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GÖNENC ALÜMINYUM PROFIL LTD. STI.
Guardian BV
About us Our customers have enjoyed experiencing our professional, personal and informal way of working for many years. Whether it’s about advising on a complete roof system, offering a quotation, providing a wind load calculation, solving problems adequately or starting up a local (European) project, our expert staff will be happy to help you! Specialist Guardian offers both products and systems (our fastening systems have been specially developed for the mechanical fastening of ins…
HYTILE EUROPE BV
The Hytile Tilecutter was developed over many years by GUTHRIE MANUFACTURING (AUST) PTY. LTD and is now an industry standard in Australia and New Zealand. By listening to you, the end user, they have designed and built a product that makes your job much safer and much easier. The special design of the tool increases your efficiency, reduces back problems and causes less fatigue. The durability of the equipment is field proven, with earlier models still in use after over 25 years. In 200…
IKO Insulations is part of the international IKO Group. With production sites in Canada, the USA, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Slovakia, and more than 3,000 employees and distribution channels worldwide, the IKO Group is a leading manufacturer of roofing, waterproofing and insulation.
IMSORB / CCF-nl
Imsorb Water Absorption granule is used to easily and quickly get your raingutter or roofing free from water in case of repair. Within five minutes after shredding the granule, a damme arises by turning the granule into the water. Sprinkle the powder double the height of the water.The powder absorbs the water and dry workplace is created. By stopping the water run,you can start the work quickly. After use it is easy to remove the substrate. Imsorb Absorbs 200- 300 times its own weight. The mate…
Lignadecor Üretim ve Pazarlama A.S.
Duramit PVC Roof Panel is the commercial brand of Lignadecor bringing a new lease to new generation roof systems, manufactured in its facilities in the Dudullu Organized Industrial Site. Our company who holds its leader position in pvc manufacturing sector since 1980 has started Duramit PVC Roof Panel manufacturing in order to cater to the building sector’s new generation roof solutions. With the Duramit roof brand we are producing innovative solutions and setting the bar high... Our success and…
MAX EUROPE B.V.
Max is the world’s first manufacturer of high pressure pneumatic nailers and Rebar Tier. The brand name for our high pressure series is called “POWERLITE”, indicating that these products are powerful but lightweight. Faster, stronger, and easier to handle. As the pioneer of automatic Battery operated rebar tying tools, MAX has newly developed three mechanisms that revolutionize Battery operated rebar tying tools. Since the release of the initial model, 20 years ago, Max has been working tireless…
O-Metall Luxembourg S.A./AG
O-Metall® is one of the leading suppliers of trapezoidal profiles and sandwich panels in Europe.
Smart Level Ladder BV
Unique and patented Smart level ladder sells professional ladders to wholesalers, dealers and professional users around the world. The ladders are unique as they have 2 patented integrated safety systems which provide efficiency as well as safety. The system is designed in 2009 and have been further developed to become EN 131 and 2484 approved. All our ladders are also qualified by TÜV and GS. In short, all our ladders meet the highest industry standards for professional ladders.
ST QUADRAT Fall Protection S.A.
For more than 25 years we have been developing unique and quality solutions, which set standards when it comes to personal safety and service - for all work in areas where there is a risk of falling - on roofs or on façades of buildings.
Trespa International B.V.
Trespa International B.V. is a leading innovator in the field of architectural materials, recognised internationally as a premier developer of high quality panels for exterior cladding, decorative façades, and scientific surface solutions. Since its founding in 1960, Trespa has worked closely with architects, designers, installers, distributors, raw material suppliers and end users globally. Trespa’s focus is on product development, combining quality-manufacturing technologies with intelligent s…
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W Washington D.C.
515 15th Street NW, Washington, District Of Columbia 20004 USA
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Wonderful Interior View, Guest room, 1 King
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Wow Monument View, 1 Bedroom Suite, 1 King, Corner room
Extreme Wow 1 Bedroom Suite, 1 King, White House view, City view, Corner room, Top floor
Bliss® Spa
Live it up at our D.C. boutique hotel
Talk about capital gains. W Washington D.C.’s top-to-bottom hotel renovation is now complete and ready to be experienced. Walk to any of the capital's major attractions, from the White House to the Washington Monument. Wander the streets of energetic Georgetown and step inside some of the finest shopping on the East Coast. Our boutique hotel pulls its weight with world-class wellness amenities at Bliss® Spa and FIT®, our gym with personal trainers and cardio machines. Mix and mingle at Living Room, drink and dine at Cherry Open Fire Kitchen and Corner Office or take in the cityscape at POV rooftop lounge. Sharing the top floor is Altitude ballroom with advanced AV equipment and reliable Whatever/Whenever® service. When you're ready to call it a day, kick back in your spacious hotel suite. Settle into a signature W bed with a soft duvet and body pillow. Freshen up every morning with your waterfall shower, silver leaf mirror and Bliss® Spa products. Cross the party line at W Washington D.C.
Cross the Party Line
A New Side is Revealed
Talk about capital gains. W Washington DC, the closest hotel to The White House, recently completed a $55 million renovation project that injects bold new cutting-edge design into the historic Beaux Arts building that has stood at the center of history since 1917. From the newly reimagined Living Room, W’s see and be seen lobby, to all guest rooms and suites as well as the legendary POV rooftop bar with unparalleled views of the city, the new look mixes modern design with playful, only-at-W elements that pay homage to the city’s past and present.
Reimagined Rooms and Suites
Now completed and ready to be enjoyed, our reimagined rooms and suites are waiting for your next arrival. Every one of our suites is designed to accommodate low-key lounging or turned up nights, with a private bedroom and open dining room stocked with a full bar. Make yourself at home with signature W bedding, liberal closet space, an oversized bathroom and limitless in-room amenities - for whatever your stay serves up.
POV Rooftop Bar
Make your way to our now open and newly renovated POV rooftop. Long regarded as the destination for Washington’s power set, POV, the hotel’s iconic rooftop bar and lounge ushered in a new era of nightlife in the city when it first opened in the summer of 2009. Our notorious rooftop lounge and terrace, POV, takes inspiration from D.C.’s honeycomb metro and Brutalist design, incorporating floor-to-ceiling glass for maximum transparency. Feel the proximity to power in our rooftop ballroom with an adjoining outdoor terrace overlooking The White House.
Elevate Your POV
Get up where the nation’s most important monuments and spectacular landmarks surround you in our 11th-floor rooftop terrace bar and lounge.
EXTREME WOW SUITE
Stretch out in this luxuriously lavish 1.5-bath suite where contemporary sophistication is of presidential proportions, complete with sweeping views of the Washington Monument and hot-to-trot Penn Quarter. The one-bedroom, 1.5-bath suite adjoins with its neighboring room, providing additional bedrooms for a full entourage (or an entourage of security detail). The Extreme WOW Suite is the new home away from home for rock stars and rock star politicos alike.
King Extreme Wow Suite
Luxurious Bathroom
Living & Dining Room
Extreme Wow Suites Special Details
A Local Landmark
Originally built in 1917 as the Hotel Washington. W Washington DC is the closest hotel to The White House and stands proudly on the National Mall, blocks from the city’s top restaurants, popular museums, landmarks, congress and major business offices. Just next door to the White House and overlooking the capital cityscape, W Washington D.C. is breaking all the rules of bureaucracy and inaugurating the oldest hotel in town with revolutionary style.
Historic D.C. Hotel
Just next door to the White House and overlooking the capital cityscape, W Washington D.C. is breaking all the rules of bureaucracy and inaugurating the oldest hotel in town with revolutionary style.
Discover Washington, D.C.
From the Old Guard to the New World, politics is no longer the only game in town as Washington, D.C. climbs the ranks as one of the country's most stylish urban playgrounds where emerging fashion designers, innovative entrepreneurs, cutting-edge restaurateurs and the intellectual elite have come to frolic.
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Meditation Silence 3
Created October 6, 2012 by Nirbhasa Magee
The latest episode of Inspiration Silence has been released. Episode 3 includes a short talk on the art of concentration by Sri Chinmoy. The video also features Sri Chinmoy meditating in silence and captures a glimpse of the profound depths of meditation.
View: Meditation SilencePodcast at iTunesView all episodes of Meditation Silence at Sri Chinmoy TV
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Meditation May reduce Risk of Heart Attack
Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles say teaching heart patients how to meditate helped reduce the risk of future heart attacks.
Maura Paul-Labrador is lead author of the study that appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine. She says there was already evidence that meditation lowers blood pressure, but researchers didn’t know why. She says her new study shows it’s because meditation affects the autonomic – or involuntary – nervous system, which, among other things, helps regulate heartbeat.
“We looked at what we called heart rate variability, which is a measure of autonomic nervous system.” Paul-Labrador explains that heart rate varies from beat to beat. A healthy heart is one that has a wide range of speeds – from a slow heartbeat at rest, to a fast one for an active person. Hearts that change rate rapidly in response to changes in conditions, and then return to rest more quickly have good heart rate variability. Paul-Labrador says, “we were able to show that our meditation group improved their heart rate variability more than the active control group.”
The researchers think people in the study lowered their blood pressure because of improvements in their autonomic nervous system. But they’re still not sure exactly how it works. Some patients were even able to lower their doses of blood pressure medication.
In addition, Paul-Labrador says, “The meditation group was able to deal with their blood sugar better.” Better control of insulin reduces their potential risk for diabetes. “You want your body to respond to lower levels of insulin, and so what we were able to find is that our meditation group was able to lower their insulin resistance compared to the active control group.”
Paul-Labrador says people in the study meditated for 20 minutes, twice a day. She said the researchers had the subjects learn transcendental meditation because the practice is taught in a standardized way. She says other forms of meditation might also be effective, but they didn’t study any other methods.
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SIPA Member Profile: Stillwell Reveals His Sales Secrets
Ronn Levine • April 17, 2012
Ryan Stillwell, Vice President of Sales, Mortgage Success Source, LLC, Holmdel, N.J.
SIPA: How did you get into this business?
RYAN: I was a branch manager for Wells Fargo and Originated loans for GMAC. The GMAC office was shared by a company called The Mortgage Market Guide. I was asked to join the MMG team which was just in its infancy with a couple of employees. We grew the business and the company built up momentum. In 2007, 13,000 people were using us for data. I was responsible for building up our customer service operations and sales departments in-house and over in India. MMG was then sold to UCG which merged it with another product that assisted Loan Officers (Loan Toolbox). This was how MSS was born.
What’s your current position?
I manage our sales team, which is focused on corporate sales and individual product sales to Mortgage Originators and larger lending institutions.
Is there a secret to hiring good salespeople?
It’s tough to evaluate who to hire—it’s not like you can easily gauge what motivation a person has to succeed. I like to try and understand what a person has gone through, evaluating the adversity they faced. How long did they have to continue to follow up in order to be successful? Did he or she have to do follow-up presentations, face-to-face sales, cold calling? How many people did they reach out to in a day? Etc.
What’s been the biggest change in the selling world?
Technology. The world is changing drastically and quickly. For us more specifically, however, it is compliance. The Origination world was largely driven by entrepreneurial individuals who utilized systems to help them with their own professional development, marketing and education. Today, corporations are taking much more control of all of these tools. The decision process is now all in the hands of CEOs, COOs and marketing managers for their employees. It used to be much more originator-centric.
What are your keys in the selling process?
You need to evaluate what a company’s needs are—or really, let them evaluate their own needs. We provide so many services—marketing, professional development, presentations, market knowledge, etc.—but the last thing we want to do is put our clients asleep or confuse them with so many options. So if we can narrow down their needs, then we can say, “Okay, here’s what we can do for you.” The big questions are, “Where are you coming up short? And what are the top 4 or 5 things that matter to you?” Example: we may think social media is an important way to market yourself and your company, but there may be a company or bank that doesn’t want its employees using social media. So why waste time?
As you mentioned, there are so many more options today.
Here’s what people don’t get. Most companies operate in a complex selling environment, but they don’t know that. There are a lot of choices to make. All of the details matter and we don’t assume to know what is most important to them; instead we try to get them to be specific in telling us what they need.
It sounds like you put a lot on your salespeople’s plates.
Yes, we do, but we actually try to make it easier for them. Take buying a car. There are multiple types of cars. From a sales perspective, you start out knowing nothing [about the customer] besides the fact that they need a form of transportation. However, you don’t know If they have 5 kids or are single. Do they have a long commute to work? Is this for their occupation or leisure? Are you a beach bum, do you want 4-wheel drive? We need to cut through that stuff. Sometimes it’s easier to say we have different types of vehicles on our lot; which could you see yourself getting the most value out of? This allows for the discussion to get narrowed down quicker. This is what we try to teach our sales reps.
Do your salespeople already have relationships with these customers?
Good question. Sometimes. In corporate sales, there is some sort of relationship where many of them already use our services. Some have never heard of us. We do pretty well with trials.
And finally, what keeps you up at night?
Lack of sales and the constant changing that our industry continues to go through. However, both of these present new challenges and create new opportunities.
Ryan Stillwell and another sales executive,
Rick Longenecker, will deliver what should be
an excellent session on sales at SIPA 2012.
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Schneider Electric Joins Climate Leadership Council
Schneider Electric joins 11 companies as a corporate founding member.
KEYWORDS data center energy efficiency / data centers
Schneider Electric has announced its participation in the Climate Leadership Council as a founding member, to support a new market-based climate solution that is both pro-growth and pro-environment.
Launched in February 2017, the Climate Leadership Council is an international policy institute — founded in collaboration with business, opinion, and environmental leaders — specifically to promote a carbon dividends framework as an effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution. Schneider Electric joins a broad coalition of top companies and NGOs, including 11 of the largest companies in the world, as well as former U.S. Secretaries of State, Treasury and Energy, to advance a consensus climate solution that bridges partisan divides, strengthens our economy, and protects the world’s shared environment.
“There are no borders to carbon. We joined the Climate Leadership Council because it is our corporate duty to fight climate change triggered by carbon emissions, said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and chief executive officer, Schneider Electric. “We believe this means embarking on aggressive initiatives, cutting our emissions in half by 2050 by being more energy efficient, and driving digitization to help us achieve this goal.”
The carbon dividends plan is based on four interdependent pillars that are mutually reinforcing:
A gradually rising and revenue-neutral carbon tax
Monthly carbon dividend payments to all Americans, funded by 100% of the revenue
The rollback of carbon regulations that are no longer necessary
Border carbon adjustments to level the playing field and promote American competitiveness
The carbon tax provides a market-based mechanism to drive emission reductions and encourage innovation and promote competitiveness. At the same time, the dividend ensures the plan is beneficial for working Americans. In fact, according to the Department of Treasury, the bottom 70% of households, which represent 223 million Americans, would benefit financially under this plan, receiving more in dividends than the increased energy costs they face. If approved, the Council expects the plan would help America meet its commitment under the Paris Climate Agreement.
“These measures, coupled with innovation through connected devices, big data, analytics, and digital services are driving real change. As companies push toward digital transformation, they can realize quantifiable energy savings and cut carbon emissions while increasing operational productivity,” closed Tricoire. “If businesses, countries and cities adopt these smart and connected technologies, we can achieve the needed efficiency gains to win our climate change fight. We must act now for a better future.”
Other corporate and NGO Founding Members of the Council include: BP, ExxonMobil, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Royal Dutch Shell, Santander Bank, Total, Unilever, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy. The Founding Members will work closely with the Council to develop and promote the carbon dividends plan to usher in a winning combination of increased economic growth, competitiveness, sustainability and security.
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Alderson: Surplus of starters a good problem to have
Mets GM indicates trade before Spring Training unlikely, club's 2015 goal is around 90 wins
By Anthony DiComo
NEW YORK -- For the first time this offseason, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson does not sound confident that he will trade a starting pitcher before Spring Training.
"Right now, we feel very good about the fact that we're eight or nine deep going into the season," Alderson said Monday on MLB Network's "High Heat" program, less than three weeks before the reporting date for pitchers and catchers. "You always need extra starting pitching. Things will probably work themselves out during Spring Training. Hopefully we don't have an injury. But we do have some flexibility in the 'pen, so if somebody has to move to the 'pen for a period of time, I think that would be acceptable to us."
Since November, Alderson has indicated that he would prefer to trade one of his excess starters, with Dillon Gee quickly emerging as the most likely candidate. But teams not still waiting on free agent James Shields have largely already filled their rotation needs, meaning the Mets are facing the real possibility of heading into Spring Training with Gee, Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Zack Wheeler, Jon Niese and Bartolo Colon all populating the same rotation -- to say nothing of prospects Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero and Steven Matz, who are all big league-ready or close to it.
In Alderson's words, it is now conceivable that one of those six -- Gee still being the most likely -- could end up in the bullpen come April 6.
For the Mets, it is a decent problem to have. In the thick of an improved division featuring the Nationals and Marlins, the Mets need to distinguish themselves in some way. Though they do not boast as strong of a rotation as the Nats or as much improvement potential as the Marlins, they do possess significant starting-pitching depth -- eight or nine deep on the depth chart, as Alderson indicated. That could give them an advantage in today's game, which sees most teams run through a dozen or more starters over the course of each season.
The Mets' goal is to win roughly a dozen games more than last year, putting them squarely in the playoff conversation.
"We won 79 games last year, which was an improvement over the year before," Alderson said. "But we need to take a bigger jump next season. One of the reasons we've been quiet in the offseason is that we have quality players at every position. They're not all proven above-average Major League players, but we're at the point now where we have to give them an opportunity to perform.
"We're comfortable going into Spring Training -- and excited, actually, to see those players and see what kind of steps forward they take, and whether that can translate into 10 or 12 games for us in the win column."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo.
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MNN.com > Food & Drink > Healthy Eating
Consumer Reports confirms arsenic in apple juice worries
New investigation finds high levels of inorganic arsenic in many top brands of apple juice.
Jenn Savedge
December 1, 2011, 8:24 a.m.
Photo: foilman/Flickr
It's been more than a year since I posed the question, Is there arsenic in your apple juice? Since that time, it's become clear that there is, in fact, arsenic in most brands of apple juice, and lots of it. But what no one seems to agree on is just how worried we should be about it.
The story made headlines again this fall as Dr. Oz (host of the "Dr. Oz Show") commissioned an independent study and found that 10 of three dozen apple juice samples had total arsenic levels exceeding 10 parts per billion (ppb). The limit for arsenic in bottled and public water is 10 ppb. The problem is that unlike drinking water, there are no current standards or regulations on the amount of arsenic that is allowed in apple juice.
For its part, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) went to great lengths to dispute Dr. Oz's findings, claiming that the apple juice on store shelves is safe because most arsenic in juices and other foods is of the organic type that is “essentially harmless.”
But a new investigation by Consumer Reports shows otherwise. Consumer Reports tested apple and grape juice, looked at federal health data, polled consumers, and interviewed health experts. According to their report, "roughly 10 percent of our juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen."
Inorganic arsenic. Known carcinogen.
"Essentially harmless"? Not by a long shot. Sounds like the FDA has some 'splaining to do.
Will this new information change the type of juice that your family drinks in the morning?
Related topics: Healthy Eating, Toxins & Chemicals
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MNN.com > Health > Fitness & Well-Being
13 superfoods you should be eating
These dietary dynamos fight everything from cholesterol to cancer, helping you live a longer, healthier life.
S.A. Rogers
Blueberry extracts have been shown to help prevent infectious bacteria from clinging to the walls of the gut, bladder and urethra. (Photo: Madlen/Shutterstock)
Not all foods are created equal — some are so packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, essential fatty acids and other beneficial substances that they've been deemed "superfoods." Superfoods have incredible health benefits, packing a powerful nutritional punch that helps protect against cancer and heart disease, lower cholesterol, protect the organs from toxins and improve digestive health. Some nutritionists even say superfoods can help you live longer and lose weight.
Here's a list of superfoods that can supercharge your diet, including fruits, vegetables, dairy, legumes, grains and fish.
1. Avocado: This mighty fruit is full of "good" fats (mono saturated fats and omega-9 fats) and nutrients such as phytosterols and polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols (PFAs), which support the inflammatory system and lower the risk of illnesses caused by inflammation, like arthritis. Avocados are also high in oleic acid, which helps our bodies absorb nutrients, and high in vitamin B-6 and folic acid, which support heart health. Plus, they're a better source of potassium than bananas.
Combine the avocados mentioned above with the eggs mentioned below, and you have yourself a delicious two-superfood meal. (Photo: Anastasia Izofatova/Shutterstock)
2. Eggs: While they may have had a bad reputation for a while, eggs once again are enjoying their time in the sun. And for good reason. Just one egg has only 75 calories, 7 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat and 1.6 grams of saturated fat, plus iron, vitamins and minerals. And the carotenoids in eggs, specifically lutein and zeaxanthin, may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration.
Açai berries are fruit from a palm tree that grows in the Amazon rainforest. (Photo: diogoppr/Shutterstock)
3. Açai: This exotic berry from the Amazon has been the subject of intense hype, but there's a good reason why. Named by famed nutritionist Dr. Nicholas Perricone as his No. 1 superfood and one of the most powerful foods in the world, açaí (ah-sigh-ee) contains a remarkable concentration of antioxidants, amino acids and essential fatty acids. It's considered one of nature's best offerings to combat premature aging thanks to its high monounsaturated oleic acid content. Oleic acid helps omega-3 fish oils penetrate cell membranes, making them more supple.
4. Broccoli: This cruciferous vegetable is loaded with vitamin C, folic acid and carotenoids, which are packed with vitamin A and can protect your cells from the damage of free radicals, enhance immune system function and improve reproductive health. Just one serving (1 medium stalk) provides 175% of the recommended daily value of vitamin K, which helps build strong bones and plays an important role in blood clotting. Just half a cup of broccoli per day is also said to help prevent a number of cancers, particularly cancers of the lung, colon, rectum and stomach. In fact, a 2019 study found that a natural compound found in broccoli inactivates a gene known to play a role in a variety of cancers. The tumor suppressant gene, called PTEN, is also found in cauliflower, cabbage, collard greens, Brussels sprouts and kale.
Lentils are low in calories, yet they're very filling because they're high in lean protein. (Photo: Gayvoronskaya_Yana/Shutterstock)
5. Lentils: Among the most nutritious legumes, lentils are a great source of cholesterol-lowering fiber and lean protein. They contain lots of iron and B vitamins and are very filling, yet low in calories. Folate and magnesium also contribute to heart heath and improve the flow of blood, oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.
6. Beans: Beans are another type of legume that packs a big benefit into a small package. Beans contain soluble fiber, which lowers cholesterol. They're low in fat and contain no cholesterol (unless they're processed). And one cup of beans has about 15 grams of protein — as much as two ounces of chicken or meat. Plus, beans digest slowly due to their complex carbohydrates, which stabilizes blood sugar. Beans contain an array of nutrients including antioxidants, and vitamins and minerals, such as copper, folate, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium and zinc.
Did you know sweet potatoes can be not only orange, but purple too? (Photo: panda3800/Shutterstock)
7. Sweet potatoes: They'll satisfy your craving for starches but are far healthier than their white, nutritionally lacking cousins. Carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium and fiber are just a few of the benefits of eating this savory-sweet veggie, which is ranked among the highest vegetables on the nutrition scale. Sweet potatoes can help stabilize blood sugar, making them a great choice for diabetics, and are relatively low in calories.
8. Blueberries: Hidden within the juicy, deep blue-purple flesh of this tasty fruit is cancer-fighting ellagic acid, an antioxidant that has been proven in laboratory research to slow the growth of some cancerous tumors. Blueberry extracts have also been shown to have anti-inflammatory properties and help prevent infectious bacteria from clinging to the walls of the gut, bladder and urethra.
9. Yogurt: It's alive! Yogurt contains active cultures known as "friendly bacteria" that restore healthy balance in the digestive system. Among the most well-known cultures is Lactobacillus acidophilus, which passes through the stomach and populates the intestines, helping the body fight off infection. One cup contains 50% more calcium than the same size serving of milk, and it's also full of potassium, riboflavin, magnesium and phosphate.
Wild salmon can be eaten with little fear of mercury and is more nutritionally rich than farmed salmon. (Photo: hlphoto/Shutterstock)
10. Wild salmon: Packed with omega-3 fats, wild salmon can help reduce the risk of sudden-death heart attacks and contains lots of vitamin D and selenium for healthy hair, skin, nails and bones. Wild salmon can be eaten with little fear of mercury or excess contaminants and is more nutritionally rich than farmed salmon. Wild salmon also has a smaller environmental impact. Consume two to four four-ounce servings a week for optimal benefits.
11. Goji berries: They've been called the most nutritionally dense food on Earth, and they taste something like salty raisins. Lycium barbarum, commonly known as goji berries, contain more vitamin C than oranges, more beta carotene than carrots and more iron than steak. The dried Himalayan fruit is also a great source of B vitamins and antioxidants and contains 15 amino acids. Goji has been used medicinally in China for centuries to improve blood circulation, strengthen the limbs, improve eyesight, protect the liver, increase libido and boost immune function.
This leafy green vegetable is in the same family as broccoli, a fellow superfood. (Photo: wjarek/Shutterstock)
12. Kale: A dark, leafy green in the same vegetable family as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, kale contains high amounts of beta carotene, iron and folate. It's also a low-calorie, low-carb source of protein that's packed with fiber, which improves digestive health and helps you feel full. A small cupful of cooked kale provides more than half the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C.
13. Barley: This low-glycemic grain is high in both soluble and insoluble fiber, which help the body metabolize fats and promote a healthy digestive tract, respectively. (The same is true for oats, by the way.) Eating hulled barley on a regular basis is said to lower blood cholesterol levels, protect against cancer and keep blood-sugar levels stable. Barley is rich in niacin, vitamin E, lignans and phytochemicals that function as antioxidants.
Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was originally published in September 2009.
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Portrait of Fraulein Hanna Maercker
Adolph MENZEL
Period 1750-1850, 19th century
Medium Watercolour, Gouache, Over an underdrawing in pencil
Dimensions 22.1 x 18 cm (8³/₄ x 7¹/₈ inches)
Gallery Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Between 1845 and 1847 Adolph Menzel lived at 18 Schöneberger Strasse in Berlin, where his neighbours included the family of the lawyer Karl Anton Maercker (1803-1871), director of the Berlin Criminal Court and, from 1848, Justice Minister in the brief Prussian government of Rudolf von Auerswald. Menzel became friendly with the Maerckers, and produced a number of portraits - in oil, watercolour, chalk and pastel - of members of the family. (Frau Maercker also posed for both of the main figures in Menzel’s genre painting The Interruption (The Visit), painted between 1845 and 1846 and today in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe.) In the spring of 1847 the artist moved to a new address, at 43 Ritterstrasse, and while he saw less of the Maercker family, he continued to occasionally produce drawings of them, as evidenced by the present sheet - a portrait of the daughter of Karl Anton Maercker - which is dated September 1848. In 1850, the Maercker family moved to Halbertadt in Saxony-Anhalt, ending their close relationship with Menzel.
This charming watercolour by Menzel is a portrait of the Maercker’s eldest daughter, Johanna (Hanna) Maercker (1839-1918), at the age of nine. Little else is known of Hanna Maercker, apart from her marriage to Julius Albert in 1857. A black chalk drawing by Menzel of the same young girl, though perhaps a year or two earlier in date, is in the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin.
A stylistically similar watercolour portrait of the Maercker’s young son Max asleep, datable to around the same time as the present sheet, has appeared on the German art market in recent years. Also comparable is a third watercolour of the Maercker children; a double portrait of Hanna and Max Maercker seated at a table, dated 1848.
Period: 1750-1850, 19th century
Origin: Germany
Medium: Watercolour, Gouache, Over an underdrawing in pencil
Signature: Signed and dated Menzel/ Sept. 1848 at the lower left.
Dimensions: 22.1 x 18 cm (8³/₄ x 7¹/₈ inches)
Provenance: Dr. Karl Anton Maercker and Anna Catharina Maercker, Berlin and Halberstadt
By descent to E. Maercker, Halberstadt, by 1905 Private collection, Southern Germany
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Villa Grisebach, 27 November 2009, lot 3
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 14 December 2016, lot 56.
Literature: Hugo von Tschudi, Adolph von Menzel: Abbildungen seiner Gemälde und Studien, Munich, 1905, pp.168-169, no.206 (‘Tochter des Justizministers Maercker’); Georg Jakob Wolf, Adolf von Menzel: der Maler deutschen Wesens: 149 Gemälde und Handzeichnungen des Meisters, Munich, 1915, illustrated p.92; Karl Robert Langewiesche, ed., Der Blumenkorb: Deutsche Maler 1800 bis 1870, Königstein im Taunus and Leipzig, 1921, pl.46; Gisold Lammel, Adolph Menzel und seine Kreise, Dresden and Basel, 1993, p.46; Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher, ed., Adolph Menzel 1815-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Washington and Berlin, 1996-1997, p.201, under no.28 and pp.217-218, under no.38; Bernhard Maaz, ed., Adolph Menzel: radikal real, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 2008, p.56, no.24; Hamburg, Dr. Moeller & Cie., Adolph Menzel 1815-1905: Meister der Zeichnung, 2013, unpaginated, under no.3, fig.1.
Exhibitions: Berlin, Königliche National-Galerie, Ausstellung von Werken Adolph von Menzels, 1905, no.283; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Adolph Menzel: radikal real, 2008, no. 24.
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MAUD - Part of Accenture Interactive
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MayorWatch
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Len Duvall, MPA Chair, Statement on IPCC Report
August 2, 2007 - Staff
Statement by Metropolitan Police Authority Chair Len Duvall in the wake of the publication of the IPCC’s findings
into the conduct of officers following the
shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by Metropolitan Police Service
officers on 22 July 2005:
“It must always be remembered that the background to the report today is the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. It was a tragedy. He became the 53rd victim, along with many injured, caused by terrorism in the capital in July 2005.
The MPA is the independent statutory body that oversees the work of the MPS and we recognise and fully support the vital part that they have to play in protecting the people of London and the UK from terrorism.
This report does not make comfortable reading for either the MPA or the MPS, even though a number of recommendations in both this report and the previous IPCC Stockwell report have already been implemented. Both the Commissioner and his senior management team, along with MPA officials have assured me that the recommendations from Stockwell 1 and 2, along with further work we have undertaken, have been implemented. I am confident that the whole of the MPS, both individuals and the organisation, has learned lessons from this tragic event. Two years on, the MPS is now in a very different place on all issues relating to Stockwell.
Under the stewardship of Sir Ian Blair since July 2005, his senior management team have achieved remarkable successes, including some outstanding counter-terrorist operations and convictions. I particularly want to address the suggestion that Sir Ian Blair cannot take bad news – this cannot be further from the truth. Any one who has worked with him closely knows that this is not the case and that he cares passionately about the MPS, its people and equally the service the organisation provides to the people of London.
Londoners must be able to trust what their police service tells them, especially in circumstances where they are being asked to be vigilant and maintain high levels of awareness.
Trust in this information is absolutely paramount and in many circumstances can be a vital message of reassurance. The Authority will continue to work to ensure that the MPS’s internal methods of working and communications are efficient and effective.
Even though we have already implemented changes the MPA and MPS now need a period of reflection to consider this report and I have asked the MPS to respond fully to a meeting of the full Authority which I have brought forward to Thursday 6 September.
The IPCC Report also requires the MPA to consider the specific actions of Assistant Commissioner Hayman and the MPA Professional Standards sub-committee will now consider whether the allegations should give rise to disciplinary action against him. The sub-committee expects to reach its decision by the autumn. We will not be commenting further until the process is completed.
The IPCC has also spoken to us about the way that the Salmon process operated in this case. Following consultation with the IPCC, the MPA today asked Sir Ronnie Flannagan, Chief HMIC, to review how the process operated in this case and to report back to us as soon as possible.
The IPCC is an independent organisation which I value. I firmly believe, along with the MPS, that their work is an integral part of ensuring the accountability of the police service.
The terrorist atrocities of July 2005 made unprecedented demands on the MPS and the fight against terrorism will present challenges to policing for many years to come, in London and across the country. The MPA will continue its dual role in holding the MPS to account and to fully support the men and women who work at all levels of the MPS as it meets these exceptional circumstances and responsibilities.”
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A Brief History of Victorian Goldfish Globes and Goldfish-Hawkers
June 9, 2016 | 15 comments
The Goldfish Bowl by Charles Edward Perugini, 1870.
Among fashionable Victorians, there was no parlor ornament so elegant—nor so diverting—as a clear glass globe filled with glittering goldfish. It was considered to be educational for children who, according to author Charles Nash Page in his 1898 book Aquaria, could learn more in a few hours of observing the goldfish than in “many days spent with books.” It was also believed to be beneficial for invalids since watching the goldfish swim was “health restoring” and “restful to the mind.” By the middle of the 19th century, goldfish globes had become so popular that an entire class of street-sellers had risen up to fill the demand. Operating in both London and the English countryside, these “goldfish-hawkers” were a common sight—especially in the vicinity of the homes of the wealthy and the well-to-do, where they preferred to ply their trade.
In his 1851 book on Labour and the London Poor, social researcher Henry Mayhew calls goldfish-hawkers the “very best class” of street-sellers. They enjoyed a good deal of success owing to the fact that goldfish were one of the things people tended to buy when they were brought to their doors, but not when they must seek them out for themselves. Much of this had to do with the goldfish-hawker’s ability to dazzle children with his wares. As Mayhew explains:
“The importunity of children when a man unexpectedly tempts them with a display of such brilliant creatures as gold fish, is another great promotive of the street-trade.”
The Goldfish Seller by Leslie George Dunlop, (1835–1921).
Goldfish-hawking was primarily seasonal work, with many street-sellers spending summers peddling goldfish globes and winters peddling fruits, poultry and game, or —as in the case of one goldfish-hawker—cough drops and “medicinal confectionaries.” As Mayhew writes in his July 1851 report:
“This is the season when the gold and silver fish-sellers, who are altogether a distinct class from the bird-sellers of the streets, resort to the country, to vend their glass globes, with the glittering fish swimming ceaselessly round and round.”
The goldfish-hawkers in London purchased their stock from wholesalers, generally preferring the heartier English-bred goldfish raised in Essex. They displayed them in glass globes which, as Mayhew reports, were about twelve inches in diameter and contained “about a dozen occupants.” They did not feed them, believing that “animalcules” or “minute insects” in the water would suffice for their sustenance. To this end, the goldfish-hawker changed the water in the globe twice each day, using rain or “Thames water.”
Leisure Hours by John Everett Millais, 1864.
The Victorian era belief that goldfish did not need to be fed was actually quite common. An article in the 1859 edition of the Wellington Journal addresses this misconception in severe tones, stating:
“Whenever you meet with folks who keep goldfishes in the old-fashioned glass globes, you will be sure to hear the melancholy complaint that they will die in spite of every care taken to preserve them. The water is changed most regularly, the glass kept beautifully clean, the vessel shaded from the sunshine; yet, alas! alas! death is always busy amongst them. Is it internal disease? Is it external fungi? No; the cause is starvation. Every other pet is expected to eat, but these gold-carp are expected to subsist on—nothing!”
By the late 19th century, books on goldfish were advising that owners feed their pets a diet of dried ant eggs. Fortunately these were available commercially. As an 1899 article in Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper reports:
“The best food for the fish is dried ants eggs, procurable in penny packets at any corn dealers.”
The Shattuck Family, with Grandmother, Mother & Baby William by Aaron Draper Shattuck, 1865.
Starving and dying goldfish notwithstanding, goldfish-hawkers of 1851 did a steady business in selling a pair of goldfish—also called “globe fish” because of their smaller size—for two shillings. The accompanying glass globe could be bought from the goldfish-hawker for anywhere from two shillings to two shillings and six pence.
After procuring the goldfish and the globe, the rest of the expenses were quite minimal. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper suggests a root of water lily and “some well-washed river sand, about half an inch in depth.” While Page recommends the addition of some scavengers, such as tadpoles, water snails, or newts, to “consume decaying vegetable matter and keep down as much as possible the growth of confervae.”
Goldfish globes remained favorite parlor ornaments throughout the Victorian era and into the 20th century. I will not claim that goldfish as pets ever reached the heights of popularity achieved by Victorian Dogs or Victorian cats, but as an elegant fixture in the 19th century home, the goldfish globe cannot be overlooked.
Cats by a fishbowl by Horatio Henry Couldery, (1832–1918).
Thus concludes another of my Friday features on Animals in Literature and History. If you would like to learn more about goldfish, the following links may be useful as resources:
Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (United States)
The Bristol Aquarists’ Society (United Kingdom)
Mimi Matthews is the USA Today bestselling author of The Matrimonial Advertisement, The Pug Who Bit Napoleon, and A Victorian Lady’s Guide to Fashion and Beauty. She researches and writes on all aspects of nineteenth century history—from animals, art, and etiquette to fashion, beauty, feminism, and law.
“Death Among the Gold-Fish.” Wellington Journal. September 17, 1859.
“Goldfish.” Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper. December 10, 1899.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. London: 1851.
Mulertt, Hugo. The Goldfish and Its Systematic Culture with a View to Profit. Cincinnati: McDonald & Eick, 1888.
Page, Charles Nash. Aquaria. Des Moines : Chas. N. Page, 1898.
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Lindsay Downs (@ldowns2966)
Once again an interesting and informative post
Thanks, Lindsay :) I’m glad you enjoyed it!
travtrails
It seems the habit percolated down to the Colonies. In India owning a ‘bowl of goldfish’ or an aquarium was/is considered prestigious.
Oh yes! They were quite popular in many places around the world.
Sarah Waldock
Mimi, did your researches tell you when it became common for goldfish to be prizes at fairs? it’s banned now but my sister won a goldfish at the fair on Beccles common, and chose the ugliest because she was sorry for it. Cleo survived being washed down the sink and caught in a collander, as well as moving house and lived for almost 12 years, her home not an elegant globe, which my father held did not permit enough oxygen in, but an old plastic washing up bowl with a couple of shells in it to hide in.
I wondered about that myself, but didn’t find anything. My research was tailored more toward goldfish-hawkers. I didn’t know that it was banned now in England. I’m not sure about here, but I remember when I was very young winning a goldfish at a ball toss booth at a carnival. I don’t think mine had a fraction of the longevity of your sister’s!
Iva P.
We never had an aquarium at home, but I remember a fishbowl in my schoolmate’s home with a lonely goldfish in it. There was nothing else: no sand, no water plants, just glass, water, and that lonely goldfish circling round and round. I have never seen anything so depressing in my whole life. So I took whatever pocket money I had and went to the pet shop to buy that unhappy fish a habitation: a plastic water plant and some shells for the bottom. I shouldn’t have bothered. My schoolmate’s dad, inspired by my example, decided to change the water… Read more »
Oh no! That poor fish. Good for you for trying to improve her habitat, even if it turned out bad in the end!
Noirfifre
Gold fish hawking, haha. I just find it amusing, I can imagine all the starry eyed children and the hawkers eyes devilishly bemusing.
And the parents would have been incapable of saying no, of course.
No ways. Not when they give that puppy dog look.
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chriswoodyard
What a delightful and informative post! I collect “fish castles”/aquarium ornaments. Did any of your sources mention them?
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Chris :) I didn’t see aquarium ornaments mentioned specifically in my research, but in the 1899 article in Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper they mention boiling a shingle to put in the goldfish globe–which I assume operates as a sort of privacy shield for the fish to hide behind. Aside from that, the focus was mainly on water plants.
thank you for such an interesting article!
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By Kathy Kay
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The Oscars are over. The hype died down. So now what? What will enthrall us for the next few weeks?
How about the Cat Video Festival? Yes, an opportunity for you to immerse yourself in all things feline is hitting The Vic Theatre in March. I swore off cute cat videos, but what the heck – troubled times, a little escapism, it can be the best medicine – and what’s more indie than videos made by individuals around the world?
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Continuing on with enjoyable escapist films, your best bets making appearances this month are Science Fair and the lush Mademoiselle de Joncquiéres. While the films – one an American doc, the other a French drama – couldn’t be more different from each other, both are wonderfully absorbing and a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
Joncquiéres is a deliciously sinful work based on a Denis Diderot short story about a pious widow, wooed and then spurned by a notorious cad. The widow hires two prostitutes to exact her revenge and the game is on. In this shrewd story that is well paced, director Emmanuel Mouret’s 10th film shows a sure hand that leaves lots of room for the actors to shine.
Winning audience and critics awards around North America, Science Fair is a compelling, feel-good look at youth competing for a top science prize. While youth competition films now seem to have their own genre, Science Fair digs a little deeper while still offering a sense of hope for the future.
For those who don’t want to leave the real world too far behind, Capernaum, appearing at Cinecenta, offers a more serious take. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, this film tells the story of a young Lebanese boy who sues his parents for giving him life. It’s a hard go, but so worth the effort with mesmerizing actors who draw the viewer into the everyday reality of life.
Watch victoriafilmfestival.com for exact dates and showtimes.
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Two days remain in Fort Worth; Parker Breding still shares highest-scoring bull ride
Posted: 2:54 PM, Feb 08, 2019
By: Scott Breen
(By Johna Cravens, FWSSR)
FORT WORTH, Texas — For the second night in a row the crowd cheered an 86-point bull ride at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.
Thursday’s score was turned in by Foster McCraw of Grimes, Texas. McCraw, who attended Texas A & M University, rode Rafter G Rodeo’s bull Punt Return and tied three-time National Finals Rodeo bull rider Parker Breding of Edgar, Mont., who rode Pickett Rodeo’s Dark Thoughts a night earlier. Idaho cowboy Dallee Mason still leads the first round with the 89-point ride he made on January 28.
McCraw, who began riding calves at age 5 and moved up through the ranks of youth bull riding, turned 21 last Sunday. He’ll compete on his second bull Friday afternoon. If he can stay on for the required eight seconds, he should qualify for Saturday night’s finals. That would be a career highlight for McCraw who finished 25th in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Xtreme Bulls standings last season and was 45th in the PRCA’s Texas circuit.
The final two days of competition begin on Friday with four rodeo performances still on the schedule.
The first three – Friday afternoon, Friday evening and Saturday afternoon- will determine the winners of the remaining preliminary rounds of competition. Those results determine the twelve contestants in each of seven events who will compete in Saturday evening’s championship finals.
2019 is a milestone year at this legendary rodeo. This is the final year the rodeo will be held in Will Rogers Coliseum, its home for the past 76 years since the Coliseum opened in 1944. The venerable building has been the setting for many moments of rodeo history. Winning this rodeo has been a goal for most professional rodeo athletes and taking home the distinctive buckle means even more this year as an era of rodeo history ends.
Barrel racer Taylor Langdon of Aubrey, Texas, competed on Thursday afternoon turning in a second-round time of 16.66 seconds on her gray gelding Dashin Louie. While that was only good enough to put her in eighth place in the round, it gave her the overall lead by one-hundredth of a second. She had won second place and more than $4,400 in the first round.
Langdon, who is currently fifth in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) world standings, is having her best season ever and is ranked fifth in the world standings. Less than two weeks ago she was the overall leader going into the championship finals at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver. She just missed a paycheck in the finals and finished second overall there.
Two of the four women ahead of her in the world championship standings knocked over barrels on their second runs here and won’t make the finals. That gives Langdon, a graduate of Texas Tech, the opportunity to move up in the standings, if she can stay in the top 12 with 30 barrel racers left to compete.
The World’s Original Indoor Rodeo® enters its last weekend Friday with performances at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Twenty-fourth Performance
Bareback Riding: 1, Craig Wisehart, Kersey, Colo., 82 points on Western Rodeos’ Box Car. 2, Trenten Montero, Winnemucca, Nev., 80. 3, Hunter Carlson, Thayne, Wyo., 76. 4, Yance Day, Tahlequah, Okla., 74.5.
Steer Wrestling: 1, Carson Good, Long Valley, S.D., 4.7 seconds. 2, Walt Arnold, Coleman, Texas, 5.4. 3, Jay Williamson, Iowa, La., 6.3. 4, A.D. Davis II, Grand Cane, La., 6.7.
Team Roping: 1, Colby Lovell, Madisonville, Texas, and Jade Corkill Fallon, Nev., 9.2 seconds. 2, Kaleb Driggers, Hoboken, Ga., and Junior Nogueira, Presidente Prude, Brazil, 9.4. 3, Brandon Beers, Powell Butte, Ore., and Daniel Braman IV, Victoria, Texas, 11.4. 4, Cory Clark, Stephenville, Texas, and Lane Mitchell, Bolivar, Tenn., 14.4.
Saddle Bronc Riding: 1, Colton Carter, Nephi, Utah, 81.5 points on Western Rodeos’ Basket Case. 2, Cole Elshere, Faith, S.D., 80. 3, Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb., 70. 4, Joe Harper, Paradise Valley, Nev., 69.
Tie-Down Roping: 1, Billy Hamilton, Stigler, Okla., 10.2 seconds. 2, Cole Bailey, Okmulgee, Okla., 11.6. 3, Joseph Gementz, Hermleigh, Texas, 19.0. 4, Logan Harkey, Abilene, Texas, 20.5.
Barrel Racing: 1, Dona Kay Rule, Minco, Okla., 16.43 seconds. 2, Taylor Langdon, Aubrey, Texas, 16.66. 3, Lisa Thornton, Plum, Texas, 16.83. 4, Lesley Casper, Pampa, Texas, 17.03.
Bull Riding: (no qualified rides)
Twenty-fifth Performance
Bareback Riding: 1, Kody Lamb, Sherwood Park, Alberta, 83 points on Championship Pro Rodeo’s Painted J. 2, Jesse Pope, Marshall, Mo., 82. 3, Ty Breuer, Mandan, N.D., 81.5. 4, Tanner Aus, Granite Falls, Minn., 77.
Steer Wrestling: 1, Jarrett New, Wimberly, Texas, 4.0 seconds. 2, Grady Payne, Stephenville, Texas, 5.0. 3, Ross Mosher, Augusta, Mont., 6.9. 4, Cade Staton, Jonesboro, Texas, 7.9.
Team Roping: 1, Adam Rose, Willard, Mo., and Jett Hillman, McAlester, Okla., 5.4 seconds. 2, Pace Freed, Chubbuck, Idaho, and Jade Anderson, Genola, Utah, 6.7. 3, Rhett Anderson, Anabella, Utah, and Kasper Roy, Mossleigh, Alberta, 8.1. 4, Manny Egusquiza Jr., Marianna, Fla., and Dustin Searcy, Weatherford, Texas, 8.6.
Saddle Bronc Riding: 1, Colton Carter, Nephi, Utah, 79.5 points on Pickett Rodeo’s Faded Fame. 2, Andy Clarys, Riverton, Wyo., 79. 3 (tie), Brady Hill, Onida, S.D., and Allen Boore, Axtell, Utah, 74.
Tie-Down Roping: (three times) 1, Seth Crain, Moore, Texas, 9.1 seconds. 2, Weldon Watson, Huntsville, Texas, 10.1. 3, Matt Shiozawa, Chubbuck, Idaho, 12.1.
Barrel Racing: 1, Andrea Busby, Brock, Texas, 16.54 seconds. 2, Nikki Hansen, Dickinson, N.D., 16.67. 3, Kylie Weast, Comanche, Okla., 16.72. 4, Jill Wilson, Snyder, Texas, 16.78.
Bull Riding: 1, Foster McCraw, Grimes, Texas, 86 points on Rafter G Rodeo’s Punt Return. 2, Joe Frost, Randlett, Utah, 84.5. 3, Garrett Tribble, Slick, Okla., 76. 4, Dillon Tyner, Eaton, Colo., 71.
Bareback Riding: (first round) 1 Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb., 88 points on Championship Pro Rodeo’s Willie Lounge. 2 (tie), Kaycee Feild, Genola, Utah, and Wyatt Denny, Minden, Nev., 87.5 each. 4, R.C. Landingham, Hat Creek, Calif., 87. 5, David Peebles, Redmond, Ore., 86. 6, Casey Colletti, Pueblo, Colo., 85.5. 7, Richmond Champion, The Woodlands, Texas, 85. 8 (tie), Hunter Carlson, Thayne, Wyo., and Garrett Shadbolt, Merriman, Neb., 84 (second round) 1, Trenton Montero, Winnemucca, Nev., 85.5 points on Pickett Rodeo’s Night Crawler. 2, Craig Wisehart, Kersey, Colo., 84.5. 3 (tie), Pascal Isabelle, Okotoks, Alberta, and Luke Creasy, Hobbs, N.M., 84 each. 5 (tie), Feild and Leighton Berry, Weatherford, Texas, 83.5 each. 7, Steven Peebles, Redmond, Ore., 83. 8, Tristan Hansen, Dillon, Mont., 82.5. (third round) 1, Caleb Bennett, Corvallis, Mont., 86.5 points on Andrews Rodeos Rylee’s Raisin Cane. 2, Richmond Champion, The Woodlands, Texas, 85. 3, Steven Peebles, 84.5. 4, Colletti, 84. 5, Tyler Berghuis, Atwater, Minn., 82.5. 6 (tie), Austin Foss, Terrebonne, Ore.; Clayton Biglow, Clements, Calif., and Craig Wisehart, Kersey, Colo., 82 each. (total on three) 1, Steven Peebles, 247.5 points. 2 (tie), Bennett and Champion, 246. 4 (tie), Field and Landingham, 245. 6, Biglow and David Peebles, Redmond, Ore., 244 each. 8, Wisehart, 243.
Steer Wrestling: (second round) 1, Stephen Culling, Fort Saint John, B.C., 3.3 seconds. 2, Baxtor Roche, Tremonton, Utah, 3.5. 3 (tie), Tyler Pearson, Louisville, Miss., and Clayton Hass, Weatherford, Texas, 3.6 each. 5 (tie), Ryan Lewis, Hineston, La., and Tristan Martin, Sulphur, La., 3.8 each. 7, Taylor Gregg, Walla Walla, Wash., 3.9. 8 (tie), Bubba Boots, St. Anthony, Idaho, and Jarrett New, Wimberley, Texas, 4.0 each. (total on two) 1, Culling, 7.8 seconds. 2 (tie), Jace Melvin, Fort Pierre, S.D., and Marcus Theriot, Poplarville, Miss., 8.6 each. 4, Jesse Brown, Baker City, Ore., 9.0. 5. Tom Lewis, Lehi, Utah, 9.2. 6, Boots, 9.3. 7 (tie), Riley Duvall, Checotah, Okla., and Eli Lord, Sturgis, S.D., 9.6.
Team Roping: (first round) 1, Cory Kidd V, Statesville, N.C., and Logan Medlin, Tatum, N.M., 4.8 seconds. 2, Chace and Tyson Thompson, Munday, Texas, 4.9. 3, Jeff Flenniken, Caldwell, Idaho, and Jake Minor, Ellensburg, Wash., 5.0. 4 (tie), Steven Duby, Hereford, Ore., and Jason Duby, Klamath Falls, Ore.; Brandon Beers, Powell Butte, Ore., and Daniel Braman IV, Victoria, Texas; and Colby Lovell, Madisonville, Texas, and Jake Corkill, Fallon, Nev., 5.3 each. 7 (tie), Matt Sherwood, Pima, Ariz., and Tyler Worley, Berryville, Ark.; Caleb Smidt, Bellville, Texas, and Will Woodfin, Marshall, Texas; Kelsey Parchman, Cumberland City, Tenn., and Matt Kasner, Cody, Neb.; and Adam Rose, Willard, Mo., and Jett Hillman, McAlester, Okla., 5.4 each. (second round) 1 (tie), Marcus Theriot, Poplarville, Miss., and Coleby Payne, Lipan, Texas; Casey Tew, Billings, Mont., and Boogie Ray, Mabank, Texas; Derrick Begay, Seba Delkai, Ariz., and Cory Petska, Marana, Ariz.; and Dustin Bird, Cut Bank, Mont., and Russell Cardoza, Terrebonne, Ore., 4.7 seconds each. 5 (tie), Joshua and Jonathan Torres, Ocala, Fla.; and Chad Masters, Cedar Hill, Tenn., and Joseph Harrison, Overbrook, Okla., 4.8 each. 7, Aaron Macy, Post, Texas, and Jason Johe, San Luis Obispo, Calif., 4.9. 8, Nick Sartain, Yukon, Okla., and Austin Rogers, Crescent, Okla., 5.0. (total on two) 1, Kidd and Medlin, 10.1 seconds. 2, Matt Sherwood, Pima, Ariz., and Tyler Worley, Berryville, Ark.,10.6. 3, Parchman and Kasner, 11.2. 4, Kal Fuller, Bozeman, Mont., and Travis Woodard, Huckabay, Texas, 11.3. 5, Riley and Brady Minor, Ellensburg, Wash., 11.4. 6 (tie), Levi Simpson, Ponoka, Alberta, and Cole Davison, Stephenville, Texas; Steven Duby, Hereford, Ore., and Jason Duby, Klamath Falls, Ore., and Luke Brown, Rock Hill, S.C., and Paul Eaves, Lonedell, Mo., 12.1 each.
Saddle Bronc Riding: (first round) 1, Isaac Diaz, Desdemona, Texas, 88 points on Frontier Rodeo’s Cowboy Town. 2, Alex Wright, Milford, Utah, 87.5. 3 (tie), Kole Ashbacher, Arrowwood, Alberta, and Shorty Garrett, Eagle Butte, S.D., 84.5 each. 5 (tie), Zeke Thurston, Big Valley, Alberta, and Cort Scheer, Elsmere, Neb., 84 each. 7, Colt Gordon, Comanche, Okla., 83.5. 8, Brody Cress, Hillsdale, Wyo., and Jake Wright, Milford, Utah, 83. (second round) 1, Sterling Crawley, Stephenville, Texas, 86.5 points on Andrews Rodeo’s Rock Bottle. 2, Ryder Wright, Milford, Utah, 84.5. 3, Thurston, 84. 4 (tie), Jesse Wright, Milford, Utah, and Mitch Pollock, Winnemucca, Nev., 83.5 each. 6, Chet Johnson, Douglas, Wyo., 83. 7 (tie), Bradley Harter, Loranger, La.; Wyatt Casper, Pampa, Texas; Colt Gordon, Comanche, Okla., and Rusty Wright, Milford, Utah, 82.5 each. (total on two) 1 (tie), Crawley and Thurston, 168 points each. 3, Diaz, 166.5. 4, Gordon, 166. 5, Jesse Wright, 165. 6, Dawson Hay, Wildwood, Alberta, 164. 7, Jake Wright, 163.5. 8, Chet Johnson, 163.
Tie-Down Roping: (second round leaders) 1, Sterling Smith, Stephenville, Texas, 7.5 seconds. 2, Alex Caudle, Livingston, Ala., 8.3. 3 (tie), Kyle Lucas, Carstairs, B.C., and Clayton Smith, Eckville, Alberta, 8.4 each. 5 (tie), Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah; Ace Slone, Cuero, Texas, and Ryan Jarrett, Comanche, Okla., 8.6 each. 8 (tie), Clint Cooper, Decatur, Texas; Clif Cooper, Decatur, Texas, and Tyson Durfey, Brock, Texas, 8.7 each. (total on two) 1, Clif Cooper, 16.9 seconds. 2, Tuf Cooper, Decatur, Texas, 17.1. 3, Durfey, 17.5. 4 (tie), Marty Yates, Stephenville, Texas, and Lucas, 17.1. 6, Robinson, 18.4. 7, Shane Hanchey, Sulphur, La., 18.7. 8, Jarrett, 18.8.
