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Why Timestamp cannot be used in place of Date in Java?
<|fim_middle|> | One of the tricky question from Java Interview is, "Can we pass a Timestamp instance to a method expecting java.util.Date?", it's a tricky question because the answer is both Yes and No. You can, of course, pass a Timestamp object to a method with the argument as Date because first, Timestamp is a subclass of java.util.Date and second it contains both date and time values which are missing in either java.sql.Date and java.sql.Time. So there is more reason to pass a Timestamp value to Date but you should not be doing that. Why? because Timestamp is not exactly Date. It's a composite type of java.util.Date and an additional nanosecond value which is fitted there to confirm database DATETIME data type, which supports nanosecond precision. If you look at the implementation of java.sql.Timestamp class, you will find that the long value supplied by Date is stored separately then this nanosecond value.
You cannot even compare Date to Timestamp class in Java. The Timestamp.equals(Object) method returns false when you pass an instance of java.util.Date because the nanos component of a date is unknown. As a result, the Timestamp.equals(Object) method is not symmetric with respect to the java.util.Date.equals(Object) method. Also, the hashCode method uses the underlying java.util.Date implementation and therefore does not include nanos in its computation. See Core Java Volume 2 - Advanced Features by Cay S. Horstmann to learn more about different date and time classes of SQL packages.
So, you can see they break the symmetry property of equals() method which says if a.equals(b) is true then b.equals(a) should also be true.
So, even though both Date and Timestamp contains date and time value and their respective getMonth(), getHours() method doesn't throw IllegalArgumentException, you should not be using Timestamp in place of java.util.Date due to the differences mentioned above. The inheritance relationship between Timestamp and java.util.Date really denotes implementation inheritance, and not type inheritance, which is not a good design but sometimes finds its way through even a well designed API like JDK or JDBC. | 423 |
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Tanzania clears road for $200m investment in two mines
Dar es Salaam<|fim_middle|> to Archive Peak In Tanzania | . The government has flashed the greenlight for two large-scale mining firms to proceed to the mineral extraction stage that would see them inject over $200 million (about Sh440 billion) in the local economy and create hundreds of jobs. One of the big mines may start operations as early as next year.
The investments by Australian firms OreCorp and Peak Resources will be the largest for Tanzania after close to a decade of virtual dormancy in the establishment of new mines.
Inline with the new mining laws, the government will take up a 16 percent stake in each of the mines.
The government recently made sweeping changes that stipulates that all new mines must allow a 16 per cent free carry shares by the government. Mr Biteko was unavailable last evening to shed light on this requirement in regards to the issuance of the two new special mining licences.
Basically, the minerals ministry has given the nod for the two companies to proceed with their planned investments, pending final approval by the cabinet of the special mining rights.
"We are putting the final touches to the two special mining licence applications before forwarding them to the cabinet for consideration," the Minerals minister, Dotto Biteko, told The Citizen over the phone.
A special mining licence requires an investor to make a minimum capital injection of $100 million into a mining project.
And due to the sensitivity of special mining licences, the cabinet has the final say, unlike other types of mining licences which are issued by the Minerals Commission.
Tanzania has not issued any special mining licence for many years now. Currently, mines with active special mining licences are: North Mara, Buzwagi and Bulyanhulu gold mines, all operated by Barrick Gold, which will trade as Twiga Mining Corporation.
The two firms are part of the three that had applied for special mining licences from the government. But, according to Mr Biteko, after thorough analysis, experts at the ministry decided that the two were deserving of the licences.
"We had to advise the third company to apply for a medium licence whose investment capital ranges between $10 million and $99 million," he said.
Once the cabinet approves, OreCorp will start mining gold at its Nyazaga gold project in Sengerema, Mwanza Region, while Peak Resources would build a Rare Earth Element mine at Ngualla in Songwe Region. Peak Resources chief development officer Lucas Stanfield was recently quoted by local media as saying that his company expects mining activities to kick off in mid-2020. He said construction of mining facilities would take 18 months.
Normally, a large scale mine creates hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs through suppliers of various products and services at the mine. The government would also rip from tax and other revenues as stipulated in law
Source: https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/1840340-5437660-adaiju/index.html
Date: THURSDAY JANUARY 30 2020
Author: By Alex Malanga @ChiefMalanga amalanga@tz.nationmedia.com
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2010 Texas Music Award Winner - The Founder's Award for Artistic Excellence
2010<|fim_middle|> overtones, ethereal but earthbound lyrics enhanced by elegant melodies."
- Americana Music Times, March 2008 | Top-10 Folk and Roots Rock Artist at The Austin Music Awards
Nominated for "Male Vocalist of the Year" and "Song of the Year" at the 2009 Texas Music Awards, "Song of the Year" at the 2010 TMA, and "Singer-Songwriter of the Year" at the 2007 TMA
2-Time MountainStage New Song Southwest Finalist
"[David Lutes] ignores genres while fusing jazz, pop, rock, Americana and anything else that fits, and everything seems to fit."
-San Antonio Express News
"…Like the ringmaster at the circus, Lutes separates the different performances on the two-disc Big Top allowing each to take a moment in the spotlight…Moving from haunting (the opener "Lucia's Song") to roots rock ("Love in the Hard Times"), Lutes meticulously weaves melodies together…[while] the second volume can be equated to the lion-tamer act. It's flashy and dangerous, with room for the occasional flare of the unexpected. Diving head-first through syncopated pop ("Ginny On Fire" and "We Love Me") before landing into the net of "Fine Line," Lutes' voice is continuously smooth like an amalgamation of Lindsey Buckingham and Lyle Lovett…"
- Nichole Wagner, Austin.com
"You always hear talk of how artists are a mixture of different styles, but with Lutes, that's actually true. The first disc features the familiar twang of Texas country, but mixes in dissonant electric guitar, traditional hymn-like vocal melodies and some powerful pop hooks. These two CDs are a perfect recipe for a lazy summer day, a lazy rainy day or pretty much any time you've got an hour and a half to lounge around the house and listen to some great music. These gems, the music that actually makes it worth your time to listen to all these free discs, are what keeps me going. Hopefully you'll feel the same."
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"David Lutes is a musician's musician…Recently nominated for "Male Vocalist of the Year" and "Song of the Year" at the 2009 Texas Music Awards, Lutes is on top of his game fusing jazz, pop, rock, Americana and everything in between…"
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"David Lutes is back - this time without the "Plumtucker" moniker - and he's stronger than ever with Big Top. From the haunting "Lucia's Song" through the beautiful "The Night Watchman" the listener is treated to one aural feast after another on this two-disk set. My favorite tune is "Coming Apart," which sounds deeply personal as the artist struggles with the conflicts of life, love, and the music he lives for. The lyrics on Big Top are gorgeously poetic, the melodies are richly original, and David's voice is, as usual, simply stunning. The production on this record is deeply layered, and if you listen closely, you will find yourself quite often wondering "how'd they make that sound?" Listen and wonder as Big Top spins you to new levels of musical pleasure."
- ***** Steve Circeo, Americana Music Times
"Lutes has a commanding mastery of his voice…[His] is indeed an elevated talent. Sitting a notch above the droves of singer/songwriters who want but never act, Lutes has redefined the brass ring."
-Lucky Boyd, Academy of Texas Music (Texas Music Awards)
"The pristine beauty of David's voice sends me away, and the tears spring not from the melancholy of losing what was, but from the joy of celebrating what is…Americana fans, step up to the plate on this one. Solo Stages presents Americana with slight jazz | 792 |
Learn to scuba dive in our indoor, heated pool and earn your PADI Open Water Certification. If you've always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wonderous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world's most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.
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Our all-inclusive pricing includes your choice of learning, either digital eLearning on your own time or a textbook package in a traditional class with one of our experienced, patient instructors. Our pricing even includes the use of BCD, tanks, regulator, computer, weights, weight belt and wetsuit.
If you've participated in a Discover Scuba Diving experience or resort course, the skills you learned may be credited towards a portion of the full PADI Open Water Diver course certification.
The fun part about this course is…well, just about all of it because learning to dive is incredible. You breathe underwater for the first time (something you'll never forget) and learn what you need to know to become a certified diver. During the course,<|fim_middle|> terminology and safety procedures. For each concept you'll read a description and watch a video demonstration. Then you'll jump in the pool (or pool-like environment) to practice these skills with your instructor. | you'll make at least five pool dives and four dives at local dive sites under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.
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Ferrous Materials
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Engineering materials used to manufacture of articles or products, dictates which manufacturing process or processes are to be used to provide it the desired shape. Sometimes, it is possible to use more than one manufacturing processes, then the best possible process must be utilized in manufacture of product. It is therefore important to know what materials are available in the universe with it usual cost. What are the common characteristics of engineering materials such as physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal, optical, electrical, and mechanical? How they can be processed economically to get the desired product. The basic knowledge of engineering materials and their properties is of great significance for a design and manufacturing engineer. The elements of tools, machines and equipments should be made of such a material which has properties suitable for the conditions of operation. In addition to this, a product designer, tool designer and design engineer should always be familiar with various kinds of engineering materials, their properties and applications to meet the functional requirements of the design product. They must understand all the effects which the manufacturing processes and heat treatment have on the properties of the engineering materials. The general classification
CLASSIFICATION OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS
A large numbers of engineering materials exists in the universe such as metals and non metals (leather, rubber, asbestos, plastic, ceramics, organic polymers, composites and semi conductor). Some commonly used engineering materials are broadly classified as shown in Fig. 1. Leather is generally used for shoes, belt drives, packing, washers etc. It is highly flexible and can easily withstand against considerable wear under suitable conditions. Rubber is commonly employed as packing material, belt drive as an electric insulator. Asbestos is basically utilized for lagging round steam pipes and steam pipe and steam boilers because it is poor conductor of heat, so avoids loss of heat to the surroundings. Engineering materials may also be categorized into metals and alloys, ceramic materials, organic polymers, composites and semiconductors. The metal and alloys have tremendous applications for manufacturing the products required by the customers.
Metals are polycrystalline bodies consisting of a great number of fine crystals. Pure metals possess low strength and do not have the required properties. So, alloys are produced by
melting or sintering two or more metals or metals and a non-metal, together. Alloys may consist of two more components. Metals and alloys are further classified into two major kind namely ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals.
(a) Ferrous metals are those which have the iron as their main constituent, such as pig iron, cast iron, wrought iron and steels.
(b) Non-ferrous metals are those which have a metal other than iron as their main constituent, such as copper, aluminium, brass, bronze, tin, silver zinc, invar etc.
Ferrous metals are iron base metals which include all variety of pig iron, cast iron wrought iron and steels. The ferrous metals are those which have iron as their main constituents. The ferrous metals commonly used in engineering practice are cast iron, wrought iron, steel and alloy steels. The basic principal raw material for all ferrous metals is pig iron which is obtained by smelting iron ore, coke and limestone, in the blast furnace. The principal iron ores with their metallic contents are shown in Table 1.
Main Types of Iron
1. Pig iron
2. Cast iron
(A) White cast iron
(B) Gray cast iron
(C) Malleable cast iron
(D) Ductile cast iron
(E) Meehanite cast iron
(F) Alloy cast iron
3. Wrought iron
4. Steel
(A) Plain carbon steels
1. Dead Carbon steels
2. Low Carbon steels
3. Medium Carbon steels
4. High Carbon steels
(B) Alloy steels
1. High speed steel
2. Stainless steel Some important ferrous metals, their extraction, composition, properties and their common applications are discussed in detail as under.
Pig iron was originated in the early days by reduction or iron ores in blast furnace and when the total output of the blast furnace was sand cast into pigs which is a mass of iron roughly resembling a reclining pig. It is roughly of 20″ × 9″ × 4″ in size. It is produced in a blast furnace<|fim_middle|> steel making. The charge in the blast furnace for manufacturing pig iron is
(a) Ore Consisting of iron oxide or carbonate associated with earth impurities.
(b) Coke A fuel
(c) Limestone A flux
In addition to iron, pig iron contains various other constituents in varying form of impurity such carbon, silicon, sulphur, manganese and phosphorus etc. It has the following approximate composition which is as given as under.
Carbon — 4 to 4.5%
Phosphorus — 0.1 to 2.0%
Silicon — 0.4 to 2.0%
Sulphur — 0.4 to 1.0%
Manganese — 0.2 to 1.5 %
Iron — Remainder
Carbon exists in iron in free form (graphite) and/or in combined form (cementite and pearlite). Pig iron is classified on the basis of contents of free and combined carbon as follows. These classifications are also termed as grades.
1. Grey pig iron (Grades 1, 2 and 3) Grey pig iron contains about 3% carbon in free form (i.e., graphite form) and about 1% carbon in combined form. This is a soft type of pig iron.
2. White pig iron (Grades 4) White pig iron is hard and strong. It contains almost all of the carbon in the combined form.
3. Mottled pig iron (Grade 5) This type of pig iron is in between the grey and white variety. It has an average hardness and molted appearance. The free and combined forms of carbon are in almost equal proportion in mottled pig iron.
Electrical Safety Measures | and is the first product in the process of converting iron ore into useful ferrous metal. The iron ore on initial refining and heating in blast furnace becomes pig iron when the impurities are burnt out in a blast furnace. Pig iron acts as the raw material for production of all kinds of cast iron and steel products. It is obtained by smelting (chemical reduction of iron ore in the blast furnace. It is of great importance in the foundry and in steel making processes. It is partly refined in a cupola furnace that produces various grades of cast iron. By puddling processes, wrought iron is produced from pig iron. Steel is produced from pig iron by various steel making processes such as bessemer, open-hearth, oxygen, electric and spray | 152 |
The upcoming DLC for American Truck Simulator will focus on the Oregon state, slowly expanding the game map to include the entirety of the United States. Once it comes out, players will be able to seamlessly drive into the state as always, performing cargo deliveries between the most notable cities of the location. Moving cargo, players will be able to drive along known routes such as U.S.-30, 20 and -26. S<|fim_middle|>. | CS Software are updating their blog as development on the DLC continues, with a few notable news of interest to players.
The economy of Oregon state is known to particularly focus on woodworking production, and the DLC will faithfully represent many of the elements in the industry including many production and wood-cutting zones. Players will find themselves driving up to thematic pickup and drop off locations, most often found in forests, construction zones, and rural areas to carry a degree of realism. It will certainly be interesting to move along unpaved roads and through upcoming suburbs, as depicted in screenshots. The DLC will increase cargo diversity in the base game by focusing on the underlying elements of the state's economy, allowing players to transport timber, lumber, and other construction materials.
Oregon state also prominently features massive truck stops, which will be represented in the game with their distinct designs and abundance of traffic. They will be "easily recognizable as unique landmarks," according to SCS and will provide a more interesting spin on resting locations than the typical gas stations in the game. As Oregon is still very much in the works, there will be more variety and news to come | 226 |
This book was just beyond perfect. Lindsey Kelk is my QUEEN. Full review to come a bit later when my sense of feelings have come back.
Chuckled to myself on the train! Funny and charming, a great read.
This was a super cute, fun book. Billed as "My Fair Lady for the social media age" and it really loved up to that for me<|fim_middle|> would be more turned off by Annie's job, but her character and Samuel worked well together. Highly recommended if you are looking for a lovely read to escape into.
The funniest and cutest book I've read in a very long time. Perfect if you're having a book slump or in a bad mood because it'll lighten your day!! I swear I was literally laughing out loud while reading this one and I would love to see it in a motion picture one day!!
'Tis the Season to be Single: A feel-good festive romantic comedy for 2018 that will make you laugh-out-loud! | . It felt like a throwback to some fun late 90s/early 2000s books and movies too.
I only read the ebook a month ago but I couldn't resist downloading the audiobook and enjoying that too. This is already in my list of most beloved/comforting romantic comedies.
A really enjoyable feel-good story that left me with a big smile on my face.
This was very cute read. With My Fair Lady plot line and well known Lindsey Kelk writing I enjoy this as I hoped I would starting this. I read her books before and this one didn't disappoint.
This book is hilarious, clever, romantic, bursting with wonderful characters and basically brilliant in every way. Not a book to put down easily, I was totally gripped by the story and loved the heroine and hero. One of my top reads of 2018.
This was a fantastic read to escape into. I'm not a huge social media fan so thought I | 200 |
The British electropop act Queen of Hearts popped onto our radar in late 2011, with a sleek debut EP that positioned the young singer as<|fim_middle|>Los Angelinos often joke about our limited notions of architectural history ("the columns date back all the way to 1972!"), and indeed the Hollywood Bowl, erected in 1922, is one of the city's most elderly monuments. The famed amphitheater, among the oldest in the country, has proven a remarkably apt venue for styles of performance its creators couldn't have anticipated, particularly rock (the Beatles, the Doors, and Genesis all had notable concerts there). But despite a major acoustic overhaul in 2003, the Bowl remains fundamentally unsuited to the modern electronic pop concert, with its particular demands in sound and showmanship. While most such acts wisely stick to the more apropos venues in town, some have let the allure and glamor of the historic venue overrule practical concerns, and the result is too often a bit of a letdown.
Robyn and Röyksopp met such a fate in October 2011, but that didn't stop them from returning Sunday night for round two and largely, if not entirely, conquering the sold-out arena with a thrillingly offbeat electronic disco burlesque show appropriately called "Do It Again." | the successor to Goldfrapp we'd been waiting for, the one who could bring the glammy club vibe of Black Cherry and Supernature into the post-EDM new decade. Since then, she's been one of the rare developing acts that pretty much seems to have been doing everything right in the leadup to a hopeful (and expected) full-length debut, and without any apparent big-label machinations going on publicly behind the scenes. And today, with little - okay, no fanfare whatsoever, that debut arrived, available for purchase and streaming worldwide. It is called Cocoon.
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Missoula health officials launch vaccine management team as doses arrive
By Martin KidstonJanuary 1<|fim_middle|> a safe, efficient and quick manner," said Joyce Dombrouski, the chief executive at Providence.
Filed Under: Montana Today | 4, 2021
January 14, 2021 By Missoula Current
Nearly 17,000 Montana frontline workers have received the COVID-19 vaccine in the first and current stage, Phase 1a. (MTN News)
Missoula health officials plan to implement an incident management team to help coordinate the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes more widely available, eventually reaching the second tier of recipients.
The Missoula City-County Health Department on Thursday said a wide range of area providers will play an integral role in the effort, calling it a decentralized push that will require great organization.
"They'll coordinate Missoula's vaccination deployment, making it crystal clear who's eligible and when they're eligible for the vaccine, based on the governor's implementation schedule," said Missoula Mayor John Engen. "The approach here will be decentralized but highly organized, and that's important to keep in mind."
In a media conference on Thursday, Engen and Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick said Adriane Beck will coordinate Missoula's vaccine deployment. Beck serves as the county's director of Disaster and Emergency Management.
Beck said the process won't be without its challenges, but the stakes are high and those behind the plan are ready to move forward.
"For some, this vaccine is a gateway to normalcy but for others, it's a lifesaving measure we can't understate," said Beck. "This unprecedented vaccine rollout won't be without complications, challenges and unexpected variables. But I'm confident we as a community have the resources and relationships to get it done in an expedited manner."
Gov. Greg Gianforte's vaccine plan currently prioritizes frontline healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities. The next phase prioritizes those over the age of 70 and minority groups that may be at elevated risk of negative outcomes if infected.
It also includes those between the ages of 16 and 69 with certain preexisting conditions, such as cancer, kidney disease or diabetes. Beck described the challenges of reaching the public in an organized way as significant, especially as the vaccine remains limited.
"The reality to how this vaccine will be delivered, and the scale to which it must be delivered, will not lend itself to a single, centralized access point of distribution," Beck said. "We must have as many access points across the community as possible. This reality is what necessitates this centralized, coordination effort."
The Western Montana All Hazard Incident Management team will be deployed to aid in the process, Beck said. The team will open communication lines between providers, share resources and plan for each vaccination phase.
Beck said the team will remain in place until a vaccine is widely available to the general public. It will also collect data to examine any pressing needs as healthcare providers look to expand the distribution entering Phase 1B.
Because various providers can register with the state to receive the vaccine, Beck said it's essential that a centralize hub has a handle on how many doses are available in the community at any given time.
"Getting those numbers and knowing what's available in our community is probably our number one priority we need to get a handle on," Beck said. "As far as what's happening at the federal level and how it's being rolled out to the states, as it is, we know we don't have enough today, and we know we aren't expecting a huge shipment that will take care of all of Phase 1B."
Both Providence St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center are backing the effort.
"Working together will be essential to ensure the vaccination process goes smoothly, as we continue to get Montanans vaccinated in | 754 |
Online Sales ends Friday at 11<|fim_middle|> again after several years, Malia looks forward to bringing her musical inspiration to this side of the country.
"Music, through its sheer beauty, has the power to free the heart, uplift the soul and connect communities all over the world. When we gather together to sing, dance, pray and remember our connection to life and one another, we are touched by the simple act of love moving through sound. I can not think of a better way to spend my time than sharing this joy," reflects Malia.
Tina Malia is a beloved pioneer in a growing community of people around the world dedicated to residing in harmony with the Earth, and expressing it through art, health, education and music. Tina's acclaimed catalog of self-produced albums includes Shores of Avalon, Jaya Bhagavan, The Silent Awakening, The Lost Frontier and most recently, Bridge to Vallabha.
NOTE: General admission tickets are $30 at the door. | :00am. General admission tickets are $30 cash at the door.
The 2016 World Tour for Tina Malia's "Music From The Heart of The World" performance will stop on Friday, May 20, in Sarasota, FL at the beautiful Unity of Sarasota. Singer/songwriter/ producer/ instrumentalist Malia, will play music designed to wrap her audience in the sublime beauty of the heart and enliven the spirit.
Tina Malia's magical voice and profound gifts as a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer have enabled her to span a multitude of musical genres, from devotional mantras to dream pop to world. Her own exquisite catalog is complemented by studio and live work with iconic artists India.Arie, Deva Premal and Miten, Bassnectar, Jai Uttal and Kenny Loggins.
Thrilled to be visiting her fans and friends on the East Coast | 193 |
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We offer specials and discounts year-round on all things service; from the everyday oil change to a check engine light analysis or a brake inspection, we're here to fix up your car...but we're not fixing for a frightening fee. If you're on a tight budget, you have no need to worry; just print out one of our several coupons below!
We'll also cover that car-wash you've needed for a while. It's complimentary every time you drop off your car for service! And to top it off...it's a hand-wash; we'd never risk scratching that impeccable paint job with automatic bristles. This isn't the amateur hour.
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The story of a hundred-year-old family home
This is the story of our hundred-year-old house. It is not that of any ordinary hotel-restaurant. Within the same family for four generations, it has been the focus of all those events that rhythm everyday life, both happy and sad, giving the Auberge du Pont du Ch<|fim_middle|> Logis de France).
They add on a second function room.
Wedding receptions, school or family reunions rhythm the activity of the restaurant, the seasons that of the hotel.
On a more personal level, the family, too, has grown, with the arrival of three children – Patrick, Philippe and Catheryne.
Catheryne and husband Stéphane Ginot take over the Auberge.
In turn, they too modernize it, paying particular attention to the decor.
Each room is unique, each function room has its own style, so that every guest, on stepping over the threshold, should feel « at home »
We have reached the hundred-year mark ! The story continues...
We are awarded our third star for the Hotel.
The nine rooms are refurbished in a more contemporary style with Queen-sized bedding (160x200),minibar and air-conditioning !!!
Plans to expand the Hotel with four extra rooms.
In the end we decide on a new look for the restaurant instead, keeping in mind its past.
The glasswork recalls its original activity – the joiner's workshop. A new decor, but still the same main theme – cosy but chic !!
2016 is also the year we choose our new logo.
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Official opening of the Café du Pont du Chalon and the Izérable joiner's workshop.
Lucien Izérable, joiner and café owner, with his wife, Marie Dauthun, move into their new house with their children, Raymond and Lucienne.
A new arrival in the family, their second son Maurice.
Lucien passes away, leaving Marie to run the business along with Raymond, aged 17, who takes over from his father in the workshop.
Raymond marries Léontine Paillerey.
He keeps on the joinery business while Léontine and Marie,on weekends, turn the café into a restaurant for families wanting to eat out on special occasions.
On Saturday evenings or Sunday mornings, the café also serves as a hairdressing salon. Indeed, Raymond often swaps his chisel for a pair of scissors!
After the war in the 1940s, people want to have fun again and on the first Sunday in July, the café forecourt becomes a vast restaurant during the local fair.
Meanwhile, Raymond and Léontine have started a family, they have two daughters, Raymonde and Simone, the café becomes a hub of youthful activity!
Raymond has retired from his joinery business.
Simone has married Jean-Claude Milan, a chef, so quite naturally, in turn, they move into the Café du Pont du Chalon.
The joiner's workshop becomes a restaurant and the Café du Pont du Chalon takes on its new name – L'Auberge du Pont du Chalon.
Simone and Jean-Claude expand the family business.
Above the restaurant they build nine rooms (a two star graded establishment, classified by | 354 |
Clever Pup Figures Out Best Way To Soothe Himself During Fireworks
Bathtub + every single toy = ❤️️💙
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Meet Kimbo.
Kimbo is a golden retriever who has lived in New York City his whole life, so he's always up for a new adventure.
Kimbo enjoys all the activities the city and its surrounding areas have to offer — from long walks through brownstone-lined streets to frequent visits to Brooklyn parks to swimming in special doggie swimming pools in New Jersey to taking road trips to go hiking in the Hudson Valley.
Roberto Palomba
In the past,<|fim_middle|> the barking stopped. When the adults went to see what had calmed Kimbo, this is what they found:
Kimbo had climbed into the tub and the little girl had decided to surround him with all his favorite toys — and it seemed to do the trick.
Kimbo rested his head and even drifted off a bit while the last fireworks burst.
And soon enough, Kimbo was his normal, happy self again.
Sarah Schweig
Good boy, Kimbo. | the noise and bustle of the city never much bothered Kimbo. But recently, he and his person, Marco, moved to a new neighborhood in Brooklyn — a lively area that, as they both just learned, doesn't hold back when celebrating the Fourth of July.
For the first time in Kimbo's life, out of the blue, he was pretty nervous when the loud noises of the first fireworks sounded.
Luckily, like any seasoned New Yorker, Kimbo figured out how to keep calm amid the chaos — and he got a bit of help, too.
Marco and Kimbo were having a few friends over for dinner on Independence Day. They had decided to stay in precisely for Kimbo — to avoid the fireworks — but the booming sounds could still be heard from their apartment.
As the veggies grilled outside, a sweet 4-year-old girl, the daughter of one friend, took it upon herself to keep Kimbo company and calm his nerves.
At first, it was difficult: Kimbo kept barking and Marco kept having to go over and help assure Kimbo that everything would be OK, rubbing his ears and giving him treats.
But then suddenly, | 233 |
Find out how these four young artists explored their beliefs and concerns through the medium of art at their respective art shows held at Ravishankar Raval Kala Bhavan. Anklesh Nisad and Madhu Kailashi's Estetik Arts explored themes of folk life and feminism; Alay Mistry played with geometry and scrap metal to give form to this thoughts whereas Gopal Parmar has enquired upon themes of urbanisation and deforestation in his prints and paintings. All of these were exhibited between October 25-28, 2018 in Ahmedabad.
An architect by profession, Madhu Kailashi, exhibited for the first time in the art show titled 'Estetik Arts', along with artist Anklesh Nishad. Hailing from New Delhi, her interest in art started as a hobbyist,<|fim_middle|>. An alumnus of CN School of Fine Arts, Nishad's art is vivid in its composition and colour play. The strong patches and bold strokes express his inner strength, and at the same time share his artistic vulnerability. His bright coloured palette, and a mix of folk & urban forms create an impressive repertoire, that has sparks of artistic potential.
The proceeds of Estetik Art show, a major part of 70%, will be used for the benefit of underprivileged children of Dear Zindagi Foundation.
As a child, Alay Mistry used to scribble a lot on the walls of his room and on his school bench. His teachers could see his love for drawing and encouraged him to pursue arts in a structured way. Later he joined a Paper-mâché course and a pottery course at the National Institute of Design in 1998. Mistry finds a lot of his inspiration from Egyptian pyramids, their scale, geometry, triangular form – it all influences his aesthetic sensibilities. The three points of triangle, as Mistry perceives them, denote Mantra (word), Tantra (process) and Yantra (tool), the three elements of Hindu life science. The paintings with trianglular geometry are all explorations of this understanding. However what caught my attention were the beautiful sculptures made from scrap metal. These sculptures are figuration of animals and birds, and have an emotive quality to them. The exhibition sponsored by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi will travel to Bhubaneshwar at Orissa Modern Art Gallery on Jan 24.
Hailing from Limdi, a small town in central Gujarat, Gopal Parmar is a perfect example of inborn artistry. He studied print making from MS University, Vadodara, and continued his practice under the guidance of Rakesh Patel, emerging artist in Ahmedabad landscape. His 40 artworks at his solo show at Ravishankar Raval Kala Bhavan are a mix of graphics, paintings, installations and mix media works. Though the medium and technique differs, Parmar's artistic enquiry is focussed on deforestation and the residues of mindless urbanisation. Parmar's exhibition was titled 'Prabhyas…Y', and shared gallery space with Alay Mistry at the Bhavan.
Each week Ravishankar Raval Kala Bhavan is filled with new exhibitions. The galleries are open all day, except Monday, between 11 am to 8 pm. You might be surprised to see what you encounter within these humble walls. | who made artworks primarily to gift loved ones. She moved to Ahmedabad upon her marriage with architect Manan Malviya, who persuaded her to exhibit her work. Her confidence grew and she launched the website www.estetikarts.com to promote and sell art to seeking collectors. In the show she has displayed 27 watercolour works, most of which are based upon the theme of feminism. Most of her work is figurative and describes various moods and forms of women in a aesthetically appealing way. It is an encouraging start, considering this is her first show.
26 year old Anklesh Nishad, though challenged by physical limitations, doesn't let his imagination shrink by any means. His 17 artworks, watercolour on paper, are a credible proof of his artistic passion and understanding | 164 |
Cleaning your house must be one of the most boring jobs,<|fim_middle|> etc. But you need a strategy that will work long term.
You need to call upon the whole family. First you need to recruit the kids by a judicial mixture of fun and incentive - and it doesn't need to be money. Design a large notice board for the kitchen, with a rotation of tasks for the kids and parents - make sure that the tasks are suited to their age and abilities. When they have finished their work (and you have checked that it is actually done) then you can give them a reward - a bonus for pocket money, a sleep over with friends, something that you know they really want. | and somehow it always devolves on you; one of the classic "housewife" jobs that no-one else is really prepared to get involved in. Of course, there are smaller jobs you can perform on a daily basis such as cleaning the bath or shower straight after you've been in, dusting the living room before breakfast, | 66 |
2014 Kia Soul Review — Those Hamsters Are onto Something!
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Posted By: Zek February 5, 2014
Two years ago I reviewed the Kia Rio, and I was pleasantly surprised. Later that year I reviewed the Kia Optima Hybrid, and I was impressed. This past week I've had the chance to review the 2014 Kia Soul, and I think I am in love. It was hard to say goodbye to our review car!
