Fix-It and Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook
400 Great Stove-Top And Oven Recipes
Phyllis Good
Spiral bound (10/1/2011)
Hardcover (1/1/2009)
Spiral bound (5/7/2013)
New York Times Bestselling author. Over 400 recipes for stove-top and oven—vegetables; whole grains and pastas; beef, pork, poultry, seafood, vegetables, soups, breakfasts, breads, and more.
Here are delicious recipes that are easy to prepare. And they're healthy! New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good with the support of the world-famous Mayo Clinic come together to offer irresistibly tasty recipes that are easy to prepare and nutritious in the bargain! Just "fix it and enjoy it!"
Fix-It and Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook is packed with more than 400 recipes for stove-top and oven cooking. "I am dedicated to offering recipes that make it possible to eat at home, even if you don't have much time, or radiant cooking skills!" says Good. "Here are hundreds of ‘make-it-again' recipes from great home cooks—with nutritional punch! "I am delighted to have teamed up with Mayo Clinic, whose dietitians have analyzed all the recipes for their nutritional value. Together, we've adapted the recipes to fit within Mayo Clinic's Healthy Weight Pyramid."
Each delicious recipe includes Prep Time, Cooking/Baking Time, its own nutrient analysis, and its number of Pyramid servings. A treasury of more than 400 tasty, HEALTHY recipes! Enjoy it!
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Phyllis Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 12 million copies. She is the original author of the Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series, Lancaster Central Market Cookbook, Favorite Recipes with Herbs, and The Best of Amish Cooking. Her commitment is to make it possible for everyone to cook who would like to, whatever their age. Good spends her time writing, editing books, and cooking new recipes. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.


May 18, 2017, by Crafty Pint
Australia's small and independent brewers today voted "overwhelmingly" to remove large brewers from their national trade body in a move that has been widely expected for the past few months. It means that what was the Craft Beer Industry Association (CBIA) becomes the Independent Brewers Association.
The decision was confirmed at a meeting this morning in Melbourne, at which it was announced that more than the required 75 percent of members voted in favour of the move. It means that no brewing company more than 20 percent owned by a large brewery or other businesses that hold significant brewery holdings in Australia or overseas is eligible for membership. The upper limit on size is set at 40 million litres per annum.
In practical terms, this means brewing companies including Mountain Goat (Asahi), Matilda Bay (CUB/AB InBev), Little Creatures, Malt Shovel and White Rabbit (all Lion/Kirin) can no longer become members. Anticipating the move in March, Lion issued a statement from Chuck Hahn announcing its craft brands were quitting the association.
CBIA chair Peta Fielding, who is also a co-owner of Burleigh Brewing, told The Crafty Pint: "It's about an industry association representing businesses that need it. It's pretty clear that the big guys don't need us lobbying on their behalf. It's laughable."
She added: "We had to draw the line somewhere. No matter where we put that line, we all [as members] had to come to a point where we agreed. We started to take the approach that we can't define a place that will work for every single scenario for eternity. If in ten or 20 years time that line isn't appropriate then the board at the time can look at it again."
Driving the current move was a consensus within the association that larger breweries have the "size, scale and capital" to be able to influence the market whereas smaller, independent breweries would need to work together in order to do so.
Now that they have struck out on their own, the IBA's initial focus will be fourfold:
Presenting a unified voice for small, independent Australian breweries
Delivering results through advocacy on issues such as market access, excise and licensing issues
Delivering value for members through relationships with the association's sponsors
"[On issues like] market access, there's always been mixed messages," said executive officer Chris McNamara. "Now we can really prosecute the case."
Today's move is also likely to see a number of breweries that either never joined CBIA due to opposition to its original membership structure or who dropped out over the issue become members of the new look body.
"In the five years [since the CBIA was initially formed], there has been a lot of change in the marketplace and it probably was right to step back and look at this," added Peta. "As a board we went back to the membership base to understand is this the broadly held view or a few noisy voices and overwhelmingly the sense we got back was it's time to have a discussion."
That discussion led to a proposal being put to members and, ultimately, to today's vote. UPDATE: The result of the vote was 134 in favour, two against.
"It was a really difficult path to tread," she added. "We're very lucky there's a camaraderie and respect and sharing of knowledge [in the industry] which is pretty special. We wanted to make sure this process didn't put any of that into jeopardy. There's still that absolute respect and love for the people in the industry."
Describing the craft beer industry as "a shining light in Australian manufacturing", a statement announcing today's move highlighted that there are now more than 400 small, independent brewing businesses in Australia, up from just 200 when the association began five years ago, and that the industry directly employs more than 2,100 people and generates an estimated $655 million in economic output.
Acknowledging "the significant contributions the larger brewers made as founding members of the Craft Beer Industry Association”, Peta told The Crafty Pint that, following today's vote: "It feels much clearer as to who we are representing and what we can do."
As the beer industry becomes ever more competitive, complex and challenging, members will no doubt be looking forward to seeing what this clarity of purpose delivers for Australia's small, independent producers and those who support them.
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Crafty's Advent Calendar: Kate & Shev
They're the dictionary definition of work hard, play hard and continue to make an indelible mark on the Melbourne and wider Australian beer community. Behind door 16, it's the irrepressible Kate and Shev. read on
What Next For Indie Beer?
The sale of the Fermentum Group to Lion raises a number of question, not least what it means for the indie beer sector. We've been speaking to people in the beer industry to see what they make of the move. read on
The Big Issue: Ownership Revisited III
Close to 100 brewing companies have licensed the IBA's independence seal since its launch in May. We contacted the US Brewers Association, whose campaign inspired it, to find out how they are driving the message in the States. read on


Spotlight: Pre-Whiz Kid Whiz
Patrick Cox | From the April 1984 issue
It is unlikely that your life has not been affected by Andrew F. Kay. Though he has recently come to the attention of the business and computer world as the president of Kaypro, Inc., a leading maker of portable personal computers, Kay's influence on our lives is much broader and significant.
Kay's education, an undergraduate degree from MIT and a nearly completed masters in mathematics from Case Institute of Technology, had been cut short by the onset of World War II. During the war, he worked in military-related scientific research and production of such items as automatic pilots. Then, in 1952, after an argument with his employer, a manufacturer of "war machines," Kay decided to move into other areas, and he formed his own company, Non-Linear Systems.
An early project at the new company was to build a "digital volt meter"—an instrument that would measure electrical voltage digitally rather than in analog form (the basis of the traditional needle meter)—which Kay started marketing in 1953. The digital readout device on your wristwatch and stereo—and on nearly every important scientific instrument in the world—springs from the mind of Andy Kay, as he is known. Electronic Design magazine has credited Kay for starting the digital revolution, and USA Today recently named Kay's invention as one of the 10 most important inventions that led to the computer age.
One of Kay's sons—both of whom are vice-presidents at Kaypro—describes his father as a Renaissance man. On the list of clichés, Renaissance man ranks near the top, but in this case the phrase fits; for Kay is noted for another aspect of his business career besides his technical contributions—his management theories have been discussed in textbooks for almost 30 years. Kay has long been a believer in the theory that freedom engenders efficiency and prosperity. He attributes that belief in part to a 10-year period he served on a school board, during which he saw the way tenure was awarded or denied by bureaucracy. He also had worked in factories where all decisions came down from the top, leading to what Kay describes as "the stultification of people's desire to excel."
During the '60s, Kay's company attracted international attention for its participatory management style. Business Week called the firm "a laboratory for the behavioral sciences…a proving ground for some of the newest concepts in 'permissive management.'" Vance Packard described Non-Linear Systems in a Reader's Digest article as "one of the most revolutionary companies in America." The famous MIT management professor Douglas MacGregor was an ardent fan of Kay's non-authoritarian technique, and psychologist Abraham Maslow researched his landmark book Eupsychian Management at Kay's plant. In effect, Kay invented an American form of what is now called "Japanese management." In fact, during the '60s dozens of Japanese managers spent time on-site studying Kay's management techniques.
It is odd that American technologies and theories have been better accepted in Japan than in the United States. Even though his company had always been successful, Kay found investors hard to come by when he decided to make a move into personal computers. The money he borrowed was expensive.
Last July, the company changed its name to Kaypro. Its computers had hit the market and made headlines in the computer trade, but because of Kaypro's unorthodox style, Kay's decision to go public with a stock offering met with skepticism from institutions and analysts.
Institutions, which usually buy 50 percent of similar stock offerings, only bought 12 percent of Kaypro's. Michelle Preston, a Wall Street Journal analyst, was, according to Kay, amazed to learn that Kaypro spent less than 10 percent of gross sales on marketing. The industry usually spends at least 20 percent. Similarly, Kaypro baffled the experts because its manufacturing-expense overhead was only about 100 percent while the usual ratio is three times that. "We have very little of what are called 'white-collar workers,' and our blue-collar work force is very high," Kay explains. "We don't follow the ratios at all, and the fact that I was 64 didn't help." The planned sale of 5 million shares was ultimately cut back to 4 million. Still, among companies that make computers costing more than $1,000, Kaypro is the fourth-largest in unit production.
