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Military Disputes Mrs. Aquino on Policies, Personalities With AM-Philippines-Ileto Bjt
MANILA, Philippines (AP) _ Friction between the Philippine military and President Corazon Aquino’s administration has led to a continuing series of political changes in Manila.
Here, in brief, is a look at objections raised by military dissidents to policies and personalities of the Aquino government:
Military men contend Mrs. Aquino has no coherent policy for dealing with the 17-year-old Communist insurgency. The concern is shared both by mutinous officers linked to Juan Ponce Enrile, who recently was removed as defense minister, and by loyal commanders.
They complain that the government in its early months failed to consult the armed forces on insurgency policy, that no clear guidelines on military strategy were drawn up, and that the government failed to put together a rural-development program, which was effective in countering pro-Soviet Huk rebels in the 1950s and 1960s.
MILITARY ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
Enrile and Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel V. Ramos spearheaded the revolt that ousted President Ferdinand E. Marcos last February and propelled Mrs. Aquino to power. But, despite this political debt owed by Mrs. Aquino, military men have been shortchanged in formulation of government policy, the officers believe.
LACK OF GOVERNMENT DIRECTION
The military contends that after nine months in office, Mrs. Aquino has failed to display the leadership needed to give her broad-based government a single direction. While she has been encouraging foreign investment, for example, her left-leaning labor minister, Augusto Sanchez, has spoken out forcefully for higher pay for workers and sanctioned a wave of strikes, discouraging U.S. and other foreign investors.
The military has demanded Sanchez’s removal.
Senior commanders believe their views have not been properly considered because of administrative bottlenecks at the presidential palace. They say that reports do not reach the president and that the decision-making process is flawed. They blame the presidential executive secretary, former human rights lawyer Joker Arroyo, for the foulups.
Arroyo is on the military’s ″must-go″ list.
INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION
The military contends Mrs. Aquino and her followers have simply substituted one set of corrupt and inept officials for another. Officers complain bitterly about what they say is the poor quality of local mayors, governors and other administrators appointed by her local governments minister, Aquilino Pimentel. The armed forces accuse some appointees of open sympathies with the rebels.
Mrs. Aquino on Wednesday shifted Pimentel to another Cabinet post.
Commanders are concerned that longtime rights activists in the Aquino government are acting more zealously in pursuing human rights abuses by the military than in making Communist rebels accountable for their treatment of civilians.
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I know I have been MIA (yeah I recently discovered this modern day lingo – Missing in action) but that is because a lot has been happening recently. I went back to Calcutta for the first time after I started Calcutta Street, and I thought it would be a nice idea to film a video there to give you a taste of REAL Calcutta. So I headed to The Hope Foundation Cafe in Calcutta and hosted a special PopUp with the girls (who have been rescued by The Hope Foundation and are now independent women) there.
However I have an exciting news to share – Now you can visit my Calcutta Street PopUps every Friday evenings at Woodlands Restaurant, Marylebone. So all those people who missed out on the PopUp’s due to date issues as it was just once a month you have no more excuses now.
I will be making one exclusive Bengali Dish every Friday evening and you can’t start the weekend without Cocktails so I will be making some of those too
Here is the Menu:
Here are some photographs from the first week!
The menu was : Luchi – Alur Dum (Puffed Bread with Slow cooked potatoes with bengali spices) along with special cocktails – Rum Chai, Fresh off the boat and Maharaja Fashioned. You can find the recipe on the video above
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – I agree with Henry James and what is even better is Saturday Summer Afternoon!
We are celebrating 6 months of Calcutta Street with a Summer Party – 1st August, Saturday 12pm – 4 pm at Pelt Trader craft beer bar in the city. The menu is very Summery and fresh with goodies like Prawns, Lentil soups, Yogurt, Tamarind. It is a 3 course menu with artisan beer pairing with each course. Yes, you heard that right – craft beer pairing with Indian food! Mark from Pelt Trader does know his beer really well and I am excited with the pairings he has done. There will also be live music by the very talented blues and country singer Charlie Walker!
This Pop up is also right after my 26th Birthday (Yes, I have stepped on the wrong side of 20) so you can always drop by to wish me Happy Birthday and try my special dessert – my mum used to make this for me on every birthday of mine. I am making few of my personal favourite dishes like Prawn Malai Curry, Simui Payesh (Kheer), Doi Phuchka, Paneer Posto. I am certain you won’t find most of these dishes in any London restaurant.
Doi Phuchka, Crispy semolina balls with potato, black chick pea, tamarind and yogurt filling. Very refreshing and Tangy – perfect for a summer snack.
VP or Vivekananda Park in Calcutta has some of the best Doi Phuchka stalls where most bengali youngsters crowd every evening for the tangy snack with some lebu cha (lemon tea) and a cigarette or some good old grass.
Musurir Dal with Gondhoraj Lebu, Boiled red lentils cooked with a slight hint of spice, nigella seeds, fresh green peas, coriander leaves, special scented lemons from bangladesh and a dash of home made ghee – Super heathy and tasty)
Every bengali’s comfort food and a bengali meal is never complete without a serving of Dal and Bhaat. This is the simplest dish ever but very few people get it right.
Chingri macher (Prawn) Malai Curry, Jumbo prawns cooked in a coconut and mustard sauce.
This is every bengali’s favourite Sunday lunch, no special occasion is complete without this dish. When Rick Stein travelled to Kolkata, he picked this dish as his personal favourite.Prawn is called chingri in bengali.
Paneer Posto, Indian cottage cheese cooked in a nutty, poppy seed paste. This is my own recipe with very bengali ingredients. Contains nuts.
The most famous poppy seed or posto dish in Calcutta is Aloo Posto, potatoes in poppy seed paste. This is also the favourite dish of Saurav Ganguly the famous Indian cricket team captain who took his shirt off at Lords when India won a match against England and then eventually got suspended.
All mains served with boiled rice.
Simui Payesh – Milk pudding with Vermicelli and sugar coated rose petals (served cold)
Since this Pop Up is right after my birthday, I decided to make the dessert which my mum made for me on every birthday of mine. Payesh is a must on birthday’s its meant to be auspicious.
Mocktail: Aam Pora Shorbot – Smoked Raw mango pulp blended with a spice mix. Perfect cooler on a hot summer day.
Cocktail: Aam Sura – Aam pora with bacardi.
We also shot a little video with some of my customers and people who have been associated with Calcutta Street in any way.
Press coverages are always special but some of them are a tad bit more special than the rest. Couple of weeks back The Telegraph in India featured a story on Calcutta Street, yes it’s a regular press story but it meant a lot more because of more reasons than one – this is a newspaper that I grew up reading , it is the largest newspaper of Calcutta (my hometown) where my family still resides. When the story was out I was sleeping here in London (it was 4 am) and my whatsapp went bonkers with messages from people who I haven’t even spoken to in years or even decades. All I can say is it was emotional.
So I have been taking you through my journey from Eatwithmeshrimoyee to Calcutta Street. I have been doing Pop-ups at restaurants for the last few months but this time I decided to take up the challenge of doing a food stall at a festival. It is a great opportunity for marketing your brand and reaching out to a wide range of people but it definitely has a lot of challenges. A lot of people have been asking me about the challenges of having a food stall, the first one would be getting all the licences and certificates including – HACCP, Food and Hygiene licence and certification with the local council. Once you overcome these you can have a food stall but then comes the challenges on the day, in order to maintain quality you need to be extremely organised and be prepared with everything including washing up liquid because you have no guarantee of a proper kitchen with a sink. And finally it’s always tricky to estimate the amount of food you should buy, so my suggestion would be to have clear idea of how much you need to sell to make a profit and just buy that amount otherwise you might just land up with a ton of extra food – no one can guarantee foot fall in a festival.
My experience at Bollywood Fever at South bank was great over all as I got fabulous response from the people who came, I also added an element of photobooth which people love at festivals and also brilliant for my branding! The dishes I made were extremely simple – Doi Phuchka, Doi Aam and Churmur. All these dishes except doi aam come from the streets of Calcutta and I was pleasantly surprised to see that everyone loved them as much as I do and the Indian’s said it reminded them of home.
Here is the Doi Phuchka recipe for you.
Ingredients (One plate)
Pani Puri (6) You can find them at any Indian store, try Bangla Town in Brick Lane.
Chaat Masala (You can find this at any Indian Store too)
Bhujiya (It’s similar to a bombay mix)
Fresh Coriander and Green chillies
Dry fry the cumin seeds, coriander powder and chilli flakes in a pan, don’t use any oil. After about 2-3 minutes you will start getting a beautiful aromatic smell from them and it will turn slightly red. Keep it aside.
Beat the yogurt to a fine consistency
Mash the potatoes add the dry fried spice mix to it, lemon juice, fresh coriander and chillies,kala channa and a tea spoon of tamarind paste. Then mash it all together.
Make holes in the pani puri’s and add the potato mix
Then arrange all 6 of them in a plate and add yogurt on top (1/2 spoon for each puri)
Then sprinkle the bhujiya and chaat masala on top
Finally add the tamarind sauce on top (1/2 tea spoon for each puri)
I will be popping up again this weekend (23rd and 24th May) at Southbank at Bollywood Fever festival. I will be serving quintessential Calcutta Street Food including – Doi Phuchka (Pani puri with potato, yogurt, tamarind chutney and coriander); Churmur (Crunchy broken puri with potato, black chick peas and tamarind – very tangy) and Doi Aam (fresh alphonso mangoes with sweetened yogurt and cream – nomnom).
I shall post recipes for all of them very soon! And do drop in and say hello to me at the Calcutta Street Photo-booth too if you are in the area!
After the exciting Calcutta Street Sea Food Pop Up at Bonnie Gull(you can click on this link to read the review), I am popping up again at Stage3 Hackneywith an evening of live Jazz with a classical Indian touch and a three course Bengali meal. And after popular demand I will be making special Bengali dessert this time. I am also going to start putting out the recipes of the all these dishes very soon here – so watch this space
Here are the posters and menu for the Pop Up on 4th May – 6pm – 9 pm. The venue Stage3 is part of a heritage theatre and just a 2 minute walk from Hackney central station. You can’t miss it!
Which Poster do you like more? Would love to know your feedback and looking forward to see some of you at Hackney!
It was a bright sunny day on April 11 and London was basking in it’s full blown glory – how could I have a better day to host my second Calcutta Street, Seafood special Pop Up? I would love to thank each and every one who attended it and by the looks of it enjoyed my food. There is nothing more satisfying for me than to watch other people enjoy my food – It makes all the 18 hours of cooking and prep totally worth it.
And a massive Hi5 to all the staff at Bonnie Gull for being absolutely fabulous, efficient and super friendly – Makes a sea of a difference! An a bigger Hi5 to Luke Robinson (Head Chef) and Gavin (Exec Chef) for making the whole process so smooth sailing. Finally I can’t thank Cobra Beer and Lord Billimoria enough for sponsoring the beers, they definitely make the food taste better!
I wanted to share the photographs from the day with all of you (who care to read this blog). Hope to see some more of you at my next Pop Up!
Calcutta Street Sea Food Special
Photographs by Kheya Chattopadhyay
My next Pop-Up will be a very special one as it has two of my favourite things Calcutta Food and Jazz (with some Indian instruments like sitar). Save the date!
Calcutta Street Jazz Special – 4th May (6 pm – 9 pm) at Stage 3, Hackney!
I am extremely excited to let you know that, at my second Calcutta Street Pop Up I aim to make some of the famous, mouth-watering seafood and fish dishes from Calcutta. These recipes are all extremely special because it comes from my mother’s kitchen and I have grown up on them. I will be cooking with Luke Robinson, Head Chef at Bonnie Gull and Cobra Beer is the official Partner.
Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar is an ode to the faded glory of British seaside towns. Rose-tinted memories of golden days by the sea: Pleasure beaches, fresh crab rolls on the pier, Mods & Rockers hurling deckchairs, whippy ice creams and jukeboxes full of sweet Northern Soul…And I am going to take these fresh crabs and give it a Bengali flavour.
After a month of running around, stress, promotions and a LOT of cooking finally my first Pop Up was launched at Zensai bar in Camden. I am overjoyed by the response as it was my first pop up and I wasn’t exactly expecting a lot of people to turn up, but to my surprise (an extremely pleasant one) there were more than 80 people. I apologise to all the people who had to wait for a while for the food (I will have more help next time).
I am cooking along with Asia House resident chef Paul Bloomfield and we are planning to cook up a storm in the kitchen. Steve, the owner and DJ of Zensai will be playing some Bollywood Psyc Funk music – cherry on the cake! So it will be an afternoon of food, drinks and fun!
With this ticket you can have any of the 3 dishes below – The portions are big, I am generous with food
New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas – Till last month, I used to only romanticise about these cities while watching movies and TV series. Woody Allen made me fall in love with New York and Entourage/Californication (TV series, if you haven’t seen them, you must) made me drool over California. So a couple of months back I decided to travel across USA and visit all these cities and more in just under a month all by myself. The whole idea was to meet as many new people as possible and obviously eat and drink while doing so.
So I am going to give you a virtual food tour of all the cities I visited..
San Francisco (Round 1)
I landed in San Francisco first and then flew to New York the very next day only to come back in SF in 5 days – Yes, I know I am an Idiot but hey the flights were cheaper that way! So all I could do was literally have a cup of coffee and some snacks in this round!
New York as they say is a foodie heaven. The highlights for me were – spicy chicken wings at west village, Vietnamese noodle soup at China Town, Halal Brothers ,Rice on Lamb supposed to be the best street food in NYC and a gorgeous Greek Meal at Hotel Wellington in Midtown.
Spicy Chicken Wings at West Village
Halal Brothers – Street Food
Greek Food in Midtown
Chinese at China Town
Vietnamese Food at China Town
Random Take Away in Mid town
San Francisco (Round 2)
This trip was mostly about drinking and (some) eating but the highlight was meeting locals and hanging out with them!
Shot and a Drink
San Francisco Bay Area
Making new friends
Los Angeles/ San Diego
LA and San Diego was stunning, a very good friend John and his family hosted me there and showed me around. My highlights were : Live and fresh oysters, Champagne breakfast, Fruits with chilli powder on the beach, Wilson Creek Vineyard and home made steak made by John’s mum! And I went to Hooters – YAY!
Home made dinner
Thai Food followed by a drive
Santa Monica Beach
Fruits on the beach!
I was at Vegas with a friend who is a professional Poker player hence my this trip was filled with champagne, Michelin Star restaurants, clubs and limo – This is NOT my usual lifestyle (I wish it was).
Highlight : Room service breakfast, best thing ever when you are hungover!
New Years Eve Dinner
Room Service Breakfast
Crystal Room, Vegas
New Years Eve Dinner
New Years Eve Dinner
New Years Eve Dinner
Road Trip from Vegas to San Francisco
This was the best part of my holiday, driving through the pacific coast highway. We stopped at random places to have the real Californian food – burgers, sandwiches and beers! And we rented a Ford Mustang (Hollywood movies are to be blamed) but hey, it was fun! We did have a very good dinner on the last day at this French- Asian restaurant called Ame in San Francisco!
Vegas to SF
Santa Barbara Breakfast
Take away Chinese
Home made eggs
Asian fusion at Ame
My favourite city definitely was San Francisco – love the vibe, the people and the sunshine!
One of the most exciting things about visiting a new country for me is experiencing their culture – Food, Drinks, Music, Fashion. This year I have been fortunate enough to travel around various European cities and one of my recent ventures was to Austria and Munich during Oktoberfest. I know the locals get rather annoyed with thousands of tourists flocking to their country during this time of the year but you gotta experience this massive beer fest once in your lifetime.
For those who are not aware, Oktoberfest is the world’s largest funfair held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16-day festival running from late September to the first weekend in October with more than 6 million people from around the world attending the event every year. Locally, it is often simply called Wiesn, after the colloquial name of the fairgrounds (Theresienwiese) themselves. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the original Munich event. (Yes, I copied this from Wiki)
Things I did and recommend:
I decided to stay in Salzburg instead of Munich, because accommodation in Munich is extremely expensive during this time and Salzburg is one of the most beautiful cities you will ever visit!
I bought a Drindl – Yes! It drilled a massive hole in my wallet but it was worth it. I did feel like very German besides the fact that I am half their height!
Drank gallons of beer – That is the whole point of Oktoberfest! The ones I loved are – Stiegl and Eidelweiss
I took the train from Salzburg to Munich – It’s an extremely beautiful train ride. Takes only 1.5 hours.
Walked around Salzburg and discovered the pretty city – Mirabelle Gardens, Mozart Museum, Little alley’s with shops. There is a lot to do in this pretty Austrian city.
Went on one of the super scary rides inside Oktoberfest after drinking tons of beer – It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, on the contrary it was a lot of fun!
Ate a lot of bread – you will not find such fresh and tasty bread in UK!
1. Saffron – This is an ingredient which I am a big fan of, because it can magically turn a plain boring plate of rice to look royal and majestic. Persian’s love to use saffron in abundance in most of their dishes. So if you intend to make a delicious Persian meal at home, better stock your shelf up with these beautiful strands. Saffron is also used very often in tea or chai in India and Middle east.
2. Rice – Persian meals are never complete without a plate full (or bowl) of thin grained, saffron infused steaming rice. But this is not the regular rice we boil at home, they make their rice with a lot of love and care. They first boil the rice, drain the excess water and then prepare a pan with oil, saffron and even yoghurt and then add the rice to it and let it steam in extremely low heat for about 40 minutes. Yes m’dear that is how much effort they put behind rice – Phew!
3. Herbs – Just like the Indians and Italians even the Persians love herbs, I mean it’s hard not to. They tend to use a lot of Coriander (My favourite), Parsley, Chive, Fenugreek, Mint and the most special one – Dill. The last one is very unique to this cuisine but you might just find it in one of those exquisite super markets, my bet is whole foods!
4. Advieh – It’s not some random ingredient, Persians use this rather exotic term to describe spices. I was impressed with myself when I realised I have most of the spices they use at home. Advieh is extremely similar to Garam Masala, so compositions vary but the basic spices are the same. The most common composition is – Corriander seeds, Fenugreek seeds, Ginger and Turmeric. The other one which is more similar to Garam Masala is – Cumin, Nutmeg and Cinnamon.
5. Dried Lime – Fresh lime has a very tangy and refreshing taste to it but dried lime can create magic too. It is used very often in Khoresh, which is a type of casserole dish with meat to balance the smell and taste of meat.
You must be wondering how did I suddenly become an expert in Persian cuisine? Ah I happened to speak to this wonderful lady Jila Dala -Haeri, who just wrote a new cook book called – From a Persian Kitchen.
She will be talking in details about Iranian and Persian cuisine and her book atAsia Houseon Friday, 14 November along with some light snacks from a Persian bakery!
If you liked this post, then you will LOVE the event, so come along and it will be a lot of fun and you can impress your weekend guests with your newly acquired Persian cooking skills! I’ll be there too, so don’t forget to say hello!
Here is a special recipe from her book just for my readers😀
Khoreshts are an essential element of Persian cuisine. The nearest equivalent in the West would be a casserole, a rich dish with plenty of sauce. Khoreshts may be made from meat, chicken or fish combined with vegetables, herbs, fruits or pulses. A khoresht is always served with plain rice (chelo); neither dish is secondary or subservient to the other. Serve a couple of large spoonfuls of rice with one large spoonful of khoresht; eat the rice and khoresht together.
The following recipe is a variation on one of the most popular khoreshes cooked all over Iran.
Chicken and aubergine khoresh with cherry tomatoes and sour grapes
The combination of saffron, sour grapes and cherry tomatoes with aubergine adds layers of aroma and flavour to the plain chicken.I used fresh sour grapes but you can also use the pickled unripe grapes available from Middle Eastern or Persian food stores. I prefer chicken thighs to breast as they are more flavoursome and easier to cook; you can use breast if you prefer.
This dish takes approximately 1 ¼ hour to 1 ½ hour to prepare and cook.
2 medium aubergine
1 medium onion
6 skinless, boned chicken thigh fillets
10 – 12 cherry tomatoes
250 g chopped canned tomatoes
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 table spoon tomato puree
3 table spoon lemon juice
3 table spoon sour grapes
2 table spoon liquid saffron
500 ml chicken stock
3 table spoon vegetable oil ( plus extra amount, enough for frying the aubergines)
Preparation and cooking
Peel the aubergines and cut each lengthwise to three slices. Wash and put them in a colander, sprinkle I teaspoon salt and leave them to stand for about 15 minutes.
Peel and finely chop the onion. Wash the chicken high fillets and trim any extra fat. Wash and dry the cherry tomatoes.
In a medium size heavy based sauce pan heat 3 table spoon of vegetable oil and fry the onions until golden. Add ½ a teaspoon of turmeric, stir and then add the chicken fillets, salt, pepper and the rest of turmeric. Stir well and fry for about 8-10 minutes, until the chicken pieces are golden and sealed. Add the chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, and the stock, stir well, bring to boil and then reduce the heat. Cover the pan and simmer for 40 – 45 minutes.
The sauce should be reduced by now to half.
While the chicken is cooking, fry the aubergines. In a frying pan, preferably non-stick, heat 50 ml vegetable oil and fry the aubergine slices until golden. Aubergine absorbs a lot of oil, so add more if necessary. Remove the slices with a slotted spoon and pat dry on kitchen paper to remove excess oil.
In the same frying pan, fry the cherry tomatoes in a table spoon of oil for a couple of minute. Remove from heat. Return the aubergine slices to the frying pan, sprinkle1 table spoon of liquid saffron and a table spoon of lemon juice over the aubergine slices and cherry tomatoes and set aside.
When the chicken is cooked, carefully arrange the aubergine slices and then the cherry tomatoes in the sauce pan on top of the chicken. Reduce the heat to low, add the sour grapes, the rest of the saffron and lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Allow to simmer very gently for about 10 15 minutes. Make sure that the sauce mix is not boiling vigorously because the aubergine and tomatoes will disintegrate.
Serve in a shallow bowl, carefully arranging the aubergine and cherry tomatoes on top of the chicken pieces.
Being a food blogger (part time) has it’s perks every now and again.. wondering how? Well I do get food vouchers worth 120 (pounds) every now and again from the lovely folks at Zomato, or get invited by Bacardi for their launch party.. ok ok I shall stop showing off now!
Look at me posing below like a pro foodie!
Manhattan Grill is one of the few places which ranks in my ‘5 Star’ rating zone, read on for why it is so..
I am more of a West London girl and I like the Victorian and Georgian buildings but the walk to Manhattan Grill, especially the pretty bridge you have to cross from Canary Wharf to reach your destination (Manhattan Grill) is extremely romantic (that is the best word I could use, I promise). The external ambience of any restaurant does add to its charm. Oh did I mention that this steak house is a part of Mariott, these guys are ace when it comes to such things! — 1 STAR!
I made a reservation before going and I was extremely delighted to see that the manager remembered my name without having to look at one of those black diaries. The service was a bit slow initially (it took them a while to get us water which we requested for) but the overall service made up for that little jolt. I was generous to take a friend of mine along with me (nothing is worse than eating alone, I promise) to try this place (did I mention that I won a voucher from this lovely site? Woohoo Zomato!) and we decided to go for cocktails instead of wine, think we both had enough of wine over the weekend.
While I was trying to carefully pick a cocktail from the menu and looking rather confused, the manager suggested that we head to the bar where an extremely experienced bar-genius will talk us through all of them. We made our way to a very old fashioned (in a nice way) looking bar called the G&T bar and as the name suggests they specialise in Gin. The bar-genius, Sam made us try some lovely Gin from around the world – Saffron infused, Spice route and a very London Gin. All of them had their own distinctive tastes – I am not a neat spirit kind of girl but even I loved all of them especially the silk route or spice route one (yeah yeah make those lame curry jokes, go on) because I could taste the cinnamon, cardamom and other gorgeous spices. He made me a cocktail with that spicy spirit and added some more exciting things to it which included rosemary, chocolate and orange liquor – BLISS. Before entering the restaurant I was starving but all this alcohol excitement made me forget my hunger but by the time my cocktail was ready the waiter came and said : ‘Madam your Steak is ready’ – Perfect Timing! — 2 STARS!
I went for the rib eye steak with creamy mash and red wine sauce – keep it simple! My steak was perfectly cooked – medium well (just the way I like) and it was MASSIVE! A person with my appetite can never finish one of those, and needless to say I didn’t either! After being rather satisfied with my steak and cocktail, we ordered for a Manhattan Raspberry Cheesecake – It was again simple but delicious. Perfect sweetness, I don’t like my cheesecakes to be extremely sugary and a generous crust – nom nom nom. — 2 STARS!
The short and simple menu
Bar-Genius – Sam
Busy with my Steak – Don’t disturb
And… I am running out of stars! 5 Stars??? Yes I do feel generous sometimes, unlike the teachers in high school who never wanted to shell out that extra half a mark for a spelling mistake.
Verdict : Stunning location, Great service, Knowledgeable bar genius with a great moustache, Beautiful,well done meat and yummy desserts – That m’dear is a perfect dinner!
I shall rest my case here.
Prohibition/ Live Jazz/ Flapper Dresses/ Men in Suspenders/ Quirky Cocktails – If any of these terms sound vaguely familiar or attractive to you then Night Jar is one bar in London you definitely should pay a visit. It is literally like time travel but without any science involved in it, the only thing you need to do is get yourself a tube to old street roundabout (if you don’t live near there). This place is so ‘cool’ that they don’t even have a sign outside, it literally is a small door in the middle of the hustle bustle of old street shops/ take away’s. You get there and knock on the door (like you were going to visit your friend’s flat) and then you are greeted by a gentleman/ woman (dressed like they belong to the 1920’s) escorting you to the basement.
Once you reach the basement you are taken to a different world all together – you find yourself in a dimly-lit, mysterious speak easy of the 1920s, complete with bartenders wearing suspenders and newsboy caps, curious glass bottles on the various bookshelves lining each wall, and a wooden stage on which a four-piece jazz band was playing their hearts out. Thank god I made an effort to put on a nice dress and some pearls otherwise I would have felt ridiculously under dressed (If you are ever in a mood to dress up, this is where you should go). I made up for my modernism later on by using my cocktail props as hair decoration (see photo above).
There was a live jazz band blasting music and they were mighty good – I took to the dance floor with my friends after I had a couple of those funky looking bad boys (cocktails). I was pining to show off my dancing skills, always wanted to dance to live jazz just like they do in the movies – think Great Gatsby. Coming to the cocktails – they were super fun, decorative (oyster shells, Japanese fans, tumblers, glass coated with cinnamon and chocolate, polo’s pretty much all sorts of weird things) and very very strong. See the photos. Oh you need to make sure you have a reservation – yes you need it! That’s how they rolled in the 1920’s!
Asia House Literature festival is packed with really interesting events and one of them was the launch of a Vietnamese Market Cook Book. I feel the best way to learn cooking is to watch and learn and that is exactly what I did because the two lovely women Van Tran and Anh Vu gave us a live demonstration of how to make some really simple Vietnamese Food.
A lot of people usually tend to have a mental block about cooking ‘exotic’ cuisines because they tend to think most of the dishes will need some kind of magic ingredients which they won’t be able to find in England. The truth on the other hand ladies and gentlemen is – You can literally find everything in London and to cook Vietnamese or any Asian cuisine for that matter you don’t necessarily need ‘out of the world’ ingredients. The ladies demonstrated how to make fresh summer spring rolls and how to make a basic Vietnamese sauce. These are super simple to make.
Drench Rice Paper wraps used for rolls in water (You can find them at super markets)
Chop some fresh herbs along with chicken or fish which ever you prefer
Roll them all up together (Make sure you roll them very tight)
Serve them with a dip (see below for the recipe) or sweet chilli sauce
After realising how simple it is to make the sauce I had to go home and try it out myself, so instead of using Salmon (they used it) I tried it with Lamb and it definitely was worth the effort. I obviously added my slight twist to it.
Noodles with Spring Onions
2 Fillets of Lamb cutlets (chopped into pieces)
3 Red finger chilli
1 tea spoon Fish Sauce
1 tea spoon of freshly grated ginger
1 tea spoon sugar
1 table spoon soya sauce
1 table spoon oil (vegetable oil or sesame oil or olive oil)
Let’s get cooking
For the sauce – Squeeze the lemon juice and then mix it with sugar, chilli, ginger – beat it properly. Add the fish sauce (depending on your taste, add more if you like it or add less if you are not too fond of the smell. I promise the fish sauce tastes great after its cooked.
Marinade the lamb with some salt and pepper.
Cook the lamb for about 5 minutes in high heat and then add the sauce and soya sauce.
Cook for 5 more minutes in the sauce.
Serve it with some noodles or boiled rice.
If you want to try out their food you should visit their restaurant Bánhmì11 in London.
Pop up’s have become the new ‘MacBook’ in the world of foodies – It is cool to visit a Pop up instead of fine dining. I feel it’s a great thing because good food doesn’t always have to be Michelin star, I actually prefer a tasty meal than a beautiful looking meal and guess what going to a Pop saves you a ton of money too (Its cheap). The idea of Pop ups is definitely something I strongly support, I plan to start my own Street Food Pop Up sometime soon (watch out ;p) especially after visiting a few around London – Inspired and Motivated!
Yesterday I was invited by the lovely Miss Cakehead (Emma) to try out one of London’s most exciting food Pop Up – Death by Burrito at The Candlemaker. Death By Burrito are making waves with their contemporary Mexican street food – hotdogs, burgers, unique Sunday specials and, of course, burritos. They started off at the hipster capital of London (Shoreditch of course) and now moved to the posh end of South London – Battersea! Very Cool, I say!
When I heard of The Candlemaker, the first thing I thought was where does the name come from and then Freddie, the manager who also resides just above the pub explained that it is inspired from the candle factory which operated for over a hundred years in nearby York Road. The bar has colourful pop-art and psychedelic imagery which gives it a very retro feel – Not your regular English Pub!
I had a great evening with a bunch of London Food and Drink Enthusiasts, there were not many of us but then Emma said she believed in quality over quantity (I love that I am considered as quality – woohoo). We were greeted with a refreshing lemon Margarita – an alcoholic slush with tequila, lemon juice and mints. I definitely needed it after a long day at work (yes, I have a full time job besides blogging) and you can see how much I enjoyed it from the photograph below.
While we sipped on our cocktails and Modello (which was the choice of beer offered, I switched to it after my first cocktail) we were served nachos with guacamole. I loved the fact that the chef had added pomegranate to the avocado – very hipster! The pork belly and kimchi tacos followed soon after, which was quite a hit with the photographers specially because they looked absolutely stunning! When you are out for a meal with food bloggers, the unsaid rule is – you don’t pounce on the food before everyone has got that perfect photograph (for instagram and twitter ofcourse). The Baja Fish tacos followed soon after (my favourite of the lot) and this is something I have never had before – battered fish with tacos! You should definitely try it at home next time because its ridiculously simple to make but very contemporary at the same time (I definitely will try it at home soon). The (not so hot) chicken wings were also a big hit amongst everyone only till the REAL hot wings came – boy they were hot! Well I didn’t bother trying them after looking at the man who did manage to eat all 8 (which was the challenge) – he looked like he just got dumped, never seen a face as red as that. Finally we were served the mini burgers (which is the most popular thing in their menu) and people did get down and dirty so much so that we all started discussing the famous sexy (read provocative) burger commercials. My favourite one definitely is the Western Bacon Burger commercial with super model Padma Laxmi (It is one of the most viewed ad on youtube).
