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An Introduction to Common Fruits in the Upper Amazon
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The fruit diversity project is managed by Project Amazonas, Inc., a Peruvian-American non-profit organization that focuses on humanitarian, educational, research and conservation work in the Peruvian Amazon. The goal of this initiative is to cultivate a nursery of the widest possible variety of Amazon tropical fruits in a single location, as well as to return forests to their natural balance by reintroducing native trees in areas that have been degraded by logging and slash and burn farming. The site is near the village of Santa Cruz on the Mazan River, just upstream from its junction with the Napo River.
Teachers and college students can assist in the project and get a hands-on introduction to the Amazon to bring home and to their classroom while earning undergraduate or graduate credit: Hands-on Amazon for Educators. Volunteers are also invited.
Unlike papaya, coconut and other commonly-known tropical fruits, most local fruits in the Amazon basin don't have the shelf life, durability, consistent supply, or the financial viability to attain worldwide distribution and are relegated to local enjoyment. Only a handful of the most common fruits are mentioned in this article; dozens more can be found in the surrounding rainforest.
Why the variety of tropical fruits? The intense competition of tropical ecosystems, as well as poor soil, variable rains and often months-long inundation have driven plants to creative measures of survival and propagation. Among the adaptations necessary for the survival of the species is a method of seed dispersal, giving rise to an enormous variety of edible fruits. A seed with an appetizer that will be picked up by a fish or mammal without destroying its viability is advantageous to its survival. As an example, the cashew has a fleshy, appealing "apple", while the nut is protected against predation with inflammatory and cyanogenic compounds; it succeeds due to this clever combination of pleasure and poison. The nut must be processed to remove the toxic chemicals before it makes it to the store shelf. It follows that this symbiotic relationship with animals has engendered fruits high in nutrients beneficial to the animals that disperse them, especially proteins, oils, carbohydrates, vitamins, and other phytochemicals yet to be appreciated.
Local fruits are dietary staples on homesteads, as well as ubiquitous in the form of juice drinks and ice cream in Iquitos. In their raw form, many tropical fruits are high in both sugar and citric acid, making them at once sweet and bitter. Cane sugar (also grown locally) is usually added in their preparations; especially needy are starfruit, cocona, camu camu, arazá and a few others.
Ice creams at the Giornato heladería on the Plaza de Armas, Iquitos
Some of the most common fruits are described briefly below. Several of them have been imported and widely distributed throughout the tropics but most are of Amazon origin. Since local names vary, often referring to more than one fruit, or to different fruits in different areas of the Amazon basin, scientific names are included.
AGUAJE (Mauritia flexuosa) – The deep red, lumpy, egg-shaped fruit is the most common of all the fruits in Iquitos, found on almost every street corner. Yellow-orange when peeled, tasty, but there's very little to eat (big seed and little meat). The large palm that provides it is impressive. To get the taste of the fruit, stick with the ice cream or buy them fresh, as the fruit available on the street suffers a questionable sanitary standard.
ANONA (Rollinia mucosa) A strange looking thing with green-yellow knobs. When it's ripe (soft to the touch), it's best to cut it in half and use a spoon to scoop it out – taste of vanilla custard. An overlooked gem, not to be confused with noni!) It's a random find, sometimes available at roadside stands on the highway.
Fruit-laden aguaje palm and ripe anona
ARAZÁ (Eugenia stipitata), also known as guayaba brasilera. Yellow, highly variable from golf ball- to softball-sized. Soft skin and texture of a ripe peach, a good fruit to munch on, and extremely versatile, useful from marmalade to wine, and of course, juice. A bit acidic. The native Peruvian version (guayaba) produces smaller fruits and is more susceptible to insect predation, but can be made into an excellent marmalade.
CAMU CAMU (Myrciaria dubia) has the highest concentration of Vitamin C of any known fruit in the world. There is also significant and promising research indicating that the phytochemicals in the fruit are effective in treating a variety of medical maladies.
LUCUMA (Pouteria spp.) – an incredibly unique taste! It's dense and sticky, not something eaten by itself, but it's so unusual that it can be found in many forms including chocolate-covered drops.
Left: arazá and camu camu. Right: lucuma
MARACUYÁ (Passiflora edulis) – a mid-sized yellow passion fruit, teardrop shaped, common in the Belen market. Very similar to GRANADILLA (Passiflora ligularis), another passion fruit. The myriad seeds are covered with a sweet gel that doesn't make for the easiest eating fruit, but a common fruit juice in season and a frequent beverage in local eateries.
UVILLA (Pourouma cecropiaefolia) Amazon grapes, similar to purple grapes but with a much larger seed. Frequently found in smaller markets in season.
Left: Granadilla. Right: uvilla.
TUMBO (Passiflora quadrangularis) – a giant passion fruit, frequently trained on a home garden trellis. Taste similar to cantaloupe.
Tumbo in the market and on home trellis.
CARAMBOLA / star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) – one of those sweet and sour fruits that needs a little sugar. Widely cultivated, it's an import, probably from the East Indies.
COCONA (Solanum sessiliflorum)– a native tomato. In the wild, they're often covered with coarse fuzz. They can be eaten raw but the skin is thick. It's sweetened to make a drink commonly served in local restaurants.
Left: carombola on the tree; Right: cocona on the bush
CACAO (Theobroma cacao) Like copoasú, the pulp around the seed is consumed and the seed is discarded except in commercial operations for making chocolate. Fruit grows directly from the trunk, not unusual in tropical fruits.
COPOASÚ (Theobroma grandiflorum) The soft pulp around the seeds is the tasty part, redolent of rum. The hull is nearly as thick and tough as a coconut.
Left: copoasú in its tortoise shell; Right: cacao ripening on the tree
MACAMBO (Theobroma bicolor) – resembles a green football brain. More likely to see the grilled tasty seeds than the actual fruit.
NONI (Morinda citrofolia) nicknamed cheesefruit for good reason. It's respected by the locals for medicinal uses, and can be eaten as a survival food. There's a type of Danish cheese that has a similar malodorous property – I'm told it's good if you can just get it past the lips, but you can't wash the smell off your fingers.
Left: macambo with its ant sentinels; Center: grilled macambo seeds; Right: noni (cheese fruit)
MARAÑON / CASHEW (Anacardium occidentale). Grouped with cacao here because many people don't know that the best part – the cashew nut, is discarded. The "apple" part is eaten, similar to mamey, but the nut is protected by two layers of deterrent; don't eat it raw unless you want to get poison-ivy like blisters, – the seeds have to be commercially processed to be edible.
TAPERIBA (Spondias dulcis) Common in drinks, ice cream, even pastries. Eaten raw when in season, the somewhat tenuous flesh sticks to a stringy pit, but it has much more meat than aguaje.
Left: cashew apple and nuts. Right: taperiba
GUAYÁBANA (Annona muricata) Easy to identify by its deep green color and spiny skin, it is dense, solid, yet amorphous.
SINAMILLO (Oenocarpus mapora) and UNGURAHUI (Oenocarpus bataua) with clusters of small hanging fruits, these are more typical of palm fruit than is the familiar coconut. Sinamillo is mashed into a cocoa-colored drink. Ungurahui fruit is extremely nutritious, high in good-quality protein and oil.
Left: guayábana. Center: child plucking sinamillo. Right: sapote vendor.
SAPOTE (Matisia cordata). Attractive olive skin, and rich peach-orange color inside, taste of a great melon but more meaty.
HUITO (Genipa americana), the size of a large fist, gets sickeningly sweetly pungent when ripe. These are well represented in the medicinal plants row in the Belen market, and the young fruit produces an indelible ink and body paint.
PIFUAYO (Bactris gasipaes) Clusters of egg-sized fruit can be green, yellow, or orange, from a tall, spiny palm tree. They can be eaten raw, but are more commonly boiled, peeled and salted.
GUABA (Inga edulis) Sometimes called ice cream bean, it is not related to the vanilla bean. The long pods are twisted to reveal a dozen or so nuts wrapped in a moist, cottony, pleasant tasting snack.
Huito, pifuayo and guava.
SACHA MANGO (Grias peruviana) Generally, "sacha" can be translated as "wild", "pseudo", or the like. It is not at all related to mango. It has a huge seed, and the edible part around it has the color, texture and taste of carrot.
Sachamango
CAIMITO (Chrysophyllum caimito ) the trees produce a huge crop seasonally and can be found most of the year. Quite tasty, but the skin releases latex when broken, making for sticky lips unless it's peeled first.
Boy with caimito
Some fruit trees have been heavily planted in and around Iquitos primarily for their ornamental value. Mamey, breadfruit, huasai (and some other palms) are the most common. Pictures will follow in a later post.
BREADFRUIT / Pan del arbol (Artocarpus altilis) The seeds are boiled with a peanut-like flavor, and the pulp is high in starch. An import, the fruit was brought to attention by the fascinating story of the voyage of the Bounty. Breadfruit trees are a common sight along the banks of riverine settlements.
HUASAÍ (Euterpe spp.), A sister of the Brazilian acai berry, which enjoyed a brief explosion in popularity in the States as a weight loss scheme. The tree has a slim, elegant look and are a favorite municipal planting, notably along the Nauta highway and at the airport.
MAMEY / poma rosa (Syzygium malaccense Merr&Perry) with dark green foliation, the tree is easily trimmed to a nice shape, and drops a fruit closely resembling an apple both in taste and appearance, except for its large pit. The texture is softer, too, more like a ripe pear. The apple is eaten raw and doesn't make its way into drinks or ice cream. There are several of these trees on the Plaza de Armas in Iquitos, in bloom in August with magenta flowers.
CIDRA – this is a common, inexpensive fruit, a green-colored orange wanna-be. Stringy and as bitter as lemon. Because of the variability of local citrus, these can appear similar to sweeter oranges. They are shown in the first picture in this blog, posing as limes.
COCO / CACAO / COCA – for the casual tourist, it's important to differentiate amongst the similar-sounding things. They are not at all related. COCO is coconut, a nice treat when you're thirsty at fruit stands on the highway chilled, opened with a machete and served with a straw.
CACAO is mentioned above, the fruit that produces the seeds that are processed into chocolate.
COCA is the leaf that can be processed to produce cocaine. The dried leaves are boiled for tea (mate de coca) as a general stimulant and to combat altitude sickness (soroche).
BANANA – very briefly, there are several types that can be called plátano. Plátano maduro is very firm, served grilled or sliced and deep fried. Sweeter and softer bananas are eaten raw or sliced lengthwise and gently pan fried.
Don Dean
Last update: December 2012. Credits: All photos taken on site in Iquitos, Mazan or Santa Cruz, Loreto, Perú.
You may link freely to this site, but all photos and text are copyrighted by the author. I am keenly interested in developing the fruit diversity project with more fruits, as well as adding good quality native woods and palms. Comments and questions are very welcome: amazonascourse@gmail.com


