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We began at the Weatsheaf, a townie pub if ever there was one. Why? Because it’s right in the middle of town, down an alleyway, and that way no unsuspecting non-Oxonian Chicken would wander in there. As it turned out, I had the good fortune of drawing my own name to be One Giant Chicken. I high-tailed it across Christ Church Meadow, down the Long Walk to the Head of the River. Where else could I go, really? It was a lovely spring day and that chicken costume is HOT. On the way, though, I was like the pied piper. Several toddlers (presumably mistaking me for Big Bird) tried to follow me on my merry way. |
Anyway, despite Oxford being a fantastic city in which to drink, we discovered some downsides for One Giant Chicken. The first was intentional: we declared all society bars out of bounds. That meant no college bars or butteries; nor could the chicken avail itself of Vinnies, the Union Bar, or the University Club. That left about 30 pubs/bars in the centre (see the boundaries we used below). We also made sure that an Oxonian was able to captain each team. And since I was chicken they had a pretty good hunch that I wasn’t going to be some place dreadful like the Mitre or Maxwells. |
Of course, my being chicken also gave Andrew’s team an unfair advantage, which he exploited. Nice day + my preference for a pleasant afternoon = head to the pub with the best patio. And there they found me, almost immediately. Sigh. Alana took a picture to prove that they’d won, but we were tricksy and did it inside, with the giant fireplace behind me, which did indeed throw some of the others. |
After which they found us very quickly (though they still did Strawpedos at the Old Tom on their way south). For those of you forgetting your ancient Egyptian mythology, that’s Isis, the namesake of the River Thames in Oxford. |
OGC might actually be best played in venues where the majority of participants don’t know the majority of the drinking establishments. Otherwise it risks being rather predictable. |
Playing on a beautiful day is great, but you should be aware that chickens like beer gardens, and that can narrow down the options. |
No one in Oxford bats an eyelash at a grown man wearing a chicken costume at a pub mid-afternoon whilst reading the London Review of Books. No one even asked me what was going on. |
My friend Allison told me about One Giant Chicken over Christmas. My first reaction was “why did I not think of this?!”. My second reaction was “my friends will love this game.” And so we set about trying to find a time when we could have a go at it. Unfortunately, what with a honeymoon for the bulk of January and a busy February for both myself and Andrew, we couldn’t actually make our first OGC run until today. |
Suffice to say it was worth the wait. We chose Soho for its central location, its large number of pubs, and its easy-to-define boundaries (see below). We invited a large group of friends through Faceboard, and we met at the Crown and Two Chairman, a favourite pub amongst our group of friends. Dottie was so excited about the game that she had found and printed out lists of Soho’s 48 pubs. And so it seemed appropriate that fate would select her to be our first Giant Chicken. |
She disappeared down the street in heels and a chicken costume and soon sent an infuriating photo of a bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice…and off we went. |
It’s not bad to group teams according to how aggressively they want to drink. |
If you have a friend that tends to get belligerent when drunk, don’t let them order things at the bar. |
Keep in mind that most chicken suits don’t have pockets. |
It’s difficult to pee whilst wearing the suit. That’s just tough luck for the chicken. |
Please join us January 12, 2015 for a Data Curation Workshop led by instructors from the ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) and brought to you by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Institute for Quantitative Theory & Methods. This one-day workshop will teach participants practical strategies for data curation and management — how to plan for, review, assess, and clean data, including confidential and restricted data. Heavy emphasis will be on exercises, discussion, and showcasing what existing data repositories do. Participants will leave with knowledge about archiving data to comply with federal funding agency mandates and requirements from journals and publishers. |
No prior data experience is required. Participants are encouraged to bring their data for deposit in openICPSR or another data repository. |
Please see the workshop site for more information and to register your interest in attending. Confirmation of your spot in the session will be sent by Friday, December 19, 2014. |
Any questions about the workshop should be directed to Jennifer Doty, Research Data Librarian at jennifer [dot] doty [at] emory [dot] edu. |
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Valuka in Simderland: Особняк "Серебряный век"/ Mansion "Silver Age" |
Особняк "Серебряный век"/ Mansion "Silver Age" |
Только EA, за исключением одного паттерна из Store, который идеально подошел для ковра, все остальное игровое./ Only EA game content, axcept for one pattern from the Store, which I used to the carpet. |
I'd like to know why I'm having to give a social login to 4shared to download this item the "regular" way. The point of "regular" downloading, which takes longer, is NOT downloading instantly. 4shared used to be decent but I quit downloading anything from them when it became so difficult to do so. WAY too many ads and now this new piece of garbage. Pretty lot but I won't be downloading it from 4shared. |
