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The Riverside Gardens of Thomas More's London C.Paul Christianson

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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160 pages: 234 x 189 x 21mm
80 black & white illustrations, 40 colour images

All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analyzed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More, and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these long-lost gardens, brought together here for the first time, shed new light not only on London's garden history and that of its first gardeners but also on the lives and outlooks of some of the most important figures within and around the court of Henry VIII. The locations of these gardens range from the Tower of London to More's own country manor at Chelsea, from Cardinal Wolsey's York Place in Westminster (later transformed into Whitehall Palace by Henry VIII) to Hampton Court. More than any single garden could, the group of eight riverside gardens illuminates not only the practical realities but also the political importance of gardens. The book explores in detail the gardens that More knew so well and shows how their histories are intimately connected to his own.

C. Paul Christianson is Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Emeritus at the College of Wooster (Ohio).

"... meticulous and detailed but packed with fascinations... Anybody who cares for gardens or English history will want [this book] for Christmas."---Jane Gardam, Literary Review

"...fascinating... An invaluable guide to the capital's early garden history..." - Janina Pogorzelski, The Lady

"The most delicious book for wandering through..."---The Spectator

'[A] beautifully illustrated book' - Jenny Usglow, World of Interiors


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5-Game Win Streak On Line Saturday

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Matt Miller. (photo by Sam Rubin '95, Yale Sports Publicity)

No. 9 Elis Host Last Non-League Contest

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale men's lacrosse team has won five straight games and has placed itself in the driver's seat to take one of the four spots in the inaugural Ivy League Post-Season Tournament. The Elis, who are coming off a dominating performance at Brown last weekend that moved them up to ninth in the latest laxnews.com poll, host the Bulldogs from Bryant University (8-5) Saturday night at 7 in the last non-league game of the Yale season.

Yale and Bryant, new to Division I, have met in many sports, but this will be the first in men's lacrosse.

Eight different Yale players hit the net including Matt Gibson, who led the team with three tallies and five points, and Matt Miller (3 goals). Matt Fuchs (3 points) and Gregory Mahony had two each, while Brian Douglass, Max Rodman and Michael Pratt also found the net. Brown had the advantage in shots (44-33) and ground balls (36-24), but the Elis turned Brown over often, including five times in the opening 15 minutes, and converted those defensive plays into goals. Johnathan Falcone had another big day in goal for the Blue with 14 saves. He made five stops in the third quarter and had three in each of the other frames.

Yale's nine wins are the most under head coach Andy Shay and the most since the 2003 Bulldogs went 9-5 overall. This is the fourth nine-victory campaign since the Elis enjoyed their best-ever season, 12-4 in 1990.

Yale is ninth in this week's laxnews.com poll and No. 13 in the latest USILA rankings. It is Yale's best ranking in the USILA poll since 1992.

Five Yale players have hit double digits in goals. Junior A Brian Douglass has a team-high 28 and ranks 15th in Division I with 2.55 per game. Sophomore A Matt Gibson (25 goals) leads the Elis with 43 points and is 13th in the country with 3.91 points per game. Senior captain Brendan Gibson has 16-14-30. Sophomore M Gregory Mahony has 15-1-16 after notching two goals at Brown. Matt Miller (11-3-14) reached double-digits last weekend with his first three-goal game of the year at Brown.

Junior goalie Johnathan Falcone has every decision in the Yale net and has a .523 save percentage. His 8.69 GAA is 13th in Division I. He has had double-digit saves in four of the last five games. Falcone had a season-high of 15 saves at Dartmouth, while he has held opponents to single-digits in three of the last four outings.

Senior M Max Rodman is 13th in the country with a .572 face-off mark. He had a season-high 33 face-offs against Penn, while his low was the next day with 11 against Detroit. Rookie Cole Yeager (.632) got an opportunity to take over against Detroit and won nine of 13.

Junior LSM Patrick Coleman leads the Blue with 42 pick-ups. Freshman D Michael McCormack is second with 35. These two defenders have helped the Bulldogs hold their last two opponents to a combined eight goals.

Yale is 10th in faceoffs (.565), 13th in team defense (8.7), 14th in ground balls (33) and 20th in scoring offense (10.8) among Division I squads.

Yale sophomore Matt Gibson was named March 8 co-Ivy League Player of the Week after an 11-point weekend in a pair of victories. Gibson led the Elis to a 13-12 win over No. 12 UMass on March 5 with a career-high 5-3-8. He earned NEILA Player of the Week on April 11 after five goals in the 8-3 win at Dartmouth. Junior Brian Douglass got the Ivy nod on April 5 after a 13-goal, 14-point weekend set against Penn and Detroit. Freshman Peter Johnson was named Ivy Rookie of the Week on April 11 after helping the Blue hold the Big Green to three goals.

Bryant, which is not eligible for NCAA Championship competition until 2013, will be a part of the Northeast Conference, which will play its first men's lacrosse season in 2011. Travis Harrington had 3-2-5 in win over Sacred Heart last Saturday to earn NEILA Player of the Week honors. He had two more goals on Tuesday in a 7-6 loss to Holy Cross. The Bulldogs have won two of three and are averaging just under nine goals. Max Weisenberg has a team-high 24 goals and 33 points while Jameson Love has a 6.39 GAA.

The first Ivy League tournament is set for May 7-9 and includes the top four teams. The No. 1 seed will host No. 4, with No. 2 and No. 3 playing each other at the same venue. Princeton (4-0) is currently first, followed by Cornell (3-1), Yale (3-2) and Brown (2-2). Harvard and Dartmouth are both 1-3 with Penn (1-4) just behind. A Princeton win over Harvard at Boston on Saturday at 1 p.m. would put the Bulldogs in their first post-season event since 1992.

Five of the seven Ivy League teams are currently listed in the USILA top 20 poll. Two schools, Cornell and Princeton, are in the top 10. Yale, Brown and Harvard are also ranked.

Yale head coach Andy Shay is in his seventh season and brings a 43-47 overall record into Saturday's contest. Shay, a two-time captain at LeMoyne College, was part of two UMass NCAA Quarterfinals teams as an assistant coach before coming to Yale.

Yale assistant Graham Niemi, a former Maryland standout, served as head coach of Team Finland at the 2009 World Championships… Andy Shay has coached the Irish National team… Eli assistant Ryan Polley played basketball and lacrosse (2nd team All-America) at Merrimack.

Three Yale players have points in every game, Brendan Gibson, Matt Gibson and Brian Douglass. Douglass has a goal in 10 of 11 games, while the Gibson brothers both hit the net in nine 11.

Brendan Gibson, Yale's senior captain, is more than just a leader and motivator. The offensive-minded attackman has a point in 33 straight games – the fourth longest active streak in Division I – dating to March 25, 2008. He has 57-33-90 over that span.

The Blue averages 36.9 shots per game… Yale's five-game win streak is the longest since 2002 under head coach Mike Waldvogel… Yale has a .768 clear percentage… The Elis have averaged 763 fans in five home dates at Reese Stadium… Yale has outscored and outshot opponents in all but the fourth quarter... Bryant and Yale will both be wearing pink socks on Saturday to raise awareness for cancer research. Areas will be set up around Reese Stadium to collect donations. Proceeds will go to breast cancer research at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven.

The Elis seek their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1992. Yale has played in the NCAAs three (1988, 90, 92) different seasons and are 2-3 overall. The best run came in 1990 when the Blue beat Princeton in the quarters before falling in OT to Loyola at Rutgers Stadium in the semis.

The Bulldogs moved to No. 1 in the New England rankings with two wins last week.

The first two Bulldogs recruited from Canada exclusively for lacrosse are newcomers Kirby Zdrill and Deron Dempster.

The Yale roster includes players from 17 states and two provinces. The most are from New York (9), New Jersey (5) and Pennsylvania (4). None of the 11 members of the class of 2013 hail from the same state or province.

The renovation of Reese Stadium, scheduled for completion this summer, will provide a state-of –the-art facility for both Yale lacrosse and soccer teams. The renovations include increased stadium seating, an entry plaza, team rooms and a press box. Recent improvements included a FieldTurf surface and improved lighting. Reese Stadium, formerly known as the Yale Soccer-Lacrosse Stadium, is named after former lacrosse players Jason Reese '87 and Jon Reese '90.

The Yale lacrosse team is organizing a day to raise money for “Everyone Works for Jack!” This  is an endeavor to support Jack McGetrick, the head lacrosse coach at Bellarmine University who is battling cancer. On April 24, the Bulldogs (players and coaches) will have a Noon to 1:30 youth clinic at Reese Stadium before hosting Bryant in a 7 p.m. game. A donation to the fund is suggested in lieu of admittance to the clinic. Everyone Works For Jack! is the intercollegiate men's lacrosse coaches association's initial effort to establish a coaches emergency fund that will be available to members of the coaching community when they are in financial need.  McGetrick has been the head coach at Bellarmine since its inception in 2004. He spent 11 years as the head coach at the University of Hartford and was named 1997 national coach-of-the-year by the USILA. McGetrick has had a large influence on young boys and men playing youth, high school and collegiate lacrosse on and off the field. The IMLCA is now working to give back and help McGetrick during this time of need.