The Tony-winning musical will close out the theater's 2017-18 Broadway Series.
Barry DeBois and Tiffany Topol costar as Guy and Girl in the Paramount Theatre production of Once.
Aurora's Paramount Theatre will present the first Chicago-area regional staging of the Tony Award-winning musical Once to close its 2017-18 Broadway Series. Performances will run April 25-June 3 with direction by Paramount artistic director Jim Corti and music direction by Tom Vendafreddo.
Based on the Oscar-winning movie, Once won eight Tony Awards in 2012, including Best Musical, Best Actor, and Best Book. Enda Walsh penned the book, with music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, who also originated the roles of Guy and Girl in the 2007 film written and directed by John Carney.
Barry DeBois and Tiffany Topol will costar as Guy and Girl, a pair that share a fateful meeting on the bustling streets of Dublin spurred by their mutual love for music. The principal cast also includes Jeanne T. Arrigo (Baruska), Jenn Chandler (Ex-Girlfriend), Alex E. Hardaway (Bank Manager), Nik Kmiecik (Andrej), Angel Lin (Eamon), Everleigh Murphy (Ivonka), Jon Patrick Penick (Billy), Cassidy Stirtz (Reza), Charlie Strater (MC), Larry Tobias (Da), and Grant Alan Watkins (Svec). The ensemble includes Elisa Carlson, Cory Goodrich, Matt Kahler, Michael Kurowski, Doug Pawlik, and Matthew C. Yee.
Paramount's production team for Once includes William Carlos Angulo (choreography), Jeff Kmiec (scenic design), Theresa Ham (costume design), Nick Belley (lighting design), Mike Tutaj (projection design), Adam Rosenthal (sound design), Katie Cordts (wig, hair, and makeup design), Amanda Relaford (properties design), Susan Gosdick (dialect coach), Klára Moldová (Czech cultural consultant), Trent Stork (associate director), Kory Danielson (assistant music director), Jinni Pike (stage manager), and Kelly Montgomery (assistant stage manager).


Most of us are very aware of the array of therapies commonly suggested, or even prescribed, by the medical and educational professionals involved with our children's care. There is physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, services from a teacher of the visually impaired, and the training provided by a certified orientation and mobility instructor—just to name a few.
For my son Max (almost 4 with bilateral anophthalmia and developmental delays), most of these therapies have not offered much success. In fact, they have been extremely ineffective. Often, the therapist has never met a child who is blind and is intimidated or struggles to make appropriate accommodations to her strategies. Traditional therapies tried so far simply have not considered Max's learning style and have failed to include any of his interests. Because of this, we dropped most of the related services from his Individual Education Plan (IEP) — we saw no value putting him through an experience that has no productive outcome and only causes him stress.
However, recently we decided to try an approach that we are so excited about I simply must share it with you—MUSIC THERAPY!
Music has played a vital role in Max's life from the day he was born. At birth, I stumbled upon the best way to calm him after HOURS of crying—Bruce Springsteen's Devils and Dust album! I put it on (to calm myself) and instantly he stopped crying. To this day, we never leave the house without that CD. Max listens to a wide variety of music each day, enjoys playing musical instruments, and although he does not speak, he can hum over 100 songs. Clearly, he relates to music.
While attending a local conference relating to blindness, we met a music therapist and were fascinated to learn how she uses this technique as a method to help children with disabilities make gains in every area of development. This is not to be confused with music lessons. Through a certified music therapist, specific, individualized educational and developmental goals are created and then strategies, through the use of music, are implemented.
Using music, Max is learning a wide variety of general concepts as well as communication skills. He enjoys the time with his therapist versus simply tolerating or even screaming through the entire session as with previous therapies. His interests are valued and he is able to approach a structured learning opportunity in a fun and meaningful manner—imagine that?! Also, parents are included in the session so we can carry over the strategies at home.
If your child enjoys music as much as ours does, you may want to visit The American Music Therapy Association and learn more about music therapy.
In the United States, this is a recognized therapy by SOME school districts, health insurance companies, and state Medicaid Waiver programs that may provide funding just as they do for more traditional therapies. So, grab that guitar, plink on the piano, bang those bongos, or just get krazy with a kazoo—have fun and learn through MUSIC!
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Let students speak for themselves on tuition
By KYLE J. HILL|Published Wed, Jun 23, 2010
In a letter submitted by Edward Herman, chairman of the United University Professions advocacy committee of the University at Buffalo, he insists that the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act is not in the students' best interests. However, in March, the State University of New York Student Assembly, which represents all 64 campuses of the SUNY system, endorsed the act in a unanimous vote and many SUNY Student Government Associations followed and approved of the act individually.
What students find most appealing about this piece of legislation is that it will remove tuition from the political process by allowing the SUNY board of trustees to set tuition, not the Legislature. Additionally, this will allow SUNY to keep all tuition dollars, instead of it going to aid the state deficit.
Many people do not realize that Albany actually collects our tuition dollars and then allocates the sum to SUNY. In 2008, however, when the Legislature raised SUNY tuition by $620, only 10 percent of the increase ever made it back to students and campuses due to budget cuts.
The mission of SUNY and the board of trustees is to provide quality, affordable and accessible education; the same cannot be said for the State Legislature, which has voted for $424 million in budget cuts and tuition sweeps to SUNY over the last two years.
Some argue that the Empowerment Act will lead to the privatization of SUNY, but this tremendous reduction in state aid is the real privatization of the SUNY system.
In regard to the actual process of changing tuition, UUP's facts are no longer correct. The new legislation, agreed upon by Gov. David A. Paterson and the State Senate, states that tuition can be raised 1.5 times -- not 2.5 times as stated by UUP -- the five-year rolling average of the Higher Education Prices Index, which is currently 3.5 percent. Thus tuition increases would be closer to 5.25 percent, not 9 percent.
To address the concern of a differential tuition, which would increase tuition marginally based on which program a student chooses to study, the SUNY Student Assembly weighed the options and believes it will be much more beneficial than harmful. We understand that some programs are simply more expensive to operate compared to others, and believe it will be better in the end to pay more money rather than lower the quality of education or eliminate the program all together. SUNY has also agreed to take care of those students who cannot afford the extra tuition with SUNY aid, which will cover the difference and waive loans if the student chooses to work in public service upon graduation.
New Yorkers deserve a public university system that meets SUNY's mission of affordability, quality and accessibility. Abolishing programs because of lack of funds does nothing to improve access to quality and affordable higher education.
Kyle J. Hill is director of Government Relations for the SUNY Student Assembly.