The Soul is a VERY polarizing design. I haven't met anyone who is indifferent towards it-instead everyone either loves it or hates it. A quick poll of the Gear Diary team showed that most of them were at least open to it, though Dan said it reminded him of his brother-in-law's pug…"so ugly it's actually cute". Travis voted ugly, as did Mike, while Chris and Joel thought it was cool looking, and Judie said she went from thinking it was ugly to liking it after a test drive at a Kia event. Meanwhile, my coworkers at my day job are equally divided — one person absolutely flipped with jealousy that I had one to test, while another was impressed with the interior but hated the exterior. My mother had the best response, with a polite "Now that's an interesting vehicle in your driveway." I've already admitted I'm in love, so yes, I like the style immensely. But I like boxy cars (our "family" car is a Ford Flex, so we're not afraid of large boxes on wheels), so I was predisposed to like the style even before I drove one.
Still, even if you don't love boxes on wheels there are lots of little things to like about the exterior of the Soul. For starters, our tester came with bright LED headlights, which performed well and looked quite cool. The swooped edges of the lights helped smooth out the boxiness of the car itself. Despite riding like a car, the Soul sits almost as high as a compact SUV, so if you like having a higher view of the road you will like this design. The back hatch also has some superfluous but stylish touches like a two-tone color palette. This is new with the 2014 Soul, and in my view it does add a nice visual change, making it look less like the back of a cargo van and more like a purposeful design. Overall, it looks great, and if you think brown is too boring you can get it in "Alien" or "Solar Yellow". Just be prepared that someone may try to hail for a ride you if you drive by in a bright yellow vehicle!
There are really two main reasons to like the Soul; the experience of driving the car and the amount of technology Kia crams into every aspect of the experience. The tech side is one you can find with almost all Kias, but driving the Soul is where it all comes together. I drive 20 miles each way to work, and my commute takes anywhere from 25-45 minutes depending on traffic. Almost all of it is highway, with some very short bursts of local traffic as well. My regular car is a 2008 Prius, and while it's a perfectly fine car, the Soul easily outstrips it in highway driving. It's not that the Soul is a powerhouse at flying down the road, it's just that it's quite responsive and easy to maneuver in and out of traffic. So far, I've averaged around 25 mpg, which is towards the low side of what the Soul is rated (24 city/30 highway), but it's important to note that we're in the middle of a severe cold snap. It was 6 degrees Fahrenheit when I started the car one morning, and that kind of cold is bound to affect gas mileage. The Soul uses a continuous variable transmission The Soul uses a 6-speed automatic transmission, though you can manually shift if needed — like in bad weather!
I was impressed with how the Soul handled highway driving, but what really pleased me was how the Soul handled local traffic. First, I'm going to apologize in advance to our writers Perry and Stacey, and anyone else from Livingston, NJ reading this, but your town is awful. I had to run into Livingston for work, and I'm convinced everyone there just forgets how to drive once they enter the town boundaries, because it was an utterly white-knuckle experience. Cars were pulling out of driveways without looking, people were randomly crossing with no crosswalk, and there was a great deal of sudden stop and go traffic for no reason. The Soul handled all of this like a champ. It stopped quickly and responsively, and I had no problems changing lanes quickly or dodging SUVs that apparently thought they owned both lanes at once. My Prius always feels a bit mushy at responding quickly, like I've asked it to go above and beyond and it'll do it but juuuuust in the nick of time. The Soul was so responsive it's like it knew before I did what needed to happen. It also helps that the Soul has excellent viewing angles, and I didn't encounter any blind spots or areas that were difficult to see.
My last day with our tester model allowed me to see how the Soul handled poor weather conditions. When I left for work, there was probably an inch or so of nasty, slushy snow on the ground, and it snowed throughout the commute. Exit ramps were especially treacherous, and side roads were unplowed. I was able to manually put the Kia in first and second gear, both of which made me feel much safer. The car really felt like it was hugging the ground, and I didn't feel unsteady or like I might slide off the road. Honestly, I am not sure my Prius could have handled the drive at all, let alone as smoothly as the Soul did. I started the review thinking that a car positioned as a crossover (as Kia does with the Soul) that sits as high as the Soul does should have an all wheel drive or 4-wheel drive option. I still think that would justify the price of our tester a bit more (see pricing below), but the front wheel drive handled some seriously nasty weather with ease. If you're not consistently climbing mountains in it while buckets of snowfall, the Soul will likely get you from place to place with a minimum amount of slipping and sliding.
The Technology and Interior
So the Soul is a solid car to drive, and that's one tick in its favor. Then you get to the features, and it really becomes a great car. My tester was the ! (Exclaim) level, or the top-tier trim, with every option installed. The features ranged from the utilitarian to the luxurious to the fun, and take the car from a box on wheels to a pretty impressive package.
The utility technology and design is pretty great all by itself. The Soul is equipped with Kia's fantastic backup camera system, which uses a red/yellow/green graphic to indicate how close you are to objects behind you. It is also equipped with Kia's UVO system, which includes roadside assistance on call. I didn't test this, as I didn't want to waste their resources, but it is only a button press away<|fim_middle|> passenger space the Soul is not going to be a good fit for you. The back seats do fold down, and when they do there's plenty of room in the car. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law coincidentally rented a Soul recently on a vacation to Colorado, and they praised the Soul as well. They had no problems fitting all their snowboarding equipment in the car because they folded down the back seats, which makes sense since it was just the two of them. I tried fitting our BOB jogging stroller in the cargo area with the seats up, and it barely fit. There is no way we could fit anything else in there with it, even a few bags of loose groceries! Add in a car seat and you lose the ability to fold down the back seats, so don't expect this car to be a powerhouse family hauler.
Cargo space is really the main flaw with the Soul. It's a fantastic car and loaded with a jaw-dropping list of features for the price. Admittedly, our tester was a little pricey at $26,195, but that's if you fully load the ! model. Go down one trim to + and you can pick up the technology package without the folding mirrors, LED headlights and you get a smaller wheel, but you'll come in at the $23,000 range. If we assume most buyers end up at the midrange product, you're getting a pretty amazing setup for that price. GPS, Infinity speakers, panoramic sunroof, rear camera, and a well-designed, incredibly fun car; I'd say that's a pretty great deal. Not that the ! trim isn't great, but when you get above $25,000 in a crossover, you end up with some competition from other compact SUVs that offer all-wheel drive and more cargo space.
Some people hear "Kia" and think "cheap". But after spending time with the Soul, I hear "Kia" and think "freakin awesome". There's nothing cheap or flimsy about the Soul, and there's nothing weak or phoned in about their technology package. They've put together a very impressive product that has every bit of high-end experience you'd expect as well as many you wouldn't, and it's worth considering if you want your car to be as tech-savvy as you are!
MSRP: $26,195 as reviewed; trims start at $14,900-customize yours at Kia.com
What I liked: Fun to drive; very responsive in poor driving conditions; interior is well designed with a fantastic tech package; looks cute; large touchscreen made GPS and rear camera viewing a snap; panoramic sunroof; excellent speaker system; multiple media choices
What Needs Improvement: No all-wheel/4-wheel drive option; small cargo area
Source: Manufacturer provided review unit on loan | . The GPS was excellent, and I found it to be quite accurate and clear. In a nice bit of synergy, when the car was low on fuel the GPS offered to find the nearest gas station. I also noted the GPS maps were powered by an SD card, so upgrading the maps should be a snap. Bluetooth calling was flawless, and the voice recognition system handled dialing by voice with ease. My favorite little "utility" feature was definitely the power mirrors-with the press of a button you could fold the side mirrors in for safety in garages and tight parking spaces. If you don't appreciate why this is important, you've clearly never lost a side mirror to a parking garage pillar.
Our review Soul had a pretty amazing set of luxury features for an affordable car. It had heated and cooled leather seats, a heated steering wheel, and a panoramic sunroof. It was hard to return to my non-heated seat car after being spoiled by the Soul! The heated steering wheel was also pretty great on cold days. Keyless entry and ignition was another nice bonus to find on the car. It's such a minor thing, but getting in a car and pushing a button to start the engine just feels very Jetsons-esque, or like you're about to launch a spaceship. It's fitting that a car designed for fun and luxury would have push button start! But the highlight by far was the panoramic roof. It was way too cold to open the window, but I left the shade open while driving. It made the entire car feel roomier, plus it was great to get a small amount of natural light during my drive. Sarah absolutely fell in love with it as well; it's hard not to love the experience of getting into a car where most of the roof is clear.
Almost everyone who heard I was reviewing the Soul made a comment about the ubiquitous hamsters in the commercials. The hamsters are clearly having a great time, and it's not hard to think it's because they're enjoying the Infinity speakers and HD Radio in the Soul. Or maybe it's the SiriusXM or the Bluetooth streaming media. Perhaps they enjoyed that the lower speakers on the front driver and passenger doors light up with rotating colors. Or maybe they're just super excited they get to wear suits and drive a Soul instead of living in a cage with wood chips. In any case, the entertainment features of the Soul were excellent. Streaming over Bluetooth was smooth, though sound quality obviously varied depending on the source (Pandora, for example, sounded far weaker than locally saved music). SiriusXM sounded fantastic, and the speakers were all quite powerful and crisp. Between the speakers that lit up and the many music options, the Kia Soul felt at times like a giant driveable speaker, or a small music party on wheels. I can definitely see why the hamsters were so happy! One oddity, — there's no CD player, so you'll need to load up your iPod or smartphone with music.
The Soul's interior design showed the same eye towards utility, luxury, and tech. It's little things that made a big difference; for example, the ports for car chargers and USB plugs are at the bottom where the dash meets the middle console, and right below them is a small tray that's perfectly sized to hold a smartphone. This way you can charge or connect your phone to the car and not have wires stretched all over the place or use up a cup holder to contain your phone. You can use the huge, responsive touchscreen to navigate the various GPS and media settings, or you can use the array of buttons around the dash and on the steering wheel. To help keep your eyes on the road, there's a tiny LCD sandwiched between the RPM and speedometer dials directly in front of the driver-this way your eyes aren't drifting to the touchscreen to get basic information on what's going with the status of the car. All these are basic ways to make the car easy to drive and control, and then Kia adds little touches that make it both fun and fancy. Starting the car includes a graphic of a Soul on the driver's dash LCD with a "system checking" message, which is both useful and cute. Every button on the car felt right, with a satisfying amount of travel and clickiness that just screamed "well made". And everything you need as a driver is laid out nicely on the wheel, making it easy to change the GPS settings or skip a song without taking your eyes off the road.
In case it hasn't been abundantly clear so far, I found plenty of reasons to love the Soul. There was just one thing that kept me from driving directly to the local Kia dealership after our tester car was returned, and that's the cargo area. It's really tiny. Granted, the Soul is not a huge car, and Kia chose to give the backseat plenty of space, but if you need cargo space AND | 995 |
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The Carl Thomas Public Safety Training Center will be used to provide training in various aspects of safety, customer service and law enforcement for Roswell Park staff. The dedication ceremony and naming of the center were a surprise to Chief Thomas, who joined Roswell Park as an environmental services team member in 1976. He steadily rose through the ranks after being named an officer with the center's Public Safety team two years later.
Chief Thomas' new role allows him to focus on an area he is passionate about: community engagement. "Carl has been one of the most recognizable and passionate ambassadors for Roswell Park's mission, so we wanted to find a fitting way to acknowledge all his contributions to our patients, our families, our employees and our community" says Candace S. Johnson,<|fim_middle|>yan Talk Show Host Visits Buffalo →
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Travelling by boat really is quite indulgent. The next stop on my Japanese adventure is the port town of Takamatsu, on the smallest of Japan's four main islands - Shikoku. Takamatsu is a hub for the Seto inland sea of Japan, and one of the ways to get here is by ferry.
Jumbo ferry in fact, complete with Japanese jingle theme song, decked out in that classic 1990s decor that reminds us all that Japan's economic heyday has truly passed. You can also catch a train to get here, but figuring the difference in cost from Osaka (around ¥6000, or AU$70) for a trade-off of another hour's worth of travel time, we decided the ferry<|fim_middle|> find it incredibly indulgent - driving a car over land seems fairly straightforward, but there's so much more involved with sea travel.
There's a boat for starters, crew who know about nautical things, gangways, rudders, engines and a different sense of freedom. Boats are also much larger, allowing those on board to disperse into their personal nook or cranny to loll over the waves on their way to a new place.
On an ocean, there are few boundaries. Sailing out towards the horizon, the possibilities are endless (unless you've paid your fare to a particular port like we had). I grew up by the water, so I don't cope well being landlocked. Knowing there is a stream, a river, a tributary nearby almost eases my mind to think of the true freedom an ocean affords isn't far away.
I make a point of travelling by ferry almost every time I'm in Sydney. For those who have been on a ferry pulling into Circular Quay at sunset you'll understand the appeal of such a journey. I do this just to get a hint of what it would be like out on the open ocean, but since I lack any sailing skills, catching a ferry is a safer bet. | was the way to go.
There is something about travelling over water that gets me every time. It really makes me feel like I'm truly on an adventure, journeying in an old-fashioned world across vast seas to unknown places. I also | 48 |
The Globe 100 (Plus)
Almost in spite of myself, I've been looking forward the last few weeks to seeing the Globe 100. It's been a good year for Biblioasis in the Globe: counting the paperbacks section, eight of our titles have been reviewed in the Globe since May. Three of these -- the review of Helwig's Saltsea, Ormsby's Time's Covenant and Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained, have been raves. So I felt fairly confident that Biblioasis would rate a mention this year, and hopefully, for the first time, might receive a multiple inclusion. I wasn't counting on it, but I thought it a distinct possibility. So when I picked up my morning Globe at the corner store and flipped to the Books section to see the Globe 100 listing, I let the car idle for a few minutes in the parking lot and quickly flipped through the listings to see what I'd find.
What I found was that Biblioasis did not this year merit a mention. I put the car in drive and headed on home.
I'm not going to lie to you: I was a bit disappointed. I've just finished writing my first Canada Council Block Grant this past week, and I could have used the pick-me-up. Grant writing, I've discovered over the last few years, is one of the primary functions of a Canadian publisher; though I'm now writing about 10 -12 a year between press and magazine, they don't seem to get any easier. I find the whole experience both depressing, frustrating and exhausting. As I've said elsewhere, there are times I feel more like a minor functionary in the literary bureaucracy than a publisher, and this week -- paring down my contribution to Canadian literature, my artistic vision and editorial excellence, my management and 3-5 year plan to approximately 1500 words -- I was feeling particularly bureaucratized.
But it's also not Martin Levin's job to give me a timely pick-me-up. It's his job, in this section, to list the 100+ books he and his crew considered among the best of 2007, and if Biblioasis titles couldn't crack that line-up, in their opinion, than they shouldn't be there. I might respectfully disagree -- and, trust me, I do -- but that's about as far as it goes.
I read Martin Levin's Shelf Life piece when I got home. It was quite similar to other Globe 100 Levin apologies, and no doubt absolutely true. "Rest assured, your editors have agonized -- I do not exaggerate; the pain is physical -- in winnowing the year's best to a mere fivescore. This involves a combination of gut-wrenching triage, tearful callousness, second-guesses and regrets." But then he goes on to give an example: "Have we given small presses their due? This year, I would say: Probably not."
I went back and did a count. Of the 26 titles listed in the Canadian fiction section, exactly two -- both from Cormorant -- merited mention. (I did not include Anansi in this total.) 3 of the 5 First Fictions were from "small" presses, bringing the total to 5 of 31. 2 of 5 poetry titles were from "small" presses. 2 of 50 nonfiction inclusions. Of these sections, then, 7 of 86 titles were from, quote-unquote, small presses.
So: what's my point? Not what you may think. This showing may or may not be poor. After all, the larger Canadian presses or conglomerates publish more titles, by bigger names, and are more regularly reviewed; and then a substantial number of the best books, quite reasonably, weren't Canadian at all. So for Canadian "small" presses to publish 7 of the top 100 -- or 100+ -- titles reviewed in the Globe from all books published in english seems to me to be pretty wonderful. If this is, indeed, what all of this pointless math means.
What sticks in my<|fim_middle|> -- barely -- on sales of 300 to 1000 copies of a title. Commercial considerations need not weigh in quite as much. It's our advantage, especially in the BookNet era, and I think it evens the proverbial playing field quite nicely, so much so that there's no need to speak of small and large presses at all, but only the good and the bad.
I don't think there is anything "small" about any of Biblioasis' 2007 titles, and I suspect Alana Wilcox or Andrew Steeves could say the same. Lorna Jackson's Cold-cocked, John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained, Eric Ormsby's Time's Covenant, Kathleen Winter's boYs or Patricia Robertson's Goldfish Dancer -- just to name a few -- are as well designed, edited, copy-edited, written and produced as any book produced by a larger press in 2007. They are as good, in my opinion, as almost any other book produced in 2007. Some of these may prove, in time, to be more important than any of the books that have received award nods or Globe 100 inclusion (this is absolutely the case with Ormsby's Time's Covenant).
No excuses are offered or expected. Or necessary.
Posted by biblioasis at 11:35 AM
Mary Soderstrom said...
Just like to note that Véhicule did get a book on the Top 100, Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places, by yours truly. Nice, but what it means I have no idea.
Susan Glickman said...
I think the "small" presses might do themselves and everybody else a favour if they renamed themselves "literary" presses, since they chose their lists according to literary merit rather than the bottom line. Too many of the editorial decisions and the big trade publishers are compromised by the need to please marketing people; to keep the large presses going they need large profits. This doesn't mean they don't publish some wonderful writers. But plenty of wonderful writers are winnowed out, or never get picked up by agents, because their work is seen as not having big market potential.
I meant to type "editorial decisions at the big trade publishers" -- sorry!
biblioasis said...
Yes, Vehicule's inclusion was one of the two in nonfiction, the other coming from Goose Lane. And Coach House was also included in First Fiction. And there were a couple of others that made the cut as well. Congrats, Mary. Something I promise to pick up.
I agree with you Susan. That's the point of what I said towards the end: smaller publishers can afford to take more chances because they can survive on smaller print runs. No editor or publisher I know working with "literary" presses is making six figures; many of us aren't making five. I'm sure things might be different at the larger houses, and the need just to cover the increased costs of production --let alone profit -- means that they cannot take the risks we do.
That said, compare the sales figures for your average fiction title published by both a big and small press, and you might be surprised at how close they tend to be.
I know two people (excellent writers both) who got much much much bigger advances from major houses than I did for my first novel from Goose Lane--and sold fewer copies than I did.
Well, they still have agents while I can't get one, and they are seen as having more selling power than me. But they lost their presses a lot of money--and I didn't!
Quite the conundrum.
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boYs sighting on the streets of Edinburgh | craw a bit is what seems to me the underlying assumption of Levin's example. It suggests that quote-unquote small presses operate on some different, likely lesser, level. That the criteria used to judge a book published by a smaller house is not the same -- and may need a touch more generosity -- than that of the larger presses. We're the country cousins and provincials who don't know what all the silverware is for and drink from the finger bowl. I fear it indicative of some belief that quote-unquote small presses need to be, in some fashion, propped up. That their best books can't stand up on their own.
It all reminds me of what a professor of mine said to me a few years ago when I told her that I was turning Biblioasis into a press. This woman is one of the leading scholars of book publishing in the country, a specialist in Victorian book publishing with several excellent histories to her credit. She smiled at me and said that that was very nice, but what I was setting out to do was not real publishing. It was more self-publishing, or hobby publishing. Nice and quaint and enthusiastic and commendable, she hinted, but not to be confused with the real thing.
This has been a motivating burr ever since. And I fear that the same somewhat muted if more well-intended impulse may lay at the heart of Levin's example.
This is not to ignore the obvious differences between Biblioasis and Coach House and Cormorant and Gaspereau, on the one side, and M&S and Random House and Douglas & McIntyre on the other. The latter obviously pay larger advances (& therefore attract more recognizable names), have larger marketing budgets, and have in-house designers. But when it comes to judging the books themselves, and especially the best of them, I think the differences between the big houses and the small houses largely evaporate. The best books produced by Coach House and Cormorant and Gapereau and Porcupine's Quill and Vehicule (& hopefully Biblioasis) show the same attention to detail, are chosen with as much care, and are as well edited, as well designed and produced, as books published by the larger houses. I would argue, in fact, occasionally moreso. As books, there are no differences, and no need to judge them by different measuring sticks. There's no need to make excuses, or be apologetic about or for them.
Literary (ie. those of us suffering from small press syndrome) publishers probably only have themselves (or, ahem, ourselves) to blame. We often trundle out the excuse of our size when it suits our purpose. And as often as this might be valid (we don't have the marketing budget for regular Globe ads, or to whisk our writers around on national tours, as do some of the larger presses) it still does damage. It contributes to the notion that we're not the real game, that
we're the minor leagues (there've been "small" presses that advertise themselves as such), at best a necessary stepping stone to the big leagues where M&S and Random House and Knopf and the big boys and girls play; at worst a place for the has-beens and never-quite-were's. We bemoan the fact that our best writers get snapped up by the larger presses ( and to illustrate this point, it could be pointed out that at least 8 of the 24 writers from large presses listed under best Canadian fiction began their careers with "small" presses).
I might be wrong, and I'm sure there are many publishers and editors out there who will disagree with me, but maybe we're creating our own problem here.
I don't buy the argument that it's the "small" presses who are doing most of the best publishing in Canada. I've met enough of the publishers and editors at the larger houses to know that they are equally committed and passionate about what they are doing, that we are all brothers and sisters in the same literary trenches (even if they do wear shinier uniforms). Some of the best books published in Canada come from smaller houses, but so do most of the worst. But it's also true that because of the nature of what we do and how we do it at the smaller houses, we can take some chances the larger presses often cannot. We can survive | 893 |
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The Local Data Design Lab is focused on bridging the substantial divide between two complimentary, but largely disconnected areas of work: data studies and data visualization. The first is an area of scholarly inquiry that has emerged recently in response to the phenomenon of big data and seeks to make sense of data from a social perspective. The second is a form of design practice, which produces informative and expressive interfaces to data. It is influenced by, but more publicly oriented than the sub-field of computer science called information visualization.
Beyond its impact in scholarship and practice, the research of the Local Data Design Lab has the potential to improve data literacy in the public realm and is rapidly finding purchase in education, journalism, advocacy and planning—all of which struggle | 161 |
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has started its submission of a rolling new drug application (NDA), asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve patisiran for the treatment of hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, also called familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP).
The rolling submission allows the company to submit pieces of the required documentation on a rolling basis, potentially speeding the review process.
Meanwhile, with its partner Sanofi Genzyme, Alnylam plans to submit an application for approval to European authorities by year's end.
"The initiation of the NDA filing marks an exciting moment in Alnylam's 15-year journey — the company's first NDA, and the first-ever application for regulatory approval of an RNAi therapeutic," Eric Green, vice president and general manager of the TTR program at Alnylam, said in a press release.
Patisiran is a therapy that silences the TTR (transthyretin) gene by blocking the production of messenger RNA — intermediate factors in the process of making a protein from a gene. This class of drugs is called RNAi therapeutics.
In September 2017, Alnylam and Sanofi Genzyme announced that a Phase 3 trial, called APOLLO (NCT01960348), demonstrated that patisiran reduced impairment caused by the disease and improved patients' quality of life.
The study included patients with 39 different disease-causing mutations, demonstrating that the treatment is broadly applicable.
"With the recent APOLLO Phase 3 study results, we believe that patisiran is poised to potentially become an important option for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis,<|fim_middle|> news for the hereditary amyloidosis community. We are deeply encouraged by the potential impact patisiran can make on the lives of people living with hATTR amyloidosis," added Muriel Finkel, president of the Amyloidosis Support Groups.
Alnylam is in charge of bringing patisiran to the market in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe, while Sanofi Genzyme works in the rest of the world. Sanofi is preparing to file applications for patisiran in Japan, Brazil and other countries in 2018.
Tagged Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, EMA, FDA, New Drug Application, patisiran, rolling submission, Sanofi Genzyme. | a rapidly progressive, debilitating and often fatal disease," said Green.
"Commencing the NDA submission for patisiran is wonderful | 26 |
American Lexi Thompson has earned her first major after a three-stroke victory from Michelle Wie at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California.
The 19-year-old had a bogey-free round of 68 for a 14-under total to earn the $300,000 (£181,000) first prize.
Britain's Charley Hull, 18, had a disappointing four-over 76 to finish joint seventh after being just two off the lead going into the final round.
"It's a dream come<|fim_middle|> holes, leaving her as much as 60 yards behind Thompson.
"I stuck with my game plan and I think it was the right play," American Wie said. "I just couldn't get anything going today." | true. This is what I've worked hard for," said Thompson.
Thompson celebrated with the traditional victory leap into Poppie's Pond near the 18th green.
She is the second-youngest major winner in LPGA Tour history at 19 years, one month and 27 days.
Wie, 24, who was in contention all week, used her driver only four times, choosing to hit fairway-metal stingers on the other 10 driving | 99 |
a scotoma involving the optic disc area (blind spot) and the papillomacular fibers; there are three forms: the cecocentral<|fim_middle|>otoma, due to involvement of nerve-fiber bundles at the edge of the optic disc.
Synonym(s): caecocentral scotom, caecocentral scotoma.
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Visual field defects in optic neuritis at presentation included diffuse visual field loss (48%), altitudinal defects (15%), central or cecocentral scotoma (8.
Localized cecocentral scotomas typical of optic neuropathy due to tobacco amblyopia were detected in all the subjects whereas their central vision was preserved. | defect, which extends from the blind spot toward or into the fixation area; the angioscotoma; and the glaucomatous nerve-fiber bundle scotoma, due to involvement of nerve-fiber bundles at the edge of the optic disc.
See also: Bjerrum scotoma, Rønne nasal step.
A scotoma involving the optic disc area (blind spot) and the papillomacular fibers; there are three forms: 1) the cecocentral defect that extends from the blind spot toward or into the fixation area; 2) angioscotoma; and 3) glaucomatous nerve-fiber bundle sc | 139 |
Six<|fim_middle|> the coteaux (slopes), appear near Chouilly and Cramant. Here, vineyards occupy a great many slopes of the plateau, which has deep gorges carved out of it by a series of rivers. The land is planted mainly with pinot meunier (56%), chardonnay (32%) and pinot noir (12%).
Beyond these villages, the landscape changes. An escarpment drops down steeply from the plain. The landscape is centred on a wooded summit, with vine-planted slopes extending from the heights right down to the convex plain, which curves round to make way for cereal crops. This area is thus ideally suited to chardonnay, which accounts for 97% of the grape varieties cultivated here, and is what gives the Côte des Blancs its name. | destinations in Champagne have been awarded the label: Massif de Saint Thierry, vallée de l'Ardre, Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, Côte des Bar, Coteaux du Sézannais, and Coteaux Sud d'Epernay et Côte des Blancs.
The Côte des Blancs is at the heart of the history of champagne.
The land and the landscape allow for two winegrowing areas with slightly different characteristics. Beyond the plain, on the outskirts of Plivot, | 113 |
Swedish gaming giant King.com, creators of the hit Candy crush saga, are mooted to float on the Nasdaq exchange with an initial valuation of $5 billion but the company has said the reports are "pure speculation".
Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that King has spoken with JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Bank of America about the initial public offering (IPO) and has hired Hope Cochran as their chief financial officer. Cochran led the float of US technological firm Clearwire in the past.
"Right now there is no actual<|fim_middle|>0 million monthly players of their various games.
King's corporate headquarters are in the UK but most of its games are developed in Sweden. The firm currently has nine offices around the world and employs a staff of 450.
In a feature on The Local last June the company's game director Daniel Persson said its Swedish approach was key to their recent success.
"Our philosophy is that it is a flat organization where everybody is close to the decision makers. The individual has a big say in what is going on. We don't want people to feel disconnected," he said. | statement from the company on any potential float. These reports are pure speculation," Martin Bunge-Meyer, PR manager for King told The Local.
He added the hiring of Cochran may have led the media to forecast an imminent float.
"There has been speculation for the last one or two years especially in the Swedish media about this. Some of the reports may be influenced that we hired a new CFO. We will inform the media when there is something to say," said Bunge-Meyer.
The brand was founded a decade ago by a group of Swedes and an Italian and maintains offices in Malmö and Stockholm. Its Candy crush saga game is the most played game on Facebook with King having over 20 | 142 |
The Spell of Cobra Kai: Season 2
Posted on September 7, 2020 by Loren Rosson • Posted in Television • Leave a comment
Before starting my review it's worth reflecting on the reputation of the entire Karate Kid/Cobra Kai franchise. Here's the breakdown of critical and audience approval ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
Karate Kid (1984) — 89% / 82%
Karate Kid 2 (1986) — 44% / 51%
Cobra Kai Season<|fim_middle|>, and I can see it happening.
My only concern about the next season is a possible embarrassment of riches. Predictions are firm for the return of both Ali (from Karate Kid) and Chozen (from Karate Kid 2). Some are also predicting Terry Silver (from Karate Kid 3). The danger of too many returning characters is finding room for their appropriate development. I hope everyone's role will be done justice. But I'm not too worried. The writers of Cobra Kai have proven their mettle twice now, against every odd.
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Cobra Kai Season 2 (2019) — 90% / 91%
A few points worth mentioning. There's no denying the third Karate Kid film is one of the worst films ever made, but I remember liking the second film more than the first, and I'm certain that it was more widely cherished than these RT ratings suggest. The Okinawa setting, honor-shame codes, and fights to the death took things to a stronger level than any tournament could. And it was a commercial smash, more than even the original. It hasn't aged well (anymore than the first has), but back in the day I thought it was the gem of the trilogy.
In any case, it's clear that the new Cobra Kai series buries the Karate Kid trilogy, and I agree with this avalanche of opinion for reasons prefaced in my review of season 1:
If Cobra Kai is still the same Karate-Kid animal, it shakes things up enough to make it a watchable and in some ways even impressive miniseries. The Karate Kid I & II have aged terribly. As '80s underdog films they were facilely one dimensional. The bad guys were ciphers with no backstories — Johnny Lawrence and his Cobra Kai gang completely unsympathetic jerks. The good guy was an endearing character, but he didn't work very well as a karate protagonist. For one thing, Daniel LaRusso was a supreme light-weight, clocking in at about 120 pounds. His indentured servitude to Mr. Miyagi — waxing cars, sanding floors, and painting fences — was impossible to take seriously a way of learning karate techniques. As for Daniel's crane kick, it was the sort of last-minute melodrama that won the day in other sports films of this era (like the quarterback sacking of Sean Astin's character in Rudy, or the final hoop shot in Hoosiers). The Karate Kid was essentially a poster child for the Reagan years, optimistic about the underdog's potential to "be all you can be", really to the point of absurdity. Cobra Kai inverts this premise, so that the underdogs become the assholes — and the previous underdog becomes an even bigger asshole. That's at least a story.