Yale is one of a few schools in the country wearing a Rose sticker on its helmets in honor of Paul Rose, a lacrosse coach at four different colleges, who passed away on March 27 after a long battle with cancer.

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Named One Of Nation's Top Freshmen

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Jessica Schloth, who has appeared in all 16 games for the Yale women's soccer team, has been named one of the top 100 freshmen in the nation by Schloth was rated No. 46 in the latest rankings, released on Thursday.

Schoth has started 12 games for the Bulldogs in the midfield and has one assist, which came on the game-winning goal in the upset of Penn State in September. Schloth, a Fairfield, Conn., native, was the Coca Cola, adidas, Gatorade and CJSA Coaches Connecticut Player of the Year as a senior at St. Joseph High School.

Yale closes out its season on Saturday, playing at Brown at 4 p.m.

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Conn. voting laws up for change

Photo by Eli Markham.

The secretary of the state is pushing for a constitutional amendment to open the floor for voting law reforms that will allow early voting and absentee voting in any situation.

As part of a broad initiative to modernize Connecticut’s voting system that started in February, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is pushing for a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to change the absentee voting rules or enact early voting. Currently, the Connecticut state constitution allows absentee voting in only six very specific cases, such as physical incapability to travel to the polls or a religious prohibition on voting in person, and bans early voting. Both Republican and Democratic state legislative leaders have expressed support for the amendment, but are divided on whether early voting or absentee voting is a better reform to pursue after the constitution is changed.

In most states, the legislature can change voting rules by simply passing a statute. But in Connecticut, the constitution restricts the legislature’s ability to act.

If the amendment is passed, the floor will be opened for discussion on two main voting reforms. One possibility is allowing absentee voting for any situation, not just the six currently specified in the constitution. Another is early voting, which allows citizens to vote at their convenience.

An absentee ballot can be mailed in to the polling station, but early voting takes place in-person at a polling station. Av Harris, the director of communications for the Secretary of the State, said last Friday that both provide a lot more flexibility and convenience, making it easier to vote.

“You have to think of voters as your customers,” Harris said. “If you’re a business you have to serve your customers very well.”

Paul Gronke, a professor at Reed College and director of the Early Voting Information Center, said that the whole country was moving in the direction of early and absentee voting.

Gronke predicted that between 35 and 40 percent of the United State electorate will vote early or absentee in 2012. Oregon, for example, no longer has an election day — all voting in Oregon is by mail. He said that non-conventional voting did not benefit one party or the other, though Republicans tend to vote absentee while Democrats prefer to vote early.

Of the two voting reforms, early voting is generating more pushback.

Last week the CT News Junkie reported that Republican House Minority Leader Larry Cafero had come out in favor of a constitutional amendment, but against the concept of early voting. Democrat Senate Majority Martin Looney expressed similar opinions to the News on Friday.

“From what I understand, the Oregon system is one I would not support,” Looney said. “There is no election day at all. There is no actual voting.”

Looney described the act of voting as “a communal experience” that is valuable for its own sake. He also raised questions of security that arise if the state moves away from a secret ballot. For example, he said, an employer could demand that all employees use their mail-in ballots to vote for a specific candidate.

“What is the price that’s going to be paid potentially for increased convenience?” Looney asked.

A third concern Looney expressed about early voting was the monetary cost. Harris said that although early voting is more convenient for voters, the option creates funding problems because polling stations must be staffed and secure for longer periods of time.

He added that establishing early voting places would be especially difficult in Connecticut, compared to states like North Carolina or Florida, because Connecticut has no county governments. This means that all municipalities would need to establish their own early polling place, which would be an added burden to their conventional Election Day costs. Nonetheless the state should explore more possibilities to make voting more convenient and accessible, Harris said.

Democrats control both the State Senate and State Assembly, but they will need Republican support in order to amend the constitution. An amendment either a three-quarters vote or a majority vote in both houses of the General Assembly repeated in two consecutive legislative sessions, as well as majority vote in a statewide referendum, setting a high bar for legislators to overcome. Looney also expressed his support for an amendment in an interview with the News, but said he wasn’t sure if one could pass.Harris said he thinks there are “promising signals” from the House Republicans.

Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia currently allow absentee voting without requiring a specific excuse.

  • howardn

    Democrats love voter fraud.

    • jinjdkla

      ROFL. Florida 2000????????
      Ohio 2004??
      you reptards are hilarious sometimes

  • Radway

    I have lived and voted in Oregon for more than 12 years. We love “vote by mail,” which, incidentally was developed by a Yalie, Phil Keisling, a former Secretary of State. Ballots automatically arrive in mailboxes 20 days before an election giving everyone plenty of time to investigate candidates (especially for lower level and judicial offices) and return their ballots. It is not true that we do not have an election day, it is the same day it has always been, we just dispense with the cost of setting-up traditional polling places and the anoyance of standing in line for hours to get a ballot. It should not surprise anyone that we also have one of the best turnout rates in the nation because voting is so easy. And for those concerned about fraud (essentially non-existent here), the signatures on the back of ballot envelopes are compared against the signatures on file with the state before a ballot is counted and opened.


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So, I’m Lauren, and I guess writing is the THING that I DO now. I don’t really know how it happened, but I can’t think of any other reason I’d volunteer to spearhead the YDN Magazine’s blog when all I feel like doing is eating Snap Pea Crisps. I don’t even feel like looking up […]


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Later this month, the US U20 National Team will participate in the 2010 Dallas Cup which is the premier youth tournament in the country.

Just this past week the schedule for the tournament was announced and the US has been drawn into Group D along the Mexican U20 National Team, the Vancouver Whitecaps, and Eintracht Frankfurt.

The most anticipated matchup for the USA will be on the tournament's opening night on Sunday, March 28 at 7:00pm where they will face Mexico at Pizza Hut Park Stadium.

The following day on March 29 at 2:00pm, the US will then face the Vancouver Whitecaps who will be lead by American prospects Joseph Gyau and Charles Renken.

After a day off, the USA will conclude group play on March 31 with a game against the youth team of Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt.

Advancing to the semifinals will be difficult for the US because in the Dallas Cup only the top teams from each group qualify. Should the US win Group D, they will play in the semifinals on Friday, April 2. The championship game is scheduled for Sunday, April 4.

The roster for the US team is expected to be announced soon. YA has learned that US U20 head coach Thomas Rongen is trying to secure the release of several European based players however not all of the players' clubs are said to be eager in releasing players for this tournament.

Yanks Abroad will have writers in Dallas for the opening days of the tournament cover the US team and their games against Mexico and Vancouver.


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Olive Oil Poached Halibut with Roasted Beets and Blood Oranges

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Halibut Fillet

Poaching fish in olive oil gives it a luxe texture. Don't think the fish is going to be oily or greasy as a result because it's not. In fact, poaching --the gentlest form of cooking-- gives the fish a terrific, clean flavor. Halibut is fairly bland, so it needs the flavor intensity that the beets and blood oranges supply.

SourceThe Young Man & the Sea, by David Pasternack & Ed Levine
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Cooking time
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Total time
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Blood Oranges
Roasted Beets (Whole, golden)
10 c
Olive Oil (Plus high-quality extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling)
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Garlic (Crushed)
Chile de Arbol (Dried)
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Sea Salt
24 oz
Halibut (Cut into four 6-ounce fillets)
1 pn
Pepper (Freshly ground)

Use a chef's knife to slice the tops and bottoms off the blood oranges so they sit flat on a cutting board. Cut the peel away from the flesh in wide strips from top to bottom. Hold the fruit over a bowl (to catch the juice) and cut each segment away from the membrane. Combine the blood orange segments and the roasted beets with the orange juice in the bowl.

In a Dutch oven or stockpot, combine the 10 cups olive oil, rosemary, garlic, chile, and salt. Heat the oil over a medium-high flame to a gentle simmer, then use a slotted spoon to remove the rosemary, garlic, and chile, and discard.

Lower the fish into the oil and cook for 5 to 6 minutes for medium-rare (the way I like it) or 7 minutes for medium.*

While the fish is poaching, place four slices of blood orange on each of four serving plates. Sprinkle with a little sald and pepper.

Use a slotted spoon to transfer the cooked fillets to the serving plates, resting on the blood orange slices. Put four beet halves on each plate. Drizzle the fish and the beets with some high-quality extra-virgin olive oil and a fine sprinkling of salt (Maldon) and freshly ground pepper.

* This is a tricky recipe mostly because of the poaching of the fish in olive oil. The fillets should be at room temperature before poaching and be careful not to heat up the olive oil too much! Put a corner of the fish in the oil. If it starts frying (you see bubbles and splatter) when you put it in the oil, take it out and let the oil cool a bit. It should not fry in the oil!

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

getting ready

I start decorating for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving.

While I was working away, someone realized there was a new Christmas story that had been overlooked in last year's frenzy. Nothing screams "read me!" like a new book.

Dean and Matt decided that "Crackhead Santa" and "Pipe Smoking Rudy" were beyond saving.