After feasting and drinking for a good 2.5 hours I was a happy girl with a full tummy. I would definitely recommend people to try out this awesome Mexican Pop up, but if you are not a fan of Mexican food then you should definitely visit The Candlemaker its an awesome pub with really friendly people!
Verdict : Great food , lovely ambience and amazing people!
Strawberry Bellini’s, Champagne, Bread board, Cheese board, Cocktail Making, Fish Burgers and a group of 10 Foodies from London – This has to be a delicious combination and so it was. Andaz Liverpool Street and Zomato organised this exclusive evening for London foodies (Food Bloggers, Chefs, Writers) and I was one of the lucky 10 to be invited – woohoo!
Hyatt’s Andaz is a magnificent 5 star boutique hotel located in the heart of Liverpool Street – it still has the old word charm unlike its neighbour the stunning modern glass landmark, yes you guessed that right, I am talking about The Shard. This 1884 building has a restaurant Miyako, Catch champagne bar and lounge, Eastway restaurant and George pub besides catering the tourists with some swanky rooms.
We got a tour of the restaurants, starting with Catch where we were greeted by Andaz and Zomato with a glass of strawberry Bellini or Champagne (whatever floats your boat) along with nibbles (bread board, olives, cured ham). Then we headed to Eastway for a cocktail class – we all went down and lemony shaking cocktails with the friendly bartender while gorging on the assorted mini burgers, Chicken chermoula and Lebanese Mezze. I made a mixed berry cocktail with fresh berries, lime, brown sugar, Vodka and berry liquor – it was definitely delicious, made me think of an alternative career option!
Finally we ended up at 1901 Restaurant and Wine Bar for cheese board and desserts – by this point everyone had a few to drink so people finally drifted away from food conversation to films, supper clubs and travelling (perfect topic before the Easter break). The Cheeseboard had Innes Log besides Cheddar and blue cheese but my favourite was Innes (Staffordshire Goat Cheese) a Creamy, lactic, tangy, nutty cheese which was my favourite and that is a massive surprise because I personally always thought that I hated goats cheese – so if you are a goat cheese hater then you know what to try. Finally we were served the most awaited section of any menu, yes you guessed that right – stressed spelled the other way round DESSERTS. It was literally a feast because we had everything from Lemon and Blueberry Tarts to chocolates to Strawberry and cream parfait – wowza!
Besides eating and drinking, I also met some fabulous bloggers, journalists and chefs. I had a brief chat with the chef from Catch who happens to be from Pondicherry in India (woohoo – go Indians). That man, has some serious talent in making breads – definitely one of the finest breads I have tasted and the rest of the gang couldn’t help but agree with me. The staff at Andaz were not just extremely hospitable but had great banter and chat too – which is always a great way to relax guests specially in such an intimidating venue.
I got some insider scoop and found out that they are starting – Weekend Brunch Clubs! Keep an eye on their website for more details, I am a huge fan of Brunch clubs and can’t wait to try it out!
Andaz Liverpool Street
Hope you enjoyed this post and let me know if you decide to try out Andaz!
What would be your last supper? This is a question I never thought about till I attended The Last Secret Supper Club thanks to Lauren for inviting me.
Eating out has always been an important part of people’s life but in the last few years it has suddenly gone top of the charts even before gigs and rock concerts. There are foodies everywhere and instagram is filled with food photographs of people posting photographs of food they eat. Back in the days eating out meant going to restaurants – order your favorite thing from the menu, women gossiped about men and men talked about sports and the hot victoria’s secret model and then you went home. But now there are different kinds of eating out and the most interesting and popular of the lot are – Supper Clubs. Supper Clubs are not like eating out at any restaurant but its a mixture of both restaurant and a dinner party. You pay a fixed price in advance for your meal and a great time in advance, it has become the most popular thing to do in London and New York these days. Supper Clubs actually started in the early 1990’s in New York where it was a thing that the High Society people did and now it has made a grand come back – still quite elitist though.
I spend an evening with The Last Secret supper club, which is organized by Food Photographer Lauren and her business partner along with Top Chef Jesse Dunford Wood at Parlour in Kensal. Lauren was kind enough to allow me to bring a plus one with me, so I turned up with my friend Patrick at the venue 30 minutes late – we confused Regents Street in Kensal with ‘The Regents Street’. We were greeted by the lovely hosts and they immediately showed us the way to the bar where we were served Mandarin Infused Gin and Tonic in plastic bags which also contained a plastic fish inside it – quite an innovate way to serve cocktails I must say!
There was a mixed bunch of people – Food reviewers, The hot New York media PR woman, Editors of Magazines, The Finance guy who works for a Hedge Fund and has no clue about supper clubs(he was my plus one) and a lot of American Expats (Supper Club’s are a big thing in The States). We were all seated like we were at a posh dinner party and then food was served finally – people ate, joked, talked about work (the introductions), then slowly once the wine and cocktail started kicking in, it went in all different directions including politics, sex and london stereotypes.
I thoroughly enjoyed my starter, Buffalo Wings in Blue Cheese Sauce – never tried buffalo wings before but every one in the table agreed that it was delicious and very well presented. The fish pie followed after that, I have to be honest I would never order a fish pie (I am a hard core meat lover when it comes to pies) but it was definitely tasty. And finally the dessert was served – Banoffie pie! You can’t really go wrong with this classic because its almost everyone’s favorite and the chef definitely nailed it, I loved the way she presented it too.
We had a good laugh, some good food and a very fine evening!
I had a chat with the ‘Brains’ of this wonderful concept Lauren and Lottie, this is what they had to say :
The initial concept of Last suppers, came from a series of different ways of thinking around people’s favourite foods. This led to a slightly darker side, what would you choose if you only had one meal left? Would it be food from your childhood, or would you pick something you’ve eaten in a restaurant or abroad?
This was the beginning of our brand. We started by asking friends and family about their last suppers and were amazed by the variety of menu choices. We began shooting their favourite dishes and soon found a style to the food and photography that worked well. The more people, we asked, the more we began to want to expand the idea into supper clubs. It definitely had a new twist compared with other London based supper clubs.
We started off by running them from home and at a rented location, but soon realised how much work was involved and that it wasn’t going to work financially this way. Lottie is a full time recipe developer and food stylist at Seven Publishing, and I am a freelance food photographer, so it was very difficult to fit into our already busy schedules. This is when we decided to collaborate with a chef.
I met chef Jesse Dunford Wood about 5 years ago whilst photographing restaurant reviews for a magazine. We remained good friends, making our decision simple when choosing a chef to involve in the brand. Jesse is very innovative, his culinary creativity still manages to suprise me. We have been running our supper clubs for 6 months now, 3 months of this in collaboration with Jesse. They have been a great success and I hope they continue to be!
The exciting part about the Last Secret Supper Club, is that you won’t know what you will be eating until you arrive. It’s like a game of meal roulette! The menu is very varied, but we always cook an alternative for people just incase. We also ask all our guests to submit their meal and any dietary requirements before they attend. This way there is a chance of one of their courses being selected and winning £10 off their ticket price. This is also their moment to state if there is anything they specifically dislike! We will adjust their meal accordingly.
Our supper clubs are hosted every last Wednesday of the month. The next one is the 30th of April.
We are continuing to write our cookery book alongside, we’re in the process of putting together a shooting schedule, and we hope the book will be released in April 2015.
You can also find out more about the brains behind ‘Last’ via our websites-
Mum’s are special and super humans, and I love mine very much! She is an absolute super woman, who can juggle a million things at the same time. When she was visiting me in London, she was making all these delicious food for me everyday and my most favorite memory of her was walking to the nearest Sainsbury (Yes I am a big fan, and my mum says their meat is the best) to buy groceries – reminded me of my days as a toddler when I followed her to super markets.
Most of the recipes I post in this blog are actually stolen from her, so this Mother’s day I am dedicating this recipe to her. It is the most delicious Indian dessert and you can never go wrong with it – its a mass favorite. So, why not impress your mum by making this exotic Indian Carrot pudding or most popularly known as Gajar Ka Halwa.
Things you will need
3 – 4 Carrots finely grated
3 Table Spoon of Ghee (Clarified Butter)
Handful of Almond Flakes
Evaporated Milk (1 cup) or half a tin
1/2 cup (small tea cup) sugar
2 Cardamom pods
Get Cooking to impress Mummy!
Heat the ghee in a pan and then add the grated carrots and cardamom pods (smashed). Stir it for about 3-4 minutes in medium heat.
Add the evaporated milk and sugar. mix well and then cook in low heat till the you get a pudding like texture (you want it to be quite thick and not runny).
Finally add the almond flakes to garnish!
Serve it hot or cold – its so good that it tastes great either ways!
‘Eat your breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar’ – All Indian’s take this sentence very seriously, which is why breakfast in all parts of India tends to be a very heavy meal. I am a big fan of South Indian food because it’s not just very tasty but very healthy and wholesome too. Upma is one of the most popular South Indian breakfast which has a huge popularity across the country. It is a healthy meal made with semolina and vegetables which keeps you full for a very long time but at the same time its extremely tasty and delicious!
Nudo Italia send me samples of their new rosemary flavored olive oil . I am a big fan of rosemary and always tend to use it with meat (which is the obvious choice) but this time I decided to see how well it goes with vegetarian food and decided to experiment it with Upma! Guess what? It turned out to be fabulous because the hint of rosemary makes adds a whole new dimension to the dish!
1 cup of semolina
Dried curry leaves (3-4)
Onion chopped (1 small)
Bay leaf (1)
Chopped green vegetables (I used green beans and carrots)
Nudo Rosemary Olive Oil (2 table spoons)
Red Chili flakes or powder (as much as you can handle)
Mustard Seeds – (5-6)
Lemon Juice (1/2 lemon)
Salt (to taste)
Pinch of Sugar
Let’s get cooking
Heat the oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds, onions and bay leaf – fry it till the onions get soft for about 1- 2 minutes on medium heat.
Add the tomatoes and green veggies to it and let them simmer and boil for about 3 minutes
Add the semolina to it and then add 2 cups of water to the whole thing and let it cook in low heat.
Add the curry leaves, lemon juice, chili flakes, salt and pinch of sugar – let it cook till you get a thick consistency similar to a risotto.
Serve it piping hot and relish it – Isn’t it rather simple to make?
Every time I go to an Indian restaurant with my friends, the first thing they order is a plate of bhaji’s. I have seen peoples eyes brighten up with happiness the minute they see a plate full of warm crunchy bhajis (or bhajias – thats the real Indian term) and rightly so because they are absolutely delicious. This is one of the main reasons why I always make different types of bhajis (onion, coriander, potato, bread, okra) whenever I have guests at home for tea. It is ridiculously simple to make – I mean literally you can make them in less than 10 minutes time!
Lets look at the ingredients:
Gram Flower (Chick Pea Flower) – You can get this at any asian super market
Vegetable of your choice – Onion, Coriander, Spinach, Potato, Okra (literally anything you want)
So there are 3 simple steps to making a Bhaji/ Bhajia –
Chop – Chop the vegetable you want to use, make sure you don’t chop them too much because you want it to be chunky and a good size. For example for potatoes, make thin round slices; for okra keep them about an inch long; onions could be chunky too and same with anything else.
Mix – Mix the gram flower, lemon juice, garam masala together , add some water to it to get a batter which is similar consistency like the pancake mix. Then add the vegetable to it.
Fry – Add a generous amount of oil to a pan which is wide spread (I usually shallow fry as its healthier) and then pick up a spoon full of the batter and just add it to the pan to fry it. Turn it the other way round and make sure both sides are cooked and it looks crispy and golden (slightly deep golden/ brownish).
Your hot, crispy, delicious bhaji is ready to be served with some chutney (whichever you want) and a steaming cup of tea!
The best thing about living in London or any big city is definitely having friends from different nationalities and backgrounds. My Swiss- Chinese friend Julian (btw he is very British as he grew up in Cambridge) invited me over to his place for dinner for some authentic chinese food, but the best part was he actually did all the cooking in front of me – yay! The minute I entered his flat I got the smell you get in a really good chinese restaurant and thats when I knew the food is going to be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
Here’s the menu, which was so simple to make but equally delicious. He made all three of them in less than 20 minutes and I am not even joking, never knew cooking such delicious chinese food would be so simple.
1. Beef Stir Fry – 7 minutes
Shredded Beef – 300 grams
Light Soya Sauce – 3 table spoons
Sesame Oil – 2 Table spoons
1 red Onion (Big one)
1 tea spoon cornflower
1 table spoon oyster sauce
2 table spoon rice wine
Shred the beef into really small pieces so that it gets cooked easily and marinade them with soya sauce, rice wine, oyster sauce, cornflower and sesame oil. Ideally leave them over night but its not essential.
Then fry some red onions in sesame oil, but not much because you want them to be crunchy.
Add the beef and cook them for about 5 minutes – Ta -da your beef stir fry is ready! As simple as it gets.
2. Spanish Omelet with a Chinese twist – 5 minutes
1 tablespoon Winter Cabbage (Magic Ingredient)
Chilly Oil (My addition, because I feel it will enhance the taste)
Salt and Pepper
Spring Onions (Chopped)
Heat the oil and add all the ingredients like you would for a regular Omelet and you have an exotic omelet ready – trust me it tastes absolutely delicious!
Serve it with some chilly sauce or sweet chilly sauce (whichever you prefer)
3. Stir fried beans (3-4 minutes)
Sesame Oil – half table spoon
Fresh Green Beans
Salt and Pepper
Heat the oil and add the beans to it, let it cook for about a 30 seconds.
Then sprinkle water and put a lid on top of it (I have been told, this is the trick to make the best beans), let it cook for about 2 minutes
Add soya sauce, salt and pepper and serve them HOT!
There you have 3 simple but authentic chinese recipes, so go get the magic ingredients from your local oriental supermarket and get cooking!
Whoever said food bloggers can’t go for fashion week should be shot (okay maybe no one said that).
So I got an opportunity to attend the London Fashion Week 2014 last week – definitely one of the most fashionable experiences of my life. But when you get invited to one of the biggest fashion extravaganza in the world the pressure is immense and the question – ‘what should I wear?’ has never sounded more serious! When its the Fashion Week you know you need to make an effort (or more than that), but guess what? My mind stops working in situations like these and for some reason I don’t manage to find any dress in my wardrobe which I quite like – ah typical girl problems. Anyway I did manage to throw this old steel colored dress on and thought of going for the whole red and steel combination (it’s my made up fashion) and being utterly safe and definitely boring compared to the fashionistas!
Somerset house has never looked more glamorous or star studded ever before – yes I did spot some celebs! Bradley – Oh so HOT – Cooper and Stella MacCartney. I possibly spotted others too but just did not recognize – not great with this celeb spotting game! I managed to watch two shows too – Ashish show at Tate, which was incredible and Saide Clayton at this vintage Church!
Here are some of the pictures from fashion week!
This is my famous steel and red look I was mentioning earlier ;)
Right after my friend took this photograph, I got asked by a Paparazzi if i was Padma Laxmi (She is an Indian super model but is around 48 years old now) so I didn’t know if I wanted to slap that guy or hug him! Well I went with a smile and no I am not at this instance.
You need food to live and a great cocktail to wash it down – this is what Ian said when I asked him to pick between a great meal or a lip smacking cocktail. I cannot agree with him more because even I face this dilemma every time I am out, should I spend more money on food or cocktails. Ahh the first world problems!
Ian Burrell is the Global Rum Ambassador which basically means he is the man you need to go to when you want to find out about Rum and he tours the world talking about Rum and making cocktails, when I say world I mean literally because he has even been to Antarctica and set up a pop up Rum shack there. He now owns Cottons, the rum shack and restaurant in Camden where they also serve delicious Caribbean food. Besides being the cocktail and rum expert Ian is also an Actor, Rapper and Basketball player – talk about wearing different hats. Phew!
So when I asked him for a lay man’s guide to making a professional cocktail he said you need to remember 5 different elements (yeah he treats cocktails like chemistry he said) because the best cocktails are punches! So here is the basic recipe to make the best cocktails!
3. Strong – Obviously any spirit, but according to Ian – Rum!
4. Weak – Coke, Soda, Juice, whatever floats your boat!
5. Spice – To make it nice, that is what they say in the Caribbean – Cinnamon, Chilly, Cardamom and likes.
Shake these 5 elements up with some crushed ice and impress your next guest!
When I asked him to make me a cocktail, he made this exotic litchi cocktail and I must say, being a non-rum lover I absolutely LOVED it. I must say, I was a very anti rum person till I met Ian and he definitely convinced me otherwise, i had a great time chatting with him at his bar Cottons Camden, you must visit and try their cocktails.
So this lovely blog of mine somehow got noticed by Channel 4 sometime back and they asked me to participate in a food show (can’t name the show just yet) a couple of weeks back. Yesterday was the day of filming and guess who was the presenter of the show? Simon Rimmer (Yes the BBC breakfast guy, he also has his own restaurant in Manchester) and the guest judge was Michelin Star chef Paul Rankin! Yes, I did feel like a lucky foodie to meet them and do a show with them, and I must say they were lovely people with such enviable knowledge about food!
I can’t disclose more than this now because of copyright reasons, but will definitely post the video link when the show gets aired or just keep an eye out for a new food show on Channel 4😉
Here are some of the pictures from last night – Had to show them off!😀
On the sets of Channel 4 Show
Channel 4 Show
Hope you enjoyed the pictures and will keep you posted on the date and time of the show, in the meanwhile I also created a facebook page for this blog – https://www.facebook.com/eatwithmeshrimoyee?fref=ts
The sound of dhak (percussion), loudspeakers on the road playing the latest bollywood numbers, every street lit up with bright lights, people flocking into shopping malls and other markets to get themselves the best outfit to wear for that special time of the year and ofcourse every restaurant/stall/food market coming up with pujo special menu’s — That is Durga Pujo or the biggest Bengali Festival in Kolkata, India.
After 7 long years I finally got to be in Kolkata for this crazy madness and boy I could feel the butterflies and excitement in lower abdomen the minute I made the decision. I decided to absorb every bit of it and dive into the whole craziness and fun right from shopping, eating, pandal hopping, raiding my mum’s wardrobe and wearing all the beautiful saree’s and dancing to the beats of the dhak! I am sharing a few photographs from my trip which could give you a very very faint idea about the festival because you can never know what really is without actually being there!
These are all the pictures from my trip and the festivity in Kolkata, hope you enjoyed it and let me know your thoughts or if you wanna know anything more! I definitely recommend everyone to visit Calcutta during this time of the year which is usually during September-October .
Hello folks, I wanted to share this short film with you guys as this is very special to me. I acted in the lead role and we are sending it for a few festivals now. It would be great to get some feedback from you.
There is a saying that if you go to Calcutta (or the new name Kolkata) then you MUST try Egg Roll from a street stall. Yes, that is how popular this dish is in India. All bengali’s (the people of Calcutta) swear by this dish and will have it atleast once a week if not more. It is almost like the fish and chips of Bengal – greasy, eggy and very very tasty! And the best part is, you can make it in less than 10 minutes in your own kitchen, but obviously you won’t get the taste of the ones that the street vendors make because the dirt definitely adds to the flavor :p
Ingredients (Most of them you always have in your kitchen) for one Roll
1/4 cup (tea cup) plain flour
Vegetable Oil/ Sunflower Oil/ Olive Oil
1 chopped green chilly
1/4 chopped onion
1/4 chopped cucumber
Let’s get cooking (be ready to get your hands dirty)
Knead the flour with one tablespoon of oil and handful of water (I mean sprinkle some water) and after about 3-4 minutes you should get a soft dough.
Then make a round ball and flatten it with a rolling pin, till you get a nice big round somewhat like a pancake or chapati.
Heat up a pan and add one table spoon of oil and then fry the flattened dough till you get a light brownish color and then keep it aside, this is called paratha. (look at the image)
Then beat the egg and make an omelet, while still raw place the paratha on top of it while still on the pan. Then fry it together for a few seconds till you feel the egg is cooked.
Finally add the chopped onions, cucumber, ketchup and chilly sauce and make a roll and enjoy!
I promise if you make this, you won’t regret or rather thank me for it! It is delicious and so simple to make! Don’t forget to let me know your thoughts once you make it and of-course share it on sorts of social networking platform😀
When people ask me what is my favorite dish of ALL times, I can’t help but say Lamb curry but having said that I am very fussy about the lamb curry I like. This is the one that I was used to having since childhood and never got bored of it, rather appreciated even more when I grew up. I have obviously made my own twists and turns in this but this is one dish that always has been a hit whenever I have made it for anyone!
1/2 kilograms chopped lamb
1 Tbs Yogurt
2 Onions finely chopped
1 Tbs Garlic and Ginger paste
3 Chopped Tomatoes
1 Tbs Turmeric powder
1Tbs Red Chilly Powder
1 Tbs Garam Masala Powder
2 Bay leaves
3 diced potatoes
2 Tbs Mustard oil/ regular cooking oil
Salt according to your taste buds
Lets start cooking..
Marinate lamb with yogurt, salt, ginger and garlic paste, turmeric and red chillies for 1 hour
Fry the potatoes in the oil and then keep it aside
Use the same oil to fry the oinion, remaining ginger and garlic
Add the tomatoes
Add turmeric, chilly and garam masala powder
Add the lamb and then cook it for 10 mins
Finally add the fried potatoes and let it cook on low heat for 1 hour
Keep stirring it every now and again
Test if the lamb is soft and the potatoes are boiled
Your lamb curry is ready to be served with boiled rice or Polaw Rice.
2 Cups Basmati rice
2 Tbs Ghee (Indian butter)
Few stands of saffron1/2 cup sugar
2 Bay leaves
3 Cardamom and 1 Cinamon stick
10 broken cashews
Heat the ghee in a deep pan
Add the bay leaves, saffron, cardamom, cinamon and cashews
Add the rice, fry till golden
Add 4 cups of water
Rice will be ready in 20 mins
Hope you liked the video and had fun making this meal and do not forget to let me know your thoughts by liking the post or dropping me an email. And please share on FB, Twitter or any other social media site if you liked it, remember sharing is caring?😀
Whenever I feel like eating something simple and fresh or when I miss home too much this is what I resort to. This dish is not just extremely simple to make but it is as real as it gets when we think of Indian food. And for all you health conscious folks who like eating non-bland food this could be your next favorite dish.
Ingredients you need for one person:
One breast of Chicken chopped into chunks (you can also use chicken with bones, if you like to chew on them later like me)
One table spoon Coriander Powder
I tea spoon salt
2 tea spoon turmeric powder
1 tea spoon chilly powder
3 chopped green chillies
One small chopped red onion (you can also use white onion but red has a bit more flavor)
3 baby potatoes cut into halves
1 tablespoon fresh ginger and garlic paste (I prefer more ginger as it gives the fresh taste)
1 fresh red chopped Tomato
2 tablespoon of mustard oil/ vegetable oil/ sunflower oil (either is good but mustard gives the best taste)
Let’s start cooking :
Marinade the chicken with ginger- garlic paste, turmeric, chilly powder and salt and leave it while you chop the onions and make other arrangements. Its good if you keep it for 30 minutes but not set in stone.
Heat Oil in a pan and fry the onions, green chilly and potatoes for about 4-5 minutes till the onions start getting brown.
Add the chicken (which you kept aside) and let it all cook while you stir it occasionally for about 5 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and half a cup of water and let the whole thing cook in medium heat till you get a really thick gravy. It should not take more than 7 minutes.
And then believe it or not your chicken curry is ready to be devoured!😀
Yes you don’t need any yogurt, cream or anything fancy! This recipe is as simple as that…serve it with hot boiled rice or even fresh chapati (indian bread). Btw you could add fresh coriander if you wanted to but this one tastes good even without it!
Let me know if you liked it by sharing this post or even dropping me a line, always love a good conversation about food!
I went for a professional baking workshop and discovered the joys and simplicity of baking – what a rewarding hobby to cultivate! I always wondered how bagels are made because they have a very different texture than any other bread and finally all my doubts were cleared after attending this super awesome workshop at The Baking Lab, London.
Here are 5 simple steps to make your own bagel :
1. Kneading – First and foremost, you will need to knead the dough obviously. So if you take one full cup of flour you need 1/4th cup of water and half a tea-spoon of oil and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Then keep kneading it till its not sticky and is stretchable. If it gets too sticky then all you need to do is leave it for 15 minutes and get back to it but do not add more flour, this is the mistake most of us make.
2. Shaping – Now you have your flour ready so the next step would be to shape it into a bagel (yay). Get chunks of balls from the dough and again knead it for some time (this is the part I enjoy most) and then with a sharp circular cutter just get rid of the center. After which you just keep playing with it and make the ring as smooth as possible. All done?
3. Boiling – Yes it sounds strange but this is what gives it the texture of a bagel, boil all of them in plain water for about 10 minutes. Then slowly take them out and keep them aside.
4. Coating– Glaze each one with raw eggs, use a brush for this almost feels like painting (haha). Then dip the glazed side in your favorite topping like poppy seeds or sesame seeds, you can use anything you feel like.
5. Baking – Finally put all of them in the oven and bake them for 15-20 minutes in 250 degrees temperature. In lay man’s terms bake it in medium heat so whatever oven you have just make sure its not in high temperature or low.
And your bagels are ready to eat! Woooohooo!
Let me know if and when you try it, don’t forget to invite me!😀
When ever I hear the word ‘Curry’ used to describe Indian Cuisine it really makes me very upset and irritated because Indian Food is so much more than curry! I have had millions of discussions with friends here where I tried to explain them what Indian food is all about. Rick Stein has finally captured it in its true essence!
This video just made me very hungry, nostalgic, emotional and a wee bit teary eyed! Ahh I miss home Kolkata now! If you are interested in Indian food or like it, this episode is a must watch! Don’t blame me later if you get really hungry later!
There have been some major changes in my life in the last 5 months, which is why I did not get any time to update this blog! Thankfully they are all good changes I am now the Community Manager for Yelp Manchester !
Thanks to this new job I have been eating out a lot besides doing some really cool things! I wanted to share a few photographs with you guys of my last 5 months of foodie adventure!
So now that you have seen what I have been up to lately, you can add me on Yelp and also read my reviews there! I would love to see some of you on Yelp and invite you for all these awesome parties and events! Perks of being a Yelper eh?
One thing that makes India such a colorful country is definitely the street food, its not just absolutely mouth watering and delicious but also extremely vibrant. I cant help myself from gorging on all those gorgeous treats while I am taking a stroll down the streets and I am lucky that I have family back there so I get to visit the land of exotic food almost once every year!
Street food in India is definitely my biggest guilty pleasure even more than chocolates (yes you heard it right) and trust me once you experience that you cant help but agree with me (of course once you get over the Delhi belly fear). This time my visit to India was restricted to Calcutta (I refuse to call Kolkata) and boy this city is known for the food and Bengalis (The native inhabitants even though its extremely cosmopolitan now) LOVE their food! No wonder I am such a foodie!
Here are some of my personal favorites:
1. Dahi Phuchka (Crispy semolina pancake cups with yogurt, potato and tamarind sauce filling)
2. Aloo Paratha ( Indian bread with a potato filling usually to be had with yogurt or any curry)
3. Indian Saffron Tea
4. Nolen Gurer Rosogolla ( Most popular Bengali Sweet and my personal favorite)
5. Baked Rabdi (Baked Milk Pudding and extremely addictive nom nom)
6. A special Indian Breakfast ( Different Kinds of Kachuri)
Well after gorging on all these delicacies I definitely am having withdrawal symptoms after coming back to Manchester, but that is why I love cooking so that I can try making all these at home!
Finally a pic of me in Indian traditional clothing with my beautiful Mum (A fantastic Cook) who is the inspiration for me to make this blog and most of my recipes! Yeah needed to show off my Indianess :p
Hope you enjoyed this post! And don’t forget to share and care like I always say😉
Firstly Merry Christmas to everyone, I didnt quite have a merry christmas as I was coughing and popping antibiotics all through and my plan of cooking great food everyday hence was kind of ruined! I finally started feeling better yesterday so thought of making some healthy treat for myself and making those nasty greens taste good (yes I am not a massive fan of the greens) :p
Palak Paneer or Spinach with cottage cheese is definitely a superb invention by the Indians cuz it is not just healthy Indian Food but super yummy at the same time!
Anthony, my new blogger friend very kindly offered to write a guest post for my blog, I hope you enjoy this post because I surely did!
So, we’re still here. Today is December 22, 2012 and not only am I still here, but there still exist plenty of people to read what I’m typing. Our world has undergone no obvious natural cataclysm or tumult. The hour of the dreaded Mayan apocalypse prophecy that has caused December 21, 2012 to dominate so many imaginations for so long has come and gone with neither a celestial horseman nor a cosmic collision to show for it. This could seem to reinforce the plausibility of another widely-held belief, that the destined December 21st event was intended to reflect less of final curtains than of new beginnings and, as some believe, beneficial change in the collective spirit and consciousness of all humankind. I suppose we’ll see. Either way, it seems my opportunity to learn how the final season ofFringe will conclude is not lost, so color me elated.
Now let’s eat.
The most recent widely-publicized prediction of some sort of major planetary upheaval happened in May 2011, and I marked the occasion on FlavorfulWorld.com with a multiple-course Doomsday menu. The recipe I am pleased and honored to share here today (Thanks again for having me, Shrimoyee!) is better described as a celebratory “We’re Still Here” dish, because the best kind of global catastrophe is the kind that never came. In celebration of that truth, here’s my recipe for Cabernet-Pomegranate Braised Beef Short Ribs so tender the meat fell right off the bone when I prepared them just last night.
2 1/2− 3 lbs beef short ribs
1 bottle (750 ml) cabernet sauvignon
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
3 cups beef stock
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp salt
1/2 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced sweet yellow onion
1/3 cup finely chopped green onion
1/2 tsp coriander seeds, lightly toasted and crushed
1/2 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
Vegetable oil (just enough to cover the bottom of a large frying pan or dutch oven)
1. Trim any especially thick exterior fat from short ribs before preparing. Into a container deep enough for wine to completely cover short ribs, place short ribs in a single layer and pour entire bottle of cabernet sauvignon. Cover, refrigerate, and let marinate overnight (or minimum four hours).
2. Cover the bottom of a frying pan or dutch oven with vegetable oil on stovetop over medium-high heat.
3. Combine flour, salt, and black pepper in a bowl and mix until thoroughly blended. Remove short ribs from marinade. Set marinade aside.
4. Dredge marinated short ribs through seasoned flour. When oil is hot, add flour-coated short ribs 3 or 4 at a time, turning them every minute or two to sear all sides until brown.
5. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
6. Set seared short ribs aside. When all ribs are brown, add sweet onion, green onion, and carrots to pan. Cook over medium heat for five minutes or until vegetables soften. If necessary, add another tbsp or two of oil to prevent vegetables from sticking or burning.