Kay's anti-authoritarian philosophy does not only apply to business. "We have no drawings of the assembly process or formal plans," he says, "but we do have goals. When people who want to work are free to do what they want, the results are remarkable. But our government seems to work against those tendencies. Once we became visible this year, we were visited by seven or eight government agencies in the space of 90 days. One agency is making me get a permit that I was supposed to have 17 years ago."
"Computers are tools of autonomy," Kay says. "They enable people to hide from bureaucrats. They will create more individual liberty as people gain power over the details of life that now take so much energy." Kay says that he has used his own computer to help make his firm's product cheaper and more accessible to the consumer. One has to wonder what he would be doing if he had started out with those "tools of autonomy." Fortunately, we can take advantage of all that he has already done.
Patrick Cox is a frequent guest columnist for USA Today and public affairs director of the Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research.
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Spotlight: Pre-Whiz Kid Whiz".
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The Ethics Around Writing in the Voice of Another: An Interview with Paisley Rekdal
December 1, 2021 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts
An award-winning poet and nonfiction writer, Paisley Rekdal is the author of four nonfiction books and five books of poetry, including The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, Nightingale, and more. Her latest book, Appropriate explores the definition of cultural appropriation, asking if it’s always wrong to write in the voice of another and, if not, what questions we need to consider before doing so.
Rekdal’s work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series, and on National Public Radio, among others.
She moved to Utah in 2002 and is a distinguished professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’ Poets Laureate Fellowship.
I spoke to Rekdal about her new book, what it’s like to be a poet laureate, how her dad encouraged her to read advanced literature from a young age, the line between acceptable appropriation and racism, and much more.
Barbara Platts: You are both a poet and a nonfiction writer. How are these two genres different for you? How are they the same? Do you prefer one over the other?
Paisley Rekdal: I don’t prefer one over the other. They are quite different in the fact that they allow for different types of information to be imagined and communicated. They are the same in the sense that both of them have a wide variety of modes attached to them. You don’t write just one poem. You can learn to write an elegy, an ode, a sonnet. In nonfiction writing you have science writing, philosophy, cultural criticism, memoir, personal essays. There’s just so many different types and kinds of ways you can approach this, offering endless formal opportunities and complexity.
BP: Can you share a bit about your own writing practice?
PR: I tend to write in almost obsessive bursts now. I started out writing half an hour a day, and then I built it up to forty-five minutes, then to an hour, then two hours a day. Then I changed it up to five days a week and two days off so I could make sure I didn’t overwrite something and I had some time off. And now it’s just really tough to get a daily writing practice in with teaching and research, I’ve got to do lots of other types of work. I think of them as writing adjacent.
BP: As students, we’re often told to cultivate a daily writing practice. That’s probably very good to do at first, but I imagine one can veer from that once they get used to it?
PR: And once it becomes a bodily desire. When you’ve written for as many years as I have, and you’re used to writing, you want to write, you miss it, you miss it the same way you miss exercising, and you don’t feel good if you haven’t done it for a while.
When you’ve written for as many years as I have, and you’re used to writing, you want to write, you miss it, you miss it the same way you miss exercising, and you don’t feel good if you haven’t done it for a while.
BP: How did your latest book Appropriate come to be?
PR:Well, it was a book I hadn’t planned to write at all. It actually evolved out of a Facebook post, of all things. Anders Carlson-Wee had just published his poem in The Nation, and it caused quite the ruckus. I had just that week happened to be reading Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda’s book The Racial Imaginary. In the book, they ask if we can think about this in terms, not of rights or desires, but what are we trying to say via these kinds of appropriated figures? I thought that was a great way of reframing the question. I applied that to the reading of Carlson Wee’s poem and an editor from Norton actually contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in writing a book about cultural appropriation. Initially I thought that sounded like a terrible idea. But the reality is, if you teach, you’re going to have a conversation about appropriation because appropriation contains within it so many different literary practices, such as adaptation and motif appropriation. There’s also subject appropriation, which is when we write from the perspective or about the lives of people not like us. Finally, there’s cultural appropriation where we might do some really damaging work that mines these stereotypes about other people. All of us engage with at least some of these practices, knowing or unknowingly. What does it mean to write about your life as it intersects with other people’s? And if you’re inspired by a story you see out there, whether it’s in the news or your friend’s lives, do you have the right to take it? So, it felt dishonest to say I didn’t want to write this book when I’ve been personally thinking about these topics for years, not just as a writer, but as a teacher presented with these kinds of questions by students who are trying to “do the right thing all the time,” but don’t necessarily know what the right thing is, as it seems to change moment by moment, as our ideas about what is creative freedom itself change moment by moment. It was funny because, as I was writing the book, it made me articulate ideas to myself I had taken as commonplace. I realized that maybe I didn’t even hold those ideas as true anymore. And maybe I disagreed, finally, with some of my strongest gut reactions. That was eye-opening for me.
BP: And you write the book in a series of letters to X, a student. Is this character based on a variety of conversations in writers workshops?
PR: Yeah. X is a composite figure. These are questions a variety of students, BIPOC and White, have asked in the workshop. But some of the anxieties are particularly acute among White students who are less familiar with understanding the nuances around race, racial identity, racial formation, and the ways in which race and culture can separate, even as we keep trying to collapse them together. When I was writing to X, I had to think of a particular person I was writing to in order to make the letters, to a certain extent, believable and to solidify my own thinking in response. I wanted to think about a variety of questions I’ve been asked over the years by students and to really use it as an opportunity to show that I myself have changed my mind and may not be completely comfortable with all of the ideas I hold, even currently. I recognize so much of what I believe now is contextually shaped by the historical moments I’m living in and the body I’m living in. I can imagine coming back to this book ten years from now and going, “Oh, wow. I wouldn’t say that.” Maybe in ten years, people will also say, “I disagree with this.” As we become a far more multiracial society, I think these ideas will just become more complex because people will be asking questions rather similar to what I’m asking myself all the time, which is who am I when I live between so many different types of cultures, types of racial identities?
BP: You say in the book, you’re mixed race, half Chinese, half white, and this often leads you to wonder how you should categorize yourself. In all of your research for this book, did you come up with an answer for yourself personally?
PR: I’ve always had the answer to it. This is the dishonesty of the book, I know how I see my racial identity, and I feel very comfortable in my skin, but I was wanting, in the letter, to suggest that kind of radical ambivalence I’ve had to live with that is destabilizing in ways. But, on a day to day experience, I don’t generally feel confused about who or what I am. I find it very interesting that people want me to somehow express, “Well, that’s my Chinese side. That’s my white side,” as if these two things can be so easily separated. They can’t be, and they never have been. And I don’t think they can be for many people. So this becomes a way of trying to make other people feel better about my racial identity, whereas I don’t feel like I need to do that for myself. If there’s any painfulness I have experienced or continue to experience, it’s when people want to insist on a kind of authenticity to some aspect of my identity that I also recognize is nothing but a performance in the end, and a performance designed to make people feel like they have seen something they are prepared to see.
BP: On page 40 in your book, you write, “…to insist that a writer must be from the same group identity as the voice of the author has a dangerous flip side to it: while it warns off writers from blithely taking on subject matters outside of our own experience, it also implicitly warns writers within the same group identity that an authentic experience of that identity does exist—to the group at least—and you may be policed from within.” What would being policed from within in your own group look like?
PR: I think in terms of literature, there are implicit pressures placed on writers of color to write about a very particular and traumatized experience around race, in ways that are immediately accessible. That pressure comes from the white readership, but also, interestingly, increasingly from the BIPOC literary community that wants to challenge and change institutions and speak openly about what its historically experienced. It seems to me that if the outside holds potentially negative views of what any cultural or racial identity is supposed to mean, those ideas can trickle down into BIPOC communities who then want to create or cordon off certain types of subject matter that will authenticate that identity and become a way of implicitly policing that identity.
When I think of certain really wonderful African-American poets who’ve been overlooked by this current moment, it’s because their work has not easily fitted into some of the ways in which we greet African-American writing now. So a poet like Ed Roberson, who certainly has written about racism, is also not writing about it in the ways and with the explicitness that I think some other poets have. So he doesn’t get all the attention he might deserve. With Asian American writers, there’s a similar question: where do we put Asian-American writers who are not writing explicitly in ways that we recognize about an Asian American experience? How do we classify the aesthetics of someone like Myung Mi Kim? How do we respond to a poet like Tan Lin? Largely, we focus on much more accessible and lyric work, like the poetry of Ocean Vuong or Li-Young Lee, and that’s fine. They’re wonderful poets, but the question is, is it that we can recognize and respond to that experience more readily because we’ve been trained to understand and already imagine that experience, particularly in that aesthetic vein?
It’s always a question about if that pressure is coming from without or within. My argument is that, at some point, outside and inside start to share such similar cultural values because the pressure put on success and being seen is so great. It’s very easy to have your aesthetics and subject matters start to shift in order to make sure your work can survive. So that difference between outside and inside becomes far more porous than we’d like it to be.
