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Regional Cooperation Paves the Way for DeVry Inc. Expansion | and education forum at the College of DuPage Thursday, Nov. 8. The forum began with opening remarks from County Board Member John Curran, District 3, and Dr. Robert Breuder, president and CEO of the College of DuPage. Choose DuPage President and CEO Greg Bedalov served as the panel moderator. The panel featured: Dr. Larry Carroll, executive director of the Center for Professional Excellence at Elmhurst College; Dr. Joseph Collins, executive vice president of the College of DuPage; Lois Grubb, vice president of human resources at Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare; Dave Johnson, executive vice president, treasurer and CFO of Molex Incorporated; Jason Kamp, vice president of sales and operations at MarketSphere Consulting, LLC; Dr. Anne Kaplan, vice president of division of outreach, engagement and information technologies at Northern Illinois University; Jim Vick, dean of student central at the Addison, Ill. campus of DeVry University, Julie K. Wood, chief people officer at Crowe Horwath LLP, and Lois Grubb, healthcare vice president of human resources for Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare. "Our goal is to increase awareness of higher education resources available to business and industry in DuPage County, increase understanding of the barriers and opportunities for effective collaboration, and create opportunities to match businesses with educational resources," Bedalov said. "The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities is focused on improving employment pathways for students as well as access to higher education." said David Tretter, Federation President. "We're excited to host this event with Choose DuPage and our public institution partners." Topics of discussion included the divide between business and education, the gap in skills necessary for employment, local versus global labor markets, preparing for the jobs of tomorrow, and costs. "If we do not meet the needs and expectations of the community we serve, if we are not dynamic, if we are not change-focused and oriented, we are going to fall out of sync with the community we serve, | 406 |
Q: Stumped by model manager's errant behavior when summing up/down votes and displaying an ordered list This one might be tricky.
I have a basic web app where users post interesting URLs, and upvote/downvote the best/worst ones. I'm using Python 2.7, Django 1.5. Problem statement is in bold at the end.
In models.py, I have the following lines (take special note of lines marked with x):
class Link(models.Model):
submitter = models.ForeignKey(User)
url = models.URLField("URL", max_length=250, blank=True)
x with_votes = LinkVoteCountManager()
def __unicode__(self<|fim_middle|> will re-work my ranking algorithm to ensure "None" votes are counted as '0'.
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return self.url
class LinkVoteCountManager(models.Manager):
def get_query_set(self):
x return super(LinkVoteCountManager, self).get_query_set().annotate(votes=Sum('vote__value')).order_by('-votes')
class Vote(models.Model):
voter = models.ForeignKey(User)
link = models.ForeignKey(Link)
x value = models.IntegerField(default=0)
Next in views.py I have:
class LinkListView(ListView):
model = Link
x queryset = Link.with_votes.all()
This setup does the following: whenever a URL is submitted or voted upon, LinkVoteCountManager() sums its up/down votes and returns a query set ordered by the total.
Now for a FRESHLY submitted link, LinkVoteCountManager() should sum its votes to 0, since value in Vote is being set to 0 (by default). But instead, I'm getting NONE for the vote count of FRESHLY submitted links, which totally messes up how the votes are ordered. Why is LinkVoteCountManager behaving incorrectly for fresh links (yet working perfectly after the first vote has been cast). And how can I fix it? Please advise.
A: There probably are no Vote objects for newly created links. In that case, the annotated votes attribute will be None. I don't know a straight-forward way of fixing this right now, but I would guess that you can solve this by using F expressions.
A: As pointed out in Rene's answer, Vote object doesn't exist, which leads to None value for vote count. This, of course, makes perfect logical sense. I'm not going to overturn this logic, instead | 342 |
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Heritage Cannabis Reports Q3 2022 Financial Results and Sixth Consecutive Quarter of Increased Revenue
Business Wire Published September 28, 2022
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$cann #cann—Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (CSE: CANN) (OTCQX: HERTF) ("Heritage" or the "Company"), today announced its financial results as at and for the three- and nine-month periods ended July 31, 2022 ("Q3 2022"). All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
"What we have accomplished in the third quarter is a tremendous achievement by the entire team at Heritage. Given the sector headwinds and after normalizing for isolated events in the quarter, we are proud to state that we have marked our second consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA. It is also our sixth consecutive quarter of increasing revenue which has been driven by the team focusing on growing revenue through the addition of sales channels and the further expansion of our already successful portfolio of products," said David Schwede, CEO of Heritage. "Our platform approach has protected us from significant challenges across the industry and we will continue to execute on our business strategy, focusing on cost management and driving revenue which was up over 165% from the same time a year ago. Our team is driven to innovate and propel growth, and the delivery of positive financials this past quarter represents an important milestone for the Company and what is ahead for us. Through multiple new brand and product launches on the near-term horizon, as well as the imminent launch of product sales in the U.S. contributing to revenue, Heritage is on a clear path for success."
Selected financial highlights for the three- and nine-month periods ended July 31, 2022 include the following:
(in $CDN)
Net revenue (net of excise tax)
Other Income (Expenses)
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
(14,999,542)
Q3 2022 Financial Highlights
The Company reported gross revenue of $10,799,784 for the three months ended July 31, 2022, an increase of $5,687,839 compared to gross revenue of $5,111,945 for the three months ended July 31, 2021, representing an increase of 111%. The growth was driven by a continued increase in the Company's vape and concentrate offerings as well as the launch of the flower vertical. The increase from the prior year is a direct result of increasing our provincial listings and the continued advancement of our inclusion on third party medical platforms although the positive impact was partially offset in the quarter due<|fim_middle|>.
By identifying such information and statements in this manner, the Company is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements.
An investment in securities of the Company is speculative and subject to several risks including, without limitation, the risks discussed under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's annual management discussion and analysis for the year ended October 31, 2021, and dated May 10, 2022. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
In connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release, the Company has made certain assumptions. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements. The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information and/or forward-looking statements that are contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking information and statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.
Kelly Castledine
kcastledine@heritagecann.com
Business Wire September 28, 2022
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For the nine-month period ended July 31, 2022, the Company recorded gross revenue of $30,848,238 an increase of $19,304,222 compared to gross revenue of $11,544,016 for the nine months ended July 31, 2021, representing an increase of over 167%. The increase in gross revenue was the result of the Company continued strong listing demand through the provincial boards in spite of the BCGEU labour strike and continued focus on cash management practices which are focused on managing inventory growth and availability.
Cost of sales for the three months ended July 31, 2022 was $5,025,046, an increase of $1,955,977 compared to $3,069,069 for the three months ended July 31, 2021. Cost of sales decreased on a percentage of sales basis as a result of improved operational efficiencies, which although were negatively impacted by system inventory corrections relating to the inventory system management launch and refinement. It is anticipated that these one-time negative impacts will be reduced or eliminated over the next quarter.
Cost of sales for the nine months ended July 31, 2022 was $13,987,874, an increase of $7,824,531, compared to $6,163,343 for the nine months ended July 31, 2021. Cost of sales increased as a function of the increased sales results and improved on a percentage of sales basis as a result of a continued focus on improving facility efficiencies.
For the three months ended July 31, 2022, the Company recorded a comprehensive loss of $2,799,327 or $0.00 loss per share compared to a comprehensive loss of $6,637,449 or $0.01 loss per share for the three months ended July 31, 2021. The improvement over the prior period was due to the gross margin gains noted above and the cost management in general and administrative expenses combined with a $416,000 unrealized decrease in loss on contingent payables.
For the nine months ended July 31, 2022, the Company recorded a comprehensive income of $2,957,272 or $0.00 income per share compared to a comprehensive loss of $14,999,542 or $0.02 loss per share for the nine months ended July 31, 2021. The decrease in loss was primarily attributable to a non-cash accounting policy-related gain of $8,571,429 due to the change in fair market value between the share price used for the Premium 5 first milestone payment and the quoted share price at the time of award combined with the improvements in the operating business noted above.
Q3 2022 Growth, Operational, and Corporate Highlights
On June 6, 2022, Heritage announced that it had signed a definitive agreement for the supply of its products for sale on the medical platform of a major LP with one of the leading market shares in Canada. The major LP completed its initial purchase of Heritage brands, including RAD, Premium 5, and CB4, and are now offering Heritage products on the platform with the first shipment of 12 stock keeping units ("SKUs") completed in May. The relationship will also encompass white labelling of some products based on Heritage's product quality, variety, consistency, industry proven technology and innovation.
The third quarter of 2022 continued to see growing sales across Heritage's portfolio of innovative products and expanded distribution channels, including the launch of Heritage products on two of the largest market share online medical platforms in Canada. As sales momentum builds, the Company remains focused on increasing margins and cost containment. Spending and capital expenditures by Heritage are measured by their expected return on investment and ability to generate near-term revenues.
Heritage continues to add new stock keeping units ("SKUs") across all Canada and is participating in regular product calls by the provinces. Heritage proactively manages its offerings to stay price competitive in all segments, while also delivering innovative products and new flavour profiles to keep up with consumer demands, and successfully win provincial product calls.
On June 17, 2022, the Company announced that 7,109,090 Common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Bonus Shares") were issued at a deemed price of $0.055 as compensation bonus to certain executive employees and consultants (the "Parties") based on corporate measures and individual performance of those individuals in 2021. The fair value of shares issued were measured at $355,455, determined based on the quoted share price at the issuance date, and recorded as share-based payment in the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the three- and nine-month periods ended July 31, 2022.
The Bonus Shares were issued in reliance on certain prospectus exemptions available under National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions, and are subject to a four month and one day statutory hold period. As 3,745,454 of the Bonus Shares were issued to the Parties of the Company, the issuance of Bonus Shares (the "Compensation Bonus") constituted a "related party transaction" pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). The Company relied on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority approval requirements of MI 61-101 (pursuant to subsections 5.5(a) and 5.7(a)) as the fair market value of the securities distributed to, and the consideration received from, the related party did not exceed 25% of the Company's market capitalization. The Compensation Bonus was approved by the Company's board of directors. No special committee was established in connection with the Compensation Bonus or the participation of the applicable officers and directors in the Compensation Bonus, and no materially contrary view or abstention was expressed or made by any director of the Company in relation thereto.
The consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the three- and nine-month periods ended July 31, 2022 and accompanying management's discussion and analysis have been filed with the securities regulators and are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com under the Company's issuer profile.
About Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp.
Heritage Cannabis is a leading cannabis company offering innovative products to both the medical and recreational legal cannabis markets in Canada and the U.S., operating under two licensed manufacturing facilities in Canada. The company has an extensive portfolio of high-quality cannabis products under the brands Purefarma, Pura Vida, RAD, Premium 5, feelgood., the CB4 suite of medical products in Canada and ArthroCBD in the U.S.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HERITAGE CANNABIS HOLDINGS CORP.
"David Schwede"
The Canadian Securities Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This press release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking information and forward-looking statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition, but instead represent only the Company's beliefs regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control. Generally, such forward-looking information or forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or may contain statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "will continue", "will occur" or "will be achieved". The forward-looking information contained herein may include, but is not limited to, assumptions related to cash flow and capital resources, and expectations related to the supply and manufacturing agreements, the intended expansion of the Company, and partnerships and Joint Venture Partnerships | 1,859 |
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1. Kevin Reimer (Vancouver)
2. Nate Lang (Squamish)
3. Mischo Erban (Vernon)
4. Douglas Silva (Brazil)
5. Hugh Johnson (Vancouver)
6. Adam Yates (Australia)
7. Spencer Smith (Seattle)
8. Andrew MacCannell (Calgary)
1. Brianne Davies (Burnaby)
2. Christen Gregorson (Ottawa)
3. Katie Neilson (Langley<|fim_middle|> Spencer Smith of Seattle placed second in the Grom category and eighth overall.
The consensus from the boarders was that the track indeed provided one of the most intense descents in North America. Max Erwin was eliminated after crashing twice in the semi-final heat.
" is a bit scarier because this is probably the gnarliest race course there's been in Canada to date," he said, adding that it's difficult to continue racing after an accident.
"You're in the zone as you're riding and when you crash you break out of that and it's a bit weird. It's a different feeling after you crash, for sure."
Salt Spring Island Longboarder Adrian English didn't make it to the final but was pleased to get through the race without foot-braking, which is a less skillful way of cutting speed than turning the board sideways.
"It's a crazy course," he said. "You really have to think about the corner and your braking technique in the corner because there's no way you're making it though at 80 or 95km/hr. It's really a top notch track – world class stuff."
Cation and fellow organizer Bricin Lyons said they hope to make the Gold Rush Challenge an annual event.
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1. George Mackenzie 16yrs - (Calgary)
2. Wolfgang Coleman 15yrs - (Vancouver)
3. Steve Kopyt 16 yrs - (Whistler)
4. Quinn Dubois 9 yrs - (Deep Cove, N. Vancouver)
Nearly 100 leathered longboarders spent Saturday, May 23 in Britannia Beach mining Copper Drive concrete for adrenaline in the inaugural Gold Rush Challenge.
Spectators were positioned behind hay bales around all five corners, especially the three hairpins, cheering on the racers as they desperately clung to the cusp of control while skateboarding at speeds pushing 100km/hr. Leather suits frequently skidded across the hot pavement but it was the braking wheels that left marks as reminders of the track's aggressiveness.
Although the downhill event featured top international competitors, British Columbians earned the top three finishes and a total of $2000 in prize money. Former Squamish resident Nate Lang, who now lives in Vancouver, placed second behind fellow Vancouverite Kevin Reimer. Vernon's Mischo Erban placed third and Brazil's Douglas Dalua placed fourth in the four-man final.
The Britannia Beach track forced the racers to use technical skills in order to find a balance between fast and frantic, said co-organizer Lee Cation.
"This track brought out a different style of winning rider, someone who can handle the high-speed drifts to stick those corners and have complete control of their board while losing speed and gaining speed. It's no wonder that it was some people from the region that won because they can tackle the terrain.
"Once again we're seeing that the talent is in B.C. and in Canada," he said.
Burnaby's Brianne Davies was the top female finisher and ended up beating most of the male competitors. Meanwhile, 16-year-old George MacKenzie of Calgary was the top Grom racer, which refers to the young up-and-coming longboarders. And 14-year-old | 437 |
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Roman Shirokov (1981) — Russian professional football player
Sergei Vyshedkevich (1975) — Russian professional ice hockey player
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Cities and towns in Moscow Oblast | known as Dedovo/Dedovsky (until 1940).
History
It was first mentioned in as the village of Dedovo (), which would turn into a bigger settlement in the 18th century. In 1913, a textile factory was built in the area, which would give birth to the settlement of Dedovsky () and absorb the village of Dedovo. In 1940, the settlement was granted town status and given its present name.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated within Istrinsky District as the Town of Dedovsk. As a municipal division, the Town of Dedovsk is incorporated within Istrinsky Municipal District as Dedovsk Urban Settlement.
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How to find business angels (private investors)
Business angels are called investors who put money into the company at a very early stage. That is, a company may not yet exist, maybe just an idea and a business plan.
At this stage, it is pointless to contact the Bank or look for a venture investor. For the most part, business angels-it entrepreneurs in the past, earn enough money and investing them in young promising projects. This is done with the purpose of making a profit from the sale of its share of the business in the future<|fim_middle|>, and therefore require additional investment.
Exit-Business-Angel goes out of business. What conclusions can we draw from this? A bank or a venture company ready to provide funds when it is already at a minimum on the second stage of development. Business angels are ready to invest in the idea, and the people who created it. How to attract business angels to your project? Everything is quite simple:
The project must be really promising;
There must be competent and convincing business plan;
The investor must like you personally, as an entrepreneur. He must believe in what you are able to bring developed up to the end.
And if these three points are fulfilled, as it should, then you are very likely to get money. And not just money. The fact of the matter is that business angels rarely serve as passive investors and you'll likely find considerable support in their face. As in the past, entrepreneurs, they will help establish a correct connection, if necessary, will be made by a bank surety, or help bring in business venture investor.
As far as Russia is concerned, business angels here already have. And in sufficient quantity. Question-so far there is no worthy objects for investing in sufficient quantity. But it is surely only a matter of time. | .
Business angels can be represented as a layer between the beginning of activity of the company and the time when she gets the first investment from venture funds, or loans from banks. Many now world-renowned projects initially helped business-angels. Among these projects, these giants Apple and Google.
His appearance business angels are bound to Silicon Valley. Their story began when Eugene Kleiner left Shockley Semiconductor company with a firm intent to organize their work. The idea was to create a production based on silicon chips. But nobody was interested in his idea. And now, at a time when the engineer started to think about returning to the old place of work, Arthur appeared the CRIC. At that time, the CRIC has worked in investment company, and he helped Kljajneru find an independent investor.
Thus was founded the company Fairchild Semiconductor, which helped start the "business angel, who in her early stage of half a million dollars. The fact that the concept of "business angel" appeared exactly in Silicon Valley is not a fluke. The fact of the matter is that tech industry is one of the most loved "Angels".
Business angels differ from conventional investors?
Firstly, funds almost always manage to not their money. Business angels invest their own money in the deal. Secondly, business angels almost always work alone. Also, there are significant differences in the most investment. For a more detailed consideration of the need to split the time development of the project into stages, and look at it from the point of view of the investor: Seed-at this stage the project exists only as an idea or business plan.
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While state troopers are continuing to investigate the cause of the 11:25 a.m. wreck near the Gettings Creek Rest Area, officials said one of the drivers involved in the incident may have been suffering from an undisclosed medical condition.
The injuries sustained by the two vehicles� drivers are not life-threatening, police said.
The crash occurred when a northbound 2012 Kia Forte rumbled across the grassy freeway median and collided with a southbound 1993 Honda Accord.
The Kia�s driver is identified as Dennis P. Foley, 67, of Fircrest, Wash. A police spokesman said Thursday evening that he had not yet confirmed the identity of the woman who was driving the Honda. Both drivers were taken by ambulance to Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield.
Both were wearing seat belts, and airbags deployed in both cars when they collided, police said.
The southbound freeway lanes were closed for about 30 minutes following the crash, causing traffic to be | 237 |
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Large Cosmological Simulation to Run on Mira
August 6, 2019 — An extremely large cosmological simulation—among the five most extensive ever conducted—is set to run on Mira this fall and exemplifies the scope of problems addressed on the leadership-class supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory.
Argonne physicist and computational scientist Katrin Heitmann leads the project. Heitmann was among the first to leverage Mira's capabilities when, in 2013, the IBM Blue Gene/Q system went online at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Among the<|fim_middle|> approximately 800 million core-hours to perform a simulation that reflects cutting-edge observational advances from satellites and telescopes and will form the basis for sky maps used by numerous surveys. Evolving a massive number of particles, the simulation is designed to help resolve mysteries of dark energy and dark matter.
An image of the distribution of matter in the universe generated by a Mira simulation run modeling 1.1 trillion particles.
Hal Finkel, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann, Mark Hereld, Joseph Insley, Kalyan Kumaran, Vitali Morozov, Michael E. Papka, Tom Peterka, Adrian Pope, and Tim Williams, Argonne National Laboratory; Zarija Lukic, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; David Daniel and Patricia Fasel, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"By transforming this simulation into a synthetic sky that closely mimics observational data at different wavelengths, this work can enable a large number of science projects throughout the research community," Heitmann said. "But it presents us with a big challenge." That is, in order to generate synthetic skies across different wavelengths, the team must extract relevant information and perform analysis either on the fly or after the fact in post-processing. Post-processing requires the storage of massive amounts of data—so much, in fact, that merely reading the data becomes extremely computationally expensive.
Since Mira was launched, Heitmann and her team have implemented in their Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) more sophisticated analysis tools for on-the-fly processing. "Moreover, compared to the Outer Rim Simulation, we've effected three major improvements," she said. "First, our cosmological model has been updated so that we can run a simulation with the best possible observational inputs. Second, as we're aiming for a full-machine run, volume will be increased, leading to better statistics. Most importantly, we set up several new analysis routines that will allow us to generate synthetic skies for a wide range of surveys, in turn allowing us to study a wide range of science problems."
The team's simulation will address numerous fundamental questions in cosmology and is essential for enabling the refinement of existing predictive tools and aid the development of new models, impacting both ongoing and upcoming cosmological surveys, including the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), SPHEREx, and the "Stage-4" ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment (CMB-S4). The value of the simulation derives from its tremendous volume (which is necessary to cover substantial portions of survey areas) and from attaining levels of mass and force resolution sufficient to capture the small structures that host faint galaxies.
The volume and resolution pose steep computational requirements, and because they are not easily met, few large-scale cosmological simulations are carried out. Contributing to the difficulty of their execution is the fact that the memory footprints of supercomputers have not advanced proportionally with processing speed in the years since Mira's introduction. This makes that system, despite its relative age, rather optimal for a large-scale campaign when harnessed in full.
"A calculation of this scale is just a glimpse at what the exascale resources in development now will be capable of in 2021/22," said Katherine Riley, ALCF Director of Science. "The research community will be taking advantage of this work for a very long time."
Funding for the simulation is provided by DOE's High Energy Physics program. Use of ALCF computing resources is supported by DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
Source: Nils Heinonen, ALCF | largest cosmological simulations ever performed at the time, the Outer Rim Simulation she and her colleagues carried out enabled further scientific research for many years.
For the new effort, Heitmann has been allocated | 39 |
Listening Lyrics Aug 8, 2014 with LUKE O. PENA
Sun, 08/03/2014 - 8:02am | Pieter Pastoor
This Friday, singer/songwriter Luke O. Pena will be our guest. Lukes' genre is folk/indie/acoustic. Listen in while we explore this Davis resident's music. Luke has climbed 10 of the tallest mountains in the USA -- WITH HIS GUITAR. Yes, he played and sang on the mountain tops. You can hear his music at http://www.reverbnation.com/lukeopena
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LIVE IN THE LOAM presents CHATHAM COUNTY LINE - July 30, 2014 at 4PM
Wed, 07/23/2014 - 3:28pm | Pieter Pastoor
Chatham County Line is an American bluegrass musical group. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1999 from members of the band Stillhouse. The band has released seven albums, including six on the influential Yep Roc label (via notable producer Chris Stamey), and have become popular in Europe as well as their native United States. Their most recent tour took in numerous European destinations, including the prestigious Lowlands rock festival in the Netherlands.
Chatham County Line will appear at the Palms Playhouse in downtown Winters on July 30, at 8 pm. At 4 pm that same day, they'll stop by KDRT's new "Live in the Loam" - LIVE, in studio, on KDRT with Doug Deep.
Visit Chatham County Line at http://www.chathamcountyline.com
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LIVE IN THE LOAM presents BRUCE SALMON - Aug 1, 2014 at 2:30PM
With a repertoire including jazz standards from the 30s (think Paper Moon, Dream a Little Dream) to more current tunes (Kinks, Talking Heads, Butch Hancock) along with numerous originals influenced by his upbringing in New Orleans, his time in West Texas, and his studies in Eastern Europe, Brewski Salmineo, aka Bruce Salmon, is the definition of a performer. His music can be described as "Stories informed by travels all across the world, by train, truck, bus, and plane. Touring musician, chef, bus driver, carnie, teacher, audio engineer and more; these rich endeavors have woven a vast tapestry of experience, tales longing to be told."
Bruce Salmon and Keith Cary will be appearing at Berryessa Brewing in Winters on August 1 at 5 pm. Bruce Salmon's newest recording, A Barrel Full of Monkeys, will be featured on the new Live in the Loam show - LIVE, in the KDRT studio with host Doug Deep.
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LIVE IN THE LOAM presents UNPOPABLE - Aug 2, 2014 at 3PM
"Live in the Loam" is a new show featuring musicians and bands traveling through the area. We can call these "pop-up shows" because the time of the show centers around the availability of the artist.
As part of the new show's first-week line up, Doug Deep will host two groups performing live in the studio: Unpopable and the Evangentials. Visit their websites (below) to learn more--their music is indescribably delicious. Better yet, LISTEN to the show. Oh, the JOY of LIVE RADIO!
Unpopable: http://www.balloonbass.com
The Evangenitals http://www.evangenitals.com
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Listening Lyrics July 25, 2014 with STEVE KOTAREK and Naomi Rogers-Hefley
Tue, 07/22/2014 - 11:09am | Pieter Pastoor
What a treat to have Steve Kotarek back in the studio. This time Steve will be accompinied by one of his bandmates, Naomi Rogers-Hefley.
Steve has worked his way into the local music scene with his talent as a songwriter and uses his voice to convey a message in song. Steve lives in Woodland and his music is heard around northern California. Once you hear Steve perform you will be VERY tempted to pick up one of his CDs.
Naomi hails from the UK, recently moved to California. With her classical background, she brings a unique appoach to fiddle playing that complements Steve's music.
Visit Steve at https://www.facebook.com/SteveKotarekBand
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Album of the Week July 17, 2014 (6 PM) - Minus the Bear "Highly Refined Pirates"
This week, Sara takes us on a journey with Minus the Bear. Since forming in Seattle in 2001, Minus the Bear has worked relentlessly over the past decade to build a large and devoted following worldwide with consistent releases and a non-stop touring regimen... They have proven to be a powerful musical force that has outlasted trends, the changing musical landscape, and a volatile record industry. Their Dangerbird debut, Omni, debuted in the Billboard Top 50, and over the last 11 years they have released four albums and several EPs on varying labels such as Suicide Squeeze, Arena Rock, and Polyvinyl. The band has played countless sold out venues throughout the world both large and small and toured the globe over including North America, Europe, U.K., Japan, and Australia, in addition to unforgettable performances at every high-profile U.S. festival like Bonnaroo, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Sasquatch!. It is no doubt a testament to the band's DIY beginnings, impressive relationship with their fans, and inventive music that they remain a beloved group with an unyielding fanbase that continues to grow with each album.
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Listening Lyrics July 18, 2014 RED UNION BLUE
Many months in the making and this week its happening - RED UNION BLUE will be in the studio for the whole hour. Red Union Blue from Sacramento, CA brings together the musical talents of Trena Thompson and Chris Lee into an exciting new blend of country, rock, pop, and folk. Since 2012, the band has grown into one of the area's most promising up-and-coming artists, combining thoughtful and insightful lyrics with powerful vocals and dynamic musicianship.
The band's first album "Learning To Fall" was released in June 2013. Featuring 10 original songs, the album ranges in styles from the pop choruses of "I Don't Want To Need You" and "Without You & Me" to the introspective folk-rock reflection of "Ghost Town" and "Let It Rain". Recorded by J.K. Northrup (King Kobra, Montrose, Foreigner, Toto) at Alien Productions & Recordings, the album was voted by Twirl Radio as one of the best debuts of 2013.
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Album of the Week July 10, 2014, Jack White - Lazaretto
Lazaretto is Jack White's second solo album. Euan Harris of the TheSoundBot writes, "Lazaretto is almost an instant classic. It's big, it's bold and full of humor – which may seem odd given his recent divorce from model, Karen Elson. The humour, albeit dark, starts with the album's title. For those unaware a lazaretto is a quarantine for people with infectious diseases. Read into that what you will."
Yes, folks, we will play the VINYL version in its entire glory, Thursday, July 10, at 6 pm.
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Listening Lyrics for July 11, 2014 with Michael Leahy
This week we spend an hour with MICHAEL LEAHY of CROSSBILL RECORDS. We will hear some of the artists on this label discuss how a label select artists. Plus much more. Crossbill Records has been releasing a steady stream of songwriter-based indie folk, rock, americana, and bluegrass albums from its Davis, CA home-base since 2005. Headed by longtime KDVS DJ and "Cool as Folk" concert presenter Michael Leahy, the label thrives as a cooperative effort with releases from friends Tom Brosseau, Brass Bed, Matt Bauer, Appetite, The Loom, Sea of Bees, Garrett Pierce, and Jake Mann making the team push (Leahy is also a basketball coach) for recordings, bookings, tours, and getting the word out.
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A SPECIAL Listening Lyrics with RAY BONNEVILLE on Sat. June 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM
Talk about a SPECIAL guest - we needed a SPECIAL Listening Lyrics show to have RAY BONNEVILLE join us in the studio. Ray was born in Canada and is widely regarded as a blues player strongly influanced by New Orleans. To date, Bonneville has released seven records and, in 2000, won the prestigious Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for his third album Gust Of Wind. As a touring musician Bonneville plays more than one hundred and fifty shows a year across the United States, Canada and Europe.
Joining us with Ray is RICHIE LAWRENCE who is a well know musician in California. Richie has has a lifetime of music in his soul and his latest CD "Water" reflects this.
Vist RAY BONNEVILLE at http://raybonneville.com
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Roy Smith
Left to right: Ruth Welch, BLM Colorado State Director; Roy Smith; Bruce Rittenhouse, Resource Group Supervisor, Colorado State Office; Lee Barkow, PLF; and Doug Koza, retired BLM.
ROY SMITH, Water Rights Specialist in the Colorado State Office received his 2013 Outstanding Public Lands Professional Award in the Technical/Operational Category on September 8, 2014 at the Colorado State Office. The Citation states:
Roy Smith's career as a water rights specialist has focused on significantly improving the ability of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage and protect water resources. Roy has helped to build BLM's reputation, skills, and effectiveness in dealing with state governments, which have been given the authority to allocate water. He has also focused on building the capacity of stakeholders to assist BLM in dealing with water resource management challenges.
As the BLM liaison to the "Upper Colorado River Wild and Scenic Stakeholder Group," Roy has educated the group on the requirements of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The education process helped enable the group to develop a plan that meets legal requirement while empowering the group to develop water management alternatives. The alternative developed by the stakeholders who use water, recreate on the river, and manage water supply facilities was endorsed by Colorado's governor and chosen by BLM as the preferred river management alternative.
Roy has had a profound impact on the interdisciplinary team that reviewed and developed the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Southern Nevada Water Authority Groundwater Development Project. When interests wanted to minimize any long-term commitment to avoid and minimize impacts associated with groundwater development, Roy led the way in helping to develop a mutually agreeable, long-term plan that meets FLPMA requirements to "minimize damage to scenic and aesthetic values and fish and wildlife habitat or otherwise protect the environment."
Roy continues to work with a broad array of stakeholders to develop an innovative approach for implementing the water protection provisions of the Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009 as they pertain to the Dominquez Canyon Wilderness, located south of Grand Junction. Roy proposed an instream flow water reach in which wilderness needs as well as those of upstream land owners could be accommodated. Ultimately, the Colorado Water Conservation Board appropriated instream flow water rights based upon BLM's recommended approach.
