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Do You Consider A Slap Domestic Violence? | The Yolanda Adams ...
The other day I did my normal web browsing to catch up on the latest celeb gossip. I saw an interview with Ariane from ?Love and Hip Hop Atlanta? did with Power 105.1?s morning show, ?The Breakfast Club.? I don?t know much about her, but from the little I gathered via the show, she seemed like a cool chick and loyal friend. She constantly told her BFF Mimi Faust?who was in a one-sided relationship with former producer Stevie J (*shivers*)?how beautiful she was and how she deserved more. I credited Ariane as being one of the few with sense?until I saw this interview.
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The hosts?DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Angela Yee asked about her thoughts on the whole K. Michelle/Memphitz debacle and she went on to explain how she was friends with both parties and couldn?t legitimately form an opinion because she wasn?t there at the time of the incident. Cool, I get that. What blew me completely off guard, though, was when she very matter-of-factly responded, ?Absolutely!? the unfiltered controversy-fiend Charlamagne said, ?She might have did something to get beat up.?
Wait! What? To justify her statement, she then said, ?I?m not saying that women should be hit, but sometimes b*tches need to be slapped.? Very nonchalantly, she admitted to being slapped before. When asked what she?d done to get slapped?assuming there?s actually a good enough reason?she replied, ?You know, my mouth is kind of reckless sometimes.? Another enthusiastic and assured ?absolutely!? followed when she was asked if she felt as though she deserved it. In utter shock, I watched the rest of the interview but couldn?t really digest it because I was still trying to swallow her thoughts regarding domestic violence.
Did you see the interview? Watch it below. Skip to about the 10:40 mark for Ariane?s opinion on domestic abuse in regards to K. Michelle and Memphitz.
I get that there are some crazy, ruthless ladies and gents out here, but unless you are put in a life or death situation and forced to defend yourself for survival, there?s never an acceptable reason to physically harm another human being?regardless of gender. ??My mouth is kind of reckless sometimes? is certainly not grounds for ?b*tches needing to be slapped!?
Though Ariane?s thinking disturbs me, I accept the fact that she?s a grown woman and entitled to her own views?regardless of how outrageous I think they are. What stirs me up though is that she so comfortably and immaturely voiced them on the #1 urban radio morning show in the country. I?m support people verbalizing their thoughts, but some things are just better left unsaid.
Reality stars are like the new celebrity (I know, I know. It pains me to admit too). Though not a household name, Ariane has nearly 50,000 Twitter followers as of now so it?s safe to assume that she has solid, little fan base going on. With so many impressionable youngsters glorifying the life of reality TV stars, sending the message that it?s ?okay? if a person physically violates them is irresponsible and dangerous.
In a society that already negates the severity of domestic violence, such a comment only perpetuates our insensitivity regarding the social ill. ?Every nine seconds in the U.S., a woman is assaulted or beaten? and ?every day in the U.S., more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends,? according to Domestic Violence Statistics. Domestic violence generally happens in stages: Verbal, next a push or shove, then a ?needed? slap or punch, a few broken bones and bruises and eventually death is the final step.
Ariane ended the interview saying that she?d have a larger role on the second season of ?LAHH ATL.? Hopefully she won?t use her new platform to spread more ignorant and regressive views. If so, we all need to be concerned.
What are your thoughts on Ariane?s comments? Do women sometimes just ?need to be slapped??
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Police: Man on scooter crashes into Burlington church
BURLINGTON, N.C. ? Police said a man received minor injuries after running off the road on a scooter and crashing into a church Saturday night in Burlington.
Authorities said the wreck occurred around 5 p.m. in the 300 block of Friendly Avenue when a Red Yamaha Zuma scooter collided with the back of Beverly Hills Church.
Officers said no serious injuries were reported. Police said the scooter received an estimated $1,500 in damages and the church around $300 in damages.
Authorities said the driver was taken to Alamance Regional Medical Center and treated and released.
The driver told police a car headed south on Friendly Avenue ran him off the road and caused the crash. Police said the driver was unable to describe the vehicle.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with any information can call the Burlington police Department at (336) 229-3503 or Crime Stoppers at (336) 229-7100.
Source: http://burlington.myfox8.com/news/news/78574-police-man-scooter-crashes-burlington-church
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Aileen Suzara Cracks Open Filipino Cuisine in Coconut Cooking ...
