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Bald Eagle Facts
Q&A with Peter Nye in 2007
New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Life Cycle

Q: What does the female eagle do when she gets older?
I heard that she plucks all of her feathers out and she makes her beak fall off, then grows another and new feathers, and becomes more beautiful than she was before.

A: That is definitely not true. What is true, is that each year all eagles, regardless of their age or sex, molt (lose) and replace their feathers, so they do indeed get new, strong ones. It has nothing to do with age.

Q: Are there Bald Eagles in Rolling Meadows, Illinois? If so, would they be found in northern or southern Illinois?

A: There are eagles in Illinois! It has been reported that as many as five thousand Bald Eagles winter on the river between Cairo, Illinois and St. Paul, Minnesota, tending to concentrate near several large dams. I find that figure a bit high. But there is no doubt that the Mississippi River, in particular, with extensive open water (due to hydro-electric dams) and fish they provide, is a major attraction to wintering Bald Eagles. And, of course, you've got that famous "Quad Cities" area along the River, with annual winter concentrations of eagles.

Q: Why do the maps focus on the Northeastern part of the United States? Today, at the Heard Natural History Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney Texas, we saw a Bald Eagle flying high, over our Sycamore Trail.

A: The maps focus on the Northeast United States because that is where our eagle research has focused, and so you are seeing only a small piece of eagle behavior from one part of our country. Eagles, both wintering and breeding eagles, are found in every state except Hawaii. Many people have studied eagle movements over the years in different places around the country, but now, you are seeing just the Northeast United States research.

Q: Why do we have 20-30 Bald Eagles on Lake Macatawa in Holland, Michigan? This has not happened before.

A: I have to guess here, based on just the little bit of information you gave me. I assume you mean they are here now in the winter, not as breeding birds (or you would have noticed them many times before each summer). I wonder if your lake is open water (or partially so) or if it is frozen? I can tell you why the eagles are there, almost without question; because they are finding food there! This could either be from carrion (dead animal carcasses such as deer), or perhaps a fish-kill, or a particularly good concentration of waterfowl.

Q: I read information that stated eagles fly into storms, use the winds of the storm to gain altitude, and that they rise way above the storm. Could you direct me to a reliable source that would confirm it or deny this information?

A: I have never heard of this behavior exactly as you describe it. This sounds like stretching or misinterpreting what eagles do. Eagles definitely do use the winds (and some quite strong), as well as "updrafts" coming off hills and mountains. This helps them to gain altitude and set them up for a long, soaring flight to another location, especially when they migrate great distances north or south. This behavior saves considerable energy, and the eagles hardly have to flap their wings.

Q: What color band is U21?

A: It is "sky blue", as I like to call it. Every New York State eagle gets the same color blue band. It tells us immediately that if an eagle is spotted somewhere with a blue band, it is one of our New York birds. All color banding of eagles (and other birds) is coordinated by a federal agency, the United States Dept of the Interior, and housed in Maryland at a place called the Bird Banding Laboratory. All bird bands are issued from here and reported back here when used. Care is taken to try to assign unique colors and/or codes to different researchers at different locations. This helps to eliminate confusion when a color-banded bird is seen by someone. If only the color of the band is seen, it tells us it is from New York (if it's blue). If the alphanumeric (the letter-number code) is read, we can tell exactly where the eagle was banded or born and when (how old it is).

Peter E. Nye
New York State Dept. Environmental Conservation
Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
Albany, NY
Spring, 2006


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Before you can use Allocation Entry Screens on Journyx Mobile, you must have an Allocation Entry screen configured as your entry screen.  If you go into Journyx and you see In/Out times at the top of your timesheet, you're set!  You can double check that you have an Allocation Entry Screen set in the mobile app by looking to see if you have any red or green colored times in your timesheet.

An Allocation Entry Screen looks like the following in Journyx

Note: You can click on any of the below images to get a larger image.

First, go to to the time period you want to enter some time to.

Second, enter some time.

Third, tap Save in the top right to save your entry and go back to the Time Sheet screen.  Here you will now have a red amount on the day you entered time ( Monday, in this example )

Tap on the day again and you'll go to the Day view, which will show all time entries on that day, as well as a bar at the top that shows your Allocation status.  Allocated Total is how much time you have to allocate, and Allocated Balance is the difference between Allocated Total and the amount of time you've entered.

Finally, tap on the blue bar and you'll be brought to a screen that allows you to enter in and out times for that day.  Tap Save when you're done.

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Calling Uncle Duckie

Picture 24 copySometimes I suspect I drive Uncle Duckie to drink. (Photo a selfie by okcforgottenman)

Calling Uncle Duckie

I can’t get my link established. Guess I’m just unlucky.
Luckily, I have a fix. I just call Uncle Duckie!
He can fix most anything from formatting to routers;
but you’ve got to stay real calm. He doesn’t work with pouters!

“Uncle Duckie, dear,” I say via email or on Skype.
“I want to post my post now, but I have a little gripe.
I can’t get my poem to post in single space, my dear.
It looks too long when double-spaced, and I have a fear

no one will read a two-paged poem. Long postings are no fun.
Is there any way that I can get it down to one?”
“Hit shift-return at ends of lines,” he tells me really pronto.
On my blog he wears the mask. And me? I’m merely Tonto!!!! **

** Note: In Spanish, “Tonto” means stupid. In other words, if viewed in Guadalajara, our favorite childhood program would be called, “The Lone Ranger and Stupid!”

If you’ve been perusing my blog for over three years, you’ve read this before.  Time you read it again as Uncle Duckie, also known as OKCforgottenman is still the one I turn to whenever there is a problem and in-between problems as well. This is a perfect chance to thank him again. The prompt today was calling.

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Island Blog 168 Travelling Light

I pack my bag and in it I put……..

Waaaaaaay too much.  But, I pack light, remember?  So what is all this ‘way too much-ness’?

I know that I can borrow kit from my African daughter-in-law.  I know I can buy whatever I need in Hoedspruit, only a short drive from Dumela Lodge.  And yet, still I gather together too many articles of clothing in a frenetic sort of panic dance.  I might need this, oh, and this, and I forgot I even had this…………

Truth is I wear the same things over and over, so that, when travel looms, promising me a different climate and different vestal requirements, I am transformed into a tumbleweed.  My movements, thoughts and behaviour have me jitterbugging upstairs, downstairs, around corners and into the depths of my suitcase until I feel somewhat un-hinged.  It gets worse as the departure date moves closer, looming like a spectre with its finger pointing at me, me, the one who will be unable to go on safari dressed ‘like that’ and thus left behind to do the housework, a laughing stock.

I also have to clean my house, pack stuff for the dog sitter, make sure the notes for plant-watering, bird/fish feeding, fire lighting, TV remote, leak buckets if it rains, doors to close if a hurricane comes this way and so on and so forth and fifth and sixth and by the time I get out the door I am in dire need of therapy.

Next hurdle will be the Water Works which were due to commence in the village yesterday, only nobody showed up.  ‘Expect Delays’.  The big signs are there, and they tell me nothing about how long these delays might be.  Do we set off at 5 am for the 11 am ferry or the night before perhaps, or do we not expect delays at all, believing that it is all a hoax, based on the fact that nobody appeared to tear up the road yesterday as the sign promised.

Then comes ‘check-in’ and that X ray archway that rarely lets us through without a lot of beep-and-flash.  Suddenly, those things that lurk in back pockets and in corners of bags become lethal weapons and the cause of much embarassment as we hold up the 2000 people all trying to fly somewhere in the same flapdoodle as me, those who are even more flapdoodled thanks to me and my tube of lip salve. And all the time I am on edge, my teeth are curled, my indigestion sounds like new age percussion and my eyes are constantly scanning the list of flights for our gate because, and I can be almost certain of this, our gate will be 3 miles away.

I can be so very calm on behalf of another, so wise, so phlegmatic.  I consider this, and conclude that, although I am that woman who would gentle another into a smile around their imagined fears, I take my own very seriously indeed.  If another speaks of inner turmoils, I would encourage them to lighten up, but when I try that on myself, all I get is a Ya-di-ya and a return to the jitterbug.   My inner turmoil is not for turning.  In fact, it is determined to be certain that I will get it wrong, inconveniently, consistently, absurdly, predictably.

