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20th Anniversary of Ever After

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Tomorrow is the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of Cinderella movie Ever After. Even though it’s from 1998, it’s still loved by many for its mix of pseudo-history, adventure, and a strong heroine. I was in college at the time, and still remember going to the cinema to see it.

Here’s the trailer:

And now you have an excuse to watch it again!

Can Cinderella stories still work?

There are a million historical romances that could be considered Cinderella-ish. Everywhere you go in the genre you find governesses being swept off their feet by earls, and lowly serving girls who turn out to be secret daughters of dukes.

But how about actual Cinderella stories?

My main problem with Cinderella is that it basically relies on misogyny to get its point across. There are no bad men in Cinderella, only mean, jealous, and downright evil women who are countered by overly sweet and kind “good women”. It’s the women of the tale who try to ruin Cinderella’s life, and it’s women in the story who fight over a man.

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For all its criticisms of being outdated and the protagonist being too stereotypically feminine (shock, horror!), I think the recent Disney movie pulled off something a little deeper than that. Cate Blanchett’s stepmother was a more complex character than just being evil for no particular reason. But the movie still has the problems that come with packaging women into “good” and “bad” boxes.

Cate Blanchett in Cinderella

I recently had my hands on a review copy of The Cinderella Governess by Georgie Lee. The Cinderella name is right there in the title, and I was interested to see how the theme would be handled.

The Cinderella Governess (The Governess Tales #1) by Georgie Lee

I love the Harlequin/Mills and Boon historical line; it is probably the strongest line the publisher produces, and it easily outdoes most other publishers producing historical romance – despite the negative stereotypes too many readers attach to Harlequin books.

I thought that if anybody was going to produce a decent historical romance with a Cinderella theme, Harlequin Historical would.

Instead, I was treated to all the misogynistic stereotyping I would expect from Twilight fan fiction.

Harlequin usually gets their covers surprisingly correct. They take character descriptions into consideration. However, this heroine is a redhead, not blonde – and this is an important factor in the book.

Because the author trots out blonde woman after blonde teen after blonde girl – and demonises them. In true Twilight style, all blondes are beautiful, jealous, self-absorbed bitches – for no reason. In fact, one blonde teen is even referred to as a harlot!

Brunettes are downtrodden.

And our redhead heroine is special.

I’ll admit: I didn’t finish the book. I guess I’ve read one too many books like this recently.

I like the IDEA of the Cinderella theme in historical – or any – romance, but perhaps we could start tackling it without making all other women out to be enemies.

Cinderella Deluxe Illustrated Novel by Brittany Candau

Cinderella Deluxe Illustrated Novel by Brittany Candau

Ella is different than most young women in the kingdom. She can quote any Shakespearean play. She befriends every animal she meets, including the scurrying mice living in the walls. She believes in the power of kindness, in changing customs that are not so kind. Ella has faced unspeakable tragedy and loss, and is at the mercy of her cruel stepfamily. And yet, Ella tries to keep a brave face, no matter how difficult this becomes. Kit has always been deemed a “dreamer.” He values peace above all else. He’s never understood the point of certain royal traditions and rituals. He’d rather spend time in his mother’s garden than learn to fence or sit for a portrait. And as a prince, this has been somewhat problematic. This is a story about kindness and courage, about love lost and love found, about the power of names. This is the story of Cinderella.

Cinderella Deluxe Illustrated Novel by Brittany Candau

I don’t know why it is I decided to get so interested in Disney’s new Cinderella movie. Maybe because the casting was interesting and I loved the director’s takes on Shakespeare in the past.

Anyway, I read the junior novelisation, and then I read this more grown-up version of the same story.

What a difference it makes.

I’m not going through it all again, because I’ve already reviewed this story, but I’m a little sad that this was such a good take on the Cinderella tale, when the watered-down younger version, a novelisation of exactly the same film script, removed all the character nuance and made both lead characters irritatingly weak!

Unlike the other version, in this book we get to see and understand how and why Cinderella and the Prince are so taken with each other. We’re also given a better background to why the Prince makes the political decisions he does (a children’s story, yes, but the few mentions of politics in the junior book were just downright wimpy!). The Stepmother’s motivations are better-explained. The friendships and the fun are there.

And what a fantastic change to have a Disney princess who admits her favourite colour is blue, not pink!

I don’t know how much of this is going to make it onto the screen, but I’m much more satisfied with this take on Cinderella than I was when reading the other book.

And here’s an interesting take on the film, which says something I agree with, whether or not you like this version of the Cinderella story:

For too many movies or television shows, the notion of a “strong female character” is merely a humourless woman who can hurt people and wreck stuff as efficiently as the stereotypical male action lead, or at least has just enough moments posing with a weapon to sell that notion in the trailers. But of course those of us who clamour for “strong female characters” merely want popular entertainments where the women on screen are as complex and developed as the male characters.

Cinderella by Walt Disney Company

Cinderella Junior Novel (Junior Novelisation) by Walt Disney Company

Ella’s childhood is a happy one: she has loving parents, plenty of fields and meadows to explore, and lots of kind animal friends to play with. A sweet child, Ella warms the hearts of all who meet her. And her home is a wonderful place, the perfect little kingdom for a joyful family. But when tragedy strikes, Ella’s happy home turns into one filled with sadness and cruelty. Will Ella be able to hold onto her kindness and courage through it all?

Cinderella Junior Novel (Junior Novelisation) by Walt Disney Company

After I read this book, I read the more ‘grown-up’ version, and it was much, much better. If you want to read one of these, read the Illustrated Novelisation, not this one!

Plenty of people are excited about the new live action movie version of Disney’s Cinderella, and so I figured I might as well read the novelisation and see what they’d done with the (admittedly pretty anaemic) romance this time round. The 1950 animated version is entertaining enough, but there’s a lot more time devoted to singing and mice than there is to character development or any of the actually interesting parts of the Cinderella story.

There are a lot of people who start worrying every time a new fairy tale movie comes out. They don’t want the story “ruined” by a “feminist agenda”. Now, I find that really offensive and misogynistic, but I also understand people wanting to see the original story without too many changes.

And this is exactly what we get here.

The movie trailers promised a longer and more meaningful connection between Ella and her prince (Kit in this book). However, those few seconds in the trailer where they meet on horseback in the forest? That’s all there is!

The character of the prince IS more fleshed out, but he is off in the palace doing his own thing while Cinderella is busy ‘having courage and being kind’ while being literature’s greatest doormat.

Something about this book I thought was hilarious was that the author had a character using bloody as a swear word. Um… this is a children’s book!

And because it is a children’s book, I won’t even get started on all the incorrect forms of address for royalty. Surely even a Disney author has access to Wikipedia!

If you’re expecting an alpha hero in the shape of a prince, you’ll be disappointed. He’s a shy sort of fellow whose plan for ruling the kingdom is not for international alliances (he doesn’t want any!), but to rule with kindness, courage and love. Ho-kay then. That sounds smart!

I do really like softer, kinder, less assertive heroines, as backwards as that may sound. I was a very shy thing at Cinderella’s age. However, there’s kind and then there’s THIS! It was a little painful to see what a weak and useless creature Cinderella was – even more so than in the animated version.