BP: You dedicate the book to your father who opened your mind to a world of books, as you put it. Can you tell me about your relationship with your father and how he encouraged you to read and explore books?
PR: My dad is a voracious reader. He doesn’t read novels and he doesn’t read poetry. He loves history and the law, but he also knew I liked literature, so he would push books on me at an early age that I was not ready for. He knew I liked horror when I was a kid, so he gave me Edgar Allen Poe. I was going to Catholic schools, so he gave me André Gide’s The Immoralist when I was ten. And The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, because he saw me reading The Chronicles of Narnia. My dad had this idea that I was interested in these things so I might as well read the most adult versions of them. So I would gamely read these things without actually understanding any of it.
My dad is a very conservative person. He has a very different way of reading historical facts than I do. That was fascinating to me though. From a very early age, I understood that interpretation is something that is generated. It’s not inherent to a fact itself. I think that also taught me a lot about literature. The ways in which we wield language, the ways we interpret language are the ways we understand or don’t understand our history and the ways we do or don’t understand what other people are experiencing.
BP: He must love that you became a writer.
PR: I think he’s okay with it. I mean, he’s happy now. My parents were not happy initially, because, of course, it seems like a really unstable job prospect. And it is. It’s a total risk to become a writer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. I basically got really lucky, and I recognize that. I think anyone who makes it as a writer, at some point, beyond talent, beyond hard work, beyond professionalism and dedication, you succeeded because you were lucky. So I think my dad is very happy now because that risk did pay off, but it was not guaranteed to work that way.
I think anyone who makes it as a writer, at some point, beyond talent, beyond hard work, beyond professionalism and dedication, you succeeded because you were lucky.
BP: In your book, you show examples of how something may be appropriative versus something that crossed the line into racism. A good example is when you mention the Katy Perry performance of “Unconditional Love.” Where do we cross that line from it’s uncomfortable yet acceptable to this is offensive and unacceptable?
PR: Well, it was funny. I was teaching that Katy Perry video in my class, and I had to articulate that difference because one of my students said, “Well, is it racist what she does or is it just appropriative?” It was the first time I’d thought there might be a difference between appropriation and racism. In the book, I talk about how if you go to Southeast Asia and you buy a product made by an indigenous tribe that they have given explicit permission to sell and then you display it in your home, that is an acceptable form of appropriation. It’s part of the capitalist global process. If I were to wear a sari at a friend’s wedding in South Asia, that would be appropriative too, but it should also be understood as respectful for the moment because that was the family’s choice and request. Wearing a sari in and of itself doesn’t require I then behave in a way I imagine to be Indian. It certainly does not require that I parody back certain racist stereotypes about Indians. With the Katy Perry video, however, what’s interesting to me is she links bodily difference and cultural dress with innate interior psychological difference. Her song “Unconditionally” is simply about loving somebody a lot. There’s no reason she has to wear a geisha dress while singing this song except to activate that Orientalist trope in which Asian women are so submissive and self-sacrificing that they will literally kill themselves for love. Katy Perry, by dressing as Japanese, links the song’s meaning with Asianness to reify this Orientalist stereotype.
It’s a fine line to draw, but it’s important to remember because oftentimes you’ll see white people with dreadlocks, you’ll see people wearing cheongsams who are not Chinese. There are people who will find this act in itself not just appropriative and but morally problematic. I don’t necessarily find it to be, because I don’t think that being influenced by another culture is inherently and only racist. Dress, music, and hairstyles are unfortunately things that we share constantly. As our cultures change, intermix and evolve, we find increasingly that it’s hard to say that any one object is solely owned by one culture, other than objects and performances that are sacred, which should naturally stay within the boundaries of the culture that holds them sacred. But generally, I believe that appropriation crosses the line into racism when our appreciation of an item of clothing or a hairstyle becomes a way of bowdlerizing another group’s racial or ethnic identity.
BP: What do you hope readers and fellow writers take away from your book?
PR: I hope most of all that people take away a set of terms and lenses into textual reading that allow them to make their own determination about the ethics of appropriation. There’ve been a couple of readers who were frustrated with my book. They say, “Well, just tell me. Can I do this or can’t I?” I think that’s really funny because I spent the entire book telling readers they’re going to have to make their own decision. We all appropriate, thus there might be forms of appropriation you will pursue and others you won’t, and you have to make that determination for yourself. That’s what I want the book to do: teach people how to think through what they believe and why they believe it. They don’t have to duplicate my reasoning. I would be surprised if every reader agreed with me, and I don’t think that’s the point of the book either. I would hope every reader is able to say, “Now I know why I believe what I believe. And now I have a way to look at my own creative process and say, should I do this or shouldn’t I?”
BP: What does your role at the Utah Poet Laureate entail?
PR: So much. I do a lot of public workshops. I go to K through 12 classrooms, or did before the pandemic, to teach poetry. I’m often asked to write poems for occasions like the commemoration of the 150th completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, or most recently a poem for the vaccination doctors and staff with the Salt Lake County Vaccination Program. It’s been fun because there’s a lot I never would’ve thought to write about. I was just asked by a museum to write a poem for their exhibit on mining about Utah’s mining industry, so I wrote about the uranium mining industry and its effects on Navajo communities here in Utah. So I learn a lot and it also makes me really aware of what it means to be a public writer versus a private writer.
BP: And is Mapping Literary Utah part of this role?
PR: Yes. When I was asked to apply for the Poet Laureateship, I said I wanted to create a web archive of Utah writers, past and present, that would then be attached to a digital map of Utah, so people could see for themselves the relationship between writers and place. I managed to do it, and I love the website. I think it looks great. It’s one of my proudest achievements actually, and it was fun because I didn’t know many Utah writers up to that point, but now I’ve got friends all over the state; it’s been a great way of connecting with a literary community. It made me feel much more a part of this place. So, personally, it turned out to be one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself as a community member.
Barbara Platts is an award-winning columnist, the editor-in-chief of Sweet Jane Magazine, and the managing editor of content production for Lunch Ticket. She’s worked in many forms of journalism, from public radio to newspaper, and is thrilled to be pursuing her MFA for nonfiction writing at Antioch University. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her fiancé and two adorable pups. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @BarbaraPlatts.


Rouhani: Russia important country for Iran
Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:07 [ Last Update: Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:47 ]
Tehran (IP) - Iran's President on Thursday appreciates his Russian counterpart's efforts for bilateral cooperation in the different areas, calling Russia as an important and friendly country for Iran.
Iran Press/ Iran News: Before issuing the order to start the construction of Sirik power plant in Minab city of Hormozgan province via videoconferencing, Rouhani appreciated the efforts of the Ministry of Energy and all those involved in the field of water and electricity, both public and private, to achieve national projects in this sector.
Important in the development of the country, he said: "The important project of Sirik power plant is of great importance due to the friendly and close relations between Iran and the northern neighbor, the Russian Federation."
Referring to the good relations between Iran and Russia over the past years, the President added: "In the last 8 years, the relations between the two countries have developed in various fields.
Rouhani went on to appreciate Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, due to all the efforts which have been done in the political, economic and regional aspects.
Rouhani added: "Iran and Russia have very important cooperation in the field of Syria and important tripartite cooperation in the field of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus. We also have very good cooperation in the field of Eurasia with Russia and member states"
" In the field of legal regime of the Caspian Sea, we have taken very important steps with friendly countries, including Russia." added the President.
The President also referred to the cooperation between Iran and Russia in the field of military and defense issues, as well as the construction of two nuclear power plants, and added: "Our relations with Russia have become much broader than before, and efforts are underway with Russia to revive JCPOA."
And the development of relations with the important neighboring country of Russia will be in the interest of the two nations and certainly in the interest of the region and global issues.
Referring to the agreement between Iran and Russia on the implementation of joint projects, including power plants and railways in Iran, Rouhani said: "Fortunately, moves in this direction have begun. Of course, we expected this project to start a little earlier, but some problems caused these plans to start with a delay.
Four water and electricity industry projects in the three provinces of Hormozgan, Ilam and Kermanshah worth of 41 thousand and 988 billion Tomans inaugurated via videoconferencing with Iran's President and Minister of Energy, Reza Ardakanian in attendance on Thursday.
Rouhani urges respect for women
Iran's President said on Thursday that women deserve respect and highlighted that they should be respected.
Referring to the Auspicious birthday anniversary of Hazrat Fatimah Masuma (SA) which is called as the day of the girls in Iran, Rouhani stated that all that has ordered by Allah the All Mighty has been realized for women and girls in Islamic Republic of Iran, though Rouhani stressed that the other key issues like gender equality has long run to succeed in Iran.
Last steps to be taken to remove sanctions
Iran's President said on Thursday that the sanctions will be broken soon and the few remaining issues are going to be resolved and Breaking Sanctions in 2021 is the last step.
Iran's President referred to the hard ship faced by Islamic Republic of Iran in the last four years due to Trump's anti-Iran policies and sanction saying that not economic warfare nor COVID-19 could stop Iran from making further efforts and development.