Fears like these are beyond ridiculous.  I know that, to be as prepared as possible is enough.  ‘Possible’ will happen with or without my fretting.  I am outwardly calm, but, like the swan, paddling like mad under the water.

And this is me being honest about something that always goes on, pre travel.  I am about to move into unknown places and situations (and clothes, because I never wear half of what is packed) and this is good for me.  This is new air to breathe, new sounds to hear, sights to see and, if I don’t have the right clothes I doubt very much that the elephants, leopards, lions, hyenas,impalas, rhinoceroses (or is it rhinoceri?) and brightly coloured birds will give a monkey’s.

Travel light, I tell myself and myself (now exhausted) cocks an ear.  In this life we never know what is around any corner, I say.  Laugh at life as you head into the unknown. Make preparation, pack light, eyes to the future, feet in the present.

Much better now.

Myself and I are off upstairs to unpack (again) and to refine our choice of content having thoroughly banished all ridiculous fears. All we need is a wash bag, 50 factor suncream, closed shoes and all the rest in neutral colours so that, if we find ourselves between a water hole and a thirsty lioness, she’ll think us a tree.

See…….told you I was wise.

Island Blog 167 Reason for Change

what love is

I am thinking much about change these days, about how it is both something we resist and something we cannot stop.  Our world is always on the move, requiring us to move with it.  It is the very nature of life to change.  Seasons come and seasons go, cultures adapt to new information, new members and if we as people of the world remain in the past, we will be left behind.  Oh, we might not feel like we’re being left behind, but we are.  Spouting off about the old days, how things are in chaos right now across the globe and it wasn’t that way when I was young just make fools of our intelligence.  We do have it, intelligence.  In fact, are we not the intelligent species, the one with a large brain, able to imagine, to think, to reason?

Fundamentalism is a dangerous ‘ism’ to be stuck in.  Adhering to old rules and regulations, to old beliefs and old working structures without considering the world as it is this very day, will always lead to exclusion, and exclusion only ever leads to war.  From inside the home to inside a country, excluding me because of who I am alienates me and that feeling of rejection will burn inside me like an all consuming fire.  It could break my heart, it could mean I cannot move forward either to a new place, a new chance, a new life.  It could paralize me.  At the very least it will tell me that the excluding body considers itself above me, the judge over me, even if I have much to offer, many skills and talents that could, if allowed in, benefit said body considerably.

When we apply for a job we are assessed on our relevant skills, our manner, our reasons for applying.  We are asked (I loathe this phrase) for what we can bring to the table.  All of this is fine and good.  But, if we are not offered this job because we are black or gay then this is very far from fine or good.  The same goes for membership of a club.  In so-called high circles (aka being born of old money and station in life) exclusion runs rife.  In the male dominated world of business (oh yes it still goes on) powerful women are kept at arm’s length, offered less pay, less high profile jobs and if this woman has come out and stands tall in her own skin, then the chances of her moving up the ladder are probably very slim indeed.  Even if the ‘boss’ doesn’t bother about her sexuality, then her work colleagues well might and the mutterings in corridors, the exclusion from get-togethers can break a person down more effectively than any refusal of employment.

In old school days, if you were left-handed you were forced to learn to be right-handed.  When I went for an interview as a mother’s help, I was quizzed on my O level results.  When I said I had 7 good passes including Latin, the smiles around the room turned my stomach.  I was young, but could still spot falsehood.  Needless to say I turned the job down. A friend applied to join a rowing club, but was refused.  Later he discovered it was because he was gay and hadn’t concealed the fact.

I wonder about us, I really do.  We have refugees desperately seeking shelter and a chance to live a new life and yet we panic about being taken over by an influx of undesirables.  There are closet gays and people of all colours and faiths waiting tables or stacking shelves, feeling angry and broken, when their brains, skills, abilities and motivation could really move us forward, if we just let go of fear.  Where is love in all this thinking?  Where is tolerance and acceptance, inclusion and compassion?

Our world moves forwards in leaps and bounds as we understand more and more about our origins about our world and its place in the vast cosmos.  Without people, none of this means a thing.  People make up this world of ours, not things, not new sofas, big houses or money, but people.  We can amass great wealth, live behind secure fences, plan our little lives just for our little selves and we can starve to death for lack of human warmth.  We can speak with authority against inclusion spouting no end of reasonable reasons, all quite unreasonable, because reason is not stuck in fundamentalism at all.  Real reason is all about change and adaptation to change, whether welcome or not.  Life as it is now, is a trillion light years away from how it was just 100 years ago, never mind back to biblical times and beyond.  The dictionnary definition of the word ‘reason’ has a few options, but the one I choose is this:

‘Reason – the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements logically.  There is close connection between reason and emotion for humans do not reason entirely from facts.’

Whether we embrace change or not, it is coming, for it is always coming and the key is in our hands.  We must rise above our ridiculous fears and live like the warm-blooded sensitive intelligent beings we are.  We must learn to welcome, to include, to learn from each other, to see reason.

This is what Love is.

Island Blog 166 – Grand Parenting

When you look after grandchildren, you embark on a journey, much like the one Pi found himself in the middle of.  All of our routines are blown to pieces.  We are two who left the immediate knowledge of competent parenting behind us years ago.  We are exposed.  We are at the mercy of the ocean of it all.

Going to bed, for example.  When?  Oh, anytime…..

Well, anytime was 7pm because Granny was on her knees by then, even though my son warned me they would be up at dawn.

Now, the waking up process.  This morning, unlike most other mornings, I became engaged in a conversation about the fact that a triceratops is very similar to a rhino, at 6.31am.  A fight between the two would be interesting to watch……apparently, although from the folds of my pillow, the best I could manage was an ‘uhuh.’ I later discovered, having given in and dressed, that a woolly rhino, long extinct was the rhino in question.  I suggested a visit to the Ipad and Dinosaur One, whilst I did a bit of this and that.  In a very short (and noisy beep beep bang crash) time the pyjama-ed hunter managed to kill off at least two woolly rhinos, a fact that, when conveyed to his uncle who manages a game reserve in the Limpopo Valley, caused some consternation.  Even when I clarified that the ‘hunter’ had fired from a spaceship, and did that make it better, the consternation remained.

The day before, collecting the children from school, I filled my boot-back with more kit than I plan to take with me to Africa.  On unpacking, a wailing cry went up from one who maintained he could not, would not play with his lego because there wasn’t a person.

A person?  I queried, my heart already sinking.  Yes, he said, there’s no person, only animals.  I suggested making a person from animal parts and was treated to the death stare.  Slinking back to the kitchen, thoroughly chastened, I considered driving back along the alpine single track to get said person, then told myself the thought was nonsense.  The child should use his imagination, accept his grandparently confines.  The fact that he was bored by 8.17 am today did not sway me.  He had woken in the night yelling about light and dark, because, of course, I should have left the landing light on.  What a dreadful granny.  But, these kids came with no instructions at all, and there are so many required.  With my own around my feet all day, I knew the ropes, I’d laid them out, it was my lattice work, but now?

One eats bacon, one doesn’t.  One eats bread, one doesn’t.  One likes beans and the other doesn’t, or didn’t until he saw his sister tucking into a plateful, whence he conceded. One wants this mug, but so does the other one. No, they don’t like The Night Garden.

What I feel when left with my grandchildren, is both honoured and scared stiff.  Children are so very definite about what they don’t want and that seems to be a lot.  A walk…….no thanks.  Drawing… thanks.  But can we go home to download this new game?

No we cannot.

It made me reflect on how much we crave being liked, even by small-panted woolly rhino hunters in spaceships.  It defines us, if we are not very careful, and turns us into something less than we really are.  Saying No is never easy, although I remember saying it a lot to my kids, for all that it ever stopped anything happening.  If I run around after you often enough, for long enough, will you ever be satisfied?  There is a theory (possibly a fact) that any ‘addiction’ grows, it always grows, unless we realise it has taken hold and kick it.  The need to be liked by all is a silent one and often fits like a dream  for years cleverly disguised as Goodness.  Well it isn’t ‘goodness’ at all.  It’s an addiction.

I am able to be so very definite about this because it was my addiction.  Fitting in and working around and putting others first is wonderful in balance, but it so rarely is, and the residue it leaves in the heart is bitter because the other side to this over-giving is expectation.  I want something back.  I want you to love me as I love you, care as much as I do, give as much, sacrifice as much.  But you don’t.  Of course you don’t, and the fault is not yours, but mine.  I am not respecting my own self in our relationship, whether it be with parent, partner, child, sibling or grandchild.  If I don’t look after me, why on earth should you?