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Assume the role of the cursed young woman Rei Kurosawa, whose overwhelming guilt over the death of her fiancé and persistent nightmares force her to blur the lines between the dream world and reality in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. Developed by the same team responsible for the previous Fatal Frame titles as well as the Deception series, Fatal Frame III includes three different playable characters with their own unique special abilities and uses, and two different gaming worlds (nightmare and real life) that show off the improved visual effects and additional abilities for the world's most famous ghost busting photo device, The Camera Obscura.
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George Teodoru (* 8. September 1932 in Craiova) ist ein rumänischer Bauingenieur, Schachspieler, -organisator und -komponist.

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Anfang der 1950er-Jahre begann Teodoru, sich mit Schachkomposition zu beschäftigen. Mit 18 Jahren bereits errang er mit seiner Studie den ersten Preis in Suomen Shakki. Als Komponist wurde er Meister von Bukarest und Meister von Rumänien, jeweils für Studien. Er ist ein Schüler Faragós und war u. a. persönlich bekannt mit Korolkow und Petrović.

Teodoru betätigte sich ehrenamtlich als Präsident der Zentralen Schachkommission für Probleme und Endspielstudien sowie Mitglied des Büros der rumänischen Schachföderation. 1971, nachdem er mit Octav Costachel und Anatole Felix Ianovcic die Zeitschrift Buletin Problemistic gegründet hatte, erreichte er den Eintritt Rumäniens in die PCCC.

Im Partieschach gehörte Teodoru in Rumänien der 1. Kategorie an und nahm mehrfach an der rumänischen Meisterschaft teil.

Nachdem Teodoru nach Deutschland zog, beendete er die schachlichen Aktivitäten.

Im Jahr 2007 begann Teodoru, sich erneut mit der Schachkomposition zu beschäftigen, so erreichte er beispielsweise beim Korolkow-Gedenkturnier 2008 das 5. Lob. Er gründete mit Stelian Lambă die nach dem Schwarzen Meer benannte Schachkompositionszeitschrift Euxinus Pontus.

Lösung:

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2. Ke5–d5 Sc4–d6
3. Sg6–e5 d4–d3
4. Se5xd3 Ke3xd3
5. b4–b5 Sd6–f7
6. b5–b6 c7xb6 patt

Beruf
Teodoru wurde 1956 Bauingenieur für Brücken und Tunnels. Er war Bauleiter früher rumänischer Spannbetonbrücken, etwa der Brücke Cateasca. Die Brücke Hotare mit Betonfundamenten schuf er ebenfalls als Bauleiter. Ein neues Kriterium für den Frost-Tau-Widerstand von Beton wurde ebenfalls von ihm entdeckt. Er siedelte 1971 von Rumänien nach Westdeutschland über, wo er 1983 an der RWTH Aachen zum Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften promovierte. Anschließend arbeitete er als Statiker, wobei er unter anderem an der FH Köln an der Gründung des Instituts für Technologie in den Tropen (ITT) beteiligt war und viele wissenschaftliche Aufsätze verfasste. In den Richtlinien ACI-305 korrigierte er Fehler und wurde Gutachter für ACI-Publikationen sowie Mitglied mehrerer Organisationskomitees des ACI-Symposiums. 1993 wurde er Präsident der Engineering Society Cologne.  UNO und UNESCO erkannten ihn als Experten für Tunnel und Brücken sowie als Bausachverständigen an.

Am 5. März 2009 erhielt Teodoru "in Anerkennung seiner Leistungen in der Bautechnik" die Ehrenplakette vom Verein Deutscher Ingenieure verliehen.

Privates
Teodoru lebt in Köln.

Literatur
 Marcel Stoica und Willy Bölling: George Teodoru – 75 Jahre. In: Beton und Stahlbetonbau, September 2007. S. 657–658