Elsewhere, The President said: "We have always emphasized constructive interaction and said that the solution is to produce and work inside, but we should not live in isolation."
He went on to reiterate:" We are in touch with our friendly countries and especially our neighbors."
Referring to the coordination between Iran, Russia and China in Vienna, Rouhani said: "This government had once broken the sanctions once in 2015 and again in 2021. It is our duty and we will do it."
Breaking Sanctions in 2021 is the last step. Our people know that sanctions will be lifted, the United States will have to lift them, and it has come to the negotiating table. Most of the issues have been resolved and the few remaining issues will be resolved, and God willing, the sanctions will be broken and people can see better conditions in their lives.
Rouhani inaugurates nationwide water and electricity projects
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NATO Chief Speaks Against Conference With Russia on Spheres of Influence
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he does not back the idea of holding a conference with Russia on the spheres of influence
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In lieu of the conference, Stoltenberg spoke in favor of discussing with Moscow measures to strengthen trust, control armament, ensure transparency of drills, and ease the tensions, according to the newspaper.In an interview with the French Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, Stoltenberg said that the idea of holding a conference focusing on spheres of influence which would let powerful nations control what their neighbours can and cannot do, is a step back for the alliance. The official added that this direction would be completely wrong.Russia has repeatedly said that the West is using allegations of "aggressive actions" as a pretext to deploy NATO's military equipment near Russian borders.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he does not back the idea of holding a conference with Russia on the spheres of influence.
In lieu of the conference, Stoltenberg spoke in favor of discussing with Moscow measures to strengthen trust, control armament, ensure transparency of drills, and ease the tensions, according to the newspaper.
In an interview with the French Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, Stoltenberg said that the idea of holding a conference focusing on spheres of influence which would let powerful nations control what their neighbours can and cannot do, is a step back for the alliance. The official added that this direction would be completely wrong.
Russia has repeatedly said that the West is using allegations of "aggressive actions" as a pretext to deploy NATO's military equipment near Russian borders.


Vice President Mexico
Mr. Rodriguez was appointed Vice President Mexico in June 2020, having previously held the role of General Manager of the El Limón Guajes (ELG) mining complex since 2018. As General Manager of ELG, Mr. Rodriguez successfully led the team in Mexico to achieve record safety and production results.
Mr. Rodriguez grew up in Sinaloa, Mexico and has gained more than 20 years of mining experience. His career started as a municipal councilor and he has since held senior roles for companies including Glamis Gold, Agnico Eagle, Nyrstar, Geologix Explorations and Primero Mining in areas including Mexico, Honduras and Chile. He has a proven track record of leadership within several different facets of the industry including management, operations, finance, external relations, health and safety and human resources. Mr. Rodriguez holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa.


Imam Nawawi Shariah College
Women and the Nawawi Centre
Nawawi Institute for Islamic Thought
Empowering Youth
When Is The Nawawi Centre Estimated To Be Completed?
The Nawawi Centre will be entirely completed in 2024. This is the year in which the overall project – including all buildings slated for construction as part of the complex – will be finished and ready for full public use.
In the years leading up to this, however, the Nawawi Centre will be operational and growing its activities incrementally.
In fact, Salah (prayers) will be commencing at the Centre in Ramadan 2021 with the commencement of taraweeh prayers at the current building that exists on the site.
Will The Centre Be Open To Females As Well?
Of course! Women are a crucial part of our community and will have incredible, community-leading facilities, insha Allah.
To read more about the involvement of sisters in the Nawawi Centre vision, click here.
Who Will Be The Resident Scholar In Charge?
The Nawawi Centre is the brain-child of Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed – Grand Mufti of Australia, who will be the spiritual and intellectual force behind the Centre.
What Youth Facilities Will You Offer?
The youth are an important part of our community and will be a core focus of our services. The Nawawi centre aims to cater to the youth by building sporting facilities, youth-specific programs and activities to engage with and nurture the future generations of our community.
To read more about youth and the Nawawi Centre, click here.
We Have Numerous Community Centres And Mosques Already. How Is This Any Different And Is It Really Needed?
The Nawawi Centre is much more than a mosque, although that is a critical part of its vision.
The Nawawi Centre is a broader vision at building an ideal community centre that is centered on Muslims in their capacity as everyday humans: requiring spiritual, physical and psychological nourishment in an age where there is much worldly distraction that pulls us away from community and solace.
The Nawawi Centre will aim to be a landmark community institution, combining youth and women’s facilities, a Shari’ah College and a groundbreaking Research Institute: The Nawawi Institute for Islamic Thought.
While many mosques and some excellent centres exist in our community, the reality is that our community is significantly under-served and the need is tremendous for such facilities. There is no existing Centre in the immediate vicinity of Chester Hill, and the need for a multi-purpose facility is pressing for the cluster of surrounding suburbs that are not served by an existing one.
Where Will The Nawawi Centre Be Located?
Catering to the ever-growing population of Muslims in Western Sydney while noting that the area still remains critically under-served by Islamic facilities, the Nawawi Centre will be located in the heart of Chester Hill, 30 minutes out from the Sydney CBD.
In Which Phase Of Its Journey Is The Nawawi Centre And Where Is It Headed Next?
Alhamdulilah, through the generosity of our donors, The Nawawi Centre team were able to complete the settlement of land in late 2020.
We’re currently fundraising for the major construction phase, which will cover approvals, architecture and planning, insha Allah.
Who’re The People Behind The Nawawi Centre?
The Nawawi Centre team consists of a talented team of Muslim community members under the leadership and guidance of the Grand Mufti of Australia Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed.
The working committee consists of businesspeople, talented young professionals, students of Islamic knowledge and community activists. We look forward to sharing more about the team in the coming months.
How Does The Nawawi Centre Aim To Contribute To The Local Community?
The Nawawi Centre aims to serve as the spiritual and communal hub for the Muslim community.
The Nawawi Centre will contribute to the community by powering pioneering Islamic thought and research, providing exceptional facilities for youth and women, being a hub for Islamic learning and knowledge, and doing so while facilitating for the old and those with disabilities.
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'New tradition' for Georgia students: Their first racially integrated prom
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN
(CNN) - As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School. It was nothing big, just chatter about prom, school, what comes next, what they'd change.
If things were different, someone said, we'd all go to the same prom.
For as long as anyone could remember, students in their South Georgia community went to separate proms, and homecoming dances, too. White students from Wilcox County attend one. Black students, another. They’re private events organized by parents and students, not the school district. Schools have long been desegregated, but in Wilcox County, the dances never changed.
The friends all agreed they'd go to an integrated prom, Quanesha said, and when they asked, others said, "Yeah, I'd go, too."
"We are all friends," Quanesha's friend, Stephanie Sinnot, told CNN affiliate WGXA-TV in Macon, Georgia. "That's just kind of not right that we can't go to prom together."
So now it's April, and prom is coming up, and these black and white friends, longtime pals who go to classes together and play sports together and hang out together, are going to prom together, too. For the first time, students are organizing an integrated dance, one that welcomes any of Wilcox County High's 400 students.
"This is going to be the biggest prom ever to come through Wilcox County," said Quanesha, one of the event's organizers.
The theme will be "Masquerade Ball in Paris." There will be an Eiffel Tower and Mardi Gras-style masks, dancing, flowers, catered food and a clubhouse in nearby Cordele. They're expecting gowns, ties, manicures, up-dos, sparkle. Quanesha has a date, although she hasn't decided on a dress.
"If you want to get fancy, get fancy," said Quanesha, 18. "If you don't, that's fine."
Attendees will vote on a king and queen but also cutest couple, best smile, best dressed. They'll do a recognition ceremony for a classmate who died. They'll start a new prom tradition: a unity toast.
By Thursday afternoon, about 50 tickets had sold for the integrated prom. They're aiming for 100. They're not sure they'll make it.
Not everybody is excited about the idea. Posters for the integrated prom were torn off the walls of the high school. Students who usually plan dances didn't get involved with this one. Nothing was different about this year's homecoming dances: Quanesha, the queen, is black. The king, white. She thought she might get an invite to the other prom, but they went to separate dances, and appear in separate yearbook photos, she said.
In a statement posted on the school district’s website Thursday, Wilcox County Superintendent Steve Smith stressed the segregated proms aren’t organized by the school.
When students approached him about hosting an integrated prom, Smith wrote, he and the county’s board of education “not only applauded their idea, but we also passed a resolution advocating that all activities involving our students be inclusive and nondiscriminatory.
“I fully support these ladies, and I consider it an embarrassment to our schools and community that these events have portrayed us as bigoted in any way.”
The statement was no longer on the schools' website Thursday night, but a new statement posted by Friday morning said the high school's principal "will place the 2014 Prom on its agenda for its next meeting."
Smith did not return CNN's phone calls or e-mails.
Wilcox County is not the only place with a racially segregated prom, nor is it the only one that's attracted widespread attention in recent years. In the 2009 documentary “Prom Night in Mississippi,” director Paul Saltzman followed the preparations for the first integrated prom in Charleston, Mississippi. Actor Morgan Freeman, a native of the area, offered in 1997 to cover the cost if the school board would hold an integrated prom, but the offer wasn’t accepted till 2008.
