Ahjane
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The Transformative Justice process is a bit more multilayered. It looks at structural violence, as well as individual violence. It tries to address justice without using any type of major professionals or governmental system. One important feature is creating groupings within your own community to address the violence.
Levi
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We are lucky to have farms in Belize that my dad, Marc, started when I was 12 years old. I started spearfishing with our local friends in Belize and I fell in love with it. My favorite thing about it is you learn something new every single time you go, whether you're fishing or diving or just spending a day out on the water. It's a great way to gain perspective. Miami gets tiny from where you are on the water. My favorite place to go diving is south out of Homestead and into the upper Keys.
Anthony
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My dad is a great story about coming here and having to make it without his parents - definitely in the same camp as a lot of Cubans. He didn't complain, he sold shoes, and went through school. He really is like a patriarch of big accounting here in South Florida. He is one of the first Hispanics to get recognition for his field. I'm very grateful to be the son of an accountant. It gives you a very good business acumen because you're sitting in a restaurant and he's talking to you about their PNL and how things are going in the books. It gives you an education beyond the face value of things. It's really paid off for me and my brothers. He is one of those great boy-dads who really set up his kids to carry the torch.
Stephan
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A sitar is a 19-string instrument that originates from medieval North India. It is an acoustic instrument that is made from a large gourd (pumpkin). It is four feet long – with a hollow neck and movable frets. It first came to popularity, in the West, with the Beatles and a musician named Ravi Shankar. Sitar has popped up in popular music from time to time. I teach the instrument, but not many people stick with it. It’s harder than a guitar and hurts your fingers.
Naomi
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It's basically just seeds that we're grinding up. The Wheat Berry is a little kernel of wheat and when you grind it up, there are three parts. There's the germ, which is the fatty part. It's very nutrient dense; there's a wheat germ oil. There's the bran, which is the outer coating, also very nutrient dense and has a lot of vitamins and most of the fiber. And then the endosperm is the starch, like a pure white flour. When you eat white flour, you're only getting one part and you're missing out on the other nutrients. But, when you are fresh milling, you're getting all three parts in the flour, so you get the full nutrients.
Laura
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What we find in early childhood is that kids need to have experiences. Some of it is resources you're given access to, like markers or crayons, and it is also how early you start the writing process. There's a connection between being able to write and being able to do well academically. There's a lot of research that shows college students who write their notes versus take a laptop to class have an advantage. When they type, it's so automatic that they're not thinking about it anymore. Being able to produce a letter with your hands is very different from pressing the letter a on a keyboard, right? If you press a letter B or C, it all feels the same, but if you're writing it, it's creating a memory in your brain.
Matthew
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With watches, the level of restoration that you do to a watch really affects the value. Certain things can make it not even collectible anymore - like if you repaint the face or over-polish the case. In vintage cars, it's different. People bring them down to the bare minimum and then repaint them with a beautiful paint job. I'm more of a survivor type. I like one that's been used and not repainted and it could be messed up a little bit, I don't care.
Jose
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My paintings are a buildup of materials, gestures and mishaps, shaped by the tension between the formality of drawing and structure and the freedom with which I apply the pigments.
Jason And Melanie
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Jason: I thought it was pretty interesting the day I looked over at your booth and you had Lenny Kravitz and Rita Marley three feet from each other. I know Rita visits you often and it was the first time I had seen Lenny there. If they had just turned around, I wonder if they know each other – a musical connection.
David
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We changed television. We were the first ones who put major talent together and let them just play. The Home Box Office (HBO) people like to know exactly what's going to happen. Putting together talent to jam was a little dangerous. But for me, that was perfect. Having Fats Domino, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis play together on the same stage with Paul Shaffer as music director and Ronnie Wood, from the Stones, on guitar, was pretty wild. It was an iconic show and broke all the records for Home Box Office subscriber satisfaction. Paul Shaffer had 12 year old fans and 80 year-olds love Ray Charles. It had a demographic that was never beat. I also worked with Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie, and did a big Latin show in ‘89. My last big production was Aaron Neville's Christmas in New Orleans with Linda Ronstadt; they have pretty cool voices together. I was the executive producer and producer. I not only put the show together, raised the money, made the deals. I also produced the show itself.