This is exactly what you’d expect: a fairy tale movie put on the page. Expect nothing more.


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Latin American Studies Around the World: Southampton Hosted the 2018 SLAS Conference

Last week the University of Southampton hosted around 200 experts on Latin American Studies from all over the world who gathered at the 2018 Society of Latin American Studies’ Annual Conference to reflect on the history and current state of Latin American Studies in the UK and around the world.

A team of ten students from Social Sciences and Humanities were part of the organising team, based at PAIR, and efficiently run this two-day event at the Winchester campus. For most of these students, it was their first experience on a professional academic event of this size and prestige. They enthusiastically combined work experience with attendance to panels and networking with the experts in their favourite topics.

Full information about the conference programme, keynote lecture, closing plenary and more pictures can be found at

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Girls Varsity Swimming · SH Swimmers Excel at MISCA MEET

Two South Haven swim standouts, Elise Postma and Ellie Frost, competed at the MISCA Swim Meet this Saturday (10/12) at Calvin University.

Elise Postma swam 100 Breaststroke in 1:10.86 seconds. This is a PR and qualifies her for the MHSAA Swim State Meet in November at Oakland University!!

Ellie Frost swam the 50 Freestyle in 23.83 seconds which was good for 4th place, and the 100 Freestyle in 53.66 finishing in 6th place. She had already qualified for the MHSAA State Meet earlier this season.

Congratulations to both ladies on an excellent day in the pool!!


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JONIŠKIS, Lithuania — I first learned about my paternal great-grandfather, Boruch (Boris) Poliakovsky, when I was eight years old and had to write a family history for a third-grade assignment.

Baruch survived the First World War only to die in 1919 in the global influenza epidemic, which spurred his widow and four children to leave for South Africa.

Ironically, had he survived, they all likely would have been murdered in the Holocaust. I would not be here.

The town of Joniškis — Yanushok, in Yiddish — became a kind of mythical place to me, one I was never quite sure actually existed. During my seven-year sojourn in South Africa, I saw old sepia photograph of the town in a Jewish historical calendar. It looked hopelessly rustic, ramshackle, and poor — not unlike the shacks of the squatter camps where I tutored students in Cape Town’s formerly black townships, kids who still did homework by candlelight.

But with the advent of Google Maps, it became rather easy to find Joniškis on the map. And Google’s “Street View” feature even allowed me to wander, virtually, around the contemporary town, which sits just south of the Latvian border.

I began to entertain thoughts of actually visiting the place, though the opportunity never came until the March of the Living invited me to cover their annual Holocaust memorial in Poland, and I added an early side trip.

I spent weeks scouring the Internet for information about the historical Jewish community there. (There are only two Jews living in Joniškis. Lithuanian collaborators working with the Nazis executed hundreds of men, women, and children in mass graves in the forest southwest of the town in 1941.) I discovered that there are two beautiful, restored synagogues, “Red” and “White,” that survived the war as well as the communist nightmare that followed.

I also found out that the town’s Jewish cemetery still existed, and I wondered if Boruch Poliakovsky’s grave still stood there.

A photograph of the headstone survives in family photo albums, but no one had ever visited it — not since Boruch’s seven sisters were killed with their community, and not since a cousin, Yechezkel Pulerevitz, was deported to the gulag by the Soviets on the eve of the Nazi invasion (which also, ironically, saved his life).

A woman named Yael Driver had been there twenty years before, and had left written directions to the cemetery on the Internet, as well as her email address. I searched for days on Google Maps until I was certain I had found the cemetery.

Meanwhile, I had contacted the Lithuanian embassy in Washington, D.C., which put me in touch with Consul General Darius Gaidys, who graciously connected me with several knowledgeable local historical guides.

As luck would have it, Yael Driver replied to my email. While most of the headstones at the center of the cemetery were broken and illegible, those around the edges had survived in better condition. She told me that my great-grandfather’s headstone was still standing, according to her records. Or at least it had been, twenty years ago. So I felt that I had a decent chance of finding Boruch Poliakovsky’s grave, assuming nothing else had happened to it.

The day for the trip finally came. After a long flight from Los Angeles to London, and a short hop to Riga, Latvia — much closer to Joniškis than the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius — I set out on the hour-long drive south.

The brown Latvian landscape gave way, almost instantaneously, to green meadows after the Lithuanian border. And there, at the roadside, was a sign to Joniškis — as if it were any ordinary place, not an imagined artifact of old family lore.

The town is rather charming and picturesque, and it was a thrill to drive into it on a warm spring afternoon — to see children walking home from school or riding bicycles with their parents. I felt a thrill as I saw the spires of the White Synagogue jutting out from behind the buildings that obscure it from the street (and which, for that reason, probably saved it from destruction).

White Synagogue of Joniškis (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

I pulled into the hotel parking lot — the only one in town — and met my guides. We toured the two synagogues, a group of five in all — two guides from the nearby town of Žagarė, who work in the local parks department, and two from Joniškis itself, all fascinated by local Jewish history.

They explained to me that one synagogue had been used in summer and one in winter. I countered with the joke about every Jew needing two synagogues — one that he goes to, and one in which he refuses to set foot. (I am not sure they understood.)

Red Synagogue of Joniškis (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

By then, it was 6:00 p.m., and I was anxious to visit the cemetery before nightfall (shortly after 8:00). Once, the little road to the cemetery was a dirt road. It is now paved — but the last fifty meters or so, which run into a field, were still dirt, and fairly muddy.

We decided to take our chances, and drove carefully through the soft ground, parking just outside the equally muddy private driveway of the rustic house that abuts the cemetery itself.

We entered the cemetery and began to search for the grave across the marshy ground. Many of the headstones were so broken and worn away that they could not be read at all.

Joniškis cemetery (Joel Pollak)

Some markers were legible, and some epitaphs rather moving.

I knew what my grandfather’s headstone looked like from the family photograph — which, conveniently, I had left at the hotel. But my guides could not help me; knowledgeable as they were, they could not read Hebrew.

I trudged back and forth from one corner of the cemetery to the other, poring over the faint and fading inscriptions. After I began revisiting the same headstones, I thought to call my wife and my parents back in the U.S. — what did we do before cellphones — to ask them to text me the photo of the headstone, rather than dragging my guides back to town. I also studied Yael Driver’s email: she had seen Boruch’s grave to the left of the entrance. But I did not.

It dawned on me that perhaps my great-grandfather’s grave simply had not survived another twenty years. I had thought to enjoy the blessing — so rare among Jewish descendants of these devastated communities — of having a real grave to visit. But perhaps, like so many other Jews, his grave had slipped into memory.

Perhaps that was fitting, in a way. At least I knew he was buried there — somewhere.

We turned, after more than an hour, to leave.

Our driver pulled into the private driveway to turn around — and there she encountered the irate, half-naked owner of the house, a man with a forest of white facial hair and a giant beer belly and who burst outside, yelling curses.

