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The Place Of Women In India
We came to treat such instance of harassment and abuse as the rites of passage of growing up female in India...
Barkha Dutt	18 January 2016
Jitender Gupta
Barkha Dutt	2016-01-18T00:00:00+05:30 The Place Of Women In India
This Unquiet Land: Stories From India's Fault Lines
By Barkha Dutt
Aleph | Pages: 336 | Rs. 599
On my eighteenth birthday, my father asked me to choose any two books I wanted as a gift. I picked Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto and a collection of essays by Germaine Greer entitled The Madwoman's Underclothes. At the time, my often impetuous formulations on the gender debate had little nuance, and my understanding of poverty, privilege, caste and other elements of my country was limited; consequently my feminism was simplistic, and without context.
Regardless, I was proud of my feminist sensibility. As I have said, it was largely shaped by a real person—my gutsy, unconventional mother—but also by the much more abstract world of books by writers like Greer, Gloria Steinem, Virginia Woolf and, much later, Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi. That I did not read the great Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai's iconoclastic Terhi Lakeer (The Crooked Line) or Sarojini Naidu's poems until long afterwards was evidence of just how culturally unidimensional I was during my student days.
Back then—on the cusp of the nineties—we debated gender with a certitude that left no room for the slightest self-doubt. Why was the woman expected to take her husband's name after marriage? Did the institution of marriage even make sense? Why did we bring up our daughters on a Barbie diet and our sons on a staple of mindlessly violent video games? Was waxing our legs and painting our toenails an example of pandering to the male gaze?
This is not to say that these do not remain valid questions in the eternal, and I would argue, universal, debate around what makes us women who we are. I have never understood the scorn with which these issues were, and are, sometimes dismissed as 'westernized'.
Today, more than two decades later, I still get worked up over these intractable questions. But, in the years of our youthful feminism, we certainly didn't understand just how different things were outside our circle of comfort for millions of Indian women who were battling brutality of a kind that made some of our concerns seem luxuriously self-indulgent.
As young student activists and feminists, our battles were sincere. We vowed never to accept a 'Ladies' seat in the overcrowded university bus. We petitioned the well-heeled St Stephen's establishment to open its doors to women in the BA Pass programme—no one had thought of questioning why they weren't allowed, to begin with. We fought with our male friends to get St Stephen's to open its Residence (hostel accommodation) to female students. Only students-in-residence could run for college president; with no such option for women, the top union post was closed to them. The boys, only half jokingly, argued that women-in-residence would take away their freedom to walk about the corridors half-naked. Dr John Hala, a former principal, had quipped, without the slightest trace of embarrassment, that he'd have to open a maternity ward on campus if he accepted the demand for half the residence blocks to be reserved for women. He'd shown the same brazen chauvinism during one of the institution's most infamous controversies in 1985 when three male students had smuggled skirts, shorts and panties out of the ladies' common room and strung them across the cross in the main balcony of the college.
There was a seeming paradox about this. On the one hand, our beloved college was steeped in the best liberal traditions—it encouraged dissent, argument and rebellion. At the same time, it would keep throwing up instances of sexism within its precincts, some subterranean, some overt. Authors and bureaucrats, ministers and artists—some of India's biggest names had graduated from St Stephen's. Yet, all these years, the tradition of the 'Chick Chart'—a public roster listing the 'sexiest' women in college—had survived in the name of ritual and custom. Were we going to be 'cool' and laugh along, replace it with a list of our own that similarly objectified the men, or protest its very existence?
We remained preoccupied with these battles—big and small. In our little world, we saw ourselves as crusaders for equality, unmindful of an entire universe of gross prejudices that lay outside the boundaries of our socio-economic cocoon. It would be many years before we understood how class and culture complicated the gender discourse.
There was only one issue that did cross the economic and social barrier—sexual violence and abuse. Even though every single girl I knew had her own sordid experience to share, oddly, it was not at the forefront of our heated college conversations. For all our ostensible empowerment, like so many Indian women, we had probably come to accept, albeit subconsciously, that some form of sexual violation was an inevitable consequence of our coming of age. So, day after day, crushed into a corner of a packed public bus, we would alternate between anger and resignation when leery men pawed our breasts or pinched our bottoms.
Some days, we would slap our assaulters, on other days we would push them away or shrug them off. In both situations a voice inside us would suggest that we were lucky—this was not rape or abuse, it was what was (and continues to be) hideously described as 'eve-teasing'. This was the level to which we had internalized society's denial of sexual dignity to us. We mentally calculated how bad the abuse could have been and were 'relieved' when it didn't plummet to the absolute depths of depravity.
In the middle-class neighbourhood of South Delhi where I lived, boys who were not yet eighteen would stalk me on their two wheelers, swerving towards me as they whizzed past, an arm outstretched to grab my breasts or pull my hair, laughing and whistling with glee at my visible rage. When I wasn't feeling combative, I learnt, like many women of my generation, to walk alongside the rows of residential houses instead of on the road, so that I could quickly slip inside an open gate and pretend it was my own home if I needed to duck an especially unpleasant set of goons. Yet, there was no conscious sense of victimhood to our lives. Instead, I suspect, in a peculiar Indian version of boot camp we saw ourselves as hardy women made stronger by the wars we fought against the frequent infiltrations into our private spaces. We came to treat such instances of harassment and abuse as the rites of passage of growing up female in India.
In 1990, around the time I was proudly proclaiming my feminism in college, the Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen wrote a discomfiting essay in the New York Review of Books that revealed that 100 million women were 'missing' from Asia and parts of Africa, most of them in China and India. A few years later, in 1995, a UNICEF report revealed that there were between 40 and 50 million girls and women 'missing' from India's population. Missing was a polite euphemism for gender-driven genocide.
In 2006, the UN published another staggering statistic: every day 7,000 baby girls were aborted or killed right after being born. In other words, a girl was aborted or murdered every twelve seconds in India. If she wasn't murdered in the womb, sand or tobacco juice was forced down her nostrils when she opened her mouth to cry so that she would choke and die. Renuka Chowdhury, the then Minister for Women and Child Development in the UPA government at the centre, admitted that in the previous two decades alone, 10 million girl children in India had been killed by their parents. She called it a 'national crisis'.
But, on the sun-soaked lawns of St Stephen's College, in our well-intentioned if elitist bubble none of this was what we were anxious or outraged about. Our privileged existence channelled our aggressive fight for identity and equality in other directions. Indeed, most of us thought of ourselves as glass-ceiling busters, supremely independent and free of the shackles that women in other countries were ensnared by. I remember the sense of superiority I felt years later when I found a copy of the The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider tucked away in the underwear drawer of my American roommate at Columbia University. It was self-help pap that ostensibly helped you land Mr Right. The book urged women to be 'easy to be with, but hard to get'. I would watch in astonishment as my super-bright roommate, a post-doctoral history candidate, fought back her urge to phone the attractive man she'd just been out on a date with, because The Rules forbade the woman from making the first move. She had all the usual questions about arranged marriages in India and whether my father was going to bundle me off with some man I'd never met. I didn't fit a single one of her stereotypes about India, I thought rather smugly to myself. Instead, I sneered at the institutionalized dating rituals that trapped otherwise accomplished women, even in New York, the world's grittiest city. I would proudly list the many women who had become prime ministers and presidents in South Asia, astonished that Americans had been unable to crack the political glass ceiling in their country.
At Columbia—while filming a documentary about the premium placed on motherhood and the lengths couples were ready to go to for a biological child—I remember standing on the editing room's radiator in frustrated anger when a classmate from the Midwest demanded that the clips of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem leading an abortion-rights rally be deleted from the finished version of our student project. An otherwise laid-back and quiet sort of guy, he was an adamant pro-lifer who did not believe in a woman's fundamental right to abortion.
Once again, I retaliated with the Indian example of how we had closed the debate on abortion and women's reproductive rights long ago, while the so-called developed world still grappled with these issues. My self-righteous outbursts made no space for gender-driven illegal abortions—mass murders really—that were my country's abiding shame; quite truthfully, in the sliver of India that had been my little universe, I did not even stop to think about them. In effect, I had confused the many paradoxes of India for progressiveness. It would be several years before I would confront the fact that, for a woman, India was one of the most hostile and unequal countries in the world.
This wasn't to say that the generalizations made about India and the place of women, especially in the West, weren't infuriatingly distorted or, worse still, lacking in any self-awareness. I sometimes wrestled with competing impulses—rage at the relentless horrors women battled every day and simultaneous impatience at the Western world's many caricatural notions about us. But this was not before I had undertaken my own journey of 'unlearning' and introspection.
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Last Love
November 1, 2013 (limited)
RLJ Entertainment, Image Entertainment
Status: Awaiting Release
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Gillian Anderson, Michael Caine, Clemence Poesy, Justin Kirk, Jane Alexander, Richard Hope
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
Screenwriter: Sandra Nettelbeck
Script: Novel Adaptation
A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
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Man pleads guilty to indecency charges
PUBLISHED: 10:42 23 November 2006 | UPDATED: 11:14 06 May 2010
Patrick Ryan
THIS is the face of a man who pleaded guilty on Monday to seven charges of indecently assaulting young girls. The offences were committed between 1981 and 1985. Patrick Ryan, from Letchworth GC, appeared at Luton Crown Court. The case was adjourned to Jan
THIS is the face of a man who pleaded guilty on Monday to seven charges of indecently assaulting young girls.
The offences were committed between 1981 and 1985.
Patrick Ryan, from Letchworth GC, appeared at Luton Crown Court.
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Theophanis Lamboukas (Greek: Θεοφάνης Λαμπουκάς, 26 January 1936 – 28 August 1970), professionally known as Théo Sarapo, was a French singer and actor, and the second husband of the French singer Édith Piaf. Formerly a hairdresser, he was 26 years old when he married the 46-year-old Piaf. He was introduced to her by Claude Figus, Piaf's secretary.

