestically in the future….read more here
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The Pier in Jeopardy
When Waldo Clarke, manager of the State Pier since its inception, died unexpectedly in 1953 the Pier lost its most energetic and knowledgeable advocate. Shipping continued, but the political appointees who ran the Pier seemed less fully engaged than Clarke.
Military competition between the Soviet Union and the West was intensifying by 1950 and the Navy's need to use the north side of the Pier for Squadron 10 during the Cold War meant that tension between civilian and military interests would continue. The submarine tender U.S.S. Fulton arrived in 1951 (visible in the photo above) and was a harbor fixture for forty years.
Shipping at the State Pier never seemed to reach a critical mass that could be described as "busy" or "successful." A city official described the piers as "in a state of limbo," and a State official agreed that despite New London having the best deep water harbor in the State "it is woefully underdeveloped considering its potential." (The Day, May 10, 1974) The claim had been made for years, and would continue.
A bold new idea generated much discussion that year. Capt. Joel Sears of Noank acted as spokesman for a group of local businessmen and bankers who, recognizing the significance of the container revolution well under way, proposed that the State Pier area be turned into a containerport.
Containerized shipping was upending time-honored methods in favor of putting refrigerators, cell phones, computers, wine, beer and everything else we imported into standardized containers. These rugged boxes could be stacked in (and on) ships and quickly offloaded to trains or trucks for transport to final destinations.
Drastically reduced shipping costs fostered the exponential growth of "consumerism:" things made inexpensively in Asia could be imported cheaply and sold for lower prices than domestic equivalents. It turned out to be a double-edged sword, of course: consumers enjoyed the luxury of an unprecedented abundance of affordable, well made goods, from cars to tee shirts, but the steady decline in domestic manufacturing was devastating to those whose livelihood depended on it.
Below: The proposed containerport was pictured in The Day
Below: Images of two containerports give a sense of what they look like and how they operate. At Prince Rupert, BC, a town roughly half the size of New London, a conventional wharf converted to a containerport opened in 2007. The Canadian National Railway (once the owner of New London's pier railroad, the Central Vermont) runs container trains from here to the heart of Canada and the U.S. Midwest.
Below: At the much larger port of Savannah, Georgia (from which in 1819 New London's Capt. Moses Rogers made the first Atlantic crossing using steam power) a train of double-stacked containers is shown leaving the waterfront. Giant cranes, many of them built in China, are the dominant feature of all containerports.
(Our exhibition about Capt. Rogers's transatlantic crossing may be viewed by clicking "Browse exhibits" at the top of any page and scrolling down.)
The containerport idea never gained traction, and we shall always wonder what the future might have held if the piers and their hinterland had been reconfigured for container handling. Was there enough acreage to accomodate stacks of them before they could be transhipped on trains or trucks? Could the railroad infrastructure have been rebuilt to allow containers to move out expeditiously on the New England Central (the former Central Vermont) or the Providence & Worcester on the other side of the river? Would New London have become a thriving shipping hub?
Another revitalization proposal was announced in The Day later that year: the pier area would be developed as "a major port of entry for raw agricultural products from Southeast Asia." A six month study of the State Pier by a New York engineering firm was called "the last best chance to convert the pier's dwindling operations into an economic energizer for Southeastern Connecticut." The new program would triple the tonnage handled, raise wages and salaries of pier employees, reduce importing and exporting costs for Connecticut firms, attract industry, and cost $5 million.
The engineering consultants recommended against making New London a containerport "because of the difficulty in competing with established ports in New York and Boston." Such a proposal for New London "would get laughed out of business," said one of them.
As part of the plan, the city asked for a commitment from the State for "annual payments in lieu of taxes to compensate for the use of prime waterfront land," a request that would be loudly repeated in 2021, nearly half a century later, in a similar situation.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the end of Cold War. After the Fulton and her squadron left in 1991 a structural (and political) problem complicated matters when a section of the Pier collapsed into the Thames in 1993. The Pier's lackluster economic return, tax-exempt status, and a general recognition that military and civilian activities didn't mesh well, fueled arguments from city officials and others that it was a waste of money, a commercial failure, and the area should be given over to industry.
But the naysayers didn't reckon with the persuasive power of two forceful voices: the editorial page of The Day, on which Morgan McGinley chastised them for shortsightedness, and the return of Admiral Harold E. Shear after a stellar Navy career and five years as head of the U.S. Maritime Administration.
Wrote McGinley: "Countless military battles have been fought over keeping deep-water ports open. But in New London the local pols have learned nothing from history and are trying to give away one of the city's and region's finest assets, a port of entry at State Pier."

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