One of the most challenging project Roy has taken on is trying to secure flow protection for warm water fish species that appear on BLM's sensitive species list. On the lower San Miguel River in southwest Colorado the State of Colorado ultimately adopted BLM's protection proposal. In advocating for the proposal, Roy convinced state officials of the value of having protected flows and<|fim_middle|> teach BLM employees how to utilize state water right systems to protect and manage resources. This effort by Roy has greatly enhanced BLM's ability to work with others to try to resolve water issues throughout the West.
Roy Smith's participation in numerous water management efforts has resulted in positive outcomes for public lands and the people who use them and warrants his recognition as the Public Lands Foundation's Outstanding Public Land Professional Award in the Operations/Technical category for 2013. | local control over water management rather than having a stream reach designated as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act.
Roy has made a major commitment to work with the National Training Center to build and implement training courses that | 42 |
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Beyond Wild w/Kip Wetzel
Kip Wetzel, VP of Social Media Strategy at Capital One
@kipwetzel
Kip Wetzel claims he's just a "dirty hippie" despite the fact he's probably the most dapper person in the room.
Fifteen years ago, he abandoned an Andersen Consulting gig to embark on an odyssey, hiking the 2,600 mile Pacific Crest Trail with 2 of his buddies. Lessons he learned on that trek continue to illuminate his work in technology innovation as VP of Social Media Strategy at Capital One. Today, he shares 10 of those lessons.
Lesson 1: Be Bold
"We hear that from everyone, for big companies and startups. You have to be willing to blaze a trail."
He says boldness can be offensive or defensive. "Sometimes you'll be leaning in to get your 'thing' moving forward in an offensive way. Other times, you'll be on the defensive, selling that thing to a bigger company."
Lesson 2: Embody Your Vision
"If you don't live what you're building, it's going to show through."
"I left Andersen Consulting, the biggest consulting company in the world. I convinced them this trip was the right thing for me to do, and they gave me a job when I got back." He even shaved his impressive PCT beard for them.
Lesson 3: Frequently Seek Perspective
"We lose perspective in day-to-day life."
Somewhere in the thick of seeking out the next water source on their trek, Kip and his pals took a picture of themselves at the 1200 mile mark. "It took me 15 years to realize the enormity of that moment. We were halfway."
Kip believes it's important to seek perspective on what you've accomplished. "We'll retweet something at 11 p.m. to make sure people will come the next day to hear you speak. But we don't celebrate our victories enough."
Lesson 4: When You Think You've Got it Tough, Step Back and Look Around
"Maybe someone in the world has it harder than anyone else. But it's easy to get caught up in our own challenges."
Kip came across a story about hikers who did the same trail he did. Except they did it in the dead of winter. "They had to walk the same 30 miles to the next water<|fim_middle|> lot about the journey, but we might lose focus on the destination if we get too caught up in the journey. It's a balance."
Lesson 10: Hike Your Own Hike
"Be inspired by people around you, but ultimately, you have to do it in the way that you need to do to be successful."
"There are a million opinions, about hiking the trail or running a company. You have to do it in a way that you know you can be successful." | source as we did, but then they had to cut a whole in the ice and extract the water. In a company, there's always going to be some other organization who's working harder and relying on you to get your job done."
Lesson 5: KISS
Sometimes there is value in keeping it simple. "We were prepared. We did our research. Ultimately, though, we walked. For 6 months of my life, I put one foot in front of the other."
"When your work days are rough, boil down what it is you need to do. Our jobs are hard, but can you boil down the simplicity of what you're doing to get to the next deliverable. And apply humility to your day."
Lesson 6: A Bear is Going to Shit in Your Water at Some Point
"You have to adjust to adverse circumstances."
Kip and his buddies reached the location of one of the water sources on their journey. The water was located at the bottom of very steep switchback. "When we got there, we heard sounds. We thought 'oh, this is going to be fun,' meeting other people, drinking chamomile tea. When we got down there, though, a black bear was shitting in the water."
It's the same in business. "You have to adjust to adverse circumstances. You ration, you evaluate, you think. How will you respond?"
Lesson 7: Plan Spontaneity
Somewhere on their trip, Kip and company stopped to ingest famously enormous pancakes. "Each one is 24 ounces. I ate 2." It wasn't a planned stop, but it was an important detour. "It's like planning when you need to take your team out for a beer because it's St. Paddy's Day."
Lesson 8: Without a Team, You're Nothing
"Avoid a bozo explosion."
Kip finds it crucial to surround yourself with people smarter than yourself, in order to avoid what Guy Kawasaki calls "the bozo explosion." "I can't think of a single instance, except maybe in a decathlon event, where the individual is greater than the sum of its parts." In his PCT team, Kip was completely inept at map reading. But he had other strengths.
They picked up a guy named Hersh in the Sierras who ended up hiking with them for awhile. "The face of your team will change. Based on the growth and maturity of the product, you team will—and should—change."
Lesson 9: Balance the Journey with the Destination
"We are in an era of where we talk a lot about the journey."
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Meso Web-Surfers: Beware of Hidden Rocks
Dozens of websites would have you believe that they are in some official capacity associated with a doctor.
They suggest that by filling out a form, they will arrange to set up an appointment for you with a well-known and respected doctor. By so doing, they imply that they have a special if not formal relationship with that esteemed doctor and his employer, and that the famous doctor has endorsed their company.
All of these suggestions are false.
It's common sense that if you want to schedule an appointment with a doctor, no matter how famous he or she is, or where they practice, you simply need to call that doctor's office.
Mesothelioma is a rare tumor and options are limited. There are regrettably only a handful of skilled surgeons, oncologists, radiologists and immunologists who hold themselves out as "experts" in treating Mesothelioma patients. Each of these doctors, whether it's Dr. David Sugarbarker, or Dr. Harvey Pass, or Dr. Robert Cameron, are I'm sure flattered to be recognized as experts.
But, to my knowledge, none of these doctors has officially sponsored or endorsed a mesothelioma marketing firm.
We suggest the following model be used in helping patients find the best medical care. List the doctor's name, specialty, experience, and contact information.
Dr. Robert Cameron, MD
UCLA Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist, Director of the Comprehensive Mesothelioma Program at UCLA
Contact Administrator Martha Martinez at (310) 470-8980.
West Los Angeles Veteran Administration Chief of Thoracic Surgeon
Contact Cardiothoracic Surgery Case Manager Almaz Tesfas<|fim_middle|> announced a comprehensive ban of asbestos, including imports, under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA. After a challenge by the asbestos industry, a federal appeals court dismissed the ban, saying that the EPA failed to show it was necessary to protect public health.
"The fact that the government could not ban a killer like asbestos under TSCA shows how weak the law is and how it has utterly failed to protect public health," said White. "On behalf of those who have died from asbestos exposure and the families they've left behind, it's high time that Congress and the President rewrite the law."
This project is funded by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) to educate the public, conduct original research and advocate for strong policy reform to protect people from the ongoing dangers of asbestos exposure.
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Durbin Introduces Bill To Help American Workers, Families Avoid Asbestos Exposure
http://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-introduces-bill-to-help-american-workers-families-avoid-asbestos-exposure
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – With asbestos-related diseases still claiming as many as 10,000 American lives every year, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation today that will help Americans avoid exposure to the potentially deadly substance by increasing the amount of information available to the public about where it is found. Asbestos is a carcinogenic substance that increases the risk of mesothelioma and other cancers in those who are exposed to it. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 107,000 deaths worldwide each year are attributable to asbestos exposure. Asbestos is banned in many countries, but it is not banned in the United States and it is still imported into the country and can be found in many American products and locations. Today's legislation is co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA).
"Every year, far too many Americans and their families suffer the deadly consequences of asbestos exposure. The goal of this legislation is simple: increase the transparency and accessibility of data informing the public about where asbestos is known to be present. This information will increase awareness, reduce exposure, and help save lives," Durbin said.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Asbestos Information Act into law, requiring manufacturers and processors of asbestos-containing material to report information about their products to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, the law only include a one-time reporting requirement, and because it pre-dated the use of the internet, information was published in the Federal Register and was not easily accessible to most Americans.
The Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database (READ) Act introduced by Durbin today modernizes the reporting requirements of the Asbestos Information Act to ensure that Americans have transparent, accessible and up-to-date information about the identities and known locations of asbestos-containing products. The READ Act requires those who manufacture, import or otherwise handle asbestos-containing products to annually report information to the EPA about their products and any publicly-accessible location in which the products have been known to be present in the past year. The READ Act would direct this information to be made easily accessible on a searchable online database.
"Asbestos exposure remains a serious public health threat, with at least 10,000 Americans dying each year from asbestos-related illnesses," said Heather White, Executive Director of Environmental Working Group and the EWG Action Fund. "Senator Durbin's plan would give concerned citizens valuable information that they can use to avoid coming into contact with this lethal substance."
"As a mesothelioma widow and co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), I strongly support the Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database (READ) Act. For more than a century, asbestos exposure has been known to cause debilitating diseases and deaths. Worse yet, most Americans cannot identify asbestos or manage the risk. Undoubtedly, the READ Act will save lives and dollars. One life lost from a preventable asbestos-caused disease is tragic, hundreds of thousands is unconscionable," said Linda Reinstein, President and CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO).
Durbin has been a longtime advocate of protecting Americans from the harms of asbestos exposure and helping the victims of asbestos-related diseases and their families. In 2010, Senator Durbin received the "Tribute of Hope" award from the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization for his efforts to promote awareness of the hazards of asbestos and to reduce the presence of asbestos in American products.
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Pacific Mesothelioma Center Scientific Advisor
Contact Executive Director Clare Cameron at (310) 478-4678.
Web-surfers: finding a doctor is not a fun process, time is precious and anxiety is high. Beware of marketers masquerading as medical liaisons. Don't let them exploit your vulnerability.
Here's a list of a few sites that purport to act as agents for scheduling appointments with Dr. Robert Cameron, the UCLA Medical Center and the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center:
http://www.mesotheliomaspecialists.org/doctors/dr-robert-cameron.php
http://www.mesotheliomaguide.com/doctor/dr-robert-b-cameron/
http://www.mesotheliomalawyercenter.org/mesothelioma-cancer/treatment/top-doctors/
http://www.weitzlux.com/Robert-Cameron_1170785.html
http://www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com/mesothelioma-doctors/california/dr-robert-b-cameron
http://www.mesothelioma.com/treatment/doctors/dr-robert-cameron.htm
http://www.asbestos.net/mesothelioma/doctors/dr-robert-b-cameron/#top
http://www.mesotheliomagroup.com/doctors/robert-cameron/
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UCLA Health Releases New Video Chronicling Treatment of Six-Year Meso Survivor Martha Munoz
Martha and Arturo Munoz
On March 23, 2015, UCLA Health released a new video which chronicles the medical treatment of Worthington & Caron, PC client Martha Munoz. Martha was 68 years old when she was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in March 2009. Her husband Arturo states in the video that Martha's doctors were giving her only 9 to 10 months to live.
In April 2009, Martha consulted with Dr. Robert Cameron, thoracic surgeon and director of the Comprehensive Mesothelioma Program at UCLA Medical Center. The video chronicles Martha's treatment at UCLA, beginning with a lung-sparing pleurectomy/decortication surgery performed by Dr. Cameron in May 2009.
"Surgery is actually the most reliable treatment," Dr. Cameron states in the video, "The goal is to remove all tumor we can see and take it off the lung and leave the lung in place."
The video shows a striking comparison of radiology films of Martha's right lung before and after the surgery. The "before" films show tumor encasing and compressing the lung, making it extremely difficult to breathe. The "after" films show all visible tumor gone and the lung expanding fully to the rib cage.
Following the surgery, Martha's treatment included chemotherapy, state-of-the-art tomotherapy and novel cryoablation therapy which freezes and destroys new small tumors.
As Dr. Cameron explains, "Our idea is to treat this as a chronic disease, so what we do is use surgery to get rid of all the tumor we can see and use the other things like radiation, immunotherapy and cryoablation to keep it that way, just like we do with other chronic diseases that people can live a long time with."
The video reports that six years after her diagnosis, Martha is now cancer free. "This is what you call a miracle," says Arturo. While Martha states, "We are a very close family, and with God's help and Dr. Cameron's help, I can have a healthy longer life."
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Cameron:
Contact his office at (310) 470-8980.
Dr. Cameron sees patients in consultation at his Los Angeles, California clinic located at:
Thoracic Surgery Associates
10780 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 100
Labels: Cameron, cryoablation, Mesothelioma, pleurectomy, ucla
New Asbestos Bills Before Congress, but will Meaningful Legislature Finally be Passed?
A new bill has been introduced to congress this week which would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to re-consider a ban on asbestos, and many other toxic chemicals that have been found to cause cancer, developmental disorders, respiratory disorders, neurological disorders, and more. The Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act, is named after Alan Reinstein, who died in 2006 at the age of 66 from mesothelioma, and Trevor Schaefer, a brain cancer survivor who was diagnosed at the age of 13.
The bill would also protect states' rights to evaluate within their own government whether or not to ban toxic and dangerous chemicals that industry backed representatives want grouped together under the more corporate friendly federal law.
The EPA attempted to ban most asbestos products in 1989, which would have prohibited the manufacture, import, processing or distribution of most asbestos containing products. However, a 1991 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected much of the rule, undoubtedly under pressure from industry funded representatives.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), one of the bill's authors has been one of the most vocal outliers of chemical policy reform since efforts to fix the law began. "Our citizens deserve nothing less than a bill that protects them – not chemical companies."
Another bill, The Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database Act, or READ Act, which was introduced last week in congress, seeks to establish an online database which would be administered by the EPA and detail products that contain asbestos, and where asbestos can be found. This is a direct response to the industry friendly bill, The Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act, (The FACT Act) which supporters claim is an attempt to protect future asbestos disease victims right to compensation, but is really an attempt to curtail and delay current victims right to compensation and further limit the liability companies face. Under the new law, people and companies that knowingly manufacture, process, distribute or sell products containing asbestos will be fined $10,000 a day if they fail to report to the EPA.
"Every year, far too many Americans and their families suffer the deadly consequences of asbestos exposure," says U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, (D-Ill), "The goal of this legislation is simple: Increase the transparency and accessibility of data informing the public about where asbestos is known to be present. This information will increase awareness, reduce exposure and help save lives."
Linda Reinstein, wife of deceased Alan Reinstein, president and CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, said she strongly supports the READ Act. "Undoubtedly, the READ Act will save lives and dollars," she said in a statement. "One life lost from a preventable asbestos-caused disease is tragic, hundreds of thousands is unconscionable."
A lot of bills are floating around congress right now that contain the word asbestos. Some of these bills are straightforward, with the goal to protect citizens from the dangers of asbestos and hope to see this material finally banned in this country. Others are written under the guise of protecting citizens, but it's clear if you read between the lines, and look at the track records and associates of the authors of said bills, that the goal is to protect the companies who knowingly exposed the good people of this country to the deadly material in the first place.
Labels: boxer, epa, FACT Act, READ, Reinstein
Lethal and Still Legal: Asbestos Flows into U.S. Ports
http://www.asbestosnation.org/lethal-and-still-legal-asbestos-flows-into-u-s-ports/
New National Campaign to Raise Awareness of Continuing Threats from Asbestos
Washington, D.C. – Many Americans believe asbestos was banned decades ago. But the deadly substance remains legal, with more than 8 million pounds entering U.S. ports since 2006, according to an analysis of federal trade data released today by the EWG Action Fund.
The analysis is the first in a series of investigations in the Action Fund's new national campaign, Asbestos Nation. The campaign will raise awareness of the dangers asbestos continues to pose to public health, push for full transparency of the asbestos industry, including where the substance is used, and urge policymakers in Washington to take concrete steps to restrict the use of asbestos, including through imports.
"Federal health officials were blocked in their attempts to ban asbestos more than 25 years ago, and since then this notorious carcinogen has killed tens of thousands of Americans," said Heather White of the EWG Action Fund. "Asbestos is still on the market and still dangerous at even the smallest exposures."
"This campaign aims to build an overwhelming chorus of public support for full transparency from the asbestos industry and a ban of asbestos imports," White said. "The Obama administration and Congress must take action to curb Americans' exposure to asbestos."
According to records obtained by the EWG Action Fund, from 2006 to 2014, at least 23 U.S. seaports received more than 8.2 million pounds of raw asbestos, as well as hundreds of shipments of hazardous asbestos waste and products made with asbestos.
The port records show that most raw asbestos imports – more than 7.6 million pounds – arrived at the ports of New Orleans and Houston, but more than 600,000 pounds came in through Newark, Long Beach, and four other ports. More than 100 shipments of asbestos products or hazardous asbestos waste entered the U.S. through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. From ports, shipments of asbestos went by rail or truck to industrial facilities, wholesalers and waste dumps in 29 states.
The port records are not readily accessible by the public. The EWG Action Fund obtained them through a paid subscription to a proprietary database. Many of the records were incomplete, with substantial omissions of vital information, including the amounts and whereabouts of asbestos brought into the U.S.
In its most recent annual minerals report, the U.S. Geological Survey says that last year, the U.S. used about 882,000 pounds of asbestos, an estimate based only on imports through the first half of the year. But port records show that about 964,000 pounds of raw asbestos were imported last year, leaving more than 82,000 pounds unaccounted for by the Geological Survey's estimate.
In a related development, legislation introduced today by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill) would set up a federal online database of information about products that contain asbestos and where those items are likely to be found.
The Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database (READ) Act would require all those who manufacture, import or handle the deadly substance to report annually to the Environmental Protection Agency about their "products and any publicly-accessible location in which the products have been known to be present in the past year," according to Durbin's office.
"Senator Durbin's plan would give concerned citizens valuable information that they can use to avoid coming into contact with this lethal substance," White said.
Asbestos-related diseases kill an estimated 10,000 Americans a year, including many who were not exposed on the job. Inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause asbestosis, an excruciatingly painful scarring of the lungs, and mesothelioma, an always-fatal cancer that can strike the lungs, heart, stomach or testicles.
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Rogue Ales & Spirits Launches Single Barrel Project Whiskey Series
NEWPORT, Ore. (November 17, 2020) — Rogue Ales & Spirits is proud to announce the launch of the Single Barrel Project whiskey series, a limited-series of one-off single barrels of Rogue whiskey that have been finished in unique ways. Rogue is the only farmer-brewer-distiller-cooper in the United States and because of this, Rogue is able to handcraft innovative products such as this Single Barrel Project at their headquarters in Newport, Oregon.
"After opening our Rolling Thunder Barrel Works cooperage in 2015, we became fascinated with exploring the impact that different types of wood impressed on the flavor, aroma and taste of our whiskeys," says Jake Holshue, Rogue Spirits Head Distiller. "We created Single Barrel Project as our way to explore that curiosity through finishing Rogue whiskey in unique barrels and uncommon wood varietals, oftentimes in a non-replicable way, and always one barrel at a time."
Rogue will release four Single Barrel Project whiskeys per year. The first edition in the Single Barrel Project series, which is currently being released, is a 6.5-year-old Rogue Single Malt Whiskey finished in Cabernet Sauvignon wine barrels from Washington. Barrel Two will be released in January 2021 and is an eight-year-old Oregon Rye Malt Whiskey finished in a second use Zinfandel barrel and Barrel Three, released in March 2021, is Oregon Single Malt Whiskey finished in a Rogue Rolling Thunder Barrel Works Cherry Wood barrel. Barrel Four will be released later in 2021.
"At Rogue, we are always looking for new ways to create and innovate," says Steve Garrett, Vice President of Business Development. "We like to push the boundaries and see what we can come up with. This mentality pushed us to experiment with different woods from our backyard in the Pacific Northwest and our very own cooperage. By doing so, we were able to create something special with the Single Barrel Project and are excited to share these one-of-a-kind whiskeys with our fans."
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Classified as American Single Malt
Proof: 96
Primary Barrel: American Oak
Finish Barrel: NXNW Washington Cabernet Sauvignon
Availability: November, limited supply, only in Oregon
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Rogue Ales & Spirits, the only farmer-brewer-distiller-cooper in the United States, was founded in Oregon in 1988 as one of America's first microbreweries. Rogue has won more than 2,000 awards for taste, quality and packaging, and is available in all 50<|fim_middle|> are made with ingredients grown on Rogue Farms in Independence, Oregon. Rogue Spirits are hand-distilled on a 550-gallon still in Newport, Oregon, aged in the thick ocean air of the Yaquina Bay and bottled by hand. Since 2008, Rogue has remained committed to sharing the terroir of Oregon hops, honey, cucumbers and pumpkins one acre at a time by growing its own.
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Everybody knows and loves Denis. He is one of the little stars in our Container Village. He lives there with his mother, Ramona, and now, being a big boy, he is serious about helping her with everything he can. He goes to school every day, with almost no exceptions.
We have known Denis since he was born. At that time, his mother and father used to live in Salard. They received a weather-proof metal container given by Smiles, to replace their improvised shelter made up of plastic and wood… And for couple of years they lived as a proper family in there. Unfortunately, Denis' father started to drink more and more and he ended up in very bad company – this cost him<|fim_middle|> support the Homeless Project. | almost two years of his life. Ramona and Denis had to move away from Salard and as they did not have many options, they came in the city, living as homeless people.
Once we knew of the problems that confronted them, we took them in the Container Village. That was their chance as, soon after arriving once they had settled in, both Denis and Ramona started to attend school. For a while they were in the same class, as Ramona had to go through the second-chance programme as a mature student.
The past has been difficult, but the present is not so bad. The future looks even better – Denis is grateful to have a mother and friends who care for him, people who are ready to support him to become a good man, whose destiny does not have to repeat the old thread of poverty, confusion and despair.
Thank you for being a Smiles' supporter and for making possible such great changes in people's lives.
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John Fitgerald's experience on and off the tennis court has given him a reputable name and his media commitments have allowed him to enhance what has already been a magnificent career. John has joined the Seven Network providing expert commentary<|fim_middle|>. He became only the fourth Australian captain in the past 60 years. In a nutshell, John Fitzgerald is an Australian favourite.
Fitzgerald's message is that the captain's job is to get the best team on the court for every tie, and that will be his and the selectors' call, not the players'. Unofficially, the leadership roles have also been tweaked in Fitzgerald's new partnership with coach Wally Masur. Where Newcombe took care of the public duties and courtside match day role, it was left to the publicity-shy Roche to oversee most of the on-court preparation, particularly in the latter years, as well as work with squad members on the road for 20 weeks each year.
He says he is as aware of the responsibility as he is proud and sobered by it. The young Fitzy may have started out with Newk's racquet, but there will be no playing around with the national inheritance.
John Fitzgerald's experience on and off the tennis court has given him a reputable name and his media commitments have allowed him to enhance what has already been a magnificent career.
John has joined the Seven Network providing expert commentary on the Australian Open and is also a well sought after Keynote Speaker and MC, adding that special touch to any function.
Team Leadership – Lessons learnt as a Davis Cup Captain
Australian Tennis Stories
The pride of playing for Australia | on the Australian Open and is also a well sought after Keynote Speaker and MC, adding that special touch to any function.
Media Personalities
Testimonials for John Fitzgerald
"John met and then exceeded all our expectations."
"John is a very down to earth friendly bloke who made working with him very easy. His stories were humorous and very insightful given his close relationship with Lleyton Hewitt. John conducted himself professionally and politely with all our guests and was very willing to have photos taken with our guests and generally take part in our client function. We will definitely use him again!"
"John was very good at conveying his speech and ideas to the attendees. Very good feedback. John is very unassuming speaker and person in general, it was a pleasure dealing with him."
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John Fitzgerald is a true Australian sporting icon. As a player, his greatest career highlights came during the 11 years he represented Australia in the Davis Cup. During this time he put his stamp on Australian tennis and proved himself to be an integral part of the team, playing in 3 finals and playing a major role in defeating Sweden in both the 1983 and 1986 finals at Kooyong. John took the honours on a number of occasions and his career has been filled with many fist pumping triumphs.
John held the Number 1 ranking in Australia, represented his country in 2 Olympic Games (Seoul and Barcelona), won 6 ATP TOUR singles titles, won 30 ATP TOUR doubles titles (which included 7 GRAND SLAM titles) and received the Order of Australia Medal in 1993 for services to tennis.
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Dallas, Texas, January 2018 – The Howard, LLP team congratulates Kelly Fisher and Julia Koonsman who graduated from the <|fim_middle|>DA) on January 11, 2018. The Dallas CPA Society's Leadership Development Academy was created to assist emerging leaders in the accounting and financial services industries in developing the skills necessary to be an effective leader within their profession and community. This terrific group of up-and-coming business and Chapter leaders has completed an impressive curriculum of instruction over the past seven months, and we congratulate each one of them on their accomplishment. Our firm thanks you for your time, talent and energy to leading us forward!
The Dallas CPA Society, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (Dallas Chapter) is a not-for-profit professional association serving approximately 6,000 CPA members in Dallas and the surrounding 13 counties. It is the second largest chapter of the Texas Society, Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA), the statewide professional association with over 27,000 members and 20 chapters around the state. A Board of Directors, elected from among the membership, is charged with the responsibility of governing the Chapter. More information can be found at www.cpadallas.org. | 2017-2018 Class of the Dallas CPA Society Leadership Development Academy (L | 20 |
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2010 State Profile — North Dakota
This state profile includes data from facilities in North Dakota that reported to N-SSATS for the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private) in North...
2010 State Profile — Virgin Islands
This state profile includes data from facilities in Virgin Islands that reported to N-SSATS for the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private) in Virgin...
2010 State Profile — Federation of Micronesia
This state profile includes data from facilities in the Federation of Micronesia that reported to N-SSATS for the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private)...
2010 State Profile — Guam
This state profile includes data from facilities in Guam that reported to N-SSATS for<|fim_middle|> at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private) in Guam. In...
2010 State Profile — Hawaii
This state profile includes data from facilities in Hawaii that reported to N-SSATS for the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private) in Hawaii. In...
2010 State Profile — Iowa
This state profile includes data from facilities in Iowa that reported to N-SSATS for the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (both public and private) in Iowa. In... | the survey reference date March 31, 2010. Data were collected on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment | 33 |
Ethical Fashion: Last Outfit of Summer 2018 - heylilahey.
Friday last week, almost exactly at 5pm summer said goodbye with a big bang, thunder and rain! But it was a great summer that for me already started in February. I was traveling with Jesse in South Africa until mid-March and almost directly afterwards, Elli and I went to Bali for three weeks !! When I returned, as always, Serbia was on my itinerary (I'm there every May) and when I came back the heat wave of 2018 was in full force in Germany!
In retrospect, I would have liked to make more of the summer, to be honest. Now I'm sitting in our dark apartment, the rain is falling against our windows and Jesse is making us hot chocolate in the kitchen. And I love it and I'm looking forward to fall! But as I said, I think that I may have not fully taken<|fim_middle|> Old Blogger Fashion Looks are good for the soul! Have fun with it!
For years and years I just hated jumpsuits, they never really looked good on me, in my opinion! Thanks to Jungle Folk (you can find this wonderful grey / blue / white jumpsuit here) I finally started to like them and as part of a collaboration with Showroom in the beginning of September (see Instagram, advertising), I came into possession of this wonderful model in black! I'm convinced that the cut suits almost everyone and I am definitely looking forward to style it now in fall as well!
Still, I wish I had discovered the jumpsuit a few months earlier to show it off in it's full glory without layering. Now it is getting way too cold for that. BUT we still have next year and the layered look makes outfits more interesting, I think.
What do you think about the outfit? Is it a worthy "farewell to summer" look? How would you style the jumpsuit in autumn? | advantage of the great weather in the last few months. I was only at the lakes here in Berlin a total of four times! Why? First of all, I just worked a lot, traveled a lot, was busy, but sometimes I was just super lazy… I'm not really a big bucket-list person, but maybe I should have written one for the summer, or journaling, or something like that. Because when you write down your best moments, this feeling of having missed something doesn't come up so much! Maybe I'll get into journaling and / or doing bucket lists again!
Back to the actual topic of today's blog post: My last real summer outfit of 2019! As you know, I hardly post any outfit photos lately because I share them anyway on Instagram (if you want to support me, follow me on Instagram, where I share a lot of eco fashion and eco beauty insights!) and also I find pure outfit posts on the blog relatively superficial, even if they are all Ethical Fashion here on heylilahey.
BUT I think that every now and then Good Plain | 226 |
Capacity development for climate services encompasses all elements of the climate services value chain.
Capacity development for climate services encompasses all elements of the climate services value chain, from climate data management and climate monitoring and prediction, to service<|fim_middle|> project management, amongst others. Management and leadership skills need to be added to human resource capacities to enable NMHSs to build stronger national political ownership, develop relevant policies and legal frameworks and enhance sustainability by linking regional, sub-regional and national planning processes.
Procedural capacity includes a comprehensive set of technical regulations and guidance documents that provide the foundation for the operation of NMHSs. A key aim of procedural capacity is to promote the standardization of meteorological and related observations, including those that are applied to climatological studies and practices. Towards these ends, among other measures, a Quality Management Framework (QMF) is being. | delivery and communication of relevant products to end-users in compliance with the highest quality management standards. In order to meet this mandate, WMO has an integrated approach for capacity development of climate services that includes institutional, infrastructural, human resources and procedural components.
Institutional capacity is specific to each country and must be undertaken incrementally in a national context. Producing information that is timely, credible, and actionable necessitates inputs from many players, and requires close communication, coordination, and liaison between multiple institutions and stakeholders at different levels. Common institutional arrangements facilitate the delivery of climate services through provision of legal, technical and financial basis. It also puts in place, legal mechanisms for exchange of information between government agencies and regulates their cooperation for common purposes.
To address the Infrastructural Capacity needs of delivering climate services, WMO has fostered establishment of new infrastructure within the WMO Global Data Processing and Forecasting System (GDPFS) to improve access to climate information and products for its Members. This three-tiered worldwide structure includes the NMHSs acting on a national scale, Regional Climate Centres (RCCs) and other regional centres providing sub-regional, continent-wide climate information and services, and the Global Producing Centres (GPCs) for Long Range Forecasts that deliver global-scale information and services. Currently more than 200 global and regional centres offer specific support to NMHSs and play a key role in capacity development.
