Vanessa Obioha writes about a group of young professionals who are championing the cause for a cleaner environment

From Sweden to Morocco, young people are amplifying their voices on environmental and climate issues. They are on the streets, classrooms urging leaders and citizens to protect the earth from further damage. In Nigeria, a group of young professionals are leading the cause for a cleaner earth.

Known as Humanity Nigeria, a non-profit organisation, the team of over 140 youths from different backgrounds are challenging the status quo and creating awareness on environmental issues.

We are deeply amazed and concerned about the massive and increasing amount of plastic wastes in our environment and the fact that one way or the other, we all contributed to it. Thus, we all must come together, work together, for the sake of the Earth, to free our environments and our Earth, from plastic bottle wastes. This is why we rose as catalysts to bring this to pass as quickly as possible, explained 24-year-old undergraduate Lilian Visinoni, who is a director at the organisation.

She added that the level of enlightenment in Nigeria regarding the environment is relatively low, and as such, the earth and its environment are constantly in danger.

Our environment is currently suffering from excessive plastic bottle wastes and other forms of environmental pollution because of the very low level of enlightenment among the populace. And year after year, our environment suffers more degradation as a result of continuous neglect and abuse.

Identifying the major environmental threats in Nigeria as plastic wastes pollution, oil-spillage, and deforestation, Visinoni warned that if they are not nipped in the bud, the human race will be brought to its knees.

To achieve this, the one-year-old organisation rolled out some campaigns. When it officially launched last year, it started with a Save the Earth global campaign for a clean environment. There were only 25 members at the time. For this year, they are planning the Earth Festival Nigeria which Visinoni superintends.

The Earth Festival Nigeria is a novel idea. It was formed out of the need to raise a global voice for a clean environment by bringing young people together to celebrate youthfulness while reminding the world of the need to keep the earth safe for all.

Themed Earth For All, Visinoni stated that the singular driving force for the festival is to ensure that Nigeria is among countries lending their voice for a cleaner environment.

We need to raise a global voice for the care of the earth, a voice by young Nigerians, from Nigeria, from Africa, so that in the roll call of environmentally friendly nations, Nigeria will come top and be globally respected. And with the global respect for Nigeria as an environmentally conscious and active country, more young Nigerians can stand and take charge in leading more environmental campaigns for the benefit of all.

As a way of encouraging young persons to join their cause, the team will be embarking on a World Guinness Record Challenge. They will be bringing together over 10,000 young volunteers from across the 36 States in Nigeria to help in picking five million pieces of plastic bottle wastes from gutters, streets, and canals to set the Guinness World Record for the highest number of plastic bottle wastes picked by a team in five days.

She calls it an ambitious task to draw global attention and get people to take the environment seriously. Moreover, they have been able to get support and endorsement from some influential personalities in society.

The initial idea was to get rid of one million plastic bottles in three days but when the pandemic happened, they had to re-strategize.

The Earth Festival Nigeria which was birthed in February is scheduled for September 22 to 27, while the Guinness World Record Challenge will kick off on September 22 to 26.

Also, there will be a Lagos State Public Participation Day scheduled for September 26.

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Islam was going through its golden era of philosophical exploration and scientific discoveries. In front of it were two roads. One of enlightenment, modernity, innovation and peaceful co-existence. The other of orthodoxy, insularity and violent impulses.

The year 1095 was perhaps the most important one in the life of Islam since 610, the year Prophet Muhammad is believed to have had his first revelation.

Islam was going through its golden era of philosophical exploration and scientific discoveries. In front of it were two roads. One of enlightenment, modernity, innovation and peaceful co-existence. The other of orthodoxy, insularity and violent impulses.

It chose the path of darkness and could never recover.

It was in 1095 that Abu Hamid Al Ghazali an otherwise outstanding thinker, jurist and mystic published his book Tahafut al-Falasifa and launched a visceral attack on philosophy and openness of learning. He played on the faiths worst instincts to discredit falsafa, attack the stellar work of scholars such as Al Farabi and Ibn Sina, and declare them kafir or infidel.

Even while the world rediscovered the wisdom of the Greeks, Romans and even ancient Indians through the work of the likes of Ibn Rushd, Ghazali had dimmed out that light from the Islamic world for centuries to come.

