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This delicious recipe is a healthier take on your average potato cakes.

Its made using ingredients like sweet potato and buckwheat flourand is flavoured with spices and fresh herbs for an added zing.

If youre a fan of sweet potatoes, youll love these.

Theyre great for a light dinner when enjoyed with a big salad.

These sweet potato cakes also make a great snack for when youre feeling peckish oryou can take them to work as a packed lunch.

Plus, its vegan and gluten-free so what are you waiting for?

2 large sweet potatoes cut into small cubes (345g cooked weight)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 tbsp olive oil

1/4 cup onion, chopped

1/4cup coriander, chopped

4 tbsp buckwheat flour

1/2 tsp chilli

1 tsp paprika

1-2 tbsp coconut oil (for cooking)

Preheat your oven to 220C (200C for fan assisted).

Place the sweet potato cubes onto a large baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil.

Roast in the oven for 30 minutes or until soft enough to mash.

Leave to cool, then transfer the sweet potato into a large mixing bowl to mash.

Add the onion, coriander, flour, chilli, and paprika.

Season with additional salt and pepper if required.

Shape the mixture into four patties.

Heat 1-2 tbsp coconut oil in a frying pan over medium to high heat.

Cook the cakes for three minutes on each side (or until they turn brown) then flip and cook for another two to three minutes on the other side.

Enjoy hot.

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Yi-Chou Hou,1 Yen-Ju Lin,2 Kuo-Cheng Lu,1 Han-Sun Chiang,3 Chia-Chi Chang,4 Li-King Yang1

1Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, School of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, 2Department of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, 3Graduate Institute of Basic Medicine, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, 4School of Gerontology Health Management, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic ofChina

Background: Music therapy has been applied in hemodialysis (HD) patients for relieving mental stress. Whether the stress-relieving effect by music therapy is predictive of clinical outcome in HD patients is still unclear. Methods: We recruited a convenience sample of 99 patients on maintenance HD and randomly assigned them to the experimental (n=49) or control (n=50) group. The experimental group received relaxing music therapy for 1week, whereas the control group received no music therapy. In the experimental group, we compared cardiovascular mortality in the patients with and without cortisol changes. Results: The salivary cortisol level was lowered after 1week of music therapy in the experimental group (2.413.08 vs 1.662.11pg/mL, P<0.05), as well as the frequency of the adverse reaction score (3.355.76 vs 0.814.59, P<0.05), the severity of adverse reactions score (1.932.73 vs 0.332.71, P<0.05), and hemodialysis stressor scale (HSS) score (6.004.68 vs 0.8777.08, P<0.05). The difference in salivary cortisol correlated positively with HD stress score scales (r=0.231, P<0.05), systolic blood pressure (r=0.264, P<0.05), and respiratory rates (r=0.369, P<0.05) and negatively with finger temperature (r=0.235, P<0.05) in the total study population. The 5-year cardiovascular survival in the experimental group was higher in patients whose salivary cortisol lowered by <0.6pg/mL than that in patients whose salivary cortisol lowered by >0.6pg/mL (83.8% vs 63.6%, P<0.05). Conclusion: Providing music during HD is an effective complementary therapy to relieve the frequency and severity of adverse reactions, as well as to lower salivary cortisol levels. Differences in salivary cortisol after music therapy may predict cardiovascular mortality in patients under maintenance HD. Keywords: music therapy, maintenance hemodialysis, salivary cortisol

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In the past, the Museum of Modern Arts Young Architects Program has addressed environmental issues as thorny as geopolitical water conflict and the American suburb in crisis through glowing tubes and exquisitely detailed models. This years winner is no less ambitious, exploring the crossover between material science and architecture with a soft forest of glowing, solar-active yarn that is temporarily on displace in the courtyard of PS1, the Museum of Modern Arts Long Island City art outpost.

Lumen, as the installation is called, is the brainchild of Jenny Sabin, head of the Jenny Sabin Studio in Ithaca, New York (she also teaches at Cornell University). Its a structure of knitted light that will not only transform from day to night but will also respond to visitors who interact with it, Metropolis reports. The yarn will absorb light during the day and emit it at night, and the installation will include misting stations to create cooler micro-climates throughout the day. You can take a virtual tour (complete with some appropriately relaxing music) at Sabins website.

