Happy Monday! I had originally planned to share this delicious and oh-so-pretty Beet Hummus with you last week, but vacation prep combined with a couple of cranky kiddos got the best of me.
Luckily after five days in Mexico, I'm back feeling refreshed and ready to jump right into blogging and mommin' mode!
While beets are one of my favorite root vegetables, I hardly ever cook with them. Marc turns his nose up at them and the thought of having to clean up after my savage kids eat them makes me cringe. So unfortunately for me, I rarely cook them.
A couple of weeks ago, however, I bought a few beets for a photoshoot that I had to do. Not wanting them to go to waste, I dreamt up some beet hummus. Bonus: Lars was super interested in the pink dip I was making and actually loved it. Now we have two beet lovers in the house!
The hardest part about making Beet Hummus is cooking the beets themselves. I always prefer to roast my beets rather than boil them, as it feels less messy to me. To roast beets, I give them a good scrub, wrap them in aluminum foil with a drizzle of olive oil, and roast them for about an hour, or until they're tender.
Once they're cooked I let them cool and slide the skin off. Not hard by any means, just time consuming.
After the beets are roasted, it's super simple – just add it all to a food processor or blender and puree away.
This was delicious spread on some toasted baguette, with pita chips, and raw veggies, but my favorite way was on a veggie sandwich. I put a thick layer of Beet Hummus and topped it with sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, shredded carrots, pickles, and avocado. Holy delicious!
Cut stems and greens off beets, and wash thoroughly.
Wrap beets in aluminum foil and drizzle with approximately 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
Roast in preheated oven for 1 hour, or until a knife pierces easily.
Let cool completely, then remove the skin. *Note: the skin should easily slide off a roasted beet using your hands, but you can use a knife or vegetable peeler, too.
Place beets, garbanzo beans, garlic, tahini, lemon juice, and olive oil to a food processor or high powered blender and puree.
Serve topped with fresh chopped parsley. Enjoy!


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Gather 'round the table, y'all. This is how we, as a family, make healthy food choices.
I have partnered with YMC and Annie's and have received compensation for this post. All opinions are my own.
Fast forward to now, and we've entered the overloaded stage of toddlerhood. Joe and I both come from families where food is the centre of all gatherings. We make it a point to emphasize the importance of family meals while making healthy food choices.
Since Leo is eating just about everything now, we make it a point to prepare the same meal for the entire family. No exceptions; no separate dishes for anyone.
But don't get me wrong. Meal planning is quite the task. Here are a few of our tips and tricks in keeping mealtime fun, delicious, and how we make healthy food choices as a family.
At the beginning of the week (usually, Sundays), Joe and I sit down and plan out our daily meal plan. We break it down to breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. As we jot down our meal ideas, we research recipes and carefully create a list so that we have a plan in place once we hit the grocery store.
Meal planning does take time but it ensures that we keep everything homecooked, thus, in control of what we consume as a family.
Before we got married, Joe and I were notorious for eating out… All. The. Time. Not only did this burn a hole through our wallets, but it also wasn't the healthiest of choices we were making.
Fast forward to now, we approach restaurant outings as a cause for celebration or a well-deserved treat. We are also very selective with the restaurants in which we dine, ensuring that they're family-friendly and offer a more refined menu featuring healthier meals.
I like to think that I'm one of those people who can whip up a homecooked meal from scratch every single day.
Point is: that's not always the case. Let's face it, we are a generation of go-getters. I'm a career-driven mom that strives to do the best for her work and her family. Sometimes, time slips away. That's when I turn to quick-meal solutions for a tasty, warm meal at the end of the day.
I know what you're thinking: huh? What? Pre-packaged food?
Healthy choices doesn't always have to be from farm to table. The reality for my family is: sometimes, we need that boxed meal in order to enjoy dinnertime together.
Just like how picky we are with restaurants, our family gets choosy in the packaged foods we purchase. In comes: Annie's. Annie's concept is simple: provide families with organic food options that are simple to prepare and taste delicious. You may have seen them at your local grocer's. They have a whole line of pastas, crackers, cookies and fruit snacks. With a diverse product line, Annie's makes it on our shopping list every single week. More recently, we discovered their Yummier Than Ever Mac and Cheese.
If their product offerings weren't amazing enough, their new and improved mac and cheese is made with more real cheese flavour, a better sauce, and a better noodle. I know they always say: "Don't fix it if it ain't broke." But you know what? This time around, it wasn't broken, but Annie's somehow made it better.
Since the noodles are now more kid-friendly in size, Leo is using it to his advantage. Slowly and surely, he's learning to use cutlery, and Annie's Yummier Than Ever Mac and Cheese is allowing him to learn and get through this transition.
Also: busy mom here. Yup, that's me! Guess what? I'm tired! There! I've admitted defeat. But now, Annie's Yummier Than Ever Mac and Cheese is a total cooking time of 8 minutes. Yes. Eight. 4+4. That is all.
Making healthy food choices doesn't have to be impossible. All it takes is some planning, commitment, creativity, and trusted brands to transform mealtime into family time.
How do you save time when it comes to meal planning and preparing food?
Planning a weekly menu always helps me stay on track. When my husband and I were younger, we ate out a lot. These days, I like the taste of my food so much better and I can control what goes in and stays out of my foods.
Every family chooses to be different and that is so true when it comes to food. We grow or raise most of our food and do a lot of canning and dehydrating and putting up. Some families like the convince of box food. Totally up to them.
Annie's makes good products that make it easy to make good choices. I love your photos, what a happy family!
Yum, this sounds great for kids! We do try to make healthy choices for the most part, but there will always be cake and cookies in the house. I just try to balance it all.
We try to substitute ingredients and items that are healthier when we can. We have used Annie's items for a while, and my kids seem to like them.
My kiddo loves macaroni and cheese. I have not used Annie's Mac & cheese! I am glad that is a healthy choice because we eat it a lot.
My daughters are mac 'n cheese fiends. I haven't tried Annie's brand but it looks delicious and I will look to pick it up next time I'm at the grocery store.
I love using Annie's foods. They are a really great company with awesome ingredients.
I love Annie's food products, they have great snack and food options that my kids love to eat! I like your idea of planning ahead to ensure meals will be healthy. I need to get better at planning meals out for the week better.
We love us some Annie's mac and cheese! it is a staple in our house!
My kids love Annies, and beg for their Mac & Cheese all the time! Also just bought some really yummy looking Annie's toaster pastries. It's nice to have foods the kids love.
I could have written this post about myself…LOL!! I have been making healthier food choices lately and I feel so much better!!
Nice to always have a good choice when it comes to foods. I usually bake some cakes, pizza now I have to balance it all.
That is a great idea of healthy food choice! And you are right, cooking at home doesn't mean that it needs to take a lot of time. We need to find easy and quick ideas for weeknight dinners!
We have to plan a weekly menu, so when we go grocery shopping it easier for us to plan a meal around it. If we don't plan then we can buy things we don't really need.
I love Annie's, my daughter is obsessed with mac and cheese and my son has sensory issues which results in him being a very picky eater. Annie's has so many options in their favorite foods that also give me peace of mind about what fueling them.
I love stocking my pantry and fridge with healthy foods and snacks. There is nothing better than feeling good about what you feed your children.
Menu planing is key for us to stay on track! No doubt sometimes we fall off the wagon, but we always plan for success.