I mean, that antler pretty much says it all!

I bought it for 3 dollars 10 years ago. I can safely say I got my money's worth.

We suffered just one casualty...but it was a vintage ornament from my parent's tree....really made me sad. I'm not even going to throw it away...maybe I can do "something" with it????

Decorating is hard least for some of us.....others were.....

Robin (RsIslandCrafts) said...

Your house is full of sleepy heads lol.

jillytacy said...

Looks like hard work! I still need to get the Halloween decorations into the attic before I can get the Christmas decorations down. Sorry about your vintage ornament. How about making it into one of your little diorama scenes/

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For the last few weeks we here at Yobeat started to believe our first four week winner (first crowned champion) was going to be Alex Franzese. Woops, called that one wrong. Jason Cagney came into the picture last week and destroyed good old Alex’s photo. You voted for it, it won, here it is, this weeks winner.

Photo by Jason Cagney.

This photo not only looks great, but took true skill. It was created with film, and in a dark room, none of that point and shoot photoshop stuff we are seeing so often these days. Either way, Jason goes up against the next challenger tomorrow. Come back, vote some more, and destory someone eles’s dreams.

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An anonymous reader writes: Senior staff attorney at the EFF, Marcia Hofmann gives more information on the first known seizure of equipment in the US, due to a warrant executed against a private individual running a Tor exit node. 'This spring, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a search warrant at the home of Nolan King and seized six computer hard drives in connection with a criminal investigation. The warrant was issued on the basis of an Internet Protocol (IP) address that traced back to an account connected to Mr. King's home, where he was operating a Tor exit relay.' The EFF was able to get Mr King's equipment returned, and Marcia points out that 'While we think it's important to let the public know about this unfortunate event, it doesn't change our belief that running a Tor exit relay is legal.' She also links to the EFF's Tor Legal FAQ. This again brings up an interesting dichotomy in my mind, concerning protecting yourself from the Big digital Brother: Running an open Wi-Fi hotspot, or Tor exit node, would make you both more likely to be investigated but less likely to be convicted of any cyber crimes.
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March 22, 2011

Last fall in the mountains of Bali, we tasted a local delicacy that we ended up dreaming about for months: lak lak, small crumpet-like cakes made from rice flour.  P, the kids, and I were all smitten and found ourselves scarfing down these Balinese tea cakes as though we hadn't eaten in ages. When we returned to Mount Batukaru last month, we knew we had to eat more lak lak. Johnny, our ever-gracious host at Bali Eco Stay, not only plied us with daily doses of these fresh Balinese cakes topped with palm sugar syrup and shredded coconut, he arranged for Lilah and I to go and cook with the lak lak lady.

It turns out there are lak lak all over Bali, with many regional variations, but Ibu Yoga is the lak lak goddess of Kanciana village. She makes hundreds daily to sell nearby. Being invited into a traditional Balinese kitchen was a first for me, and I was psyched. Ibu Yoga's kitchen is without fancy gadgets, electrical appliances, or even running water. Everything is cooked over a fire. I was awed by the beauty of the walls blackened with years of smoke and wondered just how many lak laks had been cooked there.

With very little verbal communication possible, I studied Ibu Yoga's technique and tried to glean her recipe.  I watched closely as she made the batter. With her hands, she mixed only two ingredients, rice flour and very warm water, until the consistency was like watery paint. When I saw her special terracotta lak lak pan, I asked if there was somewhere I could buy one. She ended up giving me her old pan (the one used in these photos) assuring me she had a nice new pan for herself. I treasured her soot-covered ceramic pan and hoped that all its memories of lak lak-making with Ibu Yoga would lead to success in my own kitchen.

When we got back to our little Bali kitchen, I was itching to try my luck at lak lak. I knew that cooking over a wood fire was essential to Ibu Yoga's cakes. An open fire, aside from camping, is not the norm for me - so I put Ibu's pan over the gas flame and got cooking. Like Ibu, I heated water up in a kettle, chopped candlenuts for seasoning the pan, then I mixed rice flour and warm water with my hands until the consistency looked like the Ibu Yoga's batter.

My first few attempts at my own lak lak were not great: the cakes were too thick, chewy, or under-cooked. But after a couple of tries, I felt as though my brief training with the master paid off. Now, after school, I fire up the lak lak pan and my kids and their buddies line up panting and chanting for lak lak. Sometimes we top them with palm syrup and coconut in the traditional fashion. Otherwise we use a dollop of coconut cream and a sprinkling of coconut sugar, or even just a smear of Nutella.

In this year of traveling mostly in the world's rice belt, I have come to see rice and rice flour as astonishingly versatile ingredients. I never would have guessed that rice flour mixed with water could be transformed into something as delicious as lak lak. Even if Ibu Yoga's ceramic lak lak pan does not survive our journey home, I am going to try a cast iron aebleskiver pan on my gas stove top in Berkeley. We cannot live without lak laks.

  1. Wow that's so awesome that you got a demonstration from her! Sharing recipes and eating different foods is the best part of traveling

  2. Those look delicious! We had those in Malaysia and they were slightly different but equally delicous

  3. This is so yummy. Thank you very much for sharing!

  4. I love that it is a strictly rice product. So many cultures use wheat in their cooking now. I thought Chinese and Japanese cooking would use lots of rice and they do, but their desserts have lots of wheat in them. I would love more recipes with just rice flour or wheat flour alternatives.

    I enjoy authentic foods and unfortunately wheat has become so invasive in other countries and have tainted their foods. Any chicken Thai recipes would be great.

    I think these look wonderful and I love the simplicity of them. Great pictures too!

  5. Thanks guys! Wish I could make a batch of lak lak for you all!
    Olinda, it is such a simple recipe and a delight that there is no need for wheat. I agree that so many rice-based cuisines are now adding wheat to their cooking. But if you can get to the really traditional recipes - voila, no wheat! More to come...

  6. These remind me a little of those tiny Vietnamese pancakes filled with dried shrimp and drizzled with scallion oil. I can see why you were dreaming of them so long. They look addicting. You can't possibly eat just one. ;)

  7. Erin, I am so completely in love with your blog. Such delicious recipes and amazing pictures. Mmmm. You have me inspired to cook up some black rice pudding in our kitchen here at Bloo Lagoon!! And also love 316 days...wish we had thought of that! :)

  8. Your photographs are amazing. Love.

  9. My grandparents' house in countryside used to have a "stove" like this, which was built with bricks. This kind of old style stove can make very delicious rice cake (e.g. sweet red bean cakes or turnip/daikon cakes). Love your posts and photos. Cheers!

  10. Guess my earlier comment didn't make it through! I just saw Rochelle who told me about these - how did I miss them when I was in Bali? Can't wait to find the time and the pan. Gotta LOVE tea cakes in all cultures!

  11. Yummm... While in Central and East Java lak lak is known as Serabi and in West Java, it's caled surabi.

  12. Moutwatering photographs! These little pancakes sound delicious - I wonder whether I will dare to try making them

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How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care

Revolutionary Doctors, a new book by author Steve Brouwer and published by Monthly Review Press, gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community health care, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, author Steve Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers.

The following excerpt, also available in PDF, was made available to readers through the International Journal of Socialist Renewal.

Where Do Revolutionary Doctors Come From?

The campesinos would have run, immediately and with unreserved enthusiasm, to help their brothers.

—CHE GUEVARA, “On Revolutionary Medicine,” 1960

Even though he came to Cuba with a rifle slung over his shoulder and entered Havana in 1959 as one of the victorious commanders of the Cuban Revolution, he still continued to think of himself as a doctor. Five years earlier, the twenty-five-year-old Argentine had arrived in Guatemala and offered to put his newly earned medical degree at the service of a peaceful social transformation. Dr. Ernesto Guevara was hoping to find work in the public health services and contribute to the wide-ranging reforms being initiated by President Arbenz, but he never had much opportunity to work as a physician in Guatemala. Within months of his arrival, Arbenz’s government was brought down by the military coup d’état devised by the United Fruit Company, some Guatemalan colonels, the U.S. State Department, and the CIA.

Che never lost sight of the value of his original aspiration—combining the humanitarian mission of medicine with the creation of a just society. When he addressed the Cuban militia on August 19, 1960, a year and a half after the triumph of the revolution, he chose to speak about “Revolutionary Medicine” and the possibility of educating a new kind of doctor.

“A few months ago, here in Havana, it happened that a group of newly graduated doctors did not want to go into the country’s rural areas and demanded remuneration before they would agree to go. . . .But what would have happened if instead of these boys, whose families generally were able to pay for their years of study, others of less fortunate means had just finished their schooling and were beginning the exercise of their profession? What would have occurred if two or three hundred campesinos had emerged, let us say by magic, from the university halls? What would have happened, simply, is that the campesinos would have run, immediately and with unreserved enthusiasm, to help their brothers.”

Since then, Cuban medicine and health services have been developed in a number of unique and revolutionary ways, but only now, nearly fifty years later, has Che’s dream come to full fruition. Today it is literally true that campesinos, along with the children of impoverished working-class and indigenous communities, are becoming doctors and running, “with unreserved enthusiasm, to help their brothers.”