But the project has a purpose beyond looking seriously cool. Sabins work tends to operate at the intersection of emerging digital technologies, adaptive materials, architecture and science, she tells Metropolis. At the Cornell lab she directs, she works on projects funded by the National Science Foundation, among others, using adaptive materials and new digital fabrication techniques.

What does that mean?

At the end of the day, I would describe myself as a maker, who operates across disciplines with new digital tools and design experiments and who engages adaptive materials and nonstandard forms, she says. But, in all cases, human engagement and interaction is at the core. One of the fundamental questions that I ask is: How might buildings behave more like organisms responding to and adapting to their built environments?

Some of the research Sabins firm is doing could have implications for green building design and environmental engineering, though that would take thinking and funding big.

[W]hats amazing is thinking about the promise of these materials and how theyre programmed, which can then create large scale transformations at, say, the scale of a building faade, she tells Metropolis.

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Rachel Dovey is an award-winning freelance writer and former USC Annenberg fellow living at the northern tip of Californias Bay Area. She writes about infrastructure, water and climate change and has been published by Bust, Wired, Paste, SF Weekly, the East Bay Express and the North Bay Bohemian.

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Did you know that the library has a Friends of the Library organization? Friends of the Library groups exist nationwide to support libraries through fundraising activities and encouraging gifts to libraries. Our Friends group is responsible for many of the nice things we have in our building, including the comfortable chairs, kids puppet theater and wooden shelving where our first chapter books currently live. They also typically sponsor a performer for us during our Summer Reading Program.

The Friends of the Yankton Community Library, like many other Friends groups, also host monthly book sales to raise funds for library activities and goals. Those book sales are the first Saturday of each month from 9:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. The next sale will be March 4. The Friends are always happy to accept gently used donations for the sale; books can be dropped off at the Circulation Desk, or you can call ahead and well meet you around back if you have some boxes. We will also be hosting a special sale from March 29-31 in the Library Meeting Room, so look for more details on that coming up!

The Friends are hosting their annual membership drive on March 12, 2017 with a Local Authors Event and Book Signing. The event will take place from 2 4 p.m. in the Library meeting room with light refreshments served. Participating Yankton authors include: Mark Adderley; Kathy Grow; Travis Gulbrandson; Bernie Hunhoff and the South Dakota Magazine staff; Brenda Johnson; Maxine Kinsley; Marilyn Kratz; James Reese; Loretta Sorensen; Randy Tramp; and Lois Varvel. For those that are interested, the authors will have books available for purchase and signing, but the event is free and open to anyone who wants to visit with the authors or learn more about the Friends of the Library organization.

You may be thinking, What about Gourmet Guys? Fear not! Gourmet Guys lives on. We have decided to move the event to the fall. It is scheduled for Oct. 7, 2017, so save the date. Tickets and more details will be available as we get closer to the event. For those of you that may not know, Gourmet Guys is the annual fundraiser for the Friends group. We invite several local Guys to cook for us, while you explore the Library, listen to relaxing music and visit with friends. This will be our 9th year and we look forward to hosting you this fall.

If youre interested in joining the Friends of the Yankton Community Library but cant make it to our March event, please reach out to Bob Nagy, Vice President and membership chair, or myself at tolson@cityofyankton.org or 605-668-5275. We would love to have you!

As for library events, we will be hosting a Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss on March 2 with games, activities and arts & crafts. Come ready to have some silly Seuss-style fun! Our teen program this month is March 18 and it will be Brush Bots, a robotics program. We are asking that teens register by March 10. Our afterschool Thursday events will continue at 3:45 p.m. with LEGO Club on March 9, Science Club on March 16, and a showing of Disneys Moana on March 23. We will also continue with open Wii play time on Fridays beginning at 3:30 p.m.