That story picks up where the first season left off, and wastes no time picking up where Johnny and Kreese left off three and a half decades ago — when Kreese literally tried to kill Johnny for winning only second place in the All-Valley Tournament. They proceed to beat the shit out of each other, which gratifies Kreese to no end, and by the end of the first episode Johnny actually allows the piece of shit to join his dojo as a deputy sensei. To give him a "second chance". Any fool knows that Kreese can't change, but Johnny is more vulnerable than a fool; he's at a crossroads and beginning to change himself, and wants to eliminate dirty fighting techniques from Cobra Kai. On his rationale, if he can see the wisdom in modifying his creed, then perhaps so can his mentor who taught him the creed. Daniel, of course, doesn't believe either one of them can change, and in short order resurrects Mr. Miyagi's former dojo (Miyagi-Do) set in deliberate opposition to Cobra Kai. It has all the trappings of the classic trilogy — a Japanese garden, banners displaying axioms of self-defense, a tranquil atmosphere.
If season 1 was about the blurring of underdogs and assholes, then season 2 is about the elusive nature of mercy, no matter which of the two you happen to be. At Cobra Kai mercy is anathema, and yet Johnny wants to make allowance for it after seeing his son foully injured by his best student. At Miyagi-Do mercy is a virtue, but in the end out of reach to Daniel's best student. The season flits back and forth between the two dojos: the punishing arena of Cobra Kai vs. the Elysian paradise of Miyagi-Do. Johnny puts his students in the mixer of a cement truck and makes them spin it by hand — a lethally dangerous exercise. Daniel puts his students on a circular wooden raft that capsizes unless their punches and kicks come in perfect harmony. Johnny's students get drenched in cement; Daniel's students get thrown into the pond over and over. Johnny later takes the Cobra Kais into the woods for a severe trial, while Daniel trains the Miyagi-Dos in alternating 100-degree outside heat and a walk-in freezer. The disciplines are opposite and exacting, and each produces a backlash. Miguel, like Johnny, increasingly questions the "no mercy" tenet (unlike Hawk and other students who worship Kreese), while Robby, frustrated by months of dance exercises and hyper-pacifism, finally lashes out and goes ruthless on Miguel when extended a merciful hand.
My view of Daniel LaRusso is considerably more positive this season, as he is much less an asshole. In the first season he went out of his way to shaft Johnny for the pettiest reasons — even going so far as to manipulate a business associate into doubling the rent in the strip mall where Cobra Kai operates (which shafts not only Johnny but all the other mall renters), and then trying to ban Cobra Kai from participating in the All-Valley Tournament because of decades-old grudges against Johnny. The season-1 Daniel was self-righteous in the extreme, and in the epilogue I imagined him reopening Miyagi-Do purely to settle scores with Johnny. That's not quite how it plays out in season 2. By the end of the first episode Daniel has given up on revenge; he opens Miyagi-Do Karate not in order to fight Cobra Kai, but as an enlightened alternative. Throughout the season he mentors his students in the ways of inner balance, and in turn is able to find some balance himself. He turns out to be quite a good sensei. His worst crime is neglecting his wife and their auto business, but on this point, frankly, I found myself very forgiving: I like Daniel's students more than I like his wife, and I see more value in the art of karate than in selling cars.
And when Daniel does lapse into self-righteousness he at least has cause. For example, in the fifth episode he bursts into Cobra Kai and interrupts the class to give Johnny a vicious tongue-lashing before turning full blast on the Cobra Kai students: "Let me tell you something about your sensei: He might teach you how to fight, but he doesn't know a thing about what it takes to truly win at life." Sanctimonious, yes, but Daniel earns it for a change. Those Cobra Kai shits trashed the Miyagi-Do dojo the night before, broken and smashed everything in sight, uprooted bonsai plants, and vandalized Daniel's '48 Ford Super De Luxe (given to him by Mr. Miyagi in the first film). To top it off, one of the Cobra Kais stole Mr. Miyagi's medal of honor. That Johnny knows nothing of this outrageous attack on Miyagi-Do (it was Kreese who engineered it behind Johnny's back) doesn't diminish Daniel's right to be fully enraged.
The weakness to this season is Kreese. For an arch-villain he's curiously underused. Having been given a second chance at Cobra Kai, he begins to subtly undermine Johnny in his role as deputy sensei, but the only times he does anything effective is in the fifth episode, when he goads Hawk into trashing Miyagi-Do, and then in the sixth episode, when Johnny leaves town to visit a dying friend (Tommy, from the first Karate Kid film), and Johnny leaves Kreese in charge. No sooner does Kreese manage to persuade students like Hawk and Tory that "Sensei Lawrence is confused and needs to be brought back on track", than Johnny expels him in the very next episode, realizing it was foolish to trust Kreese at all. Kreese never really emerges as the formidable threat I expected him to be — until the end of the finale. Hopefully season 3 will payoff his character as it deserves.
As before, the best two episodes are the final two, and they follow the same pattern. In the season-1 penultimate, Daniel and Johnny came close to burying the hatchet over drinks at a local bar. In this season's penultimate they find themselves thrown together on a double date in a Mexican restaurant, and despite their initial hostility end up warming to each other. It's not a lazy repeat; these calm-before-the-shitstorm ninth episodes are used very effectively to show how, underneath it all, Daniel and Johnny really do want to be friends — even if they can't admit that to themselves without enough booze in their bellies. Possibly my favorite scene of the series is watching Johnny & Carmen, and Daniel & Amanda, on the dance floor after they eat dinner. We know the good will is about to be cruelly shattered (with the finale up next), and so it makes the moment extra precious.
As for the finale, it delivers the best and most visceral fight of the franchise. In some ways it's a throwback to Karate Kid Part 2. As Tory says while holding a spiked wristband in Sam's face, "This isn't a tournament; there are no rules." But unlike Daniel and Chozen's fight to the death (in which no one actually died), Cobra Kai Season 2 has the balls to put its money where its mouth is. By the end of the staggering inside-school battle, Sam will be hospitalized, and her ex-boyfriend Miguel in a coma in ICU.
The school brawl is pure insane chaos, starting in a hall of lockers, then sprawling out everywhere in the building. Tory starts it, intent on smashing Sam to pieces for moving in on Miguel. Pretty soon every karate student is throwing fists and kicks, turning the first day of school into an all-out war between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do. It's brilliantly choreographed and runs for a full twelve minutes; it must have been incredibly difficult to shoot.
The Cobra Kais were the tournament victors, but in the high-school halls their glory is not repeated. The Miyagi-Dos thrash them at every turn: Nathaniel beats Bert; Chris pounds Mitch; Sam crushes Tory (though barely, and not without bleeding for her efforts); even Demetri, miraculously, gets the better of Hawk. These victories are effectively nullified, however, when Robby betrays the Miyagi creed: lying beaten on the floor, he's about to take a worse pounding when Miguel elects to show him mercy — to which Robby responds by sucker-punching him, leaping to his feet, and kicking Miguel off the railing of the second-floor landing. Miguel's fall is horrible to watch; he crashes spine-first onto the first floor railing and almost dies. (Worth noting is Sam's reaction. Appalled at Robby's actions, she screams, "Robby, what did you do?", conveniently forgetting that she had just kicked Tory over a stair railing herself.) So in another dramatic inversion, and as in last season's tournament, the winner wins by fighting foul. This time someone almost dies for it. I wonder if there is a message here, or if season 3 will break the pattern. Is it possible in the Cobra Kai universe to win without being merciless? Or is it simply that losers who show mercy are the real winners? That's not how it worked in the Karate Kid trilogy, where Miyagi-driven karate guaranteed victory. Maybe Daniel is just an ineffectual sensei in the end: when Robby fights as instructed (season 1) he loses, and when he ignores Daniel's benevolent teachings (season 2) he gets satisfaction.
Cobra Kai continues to grow on me and I'm looking forward to season 3. With Miguel physically pulverized, Samantha emotionally traumatized, Carmen hating Johnny, Johnny hating himself, Daniel poleaxed over Robby, everyone needs a fucking time out. Worst of all, in the midst of all this ruin, Kreese finally makes his move and seizes Cobra Kai for himself, and because Johnny is so guilt-wracked, he gives up his dojo without a fight. Fans have speculated that Johnny and Daniel will join forces to take Kreese down | 2,600 |
Simple Reflections<|fim_middle|> | of my Everyday: December is Officially Here!
It is officially December. Time really does pass by, and reflecting back on the year of 2008...I have had a year of so many wonderful moments, memories, and change. It really has been a year like nothing else! My parents turned 50, my Gido turned 85, I got married...there really has been some incredible moments and I am really blessed to have experienced them all. I am definitly ready to celebrate December, and all of the little and big things that it will bring. I am beginning to get ready for holiday shopping, visiting, baking, eating...just to name a few. It has been challenging to get into the whole Christmas spirit for me this year (not sure why) but I am becoming more optimistic and aware of using my time and energy wisely, versus worrying and procrastinating about nothing. Life is too short to not enjoy the little moments that we are faced with each day. Today is also the first day for my first entry in my December daily album. It is so nice to have a project already made. Just pop in a picture, add some journaling, and a mini-layout is done! Before you know it, the album will be complete! I love the feeling of completing projects and adding them to my collection.
I just had to snap this picture today of my dog before heading off to work. I think she is so pretty, and Matt and I just love her to pieces. She brings so much joy to our life.
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As a precaution, Pepperidge Farm is recalling these four Goldfish snack varieties.
Before sending your kids off to summer camp this morning, make sure that if you packed them lunch, you didn't send them on their way with any Goldfish snacks.
Pepperidge Farm announced a voluntary recall of four varieties of its popular Goldfish snacks Monday evening.
The company said they were notified by an ingredient supplier that a whey powder in a seasoning for the crackers has been the subject of a recall by the whey powder manufacturer due to the potential presence of salmonella.
An investigation was initiated and, out of an abundance of caution, Pepperidge Farm is voluntarily recalling four varieties of Goldfish crackers<|fim_middle|>. | , according to a statement on the company's website.
The company also created a chart to help customers determine the affected products' universal product codes and sell by dates. The chart can be found here.
If someone has purchased these products, they shouldn't eat them. Throw them away or return to the place of purchase for a full refund, the company advises.
This same problem affected Ritz Cracker sandwiches and Ritz Bits products earlier this week | 89 |
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Relics of beloved saint, Padre Pio, come to St. James Cathedral May 5
SEATTLE – Several relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina — affectionately known as Padre Pio — are coming to St. James Cathedral on Saturday, May 5.
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Musing on the teeth of St. Ambrose
I write these words from Milan, Italy, where I am with my Word on Fire team filming new episodes for our Pivotal Players series. I've seen lots of marvelous things on this trip, including the ruins of the ancient baptistery under the Milan Cathedral where, in the spring of 387, St. Augustine was baptized by St. Ambrose. But the most fascinating sight I've taken in is the vested and mitered skeleton of that same Ambrose, which rests in the basilica that bears his name, not far from the cathedral.
A<|fim_middle|> Bilbo, Frodo and relics
Some years back, I got to go to New Zealand. Before I left, I was given strict orders by my son Matthew to bring back something from The Lord of the Rings. The films were shot in locations all over New Zealand and there are still a few traces of the sets used in the production. For only a mildly exorbitant cost, enthusiasts such as myself could get a tour of the Alexander sheep farm and check out the remains of Hobbiton, including Bag End (where Bilbo and Frodo lived) and the Party Tree (where Bilbo gave his farewell speech and disappeared before the astonished eyes of all the Hobbit folk).
Snohomish parish hosts mission featuring important St. Jude relic
SNOHOMISH – During a St. Jude mission in California this year, Chloe Osness learned about a blessing using oil touched to a relic of the apostle Jude, patron saint of desperate causes.
Evenings of mercy connect faithful to Sts. Faustina, John Paul II
VANCOUVER – Jocelyn Minier prays to St. Faustina Kowalska every day, so she was thrilled to learn that members of the saint's order, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, would be speaking at the Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater in Vancouver. Better yet, she would be able to venerate the relics of Sts. Faustina and John Paul II at the event, which also included the sacrament of reconciliation and evening prayer.
Pope Francis, with retired pope, canonizes Sts. John and John Paul | Catholic View - | 3 |
Patricia Green, Mary Munford Elementary Instructional Assistant, reads to a class.
Patricia Green is the model of a lifelong learner. With a mind full of questions and a heart full of love, she makes discoveries all around her everyday- and as an Instructional Assistant at Mary Munford Elementary School, she teaches her students follow suit.
When she was in the third grade<|fim_middle|> it out of them."
But the kids aren't the only ones learning.
"I learn from every teacher in this building," she said of her colleagues, listing off a half-dozen educators and the subjects and strategies she's learned from each.
That's typical for Green, whose glass-is-half-full perspective seems to always lead her to see the beauty and the opportunity around her in any situation. That's also true of how she sees school these days as well.
In her spare time, Green loves reading, watching the History Channel and PBS, visiting museums (she recommends the Terra Cotta Army exhibit at VMFA), listening to all types of music, and sharing her passions as part of interest groups and societies.
"I've done a little bit of everything," Green said.
Green has two daughters and three grandchildren, and recently moved to Chesterfield. | at Carver Elementary School, Green drew the assignment of being the teacher's assistant. After seeing her teacher up close–and how she had classroom helpers– she thought the job of a teacher seemed great. After advancing through Carver and Graves Junior High, and graduating from Maggie L. Walker High School, and then Virginia Union with her teaching degree, she began teaching first grade at Marymount Elementary School for RPS.
But when Green left the job for a time to tend to family, her teaching license lapsed. Once it was time to go back to work, she decided to move to a younger age range.
She eventually moved back to the elementary school setting, as an Instructional Assistant. She has now served for 9 years at Mary Munford, and supported instruction at every grade level and many different exceptional education delivery strategies.
She's not afraid to have some fun while she's in the trenches, either.
"I enjoy kids...probably because I'm just a big kid myself," she joked. "When they're young, they're like little sponges, they just soak up everything...With 3rd through 5th grade, you've got to dramatize it all, and pull | 243 |
Aerodynamic shape optimization is a useful tool in wing design, but the impact of the choice of optimization algorithm and the multimodality of the design space in wing design optimization is still poorly understood. To address this, we benchmark both gradient-based and gradient-free optimization algorithms for computational fluid dynamics based aerodynamic shape optimization problems based on the Common Research Model wing geometry. The aerodynamic model solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations with a Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model. The drag coefficient is minimized subject to lift, pitching moment, and geometry constraints, with up to 720 shape variables and 11 twist variables for two mesh sizes. We benchmark six gradient-based and three gradient-free algorithms by comparing<|fim_middle|> where the differences in drag are within 0.05%, and the shapes and pressure distributions are very similar. Our overall conclusion is that the design space for wing design optimization with a fixed planform is largely convex, with a very small flat region that is multimodal because of numerical errors. However, this region is so small, and the differences in drag so minor, that the design space can be considered unimodal for all practical purposes. | both the accuracy of the optima and the computational cost. Most of the optimizers reach similar optima, but the gradient-based methods converge to more accurate solutions at a much lower computational cost. Since multimodality and nonsmoothness of the design space are common arguments for the use of gradient-free methods, we investigate these issues by solving the same optimization problem starting from a series of randomly generated initial geometries, as well as a wing based on the NACA 0012 airfoil with zero twist and constant thickness-to-chord ratio. All the optimizations consistently converge to practically identical results, | 122 |
There are mostly US publications scheduled on this week's final trading day, so let's take a closer look. Euro zone Trade Balance for July opens this agenda at <|fim_middle|> June and inventories to sales ratio dropped to a more than a 3 year low. | 9 AM. Seasonally adjusted surplus narrowed down slightly in June from May's level of 16.9 billion Euros. Then there's a high importance speech by the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney in Dublin at 10 AM. US data run starts at a half past noon GMT with a couple of publications, including the high importance Advance Retail Sales stats for August. Sales jumped by a half a percent in July after a downwardly revised gain of point 2% in June. Import prices data for August will be available at the same time. Prices were level in July and this follows June's slight contraction. US Industrial Production data for August is published at a quarter past 1 PM. Production increased in July, but slower than expected at one tenth of a percent. A couple more US releases are out at 2 PM, including preliminary University of Michigan Survey for September. Even though the final consumer sentiment reading was revised slightly up, it still stood at the lowest level since January. Business inventories for July is the other and the final report for this calendar. Inventories increased by just one tenth of a percent in | 227 |
RUSH: Audio sound bites, Sunday Book TV on C-SPAN2. They were talking about politics. Jeb Bush's communication director Tim Miller talking about the 2016 presidential race.
MILLER: What's happening within the kind of Republican base electorate was really a thirst for blood. What really proves your conservatism right now is how far you're willing to go to own the libs. That's what<|fim_middle|>. You know? And willing to take on, you know, I think it's the talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, unwilling (sic) to fight to the establishment. And this is what Trump brought. A lot of what you would have said in the Republican primaries, "Oh, they're being so uncivil! Oh, they're being so focused on issues that aren't important" was driven by what people wanted.
RUSH: By the way, he was not saying here that I'm "unwilling to fight the establishment." He was saying just the exact opposite. He's saying that people glommed onto Trump, supported Trump because he was "willing to take on, you know, [like] talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, willing to fight the establishment." He was not complaining of me being unwilling to fight, 'cause that of course, would be absurd and ludicrous. Once again when you boil it down it's yet another informed commentator claiming that it was your beloved host who had the most profound effect on the Republican presidential primary. | people want. Who can be the toughest and the most biting and the most visceral in making fun of the Democrats. Because Donald Trump wasn't in any meaningful sense the most conservative candidate in the race, but he projected being the most conservative because he was meanest to the Democrats, and he was the toughest, and he was willing to go there | 69 |
Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse for me to indulge my passion for all things heart-shaped, especially food. Last year Isobel and I celebrated by making heart-shaped sandwiches and quesadillas lunch, and this year I decided we'd celebrate with dessert. I'm a novice baker and I wanted an easy activity I could do with Isobel, so instead of making a cake from scratch we're using a brownie mix, small cake pans, and even<|fim_middle|> cake pans meant for just this purpose. They'd be disposable, of course, but you can get the job done.
If you are going to skip the restaurant experience on Valentine's day (the worst night to go out to eat in my opinion, with Mother's Day a close second), then these babies would make the perfect dessert for a dinner at home with your sweetie or your family. They can be made earlier in the day and left to cool and as dinner grows closer.
– Preheat the oven to the temperature stipulated on the box. Coat your pans liberally with oil. If your cake sticks it will crumble, and all your heart-work (heh) will be wasted.
– Combine your brownie mix with the necessary ingredients as listed on the box. Mine required one egg, some water and oil. This was the part Isobel loved best because she likes to pour and stir.
– I like to add a drop or two of an extract to my brownies. Something so small and simple can make them so sublimely good. My favorite is to add a bit of almond extract. It doesn't make them taste nutty so much as it makes them taste complex. Adding mint extract gives them a grasshopper or thin mint cookie flair, and orange extract makes them taste Christmas-y.
– After the mix is thoroughly combined, pour them into your greased tins. I mixed my batter in a bowl with a spout, but the the mixture was so thick I opted to use a ladle to fine-tune the portions. After each ladle-ful, gently shake the pans back and forth to help the batter "settle" and level off.
– Leave plenty of room for the batter to rise in the oven. I didn't do that with one of my little tins and the crust puffed over. Not a big deal for the most part, but when I turned the cakes out of the pans the overfull cake stuck to the edges and the heart-shape crumbled. The photo above clearly shows the crumble damage that results from too much batter-to-pan ratio.
– Baking times were approximate, but you want to aim for a completely done cake. I happen to love a soft, squidgy, underdone brownie, but in order for these cakes to keep their shape they need to be completely baked through. Test doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cake. It's done when it comes out clean, with no crumbs or batter streaks. My larger cake took about 35 minutes at 350, while the smaller ones took 25 minutes.
– I let my cakes cool for ten minutes on a rack before I attempted to remove them from their pans. They looked like nothing so much as heart-shaped musical notes on a staff and they drove Isobel and the cats mad with their scent. When cool I used a toothpick to lightly trace around the edges of the cake to loosen it from the pan. Then I just turned the pan over, gave it a little shake, and out popped the heart-shaped goodness.
– I bought gross pink frosting and sprinkles so that Isobel could decorate her own mini-cake. She eschewed the poisonous-smelling flamingo pink frosting in favor of the milk chocolate kind, but had very little patience for decorating. After slathering on a bit of frosting and pelting it with sprinkles she considered her masterpiece done and ate it with glee.
« Little Big's V-Day Giveway!
So cute! My mom has some rose shaped cake and little rose cake ones. I make some tye dye colored rose shaped baby cakes. They tasted gross but looked awesome. | smaller vintage Jell-o molds.
It used to be that gelatin desserts (and even savory dishes, such as aspic) were all the rage and it was not uncommon to serve your guests their own personal little mound of Jell-0, sculpted into clever floral shapes or tiered towers, by way of an aluminum Jell-o mold. I found a stash of these little tins from, I don't know, maybe the 1940s?, years ago while thrifting. I bought them all, including several heart-shapes, without really having a specific purpose in mind and they've been rattling around in my drawer, unused, ever since. I found more recently which I bought for Isobel's Easter basket last year and they've dutifully helped us make many a pretend cake. While going through my actual heart-shaped cake tin I thought, why not, let's try baking little cakes in the Jell-o molds, too. To my surprise it worked out beautifully.
I have several heart-shaped cake pans that Wilton made in the 1970s (too many, in fact, I'll be unloading some in the shop, soon) but I'm almost certain you can find them brand new at craft or baking supply stores. I'd feel bad about giving you a recipe for something you couldn't do without a specific, sort of uncommon piece of vintage equipment, but just the other day while I was browsing my Valentine section of the grocery store I found small paper | 307 |
Originally, the copper foil was covered on the entire circuit board and partially etched away during the production process, and the substrate of the circuit board itself was made of a material that was insulated and not easily bent. The surface layer can see that the small line material<|fim_middle|> solder resist paint. Insulating protective layer that maintains copper wire and prevents parts from being soldered to the wrong place.
The area of the wiring board can be added to a large level. Multi-layer boards use more single or double-sided wiring boards, and today's graphics cards and motherboards are multi-layer boards. And put an insulating layer between each layer and press it together. The number of layers of the board represents several separate layers of wiring. Usually the number of layers is even and contains the outermost two layers. The rare board is usually a 48-layer layout. The number of layers on many boards can be seen by looking at the cut surface of the board. But in fact, no one can have such a good eye. So, let's teach us a way.
Most of the main board and display card use the 4-layer circuit board multi-layer board circuit connection is through the buried hole and blind hole technology. Some also use 68-layer or even 10-layer boards. To see how many layers are on the board, you can identify the hole through the investigation. Since the 4 layers used on the motherboard and the display card are the 1st and 4th layers, the other layers have other uses. And the power supply) So, like the double-layer board, the guide holes will break through the board. If some of the guide holes are presented on the front of the board, but they are not found, then they must be 6/8 layers. If the board is not the same, you can find the same hole. Naturally, it is a 4-layer board. See the orientation of the guide hole, and point the main board to the light. If it can transmit light, this is 8/6 layer, otherwise it is a four-layer board. | is copper foil. What remains is a network of tiny lines. These lines are called wires or wires and are used to provide circuit connections for the parts on the board. Usually the color of the circuit board is brown or green, which is the color of the | 52 |
JMI-Edison celebrates 40 years of contributions to the islands
Johndel International Inc., which does business as JMI-Edison, is celebrating 40 years of consistency and reliability on Guam. With anticipation of Guam and Micronesia's community needs, since its creation in 1978 the company has adapted, grown and prospered by helping the community in which it does business live to its fullest through the provision of air conditioning, electrical, motor generators, pumps, transformers and medical supplies and equipment to our islands' businesses and residents alike.
President: Eduardo R. Ilao
Vice president: John R. Ilao
Comptroller: Julieta A. Inocencio
Operations manager: Romeo I. Oriondo
Sales and operations manager: Jean G. Ko
Service manager: Vincent P. Legason
Stockholders: Eduardo R. Ilao, John R. Ilao, Elizabeth I. Oriondo, Ma. Lourdes C. Ilao, Genilie G. Ilao and Romeo V. Ilao
Hafa adai,
Eduardo R. Ilao
Forty years ago, my parents and JMI-Edison's Founders John M. Ilao and Andrea R. Ilao, created a dedicated following for their electrical and air conditioning contracting business — JMI Electrical & Air Conditioning — by offering extremely reliable service with top notch the quality. Always ones to notice the needs of the community, they soon expanded the company to address the island's increasing demand for new equipment including electric motors, bearings, generators, pumps and transformers with JMI Motor & Bearing Supply.
Today, I am<|fim_middle|> are excited to follow in his parents' footsteps to continue to grow the company's current market share and adopt to market changes and customer requirements. "We hope to continue our JMI culture of learning, agility, adapting, innovating and transforming our service offering based on market needs." | proud to say that we continue to follow in my parents' footsteps to provide the people Guam with our two proudest offerings: reliability and quality. With JMI-Edison, we continue to develop the 360-degree relationship with employees, business partners and especially our customers that my parents worked so hard to achieve.
As we look to the future we, with our 68-member staff and family, are excited to continue our JMI culture of learning, agility, adaptation, innovation and transformation to meet both the current and unforeseen needs of our community and continue to grow the family that we are so proud to call our own.
To our supporters, colleagues and friends, I thank you for 40 years of support, and I look forward to 40 plus more years spent in friendships, good relationships and great service.
With sincerest gratitude,
JMI-Edison
Building JMI-Edison
December 1978 – John M. Ilao and Andrea R. Ilao found JMI Electrical & Air Conditioning in their garage of their rented home in Tamuning.
February 1979 – The Ilao's move their company to its first official location at 125 N. Marine Corps Dr. in Tamuning.
1979 – 1980 – Due to the hotel construction boom, JMI branches into the sale of electrical building materials, electro-mechanical parts, new motors and pumps with JMI Motor & Bearing Supply.
September 1986 – JMI Electrical & Air Conditioning and JMI Motor & Bearing Supply become one corporate entity, doing business as Johndel International Inc.
1991 – JMI opens a grocery store specializing in fresh fish and Philippine grocery supplies.
1996 – JMI founds and operates the first free-standing MRI in Guam/Micronesia and expands into the healthcare supplies and medical equipment industry, water and sewer pumps and lighting products.
2000s – The company focuses on three industries: industrial products, medical supplies (Guam/Micronesia) and medical equipment.
2010 – The company adds to its offerings specialty industrial contracting, commercial kitchen equiptment, elevators, air conditioning, medical equipment and installation services (Japan).
December 2018 – JMI-Edison celebrates 40 years of doing business in Guam/Micronesia.
"It is an honor and privilege to be the humanitarian organization of choice of JMI-Edison for many years. This commitment to the American Red Cross started from Mrs. Andrea R. Ilao, the matriarch of the Ilao family, who served as treasurer of the board. She impressed upon her children the importance of sharing and taking care of those in need.
We thank JMI-Edison for your steadfast commitment to the mission of the Red Cross and to those we serve. Our heartfelt wish for your continued success!"
— Chita A. Blaise, CEO, American Red Cross Guam Chapter
Urquico
"JMI-Edison's Mr. John R. Ilao generously supports our effort to provide school supplies to children who are in the most need. Their commitment over the past two years has provided much-needed supplies to more than 300 school children, some of whom are homeless. When first approached to help, John said, "We believe that education is one of the best chances that people, especially children, have to break the cycle of poverty." We at The Salvation Army Guam Corps wish a heartfelt congratulations to JMI-Edison on their 40th year of serving businesses and helping the people of Guam."
— CJ Urquico, public relations/development coordinator, The Salvation Army – Guam Corps
On behalf of the Chamber Board and the membership, we extend our warmest congratulations to JMI-Edison as you celebrate 40 years of doing business and serving the community of Guam and the region. We wish you further success as you continue to flourish and diversify to meet the growing needs of our community and may you continue to prosper in years to come! Biba JMI-Edison!
— Catherine C. Castro, president, Guam Chamber of Commerce
Success through consistency
After founding JMI Electrical & Air Conditioning in 1978, JMI Motor & Bearing Supply in 1979 and 1980 and merging the two to become a cohesive business in Johndel International Inc., or JMI-Edison, in 1986, John M. and Andrea R. Ilao worked hard to keep their business afloat. It was no easy task keeping the island supplied with air conditioning, electrical materials and the like, and the two worked alongside their two employees for 12 to 16 hours, six days per week. But no matter how much time it took, the Ilao's made sure that their customers were served in such a way that their expectations were consistently surpassed.
President Eduardo R. Ilao says his parents built their reputation on their work ethic of taking care of customers and taking responsibility, their tireless dedication to the company and their commitment to meeting customer deadlines. "Back then customers usually never kept a spare electric motor so when their motors would break down then they would ask us to fix it within 24 to 48 hours," he says.
By meeting and exceeding the customers' needs without fail, the company cash flow it created was able to consistently meet both JMI's payables and his father's wages, Ilao says. Coupled with being able to get credit terms with the company's numerous suppliers, the business grew quickly.
"Our parents didn't come up with a formal business plan — our father knew about the service and electric motor repair demand because of his job. Over the years he developed a 360-degree relationship with his previous managers, peers and subordinates so the relationship and word of mouth was the marketing plan," he says.
And with no competition at that time, the Ilao's continued to serve their customers and the community to the best of their ability. On top of the company's work, they soon took special interest in supporting the mission of the American Red Cross Guam Chapter, as well as providing school supplies to students in need through the Salvation Army – Guam Corps. Wanting to take it one step further, the Ilao family created the Andrea R. Ilao Scholarship Foundation to award scholarships to college students, which the company also supports.
Since having progressed from solely electrical supplies and equipment, JMI-Edison now offers medical supplies and equipment — of which it founded and operated the first freestanding magnetic resonance imaging system in the region — as well as lighting products, water and wastewater pumps, industrial products and specialty services for commercial kitchens, elevators and air conditioning.
In its 40th year of service to the island, the company now caters to other islands in Micronesia as well and has expanded into an additional warehouse — with a planned move to a third warehouse space in Harmon Industrial Park later this year. Ilao says that JMI-Edison and its 68 employees | 1,459 |
It's the end of the year, and that means it's time to set professional and personal goals for the coming year.
If you're anything like most software testers, you'll aim to improve the quality and speed of testing in the new year. So how do you go about achieving these goals?
Software Testing conferences are not only an opportunity to meet industry leaders and people facing similar problems, but they're also a way to break yourself out of your day to day and pick up new skills that you can take back to the office. Hopefully that will help you improve processes and the quality of work your team does.
They're also a way to break yourself out of your day to day and pick up new skills that you can take back to the office.