To develop the Human Capacity for climate service providers, a review of the education qualifications, skill requirements and job training for climate specialists is necessary. New climate functions require a multi-disciplinary skill set, including geography, physics, computing, statistics, modelling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and | 348 |
Defence of East Sussex
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I spent a thoroughly enjoyable day at Newhaven Fort; arriving just after opening time, I wanted to get up onto the gun area to take photos before too many fellow visitors had the same idea.
The photo below is of one of the two 6-inch guns the fort had for coast defence. These were superceded by the 3-gun battery built to the west in 1943.
This 12-pound<|fim_middle|> destroying a bridge. Some demolitions were not intended to be carried out until after invasion had begun, for example, certain bridges or road craters (pipe mines).
Embrasure
A loophole or slit that permits observation and/or weapons to be fired through a wall or similar solid construction.
The codename for the Allied invasion of occupied Europe on 6th June 1944.
Two designs of obstacle were constructed from scaffolding; Z0 anti-boat and Z1 anti-tank scaffolding. The framework was deemed the best anti-tank obstacle for beaches, providing a tank didn't have a good run up. Erected from about 1941, scaffolding was very labour-intensive and used an enormous amount of steel.
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The information on this website is intended solely to describe the ongoing research activity of The Defence of East Sussex Project; it is not comprehensive or properly presented. It is therefore NOT suitable as a basis for producing derivative works or surveys! | er gun (below) was used for close defence of the harbour mouth.
The long expanse of flat beach that arcs round to Seaford was mined, wired and defended with cubes and scaffolding; I've already paid a visit and walked the length of this area with some interesting conclusions including the bridge demolition at Bishopstone.
Construction of the fort began in the 1860's, the armament being revised to meet various invasion threats, its military service finally ended with the abandonment of coast artillery in 1956.
Newhaven was a pivotal area in 1940; being an important harbour, it's capture by the Germans would have been a severe blow. Defence schemes always seem to designate certain forces to be prepared to recapture the port in the event of its fall.
There was a Naval presence here as well as the military forces; the Dieppe Raid of August 1942 was launched from Newhaven and the port also played a part in Operation Overlord in 1944.
I visited in 1981, when the fort was opened for the first time as a visitor attraction, and despite closure not long after, it again became a museum, and I was knocked flat by the standard of the displays.
I had already seen the Royal Observer Corps exhibitions (including a reconstruction of an underground nuclear monitoring post and plotting room, not to mention the reconstructed WW2 ROC post up on the ramparts) and the walkthrough Blitzed street, but the air raid shelter experience and home front and First World War displays were new to me, but fantastic.
The fort also houses the collection of the Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry; this was of particular interest to me, being a former Yeoman myself (Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomany - my squadron was originally the Staffordshire Yeomanry) and my great uncle was in the Royal West Kent Yeomanry during WW1 and also in the Kent Home Guard during WW2.
However, I was here to do some fieldwork too; a plan I found in the Fort Record Book showed the location of defence posts, including some weapons pits dug into the northern parapet of the fort, facing inland. A quick recce revealed possible indentations in the earth, but nothing conclusive.
Leaving the fort, I went to down to beach level to see the pair of observation posts that had been constructed in the cliff face by tunnelling through the chalk from inside the fort; the entrance to the tunnels can be seen from within the fort, although access is denied due to their instability.
The photo above shows the two OPs in the cliff face; the eastern one has all but imploded, but the western one (seen below) shows how a circular tunnel seemingly lined with corrugated iron was driven through the chalk and faced with a concrete wall with embrasure. The rectangular holes are believed to have been the anchor points of a hoist used to raise shingle from the beach to the cliff top for use in the fort's original construction.
Newhaven Fort is the largest defence work in Sussex; you need several hours to do a proper visit and several more to write a comprehensive blog entry on it! Unfortunately, I don't have the time to write up my visit in full, so the best I can do is recommend you pay your own visit - I guarantee you won't be disappointed!
- Pete
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Gun garages and field artillery
Jargon-buster
Anti-tanks blocks, popularly known as dragon's teeth. Not to be confused with smaller blocks known as pimples, cubes can be upwards of 1m square. Many examples in Sussex have apexes or chamfered edges, leading to them being incorrectly recorded as coffins.
Defence scheme
A military plan of defence for a specified area. Defence Schemes were issued at numerous levels. Defence Schemes were later known as Plans to Defeat Invasion on the orders of General Montgomery.
Term applied to a structure scheduled for demolition or already demolished. Walls and small buildings might be taken down to clear fields of fire or impede enemy passage by | 866 |
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All physical materials associated with the New England Province Archive are currently held by the Jesuit Archives<|fim_middle|>2014. A Photo Gallery displays group photographs of the World War II Chaplains.
Jesuit Archives | in St. Louis, MO. Any inquiries about these materials should be directed to the Jesuit Archives . Electronic versions of some items and the descriptions and finding aids to the Archives, which are hosted in CrossWorks, are provided only as a courtesy.
The New England Province was a regional division of the Jesuits. It consisted of the six New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England became a separate Jesuit province in 1926 and consisted of 492 Jesuits. It continued to grow until 1964, during the Second Vatican Council, when it peaked at 1,129 members, among them 755 priests, 63 brothers, and 311 Jesuits in formation. At that time, there were three institutions of higher education, two seminaries, five secondary schools, six retreat houses, three parishes, and numerous specialized ministries. The province was also responsible for two foreign missions territories, which included another university, three more high schools and numerous parishes. In the 21st century, the New England Province reflected greater diversity of ethnic backgrounds than the dominant Irish strain that characterized its first 50 or 60 years. Although its traditional work continued to be anchored in education, it entered into a more diverse collaboration with diocesan bishops throughout the region and outside New England. On December 3rd, 2014, The New England Province and the New York Province (1943-2014) united to become the USA Northeast Province as part of a reconfiguration of the provinces of the Society of Jesus.
These histories tell the story of the New England Province at different points in time. A history of the province for the years after 1979 has yet to be written.
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A Chronology Relating to the Jesuits in New England 1611-2014
Vincent A. Lapomarda S.J.
A timeline of the activities, apostolates, and administration of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in the New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut from 1611 to 2014.
Jesuit Province of New England: The Expanding Years
James Leo Burke S.J. and Vincent A. Lapomarda S.J.
This history of the New England Province of Jesuits covers the years 1929 to 1979. It describes educational institutions: Cheverus High School, Portland, Maine, Cranwell Preparatory School, Lenox, Mass., Fairfield Preparatory School and Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., the Xavier School, Concord, Mass., the relocation of Boston College High School from the South End of Boston to Dorchester, and the proposed use of Weston College, Weston, Mass., as a military hospital during World War II as well as the Baghdad Mission and some other mission possibilities in the Middle East and Argentina.
Jesuit Province of New England: The Formative Years
James Leo Burke S.J.
This history of the New England Province of Jesuits covers the years of approximately 1920 to 1945. It describes establishing the New England Region and the educational institutions for the Jesuits: Shadowbrook, the house of formation in Lenox, Mass., Weston College, the scholasticate, in Weston, Mass., and St. Robert's Hall, the tertianship, in Pomfret, Conn. It also tells of the founding of the first retreat house, Campion Hall, in North Andover, Mass., and the famine relief work in Russia of Rev. Louis J. Gallagher, S.J., one of the founding members of the New England Province.
Jesuits by the Tigris: Men for Others in Baghdad
Joseph F. MacDonnell, S.J.
Jesuits by the Tigris: Men for Others in Baghdad by Rev. Joseph F. MacDonnell, S.J., documents the Jesuit Mission to Iraq, administered by the New England Province of the Society of Jesus, particularly two schools operated in Baghdad: Baghdad College (1932-1969) and Al-Hikma University (1956-1968).
Life Under the Japs: Stories from a Prisoner-of-War Camp
John J. Dugan S.J. and Joseph P. Duffy S.J.
Life Under the Japs is the story of Rev. John J. Dugan, S.J., a military chaplain taken as a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan in April 1942. His ordeal is relayed through a series of interviews conducted by William de Lue and originally published in the Boston Globe in April 1945. This publication was edited by Joseph P. Duffy, S.J.
The Jesuit Heritage in New England
This book conveys the richness of the Jesuit heritage in the New England States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It gives the reader a knowledge of the relationship of the Society of Jesus to each of these states by providing information on the people, events, landmarks, historic sites and places of interest, with respect to the Jesuits in New England from 1611, the year when Father Pierre Biard became the first Jesuit to set foot on New England soil to 1976, the year of the bicentennial of the American nation and the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. The book contains a number of useful appendices that compile information about Jesuits and their works in New England, a bibliographical essay, and an index of persons.
The Jesuit Seminary News
Jesuit Seminary Guild
This magazine is a brief history of the schools, parishes, missions, and other apostolates of the New England Province of Jesuits in 1940. It includes Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., Boston College High School, South End, Boston, Mass., Cranwell Preparatory School, Lenox, Mass., Shadowbrook, House of Formation, Lenox, Mass., Weston College, Scholasticate, Weston, Mass., St. Mary's Church, North End, Boston, Mass., Holy Trinity Church, Boston, Mass., Mission to Jamaica, and Mission to Baghdad, Iraq, Campion Retreat House for Men, North Andover, Mass., St. Robert's Hall, Tertianship, Pomfret, Conn., Mission Band, Army Chaplains, Deaf-Mute Apostolate, Sodalities, St. Xavier Guild, St. Ignatius Guild, and Bellarmine Academy.
The Shadowbrook Fire
Francis X. Shea and Joseph A. Appleyard S.J.
This book tells the story of the March 10, 1956 fire that consumed Shadowbrook, the building that had been the Jesuit novitiate and juniorate of the New England Province of Jesuits for 34 years. The fire destroyed the building, killed four Jesuits, and left approximately 125 Jesuits homeless. The book is based on interviews with survivors and neighbors. It also includes a chapter about the earlier uses of Shadowbrook which was built as a mansion for Anson Phelps Stokes in 1893 and was a vacation home or a resort hotel until 1922 when the Society of Jesus purchased it from the widow of millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for use during the first four years of Jesuit formation.
To Love and Serve: World War II Chaplains of the New England Province of Jesuits
Joseph P. Duffy S.J.
To Love and Serve provides the service records of the 54 Jesuits from the New England Province of Jesuits who served as military chaplains during World War II. It also includes information about awards and medals they received, and personal accounts of their experiences. The appendices include tables of the New England Province Military Chaplains, from 1918 to | 1,725 |
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The second part of the talk will deal with the detection of this attack. After all, it is a bad style to introduce a problem without having remedy. Forged sensor signals cannot be detected with any traditional IT security methods. The detection has to take form of process data plausibility and consistency checks. By monitoring health of pump we will be able to figure out the ongoing detrimental state of the process and accurately determine the ongoing cavitation process and its likely cause – all with a live demo on stage.
By the end of this talk the audience will recognize that security and safety zoning should expand all the way into the physical process (to consider interaction of equipment via the physical process).
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I am doing an assignment currently that requires me to make an animation to a 30 second portion of a song of choice. It has to tell a story, whether literal or abstract, and while most people's idea of a story is probably something long and convoluted with a beginning, middle, end, with complications and resolutions as we were taught from a young age, it's actually much simpler than that.
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Not only this but the brain simply already possesses the innate ability to tell and create stories, as even when we aren't conscious we are doing exactly that. There is no body who doesn't know how to tell stories because we all tell stories when we dream.
The thing that stuck out to me in this talk my lecturer gave us is when he described what we're creating as a 'thirty second dream'. I have decided to look at<|fim_middle|>why?'. It often receives quite a bit of complaint and many expressions of contempt, but I think it is extremely important. The question of why I'm making something is almost more important than the process of making it in the first place, as without that 'why', there is simply no true motivation behind making it, no responsibility to take from it, and no goal to work towards, and without any of these things, the project has been assigned no meaning. And without meaning and purpose, where is going, and what will it actually become? | all things I create as dreams now because I think that is just beautiful.
He also mentioned briefly about how our dreams reveal a lot about ourselves through symbols, and that we should try and implement this into our creative work when determining the theme of something. We should ask 'what does this reveal?' 'What's the meaning?' That's what determines the theme.
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What is the difference between the UK red lines and hard Brexit?
One aspect that I have not seen discussed in relation to the Brexit negotiations is in what ways a hard Brexit differs from the main aspects of what the UK wants from Brexit in the first place.
Taking a look at the infographic
Granted that this graphic was produced by the EU, and therefore may be biased, or an oversimplification, but it nonetheless places the wide ranging issues in a nutshell, so is a decent point of reference.
What substantive ways are the UK's position on independence on trade, borders, and jurisprudence separate from a "no-deal" scenario?
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The unwritten assumption in this infographic is that the shown options are the only possible options. It would be entirely possible to create an arrangement with completely different terms, but whether and how it could happen, well that's the entire crux of the current negotiations. – Nit Mar 14 '19 at 14:12
@Nit The infographic is expressing the UK red lines and contrasting it with arrangements the EU already has with a variety of nations, to illustrate what kind of relationship is definitely possible. Of course "something else, on as of yet unknown terms" doesn't neatly fit onto an infographic. Also worth pointing out that there are no current negotiations. UK/EU negotations have concluded months ago. Everything that's been happening since has been strictly UK internal. – Cubic Mar 14 '19 at 15:21
If you take "UK's position" to mean May's deal (thrice rejected by MPs) then you should read that (or at least clarify your question). Otherwise, who speaks for UK's position?? The UK government's red lines have shifted over time, culminating with the draft deal with the EU. – Fizz Mar 31 '19 at 9:22
The chart you posted here dates from Dec 2017 (or older); that is ancient history on the Brexit timeline. If you want an updated one look at informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/… – Fizz Mar 31 '19 at 9:33
@Fizz true, but conceptually it should still be (theoretically) sound – Stumbler Mar 31 '19 at 9:34
"Hard Brexit" has been summarized as "Trade under WTO rules". The South Korean and Canadian flags refer to EU trade agreements. The green checkmark means that the EU presumes a similar trade deal can be reached with the UK.
Effectively, that means the UK's red lines do not preclude a trade agreement, while "Hard Brexit" by definition does.
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Presumably "trade agreement" isn't synonymous with "free-trade"... or is it? – Stumbler Mar 14 '19 at 15:12
@Stumbler: No, it isn't. The WTO has multiple classifications of trade argeements, including customs unions, regional trade agreements, preferential trade arrangements and free trade agreeements. – MSalters Mar 14 '19 at 15:15
"Hard Brexit" at the time did refer to exiting all EU institutions and entering a trading agreement as a third country, to contrast it with "soft" brexit which would involve staying in CU or even the SM. No Deal wasn't discussed as anything more than a hypothetical back then. – Cubic Mar 14 '19 at 15:18
@Stumbler note that the "free trade agreements" and "free trade" refer to "freedoms", specifically they're there to make trading easier. I've seen a lot of people confused about this point assuming that a FTA would grant the same sorts of freedoms the UK currently gets as part of the Single Market and that's definitely not the case (by default anyway). – Cubic Mar 14 '19 at 15:24
Hard Brexit does not preclude a trade agreement. – ouflak Mar 14 '19 at 16:06
"Hard Brexit" is not well defined, but generally it means less alignment with the EU than remaining in the customs union or single market as was originally proposed by many Leave supporters and by the official Leave campaign during the referendum.
The UK government's red lines do require a hard Brexit, having ruled out being a member of customs union or single market, so there is no real difference.
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If we take "UK's position" to mean the Political Declaration that accompanies the Withdrawal Agreement (both agreed by May with the EU, but 2-3 times rejected by MPs; the Declaration twice, the Agreement thrice) then this [tentatively] common vision with the EU says:
[23.] The economic partnership should ensure no tariffs, fees, charges or quantitative restrictions across all sectors, with ambitious customs arrangements that, in line with the Parties' objectives and principles above, build and improve on the single customs territory provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement which obviates the need for checks on rules of origin.
[29.] The Parties should conclude ambitious, comprehensive and balanced arrangements on trade in services and investment in services and non-services sectors, respecting each Party's right to regulate. The Parties should aim to deliver a level of liberalisation in trade in services well beyond the Parties' World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments and building on recent Union Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
[30.] In line with Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, the Parties should aim at substantial sectoral coverage, covering all modes of supply and providing for the absence of substantially all discrimination in the covered sectors, with exceptions and limitations as appropriate. The arrangements should therefore cover sectors including professional and business services, telecommunications services, courier and postal services, distribution services, environmental services, financial services, transport services and other services of mutual interest.
So they aim for a fairly comprehensive deal in both goods and services. That's perhaps even more ambitious than the deal with Japan or Canada, so call it Canada+ or something like that. Do note that in the jungle of Brexit proposals, the same term has been used to mean something somewhat different
Canada plus plus would mean a hard Brexit and an arms-length relationship with the EU based on reducing tariffs and trade barriers and harmonising regulations. It is attractive to the Brexiters because it would keep Britain out of the single market and customs union. But many Remainers would consider it to be very similar to a no-deal Brexit. It does have the advantage, however, of being supported by the dissenters in the House of Commons – as long as the backstop is not part of the deal.
As one pundit said comparing the multiple Canada+ visions:
Go for Canada-plus
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What are the Brexit steps for 2020 and beyond? | claimed that May has a simple option. "The PM must go straight back to the EU's [free-trade agreement] offered by Tusk in March," said the former cabinet minister Owen Paterson.
This ignores the fact that the EU will only agree a free-trade deal if the UK signs the existing withdrawal agreement, which includes the Irish backstop. When the EU talks of "pluses" in any Canada-style deal, it means other non-trade deals on security, fisheries and foreign policy. When Brexiters talk of pluses, or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Canada, they have been looking for advantages that Brussels has repeatedly ruled out.
The take-home message from this is that the future relation can be reached either by upgrading a no-deal or downgrading from May's Withdrawal Agreement. Those who can't stand the backstop (included in the Agreement) want the path former... or they want something completely different in the long, e.g. UK being unilaterally tariff-free with the world etc.
So I'm largely eschewing what "hard brexit"/"no-deal" means in terms of future relations, since it depends on who's talking and what else they envisage should happen after the event. If nothing else happens, a no-deal Brexit just reverts the UK to WTO rules, in terms of trade. Even this is not a simple affair, because the UK is currently [re]negotiating its (future) WTO schedules.
Finally, the vision from the Declaration has been also called "Brexeternity" because its wide scope would likely mean a huge amount of time/negotiations to fully realize.
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Line a baking dish with tin foil. Wash beet and trim the leaves/stem back<|fim_middle|> using tough, dried tomatoes, you'll need to soak them in boiling water until they're pliable, then pat them dry and continue with the recipe.
To make the croutons, preheat the oven to 400 degrees with a rack in the top of the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix the olive oil, Parmesan and salt in a large mixing bowl until a paste is formed. Add the cubed bread and mix well with a spatula, until all the bread is coated. Turn the bread onto the prepared baking sheet and arrange in a single layer. I couldn't quite mix in all of my Parmesan mixture, so I sort of lumped the excess on top of the bread pieces. Bake for 10 minutes, then stir and put the croutons back into the oven until they are golden brown and crisp, up to 5 more minutes.
To make the dressing, combine the sun-dried tomatoes, Parmesan, lemon juice, water, garlic and a pinch of salt in a food processor or high-powered blender. Process for 1 minute, stopping to scrape down the sides if necessary. While running the machine, drizzle in the olive oil and blend for 10 more seconds. Don't worry if it's not perfectly smooth; it will still taste delicious! Taste and add more salt and some black pepper, if desired. Set aside.
In a small pan, fry the shallots in ½ inch of a neutral oil, such as sunflower oil, for about 10 seconds or until browned. They burn easily so it's helpful to fry one to test your timing. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate.
Fry eggs and set aside.
In a medium skillet over medium heat, combine the olive oil, leeks and a pinch of salt. Cook until the leeks are softened, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add the Brussels sprouts, toss to incorporate, and let them cook until soft and lightly browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger and rice vinegar and toss to incorporate. Add the farro, tamari and scallions and toss again. Let cook for another few minutes until the farro is warmed through. Taste and adjust seasonings.
Divide the farro mixture evenly between two plates and top each with a fried egg and the shallots, if using. Serve with lime slices and sriracha.
*I like to cook my farro like pasta. Bring a pot of water to a boil, then add the farro. Cook until it's tender and chewy, but not mushy (I stop just as the kernels have just started to open up). This can take between about 20-40 minutes, just taste as you go. Drain and let it dry before using.
To make this gluten free, use brown rice instead of farro.
This would also make a wonderful filling for a crepe or omelet, or with a poached egg on top. | (leaving an inch or two) if your beet has any. Don't trim the tail as you'll lose juice (and thus flavor) while roasting.
Add beet to the foil-lined baking dish and then cover with tin foil. Roast for at least 45 minutes. Check if beet is done by inserting a skewer. If it slides in easily (through the beet's centre), it's done.
When the beet is cooling, you can get the hummus going. Add the chickpeas, garlic, lemon juice, tahini, salt, and pepper. Blend on high and slowly drizzle in olive oil. Blend until smooth (this may take a few minutes).
Once beet has cooled for a few minutes, peel it (I used a knife). Cut beet into a few chunks and place into food processor. Blend on high until it's smooth and mixed together.
Serve chilled with an extra drizzle of olive oil if desired.
Prepare dough according to directions, either the night before or that morning (it only takes 15 minutes).
Mix together cheese, bacon and onions.
Split dough into balls and line the bottom of a cast iron skillet. Layer with cheese mixture and then pour beaten eggs on top.
Put in oven and bake for about 30-45 minutes until the center is all of the way cooked.
In a mini food processor, puree the red pepper; scrape into a small bowl.
Squeeze most of the lemon half into a small bowl of cold water. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, snap off the tough outer leaves. Using a sharp knife, cut off the top half of the artichoke and peel the base and stem. Cut off the stem and drop it into the bowl. Using a melon baller or a spoon, scoop out the furry choke. Rub the artichoke bottom all over with the lemon half, then quarter the artichoke and drop it into the bowl. Repeat with the remaining artichoke.
Season the beef with salt and pepper and lightly dredge the pieces in flour. In a medium enameled cast-iron casserole, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Add half of the meat and brown over moderately high heat, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and brown the remaining meat in the same oil.
MAKE AHEAD: The beef stew can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.
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SERVE WITH: Quartered new potatoes fried in olive oil and garlic.
Heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 9x9-inch baking pan. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook it halfway through (start checking after 3 minutes; it should still be quite firm inside). Add the Brussels sprouts to the pot and cook, until the pasta and vegetables are just barely tender, another 3 minutes. Drain, reserving some of the cooking water, and return the pasta and Brussels sprouts to the pot.
Stir in the gorgonzola cheese, apples, olive oil, and a splash of the cooking water. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, toss, and taste and adjust the seasoning. Pour the pasta mixture into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with a little bit more Gorgonzola cheese.
Bake, checking once or twice and adding a bit more of the cooking water if the pasta looks too dry, until the mixture is bubbling, 15 to 20 minutes (mine took 20). Sprinkle lemon juice over the dish and garnish it with chopped, toasted pecans.
Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
To make the apples, place butter in a medium skilled over medium heat to melt. Add the apples, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Toss with a wooden spoon until all of the apples are coated and the sugar is melted over the apples, about 2 to 4 minutes. The mixture will be warm and glossy, but the apples won't be cooked through. That's right! Remove from the heat and set aside.
To make the biscuit dough, place flour in a medium bowl and add cold butter cubes. Use your fingers to quickly break the butter down into the flour. Some of the butter bits will be the size of oats, some the size of small peas. Stir in the granulated sugar.
Create a well in the center of the butter and flour mixture and add 2/3 cup buttermilk. Stir the mixture together until it is well moistened and holds together well. Biscuit dough should be soft and moist. Add the remaining buttermilk as needed. If you're using your own homemade self-rising flour or gluten-free self-rising flour, you'll want to add the full 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
Use all-purpose flour to generously dust a clear work surface. Spoon dough onto the floured surface and use your hands to gather it into a ball and gently pat it into a small rectangle. If you're using gluten-free self-rising flour, the dough will crack a bit as you shape it into a rectangle, and again as you fold it over the apples. That's OK; just keep patting it back together.
Use a rolling pin to gently roll the dough into a rectangle 1/2-inch thick, about 7-inches x 10-inches. Arrange cooled apples in a single layer over half of the rolled out biscuit dough. Fold the bare side of the dough over the apples and gently press the edges to seal in the apples. Use the palms of your hand to pat the dough into a 6 x 8-inch rectangle if the edges are looking a bit rounded.
Use a sharp knife to slice the dough into 12 squares. Use a spatula to place each biscuit onto the prepared baking sheet, about 2-inches apart.
In a small bowl, whisk together sugar for topping, cinnamon, and salt.
Brush each biscuit top with beaten egg and sprinkle generously with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes until the biscuits are risen and golden brown. Remove from the oven and serve warm or cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Biscuits are best enjoyed within two days of baking.
First, a note on sun-dried tomatoes. I'm partial to Trader Joe's sun-dried tomatoes that come in a bag because they aren't oily but they're soft enough to eat right out of the bag. You could also use oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, rinsed and patted dry. If you're | 1,394 |
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The heroine is one of a troupe of itinerant clowns, who abandon her outside a great house where a masked ball is under way. A mask-seller places a mask over the sleeping girl's face. One of the male guests discovers her and goes inside to tell the others. The host invites the mysterious stranger to join the party. They dance with abandon, but when the time for un-masking comes, her cap comes off as well and her baldness is revealed. Mocked and reviled, she is mournfully reclaimed by her clown family. They hold up a mirror and she sees herself as she truly is. She runs back up the steps to the house, where the host rejects her once again. He returns to the gaiety of the ball and Laiderette is left sobbing as the curtain falls.
Laiderette 1954
The choreography for the heroine, danced by Maryon Lane, was intricate and strange. She moved at first with the gaucheness of a child, swivelling her knees sideways, turning her toes in and out, beating her flexed feet together then arching them in quick relevés on pointe. In her signature step, a flowing arabesque was distorted into an angular attitude position for the raised leg. Her arms were held behind her, hands clenched or splayed out in anguish. Lane later said that she recognised the character as a projection of MacMillan, scared that the world would reject him if people knew what he was really like.
The Frank Martin music, requiring solo harpsichord and harp, made the ballet expensive to perform and difficult to fit into a touring programme; and the Musicians' Union would not agree to the use of recorded music. But de Valois was impressed enough to offer MacMillan his first full commission for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, Danses Concertantes (1955). Marie Rambert acquired Laiderette for Ballet Rambert, which gave it a full stage production at Sadler's Wells in July 1955, with designs by Kenneth Rowell. It remained in Rambert's repertory until 1967.
'Here was a work of near-genius', declared Peter Williams in Dance and Dancers. 'If this and his first work, Somnambulism, are fair examples of what we can expect from MacMillan, we have a choreographer of major dimensions'.
First Performance: 24 January 1954
Company: Sadler's Wells Theatre
Music: Frank Martin
Cast: Maryon Lane, David Poole
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The Souness Years - In Their Own Words (Part 8) - Thank Evans, it's over!
This is the eighth and final instalment of our Souness Years series, looking behind-the-scenes of what went on at Liverpool during the Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first seven parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 STEVE NICOL: On a positive note, he did introduce two of Liverpool's greatest players in the modern era into the first team – Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman. ROBBIE FOWLER: Macca, Rob Jones, Mike …
The Souness Years - In Their Own Words (Part 7) - Temper, Temper
This is the seventh instalment of our Souness Years series, looking behind-the-scenes of what went on at Liverpool during the Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first six parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 IAN RUSH: He had learned a lot from his time in Italy, and was introducing ideas and methods that just about every manager since has adopted. Wenger changed the training, diet and lifestyle of Arsenal when he …
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Copyright © 2009-2020 AnfieldIndex.com . All Rights Reserved. | the sixth instalment of our Souness Years series, looking behind-the-scenes of what went on at Liverpool during the Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first five parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 ROY EVANS: I tried to talk Graeme out of sacking Thommo. I told him to get him in the office, sit him down and have the whole thing out, face to face. Both of them could have got …
The Souness Years - In Their Own Words (Part 5) - The Unforgivable Interview
This is the fifth instalment of our Souness Years series, looking behind-the-scenes of what went on at Liverpool during the Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first four parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 RONNIE WHELAN: Dicks and Ruddock were bought because Souey wanted strong, hard men in his team. And that's fine – Souey was a strong, hard man too. But he was a top-class ball-player as well. JAN MOLBY: As a …
The Souness Years - In Their Own Words (Part 4) - More Transfer Woe for the Reds
This is the fourth instalment of our Souness Years series, looking behind-the-scenes of what went on at Liverpool during the Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first three parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 GRAEME SOUNESS: I bought Paul Stewart to provide the muscle in midfield. He moved to Spurs and they converted him into a midfield player. JAMIE CARRAGHER: He welcomed me into the reserve side with a 'What the fuck are you doing …
The Souness Years - Rebuilding & Rob Jones (Part 3)
In this third instalment of our Souness Years series, we delve deeper into the behind-the-scenes activities during the turbulent Souness era of the early 90s. You can find the first two parts here: Part 1 Part 2 RONNIE WHELAN: You had a team now that wasn't stable and united. There was a lot of individual play. Different players were doing different things. They weren't fitting into a system. JOHN BARNES: When Kenny bought me and Peter Beardsley into the side, …
The Souness Years - In Their Own Words: Part 2 - Too Much Too Soon?
In this second instalment of our Souness Years series, we delve deeper into the behind-the-scenes activities during the turbulent Souness era of the early 90s. Part 1 - The Souness Years: In Their Own Words - The Change of Guard was released earlier this week. GRAEME SOUNESS: McMahon and Beardsley came into my office and hinted they were ready to move on unless there were guarantees of regular first-team football and improved terms to go with it. I was impetuous …
The Souness Years - In Their Own Words: Part 1 - The Change of Guard
The rise and fall of Liverpool football club is one of the most unique in the footballing world. Built 'up and up and up', in both Bill Shankly's words, actions and design, Liverpool dominated British and European football for the best part of two decades. In the eighteen years marking 1973 to 1991, Liverpool finished in the top two of the English top flight no fewer than seventeen times and were crowned champions of England eleven times. They also collected …
Desert Island Reds: My Dream Liverpool XI
My Desert Island Line-Up is made up of players who have represented Liverpool from 1989, when I first started supporting the club, to the present day. The formation is 4-3-3: GK Pepe Reina Liverpool have had some truly dodgy goalkeepers in the past 28 years (David James, Sander Westerveld, Jerzy Dudek to name but three) so any who was even half consistent would get into this team. Reina was more than that. Not only a hugely reliable presence for the …
A Celebration of the Ninety Six
Last Monday fans and first team players at a sold out Anfield were treated to a thoroughly entertaining encounter between a team of Local Legends and a team of International Legends. I was lucky enough to be invited into the Press Box for the game and also took over the Anfield Index Twitter account for the game. Walking up to the ground before kick off you could sense a certain buzz around Anfield with everyone in attendance in high spirits …
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Time for Restructuring to Address Conflicts in Kenyan Parks
To address the ultimate challenge of conflict management in Kenyan national parks, in 1994 KWS launched an independent review of human-wildlife conflict. The responses to this grassroots survey showed that for most rural Kenyans, living in proximity to wildlife is a painful and worsening experience. Yet most respondents said that, given an economic incentive to do so, they would willingly conserve.