If you have little ones, also join us for our weekly Story Times on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesdays/Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. Toddler Time, which is aimed at the littlest littles, is Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. As the American Library Associations Libraries Transform campaign reminds us, 5 out of 5 doctors agree that reading aloud to children supports brain development so bring those kiddos to us! We also follow each morning session was with sensory play, activities that encourage exploration and play and another way to help babies and toddlers build language.

On Monday, Feb. 27, we will be hosting the Gitchie Girl authors Phil & Sandy Hamman from Sioux City. They will have a presentation at 6:30 p.m. followed by a book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event. We are anticipating a big crowd, so get here early!

The Yankton Seed Library will be holding their monthly class on March 14 at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. and will focus on composting. Seeds will be available at the class.

Our Unplug, Unwind, Craft series continues on March 21st at 6:30 p.m. This months craft will be Zenbroidery. Registration is required and will open on March 1. The class will be limited to 20 participants.

We are looking forward to Oscars Weekend this Saturday & Sunday! On Saturday, we will be showing Florence Foster Jenkins (PG-13) at 9 a.m., Loving (PG-13) at 11 a.m., Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) at 1:15 p.m., and Arrival (PG-13) at 3 p.m. On Sunday, we will be showing Manchester by the Sea (R) at 1 p.m. and Hell or High Water (R) at 3:30 p.m. In March, we will be having Oscars Weekend Part 2 with even more Academy Award nominees. That will be Saturday March 18-19. Were currently finalizing those showings, so look for more information on that soon.

The best way to follow along with all of our library happenings is to follow us on Facebook by searching Yankton Community Library or check out our events calendar on our website at http://library.cityofyankton.org. Youre also always welcome to call or email us with questions at library@cityofyankton.org or 605-668-5275. We look forward to seeing you!

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Rock 'n' Roll band Parikrama began their musical journey in the 1990s, and since then have created some memorable pieces while experimenting with possibly every type of instruments.

In an exclusive interview with News18, the members of the band spoke about how they realised music was their calling. "It was something that gave us a lot of satisfaction, a lot of happiness, as it still does. Music is something that actually is so relaxing. You can listen to music in any form of emotion that you're going through," they said.

A firm believer of inclusion of music in curriculum as well as making it accessible for underprivileged kids, Subir and Nitin Malik, along with their family, have initiated to donate instruments to Music Basti, a Delhi-based NGO that connects at-risk children with musicians and aims to nurture confidence through a creative and joyful music-led learning experience.

Since efforts like these need combined support, News18 has partnered with the crowd-funding organisation, BitGiving, to raise funds for Music Basti.

While they have done their bit, heres a chance to make a contribution and bring some difference in the lives of these little learners.

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February 23, 2017 A newly launched modern farming company,Bowery, is growing what they call the worlds first post-organic produce. Their concept breaks from traditional agricultural practices by growing plants indoors in vertical rows without any pesticides. With the help of proprietary technology, Bowery can closely monitor the growth of their crops and meticulously manage the resources needed. More than 80 types of crops are currently being grown at the companys farm in Kearny, New Jersey, and they are selling several types of greens and herbs in stores in the New York region.

The idea for the company spawned when co-founder and CEO Irving Fain discovered a promising trend in LED lighting cost and efficiency that could improve indoor farming. The pricing of LED lights dropped dramatically a little over 5 years ago, Fain says. Weve also seen the efficiency more than double. What makes this even more exciting is that research suggests that this trend will continue. This means that not only are LEDs a viable solution for indoor farming today, but this solution continues to scale out in the future.

While traditional farming methods waste resources and endanger our future food supply, advancements in indoor farming make it possible to address a wide range of agricultural issues, Fain adds. He teamed up with co-founders David Golden and Brian Falther to start Bowery.

Agriculture consumes 70 percent of available water globally, and we use over 700 million pounds of pesticides each year in the United States alone, Fain says. Bowery is working to change that. As the population grows, Fain and his team believe their company can provide more efficient food to help meet increasing demands around the world. TheU.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reportsthat food production will need to increase by 70 percent to feed an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050.