7. Pour in beef stock 1/2 cup at a time, using a wooden spoon to loosen any cooked-on bits of meat or skin from cooking surface. Add coriander seeds, thyme, 1 1/2 cups wine marinade, 1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice, and adjust heat to bring to a boil. Discard remaining marinade. Let liquid boil for 8-10 minutes, then remove from heat.
8. In oven-safe cooking dish with lid, arrange short ribs in single layer and cover with liquid. Place covered dish in 200-degree oven and cook for 4 1/2 to 5 hours.
Optional: For a thicker sauce, after dish is finished in the oven, remove short ribs from liquid and boil liquid on stovetop to reduce it to desired consistency.
I am a total sucker for red meat, be it lamb, beef or mutton I love them all! But one thing that puts me off cooking red meat is the amount of time it takes to cook the meat. Hence I came up with an alternative idea of making minced lamb/ beef when I am in a rush to satifsfy my taste buds, because it not only cooks super fast but also saves me the hassle of chopping the meat!😀
Minced Lamb curry has always been an instant hit not just for me but also my office colleagues and friends, they all love it when I make that for lunch! But the secret is it just takes me 20 mins to make that.
500 gm Minced Lamb
4 Tbs Yogurt
2 tbs garam masala powder
1 green chilly chopped
2 fresh tomatos (chopped)
1 tea spoon of salt
2 boiled potatoes (chopped)
3 tbs sunflower oil/ vegetable oil/ olive oil
1/2 tea spoon chilly powder
1 onion chopped/grated
1 tbs garlic and ginger paste
Handfull of chopped corriander
Marinate the minced lamb with Yogurt, Garam Masala and Salt
Heat oil in a pan and saute the ginger, garlic and onions
Add the marinated minced lamb mix to this now and cook it for about 5 minutes
Then add the tomatoes, potatoes and chilly powder
Fry the egg and scramble in a separate pan with a bit of oil and then add the egg into the main curry with the lamb and mix it.
Finally add the chopped corriander to garnish it and serve it hot with boiled rice/ bread/ naan.
Hope you will try it yourself and let me know your thoughts! I am a massive chatter box and always love to talk about food! Do drop me a line and if you like the post dont forget to share it with your friends on FB/Twitter/Pinterest!
Durga Puja or Sharadotsav is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga. It refers to all the six days observed as Mahalaya, Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Nabami and Vijayadashami. Durga Puja festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura. Thus, Durga Puja festival epitomises the victory of Good over Evil.
It is the biggest festival for all Bengali’s and the Bongs (short form of Bengali) look forward to this festival through out the year. I am no exception, even though I have been living away from Calcutta for over 9 years now, each year during this time my heart is in Calcutta, I want to hear the dhaki (Drummer) play the beats or enjoy the dancing, eating, drinking and all other festivities that goes on in the city. You have a few Durga Puja’s in London but they are all very traditional and back home that’s not how I or other youngsters celebrated it, we participated in the religious bits for probably an hour or so but the rest was always about adda session with friends.
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Angus Denoon from Jhalmuri Express and I got together during Notting Hill Carnival 2015 and we had a lot of fun so I am expecting just the same this time. Have a look at the photos.
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Populations of two native endangered species endemic to Maui have been reduced by over half spanning the past two to three decades, according to an interagency report.
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“The most recent Maui endemic forest bird to go extinct was the po‘ouli (black-faced honeycreeper, Melamprosops phaeosoma) in 2004, and based on the findings from this survey, we are worried the kiwikiu is next,” USGS Wildlife Research Specialist Seth Judge said in a news release.
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Whether you are managing your own AdWords account, or have entrusted its success to someone else, the odds are that as a business owner you have about a THOUSAND things to do at any time. Somewhere buried in that list is generally the question ‘how is AdWords doing?’
From a lot of experience talking to clients the honest answer is quite often they’d say, ‘I don’t really know!’
IT’S NOT ALL THAT COMPLICATED
Once explained to them though, they start to understand that measuring AdWords performance is really straightforward as I’ll cover below. (Note – we are not going to cover Assisted Conversions and Conversion Attribution in this post which build a more complex picture of how clients find and interact with your site, and the influence PPC has – let’s leave that for another day).
To measure performance, you need to do some set up work in Google Analytics. You’ll need Google Analytics for everything here, so make sure it is setup and the tracking code is installed. If it isn’t then ask your web developer to set it up for you.
Once it is installed then make sure that you are using the same email address to login to both AdWords and Analytics. Login, go to admin and then confirm AdWords is linked.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR WEBSITE?
What type of website does your business have - is it lead generation or Ecommerce?
1, LEAD GENERATION
Does your website generate leads? I.E. it isn’t an online shop, it’s a site which people find and then hopefully make contact by sending a message or calling you. Then it’s a lead generation tool and measuring ENQUIRIES is key, Here’s how do you do it.
Most commonly enquiries either come through a contact form or a telephone call. Both can be measured and SHOULD be measured.
a, CONTACT FORMS
To measure contact forms you need to have the form set up as a GOAL in Google Analytics. There are two ways to do this –
If your contact form completion is on a separate URL e.g. www.mywebsite.co.uk/thanks then the URL is set as a goal. This is easy and you can do it yourself in the admin section.
If you DON’T have a separate URL then it is a little more complex. In this scenario Google Tag Manager needs installing (HOW many Google products ARE THERE you ask?!) The button that sends the form is then setup to trigger and fire an EVENT. That event is then set as a GOAL in Google Analytics. Generally we’d recommend someone who is proficient in Tag Manager does this.
BACK TO ADWORDS
Now the Contact Form is setup you need to go back to AdWords and import the GOAL. We will go through this in a minute.
b, TELEPHONE CALLS
It’s free to track telephone calls from your website that came from AdWords Ads. I’ll quickly repeat that – IT IS FREE.
HOW THE DEVIL DOES THAT WORK?
Well briefly, you’ll need a developer to install some code onto your website. This replaces your telephone number with a dynamic telephone number. Now, when some visits your site from any channel EXCLUDING AdWords your same telephone number is shown exactly as before. But when someone visits your site by clicking on an AdWords Ad, the telephone number dynamically changes to a unique telephone number. When they call that number, AdWords tracks the source right back to the keyword – clever eh? BTW – did I mention it is FREE?!
SETTING UP THE GOALS IN ADWORDS
To set up the on-site call tracking go to Tools > Conversions > + Conversions > Choose Phone Calls
Calls To A Telephone Number On Your Website.
This will both setup the goal and generate the code your developer needs to add to the website.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE CONTACT FORMS?
Go to Tools > Conversions again.
On the left hand side find Google Analytics and import your Contact Form GOAL.
WHAT ABOUT MEASURING PERFORMANCE THOUGH?
Now you’ve setup the call and contact form conversions go and make a cup of tea. Come back some time later once a conversion has happened.
Login to AdWords, go to Campaigns and reorder your columns as below –
Now with your data populated you can see how much you’ve spent (cost), how many enquires (conversions) it has generated AND the cost of each enquiry (cost / conv).
THAT IS PRETTY MUCH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Can customers order and pay for items on your website? Then it’s an e-commerce site and measuring TRANSACTIONS is key. Here’s how do you do it.
E-Commerce is similar to lead generation except instead of enquiries we are tracking orders and their values. To do this again you need Google Analytics setting up and linking as above. After that you need the E-Commerce module setting up. This tracks orders including product and order value. Generally you will need a web developer to do this.
GET THOSE TRANSACTIONS
Once that is done go back to AdWords > Tools > Google Analytics and this time import Transactions.
Now go to Campaigns and modify the columns as below.
This time you will now be able to see how much you’ve spent (cost), how many sales (conversions) it has generated and the cost of each sale (cost / conv). Addditionally you can see the total value of those sales (All conv. value).
Divide your All conv value by the cost and you will calculate your return on Ad spend.
For example –
Cost / conv £27.50
Total Value £2500
Return on Ad Spend = £2500 / £550 *100 = 454%
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Night Climb on The Summit Trail of Kinabalu
You will arrive in Laban Rata (on the Summit Trail of Mount Kinabalu) at about 2.00pm the most. You can have some meals to regain back your energy in the resthouse's restaurant. Bear in mind that the prices of the food there is quite expensive. It is because the raw material are brought up there everyday - by foot. For example, the ordinary 'mee goreng' (fried mee) is about RM8.00 to RM10.00 per plate (normally it would cost about RM3.50 everywhere else). Be prepared with some extra money, so that you can have your meals properly - at about 10,000 feet above sea level! The restaurant serve local and some western dishes.
Most of the Mount Kinabalu climbers will sleep early, the latest is at 9.00pm after having dinner. It is because you have to wake up early - at about 2.00am, to continue for the second phase of the climb. If you are susceptible to mountain sickness, you may feel some headache, nausea, muscle ache and giddiness just before dinner time. You can take some medication to relieve the symptoms before you go to sleep. If you want to know more, check through medical advice page.
The next phase of climb will begins at about 3.00am, when you are woken for an early breakfast (at least a hot drink is advisable). You do not have to bring your alarm clock, as the noise of other climbers and guides will definitely wake you up. The restaurant is open at that time, but you can have you own hot drinks at your own hostel. As there will be only one stop at Sayat-Sayat Hut for another registration, given a whistle for safety precaution and refilling your water, it is advisable for you to bring your own small water bottle. You will now head up to the Summit of Borneo - the Low's Peak.
Above Laban Rata, the trail continues as a series of wooden ladders, fashioned out tree roots and branches. This is where a good torchlight is essential. As most of the time you have to hold something for stability, it is best if you have a headlight. This gives way to flatter, more easy walking just below Sayat-Sayat, when the true edge of the tree-line is reached. It would take about 45 minutes to Sayat-Sayat. This is the highest mountain hut at 3810 meters (12,500 feet). The dwarfed vegetation at this altitude contrast sharply with enormous silver black dome of the summit.
Ropes are fixed at difficult places, but these are more to inspire confidence than from necessity. Please be close to the rope. You would not get lost if you stay close by. There are some places where the trail is very steep, almost 70° angle. Be very careful.
Tough grasses and other plants cling to rock cervices, flowering and fruiting only a few centimeters tall. You will pass the 8km mark with the South Peak and St. John's Peak on your left. From here the bare granite slabs stretch endlessly ahead to the pile of jumbled rocks that is Low's Peak - reached at last in time to catch the sunrise.
The view of the surrounding peaks is magnificent. By 6.00am, you will be able to see most of the peak very clearly. This is usually the best time to take pictures of the sunrise and the peak. By 7.00am, most of the climbers will start to climb down the summit, back to Laban Rata.
On the way down, try to ask your guide to show you what they call it as 'sacrifice pool'. It is actually a pond where the early explorers reported that their Kadazandusun guides performed religious ceremonies to appease the spirit of the mountain as well as the ancestral spirits who lived there. If you are lucky and the the weather is cold enough, you can see a layer of ice formed on the surface of the pond.
Further down on your right will be the South Peak. If the weather is clear, you will also be able to see Kundasang and Ranau town from here. Along the summit plateau, you will walk down with your Ugly Sister's Peak and Donkeys Ears on your left. Soon, you will arrive at Sayat-Sayat Hut and you can refill your water bottle with the mountain water. (Some climbers keep the water from Sayat-Sayat as a souvenir - it's the water from 13,000 feet above sea level). 45 minutes later, you will arrive in Laban Rata.
Most of the climbers will arrive at Laban Rata at about 9.00am. You can now prepare yourself and your backpack for the descent. If you arrive early, try not to sleep. It will actually worsen your body, especially if you are prone to have acute mountain sickness. Pack quickly, have some breakfast, check out from Laban Rata and climb down with your guide - slowly. If you do not have enough training before the climb, this would be the most difficult part for you. When climbing down, you are exhausted and most of you weight will fall on both of your thighs, knees and the ball of your foot. Be very careful. Most of the accidents happens during the decent.
If you start climbing down at 10.00am, you will arrive at Timpohon Gate at about 1.00pm. There will be a bus waiting for you there to pick you up and send you to the Kinabalu Park HQ office where you will be given certificate. If you reached the summit, you will be given nice colourful certificate, but if you only arrive at Sayat-Sayat or only Laban Rata (that should n be if you prepare for the climb), you will only be given black and white certificate - signed by your guide.
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During labor and delivery, a doctor’s negligence can cause a child to suffer birth injuries with serious lifelong complications, from brain damage to permanent disability. Extensive medical care can often be financially devastating to families.
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A birth injury claim provides parents with a legal path to pursue compensation on behalf of a child who has suffered harm during or shortly after birth. To make this claim, you must be able to prove that your child’s birth injury was caused by negligence. Medical malpractice can be difficult to establish. However, with the help of an experienced lawyer, you may have a better chance at obtaining fair compensation for the care your child’s needs.
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Birth injuries often require follow-up care, which can be costly. It is important that you keep track of all the expenses related to the birth injury so that we are able to calculate current and projected costs for future care. You may be eligible to obtain compensation to help cover treatment for your child’s entire life, such as:
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You may even be able to recover non-economic damages, such as for any disability and/or disfigurement your child has endured as well as the pain and suffering you and your child has experienced due to the birth injury.
For cases involving medical malpractice in Michigan, there is a cap or limit to the amount of non-economic damages that may be recovered. Cases filed in 2020 are capped at $495,700 and increase annually because of inflation. This cap can increase if an injury results in permanent disability, impairment or organ damage.
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Michigan’s statute of limitations for medical malpractice, including birth injuries, is generally two years from the day the injury took place to take legal action.
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A birth injury is an injury that occurs during childbirth. Some of these injuries are physical, such as broken bones, skull fractures or paralysis of the arm or face while other injuries can be mental or neurological, such as nerve damage that can cause irreversible harm to the brain or spinal cord.
Unlike birth or genetic defects, which develop while the child is still in the mother’s womb, birth injuries are often preventable and the direct result of negligence or substandard care by a medical professional.
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Birth injuries are generally caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain. Several factors can lead to a child being deprived of oxygen during birth.
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It only takes a few minutes for a child to suffer a birth injury that can change his or her life forever. This is why doctors and other medical professionals have a duty to provide proper medical care through a mother’s pregnancy and during the labor and delivery process.
Common birth injuries with serious lifelong complications include:
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A downtown Vernon restaurant is turning customers away after a fire broke out Sunday.
Rosalinda's Filipino Kitchen is currently closed after an electrical fire broke out inside the restaurant.
"The restaurant was open at the time," said Vernon Fire Rescue deputy chief Lawrie Skolrood.
The fire, which broke out shortly before 1 p.m., originated from an electrical panel, where a BC Hydro smart meter was located.
"It was pretty much contained to where the meters are," said Skolrood, adding that the owner had the blaze extinguished before firefighters were on scene.
The owner, who runs the restaurant with his wife and employs three of his daughters, along with five other staff members, expects the restaurant could be closed for two to five weeks.
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It’s been four months since we finished Novena’s crowd funding campaign, and we’ve made a lot of progress since then. Since then, a team of people have been hard at work to make Novena a reality.
It takes many hands to build a product of this complexity, and we couldn’t do it without our dedicated and hard-working team at AQS. Above is a photo from the conference room where we did the T1 plastics review in Dongguan, China.
Case construction update
We’re very excited that the Novena cases we’re carrying around are now made of entirely production-process hardware — no more prototypes. A total of 10 injection molding tools, many of the family molds, have been opened so far; for comparison, a product like NeTV or chumby had perhaps 3-4 tools.
For those not familiar with injection molding, it’s a process whereby plastic is molded into a net shape from hot, high pressure liquid plastic forced into a cavity made out of hardened steel. The steel tool is a masterpiece of engineering in itself – it’s a water-cooled block weighing in at about a ton, capable of handling pressures found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the internal surfaces are machined to tolerances better than the width of a human hair. And on top of that, it contains a clockwork of moving pieces, with dozens of ejector pins, sliders, lifters and parting surfaces coming apart and back together again smoothly over thousands of cycles. It’s amazing that these tools can be crafted in a couple of months, yet here we are.
With so much complexity involved, it’s no surprise that the tools require several iterations of refinement to get absolutely perfect. In tooling jargon, the iterations are referred to as T0, T1, T2…etc. You’re doing pretty good if you can go to full production at T2; we’re currently at T1 stage. The T1 plastics are 99% there, with a few issues relating to flow and knit lines, as well as a couple of spots where the plastic is warping during cooling or binding to the tool during ejection and causing some deformation. This manifests itself in a couple spots where the seams aren’t as tight as we’d like them to be in the case.
Most people have only seen products of finished tooling, so I thought I’d share what a pretty typical T0 shot looks like, particularly for a large and complex tool like the Novena case base part. Test shots like this are typically done in colors that highlight defects and/or the resin is available as scrap, hence the gray color. The final units will be black.
There’s a lot going on with this piece of plastic, so below is a visual guide to some of the artifacts.
In the green boxes are a set of “sink marks”. These happen when the opposite side of the plastic has a particularly thin or thick feature. These areas will cool faster or slower than the bulk of the plastic, causing these regions to pucker slightly and cause what looks like a bit of a shadow. It’s particularly noticeable on mirror-finish parts. In this case, the sink marks are due to the plastic underneath the nut bosses of the Peek array being much thinner than the surrounding plastic. The fix to this problem was to slightly thicken that region, reducing the overall internal clearance of the case by 0.8mm. Fortunately, I had designed in a little extra clearance margin to the case so this was possible.
The red arrow points to a “knit line”. This is a region where plastic flow meets within the tool. Plastic, as it is injected into the cavity, will tend to flow from one or more gates, and where the molten plastic meets itself, it will leave a hairline scar. It’s often located at points of symmetry between the gates where the plastic is injected (on this tool, there are four gates located underneath the spot where the rubber feet go — gates are considered cosmetically unattractive and thus they are strategically placed to hide their location).
The white feathery artifacts, as indicated by the orange arrow, are flow marks. In this case, it seems plastic was cooling a bit too quickly within the tool, causing these streaks. This problem can often be fixed by adjusting the injection pressure, cycle length, and temperature. This tweaking is done using test shots on the molding machine, with one parameter at a time tweaked, shot after shot, until its optimum point is found. This process can sometimes take hundreds of shots, creating a small hill of scrap plastic as a by-product.
Most of these gross defects were fixed by T1, and the plastic now looks much closer to production-grade (and the color is now black). Below is the T1 shot in initial testing after transferring live hardware into the plastics.
There’s still a few issues around fit and finish. The rear lip is binding to the tool slightly during ejection, which is causing a little bit of deformation. Also, the panel we added at the last minute to accommodate oversized expansion boards isn’t mating as tightly as we’d like it to. But, despite all of these issues, the case feels much more solid than the prototypes, and the gas piston mechanism is finally consistent and really smooth.
Front bezel update
The front bezel of Novena’s case (not to be confused with the aluminum LCD bezel) has gone through a couple of changes since the campaign. When we closed funding, it had two outward-facing USB ports and one switch. Now, it has two switches and one outward-facing USB port and one inward-facing USB port.
One switch is for power — it goes directly to the power board and thus can be used to turn the system on and off even when the main board is fully powered down.
The other switch is wired to a user key press, and the intent is to facilitate Bluetooth association for keyboards that are being stupid. It seems some keyboards can take up to a half-minute to cycle through — something (presumably, it’s trying to be secure) — before they connect. There are hacks you can do to bypass that, but it requires you to run a script on the host, and the idea is by pressing this button users can trigger a convenience script to get past the utter folly of Bluetooth. This switch also doubles as a wake-up button for when the system is in suspend.
As for the USB ports, there are still four ports total in the design, but the configuration is now as follows:
In other words, we face one USB port toward the inside of the machine; since half the fun of Novena is modding the hardware, we figure making a USB port available on the inside is at least as useful as making it available on the outside.
For those who don’t do hardware mods, it’s also a fine place to plug small dongles that you generally keep permanently attached, such as a radio transceiver for your keyboard. It’s a little inconvenient to initially plug in the dongle, but keeping the radio transceiver dongle facing the inside helps protect it from damage when you throw your laptop into your travel bag.
We toyed with several iterations of speaker selection for Novena. One of the core ideas behind the design was to make speaker choice something every user would be encouraged to make on their own. One driving reason for this is some people really listen to music on their laptop when they travel, but others simply rely upon the speaker for notification tones and would prefer to use headphones for media capabilities.
Physics dictates that high-quality sound requires a certain amount of space and mass, and so users who have a more relaxed fidelity requirement should be able to reclaim the space and weight that nicer speakers would require.
Kurt Mottweiler, the designer of the Heirloom model, had selected a nice but very compact off-the-shelf speaker, the PUI ASE06008MR-LW150-R, for the Heirloom. We evaluated that in the context of the standard Novena model and found that it fit well into the Peek Array and it also had acceptable fidelity, particularly for its size. And so, we adopted this as the standard offering for audio. However, it will be provided with a mounting kit that allows for easy removal so users who need to reclaim the space they take, or who want to go the other way and put in larger speakers, can do so with ease.
The Novena mainboard went through a minor revision prior to mass production. The 21-point change list can be viewed here; the majority of the changes focused on replacing or updating components that were at risk of EOL. The two most significant changes from a design standpoint were the addition of an internal FPC header to connect to the front bezel cluster, and a dedicated hardware RTC module.
The internal FPC header was added to improve the routing of signals from the mainboard to the front bezel cluster. We had to run two USB ports, plus a smattering of GPIOs and power to the front bezel and the original scheme required multiple cables to execute the connection. The updated design condenses all of this into a single FPC, thereby simplifying the design and improving reliability.
A dedicated hardware RTC module was added because we couldn’t get the RTC built into the i.MX6 to perform well. It seems that the CPU simply had a higher leakage on the RTC than reported in the datasheet, and thus the lifetime of the RTC when the system was turned off was measured in, at best, minutes. We made the call that there was too much risk in continuing to develop with the on-board RTC and opted to include an external, dedicated RTC module that we knew would work. In order to increase compatibility with other i.MX6 platforms, we picked the same module used by the Solid-Run Hummingboard, the NXP PCF8523T/1.
The GPBB got a face-lift and a couple of small mods to make it more hacker-friendly.
I think everything looks a little bit nicer in matte black, so where it doesn’t compromise production integrity we opted to use a matte black soldermask with gold finish.
Beyond the obvious cosmetic change, the GPBB also features an adjustable I/O voltage for the digital outputs. The design change is still going through testing, but the concept is to by default allow a 5V/3.3V selectable setting in software. However, the lower voltage can also be adjusted to 2.5V and 1.8V by changing a single resistor (R12), which I also labelled “I/O VOLTAGE SET” and made a 1206 part so soldering novices can make the change themselves.
In our experience, we’re finding an ever-increasing gulf between the voltage standards used by hobbyists and what we’re actually finding inside equipment we need to reverse engineer; and thus, to accommodate both applications a flexible voltage output selection mechanism was added to the GPBB.
The desktop case originally included just the Novena mainboard, and the front panel breakout. It turns out this makes power management awkward, as the overall power management system for the case was designed with the assumption there is a helper microcontroller managing a master cut-off switch.
Complexity is the devil, and it’s been hard enough to get the software going for even a single configuration. So in net we found it would be cheaper to introduce a new piece of hardware rather than deal with multiple code configurations.
Therefore, desktop systems are now getting a power pass-through board as part of the offering. It’s a simple PCBA that contains just the STM32 controller and power switch of the full Senoko board. This allows us to use a consistent gross power management architecture across both the desktop and the laptop systems.
Of course, this is swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, but this sledgehammer costs as much as the flyswatter and it’s inconvenient to carry both a fly swatter and a sledgehammer around. And so yes, we’re using a 32-bit ARM CPU to read the state of a pushbutton and flip a GPIO, and yes, this is all done using a full multi-threaded real time operating system (ChibiOS) running underneath it. It feels a little silly, which is why we broke out some of the unused GPIOs so there’s a chance some clever user might find an application for all that untapped power.
The battery pack for Novena is and will continue to be a wildcard in the stack. It’s our first time building a system with such a high-capacity battery, and working through all the shipping regulations to get these delivered to your front door will be a challenge.
Some countries are particularly difficult in terms of their regulations around the importation of lithium batteries. In the worst case, we’ll send your laptop with no battery inside, and we will ship separately, at our cost, an off-the-shelf battery pack from a vendor that specializes in RC battery packs (e.g. Hobby King). You will have the same battery we featured in the crowd funding campaign, but you’ll need to plug it in yourself. We consider this to be a safe fall-back solution, since Hobby King ships thousands of battery packs a day all around the world.
However, this did not stop us from developing a custom battery pack. As it’s very difficult to maintain a standing stock of battery packs (they need to be periodically conditioned), we’re including this custom battery pack only to backers of the campaign, providing their country of residence allows its import (and we won’t know for sure until we try). We did get UN38.3 certification for the custom battery pack, which in theory allows it to be shipped by air freight, but regulations around this are in flux. It seems countries and carriers keep on inventing new rules, particularly with all the paranoia about the potential use of lithium batteries as incendiary devices, and we don’t have the resources to keep up with the zeitgeist.
For those who live in countries that allow the importation of our custom pack, the new pack features a 5000mAh rated capacity (about 2x the capacity over the pack we featured in the crowd campaign, which had 3000mAh printed on the outside but actually delivered about 2500mAh in practice). In real-life testing, the custom pack is getting about 6-7 hours of runtime with minimal power management enabled. Also, since I got to specify the battery, I know this one has the correct protection circuitry built into it, and I know the provenance of its cells and so I have a little more confidence in its long-term performance and stability.
Of course, it’s a whole different matter convincing the lawmakers, customs authorities, and regulatory authorities of those facts…but fear not, even if they won’t accept this custom limited-edition battery, you will still get the original off-the-shelf pack promised in the campaign.
In the campaign, we referenced providing 240GiB Intel 530 (or equivalent) and 480GiB Intel 720 drives for the laptop and heirloom models, respectively. We left the spec slightly ambiguous because the SSD market moves quickly, and probably the best drive last February when we drew up the spec will be different from the best drive we could get in October, when we actually do the purchasing.
After doing some research, it’s our belief that the best equivalent drives today are the 240GiB Samsung 840 EVO (for the laptop model) and the 512GiB Samsung 850 Pro (for the Heirloom). We’ve been personally using the 840 EVO in our units for several months now, and they have performed admirably. An important metric for us is how well the drives hold up under unexpected power outages — this happens fairly often, for example, when you’re doing development work on the power management subsystem. Some hard drives, such as the SanDisk Extreme II, fail quite reliably (how’s that for an oxymoron) after a few unexpected power-down cycles. We’ve also had bad luck with OCZ and Crucial drives in the past.
Intel drives have generally been pretty good, except that Intel stopped doing their own controllers for the 520 and 530 series and instead started using SandForce controllers, which in my opinion removes any potential advantage they could have being both the maker of the memory chips and the maker of the controller. The details of how flash memory performs, degrades, and yields are extremely process-specific, and at least in my fantasy world a company that produces flash + controller combinations should have an advantage over companies that have to mix-and-match multiple flash types with a semi-generic controller. Furthermore, while the Intel 720 does use their home-grown controller solution, it’s a power hog (over 5W active power) and requires a 12V rail, and is thus not suitable for use in laptop environments.
The 840 EVO series comes with a reasonable 3-year warranty and at it’s held up well against one site’s write endurance test. After using mine for several months, I’ve had no complaints about it, and I think it’s a solid every-day use drive for firmware development. We also have a web server that hosts most of the media content for this and a couple other blogs, wikis, and bug tracking tools, and it’s a Novena running off an 840 EVO.
For the premium Heirloom users, we’re very excited to build in the 850 PRO series. This drive comes with a serious warranty that matches the “heirloom” name — 10 years. The reason behind their ability to offer such a high claim of reliability is even more remarkable. The drive uses a technology that Samsung has branded “V-NAND”, which I consider to be the first bona-fide production-grade 3D transistor technology. Intel claims they make 3D transistors, but that’s just marketing hype — yes, the gate region has a raised surface topology, but you still only get a single layer of devices. From a design standpoint you’re still working with a 2D graph of devices. It’s like calling Braille a revolutionary 3D printing technology. The should have stuck with what I consider to be the “original” (and more descriptive/less misleading) name, FinFET, because by calling these 3D transistors I don’t know what they’re going to call actual 3D arrays of transistors, if they ever get around to making them.
Chipworks did an excellent initial analysis of Samsung’s V-NAND technology and you can see from this SEM image they published that V-NAND isn’t about stacking just a couple transistors, Samsung is shipping a full-on 38-layer sandwich:
This isn’t some lame Intel-style bra-padding exercise. This is full-on process technology bad-assery at its finest. This is Neo decoding the Matrix. This is Mal shooting first. It’s a stack of almost 40 individual, active transistors in a single spot. It’s a game changer, and it’s not vapor ware. Heirloom backers will get a laptop with over 4 trillion of these transistors packed inside, and it will be awesome.
Sorry, I get excited about these kinds of things.
Marek Vasut is working on getting Novena supported in mainline U-Boot, which involves a surprising number of patches. Few ARM boards support as much RAM as Novena, so some support patches were needed first. Full support is in progress, including USB and video.
We intend to ship with a mainline kernel, but interestingly Jon Nettleson has a 3.14 long-term-support kernel that is a hybrid of Freescale’s chip-specific patches combined with many backported upstream patches. Users may be interested in using this kernel over the upstream one, which has better support for thermal events and for power management.
While we prefer to go with an upstream kernel, and to get our changes pushed into mainline, other users might find this kernel’s interesting blend of community and vendor code to satisfy their needs better.
The kernel that we’ll use has most of the important parts upstreamed, including the audio chip which should be part of the 3.17 kernel. We’re still carrying a few local patches for various reasons ranging from specialized hacks to experimental features, or features that are not yet ready to push upstream, or rely on other features that are not yet upstream.
For example, the display system on a laptop is very different from what is usually found on an ARM device, and we have local patches to fix this up. In most ARM devices, the screen is fixed during boot and it isn’t possible to hot-swap displays at runtime. Novena supports two different displays at once, and allows you to plug in an HDMI monitor without needing to reboot.
Speaking of displays, the community has been hard at work on an accelerated 2D Xorg DDX driver. 2D acceleration is important, because most of the time users are interacting with the desktop, and 2D hardware uses significantly less power than 3D hardware. On a desktop machine, the 3D chip is used to composite the desktop. On Novena, which doesn’t have a fan and a small overall active power footprint, saving power is very important. By taking advantage of the 2D-only hardware, we save power while having a smoother experience. There are a few bugs that remain with the 2D driver, but it should be ready by the time we ship.
There is a 3D driver that is in progress as well. It’s able to run Quake 3 on the framebuffer, but still has to be integrated into an OpenGL ES driver before it works under X.
We’ve also been working on getting a root filesystem setup. This includes deciding which packages are installed, and customizing the list of software repositories. We want to add a repository for our kernel and bootloader, as well as for various packages which haven’t made it upstream such as an imx6 version of irqbalance. This will allow us to provide you with updated kernels as we add more support.