But there are a lot of conferences out there and you have to choose carefully. After all, as valuable as conferences can be, they're time away from the office. So we've compiled a list (in no particular order, but of course we think Quality Jam is #1!) of the top software testing conferences you should attend in 2017.
Each year, Atlassian Summit's cult like following of developers and software testers gather from all over the world. The conference is a<|fim_middle|>.
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Please provide me the requisite details about it.
There's a really good list of all Software Testing Conferences in 2017 + 2018: http://testingconferences.org/. | fun filled, information rich experience packed full of great sessions, keynotes and a fantastic "Summit Bash" party. Summit focuses mainly on Atlassian products like JIRA Software, Confluence, and BitBucket and platforms. The event is supported by a wealth of information on DevOps, software testing, Agile development methodologies, and collaboration.
STAREAST is one of the longest-running, and most respected conferences on software testing and quality assurance. The event week features several learning and networking opportunities and covers a wide variety of software testing topics. Software testers can explore a technology and service expo to check out new technologies for their teams. There's also STARWEST, Anaheim, CA (October 02-07 2017) and STARCANADA, Toronoto, ON (October 23-28 2017).
Quality Jam is focused on helping testing and development teams work smarter, faster and deliver higher quality software. This two-day event brings together technology thought leaders, executives, and practitioners from all over the world. QASymphony really brings up the bar for software testing conferences with an all-star speaker lineup including Michael Bolton, Keith Klain, Jeffrey S. Hammond and more, entertainment speakers like Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark from the popular podcast "Stuff You Should Know", and an unforgettable welcome party at Sweetwater Brewery.
TestBash Brighton is back for it's 6th year. The 2 day event will be hosting Michael Bolton, Richard Bradshaw, Mark Winteringham and Dan Ashby. If you can't make it to the UK, they usually do a NYC TestBash.
STARWEST is one of the longest-running, and most respected conferences on software testing and quality assurance. They hold the conference around the Disney parks so you might be able to work-in a little vacation with the trip. There's also STAREAST, Orlando, FL (May 07-12 2017) and STARCANADA, Toronto, ON (October 23-28 2017).
This year Atlassian Summit is combining their smaller European conference, AtlasCamp, with Summit — creating the first ever Atlassian Summit Europe Conference. We couldn't be more excited about the new conference. They are telling us to expect an epic week of training, keynotes, sessions, and one awesome party | 480 |
'Christmas' play gives back to VBHS actors
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"These students are extremely dedicated and have a great passion for their art," says Fisher, the theater teacher at Van Buren High School. "The stagecraft class is all girls, and they have learned to cut, drill and paint the entire set. They have let no challenge defeat them!"
The show they're mounting is "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and this time, there's a goal bigger than entertaining their audiences.
"The students wanted to do a Christmas show, and we also wanted to take a one-act [play] to the Thespian One-Act Festival," Fisher explains. "'A Charlie Brown Christmas' was a great choice because it gave them the opportunity to do a Christmas show and compete in the one-act festival on Nov. 23."
There's a third component in this particular production, however. Money raised from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will help fund a three-day trip to Jonesboro, Fisher says.
"We also attend the State Thespian Festival in February each year," she elaborates. "The price of Festival is expensive, and I have to use my department funds for the actual shows that we produce."
That being said, she wants all the students who are eligible to participate to have the opportunity to do so — "and not let money be a burden." Fisher has 135 to 150 youngsters involved in drama at Van Buren High, plus "each year I do a production that gives all grades, K-12, a chance to participate. This is a great opportunity for all grades to be involved in the arts." Based on that success, she is also developing a new junior thespian program, and some of those students will also attend their first junior festival this weekend.
For the high school students, the state festival in February "gives them the opportunity to showcase their many talents," Fisher says. "They also have the opportunity to look at universities and earn scholarships. If a student at State Festival receives a superior rating, they have the opportunity to attend the National Festival in the summer."
'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
WHEN — 7 p.m. Dec. 6-7
WHERE — Van Buren High School Fine Arts Center
COST | 464 |
Norborne Hardin-Central varsity 8-man football coach Kirk Thacker and his staff have some teaching to do. That point is clear to Thacker as he directs the Aggies this week, in<|fim_middle|>. | their first training camp during summer vacation.
"We're a little green," he said during an interview Tuesday at the Aggies' practice field in Norborne.
Attendance for the camp, which concludes Thursday, June 7, at Norborne, is slightly above 70 percent — of the 15 players Thacker expects to be on his roster this season, 11 are at camp. One is absent because he's attending a 4-H camp, and two are absent because they're attending a Future Farmers of America camp, according to Thacker.
The longtime coach expects a freshman to join the varsity squad after Norborne Hardin-Central's junior high football season ends.
Thacker isn't concerned about having a small roster this season, he said.
"I've had less," Thacker said, chuckling.
The complete version of this story appears in the Friday, June 8, 2018, edition of The Richmond News.
Click here for our E-edition and read the rest of the story | 208 |
<|fim_middle|> for repairs to its aging systems.
A 1990 addition to the campus that included a student center and bookstore with connecting links to the two adjacent buildings could have damaged the piping that ran adjacent to the addition and under the connecting link to the library. A bedded planting area alongside the addition and connecting link that hung above the underground piping added a nice aesthetic. The location of the planting area, however, accelerated the corrosion of the piping as it maintained increased moisture levels and plant fertilizer around the outside of the pipes.
The 1968 underground piping was manufactured by Trinity Valley Iron & Steel Co. and was made from asbestos cement insulated ductile iron pipe. While this installation occurred after the Clean Air Act of 1965, it was installed well before the product was banned. The asbestos-containing insulation material is non-friable and poses little risk of exposure to workers or the public, so the only abatement would be the material inside the library building where the piping came up through the floor. The piping routed underground from the plant to the library would be abandoned in place.
FIGURE 1. ACM insulated piping at the library building's AHUs.
Replacing the 600 feet of pipe length between the boiler plant and library would be a costly undertaking, so we investigated adding boilers to the library building as a decentralized plant. A centralized plant offers a) all equipment in a centralized location for easy service that is segregated from the general public, and b) a potential to change the fuel source (natural gas, fuel oil, or electric). A decentralized plant eliminates distribution pipe heat losses (about 28 Btuh/ft).
For the decentralized plant to be successful, it must operate at a higher efficiency than the central plant. Engineers must assume the leadership role in business and interprofessional relations to ensure the new systems are more energy efficient than the ones they replace and provide the same or better performance. In this case, the existing central plant boilers were 84% efficient. The college wanted, and we recommended, some level of redundancy, so we investigated options of multiple boilers or an array-style boiler.
FIGURE 2. An existing central plant heating water boiler.
A multiple boiler installation would require more floor space and cost more to install (double the piping connections, double the flue and vent connections, double the electrical connections, and an increased number of control points). An array-style boiler with three 500-MBH modules was selected. It offered 15:1 turndown, NOx emissions of 9 PPM at 3% O2; internal controls that prevent the heat exchangers from excessive temperature rise; and low noise operation (each module <48 dB), which is important in a library. The boiler size was such that two of the three burners could provide more than two-thirds of the total combined peak loads. The boiler is direct-vented to the outdoors to provide sealed combustion. Water and sanitary drainage were available at the nearby restrooms, and natural gas was also available at the building. So all necessary utilities were present. The boiler room was sized so that a future, second boiler could be added if the college wanted to have a fully redundant system or to feed heating water from this plant to the adjacent student center.
FIGURE 3. A new decentralized, array-style boiler.
A 295-square-foot, one-hour boiler room was constructed adjacent to the existing air-handling room on the second floor to locate the boiler and accessories near the largest load. At this size, the boiler room only required one door (International Building Code requires two doors when a room is 500 square feet or larger and the boiler input is greater than 400 MBH). The one-hour room construction was required since the building was not protected by a fire suppression system. Location on the second floor allowed access to grade level through a corner of the library. It also allowed installation of sanitary drain piping without cutting the floor slab and replacing flooring. A 120-gallon heating water buffer tank helps smooth out the load and reduces boiler cycling with the nearby AHUs and reheat loads.
As our project was not changing or addressing the building load, the heating water design had to remain as the original design set point of 160°F; however, with updated temperature controls and programming, we incorporated an aggressive reset schedule to improve operating efficiency whenever conditions allow. This means that on the coldest days, the full-load efficiency may be only 88%, but as the outside air temperature moves upward, the heating water temperature may be reduced, and boiler efficiency will improve to about 93% in actual conditions. St. Louis has about 5,260 hours per year where temperatures are below 65°F. The reset schedule allows about a 17% energy savings in annual energy consumption from a fixed heating set point. The new boiler improved efficiency of about 4% over the central plant boilers, and the decentralized plant eliminates the heating loop losses of about 3%. Thus, the college should save about 24% of its heating energy costs for the library building.
FIGURE 4. Boiler efficiency curve.
An architect was used to design the boiler room. A structural engineer was used to check the existing structural support and to design miscellaneous steel supports for equipment and piping. A further step would be to commission the building and boiler operation; however, this task was turned over to the contracted temperature control service company as part of its ongoing service work.
FIGURE 5. A heating water 120-gallon buffer tank.
Failures are random and cannot be predicted. This one came late in the fall and threatened the building comfort. The college used a few temporary heaters and fans to transfer air from adjacent buildings through the connecting links to the library building to maintain at least some level of comfort. The salesmen expedited deliveries, and the contractor worked extended days and overtime. The result was a project that came together nicely. The total project cost was less than $275,000, including consulting fees, and was completed in less than four months. Teamwork pulled the project together and the college now has a plan for additional decentralization of the heating plant.
With careful study, engineers can evaluate the options and help owners make energy-efficient improvements to their operation, even when disaster adds pressure to the project.
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The Old College Try: Decentralizing Mineral Area College's Central Heating System
Chronicling McClure Engineering's quest to update a Missouri college's antiquated central boiler system.
Chuck Dale-Derks, P.E.
KEYWORDS AHU / boiler replacement / boilers / central plant maintenance
A Missouri college called late last fall with a problem. Its heating system, a central campus heating water boiler plant with two pumped loops and three distribution branches, had developed a leak in the loop to the library building across the quad. The heating system and underground piping were 50 years old. The college had a leak in another section of piping two years prior and replaced a part of the underground heating water loop at a cost of nearly $350,000. The college wasn't looking forward to another large expense | 200 |
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Welcome to Comic-Con: where the future of pop culture comes to life. Every summer more than 130,000 comic fans, gamers, cosplay enthusiasts, and nerds of all stripes descend on San Diego to mingle with the top entertainment celebrities and creative-industry professionals in an unprecedented celebration of popular culture in all its forms.
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's collection of the same name), Binder's effect on science fiction was profound.
Hey Kids, Comics! is an anthology featuring the true-life "secret origins" of comic book pros, TV and film writers, authors, journalists, and other people from all walks of life detailing why they love comic books so much and how comics have influenced their lives.
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A unique book on an obscure topic. Virtually no serious academic attention had been focused on the Comic book store; until now.
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The book is published by Ohio University Press.
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Жак Савойски-Немур (; * 12 октомври 1531, Абатство "Волюизан" в днешния френски департамент Йон, † 15 юни 1585, имение "Касин-Шастелие" близо до Монкалиери, Савойско херцогство) е втори херцог на Немур (1533 – 1585), граф и от 1564 г. херцог на Женева, маркиз на Сен Сорлен, губернатор на Лион, генерал-полковник от Френската кавалерия.
Той е важно лице във френския двор. По време на Италианските войни и Религиозните войни се бие в Кралската армия. Известен със своя чар и елегантност, Жак е замесен в няколко любовни авантюри.
Произход
Роден е на 12 октомври 1531 г. като син на първия херцог на Немур Филип Савойски-Немур (* 1490 † 25 октомври 1533), граф апанажист на Женева, и съпругата му Шарлот Орлеанска-Лонгвил (* 1512 † 1549). Дядо му по бащина линия е савойският херцог Филип ІІ, а по майчина – херцог Луи Орлеански-Лонгвил, херцог на Лонгвил.
Има една сестра:
Жана Савойска-Немур (* 1532 † 1568), отт 1555 г. съпруга на Никола дьо Лотарингски, граф на Водемон и регент на херцогствата. Тя е грижовна свекърва за децата от първия брак на съпруга си и по-специално за принцеса Луиз дьо Лорен-Водемон, бъдеща кралица на Франция през 1575 г..
Има и двама полубратя и една полусестра от извънбрачна връзка на баща му.
Биография
Принц на служба на Франция
15-годишният Жак е представен на френския крал Франсоа I. Години по-късно, след като неуспешно предизвиква братовчед си Леонор Орлеански-Лонгвил за наследяването на Княжество Ньошател, той се отличава при обсадата на Ланс през 1552 г. На следващата година, научавайки за намеренията на Карл V за град Мец, той участва интелигентно в обсадата на Мец. След това служи във Фландрия и Италия до примирието във Восел през 1556 г. Той е издигнат в генерал-полковник на леката кавалерия. През 1558 г., по време на обсадата на Тионвил, командва леката кавалерия като полковник.
Бие се на дуел с Маркиза на Пискер по неизвестна причина. Когато крал Анри II е смъртоносно ранен по време на турнир на 30 юни 1559 г., Жак е един от неговите поддръжници. Няколко дни по-късно е посланик на херцог Еманил-Филиберт Савойски по време на брака му с Маргьорит дьо Валоа, дъщеря на Франсоа I и Клод Френска, който се състои в Париж на 10 юли 1559 г.
Става рицар на Ордена на Свети Михаил на 7 декември 1561 г. Продължава да се отличава по време на Религиозните войни срещу протестантите. Освен всичко друго Жак допринася за превземането на Бурж и на два пъти побеждава Барон дез Адре. Той командва швейцарците, които връщат Шарл IX обратно в Париж, когото калвинистите искат да отвлекат в Монсо ле Мьо. През 1562 - 1563 г., в Дофине, замествайки Антоан дьо Бурбон-Вандом , той търпи поражение пред Лион, държан от Жан V дьо Партене от името на партията на хугенотите. Договорът за мир от 19 март 1563 г. помирява двете страни за известно време.
Той става 11-ият губернатор на Лион с Оверн, Бурбоне и Марш на 27 декември 1562 г., регистриран на 4 юли 1564 г.
След като участва в битката при Сен Дени през 1567 г., е обвинен в противопоставяне на навлизането на войските, които херцогът на Дьо Пон изпраща при победените. Той се проваля в тази експедиция по вина на Херцог д'Омал, негов съперник, и се оттегля в своето Женевско херцогство, където се посвещава на култивирането на науките и изкуствата. Графство Женева е издигнато в херцогство през 1564 г.
Принц-прелъстител
Френската историографка Жаклин Буше описва Жак Савойски-Немур като "велик господар, начетен, спортен, културен и светски, известен с таланта си на прелъстител".
През лятото на 1559 г. той е сериозен ухажор на английската кралица Елизабет I. Бракът се приема за даденост във френския двор, но обичайното нежелание на кралицата и Франсоа II поради войната в Шотландия оставят този проект за съюз без последващи действия. За да му позволи да посети кралицата, крал Анри II го назначава за извънреден посланик. След смъртта на краля Жак продължава да подготвя пътуването си до Лондон (юли-септември 1559 г.). Това няма последствия, главно поради франкофобията на английския двор и натиска на съветниците на кралицата да го ангажират да прогони французите от Шотландия. Друга причина би могла да бъде любовта му към Анна д'Есте, която откриваме описана в романа "Принцесата на Клев" (1678) от Мадам дьо Ла Файет, където Жак Савойски отказва да тръгне заради любовта си към споменатата принцеса.
Той е обект на няколкогодишен съдебен процес, заведен срещу него от дама с висше потекло – Франсоаз дьо Роан, която забременява от него и той ѝ обещава брак. Тя ражда от него Анри Женевски. Жак обаче се жени на 5 май 1566 г. за Анна д'Есте от Дом Есте, вдовица на лотарингския херцог Франсоа I дьо Гиз, дъщеря на херцога на Ферара Ерколе II д'Есте и съпругата му Рене Френска, дъщеря на френския крал Луи XII и Анна Бретонска. По бащина линия тя е внучка на Алфонсо I д'Есте и Лукреция Борджия. Кралицата на Навара Жана д'Албре, роднина на Дом Роан, напразно се опитва да предотврати този брак. Произтичащият процес отравя живота на Жак и забавлява двора по време на всички религиозни войни. Завършва при крал Анри III с решение, дължащо се на математика Франсоа Виете, което удовлетворява всички страни.
Смърт
Жак Савойски-Немур умира от подагра на 18 юни 1585 г. на 53-годишна възраст в имението си Касин-Шастелие близо до Монкалиери (Пиемонт). Франсоа Мюние посочва, че е умира на 15 или 18 юни 1585 г. и тази първа дата е посочена по-специално от генеалогичния сайт Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Тялото му е откарано в Анси, столицата на Женевското херцогство, където тялото му е погребано в семейната църква "Нотр Дам дьо Лиес". Наследен е от сина си Шарл-Еманюел.
Брак и потомство
∞ 29 април 1566 в Сен Мор де Фосе<|fim_middle|>ел-Филибер
Има две извънбрачни деца.
От Франсоаз дьо Роан (* ок. 1540, † 1 декември 1591, Бовоа сюр Мер) от Дом Роан, господарка на Ла Гарнаш, херцогиня на Луден, има един син:
Анри Женевски или Немурски (* 1557 † 1596), известен като "Принц на Женева", неженен. Има един извънбрачен син.
От Жана Дюпре има един син:
Жак, наречен Жак II, Жак Савойски или Жак Младши († 1595), абат на Талоар и Антремон.
Вижте също
Савойска династия
Савоя-Немур
Списък на херцозите на Немур
Литература
Jean-Hippolyte Mariéjol, Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie duc de Nemours Gouverneur du Lyonnais, Beaujolais et Forez (1567 – 1595), Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1938. In-8 (124 x 17 cm), XVI – 287 p.
Louis Charles Dezobry et Théodore Bachelet, Dictionnaire de Biographie et d'Histoire, Paris, 1863.
Max Bruchet, Étude biographique sur Jacques de Savoie, duc de Génevois-Nemours, suivie de son Instruction et discours sur le faict du gouvernement, 1582.
La Savoie au coeur de l"Europe du XVI siècle
Бележки
Външни препратки
Archives de Savoie
Généalogie de la maison de Savoie
Италианска аристокрация
Херцози на Немур
Графове на Женева
Савойска династия
Мъже
Италианци | за Анна д'Есте (1531 † 1607), вдовица на Франсоа I, херцог на Гиз, и дъщеря на Ерколе II д'Есте, херцог на Ферара, и Рене Френска, принцеса от Франция от Орлеанския клон на династията Валоа и херцогиня на Шартър. Имат двама сина и една дъщеря:
Шарл-Еманюел II (* 1567 † 1595), принц на Женева, херцог на Немур (1585 – 1595), неомъжен и бездетен.
Маргьорит-Мари (* 1569 † 1572)
Анри I (* 1572 † 1632), херцог на Немур (1595 – 1632), ∞ 1618 за Ан Лотарингска, херцогиня на Омал (* 1600, † 1638), от която има трима сина.
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The beautiful beaches of Cascais
Cascais, a charming Portuguese coastal town on the western coast of Lisbon, combines a rich history with wonderful beaches and a friendly, social atmosphere. It became firmly established as an upmarket holiday destination after King Fernando II of Portugal (1816-1885) made Cascais the location for his summer retreat. Today, the beautiful beaches that the royal party loved so much remain unchanged, as clean and fresh as they were in the 19th century. The sense of luxury continues, with many of Lisbon's high society and famous people living in Cascais.
When looking for great deals to Cascais, you'll see that there are two different aspects to the beaches. To the north of the coast are the more remote surfing beaches, while the family-friendly beaches are located in the east. Guincho beach is one of the region's finest surfing beaches, set amidst the splendour of Serra de Sintra Natural Park. The popular beaches for sunbathing and relaxing include Carcavelos and São Pedro, which are a haven for visitors who enjoy hot, sunny weather and miles of white sand. There are also pleasant coastal walks along the beach promenade, or along the cliffs.
Serra de Sintra National Park
Cabo da Roca is one of the most spectacular locations in the natural park, its cliffs rising up around 100 metres above sea level. Visitors can walk the trail to Cabo da Roca to enjoy breath-taking views. If you're interested in geology, visit the famous fossil dunes in Magoito and Oitavos, the fields of calcareous stone and the "living" cliff where a picturesque village has been constructed in Azenhas do Mar. UNESCO has classified Serra de Sintra National Park as a world heritage site in recognition of its cultural landscapes.
Cascais' hotels and cuisine
There are a number of excellent restaurants to sample, where diners can enjoy a rich selection of fish dishes with locally-caught fish. The region is renowned for sea bass, sole, sea bream and more than 100 different varieties of dried cod, known locally as bacalhau. There are also some excellent vegetarian dishes, such as bean and vegetable soup. You can also sample a local delicacy called travesseiros, a sweet puff pastry dish; queijadas de Sintra, a | 556 |
With Christmas decorations hitting the stores by Halloween, it is already time to start thinking about holiday shopping.
Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day of the year, has a small-scale counterpart that has gained momentum in the last few years. Small Business Saturday, started by American Express, first began in November 20<|fim_middle|> to a 3.4 percent revenue growth in communities that don't have a local campaign. | 10. It was the counterpart to Black Friday and the internet shopping day of Cyber Monday, the Monday following Thanksgiving.
The idea behind Small Business Saturday is to encourage shoppers to spend money closer to home at independent, locally-owned businesses. Guided by the same focus is Local First Utah, a non-profit that promotes local, independently-owned businesses, with their "Shift Your Spending" campaign running from November 29 to December 6. According to Nan Seymour, executive director of Local First Utah, "Shift Your Spending" is the regional answer to Black Friday. It asks consumers to channel 10 percent of their consumer spending from chain stores to independent local retailers.
Small, locally-owned businesses provide exponential growth to the local economy. Winterton explained that in the last three years, local independently-owned businesses added over 300 jobs to the local economy with the possibility of adding at least 200 more. "People fail to recognize what small businesses bring to the community and economy, and they often have a hard time getting capital," he explained.
Utah's Own helps locally-owned businesses with cooperative advertising and marketing. It also helps businesses raise awareness about their products and company within the state, nationwide and internationally.
Consumer effort also needs to become a big part of buying local. Asking about local products in stores, shopping at farmers markets and questioning where food comes from while eating at a restaurant are keys to keeping local dollars in the local economy. "When we buy national brands, that money leaves the state to pay for schools and roads [in another state]. It doesn't make sense," Winterton explained.
According to a study by Civic Economics, for each dollar spent at a national chain in Utah, 13.6 percent goes back into local circulation. However, for each dollar spent at a local independent business 55.3 percent circulates back in the community. Local restaurants return an average of 69.1 percent of money to the community, as opposed to 30.4 percent from chain restaurants.
According to Local First Utah information, if all households in Utah annually earmarked 10 percent of their spending for locally-owned businesses, $1.3 billion currently leaving Utah would stay in the local economy.
According to Seymour, independent businesses in communities with a Buy Local First campaign reported an average revenue growth of 8.6 percent in 2012, as opposed | 489 |
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What you should know about refined carbs, from a dietitian.
Source: https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/what-are-refined-carbs/
Granted, carbs are essential for our bodies to create energy, and whole grains are often touted by health and nutrition experts for their high fiber and phytonutrient content. Yet, often in the same breath, experts also call out something called refined carbs as being highly processed, stripped of most of their nutrients, and generally not that great for health. It's confusing.
However, not all RDs are buying into the fear-mongering around refined carbs (and carbs in general, TBH.) "I wouldn't say [refined carbs] are evil, and I really don't like the 'good versus bad.' It's different," says Jessica Levinson, RDN, CDN.
So what are refined carbs, exactly?<|fim_middle|> most of the refined carbs we consume. This processing helps increase shelf life and adds a fluffier texture, but it won't do favors for your body. Oh, and as for all-purpose flour? It's just bleached wheat flour.
Levinson also suggests looking at the fiber content, as it'll hint towards if the grain is refined or not. You'll want to grab for the product with higher fiber content, since it can mean the grain used still contains its outer layer. Keep in mind though, fiber can be added into a product through different sources beyond grain.
Flash to the grocery aisle when you're picking out bread. It's decision time, and your heart might say one thing, but the RDN in your head might say another. "You're better off with the whole wheat bread for the nutrients from the whole grain and fiber," Levinson says. Roger that.
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© 2020, SaladPower | Web Development by digitalsauna.com | Essentially, they're carbohydrate foods that have been stripped via processing of their extra nutrients (like fiber, vitamins, and minerals). If you broke down a grain kernel, for example, you'd find three layers. The outer layer, or bran, is packed with fiber and B vitamins. The germ, or the small, inner core, contains nutrients like zinc, magnesium and vitamins B and E. The rest of the kernel is called the endosperm, which is ultra starchy. "A whole grain has the bran, the germ, and the endosperm intact," says Levinson. "A refined grain has the bran and the germ processed off, so all that's left is the starchy part." Some examples of refined carbs include white flour, white pasta, sugar, and white bread.
How do refined carbs affect the body?
Refined carbs typically lack the extra nutritional benefit of their whole grain or complex carbohydrate counterparts. Think of the brown versus white rice debate. Brown rice, which has all three layers of the whole grain intact, offers up three grams of fiber per cooked cup. Compare that to a serving of cooked white rice, which only has 0.6 grams of fiber. Other important minerals you might miss: B vitamins like niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin, or minerals like iron.
Refined carbohydrates also generally take less time for your body to digest, which sounds like a good thing but really isn't. With refined carbs, "your body is not doing that processing, because a machine has already done it," Levinson says. That means all that's left is for your body to digest the sugar. As glucose enters the bloodstream more quickly, blood sugar inflates faster. "[A refined carb] doesn't have the fiber to slow down the processing in the body," she says.
Plus, refined carbs are typically found in processed foods, which are not that beneficial for your health. In fact, a small study published in May of this year found that a diet high in processed foods can lead to overeating and unwanted weight gain—even when consuming meals equivalent in macros to people eating a non-processed diet. "When you match the diets for all of those nutrients, something about the ultra-processed foods still drives this big effect on calorie intake," lead author Kevin Hall, PhD, told NPR.
So…are all refined carbs as bad as everyone says?
"People think anything that is processed is bad," Levinson says. That's not the whole truth. Levinson notes the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest getting at least half of your grains from whole grains. "There's room in there for you to have a combination of both whole and refined," she says.
How to spot refined carbs in grain products
If you're shopping for products other than literal grains (like farro, for example), you'll want to peek at the ingredient list first. Ideally, the first ingredient will be "whole grain," your cue that it contains unrefined grains.
"If you're looking at a package of bread and the first ingredient is wheat flour, that is not the same as whole wheat flour," Levinson says. Wheat and rye flour are made of milled grains, aka refined. Products with these flours make up | 668 |
Here's the Winter Reading List 2017 as given by Lauren on Virago's website in a post titled "A message from Lauren Graham (aka Lorelai Gilmore) – her top reads of the year"
For more info on the books, click on their cover.
The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.
Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition and her massive insecurities. But Rivers' career was also hugely significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life.
A juicy, intimate biography of one of the greatest comedians ever-a performer whose sixty year career was borne, simply, out of a desire to make people laugh so she could feel loved-LAST GIRL BEFORE FREEWAY delves into the inner workings of a woman who both reflected and redefined the world around her.
The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and<|fim_middle|> only the young can … completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.
Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).
Academy Award-winning actress Huston's "tireless fascination with the world is thrilling…" (Elle), and Watch Me is an "elegant and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) account of her seventeen-year love affair with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, and her mastery of the craft of acting.
Picking up where her first memoir A Story Lately Told leaves off, Watch Me is a chronicle of Anjelica Huston's glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. "With a conversational intimacy, inhabiting the role of the new best friend" (San Francisco Chronicle), she writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning how to act; about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi's Honor; about her collaborations with many of the greatest directors in Hollywood, including Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Richard Condon, Bob Rafelson, Mike Nichols, and Stephen Frears. She movingly and beautifully describes the death of her father John Huston and her marriage to sculptor Robert Graham. She is candid, mischievous, warm, passionate, funny, and a fabulous storyteller. Watch Me is a magnificent memoir "from a lady so simultaneously real, tough, vulnerable, privileged and candid, I want to hear whatever she tells me" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, The New York Times Book Review).
Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten.
Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true—and could have come only from Nora Ephron—I Remember Nothing is pure joy.
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I definitely drink a huge amount of coffee–a good three store-bought coffees a day. At one point, because I had so much, they started giving me decaf. It was not my request, but I think they were nervous about where things were headed if the caffeine continued. | everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master.
When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking—and attractive—than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing.
But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha's reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war.
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as | 586 |
Monday, Sep 24, 2018 07:00 AM
Tomlin on slow starts, discipline for AB, Berry
Q. At your news conference last week, you mentioned starting the game slowly in all three phases was a contributing factor in the loss to the Chiefs. Is there something that can be done to combat that?
A. We just have to<|fim_middle|> to survey a field vertically over the rest of his career'
Tomlin on discipline, red zone, injury reports
'So when you fall into the web, you're subject to my discretion'
Tomlin on what Burns needs, Bostic, challenges
'He needs to be challenged, but at the same time he needs an opportunity to rebound and respond'
Tomlin on matching up with Haden, inactives, Shazier
'His physical skills are his physical skills ... The defining thing is mentality'
Tomlin on man-to-man vs. zone, Ben's stats
Man-to-man disrupts rhythm passing, while zone provides for more eyes on the QB | be thoughtful about what we ask the guys to do, the situations we put them in, and then they have to come out fast and be ready to play. Sometimes, it's just how you respond to things, too. They had the big punt return, and the defense got put in a tough situation, but boy, if you hold them to three points there that changes the momentum of those circumstances. So it's about responding to the natural adversity that the game presents, one unit supporting another unit and not allowing things to snowball in the manner in which they did.
Q. Is a slow start in a game more a mental issue or a physical one?
A. Sometimes it just has to do with the plan or the preparedness of the opponent. They hit us on some concept plays from an offensive standpoint. I'm talking about Kansas City's offense, and I don't want to take anything away from them. They came in with an awesome plan and they spread the ball around in the early stages and really got us off-balance.
Q. Are you a believer of scripting offensive plays to start a game?
A. I am.
Q. What is the script designed to do?
A. It controls the flow and the start of the game, and it gathers information about your opponent in terms of some things they may plan to do against you as you roll through different personnel groupings and structures. If gives you a sense of the matchups within the game. If you're employing different personnel groups, who are they putting on who and things of that nature. It controls the flow of what it is you're doing, it provides some thoughtful variety, but it also gathers information relative to your opponent.
Q. How strict is the script? Does it allow for situational football?
A. If situational football is scripted, it's simply scripted separately. When I'm talking about a script, I'm talking about normal first-and-10, second-down football.