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North East Lincolnshire Council
£600k investment in council IT equipment to protect against cyber attacks
North East Lincolnshire Council is planning to upgrade its computer operating systems including buying new Microsoft Windows 10 and Office licences
Plans to spend almost £600,000 on upgrading North East Lincolnshire Council's IT equipment to help protect against cyber attacks have been revealed.
The council is looking to bring its current computer operating systems up to date in order to be in line with the latest security software.
This means all council computers must use Microsoft Windows 10 and Office to be fully compliant.
Members of the authority's executive will be asked to approve a £589,000 investment into the software on Wednesday, August 1.
This will include 620 licences of Windows 10 and 2,173 for Microsoft Office for all council computers.
Council officers in charge of the procurement said failure to invest in the new software would leave the authority open to security breaches and cyber attacks.
North East Lincolnshire Council is planning a near-£600,000 investment to help prevent cyber attacks on its computer systems (Image: Getty Images)
They added that without upgrading the current software, cyber threats would become "commonplace".
It comes after major disruption was caused to NHS services following the "Wannacry" cyber attack in May 2017, which left some hospitals and GPs unable to access patient data.
Inspectors express concerns over staff morale at Thames Ambulance Service's Grimsby site
In a report, Sharon Wroot, North East Lincolnshire Council's director of finance, operations and resources, said the authority must upgrade in order to continue providing frontline services.
The report said: "The council must ensure we remain up to date with current versions of its IT operating system.
North East Lincolnshire Council bosses say the authority must upgrade its IT operating systems (Image: Jon Corken)
"This ensures we keep up to date and comply with security patches, the Public Services Network Code of Connection (PSN CoCo) criteria, as well as remaining compliant with our Microsoft licence usage.
"By ensuring we are upgradeable and can continue to use the councils corporate laptop and desktop computers, we are equipped to handle cyber attacks like the recent 'Wannacry' virus that caused major disruption and loss of service to the NHS."

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The U.S. Department of Labor said it will publish two proposed rules on Friday that will make quality investment advice more accessible to millions of Americans who have 401(k) plans and IRAs. The rules, issued under the Pension Protection Act, "would give workers greater access to investment advice so that they are better equipped to manage and monitor their 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement Accounts," said Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in today's news release.
The act gives flexibility for participants of 401(k) plans and IRAs to obtain investment advice in two ways: through a computer model certified as unbiased and through an adviser compensated on a "level-fee" basis. Several other requirements must be satisfied, including disclosure of advisers' fees. DOL said the rules it is proposing contain guidance on the exemption's requirements, including computer model certification, and a non-mandatory model form advisers may use to satisfy the fee disclosure requirement. DOL also is proposing a class exemption that permits advisers to provide individualized advice to a worker after giving advice generated by using a computer model.
U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. and chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said the proposals are harmful. "For far too long, the rules of the financial services industry have been tilted in the interests of companies and consultants, not the millions of American workers who are deeply worried about saving enough for a secure retirement. Now, the Bush administration is proposing to further tip the scales towards special interests by opening the door to conflicts of interest among the very consultants purporting to offer unbiased investment advice, and potentially allowing companies to reap windfall profits at the expense of America's workers," Miller said. "With more and more workers having to dip into their nest eggs just to stay afloat in today's economy, there is a clear and urgent need to ensure that workers are getting the best deals possible on their 401(k) and other retirement plans. Instead, these proposals could make it much harder for workers to receive fair and honest advice when making key financial decisions about their futures. In its final months in office, this administration has developed a disgraceful pattern of sneaking in last-minute regulatory changes at the behest of special interests. At a time when Americans' retirement accounts have already been pummeled by the nation's economic downturn, it is deeply extremely troubling that the department is trying to push through proposals that would further jeopardize workers' hard-earned savings. Indeed, the rules proposed by the administration today are nothing less than a boon for Wall Street and corporate executives, and I urge the Department to immediately withdraw these harmful proposals."
Miller is the author of the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 3185), which would ensure full disclosure of fees charged on 401(k) plans so their owners could shop for the best investment advice, according to Miller. His committee approved H.R. 3185 by a 25-19 vote on April 16; it awaits action by the full House of Representatives.


The Apache in this image are softening their horse's hooves. In the summer heat, when the hooves get very dry, they can crack quite severely and cause the horse to go lame. But as they're taking it easy, one of them sees this cavalry hat floating toward them in the water. Obviously, it indicates that there are soldiers in the area so it's just a matter of time before the Apache are found. They'll have to pack up and get out of there.


This is not a post filled with awesome gifts for the moms in your life. Instead, this post is about that intangible thing that every mom wants more than anything.
Anyway, we are heading into the home stretch of school preparation. Its almost here! I think most of the U.S. has already blown past is and already has their locker combinations but here we are. I've still got to iron out a few details about our new Homeschool Coop, pickup some school supplies, and take a look-see at our new Spelling curriculum. And probably buy a half-dozen pairs of new tennis shoes and a few packs of underwear.
It's a shared experience we all can relate too. The back-to-school rush. The smell of new school supplies. The planning.
As I ponder this moment, I'm overwhelmed by the judgement and chaos on social media right now.
I think more than anything, moms want to be understood.
To know that someone else gets it when we cry over spilled milk. Someone gets it when our toddler throws a tantrum in the grocery store. We've all been there when our boys are wrestling and things get out of hand. Or what about that time when your baby goes off to college?
We want to know that people know what we are going through and that it's going to be okay. That's what every mom wants.
But instead of coming alongside each other with words of encouragement and helpfulness, we head off to Facebook again to bash each other or bash whichever mom was unfortunate enough to have her two seconds of looking away from her child broadcast on national news. Or we talk politics and differences in ways that just aren't polite. We say things we'd never say to our best friend if she was sitting next to us. We judge each other.
Here we are. Millions of us moms. Looking for a hand to grasp or a shoulder to cry on, and instead we beat each other up and stir up controversy. It's crazy.
Why don't we all band together?
Those are my thoughts on this rainy Tuesday and I wanted to share them with you.
I don't have any favorite tips.
Make sure your shoes match! ??
I have never owned a Coach anything in my life.
Tip #2- wear it because YOU like it!
There you go- that's all the tips I got for ya! Ha!
A sincere smile makes you the most beautiful you can be.
My favorite fashion tip is lipstick! As a mom friend told me years ago, lipstick makes everything better. 🙂 I've recently discovered Lipstick Queen. Their moist lipstick is like a stain AND turns the color you need it to be. It's amazing!
Favourite fashion tip would be wear the clothes (jewellery, accessories, etc.) You love, don't "save" them for special occasions.
My favorite fashion tip is to have fun!
Wear a comfortable (maybe elastic) waistband on pants/skirts – that didn't occur to me as important until after I had kids!
The right kind of purse can double as a diaper bag!
My favorite fashion tip is to buy quality pieces that you can switch around to make several outfits.
Hmm……….Use what you love, regardless of what people think about it.
Great post! My favorite tip is to pick your color pallete and keep most of your wardrobe in that pallete. Then let a few pieces or accessories add your extra color. This gives a lot of versatility.
I wish all women would support one another!
My favorite fashion tip is to use a hair band on the inside or a flexi clip on the outside of an oversized shirt to tie it up.
Regardless of the latest fashion trends, wear what you are comfortable with. Accessories can really make an outfit, and don't be afraid to add a little color with your shoe choice.
My tip is where what you like.
Always buy clothes and shoes that are comfy.
Don't buy anything unless you love it!
My fashion tip is don't stress yourself out about what is popular now. It will change next week. Personal style transcends micro fashion.
Be comfortable and don't be afraid to change things up.
Shop for yourself (and your size, not it will fit when), not for what the magazines say is in style or the color your best friend is wearing.
Almost anything can look nice if you have a smile and good attitude.
I am way overdue for a new purse! I honestly know very little about fashion so I depend on Stitch Fox and generous friends!
I love when I can connect with moms in a non judgmental way.
Don't be afraid to mix and match patterns!
Express your own unique style.
For me, the longer the skirt or dress better (I love a good maxi). Longer is always better for making me look thinner, but more importantly, it's safer when chasing around 5 kids. There's way to much bending over, climbing over things, sitting in a strange posture on the ground, etc. to be safe in anything above mid-calf. Plus that maxi-material is usually super comfy.
Love this bag! Thank you for offering this giveaway!
Your body will change size and shape as you have babies and then as you grow older , but your God thinks you are beautiful and your husband does, so what else matters.?? Embrace the season of life you are in.
Make sure that whatever you wear you feel good in it. If you don't feel good then you are not being you.
What an awesome post…so true.
You always have nice giveaways and lots of helpful information. This is a cute purse for Fall. Thank you for all you do!


