#african baza

[alonglistofbirds]

[48/10,976] African Cuckoo-Hawk - Aviceda cuculoides

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Genus: Aviceda (cuckoo-hawks or bazas)

Photo credit: Dylan Vasapolli - Birding Ecotours via Macaulay Library

[siravalon]

[birds-and-friends]

African paradise flycatcher attacking an African cuckoo-hawk, Warwick Arboton

[birdstudies]

May 15, 2022 - African Cuckoo-Hawk or African Baza (Aviceda cuculoides)

Found in much of sub-Saharan Africa, these bazas live in dense woodlands and forests. They eat mostly lizards and insects, along with some other vertebrates and invertebrates, capturing prey in trees or on the ground. Pairs perform courtship display flights and build nests together from sticks, vines, roots, grasses, and green leaves high in trees. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs. Both parents care for the chicks.

[mupemba]

When I read about how the DRC has influenced modern Mauritian music I was like woooow ba Congolais banani baza neti biso? The way Congolese people have shaped West, Central, Southern and East African regional styles yeah mais na kanga munoko

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[TASK 082: GUAM]

In celebration of Guam History & Chamorro Heritage Day on March 5th, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 90+ Chamorro faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

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STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

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Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

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and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Lourdes Klitzkie (1940) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Julie Ogborn (1958) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Kimberley Santos (1961) Chamorro - model.

Jen Allred (1961) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Rhonda Davidson-Alley (1961) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Marie Benito (1965) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Talia O’Neal (1975) Chamorro, probably other - actress and writer.

Sloan Siegrist (1980) Chamorro - middle-distance runner.

Cora Alicto (1980) Chamorro - sprinter.

Heather Snow Clark (1980) Chamorro - actress.

Maria Dunn (1986) Chamorro - freestyle wrestler.

Brittany Bell (1987) Chamorro / African-American, Unspecified Native American, Unspecified Southeast Asian, Unspecified Caribbean - actress and Miss Guam 2014.

Alyssa Cruz Aguero (1988) Chamorro - Miss Guam 2012.

Amy Atkinson (1989) Chamorro, German - middle-distance runner.

Starla Edney (1990) Chamorro - singer and actress.

Annrenaye Diaz (1993) Chamorro - model.

Roman Rochelle (1993) Chamorro - youtuber.

Remi Cruz (1995) Chamorro / Korean - youtuber.

Alixes Scott (1995) Chamorro, Filipina - Miss Guam 2013.

Pia Mia / Pia Mia Perez (1996) Chamorro / Italian, Dutch, Hungarian - singer-songwriter and model.

Pilar Shimizu (1996) Chamorro - breaststroke swimmer.

Skye Celine Baker (1997) Chamorro - Miss Earth Guam 2014.

Regine Tugade (1998) Chamorro - sprinter.

Emma Sheedy (2000) Chamorro - model, Miss Earth Guam 2017, and track and field athlete.

Mariana Ysrael (?) Chamorro - long-distance runner.

Teresa Garrido Roberts (?) Chamorro - writer.

Kacy Owens (?) Chamorro / Black - actress.

Fran Marie Castro (?) Spanish, Chamorro - actress.

Tricia Santos-Lujan (?) Chamorro - actress, writer and producer.

Billie Reyes (?) Chamorro - actress.

AJ Pelkey / Amanda Jo Pelkey (?) Chamorro - actress.

Jhe Manreal (?) Chamorro - model.

Sierra De Jesus (?) Chamorro - model.

Antoinette Manibusan (?) Chamorro - model.

Leslie B. Sanga (?) Chamorro - model.

Jocelyn Toves (?) Chamorro - musician.

Annalyn Buan (?) Chamorro - Miss International Guam 2016

Anna de Castro (?) Chamorro - dancer.

Flora Baza Quan (?) Chamorro - singer.

Evelyn Flores (?) Chamorro - author.

Julie “Jill” Quichocho Benavente (?) Chamorro - artist.

Maria Yatar McDonald (?) Chamorro - musician, traditional tattoo and visual artist.

Tiarra Jean (?) Chamorro - model.

Monica D. Baza (?) Chamorro - artist.

M:

Peter Onedera (1953) Chamorro - playwright, author and poet, a master storyteller.

Ronald “Ron” J. Castro (1953) Chamorro - artist.

Manny Crisostomo (1958) Chamorro - photojournalist.

Richard “Ric” Castro (1961) Chamorro - artist.

Q. Allan Brocka (1972) Chamorro, Filipino - director.

Noah Bernardo (1974) Chamorro, Filipino, Italian, German - drummer, guitarist, and singer.

Sonny Sandoval (1974) Chamorro, Native Hawaiian, Mexican, Italian - singer-songwriter and rapper.

David Cruz (1976) Chamorro - reality star.

Donovan Patton (1977) Chamorro - host, actor, voice actor, and singer.

Joseph Aguon Drake (1978) American, Chamorro - producer.

Craig Santos Perez (1980) Chamorro - writer.

Melvin Won Pat-Borja (1981) Chamorro - poet and hip hop artist.

Santiago X / Lawrence Santiago (1982) Chamorro / Coushatta - musician.

Jason Cunliffe (1983) Chamorro - writer.

Joe Taimanglo (1984) Chamorro - mixed martial artist.

Jon Tuck (1984) Chamorro - mixed martial artist.

Sean Pangelinan (1987) Chamorro - sprint canoer.

Marko Germar (1988) Chamorro - dancer.

Elias Merfalen (1989) Chamorro - footballer.

John Hattig (1990) Chamorro - professional baseball player.

Mark Chargualaf (1991) Chamorro - footballer.

Zach Banner (1993) Chamorro - American footballer.

Christian Rafan (1993) Chamorro - Youtuber.

Benjamin Schulte (1995) Chamorro - swimmer.

Jamal Agnew (1995) Chamorro - American footballer.

Sean Reid-Foley (1995) Chamorro - professional baseball player.

Peter Michael Perez (2000) Chamorro / Italian, Dutch, Hungarian - singer and model.

KC Deleon Guerrero (?) Chamorro - musician.

Angelo Villagomez (?) Chamorro - environmentalist, blogger and model.

The Crank / Frank Camacho (1988) Camacho - mixed martial artist.

Angel Vega (?) Chamorro - model.

Luke Fernandez (?) Chamorro - model.

Joshua Sapakoff (?) Chamorro - model.

Jon Kanemoto (?) Chamorro - Mister Guam 2016.

Adrian Calugay (?) Chamorro - dancer and actor.

Johnny Sablan (?) Chamorro - singer.

Ariel Perez Dimalanta (?) Chamorro - graphic artist.

Filamore Palomo Alcon (?) Chamorro - artist.

Francisco “Frank” Rabon (?) Chamorro - dancer.

Herman Crisostomo (?) Chamorro - photographer and filmmaker.

Kie Susuico (?) Chamorro - artist.

Jeffrey Crook (?) Chamorro - rapper.

Mark Dell’Isola (?) Chamorro - artist.