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FAYETTEVILLE -- Students who have others do their course work for them will be suspended for a semester as part of a policy change at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
The same penalty applies to students found to be providing work to others, as UA responds to what the director of the school's academic integrity office described as a major concern in higher education.
"It's a monster, just because you have the private industry essentially being willing to do online classes for people, write papers in two to three days or less than 24 hours," Chris Bryson, executive director of UA's Academic Initiatives and Integrity Office, told faculty members last month.
The policy change comes with the formal addition of a new violation: "Buying, selling, obtaining or providing academic work to be used for the purpose of contract cheating, or participating in such behavior."
The policy defines "contract cheating" as "a form of academic dishonesty where students get academic work completed on their behalf, which they then submit for academic credit [and/or advantage] as if they had created it themselves."
Other universities that responded to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said their policies do not use the same term but prohibit similar activity.
Bryson said the problem extends beyond commercial websites.
Few cases have been identified as potential examples of "contract cheating" at UA, however.
Last year, someone advertised on campus and Facebook an offer to write papers for students, according to materials presented by Bryson to faculty that identified the person as a student.
However, UA spokesman Mark Rushing said in an email it turned out the person "was not a student at the time." Rushing said that "was the only case that we are aware of" from 2017-18 to fit the "contract cheating" label.
Bryson referred questions from the Democrat-Gazette to Rushing.
Statistics for the time period of May 2017 to May 2018 show 455 cases of alleged academic dishonesty at UA. The university has a formal process for reporting and adjudicating such cases. For the same time period, 310 cases resulted in a finding that a student was responsible for some form of academic dishonesty.
The total was less than the previous year, when there were 658 total cases and 504 resulted in students being found responsible. In 2015-16, there were 540 total cases and 432 responsible outcomes, while the totals for 2014-15 were 458 total cases and 355 responsible outcomes.
"The spike in '15-16 and '16-17 could easily be explained by a couple of classes," with 192 cases in 2016-17 from two courses, Bryson told faculty.
UA enrolled 27,778 students this past fall, up less than 1 percent from fall 2017.
The university's faculty senate voted Wednesday to add "contract cheating" to the university's list of academic integrity violations.
UA uses a sanctioning rubric to determine punishments, and the new "contract cheating" violation results in 1.5 "sanction points," an amount resulting in a semester suspension -- even if it's a student's first offense -- along with a failing course grade.
Before the revision, the policy already prohibited "submitting as one's own any work prepared totally or in large measure by another." Students found responsible received one "sanction point" and a failing course grade. "Sanction points" add up over a student's academic career, with three points resulting in expulsion.
Bryson told faculty that adding a "contract cheating" violation would "be something that we tell our students is something that we're aware of and is important."
Rushing said there is a "significant amount of outreach" to first-year students, both in courses and through other presentations, to get across the message that hiring others to do coursework is cheating.
New cases will now follow the revised policy, Kathleen Lehman, chair of the UA faculty senate, said in an email, with in-progress cases to follow the previous version of the policy.
David Rettinger, president of the International Center for Academic Integrity, said work completed last year by Australian researchers suggests more students are having third-parties do their schoolwork. But he added that "it's hard to know for sure, because we haven't been tracking it."
By explicitly referring to "contract cheating" and discussing it with students, Rettinger said, "I think Arkansas is at the cutting edge" of U.S. universities.
Rettinger, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia who also directs the school's academic integrity program, said institutions "must teach our students why this is wrong."
"If they value their education, and we can explain to them why a particular assignment furthers their education, they're more likely to attempt the assignment honestly," Rettinger said.
Texas A&M University policy refers to a prohibition on "using the services of commercial term paper companies," in addition to "acquiring answers" from "any unauthorized source."
Timothy Powers, director of the Aggie Honor System Office, said the school's definition of cheating "is broad enough" to include "contract cheating."
Spokesman for other schools, including the University of Oklahoma and the University of Central Arkansas, also said their policies, while not using the term "contract cheating," prohibit the activity.
On the UA campus, Matthew Berry, a senior studying human development and family sciences, described cheating during quizzes.
"It's a huge auditorium. There's one professor. I hear people whispering answers," said Berry, 21.
He said he doesn't cheat and doesn't like it when others do. A semester-long penalty makes sense for those hiring others to do their work, he said.
Courtney Lashar, a 23-year-old senior studying graphic design, said a semester suspension for having someone else do course work "seems really harsh to me," though a failing course grade is appropriate.
"I've never done that," Lashar said.
But she said she knows someone at another university who has written papers for others.
"They'll pay her money to do it, and it's just because they're lazy and they don't want to do it. And she's poor and will take their money," Lashar said.
April 12, 2019 at 7:13 a.m.
"Semester timeout is a punishment". Timeout, really?
April 12, 2019 at 8:08 a.m.
Poor little snow flakes, losing one whole semester for cheating? This folks is why young people think socialism is awesome and they need "safe zones" when confronted with views that conflict with their insane view of the world. Time to seriously rethink federally insured student loans.
April 12, 2019 at 12:48 p.m.
And this is just now being outlawed?
April 12, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.
Really? How about a permanent F on their transcripts, and a one-way ticket to an ethics class.
April 12, 2019 at 1:41 p.m.
Boy all of the "elite" are making big announcements.


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Q: Search all fathers with conditions in Prolog I have a family tree program in Prolog that contain next facts:
male(alex).
male(david).
male(peter).
etc
...
female(sofia).
etc
....
parent(alex, peter).
parent(sofia, peter).
etc
....

and some rules such as:
father(X, Y) :- parent(X, Y), male(X).
mother(X, Y) :- parent(X, Y), female(X).
etc
....

I need to find all fathers who has two or more children.
I think that I need to go through all fathers im my program, put their children to list and count it's length, then if >=2 I add this father to another list or just print him and go further.

A: Although in the general case when you want to find all fathers with at least N children your approach would be required, a much simpler approach is available when you are dealing with only two children: find a child twice, and see if the two children are different.
In Prolog this rule would look like this:
father_of_two(X) :-
    father(X, A),
    father(X, B),
    A \= B.

All you need to do now is collecting all people who match father_of_two predicate into a list.

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CDC: U.S. Birth Rate Reaches Historic Low
Drop in teen birth rate, poor economy explain downward trend
TUESDAY, May 5, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. birth rate remained at an all-time low in 2013, due largely to a significant drop in teen births, new research shows. The report, first released in January, was published online May 4 in Pediatrics.
More than 3.9 million births occurred in the United States in 2013, down less than 1 percent from the year before, according to the annual report from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The general fertility rate also declined by about 1 percent in 2013 to 62.5 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, reaching another record low for the United States.
Birth rates for women in their 20s declined to record lows in 2013, but rose for women in their 30s and late 40s. The rate for women in their early 40s was unchanged. The teenage birth rate also reached a historic low in 2013 of 26.5 births per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19. Rates fell for teens in nearly all ethnic groups, with an overall 10 percent dip from 2012.
The twin birth rate reached a new high for the nation of 33.7 per 1,000 total births, up 2 percent from 2012. The triplet and multiple birth rate dropped another 4 percent in 2013. The report also noted that the preterm birth rate (before 37 weeks) declined in 2013 to 11.39 percent, continuing a steady decrease since 2006. The cesarean delivery rate, which had been stable at 32.8 percent for 2010 through 2012, declined to 32.7 percent of all U.S. births in 2013. The birth rate for unmarried women fell for the fifth consecutive year, to 44.3 per 1,000 unmarried women ages 15 to 44 in 2013. The rate was 1 percent lower in 2013 than the year before.
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Erster Theil der Karte von Asien welche die Turkei, Arabien, Persien Indien diesseits des Ganges und einen Theil der Tatarei enthalt.
This is a highly detailed 1786 map of Persia and Arabia by the Austrian cartographer F. A. Scharembl. Representing the upper sheet of a larger map covering India, Persia and Arabia, this map, centered on Persia, covers from the Sea of Azov and Istanbul (Constantinople) to the Gulf of Oman to eastern India. Schraembl derived this map from the influential French cartographer J. B. B. d'Anville's similar map of 1751, which here has been re-engraved, updated, and translated into German. If offers excellent coverage of the central Asian portions of the Silk Route naming the centers of Samarkand, Bukhara, Lop Nor, and others.
As this map was being prepared, the eastern portions including Turkey, Arabia, and most of the modern day Middle east, were under the waning hegemony of the Ottoman empire. In Arabia, the first 'Saudi State' had already been established in 1744 and, though owing nominal allegiance to Istanbul, dominated much of the central Arabian Peninsula. The presumably more valuable costal lands and river valleys of Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) remained under direct Ottoman suzerainty.
Persia at this time was itself experiencing the waning years of the short lived Zand Dynasty who ruled from the capital city of Isfahan – identified here. In a few short years, 1794, Aga Muhammad Khan would overthrow Loft Ali Khan, last Shah of the Zand Dynasty, and relocate the capital to the new city of Tehran. The subsequent era, the Qajar Dynasty, witnessed numerous military conflicts with the rising powers of Imperial Russia and the loss of much of Persia's territory.
Schraembl prepared this map in 1786 for inclusion in his monumental Allgemeiner grosser Atlas. Though many of the maps in this atlas are dated 1786 the atlas itself was not complete until 1800, when it was published in Vienna. A lavish production, the Allgemeiner grosser Atlas was expensive and proved difficult to sell, resulting in a low publican run and considerable scarcity relative to other European atlases of the period. This is the northern sheet of the larger map representing plate no 12. In Schraembl's Allgemeiner grosser Atlas .
Schraembl, K. A., Allgemeiner grosser Atlas, (Vienna), 1800.
Very good. Northern sheet of larger 2 sheet map. Some wear and toning along original centerfold. Original platemark visible. Minor spotting here and there. Left half of map exhibits creasing along the length of map. Blank on verso.