In 2020, the Islamic world has once again reached a forked road in history. The United Arab Emirates has taken a revolutionary step to embrace Israel, the only non-Muslim nation in the middle of the Arab world. Last week, the momentous first flight between the two countries landed in Abu Dhabi.

Saudi Arabia, which was cosying up to Israel in the last couple of years and even secretly allying on strategic and military issues, gave permission for the flight. Bahrain followed with an overflight clearance.

Israeli and Omani foreign ministers have already spoken on the phone, and Oman could be the next Arab nation to normalise relations with the Jewish state.

Sudan ended 30 years of Islamic law by separating the state from religion. Coincidentally or not, it is one of the countries actively considering normalising relations with Israel.

Years of siding with Palestine and holding Israel as the pariah is slowly, unexpectedly ending. Hostilities unleashed by the Muslim world again Israel to deny its right to exist has made the Middle East the most disturbed and violent place in the world, obviated the scope of solving things bilaterally, egged on the entire Ummah to wallow in victimhood over a local problem, and motivated scores of Islamist terrorist groups worldwide to butcher the innocent in the name of avenging Palestine.

The fact that tiny Israel has been the target of a cabal of over a dozen powerful nations and a victim of relentless waves of terror attacks has constantly been underplayed.

While the new geopolitical changes in the Middle East has wide-ranging positive implications in the Islamic world and the promise of openness last held out in the time of Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sina and Al Farabi, there is a troubled road lurking alongside in the form of Turkey.

Tayyip Erdogan could do what Al Ghazali did in 1095: lead Islam down the dark road. He has meticulously dismantled Mustafa Kemal Ataturks secular legacy and dreams of being the modern-day Caliph of the Muslim world. It is easier dreamt than done, with more than half the Arab world having a very different plan.

But Erdogan has managed to pull in a few wretches like Pakistan to do his bidding and try to form a block. The examples he sets to the Islamic world is grabbing the Hagia Sophia church and converting it into a mosque, running a hub at home to revive the failed Kashmir separatism and hosting troublesome elements, bombing Tazidis and Kurds already tormented by ISIS, and following a brutally regressive track on freedom of speech.

The Islamic world is at a very crucial juncture again. Whether it takes the road to Ankara or Dubai will decide whether it loses another shining opportunity to lift itself from the morass of bigotry and orthodoxy.

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The experiences of the protagonist, his move through purgatory, and his eventual death generate the ideal metaphor for the American experience, argues Ishani Sarkar.

Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema. His Dead Man (1995) has been described as a psychedelic/neo/revisionist Western, and has, over the years, gained a cult following who have pondered on its meaning, giving it a rather enduring afterlife. Inspired by unconventional, often Brechtian, Western cinema, the film resists falling into a typical generic formula. In the film, there is no American West; there is only a landscape that America, the usurper, has cleansed of its natives, turning it into a capitalist ossuarium. The pre-credit sequence depicts a train journey, moving between passivity and hasty belligerence, that will continue throughout the film.

His passage is not one of enlightenment or clarity, but depletion, making it the ideal metaphor for the American experience.

The plot rests on recently-orphaned accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp). His namesake, a poet and revolutionary in the Age of Reason, believed that the energy of creation could only be propelled by conflict. Indeed, in the film, physical acts of violence are symbolic representations of the spiritual resistance to the deadening conformity that Western artists have been forced to blindly accept. However, characteristic of Jarmuschs white heroes, the character of Blake is completely unaware of the poet whose name he carries. He is travelling out West to the remote town of Machine, with the promise of a job at a steelworks run by Dickinson (Robert Mitchum in a cameo). The position has already been filled on arrival, and he eventually kills Dickinsons son in self-defence after having slept with the mans former lover, Thel Russell (played by Mili Avital). He has to flee into the wilderness from the lawless land of Machine, fatally wounded. He spends the remainder of the film dying in the company of a renegade, a Native American named Nobody (Gary Farmer), who understands his predicament. From this point onwards, Blake is in purgatory. He begins the experience physically alive, but dead in essence, transforming his journey into something akin to the Divine Comedy. He is forced to surrender to his own destiny: only after crossing over will true vision be possible.