Finally, the question remains of what you’ll see when you first power it up. In Linux, it’s not at all common to have a first-boot setup screen where you create your user, set the time, and configure the network. That’s common in Windows and OS X, which come preinstalled, but under Linux that’s generally taken care of by the installer. As we mull the topic, we’re torn between creating a good desktop-style experience vs. making a practical embedded developer’s experience. A desktop-style experience would ship a blank-slate and prompt the user to create an account via a locally attached keyboard and monitor; however, embedded developers may never plug a monitor into their device, and instead prefer to connect via console or ssh, thereby requiring a default username, password and hostname. Either way, we want to create just a single firmware common across all platforms, and so special-casing releases to a particular target is the least desired solution. If you have an opinion, please share it in our user forum.
We’re pleased to see that even before shipping, we have a few alpha developers who continue to be very active. In addition to Jon Nettleton (gfx), Russell King (also gfx), and Marek Vasut (u-boot), we have a couple of other alpha user’s efforts we’d like to highlight in this update.
MyriadRF continues to move forward with their SDR solution for Novena. About three weeks ago they sent us pre-production boards, and they are looking good. We’ve placed a binding order for their boards, and things look on track to get them into our shop by November, in time for integration with the first desktop units we’ll be shipping. MyriadRF is working on a fun demo for their hardware, but I’ll save that story for them to tell :)
The CrypTech group has also been developing applications with the help of Novena. The CrypTech project is developing a BSD / CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed reference design and prototype examples of a Hardware Security Module. Their hope is to create a widely reviewed, designed-for-crypto device that anyone can compose for their application and easily build with their own trusted supply chain. They are using Novena to prototype elements of their design.
The expansion board highlighted above is a prototype noise source based on avalanche noise from the transistor that can be seen on the middle of the board. CrypTech uses that noise to generate entropy in the FPGA. The entropy is then combined with entropy generated by ring oscillators in the FPGA and mixed using e.g. SHA-512 to generate seeds. The seeds are then used to initialize the ChaCha stream cipher, ultimately resulting in a stream of cryptographically sound random values. The result is a high performance, state-of-the art random number generator coprocessor. This of course represents just a first draft; since the implementation is done in an FPGA, the CrypTech team will continue to evolve their methodology and experiment with alternative methods to generate a robust stream of random numbers.
Thanks to the CrypTech team for sharing a sneak-peek of their baby!
From our current progress, it seems we’re still largely on track to release an initial shipment of bare boards to early backers in late November, and have an initial shipment of desktop units ready to go by late December. We’ll be shipping the units in tranches, so some backers will receive units before others.
Our shipping algorithm is roughly a combination of how early someone backed the campaign, modified by which region of the world you’re in. As every country has different customs issues, we will probably ship just one or two items to each unique country first to uncover any customs or regulatory problems, before attempting to ship in bulk. This means backers outside the United States (where Crowd Supply’s fulfillment center is located) will be receiving their units a bit later than those within the US.
And as a final note, if there’s one thing we’ve learned in the hardware business, is that you can’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched. Good progress to date doesn’t mean we’ve got an easy path to finished units. We still have a lot of hills to climb and rivers to cross, but at least for now we seem to be on track.
Thanks again to all of our Novena backers, we’re looking forward to getting hardware into your hands soon!
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This is, without a doubt, my favorite restaurant and art gallery in Taipei.
When I walk into this restaurant, I feel like I am stepping into a world that perfectly captures my love of color and beauty. I asked the owners if they’d consider letting me move in after my first event there. I don’t think they realized I was serious, but they were gracious enough to let me try out their crushed velvet robin’s egg blue sofa and talk to them about where I could possibly set up camp. (Close to the hidden bathroom with the unicorn faucet, by the way.)
Yes, you read that correctly.
Alas, they are doing well with their customers, one-of-a-kind art exhibits, and art classes, which means I’m just going to have to keep going back for their terrific food, signature cocktails and incredible hospitality.
These people feel like home to me.
I met Leo and his wife Shahad through the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan. The temple foundation that they support was a sponsor for the CCCT’s 2nd Annual MacKay Charity Gala to help raise money for MacKay Memorial Hospital’s Children’s ward. Anyone supporting such a good cause gets an A+ in my books.
When I met them at the Gala, they told me about their new restaurant/art gallery and invited me and my husband to attend their grand opening in November.
Of course, we couldn’t say no.
Most people who know John and I know that we both have a great appreciation for art. We have been to many art exhibits in Taiwan and we have happily supported our friends any time they’ve had an exhibit. Case in point: Tom Rook’s art gallery exhibits at Hao Hous and Art Revolution Taipei in 2016.
Our invitation arrived by mail a few weeks after the Gala. At first, I wasn’t sure if I could attend. This year, it has become increasingly more difficult to go to events that require me to stand for long periods of time.
Before we got the invitation, my husband was insisting that I not go, but then this stunning invitation came in the mail and when you get a gold spoon and fork in the mail, you go, especially if you’re a Spoonie! (Feel free to ask in the comments section if you don’t know what a Spoonie is.)
When we attended the Grand Opening of VA VA VOOM in November 2016, John and I went with our friend Josh Yang from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan.
Upon arrival, there were a lot of guys hanging outside the restaurant and checking out the black Tesla Model X parked out front. At that time, it was the only Tesla Model X in town and the boys were going nuts over it.
I noticed the car doors flipped up and out, and John yelling something at me about Gull-wing doors, but I was heading straight for the front entrance of the restaurant which was filled with flowers and a beautiful backdrop, and of course, there were Shahad and Leo waiting to greet us.
Needless to say, John and I split up briefly that night. I’m not so interested in fast cars. They don’t trip my trigger the way they do with John, but when I walked into VA VA VOOM with Shahad, my trigger got tripped.
The smell of fresh roses hit me as soon as I walked in and I stepped into a woman’s wonderland of sights and smells. The restaurant has Swarovski crystal and mirrors everywhere and the first thing I headed to was the full wall of freshly cut roses. I just wanted to hug that wall.
Instead, I discreetly (or maybe not-so-discreetly) sunk my face into it and took a deep breath. As soon as I did that, I relaxed and settled into the rest of the night with ease.
The restaurant is gorgeous. It is covered in artwork and silk wallpaper that is painted with exotic birds. (I LOVE BIRDS! I have birds everywhere in my house. I have a hummingbird tattoo on my right shoulder and the hummingbird is my logo for my website My Several Worlds. My Several Worlds color scheme is based off the feathers of a peacock.)
The ornate furniture was made of crushed blue velvet and gilded gold and there were other pieces of furniture that were silver with glass and shag fur.
Even the champagne bottles were covered in Swarovski crystals!
The feature artist there had rhinestone decorated rhinos there. It was so incredible, I could hardly believe it. (Unfortunately, I can’t afford most of this stuff, but a girl can dream and point things out to her husband and hope, right?)
Yes, I bought half of what was on this shelf, and I took home some chocolate cake for good measure for the next day.
Once we had finished exploring the upstairs floor, we made our way down to the basement floor.
The downstairs of VA VA VOOM is a men’s den that looks like something straight out of Game of Thrones. The first floor is Shahad’s idea.
The basement floor is Leo’s domain and his vision for this floor is filled with deep colors, dark leather furniture with studded accents, trunks, some really interesting round metal seats, a full suit of armor and all sorts of interesting medieval-style artwork.
IT. IS. AWESOME.
Could this couple be any more creative or exciting with their restaurant/art gallery concept? It turns out that yes, they can! (I’ll get to that in a minute.)
What a conversation piece!
Of course, the first thing I was drawn to was the borealis metallic rhinoceros! To the ordinary eye, it is an utterly unique sculpture with the most magnificent colors (my favorite colors), but when you figure out how the back of it opens up into a ice-filled champagne bucket, I guarantee your mind will be blown like mine was.
And the artist was right there, so I had the honor of meeting Li-Jen Shih. What a gentleman and an entertainer. I could’ve stood and talked to him for ages. He was so kind and so fun to talk to.
Oh, how I wished that night that my Chinese was better. He was so patient talking to me, and he understood my questions, but the deeper nuances of his artwork are still a mystery to me. Luckily, his daughter was also there that night and she was able to translate when we got stuck.
Visit his page to see more of his work. Incredible!
Anyways, that night was great. I’ve been back several times since. John is still talking about the Tesla Model X.
QUICK FOOD UPDATE: After I posted this, I realized I didn’t even post about the food. I love the food here. Their appetizers are amazing. For special parties, they do these amazing little cheeseballs rolled in nuts. (You can easily fit two in your mouth at the same time as long as no one is looking.)
I LOVE their french fries. Crisp and very tasty with a little truffle on them. They also have a dish that is served in a Martini glass that is a really nice soft white cheese covered in bacon. Order two. It will be gone in a flash. All of their risotto dishes are great. The panini sandwiches are quite tasty. ALL of the cakes on display are awesome. (I mentioned above that I took one home the first night I went to VA VA VOOM. Now every time I go, I bring one home to try, so I can honestly say with a serious face that they are all super yummy.)
I haven’t had their selfie coffee yet, but I’m itching to try that. For their Signature cocktails, I cannot have enough of Honey.
Really, the food is lovely and as artfully presented as everything else is in VA VA VOOM.
We went to their Christmas Spell party in December 2016, where we were warmly greeted as something close to family. So close, in fact, that it took John about 10 minutes to get Baby Enzo into his arms.
Did you know that John loves babies, and babies LOVE him? Some people think my husband is a little stand-offish, but this is my real man, and I am so proud of him. (Scroll down to see him with Enzo. They seemed to like each other a lot.)
With Shahad and some of her friends, who are now my friends. Shahad and I are standing in the middle. She’s wearing the gorgeous blue-flowered frock and I’m in black lace. And hello, Baby Enzo. You little sweetie-pie!
Sorry, this is not the greatest photo of me. John literally took the fastest photo he could and then went back out to look at the cars and hang out with the boys.
I decided to channel my inner Harry Potter magic to cast a spell on 2017. So far, so good.
In any case, I do hope you’ll stop by VA VA VOOM to check out their art gallery and restaurant and to try some of their unique Signature cocktails. They are so gracious and so lovely; I am sure that you will enjoy every second of your experience there.
Keep an eye on VA VA VOOM’s Facebook page for upcoming events and art workshops. They host a number of art workshops that I would LOVE to go to. I think I need to brush up on my Chinese a little more before I attend though.
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Total Number of words made out of Set = 3
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There are 1 vowel letters and 2 consonant letters in the word set. S is 19th, E is 5th, T is 20th, Letter of Alphabet series.
Wordmaker is a website which tells you how many words you can make out of any given word in english. we have tried our best to include every possible word combination of a given word. Its a good website for those who are looking for anagrams of a particular word. Anagrams are words made using each and every letter of the word and is of the same legth as original english word. Most of the words meaning have also being provided to have a better understanding of the word. A cool tool for scrabble fans and english users, word maker is fastly becoming one of the most sought after english reference across the web. | <urn:uuid:140e57c9-0c21-4864-ab8a-f0bbfbb57720> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://wordmaker.info/how-many/set.html | 2018-06-25T19:55:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868876.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625185510-20180625205510-00333.warc.gz | en | 0.927263 | 486 |
I was fascinated by Lichens from the time I was little, but didn't know just how neat they were until I was older and read about them. A Lichen is a composite organism that is made from algae or cyanobacteria (or both) and lives among the filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship. The combined life form has properties that are very different from the properties of its component organisms. Lichens come in many colors, sizes, and forms. The properties are sometimes plant-like, but lichens are not plants. may contain the word moss, as in "Reindeer Moss", and lichens may superficially look like and grow with mosses, but lichens are not related to mosses or any plant. Lichens do not have roots that absorb water and nutrients as plants do, but like plants they produce their own food by photosynthesis using sunlight energy, from carbon dioxide, water and minerals in their environment. When they grow on plants, they do not live as parasites and only use the plants as a base upon which to live.
Lichens occur from sea level to high alpine elevations, in a very wide range of environmental conditions, and can grow on almost any surface. Lichens are abundant growing on bark, leaves, mosses, on other lichens, and hanging from branches "living on thin air in rain forests and in temperate woodland. They grow on bare rock, walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil surfaces. Just downright amazing little creatures.
We have many different kinds that grow here in addition to the one pictures above that grows on the dying maple tree in the front yard (they were planted when the house was built, or shortly after so are well over 100 years old). Here are a few more from my photo archive that are also relatively abundant here in the hollow. Thanks to Wikipedia for the basic information above.
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After several rumours and leaks, HTC has finally announced the launch of rumoured HTC One Mini 2 smartphone today. Featuring just 4.5-inch HD display, this miniature flagship comes encased in brushed metal body with tapered edges similar to it bigger sibling HTC One M8.
The company has not revealed the pricing for the phone yet,. According to the company, the One Mini 2 will hit the shelves first in EMEA from the end of May 2014 and in North Asia from June 2014. It will be initially available in Gunmetal Gray, Glacial Silver, and Amber Gold, just like HTC One M8.
Packing an 1GB RAM and quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, the phone runs on latest Android 4.4 KitKat with Sense 6 UI on top. The HTC One Mini 2 also packs 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor, f/2.2 lens, 1080p video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor.
Powered by a 2100 mAh battery, the One Mini 2 includes 16GB of internal memory on-board which can be further expanded by up to 128GB by means of a microD card. It measures 137 x 65 x 10.6mm, and is slighter larger than it predecessor One Mini. The phone weighs 137 grams and sports BoomSound dual front stereo speakers.
As far as the connectivity features are concerned, HTC One Mini 2 offers LTE connectivity in addition to Bluetooth, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS plus GLONASS.
- HTC One Mini 2 shows its faces online, packs single snapper
- HTC working on One M8 Mini, scheduled to go on sale in May
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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued a call for proposals for funding of knowledge translation initiatives under the Office’s Pathways to Privacy Program.
Amount: maximum of $60,000
Faculty Research Office: 1 week prior to agency deadline (2-3 weeks if you wish feedback on your application – submit to Karen Kueneman)
Research Development & Services: at least 5 days prior to agency deadline
OPC: September 22, 2017.
Description: Only proposals that address privacy issues in the private sector or at the interface between the private and public sectors are eligible for funding. For the purposes of this call, the OPC will only accept and review proposals that address one or more of the four priority areas of the Office:
- The economics of personal information
- Government surveillance
- Reputation and privacy, and
- The body as information
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Slamdance Winners Announced
Last night, the winners of the Slamdance Film Festival were announced. The Grand Jury Prize on the narrative side was awarded to Matt Johnson’s The Dirties, arguably the buzz title of the festival, in which two teens set out to make a movie about the bullies who are making their lives a misery. In the doc section, the main award went to Nicole Teeny’s Bible Quiz, about a lovelorn teen hoping to win the National Bible Quiz Championship and the love of her team captain, which stood out to a jury which included Filmmaker‘s own Dan Schoenbrun. The audience awards for narrative and doc went to James Duff’s Hank and Asha and Jason Banker, Jorge Torres-Torres and Tiffany Sudela-Junker’s My Name is Faith, respectively.
A full list of winners is below:
Audience Award for Feature Documentary: MY NAME IS FAITH by Jason Banker, Jorge Torres-Torres, Tiffany Sudela-Junker
Audience Award for Feature Narrative: HANK AND ASHA by James E. Duff
GRAND JURY AWARDS – NARRATIVE
This year’s Slamdance Narrative Grand Jury Prizes were selected by the esteemed panel of industry members Nancy Schafer, Meira Blaustein and Chris Gore.
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Feature Narrative: THE DIRTIES by Matt Johnson. “Terrifyingly timely and brutally honest, ‘The Dirties’ uses film references to the extreme as dreams of youth and intense growing pains collide.”
Special Mention: JOY DE V., by Nadia Szold. “Filled with humor, flawless characters and performances and a highly developed visual style, ‘Joy de V’ is a film that signals the arrival of a powerful new filmmaking talent.”
GRAND JURY AWARDS — DOCUMENTARY
This year’s Slamdance Documentary Grand Jury Prizes were selected by the esteemed panel of industry members Daniel J. Harris, Brian Knappenberger, and Dan Schoenbrun.
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Feature Documentary: BIBLE QUIZ by Nicole Teeny. “Director Nicole Teeny’s careful storytelling and her subject’s passion, angst, and youthful uncertainty are captured with universal empathy.”
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Short Documentary: THE BIRDMAN by Jessie Auritt. “We felt this slice-of-life portrait said a lot about the economy and changing way of life in a New York City neighborhood.”
GRAND JURY AWARDS — SHORT FILMS
This year’s Short Film Grand Jury Prizes were selected by the esteemed panel of industry members Sheri Candler, Eleanor Burke, and Ron Eyal.
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Animation: I AM TOM MOODY by Ainslie Henderson. “For its insight and for its playful spirit.”
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Short Film: ROTKOP by Jan Roosens and Raf Roosens. “For its outstanding ensemble, emotional resonance and its bold portrayal of teenage alienation.”
Special Mention: JOSEPHINE AND THE ROACH by Jonathan Langager. “For its richly imaginative visual style and for lead Jenna Augen.”
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With a pair of former California high school state champions serving in key starting roles, San Diego State has been one of the hottest stories this season in men’s college basketball. Can the Aztecs make a run in this year’s March Madness and get people fired up to include them in betting?
Regardless of what happens in the one-and-done format of the NCAA tournament, San Diego State has had a breakout season. The team’s present odds to win are not so great as Gonzaga or Kansas, but they continue to climb in the ranks according to SBS.
Head coach Brian Dutcher’s team completed its regular season on Saturday, Feb. 29, with an 83-76 road win at Nevada. The Aztecs had to come back from a 65-60 deficit in the second half, but broke the Wolf Pack’s 20-game Western Athletic Conference home court win streak and won on the road for the 13th straight time.
San Diego State’s only loss during a 28-1 season came at home (66-63) to a UNLV squad that the Aztecs defeated (71-67) in the first run-through of the WAC schedule. The team may have to beat UNLV again in the WAC tournament to secure one of four regional No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tourney. SDSU entered the WAC tourney ranked No. 5 in most national polls.
Strength of schedule is always a criticism of a team like the Aztecs coming from a mid-major conference and not being from one of the Power 5 conferences. The team’s biggest wins against opponents not from the WAC have been against Utah, Iowa and BYU.
Junior guard Malachi Flynn poured in a career-high 36 points to lead the win at Nevada and has been SDSU’s leading scorer (17.6 ppg) and ball distributor (148 assists). Flynn is from Bellarmine Prep (Tacoma, Wash.) and came to San Diego as a transfer after starting his collegiate career at Washington State.
Two of the team’s other leading players are from California high schools who enjoyed winning CIF state titles on back-to-back nights at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento in 2017.
The first was 6-foot-6 junior forward Matt Mitchell, who averaged 25.6 ppg at Roosevelt of Eastvale and led the Mustangs to the CIF Division I state championship. Mitchell is averaging 12.4 ppg for the Aztecs and is their second-leading rebounder.
The next night, Richard Schakel was one of the key contributors for Bishop Montgomery of Torrance when it won the CIF Open Division state crown. Schakel, a 6-foot-6 guard who has always been an outstanding perimeter shooter, is averaging 10.1 ppg.
SDSU’s leading rebounder and third-leading scorer is 6-foot-10 senior Yanni Wetzell. He’s come to San Diego by way of New Zealand.
Rounding out the starting lineup has been Long Beach Poly grad K.J. Feagin. The 6-foot-1 senior guard completed the regular season with an 8.7 per game scoring mark.
As one would expect from a school that counts two-time NBA MVP Kawhi Leonard (M.L. King, Riverside) as an alum, there are a lot of others on the Aztecs’ roster from California high schools. The list includes freshman Keshad Johnson (San Leandro), sophomore Adam Seiko (Chatsworth Sierra Canyon), sophomore Caleb Giordano (Temecula Great Oak) and freshman Jared Barnett (Los Angeles Westchester). | <urn:uuid:317a5557-bc5f-45fb-9975-54c77e06ff68> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.calhisports.com/2020/03/03/march-madness-sdsu-preview/ | 2020-04-02T00:58:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370506477.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401223807-20200402013807-00003.warc.gz | en | 0.967442 | 778 |
Monday, April 18, 2016
Week The Second: April 10-16, 2016: "X Marks The Spot"
Sunday dawned with the Red Sox being Marco Estradaed into submission, a 3-0 whitewash. Monday gave us the first gut punch of the season, Baltimore's Chris Davis spoiling the home opener with a rocket to deep center off of Kimbrel to seal a 9-7 loss. Tuesday brought an early lead, which Buchholz gave back, and then yielded to the bullpen, who completed the shelling in a 9-5 loss. Wednesday brought 5 rough innings from Joe Kelly, but the offense picked him up for a 4-2 win. After Thursday's off day, Friday was those mean Jays again, and another hammering of Dickey in a 5-3 victory. Saturday was Price again, a 4-2 throttling of the Canadian power boys featuring a 3 run jack from the X Man that gives us a 3-3 week, 6-4 in toto. | <urn:uuid:70ad5121-1ba7-4dd4-a207-a77b56eafc1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://trautweinandcheese.blogspot.com/2016/04/week-second-april-10-16-2016.html | 2017-09-21T12:06:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687766.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921115822-20170921135822-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.957662 | 209 |
I agree with Brian from dVerse, the Carroll square poem is a beast to do! Samuel Peralta is wicked!
Beyond The Pale
When he moves beyond the pale
he turns towards the darker man;
moves towards his blood host grimly,
beyond the blood mist, the gaols,
the darker host, the vampire child.
pale man grimly gaols child, defiled.
If a Carroll square poem works it can be read right to left and top to bottom. Below, I have spaced it to make reading it top to bottom easier and to show it more clearly:
Polly Stretton © 2012 | <urn:uuid:8968bec7-4ea9-4310-8424-d67aec3c50c7> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://journalread.com/2012/06/29/working-on-it/?like_comment=1618&_wpnonce=61647c15c7 | 2020-02-26T18:30:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146485.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226181001-20200226211001-00386.warc.gz | en | 0.86558 | 136 |
When: Saturday, June 13th, 2020 POSTPONED
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Coronado Cays Yacht Club - 30 N Caribe Cay Blvd, Coronado, CA 92118
Tickets on Sale Now: $95/person or $700 for a reserved table of 8.
What: Join us for a celebration of WILDCOAST's work to conserve the most beautiful and wild beaches, islands, lagoons and wildlife along the coastlines of Mexico and California. The festivities will bring together guests from the environmental, corporate, and philanthropic sectors and include Baja-inspired sustainable cuisine, a silent auction, and live music. Proceeds from the event will benefit WILDCOAST's continued efforts to conserve the most threatened coastal habitats and wildlife in the Californias and Mexico, along with supporting our #1MillionMangroves campaign to address climate change through natural solutions.
With more than 300 guests in attendance, and an online reach in the tens of thousands a month, sponsorship is a great way to support WILDCOAST's conservation efforts while receiving some fantastic benefits in return. We have Sponsorship Packages that will meet the needs of any business — big or small — and we can customize a package to fulfill your promotional goals and objectives. Download our sponsorship packet.
Help raise $100,000 for WILDCOAST's conservation efforts!
The Electric Boat Team Challenge consists of Electric Boat Teams competing to raise the most funds for coastal and marine conservation through peer-to-peer fundraising with a goal of raising a minimum of $5,000 per boat team. Donate to a boat. | <urn:uuid:1e8cb128-099b-454f-b1c4-752754626dd5> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://wildcoast.org/event/bajabash2020/ | 2023-12-03T23:37:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00735.warc.gz | en | 0.917119 | 343 |
Safety Specs & Goggles
No matter where we work, flying particles, dusts, fumes, vapors or harmful UV rays expose us to potentional eye injury. Fortunately, we can protect again these hazards by using the appropriate protective eyewear for the job. The following is a guide to the most common types of protective eyewear and the specific hazards they can guard against.
Safety Specs - Glasses
Standard safety glasses look very much like normal glasses, but are designed to protect you against flying particles and UV protection against sun exposure. Safety glasses have lenses that are impact resistant and frames that are far stronger than regular eyeglasses. Safety glasses must meet the standards of your country. In Australia and New Zealand this standard is AS/NZS 1337 and in America the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) sets the benchmark. Safety glasses are also available in prescription form for those persons who need corrective lenses. Standard safety glasses can be equipped with side shields, cups or tinted lenses to offer additional protection.
Like standard safety glasses, goggles are impact resistant and are available in tinted & clear lenses. Goggles provide a secure shield around the entire eye area to protect against hazards coming from many directions. Safety goggles may have regular or indirect ventilation. Goggles with indirect ventilation may be required if you are exposed to chemical splash hazards.
Shields Visors & Helmets
Face shields, also referred to as visors, and helmets are not in themselves protective eyewear. However they are frequently used in conjunction with eye protectors. Full face shields are often used when you are exposed to chemicals or heat or glare hazards. Helmets are used in welding, working with molten materials and hot solids.
Protect your Eyesight by using protective eyewear
You see it is easy for you to guard yourself and your employees against injury by making sure that you are wearing the appropriate protective eyewear for the particular eye hazards you may face. It's important to remember that regular glasses alone do not offer protection from eye hazards. If you are employer make sure your company has an established safety procedure and employees never hesitate to ask your boss if you have any questions about what you can do to protect your sight for life! Or alternatively you can visit our store. So, DO YOU NEED HELP WITH PPE OR UNIFORM REQUIREMENTS? -Micstrade Safety Protection Wear can help you today!!! | <urn:uuid:aa2b488b-9cad-4c92-9172-4f125a3e6e3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ebay.com.au/gds/SAVE-YOUR-EYESIGHT-/10000000002166143/g.html | 2017-01-21T17:56:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00453-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935353 | 494 |
Let’s see what you came up with, and vote on the finalists….
A. No NYLS grads, that is not how you serve a lawsuit.
B. Jobless NYLS grads, I don’t think “labor dispute” means what you think it means.
C. We’re sick and tired of your grads stealing our jobs. Signed, The union of Home Depot migrant workers.
D. After years of diligently cleaning toilets in the hallowed stalls of NYLS, the janitorial staff realized [Dean Richard] Matasar had conned them into cleaning what was merely part of a larger toilet building inside a larger toilet city. IncepTTTion.
E. NYLS students follow in the footsteps of TJSL students by trying to sue their law school. Their complaint is short and not properly filed with the court, but at least these kids are doing more substantive legal work than most of their peers.
F. “Okay New York City, show us where on the doll the law school hurt you.”
G. The NYLS administration thanks you for indicating which of our abuses your sign is meant to address.
And here is the poll, which we’ll leave open through THURSDAY, JULY 28, at 11:59 PM (Eastern time):
Which is the best caption for the New York Law School protest banner?
- A (29%, 520 Votes)
- F (17%, 306 Votes)
- C (16%, 283 Votes)
- B (12%, 221 Votes)
- D (10%, 177 Votes)
- G (8%, 150 Votes)
- E (8%, 136 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,793
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Man arrested as suspect in homicide in Milwaukee's South Side
WTMJ News Team
Photo: Video by tmj4.com
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Police Department is investigating a homicide that happened on 5th Street around 6:30 p.m. on March 10.
According to Sergeant Mark Stanmeyer, the suspect, a 49-year-old Milwaukee man, was involved in an argument with the mother of his children. When the woman called a male acquaintance to the scene, the acquaintance was shot by the suspect outside of the home.
The victim, a 39-year-old Milwaukee man, died at the scene. The suspect fled in his car but was arrested a short time later when he crashed into a parked car in the 1800 block of S. 13th Street.
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Your Favourite Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Create a Scientific Shooting Scene
Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
Using photo combination effect, you can create even a scientific scenery. Preparing a broken glass photos, object image and dark night city photo, then combine them together and adjust the color afterwards. A nice scene can be formed.
In this tutorial, it will show the methods you can use to create this great explosion effect in Photoshop. We will use a few simple manipulation and selection techniques, mixing with custom brush painting and finally, adjustment layers for adding colors.
Everyone would like to keep their happy moment in the photo. However, your picture may not be as nice as you expect. In this case, you can use photoshop to decorate your picture. This tutorial will mainly teach you how to use brushes to put some decoration.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a glamour retouch for a model portrait in Photoshop. You’ll learn a new method to create a great look for natural skin without using any extra plugins.
Lots of movie poster are very nice and attractive as all the best elements are gathered in a single poster. In this tutorial, it will show you to create a great movie posters. You may apply this sort of techniques to produce another one for yourself.
In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to create a very nice soft sea light scene by few pictures. These pictures form a very nice combination. You do not really need to have a professional photoshop skill, but the skills to look for good pictures.
No photo is perfect. Somehow, through photo editing using photoshop, you can mix different photos and adding some special effects. Here will show you the tricks on color and lighting adjustments. | <urn:uuid:6e14d57d-09ec-4ae8-9ec5-c435f17b07dc> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.photoshoplady.com/photoshop-tutorial/create-a-scientific-shooting-scene/ | 2014-09-02T18:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922763.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909042201-00048-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924281 | 364 |
Amateur winemakers are prone to first-timers’ mistakes. So it should be no surprise that we were bitten by bottle-shock not once but twice.
First off, what’s bottle-shock? If you’ve been following Team Wine’s blog, you’ll likely remember me and Sunset wine editor Sara Schneider talking about how our two wines have been alive from the day we picked and crushed the Syrah grapes straight through to bottling both it and our Chardonnay. And bottle-shock is literally the wine being shocked at being transferred into a new environment (the sterilized bottle) from the environment it was used to (typically an oak barrel; in our case, a glass carboy).
In response to this new environment, the wine gets shy and retreats into itself, tightening up, even acting a bit sour, for at least a few days (sometimes weeks) before settling down and remembering its true self—the wine we remembered sampling on the day we bottled it.
And it can apparently happen again when you travel with a bottle, getting it all shook up. Or when a truck rumbles a bottle too much on the way to a wine shop. I especially enjoyed this debate on Chowhound—I’d never heard “dumb” applied to a wine before.
What happened in our case? Our Chardonnay wasn’t quite ready to bottle when we hosted a series of One-Block dinners this past summer (to thank the people who helped us along the way, and to share our food and wine with like-minded locavores we admire). That’s Thomas Fogarty winemaker Michael Martella (who sold us our Syrah grapes and pressed Chardonnay “juice”) above, at left, with home winemaker Dan Brenzel (who loaned us his expertise and equipment), at our first party. Note that Michael’s glass is empty; Dan said Michael refilled it several times that evening—a good sign that our wine was a keeper!
So instead of committing the wine to individual bottles, we filled up five 1-gallon jugs with Chardonnay to serve at the soirees. The following quotes are Sara’s impressions of our Chardonnay, from just after it we “jugged” it (her description matches what we’d thought earlier in the day, when we sampled the wine before transferring it into jugs) through a rough patch and back into glory.
Our Chardonnay’s coming-out party, on the day it was “jugged”
“When we poured the Chardonnay the first day, for a party that winemaker Michael Martella came to, it was bright and vibrant, with acidity but in an elegant way. It had a softness and balance to it, so that the fruit flavors—racy citrus, green apple, and pear—were integrated. The wine was all in one piece; everything worked together.”