A nice consistent team effort helped us to cash last night with Ingram and Ferguson finally coming good with some runs. Weatherald and Sangha both going cheaply stopped it from being a really big night but the team was built around consistency and low-ownerships and that's what we got. A cash is a cash. Time to get back in the black to start the new year!
Assuming his social calendar is clear Pattinson comes straight back in this afternoon. Expect Ross to go into that middle order for Heazlett who has struggled. With Ross there the Heat can send Cutting north to 4 or 5 depending on the game and still have Burns/Ross/Pierson to steady the ship if needed. Frightening top 7.
This is without doubt the worst team in the comp. Possible that Phillipe opens with Edwards batting #4. With Pattinson back and a tricky two-paced Gold Coast wicket expect to see the Sixers middle-lower order see plenty of overs. If they bowl first this game could be over by 9:30pm.
Handscomb misses which makes Stoinis a very likely opener. Spot could go to Gotch though and if they bat 2nd it could even be Maxwell who comes out to open. Expect Gotch to play to sure up their batting. Would not be surprised to see young Merlo play as well, no reason not to give him a go as they just don't need Beer given Maxwell is the comp's best 3rd string spinner. Boland/Bird fighting for that second 'quick' spot.
Holland/Webster are fighting for a bowling spot. Holland the better bowler, Webster can bat abit so who knows which way they go. My guess is Holland plays because if he starts going for runs the Gades have all-rounders to cover him. Ludeman out makes room for Harper to return to open. Wildermuth has also opened and don't be surprised to see Nabi come in and take guard to open the innings.
The pitch at Metricon will be very interesting as the Gold Coast have had a week of scorching sunny days. I'm expecting runs in the Heat side regardless, their top seven are just too powerful and they bat so deep they will just keep going and going. Sixers in all sorts, that game screams 5/2 Heat stack especially if Heat bat first.
My Team: Lynn, McCollum, Bryant, Henriques, Cutting/Phillipe, Pattinson, Mujeeb, Henriques (Like Cutting to be elevated to #4 this afternoon, but also like the spot Phillipe is in – the kid could very well open too at really low ownership.
The late game is the focus though with $15,000 up for grabs in the Melbourne derby at the MCG. Plenty of value plays too. No Handscomb and no Ludeman make it very interesting for some top guys to get good run at the top of the order. The pitch was a road for the Test and both teams have gone spin-heavy which indicates they don't think much has changed. I'm taking as many batsman as I can tonight and hoping for a runs-fest.
Cam White ($14,000): The big bear is absolutely due for a monster game and he will get every chance to perform at #3 against a Stars bowling attack that is just not great. Plays the spinners well and is one of the rare players who can knock it around with touch or go big. He can finesse and bash. In front of 80,000 I just don't think he will throw it away tonight.
Nick Larkin ($11,000): Looks to have cemented that #3 at the Stars and again, in a game where we have identified that runs will come, having both first drops is a solid strategy (Ingram/Fergy last night for example). Likely to be underowned given the minimum price tags tonight, think most of the field will be able to spend up past Larkin and so because they can they will.
Mackenzie Harvey ($9,500): Great debut. Gun fielder as well which is what I really like. Love the top order batsman who field in the hot spots. Can usually lock in 10-20pts of fielding which turns a failed score with the bat into a nice 40-50pt night. Slight concern about the rookie in front of a full MCG second up but I loved his debut. Hopefully he follows up better than Sangha did!
Sam Harper ($11,700): Hoping for some recency bias to give me a nice sub 15% ownership on Harper tonight. Mid-range price tag also might help that. Two solid 40+ games from Harper before he was dropped from opening and sent to the lower order where he got a duck. Looked super solid at the top in his first two games. Expect he bats higher tonight again (will be he or Nabi for mine) and the Stars bowlers are not great, harper can be a great POD tonight.
Glen Maxwell ($18,700): Finally Maxy is bowling himself and with him batting top 4 he just becomes a must-play. Would absolutely love to see him dominate the MCG infront of 80,000+. Watch for Beer being named, if he is named then Maxwell wont bowl as much if at all.
Mohammad Nabi ($20,500): I have a sneaking suspicion we could see Nabi elevated up the order tonight for some flashy hitting in the power play. But even if he doesn't, he will bowl 2-4 overs and bat top 5 so if you can afford the price, he goes in.
Marcus Stoinis ($14,000): With Handscomb not playing and no Dean as well, there is a spot at the top for Stoinis to open the batting. Has done it before and I suspect they will want him to bat some time tonight before unleashing. Price has plummeted too on the back of a very underwhelming 14.2pt three-game fantasy average. We have seen already this season that the field will take the form over the class so someone like Stoinis (again, like Ingram and Fergy last night) can come good at a cheap price at low ownership tonight.
We've got seven top five batsman and a sprinkling of overs with the ball in a game where we are expecting the willow to dominate. If we have a 350-run game tonight this team will cash and cash well.


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package com.facebook.buck.rules.coercer;

import com.facebook.buck.core.cell.nameresolver.CellNameResolver;
import com.facebook.buck.core.model.TargetConfiguration;
import com.facebook.buck.core.path.ForwardRelativePath;
import com.facebook.buck.core.sourcepath.SourcePath;
import com.facebook.buck.core.sourcepath.SourceWithFlags;
import com.facebook.buck.core.sourcepath.UnconfiguredSourcePath;
import com.facebook.buck.io.filesystem.ProjectFilesystem;
import com.facebook.buck.util.types.Pair;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken;
import java.util.Collection;

/** A type coercer to handle source entries with a list of flags. */
public class SourceWithFlagsTypeCoercer implements TypeCoercer<Object, SourceWithFlags> {
  private final TypeCoercer<UnconfiguredSourcePath, SourcePath> sourcePathTypeCoercer;
  private final TypeCoercer<ImmutableList<String>, ImmutableList<String>> flagsTypeCoercer;
  private final TypeCoercer<
          Pair<UnconfiguredSourcePath, ImmutableList<String>>,
          Pair<SourcePath, ImmutableList<String>>>
      sourcePathWithFlagsTypeCoercer;

  SourceWithFlagsTypeCoercer(
      TypeCoercer<UnconfiguredSourcePath, SourcePath> sourcePathTypeCoercer,
      TypeCoercer<ImmutableList<String>, ImmutableList<String>> flagsTypeCoercer) {
    this.sourcePathTypeCoercer = sourcePathTypeCoercer;
    this.flagsTypeCoercer = flagsTypeCoercer;
    this.sourcePathWithFlagsTypeCoercer =
        new PairTypeCoercer<>(sourcePathTypeCoercer, flagsTypeCoercer);
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  @Override
  public TypeToken<SourceWithFlags> getOutputType() {
    return TypeToken.of(SourceWithFlags.class);
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  @Override
  public TypeToken<Object> getUnconfiguredType() {
    return TypeToken.of(Object.class);
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  @Override
  public boolean hasElementClass(Class<?>... types) {
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  @Override
  public void traverse(CellNameResolver cellRoots, SourceWithFlags object, Traversal traversal) {
    sourcePathTypeCoercer.traverse(cellRoots, object.getSourcePath(), traversal);
    flagsTypeCoercer.traverse(cellRoots, ImmutableList.copyOf(object.getFlags()), traversal);
  }