Vince Reyes seia (?) Chamorro - dance leader.

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The Socially Conscious Shopper’s Guide to Buying Coffee and Tea

Photo-illustration: Eater

Expand your collection with these online shops

A cup of coffee or tea might seem like such a simple ritual. But our daily cup (or two, or three) owes everything to our colonial, slave-built economy that relied on European and American trade with Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. The legacy of exploitation in the coffee and tea industries still manifests today, depressing wages and earnings for workers and degrading natural ecosystems. One, though not the only, aspect of that legacy is trade. The fair trade movement that solidified in the late 1980s as a Fair Trade certification sought to tip the scales in favor of workers. More recently, the direct trade movement — which, as its name suggests, is built on direct exchanges between farmers and roasters — has emerged as an alternative to create still greater transparency and worker profit.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended our most trusted routines, down to how we’re buying and drinking our coffee. Maybe all of this has prompted you to rethink what goes into your daily cup, who made it possible, and who profits. Maybe you’re tired of parsing corporate statements like the one Starbucks produced earlier this month, after it initially prohibited employees from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. Whether you’re in a rut with your morning brew and want to shake things up, you’re new to home-brewing and aren’t sure where to shop, or you want to support more BIPOC-owned and socially conscious businesses, let this list of 30 sources for buying coffee and tea online be a source of inspiration.

These purveyors source their product from around the world, and many are direct trade or are working to reimagine who owns tea and coffee culture. All of them offer online shopping, and some may offer contactless pick-ups. If you like the convenience of subscriptions, many offer those, too.

Whole Bean Coffee

Many coffee roasters source their beans from at least two global regions. If a specific region or country is the focus, that’s noted below.

BLK & Bold: You may have seen BLK & Bold at Whole Foods, but the brand’s selection of blends and single-origin coffees, as well as its teas, is also available directly online. Founded by Rod Johnson and Pernell Cezar, BLK & Bold donates 5 percent of its profits to organizations that benefit young people in Black communities in major cities across America.

Black Baza Coffee (India): This coffee roaster and grassroots organization works with growers in India to create a socially and environmentally sustainable model that supports biodiversity — a variety of species essential to healthy and resilient ecosystems. Arabica and robusta coffee beans, as well as chicory, are available from a number of partner coffee producers and microlots.

Boon Boona Coffee (East Africa): Boon Boona offers green coffee beans as well as roasted. The company’s founder, Efrem Fesaha, grew up with home-pan-roasted coffee, traditional in East African coffee ceremonies, and saw a demand in Seattle for unroasted beans. Boon Boona partners with farmers in East African countries, including Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.

Coffee Project NY: Besides selling whole bean house blends and single-origin coffees from around the world, Coffee Project NY champions education and certification through the Specialty Coffee Association. What Kaleena Teoh and Chi Sum Ngai started as a small cafe in the East Village has expanded to two other brick-and-mortar locations, including a flagship in Queens.

Driftaway Coffee: Anu Menon and Suyog Mody founded Driftaway with social and environmental sustainability in mind. The company, which roasts and ships from Brooklyn, develops long-term relationships with farms in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, and Rwanda and provides price transparency for all offerings.

Kahawa 1893 (Kenya): This brand, which shines a spotlight on Kenyan coffee from the Kisii region, gets its name from the year missionaries first planted coffee in Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo, a third-generation coffee farmer, founded the company to reimagine the coffee supply chain and bring more profit to women farmers in Kenya.

Maru Coffee: Los Angeles-based Maru, started by Jacob Park and Joonmo Kim, sells whole beans in seasonal limited editions. It began as a tiny coffee shop that expanded into a larger location in LA’s Arts District, where it began roasting its own coffees from small batches of beans.

Nguyen Coffee Supply (Vietnam): Founded by Sahra Nguyen and billing itself as the “first ever Vietnamese-American-owned” coffee importer, all Nguyen arabica and robusta bean coffees are organically grown in Vietnam’s Central Highlands by a fourth-generation farmer known as Mr. Ton and roasted in Brooklyn. The brand currently offers three blends, Loyalty, Courage, and the high-caffeine Grit.

Not So Urban Coffee & Roastery: This small-batch micro roaster outside Atlanta roasts a selection of single-origin coffees to order. Its beans are ethically and sustainably sourced from growers around the world, with a current focus on East African countries.

Portrait Coffee: Another Atlanta-area roaster, Portrait is based in Southwest Atlanta. It offers a tailored selection of blends and single-origin beans. The company is committed to growing coffee careers in the Historic West End community while changing the face of specialty coffee “to include the black and brown folks who have been cropped out.”

Red Bay Coffee: Founded by the Oakland-based artist Keba Konte, Red Bay has a mission of community connection and grower empowerment. It sells a range of coffees online, including Carver’s Dream, a “bright, fruit-forward” blend of Guatemalan and Burundi coffees, and Coltrane, a medium-roast single origin from Colombia Cauca Piendamo with notes of black grape and dark chocolate.

Sweet Unity Farms Coffee (Tanzania): Started by David Robinson, the son of baseball titan Jackie Robinson, this farm belongs to a community of third-generation coffee farmers in Tanzania. The brand, which champions community investment and direct trade between farmers and roasters, sells 100 percent Arabica beans grown by family-owned cooperatives in Tanzania and Ethiopia and partners with family-owned roasters in California and New Jersey.

Tea

Just like coffee, tea is a fresh product that loses complexity and aroma over time, so for specialty teas, always note harvest date. Because a number of tea sellers sell “tea” in the colloquial sense — infusions of botanical ingredients — we use tea here to mean Camellia sinensis as well as yerba mate and herbal infusions. Sellers that specialize exclusively in Camellia sinensis from one region or country of origin are noted below.

Adjourn Teahouse: Founded by LaTonia Cokely and based in Washington, D.C., Adjourn specializes in aromatic hand-blended black teas with a wellness focus, incorporating botanicals like blue butterfly pea flowers, lemongrass, carrot, and ginger.

Brooklyn Tea: From their store in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Ali Wright and Jamila McGill offer a wide variety of teas, including green and white teas and tea blends, aged pu’ehr and oolong, mate, Rooibos, and other herbal tisanes. Brooklyn Tea partners with Tahuti Ma’at to provide compost to a community garden in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Calabash Tea & Tonic: Owned by a naturopath and fifth-generation herbalist, this D.C.-based company has an express wellness focus and offers herbal tonics alongside its flavored botanical blends.

Chai Walli (India): This Australian company, founded by an Indian Australian, works with organic and fair trade farms in India’s Assam Valley to source its tea. The range of small-batch spiced tea blends incorporates Ayurvedic knowledge from the founder’s own family. Ships to the United States.

Cuples Tea House: A tea store in Baltimore that ships nationwide, this is a one-stop shop for black and green tea blends, milk oolong, South African mate, and flavored teas, as well as herbal blends like chamomile, South African Rooibos, and hibiscus.

