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Say you pull out your credit card statement and you realize that IKEA has charged you twice for that beautiful Västanby dining table that you bought. Before you panic, know that you’re not alone, and know that IKEA is already aware of this as the company confirms that the double charging is due to a computer glitch.

According to the company, this seems to have affected more than 100 customers in the UK. It is unclear as to how widespread the problem is, but at least 100 customers could have been affected. This means that if you have been shopping at IKEA UK in the past week, particularly on the 21st of July, you should check your bank/credit card statements just to make sure you aren’t one of the affected customers.

Donna Moore, Ikea UK and Ireland customer’s relations manager told the Bristol Post, “We are actively working with the payment service provider to rectify these transactions as quickly as possible so that those affected will have the duplicate payments released back to them by their banks.”

She also apologized on behalf of the stores that accidentally double charged customers. “We apologise for any inconvenience that this caused and if any of our customers are concerned they are welcome to contact us to discuss the matter.” Thankfully this is a glitch and not a hack as we’re sure that would be a much worse PR nightmare, but it’s still an inconvenience all the same.

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Growing up in Kentucky in the 60’s, no one talked about reading food and product labels. The post WWll era had ushered in the high-speed age of American consumerism. Prepared food was considered innovative and fast food chains like Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds were viewed as a novelty and a treat when my parents took us there.

I grew up on a steady diet of TV dinners, Big Macs, blueberry pancakes from Perkins, pancakes and apple fritters from Dixie Cream Donuts. Toxins and harmful preservatives were not a part of my daily conversation. Bugles, Fritos and Cheetos were my favorite study snacks, washed down with Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper after laying out in the sun using a metal refractor, slathered in baby oil tainted iodine to enhance my tan instead of sunscreen. No one worried about the ozone layer or the damage the sun might cause. We swam in chlorine-filled pools and had a sugar-filled Snickers bar as a treat after.

The search for plant-based snacks that taste good
While I wouldn’t trade those toxin filled and processed food years for anything, times change and so have my concerns about my diet and that of my family. I read labels on everything I consume and I can honestly say that my children have rarely eaten processed or fast food. In fact my children’s taste buds are so trained to crave healthy, plant-based options that Katie, my youngest, at two years of age, once spit out her McDonald nuggets during a surprise visit with a friend’s Mom, bluntly stating that they were not like the “real” nuggets we had at home. Being the label reading, conscious consumer that I have become, in our house I only served Morning Star nuggets which are made of tofu.

It’s one of my biggest challenges as a mother to find healthy options and not feel like I’ve deprived anyone’s childhood of special treats. I’m always searching the grocery store for the healthiest and best tasting options I can find. In fact, cruising the aisles of Whole Foods on the prowl for healthy snack food my teenagers will love the taste of and I will be happy with it’s nutritional value is one of my favorite pastimes. So I was most delighted when I discovered Beanfields Bean and Rice chips.

Beans and rice instead of corn
Beanfields, a family-owned certified B Corp, set out to create plant-based, Non-GMO tortilla chips that tasted good without using corn in 2010. They wanted to substitute that with an ingredient that promoted health, sustainability and ethical business practices – all of which are core to their values.

After much researching on the part of Reed Glidden, the president and founder, his wife and co-founder, Liza Braude-Glidden made the first batch of tortilla chips using beans and rice instead of corn.

The benefits of beans over corn
Corn has a high glycemic index and is more likely to be genetically modified while beans are one of America’s superfoods. Beans are the most water-efficient source of protein available. Bean crop production lowers agriculture’s greenhouse emission. The USDA lists beans as both a source of vegetable and protein. Planted-based diets help the environment. All of this fits into the Beanfields vision of using business as a force of good and what they call their guiding philosophy, kinder prosperity.

The making of a Beanfields junkie
I have become a Beanfields junkie. One of the many things I love about these chips, which now come in ten yummy flavors including Nacho, Ranch and Barbecue, is that they are certified gluten-free, Non-GMO Project Verified, vegan and allergy-friendly.

But what is equally important in my house is that they taste so good you forget it’s a better-for-you snack. They have become a staple in my kitchen, where I offer big bowls of the chips to my children and their friends along with great piles of guacamole. I also consider myself an underground distributor, encouraging all my favorite sandwich shops to keep them in stock.