She put the car into reverse — and promptly sank deep into the mud, her wheels spinning. Now the man was even more furious, and she argued back at him while at the same time phoning her husband, frantically, for help.

I apologized to my guides for putting them into this predicament. One suggested that we pass the time by making one last search through the cemetery, as the sun began dipping below storm clouds to the west.

I agreed, and as we walked back past the sign that reads “Ancient Jewish Cemetery,” I told her about how my great-grandfather’s death seemed to suggest that there might sometimes be a reason that bad things happen, though not apparent at the time.

Just then, in front of us, I saw a shape that matched the shape I had seen in the photograph. The color was wrong — red, instead of black — but from behind, the sloping shoulders of the headstone seemed familiar.

I walked to the front and tried to read it, though the surface was covered with green-gray lichen. I made out the Hebrew letters of the surname “Poliakovsky” and realized that this tilting stone, which I had passed over at twice before, was the one.

I was so thrilled to find it that I forgot the heavier thoughts I imagined, in advance, I would have at my great-grandfather’s grave. I tried to make a rubbing of the headstone with the tracing paper and graphite block I brought with me, but the lichen had anchored themselves so firmly in the grooves of the granite that it was futile.

I had already laid the traditional visitors’ stone on the entrance to the cemetery, when I had despaired of finding his grave. So I retrieved the yellow tulip I had placed, moments before, on a nondescript grave beside a shattered tombstone as something of a memorial to the community as a whole. I placed the tulip in a patch of earth below my great-grandfather’s headstone, and I took it all in.

Here he was: the man who, in dying, made all of our lives possible. I pulled out my phone and recited Psalm 42: “[M]ay His resting place be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.” (9)

Just then, the other guides began waving frantically to us. They had extracted the car from the muck: it was time to make our escape. I said a last goodbye and joined the others.

As we pulled away, back to the main road, arcs of lightning shot across the sky. The heavens were about to open, soaking the countryside — and the cemetery. A few minutes more and the soggy ground would have been completely impassable.

Somehow, it had all worked out.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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About Me

Hi there

The Spicegoddess Blog started from very humble beginnings and has evolved along the way to become a point of reference for many locally and globally. Currently I am lecture at a local TVET College and is the Travel and Tourism Department. My passion for travel and education has become a labour of love for this blogger as all my days and time is spent in the world of travel.

After living abroad in London for almost a decade of which most of my free time was spent travelling, I returned to South Africa and discovered  a new found love and appreciation for my home country and my cultural heritage. It was at this point in 2010 the SpiceGoddess Blog was born as a platform to share my world  with the world.Finding a name for my blog was rather a difficult task and it did take me ages. The name of my blog is inspired by a book and a movie called Mistress of the Spices.The movie is based around a Spice shop in America that sells Indian spices and a beautiful woman who works there. So it kind of made sense to keep the Spice bit and add Goddess to it and hence SpiceGoddess was born. When I was moving my blog and knew that a logo was needed my friend came up with the perfect design which fitted in with the whole feel of my blog.Over time as my brand has evolved and grown so to has the blog had various makeovers.

Over the years Verushka has rediscovered her love of travel and become a local tourist in her country. She has also fostered good working relationships with several Tourism boards and continues to promote the destinations she has visited. Verushka has worked most recently with Mauritius Tourism covering their 50th Independence celebrations. A group of South African media were invited to cover this prestigious event. During her time on the island Verushka posted regularly on Social Media creating a buzz about the island and on her return has produced content on the island which included the UNESCO World Heritage site the Apavarsi Ghat which was the place that the Indentured Labourers from India were brought to work on the sugar cane fields on the island. Verushka has also been featured on two radio shows about this specific trip.

Dubai Tourism invited the SpiceGoddess in 2017 with a group of African Media to experience the Dubai Shopping Festival and to the Theme parks. This short whirlwind trip was jammed packed with activities. Verushka still continues to share content on her trip and has become a great ambassador for Dubai and has been a part of several Twitter chats on Dubai. Her relationship with Dubai Tourism continues.

In 2016, Verushka was selected as part of a group of 30 International bloggers and content creators to visit the state of Kerala with Kerala Tourism. This 16 day trip Verushka got to travel and explore the several parts of the state and get a taste of Kerala this enabled her to be able to create great content in sharing her experiences.

During 2015, the Spicegoddess was invited on my first trip by Abu Dhabi Tourism. It was here I got to experience life through the eyes of the media.

I have been featured several times in print media as well as online media including  radio interviews. Not only do I use my own blog as a medium for sharing my travels but I guest post on several publications around the globe.

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Have you ever looked at your boring vanilla soft serve and just wished you were eating something a little more exciting? Well lucky for you, you’re not alone. We decided to help you out and find some of the craziest, coolest, extravagant, and outright over-the-top ice cream shops in the world.

While these are only some of the most over-the-top ice cream shops out there, they’re no doubt worthy enough to be on this list.

1. Sweet Jesus – Toronto, Ontario

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Photo courtesy of @fooddiva_toronto on Instagram

Why get regular soft serve when you can get a pimped out cone? These over-the-top concoctions range from Birthday Cake Cone to Campfire S’mores and to Krusty the Cone. These cones are so decadent that you will probably leave on a serious sugar high.

If soft serve isn’t your thing, be sure to check out their paletas or even their lattes. Their other options are just as creative as their cones. Needless to say, we now understand why this Canadian shop is called Sweet Jesus.

2. Serendipity 3 – NYC & Las Vegas

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Photo courtesy of @jewelsbygrace on Instagram

Ever wondered what it would be like to eat like a king? We’re pretty sure eating Serendipity’s Golden Opulence Sundae would be just like that.

Listed in Guinness World Records as the most expensive sundae in the world at a price of $1,000, it’s topped with 23k edible gold. This sundae requires special ingredients from different parts of the world, so make sure to call them 48 hours in advance to request your very own. If shelling out $1,000 on ice cream isn’t your thing, don’t worry. They have other delicious (and cheaper) options too.

3. Black Tap – NYC

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Photos courtesy of @blacktapnyc on Instagram

If you haven’t heard about Black Tap’s insane milkshakes, you’ve most likely been living under a rock. These over-the-top milkshakes are taking New York by storm.

Want your dentist to hate you? Try the Candy Milkshake. Want a little booze with your shake? Check out their Hard Root Beer Float. Is it your birthday? Try the Birthday Cake Milkshake.

4. Play J Ice Cream Truck – NYC

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Photo by Jed Egan for Grub Street

While it may be somewhat embarrassing to eat this cone, the concept behind it is actually quite genius. The j shape prevents your ice cream from dripping and making a miserable sticky mess.

5. Cow Tipping Creamery – Austin, Texas

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Photo courtesy of stilettostampede.org

There’s nothing better than some cold soft serve on a hot day. Now add in delicious and unique topping combinations, and you have a Cow Tipping Creamery creation.

Cow Tipping Creamery serves up “Stackers,” which are their own version of a sundae made in layers. They do this so you can experience the ingredients in every bite, from top to bottom.