Q. How many plays in a script?
A. It depends. It could be eight, it could be 10, it could be 12, it could be 15. It depends on the buy-in. I've seen it be as few as eight, I've seen it as high as 15. I've seen units script the start of the first half and the start of the second half. I've seen units only script the first half, only script the second half. I think that element of it is what's always moving because that's part of the strategy of football.
Q. How would a script work in terms of the practice week? When would it be finalized? Which days would it be repped on the field?
A. Some of the scripted plays are fundamental plays in your offense that you run all the time. Some of the scripted plays are specialty plays, and so they may be added at the end of the week based on how those plays look during the course of the week relative to what you anticipate. It really just depends on the play. Some plays are base plays, and some plays are not. Some plays are game plan specific, and so when they're included in the script is a moving target.
Q. Let's say you have 15 plays on the script, and in your first possession you only get to four of them. The next time you get the ball, do you start with No. 5 on the script?
A. Or, you may say you want to take a look at something based on what transpired during the first series. So you might go off the script based on some information you gathered relative to that first series. It's simply a list of plays that can and will be used in the normal flow of the start of a game or the start of a half to gather information or to attack.
Q. Earlier this week, you said you disciplined Antonio Brown for missing a team meeting on the Monday after the Kansas City game. You don't announce that kind of punishment to the public, but when you do something like that do you tell the rest of the team?
A. Certainly. I call it housekeeping. It's part of normal daily functions of our team. I think it's important that they not only see clarity in terms of how situations are dealt with, but younger people in the room can learn. Smart professionals learn not only in terms of what happens to them, but they also learn from what happens around them. The same goes for discipline as it does for alignment, assignment, and execution. We ask our young people to learn from those around them – you learn your playbook by watching those around you execute, and so forth. It's twofold why you address those things: you want the team to know that situations are being addressed and how they're being addressed, but you also want to teach young people in the process.
Q. At your Tuesday news conference you were asked about punter Jordan Berry, and you said, "I'm not comfortable with the results I've seen thus far. It has got to be better." What constitutes good punting in the NFL? What are you looking for from the punter?
A. Forty-yard net average, all things being considered, is the line. That's not taking into account situational punting, red zone punting, and that's something that Jordan really excels in. In the last couple of years he's been one of the best in the league in red zone punting, as in the percentages between punts downed inside the 20-yard line vs. touchbacks. You understand how catastrophic touchbacks are to the field position element of the game, and so that's not an element of the equation when I'm talking about a 40-yard net. But the thing with Jordan – and the point I'm trying to get across to Jordan and to everyone when we're talking about everyone in the room getting an opportunity to learn – Jordan has punted very well and consistently at practice. He has to take that into the stadium. And that's what we expect him to do, that's what we expect all of our guys to do. We have a great deal of confidence in him because what we see day-to-day builds that confidence, but he's got to maintain a certain level of consistency under certain circumstances inside stadiums that he hasn't produced yet. Two games isn't a large body of work, but I'm acknowledging what I've seen so far needs to improve.
Q. Tonight, Tampa Bay will be led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who is playing his best football and playing as well as any quarterback in the NFL. And Fitzpatrick is in his 14th season. How does that happen, because 14 seasons in is usually when a player's skills are in decline?
A. It's very routine, to be quite honest with you. He hasn't started all of those 14 years. Ben's last 14 years have been very different than Ryan's physical 14 years have been in terms of the physical wear and tear that playing every down does to you. So he has the experience of a guy who has been around professional football for 14 years, but his body doesn't have the erosion and the wear and tear of a guy who's been playing over the course of that time. He's been a starter, he has been in starting situations, he has gained that experience, and he's very comfortable in those shoes. But not so much so that he is carrying all the bags. And I think that's part of the reason he's playing at such a high level. That's why you often see journeymen, guys in the latter part of their careers, maybe play above expectations because they've been around it. They're capable of drawing from that experience, but their body from a real age standpoint is actually much younger.
Q. Part of the festivities surrounding tonight's game will have Tony Dungy being inducted into the Buccaneers ring of honor. When it comes to football, what did you learn from him?
A. Patience. I wasn't a very patient coach, or person for that matter, when he hired me. To watch him exercise patience and leadership, to allow people to solve problems, to allow things to play out. That discipline that he displayed was really striking to me. Often times, I'd watch him and I knew he had the answer. And he'd watch others discover the answer, or sort out the answer. It takes a certain kind of discipline to allow those things to happen, and I learned over time and even from asking him directly, "Hey, Coach, I know you knew the answer to that, so why did you allow us to waste an hour-and-a-half of our time and have us discover that answer. And he said, "Because when you're a part of the solution, it sticks with you forever, as opposed to getting the solution." That's what you learn from him as a coach, as we address schematic issues and problems. I was a secondary coach, he was a secondary coach by trade, so to sit back and watch me struggle – the struggle that is preparation for play or the struggle that is adjusting to things that happen during the course of a game or a practice or a season – it was a cool thing and it really imprinted on me how important patience is in leadership.
Tomlin on team MVP, McCrane, Geno vs. DeCastro
'I think I'm always a little bit surprised by the winner. I just am'
Tomlin on play calls, awards, Jaylen and James
'Sometimes you're able to do that in one word, and sometimes it gets wordy'
Tomlin on Boswell, Hermann, volume, Gronk
'The position that Chris Boswell was in, he needed to earn his way into the stadium this weekend'
Tomlin on long-snappers, halftime, travel plans
'We have a plan. It's not a comfortable one. I'd just as soon not talk about it'
Tomlin on 'leaders,' Farrior, Ben vs. Philip
'He brought a certain passion and fire to the game that was infectious, that people wanted to follow'
Tomlin on injuries, pulling the QB, 2010 rookie WRs
'They both had a very similar profile ... and we really gave both of them the same draft grade'
Tomlin on road trips, revenge, run defense
'When you go into hostile environments, certain individuals embrace that and that brings the best out of them'
Tomlin on patience, Boswell, Dobbs, Newton
'He will never have a cleaner opportunity | 2,179 |
Authentic Tennis: Rafael Nad<|fim_middle|> hits with Moya when two are in Mallorca... Reached Spanish Championships in July 2003 (l. to Lopez)... Has a 2-3 career Davis Cup record (1-1 in singles) in three ties. | al Profile and Information.
2001- Reached 2nd RD at Seville Challenger at age 15.
2002- Won first ATP match at Mallorca (15 yrs., 10 mons.), defeating Ramon Delgado... Became ninth player in Open Era to win an ATP match before his 16th birthday... Played mostly Futures events and compiled an outstanding 37-3 match record, winning six titles in his native country... En route to winning four straight Futures titles, compiled a 20-match winning streak.
2003- Enjoyed a breakthrough season, finishing in Top 50 for first time after impressive results on both ATP and Challenger circuits. Compiled 19-5 match record in Challenger play in first three months of season, winning one title and reaching finals in three other tournaments... Missed Roland Garros after injuring elbow during practice. Returned to make Wimbledon debut and became youngest player at 17 to reach 3rd RD since 16-year-old Becker in 1984. Made US Open debut and reached 2nd RD (l. to El Aynaoui). In doubles, captured first career ATP title in Umag (w/Lopez Moron). Compiled 11-6 record on clay courts, 1-2 on hard, and 2-1 on grass.
2004- The young Spaniard broke through to win his first career ATP title and help lead his native country to Davis Cup final (vs. U.S.). In 1st RD Davis Cup tie vs. Czech Republic, won fifth and decisive rubber over Stepanek and later in year clinched SF victory by defeating France's Clement in fourth rubber. In between his Davis Cup heroics, played well by reaching QF in Dubai, 4th RD at NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami (d. No. 1 Federer) and QF in Estoril where he suffered a left ankle injury (stress fracture in ankle joint) on Apr. 15 in his three-set win over Gasquet. Returned almost three months later on July 6 in Bastad and advanced to QF (l. to Gaudio). Biggest week of season came in August in Sopot where he captured his first ATP title (d. Acasuso). Went 4-5 rest of year. In doubles, captured title in Chennai and reached SF at US Open. Also played in three Davis Cup doubles ties (w/Robredo) and went 1-2. Led ATP circuit with best first serve percentage (70 percent). Compiled a 13-3 record on clay, 14-10 on hard and 2-4 on carpet. Earned a career-high $447,758.
Other interesting information: Full name is Rafael Nadal Parera... Nicknamed "Rafa" by his countrymen... Began playing tennis at age five with his uncle Toni... Comes from same area (Mallorca) as countryman Carlos Moya... The city of Manacor is second-biggest on island of Mallorca... Considers clay his favorite surface... His other uncle, Miguel Angel Nadal, is a professional soccer player with stints at FC Barcelona, Real Mallorca and Spanish national team, which competed in 2002 World Cup... Often | 693 |
LEICESTER complete their preparations for the official campaign with the return fixture at Premiership club Ipswich on Thursday (7.30pm).
The second leg of the Inter-League challenge, with the Witches having won 50-40 at the Paul Chapman & Sons Arena last Saturday, is the final chance for the Watling JCB Lions to iron out problems ahead of a big home<|fim_middle|>.
"Our team morale is high at the moment and we wouldn't want Ipswich running away with it, so I've explained to the riders that Rory will take four rides and clearly that's a one-off with it being a Challenge match.
Ipswich continue to track youngster Drew Kemp at reserve in place of the unavailable Krystian Pieszczek, whilst Cameron Heeps is set to ride at No.4 after treatment on a wrist injury following a crash at Leicester last Saturday.
LEICESTER: Scott Nicholls, Ellis Perks, Josh Bates, Ryan Douglas, Richie Worrall, Jack Thomas, Connor Mountain. No.8: Rory Schlein. | clash with Redcar in the Championship Shield on Saturday.
And in order to ensure a fully competitive event at Foxhall on the top-flight club's own circuit, Lions have turned to a familiar face to bolster their squad.
Rory Schlein rode for the Witches in the Championship over the last two seasons, and he has been recruited as No.8 for the night as Leicester look to pose a further threat to the Ipswich heat-leaders.
Schlein will take four rides during the meeting, with four members of the Lions team each dropping out of one of their four programmed outings.
Elsewhere in the side, skipper Scott Nicholls has a lengthy past association with the Witches, winning the Elite League in their colours in 1998, whilst Richie Worrall and Connor Mountain have both had spells with the Suffolk club at Championship level.
Lions boss Stewart Dickson said: "It's another good chance for track-time, but we also want to make it competitive as it was at Leicester last Saturday | 206 |
September 21st Update: New Guthrie Advanced Lessons:<|fim_middle|>, and as always, happy picking! | Building a Solo!
September 21st Update: An Advanced soloing lesson is here! It's a big one, with 2 performances and analysis for each one. You can find the new lesson here, or by clicking the links below.
Also, the Key of C and E "Performance" links were incorrectly labeled as "Performances", rather than actual lessons. They're perfomances with analysis too! They have since been corrected in this list. Links below!
One of the most important aspects of Country guitar playing is knowing what to play when your turn comes around during a song's solo section. In this new series of lessons Guthrie will demonstrate soloing skills that will span multiple keys and cover beginner through advanced level concepts. There are backing tracks and tablature with the playthroughs so you can see and practice exactly what you see on the videos (don't forget you can slow them down using the player tools if needed too!) Whether you're brand new to the instrument or a seasoned pro, Guthrie's "Building a Solo" lesson series is an excellent way to either begin or refine your soloing skills, so you'll be ready the next time the rest of the band gives you a nod! You can find this weeks lessons by clicking on the links below or navigating to the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced lessons. Enjoy | 272 |
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We've been teaching fly casting FREE for over 35 years at our St. Louis store. Bob is a FFF Certified Casting Instructor. The other guys at our store are that good, or better. Classes (beginning through advanced) are on Saturdays and you just need to call the store for sign up and info at 314-963-7884 (locally) or 1-800-659-1707 (nationwide). All lessons are taught by FFF Certified Casting Instructors.
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On Waiting: The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Writing.ie | Magazine | Historical Fiction | Interviews
By Hazel Gaynor
They say time waits for no man (erm, or woman), but when it comes to writing time waits for everyone. Whether you're waiting for submission feedback on your debut novel or waiting for publication of your sixth (yes, I am that soldier), you'd better make yourself comfortable and prepare to wait …
Waiting to Hear – Arguably the worst phase of waiting. Finally, you've sent off whatever it is you've been agonising over for years happily working on for the past few months: your debut, a synopsis, sample chapters, a rough idea for something new … Whatever it is, you finally send the email you've been tweaking for days. Part relief, part crushing sense of helplessness, you are now like those people in Lost, pressing Refresh for eternity. For weeks, possibly months (I kid you not), you live through every possible reaction to your work several times a day, until you go to bed at night and dream about your teeth falling out instead. How to cope? Leave the desk/house/country. Take up running or knitting or triathlons. Anything to distract you.
Waiting for Reviews – Hooray! You got a publishing deal! The waiting is over, right? Wrong. Next up, the proofs go out to reviewers, booksellers and the media and the waiting starts again. And here's the thing: people will tell you they've received your book, and started reading it, but don't always tell you they've finished it. Welcome to the dreaded Void Of Silence where random comments on social media send your paranoia levels spiralling. Reading a dreadful new novel. Don't know what all the fuss is about. Convinced they're talking about your book you daren't even look at your own proof because you'll want to edit Chapter Nine and rewrite the Epilogue and you can do nothing about it but wait for the verdicts to come in. How to cope? Start something new and send it out. See Waiting to Hear, above.
Waiting for Publication Date – Elephant gestation periods have nothing on publication dates. Read The Bookseller and you'll get a sense of the decades that pass between a book being sold and a book being published. Yet somehow the months and weeks creep closer and reality hits you: people are going to read your book. Strangers. WITH OPINIONS. You do everything in your power to resist the urge to read Goodreads and Amazon Vine reviews because that, my friends, is like setting out on Frodo's journey to Mordor. You need four espressos and a Portuguese custard tart before you can even think about opening the weekend review section of the broadsheets. How to cope? Go to the cinema. Borrow the neighbour's dog and go for very long walks. Open the gin.
Waiting for Guests – And, Lo! Publication day arrives. You now spend hours waiting for your hairdresser to<|fim_middle|> key, we wouldn't change it for the world.
As publication day of my sixth novel approaches, here I am, waiting, wondering, hoping. I'm distracting myself by working on a memoir on the craft of writing. It's called, On Waiting. I may be some time.
(c) Hazel Gaynor
HAZEL GAYNOR is the acclaimed New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Memory of Violets and The Girl Who Came Home, for which she received the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award. Her third novel, The Girl from The Savoy, was an Irish Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year. The Cottingley Secret, Hazel's most recent novel for HarperCollins, was published to great acclaim in 2017, and went on to become a USA Today and Globe & Mail bestseller
Hazel has written for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Irish Times, TIME Magazine, Salon and the Huffington Post. She has also spoken extensively about her research and her writing on radio and TV, including The Ryan Tubridy Show, Elaine, BBC World Service and ABC Australia. Hazel's work has been translated into 9 languages to date and she is published in 16 countries. She lives in Kildare with her husband and two children. For more information visit www.hazelgaynor.com, @HazelGaynor on Twitter, or @hazelgaynorbooks on Facebook.
About The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter:
From Cork to Rhode Island, can a young Irish girl find home … and herself?
From the New York Times and Irish Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home and The Girl From The Savoy comes a sweeping historical novel inspired by the astonishing true story of a remarkable young woman.
Blending fiction with impeccably researched fact, this extraordinary novel inspired by real-life heroine Grace Darling, follows two female lighthouse keepers who live a century apart, but whose stories are forever linked by their instinctive acts of courage and love in moments of unspeakable fear…
1838: Northumberland, England. When lighthouse keeper's daughter, Grace Darling, is involved in the daring rescue of the stranded survivors of a terrible shipwreck, she becomes one of the most celebrated women of her age. But the friendship that develops between Grace and an artist who sets out to capture her subtle beauty, is far more precious to her than her unwanted fame.
1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old, pregnant and in disgrace, Matilda Emmerson is sent away from Ireland to stay with her reclusive relative, Harriet, the assistant lighthouse keeper. When a discarded, halffinished portrait opens a window into her family history, Matilda finds her destiny inextricably linked to Grace Darling.
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter is a sweeping historical novel that explores the ties that bind mothers and daughters and the connection between two women learning that where you are has the power to shape who you are. As always, Hazel delivers a cast of strong, courageous women for readers to fall in love with. | make you look less like a ball of stress and more like an author with a new book out so that you look the part while you wait for guests to arrive at your events. "It's filling up nicely," you tell yourself, despite the four actual people and the twenty empty rows of seats. How to Cope? Remind yourself that this was your dream and that it'll be a great story to tell when you're J.K. Rowling. Also, drink all the complimentary wine.
Waiting for your Breakout – Of course your debut will hit all the lists and sell movie rights to Spielberg. If not, then your second definitely will, right? Wrong. Most writers take many years and books – sometimes an entire career – to hit the #1 spot on the NYT bestsellers and sell film rights and be picked for Reese Witherspoon's Book Club. And here's the thing: it may never happen (did I say that out loud?). Which is precisely why patience really is a virtue and why waiting is such an integral part of writing. Because one thing's for sure – we just don't know what's going to happen. We don't know if this one will become the one. All we can ever do is write the best book possible and hope. And wait.
One other thing. These phases of waiting are not mutually exclusive. Most writers are waiting for reviews to come in, and for publication day to arrive while also waiting to hear about the new idea we sent off to our agent. But you know what, for all the sleepless nights and the worry and the faded lettering on the F9 | 328 |
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Globe Arena, Saturday 25 August 2018 3pm, League 2.
Attendance 3050, with 1638 away fans.
Shrimps 4-4-2 -Halstead Mills Conlan Old Yarney Fleming Wildig c Mandeville Oates Oswell Leitch-Smith sub used Ellison for Oates<|fim_middle|> made his bow in the sticks to replace the one game ban for big bad Baz. The Shrimps started well, Mills being played in early but only finding the car park behind the away end as he leant back. Moments later, a quick free kick by the rejuvenated Wildig found Oates at pace, who turned and shot from inside the box, the ball clipping the outside of the post and wide. This looked like the same neat footballing outfit who had done so well against Northampton, and a credit to Oldham who also played attractive football with Baxter and Gardner showing good skill. Old then had a header wide from a corner as the game opened up.
Crucially, Oldham struck the first blow, a cross from the left was not cleared and following a flick on O'Grady volleyed home from 6 yards under pressure to open the scoring on 27 minutes. Almost immediately, a cross from the right was misjudged by the excellent Mills, who could only head it high into the air, Nepomuceno reacted quickest to volley home the second for his first in Oldham colours. 2-0 down after 29 minutes and playing well!! Familiar?
The Shrimps didn't panic and slowly regained a foothold, Wildig responding well as captain ably assisted by Flemo and the increasingly influential Mandeville. On 43, an outswinging corner was met with power by Yarney, forcing Iversen full length to his right to paw away, the first of three excellent saves he would make. So at half time, despite attractive flowing football, it was the visitors who trooped off to wild applause despite the lead flattering them.
The lively AJay (I'll be honest, I'm hopefully going to be typing his name a lot when he gets fully fit as he will bag a lot of goals for us, so I'm just saving time later on not typing his full name, that OK?) set up Oswell who headed over and the game resumed its similar pattern. The Latics happy to sit and protect their lead and home side building patiently and missing chances. The improving Mills intercepted a pass on the half way line and flew past Nepomuceno, then past Taylor, cut in, ghosted past Edmundson and released a cross shot which flew agonisingly wide. It was then Mandeville's turn to trick the defence, unleashing a fierce drive which Iversen had to be at full stretch to claw away for a corner. Old had a back post header fall straight into the keepers arms and the pressure was building. Oswell followed a long ball collected by Iversen, a little too close for the keepers liking who reacted and they clashed, Iversen glancing a blow at Oswell with his forehead. Many in the home end were convinced a red card was imminent, players dashed from all quarters, in the resulting melee, Mr Coy lived up to his name and issued a yellow to Iversen. The only brief glimpse of the Oldham front line arrived shortly after, with a scene akin to five a side in a bus shelter resulted in Halstead getting in the way of a deflected effort, my view was of a cloud of dust with hands and feet sticking out, akin to scene in the Bash Street Kids in the Beano, with the ball appearing now and again.
As time ticked away, AJay pounced on a weak back header, ran free in on goal, however that man Iversen stood tall and blocked his effort. There was still time for Kev to draw another fine save from the stopper who parried the headed threat, the rebound evading the diving Oliver when he looked sure to score.
And so it ended, with 6 efforts on target and numerous other chances created, the home crowd responded and applauded the Shrimps off, we will see us play a lot worse than that and win games. The fact remains however that we need to start converting these chance into goals and then into points, but little luck on the way would be nice. Oldham move into the top 6, we drop to 22nd, yet there was very little between the sides. | 79, Oliver for Oswell 72, Mendes-Gomes for Conlan 88.
Latics 4-4-2 – Iversen Hunt Clarke Edmundson Taylor Branger Gardner Missilou Nepomuceno Baxter O'Grady subs used Lang for Baster 68, Graham for Branger 45, Maouche for Missilou 83.
Yellow cards – Latics 4 – Clarke 70, Gardner 16, Missilou 71, Iversen 68.
Ref – Martin Coy, was generally up with play, perhaps could have been unsighted for the Iverson headbutt on Oswell resulting in a yellow, hence the leniency, another half decent ref!!
Weather was warm, sunny, with a slight breeze from the Omega end, pitch again looked lush and green.
Another frustrating afternoon for the home faithful as the Latics performed a smash and grab in their first ever visit to the Globe arena. Boosted by a large, good natured and vociferous 1600 following making the journey from the foothills of the Pennines, a lesson in finishing separated the two sides.
Following the positive win over the Cobblers the previous Tuesday, JB stuck with the same 4-4-2 apart from Mark Halstead | 274 |
Over 200 NPA supporters yield to Army in Agusan Norte
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More than 200 underground supporters of the communist New People's Army (NPA) in a remote village in Agusan del Norte surrendered to the Army's 23rd Infantry Battalion (IB) in Barangay Camagong, Nasipit town on Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Col. Julius Cesar C. Paulo, 2<|fim_middle|> 101 children inoculated with Dengvaxia vaccine
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China adds P800 million grant for Odette reconstruction | 3IB commander, said the mass surrender was a result of the massive campaign initiated by the military, the local government and other government agencies urging members of the local communist movement to rejoin mainstream society.
"After months of our efforts, these 200 supporters finally decided to abandon the Communist Terrorist Group by pledging allegiance to the government," Paulo said.
"The different agencies of the government, through the convergence of efforts, will facilitate the implementation of development programs and services in the area," Paulo said.
Thirty-four of those who surrendered were members of the Milisya ng Bayan. Also turned over the military by those who surrendered were five home-made shotguns and two .357 revolvers. SOVEREIGNPH
Criminal complaints filed vs Rep. Garin, Duque over deaths of | 163 |
This Week In Proviso Township History: When Rotary Dial Phones Came<|fim_middle|> Westchester" to finally get dial telephone service.
For those too young to remember, before push-button telephones and later cell phones, people mainly communicated by rotary dial telephones. The website thekidshouldseethis.com explains what they were:
"On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout so that a finger wheel may be rotated with one finger from the position of each digit to a fixed stop position, implemented by the finger stop, which is a mechanical barrier to prevent further rotation."
Patented in 1892, the rotary dial phone was a major innovation and a dramatic change for customers, AT&T, which first installed dial phones in 1919, explains on its website.
People "went from lifting the receiver and asking the operator for assistance to (gasp!) dialing the number themselves."
AT&T historian Sheldon Hochheiser adds that the change to dial phones "required replacing the manual switchboards in an exchange with an electromechanical switch, replacing every telephone connected to that exchange with a new dial telephone — and teaching every subscriber how to use the new dial phone."
The change also required the installation of equipment like new cables and the erection of buildings like the dial exchange in Bellwood that housed "dial apparatus and other equipment," along with "assembly and training rooms on the first floor [and] and a maintenance room and office space for the wire chief," the Tribune reported in 1950.
Because there was so much that went into the transition from operator-assisted phones to dial phones, the change took decades to be implemented across the United States. Even though the first dial phones were installed in 1919, AT&T was still converting phones to dial through 1978 (and, as you can see above, rotary dials didn't reach a good portion of the west suburbs until the early 1950s).
The lesson?
Change, especially technological change, doesn't just happen out of thin air — it takes people and processes to make it happen. | To Town
By [email protected] | on December 14, 2022
A woman shows how to use a rotary dial in a video produced by AT&T's Bell system. Below left, a rotary dial phone with a moving finger stop. | AT&T
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
On Dec. 14, 1950, the Chicago Tribune reported that construction of a "two story and basement structure" had started in Bellwood and was expected to finish within two years.
Once completed, the new $2.9 million building, the Bellwood dial exchange, would enable "more than 23,000 telephones in Bellwood, Berkeley, Broadview, Hillside, Maywood, Melrose Park, North Lake [sic], Stone Park, and | 183 |
Q: Getting ElementNotVisibleException : Using Selenium WebDriver in MakeMyTrip.com for Date Picker I want to click a particular date in makemytip.com. I have written the below code. Everything works fine. Except I am unable to select the date. I can navigate to the month which ever I want but not able to select the<|fim_middle|> and check the contents of each one by one unless the desired value is matched.
Hope it helps :)
A: Explicit wait might help here
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading");
WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("myDynamicElement")));
Source: http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp
| date. Thanks for the help in advance.
when I run the below program, I get the following error
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
package com;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class Calendar_MMT {
static WebDriver d;
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
d = new FirefoxDriver();
d.manage().window().maximize();
d.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
d.get("http://makemytrip.com");
d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='start_date_sec']/span[1]/span[1]")).click();
selectDate("02/03/2016");
}
public static void selectDate(String date) throws ParseException{
SimpleDateFormat df=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date dateToBeSelected = df.parse(date);
Date currentDate = new Date();
String monthYearDisplayed = d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div[1]/div/div")).getText();
System.out.println(monthYearDisplayed);
String month = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM").format(dateToBeSelected);
String year = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy").format(dateToBeSelected);
String day = new SimpleDateFormat("d").format(dateToBeSelected);
String monthYearToBeSelected = month+" "+year;
System.out.println(monthYearToBeSelected);
while(true){
if(monthYearToBeSelected.equals(monthYearDisplayed)){
// I FEEL BELOW LINE HAS PROBLEM
d.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='"+day+"']")).click();
System.out.println("Found and Selected");
break;
}else{ //navigate to correct month and year
if(dateToBeSelected.after(currentDate)){
d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div[2]/div/a/span")).click();
}else{
d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div[1]/div/a/span")).click();
}
}
monthYearDisplayed = d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div[1]/div/div")).getText();
}
}
}
A: WebElement.click()does not work because for some reason the WebDriver thinks that the web element is not visible. To verify this you can execute:
WebElement dayElement = d.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='" + day + "']"));
System.out.println("isDisplayed: " + dayElement.isDisplayed()); //this will always print false
To bypass the visibility check you can execute the click via javascript:
WebElement dayElement = d.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='" + day + "']"));
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) d;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", dayElement);
A: There is something I noticed is that your element is overlapped by it's parent (td) and hence we aren't able to access it directly. Hence let's try accessing the parent (td) tag directly.
There are two ways now:
First one is directly access element using some of it's property:
d.findElement(By.xpath("//td[@fare-date='2-2-2016']")).click();
Second might be a customized way that you want, with a variable getting passed.
List<WebElement> e = d.findElements(By.xpath("//td[@data-handler='selectDay']"));
for(WebElement we:e){
if(we.getText().equals(day)){
we.click();
break;
}
}
Notice that here we may not able able to identify that parent using the text() function directly in the locator since the text is contained withing the child tag. So we are using getText() instead.
What this function does is that it stores all the parent cells into a list | 831 |
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Recent Events - 2022
The Council of Catholic Women's Scholarship in memory of Lucille Whitmire is awarded annually to a graduating senior who is an active member of ourparish. The 2022 Scholarship recipient was Serina DeFinnis. Congratulations!
The Council of Catholic Women participated in the Cross Catholic Outreach Box of Joy program through the generous donation of 24 boxes<|fim_middle|> by November 13th.
December 1st, 6 p.m., The Council of Catholic Women St. Joseph Parish hosted a Christmas Party for 27 Residents of Danville State Hospital. This is an annual tradition where residents are invited to the church hall for food and fun activities such as singing and bingo.
December 3rd, 10 a.m., The Council of Catholic Women St. Joseph Parish hosted the Northern Deanery Meeting in the Church Hall. A brunch and meeting was held with 15 attendees.
December 29th, 6 p.m., The Council of Catholic Women participated in the Community Christmas Carol Mass followed by fellowship and refreshments in the church hall.
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©2023 St. Joseph Catholic Parish | put together by CCW members and three CCD Students. A Box of Joy is a Christmas shoe box, donated and packed with toys, clothing, school supplies, and hygiene items by participants from U.S. parishes, schools and groups. Each gift represents Christ's love and may be the only Christmas gift children in developing countries are blessed to receive.
The Council of Catholic Women of St. Joseph Church recognized the 25th and 50th wedding anniversaries of five couples in our parish. A special Mass of Celebration was held on October 29th. Congratulations for 25th Anniversary to Fred and Nancy Scala, and Gary and Carol Siesko. Congratulations for 50th Anniversary to Bart and Mary Fisher, Peter and Joanne Colone, and Larry and Elaine Parker.
November 5th, The Council of Catholic Women Bake Sale and Sweet Treats at the Holiday Craft, Vendor and Food Fair was a great success! The Fair had Holiday Items and Homemade Crafts & Decorations from our Popular Vendors. Also featured the Saint Joseph Italian Kitchen serving our famous and delicious food items! Stuffed Shells and Meatball Dinner, Fireball, Meatball, Sausage and Porkette Sandwiches, Haluski, Hot Dogs and Sauerkraut. Thank you to all who supported this effort.
November 8th was election day! The Council of Catholic Women bake sale was very successful at the Maria Assunta Society annual spaghetti dinner. Thanks to all who supported this effort. The proceeds for this sale support the Lucille Whitmire Scholarship fund.
November 20th, 4 p.m. all current Alter Servers and anyone considering serving are invited to a Thank You Celebration with entertainment by Father Goodman "Magical Revelations" and a food feast sponsored by the the Council of Catholic Women. This will be following a training review from Father Barbee. RSVP to 570-854-1611 | 398 |
Lubeck, Germany & Auckland,<|fim_middle|> Market), Maccs (film distribution software), Numero (box office reporting software for film distributors and cinemas), Cinema Intelligence (business intelligence solutions), Powster (creative studio and marketing platform for movie studios) and Flicks (moviegoer 'go to' portal for movie information) provide products that leverage the success of this platform into other parts of the film industry; from production and distribution, to cinema exhibition through to the moviegoer experience. Vista Group has over 500 staff across nine offices in New Zealand (Auckland headquarters), Sydney, Los Angeles, Dallas, London, the Netherlands, Romania and China. | New Zealand (June 20, 2017) – CineStar software, provided by Vista Entertainment Solutions, ('Vista Cinema') is now a VdF certified system, satisfying all cinema governing body requirements in German. Cinema associations in Germany have agreed to provide a cross-platform ticket sales system using standardized POS systems moving forward. At the same time a ticket issued by the Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft e.V., the body which represents the German film industry, is no longer necessary.