You can read more about Beanfields and how the Glidden family is revolutionizing the chip market with healthy and good tasting options here. I invite you to give them a taste and let me know what you think.

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A 2-acre plot of land is providing a dietary lifeline for a Philadelphia neighborhood that badly needs it.

The plot, which was once a dumping ground, was taken over by the Philly Urban Creators in 2010 and transformed into an urban farm for the locals of North Philadelphia.

The collective of artists and organizers now uses the farm to provide organic produce to families in the community, and to give hands on-training in organizing agriculture and entrepreneurship. The group also sells fresh food from the farm to restaurants in order to help sustain the project.  

The project is bringing fresh food to a city where obesity has been an issue for residents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 67.9 percent of adults and 41 percent of kids ages 6 to 17 in Philadelphia are overweight or obese. The statistics are even worse in North Philadelphia, where almost 70 percent of youth are overweight or obese. 

Jeannine Kayembe, the co-executive director of Philly Urban Creators, said there aren’t a lot of places in the area to purchase fresh produce, like farmers markets or even grocery stores. 

“Just the fact that this food is even growing here is one step in [the] right direction,” she told The Huffington Post’s Alyona Minkovski. “We want to teach folks, we want folks to be able to grow their own food.”

Devon Bailey, the site and development manager for the organization, spent a lot of his early life in the neighborhood and says there was “nothing like this” available when he was growing up. Bailey, a self-described “ex-corner boy who used to do dirt and sell drugs,” is now using his street smarts in a new way at the farm.  

“I just took what I’ve already learned in the street and I just applied it to something completely different,” he said. “And it doesn’t matter, because that education that you learn on the street ― you can apply it to any aspect of life, or whatever business that you’re trying to run.” 

The organization also welcomes formerly incarcerated folks, like Stanley Morgan, who spent five years in prison and has been working at the urban farm for the past three months. Morgan said tending to the crops has been a “life-changing” experience and given him a new outlook on life. 

Kayembe said the farm provides a way to advance social change and tackle important issues that plague urban communities, beyond just the problem of accessibility to fresh food. 

“All the work that we do here, because it’s making a social impact, makes it very political, right?” she said. “All these issues as far as educational funding, that’s us. All these issues as far as mass incarceration and young people not being treated well in these spaces, like ― those are our young people. So even though we are not the politicians that are working with those people, we are still working in that work, even with just the farm.” 

Check out the video above to hear more about Philly Urban Creators’ work in the community.

This video was produced by Liz Martinez and Alyona Minkovski, edited by Terence Krey and shot by William DeJessa and Brian Bentz. 

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Hillary Clinton Thursday night will be the first woman to accept the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, capping a historic week in which Democratic leaders made the case that she is the best person to serve as president.

Clinton’s acceptance comes after President Barack Obama on Wednesday painted a resoundingly optimistic picture of the country and said he was passing the baton of leadership to Clinton. Obama also went after GOP nominee Donald Trump, portraying him as uninterested in facts and insulated by a lifetime of not caring about poor people.

But the Democratic convention in Philadelphia got off to a rocky start as Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would resign as head of the Democratic National Committee after an embarrassing email leak that the Obama administration suggests points to Russia. Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also threatened to upend the convention before Sanders himself urged the party to unite behind Clinton and moved to nominate her unanimously by acclimation.

The early star of the convention was first lady Michelle Obama, who gave a moving speech in which she said this election “is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.” Obama noted progress the country has made and said Clinton would take it further.

 “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful and intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn,” Obama said. Because of Clinton, she said, her daughters will “take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.”

DNC delegates nominated Clinton on Tuesday. In his speech that night, former President Bill Clinton detailed their 45-year relationship, starting at Yale Law School in the 1970s, and described some of the ways she had inspired change throughout her career.

 The following day, Trump drew headlines when he said he hoped Russian hackers had personal emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private email server when she was secretary of state. The comments were widely criticized, even by Republicans, who accused Trump of suggesting that a foreign country intervene in a U.S. election.

Trump’s gaffe played right into Wednesday’s DNC speakers, who said it shows Trump is unfit to lead the United States.

 Clinton, after her nomination on Tuesday, appeared in a video noting the historic moment.

 “I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet,” she said. “And if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say I may become the first woman president, but one of you is next.”

Thursday night, Clinton will make an even bigger crack.

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