6. Modern Toilet – Taipei, Taiwan

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Photo courtesy of @totheend on Instagram

If you’re looking for a different dining experience, Modern Toilet is right up your alley. Instead of using traditional ice cream cones or bowls, they use miniature toilet bowls. Eating shit has never tasted so good.

7. 10Below Ice Cream – NYC

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Photo courtesy of 10Below Ice Cream

When most people think of ice cream, they think of scoops. 10Below Ice Cream likes to go against norms and serve it Thai style, in rolls.

After choosing one of their fun flavors, such as I Love You a Latte, S’mores Galore, or #BAEsic, they dump liquid cream onto a really really cold plate. The cream forms a thin layer, which they then scrape and chop to form it into the ingenious ice cream rolls.

8. N2 Extreme Gelato – Sydney & Melbourne, Australia

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Photo courtesy of sydney.com

N2 Extreme Gelato gets its name by serving up an array of unique gelato options, such as Brokeback MomentMurray Mango Sorbet, and even Kat on Krack, all made with liquid nitrogen.

While some of you may be wondering if that’s toxic, don’t worry. It’s completely safe! Liquid nitrogen boils off once it comes into contact anything warmer than itself, so you and your gelato will be just fine.

If their creative presentation and delicious gelato isn’t enough for you, then maybe their inventive environment will seal the deal. This imaginative gelateria is decorated as a mad scientist’s lab, and it’s only fitting that their staff wears lab coats and goggles. Their menu changes frequently, so you’ll never be bored with their flavors.

9. Lawson – Hawaii, China, Thailand, Indonesia, & Japan

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Photo courtesy of @imanjellyka on Instagram

Lawson isn’t some fancy ice cream shop that takes a lot of time to meticulously make and decorate their black ice cream, it’s just a convenience store. However, they do serve Bamboo Charcoal ice cream and that’s pretty cool. Even though it apparently tastes like regular vanilla soft serve, it would still be interesting to try. You can’t say you do that too often, especially from a convenience store.

10. CREAM – California, Florida, & Nevada

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Photo courtesy of @stirandstyle on Instagram

CREAM brings a whole different meaning to “Taco Tuesday.” With the ability to choose three ice cream flavors and two different toppings, their ice cream tacos blow Klondike’s Choco Tacos out of the water.

CREAM doesn’t just make Choco Tacos on steroids, but also specializes in ice cream sandwiches and sundaes. With 20 ice cream flavors and 15 different toppings, you can make the sundae of a lifetime.

11. Ice Cream City – Tokyo, Japan

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Photo courtesy of cravedujour.com

If you’re searching for the world’s weirdest ice cream, you’ve picked the right place. However, weird is kind of an understatement since Ice Cream City serves up flavors, such as eel, shark, tulip, and ramen.

Just as a heads up, Ice Cream City has changed their name quite a bit, but don’t worry! Whether or not that’s still the name, there’s still an ice cream parlor (in the same place as Ice Cream City) with ridiculously weird options in the Namjatown Amusement Park.

12. Tipsy Scoop – New York, Maryland, & Massachusetts

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Photo courtesy of blog.goldbely.com

If ice cream is the first thing you reach for when you’re upset, then you’re going to love Tipsy Scoop ice cream. This liquor-infused ice cream is perfect for any celebration, any break up, or (let’s be honest) any moment when you want to eat ice cream, but also want to get a little boozy.

What better way to spend your night than snacking on some Spiked Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream? Tipsy Scoop even serves up delicious boozy ice cream cakes for those special occasions.

#SpoonTip: You must be 21 or older to purchase and consume Tipsy Scoop ice cream.

13. GLAMAIR – Taipei, Taiwan

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Photo courtesy of 貪吃里昂 on Flickr.com

Want to eat something both gorgeous and delicious? Then you’ve come to the right place. While GLAMAIR serves up different types of regular ice cream, its Cloud Ice Cream is definitely its most popular. Topped with layers of wispy multi-colored cotton candy and some liquid nitrogen (because why not?), this dessert is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

14. Giapo Haute Ice Cream – Auckland, New Zealand

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Photo by Julia D’Agostino

Giapo Haute Ice Cream is known for its decadent ice cream flavors and lavish toppings. Eating Giapo will make you feel kinda bad not only because of the delicious calorie count, but because you’ll feel like you’re eating a piece of art.

If that’s not enough for you, New Zealand’s reputation for dairy products is one of the best in the world, so the ice cream underneath all the decoration is hard to beat even when it’s topping-less. As a result, you’ll find yourself coming back more often than is probably acceptable.

15. Drip Ice Cream – Oregon

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If you’re looking for a different experience out of your ice cream, you’ve definitely come to the right place. This ice cream is not your traditional ice cream. It’s actually medical marijuana ice cream.

Just like your average, run-of-the-mill ice cream, this cannabis-infused ice cream comes in five flavors. However, unlike most ice cream brands, it comes in two potency levels: Regular Dose and Extra Strength. Sadly, this treat is still a medical product and is only available to people who are a part of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. If you are eligible, check Drip out at your favorite local dispensary!

#SpoonTip: Check out their safety and dosage info here before you eat.

16. Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar – New York City

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Photo courtesy of Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar

Not sure if you want dessert or just a drink? Well, at Loopy Doopy (the rooftop bar at Conrad New York), you don’t have to choose just one! Loopy Doopy’s Prosecco & Ice Pop cocktail allows you to choose your favorite fruity People’s Pop ice pop and top it with either chilled Prosecco or Rose. While the ice pop flavors vary depending on the month, some of the popular flavors include Blueberry Peach and Empire Apple

17. Halo Top – Order Online

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Photo by Meredith Davin

Not only is Halo Top delicious, but it is also only around 240 to 280 calories per pint. No, you didn’t read that wrong. If that information alone didn’t convince you to go out and buy a pint ASAP, we will help you put this into perspective.

According to Halo Top, one pint of their Vanilla Bean ice cream is 250 calories while 1/2 cup serving of Haägen Dazs Vanilla ice cream is 250 calories. Now you can eat an entire pint without feeling guilty.

18. Foodcraft Espresso and Bakery – Sydney, Australia

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Photo courtesy of shemazing.net

If Nutella is one of your favorite things, then you’re really going to love Foodcraft Espresso and Bakery’s decadent milkshakes. This Tella Ball shake is made up of a sugar-coated, Nutella-filled donut ball of perfection placed on top of a delicious Nutella milkshake. Although this shake may be a heart attack in the making, we think it’s definitely worth it.

19. Antico Caffè Spinnato — Palermo, Italy

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Photo courtesy of agrodolce.it

Antico Caffè Spinnato puts a different (and delicious!) spin on your everyday ice cream sandwiches by combining my two favorite things: gelato and bread. Some of you may be thinking this sounds disgusting because we can all agree soggy bread is nasty.

But don’t worry, this bread isn’t your classic white bread and these sandwiches are the furthest thing from being nasty. Antico Caffè Spinnato’s fresh-baked brioche bread and decadent gelato makes for a dessert that will no doubt leave you speechless.

20. Cool Mess – New York City

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Photo courtesy of redtri.com

If you’ve ever dreamed of making your own ice cream, you’ve come to the right place. Although Cool Mess isn’t your average ice cream parlor, the process is still very simple. Choose either chocolate or vanilla as your base flavor, choose from an array of toppings, and put them together in the machine to create your delicious concoction.