Eek, just a few days later
“When we poured it at the next party just a couple of days later, though, that great acidity was hanging out like an appendage or something—a part that didn’t relate well to the whole. The wine was in a phase that just wasn’t coherent and integrated. And in that stage, the fruit just isn’t as pleasant, even if it’s present. It needs to be in balance with the acidity and alcohol. Bottle-shock can knock it off balance for a while.”
Phew, a couple of weeks after that
“At a final party, the wine was showing well again, with an elegance that only comes from balance.”
And then the Syrah
You’d think that we would have remembered the slightly wrinkled noses as guests sniffed and sipped our Chardonnay at that second party. But that image apparently didn’t stick with us, because we were shocked by bottle-shock again a few weeks ago, this time with our Syrah.
We bottled the Syrah on a Friday, and the following Tuesday evening, Sara served samples of our yummy-at-bottling Syrah (and our Chardonnay, which is reliably back to being its dandy self) to some high-profile New York guests from our parent company, Time Inc.
What did they have to say? Well, the Chardonnay was well liked, but we heard that the Syrah did not show well … one taster said he preferred Sunset honey to Sunset Syrah. Well, kudos to Team Bee, but ouch, that stings. Bottle-shock was clearly in effect again. | <urn:uuid:79c102d5-499e-4b1d-b455-fffedc40e25e> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://westphoria.sunset.com/2009/02/18/bottle-shock-wh/ | 2017-08-19T11:19:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105341.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819105009-20170819125009-00212.warc.gz | en | 0.968751 | 1,001 |
You bring home packets of seeds, for cucumbers and pumpkins, but also for pocket watches, pencils, and Pigmy Apes. You say it’s cheaper to grow them ourselves. I take the seeds, plant rows of watches and pencils, go to sow Pigmy Apes between the sunflowers and the corn stalks, turn soil with a red spade.
The sunflowers, angry, drink in the spade’s hue, reduce metal to ash, and turn a shade of drunk sunset. They pull the dirt closer in on themselves like girls wrapping themselves in coats. “Don’t you dare plant those apes here,” they cry. “They are very ill-bred.”
(The back of the seed packet claims Pygmy Apes will grow between 4 and 6 inches when mature, and that they are known to whistle frequently. Of their behavior, however, there’s no mention.)
I look at you for guidance – you can always reason with the garden – but you are busy preparing the soil for the pumpkins while singing the sauerkraut aria from a faux-Wagnerian opera you’ve written. You pay me no mind. You hit the aria’s high C as with a billystick. The sunflowers and I wince.
“Could they be any worse than the Dobermans?” I ask, reminding them of last year’s crop. (Rather than growing to a nice size to display in our Waterford crystal vase, the mob of Dobermans, still green on the vine, harvested themselves early and marked the trees at the edge of the property before escaping forever into the woods. The sunflowers were badly trampled in the fracas, and clearly have not forgiven me.)
The sunflowers cross their leaves in front of their stems like folded arms, and sigh. “Probably not. But if you must plant primates in the garden this year, place them by the fence. They won’t bother us so much, if they grow over there.”
I would ask your opinion of this arrangement, since you usually have set ideas about garden geography, but you appear to be arguing with a vole over access to some dirt. The vole seems to be winning. Typical.
The sunflowers are waiting on me to make a decision. I bow to their request, knowing that at least Pygmy Apes can take directly to the trees once ripe, and spare me another year of the sunflowers’ resentment in full-bloom. ♦ | <urn:uuid:06d93b3f-fb39-445c-933b-66dbe6587871> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://absurdistmag.com/weed-em-and-reap/ | 2019-02-21T06:02:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247500089.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221051342-20190221073342-00292.warc.gz | en | 0.956985 | 551 |
Jochen Kissel, Dust & Cometary Science,
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
When I was a child, my grandmother told me about the big comet of 1910 – Halley's Comet. After two big wars in Germany, she was the only surviving family member of that generation and she had many stories to tell me. As fascinating as her stories were, I remember looking in the night sky for a similarly big comet, to no avail. Growing interests in other things made me forget about comets.
But comets did not forget me.
After 12 years of schooling through elementary and high school, I began to study physics in college. I ended up earning a master’s degree in nuclear physics - still, no comets around. For my Ph.D., my focus shifted to atmospheric research, launching mass-spectrometers on rockets—a bit closer to studying comets - if they wouldn’t come to me, perhaps I could go to them! A new work opportunity arose for me in a group doing research on extraterrestrial dust. It is there that I learned space research with instruments on HEOS and HELIOS satellites. During this time my director, Hugo Fechtig, asked that everybody in the group present a paper on comets for a seminar we organized. I was fascinated by those relatively tiny bodies which develop into the largest phenomena in the solar system—a body a few km across makes a H-halo 1/3 of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun!
Since early days in my career, comets have captured the attention of space research. With the anticipated return of Halley’s Comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) started the GIOTTO mission. I had an instrument on it – the latest mass spectrometer of the time. The Soviets (as they were known then) wanted to redirect their VENUS missions to Halley's comet. This was another flight opportunity for my PIA instrument, now as PUMA (Russian for Particulate Impact Analyzer). In dedicated meetings in Sulden, a small Italian mountain community, my team and I prepared alongside an international group of scientists. We poured over every aspect they could possibly measure.
Launched in 1984 and 1985, three spacecraft flew by Halley's comet in 1986 with my instruments on board. This was the first in-situ analysis of cometary grains and produced fascinating results—complex volatile organic material next to very small mineral grains. My boyhood belief in the mystery of comets was confirmed—where else could you find such a mixture? It took years to interpret all aspects of the data delivered by those instruments.
Having missed the Halley opportunity, in 1986 NASA announced the CRAF mission. Instead of zipping by it at 70 kilometers per second as with Halley, CRAF was to rendezvous and fly with the comet for almost a year. Special instrumentation was necessary. Together with an international team, my group had developed TOF-SIMS (time-of-flight secondary-ion-mass-spectrometer), where the dust was collected and then analyzed by shooting primary ions on the sample and collecting the secondary ions released by the bombardment. While the Halley dust spectrometers had a mass resolution of about 150-200, this new instrument, CoMA (Cometary Matter Analyzer), could achieve a resolution of 20,000, enough to separate even very large organic molecules. Unfortunately, when the development was almost finished in 1992, NASA cancelled the mission. When my director retired at about the same time, it seemed like my time with comets had come to an end. | <urn:uuid:0dfa4aae-6316-4ba7-bc7d-c82fa9b257cf> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/science/kissel_inter.html | 2015-11-28T23:47:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398454553.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205414-00111-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967728 | 750 |
The Size is:3"x3"x5.12"
Product Type: Wall Décor
Collection: Holiday Traditions
Theme / Season: Christmas|Seasons > Winter
"Santa's Magic Key" Wood Door Hanger
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Photo Flash: Porchlight Music Theatre Announces Return of BEST MUSICAL!, 11/28
BEST MUSICAL! – Holiday Edition! takes audiences to the “Bestie Awards” ceremony where the cast performs the “Best Song from a Musical” nominees from a grab bag of audience-suggested titles. The audience votes for their favorite song as performed in Act 1 and comes back after intermission for an entirely improvised musical comedy with lights, costumes and fully improvised music and choreography featuring the “Bestie” winning song. Each performance guarantees a completely different musical comedy with completely new songs every week.
The company includes Matthew Loren Cohen, on piano, veterans of the original run of BEST MUSICAL! plus new cast members from The Second City, iO and The Annoyance stages.
ABOUT CREATOR Matthew Loren Cohen
Porchlight Music Theatre, nationally recognized for developing innovative new works, reimagining classic productions and showcasing musical theatre’s rising stars and seasoned veterans, is in its 18th season as Chicago’s music theatre leader, providing an intimate, modern musical experience unlike anything else in the city. As Chicago’s only professional company solely dedicated to music theatre, Porchlight’s rich history includes the staging of more than 50 shows with five world premieres and 10 Chicago premieres. The company has received a total of 73 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations resulting in 22 Jeff Awards.
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The Throne of the Five Winds was one of my top reads so far this year, so naturally I had high hopes for the sequel. Luckily I wasn’t disappointed!
The Poison Prince continued everything I loved from the first book. This series nails court intrigue. It’s like Game of Thrones, but without the magic. Or dragons. But if you’re looking for a fight for the throne, hidden behind assassinations and scheming, Hostage of Empire is perfect.
I love how despite having a little time from everyone’s point of view, I still don’t fully grasp every character’s intentions. They certainly allude to what they want, but it’s still not certain whose side they’re on or what lengths they’re willing to go to (or have already taken). Because of that, I have no idea how this series is going to end, and I love that. There’s already been one death I didn’t expect!
The sequel also continued a little love triangle that was hinted at in the first book. I have to say, it’s masterfully done. This is the only love triangle I can recall actually enjoying. I think it’s because it’s not two people tripping over themselves to fawn over the third. Hostage of Empire creates a little distance between all the characters, because of the huge focus on manners and propriety. So although two characters may be crushing on Yala, they keep their feelings closely guarded, and Yala doesn’t outright say if she reciprocates those feelings or not. That also means that even though Yala has two choices before her, it still wasn’t immediately clear which one — if any — she prefers. (Until the end!)
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A forth night ago, I went into a chapel of Divine Presence in Awka, Anambra State to commune with my God. The time was 9.30a.m. Immediately I knelt down to pray, I started hearing a shrill cry from a baby of about one year old in a daycare classroom very close to the chapel. I tried my best to concentrate in my prayer, but all to no avail. The baby continued to cry aloud with tears, chorusing, “Mummy m-oo! Mummy m-oo!! Mummy m-oo!!! The baby's cry was hitting hard on my ear drum and thereby attacking my prayer seriously like a missile. I knelt down for thirty minutes without concentration. After a while, I excused myself from God and rushed angrily out of the chapel. I went with cane towards that daycare classroom to calm the situation. The child was still crying, “Mummy m-oo! Mummy m-oo!! Mummy m-oo!!” I responded with “Daddy m-oo! Daddy m-oo!! Daddy m-oo!!!” The teachers rushed out to see who had the hoarse voice. They started laughing when they saw me. I frowned at them and told them it was not a laughing matter.
Without invitation, I entered the daycare classroom. Can you guess what I saw? I saw an eye-saw. The child was tumbling all over the classroom crying the “Mummy m-oo!” It refused neither to be consoled nor drink from prepared baby milk in a feeding-bottle. It was a fine baby boy. Pitifully, I dropped the cane. Not minding my white cassock, I grasped the little child tenderly and carried him at my chest. He looked pitifully into my eyes and stopped crying. The child started to suck my cassock at the exact location of the breast. I needed no prophet to tell me that the little child still needed breastfeeding. As a man of God, I saw 'parental irresponsibility' written on the child's forehead. I sighed and shouted, “No wonder!” The child slept comfortable at my arms. Calm returned in the daycare classroom.
Accidentally I became a baby-sitter which I did last over 40 years ago. I became entangled. What should I do? A nice idea came into my medulla oblongata. I requested the female teacher of those daycare children to kindly give me the number of either the father or the mother of the sleeping child. She obliged me. By then I was sitting down on a chair with the child still sleeping in my lovely arms. I perceived that the sleeping child was trying to make an accidental discharge from behind because my arm was soaked. I asked the teacher for a polythene bag. She gave one to me and I placed it behind the child's buttocks in case of any eventuality.
Next, I called both parents of the child on phone to see me immediately for an urgent message. They appeared in a twinkling of an eye. They saw me with their sleeping child. It surprised me that both parents are doing business at Eke Awka. I scolded them for abandoning a child of one year for the sake of business. I accused them of acute parental irresponsibility. Since they have no time to bring up their child, I made it clear to them that I would give out the child for legal adoption. Also I swore to hand them over to the police for child abuse. They knelt down and broke into tears, pleading for clemency. The mother while crying, asked me to temper justice with mercy. She said, “Please father, help us. This is our first child.” What annoyed me most was that she stopped breastfeeding the child after six months of birth. That was why the child was crying like a cow due to consumption of cow milk. Before I gave the child back to them for proper care, the parents signed an undertaking for me. Like this couple, many parents have no time to train their children. Instead they leave them at the mercy of maids and teachers. How can a-year old child lack parental care? It would have been better that the child was motherless so that it can be taken to motherless babies home for proper care.
This reminds me of the four purposes of marriage: Companionship, Procreation, Upbringing and Training of children. The Igbo people say, “Kama amuta azughi azu, si amuna,” which means that if you are not willing to train your child, please do not procreate. Before an intending couple joins hands in marriage at the altar, the officiating priest asks them this fundamental question: “Are you willing to accept children from God and train them according to the Law of Christ and the Law of the Church?” Both the bridegroom and bride answer individually, “I will.” After many years in the ministry, I have not experienced where the answer was in the negative. In fact, promising is one thing and doing is another thing. The dog pleads with the one it gave money to buy a stool for sitting to bring back the money because those who have buttocks are unable to sit well. Couples blessed with children lack time to look after them while childless couples are crying for the fruit of the womb. What an irony!
Sometimes animals take care of their offspring better than human beings created in the image and likeness of God. I have a good example to give here. There is a hen presently in my compound in my town, Aguluezechukwu, that hatched seven bouncing chicken not long ago. The hen is very caring. Let me say she (it) is an exemplary mother. Despite the menace of kites in this dry season, it has not lost any of the chicken. Whenever it observes the kite roaming around, it gives her chicken sign to hide. They stay like inanimate objects till their mother hen gives them a sign to move. It feeds them properly. Most often it goes hungry that its offspring may feed. From morning to night, it keeps vigilance over them. I told my mother that the hen will be taken to Women's August meeting this year for award as an exemplary mother. If animals can be canonized, I hereby recommend that this hen should be chosen. What a motherly care! If an animal can be so caring, rational human parents should be better.
Today, many of our children are growing wild due to lack of good parental care. Many parents pursue wealth at the expense of their children. They take the aged and under-aged children to school and daycare early in the morning and bring them back late in the evening. The parents have time to procreate children but they lack time to bring them up properly. Even when those kids return home from school late in the evenings and on weekends, they are left at the mercy of house-helps or maids. The kids come in contact by chance with their biological parents. A certain kid calls the maid 'Mummy' and calls her biological mother 'Anti.' It refers to its biological father as 'Uncle' while it calls the housedog 'daddy' because it (the dog) performs the function of a father, which is protection. Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution. Parents must go back to the drawing board and play their God-given roles as active and caring parents.
Some time ago, I hammered intensively on the harmful effects of school lesson which is the order of the day today in various villages, towns and cities in Nigeria. A child who receives proper academic teaching from 8.00a.m to 1.00p.m has got enough for the day. A child's brain gets saturated very easily. An overdose causes mental imbalance. If you visit psychiatric hospitals these days, you see so many mentally deranged children. After the day's class works, those pupils are directed by their teachers to eat the food in their flasks and get ready for lesson, which lasts from 1.30p.m to 5.00p.m. They go home by that time and return to school early tomorrow without proper rest. These children suffer from acute mental confusion. That is why we have confused society today. Numerous stubborn children are found here and there due to lack of parental care at infancy.
During my primary and post primary time, we did not undertake such extra curriculum lessons. Yet we performed very excellent. If I have the authority, I would stop pre-nursery, nursery and primary school pupils from having extra academic work after 1.00p.m. The children should go home and relax their brains for tomorrow. I do not see any positive results of those academic lessons. Look at our society today, many of our children end up as kidnappers, armed robbers, prostitutes, hemp smokers, street urchins, thugs, idiots, etc. There is little or no time to balance their academic endeavour with sound moral and religious lessons. Lessons can be partly done during holidays. Overdose kills. A stitch in time saves nine. I am certain that many parents and teachers will not find this article palatable, but I am not deterred. The parents do not want the children to disturb them at business while teachers accumulate more money from the lesson business. You can see now that the lesson is not done for the interest of the children but just for material gains by both parents and teachers. I am not afraid of the verbal missiles that will be fired at me by parents and teachers. After all, Martyrs die for their faith. Indeed I died the day I prostrated before the altar during my priestly ordination as the names of the dead (Saints) were called upon me.
The Church and Government should look into this lesson palaver and curb the water now it has risen above the neck. Once the children get drowned, our society is gone. Parents on their own part must read in between lines and make a-u turn. Children are good assets for the greater tomorrow. Sound moral and parental upbringing should not be jettisoned at the expense of wealth and convenience. The 'mummy m-oo' cry shows that there is a destructive vacuum between the child and its parents. There is time for everything: Time for family training and upbringing; time to go school and time to return home. If brutes can devote enough time to care for their kids, human parents should do better. As a Catholic priest, I have bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Theology. I remain a bachelor for life. In other words, I am unmarried and childless, but I am concerned. Pastorally I am a father of a multitude of congregants in the church. Hence I am childless biologically but “childful” spiritually.
The English adage says, “That the child is the father of the man.” This means that children are the future hope of tomorrow. They become so if they are well trained, otherwise they become nuisances in the society. The former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Sir Peter Obi, maintains that the children we abuse today will take revenge on us tomorrow. The revenge has already begun. Few weeks ago somewhere, a boy of 12 cut of his mother's head while she was sleeping because he accused her of witchcraft. A 16-year old girl, alias Mad Girl, slapped her father mercilessly for insulting her boyfriend who passed a night with her (the girl) in her father's compound in the presence of the parents. Worse things are happening here and there. God, have mercy! | <urn:uuid:807d2476-c4e2-474e-8681-e8abe1fd60a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.fidesnigeria.org/index.php/frontend/column/readcolumnarticle/mcf6c98c15/b92v7278no | 2017-12-16T16:40:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948588294.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216162441-20171216184441-00633.warc.gz | en | 0.973833 | 2,410 |
"We study the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) program, an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school students modeled after western business school curricula and adapted to the Ugandan context. The program featured two separate treatments: the hard-skills MBA features a mix of approximately 75% hard skills and 25% soft skills; the soft skills curriculum has the reverse mix. Using data on 4400 youth from a nationally representative sample in a 3-arm field experiment in Uganda, the 3.5 year follow-up demonstrated that training was effective in improving both hard and soft skills, but only soft skills were directly linked to improvements in self-efficacy, persuasion, and negotiation. The skill upgrade was rewarded in substantially higher earnings; 32.1% and 29.8% increases in earnings for those who attended hard- and soft-training, respectively, most of which, was generated through self-employment. Furthermore, youth in both groups were more likely to start enterprises and more successful in ensuring their businesses' survival. The program led to significantly larger profits (24.2% and 27.2% for hard- and soft- treatment arms respectively) and larger business capital investments (38.4% and 32.6% for SEED hard and SEED soft, respectively). Both SEED curricula were very cost-effective; two months worth of the extra earnings caused by the training alone would exceed the cost of the program. These benefits abstract from the job- and business-creation benefits of the program, which were substantial: relative to the control group, SEED entrepreneurs created 985 additional jobs and 550 new businesses."
"O estudo aproxima o conceito usado pela ANDE de “Pequenas Empresas em Crescimento” ou “Small and Growing Businesses” dos conceitos praticados aqui no Brasil pelo BNDES, IBGE, Receita Federal e Sebrae no setor de empreendedorismo. Além disso, apresenta exemplos de SGBs alinhadas às áreas foco da ANDE, bem como de organizações de apoio ao empreendedorismo no Norte e Nordeste e com foco em periferias, para ilustrar o rico universo deste campo empresarial em regiões onde a ANDE tem interesse específico."
"Why do more small firms in developing countries not use the market for professional business services like accounting, marketing, and human resource specialists? Two key reasons maybe that firms lack information about the availability of these services, and that they struggle to distinguish the quality of good versus bad providers. A brand recognition exercise finds that most small firms are unaware of most providers in this market, and a survey of service providers reveals that they largely rely on word-of-mouth and informal reputation mechanisms for acquiring customers. This study set up a business services marketplace that contains information about the different providers present in the market and used mystery shopper visits to develop a quality ratings system. A randomized experiment with more than 1,000 firms provided access to this marketplace to the treatment group and randomized whether firms received just information or also quality ratings. The provision of quality ratings information shifts small firms’ preferences over which provider they would like to use, increasing the average quality rating of their preferred providers by 0.2 to 0.4 ratings points out of 5. However, neither the provision of information nor these quality ratings had any significant impact on the likelihood that small firms go on to hire a business service provider over the subsequent six months. The results suggest that alleviating information frictions alone is insufficient to increase usage of professional business services."
"Many small firms lack the finance and marketing skills needed for firm growth. The standard approach in many business support programs is to attempt to train the entrepreneur to develop these skills, through classroom-based training or personalized consulting. However, rather than requiring the entrepreneur to be a jack-of-all-trades, an alternative is to move beyond the boundary of the entrepreneur and link firms to these skills in a marketplace through insourcing workers with functional expertise or outsourcing tasks to professional specialists. A randomized experiment in Nigeria tests the relative effectiveness of these four different approaches to improving business practices. Insourcing and outsourcing both dominate business training; and do at least as well as business consulting at one-half of the cost. Moving beyond the entrepreneurial boundary enables firms to use higher quality digital marketing practices, innovate more, and achieve greater sales and profits growth over a two-year horizon."
"Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training? We review research on entrepreneurship training. Classroom-based training remains the most popular method of training owners and managers of small firms. A meta-analysis shows that the standard training model has modestly positive effects, on average, though the effects imply reasonably high returns on investments in training, given low costs per participant. Innovation on this basic training model has increased in recent years, particularly with regard to content. Both personal initiative and rule-of-thumb training show promise for subsistencelevel enterprises. Individual consulting has shown significant positive effects for larger enterprises, but the model is expensive and markets for consulting do not appear to work well. Selection is important, particularly in matching the type of training with the type of enterprise. There are several seemingly promising approaches to training where definitive evidence is lacking. For example, Kaizen approaches and Incubators and accelerators both appear to have positive effects, though the evidence is limited and, in the case of accelerators, it is unclear as yet whether the effects come primarily from selection or from the content of the programmes themselves."
"Building on Youth Business International's policy recommendations to date, this report compiles a series of case studies that each illustrate how the finance gap can be closed for young and other underserved entrepreneurs through providing non-financial support, such as training and mentoring. This integrated approach reduces the risk of lending to youth and other underserved demographics, and the value of the non-financial support substitutes for collateral and other types of guarantee."
"We evaluate a technology entrepreneurship training program by comparing career decisions among applicants accepted into the program with unaccepted applicants who are program finalists. We find that program participation is associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent entrepreneurship but that this is not uniform across participants; the estimated relationship between program participation and subsequent entrepreneurial activity is disproportionately lower for applicants with ex-ante resources and capabilities in entrepreneurship, measured by prior entrepreneurship experience. Moreover, we only observe this reduced impact of the program on subsequent entrepreneurial activity for participants that have prior experience in founding a technology company as opposed to other forms of entrepreneurial activity. This suggests the program is more effective for individuals that have otherwise limited access to technology entrepreneurship opportunities."
"Using survey data on Macedonian firms that participated in USAID programs providing technical and financial assistance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on firms that did not, we estimate the effectiveness of such assistance in increasing the growth of employment in the assisted firms. We control for selection bias in program participation and use both kernel and caliper propensity score matching to estimate the excess growth of employment in assisted firms. We find that assistance programs raised employment growth by 16-20 percentage points in the first year after assistance and by 26-30 points by the third year."
"The review aims primarily to synthesize the evidence on the effects of vocational and business training programmes that aim to improve women's labour market outcomes. It also seeks to improve understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of vocational and business training effectiveness for women. This systematic review by Chinen and colleagues examined the effects on employment, income, sales, and profits. They find that vocational and business training, on average, leads to minor improvements in women's economic well-being. Differences in the programmes' effectiveness suggest that having a gender focus leads to larger impacts on women. The authors conclude that skill-building programmes may be effective when carefully designed with local gender norms in mind."
"Business training programs are a popular policy option to improve the performance of enterprises around the world, and the number of rigorous impact evaluations of these programs is growing. A critical review reveals that many evaluations suffer from small sample sizes, measure impacts only within a year of training, and experience problems with survey attrition and measurement that limit the conclusions one can draw. Over these short time horizons, there are relatively modest effects of training on the survivorship of existing firms. However, there is stronger evidence that training programs help prospective owners launch new businesses more quickly. Most studies find that existing firm owners implement some of the practices taught in training, but the magnitudes of the improvement to practices is often modest. Few studies find significant impacts on profits or sales, although some studies with greater statistical power have done so. There is little evidence to guide policymakers regarding whether any identified effects are due to trained firms drawing sales from competing businesses rather than through productivity improvements or to guide the development of the provision of training at market prices. We conclude by summarizing some directions and key questions for future studies." | <urn:uuid:9bf181ff-0730-4058-8993-efa308b920c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.andeglobal.org/resource-theme/business-training/?post_type=publication | 2022-08-20T05:51:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00629.warc.gz | en | 0.948329 | 1,908 |
Speechelo is the best At T Natural Voices Text To Speech Demo in my opinion and and there’s no close second to it. Lets talk more about and text to speech softwares in general.
Having fantastic text to speech software application can actually be a life saver sometimes I know for myself having excellent text to speech software application truly helps me out. I need it for personal usage due to the fact that I utilize it for everything. Often I fight with English so I use a text to speech to convey what I need to say. Particularly for my videos and my YouTube channel, that’s when it can be found in convenient the mos. Now comprehend that not every text to speech software application was developed equal. There are good text to speech software application’s, there are decent text to speech software application’s and then there are fantastic text to speech software’s. Because of all the extra offered alternatives they have to offer, what you want is incredible text to speech software. If you get great text to speech software application then you may more than happy with your item but that’s just because you do not know that there are more amazing software application’s out here. It’s like paying 50,000 for a brand new cutting-edge Camry car however across the street there selling a Ferrari for 50,000. There was something better offered for the exact same rate however its 10x much better. If you’re a video developer then a text to speech software application is a need to have in this world and I’m going to speak about the best text to speech software’s out there and the functions you ought to watch for when purchasing any kind of text to speech software application’s out there.
You constantly desire text to speech software with high quality voices. Without this then the program isn’t going to be high-end or one of the best since there’s absolutely nothing more bothersome then listening to a robotic voice over and over again.No you want a voice that you can comprehend and is clear and is human’ like since you desire your viewers to likewise understand what your hearing. Weather your using text to speech for e learning or your utilizing it for video making you still require high quality human like voices in either case for your needs. I use text to speech software that’s called speechelo. I have actually personally have used over 10 various text to speech software application’s and speechelo is by far the best software out of them all. It has human like voices so it actually sounds like a human speaking them back to me. They have actually advanced functions in the text t so speech software like human like breathing and pause and play throughout the talking. If you desire you’re to have it, they have put so much detail into the voices that you can actually include in heavy breathing. They likewise cover over 30 different languages which are unheard of but it’s simply another reason that this software application is absolutely game changing and truly among the best software application’s out there. Comprehend that is does cost cash and if you’re looking for jut simple text to speech software application then that’s ok. I have a few of those here also so let’s enter those.
Text To Speech Software’s.
Natural Reader is free text to speech software application that works really well for a totally free variation. It can read back to you any text and it can read it back efficiently. This is an excellent program if you don’t care about human voice over’s and jus to need something really rapidly to listen to. A way I utilize complimentary text to speech software application’s is by copying a blog post I want to read and putting it into a text to speech software and after that having the text to speech software I read it back to me. Some state this is lazy however in my opinion I can clean my space and learn at the same time because of text to speech software application’s which is really incredible to me.Another great feature is that whenever you stop briefly the text to speech it won’t begin with the start. It will advance form where you paused it. Now what’s actually cool about natural reader is that you can pack documents in to the software and have the program read them aloud so you do not just have to copy and paste the words you can save files and upload them to the software application which can be time saving in my experience. I do not see how anybody might disagree. Now understand that natural read has a limit to many words you can listen to per day. As soon as you read that limit there’s no more you listen to for the day. It a great software application but obviously it has its limitations. Also every single voice sounds very robotic. Now most of those features remain in the paid version but the free version has enough features to get the job done if you’re searching for quick text to speech software application to utilize … There no human like voices into it and you really can’t blame them for this because it’s totally free software application. Establishing human voice over’s expense cash and with them utilizing a totally free software application there’s no cash to produce a human like voice over. Again if you do not care for the human voice over then this software is for you and I highly recommend it as its one of if not the finest software out there when it comes to totally free text to speech software’s.
Now there are two methods to utilize the free text to speech software balbolka. The first would be to copy and paste the words into the software application. The other method would be to submit the file from your computer system into the text to speech software.
This software application has a truly unique and enjoyable feature to it however will enter into that a little bit later. This is easy and quick text to speech software that has a version and likewise a premium version. You can submit text files into this one that aren’t pdf or file files that makes this software much more flexible then other files. There not as picky when it concerns submit formats to support which permit you to submit more files then normal with this software application. The settings are set for a quick in and out when utilizing the software. Nevertheless if you decide you want to make some modifications then that’s ok as well due to the fact that they set up their software to make some actually special changes compared to other software application’s. You can change the language in the totally free software unlike other software’s, destination of conserved audio files, and you can set customized interface colours. These software application developers are much more in-depth than other designers and I think this is why you see all these extra functions inserted into the program. What makes this totally free text to speech software stand out amongst all the other complimentary software application is that fact that you can add music to it when listening to your text to speech file. This is quite cool and I have yet to see another complimentary text to speech software application offer this capability which is really distinct and I’m truly happy to see it.
This is not your typical text to speech software application. This is an add-on function in word. It sticks on your tool bar so its look is very visible. Now I should tell you that this isn’t the most appealing product worldwide. It looks like a kid made it in fifth grade. However comprehend that it’s a free variation and it’s extremely standard. It practically simply copies and paste your words and reads them back to you in a robotic voice. However it does have customizable voices so you can adjust the speech pattern and volume to your preference if you so pick. This add-on likewise deals with all versions of Microsoft word so that’s also a major plus.
Conclusion for At T Natural Voices Text To Speech Demo
Having a fantastic txt to speech whether it be for your own individual advancement, if you’re a video creator, or if you’re using it for e-learning is very important and having reliable text to speech software that fits your needs is much needed. Attempt these text to speech software application’s out but once you do and realize that it’s inadequate and you wish to attempt something more advanced, then I would suggest speechelo. It truly is a life changer for me. Weather condition you need individual usage it for producing videos, e-learning, or personal development speechelo fixes your issues in any classification. I’m so high up on it because it has actually altered my life using it and I hope you try it out and enjoy it change your life also.
Having great text to speech software can really be a life saver in some cases I know for myself having good text to speech software truly assists me out. There are great text to speech software application’s, there are decent text to speech software application’s and then there are fantastic text to speech software’s. If you’re a video developer then a text to speech software is a need to have in this world and I’m going to talk about the best text to speech software’s out there and the functions you ought to enjoy for when purchasing any type of text to speech software application’s out there.At T Natural Voices Text To Speech Demo can be very useful if you find a good software but we all know that can be hard. Ihope this article make it easier for you to find what your looking for.
A way I utilize free text to speech software application’s is by copying a blog post I want to check out and putting it into a text to speech software application and then having the text to speech software I read it back to me. Once again if you do not care for the human voice over then this software application is for you and I extremely suggest it as its one of if not the finest software application out there when it comes to complimentary text to speech software’s.Happy Reading.