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Canceling Atrocity
Lisa Graas November 24, 2021 Uncategorized
By Judie Brown, American Life League
Last year, Professor Victor Davis Hanson wrote about the cancel culture:
Each generation deals with its own manifestations of age-old mob frenzies, bullying and public shaming. Salem, Mass., had its witch trials in the 1690s. The 1950s endured its McCarthyism. And we now are enduring our "cancel culture."
But 21st-century public shaming reaches not thousands but tens of millions. And it does so instantaneously on the internet and on social media—too often, all under the cloak of masked Twitter handles.
His words still ring true, particularly as they apply to atrocities such as abortion. We live in a nation that takes the murder of human beings prior to birth, not to mention other acts, as human rights.
Jeff Mirus concurs, saying: "The secularist projects his guilt onto the world at large and asks: 'To create the perfect world, what must be changed and whom must I cancel?' But the Christian, who is always profoundly ashamed, asks: 'To love God better, how must I change and whom must I help?' And when enough Christians ask enough hard questions of themselves, 'structural sin' recedes."
Mirus' wisdom underscores the challenge confronting us today. Not only is there evil in abundance, but there are not enough Christians asking the tough questions. If there were, we would not have to write about the horrors of man's quest for total control of his being, not to mention the bodies, minds, and consciences of others.
We see this in a recent legislative proposal put forth by Senator Cory Booker and his fellow Democrats. This proposal would trample on the consciences of pharmacists across our land, for it would establish a "duty" for "pharmacies to ensure provision of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception, medication related to contraception, and for other purposes." If this bill becomes law, pharmacists who oppose birth control chemicals being given to women because such drugs can kill babies prior to implantation or harm women in other ways would be out of a job. Why? Because there are no conscience protections in the proposal.
Further, the Biden-supported Equality Act would "prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes." This proposal enshrines transgenderism into law, meaning that "men can identify as women, even if they have male chromosomes and the body of a man."
And of course, among the most egregious of all atrocities is the abortion of an innocent child—an act that is the paramount offense against God. Not only has the law sanctioned this act, but it's created a war on the innocent that has resulted in the bloodiest carnage of all time.
Michael Pakaluk once called legal abortion the crux of all the evils afflicting our nation today. He further said: "With legal abortion came the 'treason of the intellectuals,' as for example in amicus curiae briefs by historians which shamelessly distorted the history of states' abortion legislation. . . . Robert Bork was the first victim of the 'cancel culture'; his nomination hearing was the first poisoning of civil discourse by vituperation, character attacks, and the careful collating of evidence, designed to misrepresent and malign him."
Why is this so? Because Bork held abortion in disdain, though nobody bothered to point out that he argued that even if Roe v. Wade were overturned, abortion would not be outlawed.
But the cancel culturists couldn't care less about facts. They prefer demonization and propaganda.
What we need to offset the onslaught of atrocities in this nation today is more heroic bishops like Tyler, Texas,' Bishop Strickland, who endorsed the first National Men's March to End Abortion, tweeting: "God bless these men for being Godly Men in the Light of Jesus. . . . The atrocity of abortion must end!"
The act of abortion is the crux of all evil in our world today, and as we fight against these manifestations of our world's embrace of evil, we cannot forget these profound words of St. Thomas Aquinas: "In this life no one can fulfill his longing, nor can any creature satisfy man's desire. Only God satisfies, he infinitely exceeds all other pleasures. That is why man can rest in nothing but God. As Augustine says: 'You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart can find no rest until it rests in you.'"
We know that nobody cancels God or His love for every one of His children. With confidence in His power, we will cancel the atrocities in our midst.
SOURCE American Life League
Abortion, American Life League, Catholicism, Christian, Judie Brown, Pro-Life, St. Thomas Aquinas
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Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in...
Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality
by Ravi Zacharias
Internationally known evangelist and author Ravi Zacharias has never been one to shy away from difficult subjects. In his latest book, WHY JESUS?, he tackles a subject that is difficult primarily in its scope: four decades of American religious life that he says has resulted in an "a la carte" spirituality that runs counter to genuine faith in Christ.
"'We need to be grateful for at least one thing that the New Spiritualists have done,' he writes. 'They have awakened us to a place of our need.' Through WHY JESUS?, Zacharias does an excellent job of supporting that assertion."
Authentic faith in Christ, Zacharias writes, can be based only on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus as revealed in the Bible, the only source of truth. But truth has fallen out of favor among the various forms of contemporary spirituality, with proponents of what he calls the New Spirituality encouraging people to discard faith, reason, relevance and truth and instead embrace relativism. In the process, Jesus has been demoted from His rightful place as the resurrected Son of God to the role of admired leader, wise teacher and influential prophet.
In making his point, Zacharias takes on some of the icons of Western culture, most notably bestselling author Deepak Chopra, who gets little to no sympathy from him. Chopra, a highly educated doctor, has used his extensive academic background and medical experience to lend credibility to --- and, as the author writes, make a considerable income from --- his theory of "quantum healing," a process in which the healing of the mind results in the healing of the body. Zacharias devotes a fair number of pages to refuting what Chopra teaches and even expresses how frustrating it is that he is not able to explore Chopra's philosophy in greater depth.
Zacharias also denounces others who have contributed to the popularity of "Weastern" (a mix of Western and Eastern) spirituality, including authors James Redfield, Eckhart Tolle and Rhonda Byrne, and, not surprisingly, mega-icon Oprah Winfrey. In most cases, the advocates of New Spirituality couch their message in such an unclear but lofty-sounding manner that Zacharias, who has studied their works for years, claims they end up saying nothing of substance. He writes that apparently "gurus can get away with saying nothing if they cloak it in ponderous terminology."
One of the most intriguing discussions in the book is Zacharias's examination of the ever-vanishing line between reality and fantasy, as portrayed in movies like Inception, in which dreams can be shared by people sleeping near each other, and in the lives of actors like Charlie Sheen, who defended his real-life behavior on the basis of his sitcom character's behavior. He also cites actor Heath Ledger's descent, right before his death, into an existence in which the line separating Ledger from his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight had all but been erased.
Zacharias also exposes the failed teachings of the New Age and human potential movements, the growing belief that we are all gods who need to unearth our own divinity, and the idea that Christianity is not unique among religions but is simply another path to God. But he also examines the failure of the church to respond to false teachings and to vigorously uphold the truth of Jesus' resurrection, as well as other beliefs that are unique to Christianity.
"We need to be grateful for at least one thing that the New Spiritualists have done," he writes. "They have awakened us to a place of our need." Through WHY JESUS?, Zacharias does an excellent job of supporting that assertion.
Reviewed by Marcia Ford on January 19, 2012
Genres: Christian, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Theology
Publisher: FaithWords
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Max Brooks 'The Zombie Survival Guide' Review
Posted on January 3, 2015 in Authors A-L // 0 Comments
Max Brooks is a name familiar to horror fans everywhere. Along with Robert Kirkman and Brian Keene, he is perhaps most responsible for the public's current obsession with all things zombie. World War Z, Brooks's take on the undead apocalypse, was an instant classic and inspired many copycats. Some now list the book among the top ten horror novels of all time.
However, World War Z, written in 2006, was not the author's first foray into zombie literature. In 2003, Max Brooks released The Zombie Survival Guide. Equal parts encyclopedia, do-it-yourself manual, and history book, The Zombie Survival Guide offered all the information known regarding the nature of the disease, past outbreaks, and how to survive.
While a work of speculative fiction, the narrative reads similar to a technical report. This has the potential to alienate some readers, but underlying this dry delivery is the fantastic insight and social commentary Brooks is famous for. He explains why the potential for a global zombie outbreak has never been higher. He examines the mountain bike versus SUV for transportation in the event of undead arising. Brooks even goes so far as to detail specific events in which the dead arose and the tactics which were- and were not successfully employed to stop the rising.
Believability is key in The Zombie Survival Guide. Brooks cites real world examples when arguing the efficiency of a commercially produced hunting rifle over the M-16. He knows his history. The zombie outbreaks are not fantastical accounts, but works of historical fiction using real events, places, and figures. For example, Brooks links the construction of Hadrian's Wall with a zombie outbreak in Caledonia (Scotland). Another, details the role the walking dead played in the Mao Mao Uprising in Kenya.
The attention to detail leads to a truly remarkable and engrossing read. While The Zombie Survival Guide was Brooks's first attempt within the zombie genre, he surprisingly stumbles very little. World War Z is not a direct sequel, but many of the concepts of his later masterpiece are at least partially realized in this earlier work. As a result, The Zombie Survival Guide is a must read for fans of zombie horror.
Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide


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Jonny Dunders elektriska cirkus är ett livealbum från 2011 av Stefan Sundström.