21. Chin Chin Labs – London, England

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Photo courtesy of Chin Chin Labs

If you’re as obsessed with foodie Instagram accounts as we are, you’ve probably come across the new liquid nitrogen ice cream trend. Well, Europe has finally jumped on the bandwagon with Chin Chin Labs in London.

Not only do they serve up an array of ice cream flavors, from Tonka Bean Vanilla to Peach, but they also have many creative toppings for you to choose from. Feeling adventurous? Try their Blue Cheese Whipped Cream or Spotted Dick, which apparently is British pudding made with suet and dried fruit. Don’t worry, we had to Google what Spotted Dick was too. If those toppings are too much for you, you can always just choose to make your ice cream into a delicious ice cream sandwich.

22. Amorino – select locations in Europe, Asia, & North America

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Photo courtesy of Tina Wong for thewanderingeater.com

Calling all foodie Instagrams: this gelateria is calling your name. Not only is Amorino’s Italian gelato absolutely delicious, but it’s also aesthetically pleasing.

At first you’ll be mesmerized by the beauty of these floral gelato masterpieces, but then you’ll remember how delicious Amorino’s gelato is and you won’t feel bad for devouring that cone.

23. The Great British Cupcakery – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

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Photo courtesy of yourmorningmocha.wordpress.com

Although The Great British Cupcakery is predominantly known for its baked goods, it serves up some pretty amazing milkshakes. If a cupcake isn’t enough to satisfy that sweet-tooth, we definitely recommend these decadent shakes. As if these already couldn’t get any better, The Great British Cupcakery lets you top them with brownies or even donuts.

24. Bubbies Ice Cream – Honolulu, Hawaii

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Photo courtesy of foodandwine.com

If you’ve never tried mochi ice cream before, Bubbies is the best place to try it out. This combination of creamy ice cream and sweetened rice makes for a delicious treat.

Try their drool-worthy Chocolate Mint Mochi Ice Cream, or if you’re feeling something a little lighter, pick up a few pieces of their Mango Mochi Ice Cream. If you don’t live in Hawaii, don’t worry! You can get assortment packs of these bite-sized desserts delivered right to your door.

25. Cabot’s – Newton, Massachusetts

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Photo courtesy of Cabot’s Ice Cream

If you ever have $250 lying around and you’re not sure how to spend it, we recommend taking a trip to Cabot’s for their “Great Pyramid” sundae. This insane sundae contains 60 pints of whatever ice cream your heart desires.

Yes, you read that right. 60 pints – NOT scoops. If the ice cream alone isn’t enough, this unbelievable sundae also includes marshmallows, nuts, cherries, 12 quarts of your favorite toppings, and of course whipped cream to top it all off. Cabot’s says the “Great Pyramid” is supposed to feed around 175 people, but there’s no shame if you want to take on this bad boy all by yourself.


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I read the first 500 pages of this on a flight from London to Florida. On landing, my companion said “Hey Aisling, we’re landing,” and I genuinely thought we were in Bodrum, Turkey, where much of the action in the book takes place. Terry Hayes has written a tour de force- from New York on 9/11 to the severe Hindu Kush in Afghanistan and, of course, Bodrum, this one is a perfect example of a book that will take you out of your seat.

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I preface this by saying that I’m from Cork, where this book is set. I haven’t finished it yet, but McInerney has NAILED what it is to be from Cork, from the vernacular to the attitude to the place names and atmosphere. This is Cork at its grimmest- arguably, anyone who has been to the City will see how accurate the cultural context is.

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Only Ever Yours Louise O NeillOnly Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill

Louise O Neill’s book, born of the same strain of feminist theory that made The Handmaid’s Tale a classic, focuses on a dystopian, patriarchal society. It’s completely terrifying, because the beliefs upheld in this society are never questioned. The cloistered, harsh nature of their experiences is transporting in a mental rather than a physical sense. This book stayed in my head for a long time after I put it down.

Outlander Diana GabaldonOutlander by Diana Gabaldon

Even without the television show, which adds a visceral reality to this series, Gabaldon hit the nail on the head with her depiction of Jacobite Scotland (I presume- I wasn’t around to know for sure) and 1940s post-war Britain. As the series progresses, the United States in the ’60s for a female doctor, the birth of the US colonies and the slave trade in Jamaica are brilliantly portrayed. Gabaldon brings her readers around the world, in different timelines, to perfection.

Noughts and Crosses Malorie BlackmanNoughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

I read this when I was 15 and it’s stuck with me for over a decade. I’m aware it’s also had its fair share of controversy. Blackman turned the real world on its head, outlining a life where white people (Crosses) are inferior to the black skinned Noughts. The descriptions of the desperation that leads to violence and terrorism, coupled with a believable love story, make this a real live-in world. If you’re looking for something to totally change your perspective, this is it.

His Dark Materials Philip PullmanHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Good fantasy requires good transportation out of this world, but Pullman did one better; he gave us a series of worlds, a war against God, an impossible romance and a series of different lives lived in different places, both in our world and others. I fell in love with the Oxford College Lyra lives in and considers home, but the time spent in the land of the dead is achingly good. If you haven’t read these, you’ve done yourself a disservice.

In Order to Live Yeonmi ParkIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

A non-fiction entry from North Korean Yeonmi Park deserves a place here. Given the secretive nature of North Korea generally, this already shines a light in a dark place, but Park’s story of growing up in North Korea and then fleeing through Mongolia and China to South Korea, is incredible. Park has suffered for being a North Korean as well as being a woman and this was the first book I read that brought me into North Korea- and convinced me that, far from a tourist fancy, it is a tough, dark, difficult place.


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Oct 17 – Nov 8, 2018

Everard Read / CIRCA is proud to present The Divided Self an exhibition of new paintings by Matthew Hindley at CIRCA Cape Town. Opening on Wednesday 17th October 2018, it will run until 8th November 2018.

“There is also a sense in this current cycle of figurative works that the studio has become a laboratory for mark making, and that the marks themselves have begun to demand centre stage.”

In his latest body of work, ‘The Divided Self’, Matthew Hindley interrogates the concept of the mind and reveals his own psychology.

With his studio-based portraits (of himself and others), he examines the concept of the ‘false self’, which is created to deal with the outside world in a way that avoids conflict, and is separated from the authentic self. People are trying to balance between the two selves, much like a painter is balancing between the private and public when making work.

His likewise pluralist manner of working reflects a global shift in painting, which he describes as seeming “fractured, divergent and yet all-encompassing”. This is based as much on technical developments (such as playing with the medium of etching) and psychological theory as on personal responses to the zeitgeist.

This exhibition also showcases a divergent yet logical path for Hindley, where the subject has left the studio, leaving behind only marks.

A new monograph about Hindley and his recent work, with an interview by Robin Rhode, is available from the gallery.

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What is Bariatric Surgery?

March 28, 2019

What is Bariatric Surgery?