While this is happening on the mountainsides of Haiti, among the Garifuna people on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, in the villages of Africa and the highlands of Bolivia, it is occurring on the grandest scale in the rural towns and city barrios of Venezuela. When I was living in the mountains of western Venezuela in 2007 and 2008, I witnessed the emergence of revolutionary doctors every morning as I walked out the door of our little tin-roofed house. The scene would have delighted Che:

As the sun rises above the mountain behind the village of Monte Carmelo and the white mist begins to lift off the cloud forest, four young campesinos walk along the road in their wine-red polo shirts with their crisp, white jackets folded up under their arms to protect them from the dust. At 7 a.m. they wave goodbye to the high school students who are waiting to begin their classes in three rooms at the women’s cooperative and then hop aboard the “taxi,” a tough, thirtyyear-old Toyota pickup truck that often packs twenty or more people in the back. They travel down the winding mountain road, through the deep ravine at the bottom, and up the hill on the far side of the valley to the larger town of Sanare, where they are going to work all morning alongside Cuban doctors in neighborhood consulting offices and the modern Diagnostic Clinic.

Around 7:45, four more medical students from the village, already donning their white jackets, walk by our house, past the plaza and the little church, and gather in front of a small concrete block building called the ambulatorio. About the same time, they are joined by three more medical students who emerge from Carlos’s bright blue jeep,“the Navigator,” one of the other vehicles in the taxi cooperative that serves the village. These students from Sanare pull on their white jackets, hug their compañeros, and wait for Elsy, a health committee volunteer who is studying to be a nurse, to unlock the gate to the ambulatorio, the walk-in clinic that offers Barrio Adentro medical service.

As I stroll by, I see the prospective patients sitting on the benches of the small, covered patio in front of the entrance door. They are waiting for Dr. Tomasa, the family medical specialist. Two chirpy teenage girls sit next to Dr. Raul’s dentistry room and grin with perfect-looking smiles. “What could be wrong with your teeth?” I ask.

“Nothing,” responds one of them, “Dr. Raul is giving us another checkup.” Another checkup? Their parents never had a single checkup when they were young—consequently, there are many people over forty or fifty who have very few teeth.

By 8 a.m. one of the medical students stands behind the simple wooden counter, performing receptionist duties. Another shuttles back and forth to the file shelves, organizing and updating medical information that is kept on every family in the community. A third chats informally with the waiting patients, entertaining their small children, and informally inquiring about their families’ health. The other four students stand alongside Dr. Tomasa in the consulting office, watching her take family and individual histories and give examinations. They also fetch medicines, take temperatures, and weigh healthy children who are accompanying their mothers. Today, like every day, Dr. Tomasa says to her students, “Por favor, more questions. This is how we learn. You can never ask too many questions.”

Monte Carmelo is a small village that stretches along a single paved road on a mountain ridge in the foothills of the Andes in the state of Lara. Before Hugo Chávez assumed the presidency of Venezuela in 1999, the road was unpaved and the high school did not exist. According to the 2007 census, its population consisted of 129 families and approximately 700 individuals, nearly all of them supporting themselves by working small parcels of land by hand, or with horses and oxen. That same year nine residents of Monte Carmelo were medical students. Eight were studying Medicina Integral Comunitaria (popularly known as MIC), an intensive six-year course that in English is usually called Comprehensive Community Medicine. A ninth village resident was studying medicine in Cuba. Two more young women from a neighboring hamlet were also in medical school. They were part of a group of sixty-seven students in this agricultural region who were becoming doctors of medicine.

The students are a diverse lot: some are nineteen or twenty years old and have recently finished high school; others are closer to thirty and have young children; a few are even older. Some young mothers have recently completed their secondary education through Mission Ribas, one of the Bolivarian social missions that bring adults back to school on evenings and weekends. All of the students are enthusiastic about their role in fostering good health and introducing reliable medical care into the fabric of their community and the larger world. And many of them dream of emulating their Cuban teachers and one day serving as internationalist physicians themselves in remote and impoverished parts of the world.

This experiment in training new doctors in MIC would be worthy of international attention even if the program was limited to the 67 students in this remote coffee-growing region in the state of Lara. But in fact they represent only a tiny fraction of a gigantic effort to transform medical education and health care delivery throughout all of Venezuela. Nearly 25,000 students were enrolled in the first four years of MIC in 2007 2008, and by 2009 and 2010 they were joined by more students, swelling the ranks of students enrolled in all six years of MIC to approximately 30,000. This is almost as many as the total number of doctors who were practicing medicine in all capacities in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998.

One unique aspect of MIC is that the students in Monte Carmelo do not have to leave the campo, the countryside, nor do students in the poorest neighborhoods of Venezuelan cities have to desert their barrios in order to attend medical school. Medicina Integral Comunitaria is a “university without walls” that trains young doctors in their home environments. This is not a short-term course for health aides or “barefoot doctors,” but a rigorous program designed to produce a new kind of physician. Every morning during their years of study, the MIC students help doctors working in Barrio Adentro attend to patients’ illnesses and learn to comprehend the broad public health needs of their communities. And every afternoon, they meet with their MIC professors in a series of formal medical classes that constitute a rigorous curriculum and include all the medical sciences studied at traditional universities.

The MIC education program could not exist without Barrio Adentro, the nationwide health system that first began delivering primary care in 2003 thanks to an enormous commitment of expertise from Cuba. From 2004 to 2010, Barrio Adentro continually deployed between 10,000 and 14,000 Cuban doctors and 15,000 to 20,000 other Cuban medical personnel—dentists, nurses, physical therapists, optometrists, and technicians. Their services are available to all Venezuelans for free at almost 7,000 walk-in offices and over 500 larger diagnostic clinics, and they have been very effective in meeting the needs of 80 percent of the population that had been ill-served or not served at all by the old health care system.

Obviously, Cuba cannot afford to devote so many of its medical personnel to Venezuela indefinitely, nor does the Chávez government want to depend on foreign doctors forever. So when Barrio Adentro was being launched in 2003, Cuban and Venezuelan medical experts devised a new program of medical education that will enable Venezuela to keep its universal public health program functioning permanently. Starting in 2005, the Cuban doctors were asked to perform a rigorous double duty: not only did they continue treating patients in Barrio Adentro clinics, but many of them also began teaching as professor/tutors for the MIC program in comprehensive community medicine. The goal of MIC is to integrate the training of family practitioners into the fabric of communities in a holistic effort that meets the medical needs of all citizens, makes use of local resources, and promotes preventive health care and healthy living.

The Cuban mission in Venezuela is possible because over the past half-century, Cuba has developed a vision of medical service that goes far beyond its own borders. Cuban health workers, in addition to providing free health care for all their fellow citizens, have transformed themselves into a “weapon of solidarity,” a revolutionary force that has been deployed in over 100 countries around the world. Since 2000, however, the Cuban commitment has increased substantially because the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has contributed its own enthusiasm, volunteers, and economic resources. Through various agreements of cooperation, Cuba and Venezuela have embarked upon a number of projects in other fields such as education, agriculture, energy, and industrial development, and then have extended these cooperative ventures to other nations, particularly within ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, which includes Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador as well as the small Caribbean island nations of Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Of all these ambitious undertakings, delivering medical services is by far the most prominent. In order to extend universal health care to the poor and working classes in way that is compatible with the new, egalitarian vision of these societies, many more physicians are needed. With this in mind, Cuba is educating more doctors at home even as it trains tens of thousands in Venezuela. In 2008 there were 29,000 Cubans enrolled in medical school, plus nearly 24,000 foreign students (including more than one hundred students from the United States) studying at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana or at the schools of the New Program for the Training of Latin American Doctors that are located in four other provinces.

An Army in White Jackets

I first became aware of the magnitude of this medical revolution in 2004 on my first trip to Venezuela. When Dr. Yonel, a young Cuban dentist working in a barrio of Caracas, informed me there were more than 10,000 doctors working in Venezuela, I exclaimed, “Un ejército de medicos! An army of doctors!”

Dr. Yonel smiled and replied, “Un ejército de paz. An army ofpeace.”

Clearly the collaboration of the rejuvenated Cuban Revolution and the nascent Bolivarian Revolution was yielding impressive results. And a growing number of countries in the Western Hemisphere, long under the yoke of wealthy conservative minorities or military authoritarians who were dependent on capital and political instruction from the North, were no longer willing to listen to the United States when it told them to shun Cuba and Venezuela. Since its long-standing economic blockade of Cuba was failing to deter these developments, the United States tried to launch a disruptive dissident movement in Cuba and assist a coup d’état in Venezuela. When these efforts failed, the U.S. government imposed more draconian economic and travel restrictions on Cuba in 2004 and funded various schemes to undermine both revolutionary governments. In 2006, the United States stooped to an especially low level when it attempted to directly sabotage Cuba’s humanitarian medical missions by creating the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program. This was a law specifically designed to lure Cuban doctors, nurses, and technicians away from their foreign assignments by offering them special immigration status and speedy entry into the United States.