Eli Tea: Founded by 2017 Eater Young Gun Elias Majid, this tea shop in Birmingham, Michigan, offers an array of black, green, oolong, and white loose leaf teas, as well as chai blends and herbal teas with transparent sourcing.

Just Add Honey Tea Company: This Atlanta-based tea company carries a large selection of caffeinated teas and tea blends, from matcha to a high-caffeine mix of green tea, mate, and dried papaya. It also offers non-caffeinated herbal options, like chicory and cinnamon.

INI Sips: A family- and veteran-owned company based in New Britain, Connecticut, this shop sells 16 teas, including one ceremonial-grade matcha, and a small selection of direct trade coffees.

Kettl (Japan): Through its unique relationships with tea growers in Japan, Kettl has become the go-to for restaurants and Japanese tea lovers for the freshness and quality of its teas, which, because of supply chains, would not otherwise be available in the U.S. It has a small brick-and-mortar storefront in Manhattan but ships its shincha, matcha, genmaicha, rare Japanese oolong and black tea, and sobacha nationwide.

Kolkata Chai Co. (India): Through their New York shop, Ayan and Ani Sanyal — motivated by the appropriation of masala chai that they observed — aim to reclaim chai’s cultural roots. The company currently offers two DIY chai kits, a masala chai with Assam, green cardamom, cinnamon, black cardamom, black pepper, and cloves, and rose masala chai.

Matero (South America): With a mission to celebrate yerba mate culture, this online shop sells a wide selection of ethically and sustainably sourced mate from around South America. Loose leaf and tea bags are both available, as are calabaza (porongo) and bombillas.

Puehr Brooklyn (China): This Brooklyn-based teashop specializes in aged cake pu’ehr, as you might imagine, but its online shop also offers a variety of oolong, green, and white tea.

Raven & Hummingbird Tea Co. (Squamish Nation): A mother and daughter team, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and Senaqwila Wyss, are behind this Coast Salish-owned tea company. Their small batch teas are sourced from plants in their Xwemeltchsn community garden in West Vancouver, through wild picking, and from local herbal distributors.

Red Lake Nation Foods (Red Lake Nation): A member of the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Red Lake Nation Foods offers a selection of herbal teas and tea blends in addition to wild fruit jellies, jams and syrups, and Red Lake Nation–cultivated wild rice.

Serengeti Teas & Spices (Africa): This Harlem fixture isn’t just for herbal teas, although it carries a wide variety, including moringa, Moroccan mint teas, sorrel, South African Rooibos, and turmeric blends. It also specializes in premium and rare coffee, tea, and cocoa from countries around Africa.

Song Tea & Ceramics (China and Taiwan): With new selections of teas from China and Taiwan each year, Song Tea is an excellent source for fresh leaves, including green, white, oolong, red, and aged teas. It also offers botanical blends like sobacha, marshmallow, holy basil, and carrot. For those with the budget, Song also offers a small collection of rare aged teas.

Té Company (Taiwan): With a small tearoom in lower Manhattan and an impressive online shop, Té first got its start by partnering with fine dining restaurants. It specializes in high quality full leaf oolong tea from Taiwan that would otherwise not be available in the U.S. Besides oolong, it offers green, white, black, and herbal teas, including rare and vintage selections. Everything is sourced directly from tea producers.

Tea Drunk (China): Another tea oasis in lower Manhattan with a stocked online shop, Tea Drunk is unique in that it sources and imports directly from heritage tea growers in China. A (virtual) visit to Tea Drunk is an education in and celebration of terroir, season, and craft across green, yellow, white, Wu Long, red, and black teas, including pu’ehr.

Katie Okamoto is a Los Angeles–based writer and former editor at Metropolis, the New York–based design and architecture monthly. Find her work at katieokamoto.com and occasionally on Twitter and Instagram.

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Expand your collection with these online shops

A cup of coffee or tea might seem like such a simple ritual. But our daily cup (or two, or three) owes everything to our colonial, slave-built economy that relied on European and American trade with Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. The legacy of exploitation in the coffee and tea industries still manifests today, depressing wages and earnings for workers and degrading natural ecosystems. One, though not the only, aspect of that legacy is trade. The fair trade movement that solidified in the late 1980s as a Fair Trade certification sought to tip the scales in favor of workers. More recently, the direct trade movement — which, as its name suggests, is built on direct exchanges between farmers and roasters — has emerged as an alternative to create still greater transparency and worker profit.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended our most trusted routines, down to how we’re buying and drinking our coffee. Maybe all of this has prompted you to rethink what goes into your daily cup, who made it possible, and who profits. Maybe you’re tired of parsing corporate statements like the one Starbucks produced earlier this month, after it initially prohibited employees from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. Whether you’re in a rut with your morning brew and want to shake things up, you’re new to home-brewing and aren’t sure where to shop, or you want to support more BIPOC-owned and socially conscious businesses, let this list of 30 sources for buying coffee and tea online be a source of inspiration.

These purveyors source their product from around the world, and many are direct trade or are working to reimagine who owns tea and coffee culture. All of them offer online shopping, and some may offer contactless pick-ups. If you like the convenience of subscriptions, many offer those, too.

Whole Bean Coffee

Many coffee roasters source their beans from at least two global regions. If a specific region or country is the focus, that’s noted below.

BLK & Bold: You may have seen BLK & Bold at Whole Foods, but the brand’s selection of blends and single-origin coffees, as well as its teas, is also available directly online. Founded by Rod Johnson and Pernell Cezar, BLK & Bold donates 5 percent of its profits to organizations that benefit young people in Black communities in major cities across America.

Black Baza Coffee (India): This coffee roaster and grassroots organization works with growers in India to create a socially and environmentally sustainable model that supports biodiversity — a variety of species essential to healthy and resilient ecosystems. Arabica and robusta coffee beans, as well as chicory, are available from a number of partner coffee producers and microlots.

Boon Boona Coffee (East Africa): Boon Boona offers green coffee beans as well as roasted. The company’s founder, Efrem Fesaha, grew up with home-pan-roasted coffee, traditional in East African coffee ceremonies, and saw a demand in Seattle for unroasted beans. Boon Boona partners with farmers in East African countries, including Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.

Coffee Project NY: Besides selling whole bean house blends and single-origin coffees from around the world, Coffee Project NY champions education and certification through the Specialty Coffee Association. What Kaleena Teoh and Chi Sum Ngai started as a small cafe in the East Village has expanded to two other brick-and-mortar locations, including a flagship in Queens.

Driftaway Coffee: Anu Menon and Suyog Mody founded Driftaway with social and environmental sustainability in mind. The company, which roasts and ships from Brooklyn, develops long-term relationships with farms in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, and Rwanda and provides price transparency for all offerings.

Kahawa 1893 (Kenya): This brand, which shines a spotlight on Kenyan coffee from the Kisii region, gets its name from the year missionaries first planted coffee in Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo, a third-generation coffee farmer, founded the company to reimagine the coffee supply chain and bring more profit to women farmers in Kenya.