The Las Vegas real estate market got a small reprieve in February; with sales volume at a four-year high for the month and a dip in foreclosure resales helping prices increase slightly from January. A total of 3,698 new and existing houses and condos were sold in the Las Vegas-Paradise metro area in February, according to MDA DataQuick. That’s up 9.8% from January and 10.5% from one year ago. A 5.7% increase from January to February is the average, dating back to 1994, DataQuick said. The February 2010 total was the highest for the month since 2006, when 6,065 homes were sold, but 2% below the 16-year average February sales total. It’s the 18th straight month that total sales rose year-over-year. Existing home sales totaled 3,311, up 7.1% from January and up 9.5% from last year. It’s the highest total for February existing sales since 2005. Existing home sales are on a 22-month-long run of monthly year-over-year increases. Foreclosure resales accounted for 59.6% of all resales in February, down from 62% in January and down from 70.6% last year. After peaking in April 2009 at 73.7%, foreclosure resales have declined every month. While foreclosure resales were down, foreclosure proceedings were up. In February, 1,756 homes and condos were foreclosed on in Las Vegas, up 5.3% from January, but down 52.8% from 3,718 foreclosures last year. New home sales totaled 387 in February, up 40% from January and up 20.2% from last year, but it was one of the slowest February sales totals in DataQuick’s 16 years of records, second only to last year. The decline in foreclosure resales and the increase in new home sales helped the median price increase from January, but only slightly. The median price paid for all new and resale houses and condos sold in the Las Vegas metro area in February was $126,197, up 0.4% from $125,750 in January but down 17.2% from $152,500 a year earlier. DataQuick said the year-over-year decline was the smallest since March 2008, when the median dropped 16% from a year earlier, to $247,925. In addition, sales of homes over $200,000 made up 22.4% of total sales, up from 21.3% in January but down from 30.8% a year earlier. The median sales price is on a 34-month-long run of monthly year-over-year declines and in February 2010, was 59.6% below the peak median of $312,000 in November 2006. The median price for single-family homes was $133,800 in February, down from $135,000 in January and down from $157,000 last year. The median condo sales price was $69,000, even from January, but down 9.2% from $76,000 last year. Nearly half — 49.8% — of borrowers that used mortgages to fund home purchases used government-backed Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. Cash buyers accounted for 51.5% of all February sales, up from 50.4% in January. DataQuick defines cash borrowers as those purchases where there was no indication of a purchase mortgage recorded at the time of sale, but can include those that used alternative financing arrangements and in some cases borrowers might be taking out mortgages after their purchases. Absentee buyers, usually investors, but anyone who indicates at the time of sale that the property tax bill will go to a different address, accounted for 44.6% of all Las Vegas area home sales. However, house flipping declined. Homes sold in February that had previously sold in the past three weeks to six months accounted for 3.7% of all sales, down from 5% in January, but up from 2.6% last year. Write to Austin Kilgore. |
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This Friday is Chinese New Year, a day to celebrate with good food, friends and family. I love this holiday because it’s an excuse to eat all the delicious Asian foods! We always celebrated Chinese New Year when I was a kid by going to our favorite Chinese restaurant. This year though, we’ll be celebrating at home eating our favorite Asian foods. |
This Friday we’ll be making a small buffet of delicious Potstickers. I like to stir fry them as shown with different vegetables and sauces, make them in soups and even deep fry them and serve them with different types of dipping sauces. They are so versatile and amazingly delicious! |
Making Potstickers at home couldn’t be easier after I found Ling Ling frozen Potstickers in my grocer’s freezer. They cook in just minutes and can be served incorporated in a recipe as shown or as an appetizer to even more delicious Ling Ling foods. They package of Potstickers also includes a delicious dipping sauce. |
Ling Ling also make Noodles that are authentic Asian style noodles combined with delicious sauces, protiens and vegetables. They come in Drunken Noodles and Yakisoba Noodles. |
For this recipe, I use Ling Ling chicken Potstickers and combine them with teriyaki sauce, broccoli florets, red bell peppers, onion, sugar snap peas and carrot slices. This recipe cooks in just about 10 minutes and can be served alone as show or with rice. |
I like to make this recipe for my family as an appetizer to either a Noodle Dish or Fried Rice. This Friday, on Chinese New Year, we’ll be making this Potsticker stir fry as an appetizer to the Ling Ling Drunken Noodles. My kids love Asian noodles! |
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Add vegetable oil to large nonstick skillet; tilt to cover bottom of skillet. Place Potstickers in single layer around edge of skillet, flat-sides down. Add combined water, teriyaki sauce and sesame oil skillet. Bring to boil over medium-high heat; cover. Simmer 4 minutes. |
Stir gently to evenly coat vegetables and Potstickers with sauce. |
Yes! Give me ALL the potstickers! |
Now, ten years later, Italy and its wonderful flavours continue to have a major influence on Jamie’s food and cooking. In Jamie’s Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure Italy’s influence reaches us all. |
On the menu is an array of magical ingredients and Mediterranean flavours all combined in Jamie’s inimitable way. From Parma ham to Parmesan, from pizza to panzanella, Jamie’s new book will transport you to Italy or at least bring Italy home to you. |
Kenneth A. Kotula Sr., 68, of Lakewood, passed away Monday March 27, 2017. |
Kenneth was born in Cleveland on February 19, 1949 to the late Frank and Ellen Kotula. Devoted father of Rochelle A. Sigan, Jenell Kotula-Chapman and Kenneth A. (Rebecca) Kotula Jr.; beloved grandfather of Chase Chapman, Ella Sigan and Nikolas Sigan. |