My grandchildren, all 6.5 of them are taught manners and graces, despite this culture of letting the children run the household.  The children know ‘NO’ and even if they don’t like it, they know its the end of that particular line.  However, I am Button Granny and over there is Popz and we are fair game, much like the woolly rhinos. It is up to us to make new patterns according to our rules.  Okay it won’t happen the first time, but with practice, I might find they like staying here, even without a lego person.

Island Blog 165 – Broken Pieces

starry night mosaic

When something breaks we chuck it into the wheelie bin.  It, whatever it is, is of no more use to us, unless we can repair it, but nowadays, repairing things broken is both an art and an opportunity for the introduction of a Health and Safety scare.  A broken ladder might be repairable, but how will I feel each time I climb it?  A mug with a glued on handle is asking for the third degree and as for a chip in the rim, well goodness me no!  The glue always goes brown anyway. A garden chair, tied up with string might collapse under my neighbours backside and I might be sued.  In truth, the dump sites across our land are rising into the clouds with all those broken things nobody cares to mend. It was our forbears who mended things and that was because there was a war on, so they tell us.

On days when I am most aware of my broken-ness, it feels like there are a trillion biting ants on the inside of my skin.  I am restless, distracted, flitting from one small task to another to fill in the time till lunch.  I am without purpose and being without purpose is the scariest (and most illuminating) feeling of all, because my monkey mind (that’s the bad dude within) begins to speak, with volume, authority, assertion.

‘What you should be doing is this.  Why aren’t you?  Because your’e lazy, that’s why. You always were.  You’re putting on weight too, just look at that flubbidy belly, and those old lady shoes you bought make you look like Olive Oyl.  You should be re-writing that novel, not persuading yourself this isn’t the right time.  Why aren’t you?  You always did waste time, your mother said so, all that reading and thinking and staring at clouds did you no good at all.  Look at that person over there or look at him!  They have purpose in life. See how busy they are.  They’re not lazy. You’re hopeless.

And so on.

Often, I have believed in monkey mind, and the listening to what it says takes me way down into a pit.  Trouble is, most of what it says I agree with, a bit.  It is so much harder to counteract that ceaseless babble with ‘Things I Could Say To Myself’, such as ‘you are wonderfully made, unique, perfect for this life you lead, you are more than enough, I love you.’

Sounds like poppycock, even as I’m saying it, to the raggedy torn up inside of me with my fizzing head and my flat  feet (in  Olive Oyl shoes), but I am learning, inch by inch (do we still know inches?) to stop, to stand or sit still, to keep myself right in the present moment, the horribly itchy raggedy-anne moment, and to wait.

For what, you might ask?  For the angels to swoop in like swallows with big smiles on their faces?  For the phone to ring with news of a painting sold, or the offer of  a regular article slot for a magazine with a big readership?  Well, no.  That might have been my hope in the past, but now I know that when something suddenly lifts me away from this discomfort and pain, all that happens is that I am temporarily relieved of looking at it, at myself, of being alone with me.  The itch will always come back because I am still broken and not accepting that I am.

To sit and to stay sat-sitting is not easy, not without a book, a friend, a tv programme, a knitting pattern, a hem to sew up.  In fact, my old mother in law would have something to say about any such pre-lunchtime sitting.

‘Idle hands are the devil’s workshop’ for one, and ‘I’ve got a job for you as you’ve obviously nothing to do!’ another.  From childhood onwards there is noise, activity, stimulation and we are taught drive and motivation, that time is not for wasting, it’s the early bird that catches the worm etcetera etcetera.  Who teaches us how to sit, to reflect, to watch, to say nothing, hands quiet, mouth closed, eyes, ears and heart open?  Glory heavens…. the country would have collapsed by now had such nonsense been allowed!

I cannot meditate because it just makes me laugh. I see myself as ridiculous and can’t erase the image from my mind, even though I know meditating is something rather wonderful.  My mind is never quiet, not even in sleep. There is always noise inside that shorn drum.  It’s like a farmyard at feeding time.  Knowing that this chatter has a lot to do with my broken-ness is a start.  Knowing that it is only in the quiet places, the still moments, that the higher spirit inside of me, inside us all, gets a chance to say a word or two is another step along the road.  But the world, the monkey mind is strong, powerful, believable and cunning, and not just in me. It is tempting to run fast, and to run faster.  It is tempting to fill every minute with jibber jabber and small tasks, to be like others, to fit in, to kid ourselves everything is okay.  It is tempting to run away from looking inside and, besides, it’s messy in there.  However, this running is not away from anything but our own broken-ness, our own hurts, rejections, betrayals.  Running is….. Us avoiding us.  You avoiding you.  Me avoiding me.  And yet, in our stopping, in our acknowledgment of this broken part within, lies the real hope, hope that has nothing to do with our plans, nothing to do with our cashflow or the area we live in, the partner we choose, the school we went to.  In pulling out that brick from the wall around me, I let go, relinquished control. All i could see was wall anyway, but now I have this spectacular view and no idea what to do with it.  It’s new land to me, new sky.  There might be dragons out there, thieves and plunderers, villians and demons, disaster, destruction.

Or, there might not.

Being broken to whatever degree and for whatever reason is not a state of permanence.  Unlike the ladder or the cup or the garden chair, admitting to our broken-ness and accepting it heralds a new beginning.  Unlike ‘things’, we glorious human beings with our colours and our light and our unique and beautiful inner spirit, can re-build into something even more wonderful with no glue showing at all.

And remember this…….. the most beautiful mosaics are made with broken pieces.

Island Blog 164 This Human Spirit

Human Spirit Wall

I was talking the other morning, over good coffee, with a friend. We discussed many things and one of them was our broken-ness.  Not specific to either of us, nor to any particular situation, but more the general broken-ness of all humans and the fact that it doesn’t stop there.  We don’t stay broken.  What we learn, as things break down, as they always do, is that this is the only time the huge power of the human spirit finds its feet.

When life bounces along, like a big bright beach ball, full of lift and colour, there is no call for this spirit.  There’s nothing to be fixed or cured, to be assessed or repaired.  We just bounce along.  All is well and we badly want it to remain thus.  It never does.  Now, somewhere, someone at some time will have considered this, spent sleepless hours considering it, defining it. And yet this mystery defies definition, for it makes absolutely no sense at all.

Life is good, we are doing all the right things, such as limiting alcohol, or giving it up completely; cutting out dairy or wheat, exercising our socks off, reading ‘best seller’ books on How To Be Happy, that guide us, page by page into the Elysium fields, if, that is, we, a) believe it works and, b) have the willpower to sustain such a disciplined life.  The trouble is that most of us, if we are honest, cannot keep it up and the rest of us don’t believe it anyway, because at some point life is going to shaft us, no matter what regime we embark upon.

Well, welcome to the human state!  And welcome, also, to the broken-ness in you, because, trust me, it is there.

I am interested, nay, fascinated, not with the beach ball but with what happens when somebody’s terrier bursts it and all the children weep.  I admit, freely, to being a member of the Broken and have found, to my delight, that this is not something I have earned through misbehaviour.  I haven’t racked up any more black marks than most, well, maybe a few more, and I do not believe in that sort of karma.  I think we are born with it and what is more, I believe it’s quite intentional.  Whether we believe in the God of creation, or our evolution from apes, our fundamental wiring is pre-set from birth, for all of us.  Of course, there are subtle differences, such as skin colour, location, facial features, talents handed down from our forbears, but some things are just a part of us all, and one of these is our broken-ness.

I used to think that mine was my fault and that led to self-flagellation, guilt and regret.  At each knock-down I would send my mental mouse scurrying through my mind in search of all the things I had done wrong, dragging each of them out from the shadows and assessing them again in the light.  I built on them until they were growling bears and jaw-snapping wolves and sometimes, they overpowered and consumed me.  ‘If only I was a different person, measured and not impulsive, steady and controlled instead of compulsive;  If I talked less and listened more, if I stopped showing off, if I could just control this constant urge to fly away, be like my grounded mother, my steady sisters; if only I could manage my affairs better, if only I liked joining clubs and groups, if only, if only……..’