These antagonistic efforts did not succeed in diminishing the international solidarity and prestige that Cuba and Venezuela were acquiring around the world, nor did it keep them from expanding their programs of humanitarian medical aid and international medical education. In 2007, a young Chilean, a member of the third class graduating from the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, spoke at her commencement and told her classmates: “Today we are an army in white jackets that will bring good health and a little more dignity to our people.”

By 2010, Cuba and Venezuela further demonstrated their capabilities by being among the most prominent providers of both emergency and long-term aid to Haiti after its devastating earthquake. Brazil, the economic giant of Latin America, signaled its admiration by announcing that it would be delighted to join Cuba in a partnership to create a new public health system in Haiti. José Gomés, the Brazilian Minister of Health, explained why his country was choosing to work with the Cubans on such a significant and demanding project: “We have just signed an agreement—Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti—according to which all three countries make a commitment to unite our forces in order to reconstruct the health system in Haiti. . . . We will provide this, together with Cuba—a country with an extremely long internationalist experience, a great degree of technical ability, great determination, and an enormous amount of heart.”

For Cuba, Venezuela, and by extension their allies in ALBA alliance, these triumphs throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century were more than diplomatic coups, they were moral victories. They demonstrated the power of social solidarity and humanistic concern for other people, values in stark contrast with the materialistic, self-centered, and aggressive behavior of the advanced capitalist societies.

This book aims to acquaint the reader with the ways that revolutionary doctors and health care workers have developed into major protagonists of socialist change and are defining what that change should look like. Chapters 2 through 4 offer some glimpses of Cuba’s international medical missions, their profound impact on various parts of the world, and their relation to the overall development of Cuban health care over the past fifty years. Chapters 5 through 8 describe how a new public health system, Barrio Adentro, has been created in Venezuela, and how new Venezuelan doctors are being educated to assume responsibility for this system in the future. This description is based on my own observations of day-to-day interactions of doctors, medical students, health committees, and the members of the communities they serve. Finally, the last four chapters illustrate how capitalist cultures and imperialist forces are resisting the development of revolutionary medicine and revolutionary consciousness, while the emerging socialist cultures are pressing forward with new ideas and creating the patterns of practice and commitment in daily life that are producing the revolutionaries of the future.

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Texas Now a ‘Danger Zone’ For Women

The Texas Senate pushed through a severe anti-abortion bill Friday evening, bringing one of the country's most drastic attacks on reproductive rights within inches of being signed into law.

The bill advanced despite thousands of pro-choice advocates who packed the capitol Friday to oppose the measures.

"Thousands upon thousands of people screamed their faces off for hours and hours filling the capitol building to the brim," Hallie Boas—organizer with Rise Up Texas—told Common Dreams.

In the immediate aftermath of the bill's passage, dozens of protesters refused to leave the Senate chambers in a peaceful show of civil disobedience. Their statement declared:

We are here to announce that the State of Texas, with the passage of HB2 [anti-abortion bill], is a now a danger zone for women, the poor, the working class, people of color, immigrants, queer and trans communities, women with disabilities, rural and border communities and those most impacted by lack of access to safe, affordable reproductive healthcare.

The Senate called in police who wielded tasers against the protesters and arrested at least two. "We are outraged by the use of unnecessary violence and force by the police,' says Boas.

After the bill cleared the republican-controlled Senate, it will next head to the desk of Governor Rick Perry, who is expected to enthusiastically sign the legislation.

The sweeping measure—a cocktail of several previous abortion bills—would ban the procedure after 20 weeks, impose prohibitive restrictions on abortion providers, and require that abortions only be provided at surgical centers. Pro-choice advocates explain that the bill would shutter 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics.

The fight to save reproductive rights in Texas has galvanized the state and mobilized pro-choice groups and community organizations across the US, as several other state governments levy similar attacks.

Texas Democrat Wendy Davis captured international attention in late June when she launched an 11 hour filibuster which, with the help of thousands protesting in the capitol, blocked an earlier iteration of the bill.

Yet, Perry called a new 'special session' after the pro-choice victory in late June, allowing him to work with legislators to push forward the bill despite steep public opposition.

The bill's opponents vow that the fight for reproductive rights in Texas has only just begun. "Texas is Radicalized," said Boas. "My heart felt like it was about to explode as thousands came together in a beautiful display of solidarity and people power."

"A reproductive justice movement has been born," she added. "Texas is fighting back and will not be silenced."

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Now read Amar Chitra Katha on your mobile

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 19:36

New Delhi, April 21: Watching the latest flick on your mobile may still be some months away. But you can catch up with favourite comic strips or read those illustrated tales of Amar Chitra Katha, as phone operators are offering more features to lift their bottomlines.

A wide range of ring tones, caller ring back tones, video games, imagery, jokes and specific information services are some of the value-added services (VAS) that these phone operators are offering to boost the average revenues per user - better known as ARPU (pronounced `Aarpoos`) in industry jargon.

Getting today`s youth on the move to use their mobile phones more, and enticing them to download games, wallpapers, animated graphics and a multitude of specially purposed content is the motto.

"Amar Chitra Katha has been in existence for years. We thought of providing the same to our customers on phone, though not in the same format," said Harit Nagpal, Vodafone`s director for marketing and new business.

"Now one can read them while travelling in the metro, bus or during a break in office," Nagpal told reporters.

According to a recent report of auditing major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the market for VAS is expected to grow from 10 percent of the operator`s revenue to 18 percent by 2010.

Currently, it is estimated at around Rs.5,000 crore and is set to grow to Rs20,000 crore by 2010, according to the PwC report.

Worldwide spending on mobile VAS, including mobile music, phone payments and advertising, is expected to touch $55.6 billion by 2011, the report added.

With Vodafone`s latest offering, a user can not only access and read the comics but also download games, wallpapers, animated graphics interchange format (GIF) files and a slew of other content exclusively on the Vodafone Network.

"This feature on Vodafone should add to our revenues," Nagpal said, adding: "However, every service cannot get you 20 percent penetration."

While ringtones and wallpaper downloads are still popular among youth, other services like comic strips are still quite new and do not have too many takers yet.

Agrees Aircel`s chief operating officer Gurdeep Singh: "Aircel`s focus and plank for success is VAS. It`s like `explore your world of possibilities`."

Operators hope to increase it to about 25 percent in the next 7-10 years as quality of content improves and the number of offerings increases.

Telecom operators on their part are getting innovative with services to increase non-voice revenue streams.

All the major telecom operators from Airtel to Idea have introduced a service that enables a customer to find a job through SMS and have received an overwhelming response.

"Subscription services like finding a job through SMS has touched 10 percent penetration, which means 10 million customers," a leading VAS service provider, Telenity Mobile`s vice-president (sales for Asia Pacific Region) Yogesh Bijlani told reporters.

"VAS contributed about Rs6,000 crore to the telecom operators` total revenues in 2008-09. The appetite for VAS services at Rs.30 per month has grown considerably even in the smaller cities," Bijlani added.

Another trend-setting service that has recently been launched is "location-based service", which enables one to trace the location of their friends and relatives through an SMS.

Currently, available only with BSNL, Telenity is in advanced talks with other telecom operators to offer the same service through them.

However, global consulting firm KPMG is not very optimistic about the latest VAS offerings, saying there is "nothing extraordinary" in it.

"New services will certainly be launched with or without 3G (third generation mobile telephony), but I have not seen any killer services so far," KPMG communications director Jaideep Ghosh said.

"They are not extraordinary."

First Published: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 19:36

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Fighting hunger in hard-to-reach parts of Haiti

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 22:47

Furcy: Where the road gave way to trails, the hunger-hunters parked their motorcycle and hiked for more than an hour up a mountain too steep even for mules. There, in a foggy clearing high above the Haitian capital, the Baptist aid workers made their find.

Two glassy-eyed boys stood beside a wood and mud hut. Their low weight made them look half their ages, but their hair, grey and patchy from lack of nutrition, gave them the appearance of old men.

"They looked as though they were ready to die," said Hilaire Etienne, one of the aid workers. "They were merely bones and just skin on their bodies."

Haiti has long struggled with malnutrition as a result of widespread poverty, a dearth of jobs and a feeble agricultural sector. UNICEF says malnutrition is responsible for about 60 percent of all deaths in people under 18 in the country. An estimated 30 percent of Haitian children are chronically malnourished, their growth often stunted.

Health workers believe there are thousands of children like Jameson and David Paul, the starving brothers discovered in Furcy, who are slowly suffering out of sight of the massive humanitarian effort in the capital just 30 miles away.

There`s a little more hope for the Paul brothers now, due to the efforts of the Baptist Haiti Mission, which tracks down hungry children in remote areas of the country and feeds them. Etienne and his partner, Michel Raphael, earn about $75 a month trekking into the mountains and banana groves of Haiti with supplies of vitamins and vaccines and a portable scale to weigh children.

In the Haitian countryside, children are seven times more likely to be malnourished than their counterparts in densely populated Port-au-Prince and other cities, said Mohamed Ayoya, UNICEF`s chief of nutrition in Haiti. Such remote areas can be difficult to reach because many roads are damaged or dwellings are accessible only by foot, making food delivery a challenge.