Barrel Racing: (first round winners) 1, Sydni Blanchard, Pueblo, Colo., 16.22 seconds, $5,175. 2, Taylor Langdon, Aubrey, Texas, 16.43, $4,436. 3, Jennifer Sharp, Montgomery, Texas, 16.48, $3.696. 4, Jill Wilson, Snyder, Texas, 16.49, $3,204. 5, Tiany Schuster, Krum, Texas, 16.53, $2,664. 6 (tie), Ilyssa Glass, Tatum, N.M., and Ivy Conrado, Nowata, Okla., 16.58, $1,725 each. 8, Sherry Cervi, Marana, Ariz., 16.59, $986. 9. (tie), Sidney Forrest, Lipan, Texas, and Amberleigh Moore, Salem, Ore., 16.60, $616 each. (second round leaders) 1, Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, Victoria, Texas, 16.37 seconds. 2, Dona Kay Rule, Minco, Okla., 16.43. 3, (tie), Jimmie Smith, McDade, Texas, and Stevi Hillman, Weatherford, Texas, 16.48 each. 5, Teri Bangart, Olympia, Wash., 16.49. 6, Andrea Busby, Brock, Texas, 16.54. 7, Tiany Schuster, Krum, Texas, 16.61. 8, Taylor Langdon, Aubrey, Texas, 16.66. (total on two) 1, Langdon, 33.09. 2, Hillman, 33.10. 3, Rule, 33.13. 4, Schuster, 33.14. 5, Smith, 33.19. 6, Pozzi Tonozzi, 33.22. 7, Jill Wilson, Snyder, Texas, 33.27. 8, Bangart, 33.39.
Bull Riding: (first round) 1, Dallee Mason, Weiser, Idaho, 89 points on Rafter G Rodeo’s King Herod. 2 (tie), Parker Breding, Edgar, Mont., and Foster McCraw, Grimes, Texas, 86 each. 4, Tristan Mize, Bryan, Texas, 85. 5 (tie), Stetson Wright, Milford, Utah; Garrett Wickett, Battle Creek, Neb.; Cain Smith, Pendleton, Ore., and Joe Frost, Randlett, Utah, 84.5 each. 83. (second round) 1, Clayton Sellars, Fruitlandpark, Fla., 89.5 points on Andrews Rodeo’s Risky Business. 2, Boudreaux Campbell, Crockett, Texas, 87.5. 3, Brody Yeary, Morgan Mill, Texas, 85. 4 (tie), Tyler Taylor, Stephenville, Texas, and Roscoe Jarboe, New Plymouth, Idaho, 84.5 each. 6, Garrett Wickett, Battle Creek, Neb., 84. 7 (tie), Trey Kimzey, Strong City, Okla.; Dustin Bowen, Fredericksburg, Pa., and Corey Atwell, Moravian Falls, N.C., 83. (total on two) 1, Wickett, 168.5. 2, J.T. Moore, Bryan, Texas, 162.5. 3 (tie), Jeff Askey, Athens, Texas, and Yeary, 160. 5, Dalan Duncan, Ballard, Utah, 158. 6, Aaron Williams, Pismo Beach, Calif., 156.5. 7, Bowen, 155. 8, Toby Collins, Stephenville, Texas, 147.5.
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10 Things You Should Know About U.S. Municipal Infrastructure
What is the state of U.S. infrastructure? See for yourself in this look at some startling statistics.
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It’s safe to say our municipal pipes and plants are aging. According to an EPA survey, about 30 percent of pipes are 40 to 80 years old, and roughly 10 percent of pipes are more than 80 years old.
In 2002, the EPA released the Clean Water and Drinking Water Gap Analysis Report, which compared what the country needs in water infrastructure updates to the revenue actually available to complete such projects. At that time, the EPA projected a funding gap of more than $500 billion over the next 20 years.
Eleven years have passed, and that estimate is now considered extremely conservative because of population growth, climate change and more. In fact, that $500 billion has now increased to a whopping $2.1 trillion according to the American Water Works Association. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave U.S. infrastructure a D+, which, as we all know, is barley passing.
With that said, here are 10 things you should know about U.S. infrastructure:
1. Clean water supports a LOT of industries.
Wastewater and water treatment plants are critical to our economy. Clean water is the backbone of many big-dollar industries, including the $300-billion coastal tourism industry, the $50-billion recreational industry, and the $45-billion commercial and shell fishing industry.
2. We’re leaking.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates most rural and urban systems lose 20 percent or more of the water they produce through leaks in municipal pipes.
3. And we’re leaking during a drought.
In California’s Bay Area, which is under severe drought conditions and water use restrictions, a new analysis shows that leaky pipes account for 23 billion gallons of lost water per year.
4. We’re still using wood
Water officials believe a handful of wooden water mains are still in use in South Dakota, Alaska and Pennsylvania, relics of the day when water systems used barrel-like pipes or bored-out logs to deliver water.
5. Whopper, that’s a lot of water main breaks.
Each year, municipalities repair about 240,000 water mains. Assuming each pipe is replaced, the AWWA predicts the cost over the coming decades could reach $1 trillion.
6. It’s the Era of Replacement.
The EPA estimates that 4,000 to 5,000 miles of water mains are replaced annually, and the AWWA has said we are in “the dawn of the replacement era.” That rate is expected to peak around 2035 as 16,000 to 20,000 miles of faulty pipe are replaced every year.
7. Dam, you guys are getting old.
The average age of the 84,000 dams in the United States is 52 years old. The number of deficient dams has increased to more than 4,000, which includes 2,000 high-hazard deficient dams. The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates $21 billion is needed to repair these aging, but critical, dams.
8. We need to invest $3.6 trillion. Yes, that’s with a “T.”
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that infrastructure maintenance and replacement will cost the United States $3.6 trillion dollars by 2020.
9. Infrastructure needs vary by region.
According to a report by the AWWA, the West and South will be hardest hit by infrastructure replacement costs mainly because of population growth. In contrast, the Northeast and Midwest represent a smaller portion of the overall need.
10. Procrastination won’t help.
Delaying investment in our buried infrastructure is a bad idea. The AWWA has stated that “as daunting as the task at hand is, the prospect of not making the necessary investments is even more chilling.” The costs associated with flooding, sinkholes and water loss are high.
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Discovery Runs 'Race' To Fill 'Eco' Breach
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Eager to replace its popular Eco Challenge
series, Discovery Channel plans to launch the Discovery Channel World Championship Adventure Race
in September.
Discovery, which lost Eco Challenge
after producer Mark Burnett sold the program's U.S. rights to USA Network in October 1999, cut a three-year deal to produce the series with New Zealand-based Southern Traverse Ltd., executive vice president and general manager Mike Quattrone said last week.
Last year, Discovery cut a separate deal with Southern Traverse to shoot the Discovery Channel Adventure Race
, which will run April 22 to 23.
The new World Championship Adventure
is unique because its participants are winners from several other international adventure races, Quattrone said. The Discovery general manager said he believed an invitation was sent to Eco Challenge
winners, but didn't know if they responded.
Eco Challenge founder Mark Burnett laughed at the idea of Discovery and Southern Traverse wanting Eco Challenge
winners to participate.
"It would be like the German soccer team winning the World Cup, and then competing in a high-school league that would call it the world championship," Burnett said.
But if the companies offered Eco Challenge
winners money to participate, Burnett said he would not prohibit them from competing.
Adding a scientific touch, Discovery also wired a team in the upcoming race with equipment that will monitor participants' breathing rate, core body temperature and blood-oxygen level.
Quattrone said he expects compelling story lines involving members of the team and the network's use of technology will make for a strong show.
"You can make people understand what these racers are going through," he said. "It becomes the essence of what Discovery is trying to do."
Discovery will carry the race in April, while all of its international networks-except Canada-will run it in June. Ironically, Discovery Channel Canada won't show the race, since it cut a deal with Burnett to run Eco Challenge
north of the border.
Burnett, who sold the U.S. rights to USA Network, sold the international rights separately.
USA will carry Eco Challenge, which was shot in Borneo, New Zealand, from April 1 to April 5.
Discovery's championship race will consist of the winning teams from several Adventure World Series events. Those include Adrenaline Rush (United Kingdom/Ireland), The Best of the East (U.S.), Expedicao Mata Atlantica (Brazil), Hi-Tec Adventure Quest (Africa), NOC Merciless Mountain Melee (U.S.), Raid The North Extreme (Canada) and the Southern Traverse (New Zealand).
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Hero ISL 2018/19 Preview: Mumbai City FC look to bounce back against NorthEast after two successive defeats
After going on a nine-match unbeaten streak, Mumbai City FC seem to have lost their way, losing their last two matches without even scoring. The Islanders, currently in second, will be looking to shrug-off those disappointments when they go head-to-head against NorthEast United FC in their final home match of the league campaign at the Mumbai Football Arena on Wednesday.
By Mumbai Live Team
It has been a tough week for the Islanders, after a 9-game unbeaten run was snapped by FC Goa, Mumbai City FC succumbed to back-to-back defeats for the first time this season. Jorge Costa’s side have a chance to right a few wrongs and inch closer to the play-offs as they host NorthEast United FC on Wednesday at the Mumbai Football Arena.
In what will be the final league game at the Arena, the Islanders come in needing a win to inch closer to a spot in the semifinals and three points over fellow playoff contenders NorthEast United FC would do a world of good to the Islanders’ chances.
Coming into tomorrow’s crunch tie, Eelco Schattorie’s side have hit a bump in their form too. Coming off the back of a defeat to Bengaluru FC and a home draw against Delhi Dynamos, the Highlanders continue to fight for a spot in the top 4 with the likes of ATK and Jamshedpur FC hot on their tail.
While the visitors are having defensive woes of their own, the attacking trio of Hero ISL’s joint top-scorer Bartholomew Ogbeche, Federico Gallego and January signing Panagiotis Triadis have been a constant threat in the final third of the pitch and will be vital to the Highlanders’ chances on Wednesday.
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Obtaining a substance use history is essential when evaluating all patients with HIV/AIDS. Some clinicians may have negative feelings about working with patients who exhibit self-destructive behaviors such as substance abuse and dependence. It is important to be aware of these feelings and realize that patients respond better when a working alliance can be established by approaching them in a nonthreatening and nonjudgmental manner. It is also important to reassure the patient that the information they provide will be kept confidential to those outside of the treatment table 8.2. DSM IV Substance-Induced Disorders
Intoxication Withdrawal
Mood disorders (depressive or manic) Psychosis with delusions Psychosis with hallucinations Anxiety
Sleep disorders Sexual dysfunction Delirium Dementia Amnestic disorders team and be used to develop the safest possible treatment plan. The clinician should ask about specific illicit substances such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and the club drugs (see below). For taking a history of alcohol use, some clinicians have suggested the use of the CAGE questionnaire (Ewing, 1984): 1. Can you cut down on your drinking? 2. Are you annoyed when asked to stop? 3. Do you feel guilty about your drinking? 4. Do you need an eye-opener when you wake up in the morning? One should also ask about sedative or stimulant use, whether prescribed or nonprescribed, and any dietary supplements or herbs the patient may be taking. A substance abuse review of systems, focusing on renal, cardiac, gastrointestinal, and, for HIV patients especially, neurological symptoms, is essential. Other points of inquiry are the date the substance was first used; patterns, amount, and frequency of use; and routes of administration and reactions to the use. The time of last use is important to know to determine if the patient is suffering from a substance-induced disorder or is at risk for withdrawal. If the patient has had past substance use treatment it is useful to know the response to this treatment. With the patient's permission, a urine toxicology screen should be obtained, in addition to routine blood tests. Finally, whenever possible, the clinician should try to obtain collateral information about the patient's substance use, since denial is a common defense mechanism in this population.
ally begins crossing the blood-brain barrier within 15-20 seconds. Physical signs of acute opiate intoxication include euphoria and tranquility, sedation, slurred speech, problems with memory and attention, and miosis. Signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal can be both objective (rhinorrhea and lacrimation, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, piloerection, mydria-sis, yawning, and muscle spasms) and subjective (body aches, insomnia, craving, dysphoria, anxiety, hot and cold flashes, and anorexia). Heroin withdrawal usually begins within 4 to 8 hours after last use, whereas with methadone, with its longer elimination half-life, withdrawal may not begin until 24 to 48 hours after last use.
Early in the epidemic, heroin addiction led to a rapid spread of HIV and HCV among IDUs in the United States, since few addicts had access to clean needles and syringes. The increase in the purity and availability of heroin along with a decrease in its street price has led to a resurgence in the use of heroin over the past 15 years. There are 600,000 to 800,000 heroin addicts in the United States; however, less than 20% are currently in treatment for their addiction (Community Epidemiologic Work Group, 2000).
The prevalence of HIV appears to be much higher among long-term heroin users who inject, compared with those who have short-term use or other methods of use. Chitwood and colleagues (2003) found an HIV seroprevalence rate of 25% among long-term IDUs and a rate of 13% among new IDUs or heroin sniffers.
SUBSTANCES OF ABUSE Opiates
Injection of heroin may be the most common, though not the only, source of HIV transmission associated with SUD. Opium is one of the oldest medications known, especially for its use in the relief of pain and diarrhea. Morphine and codeine were isolated in the early 1800s and heroin was developed as a semisyn-thetic opium derivative and introduced into medical practice in 1898. The mu opiate receptor is the main one responsible for analgesia, respiratory depression, decreased gastric motility, miosis, euphoria, and dependence. These receptors appear to stimulate release of dopamine from the ventral tegmental area into the nucleus acumbens, the primary reward pathway of the brain. Heroin reaches peak serum concentration within 1 minute when taken intravenously but actu
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London weather: What the Met Office says on reports that the Beast from the East is coming back
Winter is coming but how cold will it be?
Lucy Skoulding
Will the Beast from the East return? (Image: PA)
You might have heard rumours that this winter is set to be a chilly one.
It's been compared to the infamous "Beast from the East", which hit the UK in early 2018 when vicious winds blew in from Russia and 17 people died.
While London never reached the -17C that hit the Cairngorms in Scotland, there was still snow and freezing temperatures in the capital.
And now research that has been conducted by University College London and been picked up by the media has sparked rumours that January and February 2020 could be one of the coldest winters we've had in a while.
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But what's the reality?
A Met Office spokesperson told MyLondon that the Met Office do not release weather forecasts any further in advance than one week.
The truth is, technology just isn't good enough yet to make an accurate forecast of four months in advance (Image: The Daily Mirror)
This means they cannot comment on this research and cannot say how cold it will be in January 2020, which is still four months from now.
"This story has not come from the Met Office, it's research that was done by University College London," they said.
"The Met Office doesn't issue forecasts for months ahead. We provide forecasts for the next seven days and we give an outlook of what the weather might be like for the month but anything beyond that we're quite clear the technology doesn't exist yet to give accurate forecasts.
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"We wouldn't be able to give a forecasts into January and February next year."
Further to this, a UCL spokesperson confirmed the research is still ongoing, meaning that what has been hypothesised on this subject is not yet the final conclusion of the researcher.
They said: "The study is still ongoing and the person behind it was not expecting or seeking any publicity for it.
"It's much more speculative than some of the headlines are making out - there's a slight probability this winter will be very cold but this isn't the same thing as a forecast."
Want more news? Head to the MyLondon homepage.
Got a story? Email lucy.skoulding@reachplc.com
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Do Most Stuf Oreos Have Too Much Stuf Or Just Enough?
An investigation into the limits of stuf.
By Margaret Eby
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Oreos are, by far, my favorite grocery store aisle cookie. They're perfect little sandwiches of chocolate and cream (i.e. creme), available everywhere, and never unwelcome at the office or at a party. They're not fussy, they're just delicious, and they come in a wide variety of intriguing flavorrs that you can either try or ignore entirely, depending on your mood and personal Oreo philosphy. So when I heard rumor of an upcoming Most Stuf Oreo, an Oreo that dared break the bounds of Double Stuf and Triple Stuf, I was intrigued, but also forced to confront the question that Oreo fans have had since the dawn of cookie: How much stuf is too much stuf?
I am a big fan of the Oreo cream filling, a.k.a. stuf, but even I have my limits. As a kid, I would scrape the stuf from inside regular-sized Oreos and stack it in between two cookies, discarding the cookie outers, until I reached a Dagwood-style Oreo sandwich of terrifying proportions. It was through this scientific method that I came to the conclusion that, indeed, you could have way too much filling per cookie, and that the ratio starts to become unbearably sweet about four to five cream fillings in. So you can see why I approached the Most Stuf Oreos cookies with hope, but also trepidation. I have been burned by stuf before.
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But when the package arrived on my desk, I was glad to see that even though the Most Stuf Oreos do, indeed, sport a lot of cream between two cookies, but it isn't the mind-bendingly impossible amount that I was envisioning from the press announcement. It is not an impossible amount of filling, merely a generous amount. I would say it's roughly equivalent to three or four regular fillings stacked together. Does it squidge out a bit when you eat it? Yeah, it does, but you don't need to wear a poncho to eat it in fear of Stuf spashes, either. And unlike regular oreos, the ratio of cream filling in the Most Stuf meant that I only wanted, tops, two cookies, rather than going through four or five in search of satisfying my stuf-tooth. All in all, it's a reasonable thing for something that could be extremely unreasonable.
The Most Stuf Oreos are available for a limited time, but it's unclear how limited, so snatch them up when you see them if you're interested in the right Stuf. The cookie is also having a sweepstakes called "the stuf inside" between February 4 and March 6 in which your cookie could win you a variety of prizes, ranging from a pop socket to a Jeep Wrangler. So just another excuse to give your local cookie aisle a thorough browse the next time you're grocery shopping.
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Home » News » Kroger launches Plant-based Fresh Meat brand: Emerge
Kroger has expanded its Simple Truth brand to form Simple Truth Emerge, which will be the manufacturer and supplier of the Kroger’s Vegan meat. This imitation meat available in store meat cases, range from fresh burger patties to grinds and are available at better prices. After a series of companies pioneered in the imitation meat field, more and more grocery companies are coming forward and taking the idea forward.
Kroger’s Simple Truth has been a plant products’ brand delivering its consumers: pasta sauces, sour cream, cookie dough etc. In addition to that, the company is eager to plan around 50 more products this year. Earlier Kroger’s products could be bought from their stores exclusively. The vegan meat is titled Emerge. It will be giving similar taste, texture and sizzle if it is cooked like the traditional beef.
Kroger is letting its customers sample the products at its stores. Also, the grocery company is investing in promotions of its new line of products lately. As part of the promotions, the app and website would provide customers with coupons worth 75 cents off the Simple Truth Emerge patties and $ 1.50 off the Simple Truth Emerge grinds. Now that their products have been made available at few Walgreens stores and at Lucky’s Market locations, the margins are in for a rise.
The general trends over the globe have seen a considerable shift towards the vegans. A lot many people have willingly turned into vegans, and an amazing number of people are expected to join the waggon anytime soon. There has been a radical shift in the way the dietary rituals are in for a gradual but constant change. Needless to say, the grocery stores and eatery companies had to visualize the changing scene and provide for the eaters.
Consumers primarily, those in Western societies have been showing a growing preference towards meat substitutes, so that they can minimize the intake of meat. And this shift also means that they are willing to reduce or give up meat but might still want to derive the nutrients and taste that the original meat provides. Meat houses a good chunk of animal protein, and several vitamins and minerals too. As such, the vegan meat fits the picture perfectly.
Krogers’ range of products is packed of 20 grams of pea-based protein per serving. Kroger has taken care to provide nutritional goodness without compromising its consumers’ general health and well-being. The vegan meat shall be free of GMOs, dairy, gluten and soy.
Recently companies like Beyond Meat BYND and Impossible Foods produced and rolled out a nice range of plant-based burgers and meat sausages. Nestlé, Kellogg, Smithfield and Tyson have all launched their plant-based meats in recent development. It can be argued that the demand for imitation meat is increasing day by day. Rolling out in over 600 of its stores, comes Tofurkey with its soy burgers that it launched the previous Wednesday.
In many stores like King Soopers in Denver and Kroger stores which are situated in Indiana and Illinois, Krogers already had rolled out its range of vegan meat, sausages, deli slices and burgers and others like roasts, jackfruit, seitan etc. in a testing phase. This was a 16 weeks’ testing period. It would be an interesting watch to see whether vegan meat sustains itself in a race that has been dominated largely by non-veg candidates as in beef burgers and steaks etc.
It is not that the cultures all around us and also in history had shunned the vegan logic. In fact, it claims a strong foothold in many cultures and countries; take, for instance, the big Indian sub-continent. Historically, these cultures have allowed the co-existence of vegans and non-vegans in a peaceful environ. In specific, India has a big chunk of outside attention garnered over its rich and diverse culture that lets the vegan way of life flourish.
This stems from an archaic belief system that regards animals with reverence. According to this school of thought, every living being has a precious life. The ideology finds its thrust in the larger than life supremacy of the human race as a whole, which sees itself as the protectors of all living beings. The system stems from a deep-rooted feeling of self-worth and duty.
A significant proportion of this paradigm shift in the way people looked at the vegetarian way of living, duly owes its credit to the rising concerns of animal-friendly approach all over the world. Plethora of NGOs, governments and the common people are undergoing a dramatic shift in their stance towards animals that are “innocent” and “mute”. It so maybe that the increasingly vegan way of life is the new normal.
In keeping with the same, trends actually do say a lot. Take the case of the domestic and global markets for plant-based protein ditching the animal protein, and meat alternatives could grow up to a whopping 28% per year, a study report from UBS has claimed. Similar trends are very surprising when it comes to the revenue in the market that is expected to touch $ 85 billion somewhere in 2030.
You can contact Kroger customer care for any other clarifications on its products or services.
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Saints Fantennial Weekend
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2019 01:45 PM
Saints host New Orleans Fantennial Weekend presented by Community Coffee in Week 4
The New Orleans Saints and the community will celebrate the National Football League's 100th season with a series of special events, initiatives, innovative programming, and prizes during Week 4 of the 2019 NFL season. Presented by Community Coffee, Fantennial Weekend will bring together fans to showcase the powerful and unique role football plays in uniting and inspiring our community.
"The Fantennial Weekend is a chance for our fans and our city to come together and celebrate the 100th NFL season," said Dennis Lauscha, New Orleans Saints President. "As Mrs. Benson always says, our fans and team are family and we look forward to celebrating this milestone together."
"The 100th NFL season is extra special for Community Coffee as we are also celebrating our centennial year," said David Belanger, President and CEO of Community Coffee. "Community Coffee is proud to sponsor the Fantennial Weekend in celebration of great coffee, great football, and the amazing fans who support both. We are excited for this weekend of all things football, community, and fans and we look forward to the next 100 years for both organizations."
The weekend festivities will start on Friday, September 27 with four local high school football games. Each match-up will have Saints representatives incorporated into each game, via coin-tosses, game ball presentations and Honorary Captains. Saints Owner Gayle Benson, Saints Legends, Saintsations and current Saints Players are among the special guests.
Prior to the Friday Night Lights match-ups, the Saintsations are holding a private practice with the Dominican Debs and Jesuit Jayettes at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center and Saints Center Will Clapp will be heading to his Alma Mater Brother Martin, to help the football team prepare for their match-up against rival Jesuit High School.
Game 1: Brother Martin vs. Jesuit @ Tad Gormley
Game 2: John Ehret vs. West Jefferson @ Hoss Memtas
Game 3: Country Day vs. Newman @ Yulman Stadium
Game 4: Landry-Walker vs. Walker @ Walker High School
On Saturday, September 28, the Saints and the community are putting an emphasis on city beautification efforts, homelessness and food insecurities. Each event is currently at capacity for additional volunteers, but we encourage fans to volunteer in their own community for 100 minutes and share their experiences using the following hashtags on social media, #NFLHuddleFor100 and #SaintsHuddlefor100.
Fans are also invited to attend Gleason Gras in Champion's Square at 5:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., where one lucky fan will be presented a once in a lifetime opportunity. The evening will include special appearances from Saints mascots, Saintsations, current Saints players, the Lombardi trophy and much more. Ticketing information for Gleason Gras can be found here.
On Sunday, Sept. 29, the Saints take on the Dallas Cowboys in a week 4 match-up on Sunday Night football (NBC) in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome at 7:20 p.m. CT. Local high school band St. Amant will be entertaining fans at halftime and there will be multiple Saints Legends appearances throughout the game.
For more information on the NFL100 campaign, please visit www.NFL.com/100. For more information on the Saints Fantennial weekend, please visit www.neworleanssaints.com.
Saints legends to make appearances during Fantennial Weekend
Former Saints will be available for autographs and pictures prior to the Saints-Cowboys matchup Sunday night.
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01 . Song For The Broken
02 . Your Love Lifts Me Up
03 . City Lights
04 . Gold
05 . If I Could Write A Song
06 . Hero
"Hero" Lyrics [edit]
by Abandon | from the album Abandon II EP
He walked the dirty streets. Famous for nothing.
He said “come follow me” and they came.
A face like all the rest.
But something was different.
The Son of God would lead the way.
And soon they all would say.
There He goes - a hero. A savior to the world.
Here He stands with scars in His hands.
With love He gave His life so we could be free.
He spoke with clarity. Walked across the sea.
A single word would calm the storm.
His touch could heal the sick, but He was called a hypocrite.
Laid behind the stone. His death was shortly mourned. He left the curtain torn.
He choose to take the cross. Shed tears for the lost, the broken, and the needy.
Forgiving those who were and will be.
The angel made it clear. He told them have no fear.
He’s not here. He’s not here!
There He goes - The Hero. The Savior to the world.
The Savior of the world. The Savior of the world. The Savior of the world.
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This Mohle prefers high altitudes
22 October 2012 | Story by Newsroom
Joe Mohle was the big winner at the annual UCT Sports Awards on 19 October, as the UCT climber picked up the Jamison Cup as the Sportsperson of the Year for 2012.
Climb to the top: Joe Mohle, receiving the Jamison Cup from vice-chancellor Dr Max Price, has been named UCT Sportsperson of the Year. Rocking the boat: The Rowing Club had plenty to cheer about at the UCT Sports Awards, picking up four trophies.
The UCT Mountain and Ski Club member beat off stiff competition from fellow climber Benjamin de Charmoy, rugby player Dillyn Leyds, hockey star Grant Robertson and fencer Gisele Vicatos to walk away with the biggest trophy of the night. As master of ceremonies Mike Wills, whose merciless wit had the audience in a constant fit of giggles, described, Mohle is ranked in the top five of all climbing codes in South Africa, and is the only non-professional climber ranked in the top ten in the world.
This, along with being the only climber in the last 15 years to earn such high all-round rankings as well as a first ascent of a 4,000m peak in the Atlas Mountains in January this year, was enough to make Mohle the first climber to be crowned UCT's top athlete since 1989.
Back down on earth (sort of), the Rowing Club made a splash with a king's ransom of trophies. With its festive members on hand to cheer loudly for every triumph, the club was awarded the Butterworth Cup for Team of the Year; the Landstem Trophy for Performance of the Year, for Leo Davis's and Jozef Muller's silver-place finish in the men's heavyweight pair race at the 2012 World Championships in Kazan, Russia; as well as Club of the Year, for combining excellent performances with successful event-hosting and a community outreach programme. Sarah Bishop, also a rower, claimed the Turpin Cup for Service to UCT Sport.
The Hockey Club was awarded the 2012 Transformation Trophy for founding the Khayelithsa Hockey Club, a venture that has attracted 80 new players so far. Leyds was named UCT's Best First Year for his twinkle-toed performances at fullback for UCT, Western Province and the Baby Boks.
The 2012 Chairperson's Award was gratefully received by Lorne Hallendorff, the outgoing Students' Representative Council (SRC) sport and recreation co-ordinator, for his efforts to develop sport at UCT. In addition, a hailstorm of merit awards, half colours, full colours and plaques rained down on students representing codes from track and martial arts to yachting.
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Major German union urges members to join climate protests
Posted: Aug 5, 2019 / 01:07 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 5, 2019 / 07:29 PM EDT
In this photo taken on Friday, July 26, 2019, Greta Thunberg stands next to Swedish parliament in Stockholm. Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social media-savvy brand of eco-activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to skip classes and protest for faster action against climate change, said Monday, July 29, 2019 that she plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat. (AP Photo/David Keyton)
BERLIN (AP) — One of Germany’s largest unions is calling on its members to join a worldwide protest calling for action on climate change next month.
Verdi head Frank Bsirske told the WAZ newspaper on Monday he was calling on the union’s 2 million members to take part in the Sept. 20 protest that’s being organized by the group “Fridays for Future.”
The group, which was inspired by Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, has attracted thousands to its weekly protests in cities across Europe and elsewhere in the world over the past year.
Many are students who skip school to join the protests.
Bsirske says he’s not calling for union members to walk off work but to join in after their shifts are done.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled one last round of battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday.
NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch floated out to finish the work they began last week. The women had one more new battery to install in the station's solar power grid, and two old batteries to remove.
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FCC Commissioner Calls For Greater Regulation of News Media
By Kyle Drennen | December 2, 2010 4:30 PM EST
In a Wednesday interview on BBC World News America, liberal FCC Commissioner Michael Copps told correspondent Katty Kay: "I think American media has a bad case of substance abuse right now....we are going to be pretty close to denying our citizens the essential news and information that they need to have in order to make intelligent decisions about the future direction of their country."
As TVNewser reported on Thursday, after Kay asked about instituting a "Public Value Test" of media outlets, Copps replied: "What we've had in recent years is an aberration where we have had no oversight of the media. For years and years we had some public interest guidelines...they agreed to serve the public interest and that public interest to me right now is crying 'news and information, news and information, news and information.'"
Despite seeming to endorse heavy-handed government regulation of news media, Copps legitimately criticized the lack of hard news coverage: "It's a pretty serious situation that we're in. I think American media has a bad case of substance abuse right now. We are not producing the body of news and information that democracy needs to conduct its civic dialogue, we're not producing as much news as we did five years, 10 years, 15 years ago and we have to reverse that trend."
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Kyle Drennen is the Senior News Analyst for MRC
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Councillors could face sanctions over social media posts in code of conduct overhaul
Lewisham standards committee discusses possible changes to code of conduct
By Grainne Cuffe Local Democracy Reporter
The possible changes were discussed at a standards committee meeting on Wednesday
Councillors in Lewisham could face sanctions or even suspension over social media posts in a possible code of conduct overhaul.
Currently the council’s standards committee is powerless to dole out punishment for social media posts when the councillor does not “act in their capacity as councillor or hold themselves out as doing so”.
Monitoring officer Kath Nicholson presented the latest review of local government ethical standards, from the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life, to the council’s committee members on Wednesday (January 8).
Ms Nicholson, who manages issues raised by whistleblowers and allegations of misconduct, said: “At the moment the code only applies when a councillor acts in their capacity as councillor or holds themselves out as doing so.
“Any other public behaviour is not within the remit of the code of conduct and not for me to look at.
“What the Nolan Committee is suggesting is that there should be a rebuttable presumption that a councillor’s public behaviour including comments on publicly accessible social media is in their official capacity and therefore within the remit of the code of conduct and therefore subject to investigation through our formal procedures.”
The review also recommended that details of an allegation against a councillor should be posted on the council website once the matter is concluded – although Ms Nicholson suggested this should only happen if the allegation is proven or leave it to the accused’s discretion.
Following a devolution of standards rules, local authorities currently choose what goes into their code of conduct.
But the latest review suggests going back to a voluntary model for all local authorities to follow, which would be put in place by the local government association.
According to the review, the codes are of “considerable variation in length, quality and clarity” which “creates confusion among members of the public, and among councillors who represent more than one tier of local government”.
“Many codes of conduct fail to address adequately important areas of behaviour such as social media use and bullying and harassment.
“An updated model code of conduct should therefore be available to local authorities in order to enhance the consistency and quality of local authority codes.
“There are, however, benefits to local authorities being able to amend and have ownership of their own codes of conduct.
“The updated model code should therefore be voluntary and able to be adapted by local authorities.
“The scope of the code of conduct should also be widened, with a rebuttable presumption that a councillor’s public behaviour, including comments made on publicly accessible social media, is in their official capacity,” it read.
Committee member Cathy Sullivan “strongly backed” the proposal about social media after finding allegations against councillors “uncomfortable reading”.
“The principle of suggesting the scope of the code of conduct be widened would be something that is highly desirable.
“I don’t think ordinary members of the public, if they know someone is a councillor, make the distinction about whether that person is acting in a formal capacity at that particular event, or in that particular situation,” she said.
Other recommendations included having a statutory requirement for councils to have a standards committee, which Lewisham has had since 1998, as well as strengthening the role of the independent person, allowing them to vote.
The review suggests standards committees should be able to suspend councillors who breach the code of conduct, if the independent person agrees.
The recommendations are in the very early stages at Lewisham Council, having being discussed for the first time on Wednesday.
Some of the suggestions, such as suspending councillors over breaches, would require a full council vote.
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NBC News Stands on the Wrong Side of History
Free Iran march-Washington DC-file photo
Written by Dr. Sofey Saidi on 28 October 2019 .
Sofey Saidi, PhD
The NBC News published an article on October 17, 2019, smearing the anti-theocratic Resistance organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
Was NBC trying to raise public awareness about the MEK, a popular resistance organization which has steadfastly confronted the theocratic clerical mullahs in Iran for the past 40 years? Did NBC news intend to shed light on the fact that the ruthless mullahs are responsible for the execution of 120,000 political activists and the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, most of whom members and sympathizers of the MEK?
Or was NBC deceived by the ruling tyrannical mullah’s disinformation machinery, one of which is a sophisticated echo chamber? The very same inside the beltway sources who were interviewed and quoted in the article? For instance, Daniel Benjamin a former State Department official- an often-quoted source for the article. Has Benjamin ever stated a critical perspective of the Tyrannical rulers of Iran? Has he ever condemned the Iranian dictatorship for human rights violations or Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ worldwide terrorist activities?
Rebuttal to @NBCNews Hit Piece Against #MEK and Its Popular Support in #Iran https://t.co/iqGCmKk7zN#FakeNews #NBC #IranRegimeChange #WeSupportMEK pic.twitter.com/CJHaaFodUl
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 20, 2019
The answer is a resounding no, yet he was deemed as a credible source of information by the authors of the hit piece, rendering the article completely unbalanced and one-sided.
It is unfortunate that the NBC news chose the latter, smear option. This shameful choice, especially in the age of global, borderless information dissemination, is unacceptable. The decision to publish untruth seems intentional and attempts to misinform the public.
To quote the eminent Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, a major figure of inspiration for the Solidarity movement, “In Politics, being deceived is no excuse.”
Similarly, even the notion of NBC news being deceived by the Iranian Theocracy is inexcusable. The ramifications of not stating the facts have great potential for causing enormous damage. As recent as October 23rd, the Albanian police informed the media that they had thwarted an attack planned by a Tehran-backed terrorist cell against the MEK opponents of the Iranian regime in Albania last year.
The cell belonged to the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) responsible for foreign operations, police said in their statement. Also, last year, Iran's ambassador to Tirana and another diplomat were expelled from Albania for threatening the security of the country.
The revelation by the Albanian police comes to the surface as the same tragic day (October 23, 1983), the 36th anniversary of the Beirut Barracks Bombings. In his statement, Secretary Pompeo remarked that thirty-six years ago two Iranian-backed Hizballah suicide bombers drove trucks into buildings housing the U.S. and French peacekeepers. “We grieve for those 220 U.S Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers murdered that day.”
It is for this and other numerous acts of worldwide terrorism that Iran has since 1984 been designated as the State Sponsor of Terrorism by the US State Department.
In his seminal book “On Tyranny”, distinguished historian Timothy Snyder writes that ‘history does not repeat, but it does instruct…history can familiarize, and it can warn’.
Now more than ever, it is imperative for information outlets such as NBC news to familiarize the public about Iran’s history of brutal suppression and its worldwide terrorist network. To warn the officials and policymakers about the consequences of appeasing the tyrannical rulers in Iran. To warn about the global threat of a nuclear-powered tyrant in Iran. To warn about Iran's meddling in Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and its role as the source of war and instability in the region.
It is time for the NBC news to be on the right side of history. To tell the story of people’s uprising in Iran and their demands for regime change. The story of their organized resistance represented by the Parliament in Exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The story of brave women who live and die to attain freedom and who make up the majority of the resistance and its leadership, notably President-elect of the NCRI, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi.
It is time for the NBC news to inform rather misinform. As history instructs, the consequences for humanity are enormous.
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What is a Certificate of Pending Litigation and How it is Removed?
What is a Certificate of Pending Litigation?
A certificate of pending litigation (CPL) is available to a party to a proceeding where that party claims an estate or interest in land. The party may register a CPL against the land in the land titles office in the same manner as a charge is registered. The CPL burdens the land and warns the public of the pending litigation.
What is the Effect of a Certificate of Pending Litigation?
Once the CPL has been properly registered on the land, the Registrar of the land titles office must not make any entry in the register that has the effect of charging, transferring or otherwise affecting the land described in the certificate until registration of the certificate is cancelled.
How to Remove a Certificate of Pending Litigation?
S.252(1) of the BC Land Title Act states: “If a certificate of pending litigation has been registered and no step has been taken in the proceeding for one year, any person who is the registered owner of or claims to be entitled to an estate or interest in land against which the certificate has been registered may apply for an order that the registration of the certificate be cancelled”.
S.253 of the BC Land Title Act states: “If an action in respect of which a certificate of pending litigation is registered has been discontinued, the registrar must cancel the registration”.
S.254 of the BC Land Title Act states: “If an action in respect of which a certificate of pending litigation is registered has been dismissed, the registrar must cancel the registration as provided in the regulations”. This section is of course subject to any appeals that the parties to the action may bring.
S.255 of the BC Land Title Act allows for the cancellation of a CPL by a written request from the owner of the lands which have been burdened by the CPL or a written request from the owner’s solicitor.
S.256 of the BC Land Title Act provides another way of cancelling a CPL which is based on the hardship and inconvenience suffered by the owner of the land which is subject to the CPL. If the owner can prove that they are experiencing a particular hardship and inconvenience by virtue of the CPL, the court has the ability to cancel the CPL.
To summarize, once a CPL has been registered against a particular piece of land the BC Land Title Act supplies five different ways in which that CPL can be cancelled.
In addition to a CPL being cancelled through the BC Land Title Act, a CPL can be removed on the basis of having been improperly applied or filed (NextGen Energy Watervliet TWP, LLC v. Bremner, 2017 BCSC 2096).
A valid CPL requires the plaintiff in the hypothetical action to claim an interest in land. The plaintiff must demonstrate that there is an arguable case or a triable issue. If there is a prima facie case for an interest in land on the pleadings, a CPL may be registered, and the court should not embark upon a consideration of the merits of the claim (Quigley v. Robison, 2009 BCSC 1296 (B.C. S.C.) at para. 27). If the owner of the lands who have been burdened by the CPL can show that the plaintiff has no merits to his or her claim, the CPL can be cancelled.
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Now the dust of Cheltenham has settled and the Gold Cup has had its run, it is time for the major April meetings to come our way and few will look further than the Grand National meet at the beginning of the month for some magnificent racing.
The Aintree club itself boasts a long line of fantastic races at this meet, with the three day meet starting on Thursday 3rd April. Each day has some great national hunt racing on offer, but the race everyone is looking forward to is the Grand National itself on the Saturday afternoon. The race is iconic in the horse racing world, with any horse in the race having a chance of winning. At the minute, bookies are taking bets on up to 73 horses, with odds ranging from 12/1 to 100/1, so it really is a wide field. Last year’s winner Auroras Encore hung up his stirrups in January so Ryan Mania won’t be defending his crown on this horse, but who are the punters backing for the 2014 race?
The current favourite is Teaforthree, who had a run out at the recent Cheltenham meet, at 12/1. Behind the Rebecca Curtis trained horse come the likes of Tidal Bay (14/1), Long Run (16/1) and Balthazar King (16/1) completing the top four most fancied horses. But anything can happen in the National, so the likes of Wyck Hill at 25/1 each way and Hawkes Point at 33/1 could be good shouts to get a top four, or five, finish, depending on what your bookmaker pays out on.
To some betting on the National is like playing in the casino. You can do all the pre-race studying you like but when it comes down to the race your fate is in the hands of the racing gods – which makes the entire experience far more exciting.
Online casino betting has evolved over the past decade and now you can play on the arcades like break da bank again megaspin while at the races or down your local bookies. Take the Who wants to be a Stallionaire fruity, for example. The fruit machine depends on your luck and good judgement to weave through the horseshoes, jockey caps and riding whips, picking up bonuses as you surge into the lead and towards potential mega jackpots. The aim is to nail three lined horseshoes and play the Stallionaire bonus feature, which could see you land the equivalent of a race win at Aintree and put you up there with the best thoroughbreds in the world.
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2 responses to “Betting on the Grand National”
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Very disappointed with this Ben mate, everybody knows Online Casino’s and FOBT are a mugs game, the machines are programmed to keep 75% and pay out 25%. Please people never ever play these machines they will suck you dry.
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Depends how you play them Matt. Anyone with a brain would use them as a bit of fun and not as a serious betting medium.
I’m more than capable of splitting my serious betting (Horse Racing) which I make good profits from, from any fun bets I have when I’m looking to relax.
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Commonly referred to as killer whales and, less often, blackfish, orcas are the largest of the dolphin family and one of the world's most powerful predators; their only enemy being humans. Orcas are highly social, intelligent and immediately recognizable by their distinctive black-and-white colouring. One of the best times to see orcas in the ice-cold waters of Norway is between November and January - see our safari itinerary for more details.
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Highly trainable, these beautiful creatures have controversially been featured in many aquarium shows, as well as blockbusters such as ‘Free Willy’ back in 1993. They have stable family groups of five to thirty, hunting together to bring down tasty prey that ranges from squid and fish, to seals and sea lions. They work together to tip animals resting on floating ice into the water, deliberately beach themselves to scare prey and even hunt other whales.
Killer whales are known to use advanced levels of communication with different dialects used by each group, passed down through the generations. They use echolocation, making noises that travel underwater, reflecting back the size and distance of any given object.
When it comes to movement, they can dive as deep as a hundred feet in search of prey, often swimming as fast as possible to the surface, breaching and making noise as they pierce the waters. They can also be seen slapping their tails and spy-hopping (poking their head out of the water to look around) which can be excellent to witness.
Never being thought of as an immediate threat to humans, they have played a huge part in mythology around the world, sometimes even thought to be the souls of humans.
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CONSERVATION STATUS Killer whales are not currently considered to be endangered, but numbers are decreasing rapidly in certain areas; main threat is habitat destruction and reduction in food supply.
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LENGTH Anywhere from 23 to 32 feet in length.
LIFESPAN The females average lifespan is 50 years, whereas for males it is 30. A whole 20 years of difference.
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Postgame Report: Raptors 110, Pacers 87 090315
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Veteran power forward had his 42nd double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds. He made 6-of-12 from the field and 2-of-4 from the 3-point line.
Name Min. +/- Name Min. +/-
Maceo Baston 8:54 -3 Marquis Daniels 24:08 -10
Travis Diener 20:21 -6 Mike Dunleavy DNP ---
T.J. Ford 25:33 -15 Jeff Foster 25:14 -10
Stephen Graham 6:43 +3 Danny Granger 18:39 -21
Roy Hibbert 10:35 0 Jarrett Jack 35:41 -20
Josh McRoberts DNP --- Troy Murphy 30:51 -14
Rasho Nesterovic 6:18 0 Brandon Rush 27:03 -19
Points in the paint: Raptors 48, Pacers 28
Fast-break points: Raptors 15, Pacers 12
Second-chance points: Raptors 19, Pacers 8
Points off turnovers: Raptors 17, Pacers 9
Starters scoring: Raptors 77, Pacers 55
Bench scoring: Raptors 33, Pacers 32
The Pacers have lost three straight games by double-digit margins for the first time this season, losing to the Jazz by 12, the Hawks by 14 and the Raptors by 23.
The Pacers (28-40) fell 2 1/2 games behind eighth-place Milwaukee in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Toronto (24-43) snapped a seven-game losing streak.
The Pacers have averaged 91.3 points in losing their last three games by an average of 16.3 points.
T.J. Ford had 15 points and six assists for the Pacers.
After missing 11 games with a foot injury, Danny Granger returned and played 19 minutes off the bench, scoring 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting including 1-of-7 from the 3-point line.
The Pacers shot .376 from the field, .290 from the 3-point line and were outrebounded 55-38.
Andre Bargnani led Toronto with 27 points and nine rebounds.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu had a career-high 21 points for Toronto.
The Raptors had two players with double-doubles; Jose Calderon (15 points, 12 assists) and Chris Bosh (15 points, 13 rebounds).
Ten of the Pacers' final 14 games are at home, beginning with Wednesday's game against the Portland Trail Blazers that could mark Greg Oden's professional debut in his hometown (7 p.m., Fox Sports Indiana, 1070 The Fan).
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Raptors 110, Pacers 87
PACERS COACH JIM O'BRIEN
(On today’s game) "They just pounded us. When they get going, they’re really good. There’s not many times this year that we’ve been out of games that we’ve lost by this type of margin. It was just one of those games that happens in the NBA."
(On Danny Granger) "He’s going to take some time. It will take a couple of games to get back into things. He’s only practiced one time and it was three or four days ago. So, he’ll be fine. It’s just going to take him a little bit of competition to get comfortable again."
PACERS GUARD T.J. FORD
(Thoughts on game) "What a bad second half that we produced. It is tough we are fighting for a playoff spot. In the second half our effort was awful."
(How troubling was the effort as you fight for a playoff spot?) "It is bad loss for us. We are putting ourselves in a deeper hole and we have some tough games coming up this week. If we want to make the playoffs we have to get these wins.
(Do you feel extra pressure playing in Toronto?) " think a lot of stuff was definitely misunderstood while I was playing here so it was not a big deal. I think that everybody in the locker room understood the situation last year and what was going on. It wasn’t anything that had to do with those guys. So for me it is not a thing where I am coming out and trying to prove something. I just came out and tried to play the game the right way and tried to get my team a victory, but that hasn’t happened the last two times that we were here.
PACERS CENTER JEFF FOSTER
(Thoughts on the game) "They basically punched us in the face. We go back home and play 10 of 14 at home and we will see if this team will step up and show that they have some balls if we want to continue this season into the playoffs or not. It is embarrassing, we got beat in every phase of the game. The last two games I do not think we have been blown out all year and the last two games have been a sign of how bad our defence is and all the mistakes we made defensively. It is causing us to struggle offensively as well.
RAPTORS COACH JAY TRIANO
(Thoughts on today’s game) "By the end of the first quarter we hadn’t been fouled once. Second quarter, we ended up shooting 36 free throws so obviously when we take the ball to the basket we are a better team and we were aggressive doing that and we got a good lift off the bench."
(Thoughts on the team getting to the basket) "Pops (Mensah-Bonsu) and Shawn (Marion) I think as well, and guys are trying to go inside a little bit more and be cognisent of the fact that we need to shrink defenses if we want to shoot the threes. If you start scoring inside teams will collapse and it’s going to open up perimeter shots and we have been very good shooting the perimeter shot lately. It will come if we keep attacking inside."
(On the team’s offensive rebounding today) "Joey Graham, I think he got us five or so, and Pops is in there and we got some deflections. Andrea (Bargnani) had a key one in the third quarter where he got it and put it back and guys are being a little more aggressive and going to the basket and when you are in five it’s a lot easier to rebound, when you settle for jump shots you are not getting too many offensive rebounds on jump shots.
RAPTORS FORWARD ANDREA BARGNANI
(Thoughts on your inside and outside game) "That’s what I’m trying to do, go inside when I have a smaller guy. Sometimes I do a good job and sometimes I have to work on it."
(Thoughts on your post game) "I’m happy I’m developing that game. It’s a credit to my teammates, they keep passing me the ball. Sometimes I make a mistake or lose the ball, they still have trust in me and they still pass me the ball anyway."
RAPTORS FORWARD POPS MENSAH-BONSU
(Thoughts on the energy you provide off the bench) "Chris Bosh, Chris Bosh, Chris Bosh. I think he anchored us today. I’m definitely going to bring the same amount of energy each game but if I have to feed off somebody else, it’s going to be that much more elevated."
"He (Chris Bosh) came in, he was rebounding, blocking shots and he was there offensively too. He was just being the all-star that he is and it’s just easier for everybody else to respond when he comes out like that and the result was evident."
RAPTORS GUARD JOSE CALDERON
(Was it a relief to get the win today?) "Well, not really. Like I said, we just needed to win."
"We’ve been playing better the last couple of games and we couldn’t finish. Today we played for 48 minutes and we have to keep working from here. We have 15 more games to go and we have to keep fighting."
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Detergent Pods Pose Poison Risk to Kids: Study
The study found that 144 kids have sustained eye injuries, 30 went into comas, 12 had seizures, and one child died.
By The Associated Press • Published at 7:51 am on November 10, 2014
Accidental poisonings from squishy laundry detergent packets sometimes mistaken for toys or candy landed more than 700 U.S. children in the hospital in just two years, researchers report. Coma and seizures were among the most serious complications.
The cases stem from the more than 17,000 poison center calls about the products received in the past two years. The calls involved children younger than 6 and most weren't seriously harmed. But one child died last year and the potential risks highlight a need for even safer packaging, the researchers said.
Some manufacturers already have revised packaging and labels in efforts to make the detergent packets or "pods" safer for children. The study found calls dipped slightly after some of those changes were made.
The products contain concentrated liquid laundry soap and became widely available in the U.S. two years ago. Some are multicolored and may look enticing to young children. Poisoning or injuries including mouth, throat and eye burns can occur when kids burst the capsules or put them in their mouths.
In the study, 144 had eye injuries, 30 went into comas and 12 had seizures.
Exposure to household cleaning products is among the top reasons for calls to poison centers involving young children. In 2012, detergent packet calls accounted for a fraction — about 6 percent — of the 111,000 calls involving young children and cleaning products, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Many calls involve regular laundry detergent, which can cause mild stomach upsets, but poison center experts say the new concentrated laundry packets seem to cause more severe problems.
Jessica Morin of Houston says her 9-month-old daughter, Marlow, was sickened earlier this year when Jessica's grandmother mistook a detergent pod for a teething toy and put it in the baby's mouth.
"I called poison control and they said to take her to the ER immediately," Morin said. Marlow was repeatedly vomiting and underwent tests, but doctors at Texas Children's Hospital found no serious damage and she didn't need to stay overnight.
"We were very lucky," Morin said. "We don't have those pods in our house anymore."
The researchers examined 2012-13 data from the poison control centers group. Their study was published online Monday in Pediatrics.
Overall, there were 17,230 poison center calls about young kids getting into the packets, including 769 children who were hospitalized. Dr. Gary Smith, the study's lead author, said his hospital had two recent cases — kids who developed breathing problems and required treatment in the intensive care unit. He's director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
The American Cleaning Institute, which represents makers of cleaning products, issued voluntary guidance in March encouraging manufacturers to use labels that prominently list safe handling information. The cleaning institute said it is also working with manufacturers to educate parents. But a survey the group released last week suggests many consumers still don't know about the risks.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says children should not be allowed to handle the packets and advises parents to store them out of children's sight and reach.
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Kate Hudson Confirms Engagement
By Eric Alt • Published at 5:25 am on April 27, 2011
It looks like Kate Hudson is ready to walk down the aisle again.
The actress, who has a 7 year-old son with first husband Chris Robinson of the band The Black Crowes, revealed on NBC's "Today" this morning that she is engaged to new beau Matthew Bellamy of the British band Muse.
Hudson opened up about the engagement when host Matt Lauer made mention of the large diamond ring on her finger.
"Is this new?" Lauer asked. "This is new!" Hudson said, before describing Bellamy as "a beautiful man and I'm very excited. "[He's] very sweet and very romantic."
Hudson had been seen on the arm of Yankees slugger Alex Rodriquez, but was soon spotted out and about with Bellamy. The relationship progressed quickly, and Hudson is currently pregnant with Bellamy's child.
Selected Reading: Today, Us magazine, Huffington Post
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Being Bold - Student sparks creativity, designs for Mott bulletin boards
Echo Staff
The bulletin boards outside the Student Services Office in Mott are always whimsical and colorful.
Blame that on the fun-spirited staff inside, and the talents of student worker Bailey Tyler.
Tyler, a junior from Battle Creek, is not an art major – she’s a sport psychology major – but she confesses a love of Pinterest and a willingness to explore.
Her latest creation is a background of paint swatches, which will remain as the content changes, Tyler said. “My sister works at Sherwin Williams,” Tyler said, and when the swatches were being switched out, she scooped them up.
Tyler said the Student Services staff leave the design for the bulletin boards, two in the hallway and one in the office, up to her.
In addition to being an “above and beyond” student worker, Bailey has taken over the creation of our bulletin boards from the ground up. All we do is ask her to change them (often she decides on her own),” wrote Gayl Dotts, customer services specialist in an email response. “She formulates the idea, designs the layout, lines up the materials and constructs the boards and they ALWAYS turn out fantastic! Each board is original and is connected to something relevant to campus life or financial aid. I think before she graduates I will insist she draw up plans for a dozen or so that we can use after she leaves,” Dotts said.
Tyler plans to graduate next May, and in doing so, would become the first sports psychology major since the new major was formed. A Dean’s List student, Tyler has been working in Student Services since May 2015.
“Bailey is awesome,” wrote her supervisor Maria Vanarman, financial aid officer. “Here’s a few words we think of when it comes to Bailey: passionate, caring, dedicated, knowledgeable, quick learner, loving, funny, sassy, creative. I could go on and on about Bailey. She has been a wonderful addition to Student Services. We very fortunate to have her,” Vanarman said in an email response.
Tyler recently traveled to Saginaw Valley State University, where she was one of a number of Olivet faculty and students presenting work at the annual Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters. Her paper’s topic was “The Influence of Coaches on Athletes’ Confidence.”
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Market Commentary 27th November 2019
By Charlie Lodge November 27, 2019 November 29th, 2019 No Comments
The Conservatives take the lead in the polls
With just over two weeks to go until the UK General Election, the race to number ten gathered steam this week, with political battle lines now firmly drawn on key policy differences. While the overall outcome of the vote still remains uncertain, it is clear that the next two weeks will be action-packed, with the leaders of the key parties already butting heads over issues such as public spending and Brexit.
In recent weeks, the polls have shown the same pattern of movement as they have throughout the campaign. Overall, the Conservatives have gone up in the BBC and Financial Times poll trackers, while support for the Brexit Party continues to decline since Nigel Farage announced that the party would not contest seats won by the Conservatives in 2017. After pulling ahead earlier this month, more recent polls suggest that the Conservative shift is beginning to level off. A Kantar poll was published yesterday that showed the Conservative lead falling from 18 points to 11, with Labour gaining 5 points since a week earlier. And an ICM poll on Monday put the Tory lead at just 7 points, the smallest from any pollster since the first week of November. Overall, the shift has not been huge, with the average Tory lead in polls taken over the past week dropping from 14 points the previous week to 12, shown in the graph below. It seems likely that the manifesto launch on Thursday has boosted Labour, gaining ground from the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. In the four polls carried out wholly since then, the party has gained between zero and five points.
At 10pm this evening, YouGov are expected to release details of the most eagerly awaited poll of the UK general election. Its so-called MRP poll will appear in the Times newspaper, predicting the result of the Dec 12 vote, seat by seat. The poll uses a recently developed technique that aims to give a more detailed prediction than a standard opinion poll. In the 2017 election, YouGov’s MRP poll predicted that Theresa May would lose her majority at a time when every other poll was suggesting her Conservatives would secure a big win. At the same time, YouGov are keen to point out that it does take a while to produce a poll like this, so it doesn’t reflect late swings in opinion.