Vista Cinema is the world's leading provider of cinema management software with installations in more than 70 countries. Vista has provided operational software to CineStar since 2012. After piloting Vista in CineStar cinemas, Vista Cinema's POS ticketing software has now received the necessary VdF certification.
"We are thrilled that Vista Cinema has met the complex technical requirements perfectly and has received the VdF certification," says Mr Fock.
CineStar has 52 cinemas in different companies operating in Germany, including multiplexes, traditional movie theatre and arthouse cinemas. Thus, CineStar is the market leader in Germany in terms of the number of sites as well as screens, seats, and visitors. The company, based in Lübeck, can look back on a history of over 60 years. Since 2004, CineStar is part of the brand family of the Australian Group's EVENT hospitality & entertainment (LTD), one of the world's largest suppliers of cinemas and in turn market leader in both Australia and New Zealand.
Vista Entertainment Solutions Ltd (VES) is the world leader in cinema management software solutions with installations in over 70 countries across all continents and an estimated 38% global market share in the Large Cinema Circuit market. The VES software product line comprising multiple modules is both integrated and scalable, suited to cinema exhibitor's operating 20+ screens and up to 100's of cinemas. VES is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand and has subsidiaries incorporated in Los Angeles, London, Capetown and Shanghai.
Vista Group International (Vista Group) is a public company, listed on both the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges (NZX & ASX: VGL). Vista Group provides cinema management, film distribution and customer analytics software to companies across the global film industry. Cinema management software is provided by Vista Entertainment Solutions, the core business of the Group. Movio (authority in moviegoer data analytics), Veezi (cloud-based SaaS software for the Independent Cinema | 527 |
Cynthia Morton is a bestselling Author, Blogger, Speaker and Founder of the multi award winning Emotional Fitness Program. Often referred to as the Hope Masseuse, Cynthia aged 54 is a mother of two sons. She has been working in the field of Emotional Fitness since the early 90's and has helped tens of thousands of Australians – from the leaders of commerce and industry, indigenous communities, The Australian Defence Forces<|fim_middle|> Brisbane Hospital, Relationships Australia (Qld.), elite athletes and teens – improve their Emotional Fitness, health and well-being.
Cynthia Morton's keynote speaking engagements, presentations and workshops offer a common sense formula and emotional tools that take the individual on a voyage of discovery. She explores the impact emotional illiteracy and heart trauma has on a human heart as it gets stuck in the mode of survival. Cynthia has personally struggled with inaccurate mental health labels throughout her own lifetime as a recovering alcoholic/addict and survivor of domestic violence and childhood abuse.
A Helping Hand with Life her first book released in 2000 became a top ten bestseller. Cynthia's second book Emotional Fitness (co-authored by Dr Timothy Sharp) was published by Finch publishers in 2004 and is still a steady seller over a decade later.
Cynthia's third published work, a quartet of books called The Four Seasons of the Heart was launched to coincide with National Mental Health Week in October 2016. Based on the four seasons of the calendar year, The Four Seasons of the Heart consists of four books full of beautiful black and white images that Cynthia's husband Mr Delicious has lovingly photographed. The Four Seasons of the Heart is a resource guide, that shares everyday examples on how to build and sustain Emotional Fitness. The focus being placed upon the language of the heart helps the reader master how to Hearticulate their truth with confidence, clarity and calm assertion.
Cynthia writes a regular Emotional Fitness column in Style Magazine, her free Daily Word Vitamins and videos are accessible at Balancebydeborahhutton.com and at cynthiamorton.com. Many diverse mini Emotional Fitness Videos can be viewed on her YouTube channel as well as tv appearances and interviews.
Cynthia can also be followed on Twitter @cynthiajmorton, Instagram #EmotionalFitness or Facebook cynthiamorton.com. | Soldier Recovery Service, The Royal | 6 |
Vision Show, Renamed My Vision Show, Announces 'Springboard Summit'
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—Organizers of My Vision Show, a virtual event for eyecare professionals, announced a winter showcase called Springboard Summit that will run from December 4 to 6, 2020. Spring<|fim_middle|> professionals throughout 2020, with premium features such as exclusive content offered for a small fee. Now the show will be unlocked in its entirety for a $10 fee, "Exhibitors that are interested in our March event can sign up now. We are already full for the December event and have limited availability for March," Yakubin said.
To register for My Vision Show, visit myvisionshow.com.
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I-Deal Optics Celebrates 25 Years in Business | board Summit is the latest collaboration between Charlene Nichols, founder of My Vision Show, previously known as simply Vision Show, and Irina Yakubin, OD. Nichols has worked as a sales manager at OptiSource and Yakubin is a 2020 optometry graduate of InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. After several successful showings under the Vision Show banner, the pair decided to revert to the event's original name to avoid being confused with another, non-virtual, event with a similar name.
Yakubin told VMAIL that Springboard Summit is intended "to set the stage for the new year by providing vendors and attendees a single platform where they can discover new and innovative ways to work together as we embrace our new omnichannel era."
Previous Vision Shows have drawn 57 different vendors, according to Yakubin. She said the upcoming show will feature prior favorites including Le Kevin, Ion Labs and Optical Near Me, plus new participants such as Coco Song, Dry Eye Doctor, and My Eye Care Team. The show will also feature an interprofessional summit consisting of optometrists, opticians and marketers. In addition, participants will be able to enjoy mini-courses and tools to help jump-start their own practices.
My Vision Show will award a Product of the Year to a new, innovative product that has been released, or patented in 2020 as well as a Most Valuable Participant Award to one chosen eyecare professional who is employed or owns an independent eyecare or optical practice and who has consistently been engaged in prior shows.
In addition to new educational opportunities and practice vendors, The Springboard Summit will also allow individuals to squeeze in a bit of fun personal shopping while learning about profitable operating models and setting their practice up for success in 2021.
My Vision Show will also include The Eyewear Artwalk, which Yakubin described as "our showcase of 'art-centric, independent brands.' It features an exclusive virtual product tour that is integrated with art from creative opticians." While Eyewear Artwalk has had several live exhibits in 2020, they have returned to My Vision Show for a virtual exhibit to make the show more accessible to individuals who are unable to travel due to COVID-19 concerns.
The Eyewear Artwalk will separately produce its first physical event later this month.
Another component of the show, The Factory is "a showcase of The Independent Owner's Network which is a collection of independently-owned wholesale labs and the brands they collaborate with," Yakubin said.
Previously, admission to My Vision Show has been free for eyecare | 532 |
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Aleksander Gieysztor Award for prof. Jacek Purchla
The Leopold Kronenberg Foundation at Citi Handlowy has awarded Professor Jacek<|fim_middle|> in Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Professor Aleksander Gieysztor Award has been granted since 1999. It honours individuals and institutions who have been undertaking actions for the protection of Polish cultural heritage. Professor Jacek Purchla received the prestigious Prize from Sławomir S. Sikora, President of Citi Handlowy, Mrs Ewa Gieysztor, daughter of the Prize's patron and from Professor Andrzej Rottermund, President of the Prize's honorary collegium and director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
- We have decided to award Professor Jacek Purchla with Professor Aleksander Gieysztor Award in order to demonstrate our appreciation for his longstanding input in promotion of cultural heritage, expressed by creation of The International Cultural Centre. We believe that his activity and founding The Academy of Heritage – first interdisciplinary postgraduate studies in the field of heritage preservation and management - are of a particular importance to shaping and promoting new approach regarding common cultural heritage – said Iwona Murphy, President of The Kronenberg Foundation at Citi Handlowy.
To see the photos, please click here. | Purchla, art historian and economist, with Professor Aleksander Gieysztor Award. The laureate was distinguished for creating The International Cultural Centre in Kraków and for initiating interdisciplinary research within the field of national heritage theory. Award ceremony took place on the 1st of February | 56 |
A longitudinal study of selected state school aid formula changes in Kansas 1992-2017, with emphasis on the Classroom Learning Assuring Student Success (CLASS) Act of 2015
Vincent, Shiloh John Daniel
This present study extended the longitudinal perspective begun by DeBacker (2002) and Jordan (2012) and, when considered wholly, provides insights into the educational experiences offered by districts in the state of Kansas from the years 1992 through 2017, as well as the impacts that changes to school funding had on those experiences.
This study assessed selected fiscal and pupil performance variables and examined the impacts that changes to school funding had on those variables, paying close attention to the shift from per pupil funding under the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act (SDFQPA) of 1992 to block grant funding under the Classroom Learning Assuring Student Success (CLASS) Act from 2015 to 2017.
In the first phase of this study, Kansas school districts were ordered from wealthiest to poorest based on their assessed valuation per pupil for 2001. To narrow the study population and to ensure that longitudinal analysis could occur, districts that had closed or consolidated by 2016 were removed. For the remaining districts, decile analysis was applied to the population by ranking all 289 school districts from wealthiest to poorest based on 2001 assessed valuation per pupil (AVPP) and by further dividing the population in to ten equal parts (i.e. each decile representing 10% of the population). The population was again narrowed to the representative sample of 112 school districts, with Decile 10 representing the wealthiest 10% of districts, Decile 1 representing the poorest 10%, and Deciles 5 and 6 representing the average wealth districts found in the middle (each representing 10% of the population respectively). This process was repeated for 2011, 2014, and 2016. For this study, 2001 and 2016 served as the bookend years, as DeBacker (2002) had done (1992 – 2001) and Jordan (2012) had repeated (2002 – 2012). Establishing the beginning year as 2001 ensured overlap of years examined by both previous studies and extending through the most recent year of audited data, i.e., 2016.
Once the study population was established, data analysis was conducted in two phases. First, fiscal and pupil performance data were analyzed to provide insight into overall health of each district during the years 2001- 2016. Second, survey and interview data were collected and analyzed to glean insights from district leaders for contextual perspective<|fim_middle|> of Educational Leadership
Major Professor: David Thompson
Filename: ShilohVincent2019.pdf | of the impacts that changes to school funding had on districts and their leaders, paying close attention to the years of block grant funding under CLASS.
The present study resulted in a critical examination of fiscal and pupil performance variables and the impact that changes to school finance in Kansas had on the educational experience of Kansas pupils.
Keywords: Educational leadership; School finance; Classroom Learning Assuring Student Success (CLASS) Act; School District Finance and Quality Performance Act (SDFQPA); Kansas school funding; K-12 Education
Graduation Month: December
Degree: Doctor of Education
Department: Department | 118 |
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EPIC TREKS OF THE ANDES & AMAZON
This journey is the result of a decade of exploration, research, trailblazing, and planning. A truly unique trip to immerse yourself in Ecuador's diverse landscapes and culture. Hits trekking highlights like Cotopaxi and Cuicocha Crater Lake, as well as hidden gems nestled in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.
Destination: Pululahua Volcano, Cuicocha Crater Lake, Otavalo Market, Cayambe-Coca Natural Reserve, Papallacta Hot Springs, Sumaco National Park, Amazon, Pastaza Gorge, Cotopaxi National Park
Lodging: Tourist-Superior Hotels, Historical Haciendas & Eco-lodges
Activities: Day hikes, cultural experiences
This journey is the result of a decade of exploration, research, trailblazing, and planning. A truly unique trip to immerse yourself in Ecuador's diverse landscapes and culture. Hits trekking highlights like Cotopaxi and Cuicocha Crater Lake, as well as hidden gems nestled in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin. Hikes are from 4.5 to 7.5 miles (7 to 12 km) per day, and are easy to moderate.
Get off the beaten path to discover incredible places most tourists miss.
Unique hikes take you through an incredible variety of environments.
Hike through paramo, cloud forest, rainforest, and dry forest ecosystems.
Encounter a vast array of native wildlife and plants.
Discover the spiritual world of the Kichwa Indians.
Relax and rejuvenate in the mineral-rich, curative Papallacta hot springs.
Hike along the slopes of the highest active volcano in the world.
This epic adventure follows some of Ecuador's best hiking trails through national parks and nature reserves while you enjoy quality accommodations and authentic cuisine in colonial haciendas and rustic eco-lodges. Discover an extraordinary array of environments as you hike through vast landscapes full of wildlife and wonder, experiencing seven ecosystems in seven days. Learn about the rich history and culture of Ecuador's indigenous tribes during fascinating Kichwa community visits. Only in Ecuador you can experience this level of natural and cultural diversity while hiking world-class trails through unique, remote landscapes.
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A pioneer of the multisport experience in the Galapagos, Quito-based Ecuador Adventures provides meaningful, fun and safe eco-adventure experiences reflecting the company's strong commitment to sustainable eco-tourism in Ecuador.
DAY 1: Latitude Zero on Volcan Pululahua
DAY 2: Cuicocha Crater Lake
DAY 3: Continental Divide to Papallacta Hot Springs
DAY 4: Macaw Jungle Trail
DAY 5: Rainforest Walk & Explore the Pastaza Gorge
DAY 6: Mysteries of the Llangantes Mountains
DAY 7: Cotopaxi National Park
Our adventure starts heading north out of Quito. After a quick stop at the equatorial monument, we continue north until we reach Volcan Pululahua, an extinct volcano surrounded by a geobotanical reserve. Pululahua's crater is directly crossed by Latitude 0°. As we hike into the reserve and toward the crater, we pass through a series of unique ecosystems, including montane cloud forest, myrtle forest, and dry acacia forest. This reserve is also home to a huge number of bird species, including hummingbirds, mountain tanagers, eagles, and hawks. After arriving at the crater, we continue on toward Rio Blanco, we cross the river to find an otherworldly landscape called Infiernillo (Little Hell), an arid patch of sulfur deposits within a dry forest. After our hike, we drive to a beautiful, historical hacienda, where we enjoy a delicious meal and comfort accommodations to finish the day.
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Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner
This morning, we drive to Cuicocha, a crater lake collected in a secondary caldera of the extinct Cotacachi Volcano. Cuicocha translates as "Lake of the Guinea Pigs," named for the shape of its two central islets. The lake and surrounding slopes are protected as a nature reserve. At around 3,000 meters, Cuicocha's ecosystem is a combination of paramo and Andean forest. We will find many unique plant species in this rare combination of two ecosystems. Our path circumvents the crater rim, revealing stunning views of the lake and the volcanoes Cotacachi, Mojanda, and Imbabura. We keep our eyes open for native wildlife, and if we are lucky, we might even catch a glimpse of the rare Andean Condor. After lunch, we stop to visit the leather market in Cotacachi and the famous indigenous handicraft market in Otavalo. In the late afternoon, we head back to the hacienda for another delicious dinner and relaxing evening.
Today we drive east through the inter-Andean valley, gaining elevation as we climb into the heights of Ecuador's eastern Andes. At 4,100 meters, we reach the continental divide, a high pass that separates the Pacific and Atlantic watersheds. We begin our hike through the Cayambe-Coca nature reserve, home to some of the best highland paramo scenery in the country. This humid area is part of the largest hydrological system in the world, and features one of the highest concentrations of lakes in the Andean range. The high altitude and humidity of the paramo create a very unique ecosystem with a host of endemic species. We hike mostly downhill, heading toward the Amazon lowlands on the other side of the eastern Andes. As we walk, we seek out three native deer species and the elusive spectacled bear, and of course we continue our search for the Andean Condor! Our hike ends in Termas de Papallacta Spa & Resort, where we spend the evening relaxing in the mineral-rich, curative waters of<|fim_middle|>acienda Leito or similar
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After breakfast at Termas de Papallacta, we drive along a scenic road that descends further into the Amazon basin until we reach Sumaco National Park. The local ecosystem is montane cloud forest, where many species from the jungle and the highlands coexist, in addition to some endemic mammals, birds and insects. We will see cock of the rocks, toucans, macaws, monkeys, and more. As we descend along a remote trail through dense vegetation, we can observe the gradual change from cloud forest to rainforest. We continue to descend until reaching a good spot for a healthy picnic lunch. In the afternoon, we continue by vehicle to Archidona to visit an indigenous community, where we learn about the Kichwa culture and jungle life. After our visit, we head into our jungle lodge. After a delightful dinner, we prepare our flashlights for a jungle night walk in the nature reserve next to our lodge.
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This is our most relaxed hike, with plenty of time to enjoy the jungle wildlife at an easy pace and recover at a lower altitude. The forest displays a great variety of trees like balsa, cedar, rubber and cinnamon. As we hike, our guide identifies countless species of orchids, vines, ferns, insects, and reptiles, teaching us the traditional ways indigenous tribes use many of these plants. After lunch, we drive south and start climbing back into the Andes through the Pastaza River Gorge. This scenic route, with rocky cliffs in a deep cloud forest canyon, is known for its many waterfalls. We stop to admire some of the largest, including Pailon Del Diablo (Devil's Cauldron) and Manto de la Novia (Bride's Veil). We pass through Baños, an attractive subtropical town set on the slopes of the very active Volcan Tungurahua, and enjoy some fantastic views of Tungurahua before arriving to an Andean Hacienda, where we will spend the night.
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The Llanganates mountain range has a long history of mystical events and legends. To this day, it is one of the few places in the world that remains largely unexplored and uncharted. Locals relive stories of failing compasses and disappearances, and the most famous legend tells how Inca general Rumiñahui hid a vast fortune of gold in one of the range's lakes. The Llanganates is protected as a vast, 220,000 hectare national park, it covers four provinces and the altitude in the park varies between 4,500 and 1,200 meters.
Our hike starts around 3,500 meters and takes us through cloud forest, Andean forest, and paramo ecosystems. This picturesque and remote trail gives us the chance to enjoy great views of the surrounding volcanoes and spot an abundance of hummingbirds, mountain tanagers, and deer. We continue our hike to Laguna San Borja seeking for the elusive spectacled bear, looking up for evidence of its presence, following its prints and traces. If we are very lucky we may see one! In the afternoon we continue the journey through the avenue of the Volcanoes to the Cotopaxi area for dinner and overnight at an Andean Hacienda.
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Cotopaxi Volcano, with its symmetrical, glaciated cone and imposing presence, is one of Ecuador's most enduring images. The wild paramo that surrounds this 5,897 meter giant is designated as Cotopaxi National Park, and is a spectacular place to hike while searching for highland wildlife and admiring incredible volcanic scenery. We begin our adventure on the slopes of Volcan Rumiñahui, where we get stunning views of Cotopaxi rising over 2,000 meters above the high plain. As we hike, we spot hares, foxes, falcons, deer, and with luck, condors flying overhead. We descend the slopes of Rumiñahui Volcano, all the way to Limpiopungo Glacier Lake, home to scores of aquatic birds. It is common to see gulls, ducks, teals, lapwings, shore birds, and even the occasional high-altitude flamingo on the banks of Limpiopungo. After stopping for lunch at a local hacienda, we return to Quito to rest and celebrate an epic adventure!
You will be picked up from your hotel in Quito the morning of Day 1, and dropped off at your hotel in the late afternoon on Day 7. A hotel in Quito is not included, but can be added upon request.
Trip Start: Quito, Ecuador
Trip End: Quito, Ecuador
Pricing is per person, and based on double or triple occupancy.
5 – 9 People: $1,765.00
10+ People: $1,435.00
Single Supplement: $427.00
Holiday Surcharge: For departures over Easter, Christmas, or New Years, there may be a holiday surcharge added to the above rates. Please inquire for availability and pricing.
This trip can start on any date, pending availability.
None, but this trip is great for families!
All meals from lunch on the first day to lunch on the last day
All excursions as outlined in the itinerary (subject to change due to weather and your guide's discretion)
Expert English speaking hiking & naturalist guide
International flights (can be booked on your own or with our flight partners at Exito Travel – for a quote, please let us know your home airport)
Tips to your guide and driver
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
Services not indicated
Accommodations in Quito (can be quoted for and added upon request)
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While on board you can enjoy the spectacular Arctic coast, the Risoyrenna strait<|fim_middle|> | , midnight in Tromso, the Vesteralen Islands, the Trollfjord (summer season), the Lofoten Islands, the Helgeland coast, Unesco Vega archipelago (optional excursion), historic Trondheim & Bergen.
Individual arrival to Oslo. Check in at a centrally located 4* hotel. Oslo is beautifully located by the Oslo fjord, surrounded by forested hills and an extensive waterfront, where you will find the Aker Brygge & Tjuvholmen pedestrian areas.
A morning flight to the Arctic town of Kirkenes, located close to the Russian border. Kirkenes has a close relationship with their Russian neighbors, and a particular feature of this Arctic town is that the street signs are both in Norwegian & Russian!
Embark the ship after breakfast for a cruise to Vardo, Norway's easternmost town, with the enchanting Vardohus Fortress. Continue along the Varanger peninsula before a late evening arrival at Batsfjord. All meals are included while on board (food only).
Cruise via the Arctic town of Hammerfest, across Soroysund to Oksfjord. The course is set via Lopphavet open sea and the ship finds quiet waters towards Skjervoy island and the Arctic town of Tromso; late evening arrival.
Through the narrow Risoyrenna channel after leaving Harstad. Stokmarknes with the Hurtigruten Museum, then on to Vesteralen islands & the spectacular Lofoten islands.
The ship sails along the beautiful and fabled Helgeland Coast, with the impressive Seven Sisters mountain range and the spectacular UNESCO Vega archipelago.
The tiny historic island of Munkholmen leads the way to the historic town of Trondheim, with picturesque areas of tiny, wooden houses (Bakklandet) and the medieval Nidaros Cathedral (Norway's only cathedral).
Then passing the beautiful island of Hitra and the open sea of Hustadvika before approaching the town of Molde & Alesund towards midnight.
Magnificent West Norway scenery with mouths of fjords and a lush, beautiful archipelago, including the island kingdom of Oygarden, before the ship approaches Bergen. Arrival to Bergen at 14:30. Check in at a centrally located 4* hotel.
Spend 1 night in Bergen (included in the tour price). | 488 |
Education is more than transferring knowledge from one person to another without integrating the information. It requires the building of a sense of community so that students can see themselves in a different light and find support for their goals. A study by Shackelford & Maxwell (2012) helps to define how a sense of community is developed in an online educational environment. Accordingly, they found that introductions, group projects, sharing personal experiences, class discussions, and exchanging resources made all the difference. Of these exchanging resources for learning seemed to be the most important.
Online education is not simply about posting information in a forum. It is about the way in which that information is presented for maximum learning and having students cognitively engage<|fim_middle|> may enhance their lives.
Social constructivism is a concept whereby people make meaning out of information by actively engaging in it. It is a process of learning new information, testing it, sharing it, and manipulating that information to gain higher levels of understanding. The purpose of online education is to create conduits of social constructivist learning through activities infused with information.
To effectively engage students it is required that they have full expression of themselves through social and emotional processes. The use of cognitive, social and teacher presence it is possible to enhance learning through multiple paths of understanding. It is this environmental framework that creates higher levels of motivational cognitive activities that are encourage through social engagement.
The survey was conducted with 381 students. The researched looked at the overall social factors and interaction of students. A Likert scale and reverse coding were used. SPSS was the statistical software and a Chi-square analysis was conducted to understand the relationship between frequency and importance.
Interactions are associated with a sense of community. The more people interacted the more they viewed themselves as a group. Using introductions allowed students to foster the rapport needed for the rest of the semester. Students who shared experiences personalized and incorporated their information to more real life scenarios. Sharing resources between students allowed students to take ownership over their learning instead of relying on the instructor only.
The report doesn't indicate this concept but it is important to see such social learning as active versus passive learning. When students develop a sense of community, find their own ways of relating to the material, and find resources that help them achieve their goals they are taking an active role in their learning. They are no longer passive receptors of information but become part of the overall process and own that education to a higher degree. Social, cognitive, and resource develop appear to be an important part of the higher education process.
Shackelford, J. & Maxwell, M. (2012). Sense of community in graduate online education: contribution of learning to learner interaction. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 13 (4). | in the process of learning. There are varying aspects of learning that include social reinforcement and mental processes that further the way in which students understand the information and how it | 32 |
Home Region Dartmouth/Lake Sunapee Fine Dining Finds Room at the Inn at Pleasant Lake
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Oak & Grain is located at the Inn at Pleasant Lake at 853 Pleasant Street, New London, NH. Oak & Grain is open for dinner Wednesday-Sunday, and serves brunch on Sundays. Reservations required, call (603) 526-6271 or visit them online to make a reservation.
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Chef Talk: Chef Bryan Leary – Oak & Grain Restaurant | guests," a first-time diner at the Inn at Pleasant Lake told Jennifer Reed. It wasn't the first time Jennifer and her husband and business partner Scott had heard this from a New London local. "It was time for the restaurant to have its own identity," Jennifer said.
Fine Dining at Oak & Grain
Now two years into their ownership of the Inn at Pleasant Lake, Oak & Grain, the Inn's new restaurant, was born. The Reeds brought more than a name change to the restaurant. They completely renovated the dining room, warming up the space and putting the emphasis on their incredible view of the lake and Mt. Kearsarge. They toned down the table settings. "We're trying to make it more approachable so people aren't afraid of using the wrong fork," Scott said. And after a six-month search, they hired Chef Bryan Leary.
Jennifer and Scott Reed, owners of the Inn at Pleasant Lake.
Farm to Table in New London
Inn at Pleasant Lake has been a hotspot for fine dining in an area mostly dotted with pubs and grills. "Over the last 20 years or so, the restaurant has really grown to be a favorite destination for a unique dining experience," Scott said. With Chef Leary in the kitchen, the restaurant's reputation has only grown, becoming the place for farm-to-table fine dining in New London.
Chef Leary walks the walk when it comes to farm-to-table. When he was a chef in Portland, ME, Leary would work on farms on his days off to get an idea of how much work goes into the farm's practices. That dedication to knowing where the food comes from and being able to explain it to guests has carried over to his menu at Oak & Grain. "I use 17 different farms right now and I'm working on gathering more every week," Leary said, "It's a lot of tasting, it's a lot of testing."
Bringing Adventure to the Table
At Oak & Grain, the five course prix-fixe menu changes every night. Diners choose one of two main dishes, Leary explained, "but everything else you're leaving it up to the chef to decide what's good, what's fresh, what's seasonal, what's local, and there's a little bit of adventure to it." This daring format led to some hiccups early on in Chef Leary's tenure, like the first time he served rabbit.
"We had 20 people that night and only four wanted the rabbit," Leary recalled. He sent out a portion of the rabbit to every diner who hadn't ordered it and asked servers to ask the guests to if they'd like to try the rabbit. 13 of the 16 guests said afterwards that they wished they'd ordered the rabbit. It's this determination to broaden guests' culinary horizons that makes Chef Leary such a phenomenal ambassador of the local food movement.
Chef Leary leading one of his popular cooking classes at the inn. Photo courtesy of Inn at Pleasant Lake.
That mission doesn't end with dinner. Chef Leary teaches hands-on cooking classes at the Inn at Pleasant Lake. He insists on small class sizes (max. eight people) and everyone gets their own burner. Chef Leary also posts regularly on Chef | 666 |
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As an added bonus each rental receives weekly use of a Street Legal Golf Cart that is restricted to roads w/speed limit of 35 mph or less. You can cruise to one of the many local beach access points, the grocery store, shopping, or dining establishments. A Very Cool Bonus Your family will Love! (User Agreement Required). To see more about the OBX Beach Buggies visit their information page.
Ground Level: Parking for 6 Cars, Entry to Home, Rec. Room w/Pool Table, 50 Inch TV, Wet Bar w/Full Size Refrigerator, Full Bath, Bedroom w/1 Duo Bunk, Access to Patio Area, Private 14 x 30 Swimming Pool - Heated at No Extra Charge - (Please Bear in Mind That Pool Temperature is Subject to Outside Temperatures & Conditions), Hot Tub, Outside Shower, & Gas Grill.
Mid Level: 4 Bedrooms (2 Master Suites w/Queens & Full Baths, 1 w/King, & 1 w/2 Singles), Shared Full Bath, Den w/TV Viewing Area, & 2 Covered Decks.
Top Level: Living/Dining/Kitchen Area, Ocean Views, 55 Inch 4K TV, Entertainment System, Gas Fireplace, Half Bath, Master Suite w/King & Full Bath, Covered Deck, & Sun Deck.
Features include: C/AC & Heat, Washer/Dryer, Dishwasher, Microwave, Phone, TVs, DVDs, Stereo w/CD, Wireless Internet, Baby Equipment (High Chair & Pac-n<|fim_middle|> handy to go to the beach access and going across to the grocery store, shopping and out to eat.
The golf cart was a huge benefit to this property in getting chairs, umbrellas, etc. to the beach as well as to take the kids for ice cream after dinner.
The golf cart was a huge benefit to this property in getting chairs, umbrellas, etc. to the beach as well as to take the kids for ice cream after dinner. The kitchen utensil stock wasn't great, but overall we LOVED the house.
The cleanliness and comfort of the house was fantastic and with grandkids, the convenience of having a pool and the golfcart to haul everything to the beach was a real plus. Additionally, the way the bedrooms were distributed throughout the house gave everyone a good amount of privacy.
The home is lovely, very nicely furnished, and very convenient. Thoroughly enjoyed the use of the golf buggy and the private beach access. The pool is a great size and was very functional for our younger grandchildren.
This house is wonderful and well kept and in a great, convenient location!
Carolina Cottage is a wonderful house! It is in great shape. Our interior designer daughter-in-law was impressed with the decor. It is close to the beach. We loved having the use of the beach buggy. The pool is a nice size. We spent many hours swimming, sunning, playing games, and barbecuing before and after trips to the beach. The house is close to grocery stores and restaurants. Our family voted to come back again next year!
Beautiful, comfortable home with a great pool and hot tub area, close to beach access with golf cart. Enjoy! | -Play), Ceiling Fans, & Deck & Pool Furniture. No Pets. This is a Non-Smoking Unit.
The house was just beautiful, we were very happy with the size, decor, it's amenities and location.
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Family Guide to Wordle
You may have heard people talking about a new game called Wordle. Or you may have seen grids of yellow, green and grey boxes shared on social media. Here's everything you need to know about the game.
Wordle is a daily puzzle game where you (and anyone else playing that day) try and guess the secret word. You get six guesses that must be real words. Each letter is then coloured to provide clues: green for the right letter in the right place, yellow for the right letter but<|fim_middle|> browser. You don't need to download a game or an app, it's played instantly by browsing to the game page.
If you have completed the game for the day and are looking for more word-based gaming fun there are a lot of other options:
Babble Royale is a cross between Scrabble and Fortnite.
Word Hunters (PEGI 3) is a world travelling word game you can play with 6 people on PlayStation 4 and 5.
Spell Tower (PEGI 3) is a Boggle-style word game with a bit of Tetris thrown in for fun.
Baba Is You (PEGI 3) is a game where changing words alters the logic of the game world. | not in the right position, grey for letters not used in the word.