  @Override
  public Object coerceToUnconfigured(
      CellNameResolver cellRoots,
      ProjectFilesystem filesystem,
      ForwardRelativePath pathRelativeToProjectRoot,
      Object object)
      throws CoerceFailedException {
    return object;
  }

  @Override
  public SourceWithFlags coerce(
      CellNameResolver cellRoots,
      ProjectFilesystem filesystem,
      ForwardRelativePath pathRelativeToProjectRoot,
      TargetConfiguration targetConfiguration,
      TargetConfiguration hostConfiguration,
      Object object)
      throws CoerceFailedException {
    if (object instanceof SourceWithFlags) {
      return (SourceWithFlags) object;
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    // We're expecting one of two types here. They can be differentiated pretty easily.
    if (object instanceof String) {
      return SourceWithFlags.of(
          sourcePathTypeCoercer.coerceBoth(
              cellRoots,
              filesystem,
              pathRelativeToProjectRoot,
              targetConfiguration,
              hostConfiguration,
              object));
    }

    // If we get this far, we're dealing with a Pair of a SourcePath and a String.
    if (object instanceof Collection<?> && ((Collection<?>) object).size() == 2) {
      Pair<SourcePath, ImmutableList<String>> sourcePathWithFlags =
          sourcePathWithFlagsTypeCoercer.coerceBoth(
              cellRoots,
              filesystem,
              pathRelativeToProjectRoot,
              targetConfiguration,
              hostConfiguration,
              object);
      return SourceWithFlags.of(sourcePathWithFlags.getFirst(), sourcePathWithFlags.getSecond());
    }

    throw CoerceFailedException.simple(
        object,
        getOutputType(),
        "input should be either a source path or a pair of a source path and a list of flags");
  }
}

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Egypt: Release Ahmed Samir Santawy and end crackdown on researchers
The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecution to release Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master's researcher at the Central European University (CEU) in Austria, given that the investigations concerning him are not based on solid evidence. The organizations stress the need for the Public Prosecution to assume its role in investigating Santawi's disappearance and the fact that he was beaten by National Security Agency officers.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution remanded Samir in custody for fifteen days pending investigations in Case No. 65 of 2021 on charges of "joining a terrorist group, spreading false news meant to undermine security and public order, and using a Facebook account for that purpose".
The Cairo's Fifth Settlement Police Station remanded Samir on 1 February after it summoned him. A force from the police station raided Samir's house on 23 January, searched it, and seized the recordings of the house's surveillance cameras. Santawy was on a trip to Dahab in South Sinai at the time, so the police force asked his family to tell him to go to the police station upon his return home. Indeed, Samir went to the police station on Saturday 30 January, and he was told to come again on Monday 1 February. He went again at 12 noon on Monday, and then he was forcibly disappeared for five days.
The crackdown on Egyptian researchers and their families has been on the rise. On 10 February, police raided the house of Germany-based researcher Taqadum al-Khatib, searched it, and seized his father's phone and papers belonging to Taqadum. This comes as part of broader crackdown on researchers and teaching and scientific research staff; master's and PhD students have been among those arrested over the past years.
Patrick George Zaki, a master's researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy, has been held in pretrial detention since he was arrested at Cairo Airport upon his return in February 2020 to spend his holiday in Egypt. Zaki's arrest was accompanied by widespread solidarity campaigns from academics around the world, especially in Italy. Several Italian cities have granted him honorary citizenship.
Walid Salem, a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, was arrested on 23 March 2018, after meeting a university professor as part of his work on his research. He was released on 11 December 2018, but his passport was withdrawn and he was banned from travel. So far, he has been unable to complete his study and return to his family abroad.
The truth is still absent in the murder of Italian PhD researcher Giulio Regeni from Cambridge University, after his disappearance in January 2016. He was a visitor at the American University in Cairo to work on a doctoral thesis about the Independent Street Vendors Union as a model for independent unions in Egypt. His body was found beside a road in Cairo's western outskirts, showing signs of torture. As a result, many international universities have become increasingly anxious to cooperate with Egyptian universities, or to send their researchers to Egypt.
The undersigned organizations also renew their call for the release of university professors who are held in pretrial detention in connection with political cases due to their exercise of their right to freedom of expression and public work. At least three Egyptian university professors have been held in pretrial detention for a prolonged period. They are Dr. Hazem Hosni, who has been imprisoned since September 2019 in connection with Case No. 488 of 2019; Dr. Magdy Qarqar, who has also been held in pretrial detention since September 2019 in Case No. 1350 of 2019; and Dr. Ahmed al-Tohamy, an assistant professor of political science at Alexandria University, who was arrested on 3 June 2020 in connection with Case No. 649 of 2020 and has been held in pretrial detention since then. Meanwhile, Yahia Al Qazzaz Helwan University professor is being questioned by the university on vague charges such as insulting the President of the Republic.
The Egyptian human rights organizations stress the need to release Santawy and all researchers and university professors who are held in pretrial detention in cases that lack real indictment evidence, and without verifying the justifications and regulations of pretrial detention as an exceptional measure.
The crackdown on researchers and university professors does not only violate the practical, political, and civil rights and freedoms of members of academia but also affects the future of higher education and scientific research in Egypt as well as the country's ability to produce advanced scientific research, in addition to isolating Egyptian researchers and professors from their counterparts around the world.
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The Association for the Freedom of Thought and Expression
El Nadeem Center
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
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The Committee for Justice
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Egyptian Front for Human Rights
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Considering the diverse makeup of the GTA, it's not surprising that when it comes to curry there are dozens to choose from. Curry, typically characterized by a thick sauce simmered with chilies and warm spices like cumin, ginger, turmeric and cardamom, evolved from India and has been adapted in dishes around the globe. There are lemongrass-scented curries in Thailand, scorching scotch-bonnet curries of the Caribbean nations and the sweet coconut curry soups of Singapore, to name a few.
Suresh Doss, suburban foodie and editor of Foodism magazine's Toronto edition, took me on a two-day tour of the many restaurants that serve curries across the Greater Toronto Area. Here's a taste of what we found.
Pho is undoubtedly the most famous dish to come out of Vietnam but at Bong Lua, it's the curry goat with noodles that's worth ordering. "You'll usually see noodles with chicken or beef, so we try to do something special with goat," says owner Quy Hoang Dang, who put the dish on the menu a year and a half ago. "You also don't see curry pho often." The broth starts with a coconut milk base, a blend of three different curry powders and a tinge of fish sauce and sugar to give a warming but light and milky-sweet flavour. Customers who like it hot can ask for extra chilies, of course.
This restaurant has Malaysia in its name, but it's known for its Singaporean laksa, a spicy noodle soup that comes in either a rich coconut curry broth or a sour tamarind broth called asam. Head chef Amy Lim uses the recipes passed down from her father and grandfather, who were chefs back in Malaysia. The curry version comes with thin noodles topped with shrimp, fish cake, chicken and a smidgen of homemade spicy shrimp paste called belacan. It's an ultra rich dish with a slow, wonderful burn.
At lunchtime it's not unusual to see the line snake out the door at this 24-year-old takeout spot specializing in Tamil and Sri Lankan cuisine. (Its neighbour Mona's Roti, is also worth checking out for the Trinidadian curry). Customers line up for short eats, Sri Lankan hand-held snacks (the curried fish patties are unreal), and takeout boxes of its seemingly endless curry selection. The crab curry, a staple dish in the coastal city of Jaffna, is gloriously messy to eat: shell-on and smothered in a thick and sinus-clearing spicy curry, and served on a bed of rice with veggies.
"We have customers coming in to say our food tastes the same as it did when we first opened in Dufferin Mall in 1973. It's all about staying consistent after all these years," says Island Foods co-owner Mala Sawh, who runs the 12-year-old North York location with her husband, Dave. His two sisters run the downtown location at King and Dufferin Sts. Trinidadian rotis are the specialty with boneless chicken and goat being the most popular but the oxtail is a personal favourite. Tender hunks of beef are slow-cooked in a herbal curry thickened with potatoes then wrapped in a steaming hot roti, the staple flatbread of the West Indies originally brought to the island by Indian labourers.
The 16-year-old Malaysian restaurant makes about 10 curry pastes for its chicken, beef, vegetable, fish, shrimp, crab and noodle dishes. The chicken curry is a beautiful dark orange in colour and thinner than its West Indian counterpart. The taste is more mild than spicy, with a subtle sweet coconut aftertaste that's highly addictive. Order it with a side of the ultra thin house-made roti, more suitable for ripping and dipping than wrapping like a Trinidadian roti, says Ryan Chew, who runs the restaurant with his parents. Another curry must-try: call ahead to order the fish head curry, a massive slow-cooked grouper head that feeds four to six diners.
Located in the heart of Toronto's Little Jamaica at Eglinton Ave. W. at Oakwood Ave., Randy's has consistently had lineups since it opened in 1978 to serve some of the best Jamaican patties in the city. Inside each flaky yellow pastry (a riff on the Cornish pastry introduced by British colonialists) is perfectly seasoned curried ground beef, chicken or vegetables, packing a wallop of scotch bonnet and peppery notes (essential Jamaican flavours). Sandwich the patty between sweet cocoa bread to help absorb some of the heat, or do what most customers do and buy a box of 12 to take home.
Not commonly seen on Toronto menus, the dak bungalow is said to have originated from India's state of West Bengal when it was under British rule centuries ago. The dish is named after government-owned guest houses that provided lodging and food for travelling officials, says Tich owner Karan Kalia, who wanted to showcase lesser known Indian dishes. This simple but filling curry of chicken and boiled eggs is cooked in an aromatic base of turmeric, green and black cardamom, garlic, green chilies and lots of ginger.
Thai curries have the distinction of having bright, herbal and sour notes thanks to the use of lemongrass, galangal, fresh ginger and makrut lime leaves. Chef Nuit Regular's gaeng aom carries the characteristics of curries found in Thailand's northeastern region, which favours a heavier use of vegetables and less coconut milk, she says. Gaeng aom is made from slow-cooking veal tendon and meat with the aforementioned herbs and a dash of bile — the liquid secreted from the animal's liver. The bile's bitterness adds body to the curry's tartness, creating a subtle extra layer of flavour.
Originating in Thailand's central region, green curries are favoured for their rich, slightly sweet coconut broth that get their colour from green chilies, Thai basil leaves, lemongrass and makrut lime leaves. Coconut milk makes it rather mild, allowing herbal flavours to shine. Nana's version isn't shy on chilies, though, so have an extra order of rice to help spread the spice.