Our Plan Going Forward
With the UK general election campaigns now in full swing, we are turning our attention to domestic equities, where we see opportunities after months of Brexit-induced underperformance. As mentioned in previous commentaries, overall investor sentiment toward UK-based stocks is starting to improve, with many strategists claiming that the country’s shares are “potentially the best global equity opportunity for 2020”. These stocks appear set to benefit as a result of a much-reduced risk of no-deal Brexit, relative valuations at 30-year lows, and asset managers seeking opportunities for returns after being spooked by all the political drama of the past year.
UK Opportunities
UK small and mid-caps appear particularly attractive at this point, given their high domestic exposure and low valuation in both absolute and relative terms, with the FTSE UK Small Cap index currently trading at a 35% discount to its 20-year average. The case for UK equities goes beyond valuation levels though, as the macro-economic picture could also become a catalyst for a recovery. The UK economy is expected to rebound strongly next year, helped by substantial fiscal stimulus which is expected to be at least 1.5% of GDP (according to Credit Suisse estimates), irrespective of which party forms the new government after the election. Additionally, as Brexit-related uncertainty abates, with risks of a no deal Brexit reduced, foreign investment is likely to return to the UK. Increased foreign investment combined with fiscal stimulus would boost consumer spending, which has been depressed since Brexit, and would particularly benefit smaller, domestically based UK companies. For this reason, should the Conservatives appear increasingly likely to get a majority as we approach the election, it is likely that we will increase our exposure to UK small/mid-caps to benefit from this trend on a strategic basis.
Sterling Risks
Sterling is currently tracking the odds of a Conservative majority, showing a positive correlation with increased prospects of such an outcome. The pound has been strengthening over the past few weeks as opinion polls suggested a Conservative win and as Conservative candidates pledged to support the passage of Johnson’s Brexit deal should they be elected. Markets are favouring a Conservative majority government as the best outcome from the Dec. 12 vote as it would allow Johnson to push through his Brexit plan and move on to the next phase of Britain’s exit from the European Union. Due to the expected appreciation in sterling we still see significant risks in the larger, FTSE 100 UK companies, as a significant proportion of their profits come from overseas revenues. For this reason, we are maintaining our short on the FTSE 100, and hedge our non-UK exposure back to sterling to reduce currency risks.
A Trade Deal
While we await greater clarity on Brexit and the UK General Election, due to risks arising from the ongoing trade conflict between the US and China and the sterling risk as well as declining economic fundamentals for large caps, we retain low exposure to global equities. Should a phase one trade deal be agreed however, we do see opportunities arising in Global and European Small/Mid Caps space which has largely been an unloved asset class in recent years, and is set to benefit from a rotation away from large caps and increased fiscal stimulus. While the Brexit issue remains unresolved, it is likely that we would hedge this exposure back to sterling to mitigate currency risks, however if the election results in a Conservative Majority and a subsequent appreciation in sterling, it is likely that we will add these opportunities into the portfolio without the hedge being needed.
For more information about calls for Eurozone stimulus, please see the attached Market Update Document.
While it is certain that markets will remain volatile in the coming weeks, as we come closer to the UK General Election and a potential phase one trade deal, opportunities are likely to arise, allowing us to benefit from strategic changes in our portfolio. Ahead of the election, should the polls continue to suggest a Conservative majority is likely, it is likely that we will add to our UK small/mid cap exposure, where we see an opportunity for outperformance. We are poised to act to redeploy cash into opportunities as they arise, therefore should we get a phase one trade deal in the coming weeks, we are also prepared to add to Global and European Small/mid cap equity exposure to benefit from favourable market conditions for these stocks. As always, we will keep you updated with any changes to positioning and the data.
Key Events We Are Watching This Week:
Wednesday: YouGov UK Election Poll
Thursday: EU Economic Sentiment
Monday: US Manufacturing PMI
For anyone who wants further data to substantiate the position please review the attached Global Economic Update document and the Economic Data set also attached.
Most global equity markets gained over the week amid optimism regarding a US-China trade truce after US President Trump said on Tuesday that Washington and Beijing are close to an agreement on the ‘phase one’ of a trade deal. Top negotiators from both countries spoke by telephone and agreed to keep working on issues.
Safe haven assets, such as gold were relatively flat over the week as investors remain uncertain on the near-term outlook of the global economy. The OBI portfolios remain defensively positioned with limited equity exposure, and our portfolios remain well positioned given current conditions. The portfolios gained over the week owing to the defensive positioning, with changes made in recent weeks expected to continue to provide further support to portfolio performance going forward.
On this day in 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle said ‘Non!’ to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time. In stark contrast, President Macron is now arguably the largest critic of the UK’s departure from the European Union.
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«The Sacred Ruins (Web Novel) - Chapter 801 - Later Years and The Nature of The World
Chapter 801: Later Years and The Nature of The World
Translator: Alsey Editor: Chrissy
Chu Feng glanced at Ouyang Feng and said, “Why is your face so black that you’re about to emit black qi?”
“Can you speak human language!?” Ouyang Feng stretched his swan neck out as he looked at Chu Feng with a darkened face.
“It’s only strange if he’s fair-skinned!” Ying Xiaoxiao grinned.
At this moment, the whole battlefield had gone quiet. Pu Lin and his subordinates had been dealt with. Chu Feng and Ying Zhexian used their indigenious technique for the first time in battle. The might of the attack was so astonishing that it killed all of the so-called divine archers and cavalrymen.
Ouyang Feng definitely did have a black face and he had a slightly unsightly expression.
“What exactly happened?” asked Chu Feng.
Ouyang Feng was in charge of searching Pu Lin’s soul just now and after he did so, his expression darkened.
“It’s definitely bad news relating to us,” said Ying Zhexian. She fell to the ground and abandoned her swan body. She was slim and graceful and had immortal qi around her.
Ling Weihou’s soul light had almost squarely attacked Ying Zhexian and Chu Feng in that battle just now; it was extremely dangerous. They were unable to use their physical bodies anymore as they were all in tatters.
Even their souls had dimmed slightly as the duo sustained rather heavy damage.
After all, there was the aura of a quasi-saint in that wisp of soul light. It was already considered to be a miracle since they were still alive after taking such an attack at their level!
“Smart.” Ouyang Feng glanced at Ying Zhexian and softly sighed.
“We’ve only come in contact with the troops from the Martial God faction ever since we came to this world and obtained their special technique. They’re probably related to one another. Are there any considerably grave consequences to this?” asked Ying Zhexian.
Ouyang Feng had a strange expression on his face. This woman from the Quasi-saint Race really was bright; she had prior awareness to everything.
“There is a considerably grave probelm.” Toad softly sighed. He really wanted to spit out a large expanse of saliva, but he swallowed it back down after giving it a thought because this was soul light and spiritual energy. He didn’t want to waste them.
The silver haired little lolita stared at this movement at his. This made her feel uncomfortable because she was better off seeing him spit his saliva!
“This grandson Pu Lin informed his old bastardly father Ling Weihou of the situation when he was in the midst of pursuing us. That old fellow is considerably terrifying and is extremely protective of his children, too. He has six sons. In those days, a divine archer from the Moon Goddess faction killed his third son on the battlefield. That very same night, he strode across realms and annihilated that troop and even massacred that divine archer’s entire race completely from a baby that was only a few months old to children who were only five or six years old. He threw eight of them to their deaths while they were still alive. His methods are extremely cruel and he’s abnormally violent.”
After that, the experts from the Moon Goddess faction made a move to retaliate against him, yet he had made preparations a long time ago. He informed his supporters beforehand to help him block the disaster and set up an ambush to kill a group of experts once again.
Chu Feng and Ying Zhexian frowned when they heard this. This Ling Weihou was going to seek revenge even for the smallest grievances. Would a man who was so fiercely protective of his children not go insane once he knew that Pu Lin had been killed?
That was especially the case since he was a quasi-saint at the very least. That wisp of soul light from before was extremely terrifying and almost killed Chu Feng and Ying Zhexian. If they didn’t have the Wonderful Seven Treasures Technique, the duo would definitely explode into two balls of blood mist.
Ouyang Feng sighed and said, “Fairy Ying guessed another point right. It has to do with the special technique. This is a motherf*cking… fraud!”
Excluding the lightning strikes that one would attract every month from absorbing an excessive amount of Divinity Granules, the evolvers from this world generally had a very low lifespan. Some of them even had about the same lifespan as a common mortal.
Chu Feng frowned after he heard Ouyang Feng say all of these as he felt that the situation was considerably far from good.
“Be more specific!”
“Based on a few secret reports that have circulated out of the laboratories of a few deities in Vicious Beast Plateau, many people think this has to do with using the special technique excessively to refine the Divinity Granules as well as the Dao Ancestor’s matter.”
Chu Feng inhaled a cold breath. There was such a great calamity to this special technique?
From the start, he understood that there was the emphasis on equilibrium in any world. It was impossible to have a technique that was the pinnacle of defying the natural order of the world yet not pay the price for it. But now, he suddenly learned that his lifespan was going to be decreased which made him feel the severity of the problem.
“The Martial God and the Moon Goddess from Vicious Beast Plateau are conducting research into this from the theoretical perspectives of karma and evolution respectively. Both are very reasonable,” said Ouyang Toad.
If they were to talk about things from the point of view of the theory of karma, the reason their lifespans would decrease was because this kind of special technique was in harmony with the ten heavenly stems. If one were to take the life of living creatures too terribly, they were practically stepping on other people’s corpses to evolve and grow.
As such, there was retribution for everything in the end since the world wouldn’t allow such things to happen. Other than frequently striking them with lightning, everyone would have their life shortened because their killing nature was far too great.
Besides, all of the evolvers were miserable in their later years and they practically didn’t have a good ending. Their divine spirits weren’t excluded as well; they would be faced with miserable circumstances in their declining years.
Someone ineffably went insane and headed toward his own destruction and he even annihilated the tribe he belonged to.
The blood qi of some powerhouses suddenly dried up and they rapidly aged. Cracks appeared throughout their bodies, and they were in such immense pain while they were still alive.
The souls of some people would disintegrate like rotting flesh, and their soul light would decompose. In their later years, they were in an increasingly tragic state day after day. Their soul bodies crumbled as they were subjected to sheer torture.
“The same goes for divine spirits; each one is unluckier than the other. Their successors would even treat those whose strengths weakened as prey and get rid of them as they are by absorbing their Divinity Granules and so forth.”
This was what Ouyang Feng found out through searching Pu Lin’s head. Those who heard what he said felt terrified and felt that there wasn’t a good end for the evolvers from this world in the end; they faced miserable circumstances in their declining years.
“Even deities can’t resolve this problem as their blood qi will dry up and their souls will crumble? They’ll die from being subjected to such torture?” Ying Xiaoxiao was horrified and felt a chill rise through her whole body. If this was the case, then wouldn’t it be better for her to reject the special technique right away and leave things as they were to return to her universe?
“But the special technique is just like a deity-ranked poppy. Which evolver can give up such a thing in order to strengthen themselves?” Ouyang Feng sighed. This was a rare occasion where he got serious. He had seen this from Pu Lin’s soul.
In those days, Ling Weihou’s grandfather was extremely formidable. He was a high ranking war general who commanded countless armies. But in his later years, he was all skin and bones and howled miserably day and night. He didn’t dare to stay alone, but he ultimately faced an incomparably bleak end. First, a fully grown divine beast had accidentally gotten rid of half his body when it massacred everyone in a captured city. After that, a lightning bolt struck right through his head and destroyed ninety percent of his soul light. He finally struggled and was tortured for tens of days between life and death before dying.
His troops had said that everything happened because he had massacred far too much in those days.
There was also the Demon God from olden days who was struck by lightning on the Vicious Beast Plateau every day in his later years. He would lose parts of his body every day and resembled coke. In the end, a successor mounted a sneak attack on him and he exploded while he was still alive. The successor slowly refined him for a hundred days and suffered all kinds of humiliation and torture. That successor stepped on his corpse and ascended to become a god. Only then did the Demon God reach the end of his miserable time across the later years of his life.
That was only because the Demon God had claimed his seat in that manner in those days too.
As such, the evolvers of this world acknowledged the theory of karma very much and believed it was reasonable. Many things would come about as predicted more often than not and there would be retributions.
“Will we end up so tragically since we practice their special techniques too?” Chu Feng didn’t want to reduce his lifespan nor was he willing to wane away so ineffably. Those circumstances was more tragic than mortals dying of old age.
What were people pursuing in becoming evolvers? Wasn’t it to transcend worldliness and be even more unfettered as well as to be free and unconstrained without care or worries? Yet these outcomes practically resembled dangling a sharp sword above their heads and enveloped them beneath its shadow across the entirety of their later years.
The silver haired little lolita widened her eyes and had a nervous expression as she said, “Elder Sister, we’d better go home. Let’s look for our mother! This world lacks any sense of security far too much. I don’t want to be all skins and bones in my later years, much less be tormented by various accidents and end up dying tragically.”
Ying Zhexian was very calm as she spoke to Ouyang Feng, “What you were talking about just now was the theory of karma. There is another theory of evolution.”
“The theory of evolution is even more frightening. It says that the Divinity Granules different life forms possessed had a somewhat repelling attribute. That was especially the case with even higher graded Dao Ancestor matters which repelled even more. Even though it looks as though they fused together to return to a single entity, there would be various reactions between these matters and it would give rise to various discourses after a certain stage. Even a god would loudly scream that there are ghosts out of fright. Don’t think that it is abnormal to find a soul locker from hell demanding their life because he might have really seen some extraordinary item. It might have separated itself from the Divinity Granules and the Dao Ancestor matter before it was constructed and nourished.”
Chu Feng was speechless after he heard this. Gods were afraid of ghosts? But after thinking about it, he felt at ease because the deities of this world had to die in the end.
“Aren’t there other paths of solving this problem?” asked Chu Feng.
Ying Zhexian also looked at Ouyang Feng to gain a deeper understanding. Like Chu Feng, she was similarly unwilling to accept the circumstances.
“There is. There is a kind of theory in the Vicious Beast Plateau that says that if one was sufficiently powerful, they might be able to prevent everything and kill everything. One wouldn’t be afraid of those so-called miserable ending. Naturally, such a person hasn’t appeared until now. Those who didn’t believe in fallacies are all dead. Other than that, all the deities are searching for a path to go to the Primal Chaos. They want to traverse and cross over to other worlds. Different worlds may have different reasonings so they want to reach enlightenment and resolve their own problems.”
“Going to other worlds?” Chu Feng was surprised.
Ouyang Feng searched Pu Lin’s soul and realized that this whole Vicious Beast Plateau seemed to be the center of the world. Once they were out of here, they would be headed towards the Primal Chaos.
“Indeed. The Vicious Beast Plateau is the center in this world. Other than that, there are a few abysses where divine beasts reside in. All that’s left after that is the Primal Chaos. This world isn’t as big as ours. Based on the conjecture of this world’s deities, this is a dilapidated universe.”
This subject was already touching upon the nature of this world. The deities from past dynasties in the Vicious Beast Plateau had come in contact with Yin, and even Yang spirits from foreign domains.
They guessed that this world was possibly bordering a vast Yin Realm world and might not be that far away from a vast Yang Realm too. This was a world in a crevice.
After Ouyang Feng finished talking about these things, Ying Zhexian and Chu Feng were emotionally moved. There was even more to this than what the deities of this world inferred.
“Some deities would come forth and be on their way in past dynasties as they wanted to try to change their own fate. But a few deities died tragically once they entered the Primal Chaos. Those who sent someone off could see this with their own eyes and there were even people who never returned once they left.”
“They tragically died in the Primal Chaos?” Chu Feng was astonished and extremely shocked.
“Yes, that’s right. There’s a path on the border of the Primal Chaos. They didn’t suddenly cross it, but rather they found the footsteps of their predecessors.” Ouyang Feng nodded.
After that, he looked terrified as he said, “That scene is a little plaintive. I feel like they went to hell and not the so-called complete great universe.”
After that, Ouyang Feng revealed the scene he saw in Pu Lin’s soul of the path bordering the Primal Chaos.
That was a lower millstone that was turning slowly. If they wanted to strive across realms, they actually had to throw themselves into the lower millstone and experience what it was like being crushed. Some deities couldn’t endure passing that ordeal and had their soul light crushed to pieces.
Some people were luckier because this lower millstone occasionally didn’t turn and wouldn’t crush those who entered. It was a straight path and there was a light door within the lower millstone.
This was completely up to luck and there was no exception even for deities!
The scene Ouyang Feng exhibited to Chu Feng was rather shocking!
What did he see? That lower millstone was somewhat similar to the lower millstone within the Bright City of Death in purgatory, but it wasn’t as big as that in the City of Death. It was made out of the same material and they had similar functions.
He was certain that there was definitely a path behind this lower millstone. There was a reincarnation path in purgatory, so what path would there be here? Where would it lead to!?
“What do you think?” Chu Feng asked Ying Zhexian after a very long time.
“Let’s immediately get moving and fight to find the most first-rate special technique in this world. Even if we can’t use it, let’s try to obtain it first, too, so that we can leave it for later. At the same time, we’ll research this world and look for items like the sacred medicine that are suitable to us. Naturally, if this world really doesn’t suit us after we thoroughly analyze the matter and we fully understand this world, we’ll end our journey in this world in the shortest span of time within a few days.”
Ying Zhexian was very decisive as she felt that the problem was extremely severe.
“That’s right. What is the final outcome of the person from past dynasties who obtained the fortune within the Dameng Pure Land’s shrine? The so-called dreaming of a hundred years in a single night?” asked Chu Feng.
“This is just the place that makes me tremble in fear.” Ying Zhexian had a grave expression as she said, “Think about it carefully. An accident happened to almost half of those well-known figures from past dynasties and they died across the universe. In those days, everyone thought that someone envied them and injured them in the dark. But from the looks of things now, the way they died somewhat resembles the later years of some powerhouses from this universe.”
Chu Feng almost broke out in cold sweat from being frightened by what she said.
Ying Zhexian explained that there were some well-known figures who weren’t in great conditions in their later years while there were some who walked the deviant path during meditation whereas some were ineffably distress and faced with difficulties which resulted in very tragic deaths.
There were those that could die a natural death in the end, but there really weren’t many of them.
“This is really a fraud! A divine fraud!” Ouyang Feng cried out.
“There’s no time to waste! We have to get moving right away! If the situation gets bad, we’ll beat it right away!” said Ying Zhexian.
They nodded with grave expressions.
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Nuts & Volts Magazine (September 1998)
Security Electronics Systems And Circuits — Part 8
By Ray Marston
Security circuits that react to temperature, voltage, current, or resistance have many practical applications in the home and in commerce and industry.
Temperature-sensitive circuits can be used to automatically activate alarms or safety devices when one or more monitored temperatures goes above or below a preset level, or when two temperatures differ by more than a preset amount.
Such circuits can be used to give warning of fire, frost, excessive boiler temperature, the failure of a heating system, or over-heating of a piece of machinery or a liquid, etc., and may use thermostats, thermistors, or various types of solid-state devices as their temperature-sensing elements.
The first half of this article presents a selection of practical temperature-sensitive security circuits.
Circuits that react to an input voltage, current, or resistance also have many practical applications, since these inputs may, in fact, be derived from the output of a transducer that monitors a parameter such as motor speed, liquid flow rate or pressure, or rate of linear movement, etc.
The second half of this article presents a selection of practical voltage-, current-, or resistance-sensitive security circuits.
Note that most practical circuits shown here are designed to activate a relay under the ‘alarm’ condition but that, in most cases, this relay can be replaced by a ready-built 12V piezo-siren module if required.
Temperature-Sensitive Security Circuits
THERMOSTAT FIRE-ALARM CIRCUITS
One of the simplest types of temperature-sensitive circuit is the thermostat-activated fire alarm. Figure 1 shows the practical circuit of a relay-aided non-latching alarm of this type. Here, any desired number of n.o. thermostats are wired in parallel and then connected in series with the coil of a relay, and one set of the relay’s n.o. contacts are wired in series with the alarm bell so that the bell operates if the relay turns on.
FIGURE 1. Simple relay-aided non-latching fire alarm.
Normally, the thermostats are all open, so the relay and alarm bell are off. Under this condition, the circuit consumes zero standby current. At ‘overheat’ temperatures, on the other hand, one or more of the thermostats closes, and thus turns on the relay and thence the alarm bell. Note that push-button switch S1 is wired in parallel with the thermostats, enabling the circuit to be functionally tested by operating the push-button.
The basic Figure 1 circuit gives a non-latching form of operation. If required, the circuit can be made self-latching by wiring a spare set of n.o. relay contacts in parallel with the thermostats, as shown in Figure 2. Note that n.c. push-button switch S2 is wired in series with these relay contacts, so that the circuit can be reset or unlatched by momentarily operating S2.
FIGURE 2. Simple relay-aided self-latching fire alarm.
The thermostats used in the above two circuits must be n.o. types that close when the temperature exceeds a preset limit. When the thermostats are located in normal living areas, they should be set at a temperature of roughly 60°C (140°F), but when they are located in unusually warm places — such as furnace rooms or attics — they should be set at about 90°C (194°F).
OVER- and UNDER-TEMPERATURE SECURITY CIRCUITS
Most over-temperature (and under-temperature) security circuits activate a relay or an alarm unit when a monitored temperature rises above (or falls below) a preset level, which may range from well below the freezing point of water to well above the boiling point of water. Precision circuits of this type usually use one or more thermistors or solid-state devices as their temperature-sensing elements.
Two useful over-temperature security circuits (and two under-temperature circuits) are de-scribed in this section. The first two circuits use an inexpensive n.t.c. (negative temperature coefficient) thermistor as a temperature-sensing element.
This device acts as a temperature-sensitive resistor that presents a high resistance at low temperatures and a low resistance at high temperatures.
The thermistor circuits described in this and the following sections of this article have all been designed to work with thermistors that present a nominal resistance of 5K0 at the desired operating temperature; all of these circuits will, however, in fact, work well with any n.t.c. thermistors that present a resistance in the range 1K0 to 20K at the required ‘trip’ temperature.
Figure 3 shows the practical circuit of a simple but very sensitive over-temperature switch that has a relay output.
FIGURE 3. Relay-output precision over-temperature switch.
Here, the thermistor (TH1) and RV1-R1-R2 are wired in the form of a simple Wheatstone bridge in which R1-R2 generate a fixed half-supply ‘reference’ voltage and TH1-RV1 generate a ‘variable’ output voltage that is inversely proportional to the TH1 temperature and is trimmed (via RV1) so that it almost equals the R1-R2 reference value at the required ‘trip’ temperature.
These two voltages are fed to the input of the type 741 op-amp which is used — in conjunction with transistor Q1 — as the bridge’s balance detector and relay driver. The 741 op-amp is used in the open-loop mode in this circuit, and its action is such that its pin 6 output is driven low (to negative saturation) if its pin 3 (non-inverting) input is more than a few millivolts negative to the pin 2 (inverting) input, and is driven high (to positive saturation) if pin 3 is significantly positive to pin 2.
Suppose, then, that the bridge is adjusted so that it is close to balance at the desired ‘trip’ temperature. When the temperature falls below this value, the TH1 resistance increases, so the 741’s pin 3 voltage rises above that of pin 2, and the pin 6 output voltage thus goes to positive saturation and consequently applies no base drive to Q1; Q1 and the relay are off under this condition.
When the temperature rises above the ‘trip’ value, however, the TH1 resistance decreases and the 741’s pin 3 voltage falls below that of pin 2, and the pin 6 output voltage thus goes to negative saturation and applies heavy base drive to Q1; Q1 and the relay are driven on under this condition.
Thus, the relay goes on when the temperature rises above the preset level, and turns off when the temperature falls below the preset level.
Important points to note about the Figure 3 circuit are that, because it uses the bridge sensing configuration, its accuracy is independent of variations in supply voltage, and that the circuit can respond to TH1 resistance changes of less than 0.1 percent, i.e., to temperature changes of a fraction of a degree.
Figure 4 shows the above circuit converted into a precision under-temperature switch by simply transposing the op-amp’s pin 2 and pin 3 input connections; alternatively, the Figure 3 circuit can be made to give under-temperature operation by simply transposing the R1 and TH1 positions, or by redesigning the Q1 output stage so that it uses an npn transistor in place of the pnp device.
FIGURE 4. Relay-output precision under-temperature switch.
The Figure 3 and 4 circuits use a thermistor with a nominal trip-level resistance value of 5K0 as its temperature-sensing element, and this thermistor dissipates several milliwatts of power under actual working conditions.
In some special applications, this power dissipation may cause enough self-heating of the thermistor to upset its thermal sensing capability. In such cases, an alternative type of temperature-sensing device — such as an ordinary silicon diode — may have to be used.
Ordinary silicon diodes have temperature-dependent forward volt-drop characteristics, and can thus be used as temperature-sensing elements. Typically, a silicon diode gives a forward volt drop of about 600mV at a current of 1mA. If this current is held constant, the volt drop changes by about -2mV for each degree Centigrade increase in diode temperature.
All silicon diodes have similar thermal characteristics. Since the power dissipation of the diode is a mere 0.6mW under the above condition, negligible self-heating takes place in the device, which can thus be used as an accurate temperature sensor.
Figure 5 shows how general-purpose silicon diode D1 can be used as a thermal sensing element in an op-amp over-temperature relay-switch circuit. Here, zener diode ZD1 is wired in series with R1 so that a constant 5.6V is developed across the two potential dividers formed by R2-RV1 and R3-D1, and a near-constant current thus flows in each of these dividers.
FIGURE 5. Relay-output over-temperature switch using silicon diode temperature-sensing element.
A constant reference voltage is thus developed between the R1-RV1 junction and pin 2 of the op-amp, and a temperature-dependent voltage with a coefficient of -2mV/°C is developed between the R1-RV1 junction and pin 3 of the op-amp. Thus, a differential voltage with a coefficient of -2mV/°C appears between pins 2 and 3 of the op-amp.
In practice, this circuit is set up by simply raising the temperature of D1 to the required over-temperature trip level, and then slowly trimming RV1 so that the relay just turns on. Under this condition, a differential temperature of about 1mV appears between pins 2 and 3 of the op-amp, the pin 3 voltage being below that of pin 2, and Q1 and the relay are driven on.
When the temperature falls below the trip level, the pin 3 voltage rises above that of pin 2 by about -2mV/°C change in temperature, so Q1 and the relay turn off. The circuit has a typical sensitivity of about 0.5°C, and can be used as an over-temperature switch at temperatures ranging from sub-zero to above the boiling point of water.
Figure 6 shows how the operation of the Figure 5 circuit can be reversed, so that it functions as an under-temperature switch, by simply transposing the pin 2 and pin 3 connections of the op-amp.
FIGURE 6. Relay-output under-temperature switch using silicon diode temperature-sensing element.
MISCELLANEOUS TEMPERATURE SWITCHES
Each temperature-sensitive circuit shown so far in this article activates when a monitored temperature goes either above or below a preset level. The present section shows three other types of temperature-sensitive security circuit.
Two of these circuits activate relays if the temperature deviates from a preset level by more than a preset amount, and the third activates a relay if two monitored temperatures differ by more than a preset amount. In all cases, the relay(s) can be used to operate any type of electrical alarm or slave device.
Figures 7 and 8 show the circuits of a pair of temperature-deviation switches, which activate if the temperature deviates from a preset level by more than a preset amount. The Figure 7 circuit has independent over-temperature and under-temperature relay outputs, while the Figure 8 circuit has a single relay output that activates if the temperature goes above or below preset levels.
FIGURE 7. Temperature-deviation switch with independent over/under-temperature relay outputs.
FIGURE 8. Temperature-deviation switch with single relay output.
Both of these circuits are made by combining the basic over-temperature and under-temperature circuits of Figures 3 and 4. The right (over-temperature) half of each circuit is based on that of Figure 3, and the left (under-temperature) half is based on that of Figure 4.
Both halves of the circuit share a common RV1-TH1 temperature-sensing network, but the under-temperature and over-temperature switching levels of the circuits are independently adjustable.
Each of the two op-amp outputs of the Figure 7 circuit are taken to independent transistor-relay output stages, while the two op-amp outputs of the Figure 8 circuit are taken to a single transistor-relay output stage via the D1-D2 gate network. The procedure for setting up the two circuits is as follows.
First, set RV2 and RV3 to mid-travel, then, with TH1 at its normal or mid-band temperature, adjust RV1 so that half-supply volts are developed across TH1. Now fully rotate the RV2 slider towards the positive supply line, rotate the RV3 slider towards the zero volts line, and check that no ‘trip’ condition is indicated (relays off).
Next, reduce TH1’s temperature to the required under-temperature trip value and adjust RV2 so that the appropriate relay goes on to indicate the ‘trip’ condition. Now increase the TH1 temperature slightly and check that the relay turns off.
Finally, raise the TH1 temperature to the required over-temperature trip level and adjust RV3 so that the appropriate relay turns on to indicate the ‘trip’ condition. The circuits are then ready for use.
Figure 9 shows the circuit of a differential-temperature switch that activates a relay if two monitored temperatures differ by more than a preset amount. The circuit uses a pair of silicon diodes as temperature-sensing elements, and activates the relay only when the temperature of D1 is more than a preset amount greater than that of D2, and is not influenced by the absolute temperatures of the two diodes.
FIGURE 9. Differential-temperature switch with relay output.
In this circuit, general-purpose silicon diodes D1 and D2 are used as temperature-sensing elements. A standing current is passed through D1 from the positive supply rail via RV1-R1 and R3, and a similar current is passed through D2 via RV1-R2 and R3. The relative values of these currents can be adjusted over a limited range via RV1, thus enabling the forward volt drops of the diodes to be equalized, so that they give zero differential output when they are both at the same temperature.
Suppose then that the diode voltages have been equalized in this way, so that zero voltage differential exists between them. If now the temperatures of both diodes are raised by 10°C, the forward voltages of both diodes will fall by 20mV, and zero differential will still exist between them. The circuit is thus not influenced by identical changes in the temperatures of D1 and D2.
Suppose next that the temperature of D2 falls 1°C below that of D1; in this case, the D2 voltage will rise 2mV above that of D1, so the op-amp’s pin 3 voltage goes positive to that of pin 2, thus driving the op-amp output to positive saturation and holding Q1 and the relay off.
Finally, suppose that the temperature of D2 rises 1°C above that of D1; in this case, the D2 voltage will fall 2mV below that of D1, so the op-amp output goes into negative saturation and drives Q1 and the relay on. Thus, the relay turns on only when the temperature of D2 is above that of D1. The circuit has a typical sensitivity of 0.5°C.
The above explanation assumes that RV1 is adjusted so that the D1 and D2 voltages are equalized when the two diodes are at the same temperature, so that the relay goes on when the D2 temperature rises a fraction of a degree above that of D1. In practice, RV1 is usually adjusted so that the standing bias voltage of D2 is some millivolts greater than that of D1 at normal temperatures, in which case, the relay will not turn on until the temperature of D2 rises some where above that of D1.
The magnitude of this differential temperature trip level is fully variable from zero to about 10°C via RV1, so the circuit is quite versatile. The circuit can be set up by raising the temperature of D2 the required amount above that of D1, and then trimming RV1 so that the relay just turns on under this condition.
DC VOLTAGE-ACTIVATED CIRCUITS
Figure 10 shows the practical circuit of a precision DC over-voltage switch that activates only when the input voltage is greater than some pre-set value in excess of at least 5V. Here, the op-amp is used in the open-loop mode as a DC voltage comparator, with a Zener-derived 5V reference applied to the op-amp’s non-inverting pin 3 input, and with the test voltage applied between the pin 2 inverting input and ground.
The circuit action is such that the op-amp output is positively saturated, and Q1 and the relay are off, when the pin 2 test voltage is fractionally less than the pin 3 5V reference value, and Q1 and the relay go on when the test voltage is greater than the 5V reference value.
Note in Figure 10 that Rx is wired in series between the input test voltage and the 10K (R1) impedance of the inverting input of the op-amp, and enables the circuit to be ‘ranged’ so that it triggers at any required voltage in excess of the 5V reference value. The Rx value for any required trigger voltage is determined on the basis of (2K0 x V) - 10K. Thus, for 50V triggering, Rx = (50 x 2K0) - 10K = 90K. For 5V triggering, Rx must have a value of zero ohms.
FIGURE 10. Precision DC over-voltage switch, covering 5V upwards.
The Figure 10 circuit is very sensitive and exhibits negligible back-lash. Triggering accuracies of 0.5 percent can easily be achieved. For maximum accuracy, either the power supply or the zener reference voltage of the circuit should be fully stabilized.
The Figure 10 circuit can be made to function as a precision under-voltage switch, which turns on when the input voltage falls below a preset level, by simply transposing the inverting and non-inverting input pin connections of the op-amp, as shown in Figure 11.
FIGURE 11. Precision DC under-voltage switch, covering 5V upwards.
This circuit also shows how the zener reference supply can be stabilized for high-precision operation. Note in both of these circuits that, once 5V has been accurately set via RV1, the final triggering accuracy is determined solely by the accuracies of Rx and R1. In high-precision applications, therefore, these resistors must be stable high-precision types.
Figure 12 shows how the Figure 10 circuit can be modified for use as an over-voltage switch covering the range 10mV to 5V. In this case, the input voltage is connected directly to the op-amp’s inverting input terminal, and a variable reference voltage is applied to its non-inverting input terminal, and is adjusted to give the same value as that of the required trigger voltage.
FIGURE 12. Dual-supply precision DC over-voltage switch, covering 10mV to 5V.
The circuit action can be reversed, so that the design acts as an under-voltage switch, by transposing the input pin connections of the op-amp. Note that the Figure 12 circuit uses two sets of supply lines (+9V and -3V), to ensure proper biasing of the op-amp.
Figure 13 shows how the Figure 12 circuit can be adapted for operation from a single set of supply lines.
FIGURE 13. Single-supply precision DC over-voltage switch, covering 10mV to 5V.
Here, Q2 and Q3 are wired as an astable multivibrator or squarewave generator, and the output of this generator is used to provide a negative supply rail for the op-amp via the voltage-converting and smoothing D2-D3 and C3-C4 network, which actually gives a negative output of about 9V when unloaded, but this output falls to only 3 to 5 volts when it is loaded by connecting it to the pin 4 ‘negative supply’ terminal of the 3140 op-amp.
Finally, Figure 14 shows the circuit of a DC over-voltage switch that covers the range 10mV to 5V and uses a single floating supply. Here, the op-amp is again used as a DC voltage comparator, but its positive supply rail is set at 6.8V via the floating supply and zener diode ZD1, and its negative rail is set at -5.2V via the ZD1 and R2 combination.
FIGURE 14. Single-supply DC over-voltage switch, covering 10mV to 5V.
The monitored input voltage is fed to the pin 2 inverting input of the op-amp, and the zener-derived reference voltage is fed to the pin 3 non-inverting input of the op-amp via potential divider R3-RV1.
This reference voltage can be varied between roughly 10mV and 5V, and this is therefore the voltage range covered by this over-voltage switch.
AC VOLTAGE-ACTIVATED CIRCUITS
The five voltage-activated switches shown in Figures 10 to 14 are all designed for DC activation only. All of these circuits can be modified for AC activation by interposing suitable rectifier/smoothing networks or AC/DC converters between their input terminals and the actual AC input signals, so that the AC signals are converted to DC before being applied to the switching circuits.
Figure 15 shows the practical circuit of a precision AC over-voltage switch that is designed to work with sinewave signals in excess of 2.5V RMS. Here, the AC signal is converted to DC via the voltage-converting and smoothing network formed by Rx-C1-D1-D2-C2-R1, and the resulting DC voltage is applied to the pin 2 inverting input of the op-amp via R2.
FIGURE 15. Precision AC over-voltage switch, covering 2.5V upwards.
A zener-derived 5.6V reference voltage is applied to the op-amp’s non-inverting input terminal, and the circuit action is such that — when Rx has a value of zero — Q1 and the relay turn on when the DC voltage on pin 2 exceeds 5.6V.It is important to note in Figure 15 that the voltage-converting and smoothing network actually gives a DC output voltage that is somewhat less than the peak voltage value of a symmetrical sinewave input signal. This type of network cannot be used to measure the RMS values of non-symmetrical or pulse-type waveforms.
Also note that the action of the Figure 15 circuit can be reversed, so that it acts as an under-voltage switch, by simply transposing the input terminal connections of the op-amp, as shown in Figure 16.
FIGURE 16. Precision AC under-voltage switch, covering 2.5V upwards.
The Figures 15 and 16 circuits both have a basic input impedance — with Rx reduced to zero ohms — of 15K (= R1) and, under this condition, a sinewave of about 2.5V RMS is needed to activate the switch.
Consequently, when Rx is given a finite value, it acts as a potential divider with the 15K input impedance, and enables the circuits to be triggered at any required AC input level in excess of 2.5V.
The Rx value is chosen on the basis of roughly (6K0 x V) - 15K. Thus, if a circuit is to be activated at an input signal level of 10V RMS, Rx must have a value of about 45K.
If required, the effective sensitivities of the Figure 15 and 16 circuits can be increased, so that they trigger at sinewave input levels substantially less than 2.5V RMS, by simply feeding the AC input signals to the inputs of the switching circuits via fixed-gain transistor or op-amp preamplifiers. Alternatively, the simple AC/DC converters used in these circuits can be replaced by high-gain precision types.
CURRENT-ACTIVATED CIRCUITS
Each of the five DC voltage switch circuits of Figures 10 to 14 can be used as a DC (power-level) current switch by simply feeding the monitored DC current to the input of the voltage switch via a current-to-voltage converter. A suitable converter circuit is shown in Figure 17.
FIGURE 17. DC current-to-voltage converter.
In Figure 17, the op-amp is wired as a non-inverting x100 voltage amplifier, with its gain controlled by the ratios of R1 and R2. The test current is passed through input resistor Rx, which has its value chosen so that 50mV is developed across it at the required trigger current, thus giving 5V output from the op-amp under this condition; this 5V output is used to trigger the external voltage switch.
The circuit’s Rx value is selected on the basis of
Rx = 50/I(mA)
where I(mA) is the desired trigger current in milliamps. Thus, Rx needs a value of 0R5 at a trigger current of 100mA, or 0.05 ohms at a trigger level of 1A, and so on.
Note that the Figure 17 type of converter circuit can also function as an AC current-to-voltage converter, and can be used to make an AC current switch by connecting its output to the input of a suitable AC voltage switch circuit.
If required, an op-amp circuit can be built specifically for use as a DC over-current switch by using the circuit shown in Figure 18. Here, Rx is again used to develop 50mV at the desired test current level, and this voltage is applied to the inverting pin of the op-amp.
FIGURE 18. DC over-current switch.
A zener-derived reference of approximately 50mV is applied to the non-inverting input terminal of the op-amp; this reference voltage can be adjusted over a limited range via RV1, thus providing a limited control of the circuit’s sensitivity.
Thus, the Figure 18 switch circuit’s relay turns on when the current-derived input voltage exceeds the 50mV reference voltage. The circuit’s action can be reversed, so that it acts as an under-current switch, by simply transposing the op-amp’s two input terminal connections. In either case, the value of monitor resistor Rx is chosen on the basis of
RESISTANCE-ACTIVATED CIRCUITS
Figure 19 shows the practical circuit of a precision under-resistance switch that turns on when the value of a monitored resistance falls below a specific value.
FIGURE 19. Precision under-resistance switch.
Here, the op-amp is again used as a voltage comparator, with its output fed to the coil of relay RLA via transistor Q1 but, in this case, the voltage on the op-amp’s non-inverting input pin is set at half-supply volts via potential divider R1-R2, and the voltage on the inverting input pin is determined by the ratios of Rx and Rref.
In effect, these four resistors are wired as a Wheatstone bridge, and the circuit action is such that the relay turns on when the value of Rx falls below that of reference resistor Rref, i.e., when the bridge goes out of balance in such a way that the voltage on the op-amp’s inverting input terminal rises above that on its non-inverting input terminal.
In this circuit, Rref must have the same value of the desired Rx ‘trigger’ resistance value, which can have any value in the range 100R to 1M0.
The minimum usable resistance value is dictated by the current-driving capability of the circuit’s power supply (and the power dissipation limits of Rref and Rx), and the maximum value is restricted by the shunting effect that the op-amp’s input impedance and leakage impedance has in the effective value of Rref.
The accuracy of the above circuit is (within sensible limits) quite independent of variations in power-supply voltage, and the ‘switch’ circuit is capable of responding to changes of less than 0.1 percent in the value of Rx.
The actual accuracy of the circuit is determined by the precisions of R1-R2 and Rref, and in worst-case terms is equal to the sum of the tolerances of these three resistors, i.e., it equals ±3% if ±1% percent resistors are used.
The action of the above circuit can be reversed, so that it acts as a precision over-resistance switch, by simply transposing the input pin connections of the op-amp, as shown in Figure 20.
FIGURE 20. Precision over-resistance switch.
This circuit also shows how the basic accuracies of both designs can be improved by adding an RV1 ‘set balance’ control to the R1-R2 potential divider chain.
This control enables the bridge to be very precisely balanced (even when using ±5% R1-R2 components) so that the circuit ‘switches’ when the value of Rx varies from the marked value of Rref by only ±0.1% or so.
In this case, the true accuracy of the circuit is equal to the tolerance of Rref +0.1%. NV
This series starts off by explaining electronic security system basic principles and then goes on to describe a wide variety of devices that can be used within modern electronic security systems.
All articles in this series:
Electronic security system basic principles. Part 1
Electronic sensor devices, various types of data links, and alarm response units. Part 2
Contact-operated security circuits. Part 3
Optoelectronic security circuits. Part 4
Burglar Alarm Principles. Part 6
Practical Build-It-Yourself Anti-Burglary Circuits. Part 7
Security circuits that react to temperature, voltage, current, or resistance. Part 8
Security circuits that react to liquid, steam, gas, sound, power failure, proximity, touch, ultrasonics. Part 9
Add-on automobile security circuits. Part 10
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Michael Sanders rolled a rack of smoked turkeys to the packaging station at Greenberg Smoked Turkey in Tyler, Tex.Credit...Allison V. Smith for The New York Times
By JOHN T. EDGE
Tyler, Tex.
LAST week, Teresa Braziel bought her “first Greenberg of the season,” a nine-pound turkey, nestled in a white cardboard box, printed with the slogan “The Holiday Aristocrat.”
Like many residents of this 100,000-person city in the piney woods of Texas near the Louisiana line, she claimed her spice-rubbed and hickory-burnished bird from the front counter at the Greenberg Smoked Turkey headquarters, a squat complex of interconnected cinder block and sheet metal buildings, shrouded in a seemingly perpetual shawl of gray-green smoke.
“This is my nibbling turkey,” Ms. Braziel said. “We’ll eat on this one — turkey and mustard with crackers, turkey salad, turkey chili — while we get ready for the parties.” In the coming weeks, she will buy three more, for a holiday open house, for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. And she will ship 20 more to friends in Dallas, Houston and beyond.
Greenberg Smoked Turkey, founded in 1938 by Samuel Isaac Greenberg and now run by his grandson Sam Greenberg, will sell about 20,000 turkeys to walk-in customers this season, priced at a little more than $4 a pound. Beginning on Monday of Thanksgiving week, a line will snake down the street and into the working-class neighborhood that surrounds the plant. To alleviate parking squabbles, Greenberg employees will shuttle customers about in golf carts.
For an independent producer that has built a reputation on pit-cooked poultry and personalized service, that may seem like a lot of turkeys to smoke and a lot of logistics to manage. But local sales are just the tip of the wing.
By the time Sam Greenberg closes for the holiday season on Dec. 24 and hands each of his 200 employees a free bird, more than 200,000 turkeys will have emerged from the company’s 20 brick-lined, hardwood-fired pit houses. Packed frozen, they thaw in transit and land two to three days later on doorsteps across the nation.
From New York to California, customers — some of whom claim three and four generations of patronage — will build family meals around Greenberg turkeys that, thanks to a daylong swirl in smoke, deliver the succulence that eludes most holiday cooks.
Samuel Isaac Greenberg was 17 in 1903 when he came to the United States as a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Disembarking in Galveston, Tex., he made his way north to Tyler at the invitation of the congregation Ahavath Achim. According to Hollace Ava Weiner, an author of the book “Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas,” he was recruited to serve as a religious leader.
As the hazan, he led prayers and chanted from the Torah, Ms. Weiner said. As the mohel, he circumcised male babies. And as the shochet, he butchered animals, including geese and turkeys, following Jewish rituals.
By the 1930s, when Tyler boasted more than one shochet, Samuel Greenberg was selling smoked kosher turkeys to Jews and non-Jews alike.
He rubbed those birds with a spice mix attributed to his mother, Jennie Greenberg. Working in a metal shebang with a sand-covered floor, tucked in a back corner of his milking barn, Greenberg and Elva Cole, a black colleague who probably stoked the pits, hung the turkeys from a nested pair of ceiling-mounted wagon wheels and smoked them over hickory logs.
Few records of the early days of the business remain. But every Greenberg tells the story of the six turkeys ordered in 1938 by a Dallas customer. Purchases were traditionally picked up on the farm, so they had to figure out how to get the turkeys to Dallas, about 100 miles west. Zelick Greenberg, a son of Samuel, packed the turkeys in a candy store box, added straw for cushioning, and shipped them by rail from Tyler.
Word of Samuel and Zelick Greenberg’s work spread by mouth. And by rail. And soon by mail. The birds that arrived on the other end were not typical smoked turkeys. “What my father did was not a casual smoke,” said Sam Greenberg, a ruddy-faced 52-year-old, who may never have met a stranger.
“Those turkeys weren’t honey-colored, they were really, truly smoked,” Mr. Greenberg said, his voice rising to a shout, as if an increase in volume could convey the intensity of the charred hickory fog that permeates his family’s turkeys, rendering the birds a color best described as burnt umber with a black licorice wash.
“There is no magic here, just hard work,” Mr. Greenberg said, as he stepped down into the rectangular shed where Tony Wallace, a 27-year veteran of the company, loaded hickory logs in one of the three rolling fire boxes that fuel each of the 20 pit houses. (A typical East Texas barbecue man must stoop to fire a pit with a long-handled shovel. Here, pit masters like Mr. Wallace push webbed iron conveyances, loaded with smoldering coals, back and forth on an ingenious track-mounted system devised in the 1950s by Zelick Greenberg.)
Like many East Texas pit masters, Mr. Wallace is black. And like many who work at Greenberg, he is a seasonal employee. During the nine months when the pits are not in regular use, he does carpentry work. Ray Wallace, his brother, an eight-year veteran, drives a dump truck in the off-season.
In Tyler, jobs with Greenberg are hard won. Despite the fractured nature of employment, the company boasts two staff members who began working at the plant before Sam Greenberg was born. The Greenberg approach runs contrary to the heritage poultry movement of the last decade. “I buy the same birds you would buy in a grocery store,” Mr. Greenberg said. As a smile creased his face, he claimed never to have heard of heritage turkeys, the much-fetishized breeds rescued from the agricultural past, that live cage free and promise, when roasted, a more robust flavor than a typical grocery store bird.
“You don’t want a scrawny, long-legged bird on your Thanksgiving table,” said Mr. Greenberg, seated in his office behind a one-way mirror that faces a call center bullpen where, at the peak of the season, 40 or more operators swivel beneath bright fluorescent lights and peck turkey orders into terminals. “You want conformity in your bird. And that means a turkey with a big breast and short legs.”
To achieve that conformity, Greenberg sources broad-breasted white turkeys, the commodity market standard, from Norbest, a Utah cooperative. “They come out good on the other end,” Mr. Greenberg said, implying, as barbecue pit masters do hereabouts, that excellence in smoked-meat cookery is determined by human resources, not natural resources.
Sam Greenberg has made a number of adjustments through the years. Unlike his father and grandfather before him, he no longer smokes kosher turkeys. In 1981, he stopped handwriting gift cards. Last year, Greenberg started accepting credit cards via its Web site, gobblegobble.com. (Previously turkeys were shipped, and invoices were paid on the honor system.)
He prefers, however, to focus consumer attention on his company’s hidebound ways. With the cadence of a salesman, he trumpets an aversion to change that would give pause to the most conservative Texas legislator.
On plant tours, visitors learn that Greenberg employees still hand-trim every bird, cutting the wing tips and neck flap from the carcass. And they knife-jab each turkey at least six times, so that the spice mix, which is robust with ground black pepper, can permeate the flesh. They hand-truss each pair of turkey legs, too, before hanging the dressed bird in its pit house berth.
“I want to be known as the guy who didn’t mess up Greenberg Smoked Turkey,” Mr. Greenberg said, leaning from the window of a swooping black Mercedes with license plates that read “GIBLET.”
“If I mess things up, I’ll be messing with people’s holiday tradition, and I’m not inclined to do that.”
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2014 OUSCI Preview- Brandon Ranvek's 2006 Mitsubishi Evo RS
We've heard a lot of different stories over the years about how competitors prepare for the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI) and what plans they are making for the event, but Dr. Brandon Ranvek gave us a new one that had nothing to do with his 2006 Mitsubishi Evo RS- "My wife and I have hired a nanny for our four kiddos (Kayle 6, twins Aubree Madison 2 and Jaden 11 months) and are planning to be there for the entire week!" said Ranvek. Believe it or not, Brandon's visit to the 2014 SEMA Show and OUSCI will be his first visit to Las Vegas. Ranvek plans to make it a trip to remember, as he will be accompanied by several friends from RS Motors, who will also be competing in the event- RS Motors owner, Ronnie Soliman, AJ Santiago and Andy Smedegard, along with a full ensemble of friends and family.
In the meantime, life is busy for Brandon and making time for cars isn't always easy, but he makes it a priority, because it is his passion. "I'm an owner/dentist with Park Dental in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area," says Ranvek. "I enjoy my career- its fulfilling and rewarding, but it can also be demanding, as any business owner knows. My amazing wife, Jasmine, has always supported my racing because she understands its what fuels my soul!"
Brandon will be the first to admit he is fortunate to have a supportive wife who also enjoys cars. He tells us she loves attending events, has been involved as his pit manager for ChumpCar races and just recently got behind the wheel for her first ever autocross event in their recently-acquired BWM E36 M3. "Our kids are very familiar with the "race cars" as I spend a lot of time working on them," says Brandon. "I actually filmed my daughter Madison (2) working on her race car- hood up on the bright green power wheels quad, squatting and reaching under the front end. It makes me so proud to pass on my passion. One of my wise friends told me, "The family that races together, stays together."
From what Brandon has told us, he's making every effort to keep his family together through racing. "I've been participating in ChumpCar races with MKRacing, World Racing League, local track days at Brainerd International Raceway, autocrossing, and of course the USCA events!" says Ranvek. Brandon knows the importance of seat time and he makes sure he gets it in spades, between participating, hosting and even instructing at events. Brandon wants to share his affinity for motorsports with as many people as he can, in a safe, controlled track environment with plenty of instruction for new enthusiasts. He has already helped host four schools this year with RS Motors and is looking at hosting a fifth before the snow flies, which in Minnesota, could be any day now.
"I am fortunate to have become great friends with Ronnie Soliman of RS Motors, who has helped me build one heck of an Ultimate Street Car," says Brandon. "I can't give him enough credit for his time and effort. My car has evolved from a car Corey Ridgick won national events in, competing in BSP autocross, to what it is today." Ranvek tells us he spent a solid five years racing in parking lots, but found himself wanting more. He knew aerodynamics was a downfall of the boxy Evolution body and any racing at high speed would need to consider that reality. "The addition of the aero package I put together turned the Evo into a track-hugging monster," says Brandon. "The car is so confident at speed, that I'm scared to find the limit!"
Ranvek's car always seems to be evolving and he has even made some changes since running in the USCA events at Laguna Seca and Gateway Motorsports Park. "I didn't score well in the Lingenfelter Performance Design Engineering Challenge at Laguna Seca and I wanted to improve," says Brandon. "I made a critical error bringing a street car to a USCA event without a working horn! That was one of the first fixes, along with replacing the center console and adding trunk insulation."
Those fixes gave Ranvek the edge he needed to top the AWD class in the Lingenfelter Performance Design Engineering Challege at St. Louis, but he didn't just excel in that competition. On the track, he was absolutely dominant. In the RideTech Autocross, Ranvek nearly ran a 37-flat pass at 37.028 seconds. The next-closest competitor in any class was Danny Popp at 37.543. A half second in the autocross is like a different time zone and Ranvek laid down the fastest eight runs of the weekend, which means he is also consistently fast.
Brandon's margin of victory in the Wilwood Disc Brakes Speed Stop was similarly-large, as he posted a pass of 12.426 seconds, while the next-closest competitor in any class, his good friend and fellow Evo driver, Ronnie Soliman, could only manage 12.785. It wasn't until the competitors went to the BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge, that someone finally knocked Ranvek off the top spot, when Danny Popp drove his Camaro to 1:08.876 lap to Brandon's best time of 1:09.313. That is elite company for a first-year competitor and immediately places Ranvek in what most would consider the elite of the field, capable of winning the OUSCI title in Las Vegas.
"Prior to competing, I had researched the series and learned Danny Popp is one of the fast guys," says Ranvek. "I spent some time looking at YouTube clips and watching previous seasons of the show. Danny always finished up top!" Brandon finally got to meet Danny at Laguna Seca and was immediately impressed with his ability to jump on a new course and relentlessly attack it. Ranvek followed Danny's lead and by the end of the day, he had turned a slightly faster lap-1:45.831 to Danny's 1:45.974. "I was so proud of how my car performed," says Brandon. "I live for those kinds of battles and when we met again at Gateway, I knew he would be turning up the heat."
Ranek visited with Danny shortly after arriving at Gateway and they picked up right where they left off in Monterey. "Danny is a great guy with a LOT of car and driving knowledge," says Ranvek. "I kept watching his times and I'd love to think he was watching mine! What a fun battle!" Popp was definitely keeping a close eye on Ranvek and chatted with us about him last weekend at the USCA event in Sebring. "He might be the guy to beat this year," said the 2011 OUSCI Champion.
While Brandon believes the standing-start for the RideTech Autocross and Wilwood Speed Stop Challenge lends a big advantage to the all-wheel drive platform, he feels the rear wheel drive cars have more of an advantage in the BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge. "I plan to put together the whole package and raise a few eyebrows in Vegas!" says Brandon. "I just finished doing a turbo swap on my car and will be taking her to the dyno doctor, Ronnie Soliman, for tuning," says Ranvek. "I'm hoping to broaden my horsepower curve down low with a quicker spool, while maintaining the same peak power." Brandon is hoping the net result will be about 450 horsepower to the wheels for a car that weighs just under 3,000 pounds.
Brandon is also putting in a more aggressive disk setup in his rear differential to help his car rotate. "One of the issues I had at previous events was a tendency to push under power," says Ranvek. "This tends to be the downfall of the all-wheel drive platform. I've been playing with suspension settings to dial in what feels best and hoping the diff changes will be part of the solution." Once that is squared away, the Evo's transmission will be overhauled with all-new synchros and fresh clutch discs, before being sent over to fellow OUSCI competitor, Andy Smedegard for final alignment.
Since Brandon has never set foot in Las Vegas, he will also be visiting the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the first time. "I will spend some time doing homework, watching videos online and trying to figure out the layout and the best driving line," says Ranvek. We know Danny Popp thinks Ranvek has a good chance to win it all, but what does Brandon think?