Biography
Sarapo was born in Paris to Greek parents. He scored a hit with Piaf in 1962 with the song "À quoi ça sert l'amour?" (What Good Is Love?) and solo hits with "La maison qui ne chante plus" (The House Which No Longer Sings), and "Ce jour viendra" (That Day Will Come); its English-language version, "Our Day Will Come", was covered by Ruby & the Romantics and others.

When he began singing with Piaf Sarapo's voice was rather nasal, but over the next few years his tone mellowed. His other hits included "La Ronde" (The Round) and "Nous n'étions pas pareils" (We Weren't Alike).

His best known film as an actor was Judex, directed by Georges Franju, which was being filmed at the time of Piaf's death.

After Piaf's death, French law transferred her seven million francs worth of debts to Sarapo, leading to his eviction on Christmas Day 1963 from the apartment they shared on Boulevard Lannes.

Sarapo, who was 34 at the time, died at the side of the road in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, the result of an automobile accident on 28 August 1970 in the commune of Panazol. He is buried with Piaf and her daughter Marcelle (by lover Louis Dupont) in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The motto on their tomb translates as "Love Conquers All". Édith's father, Louis Alphonse Gassion, is also buried in the tomb (his name is engraved on the right side of the tombstone along with Édith's and Théo's). Daughter Marcelle's name is engraved on the opposite side. Etched at the foot of the tomb are the words "Famille (Family) Gassion-Piaf."

Édith Piaf
Sarapo was the last in a long line of Piaf discoveries (including Yves Montand, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Georges Moustaki, Charles Aznavour, etc.). Sarapo often recorded and performed in concert with Piaf during their marriage.

Stage name
His stage name "Sarapo", as pronounced in French, is Greek for "I love you" (Σ'αγαπώ, s'agapo) and was chosen by Piaf herself.

External links

 A biography by Theo's younger sister, Christie Laume

1936 births
1970 deaths
Road incident deaths in France
Modern Greek-language singers
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French people of Greek descent
20th-century French male singers