The review, followed by studies on land use, wildlife utilization, tourism and the ideal legal framework for wildlife conservation, provided the elements of a new national wildlife policy that incorporates social as well as biological and economic concerns. The new policy has been approved by the KWS Board of Trustees and the Cabinet. The Board also has approved a draft wildlife bill that incorporates the redesigned policy and forwarded it to the government. Once the necessary national legislation is in place, KWS will be empowered to begin developing the economic incentives needed to make conservation beyond the parks a practical reality. KWS has already embarked on a radical restructuring programme to meet the challenge of facilitating local participation in conservation. The process began in December 1995, when a core group of KWS personnel from headquarters and the field participated in a strategic planning workshop. Their task was to take a long, hard look at the organization and revise its mission and goals in harmony with the new wildlife policy.
As they worked, the workshop participants realized that, to be effective, KWS's internal structure needed to reflect and serve the needs of the three main goals of biodiversity conservation, partnerships and sustainable nature tourism that they had defined. They recommended restructuring, decentralizing and downsizing our extremely top-heavy organization to implement these newly defined goals.
The Strategic Planning Team, together with a cross-section of KWS staff and a consultant, eventually developed a seven-point change-management plan, which included:
restructuring the organization
initiating a culture-change programme,
enhancing financial management and reporting,
finalizing both a short-term and a five-year strategic plan,
initiating an overall communications programme,
redesigning procurement procedures and
co-ordinating action plans for the three goals
These seven project, approved by the KWS Board and its donors in January 1996, are to be undertaken and completed in two stages during an eighteen-month period that began in March 19<|fim_middle|> it.
I am confident that the government and people of Kenya will meet the new conservation challenge and ensure that Africa's lost tradition of co-existence with wildlife – on terms we can all live with – is restored.
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© The Safari Web - Complete Guide to Planning African Safaris. All Rights Reserved. | 96. A six-member Change Management Team (CMT) appointed by the Director is charged with coordinating the strategic plan.
Beginning in April, the Director, accompanied by members of the CMT, traveled all over the country to explain the need for the seven-point plan to KWS personnel in the field. By addressing staff members' concerns early on- particularly those concerning restructuring and resulting retrenchment – the "road show", as it was dubbed, aimed to demystify the process and enlist the help and enthusiasm of staff at every level.
Restructuring has centred around the creation of eight regions, each headed by a regional assistant director (RAD) selected through a highly competitive and open interview process. The regional structure will make it easier for KWS to address urgent conservation issues and locally integrate the key goals of biodiversity conservation, partnerships and tourism.
Headquarters has borne the brunt of the retrenchment programme. After careful job analysis and performance assessment, its 1,072 employees – more than a quarter of all KWS personnel – have been reduced to 566. Even with the introduction of a new market-oriented salary structure tied to performance-evaluation procedures, costs will be stabilized and then steadily reduced through prioritization and efficiency measures. Staffing levels now more accurately reflect the focus of the majority of KWS activity in the field. Headquarters staff increasingly will be dedicated to policy development and delivery of support services.
The work ahead will be centred around making sure the eight regions have the resources to work in a semi-autonomous fashion, developing strategic plans for each of Kenya's 27 conservation areas in consultation with other agencies and stakeholders.
Culture change throughout the organization will continue to be a major focus of attention as KWS focuses on its three goals and adopts a customer-oriented, meritocratic culture needed to train or attract the most talented employees and deliver quality services.
Even though restructuring is not yet complete, we can feel proud of celebrating fifty years of national parks, confident that we are also facing the future. The birth of the Kimana Community Wildlife Sanctuary (See Page 15), Kenya's first "park beyond parks", is a bridge to that future. Other communities are taking similar steps to establish conservation programmes around the country.
If we nurture these initiatives, parks will no longer be the sole bastion of conservation fifty years from now. Instead, wildlife will be widespread, abundant and safe in the hands of its age-old custodians. The tourist industry will be more diverse and profitable as a result, especially to wananchi. Most important of all, tourism will be dominated by Kenyans eager to see their own wildlife. Our conservation efforts will then be truly national and self-sustaining.
Kenya is taking a bold, innovative step once again, and it will be keenly watched by the outside world. Our vision for the next 50 years will take daring and dedication, as did the creation of the national parks we will continue to celebrate. But having won support nationally and internationally, the time has come to win support locally. Wildlife cannot thrive, much less survive without | 629 |
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Jimmer Fredette On Phoenix Suns Signing: "I'm Grateful For The Opportunity"
By Shawn Leigh On 26 March 2019
Jimmer Fredette was a college basketball legend, becoming one of the best scor<|fim_middle|> to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture. Shanghai is an amazing city. The fans were so nice to my family and to myself and just treated us as their own. I'm extremely grateful to the Sharks for that opportunity. It's definitely a different type of basketball and a different type of living, but I had a great experience."
Fredette will be joining a Suns team that has struggled this season and are ranked last in the Western Conference.
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"Not a lot of times do guys get second chances or second opportunities, especially at 30 years old," Fredette explained. "I'm grateful for the opportunity and I realize that. I'm not going to take anything for granted. I'm going to go out there and play hard every day, practice hard and just help our team as much as I possibly can."
Fredette then spoke positively about his experience playing in China for the Shanghai Sharks. Fredette once dropped 73 points in a game for the Sharks, with his offensive prowess being a reason why the Suns signed him.
"It was a lot of fun," Fredette said. "It was different experience for sure. I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason. Then | 276 |
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في مثل هذا اليوم - (<|fim_middle|> 12 يوليو 1982
ولد ريتشارد نيكسون رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية 9 يناير 1913 | 21 اغسطس 1938 )
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kenny Rogers singer امريكى ميلاد
Kenny Rogers is an U.S singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur.
Though he has been most successful with country audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.
Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever".
He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People.
He has received numerous such awards as the AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.
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ولد رئيس الوزراء التركي اردوغان Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 26 فبراير 1954
ولد الموسيقار المصري الكبير حسن ابو السعود 2 ابريل 1948
ميلاد أنطونيو كاسانو | 280 |
An aged Muscadet should be on any wine lover's checklist. Here is just the wine.
Jean-Pierre Geudon makes this wine in a very traditional style. First, after fermentation, it stays in underground tanks (pictured) for a minimum of 18 months. (!)<|fim_middle|> parcel of 80-year old Melon de Bourgogne vines that yield a very tiny quantity of grapes. This just furthers the concentration and complexity of flavors. | It rests there on its lees, occasionally stirred and gaining richness and complexity along the way. This sur lie aging helps make an often austere white wine rich and glorious.
But then, Jean-Pierre also ages the wine at least 2 MORE years in bottle allowing even further complexity to develop. The result is a super-fine, thousand-layered Muscadet that unfolds slowly in the mouth and over the hour you might take to drink it.
Drinking older, bottle-aged Muscadet is a must for any wine lover. I'd rank it up there with enjoying older Riesling, Vouvray, or Chablis. To boot, Les Moineries comes from an old | 141 |
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All attackers need is five minutes alone with your computer, warns a security researcher.
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Thunderbolt, embraced first by Apple in 2011 and later by some Windows PC makers, has proved popular in high-end computing situations demanding a multipurpose connector. A single Thunderbolt port can link to external monitors, network adapters, storage systems and more.
In a blog post on Sunday, Intel said Thunderspy-type of attacks were mitigated with the implementation of Kernel Direct Memory Access (DMA) Protection. However the security feature isn't available in computers made before 2019. Intel also encouraged people to only use trusted peripherals and to prevent unauthorized physical access to computers.
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Millions of computers made before 2019 are said to be vulnerable to physical attacks that take aim at a common component: the Thunderbolt port. Security researcher Bjorn Ruytenberg on Sunday revealed the so-called Thunderspy attack, which lets hackers read and copy data on a PC, even if it's locked or asleep, in just a few minutes.
Ruytenberg said seven vulnerabilities were | 156 |
Get The Led Out, Three Huge Nights of Zeppelin! *RESCHEDULED*
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From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you've never heard before. Utilizing the multi-instrumentalists at their disposal, GTLO re-create the songs in all their depth and glory with the studio overdubs that Zeppelin themselves never performed. When you hear three guitars on the album…GTLO delivers three guitarists on stage. No wigs or fake English accents, GTLO brings what the audience wants… a high energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity.
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The Australasian Sky Guide will tell you everything you need to know about the southern night sky. With month-by-month features and sky maps for viewing the Moon, planets, stars and constellations, it is ideal for stargazers who are beginners and experts alike.
Including the latest information on the solar system, as well as key celestial events of 2023 such as the total eclipse of the Sun in April, the Supermoon and Blue Supermoon in August, the partial eclipse of the Moon in October, and more. Wherever you are in Australia or New Zealand, you will be able to estimate local rise and set times for the Sun, Moon and planets, and be guided by descriptions of what you can see and where to spot it.
Compact, easy-to-use and reliable, this popular guide by astronomer Dr Nick Lomb has been a must-read for viewing the night sky for over 30 years. This year's guide includes a feature by Wiradjuri astronomer Kirsten Banks exploring First Nations constellations.
'When does the Sun set tonight? Which constellations will I see after dark? Are any planets visible<|fim_middle|> Compact and easy to use, you can carry it with you whenever you're out and about under the stars …' — Fred Watson
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NewSouth | ? And can I see the Dark Emu from many First Nations cultures in Australia? If these are questions that come to mind when you think about the night sky, this is definitely the guide-book for you! | 42 |
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Ceiling Flat and Flat base are recommended for use on ceilings and low traffic applications. Flat bases will help to hide unevenness and imperfections in the painted surface, however the paint is more susceptible to marking as it has an open pore structure.
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KITTERY – Threshold Stage Company will present "The Threepenny Opera" from Sept. 21 to Oct. 7 at the Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center.
"The Threepenny Opera,"by Bertolt Brecht with original score by Kurt Weill, will be directed by Spotlight Award winner Kelli Leigh-Ann Connors.
This groundbreaking musical play features Kurt Weill's original score performed by a full live band, under the musical direction of Kathy Fink, playing such timeless classics as "Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny." Brecht's ground-breaking musical play, set in late Victorian London, revolves around the central character of the cunning rapscallion Macheath, better known as "Mack the Knife," as he schemes, lies and cheats his way to the top of society. He manipulates and outmaneuvers a host of equally unscrupulous characters, as they attempt to establish their own positions within the social pecking order through a series of brazenly scandalous and self-serving actions that result in a familiar and darkly comedic world that echoes and reflects many of the current problems facing our own culture.
Bertolt Brecht is one of the most important and influential dramatists of the 20th century, encouraging the audience to think not only about theatre, but also the society in which they live. "The Threepenny Opera" exemplifies this as it examines greed and its relationship to the economic and<|fim_middle|> to life, Threshold has assembled some of the Seacoast's most talented performers featuring Todd Fernald, Heather Glenn Wixson, Kylee Brown, Wayne Asbury, Jess Miller, Allan Mayo, Rachel Noland, Maria Boudreau, Constance Witman, Katelyn Parker, Michael Wingate Seavey, Joshua Paul Moore, Griffinn Gower and Marcus Provost.
Performances will be Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. The theater is located at 120 Rogers Road, Kittery, Maine.
Tickets are $25 and available online at kitterycommunitycenter.org/star-theatre or by calling (207) 439-3800. | moral realities of modern society.
"Through satire,"Connors says, "we are given a somewhat absurd and often humorous look at the machine of capitalism and how we are inextricably caught in it."
In a truly collaborative process, Connors, along with Fink and the design team, create the perfect setting for an unforgettable musical theater experience. Enveloped by a meticulously designed set, hauntingly evoking the London wharfs, the audience sits at angles askew to and within Mackie's world, becoming living members of his absurd yet very familiar world of moral relativism, social status and wealth and power at any cost. To bring this entire production vividly | 137 |
Lombardo Leads SMWC in Huge Win Against Welch College 8-1
GALLATIN, Tenn. – Saint Mary-of<|fim_middle|> Craig Hendry
"We started really slowly. Too many players taking too many touches. 3 goals in a five minute period set the tone for the rest of the game. We'll have to start better vs Fontbonne on Saturday."
The Woods women's soccer team will be back in action at home on Saturday, September 28th, at 5:00 p.m. ET. The Pomeroys will face Fontbonne University. | -the-Woods College (SMWC) women's soccer (5-4) defeated Welch College today 8-1. The Pomeroys had goals from four separate player's (Alicia Lombardo, Madison Stuck, Kennedee Lamb, and Melisa Spognardi). The Woods offense clicked on all cylinders and was very unselfish as they had six player's notch an assist (Spognardi, Makayla Stuck, Kortney Buckley, Lombardo, Lamb, and Alexis Pflum).
SMWC jumped out to an early 1-0 lead behind a goal from Kennedee Lamb (assist Melisa Spognardi)
The Pomeroys would add two more goals in the first half, they led 3-0 at halftime.
In the second half, Alicia Lombardo tallied four straight goals (assists by Lamb (2), Buckley, and Pflum); these were the first goals of her collegiate career
Madison Stuck scored her first goal of the season (unassisted)
The Pomeroys outscored Welch 8-to-1; this is the most goals scored in one game this season
On the eight goals, SMWC tallied seven assists
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Draw Our World at The Big Draw 2014
In November, families can look forward to a two-day visual<|fim_middle|> artists such as Quentin Blake (best known for illustrating Roald Dahl books) and Norman Foster, will be held on 8 and 9 November this year.
Presented by Playeum, Singapore's first charitable centre for creativity and culture to nurture the next generation of creators, innovators and thinkers, past editions of The Big Draw created experiences such as 3D drawing with strings and fabric pieces, drawing with body movements, "extremely" large scale drawings and drawing with music and poetry.
Said Jennifer Loh, Board Director & Co-founder, Playeum, "We have been strong advocates for play and giving children the opportunity to express freely in their cultural engagements. So much of a young child's life is hurried and overly structured encumbering their development. Respecting children's ability to express their own voice through their ideas and feelings is part of a child's natural development and well-being. We need to give them the space and time to do exactly that and our programmes are developed to deliver against those goals."
Leading up to the main event in November, Playeum will also be running a roving installation that will visit 10 locations in the South West district. Entitled "House of Wild Plans with Isabelle Desjeux", families get to closely observe plants that grow in the wild, and to create their own drawings during the pop-up drawing events.
For more information on The Big Draw, check the Playeum website.
THE BIG DRAW
DATE: 8 & 9 November 2014
VENUE: Blk 7, Lock Road, #01-03, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108935
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The Long Utopia continues to explore the expanding world of The Long Earth and all that it entails. The culture of the world has changed dramatically over the years that the Long Earth has been fully realized. As much as people know about the Long Earth, there are always new things to be revealed and discovered. The more people explore, the more the secrets are stumbled upon. The curators of the Long Earth continue to emerge and work together and find each other, no matter how many worlds apart they are.
The mysteries<|fim_middle|> The Long Utopia (Long Earth Book 4). HarperCollins, 2015. Kindle Edition. | of the Long Earth continue to slowly reveal themselves. Rumors and anecdotes about fantastical things turn out to have nuggets of truth in them. So much of the exploration of the Long Earth is done quickly, worlds at the time. It is impossible to find out all the mysteries contained on the entire planet and evolutionary history in a millisecond. As combers and explorers spread out to each new world some of its secrets are revealed. The secrets of the other creatures on the world are discovered, too. At times it may seem like the threads connecting the worlds are spreading too sparsely and other times it becomes knit together even tighter. Settlers lay claim to their own worlds, even as the animosities between the Datum and the new worlds have grown much less overtime. It is not yet known if all of the people of all of the Earths could band together against an outside threat, but it is known that certain individuals will always stand up for humanity. The caretakers of the Long Earth will always be there in some form or another to take care of what humans do and what they encounter.
The Long Earth series is not just the story of many worlds but of the many people that make them up. Traveling through the series is not static in time. Our friends that we have met throughout each book continue to grow older and develop and mature. When we first met Joshua he was a young man and as each book progresses he's aged into an adult and even into middle age and beyond. The same goes for Roberta, a child when we met her, and Sally who will not be the caretaker of the Long Earth forever. The worlds of along with maybe infinite but the lifespan of anyone individual, whether sentient robot or not, is not infinite. The Long Utopia teaches us that we cannot spend forever exploring along the Earths, and each person's time will come to an end. This is not just the story of infinite possibilities, but of how you explore them when you have a finite lifespan. Will you spend your life reaping the benefits of a Long Earth and not giving anything back? Will you contribute to make all of the Earths the best they can be? The core group who has the best of humanity and the Long Earth in mind continues to grow. As some become too old to carry the torch any longer, new people that they have influenced or those who were strangers altogether begin to step up and fill the roles. In a world of infinite possibilities you can do anything. This can be good or evil, or a can be neutral altogether and indifferent. The greatest gift of a Long Utopia is the possibility to see anything in your lifetime. Infinite worlds with infinite possibilities. Seeing groups that may have never met, or have had periodic encounters over the years come together in order to shape the future of the world is almost magical. With a long war, Mars, and Utopia behind us it is interesting to see the future of the Long Earth evolving.
If you have enough imagination to create a whole new world, read The Long Utopia.
Pratchett, Terry; Baxter, Stephen. | 634 |
Q: Saving Spark Java RDD such that each RDD value is saved into separate files in separate folders I am using Spark 2.3 with Java 1.8
I have a RDD of CSV records say:
JavaRDD<CsvRecordsPerApp> csvRecordsRdd
Here each CsvRecordsPerApp has multiple values:
class CsvRecordsPerApp implements Serializable {
String customerName;
String supplierName;
String otherFieldName;
}
I want to save it in multiple folders such that each RDD is saved into 3 separate folders like
- customerNames\part-0000
- customerNames\part-0001
...
- supplierNames\part-0000
- supplierNames\part-0001
...
- otherFieldNames\part-0000
- otherFieldNames\part-0001
...
But when I do below, it saves all output file in single files:
JavaRDD<CsvRecordsPerApp> csvRecordsRdd = ...
csvRecordsRdd.saveAsTextFile("file-name");
like:
file-name/0000
file-name/0001
..
I tried is to map csvRecordsRdd into different values and save 3 times like below:
JavaRDD<String> customerNameRdd = csvRecordsRdd.map(csv -> csv.getCustomerName());
customerNameRdd.saveAsTextFile("customerNames");
JavaRDD<String> supplierNameRdd = csvRecordsRdd.map(csv -> csv.getSupplierName());
supplierNameRdd.saveAsTextFile("supplierNames");
JavaRDD<String> otherFieldNameRdd = csvRecordsRdd.map(csv -> csv.getOtherFieldName());
otherFieldNameRdd.saveAsTextFile("otherFieldName");
Here the<|fim_middle|> and I have triple entries!!
Then to stop recomputing, I tried below caching but it did not work and still computes 3 times:
csvRecordsRdd.persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK()); or csvRecordsRdd.cache();
I am looking for ideas to solve the problem
A: Here the solution of caching works (sorry guys, I forgot to update earlier).
Because I changed other configuration like spart-submit driver executor memory from 1 gb (default) to 20 gb or so (depending on your system's availability like on my desktop I increased it to 5 gb but on EMR I increased it to 20 gb or more).
I think this is just a workaround, since it caches objects. Cache has a limit so it might fail for bigger data and definitely it requires bigger m/c's.
So please, suggest more better solutions.
| problem is it recomputes RDD 3 times | 10 |
The Royal Society of Biology has announced the shortlist for its Photographer of the Year awards.
In the main category there are seven photos by amateur photographers, as well as three shots shortlisted for Young Photographer of the Year.
These were taken by Oliver Tidswell , Timofev Zubarev and Darpan Pasak- aged 17, 13 and 12 respectively.
2."Loneliness and stubbornness": Sea rocket clinging to a dune on the Curonian Spit in Russia – another image on the young photographer shortlist.
The<|fim_middle|> Biology Week.
4. "Red ant scared off by sawfly caterpillars": These recently hatched caterpillars all sprang from their eggs simultaneously when an ant approached. | society invited submissions from around the world, on the theme of "conflict and survival".
The shortlisted photos include squabbles for food and mates between seabirds and muskox, as well as insects, plants and snails struggling against the environment and other species.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on October 15, during | 73 |
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Weddings are a wonderful time, full of happiness for both the couple-to-be and their supportive bridal party. Yet, planning a wedding certainly isn't easy, especially if you're working to be as budget-conscious as possible. The last few weeks before the wedding are bound to have their tense moments, but with the right de-stressing techniques, you and your bridal party can relax and enjoy the experience! We've chatted with more than a few brides and bridesmaids as they discussed our Bridesmaid Gift Baskets with us, and we heard de-stressing tips ranging from spa days to simply writing a checklist!
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The Last First Date by Hayley Quinn
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It's an absolute pleasure to continue reviewing for for My Weekly this year. Today I'm sharing my thoughts about The Last First Date by Hayley Quinn.
Published by Harper Collins imprint HQ, The Last First Date is available for purchase through the links here.
The Last First Date
At 31-years-old, Helen Pines is far from where she thought she would be. Whilst her ex-boyfriend is now engaged, Helen's ordering Deliveroo for one,<|fim_middle|> First Date
My full review of The Last First Date can be found online on the My Weekly website here.
However, here I can say that The Last First Date is filled with fun and has an unexpected underlying depth that I thought was brilliant.
Do visit My Weekly to read my full review here.
About Hayley Quinn
Hayley Quinn is an internationally recognised dating coach and founder of the UK's largest dating coaching company. She has over 2 Million views on her TED talk and over 100,000 YouTube subscribers.
She is the spokesperson for Match, the biggest online dating platform in the world. She has been featured on BBC1, Sky and Channel 4 and is a regular columnist for Cosmopolitan.
Her first fiction book "The Last First Date" is published by Harper Collins.
Her goal is to bridge the gap with modern dating and help inspire people to learn to love dating.
For further information visit Hayley's website, follow her on Twitter @HayleyQuinn or find Hayley on Facebook and Instagram. | dreaming of her last first date.
Determined to give online dating a go, she matches with drop-dead gorgeous Brody… One date later, Helen's heart is still singing. Brody's sexy, charismatic, and the perfect gentleman. But then she receives an error message on the app… all her contacts have been deleted.
With nothing but Brody's name and job title to go on, Helen is determined to track him down.
But despite the initial chemistry, Helen knows surprisingly little about her mystery man… Was it really love-at-first like, or will she find a new love along the way?
From international dating expert Hayley Quinn, comes an utterly hilarious, laugh-out-loud romance that will have you grinning from the first page to the last! Fans of Our Stop and Mhairi McFarlane will fall in love with this book.
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New Releases on Netflix Australia (8th June 2018)
by Alex Hirlam
Published on June 8th, 2018, 10:21 am EST
As we start to get further into June it's important to keep up with all the latest Netflix additions. Below you will find a full list of all the titles that have come to Australian Netflix throughout the past week. Although this may seem to be significantly less than what we saw arrive at the start of the month, this is perfectly normal. 9 Movies, 2 Documentaries, 5 TV shows and one standup special have been added, and we've taken some time to pick three titles that we think are worth watching.
Our first pick for this week is the 2016 animated film 'The Secret Life of Pets'. The comedy follows the quiet life of a terrier, Max who's life is turned upside down<|fim_middle|> a great family movie to get stuck into.
Secondly, we have chosen to highlight the new Netflix Original 'Alex Strangelove'. The comedy follows Alex Strangelove, a well mannered and above average high school student with a perfect girlfriend. But as soon as Alex meets a new friend and starts to feel the pressure for losing his virginity, he quickly begins to doubt his sexuality.
The last pick from this list comes in the form of another animated comedy 'Hotel Transylvania 2′. The film rejoins the occupants of Hotel Transylvania, including Dracula, a werewolf, mummy Frankenstein and of course Jonathan, the only human. Although not quite as popular as the first movie the sequel still received quite good reviews and is another great family now available on Netflix.
See the full list of 14 new titles available on Netflix Australia this week:
9 New Movies Streaming on Netflix Australia
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
The Night Before (2015)
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
One Missed Call (2008)
Nothing but Trouble (1991)
Dirt (2018)
Alex Strangelove (2018) Netflix Original
Ali's Wedding (2018) Netflix Original
2 New Documentaries Streaming on Netflix Australia
Martha Bakes – Season 1 (2011)
Genius of the Modern World – Season 1 (2016)
5 New TV Series Streaming on Netflix Australia
Janet King – Season 2 (2016)
Healer – Season 1 (2014)
Marcella – Season 2 (2018)
The Hollow – Season 1 (2018)
Sense 8 – Season 2.5 (2018) Netflix Original
1 New Stand up Show Streaming on Netflix Australia
Franco Escamilla: Por la anécdota (2018) Netflix Original
Article by Alex Hirlam
Alex Hirlam has been a contributor to What's on Netflix and provided weekly roundups for Australia and Canada as well as other features. Alex came to What's on Netflix for an apprenticeship where he spent a year and a half maintaining the libraries of the two regions as well as contributing content. Resides in Norwich, UK.
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Are the Oceans Movies on Netflix? | when his owner takes on a stray called Duke. The film is like Toy Story but for Pets, the animals live a secret life completely separated from their owners and get up to all sorts of mischief. The film was received as is | 46 |
When Jo Jo the horse was rescued, she looked like a skeleton, weighing in at a mere 758 pounds. With this prognosis, there was little to no hope at all for her survival. Today, she's a healthy 1,200-pound mare. How did a horse, who was so emaciated that nobody thought she would make it, survive?
It's thanks to the love and dedication of one little girl named Kaylee. Jo Jo was rescued from a herd of 42 abandoned horses in Kentucky and was brought to several temporary homes where she would be comfortable. Although it might seem unusual that 42 horses were just abandoned, sadly<|fim_middle|> not normally be considered as a permanent resident at Our Mims Retirement Haven. However, unable to separate her granddaughter and the horse who loved her and was loved in return, Jeanne was able to convince the board-of-directors to make an exception. Jo Jo the horse finally has a forever home where she'll never be far from Kaylee, the red-headed little girl who believed in her recovery when nobody else did.
Indeed I can never stop following your blog, very nice post you got here thank you for the above tips, hope to implement it soon on my blog. | , around 100,000 horses that are carelessly discarded in the United States … every year. These horses come from a variety of backgrounds, they can be former racehorses that can no longer run or even pets that people no longer wanted.
"I never had a horse love me that much. And I love her back. She's a great horse, she's amazing," said Kaylee. The kindhearted girl described Jo Jo as "magic." Whether she was at school, or at home, she couldn't stop thinking about the horse.
Vets from miles away drove out to visit Jo Jo simply because nobody had ever seen a horse in her condition survive for so long. Kaylee was always at her side, and Jo Jo never strayed from Kaylee when these strangers came to visit.
Now healthy at 10-years-old, a young horse like Jo Jo would | 182 |
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TUESDAY, Dec. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- President Joe Biden plans to announce his latest battle plan for fighting the formidable Omicron variant on Tuesday, with measures to include distributing 500 million free rapid COVID tests to the public, opening new federal testing sites, sending out hundreds of federal vaccinators, and providing 1,000 military medical personnel to bolster beleaguered hospitals.
The measures, many of which will not take place until January, were outlined in a fact sheet from the White House.
A website will be created where people can request tests be sent to their homes, but the tests won't be available until January, as Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act to accelerate production of COVID testing.
Three weeks ago, Biden announced his winter pandemic strategy, pledging that 150 million Americans with private health insurance would soon be able to get reimbursed for at-home COVID tests. He also said there would be improved access to booster shots and announced new testing requirements for international travelers.
But since the first U.S. Omicron case was reported on Dec. 1, the highly contagious variant has swiftly become the dominant variant in the nation, accounting for 73% of new infections last week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Even if the Omicron variant ends up causing less severe disease, the explosion in cases means it is still possible that hospitals will become overwhelmed, experts have said.
"That's the big concern," said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, told The New York Times. "If there are a lot of people getting sick, even if only a small portion of them are getting severely ill, that could still be a huge number of people."
Another expert said that testing has become paramount.
"We have to acknowledge the reality that unfortunately, with a heavy heart, the virus is in charge and we need to take back control, and the only way to do that as a<|fim_middle|>, the Times reported. "This is a speech outlining and being directly clear with the American people about the benefits of being vaccinated, the steps we're going to take to increase access, increase testing, and the risks posed to unvaccinated individuals."
Visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for more on COVID vaccines.
SOURCE: White House, fact sheet, Dec. 21, 2021; The New York Times
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Consumer News Products News types Vaccines Topics United States Centric News Coronavirus Immunization Infections: Misc. News | society is to test and isolate, test and isolate, repeat, repeat, repeat," Mara Aspinall, an expert in medical diagnostics at Arizona State University, told the Times.
Biden was himself exposed to the coronavirus late last week but has since tested negative, White House officials said Monday, the Times reported. With Americans now anxious about their holiday travel plans, he will try on Tuesday to reassure the nation while reminding people that vaccination and booster shots remain the best protection against the Omicron variant.
Biden will say that if people are vaccinated and follow other social distancing guidelines, including wearing masks in public places, "they should feel comfortable celebrating Christmas and the holidays" with their families, a White House official said, the Times reported.
Some are concerned that the White House hasn't urged people to do things such as cancel travel plans and avoid public transportation, and the Biden administration is also trying to avoid talk of lockdowns.
"This is not a speech about locking the country down," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday | 209 |
Food Librarian The Food Lib<|fim_middle|> too--I want that whole plate of fruit! | rarian: Happy Summer and Holiday Weekend!