You can only play once a day, but this means that everyone in the world is trying to guess the same word every day. Once you have succeeded (or failed) you can share your results on social media. Cleverly, this shares a grid of squares that are coloured to show how many letters each of your guesses revealed but not what the word is.
We spoke to BBC about the game recently:
You can play Wordle for free. Because it's played in a web browser you can play on any device. There are no in-game purchases or adverts.
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As UAE Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Dr. Jassim Muhammad Al Qasimi stated, "This is an important demonstration of the UAE's humanitarian role in supporting African countries and alleviating humanitarian crises they face by sending food items to the Republic of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was one of the first countries to receive medical aid from the UAE to fight COVID-19, where more than 8,000 healthcare workers received assistance to curb the virus' spread.
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Another decent soaring day in Pociunai – our second in a row. Unfortunately, it had some traps, and one of these caught our three US Team pilots.
We have post-frontal air, so bright sun producing plenty of cumulus clouds. We also have a bit too much moisture on the ground, leading to spreading clouds that cut off the sun's heating and in some cases produce light rain. The areas of rain are troublesome – for a substantial time they can suppress lift in an otherwise productive sky. So<|fim_middle|>charger disabled), and with a trailer in tow is thus limited to about 90 kph on flat ground, and something like 50 up even a gentle hill. Looking for a place to break the drive (figuring it would be easy to catch up) I spotted a woman at the side of the road selling some sort of pinkish-yellow produce. On inspection, these proved to be chanterelles, a choice edible mushroom popular here. We bought a kilogram for 5 euros – about 20% of the bargain price anywhere in the US. We are now researching recipes – current thinking inclines toward an exotic spaghetti sauce, or perhaps sautéed chanterelles on toast. | it was that Noah, J.P. and Daniel got low at the first turnpoint yesterday, could not find a saving thermal, and landed not far south of the main Vilnius airport.
You may ask how it is that tasks are being set that take pilots close to – indeed right over the top of – the airport that serves the largest city in Lithuania, which typically handles around 3000 flights a week. Airspace forbidden to contest gliders normally surrounds Vilnius out to a distance of 40+ km. But for five weeks this summer, Vilnius airport is closed for runway construction (airlines are using Kaunas, the second-largest city). The surrounding airspace is thus temporarily available to gliders, and the Pociunai task area includes – for this one contest – quite a bit more territory within Lithuania than it ever has. This is said to be the first such case for the past 50 years, and perhaps the last for another 50.
The three US Team outlandings were again in one field, this time a small one with uncut (but rather low and scruffy) wheat. The Jantar gliders (commendably strong) handled this without difficulty. The farmer was initially unhappy with what he thought were three joyriding pilots making uninvited use of his field; he wondered why they hadn't used the adjacent field (containing numerous 7-ft pine trees). When he understood that these were motorless aircraft, he calmed down a bit, and the gift of a small bottle of vodka definitely improved his mood. About two hours after the landings, three trailers arrived and the gliders were soon packed away and rolling west, back to Pociunai.
I was driving the car towing MZ (Noah Reitter's Jantar). Tony Condon, towing BC (J.P. Stewart's glider), was in the lead because he's the slowest: the Hyundai SUV has again reverted to "safe mode" (turbo | 410 |
UNBELIEVABLE! Wigan Thrash Man City, No More Quadruple And Sergio Aguero Threatens to Sue
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Wigan manager Paul Cook said he had to 'shut his eyes and pray' as his League One side ended Manchester City's hopes of winning the Quadruple by beating them 1-0 in the FA Cup fifth round.
Wigan netted the only goal with 11 minutes left as they repeated their win over City in the 2013 FA Cup Final.
"It feels great. It is such a severe test. They are such a strong side. We rode our luck at times," said Cook. He added: "Our players deserve credit for their work. Some of the blocks they made were outstanding and to beat Man City you have to do that."
The full-time whistle sparked scenes of celebration from the home fans, many of whom ran onto the pitch to celebrate.
Guardiola congratulated Wigan, who will face Southampton in the quarter-finals on the weekend of 17-18 March. The Spaniard added: "It was like a final. They had one shot on target.
"I don't have regrets with the way we played, the performance, the heart.
"I judge my players on intentions and not results and the intentions were good."
Manchester City and Sergio Aguero are considering legal action against the Wigan fan they allege attacked and insulted the striker following Monday night's ill-tempered FA Cup clash.
It is claimed that a supporter hit the Argentine from behind, spat at him and said "suck my d***" during a pitch invasion.
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The University of Toronto's main campus, St. George, is located right downtown next to Queen's Park. Two neighborhoods border the U of T campus: Harbord Village and the Discovery District. Harbord Village is a dog-loving, family-friendly, student-welcoming area with lots of bakeries and cafes to study in. To the south of the campus is the Discovery District. Known for its tall glass buildings, this neighborhood attracts young entrepreneurs looking to enter the high tech sector. | 493 |
The month of August is coming to an end. The last Monday of this busy month brings with it a special revelation: which blog was I assigned to cook from as a member of The Secret Recipe Club? And who is posting something from my blog? Which recipe was chosen? So much excitement, so much fun… This month I was paired with a food blog Queen: Amy, the hostess of "Fearless Homemaker" has even been on TV! You can read about her first cooking demonstration by clicking here. And now, here I am, cooking a recipe from her blog. Too cool for words. If her blog is new to you, I strongly recommend you to stop by. Not only she has loads of wonderful recipes, but side-stories that are truly special, like her surprise wedding party. She and her partner invited friends over for a nice get-together, and all of a sudden both disappeared, changed into their<|fim_middle|> enjoy it with you along with a warm cuppa ;-).
Apples and cinnamon is my favorite combo of all time. Now I want a piece of this bread! Maybe there's still enough time in the day for me to get a loaf in the oven. Thank you for sharing Sally and thank you for all your kind words on my blog!
I love eating apples and baking with them – this looks like a great recipe. Totally agree about the amazing smell in your kitchen when you bake with cinnamon. Great SRC pick. | wedding outfits, and next thing their guests knew, an orchestra was playing, a priest was arriving , and the party turned into their wedding! Now the family got bigger, as she and her husband recently welcomed the arrival of "The Fearless Baby"… Congratulations, Amy!
Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray an 8 by 4 loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. Reserve.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the eggs and beat on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Add in oil, applesauce, vanilla, mix until smooth. Add the sugar and mix until well combined.
Slowly add in the flour mixture, incorporating until the flour is barely combined. Gently fold in the apple chunks. pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Prepare the topping: in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, sugar, and cinnamon. Sprinkle this topping over the batter in the loaf pan. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until loaf is golden, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool bread in pan for 10 minutes. loosen sides of the loaf with a knife and invert carefully. Cool the cake completely on a rack before slicing.
Amy, it's been great to spend time on your blog, reading your stories, marveling at your photos.
I hope you enjoyed this month's assignment as much as I did!
The detail of leaving the apples in chunks makes this bread – a beautiful marriage indeed!
I like Amy's blog too, and I think this cinnamon bread looks awesome!
Her blog is great, I was lucky to get it this month!
Did you say cinnamon sugar on top? I'm in. Great SRC pick!
What a perfect recipe for the upcoming fall season. I can't wait to smell it baking in my own kitchen. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having fun in this special Monday!
Oh my that looks amazing – I can smell it through the computer! 😀 Great SRC choice!!
I am glad I settled on that recipe, it was a tough choice, but apples, cinnamon, well… you know… a winner!
Apples and cinnamon are a match made in heaven.
Happy Reveal Day for you too! Hope you enjoyed the round up!
What a great intro you wrote about Amy's blog! And this bread! I'm all over it.
I LOOOVE anything with apples & cinnamon! This bread looks great– can't wait til I have crisp Fall apples to bake with!
Apples and cinnamon, cannot beat that combo!
This screams fall and I cannot wait! great pick!
Emily, it's a good thing lots of people love the Fall, I actually like cooking in a cooler weather, but the idea of Fall brings the fear of Winter. Not good.
This looks like a perfect autumn recipe!
A great way to welcome fall. I am going to miss apple season in the northeast this year. Always one of my favorite times of year there. This is a perfect recipe after a morning picking apples!
Oh you should it is so fun!
You know, when I made it I did not even think about the fall, but you are absolutely right, this screams for that season… I can only hope it won't come too soon…. I am such a summer lover!
Yummy! This sounds perfect for fall! I'll have to mark it to make later.
I just love any baked good with apples! This looks yummy! Great SRC pick!
With fall right around the corner, this is perfect. I walked to lunch today and saw apple trees heavy with fruit – now I want to make this! Great SRC pick!!
I love apple anything! Bread, scones, pancakes… This looks amazing and something I will definitely have to try! Thanks for posting it.
Love cinnamon everything and this looks like the perfect breakfast!
This sounds awesome and perfect for fall! I pinned it for later 🙂 Great pick this month!
Apple bread is one of my fall-time favorites. This looks fantastic!
This was my first time making this type of recipe – I've made apple pies, apple cakes, but never included in a loaf.
The sound of this bread is definitely getting me excited for fall! So many of my favorite flavors and spices.
One of the reasons I look forward to autumn is recipes like this one. Delicious!
I'm ready to be done with the heat and humidity. It's hard to do full on cooking when it's like that and I'm ready to create more dishes!
at least here it's not very humid, so that helps…. heat and humidity can be tough!
I can smell this lovely loaf baking from here… all the fragrances of fall swirling about in my mind and heart. Delightful. Love the bits of apple coming through and wish I was working in your department to | 1,013 |
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Historic Franklin builds a future on its past
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Promoting the village cemetery may not seem like a strange way to generate interest, but the residents of Franklin see it as one of the village's most important assets.
"It's odd to think of a cemetery as an important part of a village," admits Village President Pam Hansen, "but, in fact, our cemetery is very interesting. We have civil war veterans buried there."
Settled in the 1820s as a farming community, Franklin was named one of the first historic districts in Michigan, and its burial ground tells the story of generations who have resided there. The cemetery's proximity to bustling events on the village green is a perfect example of how the historic village in Oakland County is taking its past with it as it moves forward.
Pam Hansen. Joe Powers Insitu Photography
Hansen describes the village as something of a bubble, interacting with nearby downtown Detroit but tucked away. Franklin appropriately bears the unofficial slogan "The Town that Time Forgot".
"Franklin has this great deep dive into the past," she explains, "but is living very much in the present."
Striking that balance is no easy task, which is why Hansen works with Main Street Franklin (MSF), a non<|fim_middle|> Rope for Heart demonstrations at the village's Labor Day "Round-Up" and clothing and food drives, the students have made sure they are active contributors to the village identity. "Kids sometimes get a bad rap these days," Luttrell says, "but our kids are out there, they're showing they're willing to work, willing to push forward, and that they really are interested in what's happening in the future. And they really are our future."
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About Metromode | -profit organization striving to preserve the downtown's historic charm while encouraging new business. Through village events, public art projects and historic preservation workshops, MSF has been steadily shaping Franklin's identity as a historic village with a bright future.
Bill Lamott runs the Franklin Historical Society (FHS), along with his wife Ann, and he says the village is a rare example of structures that have retained their historic character and been repurposed for contemporary use. While the local Historic District Commission regulates the exterior aesthetics of buildings in the district, the small volunteer team at the FHS aims to foster preservation awareness in the village. They maintain exhibits and programs at the museum, publish a newsletter and conduct walking tours to help keep the history alive.
Lamott admits there are challenges to growing with such a rich past, beyond the obvious financial aspect of maintaining historic properties.
"Most historic property owners are conscientious caretakers; others need to be encouraged," Lamott explains. He says recruiting volunteers to serve on the FHS board and the Historic District Commission can be difficult as well, and that managing change is often a hurdle.
"The historic district has, and will continue to, change," he says. "The challenge is to assure that change is executed in a manner that preserves historic integrity."
Old town, new business
Change is indeed underway, with several new businesses opening in Franklin this year. Just Guys Apparel has launched downtown, and owners Jason and Doreen Dickman say they chose to open in Franklin because of the "up north" feel of the tree-lined streets.
"The charm, history, and surrounding shops in the area made it an easy decision," says Jason Dickman. To create their trendy new store, the Dickman's rehabilitated one of the oldest buildings in the village, dating back to the 1830s. The building has since been a hardware store, jewelry store, bookstore, and barber shop (once a favorite of Detroit Tigers' Alan Trammell).
The couple says Franklin balances new business and historic integrity nicely, and that they have been impressed by local knowledge and passion for the past. "If you take a walk down the street, many local people will be able to tell you what business was started and in which building," explains Jason Dickman.
The men's store isn't the only example of using a piece of the past to make room for new business. Jacqueline Drake opened an art gallery downtown in May and Holly Kaiser hopes to open a French Patisserie in a historic barn downtown by Labor Day.
Jaqueline Drake Gallery . Joe Powers Insitu Photography
Realtor Dan Costello finished restoring a 170-year-old dairy barn in the downtown in 2014, to create a space for clothing shop Zieben Mare. He says his childhood memories from the area led him to want to be part of the village "fabric and lore".
He believes the region's past will continue to inspire its future. "The early entrepreneurs of yesteryear worked to create a community whose importance and presence is still felt and carried on by today's independent downtown merchants and professionals," he says.
John (J.J.) Zielinski has also chosen Franklin for his new business, Lakehouse Studios, and says the village has done a great job in preserving the architecture in the area.
"While the buildings are not as modernized as you would get in Birmingham," he explains, "the organizations that have dropped anchor here inherit a historical vibe that comes with the buildings where they reside."
The challenges of old buildings and infrastructure
Running a business in a historic village is not always easy. Hansen says that any municipality with historic structures faces challenges. The types of problems that can arise were exemplified with a recent discovery of an old chemical storage tank under a Franklin shopfront. The finding caused an evacuation of several stores and required air-quality testing. It's a setback, but one Hansen says village leaders believe will be resolved soon.
She says water supply can also be an issue in older communities; most of Franklin is still on well water. A move to a municipal supply would require a citizen vote because of stipulations in the village charter.
"Sometimes I worry that people might not pay enough attention to the reality that we all share water here and we need to be careful," Hansen says.
Zielinski points out that despite these challenges, the advantages for new businesses locating in Franklin outweigh the disadvantages.
"Every time a client comes here, we usually spend the first 15 minutes just talking about the different buildings and how well the city has done to preserve the architecture," he says. It's something his company, and others in the downtown, try to incorporate. "We are known for providing a modern take in all of our projects. But being in Franklin inspires us to take the best of both worlds and mesh them together."
Cultural change
On a cultural level, change can also cause friction within established neighborhoods. Learning to embrace new resident dynamics and cultures can present a challenge. Hansen confesses there are some stereotypes about a lack of diversity among the higher socioeconomic neighborhoods of Franklin, but argues that the village is not as mono-ethnic as people might believe.
She points out that the community has worked through cultural divisions in recent years. When an Islamic Montessori school was opened in the village (Huda School), Hansen says there was some initial anxiety from residents, but that the community was won over after the school board purchased and restored a dilapidated historic building. She says the school's active contribution to the community effectively avoided what could have been a contentious issue.
"We have many religions," she says "We have many cultural backgrounds here."
Huda School . Joe Powers Insitu Photography
Huda School teacher Beth Luttrell says getting youth involved in Franklin helps everyone in the community, and is an integral part of the village moving forward. Students at the school are required to do community service, but Luttrell says many do a lot more because they enjoy being a part of Franklin.
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The swirling lines and circular movement drew me in deeper to the blue sea. I was physically and emotionally drawn to the small piece of artwork that sat at the checkout counter of the Blend Café. I paid for a delectable looking almond croissant and coffee. Then I headed out for a stroll on the beach.
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Follow me on the journey. | stop thinking about the flowing blue lines in the seemly wood cut image. At that moment I knew I had to go back.
Yes, that little gem was still at the Blend Cafe, a small piece of artwork by surf artist Alex Krastev of Huntington Beach, California. After further exploration I noticed Alex's artwork was dotted throughout the newly opened Paséa Hotel and Spa. The room keys were even designed by him. After a little research I discovered that Alex Krastev was indeed a surfer, as well as a senior graphic designer for Rip Curl. His focus is in mixed media, which is one of my favorite artist mediums. Alex Krastev's artist expression extends across T-shirts, paintings, and even guitars. Alex's energy and passion for surfing permeates his artwork and calls to its new owner just as the sea calls to those that | 173 |
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WARNING – This trail may pass through one or more neighborhoods which, although full of history, may now be unsafe for individuals on foot, or which may make you feel unsafe there. Hikers have been approached by individuals who have asked for handouts or who have inquired (not always in a friendly manner) why the hikers are in their neighborhood. Drugs and other inappropriate items have been found by hikers in some neighborhoods. It is suggested that you drive the hike routes first to see if you will feel comfortable walking them and, if you don't think it's a good place for you walk, you might want to consider (1) traveling with a large group, (2) doing the route on bicycles, or (3) choosing another hike route. The degree of comfort will vary with the individual and with the time and season of the hike, so you need to make the determination using your best judgment. If you hike the trail, you accept all risks involved.
Copyright 2005 by Steve Rajtar
Click here for a printable PDF of this Hike Plan – Minneola Historical Trail
(From Interstate 4, drive west on SR 50, north on US 27, west and southwest on Grand Hwy. and Palm St. to park at Clermont Waterfront Park. Pay the parking fee.)(0.0 miles so far)
Southeast shore of Lake Minneola, near the intersection of Lake Minneola Dr. and 2nd St.
1….Clermont Waterfront Park
This section of shoreline, formerly called the Jaycee Public Beach, was donated as a park by Clermont Mayor C.O. Roe in 1917.
(Walk northeast on Palm St. and east on Grand Hwy. to the intersection with US 27.)(1.1)
Southwest corner of US 27 and Grand Hwy.
2….Site of Skyline Motel
Clermont's first motel was the Skyline, located close to the city limits. It was built in 1952 by A.W. Thacker, who chose Clermont for his retirement home. The small concrete block structure was torn down about 50 years later and replaced by a gas station and convenience store.
(Cross to the southeast corner and walk east 300 feet on Grand Hwy. (which becomes Citrus Tower Blvd.), and look to the south.)(1.2)
East side of US 27, between Grand Hwy. and
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(Look northwest across the lake.)(5.4)
Intersection of CR 561A and Jalarmy Rd. (16510 Palisades Blvd.)
17….Palisades Country Club and Golf Course
In 1926, this country club was established on land that had previously belonged to Cyrus Wilson, and later by Ella M. Johnston. The clubhouse was a large frame two-story many-gabled building with 12-foot verandas on all four side. The property was sold in 1934 to W. Hal Adkinson, who drastically remodeled the clubhouse for his family home. He increased his grove holdings to 400 acres, which he named Ja-lar-my for his children, James, Larry and Myra. Later, Adkinson lined the road along the north shore of Lake Minneola and around the
estate with 1300 palm trees. Adkinson died in 1954, and the residence portion of the property was sold in 1976. It is now called Clairview Groves.
(Walk south on Lakeshore Dr., east on Chester St., and south on Main Ave. to the intersection with Washington St. and look east across the street.)(5.7)
Northeast corner of Main Ave. and Washington St. (409 Main Ave.)
18….Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
The Minneola Methodist Church was first built in the northeast part of Minneola in 1888, and was used both as a church and a school until a regular school building was erected. In April of 1894, A.K. Rowan donated this site and paid to have the building moved onto it. It was then dedicated as the Methodist Episcopal Church, North. In 1925, the building was acquired by the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. The original building was torn down and a new one was erected in 1976-78.
(Cross to the southwest corner and look across the street to the east.)(5.7)
Southeast corner of Main Ave. and Washington St.
19….Site of Wilson Store
Robert Foley built the first store in Minneola in 1884. Stark Wilson followed shortly thereafter with a store on this site. To the south of this site later were the post office, then the P.K. Garage, and to the south of that in 1912, Campbell's Store was built. It burned down in 1945.
(Continue south 215 feet on Main Ave.)(5.8)
Northwest corner of Main Ave. and Fairview St. (508 Main Ave.)
20….Straker House
Robert and Elizabeth Straker arrived in Minneola in 1884. Robert died in a mill accident, and Elizabeth operated the commissary for the lumber people. She then built and operated a boarding house for mill workers, adding several additions. The Straker House became known for comfort and good food. It burned down in
about 1912, and was replaced with the present structure. A lumber mill and train station were nearby. After
the Depression, the lodge was remodeled into apartments, and it was operated without overnight guests from 1964 until 1980. Then, Steve and Shari Parrish acquired it and restored a Victorian atmosphere. It opened in 1990 as the Lake Minneola Inn, a bed and breakfast establishment. It features wraparound porches
on both the first and second floors and elaborate shingle work.
(Continue south on Main Ave. to the intersection with Fairview St.)(5.8)
Southwest corner of Main Ave. and Fairview St. (600-602 Main Ave.)
21….Foulk Block
This three-unit business block was built by J.O. Foulk in 1928-29.
(Continue south on Main Ave. to the intersection with Summerhill Ct.)(6.1)
Intersection of Main Ave. and Summerhill Ct.
22….Site of Railroad Depots
Approximately here were located two railroad depots, one on each side of Main Ave. At this point, the railroad tracks ran from the southwest to the northeast.
(Continue south on Main Ave., then walk west on Silverton St. and southwest on Lake Minneola Dr. and the paved bike path to the point of beginning.)(7.0)
Clermont: Gem of the Hills, by Miriam W. Johnson and Rosemary Y. Young (Rose Printing Company, Inc. 1984)
Guide to the Small and Historic Lodgings of Florida, by Herbert L. Hiller
(Pineapple Press, Inc. 1991)
Lake County, Florida: A Pictorial History, by Emmett Peter, Jr. (The Donning Company 1994)
Memories of Mount Dora and Lake County, by David Edgerton (1983)
Through Schoolhouse Doors: A History of Lake County Schools, by The Lake County Retired
Teachers Association (Rose Printing Co., Inc. 1982)
Monday 6:30- 8:00 PM
(During the School Year)
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3….Citrus Tower
A.W. Thacker bought this hill and formed the Florida Towers Corporation. In June of 1955, construction began on the Citrus Tower. It had its official opening 13 months later. The tower is 26 feet square and contains 149,000 pounds of reinforcing steel and 50 tons of concrete. Its top is 200 feet above the ground and 543 feet above sea level, providing a view of over 2000 square miles. Before severe freezes in the early 1980s, most of that view was of citrus trees. The tower was designed to withstand winds of up to 190 miles per hour.
(Continue east on Citrus Tower Blvd. to the intersection with Hatteras Rd.)(1.8)
Intersection of Citrus Tower Blvd. and Hatteras Rd.
4….Mohawk
An early settler in Mohawk was Mr. Palmer, who in 1882 sold his land to Charles H. Stokes of Lee Center, New York. Stokes built a home, and in it was the Mohawk post office. In about 1900 expanded it into a hunting and fishing lodge, known as the Jolly Palms.
(Continue east on Mohawk Rd. until it makes a 90 degree turn to the left, and look to the south.)(1.9)
Shore of Jack's Lake
5….Site of Hull Homestead
George W. Hull from Canada, and Ralph C. Humiston from the Chicago area, were the leading individuals in founding Minneola. In 1882, Hull acquired 120 acres bordering Lake Afton, now known as Jack's Lake, located to the south of here over the ridge. A post office was set up in Hull's home in 1883, with him as the postmaster. Hull acquired 120 acres from the Parish homestead, added 80 acres, and laid out the town. He completed his survey and map in 1884, and named it Minneola. He renamed Cow House Lake as Lake Minneola. The Hulls moved south of Clermont in 1890 to Monte Vista on Lake Nellie. He served as postmaster there and had a store on what is now Oswalt Rd. The Hulls donated land for the Monte Vista Baptist Church, cemetery and school.
(Walk north on Mohawk Rd., west on Old SR 50, east on Washington St., and north on Grassy Lake Rd. to the intersection with Pearl St.)(3.5)
East side of Grassy Lake Rd., across from Pearl St.
6….Minneola Cemetery
Ralph C. Humiston donated the land for this cemetery in 1884. The entrance gate was dedicated in his honor in 1953 by the Minneola Progressivites.
(Continue north on Grassy Lake Rd., then walk east on Plum Lake Dr. and south and east on Plum Lake Cir. to the bottom of the hill.)(3.8)
North shore of Plum Lake
7….Site of Smith Homestead
Near here was the homestead of Minneola's first settlers, Capt. William A. Smith and wife, Sylvania, known as Uncle Bily and Aunt Sally, and her aunt Elizabeth Parish. They arrived here from Georgia following the Civil War. He built a log cabin on the north shore of Plum Lake, also known as Lake Juniata or Stokes' Lake. Later, they moved to the north shore of Cow House Lake, now known as Lake Minneola.
(Continue east on Plum Lake Cir., then walk north and west on Plum Lake Dr., south on Grassy Lake Rd., and west on Pearl St. to the intersection with Oakland Ave.)(4.5)
Northeast corner of Pearl St. and Oakland Ave. (300 E. Pearl St.)
8….Minneola Elementary School
This school was built in 1964. Howard Wade served as its first principal.
(Continue west on Pearl St. to the intersection with Galena Ave.)(4.7)
Southwest corner of Pearl St. and Galena Ave. (105 S. Galena Ave.)
9….First Baptist Church of Minneola
Forty-five charter members started this church in the town Community Building on November 13, 1955, with Rev. Cody Johnson as the first pastor. The first portion of the church building was completed here on December 23, 1956. An addition was dedicated exactly five years later.
(Walk north on Galena Ave., west on Minneola St., and south on US 27 to the intersection with Pearl St.)(5.2)
Northwest corner of US 27 and Pearl St. (100-A 9. US 27)
10….Lakes & Hills
A restaurant owned by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Matz opened here in the early 1950s. It was later remodeled into a real estate office.
(Look across to the southwest corner.)(5.2)
Southwest corner of US 27 and Pearl St. (100 S. US 27)
11….Jack's Barbecue
This restaurant was started by Jack Underwood in the early 1950s.
(Look across to the southeast corner.)(5.2)
Southeast corner of US 27 and Pearl St.
12….Site of Minneola Citrus Shop
In the early 1950s, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mann established the Minneola Gift Shop and Express Shippers on that corner. It was torn down and replaced in about 2000.
(Walk west on Pearl St. to the intersection with Main Ave.)(5.3)
Northeast corner of Main Ave. and Pearl St. (101 Main Ave.)
13….City Hall
Minneola incorporated in December of 1925, with A.A. Pitt as its first mayor. The name of the town came from an Indian phrase meaning "many waters". The first residence was built by Dr. W.M. Reeves, the town's first physician, who had arrived in 1882. He first homesteaded 160 acres east of Lake Louise, south of Clermont, and then moved to Minneola.
(Cross to the southwest corner.)(5.3)
Southwest corner of Main Ave. and Pearl St. (100 Main Ave.)
14….Former School
The first school in Minneola was established near the railroad in 1885, with Mrs. Summerall as its first teacher. This building was later erected at this site and served as a school until Clermont and Minneola schools were considered in 1915. It was later converted into a residence with a high peaked roof with interesting shingle detail.
(Continue south on Main Ave. to the intersection with Osceola St.)(5.4)
Northwest corner of Main Ave. and Osceola St. (110 Main Ave.)
15….Heddon House
In 1904, W.T. and Laura Heddon came to Minneola from Dowajiac, Michigan. Their family manufactured fishing tackle, and for years they tested their products in the lakes of Central Florida. Their first home was built in 1909, and the second in 1915 was at the location. Mr. Heddon built the town's first public water system and served as mayor from 1933 to 1937.
(Walk west on Osceola St. to the intersection with Lakeshore Dr. and look west northwest across the lake.)(5.4)
Northwest shore of Lake Minneola
16….Site of Wilson Homestead
In 1880, Cyrus Henry Wilson and his wife, Lida, arrived here. They acquired and developed this land near the Palatlakaha River with a flourishing citrus grove. A bridge, island and small lake near here still bear the Wilson name. When the railroads arrived in the area, Wilson built a packing house on the south shore of this lake, and Wilson's small steamboat took the fruit | 1,763 |
(Also known as "Bi-Transit" drains.)
Once the standard, these beautiful fixtures are no longer being made.
[UPDATE: A Reproduction is NOW available! CLICK HERE] There are 1000's (if not Tens of 1000's) still in use across the country today.
In response to the high number of emails we receive each week from people looking for repair and replacement options, we have added this informational page to our site to help spell out the available courses of action and to answer the most common questions.
Unrestored Standing Waste with low Bell Filler spout.
Fully restored Standing Waste with high Bell Filler spout.
Frequently Asked Question #1:
Q: "I have a funny tub faucet with the spout coming through the side of the tub. Do you have any repair parts for these?"
Short Answer: No<|fim_middle|> spare parts and can often adapt parts off a junked valve to work with your valve. In almost all cases, we can machine new parts as replacements in our shop. In either case, we need the original parts to work from.
More information on how to go about sending us your parts on our Restorations Page.
Picture at left shows a fully restored valve body and "Yoke" assembly. The yoke is the heart of the Standing Waste assembly, if your valve is missing the yoke, you have expensive problems! The yoke is the one part we cannot reproduce. If an over-zealous plumber hack-sawed this piece in half, we might be able to make repairs, if the piece is missing entirely, you may have to consider replacement options. We occasionally have complete Standing Waste assemblies for sale on our Restored Valves Page.
Q: "I would like to replace my old lift-up tub drain with something that has an overflow, can you help?"
Answer: You already have an overflow! Standing waste drains are also called "bi-transit drains" due to their dual-tube construction. The picture at right shows a restored drain assembly. The tube in the center sits inside the large tube on the left and acts as a stopper. Notice the hole near the top of the stopper tube: That's the overflow hole. As water fills the tub, it also rises unseen inside the large drain tube to the same level. The overflow hole is slightly below the rim of the tub. When water reaches the overflow hole, it runs down the center of the hollow stopper tube and down the drain.
Q: "I have an old standing waste tub valve and want to add a shower. Is there anything available or do I have to replace the whole thing?"
Answer: Not any more! We at Bathroom Machineries have devised a way to machine your existing tub spout to accept a riser and tub spout. This not only adds shower convenience to the tub, it brings it up to "code" by placing the spout more than 1″ above the rim of the tub.
If your valve is in good condition, all you need to send us is your spout. The two common styles of spout are pictured below. "Elephant trunk" spouts are easily machined to accept a riser, bell filler-style spouts (shaped like hockey pucks), sometimes must be replaced with a custom fitting.
More information on this custom fixture on our Shower Conversions page.
Close-up of "elephant trunk" style standing waste spout. Easily adapted for riser. Don't break this while removing it, to cast a new one from scratch, machine it, polish, and plate it is about $600! Tell your plumber to take it easy!
Close-up of bell filler spout. This is often mistaken for the overflow. (Looks sort of like a hocky puck, doesn't it?) Note the slot in the bottom where the water comes out. We can usually adapt these to accept a riser but may have to replace them entirely if the spout is badly corroded. Warning!, these are also about $600 to replace!