The 68-year-old Baptist Haiti Mission is one of Haiti`s oldest charities, but it isn`t alone in trying to reach poor people deep in the countryside. The US-based Partners in Health has been working in the country`s remote areas for years, as has UNICEF, which plans to send workers with the Haitian government later this month to the Grande Anse area, in the country`s far west, to investigate a reported spike in malnutrition.

Hunger also is an issue high on the agenda of newly elected President Michel Martelly, who has pledged to revitalize the country`s farming sector, devastated by the effects of cheap food imports and deforestation. Much of the country`s foliage has been destroyed by Haitians chopping down trees to make charcoal.

Raphael said he welcomes the aid that has come to Haiti since the 2010 earthquake leveled the capital, but laments that he doesn`t see much of it in the mountains.

"When I think about how much money comes into the country, I realize that nothing ever comes to the peasants in my area," said Raphael, 35, who followed in his father`s footsteps by becoming a health care worker.

On the morning Raphael and Etienne found the Paul brothers, they had left the Baptist Haiti Mission at sunrise, wearing jackets against the chilly air and carrying chewable vaccinations for typhoid and tetanus. They brought their scale with them on house calls, and the villagers referred to them as "doctors," even though they aren`t.

The pair urged parents to bring their children to be weighed, but a few of the more agile tots scampered behind banana trees, fearful of vaccinations.

The health workers nabbed one preschooler who squealed as Etienne hung him by his T-shirt from a hook at the end of a scale. He weighed about 20 pounds, far lighter than a normal child his age.

An hour later, the aid workers found the Paul brothers — 6-year-old Jameson and David, 4. The brothers had the gray hair of village elders, and were being raised by their grandmother after their mother dropped them off and left.

Etienne and Raphael gave them vitamins and potatoes that they had grown from their own gardens.

"When I look at these kids and look at mine, it really hurts," said Raphael, a married father of two girls and a boy.

The Pauls` grandmother, Sentina Estime, said they suffer from constant itching — a sign of malnutrition — as well as hunger.

"They itch all the time," Estime said. "They need to go to see a doctor, but I can`t bring them because I`m not in good health myself."

Yes, Etienne and Raphael, agreed, they need to see a doctor. Meanwhile, the aid workers promised to return in a couple of weeks with more vitamins and potatoes.

"We do what we can do," Etienne said. Malnutrition brings many complications.

He packed his scale and vitamins and set off to look for more hungry children.

Bureau Report

First Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 22:47

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August 23, 2013

Back To School DIY: Decorative Holders made of Upcycled Tin Cans

With back to school just around the corner, here's a fun project that would prove useful for helping keep your little Einsteins organized and you, saving big bucks on those back-to-school home organizing needs! All you need is a little...ahem, elbow grease and a bit of creativity. And what's best about this one, they make for great teacher gift ideas too!

So, let's start clanging, er, gathering yer tin cans.

Materials needed:
15.05 oz can
Hot Glue Gun
Glue Sticks
Decorative beads
Decorative wrapping paper
Liquid Glue
Paper cutter

Wash the tin cans with soap and water and dry them thoroughly.

For ribbons: Cut strips of ribbons long enough to overlap edge to edge to the size of the tin can's body. Stick them around the polished areas with hot glue. Make sure where ends meet is on the "back side" of the can for seamless design. Repeat process on the lower portion of can.

For wrapping papers: Cut strips of the wrapping paper to the size of the polished top and bottom of can. About 1/2 inch or smaller according to your preference. Length should be same as ribbon above. Stick with liquid glue.

Lids: If you opt to use the lid like I have in this design, trace and cut round pieces of a decorative wrapping paper complementing your ribbons or design scheme to the size of the polished center area of lid. Stick them on with liquid glue. Add a finishing touch using a decorative bead or ribbon, or give it pizzas using your own personal touch to the design (I did the breast cancer pink ribbon).

Use hot glue to stick the lid as accent to the can on the "front center side". Let dry and voila! Flaunt your creation.

I'm using mine for my tools and whatnots on my creative table. If you want your children to create their own masterpiece and don't want them handling hot glue, give them duct tape and let them explore their own creative prowess! (see rainbow duct tape design done by my 9 year old which she's using as pencil holder). Start saving your cans and upcyle them! Possibilities are endless.

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For a smooth, clean and sharp-free edges, I use OXO SoftWorks Smooth Edge Can Opener. This can opener is a work of genius! Instead of 'slicing" through the top of the lid, it "breaks" down the adhesive and separates the lid from the can in one easy stroke. I have the 1st generation version. The new version look a lot more ergonomical.

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Newly Wedds:
Wife - Baby I'm so happy we're finally married.

Husband - Yeah sure. It's Great, isn't it.

Wife - Ok, you know I saved myself for you. It's time for you to be honest with me. Baby, how many women have you had sex with?

Husband - Hmmm, I've?...........enough.
作者 Frankie Chaos 2008年7月14日
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Enough - a word to describe a person of the opposite sex as good looking, beautiful or hot. Enough meaning he/she would be enough to suit your needs.
Person 1: "Did you see her, man?"
Person 2: "Yeah man, she was enough."
Person 1: "I know, I wouldn't mind a bit of that."
Person 2: "Nah bro, you can't get her, your face is mash-up."
作者 ajbabs69 2009年12月30日
a lot (of); a considerable amount
Jack Osbourne's lost enough weight this year!
作者 Keisha237623 2005年11月02日
Used to emphasize ones sentance or statement in reference to a number or amount of time.
1) That shit cost enough money!

2) I told that bitch to stay outta my fridge enough times.
作者 SLiCKster00 2008年11月23日
When one has received a sufficient amount of something (i.e. bullshit) and does not want anymore.
Ana: I do not want to play your lame game because I'm not the type of woman who plays games as I'm too busy keeping it real so back off because I've had enough and I have my own life toooo!
作者 Goddess12* 2013年12月19日
When you have reached your limit of someone talking. Used to end their monologue.
Enough!! Shut Up,you are talking way too much!!
作者 D.Bax - State Supervisor 2008年12月16日
A word used by Nic Plott to tell you to be quiet. "Jokingly"
Hey lets go have sex, "ENOUGH"

Hey lets go to the river, "ENOUGH"

Hey Nic Wh---- "ENOUGH"
作者 Joseph Green :) :) 2009年9月20日

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She normally has brown hair and brown eyes and is a very cute dork
"Damn, that Alana girl really cool, and I wanna be her friend"
"Wow Alana lookin bootylicious as always!"
作者 The dream team •3• ~ <3 2015年3月04日
The girl who is an amazing cook. Alan loves cats, and is one of the funniest girls in anyroom. Alana loves to chat up boys, and dances everynight away. She is the type of girl who loves the ide of golddigging, and enjoys noting more than shopping and eating. Alan is a very pretty girl.
OMG the girl is such an Alana.
作者 lionman789789789 2013年1月23日
The cute emo/scene girl that sits in the back of the class. She always has her headphones in blasting screamo or alternative music so loud everyone else can here it. She might be emo but she is the cutest girl ever. You would be so lucky of you could date her. For some reason she goes both ways. But if you get to know her youll realize how nice, funny, creative, cute, and awkward she is. She is an amazing guitarist and can play like 5 other instruments. Over all she is perfect.
Guy 1: Damn did you see Alana play guitar to The Reckless and The Brave at the school talent show?
Guy 2: Yes oh god shes perfect.
Guy 1: Even if shes emo shes damn hot.
Her girlfriend: What are you saying about my girlfriend??
Guy 1&2: Nothing o-o
作者 Immaturtle 2014年8月14日
an epically cool person who everyone loves soooooooo much. She is super Christian and always calls herself a Jesus freak even though some of the idiots in her grade think it's weird. She likes to be alone and gets sick of people sometimes but has a million friends anyway who come to her for EVERYTHING which actually gets quite annoying sometimes because she's super smart but she doesn't actually know EVERYTHING. OH and she luvs Nora because Nora is awesome and just like her :)
Hay, see her?

"That's my BESTIE Alana!

I thought I was her bestie...

You're all wrong... Nora is her bestie...

Nora Alana amazing jesus freak smartie
作者 I am not a mormon 2011年6月23日
A plain, simple tom-boy, whose wit and smarts will tak you by storm. The muscular, athletic weirdo with the friends that usually wouldn't talk to her, if it weren't fr her awesomeness,who love her for her humor, and because she's NOT afraid to be herslef. She will be nice to you one day, then the next, she'll turn on you and never speak to you again. Be careful to not piss that bitch off, because she'll bitch slap your ass!!!
That bitch Alana just kicked my ass!!!
作者 TheBitchyTruth 2010年5月31日
term of affection used in past century, but changed to mean the opposite.
What an alana!
作者 Me?I tell the truth 2011年3月18日
The drunk and slurred way of saying "all in a"
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What is a Mobile Website?