Albumet spelades in på Debaser Medis i Stockholm med 20 personer på scen.

Låtlista

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Livealbum 2011
Album av Stefan Sundström
Svenska livealbum


THE KILROYS is a gang of playwrights, directors and producers in LA and NYC who are done talking about gender parity and are taking action. We mobilize others in our field and leverage our own power to support one another.
Founded in 2013, The Kilroys are named after the iconic graffiti tag "Kilroy Was Here" that was first left by WWII soldiers in unexpected places, a playfully subversive way of making their presence known.
We are Jaclyn Backhaus, Hilary Bettis, Jennifer Chambers, Claudia de Vasco, Emma Goidel, Christina Ham, Jessica Hanna, Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Obehi Janice, Hansol Jung, Chelsea Marcantel, Caroline V. McGraw, Bianca Sams, and Gina Young.


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Sonic the Comic issues, 1994 issues
Sonic the Summer Special
Sonic the Summer Special (1994)
Fleetway Editions Ltd
Nigel Kitching (uncredited)[1]
Richard Elson
Dave Hunt (uncredited)[1]
Sonic the Summer Special was a one-shot, 68-page special edition of Sonic the Comic. It was first released on 18 June 1994, the same day as Sonic the Poster Mag #5 (It was therefore released shortly before Sonic the Comic #28).
Sonic the Summer Special features the first appearance of Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Comic, and the first Sonic the Comic story featuring Dr. Robotnik as the main character.
Sonic the Hedgehog - "Doctor Sun, Parts 1 and 2"
Script: Nigel Kitching (uncredited)[1]
Art: Ferran Rodriguez (uncredited)[1]
Johnny Lightfoot brings a blindfolded badger named Mister Stripes into Sonic's Secret Underground Base. Mister Stripes' son, Stripes, has gone missing and been taken in by a cult run by Dr. Sun in the Mystic Cave Zone. Even though Sonic doesn't believe this is his problem, he's bored and thus agrees to check it out.
Sonic and Tails use a Star Post to get to the Mystic Cave Zone, where they are immediately attacked by a Crawlton. Sonic defeats it, releasing the canary trapped within, but is then cornered by Flashers and forced over a cliff. Tails stops him from falling into some spikes, but then knocks his head on a rock and they both become trapped in a pit that starts to close in on them from either side. There is a handle above them, and when Tails pulls it the spikes retract.
Just then Doctor Sun himself appears with his followers. Stripes is there, but says he doesn't want to go back with Sonic - he wants to stay with Doctor Sun. Doctor Sun shows Sonic and Tails back to his headquarters, where he maintains a sanctuary for those who wish to hide from Robotnik. All day long the children read comics and play video games, and when they feel ready to join Doctor Sun's order they may pass through the Salvation Doorway into the inner sanctum. Sun offers to let Sonic join, but he refuses.
However, Sun accidentally says the word "Eggsactly", and Sonic realizes that Sun must really be Robotnik! Inside the inner sanctum is a machine to turn Emerald Hill Folk into Badniks. Robotnik is furious at having been exposed. People were actually volunteering to be Badniks (though they didn't realise until it was too late). Sonic steals Robotnik's Flying Egg and crashes it into the machine, destroying it and Doctor Sun's church.
All of the children are taken to safely, but Sonic expects Robotnik will have escaped. He's always got an escape route and, when Sonic's involved, he always needs one.
Porker Lewis
Johnny Lightfoot
Mister Stripes (Only appearance)
"Doctor Sun" (Only appearance)
Doctor Ivo Robotnik
Badniks:
Crawlton
Followers of Doctor Sun:
A penguin
A rabbit
A squirrel
A walrus
A chicken
A bear
Stripes last appeared in Sonic the Comic #4, "Day of the Badniks".
Doctor Robotnik: The Interview
Transcribed by: Nigel Kitching
Reporter Bob "Scribbly" Cosgrove sits down to interview Dr. Robotnik, the ruler of Mobius. Cosgrove's repetitive impetuous questions so infuriate the doctor that he is motivated to demonstrate one of his newest weapons.
This interview contains the first mention of Robotnik's second Death Egg satellite (the first having crashed in Sonic the Comic #6, "Attack on the Death Egg"). This satellite is seen crashing in the Knuckles story in this special, "Guardian of the Chaos Emeralds".
Doctor Robotnik in... "Test Drive"
Art: Mike White (uncredited)[1]
Grimer presents Dr. Robotnik with a new Flying Egg. Robotnik tests the machine's hammer on a statue of Sonic, but then decides he really needs a moving target... so he starts chasing Grimer instead! Having cornered Grimer, Robotnik decides to use the Mega Attack Lever (despite Grimer's earlier warnings not to), and the hammer strikes Robotnik so hard he smashes through the bottom of the machine!
Human scientist (Only appearance)
Tails - "Attack of the Badniks"
Tails is on his way back to Sonic's Secret Underground Base when he is attacked by several flying Badniks. He hastily avoids them by flying through some trees (leading some of the less maneouvreable to crash), then into a dark cave where he destroys the rest. However, one wait outside, and when Tails emerges the Badnik ambushes him. Tails is saved at the last moment by Sonic, who is surprised that Tails couldn't handle one Badnik. Tails tries to explain that there were many more, but Sonic just doesn't listen and speeds away.
Turtloids
Unidentified Badniks
The unidentified Badniks, one of which is the Badnik defeated by Sonic at the end of the story, previously appeared in Sonic the Comic #14, "Hero of the Year".
Knuckles - "Guardian of the Chaos Emeralds"
Art: Nigel Kitching (uncredited)[1]
On Mobius there is a legend of a Floating Island in the sky, but unlike other legends this one is true! The island's sole inhabitant is Knuckles the Echidna, who guards the island's secret Chaos Emeralds with his life. He has been alone all his life, waiting for his people to return.
One day, he sees something like a meteor fall out of the sky and crash somewhere in the Ice Cap Zone. He takes one of the island's Zoom Tubes to reach it quickly, and finds that it is not a meteor but a space satellite. Wary of an attack, Knuckles encounters a floating remote camera, which relays the voice of someone trapped inside the ship, pleading for assistance. Knuckles asks whether the individual is one of Knuckles' people, but no - it is a humble inventor. The main engines failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing on Mobius. Knuckles is forced to explain that the ship has not landed on Mobius, but rather on the Floating Island. And when Knuckles mentions that he guards the sacred Chaos Emeralds, the voice becomes very interested indeed.
Knuckles is led to the source of the voice, which is revealed to be Doctor Ivo Robotnik, trapped under some rubble. He warns Knuckles of a grave danger that threatens his island... a threat in the form of Sonic the Hedgehog!
Knuckles the Echidna (First appearance)
This story acts as a prequel to the Sonic the Comic adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. It leads directly into the events of Sonic the Comic #33, "Enter Knuckles, Part 1".
The events of this story take place after the events of Sonic the Comic #30, "Metamorphia", which features Robotnik before his crash on the Floating Island.
Although Robotnik's satellite is unnamed in this story, it is in fact his second Death Egg.
This story reveals that there is a second set of Chaos Emeralds on the Floating Island, in addition to those currently in the possession of Sonic the Hedgehog, which were last seen in Sonic the Comic #25, "The Sonic Terminator, Part 2". These other Chaos Emeralds will appear in Sonic the Comic #36, "Power of the Chaos Emeralds, Part 2".
Knuckles reveals that the Chaos Emeralds allow the Floating Island to fly.
Knuckles will continue to believe Robotnik's deception until Sonic the Comic #36, "Power of the Chaos Emeralds, Part 2".
The History of Sonic
Tails: The Profile
Sonic the Pin Up
Speedlines Overspill
Q-Zone Special
Knuckles: The Profile
Super-Sonic Tomy Competition
In 2 Action
Sonic Crazy!
Sonic's World - A list of Badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3
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Food & Drink » Restaurant Review
Rock and Rolls
Ameropanese food hits the Bottom.
by Kendra Bailey Morris
But there's hope on the horizon for those seeking casual Japanese food, and it's called Sumo San. Chef Victor Srikusalanukul, a transplant from California with more than 18 years experience in Asian fusion cooking, has opened his own version of a Japanese restaurant and sushi bar in Shockoe Bottom.
Srikusalanukul's focus is on using only the freshest ingredients. Menus are seasonal and reflect various cuisines, as can be seen in his salmon filet with pumpkin curry sauce and his baked polenta with spinach,served with shoestring fries.
Yet the heaviest focus is still Japanese. Edamame, chicken teriyaki and sushi abound and are served alongside a specialty martini list, plenty of '80s music and an upbeat, kitschy sensibility.
Don't be surprised if Chef Victor is the first to greet you as you walk past the giant blowup sumo wrestler by the front door. This sets a relaxed tone for the rest of the evening. Service is friendly and efficient, and prices are reasonable, with appetizers for $1.95 to $9.95 and dinners from $8.95 to $12.95 for the Niku teriyaki steak. Sushi prices are on-target, with rolls ranging from $3.95 for an avocado roll to $14.95 for the sumo- attack combo (one California roll, six pieces of sushi and four pieces of sashimi).
You must try the salmon skin roll. It's filled with chunks of crispy salmon skin, offering the perfect combination of crunchy texture and sweet, chewy rice. The caterpillar roll is a whimsical take on the traditional eel roll wrapped in avocado, and it comes complete with shredded cucumber "whiskers" and octopus suction-cup "eyes." Soft-shell crabs make frequent appearances on the menu, but are best in the spider roll — tempura crab encased in seasoned rice, smelt roe and cucumber.
The rock and roll shrimp is Mexican/Japanese fusion. Described on the menu as sautéed shrimp and guacamole served with fried wonton chips, somewhere along the way it evolved into tempura jumbo shrimp resting in a martini glass filled with guacamole and served with fried flour tortilla chips. The guacamole tasted a little too mayonnaisey, but overall, it seemed better than the description on the menu.
The lettuce wrapped was a generous portion of fried shrimp, kanikama (imitation crab) and a generous amount of rice wrapped in a whole lettuce leaf. It was tasty, but could have used a dipping sauce. Salmon skin makes another sound appearance in the sake no kawa, salmon-skin salad. Tossed with a wasabi-spiked ponzu sauce, it was an immaculate blend of mixed greens, chunks of salmon skin and bonito flakes (dried shavings from the bonito fish).
This is easy Japanese food. Fresh, colorful, reasonably priced and made for everyone. "Have fun. Eat Sushi" is Chef Victor's motto, and this sushi bar is without pretense. The dining room has yet to find its own personality — the walls are a bit bare, making the room appear starchy instead of kitschy and fun like the menu. Maybe a few more blowup sumos would do the trick. S
Sumo San Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar
Open daily for lunch 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and dinner 5 - 10 p.m.
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INTERVIEW WITH THE STARS OF THIS PRODUCTION!!!
TIM BURTON: It was nice working with Johnny Depp for the 12th time in my career. What was great about this film, was that Johnny already had his pirate persona. All we needed to do was really bring out the paleness of his skin and the brightness of his eyes using more mascara and eyeliner than what would have been necessary in shooting the regular Pirates series.
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah, you know, playing Jack once again, you know, was really an honor, you know, now that I'm working with Tim again, you know, I really feel like I'm at home.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER: Tim is really just a genius. I love him to death.
DANNY ELFMAN: Well working with Tim again was a real pleasure. I mean I knew I had to do something big for this. Tim came up to me about 7 years ago and he said: "hey, I need you to make me this soundtrack." You know with his genius, it's just so overwhelming. I looked at the title of the film and that was it, i was sold. I worked on this for years on and off, I didnt care if the movie was going to be made or not - I just HAD to make this for Tim.
It has never been so lovely before.
Tim hires only the most professional.
I found this movie to be extremely enjoyable.
The artistry found in this piece is truly overwhelming. Burton really captures the true face of humanity and the despair of the Pirate. I can't wait for the dvd release, so I may hear the directors commentary. Bravo!
The DVD is LOADED with fun facts, behind the scenes views on the MS Paint animators hard at work, and EXCLUSIVE interviews with TONS of people. Check out the NG store soon.
I was told they'd be right next to the Foamy DVDs!!!
A boy travels into THE TIME.
He won't have any of it.
Part 2 in the Omegis Series.