Maru Coffee: Los Angeles-based Maru, started by Jacob Park and Joonmo Kim, sells whole beans in seasonal limited editions. It began as a tiny coffee shop that expanded into a larger location in LA’s Arts District, where it began roasting its own coffees from small batches of beans.

Nguyen Coffee Supply (Vietnam): Founded by Sahra Nguyen and billing itself as the “first ever Vietnamese-American-owned” coffee importer, all Nguyen arabica and robusta bean coffees are organically grown in Vietnam’s Central Highlands by a fourth-generation farmer known as Mr. Ton and roasted in Brooklyn. The brand currently offers three blends, Loyalty, Courage, and the high-caffeine Grit.

Not So Urban Coffee & Roastery: This small-batch micro roaster outside Atlanta roasts a selection of single-origin coffees to order. Its beans are ethically and sustainably sourced from growers around the world, with a current focus on East African countries.

Portrait Coffee: Another Atlanta-area roaster, Portrait is based in Southwest Atlanta. It offers a tailored selection of blends and single-origin beans. The company is committed to growing coffee careers in the Historic West End community while changing the face of specialty coffee “to include the black and brown folks who have been cropped out.”

Red Bay Coffee: Founded by the Oakland-based artist Keba Konte, Red Bay has a mission of community connection and grower empowerment. It sells a range of coffees online, including Carver’s Dream, a “bright, fruit-forward” blend of Guatemalan and Burundi coffees, and Coltrane, a medium-roast single origin from Colombia Cauca Piendamo with notes of black grape and dark chocolate.

Sweet Unity Farms Coffee (Tanzania): Started by David Robinson, the son of baseball titan Jackie Robinson, this farm belongs to a community of third-generation coffee farmers in Tanzania. The brand, which champions community investment and direct trade between farmers and roasters, sells 100 percent Arabica beans grown by family-owned cooperatives in Tanzania and Ethiopia and partners with family-owned roasters in California and New Jersey.

Tea

Just like coffee, tea is a fresh product that loses complexity and aroma over time, so for specialty teas, always note harvest date. Because a number of tea sellers sell “tea” in the colloquial sense — infusions of botanical ingredients — we use tea here to mean Camellia sinensis as well as yerba mate and herbal infusions. Sellers that specialize exclusively in Camellia sinensis from one region or country of origin are noted below.

Adjourn Teahouse: Founded by LaTonia Cokely and based in Washington, D.C., Adjourn specializes in aromatic hand-blended black teas with a wellness focus, incorporating botanicals like blue butterfly pea flowers, lemongrass, carrot, and ginger.

Brooklyn Tea: From their store in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Ali Wright and Jamila McGill offer a wide variety of teas, including green and white teas and tea blends, aged pu’ehr and oolong, mate, Rooibos, and other herbal tisanes. Brooklyn Tea partners with Tahuti Ma’at to provide compost to a community garden in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Calabash Tea & Tonic: Owned by a naturopath and fifth-generation herbalist, this D.C.-based company has an express wellness focus and offers herbal tonics alongside its flavored botanical blends.

Chai Walli (India): This Australian company, founded by an Indian Australian, works with organic and fair trade farms in India’s Assam Valley to source its tea. The range of small-batch spiced tea blends incorporates Ayurvedic knowledge from the founder’s own family. Ships to the United States.

Cuples Tea House: A tea store in Baltimore that ships nationwide, this is a one-stop shop for black and green tea blends, milk oolong, South African mate, and flavored teas, as well as herbal blends like chamomile, South African Rooibos, and hibiscus.

Eli Tea: Founded by 2017 Eater Young Gun Elias Majid, this tea shop in Birmingham, Michigan, offers an array of black, green, oolong, and white loose leaf teas, as well as chai blends and herbal teas with transparent sourcing.

Just Add Honey Tea Company: This Atlanta-based tea company carries a large selection of caffeinated teas and tea blends, from matcha to a high-caffeine mix of green tea, mate, and dried papaya. It also offers non-caffeinated herbal options, like chicory and cinnamon.

INI Sips: A family- and veteran-owned company based in New Britain, Connecticut, this shop sells 16 teas, including one ceremonial-grade matcha, and a small selection of direct trade coffees.

Kettl (Japan): Through its unique relationships with tea growers in Japan, Kettl has become the go-to for restaurants and Japanese tea lovers for the freshness and quality of its teas, which, because of supply chains, would not otherwise be available in the U.S. It has a small brick-and-mortar storefront in Manhattan but ships its shincha, matcha, genmaicha, rare Japanese oolong and black tea, and sobacha nationwide.

Kolkata Chai Co. (India): Through their New York shop, Ayan and Ani Sanyal — motivated by the appropriation of masala chai that they observed — aim to reclaim chai’s cultural roots. The company currently offers two DIY chai kits, a masala chai with Assam, green cardamom, cinnamon, black cardamom, black pepper, and cloves, and rose masala chai.

Matero (South America): With a mission to celebrate yerba mate culture, this online shop sells a wide selection of ethically and sustainably sourced mate from around South America. Loose leaf and tea bags are both available, as are calabaza (porongo) and bombillas.

Puehr Brooklyn (China): This Brooklyn-based teashop specializes in aged cake pu’ehr, as you might imagine, but its online shop also offers a variety of oolong, green, and white tea.

Raven & Hummingbird Tea Co. (Squamish Nation): A mother and daughter team, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and Senaqwila Wyss, are behind this Coast Salish-owned tea company. Their small batch teas are sourced from plants in their Xwemeltchsn community garden in West Vancouver, through wild picking, and from local herbal distributors.

Red Lake Nation Foods (Red Lake Nation): A member of the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Red Lake Nation Foods offers a selection of herbal teas and tea blends in addition to wild fruit jellies, jams and syrups, and Red Lake Nation–cultivated wild rice.

Serengeti Teas & Spices (Africa): This Harlem fixture isn’t just for herbal teas, although it carries a wide variety, including moringa, Moroccan mint teas, sorrel, South African Rooibos, and turmeric blends. It also specializes in premium and rare coffee, tea, and cocoa from countries around Africa.

Song Tea & Ceramics (China and Taiwan): With new selections of teas from China and Taiwan each year, Song Tea is an excellent source for fresh leaves, including green, white, oolong, red, and aged teas. It also offers botanical blends like sobacha, marshmallow, holy basil, and carrot. For those with the budget, Song also offers a small collection of rare aged teas.

Té Company (Taiwan): With a small tearoom in lower Manhattan and an impressive online shop, Té first got its start by partnering with fine dining restaurants. It specializes in high quality full leaf oolong tea from Taiwan that would otherwise not be available in the U.S. Besides oolong, it offers green, white, black, and herbal teas, including rare and vintage selections. Everything is sourced directly from tea producers.

Tea Drunk (China): Another tea oasis in lower Manhattan with a stocked online shop, Tea Drunk is unique in that it sources and imports directly from heritage tea growers in China. A (virtual) visit to Tea Drunk is an education in and celebration of terroir, season, and craft across green, yellow, white, Wu Long, red, and black teas, including pu’ehr.