Coconut is the new pomegranate. Touted for its health benefits, it?s popping up everywhere. Electrolyte-rich coconut water has replaced Gatorade as the new sports drink and claims abound that coconut oil boosts the immune system, thyroid and heart. But the reason I took the Cooking with Coconut class at Oakland?s Asian Cultural Center (OACC) was less about health and more about taste. I?m cuckoo for coconuts (the unsweetened natural stuff). I also wanted to broaden my knowledge of Filipino cuisine, beyond adobo and lumpia.
I know it?s risky to spread the word on the insider cooking classes at OACC, because they may all sell out before I get a ticket, but this is an amazing hidden pearl for DIY ethnic food fans: intimate hands-on workshops, most priced under $50 for a three-hour class that includes lunch. (A few months ago, I savored Thy Tran?s Steamed Asian Sweets class at OACC.)
When I arrived in OACC?s kitchen on a recent Sunday and surveyed the ingredients for Cooking with Coconut arranged on tables around the room, I was puzzled by the absence of the familiar brown hairy globes. Turned out we were using young or immature coconuts, which take the form of squat white cylinders with pointed tops.
Aileen Suzara, a 2nd generation Filipina American, guided eight of us through three coconut-centric recipes from her culture:
Binakol: a chicken soup, featuring fresh coconut water, shallot, garlic, ginger, mushrooms and young coconut slices.
Laing: a green vegetable dish traditionally made with taro leaves, coconut milk and chilis. Suzara opted for fresh kale leaves instead of taro and upped the ante with coconut cream, plus plenty of garlic and ginger.
And for dessert, Palitaw: simple rice flour dumplings rolled in sesame seeds and chopped coconut.
To round out the meal, she shared some precious heirloom black rice a friend had brought back from the Philippines.
Against a background of resounding drumbeats from OACC?s Lion Dance class next door, Suzara demonstrated the ease of cracking open the stocky, young coconuts. A few decisive whacks of a cleaver, and coconut water came gushing forth. Then she showed how easy it is to scoop out the soft, slimy white flesh with just a spoon. While some of us scraped out coconut meat, others chopped ginger, as directed by Suzara, ?in pieces big enough to slap you in the face with a burst of ginger.?
As soon as Suzara spooned a dollop of coconut oil into the hot wok, followed by the chopped shallots, ginger and garlic, a symphony of aromas filled the room. Chicken thighs browned and then slowly simmered in the coconut water collected from the half-dozen young coconuts. Black peppercorns, and lemongrass were added to the soup and finally oyster mushrooms and the white coconut meat.
Adding coconut cream to the laing and young coconut meat to the binakol
Suzara, who encouraged us to cook with our senses instead of relying exclusively on recipes, modeled how to cheerfully roll with the punches of a few kitchen mishaps. These ?teaching moments? -- as she referred to the pop-up surprises -- included: a little cut here, a minor burnt wooden board there and a rice flour mixture that was too liquid, so she changed desserts mid-course.
Our lunch of binakol, laing and palitaw
While we enjoyed our collectively created lunch, Suzara shared a little about herself. After studying environmental science, she worked with non-profits on environmental re-education, catered Filipino cooking and completed a program at UC Santa Cruz in ecological horticulture.
She is active in social justice and agricultural education and wants to help her community make wise food choices. She cites the impact that 400 years of Spanish and US colonization has had on the traditional Filipino diet, resulting in, for example, a switch to refined flour and convenience foods and fried dishes which were traditionally enjoyed for just for special celebrations (like lumpia) that have become defining dishes of the cuisine.
(This reminded me of a similar struggle in African American food culture portrayed in the film, Soul Food Junkies.)
As we cleaned up the kitchen, I interviewed Suzara about how she learned to cook Filipino food, her involvement in agricultural education and her future plans.
Why did you pick coconut as the focus of this class?
Coconut is close to my heart. My father is from Bicol, a region of the Philippines famous for its coconut dishes, so cooking with coconut is in my blood. In the Philippines, coconut is called the ?Tree of Life? because you can use every part it. Its trunk and leaves provide building materials and home d?cor, its oil is used in beauty products and is very healthy for cooking, coconut sugar is better for diabetics and coconut milk is used all over South East Asia, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands.
I grew up in five different states but spent my adolescence on The Big Island Hawaii, so I ate the local coconuts there. When I was a freshman, they held a school ?Olympics? with running and swimming events but somehow even though I was the scrawniest 14-year old, they put me in the coconut cracking and husking competition. Of course, I was slower and lost to a bunch of big boys, but I got the process down.
Did you learn to cook Filipino specialties from your parents?