Standing Waste Code Spout Conversion:
Sometimes a shower isn't needed but due to the sale or remodeling of the home, the original standing waste is flagged by a building inspector for not being anti-syphon code compliant.
(Spout is not 1″ above the rim of the tub.) The spout at left shows a custom gooseneck spout we manufactured and fitted to the customer's original elephant trunk spout which was then inverted. This allowed the customer to bring his standing waste up to code without the cost of replacing the fixture and without having to remove an historically appropriate fixture from his vintage home and replace it with something inappropriately modern.
Close-up of bell filler spout. This is often mistaken for the overflow. (Looks sort of like a hockey puck, doesn't it?) Note the slot in the bottom where the water comes out. We can usually adapt these to accept a riser but may have to replace them entirely if the spout is badly corroded. Warning!, these are also about $600 to replace!
(Spout is not 1" above the rim of the tub.) The spout at left shows a custom goose-neck spout we manufactured and fitted to the customer's original elephant trunk spout which was then inverted. This allowed the customer to bring his standing waste up to code without the cost of replacing the fixture and without having to remove an historically appropriate fixture from his vintage home and replace it with something inappropriately modern.
Q: "I want to completely replace my standing waste with a 'regular' drain and new faucet. Is there anything available to do this?"
Answer(s): The first thing we need to know is if your valve has the spout near the rim of the tub (roughly where the overflow would go on a 'regular' tub), or if it is down low near the drain. Scroll to the very top of this page and look at the "high-bell filler" and "low-bell filler" valves pictured above.
If you have the low-spout valve, you are pretty much stuck using a standing waste-type drain and fill valve. Short of refinishing the tub and having the hole in the side filled, your best option is to rebuild your existing parts or purchase a restored fixture. It may be possible to plug the filler spout from the back side of the tub and use another type of valve until a more permanent, attactive solution may be employed.
If you are fortunate enough to have a high-spout valve, a standard tub drain may be used, the overflow cover will fit the hole formerly occupied by the spout. The tub may then be filled "over the rim" with a Freestanding Tub Supply set.
If the hot and cold handles on the old valve are mounted through the rim of the tub, a deck-mounted valve or combination of swing-arm and deck-mount couplings may be used to mount one of our 79-series tub valves to the rim of the tub.
Standing waste valve on tub above has been replaced with a standard tub drain, faucet has been replaced with a new faucet supported by a freestanding tub supply.
Swing Mounting arms and deck mount couplings pictured at right may be used on most 79-series tub valves to hit "oddball" center-to-center measurements. Perfect for replacing standing waste valves mounted in the rim of the tub on 6" to 11" centers.
Valve above is a "hybrid" where the original standing waste drain has been restored and an unusual combination of swing arms and deck-mount couplings used to mount a new valve. The cover plates where the deck mounts meet the tub were custom-ground in our shop to fit the contour of the tub. This tub originally had a low spout hole which was plugged and refinished over, saving this rare 6' tub from the scrap-heap.
The Bottom Line: Standing Waste & Drain Valves are rare, valuable antiques that are neither cheap nor easy to replace. When you consider that a fully restored Standing Waste sells for anywhere between $2000 and $3000, however, the value added to one's home by keeping the original fixtures intact usually offsets the $400 to $1200 average restoration cost. If this proves to be a "budget breaker", other options are always available. The Bathroom Machineries Restoration Crew are Problem Solvers you can count on to guide you through the available options. Feel free to email or call us at 800-255-4426 if you have any questions or wish to discuss the options. | .
Long Answer: Maybe. Send us your broken parts and we'll see if the needed parts match any we have lying around, otherwise we will machine new parts to fit.
Really Long Answer: There are no "off the rack" brass repair parts available for these fixtures. Telling us about the make, model, and serial number really doesn't help in these cases because there hasn't been a parts-list printed in over 75 years.
Fully restored, these valves sell for around $2000+; as a result, we don't "part out" complete assemblies. We do however have a 27-year accumulation of | 130 |
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Human rights are not our invention. They don't represent standards from which particular | 171 |
Jason Chaffetz
In Another Surprise, Chaffetz to Quit Early
Reports say Utah congressman will leave in June
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted May 18, 2017 1:03 PM CDT
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
(Newser) – Rep. Jason Chaffetz surprised the political world last month when he announced that he wouldn't<|fim_middle|> not a surprise at all. when he announced he was leaving - he also announced he would likely not stay the rest of his term. he actually is making good on something he said. we are all surprised. | run for re-election. Now the conservative from Utah apparently has another surprise: Sources tell Politico that he won't serve out his current term and will instead leave office on June 30. He's expected to make this announcement as soon as Thursday, reports the Washington Post. The move will have ramifications given that Chaffetz chairs the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the chamber's primary investigative body. In recent days, the panel had gotten aggressive in its investigation of President Trump, with Chaffetz telling the FBI to turn over any memos by former chief James Comey, including one that might get Trump into hot water.
As with last month's coverage, there's no real explanation for why Chaffetz is leaving. He has said only that he wants to shift into the private sector, and Politico's sources think a spot on Fox News is a safe bet. Before Trump took office, Chaffetz had aggressively pursued investigations against Hillary Clinton and former President Obama. House Speaker Paul Ryan says Chaffetz hasn't filled him in on any pending departure, but the Salt Lake Tribune reports that it's already causing a political mess back in Utah in regard to picking a successor. (Read more Jason Chaffetz stories.)
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May 18, 2017 8:58 PM CDT
Chaffetz is so dirty, I'm guessing his hands are dirty with Russia and he's trying to get out and deflect attention.
Can't run from the FBI Jason, unless you want to live in Russia.
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Maintenance Planning Coordinator
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Coordination of PM's with Chief Engineers for manpower assignments.
Auditing of PM's in CMMS (Computerized Monitored Maintenance System) program.
Interface with global team on predictive maintenance program.
Identify trends with equipment, workload, etc.
Maintain/troubleshoot the tool for Critical Facility Engineers.
Coordinate with logistics team for spare parts inventory assessment.
Review/update/maintain equipment lists.
Yearly review of Preventive Maintenance schedules and identify variances between sites.
Provide weekly and monthly reports to Facility Manager & Regional Facility Manager.
Site safety committee member.
Escalate issues to Facility Manager as needed.
3 or more years of experience with data center operations.
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2+ years experience working with CMMS systems.
Knowledge of relational databases.
Knowledge in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.).
Working knowledge of relational databases and/or SQL.
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Peter Sellers was one of the most gifted British comic actors of his time, perfectly moving from costume to costume and accent to accent in a series of films that ranged from brilliant to awful. Despite his brilliance as an actor, Sellers led a deeply disturbing personal life. The actor is best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. Despite his Hollywood success, Peter Sellers' comic virtuosity belied a troubled private life
United States, HBO Home Video, 2005
Widescreen ed.
Based on the book by Roger Lewis
Special features: audio commentary with actor Geoffrey Rush and director Stephen Hopkins; audio commentary with writers Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely; featurette: "Making the life and death of Peter Sellers."
The life and death of Peter Sellers
HBO Films presents in assoication with BBC Films a DeMann Entertainment and Company Pictures Production, a film by Stephen Hopkins ; produced by Simon Bosanquet ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely ; directed by Stephen Hopkins
Life & death of Peter Sellers
Male actors -- Drama
Men -- Conduct of life -- Drama
Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980 -- Drama
Golden Globes, USA, 2005: Golden Globe - Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television; Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television (Geoffrey Rush).
Director of photography, Peter Levy ; art director, John Ralph ; editor, John Smith ; music, Richard Hartley ; costume designer, Jill Taylor ; production designer, Norman Garwood ; visual effects producer, Andrew Fowler
English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles
Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Henry Goodman, Steve Pemberton, Sonia Aquino, Stanely Tucci, Emily Watson
Hopkins, Stephen
Rush, Geoffrey
Lithgow, John
Fry, Stephen
Hartley, Richard
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<|fim_middle|> established the Group's Corporate Governance division, one of the first companies in Kuwait to fully embrace the new compliance regulations initiated by the country's Capital Market Authority.
Key milestones in Abdal's impressive career at Zain include managing two of the largest capital raisings in the history of Kuwait, namely a US$4.5 billion capital rights issue in September 2008 and a US$2.3 billion rights issue in November 2005. Additionally, he has overseen the IPOs and listing of various Zain entities over the years, including the successful listing of Zain Saudi Arabia on the Tadawul Stock Exchange in March 2008, and a subsequent capital raising of US$1.6 billion in July 2012; as well as the IPO and subsequent listing of Zain Bahrain in December 2014. He was also involved in the IPO and subsequent listing of Zain shares in Zambia in 2008 (known as Celtel at the time), and in June 2015 was involved in the successful IPO and listing of Zain Iraq on the Iraqi Stock Exchange.
Abdal graduated in 2001 from Portland State University, Oregon, US with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in Finance & Management Information Systems. He has also attended reputable executive programs in recent years that earned him several recognitions as a Certified Investments and Derivatives Auditor (CIDA), a Certified Investor Relations Officer and a Certified Corporate Governance Officer. | emerging market private equity and corporates.
transaction, setting a precedent for the market and generating SAR 1,120 million of cash proceeds.
hiring, and deployed incentive programs across portfolio.
ecommerce, ride sharing, hospitality, healthcare, education, temporary power, and oil and gas.
Rayan Al-Karawi is the MEIRA Saudi Chapter Chairman. Heads IR in Zain KSA, is an award-winning Investor Relations professional, with a career that spans more than 25 years, having held key positions covering areas such as financial markets, corporate finance and financial policies, apart from investor relations. The organizations he worked for include: the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, the Saudi Arabian Investment Bank and Dar Al-Arkan. Rayan holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Business from Schiller International University, London. He is also one of the founding members of the Saudi Chapter of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA).
Mr. Wilson is Head of Investor Relations at Aldar Properties PJSC. Mr. Wilson is responsible for the all investor related activities surrounding both equity and debt capital markets. Prior to his role at Aldar, Mr. Wilson served in various roles within investor relations, corporate finance and finance at FTSE 100 mining group Antofagasta plc in London.
Noor Sweid is the founder of Global Ventures, a Dubai-based, growth-stage venture capital firm. Previously, Noor was the Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation, focusing on developing the technology and innovation ecosystem in Dubai. Prior to this position, Noor was a Managing Partner at Leap Ventures, a growth-stage venture capital firm based out of Dubai and Beirut. With experience as a biotechnology and pharmaceutical strategy consultant in the US, and moving back to the MENA region in 2005, Noor joined her family business, Depa. Implementing best-practice corporate governance and enabling the scaling of the business tenfold in three years to reach US$600 million in revenues, Noor then led the IPO for the company in 2008, on the NASDAQ Dubai and the London Stock Exchange. In her eight year tenure at Depa, Noor's involvement ranged from the strategic and growth planning and implementation, to application of corporate governance, the execution of a private placement and an IPO, cross-border acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and investor relations.
During this time, Noor also founded ZenYoga, the first yoga and pilates studio in MENA. ZenYoga grew to become the largest chain of wellness studios in the Middle East, providing space and instruction for over a thousand students to practice yoga weekly, as well as facilities providing international teacher training and qualification, leading to improved health and wellness in the region. Noor exited ZenYoga in early 2014 through sale to a private equity firm.
The combined experiences have led Noor to focus in spaces of corporate governance and entrepreneurship. She is a Director-in-Residence for the Corporate Governance department at INSEAD where she teaches in the Value Creation for Owners and Directors program. She is Chairperson of the Middle East Venture Capital Association, and also serves as a Director for Nord Anglia International Schools, MIT Sloan, Endeavor UAE, The Grooming Holding Company and the Collegiate American School in Dubai.
Noor has been named in the Arabian Business 100 Most Powerful Arab Women list three times, and has been profiled on the covers of Forbes Middle East, Entrepreneur Middle East, and Arabian Business magazines. Noor holds bachelors' degrees in Finance and Economics from Boston College as well as an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Widely recognised as a leading lawyer for capital markets in the Middle East, Andrew Tarbuck is often the first port of call for both issuers and underwriters for IPOs and other securities offerings. He represents clients throughout the Middle East, USA, Asia and Europe on capital markets transactions, public and private M&A, restructurings, flotations and secondary equity fundraisings. In addition, Andrew also advises on debt capital markets transactions and sukuk.
Andrew is also actively involved in the market as a member of the NASDAQ Dubai Practitioners' Committee, Chairman of the Middle East Investor Relations Association and a member of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.
Consistently ranked in Band 1 for Capital Markets (UAE and the Middle East) by Chambers Global and in Legal 500 EMEA for Corporate and M&A (UAE), he has advised on many award-winning transactions, including the largest IPO ever in the Middle East.
Mahmoud Salem is a Managing Director in BNY Mellon's Investment Services sector and the Regional Manager for the Middle East and Africa. As head of transactions for the region for more than 15 years, Mahmoud has helped numerous governments and foreign issuers structure and execute IPOs, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions involving depositary receipts.
Mahmoud structured the first depositary receipts program for the following countries: Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Tunisia and UAE. He has helped structure some of the largest cross-border acquisitions in the Middle East region and has worked on a number of key NYSE and NASDAQ listings and offerings for foreign issuers from Europe and South Africa.
Mahmoud also held the role of Head of Global Marketing for the Depositary Receipts Division from 2011 to mid-2014.
Mahmoud is a board member of the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA). He speaks regularly at capital markets and securities industry conferences and forums. He received a BA and an MBA from Rutgers University and joined BNY Mellon in 1993.
Peter Gotke was a Vice President at BNY Mellon until mid-2016, representing their Depositary Receipt interests in the Middle East. Peter was based in the London office, supporting BNY Mellon Issuers, with responsibility for new Depositary Receipt programs in the EMEA region, and acting as a spokesperson in the media and at conferences for depositary receipts and investor relations. Peter holds a BA in Business Studies and Marketing from London Metropolitan University and prior to joining the Bank, Peter was employed by the Corporate division of Thomson Reuters. At Thomson Peter held roles that included Sales Director of EMEA, and Managing Director of their Investor Relations practice in Asia Pacific. Peter brings to the Middle East over 15 years of investor relations experience from his time in these and other emerging markets.
Paul Gay was appointed Almarai CFO in September 2011. In this capacity he directs all financial, systems, legal and Investor Relations matters. Additional focus is engaged on steering strategy, and actively participating in Almarai international Joint-Ventures and business development initiatives.
Previously, Paul was the CFO of Firmenich, the global leading Fragrances & Flavors house. Before that, he held senior finance management positions at Givaudan, Roche, Computerland, ICL, National SemiConductor and IBM, living in China, Japan, Europe and the USA.
Paul holds an executive MBA from ESCP Europe (1980), a French Public Accountant Certificate with Tax specialisation (1982), INSEAD Corporate Finance Diploma (2003) and Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction (2016).
Sofia is the Head of Investor Relations of First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), result of the merger between First Gulf Bank (FGB) and National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) in April 2017. In her current role, she oversees all investor-related activities and is responsible for developing and implementing an effective IR program designed to ensure accurate understanding of the company's story and strategy, and to enhance investor confidence in its value proposition. Previously, she was Head of Investor Relations at First Gulf Bank (FGB), a role she has occupied since 2013. Before moving to Investor Relations, Sofia was a sell-side equity research analyst for more than 7 years, and was heading the Banks & Financials coverage team at Dubai-based SHUAA Capital.
Sofia holds postgraduate degrees in financial management and control from Paris Dauphine University, and in international management from the American University in Washington, DC. She has been an active Board Member at MEIRA since 2014.
Omar is a Founder and General Partner at the Arab Angel Fund, a $25 million early stage venture fund focused on Seed and Series A technology investments in North America, which helps entrepreneurs access the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets. Previously, he was Director of Investor Relations, Strategy and Business Development at OCI N.V. based in New York City for over 3 years and was Head of Investor Relations at Orascom Construction Industries based in Cairo, Egypt for over 6 years prior to the company's relocation to the Euronext Amsterdam. Prior to launching his fund and joining the OCI-family, Omar was a Transfer Pricing Consultant for Deloitte Tax LLP based in Chicago and a Leveraged Finance Analyst for Deutsche Bank in London. Omar has over 11 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations and venture capital.
To-date, Omar has worked on over US$ 35 billion worth of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, divestitures, share buybacks and various corporate restructurings. During his time at OCI in Cairo, Omar won the "Best Investor Relations in Egypt" award for four consecutive years. The award is based on votes from global investors and sell-side analysts conducted through Extel Surveys by Thompson Reuters on behalf of the Middle East Investor Relations Association. In 2012, Omar and his team also won the "Best Investor Relations Team in the Middle East for Crisis Communications" award.
Omar also has extensive experience in private equity and venture capital, having founded his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which manages two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals' corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments. Omar is also an angel investor in various startups including Andela, FiscalNote and Quarrio Corp and sits on the Board of various companies and associations including Gold Cleats Inc. and the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA).
Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mohammad Abdal is a founding member and chairman of the Middle East Investor Relations Association Chapter in Kuwait and a member of the globally recognized National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).
Mohammad Abdal was appointed Chief Communications Officer of Zain Group effective July 10, 2015, heading three significant divisions within Zain Group: namely Investor Relations, Corporate Communications, and Corporate Governance & Compliance.
A Kuwaiti national, Abdal is a home-grown success story having joined Zain in 2001 as a finance executive soon after graduation. Over the next 16 years Abdal rose rapidly through the organization; playing a key role in various aspects of the company's evolution and success from a local operator in Kuwait to becoming the leading telecom conglomerate it is today.
Abdal has led the Zain Group Investor Relations department since 2008 and in January 2012 was given the added responsibility of overseeing the Group's Corporate Communications Department. In early 2014, he | 2,382 |
Latest Hurricane Dorian Cruise Ship Itinerary Changes
Bahamas Cruise Ports Assess Hurricane Dorian Impact, Freeport Receives Storm Brunt
Cruise Industry Donates Millions to Hurricane Dorian Relief<|fim_middle|> says it will also assist with long-term needs, including semi-permanent housing.
Norwegian Cruise Line: NCL has donated $2 million to recovery efforts, in partnership with All Hands and Hearts, inclusive of the donations it promises to match dollar for dollar. The cruise line also sent Norwegian Breakaway on a special humanitarian mission to the Bahamas on September 5 to deliver supplies collected by its team members and the City of Miami.
Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean also pledged $1 million and announced it will match donations given to its partner, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), along with a network of local Bahamian charities. Donations can be made through the PADF website.
The line, along with sister brand Celebrity Cruises, has also been making pit stops during its regular sailings to deliver relief items, such as generators, water, cleaning supplies and clean linens.
Additionally, the Bahamas tourism bureau has set up a
relief page with verified charities
to which you can donate. The page also offers a list of supplies that are needed. | Efforts in The Bahamas
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After the Storm: What Cruisers Should Know About the Bahamas and Hurricane Dorian
Aaron Saunders
News and Features Editor
(4:51 p.m. EDT) -- Hurricane Dorian, which officially fizzled out over the open Atlantic after nearly two weeks, has left a trail of damage in its wake, extending from the Caribbean up through the Canadian Maritimes. Below, we recap what you should know about the storm, what cruise lines are doing to help and how you can get involved.
Hurricane Dorian Aftermath
The storm, which hit Grand Bahama Island and the Abaco Islands on September 2 as a Category 5 hurricane with the highest wind speeds ever recorded, has left the Bahamas reeling. At least 50 people are dead, and some 2,500 are missing, with those numbers expected to rise in the coming days. Early reports say 45 percent of homes have been damaged or destroyed, leaving thousands more people homeless.
Hurricane Dorian also heavily affected cruises to the Bahamas and, to a lesser extent, Canada and New England. More than 60 individual sailings and an estimated 180,000 passengers (based on double occupancy) were affected by the storm. The severity of changes ranged from itinerary swaps to lengthened, shortened and even cancelled sailings.
All affected cruise ports and cruise line private islands have reopened, with the exception of Freeport, which sustained serious damage and is currently open only to ships bringing in humanitarian aid. While the harbor and docking areas were relatively spared, operations are being hampered by a lack of electricity, running water and necessary operational staff on the island. It is not known when the port will reopen to cruise passengers.
Nassau, another popular Bahamas cruise port, was spared the devastation that occurred on Grand Bahama Island and remains open.
Tourism is a huge economical driver for the Bahamas. Nearly half of all Bahamians are employed within the tourism sector, and tourism itself accounts for 60 percent of the country's $9 billion economy. Bahamian officials are urging travelers to continue visiting areas of the Bahamas that were undamaged.
What Cruise Lines Are Doing and How You Can Contribute to Hurricane Dorian Aid
Now that the danger from Dorian has passed, cruise lines -- many of which count the Bahamas as a primary market -- are lending a helping hand.
American Queen Steamboat Company: The line has set up a donation system on all of its riverboats to aid the relief and recovery efforts in the Bahamas. Passengers and crew can contribute by visiting the reception desk onboard each vessel and can charge donations to their onboard accounts or pay in cash.
The line is working with All Hands and Hearts, in conjunction with the Government of the Bahamas. Additionally, AQSC promised to contribute supplies like clean towels, linens, soap and other items that will be loaded in Miami and sent via ship to the islands.
Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line: Bahamas Paradise has been working closely with the Bahamian Government, donating one of its ships to evacuate residents before Dorian hit last week and utilizing it to send first responders, physicians, a salvage crew and a team of experts to evaluate the island's damaged electrical grid.
The two-ship cruise line has cancelled sailings aboard Grand Celebration through September 20 as it continues to use the ship, which regularly sails short voyages from Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island, for humanitarian aid.
The line is accepting monetary donations online through its partner,
Mission Resolve
, as well as donated supplies at its Riviera Beach warehouse.
Carnival Corporation: Carnival Corporation's charitable arm, the Carnival Foundation, will donate $1 million in funding and in-kind support on behalf of its brands, which include Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America, Princess Cruises and others. Carnival Corporation chairman Micky Arison will donate an additional $1 million from the Micky and Madeline Arison Family Foundation.
Carnival Corp. also partnered with a company called Tropical Shipping, which will transport hurricane relief donations to the Bahamas from anywhere. Donations can be sent to: Tropical Shipping, 1489 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Riviera Beach, FL 33404.
Disney Cruise Line: Under the auspices of the Walt Disney Company, Disney Cruise Line also pledged $1 million in support and humanitarian aid to the Bahamas.
MSC Group: MSC Group, which includes MSC's cargo operations and MSC Cruises, committed to using its cargo fleet to procure and transport needed supplies to the Bahamas. The company | 1,076 |
The OSF3.5 has been one of those knives that has always had a huge following. OSF stands for "Open Source Folder."
As Jake says, "When I started this project in 2010, it was after I had spent countless hours researching folding knives, mechanisms and lock geometry. I thought to myself, why not put this information into a solid model so that everyone who is getting into making folders can start with a finished idea to look at<|fim_middle|> ratio.
The blade steel is CPM-S35VN, with an excellent heat treat that seamlessly flows into and out of the titanium frame set. There are several options to choose from to make this knife your very own -- including pocket clips, pivots, backspacers, and inlays. This all adds up to a NPD (Never Put it Down), not just an EDC! | while they build their very own awesome knife. So I set out to make the knife in such a way that it could be made with simple tools, no CNC necessary. All you would need to do is waterjet cut a blank and start drilling and tapping."
The knife design itself is a modified sheep's foot blade with a properly engineered frame set. The single point rear standoff/backspacer is large enough to handle knife stresses but small enough to allow a rather large handle to blade | 95 |
Netflix Alternatives - The Other Roku Movie Channels
This has been a summer of discontent for Netflix users, with Netflix itself predicting that it may lose up to 1 million customers. Many Roku users bought their Roku DVP primarily to stream movies from Netflix. If you're one of those and you're giving Netflix the boot, don't toss your Roku out to the curb with Netflix. There are many other options for getting your streaming film fix on the Roku.
Local Newscasts on Your Roku
I'm frequently asked about the availability of local newscasts on the Roku. Cord cutters are concerned that<|fim_middle|>Seven new games were added to the Roku Channel Store as Roku and Accedo announced their availability. The games are currently available only on the Roku 2, although they may be supported on the Roku 1 after an upcoming firmware update. | they'll lose access to local news without an OTA antenna and DVR, while others would like to keep up with news in other cities.
Flixster - Movie Trailers, Reviews, and More
The Flixster Roku channel offers HD movie trailers, along with ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, on new and upcoming theater releases and current DVDs. Read the full Flixster channel review to find out how to access tons of "hidden" videos from Flixster channel that you may not know are available.
ABC News on Roku Newscaster
RokuGuide Review: ABC News offers one of the weakest newscast lineups on Roku Newscaster. Only three shows are offered, and all are audio only. But don't blame Roku or the Roku Newscaster channel, as ABC News does not offer any of their shows in a Roku-compatible format.
New Roku Channels - August 26, 2011
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Amazon Instant Video Tops 100,000 Videos
Amazon announced on Thursday that its Amazon Instant Video service now offers more than 100,000 movie and TV titles, with over 9,000 of those videos available to Amazon Prime customers at no extra cost. Newly-added titles include The Tudors, the entire Star Trek franchise, Cheers, Frasier, Numb3rs, and Medium.
New Channels - August 19, 2011
Three new channels were added to the Roku Channel Store: a screensaver, a channel for gaming enthusiasts, and Glenn Beck. Click on the links below for more details on each channel.
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Reverend Joseph L. DiGregorio dies at 80
Sister Maria Fatima dies at 88
Sister Elizabeth Mary Murphy,<|fim_middle|>ristown; Mater Dolorosa Parish, Philadelphia; St. Donato Parish, Philadelphia and Visitation B.V.M. Parish, Norristown. He also served as parochial administrator of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Philadelphia.
Father Buccafurni served as pastor of St. Mary Magdalen De Pazzi Parish in South Philadelphia, and St. Donato Parish in West Philadelphia. He retired from active ministry in 2013, the same year St. Donato closed.
The funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 23 at St. Colman Church in Ardmore. Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez was the main celebrant and concelebrants included Father John Ames and Father Joseph Okonski, and Msgr. Joseph Nicolo, who was the homilist.
Interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Philadelphia.
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Father Ferdinand Buccafurni
Father Ferdinand Buccafurni, pastor emeritus of the former St. Donato Parish in Philadelphia, died Dec. 16, 2021 at Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood. He was 91.
He was born in Calabria, Italy. After moving to the United States in 1940 with his family including parents Vincent and Marina (Mazza) Buccafurni and residing in Philadelphia, he attended St. Mary of the Eternal School in North Philadelphia and Roman Catholic High School before entering St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Father Buccafurni was ordained a priest May 15, 1958 at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, by Archbishop John F. O'Hara, C.S.C.
Father Buccafurni served as parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Parish, Kelayres, Pa.; Holy Saviour Parish, Nor | 277 |
Not Rated | 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 22 June 1954 (Japan)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Budd Schulberg (screenplay), Budd Schulberg (based upon an original story by) | 1 more credit »
Marlon Brando,<|fim_middle|>, and got to enjoy free black and white classics such as "High Noon" and "On the Waterfront".
It made a moviefan of me for life. I remember the effect of "On the Waterfront", as I remember thinking about Terry Malloy in that final scene, "Wow, that guy's got guts! I wish I could be like him." Being just a typical Midwestern teen, I didn't know who Marlon Brando was, but I just was fascinated by this life of these good and bad people, on the tops of buildings and in the cold, wet streets and alleys of this far-away place near the waterfront.
Now, every time I watch it, years later, I still love it. Yes, there is definitely an attempt to make Terry into a Christ-figure at the end. That's no coincidence that he stumbles from having been beaten to a pulp, to walk and carry a hook on his shoulders, to lead others to a better life. (In the book by Budd Schulberg, by the way, Terry disappears after testifying and what is thought to be his body is found floating in a barrel of lime. But he has become a legend on the waterfront.) I love the powerful Elmer Bernstein score (glaring for our present tastes, but back then, exactly what people expected to hear during a drama -- you've got to wonder what a future generation will say about the constant replays of fairly irrelevant pop and rap songs as themes during most movies today, dramatic or comedy).
And being raised in a Catholic home, I found Father Barry to be a great dramatic figure, one of the only times I saw a priest portrayed as a gritty, brave, heroic person, not afraid to mix it up with the common folks in the parish. He smoked, drank and slugged it out. And he was not afraid to die for the right reason. Folks, that's true Christianity at work. And that's powerful.
A classic. A must-see. 10/10 | Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb | See full cast & crew »
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Comedy | Romance
A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.
Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Crime | Thriller
A tennis player frames his unfaithful wife for first-degree murder after she inadvertently hinders his plan to kill her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Chinatown (1974)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Film-Noir | Mystery
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Certificate: Passed Drama | History
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Drama | War
Director: Michael Cimino
Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Certificate: Passed Drama | History | Romance
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, and 1 more credit »
Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Certificate: Passed Drama
An ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Marlon Brando ... Terry Malloy
Karl Malden ... Father Barry
Lee J. Cobb ... Johnny Friendly
Rod Steiger ... Charley Malloy
Pat Henning ... Kayo Dugan
Leif Erickson ... Glover
James Westerfield ... Big Mac
Tony Galento ... Truck
Tami Mauriello ... Tillio
John F. Hamilton ... 'Pop' Doyle (as John Hamilton)
John Heldabrand ... Mott
Rudy Bond ... Moose
Don Blackman ... Luke
Arthur Keegan ... Jimmy
Abe Simon ... Barney
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
thin woman | woman in night gown | night gown | mob | union | See All (230) »
Tender love...terrifying conflict! See more »
Not Rated | See all certifications »
Sony Movie Channel [United States]
22 June 1954 (Japan) See more »
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Court Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA See more »
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
The real-life model for the film's Johnny Friendly character (played by Lee J. Cobb) was International Longshoremen's Association boss Michael Clemente (Johnny Friendly also has aspects of former Murder Inc. head Albert Anastasia, who was a top enforcer for the crime family that ran the Hoboken docks, the Luciano - later Genovese - family). In 1979 Clemente and other members of the Genovese family were indicted for corruption and racketeering on the New York waterfront. See more »
Towards the end of the film when Terry confronts John Friendly at the little club house on the river, a Coke machine on the porch appears and disappears between cuts. See more »
Johnny: [to Terry] You take it from here, Slugger.
and introducing Eva Marie Saint See more »
Criterion Collection Blu-ray Disc release exhibits the film in 1.66:1, which is widely regarded to be the "correct" aspect ratio for the film. However, a second disc includes the film in 1.33:1 AND 1.85:1, so that viewers can watch the film in the different ratios. See more »
Referenced in Boxing at the Movies: Kings of the Ring (2013) See more »
Written by Richard Wagner
Q: What is 'On the Waterfront' about?
Q: How does the movie end?
Q: When Terry and Edie go out to the bar for a beer, what is that that they drink first from the shotglasses?
Powerful every time I see it
3 October 2002 | by jjh6519 – See all my reviews
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