Katie Okamoto is a Los Angeles–based writer and former editor at Metropolis, the New York–based design and architecture monthly. Find her work at katieokamoto.com and occasionally on Twitter and Instagram.

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Slovacii au fost considerați popor minor și au rămas istoric în urma Cehiei germanizată de la începuturile ei ca stat slav. Slovacia a intrat în umbra Ungariei și asta i-a dăunat istoric. Ungurii n-au fost ei extrem de dezvoltați și mentalul lor ca popor i-a silit să fie oarecum intoleranți și agresiv identitari. De la început au fost puțini. Atât de puțini că unii istorici presupun azi că limba maghiară sau triburile maghiare erau turcice și fino-ugrici erau de fapt avarii care au absorbit pe ungurii cuceritori. Am citit wikipedia rusă că cumanii sau polovti cum îi numeau au absorbit pe tătari și mongoli formând bazele a ceea ce azi sunt și poporul kazah. De altfel istoria ne arată mai degrabă exemple de asimilare a poporului cucerit a cuceritorilor decât invers mai ales dacă era aristocrație militară și nu un popor de agricultură. Dacă poporul venit era mai mult agricol avea toate șansele să-și impună limba. D-aia limba slavă a supraviețuit sau anglo-saxonii au înlocuit bretono-romanii. Pentru că erau în principal agricultori și negustori și mai puțin cuceritori.. De aceea vikingii n-au schimbat limba slavă dar au dat numele Rusiei ca și francii care n-au schimbat limba franceză sau normanzi care la fel ca vikingii n-au schimbat baza anglo-saxonă. Deci e posibil (ipoteza e a unui istoric ungur) ca maghiara de azi să fie o avară iar ungurii inițiali să fi fost turcici absorbiți. Dar asta nu i-a împiedicat să fie destul de intens colonizatori pentru că azi genetic ungurii sunt exact slavi.

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Orice popor din stepe era "de origine scitică". Scit nu desemna o etnie ci apartenența la un mod de viață si o cultură. Cam cum ai spune azi european. Sau african. Fiind originari din zona stepelor fireste ca stramosii ungurilor apartineau neamurilor scitice. Nici indo europenii nu erau un singur neam, un popor, o etnie in sensul de azi. Erau pur si simplu populatii din zona respectiva. Si expresia "strafundurile Asiei" e un pic ciudata. Pentru cei care traiau in zona respectiva nu era nici un strafund, era pur si simplu  arealul lor de viața. Neamurile scitice erau caracterizate de faptul ca traiau pe zone foarte intinse fiind in permanentă miscare, un nomadism circular. Fiind neamuri de calareti parcurgeau distante imense. Fara indoială printre acele neamuri se aflau si stramosii ungurilor.

Limba originară cred ca s-a pastrat bine. Nu vorbesc si nu inteleg maghiară, spun ceea ce spun strict pe ceea ce am citit despre. Maghiarii au dat limba si numele poporului actual, care s-a format pe teritoriul aproximativ al Ungariei de azi. Spun aproximativ deoarece formarea a avut loc pe un teritoriu mai mare decat actualul contur geografic al Ungariei. De format, poporul s-a format prin aglutinarea si aculturarea diverselor populatii preexistente. Era epoca in care toti optau pentru a fi ceva. Isi alegeau un nume. Patriotismele si nationalismele actuale nu existau atunci.

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Figuras públicas angolanas concorrem aos prémios “African Entertainment Awards 2019” . Os apresentadores angolanos Daniel Nascimento e Stela de Carvalho, ambos do canal ZAP, o radiaslista Jorge Gomes, e os músicos Preto Show, Titica, Halison Paixão, Matias Damásio e a dupla Yobass, concorrem à diversas categorias na quinta edição do “African Entertainment Awards – USA”, que irá decorrer no próximo sábado 19 de Outubro, em Nova Jersy, EUA. . Dos nomeados para esta gala de premiação, constam 23 angolanos dentre os quais a dupla Yobass que concorre a categoria de “Melhor Grupo”, o cantor Matias Damásio na categoria de “Melhor Artista da África Central”, Titica com o vídeo “Reza Madame” e Preto Show ft Davido com o vídeo “Mamawe” concorrem a categoria de melhor vídeo. Enquanto que os apresentadores Jorge Gomes, Daniel Nascimento e Stela de Carvalho, concorrem a categoria de “Melhor Host” dos troféus AEAUSA 2019. Angola esta também representada pelos artistas Gloria Silva, Yola Semedo, Edmázia, Kotingo e Calado Show. A gala de premiação do “African Entertainment Awards- USA 2019” acontecerá em Nova Jersy, Estados Unidos da América no sábado dia 19 de Outubro . . African Entertainment Awards (AEA), tem como objectivo premiar o talento dos artistas africanos em várias áreas do entretenimento. Tem como missão de usar o entretenimento como um veículo para apoiar, celebrar, promover e elevar as conquistas e avanços de todos os africanos e africanos na Diáspora através de música, actuação, deportes, empresas, sem fins lucrativos, educação e outras formas de entretenimento. Confira abaixo: Melhor Grupo: Yobass Melhor Colaboração: Halison Paixão ft. Filho do Zua – Alma Gêmea Titica ft. Pabllo Vittar – Come e Baza Preto Show ft. Davido – Banger Melhor Videoclipe: Titica – Reza Madame Preto Show ft. Davido – Banger Melhor Artista Gospel: Gloria Silva Melhor artista masculino Palop: Matias Damásio Preto Show Badoxa Melhor Artista Feminina Palop: Yola Semedo Edmazia Melhor Artista em Ascensão: Chetekela Melhor Single: Matias Damásio – Teu Olhar Preto Show – Banger Melhor artista masculino da África Central: Matias Damásio Melhor artista feminina da África Central: Yola Semedo https://www.instagram.com/p/B3wtVqpnZZA/?igshid=1ijui425tm4f5

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Taps To Riches Trucos Codigos ~ Truco Per Juegos

Taps To Riches Trucos Codigos ~ Truco Per Juegos Many Americans are humorously reluctant to even approach the topic of race and cultural integration. Beztłuszcozwa silikonowa baza pod makijaż błyskawicznie wygładza i ożywia skórę, tuszuje drobne niedoskonałości skóry, ujednolica jej koloryt. Przedłuża trwałość makijażu nie wysuszając delikatnej skóry twarzy. Doskonale matuje, dzięki zawartym w składzie silikonowym polimerom. Sprawdza się w ekstremalnych warunkach, również samodzielnie, bez podkładu. Przeznaczona dla każdego typu skóry, nie ściąga i nie wysusza. Digital news organizations are hiring a mix of legacy and non-legacy journalists, with a clear emphasis on new storytelling skills. One area where legacy skills are in demand is investigative work. The Investigative News Network estimates that at least 80% of the journalists working at its 92 outlets are from legacy jobs. At ProPublica, 25 of its 41 staffers are legacy transfers. But increasingly, editors of digital natives say they are hiring younger staffers with better digital instincts and skills. The training of traditional journalism is not perfectly suited to what digital audiences are looking to read,” says Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. Unlawful Organization Act: This law empowered the Minister of Defense to order any person or class of persons to evacuate or assemble in taps to riches profile any particular building or premises or area in time of war or during operations for the prevention or suppression of internal disorder. The tea party caucus has been appeased for the last three weeks, not subdued. Yes, they lost a fight and, yes, sane Republicans such as John McCain are now chastising them for dragging the party taps to riches down to its worst popularity ratings ever. But, in their districts, these guys are heroes. Their most vocal supporters are only sorry the shutdown did not continue and the day of default arrive.