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On the 4 November 2018, Unley Old Scholars FC held its' 20th Annual General Meeting with our Major Sponsor, Torrens Arms Hotel.
This is the highest (and maximum under the Clubs' constitution) Committee membership in Club history. I would like to thank the above members for joining the Committee and volunteering their time and service. It's great to see such a diverse range of members committed to ensure the Club continues to grow and succeed. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Matt Mays and Ryan Ingram for their time and service on the Committee over the years.
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Starman has put a lot of miles on his Tesla Roadster in the last nine months.
The red electric car and its spacesuit-clad mannequin driver, which launched on the maiden mission of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in February, have made it beyond the orbit of Mars, company representatives said Friday night (Nov. 2).
The second sentence of that tweet, of course, is a nod to the late, great writer Douglas Adams. "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the second novel in Adams' five-part "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
Like many of us, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is a big "Hitchhiker's Guide" fan, as Starman's Roadster shows. The car's entertainment display was programmed to read "Don't Panic!" — the phrase that adorns the cover of the eponymous electronic guidebook in Adams' beloved series.
"Starman" is a cultural reference as well; it's the title of a1972 song by David Bowie. And Musk said before launch that the Roadster would play Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity" at full blast during its deep-space trek (though Starman cannot hear the famous tune in the airless void). Ultimately, Musk opted for Bowie's "Life on Mars" as parting music for Starman and the Tesla.
Starman and his ride — which once belonged to Musk — won't stay beyond Mars forever. As you can see in the diagram, the pair will loop back on their heliocentric orbit, eventually coming about as close to the sun as Earth does.
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June 19, 2019 - Dallas, TX
Reported by Linda Stallard Johnson (rightondeadline@gmail.com), a freelance writer and editor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She is a veteran of The Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle, and currently edits AIA Dallas' quarterly magazine.
The Physician Shortage and How an Optimal Workspace Is Key to Physician Retention
Kurt Mosley, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Merritt Hawkins, nation's leading physician search and consulting firm
The physician shortage will get worse before it gets better. While the U.S. population both grows and ages, there are too few doctors to meet the need. In about 10 years, the entire country will be as old, on average, as Florida is today. However, "we didn't know we'd be living longer." As a result, forecasts have fallen far short on the demand for doctors.
Doctors also are aging and retiring, and they're being replaced too slowly. "We have a 30% increase in medical students in America. We have only a 6% or 7% increase in residencies. You have to have a residency before you become a physician." International physicians and creative solutions such as Missouri's assistant physicians, who practice without a residency, are helping ease the bottleneck.
Medical facilities must adapt to demand. Patients 65 and up account for 14% of the population, but 34% of inpatient procedures and 37% of diagnostic tests. Think about bariatrics, Botox and Boomers, Mosley advised, as weight loss and plastic surgery are big with this age group.
Millennials are driving new trends. Many don't have a primary care physician, helping give rise to urgent care centers and drugstore clinics. But do they mean the end of the primary care office?
Health systems must rethink how to attract and retain doctors. Doctors want efficiencies (scribes and glitch-free electronic health records), the openness to speak up about concerns, financial opportunity and an appealing space laid out well for patients and near specialists and labs.
Facilities have a huge impact on physician retention. A doctor is an economic engine generating over $2 million in revenue a year, especially important for small towns. Remember that you oversee the facilities where that physician spends the day. You might lure a doctor with six weeks off to go surfing, but you might lose one by not assigning parking near the hospital operating room.
Hold On! Telehealth is Shaking Up Healthcare
Nick Reddy, chief digital officer and senior vice president of information services, Baylor Scott & White Health
The spread of technology is occurring "faster than anything in mankind, more deeply and quickly" than the agricultural and industrial revolutions. "The world has changed, the economy has changed." In particular, watch where venture capitalists put their money in healthcare.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next big thing. "In 1996, Bill Gates said the most underhyped thing that he'd ever seen was the Internet. Last year, Bill Gates said the most underhyped thing in the world is artificial intelligence."
AI applications are developing rapidly. Reddy sees this in "digital pets" that combat loneliness in the elderly; faster, cheaper, more accurate X-ray readings than possible from radiologists; and an entrepreneur who is building a "doc-in-your-pocket" that shows how sick a person is. "He's done scans through the phone," Reddy said.
The future is now in business technology and strategies. "Are you making the line go faster at Blockbuster or are you building Netflix?" It'd better be Netflix, and it better put the customers – patients and doctors – first. And pricing transparency will be key.
Healthcare systems are at risk for disruption. Despite 7 million users of its platform and "more digital visits than we have physical visits," Baylor is working on "virtualizing" 40% of its business in the next five years. "Either we virtualize it or some kid out in California wearing skinny jeans and a white T-shirt will."
Healthcare Security: Guns, Guards, Gates & Technology
(Left) Steve Nibbelink, Healthcare Segment Director, Vector Security Networks; IAHSS Foundation Board of Directors and Past President
(Right) Robert Johnson Sr., Lieutenant, Dallas County Hospital District Police Department, Parkland Health & Hospital System
Get your security personnel involved in designs early. Security professionals can quickly spot problems, such as an underground garage for delivery trucks that could also attract a bomber. In addition to preventing costly retrofits that detract from the architectural feel, they can suggest solutions as simple as planting hedges to steer pedestrians along.
Sometimes security and life safety codes are at odds. "As a police officer, I love to be able to shut down doors and lock and contain people in an area, but people have a right to egress, a right to get out in case of fire or emergencies," Johnson said.
Create a technology master plan. "Do we have an understanding of the technology we want, how are we going to use that technology, who can view that technology, all these things that go back to the policy and procedure?" Nibbelink asked. "Does it protect the pharmacy and the narcotics, does it help protect the ICU or the pediatrics?" A technology master plan should involve "a lot of people in your institution, not just security."
Managing aggression starts at the curb. Architects need to keep designs clear of obstacles that frustrate the person in pain or the frantic relative trying to enter the facility, Johnson said. That begins with the right amount of parking, climate-controlled elevators in the garages and easy wayfinding.
Get "down and dirty" talking about active shooters with staff. Go over the physiological reactions and the "stupid things" people do in such situations. In hospitals, where many rooms don't lock or gun smoke might disarm magnetic locks, employees should have "go bags" with chains, locks and anything else that might thwart a shooter. Drill on "barricade, barricade, barricade," Johnson said.
Internet of Things: Maximize the Benefits While Minimizing Risks to Patients and Healthcare Facilities
Josh Carlson, Schneider Electric cybersecurity services business leader for North America
The Internet of Things (IoT) is exploding in buildings. Thermostats, lights, HVAC system, not to mention medical devices, are all connected to your wireless carrier, just like your phone and your laptop. In turn, they are connected to a hardwired system. And all face cybersecurity risks.
Healthcare is seeing a huge adoption of IoT. Insulin pumps, pacemakers, MRI machines, bone density machines as well as the conditions in a patient's room are churning out information. "But we're only seeing about 10% of the actual data being used today." This data is paving the way toward machine learning and artificial intelligence, which won't require a human to adjust lights, thermostats and other settings.
By next year, up to 20% of your information security budget will go to securing your facility's IoT connections. The threats are external – ransomware, malware, ID theft — but also internal, from disgruntled employees or the worker who plugs an infected USB stick of family photos into a corporate laptop. A total shutdown can cost a 200-bed hospital $1 million every eight hours.
Network segmentation is key. Put different types of users on different networks to reduce risks to your system — guests on one network, remote employees on another and a secure remote access point for outside vendors. Don't have one username and password for 30 people. Know who logs in, the amount of time spent in the session, and what that person is doing.
In RFPs, be specific on cybersecurity. Include how you want the system and the connections managed. "Work with product manufacturers that are building cybersecurity features and capabilities into their products … because somebody - with a simplified wire transmitter and a Pringles can - sitting across the street can change insulin levels on that pump with four mouse clicks."
Texas Healthcare Real Estate Market: Who's Buying, Who's Selling, Who's Building and Why
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Mervyn Alphonso, Senior Vice President, Anchor Properties
Nathan Beckey, Director, Real Estate Facilities & Real Estate Division, Children's Health
Sharon Carter, Managing Director/Healthcare Real Estate Solutions, Ankura
Numbers and trends matter in picking an MOB location. "We look at the market demographics but also psychographics. Not just who you are, but what you are and what your lifestyle is," Carter said. "Will a location last five years, 15 years, 30 years? Hospitals are looking at it like a McDonald's and Burger King."
Consider what's popping up around a location. Alphonso was involved in a building purchase that took place a year before a Costco went in nearby. "It amazes me how excited people were about the Costco... What that means is a submarket that adds value to the building," he said.
Plant a seed for growth and see if it flourishes. Beckey said that Children's is using a time-share model for pediatric primary care and specialties. As a "seedling" grows from occupying an office a half-day a week to several days a week, "we take a harder look at full-time residence. We're doing that for a cardio in Tyler," he said.
Cater to the culture and needs of nearby families. In some cultures, when one family member goes to the doctor, the children and grandparents also come along. "What we're seeing a lot of is multi-specialty care," Carter said. In Bedford, N.J., Alphonso's company built a 65,000-square-foot outpatient facility that has a playground for bored children and is near a regional mall so parents can take the kids off-site during long waits.
Avoiding Compliance Pitfalls in Clinics & MOBs and Their Impact on Reimbursements and Valuation
John Trabold III, Managing Director, MAI - Real Estate Services, VMG Health
Michael Walker, Director/Real Estate Operations, Texas Health Resources, and Vice President, Association of Medical Facility Professionals
Kevin Wood, Attorney/Healthcare Practice Leader, Clark Hill Strasburger
Competition for physician groups drives up compliance risks. Hospital systems are so aggressive in luring doctor practices "that they will do it at almost any cost," Trabold said. Due diligence is a must to avoid illegal inducements or violations of anti-kickback and Stark laws. Otherwise, noncompliance fines can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
"Put together the right team of individuals to help you figure out due diligence," Walker said. The team will take a hard look to see if the asset you want to acquire is compliant as well as a good fit. Don't think you can rush into a deal, then worry about compliance later.
CMS reimbursements ride on "the purpose for the space" in leases and documentation, Wood said. "Conditions of payments are very different for a physician clinic versus a hospital outpatient department that may have a surgery component, that may have a lab component."
Documentation is crucial. As a new tenant, "I want language in that lease that covers us completely in terms of compliance and our CMS criteria," Walker said. If a life safety survey finds a leftover fire hazard or other issue that you didn't know about, "now we're in a very dark place in terms of managing that" for lack of paperwork.
Do you even have a lease? That's tops on Trabold's list of common lease deficiencies. Others include expired leases or leases that one party didn't sign. Compliance hot buttons? Not paying market rates on rent and paying only on your 10-by-10-foot office but not the restrooms or other common areas.
Harnessing Technology to Change Physician-Patient Dynamics
(Left) Tod Moore, RCDD, Principal/Worldwide Discipline Lead for Information & Communication Technology, Stantec - Seattle, WA
(Right) Liz Schmitz, Associate/Healthcare Planner, Stantec - Houston, TX
Healthcare facilities must balance high-tech with human touch. Technology improves how patients move through a clinic or hospital but, bottom line, "these are spaces for humans to heal in," Schmitz said. At check-in, for example, some patients prefer a kiosk but others "want to see a person behind a desk," Moore added.
Designers should strive to reduce a patient's stress. Spaces should facilitate conversation between the provider and patient, Schmitz said. Make parking and wayfinding easy, especially with technology that alerts patients to open parking spots and even lets them reserve a space, Moore said.
Rethink the waiting room. Go beyond providing Wi-Fi and give patients the freedom to wait where they want, Schmitz and Moore said. Phone apps and RFID pagers like those at restaurants can summon patients from, say, the building's coffee shop. In surgical waiting rooms, loved ones can get updates — "now they're in surgery, now they're in post-op, now you can see them," Moore said.
Here's the latest tech — and what's coming: The technology is here for LED lighting that also disinfects. Next up: Li-Fi, using light to transmit data even faster. RTLS (Real-time Location Systems) will track patients, caregivers and assets. Paired with a tag on a caregiver's wrist or badge, the soap dispenser "will recognize that Nurse Johnson or Dr. Smith came up and washed their hands" before entering a patient's room, Moore said.
Technology can build profit and brand. After a positive experience, a patient might post a review or pictures of a new baby at the hospital on social media. "This completes the circle because now the patient is the one creating that brand for a hospital," Schmitz said. With a good experience, patients may rate hospitals higher on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, increasing reimbursements.
Work with a partner to manage the technology avalanche. Consider hiring a technology program manager who knows technology, healthcare, and design and construction to prevent issues falling between the cracks of silos.
Innovations Reshaping the Face Of Healthcare
Ray Pentecost, Professor of Practice, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, Ronald L. Skaggs and Joseph G. Sprague Chair of Health Facilities Design, Director, Center for Health Systems & Design
Platform is the new system. The old healthcare model is doing "procedures to get paid to keep the doors open." Today, the push is keeping people healthy and out of the doctor's office. Healthcare must evolve into a platform like Amazon, Starbucks and Netflix. Platforms find a niche, identify an audience and build trust through interactions – on their way to selling far more.
Opportunity is in community health, not reimbursements. Virtual care and telemedicine reach people, monitor them and track them. "Almost 96% of what happens in our medical industry doesn't need a hospital." Add in virtual visits, and only 0.13% of Kaiser Permanente's patient experiences are in the hospital. Of the 12,000 children that Israeli telemedicine firm Clalit handles each month, 18% are sent to the hospital and less than a third are admitted.
Your Fitbit is a window on the future. Artificial intelligence and augmented medicine are now. A cardiologist got an email from a patient: "I'm in atrial fib. What do I do now?" The patient's phone not only recorded the data, it interpreted it. There are 100 billion connected devices, with each device having at least a dozen sensors, creating the trillion-sensor economy.
AI also affects the design of health facilities. For designers, the competition may be a booth on a street corner. In a soundproof compartment on one side of China's Good Doctor, a patient tells the AI his symptoms; the other side dispenses medicine after a quick OK by a human doctor. Aditazz, a Silicon Valley company, is advancing parametric design. "Give the computer enough parameters, and it'll draw a building around it," then whip out a client's revisions within minutes.
The brain-computer interface is coming: Big names — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, DARPA —are getting involved. In time, you may see a virtual map overlaying the actual streets as you drive or, at a conference, see a brief bio next to each person you encounter.