Happy Summer and Holiday Weekend!
It's that lovely time of year... when the stone fruit comes back into my life.
Just got these from the Farmer's Market. Couldn't be happier with life than right now.
Wishing you and yours have a grand holiday weekend!
P.S. If you are looking for something fun to make this holiday, my friend JustJenn has these cool shave ice cupcakes. She made them back in 2010 and they now appear in the current issue of Food Network magazine!
Oh Mary, I just love this time of year.
Yes,summer is awesome. I love all the berries,this is what I really wait for whole year long.
Oh you lucky girl. Michigan is just barely getting seasonal veggies in. Asparagus :p spinach and lettuces yum yum.
Delicious! Are strawberries considered stone fruit?
So incredibly jealous :) Hope you're having a fantastic weekend.
Oh gosh I wish we had a farmer's market close by! Those fruits look amazing!
Quite the same here! I got my first little plums of the season, lychees, and cherries--quite pleased! Gorgeous photo, | 241 |
Youth learn about outdoors at EWF conservation camp
Forty-three campers gained a greater appreciation for the great outdoors through this year's camp.
David Willberg
Royce Milford holds<|fim_middle|> volunteers, instructors, range officers and even planners and organizers. It's nice to see the loyalty and the interest and passion in what we do."
Photos: Estevan Wildlife Federation kicks off fishing season with their annual walleye classic.
Photos: Estevan Wildlife Federation celebrates the best of the best
OTS trapshooting event a great attraction despite weather | up a big fish during the Estevan Wildlife Federation's Conservation Camp. Ralph Smart of Prairie Pro Outfitters
ESTEVAN - Young people learned about wildlife and the outdoors during the Estevan Wildlife Federation's annual Conservation Camp from Thursday to Sunday.
Forty-three young people gathered at the federation's grounds near Boundary Dam for four days of activities. It was the first time the EWF has been able to have the camp since 2019 due to the pandemic.
"We ended up filling up the camp and having a waiting list," said Jarrett Daoust, who was one of the camp's organizers. "The kids really enjoyed it. We had a lot of fresh kids versus the past. We're used to having a lot of returning kids."
The camp is for children ages 10-15, so there were a lot of kids who attended the last camp in 2019 who aren't eligible to return this year.
Activities started with lessons on fisheries, orienteering/GPS, kayaking, swimming, and calling and blood trailing Thursday afternoon. Classes that evening taught such skills as outdoor cooking, fire starting and spear fishing, and the children also participated in a turkey shoot, spider web and night eyes.
Friday's sessions focused on fishing, canoeing, antler measuring and axe throwing in the morning, and then digital photography, hiking, rock wall climbing, trapping and fish filleting in the afternoon and evening. They also learned about aquatic invasive species.
Saturday's focus was shooting, which is always a popular feature of the camp. After learning the rules, the campers used a rifle, a .22, a muzzleloader, a paintball gun and a bow and arrow, and they learned about trap shooting.
"We always say that's the favourite day," said Daoust. "The kids get the different opportunities to shoot many different calibres with the many different range officers. Not many times do people get to shoot all of the different calibres, especially at this young age, so it's very unique for our camp."
The camp closed on Sunday with presentations and a lunch with the parents.
"This teaches kids outdoor and wildlife survival skills," said Daoust. "I know there's not many that go on nowadays, and it seems to be more of a rarity in which people do the basics of how to start a campfire, how to set up a tent, even sleeping in tents. It's kind of gotten away from us, but it gets us back to the roots of thinking more common sense, and how the outdoors and conservation efforts affect our lives every day."
Meals were served to campers and they slept in tents. Since there were a couple of cooler evenings during the camp, the youths had a greater experience of the true outdoors.
Campers were divided into six groups and each had a counsellor. Many more people volunteered during the weekend to teach the kids skills.
"We have anywhere from 50-60 volunteers who help organize, plan, run activities, making donation, stuff like that. It's really the volunteers who help us put it all together."
Daoust was impressed with the response to the camp this year. It was nice to have all of the spots filled and to have a waitlist.
"We recognize a lot of those 10-15-year-old campers that age out, they come back to be counsellors, | 695 |
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The title of this post was taken from the song Hall<|fim_middle|> to take some time off.
With my eyes bugging out of my head: I don't think so young lady.
Tyler: But Mom! I just want to take a little time off.
Me: Not going to happen sweetie.
Me: Do you remember all of the studying and all of the classes I took when you were young? Do you remember me picking you up from Mamaws house after you were already asleep in bed because I had late night classes? Do you see what I'm doing now? Do you see how hard it is for me to juggle family, home, work, and school? Don't you think it would have been a lot easier if I had done all of that BEFORE I got married and had a family.
Tyler: So, you regret getting married so young?
Me: No, not at all. I'm just saying that it was a lot harder to go to school while being a wife and mother. You can never go wrong with education and I will not allow you to be anything less than your best.
Tyler rolling her eyes: Alright, alright. I get it.
There is a delicate balance between giving your child credit for doing their best even when, if compared to the standard, their best doesn't make the mark and simply not putting forth the effort. I grew up with my dad always telling me that a job worth doing is worth doing right. I try so hard to make sure the kids understand this. I can only hope that they see why I'm continuing my education and understand that there are always opportunities to learn new things and to push yourself. I never want them to settle for less than who they are.
I picked this particular song for the title of this post because we have listened to it over and over and over again in the car this week. Sebastian tried out for the high school chorus on Friday. Originally he was going to sing this song. We listened to it everyday so that he could practice. He ended up singing a different song, but in the mean time I fell in love with this one. I picked apart my favorite lines from this song and put them together.
I must admit that hearing my 14 year old sing this chokes me up. Especially the line that says "Be truth seekers." I want them to always be the seekers of truth in everything they do whether it be at home with their family, at school, with their friends or at church. I don't want them blindly following anything. I want them to constantly seek the truth and education will go a long way in helping them accomplish this. I want them to stand in their own hall of fame.
Mel, you are such a wonderful example to your children.....what you do everyday, what they think as they watch you grow and strive to do your best and continue your education will direct their paths in the future. I admire you, immensely!You may be many wonderful things to many people, but from where I sit, I see you being a terrific mom.....and in the end, that's what it's all about.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I often feel like I fail miserably but I do try so very hard! | of Fame by The Script.
Me: Hey guess what! I passed my exam! Yay me!
Tyler: I don't think I want to go to college right after high school. I want | 39 |
PostEverything Perspective
Aid in Puerto Rico isn't getting out of San Juan
Aid still isn't getting to the rest of Puerto Rico fast enough.
By Armando Valdés Prieto
Armando Valdés Prieto is a lawyer and political consultant in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a former director of Puerto Rico's Office of Management and Budget.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — My pregnant wife and I stood in line for two hours outside our neighborhood grocery store over the weekend. Once inside, we found that most essential products were scarce, and we were limited in the number we could buy of each item.
But we're in Puerto Rico's capital city, and we're middle class, and that makes us pretty lucky<|fim_middle|> disaster.
[Puerto Rico is being treated like a colony after Hurricane Maria]
Still, outside the San Juan metro area, reports paint starker choices. In many rural towns there are no lines; stores haven't been able to open, tanker trucks can't reach distant gas stations to resupply and many bank branches are still closed. Water service has not been reestablished in many areas, and people I've spoken with tell me of hour-long slogs just to get drinking water for their families. Rural residents have no basic goods to buy, and no way to buy them even if supplies arrived. They need help immediately.
This past weekend, I spoke to an aid worker for an international NGO and a high-ranking official in the federal disaster response bureaucracy in Puerto Rico. To my surprise, they both agreed that the island's current predicament is one of the worst, if not the worst, natural and human catastrophe they'd worked on. Both also agreed on the logistical issues raised by the scope of the disaster and the difficulty in coordinating efforts without adequate communications. There's no neighboring state in which to set up a staging area for support. The capital is the best we've got at this point and, although communication within the metro area itself is possible, reaching folks on the ground anywhere else is nearly impossible. According to the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, only 38.5 percent of cell towers are currently in operation, mostly those that are being powered by generators.
An executive at a large food and beverage distributor in San Juan reiterated the same concerns: Many small retailers from elsewhere in Puerto Rico have to travel to the city to put in orders, without knowing when or whether those orders will be filled. This only worsens conditions on the ground in areas that have become food deserts and where drinking water is not readily available.
[Nature caused Puerto Rico's latest crisis, but politics are making it worse]
Even within San Juan, distributing aid is still very complex more than a week after the hurricane. Since the storm, I've been working with state Rep. Luis Vega Ramos and Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz to help coordinate groups of volunteers for the municipality of San Juan to reach out to the urban elderly poor. Patchy communications are making it very difficult. A centralized, top-down approach does not work because it requires a level of coordination that is simply impossible without working cellular networks and other basic technology on which modern bureaucracies have come to depend. Aside from the aid we've been able to provide, only one of the more than 30 residences for low-income seniors we've visited had received any supplies, in that case from the Red Cross. And again, I should emphasize, this is in San Juan.
Although other recovery and rebuilding projects down the road may benefit from a more centralized approach, current work to save lives requires greater agility and less red tape.
Supplies must be moved closer to where they are needed and not hoarded in warehouses in San Juan. The response has to be regional and local. Teams of aid workers on the ground must to be empowered to make decisions as to how to disburse much-needed help. And the U.S. military has to provide support with improved communications systems that can operate even when everything that can go wrong does. Here in Puerto Rico, it already has.
If current efforts aren't redirected and allowed to function independently throughout the island, the current crisis will escalate with hunger, thirst and mounting public- health issues driving people to desperation and to the very brink of mere survival.
Why would anyone in Puerto Rico want a hurricane? Because someone will get rich.
Puerto Rico wasn't ready for Hurricane Irma, either. We couldn't possibly be.
No, 'Despacito' is not actually driving a boom in tourism in Puerto Rico | . Millions of poor Puerto Ricans are worse off since Hurricane Maria hit, and if the government and aid organizations can't figure out the best way to deploy lifesaving supplies to the rest of the island, it will only get bleaker.
In San Juan, folks have to choose between different lines: at the supermarket for food, at the gas station for a fill-up or at the bank to access cash — the only form of payment accepted at most stores, since ongoing telecommunications outages make it difficult to accept credit cards or other electronic payment methods. Even the commonwealth's Nutritional Assistance Program, which feeds 1.3 million people out of Puerto Rico's population of nearly 3.4 million, operates mostly electronically, which means it's currently also not accepted at many retail outlets, so poorer residents can't buy food without cash. Thankfully, many low-lying areas in San Juan do have potable water service. El Nuevo Día, the island's largest and most influential newspaper, reported on Friday that 45 to 50 percent of the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority's customers now have service. But that number has barely budged since the first wave of repairs began days after the | 243 |
In Boogie's Book Review Episode 1, we will look at 2 interactive children's books about animals. These two fun books are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. These children's books are great for building vocabulary and sight recognition while appealing to the kinesthetic learners.
Do you have a favorite interactive children's book? Let me know what it is in the comments below!
This book was a birthday gift from a friend. Her son actually picked it out because he has one just like it that he loves! I would say he made a good choice.
Fuzzy Ocean is a board book that features 5 under-the-water ocean scenes and 20 ocean animals and objects. From a starfish to a treasure chest and the scuba-diver to explore it all, each felt piece is soft and colorful. Each spread includes one side that is the felt board ocean scene and one<|fim_middle|> book or when your child has a short attention span. I also use it sometimes when I'm trying to distract him from something else I need him to stop playing with as the colors are very enticing.
This book is great for building vocabulary of animals. We also point to the colors and name them. For example I might say "I see a yellow duck on a blue page." This helps him identify colors, location, and the animal name. Later when he starts learning to read we will use it to help with sight word recognition. The tracing of the animal while you say the animal's name helps the child remember better because it activates multiple areas of the brain.
Overall, both these books are much loved in our house. However Fuzzy Ocean is the clear winner for Boogie. Every day he finds his book and brings it to us, eagerly anticipating the opening of the little plastic flap housing all the animals. It's amazing we haven't lost any yet!
Now that you've seen both, which one do you think your child would be most interested in now? Let me know in the comments below! | side that displays the 4 ocean pieces with a story like description of where they can be found or what action they're taking. Your child then uses the felt pieces to match the images on one side and then follow the directions to put them on the felt board side.
Of course Boogie just loves playing with all the pieces and at his age we just use the book for vocabulary and matching practice. The felt pieces are the same size and color as the ones in the book, so it makes for perfect matching practice. We also talk about colors and name the piece to build recognition. Boogie also just loves playing with the pieces; feeling their texture, seeing them "stick" to other objects, and even putting them on his head! This is the absolute favorite book in the house right now. He will bring it to me everyday to open the little compartment so he can play with the pieces.
There are not many cons to this book. It's well loved, the board pages are strong enough to weather my very destructive child and the felt pieces stay soft and yet, durable. However, the pieces are rather small and so could easily be lost. We haven't yet, miraculously, but I could see it happening easily. But I guess that's the nature of this type of book, otherwise the book would have to be very large.
I also am not a huge fan of the container for the pieces. My version is a bit different than the version on amazon, but they're both still just plastic. I would have much preferred a box with a magnetic clasp that's made of the same material as the pages of the book. I've seen it done before, so I know it can be done, but of course it would be more costly. I just worry that this little plastic case won't stand the test of time because I know my son will be playing with this book for at least a couple more years on and off.
My First Learning Groovers: Animals is actually a part of a set of "groove" books. In addition to the animals book there is the Colors and Shapes, ABCs, and 123 books.
This touch-and-feel board book features bright eye-catching colors that compliment the color of the animals inside. There is one animal per page with a different outline to trace on each animal. The words are all in lower-case letters and are in an easy to read size and font. Each line to trace is dotted and indented making it easy for little fingers to follow.
This is a nice easy "read" for us. A supplement book so to speak. I wouldn't use it for our nightly reading, but it's great to use in addition to another shorter | 548 |
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Susan is also part of the americana duo The Lied To's with Doug Kwartler. To listen to and find out more about The Lied To's click here or on the album image.
© 2017 Susan J. Levine | people and places, lost and found, and of the journey home, carried by a singular voice that is "worldly without being world-weary and candid without being cynical" (Miriam Lawrence, 02138 Magazine). From the post 9-11 heartache of "1000 Open Doors" to the defiant take on Stephen Foster's "Hard Times," Levine, backed by some of Boston's best musicians, sets her characters against a unique landscape crafted from the traditions of Americana, country and folk.
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"Nothing where homes have been damaged and lives changed in a one-week period," he said. "For me and all the athletes, we're looking forward to coming out there and bringing joy. Not the joy of the winning, but me hitting the ball in the trees and Charles (Barkley) swinging."
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Sports | July 2, 2007
At one point NBC considered canceling tournament,
but city wanted it to go on
By Steve Yingling
Tribune sports editor
As the longest-running celebrity only golf tournament in the world, the American Century Championship has developed a tight bond with the South Shore community.
In wake of last week's devastating Angora fire, the ACC is taking the opportunity to reciprocate for an 18-year welcome mat. Tournament officials announced on Monday morning a $25,000 contribution by NBC and American Century Investments to the wildfire relief fund.
In addition, Raley's announced that it will match customer donations up to $100,000. The 130-grocery store chain in Northern California and Northern Nevada has set up donation boxes at each of its checkstands and will keep them in place through end of July. To date, Raley's customers have contributed $50,000 for fire victims.
"It's been a tragic time. Fortunately, life must go on," said Nancy McGagin, executive director for Raley's year-round food for families program. "People have lost their homes, let's not allow them to lose their jobs. It's fabulous the golf tournament is going on as planned."
The Angora fire destroyed 254 structures, burned more than 3,000 acres and caused more than $150 million in property damage since igniting on June 24. As of Sunday night, the fire was 95 percent contained.
NBC considered canceling the July 13-15 tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course but was encouraged by community business leaders to continue plans for the 54-hole tournament that attracts a cache of stars, including Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Ladainian Tomlinson, Ray Romano and Don Cheadle.
"The last thing we wanted to do was hold it in the face of a growing tragedy," said Jon Miller, executive vice president of NBC Sports. "We want to be there in more than our usual capacity. For all three days of telecast we will be broadcasting an 800 number, doing PSAs and interviews. We feel terrible what happened but we want to be part of the solution to help this area rebuild from this tragedy."
Defending champion Jack Wagner, who has played in all 17 previous championships, sees this year's event as a means to help repay a long-term debt.
"Everybody playing in the tournament is very grateful to playing golf, playing on TV and be up there in Lake Tahoe. It's an opportunity to give back to a community that has given so much to this tournament," he said.
Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, has assisted with local hockey camps and fought the elimination of school sports in his hometown, but aiding the Angora fire victims is his most significant | 611 |
One of the things I treasure about my Pagan path is that it leads me to integrate all aspects of my life. Rather than suppress the physical and emotional self in an effort to elevate the mental and spiritual self, walking my path has taught me that wholeness and integration make me stronger in all aspects.
As above, so below; as within, so without. This metaphysical principle comes to us from Hermeticism, but echoes through numerous magical Traditions. I believe that this principle applies to our bodies as well as our spirits, to our minds as much as our emotions, and to our sacred selves as much as the universe.
Pagan teachers often exhort students to craft a daily spiritual practise, as daily practise is vital to maintaining our deepest connection to our spiritual path. A growing number of Pagan teachers also require their students to make a daily practise of exercise.
Several studies suggest that exercise affects our moods. Another study shows that mindfulness meditation has long-term benefits for people diagnosed with anxiety disorders.
A recent study from UCLA indicates that practising Kirtan (yogic chanting) meditation for as little as 12 minutes daily for 8 weeks leads "to a reduction in the biological mechanisms responsible for an increase in the immune system's inflammation response." That is to say, a form of chanting meditation has been shown to reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress – such as inflammation – that can lead to chronic illness.
Those are just a few of the scientific studies that suggest that "as within, so without" is not just a matter of faith, but one of science, as well. It stands to reason that maintaining a healthy body is vital to maintaining a vital and integrated being.
Many people hold the misconception that healthy bodies meet a narrow ratio of height and weight, but studies have shown otherwise. Those studies have shown, time and again, that healthy habits lead to healthy bodies, regardless of weight or BMI.
It bears stating again: Scientific, peer-reviewed studies show that no matter how much you weigh, or<|fim_middle|>, raise your hands slowly, palm upward, like you are scooping up water. Scoop up energy in your cupped hands. As your hands come up above your heart, tip them toward you, to pour that energy over your heart. Bring your hands onto your heart, one over the other. Press gently, to push that energy into yourself.
Keep your hands there for a moment. Give yourself that moment, that energy. Give yourself love.
Hand to Heart – a video demonstration of this practise.
Do it again, if you'd like. I'll wait for you.
Now… how do you feel? Maybe a little silly, but under that self-consciousness… under that worry that someone saw you… under that discomfort of unfamiliarity… how do you feel? How does your heart feel?
This is a practise from qi gong, used to bring healing and compassionate energy to the heart as a conscious act of self-love.
All the things we do to take care of our bodies, minds and spirits are acts of self-love. Bathing, grooming, dressing and adorning our bodies, exercise, feeding ourselves… these are all acts of self-love.
When you are hungry, your body is expressing to you a need. Think of your body as a partner, a friend, a loved one. When your loved one expresses to you a need, how do you respond? Do you give your loved one the bare minimum to shut them up and get them to leave you alone? Or do you focus on fulfilling that need in a joyous, loving manner? Your body does so much for you, every moment… so many wonderful things! Breathing… heart beat… sensation… thought… senses with which to take in beauty. Treat it with love, and it will love you in return.
It is all too easy for us to push aside our own wants – and even needs – in favour of someone else's. The demands of work, school, family, friends, what have you can all pile up, leaving us feeling frazzled, panicked trying to get it all done, and too often, we put our own needs at the bottom of our to-do lists. But we cannot serve others from an empty well. We must take the time to replenish our energy in order to be the best we can be in every moment.
Part of how we do that is through the care for our bodies. But it has to start with love.
Negativity saps our will. Shame drags us down. Anger may fuel our fires, but not with higher purpose. Only love tells us that anything is possible, that we are capable and worthy of great things.
As you show yourself more love and kindness, you will find that you begin to unfold, to blossom. You respond to that love with increased confidence, greater energy, more vitality.
Love is like the sunshine on a flower. The radiant light of love helps us to blossom into our most authentic selves. | what your BMI, if you don't smoke, drink alcohol in moderation, eat five or more servings of fruit and veg every day, and have a moderate amount of exercise three times a week, you have a greater probability of surviving into old age.
Physical activity doesn't have to be a chore or a punishment to the body. We don't have to punish ourselves or deprive ourselves in order to be healthy. Instead, approach the matter with mindfulness. What sort of physical activity do you enjoy? What feeds your spirit, as well? What gets your mind and heart involved?
I enjoy yoga and qi gong as integrative exercise and health practices. Both are moving meditation, which feeds my spirit and my heart. Both help me to slow my mind and focus on the moment I am in.
I study Kripalu yoga as presented by Abby Lentz, of Heartfelt Yoga. Abby is a plus-size yoga instructor who teaches "yoga for the body you have today", by way of showing numerous ways to modify poses in order to work gently within the limitations your body presents now. For instance, if you can't come to the mat, she shows how to do poses in a chair.
I also study qi gong, as presented by Matthew Cohen. His approach is meditative, and I find it really quite Pagan in his regard for the elements and the practise. My partner and I work with his DVD, Qi Gong Fire & Water.
Based on these two practises, I find the series below a very enjoyable way to start or end the day.
Wear comfortable clothing that does not restrict your movement. Stand or sit, as you are able, and become aware of your breath. When you are ready, with your inhale, raise your hands slowly, palm upward, like you are scooping up water. Scoop up energy in your cupped hands. As your hands come up above your heart, tip them toward you, to pour that energy over your heart. Bring your hands onto your heart, one over the other. Press gently, to push that energy into yourself. This is hand to heart. Click here for a video demonstration.
With your hands held as if cupping a bowl of water, held at the Dan T'ien (just above the pelvis, also called the hara, Svadisthana, or sacral chakra), breathe your hands up to the level of your eyes. On the exhale, gently push your hands down as if stroking a tree trunk, carrying Qi energy down through your aura and back to the Dan T'ien. This is called Clearing.
Next, bring your hands together in prayer. Elbows down, shoulders relaxed, fingers upright and together, hands in front of your heart. Breathe slowly and deeply through the nose, deep belly breaths. Set your intention for your practise. Hold this pose for five breaths, or longer, if you prefer.
Now, bring your hands so that your fingers are pointing forwards, palms still pressed together. Open your hands as if you were opening a book, but then carry that motion on to bring your arms out to your sides. Reach backward, squeezing your shoulders together, as if you wanted to wrap your arms around the whole world. Take a deep, integrating breath. Release this pose, bringing your hands gently down to your sides. I call this Heart Opening.
As you are able, keep your feet hip width apart and tuck your tailbone so that it points at the floor. Keep your shoulders back, arms at your sides. Take an integrating breath. This is Mountain Pose.
With the breath, bring your arms up, straight out at your sides, palms up, to shoulder height, and if you can, step out with your right foot. You should look a bit like DaVinci's famous drawing, Vitruvian Man. This is Five-Pointed Star.
Now, turn to face right, and step out further with your right foot into a lunge. Keep your arms at shoulder height. This is Warrior II. With the breath, raise your arms over your head, bringing your hands together if you are able. This is Warrior I. Take a breath, then come back to Warrior II.
From Warrior II, next, raise your right arm up toward the sky, letting your left come down to your side. If you are standing, let your left arm rest on the back of your thigh or calf. Raise your face to the sky, a soft gaze out over the fingertips of your right hand. This is Exalted Warrior.
With the breath, return to Warrior II, then to Five-Pointed Star.
Repeat this series to the left side, and when finished, come back to Mountain Pose.
Next is a qi gong practise called Swings. If you can, stand with your feet hip width apart, knees bent slightly so that your legs are actively engaged. If you need to, you can do this practise seated, as well. Swing gently back and forth, pivoting from the waist while keeping your feet still. Move your arms through the air at your waist as if you were in water, the hands just under the surface. Keep the motion smooth through both directions.
Come back to neutral pose, hands open by your hips. From the Dan T'ien, breathe in and gather energy between your hands. On the exhale, draw the energy down the left leg, bending slowly forwards as you do so. Shift your weight from left to right, bringing the ball of energy through the ground to your right leg, then back up as you inhale, lifting so as to "stack" your vertebrae. Repeat, going down the right leg and back up the left. This is called Carrying Qi.
On the inhale, lift your arms up and over your head, bringing them back down on the exhale, crossing your hands over your face as you bring your arms down to finish the circle. Repeat this motion at least three times. This practise is called Moon Circles.
Finish by sealing: As with clearing, breathe your hands upward until they reach just above your eye level. This time, as you exhale slowly, bring your arms down and trace the outside of your aura to "seal" in the energies you've gathered with your practice.
This is just one example of the many things you can do to incorporate joyful, mindful movement into your spiritual practise, making exercise spiritual, as well as physical.
What do you enjoy doing for exercise? Do you have any tips for mindful, spiritual movement options? I'd love to hear about them!
Before we begin this post, I'd like you to do something. Wherever you are reading this right now, take a minute, just a single minute, and do this.
Close your eyes. Rest your hands in your lap, if you're sitting. As you inhale | 1,399 |
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Since 2001, the Conference of Italian University Rectors has been flanked in its managerial and executive functions by the CRUI Foundation, which is entrusted with developing projects and services in conformity with the strategies of the Conference of Italian University Rectors.
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Matthew 6:1-6,16-18
1 "(But) take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.2 When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing,4 so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.5 "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.6 But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
[not part of the daily Mass gospel] 7 In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.8 Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.9 "This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.11 Give us today our daily bread;12 and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;13 and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one.14 If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
16 "When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. They neglect their appearance, so that they may appear to others to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,18 so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you. (Matthew 6:1–18)
Context. Often this passage is considered in and of itself and the reader might not understand that this is part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (5:1-7:29). Jesus has begun to preach in Galilee, as Scripture foretold (4:12–17), and large crowds are being attracted to his teaching (4:23–25). Matthew now presents a lengthy collection of that authoritative teaching. A parallel collection of his authoritative deeds will follow in chapters 8–9. But the teaching is addressed, initially at least, not to the crowds, but rather to the narrower circle of his committed disciples, to whom we have been introduced in 4:18–22, and who are now taken apart from the crowds to be instructed on what their new commitment involves. The focus of these chapters is not then the wider proclamation of the "good news of the kingdom," (4:23) but the instruction of those who have already responded to that proclamation, and now need to learn what life in the "kingdom of heaven" is really about. The teaching will frequently describe them as a special group who stand over against, and indeed are persecuted by, people in general. They are those who have entered into a new relationship with "your Father in heaven," and who in consequence are called to<|fim_middle|> too important to be passed over as briefly as alms-giving and fasting and so has inserted other sayings material on the subject, parts (b) and (c) of which have rough parallels in different contexts in Luke 11:2–4 and Mark 11:25.
This entry was posted in Scripture and tagged Mt 6v1-18, piety, prayer by Friar Musings. Bookmark the permalink. | a radically new lifestyle, in conscious distinction from the norms of the rest of society. R.T. France thinks that this Matthean discourse would be better known as the "Discourse on Discipleship" so people understand that this is not a general code of ethics but rather the specific demands of the kingdom of heaven.
Commentary. The last main section of the "Sermon on the Mount" (…or Discourse on Discipleship) focuses on setting out a "righteousness" greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees (5:20). The discourse now goes on to warn against a wrong kind of "righteousness" (6:1), which is undertaken not to conform to the will of God and to imitate his perfection, but to gain human approval. The people who practice this kind of righteousness are described as "hypocrites," a term which occurs frequently in Matthew for the official (or self-appointed) representatives of religion. The moniker will be applied six times in Mt 23 for the scribes and Pharisees. Some of the failings with which the scribes and Pharisees will be charged focus on a similar concern for externals and lack of inward depth. The contrast with the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees which underlay 5:20–48 is thus continued in this passage; the disciples are not to be like them. But the focus has moved from ethical distinctives to the practice of religion, the "righteousness" of 6:1 being not so much a moral orientation as a religious one, practical piety.
The basic framework of the passage is an introductory exhortation (..take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father; v.1) illustrated by three matching contrasts (vv. 2–4, 5–6, 16–18) setting out the wrong and the right way to undertake three prominent religious duties, alms-giving, prayer and fasting. The wording of the three contrasts follows a standard pattern: "do not be like the hypocrites or behave like them…but when you…" This is followed by concluding clauses ("Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward" … "may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you").
The wrong way in each case is a matter of outward show, looking for human approval; the right way is that of secrecy, which only God can see. It is only the latter kind of "righteousness" that God, who is strikingly described as "being in secret," will reward, whereas the brazen piety of the hypocrites has received the only reward it will get (and is looking for), the approval of other people.
This carefully balanced tripartite unit of teaching is, however, interrupted in vv. 7–15 by an extended discussion of prayer, consisting of (a) a further wrong way / right way contrast (vv. 7–8), (b) the pattern prayer (vv. 9–13) and (c) a pastoral comment on one clause of the pattern prayer (vv. 14–15). Matthew has apparently decided that the subject of true prayer is | 686 |
Podcast Episode 64: Chef Andy Ricker of Pok Pok on Dining in Thailand
An interview with Andy Ricker
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Seth: This is Episode Number 64 of the Find Dining Podcast. Welcome to Thailand by way of Portland, Oregon.
Hello, and welcome to the Find Dining Podcast. I'm your host. My name is Seth Resler, and this is the podcast for foodies who love travel and travelers who love food. Right at the top of the show, I do want to ask you please, please, please join us through social media. I am making a very concerted effort to post as many of these episodes to YouTube as possible, so check out our YouTube channel. Also, find us on iTunes. Please leave a review that helps other people find the show and we're on Pinterest as well, so head over the Pinterest and you can see tons of photos from the 2013 Taste Trekkers Food Tourism Conference. You can follow us on Twitter. We're Taste Trekker or find us on Facebook. Any of those ways, please connect with us.
All right. Let's get on with the show. And today, we are talking to Chef Andy Ricker who owns Pok Pok in Portland along with several more in Portland, Oregon and now in New York City as well. This is a man who has won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest in 2011. Bon Appétit loves this guy. They actually name his restaurant the 8th most important American restaurant. And he's the author of a cookbook called Pok Pok, Food Stories from the Street, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand.