Students and parents say it's hard to spark conversation that breaks what's now seen as tradition.
"I've lived here all my life. Nobody pushed the issue. This year, these children - we didn’t have any idea it was going to go as it did," Quanesha's mother, Linda Wallace, said Thursday. "Before we knew it, it was like a wildfire."
Indeed, Wilcox County's integrated prom has gotten a lot of attention this week. Schools in the county of about 9,000 residents are on spring break, but while classes were out, the prom story appeared on the local news, and the story spread. They'd been raising money for the prom all year, and some donations helped, but they've picked up a lot in the last few days. The prom's Facebook page drew thousands of fans since it was set up Wednesday.
Most of the comments are positive. "Your efforts will open the eyes of many. I applaud your courage and hopefulness. Continue your fight for change this year and every year, not just in your school but throughout your community. It just takes one person to change the world," one person wrote.
"You are civil rights leaders of 2013!" another wrote. "I am so encouraged by what you are doing. I believe that your generation has the power to make things better. Keep going and never give up."
Still, Quanesha is a little nervous about returning to school Monday. A lot of parents and students support them, she said, but she knows some don't. Why else, after all these years, were they still holding dances that segregated white and black students?
"I’m all about sticking together, reasoning with each other," Quanesha said. "We have very strong-minded students at Wilcox County. I hope they’re there to back each other up."
The friends and organizers are trying to enjoy it. Soon, most of them will be graduating. Quanesha plans to go to college to study psychology. She said she's not going too far from home for now. She wants to make sure the prom keeps going, and she can come back to help encourage the underclassmen who will have to take it on next.
"I don't want to just leave them hanging. I know we're going to leave them a little money," Quanesha said.
"New tradition. Leave them a little something so it won't be so hard for them like it was hard for us."
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Ashili
Thats so stupied to do seperated proms whats wrong with the parents and students these days to come up with with that irresponsible idea smh yeah IRRESPONSIBLE!!!
janroc
I thought I was reading Ripley's Believe or Not. In this day and age to hold two separate proms is preposterous.
AndrewMcCrew
Would somebody – please – just applaude these jung people for changing the tradition! The shame is on all the proms and dances held until last year. Everybody who organised and attended the separate events in the past has to be embarassed for the rest of their life that they did not have niether the vision nor the courage.
Get your priorities right!
Tristin D
How backwards some parts of the USA unfortunately are, in New Zealand we have been integrated with our native people the Maoris since the historic signing of the 1840 Treaty.
James Laos
...are you kidding me? In the time I've spent in New Zealand, living in a district with nearly 0% white people in the neighbourhood I haven't seen any efforts made by the government to raise living quality or solving the drug & alcohol issue. Segregation though is another level of stupidity still beiing displayed by some parts of the U.S.
fodboldministeren
When you think about what Rosa Parks had to go through I am amazed this is going on in 2013. Disgusting!
Hard to believe this still goes on, what....40-50 years after the fact of integration in some of these areas. Well, regardless, I hope that the integrated prom is a success. Best of luck.
Just a thought?
I have 4 children and in my home they have been taught that everyone is the same, and they are welcome to have friends over no matter their race. This fight has been ongoing and may never really be over, you cant change someones view points no matter how ignorant you find them to be! We are welcome to voice our opinions though and one I have recently heard still makes me wonder...She pointed out that it's always been "white v. black", but is that always just the way it is every single time or does it go both ways? She pointed out that they have BET and they do not have many "white" people in their movies and she doesnt allow her children to watch that channel because of this. She says she doesnt discriminate BUT she doesnt see why the finger is always pointed at us she feels that it obviously must go both ways?...She ask me a question that I had no answer to, what happened if 10 years ago we as the "whites" had our own channel something like BET, would people being calling discrimination? I had never realy thought of this until she pointed it out. Its really a touchy subject and nobdy will ever have all the answers but Im truly happy that these children will be able to finally experience the same education and events that my children will do and my question to this is why did it take until 2013 to do this? The school says they are not responsible so that means that the parents are raising them to have these viewpoints...is this really fair to the children? Why did the school let this continue for so long? I dont think we will ever have answers to any of these questions, despite the struggles throughout our history. Maybe today although most of us dont want to see it maybe more people than we thought still feel color is important...
What an incoherent, rambling post
This is shameful we should be beyond this! so sad
Most of these people have no idea what they are talking about. I have lived in Georgia my entire life, and the only time I have experienced any sort of racism was when some black guys yelled at me and called me a "white @ss Mother-effer" for talking to a black girl, and that girl went on to reprimand the guy. I also found it quite humorous that as I was reading this article and comments, there were white guys and black guys bro-hugging, and white and black girls hugging and talking right in front of me. The south is a very hospitable place, and race is only an issue that comes up when the media finds a story to make a big deal about. There is racism everywhere, and it's no worse in the south than anywhere else in the country.
It just seems lot of people in the north that I have talked to (not making a blanket statement) seem to have an elitist mindset that they are somehow superior to, or more intelligent than, anyone from the south, when that's not the case at all. Having that sort of mindset is a form of racism in its own right. Actually, I have some black friends that moved here from New York, and they have only had praise for the state because, in their own words, “people are so much nicer here than in NYC”.
Anyway, we really do live in a great country. Yeah, it has its faults, but those aren't going to be fixed by name-calling on news articles (from CNN no less) over the internet. If you really want to make a difference, take action. My class at GSU, one of the most diverse universities in the country, in the past few weeks has raised over $10,000 for charities ranging from helping breast cancer patients, schools and orphanages in Kenya, people suffering from cerebral palsy, feeding and helping homeless children, scholarships for low income Latino communities, and animal shelters, just to name a few. If you really want to see change, get out from behind your computer and do something about it.
Well while some of the things that you say are true but I have to disagree as a black person that was raised in the north and has lived in the south for a while. while there is racism everywhere, I would have to say, especially as black person, that it is way worse in the south compared to most of the north. I went to school in south GA and please believe that old JIM CROW sentiment is still alive in many small cities and towns.
However I do agree that many people of all colors can guilty of discrimination, lets not pretend that it occurs to equal extents. When your in ATL its totally different. your in a diverse city that is way more tolerant than many pockets of the more rural south. And again, I really want to stress that I do believe that all people can feel that affects of racial bigotry. but, if you were a person of color in the south and confronted with the daily and life long obstacles that come just because of your ethnicity you would have a TOTALLY different perspective!!! This town needs to step into the twenty first century its a damn shame!! WE ARE ALL A PART OF THE HUMAN RACE!! after al it is 2013!!! SMFH!!
Jolisa
I just want to say that I find the claims of people trying to project this idea that racism is long over and gone to be preposterous. Of course, if you come to the Black Mecca of Atlanta, then you'll find that the racism that's present will be less extreme simply because there are so many more black people than you'll find in the average setting. Also, you see the dynamic where the communities are completely separated. As a black girl in Atlanta, all my life I've only gone to school with black kids. My onle extensive encounters in my day to day life in Atlanta with anyone that wasn't black have been with two white kids. Yes, I admit; the two of them , in each case being the only white person on the room, exhibited no racist qualities. In the rurals where progress has been much slower, unfortunately racism is very real (speaking on simply the social level and not focusing on it in the work force and its effects) . These few stories that become sensations are not the outliers; rather they are one of many instances that just haven't gotten enough publicity to become an issue that attracts the attention of the public. I'm proud of what those kids are doing. It's a step. But consider this; that is an entire town. They have to fight the town to get an integrated prom off the ground...because many of those town members are racist, or see nothing wrong with the idea of the town being integrated Do you believe that this town and this town alone has developed in its own little bubble of isolation since the civil rights movement? This single town is the place in the country where all the racists and bigots have decided to live? Well what about Trevon Martin(R.I.P.) ; what about those 3 Black boys shot in Texas by some trashy men with nothing better to do than hate? What about the countless instances of police brutality? Or the targeting of Blacks and Latinos in the New York stop and frisks... Anyone who says that racism is long over and dead is in denial. They desperately need to wake up.
Thats wrong. As a black person living in the south my entire life I will be the first to tell you RACE IS AN ISSUE EVERYWHERE IN THE SOUTH. It does not matter where you go in the south there is still a since of I don't like you because you are black and I dont like you because you are white. Race plays a huge part. As a matter of fact my fiance' and I can not tell her family that we are engaged yet because I am black. ITS STILL AN ISSUE
What a shame its 2013!! I bet there are still more stories like this happening out there in the US and A...
This just goes to show you can change laws but you can't change people. That goes for BOTH sides people..


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Guardian of the Spirit
Once in a century
the Sacred Spirit dwells
within a human being
Kenji Kamiyama, acclaimed director of the Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. series, succeeded in incorporating modern issues such as refugees, nuclear weapons and terrorism into the Sci-Fi world. In his new project, entitled Guardian of the Spirit, he daringly rearranged the intense Asian-flavored fantasy atmosphere of the original novels written by Nahoko Uehashi, tracing a continuity line with the the reality of our world. This new TV series promises to be even more challenging than the Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. saga.