Most of us don’t even look at it, our broken-ness, for it is way too scary. And yet, it is exactly where we should look.  Not our aching joints but our aching hearts.  It is a subject most avoid, and I have cleared rooms, and certainly silenced tables whenever I rise the subject.  When someone asks a question, a difficult one, I can see the respondee mining his head for a tactical response, one that deflects attention away from the personal element of the question, from any light shone on his broken-ness.

When did we learn to be so dishonest?  Who can really say, I failed you, I am sorry?  Who doesn’t seek to levy blame on the weather, the traffic, the clock change, the children, the plumber, the husband?

When we learn to admit to our weaknessess, our broken-ness, our humanity, we allow the spirit in us to begin work.  The human brain is a million times bigger than we think, capable of almost everything (although I still can’t fly) and we barely use it.  Admitting to failure, admitting to fault is like pulling out one brick in the wall of our defences.  Of course, this could mean, will probably mean, that the whole wall will crumble.  We are left with no wall, open to the soft winds of change, and the view, my friends, is breath-taking.


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JuliaRun is for scalable deployment of Julia in production for real time analytics and large-scale parallel simulations in the public or private cloud.

JuliaRun provides functionality to run and deploy Julia applications in production at scale, including running parallel computing and distributed computing on private or public clusters. JuliaRun works seamlessly with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and can be configured to run with any private cloud.

JuliaRun comes with production and deployment support.

JuliaRun takes the guesswork out of building scalable solutions and can be used by data scientists and engineers with little to no knowledge of how such systems need to be architected. A Julia user can develop an application using JuliaPro and deploy it into a scalable robust deployment environment with a single click.

The table below shows how JuliaRun fares in comparison to it’s contemporaries.

Feature JuliaRun AWS Batch Azure Batch
Batch Job Orchestrator
Interactive Tasks
Long running services
Uniform API across cloud providers
Unit of operation Container Container VM
Cluster Autoscaling
Job Autoscaling
Customizable Autoscaling and Job Scheduling Rules in Julia
Tools for Log and Metrics Management Bundled Via Other AWS Services Via Other Azure Services

JuliaRun architecture is designed for two kinds of workloads:

  • Batch workloads: Jobs are submitted into a queue (which may originate from anywhere) and executed on the cluster.
  • Real-time workloads: A JuliaRun service serves up a network (TCP/HTTP) endpoint to receive requests and fulfils them via one or more pool of workers. JuliaRun worker pools are dynamically scaled using request arrival and processing metrics.

JuliaRun supports two types of cluster managers:

  • Static: Where a set of dedicated nodes are provided to the JuliaRun application.
  • Elastic: Where nodes are dynamically allocated from a pool of available resources, either in a public or private cloud.

JuliaRun offers other mechanisms of distributed programming, apart from what is possible with core Julia. JuliaRun can revive failed worker nodes of a distributed application. Workers can be requested to join gradually and asynchronously as and when resources are available, with the available workers at any given time continuing to do the work. A distributed application communicating via a failsafe external messaging framework can also recover from failure of the master node. Different Julia applications can be connected together in flexible ways via a queue based messaging framework. That makes it possible to have long running, autoscaled, processing pipelines deployed via JuliaRun.

Making Julia easy to run, and deploy it at scale

JuliaRun provides a great interface to manage both code and packages. It also gives insight into all those packages (and code) with comprehensive application metrics and verbose log management tools.

The user can, with the help of simple and uniform platform independent APIs, use JuliaRun for authentication and multi-tenancy, choose an appropriate storage for data, and let it autoscale (processes and VMs alike), on dynamic node types (GPUs, spot instances, hi-memory, hi-CPU).

The robust JuliaRun architecture leverages on open source technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, making it very flexible and easily accessible, via simple Julia APIs.

It is also worth noting all these components are loosely coupled, and easily pluggable anywhere.

A closer look at each of it’s features below will throw more light on how useful it is for someone looking to scale Julia code in production rapidly.

JuliaRun lets you easily undertake tasks like building new images, pushing them to your repository, and pre-warming your nodes. All you have to do is update specifications, and fire up a new builder.

JuliaRun makes it simple to update, install and precompile packages.

Data Storage:

JuliaRun lets you choose the type of storage (SSD, Network, or RAM) you want, and access them by names and aliases. With the file storage mounted as a drive on containers running in the cluster and optionally on your laptop when needed, accessing code, data and logs becomes easy.

Log Management:

JuliaRun provides APIs to filter, stream and search into distributed application logs at any level of granularity. JuliaRun collects and assimilates logs, and messages from stdout and stderr into a central location and makes realtime operations on it possible via the popular open source analytics tool, ElasticSearch.

Application and System Metrics:

JuliaRun can record metrics as name-value pairs and assists in visualizing, aggregating and plotting them in multiple ways.

JuliaRun uses open source tool InfluxDB as its metrics store and Heapster to collect system metrics. JuliaRun APIs help in aggregating application metrics. Metrics can be visualized in Julia, or other open source technologies like Kibana and Grafana.

Alerts / Notifications:

Alerts and events derived from metrics and logs notify abnormal or extra normal conditions, and enable scaling or powering applications accordingly up or down.

Authentication / Authorization:

OpenID based authentication enables JuliaRun to combine multiple authentication platforms, while Kubernetes enables seamless authorization and resource allocation (using RBACs, Namespaces and Quotas).

i) Cluster Autoscaler:

JuliaRun provides fully customizable cluster autoscaler, with features like selecting specific nodes while scaling down to avoid interruption of critical processes, scaling based on resource reservation instead of system load, and keeping configurable headroom to handle workload spikes predictably.

ii) Process Autoscaler:

Autoscaling isn’t just limited to clusters. JuliaRun autoscales processes as well, and makes it fully customizable in Julia. Apart from the standard metrics, it is possible to use custom application published metrics and custom Julia functions to determine scaling factor.

Exposed Services:

JuliaRun includes an authentication proxy that can be dynamically and instantaneously set up to authenticate and route external requests to HTTP services on the cluster. APIs provided as part of JuliaRun register services with the router. Authenticated credentials are passed to the downstream service.

Apart from all the above features, JuliaRun equips the user to deploy a fully customizable cluster scheduler, when needed for extraordinary scheduling rules. It can be used to direct processes to specific nodes and co-locate them with required resources or other related processes.

Pricing Options

Contact us at [email protected] for pricing options.

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JuliaTeam is for enterprise governance.
JuliaTeam makes it easy and safe to install Julia packages within your firewall, helps admins keep track of what is in use and ensure that all your external dependencies are secure and up-to-date.

  • Set JULIA_PKG_SERVER to point at your JuliaTeam server instance and you’ll never have to think about firewall or proxy issues again
  • Manage your own private package registry simply. Create, manage and install private packages as easily as public ones. Tag private packages
  • Protection against known security vulnerabilities
  • Get insight and access control of what Julia packages and versions your teams are using
  • Manage which open source licenses people use. Need to make sure that application code never includes GPL? No problem
  • One-click download of license data for all the packages you use
  • Dashboard for CIO’s office
  • Enterprise support
  • Indemnification from third party proprietary intellectual property

  • Continuous everything:
    • Integration
    • Security auditing
    • Benchmarking
    • Deployment — one click from testing to staging to production
  • Automated code updates: latest recommended coding idioms automatically
  • Server management
  • Enhanced bug reporting and replayable stack traces for bug reports
    • Submit a manifest file recording all dependencies
    • Record and replay execution traces for easy reproduction of even the trickiest bugs

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Scene from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By John Simmons 1873 {{PD}}

The New Moon occurs at 8:04 AM Pacific time at 15 Pisces 47, closely conjoined (but still before perfecting) a meeting with Neptune and Vesta. This ‘announces’ a highly Neptunian experience, one aligned with our commitments and ideals, one that shows us what’s sacred (and perhaps, what’s not). We may see the dream renewed, a new direction, fresh support, or a creative work-around offered by Lunar events. Our imagination is our limit–but that also means, if we are in a bad head space right now, that there’s potential for our fears to dominate, instead, and these may center on changes or loss related to those things to which we are committed, or that we dedicate our energies to. We may fear that new circumstances could cause the old to vanish–and while that’s indeed possible, the way to meet that fear is to look for the advantage to dream realization that the change has to offer–because it absolutely does.