Obesity, which is at epidemic proportions in the United States, is a significant risk factor for many conditions that can shorten one’s life, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, sleep apnea and diabetes. Bariatric surgery is an option for treating obesity and tackling these health problems in patients who have a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or higher. Patients with a BMI 30 to 35 should also be considered as candidates for bariatric surgery when they do not achieve substantial weight loss or improve their risks of disease by adopting lifestyle changes such as diet and increased exercise.

Gastric bypass surgery for weight loss is performed under general anesthesia. The surgeon divides the stomach into a small upper section and a larger bottom section. The top section of the stomach is where food eaten goes, and since it is connected to the small intestine, the stomach, duodenum and first portion of the jejunum are bypassed and thus cannot absorb nutrients as they usually do. This procedure is both restrictive because the stomach is made smaller, and malabsortive because the bypassed segment of the gastrointestinal tract cannot absorb any nutrients. Patients feel satisfied although they are eating and absorbing less food. Patients must take vitamins and other nutrients.

Gastric sleeve surgery, or vertical sleeve gastrectomy, is the most common option nowadays. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia. During the procedure, the surgeon narrows the stomach into a thin vertical sleeve, about the size and shape of a banana. The remainder of the stomach is removed. This is a merely restrictive operation. The patient’s smaller stomach gets full quickly after eating smaller portions of food, so the patient is satisfied after consuming less calories. Digestion and absorption of nutrients is not impaired and the patient seldom needs any dietary supplements.

Before having surgery, enrollment in a bariatric surgery education program that includes nutrition and psychological counseling, is required. The program only prepares the patient for the surgery, it also prepares a patient for life after surgery. Patients who have had surgery need to adopt healthy eating habits and lifestyle changes, including regular exercise. Talk to your doctor about any concerns before having the surgery.

Interested in learning more about bariatric surgery?  Visit our Bariatric Center webpage.

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Stairlift Products in Fort Lawn, South Carolina

Want to know about available stairlift products in Fort Lawn South Carolina? Are you in the market for a stairlift to help a loved one or yourself increase independence in your home? There are a few things to consider when you are in the market for a stairlift in Fort Lawn, and several stairlift options that can help you with the selection process. Stairlift Company of Salisbury has worked with a variety of stairlift manufacturers, and can help match you with the best products to suit your needs and circumstances.

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Stairlift Company of Salisbury's Fort Lawn Stairlift ProductsOur indoor stairlift products are engineered to carry you up and down flights of stairs without fail. Because the lifts are equipped with a battery back up, they will operate in power outages, when many people need them most! Whether you have a straight stair well or one with a landing and a curve, Stairlift Company of Salisbury can find a Fort Lawn stairlift that can fit perfectly within your home's existing architecture, eliminating the expense and added hassle of needing to remodel your home. There are a multitude of styles and chair fabrics to choose from on with an indoor chair. Stairlift Company of Salisbury's Fort Lawn stairlift installer can help you select colors and patterns that blend in with your home's interior decor.

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Want to enter and exit your home independently in Fort Lawn? Outdoor stairlifts can be installed outdoors on a straight or curved track. We can install a lift that will blend with existing architecture in most cases. Call (704) 251-7404 for a free consultation today and one of Stairlift Company of Salisbury's chairlift experts in Fort Lawn will work to enable you or your loved one to enjoy your back yard once again, or regain the ability to access entrance to your home independently and safely. The chairs on our outdoor lifts are solid and durable. Built to withstand repeated exposure to sun, wind and rain, your Fort Lawn stairlift chair will be waterproof and weather resistant.

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Something you will want to determine before purchasing a stairlift in Fort Lawn is the user's level of mobility. A few of the chairs on our stairlifts have a swivel feature, while other chairs are mounted directly to the unit. When our Fort Lawn stairlift installer arrives to provide your home consultation and written estimate, we'll review your abilities to be sure we select the best options for to match your needs.

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Beverly Anderson: Watercolors That Anyone Can Do

Watercolors That Anyone Can Do, Thursday 5:30p-8:00p

Watercolors That Anyone Can Do

When: Thursday, August 6, 5:30p - 8:00p

Instructor: Beverly Anderson

Level: All

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We will be using bigger stamps to create these cards. Some will be bigger than A2, which is more space to create on. Brushos will be the medium to do so. They all turn out different, and in all the colors you love. I will bring lots of choices of stamps to be used, but if you have favorites, bring them along. If you want a few colored pencils (I like to use Prismacolor to do detail work on the piece to give more depth and detail), bring those, also.

Bring: mounting tape, small round watercolor brush, small container to clean brush (small water bottle with lid works well), and small spritzer bottle. Just come and have fun.

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Please place online orders before Monday July 27, 2020 in order to give us and the USPS time to deliver your tickets and merchandise to you. Any online purchases made after Monday July 27 will be waiting for you at Stampaway at the Headquarters Room in Will Call. If you made a purchase and your tickets do not arrive in time, no worries - we will have duplicates waiting for you at the Headquarters Room in Will Call.

The last day for online ticket sales is Monday August 3, 2020.

While at Stampaway, you will be able to purchase tickets for any classes with seats available. This is also in the Headquarters Room - look for the OPEN CLASSES table.

PLEASE NOTE: There are no refunds for classes once they have been purchased.
(EXCEPTION: If Stampaway is cancelled due to COVID-19 and the restrictions of the Ohio Department of Health, admission and class ticket price, less any shipping fees, will be fully refunded.)

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Presidents Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar and Donald Trump of the US.

With no vaccine available, two malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a herbal mixture, Covid Organics (CVO), have come to the fore in recent weeks.

The rapid spread of Coronavirus has led several countries to device means on how to deal with the infection that has affected five million people in just five months.

Figures from the World Health Organisation on Saturday showed over five million people had been infected and a total of 342,122 fatalities recorded.

As the numbers continue increasing, the global health body has raised concerns that the coronavirus pandemic is a long way from being over.

With no vaccine available, two malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a herbal mixture, Covid Organics (CVO), have come to the fore in recent weeks over claims that they could help combat the virus - even as their efficacy is hotly debated.

SEE ALSO: U.S. considers imposing sanctions on China

The two drugs have been hyped by US President Donald Trump and President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar.

Some countries have opted to use the “cures” despite the global health body warning against their usage.

Is Hydroxychloroquine effective?

There has been widespread speculation about whether hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine could help coronavirus patients.

The drugs are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the USA to treat malaria, autoimmune conditions such as chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus in adults, and rheumatoid arthritis.

SEE ALSO: Kakamega flood victims get relief care packages

But US President Donald Trump has continuously touted hydroxychloroquine use as a preventive and treatment for Covid-19.

The US president says he is taking the malaria drug as a defense against Covid-19 – despite warnings by doctors that it is dangerous and does not work against coronavirus.

Trump says hydroxychloroquine shows "tremendous promise" ignoring FDA’s warning.

FDA issued a safety warning on April 24 on its website that “cautions against the use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for Covid-19 outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.”

Trump also dismissed a study published by Veteran Affairs that had found that hydroxychloroquine had not benefited coronavirus patients.