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The films carefully researched, protean approach to various Native American cultures makes for a sobering contrast to the daunting portrait of white America, which is shown as a primitive, chaotic world of spiteful bounty hunters and blood-spattered grudge-matches. There is none of the romanticising of violence that has become de rigueur in commercial Hollywood ever since the heyday of Arthur Penn and, later, in Tarantino and others. The film rejects Western monotheism and presents a spiritual resistance to conditions that political solutions have not resolved. Blake struggles trying to become somebody in a white mans world. However, it is not too late for him to reject the values of his society just as his namesake had done. For Blake the poet, evil was inherently related to repression, rather than unrestrained passions. Nobody (the character) realizes that for Blake to stop being a spiritually dead man, he would have to face the imminent threat of death. Passivity is not the wisdom that Jarmusch offers.

As for Blake himself, he is neither a hero nor a villain, neither likeable nor unlikeable. There is emotion and feeling, but it is misdirected and poignantly unreachable. Blake is dying a little bit faster than he is living. Hes like a tabula rasa that everyone wants to write all over, and successfully so. Almost midway through the film, we experience a haunting moment that acts as more than merely a metaphor for Blakes quandary on the brink of death. He sees a dead doe lying on the ground, feels its blood between his fingers, and mingles it with his own. He lies down on the same forest floor, curling up around it. Depps tenderly distorted detachment extends this explicit metaphor into something more an unsightly gesture in the hunt for meaning.

Jarmusch chose William Blake over any other poet deliberately. He has laden the entire storyline with incredible dualities and the Hegelian concepts of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, which heavily influenced the Blakean dialectic. Nobody (the character) is portrayed as thesis, Cole (a bounty hunter) as antithesis, and their eventual deaths synthesise the two. Blakes soul is finally free, and his journey through purgatory is over. His passage is not one of enlightenment or clarity, but depletion, making it the ideal metaphor for the American experience.

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Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti speaks with an aide after signing an agreement on opening economic relations with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in the White House on Sept. 4. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

This week, Foreign Policy interviewed Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti about his hopes for talks with Serbia on the eve of the two-day meeting at the White House.

Meanwhile, Myanmars response to rising coronavirus cases in the conflict-racked state of Rakhine may fall short of what is necessary to avert a public health disaster.

And a fake video of a Chinese plane being shot down in Taiwan went viral in India on Friday, revealing how dangerous nationalist fantasies and misinformation have become in Asia.

Here are Foreign Policys top weekend reads.

On the eve of the White House peace talks between Serbia and Kosovo, Foreign Policy interviewed Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti. The only way forward, Hoti said, is for Serbia to finally recognize Kosovos independence, Foreign PolicysAmy Mackinnon writes.

Coronavirus cases are rising alongside civilian casualties and displacement in Myanmars state of Rakhine, where government troops have clashed with the rebel Arakan Army since late 2018. If the government doesnt act quickly, Rakhine could soon face a public health disaster, Kyaw Hsan Hlaing and Emily Fishbein write.

For France, Voltaire was a lodestar of the Enlightenment. But Voltaire was an unapologetic racist, and its time for the French to reject philosophers of his ilk, Nabila Ramdani writes.

A video purporting to show a Chinese plane being shot down in Taiwan went viral on Indian social media on Friday. The story is fake, but it shows how entangledand dangerousnationalist fantasies are becoming in Asia, Foreign PolicysJames Palmer writes.

5. Defying Peace Deal, Freed Taliban Return to Battlefield

A confidential report obtained by Foreign Policy reveals that most Taliban prisoners released under an agreement signed by the Islamist group and the United States have continued to fight to overthrow the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Lynne ODonnell writes.

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Desire plays an important role in life. If it were not for desire, the human race would not propagate. God made humans in such a way that they need, and are capable of experiencing, desire.

Desire is also important in the religious life, though its role is seen in vastly different ways, depending on the religion espoused. In Buddhism, if I understand it correctly, desire (or longing) is regarded as the principal cause of suffering. Desire is the fetter that binds people and keeps them from reaching enlightenment.

The Christian view on desire is nuanced. The King James word for it is "lust," which frequently refers to inappropriate and destructive desires (like the desire to have another persons spouse), but occasionally refers to appropriate and healthy desires. Jesus, for example, "eagerly desired" the word regularly translated as "lusted" "to eat the Passover" meal with his disciples.