Balsa, a female bodyguard bearing a short spear as her weapon, visits the New Yogo Empire after a long time. Here she assists to an incident, and saves a young boy. His name is Chagum, and he is no less than the second prince of the Empire. But his fate seems to be even greater than his rank: inside the boy's body, lays the egg of the Water Spirit, thus making him the Guardian of the Spirit, an event that happens only once in one hundred years.
The Second Empress, sensing that Chagum's father, the Emperor, did not welcome the situation and would try to eliminate the boy, desperately asks Balsa to become Chagum's bodyguard and take him to a safe place.
Undertaking a job that puts her life at risk and turns the whole Imperial Court her enemy, Balsa makes her escape from the palace with Chagum.
But entities from a parallel dimension, called Nayug, are also after the two fugitives. Their aim appears simple and frightening at once: they want to devour the egg within Chagum's body.
Their flight from tenacious pursuers has just begun.
On Nahoko Uehashi
Left the Rikkyo University after successful fulfillment of the doctoral course of cultural anthropology. She specialized in the Australian aborigines. After working as an assistant at Kagawa Education Institute of Nutrition, became an assistant professor of Kawamura Gakuen Women's University. She writes unique fantasy novels from the viewpoint of cultural anthropology. Her works include the debut work Seirei no Ki (Tree of the Spirit, 1989), Tsuki no mori ni, Kami yo nemure (Sleep in the Woods of the Moon, Oh God, 1991, winner of the 25th New Artist Award from the Japan Children's Book Artists Society, 1992), Koteki no Kanata (Beyond the Fox's Flute, 2003, winner of the 42nd Noma Children's Books Award, 2004) and the essay Tonari no Aborigine: Chiisana Machi ni Kurasu Senjumin (Aborigines Next Door: Natives Living in a Small Town, 2000).
The Moribito (Guardian) series, a grand epic fantasy in Asian style, started in 1996, and is continuously expanding today with the Tabibito (Traveler) series. The whole corpus counts now 10 volumes, that grossed 400,000 copies sold in Japan. The Guardian series has also received many awards, including Noma Children's Books Award, Sankei Children's Book Award, Nippon Broadcasting System Award and Iwaya Sazanami Literary Award.
The TV series is based on the first two books, Guardian of the Spirit and Guardian of Darkness, and Kenji Kamiyama personally worked on the screenplay.
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Air Date in Japan: April 4, 2007~ September 29, 2007 on NHK BS2
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Title: A Consumer’s Perspective: “Headed in the Right Direction…”
Consumer: Kim Bischoff; Neurofibromatosis Network
My name is Kim Bischoff. I’m the Executive Director of the Neurofibromatosis Network. But most importantly, I’m the mother of Jennifer, who is 34 years old, and she has neurofibromatosis type one.
So when Jennifer was two-and-a-half-years old, we got the diagnosis of NF based on a growing optic glioma. She actually had one eye that was protruding than the other. We ended up chasing around the country trying to find out what to do with--with this growing optic glioma that hadn't hit the chiasm yet, but we needed treatment; otherwise, she was going to lose vision in both eyes. We were really fortunate to find the therapy. The therapy was very successful. The eye actually went back into the socket. She did lose the vision in her left eye. But it didn’t go back into the brain, and she’s doing very well now.
So after our daughter’s diagnosis, we were looking for a patient advocacy organization. That’s when we landed with the NF Network, and we’ve been involved with that group for over 30 years now. It’s been a great source of support for our family—the support for our daughter. Since my husband and I don’t have NF. This gives her a community that she can network in where there’s people that really kind of understand the same issues that she’s going through. One of the ones that she had struggled with was whether to have children or not. And so this community really provided her with the information she needed to make her own personal decision.
As an advocate, I have been involved in the DoD program since its inception for NF back in 1996. I have done peer review, and I have done the programmatic review for the last 8 years or so. NF is so fortunate to have this community of brilliant and dedicated scientists, researchers, the clinicians, all working together to try to find these treatments for my daughter and the other 100,000 individuals that have NF.
My experience as a peer reviewer has been amazing. As a non-scientist, when you first come in, you’re really intimidated, you know. But they appreciate your position as a consumer. They welcome your input. It’s been absolutely phenomenal and really humbling when they listen to my ideas, my thoughts. They take them into consideration. It is truly what gives us hope for the future is this program and the work that’s being done. We feel very blessed and lucky to have NF in this program.
The programmatic review is really exciting because we have areas of emphasis. And so, once all of the excellent science comes up, we have the opportunity then to decide which programs fit best in those--those categories. So even if something maybe didn’t score quite as well as some of the others in--in science, but yet we really feel as a community, the scientists included, they feel like this is really something that we can do, we have the opportunity to do that. And I really think that sets us apart from any other kind of scientific review process. It gives us the flexibility to fund what we think is absolutely the most critical to be funded in order to be able to help the community of neurofibromatosis.
The CDMRP NF Research Program has been huge. It’s not only helping people with NF, but others as well who have diseases and conditions that are located around that same pathway. I think that we’re really hitting the different areas that we need to in order to be able to attract excellent science into the field of neurofibromatosis.
Being able to treat optic gliomas like my daughter had back when we first came into the community is much more streamlined now. Families don’t go through quite the stress that we went through. It seems to be a pretty well-known practice on how to treat the children. Of course, we would like less toxic and better treatments for those particular manifestations of NF, but they’re clearly much improved than--than what they were in the past.
There are also other new treatments on the horizon here for the plexiform neurofibroma that’s showing great promise. I think that we’re headed in the right direction. We could use more. Clearly there’s things that need to be learned about when a regular tumor changes into a malignant tumor, but they’re all being worked on. So it’s just a matter of time. If we can keep doing this and getting the scientists the funding that they need in order to do the important work that they do, we’ll get to that endpoint.


The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is revising its COVID-19 Appeals. It is gearing up for the marathon not the sprint.
by Alexander Matheou | May 19, 2020 | Leadership Voices
Executive Director – International
British Red Cross Society
We still don’t have a clear picture of the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile states and low-income countries. The secondary impacts, however, are already severely felt. Despite the initial surge to action, most humanitarian agencies now recognise that this is a marathon not a sprint and they need to be planning for the long haul. Including how to adapt to a world that may function differently. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s COVID19 appeals launched in March were its call to action – its sprint. Now these appeals are being revised, it is a chance to consider what we can offer to the marathon. Here are seven offers to consider that will strengthen the global response.
The first and second wave: The main effort will stay the same. To support health authorities to detect, test, isolate and treat every case and trace every contact through community-based surveillance, to support prevention measures and engage in active risk communication, about COVID19 and other critical health threats. These features of the initial appeal will still be paramount.
Supporting social safety nets: The United Nations is warning global hunger could double as a result of the pandemic. The main triggers being closure of critical aid pipelines in countries already facing severe food shortages, such as Zimbabwe or Yemen. Or simultaneous crises, such as faced by Kenya and Somalia, who are dealing with COVID-19 and plagues of locusts. The most widespread trigger though is likely to be caused by loss of livelihoods for the poorest people whose food security each day is dependent on daily labour. Of these, amongst the most vulnerable, will be refugees and migrants. Turkey has a programme designed to address this risk through an EU funded national, social protection programme delivering cash to two million refugees, run by the IFRC and the Turkish Red Crescent. More states will need to set up similar initiatives to blend humanitarian assistance into social protection for their most food insecure people. National Societies (NS) can help governments do this by sharing the Movement’s experience of managing large cash-based programmes and of targeting.
Helping target the most vulnerable: Many states already have lists for their social safety nets, which include the elderly, people living with disabilities, women headed households etc. COVID-19 will have transformed who needs to be on these lists. NS, with their community presence, can help identify who is most in need. Namibia Red Cross is doing just that to support its government foodbank programmes. Amongst the most difficult but important aspects of this targeting will be identifying women and girls at risk of sexual and gender-based violence. This is complicated as the risk tends not to be immediately obvious and is unlikely to be declared. People doing the targeting need to be trained. NS can help with this, but few currently have the right skills. That is why partnership is more important than ever.
Working in partnership: Not all INGOs and NGOs will survive the financial impact of the pandemic. Those that do will be smaller. Specialist organisations with small budgets may be particularly vulnerable. It will be important not to lose their expertise and relationships that have been built over the years. Larger humanitarian organisations will need to be open to pooling resources. Even merging. Specialist organisations may need to be insourced into bigger agencies who can take their expertise and insights to scale.