SEE ALSO: South African president says lockdown to ease from June 1

He claimed the study was done by "obviously not friends of the administration" who wanted to "make political points."

The study posted on April 21 also showed an increased risk of death associated with Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone.

But several countries have since adopted the use of the drug in a desperate move to end the pandemic.

Brazil’s health ministry on Wednesday issued new guidelines for wider use of the drug in mild coronavirus cases. The treatment has been touted by President Jair Bolsonaro in defiance of public health experts.

On Friday, Brazil overtook Russia to be second to the USA which has the greatest of Covid-19 infections in the world.

It recorded 330,890 infections and 21,048 deaths while Russia had 326,888 infections and 3200 deaths.

USA infections stood at over 1.6 million with over 96,000 deaths.

Last month, Kenya’s Health Ministry Acting Director-General Dr Patrick Amoth said that the government was planning to adopt the use of hydroxychloroquine since it had yielded good results in some countries like the US. He said it could be helpful but dangerous for Covid-19 patients with heart problems.

On Thursday, British healthcare workers began taking part in a University of Oxford-led international trial of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine anti-malarial drugs to see if they could prevent Covid-19.

 According to Reuters, the ‘COPCOV’ study will involve more than 40,000 frontline healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America to determine if the drugs are effective in preventing coronavirus.

Reuters reported that in Europe and Africa participants will receive either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. In Asia, they will receive either chloroquine or a placebo. The results are expected by the end of this year.

 Will Covid Organics yield results?

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina officially launched herbal drink, Covid Organics (CVO) last month claiming that it can prevent and cure patients infected with Coronavirus.

"Let's drink this herbal tea to protect ourselves, to protect our family and our neighbours," Rajoelina said, adding that the drink produces results in just seven days.

The drink was developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research. The institute said the herbal tea is produced from Artemisia, a plant with proven efficacy against malaria.

Al Jazeera television reported that the plant was first imported into the island nation in the 1970s from China to treat malaria.

The WHO said the drink should be tested to see if it is effective as there was no evidence the drink works.

''WHO welcomes every opportunity to collaborate with countries and researchers to develop new therapies and encourages such collaboration for the development of effective and safe therapies for Africa and the world,'' it said in a statement.

Tanzania, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau have placed orders or have already received consignments of the herbal drug.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on March 10 said he was dispatching a plane to Madagascar to collect the drug.

Nigeria, on the other hand, has received a share of the purported Coronavirus herbal cure.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that the consignment be sent to the necessary regulatory bodies for tests before a decision on administering is made.

“We have our institutions, systems and processes in the country. Any such formulations should be sent to them for verification. I will not put it to use without the endorsement of our institutions,” he said.

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What is the future of policing?

Incidents of police shooting suspects, officers being targeted and changes in technology create a complicated — and, often, increasingly tense — scenario for communities to grapple.

Imagine a close-knit community comprised of residents who have lived there their entire lives. Now, toss in some residents who recently moved there from a much larger city. And some hailing from a one-stoplight town.

Add in residents who arrived just weeks earlier from another country. They probably speak another language, eat different foods and possibly have little knowledge of the laws in the United States — much less Indiana.

Oh, and this population completely resets every nine months or so.

By now, you’ve probably realized the place described is Indiana State. e university with the most diverse residential student body in Indiana is also a cross-section of America: urban and rural students from both privileged and under-served homes; black, white and brown; international
and domestic.

“Diverse — there’s got to be a better term to explain just how diverse it is,” said David Barber, a five-year member of the Indiana State University Police Department.

“It’s a dynamic environment. You deal with people of all ages and from all walks of life. The campus is the only arena where you can have that interaction,” said Lt. Tamara McCollough, ’08, who has served the university department for more than a decade.

Lt. Tamara McCollough, ’08

“I think rural students are welcoming and inviting, and our urban students are a little more conscientious about what is going on around them,” McCollough said. “And as the semester goes on, you’ll see whether they’ll mix together or whether they’ll clash.”

Student conflict is usually worked out with mediation — sitting down and explaining each other’s perspective — and can lead to greater understanding between the two individuals.

Clashing elsewhere in the United States, unfortunately, is not so painlessly resolved. On Feb. 26, 2012, an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. — and picked a national scab of racial wounds. When Zimmerman was acquitted on July 13, 2013, many felt justice had not been done.

Fast-forward to Aug. 9, 2014: Michael Brown, another unarmed black teen, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo. Protests and riots ensued — and were reignited when a grand jury decided months later to not prosecute Wilson.

These cases have become a prelude to more killings around the country — that of suspects who never will have a day in court and of police targeted because of their occupation.

“Now it’s like you’re constantly trying to be aware of your surroundings, because you don’t know who’s actually going to be there to support you or who’s just seeing you as a big target,” McCollough said. “We still respond, but we’re not rushing into it. We’re observing the whole situation to figure out the best way to tackle the problem. We don’t want to exacerbate things because tensions are high.”

The university’s unique mix of America’s populations and professionals is working to help make a less violent future.

Lisa Phillips, associate professor of history at Indiana State

“On the face of it, people say, ‘If the person doesn’t want to get shot by police, don’t run.’ Or ‘They should just hold their hands up,’” said Lisa Phillips, associate professor of history at Indiana State. “If you’re looking at just one individual interaction, perhaps, but if you’re looking at the entire context surrounding policing, it’s difficult to look at it as a one-on-one interaction. It has a context that is so many years of mistrust. It’s often a white police force policing an all-black community, and there can be this tension that fuels the interaction outside of it.”

Brian Schaefer, assistant professor in State’s criminology and criminal justice department, agrees.

“There’s a lot of historical issues that haven’t been resolved and that continue to be compounded,” he said. “The war on drugs the past 30 years has been particularly detrimental to low-income minority communities. We know, through an extensive amount of research, that persons (whether it’s juveniles or adults) in middle class or upper-middle class areas are not handled in the same way.”

Historians like Phillips study policing through the lens of who’s enforcing the laws and for what purpose.

“We have a tendency, as of late, to tell the story in terms of race alone, but there’s a longer history of policing ‘deviant behavior’ from groups that are often marginal — be it women in a male-dominated hierarchy with the Salem witch trials or immigrants who are newly arrived in the late 1800s and people fear with whom their loyalties lie,” she said.

Later, in the post-Civil War South, chain gangs became a way to control the newly freed slave population and created a workforce to build roads, Phillips said.

In the 1960s, the University of Wisconsin, like many institutions of higher education, was the scene of demonstrations for civil rights and the Vietnam War. The city of Madison’s police force, however, was largely made up of non-college-educated people from the area. They saw the students, who came from all over the country, as invaders when they arrived each fall.

“They were in charge of keeping the peace with a population who they saw as different or bringing with them a sense of elitism,” Phillips said.

“Who’s doing the policing and who’s being policed takes on a broader context often than simply just enforcing laws. That’s what gets missed in much of the debate.”

A return to zero-tolerance policing won’t ease the problems the country is facing, Schaefer predicts.