Buddhism approaches desire or longing as something to renounce and eventually eliminate by following the eight-fold path. There are many points of contact for Christians and Buddhists along the eight-fold path, though their underlying assumptions will be at odds and will inevitably lead them in different directions.

Christians are never asked to make a universal renunciation of desire. Such a renunciation would be counterproductive. Instead, they are told to "put to death evil desires" while cultivating healthy ones. While they know that desire can fetter a person to a life of lovelessness and suffering, they also believe that desire can be a springboard into a life full of love and contentment. They dont want to get rid of their desires, they want to transform them.

If it were possible to take an X-ray of all our desires to see them the way a radiologist sees fractures and growths we could pretty accurately diagnose our spiritual health and prognosticate our spiritual futures, apart from intervention. Fortunately, intervention by the one Christians call the Great Physician is always possible.

This intervention occurs at a level we cannot reach, rather as gene therapy operates on a level we cannot reach. Christians believe that God is able and willing to work at the origination point of desire, actually giving and shaping the desires of their hearts. The Christian then cooperates with these deep-level operations in practices that cultivate and bring to fruition these new desires.

These practices are sometimes referred to as spiritual disciplines. They fall into two principal categories: those that put to death "evil desires" and those that cultivate God-given desires. It is common to talk about these as the disciplines of "abstinence" and of "engagement." Both are important.

Among the disciplines of abstinence, which help people "put to death evil desires," are solitude, silence, secrecy (that is, not broadcasting our good or religious deeds in order to win admiration), and fasting. These practices enable a person to discern unhealthy desires. On a more fundamental level, they enable people to understand that they are more than their desires, something that is urgently needed in contemporary culture.

The disciplines of engagement, which aid in the cultivation of God-given desires, include worship, Bible reading, prayer, acts of humble service, and fellowship (or "soul friendship," as it has been called). The value of these disciplines resides, in part, in the way they increase the intensity and staying power of God-given desires.

But none of these spiritual practices, however performed, can create a desire. That is outside their scope and beyond our ability. For that to happen, people are dependent on outside intervention. They are dependent upon God.

When we understand the importance of desire and the role Gods intervention plays in it, we are ready to appreciate the insight of the psalmist who wrote, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."

The psalmist is not thinking of God giving us the new car weve been dreaming about. He is thinking of God giving us new desires, the kind that can be fulfilled without doing harm, the kind that can lead a person to deeper love and richer contentment. The role desires play in the spiritual life, and our part in curtailing or cultivating them, is absolutely critical.

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A Review Of Guardians of the Galaxy #6

Writer: Ewing

Artist: Takara

Colorist: Blee

Cover Artist: Albuquerque

Editors Note: The opinions expressed herein are purely the opinions of the author of this article and do not necessarily reflect the official opinions of CosmicBookNews. Timelord regularly reviewed the 2007 Nova and 2008 Guardians of the Galaxy series with his reviews directly sent to the books editors and creators. Timelords reviews have been quoted by Marvel in cover blurbs, press reviews, and solicits.

Warning: Contains some spoilers.

I bought Issue #1 of The Man Called Nova in a small family-owned drug store in my little home town way back in 1976. I found it on the old wire spinner rack where they displayed comic books for sale and was immediately drawn to the iconic cover art. Marv Wolfmans writing and vision for the Richard Rider Nova character and the incredible artistic talent of John and Sal Buscema kept me anticipating each new issue of the all too short first Volume of stories. Forty-four years later, Im still an ardent Nova fan and expect to be for the remainder of my life.