Oh, how we locals live for days like today. View from Golden Gardens.
My daughter used to have a 180 degree view of the sound from Beech Street in West Seattle. The Olympics are stunning especially when they are lit up in the sunshine. You've managed to capture them exquisitely.
Thanks Jane! Your daughter was really lucky. I've been looking at these mountains since I was small and used to look for them on the way to school.
The views of Mt. Baker have been fantastic here from Victoria on the recent clear days. You could see the whole range beside Mt. Baker in it's pure white crystalline splendour. I love it.


Most Gauteng communities cannot access banking services offered by commercial banks, and access to credit facilities is notoriously expensive. This form of financial exclusion also affects those in the informal sector as well as small traders, the majority of whom operate in townships.
Research conducted by Finscope in 2015 indicated that 15% of adults around Gauteng did not have bank accounts – the main reason being the hidden costs private banks charge for such services.
Gauteng premier David Makhura identified co-operative financial institutions (CFIs) as one of the vehicles the province needs to address financial exclusion in all its manifestations. The umbrella term refers to member-based, deposit-taking financial co-operatives; these institutions are owned and controlled by the members who share a common bond.
The CFI model is building on the tradition of self-financing, self-helping and self-sustaining organisations that manifest through community-initiated schemes such as burial societies and stokvels, which reduces dependency on state funding for enterprise development. In other countries, CFIs are also known as credit unions, savings and credit co-operatives (Saccos) or financial service co-operatives (FSCs).
The CFI model has done well around the world. Statistics from the World Council of Credit Unions reveal that the movement is growing at a faster rate: total assets have shot up from $1.2-trillion to $1.8-trillion between 2007 and 2015, while membership surged from 177m to 223m.
This is partly attributed to the fact that people realised during the global financial crisis that CFIs performed better than the private banks. This has also changed the perspective of policy-makers around the world. SA has not bucked the global trend, either, as the National Treasury has an agency dedicated to supporting and developing CFIs, known as the Cooperative Banks Development Agency (CBDA).
The CBDA aims to grow the sector to at least 150,000 members and increase its savings base to R500m by 2020. Currently, the sector has 30,000 members who command R236m in savings. According to CBDA projections, about 100,000 potential members should have joined the sector between 2016 and 2018. If the present performance of the sector is anything to go by, Gauteng will clearly contribute significantly to the national targets. Existing and future CFIs hold this potential.
The Gauteng provincial government, through its Township Economic Revitalisation strategy, is supporting CFIs as a vehicle that can play a significant role in empowering its members and building social capital for them. It can help remove the hurdles that township-based small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) and co-operatives face when they seek access to finance. The enterprises in the townships have the potential to reduce unemployment and boost economic growth, bringing the country closer to realising the goals set out in the National Development Plan.
Both communities and enterprises stand to gain a lot if they can join forces and form CFIs.
CFIs offer the same financial services provided by mainstream banks while providing a safe, convenient environment for members to deposit or save money and obtain loans and other financial services at a low cost. It applies the philosophy of high interest rates on savings and low interest rates on loans. Interest rate on loans set by the organisation must be sufficient to cover operation costs, pay interests on savings and improve services.
A CFI is a voluntary and democratic institution, meaning that members are its main driver. The Gauteng department of economic development will continue to lend a helping hand to ensure that collective community initiatives are successful.
The Gauteng government is supporting CFIs as potential avenues for financial inclusion. Moreover, to promote and ensure that community members know about the CFI sector, it will embark on a promotional and marketing campaign to position registered and non-registered CFIs (including organised groups of Gauteng such as stokvels and burial societies, religious groups, social groups among others) for inclusive growth and to raise awareness of the benefits.
The Gauteng department of economic development held a successful CFI roundtable discussion on February 27 and 29 2019 focused on the changing regulatory environment in the country emanating from the "Twin Peaks" regulations. These basically established two regulatory authorities, and the first peak is known globally as the "systems stability regulator'' – mainly focusing on prudential regulations.
The second peak focuses on market conduct and is meant to protect consumers' financial products. It usually takes a bit of time for a regulation of this nature to permeate and influence the system but "Twin Peaks" will certainly go a long way towards restoring consumer confidence in the financial sector, especially banking following the VBS saga.
For more information on the Gauteng Cooperative Banks Growth and Development Programme, visit www.gauteng.gov.za and click the "Economic Development" tab.
Follow GDED on Twitter and Facebook or call +27 11 355 8055.
Moyasi Mvelase is chief director: inclusive economy at Gauteng Department of Economic Development.
This article was paid for by the Gauteng department of economic development.