Mother's Day is a wonderful time to celebrate mothers. But what about spiritual mothers?
In the world today, there is a huge need for spiritual mothers. Some people have the tendency to think that after their own children are out of the home, their role as a mother is minimized. But the church needs spiritual mothers.
Most mother's days, the pastor tends to focus a message towards mothers in the church. But Mother's Day is not a pleasant day for everyone. For those who long to be mothers and are not able to have children, Mother's Day is extremely painful. For young women who want to be married and have children, it can also be painful and disconnected from where they are in life.
But today I want to change our focus. While not everyone is a mother – we all have mothers. We all are here today because someone carried us for nine months and gave birth to us. The Bible says that we are to honor our mothers (See Ephesians 6:1-3). Here Paul quotes the ten commandments, and he adds a little commentary by saying, this is the first commandment with a promise.
This passage from Ephesians 6, is in the middle of an extended portion where Paul is addressing all our human relationships. Wives and husbands, children and parents, slaves and masters, or our modern work relationships, and then he ends with section with an exhortation to put on the full armor of God, because our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but rather against all the spiritual forces of evil (Ephesians 6v12).
Why does he end this whole section with this seemingly disconnected challenge to spiritual warfare?
Because, Satan is constantly out to destroy relationships, to tear down the bond of families, to destroy our love and respect for each other. God ordained families to be the place where children are raised up to know and love Him, to learn the truth about love, respect, and the Gospel. Our families are under attack daily and we need to be aware of this. The best way for families to be strong, is to pray together, it is no small thing for families to pray together, and often it is the mother who must take the initiative and lead this.
What does it mean to "honor" your mother? If you're a child, then it means to obey, to submit to her authority. And not just to do what she says, but to yield graciously, willingly and cheerfully. Simply doing what you are told, with a bad attitude it not honoring. True obedience flows from a heart attitude that freely accepts the mother's rightful authority.
Parental authority is given by God, and so the attitude the child develops toward the parent's authority will be the attitude they develop towards God's authority. Parents, if you allow your children to ignore and despise your authority over them, then they will learn to ignore and despise God's authority over them as well.
What about children who are out of the home? An adult child is no longer obligated to comply with the desires and wishes of their parent, you and I have a choice to listen, evaluate the request and to choose whether or not to comply with the request of our parent. Sometimes, parents can be quite overbearing and use this scripture verse to manipulate and control their adult child. but this is not what God intended with this commandment.
Honoring is not blind obedience, it is respect and courtesy, taking time to hear their opinion, treating our mothers with honor is as simple as giving them time.
Honoring your mother also includes how you speak to her, and about her. This applies both to young people and to adults. Pay attention to your tone of voice when you're talking with your mother, is it kind, gentle, gracious? Or is it impatient, angry or bitter? Your tone of voice reflects your heart attitude.
Another thing we can do to honor our mothers is to praise them, to verbally acknowledge their virtues and accomplishments, to give thanks for all the things they do for us.
Husbands, acknowledge and praise your wives, this is a crucial way to develop an honoring culture in your home. Children will learn how to treat their mother by watching how you treat her, and if you are regularly praising and thanking her, then they will too.
Our mothers are a gift from God, the blessings that we receive from our mothers are from God (James 1:17). The good characteristics that we see in our mothers, the creativity, the strength, the wisdom, the love and so much more come from God. Let us remember as we honor mothers, to praise God for mothers.
But we can talk about honoring mothers, respecting them and obeying them, however as followers of Jesus Christ our ultimate loyalty must be Christ. Jesus is the one who paid for our sins by dying on the cross for us, Jesus was raised from the dead by God and Jesus is the one who paid for our eternal life. As well-meaning and wonderful as our mothers may be, as followers of Jesus Christ, our lives belong to him. As we seek to live our lives as followers of Jesus, ultimately, we answer to him as Lord of our lives (Matthew 10:37-39).
We are to love and honor our mothers, because there is blessing in that as the commandment says, but even more than that, we need to love and honor Christ. Are you doing that?
Mothers and fathers, are you pointing your children to the savior, are you encouraging them to love Christ even more than they love you?
So much of our Christmas season focuses on the birth of Jesus, but we cannot look at the birth of Jesus without looking at the reason why Jesus came to live amongst us.
Luke's Gospel tells the narrative of how Jesus would be conceived and named. In Luke 1:26-35 we read how Mary had an encounter with the angel Gabriel, and he told her that the baby would be called Jesus. Jesus means God Saves, this must have been another indicator to Mary of who Jesus really was.
Every child carries some of the attributes and characteristics of their mother and their father. The angel told Mary that Jesus would be conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus would have some of the attributes of Mary and some of the attributes of God himself. And we know from Hebrews 1:3 that Jesus is fully God and fully man.
So, this child, conceived miraculously by the power of the Holy Spirit, is the exact representation of God the Father and he is fully God, but by being born of Mary, he also has some of the nature of Mary. This is by God's infinite design so that by being a man, Jesus would one day be able to offer himself as the perfect sacrifice for our sins.
The Apostle Paul wrote about this in Philippians 2:6-8.
We know that Jesus reflected the nature and character of God the Father, but how much of the character of Mary did Jesus possess as he walked the earth?
Looking at the way in which Jesus dealt with people we can see some of what Mary must have been like. Jesus was compassionate and kind, especially with children Jesus displayed patience and tenderness.
Jesus sought out the people on the fringes of society, calling them, showing them compassion and embracing them.
When the angel encountered Mary, he told her in verse 30, that she had found favor with God. God saw in Mary something special, she found favor with God possibly because she displayed the characteristics of gentleness, compassion, patience and tenderness. Perhaps it is possible that God saw in Mary the character traits, that He placed in her in the first place, but the character traits that would be necessary for Jesus to be who he was.
This child that lay asleep on her lap would one day grow up to have the character traits of care and compassion that his mother had.
There are several times in the Bible where the nature of God is described using motherly language and imagery (See Isaiah 66:13, Deuteronomy 32:11-12a, Psalm 22:9-10, Hosea 13:8a, Luke 13:34).
We see these images of God in the Bible as partial descriptions of the nature and character of God. Jesus is the exact representation of God; therefore, he must have these attributes himself. The same attributes that Mary displayed.
When the time came for Jesus to face the completion of his mission, just before he was arrested and crucified, he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, humbly submitting to the perfect plan and will of the Father (Luke 22:41-42).
Both Jesus and Mary lived lives of extraordinary consequence, but both suffered deep pain. We only have a glimpse from the account of the crucifixion of how much pain and suffering Jesus went through as he paid the price for our salvation, but Mary also suffered. When Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple they met Simeon who praised God for allowing him to see the Messiah before his death, and went on to prophecy over Mary foretelling of the pain that she would one day endure (Luke 2:34-35).
Even in the Christmas carol, focusing on the birth of Jesus, we read of the purpose of why Jesus came to earth and gave up his glory in heaven. Mary was present at the crucifixion, standing by the cross, and enduring the agony of seeing her son die in the most excruciating way. Mary never left the side of Jesus, she was committed to being there for her son. This is also a promise of Jesus and one of the primary characteristics of the nature of God, he is a faithful God who promises to never leave us.
No matter how dark the season is that you are going through, no matter how lonely you feel at this Christmas season God is always near and his Word promises that He will be with you.
Jesus promised his disciples when he left them his Great Commission (Matthew 28:20b).
One of the most powerful scenes of compassion took place as Jesus hung suffering on the cross. Mary was there, and she wanted to help alleviate the pain, but Jesus looked at her and cared for her as he instructed the Apostle John to care for his mother (see John 19:26-17). What an incredible picture of love and compassion, in his pain he made sure that Mary was going to be taken care of.
"What child is this?" He is the one who came to love and to be the selfless sacrifice for all those who would believe in his name. But praise God, it didn't end there. Jesus rose from the dead in a new resurrected body, Jesus became the first born of the new creation, and by his re-birth we can be born again.
Mary came to understand that this miraculous baby became the greater miracle, the way of salvation for millions of people who would put their faith and trust in him.
This Jesus is still the same today, full of compassion and love, ready to meet your needs.
If you are facing a huge trial and difficulty, Jesus knows what you are going through and he can meet your need.
If you are lonely and struggling with depression, Jesus knows your pain and is full of compassion.
Jesus came to earth as a little baby, to be fully man, so that he could identify with you and me (see Hebrews 4:15-16).