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Recently there was a major phishing attack that got 20,000 something email users/suckers to share their passwords. These were then published on a developer forum for everyone to see.
It was a big story in online news, but the writers used the words "were compromised" and "were leaked" and made it sound as if it were a flaw in the software. When you email a phisher your password, it's not a leak; it's an idiot. But "20,000 Idiots" would only fit as an Onion headline.
I read several stories and they all made it sound like this, as if Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and others were the ones to blame. It kind of makes me mad. I hate the news.
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I hate the news too. Hmph.
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The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme based upon the second novel in the Hannibal Lecter series by Thomas Harris. Though not a sequel, the first novel in the series, Red Dragon, was previously adapted to film in 1986 with Michael Mann's Manhunter, which may explain why it's sequel was chosen to be readapted as the first entry in what was to later become a film franchise. The Silence of the Lambs stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.
Before this film, Jodie Foster was known as child prostitute Iris in the famed 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, and not much else, so her role here as rookie federal agent Clarice Starling was a transformative one in her career. Anthony Hopkins had already been established as one of the world's greatest living actors at this point, having been performing on stage since 1960 and receiving praise and attention since his film breakout in 1968 playing Richard I in The Lion in Winter. In 1980, he played Dr. Fredrick Treves alongside John Hurt as John Merrick in the David Lynch film The Elephant Man. Lynch's first mainstream success following the 1977 cult classic horror film Eraserhead, The Elephant Man also cast the established Hopkins and Hurt into even further fame. Hopkins was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987. His role in Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter would come to be, to this day, his most well-known film role, eclipsing all previous works, and for good reason.
Following the events of the opening of Red Dragon, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, famed psychiatrist, ametuer gourmet chef, art patron, classical music lover, and high-class society figure, is serving consecutive life sentences in a maximum security psychiatric institution after it is revealed he was, in fact, The Chesapeake Ripper, a cannibalistic serial killer who cooked his victims and would serve them to unsuspecting patrons as a gourmet meal prepared by a exceedingly well-mannered and well-educated medical professional with a love of fancy food. The head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, Jack Crawford, sends the inexperienced and young but brilliantly gifted trainee Clarice Starling to interview and survey Dr. Lecter for a "psychobehavioral profile" of all serial killers currently in custody.
Unbeknownst to Starling, this is a ruse. Crawford actually wants Lecter's assistance in capturing Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who captures overweight women and skins them. Crawford lied to Starling because if she went to see Lecter with an actual agenda, he would have toyed with her, chewed her up and spit her out, and sent her back with jack squat. Unfortunately for both of them, Lecter realizes Crawford's true agenda straightaway and does just that, leading to one of the best conversations in film history.
I hate horror films and admittedly haven't seen many. (No, I don't like roller coasters, either.) Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite films of all time, however.I dislike classifying it as a horror film. This film as well as Seven (also a favorite) isn't all that graphic on camera. All the violence, gore, and disgusting stuff either occurs off screen or the camera is angled in such a way that the viewer doesn't see it. I have no idea why this choice was made, it was already a rated R film. Sure makes it easier for me to sit through, though. Like Black Mass, this film is made on the strength of its actors. Anthony Hopkins only has about 15 minutes of screen time, but he owns every single minute. Watching these two actors go back and forth, one a seasoned veteran with more than 40 years of acting under his belt, the other a 29-year-old former child actress struggling to transition to adult roles, is something marvelous to watch, and also draws parallel to the nature of the characters in the film.
Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs have almost an identical setup. Red Dragon follows FBI profiler Will Graham. After being nearly disemboweled after realizing Dr. Lecter's true nature, the veteran agent is coaxed out of retirement by Crawford to hunt "The Tooth Fairy." He realizes he must go to Dr. Lecter for insight. The primary difference between these two stories comes from the primary difference between the two protagonist. Graham has done this for years and knows how the game is played, whereas Starling has absolutely no experience at the beginning of the story.
Another standout here is Scott Glenn. Glenn's getting there in age and I haven't seen him in too much aside from this, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Stick in Daredevil, but I've always liked him. He plays a great Jack Crawford. He's manipulative, but for the right reasons. He wants to get his man and he bends rules to get him, but he also cares about Starling and you never get the sense he would do anything too skeevy. One interesting fact is that, when Glenn was preparing for the role, he consulted with real-life former BAU chief John E. Douglas, one of the very first criminal profilers who has written several books on the subject. Douglas was the model for Crawford's character, as well as that of Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds. While researching his role, Glenn was given audio tapes of two serial killers raping and murdering a victim in a van. When Glenn asked why on God's Green Earth Douglas gave him the tapes, Douglas simply said, "You're in my world now." Glenn refused to reprise the role because he never wants to be put in that mindset again. He has nightmares and anxiety about it to this day.Dude just wanted to be in a movie, jeeze.
The Silence of the Lambs is the best film of its genre.It is a truly disturbing psychological thriller backed up by truly amazing performances that have since become a part of cinema history. Its sequels sucked, but we can always go back to the original.
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Women in SF&F Month: Judy I. Lin
Today's guest is Judy I. Lin! Her debut novel and the start of The Book of Tea duology, A Magic Steeped in Poison, features a tea-making competition, as making tea is a magical art in the world of this young adult fantasy series. Although the first of these two books was just published last week, the second half of the story will be out soon—A Venom Dark and Sweet is scheduled for release on August 23!
On Developing a Non-Combat Focused Magic System and Addressing Issues of Inequality Through Storytelling
One of my favorite genres of movies to watch while I was growing up was the wuxia genre. I enjoyed these movies from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China because they usually featured fierce women and girls who are martial artists. They fought with swords and daggers and their bare hands, and oftentimes they had secret identities — where they had to travel through the world disguised as a man in order to not draw attention to themselves.
But when it came time to write my own stories, I knew I did not want to write about a swordswoman. Someone who was physically confident, who moved through the world with grace. Or even an assassin who was able to sneak around and use poison needles and relied on stealth rather than physical prowess. Even though I liked stories that interpreted what women warriors looked like in medieval Europe or ancient China, it wasn't what I personally related to.
I grew up with astigmatism and near-sightedness, never played a sport, and my hand eye coordination was terrible. That was why I was drawn to the idea of a magic system based around tea. I was intrigued by the idea of a magic system that was not involved directly in combat, but had other uses in the day to day — healing, fortune telling, etc. In Taiwanese culture, tea is such an integral part of our daily lives. It involves a certain type of ceremony, and I was interested in exploring that type of ritual. What would the limitations of a magic that is tied intimately to ritual look like? What if a practitioner of such magic is found without her tools and ingredients, what would she do then?
The story in A Magic Steeped in Poison examines those challenges. I was still able to pay homage to the wuxia genre I love so much by incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine into the magic system. Just like in many wuxia books and films, I played around with those familiar ingredients and gave them magical properties. I expanded upon the ritual that is present in the tea ceremony, and was able to include folklore inspired by the stories that I heard while I was growing up in Taiwan. I enjoyed exploring how utilization of supportive and healing magic is a different type of strength, and it can be advantageous for those who know how to use it as much as the ability to use a sword. I also wanted to tell a story where battles are conducted through cunning and knowledge — in navigating court intrigue, sparring with words, and solving puzzles in a magical competition.
Ning, the main character in A Magic Steeped in Poison, is an apprentice to this type of tea magic, but I wanted to make sure that she was surrounded by women who had different types of strength as well. I didn't want to portray a narrow path of how a girl is supposed to achieve success in the world, because a world where women are only capable swordswomen or a world where women are all magical healers isn't of interest to me either. Even though Ning does solve the puzzles that she encounters in the rounds of the magic competition, it was important to me that she does not do it alone. She meets people along the way who provide assistance through difficult times, many of them women in power.
Another element I wanted to make sure that I addressed in the book are issues of inequality that is not only related to misogyny and the expectations of women in this society, but issues of class and wealth distribution too. Ning experiences conflicts in the capital because of her commoner status. She is immediately an outsider because of the way she speaks. She is also looked down upon for her lack of knowledge in the way she is expected to behave, as someone who grew up outside of the capital. The competition reveals very quickly that certain competitors, due to their background, are given important advantages that allows them to advance through the rounds without challenges. Ning has to overcome her disadvantage in order to succeed, but without losing sight of why she is there in the first place.