"I really believe I have a great shot at the title, given my standings with some of the strong competitors," says Ranvek. "I love being in the underdog "ricer" or "import" category and making crazy horsepower from a little four-cylinder is exciting to me. I respect all platforms and believe this competition could be won in any one of them. However, this event hasn't seen a four-cylinder or all-wheel drive car win and I plan to be the first to do it!"
If Brandon is able to climb the OUSCI mountain, he'll be sure to give credit to his sponsors and supporters, including RS Motors, 365Racing.net, Ciro Design Racing, MKRacing, Diversified Cryogenics (Frozen Rotors) and 75Designs. Could Brandon Ranvek's Mitsubishi Evolution be the first four-cylinder and the first all-wheel drive car to win the OUSCI? Don't miss your chance to witness history in the making. Buy your OUSCI tickets today!
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E.ON chosen as partner to cover the entire energy needs of Munich’s new ‘Werksviertel’ district
Fuel and energyHeat-and-power engineering
OREANDA-NEWS. Bayernwerk Natur, an E.ON subsidiary based in the greater Munich area, will be the energy supplier to Munich’s new ‘Werksviertel’ district near the city’s ‘Ostbahnhof’ railway station. With support from E.ON, the area around the former Pfanni factory site will become largely energy self-sufficient.
The project includes an innovative and sustainable concept for the supply of heating, cooling and power to the approximately 90,000 square meter area. Around 1,000 delivery points onsite in the 13 new buildings will be efficiently supplied with energy. The new Munich concert hall, that is to be built in the factory district, will also be integrated into this energy supply concept.
The investment needs for the development of the energy system will amount to some 6.4 million euros by2019. For the final stage of the development, an annual heat demand of around 10,000 megawatt hours (MWh), a power requirement of around 12,000 MWh and a cooling requirement of around 2,000 MWh are currently expected. The future energy demand of the concert hall is not included in these calculations.
“In the new energy world, which is the focus of E.ON’s strategic alignment, the on-site generation and distribution of energy plays an essential role. With our solution for this location in the heart of Munich, we can demonstrate our expertise in providing energy advice and meeting precisely these sorts of customer requirements,” emphasized Ingo Luge, Chairman of the Board of Management at E.ON Deutschland.
For the execution of the project and the day-to-day management of energy supplies, Bayernwerk Natur and OTEC have established the joint company Werk Kraft GmbH. OTEC owns the property of the former Pfanni site, which is at the center of the Werksviertel district. In terms of operation, Werk Kraft GmbH will also be in charge of all energy-related processes such as supply management, market communication, generation, residual energy procurement and billing.
Since January 1st, 2016, Werk Kraft GmbH has been supplying power to the site. To meet future energy needs, two natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants rated 850 kWe and 1,050 kWth each, three groundwater heat pumps and one absorption refrigeration unit will be installed at the site. In addition to this, one heating grid, one cooling grid and one power grid are to be set up along with some 20 new transformers. These installations will be used to generate up to 80 percent of the power needed onsite and to supply it directly to the residents of the factory district. In addition the site will also have a central connection to the high-voltage grid operated by Stadtwerke M?nchen.
Gazpromneft-Aero in 2019 Increased the Volume of Foreign as Stations by 26%
Media: Oil Production in Libya Could Fall 16 Times Due to Blockade of Ports
Shell Company Declared Support for Nord Stream 2 Despite of US Sanctions
Gazprom Asked Germany to Withdraw Nord Stream from EU Gas Directive
The Federal Network Agency of Germany Accepted Applications for the Withdrawal of Nord Stream from the EU Gas Directive
Experts: World Oil Demand Growth in 2020 Will Accelerate from 1 Million to 1.2 Billion b/d
Riga Is Interested in Organizing Oil Transportation through Latvian Ports to Belarus
Gazprom Neft will continue to produce Oil in Iraq
Minsk Plans to Resume Gas Talks with Moscow by the End of January
Kazakhstan Responded to Request of Belarus to Supply Oil to Replace Russian
Novak: Russia Proceeds from Existing Arrangements for Holding an OPEC+ Meeting
Belarus Began a Search for a Replacement of Russian Oil
Naftogaz CEO Explained the Absence of Russian Gas Supplies to Ukraine
Vucic Says That Serbia Will Receive $ 185 Million a Year from Gas Transit through Turkish Stream
Belarus Introduced an Environmental Tax on Oil Transit
Russia Will Invest 30 Billion Rubles in Support of Oil and Gas Engineering until 2024
Lukashenko Explained the Difficulties of Negotiations on Oil with Putin
Ukrainian Gas Operator Evaluated the Consequences of the launch of TurkStream
Naftogaz Called New Contract with Gazprom the Most Profitable for Ukraine in History
The Head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Told How the Company Intends to Spend the Money Received from Russia
Putin Spoke about the World Record for the Speed of Construction of TurkStream
OPEC Sees No Risk of Interruptions in Oil Supplies Due to Situation in the Middle East
WTI Oil Price Rises to $ 65 After Iran Strikes US Bases
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Said Russian Gas May Be Connected to TANAP
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Oreca-Events
Emerge in the public eye
Motorsport competitions, sports events, shows or festivals of all sorts, ORECA Events entirely produces, co-produces and manages the organization of general public events. For each new project we want to think about creating innovative formats which can target new audiences, highlight investments from customers or sponsors and ensure striking contents to broadcasters, press and other media.
Our expertise:
Hospitality spaces
Motorsport competitions
For over 15 years, ORECA Events has been the key partner of brands and federations, bringing support in the organization of motorsport competitions. National championships or one-make cups, we have the required know-how to produce and promote motorsport races with professional and gentlemen drivers as main participants. Amongst our references: Porsche Carrera Cup (since 2002), GT Tour, FFSA French GT Championship, Seat Leon Supercoppa (2007-2011).
Our references :
Porsche Carrera Cup (since 2002)
GT Tour, championnat de France des circuits (2011-2016)
Seat Leon Supercoppa (2007-2011).
Organising sports contests and events is one of ORECA Events’ main development focus points. In 2016, the agency created the Matmut Freestyle Show which gathered over 100 professional and amateur sportspeople. The 2-day event included BMX freestyle contests featuring top international riders, shows and demonstrations (rollerblade, scooter…) as well as lessons and workshops open to the public, in a skate park especially designed for the occasion.
Following on this successful experience, we are currently working on other projects, going beyond the field of motorsport itself…
Do you wish to organise an event?
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Zorin OS 12.4 Lite Education - 32GB USB Flash Drive (32-bit)
Platform: 32-bit (x86)
Categories: Desktop, Education
OSDisc.com Rank: #9
Date Added to OSDisc.com: August 20, 2018
Project Website: https://www.zorin-os.com/
Item ID: X74X8ZQQNX
Persistence: Yes
Drive Model: Samsung MUF-32BE3/AM (USB 3.0/2.0)
Transfer Speed: 200MB/s read; 40MB/s write
Drive Features: Water Proof, Shock Proof, Temperature Proof, Magnetic Proof, and X-Ray Proof
Dimensions: 1.6" x 0.6" x 0.5" (40mm x 15mm x 13mm)
MakuluLinux Lindoz 2019.01.01 - 16GB USB Flash Drive (64-bit)
Linux is an extraordinary computer operating system. It powers everything from the U.S. Department of Defense, to the International Space Station, to most of the world's Internet servers and supercomputers. The reasons for this aren't difficult to find: it's fast, reliable, versatile and super secure, so it doesn't get viruses. Because it's Open Source, it's infinitely flexible and gives everyone the power to do anything with their computer.
Despite the enormous advantages it has over traditional operating systems, we recognized that the biggest barrier to the success of Linux on desktop computers was that it wasn't user-friendly enough. Linux-based operating systems were generally designed for engineers by engineers, with little consideration for regular users. We decided to fix this.
We've designed Zorin OS to have the perfect blend of power and usability for everyone. We built Zorin OS to be as easy as possible, so you won't need to learn a thing to get started thanks to its familiar user interface. Zorin OS comes loaded with all the apps and tools you need out of the box for browsing the web, working, playing and everything in between.
By bringing together the power of Linux and making it possible for anyone to use it, we've created an operating system that makes your computer better so you can achieve more than you could ever before.
Zorin OS Lite
Zorin OS 12 Lite, the biggest leap forward in our lightweight operating system for old and low-spec computers.
With Zorin OS 12 Lite, we have re-thought what the Zorin OS experience can be for low spec machines and computers as old as 14 years. We have built Zorin OS 12 Lite to be a more streamlined concentration of, not a reduction of, the original version, with the same simple user experience, running the same extraordinary apps.
New Desktop Environment
To achieve our new goals for Zorin OS 12 Lite, we chose to move away from LXDE and adopt XFCE as the base desktop environment. This allows us to create an experience that is not only more familiar and consistent with Zorin OS 12, but is also more customizable and extensible than ever before. The result is a computing experience that’s more intuitive, beautiful and versatile, while keeping resource usage light.
Zorin Appearance
Zorin OS 12 Lite is the first version of Zorin OS Lite with Zorin Appearance pre-installed. Zorin Appearance brings together the functionality of Zorin Look Changer and Zorin Theme Changer into one app. With a click of a button, you can change the desktop layout to match that of Windows versions. The Ultimate and Business editions of Zorin OS 12 Lite also feature Gnome 2 and macOS-like layouts. Zorin Appearance is the go-to app for customizing your desktop, quickly and simply.
Updated System Apps and Technologies
Many of the built-in system apps have seen extensive improvements both visually and under the hood.
Zorin OS 12 Lite is powered by Linux Kernel version 4.8, which now works with even more hardware and introduces performance enhancements and security improvements.
As Zorin OS 12 Lite is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it will be supported with security updates until April 2021.
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LOVE BOLDLY, LIVE GENEROUSLY
Parklands’ Groups are small groups that meet all over the city so that we can share life together. Our groups fall into one of three categories: Community, Course, or Interest, and each group is about seeking God and growing closer to Him; as well as building friendships and relationships, caring for each other, helping each other grow and mature inf aith and Christian living. Each group will have a sense of community where each person feels appreciated, respected and heard.
Groups that are based around location, normally meeting in people’s . Each group is topic-focused and includes socialising, prayer, study and discussion.
Groups that meet around an activity or interest, such as football, coffee in a cafe or climbing. The purpose of these groups is to build relationships and also involve prayer and study.
Groups that focus on journeying through a course together in a term, such as Alpha, School o the Heart, or the Marriage Course.
Connect Group List
Find out more about Connect Groups
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Why would you like to join a Connect group
We’re a church without walls and a people without limits, seeking God’s kingdom, so His life and hope can transform Swansea, our nation and world.
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Role of Molecular Tests for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children
02/19/2015 00:00:00 Dr Ira Shah, Yashashree Gupta 02/01/2015 00:00:00 https://www.pediatriconcall.com/Journal/images/journal_cover.jpg
Year : January-March 2015 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 1
Dr Ira Shah, Yashashree Gupta.
Pediatric TB Clinic, B.J. Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India.
Shah I, Gupta Y. Role of Molecular Tests for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children. Pediatr Oncall J. 2015;12: 1-3. doi: 10.7199/ped.oncall.2015.16
Dr Ira Shah, 1/B Saguna, 271/B St Francis Road, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai 400056, India.
The most common method for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) worldwide is sputum smear microscopy. Following recent breakthroughs in TB diagnostics, the use of rapid molecular tests to diagnose TB and drug-resistant (DR) TB is increasing. The various tests used for bacteriological diagnosis of TB are discussed and role of molecular tests to diagnose TB in children are analysed.
Bacteriological Diagnosis of TB in children
1. Isolation of acid fast bacilli (AFB) on smear: Sputum smear microscopy has been the primary method for detecting TB and monitoring treatment response in most resource-constrained countries for decades. While inexpensive and requiring minimal biosafety standards, microscopy is not a sensitive test, particularly in people living with HIV and in children: it provides no information on the viability and drug susceptibility of the bacilli, and it cannot distinguish between Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and non-tuberculosis mycobacteria. (1,2)
2. Culture: Though diagnosis based on culture is considered the reference standard, results take weeks to obtain and testing requires a well-equipped laboratory, highly trained staff, and an efficient transport system to ensure viable specimens. Culture is also critical for monitoring patients’ response to treatment for DR-TB. The conventional culture are media Middlebrook 7H10, selective Middlebrook 7H11 [S7H11], and Lowenstein-Jensen media. The BACTEC system (Johnston Laboratories,Inc.,Cockeysville,Md.) has been reported to be valuable for the rapid detection of clinically important mycobacteria. The system uses Middlebrook 7H12 Broth medium containing 14C-labeled Palmitic acid for the radiometric detection of mycobacterial growth and has been shown to be more successful in detecting mycobacteria than conventional methods involving only one medium. An average of 18 days is required by the BACTEC method for complete recovery and drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis, as compared with 38.5 days for the conventional methods. (3)
3. Nucleic Acid Amplification tests:
a. GeneXpert: More recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed the Xpert® MTB/Rif assay (GeneXpert) for the diagnosis of TB. (4,5) Xpert® MTB/Rif relies on DNA-PCR technique for detection of TB and rifampicin resistance related mutations simultaneously. It is the first molecular assay for TB detection to be fully automated and to integrate all the steps required for PCR-based DNA test. It gives results within 3 hours. The test has also been reported to be highly accurate for diagnosis of pulmonary TB. Patients with presumptive HIV associated TB who are negative on smear examination are the most likely to benefit from Xpert® MTB/Rif.
b. AMPLICOR MTB Test: The Amplicor Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Test (Amplicor, Roche Diagnostics) is approved for the detection of M. tuberculosis complex bacteria in AFB smear-positive respiratory specimens from patients suspected of having TB. This test uses the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify a portion of the 16S rRNA gene that contains a sequence that hybridizes with an oligonucleotide probe specific for M. tuberculosis complex bacteria. The Amplicor test displays a sensitivity of >95% for detecting M. tuberculosis bacteria in respiratory specimens from AFB-smear positive TB suspects and a sensitivity of 60% to 70% for detecting M. tuberculosis bacteria in respiratory specimens from AFB-smear negative TB suspects. The sensitivity of the Amplicor test for all of the specimens and for extrapulmonary, smear-positive, and smear-negative specimens was 86, 83, 94.5, and 74%, respectively. (6)
c. Line Probe Assays (LPA): As per recent WHO objectives to reduce the time for culture, identification and drug resistance detection to as short as 2 days, LPA is used. Molecular line probe assay (LPA) technology for rapid detection of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008. Line probe assays are tests that use PCR and reverse hybridization methods for the rapid detection of mutations associated with rifampicin and isoniazid drug resistance. Line probe assays are designed to identify M. tuberculosis complex and simultaneously detect mutations associated with drug resistance. Commercially available line-probe assays include the INNO-LiPA® Rif. TB kit (Innogenetics N.V., Ghent, Belgium) targeting rpoB and GenoType® MTBDRplus (Hain Lifescience, Nehren, Germany) targeting rpoB, katG and inhA. (7-10)
Recommendations regarding use of NAAT for Diagnosis of TB
Center for Disease Control (CDC): CDC recommends that NAAT be performed on at least one (preferably the first) respiratory specimen from each patient suspected of pulmonary TB for whom a diagnosis of TB is being considered but has not yet been established, and for whom the test result would alter case management or TB control activities. NAAT does not replace the need for culture; all patients suspected of TB should have specimens collected for mycobacterial culture.(11) Although an Xpert MTB/RIF assay may result positive for MTB and negative for RMP resistance, it has high negative predictive value for ruling out RMP resistance. However, growth-based DST to first-line TB drugs is still necessary.
World Health Organization (WHO) (12,13): WHO’s current policies and guidance recommend that Xpert MTB/RIF be used as an initial diagnostic test in individuals suspected of having MDR-TB or HIV-associated TB (strong recommendation, moderate quality of evidence). It states that
1. Xpert MTB/RIF should be used rather than conventional microscopy, culture and DST as the initial diagnostic test in adults and children suspected of having MDR-TB or HIV-associated TB (strong recommendation).
2. Xpert MTB/RIF may be used rather than conventional microscopy and culture as the initial diagnostic test in all adults and children suspected of having TB (conditional recommendation).
3. Xpert MTB/RIF should be used in preference to conventional microscopy and culture as the initial diagnostic test in testing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens from patients suspected of having TB meningitis (strong recommendation).
4. Xpert MTB/RIF may be used as a replacement test for usual practice (including conventional microscopy, culture, or histopathology) for testing specific non-respiratory specimens (lymph nodes and other tissues) from patients suspected of having extrapulmonary TB (conditional recommendation).
These recommendations are based on a review of 16 studies (12 published and 4 unpublished. The overall pooled sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF compared against culture as a reference standard in children presumed to have TB was 66% in 10 studies where expectorated sputum or induced sputum was used (95% CI, 52–77%); the pooled sensitivity was 66% in 7 studies where samples from gastric lavage or aspiration were used (95% CI, 51–81%). The pooled specificity of Xpert MTB/RIF compared against culture as the reference standard was at least 98%, with narrow confidence intervals.
The pooled sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF in culture-negative specimens from children compared against clinical TB used as the reference standard was very low at 4% for samples of expectorated or induced sputum (8 studies), and 15% for samples from gastric lavage or aspiration (3 studies), both sensitivities had wide confidence intervals. It is likely that the apparently poor performance of Xpert MTB/RIF was the result of a reference standard for clinical TB that lacked specificity. The sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF to detect rifampicin resistance in specimens from children was 86% (95% CI, 53–98%).
Cochrane Review (14): The authors concluded that in adults thought to have TB, with or without HIV infection, Xpert® MTB/RIF is sensitive and specific. Compared with smear microscopy, Xpert® MTB/RIF substantially increases TB detection among culture-confirmed cases. Xpert® MTB/RIF has higher sensitivity for TB detection in smear-positive than smear-negative patients. Nonetheless, this test may be valuable as an add-on test following smear microscopy in patients previously found to be smear-negative. For rifampicin resistance detection, Xpert®MTB/RIF provides accurate results and can allow rapid initiation of MDR-TB treatment, pending results from conventional culture and DST.
As per a metaanalysis by Walusimbi et al (2013) (15), the pooled sensitivity and specificity for detection of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis were 67% and 98% for Xpert® MTB/RIF, 73% and 91% for Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility assay (MODS), and 61% and 69% for WHO 2007 algorithm, respectively. The sensitivity of Xpert® MTB/RIF reduced from 67% to 54% when sub-group analysis of studies with patient HIV prevalence ≥30% was performed.
Though Xpert® MTB/RIF has been recommended as an initial diagnostic test rather than conventional microscopy, culture and DST in adults and children suspected of having MDR-TB or HIV-associated TB and even in all patients with TB, the sensitivity of Xpert® MTB/RIF seems to be lower in smear-negative pulmonary TB and even in extrapulmonary TB. It also may be extremely low in samples such as gastric lavage or lymph node tissue. Thus, Xpert® MTB/RIF may be used along with conventional microscopy and culture in children for diagnosis of TB and not as a replacement for conventional microscopy and culture DST.
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Friday Night Jazz Phila. Museum of Art
A Jazzy Point of View
South Jazz Parlor
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
Warren Oree and The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble have been moving audiences across the world with music ranging from multi-rhythmic pulsating beats to soft, contemplative melodies. The band has released nine recordings and have performed at festivals and concerts in Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. Bassist and leader Warren Oree formed the band in 1979 and they have become a permanent segment in the infinite collage of jazz music in the Philadelphia region.
600 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
2 shows: 7 pm and 8:30 pm
LEE MORGAN: PHILADELPHIA’S HARD BOP SOUND MACHINE!
The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble and special guest trumpeter Will Wright pay tribute to one of Philadelphia’s true innovators…composer and trumpet icon - Lee Morgan. He was known for fiery bursts of sound and melodies, as well as compositions that ranged from bop, hard bop, to funky grooves like his award-winning tune - “The Sidewinder”. Morgan helped spread the groundwork for the many changing faces of Jazz rhythms and beats. His untimely death at age 33, leaves us to only wonder what would have been….but at least he left us with enough to know it would have been a memorable experience.
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Aioli Gourmet Burgers: Tom D'Ambrosio Brings Fancy Burgers to the Phoenix Streets
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Lauren Saria | March 12, 2014 | 8:00am
Like burgers? So do we -- particularly when they feature ingredients like white truffle aioli, homemade falafel, and applewood bacon onion jam.
And the best part is that you don't have to head to a sit-down restaurant to get these kinds of gourmet burgers anymore. A new food truck, Aioli Gourmet Burgers and Catering is bringing them to you via food truck. The truck, started by three friends, centers on the work of chef Tom D'Ambrosio, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
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The menu on this truck is simple: six different burgers, one of which is the Aioli Burger, with aged sharp cheddar, the aforementioned applewood smoked bacon onion jam, lettuce, red onion, tomato, and roasted garlic aioli.
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We tried the Italiano Burger, a sort of Caprese-salad-meets-burger with mozzarella, tomato, balsamic reduction, pancetta, and basil garlic aioli. The burger itself is a nicely sized and seasoned patty that gets cradled by a merely acceptable brioche bun. But on the upside, if all the Aioli Burgers are as finger-lickingly good as this one, then the truck achieve what many fail to do: make food that's not "good for being off a truck," but just downright good.
Other burgers include the white truffle Swiss burger, which features mushrooms, Swiss cheese, caramelized onions, and white truffle aioli, and a vegetarian falafel burger with falafel, hummus, pickled mango sauce, red onion, tomato, cucumber, and sumac aioli.
None of the $7 burgers come with fries, but you can add a side of them for $3. The order comes with your choice of sauce: chipotle aioli, housemade ketchup, basil garlic aioli, black truffle aioli, sumac aioli, and white truffle aioli.
There are also two salads, fresh-squeezed flavored lemonades, sodas, and water.
D'Ambrosia brings more than 10 years of hospitality experience to the food truck business, including a bachelor's in hospitality administration from NAU and an associate's in culinary arts from The Culinary Institute of America. He also completed a three-year apprenticeship at the famous Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia and has won several culinary competitions, including the SkillsUSA National Competition in Kansas City.
For now, you can find the truck at Urban Cookies on Tuesdays during lunch, as well as Coach House Tavern in Scottsdale on Friday nights starting at 8 p.m. For more updates check the Aioli Burger website and Facebook page.
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It's a shattered love, it's impossible for them to leave as far as their meet ... A big, shattered love story ...Two people belonging to different worlds are neither able to meet or separate ...Six people crossed in such a way that two roads were never separated by two accidents As they walk on different dreams and lives, their paths will unite and connect to each other forever Gülseren, who is trying to raise a daughter of 14 years in very difficult economic conditions, lives with her eyes. When they try to cope with their 14-year-old enthusiasm to challenge the little world they live in, life is upset. The young woman meets Cihan on a rainy day as a traumatic event as she divorces her husband who left him years ago. Cihan is married and has two children. A good father, a brave businessman, an unhappy man. With two accidents in search of 15 years, the two women will be linked to each other forever, in a way that a man and three children have no expectation of their lives and destinies and can not be overcome. The question in the middle is unanswered, and the solution is impossible. Challenges to making choices, hard decisions, and scattered parents and their own hearts. It has changed for a lifetime and a future.
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How Compatible Are You And Your Soulmate?
You've met your soulmate. Now all you have to do is make it work, but how?
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If you could look into a crystal ball and see the future of your relationship, what would you see?
Us growing happily old together.
Us holding hands in the old age home.
Us still bickering.
Us living separate lives.
Who controls the remote?
We both do.
We take turns.
It's not about the show, it's about the snuggling.
We need two televisions.
If you had to make an important life decision, what would your soulmate tell you to do?
What makes me happy.
What is best for both of us.
The wrong thing to do.
(Fill in the blank) You two finish each other's ______.
Do you both have the same sense of humor?
No, but we laugh a lot.
No, but that's okay.
What do your friends think about your relationship?
They think we're perfect for each other.
They think we're the same person, and we kind of are!
They think we're doomed.
They don't understand us.
What would your dream romantic vacation look like?
The two of us in a hotel room for a week.
The two of us exploring our favorite place.
The two of us compromising on a location.
The two of us taking separate vacations.
How in sync are you two about important life decisions like career, children and education?
Completely.
Not completely, but we can compromise.
We agree on the big stuff, but not the little stuff.
Where is your biggest connection?
In our hearts.
In our minds.
In our bodies.
In our souls.
If you were locked in a room for a week, how soon would you run out of things to say to each other.
We wouldn't.
Almost immediately.
We don't always need to talk.
We would fight nearly the whole time.
Very Compatible
You are two hearts that beat as one. You are two minds that think as one. You are so alike you sometimes feel like you are the same person, but you're not. Tell your soulmate not to get complacent and to never stop getting to know you. There are still surprises to discover and secrets to uncover.
You are two minds that stimulate and intrigue each other. You are two different personalities that fit together like the cogs of a wheel. Such an encouraging relationship is the perfect environment for growth. Tell your soulmate not to expect you to stay the same person forever. Expect change, cultivate change and celebrate change.
Somewhat Compatible
Soulmates don't fight, do they? Of course they do. Sometimes they fight with even more passion and anger because the stakes are so high. You'll be happier if you two can let some stuff go. Tell your soulmate to remember the good times in the bad, to try to laugh through the tears, and to always kiss and make up.
Not compatible, but cool :-)
You and your soulmate are not compatible at all, but does that mean it's over? Of course not! You two just need more space than other couples. Hey, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived in two separate houses connected by an attic walkway. You need an attic walkway in your life. Tell your soulmate that living different lives doesn't mean you can't be together forever.
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Plymouth Green Party election manifesto: How they could decide the balance of power
Success could give the party the balance of power as control of the authority has switched between Conservatives and Labour in recent years
Edward Oldfield
The Green Party in Plymouth is hoping to turn support for action on climate change into votes on Thursday.
The Greens are fielding six candidates in some of the 19 seats for Plymouth City Council being contested on May 2.
Success could give the party the balance of power as control of the authority has switched between Conservatives and Labour in recent years.
The Greens are hoping that they can take advantage of support for recent school strikes in Plymouth.
The issue of climate change has also been pushed to the top of the political agenda by direct action in London by Extinction Rebellion, and a high-profile visit to the UK by the teenage Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
The Greens are fielding candidates in Stoke, Sutton & Mount Gould, Devonport, St Peter and the Waterfront, Plymstock Radford and Peverell.
The Green Party campaigning in Plymouth (Image: Submitted)
James Ellwood, candidate for St Peter and the Waterfront, said; “It’s an exciting time to be a Green candidate.
“Lot of people have been inspired by the recent school climate strikes.
“So, if you’re a parent, why not sit down with your children and talk about the kind of future they want?
“Without action on climate change we are jeopardising the next generation, so we’re asking you to use your vote to support their future.”
The party says its key policies set out an ambitious plan to improve the city’s green credentials while support business and improving health and well-being.
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It says Green councillors would pressure Westminster to end austerity and reinvest in local services.
Andy Pratt, local Green Party coordinator and Devonport candidate, said: “Many of the current crop of Labour and Conservative Councillors have held onto power for over 20 years.
“The question voters need to be asking is are these are the people who can deliver the kind of bold, dynamic leadership that the city desperately needs? We’d argue that it’s time for a change.”
Ian Poyser, the candidate for Stoke, said: “We’ve had a really positive reception on the doorstep, and the message is clear; with deadlock at Westminster, people are looking for alternatives.
“The Green Party vision offers that positive alternative.”
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Mike Kewish, candidate for Sutton and Mount Gould, said: “With our broken electoral system it’s tempting to compromise your values and vote tactically.
“But we are living through unprecedented times and more of the same is not the answer.
“Instead, this week, we urge you to vote with your heart for the party that best represents your values.”
Labour took control of the city council last May with 31 of the 57 councillors, two more than they needed for an overall majority.
This time around, nine of the 19 seats being fought are held by Labour and 10 by Tories. So to take back control of the council, the Conservatives will have to win three from Labour.
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Key Policy Priorities for the Green Party in Plymouth
Carbon Neutral Plymouth
We supported the momentous step by the council of unanimously declaring a “climate emergency” and commitment to becoming a carbon neutral city by 2030.
Delivering on this ambition means totally rethinking the city’s infrastructure. Green Party councillors would engage residents, businesses and council officers to make sure everyone is involved in this process.
Supporting Business to go Green
We know many businesses want to become more environmentally friendly, but financing these changes is difficult. That’s why we'll create a "Green Innovation Fund" to help local businesses make eco-adaptations.
Sustainable Transport & Clean Air
Plymouth’s existing transport infrastructure makes travelling without a car difficult. We'll promote measures to reduce vehicle dependency by providing better options for public transport, cycling & walking. Doing so will lead to reduced congestion, cleaner air and a safer experience for pedestrians.
We will campaign to make sure plans for a district energy network are based primarily on renewable sources. Established correctly this can offer savings on energy bills for residents and help tackle fuel poverty. Other UK cities already benefit from localised, low carbon energy networks and there’s no reason we can’t do this in Plymouth.
Nationally, the Green Party has held a consistent view on Brexit, having campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU. The party is currently working to make sure that environmental protection, workers’ rights, and freedom of movement are protected after Brexit.
Stoke: Ian Poyser
Stoke: Ian Poyser is standing for the Green Party (Image: Submitted)
Ian has been a Stoke resident for nine years and Green Party member for over 15 years. His involvement in the environmental sector has been instrumental in delivering local authority services and support to businesses. Ian is a passionate advocate to finding local solutions to the greatest threat to humanity - climate change and habitat destruction.
Sutton & Mount Gould: Mike Kewish
Sutton & Mount Gould: Mike Kewish is standing for the Green Party (Image: Submitted)
Mike arrived in Plymouth 30 years ago as a Royal Naval recruit and has been a Lipson & Mutley resident since. After serving 12 years Mike embarked on a career in social housing and over time gained a wide experience of the complex needs of residents. Mike assists with a local sailing charity and is passionate about ensuring people have a good environment to live and work in.
Devonport: Andy Pratt
Devonport: Andy Pratt is standing for the Green Party (Image: Submitted)
Andy was born in Devon and has been based in Plymouth for around 15 years. He works for local Health Improvement projects, and has been employed as a part-time assistant to the SW Green MEP Molly Scott Cato. Andy is passionate about environmental and social justice, which he regards as inseparable issues, both locally and globally.
St Peter & The Waterfront: James Ellwood
St Peter & The Waterfront: James Ellwood is standing for the Green Party (Image: Submitted)
James is a local resident who has lived in Plymouth for nine years and been a Green Party member for three. He runs a Stonehouse-based Social Enterprise which works with communities across the city, giving him insight into many of the issues and challenges residents face. James believes that conventional political and economic policies are failing people and the environment. He will work towards alternative, more responsible and inclusive ways of doing politics.
Plymstock Radford: Matt Faith
Plymstock Radford: Matt Faith is standing for the Green Party (Image: Submitted)
Matthew is a local student and has been a Plymstock resident for the past 17 years. He is studying Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth and also works in Plymstock. Matthew is passionate about preserving and engaging people with the city’s heart, Plymouth Sound. He also believes in the importance of encouraging people to connect with politics and use their voices, as this is becoming a vital tool for combating our developing environmental crises.
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Tropical Storm Barry forces Pensacola FC Women, WPSL playoff relocation
Tropical Storm Barry has already put a damper on a weekend of playoff soccer at the University of West Florida.
Tropical Storm Barry forces Pensacola FC Women, WPSL playoff relocation Tropical Storm Barry has already put a damper on a weekend of playoff soccer at the University of West Florida. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/sports/2019/07/11/tropical-storm-barry-forces-pensacola-fc-women-wpsl-playoff-relocation/1704644001/
Eric J. Wallace, Pensacola News Journal Published 1:08 p.m. CT July 11, 2019
The Women's Professional Soccer League South Region playoffs have been relocated to Jacksonville and Matthews, North Carolina, due to the threat of several inches of rain in Pensacola this weekend.
Pensacola FC forward Uchenna Kanu fights for positioning during the first half of her club’s 5-1 win vs. Chicago Red Stars Reserves during the first WPSL semifinal match in 2018. Tropical Storm Barry has forced a relocation for Pensacola FC Women to begin the 2019 WPSL playoffs. (Photo: Shar Rother Photography)
Pensacola FC Women (8-0) was set to host the regional tournament at UWF, but will now travel to Losco Park in Jacksonville for its semifinal contest against Miami's FC Surge (5-0) on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 a.m. CDT.
The region finals will be held at the Sportsplex in Matthews, North Carolina, on Sunday at a time to be determined. Charlotte Eagles (8-0) and Chattanooga Lady Red Wolves FC (10-1) will play their semifinal Saturday in Matthews.
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Though disappointed to lose the opportunity to host, Pensacola FC Women head coach David Kemp said he agreed with the WPSL's decision to relocate the tournament in order to avoid any possible issues associated with the tropical storm.
Tropical Storm Barry officially formed Thursday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center, a day earlier than forecasts originally projected.
The storm is expected to become a hurricane by Saturday morning and make landfall on the Louisiana coast. Northwest Florida is projected to receive four to six inches of rain.
The South Region tournament features four teams with a combined 26-1 record during regular season play.
Pensacola FC Women features a host of college talent from around the Southeast, including local players like Gulf Breeze's Kiersten Edlund (Troy) and Navarre's Kileigh Whited (South Alabama).
More: Pensacola FC expands local opportunities with second WPSL team
Star forward Uchenna Kanu rejoined the team last Saturday after featuring for Nigeria in the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
Pensacola FC Women made it to the WPSL national finals last season before losing to Seattle Sounders Women 3-1 in the championship game.
Seattle Sounders Women is a sister organization of the men's Seattle Sounders, which play in the United States' top tier pro league, Major League Soccer.
Eric J. Wallace can be reached at ejwallace@pnj.com or 850-525-5087.
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Concentrations of Protected Classes from Analysis of Impediments
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A new component of fair housing studies is an analysis of the opportunities residents are afforded in “racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty,” also called RCAPs or ECAPs. An RCAP or ECAP is a neighborhood with significant concentrations of extreme poverty and minority populations. HUD’s definition of an RCAP/ECAP is: • A Census tract that has a non‐white population of 50 percent or more AND a poverty rate of 40 percent or more; OR • A Census tract that has a non‐white population of 50 percent or more AND the poverty rate is three times the average tract poverty rate for the metro/micro area, whichever is lower. Why the 40 percent threshold? The RCAP/ECAP definition is not meant to suggest that a slightly‐lower‐than‐40 percent poverty rate is ideal or acceptable. The threshold was borne out of research that concluded a 40 percent poverty rate was the point at which a neighborhood became significantly socially and economically challenged. Conversely, research has shown that areas with up to 14 percent of poverty have no noticeable effect on community opportunity. (See Section II in City of Austin’s 2015 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/NHCD/Reports_Publications/1Analysis_Impediments_for_web.pdf) This dataset provides socioeconomic data on protected classes from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey on census tracts in Austin’s city limits and designates which of those tracts are considered RCAPs or ECAPs based on these socioeconomic characteristics. A map of the census tracts designated as RCAPs or ECAPs is attached to this dataset and downloadable as a pdf (see below).
Workforce Demographic Characteristics by Commuting Mode Split : 2012 - 2016
This data set provides demographic and journey to work characteristics of the Cambridge Workforce by primary mode of their journey to work. Attributes include age, presence of children, racial and ethnic minority status, vehicles available, time arriving at work, time spent traveling, and annual household income. The data set originates from a special tabulation of the American Community Survey - the 2012 - 2016 version of the Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP). The Cambridge Workforce consist of all persons who work in Cambridge, regardless of home location. For more information on Journey to Work data in Cambridge, please see the full 2015 report: https://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/CDD/FactsandMaps/profiles/moving_forward_20150930.ashx?la=en).
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ZeroAvia reveals zero-emission hydrogen-fueled powertrain
Silicon Valley start-up ZeroAvia has developed a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain to decarbonize aviation and reduce operational costs, starting with up to 500-mile regional flights
In the latest effort to make aviation sustainable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ZeroAvia announced today its significant advancements in developing a zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled electric powertrain.
The solution aims to deliver the same performance as a conventional aircraft engine, and much lower operating costs. ZeroAvia plans to start supplying its platform to commercial operators and aircraft manufacturers in 2022, initially targeting up to 500-mile regional flights in 10 to 20-seat fixed-wing aircraft.
Val Miftakhov, ZeroAvia Founder and CEO said: "Using hydrogen produced from local renewable energy is the most practical way to enable zero-emission aircraft of commercially meaningful size on traditional 300 to 500-mile regional missions.
"We calculate the total costs of operating a ZeroAvia aircraft to be close to half of what it costs to fly a conventional turbine aircraft, due to lower fuel input costs, higher powertrain efficiency, and reduced maintenance costs."
The company is already flight testing its powertrain prototype in a Piper M-Class airframe, which can be viewed below. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an Experimental R&D Certificate to ZeroAvia's Piper M-Class R&D platform earlier this year.
At a two-ton takeoff weight and six seats in a business-class arrangement, it is currently the world's largest zero-emission aircraft flying without any fossil fuel support, according to the publicly available information.
The aircraft has completed a variety of test flights, which validated key components and their integration into a complete powertrain system. These tests confirm the company's "fuel" economy and maximum power delivery targets.
ZeroAvia is initially targeting 500-mile flights to serve the short-haul and commuter air travel markets, which make up nearly half the commercial flights worldwide.
Powered by ZeroAvia powertrains, smaller zero-emission aircraft will be able to achieve similar per-seat economics as today's large regional jets, allowing economical use of smaller local airports for point-to-point travel with virtually no security lines or delays, and a much more pleasant overall flying experience.
In addition to passenger transport, the ZeroAvia powertrain will have applications across other use cases including cargo, air taxi, agriculture, as well as across the aircraft types, including manned and unmanned fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and everywhere in between.
Starting in 2022, the ZeroAvia powertrain will offer operators a sustainable option for new aircraft made by established manufacturers where customers already purchase their aircraft.
ZeroAvia will lease the drivetrain to customers and provide fuel and maintenance as part of its power-by-the-hour model, in which customers pay only for the hours that they use the drivetrain. This model emulates engine leasing options already popular in the aviation market.
"With governments around the world calling for a shift towards clean transportation, and predictions that air travel frequency will increase in the future, it is imperative for us as an industry to ensure sustainable aviation is cleared for takeoff," said Miftakhov.
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They were very conscientious, cleaned everything up, everything looks real nice. If we had a question they came out and looked at our question right away. Everything was taken care of.
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I'm getting ready to retire, and I don't want any surprises when I retire. I love the salesman, the salesman was so knowledgeable. I mean he went through everything with us, which was really good, and that's really more or less what sold me. I was impressed with all the workers, they worked really hard, I could tell they were working hard. The clean up, they cleaned up really well. They were prompt, courteous, professional.
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"That's one of the things that I really liked about it, from the beginning to the end they did it professionally, and like I said, they cleaned everything, like everything. It actually looked brand new after they finished."
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The crew was respectful, hardworking, the managers that were there knew what they were doing. Pinnacle has excellent consumer relationships with people, the office was easy to contact, and they were prompt in return of calls and interest. So all in all we say the job was well done, I'm very pleased. They did it quickly, which was good because the roof was leaking, and everything seems to be fine. I want to thank Pinnacle for the work they did, in such a timely manner.
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"We searched around for some companies in this area that had good reviews, and we found that Pinnacle had the best reviews of anybody we found. We did price around a little bit and found that your price was very comparable, and your reviews were higher."
"Everything was cleaned up real nicely, we just had a new pool put in last year so my wife was a little worried about that, but everything was extremely professional. We did a little inspection afterward and we found there was very little debris left in the yard, everything was cleaned up, and it looked just like it did before you guys came, which was awesome."
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"Pinnacle met my expectations on getting the job done, getting it done quickly, and doing a good job. Everything looked great, I've not had any problem with anything they did. It was all just done very properly, so I was quite happy with it."
Dale B. Klein St
"Very friendly, it was one of the reasons I went with Pinnacle... that and the fact that they were much cheaper than the other estimates, and that I was guaranteed no additional add-ons in case there were any warped boards or anything. It was definitely a selling feature for me."
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"We liked the people that we were working with a Pinnacle, we certainly liked the price. The people that came here seemed to be very efficient."
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"Beyond my expectations, I came here when they started tearing the roof off, and then I left. Then I got a call from James and he said we should get together, and I said, "how about tomorrow?", and he said, "no it's going to be done today." which really surprised me, because I thought it was going to take two days to do the roof. They actually did the roof in around 12 hours, excellent. So it was a one day construction project."
Adam K. Hillcrest Dr
"From a workmanship standpoint, our home has had a lot of DIY stuff done to it in the past, so it was definitely a challenge when they would open up a window and see something totally new, but I think they did a good job of putting them in to a situation that they may not have encountered before. They did a great job cleaning up, the inside of the house was clean, there was nothing ever left outside, so it was just nice that everyday I could come home from work, and everything was cleaned up and the next day they'd come back and put the next set of doors and windows in and it was cleaned up everyday."
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"I was impressed with how fast the roof was installed, everyone was so nice."
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I wanted to save a lot of money, and two years after my solar panel installation, I have saved over 80% on my electric bill
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I was happy with the work that Pinnacle Exteriors did here on my home, there was a little bit of a weather delay but otherwise everything proceeded on schedule in the course of a week.
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"They did a complete job, I was impressed in how they worked on a roof that has a 9-12 pitch, and they put the shingles on from the top, they didn't do anything from the bottom."
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"It was very convenient for me, I called Pinnacle and I think it was the next day or the day after, Mike came out and made all the measurements, gave me the estimate very quickly, sat down with me here at my home and we went over everything I wanted. He tailored the estimate to exactly what I wanted it, it wasn't like he tried to sell me anything. I told him what I liked, and he gave me the estimate based on that, was very responsive, and I wanted something that would be quality and last another 40 years, and that's what I got."
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"I expected it to take a couple days, actually, to do the roof, but those guys got on that roof like lightning, and they were non-stop."
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Whether it is vinyl siding like this home, a new roof, doors, windows, or a solar system, you can expect nothing but the highest quality service from Pinnacle Exteriors
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Křivoklát Castle
By Tracy A. Burns
A mere glance at Křivoklát Castle will transport you back to the Middle Ages. A spectacular Gothic chapel, a vast and impressive library, a portrait gallery and an exhibition of medieval art are just a few of the highlights of the 100-minute tour.
Křivoklát’s history is intriguing, though riddled with fires. First mentioned at the beginning of the 12th century, the castle was completed in early Gothic style when the Přemyslid dynasty ruled the Czech lands in the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries. The upper courtyard and tower that can be climbed today hail as far back as the 13th century. It was reconstructed and expanded in the 14th and 15th centuries, when Czech king and later Roman king Václav IV reigned. Under his Guyance the castle played a significant role in the country. Then dark days came as Křivoklát was conquered by both the Hussites and the Catholics during the Hussite wars in the 1400s. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Vladislav Jagollen, also known as Czech king Vladislav II, reconstructed it again, this time in late Gothic style. Once more, life at Křivoklát flourished. However, the castle was not well cared for during the 16th and 17th centuries when it only functioned as a prison. Later, in 1733, Křivoklát came into the hands of the Fürstenbergs. A fire devastated the castle in 1826, but the Fürstenberg clan restored it in the 19th and 20th centuries. Then, in 1929, the Fürstenberg family sold Křivoklát to the
Czech state.
Historical figures spent time in the prison that is visited on the tour. The future emperor Charles IV was imprisoned here as a child for three years. Because he had fought against the Habsburgs in the 1548 uprising, Bishop of Bohemian Brethren Jan Augusta had to call the prison home for 16 years, living in a room with no light. One step into the space where Jan Augusta was imprisoned and the visitor senses the harsh conditions which Augusta endured so many agonizing years. Those are not the only historical figures who inhabited the prison, though. During 1591 alchemist Edward Kelly was incarcerated at Křivoklát because he killed someone in a duel.
The gem of the tour is one of the best preserved Gothic chapels in Europe, with an altar hailing from 1490. Statues of the 12 apostles hover high on the walls. Saint Peter grips a golden key and dons gold drapery, while Saint Andrew wields a sword. Jesus, flanked by two angels, is on top of the altar with two side wings. It is almost possible to see Jesus’ scant clothing blowing in the wind. The angels are adorned with golden wings. The altar celebrates the crowning of the Virgin Mary, who wears gold drapery, and the four panels show the Virgin Mary and Christ in various scenes. For example, one picture shows the birth of Christ. Notice the golden halo above Mary’s head in the four panels.
The library, put together in the 18th century, is daunting with its 53,000 volumes. Some of the books written in German, Italian, French, Latin and other languages have golden spines. Very few Czech books make up the collection. Hebrew Didactics, the biggest book, weighs 11 kilos, dates from the 17th century and has 2,500 pages. Take a good look at the wooden chairs: they have decorative backs with birds and swirly shapes, peacocks on top. Above a doorway there are paintings of the castle’s appearance before the very destructive fire of 1826.
The portrait gallery is well worth a visit and features ceramics, such as jugs, vases and plates as well as paintings. The oldest portrait is also the smallest, hailing from 1577 and depicting Albrecht of Fürstenberg donning a high, stiff, white collar and gazing inquisitively at the viewer.
Another space that amazes is decorated with altarpieces, statues and paintings from the Gothic period. Notice the astounding detail of the wooden figures’ hair curls in “The Death of the Virgin Mary.” An enthralling triptych of Archangel Michael from 1500 provides great detail in his wings. One room that will catch your attention is decorated with Baroque and Rococo sleighs. Perhaps the most beautiful sleigh has townscapes of Amsterdam painted on its sides, knights’ armor on the wall behind it. In the Big Knights’ Hall, 28 meters long and eight meters wide, there are superb statues and floral decoration on the pillars. The oratory offers an excellent view of the chapel and boasts a brown pulpit with gold décor. Torture instruments are displayed on the ground floor. Men and women were kept in separate cages, the women usually punished for infidelity. Notice the small window in the ceiling that gives forth only a sliver of light. A chest weighing 100 kilos is displayed elsewhere on the tour.
Ramparts and tower
Take advantage of the spectacular views from the ramparts and the 42-meter high tower. It takes 72 steps on a narrow, winding staircase to get to the top of the 13th century structure. While waiting for a tour, it is possible to visit various shops in the main courtyard. One small store sells coins embossed with pictures of the castle, while another specializes in items made from wood. Ceramics are also for sale. You can even try your hand at archery. There is also a snack bar.
Křivoklát is most accessible by car, but direct buses from Prague go there on weekends. By train change in Beroun or Rakovník.
If you are looking for the Gothic experience, do not hesitate to visit Křivoklát.
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Xinhua Silk Road: China's national brand enterprises present at Harbin Ice-Snow World
14 Jan, 2020, 20:26 IST
BEIJING, Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- 24 Chinese national brand enterprises involved in the National Brands Project of Xinhua News Agency made presence at a theme park of the 21st Harbin Ice-Snow World in Heilongjiang Province.
By presenting various ice sculptures, the Chinese national brand enterprises including Moutai, King's Luck, Xifeng, Chery, Brilliance Auto, Gree, JD.com, Yili and JOMOO showed their products, services and enterprise cultures.
Participants of the theme park in the 21st Harbin Ice-Snow World.
The theme park for national brand enterprises in the 21st Harbin Ice-Snow World.
Moutai, a well-known liquor enterprise, made an ice sculpture of a fairy. As a national brand, Moutai devotes to passing on Chinese cultural values and taking social responsibilities.
King's Luck, owning three brands namely Guoyuan, Jinshiyuan and Gaogou, is a liquor enterprise based in Jiangsu Province. According to Zhou Suming, chairman and general manager of King's Luck, the company is committed to spreading the culture of baijiu, the Chinese liquor.
An ice sculpture of a phoenix was presented by a liquor brand called Xifeng. Zhang Zheng, chairman of Xifeng Group and Shaanxi Xifeng Liquor Co., Ltd., said that Xifeng will maintain a good development trend by focusing on brand promotion, product sales, management innovation, production and operation, structure adjustment, transformation and upgrading.
Chery and Brilliance Auto made presence by showing ice sculptures of car models namely Arrizo GX, Tiggo 8 and Brilliance V7. Chery, with the faith of serving the country by developing auto industry, has provided nearly 50,000 jobs in China and over 10,000 jobs in overseas countries and regions.
As a leading auto brand in Liaoning Province and a major independent auto brand of China, Brilliance Auto is committed to providing consumers with the high-quality of products and thoughtful service, and building a national economy car with world wisdom, introduced by Yan Bingzhe, chairman of Brilliance Auto.
Meanwhile, Gree, China's electric appliance manufacturer, has built an experience area in the theme park, showing its enterprise culture. Being sold in more than 160 countries and regions, Gree's products cover the areas of home electronic appliances, high-end equipment and communication equipment.
China's e-commerce giant JD.com also displayed an ice sculpture of its mascot, JD Joy. In July 2019, JD.com had been listed in the Fortune Global 500 for the fourth time. With more than 1 billion users, it is promoting the upgrade of its culture and strategy currently.
Yili, China's dairy giant, presented its products in the theme park. "During the development, Yili has adhered to internationalization and innovation. Yili's products with high quality, high technology and high value-added have won the trust from consumers," said Pan Gang, chairman of Yili Group.
JOMOO, a sanitary ware manufacturer, made an ice sculpture attracting visitors. Due to the continuous innovations, JOMOO's annual sales had exceeded 10 billion yuan.
Some time-honored brands are also showed in the theme park.
The theme park, specially built for the National Brands Project of Xinhua News Agency, will stand for more than three months.
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Culver riding rails to tout passenger trains
Governor Chet Culver is riding the rails today, a trip from Des Moines to Council Bluffs that’s intended to highlight his call for expansion of passenger rail service.
The Iowa Interstate Railroad train took off at eight o’clock this morning, headed west. But Governor Culver’s push for passenger rail first is focused east.
"Our goal, obviously, is to get a…high speed rail from Chicago to Des Moines and that appears to be going very well," Culver says. State officials met recently in Washington, D.C. with the CEO of Amtrak and Culver plans to hold a "summit" with the governor of Illinois in "the next month or so." Culver says it "really helps" that President Obama is from Illinois.
"He’s going to make sure Iowa, I think, is in the mix, too," Culver says. "…The president mentioned the fact that he wants this Chicago to Des Moines link to happen when he was here in Newton not long ago."
Mike Kulik, chair of the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Transit 2030 Task Force, sees a route to financing mainly through the federal government.
"This is the time," he says. "There should be funding available if we all work together to get this accomplished."
There’s no firm estimate yet, though, of the total cost of the project.
"It would be a significant capital investment for the road bed, for the equipment," Kulik says. "And a study would need to be completed to determine exactly how many dollars that would take."
According to Kulik, getting Iowans to park their cars and take a train will help reduce pollution.
"This Amtrak service would also be very important for the business community as it will assist in providing jobs and economic development," he says.
Culver and an entourage of train enthusiasts and reporters boarded the Iowa Interstate Railroad’s "Hawkeye" coaches this morning. The group will travel through 13 communities on their way to Council Bluffs, with stops in Earlham, Menlo and Atlantic. Culver’s two young children are also along for the train ride.
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Bond 24: Watch the title and cast announcement live!
Tune in to a live stream of the Bond 24 announcement right here on RadioTimes.com
Thursday, 4th December 2014 at 6:27 am
Today the title and cast of the next James Bond film, temporarily called Bond 24 (now we know it’s called Sceptre), will be announced from the 007 stage at Pinewood studios. And thanks to the finest technology that Q has to offer, you can watch the news break live via the stream below.
Tune in right here from 10:50am where the stream will come online for an announcement at 11am. It is currently scheduled to end around 11:07am, by which time the internet will surely be aflame with thoughts on the title and who has been cast as the film’s villain.
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West Virginia Becomes Constitutional Carry State
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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed the bill, but the state House overturned that veto to pass the bill into law.JIM STEM
West Virginia joins a group of eight states this week that allow so-called “constitutional carry,” meaning its residents may legally carry a concealed firearm without a permitting process.
The state House voted on the measure Friday and officially overrode a gubernatorial veto on Saturday, according to this story from thinkprogress.org. The law, which goes into effect on May 26, does away with the state's current permit and training program for people 21 and older who want to carry concealed.
The law was supported by the NRA, but opposed by local law enforcement.
"West Virginia's law enforcement officers have dedicated their lives to keeping us safe and helping us in times of need, and it's disheartening that the members of the Legislature have chosen not to stand with these brave men and women—putting their safety and the safety of the West Virginians at risk," Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said in the story.
The permitting process also included a background check and a gun safety class.
"Self-defense is a fundamental right that must be respected," said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, in the story. "Law-abiding West Virginians are now free to choose the method of self-defense that best suits their needs. The NRA and our five million members are pleased that the legislature voted in support of West Virginians' Second Amendment freedoms."
The state’s Attorney General, Patrick Morrissey, said in the story that the new law wouldn’t put law enforcement at risk or lead to an increase in gun deaths.
"As the chief legal officer of the state and the person in charge of criminal matters for the state at the West Virginia Supreme Court and in federal courts, I know that this legislation will not impact public safety," he said after the veto. "If this bill is enacted, we will not only expand freedom, but we will keep our citizens protected."
Gov. Tomblin vetoed a similar bill last year, but the legislature didn't have time to vote on overriding it before the session ended, the story says.
The other states with constitutional carry laws include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Vermont, and Wyoming.
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BREXIT LIVE: IMF issues SCATHING report saying NOTHING can save UK economy after Brexit | Politics | News – UK
In its latest report, the IMF expects the economy to grow by around 1.5 percent in 2018 and 2019 if a broad Brexit agreement is struck, compared to 1.75 if it had remained in the bloc.
But Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned failure to strike a deal would lead to contraction.
She said as the IMF presented its annual report on Britain’s economy: “A more disruptive departure will have a much worse outcome.
“Let me be clear, compared with today’s smooth single market, all the likely Brexit scenarios will have costs for the economy and to a lesser extent as well for the EU.
“The larger the impediments to trade in the new relationship, the costlier it will be. This should be fairly obvious, but it seems that sometimes it is not.”
The IMF added there was a “daunting” range of issues still to be resolved before Britain leaves the EU on March 29, 2019.
Speaking alongside Ms Lagarde, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the Government must heed the “clear warnings” from the IMF of a no-deal Brexit.
See below for our rolling coverage of Brexit news throughout the day.
Brexit: IMF boss Christine Lagarde has issued a huge warning for the UK economy (Image: GETTY)
11.15am update: “We have to do everything possible to avoid hard Brexit”
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said that EU partners must do everything in their power to avoid a hard Brexit.
Mr Kurz was speaking to reporters in Paris, where he is meeting French President Emmanuel Macron.
He said: “I think that we agree that we have to do everything possible to avoid a hard Brexit.”
Mr Macron added: “It’s indispensable that we reach an agreement and that European Union rules be fully maintained.”
11am update: IMF warns of “substantial costs” for UK economy if no Brexit deal is struck
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that leaving the EU without a Brexit deal will shrink Britain’s economy and inflict “substantial costs”.
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he larger the impediments to trade in the new relationship, the costlier it will be. This should be fairly obvious, but it seems that sometimes it is not.”
10.30am update: Barnier to meet with Spanish Prime Minister to discuss Gibraltar
Michel Barnier will meet with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid on Monday to discuss tge future of Gibraltar as part of a meeting outlining Brexit negotiations.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator is also meeting with Spanish Foreign minister Josep Borrell.
British territory Gibraltar is also due to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.