I consider the entire run of The Man Called Nova to be Rich Riders origin story. Its really where we see Rich acquire his powers and grow into a superhero, culminating in his first journey into space where he formally joins Xandars Special Forces military unit, the Nova Corps, and fights in the Second Xandar-Skrull War. We know little about these years except for a few references Rich has made to fighting in the war and to a reference to a battle on Epyrus 7 which culminated in Rich having to euthanize some soldiers causing him to develop PTSD which the Xandarians apparently treated by inducing amnesia for the incident. After Volume I concluded, Marvel didnt seem to know what to do with the character, so they de-powered him and he disappeared until The New Warriors debuted many years later. Nova was the stand-out character in The New Warriors series and a great deal of character development and Nova mythos was created during that time including the second resurrection of Xandar in The Starlost Saga. Two more rather short-lived Nova solo series were spun off during The New Warriors run that further developed the character and mythos. Then, once again, Marvel seemed to lose interest in the character and he virtually disappeared until the debut of Giffens legendary Annihilation mini-series, an extraordinary military science-fantasy epic which ushered in what most Nova fans consider the Golden Age of the Nova character and mythos. Annihilation was followed by Abnett and Lannings critically acclaimed Nova series, thought by most ardent Nova fans to be the best Nova series to date. Marvel unwisely canceled this series for all the wrong reasons (apparently a cynical attempt to cash in on the Guardians of the Galaxy movies popularity) and what followed were hack-jobs perpetrated against the Nova character and mythos by Loeb, Bendis, Duggan, and Loveness & Perez which accomplished what Annihilus himself was unable to do as they utterly annihilated all the best concepts from the Giffen/DnA era. Most egregious of all was Loebs PC replacement character for Rich Rider, Sam Alexander an embarrassing disgrace to the Nova mythos that just needs to go away forever. Then, a couple of years ago, we began to see a glimmer of hope for a Cosmic renaissance with Cates work with Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy where it was openly acknowledged that the goal was to re-capture the spirit of Giffen/DnAs Golden Age of Cosmic. Some good work was produced that went a long way toward mending the fences with Cosmic fans most especially including virtually ignoring the deplorable Sam Alexander character. This brings us to the present and Ewings tenure.

I was anxiously awaiting this issue to see what Ewing would do with Rich Rider. Would he treat the character with respect and try to un-do the damage done to the character since the end of the DnA years? The tentative answer is yes. Not all I was hoping for, but a respectable start.

As Ive said many times, writers subsequent to DnA have made many poor choices, portraying Rich as too traumatized and broken by events he has faced during his many years as a professional soldier. Cates began the rehabilitation process, but still wrote Rich as too broken. Ewing decided to begin the rehabilitation process by portraying Rich within a psychotherapy session and through flashback sequences we are reminded that he has many times been the one man that has made the difference between life and death for multitudes of the local group of galaxys residents. His internal motivations are explored via flashbacks to childhood memories. Finally, his guilt over the death of Peter Quill is explored. We end up being reminded of Richs great accomplishments and why he should be respected. As a side-story, this process begins Gamoras rehabilitation as she, too, has been portrayed as too broken.

Did it work? Yes, I think so more so for Rich than for Gamora. I did think that Richs father was portrayed as too harsh and punishing since in the past he has always been portrayed as kind and loving. Also, as referenced above, the Annihilation War was hardly Richs first exposure to brutal combat so his conversation with Gamora is not totally true to continuity. I know a comic book has limited page time to tell a story and Ewing needed to make his points efficiently, so I can overlook these inconsistencies. Im just hoping that broken Rich is behind us now and we get back to professional soldier Rich with some haste.

Im hoping that we also get back to sociopathic Gamora in short order. She is also being portrayed as too broken like shes never before lost anyone she loved. Shes been involved with half of Marvels phone book over the years including Hercules if I remember right. And how many times has she lost Adam Warlock? This angry-depressed Gamora just seems out of character to me. Heroes are able to rise above their personal problems and act for the greater good. Thats why we admire them. Its one of the important parts of being a hero. Chronically morose heroes are just not fun. Rich and Gamora kicking bad guy ass now thats fun to watch.

There was some minor character development for some of the other characters with the Phyla-Moondragon developments referenced for future issues and a rather ridiculous PC moment for Hercules and Marvel Boy. Now before the Facebook and Twitter PC enforcer trolls collectively lose what passes for their minds, let me clarify. I realize the ancient Greeks and Romans had in many ways much more enlightened views on the expression of sexuality than most of modern Western Civilization, and I realize that Western Civilization is moving toward more enlightenment in terms of sexuality and its myriad methods of expression. Though Hercules has never been portrayed as bi-sexual in the past, Im open to the possibility that he has always been bi-sexual but that no story has ever explored that part of his sexuality. I have positively portrayed characters of all sexual orientations in all of my writings, so I have no problem with this development per se. I have a problem with the way it was portrayed. While I am not a combat veteran myself, I work with combat veterans every day and not one of them in the midst of combat would stop to make out with anyone. Sex is not on your mind during combat. Youre too busy trying to stay alive. The reveal of Herc and Marvel Boy as an item while bullets were still flying around them is just dumb and is easy fodder for criticism of shoehorning a PC moment into the story where it doesnt belong. That reveal should have taken place during a celebration after combat. It would have been more realistic and made criticism more difficult for even the harshest critics. In other words, my problem is with the method of the reveal, not the reveal itself.