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Big match preview: Millwall (A)
All you need to know guide for the trip to Millwall...
Fleetwood travel to Millwall this weekend hoping to make it three wins on the bounce after a hard fought three points on Tuesday night away at Chesterfield.
Millwall will be hoping to get back to winning ways after a disappointing home defeat to Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday night.
One to watch: Steve Morrison
Morrison is currently enjoying his third spell at The Den and is a real fan favourite having already netted eight goals in all competitions so far this season.
The powerful forward began his career at Northampton Town but it was with Stevenage where he made a name for himself scoring 76 goals in 142 games, Morison signed for Millwall in 2009 and played a pivotal role in the club's promotion to the Championship that season.
The Welsh international will be hoping to add to his goal tally and Town must be wary of the front man's talent.
Millwall suffered a 2-0 home defeat to Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday night at The Den. Goals from Sammy Ameobi and David Wheater were enough for Phil Parkinson's men to strengthen their position in the play-offs.
Uwe Rosler's side travelled to the Proact Stadium to face Chesterfield. Conor McLaughlin ensured the Cod Army returned home with all three points after a composed finish 5 minutes before half-time.
Millwall; L L W W L
Fleetwood; L D L W W
Ticket details:
Tickets are only available to pay on the day at The Den, the prices are as follows:
Over 60's: £14
Under 16's: £10
Under 12's: £5
Tickets can be purchased from the North Stand ticket office (away end) which is situated next to the away turnstiles from 1:30pm. Both cash and cards are accepted.