10am update: Jaguar boss ‘making it up” with warning of job losses from hard Brexit
Former Shadow Minister Sir Bernard Jenkin has claimed the boss of Jaguar Land Rover of “making it up” when he warned that a hard Brexit would damage its profits and cost tens of thousands of jobs.
The Tory Brexiteer accused Professor Dr Ralf Speth of scaremongering over a prediction that leaving the EU would have a “horrifying” impact on the firm’s business.
He had told the UK’s first Zero Emission Vehicle Summit – attended by Theresa May – that a hard Brexit could result in the “worst of times” for the UK while the cost of Jaguar Land Rover would be more than £1.2bn a year.
But speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Sir Bernard hit back: “I’m afraid I think he’s making it up.
“We’ve had figures made up all the time by the scaremongers in this debate and I’m afraid nobody believes them.”
Boris Johnson said if talks continue as they are, it will end in a “spectacular political car crash” (Image: GETTY)
9.30am update: Most voters believe Government has handled Brexit talks badly
Nearly eight in ten voters (79 percent) believe Brexit negotiations have been handled badly by the Government, a new poll has found.
This is according to a ComRes survey for BBC Radio 5 Live, which interviewed 1,002 adults in the UK via telephone between September 6 and 9.
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It showed 41 percent think exiting the bloc will have a positive impact compared to 50 percent it won’t.
Just undr a third (32 percent) think their household will be better off in 2023 but 54 percent disagree.
9am update: Brexit negotiations heading for “spectacular political car crash”
Boris Johnson has claimed that if Brexit negotiations over the Irish border continue in their current manner, it will end in a “spectacular political car crash”.
The former Foreign Secretary said Britain is heading full speed towards a total write off if the Prime Minister continues with her plans for the Irish border.
According to Mr Johnson, the backstop deadlock is being used to force the UK into becoming a vessel state.
He said the EU’s fallback position for the Irish border would mean Northern Ireland was “annexed” by Brussels.
Mr Johnson added that plans set out by Mrs May would “effectively” see Britain remain in the bloc.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said: “If the Brexit negotiations continue on this path they will end, I am afraid, in a spectacular political car crash.”
“If we are to get out of this mess, and get the great British motor back on track, then we need to understand the Irish backstop, and how it is being used to coerce the UK into becoming a vassal state of Brussels.”
8.45am update: Brexit concerns sees business group downgrade forecasts
The British Chambers of Commerce has downgraded its forecast for economic growth for this year to 1.1 percent, down from 1.4 percent in 2019.
According to the BCC, by 2020, the UK economy will have suffered its second weakest decade of average economic growth on record.
It said in its report the high cost of doing business in the UK and ongoing uncertainty over the future relationship with the EU will likely continue to stem business investment.
The BCC added businesses will contiue to face “significant” skills gaps whoch will undermiine their potential to grow, while workers are unlikely to experience meaningful real wage growth as the gap between pay and price growth is forecast to remain negligible.
8.30am update: EU throws weight behind Irish border plan
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The EU is prepared to accept a frictionless Irish border after Brexit, increasing the prospect of Theresa May striking a deal over the coming weeks.
According to The Times, Brussels negotiators want to use technological solutions to minimise customs checks between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
The EU plan would enable goods to be tracked using barcodes on shipping containers under “trusted trader” schemes administered y registered companies, removing the need for new border infrastructure.
Michel Barnier is working on a new “protocol” text outlining a plan to use technology to minimise these checks, with the proposals being circulated to European governments after the Conservative party conference on October 3.
8.15am update: Theresa May says “it’s either my deal or no deal”
Theresa May has said that MPs will have a choice between her proposed Brexit deal with the EU – or risk tumbling out of the bloc without any agreement at all.
In an interview with BBC’s Panorama, she also criticised plans from Brexiteers to resolve the Irish border issue.
But Boris Johnson claimed the Government’s failure to find a solution to this stumbling block has led to a “constitutional abomination”.
Writing in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, the Former Foreign Secretary criticised the Prime Minister’s plan to leave the EU, and says her Chequers plan “would mean for the first time since 1066 our leaders were deliberately acquiescing in foreign rule”.
8am update: Brexit deal agreed and will be unveiled in November
Britain and the EU will unveil a Brexit deal in at a special summit in Brussels in November.
This is according to Politico which said that one presented, the agreement would be quickly approved by EU 27 members.
The final part of the deal is focusing on the “political declaration”, which outlines the framework of the relationship that will accompany the withdrawal treaty.
On Thursday, Mr Barnier will brief EU leaders at an informal summit in Salzburg, Austria where the political declaration will be discussed in detail for the first time.
Theresa May would still need to get the agreed deal passed through Parliament but Brussels is concerned that nay more challenges from her opponents could trigger a general election or second Brexit vote.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel during a session at the federal parliament in Brussels on November 8, 2017 | Laurie Dieffembacq/AFP via Getty Images
Belgian PM Charles Michel offers to resign
King said he would hold off on making a decision on the offer for now.
By Laurens Cerulus
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel offered his resignation to the king Tuesday evening due to a government crisis over an international migration deal.
The royal palace said after the two spoke that King Philippe would hold off on making a decision on the offer for now. The king is expected to consult with advisers and political leaders on how to proceed.
It leaves Michel's government powerless, but still in place. The government is widely expected to remain in caretaker mode until May 26 elections and the parliament could vote on the first of a series of monthly budgets needed to keep the government running as early as Thursday.
The alternative, an early federal election — which could also be voted on in parliament on Thursday — is unlikely as the national vote is scheduled to take place on the same day as regional and European ballots in May and the already difficult task of forming a government would likely prove impossible while parties are in election campaign mode. In addition, voting in Belgium is mandatory and hosting three different votes in one year (Belgians elected their municipal leaders in October) would be unpopular.
Michel's offer to resign follows a dispute with his former Flemish nationalist coalition partners, the N-VA, over an international migration pact, which forced Michel to set up a minority government.
Michel had tried to gather support from opposition parties in order to continue his work until the May election. He had tried to assuage some of the concerns of left-leaning parties earlier on Tuesday, but when Socialist and Green opposition parties said they would trigger a vote of no confidence in his government, he decided to offer his resignation.
"I had the chance to express my proposition and launch a call from this stand," Michel told MPs on Tuesday. "I have to conclude this call wasn't convincing ... I must respect this."
The Belgian parliament voted in favor of the government signing up to the U.N. migration agreement even after the N-VA left the coalition, with Michel's liberal Reformist Movement and two smaller government forces getting support from opposition parties including the Greens and Socialists. But it left the government weakened.
The U.N. migration pact caused trouble in a number of other European countries, some of which pulled out of the deal, while others crafted additional "explanations" of the vote to convince political partners to support it. But Belgium is the only country where the discussion led to a government collapse.
The non-binding migration agreement sets out a "cooperative framework" for dealing with international migration. Signatories agree, for example, to limit the pressure on countries with many migrants and to promote the self-reliance of newcomers. The document states that no country can address migration alone, while also upholding "the sovereignty of States and their obligations under international law."
In July, all 193 U.N. members except the United States finalized the pact.
Peter De Roover, parliamentary group president of the N-VA, said after Michel's announcement: "We never wanted this, I don't have any feeling of euphoria." But, he said, "it turned out there was no plan B."
Minister of Justice Koen Geens said on Twitter the prime minister was "honest and loyal" toward his coalition partners. "Now it is time to briefly reflect."
Laurens Cerulus
lcerulus@politico.eu
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Trio Awards
The annual Trio award competition is jointly sponsored by the PSC, the Population Aging Research Center, and Boettner Center for Pension Retirement Research. The competition promotes high quality and innovative research in demography, economics, and related social and behavioral sciences. Trio awards are funded for one year (or less) in duration and are selected through competitive peer review. A list of funded Trios can be searched by typing in key words or the name of the PI, or sorted by the year the funding began.
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Evaluating A Hospital Intervention to Improve Care for Older Adults at the End of Life
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Karen B. Lasater
Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Aim 1: Determine whether the receipt of aggressive care in the last 30 days of life among hospitalized older adults with cancer is associated with hospital Magnet recognition. Hypothesis: Patients in Magnet hospitals will be less likely to receive aggressive care, including chemotherapy in the last 14 days of life; more than 1 emergency room visit in the last 30 days of life; more than 1 hospitalization in the last 30 days of life; 1 or more ICU admissions in the last 30 days of life; in-hospital death; not admitted to hospice, or admitted to hospice for less than 3 days. Aim 2: Determine whether Black patients in Magnet hospitals receive less aggressive care in the last 30 days of life compared with Black patients in non-Magnet hospitals. Hypothesis: Black patients will be less likely than Whites to be cared for in Magnet hospitals. Black patients in Magnet hospitals will be less likely to receive aggressive care compared with Black patients in non-Magnet hospitals. Despite widespread efforts to improve patient-centered end of life care, older adults with cancer often receive poor quality care characterized by aggressive medical intervention which is often in conflict with their preferences for maximizing quality of life. We build on previous research, to generate new knowledge about the role of hospital nurses’ work environments in the provision of patient and family-centered care for terminally ill patients. If our hypotheses are confirmed, the findings from our study will inform efforts to improve care for seriously ill older adults who are hospitalized at the end of life.
Pregnancy Incidence and Prevention Among Zambian Female University Students
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Corinne Low
(1) To design and pilot a mobile-phone-based high-frequency survey platform to measure sexual behavior and contraceptive use among young women. The app will be used to gather weekly data on sexual behavior and contraception use in a highly anonymized, private forum. By developing an appealing, user-friendly mobile app, we will both increase participant adherence and the accuracy of this sensitive data. We will also be able to gather data at a much higher frequency than is practical with in-person surveys, allowing the measurement of how contraception use varies across partners and encounters, which will reveal which barriers are materially important to use. (2) To launch this survey to 1,000 female undergraduates at the University of Zambia and collect weekly data for 12 months, beginning in fall 2018. This population is important and under-studied: they are women with a high demonstrated value of education, and thus high opportunity cost of pregnancy. Nonetheless, focus groups suggest barriers to contraception use still persist in this group, but little is known about the actual incidence of unintended pregnancy, or it’s consequences. This weekly survey, consisting of 5-10 questions about last sexual encounter, including method of contraceptive (for users), and barriers to usage (for non-users), pregnancy if it occurs, and subsequent outcomes, will allow us to generate high frequency data on women’s contraceptive choices and outcomes. We will recruit women in their dorms using female surveyors at the beginning of the term. Each week, women will be prompted by the application to fill out the survey, and their responses will be sent to the researchers on a secure server. (3) To analyze these data to better understand the extent to which pregnancy can be a barrier to tertiary education among this population, and to document potential barriers to contraceptive use. The unique, high frequency data on sexual encounters, pregnancy, and contraceptive use across different encounters collected through the app will provide several new insights, providing evidence that could be used in the optimal design of policy and contraception-promoting interventions. Multiple observations across encounters and partners for a given woman will help disentangle the quantitative importance of different barriers to contraceptive use, including those that are woman-specific (which require access or informational interventions, partner-specific (and could be addressed by bargaining interventions, or example), or encounter-specific (which might be addressed by greater access to long-acting methods). The longitudinal nature of the data will allow us to document the incidence of pregnancy in this important population, as well as the frequency of unintended pregnancy. Moreover, we will use the fine timing of the data to document the extent to which pregnancy could be causing dropout, as well as other outcomes following pregnancy.
Prize-Linked Savings Initiatives for Promoting Better Health and Economic Outcomes in Kenya
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Harsha Thirumurthy
Conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial with ~100 men engaged in fishing and other income-generating activities and offer 50 of them 3 months of lottery-based incentives to save money using mobile phone-based savings accounts. We will develop the prize-linked savings intervention through consultation with Kenya’s leading ‘mobile money’ service provider. We will also develop education and counseling materials to accompany the intervention. Over a 3-month follow-up period, we will compare financial savings and expenditures on key items such as food and items of interest from the perspective of HIV risk (alcohol, gifts and transfers to sexual partners, and sexual behavior) between those offered the prize-linked savings intervention and the control group. We will primarily use survey methods to measure the main outcomes and assess whether the intervention has adverse consequences. In summary, the pilot project will assess the feasibility and acceptability of an innovative prize-linked savings intervention. It will also generate vital preliminary data on likely effect sizes and develop recruitment procedures and data collection tools – all of which will be useful for an R01 proposal to conduct a larger randomized trial that will rigorously test the effect intervention on health and economic outcomes.
Understanding Retirement Plan Default Behavior
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell
Aim 1: Empirically quantify the impact of automatic enrollment retirement policies on retirement savings and total savings. Aim 2: Test the hypothesis that the perceived costs of retirement saving prevent workers from saving for retirement. Aim 3: Estimate the size of the upfront costs. Aim 4: Explore alternative optimal default policies
Biological Risk, Physical Functioning, and Psychosocial Stress among Older Age Hispanics
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Courtney Boen
Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
The proposed research will improve understanding of the health profile of the aging Hispanic population in the United States and shed new light on social and biological mechanisms and life course processes underlying racial, ethnic, and nativity-status disparities in health. By examining how exposure to a diverse and comprehensive set of acute and chronic stressors across the life course relates to the biological risk and physical functioning of aging Hispanics, this research will provide new knowledge of the social patterning and determinants of population health disparities and inform prevention and intervention efforts aimed at achieving health equity.
Examination of population-based driver licensing and motor vehicle crash rates among older adults
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Allison Elizabeth Curry
Analyzing motor vehicle crash data that is linked to other existing administrative data sources (e.g., driver licensing data) has the potential to catalyze advancements in our understanding of older driver crashes—an important cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults in the US. The proposed study, which includes analysis of the unique and comprehensive New Jersey Traffic Safety Outcomes data warehouse, will be the first longitudinal study of older adults’ rates of driver licensure and adverse driving outcomes (2004-2014). Findings will serve as initial analyses for a planned program of research that will directly inform and impact rehabilitation and treatment efforts, licensing policies, and other strategies to enhance older driver safety and reduce the burden of older driver crashes and injuries.
Long-Term Care Financing using Home Equity Release
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hanming Fang
The project will advance global knowledge of long-term care delivery and financing systems, providing a new evidence base for both public policy design and private services development. By exploring a new long-term care funding mechanism, the project aims to support the development of long-term care services globally and in China. Lessons learned for China will be informative for other countries facing the challenge of how to finance long-term care costs such as the U.S.
Tax-Information Avoidance
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Alexander Rees-Jones
Learning about your taxes is aversive. However, when making decisions about a retirement savings strategy, about labor supply, or indeed about most financially consequential economic decisions, it is critical to have a complete understanding of the tax consequence of these actions. In this project, we aim to better understand the nature of “tax information avoidance,” and to integrate knowledge of this behavior into our models of decision-making in these environments.
The Impact of Pain Reduction on Productivity and Cognitive Function in a Low-Income Population
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Heather Schofield
Chronic pain has the potential to limit the lives of millions around the globe as they age -- impeding their ability to have a healthy, inspiring, and productive life in their later years. The interdisciplinary team involved in this research project will draw on expertise in fields including public health, economics, aging, and psychology to examine the potential broader impacts of pain on cognitive function and productivity over the life course using a rigorous RCT. This research will contribute new knowledge to the understudied subject of the consequences of physical pain, providing evidence of both academic interest and policy relevance.
Towards an Accesible Healthcare Travel Chain for Elderly Populations Througha User-Centered Antropologic Approach
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Megan Ryerson
A lack of safe, accessible transportation leads to degradation in medical care as 3.6 million Americans do not obtain non-emergency medical care because of a lack of transportation in a given year. The specific barriers and breaks in the transportation travel chain that limit elder mobility, particularly in their access to healthcare facilities, remain largely unknown. This project will unite transportation engineering and public health together with the goal of understanding the physical infrastructure constraints and the perceived constraints of elderly travelers as they traverse the transportation network and how these factors ultimately determine the mobility of the elderly.
Personality, Schooling and Occupational Choice over the Life-Cycle
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Petra Todd
This project will develop and estimate a model to understand the impact of personality traits on individual’s schooling and occupational choices and the potential feedback effect of schooling and occupational experience on the evolution of personality traits. The analysis will inform about the determinants of unobserved heterogeneity, which has been found to be important in the prior literature, and provide us a baseline framework to evaluate the effect of educational policies, such as college tuition subsidy. Thus, this project helps to: (1) understand the potential causal relationship between personality traits and educational and occupational choices; (2) quantify how heterogeneity of workers’ personality traits affects lifetime earnings and inequality, and (3) evaluate the redistribution effect of college tuition subsidy policy.
The Contribution of Diabetes to Mortality in the US
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Samuel Preston
The Effect of Nursing Work Environments on Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Outcomes
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Matthew McHugh
The Project aims to determine whether outcomes for patients with AD are better when they are cared for in hospitals with better nursing resources (patient-to-nurse staffing ratios, skill mix, nurses’ education, and the quality of the work environment). We expect to confirm that outcomes are worse for patients with AD than for similar patients without AD. However, patients with AD will fare better when cared for in hospitals with better nursing resources. It also aims to determine whether racial and ethnic disparities in AD outcomes are narrowed in hospitals with better nursing resources (patient-to-nurse staffing ratios, nurses’ education, skill mix, and the quality of the work environment). We expect to find that outcomes are worse for patients with AD who are minorities but the gap between minorities and non-minorities will be less in hospitals with better nursing resources.
Consumption Commitments and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence from Older Workers
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell
Our project seeks to evaluate how UI differentially affects older versus younger workers’ labor supply and the impact of UI extensions (and their removal). Our results will improve understanding of how people with heterogeneous characteristics respond differently to policy changes. If the proposed aims are achieved, the results can provide guidance to policymakers on designing more effective UI policies in future recessions.
Health Status and Consumption Growth
Prinicipal Investigator(s): José-Victor Ríos-Rull
The design of pension and health care policies for the elderly requires that we understand the expenditure decisions of the old. Two fundamental characteristics of the elderly are that their health worsens with age and that it does so at different rate for people in different socio-economic groups (Pijoan-Mas and Rıos-Rull (2015)). The question that we plan to address is how do age and health shape preferences and consumption decisions. Surprisingly, very little work exploring effects of health on consumption Specifically, we aim to estimate the effect of health on the marginal utility of consumption. For this we use a model where the evolution of health is itself endogenous. However, we only need to use the consumption Euler equation to estimate structural parameters. This feature greatly reduces the complications of the process and allows us to be agnostic about how is the actual technology that improves health. We exploit plan to exploit differences in consumption growth by age, education, wealth, and health groups that provide enough variation to allow for identification. We use estimates of health transitions by age, education, and wealth that we can interpret as the outcome of optimal behavior and that provide the variation in the data necessary to produce tight estimates.
Mental Health Migration and Mortality among Mature Adults in Malawi
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kholer
Award Dates: September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016
Mental health, and specifically depression and anxiety, is a particularly important subset of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan African low-income countries. This project will help understand the determinants and consequences of poor mental heath and depression/anxiety in sub-Saharan African lowincome countries. The knowledge gained as part of this project has the potential to help societies to improve the mental well-being of mature adults in context where the public health system is likely to remain inadequate to provide support for depression/anxiety and poor mental health.
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman
In this proposed pilot project, we aim to demonstrate that in the presence of intergenerationally-correlated endowments, the many studies that purport to estimate the effects of parental and grandparental characteristics on child outcomes are misinterpreted in ways that are likely to overstate substantially direct parental effects and indirect grandparental effects, and maybe even have the sign wrong for direct grandparental effects. By “intergenerationally-correlated endowments” we mean important factors that affect the outcomes of interest that are usually not observed in social science data, and that are transmitted from one generation to the next, such as family culture or genes. The basic purposes of this pilot project are to develop this point, summarize and reinterpret three-generational studies in the literature in light of this point, develop a model that will permit identification of grandparental effects with data on four generations, locate data across four generations, and then prepare a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant application to explore and reinterpret intergenerational relations in depth to understand better their causal nature.
The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of IVF
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Corrine S. Low
Policies related to aging often seek to support wellbeing among individuals who may have lower human capital or ability to participate in the labor force and declining financial assets. The asymmetric aging of the reproductive system may have important distributional impacts on older individuals, leading to older women having fewer avenues for financial support (since they may no longer be considered eligible marriage partners). By studying a policy that aimed to ameliorate the impact of aging on women’s ability to have children through access to IVF and other medical interventions, this project contributes to measuring the scope for policymakers to address the gender-specific impacts of aging, and, in particular, how such policies may lead to women making different decisions earlier in life, due to the later-life insurance provided by access to assisted reproduction technologies.
Transnational aging: The link between migration and aging in Mexico
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Chenoa Flippen
Research on population aging generally focuses on a particular elderly population in a specific location. However, a growing literature on transnationalism emphasizes that for immigrant populations, societies of origin and settlement are linked through a dense web of economic, cultural, and political connections. While these connections hold the potential to powerfully shape aging on both sides of the border, the relationship between migration and aging remains understudied. This paucity of information is particularly problematic in the case of Latin American migration to the United States, due to rapid population aging and high levels of need on both sides of the border.
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Conference is a well-known venue for scholars from various parts of the world to meet and discuss theoretical and policy issues related to social inequality which is of growing concern in many countries. Having sessions particularly related to aging and life course in RC28 conference, we hope to stimulate public conversations on socioeconomic disparities in aging, life course trajectories, and inter-generational wealth transfers and savings from comparative and international perspectives. The conference will provide an important opportunity for scholars and public policymakers to discuss various experiences and challenges each country faces in relation to aging population.
Early Life to MAture Adulthood: Guatemalan INCAP Health and Socioeconomic Data
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jere R. Behrman
Award Dates: September 15, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Impact of Nurses’ Retirement Benefits on Job Satisfaction and Labor Force Participation
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Linda H. Aiken, Herbert L. Smith
Good health care for the aging U.S. population is inextricably tied to the “health” of the also-aging nursing workforce. The willingness of nurses to continue working is tied to their job satisfaction, which includes benefits (retirement, health). More information linking the organizational aspects of nursing—including benefits and nurses’ knowledge about benefits—to nurse job satisfaction, burnout, and plans for retirement is crucial to national healthcare.
Pass-Through in a Highly Regulated Supply Chain- The Who, What, and Where of the US Drug Market
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Starc, Amanda
In the United States, prescription drug spending is a large and growing component of both total health spending and overall GDP; understanding the determinants of drug spending is important from an economic perspective and as a matter of national policy. This project focuses particular attention on generic pharmaceutical pricing, and the extent to which two crucial inputs – manufacturer market structure and government intervention – determine the prices paid throughout the supply chain. In doing so, we hope to shed new light on the causal welfare effects of several policies regarding pharmaceutical competition and regulation.
Transnational elder care and the financial security of low income Mexican immigrants in the USA: A case study of Philadelphia, PA
American's Willingness to Voluntarily Delay Retirement
Efficiency Gains From Medicaid Privatization: Identifying the Magnitude and Incidence
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Mark G. Duggan
Fertility and the Career Paths of Young Women in the U.S.
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Kenneth I. Wolpin
Health and Well-being of African Migrants in the US and in their Country of Origin
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo
Mental Health, Cognition, and Aging in a Poor High-Risk Disease Environment
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler
Award Dates: January 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013
Optimal Life Cycle Portfolio Choice with Changing Family Status and the Demand for Life-Contingent Assets
Pilot Study of Adult and Old-Age Mortality Among Migrants and Their Descendants in France
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Michel Guillot
The Impact of Prison Privatization on Prisoner Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis
Prinicipal Investigator(s): David S. Abrams
Biomarkers of Aging in Ethnically Diverse Africans: An Integrative Genomics
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Sarah Tishkoff
Friendship Networks and Teen Smoking: Theory and Evidence
Metabolic Profiles of Female Reproductive Aging: A Comparative Study
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Claudia R. Valeggia
Sex Differences in the Life-History and Demography of Socially Monogamous Primates
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
The Health of Black Immigrants in the United States and Comparisons with Countries of Origin
Understanding Health Insurance and Policy Using the Massachusetts Health Reform
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jonathan Thompson Kolstad
Understanding the Emerging Micropensions Market in India
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Anita Mukherjee
Ambiguity Attitudes and Retirement Preparedness
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Kim Peijnenberg
Annuity Demand
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Daniel Sacks
Health and Heath Care accumulation
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Flavio Cunha
Hispanic Fertility: The Unique Effect of Immigrant Women
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Emilio Parrado
Income Volatility and Risk Aversion
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Shane Tyler Jensen, Stephen H. Shore
Insurance Against Common Agricultural Shocks
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jeremy Tobacman, Anita Mukherjee
Neural Substrates of Anticipatory Time Perception and Time Discounting
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Joseph Kable, Gal Zauberman
Relative Social Position and U.S. Internal Migration: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity
The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages: Evidence from China
Costly Portfolio Adjustment and Delegated Money Management
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Kim, Hugh Hoikwang
Do parents in developing countries benefit from their children's education at old age?
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Irma Elo, Iliana Kohler
Sources of Aging in US States
The Centrality of Schooling in Gene x Environment Interactions for Health
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jason Schnittker
The Effect of Defined Contribution Social Security on Savings and Labor Supply: Evidence from Discontinuous Social Security Benefits in Sweden
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Alexander M. Gelber
Chile 2008 Pension Reform: Preparation for New Analysis
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Deprivation, and Child Functioning in Rural China
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Emily Hannum
Hormonal and cultural correlates of physical discomforts during the menopausal transition
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Claudia Valeggia
Intergenerational Inequality and Educational Consequences of Health Disparity
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román
Longevity Risk and Annuities in Singapore
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Joelle Fong, Olivia Mitchell
Why Mothers Eat Burnt Toast: Neuroeconomics of Intergenerational Sacrifice
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Joseph Kable, Li-Wei Chao
Aging in a Time of AIDS: The Impact of the Epidemic on Elderly in Rural Malawi
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins
To enhance the scientific value of the forthcoming 5th round of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) by collecting data on the non-resident parents of respondents in the MDICP.
An assessment of contact tracing as a strategy of HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer
Anti-Depressants, Unemployment and Disability
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Betsey Stevenson
The specific aim of this project is to understand how the widespread adoption of the new generation of anti-depressants known collectively as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors has affected labor market outcomes.
Biomarkers in Malawi: Inflammation and CRP
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Beth Soldo
To test the hypothesis that HIV-negative individuals living in a community of high HIV-AIDS prevalence have a greater risk of contracting the disease if their high-sensitivty C-Reactive Protein is elevated > 3.0mg/L; and to evaluate the overall health of some 1000 persons living in Balaka region in Northern Malawi.
Borrowing from Tomorrow: 401(k) Loans and Repayment Behavior
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Timothy Jun Lu
Cohabitation, Fertility, and Child Development
Development of Methods for Applying Demographic Synthesis to Large Genome Scans
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Douglas C. Ewbank
To develop computer programs to put Framingham Study data into a format that can be read into the demographic programs; to revise the analysis programs to increase the speed with which they process the data; and to develop a mechanized approach to scanning the results and identifying SNPs that appear to be associated with longevity.
Early life conditions and familial correlations in cause-specific mortality
To investigate the effects of early life socioeconomic status, place of birth, and household structure on cause-specific mortality and familial clustering of cause-specific mortality in Finland during the latter half of the Twentieth Century.
New Evidence on Annuity Choices in Chile: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Jose Luis Ruiz
To analyze the empirical determinants of Chilean workers’ decision to annuitize at retirement or not.
Personal Attributes and the Financial Well-Being of Older Adults: The Effects of Control Beliefs
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Ram Cnaan, Steven Marcus
To determine whether or to what extent control beliefs differ by personal attributes; to determine whether or to what extent financial well-being differs by personal attributes; and to determine whether or to what extent control beliefs mediate the relationship between personal attributes and financial well-being.
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing and Risky Assets
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Motohiro Yogo
Retirement Savings and Unemployment Insurance
A population-based study of the transmission and diversification of HIV-1 using molecular genetic and complete sexual network data
The specific aims of this project include: Create the first large-scale complete-sexual-network study with detailed phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa; Use the molecular-genotype data to establish chains of HIV infection; and investigate the impact of sexual network structures on the rate at which recombinant forms of the virus, dual infections as well as superinfections, emerge within a population.
To test two hypotheses using data from a nationally representative sample of 18,102 American adults (NAAL): 1) health literacy is positively associated with self-rated health for both men and women, net of various covariates; 2) the effect of health literacy on self-rated health increases by age for both men and women.
An Empirical Study on Behavioral Responses to AIDS
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Aureo DePaula
To examine how people's perceptions about local rates of infection, about their own or their spouse's HIV status, and their perceived risk of infection affects their behavior with regard to decisions to get tested for HIV, to engage in extramarital affairs, and to use barrier methods of contraception.
Is Physical Activity a Viable Intervention to Lower the Risk of Dementia
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Kathryn Jedrziewski
To examine the relationship between physical activity and risk of Alzheimer's and other dementia, between physical activity and change in cognitive function from baseline to follow up, between dose of physical activity and risk of dementia as well as change in cognitive function; and to explore the effectiveness of various types of physical activity on cognitive health
Life Cycle Funds and 401(k) Portfolio Selection
In the US, most employees offered defined contribution (DC) pension plans are provided a wide variety of investment options to chose from, when allocating their retirement saving portfolios. This study will investigate what happens when workers are offered a new type of investment option, namely, Life Cycle (LC) funds, which have been introduced in the last five years by pension plan sponsors.
The Effects of Nutrition and Disease on Child Growth and Adult Health
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Samuel H. Preston, Rachel Margolis
To investigate the extent to which the impact of childhood disease and nutrition on adult outcomes can be captured by the more commonly-available data on height and lower leg length.
Building and Maintaining Bibliographic Database for AIDS Research in Malawi
To create the Malawi AIDS Research Database (MARD) to be housed at the College of Medicine (COM) at the University of Malawi, which will include (1) unpublished articles and reports that constitute the bulk of research on AIDS in Malawi; (2) links to published articles that are available without subscription on the Web; and (3) published articles accessible through the PSC Demography library.
Contribution Patterns under the Chilean Retirement Survey
To evaluate the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution patterns.
Decision-making in the Chilean Pension Market
Demographic Changes in Toba Villages in Transition
Disseminating and Extending the Gansu Survey of Children and Families
Does Poor Health Induce Myopia? An Investigation of Mortality, Morbidity, Aging, and Time Preference
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Li-Wei Chao
To collect measures of health and time preference among a new sample of adults and elderly in peri-urban Durban, South Africa, with each age-stratum further divided into those who are healthy versus those who are not; to collect longitudinal measures of health and time preference among micro- and small-enterprise owners around Durban (also previously collected 2004); and to analyze relationships between health and the ‘individual discount rate’ and between changes in health and changes in the ‘individual discount rate.’
Financial Incentives for Weight Loss
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Kevin Volpp
To evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives in promoting weight loss among obese individuals and to use the difference in weight loss measured at 16 weeks to project the long-term cost-effectiveness if weight loss is sustained.
For Better, For Worse: Marriage and the Business Cycle
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Stephen Shore
Hidden Regret and Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Alexander Muermann
How Do Sex Ratios Become Imbalanced? The Relative Importance of Migration, Mortality, and Incarceration
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Kristen Harknett
Impact of Prescription Copayments on Antidepressant Use and Adherence in Dual Eligibles: Implications for Medicare Part D
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jalpa Doshi
To determine whether dual eligibles in states with higher copayments will have lower antidepressant use and adherence than those in states with lower or no copayments.
Non-Response Bias in an Individual-Based Survey of Health Care Organizations: A "Double Sample" for the Multi-State Nursing Care & Patient Safety Study
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Sean P. Clarke
Race/Ethnic and Immigrant Differences in Disability: What Can We Learn from the 2000 Census of Population
To advance our understanding of variations in health status among native-born and foreign-born Hispanics, NH-Whites, African-origin populations, and Asian Americans, including sub-populations within these broad race/ethnic groups.
The Efficiency and Characteristics of Investment Choices Offered by 401(k) Pension Plans
To measure the efficiency shortfall patterns in pension plan menu offerings and to characterize these patterns according to employee and plan characteristics.
The Literacy Gap between Those with High Levels and Low Levels of Educational Attainment among Older Adults: A Comparative Study of 20 Countries
To assess the variation in literacy skills among older adults, particular the literacy gap between those with high levels of formal educational attainment and those with low levels of educational attainment.
The Muslim Mortality Puzzle in Bulgaria
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler
To document mortality patterns in Bulgaria during 1992-98, providing the first reliable life tables and other mortality measures according to religion and ethnic group; and to analyze mortality differentials between Muslims and non-Muslims, focusing on the principal factors expected to account for lower Muslim mortality.
Understanding Barriers to Hypertension Control in the Elderly
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Barbara Turner
To evaluate the effect of attitudinal, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control/structural factors on achieving sustained blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive elderly patients aged >70 and to examine the impact of functional status/comorbidities as barriers to control.
Anticipated Regret and the Disposition Effect
To examine the dynamic effects of price fluctuations on trading behavior when investors are averse toward anticipated regret.
Body Capital and Socioeconomic Mobility
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Virginia W. Chang
To determine the cross-sectional relationships between weight status and SES/class and conduct cross-cohort comparisons to evaluate secular shifts in the relationship over time.
Effects of School Vouchers on Education and Earning
To develop a behavioral model of decisions about schooling and work, prepare datasets, and do some preliminary data analysis.
Factors Responsible for the Changing Sex Differentials in Mortality at Older Ages in the United States
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Samuel H. Preston
To seek explanations of the recent poor performance of mortality among older women in the United States, relative both to older men and to women in previous eras.
HIV/AIDS and Complete Sexual and Social Networks in Rural Malawi
To examine empirically the population-level structure of sexual networks and explore the role they may play in fostering the spread of HIV as well as in explaining the discrepancies observed between indicators of sexual behavior and epidemic outcomes.
HIV/AIDS and Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi
To apply existing and develop new models of intergenerational and inter vivos transfers to explain motivations for such transfers in a high HIV prevalance county and to investigate whether transfers differ by households that are and are not affected by AIDS
Public Dissemination of Primary Qualitative Data from The Social Network and HIV study in Malawi
To further the public dissemination of primary qualitative data to other researchers by using the Malawi project data to set a standard and by collaboration with ICPSR to promote the development of new software and/or technology to facilitate the process of anonymizing qualitative data.
Resource Flows Among Three Generations in Guatemala: Supplementary Analysis and Data Collection
To examine interactions among three generations in Guatemala using unusually rich longitudinal data over 35 years that will increase the research productivity of an existing project through added data collection that is not already funded by the existing project.
The Causal Impact of Education on Income Volatility
To exploit the panel feature of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to estimate income volatility directly for many individuals.
The Impact of Oportunidades on Schooling, Work and Health Outcomes of Urban Youth in Mexico: Effects of School Vouchers on Education and Earning
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Petra E. Todd
The Impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill
To fill a gap by quantifying the effects of the policy change on the general health status, life expectancy, and medical care consumption of Medicare beneficiaries.
The Implications of Education by Gender for Fertiliy
Prinicipal Investigator(s): José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Trust and Transfers in South Africa: Linking Surveys
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Li-Wei Chao
To uncover the motivations underlying transfers by examining transfers patterns derived from experimental economics games combined with data derived from survey and qualitative interviews
Understanding Pension Literacy
To evaluate what Chileans do and do not know about their retirement system after two decades of the new program, and, to the extent that current participants and potential participants prove under- or mis-informed, to learn what aspects of the plan seem particularly difficult to fathom and what might be done to correct the lack of information and/or misinformation.
Analysis of the Linearity of Trends in the Dementia Severity Rating Scale
To demonstrate the pattern of change in the DSRS and the variation in progression rates among cases
Grandparents and the Survival of their Grandchildren in the Gambia
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Etienne van de Walle
To understand the relationship between both (a) the survival and (b) the co-residency of grandparents and their grandchildren’s mortality, based on the 1993 Gambia census.
Human Capital Risk and Family Co-Insurance
To understand the impact of intra-household co-insurance consumption commitments and precautionary saving
Self-medication among Adults in Mexico
Prinicipal Investigator(s): José Pagán
To analyze the factors associated with the use of self-medication in Mexico using survey data on adults aged 50 and older from the Mexican Health and Aging Study
Aging of Local Populations: A Preliminary Investigation
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Herbert L. Smith
Variations in rates of aging and in age distributions across local areas.
End-of-life treatment Choices and Spousal Impoverishment
Estimating the Demographic Impact of HIV on the Elderly as Caretakers and Recipients of Family Economic Transfers
Health Disparities in the Older Population of the US and Mexico
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Iliana V. Kohler
Health Insurance, Health, and Labor Force Participation Among Elderly Mexicans
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Daniel Polsky
Causal links between health insurance, health, and labor force behavior using MHAS.
Health Spending, Health System Finance, and Health Sector Reform in the Context of Demographic and Epidemiological Transition: the Mexico Case
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Rebecca Wong, Felicia Marie Knaul
Preliminary Proposal to Develop Norms for Cognitive Testing in Mexico
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Douglas Ewbank
Savings and Health Behavior over the Lifecycle and across Generations
Prinicipal Investigator(s): John Knowles
Household decisions regarding savings, consumption, employment and health behavior over the life-cycle.
Selection Processes and Health/Mortality Outcomes in the US and Mexico
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler
Health disparities among the elderly and old population by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity in the US and Mexico.
Social Security and Medicare Data to the NRC/NAS Twin Registry
Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality in Finland and the US: the role of income and education
Educational and income inequality in all cause and cause-specific mortality by age and sex in Finland and the US.
The Living Arrangements of the Elderly Widows
Determinants of the living arrangements by constructing and estimating models where mothers and children make choices that bear in whether they live together or separate.
Understanding International Best Practice in Pension Regulation and Supervision
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Robert Boruch
Pension regulatory and supervisory structure.
An Exploratory Analysis of Household Composition and Intergenerational Exchange in Asian American Households
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Grace Kao
Exploring methods to incorporate public-use data in aging research studies
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Julie Sochalski
Health Status, Measurement and Intergenerational Caregiving
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Jerry Jacobs
Living Arrangements of the Elderly Population in Africa in the Era of HIV/AIDS
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Tukufu Zuberi
Microsimulation of HIV Transmission Across the Life Cycle in sub-Saharan Africa
Population Aging in Africa in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Census Data
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Tukufu Zuberi, Amadou Noumbissi
Selection Processes and Ethnic/Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality and Morbidity
The Social Environment and Diabetes Control: A Case-Control Study
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Judith A. Long
Trends in Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality
Prinicipal Investigator(s): Irma Elo
This study is designed to (1) extend previous analyses of trends in socioeconomic inequality in all cause and cause-specific mortality by age and sex in the United States, (2) investigate whether these trends have been similar among whites and African Americans, and (3) examine trends in the distribution of various risk factors, such as obesity and smoking, by socioeconomic status. The results of these analyses will help determine whether the documented increase in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between 1960 and the 1980s has continued into the 1990s. The cause-specific investigations together with the analyses of trends in mortality risk factors by SES will point to areas where public health interventions might be most effective. The results will also provide input into further studies designed to illuminate the processes that link SES to health and mortality.
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POSTILION PRESS
ANNOUNCING...
A SPELL IN WINTER
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short stories by Jonathan Dodds
The short stories in this assured first collection range in place and time – from a young man's uncertain return to the countryside of his childhood at the end of WW1 (In the Merry Month of May), to a criminal meeting in a contemporary London pub (Getting It Sorted); from the world of knocker-boys and antiques runners in 80's Brighton (The Bibliophiles), to a Scottish farmer's romantic decision during a winter day's hedging (The Hechle).
What they have in common is the same assured mastery of language and of ordinary speech, and the same powerful evocation of place and time. These are also narratives which deftly explore the hidden intricacies of the human heart: tales of unconventional love and illicit love, tales of uxorious love and infidelity, of love triangles, and long-lost love...
And all the stories gathered here share a common sensibility, too; one which seeks to uncover the profound within the minutiae of everyday life and work, and which reveals with insight and compassion the tightrope we all walk between the debilitating threat of loss and the hope which sustains us...
“A superb depiction of rural life and relationships, with an astonishing sense of place.”
(Joanne Harris, author, about A Spell in Winter)
(Joanne Reardon, BBC Radio Drama, on Second Wind)
“Fantastically heady stuff - provocative and confrontational – utterly compelling.”
(Jeremy Sheldon, The Literary Consultancy, The Bibliophiles)
“A fine, moving story.”
(Joy Hendry, Editor Chapman magazine, about The First Touch)
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Activists Urge Fishing-Industry Changes to Protect Right Whales
According to the Center for Coastal Studies, at least eight right whales already have been found dead this year. (NOAA)
AUGUSTA, Maine — Some in Maine feel new federal regulations to protect the right whale will hurt the lobster industry the state relies on. But researchers and conservationists say immediate, drastic action is needed to keep the species from going extinct.
Experts say only about 400 right whales are left on the planet, and their biggest threat is getting caught in lobster and crab lines.
Katharine Deuel, an officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts, said action can't come soon enough for the dwindling right whale population, but she understands the plight of the fishing industry too. That's why the organization supports bipartisan legislation that would encourage creation of more whale-friendly fishing gear.
"It would fund research, it would fund improved monitoring and surveillance to know where and when the right whales are,” Deuel said. “And it would be an opportunity for industries that are impacted by potentially upcoming regulations to have funds available to support gear research and gear innovation."
The Scientific Assistance for Very Endangered Right Whales, or SAVE Right Whales Act, was introduced by Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts last spring. It passed in the House with bipartisan support and now goes to the Senate.
Charles "Stormy" Mayo directs the Right Whale Ecology Program at the Center for Coastal Studies. He said he feels for the fishermen who have concerns for the future of the industry, but the right whale could be extinct in decades if humans don't take action now.
"It is really the conflict between an endangered right whale and the fishing industry – that at least parts of which are also endangered,” Mayo said. “So it's a very difficult conflict."
Mayo said some researchers believe functional extinction – meaning not enough individual animals left to repopulate – could be imminent for the North Atlantic right whale if humans don't take immediate and drastic action to protect the species. But he hopes with new federal regulations and legislation, the tide could change for one of the most endangered species of whales.
Support for this reporting was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Lessons from Namibia: How Kenya can borrow a leaf from Africa’s biggest fish-freezing factory that freezes 600 tonnes of fish daily
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President Uhuru Kenyatta at Seaflower Pelagic Processing factory, Africa's biggest freezing factory.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta recently toured Seaflower Pelagic Processing factory, Africa’s biggest fish-freezing factory.
The factory was set up recently at the cost of $40 million (about Sh4 billion) through a partnership between the Namibian Government and a private investor.
Here are lessons Kenya can borrow from the freezing factory that freezes 600 tonnes of fish daily and so far has created 700 jobs.
On Friday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, while on a state visit in Namibia, took time away from his busy schedule to visit Africa’s biggest fish-freezing factory.
Accompanied by his Agriculture Secretary, Mwangi Kiunjuri and Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Munya, President Kenyatta toured the state of the art facility which freezes 600 tonnes of fish on a daily basis.
President Uhuru Kenyatta beign given a tour of Seaflower Pelagic Processing factory located in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
Seaflower Pelagic Processing factory located in Walvis Bay, Namibia, has the distinction of being the biggest fish-freezing factory in Africa. The factory was set up recently at the cost of $40 million (about Sh4 billion) through a partnership between the Namibian Government and a private investor.
Namibia’s Vice President Dr Nangolo Mbumba and Fisheries Minister Bernhardt Esau said their Government had embarked on strengthening fishing in order to give Namibia a food security guarantee.
Awed that such a young African nation which gained independence just the other day and which Kenya had even bought the country’s freedom fighters their first vehicle, but now had a modern factory that so far has already created 700 jobs, President Kenyatta summarily instructed Mr. Kiunjuri and Mr. Munya to immediately take steps to learn from the Namibian experience so that Kenya could have a similar factory.
“When SWAPO was fighting for freedom, the first vehicle it ever owned was bought by Kenya. We will also never forget the role played by the Kenyan contingent of UNTAG which remained behind at the cost of Kenya to protect Namibians until the country was stable,” said Vice President Mbumba.
“We are here to learn from how Namibia is benefiting from its blue economy even as we continue to support and partner with them in various other fields,” said President Kenyatta.
President Uhuru Kenyatta admiring Namibia's catch at Seaflower Pelagic Processing factory.
And Kenya indeed has a lot of learning to do, for a country that boasts a total maritime territory covering 230,000 square kilometres and a distance of 200 nautical miles offshore, it is a shame that the country continues to drag its feet in investing in the maritime and blue economy.
Over 92 per cent of Kenya’s international trade is transported on the sea but to this day local investors have not been keen to invest in the maritime sector.
Also read: Kenya has joined forces with 6 countries that borders the Indian Ocean as it fights back to stop $100 million going down the drain annually
A fisherman in Lake victoria casting his net.
Lack of sound policies, effective leadership, innovative technologies coupled with continuous underfunding has resulted in Kenya’s maritime sector continue to waste away.
The country’s fishing industry is also in tatters and needs urgent help to rescue it from rough waters.
From Ras Kamboni in Lamu on the Kenya Somalia border to Shimoni, Kwale County, fishermen are crying foul.
Fishing boats at the Lamu Island.
There is little catch with fish resources getting depleted by the day as trawlers wreak havoc within Kenya’s 200 nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The country loses about 10 billion shillings ($97 million) a year to foreign boats fishing without permission, according to government data.
About two million Kenyans depend on fishing but dwindling stocks in nearshore waters and a slump in tourism due to insecurity have worsened poverty along its palm-fringed coast, according to the World Bank.
About two million Kenyans depend on fishing.
The situation is the same on the shores of Lake Victoria where fisherfolk are never a happy lot, suffering a myriad of challenges, including complaints of unfair competition posed by fish imports from China.
The situation was made even worse early this year when the government lifted the ban on Chinese imports with the fisheries ministry arguing that the local fishermen cannot meet the demand.
Kenya was China’s second largest fish market in 2017, with the Asian giant exporting more than 1.300 tonnes of fish worth $1.13 million.
Kenya imports approximately 1.8 million kilogrammes of fish every month.
Price and supply favour China, further leaving local fishmongers in the cold.
Brokers have also been blamed for inflating the cost of local fish produce making it out of reach to local consumers.
But with the country not having invested in enough cold storage facilities fishermen are the real victims and often are at the mercy of exploitative buyers and middlemen.
“At times, the catch is high yet we have nowhere to sell. If the county government revived the cold storage and fish value chain system, the prices of fish would fetch higher prices,” says Fredrick Otieno, a fisherman who sells his catch off a boat at Port Victoria on the western shores of Lake Victoria and who has been in the trade for 10 years.
Fishermen on Lake Victoria
Also read: Kenya is sitting on a gold mine but failure to exploit its vast blue economy is clogging her economic growth
Statistics by the Fisheries Department show that there are about 321 fish landing sites on Lake Victoria. However, only eight of these fish landing sites have cooling facilities in Siaya, Busia, Homa Bay and Kisumu.
Should Kenya however, decide to get its act together, there is a lot it can achieve with the resources it already possesses.
President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Namibian Ports Authority (NAMPORT).
The port of Mombasa and Walvis Bay are similar and serve many nations in the interior of Africa.
To enhance its efficiency in serving neighbouring landlocked countries, Namport has assigned dry ports to the different nations so that they can manage their own cargo. The Namibian government is now busy reclaiming land from the sea to enable the port handle ships with even bigger capacity.
Port of Mombasa.
Something which President Kenyatta noted and said the country would study the idea of dry ports for neighbouring countries that depend on the Port of Mombasa for their imports and exports.
“That kind of arrangement can let them manage their own cargo and our job will be to be efficient port owners,” said President Kenyatta.
president Uhuru Kenyatta at Walvis Bay where he said Mombasa port and Namport would partner in the areas of efficiency enhancement.
He added that Mombasa port and Namport would partner in the areas of efficiency enhancement, and the bridging of management and administration gaps that lead to corruption with the aim of improving service delivery.
Source: Pulse Live Kenya
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Session III
SEASON & EVENTS
A NEW CHAPTER FOR PVTC
Exciting Leadership Updates
After 22 years of fearless leadership of Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory, Founding Artistic Director Cheryl Goodman-Morris is retiring to Ashland, Oregon. Cheryl has been a visionary force in the PVTC community, bringing powerful stories to life in an intimate setting. She has staged everything from compelling dramas like Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" to daring musicals like "Les Miserables." Cheryl has touched the lives kids and adults, actors and audience members, teaching artists and designers. She leaves behind a great legacy and will be missed. Thank you, Cheryl, for all you have done!
PVTC is pleased to announce that the Conservatory will continue under the astute direction of two artists who have been an integral life of PVTC for many years. Noëlle GM Gibbs will step into the role of Producing Artistic Director and Stacie Doherty takes the reigns as Managing Director. The team has exciting plans to keep the Conservatory vibrant, exciting, and at the cutting edge of theatre arts through both the Children's Conservatory and MainStage season.
We look forward to entering this next chapter with all of you!
-The PVTC Staff
Noëlle GM Gibbs
Producing Artistic Director
For the past ten years, Noëlle has worn a variety of hats at PVTC, including Children's Conservatory Director and Associate Artistic Director. Noëlle is a proud graduate of PVTC, having taken the first-ever intro to acting course offered by her mom in 1994. Credits at PVTC include Persephone, Distracted, Oklahoma!, The Servant of Two Masters, Proof, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek Jr., Guys and Dolls Jr., Seussical Jr., Once on This Island Jr., The Music Man Jr., and Cinderella, Jr. Noëlle received B.A.'s in Theatre & Dance from UC San Diego after completing an honors thesis project in which she spent six
months visiting Greece, England, and Italy to study Greek masks, Shakespeare, and Commedia Dell'Arte. As a result, most of her work focuses on collaboration, ensemble-building, and liberating the creative individual. In addition, Noëlle has worked in the artistic and educational departments at top-ranking regional theatres, including TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. She is also a freelance director who is working with Dragon Theatre and City Lights Theatre Company in the 2016 season. She was the recipient of Theatre Bay Area's' ATLAS Award in Directing in 2014.
Stacie Doherty
Stacie joined the PVTC staff in 2011 as the Artistic Administrator and Resident Stage Manager for both the MainStage and After School Children's Program. Stacie received a B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego and spent a semester in London studying theatre which included internships at both the Kings Head Theatre and Little Angel Theatre. She worked as the Theatre Manager for four years at the Birch North Park Theatre in Southern California, assisting local and touring arts organizations facilitate their events while growing an intern and volunteer program, and engaging with the local community.
Stacie has stage managed for a variety of productions and festivals including Summer of Love with Adams Entertainment, Don Pasquale, Iolanthe, and The Music Man Jr. with Lyric Opera San Diego, SummerFest with the La Jolla Music Society, U.S. Drag at Dragon Theatre in Redwood City, and numerous MainStage and Summer Camp productions here at PVTC.
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Lawmaker calls for special session if Deal vetoes anti-gay bill
By Matt Hennie | Mar 25, 2016 | 10:16 AM
Gov. Nathan Deal said he'll move as quickly as possible to review a "religious freedom" bill that has sparked a national controversy. But one lawmaker is already calling for a special session to override the governor if he vetoes the legislation.
LGBT and progressive groups, businesses and techies, the entertainment industry, sports leagues and tourism officials want Deal to veto House Bill 757, an anti-gay bill that the General Assembly approved on March 16. The legislation sparked a national outcry before it passed, something that only intensified since last week.
And opponents of the legislation are preparing to rally against it on April 5 at Liberty Plaza, which sits across the street from the State Capitol.
On Thursday, Deal visited both chambers in the closing hours of the legislative session. He didn't offer any hints on what action he will take and said that he doesn't have a timeline on when he'll render a decision to sign, veto or allow the legislation to become law without his signature. Deal has until May 3 to take action, though political pundits speculated that a decision could come as soon as Monday.
Via the AJC:
“I’ll try to act as expeditiously as possible, especially on major pieces of legislation,” he said, as lawmakers ticked down the final hours of the legislative session. “We don’t have a timeframe.”
Deal has warned lawmakers against passing a bill that allows discrimination. Critics have called House Bill 757 "a license to discriminate" though Deal has not said if he agrees with that interpretation.
Via Georgia Pol:
I’m always concerned about the impact of any legislation. This has certainly been one that has attracted more attention than perhaps many others. But there are also other people who are citizens of our state, some of whom have been here for a very long time…who may share opposite opinions about this particular piece of legislation. It is a difficult piece of legislation, and is one that I am looking at very carefully.
If Deal vetoes the bill, Sen. Bill Heath (photo) – one of 37 Senate Republicans to vote for the measure – said the reaction would be swift. Via the AJC:
“We will call a veto session,” he said. “And we have the votes.”
Such a rebuke is not easy: It takes a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override a governor’s veto — a threshold the contentious bill failed to reach in its initial passage. But it speaks to the bubbling legislative angst over the measure, which Deal has until May 3 to sign or veto.
Also late Thursday, supporters of the bill took a shot at businesses who oppose it. A collection of the General Assembly's most outspoken anti-gay members hijacked House Bill 904 to retaliate against opponents. They inserted language into a conference committee report to allow employees or customers of a company with LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policies to file a class-action lawsuit if the company didn't closely follow the policy.
The effort seemed to be motivated by Sen. Josh McKoon's public battles with Salesforce, which has harshly criticized House Bill 757.
The language was later pulled from the legislation, though the antics earned a rebuke on Friday from House Speaker David Ralston. McKoon and Ralston have been sniping at one another throughout the session over "religious freedom" legislation, resulting in McKoon's lonely political perp walk in front of a TV camera.
Ralston, via Georgia Pol:
I’m not sure where [the language in the report] came from. You’ll have to look maybe over on the Senate side. I was very troubled by the first version of the conference committee report, and had no intention of calling it. I knew there was a Labor Department technical change that needed to be done so they redid it in order to get that done. You know, at some point we just have to lay these battles down and move forward as a state. I thought that the first version of that took us back.
Once the session ended early Friday, Mayor Kasim Reed again criticized the legislation. Via the AJC:
“I know my former colleagues in the General Assembly share my desire to keep Georgia at the forefront of economic development in the Southeast. I also recognize the sincerity of their efforts to balance those interests with the concerns of the faith communities in their districts. I oppose HB 757,but I will continue to work with Governor Deal, Speaker Ralston, and Lieutenant Governor Cagle on this and other issues of importance to our state.”
Last week, Reed said the bill would cause considerable damage to the reputation of Atlanta and the state.
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CONSERVATION IN PERU: TARICAYA RESEARCH CENTRE: MONTHLY UPDATE – JULY/AUGUST 2015
Once again it is time for the latest from Taricaya Research Centre and with our busy season in full swing with over 40 volunteers keen to work hard we have been able to achieve a great deal and push forward on many projects simultaneously. The collection phase of our turtle project has begun; we have been visited by old colleagues to help in our biodiversity research and there is some fantastic news as we join forces with a leading animal rights organisation. As usual, where to begin?
Animal Defenders International (ADI)
I am very excited to announce that Projects Abroad and ADI (http://www.ad-international.org/adi_home/) have come together to start a new initiative to home rescued circus animals. ADI have been working in Peru for many years collecting mistreated animals from very hard and abusive treatment in the circuses of Peru. Their operation has been a huge collaboration with the Peruvian government, CITES and military and they have successfully confiscated well over a hundred individuals in this campaign alone.