Brian Schaefer, assistant professor at State

“It may make people who agree with the politics happy, but it’s not evidence-based in that sense,” he said. “Criminal justice tends to be a microcosm of what’s going on in the rest of the world. “Ideas of law and order are very attractive to people until it happens to you, right? And then you want the leniency.”

Technology — now in the form of body-mounted cameras — has been viewed as a deterrent to deadly force.

“Body cameras are anything but definitive,” Schaefer said. “Whether it’s through policies that don’t require officers to turn cameras on, the placement of cameras, interactions where cameras can be knocked off — there are going to be those instances where it still isn’t clear what happened.”

Research and laws have yet to catch up with the body cameras’ recent popularity. “There’s a litany of research questions that haven’t been asked yet, haven’t been studied yet — some of those unknown or unintended consequences that we still have to look at,” Schaefer said.

Organizations such as the Police Executive Research Forum are working to prevent the trigger from even being pulled by improving police practices and the way officers are trained. PERF’s “Guiding Principles on Use of Force” calls for deescalating situations so the standard to use force is much higher. Some departments have criticized the plan; others have adopted it.

Indiana State police are working to diversify their force, be transparent with their operations and create more positive encounters in their community by issuing a warning instead of a citation or buying a homeless person a muffin and coffee to warm them up on a cold night.

Like all officers, university police spend most of their time patrolling and interacting with their community of students, faculty and staff. In the past year, they’ve been spending time participating in panel discussions about the Black Lives Matters and Back the Blue movements.

“We’re also trying to teach our students that you can’t take things for face value and believe everything you see in the media — because this is a social media generation — and they’re like, ‘Well, I’ve seen this on this site, it has to be true!’ They’ve got to dig a little deeper and try to discern what’s accurate and what’s not.”

Barber recalled a student locking her keys in her car. She was far from home — and distraught about her mistake.

“‘Hey, why don’t we try to find a screwdriver and take the sunroof off?’” Barber recalled suggesting. “And all was well. We went a little above and beyond, and I feel like maybe that was a situation where somebody could say, ‘Hey, an officer helped me do this,’ you know?”

McCollough describes today’s students as being the “take-charge” generation — and as an opportunity to change the world.

“They want to be the solution, so if we equip them with the right things, then they can help be the solution now. Because at the end of the day, they’re going to be the ones taking care of us,” she said. “If we can help them bridge that gap here and interact, they can take a piece of that back home in their neighborhoods and, hopefully, it will expand.

“And we learn a lot from them, too — as far as the different lingos, the trends,” she added. “Sometimes we’re like ‘Hey, what is that? What is this Snapchat thing?’ and then they’re excited. They’re like ‘What? You don’t know?’ So they like the fact that they can teach us something, too.”

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What’s the future of electricity?

With emissions standards changing on coal-fired power plants, an Indiana State alumnus weighs in on what he envisions as our energy future.

An Indiana State University alumnus hopes for a balanced approach to deal with increasing demand on the country’s electrical grid and managing energy costs.

Rob Hochstetler, who earned an MBA in 1993, recently left his home state and a job with Hoosier Energy to become president and chief executive officer of Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc., a generation and transmission utility in South Carolina.

Rob Hochstetler, ’93, is married to the former Linda Eldridge, ’92.

Rob Hochstetler, ’93, is married to the former Linda Eldridge, ’92.

“Everyone wants to do our part. We need to be greener and reduce pollution, but we want to make sure it’s fair and affordable,” Hochstetler said.

Much is made in the media about the “war on coal,” but our dependence on coal-fired power plants dates back to long before current Sycamores were born. During the 1970s, leaders predicted the growing electricity demand, but discouraged building gas or nuclear generation.

“If you go back to the Carter administration, our industry was told to build coal plants. There were rules and regulations against building anything else but that,” Hochstetler said.

In more recent times, the rules governing emissions have changed so unpredictably that it was easier to retrofit these old coal-fired plants than build a new one.

“It’s hard to make a multi-billion dollar investment when you didn’t know what the rules were going to be,” he said.

So metaphorically speaking, instead of buying a new car — one equipped with improved fuel efficiency and safety measures — the electric industry just keeps fixing up its old 1970s car.

In 2012, Indiana ranked seventh among the states in coal production, and coal-fired electric power plants provided about 84 percent of Indiana’s net electricity generation in 2013, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. So, abandoning coal altogether would leave a large hole to fill — both energy-wise and economically.

With new natural gas extraction methods — the often controversial hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” — prices for the resource have stabilized and are currently competitive with coal. Previously, natural gas prices were highly volatile.

The wind turbine at Indiana State is one reason why the university was selected as a "green" campus by the Princeton Review.

The wind turbine at Indiana State is one reason why the university was selected as a “green” campus by the Princeton Review.

Solar and wind technology have improved and are coming down in prices, but solar panels only work when the sun shines and wind turbines only work when the wind blows at a sustained velocity.

Nuclear, although a source of clean energy, is perhaps the most complicated form of generation, especially considering the long planning horizon. In 2012, Georgia was the first state in 30 years to get the OK to build additional nuclear capacity by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and South Carolina and Tennessee have since been approved.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, however, these states would essentially be penalized for their forward thinking, compared to states that haven’t done anything.

“What the government is saying is since you already decided to do these things, you shouldn’t get credit for something you did in the past,” Hochstetler said.

For instance, Indiana has taken a watch-and-wait approach to these CO2 standards, and they’re facing about a 17 percent reduction in the state’s emissions footprint by 2030, under the current proposal. South Carolina, on the other hand, is looking at a required 51 percent reduction.

“It’s a very complicated formula, but the government is struggling what to do with nuclear under construction,” he said.

So, what’s the future of electricity? Some experts say energy prices would quadruple if more of a balanced approach — one that taps all generation sources, along with conservation — isn’t applied.

On Indiana State’s campus, Sycamores are living this balanced approach, with conservation, a wind turbine and a steam plant for heating that was previously coal-fired is now powered by natural gas. The administration is also making the most of an oil reserve beneath the campus that is feasible to recover thanks to horizontal drilling.

“People love electricity — they want that light to turn on when they flip the switch — but how much more are they willing to pay?” Hochstetler said.

Already, many Americans are described as “energy poor” or living in “energy poverty,” meaning they have to choose between keeping their homes heated to a comfortable level or buying medicine.

In South Carolina, utilities are able to offer government-backed loans to customers to make energy-efficiency upgrades such as adding insulation, sealing air leaks and upgrading to a heat pump from electric-resistant heat. The money the resident saves on their electric bill goes to pay back the loan, which is granted to the meter (not the individual).

“S.C. is doing this and the program is doing so well that I’m looking for it to spread,” Hochstetler said.

In fact, it is. The program introduced by South Carolina Sen. James Clyburn is being expanded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is allocating up to $250 million in existing Rural Utilities Service funds for loans.

Helping customers save on their electric bill can seem counterintuitive. But electric cooperatives, which are owned by their members — usually, their power customers — operate as not-for-profits.

“The thing about co-ops is we enjoy selling electricity, but we don’t have to answer to shareholders,” he said.

Hochstetler is married to the former Linda Eldridge, a ’92 psychology graduate of Indiana State.

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