Throughout the process of writing A Magic Steeped in Poison, I enjoyed the worldbuilding aspect the most. In reimagining the stories and traditions from my culture, I was able to connect with my heritage in new ways. I loved being able to tell stories about women with unique strengths and abilities existing in this realm, overcoming their personal challenges despite society's expectations. I'm grateful I was able to tell a story that is deeply personal, even though it's set in a world very different from our own.
Photo Credit: Aaron Perkins Judy I. Lin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to Canada with her family at a young age. She grew up with her nose in a book and loved to escape to imaginary worlds. She now works as an occupational therapist, and still spends her nights dreaming up imaginary worlds of her own. She lives on the Canadian prairies with her husband and daughter. A Magic Steeped in Poison is her debut novel.
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Linode Philadelphia. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
Hosting Giant Linode Expands from Haddonfield Campus to 'Real World: Philadelphia' House
By Matt Skoufalos on	 December 18, 2015 Business
The cloud-based remote hosting provider bought the Girard Corn Exchange Bank at 3rd and Arch Streets. CEO Christopher Aker says a year-long restoration lies ahead.
Christopher Aker. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
In 2003, Manahawkin native Christopher Aker founded the cloud hosting service Linode in his Nashville apartment with about $10,000 in startup cash.
In 2016, he expects to be moving the business into a $5-million historic building in Philadelphia.
The move represents the latest in an upward curve since Aker quit Tennessee to set up his shop just outside of Atlantic City, bringing a tech base to the small community they nicknamed "Silicon Galloway."
As Linode grew, so did its need for skilled employees, and Aker started pushing his search for a new headquarters northward, to Philadelphia.
Interior hallway. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
In the summer of 2014, the Girard Corn Exchange Bank, a property most famous for housing MTV's The Real World: Philadelphia, came on the market.
Aker recalled seeing the listing on a Sunday and being in the building that Monday.
"After I saw this place, I kind of was ruined," he said.
"Anything else would have been a pretty big fall. There's character, and really, that's the thing that I was looking for."
However, Aker soon found that he'd stepped onto a carousel of prospective buyers who were kept spinning by owner Michael Yaron until the property finally went into bank ownership in January 2015. It took another six months for Bancorp to re-list the building, and then Aker was made to endure several anxious rounds of sealed bidding.
Third-floor loft. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
While the process played out, Linode proceeded northward, seeking tech talent to support its growing business and a temporary base of operations for its staff.
Eventually, the company took up residence at Kings Hall in Haddonfield, and Aker, quickly smitten with the community, did too.
"For me, the discovery of Haddonfield was pretty amazing because it felt like the childhood that everybody had in the 1980's, and it's still happening today," he said.
"The kids get to ride their bikes to school, and the schools are fantastic, and the homes are really amazing."
Deferring the dream of Philadelphia, if only temporarily, led Aker to discover "a great quantity and high quality of people" in South Jersey.
Stairwell. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
"Now we're getting into the Philadelphia tech community, and I'm finding a lot of the Philly tech community has roots in Camden County," he said.
"It's really the best of both worlds because you have immediate access to the neighboring towns through the train system."
Finally, about a week ago, Linode was able to close on both the Girard Corn Exchange Bank and a neighboring parking lot for a purchase price of $5 million—$100,000 less than Aker had initially offered Yaron last year.
That figure most assuredly represents just the entry point of investment in the three-story, 14,000-square-foot, neoclassical, historic property; Aker has already observed the deteriorating effect 16 months of negotiations has had on its neglected structure.
Basement bank vault. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
"I'm personally going to try to do as much restoration of this building as we can," he said. "I'm not going to set up a bunch of Wi-Fi hotspots and be in here next week.
"There's a lot of it left that's worth recovering," Aker said. "We're going to bring something good to the community."
Aker estimates the search for a historic architect, designers, contractors, and other restoration specialists will push back Linode's occupation of the building for at least another year.
In the meantime, the company will maintain its Galloway and Haddonfield offices "as long as it makes sense to do so," he said.
"Most likely everyone will be invited to come and work out of this office,"Aker said. "No one's going to be force to move."
Original vault. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
The added capacity will leave room for Linode to expand its ranks beyond the current staff of 87 to include another 50 employees in the next couple of years.
Those extra bodies will be needed as the company begins to "waterfall" a renewal of its entire product line, Aker said.
"We're completely revamping our API, and making our Linode manager layer an open-source web platform," he said. "My guys are shooting for public alpha of the new API on Wednesday."
From there, developers will begin to refresh the Linode mobile application and command-line interface. The products are all poised to help expand its presence in a mobile-first world of hosting solutions.
Girard Bank sticker. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
"[It's a] huge growth industry, and our differentiator is really about simplicity," Aker said; but with eight, broadly dispersed data center deployments (four in the United States, two in Europe, and two in the Asia/Pacific region), Linode is a company with a global footprint.
In many respects, that makes its decision to put down roots in the Philadelphia metro area all the more significant an indicator of the region's potential as a tech base.
"When you look at a move like this, at some point it doesn't matter whether you move across the street, 60 miles away, or across the coast," Aker said. "But that's also, at the same time, not the same amount of risk to your company.
Third-floor window. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
"[Philadelphia is] the fifth-largest city in the U.S., a tech community, [and]also the path of least resistance [for doing business]," he said.
"I am looking forward to not just participating and being a beneficiary of the tech community, but to being able to contribute something back, whether it's thought leadership or infrastructure.
"We disrupted dedicated hosting with our technology, and made virtual machines available to people that they wouldn't have had the ability to afford before," Aker said.
"I'm onboard with helping people in the community with that kind of stuff."
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It looks like my little sister has a mission in life: to wrest all sorts of attention from yours truly. Even down to my trademark swirl!
Living with a little sister hasn't really affected our lives too much yet except for the new characters in our play: Fatigued Mommy and Tuckered Abba. But otherwise, Raia seems to emerge only to eat and then she quietly tucks away for another winter's nap all swaddled and meek.
But still, the night part doesn't affect Lucas and I. While Raia still has yet to join in our baby games Mimi and GongGong have! They just arrived this week - in time for Raia's birth, which was scheduled for some time next week. Apparently she didn't get the memo.
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As consumer expectations keep rapidly growing, especially when it comes to in-store communications and engagement, companies turned to the high-tech, innovations and newest advancements to attract customers. So, one might wonder, is there a way to engage today's tech-savvy, looking for the best deal customers? It seems so and digital displays just might do the trick. Digital displays are vital for the quality shopping experience, and, they are used daily not only to draw in, attract and boost foot traffic but to educate, to inspire and provide information. Nowadays most of the retailers are searching for ways to stand out, and investing in screens is the preferred solution worldwide. In my last article, I explained why Apple is the best laptop brand. So, let's look at a couple of ways two screens and an Apple TV can increase that foot traffic.
Should offer a possibility to integrate analytics, facial recognition, etc.
Ideally, DS software should help those operating to track DOOH sales.
For those, like us, operating the screens with Apple TV, the choice is pretty obvious – we work with KitCast TV. Kitcast cooperation with Jamf turned Apple TV into a plug-and-play digital signage device. Their software is one of the most effective on the market.
Interactive content creates an engaging experience and, interactive retail displays will help your store engage and connect with your customers. Dynamic interactive content can stop people in their tracks and re-address their attention to your store, as they possess a natural attention-grabbing quality. With a couple of touchscreens in your store, you will be able to have better customer engagement and build from there towards brand loyalty. Customers appreciate this kind of interactive solution, as though they are entertained and provided with the needed information, they also feel in control about the amount of information they are receiving. It is a much-appreciated and very non-intrusive way to increase sales. This is a less annoying way of a sales pitch than a salesperson would use to make a sale. Lastly, information on the screens can be instantly changed, retailers change the screen's content whenever they want, updating the information by the minute. They can immediately remove the sold out item, correct the menu, put extra attention on coupons, sales, or special propositions. Interactive retail displays are highly beneficial for both, the customers and retailers.
If you have two large screens – lure your customers in with a Video Wall. These kinds of solutions offer a way to stand out, promote your brand and increase sales. They are ideal for creating unique and mesmerizing video art displays. Video Walls easily attract attention, and, at any given time you can easily turn them back in the individual screens providing relevant information and interactive content to your clients. Video Walls provide dynamic shopping experience with engaging content.
More than 75 million people in the US alone watch online videos every day. Wouldn't it be great if they'll watch some of them inside your store? As a bonus, videos are extremely shareable, so, if you'll manage to promote your shore with a fun and exciting video, chances are it'll video would migrate from your screens to computer and mobile phone screens of your clients and their SM friends and subscribers.
A great way to attract attention and let customers know what they are missing is with an engaging exiting window display. Displays facing out create a movement that can easily attract attention, and ultimately draw the customers in.