Yes and no, I?m somewhat self-taught. My hardworking parents worked long hours as a nurse and doctor. When I was about eight, they gave me free reign in the kitchen and I started cooking for the family. At first I did scrambled eggs but later moved on to soups and stews. Then I found some old Filipino cookbooks, including one that my mom brought when she immigrated at 23. It was in English but there were all these words for ingredients that I had never seen before. I wanted to learn what it all meant.
Growing up, meals were flavored by my parents? ?post-WWII diet? of American imports -- things like Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef -- and of course, fish and rice. So that?s the kind of thing they cooked. But when I was eight, we took a trip back to the Philippines and I met my grandparents and extended family. They took me to these huge markets. I tasted everything and fell in love.
Didn?t you just come back from living and working on a farm?
Yes, first, I spent six months in an apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz in ecological horticulture. Here?s a video from the Filipino channel interviewing Aileen about her experience working on the organic farm.
ADOBO NATION. Sustainable Farming. from Jeremiah Ysip.
And I just returned from Pie Ranch, an educational farm in Pescadero with a youth program that teaches young people to learn where their food comes from. I helped care for their 250 chickens, goats and 15+ acres of wheat, squash and other crops.
What are some of your future plans?
If there?s anything I learned from experiences in the food world, it?s that we need more culturally relevant models. I hope to be part of developing new programs to engage Asian-Pacific youth. Filipinos have a long history of leadership in the food movement that unfortunately, not enough people are aware of. In the early 1900s thousands came and worked on California farms. And while many people have heard of the United Farm Workers, they may not know of Filipino organizers like Larry Itliong, who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and co-founded the movement.
I?d like to grow traditional ingredients used in Filipino cuisine and work with my community for more access to healthy fresh food and on health issues linked to food. It?s the immigrant paradox, as what we may now think of as a typical Filipino diet has steered away from plant-based foods, which have always been part of our traditions, one reason why heart disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension have all become so common.
I just moved back to Oakland. This week, I start my new job as Garden Coordinator for a green school program at a San Francisco elementary school.
Watch for Aileen Suzara to teach more classes at OACC and share her cooking in a pop-up sponsored by West Oakland?s People?s Grocery to celebrate Filipino American History Month in October.
Aileen Suzara's website: Kitchen Kwento
Twitter: @kitchenkwento
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Germany calls off Sudan investment forum after embassy storming
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Germany has called off a conference next month to drum up investment for Sudan after its embassy in Khartoum was stormed in protests against a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad, Sudanese officials and diplomats said on Thursday.
The move is a blow for Sudan which has been trying to attract investment to help overcome an economic crisis worsened by the loss of most of its oil reserves when arch-foe South Sudan declared independence in July 2011.
Germany, one of the few Western countries with good ties to Khartoum, had planned to host a conference in mid-October to foster economic cooperation with Sudan, according to diplomats.
The event, scheduled to be held in Germany, would have been a rare chance for Khartoum to meet Western firms reluctant to invest in the African country due to a U.S. trade embargo, weak laws and corruption.
Diplomats said Berlin decided to shelve the event after protesters set the German embassy on fire on Friday to demonstrate against the film which depicts the prophet as charlatan and womanizer.
Protesters had also targeted the U.S. and British embassies.
The German Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the conference specifically, but a spokeswoman said its embassy in Khartoum was unable to function as normal due to the damage it suffered during the demonstrations.
UNDER PRESSURE
Western diplomats in Khartoum said Germany was surprised Sudan had criticized it for allowing protests last month by right-wing activists carrying a caricatures of the prophet.
The country had also criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for giving an award in 2010 to a Danish cartoonist who depicted the prophet in 2005, triggering demonstrations across the Islamic world.
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is under pressure from Islamists who feel the government has given up the religious values of his 1989 Islamist coup.
Sudan's Foreign Ministry said Berlin had informed it the conference would be postponed indefinitely.
"Both sides will announce a later date," it said in a statement.
On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle sent a senior diplomat to Sudan to discuss security issues and "conditions for relations between the Sudan and Germany," according to a statement.
Diplomats said Germany had planned the Sudan investment conference on its own, so it would not have to rely on other Western powers which often criticize Khartoum for a campaign against rebels in two southern border states.
In March, Norway and Turkey had called off a similar investment conference after the United States signaled it would not participate due to Sudan's human rights record.
Western powers shun Bashir who was indicted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Darfur, scene of a nearly-decade old insurgency.
(Additional reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz in Khartoum and Alexandra Hudson in Berlin; Editing by Sophie Hares)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-calls-off-sudan-investment-forum-embassy-storming-174058515.html
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