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The foregoing, and the reality of our times, allow us to state that the history of one human group or of humanity goes through at least three stages. The first is characterized by a low level of productive forces — of man's domination over nature; the mode of production is of a rudimentary character, private appropriation of the means of production does not yet exist. The ANC is losing its grip on its rule because of corruptions and other shenanigans that it is involved in. This article below looks at how South Africa is ill-prepared fir a time when the ruling ANC-party is no longer credible as a stabilizing force inside South Africa. Having won the support of business and liberal nationalists, and also isolating the Verkrampte (Conservative) elements in the National Party,the new political alliance(businessmen, politicians, and security) embarked upon a three phase 'rationalization' program to reorganize the State. There are two kinds of digital communication: those that improve our lives, and those that harm. If that seems too black and white for you, consider our second-greatest resource: time. Besides love, time is perhaps the most valuable thing we have. Though everyone this side of terminal illness or calamity has time in spades, it is limited and non-renewable. You can't taps to riches profile buy more of it. Compare time with money, which is distributed unevenly yet virtually unlimited for those with the wherewithal to create it. By all means, be careful when spending your hard-earned cash; but spend your time with ruthless discernment. The world has great need for your best work, words and wisdom. It has no need for wasteful or addictive habits. They risk being depicted as the spoilsports of the World Cup because they have had it up to here. Many other South Africans hired for World Cup Jobs - in effect, they were hired as freelance, temporary workers than having a formal contract The spread of a system of casualization has made workers very vulnerable(David Crary, AP)It is sad that the visitors 9(fans) and tourists decided to say out of Soweto, if only they knew what they missed.

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Vasluieni, implicați într-o rețea de permise false! Cereau 2.000 de euro pe un permis falsificat!

REȚEA DESTRUCTURATĂ… În cursul zilei de astăzi, procurorii Direcției de Investigare a Infracțiunilor de Criminalitate Organizată și Terorism – Serviciul Teritorial Ploiești împreună cu ofițeri de poliție judiciară din cadrul BCCO Ploiești au efectuat un număr de 41 de percheziții domiciliare, pe raza a 19 județe și a municipiului București, inclusiv în județul Vaslui, la locuințele unor persoane suspectate de săvârșirea infracțiunilor de aderare la un grup infracțional organizat, instigare la fals intelectual, participație improprie la fals intelectual, dare de mită, instigare la dare de mită, participație improprie la acces ilegal la un sistem informatic, participație improprie la fals informatic, uz de fals și complicitate la uz de fals.

În cauză, s-a reținut faptul că o parte dintre membrii grupului infracțional organizat se ocupau de intermedierea obținerii permiselor de conducere eliberate, fără îndeplinirea condițiilor legale, pe numele unor cetățeni români, de autoritățile competente dintr-o țară africană, iar o altă parte derulau activități de recrutare a persoanelor, cetățeni români, interesați de obținerea frauduloasă a unor asemenea înscrisuri.

Prin aceste manopere dolosive, cetățeni români care nu aveau competențele necesare pentru a dobândi în mod legal, pe teritoriul României, dreptul de a conduce autovehicule pe drumurile publice, au obținut permis de conducere pentru diverse categorii, inclusiv C, D sau E.

Pentru realizarea acestei activități infracționale, persoanele interesate de dobândirea dreptului de a conduce autovehicule pe drumurile publice puneau la dispoziția membrilor grupării datele lor personale, o fotografie tip buletin (sau după caz se lăsau fotografiate de membrii grupării cu un cearceaf alb sau cu un perete alb în spate), un specimen de semnătură, precum și diferite sume de bani, de regulă cuprinse între 2000 și 3000 euro (sau echivalent în alte monede), sumele fiind expediate prin intermediul serviciilor de transfer monetar, de către membrii rețelei infracționale care acționau pe teritoriul țării africane. În continuare erau întocmite în fals documentele care se circumscriu procedurii de obținere a permisului de conducere, iar cu sprijinul liderului grupării, au fost obținute permise de conducere emise de autoritățile din acest stat, dintre care o parte au fost supuse preschimbării cu permise de conducere românești, autentice.

Permisele de conducere emise de autoritățile competente din țara africană erau expediate către România prin intermediul unei societăți de curierat, iar cetățenii români care intrau în posesia permiselor de conducere străine obținute în mod fraudulos se prezentau la serviciile județene ale Direcției Regim Permise de Conducere și Înmatriculare a Vehiculelor sau la S.P.C.R.P.C.I.V. București, unde permisele eliberate de autoritățile străine erau preschimbate cu permise de conducere românești.

Se ajungea astfel la situația în care date informatice nereale, care atestau aparenta dobândire licită a unor permise de conducere străine, să fie implementate în bazele de date ale Direcției Regim Permise de Conducere și Înmatriculare a Vehiculelor, cu consecința creării unor date informatice false legate de aparenta dobândire a dreptului de a conduce autovehicule pe drumurile publice. Ulterior aceste date false stăteau la baza preschimbării permiselor de conducere străine cu permise de conducere românești, rezultând un înscris autentic care nu reflecta realitatea.

Pe această cale, funcționarii publici competenți din cadrul Direcției Regim Permise de Conducere și Înmatriculare a Vehiculelor își depășeau fără vinovăție limitele autorizării la momentul accesării sistemelor informatice ale instituției și implementării datelor nereale în bazele de date românești.

În cadrul activităților investigative desfășurate la data de 14 octombrie au fost vizate un număr de 48 de persoane, cetățeni români, membrii ai grupării care au sprijinit rețeaua infracțională prin efectuarea unor operațiuni de transmitere a datelor care urmau a fi înscrise în permisul de conducere și persoane care în mod fraudulos au obținut permise de conducere în mod ilegal, prin intermediul serviciilor prestate de către membrii grupării.

La sediul DIICOT – Serviciul Teritorial Ploiești au fost conduse, în vederea audierii, un număr de 48 de persoane.

Acțiunea a beneficiat și de suportul jandarmilor din cadrul Grupării de Jandarmi Mobile „Matei Basarab” Ploiești și ai inspectoratelor județene de jandarmi Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Botoșani, Călărași, Constanța, Dâmbovița, Giurgiu, Gorj, Hunedoara, Ialomița, Iași, Olt, Pitești, Teleorman, Vâlcea și Vaslui.