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€28.5m for microalgae expert Microphyt
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French microalgae specialist Microphyt has raised €28.5m to develop its microalgae portfolio for nutrition and cosmetics.
Anti-aging creams and weight-loss supplements: natural products for nutrition and cosmetics are booming. In order to tap into this market, French Microphyt is harnessing the active molecules present in microalgae. Now, investors have rewarded that approach with a €28.5m financing round. The investment was co-led by Sofinnova Partners and Bpifrance, through the "Sociétés de Projets Industriels" fund ("SPI fund"), together with IXO-Private Equity and Sofilaro. Existing investors, Supernova Invest, Demeter Partners and Irdi Soridec also participated in the new financing round.
Microphyt plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of the product portfolio, to expand sales network globally, and to increase production capacity of its industrial platform. Since 2009, Microphyt has developed a proprietary production technology to access the large diversity of natural substances within microalgae. This patented process, developed in-house, is based on 5,000-litre tubular photobioreactors, which offer both high differentiation potential and the ability to supply natural active ingredients in an industrial and standardised way.
The Baillargues-based company is also developing a portfolio of 10 nutritional active ingredients and 20 cosmetic active and functional ingredients, which contribute to improving the wellbeing of the elderly, preventing certain metabolic disorders, facilitating an active lifestyle and protecting the skin from various stresses. To achieve this, Microphyt will strengthen its team and will significantly increase its ingredient production capacity over the next 18 months. "For several years now, Microphyt was actively committed to unlocking the full potential of microalgae amazing diversity through our unique technology platform," commented Vincent Usache, CEO of Microphyt. "With this funding, we will speed up the development and supply of novel natural products that solve the key challenges of Nutrition & Wellbeing."
"Microphyt is exactly the type of company that Sofinnova Partners is looking for as a pioneering investor in industrial biotechnology: thanks to its proprietary technology platform and unique production capacity that allows access to the exceptional biodiversity of microalgae, the company is in an ideal position to become one of the world leaders in natural ingredients dedicated to nutrition and well-being," added Denis Lucquin, Managing Partner of Sofinnova Partners.
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Zizek, Slavoj
Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek (born 1949) is an academic star, the "Elvis of Cultural Studies," according to one often-quoted journalistic formulation. His lectures, dealing in ideas that are often dense to the point of impenetrability, draw crowds numbering in the hundreds, with their mix of philosophical theory and topical political ideas, both often illustrated by examples drawn from American popular culture.
Zizek talks as fast as he thinks, and writes nearly as fast as he can talk (he has published as many as three books in the course of a single year), often making things even more difficult for the reader with a style of argument in which he often seems to contradict himself. James Harkin, writing in the London Guardian, called him "a one-man heavy industry of cultural criticism." Yet Zizek's fame rests on more than sheer mental agility. Consistent with his origins in Communist-era Yugoslavia, Zizek has espoused Marxist-Leninist ideas, which have remained current in academic circles even as they have lost ground in the wider political sphere. Zizek has reinvigorated Marxist-Leninist thought with an approach that brings together philosophy, psychology, film studies, humor, and engaging prose. His writing encompasses both political philosopher Karl Marx and film comedian Groucho Marx. Documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor, who made a film about Zizek, told Reyhan Harmaci of the San Francisco Chronicle that Zizek seems "to make intellectualism exciting and fun and vital in a climate of anti-intellectualism." In Zizek's own biography on the website of the European Graduate School, where he is a faculty member, he indicated that he "uses popular culture to explain the theory of [French philosopher] Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture."
Grew Up Under Communism
A native and lifelong resident of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Slavoj Zizek (SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek) was born on March 21, 1949, when the small Alpine capital was part of Communist Yugoslavia. An only child, he grew up in the household of professional parents. Like many other young people in the former satellite states of the Soviet Union, he consumed Western popular culture avidly in preference to officially approved domestic television, books, and films. Much of his encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood cinema was acquired during his teenage years, when he spent long hours at an auditorium that specialized in showing foreign films. The "Prague spring" reform movement of 1968 in Czechoslovakia during which Czechs agitated for greater freedom but were repressed by the Soviet Union, had an important effect on Zizek, even though he was not one of the demonstrators agitating in favor of greater freedom.
Zizek was in the Czech capital when Soviet troops invaded, and he observed the collision of totalitarian power with the aspirations of ordinary people. "I found there, on the central square, a café that miraculously worked through this emergency," he told Rebecca Mead of the New Yorker. "I remember they had wonderful strawberry cakes, and I was sitting there eating strawberry cakes and watching Russian tanks against demonstrators. It was perfect."
Not that Zizek was a supporter of Communist orthodoxy. As an undergraduate at the University of Ljubljana he read widely, not sticking to approved course lists. He spoke six languages, and immersed himself in the works of Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and other philosophers, mostly French, whose writings had found little favor in socialist circles. In the case of Lacan, that philosopher's work relied on psychology—a suspect science from a collectivist point of view because of its preoccupation with the self and the individual mind. Zizek would, in time, set out to reconcile that seeming dichotomy.
Zizek earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology in 1971, and then pursued a master's degree, also at the University of Ljubljana, writing his master's thesis on the French philosophers whose ideas he had been studying. The brilliance of his thesis stirred up interest among the university's philosophy faculty, but its ideologically suspect qualities were more troublesome. Finally, after being forced to add an appendix in which he outlined the divergences of his ideas from approved Marxist theory, Zizek was awarded a master's degree in philosophy in 1975. The taint on his reputation kept him from finding a teaching position. For several years Zizek depended on his work as a translator to pay his bills, but in 1977 he gave in to pressure and joined the Communist Party. This opened up government speechwriting jobs, as well as the chance to take a job as a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana in 1979. He retained that position for the next several decades, even after gaining international renown.
Worked as Speechwriter
In 1981 Zizek headed to Paris, where he studied with Lacan's son-in-law and was psychoanalyzed by him. He finished a dissertation and received his doctoral degree from the university that year. By that time Zizek had emerged as something of an expert on Lacan, and as the leader of a group of so-called Ljubljana Lacanians, contributing to a level of familiarity with Lacan in Slovenia that perhaps exceeded even that in France itself.
Zizek's playful side began to emerge during this period, when he wrote, under a pen name, a negative review of one of his own books. Sometimes during his career Zizek would seem to adopt one position and then switch to the exact opposite, but this tendency had roots in the dialectical tradition of philosophy in which his thought was rooted—the conviction that truth is ultimately obtained through the resolution of a series of opposites or conflicts. Zizek's first book published in the West was The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), which focused on the greatest of all the dialectical philosophers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), through the prism of Lacan's thought. It was a daring combination; Zizek drew new links between philosophy and psychology by considering how these thinkers treated the idea of the Other—anything that is not part of the Self.
Zizek also cultivated his more public persona during the 1980s, a period during which Yugoslavia's Communist central government gradually began to lose control over the country's cultural life. He penned a popular newspaper column, and in 1990, when Slovenia was on the brink of independence from Yugoslavia (achieving it after a ten-day war in 1991), he entered the race to become part of the group of four leaders who would hold the country's joint presidency. Of the five candidates, he finished fifth, and was thus not elected. It was at this time that the impressive spurt in Zizek's productivity began. He was living alone; a marriage from the early 1970s, which produced a son, had ended, and his second and third marriages (the second produced another son) were still in the future. Zizek had few responsibilities other than to think and write. His post was that of researcher, and he rarely if ever taught classes.
Partly this kind of financial freedom for an academic was a holdover from the Communist system, in which intellectuals were considered an important part of the theoretical underpinning of the state, and were thus financially supported if they were seen to be making useful contributions. Zizek cherished this freedom. As his fame grew, he was frequently offered teaching positions in the United States, where he garnered a strong following in university cultural studies departments. He turned them all down, although he cheerfully accepted visiting scholar appointments and often spent much of the year traveling from one academic center to another. "When people ask me why I don't teach permanently in the United States," Zizek was quoted as saying in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "I tell them that it is because American universities have this very strange, eccentric idea that you must work for your salary. I prefer to do the opposite and not work for my salary."
Used Film to Illustrate Ideas
In any event, Zizek repaid his university's investment by bringing international intellectual attention to tiny Slovenia. He turned out books quickly, and they were translated into some 20 languages; in the United States many were published by Verso in New York, which profited from its association with Zizek, for the books sold well. Zizek communicated and expanded upon Lacan's difficult ideas about perception, desire, and aggression by illustrating them with examples drawn from decades of popular films that students and general readers knew well. Zizek's own books, such as Looking Awry; An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture (1991) and Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (1992), were joined on bookstore shelves by collections of articles he edited, including Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (1992).