The New Moon happens semi-square Uranus, fresh at 00 Taurus 00, and is still within sextile of Mars and heading toward forming one with Saturn; it also noviles Venus. These feel like contained, ‘small’ events to me, internal or simply serendipitous when external, a kind of poetic set of sparks that say, ‘Surprise! It’s a New World! One where you can gain–and you are poised to act, to choose, and so to change your reality’.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘In The Quiet Of His Study A Creative Individual Experiences A Flow Of Inspiration’. Again, that sense of what occurs being largely internal, inspiring, creative, and very personal. This also suggests that time spent alone, in meditation or just in quiet circumstances may be vital to making the most of the New Moon new beginnings.

From Nuremberg Chronicle

And for those born today, with the Sun at 16 Pisces: The Sun and Moon have just met before moving on to your Solar degree, signaling a kind of new beginning, a refreshing of the emotional perceptions that aligns with who you are right now. The cycle has started, no more than a day or so before your birthday–and so you begin your Solar year ‘fresh’, in some sense–and what a year it will be! You have the opportunity to bring the highest order of your vision/ dream into being–and some of the keys to successful realization will be: 1) taking a new role within ‘the group’, or at least a new attitude toward cooperation, 2) taking great care with your words and always being hyper-aware of the real conditions of agreements and promises, and 3) proceeding as if you have never been hurt. This last condition may be most important of all, the most ‘refreshing’ kind of newness being one that carries no lingering regrets, shadows, upsets, or resentments.


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Arlene Raven

Feminist Art Activist
1944 – 2006
One of the artists Arlene Raven championed and collaborated with was Judy Chicago, creator of “The Dinner Plates.” When Raven died in 2006 at the age of 62, Chicago celebrated her friend of almost 40 years with this essay first published in Re://collections.
by Judy Chicago

I called her "Beanie" and she called me "Tutti," nicknames from our past—hers from the camp she attended when she was a child, mine a relic of my second marriage, a marriage Beanie watched disintegrate when she came to visit me in Bellingham, Washington in the late spring of 1974. I had gone there to visit my sculptor husband who was doing an Artist in Residence gig that I had helped to arrange and also, to begin work on the first studies for The Dinner Party plates.

By the time of this ill-fated journey, I had known Beanie for several years. She had moved west from Maryland in 1972, not long after our meeting at the infamous Corcoran conference on women in the arts in Washington, D.C., a conference that brought disgruntled artists, art critics and art historians together to share stories about our respective frustrations with the entirely male dominated art world.

Sometime after we met in Washington, I was shocked to discover Arlene at my door. In what I would soon learn was her characteristic determined manner, Beanie announced that "L.A. was where the action was in terms of Feminist art" and that she intended to move there as soon as possible. Beanie's name then was Arlene Corkery though that was her married name. She was studying for her Ph.D. in Art History at Johns Hopkins University.

She was frail in terms of her health, suffering from some unclear blood disorder, not that she ever allowed her physical limitations to hold her back. And she had her share of health challenges over the years. Nevertheless, she always seemed to bounce back, more determined, braver and more adventurous than ever each time infirmity threatened to prevent her from living life to the hilt. And she was beautiful, with long hair as dark as a raven's that gave even more meaning to her new name, which seemed to suit her perfectly. From the moment she adopted it, she fit into it as if it were a glove waiting to be donned by her.

During the first year she lived in Los Angeles, she taught some classes at Cal-Arts, but throughout the spring of 1973, Arlene and I began to make plans to set up our own school, and we teamed up with Sheila de Bretteville, who had been teaching design at Cal-Arts (she is now director of the Graduate School of Art at Yale). We eventually took up residence in the old Chouinard building as the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), the first independent feminist art educational institution ever attempted.

It is difficult to describe the atmosphere of the seventies; suffice it to say that many of us thought we were going to change the world, to transform it into a paradise of justice and equity. Ah, the hubris of youth, particularly in the fervor of a revolutionary period of history, to imagine that we could start a new school with nothing—no funds, no building, no equipment—that would nurture women to make art 'in their own image and likeness'—an altogether new idea at the time.

Arlene went on to initiate the Lesbian Art Project, which produced numerous important young lesbian Feminist artists, many of whom she mentored. She was also a creator and editor of "Chrysalis," an influential magazine of women's culture.

In 1983, she moved to New York to be with artist Nancy Grossman, who would become her life companion. Although we stayed in touch, we didn't see each other often. In the mid-1980's, Beanie became the chief art critic for the "Village Voice," a job I had some part in her losing.

In 1993, the Holocaust Project premiered at the Spertus Museum of Judaica in Chicago, my home town. Eight years in the making, the Holocaust Project was created out of an intense collaboration with my new husband, photographer Donald Woodman, and selected artisans. Looking back, I can see that I was often on the brink of madness, saved only by the partnership with Donald that led both of us to a confrontation with the potential for evil that lurks beneath the surface of even the most civilized of nations.

The Village Voice sent a reporter to write a major piece about the project and the opening. Donald and I were sanguine about the choice; after all, she was Arlene's colleague and a close friend of my old pal, writer, Lucy Lippard (whom I've known since the late 1950's). The reporter savaged the project, ridiculing everything about the show including the art, the opening events, and most of all, the enthusiasm of friends and viewers, among whom were Holocaust scholars and knowledgeable art collectors and patrons. When Arlene protested what she felt was an extremely unfair article, she was fired.

I am sure that she felt devastated by this turn of events but she never said anything to me. Instead, when given the opportunity, she wrote an article entitled: "Judy Chicago, the Artist the Art World Loves to Hate" for a magazine called Images and Issues—an article that could be credited with starting a turn-around of sorts in the critical assessment of my career. It's not easy standing up to the New York art establishment and the fact that Beanie did not budge from her belief in my work—even in the face of sustained and intense critical vitriol by many other writers—provides some insight into her integrity, courage and intellectual honesty. She extended that support to many artists over the years, writing monographs on the artists June Wayne, Betye Saar, Michele Oka Doner and her partner, Nancy Grossman, whose work she genuinely admired.

Our most recent partnership involved the formation of what has come to be called The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), a national initiative housed at Rutgers. One day, not long after the newly renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art re-opened, I phoned Beanie to express my dismay that—in addition to erasing the work of many early women artists in their own collection (Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncherova and Meret Oppenheim and her famous "Fur lined teacup" come to mind)—there was absolutely no acknowledgment of the Feminist art movement. Although a number of women artists from the 1980's were included, it was as if they had sprung out of thin air rather than as a result of both the Feminist art movement and the political organizing of innumerable women artists, including the Guerilla Girls, those saucy upstarts with their gorilla masks, poster campaigns, and irrefutable statistics about the sad state of affairs of women in the arts.

As always, Beanie was up for making some trouble. We agreed to meet the next time I was in New York, which wasn't too many weeks later. I can vividly recall opening the door to my rented apartment and seeing Arlene, older, heavier, walking with a cane but still just as full of life as ever; as if the tolls of aging could not fell her. By then, I believe that she had already undergone surgery for kidney cancer and months of grueling chemotherapy; but the strength of her voice and her convictions were undiminished. We soon teamed up with Susan Fisher Sterling, chief curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and soon thereafter, with Judy Brodsky and Ferris Olin of Rutgers, and with Maura Reilly, curator of the Elizabeth Sackler Center. It was she who suggested the title of what is now a national initiative involving a rapidly spreading series of exhibitions, events, panels, and activities aimed at breaking through the erasure that continues to marginalize or eclipse women's achievements.

The outcome of our efforts is still unclear; an unprecedented series of events will hopefully mark the time when erasure becomes a thing of the past, not only TFAP, but also the opening at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art of Connie Butler's exhibition, WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution (the first historic survey of Feminist art); the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (the first such institution devoted to Feminist art); the permanent housing of The Dinner Party (my lifelong goal); and the "Global Feminisms" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly and renowned art historian, Linda Nochlin.

Unfortunately, Beanie will not be here to see the outcome of our most recent initiative, and her absence is palpable to me. I knew that the cancer had returned, that she did not have long to live. But she went so fast; too fast. Her loss is inestimable; she was a rarity, a seemingly unstoppable spirit. Even as she was failing, she was working, unwilling to let go of the mission that had given meaning to her life, a mission shared by many but especially by me; to help bring about a change for the better in this often dismal world. Beanie, I miss you and I shall always treasure the little porcelain box I painted for a birthday celebration we shared many years ago; the lid commemorating Beanie (the flower) and Tutti (the butterfly). Although the lived years may seem long, at the end it is clear that our life span is brief, in your case, WAY TOO brief.

Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose work and philosophy have had a worldwide impact on both the art community and the larger culture. The recipient of many grants and awards, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. She was awarded a B.A. and a M.A. from UCLA and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Her contribution to our culture was also acknowledged by Smith College with the awarding of an honorary degree.

Memories of Arlene Raven - Anne Cavallaro

I just discovered Arlene's passing through a random online search...by typing her name into google. Hardly a civilized way to discover someone I admired and who had such an impact on me, would no longer be with us. I suppose my searching Arlene's name wasn't exactly "random"—I have been thinking of her for sometime, having lost her contact information, and also remembering that I didn't hear back from her the last time I dropped her a line. I was wondering what she was "up to", wondering if I could see her, and what she was doing. I know now, that she must have been dealing with so much, and must have been fighting in her last years, months, and minutes.

I met Arlene when I ended up in her "senior seminar" at Parsons School of Design about 7 years ago. Little did I know how much she would inspire me to change my life. There I was: a disgruntled, and disenchanted fashion student...and Arlene gave me the encouragement and the permission to feel that there were bigger things for me...ideas beyond hemlines and cleavage. Arlene's class was riveting. No homework or tests—she just introduced us to the work of as many working artists as she could. Every week a new artist would show up—slides of their ambitious work in tow. It wowed me to see so many people taking on so much with little more than their own will and resolve.

When artists didn't come to our classroom, Arlene took us on field trips to different artist's studios. I saw the spaces where these "artists" worked. I thought, "...maybe I can do that too". Arlene took the romantic notion of the artist and turned it on its head. For me, she showed me that artists are real people, just like you and me, just living in their determination to create.

Arlene and I stayed in touch for several years afterward. She helped me get a job assisting the artist Lesley Dill which turned out to be a fascinating experience. We stayed in touch through her regular postcards letting me know about her friend's exhibits close by in our Brooklyn neighborhoods. We met for coffee once, I remember (right after I became a public school art teacher). Another time, Arlene had me over her new spacious (but heavily under construction) home. There was no doorbell (I think you had to either scream or rap wildly on the heavy door!). Arlene, was so generous to me. She loved to pass on her wisdom, and after seeing her I would always leave bearing bouquets of artist's catalogues whose prefaces she had so eloquently composed.

I am so sad to hear of Arlene's passing. There is so much I still want to say to her and so much I still want to hear her say. But Arlene has left us having lived a most remarkable life; a life which has left an unmistakable and inspirational imprint behind.

Farewell, Arlene. I will never forget you.

Your student forever,
Anne Cavallaro

Memories of Arlene Raven - Allan McCollum

I am sad today, to read of Arlene's death. She was not a part of my day to day life at all, but I carried an image of her in my mind always. She visited my Los Angeles studio only one time, in the early 70s, and I can't recollect a more open and honest person who touched me more, in so many ways, with such a brief encounter. Our conversation lasted an hour or so, but became deeply personal within minutes; her sadnesses and vulnerabilities were balanced with her strengths and optimism, and her presence was healing. She never knew this, but I kept a picture of her pinned to my wall for a few years back then; it made me happy to see her image. I have loved running into her periodically, over the years. She was an extremely beautiful person, and I can only imagine the loss those close to her must feel.

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Lemony Blueberry Zucchini Bread

DSCN2010Hello friends!

It’s been a few weeks since my last post. As we all know, and some have experienced, life has a way of sometimes throwing us for a loop; and the last few weeks has been such a time in my life. So, I took a few weeks off from blogging to rest and to be with family and friends. But I’m back and as fall starts to descend on us, I’m excited to start sharing good things with you again.

Ok, I know for a fact that at this time of year, most of you have zucchini coming out of your ears from your garden, your friends’ garden, or they are laid out on the staff lunch table for everyone to “please take and enjoy”…. So, it’s always nice to have a new and delicious healthy way to use up zucchini.  You can stir fry it, chop it up into salads, use a spiral slicer and make “zoodles” (a favorite for me), and I love a good muffin or a bread on the weekend or for potlucks!

Now, as it turns out zucchini is pretty magical. It adds moisture and nutrients, taking your baked goods from dry and bland to moist and delicious without adding extra calories or a funny flavor. Zucchini is a very low-calorie vegetable; only about 20 calories per 1 cup serving. It contains no saturated fats, no cholesterol. Its peel is a good source of dietary fiber that helps reduce constipation and offers some protection against colon cancers. Zucchinis have anti-oxidant value, are rich in flavonoid poly-phenolic antioxidants such as carotenes, lutein and zea-xanthin and is a very good source of potassium, which is heart-friendly. They contain moderate levels of the B-complex group of vitamins like thiamin, pyridoxine, riboflavin and minerals like iron, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc.

How about that!

So remember, since it’s bland and won’t change the flavor of your recipe, try adding ½ a cup or so to some of your muffin or bread recipes. With pumpkin season upon us, I’m going to add some to my first pumpkin bread coming up soon!

Now, because my recipes avoid using any animal products, I love finding the right combination of ingredients that allows me to achieve a moist and delicious muffin or bread recipe that also only uses a few ingredients. This takes the right combination of leavening agents and figuring out what role the “egg” plays into the recipe. Most of the time, I find that it really doesn’t change a cookie recipe to simply leave out an egg but when baking muffins and breads, it’s good to figure out its role:

Here are the roles eggs play in baking:  For moisture and/or richness: If your recipe calls for little other liquid, then it’s being used for additional moisture.  For leavening: If there are no other leavening agents in the recipe; i.e., baking powder or baking soda but your recipe has acidic ingredients – vinegar, buttermilk, lemon or orange, the egg’s being used as the leavening agent. As a Binder: If there appears to be enough liquid and also leavening agent but not so much “glue” (flour, nuts etc.) then it’s being used as a binder. Eggs haven’t always been available and human ingenuity has created numerous ways to avoid their use. Mashed fruit like a banana or apple sauce will replace egg. Silken tofu can replace an egg. Ground flaxseed (1 tablespoon mixed with 3 tablespoons of water) will replace an egg, and there are several brands of egg replacers on the market. I don’t have any first-hand experience with any of these and tend to use ground flaxseed or applesauce in my recipes. In baked goods; such as, breads and muffins, eggs add moisture and act as a binder. In the recipe below, I’m using ground flaxseed to help with the binding as well as the moisture along with the liquids and of course the lovely zucchini.

Now, because I love simple I started playing around with some different recipe ideas, and I really like this one because, although it’s in bread form, it’s like a muffin. It calls for no refined sugar, which I avoid, cinnamon — I love cinnamon — fresh lemon juice and zest — yummers — fresh or frozen blueberries, and of course the star of this blog post, zucchini!

I went with a very thin, lemony-glaze by using low-fat coconut milk. If you want a thicker glaze, you will need to use full-fat coconut milk. And of course, the glaze is optional.

Prep Time: 15 min         Cook Time: 40 to 45 min         Makes  about 12 slices

For the Bread

  • 1¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
  • 2½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  • ½ cup canned low-fat coconut milk
  • 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
  • ¾ cup shredded zucchini
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla (non-alcoholic)
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen (if you use frozen, thaw and drain any liquid)

DSCN2017DSCN2019For the Glaze

  • ¼ cup chilled, low-fat canned coconut milk
  • 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

For the bread: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 8½  x 4½  x 2⅝  loaf pan. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients together. In a small mixing bowl, combine wet ingredients. Add to dry ingredients and mix well.  Gently stir in blueberries and pour into greased loaf pan. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool before cutting into slices.

For the Glaze: Combine chilled coconut milk, maple sugar and lemon juice. Drizzle over cooled bread. If you can wait that long!

As you can see in my photos, I made a double batch. One to enjoy, one to share!

Truly, enjoy! Cheers, Karen

About karenlynnesnyder

I support others to better health through plant-strong eating and healthy lifestyle choices. I hope my information here helps you with your journey.
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This recipe was inspired by this test-kitchen article in Cooks Illustrated magazine, in which they tested all manners of plant-based ground beef alternatives for marinara sauce including nuts, lentils, bulgar, mushrooms, beans, eggplant, and cauliflower. Mushrooms and chickpeas came out as clear winners for texture and flavor. This is my interpretation of their findings.