My husband loves to make waffles or pancakes on Saturday mornings. cooking and also It's his thing and I don't mess with it. I don't mess with it because I think it is great that he is because Saturday is my sleep in day and lets face it, I usually sleep right through breakfast.
When I finally wake, I eat up what's left, and I have to say, he has really perfected his recipe.
He tried MANY. He wanted to find one that used only whole wheat flour and still tasted great. He ended up combining two recipes he found on line and the waffles turned out awesome. He has been making them this way ever since. They are perfect! Light and fluffy and Delicious!
Oh and they also freeze really well! Perfect for making ahead and pulling out later for breakfast.
Fast and simple fool proof recipe for delicious whole wheat waffles. We use dry milk reconstituted in this recipe to help us rotate through our food storage. We also keep plenty of wheat in our food storage that we rotate and grind up for recipes like this one.
These were excellent! Better than any other waffle recipe I've used – even the unhealthy ones!
Awesome! I am so glad you like them. Thanks for taking time to leave a comment.
Is there calorie info available by any chance?
I am sorry, I don't have that info.
right for various reasons. I've made these four times now & my girls love them. They freeze great too! Thanks for this healthy waffle recipe.
Yeah! I love this recipe so much too. It makes me so happy that it is healthy and still taste great! And BONUS it is sooo practical and easy!
Thanks for taking time to leave me a comment Sara!
These are so delicious!! My friend and I have been using the waffle maker I got for Christmas, and these are by far the best ever. I added nutmeg, cinnamon, and syrup from a jar of spiced apples. I actually wrote this recipe down in one of my books because of how well they turned out.
I am so glad you like them. Yum, I bet they were so good with that syrup! Thanks for taking time to come and let me know you tried them and liked them!
I have a traditional round waffle maker too. And this recipe usually makes between 10 and 12.
Thank you so much for this recipe it was awesome. We have been looking for more whole food breakfast recipes and this was a hit with my husband and all three of the kids. They heated up wondefeully in the toaster over the next few days.
Yeah! So glad your family liked the waffles. I love love that they are all whole wheat flour and still taste great! Thanks for taking time to leave a comment.
Can you sub applesauce for the oil?
Yes Wendy, but it will change the consistency a little bit and they may stick a little more to the waffle iron. I usually only sub 1/2 the oil for applesauce when I do it that way and it works much better.
What kind of oil did you use? Can I use this recipe for pancakes as well?
Yes you can make pancakes with it as well, and I use canola oil or butter.
I made these and my family LOVED them, but I felt a little guilty eating so much fat for breakfast with all the olive oil. (Good fat, I know, but still will make my jeans tight.) I subbed greek yogurt for half of the oil, and also used almond milk instead of regular. I didn't stop there and did only egg whites and also used palm sugar instead of regular. Still EXCELLENT…my kids didn't notice a difference, and now I get some to! Thanks for the recipe!!!
Have used nonfat yogurt as oil substitute in other recipes. Am going to try substituting for half oil in this recipe too. Will let you know how it turns out!
Awesome, Can't wait to hear how it turns out.
Cant wait to try this recipe. This is probably a silly question but when you freeze the waffles how would you reheat them? Microwave? And I don't suppose you have the nutritional information to go with this recipe do you?
Not a silly question at all. I do reheat them in the microwave or sometimes in the toaster oven. The toaster oven gives it a nice little crunch on the edges. If you click on the little magic button under the recipe, it will take you to the nutritional info.
Maria these looks so yummy! I wish my husband would make breakfast on Saturday mornings! Lucky girl!
My kids did not even notice these were made with whole wheat flour. I liked them and thought they were pretty good for being all whole wheat. I made a double batch so I could freeze some for weekday breakfasts. I think next time I will add some of the pumpkin I canned last fall. Overall a really good recipe.
Awesome! I have added pumpkin before and it works out well, I also throw in a little cinnamon and nutmeg when I do that.
We are making "breakfast for dinner" tonight. I'd like to try this recipe but with buttermilk that needs to be used up. If I wanted to use buttermilk, can I just substitute it for the milk, or should I make other adjustments to the recipe?
These were fantastic . I have been looking for a good waffle recipe using whole wheat flour and these were just perfect . Will be making these for my grandkids all summer at the lake . Thanks so much for sharing your recipe .
Made these for my husband and I. We did not like them. I was so disappointed because of all the good reviews.
Sorry to hear you didn't like them, sometimes the wheat flavor is an acquired taste. Thanks for giving them a try though.
I loved the waffles but I always add more sugar or honey and a mashed banana even if I use a mix ( store box) and they always are great, . You do have to use the right whole wheat flour some brands are more denser of grainy. King Arthur is good I think I'm not sure as I through away my wrapper and stored it in a plastic container.
Thank you so much for this recipe! I made them for my 10 month old and he devoured them! I subbed 1/2c oil for 1/4 applesauce + 1/4 olive oil. We didn't even use syrup or butter on them… I even got my picky husband to eat them! Thanks again!!
My son loved the recipe so much. He could not tell that I used whole wheat flour. I substituted oil for extravirgin olive oil and vanilla for ground cinnamon. I skipped sugar altogether and added whole chia seeds and it was very fluffy, crispy and yummy. It has become our Saturday brunch every weekend. Thank you.
Awesome! I love your substitutions choices. I will have to try adding Chia Seeds sometime, I am a huge fan of Chia seeds. Thanks for your kind comment. I am so glad your family likes them.
Try it now. There should be a button under the recipe that says recipe magic or something like that.
I haven't ever tried the eggo's you mentioned, but these do freeze well, If you reheat them in a toaster oven they should come out quite similar to the eggo version.
this recipe is verbatim from the King Arthur website. How about giving credit?
My husband actually came up with this recipe after experimenting with different recipes on the web. He is the waffle/pancake man at our house. I would love to see teh recipe you are talking about. can you send me the link for the recipe on King Arthur so I can look at it. I just looked through their site at couldn't find one that is like this. Giving credit when I know the source is important to me.
I've been craving waffles for a while now. When I get them in a restaurant they are ok, not great, not bad, just ok. I borrowed my MILs waffle iron yesterday and found this recipe last night. I don't have to tell you how delicious they turned out, because you obviously know, but WOW.
I have never been so happy with a waffle as I was today. Thank you so much for this recipe. You made my day and satisfied my craving!
Oh and I made a couple of modifications, if you can call them that, to your recipe.
I added 1/2 tsp (approximately because I did not measure it) cinnamon, omitted they sugar and salt and used soy milk instead of cow's milk. I also used avocado oil. However the bones were your recipe and amazing it was!
I just made these and boyndidnthey come out perfect!!! THE BEST waffle recipe Inhave come across after trying soooò many!! Thank you!!
This makes me so happy! I feel the same way and want to shout from the roof tops that everyone should be making and enjoying these waffles. They are the best!!!
I reluctantly only had whole wheat flour left in the house but was craving waffles. This recipe came up on google and after reading the reviews I made them and still have half a waffle on my plate but had to comment and just pinned and shared the recipe on Facebook. I WILL be making this recipe again and again! They are light and fluffy and so perfect paired with the peach lavender jam I made in the summer! THANK YOU for sharing this recipe and for breaking my whole wheat skepticism!
This makes my day! I love these waffles so much and LOVE that they are made with all whole wheat flour. I am thrilled that you made them and loved them too!
Can you use whole wheat pastry flour? If so, how would it change them?
I'm not sure, I haven't ever used that type of flour. If it is like cake flour. You don't need to change anything in the recipe and they should come out extra yummy!
Can this recipe be used for pancakes. My tweak was FF milk and little more sugar,stevia.
I haven't ever tried it. The batter can sometimes be a little runny. You would probably want to add a little more flour.
Just made these and they are amazing! We're always looking for recipes that use whole wheat flour and sometimes they bomb. This was an instant hit! Thanks for sharing!
Sounds like we would be good friends I am always experimenting with whole wheat flour in recipes. Have you tried my diner style pancakes? They taste delicious with whole wheat flour and I have so many more. There is a Brownie recipe that is Awesome. It's called Crazy Good Whole Wheat Brownies on the site.
Have made this recipe time and time again. We all love it-young to old. Best whole wheat waffle recipe….and we've tried many!
Yay! I love hearing this Rachel! We think it is the best too!
This is a go-to favorite of ours on a Saturday morning. Thanks, Maria!
Yay! I love hearing that cuz!