Zizek's international fame grew after a 1997 essay written by the influential British literary critic Terry Eagleton was published in the London Review of Books. The essay reviewed several of Zizek's books and concluded, as quoted in Contemporary Authors, that they "have an enviable knack of making [Continental philosophers] Kant or Kierkegaard sound riotously exciting; his writing bristles with difficulties but never serves up a turgid sentence." It was around this time that Zizek's lectures began to attract large crowds of young intellectuals. Police had to be called to a Zizek appearance at a Lower Manhattan art gallery after the shutout portion of an overflow crowd began banging on the building's windows, demanding admission. Nor was his fame confined to America and Europe; a documentary film, Zizek!, followed the philosopher to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where similar crowds awaited him.
Zizek's popularity was due partly to the dizzying virtuosity of his speeches, which were free form traversals of the history of philosophy, mixed with observations on anything from the Matrix film series to surfing, to world events, to theology (although an atheist, Zizek was fascinated by the figure of Saint Paul, seeing in him an analogue to early Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in terms of building an organization motivated by ideas). One audience member at a Zizek talk told Scott McLemee, author of the "Zizek Watch," a column published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "I have no idea where we just went, but that was one wild trip." Another explanation of Zizek's success came from McLemee, who noted the theorist's continuing enthusiasm for American films. "One source of Slavoj Zizek's lasting appeal as a cultural theorist is that he provides a really good excuse to go to the video store," McLemee wrote.
Zizek also showed a knack for keeping himself in the headlines, at least those of intellectual journals. He broadened the focus of his writing to include current events, and he even contributed an essay to the staid U.S. journal Foreign Policy that examined the psychological motivations behind the failed U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq war. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (2000) was one of several Zizek tomes on contemporary entertainment. With Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on 11 September and Related Dates, Zizek showed an uncharacteristic tendency to edit himself, recalling the book several times for revisions as it went through subsequent printings. Zizek's Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (2004) critiqued not only the rationale for war but also explored psychological factors involved in the restrictions placed on American civil liberties after the September 11 attacks.
Academic fashions come and go, but as of the mid-2000s the bearded Zizek had spent nearly a decade as what Carlin Romano of the Philadelphia Inquirer called "the ultimate hottie in recent years on the global intellectual circuit." In April of 2005 he married a 27-year-old Argentine model. He joined the faculty of the European Graduate School, an international institute of communications theory with locations in several countries, and he worked for an unusually long time on The Parallax View, a lengthy philosophical tract that attempted to redefine the dialectical idea itself, leaving room, as ever, for discussions of films, the war on terror, and hot topics such as neuroscience. By the time it was published, Zizek had moved on to a new book, In Defense of Lost Causes, in which he discussed the Christian legacy, class struggle, and problems in the world of theory itself. The book was slated for publication in the summer of 2007.
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– David Kani, November 5th 2018
Investing in cannabis companies has reached a fever pitch, with shares of big names like Aurora, Tilray, and Canopy Growth being gobbled up a rate reminiscent of that of the tech boom in the late 1990s.
According to one analyst, however, one company about to go public on the Canadian stock exchange could be a sleeper hit. Debra Borchardt, best known for Green Market Report, hints that Tilt Holdings – a vertically-integrated marriage between software provider Baker Technologies, cannabis delivery company Briteside, facilities operator Sea Hunter, and cannabis producer Sante Veritas – could be a hot pot stock to watch. The firm is on track to do $70 million in revenue for 2018, and CEO Alex Coleman believes they'll reach $500 million by the end of 2019.
Borchardt believes that the robust individual offerings of the four companies will bode well for the firm, as well as the news that they are planning on acquiring vaporizer hardware company Jupiter with others to be announced soon. She adds that the majority of the businesses under the TILT umbrella do not actually touch cannabis, making them more profitable than some other related companies because they aren't affected by tough 280E tax laws in the United States.
When the companies announced the founding of TILT Holdings in May, they had collectively raised over $150 million in capital and securities. According to the terms of the agreement, Baker, Briteside, Sea Hunter, and Sante Veritas will own approximately 14.3%, 22.3%, 41.1%, and 22.3%, of TILT, respectively.
"The combined company is expected to allow TILT to provide a more holistic solution to the industry," said Baker CEO, Joel Milton, in a press release. "Baker's goal has always been to provide our clients a single platform that connects all of the tools and data they use on a daily basis. This merger is expected to be a win for us, the cannabis retail ecosystem and, most of all, the producers and dispensaries and their customers. Through this broader platform, with greater access to capital and resources, we are excited to introduce new technology-enabled products which continue to create value for our clients. While these are currently being generated internally, we now also expect to accelerate our offerings through complementary, future acquisitions."
As big-name pot stocks continue to run wild across the markets, TILT has the potential to rise above the rest quietly. Borchardt acknowledges that while the partnering companies have a lot of clout, it could take time before the wildly different businesses find their synergistic voice – particularly in Canada, where recreational cannabis sales are about to begin within weeks.
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Former parish church, now serving as a chapel to Winchester College is undergoing a schedule of works that will keep the building in use and update the user experience with the proposed reordering plans.
Ellis & Co have been at St Michael's Church since the summer of 2019, we are now entering the completion phase of works. These works include the installation of toilets and their associated drainage, new glass lobby and screen, new heating and lighting system, interior re-ordering, plastering, masonry repairs and re-roofing.
The exterior re-roofing is now complete, the slates and have been replaced with a mix of the original and new natural Welsh slate. The entire slate roof was removed including the battens, a new 'bat friendly' underlay was installed as well as bat slates being placed within the roof to make provision for and help sustain the bat community within the city centre.
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Twenty-five ramblers met between 'The Man' and 'The View' at Port William harbour on a beautiful sunny morning. Three visitors to the group were welcomed. 'The Man' is the realistic bronze sculpture by Andrew Brown overlooking Luce Bay. The plaque nearby has the inscription by WH Davies' What is this life if full of care,we have no time to stand and stare'.
The walk started south through the village past the community charity shop which successfully raises funds for local and international projects. The path alongside the Kings Green caravan campsite was easy underfoot and led to the more difficult pebbly beach. For the two miles to Monreith the leader was determined to avoid the road so found grass areas or fine shingle to walk on where possible. An adder sunning itself decided to disappear rapidly. Due to the tide just being halfway out an energetic exit up the Kelton steps was made as a slight detour into Monreith before accessing the beach again. Then the short sharp climb up the heugh was used to reach the Otter path. On arrival into the first field the wonderful scent of the gorse was appreciated and when on the path the lovely views back along the coast. The bronze otter was sculpted by Penny Wheatley in memory of the local author Gavin Maxwell. From there was a clear view of the nine hole St Medans golf course which featured in the Ryder cup tour of Scotland last year.
After a mini break the walkers were advised that lunch was on the top of Barhullion Fell in an hour's time. So at a good pace the ramblers walked inland via Knock School campsite and Larroch Farm and across the sheep grazed fields to the small ruined cottage on the fell. A contour route west was taken until an opening in the gorse was reached and then the route led up gently to the trig point with beautiful views all around including the Isle of Man and the Cumbrian fells.
After a break for lunch was taken, with a few small hailstones thrown in, the ramblers descended via Stellock and Blairbuy to Monreith estate. The Wren's egg, an erratic boulder possibly originally part of a stone circle, was observed in a field. The massive stand of monkey puzzle trees were significant against a very blue sky and eventually the spread of skunk cabbage (genus Lysichiton) was seen. This was in full bloom with its vibrant yellow flowers and an unusual odour. The spacious lcehouse in the undergrowth was investigated, an interesting find, as not seen before on numerous ventures into the estate. The side of the loch was followed with gorgeous crimson and pink rhododendrons in flower. Wild garlic was in abundance through the woods.
Crossing the main Wigtown Port William road brought the walkers onto one of the tracks for the cows. This was followed gaining height to have views in a northerly direction. The cows were observed and one in particular appeared to be demonstrating the latest design of piercings, not seen before, no doubt the trendsetter.
Garnets walk was reached via Moormains and two deer alerted in the field alongside. Garnets walk provides a good view to the village of Port William and eventually the walkers crossed the football pitch, Maxwell Park and a bird's eye view of the square and harbour is seen. So the circular walk over varied terrain had been completed and everyone appeared to be in good humour. 'The View' which is PIRSAC's new cafe was a welcome sight and delicious freshly baked scores were consumed. The cafe is above the new housing for the Inshore rescue lifeboat.
Next week's walk, Saturday 23rd April is a Stair Estates Circular, 8 miles. Meet at 9.15am Riverside, Newton Stewart or 9.30am Breastworks Stranraer or 10am at start of walk Low Balyett Picnic area NX 083 620 if leader informed on 01581 200256. All welcome.


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