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Photo-illustration: Eater Expand your collection with these online shops A cup of coffee or tea might seem like such a simple ritual. But our daily cup (or two, or three) owes everything to our colonial, slave-built economy that relied on European and American trade with Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. The legacy of exploitation in the coffee and tea industries still manifests today, depressing wages and earnings for workers and degrading natural ecosystems. One, though not the only, aspect of that legacy is trade. The fair trade movement that solidified in the late 1980s as a Fair Trade certification sought to tip the scales in favor of workers. More recently, the direct trade movement — which, as its name suggests, is built on direct exchanges between farmers and roasters — has emerged as an alternative to create still greater transparency and worker profit. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our most trusted routines, down to how we’re buying and drinking our coffee. Maybe all of this has prompted you to rethink what goes into your daily cup, who made it possible, and who profits. Maybe you’re tired of parsing corporate statements like the one Starbucks produced earlier this month, after it initially prohibited employees from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. Whether you’re in a rut with your morning brew and want to shake things up, you’re new to home-brewing and aren’t sure where to shop, or you want to support more BIPOC-owned and socially conscious businesses, let this list of 30 sources for buying coffee and tea online be a source of inspiration. These purveyors source their product from around the world, and many are direct trade or are working to reimagine who owns tea and coffee culture. All of them offer online shopping, and some may offer contactless pick-ups. If you like the convenience of subscriptions, many offer those, too. Whole Bean Coffee Many coffee roasters source their beans from at least two global regions. If a specific region or country is the focus, that’s noted below. BLK & Bold: You may have seen BLK & Bold at Whole Foods, but the brand’s selection of blends and single-origin coffees, as well as its teas, is also available directly online. Founded by Rod Johnson and Pernell Cezar, BLK & Bold donates 5 percent of its profits to organizations that benefit young people in Black communities in major cities across America. Black Baza Coffee (India): This coffee roaster and grassroots organization works with growers in India to create a socially and environmentally sustainable model that supports biodiversity — a variety of species essential to healthy and resilient ecosystems. Arabica and robusta coffee beans, as well as chicory, are available from a number of partner coffee producers and microlots. Boon Boona Coffee (East Africa): Boon Boona offers green coffee beans as well as roasted. The company’s founder, Efrem Fesaha, grew up with home-pan-roasted coffee, traditional in East African coffee ceremonies, and saw a demand in Seattle for unroasted beans. Boon Boona partners with farmers in East African countries, including Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. Coffee Project NY: Besides selling whole bean house blends and single-origin coffees from around the world, Coffee Project NY champions education and certification through the Specialty Coffee Association. What Kaleena Teoh and Chi Sum Ngai started as a small cafe in the East Village has expanded to two other brick-and-mortar locations, including a flagship in Queens. Driftaway Coffee: Anu Menon and Suyog Mody founded Driftaway with social and environmental sustainability in mind. The company, which roasts and ships from Brooklyn, develops long-term relationships with farms in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, and Rwanda and provides price transparency for all offerings. Kahawa 1893 (Kenya): This brand, which shines a spotlight on Kenyan coffee from the Kisii region, gets its name from the year missionaries first planted coffee in Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo, a third-generation coffee farmer, founded the company to reimagine the coffee supply chain and bring more profit to women farmers in Kenya. Maru Coffee: Los Angeles-based Maru, started by Jacob Park and Joonmo Kim, sells whole beans in seasonal limited editions. It began as a tiny coffee shop that expanded into a larger location in LA’s Arts District, where it began roasting its own coffees from small batches of beans. Nguyen Coffee Supply (Vietnam): Founded by Sahra Nguyen and billing itself as the “first ever Vietnamese-American-owned” coffee importer, all Nguyen arabica and robusta bean coffees are organically grown in Vietnam’s Central Highlands by a fourth-generation farmer known as Mr. Ton and roasted in Brooklyn. The brand currently offers three blends, Loyalty, Courage, and the high-caffeine Grit. Not So Urban Coffee & Roastery: This small-batch micro roaster outside Atlanta roasts a selection of single-origin coffees to order. Its beans are ethically and sustainably sourced from growers around the world, with a current focus on East African countries. Portrait Coffee: Another Atlanta-area roaster, Portrait is based in Southwest Atlanta. It offers a tailored selection of blends and single-origin beans. The company is committed to growing coffee careers in the Historic West End community while changing the face of specialty coffee “to include the black and brown folks who have been cropped out.” Red Bay Coffee: Founded by the Oakland-based artist Keba Konte, Red Bay has a mission of community connection and grower empowerment. It sells a range of coffees online, including Carver’s Dream, a “bright, fruit-forward” blend of Guatemalan and Burundi coffees, and Coltrane, a medium-roast single origin from Colombia Cauca Piendamo with notes of black grape and dark chocolate. Sweet Unity Farms Coffee (Tanzania): Started by David Robinson, the son of baseball titan Jackie Robinson, this farm belongs to a community of third-generation coffee farmers in Tanzania. The brand, which champions community investment and direct trade between farmers and roasters, sells 100 percent Arabica beans grown by family-owned cooperatives in Tanzania and Ethiopia and partners with family-owned roasters in California and New Jersey. Tea Just like coffee, tea is a fresh product that loses complexity and aroma over time, so for specialty teas, always note harvest date. Because a number of tea sellers sell “tea” in the colloquial sense — infusions of botanical ingredients — we use tea here to mean Camellia sinensis as well as yerba mate and herbal infusions. Sellers that specialize exclusively in Camellia sinensis from one region or country of origin are noted below. Adjourn Teahouse: Founded by LaTonia Cokely and based in Washington, D.C., Adjourn specializes in aromatic hand-blended black teas with a wellness focus, incorporating botanicals like blue butterfly pea flowers, lemongrass, carrot, and ginger. Brooklyn Tea: From their store in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Ali Wright and Jamila McGill offer a wide variety of teas, including green and white teas and tea blends, aged pu’ehr and oolong, mate, Rooibos, and other herbal tisanes. Brooklyn Tea partners with Tahuti Ma’at to provide compost to a community garden in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Calabash Tea & Tonic: Owned by a naturopath and fifth-generation herbalist, this D.C.-based company has an express wellness focus and offers herbal tonics alongside its flavored botanical blends. Chai Walli (India): This Australian company, founded by an Indian Australian, works with organic and fair trade farms in India’s Assam Valley to source its tea. The range of small-batch spiced tea blends incorporates Ayurvedic knowledge from the founder’s own family. Ships to the United States. Cuples Tea House: A tea store in Baltimore that ships nationwide, this is a one-stop shop for black and green tea blends, milk oolong, South African mate, and flavored teas, as well as herbal blends like chamomile, South African Rooibos, and hibiscus. Eli Tea: Founded by 2017 Eater Young Gun Elias Majid, this tea shop in Birmingham, Michigan, offers an array of black, green, oolong, and white loose leaf teas, as well as chai blends and herbal teas with transparent sourcing. Just Add Honey Tea Company: This Atlanta-based tea company carries a large selection of caffeinated teas and tea blends, from matcha to a high-caffeine mix of green tea, mate, and dried papaya. It also offers non-caffeinated herbal options, like chicory and cinnamon. INI Sips: A family- and veteran-owned company based in New Britain, Connecticut, this shop sells 16 teas, including one ceremonial-grade matcha, and a small selection of direct trade coffees. Kettl (Japan): Through its unique relationships with tea growers in Japan, Kettl has become the go-to for restaurants and Japanese tea lovers for the freshness and quality of its teas, which, because of supply chains, would not otherwise be available in the U.S. It has a small brick-and-mortar storefront in Manhattan but ships its shincha, matcha, genmaicha, rare Japanese oolong and black tea, and sobacha nationwide. Kolkata Chai Co. (India): Through their New York shop, Ayan and Ani Sanyal — motivated by the appropriation of masala chai that they observed — aim to reclaim chai’s cultural roots. The company currently offers two DIY chai kits, a masala chai with Assam, green cardamom, cinnamon, black cardamom, black pepper, and cloves, and rose masala chai. Matero (South America): With a mission to celebrate yerba mate culture, this online shop sells a wide selection of ethically and sustainably sourced mate from around South America. Loose leaf and tea bags are both available, as are calabaza (porongo) and bombillas. Puehr Brooklyn (China): This Brooklyn-based teashop specializes in aged cake pu’ehr, as you might imagine, but its online shop also offers a variety of oolong, green, and white tea. Raven & Hummingbird Tea Co. (Squamish Nation): A mother and daughter team, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and Senaqwila Wyss, are behind this Coast Salish-owned tea company. Their small batch teas are sourced from plants in their Xwemeltchsn community garden in West Vancouver, through wild picking, and from local herbal distributors. Red Lake Nation Foods (Red Lake Nation): A member of the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Red Lake Nation Foods offers a selection of herbal teas and tea blends in addition to wild fruit jellies, jams and syrups, and Red Lake Nation–cultivated wild rice. Serengeti Teas & Spices (Africa): This Harlem fixture isn’t just for herbal teas, although it carries a wide variety, including moringa, Moroccan mint teas, sorrel, South African Rooibos, and turmeric blends. It also specializes in premium and rare coffee, tea, and cocoa from countries around Africa. Song Tea & Ceramics (China and Taiwan): With new selections of teas from China and Taiwan each year, Song Tea is an excellent source for fresh leaves, including green, white, oolong, red, and aged teas. It also offers botanical blends like sobacha, marshmallow, holy basil, and carrot. For those with the budget, Song also offers a small collection of rare aged teas. Té Company (Taiwan): With a small tearoom in lower Manhattan and an impressive online shop, Té first got its start by partnering with fine dining restaurants. It specializes in high quality full leaf oolong tea from Taiwan that would otherwise not be available in the U.S. Besides oolong, it offers green, white, black, and herbal teas, including rare and vintage selections. Everything is sourced directly from tea producers. Tea Drunk (China): Another tea oasis in lower Manhattan with a stocked online shop, Tea Drunk is unique in that it sources and imports directly from heritage tea growers in China. A (virtual) visit to Tea Drunk is an education in and celebration of terroir, season, and craft across green, yellow, white, Wu Long, red, and black teas, including pu’ehr. Katie Okamoto is a Los Angeles–based writer and former editor at Metropolis, the New York–based design and architecture monthly. Find her work at katieokamoto.com and occasionally on Twitter and Instagram. Photo credits: Hand: Prostock-Studio/GettyShelves: Arman Zhenikeyev/Getty from Eater - All https://ift.tt/3hU75iR