Building on our health infrastructure: The pandemic has highlighted the risks faced by countries with the weakest health systems. But those risks are not new. For decades, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, with support from ICRC and IFRC, have tried to sustain primary health infrastructures in some of the most vulnerable contexts in the world. The Somalia Red Crescent and Afghan Red Crescent both run a network of clinics. The Yemen Red Crescent too, although much of it is destroyed now. These clinics have struggled to generate investment despite the obvious niche they fill. Now is the time to try again to generate support and to make sure these services support the pandemic response. Kenya Red Cross has launched its ambulance service as a social enterprise. It is now the leading ambulance service in the country and is supporting the pandemic response. Gambia Red Cross has done the same. This could be replicated across much of the continent. These initiatives might be more suitable for private sector investment than humanitarian financing, but at very least, we can seek to bring the investors around the table.
The right legal base: Lockdowns have been disastrous to some aid pipelines. Last week, we heard reports from the Typhoon hit Philippines of hampered evacuation efforts due to the pandemic. Disaster laws can help mitigate such risks in the future, by outlining exceptions to lockdowns, by making clear roles and responsibilities and identifying key workers in advance. IFRC has specialised in advising states on disaster laws for over a decade. It can support now in updating these laws to consider pandemic responses if current legislation is not explicit.
Resilient institutions: It’s always been a struggle to get investment for the institutional development of national humanitarian actors. Humanitarian financing is short term and heavily geared towards international organisations. Yet this pandemic is a reminder that these national institutions, especially NS, are a first line of defence. We need an investment strategy from institutional donors that grows volunteer bases and strengthens national management systems and leadership.This list is not exhaustive, but these seven points would already make up a meaningful contribution to the longer term, global response.
Jyoti on May 19, 2020 at 9:32 am
Though I liked the metaphor of a running sports, I see it in terms of a racquet sports I like to play, badminton. To play the game the right way – you need your head up so you are aware of your environment. Where are the defenders? Where are the opportunities to pass the shuttle or take a shot?
For me, this is a great example of a carefully written piece that clearly articulates the vision and the envionment, the present, how to strategically manage now, and importantly as opposed to head down focussed on what is in front of you right now, I see the suggestion of keeping the head up to identify potential opportunities, think of progressive partnerships, and what needs to be changed and achieved. If we were to successfully address the pandemic and support those in the fragile environments and poorer economies, now and in the future.


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Killjoys Season 4 Episode 4: ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting…an Alien Parasite’ Review
[Header Image: Kelly McCormack as Zeph, Thom Allison as Pree, Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah Kendry | Syfy/Space]
This is probably the longest review I’ve written for Killjoys so far and it’s all positive. I really loved this episode. The pacing and structure were well done and it had the perfect balance of funny moments and serious moments.
At the start of the episode, we see that D’avin has been going to see Dutch and keeps talking to her. He lies about how well Johnny is doing and begs for her to wake up. During all of this Johnny is still chained up and is constantly banging his head against the wall. He is one of my absolute favourite characters in this show and I hated seeing him hurt himself. It didn’t help that Zeph revealed he was only banging his head so he could relieve the pressure that’s on his brain. Not exactly positive but at least we didn’t have to see him go through being half Hullen for much longer.
Another positive is that Dutch finally woke up. At first, she’s not allowed to leave her room under D’avin’s orders and when that fails, she wastes no time in looking for Johnny. The scenes between Dutch and Johnny were so good in this episode. You could really feel Dutch’s emotions whenever she spoke with Johnny. The pain she felt when she realised all of the green plasma was gone and she might not be able to help him. I did appreciate that D’avin stood up for himself and told her that she had no right to judge his actions. The slap allowed for us to see just how much Dutch was affected by seeing Johnny in that state.
Prior to getting Johnny back to normal, things do change with him. Suddenly he was tired and frustrated. It was so vivid when he tells them that he doesn’t care whether he’s Hullen or human anymore but he can’t be stuck in the middle. He talks so passionately about having that feeling of losing D’avin and Dutch over and over again as his heart switches between human and Hullen. You can really hear our Johnny at that moment and it was honestly a little gut-wrenching.
[Aaron Ashmore as John Jaqobis, and Hannah John-Kamen as Dutch | Syfy/Space]
In the end, we do get him back. That moment between Dutch and Johnny was so perfect and needed. The two of them leaning on each other once again. They’ve been through so much together and this season continues to put emphasis on how important their friendship is.
I thought the method of getting Johnny back was interesting and a smart way to get around the fact that all the green had solidified (and the fact it needed to be in order to keep the Lady trapped). I never had any fear that Johnny would actually die but for a hot second there I was concerned that they wouldn’t be able to revive him again. Luckily, all ended well AND they were able to use the same method in order to help Delle Seyah Kendry deliver her baby.
The fact that there were complications was unsurprising and it was really fun to see them try to find a solution. Kendry was hilarious throughout the start of her labour, feeling no pain, even reading a comic book at one point. I loved the natural progression they had from her feeling calm to being scared and concerned. Even during the transfusion with D’avin, Kendry is still calm. She’s bossy and visibly irritated by everyone around her, which is very much normal. However, by the end of the episode, she’s clearly scared, even going so far as to corner Dutch and demand to know where Aneela us.
That little moment between them all was really important. D’avin and Johnny have been stuck in a small space with Kendry for a while and the three of them have had a chance to get used to each other. Talking about Aneela, allowed for Dutch and Kendry to get to know each other a little bit as well. We’ll need a lot more but it was very much needed, especially considering it wasn’t that long ago that Kendry and Aneela were trying to kill the team.
Delle Seyah Kendry has had one of the biggest character developments, along with Aneela. Pree threatened Kendry’s life earlier in the episode but then was willing to give her a break later. He smiled to the point that he most likely won’t try to kill her (unless she tries something first of course). I love the changes Kendry has gone through and I hope she remains a big part of the team and continues on this really well-done character development. Especially now that she’s human again and can feel everything.
Like I said, we’ve also seen Aneela change a lot since we first met her, as well as her relationship with Dutch. It was such a touching moment when Dutch said she was going to get Aneela back and she seemed to genuinely care. We can also see that Aneela genuinely cares as she risks being stuck in the green to keep Dutch safe and the Lady trapped. All of these changes almost guarantees that Kendry and Aneela really are going to be a part of the team.
[Luke Macfarlane as D’avin Jaqobis, Kelly McCormack as Zeph, Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah Kendry,
and Thom Allison as Pree | Syfy/Space]
Throughout the episode, we get to see what happened to Dutch while she was in the green. I really appreciated that we didn’t see the Lady’s true form. I suspect that we’ll get that reveal when she finally comes out of the green because let’s face it, she probably will. For now, it’s pretty cool that her look keeps changing in the meantime to try and weaken Dutch (and later Aneela).
It worked really well that Dutch’s time in the green was put throughout the episode and none of it ever dragged on too long. The scenes where the Lady was trying to force information out of Dutch was really powerful because they weren’t always intense. Sometimes we saw them fighting, other times the Lady was hurting Dutch, and other times they’re simply talking.
We also found out that the Lady isn’t Hullen but something much older and she refers to the Hullen as her tools. This episode did a great job of telling us something about the Lady while also keeping her shrouded in mystery. Killjoys knows exactly when to tell us something and just how much information should be given.
[Robert Stewart as the Lady (appearing as Khlyen, and Hannah John-Kamen as Dutch | Syfy/Space]
It made the reveal of what Dutch will face when she leaves the green even more powerful. That scene where everyone is dead at Pree’s bar and Johnny is holding a gun to Dutch’s head was so shocking because we had no idea. We knew something was coming but we didn’t know what it was exactly. The final hit was when Johnny said “who the hells is Johnny?” We’re going to have to wait a little while for that conclusion I bet, but something I did notice was that Pree seemed to look the same way he did in the flashback episode (episode 1 of this season). So I wonder if there’s going to be some sort of time travel involved? I honestly don’t like to guess much with Killjoys because everything they do is always better than I could ever imagine.
Either way, it was really reassuring to see them all back together again. They’re all willing to fight alongside Dutch to defeat the Lady like the little family they are but there’s plenty of other stuff to deal with at the same time. As we saw, the soldiers on the Armada are starting to wake up (or at least they’re more alert). This could be connected to the fact that Pip has a spider in him and is beginning to hear whispers. The Lady could be using Pip to spy on the team and the soldiers in the Armada to spy on the others.
It seems a little obvious but sometimes simplicity is all you need. Sooner or later Pip’s spider and the soldiers are going to make a move. We now know that the Lady wants Aneela, Kendry, and D’avin’s baby and with all the other information we got this episode, it’s more likely than not that everything is connected at this point. So the simple idea of the Lady using the Hullen and Pip as tools to spy and help her escape doesn’t seem so unlikely to me.
Overall, the episode was really a lot of fun and I’m really excited to see where we go from here. If the vision comes true, it’s not going to be fun for long. I would normally be unconcerned, doubting that they will kill all of these characters, perhaps one or even two, but considering season 5 is confirmed to be the last I feel like no character is safe in this season or the next.