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Words Of Hope Counselling Services is currently looking for an MSW Therapist and RP Psychotherapist to join our very busy practice. We are conveniently located in the heart of downtown Barrie, with access to beautiful waterfront, restaurants, yoga studios and convenient bus routes.
Words Of Hope has a reputation within the community for our friendly professional service and we are looking for someone to work with us to build their caseload and provide Words Of Hope clients with the sensitivity and support they most certainly deserve.
At Words Of Hope you will work as an independent contractor with the added bonus of having the support of a team of counsellors. Every month you will have the opportunity to be heard and supported by a team of professionals to discuss cases and any other difficulties or challenges you may face as a therapist.
Our clinic provides counselling and psychotherapy services to couples and individuals across a broad spectrum of relational and mental health issues.
Provide couples, individual, family and general counselling and psychotherapy services for a wide range of issues.
Minimum Masters level education in Social Work (MSW).
Candidate or Full Registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers OR College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario.
Must be able to work some evenings. Working weekends would be helpful too.
Valid Criminal Records Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening (within the past year).
Valid Professional Liability Insurance maintained annually (approx $150 a year).
Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
Commitment to ethics and has strong interpersonal skills.
Work experience with Couples / family therapy will be considered an asset, but is not required.
Preference for clinicians who are 'theoretically integrative' and/or are willing to broaden their therapeutic skills through peer supervision, consultation, and additional training.
Conduct individual, couple and family therapy sessions in a private practice setting.
Evaluate clients needs and create a custom treatment plan.
Create and maintain progress notes, treatment plans, reports and any other written material in a timely manner.
Ensure proper clinical interventions are implemented.
Ensure strict confidentiality and data protection and upholding client privacy at all times.
Flexible work hours and autonomy over caseload and scheduling.
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Q: Android unit test caching What is unit test caching and how do I enable it? My understanding of unit test caching is that tests that have code that changes (source code not test code) will only rerun those tests -- which I believe is called incremental unit test caching. My goal is to use cache as much as possible to improve our CI/CD pipeline. If unit test cache works as I thought it works then it can cut build times down significantly.
What I'm finding is that when I run ./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest is that it will run all the tests once and if I run that command again it will say everything is up-to-date and not run the tests. However when I run testDebugUnitTest from the gradle task selector in Android Studio it will always rerun the tests and it doesn't seem like any caching is applied. The latter behavior is what happens in my CI/CD environment and all the tests will rerun every time even if I'm building from an existing branch.
As far as lint caching it appears to work intermittently. It seems like if I make any changes to the source code it runs everything again instead of just lint checking the affected file.
This is what a subset of my gradle.properties looks like. I also have local build cache enabled in my settings.gradle. I am also using Android Gradle Plugin 7.2.0 which contains the updates for lint caching as well as the unit test caching (3.6.0). includeAndroidResources = true is in my app `build.gradle which was the source of another bug which supposedly is fixed.
# Enable caching for lint
org.gradle.caching=true