This recipe made a chunky, flavorful, delicious marinara that would be excellent on roasted eggplant, zuchinni, or spaghetti squash, spiralized veggie “noodles”, polenta, or lentil pasta, and would pair beautifully with veggie sausage, pine nuts, or plant-based ricotta. See the meal suggestions at the bottom of this post.

This also was fairly quick to make, because of using the food processor to chop everything. I barely had to use a knife.

Meatless Meaty Marinara

  • Servings: Makes about 66 oz, 6 servings, or about 8 cups
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Each 11 oz Serving Contains:

  • 4 oz Veggies
  • 1/4 Protein Serving
  • 1 Fat Serving

Veggie Serving

  • 10 oz raw mushrooms
  • 1 medium onion (about 11 oz raw)
  • 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 oz)

Protein Serving

  • 9 oz cooked chickpeas (about one 15-oz can, drained and rinsed) (contributes 1.5 protein servings)

Fat Serving

  • 3 oz olive oil (6 fat servings)

Condiments & Spices

  • 16 oz (2 cups) vegetable broth
  • 4-5 garlic cloves
  • 1.5 tsp dried oregano
  • Dash of red pepper flakes (according to heat preference)
  • 2.5 oz (about 1/4 cup) tomato paste
  • Chopped fresh basil to garnish

  1. Dice mushrooms, or pulse in a food processor to get small-ish chunks.
  2. Weigh the oil and add it to a heavy bottomed pan.
  3. Add mushrooms and a pinch of salt and cook until moisture has evaporated and they are well-browned.
  4. Meanwhile, chop the onion the same way by pulsing in food processor.
  5. Add onion to the pot with the mushrooms and continue to cook on medium-high heat.
  6. Add tomato paste garlic, oregano, and pepper flakes, and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant and a deep-rust color, about 1 minute.
  7. Add in tomatoes and broth and bring to a simmer.
  8. Reduce to low heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
  9. While the sauce simmers, pulse chickpeas in the food processor a few times until chopped into small pieces. Not too fine, you want the chunky texture! This isn’t hummus!
  10. Rinse the chickpeas in a strainer after chopping to remove as much starchiness as possible.
  11. Add the chickpeas the sauce and simmer until has thickened, about 15-20 minutes.
  12. Garnish with basil, salt, and pepper.

Meal Suggestions

  • For a protein-less marinara, replace 9 oz of chickpeas with 9 oz of jarred marinara sauce, tomatoes, diced onions, or eggplant. Then one 11 oz serving of sauce will contain no protein, and 5.5 oz of veggies.

Below are some ideas for additions to complete this meal:


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Katie Thompson is a Missouri-based licensed professional counselor, nationally certified with an additional certification as an eating disorder specialist through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP).

She has been practicing for over a decade as a psychotherapist. In that time, she has served in a variety of settings including:

  • community mental health patient therapy
  • residential services in the foster care system
  • inpatient hospital settings and
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As a clinician, she is trained to treat:

  • eating disorders, specialty in Binge Eating Disorder
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  • PTSD/complex trauma
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  • self-injurious behaviors
  • process addictions
  • family conflict
  • specific phobias

In addition to being a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, she is trained in several treatment modalities including:

She uses a direct and honest approach coupled with compassion to help guide clients into the journey of recovery and healing.  As a former school teacher, she utilizes years of experience with children and families as a guide when she steps into the role of family therapist.

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WPFW at thirty

Nov 30, 2007 WPFW at thirty

WPFW (with Von Martin early in the tape).

Amy Goodman.

During the first week at law school in Washington, D.C., an area native described Washington as a small town. The notion that I might have moved to a small town from a huge city (Manhattan after Boston) threw me for a loop. I realized that Washington had a much smaller population than New York City and Boston, but had not stopped to check whether its population is dwarfed by New York’s and Boston’s, which it is. Plenty of other places have much smaller populations, but as major cities go, this is a small town in many ways.

One feature of Washington that made me immediately feel at home was Pacifica Radio station WPFW 89.3 FM. I thrived on the pure jazz and other great music, and took to some of the political programming, although some of it seemed whacked out of the stratosphere. I later learned about ugly infighting that would follow at Pacifica, and I do not know how much Pacifica and its listenters have recovered from that. At the same time, I continue listening; I am not aware of any other radio station that refuses dollars from government and large corporate entities.

WPFW has its own homey feel. Five years after relocating to Washington, I was driving nowhere in particular one early Saturday evening, and heard highly-talented Carribeana host Von Martin soliciting a ride for a woman named Gabi to a Curry-out at the station. Von and Gabi accepted my offer to drive her to the station, where I had a blast. Von showed me his cramped studio, where I suppose most of the announcers spoke to listeners. He gave me a cool tape of Caribbean music. I found some tasty vegetarian eats among the meat-laden Caribbean food. The party apparently went very late; I departed much earlier than that.

Yesterday, as I often try to do when at the courthouse in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, I had lunch at the vegan Everlasting Life restaurant in Capitol Heights, Maryland. The restaurant apparently is geared more towards health than bottom-line profit, proclaiming, for instance: "Once you get beyond all the studies, the statistics, the hype and the hoopla, it comes down to providing people with the knowledge on how to eat to live, the ability to access the things they need to make it a reality, and the support and dedication to encourage them to do so." The restaurant is surrounded by a sea of fast food joints, and seems always busy.

On yesterday’s visit to Everlasting Life, I met a uniformed animal control officer, and remarked that as much as I believe strongly in animal welfare, perhaps he and I one day would be on opposite sides of the court if I were to defend in criminal court someone accused by him of animal cruelty, which I would gladly do, just as I gladly defend all criminal defendants. He mentioned being vegetarian for fifty years (he is sixty-two, and looks to be in great health) and mostly or all vegan now. He mentioned Dick Gregory, who is apparently a vegetarian, and has shown himself to be very likable when I bumped into him at the nearby Whole Foods market and a few years earlier at another store. He said that Mr. Gregory will be at WPFW’s December 15 thirtieth anniversary celebration. It looks like quite a celebration — not an inexpensive one to attend, but charging a little less than what plenty of other non-profit fundraisers charge. I decided to tell you about it.

Also in attendance at WPFW’s December 15 celebration will be Peace and Justice Award recipients Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Ron Clark, John Conyers, Sonny Rollins (who presented a smashing Carnegie Hall performance in 1978 that I attended), and Dr. Doroth Height. I likely will miss the event due to a prior obligation. If you go, please update me.

If you are a WPFW listener, please remember to donate to the station, which cannot live on love alone. Jon Katz.

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Dstv Installations New State only has MultiChoice Accredited Installers.

We know that getting a trustful DSTV installer can be a James Bond mission and a half. With everyone claiming to be DSTV accredited, it’s no wonder that many DSTV systems start failing within a matter of months. This is due to the fact that experienced DSTV installers, install for the future!

At Dstv Installations New State we have always aimed to provide our customers with trusted DSTV installers who will represent our company well. This is important for any business and ensuring that our staff members have the skills needed to achieve their work means that the company can achieve its goals as well.

At Dstv Installations New State our staff members go through the right channels to acquire their skills and become DSTV experts and this is easy to tell when you look at the work completed.

Our accredited DSTV installers can help you with:

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For the best DSTV system we recommend DSTV HD which includes:

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For anything extra we suggest that you get in touch with our DSTV sales expert for advise meant to suit your needs and budget.

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Dstv Installations Ravenswood only has MultiChoice Accredited Installers.

We know that getting a trustful DSTV installer can be a James Bond mission and a half. With everyone claiming to be DSTV accredited, it’s no wonder that many DSTV systems start failing within a matter of months. This is due to the fact that experienced DSTV installers, install for the future!

At Dstv Installations Ravenswood we have always aimed to provide our customers with trusted DSTV installers who will represent our company well. This is important for any business and ensuring that our staff members have the skills needed to achieve their work means that the company can achieve its goals as well.

At Dstv Installations Ravenswood our staff members go through the right channels to acquire their skills and become DSTV experts and this is easy to tell when you look at the work completed.