This guy is really known for his cuisine. Andy, thank you so much for joining me.
Interviewee: It's my pleasure.
Seth: So you're doing a lot of really exciting things in Thai food and I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about how you got started and how you wound up working in Thai food. I know that you go over to Thailand and travel and that's how you discover a lot of the cuisine and then bring it back here in America. So we're going to talk to you about all of that. But before we do, I know that you've got a trivia question for me. So tell what it is.
Interviewee: This shouldn't be too difficult for you, but what is one seasoning that is used both in Thai cooking and Italian cooking and it's not chilies.
Seth: It's not chilies. Uh-oh, I'm in trouble. That was by guess. See, now you preface this by saying that this is easy but I'll have you know that I have a perfect zero for probably 60 something record at these questions. What is the one ingredient that both Thai food and Italian food share? All right, as always, I'm going to think about that. We're going to come back to that.
And we're going to talk about you. I mean, you're doing amazing things in the realm of Thai food. And I guess my first question is you are a guy who is tall, white, blonde from Vermont and named Andy, how did you become such an authority on Thai food?
Interviewee: Well, first of all, I would say that I don't consider myself an authority on Thai food. I consider myself student of Thai food and it all started, you know, back in 1987, I think it was, the first time that I went to Thailand as a backpacker. And, you know, I was eating kind of the same thing that everybody else was at the bungalows and kind of guest houses and stuff like that. I didn't speak Thai or read Thai or anything like that. So I was kind of at the mercy of what other people told me or where I would go to eat at a restaurant or a guest house that had English menu that I could read and I was basing my knowledge of the food on what it had already in the west. So I had, you know, typical things that you would have with that experience.
The first time I went it wasn't really so much about food, it was more about being 20 something year old backpacker having fun.
Seth: So you were a traveler first.
Interviewee: Yeah, exactly. Instead of going to college of – I was a ski bum for four years. I was still getting an education and I learned how to cook during that time, you know, became a professional cook at the age of, you know,16 or 17. And, you know, later on, the travel became my education.
Seth: And so when you went, you were not necessarily going to explore food the first time, you were just looking to travel the countryside. And how long where you abroad the first time you went?
Interviewee: Well, the first time I went, I had no intention when I left United States of being going to Southeast Asia. I left with, you know, 800 bucks in my pocket and a roundtrip ticket to Australia that stopped in New Zealand and Fiji and that turned into almost a four-year long trip that took me around the world just, you know, working.
In those days, you could – it wasn't that hard to find a job on the road, you know, so I spent time in Australia and New Zealand working in Europe for towards the end of it. And the time I spent in Asia was just kind of like, "Oh, everybody is going to Thailand, I guess I'll go to Thailand, too."
Seth: Talk to me about how it started to center around food and some of the things that you discovered while you were there.
Interviewee: The next trip I took was in 1992 and I went there with a girlfriend and we went up to Chiang Mai to meet my friend Chris who I grew up with who was living in Chiang Mai. He'd actually got married to a woman he met while he was working at the university there. She was a professor there as well. You know, the time I got there, they had two kids. They were living near the university where they both worked or where she worked and he was working somewhere else.
And he just kind of started showing me the local food, Lakhina's, Chris' wife's family, lot of talented cooks in that group. I learned stuff from her dad. I learned stuff her sister. And then a bunch of their friends who are also university teachers and librarians and whatnot kind of took me under wing and I started learning from them as well.
Seth: What were<|fim_middle|> seat of power and money is, so there's also a lot of the royal cuisine is in that area. Their staple rice is Jasmine rice.
Then you have Isan or Northeastern Thailand which is borders Cambodia and Laos. A lot of the folks there ethnically Lao and speak Lao and also Khmer, to a lesser extent there's Khmer people on the border of Cambodia. And the food there tends to be very, very simple as it's kind of the poorest part of the country, so mostly arid climate outside of the Mekong River area. And the food tends to be very simple, hot, you know, spicy…funky, they used fermented fish sauce called Pla ra and the state for rice there is sticky rice.
And then you head into the northern region which is Chiang Mai area in north and that's bordered by Burma and Laos and there's, you know, the Golden Triangles up there, the famous place in Chiang Mai where there — a lot of the opium trade has happened over the years. And this is a more mountainous jungly region cut off from the ocean. And food up there tend towards the herbaceous and salty and lots of soups, not a lot of coconut because historical coconut palms didn't grow in enough abundance up there for them to have coconut cream and coconut milk, lots of wild game: pig, chicken, domesticated farm animals and river fish. And there's a bitter element to the food that is more pronounced than anywhere else in the country and their staple is sticky rice.
Seth: So somebody's going on a trip to explore the cuisine of Thailand, you'd recommend that they visit all four regions to get a broad overview?
Interviewee: I would. I mean, it's not a huge country but there's a hell a lot to see and really, it's pretty diverse ethnically and geographically and the food is fascinating, it changes from place to place. And the trick is finding way to get somebody to show you this stuff.
Seth: Right.
Interviewee: That's a whole another conversation. But if you have like a full month, I'd try to visit all the regions. If you only have a couple of weeks, there's no point. You're just going to be running from place to place and not really getting much information.
Seth: So at what point did you decide that you wanted to bring this back to America and specifically Portland?
Interviewee: Well, I live in Portland so that was a no brainer.
Seth: What brought you out in Portland originally?
Interviewee: I moved out there about 20 years ago now. I moved there. I'd come off that four years of travelling overseas and without going into too much personal detail, I had reason to head towards the Pacific Northwest. And initially, I was shooting for Seattle and this is by a couple hundred miles and it was combination of convenience. And then, you know, I had a brother in Portland and, you know, hang out with for a little while and I just kind of fell in love with the city. It was such a welcoming and easy place to move to and I just kind of fell in love with it and have been there ever since.
So that was why I chose Portland and, you know, there's been a lot written and talked about how the food scene in Portland kind of exploded around the time Pok Pok opened and afterwards, it has a lot to do with the price of real estate and the adventurous attitude of the people who live there.
Why did I actually decided to open this restaurant is because I didn't know what else to do. I'd been a painting contractor for about 10 years. I was sick of doing that. The only other real skill that I have is cooking and I certainly didn't want to go back to working for somebody else, so it kind of left me with opening a restaurant.
Seth: And what are some of the challenges as you try to open that restaurant and particularly in terms of ingredients? I mean, are there ingredients that are difficult to get or ways that you have to adjust things for the terrior of Portland as opposed to Thailand?
Interviewee: As far as getting ingredients for the dishes, I had spent, you know, years before I opened a restaurant. I had cooked this food at home so I've been scanning the Asian markets and looking up wholesalers. And, you know, basically instead of kind of deciding on the menu and then looking for the ingredients, I had a pretty good knowledge of what was available and I was able to make a menu based around what I could get. So instead of going, "Oh, we got to do this dish but I can't get that ingredients, so I'll substitute something else," you know, I simply just wouldn't make something if I couldn't get the ingredients for it. And the good news is that, you know, the West Coast we're between California and Canada. There's a huge Southeast Asian population in California and in Canada. So, you know, Portland is along the tracking route so we do get a fair amount of pretty good Asian produce there.
Seth: Was there anything that you can't do there that you can get in Thailand or any particular dishes that you would recommend that people get while they're in Thailand?
Interviewee: Oh, sure. I mean, to put a caveat on it, we don't get the same quality of ingredients that we would in Thailand by any means, so we have to doctor the recipes to make up for the fact that, say, the ginger is too dry or too hot or that the galangal isn't fragrant enough or that the lemon grass is too woody and not, you know, not fragrant enough and that the limes are actually tend to be bitter instead of kind of mildly sweet and the aroma is different. That kind of stuff.
So there are things that I'd certainly like to have in the menu and, for instance, one of my favorite things in the North of Thailand is called Thapak. "Tha" means salad in the Northern Thai dialect. It's kind of a broad term to cover a bunch of different things but Thapak is kind of a raw herb and vegetable salad that's pounded in a mortar and pestle and it's one of the most delicious things I've ever had. It's got like sour leaves and, you know, you make chili paste that's grilled shallots and garlic and there are shrimp paste and stuff and then you pound these leaves and these raw vegetables all together and it makes this beautiful like delicious dish. But the problem is like a lot of those – you know, the leaves that they just gather in the jungle there or cultivate don't grow in the climate and it's extremely difficult to come by this stuff. So we just don't make Thapak, all right. That was a pretty easy one.
But if you're in the North, you actually have to be there at the right time of the year for it to be available anyway because as with any great cuisine, there are seasonal changes and what's available. There's a dish also called Tha Yot Maham and yot means like shoot and maham is tamarind, so it's young leaves of tamarind tree. They are really tart and they've got a really nice texture and you make a Tha with this that's similar to Thapak but just made of this and maybe some grilled fish or canned sardines and tomatoes and, again, a paste that's made with grilled vegetables and chilies and stuff. One of my favorite things in the whole world. But young tamarind leaves are not so easily gotten in Portland, so we just don't put that on the menu.
Interviewee: But if you happen to be in Northern Thailand during the time of the year when tamarind trees are putting out new leaves and that's a wonderful dish to try.
Seth: Now I know you now have restaurants. You're bicoastal. You've got restaurants in Portland and New York. But are you still making it over to Thailand regularly?
Interviewee: Yeah, I make it to Thailand a couple of times a year, like I'm leaving December 24th. I'm leaving, I'll be there for a couple of months. It's not really an option for me not to go at this point. I consider it just, you know, actually a third home.
Seth: And when you put a trip to Thailand together, what are you trying to do or accomplish with it and how do you put it together and where you're going, what are you visiting, that kind of thing?
Interviewee: Well, I tried to mix it up a little bit. I spend most of my time up in Chiang Mai. You know, got good friends. I love the lifestyle there. The food from that area is what interests me the most. I usually try to put together some time in Bangkok to visit with friends that live there and go run around and experience what Bangkok has to offer. But I also try to make it out to either, you know, outlying provinces nearer to Chiang Mai or, you know, occasionally, I've driven to Wanchai and Laos before. From Chiang Mai you can also shoot up to Burma, so – and I haven't done anything more than quick visa run across the border there. I'm really keen to go to Burma. I'll make it this year, or fly up to Yunnan province in China.
Seth: And how do you discover the new places that you want to eat at when you're out there? I mean, where are you finding them? Is it all just word of mouth?
Interviewee: Yeah. There's various different avenues to find new places to eat. Most of it requires at least a working knowledge of language and a network of people you know but, you know, Thai people blogged about food just as, you know, voraciously as the Americans do. So if you know somebody who reads Thai, you can actually look up blogs and will lead you to places. Word of mouth is probably the best way and at this point, I have lots of friends up there. This is tricky though because as a tourist, when you arrive in Chiang Mai and you want to go and eat hyper local food, you're kind of at a disadvantage because hyper local food isn't that – the best of it isn't that visible and even if it is visible, you wouldn't know by driving by what kind of restaurant it is, right.
So for instance, there's a type of food there called larb which a minced meat salad that's spelled L-A-R-B on American menus larb, right. Northern Thailand, and Chiang Mai in particular, is known for this dish and there are restaurants that are just all about larb. But if you drove by a restaurant that is specialized in larb, it's extremely unlikely there's going to be any signage in English and it might just look like a road side shack and with, you know, obviously restaurant but there's no indication if you don't read Thai of what might be on the menu.
Seth: Have you just picked up with the language over the years?
Interviewee: So I speak Thai conversationally but I don't read it which is a source of, you know, shame and kind of like a bummer for me because if I did, it would really open some doors for me because every time I need the people to kind of tell me, you know, we'll be driving by a place that looks interesting that I can pretty much guess what's going on based on what the sign looks like, what the kitchen looks like, you know. But I have to ask this, you know, what is this place and then they can tell me the name of the place. And if it's a larb restaurant, I'll just walk in and start talking to them and order some food. But I can't read the menu either. I have to ask, you know – I mean, I know what's going to be on the menu at a larb restaurant but they might have some specialty that I have no idea about. I'd have to find out by talking and asking questions.
So if you're a tourist with no Thai language skills and no Thai reading skills and no working knowledge of what might be available, you're kind of screwed, you're kind of at the mercy of whoever you're with or whatever they give you. And it wouldn't be unusual to talk into a larb restaurant and for them to serve you a plate of noodles because you're a foreigner. You know what I mean?
Seth: And is that because they think that that's what you would expect?
Interviewee: It's because they want you to enjoy your meal. They want you to have a good time to have food that you like so you have a positive experience. Thai culture is all about making sure that their guests have a good time and enjoy it. And they're, you know, afraid and with good reason that you might not be in to eating, you know, chopped raw buffalo with blood in it and raw, you know, stomach organs chopped into it with bile as a flavoring. Understandably, that's something that typically a westerner isn't going to like, but that's what they specialize in.
Seth: So it's really incumbent upon the traveler to make it known if they want to be adventurous and want to try new things.
Interviewee: Yes, it is. It's great if you can find a Thai person to take you who trusts that you're able to eat this stuff. I have very good friends who I've known for, you know, 15 plus years who, to this day, I mean, just this year, I went to a restaurant, this larb restaurant I've been to like probably half dozen times with my friend and, you know, then I went with a friend of mine who's American but is completely fluent in Thai, this guy Austin Bush, who was the photographer of my cookbook, reads Thai and he says, "Oh, they have gang hawk." And I was like, "What is gang hawk?" Because I've never heard of that before. It turns out it's buffalo fetus, boiled buffalo fetus, yam haw, and it's considered a Northern Thai delicacy.
But my friend who had went with who is Thai didn't tell me it was on the menu because he thought it was gross himself and he didn't want me to feel grossed out by a food that his people ate.
Seth: Oh, that's fascinating. All right. So we're going to come back in just a moment here and we're going to get an answer to your trivia question. We're going to talk more about Pok Pok, about the restaurant and the cookbook as well. And then we're going to play a game called Out of the Frying Pan. It's coming up in just a sec.
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We are talking to Chef Andy Ricker of Pok Pok in Portland and also several other restaurants both in Portland, Oregon and in New York City. He is the James Beard Award Winner for Best Chef Northwest and he's really known for Thai cuisine. You described yourself, you said, as a student of Thai cuisine but you're really influential in bringing it back here to the U.S. and I think opening a lot of doors and showing a lot of people that there's a lot more to Thai cuisine than previously thought. You asked me a trivia question earlier. Give it to me one more time.
Interviewee: There's a seasoning that both Thai and Italian foods regionally share that's not chilies and it's not salt or pepper. So something a little bit unusual that both Thai and Italians used to season their food.
Seth: You said it's not chilies which would have been first guess. You know, I'm thinking something like dried shrimp or fish.
Interviewee: You're getting warmer, you're getting warmer, you're getting much warmer.
Seth: Is it seafoodish?
Interviewee: Yes, it is. Seasoning.
Seth: Seafood seasoning.
Interviewee: You said one of the words.
Seth: So shrimp paste, I don't know. Is shrimp one of the words?
Interviewee: No, that's not but you did say another word right after you said shrimp.
Seth: It must be fish.
Interviewee: That's half of the title.
Seth: I'll take a half victory. What is it?
Interviewee: Fish sauce.
Seth: Fish sauce. Really, they use that in Italian cuisine a lot, huh?
Interviewee: Yeah, and apparently, Roman cuisine, they used a fish sauce goes back, you know, a couple millennia. They found an earthenware pot, apparently they found fish sauce that was made, you know, 2000 years ago or something like that.
Seth: So tell me, what exactly is fish sauce and where does it come from?
Interviewee: Yes. So fish sauce is essentially whole little tiny anchovies basically and they ferment them with salts and whatever the liquid that's left over is extracted from it and that's the fish sauce.
Seth: Does fish sauce vary from region to region in the world?
Interviewee: Yeah, they do, like for instance, I'm not a fish sauce expert but being very kind of like general about, I found that, for instance, the Vietnamese fish sauce tends towards the lighter and sweeter side of things. The Thai fish sauce is a little bit funkier and saltier. There's also the Lao stuff called pala which is the fermented fish sauce where they actually take whole fresh water fish and ferment it in rice and they make a very, very pungent flavored sauce out of that. it's quite different from your typical nam pla or regular fish sauce.
Seth: All right. Well, let's talk about Pok Pok. First of all, we'll start with the restaurant. Tell me where you came up with the name.
Interviewee: The way I came up with a name for restaurant was, you know, when you're trying to name something like a restaurant or a band or something, you can end up kind of – you know, go on running around in circles biting your tail just trying to figure out something that's the right amount of catchy and make sense and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, I started by getting my notebook out which I still have to this date and writing all these different names down kind of go on, what about this, what about that.
And Pok Pok kept on coming back up and the reason it did is I'd had this experience traveling from Isan back to Bangkok onetime years ago like 10 plus years ago, 15 years ago and it was on a diesel rail car which is kind of a high speed train. That was in like second class or something and I met this itinerant workers who are coming from home in Isan, they're going back to Bangkok after a holiday to go back to work. And they started to ask me, you know, "What are you doing in Isan," because back then and even now, it's not a very touristic region and so they're curious like, "What are you doing.: I said, "Well, I went to eat," like, "Really? You like to eat Isan food?" And I was like, "Yeah," and they said, "Do you know how to cook?" And I said, "Yeah, I can cook a few things," and then we were talking like a combination of really rudimentary time, really rudimentary English.
And I asked the guide, "Do you know how to cook?' And he said, "Yes, I can cook, pok, pok, pok, pok, pok", making the motion of hitting a pestle and a mortar. And that just stuck with me because this guy equated cooking with the use of a mortar and pestle and the sound of the pestle strike in the mortars, "pok, pok, pok, pok, pok". It's not a hard P sound, pok, is pok. Pok pok is an onomatopoeia and it represents the noise of cooking to a Thai person.
Seth: Are you actually using mortar and pestle is what you're doing?
Interviewee: Every single day, every single day. Yeah. There are several different kinds of mortars and pestles and we used most of them in the restaurant. So there's the granite mortar and pestle that's used to pound pastes like curry pastes and stuff like that or grinding spices. And then there's a clay mortar with a wood pestle that's the Isan style or Northeastern Thai version that you use to make salads in. There's also a wooden mortar with wooden pestle which is more of a Northern Thai version that you use to make salads in. And we've got all of those and we use them every day. Every papaya salad we make, it's made in a mortar and pestle.
Some of the smaller scale curry paste, we make in a very large granite mortar and pestle because there's no other way to really make it. And then we do make large quantities of the curry paste using a meat grinder that's kind of the commercial way they do it in Thailand but they used mortars and pestles as a daily, you know, like all day long every day.
Seth: Anything else unusual that you're using back there that you wouldn't normally find in other restaurants?
Interviewee: Sure. There's two really good examples of that, one is the sticky rice steamer which consist of a pot that's kind of got almost kind of like a pot belly kind of look with a wide rim, so it stars out wide, it chokes down to a narrower top and then has a wide rim. And you set a basket basically, a bamboo basket sits in the mouth and you put your sticky rice in there and the rice literally steams. So that's one thing.
Another piece of equipment that we use which is relatively unusual is a squid press which is – it looks kind of like a printing press with two cylinders that are stride that have like ridges in them and you put a dried cowfish in there and squeeze it back and forth until it stretches it out and makes it stride so you can tear it up. And then we also have larb knives, the knives you use to make larb with which are these scimitar-shaped heavy butcher knives that are use to chop meat very, very finely.
Seth: Well, tell me a little the physical layout of the restaurant.
Interviewee: The way the Portland restaurant is laid out is — I bought a house that had a commercial kitchen in the basement that was used to make sushi and it had a little shack out on the driveway that the people who owned it used to sell the sushi just like a retail space. And we converted the – first, that shack converted into a cooking space and we opened up with just that area out there with a little charcoal grill behind it and there's little, you know, 8 by 12 shack and the commercial kitchen inside. So that was the beginning of the business.
Since we've opened the shack, we then moved into the house, built that out into a, you know, a dining room and a bar downstairs and a full commercial kitchen upstairs and converted the old commercial kitchen into bathrooms. So, we have a kitchen inside and we got a kitchen outside and we've got seating outside on what used to be the driveway and we got seating on the front porch and we got seating down the basement which is the main dining room and bar.
The whole property essentially is the restaurant. The garage has walk-in coolers and storage and that kind of stuff.
Seth: And this is in just a residential neighborhood, right?
Interviewee: So the neighborhood that Pok Pok sits in is actually in old commercial thoroughfare called Division Street that slowly became more and more residential as the businesses has died out and it has been resurrected as a very, very busy commercial district at this point. But when we moved in, it was still pretty quiet.
Seth: Let me ask about some of the items on the menu, starting with the Ike's Vietnamese fish sauce wings which I know are very popular there. Tell me about those.
Interviewee: Those are obviously not Thai food. They're actually Vietnamese fish sauce wings which leaves me to need to explain that we don't call Pok Pok a Thai restaurant for a bunch of different reasons. One of which is the fact that we don't just serve exclusively food from Thailand and second of all, because when you say Thai restaurant, it's got a certain connotation to American people show up expecting all the things that you can get at "Thai restaurant".
The wings themselves came about because I was traveling in Vietnam and, you know, the year before I opened the restaurant and I was in Saigon and I went to Bia Hoi stand which Bia Hoi is like a fresh beer in Vietnamese and this little stands where you can sit on the plastic chair that's about 6 inches off the ground and, you know, a table that's maybe 12 inches of the ground made of plastic and they serve you sort of jugs of this cheap weak beer and then they are often offer some sort of snack to go with it. And stopped at one and they had, you know, a little paper menu with a few things written in English and one of them was fish sauce wings. And I thought, how could that be bad. So I ordered that amongst other things and it turned out to be – it was one of the tastiest things I have on that trip, like hands down.
That trip I went to a lot of places. I went to Vietnam, north and south. I went to Cambodia. I went to China I believe. I went to Thailand. But this was kind of like one of the best things I have on that whole trip. So when I got back to the States, it took me about a year until we actually, you know, we're in a place to start cooking those because we needed a full commercial kitchen to do it. So I started – in advance of opening the main restaurant of Pok Pok, I started trying to figure out this recipe and it wasn't working. I wasn't quite getting the ratios right; I'd guessed what was in it and had gotten pretty close but I was missing a couple of finer points.
Luckily, there's a fellow named Ike who had been working with me as a painting contractor and then had helped me build the restaurant and then was my first employee and still is my employee actually. His real name is Ik Throng and Ik, like, was too difficult a name for us honkies to say, so I started calling him Ike and it stuck at least at the restaurant, he's still called Ike. So I said, "Ike, do you know how to make these?" And Ike at that time spoke maybe three words in English and one of which is "yeah" and the other one is "man", so he's like, "Yeah, man."
So I got him some chicken wings and he started making it and he started putting stuff and that I was like "yeah, that makes sense", put fish sauce, sugar… And then he did a couple of moves that I had missed, one of which was he – I was trying to get garlic into it and I kept on, you know, garlic would burn when I'd fry the chicken. So what he did was just, you know, put some water and chopped garlic together and he'd squeeze the garlic and get this water that was, you know, that had garlic in it and then used that as part of the marinade. That was number one.
And then he just kind of showed the ratios a little difference than I had them. And, you know, my instinct as a western cook is not to make things too sweet and he called "{bleep}" on that right away. So, you know, in went the sugar more than I thought that should be there and went the garlic, water and that was it. So out of two pounds of chicken wings, you know, in about half an hour worth of work, we ended up extrapolating the recipe that we have now and at this point, we process, you know, up to 4,000 a week in Portland of this stuff.
Seth: Wow.
Interviewee: Batches of up to 1,200 pounds at a time. So the recipe has changed, you know, ratio wise to get it – we've refined it over the years but it all came back to, you know, Ike's half hour lesson to correct the {bleep} that I had gotten wrong. And so we named the wings after Ike.
Seth: Nice. That was a nice nod to him. What else do you recommend on the menu? I mean, if somebody is coming in for the first time, what are your favorites that you would tell people that they should definitely try?
Interviewee: I would say try some of the Northern Thai stuff because at this point, Northern Thai cuisine is still relatively unknown that's starting to show up on menus more and more. Isan food at this point is pretty well known in America. It started to really infiltrate the Thai menus at various restaurants which is great. So I'd say, if you want to be adventurous, try some of the Northern Thai dishes like the larb or the khaeng hang leh or sa… – if we have a special on Northern Thai, especially try that or maybe khao jinn naam muu, the Northern Thai soft rice with Vermicelli with it like a soup/curry of steamed blood cake and pork rib and ground beef and tomatoes.
And it's, you know, the food that I find the most interesting is the Northern Thai stuff.
Seth: And let's talk about the book, Pok Pok: Food and Stories in the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand. And I know that this is not just a cookbook but it also, in a lot of ways, a travelogue and you sharing some of your travel experiences. Tell me a little bit about the impetus for the book and why you wanted to put it together.
Interviewee: I didn't set out to write this book. It just kind of came about. I was approached long time ago by a publishing company that asked if I was interested in doing a book and I was like, "Yeah, maybe, you know, I kind of wrote a moldy kind of proposal on a piece of paper and look at it and thought "no, this is {bleep} I'm not going to do this". And then, you know, a couple of years later, I got approached by a couple of writers and one of them was JJ Goode and we met through friends and he's like, "Hey, do you want to do a cookbook?" And I was like, "Well, you know, you're like the second or third person who's asked me so maybe I should look into this," so we started talking about it.
And initially, I had this idea that I was going to do a Northern Thai cookbook and then we realized that at this point, Pok Pok had started to get pretty popular and it would make sense to try to keep it on brand. So I thought, "Nah, I don't want to do the Pok Pok cookbook with all the recipes," and I changed my mind, so I ended up doing the Pok Pok cookbook.
Seth: And what can people expect to find inside it?
Interviewee: There's about 70 recipes in there and it's all stuff that we either have on the menu at Pok Pok or have had on the menu at some point and probably will have again, like kind of the greatest hit stuff that people go to Pok Pok for. So you can get the chicken wing recipe, you can get the Phak Kat recipe, you can get the Khao Soi recipe, all that kind of stuff, like the roasted game hen.
But there's also recipes in there for stuff that I haven't really seen recipes foreign English much in the past. If it all, it's, you know, some of the Northern Thai dishes like for instance, Kaeng Khanun which is a young jackfruit curry from Northern Thailand. I'd learned that by having friends show me how to do it. And a combination of kind of like the greatest hits of Pok Pok plus some of the stuff that we've had on the menu over the years but a little bit more, you know, specific and obscure, so of course, those are the things that I'm the most interested in.
Seth: Well, all right, Andy, are you ready to play a little game?
Interviewee: I supposed so.
Seth: Okay. This game is called Out of the Frying Pan. Here's how it works, I'm going to ask you for a series of rapid fire questions. We're going to ask you about Thailand and you just tell me the first thing that comes to your mind, okay? Are you ready?
Interviewee: I'm ready.
Seth: All right. If I'm going to Thailand for just a week or two, tell me where I really need to go, where I need to start.
Interviewee: I'm biased but I would say, go to Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Chiang Mai is the Northern Thai capital. It's kind of like cultural center of the country and Bangkok is just as amazing megalopolis with endless variations of food and sights and smells and sounds. And both places are fascinating.
Seth: While I'm in Thailand, are there any signature dishes that I could try, I mean, particularly that compare against each other and sort of see how different people do it?
Interviewee: It's just kind of a really thought answer but I'm going to say try Pad Thai because you're going to be very surprised at what Pad Thai is in Thailand compared to what it is here in America. Seek out the oldest Pad Thai shops you can find, smaller ones and that size and watch how they make it and taste the difference between what you get here in America that tends to be very, very sweet and kind of made with ketchup and stuff and see what you get there.
Seth: Do you have any favorite chefs when you're in Thailand?
Interviewee: My favorite chef in Thailand, it's got to be David Thompson who has a restaurant called Nahm at the Metropolitan Hotel and it's Pellegrino top 50 restaurants in the world. I think it's number 32 right now. And the level at which he's cooking is astounding. His career is very well documented over 35 years and lots of success including the Michelin star for his London restaurant. And what he had able to do now with the ingredients that he's able to get in Thailand is simply astounding.
Seth: Talk to me about Thai drinks, is there a favorite drink or two that we should try?
Interviewee: In Thailand, I would recommend trying some of the fruit juices and other types of juices. So you can try to make a sugarcane drink is delicious, Hibiscus drink called Nam Krachiap which is really good. And I would also try the local Lao Khao or White Lightning.
Seth: Let's say I just bought your cookbook and I'm looking to get into some Thai recipes, where is the best place in America to buy Thai ingredients?
Interviewee: The best place in America, it depends on what coast you're on but you're probably going to do really well if you're in California and LA, just go to Thai Town and look around the markets there. And if you're in New York, you probably are going to be going to Flushing or Jackson Heights or Sunset Park in Brooklyn and looking at the larger markets there. But I'm going to say that the best place to get Thai produce in America is going to be in Florida and go to the local Thai farmer. They're growing stuff that is just like it is in Thailand.
Seth: What about mortar and pestle, where do you pick that up?
Interviewee: Mortar and pestle can be picked up at almost any Southeast Asian market. They might not have a large one. The other option – better option is probably to go online to a online retailer like Temple of Thai and buy one from there.
Seth: And last question, what is the most common mistake that people make when they are trying to cook Thai food that you could help us avoid?
Interviewee: The most common mistake I think people make is not necessarily a technical move, it's probably just a misunderstanding of Thai food in general and that is that all Thai food is spicy and it's just simply not true. If you're looking at a recipe and doesn't call for chilies, don't put any chilies in because it's not supposed to have them in there. Thai food can run the gamut from blend to ultra spicy and it's based on what dish you're cooking. If you like spicy food, choose a recipe that is meant to be spicy like a Southern Thai curry. If you want something that's blander, then choose a blander dish like maybe kaeng djuut, a bland soup from the center of Thailand.
Seth: All right. Well, Andy Ricker, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. This was fascinating. It's great to hear from an expert and somebody who spent a lot of time traveling and exploring the cuisine of Thailand. Pok Pok in Portland, people can find it online at PokPokPDX.com and people can also check out the cookbook Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand in bookstores, on Amazon and things like that.
If people want to follow you on social media, how can they do that?