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother Frank Kotula Jr. |
Kenneth loved fishing, cooking and watching classical movies like Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. He worked as a self-employed C.P.A and for a short time with the Cleveland Browns, and was an instructor for various community colleges. Kenneth enjoyed socializing with his friends and family. He was proud to have honorably serve his country in the United States National Guard. |
Let’s get right to it: just because everyone’s talking about data visualization and data analysis and big data doesn’t mean that any of it’s easy. |
The problem with using data to make decisions or to tell stories is that you have to have data in the first place. |
And that’s where the idea of “garbage in, garbage out” in data comes from: if you have bad data, you’re going to end up with bad analysis. |
The best part of having data is using it to make decisions. But if you have bad data, the truth is that you’re only going to make bad--or at the very least, uninformed--decisions. |
Most business intelligence and data visualization platforms are BYOD (bring your own data). |
BYOD can be a tough system when you’re trying to extract value out of data though because the process of cleaning data and making it usable for analysis (called ETL, which is short for “extract, transform, and load”) is a long and winding road. |
Getting good data (or trying to turn bad data into good data) isn’t easy--or fun. That’s coming from the two types of people who often get saddled with this job: the data scientist and the business intelligence professional or analyst. |
And they also consider those two parts of the process to be the least fun parts of the job. |
In a perfect world, you’d have perfect data that’s always clean--no blanks, no special characters, no accidentally double-counted assets. Everything would add up and your assets subtracted by your liabilities would be one beautiful zero. |
But in an imperfect world, we find workarounds. |
If the data that you want to analyze doesn’t have to be something you generate or own, find a platform that aggregates all of that data already and has it cleaned and organized, just ripe for your analyzing pleasure. If it has visualization and analysis tools built-in? Even better. |
Let someone else do the data collection and upkeep for you, so all you have to do is explore and find insights--the fun parts. |
When you’re looking at data analysis and business intelligence tools, it might feel like BYOD is your only option. But depending on the type of analysis you want to do, looking for a platform that comes with its own extensive dataset could be your best bet. |
Pharma companies spend a lot of money in R&D--more than almost any other industry. And the R&D ratio (R&D compared to revenue) is interesting because it can tell us how invested in new product development one company is compared to another. |
Especially since one of them was written by me, and you know you want to read what I’ve come up with now. I’ve heard feedback that it’s VERY different from my older stuff. More polished. Less angry. And it certainly felt different as I wrote it! |
So. I am willing to hand over digital copies of the anthology to anyone who’d like one — with the caveat that you leave a review at whichever book review site you like. Amazon, Goodreads, B&N… I don’t really care. I just want to see the reviews happening, so that others can read the work of 20 damn good writers. Or 19 damn good writers and me. Whichever. You can decide and mention it in your review. |
If you’d like a review copy, let me know. But remember: I expect a review! Maybe not a day after I hand the copy over, but within a reasonable period of time. |
Reviews sell books. They expose books to new readers who otherwise wouldn’t hear of a book. They HELP. They are the best way to say thanks for taking the time to write, hone, revise, craft the tale in your hands. |
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The Catch Bowl is the perfect way to help first-time eaters control little spills. |
The built-in food catcher extends toward the child, funnelling runaway food back into the bowl. |
Made from easy-to-clean soft material, the food catcher flexes when bumped. |
To help avoid bigger spills, a suction cup bottom keeps the Catch Bowl firmly in place. |
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed their first daughter this morning. |
After months of anticipation, Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her first daughter on Saturday, May 2 at 8:34 AM. As the world celebrates, we're chronicling every step the royal family makes. |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge take their princess home. |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge introduce their new daughter to the world. The Duchess wears a custom Jenny Packham dress. |
Prince William arrives at the Lindo Wing with Prince George to introduce his son to the new princess. |
Prince William plants a kiss on his son before taking him to meet his new sister. |
Prince William departs the Lindo Wing to fetch Prince George to meet his new sister. |
Queen Elizabeth II wears pink to celebrate the birth of her great-granddaughter during a royal engagement on Saturday, May 2. |
An easel in front of Kensington Palace announces the birth of a daughter for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. |
James Patrick Nelson just gave a one-night-only performance of his original solo show "Speak What We Feel" about Brian Murray. |
He starred in the sold-out smash-hit production of Bedlam's Pygmalion at Central Square Theater. |
He wrote/stars in the feature film "Adam," playing at the Manhattan Film Festival on May 2nd at 9pm. |
He starred in Bedlam's Sense and Sensibility at the American Repertory Theater, and the Folger Theater. |
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