Turning to art, I liked Albuquerques cover in concept and execution. I have a problem with only one detail in that the uniforms of the Corpsmen, including what is supposed to be a down and out Rich, more closely resemble the costume of Nova in Name Only Sam Alexander and the so-called Black Nova gang of criminals, than the uniforms of true Nova Corpsmen. Takaras interior art was quite well done and Blees colors were perfect as usual.

Sorry to the action junkies, but this was more a rehabilitation story than an action story, so it was heavy on drama and light on adventure. This arc transition issue hopefully puts the rehabilitation of Nova and Gamora behind them and lets them get back to the business of being effective leaders in the ongoing mission of saving the local group of galaxies from all sorts of doom. Looks like next issue will focus on how the Guardians of the Galaxy respond to the events of Empyre. Ill definitely be buying this book to see what happens. I urge you to buy this book, too.

Article author: Timelord

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Federation of India for Sports Aerobics and Fitness, known as FISAF INDIA was created with the intention to promote Sports Aerobics and Fitness in India. Affiliated with FISAF International, this organization aims to promote sports and fitness aerobics all over India and develop it according to international standards.

FISAF INDIA conducts sports events that make athletes prepare for competitions that are conducted from district to national levels and consists of a variety of age groups. FISAF International targets athletes from the age group of 11 to 25 years of age for competitions held all over the globe. However, FISAF India is targeting budding talent from 7 to 15 years of age.

There are 2 major events that are further categorized to allow equality in participation. Sports aerobics has three participating categories which are:-

The second event being fitness aerobics has 3 categories which are team based:-

FISAF International sees participation from over forty countries around the world. Of the six age groups allowed to participate on the international stage, FISAF India has five age groups; however, the events remain the same.

FISAF INDIA aims to develop aerobics across the country and get it recognized and standardized like many other sports that are popular today. The organisation is headed by eminent members who introduced competitive Sports Aerobics in India. It also has athletes competing on the FISAF International World Championship stage from which one of athlete won a gold medal for the country. Athletes have been felicitated by Ex. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitraji Mahajan and Ex. Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis for his achievements. Seeing Indias potential in not just sports like cricket and football, but Sports Aerobics and Fitness can bring out the best talent in the country through FISAF INDIA.

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September 02, 2020 20:00 ET | Source: Research Dive

New York, USA, Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Organic Food Market is expected to garner a revenue ofUSD416,049.7 Million at a CAGR of 12.4% during the forecast period, according to a report published by Research Dive . The exclusive report offers a brief outlook on the prevalent scenario of the market including significant facets of the market such as growth factors, market dynamics, challenges, restraints and numerous opportunities during the forecast period. The report also features all the market figures making it easier and helpful for the new participants to understand the market.

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Four decades ago, before sundried tomatoes and kale were trendy, before chefs were celebrities, and before sustainability was a buzzword, there was Jesse Ziff Cool.

Cool, a self-described hippie chick and untrained cook, found her way to the Bay Area and founded one of the nations first organic restaurants, Menlo Parks Late for the Train, in 1976. Her Flea Street Cafe (one of five restaurants in total) followed in 1982 and is a favorite of Silicon Valleys tech set. She authored seven cookbooks; became a lecturer at Stanfords education department; created Farm Fresh (an organic, local menu) for patients at Stanford Hospital; pivoted to takeout after the pandemic hit; and with the Meals of Gratitude nonprofit began providing food to frontline workers and wildfire responders and evacuees in recent months. She also has 19 awards to her credit for efforts to promote organic food, local farming and women in the male-dominated food industry.

To foodies, shes something of a saint, like Alice Waters and Nora Pouillon. Which is why, yesterday evening (September 4), five dozen family and friends gathered for a brief, but heartfelt Zoom chat to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Flea Street Cafe, a milestone. The event was delayed a week from the actual anniversary out of respect for people affected by the wildfires.