Interviewee: On Twitter, I'm @Pawkhrua and then on Facebook, you can look at Pok Pok and my name both of which on there. And Instagram, I'm also @Pawkhrua.
Seth: And you spend most of your time in New York or Portland these days or you're back and forth between the two?
Interviewee: I'm back and forth but most of my time right now is being spent in New York because there's a lot more activity here right now.
Seth: Well, thank you again so much and this has been fascinating.
Interviewee: Well, thank you so much.
Seth: My name is Seth Resler. This is the Find Dining Podcast. Couple of notes before we go, you'll find links to many of the things that we mentioned in this episode up on our website at TasteTrekkers.com/Podcast. Please go to iTunes, leave a review, let people know about the show. It helps us out and you can also follow us on Facebook or on Twitter as well, We are Taste Trekkers on Twitter.
Thank you so much and we'll talk to you next time. | you discovering that was different about Thai food in Thailand versus Thai food in America?
Interviewee: Well, first of all, what I learned was that, you know, when you say Thai food, that's like saying Italian food, right? And at this point in time, we know that it's not a monoiculture, Italy is not a multiculture, there's different languages, different regions, you know, people eat entirely different styles of food. And, of course, Thailand is exactly the same. You know, there's four distinct regions there. There are hundreds of ethnic groups that live there. The food varies from region to region and then from province to province, from city to city, from town to town and from house to house.
So what we consider Thai food in America is this menu that we've been getting here for the last 40 years and while that's all very good, there's also a wide world out there that isn't really that well understood by us in the west. And that's what I started to learn about by being introduced to some Northern Thai food.
Seth: Walk me through the four regions and some of the differences between them.
Interviewee: The four distinct regions in Thailand are the South, or the Peninsula part of Thailand which, you know, below Bangkok and leads all the way down to Malaysia. A lot of the people, the further south you go, you start getting into folks who are ethnically Malay and they have their own language, Bak Thai, the people there and the food tends to be very, very spicy. It's where most of the coconut palms are grown so there tends to be really rich coconut trees around the ocean, so a lot of seafood and the staple rice is Jasmine rice.
When you get to Central town and that's where Bangkok environments around there, the Chao Phraya River Delta. And essentially, that's where the folks that we call Thai lives, that's the Thai people. And the food that they eat there is – a lot of the dishes we see in Western restaurants come from that region. It's a heavy Chinese influence. It's where the | 436 |
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The 447 spacious, recently<|fim_middle|> beef rib purveyor Tony Roma's packs in guests by the truckload. For a quick bite, there's always the Lanai Express or Dunkin' Donuts. Plus, cocktails are poured round the clock in the casino bar and sports bar.
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Arizona State University has launched Technopolis, a program to increase life-sciences- and technology-based entrepreneurial activity in the Valley. The new program<|fim_middle|> federal small business grants. | follows on the heels ASU's Arizona Technology Enterprises, created this summer to address the special issues related to technology transfer of university employees' innovations.
Technopolis is modeled after the CONNECT program in San Diego, widely credited with helping that city develop its successful biosciences enterprise. It will connect entrepreneurs to customers and investors, while also teaching them the vital business and grant-writing skills they will need to close the deal.
The first program to be offered is Launch Pad, an eight-week course to guide entrepreneurs in developing effective business plan presentations. ASU Technopolis will also offer six-week introductory sessions covering basic start-up and management concepts for first-time entrepreneurs, and as a series of workshops focusing on how to obtain tech-related | 145 |
When Yale built Commons dining hall, Memorial Hall, Woolsey Hall, and Woodbridge Hall in 1901 to celebrate its bicentennial, the buildings were more than responses to pressing needs. They were the first buildings to belong to the entire university rather than just the college or one of the graduate and professional schools—symbols of Yale's evolution into a university.
The center will comprise Commons and Memorial Hall—the round, domed building that connects Commons to Woolsey Hall—both of which will be renovated. Besides the great hall of Commons—which will continue to be used in part as a dining hall but will be adaptable for performances and symposia—the center will use the upper floors of Memorial Hall and the large basement of Commons, which until recently housed kitchens and food storage. (The center will present events in Woolsey Hall, but Woolsey will not be renovated as part of the project.) The program for the center will be determined in consultation with an advisory committee of students and faculty, but it will likely include gallery space, meeting rooms, performance space, and pub and café space.
While a New York Times story on the announcement emphasized the center's role as performing arts center, Yale's announcement and an e-mail from Peter Salovey to the Yale community focused more on the idea of a student center—something for which Yale students have recently been lobbying. Last year, the<|fim_middle|> private conversations at table do become problematic when the space is used for public speaking. That is worth preserving.
President Salovey was quoted saying the students speak of Commons as Hogwarts. I'm not sure if that is intended as a compliment or not. Some presently may see the building's design as out of vogue. Styles have their seasons. This great space is worth keeping, however, lest we soon realize we've lost something very special. Not everyone is aware that that great space is built without structural steel. The rafters up there are not merely decorative. They've stood the test of time. I hope they will continue undisturbed.
If you share my concerns, add you own and let people hear from you. | Graduate Student Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and the Yale College Council collaborated on a report to the administration calling for such a center, citing the need for meeting rooms, centralized student services, study space, late-night dining, along with a more general desire for interaction between undergrads and graduate and professional students.
Yale says the center, which will have a full-time director and an endowment from Schwarzman's gift to help fund its operation, will be completed in 2020.
Commons is one of Yale's and New Haven's great architectural and engineering treasures. It is also often greatly under-appreciated. While the prospect of its being more effectively used as a "common" community place is encouraging, and few details are yet available, adding $150 million to a building leads to worry about its being defaced, destroyed or demolished. This is especially so when the donor indicates he's more interested in creating something new than in refurbishment.
I remember Commons serving as a remarkable meeting place. As freshmen, we were separated in one part of the space while the paying public used the other end. However, at times when the college dining halls were closed, everyone ate in the same area. That created opportunity to meet exceptional people not normally involved in undergraduate life, including graduate students, visiting scholars and staff. Some of my most memorable lunches occurred by chance in that space. I hope that opportunity is still available.
These conversations were enhanced by the commons' ability to feed thousands while permitting comfortable conversations at tables of four. The acoustics that facilitate | 319 |
Hi and welcome to the middle of January! Does anyone else feel like this month has already been really long? I'm not mad about it, because I could use a little slow down time and some "I have nothing to do!" moments after the holidays. Just some room to get back into the grove of normal life, you know?
What better way to start out the weekend than with a knockout meal at a new restaurant? We took ourselves to Q House and<|fim_middle|> flavor still came through and tasted amazing. I loved it all!
Joey headed to the mountains to ski early Saturday morning and I thought I was going to have a very chill and relaxing day at home (and it started that way, with a homemade peppermint mocha), but then it ended up being a day of frustrating errands that really tested my patience. Mostly, can it please not be January anymore so the grocery store can go back to being less busy and I can actually find a parking spot in less than 20 minutes?
I did bottle a new batch of blood orange kombucha that looked very pretty! And then Andi and I cuddled while Joey watched the Cowboys game and tried to ignore the emotional roller coaster going on at the other end of the couch.
Sunday started with a baby shower brunch for Betsty — umm how cute are mini chicken and waffles?? — and I won the "Baby Bump or Beer Belly" game, ha! Also, they sent us each home with a bottle of champagne to pop when the baby is born and I think that's the best idea! Took it real easy for the rest of the day, by reading, watching Top Chef and skipping my usual Sunday yoga class.
Later on, we made some dog treats — because our pup has a birthday on Friday and I'm a new dog mom, so don't judge me — and they smelled way too good to be for a dog 😛 Ended the night with leftovers and a couple of episodes of Killing Eve, which, though it's a show about an assassin, I find really funny? We're going to finish it up this week! | had the best time! Sat at the chef's counter, drank cocktails and ate four incredible plates of food. I wanted to see how their spicy chicken compared to Hop Alley and it was BETTER. Our mouths were straight numb but that garlic-y | 49 |
Cape Town versus Rio de Janeiro: Your brain, beaches, beer and exercise.
Dramatic peaks, natural bays, sublime beaches and colourful neighbourhoods make South Africa's Mother City, Cape Town, and Rio de Janeiro seem a lot like Southern Hemispheric twins. But there are a few instances where Cape Town falls short. Here are 5 things that we can write home about.
Bustling commerce on the beach.
Me gazing out at the setting sun on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro. Everyone cheers and claps as it disappears.
Relax back underneath a rented umbrella (5-7 R$) just metres from the ocean and let the market come to you. We preferred Ipanema beach for its beauty but Copacabana will do just fine. Without being overly intruding, on Rio's beaches you'll find a steady stream of vendors selling an inviting array of local cuisine.
Grilled goods, for instance, cooked fresh off the coals on small, portable barbeques. We loved the haloumi-style cheese doused in oregano but there are sausages and shrimp as well. Warning, we've heard that the shrimp get mined daily from Guanabara Bay which reportedly has disturbingly high levels of e-coli bacteria. Perhaps I should have left that until last? What else. You'll find vendors carrying large condensating stainless steel vats, one holding ice tea, the other a sweet blend of lime juice. There will be "Globos" and they come in salty or sweet but we were not tempted because they have the appearance of cracked air with calories. They are big around these parts so do try them out. Or, instead opt for home-baked empanadas – small savoury pies – or charred flat breads stuffed with feta and cheese. Cashew nuts at a price can be purchased. And there will be sandwiches too, the normal selection of factory produced ice-creams, but also acai, a granular, smoothie-type offering made from deep purple Amazon berries served with granola.
Let's move on to the alcohol. The beach is hot and an icy beverage can be key. The cans of beer surpassed my standards of cold and they are affordable. A large can of Brahma should cost you about R$4. If you're on a budget like we were, consider buying your own Styrofoam cooler box and stocking up before you head to the beach. You can find a "caixa de refrigerador de isopor" at local supermarkets in the region. There are guys who sell ice along the promenade.
Caipirhinis (around R$10-15) are plentiful and they come in traditional lime or "maracuya" (granadilla). Its best to buy them from the guys who man the stationary, canopied stalls. The salesmen on foot tend to sell an inferior drink because the cocktails are not made to order. If cashasa (cane spirit) is not for you, these drinks can be made with vodka instead.
Keep those Brahmas extra cool with their own ice box.
Care for a bit of beach shopping? Rio de Janeiro is famous for its scanty g-string bikinis. You'll spot bright floral collections of them touted on large poles that wade above the umbrella line. Sun glasses and local sarongs too. Hippie bracelets a plenty. Its wise to bring along a waterproof pouch to carry your valuables while you swim. The bustle on the beach means the opportunists are there too and I'm proud to say that I managed to intervene one such attempt as I spotted a man stealthily drop his hand into another beach goers basket to pull out their phone. Not speaking any Portuguese, I had to rely on hand gestures and broken Spanish to explain what had just happened.
The beach is also the place to get an oily massage, organise a day trip to Ilha Grande (Big Island), rent surf boards or the more popular, stand-up paddles.
Cape Town urgently needs to encourage local entrepreneurship and although we cannot blame the water for being 20 °C cooler, I do think the local municipality can loosen up on the laws that prevent people from peddling a trade. If there is sun and a beach, there will always be a crowd. The neuroscience of why people like to catch a tan show that the molecules that the brain releases to protect the body from the harmful, cancer-causing UV rays, not only turn into alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (to make the skin darken) but also into endorphins. Endorphins are the body's natural opioids, and like after their release following heavy exercise, they leave you with a profound sense of well-being… and their analgesic (pain-reducing) effects mean you probably won't feel it as the sun burns off the top layer of your skin. If you do hit the sun, always use a zinc-oxide sunscreen.
It is true that Cape Town has a unique history of alcohol abuse – the "dop" system institutionalised the payment of labourers with wine and other spirits which lead to a culture of alcoholism – but relaxing some of the laws around drinking could help to normalise the practice itself. In the US, the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's did virtually nothing to change drinking habits. The only real impact of prohibition was the inception of<|fim_middle|> squats at the open air weights near Ipanema beach.
Physical benefits aside, recent years have seen overwhelming support for the positive effect of exercise on mental health. Regular intensive exercise has in some cases proven as effective as prescription anti-depressants. For many people who find the harsh side-effects of these medications unbearable, working out is a welcome alternative. A single training session can boost self esteem and regular exercise throughout one's life, especially in later years, is linked to lower incidences of dementia, 28% lower, to be exact.
How does this all work? Many of the benefits of exercise have to do with improved blood flow to the brain, a boost in the metabolism of brain cells (neurons) and increased synthesis and release of brain chemicals that make you feel good. These chemicals include serotonin and dopamine, two well known suspects, but also elevated norepinephrine, a chemical that plays a role in how alert and proactive you feel. A hard workout also results in the release of opioids and endocannabinoids (yes, sounds like 'cannabis'), washing you over with a feeling of calmness and well-being.
It is thought that many of the protective effects of exercise on the brain derive from increased turnover of "nerve growth factors". These proteins help to regulate the growth and survival of neurons, making their presence in the brain critical for combatting pathological processes that lead to dementia.
Importantly though, exercise also stimulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which is the brain's key stress center and this means that cortisol also floods in to varying degrees during a strenuous workout. I think I know this feeling too well. As fitness increases, this classic stress response becomes subverted, so that your brain and body become more resilient when it comes to dealing with stress.
And that is really the key. Short bouts of training may be enough to release some of the brain's feel-good chemicals, but for lasting and definitive benefits, a regular regime of exercise is necessary. | the 'disease model' of addiction, in which alcoholism came to be seen as a medical illness.
In any event, there is money to be made off liquor licenses and a bit of controlled and monitored festivity in prominent public spaces doesn't seem like such a bad idea?
How can we foster more tolerance? Much of it boils down to personal attributes and upbringing but research has long since shown that meaningful engagement with members of different social or cultural groups can help dilute prejudice. Of course, discrimination can be hard to measure and researchers have to contend with what is called "social desirability bias" – the need to be viewed in a positive light and the subsequent facade of behaviours or opinions to foster this image. This leads to inauthentic findings. Many studies use a method called Implicit Association Tests, which supposedly measure unconscious prejudices. These tests require the participant to quickly match groups of words, one category reflecting concepts and the other, attributes. For example, "young / old" with "good /bad". If you're interested in learning more about this task, follow this link.
Cape Town sorely lacks an extensive, reliable transport system. With traffic each year quadrupling (or so it feels), and cortisol and blood pressure levels taken along for the ride, its seems that rail is the only way forward. Rio's metro might not be the most efficient – it runs on time but you'll find yourself walking for what feels like kilometres in the musty underground – but at least it exists and is safe. There is something quite reassuring about railway for the deer-eyed tourist.
If you're headed for Rio, I would strongly suggest finding accommodation within walking distance to a metro (less than 1km). The traffic can reach epic proportions and not all the buses are air-conditioned. Opt for Uber when necessary, using taxis only when you're able to bring a full battalion of vigilance to the forefront. We've heard of several taxi scams, one of which involves the driver claiming that the note with which you paid was several denominations smaller than it actually was, i.e., R$5 instead of R$50.
Granted, Sea Point promenade in Cape Town has had a park gym for several years now, but these facilities are in short supply while obesity rates are not. You can't go far in Rio without passing a public space with gym equipment.
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Exhibitions at the AU Museum
August 28, 2021 @ 8:00 am - December 12, 2021 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0
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Exhibitions open from Aug. 28 through Dec. 12:
Successions: Traversing U.S. Colonialism is a solo exhibition by Amber Robles-Gordon, a conceptual juxtaposition celebrating abstraction as an art form. Robles-Gordon interrogates past and current U.S. policies within Washington, D.C. and the territories (Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) that it controls. Robles-Gordon seeks to question who has access to resources, citizenship and the right to sovereignty by highlighting nuances of U.S. governance within these territories. She also uses works featured in Successions to mine the stories, personal narratives and aesthetics of the African women of the Caribbean in an effort to investigate the macro-environmental implications of placemaking, contemporary colonial policy, and notions of citizenship.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Robles-Gordon was confronted with a lack of resources and raw materials in Puerto Rico. Returning to<|fim_middle|> September 14, 6-7 p.m. Robles-Gordon talks with Ossei-Mensah. Register on Eventbrite. This event will be held virtually. Please register to receive updates.
Painter, photographer, and climate activist Diane Burko advocates for art's role in addressing climate change in Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change. Having focused on the monumental wonders of the natural world in her earlier landscape paintings, Burko redirected her practice to address environmental damage caused by global warming. While engaging the traditions of landscape painting, her increasingly abstract and large-scale images are layered with visual and scientific information about the urgent challenge posed to the planet, manifested in glacial melting, coral reef bleaching, raging forest fires and the COVID-19 pandemic. Her abstract images make the life-threatening dimensions of climate change palpable and real for her audiences.
Traveling to some of the most affected areas around the world—the Arctic Circle, Antarctica, the Great Barrier Reef—Burko has interacted and collaborated with members of the scientific community. This exhibition presents many of Burko's large-scale paintings and serial groupings, including the 56-foot-long "World Map" series, addressing changes in glaciers and coral reefs across the globe. Curated by distinguished art historians Mary D. Garrard and Norma Broude.
In Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery, Rebecca Kamen unlocks curiosity as a creative link between the arts, humanities, and sciences, exploring the symbiotic relationship behind scientific research and artwork's development. A sequence of interrelated, thematic sections chronicle Kamen's journey from a general interest in the human brain through her diagnosis of a brain tumor and its aftermath to the advent of the novel coronavirus and opportunities the pandemic provided her for further artistic investigation. Curated by Sarah Tanguy and presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art. Gallery Talk: Reveal, October 14, 6-7 p.m. Kamen and Tanguy discuss the exhibition. Register on Eventbrite. At this time, this event will be held virtually. Please register to receive updates.
Philip Brookman: In the Light of Memory, 1969–2021 showcases photography by the artist, intimate recordings of everyday life, like a personal diary or private note. Brookman has been photographing and curating art since the early 1970s. He cares deeply about social justice, which has influenced the content of some of his own pictures as well as the choices of artists with whom he has worked.
The exhibition of Brookman's photographs will be divided into several sections reflecting the topics he has concentrated on since early 1970s. Among them will be portraits of artists, friends, family members, and random individuals; street scenes in the U.S. or elsewhere, cities' architectural elements or rural landscapes, and a new project based on his research of William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), banker, philanthropist, art collector, founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and enslaver. Curated by Milena Kalinovska. Gallery Talk: In the Light of Memory, November 17, 6-7 p.m. Brookman and Kalinovska discuss the exhibition. Register on Eventbrite. At this time, this event will be held virtually. Please register to receive updates.
Inside Out: Artists in the Studio explores how studios—and other interior spaces for artistic production—play a significant role in artistic practice, particularly in shaping how viewers experience the finished product. In an investigation of 20th-century still lifes, this selection of artists reveals inspiration in their artmaking spaces and the artistic possibilities they provide, and features still lifes, studio scenes and self-portraits drawn from the American University Museum collection. Curated by Sarah Leary. Gallery Talk: Inside Out, December 7, 6-7 p.m. ET. Register on Eventbrite. At this time, this event will be held virtually. Please register to receive updates.
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American University, American University's Katzen Arts Center, art exhibits, AU, AU Museum Katzen Arts Center, exhibition | Washington, D.C. catalyzed Robles-Gordon to improvise her approach to making works for the exhibition. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah. Gallery Talk: Successions, | 40 |
Found this looking around on Google Maps. A road called Drag Strip Rd. The portion north of Stage Coach Rd is in use<|fim_middle|> ran through a tunnel under one of the former runways. | as a road, but the portion south of it is abandoned.
Does anybody know if this was indeed an actual drag strip that was converted into a road?
Shows on the 1969 Greenwood Topographic map that it was a landing strip with two runways. One runway is now Drag Strip Rd, the other is Stage Coach Rd. It did not exist on the 1956 Shreveport topographic map.
A section of Urbana Avenue in Tulsa near 61st and Yale was originally an airport runway. It runs a few degrees off of due north-south and is wider than the surrounding streets. Urbana is the street west of and nearly paralleling Yale north of 61st which is slightly off the grid. Also, a short stretch of 58th Place west of Urbana was a second runway.
Here is a topo map showing the airport and the original runways. Some of them were demolished and there is no trace of them left today but you can tell were some of them ran.
I'm not quite old enough to remember GSW itself but for many years after TX 183 | 231 |
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 13, 2000 – Google Inc. was selected as the No. 1 search and portal site in the Scorecard for the Search & Portal Site Tracking Study conducted by leading independent research company NPD New Media Services. Google, which was recently selected as the default search provider for Yahoo! and released a 1 billion URL index, placed<|fim_middle|> company to numerous awards, including Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech of 1999 by TIME magazine; Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; and this year's Webby Award for Best Technical Achievement.
Google offers free search services through its own destination web site at www.google.com, as well as co-branded search solutions for 80 of the Internet's premier information content and portal developers in more than 20 countries. Customers who rely on Google include Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), AOL/Netscape's Netcenter (NYSE: AOL), Redhat.com (NASDAQ: RHAT) and Washingtonpost.com (NYSE: WPO). A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google was founded by Stanford doctoral students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, and partners John Doerr and Michael Moritz serve on the Google board with Ram Shriram, former executive at Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Netscape. For more information about Google, visit www.google.com. | first overall among surveyed search and portal sites for user satisfaction and loyalty in the Scorecard for the third quarter in a row.
The study, conducted during Quarter 2 of 2000 by NPD New Media Services, a division of The NPD Group, measured consumer opinions and loyalty to leading search services, including AltaVista, AOL.com, Ask Jeeves, Excite, GO Network, Google, GoTo, HotBot, iWon, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, WebCrawler and Yahoo!. Each sites' visitors were asked to evaluate that site across a number of loyalty and satisfaction categories.
Google led all sites with 98 percent of its users identifying Google as much or somewhat better than other sites and 97 percent of its users finding what they are searching for all or most of the time. Additionally, seven in 10 Google users choose Google because it delivers the best search results. Among the 14 search and portal sites in the survey, Google placed first in the majority of loyalty and satisfaction Scorecard categories . The clear choice of Google by its users, combined with Google's recent business and technology successes, is another milestone for the company, one of the fastest growing search engines in Web history.
"These results are yet another terrific validation of Google's business strategy," said Larry Page, CEO and co-founder of Google. "Our decision to focus solely on providing users with the best search experience has made us an indispensable tool for millions. We are building a successful company on this foundation."
No. 1 Overall Opinion of Site: 97 percent of users rated Google as excellent or very good.
No. 1 Site Recommended to a Friend: 94 percent indicated that they would recommend Google to a friend.
No. 1 in Comparison vs. Other Sites: 98 percent rated Google either much or somewhat better than other sites.
No. 1 in Frequency of Delivering the Information Sought: 97 percent of users surveyed reported that Google found the relevant information every time or most of the time.
"The measurement that means the most to us is that 94 percent of our users would recommend Google to a friend," said Google president and cofounder, Sergey Brin. "The devotion inspired by our technology and service means that companies like Yahoo! and Cisco know that Google adds value for their customers."
The NPD Search & Portal Site Tracking Study was fielded during Quarter 2 2000 using the NPD Online Research SiteSelect® methodology, which selects a randomized sample of visitors to a client's web site and invites them to complete a survey through an ad banner invitation. For this study, ad banners were placed in general rotation on each of the participating sites. A total of 27,146 site visitors completed the survey.
The NPD Group is an international marketing information company headquartered in Port Washington, NY. Founded in 1953, the firm specializes in providing marketing information and associated computer software-based information management systems. NPD is the ninth largest market research firm in the U.S. based upon 1998 revenues, according to the American Marketing Association's Honomichl 50. NPD New Media Services is a division of the NPD Group, which uses World Wide Web-based technologies to conduct and deliver market research and analysis. In addition to SiteSelect, NPD New Media Services also offers the NPD Online Panel, a pre-recruited sample of Internet representative individuals for conducting market research on the Web. For more information visit the NPD Group Web site at www.npd.com.
Google Inc. provides the best Internet search experience, and accomplishes this for tens of millions of users daily by delivering a powerful, fast, and easy-to-use search service for finding the most relevant information. Google's technological innovations have powered the | 784 |
Casinos Are Not the Future: Rebuilding Atlantic City Will Take More Than Gambling /
Casinos Are Not the Future: Rebuilding Atlantic City Will Take More Than Gambling
This story was originally published at Salon.
Atlantic City and Asbury Park are like two brothers with nothing in common. Both are cut from the same cloth, old Jersey week<|fim_middle|> would be good for the city, but it won't be a savior. If it forces the other resorts to up their game — and there's evidence that's already happening — then all the better. But for a city that's located within one tank of gas for a quarter of the U.S. population, Atlantic City has way more potential than a dozen hotels along the beach can hold all by themselves. | ender spots with famous seaside boardwalks. But while Atlantic City — or A.C., as he prefers to be called these days — is forever dreaming up new get-rich-quick schemes, Asbury Park has capitalized on the shabby, eccentric charm of his resort-town roots.
A few decades ago, both cities were blighted, tired and crime-ridden. But recently, Asbury Park has become a quirky, lovable place, and Atlantic City is still cycling through flashy one-off "solutions." Its latest is Revel Resorts, the $2.4 billion megaresort that officially opened last weekend and which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has called a "catalyst" for revitalization.
"It's a beautiful property," says Mortimer Spreng, a background actor in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and a resident of the city since 1980. "But I think with the city fathers we have, there's no clear direction for Atlantic City right now."
Everyone seems to have a theory about what A.C. needs to do to revitalize. Non-casino hotels. Less crime. A better boardwalk. But what you rarely hear is that Atlantic City needs Atlantic City itself. For over 30 years, it's tried to pretend that it's not a city at all — recasting itself as just a sliver of hotels and outlet shops barricaded tightly along the water's edge. That the blocks beyond the boardwalk are useless is treated as a foregone conclusion. They're too sad, decaying and destitute to ever be anything but a liability, the thinking goes.
You could have said the same of Asbury Park not too long ago — 10 years ago there were only three businesses left on the boardwalk. Today there are 38, and sales of beach passes are soaring year after year. But Asbury Park has moved well beyond its waterfront, including its blighted downtown in its recent redevelopment blitz. "We're looking to revitalize the whole city, not just the beachfront," says Tom Gilmour, the city's director of commerce.
What Asbury Park realized was that being a faded beach town that's associated with another era — whether that be the swing-band '30s or the Springsteen '70s — can actually be an asset. The emotional connection people have with it, says Gilmour, "is absolutely important, and [takes] expertise to make that happen, balancing the old with creating new venues that will attract a new generation … Our best asset we have here is our music. The small clubs are very active now. And we've still got the Stone Pony and the Wonder Bar," the city's two legendary rock venues, which host performances nightly. "Music is the soul of the city. That's our economic strategy."
Atlantic City has at least that much soul. HBO has made the city's Nucky Johnson era famous, but what came after that was even wilder — not just the opulent beachfront hotels (torn down in the '70s) but also nightclubs and swank bars throughout the city: Skinny D'Amato's 500 Club, where you could find Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra crammed into one banquette; Grace's Little Belmont, where Sammy Davis Jr.'s mother poured drinks behind the horseshoe-shaped bar; and Paradise Club, where a breakfast show entertained patrons who'd made it to sunrise. If Asbury Park was wholesome, Atlantic City was dirty, neon-lit fun.
"It was a cool place to go," says Jonathan Van Meter, author of "The Last Good Time," the definitive chronicle of Atlantic City during the Rat Pack era. "And I think that was partly because it was seedy and lawless." But like many cities, that lawlessness spiraled out of control in the '60s and '70s, and only the cash injection from legalized gambling in 1976 staved off total collapse. It also, however, sucked all the city's nightlife onto the strip, where the casinos were. For a little while, says Van Meter, some of the clubs in the city proper hung on. "When I lived there [in the '80s], on New York Avenue there was a string of 10 gay nightclubs," he says. "And Club Harlem was still there." Today, virtually all of these places have been bulldozed or burned down.
Recently, Van Meter got a call from some marketing people asking him for his thoughts on how Atlantic City could be reborn. "I told them they had missed the opportunity to take what existed in the city and incorporate it into the vibe of the whole place," he says. "They should be proud of these pockets of otherness and not be ashamed of the city. I think I used the phrase 'glamorous decrepitude' at one point." He laughs. "You could feel the blank stares coming through the phone."
But glamorous decrepitude, of a sort, is what Asbury Park has infused into its revival. Its boardwalk, once partially abandoned, is now stocked with spiffy modern tourist boutiques, but it also has plenty of throwbacks: The cacophonous Silverball Pinball arcade, the gorgeous Casino and Carousel Building, the refurbished '60s-era Empress Hotel and the "Mad Men"-fabulous Howard Johnson's building, now home to the Salt Water Beach Cafe.
It's the downtown area, however, that's been the most unlikely success. Along Cookman Avenue, eerily quiet just a few years ago, there are Zagat-rated restaurants, clothing shops and antique stores. This month, it got its first farmer's market. A few blocks north, there's Asbury Lanes, a bowling alley that hosts burlesque shows and punk bands. And there's The ShowRoom, an art-house cinema that Nancy Sabino and Mike Sodano opened in 2009.
"I would say that just five or six years ago, putting in a movie theater wouldn't have been a positive move," says Sodano. Now, they're breaking ground on a second theater to open later this summer.
The speed with which Asbury Park has changed has a lot to do with the investment of one developer, in particular: Madison Marquette. Single-developer projects are often disasters. But here, it's worked because it's created a space where not just one developer stands to profit, but where other entrepreneurs like Sodano can feel confident buying into. "It takes a lot of vision to see what Asbury has," he says.
Atlantic City, finally, is starting to think about its off-beach areas, too. In February, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority approved the city's tourism district master plan. It's a 190-page schema with big ambitions, creating a real Main Street out of Atlantic Avenue and revitalizing parts of the city that, given their dramatic oceanfront locations, one can hardly believe lie fallow.
Whether it will work is a big if — Atlantic City is bigger than Asbury Park, with true urban problems. And as Mortimer Spreng said, the city leadership needs to snap out of its listlessness. "I was just in Asbury Park, and it's absolutely gorgeous," says Spreng. "All the homes are being refurbished. I don't know if Atlantic City, even with its tourism district, can get there. I blame a lot of it on the administration."