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Despite the fact that our main activity is aimed at rendering timely and all necessary assistance to stray animals (treatment, care, find home), we are also engaged in the implementation of charitable projects aimed at raising public awareness of the problem of stray animals, involving more people in the process of work on improving the situation with stray animals, a propaganda of humanistic attitude towards stray animals.
In this section, we publish information about the various events and activities that have been carried out directly by our organizations "We want to be at home" in Kazan, or about events we have participated in.
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Uncommon Shakespeare for the Common Man
The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) is dedicated to bringing the works of William Shakespeare to life for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In Shakespeare’s time (1564-1616), the theater was accessible to everyone, and The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory prides itself on continuing that tradition by presenting professional quality work at affordable prices.
BSF productions bring Shakespeare’s works to life in a way that is accessible to modern audiences without compromising the cornerstone of their artistic and literary merit—Shakespeare’s original language. BSF is built on a love of language, and productions are designed to not only help audiences understand Shakespeare’s words, but to love them, too.
Shakespeare as He’s Meant to Be Seen
BSF productions reproduce the staging conditions that Shakespeare used to produce his plays on the Elizabethan stages of the 1590s. Productions use universal lighting, allowing the actors to see and interact with the audience. Just as Shakespeare’s actors would have entertained audiences with the songs of the day, BSF actors perform modern music (thematically related to the show) prior to the show and during intermission. BSF also makes liberal use of cross-gender casting as a nod to the conventions of the Elizabethan stage—since women weren’t allowed to perform in Shakespeare’s time, all his female roles were originally played by boys. Productions regularly feature women playing the parts of men and men playing the parts of women.
Charm City’s Hometown Shakespeare
After spending several years as a touring company without a permanent venue, The Shakespeare Factory is now proud to be at home in Baltimore producing five shows a season. BSF also actively partners with local businesses. Adoptable dogs from the Baltimore Humane Society are featured in each show (City Paper recognized BSF’s use of adoptable animals in its 2012 Best of Baltimore issue); local wine and beer are served at every show. BSF also continues to expand its outreach into the community, offering programs in local schools and libraries, as well as extensive summer camp programs for local elementary, middle, and high school students. The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
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If you are an established or emerging artist, we’d love to receive your ideas for our carousel sculptures.
Download our artists’ pack here for full details of how to get involved. Artist submissions will open in September 2021 and close at the end of December 2021.
Priority will be given to artists who are based, or work, in East Staffordshire.
Successful applicants will be paid an honorarium of £500 on completion of their artwork.
More details of the terms and conditions, and how to submit designs, is available in the artists’ pack
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Since April 1, Hulu Japan began streaming dramas and anime from broadcasting channel TV Tokyo. The content is available due to Hulu Japan and TV Tokyo's recently-announced content partnership.
Hulu Japan is currently airing eight dramas and ten anime, but it will continue to add more shows.
Dramas include Moteki, Koko ga Uwasa no El Palacio, Urero☆Mikakunin Shoujo, and Yuusha Yoshihiko to Maou no Shiro, Suzuki Sensei, IS ~Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei~, Saijou no Meii and Mori no Asagao.
Available anime include Inazuma Eleven Football Frontier Hen, Inazuma Eleven GO, Saki, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, Shinryaku!? Ika Musume, Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, Senkou no Night Raid, Danball Senki, Danball Senki W and Tomica Hero Rescue Fire.
Hulu Japan launched in September 2011 and is the first expansion of Hulu outside of the United States. Japanese subscribers have access to thousands of U.S. TV episodes and hundreds of features films, according to Hulu Japan, for 1,480 yen (about $17.80 USD) a month.
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and I like it! After a few weeks of very un-San Diego-like weather, it FINALLY feels like summer!
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I first set foot inside a gym in 1994, but I was sent away because I was too young to train. That enthusiasm for training has never gone away. I went back as soon as I was old enough, and haven’t stopped training since.
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler delivered the debut live performance of his first country single, “Love Is Your Name”, on the season 14 finale of American Idol on Wednesday.
Tyler performed the tune on the day of its release, before teasing a snippet of “Walk This Way” as a segue to a cover of Janis Joplin’s “Piece Of My Heart” with third place contestant Jax.
Tyler has been in Nashville since January working with songwriters on material for his debut solo album on Big Machine Records’ affiliated label Dot Records.
Next month, the singer will regroup with Aerosmith for the Blue Army Tour, with summer dates beginning in Glendale, Arizona on June 13.
Aerosmith: Steven Tyler premieres first country single Love Is Your Name
Steven Tyler to debut new solo single on American Idol finale
Aerosmith to launch Blue Army tour in Arizona
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler signs with country label for debut solo album
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I’ve been working on putting together a tarot channel for YouTube, but video editing is a real pain in the ass. I’m obviously not the world’s foremost perfectionist, but even after putting a couple of hours into a twenty minute video there remained an unsatisfying majority of ums, chair creaks, & errant sighs.
& while I’m still stoked on eventually getting the channel running, I’m eager to get started with readings.
In the past I’ve mostly done drunk tarot readings with friends on sabbats. But since we are no longer able to meet up, I plan to offer somewhat sober online readings weekly, by the moon cycle. I’m a little behind as the Flower Moon was actually on the 7th, but I’ll try to be a little early next week.
For me, tarot is super fucking fun. Here are all these random symbols, archetypes & you have to try to weave a story out of it. & sometimes that story functions — like myriad other narratives — as a mirror allowing you to see your own situation from another perspective.
It’s fucking brilliant & I love it, but it’s entertainment, it’s storytelling. While I consider myself a fairly intuitive & empathetic human being, I’m nothing special. I claim no particular talent & in general, I know nothing.
I tend to read in a way that emphasizes positive growth & try to offer a couple of different interpretations to make room for different philosophical or spiritual perspectives. However, I’m not interested in writing a novel-length interpretations, so my advice is to take what best suits you & leave the rest behind.
Note: These readings are very freeform & I’m probably only going to go back through & edit as needed, so if you see a typo or a sentence that does not make sense please let me know. Since I tend to ramble, I will include a TLDR version at the end.
I’ve organized the readings by zodiac element this time around — simply because it left me with four clean reading options. The elements are: Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagitarius); Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn); Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius); and Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces).
If you’re anti-astrology, you are welcome to just pick a pile & roll with it. Or you can select the reading for your rising or moon sign if you’re feeling that more at the moment.
Really, it doesn’t matter. We’re just going to find a story in the cards, have a chat about it, & see if it’s relevant or maybe just laugh at my complete inability to even begin to thread the needle.
Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagitarius)
The cards I drew were:
- Neptune (21) from the Barbieri Zodiac Oracle
- Full Moon in Capricorn, “The end of a tough cycle approaches,” from the Moonology Oracle
- Nine of Cups reversed, The High Priestess (2) reversed, and the Two of Pentacles from The Crow Tarot
- “True healing occurs when I give myself permission to feel whatever feelings live below the triggers.” The Universe Has your Back Oracle
The reading starts with the Neptune card. Neptune is linked to the sea (obv) & water energy (representative of emotions & intuitive energy), or could refer to embodying or dealing with behaviors that fit the watery archetypes of Cancer (exaltation) or Pisces (ruler). It can also represent the utilization of intuitive abilities, a connection with the greater flow of the universe, imagination, creativity, dreams, & fantasies.
There’s a few interesting things about starting this spread with the Neptune card.
With the second card talking about a full moon in Capricorn (considered Neptune’s astrological fall) there is indication of a specific tension that has initiated growth within the querent. Based on Neptune’s domain, it’s possible that we’re looking at a creative block, or even some kind of spiritual struggle or awakening (especially with the High Priestess later in the spread). Regardless, with the full moon we’re looking at symbolic culmination, the natural conclusion of the matter. & as we near the end of a major conflict or hard time in our lives, we have a huge opportunity to grow.
I’m going to skip over the Nine of Cups for a moment & go directly to The High Priestess. The High Priestess represents enlightenment, intuition, & connection to the universe or the divine. Even if you’re not a particularly spiritual person, there is plenty to read into this archetype — she can represent wild wisdom, the kind that comes from contemplating the nature of the universe & our connection to it; she can represent the connection between the artist & the art; she can represent a literal person acting as a conduit for art or deep learning — a teacher, a muse.
Reading reversals is a little tricky, arguably we could be looking at the card’s shadow attributes, at a warning, at a lesser interpretation of the card’s light attributes. So readers look to the cards around it for clues.
So let’s go back to the Nine of Cups, which is also in reverse. The Nine of Cups is often called “the wish card.” Upright, the card indicates a positive period of wish-fulfillment & enjoyment.
So, let’s look at the two major possibilities indicated by the Neptune & High Priestess energies & I’ll tell you what I’m feeling.
First, we have the individual struggling to heal spiritually or mentally. The querent may be dealing with heavy emotional baggage that has caused them to rethink the foundational ideas of their existence — who they are and/or what they believe about the nature of their existence & connection with the universe. In this case, I believe that The High Priestess in reverse is a gentle reminder that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re struggling with something heavy. Regardless if it’s a friend, a religious leader, or a professional therapist, there are people out there that can help you feel connected. Paired with the Nine of Cups in reverse, I feel like there’s a huge element of trusting your intuition & allowing yourself to realize your potential.
The other major possibility is an individual with a creative block. In this case, I feel like it’s important that we trust the process & allow ourselves to become inspired. It’s also an invitation to feel the heavy things & work through them, but not allow them to stifle or block our connection to our creative center. There are so many ways to constructively approach this: have a conversation with someone on the same page, or indulge in art that inspires you to make your own. With grief in particular, I have a practice of not bringing those feelings into my art at all for months, allowing myself to time to unpack everything before I try to make things from particularly painful feelings. Taking into account the Nine of Cups in reverse, I also see a warning not to fall into complacency or dissatisfaction. Do not allow the block or the feelings causing it to keep you stagnant — create new goals, connect with art or other artists, whatever you do keep moving.
With both situations there’s a common thread — the feeling that you are right on the edge of something but not quite there. There’s the saying “fake it till you make it” which seems a little fucky, a little inauthentic, but another way of looking at it is “living as if.” Live as if your dreams are just about to come true, the shift in mindset allows you a certainty, a failsafe. You can face anything, work through anything if you truly believe you are right on the precipice of breakthrough.
& then we have the Two of Pentacles upright. This card talks about balance, thinking on your feet, juggling multiple priorities, & overall learning how to make life work through the push & pull of daily tasks. If we look at the card in context of the Full Moon in Capricorn card, I feel like the end of the tough situation begins once you begin to find that balance in your life — whether its the balance between introspection & connection or inspiration & creation.
The final card sums it up: “True healing occurs when I give myself permission to feel whatever feelings live below the triggers.” This ties back into that High Priestess energy, find the connections to other people, to the universe as a whole, that live underneath the pain. Once you are plugged in it’s easier to heal. It’s easier to heal, to work through your pain, as you connect with others directly or through your art.
TLDR: You are learning to strike a balance between introspection & connection, inspiration & creation. Soon you will understand how to effectively work through the emotional & creative blocks that have ensnared you. Connect with your knowing & continue to move forward. Reach out, you may be surprised who would gladly take your hand.
Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn)
The cards I drew were:
- Jupiter (18) from the Barbieri Zodiac Oracle
- New moon in Leo, “Confidence is your key to success,” from the Moonology Oracle
- Knight of Cups, Eight of Wands from The Crow Tarot
- “In every moment the universe is conspiring to bring me toward right-minded thinking and the energy of love.” The Universe Has your Back Oracle
Where the fire reading felt like a lot to unpack, this one is very straightforward. First, I do want to note that I only had two tarot cards. I pulled everything while meditating earlier in the day & ended up working on some other projects for several hours before I was able to come back to the cards. When I looked at the spread I decided it was pretty clear as it stood.
Let’s look first at Jupiter. Jupiter symbolizes expansion, luck, confidence & optimism. Its astrological ruler is Sagittarius & exaltation is Cancer. So the archetypes here are intellectual/creative development (Sagittarius) & emotional evolution (Cancer). The querent is likely in a good place to make great personal strides in both worldly & internal or esoteric knowledge.
This feeling is doubled by the New Moon in Leo card. Leo is the arch showman archetype, the actor or actress, the irrepressible personality that cannot be held down by the woes of the world. The new moon is a fresh start, the beginning of a new phase on the heels of the close of the last — meaning you are bringing with you a fresh knowing, an understanding of what comes next, what your possible goals may be.
Interestingly enough the fire/water combination of Jupiter repeat in the tarot draw, with cards of movement in water energy (Knight of Cups) & fire energy (Eight of Wands).
The Knight of Cups has a particularly romantic feel about him, but he is also tapped into his dreams, emotions, & intuition. In fact, he is lead by that connection.
The Eight of Wands indicates swift movement & sometimes travel (though unlikely in our current situation). Combined with the Knight of Cups, it reads as an indication that any movement forward that comes from an authentic place is going to be answered swiftly.
Generally, this spread is saying: you’ve got this. If you’ve doubted the wisdom of chasing your crazy dream or declaring your love for someone, don’t. Give yourself a fresh start & start plotting the steps toward your goals & be ready to move forward. As long as you move forward in authenticity, in love, there is no reason to remain still.
The thing about it is, the worst thing that can happen in any scenario is to fail or get a “no.” & that isn’t the end of the world but an opportunity to try something different. Be confident in your abilities, pay attention to the world around you, & adjust your expectations & goals as needed.
Finally, we have an oracle card saying directly: “In every moment the universe is conspiring to bring me toward right-minded thinking and the energy of love.” It doesn’t matter if you believe in any sort of divinity, the more you allow yourself to be excited & optimistic with your goals the more likely you are to see opportunities that can put you where you want to be.
TLDR: Believe in yourself & move with a full-heart toward the things you truly desire. Be excited, be confident, don’t give in to negative self-talk. Move with a clear goal in mind & be ready to answer the opportunities that follow. Even a failure is a chance to learn & adjust your goals. You’ve got this!
Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius)
The cards I drew were:
- Water (24) from the Barbieri Zodiac Oracle
- First quarter moon, “Your commitment is being tested,” from the Moonology Oracle
- Judgement (20) reversed, Three of Swords reversed, Ace of Swords from The Crow Tarot
- “I create mindful moments throughout the day reminding myself that I am love and miracles are natural.” The Universe Has your Back Oracle
This spread leads with the Water card. Water energy is emotional, connective, & cleansing. Water encourages healing & renewal.
Next we have the First Quarter Moon, which says “Your commitment is being tested.” The first quarter is representative of a time of make-or-break energy — an opportunity to breakthrough before the culmination of the full moon energy. In combination with the water oracle card, the feeling I get is to make sure you are doing the work necessary to step into where you want to be.
This spread is very much in the middle of something, especially in comparison to the previous two. There is a lot of tension here.
Judgement in reversed indicates an sense of doubt or stagnation or just missing the point. Another interpretation is that perhaps the querent is allowing themselves to be held back by doubt or uncertainty. & Judgement is a major arcana card, a card that speaks of self evaluation & clarity. Again, are you sure you’ve done the work? Make sure that you are moving forward in certainty.
Then we have the Three of Swords in reverse. The Three of Swords is a card of heartbreak & mental pain. Taking the reversals into consideration it gives us a bit of a hint into what the querent is being tested on, being asked to work on — grief, pain, self-doubt.
Reversals can be interpreted several ways, but combined with the Water & First Quarter Moon cards it comes across clearly that the querent is being asked to release their doubt, hurt, & fear & step into their truth.
Which is solidified by the Ace of Swords. The Ace represents standing in truth, cutting away illusion, & nurturing new communication. & when you apply the honest air energy of Swords with the emotional authenticity of the Water card, the result is likely to be groundbreaking.
There is also a sense that it is vital not to waver internally at this point. You are doing the work & you need to complete it. There is no room for doubt or negative self-talk. Practice sitting with yourself & allowing yourself to hear & feel your internal critiques momentarily before releasing them. Do not allow negativity to hamper your motion forward.
& then we have the oracle card: “I create mindful moments throughout the day reminding myself that I am love and miracles are natural.” If the practice of acknowledging your negative feelings is too heavy you also have the option of simply shutting them down from the get-go.
If you are sure that you are coming from the right place in what you do, there is no reason to doubt it. It doesn’t matter if someone doesn’t like it or if you’re shouting into the void (hello), do what you love & stand by it.
TLDR: You are on the precipice of breakthrough. There is a danger of giving in to self-doubt & negative self-talk — work through these urges practically & mindfully. Do not allow yourself to fall back into old habits. Stand in the truth, love what you do, & stick with it.
Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces)
The cards I drew were:
- Cancer (4) from the Barbieri Zodiac Oracle
- Full Moon in Scorpio, “It’s time to release negativity,” from the Moonology Oracle
- Page of Pentacles reversed, Page of Wands reversed, King of Cups from The Crow Tarot
- “When I lean on the faith of the universe, peace becomes real.” The Universe Has your Back Oracle
This spread starts with the Cancer oracle card. The Cancerian archetype is that of leading with emotions, inviting the querent to consider the motivations behind their emotions & develop a keen understanding of why they feel the way they do.
When we look to the Moonology card, we have another full moon — a cumulative energy — advising the querent to release negativity. Another water type, the Scorpio archetype is that of intense, deep, secretive, & sometimes manipulative emotions. Since we’re dealing with the full moon energy, it feels like this is a process the querent is currently undergoing whether they realize it or not.
With the next two card being reversed pages (the youngest of the court), it’s possible that the negative belief or idea is long held, perhaps even stemming back to childhood.
The Page of Pentacles particularly points to learning — or rather the lack thereof, in reverse. On a very face value reading, it could mean that you have missed opportunities in your life because you refused to learn from your past, or got the wrong idea & clung to it.
Misconstruing a situation is entirely common & a lot of people tend to be more critical of themselves than others. For many years, I held onto a particular memory from high school as an example of why I cannot deal with large crowds of people — I allowed this memory to reinforce phobias & anxieties. & it wasn’t until at least a decade later when I gained the ability to look back & examine the larger context of the interaction, finding several problematic aspects I’d originally missed. Though I’ve released a lot of the original anxiety & pain around that memory, I still have problems with public speaking.
That is where the Page of Wands in reverse come in. The Page of Wands upright is all movement, all energy, & no fear. In reverse, the page reminds you to be patient, to take a moment before you jump into a new venture.
The final tarot card is the King of Cups. This is the most emotionally solid king of the tarot. He is in control of his emotions & deals with them in a healthy manner. This is a card of emotional mastery. The king embodies that cumulative energy of release indicated in the Moonology oracle.
Overall, the spread feels very much like the querent is on the precipice of something not just big, but foundational. This isn’t just a coping method, but healing — this is digging out the roots of the feelings that consistently undermine the forward trajectory of the querent.
With water energy comes a lot of intuitive knowing, so when I look at this spread, I have every reason to believe that the querent is already doing the work, albeit with some sense of hastiness or incomplete understanding. My best advice when digging through something like this is to write it all out. You don’t have to make it artistic, you don’t have to worry about grammar or punctuation or editing, just write everything you remember & all the negative feelings that you attach to it.
In my experience, getting my feelings out on the paper & reading it is enough to encourage me to let it go. Often the things I twist myself up over are rather insignificant, though I may not realize it until I see it in front of me. However, if that alone doesn’t work, another exercise you could try is arguing with the negative points, exploring reasons why your initial impressions are false.
There are so many reasons why people misread things in the moment, give yourself a chance to reconsider & release any pain you may be holding onto.
The final oracle card reads: “When I lean on the faith of the universe, peace becomes real.” The only faith required here is the faith that you an be wrong, you can misconstrue something, that you sometimes the best outcome of something is for you to find something constructive to learn from it. Lean into that understanding, that knowing & know that every day is another chance to learn, then go for it.
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Weekend Box Office: The Curse Of Harrison Ford
It's the curse of Harrison Ford. When he makes a really crappy movie like, let's say, the latest Indiana Jones debacle, people show up in droves to hand it an obscene box office success. When he actually acts in something worth seeing, like this weekend's Morning Glory, audiences can't be bothered.
Morning Glory banked an unimpressive $9 million this weekend for a sad fifth place debut. Adding insult to injury, Skyline, which is being hailed by CB's Mack Rawden as the worst movie of the year, topped that earning $11 million against its $10 million budget. Greenlight on a painful sequel is no doubt not far away.
Denzel Washington saw better success this weekend. His newest entry Unstoppable brought in $23 million for second place. But the really unstoppable force at the movies was Megamind. The blue headed super villain held the first place spot for a second weekend, earning another $30 million. And it's a good thing too. Even with international sales rolled in the movie is still shy of recovering its $130 million budget.
For the full weekend top ten numbers, check out the chart below:
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Now that all 4 of us kids are married and living away from home, my parents have a lot more free time. They also don't have as many expenses, since it's just the 2 of them.
Free time + extra cash = new toys!
And of course, we don't complain when they let us use their toys! I think Aaron was the best at flying the quadricopter...
(These pictures are from around the New Year, but I haven't uploaded the photos from my camera in FOREVER and forgot about these until now- oops!)
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Our mind is constantly absorbing new information from the moment we are born. Coming from a variety of different stimuli including parents, family, school, college, University and employers.
The question is do they all provide us with accurate, quality information that will aid our growth. Of course the answer is no which means sometimes we need to do a "Mind Reset" so we can cleanse the mind fee of all that which does not support or mental well being.
What You will learn on the day:
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San Jose, Calif. -- January 23, 2001 -- SnapTrack, Inc., pioneer of Wireless Assisted GPS™ location systems, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced today the award of a broad-based wireless location and asset-tracking patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, No. 6,131,067, describes methods for remotely locating or tracking a wireless device via client-server systems that use a computer network or Web browser to initiate a request of a wireless device's position, and receive the device's position either as data or a graphic display using maps or other reference tools. The award of this patent enhances SnapTrack's leading position in next-generation tracking systems and implementations.
"SnapTrack is pushing ahead across a broad front to enable mass market location-based applications with the most advanced wireless location technology available," said Steve Poizner, president of SnapTrack. "We believe that SnapTrack's continued research efforts will help strengthen our partner and licensee service offerings, and will provide our licensees' customers with the most advanced wireless location systems possible."
SnapTrack pioneered an advanced form of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology known as Wireless Assisted GPS that uses the U.S. government GPS satellites to locate wireless phones and other wireless devices with high precision for emergency purposes and commercial location-based services. SnapTrack's system enables carriers to meet the demands of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E9-1-1 mandate, and also enables the design of cellular phones, pagers, and PDAs that provide users with a host of new mobile location services and e-commerce applications such as personal directions and mobile yellow pages.
In the past six months, SnapTrack has received approximately 10 new patents for inventions that improve the sensitivity and performance of its Wireless Assisted GPS system. SnapTrack now holds 24 patents, with more than three dozen additional patents pending. These patents are critical to the efficient, cost-effective deployment of Wireless Assisted GPS location systems.
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) has integrated SnapTrack technology into its own gpsOne™ solutions. QCT has already sampled the MSM3300™ Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) integrated circuit to a range of handset manufacturers, with handsets expected to be available later this year. The MSM3300 GPS-enabled digital baseband integrated circuit is complemented by QCT's RFR3300™/IFR3300™ GPS-enabled RF chips. In addition, Qualcomm has announced that it plans to integrate SnapTrack technology into upcoming gpsOne 3G products, including its MSM5200™ WCDMA baseband integrated circuit and other future products supporting cdma2000 1x, cdma2000 1xEV, and WCDMA. SnapTrack technology is the handset-based position location solution of choice to address the U.S. FCC E9-1-1 emergency wireless calling mandate. More than 30 U.S. carriers have filed for a handset-based approach to meeting the E9-1-1 mandate. Qualcomm wireless assisted GPS position location solutions are also widely adopted by major Japanese carriers.
In a separate announcement, SnapTrack's parent company Qualcomm reported victories in three additional opposition proceedings in Europe and Korea in which all claims of Qualcomm's patents were upheld.
About SnapTrack's Technology
SnapTrack's Wireless Assisted GPS system improves upon conventional GPS by combining information from GPS satellites and wireless networks to pinpoint a wireless handset. While conventional GPS receivers may take several minutes to provide a location fix, the SnapTrack system generally locates callers within a few seconds. With its GPS Indoors™ feature, SnapTrack's solution provides both GPS accuracy and high availability, allowing callers to be located in a wide range of challenging call environments where conventional GPS will not work, including inside houses and moving vehicles, under heavy foliage, and in urban street canyons. The unique SnapTrack Location on Demand™ feature also ensures a caller's privacy, giving mobile phone users control over their own location information.
SnapTrack's products permit the design of cellular phones, pagers, PDAs and other wireless devices that operate in multiple GPS navigation modes, allowing out-of-network location coverage and a variety of thin- client applications. This capability is made practical and economical through use of SnapTrack's SmartServer technology and two types of handset mobile technology - one based on programmable DSP technology, and the other based on a hardware core/application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). SnapTrack's wireless location technology products require no Location Measurement Units (LMUs) installed in the network or additional cell sites, and are designed to have minimal impact on cost and handset form factor. Furthermore, SnapTrack's technology is air-interface neutral and is applicable in any two-way wireless system: cellular/PCS, satellite, or paging; 800/900 MHz or 1800/1900 MHz; GSM, CDMA, TDMA, PDC or 3G air interfaces.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., SnapTrack is focused on integrating GPS and two-way wireless technologies. SnapTrack's patented architecture offers anytime, anywhere, accurate, high-speed location of a wireless caller, even inside buildings where conventional GPS does not operate. SnapTrack pioneered Wireless Assisted GPS and owns patents that are fundamental to the cost-effective deployment of Wireless Assisted GPS-based location systems. SnapTrack has commercial agreements with major wireless chipset vendors that provide most of the wireless modem chipsets to the industry. In addition, many major carriers have chosen to deploy products and services incorporating SnapTrack technology. For more information, please visit www.snaptrack.com.
Qualcomm Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital technology. The Company's business areas include CDMA integrated circuits and system software; technology licensing; Eudora® email software for Windows® and Macintosh® computing platforms; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar™ system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS® and OmniExpress™. Qualcomm owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. Qualcomm has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 90 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in theS&P500 Index and is a 2000 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.
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Now all i have to do is try to get out of my phone contract - shouldnt be too tricky...and pack. How hard can it be you might ask? Well trying to cut down 26 years and 5 houses worth of life, into an, albeit big, rucksack that will have to suffice for the next 2 years of living in the great unknown, well its not proving to be all that easy. Bring into the equation work clothes and play clothes, it being winter when i arrive but will soon be summer, some travelling and some living in an urban metropolis it's fast becoming a fully avoidable chore. Hence setting this blog up - procrastination has always been a strong point.
It was really sad leaving Manchester and all of you who live there. Ive spent the last few weeks in denial, hugging people goodbye but almost not believing it and therefore coming across as a bit nonchalent about the whole affair, but i want you all to know that now i've actually left the city it's really starting to hit me how much im going to miss you all. The thing that actually hit me hardest was watching all of your goodbye messages. I cant thank-you enough, Jen, for organising it, it is the nicest and most thoughtful and precious present i've ever had. And a huge, probably tearful thank-you to everyone that sent in videos for it. I spent an evening bawling like a baby, in between the comic relief that some of them provided!
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Vashj'ir > Hyjal, any day.. Looking forward to that Zügel des ewigen Zeithäschers
Woot time to work on getting that Timewalker mount.
The quest to do 5 dungeons also give 500 valor which unless I missed it is not mentioned above. So worth doing the quest for the loot box, seal and valor. Instant upgrades right there for a piece of gear. Good luck all on the mount as well.
Have one )
So... the Zügel des ewigen Zeithäschers will either be very popular or have a very low drop rate. Because we all know that Timewalking is not only popular by itself, but also very useful for gearing both alts and main characters.
Dang im doing so much overtime at my job im going try to get on. Sometime before the 23rd
yeah vash'jr is the superior zone imo but lets put it this way: ive never leveled there. Ive gone back at max level to do the quests- 1 time per faction- but thats it.
In my experience, Vashj'ir was moderately fun for ranged, and awful for melee. Not sure what it is about WoW, but it is not intended for 3D depth perception. Trying to tell how far away a mob is without the context of ground is a nightmare.
Vashj'ir had a fun plot ("THRALL'S BALLS!") but yeah, I'm more of a fire guy, so I was very happy when I finished it and got to Hyjal instead. Nt much I'm interested in, but I LOVE End Time, hoping to score the Zügel des ewigen Zeithäschers there, because that'd be appropriate.
Nice trolling us Blizzard.I'd just settled on crafted Bracers and Shoulders for all my alts, because those are the only items you can't get from Timewalking.Now you give us Bracers - doh!
Infinite Timereaver, you will be mine!
as much as ied like to get my hands on that Timereaver mount i think ill pass on the Cata 5mans the only one im interested in is end time (it came out while i was on a break from wow so never did it) all the others i dislike or have ran them so many times i can run them without looking at my screen (im looking at you stonecore)
Don't forget the Bag of Shiny Things
500 valor for turning in Ein verwüsteter Pfad durch die Zeit.
The dungeons are going to be a pain for those that do not remember mechanics - they actually have some that can mess you up. And even thrash packs can mess up the unsuspecting.
Had a bunch of wipes on 5 mans yesterday. Think a lot of people don't remember everything, shoot I didn't remember all the boss fights. Might just be bad luck on my part but this Timewalking runs feel a little bit more painful to me. Wish people weren't like a pack of mimes when asked if they know the fight and then wipes us because they obviously don't and die. | <urn:uuid:559675d4-1310-444c-bc1f-918ebfd0aab8> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://de.wowhead.com/news=249970/cataclysm-timewalking-guide-november-18-23 | 2017-03-30T20:31:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218203515.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213003-00516-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942247 | 669 |
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Rafael Toledo Thanks for the article. But can we check code coverage threshold in android-gradle.
What i have tried,
apply plugin: 'jacoco'
minimum = 0.5
from jacoco plugin https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/jacoco_plugin.html
But in android-gradle i am not getting this method. I am not getting what is the problem. Is android-gradle plugin doesn’t have this method(I am using latest android-gradle plugin 2.3+) or i should provide a seprate classpath for jacoco version higher than 0.6.3.
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Unfortunately, work gets in the way of posting. The last two days were quite stressful and intense but in the end: I winz! Yesterday I had a nice Ann Taylor charcoal grey suit for a court appearance. I prefer suits with dresses to skirt suits. I think that they look neater and it means I don't have to wear a blouse. Did I mention I generally do not like the way button down blouses feel? I cannot explain why. It's like I have a reaction to them. That makes a lot of sense.
Today I had a more informal hearing so I dressed a little more casual. I couldn't put myself through wearing a suit two days in a row. Oh, the inhumanity of it all! When I tried to write of it all, I wrote "alf" instead. Was that a subconscious signal? Hmmmm... What could it mean? Discuss amongst yourselves.
Back to the outfit. It is actually cold enough today to wear this heavier wool jacket. Sad, I know. Mother Nature can kiss my arse. Still, I like the jacket. I love the color. And it is very comfortable. I realize that this shirt does not photograph well from afar so here is a close up of the shirt and the jacket. And apparently my bosom. Bonus!