Bowerys model begins with non-GMO seeds that are planted in vertical rows in an indoor growing environment to optimize space and eliminate the need for soil.According to the company, Bowerys system is more than 100 times more productive on the same footprint of land. FarmOS, a technology system built by the Bowery team, allows crops to grow year-round, at a faster rate, and using 95-percent less water than traditional agriculture. FarmOS creates ideal conditions using automation, LED lighting that mimics the sun, and a 24-hour monitoring to ensure a reliable yield without wasting resources.

Fain calls these post-organic crops the next evolution of produce. Unlike organic products that might utilize organic pest management products, Bowery crops are grown without using any pesticides at all.

Another part of Bowerys process is growing the produce close to the point of consumption. Their farm in Kearny currently distributes to Foragers Market locations in New York City, with plans to expand into select Whole Foods in the tri-state area. Bowery products are also used at Tom Colicchios restaurants, Craft and Fowler & Wells in New York City. This proximity ensures that produce will reach stores and restaurants within one day of being picked, when it is at the height of freshness and flavor. The company has plans for future farms following the same model.

Bowerys packaged greens start at US$3.49. As we scale, we plan to drive down our costs and deliver the highest quality produce at a price that makes it even more accessible to all, Fain says. The products available now include kale mix, baby kale, basil, arugula, butterhead lettuce, and mixed greens. Additional items will be offered soon.

Bowery has been in the works for more than two years now, but their official launch on February 23, 2017, marks their formal introduction to consumers. Were very proud of the work weve done and are excited for consumers to learn more about what Bowery is doing to address some of the complex issues in agriculture, Fain says.

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"Shoppers perceive organic to be healthy, tasty and are deciding that it is worth the money.The organic message is becoming better understood, and all the evidence we see is it is increasing partly because of the young audience coming into the market.

"2015 predicted the market was mostly wealthy, older people, but we found 65 per cent of them had come into the market since 2009 after the recession.

"The young people are engaged with food, the environment and health. Also, Brexit is an opportunity for farmers to exploit, because we are quite successful in exporting, especially in dairy."

Thomas Bourne, who represents a large group of organic farmers as a business development consultant at the Carswell Group in the south west, told The Telegraph: "Young people are a large and growing part of the consumer base with, often, a larger disposable income, and they are more digital savvy, more noisy online, more vocal and more connected via social media."

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Movie and theater actor Billy Crudup, who appears in two Oscar-nominated films this year, said he began practicing meditation after suffering from panic attacks, three of which occurred on stage during performances.

Its such an uncomfortable experience, Crudup told ABC News Dan Harris during an interview for his live-stream/podcast show, 10% Happier. And I took the approach that I took with everything before that which is Im just going to muscle through this and thats just no bueno for very long so I had to start figuring out some other ways to get some help.

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One of the first times Crudup said he experienced a panic attack was while he was having a latex mold of his face made for a role. He then said he experienced them during performances for Tom Stoppards trilogy of plays called The Coast of Utopia and again while doing a monologue for the off-Broadway play, Metal Children.

Ive never had that level of anxiety where I couldnt cope with it, he said.

When he was first starting out as an actor, Crudup said he felt a huge burden to take the craft seriously and became frustrated with not being able to find inspiring roles. He even asked Matt Damon for advice.

And he [Damon] said, Why dont your write something, Crudup said. And I said, Dude, Im going to kill you. The first thing you wrote you got an Oscar for, OK? I dont know how to write. I dont have any -- Why dont you just start welding or something.

As time went on, Crudup said the pressure to be ambitious and successful kept building. He equated the feelings of anxiety with a story he told of when he was a young boy and his father took him deep sea fishing off the coast of North Carolina.

I had always imagined I guess that once you got past the breakers, it was calm out there, and I was deeply disappointed and incredibly nauseous when I discovered that the swells continue throughout the entire ocean and forever and thats sort of how I felt when I arrived at my adult life, Crudup said. I had all the trappings of success in adulthood. I had responsibility, I had artistic agency, I had money, I had friends, I was in relationships, and my family was close to me and supported me, but there was an underlying sense of disease, and that was confusing to me.