But at least, for the first time in decades, the boardwalk area and the city proper are talking to each other. It's demolished a lot of its heritage and lacks even basic amenities (the Tropicana's IMAX screen is the city's only movie theater), but Atlantic City still has some amazing spots that should be tourist magnets. There's Tony's Baltimore Grill, a frozen-in-time former mob hangout that churns out delicious thin-crust pizza and $2 drafts; Dock's Oyster House, a century-old seafood restaurant that serves some of the best lobster you've ever tasted; and Princeton Antiques, an eccentric old bookshop and curio store that would be a go-to destination in any city.
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I love an excuse to eat dessert for breakfast, and this coffee cake recipe by Good Food Gourmet is a much better way to do it than, say, eating a pint of ice cream and a sleeve of Chips Ah<|fim_middle|> It! | oy while hiding in the pantry at 7:30 AM. Not that I know anyone who would do that. Ahem.
It's much less awkward if someone walks into the kitchen and finds you sipping coffee and eating this delicious (and socially acceptable) morning treat, even though it contains just as many chocolate chips as the cookies. Or maybe my family's judging me for eating breakfast chocolate either way, but I can't tell because I'm usually making increasingly loud yum-yum noises so I can pretend I don't hear them asking me to share.
I don't think reader Jay is going to have much trouble with needing to share, though.
People walking into the kitchen won't be judging Jay's food choice, so much as they'll be trying to figure out why the "cake" looks like crusty pudding. Take heart, Jay – there's a certain pride to be taken from being able to burn food and under cook it at the same time! Besides, raw cake is still cake, and that's all that matters.
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Cover it with foil and put it back in the oven, it'll be fine after that.
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Dental Im<|fim_middle|> has no impact on healthy adjacent teeth. | plants are the most advanced therapy available to replace missing teeth. Dental implants have proven to be reliable, and their high success is supported by decades of clinical experience and hundreds of thousands or satisfied patients. Dental implants are the treatment of choice for people missing one, a few or all of their teeth. They can also be used to replace failing teeth or teeth affected by gum disease.
Almost all dental implants in use today are made from titanium or titanium alloy, materials that have been shown over many years to be well tolerated by bone, and as the name suggests they can develop and maintain a close union with bone in order to support replacement teeth.
Dental implants look and perform more like natural teeth. There is no artificial plastic on the roof of the mouth, and the need for adhesives or denture creams is eliminated. More importantly, the use of dental implants | 172 |
HERITAGE: Wild River
It is not uncommon these days to see film crews throughout the state of Tennessee. The Green Mile, Walk the Line and The Firm were all filmed in our home state. In 1959, however, the filming of a major Hollywood motion picture was a big deal. Wild River was the first major motion picture filmed entirely in Tennessee and was mostly filmed in Charleston and Cleveland and on Coon Denton Island in the Hiwassee River. More than 40 local residents were chosen for speaking roles in the movie and more than 100 served as extras. Director Elia Kazan brought a well-known cast including actors Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick to Bradley County to make Wild River.
Paul Osborn adapted the film from two novels — Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars. The film dramatizes the story of a battle of wills between the Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old landowners who lost their home and farms to the Federal government.
The film was released to the public May 26, 1960. Locals could catch the movie and a glimpse of hometown stars at the Star Vue Drive-in. Since then, the movie has been shown several times at the Museum Center at 5ive Points, but is not available on video or DVD.
The Tennessee State Library and Archives website has more information about the people who lost their land to the lakes created by the TVA dams.
The Library of Congress selected Wild River for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry in 2002. See more.
Allison Inman directed a documentary, "Mud on the Stars: Stories from Elia Kazan's Wild River" (2011) about how the making of<|fim_middle|> schedule your Wild River Hollywood adventure.
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davidswafford@charter.net | "Wild River" affected people in Bradley County. View a trailer for the documentary here.
These notes from the Turner Classic Movie website are informative.
Wild River Movie Tour
Acclaimed director Elia Kazan chose the banks of the Hiwassee River, the small town of Charleston and other nearby locations because of the beauty and realism of the area. A local researcher offers tours of the movie locations by appointment. Call or email today and | 87 |
Roller Coaster Week! Stock Market Down For The Week!
It has<|fim_middle|>arami within the (50% Fibonacci levels 35,192 range)on their current support levels. | been a roller coaster week in the stock markets this whole week. Starting from the marginal drop on Monday Tuesday & Wednesday, Thursday to the false hope with intraday points higher than Wednesday and finally the dashing of all hopes again on Friday (down -2.2% closing at 35,446.50).
Overall, the NSEASI has lost 2.90% this week. Such a whipsaw market has made it extremely difficult for swing traders to take positions and has kept fundamentalists guessing all week. It was clear this whole week that even interim news from GTB and Zenith bank have almost no authority in predicting where the market might go in the short term at all.
However, technical analysis on the markets still tell a more congruent tale.
within the 35,400 points range.
For now, short term sentiments remain healthy for a rebound this week if closing with a long tail bullish h | 193 |
Would you like to grow your business through social media for free? Here are some tips to get you started.
LinkedIn has a global reach of 500m users across all industries and sectors and is basically a business network tool that replicates the process of word of mouth between trusted contacts. It's a bit like Facebook but for professional use.
LinkedIn is currently an untapped resource that can 'turbo boost' business development and ultimately increases profit and what's more it is an unpaid advertising tool. Most Instagram, Twitter and Facebook users<|fim_middle|> email signature. Involve them and take them on your social media journey.
Become credible as an innovator and leader within your market. Pick a specialism and own it, understand clearly who you are, what you offer and stay focused on that. Change your title underneath your name to who you are trying to serve. Make it clear what you can do for them, be concise and to the point. If you are selling a product or service be confident and bold about how it can add value. Become a trusted market leader and recognised expert within your market and your business will grow organically, prospects will come to you for your expertise and more.
If you set up your LinkedIn account up correctly you will have an amazing free business marketing tool that can help grow turnover. Now you understand it's potential you can start your journey to driving business success.
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Could Barley House Agency help your brand? Contact us here. | don't understand it, most advertisers don't even know its full potential. The good news is – it's an emerging channel and you have an opportunity to get in 1st before everyone catches on. Facebook and Instagram used to share content for free now it's impossible to achieve this without opening a business page and paying for adverts.
The first thing you need to understand about LinkedIn is that it's not a CV unless you are looking for a job, no one cares what you do or what your hobbies are unless of course, it's of value to them. It should be about the target market you are trying to attract and it's not a spamming tool. It's about creating pre-qualified hot leads by producing valuable content offering something of benefit to your reader.
Search your own connections, use recommended connections and browse your contacts connections. If you are in regular contact with a connection or you have produced outstanding work, results or products for them, you can ask for a written testimonial on your profile. These recommendations are vital to establishing credibility and trust.
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Promote your page on all marketing communications and add the follow button to your website and take part in relevant LinkedIn groups.
Engage your employees or business partners, encourage them to create and update their profile. They are your advocates so ensure they have your link on their | 306 |
From the day Brandon was born, he brought joy to my heart. He was a young boy finding his way to his own unique place in the world. Brandon always had an original point of view. He was willing to take on challenge or challenges to better himself as a person. He was not a young man who settled for something just because it was easy or popular. He liked taking the road less traveled.He was an amazing young man whose perspective was uniquely given<|fim_middle|>. Brandon had a lot to offer and gave a lot.
Thank you to everyone who gave him hugs, kisses, phone calls and things I am not aware of that were done. It was my pleasure to share my son with the world.
May everyone have a Blessed and Happy New Year.
Barbara I want to personally thank you for sharing Brandon with me. He was so special and so wise to be so young. His words and teaching touched so many people. Praying for you with love. | but well received by others | 5 |
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Maybe underwriters don't call all the shots. When DivineInterventures chairman and CEO Andrew "Flip" Filipowski's lead underwriter, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), told him last April to postpone his Internet incubator's initial public offering until fall, the CEO fired the investment bank and found one that would go public on his timetable. Such drama "definitely doesn't happen very often," says Yusuf R. Haque, an analyst with IPOMaven, noting that CSFB is considered one of the top underwriters in the country. The falling-out with CSFB was just the beginning of Divine's quirky journey to Nasdaq. Besides its frequent pricing fluctuations, ranging from $350 million in February to $140 million in April and back up to $200 million in June (when FleetBoston Financial's Robertson Stephens unit replaced CSFB as lead underwriter), the offering was also delayed by Filipowski's violation of the pre-IPO quiet period–in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. When the stock finally traded on July 11 at $9, below its June range of $13 to $15, it had to use a temporary trading symbol, TEMPV, because the latest version of paper prospectuses hadn't been delivered to investors in time. Why the rush? Although Divine CFO Michael P. Cullinane would not comment, citing quiet-period regulations, the company's late June Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that a much larger private-placement round hinged on going public before August. Aon Corp. had promised to buy $25 million worth of shares if the company made it to market by July 29 and raised at least $120 million, while network provider Level 3 Communications had agreed to accept $25 million in stock as payment for services as well as make a $25 million investment under the same stipulations. Microsoft Corp. also participated in the round, and now owns an 8.52 percent stake in Divine. In total, Divine gained more than $218 million in the separate issue of stock, in addition to the more than $128 million it garnered from the public offering. The stock's performance has been generally lackluster, dipping below 7 in August. However, says Charles J. Kaplan, president of Equity Analytics Ltd., a Long Island firm that advises companies on the IPO process, "they put away the deal in a tough market, so they didn't lose. The proceeds were not what they desired or initially expected, but they put away the deal. That's what counts in the end: they got the money." Alix Nyberg is a Staff Writer at CFO.
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The Waterkloof golfer won by two shots from Symone Henriques on even-par 144 with successive rounds of 72, but she had to work a little harder for that second visit to the winner's circle.
Having tied for second with fellow Gauteng<|fim_middle|> strong finish, and I was pleased as punch to get that last one in the hole," Du Toit said.
Du Toit shared the spotlight in the Net Division with Noluthando Mdanda (73 73) from Royal Johannesburg and Kensington, while Marine Legentil took the B-Division Gross honours with rounds of 81 and 83. | North player Larissa du Toit, the pair began the final round at the Woodmead course one off the pace from former number one ranked Kaleigh Telfer.
"I made a great start with four birdies in a row, but things went completely south at the fifth hole," Du Toit said.
"It started when I pulled my tee shot into the fairway bunker. I tried to get clever with a hybrid and hit the trap-shot straight into the bushes. I had a shot between the bushes to the green and normally my monkey shots are really good, but this one flew straight into the right greenside bunker.
At 16, Du Toit hit a couple of great shots and drained a 10-foot curler for birdie to gain some momentum. She recovered superbly from an errant tee shot at 17 and hit a great six-iron to six feet and holed out for another birdie.
"Going down 18, I knew I needed a par to win and I holed a five metre putt for a birdie finish," Du Toit said.
Adding another victory to her North West Open triumph, top five finishes in the Sanlam SA Women's Stroke Play and KwaZulu-Natal Championships and a seventh finish in the Gauteng North Junior Girls Open, winning on the weekend was hugely encouraging for the former GolfRSA Elite Squad player who hopes to head to college in the United States next year.
"The birdie at 16 definitely sparked the | 305 |
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The switches deliver lots of intelligent features to improve the system availability of your critical business applications, to protect your sensitive information, and to optimize your network performance for delivering information more effectively.
IGS-2510 220x44x130 8.7x1.73x5.3 1.0 2.2. | 0F Carrier Ethernet Switch features complete L2 switching capabilities and Carrier Ethernet features such as 1588v2 PTP for an easy-to-administer solution providing the best combination of features, performance, and value for Enterprise networks via fiber or copper connections.
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"This has been another<|fim_middle|> will have my game do the talking. I think it has for the last 10 years, and I will continue to do it that way."
"I played four solid rounds of golf and I want to try to finish the season as hot as the way I started it (three wins in a row)." | great season and this victory caps it off."
"I come from a little town just like she does, ... So for her to travel all the way from Sweden and live your dream, when I saw that headline, I said, 'That's what I want to do.'"
"She's got talent. She can really hit the ball."
"She's got talent. She can really hit the ball. She's got a great head on her shoulders. She's really strong and her attitude is really something great."
"I had a lot of chances. I'm just not converting anything and when you don't, then you're making mistakes and walking away with bogey. So it's very frustrating and that's kind of how I feel like it's been the last month or so."
"I learned a lot from seeing the guys and how they practiced, how they approach it and just learning from them,"
"That was local knowledge. If I had never seen that putt before, I wouldn't have played enough break."
"I'm just going to keep on grinding. I've had success at the Office Depot tournament and hope to defend my title there."
"I'm excited to be here. It's great to be back as a defending champion. I think the golf course is in as good shape as I've ever seen it. I think that makes it even more special. I think I'm as ready as I can be."
"I think I've become friendly with the golf course. I think with the rain, it totally softened the greens. And it seems like I play well when I can be more aggressive. ... It's kind of a ball-striking type of golf course, which I say is one of my strengths as well."
"A lot of things have happened since . I'm happy to be back, and I've not played this golf course before. This is kind of close to my home in Tahoe, so it's about time I came back."
"A lot of things have happened since , ... I'm happy to be back, and I've not played this golf course before. This is kind of close to my home in Tahoe, so it's about time I came back."
"I think Michelle is a great asset to the LPGA Tour and great for golf,"
"Obviously I'm very happy with my position. It was good steady golf, hitting a lot of fairways and greens and I'm putting very well."
"Golf has definitely been my savior during this period and I'm very proud of the way I have performed again this season."
"I like this golf course, ... I shoot under par here because I'm making my putts. I feel confident when I come here and I think that's important."
"Obviously I'm in a position that I want to be. I like this golf course. I had a good (round) last year on Sunday. I'm going to keep that in my mind."
"This is a tough golf course. You really have to strike it well."
"Michelle is very, very talented, ... She is a great asset to golf. I welcome her. The bottom line is, I'm a competitor. I | 631 |
The client Mark Shieh of Take Roots Properties Inc was interested in three changes to his schoolhouse converted condo. First, was a desire to have plants growing on the roof for both visual interest and to act as inspiration<|fim_middle|> constructed during the second phase of the project. This project culminated in a build event with a fantastic group of volunteers including residents and interested neighbours.
"Projects in Place was an amazing event from the beginning until the end. They knew what would work around children, where to place them, and the right time to get it done." | from inside the building and from street level. Second, was to install art posts as a means to support a local art alley project. Third, was to add garden walls and a gathering space to the front yard.
Projects in Place created a design that would meet each requirement. This project involved tackling a lot of new issues including designing with metal and building rammed earth walls.
The planters create visual interest, require low maintenance over the years and demonstrate the value of native species. The art easels were designed to be durable and artistic. The rammed earth component of the design will be | 118 |
Forums Have you ever hacked a game?
Have you ever hacked a game?
By Henrywrites, October 12, 2018 in General
game hack
Henrywrites 6
Gaming involves passing through a lot of challenges and gathering of points for the gaming to become successful. I came to notice that there are gamers that hack some games so that it will be easier for them to play it.
Have you ever hacked any game that you played?
jpk0007 2
Well no I have never ever hacked a game in order to gain an advantage and make it easy to play the game. Actually, I would never have done it even if I had the ability to do such hacking. The whole purpose of playing a new game will be defeated if you know everything beforehand. After all, we play the games to enjoy them and<|fim_middle|> or anything. All I did was swap weapons (there's a way it should be carried out which I will not explain any further), and this method gives me 200% more attack rating compared to the normal one.
GuestHu 0
Nope. What is the point of playing a time-consuming fun game, designed to challenge you and solve problems critically and creatively if you desired to finish it within a couple of minutes by hacking or cheating in the game? Hacking a game to gain more points without earning it through hard work is unfair and would not probably enhance your gaming skills or give you a tactical idea to defeat a certain character or experience the blissful moment of accomplishing a given task, which allows you to enter the next level. A game is meant to be played not meant to be hacked and lazily acquire the desired level or status.
I have never hacked a game because I love to play a game for real, I like the challenge and I like to win because I can not because I cheat. I hate gamers who cheat to win, is not fair at all. | you can enjoy a game when it is not predictable
9 hours ago, jpk0007 said:
Yeah, this is something that those that are playing hacked versions of the games don't understand. When winnings are that easy, you always notice that the reason of playing the game is defeated.
amelia88 11
I've never hacked a game, but on the odd occasion I have used cheats that were known for certain games.
I do find though that cheats take some of the satisfaction out of winning a game or passing a level - to me, a big part of the enjoyment of gaming comes from the challenges they present.
nrnlss 0
I never hacked a game, nor tried to hacked one. Tho I used cheat sometimes, when I was younger, but hacking a game never came across my mind. I don't even know how to hacked a social media, so I don't have a chance hacking a game.
allyn2017 0
I never hacked a game before, I've tried hacking one just for fun but I am not really good at that stuff so I stopped and never did it again. It was a game made by my friend and he challenge me to hack it, it was a basic game similar to mario.
8 hours ago, amelia88 said:
Using cheats on some games is something that I never felt like doing. Back in those days, I used to play pes with friends and while some of them can use r2 to score curved goals, I never felt that it is something that I should learn as well.
Steve5 13
6 hours ago, allyn2017 said:
Me too. Hacking needs skill and knowledge of computer stuff. I'm not really good at using codes in technology. I just prefer to play the game the old fashioned way. But sometimes I like watching how hacks make the game much easier to play.
NerdIndeed 18
I'm proud to say I did (if it was considered hacking). It only has something to do with character stats, and it doesn't have anything to do with hacking one's account | 439 |
Karlsson scores in OT, Sharks beat Rangers 3-2 for 1st win
Oct 20, 2022, 6:53 AM | Updated: 7:53 pm
San Jose Sharks center Luke Kunin (11) celebrates a goal by center Logan Couture (39) against the New York Rangers during an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
NEW YORK (AP) — Erik Karlsson scored 49 seconds into overtime and the San Jose Sharks beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Thursday night for their first victory of the season.
Logan Couture and Radim Simek also scored for the Sharks, who got former Rangers coach David Quinn his first win after beginning the season a franchise-worst 0-5-0. James Reimer stopped 21 shots.
"It just felt good," Quinn said. "I thought our guys did a great job. … We had been a fragile group, but we showed some mental toughness tonight. We showed some perseverance and resolve and you're gonna need all those things moving forward here."
In the 3-on-3 overtime, Timo Meier — playing in his 400th NHL game — went around the left side of the goal, sent a pass from behind to Karlsson, who fired it into the net on the right side before Shesterkin could slide over.
"For the first time this year we kind of stuck with it," Karlsson said. "We tried our best to win the game instead of sitting back and seeing what's going to happen. … Timo did a good job of staying patient and he found me for an easy goal."
Artemi Panarin and Filip Chytil scored for the Rangers, who had beaten the Sharks seven straight times. Igor Shesterkin had 24 saves.
New York had 21 shots on goal through the first two periods but managed just two in the third and none in overtime.
"We got a point out of it and we weren't great in the third period — we were pretty bad," Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. "I don't expect to see that period again."
With the score tied at 2 early in the third, Rangers captain Jacob Trouba fired a shot off the right post from the right side.
After facing just nine shots over the first two periods, Shesterkin had to make 16 saves in the third — including a stop on Nico Sturm in close with 28 seconds left to send it to overtime.
Trailing 1-0 after 20 minutes, the Rangers tied it 1:50 into the second period. Chytil brought the puck up the left side and fired a shot past Re<|fim_middle|> his third goal of the season and NHL-leading 11th point.
Simek tied it as he beat Shesterkin with a shot he got off from between the circles just before he was taken out by a sliding Fox with 6:50 left in the period.
The Rangers outshot the Sharks 8-5 in a penalty-filled first period that saw the teams whistled for six infractions — four by San Jose.
"The whole first period was special teams," Rangers forward Chris Kreider said. "We lost the special teams battle, lost the period. We had an opportunity to kind of put our brand on the game early, a bunch of power-play opportunities, a couple of miscues on the penalty-kill. … We leave (down) 1-0 and we're chasing the game."
Couture got the Sharks on the scoreboard first for the fifth time in six games this season, 6:02 into the game on San Jose's first power play. He got his second of the season as he scored from the left side on a rebound of a shot by Karlsson that deflected off teammate Luke Kunin on the way to Shesterkin. It was also the Sharks' second power-play goal of the season after coming in 1 for 19.
QUINN'S RETURN
Quinn was back at Madison Square Garden for the first time since he was fired following the abbreviated 2021 season. Fans booed when the Rangers showed him on the scoreboard with a message saying "Thank you Coach Quinn." Quinn went 96-87-25 in three seasons with Rangers.
The Rangers were 0 for 5 on the power play after coming in 5 for 15. … The Sharks are now 20 for 20 on the penalty-kill.
Sharks: At the New Jersey on Saturday night in the third of a four-game trip.
Rangers: Host Columbus on Sunday night in the third of a four-game homestand.
Follow Vin Cherwoo at http://www.twitter.com/VinCherwooAP
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | imer from the left faceoff circle for hi//s second of the season.
Panarin gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead at 9:05 of the middle period when he finished a give-and-go with Adam Fox in the left circle and beat Reimer for | 56 |
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The San Francisco Zoo is a 100-acre (40 ha) zoo located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway. The zoo's main entrance, once located on the north side across Sloat Boulevard and one block south of the Muni Metro L Taraval line, is now to the west on the ocean side of the zoo off of the Great Highway.
This zoo is the birthplace of Koko the gorilla, and since 1974, It houses more than 1000 individual animals representing over 250 species, as of 2016.
The Insect<|fim_middle|> UP | Zoo opened in 1979 and features terrariums containing live arthropods, including millipedes, centipedes, hissing cockroaches, tarantulas, scorpions, velvet ants, termites, walkingsticks and bees. Visitors can examine specimens under microscopes, and there are insect-themed books, videos, puppets and games.
The San Francisco Zoo participates in Species Survival Plans, conservation programs sponsored by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The program began in 1981 for selected species in North American zoos and aquarium where the breeding of a species done to maintain healthy, self-sustaining, genetically diverse and demographically stable populations. The zoo participates in more than 30 SSP programs, working to conserve species ranging from Madagascan radiated tortoises and reticulated giraffes to black rhinos and gorillas.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is located in Monterey, California. The aquarium was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row. It has an annual attendance of around two million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing more than 600 species on display.
The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 28-foot-high (8.5 m), 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) exhibit for viewing California coastal marine life. In this exhibit, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp. The 28-foot-tall 333,000 gallon Kelp Forest was the first exhibit in the world to include a living kelp forest. In addition to the bay water provided to all tanks, a surge machine at the top of this exhibit provides the constant water motion that kelp requires. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several levels in the building. The largest exhibit in the aquarium is a 1,200,000 gallon the Open Sea exhibit (formerly the Outer Bay), which features one of the world's largest single-paned windows. It is one of the few aquariums to successfully care for the ocean sunfish in captivity.
The top of the tank is open, and was situated to maximize its exposure to sunlight during the day, thus further mimicking the bay. Eighty species of seaweeds grow in this exhibit, some of which have also entered the aquarium through the water from the bay rather than being deliberately planted. The kelp in this exhibit grows about 4 inches (100 mm) per day, and requires divers to trim it once a week.
Sea life on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, sea horses, and numerous other native marine species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both bluefin and yellowfin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not house mammals other than sea otters that were rescued through its Sea Otter Program.
In January 1996, the aquarium opened the Outer Bay wing to provide exhibits covering the open-water ecology of Monterey's Outer Bay. The main 1,200,000 tank in this area is the largest in the aquarium, and features one of the world's largest single-pane windows, the acrylic window is actually five panes seamlessly glued together through a proprietary process.
This area was extensively renovated starting in August 2010, and re-opened July 2, 2011, as the Open Sea galleries. Another exhibit created at this time includes a school of 3000 sardines (a fish that was once the foundation of Monterey's economy), swimming against the endless current of a toroidal tank. As part of the Open Sea renovation, the aquarium also added a puffin exhibit, juvenile sea turtle exhibit, and multimedia experiences highlighting microscopic plankton.
The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 26 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research, It is one of the most prestigious institutions in the US, and one of the few institutes of natural sciences in which public experience and scientific research occur at the same location.
Completely rebuilt in 2008, the building covers 400,000 square feet and is among the newest natural history museums in the United States. The primary building in Golden Gate Park reopened on September 27, 2008
Combining exhibition space, education, conservation and research beneath one roof, the Academy also comprises natural history museum, aquarium and planetarium. The varied shapes of these different elements are expressed in the building's roofline, which follows the form of its components.
With its native plant–covered living roof, retractable ceiling, three-story rain forest, gigantic planetarium, living coral reef, and frolicking penguins, the California Academy of Sciences is one of the city's most spectacular treasures. It's an eco-friendly, energy-efficient adventure in biodiversity and green architecture. The roof's large mounds and hills mirror the local topography, and Piano's audacious design completes the dramatic transformation of the park's Music Concourse. Moving away from a restrictive role as a museum that catalogued natural history, the academy these days is all about sustainability and the future. The locally beloved dioramas in African Hall have survived the transition, however.
By the time you arrive, hopefully you've decided which shows and programs to attend, looked at the academy's floor plan, and designed a plan to cover it all in the time you have. And if not, here's the quick version: Head left from the entrance to the wooden walkway over otherworldly rays in the Philippine Coral Reef, then continue to the Swamp to see Claude, the famous albino alligator. Swing through African Hall and gander at the penguins, take the elevator up to the living roof, then return to the main floor and get in line to explore the Rainforests of the World, ducking free-flying butterflies and watching for other live surprises. You'll end up below ground in the Amazonian Flooded Rainforest, where you can explore the academy's other aquarium exhibits.
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How Much is In-store Insurance Costing You?
I saw it coming, but many of us still don't.
'Would Sir care to insure his purchase against breakage...' It's a fact that high-street outlets still sell millions of this 'insurance' each year.
Unfortunately, for Joe Public, though, they're rarely worth the paper they're written<|fim_middle|> cash to pay, then why not make the sales assistant work for the sale? You'll often find their commission has already been 'priced in' to the item they're trying to sell you.
Haggling is common practice in many countries, so don't feel embarrassed! You'll find many stores prepared to do so to win business - particularly if surrounded by a lot of competitors!
So, There you have it...the next time you go shopping for that new washing machine, try shopping around a little first. That way, you can stop your 'insurance' becoming a costly luxury. | on.
Indeed, in the majority of cases, it's generally cheaper to pay for breakage as you go, particularly as many extended warranties can come to more than *half* the cost of your actual purchase.
Add to this, that we live in a competitive world with goods bought today far more reliable than 10-20 years ago, you really have to question who's getting the best deal here. In fact, I can still think of a cheap video recorder I bought 4 years ago. It came with a 1-year guarantee and it's still going strong today.
So how do you make sure you're not caught out?
1. Don't fall for the standard 'hard sell' techniques until you have all the facts up front. These are frequently employed to foist unwanted warranties on the unwary.
2. How open is the retailer about the cost of their insurance? Is the cost of the warranty displayed alongside the goods?
3. Does the warranty include a 1-2 month money-back guarantee if you don't make a claim in that period? And after this, would you be entitled to a pro rata refund?
4. Is there an information booklet explaining your statutory rights? This should state that you have the right to cancel and that warranties are available elsewhere.
On that last point, did you know that warranties bought in-store can be up to 40% more expensive than those available from other insurers and outlets?
And if you're a credit card holder, many cards now cover your goods for a year beyond the retailer's offer.
Mmm...suddenly that 'insurance' isn't looking so great a deal after all.
So, next time, don't feel pushed into an immediate decision.
One final tip: If you have | 358 |
1. God said to Jacob: "Go up now to Bethel. Settle<|fim_middle|>. | there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you while you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
2. So Jacob told his family and all the others who were with him: "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have among you; then purify yourselves and put on fresh clothes.
3. We are now to go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my hour of distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
4. They therefore handed over to Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and also the rings they had in their ears.
5. Then, as they set out, a terror from God fell upon the towns round about, so that no one pursued the sons of Jacob.
6. Thus Jacob and all the people who were with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
7. There he built an altar and named the place Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8. Death came to Rebekah's nurse Deborah; she was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was called Allonbacuth.
9. On Jacob's arrival from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
10. God said to him: "You whose name is Jacob shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Thus he was named Israel.
11. God also said to him: "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, shall stem from you, and kings shall issue from your loins.
12. The land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac I now give to you; And to your descendants after you will I give this land."
13. Then God departed from him.
14. On the site where God had spoken with him, Jacob set up a memorial stone, and upon it he made a libation and poured out oil.
15. Jacob named the site Bethel, because God had spoken with him there.
16. Then they departed from Bethel; but while they still had some distance to go on the way to Ephrath, Rachel began to be in labor and to suffer great distress.
17. When her pangs were most severe, her midwife said to her, "Have no fear! This time, too, you have a son."
18. With her last breath--for she was at the point of death-she called him Ben-oni; his father, however, named him Benjamin.
19. Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
20. Jacob set up a memorial stone on her grave, and the same monument marks Rachel's grave to this day.
21. Israel moved on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.
22. While Israel was encamped in that region, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine. When Israel heard of it, he was greatly offended. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.
26. the sons of Leah's maid Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27. Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
29. then he breathed his last. After a full life, he died as an old man and was taken to his kinsmen. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him | 767 |
Q: Python/Selenium - Can't get HREF value of a tag So I have this HTML element:
<h2 class="post-title">
<a href="http://google.com" rel="bookmark">This a link to Google!</a>
</h2>
I am using driver.find_elements_by_class_name('post-title') to find this piece of HTML.
But how can I extract only the value of the "href" tag?
I've tried:
driver.get_attribute('href')
returns 'none'
Thanks
A: You have 2 problems:
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*you're trying to find h2 elements instead of a
*you're trying to get attribute value from WebDriver<|fim_middle|>']/a"
a_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpth)
and finally
href = a_element.get_attribute('href')
Something you could do from what you (almost) have
h2_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name('post-title')
a_element = h2_element.find_element_by_tag_name("a")
href = a_element.get_attribute('href')
A: href belongs to <a> tag; so first you have to reach till that element as following:
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h2[@class="post-title"]/a')
attribute_value = elem.get_attribute('href')
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Try below code to get required output:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('h2.post-title>a').get_attribute('href')
A: Indeed the sibling whose tag is h2 has no href attribute and this is the one you target via searching elements by_class_name('post-title') . It is the sibling <a></a> which does.
What about searching by xpath ? If 'post-title' is a unique class identifier, you can search for your element as follows
xpth = "//*[@class='post-title | 108 |
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