The decline in oil prices has investors betting on a relatively safer haven in US shale gas stocks, a few of which sat atop the S&P 500 gainers last week.
Gas drillers are ahead of oil producers in slimming down after two years of price declines.
Stocks mentioned: Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN), Consol Energy Inc.,(NYSE:CNX), Range Resources Corp. (NYSE:RRC), Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG).
The price of oil posted a nice rebound last week, but it was barely a dent in what has been a seven-month selloff in crude.
Light crude closed Friday back above $32 a barrel. Seven months ago, oil was trading at about $60 a barrel. In the interim, the S&P 500 has fallen 9.8%, with the stocks of domestic oil industry-related companies particularly falling on hard times.
Yet some investors have recently been betting that a relatively safer haven exists with US natural gas drillers, making that sector a lone bright spot amid much of the entire energy industry.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) shares also gained.
Other gas drilling investment alternatives also have outperformed recently. The Shale Gas motif has gained 0.6% in the past month. In that same time, the S&P 500 has lost 6.5%.
The sector's move higher has offered a reprieve to a group of companies that has been hammered for some time by low natural gas prices. Southwestern said last week that it's slashing 45% of its workforce as new drilling slows.
The Shale Gas motif has fallen 49.6% in the past 12 months. The S&P 500 is down 5.6% in that time frame.
Natural gas-heavy drillers are already lean after two straight years of price declines, giving them a leg up on oil-focused producers that are only now taking measures to stem a supply glut, Chandra said.
That may sow the seeds of a recovery to begin in the second half of the year as supply and demand start to balance, Barclays analyst Nicholas Potter wrote in a report cited by Bloomberg.
In the minds of some analysts, gas-heavy companies should be immune to falling oil prices. As Fadel Gheit, managing director at Oppenheimer & Co, bluntly told Bloomberg, "Gas has absolutely nothing to do with oil," he said.
The major driving factor for shale gas market is rapidly increasing demand across the world, according to Zion. In an attempt to reduce its dependence on crude oil, the US is highly focused on shale gas. Moreover, government funding coupled with large investment by many private players is expected to fuel the growth of this industry, according to the report.
The report pointed out that the high cost of production – due to methods such as fracking — compared to other conventional sources of energy is expected to limit the growth of this industry. But ongoing research and the introduction of new technologies are expected to eventually bring down cost of production.
A large number of proven reserves for shale gas in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific is expected to provide future growth opportunity to industry participants. Currently, North America dominates the market for production and consumption of shale gas – in 2014, it accounted for more than a 75% share.
The combination of future demand with previous cost-cutting nimbleness could continue to foster the attraction of shale gas stocks, especially if oil prices remain subdued for the longer term.
Mario Parker, "Shale Gas Drillers as Refuge for Investors in Rout," Bloomberg,com, Jan. 20, 2016, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-20/southwestern-leads-s-p-gains-as-shale-gas-becomes-refuge-in-rout, (accessed Jan. 23, 2016).
Press release, "Global Shale Gas Market Set for Explosive Growth, To Reach Around USD 105.0 Billion by 2020, Growing at 9% CAGR," Jan. 21, 2016, http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/01/21/803564/0/en/Global-Shale-Gas-Market-Set-for-Explosive-Growth-To-Reach-Around-USD-105-0-Billion-by-2020-Growing-at-9-CAGR-Market-Research-Store.html, (accessed Jan. 23, 2016.


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Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology studied Peekaboo Barn and published a paper praising the app for its successful approach to integrating play and learning.
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World Dance Badge
World Dance
(Discover Art or Discover the World)
Otter: Do 4 requirements including the 2 starred
_____ 1.* Learn a dance from another country or culture. A few examples include:
A maypole dance from England
The Hula from Hawaii & the Polynesian Islands
The Cha Cha, Rumba, Tango, or Merengue from Latin America
A Bollywood dance from India
A Native American Powwow dance
The Flamenco from Spain
The Hora from Israel
The Kazatzka from Russia
The Viennese Waltz from Austria
_____ 2.* Watch performances of at least 3 different dance types you have never seen before.
_____ 3. Celebrate World Dance Day on April 21 by watching a dance performance, hosting a dance
party, or learning a new dance. Find your own creative ways to celebrate this day.
_____ 4. Without music, there is no rhythm to dance to. Listen to music from around the world and
move your body to the rhythm. How does each piece of music make you feel? How does your body want
to move?
_____ 5. Find pictures of different dance costumes from around the world and make a collage.
_____ 6. Create a piece of artwork inspired by a dance from another country. It can include dancers,
musical instruments, or even just patterns inspired by floor patterns or "figures" such as in ballroom
_____ 7. Participate in a performance that features a dance from another country.
Dolphin: Do 5 requirements including the 2 starred
_____ 1.* Do Otter requirements 1 & 2, but learn 2 dance types and watch performances of 5 different
dances.
_____ 2.* Dance has always been more than just performance art, it has been an integral part of each
country's culture. Make a list of different events or festivals that incorporates dance. For example
weddings, story telling, or prayer.
_____ 7. Host a dance party where you play music from other countries. If you learned your dances well
enough from requirement #1, try teaching them to your guests.
_____ 8. Create a timeline of dances from around the world. What is the most ancient dance you can
find? What about the most recent?
_____ 9. . Learn about a famous choreographer. What type of dances do/did they design? What dance
or performance made them famous?
_____ 10. Participate in a performance that features a dance from another country.
Butterfly: Do 6 requirements including the 2 starred
_____ 1.* Do Dolphin requirements 1 &2 except learn 3 different dances.
_____ 2.* Create a timeline of dances from around the world. What is the most ancient dance you can
_____ 8. Learn about a famous choreographer. What type of dances do/did they design? What dance or
performance made them famous?
_____ 9. Research careers that require dance. These may include dancers, choreographers, artistic
director, or dance notator.
_____ 11. Choreograph your own dance to a piece of instrumental music.
Eagle: Do 7 requirements including the 2 starred
_____ 1.* Do Butterfly requirements 1 &2 except learn 4 different dances.
_____ 2.* Research the history of dance and write an essay, create a booklet, or create some type of
display to share with others what you have learned.


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