Tweed Jacket (remixed): J. Crew
Shirt (remixed): Banana Republic
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Brushing Up on Cost Accounting Basics
In This Chapter
Distinguishing between direct and indirect costs
Understanding fixed and variable costs
Comparing the costs incurred in different industries
Defining a cost driver
Recognizing inventoriable costs
This chapter provides the rules of the road for cost accounting. Use these basic terms and ideas to understand more complex topics later in the book. If you read another chapter and start to get lost, head back here and take a look at these concepts again.
Understanding the Big Four Terms
Direct costs, indirect costs, fixed costs, and variable costs are the four most important cost accounting terms . . . and these four terms can be confusing. The following sections outline a process for understanding the differences among these words. If you follow this process, you should be able to keep these important terms straight in your mind.
Comparing direct and indirect costs
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Mens Bookster Donegal Tweed Mackinaw Jacket
One of the members of our special ready to wear Heritage Collection. These superior quality garments are not made to a price, they are made to a standard, using top quality materials and hand crafted in England.
BOOKSTER DONEGAL TWEED MACKINAW JACKET
The Mackinaw jacket traces its roots to coats made by an early trader in the USA in 1811. 40 woolen Great Coats were produced at the request of the British Army. So whilst this a classic practical American design to this day, it came about due to British needs! It transpired that the long skirts of the greatcoat were unsuitable for deep snow, and once these were removed, the Mackinaw jacket was born
It also became known as a ‘Jeep Jacket / Coat’ due to its use by drivers of those vehicles in the 2nd World War. We have remained loyal to the original pattern.
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Beau's journey through the dog club
Today Beau & I went to his puppy school for the second time. It has been heavy rain all week, so we weren’t able to get outside for much training through the week, but I was really pleased with Beau’s progress. He does perfect sits every time, his drops are improving greatly and his stays are quite impressive. We do have to work on come though. He will come easily if there are no distractions around, but when there are other puppies to play with, you’d swear he was deaf. He heels quite
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Oh we had such a fun day. Beau’s baby puppy class is held in the nearby showground and when we arrived there were lots of handlers & their dog everywhere, all getting organised to go to their various different classes. Poor little Beau was looking around at this sea of very big dogs & I am sure at first he would have just like to have gone back home.
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Each year we produce the State Business Tax Climate Index, which promotes tax competition between the states and motivates policymakers to reform their tax systems toward pro-growth policies. Over the past few years, the...
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Even in the World of Tax Policy, There's Something to Be Thankful For
All year long we complain about taxes, and there's no shortage of tax-related issues to complain about. In light of Thanksgiving, however, we decided to list some tax-related things we're grateful for.
But first, some tax-related items that we think others may be grateful for this Thanksgiving (these do not all represent sound tax policy, but we suspect that each one has made some individuals or industries thankful anyway):
- Iowans who include pumpkins in their Thanksgiving decorations should be grateful that the state did away with its bizarre pumpkin tax, which was levied on pumpkins that were intended for display, but not on pumpkins that were intended for cooking. (How often have you been asked by a store cashier what you intend to do with the pumpkin in your shopping cart when you get it home?) Retailers who sell pumpkins for decoration and/or pumpkin-pie making should also be glad that they don't have to deal with this tax-induced complexity anymore. (Just when we felt safe telling Iowans they should be thankful for this improvement in their tax system, we remembered Iowa's Turkey Marketing Council, which is authorized to levy an excise tax at the processor level of up to 3 cents per turkey.)
- Minnesotans who buy their Thanksgiving turkey pre-cooked have something to be thankful for. In 1980, the Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled that sales of hot turkey and hot turkey parts in grocery stores are exempt from the sales tax. (Comm'r of Revenue v. Applebaums' Food Markets, Inc., 297 N.W.2d 141 (Minn. 1980)).
- Mississippi residents who enjoy hunting for their own turkeys, or want to ensure that others are able to do so, will be thankful to learn that for an extra $30, Mississippi will issue a motorist a special license plate identifying the driver as a supporter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
- Here's something that preparers of Thanksgiving dinners across the country will not be thankful to read: A court in Pennsylvania does not appreciate all those cooks' hard work and culinary skill. In 1985, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that the "[p]reparation of potato salad, macaroni salad, cole slaw, pepper cabbage, baked lima beans, rice pudding, tapioca pudding, health salad, egg salad, tuna salad, cranberry relish, potato filling, bread filling, clam chowder, macaroni and cheese, and red beet eggs did not require the high degree of skill, science, or labor" to be considered manufactured goods exempt from the city of Reading's business privilege tax. (Van Bennett Food Co. v. City of Reading, 486 A.2d 1025 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1985)).
- Some industries that sell foods traditionally used in Thanksgiving dinners may be feeling grateful this Thanksgiving for the subsidies they receive. According to the Farm Subsidy Database, from 1995 to 2006, the following subsidies were bestowed: $56.2 billion for corn, $22.1 billion for wheat (used in stuffing), $84.9 million for lamb, and $16.5 million for potatoes.
- Everyone who pays income taxes (or cares about the effects of extremely high marginal income tax rates) should be thankful that our current rates are lower than the rates the country has faced in some years past: a top rate of 94% in1944, for example, and a top rate of 77% in 1964. (Click here for a chart of federal individual income tax rates and brackets from 1913 to the present.)
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The Ferrari F430 was one of those Italian poster cars that ripped through the race track with Ferrari blood pumping through its veins. Its mid-mounted 4.3-liter V-8 engine was innovative and all-new for the brand, and consumed gasoline while producing pure adrenaline.
Although it has been replaced by the sleek and curvaceous 458 Italia, there’s still a special spot reserved in enthusiasts’ hearts for the F430. It’s a true Ferrari through and through and still stacks up well with the best super cars on the market today, especially with a set of COR Wheels.
On a Grigio Titanio Metallic Ferrari F430, one owner opted for a set of COR Encor three-piece forged wheels in a concave design to emphasize the dynamics and athleticism of the super car. The Encor wheels were the perfect way to convey the F430’s superb power and handling capabilities through their sporty double-spoke design and bold concave style that varies between the front and rear axle. Each wheel is crafted from high-strength lightweight forged 6061 aluminum alloy and hand-finished for a superb look.
The stance on the Ferrari F430 is wide and powerful, grabbing the attention of onlookers as it drives by with its high-revving V-8. The front axle was outfitted with the Encor wheels in a 20 x 9.0 setup with a light concave design and paired up with 245/30/20 sport tires. The rear was given a set of 20 x 12.0 Encor forged wheels with a super concave design to emphasize the rear-wheel drive setup and fitted with 325/25/20 tires. To match the Grigio Titanio Metallic exterior of the F430, the Encor wheels were given brushed titanium centers and outer lips, while the inner lips were given a darker matte black color.
These new COR Encor wheels ensure that this Ferrari F430 will be a modern classic for years to come.
Ferrari F430 Wheels: COR Encor
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Cool Tool Review – Color Schemer GalleryBy
Unless I have a specific logo or graphic to use as inspiration, one of the hardest part of designing a site for me is picking my color palette.
One of the best places I have found for color scheme inspiration is the Color Schemer Gallery. You can pick from hundreds of color schemes with names like Vintage Doll, MintandMauve, and Mardi Grass.
If you have an inspiration color and need to figure out which colors complement it, try using their Color Schemer Online tool. You enter a color, it shows you what works well with it. You can also lighten and darken the entire scheme.
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The Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil is the official replacement coil of the Yocan Cubex Vaporizer. That said, it is an essential component for anyone using a Yocan Cubex Vaporizer. It’s a unique coil that’s sure to please both recreational users and medical consumers alike. Here are a few reasons why you should consider stocking up on the Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil.
For those who have been vaping for quite a while now, the mention of quartz in a wax vaporizer immediately brings the idea of fast and quick heating which produces viscous plumes of clouds. Meanwhile, the mere notion of a ceramic coil imparts one with the vision of smooth and flavorful vapors with thin wisps of clouds. What if we combine both of them?
The Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil features both quartz and ceramic materials allowing the wax coil to bring together the best of both worlds. Not only can owners of the Yocan Cubex Vaporizer indulge in the fast-heating capabilities of quartz heating elements but they can also savor the flavor of their favorite wax concentrates through the slow-burning features of ceramic heating elements.
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One of the features of the Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil is the absence of the exposed coils. Previous coils produced by Yocan like the Yocan Quartz Dual Coils, Yocan Quartz Triple Coils, and even the Yocan Quad Coils, all have exposed coils. A small quartz rod is wrapped in a visible metal wire. And while it does boost the heating capacity of the coils, it can sometimes interfere with the airflow.
That said, Yocan designed the Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil without any exposed coils. As a result, the Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil promotes better airflow which contributes to the ease of drawing from the vaporizer. Some coils may cause a consumer to inhale harder from the mouthpiece, the improved airflow from the Yocan Cubex Replacement Coil negates that effect and improves one’s overall vaping experinece.
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The House That Dripped Blood
The House That Dripped Blood – 1971 | 102 mins | Horror | Colour
Amicus returned to the tried-and-tested portmanteau format for the classy anthology The House that Dripped Blood, which incorporated four stories by Robert Bloch. Directed with imaginative flair by Peter Duffell, who wound up returning to small-screen work, three of the episodes are vigorous Grand Guignol fun and the film concludes with a humorous fourth tale.The cast all acquit themselves well, particularly a splendidly nervy Denholm Elliott and Christopher Lee at his brooding tight-lipped best.
Scotland Yard’s Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) goes on the trail of a missing film, star, and consults the local constabulary about Paul Henderson’s remote rented house, and learns that the most recent tenants have all come to grisly ends.
“Method for Murder” deals with London novelist Charles Hillyer (Denholm Elliott), who rents the house to complete his most recent horror novel, but is haunted by visions of his murderous lead character,Dominick, an insane strangler.
“Waxworks” follows retired stockbroker Philip Grayson (Peter Cushing), who finds the image of his lost love, Salome, in Jacquelin’s local waxworks museum. His friend Neville Rogers (Joss Ackland) arrives unexpectedly and reflects on their shared lost love.
“Sweets to the Sweets” deals with widower John Reid (Christopher Lee) and his small daughter Jane (Chloe Franks). Reid employs Ann Norton (Nyree Dawn Porter) to act as governess to his daughter. Reid appears mortally afraid of his flaxen-haired daughter, and with good reason as the lonely, angelic child compensates rather nastily for the neglect to which she has endured.
“The Cloak” centres on veteran horror actor Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee), a self-important man who unknowingly acquires an old cloak from an elderly vampire. To Henderson’s dismay, he is inexplicably in the grip of a vampiric urge when trying the cloak on.
Peter Duffell: Director
Tony Curtis: Art Direction
Ray Parslow: Cinematography
Peter Tanner: Film Editing
Harry Frampton: Makeup Department
Joyce James: Makeup Department
Michael Dress: Original Music
Max Rosenberg: Producer
Milton Subotsky: Producer
Russ Jones: Script
Robert Bloch: Script
Michael P Redbourn: Sound Department
Ken Ritchie: Sound Department
Nolan Roberts: Sound Department
John Bennett: Det Insp Holloway
John Bryans: AJ Stoker
John Malcolm: Sgt Martin
Denholm Elliott: Charles Hillyer
Peter Cushing: Philip Grayson
Joss Ackland: Neville Rogers
Christopher Lee: John Reid
Nyree Dawn Porter: Ann Norton
Jon Pertwee: Paul Henderson
Ingrid Pitt: Carla Lynde
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Fiji stories, Labasa, South Pacific culture, family, migration, Australia/Fiji relationship
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
The low wages in Fiji are shocking
How on earth can a family be fed if workers in Fiji get little more than $2F an hour. Read this from today's Fiji Times.
Fijians need a 'living wage'
Avinesh Gopal Thursday, June 08, 2017
National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry believe Fijians need a "living wage".
Prof Prasad raised the issue at the party's meeting in Lautoka at the weekend.
Mr Chaudhry says it is widely accepted that low wages is the root cause of poverty in the country among working class families.
"It is estimated that some 60 per cent of those in full-time employment are earning wages below the basic needs poverty line (BNPL) currently set at $203 a week. These employees are all in the private sector," he said.
"Government's own survey shows that those in the lower wage group are spending less than $40 a week on food for their families.
"This is absolutely shocking. What can a family of five buy for $40 a week except for the base essentials?
"A living wage pegged to the cost of living and one that meets the basic needs of our workers must be a priority for any caring government."
Mr Chaudhry said it was not correct to suggest that the Government has brought down working poverty from 35 per cent to 11 per cent as Employment Minister Jone Usamate stated in this newspaper a week ago.
"The bottom line is that 60 per cent of our low income earners are receiving wages below the poverty line and that most of them have difficulty spending $40 a week on food for their families."
He said the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of $2.68 an hour was not the answer to the country's problem of tackling poverty.
"We need to raise the national minimum wage rate above starvation wages to a level where a worker is able to meet the basic needs of his family and still be able to save a little.
"What then is a living wage for our workers? This is the crux of the matter."
Mr Chaudhry said the NMW should not become a subject of political propaganda in the lead up to the 2018 election, saying a negotiated NMW should have a bearing on the basic poverty line.
He said an interim solution to the impasse may be to raise NMW to $3.50 per hour to give immediate relief to workers in this category.
The NFP maintains Fiji needs a "living wage".
"Our 'living wage' suite of measures is for a minimum of $200/week or $5/hour net for those on a minimum wage," said Prof Prasad.
"These are not ideas just made up on a whim. We have analysed the trends and the figures and it is very, very possible.
"Grant the NFP the social contract to make it happen, and we will.
"The current minimum wage rate of $2.32 an hour is simply insufficient for a livelihood of a family of four.
"This rate means our workers on minimum wage earn $104.40 for a 45 hour working week. Even if the wage rate is increased to $2.68, it will be $120.60," said Prof Prasad.
Babasiga (pronounced bambasinga) is the dry land of Macuata in northern Fiji - our place in the sun in Fiji. Peceli is from Fiji from the village is Vatuadova and the beach is Nukutatava. Peceli Ratawa passed away on 27th December 2015 so this is Wendy's blog now. Wendy is an Australian and today live in Geelong, Australia. | <urn:uuid:d9454024-3459-400d-906d-15861aad2188> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://babasiga.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-low-wages-in-fiji-are-shocking.html | 2017-11-24T11:14:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807650.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124104142-20171124124142-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.964359 | 815 |
Stephanie Chivers is in her fifth season as assistant coach for women's rowing at The George Washington University.
Chivers is responsible for coaching the novice rowers and plays active role in recruiting for the program.
Chivers arrived GW after spending two years as the assistant coach of women's rowing at Nova Southeastern University, a Division II program in located Fort Lauderdale, FL, where she worked with the novice boats.
Chivers brings a wide array of coaching experience to the Colonials' staff. She served as assistant men's rowing coach at her alma mater, the University of Connecticut, in 2006. She also has interned with the San Diego State women's rowing squad in 2007 and served as a Graduate Assistant with the Ithaca College women's rowing team. During the course of her rowing career, Chivers also has coached masters and high school programs at Berkshire Rowing and Sculling Society in Pittsfield, MA, the San Diego Rowing Club and in Hartford, CT.
As a student-athlete, Chivers had a distinguished career as a four-year rower at Connecticut and captained the Huskies her senior year. She earned academic honors all four years of her collegiate career, including a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete award in 2004. A 2007 graduate from UConn, she earned a master's degree from Ithaca College in 2008. | <urn:uuid:3fb9df35-e9c8-4c46-baa7-550f45e9a751> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.gwsports.com/sports/w-rowing/mtt/chivers_stephanie00.html | 2016-05-03T04:57:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860118790.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161518-00175-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979535 | 294 |
Byon January 9, 2013
More from Pitti, this time courtesy of Belvest, who, as one would expect, didn't disappoint. Above, a blue-black, wool and alpaca double-breasted jacket that earned a seal of approval from our Fashion Director, Nick Sullivan. And below, some nicely executed pattern mixing, pitting oversize paisley against a multicolor Glen plaid.
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Product News: Electronic Components & Devices
Voltage Controlled Oscillator operates from 3,274-3,280 MHz.
Press Release Summary:
June 4, 2014 - Housed in 0.5 x 0.5 in. SMD package with typical output power of +5 dBm, Model CVCO55CC-3274-3280 features control voltage range of 0.3~4.7 V and typical phase noise of -115 dBc/Hz at 10 KHz offset. Input voltage is 8 V with max current consumption of 30 A, and Pulling and Pushing are minimized to 3 MHz and 0.1 MHz/V, respectively. Typical applications include digital radio equipment, fixed wireless access, satellite communications systems, and base stations.
Original Press Release
New 3274-3280 MHZ VCO from Crystek Corporation
Press release date: May 23, 2014
Fort Myers, FL – Crystek's CVCO55CC-3274-3280 VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) operates from 3274 MHz to 3280 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.3V~4.7V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -115 dBc/Hz @ 10KHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +5 dBm.
Engineered and manufactured in the USA, the model CVCO55CC-3274-3280 is packaged in the industry-standard 0.5-in. x 0.5-in. SMD package. Input voltage is 8V, with a max. current consumption of 30 mA. Pulling and Pushing are minimized to 3 MHz and 0.1 MHz/V, respectively. Second harmonic suppression is -12 dBc typical.
The CVCO55CC-3274-3280 is ideal for use in applications such as digital radio equipment, fixed wireless access, satellite communications systems, and base stations.
For pricing details, contact Crystek Corporation.
Family datasheets are available for download at www.crystek.com. For more information, contact sales at Crystek Corporation, 12730 Commonwealth Drive, Ft. Myers, FL 33913. Tel: 800-237-3061 or 239-561-3311; Fax: 239-561-1025; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org; Web: www.crystek.com.
Crystek Corporation® has been providing frequency products since 1958, including quartz crystals, XOs (clock oscillators), TCXOs (temperature compensated oscillators), VCOs (voltage controlled oscillators), and VCXOs (voltage controlled crystal oscillators). Crystek operates two divisions dedicated to frequency control. Crystek Crystal is dedicated to the development and manufacture of frequency products using quartz-based resonators. Crystek Microwave develops of frequency control and support products for the microwave industry.
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Footballers can do stupid things sometimes. Former West Ham, Newcastle and Aston Villa midfielder Nolberto Solano — who is currently without a club after being released by the Hammers — was pictured this week on the cover of the most-read Peruvian sports daily in the build-up to their match against Uruguay.
Solano is pictured pointing a gun at the Uruguay shirt. The picture didn’t help bolster Peru’s chances. Solano’s team lost 6-0 to Uruguay with former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan scoring a hat-trick. | <urn:uuid:c4777171-a591-48db-923c-d2fbea15b626> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://worldsoccertalk.com/2008/06/19/nolberto-solano-loses-his-mind/ | 2018-01-18T15:48:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887423.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118151122-20180118171122-00613.warc.gz | en | 0.953354 | 118 |
Historical vampires – The Background
When did vampires begin? As with many legends, the exact date of origin is unknown; but evidence of the vampire tale can be found with the ancient Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, near the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and with Assyrian writings on clay or stone tablets. The land of the Chaldeans is also called the “Ur of the Chaldeans,” which was the original home of Abraham from the Bible.
“Lilith” was a possible vampire from the ancient Hebrew Bible and its interpretations. Although she is described in the book of Isaiah, her roots are more likely in Babylonian demonology. Lilith was a monster who roamed at night taking on the appearance of an owl. She would hunt, seeking to kill newborn children and pregnant women. Lilith was the wife of Adam before there was Adam and Eve, according to tradition; but she was demonized because she refused to obey Adam. (Or to see it from a more liberated viewpoint, she demanded equal rights with Adam). Naturally, she was considered evil for such “radical” desires and became a vampire who eventually attacked the children of Adam and Eve — namely, all human descendants.
References to vampires can be found in many lands, and some scholars believe this indicates that the vampire story developed independently in these various lands and was not passed from one to the other. Such an independently occurring folktale is curious indeed.
References to vampires can be found among the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean such as Egypt, Greece and Rome. The ancient Greeks believed in the strigoe or lamiae, who were monsters who ate children and drank their blood. Lamia, as the mythology goes, was the lover of Zeus; but Zeus’ wife, Hera, fought against her. Lamia was driven insane, and she killed her own offspring. At night, it was said, she hunted other human children to kill as well.
One tale known by both the Greeks and Romans, for example, concerns the wedding of a young man named Menippus. At the wedding a guest, who was a noted philosopher called Apollonius of Tyana, carefully observed the bride, who was said to be beautiful. Apollonius finally accused the wife of being a vampire, and according to the story (as it was later told by a scholar named Philostratus in the first century A.D.) the wife confessed to vampirism. Allegedly she was planning to marry Menippus merely to have him handy as a source of fresh blood to drink.
True vampire legends
Vampire tales occurred in ancient China, where the monsters were called kiang shi. In ancient India and Nepal, as well, vampires may have existed — at least in legend. Ancient paintings on the walls of caves depict blood drinking creatures; the Nepalese “Lord of Death” is depicted holding a blood-filled goblet in the form of a human skull standing in a pool of blood. Some of these wall paintings are as old as 3000 B.C., it is believed. Rakshasas are described in the ancient Indian holy writings called the Vedas. These writings (circa 1500 B.C.) depict the Rakshasas (or destroyers) as vampires. There is also a monster in ancient India’s lore which hangs from a tree upside-down, not unlike a bat, and is devoid of its own blood. This creature, called Baital, is in legend a vampire.
Other ancient Asians, such as the Malayans, believed in a type of vampire called the “Penanggalen.” This creature consisted of a human head with entrails that left its body and searched for the blood of others, especially of infants. The creature lived by drinking the victims’ blood.
It is also said that the vampire may have lived in Mexico prior to the arrival of Spanish Conquistadors, according to the renown vampire author Montague Summers whose 1928 book The Vampire — His Kith and Kin is a classic. He further wrote that Arabia knew of the vampire as well. Vampire-like beings appeared in the “Tales of the Arabian Nights” called algul; this was a ghoul which consumed human flesh.
Africa, with its spirit-based religions, may be seen as having legends of vampire-like beings as well. One tribe, the Caffre, held the belief that the dead could return and survive on the blood of the living.
In ancient Peru there were also vampire legends; the canchus were believed to be devil worshipers who sucked the blood of the young.
Thus from ancient times and from a bounty of exotic lands came forth the vampires. It is from these ancient fears about death and the magical, life-sustaining powers of blood that the vampires as we know them today have evolved.
REAL LIFE Vampires
A real life bloodthirsty killer was Elizabeth Báthory. She is probably the most famous female mass killer. It is said that she and four accomplices killed hundreds of girls, and young women. Legend states Elizabeth Báthory bathed in their blood, in an attempt to keep herself young. | <urn:uuid:0a0baba0-263c-4059-8c0b-cb1ae2bbcaf7> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://english-teacher.moscow/vampires-did-they-really-exist-what-proof-has-been-discovered/ | 2018-08-15T05:25:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209884.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815043905-20180815063905-00014.warc.gz | en | 0.978557 | 1,083 |
Tips for teens: jobs and internships
Paid or unpaid, full- or part-time, internships can help students get a jump on the competition. Attorney Cory Person, and Ahn Tran, a University of Tampa graduate student stopped by to give tips on how your teen can obtain the ideal internship.
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JYJ: Hello. We are JYJ.
MC: Pre-Orders, 300,000 Copies! Digital Music Charts, #1!
Group JYJ has returned with its second special album In Heaven.
The first Korean-language album in over a 2-year gap is so popular, to the degree that checkout counters exclusive for its purchase have been formed.
Yoochun: The album In Heaven has now come out, and we were also quite surprised, because many people had pre-ordered them and such. In seeing those things, I personally felt that because each of us had grown up at least a little compared to our pasts and had come together in that state to do things—and so in releasing the album, we’ve received the love of many people.
MC: In particular, this album is a hot issue because it has many self-created songs by the members of JYJ.
Jaejoong: That a person who is Korean would release an album that is in the Korean language was in itself something very natural. Nonetheless, for us, to do so was something that required much courage. 80% of this album is formed through the members’ own compositions, own writing of the lyrics, or otherwise such direct participation.
MC: Concert as the honorary ambassadors for Jeju—cancelled. Solo concert—cancelled. Like this, JYJ has in particular had much difficulties with their domestic performances.
Yoochun: Our original plan was to have another concert in Korea once more, but there were – I do not know the exact specifics myself, but — many problems. As fast as we can, in Korea too… we also above all things enjoy performing abroad, but we take the greatest pleasure in domestic activities also and so our desire to do domestic activities is large.
MC: Recently, JYJ’s new song Pierrot has received the determination that it was unfit to air from a certain broadcast station. The reason was that the term PSM in the lyrics referred to “President Lee Suman” and so gives off the impression of a personal attack on an individual.
Jaejoong: To take the results born of a certain another’s arbitrary imaginations that are contrary to the thoughts of the creator of the work and to use them to lay down the conclusion that a song is good or bad, is fair to air or unfair to air per deliberations—We think, in truth, that to do is ironic and these are our words for them. We will do our best for our company to resolve this issue amicably and so to be able to show you ourselves in good form.
MC: JYJ has been active in acting more than on the music front. In the very beginning, Park Yoochun had a successful debut as an actor through Sungkyunkwan Scandal and gathered explosive popularity. After that he also took the lead for Miss Ripley and solidified himself as an actor. On the contrary, Kim Junsu chose musicals over drama.
Junsu: I did two musicals – Tears of Heaven and Mozart. Above all, this is different from something that I’ve always done—simply singing the albums. It is a field of its own. That I was able to go out, participate, in two works this year alone, was very lucky I think. As much as that, the things that I must gain from and learn from doing so have formed and I’ve felt them, I think. In the same manner I want to have my album activities as JYJ go as well.
MC: The final member to challenge himself at acting is Kim Jaejoong. He has acted a chaebol in a recently-finished drama and passed his test (as an actor). It is said that above all advice on acting from Park Yoochun was a source of strength. JYJ plans to now concentrate on activities abroad rather than solo activities.
Yoochun: Yesterday, Jaejoong nicely completed his final filming for Protect the Boss—I give him my congratulations.
Yoochun: Starting mid-October, there is a performance in Japan and we plan to perform in Spain of Europe. And since the JYJ’s album In Heaven has been released, we plan to do those activities well, also.
MC: At this point, suddenly his playfulness rears head—Kim Jaejoong!
Jaejoong: What was the title, you say?
Yoochun: In Heaven, it is.
Jaejoong: In Hea~
Jaejoong: Yes, thank you. In Hea~
MC: JYJ who has returned to us with their second album. We will look forward to your many activities as a singer also.
Jaejoong: Kim Jaejoong
Jaejoong: Park Yoochun
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Over the last three years, extending a trend that began in the wake of the financial crisis, the average institutional investor has transitioned its investment portfolio to one that is not only more complex and diverse, but which features a greater proportion of illiquid investments, according to the findings of the 2018 Global Asset Owner Survey, a just-released report from bfinance, a London-based specialist investment consulting firm.
Some 66% of survey respondents said they have added a new asset class to their portfolio, led by private debt, infrastructure, real estate, emerging market equity and alternative risk premia. Another key finding of the report: 49% of institutional investors surveyed have increased their allocations to private markets, though nearly half of investors are currently underweight versus their allocation target for this asset class.
“In essence, this paper explores a fundamental tension: There is a gap between the returns that many investors need and the expectations now for what a traditional portfolio is likely to deliver over the next twenty or thirty years. In this study, we can see investors responding, making significant changes, adding complexity, adding illiquid, but at the same time improving overall efficiency as well,” according to Kathryn Saklatvala, investment content and thought leadership director at bfinance, in an introduction to a Sept. 17 webinar that discussed the report’s findings.
The far-reaching survey of nearly 500 investors, with assets approaching US$8 trillion in aggregate, found that although the average institutional investor has transitioned to a more complex portfolio, featuring greater use of non-traditional (and typically costly) asset classes since the financial crisis, they have achieved savings which more than outweigh those additional expenses. As a result, a summary of the report’s findings says, average costs have fallen rather than risen.
“Teams are grappling with increasingly prominent ESG [environmental, social and governance] issues and substantial changes to risk management. ESG is less of a high priority for U.S. investors than their global counterparts. Yet many are introducing new ESG policies and the issue is set to play a major role in future manager selection,” according to a press release accompanying the report’s release. It continues: “Meanwhile, despite greater use of alternative investments, investors appear to have reduced costs and the total fees paid to external managers. Renegotiation, mandate consolidation and transaction cost analysis have proved to be key tools in the investor’s arsenal, while 31% of investors have shifted toward passive management in the past three years.”
Among the survey’s key findings are:
- Increased allocations to illiquid investments—Over the past three years, 66% of investors have added at least one new asset class or investment strategy to their portfolios, with an additional 9% of respondents planning to do so imminently. Overall, private debt strategies were the most popular new addition, particularly in Europe, followed by unlisted infrastructure, unlisted real estate, emerging market equity and alternative risk premia.
- Cost reductions are evident across all asset classes—Only 27% of investors say their overall costs have increased as a percentage of assets, while 41% say they have decreased. Meanwhile, 51% of investors are paying less in total external asset management fees versus 17% who have seen fee spend increase. Unexpectedly, investors that have increased allocations to private markets are among the most successful in reducing costs, along with European and Australian asset owners.
- Hedge fund portfolios are being overhauled—Hedge fund investors are seeking better diversification and 55% have either overhauled their portfolios to reduce directional equity exposure within the last three years or plan to do so this year. Of those invested in hedge funds (56%), 34% have reduced their allocation to this sector over the past three years and 23% have increased allocations.
- Shift to passive management—A significant minority of investors have moved in the direction of passive management or smart beta during the past three years, at 31% and 20% of investors, respectively. However, the majority of investors believe that active will outperform passive over the next 12 months. Greater emphasis on ESG could also favor active management, with nearly half of investors believing that good ESG integration requires an active, as opposed to a passive or systematic, approach.
- ESG considerations increase in importance—ESG considerations are growing in prominence, with 39% stating that it is a “high priority” for their institution and 43% implementing a new ESG policy either in the last three years or this coming year. Larger investors are more likely to prioritise ESG issues, while North American asset owners are considerably less likely to do so. There are significant implications for implementation, including manager selection, where 41% of investors say ESG considerations will play a “major” role going forwards.
- Trusted partners—33% of investors have increasingly used asset managers for strategic advice, while 23% have increasingly used consultants for asset management services. The lines between advice and asset management are increasingly blurred, with players on both sides seeking to take ownership of the coveted middle ground: influence over strategic decision-making is, as providers increasingly understand, a key driver of asset management revenues. Yet 45% believe that asset management by consultants represents a “conflict of interest.”
