Mediterranean cuisine is quickly emerging as one of the most popular cuisines in recent history. Characterized by its use of fresh vegetables, lean meats and legumes, the healthy backbone of this cooking style makes it more desirable to learn.

Celebrity Chef, Rocco DiSpirito, known for his approach to flavor and do-it-yourself dining, joins us to show us how easy it is to get restaurant style romance and quality without having to make a reservation.

More about Rocco DiSpirito:
Rocco DiSpirito entered the Culinary Institute of America at age 16, and at 18 began working for legendary chefs all over the globe. After graduating cum laude in business from Boston University, he jumped into the New York restaurant scene. In 1995, Rocco opened Dava, earning 2 stars from Ruth Reichl at the New York Times, calling his cooking “carefully considered exotica.” At 31, Rocco opened Union Pacific, which received 3 stars from the New York Times. In 1999, Rocco was named one of Food and Wine magazine’s “Best New Chefs,” and in 2000 was the first chef to become
Gourmet magazine’s “America’s Most Exciting Young Chef.” He has appeared on numerous television shows including, David Letterman, Jay Leno, The Today Show, Oprah, and Top Chef. He also starred in the 2003/2004 hit series, The Restaurant on NBC.

Rocco won the James Beard award for his cookbook Flavor and has since authored 5 Minute Flavor and Rocco’s Italian American with his mother, Nicolina. Rocco is an avid cyclist, recently completing several triathlons and a Half Ironman competition in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Rocco lives in New York City with his dog Teesha and his cat Pumpkin.

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To Those of Us Born
1925 – 1955:

At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.