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Echilibrul corpului și al spiritului

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Echilibrul corpului și al spiritului

Echilibrul corpului și al spiritului

  Echilibrul unei ființe umane este dependent de echilibrul mediului înconjurător, și armonia din corpul și sufletul său (ca microcosmos) reflectează armoniile universului ca un întreg (macrocosmos) indiferent dacă este perceput în termeni de mișcări regulate ale corpurilor cerești, sau în termeni de legi ale armoniei muzicale. Este destul de potrivit în acest caz, ca unul dintre principalii traducători ale textelor din limba arabă la mijlocul secolului XII, Hermann de Carinthia, să își încheie lucrarea sa pe cosmologie (De essentiis) cu o descriere a omului în următorii termeni:

„Dumnezeu l-a creat pe om după un model clar în miniatură, prin intermediul corurilor de muze, urmând exemplul armoniei cerești, ale cărei mișcări de conducere, prin ghidarea lor perpetuă, ar tempera tonurile acestei muzici în corpul și sufletul omului.”

Al-Majuzi descria spiritul din om (entitatea care este afectată de muzică)[1] ca un întreg. „Spiritul” este o substanță materială care este împărțită în 3 părți. Primul este „spiritul natural”: apare în ficat și facilitează procesul natural al creșterii, digestiei…etc.

Al doilea este „spiritul vital”: apare în inimă și facilitează mișcările naturale ale respirației și simțirii. Acest „spirit vital” urcă din inimă prin vena carotidă a gâtului la cap, devenind mai pur cu cât progresează și este „cernut” de un grilaj de nervi la baza creierului. Impuritățile sale sunt eliminate prin mucusul din nas. Până ajunge la creier, se transformă într-un corp extrem de subtil, dar rămânând corporal. Are diferite funcții în diferite părți ale creierului. În partea frontală adună toate senzațiile și formează imagini din ele. Apoi le trimite la partea centrală a creierului, unde aduce dovezi pentru a susține aceste imagini. Apoi, fie produce acțiuni ca rezultat al acestei aplicări de motive sau salvează aceste imagini în partea din spate a creierului ca amintiri.

Echilibrul corpului și al spiritului

Al-Majusi merge mai departe spunând că acolo este o mică deschizătură în peretele despărțitor dintre partea centrală și cea din spate a creierului, care este acoperită de un obiect ca un vierme. Când cineva dorește să își amintească ceva, își coboară capul pentru ca această acoperitoare să se deschidă și să lase memoria înăuntru. La acest punct Al-Majusi întreabă dacă spiritul din creier este sufletul, așa cum mulți spun.

Dacă este așa (cum este el înclinat să creadă), atunci din moment ce spiritul este corporal și sufletul este corporal. Sufletul și corpul formează ceva continuu, iar sufletul/spiritul este la cel mai rafinat final. Această opinie referitoare la suflet a cauzat multe probleme când medicina arabă a fost introdusă în Occidentul creștin. Creștinii credeau că sufletul era o entitate separată de corp: putea să supraviețuiască fără trup și era capabil de a simți pedeapsa sau răsplata.

Multe texte au fost scrise din secolul XII într-o încercare de reconciliere a acestor două poziții, și în final, cel puțin în opinia cea mai populară, ideea de o entitate separată a unui suflet etern a prevalat.

  [1] Constantine the African and ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related Texts, editori C. Burnett și D. Jacquart, Leiden, 1994, pp. 99-120.

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