Our reputation as the best animal rescue centre in Peru saw their dedicated leaders visit us at the start of July and we discussed the possibility of helping them by accepting some of their rescued animals that had been taken from the jungles of Peru as babies. Our mutual interest in saving wild animals from years of captivity and abuse saw us quickly reach mutual ground and Taricaya agreed to receive eight individuals in our rescue centre. Whilst all species merit the same consideration- all animals deserve to be left in their natural habitats; there are two very special cases that have achieved international recognition.
The first is an elderly Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) whose abuse was abhorrent as the circus owners chopped off her front toes to remove her claws and then for good measure pulled her teeth to stop her biting. The Spectacled or Andean bear is the last remaining short faced bear species on the planet and South America’s only bear. Their natural habitat is dense jungle and they are elusive and hard to find. Deforestation and hunting have significantly reduced their numbers and Cholita, as this bear is named, had spent over 20 years in a tiny cage being poked by curious circus-goers and being fed too little. An adult spectacled bear can reach 150kg, Cholita weighs less than 50kg!
The second case of note is a male puma (Puma concolor). Pumas, or cougars/mountain lions as they are also known, have a huge range found from Canada all the way to Argentina. There are thought to be 5 or 6 subspecies and the versatility of this cat means it survives high in the mountains or deep in the jungle. Mufasa, as this male is called, is another elderly rescue from a circus and whilst he has all his claws and teeth serious malnourishment means that he is relatively small for such an effective predator. His stunted growth is irreparable but he can certainly put on some weight with a proper diet and good exercise. Both of which we can offer at Taricaya!
Joining these two individuals will be three brown woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha), two Peruvian spider monkeys (Ateles chamek) and a military macaw (Ara militaris); all of which have come from similar backgrounds. The primates upon arrival will be quarantined and then united with our resident troops of the same species and the macaw will also pass health checks before joining our other two macaws to freely move around the centre as they regrow their flight feathers and strengthen their muscles. Our problems were enclosures for the much larger bear and puma.
ADI quickly sent a team in from Lima but there was a huge amount of preparation and manual labour required of our hardy volunteers and we quickly began clearing the areas and preparing materials. I am never amazed anymore by the levels of dedication of everyone involved at Taricaya both staff and volunteers alike but this project was ambitious even by our standards as time was a limiting factor. Working days were lengthened, physical reserves exhausted and then even more was asked of everybody. Nobody backed down and in less than 4 weeks we had successfully completed two enclosures- one of 360m2 (with a roof!) and another of 600m2! It was a great team effort and as the ADI team heads back to Lima we will put the finishing touches to the cages in anticipation of the animals arriving at the start of September.
Well done everybody!!
Turtle Repopulation Project
Many of you will know that every year we are responsible for patrolling and protecting a large riverine island about 15 minutes downriver from Taricaya. Playa Alta is a popular sandy island in the dry season as locals come from all over to sink their fishing nets in the narrower rivers and roam the beaches looking for the coveted and expensive turtle eggs. The yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) is seriously threatened by poaching of their nests but also from drowning in these huge drag nets that can span hundreds of metres. Every year we diligently patrol the beaches at night and with help from local natives try to beat the poachers to the nests. So far this year we have been very efficient with 43 nests collected and just 3 lost to poachers. This is our highest success rate to date and is a testament once again to the hard work and dedication of our patrol groups that spend hours monitoring the beaches every night.
Since the project’s conception in 2005 we have been improving our methodology and last year our hatching rates were over 80% so I am confident that this year we will once again release over a thousand baby turtles back into the wild.
Biodiversity Research
Our busy time of year is a perfect opportunity to invite old friends back to Taricaya and this year was no different. We were able to continue our research in the fields of ornithology, entomology and bats. Juan Molina came for 2 weeks and opened our mist nets daily and with the help of volunteers keen to learn about how we band and study the birds of the understorey we added many more individuals to our ongoing research. No new species for the reserve this time but with so many already registered there is no real surprise there.
Whilst one set of nets were open by day another set were opened at night as Hugo Zamora returned to continue our research on the bats of the reserve. This time he was accompanied by another researcher and by day we were mapping and studying bat roosting sites and at night capturing and collecting biometric data before releasing back into the forest.
Taricaya continues to amaze as a biological hotspot for diversity and with our bird and bat research so advanced we asked Salvador Sanchez to return and continue his study of the insects of the reserve. The most successful group of animals on the planet there are estimated to be millions of species of insect, most of which are yet to be discovered. Plenty for us to research at Taricaya in the world’s most diverse ecosystem and as Salvador picked up where he left off at the end of 2014 I am sure as he processes all his specimens there will be some surprises and new registers for the reserve.
Before I sign off, I just want to mention that our sensor cameras have been carefully placed over recent weeks. The strange thing was they were only 25m from camp. The reason for that is our old friend the grizzly male jaguar (Panthera onca) has started to visit our resident female once again. Most nights for a fortnight our resident woolly monkeys would sound the alarm as he wandered into the rescue centre to sit by the cage and “visit” with his companion. Imagine our surprise that he has become so relaxed he now pops in during the day also as we caught several images of him just lying by the cage in full daylight chewing on a hosepipe as relaxed as can be!
Stuart Timson
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Acting director of 911 center reassigned after teaching CPR with lapsed certification
Donita Naylor Journal Staff Writer donita22
Mar 14, 2019 at 12:01 AM Mar 14, 2019 at 12:01 AM
SCITUATE — State police Supt. James M. Manni has relieved Gregory Scungio from his position as acting director of the 911 call center after learning that Scungio's certification to teach Basic First Aid, CPR and AED had expired three years ago.
Scungio, certified by The American Red Cross to teach the three lifesaving techniques, had continued teaching telecommunicators on his staff after his instructor certification expired in February 2016, a news release from the Rhode Island State Police said Wednesday night.
As a result, employees trained by Scungio since that February do not have valid certifications, Manni said.
Effective Wednesday, the colonel reassigned Scungio to another position and assigned state police Lt. Michael McGlynn as acting director of the E-911 Uniform Emergency Telephone System.
As superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and director of the Department of Public Safety, Manni's duties include overseeing the state's 911 system. The call center is on the campus of state police headquarters at 311 Danielson Pike in Scituate.
— dnaylor@providencejournal.com
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Telling the Truth About the ‘Hole’
Making immigration great again.
12,513 Afghans became permanent residents in ’16. Their country is in the middle of an endless civil war between the Islamic terrorists who hate us and the Islamic terrorists who really, really hate us.
Only 31% of the population of Afghanistan can read. Around 1,000 of the Afghans we took in have jobs. 8,190 don’t have jobs. 3,158 are marked as unknown. That’s an 8% employment rate.
The left has been shrieking that wrapping up Temporary Protected Status for aliens from El Salvador will wreak havoc on our businesses and economy. In ’16, we took in 23,449 Salvadorans. Around 3,000 have jobs. The other 20,000 don’t seem to.
Before TPS ended for El Salvador, it ended for Haiti. 23,584 Haitians became permanent residents in ’16. Haiti is a permanent disaster. So are its immigrants. Only 2,691 or 11% are employed.
And in ’16, we also took in 5,159 residents from France. 40% of them are working.
The mainstream media turned into one big 24/7 outrage hole over what President Trump might have said. The alleged hole has filled the hole in CNN’s programming left by the lack of missing airliners or new revelations about Trump’s ice cream eating habits. But whether he said it or not, it’s undeniably true. And the media talking heads spitting like poisonous lizards at their teleprompters know it’s true.
Last week, they were shouting that sending Salvadorians back to El Salvador, a country run by gangs, was a monstrous act. But now suddenly El Salvador and Haiti are misunderstood paradises. If they’re such wonderful places, then let’s send the TPS recipients there. If they’re holes, then tell the truth.
Haitians received Temporary Protected Status in the United States after an earthquake eight years ago. When the Trump administration suspended their temporary status and gave them 18 months to leave, the left called sending them back to non-holish Haiti, “cruel and shameful” and “inhumane”.
A resolution by much of the Congressional Black Caucus described a country suffering from a cholera epidemic spread by peacekeepers after an earthquake. “Haiti’s economic growth has contracted to less than one percent, the unemployment rate remains above 40 percent, and the overwhelming majority of Haitians (60 percent) continue to live well below the national poverty line of $2.42 per day.”
Or as Senator Rubio put it, “HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unchecked cholera, have undermined Haiti’s ability to meet its full potential.” If Haiti is this bad now, just imagine if it unleashed its full potential?
But you better not call it any kind of hole. It’s a wonderful place that we can’t possibly return people to because they’ll immediately catch cholera from the UN peacekeepers while living on $2.42 a day.
And if the earthquakes, peacekeepers and hurricanes don’t get them, the kidnappers and killers will.
The State Department had warned, “No one is safe from kidnapping, regardless of occupation, nationality, race, gender, or age.” It added, “In recent months, travelers arriving in Port-au-Prince on flights from the United States were attacked and robbed shortly after departing the airport.”
This racist outburst from the previous administration should not go unpunished. Maybe the Congressional Black Caucus members threatening to impeach Trump for allegedly criticizing Haiti can retroactively impeach that notorious racist from their own racist ranks: Barack Hussein Obama.
How dare his administration imply that Haiti was anything except a wonderful place?
Haitians don’t enjoy cholera, malaria and kidnappings. Nobody enjoys cholera, malaria and kidnappings. But immigrants who truly see America as a refuge are happy to leave the hole they came from.
The Pilgrim passengers on the Mayflower knew exactly what they were escaping. Governor William Bradford wrote of being “hunted & persecuted on every side”. Centuries of immigrants felt the same way. But the left teaches today’s immigrants to look down on America even as they benefit from it.
“My parents are from #s___holecountry Pakistan. I’m their son, born & raised here. Proud of it. We’re your doctors, employers, employees, engineers, teachers, students, drivers, thought leaders,” Wajahat Ali bragged. Lefty celebrities and “thought leaders” retweeted his expression of Pakistani pride.
19,313 Pakistanis became residents in ’16. Only 15% have jobs. What would we do without them?
Pakistan is a terror state that harbored Osama bin Laden. Murdering Christians and Hindus is a matter of national pride. 93% of Pakistani women experience sexual violence. That goes a long way to explaining why Pakistani colonists have figured so prominently in rape cases in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Wajahat Ali is an Islamist “thought leader”. That means he defends Islamic terrorism. He insisted that Obama, “must at the very least interact with democratically elected Muslim governments and representatives, such as Hamas and Mahmoud Ahmadinijad of Iran” and denounced the “brutal U.S. foreign policy” which “has killed thousands of innocents”.
That is what immigration from the Pakistan hole gets us.
That and Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber (the first one), Mir Amal Kansi, the CIA shooter, Naveed Haq, who shot up the Seattle Jewish Federation, Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino massacre terrorists, and the other 9 Pakistanis caught in terror plots in America.
We can get our doctors, employers, engineers and drivers from lots of places. But when it comes to murdering people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino or Jewish women at a social services agency in Seattle, nobody beats the Islamic terrorists that Pakistan sends us. Or terror propagandists like Ali.
What causes Islamic terrorism? One answer is the arrogance in Wajahat Ali’s tweet.
Immigrants used to come to America to improve themselves. Now many come convinced of their superiority and our inferiority. They attribute our successes and their failures to a conspiracy.
Any immigrant can aspire to more than their home country. America was made by men and women who came here with nothing but the shirts on their back and a determination to work hard. They knew that they were leaving hell behind and they could glimpse the fulfillment of their dreams through the clouds.
Just because your country is a hole, doesn’t mean you have to be.
That’s a choice.
But the first step is recognizing that your country is broken. And that if you want something better, you have to change. If you don’t believe your country is a hole, then there’s no reason to change.
Unless you hear the truth.
President Trump made an argument for American exceptionalism. Exceptionalism isn’t just important for America. It’s vital for any immigrants who truly want to succeed in this country. The left has ruined generations of immigrants, just like it ruined inner cities, by preaching the superiority of victimhood.
And there’s nothing more toxic than that.
Trump’s immigration policies challenge that sense of entitlement. They echo a familiar phrase recited by a man who had once been a Dem icon. “Ask not what your country can do for you– ask what you can do for your country.” Coming from a wretched and miserable place doesn’t entitle you to anything.
Our immigration policy is built on entitlement. It doesn’t work for Americans or immigrants. It keeps out those immigrants who have the most to give and rewards those who want to take the most.
The only way to change it is with some straight talk.
It doesn’t matter whether President Trump said it. What matters is that it’s true. We need higher standards for immigrants. We won’t make America great until we believe we deserve better than holes.
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55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
59% Believe Tougher Gun Control Laws Are Coming
Following School Shooting, 86% Want More Action to Identify and Treat Mental Illness
46% See Federal Gov't As Threat to Rights, 45% As Protector
Freedoms of Speech, Religion Top Freedoms of Press, Right to Bear Arms
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Most Americans favor taking semi-automatic and assault-type weapons off the market but also are wary of a society in which only the government has guns. Very few would opt for a neighborhood where they couldn’t own a gun.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55% of American Adults think there should be a ban on the purchase of semi-automatic and assault-type weapons. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree and oppose such a ban. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The national survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on December 19-20, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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School children led celebration of World Toilet Day and World Antibiotic Awareness Week
10 Innovate4AMR-winning teams enjoyed 3-day workshop in Geneva
After 4 collaborative meeting days: Actions for the future in Latin America
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Why are children more vulnerable to AMR?
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UHC and AMR: The Thai Experience
Why do effective antibiotics matter for quality of care and patient safety?
New ReAct policy brief: Antimicrobial resistance and universal health coverage – What’s the deal?
Three key takeaways from the ReAct Africa conference
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Five focus areas at the 2nd Ministerial Conference on AMR hosted by the Netherlands
Safety concerns of fecal microbiota transplants
Upcoming ReAct Africa Conference: universal health coverage and antimicrobial resistance in focus
Mother Earth conference in Argentina – the environment in focus
Diagnostics: What are we talking about?
Connecting global to local civil-society-agenda on AMR at CSO convening in Geneva
ReAct colleagues featured in WHO Bulletin as leading profiles in the work on reacting to antibiotic resistance
RAN stakeholder at WHO IPC consultation – for standards and guidelines in African Union member states
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Open letter to UN Member States from former IACG members Anthony So and Otto Cars
ReAct UHC Intervention at UNGA Multi-stakeholder Hearing for High-level Meeting on UHC
ReAct Latin America honors Earth Day
Medicines Patent Pool’s view on the role of licenses for antibiotics – World Intellectual Property Day
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Erry Setyawan, FAO, on Indonesian NAP: We need to work together to make it possible to manage AMR
ReAct’s new 5-year strategic plan receives funding from Sida
How infections spread and how to stop them
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Take action on antibiotic resistance – for a better future for our children
New York briefing to raise AMR to the top of the political and global agenda
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SDGs have been adopted and the issue of AMR is in it
The UN hosts first-ever briefing on antimicrobial resistance
Introducing the Toolbox: For action on antibiotic resistance
No sustainability without antibiotics
The world’s collective responsibility to conserve antibiotic effectiveness
New antibiotic resistance coalition urges immediate action
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ReAct joins forces with African networks to manage AMR
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World Health Summit – Innovating to tackle antibiotic resistance
ReAct workshop on international health and antibiotic resistance
Engaging civil society organisations
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ReAct at the PAHO/WHO roundtable on antimicrobial resistance
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WHO and ReAct call for action on antimicrobial resistance
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The Global AMR R&D Hub, an initiative established under the Germany Presidency of G20, and launched in conjuction with the World Health Assembly in Geneva earlier this year. The aim of the hub, according to their own vision, is “to promote high-level coordination among governments and upstream funders from different world regions, in order to better align national and international efforts in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).”
Photo: Unsplash.
In a public consultation, the hub sought feedback on their provisional annual workplan 2018-2021 through an on-line survey.
In short, the Provisional Work Plan (2018-2021) for the Global AMR R&D HUB proposes:
The development of a dynamic dashboard.
Operational activities and operational procedures for the Global AMR R&D HUB.
The engagement of experts in ad-hoc Expert Advisory Groups to understand the range of R&D incentives and putative gaps in the incentive toolbox.
The survey fielded by the Global AMR R&D HUB did not allow for important points to be made in the online tool. To provide more useful feedback to the Global AMR R&D HUB, we would emphasize the following points:
1. In order for the Global AMR R&D HUB to be truly global it should continue to seek broader buy-in from all countries, particularly low- and middle income countries.
The usefulness of the dashboard will rely on how comprehensively it is able to capture information and what level of detail it is able to share publicly.
As this is a voluntary mechanism the HUB seems to rely on the goodwill and willingness of relevant actors to share and contribute information on antimicrobial resistance research and development (R&D) initiatives, funding and activities. Therefore, a clear strategy on how the HUB plans to access and promote reporting of relevant information to the dashboard, and how countries could be held accountable to provide real-time, accurate and reliable data should be developed and published. The WHO in particular already has experience in the area of mapping R&D activities through the Global R&D Observatory established in 2016.
It is important that new initiatives such as the HUB are complementary and work in close collaboration with existing similar initiatives such as the observatory to ensure synergies where possible and to avoid wasteful duplication of work. Moreover, it is crucial that the work of the HUB contributes positively to the further advancement and finalization of WHO’s Global Framework for Development & Stewardship which all governments mandated in the UNGA Political Declaration on AMR as well as aligning the already developed Tripartite’s Monitoring & Evaluation approach of the AMR GAP.
There should also be a clear buy-in and inclusion of civil society and non governmental organizations in this initiative.
2. The steering of the Global AMR R&D HUB should follow principles of inclusiveness, transparency and safeguards against conflicts of interests.
To be a trustworthy source of information for decision making, an initiative like the HUB, would need to be an inclusive organization based on a global mandate and perspective.
Buy-in and inclusiveness can be promoted by being steered by a group of countries with broad and inclusive representation from both high, middle and low-income countries. Especially if the HUB is planning on entering the discussion on the design of R&D incentives where discussions on pull incentives such as large market entry rewards, extended market exclusivity etc are reasons for concern.
Safeguards should be put in place to ensure that the whole initiative, including the dashboard and the ad-hoc Expert Advisory Group, is guided by global public health interests that reflect the needs of all countries, and that ensures that the initiative is not captured by economic vested interests of industry or individual countries.
The steering should also follow the principles for R&D laid out in the UNGA Declaration on AMR from 2016. Specifically, on “needs-driven, evidence-based and guided by the principles of affordability, effectiveness and efficiency and equity, and should be considered as a shared responsibility” and “the importance of delinking the cost of investment in research and development on antimicrobial resistance from the price and volume of sales so as to facilitate equitable and affordable access to new medicines, diagnostic tools, vaccines and other results to be gained through research and development”.
3. The HUB’s role in taking action and influencing decision-making, based on the information collected in the dashboard, would need to be clarified further.
For the information to have credibility and be of use for priority setting and decision-making it relies on being comprehensive, accurate and that it covers the full R&D and investment landscape.
Linked to the need of being comprehensive and accurate, it is unclear how the HUB will ensure data completeness, how data will be processed, and how missing data will be computed and acknowledged, as there will be unavoidable data gaps in the dashboard.
It is stated that the dashboard will help inform the monitoring of the Global Action Plan on AMR. This type of monitoring would certainly be beneficial, but such a mandate should in that case be covered and globally aligned with the Tripartite’s monitoring and evaluation framework. There should be a discussion on what potential actions that the HUB will be empowered to take based on the dashboard.
4. The value added from the Dynamic Dashboard must go beyond just focusing on the antibiotic R&D pipeline and should take on an end-to-end perspective and a One Health approach.
The goal of the HUB is to ”have a full picture of the AMR R&D landscape” when informing global decisions of investments needs.
Monitoring of global R&D efforts should lead to identifying the areas of greatest need, which in turn should inform investment decision making by funders. This requires going beyond the narrow focus on drug development and includes also capturing data on the R&D landscape and funding streams for the development of relevant diagnostics, prevention measures/technologies including vaccines and overlooked areas such as innovation in healthcare delivery systems, capacity building, improved clinical practices in human and animal health to name a few.
Given finite resources, a disproportionate focus on drug development might trade off against increased public investment that might otherwise have gone into complementary technologies, such as diagnostics, vaccines and other tools, that might reduce the need for antibiotic use in the first place.
5. The risk of inadvertently distorting the prioritization of investments must be considered when initially focusing solely on human health of the dashboard.
The planned approach of the HUB will initially focus on human health and only in later steps animals and environment. This, together with limiting the focus to new products, will risk to steer away from a needs assessments and priority setting that is comprehensive and follows a One Health approach.
Again, we reiterate the need for a better prioritization framework, and to consider the unanticipated effects a narrow-minded focus of one part of the R&D spectrum will have. Investments to address antimicrobial resistance should be distributed to where its impact on the global burden of disease is the greatest. There is also a need to emphasize the environmental aspects, and the need for R&D and investments in this sector.
6. The incentives debate must be broader and include a discussion on where the incentives should be targeted.
The HUB should make a clear analysis of what actors are actually involved in the field of antibiotic R&D and what new actors that would need to be involved throughout the R&D, production and delivery circle.
It is crucial that the government defined principles for AMR R&D from the UNGA Political Declaration are taken as the starting point for such an analysis; that close collaboration with the WHO’s Global Framework for Development & Stewardship is ensured to develop recommendations for targeted incentives that promotes open and collaborative approaches.
This also links with the need to take an end-to-end approach, where an intervention along the pharmaceutical value chain takes into account how it will affect the distal challenges of access and stewardship. A discussion on this topic should also ensure that investments and potential incentives are targeted towards where the greatest needs are.
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New York Time's Modern Love Column Turned Series
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New York Time's Famed Modern Love Column-Turned-Series Gets Its Dream A-List Cast
Syd Shaw
Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images.
The world needs more feel-good love stories, and Amazon's new unique series promises to deliver just that. Modern Love, the popular New York Times column, is officially being turned into a comedy anthology by Amazon, and the platform just announced its all-star cast.
Modern Love will have an all-star cast, including Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, and Tina Fey. Emily Rossum of Shameless is set to direct an episode written by Audrey Wells, who wrote The Hate U Give. John Carney, the director behind Once, is directing, writing and producing the entire series, with one of the original Modern Love column editors as consulting producer.
“It’s like I woke up in the actor candy store. We’ve managed to assemble a dream cast of my favorite actors.” Carney told Variety. “It’s a testament to the reach of the original column and of how, now more than ever, love is the only certainty.” Also among the cast are actors Gary Carr (The Deuce), John Slattery, John Gallagher, Jr., Catherine Keener, Sofia Boutella, Julia Garner, Brandon Victor Dixon, Andy Garcia, and Shea Wigham, among others.
The column features readers’ stories about relationships, from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. Modern Love has been hugely successful, inspiring a podcast spinoff and a live event. One popular article called “You May Want To Marry My Husband” has already been picked up for a movie by Universal.
This comes after Amazon’s previous president Roy Price stepped down amid allegations of sexual harassment. Current studio head Jennifer Salke told The Hollywood Reporter in June that Amazon is trying to be more aware of what female audiences want. “We're looking for our next big show that women also can't stop talking about."
Modern Love appears to be the first step in that direction. “[Modern Love is] telling heightened kind of stories about love and romance, not necessarily all romantic,” Salke told Deadline regarding the series. The site reports that the series will explore “love in its multitude of forms – including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self love.”
Amazon has launched several anthologies recently, including the popular series The Romanoffs. Modern Love will likely follow the same format, given the column's style.
New York Times Modern Love Amazon Series Cast
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Harold Wood Running Club members prepared for the upcoming Spitfire Scramble 24-hour race with a trip to the Southend Marathon.
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Mihir Desai on "How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers"
Professional Development > Upcoming Public Events > Finance Experts Speaker Series at Rotman - Mihir Desai
4:15-4:59pm check-in; 5:00pm sharp to 6:00pm book talk; 6:00-6:10pm book sale
Session Co-Hosts: Semper8 Capital; WshingWell
Monday November 11, 2019 | 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Mihir Desai, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Author, How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers (HBR Press, 2019) and The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin, 2017)
"How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers" (HBR Press, 2019)
Fleck Atrium (Ground Floor, North Building) | map
105 St George Street
$45.99 plus HST per person (includes 1 paperback copy of "How Finance Works" and 1 seat for the talk)
Book Synopsis: This book is based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor. If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others. In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai--a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Wisdom of Finance--guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance, demystifying it in the process. Through entertaining case studies, interactive exercises, full-color visuals, and a conversational style that belies the topic, Professor Desai tackles a broad range of topics that will give you the knowledge and skills you need to finally understand how finance works. These include:
How different financial levers can affect a company's performance
The different ways in which companies fund their operations and investments
Why finance is more concerned with cash flow than profits
How value is created, measured, and maximized
The importance of capital markets in helping companies grow
Whether you're a student or a manager, an aspiring CFO or an entrepreneur, How Finance Works is the colorful and interactive guide you need to help you start thinking more deeply about the numbers.
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Omni TV Fall 2015 Schedule – 24 India, Blood & Water & More
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TORONTO – With everything from Italian cooking to Kama Sutra, today OMNI Television unveils its Fall Schedule featuring seven new original titles, six newly acquired series, six returning favourites, and the return of Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition. OMNI’s revamped schedule boasts the best mix of informative lifestyle programs, coveted telenovelas, and gripping scripted and reality prime-time series beginning Saturday, Sept. 5.
Additionally, OMNI’s first original Chinese language crime series Blood & Water will premiere this Fall, with broadcast details to be announced at a later date.
See below for series descriptions followed by the OMNI Television Fall 2015 schedule; the new series join the previously announced OMNI Television current affairs programs.
New OMNI Television Series
L’Arte Di Cucinare **OMNI Television Original***
Born and raised in Friuli, Italy, Chef Gianni Cescia serves up authentic dishes and old world charm to Italian audiences, demonstrating the art of eating well.
Nos Portugueses **OMNI Television Original***
Each weekly episode of Nos Portuguese will focus on a theme that defines the current Portuguese-Canadian community, covering a variety of topics such as language retention, connection to Portugal, and Canadian politics.
Kama Sutra **OMNI Television Original***
Hosted by South Asian therapist, Rebecca Rosenblat, Kama Sutra is just as it sounds – a program designed to answer candid questions about intimate matters in Hindi and Urdu.
Kitty Talk **OMNI Television Original***
An engrossing weekly women’s South Asian talk show featuring three hosts sharing their thoughts on what’s trending in the community including current affairs, lifestyle, cooking, fashion, health, and entertainment.
Afro-X **OMNI Television Original***
Afro-X celebrates African-Canadian culture featuring segments focused on fashion, food, language, lifestyle, and much more.
Parwaaz **OMNI Television Original***
Catering to the Punjabi community in Edmonton, Alberta, Parwaaz focuses on entertainment and culture, with discussions on the hottest issues of the week, as well as community events, and poetry.
Glee China
With his deep passion for music, Xiao Wen, an Accounting Professor at Chen Xi University, decides to take over the underachieving university choir and pledges to lead them to first place at the national championships. However, the choir members are an eclectic group without much experience, and a shortage of singers and a tight budget are not the only challenges for the choir. After the leader of the basketball team, Xiang Yuan, and the enthusiastic and outgoing team center, Li Yiyuan, join the choir, they qualify for competition. But Xiao Wen’s nemesis, Yan Su, the cheerleading coach, tries everything to shatter their dreams.
Based on the American series of the same name, 24 India is an Indian television series in Hindi. Set in Mumbai, India, the series follows Anti-Terrorist Unit director Jai Singh Rathod’s efforts to thwart the assassination of Indian Prime Minister candidate, Aditya Singhania, while his own family comes under threat from the perpetrators.
Supernanny China
Based on the hit U.S. and UK versions, Supernanny (China) features Lan Hai, a modern-day Mary Poppins who takes on the unruliest children in China and rescues desperate, overstressed parents. It’s the first child-rearing show ever produced in China, and it is rooted in Chinese society to meet the unique needs of Chinese parents. Using innovative, time-tested methods, Lan is able to solve problems with behaviour, sleep, mealtimes, potty training and other challenges that have irritated parents around the world for centuries.
Planet’s Got Talent
Highlighting the most incredible acts from across the globe, from Indonesia to Iceland, Bulgaria to Brazil, and China to Chile, Planet’s Got Talent steers audiences through hilarious, show-stopping, heart-pumping performances.
Based on the ancient Indian Hindu religious epic of the same name, Ramayan tells the story of Rama, an avatar of the Hindu Supreme-God Vishnu, whose wife Sita is abducted by the King of Sri Lanka, Ravana. Thematically, the Ramayan explores human values and the concept of dharma – that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe.
Returning to OMNI Television
Bollywood Star, Season 2 **OMNI Television Original***
In search of Canada’s next Bollywood sensation, Bollywood Star follows Canadian Bollywood hopefuls around Mumbai on their quest to score a role in a Bollywood film and the opportunity to become Bollywood’s next marvel.
Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition
Once the puck drops in October, OMNI will continue to air Saturday night NHL hockey in Punjabi on Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition.
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The Texas Slam, a week-long junior tennis tournament, could put future greats on Abilene courts
The Texas Slam, a week-long junior tennis tournament, will bring 1,000 players. The tournament has had winners who went on to be top-20 talents.
The Texas Slam, a week-long junior tennis tournament, could put future greats on Abilene courts The Texas Slam, a week-long junior tennis tournament, will bring 1,000 players. The tournament has had winners who went on to be top-20 talents. Check out this story on reporternews.com: https://arnne.ws/2xY91nJ
Special to the Reporter-News Published 2:58 p.m. CT June 6, 2018 | Updated 2:59 p.m. CT June 7, 2018
Kaitlyn Strain, who will be a freshman at Abilene High, returns a shot during a practice session Wednesday at the Rose Park Tennis Center. She is entered in The Texas Slam, a junior tournament that begins play Saturday on courts across Abilene. Strain plays her first 16s singles match Sunday.(Photo: Greg Jaklewicz/Reporter-News)Buy Photo
In under a week, more than 1,000 junior tennis players from across Texas will converge on 94 courts in Abilene, and fans will get an opportunity to see a potential great in the making.
The Texas Slam, a United States Tennis Association event for only Texas players, begins here Saturday and continues through June 17. Abilene is the host site of the tournament again in 2019, with hopes of extending the stay.
The public can watch at no charge.
“These are the best junior players in Texas,” said Rick Meyers, USTA Texas Junior Tennis Council chairman. “We get a lot of locals coming out to see how good they really are.”
Boys and girls will compete in singles and doubles at four age levels: 12, 14, 16 and 18.
Meyers, a Cooper High School state singles champion and Texas Christian University alumnus, said he’s been working around the clock to get every court in town up to snuff.
More: Abilene and junior tennis seem to be a great match
“We use Rose Park, all three universities, all three high schools and five middle schools,” Meyers said. “There was a lot of prep work.
“Last Saturday, we worked for about 10½ hours going around to all 94 courts to check if wind screens were up or if we needed to replace any nets. We also blew pebbles off the courts to make sure players get a true bounce."
Meyers said The Texas Slam is supposed to be the most important junior tournament in the state, and he is trying to make it the best.
“Last year, we finally got people in Texas to realize that Abilene isn’t that far from everywhere else. They think it’s around Amarillo or Lubbock, but it’s only six hours from Houston.”
Rick Meyers, about The Texas Slam returning to West Texas
Seven players from Abilene are expected to participate, Meyers said.
Those 1,000 junior tennis players won’t be alone when they arrive; they’ll be bringing family and friends to the middle of the state.
“Last year, we finally got people in Texas to realize that Abilene isn’t that far from everywhere else,” Meyers said. “They think it’s around Amarillo or Lubbock, but it’s only six hours from Houston.”
Meyers noted that Texans also became acquainted with Abilenians, and he heard numerous comments about how nice everyone in the city is.
More: Abilene loves hosting 1,200 junior players at June Texas Slam Tennis Championship
Abilene’s size also works to its advantage in a large-scale tournament, as players might have to travel from court to court throughout the week.
“If this tournament was in San Antonio, they’d have no issue with the amount of courts, but it would take an hour to get across town,” Meyers said. “We like to keep this tournament in a city where people can get from end-to-end in eight-to-ten minutes.”
Meyers said Trey Hilderbrand and Jaycer Lyeons are two early favorites to win the tournament. Hilderbrand, of San Antonio, is one of eight American boys ranked in the International Tennis Federation’s top 50. Hilderbrand is rated as the 48th best in the world.
Jaycer Lyons, from Houston, returns a ball during his match against Roger Chou in the Boys' 18 singles division of USTA Texas Grand Slam in June 2017 at the Streich Tennis Center on the Hardin-Simmons University campus. Lyons is a player to watch again in this year's tournament. (Photo: Reporter-News file photo)
“Lane Adkins could also go pretty fair, so we’re excited about him,” Meyers said.
Adkins plays for Wylie High School and won the Region I-4A boys championship, but fell short in the state championship tournament with a loss in the semifinals.
Hilderbrand, Lyeons and Adkins are just three of many players who have the ability to show off high-level play. That same high-level play has been seen at The Texas Slam throughout the years.
Alex O’Brien and Richey Reneberg, both former members of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour, participated in this tournament in the infancy of their playing careers, according to Meyers
O’Brien, an Amarillo native, won singles, doubles and team NCAA championships at Stanford, and later went on to have a stint as the No. 1 ranked doubles player in the world. He also held a top 30 singles ranking.
Reneberg is a Southern Methodist University graduate who also reached lofty heights as part of the No. 1 doubles team with Jim Grabb. Reneberg’s skill on the court brought his singles ranking all the way to No. 20.
“When you come to this tournament, you’re watching guys who could potentially be top 20 in the world in the future,” Meyers said.
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Local Slammers
There are seven Abilene players in the Champ Masters group who hope to advance to the main draw: McKenna Bryan, girls 18, Abilene High; Carly Bontke, girls 14, Wylie; Carson Cole, boys 16, Wylie; Derstin Crousen, girls 12, Wylie; Kate Delgado, girls 12, Wylie; Taja Lawrence, girls 18, Cooper; and Rachel Tebow, girls 18, Abilene High
There are seven Abilene players already in the main draw: Lane Adkins, boys 18, Wylie; Leah Elias, girls 16, Wylie, Kaitlyn Hathorn, girls 18, Wylie; Ruth Hill, girls 16, Abilene High; Kaitlyn Strain, girls 16, Abilene High; Trevor Short, boys 12, Wylie; and Davyn Williford, boys 18, Wylie.
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You Are Here: „Lernen. Forschen. Machen.“
University Anniversary 2020
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“The New Fiction of Good Science – in Need of a Paradigm Shift?!”
Science Evening for Visionary Leaders, March 11, 2020 in Berlin
Charlotte Tuschinski
Department 3.0 – Press and Communications
Copyright: Photo: Federal Government / Steffen Kugler We are delighted that the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel, will deliver a welcome address at the Science Evening.
150 years of RWTH does not only mean 150 years of "Lernen. Forschen. Machen.”, but also one and a half centuries of involvement in German academia. With such a wealth of experience, one can sometimes dare to switch roles – from player to critical observer – and question the future viability of universities within our system.
Developments such as digitalization, Industry 4.0, changes in the world of work and much more have a decisive influence on what we learn and how we will live in the future. In view of the fast pace of new challenges and historically-evolved structures, those involved in the system can often only focus on reacting instead of actively shaping the future of our nation. But what has to change for research institutions and politicians to get back to the driver's seat of the system? What is "the new fiction of good science”? How can universities such as RWTH not only continue to exist for another 150 years, but also make a relevant contribution to the wellbeing of society?
The Science Evening held in Berlin will shed light on the question of the future of the "university" institution from various perspectives, showcase best practices, discuss opinions, and formulate visions.
The Stiftung Mercator and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. are kindly supporting this event.
It is only possible to participate in the Science Evening upon personal invitation.
The patron of the event is the Minister President of North-Rhine Westphalia Armin Laschet.
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Mountain biking linked to scrotal and testicular disorders
Saddle sore and more – the private perils of mountain biking
by Andrew Hamilton in Endurance health and lifestyleAn Austrian study of extreme mountain bikers has found an almost universal incidence of scrotal disorders, suggesting a high rate of repeated sub-clinical ‘traumatisation’ of the scrotal contents from saddle vibrations and shocks arising from rough terrain.
The researchers, from University Hospital Innsbruck, used high-resolution ultrasonography to investigate whether amateur mountain bikers had a higher frequency of extra-testicular and testicular disorders than non-bikers. The 45 bikers studied all worked at their sport for at least two hours per day, six days per week, covering distances of more than 5,000k per year.
All the bikers underwent clinical assessment, including a history of pain, discomfort and scrotal trauma or inflammation, as well as scrotal inspection and palpation for swelling, tenderness, hardening or other abnormalities. The results of these tests were compared with those performed on a control group of 31 healthy medical students with no history of cycling.
The findings for the two groups were dramatically different:
* 43 of the 45 bikers – a staggering 96% – were found to have pathological abnormalities of the scrotal contents, compared with just five (16%) of the controls;
* of the bikers with abnormalities, half also had scrotal tenderness, discomfort or suspicious findings on palpation, while the healthy controls were all without symptoms.
The only abnormality among the controls was a cystic swelling called spermatocele. But, while this problem affected only five of them, it affected 22 of the mountain bikers, possibly caused by repeated ‘microtraumatisation’ of the epididymis, where sperm are stored. The commonest abnormalities found in bikers on ultrasonography were benign calcified masses known as scrotoliths. Other common abnormalities were testicular and epididymal calcification, and hydroceles – accumulation of watery liquid in the sac surrounding the testes;
The good news was that testicular microlithiasis (stone formation – a sign of testicular cancer) was not significantly more common in the bikers.
The researchers assumed that the abnormalities they found in bikers were caused by problems with their saddles.
So what can mountain bikers do to protect these most vulnerable parts of their bodies? The researchers offer the following suggestions:
* Improve padding of the seat and/or shorts;
* adjust the saddle angle to either a horizontal or upward in front position;
* adjust the saddle height;
* use an ergonomically-designed saddle;
* take frequent rest stops during rides.
‘Furthermore,’ they conclude, ‘new shock-absorbent saddles and full suspension bikes might help reduce saddle vibration and microtraumatisation so that mountain biking remains a relatively safe and healthy sport.’
Source: Peak Performance
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Summer in UK Retail – The Heat is On
August 6, 2018.
Julian King, Partner & National Head of Retail at RLB UK, discusses a turbulent summer for UK retailers.
As we all know retail is in choppy waters, however there is much to suggest that retailers are finally getting themselves both lean and prepared for probably five years of significant change. If the number of bids and enquiries in my own business are an indicator then retailers are indeed planning to invest in change and we are forecasting an uptick in associated store works including downsizing, re-sizing, new smaller formats, a convenience expansion and indeed more town centre “ultra” convenience as residential and flexible office space moves into no longer fit for purpose retail locations and drives an increase in town centre footfall.
Consolidation is the Name of the Game
Consolidation is the name of the game in big supermarkets and the drive toward a “one stop shopping mission” seems to be the direction of travel as the big four and a half operators (M&S making up the half) look to diversify space and bring in suitable and complimentary concessions to store portfolios right sized for the 1990s. The best example of this is Sainsbury’s takeover of Argos and Habitat and now its intended merger with ASDA to further consolidate its operational cost base and maximise the value of these huge brands acquisitions.
Meanwhile Tesco has opted for an alternative model by merging with Booker Wholesale and hopes to maximise its investment by opening Booker Wholesale in oversized stores and further bolster its hold over supply chains. This model has been further strengthened in the last week with a mooted tie up in Europe with Carrefour, again hoping that the resulting buying gains will allow them to invest in “price” to the customer and head off its continuing market share hemorrhage to discounters.
Online retail “getting physical”
The obvious and well publicised move to online (anywhere between 18-23% currently) is only going one way and is impacting just about every corner of traditional retail. However, as traditional retail finds its mojo and distills the mechanisms to fightback, this is likely to slow. This will occur particularly as traditional retail strengthens its online position and adjusts its store networks to showcase online and finally create the fabled frictionless retail customer journey. We are even seeing a minor trend developing for online retailers needing to “get physical” with Boden for example opening a series of concessions in John Lewis and a new flagship store in Westfield White City. This is a particularly unique scenario as having only one physical store until recently Boden is able to analyse and absolutely show the uptick in sales by location of a physical footprint and thus prove the added value to the brand of having a well placed destination store footprint.
A further trend powered by the varied choice of sales channels now available is the massive growth of direct to customer sales by trusted and well recognised brands now able to communicate and sell directly to their “fans” through a whole manner of online and social media channels meaning they no longer have the reliance on brand integrators and department stores like House of Fraser and Debenhams that appear to be in terminal decline.
Social and Experiential Retail
Out of town and larger destination malls are still experiencing decent footfall (falling only about 1% YOY) as they cater to those seeking both social and experiential shopping. However, we are seeing events like the World Cup and weather increasingly being blamed or relied upon to drive sales that probably means retailers are somewhat scraping the proverbial barrel for excuses and reasons why marginal business cases or targets are failing.
Meanwhile Hammerson has quietly announced this week the intended sell off of their Retail Parks division to concentrate on the larger prime destinations in their portfolio. However, conversely, they have also announced plans to shelve the long awaited redevelopment of Brent Cross, surely one of their real prime assets, awaiting one supposes a more stable retail climate for such a huge investment.
Allied to Retail the experiential side of leisure continues to buck the trend with people increasingly spending on experiences rather than more “stuff”, probably largely to do with a backlash against the last 20 years of cheap, mass produced products now filling our houses and in part to the changing demographic of the customer. Younger customers are less likely to need or want much “stuff” as they are a) still living with parents or b) have a tiny probably rented apartment that is too small for much “stuff” and c) they are still living a student nomadic lifestyle well into their twenties.
IFO’s delivering value
Food and Beverage is largely showing many of the same traits as traditional retail with informal eating out (IFO) brands delivering family value, such as McDonald’s, romping away with their market while higher price points chains are beginning to fold left right and centre. The example this week is Gaucho’s going to the wall. This emphasises a change in spending behaviours and probably indicates that our visiting and traditionally high spending London tourists are probably hunting for value in the same way that UK residents are, hinting at a more global slowdown beginning to affect trade in general.
Discounters still stealing market share
The market continues to fall in love with the discount sector that is continuing to steal market share from just about everyone. Until the current recessionary customer behaviours begin to abate (probably post Brexit) then this sector will thrive at the expense of larger more established retailers. This sub-sector is largely unaffected by online but can be just as prone to debt and mismanagement as the rest of retail as seen by the over expansion and rapid decline this week of Poundworld, highlighting the need to concentrate on costs and run a lean ship – a valuable lesson currently being scrutinised by many others.
Anything Could Happen!
In such a changing retail environment literally, anything could happen in the next six months as existing associations unravel and traditional retail bedfellows fall out of love and look to younger models to drive their businesses forward. For instance, we see the disastrous effects on profits of Sport Direct effectively betting on the future of department stores with large stakes in both Debenhams and House of Fraser. How many lesser known deals will become tragically public as the heat of summer and pressure continues to build around historical retail expansions and takeovers fueled by debt? My prediction is that the second half of 2018 is sure to yield yet another set of pretty surprising headlines!
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The Australian Academy of Science has partnered with Live on Stage Australia to bring legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin to the Australian stage.
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Aussie rugby chief cites schedule as roadblock to Manu-Wallabies tests
“As a Tier One nation, our test schedule is really busy as it is.” (Photo: Thomas Airey)
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By Thomas Airey, 11/09/2019
The Chief Executive Officer of Rugby Australia, Raelene Castle, said the chances of any further Wallabies matches against the Manu Samoa, including a game at Apia Park, depend on scheduling.
Speaking to the Samoa Observer in Sydney prior to the Manu Samoa's departure for the Rugby World Cup in Japan, she said they have to be responsible for athlete welfare:
“As a Tier One nation, our test schedule is really busy as it is,” she said.
She said the 13-14 tests the Wallabies already play each year is already at the upper limit of what is feasible, especially with Super Rugby on top.
“Australia and New Zealand recognise that we both need to play more games against the Pacific nations,” Castle said.
“Something that we’re very keen to see if we can fit it into the new schedule going forward.”
The comments come after Samoa's Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr. Sailele Malielegaoi, put an invitation for the two nations to play a test on Samoan soil to his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, during bilateral talks between the two leaders in Sydney over the weekend.
Ms. Castle did say they would also love to bring the Wallabies to Apia Park at some stage:
“It’s important for us to be looking at how we use the Wallabies to engage.”
For the test on September 7th in Sydney, Rugby Australia made the initial approach to the Samoa Rugby Union, which Raelene Castle said they did for a number of reasons:
“We wanted the Wallabies to have a trial match before they left Australia, so a chance for Australians to say goodbye.”
The Wallabies players also needed a game after their camp in New Caledonia, and the Australian Government provided financial support for the game through the Pacific Aus Sports programme, which also allowed the Samoa Rugby Union to take a rare slice of the takings from the match.
“All the puzzle pieces just came together really,” Castle said.
The CEO also said there is room for debate on the issue of international eligibility, which has always been a challenge for Pacific Island nations.
Castle said all rules need constant reviewing, and hopes the World Rugby Council can explore the issue in March:
“I think the eligibility criteria is something that World rugby should look at again, whether it still continues to deliver the outcomes we put them in place for.
“It’s important that we have credibility around our international teams so we don’t have players swapping between teams season after season.
“But at the same time I think there is a lot of talent that has played for, whether it be in the northern hemisphere or for Australia and New Zealand, that could add significant value if they went back and played for their home country.”
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Oz-themed San Diego County Fair set to lift off today
With the Don Diego statue dressed as the Wizard of Oz in the foreground, Andy Mazon paints a depiction of the Emerald City at the entrance of the San Diego County Fair on Thursday at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. This year’s fair, which has a “Wizard of Oz” theme, opens its summer run on Friday, May 31.
(Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Pam Kragen
DEL MAR —
Even before opening day gets under way today at the San Diego County Fair, the annual five-week event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds is already one for the record books.
This year’s fair — which opens at 4 p.m. today and runs through 11 p.m. on July 4 — will run a record 27 days, making it the longest-running fair in North America, as well as the largest in the United States.
But if those facts aren’t enough to impress visitors, then the creative minds behind this year’s imaginatively designed entry gates have set their own record.
In honor of this year’s “Ozsome” fair theme, a 40-member team from Pacific Events Productions has spent the past several weeks building an elaborate “Wizard of Oz"-inspired gate that stands 43 feet high. It’s the tallest gate the San Diego company has built for the fair in nearly 20 years of designing and building them, according to employees Becky Chester and Jennifer Wolford, who were onsite Thursday overseeing the gate’s final assembly and painting.
L. Frank Baum is said to have written many of his “Oz” books while wintering in Coronado from 1904 to 1910, so the entry gate features several oversize versions of these books as well as the gates to the emerald city, a yellow brick road and an enormous pair of Dorothy’s silver slippers (they were changed to ruby slippers for the 1939 film). In Baum’s honor, the entryway statue of fair ambassador Don Diego has been dressed up this year in an emerald-hued top hat and tux.
With the Don Diego statue dressed as the Wizard of Oz in the foreground, Andy Mazon paints a depiction of the Emerald City at the front entrance of the San Diego County Fair on Thursday in Del Mar. The fair opens Friday.
Inside the gates on Thursday, retail vendors, restaurant booth operators, gardeners and exhibitors were rushing to make final preparations.
In the midway area, Amy Reed and Cher O’Dell were hanging stuffed animals in the Balloon Pop booth, where everybody who spends $5 to toss beanbags at balloons is guaranteed a prize. They’re employees of Paul’s Concessions, a Texas-based carnival game operation that spends 11 months of the year at fairs throughout the Western U.S. Paul Nemeth followed his father into the business and his son is now in training to carry on when he retires. Reed said the San Diego County Fair run is one of the company’s busiest locations.
Michael Gilliam puts up stuffed animal prizes at the Balloon Pop carnival game at the San Diego County Fair on Thursday at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The fair opens Friday, May 31.
A few hundred yards away, Marlon Featherstone was doing touch-up painting on the front wall of the German Fun House, an old-fashioned walk-through playground for adults that includes an indoor obstacle course and nonstop soundtrack of polka music. Featherstone usually oversees Fun House operations from his home in Ohio, but he flies to Del Mar each summer to supervise operations onsite because he loves the scenery in California.
“We do really well here in San Diego,” Featherstone said. “Opening weekend is always good for business and you’d be surprised that most of our customers are adults, not kids.”
Marlon Featherstone applies touchup paint at the German Fun House at the San Diego County Fair on Thursday, May 30, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The fair opens Friday, May 31.
One of the quietest areas at the fairgrounds Thursday was the animal barns. Livestock shows don’t begin until Saturday, so none of the beef cattle, market pigs, dairy goats, llamas or other hooved animals had arrived yet. This summer’s fair won’t have any birds on exhibit because a regional outbreak of the Newcastle avian virus has made group exhibitions unsafe for the birds.
In the garden exhibition area, chefs atEmerald Farms Eatery were conducting a final test-prep of menu items for an employee tasting on Thursday. Emerald Farms is one of six fair food and drink concessions operated by the fairgrounds’ in-house catering business, Premiere Food Services.
Barry Schneider, executive chef for the Del Mar Fairgrounds’ Premiere Food Services, displays several dishes on the menu at the new Emerald Farms Eatery, in the garden area, at the San Diego County Fair, which opens its summer run on Friday, May 31.
Premiere’s restaurants this year include a grilled cheese truck, a taco shop, flatbread booth, a tiki speakeasy and a new Paddock location serving Seaside Market’s famous marinated tri-tip Cardiff Crack. But the Oz-themed Emerald Farms location is the favorite of Premiere’s executive chef Barry Schneider because it serves healthy and locally sourced food items like gourmet toasts, salads, sandwiches, crispy Brussels sprouts and shareable cheese and charcuterie plates priced form $7 to $14.
Some of the Oz-themed options include Dorothy’s Grilled Cheese, with an emerald-colored filling made with avocado, spinach and green goddess pesto and cheese; the Wizard’s pulled pork sandwich with Carolina BBQ sauce and green apple slaw; and Good Witch and Bad Witch toasts made with ingredients such as black pepper ricotta, fresh black mission figs, lavender honey, edamame hummus and oven-roasted tomatoes.
“We’re off the beaten path, but people know we’re here,” Schneider said. “It’s quieter, you can sit and relax and spend a lot less money on food. Most of our regulars each year are fair employees.”
San Diego County Fair
When: Opens at 4 p.m. today and runs through July 4. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, except July 1 and 2. Gates open at 11 a.m. daily, except today and closing day (when it opens at 10 a.m.). Gates close at 10 p.m. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and 11 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and July 4.
Where: Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar
Tickets: $20 for adults, ages 13 to 61. $14 for children ages 6 to 12 and seniors 62 and over. Children 5 and under are free. A 27-day season pass is available for $32 at the fair box office and at San Diego County Albertsons and Vons stores. Children 12 and under get in free on Fridays. Albertsons and Vons supermarkets are also offering a $6 Fair Days ticket deal for admission only today, Saturday and on Wednesday ($10 minimum store purchase required)
Parking: Onsite parking is $17 ($27 in the preferred lot). Off-site parking is $5 at the Del Mar Horsepark, at 14550 El Camino Real, Del Mar, with free shuttle service from 9 a.m. to closing every day. Free off-site parking with shuttle service is available on weekends only and July 1-4 at Torrey Pines High School, 3710 Del Mar Heights Rd, San Diego; and at MiraCosta College San Elijo campus, 3333 Manchester Ave, Cardiff.
Public transit: For $21, adult fairgoers can buy a Fair Tripper combo ticket ($13 for children ages 6 to 12 and seniors 65 and over), which includes one-day fair admission and round-trip transportation on the Coaster and Sprinter trains to the Solana Beach station, where Breeze special route 408 buses leave every 20 minutes for the fair’s west gate.
Online: sdfair.com
Evodio Garcia, left, Antonio Barreda, center, and Austin Mendoza work on lights on the Tango ride at the San Diego County Fair on Thursday, May 30, 2019 in Del Mar, California.
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FAVORITE CLOSED RESTAURANTS
Last week I conducted an online poll asking readers “Which are your favorite South Coast restaurants that no longer exist?” I received more responses to this poll than any conducted in the 1,511 days (give or take a few hours) since I started this blog. In part that is because it’s easier to respond now that you can post comments in the blog where before you had to send me an email.
Many of the restaurants mentioned have been gone for decades while some closed in just the last few months. For my column in the Daily Sound newspaper I gathered up the first 100 names mentioned in the poll and sorted them alphabetically.
How many names do you recognize?
1129, 31 Flavors on Coast Village Rd, Aloha Burger, Andrea’s Harborside, Arby’s, Azuma, Bay Cafe, Big Yellow House, Blue Bird Cafe, Bonanza Steak House, Bray’s 101, Brink’s, Carrows, Casa Blanca, Casa de Sevilla, Casa Linda, Castagnola’s, Chad’s, Chanticlair/Irelands, Char West, Charlotte’s Deli, Chart House, Chef Karim, Cliff’s & Co, Coast Village Snack Bar, Dean-o’s, Eggception, El Cazador, El Charro, Epicurian, Espresso Roma, Fat Burger, Feed Store, Flight Line, Fresh Choice, Geno’s, Good Earth, Greek Italian Deli, Green Gables, Haagen-Dazs, Happy Steak, Head of the Wolf, Hector’s, J.K. Frimples, Jasper’s Saloon, Jimmy’s Oriental Garden, Joe’s Café (original), Johnny’s Rib Shack, Josie’s El Cielito, JR’s BBQ, Jurgesen’s, La Chaumiere, La Paloma, La Tolteca (original), Leatherby’s, Left at Albuquerque, Little Audrys, Lobster House, Maggie McFly’s, Mariann’s Italian Village, Mariscos Boca del Rio, Melting Pot, Mom’s Italian Village, Moonangel, Nan King Gardens, Nippers, Norberts, Nu Restaurant, Olive Mill Bistro, Oysters, Pancho Villas, Papagallo, Pascual’s, Paul Bhalla’s, Pelicans Wharf, Peppers, Pescados, Petersen’s Drive-In, Pino’s, Piranha, Plaka, Red Robin., Redwoood Inn, Ricardo’s, Rocky Galenti’s, Sage & Onion, Sevilla, Somerset, Spike’s, Storke Road Drive-In, Swenson’s, Talk of the Town, Tea House, Teasers, The Grill, The Zone Sports Grill, Timber’s, Tony Romas Ribs, Whitefoot Meat Market
470 Responses to FAVORITE CLOSED RESTAURANTS
Vickie Harvey says:
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 6:26 am
I’ve lived here a long time and remember nearly all of them. Some of them I had totally forgotten about. I enjoy being reminded of some of my favorite places from years past.
Jerry Russoniello says:
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Do you remember the breakfast places Eggception??? and Omletts Etc.??? (sp.?)
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 10:19 pm
I used to work there.. Summer of ’84. We watched the Olympic Torch really from the store front. Remember those gigantic bran muffins…. we used to sell a ton of them.
Wait. How about Club Zelo.?
and the Iguana Club.
Monday, December 28, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Know it well. Saw Brian Shaw there. Friend saw Rob Lowe. DB used to always take care of us royally.
Karen King says:
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 10:43 am
Hi Aubrey: I absolutely loved those bran muffins at the Eggception. I was hoping to find their recipe(s) somewhere/somehow. I worked next door in the Granada Theatre building late ’70s thru mid-’80s. Also, the decadent brownies with the delicious frosting! Needless to say, I had to ration myself or I’d be a big butterball! If you have any idea what made the bran muffins so special, maybe you could email me back. Lots of good memories from working in Santa Barbara. I am working in north county now. kkarabians@aol.com
Bo Page says:
Monday, May 23, 2016 at 6:01 am
yes! I forgot about those bran muffins, and I would order one every time and they were huge! I’ve probably seen you there back then!