# Run kapt tasks in parallel
kapt.use.worker.api=true

# Improve incremental build time with compile avoidance
kapt.include.compile.classpath=false

# Enable databinding build caching
android.databinding.incremental=true

# Enable caching for unit tests
android.testConfig.useRelativePath=true

# Enable multi-module parallel support
org.gradle.parallel=true

# Enable daemon sharing
org.gradle.daemon=true

# Increase memory, class file space, and speed up garbage collection
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx6g -XX:MaxPermSize=4g -XX:+UseParallelGC

Does anyone know if this is the expected behavior or if maybe I just have a wrong understanding of unit test cache?
Resources I used to try and enable caching:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/115873047
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/caching_android_projects.html
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/caching_java_projects.html

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When cheese turns green and sprouts a fuzzy coat like a Chia Pet, you know it's time to toss it. But food spoilage signs aren't always that clear. As much as you love your favorite foods, keeping them past their prime can turn even the tastiest dishes toxic, warns nutritionist Edith Howard Hogan, R.D.L.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. "It's easy to take adequate precautions to prevent food-borne illnesses, which are more common than people think." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that food-borne diseases cause about 76 million illnesses in the U.S. every year. Hogan provided this handy guide for knowing when to let go of your leftovers.
Cold Comfort
"It's difficult to give hard and fast rules for how long you can refrigerate things safely," says Hogan. "In the summer, when people constantly open and close the refrigerator door, food spoils more quickly." To help ensure that your food stays fresh, Hogan recommends keeping the refrigerator on a colder setting—between 34°F and 40°F. Put food in the refrigerator quickly to prevent the growth of bacteria; don't let leftovers sit out for more than two hours (hot dishes for more than one hour). Store foods in Ziploc bags or covered containers, and keep meat separate from vegetables to prevent cross-contamination. Then toss all edibles according to the following deadlines:
Cooked meats and casseroles: three to four days
Deli meats: sealed, five days; opened, three to five days
Cooked meat patties, gravy: one to two days
Uncooked ground meat, poultry: two days
Soup, stews: three to four days
Seafood: cooked, two days; raw, cook that day if possible, toss after three days
Cooked rice: one week
Cooked pasta: three to four days
Fresh vegetables: three to four days; greens, one to two days (unless you wash, bag, and store them in a closed drawer)
Cheese: three to five days
Eggs: in shell, three weeks; hard-boiled, one week
Milk: Follow the use-by date
Bottled foods: opened, one week
Salad dressing: closed, several months; opened, two months
Mayonnaise and ketchup: closed, several months; opened, two months. "Buy the smallest containers you can," suggests Hogan. "Once they're open, the flavor will change—and you may expose it to bacteria."
The Big Freeze
Simply put, says Hogan, keep your freezer at freezing—that's 0°F. Wrap food in plastic wrap and foil, or store in airtight Ziploc bags or sealed tubs with the date marked. Place new items in the back, and rotate existing food to the front to guarantee that you'll use them in a timely manner. Use leftovers before uncooked meat, if possible. And follow this timeline for tossing out freezer food.
Raw hamburger: three to four months
Raw chops: six to nine months
Raw steak: six months to one year
Raw chicken: one year
Bacon, sausage: one month
Frozen dinners: three to four months
Soups, casseroles, other leftovers: two to three months
Frozen vegetables: two months
Bread: one month
Dairy: one month
Pantry Raid
Canned foods: Follow the use-by date stamped on the top. Stored properly, most unopened canned foods keep for at least one year. If the top of a can is bulging, throw it out.
Boxes and bags: sealed, three months to one year; open, one week to three months. Store open products in airtight containers to extend their longevity and to prevent odor crossover and insect invasion.
Bottled foods: sealed, a few months; once opened, refrigerate.
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