Crudups ex, Weeds actress Mary-Louise Parker, first introduced him -- and then later their son, William Crudup, now 13 -- to meditation. Crudup also sought help from renowned Buddhist psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein and legendary Buddhist meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein. It was through their influences and others that Crudup says he started practicing mindfulness meditation as a way to triage anxiety.

I grew up hearing a lot about my gut, and go with your gut, your instincts are always right, Ive come to believe that its probably not as useful as it sounds, he said. Having to let go of that idea, and that your gut might actually lead you in a direction thats not helpful to you sometimes, has been an interesting exercise.

Now that his son meditates, Crudup said they talk about it and sometimes meditate together, although he said his practice today is still in its infancy.

Im terrible at it, he said. [But] when I can catch myself, I count it as a complete triumph, but it comes from a ton of work.

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I Tried Luxury Meditation Classes and Here's What Happened Men's Health It would be easy to call Inscape the SoulCycle of meditation. First of all, it's located in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood which has become something of the city's boutique fitness district with sweat-inducing luminaries like Barry's Bootcamp and ...

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Imagine setting out for the day to explore the great outdoors free of technology, cars, crowds, conversation, work tasks, and more, only tostumble upon an alluring littlehobbit-like house in the middle of the forest, justbegging for you to slip inside and simply sit. Its asking you to just be. It sounds like something out of a film, except theres a real life project making a meditation fairytale come true.

Called Gapahuk, the project involvestinymeditation shelterswithin a forest garden that provide protection and a place to relax for hikers exploring the Lithuanian forests. These spacesoffer the opportunity for people to find solitude within and harmony in theenvironment, and toreconnect with nature. A stone pathway winds throughout the garden, inspired by a Lithuanian fairytale about serpents.

The project, part of a larger Meditation Garden created byBjrndal Arkitektstudio,which won the American Architecture Prize 2016, was built during theHuman Birdhouse Workshop in Lithuania last August. The team cleared out a portion of forest, shaped pathways in and around the garden, installed two fireplaces with sitting areas in front of the shelters, and added Holy stones to the siteas totems of masculine and feminine origin, one of them symbolizing the head of a serpent. The other is used for sacrificing ceremonies. The amphitheater seating, constructed with logs hammeredinto the ground, was designed to be used for small performances or poetry evenings in the Meditation Garden.

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The team chose the location for the Meditation Garden to encourage visitors to dive in to the mystical surrounding.

A press release for the project explains:

The site was next to the swamp. The swamp has low sounds, invisible creatures, and unknown depth, hidden passages used by Lithuanian witches in the past and by partisans during war. It attracts and frightens at the same time. The swamp is very different when fog is going down, and when sun shines upon it. To have the opportunity to sit and meditate in the shelter and to explore the swamp and the growing forest gives an unforgettable experience by connecting with the most magical landscape. Swamps as landscape are frequently used in Lithuanian fairytales, needless to say this fact added a unique mysterious feature on the whole project.

The project was created on the property offamous Lithuanian children books author, poet, and film/theatre director, Vytautas V. Landsbergis. The team aimed todesign and build architecture that paid tribute to Constructive Shamanism.

Such a style brings together architects, builders, and spiritual practitioners to expose and dive deeper into the connections between humans and nature. The end result is a design that is dominated by Lithuanian mythology. Visitors of the Meditation Garden participate in spiritual ceremonies, and sing mantras around a bonfire.

The press release explains:

The project was filled with mythological and folk images. Singing mantras and polyphonic songs around bonfire, participating in spiritual and in tea ceremonies were creating strong bonds between team members. Also, it endowed a meaningful embracement of Lithuanian innate connection with nature and folklore and brought the full load of mystical meaning to the project.

Gapahuk by Bjrnadal Arkitektsudio

Gapahuk by Bjrnadal Arkitektsudio

Gapahuk by Bjrnadal Arkitektsudio

Gapahuk by Bjrnadal Arkitektsudio

Gapahuk by Bjrnadal Arkitektsudio

Wouldnt it be awesome if we had these throughout parks and forests?

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