Monday, May 23, 2016 at 11:13 pm
Bran muffins were so popular back then, now the only place I see them are Trader Joe’s!
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 6:23 am
Yup, we’d wrap lots of them, freshly baked, after our shifts… they were also sold at Kayser’s Smoothie bar near La Cumbre! Nothing better than an Eggception bran muffin and an orange buttermilk smoothie. I guess Kayser’s has closed?
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 4:30 pm
yup I worked there..then opened PICADILLY CAFE…was my restaurant for awhile…awh, also part owner of prod. company there…awh
modelled at Brook’s Institute…worked at Cafe Del Sol too…my fav
had kids…moved back to grand rapids…to raise kids with family
love love S.B.
Lived in S.B. in 1980- 84 while attending Brooks and the Eggception was the best breakfast place hands down anywhere, and I’ve never been to one that is better 30 years later! They used to serve homemade banana bread with every breakfast and the food was delicious!
Larry Horricks says:
Friday, May 27, 2016 at 10:56 am
I guess we were classmates Bo…I seem to remember you…
Evan Degenfelder says:
Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 6:42 pm
Hi Bo Page,
I’ve been tryin to find info on the Eggception for years. Does anyone know why they closed? It was so popular! I LOVED the omelettes and breads they served. I don’t understand why they would close. Would like to recreate it here in the PNW.
There was standing room only when we went there as students in 1975-1977…
(I think there’s an Asian food place there now)
Robert Wilson says:
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 2:12 pm
If you want the main menu, and recipes etc. that made up the EGGCEPTION, I was a main cook for 2 years, and am a past Top chef who went on to Create the Wine Cask and many other Santa Barbara Institutions when I was younger. I can put together such a place if you are serious. Kind of what I do at times over the years as a Chef/Consultant.
Robert Wilson. 1(805)421-6805
I was one of the Cooks, that helped take it over in 75? The Muffins were really just big, and a classic Raisen Bran Recipe that was on their boxes around that time. All ingredients were CLASSIC bran muffins with NO subs, like everything is today. I think we used honey for 1/2 the sugar. NO ONE is mentioning here what the Eggception was MORE FAMOUS for…Home of 500 Different Omelets…! I learned how to prep ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING at that place….have some cool stories about the soap opera that place was…
Katherine Hodgins says:
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 9:26 am
Do you remember the recipe for the onion cheese rolls? Those were my family’s favorite and I would absolutely love to surprise them.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Yes, I’ve been looking for the cheese onion roll recipe for ages….
and trying to remember what was in the “Santa Barbara Joe” egg scramble.
Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 11:22 am
Yes, I cooked there, for Cliff, the owner, in 1744, before his divorce. His wife got the restaurant in the later 70s, and it was never the same.We had the largest lunch rush, in town
Were you, Cliff the guy, who cooked in Prison, with long ponytail?
Paco says:
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 9:18 am
Yes! There was one upstairs in Isla vista across from Perry’s Pizza!
Is this what I remember as Skip’s Perry’s Pizza? It was right behind the apartment I lived in on Cordoba, so I think that was Pardall, right? Great place. I remember all we needed was a 6 pack of San Miguel from SOS and a square cut pizza (back before I was vegetarian it was the standard pepperoni) and we were good to go!
Jackie Karp says:
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 10:02 am
I worked at both of them!!!
Gina Marie says:
Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Nan King Gardens, the best Chinese Food on lower State Street, owned by the Yee Family
Skip Stecker says:
Audrey, it was called “Club Iguana”
Nan King Gardens was the best chinese food ever! The Yee family was the best people and there kids who still live here honor the Yee Family. One was a police officer and the other a physicians Assitant.
We went there every week entering through the back door to say hi to all the cooks and family. Every day for 18 years of my life till I left town. My parents went there every week till it closed! After eating I could walk over a couple of doors and go to Pep Boys to parts too!
I loved the Yee family for bringing my family many years of happiness!
La Tolteca on Haley St, had the best taquitos, you could buy 10 for $1.00 back in the day!
Janine Morgan says:
Friday, June 28, 2013 at 1:11 am
Poor Richard’s Pub (where Rusty’s is now). Do you remember
that restaurant?
Michael Pownall says:
Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 7:26 pm
I do! I used to go there with my folks back in the 70s. The building was bought and reassembled on the site. Good English food! Yorkshire pudding!
Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Mulled wine!
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 11:58 am
I remember my mom would take us to Brinks.
Monday, November 24, 2014 at 7:21 pm
My grandfather owned El Charro on Santa Barbara and Canon Perdido in the 60- early 70’s before retiring and selling business to what became La Playa Azul. If this is the El Charro you are referring to on the list… the original location was on the corner and they lived in the house that was right next to the restaurant .. I have nice memories ..
Pat Mc says:
El Charro was a favorite of a group of us guys mostly surfers and motorcycle racers in the early ’70’s I think the waitress we always liked was ” Andy” when El Charro closed we went to Casa Blanca.
Carolynne says:
El Charro was better!
Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 5:36 pm
I still miss the enchiladas and would love to have the sauce recipe!,
Gary Frank says:
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 11:19 am
Olga,
In 2014, you mentioned that your grandfather owned El Charro in Santa Barbara. Was his name Abel Maldondo? If so, I am doing research on Senor Maldo and I was wonder if I could ask you a few questions please. Thank you, Gary
Aja, and Downey’s, the cafe on the Mesa where Dominos is, Ocean something or other, and also the sandwich shop where the Mesa bookstore is, also the bar/pool hall where Mesa Burger is. Also, Mexican Fresh.
lynn R says:
Does anyone remember a place that had a burger/omelet restaurant on one side and an upscale steak/seafood restaurant on the other with a bar and mini dance floor in it?
The omelet/burger side I believe was called Cocos. It was off one of the highways in Arlington TX. It was unusual at the time as the omelets and burgers were similar- ex: mushroom/swiss omelet or burger, chili omelet or burger….etc. I worked there and it was open morning to night. The steakhouse didn’t open till 5pm. This was around 1979-1984.
So are you going to take the finalists and have a vote off to see which was number 1? Surely your new blog software has a poll function.
I forgot about Johnny’s Rib Shack, good call on that one.
I loved that place… best place for after church lunch, or so I thought…
Forgot the Tea House!
Was that the place that serviced all these amazing teas in pitures? I remember going to this place that made the most amazing chai tea that I have not tasted a equal to in 30 years.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I have a couple “classics” to add to the list, Jade Terrace, formally at the Bird Refuge, Flapper Alley and The Bakery.
I helped open the Flapper Alley Restaurant. At 18. We were the busiest place in Santa Barbara, AND reveled the Mothers Day Buffets of the Old Montecito Biltmore’s. BUT, what that place became more famous for was the frigin Dancing that happened at night on the second floor. Over 500 people dancing, making that floor bounce ! I have stories of those days that are ripe for an HBO series…Jay Stone, Bill Wood were insane! They did not KNOW I was only 19, when I was helping Bounce that Night Club, as well as cook during day.
Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 10:25 pm
Does anyone remember Little Audrey’s, on State St. ? It was run by a Family, from Goleta I believe. Great breakfast spot.
Definetly some Santa Barbara Classics on that list. Restaurant NU was our favorite. The perfect after work destination. No one comes close to this day
You should have been here when it was 1129. I bought David Crosby several Jack Daniels one night (before his liver transplant) Ah the good ole days.
Meridith Moore says:
Does anyone remember a Mexican restaurant on Milpas, closed in the mid 70’s, may have tried to open in Isla Vista. Didn’t have a Mexican name but it was sooooo good
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Serrafinas?
Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Loved Maya’s. I went to UCSB in 1974 and used to go there ALL the time!
Jenaro valdez says:
Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 9:18 pm
Yes, it was Maya’s, next to the liquor store on Haley and State St,
Joe Rogers says:
Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 6:52 pm
The family of my girlfriend in the early 80’s owned Maya’s and it was located across the street from Jordano’s at Milpas and 101…They had another one out in Goleta a block off of Hollister if I remember right. The one near Jordano’s had the best machaca!
Saturday, December 27, 2014 at 9:30 am
Was it Tiny’s? It wasn’t as good after it moved from Milpas St. though.
Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm
No, not Tiny’s. It had a more formal name, but thanks.
Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:48 am
I loved Tiny’s – everything was delicious. Went once a week with my parents and family and later with my husband.
Dennis Nagy says:
Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 8:16 am
Do you remember the cross/side street on Milpas where Tiny’s was located? It was across that side street from the Snack Shack (do you remember that?) which my Dad managed in the early 1960s.
Carlos R Campos says:
Friday, January 12, 2018 at 10:32 am
My uncle was the main cook at Tiny”s at the corner of Milpas and Reddick Ave, right across from the old Snack Shack which had the best 29 cent burgers.
I used to work at Espana owned by the Castenola’s back in 1980. It was facing the warf across the street. Food was good and margarita’s better. After work we would walk across the street the the Chart House that had great margarita’s too!
Espana had great Margs and the chips and salsa were the best…god drank gallon of margs there. And yes then the Chart house for Clam chowder
My dad worked on that building…..concrete. I had 2 friends that worked there back in the 70s, Aurelio and Adrian Molero (brothers). I used to drink margueritas in there in high school with a fake ID. The place was always packed!
pjt says:
loved nu, azuma, chef karim’s & definitely chad’s!!!!
Does anyone remember the name of the French restaurant that used to be in the spot of Norton’s Pastrami on W. Figueroa in the mid 90’s? I loved that little place!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Kim P says:
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:28 am
Oh, I’m getting weepy!
Mousse Odile
Chip M says:
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 12:28 pm
There was a mexican food restaurant on Milpas that I went alot with my patents and brother called Tiny’s. The restaurant I miss is the Philadelphia House at Modoc & Hollister. It burned down during the Paint Fire.
Yes!!! Tiny’s. It was so good.
Anthony Estrada says:
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 10:27 pm
I went there several times in 1986 in my grad school days. I loved it. I thought about it because I still have a few a mint match box from the place. I wondered if it was still there. When you are student, you want a good meal for your date. But you are still on a student’s budget!
jefffyzone says:
Monday, August 4, 2014 at 11:32 am
before it was the Philadelphia House, it was Colony Prime Rib. It only served Pime Rib and It was served properly with Yorkshire Pudding. It was the Prime Rib you judge all others by. It was the best.
Susie Herziger says:
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 7:24 pm
Just found this while looking for info about the Epicurean. Way before the Philadelphia House it was the Swiss Chalet. Owner’s names were Marie and Louie and it was my mom and dad’s favorite hangout. Live music (polka?) drinks and food. I can remember the Chianti bottles on the tables with the drip candles.
Some more oldie’s from a couple friends.
Chili Factory, Queenie’s and The Rice Bowl,
EILEEN Meza-Arellano says:
The Rice Bowl……the best Cantonese Food Ever. Made by “Mama” herself and a few sons. I still remember, piled high on a chipped ceramic plate, was the best Pork Fried Rice I had ever eaten. My Mother and I would enjoy lunch/dinner all the time. Wonderful memories. My mothe just passed two months ago…..but I can still hear her laugh and talk about “Mama’s” older so Whoe…who was down right rude most times….Lol and he was our waiter! He was hilarious.Lol thanks for letting me share.
If its the one on lower State Street, I think it was called “Frank’s Rice Bowl”
Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 8:14 pm
I Still do an imitation of Frank shuffling up and throwing the silverware on the table….
No hippies ! if you had long hair..
The Espana down on Cabrillo Blvd served up a lot of margaritas back in the 70’s.
Yes! I used to work there in 1980 while going to school. It was the best place. Met a lot of celebrities while working there. I served up a lot of margaritas and they had the best chips and salsa ever!
A trip down memory lane. . .
The Bakery…ohhhh, The Bakery…..my absolute favorite place for breakfast. The croissants were to DIE for and the view…well, gorgeous. I so miss that place.
Gregg Blevins says:
Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4:32 pm
was that mark olivers french bakery?
Carla Jamie Perez says:
Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 2:41 am
No, It was Susan Sullivan who opened The Bakery accross from the Courthouse next to Victor’s Flowers. Susan was my friend and a baker after the true French tradition. She WAS the Meryl Streep character in Its Complicated – a very hands on, let me shower how a real French croissant is made kind of chef and pastry maven. Before The Bakery that location was Irene Davis Pastries – unbelievable, melt in your mouth Dannishes! What memories!!
I worked at The Bakery in the early 90s, when it was owned by same folks as Tutti’s. I lived just down the street and recall walking down there to open in the mornings, in the dark. I worked behind the bakery counter and making espresso drinks for the servers’ tables. On weekends it would be crazy busy and sometimes you just couldn’t get the milk to foam and you had orders stacking up for cappuccinos… aaarrgghh. But it was a cool place, I always recall fondly the way they had Italian language tapes playing in the restrooms.
Chanticleer (sp?) on CVR, now Lucky’s…really liked that place too.
If you remember Chanticlair then you remember Geno’s breakfast place that eventually became Tuttis and now?? You must also remember Nippers (many hangovers there) and Chucks of Hi. on Coast Village??
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 10:28 am
I lived right behind Geno’s and next to The Settlement on CV Circle in the mid 70’s. Their italian omelet was my favorite. Great breakfast hangout. And then Casa Linda just down the street for some great mexican food.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 11:24 am
I remember Geno’s (and the owner Geno Bonoir) very well. I was a diswasher there when I was 13. It was called Sams before Geno took it over.
Nippers, where the CHAMPAGNE was always cold, and the COKE always flowed…
OK, just one more….Kelly’s Corner….State & La Cumbre. Used to like their happy hour a lot.
Mousse Odile and then Odile’s last place: Pinocchio which was where Soho opened and is now Hob Nob
The John Dory??? Now Brophy’s
Yes , they had the Sunrise Burger ( before the EggMcMuffim I’m almost positive)
Copper Coffee Pot
Yes, remember it! as well as Mousse Odile.
Nicole szarlan says:
I would have to say piranha sushi and tuttini I never saw the online poll or I would have placed these two
Rock and Roll Sushi?
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:23 am
The Great Wall, when it opened in the early ’80s, was the best Chinese.
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 10:14 am
Pescado’s on Milpas! THE best fish tacos anywhere!
Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:42 pm
O yessir!!! Pescados!!! Ate there so much I coulda I lived there. The best – makes rubios seem like styrofoam.
m. lepere says:
Zelo’s & World Cafe …. Zia cafe
The restaurants below remind me of growing up in Santa Barbara, I know they weren’t the best restaurants but they bring back so many good childhood memories. That’s when eating out was always fun, I can’t remember ever having a bad restaurant experience when I was a kid. Sunny’s Pizza London Fog Fish and Chips RG’s Giant Dj’s Burgers Mr. C’s Pizza Michael Anthony’s Pizzeria Chewy’s Scandia Buffet Pioneer Chicken Betos Cantina Soho (original location) Alex’s Taco Stand (dont’t remember the name) where the china bowl is now (the volcano salsa!!!) Carnation Chuck Wagon Buffet Wendy’s (Lower State) Hibachi Pescados Foster Freeze Hot Dog on a Stick (La Cumbre) Bobs Big Boy Zeus & Co. Round Table Pizza
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Bray’s 101
Hugh Mandeson says:
Spikes on Hollister had exceptional delivery food especially their Clam Chowder and Fettuccine Alfredo. Italian Pizzeria on Fairview; Chicken Parm sandwich awesomeness. I enjoyed Chevy’s too but the Camino Real Cafe especially when new was fantastic. China City buffet…where will I go when it rains now? Paparazzi in Goieta, Greek House in Old Town Goleta, Fresh Choice downtown, Hola Los Amigos at the beach.
Paul Slavich says:
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 5:14 am
Spike’s had the best potato skins. I left when I graduated
from UCSB in 1988, and I have not had decent potato skins since.
They closed a few years later. Does anyone know what is in that
location now?
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
Boy do I remember all those places . Worked at a few and enjoyed the others. How you can’t forget the around the world at spikes. Good times
I remember going around the world at Spike’s; I did it three times, in addition to the around the world with the five extra mini-kegs. I earned three t-shirts, a long sleeve shirt, a baseball hat, and a mug. I still have a Spike’s card. A few years after graduating from UCSB I took my cousin who was visiting from Slovenia there and he still has his Spike’s card.
Monday, April 13, 2015 at 1:16 pm
Hi Paul – I worked there in ’88 & ’89; maybe even served you a pint or two. Lots of good memories there, but mostly as a consumer not a worker! Lunch crowd was mostly nearby business employees, and then at night mostly UCSB students.
Danielle Rosales says:
I remember Spikes well First few times I was not even 21
Used to go after SCUBA class. I got my first spikes card on my 21st B-Day and everyone was shocked as I had been going for so long. I still have a few unfinished around the world cards…. might have go digging in boxes for them for nostalgic purposes!
I graduated from UCSB in ’88 also! But I continued living here. Not long ago I drove by the old Spikes building and it looks empty =(
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:19 am
I “studied” in SB from 80-83..some of the best times of my life…I’ve eaten, drank ,recovered from drinking, been thrown out of, tried to pick up waitresses, in most of these places…Espana had the best Margaritas in town…clam chowder at chanteclaire,lobster bisque at La Chaumier, Spagetti and meat balls at Joes then hanging out at the bar, there was a place in Carp where you cooked your own steaks Palms hotel?…a great deli on Coast Village Rd that made the best subs on the planet…cant remember the name of the family run mexican rest on either lower De La Vina or Chapala had a couple of tables outside on a little veranda…best tamales and chili relleno I’ve ever had…fond memories steer burgers and the waitresses at Derf’s loved those surf-rats and volleyball girls Dean had working for him…wonder where Jules and her gold VW beetle are now. Funny to engage in this from all the way over in Prague, Czech Republic.
Kenny Morelli says:
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Was it El Presidente?
Dwayne Newton says:
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 9:11 am
The deli on Coast Village Road was the Liquor and Wine Grotto, where I worked. We used to get lots of celebrities coming in for the deli and the really expensive wine.
Chuck Samsin says:
Monday, September 9, 2013 at 2:25 am
I’m thinking about AAHZZ ( later The Bistro) GREAT place !! And Rocky Galentis and the place by the harbor, cant remember the name but SURE do remember their OYSTER SHOOTERS…..college days in S.B. yep the good old days!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 (and I’m thinking about it all in Prague Czech Republic too!!!! 🙂
You were there the same time I was with some of the same memories! I used to work at the Espana, age 21. Before I turned 21 I worked at Bob’s Big Boy on Calle Real. Loved going to the Feed Store for drinks, The English Department in Goleta, Frimples for the most amazing cinnamon rolls, Chart house for margarita’s, and many other bars that I can’t remember the names of. S.B. was an amazing place to be 21 back then!
Bo did you have long blonde hair…your name is really familiar…i was at Brooks from 80-83. good friends with Virginia Boyd, Joe Camp, Bruce Stoddard,Neil Ronnasen…they’re all still good friends but havent see many of them other than Joe over the the years. Joe and I actually worked on a film together in Budapest in 2010. Bruce came to visit me in Prague(where Ive been living in Prague for 21 years)…He had an exhibit here. I work as stills photographer on films. Joe is an Assistant Director on films…and i shot stills on a film he directed back in 1998. We’re still close friends. Did you stay in Photography? and no one has mentioned Head of the Wolf or Woody’s Ribs.
Before JK Frinples I believe it was The Blue Onion. Anyone remember that? Oh and what about The Jolly Tiger on Chapala and De La Guerra.
Tad Clark says:
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 3:27 pm
I absolutely remember the Blue Onion. It was the turn-around spot for the car guys cruising State St. Does anyone remember the Swiss Chalet between Goleta and San Roque?
Marcia Caballero Stirl says:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 7:39 am
Was that the place with wallaby’s inside the atrium?
I remember the Jolly Tiger well. I used to work there during the middle of the night on the weekends in the late ’60s.
Sue (Cole)McCanlies says:
Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 4:35 pm
I worked at the Blue Onion when I was 17 as a waitress and car hop. Great times. So many young CBs became like my brothers. Course that was in the 60s. Ugh! Oxnard sure has changed. I also worked at the Vogue Theatre and the A & W Rootbeer. Great back then.Sigh…I also used to go to the Carousel Club to dance. Back then you could party and sleep on the beach. Have you ever gone Grunion hunting?lol
The Blue Onion/JK Frimples was a late night hangout for Westmont students in the late 70’s.
Cajun kitchen now
jose a gallegos says:
There also used to be a Jolly Tiger on South Milpas, right about across from the old Post Office. That Jolly Tiger had a full bar. First bar I went to for my 21st birthday in 1977. Sometime later it became Wendy’s, now it’s a Carl’s Jr. Does anyone remember the Cresent restaurant about the mid-lower 900 block of State St.? Old fashion breakfast & lunch dinner.
Best food at the Jolly Tiger on Milpas
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 9:29 am
I grew up I Goleta, so my childhood/ teenhood haunts were D.J’s (best chat burger ever!) Jasper’s Saloon ( God do I miss Abalone!) Brays 101, (my parents would always insist on eating in the lounge area,so they could have cocktails) my favorite Italian was Baltieri’s! ( now Natural Cafe in Old Town) it was so good! And cheap! And I must lament over the Old Timbers! Our whole neighborhood would go there on Maine Lobster nights!! Boy, that was depressing!!
Jeff Kaiser says:
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 1:17 pm
You forgot or omitted Azteca. I loved that place.
Oh yeah! Azteca. I loved that place…on State Street, wasn’t it? Or am I getting that confused with Casa Blanca…which was definitely on State Street. You could get cheap, delicious food and hang out with friends, just a stroll away from home (which for me at that time was on a court on De La Vina.
Charles Hanson says:
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Does anyone remember the name of the German Restaurant located downtown? I used to eat there when I lived in SB from 1990-1995.
Whirl says:
I’m pretty sure it was called The German House.
Thanks! So easy, yet I couldn’t remember for the life of me.
Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 7:00 pm
It was the Heidelberg Inn…I lived right next door.
Was the German Haus the Rusty’s on Mission? It looks like it was built to be a European restaurant.
Yes, I remember it being very European looking.
There is no Rusty’s on Mission. If you mean the one on Carrillo, It was Poor Richards Pub, built to the specs of a real English pub.
Monday, May 30, 2016 at 3:31 pm
So that’s what it was!
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 9:59 am
I often miss the Good Earth that was near Picadilly Square (which was torn down to make way for Paseo Nuevo). Too bad they couldn’t put the mall somewhere else, Picadilly Square was downright charming!
Carla Perez says:
We did the theme windows for Good Earth and the commercials for Piccadilly Square. We are still so fond of the food at the Good Earth that we searched out several recipes. Just made a Mediterranean Sunshine Salad last night. We were forced to move after our house burned down in the 1990 fire. We visit often though. We are still morning the loss of The Sojourner this last March!!
Nostalgic list, John. I ate at many of these restaurants. Casa de Sevilla was my all-time favorite and their Chile con Queso recipe is on our menu for tomorrow night. Thanks for generating this list.
These were some of my favorites as a kid in Goleta….Mr. C’s Pizza, Bray’s, Roland’s Nugget, A&W Drive In where Rusty’s is on Fairview, Manila Cafe, Bonanza, Petersen’s, Happy Steak, Swensens, Dj’s Burgers, Pancho Villa. Once my folks took us to Talk of The Town, that was pretty memorable.
Later on when I moved to SB…Nan King Garden, Frank’s Rice Bowl, Good Earth, SB Cinammon Rolls down by the beach, Little Audrey’s, Woolworth’s counter, Copper Coffee Pot, Frimples, Rose Cafe, late nights at Carrow’s, and for something fancy before a night of dancing at Peppers or hanging out at Head of The Wolf….Teasers.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 9:10 am
The Nugget with Roland’s white apron covered with grease was truly a classic.
We remember Tommy’s Golden Nugget on Patterson with the greasy SOS sauce… same thing?
Does anyone remember the Manila Cafe on Hollister? Very funky breakfast joint in the early 80’s… you’d ask for butter and they’d bring you some melted margarine in a little cup! Very friendly place.
Gerald Bostock says:
Monday, December 14, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Sounds a lot like Alphies or an early version?
http://www.yelp.com/biz/alphies-restaurant-goleta
Bobby Gonzales says:
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 8:12 pm
I grew up in montecito worked at the coast Inn Snack bar in 1969, then i bought it 1974 and kept it till 1982 when the lease ran out. I loved it there for that short period of time. it’s now called the Silver Horn, what a trip down memory lane. I had my share of famous people who loved my sourdough burgers. they were the best!!! people forgot tino’s italian deli best torpedo’s in the world. the Santa barbara news press wrote a great artical on me when I closed on that last day. (sad day} Bobby G.
I remember the “Bun” on Coast Village Road where it was six burgers for a buck back in the early 1960s or thereabouts.
shauna@rockisland.com says:
I still remember those sourdough burgers….BEST in the world. I’d forgotten the name of the little place in Montecito but will NEVER forget those burgers….best in the world!
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 12:11 am
Scott worked at the Snack Bar. Best sourdough burgers ever!
George Mann says:
Friday, June 3, 2016 at 10:20 am
I have never forgotten the Sourdough Burgers from my first day in Montecito (to attend Brooks) in January 1968, stayed next door until I found an apartment (with a darkroom), off Milpas in Santa Barbara. There was a lot of great cheap food in Santa Barbara, in those days.
Sam Mead says:
Monday, June 6, 2016 at 8:05 am
George-That apartment off Milpas….The Angie? I lived there in ’77 when I went to Brook! I remember, the landlady was a woman named Maude? Loved those sourdough burgers too! 🙂
Tino’s hands down had the best Italian sub’s ever! I think it was called “Italian Grocery”. They moved from the small location a block away from SBHS to a bigger place that was still open last time I was in SB. “Mayonaise, mustard, and oil?”
Balogne, Mortadella, salami and provolone as well on those subs…Tino was a pervert though, sad to say. I knew many girls who worked there…
Dion says:
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 11:01 am
Be-Bop Burgers was a childhood favorite of mine. Great shakes and a fun atmosphere.
Besides Jasper’s Saloon, Baltieri’s, D.j.’s Charburgers, Bray’s 101, Scotch & Sirloin, Swensen’s, Pancho Villa, The Timber’s, Heidi’s Pies, The Orchid Bowl, A&W, The Original Habit, Char West, The Good Earth (Picadilly Square) Carrow’s, Italian Pizzaria (Fairview) and Howard Johnson’s end of course….Hot Dog on a Stick (loved those cool uniforms!)….I also miss good old original Mel’s (before Paseo Nuevo took over…sigh..) whaaaaa!!!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Char West! Remember it well. I do miss Santa Barbara…
There still is a Char West on Stearn’s Wharf.
Yes I remember Char-West too I miss S.B. as well!!!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 12:06 am
When you said “original Habit,” which one did you mean?
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Oh no! Not even the same as the original!
Where was the old Char West located again? I forgot. The owner of the East Beach Grill and Char West on the pier I believe bought the “franchise” from the original guy. Burger I had on the pier was good(reminded me of a Habit one), East Beach one not so much.
lemonjelly says:
The old Char West was on upper State, sort of around the Rusty’s/Jack in the Box area.
Brian Birmingham says:
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Char West was where Taco Bell is now on Upper State. I
remember when they mowed it down to build that. Sad day . Was a
great hangout when we used to cruise Muscle cars on Upper State in
the mid 70s
Lisa Krueger says:
Great question thank you so much for asking it and the great responses. I worked at the Bistro so was a big fan, loved a little Italian place called Piero’s..trying to remember the hibachi style place on state in the early 80’s oh and surprised no one mentioned the Fish Enterprise when we still had stoplights on the freeway. As I’m in vegas now don’t know if Harrys is still around (stiffest drink in town lol) or that great polynesian bar\restaurant upstairs at the Santa Barbara Inn we would drink those huge crazy blue drinks made for 2…I loved the place up at the El Encanto also…amazing view!
I used to work at AAHZZ during college (which became the bistro) I worked there for a short while too …AHZZZ was a great club with a super sushi chef outside named Masa ….
Fish Enterprise was started by Ray Klein…he worked for Sam Batastone, Sambo’s founder, and both were Mob connected.
Rex Of SB says:
Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 6:26 pm
This is ABSOLUTELY not true. Attribution, please, or we know this is a total falsehood. (Which of course it is).
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 8:43 am
When and where was Bob’s Big Boy?? We would often go there when we were visiting our dad in L.A. Mind blowing chili spaghetti! And I still order that crazy Bob’s seasoning salt (the secret ingredient, believe it or not is curry powder!). I do not remember a Bob’s here in town! I think I was really little when there was an A&W in Fairview, for some reason I just remember a big, round, copper fireplace that one could sit around….is this real or a dream?
The Bob’s Big Boy was around Hitchcock and Calle Real. Before it was car dealerships, it was a Golf and Fun with miniature golf, skate park and arcade games. Bob’s Big Boy was adjacent to that.
I miss Bob’s in general, barely remember that one and don’t remember the A&W. I remember that good Italian place down the street with their great Calzones where Natural Cafe is now. Wonder what happened to that owner.
Golf n Stuff was pretty cool. I was the king of Defender and Battle Zone. Miss those pinball machines too! Good times!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm
My friend tore up his knee on that trampoline/baskettball game they had there and sued them, I hope that was not their downfall! It was great not to have to go to Ventura.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 8:48 am
Hey Glenn! The awesome Italian place you were referring to was called Baltieri’s and it was my favorite Italian place for years! The original owner is the Presto Pasta guy. But he didn’t own Baltieri’s for very long, he told me that he was young and didn’t have a clue what he was doing, so he sold and split. I told him that he must have done something right, everything about that place I just loved! Sigh…
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Maria’s Italian or something like that, no? My parents liked it.
ThisGirl says:
Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 9:17 pm
It was Marianne’s Italian Villa!!
Yes, on Calle Real. I used to work there in 1979/80. They were always busy and had great food actually.
Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 10:57 am
Moms Italian Village
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 1:19 am
Um, no. Mom’s had one and only one address.
Sorry if you were just trying to state your favorite closed restaurant and accidentally made a reply.
https://www.santabarbara.com/dining/news/2010/12/09/end-of-an-era/
https://www.santabarbara.com/dining/news/2013/05/12/moms-update/
I was an opening shift waitress at Bob’s in 1985. It was packed for breakfast and lunch on the weekends, which made it surprising that it disappeared soon thereafter. Probably just wasn’t the same after I moved from SB! I also worked at the Habit in IV for several years of college. Now there are Habits all over, but I can’t find any mention of that one on their website. I was just curious which was the original, cuz I know there was one downtown which did not seem to be affiliated with IV, which is long gone.
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Some great posts… Swensen’s in Goleta and at San Roque had the best icecream sundaes – we always had trouble deciding between the Banana Split and the Cable Carfait. Does anyone remember the Epicurean? I believe it was on Carrillo Street; and, later, Michael’s Waterside. The french onion soup was to die for.
I don’t remember The Epicurian, but I was just looking it up because my mother has had a framed menu on her wall for decades. Tracy
My college boyfriend took me here in the 80s. He had good taste (obviously it wasn’t cheap either) !!
The Epicurean was in the 100 block of East Carrillo, next door to what is now the Probation Dept.
Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7:57 pm
I ate at the Epicurean in 1978. They had two seatings a night, and a set menu–I think you chose between a couple of main courses. The tables were quite close together, and Robert Mitchum was seated at the table next to me. Wonderful food, and a memorable evening.
I remember going there in early 1980’s. Is the Probation Dept. a bar? If so, I thought it was the English Dept.
The Probation Dept. is a County Office. It used to be the County Welfare Dept. – now called County Social Services.
The English Dept. was definitely a bar. Also, does anyone remember the Lame Duck or is that the same as the English Dept. I remember professor from UCSB, Bob Brandts was one of the proprietors.
Btw, you might like browsing the list of SB restaurants going back a century: http://santa-barbara-restaurant-history.wikispaces.com/
If you have information to contribute, you can send it to the site owner.
Lisa Minnerly says:
Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 11:28 am
My family moved to SB in 1969. Pancho Villa was a favorite. Casa De Sevilla was also a favorite.
Char West was good. And Sambo’s pancakes.
Sandy Sanderson says:
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 9:30 am
Came upon your column, I worked for United at the airport, about 1957-1963 Enjoyed dinners or few cold ones at the Flight Line, Owner Art ?? was ex pilot, Last 40+ years I call Florida home, Back then if you blinked you could miss Goleta, Quick stop about 4 years ago, way over crowded now, .but still pretty area.
JRL says:
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 11:48 am
Here are a few more to bring back some memories….
The Chili Factory, The Silver Spur and The Crabby Lobster (best clam chowder).
Oh how I miss The Crabby Lobster! That’s where I fell in love…w/ oysters! The chowder was superb indeed. Thanks for jogging my memory.
What was the name of the steak house tucked back in on that little street beside 5 Points Shopping Center and the Animal Hospital? It was on the ground floor of an office building.
aug says:
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 1:19 pm
it was related to the silver spur after they closed
Ken Bortolazzo says:
It was called Fred D’s Spur or just The Spur (That was on the sign). It was named after son of the original owners of the Silver Spur after he won a liquor license in the lottery.
Stephen A. Smith says:
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 10:15 am
I lived in SB from 1952 til 1978 and remember most of these places. How about Dick’s Den great avacado sour cream omlet
George Curtin says:
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 4:18 pm
I miss the fresh cut butter top bread from Irene Davis Bakery. Another great deal was at the Snack Shacks (5 burgers for a dollar) on Milpas, lower, and upper State street. There might have been more, but these were the ones my parents took me to. The one on Milpas was across the street from Milpas Raceway (slot car days).
Brimo72 says:
Wow, a lot of great memories here. A few of my favorites growing up were Bonanza, Char West, Moms Italian Village, Zips Ice Cream Parlor, Sonny’s Pizza, Flying Pizza, La Tolteca, Little Audrey’s, Joe’s Cafe, and JK Frimples. My first job was at The Hibachi on Milpas. As I got older I enjoyed, BB Obrien’s, The Ketch, Club Bistro, The Open Door, Crab Shack, Big Bull Cafe, Sticks, Aloha Burger, el Pollo Norteno, Alex’s Cantina, Acapulco, Maya Restaurant, and Peabody’s.
My favorite pizza in SB when I was there (’77-’78) was Flying Pizza followed by Pizza Luau. Tastes change though so only God knows if they were as good as I thought!
Santa Barbara Dianne says:
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Skandis Buffet ! And Fresh Choice!
We need a good buffet place again! Hometown Buffet, are you listening?
KimO says:
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 11:55 am
We loved the Philly House that burned down! Everything on
menu was good. Another place I remember was Feed Store with that
big salad bowl they would bring you. The salad had sunflower seeds
in it…really good. We also loved Citronelle that started in late
80’s in the Santa Barbara Inn. In mid to late 70’s I used to go to
a natural food restaurant on Milpas that I think used to be where
La Superica is now or maybe it’s where old Fosters Freeze was on
Milpas. I used to get a sandwich on whole grain bread that I
remember it as having layers of cream cheese, guac, black olives,
sprouts and shredded carrots. Anyone remember the name of this
restaurant?
Before it was Fosters Freeze, was it an Orange Julius?
San Roque native says:
Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Carnation Diner, they had the best fries and milkshakes. I
still remember watching it being torn down in the early 90s as a
student at Peabody. Sad day, would make a killing today rather than
having El Pollo Loco and a verizon store. Also miss special
occasion dinners at the original Wine Cask and Big Yellow House.
Woody’s on Montecito (neighborhood now) was a really cool place to
go, Goleta location is still there but the energy and vibe are
different (from what I remember at least).
Sam Blethecavitch says:
Monday, July 8, 2013 at 9:15 am
The Head of the Wolf…I worked there off and on as well as
the satellite location in Palm Springs. What a party. Every night.
Craig Bigelow owned the place with a couple of other investors.
When the blues band was added on Friday and Saturday nights, bar
revenues went from $200/night to $3000/night. Paid the blues band
(Bobby Franklin?) about $150/night. Loggins and Messina used to
dine there regularly though not together. Partied with Bonnie Raitt
and band post Arlington concert. Chill Wills, Steve Martin ate
there. Weekend influx of LA actors. Employees Ty Robb, Bobby the
chef, Mario and Ed the bartenders, Elaine the Manager, Sharon the
hostess. Non-stop fun and getting paid for it. Those were the
Not a favorite, but an ancient: Loops on upper State. I was so young I can’t remember — was it Hope & State? I do remember we hurried out one night when there was threat of a fight involving chains.
And upper State St. Sambos. I still love the children’s story.
More on topic: The Mandalay! 1980. Across parking lot driveway from Olio pizzeria; next to Vic Theater. I still haven’t pinpointed address.
Oysters, where Bouchon is now.
I used to sing French and Italian art songs at the Mandalay. Bruce, the owner and his wife were so wonderful! Always afternoon tea and scones and wonderful curries. So relaxed and civilized… It was like living in a bubble!
I worked at Bob’s Big Boy, and the Habit in Isla Vista. Can
anyone tell me if this chain of Habits that is opening up all over
has anything to do with the one in IV. Was the original in IV or
Goleta and was it a different owner? The new ones seems like the
one in downtown SB and they don’t have chili on the
Friday, November 6, 2015 at 3:47 pm
The only habit that continues to offer chili is in old town Goleta. But they do still offer it.
Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 9:00 am
But do you, or anyone, know why the IV location isn’t mentioned on the Habit’s history?
I don’t know how long it was open, but I worked there for three years.
They used the name, but maybe not affiliated with the parent company?
Maybe an independent franchise? I became curious when all the other locations started opening, but maybe I’ll never know!
Does anyone have any photos of the ceiling and the drawings
at the old Rocky Galentis. Would like to see if mine was still
there after many years
Kd says:
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 12:21 am
A couple more are Main Squeeze ( it was on corner next to Soujouner) and my favorite Poncho Villa
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Pancho Villa was me and my best friends to go place on a Sat. afternoon. We’d ride our bikes down to Calle Real Centre, gobble down free chips and salsa and drink water, whilst reading our menues…only to split when we were full. After about a dozen times or so , we were finally banned. There were always freebees across the way at 31 Flavors! Oh to be 10 again in the 70’s!
Eric Luriergo says:
OMG! We used to do the same thing in the 70’s
Big Al circa 1970-1988 says:
Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 9:42 pm
What about Pascuals on Victoria….the greatest man who ever owned a restaurant…sang to his customers etc and the place in Montecito wher the original “Cougars” hung out….was it Olive Mill Bistro……
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 2:34 am
The Good Earth – loved that Planet Burger, Baltieris,
Skandi Buffet – not great food but they did have good crepes and
applesauce, The Bakery across from the courthouse and Tutti’s –
favorite breakfasts of all time. The Philadelphia House,
taco/burrito place in IV by Giovanni’s – cant remember the
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 12:20 pm
how about the blue onion, dutch garden, a&w root
beer, brooms ,sammy’s, just few that an old guy remembered
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Dutch Gardens is still with us! Just Google it.
shout out to Big Al, and to PASCUAL! Best pork chops in the world; best Sunday brunch then read and snooze. Waitress Suzie is at Breakwater, right?
tom wilson says:
Friday, October 25, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Feb 1973,18 yrs. old, just finished my 1st (unsuccessful) semester of college at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and with a 1966 Impala convertible and a couple hundred bucks in my pocket, I managed to make it to Santa Barbara. My Grandparents lived in Woodland Hills, Topanga Canyon and my older brother was in the Air Force at Vandenburg near Lompoc, so… I settled sort of in between. Fell in love with SB. Got a job at SB Mill and Lumber on E Haley St., worked for a Jose who took me to some great Mexican eateries along E. Haley and took me to see the nude beach in Summerland (great); after a few visits, I finally mustered the nerve to walk the tracks and down over the steep bank to try it out. Fantastic !!. BUT….Can’t remember the apartment complex, but they had an old house that had 3 rooms upstairs, mine w/ a kitchenette, we shared a bath room. It was right up the street from the BLUE BIRD CAFE where I went quite often and enjoyed the jug bands that played all the time. I had just sparked a memory and googled the Blue Bird and read up on the 50 years of Peter Feldmann and realized I was there right in the mist of those five grand years. Also saw Greatful Dead w/ the New Riders of Purple Sage at UCSB. twenty yard line , unbelievable !!! Went back to Shepherd, got a math degree and have taught high school math for the past 30 plus years. Great memories…….
Mark Mason says:
Left SB in 1980, and it’s been nice to read through the
comments as there are so many places I’d forgotten. The best
margaritas were definitely at Espana. Loved the waitresses at
Derf’s….I clearly remember on stunning blonde, Gaynor McGregor.
Anyone know if the Enterprise Fish Company is still there? Used to
spend Sunday afternoon at the bar drinking Sam Smith’s Pale Ale and
eating their stellar clam chowder. Anyone remember Teaser’s? I can
still hear Ace Diamond (yeah, that was his name) on the radio
imploring people to come to Teaser’s where “We’ll spoil you. You’ll
John Dickson says:
Yes, Enterprise is still there
Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 9:00 pm
I too remember Gaynor McGregor. We were good friends for a short while. What happened to her?
Completely forgot about this thread until today. Wish I knew what happened to Gaynor as well. I worked at the YMCA with one of her friends (Elaine) who introduced us. Played racquetball with her occasionally. The time, it passes quickly….
Yes, I worked at the Espana in 1980 and they did have the best margaritas. My friend worked at the Enterprise Fish Company then too, also blonde named Erin Foti who was attending Brooks.
Lori Woelk says:
Friday, December 20, 2013 at 9:36 am
How about Sun and Earth natural foods restaurant in Isla Vista in the late 60’s to mid 70’s? For forty cents, you could get a plate of veggies and brown rice! Perfect place for impoverished students. They had an enclosed patio to sit on the floor and eat off of paper plates.
Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 10:24 pm
Loved Sun and Earth. Brown rice with steamed cabbage and carrots topped with cheese. Huge portions. Just add soy sauce. Sitting at tables under the geodesic dome covered in vines on a sunny—we thought those days would never end.
Oh, i forgot the dish would also have sliced almonds in addition to the veggies. Simple food.
Lisa Haddad says:
Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 8:28 am
I worked there as a hostess in 1979 or 1980 and have never been to another restaurant like it. The chefs and one server, Annette, were surfers who would actually go fishing and serve fresh-caught fish along with those enormous salads. I still try to emulate the dressing – a mixture of good olive oil, tamari sauce and fresh-squeezed lemon. The wooden spool tables out back were pretty funky, with brown rice embedded in all the cracks and stray cats walking all over your meal… but we liked it, we loved it!
Pino’s! Many work lunches there, and some dinners. (Caroline, aka Mrs. Pino, babysat me when I was a kid. :-))
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 6:26 am
I miss Pino’s very very much.
Darla says:
Friday, August 14, 2015 at 9:29 pm
I miss SB and Goleta! I was raised there and I used to go to Pino’s as a kid back in 1979-1981 every week. I remember Pino himself ALWAYS singing while bringing the best pizza and spaghetti I’ve ever had to this day!!! I moved out of state but went back in 1985 and had grown up quite a bit, and he STILL remembered me!! I sure miss him and the wonderful food they made!! I sure wish they were there!!
Legendary Abalone dinners ar Jasper’s Saloon. And of course the locals only Early Bird Prime Ribs slathered in BBQ sauce. I suddenly feel overwhelming sense of melancholy…. missing the 80’s and all the fabulous old haunts. I remember when Elephant Bar opened. Wow! The coolest place in town for Happy Hour and Spikes was right across the street… Good times.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Yes! Jasper’s on Calle Real!
Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 11:57 am
Monday, January 6, 2014 at 9:56 am
Does anyone remember the Somerset restaurant and lounge on Coast Village Road with their famous “piano bar”? I think they closed about 1975.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 12:51 pm
I worked at the Head of the Wolf on lower State Street in the 70’s. there was a guy who ran the place named Rod McDougal., Wonder what happened to him. Also worked at the H&R Land and Cattle Company on Santa Claus Land in Carpenteria for awhile. That place was the getaway if you needed privacy. What a time that was.
Here’s a few more I haven’t thought of in awhile. Going way back in time, anyone besides me remember the original Sizzler restaurant in Magnolia Center where Woody’s is now? For me, the most original German food could be found at the Hofbrau Restaurant and German deli on the corner of Alamar and De la Vina. The best fish and chips I ever had came from H. Salt. And although it wasn’t around too long, Little Alex’s Mexican in Goleta had some great salsa, food and entertainment.
I thought Flapper Alley preceded Woody’s. Don’t remember Sizzler ever being in that location. I was one of the original staff members when Sizzler opened in 1987 in the Blue Ox location on Hollister. I believe there was a Happy Steak where Cody’s is now and The Bonanza in Goleta where Spikes Place was ( great location for a restaurant ). All places had the Sizzler business model.
I worked at Baker’s Square during its brief incarnation in SB, good pies, sort of like Coco’s. I also remember Something Fishy for sushi, and JK Frimples. What was a frimple again?
A Frimple was their signature dessert. I think I remember it being something like profiterole with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. They were magical.
Monday, January 27, 2014 at 2:21 pm
Do you (anyone) remember Hobson’s? They were like Coldstone, before we had Coldstone.
Kirk Elliott says:
Before the Sizzler it was the Elegant Farmer. I bartended there from 1982 until the day we closed on Halloween, 1984
The Restaurant Guy used to work in the local Hobson’s factory, at what is now Calle Cesar Chavez, making ice cream as a summer job. I then delivered ice cream to my sister who worked at Hobson’s on Stearns Wharf. My favorite part was bringing home tons of extra ice cream. If the last of a batch couldn’t fill a tub, we got to take it home. I remember working on the deep freezer until my limbs were numb then laying out in the sun until I could move again. Everyone who worked nearby was given free ice cream.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 12:30 am
No wonder they didn’t last! I remember there was one in Orange for a little while after I moved to the O.C. I think also one in Montecito?
Lived in Santa Barbara 1955-1976.
how about Ken’s Drive In We would ride our bikes there from Peabody school
Steve High says:
Monday, July 6, 2015 at 12:27 pm
I went to Peabody School in 1958-1959–Mr Fry’s class. And yes, Ken’s Drive-In was the best!
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 6:51 pm
Yes, Kens Drive in on De La Vena. Me and my sister used to love the fish and chips there in about 1964. We went to Garfield School.
Garfield classic
Baseball on blacktop like Roosevelt
No fosters was on delaguera amd milpas
La suparica was orange julius went there almost everyday when i went to Lincoln school
In the late 60’s or early 70’s Ken’s started making zucchini burgers, too. Maybe some other meatless burgers. Ahead of their time. Unique and delicious.
Joe Hayes says:
Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 10:17 pm
I miss Bobby Levi’s and the original Ye Olde Butcher shop (before the fire)
valdo herby says:
I was in SB to cover the floods of about 1995 (that washed a poor retired judge down a canyon), and after a hard day’s work we would repair to a unique bar and restaurant somewhere off Hollister, maybe off Patterson, going West toward the water. Great couple ran it, wife’s name was “Marty” and I’m forgetting the husband’s for the moment. Absolutely the best bartender in town in a fellow named Kevin. We labeled his strong drinks “Kevinators.” Anyone know the name or whereabouts, exactly. Great sophisticated sort of menu toward continental side. nice guitarist-singer there, did “Hello Girl It’s Been a While…” loved it. Like to recall it better. Nothing else there, just empty lots. Hard to find. thanks!
Monday, April 7, 2014 at 8:14 pm
What a great thread. I came here looking for the name of the Scandi Buffet. Couldn’t remember it to save my life. But I was thinking of it yesterday and those big tapestries on the dining room wall.
Also, I’ll add Koelsch’s bakery in Five Points to the list of gone but not forgotten. I STILL walk past and wonder why there’s a wall where the bakery door should be!
The Koelsch’s adopted us when we moved to SB in ’65 because we had the same last name and they came from the same city I. Germany as my dad. We used to go there every Saturday morning and hang out in the back. Always got loads of goods including g the u forgettable cinnamon loaf.
Bill Luckow says:
Monday, January 23, 2017 at 11:29 am
I am looking for Joe and Chris Koelsch’s daughters, Kelley and Lesley. Can you pass along my contact information? I am a distant cousin to Chris [Even] Koelsch. thanks. bill. Email is BLUCKOW2003 at YAHOO dot COM
Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 5:28 pm
I worked at Koelsches Bakery for about 3 years in 1980s. and I was I’ve been wondering what happened to Kelley her sister and she had a brother, tight blond curl
Kelley Stoddard says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 2:08 pm
Hi Colette! It’s Kelley – I just saw your post! Still in SB
Sunday, April 20, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Paula’s Place at Alamar & De la Vina, before Mimosa was there. Had a birthday dinner there decades ago. Too bad I can’t remember what I ate.
Also can’t remember the places that were at the location Madame Lu’s is now at, but being blocks from where I grew up, the family ate at all of them. Wish I could remember what it was in 1978 — Wonderful couple owned it and always served home-made yellow split pea soup.
And Carl’s Steakhouse (I think it was), where Your Choice Thai is now?
I remember Carl’s was one of my parents favorite in the late 50s.. Would get burgers to go when I worked at Mac’s Bicycle Shop in the late60s
Was Mac’s Bicycle in Loreto Plaza then? Or closer to Hope Ave? I know I went there, but I can no longer place it.
I too miss Koelsch’s bakery and have very fond memories. My mom baked awesome chocolate-sour cream-choc. chip bundt cake, home-made sourdough, buckwheat pancakes and more, but when it came to little kids’ decorated birthday cakes, we bought them there, along with the occasional eclair treat. I still remember my Halloween themed birthday cake when I was 10 or so, it was gorgeous. Hard sugar witch, black cat, pumpkin, beautifully done.
I love this thread.
Mac’s bike shop was 3411 state between the post office & the Farmer Boy. They had a store in Goleta too Mac’s Goleta Schwinn
Would have the best time at Club Zelo’s from 1985ish -1987. Great owner Bob Stout and the restaurant food was great too! Such fun times!
Great memory. I know I ate there a few times, but my memory is my first company holiday party, held there. Great food and atmosphere. Boss gifted us with bottles of White Swan from Moet & Chandon, that was good too. I think that was the name, it was tasty amber champagne.
Skip Willis says:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Angels on Horseback at BB OBrians.
What a meal!
Willard O. Allen says:
When are they going to determine what they are going to do with the former Elephant Bar in Santa Barbara. It has been quite sometime since it closed……
All for now,
/. Bill ……………aka………………..WB
Marie Breidenstein-DeBevoise says:
Re-opened on December 7, 2015 as the High Sierra Grill.
Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 12:34 pm
There was a wonderful restaurant on Upper State St. on the north (or is it east) side of the street that we went to for our anniversary years ago. It was intimate and quaint, not stuffy and had excellent food. I think the name was one word. Does anyone know what it may have been?
Monday, July 21, 2014 at 9:34 am
Was it the Stockpot? I remember their wonderful cheesecake.
No, but thanks for trying. It had lovely atmosphere and was perfect for a special occasion.
It sounds like it could be Aja which became Jade.
No, that wasn’t it, but I’ll post it when I figure it out. Thanks!
What year? Not Epicurean, cuz that was a block off State, right?
Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 8:20 pm
Yes, that was off of State. This one was right on State on the east side, small and intimate. I think it was in the early ninties.
I am getting closer. I think the restaurant I am trying to remember is now a knitting shop called Cardigans. Does that jog anyone’s memory?
Suzanne Delmerico says:
Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 7:01 am
Chucks of Hawaii?
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 6:24 pm
I’m quite certain that all the wonderful restaurants that I remember, if I would eat the same food today ( older, wiser more refined palate ) maybe just meh… It’s the nostalgia. Eating those meals with people who are no longer in my life. A time in my life that I miss very much.. “The good old days”.
Bill Allen says:
Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Please let me know the latest about the closing of ‘The Elephant Bar’. I am hoping that another restaurant will takes its place.
/. Bill …………aka………….WB
Nat Wheelwright says:
Hobey Bakers
The Snack Shack (on Coast Village)
Al P says:
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 3:48 pm
How about Serranito’s in IV? They were the only folks who made “flautas” the way they did. (basically, a wet, green burrito, but with lettuce inside and then placed under the broiler – and peppery! What a great find for a kid from Boston!)
I worked at the Isla Vista Habit, in 1980-81. Yikes, that’s a long time ago.
I remember those flautas! I worked at the Habit beginning Fall of 1981, after losing my job at the bookstore because I needed a water pump for my 1970 AMC Ambassador ( and missed a training session on the new cash registers ). You worked for Joe (Hussein) and his wife Pari?
Hey Al P! It’s so nice when I run across people who still remember Serranito’s. That was my family’s restaurant (owned by my uncle Miguel). Those flautas are an old family recipe and we still make them!! If you have old pictures taken at the restaurant we would love to see them!
Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 11:32 am
It was the favorite place to go after surfing all day – in 70’s surfer lingo a flauta was “da plug” with no disrespect meant – they were truly delicious!
MiTmite9 says:
Not only remember Miguel at Serranito’s, but also remember Sun & Earth, Borsodi’s and The Juice Factory.
Wow, Serranito’s and Sun and Earth… I actually worked as a hostess at “Snearth” for a year back in the 70’s… the staff were mainly surfers and the food was truly awesome. Rice and nut salads and exceptional grilled fish.
…also remembering the fabulous salad bar at Teasers…and that was in the 70’s before it was such a popular thing
Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 1:23 pm
I believe there was a Sizzler on upper State.
I went there for the salad bar, not the steaks!
I believe Sizzler was where Denny’s is, Ontare X State. I could be wrong, but I grew up a few blocks away.
Or Bonanza… or both at same location? Or at least within a few blocks.
Sizzler was out in Goleta. Bonanza was at Ontare and Happy Steak was where Cody’s is now.
I loved Sun & Earth, and Borsodi’s with my older siblings was a huge treat.
(fascinating work & site, Lisa!)
hmm, does my website show up on here… interesting
Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4:19 am
I would think you entered your site? Your user name is linked. Email John if you’d like it changed.
That’s good! I had just forgotten that it was linked…
Thanks to all for bringing back sublime memories of Sun and Earth (great soy burgers), Borsodi’s, and Serranito’s (I, too, loved the scrumptious flautas…so cheap and so good).
Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 5:58 pm
Fabulous food, nice atmosphere. many a lunch there…good burgers (blue burger was my favorite). i miss it and the steaks too. 🙁
Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Does anyone remember Dick’s Den on Cabrillo Blvd. back in the ’70’s? For 60 cents, you could get the “Blue Plate Special”, as they called it, including coffee. All the seadogs and poor locals who couldn’t afford Sambo’s turned up there in the early mornings.
No mention of Cattleman’s Inn. Best cole slaw.
Jim, Cal and Eddy all worked there.
Kerry White says:
Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 7:39 am
thats what I was about to say No Love for cattlemens? Best happy hour and amazing all you could eat champagne brunch..Worked there for years.. Even when it made the sad name change to kokopelli grill..Ugh We had great crews tho..Lots of great friends still today..Also worked at Zelo and Rockys
Friday, January 9, 2015 at 8:57 am
The Bull Market on upper State St. in the 1970’s.
Oh, how I and my friends loved Cattleman’s all you can eat brunch in the early 90’s! (seafood and eclairs, prime rib & eggs). My family went there for somewhat higher-end dinners in the 80’s, maybe the 70’s too, I can’t remember. Good old SB memories indeed.