These days, many people access websites using their mobile phones. In order for this to work, it is important that the website is mobile compatible. This is obviously something that is really important. Many people use smart phones and people browse the Internet all the time.

Being able to have a website that is mobile compatible is going to allow more people to access the website and look at what you have to show the world. Because of this, it is a good idea to consider the things that work with a regular website and things that work with a mobile website. These sort of lessons will change the way that people create mobile websites and make them great.

One of the great things about many mobile websites is a simple navigation system. When people use mobile sites, they are able to simplify the navigation that is there and also find that they have more control over their use overall through their smart phones. People are really interested in having control over their mobile experiences, so it is important to realize that this is important when you are designing a website. If you consider a website that you visit on a computer and a website that you visit on a smart phone, it is obvious that there is a difference in the layout a lot of the time. Many websites have a very complex design and when it comes to the mobile website, it is a good idea to consider a lot of different options, but keep it as simple as possible.

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It is generally true that there is less content on a website design for a mobile phone than it was for a regular website design. There are a lot of people that really only need to access a couple of different things that the regular website might often when they are accessing it on a mobile device. For the most part, people are not going to need to use all of the website options that regular websites have when they are accessing the website on their mobile phones. This adds to the simplicity of things that people are going to be able to experience with a mobile website.

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When you use a mobile website, you might find that it is simple, but it takes a lot of work to put the website together. This is something that you might want to think about when you are using a mobile website next. If you want to try and use mobile website, you will want to think about the things that you can research online to learn more about the topic.

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Some Things You Need To Know In Regards To Tax Services

Actually getting to hire a professional to do the taxation job for you is the best thing you will ever do for your business, though you may think it is less expensive to do the services yourself. This is because there are many benefits associated with you getting to outsource the tax preparation. This is due to the fact that you will get to have the peace of mind when you get to give these work to the professionals who will give quality services. Many presume that they are saving a lot of cash when they get to do the tax preparation themselves using the increased tax preparation programs.

The sophisticated process of preparing the tax documents, is a very stressful one but the experts will get to handle it relieving you the stress. If you get to hire these experts then there is no doubt that you are going to get maximum services. They experts have got a wide knowledge in the field of taxation as they not only know about the federal tax laws but also the state laws. Due to the fact that these specialists have specialized in this field, they are more updated in the trends in the tax laws, which you may not be knowledgeable about. The experts are qualified in this area and still advance their education in the area of taxation, giving them better chance to be more informed in tax issues.

The experts get to save you from stiff penalties and fines by the law and you also get to maximize on your profit. Due to their vast experience in the field of taxation and their capability to provide tax services to many clients, they are better off in the tax preparation requirements. They make accurate and reliable calculation using their wonderful developed methodologies. You will get to save a lot of money and time if you get to hire these specialists.

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The specialists are very good for they enable you to get to make the right deductions in the business, which the computer has no access to. Another significant thing about these tax specialist is that they are trust worthy, in that they do not leak any information to the third party. It is good you hire the specialist since you will be able to customize reporting and financial accounting through different methods available.

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The other good thing with these expertise is that they ensure they follow instruction to the letter when they are given. They get to relay important information relating to the financial ideas and concepts clearly making it possible for the business owner to understand. The experts also do have a lot of expertise in the field making it possible for them to give you the proper advice needed to make your business prosper.

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Free Online Services for Your Taxes

It is already a fact when tax payers go through the planning of the taxes with different guidelines, huge bills and the blank tax type. It can be pretty expensive when you get to pay out your own tax expert for your entire share of dividends. The whole process of the preparation of your own taxes as well as the guide can be given by the different high ranking services. Aside from offering taxes information, a complete tax services can be offered and give online submitting, state forms, errors and deduction checks, imports information and contacts of a professional tax preparers.

They can also offer a well rendered financial advice for the retirement preparation, the techniques for the tax, lawyers for taxation as well. It is the truth that tax services can be accomplished more than just dealing with the basics of preparation, strategy and finance. It is highly vital that tax paying should be stress free, this may often cause anxiety to various people who have been experiencing anxiety attack. The taxes services should provide a helpful and very exact customer support to add to the monetary and tax advice. The tax services must give a whole approach in giving various advices for each clients. There are also criteria needed for an internet software.

The program will give the profound data needed for the resources and the capacity of filling the software with the necessary information or data. Other online taxes give conditions on taxation with the final guidelines also. The tax provider should be able to give the present information on taxes and regulations and must give a comprehensive terminology with the tax language. In addition they can prepare a proof of error so they can clearly avoid the unforeseen mistakes that possibly be happening.

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The actual planning of the taxes must give a wide depth for it to be understood well. Huge records of services can be able to give definitions with the text revenue, tax tips and tools with icons as well. This kind of organization must be able to support and give guidance with the tech through the telephone or even by email.

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With the very wide range of easy functioning tax software, filling like the preparation of your own taxes can be a quick and simple processing. You must be able to be aware of the correct function of the various taxation software. It will never be enough for you to rely on someone in your own taxation agenda, you must be able to familiarize if not master the various services when it comes to dealing with your taxation in your country.

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Gains of Using Tax Services

Taxes: A word that no one loves to hear, whether they’re complicated or uncomplicated. They are the write off’s that majority of people don’t know how to figure out, and usually these services can help you get money back instead of owing it and generally more money than you would have if you attempted to do them yourself, particularly if your inexperienced. Doing your taxes take in a number of variables which consist of what you earned this year, what investments you made, what kind of property you own, essential purchases you’ve made and etc. It is important that you have an expert on you group who can get you all the rests you deserve. The benefits of using tax services outshines the cost; in any case all the IRS won’t be focused on saving you cash and a lot of software programs won’t be able to personalize your returns like how a tax service can.

One of the benefits of using tax services is that many have a staff of tax experts on hand to check on their client’s accounts. They’ll be able to discover and find out every opportunity for you to save money and even collect them. There are variety of choices out there for you and some of them require massive worksheets to be filled out and reports to be filed. The tax specialist can help handle all of the difficult paperwork filled as it should be so that all you have to do is show up, sign off and be on your way.

Employing tax service specialist also means you can communicate with them whenever you have questions or concerns. If you’re not sure about the financial situation you find yourself in, you can give them a ring and they’ll be able to clarify any concerns about your tax situation. They’ll even give you tips to make in next year’s tax filing season that is much easier for you to deal with.

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The older we become, the more investments we have which makes it even simpler to miss details that could save us money; worse it turns filing a much more complicated process, and it is a process that can simply cost money and destroy your credit if not handled correctly and in a timely way. Don’t let the discouraging doomsday, which is tax season, stress you out. If you put into use the advantages of using tax services, you’ll be able to sit back and relax knowing you’ll pay less and maybe even get money back in return. There are a variety of benefits that come from using tax services but more so than anything it will offer you peace of mind.

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Organic Snacks-How to Buy Them on a Budget

A healthy lifestyle that involves eating organic foods is being adopted by thousands of people. Majority of the people that are living on a budget find it expensive to purchase organic snacks. Money being a limiting factor, in this case, it should not prevent anyone from leading a healthy life. There are numerous ways or tips that an individual can use to be able to eat organic snacks and still use very little cash.

There are many stores that sell natural products. These stores charge different prices; therefore, it is important to visit as many stores as possible. It assists in not only knowing which stall has a wide variety of these foods, but also which one sells them at cheaper prices. This information helps a person to save a lot of cash.

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Planting one’s foods is also a great way of eating organic food at a much less price. It is possible to plant some vegetables in one’s backyard as they require little space. It is affordable to manage a small garden in one’s backyard. In the long run, it is cheaper than purchasing the vegetables from a grocery store or market.

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The words “natural foods only” are being used by many restaurants as a marketing strategy. Trusting their words is taking a big risk as some might just be saying so to attract customers. Buying already made food is also more expensive compared to making one’s meal. Cooking one’s meal is better than purchasing ready-made food. Not only is it fairer in terms of price, but also one gets to control what they put in their diet.

If one lives near plantations or knows farmers who practice organic farming, it is advisable to buy directly from them. The assurance that their crops are organic is a good reason one should buy food stuff from them. Buying directly from the farmers is cheaper than purchasing from supermarkets.

Purchasing products in wholesale costs much less than buying an individual item at a time. If on can afford it then they should buy the goods in bulk. If one is living on a budget, it is advisable to join co-operatives. The work of these co-operatives is buying the goods in bulk then distributing them at affordable prices to their members. Forming a co-operative, where one does not exist, is also a great idea.

Making a list of all that is necessary is essential before going to the grocery store. When shopping without a list, one tends to prioritize things that are not important.

One can end up saving loads of cash just by investing in a good fridge. A fridge provides storage space for foods and keeps them fresh due to the low temperatures. One can save cash just by storing leftovers. The leftovers should be put in a clean container then stored in the fridge.

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Things To Keep In Mind When Searching For Tax Services

The requirement to file tax returns is something that can literally push you to the wall, especially if you are a small business. Most small businesses do not create enough time to prepare about filling taxes and when they do, they do not have any clue on how to prepare tax returns properly. To ensure tax compliance, the Internal Revenue will not let you breathe until you have successfully filed your returns. This is one of the important reasons why getting a professional tax service provider comes as an easy recommendation. However, how do you go about hiring an ideal tax service provider? Here is a look at the four important things to keep in mind when shopping for the best service provider.