Our accredited DSTV installers can help you with:

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  • Hotel DSTV Installation and Upgrades
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  • DSTV Error Support
  • DSTV Quotes and Estimations

Dstv Installations Ravenswood also provides corporate Communal DSTV Systems!

At Dstv Installations Ravenswood our DSTV installers will easily install Commercial Communal DSTV Systems or high speed Fiber systems that will ensure that you have DSTV connections with a residential complex or estate.

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  • DSTV Issue Troubleshooting

Dstv Installations Ravenswood ensures you get everything you need to enjoy the world of DSTV.

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If you watch a lot of HGTV shows like House Hunters, Flip or Flop, or Love It Or List It, get ready to see some familiar scenery, as a family from right here in Minnesota and their new HGTV show hits the screen for the first time tonight.

While Minnesota has already been featured in several HGTV shows from Nicole Curtis, Amy Matthews and more, there's a brand new show that features a couple (and their real estate business) right here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

That's right, the new show 'Stay or Sell' (which premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on HGTV) features Minnesotans, Heather and Brad Fox, who own Fox Homes. Their realty firm has been in business in Minnetonka for the past 10 years, helping you "buy, sell, design, remodel or build a home of your dreams," as their site says.

Their new show appears to be a mixture of Love It Or Leave It, Flip or Flop, and Chip and Joanna Gaines' Fixer Upper, where the Foxes try to help a Minnesota family (the first one featured is from St. Louis Park) decide whether they want to renovate their current home (with help from Fox Homes, of course) or if they want to find a brand-new home. This Mpls-StPaul story explains more about the show's premise, and also says the Foxes are hosting a special viewing party for the premiere tonight at 6Smith in Wayzata.

My wife and I watch a TON of these shows, so we'll be setting the DVR to catch the premiere of this one, too-- and hoping it gets picked up for a full season! It's always kind of cool to see if you can recognize any of the surrounding areas when those shows feature Minnesota, so this one should be filled with Twin Cities scenery and Minnesota-isms, don'tcha know.


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Just in case you are wondering if I really use my Monte Carlo as a pick-up, here is a picture of my car hauling brush to the yard waste site in Faribault. It took a couple trips but it is surprising how many branches you can get in a trunk, especially if you can pile the brush and hold the trunk down with a bungy cord!

My Monte Carlo pick-up number one was also used like this. It had 349,000 miles on it when the frame was rusted to the point where there was no solid metal left! There is no question it was abused and hauled much heavier loads of seed, herbicide, metal and other "stuff" than it was designed for. However, you have to concede not many cars or pick-ups get 349,000 miles on them before then end up in the junk yard! With oil changes and normal maintenance, it is amazing how many miles cars can go these days.


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Washington D.C. (KROC-AM News) - Former Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith is now a U.S. Senator.

Smith was accompanied by former Minnesota Senator and former Vice President Walter Mondale as she took the oath of office during a swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol Wednesday morning. The former chair of the Rochester Destination Medical Center Corporation Board was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to replace fellow Democrat Al Franken after his resignation became official on Tuesday. Franken decided to step down in the wake of numerous allegations of inappropriate touching and unwanted sexual advances.

Smith’s appointment runs through the end of next year, and the winner of a special election next fall will represent Minnesota during the final 2 years of Franken’s second term in the Senate. Smith has said she intends to run in the special election.

Meanwhile, State Senator Michelle Fischbach issued a statement today indicating she has now assumed the role of “Acting” Lieutenant Governor. By using the term “acting” Fischbach signaled her intent to continue serving as the senior Republican in the State Senate. She also stated that she would not accept the $96,000 salary paid to the state’s Lieutenant Governor and would continue collecting her $45,000 annual salary from the Minnesota Senate.

Democrats in the legislature and State Attorney General Lori Swanson contend it’s unconstitutional for Fischbach to hold both positions and Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk has said he plans to file a legal challenge.


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Avalanches cause traffic problems in southern Colorado

Image from a CDOT camera near Monarch Pass on U.S. 50 midday Friday, Feb. 15.

DENVER — Road crews in parts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming worked Friday to clear avalanches that had closed mountain highways and to mitigate potential avalanche threats.

In south-central Colorado, U.S. 50 over Monarch Pass in the southern was closed Friday morning for avalanche control. An avalanche had closed the pass earlier Friday before being cleared.

In southwest Colorado, several mountain passes along U.S. 550 as well as Lizard Head Pass on Colorado 145 were closed Friday morning for avalanche control.

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In western Montana, where avalanche warnings were posted, Interstate 90 westbound lanes near the Idaho border were reopened after being closed Thursday by avalanches.

In northwest Wyoming, Teton Pass west of Jackson was closed for avalanche control and U.S. 89 southwest of Jackson was closed because of an avalanche.

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Director / Writer / Editor

Saw VI

SAW VI  is one of the best and most fascinating in the series. --JoBlo

 SAW VI is not only good, it’s really good.

 SAW fans will walk out of the theater with their fists in the air with the feeling that they’ve reclaimed their beloved franchise. --Bloody Disgusting

Not only does [Saw VI] get the series back on track, it’s also the most engaging and well crafted entry to date. --Dread Central

Saw 3D

 The [SAW] series’ most enjoyable entry. --Chicago Reader

It's a touching homage, really, and one sure to bring a wistful tear to fans of the franchise. -- Jim Schembri

It's not until Saw 3D reaches its...twist-heavy finale that the film becomes more than just another run-of-the-mill horror sequel, as the revelations contained within are sure to leave the franchise's followers thoroughly satisfied (and, of course, clamoring for more). --Reel Film

 JESSABELLE is an atmospheric, well paced, expertly acted little horror film. -- Arrow in the Head

Isn’t it nice when horror movies respect their audience and take time to craft white-knuckle scares worthy of a few less hours of sleep, instead of Ouija-like backhanded scare tactics? --We Got This Covered

It’s a perfect example of a horror movie [that] relies on creeping dread rather than brutal violence to scare its audience. --AV Club

VISIONS is well acted, tightly edited, and blissfully CGI-free, with good moments of suspense; and the ending pays off.

--Dread Central

Eerie goings-on with a nice twist, VISIONS plays with the tropes and conventions of the horror genre, such as the mysterious whistling kettle sound, a hooded figure whose face cannot be seen and an eerie pool of water in the dead of night. --The Straits Times

 Kevin Greutert’s lean, mean and rough horror movie Jackals is a dirty little gem. --Coming Soon

JACKALS does a wonderful job creating suspense and tension. --Bloody Disgusting

It’s a horror movie worth seeking out…to appreciate Greutert’s crackerjack skill in putting talented, underrated actors into a room and employing a single location to create a mini-masterclass in suspense. --Chris Alexander

 Kevin Greutert was born in Pasadena, California, where he graduated from Polytechnic School, then received his B.A. in Cinema Production from the University of Southern California.

After rising through the ranks of editorial on such films as “Titanic” and “Armageddon”, Kevin edited the James Wan horror classic “Saw”. SAW cost $1.2 million to produce and earned over $56 million domestic, $103 million worldwide. He returned to edit the “Saw” sequels, and achieved his lifelong dream when he was asked to direct “Saw VI”, a fan favorite, then “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter”. This commercially successful franchise (close to a billion dollars and still counting) is known for its intricate plotting, original visual design, breakneck editing, and compelling use of music and sound design.

He then collaborated with horror maven Jason Blum, directing “Jessabelle” for Lionsgate and Blumhouse, as well as “Visions”, starring Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Eva Longoria and Jim Parsons, for Universal and Blumhouse. These moody supernatural stories represent a stylistic departure from the world of “Saw”, with sumptuous music and visuals, and powerful central female performances.

His latest directing effort was “Jackals”, a lean, mean home invasion thriller that accomplishes much on a fraction of the budget of his other films. It stars Stephen Dorff, Deborah Kara Unger and Johnathon Schaech,

Kevin has continued to contribute his editing talents to many other films in the horror and thriller genres, such as Bryan Bertino’s classic “The Strangers”.

An avid adventurer, he has traveled throughout Asia, Europe and North Africa. He has also written fiction for such magazines as J.G. Ballard’s Ambit, and performed music on several film scores, including the Paul Bowles documentary "Things Gone and Things Still Here". His hobbies include music performance, drawing, reading, and flying model aircraft. He is the grandson of Henry Greutert, lead sculptor on such films as “The Wizard of Oz” and “An American In Paris”.

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