Alex’s Cantina on Hollister (currently Pataya) was THE SPOT for Monday Night Football Circa 1996 in my broke, no car having college days.
Wine Bistro in Montecito (currently Los Arroyos) was an awesome place to take a date (they had a killer grilled artichoke and a great steak as well).
Fat Burger started off strong and originally nudged past Habit as my favorite burger place, but the quality nose dived, and Habit remained as solid as ever (Chili Cheese Fries at the original Habit is UNBEATABLE … too bad its only available there)
Erin larsen says:
Friday, February 13, 2015 at 11:55 am
Looking for recipe for lemon cheesecake from the Old World RESTUARANT used to be on State near La Cumberl Mall.
Help!!!!!
Terry Wood says:
Around 1970, we went to a pizza place every Friday night, in the back of the Lompoc Shopping Center…..anyone remember the name and if it is still there? My dad was stationed there in the USAF until early 1971….great pizza great memories. Thanks for the help!
Joy O'Hara says:
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Ernies drive inn chapala. Oh ya master burger. Hotdog sandwich yum. Good memories. Good people.
old fashion hair cut and shave. Cant find that anymore!
Chuck D. says:
Ernie’s had the best Chili Dog…
It was right up from Hazzards Bicycles
Perusing, I saw no mention of The Falcon Lounge across from the Bird Refuge. Met a pretty black girl named Brandy there c 1979-80 … leave the rest of the story to your imagination
Sarah Frascella says:
Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 1:08 am
Frimples, Copper Coffee Pot, Tutti’s…heloooooo.
No one could ever forget Frimples. Never in my whole life have I eaten a cinnamon roll that matched theirs. They were so additive and delicious that you had to stay out of there! A friend of mine at the time, Michelle, left Bob’s Big Boy to work there and put on 50 lbs because of those darn things!
Cafe Suisse in the Fairview Center!
Where was Cafe Suisse?
In the Fairview Center!
Never heard of it.
I DO have a faint memory of Cafe Suisse! On that parallel to the 101, right? The part you’d walk up years or decades later to get to Bud Stuart’s vet clinic and later Wildlife Care Network. I know I ate there, but I can’t remember much else.
Say what you will, but I always LOVED Jimmy’s food, best egg rolls ever. I did have a bad experience with shrimp and have never eaten it at a Chinese restaurant again, but stuff happens. And Pearl! Wonderful person, wonderful waitress, who of course did a lot of other things. Who wouldn’t want to eat at Jimmy’s after a few drinks? 😉
Bummer. The wiki subscription to “SB Restaurant History by Anthony Gardella” has expired; the wiki is inactive.
Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 10:30 am
Café Suisse was where Panda Express is now. On the corner across from the Chicken Ranch.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:02 am
The only restaurants I remember in Fairview is of course Jasper’s Saloon, Italia Pizzaria, the sausage place and that little Italian place near the theatre.
Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 5:15 pm
Franco and Rosa’s by the Fairview Theater – authentic, delicious Italian food. The owners/chefs closed it and moved to the mid-west somewhere to be near family.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 12:40 pm
I’d like to add Arlington Tavern to the list.
Very surprised they are closed
Jimmys Oriental Garden had the very best Mai Tais in the world. Wish I knew their recipe.
Flaming ones!
Leo Schumaker says:
Monday, June 1, 2015 at 7:17 pm
Remember so many of those great places. How about Maggie McFly’s on State? Also Casey Jones. The best Japanese place, to me, was The Cherry Blossom. Fuzzy was the owner and her husband,?, was the cook. Fuzzy used to have a Christmas party and give everyone a toy from Japan that she ordered special. Also the best plum wine.
Maggie McFly’s, Casey Jones, and the bar behind The 1129. The best Japanese place was the Cherry Blossom on State and Delavina. I loved the food there. Best Tempura I ever had. Fuzzy was the owner.
Edwin Self says:
Friday, July 3, 2015 at 8:41 pm
does anybody remember the small, seminal French Restaurant in Los Angeles in the 1970’s?
john sween says:
Monday, July 27, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Here are a few going back in time . I worked in wholesale food distribution so got around town a bit. Top of the list is Leon’s on lower state across from the old Joes. San Roque Steak house man it was good.Texas Lunch, Coast Inn, in Montecito,Moms Italian Village, Twin Burger on De La Vina now a pizza joint,Silver Spur steak house,and Little Audreys. And the lunches at the Olive street cafe up the street from Arnolids with a card room in the back room..And i will be missing Jack Sears at the now closed Cafe Del Sol, his first one in Montecito was also great. And if you were never in the old Harbor Restaurant you missed a really cool spot and Nantucket style building the indside was like and old schooner ship so cool…
Richard Franke says:
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 8:44 pm
I was on my way from Raythron night shift in Goleta to where I lived in Carpenteria and a fire engine crossed in front of me on 101 . I looked down state street and saw the flames out on the pier . I sat in on the beach and watched the Harbor Restaurant disappear and the safe fall into the ocean . All that varnish epoxy and wood didn’t take long to go . The roamer was that when Santa Barbara would not renew the lease Because they wanted an environmental education area for the pier the owners (
Connected) in LA had it conveniently go By By .
Gretchen Baltuff says:
Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for reminding me of Pancho Villa, La Tolteca, they were great! The other one I liked was Casa del Sol in Montecito. So many great memories. Thanks. Espana, Chart House, Moby Dick’s on the wharf, too many to name.
phil bacigalupi says:
I worked at Hobey Baker’s in the early 80s. Lots of great bands came through, including Mike Love, Joe Cocker, Reverie(Jeff Foskett,Bo Fox,Randall) The Pups with Philip Claypool. On our nights off we would go downtown to Joe’s for some seriously huge drinks.Then to the Tee Off for prime rib and finish up at 1129 for some music. Greg Alexich was the bar manager at Hobey’s.Does anyone know if he was the guy that was tragically hit by a Amtrak train in 2013?
Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 5:54 am
Yes, there is a noozhawk article from February 2013 that confirms that.
Hobey Baker It is named for Hall of Famer Hobey Baker, who played college hockey at Princeton University and died in World War I. Was the Resterant named after him ?
Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 1:16 pm
There’s a KEYT news video of a bicyclist that was hit in SB. No name but it shows the guy on a gurney. 2 big medallion tattoos on his L arm. He lived.
Mike Hanner says:
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 4:22 pm
El Nayarit on Haley, best chile rellenos I ever had. The Chuck Wagon on DeLaVina,have to second the Pizza Luau,Casa Blanca -still heartbroken over that.
I was wondering if someone would mention Casa Blanca. I remember them having the best tostadas in the world back in the 60’s and 70’s – right across the street from the original Joe’s Cafe at State and Haley.
Casa Blanca! Too funny…went out with friends there for cheap food/beer on weekends before hanging out in the bars on State in the early 1980’s… One night while we were there a person in our group ran into some other friends and wouldn’t you know, that’s how I met my wife!
Pino’s rocked!! I was only a kid but loved it when he came out singing EVERY time we were there! I used to watch him make the pizza’s, the best ever! Still to this day! Wish they were still open!!!
Friday, September 4, 2015 at 3:51 pm
Ohhh, so many great restaurants, now gone: Andria’s, Zia Cafe, Zelo, Brigitte’s, Maison Robert, Pino’s, The Bakery, Citronelle, and there a couple of really good Thai restaurants on upper De la Vina….
Andi ^,,^~ says:
Pascual’s and missing Pascual . Such a great warm place to be and eat and drink and be merry .
Lara W. says:
The Copper Coffee Pot on State St.!
Hyotan (Japanese place in the old “Alpha Beta” strip mall on DLV, German Bakery on upper DLV, Azuma on Figueroa, Mousse Odile on Cota all come to mind as places I remember fondly from 20 or so years ago.
Linda Karppinen says:
Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 11:48 pm
WHERE IS SCANDI’S???????
It was on De La Vina — a Scandinavian buffet…
Howard says:
Does anyone remember the name of the Mexican restaurant that was on the corner of State and Anapamu? Also, does anyone remember if there was a restaurant where Cantwells is now?
Pepe DelGados.Cantwell Market was Teasers.
Ace Diamond says:
It was Ace Diamond’s Teasers Showcase Restaurant. Before that it was Cafe Gourmet owned by John Puppo. I bought his corporation & opened Teasers. Fun run for five years then sold in 1981 to guy who destroyed it.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 6:27 am
Ace-I loved Teasers when I lived in Santa Barbara in ’77-’78. There was a drink there called a Yellow Submarine (I think). If this is correct, do you happen to have the recipe for it? One of my faves. Thanks!
Ace:
My roommate at the time played guitar (classical) at Teasers in ’78 for a time. Do you remember Marc Magennis?
Dan Fleury says:
Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 4:55 am
Nite Bite. Fortunately SB Munchiez has picked up the mantle… As far as “Old School” restaurants, Col. Lee’s Mongolian Barbecue (located by the Arlington) was my favorite of all time. You would be seated and served your water and drinks by the waitstaff and choose from a buffet of entrees (like beef, lamb, veggies) to be prepared (grilled) in a storefront window by their grill master. I can still taste that delicious meal and I only ate there once in the early 80’s.
Epicurian… Wow. I was awarded a gift certificate there once after helping to put out a fire in my workplace when I was a C.N.A. at the Samarkand. That was a unique restaurant with each table enclosed in it’s own unique and private cubicle. However I wasn’t thrilled with the blackened duck…
Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 7:37 am
How about La Parilla Suiza, which was in an unfortunate location, behind the current Panda Express. It was one of my all-time favorites. Some Goleta residents brought the chef here to open it after eating in his restaurant in Mexico. The adobada was the best ever. Alas, the chef got homesick and moved back to Mexico after a couple of years and the place closed down.
It took a while and several reads, but yes, I DO remember La Parilla Suiza! was it open in the early 90’s, when I worked on Encina? I remember delectable green sauces. Thanks for the flashback.
I think the restaurant I miss most of all these is Mousse Odile. What food, what value.
Steven Schlah says:
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 4:33 am
I think you forgot a chain of three “hamburger hangouts” that closed around 1962.The Santa Barbara one on upper State, where Char West replaced it, was “Los Tacos”. There were also locations in Isla Vista, where Burger King replaced it and in Lompoc. The company closed down when the owner’s wife caught him with a female employee and the divorce caused the chain’s breakup.
Lisa & Marie says:
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Hey guys, we worked there too!! How are you Audrey?? Marie is here visiting me in Nashville and we just yesterday looked at a photo of us with YOU at my house on Arellaga! She wants to know if you remember “the maple syrup guy” and “taupe pantyhose”… Where are you these days? Marie lives in Oakland… I remember the muffins of course and having to bring “sauces and salsa to every table” with the omelets and the awesome rolls.
I remember the muffins of course and having to bring “sauces and salsa to every table” with the omelets and the awesome rolls. I’m friends with Jackie on fb too…
Mec says:
Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 4:56 pm
There was a tavern( did not serve foods, only snacks) by the name of Jimmy’s in Oxnard , California , I was the manager back in the 60’s there. Was just wondering if it is still there , been sold or what . Thank you
Worked at Tommy’s Ice Cream, Casa Dorinda, The Mar Monte Hotel and Spa, Link’s Hamburgers, La Grange, La Chaumiere, The Grand Hotel, Bay Cafe, Papagallo’s and Downey’s. Actually, my brother worked at Tommy’s. I wanted to, but he got on being one year older at thirteen maybe. Yeah, who had worked at more places than me? Is there anyone?
Rudy’s had the best burger. Petrinni’s still going. Worked a couple of days at Aloha Burger?
Rudy’s near the giant Fig Tree at 101 had the best tostadas!
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 1:54 am
The Yankee Clipper, The Tee Off, Peterson’s, Orange Julius, The Winecask, Auberge (Ojai), Der Weinerschnitzel, Fiesta Liquor CVR, The El Paseo, Pepper’s, Take One?,
I’m trying to recall the chicken place on upper State. Maybe before McDonald’s. Anyone remember?
How long ago? Maybe Chicken Delight? 😉 Or was it Delite?
Chicken Shack had great fried chicken. Cole Slaw was good, too…
Woolworth’s!
On lower State STreet Right?
Woolworth’s counter closed when? late 60’s?
Kim Roberts says:
Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Does anyone remember a restaurant called Wolf’s (may have spelling wrong) in London in the late 1970’s? The loo was down a spiral metal staircase.
Living in the US now, missing all my old “haunts”.
Can’t seem to find it on any search engine.
I can’t remember the name of the restaurant in the basement of the old Y, incredible Paella Barcelonessa.
And delicious soups and breads …. and the chef owner would come out and sing opera arias – beautiful voice! Anyone remember the name?
I’ve lived her my entire life and have seen a lot of great eateries come and go. Just to reminisce about a few: Talk of The Town, Chicago Rib Broker (BEST onion “brick”), The Elegant Farmer (their creamy avocado dressing and their bread pudding were SO good), Andy’s Chuck Wagon (we called it Mr. Pigs, because you could really pig-out there), Uncle John’s Pancake House (every Sunday after church), Soujourner, Main Squeeze, 1129 (to-dyed-for chocolate crepes), Heidi Pies (those cinnamon rolls…and their homemade jam…and their pies…and the best hash browns…) Carrows, Piatti’s, Philadelphia House (burned in the Painted Cave fire)… The list goes on
Uncle John’s Pancake House. I was wondering when it would be mentioned.
For me, The Sunburst Farms in Gaviota. Jasper’s Saloon for Abalone, Baltieri’s for chicken picatta and Marsala. Philadelphia House, Char West, DJ’s Charburger, The Good Earth near Picadilly Square. Late nights at Carrows, Heidi’s Pies, the original Jerry’s Pollofino. ( just saw Jerry at a party last night, all smiles as usual). What was the name of that place next door to what’s now Brand Tires in Goleta? Patio on the golf course. Beers around the world, amazing potato skins. (Wow..really dating myself now!) The Bakery downtown, JK Frimples, Pancho Villa, pizza at Patrini’s on Calle Real, the seafood restaurant on Santa Claus Lane where you would pick your own lobster in the tank. Pioneer Chicken across from SMHS. And last but not least, dinner in the dark cocktail lounge at Bray’s 101.
That place with beers around the world was Spike’s Place. I went there about five times a week while I was going to UCSB, and earned a few t-shirts. I still have my baseball cap I earned there.
I agree about the potato skins; I have never had better potato skins anywhere, and have had acceptable potato skins only two or three times in the twenty five years since I was at Spike’s. Potato skins must be difficult to do correctly because you cannot get good ones in restaurants.
so true on the potato skins! Also had a few plaques on the wall of fame there.
Tyrus Gerlach says:
Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 11:26 am
1/2 dozen Link’s Drive-in hamburgers on State St. across from the Fox Arlington, then cruise on down to the ither Link’s Drive-in at State and Cabrillo St. for six more. Then we chugged on the beach for all the peep’s that were up our butts…! Hahaha..!
Nick Fleno says:
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 4:15 pm
The 1962 TV show Route 66 featured a restaurant, possibly in the Pacoima area, called the Prime Oak Inn. I believe the sign was a fake, but the restaurant was real, with what seemed to be a Bavarian or German restaurant. It was next door to the Continental restaurant. Would you happen to know where this location might be?
Thanks. Nick
robert wuest says:
Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 10:03 am
i miss case de amigos in santa ynez in 1974
Monday, May 9, 2016 at 9:49 am
Frank’s Rice Bowl on lower State St. Decent Chinese food for poor students.
The Espana across from he wharf owned by the Castenolas. I worked there in 1980 or 81 and they had the best margaritas, salsa, chips, clam chowder and more. The Chart House across the street had great margaritas too where we used to go after we left our shift at Espana.
Before I turned 21 I worked at Bob’s Big Boy, which was a hopping place! They opened a new restaurant down the road from there on Calle Real called Old World Restaurant next tot he movie theater, but I don’t think they did very well. I worked there when it opened and it never really got busy.
When I turned 21 I got a job at Espana and that place was always rocking. Met a lot of celebs working there too. Was definitely a hot spot.
Also hung out at the Feed Store, English Dept. (?) Tea Room, and several other bars on State Street. Anywhere in S.B. was fun. Best breakfasts at the Eggception on State Street with the most amazing home-made breads and muffins.
I felt privileged to have lived there in my youth while attending SBCC and my boyfriend *husband) attended Brooks (Bryan Page).
Friday, May 27, 2016 at 9:21 am
What a trip reading this has been! So many names I “temporarily” forgot. Flapper Alley, LA España (miss the steak and enchilada combo!) The Feed Store, where Kenny Loggins and sometimes Messina played almost every time I was there, Bluebird gone?, Original Joe’s gone? Epicurean, gone? Bittersweet memories.
I don’t know what happened to the original Joe’s Cafe location, but they moved north a half a block, and I think are still open at the “new” place.
Didn’t Joe’s move to where Maggie (Merlin?) McFly’s was located at one time? Regularly visited Joe’s although the food was hit and miss the drinks were always strong.
Head of the Wolf…I saw Stephen Stills and David Crosby there one night and late into the night Joe Cocker stood up from a table and sang a set with them. I saw Joe Walsh at some breakfast place next to Vons in Monteceito…cant remember the name. I was wearing a James Gang T-Shirt and he invited me to join him…he was pretty cooked I think. Just some of those Santa Barbara moments.
Monday, June 4, 2018 at 12:37 pm
The breakfast place was Xanadu I believe
Dan Futoran says:
Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 8:06 pm
What was the name of the old Japanese restaurant down on lower State Street, between Casa Blanca and Nanking Gardens? It was very formal, lots of wood everywhere, tatami mats, very atmospheric. I think it closed in the early ’80s, if not earlier.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Suishin Sukiyaki was at 511 State Street.
There was a formal restaurant on upper State St. that was really excellent, great food and not pretentious. I think it was called Norbert’s. Does anyone else remember it?
You may be thinking of Green Gables at State and San Roque back in the ’60’s which is now First Bank. Norbert’s first restaurant was at 302 W Montecito and opened in 1981. He partnered with Downey’s for a while and then he and his partner Brigitte ran Norbert’s at 920 De La Vina from about 1985 to 1990. Brigitte’s at 1325 State is now Opal and Norbert is at Mirabelle in Solvang.
Norbert’s was at De la Vina X Alamar, no? Where Our Daily Bread is now.
Norbert’s current endeavor is The Nook – Waterline, 120 Santa Barbara St. Is he still consulting at Mirabelle?
Our 4th grade class from Cold Springs went there for a class outing – we had to buy aloha shirts for the Japanese cultural experience 🙂
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 9:51 am
Wasn’t there an Esau’s coffee shop on lower State St. until the 1970’s or later?
Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 12:21 pm
I used to work as a waitress at Clementines in Carpinteria. No alcohol served, so my tips were just “ok”. I attended the Music Academy in Santa Barbara. Used to love the Yellow House and the Espana!!!
One of my favorite all time meals was at The Espana. I live in SLO County, every chance I got I’d go to The Espana for the enchilada and lobster combination dinner. The half lobster shell had a filling in it in addition to the lobster that I just loved (the filling) I wish I had that recipe, I think my wife could make it. Of course we also had the margaritas, they were excellent….
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 10:23 am
I worked at Frimple’s in 1980, good comfort food – never claiming to be gourmet but pretty tasty. I lived in SB from 1979 thry 1981 – that was the era when Frimple’s waitresses wore their hair in high, loose buns. Old Ilko would sit at the Frimple’s counter for hours a day and give each of us waitresses roses, for us to tuck into our hair. Do any of u in this blog remember the rose-bedecked Frimples Waitresses of the 70’s and 80’s? Mine was also the era of the town character ‘Jonesy’ whose main territory was mid-Milpas and who yelled friendly hello’s and waved vigorously at everyone, pedestrian and driver. This went on for years before & after I lived in SB – anyone know what ever became of Jonesy? During this era, favourite food spots for me & my peeps were Esau’s (breakfast), Joe’s, Casa Blanca, Azteca & Suishun, (all 5 on lower State St). Other faves were Playa Azul & Sojourner, of course – are they still open? In my day, Sambos was still operating on Cabrillo as the only other 24-hour restaurant in town, but don’t think they served hard liquor, like Frimples – wine/beer maybe? I saw 1129 mentioned in these posts – didn’t remember they sold food… possibly ‘cuz I couldn’t afford to eat there – but do remember dancing the night away on the 1129 dance floor on many an occassion. Also loved Baudelaire’s, music and dance spot – didn’t read all the posts so not sure if anyone mentioned it – but, oh, the cwa-a-a-zy times at Baudelaire’s! My boyfriend bartended at Second Story, then at Head of the Wolf – Wolf being another fave spot. Anyone remember the Greek & Italian Deli that used to be on Lower State, as well as the Schooner Inn donut shop? Used to buy that cheap but tasty, and somewhat trendy Fatzibatalgia white wine at the deli – was it a grigio? Remember the twisty bottle? … and oh, the Schooner Inn donuts were the best ever. So sad to see that so many of the smaller, non-corporate food, bar and dance places we all loved way back when have closed down.
Does anyone recall a short-lived restaurant on upper State called Ted’s or Ted’s Place, c. 1996? I think it folded after just a year or two.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 3:12 pm
Beto’s Cantina
Beto says come to my cantina…
loved that place!
Our whole family loved that place! I still wonder what happened that caused them to close so suddenly. We just came for lunch one day and they were closed and gone forever!
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 10:53 am
I am looking for the name of a smorgasbord that was popular in the 70’s/early 80’s in Orange County. Smorgasbord was in the name and I believe they had additional locations (one being in South Bay?) My grandparents used to take us there all the time and I cannot remember the name. 2nd location might have been at Beach and Slater (before two guys italian)…. And NO not Sizzler 🙂
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 9:46 am
Was it the Sir George Smorgasbord? We used to go there on high school trips.
Gregory says:
Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 8:39 pm
Twin Burger
David Ingalls says:
Friday, May 26, 2017 at 7:28 pm
Foster’s Freeze on De La Vina Street, where Chicken Ranch is located now…
Foster’s Freeze on Micheltorena Street, where Super Cucas is located now…
Foster’s Freeze on Cliff Drive…
Texas Burger on De La Vina Street, where Marty’s Pizza is located now…
Dinno’s Pizzeria on Cliff Drive…
San Roque Steak House on State Street…
Leon’s on State Street…
Little Audrey’s on State Street…
Copper Coffee Pot on State Street…
Woolworth Lunch Counter on State Street, where Old Navy is located now…
Torkey’s Bar on De La Vina Street, where Cajun Kitchen is located now…
Red Dog Saloon, where Derf’s Cafe is located now
Christine Veazey says:
There was a restaurant on Hwy 101 where my dad took us, when it was just a 2-lane Hwy. I do not remember the name. Dad always ordered frog legs when they had them. There was the El Patio with it’s swimming pool, across from a park and on the other side of the street was the Mushroom kiddie pool and next to it the Plunge Municiple pool. The El Patio had the best fish and chips in the world. There was Little Black Sambo’s down the road heading to the Wharf. In my early college years, Sun and Earth in Isla Vista.
Monday, June 12, 2017 at 11:37 am
I’ve read all the posts. I’ve not seen the favorite Mexican restaurant of my father, which was off of State Street two or three blocks going towards Santa Barbara High school. It might have been on the same street as Arnoldi’s, the old part of town. My father was born in Texas and spoke Spanish. He was native American and a little Irish. His father worked on the Panama Canal. My father was well educated in the Mexican lifestyle. I want to say this restaurant was on the same street the old Pep Boys was, or perhaps one street above or one below. I was only 7-8 years old and can’t recall the name. It was either El Cielo, Mama’s, Mama Mia or Mamacita’s, I just don’t know. Does anybody recall that restaurant? It was situated on a corner, I think, and there was a big cement wall with stairs going up to what had been an old Santa Barbara casa that had been made into a restaurant. The restaurant was so small, perhaps four tables next to a kitchen. Dad loved to speak Spanish with the waitresses. The tortillas were hand made with pulled beef with shredded cabbage and tomato, with shaved Mexican cheese that looked like snow. What wonderful flavor.
Went to a Mexican Restaurant for prom night 1977 about where you describe and yes you had to go up steep outside stairs. I want to say it was Playa Azul?
Michael’s Waterside had a killer gruyere souffle. I remember the original La Tolteca. Great tacquitos, Duke. The Green Gables had great steaks and seafood. Suishin Sukiyaki was where I had my first sushi.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 12:41 am
I occasionally watch Chef Hutchings on tv, sadly I never ate there.
My first souffle was at Sage & Onion restaurant on Ortega. OMG. It was a Stilton souffle. Ended the meal with a fruit souffle. Walked in with best friend on my b-day, sat at their tiny wine bar, and ordered every app on the menu. Chef Gilles came out to see us — probably wondering who these crazy eaters were. I hope I never forget it. He was so kind and friendly (and handsome). And a great cook! He got a kick out of us. I had a seriously wonderful and significant food experience.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 3:51 pm
I remember a corner kiosk in Isla Vista on the same street where there was a hamburger/donut shop. I don’t remember the name of the hamburger/donut shop but we’d be up all night and have to go there to eat. They were the greatest hamburgers and donuts. But this little kiosk with Indian food is what I’m writing about. The man was very nice but I didn’t know his name. He must have cooked his falafel balls the night before because there was no electricity to the kiosk. It was a large pita bread pocket half. Inside there were five falafel balls with thinly cut cabbage, drizzled with cucumber-yogurt dressing and a pickle slice in the middle. They were so good!
The kiosk was down the street from the donut/hamburger shop, on a corner, and the kiosk was setting on bare ground. This would have been 50 years ago. Oh I’m old!
Was it Uncle Mustache’s Falafels? I went there once in the ’70s on a first date. Tiny place, but good falafels!
Yes!! That was the place! What great memories. I would come home from classes, always feeling really hungry, and stop there to get the best falafels I have ever had. They had a cool garden out back too. I can still see and hear the falafel balls bouncing happily in the huge wok hot oil! Yummy!!
Alexios says:
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 10:10 pm
My grandfather and his brothers actually owned that particular falafel shop, I am glad you enjoyed it!
Drew Woodall says:
Cool! It’s difficult to describe how satisfying it was to eat those falafels…usually sitting in the back garden…watching the beautiful tanned girls biking home…breathing in the salt air. Heaven!
Was that possibly King Falafel? Their falafel is the gauge against which I measure every falafel I’ve had since. I remember they had an absolutely huge old lavender bush outside.
Marie Ward says:
Monday, July 10, 2017 at 10:58 pm
Robinsons department store LA Cumbre Plaza had the cafeteria downstairs where Macys sell mattresses now. A &W drive in North side state Street. Still have my pee wee root beer mug!
Not to mention all the Sambos remember the Sambos on Montecito street when the freeway had traffic lights and stopped at state and chapala. It was a sad day when Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens closed. I am 55 now and so happy to have seen santa barbara in its prime before corporate came to town and I remember everyone of those on that master list of restaurant’s. My father ran the sambos on Montecito and 101 in the 70’s man the stories he had to tell. My favorite is the day he kicked out Steve McQueen and Ali Mcgraw for being rude to the waitress!
I mentioned the Robinson’s cafe way back in this thread. Lovely memories eating there as a child with my mother. And earlier, Woolworth’s lunch counter. My memories of A&W by State X 154 are faint as I was so young. But it was good! The only burgers we ate were from there and upper State Char West, though I did go to McD’s with a 4th grade friend for my first time.
Much later, I too loved Jimmy’s and miss it.
Michael Ullemeyer says:
Does anyone remember the Chuck Wagon restaurant??? Maybe over by the Old Ralphs upper De La Vina?
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 9:19 am
Oh yes! We used to take the kiddos there on Saturdays when we could feed them for fifty cents. What a deal!
Does anyone remember the scones? They stand out in my memory as does the owner or manager there. A big guy who always made this little kid feel special
Bill Chambers says:
Looking thru all the posts I did not see or missed the following: The Green Gables State at Los Positas, The Sportsman had great food (In the 50s and 60s) and the chef was Leo Carrillo’s brother (Pancho of the Cisco Kid) . Fosters Freeze had great hamburgers in the 2600 block of De La Vina not to mention 5, 10, 15 and 25 cent cones. Harry’s Townhouse was a great place. the Blue Ox was great
julibelle says:
Friday, August 18, 2017 at 1:59 am
How about the Flight Line – so much fun, such good steaks, the perfect, perfect bar and home to the perfect martini lunch! Josie’s El Cielito in La Arcada, Peterson’s Hamburgers for a BBQ Burger during every horse show at Earl Warren, the great paella place at Carrillo & Chapala, shredded beef tacos at Maya’s in 5 Points, Mom’s Italian Village, The Green Gables – so sophisticated, Ace Diamonds house of bad behavior, Mrs Flurey’s Enchilada’s the original Fiesta pop up on DeLaVina, the little French Deli in the center (Radio Square?) at Carrillo & DLV – strictly take out so delicious, late nights at Casa Blanca, early AM’s @ Little Audrey’s, Bray’s 101 and Sambo’s at State & Hope…..Beaudalaire’s, Head of the Wolf, Mousse Odile..my first spiced chai at the sweetest spot, The Tea House…..Santa Barbara is where I first fell in love w restaurants.
I forgot to mention Lafeits not sure of spelling but the old CHP office at Carrillo and 101 was moved to the bird refuge and Lafeits opened in the moved building. great food. Kens burgers on de la vina had opened after Petersons with burgers costing 1 cent less than Petersons. I think burgers were .19 at Kens . Burgers at Kens Shakes at Petersons were the best combo.
Victor Allen says:
I believe that I have the only piece of glassware that exists since a fire was given credit for the Restaurant never opening. At one time, I had the only 2 cups that were NOT destroyed, but over the years, one of them cannot be located. The one I still have is like new, made in China, and is beautifully marked “Company C Rotisserie & Grille, with no location. It has a Fireman’s cap on the cup which would seem to indicate a Fire Fighting Company, but I can find absolutely NOTHING in all my searches. Strange, but I am at the end of the rope trying to find out ANYTHING about the cup, the business, etc. Treasure, or Trash???????
Who Remembers Thrifts Diner inside the Thrifts? best BBQ ribs Yum!
Rob I says:
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 1:49 pm
Does anyone remember rg’s giant hamburger next to the fiesta 5 the best burgers I had when I was a teenager there
Absolutely! They were always my favorite place to go for a burger.
RG’s also had some of the best breakfast burritos.
Senna beams says:
Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 2:54 am
There was a place in the mid 90s about 30 minutes outside of Tuscaloosa that served burgers fries and I remember it so well because they were the first people to do the chicken fried when i was a kid. And help finding this places name thx? Also it might start with a w.
I lived at the Sun and Earth in 68-69. It was an Oasis from madness.
Vince Lalomia vcavu@aol.com
Hector’s! I could eat their salsa with a spoon, it was so good, and the kitchen and wait staff were always cheerful and kind. What I remember the most about Hector’s is their chicken dishes, which had raisins and slivered almonds in them. I’ve never had anything like it before or since and I would make the drive all the way from Washington state if they were still there, just for one of their soft chicken tacos!
SLV says:
Monday, January 15, 2018 at 9:41 am
Yvette, I’m glad someone else remembers these soft chicken tacos!
I’ve been trying to find a similar recipe for years without luck. Hector’s was a regular stop for my family and I still miss it.
Martin Engelman says:
I was the area District Manager for Sambo’s Restaurants from 1970-1973. Except for the original Sambo’s Restaurant on the Beach all these restaurants I supervised are now closed.(Camarillo, Oxnard, Carpenteria, Hwy101 and Milpas, Santa Barbara. N. State Street, Santa Barbara , Goleta, Buellton, Santa Maria, Arroyo Grande and Atascadero). For those old enough to remember a cup of coffee with unlimited refills was 10 cents. Martin Engelman, Rancho Yobo Organic Navel Orange and Avocado Ranch, Pauma Valley, Ca.
Pat Cattin says:
Martin, “Marty” I remember when you lived in Illinois Lake Zurich or Wisconsin Lake Geneva ?
A little more than 43 years ago I met you and John Puccinelli at the May 75 NRA convention. I (Pat Cattin 64 years old) was a 20 year old friend of Roger Duchemin (now 86 years old) from Wenatchee WA. Roger was in Joliet. I was in Effingham. “The most perfect name for a town”.
I’m not sure if you were at the convention but I’m certain we met at the Effingham store in late summer.
It is great to see your name and make the connection. I hope you are doing well.
Pat Cattin
Pat@Cattins.com
Steve Michaels says:
My all time favorite was Tinys
Us kids would order number 4
My mom went for number five with the chili relleno
Loved how the cumin would merge
Into the arroz The same with the cheese
Into the frijoles still miss this place never had better Mexican food
Also miss Johnny’s market on lower State – Nero’s Hero veggie sandwich with tons of cream cheese…. my grandfather used to do the signs “shoplifters will be prosecuted”
Steven Groninger says:
Gaynor McGregor worked at the Yankee Clipper, Kellys Corner and Derfs, i was running Hippo Waterbeds at Loreto Plaza (now Chaucers books)
and i went to the Yankee Clipper every nite just to have her wait on me.
Derfs was a classic. I remember watching Celtics-Lakers championship games there in the 80s!
The Restaurant Guy says:
Derf’s in still there
Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 6:14 pm
Kentucky Fried Chicken next door to Federal Drug Store in Loreto Plaza and of course, Harrys Plaza Cafe (still there, still the best cocktails anywhere hands down). A&P, The Shopping Bag, Fazios and Alpha Beta were the Grocery stores that came and went in that plaza. Also, next door was a 5 & dime store called TG&Y where we would buy toys such as Wham O Frisbees, those balsa wood airplanes you’d put together yourself (the really cool ones had propellers) and Slinkys. The Snack Shack at Arroyo Burro Beach (or Hendry’s) also known as the Pit owned by the Thompson family. They would give us free left over Corn Strips with yummy Red Salsa right before dark when we would come out of the water starving after surfing. Man do I miss those days!
What is there now where TG & Y used to be?
I thought TG & Y was at 5 Points.
TG & Y took up half the space of where Gelsons is now I believe. Trying to remember what else was at 5 Points. Kaisers health food store for sure, Koelsches bakery and a sewing machine repair shop:)
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 10:07 am
Yes TG & Y was where Gelsons is. I was thinking of W. T. Grant’s at 5 points.
Also at 5 points was Maya Mexican Food and Cool’s Candies.
My roommate loved the Monkey Flip at Kaiser’s!
Monday, March 26, 2018 at 10:25 am
A little off topic but here it goes. Up on the hill above Gelsons there have been many restaurants. One in particular in the early to mid 70’s was called Talk of The Town. Well, before the food establishments in the early – mid 60’s, it was a nursery school called Winkin’ Blinkin’ & Nod. I went there and they had a swimming pool which is where I learned to swim. Then I was off to Adam’s Elementary for Kindergarten and 1st through 6th grade. Ahh, the memories:)
I have to correct my last post. My sister set me straight that the restaurant on the hill above where T G & Y sat was called Harry’s Town House not Talk of the Town. It was an attempt by the owner of Harry’s at the time to have more of an upscale dining experience. I don’t think it lasted more than a few years and became something else that I can’t recall. Several establishments have come and gone and it is currently called Le Cafe Stella. Talk of the Town was downtown on State Street.
Diane Long says:
In 1985 it was called Beto’s Cantina. Talk of the Town which opened in 1949 was at 123 W. Gutierrez.
“Beto says, come to my cantina……..seniors and senioritas….”
Anyone living in SB in the 80s had that song ingrained in their head1
Wasn’t Beto’s Cantina further down Las Positas Road near the freeway, where the truly awful Empress Palace wound up?
Yes it was – before it moved to where Le Cafe Stella is now.
My mothers parents owned Talk of the Town in its hey day. I t was a brothel before that.
Jackie L says:
In the early 90s it was The Jetty. Great chowder and salad.
John Kalstrom says:
Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 1:00 am
Jorgensens: malts and burgers, as I recall
Upper State San Roque where Verizon store is now.
It was called Peterson’s House of Hamburgers. Really good too:)
I loved their cherry and chocolate cokes.
Marnie Baker says:
I loved Petersen’s Peppermint Stick ice cream. I’d get a cone and eat it while I rode my bike back to my grandma’s house on upper Calle Palo Colorado. Wow, that was in the 70’s. I’m getting old…
Have we mentioned Hibachi on Milpas and Alex’s on lower State Street (the original with red booths)? The prior was such a good value for quick, tasty stir fry, and the latter had THE best chicken enchilada suizas… Of course, I guess we should remember its later incarnation, Alex’s Cantina on Hollister — their brunch was amazing.
I noticed someone mentioned Second Story Bar and Grill, where I also waitressed, and I was wondering if the original post meant “Brown Pelican” (where I also waitressed) instead of Pelican’s Wharf?
Anyone remember The Brewhouse down by Big Dog on lower State Street — they served prime rib, mashed potatoes, a salad, and a beer for $5.95? Oh! And Steamers had the best happy hour (first time I ever had buffalo wings and Merlot, but not together!).
I have to concur with someone above who remembers the croissants from The Bakery…and all of a sudden I can’t remember the name of the bakery that was at One State Street, before Eladio’s and owned by the same owner as Max’s, back in the early ’80s (one of my first jobs!). And obviously someone had to have mentioned Esau’s on lower State, right?
Too many to remember!!!
Well everyone forgot La Tourell on Haley at Chapala. How about Loop’s (Mr. Looper), as he had a about 5 restaurants and motels, which became Mr. Lloyd’s. Pizza Bob’s in IV, as he was the manager and bought Rusty’s (original) Pizza from Roger Duncan, who bought from Rusty, as it had been Rusty’s Roast Beef. The original Jolly Tiger on Chapala. The Sherman House on Chapala became Chad’s. Oh, Char West on upper State was originally Los Tacos (in IV and Lompoc too). Kelly’s Corner on State at La Cumbre. How about Wing’s Chinese on upper Hollister, across from Philadelphia House/Colony. Bray’s 101 became Good Earth (owned by Rusty of IV Roast Beef fame, who also had owned ALL of the early Taco Bells). How about the Drumstick on upper State that became Rusty’ Pizza. Petersen’s Drive-in on upper State (which was later owned by Bill Thuer’s brother). Ming-On Chinese. Oh, but here’s my last one, do you remember Chicken Delight?
I do remember Chicken Delight. Where was it located again?
Bruce Babcock says:
Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 10:59 am
Broome’s (near the courthouse
San Roque Steak House
Uncle John’s Pancake House
Redwood Inn
Cafe Gourmet
I love remembering these old restaurants. Does anyone remember the name of a small hamburger joint on about the 800 block of State Street? It would be in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. They had the best onion rings I’ve ever had in my life!
Hmm, Chubbies was at 1027 State next-door to Aldo’s. They were around from the ’80s up until the late ’90s. Burger joint with some great onion rings. Could this be it?
Monday, December 10, 2018 at 11:35 am
The one I’m thinking about was on the other side of the street. Chubbies was great too!
Janice, Are you thinking of RG Burgers?
Yes! That’s it! Best greasy burgers and onion rings. Thank you!
I was on the other side of all ya’ alls Restaurant Experiences. I was involved in Opening, cooking, saving, etc. … at many what became landmark, famous area places. Eggception, Holy Cow(Mont;, you forgot about that…), Flapper Alley, Norbert’s, Wine Cask(Was Originating Chef, ’81), San Isidro Ranch, Casa del Sol, Crepe? something, Copper Coffee Pot…, and many of Areas larger Places past 8 years as a Chef/Consultant…I kept The Santa Barbara Brewing Company ALIVE for an extra 6+ years with my redo of Menu,food,kitchen, crews… AND YET HAVE NOT OWNED MY OWN PLACE IN S.B. YET… Maybe sometime. I actually KNOW how to make all of these old Santa Barbara Recipes…more American derivatives of other cultures recipes I have come to find out as I became a world traveler, and researcher, foodie in Countries all over the planet.
Ziggy Miller says:
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Sonny’s Pizza on Cabrillo, I saw only 1 mention of it. I thought they had GREAT Pizza !
Inmates be the only one who remembers Collywobbles tavern on the corner of State and La Cumbre. Peanut shells on the floor and ice cold beer, no fuss I remember but I don’t remember much so who knows?
I meant no food as I remember
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Tugboat Annie’s Linden ave Carpinteria 1970’s best Fish n Chips Garlic Bread Ambiance..I lived around the corner as a teen.. loved it. We were Catholics every Friday we got fish and chips from Tugboat Annies
Does anyone remember the potato wedges at the what used to be Rafero Market and deli on Mission and Modoc? Serious “POTATOE CRACK“!! I used to race there with my friends after school to get some! I wish I knew the recipe.
Ricky T Wright says:
Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 2:37 pm
Does anyone remember Recardos Restaurant in Goleta in a Shopping Center ?
Mixie says:
Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:39 am
Does anyone remember a very hard to find old train dining car restaurant tucked away in Montecito? I went there as a kid but cannot remember the location. It felt secret and mysterious, anyone recall that place?
Hi, Mixie—the dining car restaurant was on the grounds of the old Miramar Hotel on S. Jameson Lane. I don’t know what became of it when the hotel was razed to make way for the new facility. Too bad, because it was unique. You’re right about it being secret and mysterious. Even many locals weren’t aware it was there.
The Car was called the National Embassy. History: from the SCRVHistorical Society:
The Pullman Standard built the National Embassy for the Union Pacific Railroad in early 1956. This car was built to run on the passenger train City of Saint Louis, which as co-operated with the Wabash Railroad. These trains ran between Saint Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles, California. Union Pacific has 12 of the National Series, and the Wabash Railroad had 3. In the late 1960’s, the City of St. Louis train was cancelled, and the UP Nationals were looking for a new usefulness. The Nationals saw some use on the Union Pacific Portland Rose, and the Union Pacific ski train to Idaho.
By the fall of 1971, all the 12 Union Pacific National cars were auctioned off. The Pacific Railroad Society won the bid for the National Embassy. Due to the lack of serviceable wheels, the society never used the car in any service. In early 1978, William Gawzner, who owned the Miramar Hotel in Montecito, California made the Pacific Rail Society an offer they could not refuse. Mr. Gawzner owned an ex-SP Shasta Daylight car, which he wanted to trade for a sleeper car. Since the Pacific Rail Society already owned another National Series car, which had serviceable wheels, the decision was made to trade the two cars.
For many years, the National Embassy was open on Sunday’s in the parking lot of the Miramar Hotel in Montecito for public tours. Unfortunately, in 1984, Mr. Gawzner passed away. After the passing of Mrs. Gawzner, a new home was sought for the classic Pullman sleeper. The car was donated to the Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society. On February 16, 2000, the National Embassy was hoisted from it’s 22 year home, onto a truck, for a ride to it’s new home, Fillmore, California.
Rex and Diane, thanks for confirming the car’s existence and for the thorough history! I will pay the car a visit on my next trip to Fillmore.
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How to Make Decisions like Benjamin Franklin
Written by Fred Nickols
Benjamin Franklin described his well-known decision-making process in a letter to Joseph Priestley who had asked Franklin's advice about a vexing decision. Essentially, Franklin's process is a matter of listing the Pros and Cons, reflecting on them, and making your decision. This article presents a modified version of Franklin's process. If you'd like to read Franklin's letter to Priestley, click here.
This article describes the steps of the Benjamin Franklin decision-making process and provides a job aid for your use. An example illustrating all the steps is provided.
Frame the Decision
To decide is to commit to a course of action. Frame your decision as a simple question answerable yes or no regarding some course of action (e.g., "Should I seek new employment?").
List the Pros and Cons
Brainstorm or jot down an initial set of pros and cons. Don't rush through the process. Take time to reflect on the decision facing you and add to (or subtract from) the Pros and Cons.
Assess the Importance of the Pros and the Cons
A simple rating scale of 1 to 10 works well here. Extremely important would rate a 10; moderately important would rate a 5 and not especially important would rate a 1.
Assess the Probability of the Pros and the Cons
In some cases, a Pro or a Con is certain; it rates a 10. In other cases, a Pro or Con might be viewed as likely but not certain; it rates a 5. And, a Pro or Con might be viewed as possible but remote; it rates a 1.
Weight the Pros and the Cons
Multiply the rating for Importance times the rating for Probability. A Pro that is extremely important (10) and is likely to be realized (5) yields a weight of 50. A Con of extremely high importance (10) but a remote possibility (1) yields a weight of 10.
Review and Reflect
Review the factors you have listed, their ratings, their weightings and take stock of what they tell you about the decision. Some questions to help you do this are included at the end of the job aid.
A Real Example
A consultant was deciding whether or not to accept a job offer from a large consulting firm. His thinking is shown in the sample job aid and is summarized below:
The raw number of Pros is greater than the number of Cons.
There is a noticeable difference in the total of the ratings for importance: 63 for the Pros and 52 for the Cons. There is a pronounced difference between the probabilities: 95 for the Pros and 57 for the Cons. The total of the weighted factors for the Pros (599) significantly outweighs that for the Cons (365).
The major Pros are tied to pay and benefits.
The major Cons are associated with moving (i.e., relocating, occasional trips back home and disrupting current life style).
The most significant Con (i.e., not being able to do the work) has a low probability.
The basic trade-off, then, is between some highly probable, fairly important Pros against some less important and much less probable Cons.
There were no clear-cut, overriding factors, making the decision more difficult than would otherwise have been the case.
This was far from a "no-brainer" decision but the balance was clearly tilted in favor of taking the position and that is what the consultant decided to do.
Review & Reflection Questions:
How do the Pros and Cons stack up against one another?
How does the importance of the Pros compare with the importance of the Cons?
How does the probability of the Pros compare with the probability of the Cons?
What is the "mix" of importance and probability? What patterns do you see?
What do they tell you?
What is the overall balance of consequences?
What are you getting?
What are you giving up?
Are the trade-offs worth it?
What are you risking and are you willing to risk it?
Are there any inconsistencies to be resolved?
Which factors really matter?
Are there any overriding factors?
Who else, if anyone, should you consult? When do you have to decide?
About the Author: My name is Fred Nickols. I am a writer, an independent consultant and a former executive. Visual aids of one kind or another have played a central role in my work for many years. My goals in writing for SmartDraw's Working Smarter blog are to: (1) provide you with some first-rate content you can't get anywhere else, (2) illustrate how important good visuals can be in communicating such content and (3) illustrate also the critical role visuals can play in solving the kinds of problems we encounter in the workplace.
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Last night, at an event in San Francisco, I watched the veteran tech journalist John Markoff interview early Facebook investor and Zucked author Roger McNamee. Late in the discussion, the question turned to the progress of regulations against our tech platforms. On one hand, McNamee told the crowd, it feels like nothing is happening. But on the other, everywhere you look you see hints of action. And honest-to-goodness antitrust investigations, which might have seemed unthinkable three years ago, are now underway.
I thought about McNamee’s point this morning while reading about the $170 million in fines levied against Google by the Federal Trade Commission and the state of New York as part of a settlement over alleged violations of child privacy. Here’s Makena Kelly at The Verge:
In the settlement, the FTC and the New York attorney general allege that Google marketed its video platform, YouTube, to advertisers knowing that many channels were popular with younger audiences. It also alleges that the company tracked the viewing histories of children in order to serve them ads, which violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The $170 million fine is the largest COPPA fine to date, dwarfing the fine TikTok’s parent company received last February for violations of the same law.
“YouTube touted its popularity with children to prospective corporate clients,” said FTC Chairman Joe Simons. “Yet when it came to complying with COPPA, the company refused to acknowledge that portions of its platform were clearly directed to kids. There’s no excuse for YouTube’s violations of the law.”
Observers were quick to point out that, in Google terms, $170 million is a paltry sum — about 37 hours worth of profit, by one estimate. Critics included members of Congress, as Natasha Singer and Kate Conger reported in the New York Times:
Critics of the settlement, including Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, described the $170 million penalty as a slap on the wrist for one of the world’s richest companies.
“The F.T.C. let Google off the hook with a drop-in-the-bucket fine and a set of new requirements that fall well short of what is needed to turn YouTube into a safe and healthy place for kids,” Mr. Markey said in a statement.
Other critics included the two Democratic FTC commissioners, who voted against their three Republican counterparts in an effort to block the settlement. (Here’s Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter’s dissent, and Commissioner Rohit Chopra’s.)
Then again, this is the largest-ever fine issued in connection with COPPA. And it will seemingly require YouTube to make some significant changes to the platform: limiting data collection for videos that appear to target children, ending personalized ads for those videos, and creating a $100 million fund to pay for “thoughtful, original children’s content on YouTube and YouTube Kids globally.”
In other words, just because it’s basically the least that Alphabet can do doesn’t mean it won’t have some positive consequences. Political change, like technological change, rarely happens in great big leaps — most of the time it happens in frustratingly small, iterative changes.
If this whole story sounds very familiar, it’s because we just had basically the same entire discussion about Facebook’s own settlement with the FTC. Then as now, there was a record fine that still looked tiny by revenue standards, a host of critics inside Congress and out — and meaningful changes whose effect we won’t be able to measure for quite some time. (The YouTube changes announced today won’t go into effect for four months.)
The Facebook settlement left me feeling skeptical that the United States government would succeed in reining in tech platform excess. It’s possible to read today’s YouTube news and be just as cynical. And yet I find that I’m not, mostly because there are now so many new shoes out there waiting to drop. A flurry of antitrust investigations are now underway, against Facebook and YouTube, and the latest will reportedly be announced at a press conference next week. And whatever government-mandated changes are coming to the tech platforms, the biggest ones are likely still to come.
Today in news that could affect public perception of the platforms.
Trending up: Facebook, like Pinterest before it, will roll out accurate educational information for people for vaccine information on the service. The information will also be attached to relevant Instagram hashtags.
Trending down: 419 million Facebook user records were found on an unsecured server. It’s unclear who scraped the data and posted it — it wasn’t Facebook — but it’s not good for public perception.
Trending sideways: Twitter it also had to disable tweeting via SMS after some high-profile hacks, including CEO Jack Dorsey and actress Chloe Metz.
Trending down: In addition to the FTC settlement over Youtube, Google has been accused of using “secret web pages” for ad targeting purposes, in circumvention of the General Data Protection Regulation. The Irish Data Protection Commission is looking into it.
⭐ Google and it industry allies are trying to water down California’s privacy law. Kartikay Mehrotra , Laura Mahoney , and Daniel Stoller report in Bloomberg that the industry is trying to protect digital advertising revenue. (See also this report from earlier in the week by Tony Romm.)
A lobbyist for Google recently distributed new language to members of California’s state legislature that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act. As currently drafted, the law limits how Google and other companies collect and make money from user data online, threatening a business model that generates billions of dollars in ad revenue. It’s due to kick in next year and there are only a few more days to amend the law.
The lobbying push seeks legislative approval to continue collecting user data for targeted advertising, and in some cases, the right to do so even if users opt out, according to the documents and the people familiar with the negotiations.
The big tech platforms met at Facebook headquarters today to discuss election security. Federal agencies to date have done worryingly little to counteract foreign interference in our elections, but today’s meetings seemed designed primarily to keep the pressure on platforms to do the fighting. (Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)
The president tweeted a photo of a burned-out Iranian launchpad, letting amateur sleuths learn a whole lot about our nation’s classified satellites and intelligence assets. Imagine if Obama had etc etc. (Daniel Oberhaus / Wired)
Sen. Ron Wyden floated the idea that Mark Zuckerberg should go to prison for “repeatedly lying to the American people about privacy.” (Aaron Mesh and Mark Zusman / Willamette Week)
Facebook published a white paper on how to enable data portability without triggering an inadvertent privacy disaster.
Here’s a valuable report on ways that foreign states and bad actors “source hack” — smuggling false and problematic information into the mainstream by hacking platforms and the press. Spend some time with this one. (Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg / Data and Society)
Amazon-owned Ring is sharing footage from its video doorbell with law enforcement agencies under terms that go far beyond what is generally told to consumers. (Alfred Ng / CNET)
Hong Kong protesters avoided Chinese government censorship using a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. The app is called Bridgefy. (John Koetsier / Forbes)
A British judge ruled that systems that apply live facial recognition technology does not violate citizens’ privacy rights. (Adam Satariano / New York Times)
⭐ Basecamp CEO Jason Fried kicked off a fresh discussion of whether Google’s paid search ads effectively extort businesses by making them to pay to rise to the top of search results. These ads arguably benefit competition — it’s a good way for challengers to get attention — but there’s an icky side of it. Meghan Graham at CNBC:
“When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found,” he tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.”
The tweet includes the screenshot of an ad for Basecamp, reading “Basecamp.com | We don’t want to run this ad.” The copy says “We’re the #1 result, but this site lets companies advertise against us using our brand. So here we are. A small, independent co. forced to pay ransom to a giant tech company.”
Google employees, academics, and human rights activists want Stanford to cancel a planned Eric Schmidt talk about ethics in artificial intelligence given reports of Schmidt’s past behavior. (Tom Simonite / Wired)
Logan Paul’s sequel to the biggest fight ever on YouTube won’t stream on YouTube. (Julia Alexander / The Verge)
Scammers used artificial intelligence to fake a CEO’s voice and tricked an underling into transferring $243,000 to them. Interesting given some recent op-eds suggesting worries about deepfakes are overblown. (Catherine Stupp / Wall Street Journal.
Other scammers are taking advantage of Hurricane Dorian to impersonate a weatherman and solicit relief on Facebook. (Frank Pastor / Tampa Bay Times)
How social casino games use Facebook’s powerful targeting mechanisms to find gambling addicts and lure them into additional spending. (Reveal)
A woman whose Facebook sticker set “Trash Doves” went viral faced doxxing and harassment as a result. (Dami Lee / The Verge)
Twitter started posting viral screenshots of tweets to Instagram as part of a cute new marketing campaign. (Julia Alexander / The Verge)
The hot new trend among Instagram influencers is talking about mental health issues. (Eliza Brooke / Refinery 29)
Stunna Girl’s “Runaway” is the latest song to become a hit on TikTok and propel the rise of its singer. (Lauren Strapagiel / BuzzFeed)
The Jeremy Renner app that I wrote about yesterday is shutting down because it had too many trolls. (Jeremy Renner / Twitter)
And finally …
The Hot New Meme: An 18th-Century Frenchman Who Literally Couldn’t Stop Eating
Brian Feldman takes us out with a look at Tarrare, an 18th-century French “man who had an insatiable appetite and is suspected of eating a baby.” He recently became popular for no discernible reason.
In terms of meme fodder, Tarrare’s got it all. There’s a medical mystery that can never be solved, a potential murder that can never be solved, body horror, the risqué subject of masticated children, historical value so you feel like you’re learning through shitposting. All of these combine for an end-of-summer online treat. Eventually someone will unlock an optimized Tarrare shitpost that will balance all of these elements and, one assumes, create a wormhole that sucks me into another dimension much like Tarrare (allegedly) scarfed down the baby.
Hope everyone has a good dinner tonight!
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Google Maps is borrowing another of Waze’s best features with traffic slowdown reporting
Being able to report incidents on the road, like traffic jams and accidents, has been a staple of Google-owned Waze for years, but it’s just in the past year made its way into the main Google Maps app, one feature at a time.
Now, according to 9to5Google, incident reporting has been updated in the latest version of the Android app to include traffic slowdown options. Prior to today, you were able to report crashes, police checkpoints, and speed cameras (much to the annoyance of law enforcement), but there was no option for manually inputting a traffic jam for other users to see.
Google Maps incident reporting adds slowdown option for traffic jams https://t.co/cm2hHBWeqH by @NexusBen pic.twitter.com/HgTirWnZZB
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