If the get-together was virtual, the emotions were real, starting with Cool, whos known to speak frankly. Here I was, she said of her beginnings, a braless hippie chick, hair in purple, extremely committed to food that would not poison anyone in the community or the water or the soil.

She said neither she nor her then-husband, Bob Cool, knew what they were doing when they founded Late for the Train, which operated for 13 years. She was a member of the Briar Patch Co-op, a waitress at the Good Earth in Palo Alto and dedicated to organic food. At the time, organic was considered so far outside the mainstream they had to be cautious using the word. She didnt consider herself a pioneer; it was just intuitive to her that clean ingredients would have positive impacts on the environment and wellbeing, all are now borne out by science.

Late for the Train served breakfast and lunch. After it closed in 1989, the pair began working on Flea Street Cafe. Bob didnt think theyd be real restaurateurs unless they served dinner. Despite their experience, opening night was a mess, Cool recalled in the Zoom chat, with a line to get in that stretched down the street. Among those waiting was Kirk Cunningham, who recalled he didnt actually get dinner that night. Jesse came out, and said, Kirk, were out of food, he told the Zoom gathering. I thought that was so funny. Its like going to the Nike outlet on their grand opening and saying, Were out of shoes, folks.

In the history of Flea Street, there were quieter near-disasters, too. In a pre-Zoom interview, Cool recalled the time she was sitting at the restaurant during a break in her sons soccer game and answered a phone call. Where are you? a woman asked. Here at Flea Street in flip flops, Cool replied. You are catering our wedding for 100 in four hours, the woman reminded her. We made it happen, Cool recalled. Need I say more?

Cool was not a classically trained chef, but someone whose favorite recipes came from the Joy of Cooking and were made better with local ingredients at their seasonal best.

We love you, we love Flea Street, toasted Nikiko Masumoto of Masumoto Family Farms, a peach and grape operation near Fresno. To the all the crew at Flea Street, you embody the type of champion we as farmers need.

Vintners applauded Cool, too. When customers asked for French and Italian wines, Cool irked them by serving labels produced in the Santa Cruz Mountains and trained them to appreciate local bounty in the process. You did a wonderful job supporting the local wineries with your belief in organic and clean, said winemaker Michael Martella of Fogarty Vineyards and Martella Wines fame. They came along with you.

Environmental activist Wendy Schmidt said she became a regular at Flea Street after moving to Atherton in 1990. Sensing a shared environmental ethos, she walked into the restaurant with an under-counter composter and gave it to Cool as a gift in 1996. Ive always thought of you as someone way ahead of your time, Schmidt told her. Youve been able to pivot and pull on your network of farmers and ranchers to create a gift of food for the caretakers in our community. Im proud to be your friend and so happy this restaurant has survived and will go forward because you are the future.

Amid the plaudits, there was self-recrimination. Cool apologized to her sons for being a busy and imperfect mother for four decades. Brushing it aside, Joshua Danovitz characterized his mother as the ultimate entrepreneur, someone who could take a swift kick in the nuts one day and come back the next day with more power and focus and move the rails forward. Jonah Cool said he and his brother were brought up by the restaurant, with the restaurant, and that it is without a doubt the coolest sibling everything Josh and I ever did was through fun things the restaurant introduced us to or to people we didnt know.

As the chat wound down, Cool tipped her hat to her understanding landlord, and to Bob Cool because he talked me into opening a dinner house and I didnt want to, and to anyone who had ever worked for her because they are who made Flea Street what it is right now.

What form the restaurant will take when the pandemic lifts is unclear. But when it does, said Cool, Heres my promise: I will have a f*ing big party. The food will all be on biscuits. Plenty of drinks. It will be in the parking lot of Flea Street. And we will celebrate community.

Menlo Park resident Carolyne Zinkos journalism career includes stints at the Peninsula Times Tribune, San Jose Mercury and San Francisco Chronicle and most recently as editor-in-chief at Modern Luxury Silicon Valley

Photos: Jesse through the years: top with Managing PartnerMichael Biesemeyer by Scott R. Kline (c) 2018; Jesse with artist Mitchell Johnson whose paintings hang on Flea Street walls by Irene Searles (c) 2015; in backyard garden by Scott R. Kline (c) 2012; at Flea Street by Chris Gulker (c) 2010

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