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Allen Porter is a 2021-2022 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. The two main focuses of his current research are bioethics and political philosophy. His dissertation, “Social Justice Leftism as Deconstructive Postmodernism,” offers a unified explanation of a number of novel phenomena associated with what is now commonly called “the woke left”—including the use of various techniques of “silencing” (such as “deplatforming”), calls by students for racially segregated campus spaces, the new rhetoric of “equity,” “microaggression” complaints and demands for “safe spaces,” and more. His thesis is that the existence and features of these phenomena are straightforwardly predictable in light of their underlying political ideology, which results from combining philosophical postmodernism and political leftism—a political ideology which has dominated Western humanities and social science departments for several decades, and which increasingly prevails outside of academia as a kind of secular religion. At Princeton, he is focused on converting his dissertation into a book. Allen holds a B.A. in German from Princeton University, a M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rice University.
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Antoinette Taus named UN environment ambassador
Published: philstar.com | September 27, 2019
MANILA, Philippines — The United Nations Environment Programme has designated Antoinette Taus as National Goodwill Ambassador for the Philippines. Antoinette is an award-winning actress, singer, TV host, environmental advocate and founder of the non-profit organization CORA.
She is the UN Environment Programme’s first National Goodwill Ambassador for the Philippines. The designation was made at a ceremony marking World Environment and Health Day in Manila on September 26. Long a fixture in the entertainment industry in the Philippines, Antoinette has spent much of her life in the media spotlight. At 11, she already was a regular presence on stage and onscreen and has since starred in blockbuster films and top rated television shows, including one of the country’s longest-running soap operas, "Anna Karenina."
Today, she works with international media networks such as National Geographic and CNN on projects centered around humanitarian and environmental issues. Combining her popularity with her longstanding dedication to the planet, Antoinette founded CORA in 2016, a non-profit organization to help foster action for sustainable development through volunteerism. Antoinette is also the Chief Executive Officer and founder of The Sustainable Planet, a social enterprise centered on improving the lives of indigenous peoples and those living in poverty in the Philippines.
“Antoinette is as passionate a voice for the environment as they come. We are extremely pleased she will be helping us raise the profile of the range of environmental challenges and opportunities facing the Philippines. Global issues like climate change and plastic and air pollution are impacting all countries, and we are lucky to have advocates like Antoinette standing strong for the planet,” said Dechen Tsering, Regional Director for the UNEP’s Office for Asia and the Pacific.
“When we protect the planet, we are protecting the people that we love. Each action as an individual has the power to create amazing change, but just imagine what we can achieve if we take action together,” said Taus. "The key to solving our most urgent global issues is already in every single one of us. But we need to act now, as one people, for our one planet.”
As Goodwill Ambassador, Antoinette will continue to work closely with the youth, local communities and media partners to raise awareness on environmental issues and mobilize Filipinos to take climate action for people and the planet.
It can be recalled that Taus was also a member of “G Squad,” a group of celebrities assembled by former Department of Environment and Natural Resources secretary Gina Lopez as part of her travel show "G Diaries."
The UN Environment Programme is the leading global voice on the environment. It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
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Home > China's JF-17 Found Success As A Cheaper MiG-21 And F-16 Hybrid
China's JF-17 Found Success As A Cheaper MiG-21 And F-16 Hybrid
August 25, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Asia Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: ChinaAir ForceMilitaryTechnologyJetFighterJF-17Pakistan
A poor nation can field a relatively modern fighter for a very low price.
by Charlie Gao
Here's What You Need To Remember: The largest advantage of the JF-17 is its cost. At only 15 million per plane in its most basic configuration, the JF-17 is far cheaper than any of its competitors, even used. Block II JF-17s cost around the same margin, with Myanmar buying them for only 16 million per unit. This has been the key to the JF-17’s export success.
China’s JF-17 “Thunder” multirole fighter is one of China’s most successful aerospace exports. While it was designed from the outset to be an export fighter, its road to service was very rocky, involving decades of development and even American involvement at some points. Design wise, it’s a fusion of the MiG-21 and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The most recent blocks of the JF-17 have introduced advanced capabilities that nominally put it on par with designs twenty years its senior. But how exactly did the United States help in creating the JF-17? Does the ancient airframe hold it back, or can it be worked around?
The JF-17 evolved out of a series of projects to produce an upgrade for the Pakistani Air Force’s fleet of Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) J-7 fighters. As Pakistan was one of the primary facilitators of U.S. aid to the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujaheddin, the United States was willing to provide aid to Pakistan in other defense sectors. As the Soviets were preparing to field their next generation lightweight fighter; the MiG-29, Pakistan wanted an aircraft that could counter it.
This resulted in Project Sabre II, an attempt to modernize the J-7s conducted by CAC and Grumman. The original iteration of Sabre II only stretched the fuselage of the J-7, redesigned the control surfaces, and changed the location and size of the air intakes. However the Sabre II was unable to reach the performance of contemporary American fighters or the projected performance of the MiG-29 with this configuration, so Project Sabre II was canned.
However, the three countries decided to have another go at it later in the 1980s, resulting in the “Super 7” project. This time the wingspan was increased and formed into a similar configuration to the F-16 in addition to the prior aerodynamic changes. Grumman pulled out of the Super 7 project in 1989 due to Tiananmen Square and the resulting fallout. The project remained on ice for around 10 years as negotiations between China and Pakistan continued. A feasibility study to see if future development would be fruitful was commissioned in 1992, it was successful so a memorandum to continue development was signed.
In 1998 China and Pakistan recommenced serious development of the Super 7. Costs were split 50/50 between the Pakistani government and CAC and the aircraft was renamed JF-17 As Grumman had dropped out, the fighter needed a new powerplant. A solution was found in the Russian Mikoyan design bureau, which offered the Klimov RD-93 engine which was originally designed for the canceled MiG-33 fighter jet. The RD-93 was an advanced version of the RD-33 used on the MiG-29, however, only one RD-93 is used on the JF-17 in contrast to two RD-33s in a MiG-29.
Another key innovation that occurred during the development process was the inclusion of diverterless supersonic intakes (DSI) on the JF-17 design. The design went through several iterations but is seen on current JF-17 production aircraft. In 2003 the first prototype took to the air. By 2006 the JF-17 was finalized and ready to enter serial production. It was formally adopted in 2007. The first fully Pakistani-manufactured JF-17 was created in 2008.
The JF-17’s designers have proven adept at keeping up with the times following its entry into service. The initial run of fighters for Pakistan have been referred to as Block I JF-17s. Block II JF-17s introduced a multitude of new capabilities and upgrades, including composites in the airframe for reduced weight, air to air refueling, a full fly-by-wire system, and a better radar. China offered to replace the Russian RD-93s with their own WS-13 in Block II JF-17s, but Pakistan opted to stick with the Russian engine.
For the Block III, China hopes to add an AESA radar to the JF-17 and further improve the avionics and weapons compatibility of the JF-17. The standard JF-17 features the MIL-STD-1760 databus in some implementations, allowing for compatibility with Western and Eastern weapons. One potential weakness of the JF-17 is its internal cannon, which is still the double-barrel GSh-23, a legacy of its MiG-21 heritage. This cannon is outperformed by practically any other autocannon mounted on a modern combat aircraft. However, given the relative infrequency of cannon usage in modern air combat, this is not a big issue.
The largest advantage of the JF-17 is its cost. At only 15 million per plane in its most basic configuration, the JF-17 is far cheaper than any of its competitors, even used. Block II JF-17s cost around the same margin, with Myanmar buying them for only 16 million per unit. This has been the key to the JF-17’s export success. A poor nation can field a relatively modern fighter for a very low price. It is yet to be seen whether it can actually perform at its price point in combat, but Pakistan seems to be satisfied with what the JF-17 can do in trials. In many ways, China has updated the budget fighter of the last generation, the MiG-21, for the modern era with the help and additional design cues from the F-16.
Charlie Gao studied political and computer science at Grinnell College and is a frequent commentator on defense and national-security issues. This article first appeared in 2018.
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Franchise Lender Butler Capital Commits $30 Million For Subway® Franchisee Loans
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HUNT VALLEY, MD (Wednesday, February 21, 2007) - Through its Franchise Finance Division, national commercial lender Butler Capital Corporation has committed $30 million in financing this year for SUBWAY® restaurant franchisees throughout the U.S.
Doctor's Associates Inc. (DAI), franchisor of SUBWAY® restaurants, in 2005 designated Butler as one of only six approved lenders for its entire international operation. Of the six, Butler is one of only three direct lenders.
In making the commitment to support SUBWAY® restaurant franchisees, Butler's chief operating officer, Joseph P. Serio, executive vice president, said, "Butler's principal business line is franchise funding, particularly in the fast-casual restaurant arena. SUBWAY® restaurants are the world's top submarine sandwich franchisor, so it's fitting that we dedicate our attention and our dollars to supporting a winning organization."
Established in 1978, Butler Capital is an independent, national lender that provides general business loans and leases. Its lending teams specialize in the fast-casual franchise restaurant, car wash, convenience store, drycleaning, and office furnishings/equipment markets. In addition, Butler maintains an active lessor/broker unit to purchase individual transactions and portfolios from brokers, lessors, and financial institutions nationwide and a sales finance unit that works with manufacturers to fund their customers' purchase of goods and services.
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