First of all, consider his or her affordability. It is quite obvious that when you hire a service provider, you definitely need someone you can afford. While doing your research, be sure that you ask the service provider the right questions and one of the most important ones to ask is how much their services will cost. While outsourcing will definitely cost fees, it should be considerable fees.

It is also advisable that you consider the experience of the service provider. It is quite unfortunate that most small business owners get swayed by incentives offered by service providers who are just out of college in a bid to save to save money. While this may turn out to be beneficial in certain aspects, it is important that for the sake of your business, you look for an experienced taxation consultant. Tax service companies with a wealth of experience will be in a better position to know everything that pertains to filling taxation returns.

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The best tax service company should also have professional training and education on the job. You need to understand that tax services can become very technical at times. It is not just about a group of people working on calculator; in-depth knowledge is required and your service provider must have college education on the same. It is also important for the service provider to further their education and stay informed about the latest happenings as far as taxation and accounting are concerned.

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Reliability is another desirable quality of a good taxation services provider. This is instrumental considering that you always have deadlines to work with when filling your returns. In this respect, a good service provider should follow all the due processes to ensure that your taxes are filled in good time. Basically put, you should not go for a service provider who has a lot of work to do because their chances of meeting the deadline is small. Because time is of essence, go for a company that has the capability to file your returns in good time.

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Homes for Sale: Attributes of Locations You Have to Take Into Account

Buying real estate properties is deemed as conducive investments nowadays. There are lots of investors who purchased these properties as places where they can consider homes. Should you be among these individuals, what elements should you take into consideration when buying homes of sale? Caution and planning must be carried out when deciding for these properties, especially when you want to ensure the safety and welfare of your kids and other members of the family. Should you be among these individuals, then the thing that you can do is to follow the tips found in here.

When you peruse the Internet or read advertising ads, you can surely find plenty of properties from which to select from. The truth is, investors can select from the wide array of real estate properties, ranging from socialize types to those expensive ones. Aside from the types of houses and prices, it is also important for you to decide on the neighborhood as to where these properties are located. Make sure that you will not disregard these things since it will greatly affect the behavior as well as the attitudes of your kids. This factor must be given due importance if you don’t want to put the health, safety and welfare of your children at risk.

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1. Make sure to opt only for dwellings which are not found in commercial spaces. Apart from the large numbers of people going in and out of these spaces, these places are also noisy. This is especially true when there are lots of industrial equipment running and private and public vehicles. For sure, you cannot relax and achieve sound sleep with all these noise, right?

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2. Be sure to select spaces with minimal crime rates. You are risking not just the lives and welfare of your family members but also your properties as well. Before you decide to purchase any of these properties, then you should allocate some time to pay a visit to these places and ask from the people dwelling in the neighborhood. Make sure that you give importance to security and safety when purchasing properties.

3. You should not purchase properties found in danger zones. This is particularly true for locations situated near landfills and contaminated spaces. It is also advised that you avoid buying properties found adjacent or near train stations or power grids. These are also deemed as danger zones.

Make sure that you follow the tips and pointers found in this article when you have plans of acquiring homes for sale. Make sure to follow the things found in here to ensure the safety and security of your family members.

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Eat Organic Snacks To Help You Lose Weight

For many dieticians, they will always tell you to eat a balanced meal. Organic fruits and vegetables can be very helpful on it too. This means you should choose the kind of food that are not grown in harsh chemicals. You should also stay away from food high in trans fats and low density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol. Avoiding sugary foods like cookies, cakes, juice concentrates, chocolates and many more will help you shed off the pounds.

It is a fallacy that eating snacks is not healthy for you. For you to keep off the pounds, eating small snacks will actually help. This is only true if you eat small frequent meals that are high in fiber and rich in vitamins and minerals. By letting your body go into consistent metabolism by eating small frequent meals, you are helping your body to lose weight. You will be efficiently using your energy up thereby allowing you to lose more weight in a healthy way. You should eat 3 smaller meals and 3 to 4 healthy snacks a day instead of eating 3 heavy meals a day. This will allow you to be fully charged all the day through without feeling any hunger or craving anything sweet.

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Fruit And Yogurt Parfait – yogurt that are sold with flavors are high in sugar content. Plain organic yogurt is what you need. If you want it flavored, you can add some fruits in it.

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Lettuce wrap, organic turkey or chicken and some mozzarella cheese – lettuce is very good for your digestive system. Turkey is a great source of protein too. This will help you boost your metabolism, make you feel less hungry and can therefore promote weight loss. For some calcium, you can add some mozzarella cheese if you want.

Veggie sticks and cottage cheese dip – this is a very nutritious snack for you, even if it sounds like food for a baby. If you choose the vegetables that are not starchy, you get 8 times more the fiber. Eating a high fiber diet is something very beneficial to your digestive tract. Your bowel movement will be regulated. It also cleans your intestines.

Nuts – people should eat more nuts because it is rich in protein and fiber. But many people choose to snack on nuts because they are high in omega 3. These are fatty acids that are good for your body. You can avoid cardiovascular diseases with fatty acids. Omega 3 is also has anti inflammatory properties. This will help you keep your heart healthy.

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Why You Should Consider Installing Kitchen Wooden Worktops

By all standard, the kitchen is the most important section of a home as it is the place where different members of the family can meet up to prepare or share a meal as they enjoy quality time. A kitchen worktop is an important feature in any kitchen and is a key component of home renovation. While it is true that kitchen worktops are available in many different designs, kitchen wooden worktops are arguably the most striking ones. They come in different styles, sizes, and colors to match your personal preference. Outlined below are the benefits of installing kitchen wooden worktops in your kitchen.

Unlike most other types of worktops, kitchen wooden worktops give a truly fantastic appeal that goes beyond what normal kitchen surfaces offer. The real value of walnut, oak or beech worktops is how they play an instrumental role in bringing a soft and natural feel to a clinical environment. The relationship humans have had with wood dates many centuries back and our affinity to anything wood makes wood a natural choice in kitchens.

On the other hand, wood is a timeless and ageless material and not all materials used in the kitchen can be described as sleek and modern, antique, rustic, and traditional at the same time as wood. Wood has an endless versatility and people just love to hold, touch and stroke it.

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It is equally worth noting that shaping and fitting kitchen wooden worktops is quite easy, something that gives homeowners an ease installation process. It is also worth mentioning that these worktops also look outstanding whether used in a traditional or modern kitchen. The reason is that kitchen wooden worktops provide a nice and natural feel to a kitchen. They also contain natural antibiotic agents, making them a very hygienic choice.

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The other benefit of using these worktops in your kitchen is that they provide value for money. Provided you take good care of your kitchen wooden worktop, it will last a lifetime, providing value for money. Many people consider buying a wooden worktop as it provides the compromise choice between buying an expensive stone worktop or a cheaper laminate worktop.

It is also possible to incorporate kitchen wooden worktops in a design of your choice. Whether you want to achieve a modern look or a contemporary look, you can use these worktops to achieve any style you want. The bottom line is that you can choose any style that suits your taste. Both modern and traditional kitchens can benefit a lot from the introduction of natural materials, which is the reason why most people prefer using wood in the kitchen.

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The Advantages of Acquiring Tax Services

It is not surprising to know that every single person in this world had been putting too much concern about everything that involves the economy. Newspapers, televisions, and even the internet have been so much focused on giving information to people of the economic status that each country in this world has. It is essential for you to know that one of the things that could greatly affect the economic system of the world would be the collection of taxes. It is certain that this may be a new term that you have heard of which would make you think if this is something good or not. You have to realize that in a way taxes are really things that people know yet they have not realized their purposes on people. The good thing about the availability of tax services to people is that it can help many individuals get again the money that they have contributed before. It is certain that you can get the money all by yourself but being able to hire a company that offers tax services would definitely give you more money in the long run. It is a given fact that you will only have a small knowledge about certain principles that involve taxes. Since you are someone who is responsible in doing your taxes, you are certain that you would need to look into certain factors. It is essential for you to figure out how much money you have earned for the year in order for you to successfully do your taxes.

One thing that you must consider when it comes to computing your taxes is the investments that you have made throughout the year. In doing your taxes, it would be necessary on your part to know the types of properties and assets you have been purchasing over the years. You have to make sure that the subdivision or place that you are currently staying would determine the taxes that you will have as well. It is not surprising to know that you are having a hard time doing your taxes because a lot of people have experience such things as well. With all these things in line, you have to make sure that a specialist would be willing to figure these things out in your team.

There are a lot of good things that you will get out of hiring tax services. The good thing about acquiring tax services is that it can actually minimize the expenses that you will have. The truth is any computer program will not be capable of helping you in saving money as you use different software programs in personalizing your tax return. It is only by the time that you will avail tax services that you will be able to get the tax returns that you need.

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One advantage that you will get once you use tax services is that there are several professionals who will take good care of your accounts.

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