If you don’t read anything else, Please read what he said.
~~~~~~~~~
TO ALL THE
KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank – While they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
Covered with bright colored
Lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,
And, when we rode our bikes,
We had baseball caps,
Not helmets, on our heads.

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And we weren’t overweight.
WHY?
Because we were always outside playing…that’s why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day .. .
And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building
Our go-carts out of scrapsand
then ride them down the hill,

Only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned To Solve the problem.

We did not
Have Play Stations, Nintendo
and X-boxes. There were
No video games,
No 150 channels on cable,
No video movies
Or DVDs,
No surround-sound or CDs,
No cell phones,
No personal computers,
No Internet and
No chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS
And we went
Outside and found them!

We fell out of
trees, got cut,
Broke bones and
Lost teeth,
And there were
No lawsuits
From those accidents.

We would get
Spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand,
And no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms,
And mud pies
Made from dirt,
And
The worms did
Not live in us forever.

We were given
BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses,
made up games with sticks and
tennis balls, and

-although we were
Told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes
Or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell,
or just Walked in and talked to them.

Little League had
tryouts
And not everyone
Made the team.
Those who didn’t
Had to learn
To deal with
Disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent
Bailing us out
If we broke the law
was unheard of …
They actually sided with the law!

These generations have
Produced some of the best risk-takers,
Problem solvers, and
Inventors ever.

The past 60 to 85 years
Have seen an explosion
of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom,
Failure, success and responsibility,
and we learned

Ho w to deal with it all.

If YOU are One of those born
Between 1925-1955, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want
to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers
and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it,
forward it to your kids,
so they will know
how brave and lucky
their parents were.

Kind of makes
you want to run through the house
with scissors, doesn’t it ?
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month
by Jay Leno:

“With hurricanes, tornadoes,
fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the
country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?”

For those who
prefer to think that God is not
watching over us…
go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us….. please pass this on.

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On Thursday, February 28, 2019, the J. Luce Foundation, in conjunction with its sister charities Orphans International Worldwide and its New York Global Leaders Lions Club, will host our 19th Annual Leadership Awards Gala at The Princeton Club NYC.

We would be delighted to have you join us!

Seats in advance are $220 each, first come-first served at http://tinyurl.com/k7qa4wj. If you are unable to attend, please consider contributing a ticket for one of our Young Global Leaders. Contributions will be recognized in the program. The dress code is traditional, business formal, or black tie.

Our honored guests include:

RADM. Michael Alfultis, Ph.D., President, SUNY Maritime College, NYC

Emma Felipe, Ph.D., Corp. Social Responsibility Studio Leader, IBM

Jonathan Granoff, J.D., President, Global Security Institute at the U.N.

Hon. Geneive Brown Metzger, LLD Hon.
President & Executive Director, American Caribbean Maritime Foundation

Past District Gov. Peter Pergolis, Lions Club International (Dist. 20-R2), NYC

Fritz Pinnock, Ph.D., President, Caribbean Maritime University, Jamaica

Hon. Mitzi Perdue, J. Luce Foundation 2015 Humanitarian

Hon. Grace A. McLean, Ministry of Youth, Education & Information, Jamaica

Hon. Dang Dinh Quy, Ambassador to the U.N., Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Eva Ritvo, M.D. Psychiatrist & Founder, BeKindr

William Ruud, Ph.D., President, Marietta College, Ohio

Hon. Rebecca Seawright, Assemblymember, New York State Assembly

Hon. Lisa Bryan Smart, Consul General of Jamaica

Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, President, Gaia Holistic Foundation

We also have guests representing 49 countries, including Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Brazil, Canada, the Cherokee Nation, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, México, Monaco, Mongolia, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, U.S.A., Ukraine, Vietnam, and Yemen!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU. Thanks to all of your support, we will continue to Raise, Support, and now Educate Young Global Leaders!

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The blue jay mainly feeds on nuts and seeds such as acorns, soft fruits, arthropods, and occasionally small vertebrates. It typically gleans food from trees, shrubs, and the ground, though it sometimes hawks insects from the air. Like squirrels, blue jays are known to hide nuts for later consumption. It builds an open cup nest in the branches of a tree, which both sexes participate in constructing. The clutch can contain two to seven eggs, which are blueish or light brown with brown spots. Young are altricial, and are brooded by the female for 8–12 days after hatching. They may remain with their parents for one to two months.

The bird’s name derives from its noisy, garrulous nature. It is sometimes called a “jaybird”.

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Dear Friend –

In one week, we will gather for our 17th Annual Awards Gala for both Orphans International Worldwide (oiww.org) and the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation (www.lucefoundation.org).

This year, we will announce the creation of multiple Endowment Funds, Scholarship Funds, new application procedures for J. Luce Fellows, Scholars, and Young Global Leaders – as well as our upcoming J. Luce Experience: Hellas!

How we went from an orphanage with ten children in Indonesia to 80,000+ followers on social media around the world is an exciting story… Come share it with us! www.lucefoundation.org and www.oiww.org

As Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Our leadership team including our Boards of Directors and Global Advisers prove this every day. Come be part of the change!