- Rise of specialist consultants—Multiple-consultant usage is now relatively commonplace, with 57% of survey respondents globally using two or more consultants in the past year and 31% using three or more. This development should be viewed in the context of a climate where investors are hunting for innovation, in-house investment teams are increasingly sophisticated and selective, consulting models are coming under greater economic pressure and conflicts of interest are provoking concerns. | <urn:uuid:f78e2dea-5d7a-46a2-be9f-186cd87d5173> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | http://institutional-allocator.com/bfinance-asset-owner-survey-finds-more-complex-diverse-portfolios-lower-am-fees/ | 2019-12-16T02:21:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541315293.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20191216013805-20191216041805-00483.warc.gz | en | 0.954312 | 1,174 |
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One question that I get all the time here on Tone and Tighten is “How can I flatten my abs?” or some variation of it…
“How can I shrink my stomach?”
“How can I tone my midsection?”
“My baby was born 1 year ago; what are the best exercises to get my stomach flat again?”
Well today you’re in luck! I’m sharing with you the ONE secret that you can incorporate into EVERY core exercise that will ultimately leave you with a flatter stomach.
We’re talking TA activation as well as sharing 4 of the best exercises to suck in your stomach and tone your tummy. This one should be a lot of fun! Here we go…
Push play on the video below to see your secret to a flatter stomach and 4 great exercises that are going to help you get there!
Before we get too far into this core workout, a little anatomy lesson is in order.
Your abdominal wall is made up of 4 muscles layered on top of each other. You’re outer “layers” are composed of your external obliques, internal obliques, and rectus femoris muscles. While these are great muscles to work and vital to having a strong core, if you really want to FLATTEN your stomach the most important muscle is going to be the transverse abdominis (TA). This is the deepest layer of your core muscles and the muscle responsible for “sucking in” your stomach.
Unfortunately the TA is one of the most often-overlooked and under-trained muscles in our body. Think of it this way – a strong muscle is a tight muscle. The best way to tighten our stomach is to strengthen the muscle that’s responsible for “holding everything in”.
That being said, your crucial, vital, essential, mandatory, must-do, key move for the following (and really ANY) core exercises you’re going to is this…
Suck in your stomach!
I tell people “use your muscles to pull your belly button in to your spine”. This is a great visual for activating that TA and holding it in tight while you’re doing any of these exercises (or any core exercises, really!).
This will result in a stronger abdominal muscle contraction, a stronger TA, and ultimately a flatter stomach.
No let’s get to work!
SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH, get up on your elbows and toes, and hold your back nice and straight. Keep your stomach sucked in while up in the plank position,
20 – 45 second hold
2. Bicycle Crunch
Put your hands behind your head and extend your legs out straight. SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH and pull your right knee up while rotating your left knee down. Return to the starting position and then repeat with left knee/right elbow.
3. Double Straight Leg Raise
Lay on your back with your legs out straight. SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH and use your abs to pull your straight legs up towards the ceiling. Slowly lower them back to the starting position; try to keep your stomach sucked in and your back flat throughout the motion.
4. Jackknife Sit Up
Lay on your back with your hands over your head. SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH and raise your feet towards the ceiling while lifting your torso up off the ground in a sit-up motion. At the top of the motion your feet should be angled towards the ceiling and your hands reaching towards your feet. Slowly return to the starting position; remember to keep your stomach sucked in throughout the motion.
There you have them! 4 great exercises and on essential move to a stronger, flatter stomach.
Regarding tightening your stomach, unfortunately there’s no substitute for a good diet. You can plank, crunch, and Russian twist all day long but the bottom line is the flatness of your stomach relies mostly on the food you’re eating.
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We often hear the praise of natural athletes and dynamic personalities in MMA, but how often do we give credit to the grinding competitors that just won’t say die?
UFC 117 put this issue front and center for fans with several fighters who may lack natural ability but who make up for it in droves with heart and tenacity.
Clay “The Carpenter” Guida seems to find himself across the cage from men who always seem to have more skills and natural ability, but Guida never ceases to wear a smile on his face.
UFC 117 saw Guida facing tough Brazilian Rafael dos Anjos. Dos Anjos put a hurting on Guida early with vicious Muay Thai knees, kicks and elbow strikes.
But with Guida's famous gas tank and determination he rallied back in rounds two and three for a win via stoppage after damaging his opponent's jaw.
Guida has re-invented himself under the tutelage of Greg Jackson and seems to be gaining confidence and momentum. With the right coach behind him the limits for Clay are endless.
Guida likes to grind out wins with heart, gas, and perseverance; if he continues on this path, the possibilities are endless for him.
The welterweight bout of the night was also a grinding struggle for dominance. Finally two of the top fighters of the division squared off when Thiago Alves and Jon Fitch met for the second time.
In Fitch’s signature style he pushed and tested his opponent always trying to break the will of whoever is standing in his way. Fitch dragged and slammed Alves to the ground several times and controlled every second of the bout.
Fitch has never been known as a natural born fighter or someone with the speed or athletic ability to dominate his opponent.
Fitch has relied more on his wrestling prowess as well as his tireless work ethic to win the fights for him.
With this bout under his belt, Fitch has been promised a title bout with the winner of the GSP vs. Koscheck bout. If Fitch continues, with his work he will once again challenge for championship gold.
But for UFC 117, the middleweight title fight stole the show. Chael Sonnen did more talking for this fight than any other fighter has to promote a fight.
But Sonnen’s actions spoke even louder than his words. Sonnen made true on his claims to push Silva for the entire length of the fight.
Chael is the first fighter in many years to make Anderson Silva look human. Sonnen was not afraid to engage on his feet but really shined with take downs and slamming fists down into Silva’s face.
Sonnen pushed hard for five rounds but was sadly caught in a triangle choke late in the final round. Sonnen put up a valiant effort and simply would not stop or quit for anything.
Chael does have the heart of a champion and may soon get the chance to prove it again.
UFC 117 was an eye-opening experience that a lack of muscles, speed, or a complete toolset does not mean that you will lose the bout.
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Anyone who drives around the M25 will have noticed that the speed limits set on the overhead gantries appear to bear no relation to the traffic volumes. Speeds are often set at 60, 50 or even 40 for no obvious reason. Other “Smart Motorways” across the country show the same problem, and the result has been a large increase in the number of people fined (or diverted to speed awareness courses) for exceeding the set speed limit. The number of infringements doubled last year according to the Times.
The justification for smart motorways was that they can reduce congestion by smoothing the traffic flows and help to maintain safety. The speed limits are set partly by automated systems that measure the speed of traffic, but apparently they are also set “pre-emptively” by staff where known congestion is likely to occur at busy times. But as traffic volumes can be unpredictable this sometimes results in lower speeds being set than is appropriate – you can frequently see this around the western side of the M25 around London airport and on the eastern side near the Dartford Crossing.
In addition it is known that the odd particularly slow moving vehicle can result in the speed limit being reduced by the automated system. In other words, the “smart” system is not at all intelligent.
However Highways England is now undertaking a comprehensive review of variable speed limits on motorways. Surely it would be better to simply have an advisory system to tell drivers that there was congestion ahead so that they can slow down and avoid the “stop/start” problem that reduces traffic flows?
At present you have a dumb system instructing intelligent humans (which they mostly are) with the result of needlessly slower traffic speeds and drivers being caught out by unexpected changes in the limits or signs they may not have seen or noticed.
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This girl is everywhere now! Love Lana Del Rey on the cover of Interview Russia.
I also love her music. Let’s be real, though; I know what I like, and I have a strong appreciation for what I like, but I am definitely not the person to get new music from. I’m way behind in the game. Which is why I have to have my sources, which is why I’m so lucky to have my girl Leslie and her keen ear for soul/funk/jazz music guaranteed to give you the chills. I met her back in late September when we started our master’s program, and she is straight up awesome.
So being the nerd that I am, I can’t help but think of how material we learned this week in our Strategic Marketing course applies to this idea (kind of hard not to when your mind has been completely submerged in it all as a result of sitting in the classroom from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. five days in a row).
It applies specifically to high-tech products, but I would argue it can be applied to music as well. Most of us fall within the early majority or late majority: we hear the music on the radio or TV, and we dig it. Early adopters catch the buzz a bit sooner, while innovators are among the first before the buzz even begins. And laggards would be like my Dad, who still does not know how to make a phone call on his Motorola flip phone.
According to this model, I would say that Leslie is definitely what we would call an “innovator” when it comes to the music game. And in staying close behind and taking advantage of the already molded path she continues to weave through the chaos of newly emerging artists and sounds (like a little 4’11” old Maltese woman clinging to the back of 5’6″ me to get through a NYE Valletta crowd), I get to experience it too.
Back in early October, she introduced me to the lovely sounds of Miss Del Rey, and a slew of other UK artists who blew my mind to the same extent.
Lana Del Rey is now creating major waves in the U.S. with her song “Video Games,” much to the dismay of my innovator friend (who first heard that song at least four months ago). But just as any innovator, she’s on to the next new sound. And lucky for me, I have a VIP/insider’s pass to the awesomeness she will discover.
If you too would like to be elevated in the world of music from the position of the majority, to perhaps one of an early adopter, follow my girl on her blog here.
So, I love her too, but I am obsessed with the fact that you put the adopters chart on your blog. I’m constantly comparing myself to it. 🙂
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Dust involved in sulfate production in cloudsMay 10th, 2013 in Earth / Earth Sciences
Measurement Station Schmücke. HCCT 2010 (Hill Cap Cloud Thuringia 2010) - A ground-based integrated study of chemical-aerosol-cloud interactions at the Schmücke Mountain in the Thuringian Forest in September/October 2010.
(Phys.org) —A new study from Germany has studied the tiny dust particles within clouds and their influence on the climate. The influence of dust particles on cloud formation and on the chemical reactions within clouds has been poorly understood until now.
The research team, led by Eliza Harris of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, determined that sulfates are formed within clouds by oxidation of sulfur dioxide on the surface of coarse mineral dust particles. The oxidation is catalyzed by metal ions within the dust particles.
Mineral dust particles are released into the atmosphere by human activities such as intensive agricultural practices and deforestation, while metallic particles are released through industrial combustion processes, including the burning of fuels containing lead.
It was previously thought that sulfates were primarily formed in clouds through the action of peroxide formed during photochemical reactions, but the new study shows that this is a less dominant process. The researchers were able to show this because the two oxidation routes favor different isotopes of sulfur, and by examining the ratio of isotopes in sulfur dioxide entering clouds and sulfates in the clouds, they were able to demonstrate that the mineral dust/metal ion route was the dominant one.
The findings are important because sulfates in clouds are thought to increase cloud formation and light scattering by clouds, both of which have a cooling effect. Peroxides and mineral dusts have different distributions across the globe, and so assuming that peroxide was the dominant route led to incorrect assumptions about the production of sulfates in different regions. The findings that relatively large particles are involved also means the sulfates do not stay in the clouds as long as previously thought since they are formed on relatively large particles that easily drop out. This means the influence of sulfates and the cooling associated with them has been overestimated.
A second study, led by atmospheric scientist Dan Cziczo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studied ice formation in cirrus clouds, which typically form several kilometers above the ground, and found that ice nucleation had occurred around specks of mineral dust or metallic particles in the clouds.
Dr. Harris, who is now also at MIT, said it was interesting that the two studies had been published at the same time, and both should help to refine the climate models, which currently do not adequately take into account the importance of mineral dust and its effects on the climate.
More information: Harris, E. et al. Enhanced role of transition metal ion catalysis during in-cloud oxidation of SO2, Science Vol. 340, 727-730, doi: 10.1126/science.1230911 , Published May 10th, 2013.
Global sulfate production plays a key role in aerosol radiative forcing; more than half of this production occurs in clouds. We found that sulfur dioxide oxidation catalyzed by natural transition metal ions is the dominant in-cloud oxidation pathway. The pathway was observed to occur primarily on coarse mineral dust, so the sulfate produced will have a short lifetime and little direct or indirect climatic effect. Taking this into account will lead to large changes in estimates of the magnitude and spatial distribution of aerosol forcing. Therefore, this oxidation pathway—which is currently included in only one of the 12 major global climate models—will have a significant impact on assessments of current and future climate.
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Reality Checks Mozambique. Final Report 2011-2015
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This is the Final Report, summing up and analysing the entire Reality Check series of studies. In line with the main objective/idea of the series, is based on qualitative information and data or “poor people’s perspectives on development in order to capture the multidimensionality of poverty, offer insights into causal processes and allow for a triangulation of information from different sources” (Swedish Embassy 2010/ToR) – using the quantitative data collected in 2011 and 2015 to validate the processes/dynamics described/analysed. | <urn:uuid:00c60bf5-035d-433f-8936-8fea1b84d414> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://open.cmi.no/cmi-xmlui/handle/11250/2475323 | 2022-06-30T10:41:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103671290.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630092604-20220630122604-00744.warc.gz | en | 0.770443 | 198 |
Uses & Benefits of Balance Ball Chairs
A lot of us probably have seen balance balls at a gym, those that are intended to work on abdominal muscles. This ball is strong enough and also adjustable to enable you to perform any sort of exercises on it. A balance ball chair, which enormously comfortable and ergonomic, has a perfect back in addition to lumbar support. It is perfect for the home or office. What’s best is that you can remove the ball and then use it separately. Fitness enthusiasts will benefit from this chair because they will be able to perform lots of exercises, plus the comfort it offers.
This balance ball chair is not only unique but designed for comfort as well. Besides that, it feels like you are sitting on a wind breeze while helping to support the spine and also lumbar because it is really soft.
All that is required for you to do is blow up this ball using the pump that comes with it, arrange it on some chair, and then you can go ahead and sit, work, watch television, or read. You will not feel any soreness even if you sit throughout the day, as you usually when you are using traditional chairs, and you will actually feel better as your body is going to be aligned perfectly after sitting for long hours.
Upon standing up and wanting to exercise, simply transfer the ball and then make use of if as your exercise equipment. You can carry out your ab exercises, arm and leg exercises, etc. With the many exercises you can do with the ball that accompanies such a chair, it is practically a gym by itself as there is so much you can execute on it.
Practically everyone thinks balls that goes with balance chairs are to be use only for the abdominal muscles. That is absolutely untrue, however. There is so much more that one can do with this ball.
While such ball is ideal for working on the abs, one can likewise squeeze it in-between the knees to work up the inner thighs. If you want perform squats, push your back against the ball then roll upward and downward the wall. If you want to do incline push ups, put your feet on the ball. Or if you would like to work on your arms as well as shoulders, slowly raise the ball up above your head. When you are done, you can return the ball on the balance chair, waiting for you to sit once more.
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Compass Cohousing Outreach
Oct. 19, 2019. 3:45pm - 5:30pm PDT. Langley, B.C.
Come join us at the Timms Community Centre, 20399 Douglas Crescent, Langley BC (Madsen Room, second floor). In this information session, you’ll learn about Compass’s early plans for a new cohousing community here in Langley. We have acquired an exceptional building site, and are looking for new members who are interested in cohousing and think they’d like to come help us plan our “village”. Young families are particularly welcome!
Preregistration is not required, but would help us in our planning:
Timms Community Centre
Madsen Room – 2nd Floor
20399 Douglas Crescent, Langley BC
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Update from Crawley Open House
Published: 02 Apr 2020
Crawley Open House is still open - we have 26 vulnerable residents as usual, and the day centre remains partially open offering limited services and telephone appointments to those who need them most. Demand for food parcels has shot up, and we are working with the Council and police to temporarily house, feed and care for ALL rough sleepers locally.
Our main current concern is the health of our staff and residents/clients - we have been fortunate so far, but we are exploring with the Council and local agencies the possibilities to isolate vulnerable clients safely should the need arise.
We are running out of food for food parcels and our kitchen, as understandably donors are not coming to our gate so readily. Our understanding is that looking after the vulnerable is still classed as an essential activity, so if you hear of anyone with a few of the following they are willing to donate we would be so grateful…
- UHT milk
- Tinned meat and fish
- Tinned vegetables and potatoes
- Bottles of squash
- Pasta sauces and cooking sauces
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Kiev – Ukraine, FIG Office, August 26, 2013: In the run-up to the 32nd FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships the first of three podium training days for Individual gymnasts got underway on Sunday at Kiev’s Sports Palace. The gymnasts who arrived in the Ukraine on Saturday took centre stage in the cyan blue venue, taking the opportunity to acclimatize in Kiev.
Among the one hundred participants of the Individual tournament, we sat down with the gymnasts from France, Turkey and Azerbaijan to get to know them better and to learn about their expectations for these championships. Here is what they revealed:
France – Kseniya MOUSTAFAEVA (18) and Lucille CHALOPIN (17)
Minsk born Kseniya Moustafaeva is coached by her mother Svetlana, a former Belarusian gymnast, and started Rhythmic Gymnastics at the age of four years before arriving in France. She did not receive the French citizenship until 2011 and it was in 2013 that Kseniya won the French national championships for the first time, following in Delphine Ledoux’s footsteps. The 18-year-old gymnast is conscious of her responsibility as the new number one Rhythmic gymnast of France, feeling the pressure, but also benefiting from the support of the federation. The World Championships are the highlight of Kseniya’s year 2013 that has been the busiest of her career so far. She participated at all Grand Prix and World Cup events (except for Pesaro (ITA) due to illness),the European Championships, as well as the Mediterranean and World Games. The ambitious gymnast is aiming for the Apparatus Finals in Kiev. Her favourite apparatus? “I like them all,” she says. “They are very different. Ball and Ribbon are the most difficult, I think, but that’s also why I am more focused and maybe a little bit better.”
Kseniya’s compatriot Lucille Chalopin is participating for the first time at a World Championships this year and she feels a little bit nervous about it. However, the 17-year-old is delighted to have the opportunity to compete in Kiev “at such a nice place” and to gain precious experience. Lucille looks up to Ukrainian Rhythmic star Ganna Rizatdinova, whom she calls her idol.
Turkey – Burcin NEZIROGLU (19) and Elif Zeynep CELEP (19)
Burcin Neziroglu’s talent for Rhythmic Gymnastics was discovered by Moldovan Maya Kondakova, who is still her coach today. The daughter of an athlete, Burcin is a well-disciplined and dedicated gymnast and she participates at her fourth World Championships in Kiev. The 19-year-old gymnast knows the Sports Palace very well from several participations at the Deriugina Cup and feels well accustomed to the venue. Burcin who is based in Izmir is already looking forward to next year’s World Championships that will take place in her home arena.
Less experienced than her compatriot, Elif Zeynep Celep feels the nervousness ahead of her first World Championship participation. The nineteen-year old gymnast from Antalya, who is coached by Zlatka Staykova of Bulgaria, started to practice the sport only ten years ago. Elif finished school in 2012 and practices twice a day since then to make her dream of participating at the Olympic Games come true one day. “It’s a long way, but I work very hard for it,” Elif said.
Burcin and Elif took part in a one-week training camp in Izmir to prepare for the Kiev event.
Azerbaijan – Marina DURUNDA (16) and Lala YUSIFOVA (16)
After the retirement of Aliya Garayeva, sixteen-year olds Marina Durunda and Lala Yusifova are the new Rhythmic hopes for Azerbaijan. Both are coached by Bulgarian Mariana Vasileva, who has been living in Azerbaijan for the past five years, and while Lala is from Baku, Marina was born in the Ukraine. Together with her parents Marina moved to Cyprus when she was six years old where she pursued a successful early career. However, she was unable to obtain the Cypriot passport and accepted an invitation to compete for Azerbaijan in 2012. Having made her senior debut this year only, Marina won the Azerbaijan Championships in June and impressed with her results at the European Championships and on the World Cup circuit.
Lala debuted as a senior in 2012 and won the Silver on Clubs and Ribbon at the Grand Prix Final in Brno (CZE). She ranked second to Marina at this year’s national championships and together they finished fourth in the team event at the European Championships in Vienna (AUT). Daughter of a ballerina, Lala began to practice Rhythmic Gymnastics at the age of five, inspired by a poster she had seen . She also loves to dance (thanks to her mother’s love for ballet) and proudly talks about her idol Alina Maksymenko (UKR) who she has met on the dance floor at numerous banquets.
“Rhythmic Gymnastics is our life,” Lala and Marina said when asked about their hobbies. Dreaming of becoming World Champions and of participating at the Olympic Games, the two friends do self studies to fulfil their academic duties. The talented gymnasts train together in Baku and when asked if she missed her family in Cyprus, Marina answered that they visited each other regularly. “We are family,” she adds smiling, hugging her friend.
Podium training for Individual gymnasts – Day 2 of 3
KIEV (UKR), FIG Office, August 26, 2013: Podium training continued on Monday at Kiev’s Sports Palace with Individual gymnasts preparing for their competitions at the 32nd Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. The event features new as well as established countries in the sport and we had the opportunity to learn about the different backgrounds of some of the gymnasts:
Angola – Anna MPANZU (18) and Nkumba FRANCISCO (17)
Angola participates for the first time at a Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships this year. The country is proudly represented by Anna Mpanzu and Nkumba Francisco in the Individual category, who won the Gold and Silver medal respectively at the 2013 Angolan Championships. The two gymnasts have only competed in Africa so far and are anxiously awaiting their first major international event. Anna and Nkumba were prepared by Russian coach Irina Voyno during a ten-day training camp in Moscow, where they practiced together with Russian gymnasts. They continued to train intensively in August with all their compositions having been newly created. Irina visibly enjoys working with the two talented Angolans and reports that their progress has been impressive in the past months.
Anna speaks Russian with Irina, which might be surprising, but when she explains that her mother is actually Russian and she was born and lived in Russia until the age of eight, it suddenly makes sense. Anna started Rhythmic Gymnastics when she was seven years old, but stopped when she moved to Angola, because the discipline was not developed in the country. At 14 years old Anna and her mother established a group for Rhythmic Gymnastics in a club in Angola’s capital Luanda and she started training again. Things started moving when the Angolan Gymnastics Federation decided to participate at the Kiev Worlds and a phone call from Anna’s mother to her former coach in Russia set the basis for the cooperation with Irina.
The structure has improved for the discipline in Angola with it spreading outside of the capital now and the country having been able to enter a Rhythmic group for the event. However, its future is somewhat unclear at this point in time and depends mostly on the federation’s decisions after these championships. Anna has made her plans, however. She finished her high school studies and wants to move back to Russia to train with Irina and continue to compete for Angola.
Venezuela – Andreina ACEVEDO MARTINEZ (23) and Michelle Steffanie SANCHEZ SALAZAR (19)
Rhythmic Gymnastics is well established in Venezuela. The country has been participating regularly in World Championships since its debut in 1993 in Alicante (ESP) and is ranked third behind Brazil and Argentina on the South American continent.
In Kiev, Venezuela is represented in the Individual category by 23-year old Andreina Acevedo Martinez from Valencia and 19-year old Michelle Steffanie Sanchez Salazar from Caracas. Both have known each other for a long time and they have already gathered experience at previous World Championships. While Andreina competed in 2010 in Moscow and 2011 in Montpellier as Individual gymnast, Michelle Steffanie was part of Venezuela’s Rhythmic group in Moscow. She switched to Individuals only one year ago and debuts at the Kiev Worlds in this category. Andreina recently had the chance to spend ten months in Russia, where she studied the language and Physical Education as well as trained. The goal for both Venezuelan gymnasts is to finish around the 14th All-around rank envisaging a 54.000 point total.
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Science in a Topic
Science in a Topic comprises nine books for students and a teacher’s guide to the series, published by Hulton Educational Publications between 1973 and 1985. Science in a Topic was developed to encourage and help teachers to include a first-hand experience which embraces the skills, processes and methods of scientists within their classroom work. It was written to encourage all primary teachers to organise science within the normal activities, rather than allowing it to be regarded as a separated, sterile session. By working with science as a part in an integrated study, the teacher can deal in a more realistic way with the organisation of practical science activities.
The aim was to ensure that science was included in the topic work that was widely being developed in primary schools in the 1970s. The topics often combined studies in history, geography, literature and art but avoided science. Including science not only enriched the topic but ensured that science was studied within a context of interest and relevance to children.
The topic books are addressed to students, reading being supported by clear coloured diagrams, drawings and photographs. The topics are:
* Clothes and costume
* Houses and Homes
* In the air
* Moving on Land
* Roads, Bridges and Tunnels
* Sports and Games
The science activities are embedded in topics which also lead to learning in history, geography, mathematics and art. The books make explicit that the whole of the topic work is not completely covered, only the science part. Students are told that they will need to use many other books to find out about other aspects of the topic. The books do not give information but mainly pose questions and suggest ways for finding the answers. The activities can be used in any sequence and not necessarily completed, so they can be used by children at different stages. Although the many clear and coloured drawings assist the understanding, students need to be able to read at the level of about nine years or above.
Being written in the late 1970s, inevitably changes in the range of foods, modes of transport and communication since that time make some activities seem dated.
Science in a Topic students’ book Clothes and Costume includes activities relating to the properties of different materials, how they can be tested and how they can be changed. Students work with a range of materials, including fabrics, leather and minerals and metals used in making jewellery. Instructions for...
The Science in a Topic students’ book Food provides a range of information and activities for children relating to different kinds of foods. It leads students to consider food commonly eaten in the past and in other countries. Activities extend students’ knowledge of the origin and processing of raw materials in...
Science in a topic students’ book In the air covers both the inanimate objects which can be made to fly or stay up in the air and the organisms which can travel through the air. Activities lead students to explore the composition of the air, its pressure, the atmosphere and the changes in it which produce our...
The Science in a Topic students’ book Roads, Bridges and Tunnels concerns the study of road networks and how they have been built to pass under or over obstacles such as mountains and rivers. Many different types of bridge are studied and the form of arches in tunnels considered. Students are lead to find out about... | <urn:uuid:8473bcb3-7bc6-42cd-ae57-8acf396b8662> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/3646/science-topic | 2020-08-14T20:45:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739370.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200814190500-20200814220500-00122.warc.gz | en | 0.966878 | 669 |
The Nasdaq is a benchmark index for US technology stocks and a global electronic marketplace for buying and selling securities. The term Nasdaq that is also referred to the Nasdaq composite, which is an index of over 3,000 stocks that are listed on the Nasdaq exchange. This exchange in particular includes the globe’s forerunners in technology and biotech such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and Amazon to list a few. However, there is a difference between the Nasdaq composite and the Nasdaq 100 which is made up of 100 largest nonfinancial companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange.
Both are market capitalization-weighted indexes that are made up of both US based and international stocks that represent the NASDAQ Global Select Market Composite. These stocks need to meet the strict liquidity requirements and need to adhere to corporate governance standards.
NASDAQ 100 History
Nasdaq 100 was launched on 31 January 1985, by Nasdaq and started off with two separate indices: The NASDAQ-100 consists of retail, technology, telecommunication, health care, transport, etc. and the NASDAQ Financial-100 which consists of banking, insurance firms, mortgage and brokerage houses. By creating two indices the NASDAQ wanted options and futures contracts would be created on their basis in the hopes that other mutual funds would adopt the same principles on their benchmarks.
The base price of the index was set at 250 and closed at 800 on the last day of December 1993, the base was reset at 125 on the 1st of January 1994 leaving the NASDAQ 100 price below that of the more popular NASDAQ Composite.
The all-time highs for the index were welcomed by the dot-com bubble that was in 2000 where they stood above the 4,700 level. In 2002 the markets started evolving to the recession and the September 11 attacks and the Afghan War, that saw the index drop to the 900-point level during this period. The recovery took 5 years and eventually the index corrected itself on February 16, 2001 and high of 2,239.51-point level. The Late-2000s recession the US saw the housing bubble and Global Financial Crisis of 2008, with a correction at below 2,000-point level. While the Nasdaq 100 also experienced a limit down on the 24th of October 2008, and as a result on November 20, 2008 the index reached a 6-year intraday low of 1,018.
The Quantitative Easing (QE) from the Fed (Federal Reserve) was what brought in the end of the financial crisis, the index started on a volatile four-year climb, and on May 15, 2013 closed above 3,000. Thanks to GOOG (google Inc.) on the 18th of October 2013, the index closed at a high of 3,355.63 as each Google’s share was sold for more than $1,000. Finally, the index reached 4,593.27 as 2015 came to a close.
NASDAQ 100 Index composition
The Nasdaq 100 includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, and is calculated based on modified market capitalization-weighted methodology. Every quarter the Nasdaq will be reviewed, and the composition of the Nasdaq 100 index weightings are adjusted according to its components by means of a proprietary algorithm, and if the composites do not meet pre-defined weight distribution requirements they are excluded.
Top 10 NASDAQ 100 components and their index weighting (%)
Cisco Systems Inc
Factors that influence the overall index price
It is always handy for traders to follow the PMI (Pre-Market Indicator), as it predicts opening prices based on closing price of the last sale from the pre-market trade. This PMI also takes into consideration overnight news, hence assisting traders in market predictions.
As opposed to broader market indices like Russell 2000 index, the main factors that influence the Nasdaq stocks are heavily skewed towards the technology sector. The stocks are more volatile and change direction quickly.
NASDAQ 100 Trading information
· The NASDAQ 100 futures contract (called the E-Mini) is tradable from 22:00-20:14 & 20:30-20:59 (GMT), Monday to Friday
· The Nasdaq-100 price moves in increments of 0.25
· The margin requirement for trading a Nasdaq composite indice is usually 0.5% ( leverage 200: 1 ).
· The minimum trade size is 1 unit
· The currency of the Nasdaq 100 is the US Dollar
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It’s almost BACK TO SCHOOL time. Today I’m joining 14 other amazing bloggers for a super fun Back-2-School Blog Hop! We’ve got some fantastic back to school projects and tips for you. Be sure to click through all of our posts for some inspiration.
4. For My Love Of 5. Home. Made. Interest. 6. Restless Arrow
7. Little Red Brick House 8. Little House Of Four 9. Cuddles and Chaos
10. Our House Now A Home 11. Kent Heartstrings 12. The DIY Mommy
13. Curly Crafty Mom 14. Houseologie 15. Canary Street Crafts
I knew we needed a bit of a command center in our house for reminders and organization. I can be a bit forgetful and flake out every now and then. I try hard not to but with 3 kids, housework, appointments, meetings and blogging, it can get out of hand quickly.
I hoarded a crib end from when my now almost 5 year old daughter was a baby. She’s been in a twin bed now for almost three years. I just knew this crib end could be something awesome! It came from one of those convertible beds with the dresser attached at the end, but her room is too small for a full size bed so we saved what we could and got rid of the rest.
Here’s what I came up with:
The crib ends had holes from screws on each side of it. So I used wood filler to fill those, sanded it down then hit it with several thin coats of semi-gloss white spray paint (for plastics since this had a laminate finish on it).
On one side I added cork. I used this roll and it is a little thin for what I wanted but it’ll work just fine for us. I just measured, drew a straight line and cut it out to size. (With Kindergartener scissors because we can never locate grown-up scissors) then I hot glued it into place.
On the other side I wanted a clear dry erase board. I glued up some Scrapbook paper and then had Lowe’s cut some acrylic plexiglass to size and mounted it on top of the paper. I used Command picture hangers to do that. I think white dry erase board just looks boring and after a lot of use it gets grungy looking. I got this plexiglass idea from the genius Allison at Two Thirty-Five Designs.
I really love how it turned out! I know this will keep us more organized once my kiddos are back in school. This year all three of my kids will be in school since my youngest starts PreK. We are so excited and about 40 other emotions. I feel all the feels!!
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