Thanks to you, we are raising global citizens. Thanks to you we are supporting young global leaders. Thanks to you, for we are making a difference! JOIN US!

Seats in advance are $153 with tables available for $1,350. We have only 160 reserved seats with reserved tables available on a first come-first basis served. Twelve tables have already been sold.

Pay online or by check. Online, go to http://tinyurl.com/k7qa4wj. Checks payable to “J. Luce Foundation” may be sent to our office at 540 Main Street #418, New York, N.Y. 10044.

We are looking forward to an inspirational reception and awards dinner and cannot wait to have you in attendance. Thanks to you, we are changing the world.

DETAILS: Our 17th Annual Leadership Reception & Dinner Gala will take place Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6-10 pm, at The National Arts Club located at 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, N.Y. 10003. In observance of Passover, both matzo will be served.

P.S. – We have several young global leaders who really want to attend the gala but cannot afford to. Please consider a $153 contribution to allow one to join us! It could alter their life…

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From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975 through 2000 until founding J Records. From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the chairman and CEO of the RCA Music Group (which included RCA Records, J Records and Arista Records), chairman and CEO of J Records, and chairman and CEO of BMG North America. Currently Davis is the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment.[3] He currently plays a part in the careers of TLC, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys, Barry Manilow, Christina Aguilera, Carlos Santana, Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis and Jennifer Hudson. Davis is also credited with bringing Whitney Houston to prominence.

for more info, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis

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The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Inc. began in 2009 and was inspired by college professor Stanford Livingston Luce, Jr. who passed away in 2007. The Foundation publishes The Stewardship Report on Connecting Goodness (link). The Stewardship Report has highlighted/spotlit over 1,500 organizations and individuals uplifting humanity.
For more info, go to http://www.lucefoundation.org/

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A Dot Earth reader, Jay Rappoport, followed up on Peter Barnes’s proposal for a “cap and dividend” system with another take on the idea that’s worth highlighting here, if only because the central metaphor is so easy to absorb — having a “bottle bill” for climate.

Of course, one problem with most bottle bills around the United States is the fee hasn’t risen to adjust for inflation, so many bottles still go into the trash because the five-cent surcharge is a yawn. And many drink containers (like all those water bottles!) are left out in most cases. (This recent Green Counsel post about troubles with an updated bottle-bill law in New York State is worth a look.)

In the case of climate, the fee would have to steadily rise to propel a steady shift away from energy choices that come with a lot of carbon dioxide releases, and it’d have to encompass all sources (and perhaps credit “sinks,” like new forests, that sop up the gases). Is that sellable?

Here’s Mr. Rappoport’s thesis:

I have been nursing a similar concept for perhaps 25 years, which I had first conceived in a sophomore economics class back in College in the early 80’s, when the ideas of externalities and market failure came together for me.

I believe this principal is as important and fundamental to understanding the general progress of human civilization, as the concept of erosion is to geology.

Without further delay, here it is:

UEMF; Recognizing and Addressing The Universality of Environmental Market Failure. By Jay

Rappoport – 11/17/07.

Introduction

The question to be addressed here is that of managing human generated global warming specifically, and more generally the larger question of sustainable growth, as all follow from the same underlying causes, and are amenable of the same solution. What follows is a brief discussion of the issues, and an effort to reframe, refine and build upon the emerging consensus view concerning the ‘cap and trade’ approach, and to suggest the minimum regulatory structure necessary to this end. The structure suggested here may be public, private, or collaborative.

Economic vs. Natural property

The fundamental underlying issue in this discussion is property rights. Everything that follows, turns on understanding the role of property rights in the market.

So to begin, consider everything in the world as a ‘good’, and falling into one of two types; as either part of ‘The Economy’ and therefore an ‘economic good’, or alternatively, ‘The Natural Environment’ and as such, an ‘environmental good’. The only difference being, that ‘goods’ in the economy have a defined property right, and that ‘goods’ in the environment do not. (Often referred to as “externalities” in economics, examples of environmental goods might be the polar ice caps, unpolluted water, the earth’s atmosphere, and so on).

An economic good can be bought and sold, only because it is owned by someone who had the property right to sell it. An environmental good cannot be sold, because no one owns it to sell it. As an example, imagine a stranger offering to “sell you The Brooklyn Bridge”.

 In order to sell an environmental good, ownership must first be established, at which point it becomes an economic good, and can then be sold. So, until ownership has been established, an environmental good cannot be sold, nor hold a price in the market.

Markets, Pricing & Incentives

Because environmental goods lack a property right and are therefore unable to hold a price in the marketplace, so far as the market is concerned, their ‘pricing’ is effectively pegged at zero value. This perception of the pricing of environmental goods as being at or nearly zero has profound consequences in the economic arena.

To the extent that there is model validity in saying relative profitability can be expressed as a comparison of profit/cost, then as environmental costs are pegged at or near zero, the relative profitability of environmental goods is perceived in the market as ‘very high’, if not infinite. (Consider for example the proliferation of spam email, with a marginal cost of zero per email. How much spam would be eliminated if there were a cost of 0.001 cent per email?)

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